001Interesting. There's two Oh, he can't see. Can he see? >> Yeah, that's an L. >> Well, Okay, >> I will now call to order the October 7th, 2025 school board meeting of the Stanford School District board of directors. Uh all of our directors are present, Shriber, King, Murray, and Adams. And director Olsen is joining us electronically there. You can hear us. Thank you for waving. and we have both of our student representatives here today. So, um, today we're offering two opportunities for the public to speak. Comment specific to the consent agenda will be allowed prior to the vote on those items. Citizens who have submitted a request to speak 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
002meeting. And I will ask one of our student representatives, Alexa, to lead us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Please rise to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You have the agenda before you for the October 7th, 2025 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to the agenda? Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the October 7th, 2025 regular school board meeting as written? >> Some moved by Director Evan, seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> All right, that passes unanimously. Um, the board has had the opportunity to review the September 16th, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there
003any changes or correction to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the September 16, 2025 regular board meeting? >> Moved by Director King. >> Seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose say no. That passes unanimously. The board also has had the opportunity to review the September 16th, 2025 special board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve those minutes? >> So moved by Director Evans. >> Seconded by Director King. All those in favor say I. >> I. All oppose say no. Fantastic. >> Can I note that I'm abstaining from that particular role because I was not seated for this special session. >> Yes. So noted there. Thank you, Director Olson. >> Thank you. >> It is now
004time for the superintendent report. >> Thank you very much. The first item on the superintendent report is the reading and donations which our student representatives will uh present. >> The Sano school district received the following donations. A donation of library supplies from the North College Foundation valued at $83.77 in support of Elder Bay Elementary School. A 10T a 10-ft enclosed utility trail were donated by the sale high school boosters to transport bank equipment and instruments to competitions and events valued at $1,000. >> Thank you very much. that is exciting as I um go to other school districts to see uh you know our band our ever growing band uh represented and and not having uh to put our instruments under the belly of the bus. So thank you for that and thank you for uh
005the donation by the Dorothy Foundation Foundation as well. The next item on the superintendent report is our second school report. This um this report is Stan High School school report by principal Mike Washington and CTE director Ross Short. Good afternoon. Thank you superintendent Overnell directors and also student representatives for allowing us to present to you today. First and foremost I always like to present for Stan High School because we do a lot of great things there. Um so to start with so >> left or right >> is it on >> it's one of those technical things talking about I just hear people like oh I forgot to turn it on so >> so for future ready graduates we at Stanwood High School we do a lot of things that we use to prepare future um
006students with futures of their choice. So this year looking at our AAP, we're looking at what we we're calling the 90% plan where we want to ensure that all students are in ELA and math are at 90% as far as passing. Also, we want to make sure that our seniors, our senior students who are currently at 85% as far as on track, we want to make sure that they're on track for graduation. We want to move that to 90%. Going back to the ninth graders, it's traditionally challenging for 9th graders to go from 8th grade to high school because of that transition academically, socially, and also it's a bigger school and they have more opportunities. If a ninth grader is on track at the end of the school year, they're three to four times more
007likely to graduate high school. So some of the things that we do, first off, we do what is called a freshman only first day that is led by the link crew and also we also have a ninth grade success team that help keep kids on track. Our current AAP data, this is early in the year. However, currently all of our math and ELA students are currently at at least at 90%. an area of focus. As I mentioned earlier, the 12th graders, we're currently at 85.4% on track. However, we'll talk about some things to help us support these goals. So, looking at some of these AAP actions right here, it supports goal three of our strategic plan. One is we we offer what is called Spartan time which which are interventions that students can go and
008discuss and get support from their teachers throughout the day on Thursdays. We also have after school support which is from 2:10 to 2:40 for for students where they can check in with their teachers and for support. We also have math nights and what we call eat and completes for all students. One thing that we started this year as you all are aware is and I want to talk a little bit about the data here is the no cell from bell to bell. Currently we have 26 students who have had their devices collected um for twice. Okay. We have 12 students who have had it collected three times and we also have 239 students who have had their devices collected one time. What this tells us is that our teachers are all on board with this
009and have following through with this expectation. Our SPAR leadership team reported yesterday that students are really, really engaged in that they're better within working with groups as they're communicating better with each other. Another one of our AAP goals is um we created a goals where teachers create two strategies where they're able to help students build rapport as well. One is standing by the door. One teacher reports. I have added a five-minute meditation at the beginning of class to focus on one thing they want to learn. This helps prepare students for learning, helps get their mind ready to learn. One teacher also reported that within the class periods, those five periods of the day, they make sure that they call out each student's name in those class periods to help build those relationships. Okay, here are
010some of the sources of the data that we're pulling from, but I'll focus on what we call formative assessments where teachers have entry tasks, exit tickets, think pair, share, class discussions where they get feedback from students and then they use that to adjust their teaching of what the students need. The next thing is also we want to look at we're going to look at what is called community engagement and culture. Um so this year what I've done is created a what we call a principal advisory group so that we can um check in with students to get feedback to help us ensure that students voices are being heard and also create structures to support those students. Last week we um we held a nick a time event where over 700 students were screened for for
011for a healthy heart. And each day mostly um there are 10 plus colleges and military visits throughout this throughout October that are visiting our um cafeteria to check in with students for their um future which this co this covers goal four of our for future ready graduates. Again, as I reported earlier, we um we created that principal advisory group for to get student voices. So, that's something that we want to do better this year, get more student voices um as well. And also students have reported that um staff has been very helpful in making sure that they are comfortable and making sure that they are able to receive um um structures to help them be successful. What we to expect to see this year at Stanwood High School is continue our credit retrieval, improve our
012student courses I talked about earlier. And next week, Mr. Short will be doing a tradeup event here in in Stanwood as well as Korean College Ready Fair will be on October 22nd. Um both of those which are go for for our future ready graduates. So again, those are some of the things that we have um going on at Stanwood High School. Are there any questions? >> Yes. Sounds like we're doing really really well on that smartphone issue and I'd like some some more insight too. So on this bell to bail policy, define that more and and also what happens to the devices during that time assuming their behavior. >> Okay. So, so bail to bail policy means there are no phones utilized or used during from second bail to the last bill and they should
013have those phones put away. Now, if a staff member sees a phone, they take the phone, they collect it and they call the front office and the security guard or one of the administrators will come and get the phone until the end of the day. The student will check in at the end of the day and then they will receive they'll get the phone. Now it's if they continue to do this like if it gets to number two, number three, number four, number five, if it gets to number five, then they'll get more discipline, right? And number six, meeting with myself and so forth. So hopefully we don't get there, right? Right now we're at the highest. Also in the news media, I seen some really good reports on other districts like Spokane started about
014a year ago uh of the students really a lot of them really liked it and have we had any of that kind of feedback from our students and parents or how and almost how much feedback? >> Honestly, there may have been a few push backs but a lot of the students have said that they like it as well. So, uh, you mentioned that you have a principal's advisory committee now, and I'm wondering, are we doing any coordinated efforts with our student advisors to make sure that they're being able to get connecting with and and bringing the student voices up to this level? >> I thought about that. I haven't included her or you know either one of those. Well, he's at um she's at Hill. >> But what I was trying to do, I reached
015out to staff members to provide me students who are who may not be heard more often, right? You know what I mean? They may be sitting in the corner. They may be struggling to attend school. They may have a tendance problem. So, I want to make sure that we can those voices to make sure that we get, you know, those students involved as well. So, >> and I I kind of going back to uh D King, can I put our students on on the spot? Have you guys had any feedback on our new cell phone policy and how it would be student body? Um I really like the rule that we changed about picking it up because I actually had a friend who had to pick up her brother's phone. So, I like um that
016they changed it to where the students even on the second offense can still pick it up because I know parents work throughout the day and the office closes early and they might not make it to. >> So, thank you for that. So, what she's saying is um at first at the beginning of the year on this second offense, the parent had to pick it up. So that was feedback that we took and we utilized and we changed it to more of a progressive discipline or progressive step so to speak so that on the second offense the students still pick it up on the third offense the students be able to pick it up. So we took in account like um like st not staff member but um family's work schedules and things like that. So
017yeah we took that into account. Um I don't have a lot to articulate a lot in particular to say but I've definitely noticed a lot more engagement at my school I think you know overall I think is that felt obviously a lot stricter people engage with each other for sure >> even even passing period some of the kids were not using their even passing period so you know they're talking and carrying the hotspots it's kind of fun to see even when I go room. I don't take my friends. >> Um, so it says 90.5% of staff greet students at the door. So like how are we managing that? Like are are are you doing like walks around to make sure that people are doing that? Like how are we tracking that? >> We do do
018walkounds like if you want to transition here as well, but also staff self-report, right? So I do like a like a survey and you know there are different steps to it and have staff vote as well. But do do we go around and actually take data at mental you know data? Yes. >> Okay. And then my second question is uh down here it says uh you let me find it. Trade up October 14th for juniors and seniors 8:30 to 1:30 at the fairgrounds. I'm assuming that there will be come and go privileges at the school for the students or are they blessing them down there? How? >> Yeah, we're we're transferring them down there. So it's just a like a normal field trip. Okay. So catch bus in the morning and and uh transport down
019then at the end we'll bring it back. >> So it's a whole day event. >> Yeah, it's a whole day event. Um I believe there's about 18 different trades represented. I'm looking director Murray and her in her other role in her her uh real job but uh 18 different trades will be represented at this event. So the the kids will be broken into um groups of about 12 and they'll rotate through each of those stations and um Lakewood and Mary'sville are also bringing students up for so >> Okay. And it's more of a hands-on >> Yeah. >> event versus just asking questions. >> Asking questions and passing. >> Yeah. We've gone to several of these similar events. It's probably one of my favorites because that every station has to have a hands-on activity that so
020the kids are trying out. This is one of the things you actually do in the super profession. >> Yeah. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> I want to give Director Pollson an opportunity if you have any questions out there. >> There's there's some work going on outside my door and it's causing a lot of background noise. disarmament pass for the moment. I want to thank uh Director Short and Princ Washington for a very thorough approach. I really um appreciate seeing the focus on nth grade success rates um and your credit table for seniors and and the event on coming out the fairgrounds on the 14th was very powerful for students. >> Thank you. And my question to you, you had a big event at the high school the other week, 700 and some students or whatever.
021Would you give us a brief um 30 seconds on that? >> Um I just I think it was fantastic. Um and Lauren, who's our dire special not special, she is our athletic director as well as activities director. She ran that event. But being able to see her act that was very like it was humbling. It was a humbling experience for me um for people to come in to our school and to um be able to get their heart tested and things like that. So it was it was just a humbling event on that. So we think the final number is like 687 were find were screened. They found six students with um possible issues that then were referred on. So it was a cool event. The kids they came in they you know blood pressure
022and all those things. they went and they had the EKG >> done um 10 minute EG and then at the end um as they waited for the results they they had a mini uh CPR lesson and we even had some of our um our sports med students helping in teaching the the the VRP. So it was a and I believe there were like 150 volunteers on site that day. We had a lot of traffic. >> Well, thank you all for doing that. I appreciate all that the district is doing in safety and wellness for our students. So, thank you and thank you too and the football team for a great game Friday. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you both. >> That is the superintendent's report for today. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent Oven.
023We'll now move on to the consent agenda. Anyone in attendance may speak to the items contained in the consent agenda and only those items contained in the consent agenda at this time. This is not the portion of the meeting for open public comment on items outside of the consent agenda that is coming up soon. Are there any board directors who wish to pull any item from the consent agenda? Okay. Hearing none and nothing there. We have seven items on the consent agenda. I'll entertain a motion to approve consent agenda items 1 through 7. >> So moved by Director Evans, seconded by Director King. All those in favor of approving consent agenda items 1 through 7 say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed say no. And that passes unanimously. Okay. We have no old business
024to discuss. Um citizens wishing to address the board are asked to submit online requests using the public comment link on our website or by email 2 hours prior to the board meeting start time. For those attending the meeting in person, request forms are available in the boardroom for submission prior to the meeting start time. Citizens who wish to provide documents to board directors will hand them to the recording secretary for distribution after the meeting and the board president will call on individuals who have requested to speak during the public comment section of the agenda. Individuals will state their name for the record and we'll be allowed three minutes to speak. We have four requests here for comments today. To be respectful of our speakers, please refrain from responding to the comments of the speakers. As
025a matter of order, because this is the board's business meeting, the board is providing an opportunity for the public to comment. However, the board does not create discussion on these 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's your turn to comment, please state your name for the record. You have three minutes to speak. the timer on the screen. The yellow light means you have one minute left and the red light means that your time to address the board is up. Our first speaker today is Angela Nickerson. >> Hello, my name is Nickerson and I am the mother of three children who have grown up in the Stanford Commino school district, one of whom is no longer
026with us. I'm here today to address the hateful rhetoric that was commented by a community member at the last board meeting. I think it's important for you to hear that there are many in the school district that strongly disagree with these statements. My son, Wyatt Brainerson, took his own life as a result of people like this who would throw hate and intolerance at our children while falsely claiming that they are protecting them to further their political agendas in our schools. Wyatt was smart. He was funny. He was a talented athlete and gifted artist. He was a good friend and he was bisexual. He was so terrified of how he would be seen and treated by his peers at school that he killed himself. Because of all the intolerant, hateful messages he received from community members
027like we heard from at the last board meeting. We lost him. Know this. If you share these views and you voice them, our children are listening and you are killing them. The quality I admired most in Wyatt was his passion to defend people who are being mistreated or bullied. This is his legacy and I am here today to honor it and to continue it. LGBTQIA plus children are four times more likely to commit suicide than their peers. Just one supportive adult in that in their in their life reduces that risk by 40%. Our schools and teachers are literally saving lives when they simply believe kids when they tell them who they are. I'm here to beg you to keep doing what is right and life saving for the kids in our school district who need
028you. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 10 to 14 year olds and the third leading cause of death in youth aged 15 to 19. I had no idea that such young ages were at such a high risk before I lost my son. I want other adults to be informed and to know that their acceptance can have a monumental difference in a child's life. Studies show that having open, honest communication around suicide can prevent it from happening. We need to dispel the shame this topic carries and normalize reaching out for help. and we need to stand up and speak out when hate is being inflicted in our community. This is how we save our kids. This is how we keep them safe. I have been in classrooms around the district for over 10
029years and over and over I've seen teachers meet students where they are and offer the support that leads to their eventual success. Keep doing that and ignore the political following that want to inject their bigoted views into our district and rip it apart. Thank you for your continued continued commitment to do what is best for all of the students in our schools. >> Thank you. >> Charlene White. >> Hi, I'm Charmaine White and lived on Commando for 18 years. I have three granddaughters living here in Stanwood. to have graduated and the youngest is a sophomore at the high school. Reading through the desired changes proposed for policy 3241, many questions are raised regarding rationale and purpose of the changes. The policy needs to be studied. Why do we need these changes? Most importantly, how do
030these changes affect our target students? We need input from all stakeholder holders, staff, students, parents, volunteers, and the community. This policy needs further study to make sure it's what's best for our students. It is so critical that our students have every opportunity to learn in a safe environment. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Samantha Smith. [Music] Uh hello. Um my name is uh Sam Smith. I live on Camino Island. Um I have two kids who attend schools in the school district. One is a fourth grader at Uselotti and the other is a seventh grader at Saratoga. Uh I'm speaking today to advocate for the school district to begin outreach to the community to establish a special education parent advisory council. The purpose and function of a local special education parent advisory council goes beyond
031an advocacy group, um an immediate concern or a PTO. The goal would be to improve district culture, improve educational outcomes and well-being for all students and help identify unmet needs. Per the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, each state is required to establish and maintain a statewide advisory council, but not a local one. Although this would be parent driven, there is an important role that school district staff and leaders could play in outreach and input. Speaking from personal and professional experience, being the parent of a student receiving special education services can feel very isolating. Dealing with all those acronyms, trying to understand the IEP process, and having the information you need to successfully advocate for your child can be super overwhelming. I think the formation of a special education parent advisory council could strengthen the bridge
032between the school district and families and address system level challenges affecting students with disabilities and their families. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Michelle Huntley. >> Okay, so we're all crying. Um, my name is Michelle Huntley. I'm president of P Flag Stino. I'm sorry. After listening to Andy's story, um, I would like you to have information that are facts rather than made up stories that were presented last month. Um, our LGBTQ youth need support and acceptance. Our LGBTQ youth consider suicide four times more than their sis peers. Our trans kids consider suicide 32 times more than the peers. And due to recent upholdings of the Supreme Court to anti-transgender laws, Trevor Project's research has found a 72% increase in youth suicide among trans and non-binary youth. It's home because that's my child.
033I received the call last June that my child was being transported to the hospital because they told a friend they were going to kill themselves that night. They are supported at home. Um I was shocked and I'm very lucky that they told somebody to not have the same outcome as Angie. But this is real and this is our kids. This is not politics. This is not preference. If you don't understand something, then educate yourself on it. Don't just throw out words because our kids hear these words and they hurt. They hurt more than just our kids. Obviously, we have policy and procedure 3211 and that protect student privacy and it'll be which sorry require gender inclusive schools. Students over 13 have the right to use the name and pronouns that they identify with. If they're
034in a household that does not understand or accept that, they can face verbal and emotional abuse. Their families can kick them out. Most homeless youth are LGBTQ. We now have to worry that there's volunteers in our schools. getting this information about supposedly Roger Bay and sharing it outside of the schools again violating furb laws and it just keeps happening. I don't know who to trust anymore. But I urge our board to listen to our kids and learn about what they are experiencing. Don't trust the fake stories that you hear. Don't trust the Facebook warriors. These are people. These are humans. And these are families. Transit non-binary has existed as long as humans have walked the earth. So this is not new. Thank you >> speakers. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts
035with us today. We will now move on to topics scheduled for board discussion. The first item is the first reading of Newport policy 3226, interviews and interrogation of students on school premises. Any questions, discussions on that policy? Any comments? Okay. Do we have consensus to move that on to a second reading now? Okay. And we're good there, Mr. Olsson. Thank you. We will move that on to a second reading for next meeting. Item number two is the first reading of revised board policy 3241 on student discipline. Uh discussion on that. I think we need to delay moving it on to a second meeting until we maybe have a study session because of radical changes to the policy. Um the chair deleted and so seemed like maybe it's another policy to replace the deleted parts. So
036anyway, I move not to read yet until we have more time to study. >> Okay. Um >> but specifically what do you object to? Well, just the the quantity, you know, for one thing in the title, the word discipline has replaced something really ambiguous, for example, but then the content there is. Let me ask our super there's there is an awful lot of red in there, things being taken out. Excuse me. Sure. Sure. You want to comment on that? >> Yep. I'd be happy to discuss um the changes that uh took place to the proposed changes to 3241 uh student discipline. And as director King pointed out, the name does change, but the the intent um of the changes are to ensure compliance with the state and federal laws and align with the best practices.
037Um we this is a required change when we fall under you know Wazda's three tiers of of change. There was emergency rules made uh last year an OSPI study um that was over two months long on the emergency rules uh with that and um this was actually recommended back in September of 2024 for a change by WAZA. So we have studied uh kind of the implications our practices as well uh to to make the adjustments to this the the adjustments to that you see with red um strikes um do fall in line with the recommendations from WASDA. One of the um points that you made about a large chunk of it particularly on the last page being taken out. I think that um that that uh is summarized in the in the last parent uh
038paragraph that was not struck under discip development and review and does much of the same work uh in that in that portion. Um so once again uh the major changes have to do with um coming into um compliance with the new permanent whack um 392400 and student discipline um which was adopted in June of 2025 >> and could you differentiate between the changes that are mandated by the law and the ones that are recommendations by Austin? I could I could um look at that cross that crosswalk and maybe Dr. Ryan um is able to elaborate on that as well. That that's a significant crosswalk that we we need to do between between what was recommended and and the law. But in general, WASDA falls their recommended um policy changes fall in line with complying with
039the law. So they're they're legally driven changes. So, director gains the question the crosswalk between recommendations from WASA and more or less >> well defined crosswalk. So were the um yeah were the recommendations from all from the wack recommendations I haven't done that cross but I could to to check how much they're in line but like superintendent openell said there was recommends directly from the the wack the red stuff if things are implemented there seems to be a lot of valuable stuff there and So be nice to retain whatever that we could >> retain what's cross what's legal. >> Yes. >> So just to clarify I think a lot of it that sorry my a lot of the stuff that is crossed out in red is perhaps crossed out and then either reworded or summarized
040differently sort of next to it or below it. So like for instance that first paragraph that is crossed out in red of similar things but just differently phrased are in that sort of bolded section right below it. So they have to show what was different and then like what they took out and how they changed different. So like some of them you know some policies that we look at it's easy because we're just striking a word or changing a phrase or adding an s. This one we're taking large chunks of it and rewriting it so it looks a little bit different. Perhaps there's more red than normal would be sort of what I see. So like like that first paragraph that you discipline like we're not just saying like we're getting rid of that like
041that that paragraph right under it is sort of like replacing that paragraph. Does that make sense? Well, it's shortened that deck because it's I'm looking at the red in the latter part uh starting with development and review and the quantity of red there is way way larger than anything that could replace it in the bolt. I think the B is a replacement. Not so much. >> Director Evans brings up a good point though. A lot even the bullets that fall under that first page, the purpose, those were reformatted, put in different order. So things that um might appear in the red in that chunk that you're talking about could surface in other areas because there was um reformatting in the structure of the document. some up above. >> So like for instance to Dr. Ryan's
042point like if you look at the bullet points the very bottom one says providing a safe environment for all students and for district employees. We've tossed that out but if you look at the very first bullet point up top it says providing a safe and supportive learning environment for all students. So like we just we took that and we put it up at the top instead of at the bottom. So a lot of the stuff is is there. or you've just maybe phrased it slightly differently or moved it. >> Yes, I'm I'm happy to um provide that crosswalk. And when we say crosswalk, we mean a layering over of the two of the changes with the the existing policy and specifically like director Evans is is talking about where those um were and where they
043are now as a as a mode to um have more exploration between now and the second reading of of the policy. I think that would give us more time to do a deeper dive and and do the crosswalk and hear from stakeholders and hold this over uh rather than at this time I don't think we have consensus to move it to a second reading. So >> well did you ask >> did you ask for consensus? Well, >> no, >> I say like if with direct with open superintendent is saying that he would come with additional information so we could pull it off the consent agenda to discuss and address those items. Um, I would be okay moving it to a second. I would say yes to consensus. >> I'm not I would agree with Director
044King. We want to see that crosswalk. So I would ask for more discussion at the next meeting. We continue it under item after board discussion when we have the crosswalk. Uh director Olsen your comment. I think one of the critical paragraphs and it's been alluded to already that below the top but under the section development review the district will develop and periodically review a discretionary non discretionary policy procedure and during the development review district must use this under RCW 28300.042 042 to monitor the impact of our policy and procedures. One of the big the key is while this is the policy the actual action is going to be 3241P and and that's where the district uh super direct uh somebody to develop the procedures that make sure all of the overright policies come in place
045and that's a massive critical element that we trust that our the staff and your opens to both comply with comply with uh stakeholder environment and and comply with the needs of students that experience a physically and emotionally safe environment in which they can learn to the best. >> Thank you, Director. I mean, I'm ready. Okay, moving it to secondary. Um, >> well, I'd still like to see the which of those things are mandated by law and which law recommendations that we really don't have to follow legally. That's I say that's not unreasonable. Um in my previous role um prior to retiring that is one of the things I always did with make a significant change to recommended policy language was provide the board at the time the specific RCWs and wax that that were driving
046these recommendations. And as as superintendent indicates, we have to be able to um direct uh this the staff to comply with with changes from the legislature. >> Thank you. >> To make sure that we're we're not going beyond that. >> So the procedures are your area. Uh can we have that next meeting to go along with our policy? Is there any change to the procedures? There would be a change of the procedures based on the policy change but um it would fall in line with um you know the draft policy change the first reading um and uh you know it would fall in line with what the major changes are around the the changes in the the law. The the substantive changes are um really around and and it doesn't change our practice right now.
047The changes are around, you know, making sure that uh we're s serving every student. We're using restorative practices already. Um they're emphasizing non-punitive supports um as opposed to exclusionary supports. Those aren't supports, but exclusionary uh acts. Um and then uh like was just mentioned by director Olson, a regular review of um disparity data or data uh with with regard to discipline. So, um I'm happy to do the crosswalk like I talked about. I could absolutely we can um we can generate that um so that there's so it's clear about how the strikes are broken out and and maybe I'm supported in other parts of the policy and um yeah definitely do that. >> Could we move that Laura with the idea that we'll probably pull it from the agenda for further discussion next week? >>
048Absolutely. Yeah. And that would be my suggestion because again, we're already out of compliance with the new laws that come into effect in 2024. So I like it would be in our best interest to at least move it to a second reading. Again, anything on a consent agenda, we could pull it if we didn't have the information that we needed from Superintendent Ovenel at that time. we could say like, "Oh man, like we probably need more information." But we at least make that secondary step to move it along so that if we do have the information and we agree, we're in a position that we could approve it on the consent agenda. But anything from the consent agenda can be pulled and discussed. So >> So do we have consensus then to move it to
049the second reading and have the information for the discussion at the next meeting? >> Absolutely. >> Director Olsen, we good? Yeah, I think we should go to the second meeting and and if we're free now and then we don't get information that's being asked about yourself, then I think we could pull it at our next meeting and make sure we have the dialogue that's necessary to make sure there's a clear understanding of what is required by law, what is written by code and then how it's adopted in policy. >> Thank you. Thank you, director. So I I think we do have consensus to move it on to a second reading at this point and we'll get the other information we need on that. Okay. Then we will move that on to a second reading. Um
050and the last item on our board discussion today is the first reading on a new policy uh board policy distribution of information. Is there consensus to move that on or do we have any discussion on that policy? I think we're we're good on that one. So, we have consensus to move that on to a second reading again. All right. The good part, student representatives report on school business. We don't have the best service. >> Yeah. So, we've had a couple of home football games and our football team is doing really well. We had a game September 19th and the theme was country out and we had like a big student section for that. So our ASB took and our Spartans won 45 to4 against Oak Harbor and then we had our homecoming football game which
051was September 25th and our Spartans won 13 to7 against the homeage and then we just had that football game too where our Spartans won 21 to 14 against Ferndale. So that's really great for our football team. And on September 22nd, we started our homecoming spirit weeks. And I would say we had like middle participation. I think students did a good job participating. Our spirit days were kind of like hard I feel like, but we try to get the themes to match up with homecoming. And then we held a homecoming parade as well. and we have over 450 clubs show up. So, students from clubs um show up to that. And then our ASB president, Ryan Corey, ran the first ever car show and we're hoping to make it an annual thing, but it was a
052small success and we're hoping that people liked it. And then on October 1st, we had the nick of time heart screening, which was a great event. We had full volunteers, full signups, and we really want to thank the students and volunteers for the help because we had the students volunteer as well. And that was in honor of Dylan Gilman, a student who passed away last year. And this week, our ASB class has began wrap week, which is like a kindness week. So, Monday we had positive sticky notes. So, we put like positive things on sticky notes and we put them around the school. And today we did candy compliments where we put compliments on candy and pass it out to our students and our staff. And tomorrow we're doing a staff breakfast to thank the
053staff for their hard work and everything that they've been doing. And then on Thursday we're doing a campus clean up where ASB class is going to go around campus and clean up during that. And then I mentioned this earlier, but just the phone rule like the new change for pickup I think has been working out really well. And we do have some future events which we have the college fair on October 26th or October 22nd my bad and we're doing an Ignite event which is like a leadership event. So the first one is going to be October 29th which is just our school and it's just kind of an event for leadership and then we have on October 30th as well which is going to be our school and 22 other schools coming and that's
054pretty much it. I will get more information on that. Thank you. >> Thank you for coming for me. So, we've had a few interesting things transpire at Wikip recently. Um, we had our spirit week from September 22nd to September 26th. And I would say our pajama day got the highest participation. I know I was excited for that. Um, we observed orange shirt day on September 30th in which we wear orange shirt. Students wore orange shirts to commemorate the tragedies of um that occurred at native boarding schools. And I think there was pretty decent participation there both from students and staff. Um we had our first pancake breakfast of the year on September 25th during advisory period and that went excellently. Um, and we recently had session one of a grading session one end and did
055a block sheets reflection during advisory this past Thursday and place like a a greater emphasis on seniors who are going to be graduating soon. Um, in terms of upcoming events, uh, the military is going to be holding the ASVAT test on Thursday, which is a test that is a common, uh, alternate pathway for students who may have concerns about the Smarter Balanced Assessments. Um, club in terms of clubs, uh, Gamers Guild began last week. It their first meeting last Wednesday. Um, shop after hours began this Monday. Our fall social, a free event for students, is set to take place on October 24th and our school plans to conduct the healthy youth survey on October 16th. A few highlights. Um our leadership students have been um very involved in a new medium of morning announcements in
056which slides are displayed on a Google meet during second period and the leadership class has been facilitating creating those slides and visual mediums for upcoming events and that's been going pretty well. Um and we've had uh rotating groups of students presenting announcements and that has also been going excellently. Um, and we recently had a bench that a student built in one of our core buses last year be placed in the Saratoga courtyard just this past week. That's all. >> Thank you. Lots of good information there. We'll move on to board director's report on business conducted starting with director Evans. >> Um, yes. so uh was fortunate enough to uh pop down and see the parade. It was great to see how many like community members were out there. I loved seeing the middle school bands
057marching in it as well. Like it wasn't just uh we adjusted the the schedule so it was a little bit later so some of the younger kids could be part of it and uh so I really enjoyed seeing that. Um big shout out to Lauren for that naked time event. Uh, she looked like she was running around like a chicken with her head cut off when I popped in that day. Like I imagine she might have slept for like three days and she was done with that. Like she looked a little frantic when I drove through the parking lot. Was very busy. It looked like a really well attended event. Um, and just from the pictures and stuff online, it looked really well well run. So shout out to Lauren on that one. Um, loved
058seeing the cars uh at the homecoming uh game driving the homecoming court around. I thought that was a great way to bring the community into our our school events as well. Uh, and I always love to hear about uh things that we're holding at our facilities where we're bringing other uh districts in to show how amazing our facilities are and um sharing our buildings with other other folks. Um I think that's all I have. Just know Angie um you're not alone. We all miss Go ahead. Thanks. >> Thank you. recommend. >> Um I likewise I appreciate I didn't get to participate as much in the homecoming events this year um due to some other obligations, but um loved seeing all of the pictures and the community building um especially with remaining middle school. >> Yeah.
059So, um, and, um, I'm I'm grateful that we are taking on, um, you know, looking at students and realizing that they're just sometimes as acceptable to, um, heart problems as as older adults are. and in and trying to be more preventative and and making sure that people are aware that it is it is an issue and it's not you know something to you know it's it's very something that's very serious. Um and I want the ladies who who spoke today to know that you've been heard. Thank you. Thank you. Director King, >> I attended the state of the schools presentation to the city council by director of and u very good. However, I was disappointed that almost nobody was in the audience. I arrived at when I was there at the meeting start time. He
060called when I were the only ones there besides up up front. uh but three more did come in about by the time we started. So yeah, very well done. Also, one really interesting point um was that one of the city council members mentioned a super performing school in Austin, Texas and named it agis. And so I researched it very interesting private extremely expensive. That location is at the lower end of their tuition scale. $40,000 per kid per year. San Francisco, the other end is 75,000 per kid per year. And so we can't exactly do that. They're making very heavy use of AI, but I hope that we can learn things from them to apply some of the good things they're doing at what we how we how we can afford. This seems like we get
061some good ideas there. >> Thank you, Director King. and I was part of the crowd at the city council meeting online and I wanted to commend our superintendent for the outstanding job he did there. Um, I got to see a few of those cars at the football game as they drove around the track there and we honored a lot of people there that day. Our Hall of Fame people, uh, all of the senior football players, the senior cheerleaders, the senior band people. We're gonna have to have a longer hat, I think, but and I will ask director Olen if you want to unmute and give us any comments you have. >> I won't go into details, but I echo the comments about homecoming events surrounding it too was able to um get to the car
062show, but unfortunately many of the cars had an opportunity to chat with our uh community members who brought them to to show at the high school. Um just the other is I said it last time I say again learning a lot by reading the news letters that principal sending to staff and I want to congratulate um the high school especially because they are having the colleague shout outs and sharing them um about what they see happening as students in classrooms with high expectations. So keep that up. I think there's nothing worse, nothing better than colleagues supporting each other and commending each other publicly. It's a great train, a good tool. >> Thank you for letting me zoom in. >> Thank you. And as always, we give the last word to Superintendent. >> Thank you. Uh,
063as has been mentioned, thank you to all of the speakers uh that took time this afternoon to speak on a number of different uh items. I appreciate it. And as the new um policy calls out, we look for community feedback. So um along that and the other items mentioned today. So thank you for that. Um I wanted to it was brought up in principal Washington's presentation around um student voice. Um, student representatives Roger and Rogers and Lelay met and I met before uh this meeting today to start to talk about the student superintendent leadership team which will be kicking into motion. Actually, we're going to we're going to move it to November to make sure we have full representation. Um, they learned today that they'll be helping to drive that work uh this year and
064uh it's it's about them as as it's about student voice. The other change that this board will hear about is the addition of middle school voice coming into it as well. Um the objective would be to gather that student voice um into the student superintendent leadership team and also hear about middle school reports um at meetings as well. So that's forthcoming. Once again, thank you to all the schools for their engagement with the the bell to bell no cell bell to bell. Um I do see um engagement increasing and uh it speaks to our um focus on engagement and standards aligned instruction happening. Um I was able to go to the Athletic Hall of Fame, the 11th annual Athletic Hall of Fame. was kind of the capstone to to Miss Ammonson's uh week which was
065very busy but just another good example of uh the community that I think there was 270 um individuals that were there on Saturday night. Just an another example of the community uh coming together to uh to celebrate. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Superintendent Oven. Um the board will move into a closed executive session and we're going to need about 20 minutes to discuss that. So, I would entertain a motion to amend our agenda for the executive session uh until 2:25 to review the performance of a district employee. Then we'll come back out and adjourn at that time. So, would someone like to move to amend the agenda from 2:15 to 2:25? >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you. Moved by director, seconded by Director King. All those in favor of amending the agenda
066from 215 to 225 say I. Any opposed? Say no. And that passes unanimously. So the board will now move into a closed executive session until 2:25 to review the performance of a district employee. >> And we will also excuse our student representatives. Um to attend the executive session. So, >> enjoy the rest of your afternoon. >> We'll take a real quick break into executive session and we'll be back out. >> We're going to [Music] We are still in executive session and we're going to extend it 20 minutes until 2:45. So we will be in executive session until 2:45 at this time. I'll take your >> scan and get my information. [Music] I know. I know. >> Yeah. Watch how everything should not >> I saw the sign. We have concluded our executive session. It's 2:45.
067There being no further business, the October 7th, 2025 regular board meeting is hereby ajourned.