001No, he Okay. [Music] That's very interesting. [Music] Okay, it's 1:00. I'll now call to order the September 2nd, 2025 school board meeting of the San Domaino School District Board of Directors. All directors We're present. Uh, Director Shriber, Director King, Director Murray, and Director Kevin Star present. 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 permitted submitted a request to speak during the public comment section of the agenda will be called upon to make your comments at that time, which is near the end of the meeting. Would you please stand for the flag alge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
002indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You have the agenda before you for the September 2nd, 2025 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to the agenda? >> Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the September 2, 2025 regular school board meeting as written? >> So moved. >> Director Murray, seconded by Director King. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say no. >> That passes unanimously. The board has had the opportunity to review the August 19th, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the August 19, 2025 regular board meeting? >> Moved by Director King. >> Seconded by Director Evans. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say no.
003That passes unanimously. >> Sorry. Please stand for the record that I abstain. Thank you. >> Okay. Because you are not here. >> Thank you, Director Murray. It is time for the superintendence report. >> Thank you. The first item on the superintendent report is donations. There's four donations uh to read in today. The first is uh $7,19.30 30 cents from the Utselotti Elementary Booster Club to cover remaining balances of the fifth grade outdoor camp field trip to Camp Seymour. Uh second is $343.60 for the UEES booster from the UEES booster booster club to cover the transportation costs of the June field trip to Twin City Bowling. Third is $2,792 from the Cedar Home Elementary PTO to cover the remaining balance of the fifth grade camp outdoor education field trip. And lastly, $588.50 from the Cedar Home
004Elementary's uh PTO to cover transportation costs to the June field trip to Commando Island State Park. Thanks once again to the donors. It's uh nice to continue to be able to read in donations from community members that are supporting uh our schools and directly to our students. The next item on the superintendent report is the uh strategic plan, excuse me, strategic plan review. And uh this is an annual update of strategic plan. Um I think it's appropriate that today is the uh the update to the strategic plan as it's the first day of school and the strategic plan uh drives and is a roadmap to what happens in the classroom and uh in in shaping what um is leading up to what goes on in the classroom. Uh I'll just note that you can see
005in the bottom lefthand corner as you can um on all of our slides is that the promise lives there and that is the center of our actions over the last three years. Um once again it is every student is empowered to learn in an inclusive setting and is prepared for their future of their choice and and that could be shortened maybe to every student every future which is what I hear some people saying um around buildings and I and I appreciate that. Uh this is really the three-year progress of the strategic plan um adopted in 2022 with uh um over 2500 pieces of feedback and 150 volunteers to sit on the committee. Uh we are in uh moving into year four of five of the strategic plan that continues to focus on uh the goals
006uh pillars and uh three phases of implementation which we'll talk about each of those today. Might need a little help here. There we go. Thank you. The first place I'd like to start is around the community feedback. And um you saw some of this uh community feedback in the spring, but I think it's important to highlight it again. Uh as I talked about the strategic plan started with feedback from the community was built around uh the the um tenants of what the community and the district thought should be a groundwork for our strategic plan. Just to just to reemphasize uh from the spring 78 uh 70.8% 8% of respondents are satisfied the quality of education provided. That's up from 67.1% in 2004 and 64% 2003. Performance perceptions improved uh ratings of uh teacher quality, student
007safety, neighborhood schools all over uh 70%. And then um finally um just a synthesis of some of the information as we looked at it again uh allows us to lean into goals two and three which I'll I'll talk about here uh in just a moment. There we go. So the um goals which you're familiar with familiar with um lean into really four goals and and uh as we said before uh we're still delivering on our on our promise and and you're familiar with these as they drive our decisions and our focus uh in the district. And we'll we'll continue to reference the bookends and start with early learning. And the um early learning uh accounts for our earliest learners um through third grade. And we continue to focus on social emotional learning as we know
008that uh uh true social emotional learning actually does um uh move academics and also around uh the standards. in the first three years. One of the markers is the adoption of the uh of the reading and writing curriculum and the implementation of that. And we're starting to see um gains in that as we would expect to um after three years of after an adoption. The next book end I'm going to go all the way to the other end is future ready graduates. And I' I'd encourage you to look what is um written on the screen. Uh probably something that is familiar to you. um by now um and that is future ready graduates. And I'd like to actually um look at some markers on the future ready graduates. So um this graph was just generated
009last week because we're we're getting into uh having some data back to us with regard to graduation rate. Graduation rate isn't the only marker. We we say is it are are our students who leave the system career and or college ready? And so I'll talk about that here in just a moment. But um in 2000 in January of last year, we made some intensive interventions around graduation rate. We were sitting at about 85% projected rate for Stanwood High School in January and about 45% in um for Lincoln Hill in January. and through principal uh intervention interventions, staff check-in, um credit retrieval, and other interventions. Um the earliest um data that's come out from OPI says that we're about 89% for Stanwood High School. We had five students that graduated from summer school at Stanwood High
010School, which we think will move us over 90% um which is back um in the right trajectory. and two students graduate from Lincoln Hill High School, which will put us in the mid60s as well. So, those interventions around grad rate, we should see those those arrows tick up even more. And and as you know, because of the lower uh end size at Lincoln Hill High School, we should be able to uh see that move. >> To clarify, is that fouryear graduation or is that just graduation rate? >> Yes, I appreciate that distinction. It's a four-year graduation rate. Okay. Um, and many of you know I'm I'm um I'm about um not necessarily uh when but if or that. Um, and so I appreciate that distinction that that's a four-year grad rate for 2025. >> Okay.
011So, our actual overall graduation rate is potentially higher if you would count in >> the five and six five, six, and seven year. Correct. Yep. >> Okay. Thank you for that. Um um while we're talking about credit retrieval and kind of the the end bookmark there, we had students in summer school. We had 191 students sign up for summer school. Maybe not that many that attended or completed, but uh a total of 245 credits uh over 245 credits earned uh during that time. So a nice job to staff and student staff that supported, but um the kudos go to the students who put in the work in August. So that allows us to talk about um the middle two goals which are engagement and achievement. And these these two goals uh are the focus of
012the admin PD as well as actions uh through this year. And I just want to linger on that. Um our focus in leading up to today, the first day of school with uh building leaders and uh staff throughout the district has been around those two those two um focus areas that is engagement of students and focus on uh achievement through alignment of standards. And you will continue to hear that this year as we move um as we move through the year. So I want to tie that back to a part of the strategic plan that we haven't really um raised um over the first three years and that's about the practices that we have uh with leadership and with our organizational practices uh within the system. This this page is actually way back uh in
013our 46-page document. But um that to say, we asked our building leaders to focus on one goal they were going to have in these um leadership practices uh this year that they could um pinpoint to to say we've made uh uh growth, our students have made growth because of this leadership practice. Um they have tied this back to their annual action plan and their school improvement plan which was revised this year as well. And then uh next is the organizational practice. And the organizational practices are um you'll see they're nested under our pillars which um are um similar to the leadership practices, equitable access to standards aligned effective instruction, strong partnerships with family and community, uh continuous learning and growth towards excellence and data informed improvement. So um um central office leadership took that and
014also made goals this year and so we've we've bound them so we have them to reference and we don't lose track of them through the year but they are goals for instance uh in strong partnership with uh family and communities. Our goal is to increase community input on ABC committees through increased membership. That's our goal for our organization moving through this year. Uh another goal around equitable access would be uh creating alignment with building leadership teams around structures and expectations of team coherence across the district for instance including the use of AI to address inclusivity. Okay. So we've already met with building leadership team. about 80 something uh staff members and and um building leaders to um put a marker on that moving into this school year. The last thing I wanted to mention is
015is another piece that I don't think that we've highlighted but a very important part of the strategic plan and that's the strategic map the strategy map uh that we've accessed and I'll just say that um this is found in kind of the s the third circle of implementation which is typically in years four and five of a 5year strategic plan and the phase of the plan that uh really centers on the pillars and I'd invite you to look at those uh 12 strategies the 12 priorities and and as you do, you can see most of those are things that are in action uh to date. Um with some being emphasized for targeted areas specific to this year in our annual action plans and our strategic plans. So the end of next year, as you know,
016we'll begin the process of renewing and uh realigning the plan. the strategic plan. Our our strategic plan runs through 2027 and um uh we'll we'll begin to gather feedback and start to do that work of revisioning and revising um the strategic plan over the next two years as well. Any questions? Yeah, on the slide six um it was reference to postgraduation data. What do you have? >> Thank you. Um, this is a reference to something I discussed earlier in a plan we have moving forward about how do we know that our our graduates were career and college ready? How do we know that they were future ready? So, we gathered uh contact information from I think 171 of our graduates of both Lincoln Hill High School and Lincoln Academy that we'll contact at regular intervals
017to get feedback from to say did your high school and beyond plan match your current path. Um, and do you feel like you were career or college ready? So, it's that feedback loop for post-graduation data. That's to say we'll we'll combine that with the the feedback we already get through college board and through um our current technical education uh feedback as well. >> Back to slide three mentioned satisfact and satisfaction numbers are up in three different percentages. It's very good trend. I also mentioned that performance perfection perceptions were all over 70% but roughly has that been a similar pattern of step up up >> the the pattern has increased uh over the three years that we've uh completed this survey in March of each year >> and also on the same slide three there's a
018reference to support to lean into goals two and three could you say more about that >> the the feedback that we received received in March. Um if we synthesize that, that would say that um the community supports uh us centering on achievement and engagement, those engagement and achievement, those two goal areas. Also slide seven, um it was really interesting on that graph, graduation rates, the the bottom blue line was dramatic to help that improve health. from about 22% to over 60%. Can you say more about what happened? >> Well, I I knew the guy that was there between 2013 and 20 21. Um so, um you know, there's strategies that I think are employed around making sure that students who come in and and once again, I just want to say this is four-year graduation
019rate. Uh like director Evans pointed out, uh this is a four-year graduation rate and and um I don't mind at all talking about a sevenyear or six year graduation rate as well um as to when they become prepared and um you know strategic moves around making sure students feel um heard um and targeting where um the interventions that they need coming into into that cohort. Um, I'll also point out that Lincoln Hills end size is small. So any any um minor change um looks big on a graph. >> Yeah. >> Big. >> Um so our like our strategic plan was 5 years, correct? >> Five years. 2022. >> So I know you say we're in the process of sort of collecting data and all of that. Are we going to follow a very similar process
020to come up with a new five-year plan that we did from the first one or do we have a different plan for that? That's a that's a um a good question which you know we need to talk more about as you as the board of directors and and me typically that um we can look at a re uh a revisioning as opposed to uh in 2021 as you know >> we didn't have one >> there was a it was a different type of strategic plan right so often what we see and I think this this plan is well positioned for is to continue to g gather feedback staff, community, students, and to say um that uh we could retune it um as we go, but definitely go through a a process that might feel and
021look similar to what we did before. Um that doesn't mean that last in 2021 we hired a consultant. That doesn't mean that we'll necessarily need to do that this time. um for each you talked about how we're using these to to reiterate or to implement changes to our uh school improvement plans and our annual action plans. I'm assuming we'll hear more about that when we have all of those plans in place, but who um was it like the building leadership teams? Was it all staff? Like sort of how did how did we synthesize that data down to add it to that? I guess who was involved in that process >> in the process of um moving from this to the AES and strategic plan? >> Yeah. Um it started with uh central office leadership to
022building leadership and then with the building leadership teams and and the question we asked is are the goals and strategies that you had in the spring in May still the goals and strategies that make sense after we have our data back in the spring assessments >> and um after we make sure we're realigning and aligning with our instructional practices. which is the first part. >> And one last question. So I know last year we sort of implemented a rather robust like um planning or like um teacher development uh uh professional development. There it is. Um plan. Do we have a similar professional development plan with like the three stages or did we change that this year as well? So still professional development that's uh that's happening in the district and it's um uh our plan
023is around continuing the work around um our ELA adoption and and that kind of cohort professional development. Um also strongly looking at math this year and some um some grouping of district leaders and looking at standards alignment for math professional development around that. Um and then of course our professional development around AI. We have a a teacher I don't want to say part-time teacher because he's absolutely not a part-time teacher but part of his day is focused on that professional learning. >> Okay. I guess maybe more specifically my question. So, uh, Dr. Gianne gave us a very specific presentation about this is what professional development looks like. It's you do this and it was like this circle back loop thing and it had a very clear schedule and calendar. I guess my question is does
024that look the same this year or did we change that? >> There's >> because I know that was part of the the strategic plan was like to to structure >> the tenants of that are still embedded with Dr. Ryan. >> Okay. >> Yeah. still embedded with what is um planned and kind of the system to move that professional learning forward. >> Okay. Yes. [Music] >> Questions? Okay. [Music] >> There's no other questions. That ends the superintendent's report. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent Veno. will 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.
025Open public comment is coming up soon. Are there any board directors who wish to pull any items from the consent agenda for discussion? Okay, hearing none. Are there any people in attendance who wish to speak to any of these consent agenda items? If so, approach the podium or raise your hand online. No motion to speak on those. All right. Seeing no raise hands or anyone wishing to speak. Is there a motion to approve consent agenda items 1 through eight? Moved by Director King. >> Seconded by Director Evans. All those in favor of consent agenda items 1 through eight say I. >> I. And if say no. And that passes unanimously. We have no hold business to discuss um public comment. Citizens wishing to address the board were asked to submit online requests using the public
026comment link on our website or by email two hours prior to the board meeting start for those attending in person. The request forms were available for submission prior to the meeting start time and we had no requests there. [Music] Okay, topic scheduled for board discussion and we have nothing there. So that brings us down to more director report on school business conducted and we'll start with director he >> uh overall I heard really great feedback about all the open houses across the district. Uh everybody said they were um good. There was one recommendation of maybe um sixth graders get a little alone time uh in middle school similarly how we give ninth graders a little alone time. I've heard that a few places uh for some suggested feedback. Um but overall I think everybody appreciated
027kind of getting back into the buildings and maybe easing into the swing of things. Um I also heard positive feedback from safety net. I was unable to to attend that, but a few people that I know that went there said it was overall uh very informative and they they seemed to value the time that that was spent there. So, uh welcome back everybody for the first day that came today. Welcome back tomorrow to everybody else. Um, and uh really hoping to see uh the kindergarten numbers when they when they roll in because uh need need those kindergarteners to show up this year. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Director. Director Murray. >> Yes. Welcome to the first day of school. So, um I was happy to see um buses driving the neighborhoods this morning and
028um it's always it's always nice to see that. Um, I did get to attend the health and safety night um, briefly and um, I'm also I heard good things about it as well as I'm looking forward to hopefully engaging in some additional work around that area and engaging our students with the same um, format of conversation especially around the cell phones and internet safety. I think that's super important for our students to understand um the importance of what they're doing with their phones on internet and social media. Um I also want to thank um leadership for um the alignment under the Cedar Spring Elementary. The elementary is going to um the great camp. Um, I think hopefully that'll be really good as far as um public cost savings and we're not all going in multiple
029different directions and and that kind of thing. So, I'm I'm grateful to see that happening this year and um that is all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you, director. Director King, >> I also went to the health and safety meeting which is very valuable. Um and and one thing was interesting was the lead speaker that spoke to everybody at the same time was homeland security taking on this task of internet safety which is I think pretty special that started out to be I think preventing another 911 but they're retro biting out to other important areas and also disappointing disappointment with that evening was there were so few there um about about the same number of staff staff and teachers as parents. So wish that way more parents there because they really need to know
030this stuff. >> Thank you, Director King. And on the fifth grade going to the outdoor camp, I wanted to thank the PTAs, PTO's and the other people that have stepped forward to make that possible with the withdrawal of state funding for those. And I too enjoyed the health and safety night that our staff put on there and having the young lady from homeland security present uh on helping us keep our kids safe and that's a regular part of our superintendent priority there. I think about every six months we do that. So thank you on that. Uh this morning I got to watch the kids come back at the high school both Lincoln Hill Stanford Saratoga School the elementary schools on the mainland here and didn't make it out to the island there. The only issue
031I saw was uh some of our schools there's a little concern with traffic the first week or two of school there with everybody dropping the kids off but uh that will work itself out and just appreciate everything the staff has done over the summer to get us ready for this point and I will always give the last word to the superintendent here. >> Thank you. Uh, as has already been set up here, thanks to um first day of school, it's someone said earlier today, it's it's the second best day next to graduation. Uh, and it kind of feels that way. And I I I'd almost say, you know, we've been leading up to the first day of school for uh for a while now. So, it feels good to have students back. That's why we're
032here. And I want to keep it centered on that. So, thanks to the staff that have prepared the way for the students for showing up, but also thanks to the parents for uh for getting students here today. We'll welcome our 10th, 11th, and 12th graders to Stanwood High School tomorrow. There's a lot of activities in the community, and we invite the community uh to engage in those activities with our students. So, Thank you, Superintend. I would love to see more attendance. >> Sure. We have a a CFAC team meeting which stands for Capital Facilities and Advisory Committee uh on Tuesday the 9th at 5:30 in this room. And we've also invited C back the uh capital the the budget committee advisory committee uh as well as we're going to focus on the uh potential for
033a capital levy uh at that meeting and it's really important that we get community feedback around that um that topic uh as we move forward quickly. So thanks for that comm. Thank you. And just a reminder, we have a special meeting this evening at 5:00 in the room here to interview candidates for our vacant board position for district 4. So, we will be interviewing them here in public. You're all invited to that and I believe we will be transmitting that live stream and recording that. Um after the interviews, we will go into executive session and discuss uh performances and we will come back out and we'll probably take action on filling our vacancy on the board here. And if there is no further business, the September 2nd, 2025 regular board meeting is nearby. [Music]