001[Music] Yes, we can hear. [Music] That's okay. We can hear [Music] I now call to order the June 17, 2025 school board meeting of the Stanford Commino school district board of directors. Director Shriber King and Murray are present here. Director Adams is joining us via the marble of electronic technology and director Foster is excused today. Um today we're offering two opportunities for the public to speak. Comments specific to the consent agenda will be allowed to the vote on those items. Um we have no citizens request to speak during a public comment period. Would you please stand and join me? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stand. Okay, you have the agenda before you for the June 17, 2025 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to
002the agenda? Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the June 17, 2025 regular school board meeting as written? By Director King, second by Director Murray. All those in favor say I. I. All those say no. That passes unanimously. Uh the board has had the opportunity to review the June 3rd, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the June 3rd, 2025 regular board meeting? Moved by Director King. Second. Seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor say I. I. All say no. That passes unanimously. At this time, we will proceed with administering the oath of office for Superintendent Ryan Ovenel. Um, and you can join me in the podium. I, Ryan Ovenel, I, Ryan Ovenel, do solemnly swear
003do solemnly swear or affirm or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States in the state of Washington in the state of Washington. And will faithfully perform the duties of superintendent of the Stanwood Commino school district number 401. I will faithfully perform the duties of superintendent of St. Camino school district number 401 in the county of the homage in the county of the homage state of Washington state of Washington according to the best of my ability congratulations thank you [Applause] It is time for the superintendence report. Okay. Uh thank you. The first item on the superintendent report today is donations, which I will read in because as you can see, our student reps are uh finishing up the school year and have
004had their last meeting. So, uh the first item on the donations list is a donation for $310.40 40 cents from the Stanwood Elementary PTO to cover the Stanwood Elementary school transportation field trip cost to the Pil Bay Estuary Center. The second donation is for $54910 from the Twin City Elementary PTO to cover the Twin City Elementary School transportation field trip cost to the Stanwood wastewater treatment facilities and to Arrowhead Ranch. uh two uh very highly desired field trip experiences for our students. So, thank you to both of those uh donors for allowing uh those things to continue to happen for for our students. Uh next up on the superintendence report is the highly capable program report uh by Dr. Colin Ryan. Good afternoon. Happy to be here to offer the teaching learning capable report for
0052025. It's going to look pretty similar to last year's because the program is similar to last year what we did. [Music] Before I get into the details, I wanted to just shout out Rama Olsen for a tremendous amount of work she's done to support the program with selecting and identifying students with communication with families communication with schools. So, I wanted to shout her out before I get into the slide deck. And our highly capable program supports student achievement for kiddos that need more in the classroom and accelerated learning opportunities, differentiated learning opportunities. So, we'll go over program we'll go sorry, we'll go through a program overview, selection and identification, instruction in these classrooms and opportunities, as well as current and projected numbers. So, we're going to stick with um for kids to take the test
006to be considered for highly to have the highly capable designation. We're going to take continue to take recommendations. We feel like that's addressed a wider range of opportunity getting more kids assessed. So, we're going to stick with teacher and parent recommendations for next year. We have a lot of data. I have a a well-rounded amount of data that we're able to look at as we're identifying kids to be in the program which includes and I'm going to probably make a side sheet for board directors because there's some acronyms in here and I don't have a slide for it. We look at the Kogat test and that's cognitive abilities test. We also have the Dibbles test which is the K5 test and then at the middle school we have the growth measure as well as teacher
007formative assessments. So we feel like we have a wide range of data that supports the recommendations but also supports um entering students into the program and the model can look different depending on how families um if students are get the designation or enter into the program that can look different depending on where the student attends. They can be a multi-age room they can be in a cluster model or advanced opportunities um middle and high school. So, same slide as last year. First of all, in all five of our schools, student tests into the program, all all five schools have an option for families to keep their kids at their home school or in the case of Twin City where we house the program. that families can opt to keep their student in the general education
008setting where those kids are clustered and there are differentiated accelerated opportunities for these kids because families don't want their kids to switch from their home school or they just don't want to separate their kid from a group of friends that they've made at Twin City. In the scenario that families opt to enter the program at the elementary level, they can be the 23 multi-age room taught by Tracy Langelin and the four five program taught by Casey Harston. same opportunities as secondary and um at Port Susan these classes are pretty full whether kids are getting opportunities in social studies, language arts, English um and then in mathematics the school's working hard and I think successfully to look at data to support maths accelerate learning to place kids in that just right spot and at high school
009they have a variety of options whether it's advanced placement college prep college in the classroom or running And I think keeping a consistent model has led to consistent numbers. This slide should say current, highly capable enrollment as well as projected because the numbers look the same. The only data we don't have would be our tenders for next year. We haven't had them yet, but when we do, we'll look forward to having this process with them. But these numbers match what's projected for next year as well at each level. also wanted to complement an extra reachout opportunity offered at Twin City. So Tracy Langlin, the 23 multi-H highcap teacher, and Casey Howstead, the 45 multi-H highcap teacher, Jennifer Allen, for the last two years have hosted um a highly capable house. So families that are on
010the fence with that decision, can visit the program, visit the classrooms, talk with the teachers. Casey and Tracy both had about four or five kids come to the event. So the kids and the teachers, the students and the teachers were co-guides. they were able to talk about the program, talk about what they're learning. That I think has led to um more stable environment at the elementary level. Each of those blocks are between 15 to 20 kids, which is a healthy number that we think that I think is due to this extra reach out opportunity with our community. And that's all I had on possible questions. Yes, I was curious about outcomes um how much progress the kids make here compared to what in parallel just regular class environments and also looking at that population if
011possible within it say the the lower 25th percentile the upper 25th percentile how does those two different populations do in this environment compared to each other? Good question. Are you do you are you compared to how they do on the smart and balance assessment or how they do in class both both again the benefit I mean this is a great thing and one needed important to do I'm just curious how it's working yep I think um and Tracy in case the teacher of the program can you probably attest to it if it's a two three split those kids are challenged and that range of students that the teacher has to work with is pretty dynic hammock. So those those kids are pushed and that's a lot of planning for that teacher. And Tracy and Casey
012do that very well. And just generally speaking, um the students in those blocks tend to be threes and fours on the SBA since I brought it up. That's how they typically do on those assessments. But in terms of classroom experiences, um I would say they go through periods like the other students you mentioned that maybe are below grade level or the course is challenging, hard, difficult in a good way because that's what we want. How many of the um primary students stay in their own homes? I would say I can get a hard number and get back to you, but I would say more still want to stay in their home school, but because of actions like the the open house conversations with teachers, more are kind of going into the multi- that can be
013a hard number to look at how that's changed because I I do think that there's still a healthy portion of people that want to stay at their own school. They've built roots there and we want to respect and honor that and serve those kids at those schools. And do we know in the high school level obviously most of these kids are are taking accelerated classes. How many of them graduate with an AA as part of their graduation? That is something I can also check on and go get back to. Thank you. Just as an anecdote, um many of the students who are designated highcap when they enter high school may already be in uh some of the advanced placement classes. So by way of those classes may may receive the dual crediting. Um but we
014can get the actual number of students that are are leaving with an AA that were designated in in highly capable um either in elementary or uh well in elementary. Appreciate the question. It's going to be great to have. Just to clarify, similarly, like if a student technically qualifies for our high program, uh that they choose to stay in their home school and we offer them additional services or additional curriculum. Those same resources would be available to a student who maybe didn't get a recommendation or whatever, but needed those additional resources. It's not like we're specifically saying those are only for our students. Like that's that that multi-tered level of of learning, right? Like if if anybody needs access to those additional resources, we would provide those in the classroom. Correct. Correct. Thank you. Okay. Thank
015you, Dr. Ryan, for the report. Thank you. Third item on the SE superintendent's um report is the June uh 2025 enrollment report. You can see that on the screen in front of you. Uh the June enrollment declined by 22 FTE from the May count which is in line with last year's change. um annual average enrollment excluding TK running start and open doors uh was or is 4,650 and that's above budget by 46 FTE and above last year's average enrollment by 28 FTE. One of the things I'll note at the very bottom of the of this document and of this sheet is you'll see the six-year average uh actual enrollment um over budget uh estimate. And uh just to point out that we um are looking um long-term and um as far as our projection and
016um that brings the point up that we are working with the demographer again uh this fall to get u um enrollment projections that will be more closely matched to what's uh what's going on in our community with regard to growth and movement in and out of the community and what we'd expect in our classrooms uh over the next 5 years. So that is happening uh scheduled to happen this coming fall. Any questions on the enrollment report? Not necessarily the enrollment report side even though I'm not there still got a lot of questions. You're welcome. Got it. uh the um that theographer report that's going to I mean obviously those are just projections and stuff but um it'll be similar to the last one we got where we'll have the low, medium and high and it'll
017kind of break it down maybe in age groups if I remember correctly as well because I know we have some questions about our middle school population. Correct. the the report will be similar to uh the previous reports that we've um received from the the demographer. Um in particular of note is our uh zoning within the city of Stanwood and what particular growth we would look for um in those areas as well as across the district. Perfect. Thank you. Welcome. One last item from my report that's not on the agenda is I'd like to acknowledge uh several administrators that are both moving uh to different roles in the district and and also out of the district. So just to publicly acknowledge Robert Haskell who's served as our special services uh executive director for the last eight
018years and within the in the district longer than that. Um just to acknowledge uh Mr. Haskell in the uh work he has done to um promote um inclusion in the classroom and having our students with special that are involved in special services um receiving um you know the best version of a free and appropriate public education that they can. So thank you Mr. Haskell and secondly Dr. Beng who uh we'd like to thank for his last three years of service here in the city school district will be the uh incoming superintendent in Walaw Wala school district. They're lucky to have you and just thank you for uh driving instruction uh with your team in the district the last uh three years. Dr. Gyne two movements within the district that were on a former consent agenda
019but uh I think these individuals were busy managing schools at the time. So, I definitely want to ackn I was able to get them here today. So, I definitely want to acknowledge uh both of them. Principal Kimberly Caldwell of Cedar Home Elementary will be um taking the reigns to lead at Elder Bay Elementary uh starting July 1. Uh and we're um thankful for Kimberly and the leadership she's had at Cedar Home Elementary and um what we can expect at Elj Bay Elementary as well. And Mr. Posa has some flowers for you, which is customary right there. And Christy Auckland, who will be moving it from the assistant principal role at uh Port Susan for well, Christiey's been at Port Susan Middle School uh uh for 22 years. Is that right? um in the teaching role
020and in an administrative role. And when you're in a building for 22 years, you um can't leave there without uh uh your your stamp on it. So, appreciate that. And I'm looking forward to you uh leading at Church Creek campus. I know you've already dug in there. Uh and we're looking forward to that work. So, thank you for being willing, Christie. We appreciate all of your uh leadership. That ends the superintendent's report. Thank you, Superintendent. We'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. Are there any board directors who wish to pull
021any item from the consent agenda for discussions? Okay, I would like to pull number 12 since I serve on that board as well. Uh I'll entertain a motion to approve agend consent agenda items 1 through 11 and 13 through 23. So moved by Director King. Seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor of approving consent agenda with items 1 through 11 and 13 to 23 say I. I. Any oppose say no. That passes unanimously. Item number 12 is the agreement with North County Regional Fire Authority. I serve on that board too. So I will excuse myself on voting on this. I'll stay there. So entertain a motion to approve consent agenda item number 12. Moved by Director Murray, second and seconded by Director King. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose say no.
022That passes. Okay. We have no old business to discuss at this time. Um, we have topics scheduled for school board discussion. Um, board policy 6570, property data and record management. Um, any discussion or comments on that policy? No. All right. And we'll have consensus to move that on to a second reading. And board policy 6801, capital asset, death sensitive assets. Any questions or discussion on that policy? and then we will have consent to move that on to a second reading. The next item is the board vacancy and our process there. The has already leaked out but I will read a letter here to the uh board. Dear members of the stando school board, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to formally resign from my position on the Stanwood Commo school board.
023This decision comes after careful consideration and reflection on my personal and professional priorities. While serving on the board has been both an honor and a deeply rewarding experience, I have found that the position requires more energy and time than I can currently dedicate. I believe it is in the best interest of the board and our community for someone with the necessary bandwidth to step into this role. Additionally, I am eager to pursue other interests that I have been passionate about. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to have worked alongside such dedicated colleagues, educators, and community members. The experiences and insight I have gained during my tenure will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you for your support, collaboration, and meaningful work we have accomplished together. I remain committed to the success
024of our school and community and I look forward to seeing the continued positive impact on the board's efforts with warmest regard. Betsy Foster. So she has submitted her resignation and I believe the date in the email there was August 1st of 2025. Um so according to our policies in policy 114 in our procedures with that policy and policy 115 uh we have received the written resignation. Um and we need to have the next regular board meeting which I guess will be this one. uh we will formally vote to declare the seat vacant as of the resignation date August 1 of 2025 pending the resignation is not rescended. So I will entertain a motion to formally accept uh her resignation effective August 1, 2025 and declare the seat vacant move by seconded by director Evans. All
025those in favor say I. I I approve say no. That passes unanimously. And a 90-day window beginning on August 1, 2025 for the board appointment. Um, okay. To apply for that position, you need to be within that director district, which is number four, have residency in there, be a legally eligible US citizen, registered voter, resident of that district director area. Uh, and we will come up with a application process and deadline. Um so we'll schedule some if we have a large number we'll narrow that down and schedule some interviews which will be held in public and an appointment schedule. Uh [Music] okay and the according to our policy the application window needs to be open over a period of 2 to 3 weeks. Um and we will come up with the application components typically a
026letter of interest, the resume or qualification summary, the residency verification and responses to board supply questions which we will come up with. Uh the board will review those, narrow the field if applicable and we'll conduct public interviews. Um and that will occur in an open session and then we will appoint a new board member to fulfill the remaining two years on her terminal office and then after we appoint the new member we will administer office there. um discussions on our vacancy policies or I just wanted to clarify for anybody that's interested the director maps are online so you can pull that up and see where the boundaries are uh to see if you live within that area and then just to clarify um generally for a filled vacancy it would be until the next available
027or to the next election but there is in our policy that school board directors only run on odd numbers the year. So, just to clarify, the term would be through 2027 when the next eligible election is for the board members. So, uh it would be filling until 2027, not the 2026 election. Thank you, Director Evans. Okay. Other discussion on our plan to fulfill that vacancy there? Okay, we will work on that. We will probably end up having a special meeting uh probably August or so um to do interviews in public here in this boardroom uh which is open to the public. Um and as director Evans said, we encourage people that live in that area, which is basically from about the road in front of Hagens, uh eastward um to apply for that. And again,
028as she said, the maps are on our website there. Just search for director district map and you can see quite clearly without. Okay. Any other discussion on board things in process? Okay. Board director report on business conducted. Director Murray. Uh not a whole lot has gone on other than the big huge graduation. So I'd like to um just um congratulate all of our graduates this year and also thank all of our staff that are transitioning into different roles. um a lot of movement in the district at the moment and so um really appreciate the grace that you've given us while we are moving through um making these changes and um just you know graduation is like the best part of being the school board director and seeing those faces when they receive their um diplomas
029is is very rewarding. So, um, looking forward. Thank you, Director Murray. Let's go to Director Evans online if you do have comments. Yeah, thank you. Uh, sorry I couldn't be there in person today. Please congratulate everybody on their big votes. Congratulations to Dr. Diane and to Robert Hassel. Uh, you know, much uh much appreciation for all the work that you've done and and I'm sure you'll you'll thrive in your new roles. Also, congratulations to uh Superintendent Osnol getting sworn in today. Uh sorry I missed that as well. Um again, if anybody has any questions in regards to the opening, any of us board directors are happy and uh willing to answer any questions or whatever you want, just reach out. Um as director Murray said, graduation is always the best time of the year. Uh
030got to see the Lincoln Hill. I love the new format of the graduation this year. It was a really uh nice change. Um and looking forward to next year and all the all the good we can do then. Thank you. Thank you, Director Evans. And as the directors have said, the graduation is probably the best part of this job. And that was my last graduation after 12 years on the board. So, it was beautiful weather and beautiful ceremony there. I'd like to thank our PTOs for their donations to help our kids out, especially move some of the cuts from the state. Um, I wanted to thank all of those that are on our consent agenda here for the activities and athletics and the extra work that they do. Um, I also wanted to thank the
031summer staff that's going to be running the summer schools this summer here. I think Corey Guten is going to head that out there. Uh we had two retirements in our classified staff there. I just wanted to acknowledge Ronda and Doris for all the work that they have done and wish them well in their graduation or retirement. All right. U graduations also and uh very different uh with 40 in one Lincoln and about about 40 there and about 300 at the high school. And for Lincoln, that allowed the luxury of staff talking for about 5 minutes about each student. And that was very touching. There were at least two of them that were the first in their camp families who graduated from high school. There were several probably, I'm sure, with the permission of the students
032who have struggled with mental illness during the process and made it. Thank you, Director King. And as always, we'll give the last word to to Pretendell. Thank you. Uh once again, congratulations to all of our graduates from 2025. Um and uh thank you to our staff. Um it feels like more than 180 days sometimes, but uh just across the system, our classified and certificated staff as well as our administrators. Thank you for um uh leading the way for our students. And I also want to say thank you um for the the confidence from the board and the community to allow me to serve in this role uh for the next three years. I'm excited to continue to to lead uh the district and looking forward to um a lot of great things. So I appreciate
033it. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent. And there being no further business, we are hereby turn. [Music]