SCSD Regular School Board meeting for 3.4.25

001e e e I I just text all right you are on all I now call to order the March 4th 2025 school board meeting of the Stanford Cano School District Board of Directors director ryber King Murray and proster are present um we are looking for director vs our super Representatives will join us for the regular board meeting portion of the meeting at 1: the board will now move to an executive session to review the performance of a district employee until 12:45 e e e [Music] the [Music] we concluded our executive session and at 1:00 we will resume meeting the regular meeting at 1:00 the executive session has been concluded e e e [Music] thank you all didn't we will reconvene our meeting here it's now 1:00 all of our directors are present rder King Marie

002Foster and Evans and vot for student representatives are here today we are offering two opportunities for the public to speak comments specific to the consent agenda will be allowed prior to the vote on those items citizens who have submitted a request to speak during the public comment section of the agenda will be called upon to make their comments at that time which is near the end of the meeting and will ask our superintendent to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all [Music] you have the agenda before you for the March 4th 2025 regular school board meeting are there any changes to the agenda is

003there a motion to approve the agenda for the March 4 2025 regular school board meeting is written so moved mooved by director Murray second seconded by director Evans all those in favor say I I any opposed say no that passes unanimously okay the board has had the opportunity to review the February 18th 20125 regular school board meeting minutes are there any changes or corrections to those minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes for the February 18 2025 regular board meeting so much by director Adams second second by director King that was close all those in favor of approving the minutes for the February 18th 2025 regular Bo meeting say I I and the oppos say no that passes unanimously it is time for our superintendent report thank you we will start the superintendent's

004Report with donations which will be reported out by our student Representatives Luke and Elizabeth $384 180 from the spag guamas tribe to cover the cost of Transportation the stwood Elementary School third grade field trip the still woman H Hatchery $1,025 from the cedar home elementary school PTO to cover the field trip transportation cost of the still aamish fish hatchery at Spark Museum $482 70 from the commo friend the library to cover the transportation costs of the OT Elementary School fourth grade field trip to the Kimo Island library $375 180 from the Twin City Elementary School PTA to cover the cost of the field trip of the still fish hatchery $8,888 from the stwood elementary school P to cover the remaining balance of the fifth grade outdoor education field trip to Camp [Music] Seymour thank you

005and thanks to all our donors significant amount of donations once again uh into the district on behalf of the students so we appreciate that next up is Ruth Floyd and Ruth is here with Grant GR representative from mckinstry uh to give an update on a clean buildings act good afternoon um we are doing a clean buildings act update for you today included in our promise is providing students with safe and comfortable uh facilities enhancing building Energy Efficiency in line with the clean buildings act uh can also help to free up operating resources for student learning uh I'd like to introduce Grant gr Granger uh count executive representing M kinstry uh the company that prepared the initial benchmarking report for the clean buildings act compliance and uh today Grant will provide insight into the acts requirements

006uh some District benchmarking data and next steps thank you thank you super members of the board happy to be here to report out on the progress uh for so far and and a little bit about the clean buildings act itself so please look forward to your questions later I test my clicker skills here already off to the technology uh so we'll go through a little bit of the history of the clean Builders legislation itself explain how that covers the buildings here in Stan Community School District um talk about what those compliance requirements are and the timeline that um all facilities of this are under this legislation are uh subject to Across the state talk a little bit about energy use intensity which I'm sure is a New Concept for many folks um and the targets

007for stwood Comm schools and the results of the benchmarking and then what we see as the next steps for this so uh clean buildings performance standard or cdps you may hear referred to um was passed under house Bo 1257 back in 2019 the intent of this legislation is to reduce the energy usage of our built environment so there's a lot of energy waste we think as much as 50% of energy waste in the built environment or energy usage is wasted in the built environment so so the intent of this legislation wellbeing legislation is to reduce the carbon impact of that waste it's all intended to make buildings operate more efficiently um things that everybody think would like to do but just make uh buildings across the state have to prioritize on a little bit more

008um in addition to pushing energy targets for each individual building there are some operational best practices that are required as part of this legislation the legislation affects uh buildings in two separate major tiers buildings over 50,000 square feet of gross floor area in one continuous building have to hit a set energy Target and that energy Target is determined at the building level based on that building's individual use so for example an elementary school is going to have a very different Target than a data center an elementary or a high school with a pool or a performance art space is going to have a waiting Target based on that actual use hours of operation throughout the year also impact the energy use Market um buildings from 20,000 sare ft to 50,000 ft do not have a

009Target to hit they're what we refer to as tier two they don't have to hit an energy Target but you do have to do all of the other operation steps so determining what their energy use is determining what the target would be in the future uh and then some of the compliance uh elements around operations if we're talking about moment you can see here uh the tier one buildings have three separate rolling dates of compliance based on that square footage the energy use intensity is the metric it's a IND industry standard metric by which uh clean buildings and the state will be measuring the building's energy use it's simply your total electric and gas usage over 12 months divided by that building square footage so it's a it's a very common metric um water is

010not part of this legislation so you know managing water usage is important but it's not required under this legislation um what is required is that every building tier one and tier two develop an energy star profile energy star is a platform managed by the department of energy you heard about energy star certification for the building that's where it's done so that is where all the energy data will live and in fact does live now for sard Cano School District um so that's the first step developing the target for each building is the second step and through that we see how far away we are from Target and then each Builder will have have to also develop an Implement an energy management plan and an operations and maintenance plan the energy management plan is essentially who's

011responsible for the Energy Efficiency of the building how are we doing so what past efforts have we taken it's really just pulling together an energy focused operations manual and the onm plan is documenting your assets documenting your maintenance these are all best practice things that every building would like to do every building owner would like to do but often has not had the time to to formalize and so that is part of the process that we're looking through the district today for the tier one buildings there are two Pathways then that are in addition to just going through the steps first option is just to bring that building's energy usage below the set Target the second option if the building is perhaps very far above its Target today is to go through us an alternate

012path which is called the investment criteria uh and entails a comprehensive energy audit and then implementing cost effective measures and measuring your progress against those measures so it's essentially a an option if you have a building that just won't be feasibly uh able to get below Target through any real Roi so this is the timeline again you saw those dates before but this is just it laid out um timeline so very largest buildings will have to be compliant by 2026 but there's an effective date where you want to start having compliant energy usage 12 months before because it's a 12 mon month measure and you have to implement that energy management plan a when program 12 months before each individual deadline so you see two sets of dates here because there's an actual deadline which

013is really just the paperwork last minute to submit uh but there's an effective deadline one year [Music] FL so what does this mean high level for the district you have five elementary schools that are tier two so those are five sites where we're Gathering energy usage we want to use that for perhaps uh investments in the future to understand where you're may be wasting energy but you don't have a penalty associated with whever their energy performance is um and then the high school both middle schools and standard Elementary are all in tier one and you can see various sub tiers uh there so stord high school will be the first up for compliance um in 2026 officially I am not going to force you to look at this slide for more than two seconds uh

014this is just the the broad results of our benchmarking effort from our energy analysts compiling all of that energy data determining the what the WN stands for weather normalized we won't go down H grabit hole essentially accounting for weather um and then what is the the gap between where the target is and where the performance is today in a much easier to understand visual component let's focus on the tier one buildings on the left because those are those that have a uh compliance Target today as you might expect Stan High School is below Target so is it is compliant uh us completing the last few documentation measures uh both the M schools and stwood Elementary are what we would consider slightly above Target so a small percentage of their energy usage total energy use above

015Target um this is within the realm of what we would think that operational measures or maybe some focused small Investments can get those buildings below Target we'll talk about that in next steps but we don't think that there are major capital projects required to bring those buildings under compliance they are ready for that performance pathway essentially there's no need to do a big audit and a long project to get those buildings where they need to be on the tier two side we do have uh two schools that are well above what we expect their target to be but you don't have to hit that today so um those are two schools you I can't pronounce it's a I always mess up I'm so sorry where we recommend for further study in the future because there's

016opportunity to stop wasting energy dollars and utility dollars but there's no fine counting as a result so it's good news overall for the district we work with school districts throughout the state and you are in very good shape from a Coan building standpoint so I want you to be proud about the way that you are managing your buildings this is not typical um most districts I speak to have several buildings in the Deep Web where there are 15 or 20 points above Target um some kind of in the mid Zone which are going to all require more investment than is facing this dist today so um kudos to everyone who is responsible for for the operations of these buildings this is just another focus on those tier one buildings so just put a little bit

017different visually again Stanwood is below Target it's not massively below Target so it is kind of in a Range where we recommend submitting for that compliance this year so you don't have to worry about it for another 5 years because this is an ongoing rotating cycle uh and again Port season stand middle and S L they're all within range there's some some strategies we'll talk about in a moment we believe that there's a good chance of you getting low Target buone before those compliance States so the next steps we have this kind of broken out into two slides for standard uh high school and for the tier 2 sites that don't have a tou today we're wrapping up the last bits of required documentation around the operations plan and the energy management plan and we

018expect both of those groupings to be ready to submit later this year um standwood High School in the spring and as soon as we are ready we will submit it so that we don't it's kind of check the box and it goes into that trust verify mode um the tier 2 sites we can't officially submit until the summer the tier 2 compliance window hasn't open yet officially um but as soon as it is we will submit those we recommend submitting those signs for compliance and there is a an incentive from the state from the Department of Commerce for tier two SS compliance you can see that here uh at the floor for your District would be $774,000 and it's a first come first serve uh bucket of funding you're to cement site by site so

019it's a little bit of paperwork but essentially you're 90% of the way towards getting that that incentive today uh and there is a little bit of upside you see that 119,000 that's if U for sites that are high energy users so if the energy used for two elementary schools that are about 24 points above today it stays nothing changes um you would be subject to that higher and the threshold for the incentive and then for the tier one sites that remain above Target that are in that window um the district is going to be looking at operations based strategies uh from occupant use you know getting the team at the school involved on what they can do to impact energy and we're going to recommend that we review that energy performance um in the fall

020and early winter to see how that trend line has dipped there are some additional strategies then if if we haven't seen Improvement um you know such as lighting retrofits or some targeted uh investigation of like the building controls and the building technology to see how the buildings operating but we're really ambitious that those three schools are on track and then again as soon as those are have eui that dips below Target each each site will be submitted on an individual basis and then check the boxs for for this SP I know that's a ton of content um thank you so much for letting me walk through where the district is at the efforts that uh my team and the district haveing on together and I welcome any questions I'm to questions sorry Steve did you

021have questions go ahead so my first question is the St High School basically you have to have 12 month of data submitted by June uh for 2026 so we can start that like data collection any time now and submit it by them yeah our team the start of the data collection and your data is is cor it's a rolling process so we're we're in position to that before June 1st 2026 okay great and then the second piece to that is that Department of Commerce incentives those are for schools um you would apply for those if you needed help bringing down the energy use or you get that because you did a good job of bringing energy use that's a great question um Department of Commerce is has a number of different buckets of incentives and

022we're TR we're continuing to track what's available um we expect for example a new energy audit incentive to be released in the spring um pending the budgeting process the state budgeting process the specific incentive that was shown previously that 74 to 119 is What's called the tier 2 early adopter incentive program and it is a bucket of funds specific to those tier 2 sites across the state it's $150 million it's a huge bucket of funds um I have opinions about how that money could be used but we'll say that for another day it is intended to get building owners who have these smaller buildings through the process sooner so essentially benchmarking so getting your data into energy star confirming what the target is doing the operations and maintenance plan and the energy management plan and

023then submitting to the state so you get rewarded just for essentially having been proactive on your smaller buildings smaller buildings what they are I think concerned about is you know this affects every commercial commercial building owner being you know non private residential um across the state in those thresholds so if you you're worried about small building owners who may only own two small retail properties for example they want to encourage folks to get through this process because they may have truly lacked the resources to focus on this and may not even be aware of so they're trying to give a lot use this as essentially a public relations portion and incentive to get folks through the process there are other incentives that we expect to be coming around lowering your energy usage and actually doing

024projects the state continues to every year have some form of energy efficiency grant um through a number of different programs the dep Department of Education ospi has a number of uh you know small world energy project grants so we continue to monitor all the available funding sources including each of the incentives thank you yes yes Che my understand so tier one doesn't look like we need to do much not much in fact only cost item I see there is um technology to automatically shut on computers uh and so um but then tier two which is I guess more optional and the incentive there is possibility to get funds to improve energy which is good thing right yeah and so do we have an inventory yet especially fora and alra Bay which is the bad ones

025uh to already have a list of things we should be doing there we have not so we haven't gotten to that step of diving in um you know we would recommend that as you get either incentive or grant funding back from the state that you you know invested in reducing energy usage that's mck Street's perspective of you know there's a lot of competing needs at a district but we think it's a good investment um we have some ideas high level ideas on some areas of potential waste at those two schools um but we would recommend for St so is there more than one possible source for these funds and more than one place to apply correct yes yes there are and so we have a list of that and and how complicated how fast could

026they apply um good question uh so unfortunately most of what is available for this bym is already out right and um much of it had strings attached to be completed by the end of miam so there were some real challenges with some of the funding I'll be just to be frank State released a lot of available funding linked um they were waiting on some results for the election some of this was funded by the climate climate commitment act we were waiting to see if that would be repealed by by referendum it was not so there were some small buckets of funding that would had a lot of strings attached we're waiting to see how the next BM budget unfolds to see what the next round of funding looks like so I could put uh some

027things that we think will happen but I cannot guarantee because uh they are subject to the the whims of the state budgeting process which I know even care to to put a number on in terms of percentage of flight these potential funds which are fedal with your state and I understand some big cuts yeah we're focused on state funding um there there have been some federal grants available um through the last Administration and um frankly they've been highly highly competitive nationally there've only been a handful of Awards in Washington state um for the renew America schools Grant we continue to keep an eye on federal funding but it's not typically Al our main source of available funding we look to State um by the Department of Commerce OPI and then uh utility incentives as our

028main sources I think the the Govern just R released something just recently with $4 billion in cuts and how's that impact this remains to be seen right um the devils in the details on the state budgets right and then it'll go through a Reconciliation process with with the houses remember per loal housing sent um the good news is that much of the funding for the grant programs that have been focused on clean buildings has come through that climate commitment act which is going is not going anywhere and the funds that come out of that the revenue that is generated by that climate commitment act which is essentially a tax on utilities for not having U for having dir utility sources um that has to go towards Energy Efficiency measures it can't be reappropriated so we

029do think there's some durability but um the specifics are yet to be see so how long I'm looking at the as the bars with um on the weather nor normalization um curious what was the the time frame of when those measurements were taken that would have been through uh the end of January is our last utility date okay so kind of as a side note maybe to Kevin would be um how much of our issues around um are cold versus loss of heat in our buildings from the structural framework that we've been talking about trying to rectify how much would that be impacting those numbers considering we raised heating you during the cold cells in order to make sure that we didn't have pipes first yeah certainly insulation issues would have an impact like Grant

030was saying part of that is weather utilization and so they take into account the weather that we're having so yes when we had um those days where we had Subzero freezing we ran our bildings 247 on heat so yes that does impact us and does hurt us but is taken into account okay and so as we're looking at this further down the line are we going to be able to bring those numbers down or are we going to need to get some type of um exception to the rule because of the way our building those two buildings were originally built there is a lot of low hanging fruit that we can do right now to bring those numbers down um there's a uh education is a big one and and getting people to start turning

031lights off when people are not in the rooms that's those are there's a lot of easy things that we can do what we are hoping we don't have to do is turn thermostat down a lot of people don't like that um and we still have to keep it a a conducive learning environment uh but there are a lot of cost-saving things that we can do in the buildings of changing our habits of how we use these buildings as the begin are other measures um lighten we're looking into changing them are we looking at motion Sor related Ty yes those are all on the table currently we've been just concentrating on the high school and the two middle schools because those are what's coming up first um you mentioned that the high school is due on

0322026 technically that data is due of June this year that's when we have to be in compliance with it and um and then we'll be looking into the two middle schooles to just a fa I think maybe director Murray's question is are those measures that we're putting in place at Aela based on the the presentation that Ruth gave us are those going to help yes just already in the meantime like that's yes that doesn't show the measures that we're taking in that $40,000 Grant like we should see hopefully a very measurable changes just with those changes that were made could exate that that help recommissioning of those buildings each vac systems of those buildings will tremendously help especially at that slot okay absolutely um the other question I had is the certification uh or compliance

033that we're filing for how good how long is that compliance for and do we look at potentially down the road having to meet even more stringent guidelines oh you give me the tough voice app thank you for it's it's five years based on the compliance date so it's a rolling five year for every I wish you could tell you it was simpler than that but it's not um in terms of stricter energy targets I think it's reasonable to expect that in the future I don't know if the legislature will have appetite to do that in the first renal cycle um because of the push back and the concerns of the cost to comply across state for for building yourselves but I do think it's reasonable to think that in the second or third compliance or

034the third or fourth compliance cycle potentially see stricter targets that would require change of the legislation so Department of Commerce can issue guidance and interpretation on um the legislation they can't change targets um so it's it's something that we we advas to yes you want building want to get more inefficient so keeping high on efficiency and Contin to invest in right fit smart measures that fit multiple needs what constraints around soer aging buildings as well that could potentially be impacted later on down the line and as the district plans uh and looks towards buildings that you may potenti to replace there are exemptions around for example if you had a building that was already fonded and ready to be replaced but it's going to be replaced perhaps two years past its compliance date there are

035some exemptions as well as well we are also tracking there's a number of bills in the House and Senate today um that would impact clean buildings um as well as just general School financing one of which was actually put forth by Commerce uh to provide them some more flexibility around exemptions extensions and Alternate energy metrics so remains to be seen if that would pass it looks like the most likely of those to pass and I can send some followup information with this appreciate it thank you yeah any other questions great well thanks Grant and R kinry for close work with the district and I also appreciate the call out that you made on our position our positive position of our schools here in the district and also giving credit to a couple people there in

036the room Kevin and Jeff and capital project C M's team for the work that they've done to put us in that position so thank you once again for making the trip out thank you for [Music] your next item on the superintendent report is a school data and achievement report by principal Kimberly cwell from Cedar home Elementary all right I say good morning H good morning good afternoon um I am excited to be here and give you some updates about the work at Cedar home I would say the staff was incredibly proud of the efforts that we are doing and the work that we see in our students um as we think about Clos [Music] outs I turn to oh there we go this might to work okay really uh quickly before I dive into some

037slides around the work that we're doing I just wanted to share a quick reminder of our Focus for AAP goals this year at Cedar home we have been dialing in on decoding strategies for K3 um comprehension for 35 in ela um in math looking at composing and decomposing numbers and then for mtss a focus on um supporting uh putting and Sports in the classroom for all students access or instruction when I ended um presenting to you in the fall uh these were the three bullet points that I shared that we would expect to see as the year progressed um so I'm going to speak to those as I go through the slides um starting off with staff [Music] collaboration so we are both for ELA and math working really hard as as a staff to

038be intentional around looking at data um and making decisions about what instruction uh strategies we want to put in place to support students this is a picture of our middle of the Year data for um Ela across the across the school I think there's a lot um to be excited about a lot reflected in here about the work that we are doing to support students um I have a couple of snapshots I wanted to show you just as um an example of the what we're seeing due to the work that we have in place um if you remember I talked about comprehension being an area 4 345 uh these lines show you um specifically a piece of our Ela assessment data that measures comprehension so you can see um beginning of the year is a

039first line for each grade level that second line is our middle of the Year data um so very exciting to see that green and blue area grow for our students 35 when we canow I'm putting in some intentional pieces for comprehension for math I shared with you in the fall that we are trying out Delta math across um across the grades at Cedar home this is our first year diving into that um that is um materials we are using to plan for our flexible grouping intervention times um one of the things that we are trying to do is be really responsive to what the data is showing us and so this shows across the grade levels using Delta math just different ways that we have been grouping students in providing instruction based off of what

040we are seeing at that grade level couple highlights I wanted to point out to you so this is some data that we have for our fourth grade students right now so um within Delta maap we have provided interventions for three of the fourth grade standards so far this year that percentage on the left is uh when we did a overall assessment in the fall how what percentage of students were at standard and then you can see that growth to We did an assessment in January so lots to celebrate there in fourth grade um as we see those numbers and can see this is for our fifth grade so again um similar these are the standards we provided intervention for and then you can see that percentage growth um that we have seen so far for

041our fth grader so lots to be excited about with that as we are learning about new materials and new programs and what it can do for our students the second bullet point that I talked about was um that work are on providing supports for all students access for instruction um one of the topics that has come up in this area for us is thinking around how to support behavior um for our students in the classroom um we know that behaviors are form of communication and just thinking around um how to make sure we have strategies in the classroom that help support that um we have had about half of our staff participate in a training called teacher child interaction training um Jeff Jorgenson our director of Special Ed has put that on for us and

042has um really helped us with some strategies in the classroom about how we can praise kids in an effective manner um how we can describe the behaviors that we would like to see um and as we think about that work um a couple data points I wanted to share with you we notice from October to November that are our formally documented Behavior incidents went down by about a third and then again from November to December so it's exciting to think just around where that piece is helping our students in the [Music] classroom and then the third bullet point um that I shared we were hoping to see as the year progresses is thinking around how to increase our student confidence both in reading and maap um two bullet points I wanted to speak to on

043this so we are um our third fourth and fifth graders uh throughout the year are participating in our interim assessments so those are assessments meant to um mimic our state assessment um and it allows us to gain info about their academic achievement throughout the year and where we can um put in some support it also helps our students build confidence in um in those standards and in that process um so that's been a part of our work and then we also as a staff are engaging in learning around Universal um designed for learning um that picture there we got to host a training with the swi Elementary staff as well um and what that really is helping us is U building our strategies around how we provide supports in the classroom to help kids um

044access and attempt um core instruction in different ways so that's been a key piece of our work as [Music] well so thinking about that um from now to to the end of the year I think we are continuing to think around those three bullet points I'm continuing to uh walk through the processes we have for staff collaboration looking at data um continuing to adjust and mold um based off of what that data is showing us for our students um and really thinking around how to put those supports in place based off what the data is showing us in order to increase that confidence and leing in that so lots to be excited for at Cedar home um lots of great work to continue um as the year progresses what questions do you have for me

045yes yes slide eight no I guess say on fourth grade interventions yeah U the standard three is lower than the others especially the second one yes and so what's that yes so standard three it has to do with um fractions and it is actually just as we were pulling the data it is the standard we're currently working on with them so it was great to see that progress so far knowing that we are are intervening on that but it is um the intervention standard that is in progress great [Music] question just to clarify uh you have on your Delta math groups uh slide it says ntss team pulling a group of students classroom teachers supporting small groups in their classroom I know when um principal Allan was here she talked about small groups and sort

046of look like a Twin City Elementary could you maybe perhaps describe or explain to us what this your version of this small grou looks like absolutely so we have it has looked differently dependent on our phrase level um depending on the data that is in front of us so for example right now our second and third grade teams are um sharing kids amongst themselves and kids are walking to groups based off of that data and how we want to support in that way um we at a couple other grade levels we noticed when we took the Delta maap assessment right that maybe um it was a standard that the majority of kids needed intervention in and so we've talked through how for that cycle it might look a little different maybe that instruction is happening

047full group in the classroom versus pulling a small small group of kiddos and so we have been a little more flexible in what that structure looks like as we reflect on the data and with the data isur so how often are you are you like is it like monthly weekly quarterly great question we have a t set aside on Wednesdays that our grade bands are rotating through so every third Wednesday um two grade levels meet together uh with myself and our mtss interventionist look at the current data we have and make any adjustments or changes that we might want to make perfect thank you yeah I appreciate seeing all the growth um from the beginning of the year or to now how are you looking to the Future to solidify this growth so that it

048carries over during the summer into the fall that's a great question now I think that is something for us to be really intentional about the spring as we think about moving into the fall and what maybe some of those supports and structures can look like I think the other thing that we are really trying to pay attention to is um we see those overall scores maybe based off of our our reading assessment being able to queue into what piece of ela maybe are we need more more support for um and that might help us as we move into summer to think about suggestions we might provide to families or what pieces we'll put when we come back in the fall so great question I think for us always to be thinking about thank you principal

049CW and thanks for the uh the data that you presented today exceptional data um particularly around the strategies you're using with um multi-tiered systems of supports actually support schools one and three of our strategic plan so thank you for speaking to that thank you I'm gonna welcome Ruth Floyd backup for the January financial report um so January financial report um January is an especially important uh month for the financials because this is the month when we see adjustments to our revenues in the abortion report we've talked about that before um because it reflects year-to dat enrollment so we did have an increase of enrollment I think is trying to politely ask you to move the microphone closer to you or I think it's turned off is that better thank you I see a space over

050there thank you I can see him out of the side of my eye there all right uh so for January financials uh we do see adjustments to our revenues because of um enrollment uh kind of the catchup from uh September through December they use budgeted enrollment and then uh in January they start using actual enrollment through year to date and then it will be adjusted each uh month year to date and we did have an increase in enrollment uh this year year over budget and so that is reflected in our January financials um the enrollment FTE was 4,670 in January about 65 over budget uh and about 26 above last year we do anticipate that uh to come down uh throughout the end of the the year because generally uh at least in the higher

051grades we do have a decrease in our enrollment over the course of the spring uh State apportionment revenues were paid at 8.5% and uh with a total of 39.5% uh for the year uh payroll costs as a percent of budget through January uh are running slightly higher than this time last year but non salary costs as a percent of budget are are lower than last year's um helping to off offset some of that uh the manager report uh it shows the 10% remaining after expenses and uh salary and benefit incumbrances through January uh that's a bit behind uh this time last year our fund balance report shows uh$ 6.6 million at the end of January this is slightly above the prior year uh but you'll notice that the percent of revenues is uh slightly under

052the prior year that's because that goal when revenues go up that goal uh is a little bit further away and then uh staying close to our prior year fund balance though is an encouraging sign that the district is on track um uh to not dip into fund balance quite as much as we thought we would so I think our savings efforts this year are having Ina there um uh object summary um we have object summary uh is a different way of looking at expenses uh you can see the contracted salaries are encumbered uh this is basically just another way of looking at the expensive expenditures and then again this is our general fund uh budget status report uh showing that uh $6.6 million fund balance and then our other budgeted funds um capital projects fund

053is uh has a $5.7 million fund balance you'll see that change a bit more in the summer when we start uh doing some of those summer projects we've spoken with you about and then uh Debt Service fund you will see taxes come in throughout the spring uh but expenditures you won't see uh change in expenditures until June when we make that final payment on our bonds okay and then our ASB fund uh not much changes here U but it's typical for this time of year um we had about a change of only about $2,000 from the last month so that but that's typal this time of year and then Transportation vehicle fund we have um some Lo local non- tax items coming in that's investment interest um the next time you see a change in

054this fund will be after we receive our buses which are anticipated to come in two small buses in a large of us are anticipated to come in the beginning of um beginning of March so once those invoices are paid you'll see that um that incumbrance become an expenditure this is our budget capacity report you'll see some department and Grant adjustments and then Our Food Services report you'll see that we're behind budgeted revenues and um expenditures by a bit and then uh we're also behind uh last year at this time and that's uh mainly due to not receiving the supply chain assistance grants this year as well as higher cost of um of food and goods and Libor all right that's all I have for January financial report I have you answer any questions right thank

055you thank you Ruth thank Ruth lastly um executive director of special services Robert Haskell present the special services update hey worldwin tour of special services kind of a busy place and make sure this is working uh so starting off educational Equity what is it um simply that we're dedicated to ensuring every student has a voice and the resour that they need to thrive and that's what we work on in Special Services is moving ners for students so looking at Special Services overall um with have health services mcken vento and Foster youth counseling and Mental Health Services section B for special education and also transitional kindergarten and um starting off with health services and just look at um some of the data around Health Services here you can see that we've had had uh a pretty

056strong increase in life-threatening health conditions that have come up um for us and um it's a slight reduction around the medically fragile but up to the life threatening health conditions so we're working with um with more complex students medically and that's that's continuing to grow um another thing to highlight on this slide is the office visits per year some of the work that our nurses are doing is to reduce the number of office visits per year overall um to make sure that they're they're absolutely necessary um for students to be in the health room because if they're not in the health room they're not in the classroom or if they're in the health room they're not in the classroom um as far as our staffing for Health Services goes you can see that we've had

057a reduction through um from from CO as we've been coming out of all of the those needs and we're still ensuring that we're that we're caring for all of our students with that increase of um of life-threatening health conditions uh but um have been able to make make slow reductions um on our nursing staff overall and um and health room assistance as well with mcken vento Foster youth um something it's it's fell you can see some some slight fluctuations in our enrollment in the um m program and um and possibly the that's most unsettling is around our students unsheltered and um uh we've seen grow pack from that in the last year and and that was those numbers are only from January as well so um we are also seeing an increase in that uh

058Foster youth which means we have more Foster families that are other students in our in our district boundaries so looking at special education you can see the the total number and the percentage of um students receiving special education and the state average for special education or the State numbers for special education have also increased um in this time period you can see we've gone up um over these uh seven years we've gone up 1.5% and our students qualifying for special education and um the state has gone at so we are accelerating faster than um State average but it's um we're seeing that it's leveling off and we're hoping for that Trend to continue as we increase our multi-tiered systems of support and have have the supports for students in place and um that's that's how

059we are hoping to see that number um number either hold that Define um the another enrollment Trend that you can see is with our assist program um at the elementary we've seen a real swell of um students that are needing these more comp or that have these more complex needs and that's grown over that time period from 15 to 36 and um and many of that that kind of swallow of students are um coming through and are going to our middle schools um are going to start um The Wave is going to start coming into our middle schools in the next year or so um you also see a slight decrease that we had in that time out of in our out of District placements so as far as inclusion of students uh with disabilities

060and you can see um so on this chart this is uh tracking the students with disabilities um that are spending 80 to 100% of their time in their general education class which is where the research shows that they are most likely to have success um and we've had a district change from that um from 201819 to the 2324 school year that is um an increase of 16.3% um of students in that area and that largest growth has been at our high school and um you see at 19.2 and especially at that ninth grade level highlighted that because that's where the um the biggest change has has occurred and um and this has been through a lot of hard work from a lot of our teachers and especially our former principal uh Christine and our parent

061principal Mike and I also saw that Rita Peterson is in here who's been a huge advocate for our um our programs and working as a co- teing um a teaching line with uh with entirely co- teing um and uh so that's where a lot of that work has been done and another area that we track is that um students with um with disabilities who are spending 0 to 39% of time in general education and that's a number we want to see go down because we want our students in to have that opportunity on the typically developing peers and so as a district we have reduced that number um so we see we see some growth in that area as well as far as our programming um so at our elementary schools all the students have

062access to the core Ela and math um and are receiving intervention and flex group support um and we're developing that all about we have the 11 sections of cotad and push in classes at Stanwood high school and we're looking at slight increases to that for the for the coming year just for meeting with the high school staff Happ yesterday um we added in anticipation of that um that influx of of the the students coming from the assist programs at the elementary um last year we we brought online mid year a an assist program at Stanwood middle school so um and that's that's continued this year and next year will be um will be builting up so and this is an effort to make sure that we have our allow our students to be as in

063their local school as much as possible um by adding in that program um this year we started with our transitional kindergarten um this was our first year with all three of our schools um Cedar home Twin City and OT having a transitional kindgarten class we've also brought on two board CER certified Behavior analysts that have been working with our students with more complex needs and um the program and on the horizon you would seen that there's a YMCA preschool that's going to be operating at Cedar home it's just one one section but it is kind of an ad to the community and it gives our students with disability is also another option for uh push in time with um with with uh typically developing peers and are we're in Communications with other providers in Stan

064commo as well for that then as far as our professional development um we've done trainings um our bcbas have done trainings with par Educators on behavioral support uh Kimberly had mentioned the the teacher child inter interaction training that's been offered at all of our elementary schools and um and we've had different groups of teachers that have gone through that and um at se home they've also done the parent information and training sessions for that and it's a three-part series that we're doing and we're looking at expanding that out so that um so that all of our elementary parent families will have the opportunity to uh to sign up for that um we've been working with the ti Center out of um Minnesota uh for some work with our grade level teams that cedar h and

065Stanwood Elementary and also the Thai Center is working with our par Educators and the University of Washington hering Center which has been a huge partnership for us so we have we are a part of the demonstration site um for the univers or for the inclusive practices project for the state of Washington we're at a demonstration district and also have a demonstration site for one of two high schools that are identified as a demonstration site for the inclusive practices and been hosting hosting different groups coming through to see the work that's been being done in our in our um high school and our High School classrooms and uh the hering center's also been doing co- teing training stay with um High School and stano Middle School uh teaching coaching and uh par educator they're working on

066par educator training with us so um the bcbas and tcit is being done inhouse and then the ti Center in University of Washington Haring Center connections and all that professional development is done as um just as part of our connection with the inclusive practices project which is essentially free so it's been um nice to have that and um such a huge ad to our district so [Music] and yes on slide four the first category is lifethreatening health concerns those that that increase significant P during the first the four school years as second and can you say something about what those are If this just been a proportional increase of whatever there was or there been some special area increasing uh students with diabetes has definitely been an increase we've just that has been continuing over

067the last eight years we've just watch this um this the increase and we are just and would say we have had a a number of uh families that have moved into our community with with very complex um medical needs and um it's which is which is sometimes tough because of our distance to the medical support system that we have that's mostly down south but um they've moved into our community and so I would say probably that students with diabetes would be the best example I have but um Mary our district nurse would have a much better feel of exact what those are and so when they have to go down to ever or Seattle um they often that's where they're usually are getting most of their their medical support is at Children's Hospital home and

068how do they get there oh as far as Transportation oh are you saying if there are emergence emerg situations down there is the parents taking there we Tak them there the parents are taking them most of their medical Medical Care and also another side slide eight mentioned out of District placements um and um just curious about that one um there's not very many but it's also decreased 50% and so what what are those placements for and where so it's um it has almost always for us it has been so there have been placements in the past that have been um when you see that eight number that was that we had students that were receiving Vision Vision Services out of District um and we also had a student who is uh is a attending a

069school for the deaf um so that was some of that placement but the current placements are are typically around kids with much more complex behavioral needs and um would not be able to be served here they do review those IEDs um uh regularly to see if there's ways that we can bring them back to the district if it's appropriate thank you Robert thank you thank you for all the work that's been done to ensure all of our students have more and more access to the general education classroom um the year-over-year data I think speaks to our district PR so I appreciate that that inance report all right thank you 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

070in 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 open public comment is coming up soon are there any board members who wish to pull any items from the consent agenda for discussion hearing now are there any people in attendance who wish to speak to any of the items on the consent [Music] agenda no one online all right is there a motion to approve the conent agenda items one through five so by director King second seconded by director Evans all those in favor of approving consent agenda items one through five say I I any oppose say may that pass we have no old business to discuss citizens wishing to address the board are asked to submit online request using

071the public comment link on our website or by email 2 hours prior to the board meeting start time for those attending me meeting and person request forms were available in the Board Room for submission prior to the meeting start time citizens who wish to provide document to board directors will hand them to the recording secretary for distribution after the meeting board president will call upon individuals who have requested to speak during the public comment section of the agenda individuals will save their name for the record and will be allow 3 minutes to speak we have I believe seven requests for public comment today be respectful of our speakers please refrain from responding to the comments of the speakers that is a matter of order because this is a the board's business meeting the board is

072providing an opportunity for public to comment however the board does not create discussions on those comments within the meeting as they are not part of the agenda comments will be followed up on after the meeting if that's appropriate when it's your turn to comment please state your name for the record you have 3 minutes to speak there's a timer on the screen the yellow light means you have 1 minute left and the red light means that your time to address the board is up our first speaker is Mark greenber am I yes yes now it is okay good thank you for the time to address the board I'm our professor of Child Development uh and education for 20 years at Penn State and for 20 years at the University of Washington I live in in

073the Stanwood district and have been following the conversations and the controversies here the past two years I've been a part-time Stanwood uh resident for 35 years and full-time for the last eight years I've been involved in studies on the effects of educational programs in over 25 countries and I'm one of the founders of Castle That collabortive for academic social emotional learning based in Chicago like all districts in Washington OSBI has has and continues to support social emotional learning known as seal and Stam with schools but I've noted very disparaging remarks by some board members about social emotional learning so I'm here to correct the record from over 500 studies done with over a million children around the world with over 300 of those studies in the United States I'm clear here to say three two

074two important things when high quality social emotional learning curriculums are used by well qualified teachers children show better classroom attention and engagement and an increase of 11% on State academic test scores so anyone that thinks that social emotional learning will reduce academic test scores or takes time away from the school is wrong second and over these 500 very careful studies not one has ever shown in implementing social and emotional learning leads to lower academic achievement not one in over 500 studies right that's very conclusive data these are mostly randomized trials done very carefully why why is that the case because when children learn social emotional learning skills they are better able to manage their emotions get along better with their peers and teachers and deploy their attention for Learning and that's what we're here for

075is learning and we know when social emotional learning is done well children are more likely and ready to learn but further we should now be concerned within Stanwood is about supporting the well-being of teachers as well as students we know there's a crisis for teachers around the world and especially in the United States and we know it's the case here our goal should be to create healthy caring High achieving schools and to do that our teachers are our most most important resource and I fear that in Stanwood we've done very little support teachers wellbeing I'd be glad to consult with people later at another time to discuss this further thank you our next speaker is Kelsey Ross [Music] RI [Music] glorine okay sir hi uh good afternoon everyone my name is R Flores I am

076a parent of a St Elementary School student and part of the academic advisory committee or team here in school district so today I want to bring attention to um seeing this academic task force listed again coming back up for discussion through my public record request I discovered that this was something that um multiple members of Bo conspired with certain members of the community to establish they even had a clo chart meeting locations such as the standard fire station and scaff meeting room thing and this sounds a lot like what the academic advisory committee is doing and I'm wondering why we're trying to duplicate something that's already done when all of you on this board you have lamb basket children saying that they're not performing academically well and that District staff aren't doing well the three

077of you that have done that have yet to show up to an academic advisory committee meeting only director Murray has been shown so you're creating another committee or attempting to create another task force when you can't even show up to the one that's in existence today I had the pleasure of toring St with high school because this week the academic advisory committee is visiting all the school sites in the district to learn more about the amazing programs that are going on and if you think that good things aren't happening at the high school you're clearly wrong and have not spent the time buy today I got to see what it looked like to have a co- teing model for a full inclusion classroom where there were students I 504 plans and I could not tell

078which teacher was the academic like expert teacher and which one was the accommodating teacher the team the team teaching model was set up the Universal Design learning model is amazing and doing great work principal Washington is running a very tight and things are getting better you hearing that how they're cracking down on cell phone use hearing how they're cracking down on parties working with students to be better academically is amazing and it is disheartening that we have members of this board still trying to discredit that and say that student more and I challenge the three of you director shriber K and Foster who like to talk crap about students academics and all that to actually come to an academic advisory team committee meeting because I have not seen you there but you all seem to

079have time to meet with steuart hunt and all these other community members on your academic task force so maybe you should pay more attention to what your jobs are and come to these committees that are in place thank you our next speaker is Josie de my name is Josie de and I thank you for the opportunity to testify before you again today as you know I have been working with other parents teachers mothers and grandmothers since the December 18th board meeting I have given my viewpoint on how to move forward I have wrote two letters to the editors of the stord paper in that effort I also filed a complaint first of all to the WEA and later to the attorney general who was polite but he told me to file a complaint in to

080the FAA WEA he obviously did not read the file that I sent him or he would have known that I had already contacted the WEA without any response from him at all in my life I have learned that Justice produces hope without hope people grow despondent so when I began to see people I respect and love being slandered and accosted Just For Trying to participate at board meetings I looked around to find where Justice and accountability might be found after finding no other option I filed a complaint with Federal administrators on February 10th with the secretary of the Department of Education on February 27th I filed an obstruction of justice grievance with the US Secretary of the Department of Justice I have hoped that an impartial investigation by the Department of Justice can answer a

081few questions how do grandmothers who volunteer to help children learn to read get their good names back after being labeled spies and kicked out of classrooms how can unit members harass and Bully conservative board members one minute and showcase students who create anti-bullying posters the next how does a young teacher get her good name back after that faithful day in September and how did the administration turn the incident around so the investigation could be orchestrated to throw her under the bus personally I have reached one conclusion julus spores is a woman of great courage and Valor and personally I recommend that she be our teacher of the year thank you thank you our next speaker is B thank you it's a hard one it's finished in this norian community good afternoon um my name is

082Bimi and I've lived here for 20 some years now and right down from the high school is what I've observe um my concern today is with having a cohesive approach to rectify and problems that we might have and to keep our growth going in this District and I think today as well as last board meeting when we saw the presentations from the two elementary schools we saw how an a really cohesive approach to student achievement actually results in student achievement a real good growth that is why I am concerned as is RI about the academic task force that has been proposed when an academic advisory committee already exists I don't know how we can have a cohesive approach to academic achievement when we have two groups that apparently are working on the same thing but

083aren't and I don't understand it I was here the last time this was discussed um I am working with the advisory committee the academic one that's part of the ABCs which is a a sort of an umbrella type of thing and I could not understand why and that's why I came to the meeting um only three of the five board members seemed to know anything about what it was and so at the work session um there was some discussion about how they differed what the goals were what the purpose was what the scope of work would be and no one could answer the question and it seemed like it was just left and so then I see that we're going to be discussing it again today so I am here because I think we need

084a cohesive approach to this not a fragmented approach to our student achievement um from what I gathered Mr King director King is interested in an RTC program and director Foster is interested in some kind of food truck situation that would go with the culinary arts which are great they they are programs I'm sure and classes that would improve students achievement although no link was ever made as to how they might approve improve student achievement I don't understand why that cannot be addressed by going to the teaching and learning here to the high school to department heads like it's traditionally done in school districts I worked in for nearly 40 years and those people then who know the kids and know the need can address course changes which is really what this is about it's it

085and so therefore that's why I'm here today I want to know that thank you our next speaker is Rook hello my name is B I am a parent of a student in the district and I'm also a member of the um academic advisory committee and I'm here today talk a little bit about the academic task force that has been proposed as well uh as I said I've been a member of the academic advisory committee since the beginning of the year this is a school board committee that is part of the district's ABC teams or academic budget and capital teams an open call was put out for volunteers for this committee um sometime in the Springer summer and from what I understand more than 40 people volunteered to be part of this committee we have had

086an an active group of probably 15 to 20 people showing up for our monthly meetings over the past several months and as Rick mentioned we have also been able to participate in a number of School tours uh this week which has been wonderful and Incredibly insightful and just really helpful um to date the only School Board member who has participated in these meetings has been U director Murray so I would invite others who are interested in academic success to participate this group is comprised of a group of Highly capable and very dedicated individuals and I'm not certain why the district would want to set up a second committee that seems to have the same goals and the same purpose also each of these committees has involved several of our District's top administrative leaders who've clearly

087put significant time and energy into compiling data and information to help us have a better understanding of academics in our district from what I understand based on last month's board meeting here we are asking the school administrators to function without the assistant superintendent role through at least the end of the school year meaning all of the administrative staff are going to be taking on more work between now and then and yet here we are asking for them to staff yet another committee that seems duplicative in heard I'd like to understand what the vision of this task force is and how it is different than the group that is already meeting and working on the issue I hope that we will not hear that the mission is focused on curriculum development or selection because it certainly

088does not seem within the area of expertise of our school board members and likely not most of our community volunteers with perhaps one notable exception we all have our strengths no offense but that is not most of our area of expertise my recommendation is that we leverage the work already being done the people who have already dedicated effort and energy to the school and if others are interested in joining I think we would all welcome the input and the help certainly no small task thank you thank you our last speaker is [Music] Kim you say Jack or ER thank my name is Kim morera I'm the formerly aison officer for the Saratoga Springs School District in Saratoga Springs New York and I stand here one day after the federal government appointed a secretary of education

089with an opponent of public education and a proponent of the privatized school system and I ask is it prudent to have a board made up of a majority with the same mindset do parents here wish to have a school system to become a private or profit school system because that appears to be the goal of certain members if and when the federal department of education is abolished will this school district be phisically safe when decisions are being formulated by someone who has fallen prey to Ponzi schemes in the past the stand with school dist District isn't the federal government it can't run with a four trillion extra dollars or so in deficit consequently the school board must make decisions that reflect a fiscally sound attitude at all times Petty differences in which ensue an expensive

090lawsuit certainly does not reflect the governance needed in these times an atmosphere of communication and mediation is also a cost-saving measure and I wish the School Board would take this into consideration when making decisions thank you thank you speakers thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us today we'll now move on to topic scheduled for school board discussion um new bus we have two the the first one is the first reading of revised board policy number 249 credit for competency for efficiency and I'll turn that over to our is this this is a revision of the policy that comes closer to the needs uh for today to be able to issue credit uh for like like the policy reads for competency in different areas um the uh review of the policy

091shows that that be for uh assessment achievement uh and the like so first reading not a new policy revisions to questions about discussion is there a consensus to that I'm sorry I I did have a couple of questions um because it does it seems like the original policy was related specifically to languages um and the new Lang which feels more like it is um more open to different types of educational uh competencies and efficiencies so I'm not sure the title original title world uh languages I don't understand it feels like it should be either a new policy or we need to retire this policy and create a new policy that is more um um broadly um covering competency uh proficiency So you you're correct absolutely that the previous po the policy that's being amended uh

092was specific to World languages um and that this policy allows uh for a wider range of credit to be issued based on competencies across assessments and uh other other achievements um are you recommending that the credit for competency and for proficiency be Chang I'm just wondering overall I mean we've just basically totally hacked a policy and changed it to be much broader when this original policy was very specific so I'm not sure how um it how how we move forward with this Dr guyan is here to maybe provide some background to the the movement between the the previous version correct and you're absolutely right the the last policy if I remember off the top of my head hadn't parentheses World Language so this does broaden that umbrella to basically include some examples direct M could

093be State exams gedd so the policy the spirit of the policy is there without the exception with the exception of um removing World Language which narrowed that policy this just Brens that and gives us more flexibility so to clarify so I see that are legal references for the RCW is in the wax down at the bottom is this precipitated By changes to those rcws for those wax or we just only had a narrow scope previously and now we're bring it to include the entire RCW correct okay so they still reference the same legislation but we're just using all of it instead of the specific one correct this is a this is a policy that's typical across many of the districts um to be able to allow students to to provide evidence I'm not I'm not

094questioning the the um I I I approve of of the language here I'm just wondering Pol shouldn't be 2410 I should call it something different in spirit yeah um instead of actually totally cting apart uh an exist policy so I don't know if we want to give it a different policy number and retire 2409 because they were very specific right one of the things that could happen is to to check that this is an alignment with the wasda you know policy as well I I um this does not Veer far from that um and so to provide a new policy number might um widen the Gap I I think maybe director Mar just if I'm thinking about it if we were changing the rcws that it referred to then I think perhaps maybe we made

095one but if we just broadening your scope I wouldbe be okay under the same policy number okay I just wanted to make sure that we're following the right procedure with this policy considering the the breath that it is now taking versus that original intention was right I appreciate thank you yes just looking at the language demonstration proficiency through robust learning activities outside the traditional course take you give us more of those for example how about work experience would that could that fit if they worked a certain kind of job for a while that fit into this um option could we can take a look at that and see if that fit we would probably put that into into the procedures and that's what gives us that's right and we and we have current um practices

096in place through current technical education to to allow for a credit to be earned through work experience and volunteer experience as well thank you thank you Dr is there consensus to move that on to a second read we have consensus for move that long the next item on the agenda is the academic task force and our superintendent has come up with a Citizens advisory committee and task force organizational form do you want to talk about that sure sure I can talk about it this uh this form that's attached to the agenda um um does provides a structure for an existing policy uh which is policy 4110 the assist advisory um task forces to to be able to um follow what is called out in the policy and the procedure uh for 4110 um namely that

097the that the task forces or advisory committees um you know would call out and make public be be made public um have a designated meeting place have a designated time of meeting uh a charge for the task force or uh committee as well so um just to provide Clarity around you know some of the discussion that's been had this form would be something that could be used to make sure that both the policy and procedure are being implemented correctly thank you questions uh I have so very many questions yeah uh so as a lot of people have already mentioned I'm super confused again why this academic task for is here without I think I've sort of asked a few times for a a structure or like a like what is your game plan or whatever

098that is um I would just like to bring us back to policy number 10005 key functions of the board and in our operating Pro protocols specifically said surprises to the board of superintendent will be the exception not the rule so imagine my surprise when I find a structure on Facebook that talks about an organization for a team that I've been asking for for months like these are the things that drive me crazy like I've been asking for this and there's there's a there's a structure floating around on Facebook and it's still not even attached to our agenda here so I don't understand one why we need a secondary task force when we already have an advisory committee to I don't understand why there is in fact some sort of structure floating around out there that

099clearly some of the board is aware of and has access to and I don't uh even though I specifically requested it and I don't understand why we keep talking about it and I keep having to ask for these things it is super super frustrating I don't attach things from Facebook there it's not from Facebook Facebook shows an email message that was sent from staff like from board member emails like this is this is not I saw on Facebook weirdly enough instead of in my email where I should have gotten it from I don't know where that came from I director King it came from director King yes the people are screening the excuse me the this is the board's business meeting pleas um the academic advisory committee or something that was set up I'm not

100talking about the ADV I'm talking about this test right but the academic advisory committee that people keeps getting confused between what set up by the superintendent to study the data and to come up with a better way uh because our numbers hadn't been moving so they wanted the academic experts Dr guyen and that to look at that the task force was the concept there was people that had expertise why can't they just join a committee why can't we just say join our committee come be on our committee to their point why can't we have one spot where we do that why that committee was not tasked with some of the things that J King had brought up about in investigating having an RO pet projects pet projects or you know culinary arts or working with

101the music program to have so curricul have it saying what but you're talking about yes we approved an academic task force we never saw a framework we never saw anything so you're telling me because we thatly this academic task force exists and we have no understanding as a complete board it does not exist this is the framework and this was proposed it's [Music] boring I honestly I was expecting when I saw this back on the the list today I was expecting this wonderful form that inter superintendent oel created to be filled out so that we could actually have a discussion turns out they hav it filled out charl it's on Facebook it's from Steve's Emil they just don't want to share it with us I don't use Facebook anymore it's somebody of public records request

102pulled your email and they shared your email on Facebook see like it's it you can play Silly all you want but it exists out there you just refuse to share it somebody shared it for you I I'm can we stopped I would I would like president shriber to bring this forward with an actual filled out form so that we can talk about this and whether or not it needs to be part of our academic advisory committee or if it does truly need to be a separate entity okay then moving on to student representative reports on school dist okay last month was incredibly busy for our ASB and this one is absolutely no different we are managing a pleora of different projects and during for elections at the end of this month despite this our ASV

103students have more positive school spirit than ever before and are ready to face any upcoming challenges and on academics at stwood high school have been nothing but successful as of late students registered for their classes last week with many new and different opportunities available AP Bio has been opened up to Juniors Andor allowing them to take regular biology before taking the AP version which has been shown to have a strong correlation with improved learning learning and performance in the course similarly our school is now offering AP music theory as a fine art these opportunities will allow students to challenge themselves and be competitive applicants at top schools in the country this last week as I mentioned before ASP was very busy on Thursday we hosted our very own inner High leadership conference where students from

104different schools leadership classes across West CO Co attended our students and speakers from 7 seconds and organization LED students in engaging breakout sessions and help them grow as Leaders our in high conference received nothing but positive feedback all thanks to the efforts of our ASB adviser Mrs buoy and our hardworking and diligent team our school will be implementing many takeaways from the 7 Seconds program as a means to outreach with our student body for instance on March 2nd we will be initiating conversations by interviewing students and posting a thought-provoking question the white boards around our school students responses will then be shared on social media and around the school last Saturday our school hosted our annual win formal our team used prior feedback from homecoming music to design a more engaging and improved dance some

105highlights of the dance were the photo booth the beautiful decorations and most importantly our DJ who is widely praised for playing requests and getting the crowd involved and just yesterday our Spring sport season began student athletes participating in track and field boys soccer boys and girls golf girls tennis baseball and softball attended their first official practices yesterday meanwhile our girls basketball team is wrapping up the season heading to state after many victories and months of hard work at their latest playoff game where they secured an astounding Victory against Seattle P our booster club gen generously paid for 25 shs students to get him free allowing the stands to be filled up with supporters and thank you to everyone in this community for their continued support of our students we are doing great things and we

106continue to do so [Music] yeah last Thursday the leadership group at L Hill was invited to attend the in high leadership conference at shs along with the leadership groups of schools all over Washington gathering in the gym to participate in a presentation from the 7 Seconds organization on Friday and Saturday last week the Westco the Westco Chess Championship was held at Lincoln and hosted by coach Brett B from Lincoln and Coach Nick Schmidt from shs over 300 were in attendance from all over Washington the beginning of this week and mark the end of the fifth session at Lincoln the students turnning in their assignments to lock in their grade and then the ons they need later on this week on Friday registrations will open next will open for next year during advisory near the end

107of the month the leadership group will hold our quarterly pancake breakfast taking place on 21st during advisory we looking we will be looking forward to preparing for this event and making our students that we can feel just a little more at home that that's all to say about the recent events at weend thank you that brings us to board director's report on business conducting director EV um I really enjoy hearing about all of the um things coming to our facilities holding chest championships bringing all of the students in in our neighboring communities into our schools and letting them see like I I warms my heart on the inside um to hear about all the things that we're bringing into our community to support our students um and for others to see uh the great facilities

108that we have there um we did have a facilities a CAC meeting um that's the uh meeting that I'm assigned to uh the the CAC is is the ABC that I I get to attend um it was actually really great uh surprisingly small turnout but really um like a great conversation about a lot of different topics uh I I thought we did some really great work there there is this survey uh that's still out there um that's open please make sure you take the time to fill that out that does give the district valuable information um and other things uh that we need um I generally would really love for us to move forward as a cohesive board and um be I don't know uh functional in in the things that we do um and

109and overall just a little bit frustrated and and disappointed in today thank you director Foster thank you my primary concern remains as safety for anyone on the school ground that's all I'm going to talk about number one number two having classrooms that are conducive to student learning it should be 55 minutes that's it and all I'm talking about is academics safety and the budget thank you thank you director Murray um I am I'm appreciative that all of you cara care enough about our school district to be here at these meetings even if they're in the middle the afternoon and especially as we have taken an hour and a half your time today um I will say that I did not make my academic committee because unfortunately I had an got a respiratory inur so I

110would deci it not to show with everyone um but I did manage to make it to RCT advisory committee meeting um which I I get to attend um in my regular uh Community member role so I wanted to just share a little bit with that because um I think it was very valuable hearing what principal celt talked about today in regards to uh some of the areas that they're focusing in on at the elementary school level one of the conversations that came up during the session was the importance of uh understanding and and being more proficient in fractions because we're finding at the high school level when they come into the trades or trying to you know do these ctd classes where they need to be working with fractions they're not as proficient so for

111me I was extremely excited to hear that we are actually pulling kids out and working with them and getting them more proficient in that area so that they can be successful when they come to the high school um and that's all I have for today thank you thank you yeah I also was the U facilities advisory committee meeting and I have a special interest in the housing growth in Northeast andwood it's so massive in continuing including the big project across the street from high school um and that's we have a facilities problem already U busing from the hill above the high school upside uh and uh and so and so be a lot of data on different tracks how many in each track Etc and that was very significant to me also like to recommend

112the choir uh the High School Musical that are coming up uh next couple of weekends roughly uh Friday and Saturday um in The Adams Family I never watched thank you direct I want to thank again all those donors for their generous donations and the highlight of mine recently was the FFA awards banquet and and the auction I haven't heard how much money they actually raised out of that but uh we had some very generous donors and some very active bids there so I looked like it was a great success and a great meal too so we give you the last word superintendent it was it was it's always a um nice to see this time of year so many people coming out uh in the dark after 5:00 to support to support students so thanks

113to everyone who was able to make it I appreciate the presenters today the staff that presented as well as M kinstry for um shedding some light on the clean buildings Act and the position that we're in here in the district and uh the ever uh increasingly comprehensive comprehensive nature of the student reports so thanks Luke and Elizabeth a lot happening on campuses um p12 across our system so thank you all right and there being no further business the March 4th 2025 regular board meeting is hereby a [Music] you too hi by how's it going hopefully yeah ail good thank you for