001okay well Dr spencor thank you for having me here to help you um spend some time looking at our effective survey our educational Effectiveness survey um by CE so you might hear those acronyms CE e s it's all one and the same um and I want to spend just a few minutes in the beginning going through an overview and doing some of the basics as youve probably already figured out from um if you had the time to download your files there's lots of information in there so the idea um here is to give you just kind of a broad overview of what kind of information we get from participating in this and then give you an opportunity to walk through a data protocol um aligned to an item that is related to your board priorities
002so to give you a tool then that if you then want to go and try looking at other data um you can use that same tool and and work on on tuning your lens um because uh we all know it's easy to like get data look at it and interpret what we want to see from it rather than kind of be thoughtful and step by step through it so um so uh we're going to move pretty quick just so you know um froz we um we get the survey and there's several different parts of the survey and so this is kind of how it plays out in K through 3 they have a kind of shortened survey information from their survey is summarized in nine characteristics of high performing schools of which they only do
003three of the things out of those nine characteristics on their survey and then social emotional learning um and they do six items on social emotional learning so then the students in grades 4 through 12 same thing they have the nine characteristics they do double what the younger kids do and then um social emotional learning they have one more and then there information is also included in this diversity Equity inclusion module and there's four parts to that families out of the nine characteristics they're giving us information on seven and then all four in the diversity Equity inclusion and then you can see staff um staff has one called Readiness to change it's a really fun report for us to to dive into because it's like kind of your own self assessment and then your view of
004your colleagues and um it's always really interesting to see how those match up um organizational trust is something that's measured in the staff survey and then same thing the nine characters of high performance schools of which they've added two more things now so it's actually 9 plus two on the staff and then the the diversity Equity inclusion it's the same four things so that's just broadly the kinds of reporting that we get from doing these surveys each time that we do them so this year who participated just giving you numbers here this is that K through three their data is analyzed individually in a separate report um then the kids 4 through 12 all of their information for the district which is what we're going to be looking at tonight is put together in one
005report and then you have families um they have a separate report and then we had 98 we assigned um 98 building assigned staff members some of those are duplicates so they might work in both like the high school and the for example there is the demographics if you want to look at them either in the reports that you downloaded or that or not going to spend a lot of time just notice when you do look at demographics they don't always align with what our official demographics are at OPI because when families sign up their kids they identify what they are they might say okay they're Latino and they're whatever race right kids might not identify the same way that their families did when they were put in so sometimes there's the numbers are off or
006same thing with our um students who are two or more Races they go in the system because of the federal coding as two or more races but they might identify as black or white or Asian and so just know that the numbers when you're looking at that you might be like huh that's interesting because it's all based on how the kids are identifying the themselves and it doesn't necessarily align to the exact way that parents enrolled them okay so the nice thing about our school Improvement plans um they're all aligned to the same components so each school has um identified goals in the early grades they pulled out selfefficacy which comes from the social emotional learning part of the survey and they also chose social engagement same part so these are the two things they
007track for the primary grades in 4 through 12 everyone's tracking the same too this one comes from nine characteristics of pering schools and this one comes from the social emotional learning part so it's kind of nice cuz we're you'll see tonight that's what we're going to do is kind of look building by building each of you will get a building assignment and'll be able to look at the data for that school around some of these things but we'll be lined to your priorities quick question yeah um I was not a participant in the strategic planning process from which the school Improvement plans flow correct um this how long has this survey been administered this survey has been administered I think the first time we did it was around 2,8 2009 somewhere in there so we've
008been doing it for quite some time we moved right when Slade came we made the decision um to move to an every other year cycle because there's some cost to doing it and you know sometimes you can't really see year over-year growth very easily but um so we've got quite a long history um my question was is the was any of the language from this survey tool did it influence language that ended up in the Strategic plan like if this is a way that we're going to measure ourselves with kind of a known tool in your opinion was there some flow right I think there was but when we did the um when we did the Strategic plan correct me if I'm wrong SL uh M had had a similar type survey and it was
009not the year that we were doing CE so we used that data in the fall but they're similarly aligned so I don't know that you'll see exact language I'm trying to think we have exact language but some of the same themes and the same ideas definitely are prevalent because we had two data sets to be working with and they kind of pointed to the same same areas of need um okay so this is just to give you an idea on these areas so here again these were the areas that we were identifying this is District level data so it's putting everybody together um for this one it turned out that we didn't have any family link students K through three complete the survey it's harder to get the Alternative Learning participation numbers up so this
010really does reflect shiaka so the district data and the shiaka data are identical 4 through 12 this is everybody in the district district and we did have participants from all the programs in this data so again this is District little data so the good news is you can see across the board districtwide we saw Improvement in the areas that we were hoping to to move the needle on um but again you'll have to look at it by school to see does that hold true for your school was one school show up a whole lot of difference not so much this just gives you the change in percent so that's again District level data okay get to go to your work um in your um in your board priorities right you have a priority number two
011increase student in staff success satisfaction confidence and belonging and your strategy is to identify mental and behavioral health issues facing our district and explore policies and practices po to Foster healthy learning communities so what we've done is we've pulled out the data because in each of these big broad categories there's you know nine or 10 or 11 or seven or all these different questions that are asked that make up that total score and so you can start diving in and see did we have growth in all of those did we have high growth in one and low growth in another did we decrease somewhere and from that we'll be able to um hopefully come up with some strategies to support your work here at the board level so let's do this first I'm going to
012give you the protocol first and you have the choice of completing your work in English or Spanish tonight be prepare both so feel for the challenge you two over here so the data tool the basic idea behind data protocol tool is to just help guide you through the data and remove as much bias or other stuff that you bring to it that that you go looking for to tell your story and it's always important when you start looking at data to start first with the description and so you're going to have a little time I'll be giving you different data sets here one uh each school and then let's see like Martha later the high school Juniper and River you're the elementary and Jessica Mia that gives you the Middle School um and you're going
013to be able to make some observations about that data um you'll have a little bit of private time to work through and then you'll consult as a group and then we'll do some sharing out and it's really important to stay on the one that we're doing and not go ahead don't work ahead on your homework here so try to stay focused on the description first okay and all you're doing in this first part is you're just looking you're not making judgments you're not making assessments you're you're just looking for patterns looking for things that are interesting and you're stating them as facts so that's what description is okay so I'm going to give you your data sets and I'm going to kind of time us so let's start first with just some quiet work times
014there should be enough copies for everybody to have their own and I should just point out on one side you'll have the summary and on the back side you'll have the comparison between others so you're working on description not not working and working on your own for moment are e m for come e just under a minute of quiet time left for okay now I have two minutes of just partner time to share back and forth you can add to your observation list um but again you're sticking to description so two minutes to share with your partner observations that you first and respectful pretty significant large is children particular everyone un right time so now what we're going to do before move to the next section because I know you're all eager to get to
015the next section um we're just going to share out one thing from each table just something that popped out that's descriptive um so why don't we start over luia Jessica what's something that popped out in your descriptive go ahead students feel less cared for and less safe despite more enforcement of bullying and behavior okay something from the middle table um I'll say that the highest um or the strongest showing in the we had cha here was in um adults who know and care about me and that rules against bullying are enforced by all adults in the school those are the two areas with the most blue let's overlap with them um interestingly it's the same for the high school the highest is the adult I at least one adult carees for me and interestingly enough
016the buing is exactly the same percentage all right now you need to move on to interpretation so with interpretation what you're doing is you're just trying to make sense of the data so what does this data suggest what are the assumptions we make about students and their learning environment um so you'll have let's um let's give you one minute of quiet time just to gather your thoughts and then we'll open this and just tell it be a partner discussion okay so one minute gather your thoughts for for [Music] okay I'll open up to partner conversation and I'll give you about sevenish minutes for this part to have partner conversations and you're focusing on what does the data suggest and what are the assumptions we make about students and their learning environment there's a lot of
017opportun push andimar of the also is this truly enfor then both had a 29% some ways that we could engage the student in in real time in the school in that direction I also how many kids teenag i' be so this is probably this is the mark and then behavior issues I would love to see anothers I think you would get honest feedback and that's what I would do already there um what else uh also makes me wonder when you get this what is the perception they're not confir one another so assumtion is one minute left for part discussion [Music] the [Music] quick uh self check thumbs up if you were able to completely stay in interpretation and not bury anywhere else thumbs up let's see it thumb side I know it's hard it's hard
018to stay disciplined doing data okay let's go ahe and just um share out a few thoughts from each table we'll start with Elementary group right now um what sorts of interpretations did you have in looking at the data um it was hard not to link the timing on this to the new leadership in this building um you know that all of the all of the numbers increased sometimes by quite a lot in one case it was effectiv two Cas it was effectively flat but otherwise had um significant increases we were sort of curious what a student might think the when you ask Student Success is celebrated in the school what does that mean right does it mean I see my art project in the hallway does it we celebrated that a kid not yet Soul
019strings does it mean like I already CL whole I already for the class went up like what does I'm just and and because I don't think there's a whole lot of like time in when the surveys administered to like talk about what what it means I'm just curious what they're responding to right no that I that's an interesting an interesting thing to worry to wonder about and it was you know effectively flat over last time um I mean earlier we said the things increased which was the description but basically that we're moving in the right direction which is really nice kind of across the board where the lower numbers were about that kind of students success in celebrating so I'm looking at what what that what that might mean and I don't okay Middle School
020um the DAT suggest that as uh behavior issues and bullying ISS are improving and Le students because they also feeling more celebrated and more interested in what they yeah however as the adult student [Music] relationship School we just want to let you not all know we're in the middle of a work session you are most welcome to stay okay but um you may think we've started without you but um the regular meeting doesn't start until 615 y'all are certainly welcome to stay we're evaluating some uh data that we received from a districtwide survey [Music] um you know the the data suggests that with the two of us here Wonder around the assumptions that folks make have around teenagers and how they developmentally see the world differently than a third grader would um and the agency
021that comes in the and typically see lower rates of you know like Martha pointed out I enjoy coming to the school you know is that something that we you kind of we would expect a 15 16 year old to say you so we that that's just one of our personal assumptions on that one um and then the other assumption that that we kind of talked about is when we see lower scores around bullying or uh Behavior rules being enforced expectations is there an assumption about visibility into actions around those kind of administrative action ortion how been addressed and that something that might toer thank you okay we're moving into the third part and this is actually probably going to be challenging because the trick here is you have to think with your board hats on
022and I encourage you to look at your strategy up here and remember what your priority is and um what you're working with and the idea is what is the implication for practice so what are the implications for board governance um what steps could be taken next what strategies might be most effective what about your own practice as an individual board member and what are the implications for Equity so I'll give you about 7 and a half minutes you can have partner conversation Ready Set Go one of the I think [Music] that would be a practice [Music] she but I [Music] I think that's really also [Music] how are you my friend Jenna but are you in GR [Music] of that [Music] just talking [Music] minut [Music] you okay let some we have bring it and
023just popcorn this one so when you were going through working with your partners what are some implications for practice as a board member supp from USS are and [Music] I keep looking at the Improvement [Music] Improvement the idea you know that the bo leads in the school to connect with the administrators and ask their opinions on what they Tau and since for instance I at the high school one of the and and ask them if they have any strategy thank you um to get more information from that is a narrative information not just a a bubble you know um because that narrative often will tell a more granular story and I was thinking of course this is not my job but uh you know I can't help it as a teacher I would one of
024the questions that interest most and the kids do AAR take minutes and that would give even better data from and then [Music] you know their take on this this survey as well and then the last piece that's just vital considering what's coming down the P year as a TR where are weing I'm curious how this gets red out uh in buildings or this is something you all talk about right so we have a work session tomorrow morning with and the builds to upate andc so it's lot move us along just I just want I'm just gonna say first of all we're super excited to have such a full house I want to say that um I think there might have been some Community messaging that this starts at 6 the um the we're in a
025work session which is open to the public we're delighted you're here it our work session goes into till 6:15 so we're talking about the results of some data that was collected and the public regular meeting starts at 6:15 so we're not ignoring you we're not running late I think it was just some cross wires but and stay the other thing is that there are there is lemon bread coffee seed and C there for you the pies are off limit but otherwise help yourself if you uh are didn't get dinner or me dessert or something little sugar buz for com so go ahead and flip the pap over and we're going to combine this I'm G give you four minutes you can choose where you focus your time I suggest we spend most time on reflection
026and we process later Focus onction questions about a support learning environment with data ra for you what did you learn to your colleagues that th speci [Music] EX [Music] for Okay one minute for [Music] looks like's one know we take time out from that file those away for now I'm going to quickly go through the last couple slides with you um I would recommend we've done this with the student data now you have all the other data you might want to pull the staff data next since this uh the one that you had focused on student staff right so um last few slides this is what uh you and Dr M are going to be tracking um for the superintendent goals um staff one effective leadership characteristics and um this is just kind of Baseline
027data for that indicator so there you go and then I just wanted to give you just a quick kind of snapshot of the diversity Equity inclusion module um so these are the four domains and then these are the this is where the results come from these groups and so I just did kind of a quick celebrations and opportunities for you um on a first glance but obviously we all want to spend a lot more time digging into the data so celebrations all subgroups and all four domains held steady or improved overall percentage of positive ratings all subgroups had a positive rating for belongingness at 70% or higher and mean scores of 3.9 or four the numberless scale goes to five and then all subgroups had a positive rating for welcoming environments based on race gender
028and sexual orientation all at 80% or higher so here's our opportunity over here I'm some shrink the eye versus they gap for our staff so that's what we talked about way back at the beginning like perception of like I'm willing to do this but my colleague isn't so making sure that those gaps are small but in the positive range um make our commitment to dismantling racism and oppression more visible because this is work that we've been engaged with for a number of years but it seems to have like not been noticed or it's not being as noticed or not out there that what was and then student experience um with welcoming environment that Embraces diversity specifically race ethnicity gender religion sexual orientation and disability so students um reported slightly lower than um staff and fames
029so those are kind of my takeaways just from a really quick overview of it and there's lots of opportunity over coming year and the next year to really look at these different pieces and um take action around those pieces T 610 any last minute thoughts Reflections you want to share I wanted to say that I one thing I wrote down is that um I just want to thank you for the um I hear we've done this before the way the sort of description analysis and then reflection piece of this rather than the keeper of the information bestowing it upon us that I thought that was a really effective way to obviously break it down by building but to also make it um a real exercise and reflection which I really appreciate it so thank you
030thank you very much for this the same way just to the board that this should be sign [Music] tables just need to do kind of a [Music] like [Music] we I'm glad I would hate to make it all and have nobody [Laughter] um [Music] always never [Music] oh yeah it's [Music] mat is it all good good to hear just doing a couple of quick housekeeping things and then we'll get started thanks for your patience and I let Peter know that you sent it yes it's sent perfect yep uh today is uh January uary 23rd it is uh 618 and I call this meeting of the Bon School District Board of Directors to order is GNA offer us a lement okay and um just to let you know this acknowledgement comes from the um tribes homeage
031so it's straight from them as to what they would suggest we say we acknowledge that we are on the traditional homelands of the Pua tribe the Pua people have lived on and stewarded these lands since the beginning of time and continue to do so today we recognize that this land acknowledgement is one small step towards a two Ally ship and we commit to uplifting the voices experiences and histories of the indigenous people of this land and Beyond about to go into thank you very much Martha um at this time we're going to do public comment um we have we had a signin sheet and uh it's possible that not everybody that wanted to uh speak tonight made it onto the signin sheet because more folks have come in since we had the sheet out there
032and it wasn't clear um in what order people signed in so if you thought you were first on in line and we don't call any first apologies um we're just going to uh run through the names of folks we have here um and we we generally have a thre minute limit um and you may not seed your time to anyone else in the interest of equity 3 minutes is is your time if if you're winding it down when the alarm goes off that's just fine we can't let folks to speak um uh on uh without without some limits yes hi hi if we didn't if we weren't able to find because we didn't know or didn't get a chance to are we still able we'll still ask for people who want and there is a
033second public comment period at the end um either if someone has an additional comment or someone wanted to sort of hear what gets said in the meeting tonight and then towards the end um all of the comments we take them very seriously we will not um re respond to or engage in dialogue from what we hear please do not take it as a sign of disinterest apathy any of those things we need to um ideally create an environment where all voices are heard and that we do not sort of as they say sort of put our thumb on the scale um for any particular position or voice we are listening and one of the many reasons we appreciate having um uh the meetings recorded is that many of us actually do go back into the
034into the meetings and watch them again um if there's something that we missed or something we feel deserves another listen to so um we really appreciate everyone's voice and the turnout here is um is very meaningful to me personally um so thank you all for making the time to be here tonight with that being said Dr msh sure uh there's three people here Ken Bo Jenner RS kathen Lawrence is that a public comment or is that your presentation that's my presentation just verifying that thank you yeah okay and we'll have uh Evan Justin I'll wait to the end thanks okay just circle that so I know we come back to that Jamie wolf just can I have a point kind of a point of order question so that I understand absolutely yeah so uh I've
035heard that there's some question as to the training teachers about what to do if ice comes is that accurate that is an issue of concern for many folks I'm assuming here tonight okay so um thank you for having me all of you uh my name is Jimmy wolin it's important that I give you a little bit of background uh I'm a retire probation officer I was a training manager of a department of 300 uh when I retired I went into my own training business and I trained 5,000 people a year now including public school education professionals psychologists law enforcement Etc uh as part of my career one of the things that I've learned is about risk management and in Risk Management what we know is that we want to prevent the inevitable what's predictable is
036preventable would you agree so what I've learned in this uh in my career is that I've been part of two lawsuits under a stipulation called failure to train so what happens is I go in and Train 50 people 100 people somebody does something in a school or in a law enforcement setting and they claim that they weren't trained so even when we have people what I found that say well I didn't need this training or this was optional and I didn't want to go what we found is that those very people that didn't want to attend that training then when it went bad went back and blamed Administration and sued under failure to train so my petition to you today is to consider that in order to avoid this that people who think they might
037not be interested in doing a or b if ice were going to come to the school may have a change of heart when they're witnessing a child screaming and yelling and may want to intervene and because they weren't trained may do the wrong thing in fact so my petition to you is that you make your training mandatory that you do it and that you do it for every teacher and make sure that they are all there and that you document that they receive this training and that you have a written agenda about the training Etc in the two lawsuits that I mentioned I prevailed because I know how to document what we did I know how to have the rosters I have every bit of proof there that the court can see that they were
038properly trained so the failure then falls on them thank you for your time thank you thank you Carol Lake I'll wait to the end L winter green I also still will wait to the end can I just ask if folks are wanting to I don't know what you will discuss your decid so you're talking at the end of the meeting the end of the meeting okay that's what I wanted to be clear and did everybody who said that is that or you at the end of this particular public comment section meeting end of the meeting thank you very much and is that true for you as well yeah thanks is there anybody that would like to speak at this time can you do you mind just saying your first name if you're al Ally yeah
039thank you yeah one moment good evening board members superintendent I hope this message finds you well we're excited to share that a group of parents and community members are organizing a new committee focused on important School related initiatives we are in the process of building our membership and we would all benefit from you being a part of this collaboration per policy 1140 committees are composed of parents staff community members and stakeholders our committee is working on further community outreach and involvement we'd be honored to welcome any staff members who would like to collaborate with us our shared objective is to Foster ible collaboration and improved student outcomes our goal is to produce an assessment report of our findings and recommendations our mission includes supporting the adoption of research-based best practices and staff development encouraging collaboration
040to enhance student achievement providing a platform for stakeholders staff parents and community members to present their perspectives to the board and the public one of our immediate priorities is to explore the feasibility of extending recess time for primary school students and middle schoolers we believe a datadriven research-based approach that incorporates dialogue with parents Educators and school leadership will provide valuable insights thank you for your consideration we're excited about the possibility of working together to benefit the students and families of vashan Island our first official meeting is on Wednesday February 12th at 6 pm at the Bashon Public Library it will be announced and open to the public after our first meeting you'll receive an email with the names of all of our members and all the details of our committee thanks for your time thank
041you yes hi do you want to step do you mind stepping in a little bit more chck thanks opportunity to comment uh my name is Chuck I'm Bashon resident and the parent of a former student um and I I wanted to um voice my appreciation for the training agenda that came out about what appears to be um to be rolled out in the coming year I wanted to Second the mandatory nature of um staff um taking part in it um aside from the legal part I guess my mind goes to when the unthinkable happens um it's not going to be good enough that you read a memo about what to do um things are going to happen quick people can be in shock uh people might be isolated there won't be time or opportunity to
042say what do I do now or to ask ask somebody what do I do now so um I know there's a ton of extra classroom to demands on teachers and other School Employees um I feel like the um issues coming up around immigration treatment of sort of bullying EP episodes fires earthquake this is just sort of the time that we all know and have practiced what to do um um when that moment comes and things just have to go like that thank you thank you anyone else would like to speak at this time I'm sorry there isn't more room there is one chair here anybody else have a chair that's open next to them if they would looks like there is one more seat if somebody wants to take it and we're going to make
043word chair is available feel free to drop my um vest if you want um I guess we will uh move on and and if folks um want to speak further at the end we make make PL for that as well um okay we're going to move into the um consent agenda um do I have are there any amendments or adjustments no do I have uh sorry um would anyone like to uh make a motion to approve the consent agenda as written I would like to uh approve motion to approve the as consent agenda as written a uh all those in favor I I any opposed great consa pass is and uh Now we move on to the report section so uh one of my favorite times to report in the year I know we have
044a full agenda this evening so there's just a few few things but I like to welcome C sorry Karen and Jenna here to who are leaders in our Partnerships uh and education group and they have some great news to share and I think we have some of our recipients here tonight for the floor is yours yes I'm Karen boy thank you I'm the president current president of uh bash on Partners in education um which is a 37 year old uh nonprofit on the island that um our main mission is to raise um money from the community and give grants to teachers for Innovative projects Jenna rigs is a current board member and past president past everything on the board we all stay a long time um um and so tonight we want to present our
045big check which represents the amount of Grants made so $ 68762 49 grants to teachers throughout the district this is the list it's in the board docks very tiny printing but um everywhere from it goes from preschool all the way up through um grade 12 um Family Link student link um all of the schools are represented so really cool um we had a lot of Grant requests this year it was one of our best years for the past several years I think um and so one of the really fun things that we like to do because we recognize that it takes a lot for a teacher to come up with a creative project write a grant proposal and then actually follow through and do it um so we like to each year we pick three
046of our favorite grants um we usually try to do one in each school um and we vote this year it was a really hard vote it was kind of like you know they picking the pope you know you have to do several we did actually four rounds we all agreed to how we all agreed because there were so many great grants um but um I want to um so we're going to recognize those people tonight um the first person is Kathleen Lawrence um she's a teacher librarian at chiaka but she's also recently taken on the Chaka fifth grade robotics program running that Partners in education made a grant 25 years ago in 2000 for $2500 and last year when Kathleen took over theam program they were still using the same Lego bricks and computer software
047that we purchased then so 75 to 100 students a year for 25 years that was a lot of um they got a lot out of that so this year Kathleen we I told her to go big and she did we spent $113,000 to completely upgrade the whole thing and she's expanding it to other um grade levels in chiaka and hopefully McMurray um really fabulous [Applause] soen she doesn't want to come up right you can come up and stand with us and get your pot she didn't want to say anything so I said I would what we want to say is please come it's so much fun yeah like the third and the fourth and middle um multi-age are able to like take um have a whole robotics curriculum yeah for the first time and there
048awards are actually home Bak piie so we keep this from pie them going um our uh Middle School winner I don't think Sarah fosi is here yeah she um won with one of our smaller grants um we have grants that are $100 and Grant better $133,000 um hers was $275 for materials to make um for kids in her um sixth grade I think it's English or social studies so Humanities class to do Chinese block Printing and they made really cool note cards um and other things out of the block prints and along with a book yeah along with to go with a book that they were reading in um really great project they she you know did that in September and October she just got up and the kids loved it we got a great
049thank you note and some really fabulous photos of the things they had done so that was great um and then our third one which is just a complete pie pie thing um because we're are we focus on Innovation we have two High School teachers our high school jewelry teacher and a high school chemistry teacher who collaborated on a grant that's really cool and they're going to come up Kathleen regovich and Kate Donan if they can make it up [Applause] there I can't really explain what they're doing hi I'm Kate denigan and I teach High School jewelry and a while ago I met um uh Dr Joshua Marcel he's a a Native American guy up at Ballard market and he came in and um P granted us um a grant two years ago to have him
050show us how to use a new sterning silver and he's in my life a lot and um he's also a research chemist um and he uh has been and he has a friends in medical school and so we asked him we've been talking about chemistry and one of my dreams is to work with the chemistry teacher and combine our classes and talk about Metallurgy and all of the offline things that you can do in there and so Dr marel wants to come out and and um spearhead this and work with us to um talk about science and chemistry and how that applies in different medical fields and to set up some experiments that we can all do yeah um and I'm Kathleen rovic I'm the chemistry teacher at the high school and I am always
051looking for more ways to like integrate like real world applications of chemistry and Science and it's really exciting to have like also somebody who is like a professional scientist come in and have like students can ask about like careers in science of various times um and it the timing of it's I think going to be really nice because we just did a unit where we talked about metals and then our chemical reactions and so the students will get to see some applications of some stuff that they've been learning about [Applause] recently and then I know it's [Music] one more one more round of [Applause] applause so we always need volunteers at Robotics and just saying any anytime take some coffee and lemon bread for who met and Robotics on the way [Music] out so you
052have a copy coming to you take cop so so yes welcome everybody my report but I'm also delighted to see everybody on that one one of the things board members when we were in strategic planning we identified the need for more opportunities for students when they when they leave our our system and there was some concern that our system was kind of overly populated with college you kind of messages uh for for all of our students and and when I when I came here I had been a part of a of a movement through Washington stem is called Career connected learning and I shared some of the what those programs could look like here in our district when we were going through strategic planning and um what this does is it kind of shows you
053the kind of the another way for us to fulfill Our Promise by providing students with more opportunities more engagement pay through 12 rather than kind of in their senior year you know kind of then we ask students well now what do you want to you know do with your life we want to we want to do um we want to prepare them uh much earlier and start that start that preparation and Sh talko move it through middle school and then up into high school and essentially it's it it it's the framework is essentially like learning about work when they're uh when they're younger and then learning for work when they're kind the Middle grades and kind of some of the earlier High School grades and then learning through work when they get to Junior and
054Senior year and what we envision are career Pathways that we start to partner with our Island uh our Island agencies our Island businesses our island farms uh the Center for the Arts there's so much um you know Community Support here on Bashon and this has been a program that we've been wanting to realize much earlier um but uh we're in in a in a strong position now that we have kind of starting to cement some of our progress with Universal Design for Learning now we're looking at one of our other professional practices and our strategic Plan called CER connected learning and and we've heard it now uh we've seen it in surveys we've seen it uh in our recent needs assessment you know where students and families you know talked about other opportunities other than
055kind sending their students to fouryear schools and there's nothing wrong with that but we want to provide students with uh kind of more insight uh and more purpose along the K12 Journey here and so we are starting with um and it's it's a it's a program that's been in our district before where uh essentially we have a career a career pathway the two career Pathways that we're focused on right now are Education and Training cluster that's a particular CTE pathway and I'll share that CTE page with you later and then in year two of this implementation we want to move to business management and administration and that's where we start seeing opportunities to work with u you know kind of the clay over Thriftway and I had I've had uh conversations with sawbones and Thriftway
056and the Center for the Arts uh kind of all all of our Island folks in there I think they've just been waiting okay you know now you slay when's this going to happen Okay because we're excited about it um what this means is that you know kind of at what this shows you is a little bit of an idea of what could be happening at the elementary school what could be happening at the middle school and what be happening at the at the high school and we have a lot of students who are Accel accelerated in their course uh you know kind of credit acquirement and we have students in their in their High School senior years who end up not you know kind of having a zero period or having two zero periods at
057the beginning of school because they already have their credits would it be wonderful if we could put them into internships paid internships into you career opportunities where they get where they're getting Hands-On learning experience so um John Sabrina uh Stephanie and and Greg and and counselors and myself are working to build in uh this initial career pathway one that we've had before which is Education and Training where kind of the culmination of that would be a class where our our our our Juniors and seniors potentially sophomores are going down to the elementary school into our preschool programs they're getting their hours for uh a CDA C certification which then allows them for employment right after high school if they want to um have that take that certification and work in preschool settings um we're also
058looking at um leveraging that training into students who want to maybe uh gain employment with with our own School District as PA professionals and using that kind of as a launch Point into potential career and education and so there's a lot of opportunity here I'm going to we're going to have a lot more to share with you but we have some initial training meetings we had one about three weeks ago and then we're going to have one uh next week we're supposed to have it today but uh Mr ericon was sick um and we're going to you know start to build this out and um so I look forward to sharing more with you but um this is kind of a sneak peek for tonight's report what is CBA I don't know Child Development Associate
059I don't know I'm sure one of those words is in there great like you mentioned there's like a community opportunity to work with a community um community members also can work with you um closely to do something about this AB absolutely once we can build in the essentially the courses into the into the master schedule then even more critical of that find uh qualified and exited you know uh instructors to teach those courses then we can start to build out the activities underneath that and start to develop you know basically essential Pathways what what are the classes at the high school that are also going to you know help you once you get to those cluster classes you know as an older you know uh or maybe not maybe 10th and 11th grade but then
060what are some Middle School experiences and some Elementary School experiences and and again our businesses the owners uh they're you know Clay is excited about um you know a lot of people think about you know if they're going to work a thrift way that you there's just bagging and checking and there's you know there's lots of marketing there's lots of design there's lots of um you know essentially some deep business management skills there that he's that he talks about you know he and he says you family wage jobs you know are are there for our students um and maybe that's where students find themselves uh and then you know he's also excited about students coming in there and then helping them with their you know postsecondary education once they're you know once they're with him
061so um yeah so so this is something I I took something like this in Mexico U it's called vocational education is that how you will call this education so I'm just wondering it is worth students to listen from this profession right like have a nurse coming and she can talk about her work and have a teacher come in and have all have people who are already working there uh and just I I have a Community member friend of mine who has been telling me about this and I think this is a great opportunity yeah the initial you know thinking for for me in terms of a starting point well you first have to start at the beginning so we're going to recapture this you know kind of partnership that we that we used to have
062with the high school and the elementary building but essentially at every grade I want to have you know kind of some purpose built curriculum so that every student twice a year has some type of career connected learning experience and whether that is a you know kind of a person coming into a job share or middle school students going and doing job Shadows um you kind of all the above that happen you know P2 right well um so I would just I want to recap this in my head so I'm a high school senior and I next semester have a free period first period to get or to my lat Riv just because I finished all my credits at this point um and I so hypothetically I know that the chances of this happening are low
063but a high school or Junior could come to shiaka and Shadow a teacher or help with the classroom that would be that' be cool yes and you know and then obviously we retain that FTE right and because we're giving students opportunities that are meaningful something that they get excited about um students love um basically service you know and so it's just it it hits on a lot of points idea it's kind of and it's you know we had we had the pandemic and that kind of sideline does work right and then we had some other events in our buildings that kind of you know sidelined the work and so we're again we're in a a good spot to to move this work forward we have a great you know teaching staff at the high school
064at every building and I think this is something that you know it aligns really well with our portrait of a graduate it aligns well with with our transition goal you know and our strategic plan um and so again it it hits on a lot of points um you anything else on your right um and with that let's move on to our student report Oscar my name is Oscar um we just had our Snowball Dance it was very fun um and uh where was it where it was at the it was pretty nice they had like lights and smoke machines yeah St DJ yeah I'm sorry for those who have no idea what you're talking about it's dance it's winter well a whole bunch of high schoolers get together and dance in a room normally a
065mosh pit uh and with a loud music in everyone's ears okay yeah it uh and at night normally 2 hours long people are exhausted by the end is that crating um people like to dance you just like I don't it's yeah I just feel like a fun event for just like the school to just come and it kind of uh it kind of represents like you're almost done with this first semester you're halfway there which uh winter sports right now are girls and boys basketball cheer and wrestling and our third board member uh Hazel is not here she actually has a match senior night tonight for wrestling so good luck to them um Oscar and I uh and Dr bichi and Mara had the chance to go to the legislative conference this year in SeaTac
066um which was really cool I went last year in Olympia and was very different it's still reallyy cool uh it was a lot of learning and uh figuring out what we're advocating for to our legislators and I got to talk on a panel um there's photos so it's pretty cool um but it was really cool to see the big three and what you did and then some of those things that we took from the legislative conference um hazel Oscar and I are taking those to our club sa and going to be moving forward with some stuff so so that's exciting and there'll be more information soon what was the big three oh okay so more money for MSO more money for uh transportation and more money for special education quick Oscar what's an mck uh
067materials oh they talked a lot about what materials we needed what's the operation yeah but it was very helpful um and so we did that uh and we had school off on Monday in honor of MLK um which was I actually had a project on MLK during MLK day which was even cooler because got to read about him and also honor him at the same time and then as I said earlier our end of semester is tomorrow uh which is very exciting is that it yeah thank you both appreciate it um all right moving on uh now we've got the uh school year 2526 budget planning update and enrollment projections with Cassie and Amy Cassie okay so um as everyone remembers we've moved budget planning forward by one month this year so in previous years
068enrollment has been presented in February but we're reviewing the 25 26 enrollment projections in January to align with our budget planning calendar um so not to be I won't do that um our projected enrollment for 2526 is 1358 um Amy and I met with building leaders and managers on January 9th to begin the discussions we started with the rollup of our December enrollment members um and these projections are 98% of that which has been um a past practice and a good methodology um CES is projected at 404 that's about 44 less than this year McMurray is at 365 that's about seven more and Bs is at 467 which is three less than the current year student and family link are stable um overall the decline is around 41 which is an approximate decrease of or
069excuse me 500,000 in our appr porit um and then moving forward Amy and I will be meeing with building leaders against weekend determine secondary course offerings and the gr level configuration is that should help what are the um we know that there's about 44 students you know less projected at shiaka kind of how where are the biggest impacts I think is a big one that one's kind of a wild card a lot of times um Andor me that one is a little bit unpredictable um and then fifth grade moving into dist so that's the sixth grade bulge right now at yeah and then that'll be augmented with commuter students one thing that Greg was sharing with me um and I think I heard the same that the high school we're seeing um more stronger interest
070in off Island enrollment right now so when I was at the building on Tuesday at McMurray he reported uh he and Terry reported to me that they have 51 uh non-resident applications up by about 17 to 20 from normal years and that was in and predominantly at sixth grade so we we we were kind of asking ourselves um you know what might be happening you know across you know passage to see you know like what's what's going on um and most of those are coming from the West Seattle side um so kind of a stable you know 35 or 40 from you know kind of overall from our Southport side so and I had a chance during the commuter meeting you know as you know I have a a standing commuter meeting over at CMP
071coffee with parents and we had a really strong turnout um and we had two families who were sixth grade families and one ninth grade family um I I didn't ask them because I you mean potential new potential new right potential new we had about 10 um current commuter family you know kind of current uh enes and then three three new families who were kind of prospecting kind of coming to ask questions about what our schools are like but I didn't didn't remember to ask them you know that night if they had any insight why why we had more so some of the next steps uh in February just a preview we'll be showing you uh tax rates that we typically put in our budget plan and kind of the just making those visible and then
072Amy uh Cassie and myself will be with the Advent team next week I believe and we're going to be looking at some of those kind of impacts on uh course selection and try to get an idea about um what are those you know what's what's the Staffing what are the impacts going to to look like you know kind of if we um you know we know that if if we're projecting three kindergarten teachers right now uh for next year um will we will we see the same kind of trend this year where right before we left for summer break we saw enough enrollment you know kind of uh enough students signing up that we were able to hire a fourth teacher before summer so these are some of the wonderings that we have and we'll
073start to kind of fine-tune some of that but our projection right now will most likely stand throughout this process unless something dramatically changes um because even though we have stronger maybe stronger enrollment for um McMurray in terms of non-resident applications there may not be enough to you know we'll max out to where we can have so many sections and then we're going to wait to see if we get enough we might be on a bubble for a little while we might have to hold before we can actually accept more and then you put in another section into that matter schedule so it's a little bit of a a waiting game at times um but that's something that we'll that we'll be looking at and because where we're staffed right now um you know we we
074intentionally did not put a any you know riff you know uh recommendations right now we're resolution in front of the board after more analysis we'll be able to kind of knowing what we know now that's how that you know that's how that can be we might know more in the future where we might come back with something different but um very briefly I'm confused that there's two I see someone in ninth and someone in 12th in family link program that I think of as ending at e8th grade can you very briefly say why there are enroles in those slots in family link yeah exactly yeah Oh I thought it was K2 there's usually a few a year school SCH um can you explain like what the like the difference what you mean by the difference
075like is that like how much y so this is uh the dec and then this is our average and then this here is the difference between those two is that what you're saying it is I mean like that we have like say it's like uh negative I me like we're we have enough so what this means is that this is that much less than what was projected when we did the budget for this year oh gotta so you kind of see that we were you know we were over projecting uh at the at the middle school and under projecting at the high school or back in my brain I saw but I know your brain proba yeah yeah sorry than the question we missed the mark on those two anyone else okay right exactly for
076Budget great moving on to the budget rep Cassie okay so um this is December 2024 financials um things are as expected and normal [Music] um the report lots of pages it there we go great so um um these are kind of the bullet points which I'll I'll cover um in our general fund fund balance we have a little bit more this month compared to the same time last year um December not this month um slight High higher revenues and slightly lower expenditures compared to December of 2023 um we are expenditure wise just a little over a percent less than the normalized projection which is 33% um so we're looking really good there um working on the transfer of credit card revenue from general fund to ASV so that's um something that's continuing in the process
077um really working towards getting that on a regular Cadence um and if you kind of scroll down capital projects aligns with the prior year Trends there's no expenditures to report in debt service um it shows that our bond principle and interest payments were submitted by the county um and that's is stated as an expenditure per the debt schedule and in as we a little bit lower revenues than prior years but our expenditures are similar and transportation vehicle fund is performing as expected um and then Peter if you want to scroll through the budget status reports um just as Justin has you he say there's nothing really that good here we'll go to the controller report which is um reconciling to the County Treasurer um all five funds are balanced there's one reconciliation item in our
078general fund um and that's and our warrants outstanding for $ 77363 and so as we're looking forward um in February I will not have January financials ready because the meeting is earlier in the month so in March you'll be getting January and February um and I just want to invite a board member um to come in and sit with me as I work through those financials prior to the meeting um and I'm happy to go over that information in advance um with that lag time in there but also any other time if you have questions let me know when to review everything so Cassie I have a question it's very simple minded but I that's me um when you say Rec reconcilable is that like when something's outstanding in your checkbook yeah so like in
079this case I just I thought so but I wanted to make sure yeah so if I were to match this number to the conroller report below I'm missing 7 $ 36.3 um and so that's an investigative process because I think it's not one thing it's multiple things that are adding up so it will just take a little bit longer um to reconcile but that's why we note it down on here so that way we have to go back we know exactly um where the office started yeah and then just a quick um audit update um we are on track the auditor is pleased with Where We Are are um I've established a good working relationship so um it's just continuing to be responsive to request so that we can um you know keep moving forward
080and hopefully get it finished up quickly Jun I just to remind the board Juniper and I are there any other board members met with the auditor uh Jeff um Jim Jim Jim and essentially they asked us a lot of risk assessment questions and we share with them what we you know best of what we know and so but it sounds we appreciate Cassie yeah yeah I think in both conversations uh you know the auditor kind of shared some similar information but there's a good working relationship there and you're very responsive so appreciate I apologize to the enrollment piece um and I know I've talked about this before but new report came out last week in terms of a pending demographic Cliff so they're projecting um 15% fewer students at the age of 18 by 2039
08115% fewer students is really significant um and so in their Reports look at and so those kids who are right now who would be entering our kindergarten Etc and going through that pathway um and I I guess are there PL that we're looking at that if we're looking at a nationwide drop in terms of birth rate by 15% how are we I know and I know it's challenging and I know I've asked it before so I don't expect an answer right now but I guess I I would love a conversation about how we're looking at that regionally moving forward yeah and so superintendent actually just talked about that in our December meeting and so we are going to have U because there's consensus around Regional superintendents that Dem demographers don't know what they're doing just
082you know say understand how it is and you know that's the conversation amongst us you know in that meeting and there's 35 of us and many of them pay you know significant amounts for you know for demographers and doesn't feel like very many of them were able to give them you know kind of near to close projections for this for this particular school year um so we've made a decision that we want to we want to we're going to invite four those demographers into our regional superintendence meeting to you know kind of really have a a good conversation about what it is that that we feel like we need and to have some you know um you know not heart to heart per se you know it's not meant to be kind of a challenging
083you we were joking about we're very friendly group we just really want to understand you know how they're making these decisions and because our constituents and our boards you know kind of want this information and is it worth you know these outlays of of expenditures resources when the data you're getting back you know kind like weatherman maybe it'll R maybe it won't you know and they seem to have a little you know a lot of leeway in terms of you know the accountability around their projections and so we just want to we just want to better understand the process and but that is something that's that's happening reg and I'll let you know what we what we learn and if you could share that um with me I would appreciate it some kids look over
084it as well yeah thank you I would I'm sorry um I would jump in especially with J um one of the and and we come very close most years on our projections and know there are anomalies and seems like a small anomaly one or two families can actually have a huge impact on our district because we are so small but we do have the advantage of um really being able to communicate with our students with our families um Jillian at the elementary school every year the preschools on the island to find out what kids are out there that may be kindergarten the upcoming year what their plans are so that she continues to fine-tune that kindergarten number in a way that most districts don't have the advantage of do um we have a lot of
085opportunity to kind of be aware of the families moving to the island and moving out of the island so because of our tight community and because of our community we do have some opportunities that are not common in other districts so that's really helpful as well all right um next up uh we're GNA uh welcome matter it's time uh about undocumented families of immigration enforcement activities update you need help pass out anything I'll be your [Music] secretary not not yet so enough copies for everybody um thank you first of all thank you for providing the space and the opportunity to share what I know and how we can all work together to make sure our community is safe um my name is Molly matter I run a solo human rights practice on the island um
086I'm a decade long resident and I have a sixth grader in the middle school so I'm going to give a some opening remarks for a couple minutes and then um and then we'll dive into the uh presentation here first of all I want to make sure that I speak slowly and just for language access there there may be people um viewing this and when you translate it helps to have pauses or at least have a period at the end of each sentence um um and I don't know if anyone needed translation here at the at this meeting I'm assuming not um so the the political landscape is changing drastically uh it requires each of us to understand and uphold State and constitutional laws that protect the health and safety of our communities the current Administration
087is encouraging an abuse of power in the area of immigration enforcement our state attorney general Nick Brown filed the lawsuit on Monday defending our rights and a judge already ruled on it today the Baseline our rights are derived from the Constitution and from state laws and they protect every inhabitant in this country regardless of citizenship status key findings about Mass deportation some of us connect with numbers there are 11 to 13 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States currently undocumented constitute a large percentage of workers in major construction trades and agriculture domestic work undocumented immigrant entrepreneurs generated over 27 billion in total business income in 2022 Mass deportation will deprive federal state and local governments of billions in local tax contributions from undocumented households in 2022 alone undocumented immigrant households paid 46.8 billion in
088federal taxes and 29.3 billion in state and local taxes they cannot vote and they receive no personal benefit from these taxes citizens some of us are here are citizens we benefit from their work if Mass deportation takes place the United States will lose $22.6 billion to Social Security and 5.7 billion doll to Medicare key finding some of us connect in stories I have personally witnessed children separated from their parents inside detention centers because they are privately run prisons prisons there are no safety standards the morning my team entered local news broke about a sexual predator who was employed in the detention center and dozens of children were sexually abused the center was never shut down uh between 2017 and 2020 we all know that children and teenagers died while well detained from preventable deaths like
089getting the flu because there was no lack of treat there was lack of treatment and because of inhumane living conditions with this context I here today to ask the board to do everything in your power to ensure that not one child or family in our schools ends up detained yesterday Congress passed the lacken Riley act subjecting immigrants to prolonged indefinite detention so here we are on Bashon we're blessed with resources we have power to work in collaboration with each other with families with community and Advocates to ensure that every family has a safety plan for their children lastly I want to acknowledge the important cultural political and economic contributions of all immigrants in the United States and remind us that the vast majority of those who live on Bashon are also descendants of immigrants okay
090I'm excited actually to tell you about these laws um so here we have federal and state laws and policy um let's see where can I stand where you can see um so plier V do so we have constitutional rights to education we did have protected areas and sensitive locations as of uh three dayss ago we have fourth amendment constitutional rights and then we have what is I think the most important right um are state rights which is the Keith Washington Working act oh I'm not doing the yeah okay sorry I just realized like I'm not controlling that so under plyer V do all children regardless of citizenship citizenship status have a right to free and safe public education this is Supreme Court um this is Doctrine this is law this is not going anywhere no
091child can be denied the right to education our job is to make sure that they are safe while they are in school and under the Washington Constitution the state must provide education for all children undocumented students between ages of eight and 18 years must be enrolled in school in addition the United States uh Supreme Court ruled in La V Nichols that school districts must take affirmative actions to ensure that limited English proficiency students can meaningful partic ipate in their education programs and services next slide so uh what are sensitive locations protected areas there were locations where ice could not approach or arrest anyone this policy was descended on Tuesday but we still need it as a baseline you can go to the next slide so the reason to educate staff and families about this policy
092is that we need to understand it as a baseline as fundamental principles of human dignity uh it states this principle is fundamental this is from the Department of Homeland Security Memo from 2021 this was in place for close to 15 years we can accomplish our enforcement Mission without denying or limiting individuals access to needed Medical Care children access to their schools the deed access to food and shelter people of Faith access to their places of worship and more adherence to this principle is Bedrock of our statue stature as public servants we can go to the next slide protected areas um schools graveside ceremonies funerals kinas weddings churches hospitals domestic violence shelters places where children gather playgrounds or school bus stops food banks community- based organizations such as Bach on mus and Family Services um rallies
093or demonstrations again um the school board can pass resolutions and policies that support this principle and I recommend that before we take down any sensitive location signs we are ready the same day to replace them with a sign that states ice free zone you can go to the next slide this is just an example of business um signs that businesses can use so anything that says more or less if you're a federal agent you must present a valid uh judicial warrant to Ure and that I think something that says obviously immigrants are welcome um so this uh you just get the general idea from this the next slide so if any um the Fourth Amendment right rights from search and seizure with protected areas and sens of loation policies rescinded students continue to have important
094state federal state and federal protections if any member consents so if any staff member consents to have I enter the building students are no longer protected consent is given by not by our words but by our actions I advise that all staff and administration are trained on how to recognize a Judicial order and distinguish it from all other orders that ice may have such as a deportation order and it is very common and uh in Immigration for ice to manipulate and to use other orders basically that's a super common practice to not have a Judicial order um so we need to understand and be able to distinguish those those uh documents a deportation order does not allow you entry because all staff have their own relationships with families all staff should be prepared to assist
095families in safety planning if they so choose all staff should have a uniform response plan that if any staff member is approached outside on the playground or in fields or inside the school they immediately know how to respond something like we ask that you wait off the school grounds until we contact our superintendent and an attorney you can go to the next slide so the most important and protective laws we have for students is the King Washington Working act and this is really the gold standard right now it's um I it's that's what it is RCW I don't need to read it this legislation was passed in 2019 and it requires all public schools to change practices and pass policies and go to the next slide so the legislature declared passage of the keep Washington
096workings act as an emergency and um expeditiously establishing a Statewide policy supporting Washington State's economy and immigrants role there in um you can oh you can pass out let's see can yeah you want to pass these out and I wanted to give at least one to the to the community members members that we can look at as well this is part of our we can get these elects the model policies and guidelines in this publication we have such a great attorney general um we have a new one as you all know Nick Brown so this he um the last attorney general wrote a a practice guide for all public schools and this is what I'm passing around the model policies and guidelines in this publication represent research of the best national practices they're aligned with
097the state's commitment to tolerance diversity inclusive um and inclusiveness and are intended to assist the Washington Public School personnel and local government officials responsible with the management of educational facilities and complying with the KE Washington waring's requirement adoption of these policies will best allow Washington public schools to focus their resources on their distinct mission of ensuring educational opportunities for all individuals while leaving immigration enforcement efforts to the federal government and you can go to the next slide so pursuant um um to the Washington workings act um it requires all Washington public schools to adopt policies consistence with those published here in that packet or to notify the attorney general that they are not adopting the necessary changes and state the reasons why they're not doing so you can go to the next slide um so
098the Washington attorney general guidance is that each Public School jurisdiction should Implement an ious review process of this publication such that adoption of the model policies and guidance may be initiated immediately appropriate training is essential for compliance with the Washington keep Washington workings act and you can go to the next slide so this is um an example of the model policy um the provisions it's what's lovely is that it's already done for us basically the Attorney General wrote uh a model policy that each school can more or less plug in their name and it's done so um we can yeah we can actually take a deep breath we don't have to create this ourselves all we need to do is is sign on to it so the um as you can read the provisions of
099this policy shall apply to the bash on school district and all school facilities which include adjacent sidewalks parking areas sports facilities interestes Etc um the fash on School District's policies prohibiting participation or Aid in Immigration enforcement shall apply for enforcement activity against students and their family staff and volunteers you can go to the next slide so um access to schools Vashon public school district will uphold its responsibility to all students and ensure that all staff and volunteers are aware of the rights of immigrant students to an education uh next slide and this is I just put an example here um this is again the model policy under immigration enforcement on school campus for example if anyone attempts to engage in Immigration enforcement onor near mcore M Middle School including requesting access to a student employee
100or school property McMurray Middle School staff shall immediately alert and direct the person to it can be the superintendent or it can be principal Allison who shall and these are very important steps verify and record the person's credentials the name agency and badge number record the names of all persons they intend to contact collect the nature of the person's business at the school request a copy of a Judicial warrant log in date date and time and forward the request to the superintendent or legal coun for review you can go ahead to the next um so best gathering information um related information again this is the model policy if ashon school district is required to collect information related to a school's sorry a student's national origin to satisfy certain federal reporting requirements for special programs staff
101shall and there's several things but these these I think are very important explain to the student and their parents or Guardian um uh how really the uh the immigration enforcement impact on disclosing that information and provide notice to the students parents and or Guardians about disclosure of that information but generally the school should not track or disclose any of that information all right um let's see use of school resources bash on School District resources and policies regarding immigration shall be published and distributed to parents or Guardians on an annual basis these resources shall include at a minimum the process of establishing notice or consent from parents as permitted under federal and state law prior to releasing the students personal information for immigration enforcement purposes um the of course there's more than just dnf here but
102I just highlighted I'm bringing out the ones that I think are really important um know your rights resources and emergency preparedness forms to have completed in event of family separation um and next slide please great so we can pass out the safety packets maybe um a few to the community members and I will email I'll make sure everyone email is emailed this as well so I'm currently doing um with with latino Advocates and Spanish speaking Advocates on the island safety planning in with immigrant families uh so um first of all there's um there is a a there's an online safety planning that all parents can can just attend on February 5th and if the district if if a message from the district goes out from the superintendent to All Families I encourage it to list
103this resource I'll I'll make sure I forward it to you as well so on February 5th there's safety planning it's from this organization we really our Premier U legal organization in the state right now that's doing safety planning for families um so schools should encourage families to plan for an unexpected Detention of student or child's parents or caregivers schools should distribute make available emergency planning kits such as this they're obviously in Spanish and in English um public school should designate a staff member who is trained in what to do in the event that a student's parents or Guardians are detain the staff member should work with resource providers in the local community to develop a plan for caring for students whose caregivers are detained while the child is at school and um so parents that
104the undocumented are choosing Caregivers for their children to prepare um so that is what is currently happening um and that might be family members or friends but someone that can have power of attorney over their children and pick their children up if both parents or one parent is detained or deported the the students emergency contact information should list this person um and should be kept up to date and include yeah alternative parents who can pick up the child so the public knows who to call and this is very important as if both parents are detained um we do not want children going into boster care so that's that's the goal of all of this is to keep children with our in our community with our with one another um and make sure that there not
105end up in care or in detention centers um okay next slide pleas uh best practices know your rights training I think all students should know what their rights are this could be a schoolwide approach it could be assembly so no individual student is targeted um I'm currently organizing a know your rights workshop with Le CH spot in the middle school so they reached out and said you want to know what our rights are which is awesome so we're going to have a Ann in Spanish know your rights training um probably maybe two weeks and the middle schoolers um yeah requested that um okay next slide please so the 10th Amendment um I love the 10th Amendment especially right now um because it protects our state so state and local agencies adopting the model policies by
106our attorney general are protected under the 10th Amendment anti- commandeering Doctrine and all that does is it limits Federal government's ability to mandate action by States and localities especially and including in the area of federal law enforcement and investigations uh under this Doctrine the federal government cannot compel the state to enact or administer a federal regulatory program or compel state employees to participate in the administration of a federally enacted regulatory scheme the current Administration is encouraging people to abuse their power right now but this is the law states have enormous power right now and states have always had the power to protect the health and safety of their inhabitants that's why for example we have state Voting Rights Acts which are very different than the federal Voting Rights Act states can actually be more protective
107of their their inhabitants okay slide please on the last one um I've been listening and learning as much as possible lately as you can imagine um so I attend kind of every know your rights training and safety planning and immigration law training that I can get my hands on um I've worked uh in the previous administration or two administrations ago in detention center so I have good um relationships with the Northwest immigrant rights project and Collective PUO and um other Advocates ACLU of Washington I've Co counseled with um so I'm just um that's how I I feel it's my responsibility to be as trained and as up toate as possible um so that I can can help our community and this is just a screenshot that I was in a training this week and this
108is the national immigration law Center and um and I think this just speaks for itself myself many people asked this question which is hey I work in schools are they coming in what do we do and the answer is the school should have a clear plan in place so all staff know how to respond when Ice shows up the school has the right to ref refuse ice entry if they do not have a Judicial warrant but if someone gives them consent to enter Then they are allowed in um yes consider can a student if a student gives permission to enter are they allowed in I'm wouldn't think so but that's a good question let me get back to you on that yeah I mean I know there's a lot there's also some information which I'd
109love to share with you more about non-public spaces and public spaces within schools and so that's something to consider as well there'll be places that are nonpublic in schools um that each school could designate so if ice were to come in students can more or less retreat in a place that's nonpublic uh the landscape lastly is rapidly changing um as we know schools are no longer uh protected areas or sensitive locations but we um we don't know what each day will bring but we do know how to prepare and we prepare by educating everyone on their rights including students we prepare by making sure all immigrant families have a safety plan for their school children and we prepare by creating a uniform resp response plan based on the guidance from the Washington State Attorney General
110and pass the model policies as written um thank you so much for listening I know that's a lot of it's a lot um to to digest and integrate and um I will be here until 800 pm tonight but I also I have to go home I have a sick kid at home and I need to be a mom too so so thank you and I'm here yeah I'm here right now for any questions anyone has to ask [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank questions from the board from our students for for Molly uh I have uh my grandmother is part of this group and uh she emailed me about four times before this meeting telling me that I need to know all this information um and I appreciate her for that but I also appreciate you coming
111on and talking to us I think it is important that the students and the staff in the school district um know their rights and know their uh to protect the community so I appreciate you coming on and um just talking from the students perspective I would love it if you could come to the high school and tell our my fellow students yeah awesome that would great and so there was a lot of talk today that I on the island and Seattle it was kind of blowing up yes so if we were to adopt this train how fast would we need to or could we implement it I I mean I think it could be implemented right away that what I hear your question is more about response of Isis on the island so there's an
112organization called weisson Washington uh advoc immigrant advocacy solid Network so they are wonderful and they've been around for many many years and we will I'll be a part of developing a rapid response team um but um so that's not something I think this let me rephrase that what would be very helpful is if a school board member or someone in the schools if there are confirmed um uh ice presence if there is a confirmed ice presence on the island this is something I learned in in one of the trainings this week someone can call and just basically call King County Sheriff super easy and just say hey guess you know we we're hearing that ice might be on Bashon Island right now can you confirm that and they actually will help they will say yes
113or no so um there's some simple things we can do because the last um time we had to deal with this there was uh a lot of confusion and just not a lot of solidarity with people working together to make sure that that if um that the notification was accurate because it's so important to be accurate because then people you know stop believing in it and it it doesn't work um it doesn't work so yeah so I'm not sure if that answers your question but but there was no ice ice was not on the island today I did receive information about tensions were just really hot and that was probably but and I was talking to weisson today had a meeting with them and um there they were getting calls from Seattle as well um
114but there was nothing here on island um I think there was some some other law enforcement actions on island but it was not ice y I have a question um first thank you very much we really deeply appreciate it and this is a something of great concern to to the island when ice does come on island do they do they come in uh like black cars that look official without a signature so that would be a part of the training that I think all I'm just curious yes all staff should should know and really all families should know uh typically ice does plain clothes they plane clothes um that's part of how they want to get in do their business you know they don't want to draw attention to themselves but typically um they yeah
115there are specific uh vehicles that are ice very different than Department of Homeland Security and um if they were to come on um so if they're not approaching a home some sometimes approaching a home they may be plain clothes but um typically they have a vest that that actually has to say on it um I think it was actually in one of the the first slides so I did see that yeah there is a way and this is the training that I'm receiving and that I would give as well um exactly um it it says ice pretty clearly on the vehicle and on on the Molly can I can I speak to actually um I'm not sure I'm not sure yeah it's it is a point of order it's it's uh unfortunately this isn't a
116discussion with the with the public it's a presentation to the board and a discussion between the board and the presenter sorry but but we do want to um ask your permission if it's possible that if you want you can provide your contact information for members of the public I don't know you know for any followup questions I just want to are you doing any other workshops or can they attend the online you know safety planning that you're talking about or what would be the best way to yes not fled your inbox or your phone message um that is great I think it would be be great if the schools could um let families know and Community know wi these workshops are going to be so the workshops for non-immigrant families will be publicized to everybody
117you know what to do um workshops for immigrant families moving forward will be confidential to protect the safety of the families um but yeah I do want to um so you when we meet next week we can flush out because we have you know communication as part of our kind of training plan and so we can meet to kind of make sure we we hit all those opportunities and you know and there'll be kind of phases of communication that will go out so yeah I think if people are interested to um or have questions for me I would ask that they work through Jenna rigs or work through Lydia um Aguilera kishner if you could raise your hands that would great thank you but I I would also encourage uh jie wolf to write to
118us and anything that you would like to add it would be great if you can email us thank you well there's public comment at the end right public comment information and we're also not done with Molly right we're also hear um we have you later on the docket if we move yeah we can do that we can do that can we bump that up yes so that's what I'd like to do here is um we currently have her third in our next um section but we're just going to move that up okay and have you first and one one last thing I I I attended uh some of your yeah seminars and we have ice and we also have the Border Patrol coming it's not just ice but border patrol can also come and pick
119up people or try to so border patrol in my understanding it it has to be ice okay it has to be ice that's what I've been trained okay so um but that's yeah and how do we develop how do we get to develop this uh rapid response like do we decide on that you offer how how would that work to to say yeah we want to develop a rabit respon well that's that's what's been devel you so Molly and I did meet you know the other remember the date we met and so what's in the board docs right now is that training plan and is you know kind of you know and it's definitely a work in progress um but that's that's that's where it happens but the just briefly the rapid response is different
120than training schools and staff members um so the rapid response network will be um a trained team of people that uh will know when ice is on the island there will be yeah a confidential um app that people can learn um and we're developing that technology and working with weisson to to develop a strategy that's that's localized because we are pretty privileged to live on an island that you know we we know who's coming in and who's coming out or who's leaving um so but I think it would be helpful once that team is developed that we yeah so that we're all um yeah know and then we we're going to get our news from that group because this information is coming today was a day where we had misinformation and it's pretty sad that
121people will just joke with it so these will be you will give us Direction on how to how to have a a plan and who to call who's going to call who and where the community is going to call for the right information right so people will need physical and this this is sort of a Outreach to volunteers as well we'll need um physical presence we'll need people to physically go to a location where ice is and and confirm that it is ice and then that will that person will get back to weisson and then the alert will go out so we need people to um yeah to sort of and and just as a uh it it deters um deportations greatly believe it or not and also knowing your rights deter deportations because once
122people stop opening the door ice doesn't have the capacity to wait for five hours or eight hours and so it's been incredibly um powerful when people know what their rights are and they know how to basically Community monitor themselves yeah can you just tell me what weisson stands for um Washington action no immigration action one person Jenna you say it the Washington immigrant solidarity Network thank you yes thank you um should we move on to I want to be mindful of Molly's time and then we have another chunk for her to is it a pressing okay go ahead it may segue I don't know it may segue to the next section but I guess in terms of discussions that have already taken place one of the kind of discussion points is is tied to um
123the best way to roll out training and I know there's a real investment in terms of everyone first line in the training um and so and all administrators Etc um but I'm I'm wondering what you would say about the training being mandatory for every employee versus optional because I I understand where the concerns but I just want to hear you speak to it yeah um I think I've addressed this a quite a bit via emails but just for the record uh I think because we are in Uncharted Territory so we no longer have sensitive locations we no longer have protected areas um there's a lot that is happening right now that demands every single person to know what their rights are and so I would highly encourage that all staff are trained and that it
124is mandatory because it's a matter of um children it's a matter of making sure every child in our district is safe and if there's a paraeducator that has a connection with a child and they're able to make sure that they get a safety plan enacted or they're able to pass on that message that hey if ice comes don't open the door make sure you know what a Judicial warrant is make sure you know how to say in English I have the right to be silent and I have the right to an attorney that's it so we need everybody I think really collectively to be working together because we are in a very different state than we were eight years ago it's just a new ball game altogether unfortunately we can't questions okay well comments are
125coming comments are coming so you can thank um should we go ahead to this next section so this is um to look at a first reading on some policies and so uh just thanks again Molly for helping us out here and so Molly I I think there's basically two Pathways here for the board um the the policies that we originally put into the the board docks uh which are 3226 4300 and 4310 are essentially wasda uh uh provided policies after looking at the you know after looking at the A's guidance and so um just just a quick you from we may have said this before but more often than that when we get policies here in front of the board uh they come from wasda model policies and so these were the original model policies
126um our policies here when they when the no uh keep Washington Working Act was first passed um this District I wasn't here at that time but did not update their policies this time so we're so we are a few steps behind um as Molly indicated to you uh and then I'll explain why we kind of went this way that in that AG um you know uh document from Bob Ferguson he he shares you know kind of insert your your school here um those aren't kind of in the 4300 you know so for us us it's it's it's more about formatting I think most of the content is is is the same and thanks for doing the kind of side by side read um and so what you have kind of the choice that you have
127right now in front of you is to adopt these and what Peter's done after getting the edits from Molly and maybe I think there might have been some clarifying questions that we did but we have uh moved in all the edits from Molly after her review and I think you shared that another attorney may have reviewed it or that's separate yeah no I had another attorney a colleague of mine review it as well but I have not had the chance to review your accepting except acceptance of those edits or review what's what's happening tonight so right so we we pushed we pushed in everything so that's essentially what okay um and uh even where where it came to in the this is kind of the interesting part in the in the AG in Bob Ferguson's
128document there's a set of definitions and so and that's kind of you kind it can be kind of awkward I don't I wouldn't know what to call B we don't really know what to call that policy so what we've done is taken all these edits we've taken all those definitions in section two and put them in the 4300 I believe okay so so essentially again we took all of all of your edits and partners edits and and push them into the the documents as they are right now one caveat uh to remember or to share with the public is um the board does have the option to in policy 1400 to take uh and take action on policies as a first read instead of our normal first read and second read and so um what
129that means is you know if if we publish it in an advance and the board consents to an advance that we're going to be you know taking action on policies as a first read and there will be an advisory vote tonight just to let our students know um we weren't able to meet with our Sab group as large as we were so we weren't able to put these policies in front of them uh but that was our ENT uh we will probably get feedback the next time we meet um but essentially uh what Molly has shared in some of the training slides that we see are are are then kind of codified in our policies and our policies are are the backbone in the first step in our in our you kind of planning for
130um reducing harm to our our students and family and so um you know I if the I'd love to if the board has questions about uh the content of these policies um what you're seeing with the new part you know this evening is essentially and I don't know if you want to speak to this or not some of those edits that you made that we then accepted in what may have been missing um that's that's one option in front of you that you can accept these policies um you know as edited uh by Molly and I would be making that recommendations there's a second pathway which is you can take Bob Ferguson's do doent and and then try to not try to we can then edit it into what would look like board policy you
131know kind of uh you know with with the title on it and with the number um and try to you know kind of work work work that way as well um but my recommendation would be to because I believe the content is similar or identical is to uh take the policies that they've been edited by by mly and her partner and take action this evening so that we can move forward um with our you know more you know with our training plans and communication plans but I definitely want to make space for any discussion on any of the content of these policies because we have Molly for eight1 4300 is the only one that will open for me the other two are not I don't know I don't know if anyone else I had that
132pump too refresh refres the agenda yeah go back to beginning in the agenda refresh documents if you want and then go through um some of this is probably incredibly nitpicky as is my way um what um uh here sorry um at some point it says something about like facil property school grounds or something at some point it said like playgrounds and this but there's no mention of because I know our campus is kind of unique there was no mention of like the natural environment is is there a reason to name the woods on the property because all the rest of it was about the built environment I don't like here it's on the first it's the provisions of the policy all school facility I'm on sorry 4,300 include but are not limited to sidewalks parking
133areas sports facilities playgrounds entrances and exits from said building spaces is there reason to uh include our natural spaces at all because those are also you can access the forest from the road um you know I don't know what nefarious things these folks are going to do to I'm just wondering if it's worth um mentioning and I'm I'm sure for some people this is extraordinarily nitpicky I also would like to see his or her removed in this language and if we can just change it to there so that we remove thank gendered language from within here so we it only happens once and I'm sorry I don't know exactly where it is in terms of the page number um I can find it there's one place where it says his or her gathering information related
134number one as a his her you can um make that if there any others in there yeah that was the only one when I did a control X that was the only one in that policy where I found it and we can also edit in grounds and yeah that would anybody have any other things they'd like to see changed or or clarifying questions about any of this policy language I I think my biggest question is looking at the policy from Nick Brown the attorney general what what are the pieces that are are there pieces that are missing between that and this are there pieces that they shifted or it's it's so all of what what the attorney general has put in is in these um so I um let me put it this way okay
135model so if you open the the model policy from the attorney general part three it says model policies for K through 12 Public Schools part three is a a through f um so those sections are applicability of policies related to immigration enforcement access to schools immigration enforcement on school campus Gathering immigration related information responding to requests for information use of school resources what I see is that you did more or less cut and paste from the model policies as the Attorney General recommended for um for a through f um and I and I would say that part three is the most important part I I think the definitions are very important as well and and you added that in um so without going into belaboring every Clause um what I what I do see is
136that um yeah that it's there I my confusion is uh why create more work because there the model policies are are just written for you and you really can put in Bashan Island School District um and then you wouldn't have to basically you know go through this exercise so it's up to you but um if you passed part three model policies for K through 12 as written by the Attorney General um that is sufficient um a through F and if you put in and then as Juniper was saying if there's specific um localized things that need to be added like natural areas or or gender um you know making sure it fits um for our our culture then then do that you can pretty much just put your your your district there um I have
137a question you say that we can have no public spaces at school and then our children can go to those public spaces if we have ice coming um I might have to get back to you on that because I don't have just a second um I guess I thought was saying was that we could designate certain areas in the school as nonpublic spaces and that in the event that there was some uh arrival of ice that those children could get moved to a designated private place now I don't know how that works in terms of our um what legal ramifications if we sort of declare you know Joe Smith's room is now the private area in the school I'm not sure how that I don't know how that works what what happens in terms of
138how you designate certain areas or private or are all classrooms private and just the hallways are public I I don't know what that I need to yeah I'm happy to follow up with you on that I can't speak to it right now I would need to educate myself more on it but I know that that is an issue I know that um schools can have public spaces and non-public spaces so it's important to know obviously and and for you to determine what those are in each school but let me do my own research on that sorry go ahead this is just my my tration maybe I was raised by lawyers too but um which is so from the if I look at the policy coming from the attorney general what I know is um hope
139it is airtight legally um and so feel more comfortable with that than a translation of anything getting Lost in Translation and not holding up legally and I know you're talking about wda and forming this I I just I don't know if those are lawyers at wasda or if those are School District administrators and it's their yeah it's their legal team but yeah I guess I'm I I have a similar question that if if we have direct access to you know an exceptional legal document why would we go was is on immigration rights organizations um they just aren't even though they also have access to attorney we have access to this and her is that yes yeah and I guess to me coming from the attorney general right now I guess I look at it feeling
140like it needs to be such an airtight that's fine that's fine so I I think both options are are are viable I see what you're saying so I'm I'm what I'm looking in a way is to operationalize and I think what I can do is the board can take action on the policies as presented in the AG's document with um trans promotion would be that they will be formatted into you know they have to be formatted in in into a well into a format uh so that they go into our you know we can't just take that document and then insert it into or docs that's sure but do we do we need and this is a I honestly don't know this let's say uh your team takes Ferguson's language hhog makes tiny changes to
141it yeah I just need titles and numbers yeah but we can't if we're not we're not going to vote on a thing we haven't actually seen tonight that's what I'm trying to so could we I mean legally are we can we V or or if you want to if you want to come back in 3 weeks on February 13th to do that I think we need to pass something that's why I'm trying to find a motion for you I have a recommendation could you say we are going to draft and pass these model model policies um as recommended by the attorney general for sections 2 three and six so if you pull up model policy IES sections 2 3 and six um um two two and three specifically that's your where you just log in
142and that that is what you have done much of what you have written is cut and pasted from that model policy 3 um but maybe there's a way to pass it saying we will make sure that um both of these documents are reconciled we can just you can just make a motion that we that we will adopt Pass 2 three and six to be formatted um you know reformatted to fit four docs basically it's not changed or altered or edited is that something people can live with absolutely sounds great good compromise um and then the other two that are linked here I think these will go away these will go away right okay the ones that are the ones that I mean This is 40 well the the 4310 and 3226 don't have to go
143because I think 4300 is the big is the big one no all of those everything that you have written already is part of the model policies I just can't tell you right now what Clause is from which part so if we made a motion to adopt the mod model policies as stated by the Attorney General period Then we don't then we're covered right yes right so um now um if we P these policy then can we ask for mandatory training for all the staff that's you know that's something that if you want to have that discussion and you're prepared to allocate those resources then obviously we that's something that we would then do I would like frankly I would like a discussion before we made a decision tonight and cost policy let's pass the policy
144is are we ready to I think we are is is there anyone here that's um ready to make a motion to adopt the model policies as stated by former Attorney General Bob Ferguson in the document that this matter shared with us aligning them to board docs protocols with minor changes regarding formatting natural spaces and in gendered pronouns to align with our culture would anyone like to make that M motion and I will second thank you very much um I'd like to hear from the students since you're going to vote on this is that correct do you have anything you'd like to ask or [Music] add okay um yes I have been taking notes this entire time because I think it's it's an amazing thing that the community has came out to support and the work
145that uh Miss matter has been putting in to make this possible and I appreciate the board um for helping with this uh change and moving forward um into the right thing to do uh and so yeah I'm excited to learn more and I think that that's really important and um with being so uh in graded in our schools I think that we our community deserves to put in work and it deserves to make sure everyone's happy so thank you would you like to make an advisory vote yeah I would wait in favor go line again okay advisory vote for you advisory vote from y Oscar yeah um no thank you um do we need to do a roll call vote all those in favor of of this motion I I any opposed great the motion
146passes thank you thank you so [Applause] much I'm sorry but just I want to keep head there on the matter right now when do we have that discussion about resour so we can't talk so it's because it's not on the agenda we can't specifically talk about it we can certainly receive commentary about it in the next public um section but it is not a matter that we're prepared to vote on no no no I just I just want to ask we Toc that down it has to be either or it have to be emergency meeting sorry I agree we can talk about aing effectively would session or regular meeting to discuss regular meeting so let's um we can talk about scheduling a special meeting um as soon as next week to get the information and
147discuss it and then we have to make a decision in a regular meeting correct special meeting could count as meeting count as thank you okay thank you um thank you for continuing to thank you noted okay um we have other policy matters in front of us um we talking about the minimum fund balance um second reading so uh we had discussion on this at the last board meeting where Justin shared with you and Cassie shared and maybe I shared as well further discussion among board we've made some edits on this uh policy 622 the edit reflect a a new Target of 27.5 days of cash on hand or approxim 7.5% expenses towards a minimum fund balance that is categorized in the unassigned accounts that's really the the heart and soul of this document um if
148there are no further discussion i' recommend take action on this this with an advis is there any discussion at this time about um either the changes we've made or anything else contained in this policy great at this time I'd like to ask for an advisory vote a mo sorry would anyone like to I'd like uh make would anyone like to make a motion uh to approve uh 6022 the minimum fund balance policy as written I'll make a motion to approve policy2 great can I have a second second great um student advisory votes well I would just like to say that I appreciate the compromise I think it was a lot of work but it worked out and I think this is a Oscar you have a question or do we know how much like CU
149it was we were talking about 2530 and I know what to do um we know like how much all off top of your head Cassie um it's going to depend on where we end with your you know what our um projection is for the total budget next year but I would expect it to be around the million uh would you like to vote one way or another that's an i i great uh all those in favor I any opposed great 6022 passes yest thank you everyone really appreciate your hard work on this um great moving on uh policies 3420 and 5005 and this is the second reading of the Anis prevention and response in the second reading of P 55 which is our employment volunteers exposure certification requirements insurances and approval U uping background checks
150on our volunteers and how we use those background checks no further discussion I would recommend the board both those 315 yes yes uh great let's start with 3420 um can I get a motion to approve 34 oh we can let's be efficient I'd like anybody like to make a motion to approve 3420 and 5005 as written I'd like to make a motion to through 3420 and 55 has written can I get a second please thank you River uh students like to get an advisory vote from both of you let's start with you Oscar is it's for the ens and background checks for volunteers got yes Oscar did not have access to Bo dogs previously so um he's doing some ketchup I feel like he's in in good step though yes wait do I will we
151will have that immediately yes um great all those in favor of passing 3420 and 5005 as written I I any opposed excellent 3420 and 55 pass as written we moving right along all right next item um is uh naming a a proposal from um community members staff members to change the name name of CH W do you want to speak to this a little bit I'll do a summary and then I'll do kind of a uh a moving forward and so yeah so uh this was presented by uh a committee here uh sphe headed by Ry Gil and Margie butcher to honor the legacy of Jerry Wilson and name shako Woods at that time Lucia thankfully uh thanks to you uh want to make sure that you know we we're honoring and getting feedback from
152our our neighboring uh the PE of Indians we are situated on so um Dr Stephanie Spencer reached out uh to Patricia Conway there liaison um and then after a couple months uh you'll see that I think also gave some did some Outreach and you heard back and at this point in time there's a recommendation um given uh to that we can that we not name the the woods right now uh and defer that action and then uh invite a couple board members to meet with um members of that committee to look at different options other than uh naming the woods you which um we were encouraged by the tribe to look at alternative solutions for that particular action and so that's kind of where we are right now and that's uh after some discussion with
153Le leadership that was a u The Proposal that that I recommend you we move forward sure um I know this is um very very disappointing to the folks that had brought um this proposal forward our choice to defer this at this time does not minimize for a moment the importance and the the Legacy that Jerry Wilson Wilson leads this school community and The Wider Vashon Community we seek as a school district and as individuals to walk the talk when we say we want to be in right relationship with our indigenous neighbors and the stewards of this land and we want to honor them their preferences their naming conventions um in the way that we proceed I think we can do both I think we can honor someone Legacy and be um approaching this situation with
154cultural humility and with an appropriate um stance in how we move forward particularly in the natural uh World um I understand this is um not what what folks had wanted to hear that this seemed like a simple request to to honor someone a beloved um person who's left us too soon and and ideally um in her in her response a member of the tribal leadership um used an expression indigenous futurism which has set me down a path of uh wondering and delight and confusion about what that means like how can we be in right relationship and with our and be good ancestors someday um and and as a white person I don't have the answer to that but I'm in a in a stance of curiosity um I really want to say that I appreciate
155Lucia asking us to pause and be thoughtful about the way that we approach this situation um and I look forward to hopefully being in a in a collaboration with whoever wants to step forward from the board along with this group of people that brought that proposal to us um and come up with a solution that can feel like we honor all of the parts of our community those who came before and those who will come next um do you have anything else you wanted to say about this um um I think there's two different things right honoring our teacher and naming the woods so we need to separate them and give it the respect to both and we need to take time to do this um it's not simple and it's not easy and we
156don't have the answers yet um so I I we as I asked teachers or you know to be patient with us uh in this process thank you um we are now up to our second public comment period thank you all for waiting I know it's very warm and I know it's been a long night um we have some people that said they wanted to go at the end let's call in those folks to begin with and then if there are additional people here that want to be heard that haven't signed up like to hear from you as well if you want to go ahead and start uh with the folks on your list hi Dr M welcome back thank you welcome again friends um I wrote a letter that is completely overtaken by events and
157I would like to use this opportunity to employ you to to um really accelerate your plans for entire staff training plans are great policies are great they meaningless without implementation implementation is impossible without training this is our job we understand education we understand action I ask you to do that with all possible H thank you thank you that be in order but a Carol Lake I simply endorse what's been said in favor of immediate action to protect our children to protect our community to protect our staff so they know what they're doing thank then Laura winter hello um I'm on the same page I thank you for the readily um adopting the policy the policies don't necessarily make things real and implemented and actionable and in the meantime as you're developing the training and then
158training people what I heard Molly say was it just takes one person to say you're welcome in um and that can contradict what you said was your policy so I would recommend that you develop we don't have that many schools in the school dist District that you develop a signage that you put on the front of your schools in the meantime that says um you know that people um are not that they have to contact the the um superintendent or they have to contact the principal before they can enter if they're coming from any organization outside of the school and then only be welcomed in by that person until you trained other people to not welcome them in and violate your intention thank you that's that's the folks that we had signed up would anyone
159else like to speak Jamie well I just want to clarify that I believe well I know what I'm here for is to advocate for mandatory training of all staff and all School personnel and I think the examples that have been given are all you need in order to implement it I understand it's expensive lots of things are expensive this is a priority it's a priority for the safety of our community it's a priority for the safety of our children for your staff for your teachers if everyone I've been doing this work now unfortunately since the first Trump regime and if everyone isn't trained one thing we learned that first time around we all made mistakes with the best intention we screwed up we need the training so that as someone said earlier if there's a
160fire hopefully everybody in school district knows what to do not just the people in the front office everybody knows what to do that needs to be true for this issue as well thank you thank you you anyone else uh quick addendum sure okay thank you um consider pdds you have an entire population of people that are centered on student process and sharing their learning we could set everybody down at the same time and do a zoom and cover this training too sweet without expense it's already in the budget it's already in the contracts that's it yes I want to speak to the aspect of being trauma informed and being proactive around being trauma informed so if people are trained properly if people are not trained properly something's going to happen that's going to be bad
161we're talking about these little babies little kids and the traumatic impact not just on them and on their families but also on all the staff sorry it chokes me up um as a former probation officer when we entered into houses which which we did all day long uh we were very trained about being trauma informed with the kids and not being overbearing is is not going to be that way um and so I don't know if you've seen the head Ice Dude on TV but he's terrifying and he has no concept of obeyence of the law or anything else so what you're going to be getting is people who are not willing to follow the law uh and they're willing to do things and I can tell you when I I had all my safety
162gear on and all my big boots and all my bulletproof vest and my big probation thing I could just walk into people's houses and they would let me and without I didn't because I followed the law but without that kind of interactive training and doing it in a trauma-informed way so we're not traumatizing people while we're training them but having them say you know somebody dresses up and just says I want to come in and having them practice saying that because we know the Neuroscience will tell us people will fight flight freeze or Fawn and if they Fawn or freeze the children are in trouble so having people practice that and as a person who was the officer training person for 300 people 600 people we were on the ground doing things and I always
163saw people freeze and we had to do it again and do it again these are highly trained individuals so we're we're in a highrisk low frequency situation and those are the most dangerous and what we can do in those instances is train train train train train and it's great all the information I love what Molly's done there I'm not trying to sell my services I don't even think I'm covered to do any of this so if anybody has an idea I'm trying to sell myself here I'm kind of scared of all this in terms of litigation but I I surely hope that you do some kind of scenario work that is trauma informs we're not again I'm going to say it again not traumatizing people while we're training them and that's tricky right because we
164don't want to be overzealous um and I know that you have a caring heart and I know that you want what's best and I'm I'm just hoping that that can happen so that people don't freeze in the moment and then have a life of regret and be traumatized because they didn't do what they thought they would do but they froze or they faed oh one more thing when they come in what they do is they'll drive in they have all their bulletproof vests in the back that say ice they're all plain clothes black t-shirts when they get out they put them on the parking lot that's how much time you have if I might um add a I hope helpful thing here um I'm here representing DFS tonight because Jenny is home sick she finally
165got whatever it was and we have private space if I don't know what would look like we have a board meeting on Monday but we have the Methodist Church space and we have our main campus and we have people who can come to the schools and take children to a private space if it's necessary to move them from a public school into a private space to keep them safe we can do anyone else time I have a question sure um what if we're on the ferry we see the ice Vehicles there is there someone who should we call I think that's a question to the folks that are organizing with yeah should that be whoever it is whatever good numbers there are to call should that be publicized in the beach comr or something I
166really don't know um I would imagine there also could be some abuse of something like that people trying to create distractions or um sort of a cry wolf situation um I don't know I'm unfortunately not trying to have an answer for you I'm hoping that if we develop the rapid response Network we will be able to have do that work but for that we need to pass their resources to be able to do it no the rapid response would not be a school based okay okay and I guess I also I heard Molly say to call the King County Sheriff first to verify also J saw your hand up actually her husband although she would be far more articulate I just had a couple of thoughts I wanted to share I haven't stepped out in
167any form of activism in in decades and this truly feels like a first step in a Thousand Mile Journey right here but it's so crucial um I didn't even know quite what what I was going to hear tonight and uh and it it it does it's a first step to me and I just had one other thought without being overly dramatic um it does feel like a Martin ner moment if you feel if you're familiar with Martin ner he said first they came for the trade un unionists and I said nothing and they came for the Socialists and I said nothing and then they came to the Jews and there was and they and I said nothing and then they came for me and there was nobody else left um and it just seems like
168I can't keep my head in the sand anymore that the similarities are too close and I'm just grateful we have this chance to uh kind of for me it's like groping my way into understanding what can I do and uh I'm just grateful that we found out about this meeting and uh was well attended that's all I got thanks thank you anyone else at this time um I just want to say that again um my deep gratitude for all of you um for showing up a lot of people don't know how to make some noise speak their mind um it means a great deal that we live in a community where people are willing to to show up and speak up a lot of you have been doing it for a very long time hopefully
169you still have some energy and hopefully some other people uh we'll meet you along the road with some some new energy and some yeah um we have two more things that we do here tonight we're going to have board member remarks and uh then we do a quick recap to see if we're on the same page if anybody sort of claimed any going forward um I do have some board remarks um I'm happy to go first um I just want to U update folks on some work I've been doing around supporting um gender athletes um I feel like uh it's a little bit of a needle scratch after what we've talked about I feel like the it is it is not it is not an accident the onslaught or I believe I believe someone in
170the new Administration called it shock and awe um there are people that are um feeling emboldened um in this country probably in this community um to uh share their um feelings about transgender people particularly in this situation I'm talking about transgender athletes try and um limit them from joyful movement physical exercise healthy competition all the things we know that Sports allow for students uh and adults um so I had the great pleasure to work with the um uh gender get this um gender queer uh affinity group at the high school um we wrote a letter together um uh I wrote the letter in consultation with them um speaking out against some um I find very hateful language being proposed to the Washington inter Scholastic Athletic Association which is the Statewide governing body for inter Sports
171um so that will appear in next week's Beech comr um there are places to I know everyone's tired and we're only going to get more tired right so there are different places for people to plug in about different issues this is very important to me um transgender people are going to be under greater assault the number of instances of mental health both suicidal adiation and suicide among transgender people when um hateful laws are passed the we are one school in a small um League we will do what we can um to fight back against this small-minded and hateful language being proposed um at their sort of next uh convening um there are ways to plug in if for some reason you have extra energy and more time on your hands to fight back there are
172going to be opportunities and opportunities and opportunities if there are people you know who are feeling helpless and they don't know what to do there are places to plug in and this is I'm using right now to plug in anybody else have any uh um just know that uh we are listening we care and thank you very briefly um I know tensions are high right internally externally um but one of the things I want to say is that I was really impressed by our district lead leip actually kind of day one after the election already doing Outreach in terms of immigration and um the work that that many people here spoke to tonight and so and already working with families and um and so as we go forward and I know things are difficult or
173we might disagree on how we do something or what we do but I um but I feel very strongly that there is a there's a solid commitment um and that that uh people's hearts minds and actions um are there um and so as as tension if if tensions increase and if we disagree I hope we can kind of hold that place that I think that this is um a site where people are very committed to community and to every individual in this community you don't have to I can go um first of all I'd like to start with the uh gratitude for our families because and children are waiting for us at home um uh everybody who came to talk and um speak their minds thank you so much I also wna um I in
174my notes I also want to mention that there's a committee happening uh Community organizing itself I don't know if you pay attention to any of that but um it's happening so I I am very happy to to hear and to have them coming forward um thank you to pie because without that money we we cannot progress um and everybody who came to yeah to speak with us and the leadership team they have been really working slav and your team um um every day or you know hours on these so it's very appreciated and families um no and the school has been opening their H their their doors for training and media had been an amazing um Health an instrumental help for these family so I appreciate her work and lyia you have been helping and
175about other uh people I I'm sorry I cannot mention everybody but thank you Jenna thank you thank you everyone for their work cannot do it without you thank you um in term of recapping the commitments I know that at some point someone will need at least um one if not two people to work ideally if if they if they want this um on the in a way to honor Jerry Wilson we'd like to propose a group we I haven't had any conversations with them about the certain Logistics of that um hopefully someone can commit to that to working with them find a solution thatone thank you so much thank you excellent thank you so much um does anyone else feel like we made some commitments that we need to abide by and we need to
176carry those forward yes immediate meeting setting up a special meeting next week um is that something count on yall to great we will work on that and get something um scheduled as soon as possible and that'll be public um thank you anything else oh Cassie did make an invitation she sure did Cassie would love to meet with a board member to sit down and uh talk about financial review for the next couple of no commitment right now but but it would be great and I have someone in mind I want to step into that role to meet regularly oh what's that oh my gosh I didn't want to volunteer anyone thank you thank you Jess thank you great anything else anybody else great okay and with that uh I am going to uh call this
177meeting close it is 8:37 thanks everybody [Applause]