001You will be the flag of the flag of the United States of America to the stands. nation. >> Okay, I'm going to do this with the mic on so everyone on YouTube can hear me. So, welcome everyone who wasn't in the room. Um, Is there one coming >> anyway? >> All right. So, none. We will move on to the consent agenda. >> Okay. No. Uh, all right. The consent agenda. The items on the consent agenda were sent to the board and posted online last week. The board has had the opportunity to review the materials and ask the superintendent any questions they've had about any items on the consent agenda. The consent agenda for this meeting includes the minutes for the 81825 board workshop and the 82625 regular meeting, vouchers and payroll, personnel report, contracts, field
002trips, June financial report. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Just raise your hand. All right, Julie, raise your hand first. Would someone else want to raise their hand second? All right, Maria has raised her hand second. So, it has been moved by Julie and seconded by Maria. Any discussion? Raise your hand and I'll get you a mic. All right. Seeing silence. That works. Yeah. Uh, all in favor of adopting the consent agenda as presented, raise your hand. All right. Eyes have it. Um, no opposed. I said, I mean, sorry, I raised my hand. Um, motion carries. All right. So, we are going to do something a little a new. Uh, we're trying bright spots. I think we should workshop the name a little bit more, but it's on the agenda. Um,
003and we're going to turn I'm going to turn it over to Corey and he's going to tell us amazing things. >> All right. Well, and I have I have amazing people here to share amazing things. So, this is great. So, we are introducing a new section of our board meeting starting this week called uh well, maybe we'll work on it. Um, but right now it says bright spots in the Wanche School District. Um, and this will simply be a place where we share um or hear from someone who is sharing amazing things that are happening in the WH school district. Um, and today we're privileged to have our new administrators or administrators in new positions um and people that are in our system that are shaping um our district which is fantastic. So, and this
004was this was President Jackson's idea. So, I'm excited to have uh have everyone here to share um and put names with faces. So, um, all of you amazing, uh, administrators, if you wouldn't mind, just kind you can pop up and come over to the podium in solidarity to support one another. Uh, and then, uh, yeah, and just feel free to kind of work your way through, uh, what you've whatever you have prepared. Like, look at this, Marlin. Obviously, looks like they want you to go first. >> This Yeah. So, however you want to go, we just are glad you're here. Thanks for being with us tonight. Thank you, board. Uh, I'm excited to be here tonight. My name is Marlon Hell. I'm the new technology director for Wanache. Um, before I came here a couple
005months ago, I was in the Moses Lake School District as the technology director there for 13 years. Um, and before that, I was the technology director at Samaritan Healthcare down at Moses Lake. And before that uh I was a consultant uh worked for companies like IBM, Lucent, Catholic Health Initiatives and a few others. I've been in the industry for 30 plus years now. Um really since I graduated from university, I have been in technology and uh I've I've seen it all. If it if it's techreated, I've seen it. And um I'm excited to be here in Wanchache. I I truly feel this is the place for me and my family now. Um, I I'm excited to be here and there's some great things. I have some big shoes to fill with Ron leaving. Uh, Ron
006was a wonderful technology director, great mentor that I, you know, knew Ron uh, you know, going to other conferences and other things through the years and he's done some amazing things. And so my job now is to, you know, make sure that we continue to do what he was doing and u move our district and, you know, into that 21st century uh education. And um don't have a lot more to say unless you have questions for me about uh my background or anything of that nature. >> Welcome. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks, Marlin. Hi, I'm Donna Moser, the interim principal at Wachi High School this year. Thank you for having us tonight. I spent this is my 15th year at the high school and I spent 14 years at Pioneer before that. I'm
007excited for the opportunity. We're having a lot of fun and we appreciate your support. >> Thanks, S. >> Hello board. I'm Amber Burks. I am the new learning and director of learning and teaching. Um, a few things about me. I've been in the district now. This is year 10. Um, before this I was in at Icicle River Middle School. I spent a decade there. Um, where I got to work with amazing community members and a team that really shaped me and my leadership around um, learning for all no matter what it takes and that's what I bring to my leadership role. Um, I am grateful to the Wachi School District for um help jour being on a journey with myself and my husband and my two kids. Um, my daughter Eleanor Burks graduated this year.
008She's heading to Western Washington University. I'm thank you. I'm so thankful for all of our teachers and um just how we've been mentored all the way through as a family. And I have an eighth grader um writer who is doing very well. And again, I'm just so thankful for our school and our community um for for investing in my family and I want to do that for all of our families. Um and I would just uh close by saying thank you for having us here tonight. >> Thanks, Amber. >> Hi, my name is Yumi Savage. Um I'm the interim assistant principal at Wachi High School this year supporting 9th and 11th graders. Um, it's been really fun so far. Definitely getting my steps in and very busy. It's been um, we have some new things
009going on at Wanachi High School this year and I'm really behind those things and it's been great to see how students respond. Um, I got into this work because I love students and I love problem solving. Um, and I work love working with families and staff and students to help them be most students be most successful in the learning environment. um couldn't do this work without my super supportive husband who's also a teacher, Tanner Savage, and um my two little girls. So, I am a mom and I have a three and a one-year-old. So, um very busy all all the time. Okay. Nice to meet you. >> Thanks, Yi. >> Hello. Thank you for having us tonight. I'm Kathy Kefir and this is my 31st year as an educator. Um I am returning to Wanachi
010and Wachi School District. So, we came home this summer. Um, but I have about 20 years experience as a teacher at both the elementary and middle level. I taught at Pioneer Middle School for about nine years. Um, and then moved into administration the last 10 years and we have been out and about kind of pursuing career options for my husband and I both for about the last eight years we've been away from home. And so I am very excited to be back in the Wanachi Valley and really um thankful for the opportunity to return to the Wachi School District um to continue to support this community that we love. So thank you. >> Thanks Kathy. >> Kathy's the assistant director for special ed. I think you left that out. >> Hi, I'm Shane Renie. I
011am the director of special ed. Um Kathy's other half. Um, so this is my 25th year with the school district, not counting the other 18 as a student. Um, so my school picture from kindergarten was much cuter than this year. Um, but so I've been the assistant director for two years and I moved into the director role this year. Um, we have a great team. We're super excited about some new things we're doing and connecting with kids and teachers and just trying to strengthen all the pieces. Um, before this I was an intervention specialist at Washington. I taught two years of kindergarten, which is I feel like a right of passage that everybody should have the opportunity for. Don't need to do that again. Um, and then before that, I taught third grade for many
012years. So, um, I have a 10-year-old and a seven-year-old. My seven-year-old is the director of our family at our house. Um, so sometimes we have a little bit of battle there, but um, we're I'm just excited to be in the role for the opportunity. It's a big role to fill. Um, but I feel excited for it. We've had a great department day to kick off with 66 of our teachers and so we're kind of off to a decent start. >> Excellent. Thanks, Shane. >> Hi there. I'm BJ Coun. I am uh returning to the school district after six years of uh traveling and pursuing some other professional opportunities. So, um, I am a proud Panther grad and, uh, I worked here for 22 years before I did, uh, depart and now I've returned. So, I'm
013super excited to be back, uh, to take all of the things I've learned and grown as a athletic administrator and try to bring those to our community and to grow our programs. And it's been a really great start. We have great coaches, we got great kids, we got great families. Um, it's been really fun to watch our kids get to compete. Last weekend was our first time to get to have home games and we ended up with plan C and everybody traveled. So, um, but I'm just very pleased that we had a plan C because a lot of people didn't get to play last weekend and we did. So, thankful to all the different people that helped us pivot and make that happen. So, um, we're off to a great start and looking forward to
014a full year of of great things. So, thank you for having me back. >> Thanks, BJ. I also want to recognize uh Jennifer Henderson who is who is not able to be here tonight. Um and her new role is director of payroll. She was previously assistant director of payroll. So that's that's another person. Um and then we had uh we're missing Eric Anderson um and uh who you usually see over here at the cabinet table as our executive director of learning, teaching, and schools. He had a family emergency that took him to Spokane earlier today. Um, and then, um, Anaisa Lemus Pulledo. Uh, she also had a family emergency. Um, and I'm trying to Washington Elementary and her title is dean of students, I believe. Okay, there it is. I've got it all. Um, so,
015uh, thank you all for being here tonight. Thank you for, um, leading courageously in the district. Thank you for returning home. Uh, for those of you that are returning home, we really appreciate that. And, uh, um, thanks for sharing tonight. So, let's give them a round of applause. Thanks, Yes. And you are all uh welcome to stay if you would like for the rest of the board meeting or you have opportunities uh to uh go about your evening uh in other ways. So you're welcome to leave when whenever. But thank you for coming tonight. >> All right. Just like every presenter. Yeah. Well, they told us they put them they they video them themselves. >> All right. >> Uh Kim, no citizen comments. Okay. So, no citizen comments tonight. So, we get to cruise to
016page two of my notes. Um and it goes back to you, Cory. >> Excellent. Thank you, President Jackson. Uh our strategic plan, as you know, has three priorities that we have outlined that help our schools excel and our students succeed. Thriving environments, opportunities, and partnerships. and partnerships in the strategic plan is defined as relationships between students, staff, families, schools, and community that enhance the student well-being and success. Today's presentation is example of is an example of this definition of partnerships that help shape and foster student success. So, we have Alio here tonight from community in schools um and uh and he is going to share about his program and the impact that is having on our school community specifically Westside High School and Foothills Middle School. So, thanks for being with us. Yeah. And yeah,
017we'll have you pop up here. Liz will get your presentation up and there should be a clicker up there. It is not that. >> Okay. And you got a code up there. So, thanks for being with us. >> Thank you. My name is um I'm the executive director for Communities in Schools of North Central Washington. And um honored to be here tonight. I really um I like the way you describe the partnership part because it it does take a village and and it's about uh but it's not only about partnering but partnering with the right entities and that's part of a lot of what we do. I want to go real quickly. I'm going to take about 10 minutes to talk about overall what communities and school is and does you know in our state
018and uh where it came from. Actually, you wouldn't be surprised to know that uh Bill Milikin was a teacher and he started, you know, a little bit of the his story. Uh and I'll talk to Edgar about that because he did that. And but we're going to excuse Edgar Salamanca. He he is the program director was with this program from the beginning when the being incubated and he's about to be a dad for the first time of a baby girl. So, like tonight possibly. So, uh yesterday I said, "You got to get that out there." And I think he took a version and I didn't see that until now. But this is fun. He's thinking about toys for his daughter already. So, uh community schools was founded in uh uh in the Bronx, New York,
019and he started as a nonprofit founded by a teacher by the name of Bill Milikin. Bill is actually the gentleman right in the center of the photo that you can see and he's about 80 years old, a little bit over 80 years old. This started back in 78. And um he had one big thing to say. It says programs don't change people, relationships do. And I think that's the important thing about all of us in this room. And you know by the way you started the meeting you know that impresses me that that it's about who we are and how we stand with each other you know and how important that is. And he saw one thing that he sees and and is he saw children coming to school with adult-sized burdens many of times
020hungry stressed out about you know uh behavioral issues or things going on at home or in the streets you know. So he said bringing community resources inside public schools is where they are accessible you know coordinated and accountable and that is what the name says communities and schools. What we do is we forge partnerships with community organizations like the food banks, the churches, the different types of entities and government entities you know and we create memorandums of understandings with them and we bring them in and connect as much as we can as we provide the services in the schools. Um sur our mission is to surround students with a community of supports empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. you know, that's pretty straight and to the point, you know, comm the
021community of supports. Um, one of the things that we do in a site coordinators are the staff that we embed in the schools and as as Cory was saying, we last year we had the good fortune to partner with uh uh with Mike now nearly retired and u God knows where he's at. I got to give him a call and let him know how well the program is doing. Uh but um it was actually um I'm trying to think of a principal at Westside. Uh Deborah, thank you. She is amazing. She was very persistent and uh and started calling us and she lost some programs and say, "Hey, I think we have an opportunity to partner." So she had Mike to the table and another principal and put some you know the couple some money
022together. We had a grant and we started we started in J in January last year. We missed like half the year but this year we're starting from the beginning. We hired a couple of great a couple of great staff there. Both of them bilingual, you know, and and very engaged. And one of the things that they that we did from the beginning, you know, was just to engage the staff and do things. And I'll talk a little bit more about how we do that. You know, we are locally focused, but we're nationally active. Okay. And um CIS is in 27 states and the District of Columbia is the current network that span over 3,460 schools, you know, and impacting about two million children. Imagine that from the 1970s a teacher just caring and where it's
023at today. Well, in the state of Washington, we are in in 15 communities. Two of them still being incubated, Blue Mountain in Walaw Wala and in Yakama, central Washington. And uh we are the newest affiliate. We were incubated from 17 2017 and we officially became a nonprofit uh independent nonprofit in in 2022, July 1st of 2022. We have there's a state office uh CIS Washington uh located in Tacoma and they uh facilitate a lot of issues with national and they also do resource development and work with the network you know things like a digital equity you know and and contracts from Costco. We function with a lot of private funding. For example, the positions in the school right now is Balmer funding, Steve Balmer. And one of the things that I love about Jeff Bessels
024that he he divorced McKenzie Scott and she got so vindictive that she gave all her money away. And in the state of Washington, she's given about 7 million to CIS schools. We've benefited from that as well, you know, and it's like not a phone call, not a solicitation. All of a sudden, you know, they're, you know, there's three nonprofits that received two, one and a half and and $1 million just without even asking for it, you know, because they believe so much in what the model does. integrated student supports. You know, we have Shalan Douglas, uh, Shalan Douglas, want to make sure to separate them, Okonogan, you know, in Grant County. We're Last year we were in 15 schools. This year we expanded to four more schools. We are in um, you know, in Waterville
025School District. That was one of our original schools. Orondo school district uh Moses Lake where most of our schools are eight schools. Manson school district all the schools in Manson Palisades and uh of course in Wazi school district. This coming year we are starting in Cascade School District, Alpine uh and um Inat school district as well as uh uh Npilum school district and also with uh um u Pinnacle Prep. So we're clearly, you know, u finishing up that contract to get them also with Balmer funding because when Bal Balmer gave the national CIS about $200 million and they've been doing a cohort for the last three years, we got in cohort two and then this year the state uh uh association has gotten three cohorts and we're in it this year for four schools. The
026cool thing is this. This year they didn't doing what is called re-entry schools, you know, and that means that we had two schools that we have had for a while, but because of COVID, low census, you know, the, you know, the impact of the federal policies and the funding, they were not going to be able to continue the program. Well, Balmer stepped in there for three years and we'll be able to work with them to prop them back up. And Balmer does match funding. Basically, it's 50/50 funding is what it what it does for these positions. So, uh the model's called the model is called uh uh integrated student support and is a best practice. And the way that it works is you saw the third affiliates in the state of Washington and know we
027hire we train the staff uh yesterday and today we're training all the staff you know including the ones here in Wachi. uh they do the team building and all that and know these are site coordinators as you see and they are trained professionals who work with the schools you know and the administrators they report to the principal. The principal is the you know uh is the uh uh uh supervisor on site and uh they have a program manager that also supervises them and makes sure that they are we collect a lot of data. You know some of the first things that we do after we collaborate with partners in the community as I was saying earlier informed all that you know the first step number one is needs assessment. You come into the school you
028know we interview the principal the teachers students we identified two or three areas that where you want to you know where you want to uh make an impact. Some of them can be um you know absentism you know truency um uh lower reading scores math scores we look at the data in your school and then we focus on that a lot of that behavioral health behavioral issues um and then after we collect that this takes a lot the first few weeks then we get into the planning with the principal and the and the team at the school says identify those areas and then after we go through the planning the sacred they lead you know they lead that process and then they they then they start to implement the model. Number three says integrated student
029supports and what that is is three tiers of support. Okay, tier one they're schoolwide services. You don't have to be poor or rich to be able to qualify for these services. You you get you know we we organize things like financial literacy. You know we'll do workshops. We coordinate events, invite families and students and school staff to participate. We provide the pizzas, the gifts, the balloons, anything we do to promote that. Last year we had a real cool event at Westside. We coordinated, we collaborated with Numeric and Cashmir Bank and the whole day was a simulation of life. You know, people will get a job and they say how much money you have and they go pay the bills. It was funny. It was entertaining all of a sudden see like what I got to
030take the bus but he's about he got money to buy a car you know so they kind of learn about life that's the practicality of it you know so you see that we all volunteer for that it was it was a real cool event you know so that's tier one type of activities impact the whole school tier two are targeted type of programming like you know tutoring like um you know talking about you know how to deal with bullying different types of a with a focus group. Tier three is individualized services. Each site coordinator has about 25 to 35. Last year they were new, so we only allow 25. This year they're going to go to 35, you know, so they encompass more students, you know, so they're, you know, so they they um and
031they work very individually with them. They're not counselors. They're not providing services. They're not doing any of that. They're the trusted adults in their life. They check in with them every week. Hey, how are you doing? Let's have a go. Hey, Emilio, how about we get your math scores up. How about you start showing to school on time and combing your hair and doing all that kind of stuff? You know, they they they work with them individually, you know, in the areas that they identify, you know, and the teachers many of times the teachers refer here. anybody in the school can refer somebody to this and then they you know they do the group effort and and and and place them in these in this case. So a lot of the areas you do that
032that we work on is academic assistance, basic needs, behavioral interventions, college and career prep in the high schools. We coordinate with gear up and other type of programming. We you know we'll coordinate buses. Now we're in several schools, high schools, Manson, Waterville here in in Moses Lake, and we'll take students, you know, we pay for the room and board. A couple years ago, the school couldn't afford the bus driver. We paid for the bus driver. They put the bus, we pay for the gas, the bus driver. We coordinated all the, you know, the dorms and all that and they took them to three campuses. You know that what difference that makes for a student to be able to go. And then this is a I like the stories because they they speak louder than data.
033Sometimes data is good. Um today we uh got done training the site coordinator for Waterville. the site coordinator for Waterville Adulo, you know, was a student of Edgar Salamanca when Edgar was a site coordinator, you know, and Tavata Myers was the principal at Waterville and the first year that we were incubating as a so now he went to Eastern, you know, got his college degree. He got back in the community and he started working for another agency in the community. But um you know we had that position and he is going to be the site coordinator at the school that he went to. That's an alumni. I thought those are some of the first products. I was so I was so excited to see him today and and that is what it's about. You know
034I asked him why did you decide to go to school? He goes well this is we were going to a to a college visit with Edgar and I was like no I can't do this. I got to, you know, this is too hard. And he says, but going and hanging out and seeing goes and he told me, you can do this. That made a difference for him, you know. And here he is today going back to the same school. Pretty excited about that, you know. So after that, we do monitoring adjusting like six months into the school year in January, they'll meet with the principal. These are the goals we identify whether it's basic, whether it's behavioral health needs or things like that. And uh we gather the information. So uh at the end of
035the year we do another evaluation you know and monitor all that they we teach them life skills mental preparation we do a lot of things like that but we also coordinate with the community to bring the services in you know so that's what the model you know speaks about you know these are things that we do that create a stronger partnership for the schools um kid shows up school in Moses Lake at a junior Hi, I was falling asleep in class. What happened? So they see sent him to see the site coordinator. Z coordinator started talking to them. Well, they the family was couch surfing. The dad lost his job, you know. They had all their all their belongings in in storage. And this is December. We all know what happens in December, the holidays,
036you know, and they were about to lose everything because they were three months behind in the storage. He wasn't even sleeping, falling asleep in school. Well, we connected them with services in the community. We helped them get find housing. But what the first thing that we did is we paid for their storage so they wouldn't lose their furniture and their belongings. And then our site coordinator kind communicated with the housing, you know, out in the community and then started working with them. We got them into housing, you know, and things like that. That's how we partner in the community and that's what it works is people helping people all the time and we are so honored to be here and I I'll open it up for questions or comments. Yeah, I was going to say
037sounds like a great program and it it seems like I really appreciate the expansion you're doing and let us know about all that you're doing to to help kids in the district and really in the state meet the you know find the resources that they need to to be the best students they can be. >> You know, I was one of those students in Peninsula Elementary in Moses Lake. I go I go two weeks in Selma, California. We're working in the grapes. You know, we I'd be there for a month in the fifth grade. Then we get to Moses Lake, fifth grade again. And I'm sitting there the first day I know daily squad English and there's a spelling test. Mrs. Adams, I still remember her face. She comes and she's ringing the word. She
038puts her hand on my shoulder and says says, "I'll work for you during recess. Okay, don't worry." That is the kind of adults that our staff are. And that's what it takes a lot of times. So, appreciate being here. >> I don't have a question. I just want to say um you know, this is what community partnerships is about. I know um our kids can't learn if they're cold, if they're hungry, if they're unhoused. Um and so when it, you know, with the reduction of u funding for our schools, um we're going to need more support from our community partners. And this is a great example of um you know, how how the work is done. So, uh, thank you. Um, thank you for meeting our students and and what I like the most about
039it is that it's regardless of of income, right? Um, it's based on that personal need. So, um, thank you. >> So, as a nonprofit, we can do fundraiser and then you can't the schools. Last year, we got a grant from New America for $15,000. It came into these two schools, you know, to supplement. And then we do food drives, school supplies drives, and clothing drives, you know, about 10 to 15,000 dollars per school. That's what some of the data was showing. So, I will make sure that I'll send it to to you all, you know, and and we go out there and we do that. Right now, we're gearing up to start doing, you know, community foundation. We have many, many partners. So, we're happy to be here. >> I do have a question. So,
040for our schools, you in the middle school, you're in foothills. Does are you able to serve some of the other middle schools as well or do you only serve the Foothills students? >> Foothills and Westside right now, but don't worry, we're working on Corey right now. >> No, there's an opportunity. There's a way that title funding works and and and look, I am so proud to be a member of this community. Bought a home and we're going to retire here. So, and my family is all from Moses Lake. That's where I grew up. That's when my family finally settled and um there's a lot of challenges out there but there's hope and I think that uh that's what um CIS National has a lot of is doing a lot of work. remember that they suspended
041your funding that those 27 states we have three lobbyists in the legislature but we don't go there and say hey give us money you know we help people we say this is why you want to invest in us this is the advantage so they unfroze the money really quickly I mean that means a lot of phone calling a lot of you know we get very active around there so there's a lot of advocacy as well at the state legislature here. Same thing. We're in there. You know, last year I was on special education, transportation, and and supplies that schools needed. We knew what your issues were. I met with Michelle Price in the district, and we were out there advocating. You can't do that. We can't. Well, you have lobbyists that do that, but we
042can. We go there in contingencies from all these sites across the state and support the schools in our community. But you're right, it's it's getting tougher, but the community, one of our goals and Rufus Woods, many of you know Rufus, he's on our board, okay? And uh we're working on a strategy, you know, and he's, you know, he is super excited about what communities and schools does, you know, and and and we're targeting, you know, all the private sector in our community that that is a caring sector, you know, so because why? because all these their parents of a lot of these childrens work for all that industry, you know, and this is the kind of community that Wanachi is and that's what I love about Wachi. But we'll support Corey and his staff and
043making sure that we, you know, that we're getting creative about going after funding to expand to more schools to answer your question. >> Amelio is very creative. Um, I'll I'll share that. And I I want to share a little bit of history too just so um the board understands um how our partnership came to be. Uh we used to have two uh ESD funded positions uh for SAPS student uh student assistant uh professionals and one uh was working with Foothills and Westside and one was working with Wanche High School Foothills and Westside and then another was working with Wanche uh and Orchard and Pioneer. And so that's how we covered the spectrum and when we lost one of those positions that's when Jennifer reached out to communities and schools and said we need help. And
044so when we were working with Alio, we said, "We need to hire an individual to help support um a little bit of Wanche High School, Westside, and Foothills." And he said, "No, no, no. Have I got a deal for you?" And uh so yes, and so there in lies the partnership and and he is very creative um and he has great ideas and we are working together to see what we can do in the future. And um what I love about Alio and I've learned over the the past couple years is he doesn't only write good grants, but he puts his money where his mouth is and he does his own fundraiser. Um so uh so he actually did the the the uh Seattle to Portland, the STP double century ride and and asked for
045donations to help him do that. And I don't know how much did you raise with that this year? Do you have >> We raised close to $6,000. >> That was fantastic. So, it's way what an endeavor for him not only working uh the grant writing uh continuum space but also to just say, "Hey, I'm going to I'm going to do this help support kids." So, thank you for that, Amelia. We really appreciate that. >> You're welcome. It's going to financial literacy and taking students to college campus visits. That's why we're going to dedicate that funding. We appreciate the partnership and um you know, keep hope alive always. >> Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for joining us tonight, Alio. And uh keep us posted on Edgar. >> Absolutely. >> And and the baby. Okay. We
046need to know the text. >> Okay. That sounds great. Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much for for the opportunity. Appreciate. >> Uh all right. So that is our special presentations. Now we are moving on to discussion. The first read of looks like six policies. >> We have six policies. And uh to my left is our policy committee. So uh oh yeah we can yes thank you. I mean if if there are some if there are some comments uh the first policy I'll just kind of go through and summarize them. Uh policy 2020 course design selection and adoption of instructional materials. Uh this is a revised uh policy to comply with Senate Bill 5462 promoting inclusive learning standards and instructional materials. And there's a variety that fall under that category that we'll be
047covering. Uh, school boards and school districts must adopt inclusive curricula um with diverse, equitable, inclusive, age appropriate materials. This policy outlines how course design and instructional materials will be governed. It also outlines core instructional materials, alternative instructional materials, intervention materials, and supplemental and temporary uh supplemental materials. Uh the one thing that we talked about here before we moved it forward is um where is the Wanchi school district on curriculum adoption uh for this year and uh and that is social studies. So we'll be working on a major social studies curriculum adoption this year. Um and other than other than that there wasn't much conversation on this one from the policy committee. No, I think I just think it's important to point out that this did not sub substantively alter anything we currently do for anyone
048who might be concerned. >> Thanks, Julie. Yeah. Any other comment or part of the discussion? >> I'm just going to add something quickly since I got a mic. Um I I asked some questions at the board review stage and got very satisfactory answers and my questions and I would just say this to give confidence were what's behind the policy for the future the committees the structure to handle this well and I got very strong and good planning answers. So I'm satisfied. >> Thanks Martin. All right we'll jump into policy 2020 uh library information and technology program. Again, uh this one is uh revised policy with this uh Senate Bill promoting inclusive learning standards and instructional material. This policy outlines the goals and responsibilities of our teacher librarians as instructional partners and information specialists. Many changes
049in semantics here, but not uh so much in the content. Um our procedures did not change at all. So they still remain um as they have been, which is good. We have strong procedures. Uh the policy committee wanted to ensure um that those procedures still allowed parents to visit the materials um as we're uh moving forward in the curriculum adoption cycle and and it does and so we moved that one forward. Okay. All right. Uh next policy 501 sexual harassment of district staff uh prohibited. Thank goodness. uh re this is another revised policy again the same Senate bill 50 5462 um and the district is committed uh to positive and productive uh working environment free from discrimination including sexual harassment. The policy really outlines the updated definitions of sexual harassment and the investigation process, the
050reporting procedures, staff responsibilities and training requirements. And the major changes included updating verbiage um on reporting to the district's title 9 coordinator. Uh the policy committee wanted to make sure that the language matched other policies for groups and one of those groups uh in the policy from was it said boy scouts of America. So we changed it to scouting America. Um and then we moved that policy forward. Okay. uh a new policy 6801 capital assets and theft theft sensitive assets cover our assets. Um let's see uh this is a this is a new policy uh and procedure for the Wii school district. It's based on capitalization thresh threshold in the uniform guidance changing from 5,000 to a more realistic 10,000 which we all appreciate. Um, and these are for assets acquired on or after October
0511st of 2024. The policy creates requirements to physically inventory all of our items to protect the district against losses of property um or budget um um in any of our theft sensitive assets. So, this is an interesting one. Um and so the policy committee wanted to make sure that we are building a process and creating documentation for all of this um asset documentation. And so Sean and I have met a couple of times and uh we are technology is very well covered Marlin. So this is a good a good conversation um by using uh the flet asset management program that we have for our libraries. And so we're good when it comes to technology and some of our technology pieces will get over that $10,000 threshold, but a lot won't. Um, and so we're going
052to continue to use the Fallout Asset Management uh program uh to build this process, but it's something that we're actually in the process of building. Okay, I just need to keep this straight. Okay, policy 3206, uh, pregnant and parenting students. So, this is this is that policy that we shifted from the 2024 Title 9 rules back to the 2020 Title 9 rules. Um, and originally the 2020 Title 9 rules did not have a separate policy for pregnant and parenting students. They were included, but they didn't have their own separate policy. So, here we are back with a separate policy based on the 2020 Title 9 rules. So, it's it's interesting. We have already approved this policy in essence back earlier this year and then we pulled back and so we're now approving it uh again
053in the Title 9 debacle. Um but we're excited about this policy having its own um merit and we moved it forward. Last policy we're talking about the coupe plan as it's so fondly uh being talked about. So, the continuity of operations plan policy 6580. Uh, and this this one is dense. Um, the policy is not the policy is about three threequarters of a page, but when you get to the coupe, it's about 62 pages long. The continuity of operations plan is dense. Um, so the policy addresses the restoration of safe learning environments after natural disasters as outlined in what I'm lovingly called the coupe. Um the policy committee wanted to know um how is it how is as a system how we were handling this process. And so uh director of safety and security Tom
054Kooie and executive director of learning teaching and schools Eric Anderson and I uh met yesterday to go over the outline that uh that Tom has put together already. And that was where the 62 pages of um emergency planning comes in. But it it's really good. um there are some pieces that we need to go through and actually put, you know, the right names and the right people in into the process. And then we're going to do some tabletop exercises with our cabinet team and then with our building administrators because, you know, plans are great, but they're only as great as your familiarity with the plans and your actual use of those plans. And a lot of what the continuity of operations plan is is really it's a checklist of items that you should go through
055in any disaster or emergency. So it was uh it was a great um learning opportunity for us to uh kind of plan this work out. But again um we will be prepared and we are prepared in case of an emergency. We just need to become familiar with it now. And uh yeah so after that understanding I think there the policy committee was ready to move that baby forward. Just one little small technicality. Uh the abbreviation for coupe should probably go after plan in the first paragraph. >> Oh, okay. >> Uh >> oh, the acronym. >> Yeah, sorry. Um abbreviation acronym right after plan. >> It's weird. Okay, we got that. We can do that. Kim duly noted. We will make that change. >> Okay, here's one more. Do you is >> well no no no
056no. Um here because plan is part of the >> plan in the second sentence needs to be >> just like a sit plan a school improvement plan plan. >> I love it. Thank you. We can we can make those changes. That was a Will you drop the mic? >> Yeah. Don't break it. Excellent. So, if there aren't any comments or discussions, then we'll move those forward to second read on the 23rd of September. >> Can I do a duet with me for you? >> Yes. No. Here you go. Just take it. >> Okay. All right. We don't have to deter our own mic. All right. So, we have done discussion. We are moving on to um our actions. So our first action today is the Wanachi Education Association collective bargaining agreement. Do I have a
057motion to approve the um WACI education association collective bargaining agreement? It is it is quietly done by Julie. Is there a second of hand raised? All right. Martin has seconded. So has been moved by Julie and seconded by Martin. Any discussion? Head shakes all around. All in favor of this resolution say I or raise your hand. All right. Eyes across the board. Uh motion carries. Our second action today is the co-curricular collective bargaining agreement. Do I have a motion to approve the um co- co-curricular collective bargaining agreement? We have All right, Mark, come up top and then Oh, we're going to go. I think Julie got it first. So if this had been buzzers far into the table. All right. Has been moved by Mark and seconded by Julie. Any discussion on this one? No.
058Seeing headshakes. I will uh No discussion. All right. All in favor of adopting this. Say I or raise your hand. I and All right. We are good. Motion carries. Um and you know I know this there's a lot of work that went into these. So, thank you to all the groups that that were a part of this cuz I know that it was probably not a lot of fun. Um, but thank you for the work looking specifically at you. Um, and now superintendent report. >> Excellent. Thank you, President Jackson. Uh, lots lots of things. Uh, our last board meeting was the night before the first day of school. So, there's been a lot of stuff. So, the first week of school, uh, the first well, we're in the third week of school now. So, 3
059days, four days. This is our 5-day week. We had our first uh late start Monday um for which means our first collaboration for um all of our certificated staff and so that went well. Uh the energy is great. Uh welcoming back our students was a wonderful first week. Um the uh interesting part was to wander through the high schools and see no cell phones. Uh and to strangely feel super awkward taking pictures of no cell phones because I was using my phone. Um, and I was like, I have to go back and get like a digital camera or something, so I am complying with the guidelines. But, um, it it was it was just great. And we've heard from we've heard from some students that have changed kind of their original opinion on what they
060thought this might look and feel like. Um, and that may not be the overall consensus, but um, I've heard from some students that were like, I was dreading this, and now I realize that there is, uh, something to be said about not having my phone, uh, in learning spaces and in social spaces. So, that's great. Teachers are uh, sharing, you know, their thoughts on um, what it means to have a uh, potentially fully engaged classroom and not to have uh, the disruption of every single period asking students to put their phones away. Um, but I've and I've watched the process uh and I've seen it at Wanche High School at Westside High School and then this morning at the tech center and it's it's pretty pretty uh efficient and it's working very well. Obviously, we
061wonder about the high school. We think of Westside and Tech Center with their 300 students, but the high school it works really really well. They have people lined at the front door. We know that for safety and security reasons, they show their ID card. But as they some students have their ID card in the little yonder pouch ID spot, which is great and handy, and then put their phone in, lock it, and they're good for the day. I did hear over the weekend though, uh, Fidilina Paleo's son Diego grabbed me and he said, "It's a little bit hard to get out of school as fast as I want to get out now." And he's like, he's like, "I'm trying to catch the bus, Mr. Kalahar" is what he said. and I was like, "Okay, we'll
062figure out how we can work on that." But, um, it was great to hear, uh, and see all of these things in action. Um, we had a fall sports kickoff that was amazing. Pres, uh, we had performances by the cheerleaders and the Appalletes. Um, our booster club president Ursula and BJ both shared words um, uh, of inspiration and BJ shared her we are Wanche uh, presentation with all of the fall athletes and their parents. It was great. Um then we had each of the fall sports did a team dance which was super fun and it came down to football and softball at the end and softball got the win. So it was great. So the team dances were awesome. Um as uh as BJ mentioned earlier, we had some our first weekend of sports kind
063of had some bumps and some lumps with the air quality. Um but plan C worked and we had some wins in soccer and in football. Um, I'm just really grateful for the collaboration and the network of athletic directors to help uh really facilitate this because it took it took a lot of like coordination to make all of this happen. And then just a huge thanks to transportation for stepping up on a weekend that they didn't have uh any transporting of students and say let's do this. Let's get let's get kids to Celane and um and uh and make that happen. So that is really really cool. also YMCA, um, Eastmon Aquatic Center, Winante Rackets, uh, and Athletic Club, Town Toyota for also providing, uh, space for our athletes to actually practice too during the smoke.
064So, that was awesome. Uh, baseball academic award. This just came in. Diana shared this with me. So, congratulations to the Wachi High School baseball team. The team was awarded the American Baseball Coaches Association Academic Excellence Award for maintaining a team GPA of 3.45 during the entire season. So, that's really fantastic. Um, love that. Um, and then, uh, we all know that we're still working and dealing with HVAC systems at the 18 high school. Um, our our three new compressors are up and and running. Uh, but we still have two that are down right now. But we also have room air conditioners. um that are in the other places. We're hoping this week helps keep everything cool. Um that was the problem in a lot of in a lot of ways. There was no way to
065open that building up to cool off during that heat wave that we had that second week of school. Um and then finally, Fiestas Mexicus returns to Triangle Park this weekend. So, I'm very excited for a weekend of fun um celebration, activities, and great food. All right. Thank you. >> All right. We will do board communication. Julie, you want to take it away? >> Don't have much to add, but I'll just follow up on Corey's. I just really really want to appre uh give my love and appreciation to all of our um our athletic department, the AD, the transportation department, all the coaches, the families that were able to make all these changes in the last minute. The communication that went out uh to families days ahead of time saying these are the scenarios were very
066very well done. very organized. Um, you know, yeah, we had to switch a a home game Friday to an away game in Celane at 10:00 a.m. for football on Saturday, but it was was better than nothing and and we were happy as a family to accommodate things like that. My daughter's home game in C in Wanache was moved to CIA. we made that trip too because it was just it was great to see the effort put in to make sure these kids were out there to do that and very very thankful for our athletic director and the team for for doing that and being so organized with the communication. It was absolutely outstanding. Um and then very thankful you know transportation to everyone just the coordination it took was just unreal for that last minute.
067So um very good way to start a new year in bad circumstances. Um, and thankful to our staff for being able to adjust to the the smoke and the conditions of the first week of school with the HVAC and things like that. Um, so I know it's it's been a we've kind of felt it all this beginning of the school year. Um, so I just appreciate everybody's flexibility and working together and kind of dealing with it as we have to go. So looking forward to the hopefully rest of the season actually taking place like it's supposed to, more full school days. Um, yeah, on onward and upward. I just have a story to share. Um, I ran into a teacher from Westside on Saturday at the farmers market and he was sharing how wonderful it's
068been to have a cell phone free environment. Um, he shared that um, teachers were kind of commenting that they they also have to shift a little bit because um, kids aren't interacting. they're talkative and they're not used to um so much chatter um because they're yeah because they're actually talking to each other. Um so that was really excit you know he says that yeah there are challenges and a little bit of defiance but um but he said the consensus was that it it was great to see uh the face tof face interaction um and and all the chatter um so yeah that's all >> Mark. Yeah, >> already. Uh, so I will continue on with the cell phone. I learned that I had not forgotten how to rip CDs onto an old iPod so that
069my daughter could take an iPod and still listen to music without having a internet device. So hopefully maybe I can connect her with all these kids that you guys are hearing from that are enjoying being cell phone free. She's still complaining. Uh this week we attended the Little Shop of Horrors auditions. There were 35 high school kids. It was really exciting to see them. Um always a really diverse group that shows up. So that was exciting. And congrats to everyone who showed at Schlank County Fair. >> The first inter agency meeting of the new academic year was held in this room this morning. So I guess it's continuing partnership themes. It was well attended by community organization partners and I wanted to continue the tradition of joining the meetings. Uh it is really good to
070see healthy caring and sharing of needed resources, opportunities and benefits in a wraparound way. It's kind of like we talk about communities and schools a lot of and also with the migr state migrant program the way they do it a lot of wrapping around students with need help in different places um and um for families and students who live inside the boundaries of the district. So that tradition continued. [Laughter] >> Uh thank you everyone. Um, I was going to add that I thought we our our um facilities workshop on the 18th was really productive and if you want any information, you can go find that all online on YouTube if you want to like see the actual video. Um, and then the facilities tab on the website has a lot really good information. Um, and
071you can contact the district office if you want to get involved in advocacy for the bond. Um, as we're talking again about HVAC issues at the start of the year, I think it was it will be timely. Um, but yeah, other than that, my kids were saying it's school's really nice. I was like, well, that's great. It's great. So, thank you to everyone who's made that my house positive. All right. And other than that, I think we're done. Have a good night.