001We are starting we're going to start with our regular meeting. Uh we will start with our board member roll call. representative >> Here >> stand for the pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. School district vision statement. Our vision is to strive for a learning environment that partners with the community to fully prepare for lifelong learners to thrive in a complex world. Our mission statement is to engage with students, family, staff, and community members as we provide accessible, relevant, and meaningful education experiences. Our first item on our agenda will be to our student recognition who will be recognized by Merlin Jackson tonight. >> Thank you. We do have that video cued in
002just a moment. Okay. So, first of all, I'm going to read a statement and then we'll have an opportunity to highlight in video what was accomplished last November 18th when Aali was honored for his recipient um scholarship of the Stanford Children Beat the Odd Scholarship. So, I'll read this read the statement first. Tonight we are privileged to formally recognize Atoria High School senior Khalil Edwin for his exceptional achievements and remarkable strength and character. Khalil has been named a recipient of Oregon's prestigious Beat the Odds Scholarship, a statewide award that recognizes students who overcame significant adversity to excel academically and contribute meaningfully to their communities. This $20,000 scholarship is a powerful testament to his hard work, unwavering resilience, and success among more than 200 applicants. His exemplary character is demonstrated by his consistent advocacy and genuine
003concern for others, often proactively assisting his peers with assignments and collaborative efforts. Khalil has faced and risen among considerable risen above considerable challenges, including navigating racial and homophobic discrimination. Instead of focusing on animosity, he developed profound inner strength and a steadfast dedication to lifting others up. This dedication continues in his future plans. Khalil has committed to Oregon State University. Solid to pursue a career in healthcare with aspirations to work as a family physician or in biochemistry. His invaluable advice to students facing challenges is to always reach out for help. build a strong support system and be themselves. Leil Edwin is a true inspiration, a student who not only achieves great personal success, but also dedicates himself to the well-being of his community. We extend our sincerest congratulations, Khalil Edwin and look forward to his continued
004success. And so before we recognize him with a round of applause, let's take a look at this video which highlights. Coming from a small town for most of my life, it has like ups and downs. When I went to Warrington, being like one of the only few black people there, the person who was queer as well, a lot of people just looked to me funny. I be called slurs. I was able to actually transfer to a story high school. Going to a place has a bigger community, more diverse. I'm more able to be myself. One of the things that also made it better is that I was able to actually find a friend, Teresa, one of my best friends I have. It was life-changing. It really taught me what it's like to really be loved
005in certain ways for friendships. The main activities I really do enjoy at first high school would be cross country and track. I like to run a lot. Am I good at it? No. My second are my team, but it really makes me happy to get out there. I know I'm not going to be best at everything, but I still want to be the best person I can be. And for that to happen, I need to challenge myself in certain areas of my life. One of the things that made me realize I wanted to go into college is also probably me going to Atoria High School. I started challenging myself more, taking AP classes. It really made me more resilient and made me realize how I do have the strength and the capability to go into
006college cuz honestly, I don't think I'd be anywhere there in Warren. And when I went to Story, I started meeting more friends, people like me, which brought me out of my shell, which honestly made the experience like really great. I'm really happy I made this change. So I know I read the statement but oftentimes when we read a statement it comes across as a a proclamation per se. So chest as much authentic organic conversation he is truly his authentic self and helps others rise to be better. So I wish Khalil the very best in his future endeavors as he continues to lift others up just as he has been lifted up by those around him. So congratulations. >> Any questions for Cle at this time? >> I know you're excited. >> Great job. >> Cle,
007how long have you gone to school here? I'd say I went here my like half of your sophomore years by like oh almost my second year I think after this year full year. >> Yeah. >> You plan to go to Oregon State for health care or >> Yes. >> or biochemistry, right? >> Biochemistry. Yeah. >> Yeah. I like that a lot. But am I like I'm decent enough. I know I try to like more harder on it. I'll get better at it which is nice. >> Great. Any other comments? Anything you want to say about the award or your experience at high school? >> We pass each other in the hall every lunch and so tomorrow I'm probably going to hear it. So uh don't tell the rest of your friends what happened tonight because
008they they are strong willed individuals. >> Congratulations. >> Can we get a picture with him in the court? >> Yes. You want two? Let's do a couple. Very very okay. Thank you so much. >> Got it. >> Y. >> All right. Next item on my agenda is the school board recognition. >> Yeah. So, uh, January is school board recognition month. So, we're getting a it's like those people like to celebrate birthdays for a week or a month or so. We have the honorable Kirk Winter here tonight to read a proclamation or a statement to the board. So, welcome. >> Thank you. So um in recognition of school board appreciation month recognition month I have a recognition here um but whereas school boards create a vision for what students should know and be able to do
009whereas school boards establish clear standards for student performance. Whereas school boards ensure that student assessments are tied to established standards. Whereas school boards are accountable to the community for operating schools that support student achievement. Whereas school boards align school district resources to ensure that students meet standards. Whereas school boards create a climate that supports the philosophy that all school all children can learn at high levels. Whereas school boards build collaborative relationships based on trust, teamwork and shared accountability. Whereas school boards are committed to continuous education and training on issues related to student achievement. Now therefore, I hereby declare my appreciation to the members of the historious district at school district school board and proclaim the month of January to be school board recognition month. I urge all citizens to join me in recognizing the dedication
010and hard work of local school board members in prepar preparing today's students for tomorrow's world. Thank you. I didn't two Got it. Thank you. >> I would like to say >> thank you for that. We are moving on to your stage of student representative. >> Um so for us at the high school right now I'd say it's a busy very busy time. Um our winner sports uh basketball teams have both played two games. The girls have played city and Carlton while the boys have played Banks and Aco and the game yesterday got cancelled due to flooding. um swim team just had their Nigard Invitational and wrestling just had a meet in Rainer called Kelly Blood. Um the Nutcracker happened this past weekend. I believe it's the 50th anniversary. Um we have our winter week coming
011up where we have spirit days picked out such as PJ day, tw day, ugly sweater day, snow gear, and holiday out. Um some activities going on during that week are at the Belchall tournament, a holiday bizaar where students are able to sell um lowriced items. Um door decorating for advisories and hot hot chocolate during one of our lunches. Um there will be an art show on Saturday in the new library 5 to 7. It is down to earth in the basement for story high school. um holiday cheer concert on the 18th, Thursday during our flex time where all high school ensembles and kindergarters will perform. Um our ninth grade success uh just went to Nia County on Tuesday, I believe, where um we're trying to figure out a system to better um attendance at a
012story high school. And there is a concert tomorrow 5:30 to 7:30 with Warms and Seaside in Atoria. It is a jazz band with a spaghetti and meatball dinner and a banded orchestra concert Tuesday the 16th at 6:30. >> Question the 9th. So the thing to the economy for graduation on track or >> it's for um income oppression specifically but uh we're projecting to the whole school like the system >> and it was students that what >> uh it's uh like two or three students and check it. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. Thank you. We'll move on to the next item and item five is the consent agenda. >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second all in favor. On to item six. We'll start with administrative reports. >> For all year, we're actually
013bringing out preschool, too. So, um, some of those kids are three and four years old and they sang at our concert at a night concert. We haven't done a night concert in a long time. Um, and when we're in the middle of planning it, I remembered why we didn't have a night concert. It's great because it allows working people working to come. It is very hard at the end when I look at all of the adults that I have to match with all of the right children. Um and yeah, so that is and marking all the pizza goes along faster. So, but we had a night concert and um we'll be thinking about whether that was a good idea or not. I feel like you can't win either way. It's it's a hard thing. Um
014but it went well. Um also, our parents club, we have these little houses that the high school made for us last year in our indoor play that person uses also, but they are going to outfit them. Right now they're just cool on the outside, not so much on the inside. They're they're empty, so they're making them, you know, like a pancake is great on the outside, but there's pancakes. So that um and then we're also really working on showing up our RTI behavior systems just so they're streamlined. >> All right. Um, we had our first round of enrichment classes happen last Monday and um, there were about 17 different classes that students could choose from and they got one of the three choices that they picked and I think overall it went really well. There's
015a couple, you know, glitches that we need to kind of figure out some things on, but um, I was really pleased with the the organization of it all and how uh, students I think students had a blast. Um, let's see. O next Monday is our second one. So we're doing two weeks in December. We have a concert coming up tomorrow. It's during the day in the morning and uh we have three different groups and um thankful for the transportation department that is also offering a shuttle for the parents to come and get dropped off and be picked up and brought back to their cars just because our parking is not. So that's been really helpful in the past. Uh we have our family literacy night tomorrow evening. So, concert in the morning and then family
016literacy night in the evening. We've never done that before. We'll see how that goes. Um, our theme is Polar Express and um we're hopeful that people come and have some hot chocolate and cookies and um hear some books read to them and um it'll it'll be fun. And then we're also gearing up and beginning our uh Oregon Battle of the Books um competitions and we have about 17 teams so far which is um about seven more than we had last year and we're getting that started. So we're excited about that. Thank you. >> We do visiting um our orers or excuse me our fire concept happened a little earlier was a great success. we are partnering with the high school. Um, our programs have grown to the level where now we offer three different levels
017of each music program. So, our advanced students are actually going to be performing with the high school students this coming Tuesday. Unfortunately, we had to reschedule our band and our art show. That'll happen in January. I'll give you those dates. Um but we are seeing lots of success and our um programs are growing tremendously at the middle school as far as music. We are getting ready to wrap up our first season of girls wrestling. Very exciting. Um thank you for swinging by and checking it out. Our girls go to district this Friday. Um and I think it will continue to flourish. It's been very positive. Our boys basketball season is also wrapping up. This coming week we're doing a winter week very similar to what uh Mr. Gore shared with us. Um we will have
018a celebration on Friday where the students are performing for each other and they will have the art on display. It's kind of a opportunity to spotlight each other with each other. Um our holiday bazaar is going to start on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We level it out so each grade level goes and the kids have spent so much time sorting. So it's an equal um opportunity to purchase things but it is growing like incredibly. The other thing that has really taken off I want to share with you and then I won't stop is our special needs classroom um under the direction of Mandy Davidson has started what we call the norm which is a copycat of the vet and it has blossomed and our kids are taking advantage of it and bringing in things. It's almost
019like having a like closet small like kids are bringing in stuff and trading with each other and it's been very very positive and um people are very excited about it. So if you have gently used things especially coats and belts belts we would love to have them. So, as Quinn discussed so very well, the many things that the student body is engaged in over the next week and a half, I'm going to address two key things. One is kind of moving forward after we return from the break. So, as you are aware, on January 5th, when we return, we are to be cell phone free from 8:00 until 3:15. So last month we were able to secure funds to purchase items that would provide social interaction and engagement in a more traditional way. And so
020over the past couple of weeks we have been able to acquire either by donation or purchase ping pong tables, foosball tables, giant connect for puzzles, you know those rotating puzzle uh boards where you can just put puzzles and do all those things. a variety of card games, board games, all those things are being um packed and organized much like what the middle school does and checking out games in the library and in other locations to where that's going to foster face toface interactions in those free times of flex time, lunch periods, etc. So, we're excited about the prospects of that. I also want to highlight a little bit more a program that you may have received in electronic communication last year about a a mental health pre-apprenticeship program that is budding at Atoria High School.
021It is titled United We Heal. It's a program in which students are able to enroll in this program is as a pre-apprenticeship study, receive the opportunity to take their introductory psychology classes for free at Classic Community College and elsewhere and then have most of their prerequisites in that study done as they explore that postsecary school to look at filling this giant need that we have with mental health services. So, in a sense, it's a grow your own type of program that many of the mental health agencies throughout the state are trying to achieve and reaching down to high schools to get that program going. And this past week or two, we had students go down to the University of Oregon to explore many of what those options will entail. So, I'm excited about that. >>
022Well, it's December, so we have our our census for special education. So, I wanted to update the board with some numbers of where we're at. We've had um I'd say kind of unprecedented um school and parent referrals this year, especially at the at the high school, you know, across each of the schools, but um it seems to be something that's happening. I've talked to other people in other districts and it's happening outside too. So, there's just a lot of parent referrals happening. Um, so these numbers um are larger than our census numbers. We're at 306 for our census. The numbers I'm going to share with you for current case loads um include students who are in referral who have not completely finished the eligibility process. So at Aster we're at 74 students and we have
023three classrooms and um I'm not going um speech that's kind of a whole different thing. Um the the resource rooms um just for a point of comparison are there's one and it's at 19 students and principal who and I are currently working on making some adjustments to kind of meet the needs of our students at Aster. Um Louis and Clark has 99 students receiving special education services and they have two resource rooms. They have a behavior resource room but the two academic are um averaging about 25 students per case load. um as story middle school and kind of like what I'm doing with principal um we are looking at how to make some adjustments in case load distribution and needs of students to best meet the needs of our our middle schoolers. But they have
024103 special students receiving special education at the middle school and currently have three resource rooms um all at 29 each. So pretty. And then the story high school has 109 students receiving special education. They also have three resource rooms um again at 29 each. So um we have a lot of lot of students receiving special education and I feel like we're trying to be proactive and make adjustments to best meet the needs of our students. >> Thanks. Good evening. In November, we averaged um 1,355 meals per day, which is about the same as the month before. Uh the students seem to enjoy the Thanksgiving turkey meal that we did. Um this month we're trying to focus on some organic or some organ products. Um like tomorrow at the grade schools, we're doing that organic yakasoba
025dish. And that's why Good. >> Um, nothing real big broke other than the last couple days of the rain which is been fun and interesting. Um, we haven't really had very many significant leaks other than one kind of one year. Um, but luckily our buildings held together pretty good. We haven't lost power for a few hours. Okay, thank you. Uh, IMD was covered in the >> one. >> Is there two? >> One more. Enrollment. >> Okay. >> Yep. So um I covered population and housing. So this is the enrollment report. So let me go to the next slide. So what I did was just pick a uh a month of the year and then did a 10-year comparison based on that. So I just picked October starting back 2016 all the way to 20 should
026be the 2025 26 school year. 201617 to 2025 uh 2025 2026 school year all of October. So as you know it jumps each month so we just pick one to be consistent. A couple things on this that are counting to me. One is um so we did an average at the bottom. We did put high on what's so in kindergarten high of 20 2017 184 kids. Our lowest was um in 202122 where we only had 104. So that's a difference of 60 kids. Um the bottom one the bottom formula is percentage of change over 10 years by grade. So at 142 kids in 201617 we're down to 107 kids. What was that change? The 24 that's a decrease in enrollment for kindergarten 24.65%. So, and and it's um you can compare that, but we also
027got to remember those are not the same kids. That's just a different group each year. The next chart talks a little bit about the um the same kids or at least in groups of the same. So, we did that all the way over. Some years were better like our current six our current sixth grade group over 10 years and an increase of 19%. So, it's uh hard to vary that a little bit. Um although at the end it shows a over that 10-year period in October um enrollment drop of 7.48%. So there's that. Any questions on that? So the next one is trying to get some data around cohort students potentially students although there's migration in and out potentially students who um could go on to the next grade. So the first one is the
028class of 2019. So if you go back to the previous chart, if you look at 2019, uh they graduated with 135 kids. So if you go back two years, they started in 10th grade at 148 kids. When they graduated with 135, so that is a difference of 13 kids. So I did the same for each year. In some of them the number of years comparison was because I only went 10 years. So some I could go the full 10. Next one I could want to go four years. So we see between 2019 and 22 uh there was a severe decrease mainly in 2122 which we were coming out of the pandemic. So although in 2027 um that group which is this year's juniors has an increase of 36 kids from 10 years ago. So, um,
029that's just trying to get some type of comparison of where kids are and as a cohort of early. The next slide is a pretty telling slide. Also, there are 299 students who live outside of our district boundaries that are attending school in Atoria on courtesy enrollments. That is a 17 that's 17.4% of our enrollment students who live outside of our district. um 20% be one. So it's a little bit less than one. What's interesting is on the next slide, and this was Gracie's idea, I'm glad I did it because it was telling and we put a survey out that they said nothing of a positive thing. So that was also good to hear. >> But we did survey enrollment students because we wanted to find out why they attended our why they planned to tend
030our district. And those are the four. There was a number 60 responses and we uh put it through AI to see what the the ones were. And the two at the top are um well they're all important but I think like when we talk about uh we talked about local option before and programs and we have people who send their kids to our district because of the programs we offer. um whether it's majority are probably at the high school but overall because we do offer specific programs at the high school but um not only the electives but the you know literacy and things like that the lower so uh they're impressed with their academic programs or electives um I I didn't go back to see how many of those 299 students are in special populations
031but interested to see because they really like our special ed services and other um really had some um comments on the surveys around Title One and how much parents appreciated our staff and the work they do. Um and then like they have negative experience or concerns in the previous district is why they sent us um I also asked the survey so what what um what do we need to continue to support? The first one I should have probably taken it out because it's against the law, but we can't transport can't go into other districts with buses. Um, so I can't do that. But they want us to continue to address needs of high advanced high kid and continue to increase supports around special ed and IEPs and continue our work around and we can always
032do better around communication and available adults. Um, the next slide is John. So, what what I was showing I should have said this at the beginning. What I was showing you is when we had our retrieved in August and um Scott helped us with us. We determined these were the things that we were going to look at for enrollment. So, I tried to get everything we could around who's here, who's not here, dropout rate. Um those are our dropout rates for the last five years. And Mr. Jackson, if I remember right, these are like after the fifth year forward, right? So kids get an extra year to try to graduate. Is that right? >> They go down as completers after. >> So it's not just four years. The next chart is um this is the
033flip side of kids coming into this district, kids leaving our district. Currently within our boundaries, the district there are 42 students who are registered for home school, meaning they're registered officially with the home school, which is through the ASP. Um, I think that number is bigger than 42. There's just kids out there that just haven't registered with the home school like they're supposed to. Um, I think that's closer to probably 60 to 80 kids, but we only have 42 registered. And currently within our boundaries of of our district, there are 144 students who are attending either charter schools outside of our district or other district. So that's the flip side of the courtesy roles coming in. We have 144 kids leaving either going to a charter school or to another school whether Apple or something
034side. So, and I didn't figure out what that percentage was. When I look at this, I look at like, okay, so how many kids are we missing out there? I take that in consideration with our population study we did showed as well as housing. I think we're missing about 220 to 240 kids potentially could go to school here. But on the flip side of that, there's a lot of kids from outside district cooking. So that's >> and then um >> sorry when you have 144 students, does that include private schools too? >> Private school attendance >> or is that just charter schools in other districts? >> Just charter schools. That is just charter schools in other districts. Public schools. I did not figure out private schools. I think we only have one to figure out.
035I can't um I don't know how I figure that out because I don't know in a private school where those kids go, >> right? >> But we do know there's kids there both at anchor and one story. So this part is reasons for family homeschooling. This came from the work that Jenna and uh Tiny and Tyler did a little bit and others about reaching out and talking to parents. There are three pages of notes. I just plugged this into AI and said here are the highest priorities. Um why they don't send their kids to school. Concern for our school environment and negative social influences. We are in school. Uh they desire personal uh and advanced academic approach. Um stronger parent enrollment and awareness a dissatisfaction with early education structure structure. And what that is is
036there are families out there and I'm okay with it that still would like to have the half day kindergarten and still would like it kindergarten to be more play. So that's what that is issued with staff communication and flexibility disagreement with district and state standards and policies and perceived inequity and staff input. So that's what came out of that. So that is our enrollment report. I don't know. I got out of it that there's probably a couple hundred kids out there. I also got out of it that we are losing students, but I'm hoping that, and maybe I'm wrong, if you look at the other reports we did tonight, um we're going to continue to lose students. It's not because of our lack of trying. It's because that's what data showing us. to some extent
037questions or if there's other things you want me to try to find just let me know because this was like a mid I wasn't supposed to bring this to the board until May but it's pretty important information for things we got going on whether it's option >> do you know the breakdown of what other >> I can bring that up Where are they coming from to us? >> Yeah, I can find that out. >> Pay. Well, I do think pretty strong statement to make we have really good programs in the district. I'm concerned that we have to lose some. Um, I know there was a district locally that had their music programs like 15 years ago and had like eight to 10 kids from the district come to our school for the music program and
038that amount of kids who get paid for from the state could have support the band program at their district. So, it was sort of a missed opportunity for them. But item C is our secondary schools. Yeah. So, um, last month I think it was we did elementary school improvement goals and this month we're doing secondary. So, I think Linda, you're first. Go ahead. >> So, our first goal, we have two um goals focused on academic, one on math, one on reading. Excuse me. And again, we're shooting for that. of our students being at grade level um getting ready. You know, we focus a lot this week on that 8th grade going into high school algebra ready, but in order to get there, we have to also focus on our social settings. So, um you can
039see some of the strategies are including that problem based learning methods. um with the adoption of the midchool math curriculum that has proved very helpful and there's been ongoing training and support for our math teachers to continue to refine and develop the practices. Um we're doing the um reinforcing of kind of that productive struggle but making sure we're doing it in a way that is scaffolded and supported so the kids aren't feeling like they're floundering. And that's a real big balance because you want kids to learn to problem solve, but at the same time have that support there so they don't feel like they're on their own. Um then again the academic language and background knowledge. One of the things that um we have found this year and this is thank you to Miss Sparks
040who um secured a literacy grant for our secondary programs as well. um we've been able to do a deeper dive into where our kids are at as far as literacy which is not just as you know within like the English department and our kids can decode and most of our kids the vast majority are great decoders they can they can read the words but they don't have the background knowledge or the vocabulary to access it so with the addition of the support that we have um with Miss Armstrong who is working um to provide intervention and support directly into our core content. We're going to be able to access that academic language and background knowledge by specifically developing interventions that support within the core content. So instead of taking maybe a reading intervention program and
041working with kids to develop that coding skill, we're taking the actual curriculum and the standards associated with a seventh grade app and taking some kids that are showing that they need additional support and backfilling some of the background knowledge. So that's for our first goal. literacy very much the same thing but we're looking at our reading scores this first semester with the um intervention class that we have that's where we did the deep dive and tried to break down what kind of supports and interventions our kids are needing with their reading and that's where we discovered um a lot of our kids are great decoders is the background knowledge it is the ability to um access that academic vocabulary in specific content areas. So, a lot of the strategies that you saw for math, we're
042also implementing for our reading. Um, and and I I feel this is very positive like we are on a trend and we're going to continue. It's going to be great. So, our next one, um, this is something new that we're trying this year. Um earlier in the school year we went to uh all day training provided by the ESD. It's called bases. And one of the things that they um shared with us is when we do our 100% meetings and we're looking at our star scores, we're looking at our attendance, our behavior, our failure rate. They um shared with us a way to assess the effectiveness of our seal and relationship. Um and so we create based on a model that they provided to us a student survey where we're assessing three areas that are
043tied into our um advisory and instruction and that's around belonging, right, which is also directly in our uh strategic plan. um self- advocacy and being able to um connect and access resources in school and then a self-awareness of how your brain works and um regulation. And so through this survey that our kids took um in September, this is our initial baseline. Um, some of the interesting things that we found with the students that scored in the red zone, those were students that were new to us or that were set or English language learners. So, students moving into our um, school or newcomers to our country. Um, which really provided us a lot of information about what we need to do to scaffold to meet those kids needs. I'm really excited about um what we're going
044to see in January when we reassess. Um and then where we're at with this is trying to add a future input to get some feedback from our staff as to are they seeing do they agree with how the students are self-reported. So, this is this is very interesting to me and I think it's going to provide us another piece to evaluate our core um program beyond just like the reading, the math, the attendance. It gives us another way to look at where our kids are at. Any questions? So we have goals just like the other buildings in the district. The first one is one that we have used. It's a primary indicator in our strategic plan. So we have used it for a number of years. It's also something that the state evaluates the performance
045of high school on and that is our on track to graduate at the end of your freshman year. And my definition to be on track to graduate you do have to have those six credits earned at the end of your freshman year. So you can see the data that we have there is in these are the cohorts. So the graduating class of 2026 this year seniors were 90% on track to graduate at the end of their freshman year. This year's junior class was at 97 and then we took a dip for this year's sophomore class to 95. So we were one of only four schools in our region which is consisting of 20 high schools that actually declined. That's the bad news. But the good news is we are performing at that 95% and so
046the state average is still around 86. So we're still doing really well there. And so we're pleased with that. Again the rationale of that you'll see on each goal there's a rationale as to why we are doing this or why the focus is placed upon this particular data point. It is we simply know that your ontrack status at the end of your freshman year is the most indicative data point that will lead to an ontrack graduation. And so it's the focal point that we continue to place emphasis on. You can see a number of strategies to the right that we have done and we continue to make progress on that. I do want to note that on the very the second to bottom strategy, the one-on-one empathy interviews, we did complete 149 of those. So
047that class is completed with those empathy interviews. It was a very powerful strategy. I'm not sure if it was cost effective with regards to the amount of time that it requires to do that. So I'm processing on how we can more effectively roll out that program or at least prioritize those to whom we are speaking and interviewing. But it did prove to be a very powerful strategy questions on that particular goal. Okay. So this one we're continuing to do well on. The second one is one in which we are not doing well. We may be a little bit above state and regional averages, but we are not doing as well as we would wish. The goal is that by the end of this academic year, 80% of our students will have demonstrated 90% attendance, thus
048being regular attenders. Now, what that means is that a student can miss up to 17 18 school days throughout the course of their academic year and still be a regular attender. But right now, as of this morning's email from Mr. Hobus, we are at 66% at the high school. And it's a battle in which you will notice that progressively gets worse. ninth grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, and then 12th grade is the most challenging one to keep students there. Uh, one of the challenges that we have is that the this was a discussion in part with the NGS, but even more so with other cohorts through the University of Oregon and other entities is we have become very effective at supporting learning virtually. So some students don't attend and can take the classes as we've
049discussed in the past almost as a correspondence course because of Google Classroom and other platforms. So we're working on how to address that. But you can see the strategies on the right. Mr. Madson and I met again today to discuss how we can leverage those strategies even more effectively. >> Yes. So those students that maybe aren't coming because they can get a class on Google Classroom, are they successful in it? >> Yes. You'll notice there's a particular student that graduated last year that it's basically think about taking a class online. Some of our teachers are very versed in providing those resources, slide decks, homework assignments. But how about you speak to that for just a moment? Like you you're not in psychology, right? But talk to me and the group about what some of your
050courses look like with their Google classrooms. Um for example, our government class, which uh proposed the year before in US history is mostly on paper. Um, our government class I believe is like 95% online. The only paper assignments we will have is our tests and like word files where we find definitions, words, um, math, you have the homework you have to turn in, but that is still counted as full credit if you are absent and turn it in the following day or however long that stretches. Um, to my knowledge, I think the majority of school is online through Google Classroom of some form. >> So, you could miss class or let's say you're just not feeling it. And so, you log in, take a look at what the slide deck is or the homework assignment
051is, count, get it done, and then go to work your parttime job in the afternoon. So, it's one of those things that we're struggling with. I'm not saying that majority of students are doing that. I'm saying it's an additional factor that's due since the pandemic. some of the traditional factors of just getting our students to school, the importance of school, those things still exist. And so we're still trying to work through those issues. Family liaison outreach and connection is a huge part of that. >> It just be interesting to tease out, I guess, of those students, how many aren't successful by doing that, by not being there, but accessing there. >> I think those that are using that strategy are actually being successful. >> Yeah. I don't think they are a majority of the students
052who are missing class. Yeah, >> I would say they're they're one out of five kids that are playing that game that are missing a lot of school. Most students are not coming to school because of the reasons that have existed for decades. >> Yeah. So, we are striving but we are not reaching that goal as we would wish as of this week at least. >> Mr. Rob, were you able to get any information on tele? >> No, I will. Okay. I know they're at a tenant 94% attended rates. So I think it's interesting and concerning that we're not uh doing better. So >> data point >> to me it sounds like uh maybe less things need to be happening online having that option to be able to do it at home. But uh I'm really
053curious to know what Helman's doing that we're not. However, if they're being successful at getting their penalizing them and having them come in the classroom, they might be less successful. You know, I don't know. That's just um I guess I wouldn't attack that point of attendance. If the students are being success, you know, if you look at all those students and and they're being successful, that's >> I'm gonna do some research on your query, Mr. Hoff, if you don't mind me doing the leg work on that. There is an administrative intern that is working at Atoria High School right now and his educational pedagogy background is going from Tilman High School where he was an instructor where he now works at the North Regional ESD and he's now seeking his administrative credentials working under our
054umbrella. And so his wheelhouse is attendance and engagement and he's Ryan Hamilton who you were on Monday. So, I'm I'm intrigued. He could get us some insider information on what that data point entails and maybe any corresponding strategies. I asked him bluntly last Friday, what are we doing well? What are things that we're not doing that others are, but I can report back to you. >> I think the Google classroom does have some advantage, makes clarity, and it also for kids that are traveling for sports, it helps. But what I really wanted to talk about is a lot of the kids that are chronically absenter in high school chronically outside and so it really starts >> so if I hear the name you know and I I've always felt like the burden of the high
055school it really starts in kindergarten or school. So more like a a habit you >> hear when principal brick and I have conversations because she's the most approximate to the high school and age. It's not like Principal Brick's like, "Oh, that's surprising." I mean, there are wins, right? One of the students that we recognized was it in October where we did the attendance recognition. One of those is a win, but oftentimes the names are the same names that were coming up in seventh and eighth grade as individuals are concerned. >> And just to add to what Mr. Jackson's saying, when Mr. office is very good about keeping us up to date with our um attendance across the district and not that any of us are competitive, but I dropped three percentage points um since the
056last report which kind of bothers me. So I wouldn't identify but we do have some online resources at the middle school but not to the extent that is available at the high school. And when we take a look at our failure rate which we do every four to five weeks and I compare it directly to my attendance rate. It matches almost perfectly. Students that are not passing their courses are students that are chronically upset. it it's like I might have one off where I'm like that cannot pass the class. Um but it's >> so we're working at our next goal is maintaining enrollment at Australia High School by having rich programs and connectivity. So you can see where our these are our January enrollments. I pulled January. The reason why I did January was that
057is the month that has typically been used in our budget analysis as we look into forecasting for the next year. So you can see 555 in 2022 and then you can see 613 628 and then 578 last year in January. Right now we're at 605. That number is actually a little bit lower when you take a look at activives. I have some dormant students right now that are not presently active, hoping to reactivate them shortly, but that 605 is what we have on the on the books right now. We continue to strive to have very attractive and appealing electives. This is what we discussed earlier, right? when we were talking about the importance of maintaining those budgets, active recruitment of students that we have seen a lot having the possibility for students to take one
058off all car classes, FFA, FAN, etc. We have picked up a large number of students that may not be completely noted here, but they're hourly students, so we're getting modest ADMW for them. So, that's been good exploring those flexible enrollment options. talked about the empathy interviews. Our ACA program continues to thrive. In fact, as of today, we're at 37 enrollment. We try to maintain it at 35 with additional students in the queue. So, that's actually maxed out right now. And one of the strategies that we are doing is that if you do have a student that unenrolls and is pursuing in GED or homeschool, we reach back around after two to three weeks and say, "How are you doing? What can we do to help support you?" And as I communicated with Mr. Office last
059week, we had two of those students come back. So after they had chosen to go elsewhere, we were able to get them back enrolled. So those efforts are proven to be successful as we strive to maintain that enrollment. What questions do you have for me regarding these rules? >> Appreciate all your work on it. >> Um item B is our finance report. >> Yeah. So Mindy's not here, but I uh she did the finance reporting. I I want to share a couple points that I spent quite a bit of time on this this week just to just check. Um I was just interested that on page 50, excuse me, 68 our property taxes, but they're full collection which is good. Um and the other thing is our interest earnings has maintained um last year and
060increasingly the year before which that has always been the case and we don't have a lot of control over that but that's a good sign. Um we look like our our state school fund money is coming in. Um our federal funds are not coming in as we had hoped. Um it's not we're not going to get them. are just slowly coming in which seems to be a trend like the federal government right now. Um about a hand before that >> how much can Sorry I'm just curious about like the government shut down how much impact because it extended for so long impacts is there a delay in being dispersed? >> Not from funding from what I can tell from the funding of the district. It's just things like um there was food service money that
061they were releasing like three months at a time and now they're releasing like one month at a time that >> we have that came in but >> from the state level what they're getting is slower funds coming in from the feds. Um so I that's the only impact I know. I don't know why they're so low. It could be we haven't we haven't got our title fund yet, but it's it looks big on that chart, but it's only $20,000. It's just the charge big. So, but we'll monitor. I'll have a conversation when he's back on that. Is there report? >> Yeah. So, all the doom and gloom of dropping enrollment increased by nine students last month. So, Everything I said is off. Um, interesting. Three of those nine students are enrolled uh were enrolled in
062our online test. I didn't I didn't look at background where those kids came from. So, but we'll take a positive number plus and I know like I saw an email come through from last year today. There's like four or five kids starting new after break. >> Three or four >> as far as you >> and January seems to be a month where there's some shifts in place leaving and come. That's all I have for items that are featuring comments and questions. Okay. At this time, I would like to invite any member of the audience at the minute of public comment to prepare to speak with comment about items of interest or concern or concerns this evening. Faces are asked to submit a public comment prior to the meeting. We will take a comment and order
063received. Please begin by stating your name. And if you live in the school district, it would be appreciated if you would limit your comment to three minutes so that we can keep the meeting moving in a timely fashion and I'll allow others the opportunity to speak. We ask that you remember that the Oregon law prohibits us from discussing specific employees or their job performance. Thanks for your support in our school district. And it looks like we have one um Jen. >> Yes. Boy, I don't know if I can get this done in three minutes, but my name is Jen Kessa. I do live in the Australian school district. I am a middle school parent child in sixth and eighth grade. I'm Cindy Moore. Um, and I have a child who's in the sophomore. Um, I'm
064the secretary of the story of band parents. So, we're here representing um the parents or the band and our band instructor, Jesse Stra's online, so may say something. Um, we apologize. We're not ready to present. We thought that this item was actually on your agenda until just recently. Um, but Jen is here to talk to you about a really exciting opportunity that we've been organizing for the band that has grown immensely under Jesse Stra's leadership. So, I was tasked to put together a Disneyland trip for Atoria High School in April of 2027. And so, I uh reached out to Niss School District and also to St. Helen school district just to see what they are using or what they have used in the past. Um both school districts had recommended World Strides and I actually
065they're an educational tour program. Um I also reached out to another company. They had more of a bougie package and it was just not um and not financially accessible for all of our band students. But the goal is in April of 2027 to send at least 70 plus students. Right now um between the 8th grade and uh senior class there's 90 students. We figured we'd take 20% off of that. So we would have 70 students and six chaperones go to Disneyland for a fourn night uh trip. Basically the cost is 19.85 85 per student and we do uh at 250 on that for a full refund program. Uh the full refund program gives them 100% of their funds back even up to one day of cancellation. So we felt that that was a safe uh
066bet to go uh to talk about the trip. It does include uh the flight, the hotel and then three days uh hopper pass at the uh parks. It also gives the students an opportunity on day number two to perform at Disneyland. Uh M will have to uh work with Disneyland and send in a video. They do have strict guidelines, but even if our school is not chosen to perform at Disneyland, on day three, they would go to the Imagination uh campus workshop, which is a day filled of um the students going with conductors, playing a thong with one of the Disney movies. So, it is an educational piece. And then the fourth day, they would have the whole entire day in the park. >> Any questions? Actually, I have a couple questions. Um, how are
067the funds going to be raised for this event? Question number one, >> that's a great question. So, the cost of the trip is about 152,000. So, um, World Strides has a couple different options. families who have addressed gross incomes up to 85,000, their uh child can apply for what they call their flag assistance program. So, we're going to ask all of the families who sign up for the trip to actually apply and each individual student will have their own account where they can ask for funds from family. Um, we're going to fund raise. I mean, if we were going to fund raise between now and next January, we'd have to raise $13,000 a month, and that's not going to happen with our group, but we are going to fund raise our socks off. So, the
068goal is to get all 17 kids there, but they are going to have to have some parental support. And there is a payment plan. So, the first initial payment would be in March, and they would owe 200 plus the 250, which is the the backout program. So $450 initial and then there's uh 10 payments of $178. So the final payment would be next January >> and this would be paid for by the students and their fundraising efforts not anything from the district or asking. >> So that story of band parents did form a nonprofit. So they are a federal NC3. Um, Juan Delgado is our president and he is actually getting corporate sponsors from several of the fisheries and we have had parents that have actually given um donation checks. But the band parents um
069club, it's not just about the Disneyland trip. They also provide instruments uh for Mr. Stra uh uniforms. So you can probably tell more what they do, but that is our goal is to fund raise. And the idea is that our group would help support fundraising so that everyone would have the opportunity to go, but they will each have their own account. So if they can um then they will contribute. Um and the other thing is is that we we have a whole bunch of fundraising ideas and we have a about over a year to fundra. Um we need permission of course before we start launching all of that. So um that's why we're here today. So this is for eighth grade now to what grade? So yes, so these eighth graders will be freshmen. Okay.
070So it's just for freshman through high school. Okay. >> So let's say that the money isn't raised and these kids have really tried really hard. So then what? >> So what happens is is each student would sign up and so they're signing up for that payment plan. So the the parents would have to commit that they're going to make that payment of $178. >> Okay. >> And does this include like all the instruments being taken over there? >> Does that include like now with traveling, you need to have real IDs and passports or some sort of that Well, so any adults over the age of 18 will have to have the real ID. I I take my students on airplanes and they have no ID with them. So I'm I'm assuming they still would travel
071without ID. I mean I guess they could take their student cards. I mean the requirement was curious what students there's a form you fill out as a parent to let your student go travel within the country um and without their ID if they don't have it yet when they're under 18. And you said only 70% of like there's like 70 now that you could take and there's 90 students. How do you >> So if more people want to go great but we have to have 70 students signed up at that price. >> Okay. So 70 at least. Yes. Okay. I thought there was 90. You can only take them a day. How do you pick and choose? >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, um, first I want to apologize. It I didn't put it on the
072agenda. I should I checked the email and it was there and so it it'll go up um if necessary, but I really appreciate the you probably heard about it. So, the reason we did it the $250 insurance, but um we had 25 30 kids who was out on that Washington DC trip. parents pretty upset because they didn't they didn't get the insurance didn't think they'd have to didn't know that a pandemic would start so a lot of them lost that money and so we tried to look into the fact got Senator Johnson involved in it see if we get something back but we couldn't so I feel good about that because I'd hate to see something happen whether it's something like that or individual students can't go and they have no insurance >> and so
073I that was one of my questions so it's good to hear >> to speak to that and other programs that will be addressed later tonight. We did have a student last year who could not go to Baldor. So, we have that when student got every penny back. So, we make sure that there is that program for our students. >> When are you starting your fundraising like activities? So, we actually have not announced it to the parents yet because we didn't want to say anything, get everybody excited, and then oops, I guess the school board said no. >> We appreciate that. We've had we not with this board in years past, we've had people who announced the night the board hasn't been approved. Put them in an odd position to say like we didn't get a
074chance to approve it or not approve it. It's already we're going to go back and done the bad people. So, appreciate that. So, our goal is is that next month in January, we're actually going to have a parent meeting and World Strikes is going to do a 15 to 20 minute presentation via Zoom, but um also in person and uh if the board approves it today, uh Jesse is going to announce it at the concert on the 16th. And then we are going to have a beautiful Disneyland table set up and packets for parents to take so that they could look at it over the holiday break and be ready to go. So payments would begin with the parents in March. We figured that would give them time to get through the holidays, get them
075tax refund money. >> Yeah. >> Get them set up. >> And as far as when is fundraising beginning, it's actually beginning tomorrow. It's just that we're not pushing it out as a Disneyland fundraiser. It's a a band um fundraiser with that concert that um mentioned. We're doing a spaghetti associated with that concert to just get more engagement as well as um a little bit of fundraising, but we have a whole bunch of other ideas. Um we're ready to go as soon as we >> Thank you. And I don't know if you want to Mr. Do you have anything to add to us? >> Hello. >> Hi. >> Hello. Uh yeah, so the uh story band program, I'll just talk about some some numbers and stuff like that and just talk about the growth of the
076program, but we're up to about 200 kids six through 12 that are playing instruments. And I feel like this uh this meeting tonight was a great setup for getting kids in school, attendance numbers, how strong our programs are. Um and I don't see a lot of kids missing school because then if they miss band, they're going to miss a lot. And I know that if the they miss, maybe they don't get to play the solo. Um, our band has uh gone from last place to seventh place to fourth place at the state competition. And this year I feel like the band could make it to the first or second place. And so we've had constant growth brought in lots of money. And so for me, uh, trying to do this trip, uh, maybe it's not
077the greatest economic times or maybe the funding's not there, but, um, after 14 years of teaching public school, there's never a great time to do anything fun if if the funding's not there. But, um, uh, it's the logical next step to getting kids to come to school and and play in band. It's pretty exciting if we can pull it off and I have a lot of faith in our our parents and our students to make it happen. >> Thank you. >> So, thoughts of the board. I I have we have paper copies if you want. Well, look at it real quick. Want to add it to the agend. >> So, I think we have to make a motion to add the com. >> Do you want to see the new I'll make a motion to
078add the band Disneyland trip to the new business >> on the agenda. >> I'll second. >> Anybody? All right, moving on to item eight is information. Item nine is unfinished business. This is a motion item policy JOA directory information. >> Couple things with this. This is the directory information specific conversation around that has to do with student pictures. Um so says number eight um parent email addresses is new and then as a footnote it says parent email addresses will be released at the discretion of the superintendent with a signed affidavit or a written contract agreement that restricts how parent email address will be used by the vendor. I had a conversation last Friday with a vendor and it does a lot of business around student pictures and they didn't think it was going to be
079a problem to abide by what they had. In fact, it was already in their set contract that they had. Um, so that my only question for the board and it's not a big deal but like um if you approve this tonight, do you want us to share that right away with parents that we have changed this policy so they know or share out when we're actually going to put the policy into use like two weeks before picture times or whatever. I don't matter to me just matter I think it needs to be communicated out to them before they use it so they know that we have the email address >> whatever >> why is sex >> where did you see this >> the way that it printed packet took out the those are removed. >>
080So will that be number six? >> Yeah. When I saw it today, >> I was in a restaurant the other day and I get to call the number and skip it. You did that on purpose. So, >> okay. I'll move to approve policy DOA directory information. Um, yeah, >> I'll second. >> All those in favor? >> I All right. >> Probably better to get the information out sooner than later. Yeah. >> All right. Moving on to item 10. >> Item A is the EHS exchange strip approval an action item. >> Mr. Jackson >> 22 purchase tickets today for less than a th000. So we got the tickets purchase dialed in. Yeah. probably the best price that we have had in a long time, over a decade. So, the challenge, if you guys can figure this
081out, is we can't get young men to travel. >> Um, we have 22 students, two olds. So, we're working on expanding that vision for some of our students. >> Are there I'm assume there's young men that come over. So, we have students housing. >> It is problematic. It's problematic getting housing arrangements there. But so we have 22. They're going a little bit earlier this year because in Germany Easter is kind of like Christmas here in the sense that they have an extended break for Easter. And since Easter always moves around based upon the lunar calendar, we have to go a little bit earlier or they're not going to have any students in all go on vacation. So, we're moving just a little bit earlier and then utilizing spring break to help mitigate the lost time
082in their classrooms. We have 22 students and three chaprons. Mr. Pierce like always the lead chaperone with Miss Todd and Mr. Fisher as the additional chapron. >> And we have kids going based on scholarship need also. Correct. >> Correct. There are approximately I'm going to say eight. probably a little bit more maybe nine to 10 students with scholarships constituting $8,450 worth of awards. So averaging $7 to $800 of scholarship. The donor who has provided those funds still wants the student to have some skin in the game. They have to really work toward and earn but does not want cost to ever be protected. I will move to approve the water exchange tripal. A second favor. >> Anybody posted? >> All right. Item B, the 2025 2027 student investment action grant agreement. >> Yeah. So, this
083is um it's required to bring the contract agreement to the board. the contract is the amount and how the money could be used with the student investment account. I think earlier in the year uh steeped the presentation on this. So this is just a matter of the board approving the contract. I'll move to approve the 2025 20 through 2027 investment account grant agreement. >> I'll second all those in >> favor. Anybody opposed? Items B, the ACB AR via complaint procedure. Yeah. So, um this policy is um this is a policy. This is an AR of a policy. It's directly related to the all students belong policy which the board passed about three or four years ago. Um but when we implemented it, we didn't implement the AR of it. and I've had to use this
084policy or refer to this policy the last two or three weeks. So, um and that AR was associated with it. So, I just want to put the AR in as part of our policy. We don't have to adopt it because you don't have to adopt the AR policy, but I always share with the board that anytime uh we change or add an AR that doesn't require adoption that I would bring to show anyway what we're doing. So, that's all it is. So, >> we're not voting on this. >> New item D, the 2027 Disneyland marching nonban trip. >> We will turn back action items tonight. >> I'll move to approve the 2037. Yeah. and Disney. >> I'll second. All those in >> favor. >> Thank you. >> And we're moving on to 11 comments. for
085the good of the order. I can't see today. >> Uh just a few things are going tonight. Um crazy weather last couple days. Um, we had six buses stuck over by the Crest Hotel and couldn't move and I was over there for other reasons and um it was all the way back up to Safeway when they started moving and I think we had all kids in by 9 was by 9 which wasn't bad considering was going on but there's not much you can do over there other than Jenna's daughter gave us a trick to go through all the broken and we start spreading the news and that's the only power had at that time was the headlines going through. So, um I just um a lot of activities over the next couple weeks. So, it's
086an exciting time in our district and a time I always enjoy. So, I look forward to the concerts. Um um appreciate the school board and having Kurt come tonight. Um Heidi didn't know I didn't tell him to hide, but he did on his own, which is great. And look forward to celebrating the next month with the board with all I have tonight. with our board members start with Quinn. >> Um I'll just share what our nth grade success is like truly uh implementing. Um, we did a survey and put it out to all students, but mainly targeted at freshmen because they had to do it in one of their classes. And we got around 80 responses. And it was just like overall engagement and uh attendance. And surprisingly to us, we uh we had a
087thing about engagement and the students felt really engaged in in high school which I thought would be a reason for nonattendance. So we are kind of moving to uh find something else to improve on to improve our attendance. >> Thanks for working on that. It's neat to have the students helping with some of these goals and uh your perspectives. So, appreciate you um taking that on and and making things happen. So, thanks. Um, and Khalil, it was fun to watch his video and um, I think his um, words and experience with the Atoria School District along with, you know, some of our students who have like I can't see anyone. Um, some of our students who are not transfer students, courtesy enrollments. Um, it's just good to hear the positive effects of the hard work
088that everybody's doing and um, especially grateful to for parents such as yourself that are willing to step up and um, take on big tasks and big endeavors um, to help our students have good experiences. And um I think yeah, the school district in general care car cares about these students and um it's evident and just um proud to be able to somewhat represent the school district and and the work that you all do. So um Stephanie Sparks, I just wanted to comment the art I mean it wasn't just Stephanie in the article. There was an article about the reading in the school district and um it was really really good and um just everybody's efforts in that department too. I actually got Terry reading which I know sounds weird. Um, I think uh, yeah, our
089district has come a long ways in that respect and um, I know it seems weird that I get emotional about that, but it just um, there's been so much hard work and um, I know that our students are benefiting directly from that and so I will move on. I thank you for your time and effort in that. And um Stephanie um and then the last thing I was just thinking when you're talking about the pig and pancake at Aster and the high school activities. Um there's several times that um teachers I know put out wish lists. Is it possible to have like a wish list on the district page? You know, I feel like people if they knew what we what the district needed, there's a lot of people that step up and are willing
090to give or you know um we did for um you know food when we were worried about uh SNAP benefits and things coming through. Um anyway, that was just an idea. Is it Um yeah, I got to go to that wrestling meet which I just wanted to comment again and it's really awesome to uh be at the first girls wrestling meet at the middle school. It was really awesome. Uh I thought super well organized, well ran. So great job Linda and Heather and your wrestling coaches. U couple other things I Mr. rejection. I appreciate you working on kind of seeing what Telmook's doing and and looking at those numbers. Do you have a lot of concerns with the 66% maybe correct? 66%. Um I think there needs to be a major focus on attendance at
091the high school. 66% it's probably just not good enough. Uh and then another thing I I hope that we'll continue to focus on, you know, those 200 200 to 240 students uh that are in our district that are not going to our district. I think that's something we really need to to focus on. Um and then I really hope the board will kind of continue to look at an operational levy. Um and I hope Mr. Hoff you'll be able to bring some more information to us about that. I do think there's still a lot of support in our community for uh community based levies and bonds. Um we saw it with the library that was overwhelming. We saw it with the u round of that and that was also overwhelming. So I I do think
092it would be supported in our community and just having more more information on um you know how much funds we would be really beneficial to us. Uh so yeah that's all >> uh yeah congrats to the um I wanted to thank Mr. office for all the work that you've been putting in on enrollment and finding out all that info about our our population and our housing and I know that was a lot of work. Um and that's still ongoing. Um and I'm excited for yeah the holiday holiday concerts and stuff and I hope everybody has a good break. I will say the same. I reiterate my congratulations to Cleo. That's very awesome. Um and uh yes, thank you very for all the information. That's a lot of data tonight and a lot of Yeah. But
093it just good information. It's helpful um to kind of know what's what's coming and what we're looking at, I guess. So, um yeah. >> What's your instrument? >> 2027. >> Yeah. Um, yes, I am excited for the band trip being a parent also. Um, I will probably be a chaperone and um I thank you to everybody for all your hard work, all the administrators and Craig and everybody. Um, a lot of research and data for sure. So, thank you for all the time and all the hard work on that. Um, thank you to Miss Martin's class for these awesome turkeys making decorating in the boardroom. It's my favorite thing to see when I come in. Um, I did bring up I believe during our OCA conference, but I wanted to do like that little meet
094and greet kind of like event like meet. I think it's important for the community to know who we are, maybe what we do and just like invite families and do some sort of event. I think that would be really neat. I think a lot of people don't realize who's on the board and who does the policies and approves or denies a lot of things. So, I think it would be good. So, just putting it back out there. Um, but I'm still thinking about that and hopefully we can schedule that sometime to look into it. And, um, yes, happy merry Christmas and happy New Year's and all the holidays in between. And I hope uh when everybody comes back cell phone free, it goes great. And that's pretty much it for me. Okay, so moving on.
095Our victory meetings will be Wednesday, January 14th, uh our board study session starting at 5:45 here in the boardroom, followed by our 7 o'clock regular board meeting as well. Take a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. Yeah.