001School District Woolworth Building or Monday main 20:29 school time taking personal conversations we have out into the hallway at this time I would like to call on Curt Hall in this family to start it from the Pledge of Allegiance [Applause] [Music] nation [Music] at this time we're going to start recognitions and personal Bradford I'm very sorry I'm very much your laughing we expect excellence NST a distinguished Teaching Award Bradford Hill Bradford Hill science teacher at mountainside High School was awarded the NSTA distinguished teaching award sponsored by the US Army educational outreach program a EOP from the National Science Teachers Association and SBA so 2019 MST a teacher awards program honors k12 teachers principals professors and other science education professionals for their outstanding work and achievement in science education advocates quote in 16 years of administration
002because I have never seen an educators convince her to the educating of students and the implementation against practices is what every kid all his lengthy list of accomplishments is quite simply an amazing given his relative youth in the profession Bradford has looked upon within the school the district in the state as an impact science educator who is something to change the shape of the future of science education I cannot think of a finer recipient of this award says ty Carson principal and mountainside High School congratulations [Applause] that really celebrates work the hate amount of collaboration and so I think that takes the whole system working together to have that happening school board supporting the early release at that time of bringing together across the district a school level toddler study just always empowering a teacher
003and then my colleagues across the district and a mountainside so I have always appreciated that and I just hope forward looking forward that we just find a way to keep supporting g-tube working together and collaborating we expect excellent celebrate literacy work for Casey Smith Patterson for secondary English language arts Casey Smith adderson has won the celebrate literacy award from the Portland reading council an international leadership Aragon nation Casey was praised for her leadership and literacy education an outstanding work of teachers Casey Smith has been the true advocate for diversity and shows in her work with students colleagues and district level staff says nominator and head north teacher on special assignment per second rate and advanced programs api be my pea coordinator from sheer parkville school the silver Lotus Year award recognises organizations institutions and individuals
004that have made significant literacy contributions it's local state and provincial level I hope is that the celebration will familiarize the public with literacy activities in the community and call attention to the work that's being done by schools and international ersity Association literacy worldwide congratulations [Applause] Thank You school board and superintendent griding and thank you to my amazing co-workers and administrators in teaching and learning who have supported challenged and mentored me and modeled leadership and diplomacy in difficult and sometimes invalidating environments my gratitude eternally to Ken Brian and sho I have been so fortunate to work in Beaverton for most of my career I have received not only a good salary and benefits for me and my family but also tremendous professional development mentorship support and career advancements leadership opportunities and some of the most amazing
005co-workers and students of the multiverse I do fear fact ever that as we battled through another year of fierce budget cuts the aspects of Beaverton that I by our most that benefit both staff and students are disappearing it is about plot small class sizes for teachers and I absolutely applaud all of the work we are doing in here to make class sizes a priority it is also however the staff supports for those classrooms librarians intervention teachers specialists electives social workers and counselors it is the idea that the best teachers are supported by the best professional development opportunities regardless of school grade or program model it is curriculum adoptions that are inclusive rigorous and the result of project teams cadres and the very thoughtful eyes that form our communities it is time for teachers and administration
006to collaborate and dig deep into the problems of our practice not only in our subject areas but also in culturally responsive teaching and social-emotional learning it does feel like many of us have turned the budget cuts who deserves funding and who does not when the truth is that all of these schools program and staff deserve funding we are all in this noble work together thank you for allowing these [Applause] we'd expect excellence educator of your April Horner Learning Center teacher at Highland Park Middle School has been named the educator figure by the arc of Oregon miss Horner is being honored for her dedication to person centered focus on each student and her high expectations of all students the parent who nominated Miss Mara had this to say my daughter has been working with teachers starting
007at three months old with early childhood intervention miss Warner has taken the time to get to know my daughter to have high expectations for her and a hold her accountable to those expectations she takes the time to recognize the needs of each of her students and puts appropriate supports in place she values the whole student and knows that in order to maximize student success each student needs to be supported in all areas of need she develops strategies to help my daughter identify feelings and problem-solve how to get her needs met in a positive manner and not through behavior or withdrawing the arc organ is a non perfect profit organization that together with its network of members and affiliated chapters advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and
008developmental disabilities congratulations April Oh X Bushman I needed a checklist or a graphic organizer um when this young lady came to my classroom I could tell just in her eyes right from the very beginning that what she heard from teachers several educational careers what she'd done wrong and she heard very little about what she did right as soon as we turned the tables into acknowledging the small steps that she was making that were correct those steps got larger and larger this is vitally important in a school district that struggles in tier two interventions this is so very very important in acknowledging our individual students their individual needs and tier two interventions across the entire district all the special education and general education so I am blessed and honored to work the Beaverton School District I'm
009honored and humbled by this work and I hope that as we continue to move forward we continue to develop those interventions that support students at all levels regardless of their intellectual or developmental abilities and their access to education [Applause] so it's so good when we get to recognize our best and brightest stuff thank you for being here this evening okay now it's time for to hear from our Beaverton Student Advisory play we've got two seniors of the committee or with that more joy that's great come on up guys whole crew loved it I'm Heidi I'm the secretary of favor all online bacala right now we could be just finished a project on inclusivity we filmed seven students from different high school and we make a documentary in the Museo their story we've gone through and
010we're hoping just be sharing it with sharing it district-wide in the school year for next year mas meeting we also met with Asha which is a nonprofit organization that focuses on sharing the stories of students and other people in the community who walk through mental illnesses and her coming out on the other side of those Asha has actually been and a few of our Beaverton schools this past year predominantly in health classes and so we just had a meeting with them actually with a couple of their storytellers who shared their stories for us to get a feel of what kind of work they do in Beaverton and that was something that I really excited the VSAC so for next year we're looking to partner with them and so VSAC members can potentially serve as liaisons
011between their respective school and Asha plugging them in with health classes and just more opportunities we're also looking into perhaps doing a larger scale partnership with them maybe a district-wide mental health and I hope so that it doesn't just care to only students but also parents need information on mental health and health resources and there's things like you know what's the difference between anxiety about a test or anxiety when my kid actually needs real clinical help so very often which is like just to use and they partner up with actually another another strike we've made in recent months is we've actually updated the VSAC application I would take a look at it and realize it didn't adequately represent what this committee actually does I didn't emphasize the independent projects we take on just as well
012as our meeting times and how often we do that obviously made some edits to that as a group and it's now online as a website that students can apply to they can also do paper copies at their own high schools but yeah now we're just trying to get the word out about applying for this committee because often times there's just two to three people per school that actually apply so now all of our roles is to seek out those underclassmen that would be good that's for this committee so that our principals have a wide range of students to select from and even go through an interview process which at least at sunset Arkansas has voiced wanting to do that in any process but for recent years with just not receiving enough applicants that hasn't been
013just a good route so we're looking to increase the no Republican and looking forward to that oh thank you guys for being and really thank you for group dedication for those of you that none of these students come to once a month they come together for two and a half hours and talk about all variety of tonics but this is our student perspective we get student perspective from emails and their people but really appreciate your dedication to the it's gonna blast anymore if you guys all your I really enjoy but thank you for being the voice of the students and through your dedication and for all the great independent projects you guys are so talented in those were seniors heard you're gonna you're going to be great so keep in touch with us here thank
014you thank you for listening test this yeah [Applause] okay at this time I'd like to ask board members do you have any changes to the agenda at this time thank you now we're going to move on to public participation and I just want to remind you we welcome you to tonight's meeting and if you like your dress report these complete a yellow card it's out there in the hall and give it to our recording secretaries up here in front Debbie are Mary and we're going to limit your comments because we've got quite a few cards to get through to two minutes you'll see the timer right here behind you we really like you to keep it to two minutes if there's something else that you need to the board to know we'll take written testimony
015or you can send us something in the email we'll pass it along but we'd really like to get everybody tonight so if you could keep it to your two minutes and we're gonna have a vice chair or something here call out the person that's going to be up and then the next person up so you can get ready to come forward and we won't address your concerns tonight we'll have someone in the staff at the board we'll get back to you at a later time and just want to remind you that this is not talking about any personal sort of staff president or past and just keep your confidence general at this time so first up first the first up is a deviated president sir Schmidt and on deck is you know Monica fifth grade
016you should good evening chair to learn karate and members of the board I had the privilege of being down in Salem today with a few of you to see Governor Brown plan new Student Success act which was phenomenal [Applause] celebrate an education for a while know what a great achievement is forward to the investment in our school we wanted to speak a little bit more specifically about where we are right now in our district and I've been to a lot of these meetings and I've heard the board perspective and I've heard all of you ask a lot of questions and I think I figured out some of the things that you really value things like excellence in teaching creating safe and welcoming learning environments and the importance of low class sizes or students can get
017individual attention and given the budget shortfall that we are in here and be version right now I feel like this is the perfect time to align your values with your actions so what we're looking for is some examples for you show that you value the excellent educators who work with our students every day to show that you are committed to keeping our class sizes small so students can get the individual attention that they need to show us that you value safe welcoming learning environments and that those are a priority in our district and I want to just very specifically say your board policy allows for the rainy day fund to be used when there are economic conditions that negatively affect the district's ability to meet the needs of our students I think the time is
018now these budget budget meetings and school board meetings have been packed over the last few weeks these are communities that we are in a crisis right now please show us that you do too and use the to hurt this princess [Applause] [Music] since we're learning how to learn around they have ownership of her learning it helps us practice teamwork and cooperation through exhibition infinity we're going to be more organized and we were finding out more about what's going on in the world we have to see the schools who you've been learning through all of among elementary school you might be stretching isn't that good way because of you might be ruling that we can actually do something and make an impact in our honor of the world it's helping us understand stand up for what
019we believe in that's why we your be writing this letter to you please consider keeping TYT in our schools [Applause] Bart is long followed by Danielle Taylor good evening my name is Margot long and I am the intervention teacher at Cooper Mountain elementary school I am also a parent of a 10th grade student at census of high school I was taught about what to talk about today I have a speech prepared to discuss the importance of the intervention teacher in school and how important it is to keep it full-time so that all students get a chance to succeed it is on the back but instead I thought this subject was more important I what I wanted to share was the importance of the health curriculum in our schools and how I am a great supporter
020and lover of all the distances I can speak from the point of view of being an elementary teacher how valuable the curriculum has been with our kiddos but you've seen a positive impact on building relationships with others and how children are starting to take a stand and stick up for themselves they are feeling more confident as individuals as a parent I would speak about the many and varied things my son has been introduced to in his five years in the district unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight so I asked him to tell me some ideas of what he's learned over the years in health class he said people are people mom so what so what what their orientation is I don't care about the orientation just that they are a good person he's also learned
021about how to build relationships with all kinds of people he told me it was mostly about sex mom we learned about addiction depression suicide and the biggest thing he learned about was consent he told me about the fries afternoon and was able to explain it to me eff freely given are reversible I informed Ian's newsy astok in especific he said the class is all about choice moms they just give me the information and I decide what I'm going to do with it here are some things that he's do because the curriculum he's had spring come out his transgender and it was no big deal I jumped right in to tell them I was glad to help but we live on helping he's been helping friend who's suicidal this year he was able to ask the
022right questions and elicit y'all from her mother and she's in counseling and doing [Applause] my name is Daniel Taylor I've been a parent of children in the beave-coon School District for nine years we'll continue to do so for the next eight years my family and I have supported and voted for appropriate school funding every chance we found I regularly donate to and volunteer for our schools we are happy to support our schools and the district because we see that they are happy in turn to support our children with deep appreciation for the steps taken by this School District to show support and inclusion for all we were particularly excited to learn about the new lgbtq+ inclusive health curriculum to be implemented in the 2019 2020 school year this is personally important to us because we
023have a non-binary child but also is globally important because of the major health risk the lgbtq+ youth in non affirming environments in children who are not supported and affirmed by their communities the risk of developing a mental health condition is 3 to 13 times higher than in their straight and cisgender peers however when families and communities do affirm and support lgbtq+ youth their levels of anxiety depression and suicidality are developmentally normative this kind of affirmation and inclusion can literally save lives we feel grateful and privileged to live in a state that has made this public policy and inclusion clear in the Department of Education comprehensive sexuality education plan requiring that gender identity and sexual orientation topics be taught in the classroom as they state teaching these topics supports inclusion and respect prevents violence and encourages
024the learning and overall health and well-being of all students especially those who may identify as LGBTQ plus by affirming that all students are deserving of dignity respect and inclusion we are further grateful that Beaverton School District is wholeheartedly and illuzzi asta CLE following state policies and guidelines by implementing this critical curriculum adjustment they be for your support your continued good work and your time [Applause] all bye Cody Popish oh thank you to the school board tonight I mean that not just as the life point that people make when they start these things but because I can summarize my entire statement as a statement of appreciation for the direction that you guys have gone within your health curriculum I am a teacher at the health and science school and this year is my first year as
025the advisor for those faculty advisor for our high school GSI my dragon Liga first thing that you said to me as sort of the thing that they wanted to work on and improve was the health curriculum in the school district and work and they sort of need to be recognized within that curriculum as people who exist in society and I was excited and proud to be able over the course of my two years at the high school of the school several students have sort of come to me expressing an interest in improving the curriculum around consent around sexual health around sort of recognition and inclusion of queer identities and all of these are things that you guys have been working towards over the past year at a pace that is something to be proud of
026and to strengthen and so my statement here is just the statement of thank you I appreciate this and I hope you guys continue our work [Applause] um hello my name is Cody I have a first year student at Portland State and I attended the Beaverton School District kindergarten through twelfth grade and I felt that during my time in the Beaverton School District that I didn't receive sorry i mike colter i didn't burn notes um my I don't feel as if the health curriculum gave information that was useful to me as a queer person as a trans person I think that implementing these this health curriculum is a really good thing because it creates an environment of tolerance and respect towards people of different identities and I was the former officer of my query Straight Alliance
027at West two and I worked with a lot of different LGBT youth and pretty much everyone that I've worked with experienced some form of bullying whether that was verbal or physical harassment and I feel as if implementing this health curriculum will greatly help that because you know I think that information and education about these kinds of things greatly helps with politics all around and thank you for letting me speak [Applause] hello my name is Lindsey ray and I am a math teacher at West High School it's my former student that she just heard talking um I actually have some testimony from a colleague Maya Busby one of the counselors there and she um depending on the study you read anywhere between 20 and 50 percent of this generation of teenagers identifies something other than straight
028splitting the difference that means that at a school like West View about 13 students in any given classroom fall somewhere in the middle of the sexuality and gender spectrum as a school counselor I have seen a direct impact on our students who identify as LGBTQ regarding the accessibility of factual information about healthy relationships and how to protect their emotional and physical health I've heard from students who identify it straight learn about how to better support their LGBTQ peers which helps to create a compassionate and safe environment for all students I've also seen students engage in honest conversations about navigating a world of endless information on the internet and the relief they feel when they can access accurate resources in school the place where learning should be expected a student told me recently than until this
029year know reticulum health or otherwise to ever acknowledge dividual a direct way that sexuality and gender may not be the same for everybody throughout these series of lessons lessons she felt seen heard and most importantly normal we cannot ignore that that is the unfortunate truth that not every student was able to be fully open and honest about their sexual and gender identity at home and that means students would be putting themselves in danger by opening up to their families we as educators are doing a disservice to students who cannot have these conversations at home if we present does not include the experiences and perspectives of all students on a personal note I would say that as your usual myself had had the curriculum that is now being inhibited across BSD my personal education experience with
030emotional fulfilling and that much I would have had much more affirming childhood so I encourage you to be dependent on particular man I appreciate all that you're doing for our LGBTQ [Applause] there's no family member as a student who is currently learning about different sexual orientations and genders I can say that the information that is being taught is in fact coming from a family that doesn't like to discuss a lot of topics like this I feel as though I can actually learn from the material and they understand it to the best of my ability have to be respectful to those different genders and sexual orientations we're not the curriculum being the way that it is I feel as though I wouldn't know as much about the topic or they didn't have firmly about it this
031year if education is alright then school want to prepare students for their real-world situations and why wouldn't this be pretty I want to be able to understand that ruins perspectives in point of view so I can be the most respectful person education without the curriculum I wouldn't understand much about topic and wouldn't be as much help to those who might just want someone to understand especially those people years next is Liz er I spoke by support team council coming to teach in our schools it feels easier to talk with peers than with Tina's teachers on issues that may be uncomfortable talking about learning about gender identity and gender expression has brought me my perspective on views Conchetta and how to address others respectively now more than ever I never and ever I am proud to
032be a teacher in Beatrice thank you for your support in implementing a comprehensive special education standards and for document curriculum and is inclusive in my classes every student your Valley to save and respected the posters poster on my wall says I speak create thoughtful compassionate world citizens who believe in intercultural respect and the promise of peaceful hello board members my name is Richard molars my friend there she her furs and I'm a teacher in the Beaverton School District last year at this time I said in front of you presenting our new healthier new curriculum for your review that letter of focus was on a destruction of best practices and I was nervous because this is a serious venue and like I tell my students if you're not nervous but not want to thank you for
033adopting the new health standards curriculum they represent a new milestone of inclusion for our district and they treat health is a holistic subject for all our students something we didn't get to talk about last year was the literally life-saving impact these standards will have on our LGBTQ students our LGBTQ students are at risk for some truly heartbreaking negative health factors trans youth have a suicided temporary to 50% far higher than average of the homeless youth population around 36% identify as LGBTQ again far higher than average these students are also at risk for higher incidence of depression substance abuse St is and other things you wouldn't wish on anybody's children in talking with our LGBTQ students over the past 10 years it consistently told me that health class is where they feel the least at home
034and most likely to tune out because they aren't represented at all yet as we know they need help content the most so they can learn how to contract how to contract those negative risk factors that's why I'm so grateful we have new health standards and curriculum all our students will receive relevant information and see themselves represented this is inclusion in action and I thank you for your courage hi I'm Sophie Brandis and I'm here to talk about the health curriculum change I'm personally incredibly excited for this because for almost my my entire time having health class at school I had it didn't never covered anything any questions that are on my mind I had no idea who I was or what I was or anyone like me and it made middle school a very terrifying
035time with the new health curricula change kids younger than me might figure out hey these feelings I'm having are normal other people have these there are other people like me which is probably going to save some lives as has been mentioned before I I'm part of a large GSA at health and science school and it is the most well knit community we have ever been a part of and I want to every every student to have an opportunity to have that this sort of friendship that's sort of feeling of belonging of feeling normal and I feel like this have health curriculum can really you know start to change you know change the current culture about it thank you all by gory troika I'm a tenth grader at the school of cotton price and the GSA
036president but has already been spoken about uh-huh but I wanted to mention is how amazing it is to hear about how this new sex education in this new health it's taught because that's not something I had and that's not something any of my members in my chiat/day had we're anywhere from 10 to 20 people that show up to my GFF and haven't heard any of those stories and it feels great to know that sooner rather than later the people that are younger than us are going to learn about that all right they aren't going to feel like they aren't part of bikinis aren't going to feel like what they're feeling you can add and it's amazing to know that now we have something in place to teach it because when we don't teach it there's
037nothing good coming out of it we know that kids not all kids are going to be taught this not all families are going to tell us that their kids down and be like this is what you need to know and it's great to know that schools are actually going to start doing that or gonna show kids that they're normal that how to be sexually healthy and how to just be healthy individuals and that's something that I'm so excited about and I can't wait to share hammer back even I was like girl into an adult thank you all my really really hot your floor day I had the paid lot and I mean a lot of friends who are part of the LGBTQ community and I went through my health class round six upgrade and none
038of them mentioned anything about the LGBTQ community so when I actually met like um I know so he just went up and I met her kind of big hit like these people exist so there's I I feel like a lot of the people I know don't really respect them because they get really yeah they really learned about them and it kind of hurts cuz it's a lot of my friends and I'm just watching these people talk crap about them no no I I feel like the new health curriculum fit honesty really helps that you know it'll get people actually learn about them and respect them rather than ya talk crap about that madam I don't like the fact that a lot of people in the community I'm apparently a really high suicide rate I'd rather
039not my friend go through that and hurt other people like me I'm here tonight as I do also want to speak in favor of the new health curriculum because frankly all our children should be representing schools by inclusivity diversity we want them healthy one that I'd rather would have grow up be productive citizens we can't do that you know we don't talk about it doesn't mean it should go away we don't discuss LGBTQ health doesn't mean there's not going to be any LGBTQ children and adults that doesn't work burn your head in the sand doesn't make it you should go away needs to be discussed and you do learn how to healthy consensual healthy relationships we want them to you know not have none of the issues folks in my generation and your generation had
040gone to school I don't know I remember when you did not come out while you were in high school or any other time maybe with your adult maybe canoes found some house wagon might but you're sure didn't do grown up in the Midwest I do not want to see those days come back so I am 150 percent in support I'm just new curriculum I want our children to graduate with as much information as we can provide them so they can be safe healthy [Applause] really on Oh what's a new topic so all my madness fall by it's on right okay good evening mr. griding and you can School District Board members another of Mental Health Awareness Month at like to share some information on your school school district social workers my name is Ivan design
041made by vivo by cultural licensed school social workers our team of social worker includes five trained mental health professional serving every school in the district we serve students as well as their extended family to address mental health needs that may ultimately impact student's ability to fully engage in door epidemics as part of our assessment we also help families identify other community resources that help them meet their babies I'm gonna breathe for a moment in addition we serve on school teams to collaborate in issues like attendance behavior and engagement we serve as a thinking partner offering a strength-based Social Work perspective in our efforts system-wide we continue to expand traveling form in culturally relevant practices throughout countywide collaboration with other school districts as well as offering against the employees uncle professional development and we partner with
042school counselors and administrators on practical fermentations please join us today with something about stigma by wearing a green ribbon and identifying yourself as an ally and supporting the mental health needs in our schools and in and the community thank you yes sir playing ball about Molly Holly good evening mr. not a Miss Kate rivers of the school board my name is Sara going animal license school social worker mr. I knew tonight honor I would like to start one in five adults have experienced a mental health issue one in 25 live with a serious mental illness 50% of all that time cases of mental illness begin by the age of 14 37 percent of students with a mental health condition each 14 or older drop out of school this is the highest dropout rate than any
043disability group suicide is the third leading cause of death for youth of the u.s. however in Oregon it's the third leading cause for those aged 1014 it's the second leading cause of death for 15 and 34 more than half of youth who've completed suicide did not happen to a mental health condition therefore they were not receiving new services and less than 20% of children and adolescents with diagnosable mental health homes receive the treatment that they need these numbers show what we already are you know many of our students are struggling and need support access mental early mental health support and all the child before problems interfere with their other development needs promoting social emotional well-being of children and help excuse me any youth leads to many things in our community we've some higher overall productivity
044better educational outcomes lower crime rates stronger economics lower health care costs improve quality of life improve lesson our district is me correct intended to provide for our families by implementing initiative such as Tom don't care the Student Success coaches the social workers and supporting social emotional learning [Applause] my name is Melanie Elementary I came tonight to encourage you to come to us a general description and the possible solutions using the remaining time I'm not sure about the technical means of sustaining encourage you to tubes that are using it to cover or health cover or initiatives now that the Student Success act is passed we know chunk of money in the community district next summer but our districts our schools and our students can't wait a whole year with even more cuts coming next fall help
045us keep our resources our supports our teachers and our class sizes lower you heard at a recently killing principal mr. Mori gave you an overview he brought to your attention the high mobility reaped of mutiny my costume ability this year my husband was ranged from 27 to 32 students to multiple times I had a total of 38 students this year I won't be surprised if I get another student before the end of the year well I try not to label my students and work hard to notice all of my students strengths and their challenges I can't deny that there are three categories my students can easily follow the high academic need students to high behavior struggling students and he almost unnoticed students being in oshawa 27 to 32 students my job shift from small costume
046instructions and rotations to worksheets class lectures and encouraging good note-taking lectures and worksheets are not my chosen teaching strategy and fourth graders are really bad at taking good notes I'm ability rate won't change by covering the debt you might be able to add Casas and lower class numbers my students deserve smaller classes they deserves teachers who can focus on each individual and generally get genuine feedback they deserve teachers who are able to get to know them because they are special unique person they are not a number or a temporary district in our future this upcoming year forecast is pouring please use the reading fun Oh liar we have a second grader at third rope and we would like to see Beaverton School District prioritize the classrooms and the teachers the greatest impact for our child
047is the small class size and a teacher interacts with every day at the current plan our son's class would be about 50% larger exterior it's somewhat stopped Amal we are having trouble trusting and having confidence in the Beaverton School District in the midst of a rather chaotic budget cycle the CEO Phil's resignation voluntary or not with little or no explanation mix competence and leadership of the Beaverton School District difficult the three and a half percent roughly budget shortfall for about seven percent of the general impacting we feel this fortunately two teachers by about 10% makes it trouble to trust that we have the same priorities I hope the board and the leadership here is working on a new budget that does prioritize teachers and class sizes and our students are our children for those of
048us that are entrusting you with our children we feel that's very that's critical and hopefully on Wednesday you can test with us all with a new budget plan that makes these priorities thank you I find it really hard to college a concentrate when there is too many kids in my class there were there were 42 children making my brother's drama class narrow it is probably hot it's probably hard for the teacher to get around to everybody if any teachers are getting cut then children it with special needs don't have teachers to help them it will be extremely hard for the students and for the teacher probably I love drama but we don't have it at my school my friend loves art she she wants to go to ACMA but it will be more challenging you
049to do that if all our school is a steam school and yeah art is cups thank you [Applause] followed by Becky Martha hello i'm super-nervous um the beautiful lizard website states the following we are committed to providing all our students and families with safe caring and inclusive learning environments free from bullying intimidation and harassment I have a daughter in first grade at fir Grove Elementary and next year we will have another daughter entering kindergarten forego students staff and parents are struggling with frequent behavior issues which are being handled as much as possible by the classroom teachers have been met with almost no support from our school and district leadership my seven-year-old is frequently told by another class made that he wants to kill her or he has dared himself to kill her the class is
050disrupted with yelling swearing threats and violence so frequently that there have been some weeks during this school year that my daughter's classroom has had an unclear every single day to her a few weeks ago a student started attacking the class in such a way that the other children started running from the classroom in terror my smart sweet and kind-hearted daughter no longer wants to go to school she has asked her sons my new classmate if he can invent something to keep her safe she has asked me to purchase her workbooks so she can do math on the days when her entire math block is spent running the hall stirring around clear not only do these first graders not feel safe but they are losing precious education hours the problem is that my daughter's classroom is
051not the exception at fir grove or many other schools it is the norm a large portion of our student population and even the staff do not feel that the environment is safe or free from bullying intimidation and harassment as a community we are concerned about what the budget cuts will mean for schools which are which already feels so unsafe and chaotic our children in classrooms and less support staff in schools will only result in more dangerous situations and less learning time more families will turn to home-school at where the school which will hurt the budget even more it's time to make funding and safety a priority because it's hard to learn when you don't feel safe thank you [Applause] hello I'm Becky Martin I'm an ela teacher at Sunset high school and before I talk
052about staffing I just want to thank everybody in this room and has been advocating for fully funded education our efforts are making a difference and I just want to specifically thank everybody for their work on that I know that our budget is still in flux I know that we're still working on that in part because of all of these changes associated with our efforts however I am greatly concerned as a teacher the staff have not received any staffing or sectioning information beyond building EPU I know that principals meetings and deadlines have been repeatedly pushed back leaving all of us in the dark the stress levels running high due to the budget shortfall this lack of timely information is even more impactful we need this information the plan whether that planning includes searching for a new
053job preparing for a new class or boxing up supplies for a new classroom the consequences of this delay hurts teachers departments and administrators even more importantly because I stand with students these delays hurt students like many teachers I work over the summer unpaid to prepare curriculum for my upcoming classes because I want to take my time create my best work for students if we don't get teaching or building assignments until August our students will suffer due to haphazard lessons that we are forced to throw together at the last minute students are the reason we have been fighting for fully funded education and they are the reason that we need staffing information as soon as possible I appreciate that the district is trying to move cautiously and avoid stakes of the 2012 budget crisis but we
054cannot keep putting off this important decision we need to move forward we can't do that without information so please advocate to push forward with these final meetings please give us the information we need to sort of students as as we want to as we try to thank you [Applause] I am a great steward get a trolley Parker learners I want to talk about PYP I think that PYP is important because it is great for your brain to learn a second language and because we also learn many things about history science and social studies this is why I think that P Y P is important osseous [Applause] [Music] my name is Camden this this year we've learned about how just one person can make a positive impact on the unjust world we learned about Claudette Colvin
055Ruby Bridges and Sylvia Mendez kids like me that took this dance when my class learned that we're going to be having larger class sizes and that you might be able to be to take it away due to the budget we came together to have any discussion we wanted you to know how much losing PYP and growing processes with her ever learning I will be sharing my perspective with you and then my teacher Miss Marcus will share their voices and hi friends I think we should have Spanish class because when somebody's talking to you and they only know how to speak Spanish you can talk to them since you like to speak Spanish I think we should have PYP because we learned to replace through playing children use their learning skills to help the community this
056year we read a Heath Hank architect he wasn't an amazing architect and he knew how to build things this teacher did not like when she was little she got stuck in an elevator on the 59th Ward one thing if they got it live to Blue River passing island and the bridge broke my teacher asked us to work in partners and use play and architects skills to find a way to get the class back across at first me My partner and i were working by ourselves I was really frustrated I couldn't get my materials to stay together by yourself I needed help so my partner and I started working together we connected our ideas creating a bridge that had a stand with buttons and numbers this device would tell the people how many people could cross
057at a time to keep the bridge from lacking any intubated creation were make hi can talk to me is it like aha and Basanti made a rocket ship when the kids and adults play with somebody is the strength strengthen partnerships through play because of PYP and being exposed to multiple languages and culture and a smokeless we have been able to dive deeper into our understanding others from perspectives overcoming challenges with additive and painted miners responsible action candid stated we have been carrying out learning this year through the lens of justice all that we do falls under the umbrella empathy our learning goes beyond content our learning does into classroom school and community issues asking questions to support us and seeking out positive change making so I ask the children what is the benefit of can
058in many languages and these are the perspectives of second-graders Spanish helps us connect with people that speak other languages it helps us become creative we need Spanish so we can understand people that speak Spanish you can communicate your needs with others that speak other languages you can let them know any Goods water our food we will get better jobs we can connect with people and tell them how we feel our learning is strengthened when we know another language we can make friends talk to our family that live in other countries and become family with others we meet you can take care of people you can thank people for their health and Jack said language can also need danger so I asked has anyone else noticed danger and he knows that I've heard hurtful words it
059said get out on the wall and I said we'll have a purple words affect your community they said they'd make us fat divide us they are harsh Tony Gaskins once said communication to relationship is like oxygen to life without it it dies at McKinley the student body speaks 24 language 38 percent of our students identify as my female Spanish class has the oxygen McKinley needs to live potentially moving us from sadness harsh feelings and division towards learning friendship care and family but language is just one aspect of many the PYP offers PYP support small discovery through playful inquiry now Catalina will be sharing what her friends have to say about PYP families must be like the entire ageism about natural disasters and it allows us to share our learning that exploring we are creating a
060museum to teach other natural disasters we get to invite everyone to learn how to make the world safer porp gives us more knowledge everyone should have typ not just us Jack said I would like to add our cheese every stinking p1p prepares us to make more money while we are ordered April said we have learned to solve problems counters that we have learned to work partnerships through honest and we discover how things and the world works and ease that p1p makes me feel like I have was more and more and more and my brain is growing shorter concepts we should have explored because learning can be hard [Music] [Applause] hi my name is Breanna and I am president of the PTO have McKinley Elementary a frequent volunteer at the school and parent to a second
061grader I want to start off by saying that I know all of us in this room right now care deeply about the quality of education and our students are receiving I want to speak specifically to the impact their current funding crisis will have on students via the PYP program in our school including Spanish language instruction for context McKinley as a title one school and where other PT O's are excited about raising 50 to $100,000 McKinley is stoked when we raise ten thousand dollars the impact of this lack of funds has on our students are far fewer opportunities for student enrichment and learning experiences I've had several opportunities to be in the classroom and see PYP programming at work I've been along for the ride as students have taken us on a journey through u.s. history
062learning about the black and brown pioneers of the civil rights movement I bear witness to the students seeing themselves in these activists and sharing with each other the work they want to do to carry on the legacy I've been humbled to see my monster Valentine box project plan crumbled to pieces only to the aid of the students in the classroom who use creative problem-solving and collaborated to find a better quicker way my son comes home singing songs in Spanish and telling me about the most recent words and phrases he's learned that help them to communicate with our family our neighbors our friends to me the PYP program represents student-led learning and a curriculum full of culture and language this curriculum honors the diversity of our students and provides education that extends beyond the school walls
063McKinley students have a strong sense of what it means to be a part of their community in their classroom in their school and in every communities in the world reducing the number of school days next year with a hard decision that had to be made but one that provided immediate improvement and what class sizes will look like next year I have to believe that there's another with another solution out there perhaps requiring some creative problem-solving that will improve the outlook of student-led learning via the PYP program at our school next year - [Applause] Melissa Draper Paul by Jennifer Forbes so my name is Melissa Draper and I'm a leadership development coach and consultant and a parent at Rock Creek Elementary and I respectfully request that you continue funding Qi P well none of us can
064predict the future what we know is that learning facts retaining information was critical 100 years ago when people had very little access to it information was scarce that has changed we have information at our fingertips what our children need to know to prepare for what lies ahead is to make sense of information to distinguish between what is important and what is important and to provide many bits of information in two broad pictures more specific specifically skills like systems thinking and the way we do this is by teaching critical thinking communication and collaboration creativity and curiosity these are the skills they are learning in the VIP program I'm not sure if any of you have heard of the book sapiens by historic historian Noah of all Ferrari it's a book about that provides a summary of
065human civilization from the beginning of time to present day he's written two other books one of which is called homo Deus where he talks about what he thinks it's going to happen in the future this is a man who's followed by people like Bill Gates he also talks about what he thinks we need to do to prepare our children for the future what he says is this above all the absolute most important skill our children need to adapt to be adept at is the ability to deal with change to learn new things and preserve their mental balance and unfamiliar situations to survive and flourish in the future our children will need mental flexibility and great reserves of emotional balance we will repeatedly have to let go of what we know best and learn to feel
066at home the unknown again these are the skills our children are learning in the few IP they're learning both self and other and world awareness and how to regulate their emotions and situations where all of the answers are not available if we want to our children to achieve of what we consider post high school success I think cutting this program would be neglectful for them so I appreciate your time and hope you consider my words as well as their words of our foremost historian thank you [Applause] hello I'm Jennifer art from once the elementary school where I was Hugh a coordinator and our three teacher we can all agree the teacher is practically a superhuman the power of a group of teachers the focus goal is an energy like no other this is no secret
067to the Beaverton School District collaboration is one of the four pillars Tristan believed so much and the power of professionals working together it is invested in several PD opportunities over the years and the professional development facilitator I was extensively trained to guide learning teams and data-driven problem-solving this was Sawyer why make this major investment collaboration is best practice researcher John Hagee this team ranked influences that are related to learning outcomes the number one influence related to student achievement one can any teaching strategy curriculum or setting with collective teacher efficacy that's when a group of teachers have a common goal and believe they will make an impact reaches research shows us they do Ducote researcher Richard before the purpose of collaboration to help more students achieve at higher levels can only be accomplished as the professionals
068are focused on the right work in my experience facilitating learning teams and also working with teachers in Kaimuki collaboration there is me difference in teacher growth and student achievement if easily as easily as expressed with the familiar phrase you can lead a horse to water the top-down best intention of guided learning team rarely has the energy and results of PYP collaboration in Claire Asian each team is unique progressing in their own pace on topics of the team's choosing teachers like their students light up and they're working together when the teachers decide to invest their time and energy in an area they believe they can make a difference that collective efficacy is powerful and the result is inspiring in collaboration we are unit planning reflecting and working on professional development recently bunny slope we investigated inquiry
069methods promoted international mindedness and we right now deepen on social and emotional learning through the framework of the VoIP we're focused efficient and able to achieve so much more I respectfully requests that the investment already made in the PYP be maintained the PYP is excellence innovation equity and collaboration thank you [Applause] [Music] hello thank you afraid listening to less lots of different points of views I'm a caring of to be written students part of dyslexic learners I come to give a voice to the most Roma students specifically those who received reading intervention earlier we heard from a reading intervention teacher who talked at all about balance well now I'm here to talk about her position reading intervention works of the most at-risk students currently this is the position that has been a full-time one but
070it's one that has been reduced for next year I know these cuts are hard but this position acts as a safety net for kids who may get lost with higher class sizes these teachers develop a rapport with kids over the years that allows them to take risks in a smaller group setting some of these children don't feel safe enough to do that in the regular class I rather have seeded small class sizes make it easier for teachers to teach and for students to learn I ask that you carefully consider the use of these students and please use any available resources including the rainy day fund for next year as a stopgap or the next year hello my name is Andy Johnson and I am an openly transgender college student who is an irritant community member
071and graduated from the Beaverton School District last year I'm speaking up upon the I was speaking up on the behalf on behalf of the lgbtq+ students than the new health standard and curriculum that was passed by the urban school district board members I'm very thankful and happy that this new set of health education standards just passed because my experience with being a queer student and taking a required health class based strictly around straight and cisgender students was very challenging I need to I needed to correct my teacher on a daily basis felt very alienated and learned nothing that was relevant to me in my situation students would come up to me and ask me invasive questions about things I didn't want to answer and I felt like I didn't need to be answering them health
072teachers should be educating students the full spectrum of health versus just one specific kind of health they should be using inclusive language and teaching teachers and teaching students that it's not weird to feel the way you feel lgbtq+ students should be learning just as much as everybody else and should be given an equal amount of curriculum doing this will not only educate everybody about lgbtq+ health but will also allow the large percentage of students who identify as queer to answer less invasive questions that are given to the hammer feel like they're just as valid assistant as cisgender and more Street students and allow them to actually be interested in the curriculum because it's relevant to them thank you [Applause] my name is Nathan Moore and I am a transgender and person of color and I'm
073very proud and open about my identity since I'm very open about my identity my principal last year came up to me and asked me if I could make anything to go on my transition and within a year I was able to show that whole video to my school not only did I show my video to my full school but I also submitting my video to the signal-to-noise Film Festival and my film won the documentary section of the high school section I know there's like no schoolers high schoolers and all that but ever since I was rewarded for that video I got contacted by health facilitators counselors teachers in the Curtin district asking if I can come and help let's do that Shuai LGBTQ don't have that support at their school so the little free time
074that I have to go to the high school or middle schoolers and talk to them about what can teachers do better and how can we what can we do to make the students feel safer at school and I get pretty much the same responses that we want to be acknowledged and I really feel like I strongly believe that you can go forward with these new learning targets for next year about LGBTQ students who do identify as LGBTQ will feel more acknowledge and welcome especially trans people of color and just people of color who do identify as LGBTQ because statistically they taste the most harassment bullying and discrimination so I strongly believe that it will be really good if we this thank you they hold you for Kody's night participating our testimonies so first report up
075is first lieutenant I want to thank everyone for coming today and advocating for all children and especially for some of our most vulnerable children as was stated last week the governor officially signed into law House bill 3427 and today I was fortunate to be down at Salem elementary school along with Sara Schmidt Lindsey ray and math teacher at Westfield David Williams and Leah Marston our board member and it was an amazing time and what does that mean for Beaverton School District in the first year which would be 2020 2020 why in which the funding would be available it would mean an estimated thirty four million dollars for the Beaverton School District it's important to note that there's probably a strong chance that the bill could be put on the ballot for a January vote for
076the referendum process that already has it basically requires about seventy five thousand signatures which would have to be gathered 90 days after the close of the legislative session what's important to note is this will be the largest single one time additional investment ever made to pre k-12 education and I want to especially thank everybody to include our community members board members staff members everyone who participated in this advocacy because what I can tell you without everything without everyone's participation this would not have happened this would not I want to specifically call out Oh a OSE a cosa OS ba and all other organizations it really came through and helped us get this get this up and running while we were there we heard three specific things talked about by the governor and by members of
077the Student Success committee representative Warner Warner and Senator Roblin and some of you talked about them today having resources to address some of the trauma mental health issues that exist in our schools today the other issue that was brought up was acceptable class sizes so teachers have the ability to get around to each and every child so it's you don't have to pick and choose we they're going to be able to serve and the third was early learning a way to get at some of our most vulnerable children as soon as they're born so when they do enter kindergarten they have a fighting chance whether it's in social emotional learning and or in academic progress concerning the 2019-20 budget so on May 22nd which is Wednesday at Southridge high school I will propose a revised
078budget to the Budget Committee my revised budget will specifically be prioritized to mitigate class size increases in addition my proposal will be constructed with bridge funding being a focus meaning that a hospital 3427 becomes a reality funding would be available funding which would funding available on July 20 July 1 2020 we would not decimate class sizes and when I say bridge funding I'm talking about proposing use of reserve funds on the other hand if House bill 34 to 27 which we are keeping our fingers crossed would come up and not pass it also puts us into a glide because if it does not pass we and along with every other school district don't worry again we'll be in for some very rough times into in 2020 2021 on midnight gym sure singer was hired to
079be the new interim CFO for the Beaverton School District many eight goals to lead staff to construct the revised 2019-20 school budget mitigating class size increases review current financial processes and practices and remind findings and recommendations to revise financial practices and processes after a devstream you in a short time here and it's been a very short time he's trying to put together a revised budget which a budget usually takes about four months to put together he's trying to put together a revised budget probably in less than two weeks he is already met with board leadership the EAA leadership cabinet Budget Committee leadership and other department staff getting an understanding of past practices and to gather information what I can tell you mr. ershon your credentials are impeccable he's led organizations far larger than the Beaverton
080School District and he's led other school districts larger than the Beaverton School District in providing sound financial practices as well as instilling integrity into the budget what I can tell you Jim and is crew in the business department have a Morgan non-stop long hours on weekends and working as fast as possible as I think I heard one miss Martin come up and talk about teachers are waiting they're waiting to find out about their jobs do I go get a job elsewhere what am I going to do so they're kind of in limbo and to stop the district of this size we need to have some numbers and able to move forward so I know there's a lot of pressure on this board there's a lot of pressure on leadership and there's going to be a
081lot of pressure on the business department as well as our HR department to make sure and get that out there once a budget is proposed and eventually adopted moving on from that I had the opportunity last week along with a couple board members to attend the Beaverton School District innovation Expo posted Lola high school and just able to see almost every school in the district participated and being able to see everyone from a kindergartner up through a twelfth grade being able to show off some of their projects and innovation it was absolutely amazing hats off I don't know if he's in the room Johnny linskey in his entire group as well as a low high school for for hosting it I was also able to attend some mock interviews at South Ridge High School and
082these are interviews where juniors are able to come and different community members and they basically go up like it's a real interview and I was fortunate to two young ladies who were actually went through the boundary process and from another high school and at first they did not want to go they went kicking and screaming and they told me that but now they said it's one of the best experiences they've ever had and they believe that experiences actually help prepare them for life as they get ready to eventually graduate and go out into the world so they said that the principal and entire Southbridge staff just made welcome and now they absolutely love where their happened they still love their their old high school and then finally just want to talk about last Thursday chair
083of ten check was able to attend we have some scholarships that are provided by our administrators some by myself and some by some of my minority scholarships and so we had students who had applied several so many many applications and we had to narrow it down and get scholarships for these folks that would help them go to college they've already been accepted and they were going and I can tell you after hearing some of their stories there was not a dry eye in the school some of the obstacles challenges that these students have had to overcome to be where they are is absolutely amazing and we need much more money I'll just give you one example of this young woman of color she had not seen her dad for 14 years as he's incarcerated she's
084the daughter of a single mom mom works 60 to 80 hours per week at multiple jobs they've been homeless several different times and her hero is her law and her mom was there most of these families were here but on the bright side this young lady will be their commencement speaker at high school she has several offers to college and this would never happen without number one she said strong teachers believed in her helped her move on and most of all that mom that's working 60 to 80 hours a week 80 hours a week not getting to see her daughter as much as most of us get to see our kids but she know that education still is the gateway for this girl to change her life and the lives of generations to come after
085her so it was it was very very very moving so that's all I have thank you all right on your school report first up is okay level entry with good evening thank you so much for having us first of all I want to say I am celebrating my 30th year and the Beaverton School District and I would say I have been a very very lucky person to be a part of this district I came as a beginning teacher and have had enormous opportunity to learn and grow and as an immigrant to be in this room with passionate people sharing their viewpoints and everybody listening and agreeing and working towards a great solution I just can't tell you how it fills my heart so thank you everybody so I'd like to start all the great things
086about Oak Hills it's my third year at Oak Hills Elementary School and Jennifer joined me two years ago so we've been very lucky to have an assistant principal for two years an inch-long be ya know we work really well together so three big highlights I think for us you know our students about ninety two percent of our students have reported that they feel close to at least one adult and I think that's a very high percentage and we attribute that to the fact that we were a cell pilot school two years ago we were the first group of schools that got a lot of training and not just for the admin team before teacher represents the students growth so about ten teachers plus we were the first group to get a success coach and that
087made a huge difference in our school we have PD monthly for our staff we learned together we collaborated together to figure out the best way to support all students and I think that's why our kids feel so connected to the adults in our building a couple of the other pieces for us a hundred percent of our teachers felt that they have contributed to school decisions and I feel proud of that I think my style of leadership is in collaborating with their teachers but every summer we gather and we look at it every data point that we have everything from surveys services about myself services from the community from our kids of course are our data as well on the academics and we collectively side what is it that we need to work on how do
088we make that happen and how do we collectively move the school board and so I think that's what's the tribute to that and this year we were selected as a teacher's college lab school and we got tremendous professional development I must say that in my own time teaching and being an administrator this is the best professional development I have ever seen an experience many reasons for that and we'll go into that a little more in detail later but it is because collectively we learn and it is our adoption so it's not something new not something out there we're trying to leave together it's really diving in deeper into the adoption itself watching a coach model those lessons with our own kids and helping us do the same and I think that's made a huge difference
089for us and really proud of our teachers moving forward doing more units than is required and really making a difference in our reading and writing curricula so now Jennifer is going to talk about all the problems cuz that gets our just share the good burn before I talk about one of our challenges I just want to echo what she said about all the support that we feel from the board and our leadership at the district level so it really makes the work that we do in the building doable to have that kind of support behind us so one of the things that was a challenge for us last year was that our math achievement at grade 3 went down by 10 percentage points and we attribute that to inconsistent staffing as well as inconsistent delivery
090of curriculum and that's because the our new curriculum context for learning mathematics and as well as the workshop model was new for us last year so even though we had great modeling from our math studio teachers and professional development we felt like our teachers still needed more support to get that off the ground last year we did have our math Tosa provide professional development and like I talked about we have modeling from our fantastic maths duties but these just don't feel like there were enough supports in place so one of the things that we were able to do this year is we continued that math PD with their teachers and they have to opportunity opportunities to work with our math Tosa as well as one of our ESL ptosis so between men and our studio
091teachers we were able to provide for professional development opportunities for math and the math workshop model as well as how to support our English learners with mathematics and we expect that these actions will directly address that challenge the other area of concern is that our boys are not performing as well as our girls both in Romanian writing especially in reading there are 20 percentage points the lower girls but I think one of the reasons is because we were not providing the kinds of books that are going to hook them and so we've spent and our PTO has also supported and so that's teaching and learning we've added a thousand dollars worth of nonfiction books in every grade level classroom library they provide a variety of topics and usually our boys tend to want to learn
092more about tarantulas or something of that nature especially in our younger grades and so now we have a lot for a bigger variety of books available for our students and to help them get interested again the other part was that when we compared ourselves to schools similar to us in the socio-economic level we were the low it lowest in reading growth and that was really not a good thing to see that means we're not challenging our students at their rate and level and so again we feel the work we've done this year by being a TC school and really working you know having that efficacy with the curriculum and everybody being on the same page and making sure that we were sticking with this timeline of when we're presenting these units and a very timeline
093I my teachers have ever worked this hard and I don't think we work this part because for us to be with our teachers we have to be reading the unit's right along with them because when we go in to observe we have to give them feedback that's going to help them grow even further so we spent hours and hours reading and supporting it ourselves and I think that's going to make a huge difference in our Elaine's course so now we're open to questions thanks so much for that thorough report and orders any questions huh I'll just start by saying like things like trenchless I'm I'm wondering about social-emotional learning over the last three years and I'm wondering what the effect of having Student Success coaches in the building has had if that's enough support if
094there's other supports that are needed to be working on that issue so um three years ago I don't I don't remember that number but we were able to get the clea number for the last two years of these so last year there are two different numbers we have an academic learning center so they are rimmel ears that are done for various reasons so I'll give you the disaggregated thing over that so last year in our academic learning center we had about 36 room clears and that was a result of about five students total in the general education setting we had approximately 21 real players caused by about three students this year I our ALC classroom the room clears are at 18 and they're caused by four students and then room players in our general classrooms
095are 15 caused by three students both ears we've had Student Success coaches so if you're asking some of that data you know it just depends on who's enrolled in our school and what me do they have and how do they display their behavior right so some kids maybe they're in the yellow zone as all no other zones are regulation so some of them may be in the yellow zone that they tend to shut down right and they don't overtly display their behaviors and others start vertically displaying their behavior and start getting all the kids rattled up and or get very very aggressive and I would say probably the last three years I don't know what happened in the water or I don't know I am I have not seen those types of behaviors or that
096many students with those types of behaviors in our schools and I'm not just talking about okay it's happening across the district you're probably hearing and it's happening nationally as well I think having us whose student success coach makes a huge difference because the student success coach can work with teachers at a different level after all I am an evaluator and we as much as I work with my teachers and teams and I think they can come to me for everything I think they feel more comfortable going to the success coach to get additional coaching on how to problem solve together I think that makes a huge difference for them success coach also provides PD and support in that way they help us provide those needed schedule breaks for some of our children and they provide
097check-ins and other things that counselors do and honestly sometimes our students it happened today we have a child who the minute he sees Jennifer or I he goes from the yellow to a complete red plus so I think it's because we we are the disciplinarians and not that we've been meeting them we're really nice but there's something about him knowing that we deal with the parents and everything else he it just escalates into the next level and so I think having the success coach go as the sort of the first layer of support makes a huge difference as well so I don't have all the answers what can we do to further support I was at all schools probably need continued PD and support on all these social emotional issues and understanding the different disabilities
098and how it shows itself because I do know that even with the same disability it comes out in so many different ways in the longer and in this business of more I learn beverage house brain is wired so differently and everything comes out very differently and so our biggest job is to figure out what are the things that get that behavior going and what can we do to mitigate that and sometimes the behavior comes because they can't do the academic tasks sometimes it comes because they don't know how to interact with some somebody and sometimes it's just something they remembered and now it's set them off and so our job is about figuring out what is going to work with a child and sometimes it takes a long time to get to a point where
099we can get them the added support and help just to add on and in honor of mental health awareness just a plug for school psychologists we have a school psych is able to work with us just one and a half days a week but our needs we have kids that come in in that very very top tier of the red zone and if we're not trained to know what are the antecedents or what are the functions of their behavior and it's so useful to be able to collaborate with our school psychologists not fortunately we just don't get him very much yes one was the clear trend lines particularly on your survey data and the positive direction I just know as remember the O close community it's been really felt and appreciated I wasn't surprised to
100see about 90 percents there because I'm not those kinds of things to just kind of just feel I also really appreciated that in terms of your academic data that you really honed it and that although it was not negative but it was also just room for improvement that you are eager to take it to the next level make sure that we're serving all students well and then listening to you I really appreciated the focus that you have for providing feedback that was timely and helpful with this engineers school I'm sure that's appreciated as well it's a privilege to work with she'll and her team they're just every once in a while great things get up to me and just for the board to know that had some central office folks who supervised Sheila and Sheila
101went to and said you know what I'm here for the district if there's somewhere else that you think I kids I'm willing to do whatever is best for the history so that is mountain all the time so really appreciate you know our district John Chester you like the corner without congratulations on 30 years of dedicated service and so many different buildings as well so thank you so much all right next up [Applause] I the principal had a Berk I have the privilege of sitting in this room for many meetings and I have to say that what I heard this evening was honestly amongst the most inspiring to be in this room just surrounded by community members and teachers and students was such a strong passion for education I love that and so it's truly privileged
102to be able to sit and listen to everybody's commitment and passion for this work I'm Curtis mama this is my third year I'm a mark and it was cool to see some future ahead of our families over here as well and for those of you familiar with middle school third year is a really special year because it's the year the kids I started with the sixth graders will be leaving us as eighth graders and it's gone by really fast but it's been such a gift and a privilege to be there for the past three years and hopefully from anywhere come tonight I wanna share with you a couple of highlights some successes and ensuring some fun ones to begin with and then talk about some of my our data and then also some of our
103challenges moving forward first off some things that were mentioned earlier for those of you that attended I x19 Expo you got to see our students who worked really hard are added students to create this is called the library transfer vehicle and so this group of students as a steam school worked with our lids and designed an electronic bike if you will they have the wagon and they designed it and built it and they used our makerspace and it turned out beautifully and well troubling it worked so it's been a lot of fun to drive this thing I've been on the halls of Highland and I know the kids really had a great time participating this and it would have cost them opportunity for them have a public voice to present and be in front of
104people celebrating their work so we're thankful for that opportunity was really a great celebration for Alan this year on that note as well Arnold I cultural basketball team Bronco trophy this year which we're pretty excited about they've been working really hard and it's what warms my heart about this group is how many former our kids come back to volunteer in any part of it whether it's coaching or riffing it's just again it's such a strong community activity that is just wonderful to see the participation moving forward this year as well I had a personal highlight going to a blazer game with some avid students of the field trip chaperone day we threw some pretty goes and I embarrass myself considerably in front of them that's definitely not my strong suit I was a science teacher
105and so that never came naturally but it was it was such an awesome opportunity to connect with students this year one of the things that we we started and focused our year on is is social-emotional learning the social emotional growth and we're in year three of CRT studies as a school and so one of the the datasets that's I am very pleased with is our growth in the percentage of students who are reporting that at least one adult cares for them and that's it's interesting because I was really kind of a theme that I've heard many of the presentations and conversations this evening is the importance of students connecting with an adult and so as you may see there were 89 percent of our students that reports an adult care cell cared about they might
106have a marker I wish me is it's great growth but it also shows that there's 11 percent of our students who are not feeling that way and that's that's the 11 percent that keeps me up at night and so as we continue our work together as a staff learn how to meet the needs whether that's through very curriculum and health curriculum a curve this evening or teaching practices I know that bringing that over 200 percentages is collectively our goal I have a park and then we endured this time of conversations around budgets and staff one of the things that's personally challenging is I know each one of those teachers I can talk about students that they have connected with an example way and when we talk about movements amongst teachers those are the images that
107come up to my mind as far as I hope that somebody else will be able to make those connections history is so important so we're going to continue our CRT and sub work moving into next year we're also really fortunate to have an amazing student manager Josh Porter who works almost like a student success coach at the elementary level he works very closely with our teachers providing that professional development one-on-one coaching he honestly does a lot more individual work with teachers on how to support students who may be struggling then actual behavior discipline which I think it's it's a great opportunity for us to grow and learn together as well some of our areas of challenge and growth I really focus here continuing on the social-emotional piece and specifically the students the percentage of students
108who are missing school and specifically those that are missing school because there's not like that to miss school those that are excluded due to suspensions and expulsions and I don't have it but my assumption is that many of those students are also the 11 percent who are not feeling that they identify with one staff member I have haven't Park and so we we're seeing a reduction this year from where we've been in the past but I think that as we continue to grow frankly as a leader continue to have the courageous conversation with staff about the deficits that exclusionary practices have on not only our students but as our whole community that's that's a personal goal for next year is to see that number reduce because I really believe that all of our kids if
109they feel connected and they belong at school and we will see a reduction the behaviors that are resulting in those suspensions and expulsions in the other area that we are focusing on as a school we have a school-wide goal this year increasing our our state assessment scores specifically in LA by 4% we've seen relatively stagnant growth across all areas for language arts scores and particularly our underperforming students or any or D students are continuing to other perform and so collectively as a school in the fall we set four percent growth rate goals with the intention of bringing the reading and writing instruction to all over content so this year through some of the avid professional our classes so director and indicator scores triple in the neck or told us they think show some growth but
110even in absence of that prepare to stop the amazing work and occasionally memory I think that this is one area that unify this powerful way as we have our mission of engaging and inspiring and empowering all students to be successful critical readers and critical writers is such a important component of that and so we're thankful to be able to continue with the TC work the Teachers College work has a powerful professional development and then bringing some of that those opportunities beyond our language arts teachers to our nap in science and ultimately our elective teachers as well so as our goals and direction moving forward is relating to a multiple dinner or burkhart or score book our data shows some growth with our unity scores but personally the one that I'm staying up at night it's
111moving that's eighty-nine percent to a hundred so that we have every student I had an article can I do to adults if to mention that there any questions highly quite a few times and first of all you folks have one of the best band programs around and your band concerts I mean you can sell tickets people are that when you do outside the whole yard is filled up it's just the the enthusiasm is just great and you have a very you know active pair group I've got another 10 years PTO meetings and they're they're very active and they want to be a great partner with you and that comes through and my question you use a a couple years ago we were looking at moving Zuma we came up with another plan how thank you
112for that and yeah we we just finished what we do an HP parade so those that live in the community may get to hopefully don't stay the night and we march up and down Wilson Avenue and do a parade to the program elementary school limits that's one of the highlights I'd love that opportunity of all of our students get to go outside and celebrate our dance students and it's the Banda Highland Park if you've not had an opportunity here there's really phenomenal the guy know like three chords on the piano and I every time they play it's just an amazing experience your question you distract me advance assume I assume in particular yes are we are thankful that the students who became aware of the transition are being allowed to stay I have a party
113through their 8th grade experience and so that was part of it evolved to get to that point it's it's good that is a strong group of students a really strong parent community I believe that they built felt hurt through that process I am still able to see them celebrate himself being a community I think that if anything I think that his grades brought them closer together today was a day that they learned about the retirement at one of their beloved Summa teachers and that was a powerful leg was emotional for them and so I think it's yet another testament to how much they care about each other and their teachers that they happen so it's answer your question is to a transition good well they're thankful the state zipper didn't just also we talked about
114principals being team players in the summer I unexpectedly we needed some different leadership in another one of our schools so came and probably the 12-hour took got one of curtis's administrators who is key to that school and Curtis made it work could have been could have been devastating but just done right in and what was best for the kids you can state your focus thank you thank you for that and all credit is with Ryan or news all right thank you will you have the normal financial reports the meeting page is maybe the most important is the forecasts and revenues and expenditures for the rest of the year and the ending balance actually is up a little bit from the last one and it's still the only thing that it's not good about it is
115that the it's still less than what is in the proposed budget for next year so and I think this now it's going to actually come up a little bit before the end of the year we know of one thing after this was done that will increase it for hundred thousand dollars but it's for getting pretty close to the end of the year you know where state school fund is so the opportunity for large increases is is probably not there so there will be that adjustment and then the rest of the reports think you've seen them my understanding is you just take questions from this point reporting to us you're welcome to open to some questions we know it's a lot of information and really appreciate you stepping up and educating us and you know we
116will be hearing more information or actions one is to hold a public hearing at the next school board meeting around exempting students that are on track to graduate or are taking exhilarated learning courses do not have to have a full schedule so if we do that you see the number of students that are affected let's 5712 students to high school level who would be exempt from having a whole schedule for those reasons and you also have that the second Dacians of the state requires the second thing that I would ask you to consider before June is in division 22 they're allowed to have exceptions for students in alternative programs for students in passages GED prep at bridges home instruction it doesn't make sense that we would require them to have a full schedule community school
117I think we need to include them in that request it is an alternative program for that and there are students in there they have flexible schedules based on their needs and their path towards graduation and then finally the third one bird this year only hopefully it would be to include 30 hours of professional development this instructional time questions I'm sorry yeah 18:19 see be any question I just want to make sure we're specifically excluding Community Schools so do they everyone who doesn't mean the instructional time or is it I'm just I excluded them from the analysis because I'm assuming that we would apply for the waiver for them so I don't have in my head but the calculation that's what I thought I just wanted to make sure I understood so do you have a
118recommendation on all of the above you want the public hearing yes public hearing in June and then bang on what we hear well formula the recommendations are there so instead of just being a report about to become your consent and it's not an option all three doesn't recommend it okay and 1920 should be a handout at your place and so we're reducing the number of instructional days but it's really a wash in terms of the instructional time so the number of student contact days is reduced by nine the were also gained fact the 57 hours that we had in the calendar for professional development with collaboration time on Wednesday so those two really balanced so my projections for 1920 are in the bottom chart there littles [Music] so in the chart at the bottom of
119the page we have some schools that are in danger of not meeting instructional time requirements next year at the elementary level and that's based on the number [Applause] [Music] other schools and grade levels and so what we discussed this afternoon in teaching and learning is to be more explicit with LSU principal and say the maximum amount of recess and lunch minutes would be 70 minutes and if that's done then you'll have the hours of instruction 921 hours which is 21 hours above the minimum at kindergarten and then 969 hours for grades 1 through 5 but never allowed for 20 minutes for lunch 20 minutes for recess attached to lunch another 15 minute recess and in an additional 15 minute recess in kindergarten and that would also include four days for parent conferences at the middle
120level not a problem we're almost 40 hours above and then I school the whole this is again where we kind of get close to the bubble for both the nine ninety hours for grades 9 through 11 and the 966 for grade 12 we could pick up some hours and we're still in discussion about this if we reduce the amount of early release for finals so it's generally three days of early release at the end of each semester hour and a half two hours just depending on those days if we reduce that you can pick up some some time there and our seniors are fine even with six days of early release for seniors next year Ahmed is be you can see they're all so close they do not have early release for finals so it's
121gonna be tight but they'll make it and then an HS to SST is kind of to be determined as you know those schools are merging next year they're like different bail schedules right now we need to figure out with that schedule would be whether they would release early for finals as are and I know HS to is two additional non student contract dates for parent conferences we'll see if that stays in their model based on with the programming that they're operating and then I love the community school off the list because they would be covered under the waivers that's approved by the superintendent the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction so question time what's coming verb nineteen twenty I just want to make sure I understand what you're presenting soup it looks to me my especially
122a lot of high school we're meeting the requirements but there's just right and in the calculation of instructional time section of above I noted where boards have flexibility to count one student project on this instructional hours and I just walked 20 ft that's in italics the gain the 1617 school year the state did not does not allow districts to count two days of weather closures or closures for whatever reason as instructional time so we are one of the few districts in the metro area that does not automatically build into its calendar and require those one to one make updates so we lose those days for weather I'll probably be coming back to you and saying hey can you include professional development as instructional time until we started building that calendar so I'm guessing that the
123board should give a point of view on that at some point or even like the recess exemption I think there was a preference for recess rather than cutting you know PD or something like that it would be helpful for you to know yes any other questions so sorry yeah that's something soon added a caveat on to the calendars that word for word and that line is in the event ticket inclement weather emergency closures prevent the district from meeting to required instructional hours yet a set by OTE the dates will be made up in June so that's now published on our calendars my question is something like that yeah so in that case we'd have to come back and say well either I would have to go longer and ink up today's Florida under the board
124and say we need to do something around parent conferences or professional development for everybody so when would you need this feedback as far as from or yes because we would like to give an access to principals as far as simple changes whether it's the vinyl schedule or recess and lunch times hey another advisement Thank You Madame chair all right next up yes your enrollment forecast we have some special guests laughter the warden - Steven sparks understood it's my right Robert cracking and we're here to talk about the PSU population research centers forecast for population in our attendance area this is an opportunity project because we do have the middle school boundary adjustment coming up and actually it's underway we also have the update of the district's facility plan underway and so these are our two
125projects that are very heavily dependent on accurate population forecasting so to help us out with this explain to you what me what he has been able to find out for us thank you and thanks for firing up the screen just first for me system on the agenda I let's start at the beginning this is something that's pretty fascinating in all the marketers across the country this is you can see we get births from the Health Department by residents mother so we're able to fit it to the school district a little more precisely than just Calico parts and most recent year that we have geocode it is 2017 hundred years nineteen percent fewer births to Beaverton residents than in the peak year 2007 and for this decade the average since 2010 is about 9% o the
126average for the last decade to 2010 2000 to 2009 so in the report there's a similar graph showing showing a kindergarten and first-grade enrollment but the the ratio of course changed for kindergarten in 2015 when when full-day was fully implemented so the ratio of kindergarten to two births five years earlier went up which is great good so I decided to look for this presentation at first grade it's a little more stable of over the past 10 years and the fact you can see here but this ratio this isn't how we do the forecast but once we look at the historic ratio it's pretty stable you know generally between 23 to 26 so what this is is for example first grade a moment this year divided by Earth's between September 2011 and August 2012 that would
127be the cohort that eligible to be in first grade this year of course there's lots of movement in how young families are very mobile and they're people moving in and out Beaverton general people more people moving in then out over the long term but you can see this this relationship between first so it's not a perfect first they're not a perfect variable to predict kindergarten first grade but they're they're pretty pretty good there's an interesting relationship so in the forecast that we've done which is really a population-based forecast we use estimates of migration and fertility to grow out beyond the period that we have verse four it's the ratios drawn a little closer we're you know we don't want to clearly the worst economy in terms of the impact on births of births on school
128elementary school environment because birds have continued to decline after 2011-12 you can see the most recent year 27:18 more declines so we are forecasting some elementary decline but we are also expecting you know that the uptake and housing growth that we're already seeing is going to pull these that first grade enrollment a little closer to the birth lion likewise in the report we mentioned that in spite of the fact that that cave I have ever wanted declined that was all new to the income in kindergarten being smaller than the outgoing fifth grade this year so that that column on the right one point deserves our rate what that means is you had almost 1% more children enrolled in grades two through five this year then you had in grades one through four last year and
129that means there's more families with young children in doubt and that's that's generally been true in most years so in the forecast where the first read poem is this coming year fall 2019 and the the second red column on the right is a average of the following nine years in forecast so it's it's a forecasting growth but relatively conservative in terms in line those long-term trends but one of them take a look at cohorts cohorts are four demographers cohorts or everything there for school enrollment especially so five years ago your biggest class size of the square in grades one through five you know right along you know those elementary grades so now that same chord is in grades six through ten you can see right up these illustrates historically why elementary enrollment has been declining
130but it also illustrates why your current middle school enrollment is the highest it's ever been and the high school enrollment is the highest it's ever been and we do continue you know we do a forecast four or five more years of growth in high schools before hitting a plateau or slight decline so here's the results the high we did a high middle and low forecast and the middle forecast there in the upper left-hand corner k12 showing the red a a couple more years of small and Roman growth followed by some decline and the the difference in these forecasts is based on the level migration gentlemen more people moving into the district than out even in the low forecasts but the the birth declines sort of takes precedence over the in migration and and makes it
131kind of hard to to grow up enrollment they see in the other a specific school level forecasts see decline in all three scenarios at k5 we see pretty stable 6 8 some decline in the middle and as I've actually continued growth in high school enrollment for the smaller cohort tip there are individual school forecasts also in in the report and best I can say about them if they are a scenario consistent with the district-wide series individual school forecasts are a lot more volatile and subjective fluctuation than the district-wide forecast there could be even more growth in some of those areas for all the schools building permits and perspective development and the cities and counties and you know those didn't implements the forecast of each school there are places where there's not much building going on
132we can already see declining incoming kindergartens it was you know there were a lot of elementary schools we're showing a loss we're showing you know not nearly as much growth as could happen in South Cooper mountain the shoal sites and especially hazel Vale but because we're we're already fairly bullish on a district-wide forecast you know we didn't want to assume that all the roads go down there and you know holding the more students out of the existing areas you know we don't want to pick to the winners and losers so there's gonna be schools that they were showing decline for that may not decline you know some of the existing neighborhoods that would turn over and younger families living in 34 Elementary School's it's and you know with fairly many more fairly built out so
133the change that occurs is not due to new housing it's due to change to turnover and what type of households are moving into the existing housing so it's something that I'm sure your staff is going to keep watching closely district-wide forecasted that we feel good about this as demographers so that's okay arrow up those are the schools that are drunk so any questions thanks for the presentation created I know that predicting the futures in exact science and what you're doing here is really difficult but I'm wondering from the last time that we did a large study like this to this time if you learn anything from previous data and where we were wrong before we were right before and if that changed any of the modeling you did this well it may be sure that
134we because it's been a long time since we did this type of forecast seven years that was the last time that we did forecast for the Beaverton School District so the model is the methodology is is basically the same though we have seven more years of new data we're getting that 2010 birth to look like it might have been an outlier and we had births going up again after that in fact that's at a time kind of the consensus was well the recession has affected people's bishop decisions to you know about families and they're just postponing the births and there's going to be a resurgent that was the thinking among many demographers and but the decline has continued even after the recovery and people are having fewer children or not having children involved and deep
135in death or not feeling societal pressure children previous generations so that's that's what we're observed now plus we expected the housing recovery to start earlier but looking back in 2012 we figure the development was going to be taking out then we always looked like to look at the first thing I looked at before doing the forecast is if four districts that we had worked with previously you know what was the accuracy or dinner and you know most districts the weren't as different us as Beaverton maybe because it's been so long or maybe just because of the extreme turnaround in terms of births and migration to slow down I think we're so different it's a good question and it's interesting to see the different trajectories of different metro area districts because we actually work with most
136of them and at the time that well we worked with Portland Public Schools every year and they were losing lots of enrollment in the early 2000s that turned around in the late 2000s and at the time when a lot of the suburban districts started to lose enrollment north Clackamas Tiger Tualatin Beaverton in some years you know these were districts that had been growing for 20 years or more year after year at the same time before the public started to grow these districts during declines and it wasn't but now that's starting to turn around actually public peaked their kindergarten peaked in 2012 and they're starting to lose elementary enrollment - thank you any other questions so do we take into two things into account like our housing costs I mean I I know Portland's I mean
137everybody's housing cost but when we're between the birth rates and then housing costs and we're losing students but then said migrating in as well as the trend because of the employers that we have and I'm just wondering what other factors you can besides just the birth rate and the migration well of course everything's a big district and you have a lot of diversity in housing you know you do have affordable housing as well as high-end housing the places like we also work with like us we go and they have a really hard time growing because housing costs but this is you know pretty much a metro area wide phenomenon statewide I'm not sure quite wide Beaverton is a little bit on the lower end right now but these things fluctuate that's why we didn't want
138to assume you know we don't want the biggest problem errors I've seen in my career looking at school enrollment is when people are when the school district is in a certain trajectory it's hard for people to imagine that it's going to change whether that's growth year after year growth growth and you know the plateau and decline is gonna there's always going to be cycles whether it's losing enrollment you know you could look we could have looked at that earth line coming down like just kept on you know what's something that it was gonna drop but there's there's all these Eric but one thing I'll add though about housing you know in every district that we work with the biggest student generation comes from single-family home detached single-family homes that are you know not really high
139end but just tract homes or narrative poems middle-class families as well as income restricted affordable housing with two or more bedrooms and you know there I don't think there's been a lot of that built in this district in recent years so one question about the other feel for like like it's a selectivity like private school and home school numbers she says like 12 is just percent for the past and then for our district and then how do we compare against other districts yeah pretty standard I mean in general organ districts have pretty high public school participation rates I think we we look at Census Bureau's American Community Survey and yeah thirteen percent share of k-12 students that's that's not really shocking it's not either higher or lower than this case you know the truth yet
140data like we're like you know if our school product is great and a lot more people attend our school but it's not as good and might go down over time representative self-insurer if you have those numbers cuz there's like it's more competition more private schools yeah it's all hard because the easiest is survey will hard to know if it is physically significant change and of course by the schools that are in the district people aren't necessarily living in the district and get Jesuit on the for example on the border between Portland and Beaverton so you know we don't unfortunately don't gather you know the actual residence of every private school yeah another thing regarding the recession a lot of districts were and totally saying the students were maybe coming back to public schools because you
141know economic troubles with families or you know couldn't afford private schools so I don't know where the and it goes fall out for that right now if people are doing well you know maybe they're back to private school this is a marginal note doesn't a 1% shift here you know might be in the merchants case a lot of students said actually which was sort of the best way to use this information about and particularly where we could consider it most reliable so I mean I when I thought I heard was you said that really you know the district wide number is the most reliable is so if we were trying to project you know our budget for the school district that would be the most reliable as opposed to like on a school by school
142or trying to guess where next year did I get that right right well interesting you mentioned next year because no after we did the forecast Robert sent us his one year forecast you know and generally be you know the district the forecast for one year should be more reliable than our forecast because you know your districts and you know the intricacies of what's going on but school by school they were really close I mean I was really happy to see how close we were both at the district level without trying you know without consulting about it so when you're out you know we you know I need any time I look at a district-wide forecast that's one year out you know I would not ever expect to see a k12 total more than one percent
143different than when a forecast is and school by school there's always going to be surprises but you know is when you're out the school for it should be pretty good ten years out don't make huge decisions based on that 10 year forecast so if you were in my position at school remember and you were given a low middle and high range and we were needing to make budget projections or boundary productions or any sorts of things we have to score what would be your advice as far as to go conservative well if you worry about facilities used to hide and if you worry about the budget is too low we we call the middle but most likely and that's why we have the the school or guess on a middle scenario but I was the
144demographer for the San Diego Unified School District and we we used to do a metal forecast every school and then the budget office would ask us for an internal forecast where we shaved one percent off every grade at every school and that's what they would use the budget so just any other questions thank you this one he had that was not a recommendation sorry do not need to send the discussion items first by being school board objectives for the middle school boundaries staying with mr. sparks Robert so as I mentioned earlier we are proceeding with the middle school boundary adjustment we were here last month to talk about in a presentation setting objectives for the or to consider for middle school I'm sorry I'm fixing that we were here earlier in the year in February
145so anyway the the reason why we're here now to present you our recommendation for the middle school boundary adjustment project the number two objectives sorry objectives for you to consider and we will ask for your adoption formally next month's meeting to help our Advisory Committee evaluate data and understand what the goals or of the board for this process we want to be sure we have the objectives here this summer because we will start with our Advisory Committee here and the fall will be doing our starting our recruitment in August you will our first kind of orientation meeting with the advisor to the October with public meeting starting in November so we need to begin and start doing some logistical work here in that process hence the reason we're here for the objectives one of the
146other things that we put in the stack record for your consideration and discussion is the possibility of the advisory committee meeting to look at other attendance boundaries whether that's knowledge of school or high school the intent here is to allow the of the Advisory Committee that's our recommendation at least allow the Advisory Committee the opportunity to discuss possible changes to other attendance boundaries for the purposes of improving feeder patterns proximity the other factors of policy JC this is intended to be very minor changes if any at all we don't anticipate that there would be but we would like to be able to tell the Advisory today that everything is on the table that we will look at how middle school feeder patterns may be improved if other adjustments to the existing boundaries going to happen
147so I'll stop with that and answer any questions that you might have questions I don't know if they're questions or comments think about this one is and I know it's not a part of this but I really want to get in if you're going to be starting the work in August to make sure we get a student voice on the committee I'm not talking that has to be in the middle solder but I'm thinking of how do we use some of our team our student advisory committee members maybe one of them that would want to come and put a perspective having had gone through our middle schools just love it sometimes we don't gain that student voice because it's a big commitment for them but I'd like to change rise to the challenge to do
148that and my other one is the the adviced direction that you just talked about about thinking about and you have high school boundaries and I get I break out in a sweat so I want to talk through that because when we start at the high school boundaries if you remember when you maybe weren't here we hired an outside person who told us absolutely you have to do them individually high school then elementary and middle and they'll take you three years we all do that and thought oh my gosh that's not how you do this you have to do a feeder patterns and know what the advice was that we do it that way so we did so I have a little fear here going back and just want some reassurance maybe that we are not
149going to open up high school boundaries and those that we just move we're going to recommend they move back that's my the intent is not to revisit or reconsider the high school boundary adjustment process the intent is to be able to have the ability to talk about it at the adviser they again minor changes like a grid code type of change not you know you know measure school or you know middle school large chunk of population this is really trying to understand that because we're opening in new middle school of north of 26 what possible impacts might result with looking at potential boundaries and how that might influence feeder patterns we're bringing this to you now in order to have that authorization direction from the board before we get started if we're in the adviser
150community process and the advisory committee is working towards a recommendation and feels conflicted or otherwise Stinney because they're not going to look at any other adjustment then we would come to you and ask either permission or we would bring a personal recommendation to you it would be I think a little to be less clean less organized and perhaps less fully thought-out by our adviser so I think having that that ability to talk about this subject for other attendance areas will be a useful tool for advisory committee I think it's a very long way of saying that we're not looking to you know wholesale move large areas from one high school to another or money elementary school to another this is about the middle schools and particularly about reducing population our enrollment population in Stoller opening
151of the Timberland Area School with a full size middle school and trying to come up with a sensible boundary for the rest of the district I appreciate that you've brought it up and I believe that particularly with the way that we diced up several middle schools feeder projects that it's entirely appropriate for us to be taking a look at ways that we can minimize that for our students I really think it's the best thing that we could be doing for our students is to take a look at that we have several Middle School where were sending them aboard of our high schools and left at I I posted at the time I still do another thing is the right paper in it so I appreciate that where there's going to take a look at it
152I am have concerns about the objectives though because I feel like other than the first objective we could kind of close the process off now it doesn't really speak to the overcrowding problem that we have that stoller we can offer a comprehensive middle school experience today and all of our middle schools and I would expect that we'd be able to provide that at the end of our process but it doesn't talk about using only permanent capacity as a major goal or relieving overcrowding at solar I think that we would all expect us to be an emotional and personal process and I think that we're going to need some very clear guidelines about what it is we're trying to achieve and so I'd like to see those updated to better reflect what it is we're hoping
153to accomplish do so new to this process with the boundaries and I kind of like to understand when you're talking about potentially affecting the high school boundaries what does a minor adjustment mean can you define that in terms of like population or geographic area what are you looking at when you say that so what I'm talking mire I'm thinking in the neighborhood you know maybe three or four grid codes where children are you know located maybe it's you know less fifty students or less units it really is situational to be honest with you but it is again a minor it's going to be in the eye that holder I guess but you know our intent here is again to really kind of be very judicial and limit those kinds of areas it's adjustments as we
154all know are you know hard sometimes yeah you don't want to maximize the pain I think you can be helpful to the process to have a definition like that before the idea that we could change those boundaries is brought before a committee so there's an understanding of what is and has time's up question triggered Tom's question and answered triggers my question so thinking of Ann's question about the you know some of our most minutes have four different high schools they feed into I can see that that that would be more than just for great plants I mean it's just massive it's it's hard for me to predict what we're going to do because we want the public to define what it's going to be and I think it's clear from what we're hearing here and
155in policy JCCC that feeder pattern proximity transportation cost those are important and I hear the board loud clear about four high schools being fed by the one you know Bill's school I've talked to all of middle school principals past and current about Ely impact of their feeding you know three different high schools you know two are going to be Beaverton I'm going to be Aloha and then there's you know six kids that are going to go to South Ridge you know that's what we're trying to avoid you know and I appreciate top suggestion by definitions I really hard I'm wondering if perhaps if we're going to leave this additional direction easier and I think that the board can continue to give feedback on that no it's probably prudent breast is best buy something about it
156being an objective that we are not materially changing enrollments at any of the high schools or you know somewhere it's something about what that if potentially impact could be might make sense oh yeah I actually think that's probably better than defined by numbers or something like that that makes more sense to me I'm not trying to handicap the committee I just want a sense that when we're looking at this that this isn't a full-scale revision or something like that we'll see how the map you know place out with the committee but my guess is the committee will look for adjustments of the middle school boundaries at best and then the smaller schools but just to say there will be it changes and there may be big changes or we revealed in the district and we
157assume right now we're trying to keep minor changes it's okay I need to make sure the board because we didn't part of these suggestions here how we tell them you long for the fits the timeline and we still incorporate the concerns on board I would suggest that criterion one is sufficient paste employed earth maintain criteria to we can modify that to create a student population that is based on its current proximity or I'm sorry current permanent capacity and the ability to accommodate growth in the area so that leaves a little free warning in there to accommodate new students 3d I think is fine the way it is and I don't think and I would you know ask your advice on this or you invite your direction I don't think the there's a another criterion needed
158or objective needed for the additional changes potential changes I think we can as staff really to the Advisory Committee will hear in 10 and that through your discussion when what we talked about here we're not saying the boundaries of high school and elementary schools are sacrosanct that if it makes sense if it helps get to a recommendation for the middle school boundaries and will help with feeder patterns or other factors within policy JC that the Advisory Committee is free to consider that so I have just done a little bit of an issue with transparency as well as I just don't want our community with any little thing that they somehow think we're going to be revisiting we understand this we understand exactly they're saying though we've got to make sure how our community and and
159that then after the fact that we kind of slip this in that oh we're going to adjust and it makes perfect sense when we've got just a fraction few kids that are being split up I just really want to be sure that how this comes off to the community and we're transparent and that we are approving the plan that we think we're moving we wanted to bring this to you - like primarily for the we know transparency to be able to say from the beginning what the ground rules is overstating it but what the area the field of play is and we have full authority of the board to consider a whole range of possibilities it will be my job and our sitter Mike just need to keep well-informed that with the community we're clear
160that the reason we're here is for middle school boundaries that's it we are not revisiting anything else unless we needed it to for the benefit of the middle school boundaries that's it I'm just wondering if you'd like to see then one of the objectives so it's clearly spelled out as a gratin or is there some other communication method that we need to be doing that I just know before we vote on because this this the way it's gonna appear that there cannot be any reading between the lines or this information I also understand that the more definition that I don't want to be over the process before you get started right so it is that fine line of making sure that we are communicating clearly and still are able to do the job that it
161needs to be done so I need to know is this board comfortable with the suggestions the way they are the objectives the way they are [Applause] time's up quite a lot here and just reading the language that's presented here it says the community should undertake this only to the extent those adjustments reconcile split feeder patterns or otherwise improve the alignment of attendance boundaries between schools that's another language so your guy yeah I just have to say that we need it a second time and thinking about a little bit in that bill desperately wished it this isn't about reconciling some other situation this is very clearly about attendance boundaries and so appreciate that so I'm curious if on the board you feel that it would took the additional direction that we have here in that paragraph
162and turn that into an IRA form I might be more clear and it that feels better a most special retired by element read in bill school I think it improves clarity interest rate it okay are we are we comfortable here because this is going to come to us next time is about so I want to make sure everybody's there and we've thoroughly vetted doesn't okay thank you very much for your patience and listening to our suggestion [Applause] welcome mr. Thompson Carl Granlund Catherine earring the final decision and we're here just answer any questions you have about the school's plan that's there you go so if I'm understanding correctly it looks like you're doing leg testing like on a six-year cycle for the schools and then what is the cycle for radon testing and when you
163do a ten-year cycle for radon is it like you're taking just the smaller slice at schools every year or is it like you come in every ten years out of you sure so we have another nice in Sanremo program is currently in a phased approach to complete by January 1st week one those teams coordinating that at the completion of that initial sampling will set the next Anderson thank you any other questions did our we had the lid that was so many of our schools did that change our day our protocols or move up any of the testing timelines or anything like that that's a good question so actually the led no water issue that came to Oregon 2016 but this is all a result of that there was not a requirement to test letting water
164until 20 2017 it all driven by the people or initiated by the cover any other questions thank you so much for being here next up on accountability committee charter so this is a first reading for a first opportunity the questions next month you'll be asked to adopt this the changes recommitted the personnel apologize show three dependency that she didn't attend to this was brought forward by to the a see themself request review and their minor changes but they felt that they were pretty important on the first page of the Charter letter aid where they want to replace the word ensuring as they feel that is a more responsibility and their job is to monitor they think that that provides a little bit more clarity they don't have the about the ability to necessarily ensure in
165the second page they would like to have letter G added there and it gives a the more discretion to reappoint members for an additional term of service it's actually something we have been doing they just want to pick up and felt it was best and to make sure it was solidified in the Charter page three of the Charter staff recommendation change title for letter e that's a chief facilities officer and that's it the Charter is working well the great guideposts for us but it's just roaming the harbor is they kind of you know reactivated their ways mind I'm with so smaller mental changes don't make your changes and you know that medieval strong wish I look 117 Mr Gruber concern will have to 7 going forward as we have several of those term we were
166expiring and they're often opted to continue on so we'll be dropping from 9 to 7 still within what the Charter said always happy to expand that any other distinction thank you so much next order of business I move that we approve the consent agenda so I'm probably live dissented that we accept the agenda any discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye aye any opposed so moved for communication I've been lucky enough to be able to go to some schools some of the less month or so and I was delighted to go to Boston with teachers and principals there and I love going to the pre-k program and that was also a became kind of touching base so it's been nice for me to be able to do that and last week I was
167at the BEF meeting there really were in love with their strategic planning and fundraising different ways they're doing the crowdfunding on the internet it just seems to be a bit being push which I think it's exciting here there had an opportunity for a nice some tour Madrid I mean I think mostly they want talk about PYP it's a big big excited active in my my constituency cuz I got 25 emails from ridgewood parents five West TV - your part so I just nice to get on the ground understand it's all up and it's also just in well there I guess he actually have an intervention with all the mechanical stuff we hear about here like some of the techniques to you know prevent room clears the kind of effort it's really educational for me to
168see the kind of struggle they have and I'll see them all come in and the principal everybody work together on it so there's really educational for somebody really has it on try to understand as well we hear about it to see it firsthand Wizkid yeah I just wanted to acknowledge as Don said being able to attend the governor signing of the Student Success act today I really believe if all the things line up in the future for it it's a new day in Oregon for k-12 pre k12 funding and I just wanted to thank each of you lose you guys have all advocated and spent time going to save love talking to your legislators and this was really a team effort among all of us but especially our board has been specifically active in Salem
169and I really appreciate that and to publicly thank our legislators especially senator house and and others that have led the way for this to happen so I think we have great reason to hope for our future in Oregon yep I know it's place tie up quickly I'd just echo Leah's comments that I'm excited and thankful for her leadership in particular and helping to make the Student Success act a possibility I know there's many people in the room who look and work on that as well as our community membership I'm grateful for that I up with a enjoyed opportunity to attend the innovation Expo to see the bike parade as well as talk to many students who were very proud of the projects that they were there displaying and then I just wanted to add my
170own statement to the teacher who I think is from sunset asking for us to hurry up so that we can make decisions regarding staffing and I wanted to make my own personal commitment to making decisions that would get us to a place where we can do that it's totally impossible so I'm all in on getting to a place where we can do that really yeah I just want to briefly acknowledge the passage of the before 22nd how exciting that is to think of the struggles we've had over the last 30 years was full money and I know this doesn't fix all of them but is huge and that puts us much much better footing than before I also want to say that you know right now we don't know what's gonna happen whether it's gonna
171get referred to the ballot or not and I help everybody and they know everybody who's worked really hard lost we now in the fall or whatever we need to come out to make sure that is money makes its way across the finish line because if it gets referred to the voters our job is not over our job is just begun and it's going to be our job to make sure that that huge opportunity that started in the legislature makes its way to our kids well I just want to say I'm gonna kind of mix my board communication with my closing comments and my to you was able to attend mountainside their very first ever mock interviews with their juniors and then self-image and it's one of my favorite events to do to see these students
172that are future workforce and their enthusiasm I really enjoy doing that and the innovation Expo so many green ideas so much I that and things that I would never even think of that the these kindergarteners high schools I just it was just amazing and it's so much activity a lot high school was just brimming so that was that was great I also want to acknowledge that tomorrow is election day and so for those of you that have not turned in your ballot you have until tomorrow at eight o'clock we have some residents local races that you should be paying attention to and I want to acknowledge how hard our finance team are playing at staff our staff is working to do what is best for kids and this is a heavy lift we need to
173get it right and there's a lot of people counting on it and it is for us to be able to bring in such a high quality interim CFO and to hit the floor running and the long hours we are unfortunate but we there's a lot of heavy lifting still to do in responsibility and the school year the end of the school year and our teachers our families all need to know and our leadership is important to this to this work all need to know that this is work that we take very very seriously and we're doing our best to do what is best for kids and so I think the staff for all the extraordinary hours that they are putting in to get it done right so so so thank you for doing that and
174we would not do you so all right this concludes our meeting for tonight our next meeting will be the executive session on Wednesday May 22nd at 5:15 at Southridge high school and community