001[Music] we will begin our meeting this evening with this pledge to the flag led by many North saram Sandra Miller and Mark McClure and the competitors thank you first tonight we have a few recognitions the first will be read by Donna Steiner for the Mathcounts competitors and then the second one will be read by Susan for our digital equity team and then Becky will read our third well before I start I'd like to welcome the mouth challenge group up but I'd also like to apologize if I do not pronounce the names correctly okay the Stover middle school Cedar Park Middle School and metal Park middle school math counts teams were three of the top six ranking teams of the Oregon State competition last month stole their middle school ranked first for the seventh year in
002a row at the preceeding regional competition ten of the top of weapon ranking the students were from the neighboring school district ram gold stole their middle schools are rushing pantry stellar nuts your camera stole our middle school Suraj Pandey Cedar Park Middle School none of you've seen Stoller middle school Peter Jim Stoller middle school Sophia PI Cedar Park Middle School Allen law Stoller middle school not be sure Rahman stoner middle school Zachary Zane Mill Park Middle School Tsuyoshi pond eat ranked first at the Oregon State competition and will travel with his coach Manny Norris to washington d.c to compete in the Mathcounts national competition in May Ram gold rush de Monte and Peter Jen also placed in the top ten at the state competition Sandra Miller coaches the Cedar Park team and Mark McClure coaches
003the metal part team this is Sandra's first year as a math counts coach Manny has been coaching for 29 years and mark has been coaching for 10 years the math counts competition program is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program that promotes mathematics achievement through a series of fun and engaging beef style contests the program exists in all 50 states plus US territories territories and the Department of Defense and state Department schools congratulations ma'am counts competitors and comfort so how about you about pronouncing the names I do okay oh well I just want to thank you folks very much for recognizing our students they work really hard in this level of math you can follow it on ESPN if you like huh it will be on ESPN the competition is in May but
004all you have to do is go to the math counts website and you'll see a link on there and it'll take you to ESPN where hopefully you'll see our students compete if follows right after the spelling bee the Spelling Bee usually gets more attention but every now and then we make the news it might happen this year so again thank you very much for taking the time to recognize us [Applause] bringing embrace equity every CEOs n Community Leadership Award for digital equity digital equity team come on the Beaverton School District was awarded the consortium of the school network the coal Network Board of Directors 2018 Community Leadership Award for digital equity for efforts to close the digital divide students access to robust digital tools is key to their success as a 21st century citizen yet
005many students from economically disadvantaged families have limited access to these tools both at school and at home closing the gap will require a broad approach involving schools and communities working together Kosan created the Community Leadership Award for digital equity to encourage and recognize those districts that are working to eliminate in inequities in their all the access gap when considering all the initiatives that we are undertaking on the main remove [ __ ] actions sweep sorry revolve around educating community and building alliances says Matt I failed Futurity team and teachers source curriculum developer America member of the digital equity team building a grassroots team with representation from around the district specifically to study digital equity issues is important congratulations [Applause] I just like to thank our whole team administrators some people didn't come up here Claire Hertz and
006show Shaquille Keller pivotal and offering advice and support along with along with David Williams and we've done a lot of work we sell a lot of work to go it's no secret that the past few weeks have been very difficult for our district with regards to equity issues and you know we saw that we stopped a ways to go but we've come a long way in it in closing just observation observation one is equity is no one person's responsibility is no one board's responsibility it's all of our responsibility every community member every teacher every employee and we all have to take ownership second observation is that there's no one magic bullet for racism and in equities in our school there's no one Starbucks PD that's going to solve everything we we have to be in
007it for the long run and I think we are and finally with over 40,000 students that we have in our district 99 percent of them will never step foot in this room 99 percent of them will never know who any of us are but what they will know is how they feel when they walk into our schools every day and regardless of race religion sexual orientation skin colour language socio economics regardless of all that every student should feel welcomed and accepted supported the extent that we can do that that's that's what we need to go as a district and that's where we'll find successful all right we expect excellence or again school public relations association communicator of the Year award at the Oregon school of public relations Association OS PR a communicator of the Year
008award for nearly 18 years Laureen has served as the public communications officer in our district in this role she leads district communications Community Relations elections in left field legislative activities media relations volunteer services and Community Partnership functions and the course of her school public relations career Maureen has led multiple successful Bond campaigns and two successful local option campaigns number three on the way Maureen's passion is flutie service and this evident not only in her work but in the time she invests beyond business hours she has held leadership roles within the Washington County public affairs forum OS PRA the Oregon Community Education Association the Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce leadership Beaverton the NRC at Washington County and Beaverton rotary she served as the national public relations Association at SPR a northwest regional vice president from 2009
009to 2012 Maureen is only one of four accredited and public relations a PR certified school public relations professionals in Oregon and many OSP re members look to her as a resource and congratulations all right are there any money you'd like to suggest and he can just start doing it tonight all right then next on our agenda is the time for public comment we welcome your public comment if you would like to address the board we ask that you please come see the yellow part and give it to our recording secretary Kenneth Hyatt sitting over there I have quite a few cards tonight so I will be limiting people the two minutes for each card and I have no idea what order here and it's just have whatever they handed me so with one exception we
010have a group I think who's coming students first so we're giving them first dibs typically board members will not respond today but rather someone from either the board or staff we'll get back to you within the week so with that I would like to invite you on PA he engineers here oh yes I'm with HIV we are mechanical electrical engineers done a lot of year schools including the new mountainside expert so it is our 50th anniversary last year and so we decided for our anniversary to publish a children's book and so we are implementing 33 copies to go into schools and this book actually was illustrated like the story is about a confronts a hardship and a bunch of children get together and find they become resourceful and find a way to pass disaster and
011natural resources come together I've got Sarah and then it looks like it's a team working acne and Alex good evening superintendent grunting and members of the board my name is Sarah Schmidt and I'm the president of the Beaverton Education Association and a few updates for you this evening over the weekend 37 elected delegates from DEA attended the Oregon Education Association representative assembly along with almost 600 of our closest friends from around the state we debated and voted on legislative objectives and new business items for a statewide Association you may not be surprised to hear school safety disrupted learning and school funding were all hot topics the most exciting news for us was that Westview high school math teacher Lindsay Rae was here today was elected as the vice president of oh is region 1 which
012serves the Portland metro area we're very excited for her to take on that leadership position within oh yay she doubled down and made us extra proud by winning the coveted Elliot Human Rights Award at the OE awards banquet for her work advocating for social justice I also wanted to say that I really appreciate the district's actions to address the recent retweet by the former deputy superintendent I also appreciate superintendent ridings recognition that trust and faith will need to be restored with students parents staff and members of the Beaverton community I believe that the most critical part of this renewed commitment to equity in our district will be seeking out and listening carefully to the voices and experiences of our students in our schools I also have a quick update on our engaged project members and
013leaders and EEA have been 37 schools so far this year and have had almost 1,400 individual conversations a memory we're learning a lot about our members core values and priorities as educators it's been a great way to connect leaders of VTA with their colleagues and to make sure that we are effectively representing our members and their priorities the last thing I wanted to say was I don't know if you all have had a chance to take a look but the TEL survey results have been being public there is lots of lots of places to dive deeply into that data I noticed pretty quickly that class size is still a piece of data around our district that is pretty substantial I noticed in the question that says class sizes are reasonable such that teachers have the
014time available to meet the needs of all students 58% of the respondents in our district said no I believe this underscores the importance of voting before May 15th but it also speaks to the need for a long term solution to lowering class sizes and caseloads in our district so that teachers on staff can meet the needs of all of our students so I recommend taking some time to read those results are very interesting thank you for the time saying thanks for me and now is followed by Edna [Music] hi my name is Courtney Gaffney and I'm here to talk about the health adoption tonight I am a high school health teacher at sunset high school this is my 12 year teaching which also happens to be my first year was the first year of our
015last health adoption so it's time you first know I feel I'm a member of that whole cadre and the health project team for me this process has been so exciting to be part of because I have seen so much passion and everything has been very well thought out throughout this entire adoption we have put together curriculum that we are very very proud of and that we really feel is inclusive to all stakeholders in Beaverton and every day in my classroom as well as in extracurricular activities and in the community I see such a great need for quality comprehensive health education that not only teaches concepts but skills to the whole child so just want to thank you for giving this opportunity to not only to ask those teachers but also to our students as well
016okay hello I am Alex Basu and this is my part two year teaching in Beaverton I have had the privilege of teaching fourth grade through 12th grade here at schools all across the title button I taught at a station I'm currently not teaching middle school health and I love it and I think health is really important to me and I appreciate you looking at this tonight because our kids are not very healthy they're not as healthy as we wish they could be mentally and physically and I think what's going on in our world - it's important look at health education as a very important topic and we're all it's different than it was 12 years ago and Beaverton is different than it was and we want to make sure that what we are teaching these
017kids is exactly what they need so we really didn't put forth a package we think best fits all of the or tuning students and it's inclusive and comprehensive and we're very excited about it sprang to find voice I worked I'm Suzy Nicolai I'm at a lower unit Clark I've been there for 16 years I work in the Bible program and I have over the years I've become more and more involved in the obob program it was begun at our school by second our librarian and then we lost our librarian so classroom teacher picked it up and then she moved and then another one picked it up and she moved and so I ended up with it and I teach second grade so I kind of have to stretch myself to get up to the third
018fourth and fifth graders and every year we've had more participation in our building so a friend of mine said she was gonna run it this year I thought she was out of her mind so I said I would help her and it just turned into a conundrum was 80 schools in region 1 about 40% of those are Beaverton School District schools and we were surprised that the facilities were charging more money so to make a long story very short we ended up taking those 80 schools breaking him into four mini regions I went with the mini region that was able to use a building Charles F Tigard entired for $86 I think I have an information packet the one thing I did find out about oh bob is across the district a lot of people
019are not aware of what it even is I collected data from all the three to five schools upon money they're spending how much money we cup from Obata we wrap money it's almost like $15,000 just at the 3:5 level that ptcs are putting into these books and stay in our district so my recommendation what I'm asking look at me recommended to you is that somewhere along the line that you know that we can negotiate with facilities so that at least one of the regions the regional set the high school level which is only like seven schools or the middle school that's like I think there were 20 schools so that the Beaverton is participating because we're like 40% the participants in our region I've prepared this wonderful informational packet for you I will leave it
020with Candace thank you thank you Karen and then add John Fox my name is Karen servants some of you know me personally for leading our literacy volunteering in my son's schools participating as a levee captain on the last levee and my activism during the teacher transfers years ago I value your efforts to make beaverton schools excellent and your commitment to pursuing better outcomes for all students however tonight I ask for a change in response to the recent social media post by the now resigned assistant superintendent his post offended me on my on many levels beyond the obvious hateful and ignorant rhetoric it reminded me that prejudice and bias can lurk in the most diverse county in the state on the day of the post I decided to look into how diverse ESD administration is I
021spoke to the BSD receptionist to ask how many racial minorities work in the higher levels of the administration I was informed 1 1 out of 41 by my count BSD home to forty thousand eight hundred and sixty students of which 51.8% our racial minorities has served and represented by an administration with a minority had count around three percent how on earth can you guide the district don't even understand the challenges of the students I have no doubt that many of those 40 are well-meaning folks but I've been married to my husband a second-generation mexican-american for over 20 years and I still would not dare to assume I know what it is to be a racial minority now we're in the bsd mission statement vision statement or district goal are the words diversity or inclusion present
022these two words are powerful statements for what any organization company or body stands for more importantly adding diversity to our guiding statements which can also give us a platform in an organizational starting point to expect and in that more minority hiring and participation in this administration are there really no people of color applying and if not what is being done to find recruit and welcome them adding diversity to our statements might be a first step to inspiring those applicants adding inclusion might be a way to ensure you don't hire bigoted staff who spout off fallacies and ignorance I'm here to ask BSD board administration of parents to work together to add the words inclusion and/or diversity to the district's various guiding statements and principles but those changes we as a district will have the right
023to expect and demand more minority representation in our administration so that it more fully empathizes and properly represents those minority students diversity includes racial minorities disabled students and staff and our LGBT home community Beaverton is changing Oregon is changing I challenge you all updated mission our vision and our district goals to demonstrate to everyone that diversity and inclusion are strengths that diversity and our administration will become a vital goal and the BSD is a modern forward-thinking eyes open district [Applause] Rebecca I wanted to talk about deputy superintendent Phillips not about a bigger than but about the essential censoring but this [ __ ] central censoring project that he had in reviewing the book stick which is in turn reviewed by a committee of a committee of one board member and giving twenty of two members of the
024patrons a library specialist and a few administrators we've all voted to allow it and this man exercising his right by policy said no we're not going to allow it why do we allow this to happen it's very strange that I'm sitting here interesting the board in the looking at the superintendent superintendent when I was a chairman of the board would be sitting over there with the rest of the staff and I'd be talking to the chairman because it's the board who really runs this Disney except for the board for review the policies which allows somebody to do this if you've been allowed to do it we should change the name from an assistant superintendent to political commissar as I understand one of his main complaints about this book was that it included vulgar language whoa
025has this man ever been on a school bus we six the seventh and eighth graders vote the language of the thing of the day I think it's time for the school board to take hold of this themselves review the policies review who's hired and not the sort of travesty occur again thank you for your attention [Applause] Rebecca and then Lynn you cheese video game please members my name is Rebecca Miller I'm a parent in the Beaverton School District and I had the honor of volunteering on the health project team since September of 2017 with a great group of people in my professional life I work as a planner in human services for local government part of my work duties involve engaging members of the public and other stakeholders in shaping public policy improving programs identified
026and then meeting on that needs the resources are thin and the need for services never ends there are complex rules to navigate competing priorities looming deadlines and most importantly a great needed desire to get it right in order to serve the community with equity integrity and compassion because of that I can tell you the butan School District staff and teachers did an outstanding job of managing the health project team I'm grateful for the minds and hearts that Shepherd us through these past seven months jennifer Hickson to health cadre Jared cordon ken struck Meyer and Suzuno that were exemplary throughout the process for every hour we volunteers spent together I would not be surprised if they spent 20 here's what they did well they made complex materials like Oregon Health standards curriculum materials and criteria Erin's
027law and board adoption processes accessible they used a group decision-making process which allowed for dissent and ultimately pushed us to be better more thoughtful to get those results they did the work outside the room that was necessary to make our time together very effective they addressed controversial controversial topics straight on with professionalism and grace they respected and trusted every voice in the room and those that provided public comment and I feel that all of our voices are reflect a package we'll be looking at tonight so I decided to apply to join this group because of the question on a seventh-grade sexual health quiz my son brought home earlier that year it read and I quote true or false girls who date older guys are putting themselves at risk although he answered the questions correctly I
028gave my poor son and his twin sister a lecture on sexism blaming the victim consent heteronormative bias etc health education thankfully does tackle sex and consent and gender expression and what I've come to realize in this process is that it is so much greater than that health education is based in fundamentals like nutrition sleep and exercise but it is also about teaching our children to be good consumers of information to better equip them and also to deal with issues they face like poverty and abuse racism and illness to brace who they are as whole people and to give them the tools they need to make choices that will serve them throughout their life so our health educators deal with the most difficult topics and need a solid set of standards and curriculum that serves every
029student well I believe you will have that before you today and it's been a pleasure serving with you miss Larson and I think you can agree with me that the work was well done thank you for the opportunity volunteer [Applause] then and then video hi how welcome everybody and welcome to spring it's let's getting nice out there I want to thank the help cadre as well for doing such a spectacular job and as you know I've been speaking about the physical health aspect of a lot of kids trying to get them to walk and bike to school more because physical activity helps to be successful in the classroom and that's what it's all about number one and number two is safety and that's what we're really trying to do is for the health and safety
030the kids and the community we have a busy busy last term and it keeps continuing walk and roll challenge month starts made first which is Terrell we have several schools who are who are logging steps role and sort of adult walking rules because walk bike and bus is really really good and scooter is getting home but section mountain is going to be telling for a full month to see how many people have walked and bike and how many miles a day that they are doing Bethany is also doing it they started yesterday so they are rewarding kids who get a hundred percent walking biking for the for the whole month and they don't mind it as long as you stay out of the parking lot several others are choosing one day which so October 9th
031has welcome back to school day some people are doing it once a week so if you want to join in sex and mountain is due Tuesdays and Thursdays every Tuesday and Thursday however each one is doing every Friday so there's lots of choices and just ask I would like to do a shout out to fir Grove for Rose PE teacher she is putting on a bike safety class and volunteer bike safety class with parents and their kids on my name is coming Monday May the 7th where we'll have some education followed by a community ride hopefully being able to see where two kids where where they live and how they can get to school it's getting cool also both elementary has resurrected they're walking back to school programs but after spending a year away from
032their school they are ready to start doing monthly events and are really looking forward to making a safe in our school and in their community thank you very much Lydia and then I've got a team that I believe our students led by Samantha so I'll just invite you all here Lydia hello my name is Lydia Gersh I'm a senior at South Beach High School and I am a member of the Buchan Health Project so during my work during the mutant health project I was educated intensely on different oregon health standards Aaron's law and best practices and many more many more topics every meeting we would review discuss and become extremely knowledgeable in every topic we pursued we examine ideas and topics within the lens of fitting and working with our diverse community we strive for
033comprehensibility and inclusivity before the mutant Health Project I thought I knew a lot about health it having received two years of it was exceptional teachers and having just had a passion for it and being involved in different health education programs but after my work with the beauty of Health Project there was so much more than I need to know but leaning I feel almost an expert and I important the butan Health Project I was privileged to experience a quality health education I dedicated teachers and determined school behind them however I know that's not the case with many schools not because they don't have dedicated teachers or schools because we have a lacking standards behind them with our new standards that we all work so hard on I believe that no one will have to be
034lucky to receive a quality health education it'll just be there and I'll be normal as a senior leaving this district and a student I am proud of the work that this team did because I know my peers will directly benefit from this curriculum and it will better prepare them for the future and I know it's really an effort it's like eight so if you're gonna say the same thing it would be awesome if it was too but if you're going to you've got more to say than we want and as Amelia with you also did you okay Amelia's next I will be doing my part in Spanish cover the meanest estudiantes in it's an intern you're - I can see the light is Orion calathea me let us to the end listen at least it'll
035be felt on peeling horny though want a more pork is having cualquier momento su mundo finish and alcohol isospeed us Constanta meant this couch ammos Linda has a case almost criminales konami SMS estar aqui es o is normal parent of Scott Rose uppercase an animal no significa que debería they start the serbian que las personas Auriga a three capella to e el principe de superintendente simple table right okay I'll go get the gas vamos a costume rebels it also no significance again so most criminal is perky cannabis una man for Tina porque tenemos Pinellas mistress oportunidades Katy Nanna's otras personas no no Shyama criminal spondylus Compiegne a no-no Shyama Karenina response a MOS in trabajo key is no Kiran I said alguna vez I'll be started is be Scott Pluta his Hall is pyro meaning
036more overdose map etc honto para poder sobre we didn't know mundo from the simple of Stefan man no no no parity data Dante Lucas your si police tener éxito it's not kosaki polydamas has mayonnaise federal given Sahel estamos mitosis of hibiscus rocky Nepal if teenagers businesses oportunidades closed amongst esto antes que haces felucca Sione - puto is 20 years males importantes que ellos ellos and mass los lunas not nm Fronteras eaten Paco's moon female ICI loss on impulses Tom creaminess why is it that just because we one of their life we become susceptible to hate I didn't know that happiness was a crime I can accept that I can't rebuild and what the world with my own two hands but I don't like people who can do something no matter the size of the decision
037sit and watch life isn't fair wish I could help but what's the thing that makes you hesitate do not see what's in front of your eyes or has it become something that's easier to ignore we say we have our hands tight yet here we are why is it that we tell students to study get take school from them you want kind of working students some of them become that you have that power 41,000 students in this district with one out of four being Latino not even including the different ethnicities that also account for our population being attacked and living in fear is something already bad enough making this district a sanctuary district would be taking one step further and being able to create a real safe environment for students and Families alike but really angers
038me on the saddest part somehow we all regret suffering we've become used to it why is it the thousands of kids live an agonizing fear that we'll end up alone with a it's because nobody here will do anything about it once it happens why can we have dreams of traveling with their parents or siblings why can't we dream of being what we want to be when we grow up guess it's just something we're not given I'm sorry that I wanted more than a fifth grade education I'm sorry for wanting the chance to eat and live in what we consider luxury it you make well I support I'm sorry for wanting more a few years since a day those are words that we won't say it's something that it's a regret that our parents wouldn't even
039dare think about we won't utter this disgusting apology that the society urges and encourages us to do not let society let you believe that we are criminals that we are deadlier than assault weapons because I will clear this up just as I am NOT doing immigrant in this room in country even less am I in criminal that's offensive and it hurts all of us all we want is a chance that should sort insult everybody in this room we're no longer pointing out people with darker skin color we're pointing fingers at Children and Families escaping poverty real poverty and violence but to be honest we've been pointing fingers for a long time now forget Mexican immigrant illegal immigrant brown black or white why can't we drink [Applause] Mackenzie Pereira nemec's from health and science how can
040you tell students that education is important if they don't feel comfortable or welcome to do so having majority of teachers that are white but puts a sort of discomfort students of color who feel and feel like an outcast allowing teachers of color will help students feel more comfortable to be around teachers allowing for a better learning environment a small chance to this retention would just would just be by welcoming people of different races including hispanic asian and black members to be a part of the Beaverton School District Board teachers and administration this would give them a sense of voice and understanding for the students of color put your front foot forward and start hiring retaining and putting a serious effort into recruiting teachers of color also make change early and offer possible students of color
041for teaching careers or jobs you turn off that mic yours will sound better thank you my name is Jacqueline Hanna's friend I'm a junior by science today I will talk about the lack of representation within schools for Latino culture and its history the sense of lack of representation of reporter and history we are forced to think of core subjects in English which you may notice is not is greatly impacting our youth and our unit and I know the children's the lack of history representation towards many coaches is very vague leaving many students with very little to no knowledge of their quarterback it's unacceptable all around how all around school buildings we see posters about the Burton Scott embracing different cultures and ethnicity but then force us to sit in a desk while we listen to
042a person speaking English and and teaches about a history of a place we are probably not even from I can't talk about I can't talk behalf on behalf of every single culture but from from my point of view it's pretty ironic how we're told that we are supposed to emerge ourselves into our culture but then when once we step foot into school we are taught about culture that's not even ours oh my guitar is one small portion and one small portion about sensor traffic which which in itself is not a representation of our culture didn't thing need to be immersed into Earth into the culture and embrace for wanting to learn more about it not told that they should just lose interest and focus on what is being taught because many parents trying to teach
043their students their native language before they begin school because they are afraid that they will not be able to learn it later on however when a kid stops his first foot into school the first thing they hear is English a language that that many have not ever heard the form this makes them feel out of place and sometimes and I'll pass because they may not understand personally I was siblings I was 20 and all English school and they begin teacher speaking basic Spanish classes I'm you deeply saddened because my sister which is very upsetting is that the basic level of Spanish just like a non-native speaker I mean it's good I'm minute I speak perfect Spanish and I can also speak English but you know my that it is because I was and more than
044the Spanish language school which helped me create a better support so that an embrace my condition and my language [Applause] Emilia and then Eva Maria hi my name is Emilia I work across the street at Murillo station high school I am the National facilitator my menschell students aren't able to be here because they are all working so I'm here on their behalf first I wanted to thank you for supporting the DREAM Act in 2010 a document came from the school board in support of the DREAM Act and we just really appreciated that and hope that the DREAM Act is not officially dead um the merlot metric group created a petition and a couple days ago and circulated it's through our school and through the district's it is in support of sanctuary status for viewers in
045school districts the leaders are working so they can't be here but we did get up to the nineteen seconds in a really short period of time so first I wanted to share a couple staff responded and so first I'm gonna share some of those staff comments all of our students deserve to come to school knowing that they're safe and protected providing sanctuary status to our school will allow our undocumented students and their families the chance to better engage in schools in their schooling and future I support the students request for sanctuary social justice goes beyond compliance the trauma students and their families go through our definitely impacting school achievement led us to be a compassionate district that is a steward for human rights there's a district document called district equity policy in front of June
0462nd 2014 and in it it says that the district will incorporate the voice of of students families and communities that reflect student demographics into decisions that benefit student success so but that I'd like to read a couple of the student comments from this petition how does this not happen already it's time for you to do the right thing by making this the district a sanctuary district you are showing us and our parents that you support us I represent many students who are affected either by a daca being documented or undocumented many students are also affected by mixed status families I expect the decision of DSC to be in favor of sanctuary and lastly sanctuary school now never yet and then Sarah sometime hi my name is Ethan Maryam okay and I have to say that
047amelia is the hero of many students and really Station high school just want to say that because my child is actually also one of the students there and I have to say my station was a savior for him and I'm here because I he couldn't make himself to come here so I decided to be his voice and so that's basically dropped in my lap so I don't have much time I just want to tell you that he's very much in support of you are recognizing that it's important for kids to have school being a safe place for all everyone including students who are undocumented including students who may not fit in your regular box whether they're clear whether they're transgender whether they're something you may not expect that student to be because they are not
048safe here in be written and I can tell they were them from personal experience because there was a time when I was my child in the ER here at like in st. Vincent where my child told that my the doctor that he was bullied by teacher and that's why he was in the ER so just so you know that's real and I'm telling you that is when one parent of probably many come forward with that so what you heard here is very real very few parents come forward because I put in four years it's been about four years because it's too overwhelming for us to deal with this many of the of the parents of the students here with children I school fearing vice to show up they are not here because they can't be
049here they're working hard to make a living so recognize just because they're not here speaking they're not presented here don't ignore them because right now see that plug over there I was stunned when I saw that me empower all students to achieve high school success right now the Beaverton School District is failing I'm so sorry to say that I don't mean to be that in any bad way but it's the truth and it's important that you face that you feel you feel those children you feel those parents who are trying their best to support them I can tell you that I was there help them listen to them listen to that petition there are just a few of them we have a supportive teacher like Amelia who rallies them together it's not that that place
050sunset high school for example and I'm gonna say that out openly that school filled my child he's still suffering from what teens were there I'm so sorry I know I hate to point fingers but sometimes it has to be said thank you so much for listening to me I appreciate [Applause] hi Sara and then next up is Vince Jones and I'm also speaking about sanctuary so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow I still have a dream it's a dream deeply rooted in the American dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up live out the true meaning of its Creed we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal some of you may not recognize this some of you may not this was
051said August 28 1963 by a man who had one of the biggest impacts of civil rights in all American history and as much as I wish saying this wasn't true that's not the reality I can say even 54 years after the speech was given Martin Luther King Jr's dream has yet to come true I'm here today fighting for what I believe in and that just happens to be that many along with hundreds of other students should be able to go to school without the fear of being ripped out of it when all we were looking for was an education my parents shouldn't have to feel afraid of waking up in the morning going to work not knowing if we'll make it back home to say good night that we love each other education is right
052everyone has its some somewhere we should all feel safe not like a book or a table that can be ripped out of the building at any time we all go to the same school eat the same food or learn the same things play the same sports is it fair because of my status I'm wonderful to be taken out of my class that I was only in search I was funny and in search of a better future for me and my family if he knew them I figure that runs through my head in the amount of awareness I have of my actions and surroundings I bet you forgot only 14 imagine walking out of the front door each morning not knowing if it was the last time you'll ever see your family and school I want
053to feel safe for as I should be able to have the same rights as the rest of the school I no longer want to live in fear we are all one and who is ice what is I student safety in a school too many incidents students live in fear is this what we want in our school district if this is what it is I don't want to stand by it we live in a country we're going to get education is a fear from thousands but we can all put a stop to it I hope you don't sitter there's not only for me but for the hundreds of students who have lost their voice we are the future of the country is this the kind of history you want to teach 100 years from now I
054have a dream that one day I'll be considered equal not judged by my color of my skin or hair one day we'll have basic rights of an education without fear welcome superintendent school board I'm this Johnson I teach in health and son school and as many have already noted today I think our equity pillar is on the ground but there are some ways we can maybe lift it back up and to where it should be and I think I want to go back I taught here for 24 years and I've seen it on the ground before in 2010 I'm a gay student teacher was dismissed wrongly and from the answering that students an ascent question are you married the district though at that time beyond just sending out words and messages I know constantly actually
055took action but talk to the affected community so they brought in lambda they spoke to them they helped write new district policy they which led to I'd say significant changes in policy for both queer students and staff and I think it was a great moment in our district same with the DREAM Act and it took a lot of work it wasn't done and it was very transparent some of us work with the school board member to help draft the resolution and then it passed unanimously so I think it's time to this to the affected community just like you did and 2010 and then take action one way to take action could be to regain the trust of the immigrant Latino community would be to help make our school better reflect our students as far as
056makeup so I made a suggestion that scored that they consider looking at neighborhood zones real neighborhood zones where you run in your neighborhood not district-wide they did it in Texas because of a court order and it led to a very diverse school board also first administration and I'll finish up quickly sorry I I don't think I had two minutes but ago the two latino administrators I mean staff members who earned a PhD in Beaverton left the district last year and I found that really troubling these were friends of mine and also colleagues who I expected to be in favor to now their administrators somewhere in Ulsan is i I don't think they had an exit interview I you know they just disappeared and the school district certainly help pay for their stipend to get that
057PhD and now they're gone working somewhere else Latino school board members wrote letters to you so there are Latino school board members in Oregon just not in Beaverton as far as I've got Melissa and Paula hi my name's Melissa oz more um I come today unprepared and I just want to speak to share two minutes of my son's story this year it touches on a lot of the things that everyone is saying this room the kingdom kind of see what this was about for preparation to speak in future sessions but I can't help myself as I hear students say that everyone that you're in front of a group of people who have an ability to make decisions while they watch things happen I have to say that I believe everyone here must have some sort
058of passion to do what you're doing and there's a lot of talk about safety for every student but I I want to share that my son's a third grader and as of today he's not a Beaverton student he's transferred out of district because I spoke up for his needs as a specialist student earlier in the year when I was told he was moving too much in music class he is ADHD and sensory processing disorder he had a great teacher last year in the year before he didn't even get a chance to know the teacher this year because the principal at the school and since I can't make complaints that will not name names the principal at that school issued me a trespass notice a warning the first day that I was pulled out of work
059to come meet with her I was advocating that everyone asking if everyone knew he had enough AUP the student resource officer about a month later came barging into my door scaring my son at bed and my son ended up in treatment for three months at a day treatment facility and on April 6 when he was out he sat in front of a new sped team not one of them met my child and they said that there's not enough data to support that my son's not so mentally ill that he deserves to have the shortened school day on him he's also a minority and attends a school that's less than 1% black he's mixed he's two races and not one person met him and I just want to say for the two seconds that I have
060that prior to this year he was only in a general ed classroom it's not fair that Senate bill 5 5 3 where Senate bill 2 6 3 are not being followed so whatever policy everybody wants things to be added to I think it's more important that we enforce and create policies that are being managed because they're not my son at home right now just wants to be with me but he can't I'm a single mom I'm a nurse I'm a board certified mental health nurse I'm an emergency nurse and I've met a good five people who have shared this story with have come to me and said they're trying to do the same thing to their son their children and I have patients who come day after day I've seen videos of trauma where people
061have told been told to shut their phones off when they're trying to you know record a child being bullied or hurt and I mean I have a seven-page story just of this year and my son has gotten one hour of education since he was out of treatment four hours a week because there wasn't a tutor outside of the hours of 8 of 8 and 9 and last Monday he was denied all of his faith because there was a records request for a telephone meeting for the other district that has since enrolled him and is giving him an opportunity and he wasn't even in disenrolled from the district then they reinstated it but after 28 they they've been talking to the district since Wednesday of that week notified me at 3 p.m. that Friday and I've
062talked to a couple of you on the board I won't mean and I was told in about November that you guys were aware and make sure thank you and then kata aye good evening I'm Paula inlet I'm an 8th grade teacher at finals middle school I teach humanities I was on the English language arts reading adoption in the writing adoption committee and also a literacy leader and about my building I'm here to talk to you tonight about stip I'm going to be reading a few words from the author Andrew Smith in regard to his novel stick and the actions of the Beaverton School District in the words of Andrew Smith I've been teaching at my high school for 25 years now and for 25 years my school has had only one of me but Liam
063had eight or eight we got our eighth principal last week maybe have a cynical after all my years in the classroom which I would never trade for anything but I know that my bottom line is looking out for my students developing relationships with them and helping them grow through exploring the choices they have been cultivating that growth I do not believe that the bottom line for an educational and bureaucrat is the same thing they seem to be concerned with finances or telling us why our thermostats have to be kept at a certain level and so on I watched Betsy DeVos his recent interview and I'm pretty sure her bottom line as an educational bureaucrat has nothing to do with mine nothing to do with kids on March 24th I gave a keynote address at a
064writing conference for young kids think of it March 24th when all these kids all over the nation were walking out of their own for out of their own schools for safety places and it's really ironic and terrifying to me that when I found out about this banning and what I was being interviewed by television news on the morning of February 14th innocent kids were being gunned down on the other side of the country at their school and here was this bureaucrat patting himself on the back for a job well done by keeping kids safe from the words in the book and speaking of nightmare worlds I was that kid instinct the kid who was beaten and senseless at home with objects that left scars who simply did not realize that my home life was not
065normal and that the rest of the world did not act like this and it wasn't until I got out of the house that I realized that this was not normal these there are kids out there who need to know this for themselves and those kids who are in situations reflected in my experiences and experiences of the kids and stick believe me they are not damaged because of the words in my book but there they affair may be missed opportunities for reconstruction and maybe for healing tonight I urge superintendent prodding and the school board to respectfully I respectfully encourage you to reconsider the overturning of the end of the banned book stick for years I teach at Aloha high school and I couldn't be a rep of all the years that I've been here and I
066just wanted to remind you about an email I sent on April 23rd and I just like to encourage you to do everything you can to retain teachers of color teachers that honor diversity and I've just asked you to reread that email I do appreciate the email that you sent today superintendent Grimes I really appreciate it then I also appreciate all of your service my son is graduating from sunset in high school my kids have been in since 2003 in the beaverton district so thank you very much for your service yellow cards that I was given is there anybody else's ok great thank you so much for your time in for your comments next on our agenda are super kindergarten before I get into the details I too want to apologize to everybody is here for
067the hate will retweet that went out and I think Matt still here really focuses that this is that is not a reflection of the work that's going on here in the school district the hard work that's been taken on by students staff administration our school board however we do have a long ways to go not only the city the school district of Beaverton in communities its communities all over our United States and one only has to turn on the news to see how polarized we are and I do agree with the students who did a great job you do need to feel safe when you come to school whether it's walking into your classroom and water walking into a grocery store or wherever you may be walking into so I am committed to leaning into
068that work and also just for the folks that were here regarding the book I have sent a message out and I have asked our teaching and learning community to review that decision and to either come back with an affirmed at the decision or another recommendation regarding the book so that recommendation I've asked for that to come to me by myself moving on I just want to talk a little bit 2018-19 budget I was able to even to meet with the governor last week and she talked about the general shortfall that we have coming at us and as the president of bapa Sara Schmidt talked about we definitely need some revenue reform we indicated that there was about six or seven superintendents in the room and if we're really going to move education forward in Oregon
069not only revenue reform but we need stabilized revenue reform so we're not wondering year-to-year what classes are going to be cut what programs may go away we need to know some when we invest in something we can have a long term commitment to meeting the needs and just for people to know I know staff know but Oregon ranks third from the bottom in the United States for the number of adults per students in our in our in our classrooms in our schools so that is something we need more adults in our classrooms more caring adults and I do agree more diverse adults in our classrooms that better represent the makeup of our student demographics also I want to talk to you just a little bit about our homeless population our homeless population in Beaverton is
070increasing last year it was seventeen hundred and fifty seven and now we have nineteen hundred and seventy nine students in 2017-18 and what's probably most alarming is the number of homeless students from zero to three have almost tripled and our four and five-year-old population is significantly increasing these are the kids that are going to be coming in and entering our kindergartens and we need to really and these are many of them are students of poverty historically underserved populations and they're getting priced out of their homes whether it's renting a home and/or buying a home we are trying to work with faith-based organizations there private organizations trying to attack the housing issue as well as some of these families they really just need basic staples like food and clothing and so sometimes when you're not able
071to concentrate on where you're going to sleep at night or what you're going to eat or how are you going to pay the electric bills it's pretty hard to come to school and be ready to be ready to learn in order to have that support at home parents are their child's first teacher on a positive note we just received some information that we are going to receive about a 2.5 million dollar seismic grant for a lower high school in addition to the other work that we were going to be doing and that's going to come to about 8 million dollars so that is to protect that school to protect the occupants of that school to bring it up to seismic upgrades the other thing we're working out on is safety and working with our Beaverton
072Police Department and they've been working with as active threat response rollouts and that is at the request of teachers so heaven forbid there is an incident that teachers and students are trained on really what to do if a horrific incident like that would occur like happened in parkland so they've really been proactive we're working we're working with those folks and trying to find out how we can dedicate time so I think it will calm the fears of some students as well as staff so they're better trained to know exactly what to do and then as president she meant also indicated shell survey results are out our administrators are looking at them our teaching and learning department's going to look at them as well as our cabinet and we're going to identify where we have some
073successes and make sure we continue that great work but also identify where there are some challenges whether it regards the size of our classes definitely right now if you go into any school in Oregon or across the United States I would say you are hearing we are seeing more trauma mental illness come into our schools than ever before as well with students are getting stressed out whether it's academic stress stress at home could be citizenship stress there's just a lot of kids are under a lot of stress right now and expecting our teachers to meet the needs of each and every student when we do have some areas where we do need to decrease class size and all that goes right back to the funding issue we need more resources in Oregon and they need
074to be stable so that's all I have thank you thank you very much next on our agenda we have a trip from our Peterborough tent Student Advisory Committee and ski jump on out there my name is Jonathan and I'm the co-president of the Greek means to magic unity before you guys leave thank you so much for standing up for what is amazing keep pushing I go change for a year and a half to three and a half we push for a sanctuary College so about about a month ago we had lunch with our superintendent and when I say we my favorite Amy or our vision Student Advisory Committee I wasn't able to attend but and then about two weeks ago we had a meeting with the board our team what is important to us it's
075class sizes with students and teachers class sizes need to be reduced or may have heard it many times today and students agree the constant sizes need to be reduced in order to in order to learn the best way possible and then also teacher and instant relationship it's very important and that can be improved by having that students in each class we also had a letter-writing campaign and to our legislators and her say representatives which went really well it was about having those ideas on gun control about people feeling unsafe in our district due to what happened in parkland and we're continuing that six to seven hundred letters which was amazing for us we're hoping to continue with that and then also we came up with an Instagram for our district called humans BSD so you
076guys have newsroom please call we have about 750 people following right now which is amazing because that's a huge increase we only had for a few months so every week we post photos of our students in every high school and we basically give a shout-out for being amazing for the club's for their activities for just being overall amazing because that's what we're doing through district use we had amazing students before you leave I want to I want to publicly thank Johanna a couple weeks ago I was working on a project for the board and um and I needed help from student and she very graciously called me back there right away I was working on kind of a short timeframe and and she very wisely guided me and helped me answer some questions because I
077was working on something that and I will quote how how eloquent I was I did not want it to suck and she I think the feedback has been that it did not and I really am [Laughter] Jihan can you just share with people what you're the recipient of and what your plans are oh I am hoping to go to Ryan I'm going to visit the University in the fall and I've never seen of the free tuition scholarship for early college high school [Applause] okay and next on our agenda is the report from the team from Cedar Hill and Amy Chamberlain and just you excellent welcome Amy was here last year with the convenience a couple years ago three times my ass does go fast tonight it's good then heavy couple of weeks and tonight my
078heart is really heavy listening to staff and students and community and those who know me know that sometimes I can get a little bit of additional whiskey from my heart and then I want to apologize in advance because I'm wishing I think in the narrative approach to my tasting for tonight because I went for the bullet is standpoint as I apologize with my hearing everybody speak tonight has really moved me but I'm going to try to stay on my topic of what I'm prepared so I feel really fortunate to be principal at Cedar Mill coming into a school that I know how many people come up to me and say oh it's such a tiny school such a tiny school because they remember those times when it was just a couple hundred but we're growing
079or four hundred and thirty nine strong as of today and it seems like we're getting new students all the time and I'm fortunate to walk into a school climate that is very strong and positive but as we grow and as our community changes and our demographics change also there's that extra challenge with using that positive school culture I feel very supported and appreciate of the work with the culture of care training that the district is providing this year and in fact over the last few school days I've had the opportunity to meet with a few parents bringing forward concerns is coming into a school that is known as such a tight kit tight-knit community school the challenges that brings for our new students and our families how they find their place and make that way
080especially with the challenges that they bring in their everyday life so I wanted to thank the school board and the district for also providing that and as a result of some of those meetings were making some changes as you see it's not as evident in the action plan that I presented with you because it was more things moving forward to next year but were already moving up some of those actions to help make sure that we have are meeting the needs of each and every one of our students and our families and making sure that they are known through our regional meetings I feel really fortunate to be able to get other ideas from other schools be rakers actually shared an activity they did it called the powered being seen and that was something that
081ended up about making sure that every student has a connection with more than just their classroom teacher and that's an activity that we were going to move into this next year but we've actually moved that up for June and looking forward to that and making sure that we're making those connections I felt really fortunate last week I had the opportunity to attend an event at Cedar Mill which I wasn't quite sure what what was going to happen that it was our multi cultural night and I knew that it was going to be representative of different cultures that our eld teacher had presented but I was pleasantly surprised to walk in and find different community groups represented within our school sharing food music dance martial arts different a piece of them and to be able to
082see them shine we have 27 languages spoken in our school and to be able to see that they could hide and connect and one of the parents said I don't feel so alone now and that was a really powerful statement to hear from them I also feel very fortunate to work with such a powerful PTC community that also looks at equity as being a part of how they want to drive their decision-making I had the opportunity to share that they're also helping contribute to even something such as school supplies to make it less of a burden for our families coming in and to be able to support those families one thing that we're working on academically if you look at our data is that we aren't making some gains in some places not making as
083much gains as we'd like to in other places and looking at that growth gap that's developing and so keeping cooperation is something that's been very appreciated this year with our early release Wednesdays when I met with staff this past summer one of the top needs that they were looking for was collaboration and vertical articulation and I feel like we're laying some really good groundwork with how we're moving forward with that and to be able to have those conversations so that we're providing constant improvement for our students K through five along with all of our grades and our teams and like I said I apologize for taking not taking the narrative form with my report tonight one of the other things that I was actually surprised to look at was the attendance rate because to me
084when looking at one only seventy about 75% of your kids or are attending school with missing loved 10 or less days that seemed a very big number looking comparatively I can see that across all schools that's a number that needs to be addressed and so that's one thing that we're looking to develop an implement because we need to have a process for how we're documenting that something that we're working on currently right now and some of it could be a relation with family swing over out of the country but at the same time we want to make sure that we're following up and connecting and following through on those families thanks Sammy other questions first I'd like to welcome you to the school board meeting and also to welcome you as a principal there because
085most likey going in there for a year or share that so so what have you identified I know the year is like the first year is kind of a year of discovery and just from the numbers it looks like you inherited it down decline in certain areas as far as like 5th grade math and math in general for the school and for all students English language arts so did you identify these just one thing for each that you're maybe will consider focusing on this next year what we're doing they're in the process of one thing right now and that's developing common literacy agreements across the grade levels because there has to be that consistency and so coming up because the second week of June it's you know coming up on the end of the year
086but we began by looking at the research behind the units of study our district adoption to make sure that we're all clear on what are the one of the one of the key points in the research and one of the things we believe and our next step is looking at the 90-minute reading block and what the components are that and what are the things we're going to commit to K through 5 to make sure that we're doing as well and primarily one thing we were looking at is building that stamina that reading stamina making a commitment every block that we look at the grade-level guidelines to make sure that we're giving time for kids to read in text and to support their reading with that and so that's coming up we were mapping out the
087rest of this year trying to decide what do we need to get to a good start stop equipment this year to pick up where we left off this year for next year so that's for literacy and then for math I would actually go back and do it a little differently if I had the chance to when we've looked at our data at the beginning of the year our staff identified math as an area that was a bigger need than literacy of course we'd have to so keep that literacy focus going on but I think with the new method option as we dabbled in our literacy adoption really trying to give ourselves more permission to do that but I felt like there was a sense of urgency and so I think that I would have maybe
088approached that a little bit differently in the sense of not trying to get too much too done too soon but at the same time we have that sense of urgency we're needing to go forward I set some teachers over to another school to observe in a classroom because there was a teacher who's taught from the context for learning earned in maybe years and they brought back some running the collaborative math PD that came out of teaching and learning was extremely powerful and one of the things we're looking at its interaction plan is how do we continue that because we have the power in the building to learn from each other and how do we use our time wisely and structure that wisely so that we can continue with growth in that area do those answer
089your questions and think you just want to comment I just know that now is the new math adoption it's more reading centric so I would hope that the there's still be a good emphasis on reading so by the time they get over there they can read and understand how to do the math work yes and one thing that I will say is that we've seen an increase with the level of student engagement with the math adoption and I think that's key we moved to a common core and looking for a frequent it's going to support the standards but it was to be in all honesty it wasn't very exciting for many of our students and if I were to ask you to come into my building and ask any student any teacher who is in
090many contexts for learning they would say that the time on task the engagement piece is there and kids are talking about math and that's really exciting and powerful that sounds great to me talking about now thank you so much Leanne thank you for being here I have two questions one is you scored really high on students feeling engaged and that at least one adult is cares about them what do you think has been going on there I know it's data from before but what have you observed in your one year that would I would say if you were to ask any person who's been at Cedar Mill for longer than a year and I would hope this year as well that they would say that the one word that defines Cedar melons community and that
091came up among the staff that comes up among parents it comes up amount of students and I think because there was a consistency in administration and relationships was a priority to him and I'm trying to carry that torch throughout as well keeping that at the forefront and that's why also with our growing population why I want to make sure that we're making those relationships with our new families and our new students coming in so that they can experience that same level of community great my other question is I noticed that your data isn't disaggregated for ethnicity in though because your numbers are so little and it would skew the percentages or it's because the data's been through yes from what I understand thank you so my question is a demographic and question about the growth
092at Cedar Mill um earlier line new houses there or rebuilds or new development and then sub pumping of the apartments down by market of choice those feed is for our school as well and actually I just had a principal chat last Friday and was made aware that there's a development going in and our tenant area that also has decided to have 45 homes built on it so it's a combination of homes have been also families moving into the apartment area there thank you Amy thank you so much for the good work that you're doing every day we're glad that you're down at Cedar Mill and we I understand in fact I think and somebody new moved into the tennis pattern I think that you were gonna go technologies if I went a little bit off
093my plan there it's a favorite thing for the school board thank you so much I'd like to invite now the team from William Walker [Applause] good evening I'm going to go ahead and start and I'll hand it over to my TV over here and I did have all of just cuz I got today it would be definitely heavy on everybody's heart and including mine and the community that I serve so good evening as a transplant from California I'm excited to share that this is my first year as a member of our William Walker Beaverton and Oregon community for this reason my focus has been building relationships and taking into account the current structures and practices we use to advance student achievement and build positive collaborative relationships with our students and stakeholders this year we have
094also been very focused on getting ready for our move to Timberland a move that involves a ton of urging packing and collective encouragement it has also been a great opportunity to capitalize on building school spirit around the opening of our new school in 2019 2020 as you prepare for this move we're working with alumni to sell the closing of one chapter in the life of our current building with a farewell celebration in Maine then the opening of a new chapter with a return to our original school mascot of the Wildcats and the blending of our old school colors with the color scheme of our new building blue and green the green representing William Walker of the past and the blue embracing the William Walker and the present future as we plan ahead our leadership team
095has recognized that our students don't have the same starting line when they enter our school this fact fuels the why behind our commitment to serve our students it drives the need to provide all William Walker students with the instruction and structures needed to advance their academic vocabulary and conversations our staff has collectively identified the need to explicitly integrate academic discourse strategies throughout the learning day and systematically teach the evidence needed to have students highly engaged in purposeful content discussions to achieve this outcome we believe it is fundamentally imperative that we have positive relationships with our students and Families with the help of our culture of care training and our student success coach we have embraced the beginning of this work at this time I'd like my advice principal mrs. Wendy Bernard to elaborate on the
096work we've done in this area thank you so I believe that the culture of care framework and bringing the Student Success coaches on board as well as the power of our early release Wednesday time those to have combined to make a really impactful on student learning at William Walker this year so those are two big thumbs up from where we're standing as you know the the culture of care work is based on good to do as well as they can and when kids are not doing well whether it's a difficult behavior or or an undesirable behavior it's indicative of a lagging skill and so we've been really working with our staff this year to identify those legging skills are and and help teach those and so it's not about you know a misbehavior or a
097naughty student it's about okay what does that student need to be successful and that's really that's what equity is getting kids what they need to be successful so we started that work with the foundation was really around adverse childhood experiences talking about the impact of those on students and their capacity their resilience and and what it means to be a trauma-informed building and we've also thrown in some rain research you might hear kids in our building talking about the amygdala hijack they certainly are talking about the zones of regulation we owe mrs. Bernard I was in red I was in the red zone which means that they were mad and maybe we're not you know responsible for really making great decisions at that so so we've been really really delighted to help our staff and
098students come on board with that language we're really trying to focus we're trying to keep kids in class and in order to do that we're focusing on prevention and that is done through a variety of strategies number one we want teachers to just have a lot of tools in their toolbox helping kids regulate calming centers in their classrooms having kids in community circle to start their day or two to come together around a difficult difficult circumstance or share you know their favorite dessert whatever it is it builds community and builds relationship and then we have also the Breakfast Club which is an opportunity for our students who come in a little dysregulated to just have a quiet start to their day with with other students and we've seen some really unique relationships with like fifth
099graders met first graders developing and so there's obviously a need for a great mindset shift when we're talking about more restorative practices and so we're kind of plodding along in that work but I've seen just a ton of growth this year and I'm just really pleased thank you first I'd like to welcome you both to the school board meeting and I you know I know you're new too so I just think I'd have had a question because obviously am I the educator so sometimes education speak I don't always get so I was hoping you could unpack this for me so I know that you're trying to know to address how there's a lot of behavior regulation skills that are being adopted out at the school but in your comments here you said that you identified
100that our biggest need is developed an academic language of our students so could you want half that what does that mean back to that language think so academic language is more of your Tier three vocabulary in which many of our students are still struggling to be able to decode in decipher so it's what you read in a textbook and it's if you take out all the common tourism and you're left with your academic content and so it's being able to understand that vocabulary and be able to connect to it to be able to synthesize the information but with the Common Core it's not just about memorizing the information it's about really internalizing what it means to you as a learner and how you can use that information to change the world around you and so
101our students are very used to having someone talk to them and so we are really encouraging our students to have a voice and that their thoughts are a value and that there's not a wrong answer that what you're thinking is not wrong it's powerful and it will help us be able to help you grow and achieve great things so what our teachers are doing is we're really looking at internally what are our current systems in place how are we encouraging that are we even encouraging that in our activities and then systematically teaching children how to have those conversations how to have what we typically have a conversation and we boldly vacu build upon my idea you maybe add on you elaborate on it and to be able to have that sustained conversation and enjoy the
102conversation about the academics that we're learning excellent thank you so much thank you yeah yeah thank you so much for your report I have two questions that have to do with early release and so my first one is if I were to walk into the school when the teachers tell me it's been a productive time this past year and secondly if so how has it affected students I would say yes they would say it's been a very valuable and I think that it helped them have some common planning around the learning that students are doing in math especially the new math adoption and being able to understand that and share just the risks teachers are taking with their instructional practices so I think that's what they would say students are benefiting from I can give
103you a really good example from our first grade team and they actually we use a co-teaching approach to the English as a second language instruction and they instead of deciding to go visit some other classrooms where co-teaching was happening they decided to shine the light on themselves through their early release time they talked about it and planned it and so they were they set it up so that they did an instructional round just in their first-grade hall and so the ESL teacher taught each writing class and then the other teachers watched and focused just on what they saw students saying and doing and then they got together during the early release time and you know went through the process and they all said it was one of the most impactful professional learning experience they'd ever
104had and not only were they able to see each other engaged in in you know what they that they're as teacher that which they never had they had worked as a team they so they got you know some tips and tricks from each other and they were admiring each other but they were also really focusing on what students were able to do and and I think that they're it's it's it's a really prime example of them lifting each other up and that's really what early release is about great thank you Eric welcome oregan I wanted you in your first year do you have you had pearls of wisdom your California experience it might be valuable for our district Morgan what pearls of wisdom I you know what it's it's very different because I would have
105to say that you know it's just like buying a house you know it's really hard to move your new furniture into your old furniture into your existing house your new house you know I mean it's just it's not possible you want to make it fit but it isn't so I think every district every state is very different and unique and that's what makes Oregonian people so good wonderful and so I'd hate to say that what it's been done in California they have the right answers because it's just a completely different structure so bill girls just that I'm here future politics in Oregon I have a question where we have economically disadvantaged so we are we have a grant at William Walker we're a hundred percent of our students receive free and reduced lunch and breakfast
106so I think that is why the asterisks because there's we don't actually have the current data it when several years ago it went above ninety percent and at that time the grant kicked in and so and because there are not applications to track and then the same I have a personal why it has blocked out from the fact sheet of growth under English language arts for DLL students in the backyard why that was English language learner I'm assuming it's the same races just above 90% so we don't even write maybe Brenda could you comment on that bill it's so the ekend an economically disadvantaged so it's the ever English language learners and I just don't think that we can get that yeah its fifth grade group Sean runs for board members John runs these reports
107so the principals and now it's Riley when I did the rapport I also looked at the report card so if you and what I provide you with an attached no no I don't think because they were one that I found referred to the true Weaver card radiant details of 16 17 and 15 16 and those actually you have a leveling and the subgroups of them within English language arts we don't have a generic entire population of English language learners and predominant makes it tough I assume that I got that when you don't have your demographic configured that I just but everyone else was saying in that which is not included in that separate group is what I call a language impoverished students there are other English language learners that they are language impressed and it's
108definitely need the support in language development and you know for a board member that was great information for me to know that I did not realize that you have that grant because you had so thank you for that situation so yes kind of they not i noticed the number of last days and this dude is suspensions and it's functions that they were at 54 then went down to 13 and now they're back up to 52 from laughing i was 16 17 and i'm just wondering you know with all the new supports you know are you seeing a difference or more kids staying in school this year than last year definitely definitely yeah and i if i'm remembering just anecdotally from last year there were a couple of students who were persistently having physically aggressive issues
109and that that over time did result in suspension so i think there's a chance that maybe two or three students make up the landscape i would like to share them with our attendance and we've been doing this years we've been starting a student success team process where we actually invite parents and and do an action plan on increasing student attendance we at the table we have our counselor we have our social worker as well as the teacher the parent myself mrs. Bernard if she's able to attend because she might be covering a classroom so that the teacher can be there as well as our student success coach and it really has been a powerful meeting some of our older students will invite to the table once we have a discussion with parents to figure out
110is this actually something that the older child is reluctantly wanting to come to school or is this more of a kind of a family systemic issue but we have seen a very high success rate as a result of these meetings thank you very much welcome to Oregon thank you for the good work that you're doing for William Walker students we are also looking forward to your move I know that that's an exciting scary thing but we know it's gonna be great for the William Walker community thank you and then we're gonna take a break but your guys did we take one more card but then they left okay we are going to take a break we will reconvene at a time I guess thank you for 1617 and 1718 enrollment and weightings are down and
111while dropping taxes are up statewide this brings our fund balance to general and back up to six point six percent projected for June 30th we are advertising a supplemental budget hearing for our May 14th 4th media increase revenue by 4 million in state school fund the investment earnings and ESD revenue we will appropriate expenses in general month for classroom teachers allocated in the fall as well as an increase as increased costs in maintenance services and transportation we will also transfer 500 thousand of the categorical funds support is full of the purchases from the facility ground so watch for a supplemental budget next month it is being advertised as we speak and we'll be asking you to make that appropriation thank you very russia's for her yeah we have comment my last time that i can
112say this in front of the board that i'm very appreciative of our community and the 300 teachers that were able to buy with the local option levy so everybody needs to get out to a vote so that we can continue that i believe the board is unanimous and that sentiment topic anybody would like to say a big thank you for welcome for a discussion about that early warning system since I'm they were your honor so I'll be briefly you've got background information so I will cut recover that but I thought what I would do is briefly walk you through kind of how we're using all three elements with the early warning system so I'll you permission to turn your backs to me do the screens what you're seeing here is one part of the early
113warning system that deals with student individual student lists of and I'm going to just kind of walk you through and top to bottom how this report is put together and get a sense of how the tools that the building staff have two s students such a struggle academically or it would behavior or attendance ways to do we can capture that and intervene at the earliest possible moments for those students so this this report if you look at the top a lot of different filters can be activated for this to get that either a whole school or subgroups of students this is all scrambled data which is why you're seeing the student names look a bit different we for student data privacy or running on the side of a training database so this is not real
114data this purpose and we'll show you how this is organized so at the top and this really came from the principles they've wanted a lot of flexibility so why does it look at can we forget my programs can be look at specific counsel caseloads to be able to make sure that we're giving these students to the appropriate staff so the top is all filters that can be activated if you look in the middle section here the color coded the way we've done this is and this is again working with our secondary leadership to talk about what would what would be important criteria for this and so we've color-coded the early learning categories with not passing three or more classes and attendance less than 90% being something that the school building staff really going to pay
115attention to and take a look at and then moving into not passing through more classes but attendance is over 90% and then moving through the filters it really talks about it they're looking at you can see different gradations of passing not passing classes and attendance so even though there's a lot of data here really what constitutes the logic in the early warning system is the passing classes and attendance so and if you have questions feel free to jump in yes I have a couple questions one is how often where the teachers have to put in this information in order for it to be on the report that's from one question sure this is near real-time data when we say that because there's so much data being compiled and built for this report that we haven't
116run every few hours so the great thing about the early warning system is when you think of a tennis data and gradebook data that data is only up to a few hours old because the data from being inside of the teachers grade book to actually being trying to use photo report so does it like have some sort of error warning or something if the teacher doesn't put in data frequently because I would think it would be important to know I guess I guess that probably goes into my other question you know I obviously you say it's it's accurate Dayla but how often is the data provided to the teachers in order to do their evaluation so that would be in keeping with what would happen if the teacher should fail to put in information I
117think any sense that sure absolutely so um t-this this does pull directly from the student information system and the teacher grade books in synergy so if there is data in there that's either changed or added it's going to pull immediately like I said within a couple hours and so if it's not then it's just not gonna get factored in and I'll show you a little bit more about that when we drop to look at course detail data but as as as teachers and teachers are entering assessment information all the time and so as it is entered in integrate books then we're actually actually able to use it for this purpose so I'm assuming that this is gonna be used by the counselors and the students and everybody to figure out ways for strategies to use
118with the children or yeah it's it's another pretty heavy use over almost a thousand uses since the start of school secondary lonely and so it's used quite frequently it's used by multiple people within the building the the ability to filter by Councillor is important because then we can start to counselors could take a look at the students that are working with office staff we're able to use it and of course building leadership table to use there so if we move down sorry all right okay so we move down so you see the the students here that are in the not passing through more classes the this is kind of the the level of detail and what our secondary leaders said was very important to them was knowing information about the student name and braven GPA
119but also how they doing academically so counter beth's that's an important criteria that was used and identified for for this report judgments two or under so the county baths is the the mark at the reporting period the judgments to or under is the that's the more summit of formative assessments so as those assessments are being in again they're not for they're not a grade but it's able to actually use both of those so this this identifies how how students are doing in between that that rating period as judgments are at summary judgment sir entered attendance and you see for all categories current last and year that was identified as important period absences attendance authorize unauthorized only and then all absences to give a picture of the student attendance mobility we're looking at how many times
120has students moved as a information that they that would be important to this report and then discipline so it's it's really when we think about are they mooring systems academics behavior in the fourth grade so it ABCs is how they call that the the last part of this report I want to show you probably gonna vamp for about 10 seconds this is in our training database well that's faster than I thought it is pushing our training database which is not very heavily powered because it's just for training this is the it's really pushing it so I'm grateful that's up here because it wasn't sure it was going to be so when I click to the course detail this really moves into the individual student and it gives a picture overtime of how they're doing in
121the courses so you see all the courses lined up the grades they have the absences per course which can be different and they can be looking at our students coming for certain periods and not for the entire day so this is very useful information and then additional reports that are connected and deep dives into attendance and discipline so that's the what we call the student list report and I'm gonna move to the next just cover very briefly the next two pieces of the early warning system because well this is for building leadership and specific staff teachers aren't using the data in this format so we had something different from them so we the move to that that the teacher of you we added iPods but that's what we heard was this is very valuable report
122but how how would teachers know if students are starting to struggle academically maybe not just in their course but in others so we created icons and this again is all scrambled data that as students start to fall within those categories of the early warning system meaning supporter or concerns about academic or or behavior attendance teachers now can hover over an alert and then they will see a detailed view and so this is an example of what what a teacher would see in the gradebook as they as they hovered over the icon so they could see that of the students passing not passing one or two classes and they're good their attendance is below many of your staff and then lastly this is brand new this is called the school summary and so this while the
123other one was focused on individual students or groups of students questions from secondary leadership we're about how can I see a summary of what's happening via early warning systems in my school so just to the left column here this is a breakdown by grades and by programs and percentages so very quickly building staff could take a look at this and they could say okay now however my ninth graders doing on my 10th i individual grade levels up at the top there was interest again I would like to see how students are doing with regard to passing with core classes core content areas and then non core classes and then all classes of course and then finally we added an attendance grid or attendance metric that shows the individual school and the district average so though
124those three pieces together comprise our early warning system and they're what we're trying to do is make sure that the appropriate staff and also all the teachers and staff in schools have access to this information so the students start to struggle they're able to intervene quickly so if you have a couple super experts that know how to use this really well so they can make sure that the tool that you have yours looks really powerful excellent we didn't use well yeah we we I would say the experts of the people on the building's using the tool we did do quite a bit of training with building administration and leadership in the winter months it was a video I put the link in there of you if you want to see mr. struck Meyer do an
125excellent job of walking campus through this great logic if you haven't seen already but we have to have some training to make sure and then as people have questions or concerns that are able to contact us and we're continuously refining an estimate that's a quick question thank you Steve so I'm you know I'm just looking at the usage graph here in an excellence like Pitino the curb usage was going up in the fall but it's actually go down in the spring so are you getting any feedback as to why I think it's time of year end of term things I we're not seeing that we're still hearing consistent positive feedback on us I think it's has to do somewhat with the cadence of reporting periods and time but you know you're right it is it
126has dropped off a little bit it's particularly March March we had spring break and enables a partial month so we're seeing that drop-off I think some some of its do the calendar I think mine's more of a comment this is really awesome and I would love to see maybe next year either if being a report at the end of our board meeting our board packets just so we can get more feedback after it's been in place you know how many students has it helped alleviate some disasters how you know just the usage and the data off from it because this is really amazing work so I'd love to in a year maybe it takes two years I don't know what the time frame is but it would be great to just get some feedback and
127whether that come in a report form or a actual presentation before the board then biasted of the 131 staff members is it primarily being used by councilors to being accessed by homeroom teachers it's mostly councilors and office staff and building leadership and it looks a little bit different depending building who they have run the reports okay so these handsome mix teachers are consuming it through the icons on the gradebook so they don't have to go to an extra place they're already in there taking attendance so we figured we want to make that as quick and intuitive as possible for them so there's no extra place you have to go to and then building staff it really depends upon the structure in the building I'd say counselors are pretty heavy okay and is it in terms
128of like access patterns is it are people looking at this on a weekly basis the daily a so frequently yeah again depending on the school you know just detail I want to make sure I understand and so it looks to me like uses on it I wonder how my students are doing basis you are you also pushing out reports or anything like that so that it's just it's this time of year so we're letting you know we just have progress reports or something like that is that does that make sense yeah in terms of communicating yeah we haven't done that we did we didn't put some pretty heavy communications I would say November December January were were really trying to build momentum and then we've just eased off on that but that might be something
129to to send out and then the teacher note is that show up for a principal or counselor you know if you had a student coming in will they automatically seen that kind of flag so that you know I'm just we're a manipulation oh and also you're not on tracker yeah yeah they like I said the information is yes it's and it's very frequent so it's we don't want to call it real-time because it's not true but it's of course it sure was yeah it's it's very close to real-time okay thanks for helping me understand yeah just thinking about that is there a function of our way this can be used where it pops up and says you know all of a sudden the student has crossed that line right between the number of absences you
130know being over 10 or something like that and then you there's a flag that goes up and that's generated in a report that are like alert spokes or do they have to always go into this no that is a great question one of the pieces of feedback we got on this would be it would be really good maybe on a weekly to show change so if a student is starting to struggle with the tenants or starting to struggle with grades how did they do last week today did they move you know are they did they move into a different area of concern all over they're off they're all areas of concern but but that's something that we've just recently been asked to kind of show a performance over the last few weeks so we could
131look at trajectories so the groups working on that it's a bit of a challenge to figure out how to do it but I think we can and then the other thing I think that would be valuable is how could we share this out with parents maybe through parent view so as students are starting to struggle parents have a window then at the earliest possible so it combination of parent and teacher thanks.thanks are gonna get the work brian has been chair waiting building thank you so much for both attending our work session and our business meeting [Applause] Porter Porter Brian and members of the school board thank you for having me here you know I think an hour of twenty minutes or so it was really nothing how can you sat through a couple you know
132three-hour regional transportation plan yeah I think that it captures might be more comfortable than tears in our council chamber though so the material you have in your covers two orders because of our kind of six meeting a year schedule which is created all sorts of problems for the staff which to thank them for working on the schedule and being patient so we have the fourth quarter of 2017 in the first order of 2018 overall the main messages the projects are on track you know there's the occasional blip but the staff is proactively managing them and communicating regularly so the committee hasn't had any major concerns given that we haven't had to deal with problem projects we spent some time on other issues over the last several months we spent some time about the bethany repipe
133project also the ACMA construction schedule update and then we started our conversation about the prioritization for spending of programs or funds and we have not finished that personally because we think our recommendation it's not a formal recommendation at this point would be that you not spend them yet but we want to continue working on that and staff is going to be bringing back more information in the future to help us think about ways that we might prioritize that in alcohol if I mentioned this the last time I was here but the committee elected Cheryl Twiggy as the Vice Chair so my time is terrors running short and Sarah will be next in line at our last meeting so what I mentioned that we held it at below a high school and had the opportunity to
134tour the Innovation Fair which was a fantastic experience and I think it was great for us to get out and spend some time at mountainside and Sato but seeing Aloha and the stuff that's happening out there was a great experience too I really appreciated that in fact Lee just wanted to thank the board I have some colleagues who participate in other Bond accountability committees or other school districts and there are two things that I think has made my experience and the rest of the committee's experience very productive and positive and the first is that the board has done a great job of sending very clear expectations for the bond accountability committee and the second thing is the board has been very respectful of the Charter that's been given to the committee and I think that's
135allowed us to be successful and I hope you feel like we are providing good service to the board but it's been a very positive experience so thank you very much thank you right are there questions yeah Don it's not really a question just a comment so if I can have any influence at all I know that eventually you're going to be considering what to do with the contingency funds so safety is really important you know it's a big thing there's a lot of issues at our schools still regarding locked doors and having doors and things like that so if I could put in a suggestion it would be perhaps that should be able to talk over the list for consideration for what to do with the funds that's what I'm going to say thank you
136and that's certainly been in our conversations about priority safety seems to be something that you know probably is that you know regardless of whatever process we go through is going to be one of the most important things to think about you you've gone through cycles here with this you know and because you have expertise and in other areas do see ways as we're going to the final phase of this is we're coming to the final projects of this of any restructuring of how you report to the board or how the committee is restructured do you have any advice or anything that as you said your time is short is what you said I think that the recommendation that would give is at this point you know we are through the large projects you know there's
137a significant level of trust between the committee and the board and the staff I think you could probably go to orderly meetings and you know I think frankly we've had a little bit of a challenge coming up with material for meeting every two months you know but it's a good problem to have things are in good shape we don't have a lot to talk about you know we're kind of running out of schools to tour at this point the prioritization we got a life of its own good alright Brian we just really appreciate the service that you've given oh I'll be back in this maybe Cheryl will con you into coming for the next report to the board I also wanted to applaud you for having a meeting that wasn't that on a new school
138I know that at least our inboxes are already starting to pull with project ideas for other schools and I think that more your in are not new schools the more you'll understand the challenges that those have so I guess that would be my only recommendation to the committee I know it's a real hassle for staff however there's really no a better way to get a feel for what the breadth of the district is and of being in our buildings most people I think board members are included in this you know we think all schools are like the one that you have the most impact with interaction in that that's absolutely not the case so thank you for your leadership and for the work that you're doing team your next report project team that were originally
139referred [Music] good evening it's my pleasure to introduce the members of the health project team they're here this evening to talk about the recommendation we're bringing for the ceiling um I'm gonna start at the far end Richard Morris is our Tosa for outreach and engagement Crissy Lawrence is an elementary Tosa that supported the health team Jennifer Hicks is a teacher of outside high school and a part-time Tosa in teaching and learning to support health I'm Ken struck by Jared Court in both in teaching and learning and we have krysta Hawkins and she's a community member and the director of school programs for the Oregon dairy and nutrition Council good evening lieutenant board members last spring and I were sitting here asking for your authorization to form a health project team and Wow do we have
140an amazing group you've heard from some of them tonight we have a group that we are profoundly grateful for a group that is credibly talented dedicated and passionate we had students parents teachers administrators board member the end we want to publicly thank them for their work we began working this fall starting with monthly meetings and then moving to weekly meetings as we got close to this time and we're excited to bring this report in this recommendation to you too we hope that you will accept this for review and consideration tonight we've been really impressed with this project team who deeply understand that academic success is indeed inextricably linked to student health this is a group who understands and has a common commitment to improving health education k12 and still inhabits the product Student Wellness now
141into the future increasing student safety preventing abuse and strengthen our connections with our parents and community to these ends I'd like to introduce past the life of a crystal Hawkins who serve on the health project team as one of our community members Thank You Christian Hawkins I'm Erin Peterson I am a registered dietician and I am director of youth wellness for any dairy nutrition council and I can't tell you how honored I was to be on this committee our project team was amazing the organization spectacular the thoughtfulness and the whole process from beginning to end identifying the whole make sure everybody's voices were heard asking who was at the table who wasn't how we could get all of the vast views on people's perspectives not only for students but for staff and the entire community
142I kept talking about the end of the meetings wow it was amazing we had these to our meetings and they ran really smoothly as I said the back Meishan was spectacular when the committee had the Tanakh questions additional research was always done and communicated to us efficiently and so we'd be prepared for the next meeting so I just might have the opportunity I made a few notes because I want to make sure to hit some things I felt that overarching the commitment everybody on the team was as I said just outstanding the focus on the students was never straight from everybody's focus was on students how short and long-term not just to have it for a class but for life on skills to be healthy students in their whole educational career and thereafter in life
143with that said it was also brought up to the focus was on that how staff can support that in every school building not just one school willing not to do one great that it was spectacular and I work with schools around the state and districts this commitment is really asked unique I think the variety of lenses that were brought to the table and the thoughtful route discussions that really helped to everybody's viewpoints be open and consider all the very diverse community that we have I just I have really good things to say I think every lens was looked at as best as abilities and you know will continue to be the focus commitment to the quality of education and the professional development was also really nobody thank you for giving us the opportunity to come
144and present this proposal to you tonight I had the extreme pleasure of working with this amazing group of individuals to help bring this information to you many who were here with us tonight to show their support for this listening to the various testimonies tonight really attest to why we need quality comprehensive k12 health education in Beaverton when I first came together with the health cadre our goal was to create health literate students which essentially is giving them the ability to access understand appraise apply and advocate for health information and services to maintain or enhance their own health in the health of others and we are starting to see these students come to that our first goal was to really figure out what is that we want our students to know and to be able to
145do and we face this information of the national health standards the oregon state health standards which were just adopted in December 2016 and then we looked at what we were currently doing with in Beaverton what was working and what we felt needed some change and though the long term and supporting targets that are being presented to you was a combination of those efforts we also took some time to really look at what are those practices we are going to use to provide this information to our students to our community and we looked at shape America which is decided health and physical education to get their guidance and feedback on those current practices that are working to help our students lead healthier lives we also looked at state laws that are in play and noticing that
146we are not necessarily clients with some of those but our recommendation to you today would bring us to that compliance especially with Aaron's law along with the healthy teen relationship act and the human sexuality education and drug prevention curriculum highlights of our targets where you might see some shifts from what we have been doing previously so we really wanted to make sure we were providing more athletically accurate information and there's a shift to start that younger kindergarten we wanted to make it a more skill-based approach to teaching health and not so concept heavy because yes the kids need to know but they more importantly have to know what to do with the information that are being given and given time to practice and refine those skills we as part of our plan we know that
147our educators are going to need more practices and trauma-informed instruction we need more support with culturally responsive teaching and to create a curriculum that is more inclusive and you will see that our efforts to do that are represented within a bit of academic supporting targets especially um we also know that we can't do this necessarily all on our own as health educators we are looking for community partners to help support these programs are not proposal you will see we would like to partner with Cara's Northwest SARP Dairy Council has always been on our side and we work closely with youth wine is another one that we're looking to to help with some support with mental health and again it's about building a community effort to really help support our students and community our parents with
148Aron's well there is a component where we need to provide parental education as well and we are hoping with this adoption we would be able to help I'm going to give you a little bit of information on the professional development plan if you look on page 61 we have an implementation plan and there's a phase one and a Phase two 2018-19 is phase one we're going to start with you why we're going to introduce the new standards or going to introduce Erin's law to the teachers and we're also going to introduce the new revised comprehensive health education guide which includes answering like an answering difficult questions protocols so we want to build that background knowledge for the teachers first so that first year we're going to focus on that we're going to take three we're
149gonna take three hours in the fall we're going to spend the summer creating the training and then we're going to give it to the leaders of the school of the administrators and the administrators with their counselors and our intervention teachers are going to present this in their own building to their teachers we just felt like that was really important that they are they're doing the work we're also going to send a teacher from each school to the four-day training this summer with the secondary staff so that we have that alignment 2019-20 is phase two this is when we're going to be training out the actual curriculum and materials we always want to start with the why and then we'll dig into their materials whatever curriculum is pushed forward that's what we're going to work on
150we're going to take advantage of the week three PD opportunities to work on integration if teachers want to take the health content and integrate it into science social studies language of art as an elementary teacher we have a lot of different things that we have to teach and so integration is something that we need to consider as a possibility so page 61 is the implementation plan and if you move to page 63 this is the professional development plan which has the same information but though it goes a little bit deeper this format we use for ela and math so we're trying to transfer this to all content areas what we want to do is we want to ensure that if we require teachers to do something that we support them and so this format shows
151what we're going to train them at in what the intention is for the teacher how we're going to do it and then the materials and resources that are available to them for the secondary professional development plan on which looks like they're on pages 6 2 4 6 fact of Europe report we want to get the ground running a little bit faster on many of our secondary schools there is a health education class in place how much time is given can vary and we'd like to see some changes made in that but we know we have some foundational pieces there we are proposing a two day training either teachers will get to pick either summer dates or early September in which they will be able to unpack the new standards of targets become more familiar with
152the curriculum we are recommending mid October is when we will do more of this specific training around sexual abuse prevention and just the sexual health piece in general and again we are really turning to our community partners to help support that training to take place this is where we want to rely on experts in the field to help give us again the best strategies possible we also will be using early release time to work and collaborate we're talking as a cadre perhaps trying to do regional meetings because right now getting everybody in the district in one place by 1:30 is really challenging at the high school level um so maybe some regional offerings ptosis support sessions so that we can do maybe some co-teaching to help support those teachers who maybe are not feeling as
153confident with some of the newer material that we are recommending we also will be putting together a comprehensive health education guide to give teachers a foundational piece on how to approach topics that may hear more sensitive in nature a question-and-answer protocol that they can use to help again make it so people feel safe and comfort students feel safe and comfortable within the classroom to be able to ask questions and again trying to offer this for all teachers who would be teaching in college in the secondary level that is our goal is to get everyone involved so in your packet you've also found information about the materials recommended by the project team and other details about budget etcetera but were or open for any questions you may have at this time thank you thank you for
154all your hard work putting plan and that and so my question is a real basic one I'm just wondering what Anne's lies great Aaron's law is home in Oregon University 856 a lot of numbers of man Senate bill 856 requires for regular lessons of sexual abuse prevention for all students grades K through 12 and it's based on an Illinois law that was based on a young lady who was abused that went to bat and worked harder than Illinois to make sure that that never happened to other kids after her and so we are really honored to have that charge to be creating a system that how students understand what they need to do to keep themselves safe what they need to do to create safety for peers for members of their family and understand that
155we have a community that United to help keep them safe and who those people are now to navigate that so I want to thank everybody for their work on this so I was reading through the targets I was very impressed there were moments where I was smiling and I could see where the work being done here is would be really impactful for equity across the district and thank you guys for that work that's great I have one question are there any resource materials that deal with intervention techniques for bystanders to prevent sexual assault and thinking about our secondary students here we do we are proposing the advocates for youth curriculum which six through 12 they have lessons that provide and some of the areas in which that would be addressed is when trying to help
156kids understand how to create boundaries knowing what their sexual rights are in that communication skills the Start program the sexual assault Resource Center is start their program for high school health has a very specific lesson of my standard intervention which basically the goal of that lesson would be it says to examine barriers to intervention and reasons why one would intervene and situation and to discuss ways to intervene and build skills into real-life situations because it that has to be a component and does that I don't this is just kind of a question is that dovetail with any of the work being done you know with our colleges because I'm wondering too about you know how we can educate our students here at the high school level before they go on to college right where we
157see a lot of sexual assault happening and what's the prevention piece better right so we haven't worked directly with any of the college programs but sark is a community program that works with various not just schools but other community organizations that they could help us build that were also at somebody schools posing to move health to to either junior senior here to help support more that skill-based worked so that kids are that they are different that are juniors New York versus freshman sophomore we're having them go through a health class again senior year it's so impactful because they suddenly realize I am the only I have to know how to deal with certain situations and they might have started to encounter more things where they realize we are trying to really truly protect them support
158them thank you for your just want to thank you all for your I could work then through several health adoptions and they can be some of the most controversial adoptions and as I read through some of the comments a wide variety of what folks come from just a couple questions as Beaverton starts to dive into the early childhood world and conversations about that as well as some of our students who go pass grade 12 and into transition services and some of our high needs students and I know that you just pick up the paper and sometimes they are our most vulnerable students sometimes a great question down the row McElveen has been part of what we have considered here and this adoption although the standards are k12 what we what we do know is that
159the work with our community starts like we talked about today of the the most important teacher are parents so we're looking for ways to make sure even during this process to involve community the process to outreach as we think about our pre-k is we have a wonderful opportunity as we start inviting parents and schools to talk about how to make sure even the basic necessities but healthy living looks like so we have certainly had discussions about how we can integrate our learnings with the health adoption in door into our pre-k for next year I just love your idea about purposely intentionally reaching out to community partners who have done this work before because I know that for some teachers that are very uncomfortable about starting to teach new curriculum that and just to be able
160to bring folks to the table that gives them the confidence and modeling to get to get to be able to do that so it all just mentioned something so I think when we talk about community the thing that tends to get people a little uncomfortable is the idea around sexual health and maybe gender identity but we remember there's it within this there are targets and standards on injury prevention on healthy eating on child protection drug prevention mental social and emotional health so all of those things in addition to every student in here is applicable for any parent and a student community my question that you asked what Don just said at the end was just being able that prank manicure when I see when you talked about professional development on 1920 I know our health
161curriculum is not like when we adopt an ela or math but I also know we are coming up to some tough budget times and it seems like one of the first things to go or professional development and we cannot set up our teachers to be successful when we adopt something and then do not give them the resources and the training to implement that so have we thought about in for some reason and then also the question I so believe in community partnerships and collaborations I think it's such a valuable part of our district do any of these have a fee involved with do we design contracts with them to provide us those services and again would that be part of the budgetary process sorry we do in two parts um it's very important for us
162that we give every about a PD we can while we have resources that are adequate and so that's why on the secondary side we are being aggressive and investing four days of professional development for every health educator we are trying to balance our desire to do the same thing in elementary with the realization that we are shifting practices of mathematics and English language arts and if we went with that same velocity at elementary we feel that it would actually be counterproductive instead we must find ways for teachers to see that health education is woven into the work that's being done with workshop and mathematics it's being woven into the workshop or work in English language arts and so we need to be much more strategic we also know that our early release provides an opportunity
163for collaboration and that some of our strongest teachers have taught our cadre members will provide resources that we can leverage regardless of financial resources and them in the coming years so in terms of is their fee attached to some of the trainings these are companies that need to maintain funding sark has a flat fee rate that they recharge but it would also give us all the materials they would continue to provide ongoing support and curriculum development because we're asking for support from them on developing more lessons around Aaron's law for the high school level where the student may not be in a help us same with Kara's Northwest they're kind of doing a very similar approach they both have ramps right now that they can help to reduce our cost and are very willing to
164work with our needs but there is there's I'll put it this way if the elementary level we quit lying resources for teachers a while ago and they I mean there's a value statement than that so the quality of instruction around home it can be linked to the support people received and so we certainly have we still have a plan or not knowing the future future a sort of a plan to try to weather the upcoming future which we know which could be we'll have some budget chasms as you can see I have the privilege to be a part of an amazing group of people ken and Darrin did a fabulous job of helping us work through this and our committee as you know was made up of a lot of teachers administrators community members parents
165we had some amazing students you heard from one of them today and all of them together really want our students to be healthy and that's clearly come across not just physically but emotionally mentally in every way and have lifelong skills so the curriculum that they've chosen it was not easy we as you can see some of its up a little bit here and there because nobody writes curriculum that covers all our standards and the new laws so they've done a masterful job of digging in and finding the best for me Burton and I just wanted to say it was just such a privilege to be a part of this great group and they're coming with their very best work to recommend to us so thank you I said I just want to make sure I
166understand economists so I could see that we were picking and choosing curricula but at least I thought I got that what I couldn't picture was if I was a teacher in an elementary classroom or in a high school classroom how does that all come to me how do I find out what the recommended way to teach certain pieces like I I went to the three-hour training but you know enjoy a show up again what does this actually look like if I'm a classroom teacher and if you could put the wet in because it sounded like there were different when's two different years I just want to make sure I really understood it at the secondary level they will be provided with the new standards targets and curriculum then you have a choice if they would
167like to do the training in the summer we're going to offer dates then but realizing we can't require that so then we'll have it early September for those who couldn't do a summer date the curriculum were proposing the foundational pieces of the mcgraw-hill materials all digital so that will be at their fingertips and part of the training will be learning how to use the digital platform that they provide most of the curriculum that we have is online some of which free down them very easy to use ICS hopefully being able to again I want to make connections with like key point people at each of the secondary schools so that they know and I know what their needs are what support they may need so that I can continue to support their work mixture as
168the rollout begins they are going so that if they have some confusion about which curriculum which targets they have a point person to come to and that's part of what the early release to we could work on those components but most of what they're going to be able to get will be all online and I can talk a little bit about the elementary so next year we're gonna train out on Sarah thumb Aaron's log so it's a four lessons per grade level per year on sexual abuse prevention we do have a free online program or pushing for trying to push for it it's called fake child abuse org it's very easy for the teachers to see and work from there's lessons there's videos and what's great about that is you can also share with the
169parents prior and say this is what we're doing in the classroom because a lot of the language for elementary of the standards its adult language so some parents may be uncomfortable with it but when they see what it looks like that's what you know it's much more it's much different it's much more appropriate so we're going to train that Apple train those materials out we're going to train the comprehensive health education guide which has a like an answer protocol for sensitive questions the materials the comprehensive curriculum for health we aren't going to train that out until the next year even though the teachers will probably get that this coming year I will offer some week three opportunities and teachers are ready to dig into that I just think it's too much too much too soon
170we need kind of a slow roll out elementary teachers have a lot going on there's there's writing training going on math is fairly new we've got science next year so it's kind of a slow roll out the good thing is the curriculum that we propose is the old curriculum is from the same publishing company so the format is similar it's updated materials teachers are comfortable with it and it's familiar to them so that's thank you very much for all your work and first sticking it out with us tonight [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right next on our agenda is time for a follow-up or discussion at our work session a few weeks ago board members had the opportunity to receive some training from a member of a no de marquise Jones and Smith who helped us
171work through some materials and some of a good discussion and I knew that board members were taking that opportunity to reflect and appreciated the opportunity that we had there we got a lot of positive feedback there but also I think it was a little unclear so what next there was a strong feeling that we didn't want it did before and to not understand where we were heading next you'll notice in the packet I did not include all of the materials that we went through at the work session but just a couple of highlights of things that she had brought that things that had been being used currently at the State Board of Education to guide board work and part of the reason why we had invite I guess I got another question which was you
172know why now and why did we have her comment and really was just that I saw her presentation and I thought beaverton schoolwork could use this back in November and it takes a long time to get time on our work session and so it happened to be in April and so I just wanted to be able to open the floor up to board members to see sort of where they were feeling in terms of were there things that you saw or heard that you thought I definitely want them forward on that or things that we want to push off to subcommittee you know I just kind of I needed to be able to have people have time to have reflected and bring back their ideas and thinking Domon we missed you at our work session
173yeah so sorry it wasn't there so I'm not sure whether I got everything but I think we need to have a committee work on this frankly I thought it was amazing work and amazing information I would love to have some sort of format that when we do have presentations or changes brought before us that we do have some sort of an equity lens most of what was given to us so much that I don't know we can go through all of that with everything that we do or we'll never get through our board meetings but even her pocket page pocket version was great but I even think it needs to be condensed more for the beaverton ideas so I too agree with Donna I think maybe to assign to a subcommittee that this is their
174burning passion and they could maybe come through with some sort of updated collaboration of all of these materials in maybe two three four questions that we ask would be more than enough and that everybody that's going to present to us would know that we're going to be looking lenz okay so I'm just gonna so you were interested in seeing some version of the decision tool as well as a standardized format first situation sheets that includes things like what are on the state boards questions about stakeholder voice and how this will impact different student groups and things like that and it seems like it would be reasonable that was so committee work on that yes no it's totally agree with that yeah I'm also in favor of doing that work as with the subcommittee I'm thinking
175here too especially in regards to the items that you put in the board agenda here I'm thinking about it kind of something that we we would do at the state level right when we were looking at a bill or like a policy change that we'd be doing here's you would get a report from like the legislative revenue or financial office right and that report would tell you what the fiscal impact of that bill is I'm wondering how could we develop something like that for our policy work for our budget work and and how do we do that in a way that really encompasses all the different roles that we have as a board while at the same time making sure that it's not doesn't just become another box that's checked but it's something that people
176can really lean into and use effectively so I guess that all that being said it to me that seems like something I would like to see that subcommittee work on and come back what could be some sort of a document that we could have attachment over single reports as a board so that as we're reviewing the material we're not just having our own thoughts on the equity lens but we're getting those from staff as well okay I'm so in addition to what we've already talked about Tom it seems like you're interested in perhaps customizing similar to what hoody is actually already The Situation's needs to include different kinds of information depending on what the thing is so that my team we do have financial impact for short-term things but not for things like policies certain
177things like that coming here right now just the one thing that would ask is when the committee's formed to really try to work with show in teaching and learning so there's some stuff that we're doing right now so not completely reinventing the wheel so there's those things that are taking place right now too and they're doing some great work in these areas so that as the committee is to really lean on our staff to and to let us bring resources that are already taking place yeah the good news bad news with board subcommittees as they take a lot of staff work we we fully expect that ok a certain thing else than that that's them really helpful discussion to help us move forward about will will report back thank you very much all right speaking
178of subcommittees that takes staff work we have a first reading today of a lot of policies [Applause] okay four members were very considerate and sometimes policies that they wanted to have us take a look at I I'm just gonna go through the list I gathered from people alphabetically just to make it easier on those of us shuffling through it in no way it prioritizes questions or and if if I don't have yours and you want to talk about it please just mention it but the first one I have is about IG DK everyone's favorite about non school sponsored study and reading tours you know I'm just your where your question was I think actually I talked to Dave a little bit earlier there's this kind of um little ambiguity on this one to start because
179I wasn't sure it was about marking materials it but I think you kind of made me clarify this mostly I can a team goes for tour event somewhere else so it's not really my interpretation didn't Thanks this policy is is a funny one in it it does have what seems like a rather cumbersome title but this is really more about language very clarifying that if you are on a non school sponsored tread field trip competition etc even though it may be an extension of something you're already doing at school but it is a explicitly known school-sponsored activity that we take no responsibility for that that event even though it could be someone on staff that is accompanying you they are doing that totally it's a total separate entity in the case in point used to
180be Washington DC trips or a trip to Germany that was you know a part of your German but it's they're not doing it as as a teacher of VSD there it's a totally separate yeah the example you often see is a is in your language courses where teachers will work with a Torah company and there are certain guidelines about how they can recruits it kids etc but they will accompany they would be the paid chaperone for that event as a private citizen operating a private capacity students are attending it as a knowledgeable sponsored activity when we just have to sort of throw a really clear line for folks that that is that is a non knowledgeable sponsored activity we don't write the next one I know about is a JCA and actually that raises concerns
181for two people the first is I believe that it was an editing mistake that we left the laundry list of thankful it's 1 through 6 and when after our policy discussion if it's meant to go away right it's actually it's funny if you look and be online that the strikethrough on the the precursor to the laundry list it appears to be an underlined it sort of shifted down but it is a start through find the strikethrough up a laundry list is actually really faint if you look closely so we have edited that and reloaded and affordabl a very clear version essentially striking everything laundry list and the precursor paragraph is almost perfect stricken okay and then the other question was about I wondered if the committee talked about requiring gathering of information from affected community
182areas in said places that are being talked about moving around from one district to another the language is really around the words and the district's having conversations and not that and agreeing to a process and criteria for what that would happen rather than dictating that we would visit next people or send out polling or anything like that about people who would be impacted so it's definitely a change that could be introduced but it was not something that I think just as boards it was sort of just implied and we wanted to do things but we both like give us needs to call it out specifically I'm thinking out loud we'd be requiring another school board to do that which would be my only other I would be requiring our soul or to do that I
183don't care if the other school board did but I I think it's absolutely important so whether it's written in palace to here or in an AR I just want to make sure that future school boards don't just make that decision and place it upon our citizens without getting their input I do think the policy requires before a process were to commence that much like an internal review a process and objectives would be brought to the board for review so to the degree to which you don't want to find future board bodies your future legislative body from action that this essentially gives them the authority to define that process at the time would be the way to say that I think we have if I recall we had lots of discussions who starts this discussion who
184so to do can a group of people decide that they want to be in a different area or is it once that discussion has had do they need to be which do they need to be confirmed with but but where does the discussion where does the discussion I start I don't think I don't think any of us disagree that that the people that are most affected or that we would think be engaged but do they start the discussion or is it we the board or the body that starts the discussions work these are our policies I'm not sure I can answer the question of who starts it it has been started upon us in the past and one of them and and they had actually came from a citizen it did not come from us
185although we were highly encouraged by other elected bodies so the and I'm wondering if I guess what I would like you to think about and I'm not sure it even or how other board members feel about it our internal boundary policies includes language like open and transparent and I'm not sure if maybe just a similar statement would apply here or if the board would feel like I have a hard time imagining that future boards would be really bent out of shape if we if they wanted to remain board members which maybe they were tired and anyway I think that the that's language that we already use that's not bad if that's the intent that we're trying to clarify and that would be fine we could find that okay the next one is a JEA so
186the the question that we saw with GE a was with respect to item number nine on the second page and there was a question about the language and the comma that is in the second second the line there that language is taken directly from statute so it's verbatim from a no RS RS three three nine OH 302 that comma however is not in the statute so that might be just an error on the part of OS VA so we can read I read this sentence several times and also read it in the statute I don't know that the comma changes the leading materially it doesn't really but if the board would like us to remove the comma so that it is verbatim to the statute then that would be easy to do I think it
187gives the the statute is about both being lawfully employed full or part-time and being enrolled in that program well to be clear it is a divorce so it is lawfully employed full-time or being employed part-time and so that and applies to this set to the part-time employment so that's why that's why the common kind of make sense to me is I read it but in the statute the commas not there so we're on jeda this is mine and I just was raising the issue that the second paragraph says the district believes and I have thought that we were taking beliefs statements out of policy but I wondered if there was a discussion of why it was being kept in policy the way I just read that it's just a tournament phrase at the beginning of
188it anything you can take out with with these beliefs in mine and start the sentence with the district will develop procedures and then it's not a belief statement so it's really not a belief statement which is probably why we didn't necessarily the district aleene's irregular attendance is one of the factors it's a Hollywood spirit one in the third attitude and then the third paragraph has with these beliefs yeah so I mean it's I'm not anti belief statements but it seemed like we were trying to do P we're trying to clean our policy up and if that's the goal that I would recommend and and I have say I only found one other belief but I didn't recognize it so I did go back and look for the word belief and I don't know if I
189caught a ball I just call them another one but if we're going to be consistent I think we have to dig it out unless you guys think it makes sense to keep it in and I will leave that to the committee's decision I just wanted to raise the issue I we put that in and I caught it I think it's fine to put the beginning of paragraph' to that to save the cause in regular attendance and then the second the third one the district and send them with these because regular dependence upon a comma a fundamental purpose for insisting I don't know face it don't believe anything all right yeah just write that down all right jgd [Applause] the question was around whether or not an explanation of due processes contain anywhere else it is
190it's in our student family resource handbook and that goes into it in some level of detail the amount of due process that a student might receive with respect to discipline kind of varies depending on the deprivation of the right so without getting too legalistic on a suspension you're not depriving them of as great a right so the level of due process legally is lower versus an expulsion so to put something in policy that could fluctuate and change based on case logs that's really what establishes what our obligations are I just have a question is it still in the disciplinary handbook that they're supposed to be something offered to a parent that actually explains what the due process is it's been in the handbook for a long time and when I've asked what that is that
191they would provide to a parent if they ask for it no one can give me a straight answer so the question isn't still in there if it's still in there what can we provide because I think that goes to the heart of the issue here Donna honestly I don't know if it's still in the handbook Bokan who have a meeting this week I believe on Wednesday actually for our annual review if they handbook so at that one time I will take a look at that language and if it is still in there then we should discuss we meet as a handbook committee and we'll discuss whether or not what what do we provide I'm not sure I don't know the answer to that right here and if we're not providing something whether or not we
192should or we need to remove the language yeah that's kind of fun because then it gets to where you can find it because I know we only have that information in our bore guidelines as to what that sort of means I think it would be nice for the public have that information as well somewhere so whether it's provided as part of the disciplinary handbook request that's in there or some policy I think it's important to have it somewhere you know that it is it is loosely outlined in the student resource handbook what what due process means and so that reference may be to that effect that every student gets access to the handbook annually but we look at that as part of our committee meeting this week okay GDA what does the quote a change
193in the students educational placement mean in the context of this policy so I kept seeing that me but he is that like a term of art or something I yes it is so uh that this policy deals with students with disabilities and the student the disability has a educational placement as part of their IEP and what this policy is discussing is that as a result of a disciplinary action the result of a disciplinary action may cause a change of placement if that is the case an IEP team must be convened to determine if it's the appropriate placement so specifically in a couple of areas it's noting that if a student is out is removed from their placement for ten consecutive days or ten cumulative days than establish a pattern that that is for the purposes
194of the IEP a change of plea and therefore you would have to reconvene the team to determine appropriate placement help and then there is a question about JH so this is the student welfare policy and the proposal from the committee was to delete it I would put it in context we noted that there were a variety of sort of students safety student welfare policies I think there were about four of them smattered throughout we didn't keep one that I believe it's called just students safe Inc elsewhere in policy the question specifically was about the requirement to inspect the physical condition of our buildings and Tom thank you for raising it we did have a chance to talk about it then this would fall under those instances of the obligations that the district undertakes that are
195not necessarily a policy like the obligation to an inspect our bus fleet to make sure it's a proper functioning order to inspect our you know football field bleachers to make sure they don't collapse you know these kinds of things to have a proper effective functioning physical plan for the district and then the rest of that would be triggered through maintenance plans and things that would fall on your budget perfume we also talked about the district does also have a district Safety Committee that probably eights some of those best practice approaches to ensure that we are sort of putting our kids in the best safest environment okay the next one I have is on a Jo question about imposing restrictions or penalties [Applause] yet the answer that we can't withhold student records and that's not what
196that language is meant to imply it speaking directly from statute on that so we are that doesn't mean it isn't meant to include state records doesn't include things like you can't get your library or school schedule ahead of school and unless you have really feel fines paid or something like that which is a common practice by the language in the statute you could probably I wouldn't recommend doing that but by the language in the statute you possibly could with our transcripts and UN scripts is off the table yeah yeah you cannot withhold a transcript based on fines or penalties and you could say possibly that you couldn't attend a social event if your fines were not paid you yeah because other school-sponsored activity as you could be restricted for participating and if you have about
197seven fines and fees yeah and you also could be sent to collections or how stenting finds a piece with the exception of school lunch balance just a god here if records aren't the thing that's going to be withheld maybe a suggestion to pull this out and make it its own policy because the fact that it lives in the education records policies will come to ative but i'll leave that to the community that's just a suggestion thanks my my only ad has my hunch is that a good portion of that is lifted from FERPA statutes as well so there's probably a lot of interplay there always when they take a look I suspect it would remain and then a Jo a yeah thank you so the last one here Jo a the issue was raised under
198the second page I believe under exclusion very funky sentence and powder student opt-out and student IDs fragment we we were a bit flummoxed by as well so thank you for raising it we've been in contact with O SBA and I think we're going to look to bring some modified language the intent there is to stay students have the ability they do have the ability to opt out in front of allowing us to give their directory information to third parties okay what the language is attempting they're referring to federal statutes as students do not have the ability to opt out of giving us their name to be bused their name or US requiring them to have a student ID card and present that ID card on request so that we want to clarify that language but
199that is that is essential instead of saying is you have an opt out of distribution to a third party but for the purposes because we often will form out the student ID card productions with third party so we still control the use of the data but we can't say no you can't produce me student ID card essentially yeah thank you yeah my concern that really attracted okay I just have a question this is the first time we've had a significant number of animal on hold policies so whets that's why I saw and with the draft I got the nail was on hold I was became the ones that I physically got mail and I was wondering what was happening with those I said on hold on we have a lack of section of policies coming
200back winding their way through the policy committee and getting updated with I have one more that I apologize I didn't ask before it's pretty simple I know throw your pen down on the table it's jhc and it's another Buckley's second sentence you can look at it and decide on your own if you want to take out something about because it's a belief statement statement about programs that help good in Jo B the fourth item on the first page it identifies it spelled out personal identifiers such as the student's social security number and it says or state ID number student or student ID number we want to add the word state in front of that because we do use student I need all right thank you we will have a few more policy aspect from first
201reading at our next meeting it will not be as large of a stack so it will not be coming very far ahead and then it look well get it too soon as we can but it won't be something scary although you can imagine that some of them registered our favorite hot topics they will require your time and it ought to it all right thank you so much for your attention this evening last on our agenda we have just one set of action items our consent agenda I move that we approve the consent agenda second Susan seconded I was earning further discussion all in favor say aye aye any opposed the motion passes unanimously thank you very much board members did you have additional comments did I get that I just wanted to say I'm sparing
202you well next month all right we could take it as I was just going to inform the board that I'm working very hard on revenue reform and Becky was with us at the OSB a legislative policy committee all weekend where I gave a report and update but we're not only through OSP a but sitting on several state committees that are one with the business community you want with the governor they're just some different groups they're stirring waters is what I will say and I'm believing that we are going to make a difference when to sleep hopeful so I just wanted to assist in quick wit that we should be hearing from the English English language eld I do in the very active months and seen a lot of great things or days but I want
203to say and the last one that I have had the opportunity to speak to a lot of our pts and I know a lot of this that I spoke to a lot of ETS and how impressed we should be with how hard they work how organized they are how dedicated they are and how fortunate we are to have such strong PT O's in in our district and that two parallel on top of May 15th we have a very important job here and between now and May 15 we need to tell everyone that lives in the Pyrenees school district how important is that they get out and vote and that we need 300 children 300 teachers in front of our children and we are the messengers of that and we need to tell everyone we know
204if we've got two weeks to go folks and I'm counting on this board that help all of our teachers so please please please our PTO s are doing their job we've got canvassing going on we've got phone banks in the last two weeks we've still got money to bring in the door so we're not quite done that I know at our next board meeting we are going to be talking about how proud we are the butan district voters and that they support our schools so let's just finish this up please I have a quick question for you Becky okay where are we gathering on May 15 okay questions we are gathering at the Golden Valley brewery at 7 o'clock ok and we'll have refreshments and computers and computers and a no one will know exactly
205where we are so something will be going out to everybody to your mind but awesome good job I just wanted to comment that we had a great meeting today with congresswoman Bonamici we got this who are ACMA and a wonderful conversation about a well-rounded education the importance of that arts education and just take the opportunity to to talk about the informational I don't we have an important package or movement the correlation between graduation rates for our secondary students in band and choir I think this is amazing here and I hope they continue the work of reducing barriers so more students can get this benefit especially our underserved students and especially our students from low-income you know whatever those barriers be whatever okay I feel like questions from board members about the AR so I wanted
206to give a shout out to our staff or started to get those in line with our policies expect to see more of those but I know that this was the first time where we saw a big chunk come through as information items part of updating policies is the process of going started making sure that the ARS are compliant as well and so that's what you saw there so thank you so much for all of those who are putting x in there and and thank the team especially Becky for the work that she's putting in on a little I never seen anybody work harder other than people in the past who have worked for local option W so thank you very much everybody for putting your heart [Applause]