001So I will call the meeting. Um we actually have a pora and we will do the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Um I think we might have done this but if we have any anyone sign up okay great thank you very much. Um can I get a motion toend the consent agenda consent? >> All in favor? Motion passes. Uh can I get a motion to approve the agenda? I apologize I don't backwards. I move to approve the Thank you. All in favor? Motion passes. Okay. So moving on to special presentations. I think first we don't have a price tonight. So probably no student
002presentation but we will move into the CMS student presentation. Ask >> well. I'm just switching to >> wonderful time. Okay. I'm just gonna introduce them. They're doing all the work. So this is FBA and this is so Avery is a state officer um with two in our um in our region. Um Lyric Helen is also the other one. Um and then she's also our off our chapter secretary and then Colby is our chapter vice president. So they're going to share the community service uh presentation for the middle school and this is one of their competitive events as well. So, >> good evening everyone and thank you for having us today. My name is Avery Heron. We are excited to present our Creswell Middle School community service project. I'm leader. Okay. So, together we proudly present
003our Creswell Middle School community service presentation. This year's FBA theme is make your mark. To us, that means creating meaningful change and leaving a positive impact wherever we serve. Our chapter focuses on leadership development, service, professionalism, and teamwork. This is our chapter, Crestville Middle School FBLA. Okay, one of our most meaningful events this year was our induction and emblem ceremony. We wanted it to feel professional and memorable because joining FBA is a big commitment. This ceremony formally welcomed members who committed to participating in our chapter. We led the ceremony and spoke about what it means to wear the FBA reduction envelope with thigh. During the ceremony, members recited the official FBA pledge. I solemnly promised to uphold the aims and responsibilities of FBLA. Each officer shared encouraging words about leadership, responsibility, and stepping outside your
004comfort zone. We then awarded official certificates to recognize each member's dedication. Um, I actually handmade these. So, yeah. And of course, we celebrated afterwards with donuts, which is our chapter's favorite tradition. To support our chapter activities in community service efforts, we organized several fundraisers. We sold buncakes, spray the bread, and both spring and fall flower bowls. These fundraisers helped cover cost of events and allowed more members to participate in conferences and service projects. One of our most exciting fundraisers was Kona Ice. It brought enthusiasm to our school while raising money for our chapter. We also sold uh flower bulbs in the spring and fall which connected us with families and community members outside of the school. Through these fundraisers, members practice communication, marketing, and financial responsibility, real business skills and action. Another creative fundraiser we
005host did was dimes. In this competition, dimes counted as positive 10 points, but pennies were negative one point, nickels were five points, and quarters were negative 25 points, and dollar bills were negative 100 points. Each homes had a jar. This meant students could add points to their own jar with dimes or sabotage another jar with larger points. Our members helped count all the money, building teamwork and accountability. The winning group earned the fun reward of either pying the principal or enjoying pie with the principal. It was competitive, engaging, and built school spirit while raising funds. Service is the heart of our chapter. Last year, Crest Middle School placed among the top in the nation for our support of Walk to End Alzheimer's. We hosted a purple spirit day to raise awareness and show support. This
006year we continue that commitment by participating in the walk to end Alzheimer's and encouraging members to join by com combining awareness, participation, and school spirit. We made our mark in the fight against Alzheimer's. We also had a walk to school day table where students who walked or bike ride to school could receive tickets for a prize drawing. This year we had the honor of hosting the road on regional conference. We had two state officers deliver opening speeches encouraging members to be confident and take risks. Throughout the day, members competed while workshops were available for those who were not. The state officers each led two workshops helping members build leadership and professional skills. We also organized games where students could win prizes creating a welcoming and energetic atmosphere. The event ran so smoothly that we were
007able to bang it early. These photos capture the teamwork, leadership, and excitement for regionals. We concluded with a successful awards ceremony where state officers handed out medals and celebrated the students who placed. Hosting regionals allowed us to serve not just our chapter, but our entire region. You can see members engaged, competing, learning, and celebrating their accomplishments. One of our favorite fundraisers was our bun cake sale. We even had buncake manager Bob visit us and share valuable lessons about entrepreneurship. He taught our members about running a business, marketing products, and building customer relationships. This fundraiser combined business education with hands-on experience. At the end, he even gave us mini cakes, which were definitely delicious. Every holiday season, we host the Growl Gift Store. Members transform a classroom into a shop filled with toys, clothes, and small
008gifts. Students earn Growl tickets, small paper rewards for positive behavior in class and use them during lunch to shop. It promotes kindness, generosity, and inclusion during the holiday season. The items are affordable, allowing students to purchase gifts for friends and family if they don't have much money. FBA week is one of the most exciting weeks of the year. We participated in goose chase challenges and proudly earned first place. For American Enterprise Day, we dressed up to celebrate business and free enterprise. We ended the week with our sock social where members who wore fun socks earned yet again donuts. FA week builds cap unity and celebrates leadership in a fun, engaging way. this year. Oh, sorry, my bad. Is that me or this year, Creswell Middle School, FDLA truly worked to make our mark through service,
009leadership, fundraising, and community involvement, we strengthened our chapter and our school. Thank you for your time and for allowing us to share our journey. We are more than happy to answer any questions at this time. Thank you, Ryan. This is a wonderful One piece of our thank you because our regionals come right at um uh school board appreciation uh month is that we want to show our appreciation because a lot of you volunteered and were there last year and this year and that makes a huge difference and it just makes the pelvis feel very supported. So we want to appreciate you now because we uh we're a little busy in January. Thank you so much, ladies. >> Who was in the dime war? It appeared from a photo that >> I definitely did not win.
010>> They chose pie. Not >> they chose pie principal. >> Yes. >> I tried to throw an ice cream. >> Yes. Yes. And the teacher who won also threw in some bribery that her school her class would pick the pie. Uh >> but she came back on that. >> She got a pie as well. So you got five. >> I did get five. Okay. But what I found out later was that Mrs. Taylor had bribed her home room that if they won, she would buy them pie and they would get to pie me. >> So after I got pie, I decided to share them well and welcome Mrs. Taylor up with me to also get pie. >> I like Sounds fun. So generous. Thank you. I should leave one for them. I'll tell you guys,
011of course, >> yes, you guys are welcome to hang out, but you're also welcome to uh leave whenever you're ready. You did wonderful. Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much for having us. You're welcome. Thank you. >> Okay, Julie, we will move on to you. Okay. All right. See if I can do this. And just for >> Okay, thank you for having me. Um, I'm just going to be checking in on the data that I presented in the fall and kind of give you an update on where we at, where we're at as far as the next steps. So the beginning is just a review and last time we met there were some members of the board who asked like can we have a paper copy and I know we emailed it out
012but what I did was provide you a copy. So the beginning slides are all review of things that we've talked about already in the fall. Um so I'm not going to spend a ton of time. Uh we reviewed all of our state assessment data from last school year. On the right hand side, I noted where we were above or below the state. Um, I did the same thing for language arts, which we reviewed in the fall. Um, and these were the next steps that I presented at that time. So, what I want to do is just point out where we are in those next steps. So, at uh Creswell Middle School, we talked about offering more targeted courses during the school year, and we currently have a lot of courses, both acceleration as well as
013intervention. And so, they're listed for you there on the slide and in your packet. Um, we also made a commitment to expanding our course offerings for students needing enrichment and intervention. And so, as you can see, we have a lot of options in both areas. I will say that the staff on our school site, I feel like, really pride ourselves in listening to kids and listening to families on what they want to see at the middle school for students. And I will say that I feel like we get a lot of positive feedback for all the things we are able to offer kids. Um because sometimes when you're doing intervention and obviously the budget's tight, then those enrichment opportunities go away. The other thing that can happen is if you're a student who needs intervention
014in both math and language arts, oftent times then there's no room in your schedule to have anything fun at school or enriching. Um, and so we've managed to create a pretty balanced schedule that allows students to get intervention in both areas if they need it as well as still in enrichment. Um, so I think that's a real positive. Uh, as far as our next steps, one of our biggest moves this year, um, the district uh, hired a 0.5 consultant, reading intervention teacher, and placed them at the middle school level because our data was showing that more and more kids are coming to sixth grade who cannot read basic sentences, words, um, which is pretty alarming. Um, and it's not because Preslane is doing anything wrong. Crest Lane has a really great intervention program um and
015their data supports that. But we are getting more and more students who are coming in lower and lower. They're not coming into kinder or first or sometimes they join us later at Creswell School District. Um and they're just not coming to us with the skills that they used to come with. So with this reading intervention teacher, she is seeing four groups of students all who flow uh fall below the 20th percentile on their I Ready. So most of them are falling four to five grade levels below where they need to be in reading. So when you see that I'm ready data, it's taking the far below the bottom 20th percentile and then it's basically addressing those students within reading groups. So that's what we're doing this year. I know it's hard to see. I just
016had her take a picture of what her data is showing. I said, just give me a sample of two students and and the type of growth that you're seeing. So the scores on the left are what that student came in with and the score score on the right is that same student right now as far as fundamental literacy index scores as well as word identification and and that is pretty darn true across the board. Um which is amazing. Those are just two examples, but we have about 25 30 kids who who are getting these services at the middle school level, six to 8th grades. Um more progress on next steps. We are implementing a new math intervention curriculum, number worlds, which aligns with Crest Night um in our math six. What we have found is
017that number worlds is not enough support at the middle school level um as a standalone intervention and so we're having to combine that with other materials. But what is great is that it does align with press lands program. So students are seamlessly going if they were in level D, they're going to that next level as sixth graders and we're hoping to continue that up. um data on this particular group of students. This is one group of students who are getting this win. Um five of the 11 have already made their typical birth goal, which is what you want by the end of the school year. So that's great. 10 of the 11 have made growth on their benchmark. Um and seven of the 11 students have made over a year's growth in in a half
018of a year. So, all of those are good data points showing that what's happening within that win is really working. Um, we further streamlined our schoolwide basic writing expectations. I would say based on what I saw with last year's group and the state assessments going up and language arts overall. I really think that was because of our schoolwide push in writing. We were really focused on basic writing expectations in each of the content areas and each classroom had a poster and teachers emphasized those. So when a student was turning in work that didn't have a capitalization or an end mark, the student was then being told by the adult, don't forget your basic writing expectations. And they were hearing that in all of the content areas, not just their English class. Um, we have further
019streamlined the student study team process to align with press lane. Uh, I will say that our new school counselor, Miss Collins, has done an amazing job streamlining that and coming up with a data tracking sheet um that aligns with Crest Lane and is pretty impressive as far as meeting with the grade bubbles and making sure all those interventions are being documented. Um, teachers are doing more of the interventions in the classroom prior to referring students for more interventions and support through special education. Um so we've we've raised the bar on like our tier one what all students are getting as well. We are implementing the newly adopted health curriculum and continue to further implement the adopted science curriculum. One thing that we also did this year is we noticed that when we picked apart the
020state assessment results in science obviously the students don't take the science assessment every year. So they see it in fifth grade and then they don't see it again until 8th grade. Well, students were doing really well on state assessment in the areas that they had in 8th grade. But those things that they had learned in sixth and seventh, they may not remember on the assessment. So this year, prior to taking the state assessment, we actually did some swapping of teachers and Mrs. Reid went in with those eighth graders and revisited concepts and labs that they had done as sixth and seventh graders. And it's our hope that we'll be able to continue that process more frequently, not just before state assessments, to see if that makes um a difference on those assessment results. At the
021very least, what I loved about that was just the the approach of the kind of a team teaching in a sense where it required the science teachers to really communicate more. Uh, we continue to meet in our PLC's and data team meetings and grade level meetings and content meetings. My poor teachers, I feel like I'm constantly asking them to meet and look at data, but I appreciate all they're doing for students. Um, and we're continuing to use our I Ready and assessment data to really monitor how students are doing. Um, continued collaboration between the sites. We've continued that. Uh the site principles, we have by bi-weekly meetings at the top. Um and then there's collaboration between teachers at the school sites and our district leadership team meets at least once a month. Um and then
022again continuing to provide those accelerated opportunities for students of grade level. We have a substantial amount of current eighth graders who are taking ninth grade math right now and they're doing that at the middle school because we had 20 kids who qualified for that and they're doing great. Next year we will only have nine who require that. And so that continued collaboration with the high school. We look at those student schedules and what will happen next year. those nine students will actually come to the high school because we can't schedule one class for nine students um because otherwise it impacts the grade level classes to a higher overall student count. So continuing to make sure that those accelerated kids still get what they need whether that's on our site or at the high school. Um
023in the board presentation in October I talked about the attendance concern that I had. We continue to try to make connections with families and um make school a place where kids want to be and do the fun things and all the interventions and and I continue to be concerned about that small group of students who unfortunately no matter what it seems we try it's just not increasing their attendance. Um, I will say that having the Greenways Academy this year has helped with some of that. It has provided another way for us to continue keeping them as our students. Um, but I I really think I mean this is kind of a side point, but until the state does something where attendance truly matters at home, um I think that's always going to be a little
024bit in our way as far as making gains with a group that that need us the most. They cannot get the intervention they need if they're not at school. Um, I just threw in our current attendance information so you could kind of see what was happening across the board. So, um, our over our average daily attendance 93, which is great. Um, regular attenders was at 76%. It's those 24% that I continue to be worried about. There's always students who have illness. It's going around. Um, but I would say a chunk of those students chronically, if you add up all of their absences over their K8 experience, they're missing a lot. Um, the one thing I didn't go over in the fall because we did not have it and I've included it in here in your
025packet is the health survey results from last school year. And so our sixth graders take that and our eighth graders take that. And I'm not going to read every single question to you. Um, but I did include every single question in your packet if you want to look at every question and the responses. But what I did was I basically took the summary and pulled out my own concerns and some positives that I took away from those results. Um so specifically for the sixth grade results so ne are now seventh graders some concerns I had the question said during the past year did you ever consider attempting suicide and there were 6% of students who responded yes and while 6% is not a large number it is clearly concerning um during the past 12 months
026have you ever been bullied on school property? 17.4% 4% of students responded yes. My one concern with that question is our students access school property after school, before school, during school and so it is hard to know if the 17.4% was during school time or not. Um but it is an interesting and concerning number. Um during the past 12 months, have you ever been bullied when you were not on school property? 20% of students who responded said yes. Now, while that's a concern to me, what I thought was interesting was, okay, even if the first one was yes during school hours on school property, interestingly enough, school property was still safer than off school property um when you look at the percentage. Um and then the last, during the past 12 months, have you ever
027been electronically bullied? 14% of students who responded yes. So, we all know that students are getting cell phones and electronics and social media younger and younger. Um, and so I just think it's important information for people to be aware of on um just another piece of information to to be informed on their decision. Um, I will say as an aside, although our district had a cell phone policy prior to the governor's mandate, um, it it has given us more teeth, I feel like, in just doing what we were already doing. So, I appreciate that. Some positives that I saw, um, where it said, I am happy to be at this school, and they had to say how strongly they agreed or disagreed. Only 3.4% of kids disagreed. and 1.1% strongly disagreed. So, most students were
028happy at our school. Um, and then there is at least one teacher or other adult in my school that really cares about me. Only 4.5% said not at all true. The rest of them said strongly agree or agree. Um, eighth grade results. So, these are now freshman concerns. during the past year, did you have any emotional or mental health care needs that were not met? 22.1% of students responded yes. Um, that was concerning to me. The one thing I would want more on is, you know, that is a very broad question. Obviously, it's good information, but I want a little bit more as in like did you not get that addressed at home, at school? I'm assuming that's both. Um, but on the suicide, I would be interested in in kind of peacemailing that. Um,
029during the past year, did you ever consider attempting suicide? 8.3% of students who responded said yes. During the past 12 months, have you ever been bullied on school property? Again, 31.3% of students who responded said yes. What I thought was interesting is how how big of a jump there was between sixth grade and eighth grade. Um, I also wonder if that's also just freedom in access to school property based on age and grade. Um, have you ever had a drink of alcohol other than a few sips? This was concerning to me for eighth graders. 14.4% of students responded yes. Um, have you ever used any vape, ecigarette, or other tobacco products? 7.2% of students responded said yes. So again, I think it's important information for the community as a whole to be aware of um
030because it really involves all of us in in making a change in those numbers and percentages for students. Some positives with this group. Again, I'm happy to be at the school and it was how strongly you agree or disagree. 6.9% disagree, 7.9% strongly disagree. So again, goes up from sixth to 8th grade. um but not a substantial number in in compared to the whole student body. Um and then I was happy with there is at least one teacher or other adult in my school that really cares about me. Again, 7.8% said not at all true, which is concerning, but that being said, most students felt like they had a trusted connected adult. Um so I felt that that was positive. our response to those health uh survey results. You guys and the district do an
031amazing job in providing mental health support for students. Not every district has counselors at all our sites. We do. Um the other thing is we have a lot of community partnerships um with South Lake mental health and other entities that come onto our campuses, which is something the district does really well. We also have sources of strength at our school sites. And so they come up with our school counselor of focuses each month. And so I just put the focuses up here. Um they've come up with a theme for each month. And then they have this campaign that they put out onto Canvas and do activities with our students. Um so in response to our health survey results, what are we doing now? Um, I will say we have our sources of strength. As an
032aside, six of our students are being served by outside counseling agencies on our campus. So, that families who can't get their child due to transportation or work or whatever, those kids are still being served. Six kids do get that within their schedule. Um, we've made 11 student referrals uh this year for students to get outside counseling. Um, our CMS school counselor has 10 students she checks in with weekly. Um, she's obviously available for students. We track attendance and hold parent and student conferences. Our staff is trained in QPR. Um, we have a boys group of seven students who meet weekly with the uh counselor, which is this school year new. Uh, we do and health lessons weekly. We do uh expl we did an explicit assignment and lesson regarding vaping. It's already embedded in the
033health curriculum, but we were seeing an uptick in some issues with students and vaping. Um and so as a a staff, we decided to take that head on and deal with that. Um and so that was something that was specific to our current group of students, especially our current eighth graders. Um, we're continuing to offer targeted supports for students to make school a place they want to be during the day. We do our SRP drills and then of course we are providing fun activities and spirit days and brow drawings and all the things to make kids want to be at school and make good choices. So in your packet is all of that data and our responses and then we do another look at each individual question and the response of students that are packet
034>> thank you for this I know it seems silly but it's so much easier to read and I appreciate >> I I still have a paper planner so >> okay good >> I like paper you're welcome thank you any questions the truly >> I have a couple of comments. One account this is there's two presentations from their secondary schools and both principles have demonstrated that they're responding to a health survey take care of our kids. Their well-being is important and they've written goals about goals and they're taking action in their school. um that's critical for for the climate and the culture of our our school district and each school. Uh second on the student achievement, we've been doing I Ready for four years and our principles have been bringing you I Ready data to show
035you student growth for four years. That's what we've been banking on for to improve student achievement. The statewide assessment is a is a one-time end of the year summitive snapshot and it doesn't demonstrate growth of learning to your student and in fact it's not significant at all. Neither will just throw that data away for that testing session. The state now through its accountability plan that they've implemented has now required all districts to have interim assessments like I in fact I ready is one of four four that they require and so most of the districts in the state are not they they haven't implemented the interimm assessment system like ready at this point, but they're required to do that now. And we have been leading with that work for the last four years. So, we're ahead.
036We don't have to find room in our budget. Bring that into our school district. It's already being done. We're already in compliance. I already submitted the forms to compliance with the state and the division 22 requirements that they just implemented for that as a requirement. So the principles, the data team, the teachers, the goals they've been setting on student achievement or increasing student achievement using this data for growth has been on point and they haven't missed one year of presenting you the beginning of the year data and the end of the year results to explain to you the growth that they've seen in their cohorts at the levels. been a good it's a lot of work been good work though I said oh we're we're already doing it and we don't have to invent it
037or find resources for it it's another uh unfunded initiative from OPE >> like if you missed this partic I would I think you'd be fascinated with the growth that our students are This is an example of two of them and I would highly encourage you to connect with Julie like >> we've got we've got like a grid and I'm like we cannot do 20 slides on this but >> I just want to say I appreciate not only showing the data but then giving us the how you're fixing like the the pieces of like we have these initiatives these services these wraparound things like the connection of the two pieces together super helpful so it doesn't feel like there's like gaps in my mind of like what are we doing or how is that being approached
038so I just want to say thank I really appreciate like the way it was structured. So there you go. Thank you. >> It does take a lot of courage for a principal to bring a health survey in they don't really know the specific details of those questions and then why or they don't have an opportunity to explain every question to the kid to help them understand what they're asking. Bullying is it bullying is it harassment? Is it cheating? I mean, you know, there there's a range there, but you can assume that something with it, right? But nevertheless, the data of the principal isn't telling that the students or the teachers treat each other this way. So, when the data comes back, it can a principal can take that personal. So, they're vulnerable when they're being
039transparent with it, but not a good thing if you're presenting it and you don't have a plan to respond to it. That's the key. What are you doing about it? And so, are they doing things about this? >> I may have missed this, but are they doing health surveys on other grades or is it just six and eight? >> We're only mandated for middle at 68. I think it happens again at 11, but I'm not >> elementary. >> My sense is that these surveys are going to come out more often at or not more often, but at more grade levels. when you're talking about accountability and social emotional care, they're want to see the state is going to want to see more. >> Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Okay, so thank you J very
040much for doing that together. Uh Mr. Johnson, you're going to move to the superintendent. >> Excellent. Well, it's been a busy busy month last month. um boys and girls basketball, they just they just kind of ripped up the state the league. They took up both of them. I mean, you know, this has been a a a continuation of the soccer season. They've just moved right on into the state championships and and both seasons. So, great job on the kids part and the coaches. Um the CHS the seek to eat tour uh that our students led over at Fres High School was amazing and they have received accolades uh from across the county uh from all the folks that are there um that were visiting it from other school districts. But uh that um the comments
041and the accolades have been have been echoed and all throughout Lane EST who is our CTE uh support system and uh they were very excited u at the response that they received the ESP received uh for that tour that our kids did here. Um and then CES science integration model. This is news to you but um it's a reminder uh some time ago our uh principal Amy Allian came in and gave a presentation on the science curriculum that they were adopting or when they adopted it and how they plan to use it. And so they brought this science curriculum in and integrated it in their school day to have science every day. Um that was a real challenge because they created the lesson then the curriculum out of this curriculum to be able to put
042it in. Otherwise science gets taught once a week if that. I mean it's often miss. Um but anyway, uh Amy was working with some folks at ESD and last year the ESD was talking about this model of elementary science integrated curriculum that was being piloted here and was very successful and that they were excited to share that with other school districts here. other school district then got on board and Amy's been helping them explain how they've implemented this science curriculum, how they designed it, implemented it and then rolled it out with their teams, their grade level teams. And so that has now gone out through the state. And um there was a a presentation that we had at the um at another superintendent council meeting about this science curriculum because elementary schools just can't get
043science in. Well, um Amy was asked to go back into uh the ESB and give this presentation of where they are now with this curriculum. So, she gave the presentation to the districts across L County again now with a refined curriculum that they are teaching here and the kids are doing great. This has now gone north on I5 and the districts of I5 in Portland are wanting to know how this is happening here. So ESD is kind of leading the work out there with the other ESDs, but they're looking at what Press Lane is doing as a model for the state on how to get science and elementary education. That's why it's big. So, uh those are my two highlights uh for the for the month. And then you see my other activities and there's
044a lot of great things going on, but I thought those were just um those two were were really significant for me. any questions on my activities or any of the bomb projects that are going on? I I hope you're you have an opportunity to read the letters that I'm sending out in the CSD board explaining our story. Uh the bond oversight committee was interested in our story on how we've been able to budget and accomplish this much with limited funding funding. And um and so we're telling our story uh bi-weekly so that it's not too much at one time of small small bites to chew on. Um I did get some news yesterday or last night from um R&M Steel. They wanted to push up the delivery of the building. What a concept. I mean
045I was like what are you kidding me? I never hear this. you want to push it up and not postpone it or uh so they pushed it up two weeks which really has Gil and Joel kind of dancing out there because we don't have the the uh site ready uh to place a big pile of steel. So now we're having to really move on uh preparing a stage uh to set that that steel on when it rolls on in here with these big trucks, these three big brake trucks. So um that's good news. And then I explained to them I was able to talk to them about the groundbreaking that we had out there and the owner uh this is his assistant. He said, "Oh my gosh, well I mean that sounds great." So, I
046sent him a a clip from KZI and he sent me a message back and he said, "Hey, Rob wants to come to the the ribbon cutting ceremony." So, he he wants to fly in from Idaho and we do the ribbon cutting on the on the building. He's so excited about it uh for us. >> When do they say that they're going to have her building? >> So, he said the last um last week of March or 1st of April. first week of April. That puts us that puts us in a good position, get this building built uh before actually before they really even get started on that at the academic hall. >> Wonderful. >> But there's lots to go. I mean, you know, you get the there's a lot of contractors to get involved in
047this, a lot to set up the the uh situation, but you know, how you build a house, you know, the the exterior of the house goes up pretty fast. You know, 10 10 weeks, maybe maybe two and a half months. But the interior work, all the planning on the interior, all the contractors that develop the interior, getting all your appliances in there and all that stuff, that takes a lot of coordination and time. That that's really where the bulk of the time is is getting is completing that project in the interior, which is kind of what we're doing in the academic policy. So, but fall we look to have some of the smaller uh CTE classes going on uh at the start of the school year in there. The larger ones, the metals and and
048construction and those a lot of equipment to move in there. We have a lot to organize with the HVAC systems in those two uh shops and and get situated. So, it'll take them a little longer to move in and get settled in there. Everybody get excited. >> Thank you. Any questions? Just uh I'll email you the link to this article. I had seen an article out of Snomish High School. They they are using some kind of accredited CTE skills test to create a lettering program. So the kids in high school can letter in their CTE skill. >> Oh, good. >> So I thought, well, that may just work out well with an expansion of our program and create other goals for some of our kids as they're working through some of the pathways. So it
049wasn't something they created. The article made it sound like there's there's a standard already set for some of the CT. So I've got the article. I'll forward it to you and you can take a peek and see if that's something new. and Towi want to explore further, but I thought that sounded pretty cool. >> It does sound good. >> Um, >> yeah. Anything anything in there you want to know about or you have questions about? In the next edition of my of the CSD40, I will send out this list of uh completed projects and projects that are currently in I've already sent in the overall plan of how we plan this out uh to finish up in 27. Uh but I think you know folks probably would appreciate seeing this work. When I saw you
050the other evening at the groundbreaking ceremony, it said that you would sign a contract for the bleacher press box covered. Um, do you know when that will be started or completed? >> They're they are telling us in November and um if anything happens in their schedule with the other contracts they have going, then they'll jockey us up and move us up on their schedule. Um, we're very limited in uh people who do bleachers. Like three of them total anywhere, anywhere, at least that I can find on this West Coast. And um but yeah, that's they've been down here twice and um so the last football game is like October 20. It's in the 20. So you're really only shaving two or three weeks really. You can't really start. >> Yeah. Either start in the summer,
051start before the fall or after the fall because they can't be doing those during the season either. Okay. Any other questions for Mike? Okay. Thank you, Mike. Uh there's no public comment. I believe it's already heard. Okay. So we'll move to unfinished business which is a discussion and an action on the superintendent evaluation special meeting date. So, uh, in my timeline, uh, my evaluation happened to the time of the year, and so we're looking for a date next month, uh, for an executive session, uh, to go through the evaluation process. >> Did you say next? Did you say next month? That's >> Yeah, April, right? >> Okay. Yeah. And we usually do that on or before a board the I think we've done it before the board meetings >> so that we can approve it
052in the board meeting or we can give it board meeting. So, um I mean the one thing I think we should all probably keep in mind is normally we would do it March, right? Because that's when we would renew your contract is in March or about to renew your contract. Although we know Mike's retiring, but it became a little less important considering all the other things that we had going on. So, our next board meeting, I believe, is April 8th. So, if we could do it before April 8th, we we'll need a executive session to review your items um and have our discussion and then at least a day for me to put together the response, maybe more than that if we can be generous. Um and then ideally have it presented on the ETH.
053Is everyone okay with that idea? Okay. Um maybe the week before the 8th if that's okay with everybody. >> Yeah. Maybe the evening of April 1st. Is anyone that not worked for? >> Okay. Okay. Will you be back by then? >> I will be back. >> Okay. So Tim, how are you doing with that? Does that work for you? >> Yes. >> Okay. Mike, you're good. >> Yes. Yes, it may. >> Would you like us to move it or would you like to join? >> I think I'm going to be I'll do it by Zoom. >> Yeah. The one thing about and I'm just going to be transparent because I've done this by Zoom before. It's a little harder because we can't necessarily send you the documents because once we send them they're then public
054record, right? We're in executive session. So, we can speak them, you know, we can read them to you over, but I just want to I've done it before so that's the only thing is it's a little tough. Okay. Okay. The first at 6 PM or does anyone want to go earlier? 6 PM is better for me, but I'm gonna >> It was Is that okay? Okay. Do we need to It says take action. Do we actually have to vote >> since it's on the agenda? Yes. >> Okay. So, can I get a motion to set an executive session for April 1st for superintendent evaluation? >> I make a motion to set an executive >> executive session for super evaluation on April 1. >> All in favor? >> You did wonderful. Okay. Thank you all. I
055apologize. I have to put this on my calendar now or it's unlikely to ever happen. Yeah, if it doesn't happen in real time, I that's the thing. Things don't happen in my brain. Um okay, so the next thing we'll move to is new business. Um the first action is to adopt the 2026 2027 school year cabinet. >> Yeah. So uh you have a draft uh in your packet. Um this is a unique year for the uh the starting of the school year because of Labor Day where Labor Day falls. So we're kind of in a pinch or districts have been on whether or not they want to go before Labor Day and get out by midJune or move school to after Labor Day and start school then and then end later in the month of
056June. So you're talking about the third week in in the third forj maybe even part of the fourth week and so in having discussion >> fourth week of June. Yeah. >> If you start after lab oh my goodness. >> So in talking with um the uh CA leadership and with the administrators we came up with a proposal. Well, we had a rough draft that's a proposal, several of them actually, and brought them to the groups and um and then we came to consensus on this calendar. What we did was we made uh the October inservice day, October 9th, a full school day, so that we could then have Friday off, the day before Labor Day, because that's by contract. We have to have that off. And so we traded that uh for the night and
057uh start school uh there on the last week of August. So that we are out uh the second week of June and um we were all in agreement with that that plan. This is the criteria for I I handed out to you the criteria for uh developing the schedule without those nuances and just to make sure that we're in compliance with the law and the uh the CDA and so we're in compliance with division 22, we're compliance with the uh CAD and um the parties that usually We discussed this, agreed to it, and we're proposing it to you uh for adoption. >> I don't think we've never started school on Monday. I already had a vacation planned for that weekend. Do I want to have to cancel it? A boy on Twitter. >> I have
058a vacation planned for a little while. >> Yeah. over here. >> Thank you so much. >> So, um I appreciate you guys putting in so much work. This obviously looks like um a much more complicated year than we've probably had it other times. From your perspective, I'm sure I'm sure you've talked to your other superintendent counterparts. What are are they doing something similar or >> uh I think six or seven of the districts are on this calendar or something similar to us. We have 190day contract. Some of them have 180 85. >> Uh they have less contract days. Um they uh but they're starting to be full day. And then the the big because 4J made their decision. Well, they're just going later. And uh that just sounds pretty chaotic from a education standpoint of
059pre going to school for the month of June didn't sound good really >> for kids. So like to us >> and so but yeah, we have company out there but all of our breaks align. So winter break, you know, uh Thanksgiving, spring break, all the line. We just had a longer summer than other districts coming up. >> So next summer will be longer than >> summer will be long. So okay, any questions? But for mine, it's a unique situation. I I appreciate the starting in August. I I think by the time things get over, kids are wanting to be out trying to teach them the last three weeks in June, you've probably lost weeks of >> Yeah. getting out just before the 4th of July. >> Yeah. >> The other thing is if we went
060and started later after Labor Day, then our semester are off filter. one's longer than the other and our high school doesn't it doesn't help our high school for instruction. >> I think kids are also kind of ready to be back to that last week of I mean I don't think that's a big push for a kid. I think a lot of kids are already back on campus and needs to other states starting August survive. We're doing great. >> We'll survive. We're going to be all right. >> As long as our Christmas still works out next and I don't have to make up that vacation then I have to move around. >> Okay. So >> I move to adopt >> move >> the calendar as proposed >> and second I second all in favor motion pass
061and the task along our appreciation to the leadership for taking time to figure that out seemed complex. Sure. >> Okay. The next item we have is a discussion about the budget development assumptions. >> Okay. Well, so you can see where where our assumptions are with the safe schools bund and our ADMW uh in ADM and what we're looking for coming out in the 2627. It's a 5149 split. So 51% of the bianium uh budget will come in for us. So it's a little higher than this year current year because of the split. So, we have um a little bit more funding coming in and we're going to need that when we get to the end of the school year. That helped us out in staying away from layoffs, but it didn't bring kids back to
062school. Enrollment is still declining. And so, um what we're proposing here is a roll up current service levels uh for this next school year. and we will continue to adjust to the enrollment define through attrition. Uh well already met with the principles uh this last month talked to them about where they are where we are with enrollment where their staffing and PE is in comparison and where we need to go uh over this between now and next spring as far as staffing and um adjusting to enrollment. So I know what time that's going to happen every time. I freaking get the door. But um so uh yeah, so we're still we're still every uh position that is vacant or or is it becomes vacant from uh resignation or retirement is up for review uh before
063we uh fill it. Uh we're still trying to meet uh the the level of enrollment that we have to match our staffing and it's been great. We've missed we've navigated two cliffs, two funding huge cliffs and we're one of very few districts that are not in layoff mode uh during this year and especially going into next year. there I you know you just very few are in that position. Um and even fewer are in the position of where they're making facilities improvements and well I don't know anybody that's doing what we're doing with our facilities with our bond and student achievements all three of those indicators for our district and we're still moving plugging right along. It's like the the little engine that could. Well, we are, you know, it's it's really a a relief
064to be in this position. Um, some things on the other side that we're looking at as far as revenue and and the bigger one, Amy has talked about it and I' I've presented it to you, is um moving to our own district life skills classrooms and um the the opportunity that that brings to us to improve our revenue and expenditures. Uh it's about a $600,000 split when you think about the 300,000 staying in-house rather than paying the 300,000 out of house. You know, outsourcing it. Um that's a huge split for us. And uh you know that's that's three FTE that's six classified positions. Either way you look at it, any combination of that with that savings, that's a huge move there. And also our other strategy with the online title and capturing kids that um
065may want to go to an online charter or have been on an online charter and bringing them back into our district um so that we can can get their per student uh revenue into our district. Now we have a list of homeschool students about 60 actually exactly 60 and uh Amy will be reaching out to them to recruit them back into our district into our online program and we'll homeschool them through online. That's any questions on kind of seems like we can't catch a break on on inflation. It's just going on up all around us. hers >> hers and insurance and um medical coverage all of it you know every aspect of cost is has gone up keeps going up the one that we can't really we can't control is uh the life skill costs
066and it continued next year it's 8% on the increase that's that's another 10% on of $600,000. I mean, that's just a year and that's going to continue to happen just with life skills classroom. So, the sustainability of those funds from this this inhouse approach to life skills has a big impact over the years. uh coming up on money is really going to be tight in the next benium. That's what we're hearing right about the next bienium and we we are looking at those cost savings to continue every year after this is completed and we are we have a teacher now we're looking for EAS and this thing is this classroom is growing. You want to say anything about where you're at now with it? I think you covered it well. Now we're looking to get
067it fully staffed and it's exciting to have a lead teacher who's very competent in this area and we'll keep the continuity of that classroom that we already have. I think I shared it's a the main classroom is entirely pressing students. So it'll feel very smooth as we transition into next year. That's my assumption or like those are my assumptions. >> Our assumption. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> I say Chanel or anything. You don't have to, but if you'd like to. >> Um, no. Okay. Thank you. >> I maybe Thank you. Can we say something? Thank you guys because Mike is correct. I I hear a lot about it just in my line of work with like budgeting issues around the state and it is like a breath of fresh air when we hear
068these things like it's tight but we're doing it seems like people saying like back in the day they had access right like that's like we're in this midwin it feels like even though it's still hard and I just want to say thank you for the work that you guys do and thinking outside the box and the things that you guys are are doing to keep us afloat. So okay, so we will keep moving on. Um the next item we have is a discussion on uh promotion and graduation. >> Yeah, we uh nailed down the dates and times and I know that the board is eager to get these so that they can start planning on where they want to go. and the principles of course are going to want to make the accommodations for you
069uh for us for these uh celebrations in the year. So if you've uh let Marilyn know or me know or if you already know and with these that know which ones you want to attend uh that uh or that you will attend then we can start u getting into the planning phase of what happens on this stage. bring sunscreen. Oh my gosh. Middle school. Yeah. And did we potentially make the suggestion gingerly to maybe have an awards site before eighth grade promotion so that maybe there's just a tad few awards during the promotion session? >> I love that part. >> I think I would love like half of >> like maybe we can still go and be involved and help in the awards ceremony. Like maybe that's an additional opportunity for us. >> It's hot
070to sit there though. >> And some of those poor kids barely can get off the stage before they want to haul up back to the next one. >> No, I know. Does everybody >> Is that good with parents? We're asking parents to come to to >> It's a long evening for if you were a family with kids and you're to be there and I mean I'm they're all playing out on the tropes with kids. >> I'm I'm good with whatever. I'm good with whatever. Maybe ask her. She's upset. >> Maybe the French world has thought of it and she she's holding on to a tradition. Why not? >> I'll let her know. >> Other people can say no, but >> um we'll let just let How did you want us? Sorry. Did you want us
071to let the principles know how to let Marilyn know? What would you prefer in communication? >> Okay. So, we'll just email you when people know and Marilyn will help support you. Awesome. Thank you, Marilyn, as always. Okay, so um that gets us to trustees reports. Um Mr. Mike Anderson, I'll let you start down there if you're okay with that. >> Yeah. Um went to the school play, which I thought the kids did an excellent job for the type of play it was. They were I thought it was outstanding. Uh, I went to a city council meeting and Mandy, I think, is one of the counselors at the high school and her and the kids did an absolute wonderful job in a really harsh environment that somebody was presenting to this city about running a homeless
072camp close by and audience didn't think much of that. And uh there was some yelling and swearing and all kinds of stuff back and forth and the two freshman young ladies stood up at various times said what they had to say and they were just so cool under pressure and I wanted to jump up and clap and scream but I think was appropriate but they they really did good. Um Chad and I Chad from the high school and I went and met with uh Mr. Rick at the plane community about flight and we we told them that we'd like to come up with some ideas that if we had a flight instruction down here how it would how we could work with them for the next 45 minutes. We need to get a word in
073edgewise. He was all excited because he has a certain amount of drop off every year and our kids could backfill that as they get to get through that program. Um, I've got names of four different companies that once in a while will contribute to that. So, got to find the money to do it too. Talk to them a little bit to see what they think they can do to see if it's possible. But, uh, it would it went really well. Uh, went to a couple the playoff the two playoff games for basketball here, the girls and the guys. We got there late. We didn't see much back a lot of heads. because the kid only place we could right behind the kids, but that's okay. Got to stand up a little bit. Um, we arranged
074a meeting with the uh homeowners association across the I5 freeway with regard to the tennis courts and they're going to they let our kids use those tennis courts for meets and practice and stuff for a long time and they're going to continue that. I was kind of surprised they uh they're really about uh having the kids over there and they want to start having like pickle ball uh games and or pickle ball I'm sorry games and and tournaments and stuff and Mike came up with some really good ideas on saving them some costs and different things. So that meeting went really well and then of course what last week three days were meetings for interviews and who's going to do what. So, it's been a busy month. >> Yeah, you did a lot. Thank you
075very much. >> But it was fun. A lot of that was uh especially that guy at the Lane community thing. I don't think I ever saw him take a breath in 45 minutes. He just he was so excited. And uh we made it real up front. We wanted to work together with him. I mean, there's a there's a lot of opportunities there. I didn't realize how much the pilots could make. >> No. >> They have the senior guys that fly from here to Japan and back and they'll make three flights. They say three flights a month and they're sat at over 200,000 a year. They make really good money. But you got to get there. But >> yeah, we're very bounty. >> That was really uh I didn't realize those guys were pulling in that
076kind of dough. That's >> to keep us safe. We're working three days a week. That's not a bad intro. >> Awesome. Thanks so much, Mike. Uh Lacy, I did the CTE tour that the kids had done for Lady SD and others. I agree with Mike. It was very well done. I think Mandy Hog was the kind of the orchestra person behind that. She did a great job with that show. The kids did do well. um the groundbreaking ceremony just last two. Yeah. Um yesterday over at the school very well done, right? What did it feel? Was it Monday? >> No, it wasn't Monday. >> Was it yesterday? I feel like a little bit of a time warp right now. Like maybe so much stuff has happened. So as I said it, I was like my
077mom. It was on Monday. It was on Monday. It was on Monday. >> Oh, that's fine. >> Thank you. Okay. It did feel a little bit weird. This week I attended a groundbreaking ceremony. It was very well very well done. Bethany did a great job. It was fun. A lot of folks love being able to see the renderings that was out. So great job. And I loved your speech, Mike. It was very well done. >> Thank you, Sam. Uh I wasn't able to attend many of those events, but uh I was able to attend all of our executive sessions, all three of them, and soon to be four of them. >> Truth, David. Okay. Well, thank you very much. I'm going to skip you for just a second and give Debbie a chance so I
078don't forget. Only because I saw her face when I looked at you. Make sure I don't miss you. Oh, you're on mute. >> You're on mute. >> We don't understand the words that are coming out of your >> We can't hear you. Maybe we can't hear you. >> Well, I thought I unm muted. Am I unmuted? No. Now you are. Oh, that was >> there. Nope. Nope. I'm right. I'm good. >> You're good. >> Am I good? Okay. Sorry. I really wanted to review that like rehearse saying it twice. Um I haven't done anything except for executive sessions and lots of reading and things like that to for this process, but I have not been in town to and I'm very sad that I missed those other events that Lacy was talking about, but hopefully
079I'll get to see a lot of every everything else with the CTE project. >> Thank you. Okay, sir. Sorry about it. >> I don't really even remember. I feel like there was still wrapping up wrestling. >> Okay. >> You did a track meet today. >> I went to a track day. >> Hung out with you guys at some executive sessions. Went to the session. I don't know. >> Track meet on Monday. >> What? No. >> Didn't do it. Or was that practice? >> It was just practice to go out and see how we I don't know. Um it's been a long week. went out with Mr. Jugas and how we can build a shop put return to help keep the integrity of the concrete and the pit intact as well as student safety because they're
080pretty safe throwing those 12 and 8 ft shopping back to each other. Anyways, so that's a techn Okay, thank you very much. Um, I made it to the home playoff games for both the boys and the girls and I did go to Kuz Bay and watch the boys and the girls was fun. Um, had our leadership meeting. I was at the ground breaking ceremony from the CE building and that was I'll just double down. Lacy said it all. It was great. Um, and then our executive sessions, our three sessions. I think that's everything. Y um I also went to our executive session um at our leadership meeting. Um we also started softball. So I've had about three weeks of practice. We had our first game yesterday. Wasn't we didn't win but we got a lot
081of compliments from the Maris parents on our field and how beautiful. So that was always exciting um to hear. And this is a story mostly for you. Our scoreboard wasn't working. Don't worry, I fixed it. And um my very lovely husband, who's a nice man but not handy, went out and spent all day trying to fix it. And Kyle, I'm sure is very handy, tried to fix it. No, I walked out there with a screwdriver in 10 minutes and that thing worked just fine. >> Um so, you're welcome. >> I feel like that. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Good stuff. And I made sure they all uh that I could get for that. I promise. But so we are off and ready. That's it. >> That was just for you. I've been
082saving that story. I'm not um Okay. So with that, we will move I think into executive session. Um I'm going to read this and then I'm going to have you do your thing and then we'll do the rest of the stuff. So the school board will now meet in executive session to consider the employment of a public officer, employee, staff member, or individual agent. The executive session is held pursuant to OS 192.6602A. Representatives of the news media are specifically directed not to report any of the deliberations during the executive session except to state general subjects of the session as previously announced. The tape recording of the session is also strictly prohibited. Also invited to attend the session are Marilyn Prisanne and Christy Perry. Um cameras, tape recorders, and other recording devices shall not be used
083during executive session. All matters discussed with an executive session are confidential and not to be discussed outside. No decisions will be made in executive session. At the end of this executive session, the board will not return to open session. All members of the audience are not invited by the board to executive session, but are asked to leave the room. We care about you all, but we will have to ask your parents to leave now and then we will get started. So, thank you.