001[Music] to calling this meeting to an order at 702. I'm going to do roll call. Merl here. Glenn here. Kelsey here. Heidi here. Jennings here. Crystal, he's out of the country. Um, Robert said he would not be coming. So, you'll all join me in a flag. I aliance 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. I'll open the floor for agenda consideration and request a motion. I'll make them. Oh, go ahead. I'll move to the agenda as as presented. I'll second. Uh, any discussion? Hearing none, we'll move to a vote. Those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Um, do you have any public comments? Yes. Please come up and and sit and
002speak. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'm Janette Johnson. Um my thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Janette Johnson and I wear two important hats in this district. I'm an instructional assistant at the middle school learning lab. I'm also the parent of two children which you see right now. One entering fifth grade and the other entering sixth grade. Having supported the two furlow days and the 3% increase next year instead of the full 3.5. It wasn't easy, but I supported it in good faith. My hope was that even a small concession might help free up enough funding to save at least one position to preserve programs and to protect the teachers and classes that are vital to our students. I truly believe that shutting down the art program is a crit,
003excuse me, a critical mistake, one that risks overlooking an entire group of students who depend on creative expression as their outlet. Cutting the art sends a message to our community that creativity doesn't matter. Not every child thrives in sports, robotics, or agricultural programs like FFA. We have students in our district, bright, imaginative, and deeply creative, who find their voice and a sense of belonging through the arts. Without that space to learn together to cultivate lifelong growth, many of them will be left behind. These programs aren't extras, they are essential. They build confidence, leadership, school, community connection, and a sense of belonging. Please reconsider. Our kids deserve that. My other major concern is the removal or relocation of the current sixth grade math teacher from middle school. She's an exceptional educator, one who truly understands how
004each student how to reach students who are struggling, including my own daughter. With so many ski with so many kids falling behind in math and working below grade level, this is not the time to remove a teacher who has the skill, patience, and dedication to help them catch up and succeed. Her impact goes far beyond test scores. She builds confidence and meets students where they are. Keeping her at the middle school isn't just a personal decision. It's an investment in our children's future. My final concern is the fifth grade teacher position that will be left open. My son's current fourth grade teacher is an incredible educator and role model. He's made a real difference not just for my son who can be a challenge at times, but for many students who need patience, understanding, and
005someone who believes in him. He is a huge asset to our district. Losing him would not just be a staffing change. It would be a real loss for our school community. I understand these are my personal experiences and pref perspectives, but they call come from both parent and staff member who sees the impact of these educators every day. I hope you'll take these thoughts into serious consideration. I urge I urge you to prioritize stability where it's needed most. Our students deserve that. Thank you again for your time and your service to our schools. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Is there any other public comment? All right, let's move to board communication. We're um teacher appreciation week is May 4th through 9th. Last week, um we have a proclamation to read. [Music] Um whereas
006teachers mole future citizens through guidance and education and whereas teachers encounter students of widely differing backgrounds. And whereas our country's future depends upon providing quality education to all students. And whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons, evaluating progress, counseling, and coaching students, and performing community service. Whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community. Be it resolved that North Marian School Board of Directors proclaims May 5th through 9th, 2025 as teacher appreciation week. And be it further resolved that North Mariam School board of directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work. Um, high school ASB report. Kayen and Peter, hello. We have a good night so far. Um, it's actually pretty
007short today. I feel like I said it every time, but it's actually pretty short. Um, Starting off with ASD, like um you said, AS appreciation week. And so Tucker had the idea last week for us to do a teacher car wash for the high school staff. And so if you guys saw us out there by the maintenance shed, we were taking the keys during um during the day and washing the cars up and driving back to the parking spot. And it was a huge hit. It was a really fun event this year. Yeah. And so we just finished that off. And then we our next event is our annual first responders dinner on the 20th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the high school. It's one of my personal favorites to do. And so if
008any of you guys know any past or present um first responders, doesn't it's not limited to cops or firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, all those things. Uh send them all away. It should be really fun. Pizza feeding games and stuff. So it should be good. Yeah. Uh I will say that when I came over here to return um a teacher's keys, I was in the office and they're like, "Wait, you're doing a car wash? Can I get one?" I'm like, "No, it's high school teachers. I'm sorry." And they're like, "But you could just come across the street." I'm like, "Sorry, I can't." It was fun. Um, yeah, we were there for a couple hours. It was a lot of fun, though. A lot of fun. Um, good work. And, uh, it was definitely cool to help the
009teachers out, especially right now when it's a little a little tense and a little stressful. Um, it's definitely nice to have them. Uh, for robotics, they had their first meeting for the 25 and 26, uh, beginning May 19th on Mondays and Wednesdays from after school to at from after school to 5:00 p. Uh the new contest is out and they're fundraising to purchase the game elements. So there's a bunch of new um elements to their competition. So they're looking forward to fundraising and uh purchasing those elements. Uh their goal is to two middle school and two high school teams. And we have one one each registered so far. They will also be hosting at a middle the middle school again this year on November 22nd. So please mark your calendars. Um, we invite the board
010and public to come and watch the festivities from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. Pretty fun day for sure. Uh, FA is also one of the other clubs that are finishing up a fun year very strong. Um, they just had their BBBS field trip, which I think it was last month. And I don't know if any guys know what happened to last field trip, but it snowed on us, which we have about 50 first graders in the zoo when it's snowing. It's not the funnest time ever. There's only so many indoor spots at the zoo. Um, but this year it was a good 70°ree day. It was sunny. It was a ton of fun. Um, so yeah, it was a good end of the year little huzzah that program. And their last meeting with the kiddos is
011happening next week. So it's kind of bittersweet, but it'll be it's a fun ending. It'll be a fun time next year as well. I don't know if you guys have ever recently been to the zoo, but the only indoor spots are stinky. So when you shove a bunch of first graders in there, they go, "Ew." And I'm like, you don't want to go outside. Um, NHS is hosting one more blood drive this year, May 28th at Christ Lutheran Church from 1 to 6 p.m. I believe that's in Aurora. Um, this one is being organized by our club officers, Riley Passer and Hannah Jones. They'll also have their tapping ceremony this Friday to officially recognize our 15 new members for the 2526 school year. The cere ceremony is held in the high school commons at 6
012p.m. And then finally, Key Club has also been very busy. Uh they had the members recently help in the following events such as the Aurora Cemetery Cleanup, the Woodburn Tulip Festival Parking, and the Woodburn Mayor's Breakfast. Uh last week, we also decorated the middle school entry with encouraging chalk art for also the um teacher appreciation week. Probably washed away by now, but it was up for a couple days. And that's all we have. Hope you guys have a good rest of your evening. So, quick question for you. Uh, is is this your last board report? Um, June. So, June 9th. So, they're going to be going to be it might be. It'll be by week. I mean, you're welcome to come back on. We would absolutely love to have you. I just didn't if this
013if this was going to be it. I just wanted to make sure we said thank you. Uh, but I mean, you're certainly welcome back to talk about the online party. We might come back. Guess next next rally walked her and then her vice president with her for the first time I think. So well if you're here you're welcome to come back and you could show them the ropes but if you don't come back we would definitely understand and we will miss you both because you've been excellent uh representatives to the from the high school you don't miss you. Maybe we'll make a public comment. Who knows? Thank you guys. Yeah, nice meeting. Thanks. We're moving on to class of 2025 graduation update. Last one. The last one. Last one. So, you know, it's really coming
014really fast. So, I have a few dates I want to throw out. first. Um on May 21st is our senior awards night and that is in the commons at 6 p.m. Um we usually we have a really big turnout and there's lots of money getting handed out on May 27th. Um Wamtt Career Academy is doing their senior awards night in Salem. Um and that's at 6:30. Um May 28th is Career Academy senior last day and then they'll just have to come to our school in the afternoon or in the morning. Do we have anybody graduating from the 11th career academy? Yeah, we have about five I think uh June 3rd is our senior's last day. On that day, we have our senior assembly which is in the gym one and it's at 1 pm. Be
015great to have you guys there that right after senior assembly the seniors are going to put on their caps and gowns and do their senior walk and that's located at all the schools. We would be leaving the high school going to the primary school then the intermediate middle school and then back to the high school. And that is really an exciting exciting time. It's nice to hear because I'm leading them through the building that like the first five or six kids, they're you can just hear them all excited talking about, "Oh, I remember this. I remember that. I remember this." And they're just really excited. And seeing all the little kids in the hallway is just it's just meaningful for all those kids. Um, and that's about twoish because it depends on how long it
016takes them to put on their cap and guns. June 6th, the most important day is graduation. Um, the location is at Rolling Hills. Um, today our counselors and the secretary with two Rolling Hills say we're going to check out Stafford Road because there is a closure there and they're going to try they're seeing um where that closure is and how it affects for us to get there. And so we'll be sending out some messages and maps and different ways if it affects where the closure is. Um so that will be coming out on we have practice at 9:00 a.m. on the 6th. Um graduation is at 7:30. Doors open at 6:45. The grads get there around 6. Um I'm personally inviting all the board members to attend. You will get a formal invitation from Tracy
017or secretary to invite you to the graduation. If you are planning on attending, it's at I'd like you to be there about 7:15. Um I do provide pages and beneers for all those who attend. So I kind of need to know if you're going to be there or not. Um we'll meet over by the cafe that's in the Rolling Hills um um and then there'll be places for all you guys to sit on the stage during the ceremony and be recognized. Um and then at the very end of the program is where Dan is giving his speech which was very nice. Thank you. And at the very very end, he needs to present the class of 25 to Crystal saying that they have all met the graduation requirements and they are now graduates from Mary.
018So, and I think that's it. You guys have any questions that I probably can't answer at this moment? the number of seniors right now that um I just checked our enrollment number. It's 120. And so I don't but we probably have maybe 10 that might not graduate at this point. 10 of the 120 or 10 of the 120. Okay. The change in their enrollment is because it was 135 on Linda spreadsheet. We took out the um fifth years, no not the fifth years, the transition kids and put them into a different category. And so that dropped the numbers down a little bit. And then our early grads. So 120 is right now. You mean that's who's walking? No, that's the enrollment. We're we're about probably could be 110 that could be graduating. But the people
019who early graduated, they could still Yeah, that's still kind of what What do you mean by transition? The um the 18 to 20 18 to 21 year olds fourth and fourth. Yeah. Not the fifth year, but the ones are in the transition program. Oh, okay. I got it. Anything else? Any questions? Just let me know if you're going to be there, so be prepared. Thank you. You're welcome. But this is not your last board meeting because you're not graduating on. Yeah. So, Peter and Kaden make it the they get the pass. You got one more. All right. Moving on. We would like to acknowledge an overnight field trip for the boys golf and choir and band. Any questions on that? Good luck to both of those groups. Um, summer board conference is coming up in
020Salem August 8th through 10th. So stay tuned for more details on that. Um, UNM report um, not yet. Um, just teacher appreciation week this year was were great. It's one of the best we've had. Um, schools did great. Parents stepped up. I My pants were a little tighter today. No one was hungry in the building. Um, you know, and so it was really a success. I think it was really good atmosphere. Um, kids are bringing things in. It's been a long time since I had kids bring things in, too. So, it's always great. Um, the other thing you reminded me of when you said you never hired Dan a year ago. One thing I really appreciate meeting not all labor managements have been sunshine and rainbows this year, but Dan has been and Linda and
021Dez too open and honest and just put everything out there for us. So, it makes it easy for us to sell to our members. So, I appreciate that. Dan, thanks Linda and Dez. That's good team. Thank you. Yep. We feel likewise as well. I don't feel like I'm ever blindsided coming into our meetings. It's very positive. So, thank you. Yeah. And don't take it the wrong way. I hope this is my last board meeting. Have elections coming up. Um, and I brought John along to talk about our middle school AVID showcase we did real quick. So, very quickly at the middle school for the past five years, we've been doing something called AVID, which is a national organization. It has an elective class component which is college preparedness and then it has a whole class
022or a whole school component which is just a way for all the teachers to use the same playbook align their practices and create classrooms so students can spend most of their time learning and less time learning how Mrs. So and so's does something and Mr. So and so does something and we've had a lot of success with that. We are now a nationally certified AVID showcase school. Um, and we had guests from four districts. We had 20 guests from four different districts come come by a few weeks ago to look around our school and see all the good things that were happening. Um, and it's it's nice. You know, if you talk to people who have been in the middle school building a while, the grizzled old sailors, they're all they're all happy with it.
023And I think that says something says something about it. Great. That's what we have. Thank you guys so much. Moving on to item. If you've had a some time to review the consent agenda, I'd entertain a motion. I'll make a motion that we approve this uh presented. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Thank you. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we will move to a vote. Those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. Um, and business and budget appropriations. Yeah, I think you guys have heard enough from me tonight. Here I come back again. Um I think I pretty much said what what there was the ending fund balance is a little higher than last month which is a good thing. Um we did hit our final for the state school fund numbers for
0242324 and um another update for 2425. We may get one more for 2526 which I'm pretty anxious about but it won't come until after they've deciphered what the May revenue forecast is and evidence enough to see to see that. Um, we also got some of the um, high cost disability final payments. So, we're kind of at a standstill as far as this is what we know now and we won't know more about funding until probably two weeks from now and more. We'll build the budget on the best we can with what we know now. Any questions for me? No questions. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. All right. Board action ratifying the classified contract for 2025 2028. Just so you know, the formatting isn't perfect on that. We're still going to work on it, but the
025the language is Thank you. So before you vote uh on it, you obviously was on the the um the work session agenda for to give you a chance to review the contract. But with uh Amy here tonight, Amy Ford's the president of uh the classified union here for North Marian. And I just want to say thank you to Amy and her team for their preparation. Um as you know, anything just the more prepared you are, the better and faster it can go. and both teams uh were really wellprepared to get down to solve issues and and it was just a really uh if bargaining could be wonderful I would say it was a pretty wonderful experience. So those two things don't always go together but thank you Amy for all your hard work and your
026team's preparation and successfully going through bargaining. And was it a record unanimous? It was. We got 100% voting. So it says we made a record. So, it's a record of that. It's the first I've ever Well, in my 24 years. That's great. Yeah. Thank you. All right. I'll entertain a motion on ratifying the classified contract for 2025 2028. I'll move that we approve the OCA contract for 25 through 2028. I'll second. Great. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will move to a vote. Those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion carries. All right. District operations reported report. All right. So, each May, um, the department releases a special education profile. Um, and so we're just going to go over a little bit of the profile and explain a few things um to everybody here. So I'll
027just start on the upper left. So the 276, that's our child count on December 1 of 2023. So this is the 2324 school year um information from last school year. Um and then a few other things on the left. How many students have a placement of um 80% or more in special education uh or in general education? Um and then students who have a more restricted setting um of less than uh 40% in gened would be the next number. the separate setting. I will make a note that that number while the um regular class and the separate setting those are kind of pretty steady numbers over the years in a separate setting the very last one that's a separate school. So that's like students needing intensive behavior support. That number percentage has significantly decreased, meaning
028that we have um less students out in other placements and we're able to serve our students, more of our students here in the district. Um as far as eligibility, the rest of those, um we strive for 100% on time eligibility for initials. We had a few. You have to remember Heidi said it last month. um we're talking very small numbers here. So, one or two can make a percentage go down significantly. And we have um we know exactly what um happened in those situations and we've put um remedies into place about how to support that so that doesn't happen again. And then we also survey our um parents and or adult students a year after they graduate. And so that's just participation rates for that um survey that we do with them. So you can
029go to the next one. Um so another couple um data points. So I want to point out on the left hand side it says no significant um discrepancy or disproportionality found meaning that we are not suspending or expelling students with disabilities more um than we are students without disabilities. Um and same with um what's the last oh just by race ethnicity um we're not we don't have a significant disproportionate amount of students that we are um identifying in one area or the other. So those are really good things to have green check marks for. Um and then the next ones take a little bit of explaining because it's not just like you add the both of the numbers and it makes a hundred. So, a few things for graduation rate. That's our number of students
030who um are eligible for special education that graduate with a regular diploma or a modified diploma. We have other ways to um exit, meaning you can get an extended diploma, you can get a certificate of attendance, you can continue with well and then you can um drop out. So the 63% is students of that really small size remember that um graduated with a a regular diploma or an extended diploma. So we had um several students who did not finish but then we had um students who either continue in that transition program that we were talking about students to 18 to 21 so they're eligible for services until um they're 21 or they would come back and do a fifth year. So those students are not included in those graduation rates. So a lot of times
031we have case managers working um with individual students that have a few credits to finish and they're they're coming back for their fifth year or they are eligible and they are not part of that. Again, dropout rate is one of those things where you have two or three students and it makes that that number um significantly different. Uh, and the last thing I wanted to point out for you guys, I don't have the comparison from last year, but you can go on the website of OD's website to look, but I just wanted to note a few things for higher ed um higher ed employment and the higher ed training employment. All of those numbers have significantly increased um from the years prior. So, uh, the first one, the higher ed, is at 20%, it was
032at 13% the year before. Um, the other one went from 64 or 54% up to 66% and from 54% to 73%. And so, the students that are graduating um, they are prepared for either higher ed, employment, or um, training program. So we're increasing um the skills that we have for our students who are exiting the program. So the rest is participation in state assessments. Um and you can see that you have questions on specific things about the state assessment, but you can see 11th grade participation was down. Um that was down all the way around. Um and then the regular assessments, alternative assessments, there's an alternative assessment for very small um less than 1% of our population eligible for special education take alternative assessments. So that's one and that's why it's suppressed because the numbers
033are too too low for participation. Questions on that separate situation? You said it's it's trending in the right direction. And I'm assuming that's a trend that's going to continue. Um, which one's turning in the red? Separate situation, you said. Oh, yeah. We we've definitely um moved out. Then would you attribute that to anything? Um, we have a lot of opportunities to serve students in our district. We have the ability to look at our individual students for the year and say, how can we best serve them? Um, and so we are tweaking some of our programs slightly each year depending on the students. So it's not just like, oh, we have this program that only serves this kid. It only serves this kid, only serves this kiddo. Um, so yeah, we're able to um kind of
034support a wide variety of students. Um again the number is so small that we could get a student that or two that need you know additional supports and that number could go up but um we are supporting as many students as we can in the home districts in their in the resident district where we want them to be good. Yeah. Any questions for sure. So this is posted on our website. There's no action needed. Thank you. Thank you. I would just like to highlight Cheryl's great work of knowing uh our special education students in all four buildings and uh her ability to be out and about all the time supporting teachers, supporting kids, supporting families. So, I just appreciate how much hard she works and how well she knows all the kids throughout the list.
035Thank you. All right, we're gonna talk about AVID just like Mr. Young was. Um, Merl, tell us about your time at the AVID showcase. Well, it was like being a student and a learner. I I remember back to my first year here and going into the middle school building and it was this big banner A B I D and I what is this all about? And so I was grateful for the opportunity to come in and I learned a little more. And then we have tonight someone sharing some more and I learned again. I I have to make that disclaimer that I approached this as a layman and so I really don't have authority to say much but I enjoyed being there and I like uh tours. we haven't had six years. So I had
036an opportunity to tour studies and I was impressed. I took a few notes of things that Avid and then superintendent's um update this week confirmed for me what I had observed and that is I think AVID is a balance to our CTE emphasis which I very much endorse and appreciate but it's a college readiness arm that is I sense some excitement in the teachers and then I realized ize that I think and you just have to evaluate the layman's opinions but there's a professional development element that enters in and one of the breaks I chatted with an instructor from somewhere else down in Oakidge somewhere and then I realized well it's some professional development for them as well so there were uh some handouts given to us and there was a panel discussion at the
037end and on that handout although they weren't addressed to the panel there were some questions to directors which is us so I'll just report a couple of those one was uh how is uh how is avid abundance well that's a salient question because we're focused on budget conr raints right now. And then how do you measure the return on the investment? And we all have to judge that. Is the juice worth the squeeze? My brief encounter left me the impression that uh among classroom teachers there is enthusiasm for Adam and that the benefit resulting from it uh benefits result from what the program provides. That's the impression I came away with and I admit my my my mind is more attuned to impressions than it is to data. But there you have it. Thank you.
038Thank you. I only went for um very brief, but it made me really excited to see the actual showcase. It's going to be this fall. Um I would echo the the vibes of excitement, but um not just amongst the teachers, but the students. The students were very engaged. They are very organized. They're very wellspoken and it was like it was really exciting to be there and to go see. So when it comes this um this fall I'd encourage everybody to go. Yeah. Great. I' draw some connections between what John said and what you said Merl. I think your analogy of the CTE with the college readiness. I think that's a great a great way to frame what AVID can do uh uh for schools to have that college readiness component. And I think the the
039power in Avid as a schoolwide to what John was describing earlier is it really does remove a lot of the barriers that kids and teachers can encounter when you have some schoolwide systematic things that it doesn't matter what classroom you walk into. you have a common language so that uh kids can get ready to learn whatever content or subject area and not you know a new structure, a new format, a new note-taking process. There's some built-in structures across the board that can that can really help open the doors for kids learning the content uh versus just learning how to be a student. The the program really helps them learn how to be a student so that then they can access the the content. So, um I thought John and his team did an outstanding job
040of putting the tour together. It was well organized. Um you know, I showed up there and he says, "I'm going to put you with the sixth grade group." And so, it was helpful because then I got to walk around and see sixth graders and some of their their classes and stuff. So, it was well organized. The the teams from the other schools really appreciated it. So, great work there and um and uh a lot to be proud of. And the kids were amazing. the, you know, the student panel was just awesome. So, yeah, looking forward to to this fall. Um, I think that's it. We're ready to adjourn at 7:38 unless anybody has anything else.