001Okay. Good evening everyone. Can call the meeting to order. And first thing we're going to do is recess the regular meeting and we're going to open the public hearing for the integrated guidance plan and I think Aaron is going to be you going to walk us through that. Sure. Okay. Thank you, sir. Sarah. So, I spoke to you guys about this uh the plan last board meeting. You guys got some information on it. Um the information that you guys got in your packets has all the details in terms of the budgeting line items um and all the funds. You can see that it comes to uh AC over two years about $6.5 million worth of uh grant funding across nine different grants. Um rather than go through item by item, um you can just see
002I think there were five spreadsheets that were shared with you. Um and you can see one is the budget, one is our outcomes and strategies. Uh those are shared. It's not perfect just because they're on the spreadsheets and you have to scroll, but hopefully you get that idea. Um, but the there's the outcome strategies, there's the budget, there's the early literacy um allowable uses form, there's the early lit literacy um budget. Um, so rather than kind of go through them all, if you guys have any questions as to anything on there specifically, I think the outcomes of strategies, I shared most of those with you last time. The budget numbers were all um developed through our our work with our strategic plan group uh and then the district office folks. So if you guys have
003any specific questions, I'm happy to answer those or I guess from the public as well. Yeah, that works for you, Chair. Yeah, I will open it up. Did anyone come to speak on the integrated guidance plan? Is there anyone online? No. Go ahead. I will say just uh when we when we talk about this plan and when we um start putting numbers and budgets together, I mean along with everything else she does and creating a budget for our you know district that we have coming up for budget meeting just uh the work she does and the knowledge she has and uh what she holds is just incredible. So I think the whole integrated guidance team but um then need to put the numbers together. So want to publicly thank her. Yes. Great. Thank you. And
004you'll you'll notice on all those budget items, those are all developed um to address each of the strategies and activities. So wherever wherever the strategic plan committee decided to focus our attention, that's where all the money is focused and that's the purpose of that uh of that activity as well. Any questions? We'll be taking action on this during the regular meeting. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. The hearing is now closed. We will return to the regular session. And uh next item of b of business is staff recognition. So I have two um two very special staff members I asked to come today to be recognized. Um you want me to am I doing this or Okay. Thank you. Well, so for yeah um first of all just on
005a you know when I think about there were we all know that the pandemic was really challenging but when I think about a shining um light during the pandemic it was the work that nurse Carrie did um supporting our staff and our students um and she's been rightfully recognized this it took a few years I think this is a few years coming um but she's been recognized as the 2025 Oregon School Nurse of the Year for the state of Oregon. Thank you. Thank you so much. She was recognized at the state conference um a couple weeks ago and surprised by her husband Paul and family and uh some staff members and uh it was just really cool. She was actually contracted nurse for us for a long time. We said screw that. We want her
006honor. And want her to do more jobs. Love it. But, uh, she's absolutely just a joy and a blessing for our kids and families and, um, we hear it all the time. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Um, okay. This next this next one might be nurse Carrie adjacent. I'm not sure. But, um, tonight tonight we want to recognize an act of quick thinking, courage, and compassion by one of our staff members. A few weeks ago during lunch, Jod Amens noticed a student in distress in the cafeteria. Without hesitation, she rushed to his side, asked if he was okay, called for help, and immediately performed the Hilheim himlick maneuver, successfully dislodging the food that was blocking his airway. She stayed with him until she was confident he was safe and
007even asked if he was ready for recess. Her actions that day made all the difference, and we are incredibly grateful for her presence of mind and care for our students. Please join me in thanking Jodie Ammons for a tr being a true hero. I already let her know it's my fault her certificate's not physically here tonight, but we have it at the office and we'll have that for you. Um, but thank you for everything you do. I know that was one event, but I know you do heroes work every day in the classroom, too. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Did either of you want to say anything and put you on the spot? a lot of things [Laughter] like say thank you for trusting me. That's just like a lot of trust with parents, with
008board members, with district, with principles, like it's just it's not just one person, you know, it's just this huge coordinating team. So, thank you for the trust. I really appreciate that. Thank you. Absolutely. It's okay. And not all heroes wear capes, but I understand you got one as you assembly. So, yeah. Well deserved. Well deserved. All right. Awesome. Well, that was sort of a kickoff to accentuate the positive, but we'll go ahead and move to accentuate board. Um, Heather Low, principal here at Talon Elementary, and it was really such a such a fun day to honor Jod and have quick thinking. and she ran around. She did the fun run in the cape tiara with the kids and they were like, "Wow." I was walking with them and they go, "Well, if she's the queen
009and a superhero, is she your boss?" She is. She's the boss for sure. She's amazing. She goes above and beyond all day, every day. So, um I just wanted to share for my positives. Next week is teacher appreciation week and I want to kick it off with that because holy cow our teachers are doing a phenomenal job. It's testing season and so all of the scores are rolling in and the fruit of labor is really coming to fruition. So I'm really proud of the work that they do every day especially in the spring when it's crazy out there. Um lots of energy in the air. So want to give thank you to all of our teachers. Um last night we did have our Kinder launch which was amazing. We had 39 little friends come show
010up here at Talent, which is a ton. Wow. Um, and we know that's not all of them. So, I'm very hopeful for this next year. Hopefully going to add another Kinder. Fingers crossed for that. Um, and then just want to say thanks to all the staff that kind of make that possible to make it a really fun evening for family. They get really excited. I know um Paulie heard from somebody last night immediately was excited to like, oh, I can't wait to bring my kid to school here. So, I'm just proud of our school for all they are doing. Last week was community event palooa around here. We had um our walk and roll event. We had our students had their art in the art walk for the city. We had a big tree planting
011event on Saturday. And then on Monday um Casey and I went over to Renaissance Flats and had family game night and pizza night and played a bunch of games with the the kids and sent them all home with games. So, that was really fun. We've been doing a lot of community engagement. Um, and then last but not least, I just want to say a big thank you to Jonathan Chavez Bayz, you know, who works at SOOU. His daughter is in kindergarten here, and he arranged for all of the K1 TWWI kids in the valley to come to SOU today for a concert, um, sponsored by Brit, you know, in facilitation with Brit to hear these women from Colombia playing the salsa and they it was just so fun. So, I want to say thank you
012to John. Good evening board. It's good to see you. My name is Sha Schl, principal at Phoenix Elementary. And I just want to echo a lot of what Heather said. Um, it's been a lot of celebration and a lot of appreciation days going on in school. So, we had admin appreciation day. So, I want to recognize my administrative, sorry, admin assistant appreciation day. And I want to recognize our front office staff for all of the work that they do. And it was on full display last night with our kinder launch. It went well. We had almost 30 families show up and it just was so much fun to see um our new our new kiddos coming and the families being welcomed into our district in such a positive way and it's goes to a huge
013team of people to to create that welcoming environment. So thanks to them. Uh I also want to give a shout out to a long overdue shout out to our IT specialist Canyon who's behind um Canyon. Um he helped us with our behind the the active panel. He helped us with our our recent talent show and then again with our assembly on Friday. He's just always there when we need him and he's super serviceoriented is really competent. We really appreciate it. So thank you Kenyon for your support. Um want to give a big shout out. we were able to attend the organ RTI conference that's mirrored or that um in conjunction with PBIS which are two really important systems and it was a conference that a large team of us were able to go to um
014where we learned a lot about strengthening our literacy systems and our behavior systems along with learning from the esteemed immediate archer who is like the queen of direct instruction. So, it was a really well um a really valuable conference, but that meant I was out of the building for quite a lot. So, I want to give a shout out to my team for doing such a great job of just handling everything. And um it's just a blessing to be able to have such good systems running and such good people in place. And give a shout out to Christian Towers because he ran the assembly without me, which is I have a lot of positive. thing I just uh I want to give uh we have outdoor ed coming next week and so we have two
015fifth grade teachers who are new to fifth grade. So they're new to outdoor ed, they're new to state testing and they're just really rocking it. So I want to um recognize Amy Hartley and Irisimuma Querta for just really meeting kids where they are and then also um organizing all of these really fun important opportunities for them. And then lastly, I'd like to give a shout out to Jamar Boyd. She's our math specialist. Um, she's been in preparation for state testing. She's been doing a lot of push-in support to our classrooms and offering guided support with the performance task in math, which is one of the more challenging things that students struggle with. So, as a way to help continue to support our learners, she's doing a lot of modeling and a lot of teachers are
016really learning a lot of great skills from her. So, just want to recognize her. And then last but not least, teacher appreciation. Man, I'm super excited for next week. It's going to be a great honor to help um recognize the work that they do each and every day and uh we wouldn't be here without them. So, uh Kim Fier, principal at Orchard Hill. I don't know if you've noticed or not, most of the times when I come to the board meetings for Accentuate the positive, I print off my comments that I sent to Denise earlier in the day and then I saw all these people like read off their phone. I'm going maybe I should do that. So, I don't bring them anymore. I don't get a signal here back. The oldest person back here
017and I'm going back to paper meeting the hard copy. But, uh, speaking of fabulous teachers, I Zelner is a fifth grade teacher at Orchard Hill. And you may or may not know, but in the Amplify curriculum, there's a unit that includes Shakespeare. And she is such an excellent teacher. And believe me, it's hard to get kids turned on to Shakespeare. Probably harder in middle school, maybe a little harder in high school. But, um, one of Emily's students wrote a play. I think they were, uh, uh, studying Romeo and Juliet, possibly, and she wrote a play. and Emily took her students and that student and uh uh kind of helped her finish the play. Last Friday night at Orchard Hill, they actually produced the play and we had a bunch of parents in the gym and
018it was such a just a fun event to watch kids do their thing. So many times, you know, the performing arts, especially in elementary, you know, aren't that robust, but uh I really wanted to highlight uh Emily Zelner and her accomplishments for the play. Uh secondly, last night, yes, Tinder launch. Our office staff was amazing. Uh takes a lot to get that uh put together. So I want to thank uh Diane and Holly. Uh tomorrow night is the Orchard Hall. Orchard Hall, Orchard Hill, bingo night, the annual bingo night. Um and Sarah Instrom and Brad Jones. Or no, not Brad Jones. Brad uh see this when I need my paper. You're right. Nelson. Nelson. Brad Nelson, our PTA president, and uh Katie McCormack have been uh really instrumental in the PTA in making sure that
019that happens again this year. So that'll be from tomorrow night. All right. Thank you, Casey. Kent failed to mention he's going to be the bingo caller tomorrow. Oh, that's right. So, yeah. So, if you really want to win a basket, see me after before, right? after this meeting. Uh, good evening board. Casey say the principal at Talent Middle School. Um, I'm going to echo my first thing that Heather did um on Monday. Monday. um going over and spending time with our families and just uh like we left it and it was just like that was so fun and so easy and um just like the joy and family sitting together and playing games together. Um we as the ad team are reading the anxious generation uh book and there's just this whole thing around cell
020phone use and kind of like the impact on that and there were just multiple times in the event of just looking around and seeing families on the floor together in different parts and just playing games and a lot of the families that I was playing games with and the kids are like we've never played this game before and being able to give that game to them when they left and just you know my hope and our hope and just that they continue to just be and play together and enjoying that. Um, so I was like I you know we did that for them but it was like I needed kind of an uplift for myself and so that was huge for me as well. Um I also I don't know if I've ever given a
021shout out to this but I'm going to give a shout out to pickle ball. No judgment at all but uh we have our PE teachers have partnered with um a few different uh community individuals that have come in and teaching our kids uh pickle ball and playing pickle ball. Um, and it's the kids are into it and it's been really cool to see and then also that just community partnership piece. So, Julie Ponder, Tatsu, Garrett Cooper, our PE teachers and not only the pickleball piece, but just um what they do and the joy that they bring uh to our kids. Uh, last time we met, I had mentioned that we were going to be having a movie night for our sixth graders uh that our web leaders put on. Um, so that was last Friday.
022Um, we watched Shrek. Um, we had 75 students show up. Um, and about uh I think 50 of those were sixth graders and then the rest were the web leaders. Um, and just Liz and Bri, who I shouted out last time, Richard Bird, Sucati Brian, and Lorie Fuller were also there volunteering and, uh, helping us put on that event. Um, and then last but not least, just want to shout out the high school. Um, our eighth graders are did some forecasting with the counselors. um and going in the library and just the buzz of like looking at classes and actually putting classes down and getting a schedule and and that uh feel for them and just the presence that your counselors have. I mean, I know you guys know that. Um and a joy that
023they bring uh to get kids excited. Um and so that um was just uh really cool to see and excited for them to finish out still strong. They're not there yet and that's what I have to keep reminding them of, but uh yeah, just grateful for the partnership with the high school. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Boring Frost, principal of Pirate Ship. Um, I kind of love going last and I also hate going last because my list gets really long because everybody else reminds me great things. But so here we go. Um, first I want to thank the new mayor of Phoenix. Um we were able to meet earlier this week and just dream really big dreams for our students and um how we can partner with the city of Phoenix and the community
024uh to really make some of the learning that's happening in classrooms applicable alongside of some of the legacy and traditions that are really important to our school and our community. Um and he uh just really helped fuel some of those conversations. He's really eager um to come and chat with our students. And so I'm really thankful for that partnership and I'm I'm already feeling energized for next year when we're going to kick off some of those things. I want to shout out to our leadership teacher, Miss Lisa Robin, and um one of our graduation coaches, Skyler Glimes. You'll hear more about this from our student reps, I'm sure, but there's a lot of things going on this spring, and they have spent an immense amount of time planning rallies, spirit weeks, and this weekend prom.
025Um, and we had probably the best rally I have seen in the last three years last Friday. I'm just really proud of them and our leadership students for making sure every student was seen on the floor, represented and shoutouts and so really grateful for that. We did host our future pirate night last week. I want to thank you to Erica Ooa who made that event possible and run really smoothly. John Barber is our culinary teacher and his culinary kids made some delicious food um that we kept on going back to getting like thirds and fourths like we were beyond second. So it was really good. Mike Dosen, our amazing band, Tammy Ingerson, who's just a genius and I could shout out for everything um that she does and I a Pentoha who offered translation um
026and just was really welcoming to a lot of our Spanish speaking families. So that night was really exciting. Alongside that, just like uh Casey mentioned, our counselors did visit uh TMS earlier this week uh to prep eighth graders for this transition. I'm really thankful for the partnership with the middle school um because we really feel like students come prepared. They've seen the campus lots of times. They know what programs are available for them. And um along with the work that the counselors do with that, our student services team, so our counselors and our grad coaches are working really hard um to make sure not only our eighth graders ready for this transition, but our seniors are making it across the finish line. Our freshmen are earning the credits they need and everyone in between that.
027And so I just want to shout out to that. The last couple weeks we've had some unique situations with students. Um, and I've just continued to watch them show up with calmness, with compassion, um, keeping the right things at the forefront of their mind. And so I'm really thankful for that. Our FFA group just came back from a meat judging competition and they took fourth yesterday, which was unexpected, but just a shout out to Melissa Madson and that group who's working really hard. Um, Selene Fairmont uh just came back and is probably still sleeping um as I think Jav is um because we had a great group of students go to nationals and just have an amazing time and represent Phoenix very well. I want to shout out to our unified sports staff and especially
028to Tiffany and Charlene for making unified sports happen for our kids this year. Um and that is a group effort of making sure our kids get uniforms and our playing games. Um, so Breezy Chapman, Andrew Shum, Andy Terrell, Michelle Walter, W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W Walters, Amber Lee Batton, and I'm sure there's a few I'm forgetting, but they um make those things happen and it's just so memorable for our students. Last but certainly not least, I don't know if you've heard, but we had a few art students um really make a name for Phoenix, as they typically do because our art
029program is amazing, but Tula Hecendorf had two pieces in the top four for the state of Oregon Congressional Art Competition this year. So, those pieces will be in a couple of different places. I heard something about maybe a trip to DC. I'm here for that. Um, and that we have a bunch of students going to the SOU best of the best art show tomorrow. Um, I know fine arts are something that we really are investing in and I'm just really proud of the work that our students and faculty do around that. So, that's all for BHS. Thank you. Thanks again, Arasanti PT. Um, we are uh recognizing our teachers next week. I'm a little bit surprised that the my colleagues didn't individually call out their teachers, but I'm going to. I want to recognize Mia.
030She's our elementary school teacher and she teaches 20 kids um across six grades every day. So, she has six different class meetings every day with those kids. Does a great job. She leads our Friday STEM steam classes. She arranges our field trips and our park in the park and all the other things that we do, our science. So, we're lucky to have her. Uh we also have Heather Aris Blood. She's our middle school teacher. Uh she teaches 25 kids, seven classes. So, that's 30 different sections of classes that she's got to keep track of every week. We've had several people tell us when they've enrolled their kids in PT that they came just specifically because Heather was teaching it. They had her as a middle school teacher and they remember her and so she's really
031drawn to our school. Additionally, she's retiring at the end of this year and so really want to thank her and recognize her. She's had I think it's like 75 years in the district, but and I say that to her all the time, so that's not a secret. Uh, but she she's been a long long time serving to the district and so we really thank her. Um, and then finally, I just wanted to touch on our Wildlife Images field trip that we had last Friday. We had um 17 students, 29 family members, total of 46 people come to that field trip which was awesome. We all I mean we all learned something and I'm talking about me specifically about a lot of things like huge huge birds that are really scary. So it's a super cool
032trip and if you guys get a chance next year come along I would encourage you. That is it for me. Thank you. Uh, Kaitlin mentioned unified sports, so I had to mention a couple other people. Uh, Derek Rodman coached basketball and Derek Rodman and Chelsea Wy are coaching soccer right now. And unified sports is the most fun thing. Our uh, unified athletes are amazing. Uh, in basketball we had Angel, Wyatt, Addie, and Marley. Just fantastic, the most fun. Uh, also since I have the money, I was say, uh, thank you to our principles for, uh, principal appreciation day. We have the best principles. I say anywhere. I'm gonna say the state. They're amazing. And then I want to give thanks to our special education teachers um particularly for teacher appreciation. But we also are starting
033tomorrow uh all our meetings for our incoming hinders that are on um individual family service plans and we're transitioning them to the school age individual education plans and we have over 30 students which is double than what we've had um since the pandemic and the fire. So, a lot of meetings, a lot of observations because we we want to conserve all of our students, but we're really excited about our growing numbers coming into kindergarten next year. Anything from the board? Thank you all. I just had one little thing. I I failed to mention that nurse Car's husband, Paul, is here tonight. Sorry, Paul, for putting you on the spot, but I just wanted to to thank you for coming as well tonight. And we know that the significant others of our staff members are just
034as much part of the district as our staff members. So, thank you for coming tonight and uh for being here for nurse Kerry. Thank you. They don't have to stay the whole Yeah, you guys, by the way, you don't have to stay for the whole meeting. I think exciting things happen, but um but you certainly don't have to stay. Yeah, it's okay. Thank you for coming. We appreciate you so much. All right. Um, student representative report. Hello. All right. For those of you who don't know, and I want to talk about our awesome assembly we had. Um, it was pretty great weeks of planning. Shout out to Brena and May. a whole lot of [Music] it. Okay. Um, we did so many fun we did so many. We did one really fun game that involved
035the whole crowd. So, like a musical chair, but you had to go get items up from the stand. And it's a really great way to incorporate the people, everyone in the school because everyone has to be paying attention and involved. And I mean I think some sophomores had some really great things that they threw out in my opinion. Um and we won. But um at the assembly we also had our annual dance off which went so good. It's the first time we've had all four teams in Yeah. I think since I Well, they did it before co but since co this is the first time we've had four teams plus we had Mr. cord and his dance partner do a dance and we had our new dream K-pop club do a dance and it was
036super fun, super hype. Um, seniors won the dance off, sophomores were second. That's of course it's up for debate. There was some certainty of who should have won that second. Um, freshman were third and the juniors were first or not first, fourth. But they pul the juniors pulled their dance together in two days which is really impressive and they did really good. They were pretty much in sync. Um, but so that was a way to kick off our spirit week which has been following this week. Um, we have done lots of spirit days which El's going to talk about. Um, but we've also been doing a lot of fun courtyard games. So, we did a normal musical chairs which went pretty good. Um, and then we did a balloon toss, water balloon toss, and that
037was really fun. Kids got a little wet. And then there was a lovely event today that I know Miss Soella just had so much fun at. We did token ASB officer or Miss Ooa. $2 a bucket. All proceeds went to the Sparrow and I hear Miss Mooa is still freezing. Um, but that was a huge success. I don't know how much we raised, but I'm pretty sure it was a lot. And that's pretty much how it's been going at our school. Yeah, that's all I have. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. My turn. Okay. So, this weekend's prom and I feel like leadership put a lot of effort, especially into this event. Um, I think I feel like every year they put a lot of effort to make sure it's a safe and fun event that just
038includes everyone. And then also to get our attendance up. We've had an attendance requirement for um buying a prom ticket this week. So you have to have 85% attendance to go which um for the seniors is a little a little challenging for some people. I actually have 100% attendance. Um and then so I just thought that was it's the theme's masquerade and it's on Saturday at 8. So I was about that. And then spirit week this week we had Monday was uh jersey day. Super sports jersey. Tuesday was character day. Um it goes up as character. Wednesday was country versus country club. Either of those themes. Um today is was beach beach bay versus chill day. And then um tomorrow is dress up as your grade level. So freshmen are babies. Um, sophomores are toddlers,
039juniors are adults, and seniors are old people. Um, yes, advertised correctly. Um, and then, uh, today was decision day. So, all seniors, we had a celebration in cons. Um, all seniors are invited, no matter what you're doing next year. um whether it's trade school, college, just going into career. Um there were snacks, a photo booth, and raffle prices that a bunch of different departments put together and it's just a really great like high energy celebration of everything. Meanwhile, the courtyard bucket thing that's going on outside. So, a lot of stuff going Thank you so much. Any questions for our students? Thank you for the awesome reports. Uh, next is citizens comments. Do we have anybody in the audience who wishes to speak? No sir, you keep your hand up. Um, any anybody online? There's two
040people online, but I was waiting. One is um Kelly Swords. Okay. And one is Genie. And I don't think I'll give them a minute, but Okay. If anyone online wishes to speak, please use the raise your hand function if you will or you can type in the chat or you can type in the chat. Okay, let me know. We'll give it a second. Okay. All right. We'll move along. Superintendent report Campbell. just uh reflecting on the beginning of this meeting. It's just amazing. This doesn't happen everywhere. Just the accentuate the positive, the student reports and the banter and the recovery and the I mean it's just it's just amazing. I do want to mention um David Ford who's our construction teacher is going to be in Dancing with the Stars this Road Valley Stars this
041weekend. And that just doesn't happen. I know that takes a ton of work. They've been practicing two or three times a week and so um look for him. I think there's a matinea and then an evening event on on Saturday. All proceeds go to the sparrow for that. That's a big fundraiser for them. Um getting to business pers I mentioned that we have a 9% increase in next bianium on pers. There is legislation with some excess funds. I'm not sure where they're coming from exactly uh but to reduce the rate on average by 1.68%. And so that'll be a huge uh um um budget item that is not going to cost us as much. We are actually budgeting for that because I think both houses will pass that and the governor will pass that. So
042we have that reflected in the budget currently. So when we when we get to that um and uh goats, you may have heard of goats and not talking about the greatest of all time. I'm talking about actual goats as it relates to managing our grounds and our properties. John went to a statewide school facility conference uh last week or a couple weeks ago in which he was actually uh elected the vice president of the statewide association. So um really appreciate his leadership there. but he attended a session about um districts or one district in particular, but I think others in the state do about utilizing goats for for properties and blackberries and bushes and tons of uh everything that goes into that. And we have some property on Bear Creek. We have Culver has all
043those blackberries. a lot of different areas that um we are currently making a kind of mobile makeshift travel um um unit for the goats and they'll they'll we have a place for them to stay and we'll get them to work. It'll help minimize our spraying and pesticides and herbicides um on our grounds and and um you know help the environment that way. Um so excited to see that venture and um John's really excited about it too. So you might ask them about it. With that said, we do have one more field, the Talent Elementary field that we have to treat for the spring to minimize the impact over the summer. So we'll be um treating that facility on Sunday. Um and we'll notice that on Saturday. Uh but speaking of goat, this does mean the
044greatest of all time. And today is school principal day. Um and so really want to honor our our principles and and Tiffany, I echo, they are the greatest of all time. and um and just do so much for our students and our staff and our our community. Just thinking about what a principal did 20 30 years ago as opposed to what a principal needs to do now. Just a few things I just want instructional leadership. I mean they are the instructional leaders in the building managing and implementing curriculum ensuring that that's happening doing classroom observations datadriven decision-making. There's so much data that we are making decisions on now. That wasn't the case 20, 30 years ago, but really making decisions based on data to make sure we hit the target of improvement. Equity, inclusion, our
045our leaders are exceptional in ensuring our students have access uh to opportunity and plans to ensure success for all. That's that's just ingrained in what our principles do. technology. I mean, just think how much technology has changed and really being intentional and strategic about the use of technology, being responsible with it, but also using it as a tool and teaching our kids um how how useful it can be. Community and family engagement. I mean, we have some of the best leaders in our buildings that are really activating um and re-engaging families after co 20, 30 years ago, that didn't seem to like that was I mean, it was just that's just what parents did and families did. this we have to be more intentional and we're seeing uh our leaders do that crisis and mental
046health management not just not their own like first management side uh everything they do every day and and it does not go unnoticed increased attention on student mental health school safety trauma-informed practices uh today's reality is that our our our principles and leaders have to manage everyday crisis dysregulation with adults also not just the kids Um, and when you reflect on that, it seems like an impossible job and and some days it might be and you may feel that. Uh, but they really do make it easier than it actually is. Make it a little easier than it actually is. So, just want to thank the principles. We have a card. The board has a card uh for for you all. And just a big round of applause. Um and it was we did it we
047there's also principal month um which is October. So we did get him a really big value then but this is a card of appreciation. So we did not forget PT That's all I have. Was there money in the cars? There there same thing. Nice. Same thing. We are actually still negotiating with Well, you heard all those nice things we said about you. [Laughter] Was that everything? I'm doing the Casey. look to you to see if you're done. Okay. Um All right. Next, we have the All right, let me get back on track here. Next, we have the consent agenda. Um we have a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Thank you, Don. Thank you, Rebecca. Any objections? Hearing none, the consent agenda is approved. information and
048discussion legislative OSBA update. Oh goodness. Okay, go first. And then so um right now things that passed like the House or the Senate has now switched over to the other side. So a lot of the comments have switched too, but it's like your last chance to change things. So, um or to get support or um get people there's a couple legislators that were on the fence. Um I'm just going to go over a quick bigger bills on Monday. This Monday coming up um in the Senate. They're going to talk about House Bill 2453 which removes the requirements that of ed educational um so the DEI committees they're changing that before they had to be advised by the school board and it's changed OSDA and KOSA are in agreement they think this is a good change
049so um it looks like it's probably going to go through because it went through the house already and now it's in the Senate. Um then there's two other bills that have to do with um brain trauma um qualifications and those both went through the House and they will probably go through the Senate as well. Um they're kind of viewed as unfunded mandates because we're not adding any more uh money to special education. Um but there will be more um students that now um qualify for IEPs and will be students. Um big topic is House Bill 2251 which is a cell phone bill. I know an some eighth graders are writing their essays on that. I know high school kids um probably want some input. Right now it's the -4 which OSBA and I believe KOSA
050is not a fan of. Um, OSBA with the help of Representative McIntyre wrote a -3 that gave us more flexibility, but unfortunately that did not pass the House. Now we're on to the Senate. When I was up there last week, I was talking to senators like, "Are you on the Would you change your mind?" So, there's a few that are on the fence and we talked more about more flexibility. um the if the cell phone bill comes it won't it there there's things that it doesn't give us a lot of flexibility. I have been advocating that we have our policies in the handbook. It gives us flexibility. So if something changes because we all know technology changes quickly. I saw the other day there's glasses that have headphones in them. Then you can change the
051policy versus having to go to the board and having it you're talking like two months before you can change a policy. Hopefully the way it writes we can still have it the way it is but there's um there has to be discipline if a person there's a whole bunch of and it turns into division 22 standards. We all know we have more division 22 standards than we even know what we want. So um if I'm waiting for that to it's still in limbo so it might die. We'll see. But I'll give you if you want more conversation and and um talk about the cell phone bill, please let me know. I've had lots of conversations. Can I just make a comment so you don't think I'm totally crazy? So we we were for the bill
052a letter that we sent in the house um with local control, but that passed out of the house with bellto bell. So it changed our policy actually at the high school. So I basically submitted the same letter to oppose it in the Senate. So, not crazy. It's just it's it's pretty general just with local control. So, that's that's what you're going to see. Is it open to submit testimony for it? Not not yet. No, but the same letter will be going in to impose. Yeah. But if you want to write testimony in my in I think it's Senator Robinson from Grant's past. He's on the fence. So, he would be if you could get him to do a no vote and he's very local control. He also is not very into kids having cell phones,
053but he's very local control. And the push for him was that there's only a handful of districts that don't have cell phone policies. And there's a whole bunch that are getting ready for this. And so by next year, there's probably going to be, don't quote me, around 10 to 12 that don't have it out of 197. So, do we really need to make legislation for 10 people who are probably just waiting to see what's going to happen before they pass they pass it? So, um and bellto bell means not at lunchtime. So that's what bell develop means the very beginning of the bell and then you can't have your phone which there's concerns about all the high school everybody that has open campus this how many kids are going to stay on and then the
054free and reduced lunch and so there's some there's some un con unattended consequences that may happen um with the bell to bell so that might be an argument as well and Eden did you have a question I was going to ask if the bill was to ban phones completely but I got Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah. Similar to what you have now, but you couldn't have them at lunch. But if you leave campus, why? But then that sets up a limitation for those who can't afford off campus lunch. Thank you. Can we connect them with the So if you would like Oh, yes. That's why I say unintended consequences because the people then you have open campuses and so what happens is this the kids would that have bell to bell now they grab their lunch
055and they go outside. So like on the sidewalks there's all these kids eating their lunch and you know if it's raining where are they going to eat their lunch? So it there's some unintended consequences that I'm not sure bell to bell especially for kindergarten I think it's probably fine. Um but high school maybe not. Well, and you have jobs and there's other things that you know you may have to do. Yeah. I do during my lunch break. Yeah. So if you want to when it comes I will let you guys know and if you want help testifying either because you can testify on the camera or you can just do written testimony but you can do like from your phone and or from your computer and they'll call you and you can testify and everybody
056in the room sees you and it's quite fun. Um, please. So, moving on. Uh, then there is in the house. Um, there's work sessions. No testimony, but again, if you were against these or for them, you can always write the House Education Committee members. um Senate Bill 1098, which prohibits um li the big library uh bill about library books and what a board can do with policies on library books. So that has I looked at the written testimony. I don't know how many testimonies are on each page. I think 50 and there was six pages of testimony for and against. So if that's something is so when it's a work session that means they're going to vote for it but you can write the first you can write a letter um the fire uh house
057bill 5149 the wildfire bill that um representative Marsh has been so kind to fight for us is still in ways and means. I have hope that it will just be there for a little while and then move on. Um I'm hearing good things. I'm hearing a lot of people saying Pam Marsh talk to me about that. Um, I'm I'm for you guys. Um, I have a report on advocacy day. I went up to OSBA advocacy day for those that don't know. I didn't know how many people did know what advocacy day was. So, we went up, we learned how to advocate to um Representative Ruiz and Senators Solomon came and talked to us and then we uh talked with our groups of where we were going and we went and talked to the capital and
058we had a list of things and I ended up talking one staff member and seven legislators in three and a half hours. So that is like a good time to like bang bang bang. This is what we need. So it was really good. And then I don't know if Sarah wants to talk about oh ways and means. I went to the Ways and Means Road Show in Clamoth and I didn't I had testimony, but I didn't get called to give live testimony, but um there were some that were advocating for funding and for lifting the special education cap and and continuing to fully or um fund the governor's recommended budget. The challenge with those meetings is there's about a billion dollars that the legislature has to um allocate to the different things and the number
059at the Clamoth Falls Ways and Means was over four billion between four and five billion of asks. So lots of park decisions happening at the legislative level as far as funding. So, um, that was a good kind of reminder of what we're looking at and what we're asking for and the decisions that they have to make. And it's, I think, hard to sit as a legislator and hear all of these really valid great things that need to be done and recognize that there's just not enough resources to do those things. And yeah, so they've got they've got a heavy lift ahead of them. So when we're asking just being mindful too of of that and be mindful Sarah and I last month went up and they were having the hearing and this one person I
060was sitting in the room and I looked at Sarah I was like oh she's being harsh she was like if you don't do this you're destroying and I was like holy smokes and then um we went and saw one of the representatives that was on that panel and she was like that person was talking about school issues So we come in with school issues. She's like that lady. She I'm like we don't know that lady. Like she isn't speaking for us. But she was speaking for education and that kind of turned over to oh gosh here comes more education. These people are harsh. So think about it when you're talking. Even though you think that harsh might help people change, it might make the rest of the day really difficult for those advocating. Um so
061that's kind of a reminder. And I don't know if Right. You wanted to talk anything legislative. I don't even know where to start. I think you covered it. Sorry, but I think it's so important. So, I'm sorry for taking up the first time, but I did see I don't know if you all saw it, but Brent did send a letter to Representative Bence from the US Congress talking about the impact of some of the things being discussed federally. Um, so I appreciate you doing that and um, I just appreciate all of the advocacy and not just not just, you know, going and testifying, but showing up for these driving over to Climate Falls and and showing up and meeting with legislators and building these relationships and being able to tell the story of Phoenix talent.
062um as a busy dad of young kids, I'm I'm grateful that you both are um able to do that and advocate for us and for public ed at that level. So, thank I know I say it I want to say it every time. Thank you for everything you do to keep us updated and to advocate for us. That reminds me, OSBA is working on a letter for Vince and um I may be asking for help just to like flood his emails um because he has his district represents more schools than any other district and his district represents more title one funds and other funds than any other district and he's the only one that's not meeting with school. So, we really need a voice to let him know like your district is the district that
063really needs these funds. Um, and so, and luckily the districts that don't need the funds, this the people that are advocating are saying our districts don't need the funds, but there's people in our state that do. So, we're lucky for that. We're hopeful he does come to visit. Denise has asked five, six times. So you're watching tonight, Congressman Vench, we invite you to say maybe he's so busy. We just haven't heard from He is busy. Yeah. And we we've talked with his staff so hopefully we get back. But yeah, I know he's really big into career technical and I think we have a lot to show off there. Um and so we're hopeful he comes to visit. I hope so too so he can see the great things that we're doing. Great. Thank you so
064much. And there's a wonderful report in there too about advocacy day that Don submitted. So, thank you for that. That was very insightful. Um, okay. Committee updates. What committee updates do we have today? Um, do we have any committee updates? Where are we on? Are we still waiting on the pricing for the Yeah, it's starting to be partitioned off. So, we'll hopefully be uh pretty close to that. June was kind of the target date for the Orchard Hill part, pardon Orchard Hill, boys and girls club partition. Also, the plans for um the soccer field and things of that nature. So, it's all kind of both kind of happening at the same time and both will be done this summer sometime. What's RAPs? I didn't recognize RS. What's that committee? That's the um behavior uh team
065committee that we um do a few times a year with our practices attendance PBISC. Okay, thank you guys. Just another new one. I'm pretty sure I have it explained before, but it's okay. Uh Don mentioned do the EDI committee is now coming under a superintendent committee instead of school board. So it changes the rules on public meetings and I think that'll be safer and and have more authentic conversation. So that was good. That's it. All right. Thank you. Um and then we have student representative applications um that have been submitted. It looks like we have a returning applicant. [Music] Mom, we have we have four applicants so far. Is that window still open? Okay. Turn around was tight if you would like to do that. I can do some of the work. I do think
066that the spring is really busy and and sometimes students aren't thinking forward to the fall again. Right. So, yeah. Well, it would make our decision really easy. would I mean I just What do we think about that? How many? There's four. Four. Mhm. They're not. I was going to say you can come over here, but like die unfortunately if I unplug it. So, come on over. I have a cat hard. Can I ask students a question? So, do you think if we open it up for a little longer that we would get more people and do you think that we should open it up longer? Um, hopefully we could open it up for a little longer. I don't know how many more people. These are all leadership students that we have applied. Um, I don't
067know how many people from outside of leadership are going to apply. I still need to do it. Um, how well are you feeling like it's being advertised? Sorry, interrupt. It's being advertised I think every day on the loudspeakers. So that's good. Granted, it is part of this year as loud speakers usually. Um, depending on what class you're in. It's been on PHTV. Um, has it been added to the slideshow? It's added to the It's been added to the slideshow like every third slide. There's an advertisement. It's also being shouted out at breakfast and it's been talked about like I've had staff members go talk to specific pocket food students. The deadline was around the same time as a dance off right and so right and prom and all those things. So students even who are
068in leadership but who might be interested in a leadership role are you know finishing spring sports some of those things are kind of taking over a lot of their brain space. we see a little bit of a, you know, like a downward trend of busyiness right around like the end of May, right? So that that's a really long time for y'all and I understand why we've changed the process. I just so you know, that's kind of what we're seeing. How is this tying in with the um ASB elections and all of that? Because that was kind of the I think the thought of Yeah, this is sooner than that. right now. Um, so ASB applications and leadership applications will be edited and everything next week, which means they'll probably go out in miday, right? Um,
069and so that's a quick turnar around, but um, that's usually the timeline. So, this was, you know, sooner than that. I think you could have an open print or two possibly, and that gives you time to collect a few more options. But also the people who apply in the spring are and are looking forward to the fall are probably the people you want to be doing. Like I think any of those people would be great for it. So what do you think? What do you guys think about it? I mean, you know, I think it's good feedback to consider for next year. I think it's kind of tough to change it midstream, but we advertise it and um and we may consider we could even possibly explore appointing another one next beginning of the school
070year or something if we feel like they'd like more interest or I don't know. But thoughts when is the deadline? the deadlines was already it's already passed last week. I suppos I mean I I would think but we maybe leave it open a little bit longer um is my opinion on it just because forgot to do it. I've been so busy with like every night I was running I was like oh no we well the 15th so that's another consideration. We still have time before we interview. Um, I don't know if we necessarily Yeah. like one week before the meeting. Yeah. I think I think what I'm concerned about is extending the timeline of the process if the interview process. But I don't think we extend the timeline of the interview process. I think if
071we extend it, my opinion is like last call like this is it. you've got to this and then you don't do it because sometimes that is all someone needs is like oh crud I forgot and I got to do it in two days that sometimes helps my kids are those oh crud kids but but um and myself and to be transparent like the process that we're using like even though it takes some prep it doesn't take weeks of prep and a lot of the students who are like having their eye on a position like this already having some of those conversations that are laid out in the application process So, I don't think that needing to like change the whole timeline would be necessary, but I do think we might get a couple more applicants
072if you guys would consider Yeah. And I don't think we have to review them in order to consider their in order to interview them. Well, if we had them enough time for our board packet, our next board packet. That's what we've had in the past. Yeah. I think you give it until a week before then following you, the next meeting where they interview you. And then that gives them a week of prep because I've done it before. It doesn't take two or three weeks to prep what you're going to say. So, um, giving it a week of prep because it's not, you know, you come here at this time of June. Yeah. Extending the application period, but still interviewing on the 15th. I think do what you think is best. If you think that'll help.
073Yeah. I don't think we have to take any official action on it, do we? I don't think there's I don't think the deadline is policy. So, right. But do we want an actual deadline like next Friday or or just up until is that what you think? I think I think a deadline helps. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say Denise, what to get it ready for the packet. When would you need them by at the latest? Well, if I can have it by the 14th, it's just it's not going to give the students enough time to do whatever they have to do for the 15th. But I think you got it saying probably by next Friday night. Yeah. And we can just, you know, because that timeline passed, we removed some of those things. So, we'll just up
074that advertisement. No problem. And Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Great. Thank you. And the board, the student reps could maybe help get the word out as well. I mean, you might already have been, but you if there's somebody that had talked about it and you be like, "Hey, they extended it. You better do it now or Yeah. Okay, great. Um, okay. Let's do a 7 minute recess. Be back at 7:15." Yes. Rising early learning center calendar. Yeah, you have a um Kelly wasn't able to be here. She had to um head out of town. She's online though. Oh, she is. Kelly Soder is online. Oh, nice. I did see her pretty face, but I will just say that um thanks, Kelly. It was nice to you. Um this is a calendar that we're look for uh you
075to adopt. It does add a fiveday school week, but it adds one Friday a month for inservice for the early learning uh center. So, if you have any questions, I'll actually turn over to Kelly if she's still online. Oh, her beautiful face. All right. So, sorry about that. I missed the in the Can you hear me? Okay. Um, I missed the beautiful introduction. Questions about the calendar. Yeah, I just basically shared that we do are going back to a fiveday week, but we have one day of inservice for center. Yep. If there's any other questions, thank thank you for being here, Kelly, and thanks for the work on this, and it's exciting to have most uh most Fridays back or most, you know, most weeks being um I just wondered, it looks like some of
076the inservice days were kind of sporadic, so I just wondered about communication to families about that. I'm sure you've thought about it, but could you just share how you plan on communicating with the family? Yeah. So, this year what we encountered was we had some days that preschool was open and the rest of the district was closed and vice versa because we kind of stuck with Fridays. So, like April 7th is an example. We had April 7th district was closed but center was open because it was a Monday Monday. Um, and that also creates some confusion. So, this is a hybrid. It's the exact district's calendar. So anytime district is closed, the center is closed. And then when we've added a day, we added it on a Friday for an addition. If there was not
077that month, we added on a Friday. So it is a little cattywampus, but it's to make sure that we're completely aligned with the district as well. Yeah. Got it. That's great. Thank you. Any other questions? just at the beginning of the year when if I remember correctly at the beginning of the 2425 school year we had tried a fiveday calendar and then during the school year modified it to a 4-day calendar is am I remembering correctly correct so um what's do we have feedback from family that they would like the fiveday again or is that just a is that a a board goal because I'm happy with it but I thought we went to 4A with staffing and just getting our feet under us and now going to five days out a lot for this
078demographic. Just kind of talk me through the Do you want to address that, Kelly, or you want me to talk? Sure about that? Yeah. Uh yeah, chime in though. Absolutely. So, we we went to a flat 4-day in early October. So, September was a five-day. We've learned so much between now between then and now. So, our staff is just, you know, just being a new program and uh kind of uh learning the process of how enrollment happens with the early learning hub and how much lead time we have with that. We've just learned a ton. So, our staff and and program feel so much better prepared for five day week. Even this year when we went to four days of instruction, we did offer child care for any family that that provided a hardship for.
079So, we actually served five, six, sometimes eight children on Fridays anyway. So in that s sense we know there is it's a combination of of need both that families have it as a an early you know early learning programming but also child care and and we do have a fair number of families that that impacts in this situation. Again we'll advertise that we're a five day a week program. So families that express interest in our program will know it's a fiveday. That was one of the hiccups last year and going from a five to a four and impacting families with child care on Fridays. Okay. Thank you. All right. Do I have a motion? I have a question. Oh, go ahead. Um, you have the last day of school on the 5th and then makeup
080days 8, the last three day 8th through the 10th and then teacher inservice 11 through 12. Um, if we don't have the makeup days, are you moving the inservice days or is No, good question. Yeah, you Cal, you want to address that on kind of wrapping up the year and what their duties will be those three days? Yeah. Yeah. This year we obviously all had snow days, but we had one or two days where we also had staff absences that impacted our ratios and we had to have an unexpected closure in those in either of those cases. An unexpected closure because of staff absence and ratios with the early learning department or weather related. Um I just wanted to be sure we built that in at the end of the year instead of scrambling. This
081year we were able to make up those instructional days because of our Fridays. Um, in addition to what the school district did, it was easier for us to just make Friday a full instructional day for all kids. In this model, with Fridays being school days, I just wanted to build in that buffer. Um, in this there is a there is um 900 hours is the minimum number of hours required for the early learning program. this this calendar that you're looking at will give us about 948, which is a really nice like not only a buffer for those hours, but just really enhancing instruction for kids. So, I'm not too not worried about the me the minimum number of hours, but there is quite a bit of closeup, too. So, if we don't need those makeup
082days, and most programs do, there's just a natural there's going to be a day where we have staff out and can't get subs. if that we have that covered but if not we'll use that as professional learning and closing up the classroom and student portfolios and things like that and thank you for telling that was my next question was how many days how many hours and thank you for answering that I learned something new today so it's great also just to answer a question around early release it was really complicated to do an early release Wednesday that is not the plan it's just to have five full five days. It's too complicated for the little Yeah, got it. Thank you. Let's make it too complicated for the older kids. Too complicated for the parents. Yeah.
083All right. Do I have a motion, Kelly? Thank you so much, Kelly, for being here and for all your work overseeing the the center this year. I will move to approve for PTS Rising Early Learning Center 2 2526 calendar as presented. Thank you, Don. Thank you, Rick. Any further discussion? Just has staff seen the staff of the early learning center seen this too? Yeah. Yes, they have. Oh, you're so she shared this with the whole crew. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Okay. Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. Calendar is approved. Item L2, integrated guidance plan. I think we're well versed on this one. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the integrated guidance plan as presented. Thank you, Rebecca. Second. Thank you, Rick. Any further discussion on this item? Just
084again, thank you to the team and um community members and everyone else involved in this is a big lift and an important lift. So, thank you. Uh Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. Plan is approved. Declaration of surplus items. Just to answer Sarah's question last time, we we asked David Ford about these. Oh, and he's like and nothing for the middle school. If we're looking at a middle school prep CTE, it's not anything. He he said they're surplus. Yeah. And apply. Then I move to approve the list of items to be declared as surplus as presented. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you, Rebecca. Discussion. Okay. Rebecca, Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. Okay. OSBA uh targeted survey. Um and and just for clarification, this is this is this
085is sort of twofold. is continuing to have OSBA assist us with our superintendent evaluation and including as a component of that next year a targeted survey element of that to get um to get feedback from the community uh as part of the superintendent evaluation. And I will say I really appreciate Brent's support um and openness to this um process and um sign of a good leader is welcoming feedback. So um appreciate that. I wanted to bring it before the board not for the necessarily the dollar amount but just because um it is in essence kind of a addition or change to the superintendent evaluation process. Um so do I have a motion? Can I just ask um maybe I should do this after motion? No, it's okay. Um so we talked about not only community
086but also um direct reports as part of the feedback survey. So I just want to make sure you just specifically said community. Oh yeah, when I said community wanted to ensure that Okay. I meant community as in all of those folks. Yeah. And it talks about community and staff in their Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry for my broad generalization there, but yes. Okay. I won't be here, but I will the OSBA targeted feedback survey to Superintendent Ricky. Thank you, Sarah. Every time I hear it, I'm so sad. Okay. Uh Rebecca or any further discussion? I'm sorry. Um Sarah, I really appreciate you bringing this um forward as an option and um I think this will be really great. So um yeah, Rebecca, yes. Sarah, yes. Rick, yes. Don, yes. I vote yes. That's approved. Um next
087meetings agenda, draft agenda is there for your review. Did we have anything we needed to talk about about that? No, we do have uh little league's been talked about. So, we just just kind of asked them to say, "Hey, where are you with the city of talent? What are your desires in the future?" Just kind of a brief 30,000 foot on where they are because we've talked about they've been in the planning for Culver. It is there in the master plan, but we just want to get a sense of what their long-term goals are. Awesome. Looking forward to that. Okay, any questions? This has no policy. Look at this. Wow, that's crazy. That's so far. It's drafted. It's early yet. All right. Thank you.