001okay just calling the order of the Riverside School Board uh meeting of March 26 2025 at little after 530 let's do the would you us absolutely flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under godible liy and justice for all okay let's start with the remarks for the good school I just wanted to share one thing I wasn't too sure how familiar the was around engagement so are you guys familiar with the levels of Engagement that we've been working with so I'll just give you a little bit of History um through the PLC process that we've been doing for years uh one of the big pushes in John Hat's work um you know really surrounds like students self assessing self-reporting grades kind of assessing their own work
002and things like that there a lot of really good research on that and so part of that is um you know getting students to engage in the realizing where they are in that engagement levels of Engagement So based on John Hat's work and thec team that we took to the conference last summer we spent a few hours um you know started out on the lawn River Park Square when the weather was nice after the conference we briefing started talking about um you know just getting the students to engage and realize their levels of Engagement So based on that research we ended up creating something unique just in the middle school here um but basically just to give you a quick overview there are six different levels and you can kind of imagine you know down
003at the zero you've got disrupting B of the disrupting type so now not only you not engaging you're kind of disrupting what's going on in the learning process bumps up to avoiding okay so now you might not be disrupting the learning process but you're kind of avoiding getting started on the T engaging then you've got withdrawing so that's usually the kid quiet maybe uh didn't get enough sleep last night those types of things bumps into a little bit more positive now you're participating okay you're answering some questions um paying attention then we bump it up a not you be on that now you're you're investing valuing the learning and then owning right and that is really that goal is to get those students to that level now the nice part about this is we're able
004to bring it to um the staff so Christian and Ed were both on the team were able to bring it to staff and then we basically came up with images that the kids can connect with so you've got the number you've got kind of the title and then you've got a little description so the nice part about this was right out of the gates we had some lessons with you know all the teachers and all of the kids and then it became kind of natural language and I knew it was pretty natural for the kids so when I'm maybe talking with a kid in my office who maybe was poster to this side and I I have this posted and I say hey can you can you tell me where you were just be honest
005with me before we even get going where were you here when you were doing that lesson and most of them they own it I was definitely and then we can talk about it right now they're taking ownership up there said guess what just with that little conversation you a't here so how can we get you there in class so we've got these posted all around and I'll just have a couple of extras you know laying here so you guys can look at them later but then andette I think you you came up with this right so we even made some little small little bookmarks for the kids um just as a reminder so we might see those around the school in the classrooms and you might see some of these every now and levels of
006Engagement hear people talking about that's kind of where we're going with that now the results of that I can't completely say because we did the levels of Engagement this year and we all went all in on that here's the result but we didn't change a lot of other things with our referral process okay so from last year and I just tallied it yesterday for this meeting just so the data was exes that possibly could be last year back time we had 17% more referrals you know a lot of classroom disruption Behavior type stuff um then we do this year so 17% reduction I know it doesn't seem like a lot but it's definitely noticeable so then that way rather than you know calling down kids deal displ like call down and talk about hey depend
007is great grades have improved um you know you're doing these good things how about a few Ram bus and the ram more positive stuff rather than feel free to ask me any questions later if you guys have any questions I don't want to take much time but I sure app who came up with the idea uh I think it was kind of a team effort um John Hattie is is someone that we've kind of used um you know for different things the PLC process really comes you know from his research his meta is covering decades worth of research and so looking at some of the top ones right is that Collective teacher efficacy that's that DLC word well you don't have to go down like two or three notches and some of the best ones
008um relate to this Tye that engagement how to engage students um obviously above not obviously but one of the things that's above that is um the teachers believe that the kids can achieve at that high level so those are like the top two right the PLC work and that teachers belief that the students can achieve at a high level but then self-reporting grades is also very high up there and I think it stems from getting the students to think about their own learning if they're thinking about their own learning their own engagement their own behavior they're going to take ownership of it take more responsibility at the middle school level you know trying to get them to that mature level as soon as possible that's why such a critical time in I really appreciate the
009sensitivity that whole subject because sometimes being able to name where they're at other comments for the good of the school anybody wants to come and just in starts yeah and all [Music] part of rear Fair yesterday that was the whole region ni to have Riverside High School show up they were part of all look at trade that don't requ the I just wanted to comment about the article Onie so positive about the Career Training you probably all seen just got liary others I just like to talk about something Ken Ken does takes a lot of time on his and other other presidents of the school board have taken time that I have never done because I I try to move the meeting long but today is a special day for me uh I'm wearing This
010Ti I because it was a gift from one of the greatest that I ever met he was a member of the of the LDS church down in in the Oakland area and was was an attorney who was certified to to plead cases before the US Supreme Court his name was Richard King Richard King was a Rotary International president when the Twin Towers were hit and uh was a man who had Tred during his time in rotary to 120 countries where he had been invited to give spee and he and I got to be friends and U we talked about the whole subject of success and what what he saw at an older age than myself he died last year in fact this is the anniversary we years old he said that one of the one
011of the things that was a priority in his life is the support of uh young people coming up in the law profession and he had been a a graduate of BYU law school he said this guy I don't know how much money he had had a lot of money he uh he had drove a a rollsroyce Cornish that he had specifically made for him in England his wife drove a rollsroyce carnish carnish they at the time were retailing for a million dollars in p and yet where he gave his first million dollars that he earned as an attorney was to the BYU L that had been where he had gotten because he felt that made such an impact on his life not just in his ability to make money but it's also his ability to
012understand The Human Condition and to really connect with Humanity at a level that allowed him to be a better lawyer just I just wanted to tell you about him as c as as a gift that he gave me at a GI conference Richard was such a committed guy to the education of you that he called me one day and asked if he could go to springfi with me to address the Mary Walker high school student and on his own di he FW up and spoke in and we we went out and spent the day after school and he I I got a chance to get up and talk uh before he got to the school and I told the kids while they were in the stands of the conversation and said whatever do you think
013this is this is more than that and Richard got up and told him told the story that had to do with the the salvation of a mother and daughter who had escaped the Iron Curtain country with East Germany and had literally crawling on their bellies across no man's land to Safety in westro and how he had been present at the courthouse at the request of the judge to talk at the induction of them and other people as US citizens and he when he got done with his story we had kids walk in the Halls crying for the next few years it was just so impactful and so I just wanted to tell you about that because that became the the focus of my life in relationship to through the use of money and the use
014of of uh my value of education and U I worked out at Murray Walker doing a community service literally became an international service with 12 kids to Ecuador for a two we Mission down there but where my heart is is in in supporting the school and I are work on something right now for jaty elementary that would literally create a new U library for that for that school not to replace the facility but to replace the content and we're we're working to get rotary the rotary Foundation to donate uh to that that program and the GE Park rotary donate half the money and then half the money would be coming from the international that's that's what the focus of my life has been I left that that group because I was District Governor for rotary
015at the time I didn't have time to give to it when I got done with being District Governor the first phone call I got was from pen Russell and asking me to replace somebody on the school board it was a God send because it kept me connected with what has been my priority and put me in touch with people like your to give me the opportunity me to serve give whatever way possible to bring our kids into a better world and more equipped with the education like pH a motion to discussion favor say I approval of the minutes from our previous meeting on February 26 2025 which is a regular meeting approval of consent agenda need a motion discuss all in favor say I iOS car superintendent report okay well in light of Bob's subtle
016comment and also the fact that I have a roof canal in the morning so my mouth is fing right now I will be short and sweet but I'm glad you brought up engagement I had no idea you were going to bring that up pH because my topic is around Collective leadership and Community engagement so it really gets at what you're talking about with student engagement so you U one thing I don't know if the crowd knows this but we did a training recently with our board and our principal our leadership team which is made up of myself the principal the directors and I I thought it was really good because it was all of us sitting around the same table learning the same Concepts and Collective leadership is obviously like shared leadership it's about it's
017about um empowering other people to come together towards the vision and mission of the organization and it's also about engaging people um not being a top down organization but listening and activating other people's thinking and problem solving to move forward and we felt like it was a critical jump we're at as a district we want to take it to the next level you got to really build that Collective leadership and that level of Engagement so the same thing you're trying to do with your students where they're owning their own engagement and then they're policing each other it is what and the leaders expect that and model that that's kind of what we're trying to do around Community engagement so the I have a list here that I'm really excited about so just in our leadership
018team meeting today we brainstorm uh what what are ways that we can build relationships with our community you know our mission is to educate our students and better our community you don't really find a mission statement like that in most school districts but because we're an unincorporated rural area we don't have a town we we uh like to have the responsibility of H of the community we have an extra opportunity to set the tone and do what we can to serve the greater good of the community and so um just like we set goals around student learning and we focus on their achievement we really have talked about how can we now you know plan and be intentional about helping our community to the best of our ability and that takes spread out shared leadership
019needs to be modeled at the top of the organization with the board and the superintendent and the principles and the directors there also needs to come from the bottom up it needs to come from from parents it need to come from teachers it needs to come from support staff community members that type of thing and um so we just brainstormed a list of you know what are the you know we're already doing a lot I think that we Riverside's history you go all the way back has really been well known for building Community having a strong sense of community and we're just trying to honor those before us by continuing to build on that and again taking it to the next level of Excellence so just I I want to share this list with you
020and I can give I didn't make enough copies for everybody but take a look at I'm not going to go through every uh of the 40 you know actionable items that we brainstorm today but um Let me let me highlight a couple one is ramp so we like we have a couple people in the crowd today that are going to join us next Monday to do some rampfest planning so we have a small planning team Caitlyn carries a load on it but how do we get parents and other community members who are planning on being part of that event come together and kind of work together where it's the school district and the community so it sounds simple but it can be very powerful um I had a great talk with Bill neckles who's our
021who's our fire chief for District 4 and he called me up and said hey Ken I would I want to ask if you'd be the keynote at our April 11 Fire District 4 appreciation basis and the reason that I called you is that I like the school district's emphasis on community and on team and that's really what we're trying to do as the fire district how can we work together and so we're doing that kind of work um we have our parent teacher conferences coming up next week and what we need to do folks is we need to talk about teaching and learning but we also need to gauge their input on facilities so remember how when we did the the thought exchange with the the staff some of the very things that we've been
022talking about for many months and many years is that tension point between the facilities needs and the money the property values the taxes the um impact on on on our community members our taxpayers and so we I think our responsibility is just engage in that conflict that tension we can't rely we can't I think the feedback being in an echo chamber where we're only talking about it and not giving a sense of really what's going on and at the same time we can't rely just on a small group of people so can we engage the families at the parent teacher conference to at least say you know what what are your thoughts on this help us problem solve where we go here again that that engagement that we're talking about that you're talking about with
023your students uh the Day of Service you know the Day of Service that we come have coming up on the April 22nd all of our high school students are engaged in the Day of Service we're going to be planting trees for elfire victims we're going to be doing food packs for North County Food Pantry in the greenhouse we're going to be beautifying our forest as part of that uh DNR cleanup so we're trying to be intentional about that but how do we like we have we have some Faith leaders who are coming in and they're helping us with that day because I don't know about you but you read the news man it's like fi leaders in public schools those don't miss and it's like well they can we could be different we could be
024why not why not us you know so we're partnering with them on that Ryan this is way down the road at the end of the year but I we really think it's time for us to come together as a community around Athletics and we need to talk about okay where where what is our vision about Athletics and it's just one piece of the students experience but what's going well what do we need to improve on because you if you had to pick just like academics you had to pick an area where parents and staff need to talk and be on the same page uh and it's that area so we haven't really done that as a planning mechanism um you know really starting to engage students so one of the feedback around the bond from
025February 2024 is that we just need to engage more people listen more talk more and and not make a decision until there's a really good process because it's a very difficult decision and so we had a uh we had a recent meeting with a student Advisory Group from the high school around facilities did a thought exchange with the high school student body this just yesterday with ISP and Riverside High School and it's and a lot of times in my experience students don't students don't have as much Point as adults do and they can give you some pretty good insights on on these areas um we've got the business the business community of how do we build relationship with them and also continue to listen to their perspective because at least my theory is uh a
026thriving school district is going to help with a thriving community and so business owners have a stake in the game too because they want to have a good business that provides good Services they building relationships with them um you know another simp seems like a simple example but we haven't really engaged that new neighborhood by chat so when those 40 homes were built they were $300,000 we thought there were going to be a lot of families that moved into there the cost of those properties went way up and so we don't have as many families in there as we as we originally projected and so how do you still build relationships that you can you know at least know each other because you're right next door to each other right and so just how about
027an oldfashioned block party you know where you just get together and provide a barbecue and get to know people but the key is all the principles have their own little project that spreading out the leadership and and then parents are doing the same thing again the big picture is building a sense of overall but if we can also engage people to help us problem solve around the facilities issue that would be that would be great um you know we we starting a a link to a school messenger uh for residents people who don't have kids in the schools which is a challenge in every school district how to communicate how to build trust how build relationship so there's a way to sign up for for those people who want it some of them might be
028like I got plenty of that when I had my kids in school I paid my dues I don't want to hear what's going on anymore but at least offer that up um the and you can kind of see and I'll again not go through this entire list but we have our faith leader meeting we used to meet with faith leaders three times a year before Co and we kind of dropped it since then we need to rekindle that relationship with Faith leaders and then Civic groups and I have a really cool one where we're gonna have an in-house writer for the dear Park Tribune uh so they're looking for a student who through journalism and and a CTE course can actually be an in-house writer to write about Riverside and also learn those skills that's
029where your partun um you know I'd really love for us to think about a forward together team like what if we brought a group of community members together that that look at the goal of community and it was more of a vision team how what might we do to I mean we got to stay in our Lane right I mean we we only have so much influence but again because we're in such a unique environment might it be a good thing to bring in a team of influential community members and talk about tough stuff but also set goals and dream about how we might partner move forward um so it that that's the list and I think uh again just in summary um the the keep doubling down on this on the sense of community
030and and I don't I don't think if we don't tell our story and if we don't intentionally try to be Invitational about people I don't I think it'll get done in some ways but it may not get done as widely as as I think it could be so that that's one thing last thing is around facilities little highlight more I invite anybody who's here to come to the facilities advisory committee on May first that's the next one and the last meeting we had about four students and that was really really good and I invite debate and discussion because it's not an easy it's not an easy topic I think the detention point that I brought up before that I'll reinforce is that you've got facilities need and then you've got the the money associated with
031that and how do you how do you discuss that problem solve that remedy that discuss that come up with a collective plan and vision and uh and the only way is getting people done and trying to figure out the different the different perspective for different so we have to continue you as a board all of us continue to find ways to do that um so I I'll take questions or I'll take questions from the the community group as well yes 5:30 it's at the board yeah any questions I'll take questions from so they may be talking about a lion church that the church yeah so we have a facilities request process and then this this Allon Church which is a branch off of One Church which is in the mount span area came to us
032approaching us about renting our facility for their Sunday service and so that's what they made they rent our facility the I think so they yeah it's not it's not there's no law against it of them renting your facil I mean I've seen it there some other districts do it I don't know if we've done any other questions or comments thank you and I appreciate the work you're doing I especially fac principle in terms of development communication okay we're going to move into our business section A USA State leadership conference March 2025 through March 29th 2025 this this is much like you know in athletics you have state competition but in academic also have compe qualif based prod okay any questions all in favor say I spok teachers cred sponsorship agreement board I explain a little
033I mean it's all in your packet you read through it all but I want to make sure everybody understands so in the greater Spokan League which is 2A 3A 4A uh STCU span Teachers Credit Union offered a deal for those schools in skan County for the a video and so they they wanted to roll that out with the bigger schools first and then they offered it up to those of us who were wanting schools in the only in the county and so uh the deal is uh they they will uh provide a video board in your gym it's a scoreboard with a video feature it has an actual ability for a uh class students to run the content that's on the video it could be um pictures it could be highlights of reports it could
034be announcements that type of thing and so they pay for the video board and they pay for the installation of the video board so what they get out of it is they get their name on the bottom of the video board just like they do on the scoreboard that we have right now now my my experience with this board has been that you've been open to within reason marketing but it's usually something like an spcu which was here before and has been a long partner and it's kind of associated with education it gets tricky if you had advertising around something that might be controversial so anyways I I'm presenting it as a draft we don't have to decide tonight but I want to put it in front of everybody to see if um I think
035it's a good deal because it's no cost to the district and we did a we get an opportunity for kids to learn some skills around it it's also good for the upgrade of the gym or the video board and U the the big as though is 10 years STCU there's some language that is in that agreement uh that allowed you know us there was a major issue going out historically haven't seen a lot major controversial issues with but that's that's what we're talking about is 9 Mile for example is going to do it we would be jumping on bo bo you can add some advertising for other local companies if you wanted to work with your buiness community put some advertising they want support the boosters might want to be part of that that's that's
036I also did send I sorry I asked for an actual picture of it a mockup and it came a little late so it came after the board packet went out but I did email you the picture mock up of it so they work with B I don't know what what are your initial thoughts reading yeah it's like the one we saw at at the State basketball I checked in with all the other schools that have done it and they said it's a really really good thing it's a good partnership um it's something that they had to add later expense have to take ondc addition any questions or concerns about it that I have to follow up on before that only there's nothing in that contract we' havea come in for battle of the horns any
037other I think uh the we're thinking the well the money that they the money just goes to the scoreboard and to the uh installation that's what they did so the now if we did advertising we decided to say hey we want to put the ram we want to go talk to St see if he wants to put the ram up there I would imagine we haven't worked with details out but I would imagine either ASB would want the students would want to look at that have to make a decision whether it's a fundraiser boosters might want to take a look at that I would say that's not F I don't know any other C facili planning proposal so just again we in the past we've had Mac architects involved and uh through a lot of
038discussion and experience Turner and with our middle school project