001off let's please stand if you are able and i will lead us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states next up i will introduce our board of directors and i'm going to start with madeline and madeline if we can do a sound check too just to make sure um we can hear you madeline um sorry i lost my spot uh madeline de maintenan is joining us via zoom and madeline if you can just hear us yay we can hear you and you can hear us yes yep thank you all right wonderful we also have jonathan henderson mike rowley uh and i am jason white uh tasha woods is being a mom tonight she is not gonna miss that concert for her child so good for her she joined us for
002the um study session but she may be back depending if we're still going after the concert so good for tasha um we are also joined by ginger haber superintendent we also have kelly cronbauer our executive director of student services we also have kim snyder the executive director of finance and operations and also chloe matson is here one of our student representatives so that is all of our introductions so board i think we will jump right into our consent agenda um we had the opportunity to review these items individually and as a board during our study session to seek clarification from the district admin prior to the meeting so with that i will entertain a motion i knew that we approve the consent agenda i second all right jonathan moves that we approve the consent agenda
003mike seconds any discussion [Music] then i because sorry madeline we're going to do a roll call vote because it's going to be difficult to tell if you're voting or not so i'm going to do a roll call vote so i'll start with jonathan mike hi madeline hi i also vote i consent agenda is approved all right so moving on to administration first off we have ginger the superintendent update awesome so bart we have a special treat uh tonight a couple of important celebrations first we have jason ing is here with us tonight jason if you want to come up to the podium we have fifth grade camp is in full swing this year we're just so thankful for that opportunity and jason has just been instrumental in organizing it and supporting all of our elementaries
004in putting fifth grade camp in place i said jason come talk to us about fifth grade camp and the things you want to celebrate about that board thank you for having me this evening so this year we were back to a regular fifth grade camp program our overnight um our three day two-night program last year we just had a day camp because of cobait and the year before that that got cancelled so um just a quick uh history of camp for you i believe we started back in 1968 that was at the lake wenatchee ymca camp um for 13 years there and then i moved to camp welch above white pass above rimrock lake for a year and then it was at tall timber which is about 15 minutes past lake wenatchee so it was
005there for about 26 years um then camp got cut out of the budget and the board at the time would not allow us to fundraise um so we we were eventually allowed to fundraise and so we fundraised for about six years and then mike nolan at the time or his work at a district office got it back on the budget and we've had camp back on the budget since then the cost of camp has kind of gone up over the years but our budget for camp hasn't gone up so we've kind of been over budget the last i don't know six seven years this year we were fortunate enough to get this uh outdoor schools grant which is being funded or or managed by the washington schools principals education foundation and so we're fortunate to
006get that grant this year to help us with our program and that pays for our students and our counselors their room board at camp it pays for programs such as climbing tower archery and zipline and they also pay for transportation so um that was really great for us it's a lot of stress not to have to figure out what we have to cut out of our budget so we can make it happen um and then we went ahead and applied and four funds for next year for all four schools too so hopefully that comes through there's no guarantee but hopefully that comes through um valley view is actually at camp right now lincoln went last week and then we were the first one to go this year we love going out to lazy f they've
007got the a great facility they're great hosts we had cw come out and teach a science class with our students out at the pond we had deb estman who is part of the uh kintas field and stream clubs so she comes out and teaches the class about uh animal tracks and animal pelt and identifying all that um we've other cw classes before come out and teach different science things um and that's in addition to our fly fishing our climbing tower zip line archery classes as well um it's um you kind of have to be there i can't to kind of understand how it affects the kids um we have or some students that don't adapt very well to our structured classrooms and when we take them out they camp that that unstructured outside kind of
008hands-on learning in the environment it changes them in a positive way and we and we see that when we come back to school we have less behavior issues they're more engaged there's more buy-in from them so it's really you know we we see it as a fun experience for the kids but we also see that positive impact that they have on themselves and the rest of their classmates at school too so any questions i have to assume everybody was excited to be getting to do that again yes how many days do they go for we go three days and two nights originally started out as five days four nights and then it got cut down to four days three nights and then i think we've kind of settled on three days and two nights just
009because we use college students and as our counselors and they can't always take four days off of classes so yeah well thank you jason i know that uh you are here to get to the baseball game with your kids and uh but just thank you for taking the time and thank you for um helping to keep this program going just full support of outdoor ed you know i've talked about that before and we're going to always look at ways that we can uh fund that for our students so thank you thank you for sharing appreciate it thank you now i'd like to invite siaronika up she is just really doing amazing programming with our students and oh look at that [Laughter] and just really want to thank her for what she's doing with them right
010now around really passing along and demonstrating appreciation for our native american culture um [Music] um i am the teacher at the uh after school program right now of each and language and indigenous culture um what i brought up front for you to see is some of the work that our students have done um we've had a couple of sessions so as you can see here we have some pictures of our students doing bead working and the stitch that they have learned our teacher that brought came in is brick stitch and they have been working on different styles of earrings some of them have made one pair some of them have made two or three pairs some of them have progressed into oh sorry designing their own pair sorry i'm not good at holding my hand
011still so i'm trying to keep them there um anyway so they are designing some of their own but they are becoming really good and you can see the smiles on the faces as they have achieved that because it is a skill that is definitely something cool um the next thing that we've done we have done if you can switch that slide we have done um a weeding session we brought in uh master weaver and um she brought in her mother which is awesome to have elders in our class and she helped us some of the weaving the the twining that is done there um is the baskets that they're working on and that is a traditional uh weeding technique and uh wapanayat or bessie she said um her mother does her finishing work so her
012mother came to help our kids do finishing work so we greatly appreciated that and part of our tradition and culture is when we make we gift and we pay forward and so in this far picture david one of our students he finished his his whoopus and he did some finishing work but david also made an extra pair of earrings for our program and he gifted them to lucinda as a pay forward as she wasn't necessarily somebody that we planned on being there so it was to honor her with something that he had done and so that was a really cool moment for our kids to see their work paying forward into that and being part of that cultural exchange so that was a really neat thing and then the next thing that we're doing if
013you can go ahead and switch um we originally started our sessions as a unit session for things but as we found out this is our first time doing it sometimes things take a little longer not everybody works at the same pace and we don't always get our projects done in our allotted time so i have kept open our tuesday afternoons as a drop-in and our students we have elementary school students through high school students we have middle school students we have parents we have community members we have teachers it has become a safe space for our students to come and work on projects to learn language use language david is a quinault speaker we have villa who is a cherokee speaker we have mercy and grace who do choctaw and so it's a safe space
014where they can bring in what they know bring in their culture we have different tribes and we're learning lots of different techniques we can see the weeding here we've got some dream catchers going on and so i just wanted to share that it is an amazing thing and we are so grateful to have our grant and to be able to get this program up and going and watching it grow and blossom and how it has helped our kids feel connected to that culture and to that um ability to be together and recognize that so it's a really really awesome thing not all of our kids are native we have had some students that have been brought in as friends and hey let me show you this or hey i want to do that so it's
015been a really fun thing um so we will continue to do sessions keep your eyes open we'll get those posted on websites and things like that but thank you for letting us have that oh glove do you guys have any questions first yeah see ya thank you so much [Applause] this is such a wonderful experience for our students here so thank you so much we're just so thankful to have you in your talent all right so i'm going to go ahead and share my screen here for a minute there it is [Music] so again um just want to say a thank you uh to our voters for supporting our levy we it was really great to have especially like music and theater and back into full swing with clue and legally blonde and our choir
016and our band it's just been great just to have that feeling of of being back in full swing and just appreciate our fine arts teachers on everything that they do for students to really engage them so just some highlights of uh things that i've been doing the last couple of weeks trying to move this out of the way um we i attended the community input session on may 16th regarding the adoption of the curriculum and thank you to jen she's here tonight and along with teachers that were on that committee to share about that adoption process we had uh suffer several families that showed up and parents and they're asking really good questions and just really thank the people on the committee uh teachers uh that were there just were very um eloquent and very
017uh knowledgeable about the curriculum and i think really helped parents to understand uh why we chose the ones that we did to bring for adoption so i just thought overall it was a real successful night i meet monthly with our eea presidents as you know we are looking at a joint statement with the city and cwu regarding no tolerance for bullying intimidation discrimination and i did talk to linda shackler today i'm kind of working with her and with heidi to see how we can maybe have a dialogue around that as we develop that statement uh we do have a celebration and i sent this out to all staff uh rhonda schmidt will be our new esd alternative learning programming she'll be our new principal she is at twin rivers school and parent partnership in snoqualmie
018valley school district and she's excited to be here i facilitated the last superintendent at wasa meeting with esd 105 superintendents as their president for the 21-22 school year and one of the things that was really important to me is we had a through line of equity the first hour of each one of those meetings and it was really a great time to pull superintendents together and and to talk about uh what we were doing around equity and what we wanted to um set some goals together and how we could support each other with that did spend time in preparations and planning as you know we're in negotiations with our teachers union right now eea and we had our first student-centered learning committee we focused on alternative learning jared bronkema did a nice job reviewing what
019alternative learning programming is about kind of where we're at and really highlighting the importance for personalized learning and project based learning and wanting to do more of that with our students as we move forward and then jason you and i met with the ehs students friday afternoon and gained some really valuable insights we had a real diverse group of students that we met with and found that really valuable and i think we want to try to find a way to have an ongoing way of of meeting with students especially into next year i did do an end of the year presentation to our chamber of commerce executive board this week participate along with principles our ongoing solution tree training around professional learning communities and i do want to do a shout out to lee bates
020when i first got here he invited me to the valley voices community choir to be uh in a concert for habitat for humanity it was a fundraiser and i wasn't sure if i wanted to do it but he just really encouraged me to so i i did it and um when the pandemic hit we had to stop and um jan jaffe reached out to me encouraged me to be a part of it and so i joined it again and last night was our first uh session together but i would have never known about it or even thought about joining it without lee inviting me to do that so i just appreciate him and all of the work that he put into that getting it started we on june 8th we have an open house for
021all elementary parents as we shift to four schools it really gives all of the parents an opportunity to visit the new schools and kind of see if especially if they're going to school that they're not currently in gives them a chance to meet the principal to meet the staff members and so we're excited about that it's during our board meeting about between five and six uh if our study session is shorter we could walk around here and give us a good chance to meet some parents that are coming here to ida and then june 1st we have our excellence in ellensburg awards we have many many staff members parents community members teams that we're going to be celebrating at 6 30 and morgan middle school's performing arts and would love to have all of our
022board members there um june 9th of course is graduation uh out on andreatti field uh it says 8 pm if you guys are able to get there like around 6 57 we have programs and it'd be great if board members want to help hand out the programs we did that last year it's just a great way to meet families as they come in and then june 10th the students from excel they are still walking in graduation but we are really have a huge celebration i think this is one of our largest graduating classes and wanted to have a special celebration just for them so they are going to have a nice celebration on the 10th and that's the end of my presentation thanks gingerboard any questions for ginger all right so next on business we
023have the oac update and bond projects oh i skipped whoa i oh wait thank you leslie i my eyes crossed wha i'm sorry about that statement okay cte updates and celebrations sorry and shannon panettone thank you for being here um just really appreciate you i know that you put a lot of work in the cte every year and so your teachers and we have a lot going a lot to celebrate with cte thank you yes and uh good evening we do have lots to celebrate nct uh especially this year that didn't work here we go and you know it was great this year we got to expand and add some classes as well as some staff members can i do something some added staff members to our cte staff and so it's been a great
024year and i've decided to highlight tonight to try and keep it short for everyone i wanted to highlight three areas that we cover in cte and that's dual credit industry recognized credentials and then of course our ctsos and our clubs that we have within cte so i'll start with dual credit and we have dual credit that is from three different community colleges and the first one is yakima valley college and under agriculture we have our agriculture agricultural biology that receives um five credits in their intro to plant sciences and we have 31 students out of those classes earn the dual credit in our new egg capstone class we have articulated with ybc for technical writing five credits and we have 11 students that have earned the dual credit in our egg science we have an
025intro to egg and fundamentals of electrical uh one lab so a total of seven credits and we have 53 students earn those credits and last on this yakima valley for agriculture animal science in the intro to animal science five credits we had 17 students we also have been talking a lot with computer science especially and with the family consumer science programs we're looking at expanding and looking at articulating a couple more courses to our classes especially our child development with some intro to early childhood education health safety and nutrition and also with computer science looking at adding their cs 141 which is computer science one java that's awesome with wenatchee valley college we have a couple more classes in our department and so for natural resources um they have earned nine excuse me three credits
026um wit and nine students have earned that for natural resource management and for our medals in a basic welding three credit class they we have about 40 students in welding that have earned that tool that's awesome with spokane falls this is a new one for us this year um and so we need to work a little bit more on advertising it a little bit more and off and and so forth and under the skilled and technical if student completes both photography one and photography two they have a opportunity earned five credits in the digital photography and currently for this year we had two students that had earned that that dual credit for our industry recognized credentials this is where uh these certificates validate students knowledge and skills we have an agriculture um the amsa and
027i know you're going to ask me what that stands for and i'm going to do my best here i believe it's the american meat science association um and we had four students earn that certificate and uh the second one here the nhjtca thank you um manage an evaluation we have one student earned that one as well um under business and marketing and education we um offer students the opportunity in our career choices classes to earn an industry certified certificate under 21st century skills and currently we have 53 students who have earned that but we are ending second semester and so we will have more students who have earned that here um in the next couple weeks computer science um i have to move this because this is what's bugging me here uh we have ap
028computer science principals who we had 19 students earn a certificate in mta introduction to programming using python and for csa they have earned the mta an introduction to programming for java and that was eight students who have earned that one under cyber security the security fundamentals we had eight students earn recognition there and then for video game design under unity certified a certified user the programmer we had one student as well as one student for software development fundamentals and of course family consumer science in our child development we have first aid cpr that has been earned of 15 students who have done that and in our foods and nutrition with the washington state food handlers permit we had a total of 92 students earn their food handlers permits we are looking at uh certificates for
029next year we have a a training available in the fall for our family consumer science teachers to attend and get certified in servsafe which is a new certification and so they are hoping to be able to offer that to students starting second semester next year and then of course i don't want to leave morgan middle school out because they're doing a fabulous job as well and joelle bose is doing a great job with micro microsoft office certification so we have 20 kids that have earned their word certification five in excel and 20 in powerpoint and then she also wanted me to note that in python she does have some kids that will have the opportunity to test this semester and so that number of students will be determined here shortly [Music] switching over to our
030career and technical student organizations we have about four of these organizations currently deca they had area results here in deca deca area 10 is their regional conference which then qualifies them to go on to state and so we had um several a few people placed here and three students that qualified for state unfortunately with the restrictions at that time when state was state conference was going to be held in king county and the coveted restrictions our students were not able to go on to state this year but they're we're rooting for them to go on next year fbla uh state leadership conference results we had many people place in various events here and first through fourth place first through fourth place automatically can move on to nationals which is in chicago illinois this year and
031those students will be hopefully moving on and get permission to travel and participate in those national conference and i could tell you that the ones that are placed in nationals right now is the introduction to event planning so we have max steele and avery memroy and then sports and management entertainment management and that's going to be avery nimrow and briar wilson ffa state convention results they're going to still continue to come in as the advisors will be traveling next week to finish their state convention but we do have a first place horse evaluation team and then you can see that individuals have been placed according to what i've been told today they have a team evaluation so they're placed by the team for first place and then they do individual placing of students first through
032tenth and so you can see that they're doing an excellent job there we have some students that have earned their ffa degree um and american ffa degree and some others there as well and like i said there's more to come but we do know at this point with what has been done that we have a horse evaluation team that is guaranteed nationals which takes place in october tsa or technology students association their state conference results are listed here and they are on to nationals in dallas texas june 26 through the 30th there are four students 16 total students that participated at state and four students that are moving on to nationals and in addition tsa is offering coding camps this summer and so i promised mrs price that i would plug that in if students
033are interested in registering and i just want to add we do have a construction club at the high school and one at morgan and i won't read all of this to you but mr wilson at the high school was able to take um four students three students to hear to a construction competition in wapato at wapito high school back in april and they had two components that they were uh scored in which was math skills and one was because and the other was construction skills and they um they placed first and finished their construction skills two hours before the next team was finished so kudos to them and a job well done and then of course at morgan we have um the woodworking club this year has been mostly a continuation of topics that they've
034learned in class um and and then and then more um and so they're they're excited about learning and growing and learning the skills um they're taking projects further and um are looking forward to new skills they're also working on cnc uh router trying to get that up and going and they they did and were successfully made some name badges and they plan to learn to use it and carve not just name badges but signs and signs but also 3d sculptural and functional objects as well and that's what i have so far and but there are a lot more celebrations that we could talk about but i know time is limited so i will entertain any questions if there are any no thank you so much shannon no it looks like we have no questions excellent
035love love seeing it all it's great thank you very much thank you shannon okay make sure i'm on the right line this time we will now move to business uh and first up in business is adoption of the new curriculum and that's quite a bit so take it away jen all right thank you and i am getting a notification that my internet connection is unstable so leslie at some point i might have to have you take over the yeah hopefully it stays but um so thank you for having me here tonight to talk about um our proposed curriculum for adoption this year and i kind of want to apologize in advance there are a number of different items that we're proposing for adoption tonight and so it is going to take a bit of time
036to get through each one of these but this is the culmination of a year's worth of work around these different content areas and we have teachers as ginger mentioned earlier here tonight to help us propose these and and provide information on these so i want to honor all that hard work and give you guys the information that you need to be able to vote on approving these or not um so these are the different content areas k5 music k2 phonics k5 health and fitness k8 social emotional learning and 4 12 health which really includes 4-5 maturation and 6-12 health and i want to start by thanking everyone who is involved in this process because it was a lengthy process of identifying materials looking at what our needs are looking at resources looking at all of
037the proposals that come in piloting them in classrooms attending meetings to talk about it so we do have some people here tonight like i said that we'll help present um we've got shanna simuson and um actually carol aldridge now is also here in person for music and i don't know if she and janna's going to be able to stay because she's like tasha has to go do some mom things tonight um but we also have levi botton here and um and rachel crosby and online on zoom we have peggy kelleher and levi teasley to help look at these different areas um but in addition to that we had a number of people that i just want to make sure i thank for being part of this process so um all the time they spent looking
038at these materials and making decisions and having conversations particularly around um looking at our comprehensive sexual um health ed and so i'd like to thank julie hamilton bo snow uh aaron chatterton mallory benfield cynthia hilburn scott robertson tom wilson jason ing sid peterson carrie armstrong kevin dorsevick dell high stand michelle michelle bibich shannon selzler and rob moffitt all of them played a part in helping us just make decisions around these curricula and so thank you to them as ginger mentioned we did have a community input session that was a first in our adoption process and i came earlier to talk to you guys just to give you a heads up about that and kind of give you a reason why but really knowing that this year we are going to be looking at renewing our
039comprehensive sex ed materials and that that is an area that's going to have heightened entrance interest and concern from the community and from parents i thought it was really important that we'd be able to have a community input session before you guys are making a decision on it before our instructional materials committee makes a decision on it but we looked at all of the content areas and moving forward as part of our adoption process we'll include that in the process because i think it's really important um to be able to have that opportunity to provide the information in a more back and forth dialogue setting where they can ask questions etc um before we're here at the board meeting asking for approval um so we do it we did get input everything that was provided
040in that session was electronically recorded you guys have access to that it's on the board docs and i'll probably address some of them as we go along in the presentation so without further ado we are going to start with our proposal for k5 music which is game plan hello i'm shanna simonson i teach elementary music at mount stewart and in looking at curriculums for k5 music we came upon game plan and love the curriculum as it aligns with washington state k5 and the national association for music education pre-k through 8 national standards for music education which the overarching standards are create perform respond and connect we love that it's an interactive curriculum for students students sing play instruments plays music games do movement do listening activities they're learning music theory even as young as kindergarten
041first grade rhythms notes note names of the treble clef for a few examples and we love on how the curriculum builds on music skills from year to year so those are our general thoughts about the curriculum and what we really uh love about it so um the materials are behind you on the steps if you're interested in looking at them um didn't know if you have any questions okay thank you all right thank you and then i'm not sure how you guys want to run this because there's all these different curricula would you like to vote at the end or vote after each one it's a great question so so board something for us to consider right is that there are multiple curriculi uh that we are uh considering so if there are any concerns
042board you can you know we will this is an action item so when that if if there's any concerns with any of the particular curriculum we can vote on all of them once on one boat if we're good with it but also if there are concerns we could separate them out so that is something that the board can decide to do when we get to the action items but i think for now i think uh unless the board tells me otherwise i'd say keep moving forward jen with all of them and then when we open it up for board discussion the board can then decide how they'd like to move forward okay does that work yes okay absolutely thanks thank you shanna um another thing i'd like to say about music is in particular is
043that it's exciting to be having a consistent curriculum across all four schools for next year that'll be a first and so i'm excited for that reason too to be proposing um a curriculum for adoption for k5 music and i've included costs for each of these and so this is the k5 music cost numbers are approximate because we're still trying to nail down exactly which items from for which teachers and which buildings and all of those pieces but they're going to be pretty close numbers um so this would be the k5 music cost and next up we have k2 phonics which we are proposing that we adopt the imsc scope and sequence and strategies for our phonics instruction k2 and i will give a little bit of background information here but peggy kelleher i believe is
044still maybe online and she's gonna need to be unmuted so she can um do her part as well but a little bit of background for why we are proposing k2 phonics when we not just a few years ago adopted a reading curriculum k5 that we love very much and that is bonus and panel classroom spc fonts and panel classroom fpc has seven different contexts so it has interactive read aloud shared reading guided reading book clubs mini lessons [Music] i forgot what i'm forgetting about the phonics spelling and study word system and that particular portion of it we love all of it but that one context out of the seven is a little bit weak and we know that we needed something different for our students um and so we have actually known that for a
045couple of years and known that we need to layer in some better foundation foundational skill support and more direct foundation foundational skill support um and then also rcw that one that is the dyslexia law that says that um we now have to starting this year actually screen all students k2 annually for signs of dyslexia um and as part of that law they specifically say not only do we have to have multi-tiered systems of support in place that we can articulate what those are for our k2 students but we have to be using multi-sensory approaches to reading instruction and the that portion of the context of fpc didn't have a strong multi-sensory approach and so we knew that we needed something better there as well um as backgrounds we have in our p5 classrooms a balanced
046literacy approach and here's the little um sort of visual for that what that means is we designate and carve out time specifically for each one of these different contexts so that we make sure that we have those different scaffolds in place for students when when instructing and reading and of course at the primary grades under language that phonics instruction is super important it is critical and so that is one of our designated things it's also integrated into some of those other pieces but like i said we needed a stronger system for the designated part and peggy if did you find her she's still there yes i'm here can you hear me yes hi peggy hello hello thank you so much for this opportunity and just to give you a little idea of what the orton
047gillingham approach is um i'm going to start from the bottom up it is language based very phonetic it starts with very simple sound symbol relationships and progresses through to the more complex um concepts and the nice thing about the imse approach and strategy is that it uses the same routines throughout so a student in kindergarten learning those really simple routines also use build on that that same model and learn the more complex it's flexible and so those students that are catching on quickly can continue to do that but it also gives opportunity for students to review previously learned concepts in those same routines it's structured sequence sequential and cumulative again it has those you're building on concepts daily and then the last part in the probably the most unique part is that multi-sensory approach and
048that is where you incorporate different senses into more than two or more senses in the acquisition of a new uh skill so if we could turn the i don't know there we go and so the idea this this one um slide just indicates kind of how up at the right top right or excuse me top left is how um when you activate your visual uh sense you're activating a certain part of your brain and then when you activate an auditory part you're activating a completely different part of your brain and same thing with tactile smell and touch and so the idea behind this is that if the more we activate our brain the more the stronger our brain pathways are for us to be able to acquire information and then retain that information it also
049not just builds stronger pathways but it also can create new pathways and so um building a multi-sensory approach is specifically visual auditory and tactile senses tend to be very successful and then the next slide and so we kind of wonder what is what does multi-sensory really mean and it's using um engaging at least two or more senses when you teach a new skill such as auditory and visual together or auditory and tactile auditory and smell and by using these um strategies you're in great engaging all different areas of the brain in order to develop those strong memories another component to the orton gillingham approach is that these routines and these strategies are very deliberate and intentional for example they use senses and combinations that work well together and help students connect with language to words
050and they also use directionality so everything is from left to right so when you are reading we we read left to right so are those routines and then the next one and next slide please okay so these are just three slides to show you um what multi-sensory might look like so this is this is a student combining auditory and tactile the uh the teacher would be saying uh a sound and so the student would hear that sound auditorily and then have a tactile experience of writing that sound down in addition to that tactile experience the student is also verbally stating and repeating what the teacher is saying so she's stating the sound the c says and she's writing it at the same time building that motor memory next slide and then here's another picture of
051building muscle memory these are this is a picture of two students who are learning um a memory uh they're they are learning a a way to spell an irregular word and so they're combining verbal and gross motor and they're spelling words down the side of their arm several times and they use that routine in combination with another fine motor activity and it is meant to help them memorize certain spelling words that are not phonetic next slide and this is this last slide is a picture of one of my students who is combining visual with tactile so on his paper he has visual lines with symbols that help him remember what a blend looks like or what a blend is um and in any sound that he's writing goes on a sound line with his tapping
052hand his fingers that he's tapping he is taking each sound that he hears and slowly saying that sound and writing it at the same time so he's really putting that sound into his brain and writing it at the same time and so those are just examples of what the multi-sensory component looks like i've had the opportunity to use this these strategies in my classroom for the last two and a half years and it's phenomenal i've also had the opportunity to see kindergarten teachers and first grade teachers do not only go to the training but now they're implementing these strategies in the classroom and it not only is highly effective um because it's based on science and when implemented well it works really well but the students are also so engaged not every child learns the
053same so when you're accessing different different intelligences whether it's visual or auditory musical in with your learning then then students learn and retain that information much better thank you peggy and yes i should have probably also in that um thanks of everyone who was involved peggy and shannon souzler and julia hamilton have met multiple times with k2 teachers a team of k2 teachers over this year and they are very excited i think across the board to have this consistency in place and not have to feel like each classroom and teacher is pulling from different places to put something together and not knowing if it's the same scope and sequence as the classroom next to us um so yeah extremely exciting to be getting this piece in place for our for our k2 students and so
054k2 phonics cost the training is the largest cost of this and we've actually been working on training teachers over the last couple of years we started with our sped teachers saying hey they really need this in their classrooms peggy has gone through extensive training and um but we realized oh we need we need more trained we need to be making this part of our core instruction and part of our core um way that we teach our these foundational skills it is a five day training so it's a long training all day very intensive but teachers have walked away i think feeling like it was some of the most valuable pd they've ever had so the largest cost is in the training cost we've trained 39 teachers at this point in seven peras materials for all
055k2 teachers is going to run around ten thousand dollars and those are for things like that board that peggy showed that had the sand in it materials like that um to outfit classrooms with and then there is an annual license renewal cost of 80 per year per teacher and that's for the imse access to the imse digital information before we move on to any questions on that one in particular i don't have any questions but it's impressive that's exciting yeah yes and i appreciate all the hard work that's been going into this i remember when this one was first introduced to us a long time ago and i was fascinated by it i'm someone who was a slow reader and it took me a while and thank goodness there was phonics because that's how i
056started picking up and i was like all these strategies are just fascinating so kudos to all the hard workers and all those hard teachers that have pushed this forward i love what i'm seeing so thank you it's fascinating too the brain the learning about like what happens in the brain when kids learn to read and i do think that it is maybe shouldn't go without saying i want to emphasize that we are not swinging our pendulum with reading instruction that we're really keeping that balanced approach because i think when it swings too far one way or the other um with all the stuff out there then kids miss out on important components of reading so we need to beef up this part of it but we're not going to give up on all of the
057other important pieces of balanced literacy okay um so now we're moving on to k5 health and fitness and for this one we are recommending focused fitness and um levi teasley should be online all right can you hear me we can i levi okay hi i don't know if you can see me or not you need to be able to see me i i can turn my video on if if i'm able to whatever you prefer yeah i think the host you've got your yeah we've got your um slides up though okay perfect all right well first thing i just want to thank uh ginger haber and the board for the opportunity to just share a little bit about physical education and just the opportunity we have to adopt this curriculum i want to especially thank
058jen coons for just all her hard work in this process for leading us um and big thank yous out to rob moffat and dell high stand who were just huge parts in in the entire process in part of our committee and then my team of physical education teachers at each of the elementary schools jason ing tom wilson and scott robertson so i'm very passionate about pe e levi we lost you we just want to make sure in case you can hear us yeah i can hear you are you hearing me okay yeah we can hear you now you left off i'm very passionate about pe that's the last thing we heard and teaching elementary school and i've loved both and um i'm having a blast every day uh teaching our k-5 students at valley view
059so why physical education um again very passionate about it with with pe you see right here students can increase their level of physical activity i think this is always critical but but just thinking about what we came out of i am just loving seeing kids back in the gym back in their physical activity outside of school time at recess all these opportunities for kids to move and to move together we're looking at improved grades and test scores and helping kids stay on task in the classroom and as far as increasing pe time we're not looking at any decrease in students academic achievement so pe is critical go and head to the next slide [Music] you know pe i think sometimes gets a bad name not being you know kids aren't learning in there so we
060definitely hit all three domains of learning in physical education uh the cognitive effective and psychomotor so kids learning uh about not only how to move but why to why they're moving and that'll tie in definitely why we decided to go with focus fitness the why behind um moving and movement um again loving seeing kids together again and moving and learning together um so the effective side growth and feelings and attitudes and behaviors for healthy living kids learning to work together um team building is one of my favorite things to do in physical education and uh what an awesome place to do it and then we we definitely know in pe psychomotor kids learning skills for active living and practicing those skills and uh being being encouraged and motivated to continue to work on their skills
061outside the classroom and here's the big piece that we're here for tonight is it is a planned sequential uh standards-based curricula tied with great instruction next slide so i decided to put in here the essential components of pe and uh looking at policy and environment curriculum appropriate instruction and student assessment so as far as policy i just hit two key components for for policy requiring pe for all again i'm passionate about it i know how important it is for kids and and we want every student to have the opportunity to take physical education especially in our school district and then elementary students uh we want to continue to increase the number of minutes the recommended minutes is 150 um so that's something we want to keep building and growing the amount of minutes that that
062our kids are in physical education and i'm excited to see my kids more often next year as we break up into four schools and kids have the opportunity to come to pe more often and here's the curriculum piece curriculum um for grades k-12 should be sequential and comprehensive and that's our goal when i came into the ellensburg school district i was blessed to uh come in right at the end of a of a pep grant that our uh uh school district um was awarded and and put a lot of work into um and some of the amazing things that we have right now for physical education if for example you go into our high school and you see um the awesome rock wall that's in there that was part of the pep grant and there
063was a lot of collaboration between the the teachers the physical education teachers at the time um to uh to work together to align and develop curriculum and um there's been some time since since that happened and um i just thought what a great opportunity and again feel blessed for my after my first year to be in elementary to be going through this process again and re-looking at our curriculum and the opportunity to adopt a new one so our curriculum being based on national and state standards um and the grade level outcomes for pe uh and then we tie in instruction appropriate instructions so um evaluating kids learning constantly um a big one students be engaged in moderate to vigorous activity uh for at least 50 of the time hopefully more and again that ties back
064to a big reason why we uh selected focus fitness kids learning these cognitive concepts but doing so and continue to move and then of course make sure we are inclusive of all students of all abilities in uh in physical education and then again with assessment aligning our assessment with our national and state standards and making sure our grading is connected with our student learning objectives and our curriculum next slide so uh i wanted to put the standards in here these are the physical education standards and uh what i don't have in here and i like how it's worded um the shape washington which is our uh society for health and physical education um are overseeing organization for for pe uh they have a document that puts these standards into for for an elementary student what
065it means to them so standard one for student is they say i have the skills to move and play standard two i show that i know how to move and use a plan when i play games uh standard three i show that i know how to get fit and stay fit uh standard four i act fairly and respectfully when i play and then standard five i know why it is important to be physically active so this is uh this this is obviously a critical piece we wanted our curriculum to be aligned um with the standards uh and it is go to next slide uh this is a great road map when we talk about aligning our curriculum k12 a roadmap so at the elementary level kids are gaining those foundational skills knowledge and values um
066so this is what where focus fitness is is going to be at uh and then they get into middle school applying the skills high school lifetime activities uh skills and then beyond having a physically active lifestyle go ahead and next slide so now i'm getting to why focus fitness so i went back to those essential components of pe and highlighted curriculum and student assessment this is what we're gaining through this curriculum these two components and uh my first bullet here is the big gain for us is it's going to assist uh the elementary pe teachers in teaching the why behind keeping our bodies fit and healthy we looked at other curriculum during the process there were some good ones out there but we really felt like focus fitness was the best why behind it and
067helping us teach the why also an opportunity to unify us uh i said when i first come into the district we we kind of went through uh this curriculum uh development process but it's been a while and there's there's different teachers and in different positions now and it's a great opportunity to to unify now all four elementary pe uh teachers and and buildings and align our curriculum with the washington state standards it is a washington company so thinking ahead to training they're based out of spokane so some easier access to training i already mentioned the the pe standards and then an opportunity in the future even if it's uh moving forward an opportunity to expand uh to our middle and high school level um with uh with the program go ahead next slide so i'll
068just hit and highlight um these are these are highlights from focus fitness the the five for life curriculum that that we are proposing um and just things that we like we talk about the why so there's really fun activities that teach concepts like the five components of fitness human anatomy fitness planning that are all in nutrition which are all part of the standards fun activities as far as just teaching fundamental motor skills uh essential questions i really liked the essential vocabulary um so again getting each of us uh on the same page with vocabulary so these concepts are again they're unified at all the all the buildings and then we look at our formative assessments and summative assessments getting those all aligned between buildings and of course as i said before alignment with with our
069standards go ahead next slide so this is going to be hard for you guys to see i don't know how big um this is showing up on your screen but just an example of of one of the lesson plans i wanted to put up for grades four five um and actually this particular lesson um was came up in some of our meetings and discussions so this is risk factor four square for grades four and five um the objective is students will be able to name risk factors for heart disease so if you've played four square before or or seen it happen it may be out on a playground um think of a little bit larger side with more students i me personally would probably adapt some of the equipment that we would use for this
070activity but each of the the ball that that's being used is is representing a risk factor so the goal is you don't want all four to be in the same square um so that's part of the competition piece kids are working on volleying skills great hand-eye coordination excellent agility um and uh this activity would focus on standard three on the on the pe side and then when i look at the the health side um we're we're looking at the wellness standard and i plugged it in here um an opportunity for us um to discuss and learn about uh preventing debilitating or life-threatening diseases and even how heredity can affect our personal health when we're looking at risk factors so again an opportunity for uh for kids to learn the why but but do do so
071by uh by movement go ahead next slide so what's next for elementary physical education uh well the next step would be uh training in the curriculum and uh i i know in the training process they would help us with some of our alignment and making sure our essential outcomes and our alignment k5 through all four buildings and then really this this next year to teach to use it to reflect on each lesson and adapt to make sure it's meeting the needs of all of our students i appreciate you guys listening are there any questions levi i just wanted to shout out to you i know last time i was at valley view rob and i had a chance to go to your class and you handed us the drumsticks and we were in there on
072those bouncy balls right along with the students and with you and just saw just the joy of physical activity students were having fun we were having fun you were having fun and and just really seeing the benefit of that physical activity so uh thank you for inviting us to join you thank you for coming anytime board any other questions for levi all right thank you levi thank you levi um yeah and i want to build off some of what he said too um when he's talking about essential outcomes and alignment k5 one of the challenges which we'll look at in a little bit when we look at health materials but one of the challenges when thinking about how do we cover our health standards is there's so many pieces that fall under the health umbrella
073when we look at those standards that making sure we identify who's responsible for teaching which portions of health and so we had that conversation with our k5 health and fitness teachers um to see well if we were to incorporate some of those health standards like he referenced the wellness one with that activity um what would that look like and so that's one of the really important pieces of this particular curriculum is it integrates it in a way that doesn't minimize movement because that was really important to our health and fitness teachers that we don't pause movement for kids to talk about health standards so they're doing both of it kind of at once it does a beautiful job of integrating them um and yes i just also thank you levi for coming and talking about
074pe i'd also like to point out that getting back on an adoption cycle where we are looking at certain content areas every year and analyzing what are our needs how do we need to fill them is important for many reasons as i've expressed to you guys but i also think it's important to be on a regular schedule of hearing these different content areas that you may not otherwise have a frequent opportunity to hear about um like pe so thank you levi for sharing all of that um princess so the cost of the focus fitness the curriculum which would include curriculum the digital platform which includes a lot of different pieces online rubrics assessments data warehouse resources um and then an update to their equipment would be about 51 000. okay so now we come to
075our pieces of health adoption which we kind of just touched on with focus fitness a little bit um but i want to reiterate why this particular uh content area was challenging um it's also why you see and this presentation is taking so long again my apologies but there's so much that falls under the umbrella of health so when we have an adoption year this this year it was music and pe and health there's a lot that comes under health and then we had phonics in there as well because it was much too critical to wait um but when we look at health when we talk about health standards we're talking about the sel standards the social emotional learning standards we're talking about health standards and there's actually a lot of overlap between the two of
076those when you look they are separate but when you look at them you see similar content in some of the areas and under the health standards they have ospi sets up these five core ideas in their health standards wellness safety nutrition social emotional health substance abuse and sexual health under sexual health we have a lot of different guidelines and requirements that sort of guide us in what kind of materials and what topics we need to cover so we've got the hiv aids prevention education law which has been in place since like the mid 90s i want to say that says starting in fifth grade annually we have to cover for kids hiv aids prevention education so kind of under that because because of the how the topics overlap that kind of falls under there we
077have the new comprehensive sexual health education law relatively new at this point um that has some requirements i'll talk about in a second and then previous to the washington state law around conference of sexual health education we had a law that said that any district that is teaching comprehensive sex ed um has to include elements around sex offenses including minors and so because we have had comprehensive sex ed in our district for over a decade that has been a law that's applied to us for a while but when we're looking at materials to adopt we kind of have to balance all of these things and consider is there something that fits the bill for all of them well we didn't find something like that we didn't find the unicorn out there that covered cell really
078well and health really well and pe really well and um so this is where we get to kind of putting together different pieces to make sure that we have a good comprehensive health program in place for students um so we're going to start with the k-8 our recommendation for k-8 social emotional learning which is second step hi i'm rachel crosby i'm a school counselor at valley view and um just a brief overview of second steps um we chose it for a lot of reasons but it was a simple direct explicit way to teach the basic social emotional skills that we just felt were super important for kids to be successful in the classroom and in just in life in general the lessons are quick they're fun um they incorporate um different pieces music reinforcement activities
079brain builders um and there's only about 22 lessons about 30 minutes a day that are you can teach them easily somebody like me who's not a teacher can pull it out can teach it teach it well um and so we liked it for that reason as well um it's sequential it built each of the lessons built upon one another and let me go to the next slide please oh sorry so some of the things that second steps is great for besides just being a universal classroom based curriculum it increases student school success it decreases problem behaviors research shows that it promotes social emotional competence and self-regulation and then just the main skills that it covers k-5 skills for learning listening watching basic things using keeping your body calm enough to learn empathy being able to
080put yourself in somebody else's shoes emotion management being able to calm down being able to self-regulate problem-solving skills basic ways being able to know what your problem is and then how to solve it and then i just have a couple little basic examples from some of the lessons this one is from a kindergarten lesson apologizing can help what does it mean to apologize when do you apologize what does that look like what does that sound like this is from a second grade lesson and this is from the digital we have digital and paper copies ways to say a problem because it's not always obvious how to state a problem in a way that you can actually solve it and saying it respectfully being able to use respectful words to solve problems saying things without blame
081and then these are just some examples of some posters that go with those core skills this one goes with the skills for learning empathy sorry if i'm going too too fast i think i'm going too fast because i'm nervous um how to calm down those skills um that we need to be able to calm down and it goes like i said from a very simple version in kindergarten all the way to more complex and fifth grade and actually this goes all the way through second steps goes all the way through middle school using the different the three different steps the problem-solving steps that we go through saying the problem saying it without blame thinking of solutions exploring consequences brainstorming and then picking the best solution so those are the basics from the second steps curriculum
082that we chose we've been using it for a few years as counselors and then teachers have been using it recently and we've loved it it's simple it teaches the very most basic critical skills for kids to be able to then regulate to make friends to access the curriculum so any questions i got to tour mount stewart one day when we went in a class and they were actually using it and the kids were um we stayed in there for just i think five minutes or so watching them interact with the teacher and stuff like that my question i guess for you is this adoption process for this is it just trying to uniform it so it's throughout the state all the elementary schools that's going to be the same for everyone is that right yeah
083and also so that we would have a foundation or like a tier one curriculum that would be for all students then we can build upon that and decide what we need if there are behavior problems or emotional regulation problems so that we can have interventions that fit if we know all the kiddos have the same skills top yeah and the kids were interacting very well with the teacher too it was entertaining to listen to their answers and some of them weren't the best but they worked through it so it's it's i i thought it was a pretty good curriculum uh i don't quite remember the subject that it was but yeah yeah it's very engaging i feel like for most of the kiddos thank you um and i would also so again you guys were
084able to see the public comment um from the community input session i would like to just address the one there for second step some of them there was one comment that wasn't specific to any curricula but um for second step the concern that we are going to um it was called an enhancement that we're going to spend too much time doing this and not enough time doing academics and it would be to the detriment of academics and i kind of was thinking about this when levi was presenting and saying research actually shows that more pe time improves academic scores and i think this is very similar research would show that rachel alluded to that this isn't an enhancement that attending to student social emotional well-being is actually foundational to them being able to access as
085she pointed out and be successful with their academics um so spending time there actually helps us improve those areas and okay eight sell costs so for a five-year digital license for second step it's 34 000. that's a very exact number because the the quote just came in so that one's actually not approximate and jen just to go back on the comment that you were just talking about who somebody made a comment about possibly taking away from academics and things like that they're only doing that for what 10 15 minutes like once a day i would say it's maybe even a couple times a week okay that time is that yeah yeah um so yeah it's not a ton of time and these are to the question that you asked these are the types of things
086that teachers have been doing in classrooms forever i mean you don't you don't have a kindergarten classroom without teaching them how to interact out at recess but um as rachel said this helps bring some tier one consistency across buildings and some very consistent languages and approaches to it yeah okay so um as we go into looking at the the what we're proposing for 45 maturation and 612 health wanted to make some notes about the law around comprehensive sex ed so a couple of quick things i think it's important to continually point out that this law clearly differentiates between k3 and 412 and so k3 is not sex ed it has to be aligned to the washington state social emotional learning standards so when we hopefully adopt the second step that social-emotional learning curriculum that has
087nothing to do with sex ed will fulfill this part of the law it falls under this umbrella of comprehensive sex-ed law but the k-3 portion of it really has nothing to do with it um other than when you start thinking about how to self-manage and build healthy friendships and things like that those are all precursors um to that content but in every other way there's nothing to do with sex ed and k3 um it does not mandate a certain curriculum be taught which i know there's some misconceptions out there that ospi when the law came out osp i was going to say you have to use this curriculum that is not the case districts still get to choose boards still get to approve which curriculum we are adopting it does have certain requirements about what
088type of information should be included in fourth through twelfth which i'll go over it of course allows for parents to opt their child out as does our board policy so um our policy that was in place since i think 2004 ish also stated that parents have the right to opt their child out of this portion of instruction and this law didn't actually significantly change things for us here in ellensburg um what was new because we'd already been teaching comprehensive sex ed um what was new was that we must include bystander and affirmative consent instruction and we must include that we must have something in place for k3 sel so the law this is what the law states that it must be medically and scientifically accurate age-appropriate and inclusive of all students um and abstinence may
089not be taught to the exclusion of other material materials and instruction on contraceptives and disease prevention again that's fairly reflective and pretty much verbatim what our board policy was in place before it but the thing that was the most challenging for us to work through as a district when we were okay it's time to look at these materials we know we need more materials let's look at what we have been doing what's been working um i think we spent the most amount of time looking at that vague term in the law that says age appropriate and who determines what is age appropriate so ospi and this is ospi's response to their interpretation of that and so i think it's important to point out that they say while the learning standards provide guidelines for what instruction
090might look like in each grade the decision on when and how to introduce instruction to students rests with each school district which is good but it also meant we had to have really lengthy conversations around with multiple stakeholders we had building administrators district administrators counselors teachers in the room talking about what do we want those outcomes to look like for our students and that also was included in the board docs it's also what i showed you guys earlier when i was here before giving you the preview um but what we did is if you were to google or just get on osbi site the health standards for ospi and you were to open up that document the majority of what you're going to see are those outcomes that are listed by grade level the ospi
091says are recommendations only so the standards and the topics have to be covered but what that looks like for age-appropriateness is determined by districts so we spent quite a bit of time articulating so that when we went to say what materials do we want to adopt we really looked at what does that look like what does covering that standard in that topic look like at fourth grade fifth grade sixth grade up through high school um and that is the result of that is the document that you guys have that provides both the outcomes which are different from the ones that you will see if you look at the ospi one and it also provides specific examples of what that looks and sounds like in the classroom so we did all of that work so that
092we could make a good solid decision about our health materials to make sure that they aligned and also ensure that they they meet all the guidelines and state requirements so these are the specific whoops sorry i'm right past it these are the specific topics that the law says must be covered forth through up through high school and again under that umbrella of age appropriate so they're all fairly big and broad and that's why it was hard work articulating what what's the outcome look like that for that for fourth graders etc and just reiterating again parents right around sexual health education to opt out teachers and buildings have always been very good about notifying parents before they enter into this portion of the of the health units um send notification home and parents have always had
093the right to opt their child out and i think it's also important to note what that means at different levels so at fourth and fifth grade it's one or two days and not even full days like a portion of the day that they use to talk about it and maybe a portion of the next day but their maturation unit doesn't last beyond that so that's what the parents are opting out of at middle school levi's here so he's going to talk a little bit more about that but um this coming year it'll be one day a week a week is dedicated to health and that was sort of that trying to manage again how are we going to fit those health standards into a student's day but um one day week for health but the
094sex ed portion of it is probably and you can correct me if i'm wrong when you get up here but about five-ish days four or five days yeah um so that's what parents are opting out of there and then at the high school it's much more extensive there is a health course the health course is a graduation requirement and so it's a semester long and normally the sex ed part of that or topics that cover that occur over the course of three to five weeks and so parents who upped their children out of that we've come up with and actually levi teasley helped pull it together when he was teaching at the high school but go through additional health content um still in the building and they step out and uh i think both said
095that we typically have around 20 or so kids who opt out annually from that um this is just that the difference between the ospi outcomes is example outcomes and what we developed in our district and so then it gets down to what materials are we using to meet those outcomes that we've identified and i will say that so 4-5 maturation and hiv aids prevention education um and hopefully you guys got the opportunity to watch those videos that were included in the links but it was very challenging i will say very challenging to find maturation materials that that matched what we had identified as what we wanted for outcomes for students and so i also wanted to address the public comment on the maturation materials or community input there and one of the concerns was as
096you will see here it is free the materials are free that is not because we didn't want to put money into it and we were trying to save costs we looked hard we we did an rfp just like we did for everything else we looked at multiple curricula and their everything we found didn't fit the outcomes we had identified for our fourth and fifth graders so um i also didn't mention that this all of these materials went in front of the instructional materials committee as part of board policy and that was an important meeting we had unanimous support for each one of these um curricula for adoption and but the one place where there's some editorial comments for that even though they unanimously supported it was with the 4-5 maturation and with that um community
097input and particularly because these are free materials if we would continue to keep our eyes out for materials that might be a bit more inclusive and so i think definitely we want to support keeping our eyes out and if we did find something it would have to come in front of the board again for approval if that's what we were to use um but really what what the fourth and fifth grade material focuses on is purely puberty it's really about these are um biological things that kids will experience and everyone is very normal and so it focuses on that part of it but what we don't certainly want to do is inadvertently create environments that are not inclusive and again it's such a small portion of the kid's day but really what we're looking for
098is that focus on getting kids comfortable with what might be happening to their bodies um and so that's that's what we found and we'll keep our eyes open for for other materials any questions about the 4-5 maturation okay so okay sorry um that brings us to the 6-12 health and for both middle school and health they are two different textbooks but um we are proposing essential health skills um and we have levi here we'll talk about that hi board my name is levi botten and i'm a health and fitness teacher at morgan middle school um i think one of the best ways to look at how the new health curriculum is going to improve our health instruction at morgan is to compare it it oh it's all right it's to compare it to what we're
099doing now uh right now we're providing about three to four weeks of health per year per grade level and one of the reasons for that um is that the health curriculum we have right now is not covering a lot of the state standards um that we're required to teach and so a lot of what we're doing right now is teacher-created curriculum and that's been very challenging and and time consuming to create um and then also uh to create to create it in a manner that uh meets all the needs of the different types of kids and to provide it in modalities um to meet the needs of all different learners so uh also i think a lot of the topics in the curriculum that we are teaching right now it's not applicable to some of
100the challenges that our middle schoolers are going through and i think that's probably largely just because uh the curriculum was i think over 10 years ago and i think that the middle schoolers right now are a lot different than some of the middle schoolers we saw 10 years ago so with the adoption of a new health curriculum um we're pretty excited about uh uh giving nine to ten weeks of health instruction so that's about a quarter's worth of of health um and uh with this new curriculum we'll have instruction on all the state standards um presented by ospi and i think one thing people get confused about with health instruction is they think of it as just that sex ed portion and um like i said before that's about just about four days of instruction
101and if someone would like to opt out it would just be those four days and then the rest of it is covered um right here so on this it covers all the different units and topics that we'll uh be discussing throughout sixth seventh and eighth grade and so you can see through those through those nine weeks we touch on a wide variety of different topics that are really crucial to to discuss um at the middle school level um and so as far as the curriculum goes um some of the things that we liked the most about it was that it encompassed all of the state standards a couple of the other curriculums i think the team looked at did not cover all the state standards and so we'd have to be supplementing it from other
102sources as well whereas this one um every unit and topic that we need to to instruct on is found within that curriculum and then it aligns really well with schoology and google classroom the curriculum we have right now has no online portion or technology portion and so to provide that additional resources for kids outside of school is really important so anything that we're working on pen and paper in class can also be uploaded real easily to schoology and google classroom to further their education if they're at home or on the weekend um and then another thing that as i was kind of rolling this out with a couple of my classes that i thought was very beneficial was all of the additional resources it provided um it had really well outlined lessons and within that
103lessons it had a lot of different opportunities and and different ideas uh for instruction uh for your specific class so you could take the knowledge you have of your students and decide on topics that you think would be the most beneficial for your classroom as well it provided a lot of modifications there was ample opportunities for modifications for kids that are may struggle with reading and writing and it provided ideas and and outlines and graphic organizers for kids that may struggle um with reading and writing and so we thought that was really cool as well but ultimately we're we're really excited at the middle school level um to provide a quarter's worth of of health and so that will be about one day a week and so yeah we're excited you guys have any questions
104for us i remember taking health in junior high and it was every day five days a week for an entire semester so uh one day a week it doesn't even seem like it's enough but you think nine weeks this updating the new curriculum nine weeks is adequate for that yeah i do and um and that's i think historically morgan middle school has been a predominantly fitness focused program and and that's great for getting kids moving and getting kids the activity they need but at the downside is that they aren't getting as much health instruction as you can see we're doing about three to four weeks uh per grade level and this nine to ten weeks i think is a perfect amount of time and um here i with that nine weeks we're able to cover
105all the state standards through their three years at morgan middle school any other questions looks like no thank you thanks another thing to note about the essential health curriculum is that there is a supplement um that wouldn't be part of of core instruction but this curriculum does actually provide it's back there if you want to look at it um a supplement that covers the human sexuality portion a little bit more contextualized and more in depth um and so that we will be purchasing that supplement not as part of our core instruction but as an opt into receiving it so just like when the letter goes home it's telling parents we're going to start our sex ed unit and if you would like to opt your child out let us know a part of that will
106be and we also have these materials that if you would like to come pick them up and have them accessible to your family um then you can do that so it would be an opt-in too for parents and if we did ever include it um as part of our core instruction it would have to be adopted by you guys as part of poor instruction but the nice thing about that is it does provide us some flexibility with our adopted curriculum and the cost for this and it's kind of unfortunate that this game lasts and there's a bit of sticker shock after looking at the other prices this one is actually very typical of an adoption when you're looking at how much does it cost to get new materials in place for students and if you
107for those of you that were here if you remember past adoptions that's about equivalent to what is spent in other major content areas like math and reading and so this is a fairly typical adoption cost for a district of our size um and it just seems big when we've looked at the other numbers before this especially the free one and then i also wanted to comment on your your comments about the including all of the health standards and i do think that we've come up with a very intentional way that hasn't been there in the past to cover them at middle school but it is it wasn't one of the written comments but verbally at the community input session that was something that was shared in terms of the k5 piece saying can you really
108meet all the health standards in a pe class at elementary when you see them once or twice a week um the concern being they're not going to be moving as much they're going to be sitting and getting health content and so i think one of the things that the health and fitness teachers at k5 are excited about is they're going to be sitting down next year and working on as levi alluded to those essential standards and outcomes and identifying we already did an initial look at let's look at all the health standards and identify where are these covered because some of them are covered by second step and some of them are covered when we do our maturation unit and some of them are covered in this new um focus fitness that we are proposing
109but really having a consistent and agreed upon on approach to who covers what when where so i think that's going to be definitely part of the implementation next year um and that's it finally that's the end kelly stop your big sign thank you jen for all of that information thank you all to all the teachers that were involved with that that is really amazing to see the work that's being done for that so again thank you for all of that um so yes any final questions yeah any final questions for jen i had one more question yeah back to the k5 music the initial cost everything else after was like kind of middle school high school things like that the k5 you had about five thousand something is that per school or is that for
110that total and actually the reason that's so low is because two of the schools had already been using this and they didn't have any concerns about the curriculum they loved it they wanted to get it in place but we didn't have a consistent curriculum across the board so while they have some replacement costs um the two of the schools don't have heavy costs and then they helped order materials for ida through the bond and so a lot of those were ordered already through that so it's really getting materials in place for one school um and then some replacement costs and some of the others yeah i had a quick question um on the health thing the chart that says by the grades and what's being taught in the chapters so grade seven is alcohol rate
111eight is drugs you know is that a state standard that we do that at seventh and eighth cause you could see them before together like alcohol and drugs units because they're check their chapter 10 and 11 but they're split by a year yes so those um and that's one of the challenging things about middle school in levi yes he's still here he left if he wanted to pipe in he could but um i guess he's gone so one of the challenging things about middle school is since we are embedding this in the the pe classes there is a sixth grade pe class and then there's a seventh and eighth grade that's combined with both seventh and eighth graders and we don't want to repeat content and that textbook that you see covers six eight so
112it's not like we're going to cover the same chapters every year so what they've the plan that they've laid out to cover all of the standards over the course of the six 6-8 experience is that they'll cover some of it in sixth grade they'll cover they'll cover some of it in seventh grade and some of it in eighth grade so some content some kids might get as an eighth grader that others get as a seventh grader but they'll loop the content and um it's appropriate for both grade levels but they loop that content to make sure that they're not doubling up the sex ed we have to teach sex ed twice in six eight so that portion will actually double up in seventh and eighth grade they'll get it twice but the rest of it
113has been sort of spread out any other questions well i had a question um for jen i was wondering if we with the um adoption of these uh programs are all four elementary schools going to be in a line as far as if a child has to transfer from one to the other um are they going to be seeing the same same programs yes it will be aligned if we adopt these curricula particularly in pe and well all of them it'll be aligned but we have we we currently have the second step in every elementary as pilot materials and so if we were to continue to use it we have to formally adopt it but that's already consistent or been worked towards consistency but pe and music if there's no adoption there won't be alignment
114madeline any other questions we're bored no no thank you i do have one more and i asked this question the last time that you presented the health portion of this and i just want to reiterate it again most of this is not new this is it's just aligning and adopting this curriculum but pretty much as you have stated the last 10 years that you've been comprehensive sex ed and or you know health and sex ed and all that this isn't really changing a lot yes when we went to go develop our outcomes they they ended up um aligning with our current practice and our current outcomes um pretty consistently the materials for sex ed um so so the content's not very new but again that's just sex ed so the maturation and the the sex
115ed pieces of that health book but i would i would say the rest of the health we are much overdue for an adoption and it our materials are non-existent or i keep pointing back to leave i mean it's gone now um or just really out of date yeah thank you all right thank you jen for all of that and for answering all those questions we really appreciate that okay yes we should definitely thank you all right board so this is an action item um it's a board i would entertain that if there is any discussion or if there's anything that we need to discuss as a group that we do that now um and then it is an action item so this can be an action item to adopt all of the new curriculum or
116that we could go one by one it just depends on what motions are moved forward so i don't have any further discussion i think jen did a great job of answering and every all the teachers that got up answered all the questions for me so yeah and i will reiterate too i i what i especially like about the health curriculum is i love the opt in and the opt out components of that i think that that honors all all of our community which i think is very important um so that way people can make that choice so um so i'm very supportive of all of these curriculums plus the teachers did a lot of hard work to get us to to this point and i really want to support them i knew that we accept
117the proposed curriculum for k-5 music k-2 phonics k-5 health and fitness k-8 social emotional learning and 4-12 health i second the motion all right thank you so jonathan has moved i'm going to use the word adopt is that okay yep that we're going to adopt and i'm going to say all the new curriculum that you've stated all that's listed in our on our agenda and mike has seconded is there any further discussion before i call the vote i will do a roll call vote all right i will start with jonathan hi mike hi madeline hi i also vote i excellent we have adopted the new curriculum congratulations teachers thank you so much and jen for all of your hard work on that excellent all right next up we have the oac update and bond projects
118um we are going into almost two hours i am going to make a short announcement and plea to the board that we recess for five minutes after this session so at least some of us can go use the restroom so um so with that go ahead good evening for those of you who i have not met my name is damon gardella i've been um the construction manager on the 2018 bond program um for ellensburg school district so started on this project i'll call it the entire project back in november 2018. so yeah ginger asked me to come tonight just to give an update on where we are with the bond program i think leslie's pulling up the slide here um i'll just take this opportunity this is actually not in my presentation but someone i
119thought of when i was sitting there is the when the when the bond program was first run and first rolled out to uh be voted on um it was a very linear uh type of schedule in the bond program and mount stewart was actually um presented as a renovation instead of a replacement so for those of you that weren't around back then i'll give you a quick update on that um we actually did a bunch of studies way back when that it was actually more cost effective to replace mouse stores than to do renovation what that allowed us to do was to build the two new schools at the same time rather than renovate then build then renovate and so what that also has done is we are one year ahead of schedule right now
120to when the original bond program was run so um we'll finish basically the entire bond program renovation of lincoln a year sooner than it was originally presented way back in 2018. so a little history there so um okay next slide um this is just something that was really cool um i put this together so the ren the rendering on the left that was actually created by integris architecture in the summer of 2019 just by happenstance i took that picture on the right today and i was putting my slides together and i realized the correlation there and i was like oh that's pretty cool so um next slide please okay mouse rod elementary not a lot going on all the heavy lifting is essentially done we are in the warranty and the closeout phase of the
121school so we are completing as built documents and drawings on that the o m manuals of everything is put together so now that the construction is done we go back we do put everything together that was done on the school so the district has that basically forever um and uh we have been talking to our general contractor garco construction um they to their knowledge have fulfilled all the um requirements of the authority seven jurisdictions to sign off on the various components of the school to get the permanent certificate of occupancy we have we receive a temporary in the fall obviously we had work to do through the winter and into the spring with landscaping things like that that we weren't able to do because of weather so we hope to have that soon we're just
122waiting to hear back from the city and the different authorities have jurisdiction to see if there's any remaining items and hope to see how very soon so and then yeah like i said the warranty period um we are and we are adjusting any warranty items that come up and everything like that so next slide ida nissan ironica and next slide i didn't have a cool picture to match that one so um so not surprising exact same schools are built same time so we're going through the same process right now um almost the heavy lifting's done uh punchlist items are there are a couple out there remaining but most of those are done as well next slide okay so i put this together what is with the weeds and so ginger asked me to explain because
123i've been getting this question a lot um and i'll do a quick explanation of why it looks the way it looks out there so the contract called for hydroseed so the landscapers put the hydro seed down unfortunately weeds grow a lot faster than the grass from the hydro seed so the process is is we need the hydroseed and the grass to establish before we can really do much we just got the okay this week that we can actually start mowing so they're going to run the mowers on it this week they'll run the mowers on it next week and at that point the landscapers said it'll be mature enough and rooted enough that they can apply a broad leaf application to the weeds so once they do that the weeds will start dying away and
124the grass will continue to be able to mature and grow so yeah i know it's an eyesore right now but that's that's the kind of the outcome of going with hydroseed versus just rolling out sod and having like instant grass um when school comes back in the fall it'll look just like that picture on the right which is uh today it was at mount stewart i took that picture as well mount stewart had the exact same application went through the exact same process as we're going through here and it does work it will have grass so um i thought it would take a second to explain that because yes it is not appealing to drive up to a brand new school and see weeds there we did have the benefit on mouth stewart being that
125we finished in september that weeds don't seem to grow as fast in september even though they did grow they didn't grow as fast as they're doing it in the spring with all the uh the rain and the warm weather and sunshine oh uh lincoln i'll back up i do have one more item i want to talk about jinger asked me to talk about uh before we move on to lincoln and that is the um she called them ponds out here and just a quick explanation of what is going on why they are there so the two bodies of water i'll call them on the east side of cora are actually swales those swales catch all the runoff from your sidewalks your parking lots and things like that there's various ways to capture that water um
126but you do have to capture it you can't let it run down the street and run into sewer systems and things like that so you have to address it on site they have seated around those areas it will vegetate it will not have standing water in it year round when snow melts and you have big rain events or a lot of rain events and it captures it quicker than it can absorb into the ground yes there will be some water in there it'll be less visible once all the vegetation takes and grows it will be like a typical swale you would see like around other big parking lot structures around the city so the body of water on the west side of cora is i guess technically more of a pond that is was a
127requirement department ecology because we put cora in and it had to disturb a small section of wetland we had to offset and mitigate and create more wetland to offset the wetland was there so that was their requirement so that's going to be more natural i'm nobody really knows what the water situation will be in that until time goes on um and all the plantings have been uh planted in the wetlands and those will continue to mature as well so i just wanted to address that as well so you guys knew kind of what was going on it's just it's really obvious right now because the vegetation hasn't established but they have hydroseeded and it will become less obvious um okay lincoln elementary uh so on to some cool sides because we this one's actually under
128construction still so an excited please um just a quick update on what's going on there right now the picture on the left that's the elevator edition the elevator is installed um and they are closing in around that so that is an addition to the building which is mostly being renovated uh the picture on the right is well you see there's a library and why i thought that was really cool is we just got the windows in and got them installed that's been plywood for a lot of months and just the windows and how that's going to light up in the library will be will be great so the new gym this is the other addition to the building it's a gm slash and there's a music room slash stage on there as well so the
129picture on the left exterior which is just about wrapped up with finishes and the interior is just about done also the only thing left on the interior really is some wall padding and the flooring all the painting's been done scoreboard basketballs everything like that is installed i did mention the ginger today on our walk through just how impressive the three gems are on the three new schools the size of them uh for elementary schools you guys like your gym space because they're it's nice to go in and um not have a small little gymnasium for the kids and be able to have these large spaces so beautiful gyms in all three schools they really are compared to a lot of the elementary schools we do a couple snapshots of classrooms this is uh classrooms on
130the left is a kindergarten the one on the right is a typical classroom um kindergarten obviously has dedicated restroom within the in the classroom uh but the case worked being installed ceilings are being installed um that flooring on the right is actually the net the i don't know if it's original the flooring was there i don't i'm assuming it's original with the school so we refinished um the portion in front of the casework the rest of the classroom would be carpet okay so next for lincoln this is kind of what we're working on other than finishing the school things we're planning for is uh getting the logistics together and the pricing for the moving it's gonna be complicated there's no way around it when we open a new school or add a new school to
131the district and now we have to fill all those classrooms and it's not just as clean as moving point a to b point b so we've got a lot of moving parts we're working through to get that uh to get that plan in place and try to make it as seamless as possible it's still a move it's still not fun but needs to be done um we have locked in our delivery date for new furniture which is on august 15th that's when we'll start arriving in lincoln so we'll start installing furniture in school at that time um a little update to what's been going on behind the scenes uh everybody's been here in supply chain unfortunately we are not exempt from having issues and we're working through those issues on linkedin almost daily there is
132a big one that's affecting us though and that is the delayed electrical switchgear that was first started procurement last august and they are now telling us that it probably won't be here in time for the school to open excuse me it may be here before school opens but it won't be here in time to open the school with that switch gear so we have been we have a plan in place and we are actually going to rent switch gear electrical switch gear so the school opens on time that will eventually have to be swapped out with the permanent but it will allow the school to open on time you won't have any delays and we can have a success but it's been a struggle um you know windows taking six months to get um you
133know there's a window right outside here that uh it arrived broken and we're still waiting for the replacement i mean there was nothing that anybody did but just the materials have been a challenge construction is getting very interesting um so that's my update i promised i'd keep it short but i'd love to answer any questions so when you say it's delayed can do you have a sense of how far behind we might be on this project or with the switch gear you mean well total so like project's not delayed project we're on time with prep so we are on time regardless even with all those yes as long as we don't have any more surprises yes okay i will yes that is a great question um like i said we we don't get the notification
134until we get the notification that something's either been delayed but right now nothing is causing the school not to open on time which is which is great that switch gear that's a big deal i'm not gonna lie that that could have been a big deal we had a great team with our general contractor our electrician on the project um our mechanical er electrical engineer everybody worked together to come up with a plan because we went into the plan that not opening the school on time that was not an option or not opening this yeah so everybody had that mentality and we came up plan and the fingers crossed we don't fall subject to anything else but good news is you saw the pictures of where we're at um with progress so every day that goes
135by um is better right i mean that we don't get a notification that something's been delayed okay excellent i appreciate i appreciate the update i think the board this is exactly what we needed i did the only other question i had is you i always called them retention puns but you said swells i do have a question called same thing okay so it's the same thing so i was surprised i i had had a couple community members ask me about it and so i drove out and took a look and i was surprised just how close they are to the school and so i just i'm assuming that we have checked policies we've checked procedures as far as happening because if that's going to hold water as long as it's going to be it's right
136next to an elementary school like to me it just it was a surprise i wasn't expecting to see um so is there going to be a fence put around it so there's no plan to put a fence around i'll go back to your first question typically they're right adjacent to parking lots sometimes they're long elongated and they're all different shapes and sizes um but they are typically very close to the parking lot so you don't have to put additional infrastructure to get out um at this time there's no plan to put a fence in like i said it it's not deep i know there's standing water in it but department of health they're not even requiring us to address it with the fence like like the irrigation ditch and having that big fence out there
137offense can definitely be put in if the district wants to put in a fence so if that's something we want to try to get in there we work with ginger and angie and uh see what we can do there but at this time no requirement no plan to put offense around last clarification because i haven't looked i didn't didn't think about it but as far as because the playgrounds literally are right here so is there a fence or is there going to be a fence that will separate the playground from that part of the parking lot and that area so that way at least while students are during school times the students are not allowed or could not go over to those areas yes and it's actually fenced off right now okay that's what i
138thought i just hadn't actually walked it to see that it's full there's a six foot fence around the perimeter and then separating the um trash enclosure kitchen delivery area off the parking lot is a four foot tall fence along that stretch so all right um yeah all right so there's a delineation okay thank you board any other questions just checking with madeleine i don't see her unmuting so i think we are nope i'm good thank you perfect all right well thank you all right thank you for the opportunity absolutely thanks for the update all right uh so we are i'm gonna ask the board that we take a five minute recess um so we'll come back about 8 12-ish uh so we can just take a quick restroom break um as you as those that
139are here um we are going to do public comment it is going to be limited to probably 30 minutes tonight just because this meeting is going really long there's a lot of information so i just want those of you to know if you're not able to stay with us please understand we can take we will and gladly take public comment through email through um if that's what you're wanting to do as well so anyway okay we're gonna recess five minutes um okay [Music] is yes there it is [Music] [Applause] okay yes all right it is now 8 12. so if i could just ask the board to return to their seats we will resume in our business meeting okay all right we were able to take a quick break uh thank you for those who
140are able to stay with us um next up we are still in business so we are going to move to the wiaa resolution so this resolution is just encouraging us to continue to stay associated with there's a cost with that with wiaa that is the sports the athletic association that we usually join every year that supports all of the competitions that we have with our athletic program so i'm recommending recommending that we adopt this resolution thank you gingerboard any questions this is just already in place and renewing it i move that we approve to stay in the wia i guess yeah so clarification you are you are i make a motion that we pass that we stay in the wiaa so i'll just clarify uh maybe make a motion that we approve the wia resolution
141does that work that works okay that works i second that all right perfect we will get through it that's awesome all right so for the record mike made a motion to approve the wia resolution and jonathan has seconded board any discussion seeing that there is none then i will call the vote again i'm going to do a roll call vote jonathan hi mike hi madeline we may have lost her because i saw her bleep off i will skip and then i will i will be the third vote to say i um resolution is approved and again just for clarification i'm going to look to leslie we are we have three board members so we still have quorum so we can still pass and move forward so all right next up we have the finance report
142hello board tonight i will be going over the financial status of the district as of april 2022. you should have a packet in front of you that has a summary report history of fund balance chart budget status report and a trial balance report federal funds you will see that the general budget is on track as of april 30th the revenue came in at 65.4 percent of the budget and expenditures came in at 59.1 without taking in consideration the encumbrances these percentages are below the expected budget amount of 67 which relates to eight months of expenditures out of the total 12 months for the year the unassigned fund balance equates to approximately 14.3 percent after considering fund balance restrictions and assignment which is the primary indicator of the district's financial status the good news is you
143will see that our fund balance has increased and part of that increase is due to receiving the second major property tax revenue collection in april for the year as i analyze the financial information for april it appears that we may not spend all the expenses that were budgeted for 20 21 22 school year which is pretty normal for a budget each year however we do have a four more four more months of expenditures that will include summer maintenance projects remaining salaries and benefits additional professional services and supplies that will be ordered in the next four months to finish up the school year the capital project fund is below the expected 67 budgeted revenue expenditures as of april 30th revenue came in at 42.82 and expenditures coming around 54.96 after considering encumbrances the fund balance is
144at 3.7 million dollars that consist of state match tech levy and assigned funds to support other capital projects the debt service fund revenues are above the expected 67 budget of revenue coming in at 89.58 with the expenditures being above the expected 67 at 80.56 the majority of our expenditures were in december 2021 to pay the principal and interest of our outstanding debt in june we will be making another interest payment the isp fund is below the expected 67 budget revenue expenditures as of april 2022 revenue came in at 31.54 0.54 and expenditures came in around 32.14 remember that the asb board has made the decision budget for capacity for all possible fundraisers since the um private purpose trust fund is a fiduciary fund it is not a budgeted fund therefore is not a budgeted status
145you do not have a budgeted status report for that fund you will see that the fund balance is at approximately 53 000 at the end of april 2022 to fund private purposes specifically to support scholarships the transportation vehicle fund is also below the expected 67 budget revenues expenditures as of april 2022 news came in at 2.31 percent and expenditures came out at zero once again the reason those percentage are so low is that we have not surpassed or purchased any buses as of april 2022. as of the date of this report we don't plan to purchase buses in this current year however we'll be planning for the 2223 budget to determine if we need to purchase buses in the next school year i would like to remind everyone that this report is presented with the
146information that i have currently and is subject to change as we continue through the year i would also like to remind everyone that revenue sources are used in their current funds for authorized expenditures and can't usually be transferred to be used in different funds unless authorized with the adopted budget and within the accounting laws are there any questions on the financial report thank you can you have a question madeline sorry thank you and i did ask um i sent an email earlier but i just wanted to kind of check in about um if somebody's looking at the reports on the county treasurer page the general ledger detail reports versus the balance sheet numbers um from for the same month any discrepancies in those numbers can you kind of go over what that way what that
147would be we do balance to those reports um each month and sometimes there are discrepancies sometimes it's on the account on the county treasury side of it where they put the funds that we've invested or sent to them into the wrong funds and so we'll have to reconcile that and sometimes that doesn't happen until the next month so you might not see that fixed until the next month we are also there might be some journal entries that we need to still do or we're researching where some revenue came from there's just some small discrepancies sometimes but we definitely tried to balance each month and we are in the process of balancing all those months and um to fix a discrepancy if there is any excellent madeline any more questions no thank you all right perfect
148um and just just for clarification um because i know madeline and i were both involved recently the state is uh just completed the audit so right so you're getting audited by the state and this is done at least once a year pretty regularly we're correct so i don't think all the board members always understand how you are audited pretty frequently um and all of this is looked at pretty closely um i know the last time there were no findings is that are we going to have an update on that soon do you think is that coming i can give you a little bit the um the certified audit hasn't come out but they are done and we've gone through the exit um it's a clean audit on both financial statements and on the federal audit
149um they both the only item they had was a small exit item to do with to make sure that we are documenting in our minute minutes meeting minutes the duration of the executive sessions but it was not a big deal they said it wasn't a big deal we just need to make sure we were doing that otherwise everything was clean excellent well we look forward to the official update later that's great thanks kim all right board any other questions for kim for the for that all right thanks kim all right so last on our business is we have the enrollment report yeah so uh when we go ahead and take a look you have two documents there you have a monthly enrollment for fte and headcount and then you also have the monthly enrollment comparison
150uh in this time of the year we're not seeing a lot of shifts and changes so our transitional bilingual our cte our alternative programs i mean things are pretty much holding pretty consistent we have you know very small shifts in enrollment we've lost a few more secondary kids but we gained more elementary kids so we're um this month we're up three students overall in the district so we're at see 3152 is our current number which is 152 above the 3 000 that we had originally budgeted for so all is well any specific there's really not a lot of shifts or changes okay i don't see madeleine unmuting so i think the board has no question so we'll keep moving forward okay thank you kelly all right so next up we have policy and we have
151one policy up for tonight that is the parent access and safe and orderly learning environment yes so i'm recommending that we adopt this policy uh if you open it and you look they just added it's one that similar to one that we've had except they did insert the statement under visitors originally said the board welcomes and encourages visits to school by parents guardians community members and interested educators and then the part that they added is parents are assured access to their child's classroom as well as school-sponsored activities for purposes of observing class procedure teaching material and class conduct however such observation must not disrupt the classroom or learning activity and that was the only thing that was added so i think this is a a good policy to adopt great thank you ginger for presenting
152that and the clarification board are there any questions for ginger on this [Music] all right um this is an action item or being asked for us to consider as an action item no problem uh i move that we adopt policy well there's no number uh i had moved that we adopt this policy the parent access and safe and orderly learning environment a second all right all right thank you so i hear you mike uh you have moved that we adopt the policy before us the parent access and safe and orderly learning environment and um jonathan has seconded board any discussion seeing that there is none i will call the vote jonathan mike hi madeline hi and i also vote i so policy is adopted thank you ginger all right that moves us to student reports
153thank you our student rep has stayed with us the whole time we appreciate your time and i understand you have a report for us tonight i do um as the year comes to an end we have a lot of things going on um so i'll try to get through a lot of things there are many things happening but i just wanted to highlight a few um as our spring sports come to an end our track softball and baseball teams are heading off to state um last week we sent off our baseball team and currently they are the final four um and will be playing i believe sometime in the next few days and if they win they will move on to the championship um friday um track leaves tomorrow they'll be in at tahoma high
154school for the next three days competing so good luck to all of them uh also i just wanted to highlight it was previously mentioned but ffa and fbla just got back from state and i know these students i had talked to a few of them we're really excited to be able to go back and to compete and you know that's a big deal to be able to make it uh to those competitions because there's a lot of you know processes to getting there and some of those students are able to go to nationals which is an even bigger deal so congrats to them um i wanted to say that we had a nhs induction i believe two weeks ago i just wanted to recognize those students and all the hard work that they had put
155in to be able to get accepted into that club um also a big thing that a lot of students were really happy to get back to doing was prom that happened may 14th and i just wanted to say kudos to the junior asb class for putting that together um i went and i enjoyed myself and i know a ton of my other classmates really enjoyed it and it's nice to be back doing something that you know we didn't get to do last year and we don't have masks so that's something that you know really you know helps us ex have the full high school experience um and then finally i just wanted to touch on a few things as we're getting to graduation i'm a senior so you know things are starting to come up
156but there's all really exciting stuff like today we had the elite scholars recognition which i was able to attend um and shout out to gerald's they sponsored that and that was a really cool event to go to um we have bakulora coming up thanks to the senior parent group that i know a lot of students are really excited to attend we also have the senior excursion which is june 2nd and scholarship night coming up june 7th and then graduation on june 9th so lots of things coming up but it's super exciting to be able to finish off the year and you know see all these events happening thank you chloe board any questions for chloe yes i think we all would agree just so excited to see all of these things happening again so again
157thank you and thank you for that report appreciate that all right next up we would have the teaching and learning report tasha's not here so we have no report tonight um i do have a board chair report um so first ford i think i need to acknowledge how wonderful it is again to have community members at our board meeting that we really want our community to engage with our district the more informed the community is the better we all can be at understanding the district's planning decision making and actions board i have been drafting the edit for the board's website um we have the board operating principles already ready to go we've done that now um i think what is most important to include for our community especially on our website is referencing wazda's primary
158listed roles for a school board so i'm hoping to have these ready for the board at our next study session um in draft form we have six that waza specifically addresses and so these are there's only six so i'll be quick one is setting the district's vision and mission so we do that through our published board ends two is monitoring the district's progress toward goals three is governing the governor need governing the district through the review revision and adoption of policies four is sound fiscal management of the district five is serving as community representatives both to the district and on behalf of the district and the last one six is hiring supervising and evaluating the superintendent so those are the six any feedback on any of these at this time all right perfect um i
159look forward um to the board's input um review and future confirmation of publishing these roles on our website so i will have that for you next time hopefully um the last part of my report um i just want us to all recognize that sometimes district decisions bring many feelings and emotions from our community we as a board must recognize our role um and also need to take the facts more than more so than the feelings into consideration we have heard a lot over the past couple months about especially from a persistent group organized um about libraries um the board has listened and considered all the information and comments provided to us about librarians the district has already made the decision about librarians for next year in addition we as a board support that decision and
160will not be asking the superintendent to reconsider that decision as board members we need to continue to encourage the community to stay informed and to engage in the district's planning decision-making and actions and that's my report any questions for me all right then we will move on to the next agenda item which is public comment so leslie if you can get us set up we are going to limit public comment to 30 minutes and we are going to prioritize the people who have stayed with us thank you that is you are we really want to hear from you so um [Music] trying to get my notes here okay individuals in in person wishing to be heard by the board need to be signed up to speak and those on zoom need to add their names
161to the document in the zoom chat box if you are unable to do this individuals may also be recognized within zoom by using the icon or emoji to show you are raising your hand for public comment once the chair calls on an individual they will identify themselves by stating their name and address for the record individuals who proceed to make comments within the three-minute individuals will proceed to make comments within the three minute time limit in order to provide equal opportunity for comments an individual's microphone will be turned off at the three minute time limit the chair may interrupt or terminate an individual's statement when it is too lengthy personally directed abusive obscene or irrelevant the board as a whole has the final decision in determining the appropriateness of such rulings in accordance to the
162open public's meeting act 4230 agendas and topics must be said in advance of the meeting board members will not respond to public comment during the meeting if an individual would like a response from the board it is always best to submit that response in writing and or through an email at board esd401.org leslie are we ready to open up public comment all right and again i'm going to note the time it is 8 33 so at 903 we will need to close public comment i yeah let's go ahead and be once we begin so i do want to um we will go ahead and keep the time limit at three minutes and we'll just do our best to try to get people through so okay address address again okay i'm katherine bruner i live at
163203 south maple um two weeks ago i spoke about my concern about school start times for next school year my son will go back to lincoln in the fall and i'm so glad he gets to finish his elementary school career there but as a single mom with a fairly typical work schedule of 8 to 4 30 lincoln's 9 to 3 30 is going to be really tough right at school sounds like a fine program except now i'm looking at before and after school care which increases my costs what happens if we don't reach the 150 student minimum with the new attendance zones we can't have kids on the bus to other care facilities or to other family members houses these are serious concerns for working parents two years ago lincoln started around 7 30 and
164it was great to be able to start over my work day on time and not start my zoom calls from the drop off line at lincoln why why the switch from that schedule the american academy of pediatrics released a policy recommending middle school and high school students start times should be earlier shouldn't be no earlier than 8 30. research shows that they need at least nine hours of sleep it also shows sleep deprived teens are more likely to be overweight depressed and do poorer in school i know my son at 10 is up and ready to go sometimes before i am but it's a whole lot harder to get teenagers out of bed these things are really tough for working parents i'm not the only one at least i can maybe work from home but
165we have plenty of people that take care of patients who and we start seeing patients and doctors offices at eight o'clock so what about those parents that can't work from home or open their business later there's lots of us that are have really concerns about how we're going to take care of our children and the right at school thing is a little scary thank you my name is debbie rowden 921 kiritas highway i am a retired high school english teacher and this is my third time of speaking to you this spring the first two times i came with facts and research this time i'm speaking from my heart my phone rang one sunday in june of 2004 and it was kathy day she was interested in a job at ellensburg high school and she wondered
166what the english department was like we spent an hour talking on the phone and then she was interviewed two weeks later we had two openings that year and she was an amazing candidate she was a wonderful colleague for me she was a resource for innumerable people she is an amazing educator a gem you don't come across these very often and i think we're probably losing her and it's because of the decisions that feel so arbitrary at the end of the last two and a half years which have been miserable for everyone i would think the district would want to do things that would calm things down to make things easy so that we could heal and instead things have been blown up and not just the library situation so many things in the district are
167not going well and i fear that the administration is making things worse not giving the teachers and this the students time to get better after what's happened to them in the last two and a half years thank you debbie mary gordon 2720 cove road thank you to the board for your service as a community we understand what our school should look like and how we expect schools to run we pass levies bonds support fundraisers we attend events and support kids in many ways to get them from point a preschool to point b graduation we don't get everything we want compromise is the name of the game and teaching our kids to work together as adults try to do the same is the ultimate life skill we hope to accomplish to be in the situation we're
168currently in makes no sense in reassigning librarians which i know is done with no lead up conversations with the staff involved left many in the community feeling frustrated and confused a community group gathered organized wanting to ask questions and get informed were you trying to get rid of kathy day because of her continuous work supporting teachers maybe obviously impossible to prove when you blame the budget for your decisions you're going to get a huge spotlight on your budget are multiple records requests asking for budget numbers to explain this unpopular shift in programming has produced zero data to support this change it has become clear through these public records requests that our teacher numbers have decreased and our district office positions have increased that is a fact what is also clear is the turnover in the
169district office in the last 12 months i've spoken to many of these former employees and although their reasons for leaving may be unique they all lead to the same problem there's a lack of internal controls in your hr and finance departments in a hostile working environment and i question how one person as head of hr and with control over the job description and all the applications to replace brian aiken suddenly gets the job herself after seeing the receive job applications and i'm sure communicating with applicants illegal maybe not unethical certainly and as a taxpayer i question whether we ended up with the best candidate which is what we want records requests will show if anyone else was even interviewed i heard many hr stories such as this one and others regarding finance our community group
170has reached out to the state auditors and ospi to find out how we as a community can fix these wrongs we have an employment lawyer ready to go sadly much of these issues were communicated with our board members nothing was done i personally want a school board who oversees and questions everything the superintendent district office is doing while protecting the community and their hard-earned tax dollars as you were elected to do instead it seems we have a school board who protects the superintendent and district office at all costs while ignoring a questioning community when the fallout happens and it will the school board will bear the responsibility this is your ship to sail or sink but as i said we don't always get everything we want but ellensburg deserves better than this long after year
171off the board and our superintendent has moved on to a new job which she probably certainly will we will be left cleaning up the mess of the business hr office and rebuilding our school district into a place we can all be proud of thank you mary my story 805 is tacoma i'm a parent of the 24th grade daughters when we heard about this district it's eliminating librarian position i started searching information about school librarians i was very surprised to find out that there is a trend started way before pandemic the school district tend to eliminate librarian position with district budget cut so i guess ellensburg district is just following this nationwide trend but town ellensburg is not like any other town people in ellensburg value librarians because library is one of the culture of this
172small town when my daughters were tellers only place i can take them to this uh this town were just city parks and the public libraries there's no zoo or museum or no shopping mall with the indoor playground so we went through the story time two days a week miss josephine and missouri girls first favorite big people in town they learned not just abc but science math and music from them during the story times and other events at the library when my girls started life at the valley view elementary school as a kindergartener they were excited to tell me the all about the great books in their libraries when one of the daughter was sick on the library checkout day mr smith remember what kind of books my daughter liked and she would choose the book
173to send them with her sister this year their new librarian mrs eiler knows what general of the chapter books our kids like and she often personally recommends fun books for them thanks to these librarians reading is both of my daughter's favorite things to do when we told our girls that their future middle school and high school might not i guess it's now not have librarians they looks very confused and sad one of the daughters say i just can't imagine library without librarian and the other daughters say librarians makes library a library a lot of children like my daughter's library is a big part of their life since they were very young it is our responsibility to preserve this small town culture for them last two months many long-time community members including university librarians city librarians
174local pediatrician retired teachers spoke up about importance of having certified librarians all schools according to the national school board association site the school board represents community voice in public education providing citizen governance and knowledge of the community's resource and needs alexburg school school board members your task is advocating our community's voice not just for supporting administration agenda this librarian issue is one of the many problems our school district is facing right now if you don't start solving this problem with the community input i'm afraid that our district will lose more experience and certified educator than the district where they are more valued thank you thank you [Applause] my name is josh welsh i live at 903 east spokane avenue i've got three kids in the district one of which made it through this meeting thank
175you for the chance to speak uh thanks for your work on the board thanks to all the teachers that were here tonight sharing their hard work on the curriculum and providing their input you might look at those of us who come to these meetings and sit through the business agenda and then leave a three-minute speech and see us as members of a community of an organized group of whining complainers i hope that's not the case i hope you'll look at me and see me as a parent of kids that are near the beginning of their school of their career in our schools i hope you'll look at me and see a taxpayer who's always supported the levees i hope you'll see me as a community member who's concerned about our schools and about how they
176impact our town i'm here to talk about values not about feelings um i also hope that you'll that you won't look at the fewer people who speak out at some meetings as an indication that you've dealt with problems or addressed a concern i've spoken at several meetings now i haven't really felt as though my participation or feedback has been valued or taken into account if people stop showing up at these meetings it's not because we're satisfied with your work it's because we've given up [Applause] i hope you'll keep this in mind and really hear me when i say that i think there's a disconnect between the district and the community right now it's not to say that there aren't people doing good work we've seen teachers we've seen faculty folks we've seen lots of folks
177facilities folks we've seen people doing really good work in the district but decisions are being made in ways that consistently frustrate parents rezoning to that makes something like two-thirds of the students have to change schools again getting rid of the middle school and the high school librarians changing elementary libraries to steam centers without community input questionable hiring processes in the high in the high school athletics programs um i think i and many other parents have lost trust in the way that this district is being run other parents are leaving the district they'll drive their kids to school in thorpe or even as far as yakima rather than endure the decisions that are being made here your teachers are leaving too we all know great teachers who are choosing to retire or leave rather than put
178up with the environment that's been developed here we've got a culture problem in this district culture is about having shared values beliefs and assumptions that can shape how people in a group or community will handle problems in our district these shared values have fallen apart you can see this because people are here voicing their concerns over and over and over you can see this because teachers feel afraid to speak up about their own concerns you can see it because families are looking for other options for their children the evidence seems to be overwhelming there's a problem with culture in this district and i really hope you'll recognize this and look for honest ways to address it thanks thank you yes brittany nelson mrs lucille um 260 scenic lane and for those of you that don't
179know i am a past district office employee i was a fiscal specialist and i worked up the district for almost four years um i had my daughter in october and officially left the district after returning from maternity leave in march and i am here to just speak from my truth and the ellensburg school district is going downhill fast and it is due to the lack of leadership in this district office these so-called leaders have forced many individuals out of their jobs many of us are young mothers who were discriminated against while pregnant dealt with pregnancy complications due to work stress and had our fmla rights violated while on maternity leave we were not just me but other mothers were discriminated against while returning to the office i quit my position a month before my daughter
180was scheduled to have surgery why would a young mother quit her job with great benefits to have no coverage while she has to have surgery it was because i knew that i would be criticized and reprimanded to take time off to care for my daughter these leaders are only working for themselves and their last priority of the children in this community my supervisor at the time at the district was paige sorensen her and i both left in october 2021 and we had last reconciled the july 2021 financials i was still working on closing the books and finishing up august when i was put on bed rest due to the stress of my job that is the last month to have been reconciled and balanced how can these leaders who are unethically obtaining jobs um be
181responsible for the finances of our district our taxpayer dollars but they cannot balance the books all of the funds have multiple accounts that are off by thousands of dollars and no one is questioning this the school board shouldn't be approving the financial reports every month but they are this is the perfect opportunity for a misuse of funds if anyone has questions about this please reach out i would happily go over these reports with you and show you the discrepancies change needs to happen our taxpayer dollars should go to qualified individuals who are actually capable of doing the jobs and prioritize the children in this community change starts by questioning the lack of leadership and that includes this board the school board turned a blind eye when i brought ethical concerns to them and said it
182was not their responsibility to deal with unethical behavior from the district's top leadership thank you [Music] thank you for your time tonight alison carpenter 870 game farm road um i understand that the board has moved on from this decision but i have not and i believe i still speak for many people in the community that well in the school district that don't feel safe speaking i believe the librarian issue is the tip of the iceberg but tonight i want to talk a few more minutes about kathy day because i hear that she's leaving our district um the first time i applied for a job at the ellensburg school district was about 20 years ago and i didn't get the job kathy day got it some newcomer to town and a staff member later said oh
183if you just watched kathy day teach you'd see why you didn't get the job thanks i did get to see her teach and work as a librarian and she's just incredible she once i watched her teach a philosophy class to high achieving honor students and other times i'd see her coaching less than high achievers to reach their goals in writing always with thoughtfulness and a very irreverent sense of humor um also like you would expect of a teacher librarian she's a poet a horseback rider and a harley rider um so i'm still confused as to why the district um gutted her position i just i'm not sure i've seen the financial evidence for it so it leads me to think that maybe it's because kathy was a very independent thinker is a very independent thinker
184she's not dead she's just leaving ellensburg she's been a union president she's a tireless advocate for educators and she questions authority when there's reason to do so so it is ellensburg's loss but sela won the jackpot when they offered her a job for next year thank you [Applause] thank you okay marine rest perfect we are trying to unmute you as soon as you're unmuted you're welcome to begin can you hear me yes okay thank you um maureen rust 808 east washington avenue thank you for this opportunity there are undoubtedly wonderful things happening in the district that we can all celebrate i too would like to thank lee bates for his consistent advocation for attending our secondary school librarians both in his letters to the newspaper editor and his board of education public comments i too
185would like to speak to the elimination of secondary school librarians in our district last week kathy day our soon to be former ehs librarian brought a group of 25 ap history students 9th and 10th grade to cw to introduce them to the resources of the writing center history department and cw libraries this visited choreographed by ms day as she has done several years pre-coveted is a great demonstration of the frequently referenced and inspired to future ready libraries program let me correlate the visit uh to the features of the future ready library's objectives number one use of space and time kathy uh provided pre-visit instruction on library layout and use of databases number two curriculum instruction and assessment she tied the instruction to a specific assignment number three personalized professional learning she modeled library and cw
186resources uh used to a history department colleague at ehs number four robust infrastructure she demonstrated by familiarity with ap history curriculum and cw resources number five budget resources she took advantage of free resources at cwu number six community partnerships she partnered with the writing center the history department and cw libraries number seven data and privacy she demonstrated the use of protected resources number eight collaborative leadership she collaborated with history department faculty writing lab staff and the cw libraries this is the certified teacher librarian we are losing on the pretense that her program needed overhauling to meet these very objectives i want to express my disappointment and frustration that the school administration has seemingly refused to take into consideration the extreme public criticism of this major program dismantling please point me to one person who is
187not in administration who supports this change of course our arguments are emotional but they are also based on fact my sense now is that the powers that be are simply waiting out the dissension without genuinely reassessing if this decision makes any sense for the district i'd like to use my remaining whatever the time is for a moment of silence for the families educators and community members in nevalde texas thank you thank you maureen all right and it's 8 57 so i think we were able to do it all right just verifying all right any clarifications i'm gonna actually go first ginger ginger i'm just going to put this clarification to you um we've heard some very concerning information and some serious some serious accusations concerning actions of the district i anticipate the board will have
188follow-up questions board we need to remind our community the most productive way to address concerns is in writing as as in an email to the board also board accusations should be followed by fax evidence and ginger do you have any clarifications uh no but on a it's adjourned to close our executive session if needed and i would like to adjourn to executive session uh for e and f in our policy all right we need to leave a time how long do you think we need uh let's say 20. okay so we will be back in at 9 20 about 20 minutes from now leslie can you make sure that madeline is able to has a the zoom leak so we can make sure madeline can join us okay ginger's on it okay perfect thank you
189all right uh we are adjourning to close session no executive sorry executive session uh until 9 20. thank you let's see oh shoot i got it oh i have to zoom all ready to go there it is thank you i'm so excited for everything you had to share um i will see i'll email you but that day the day before graduation see if i can make and we may have to come back in and extend it we'll see leslie we may need to come back and extend it so stay ready in case we need to leave us yes absolutely no i absolutely okay french is oh okay good part of the journey yeah this is from somebody who knows there you go don't look hey i'm good evening you're all right okay this so all
190right are our zoom people still zoomed in can they still i mean i just wanna make sure they can hear us we're not muted or anything okay good just making sure we're good there okay uh we are back and i am just trying to find out where we were yep so we did that and so now claire so any clarifications or next steps board calendar no um one thing i would say under board calendar i know like in your superintendent update you had listed some important those important dates i haven't checked to actually see if those are um google calendar invites it would be really helpful like having graduate i i'm sorry to ask you all but i'll double check i want to make sure that graduate like graduation i feel like all three of
191those things i know you would ask other things like the senior breakfast and stuff like that so it's just graduations on them i will double check okay because because yeah i want to make sure i can be it is the only one i didn't see was the uh awards oh excellence awards or whatever oh that was sunshine ellensburg yeah that was the only one i didn't see a google invite for but the rest yeah uh breakfast graduation and uh excel we're all right yeah i think but okay okay okay sounds good so and there's no proposed items for future consideration at this point nothing from madeleine okay um so that leads us well we know we have do we have documents to sign yes thank you that's just what i wanted to hear okay so
192we'll sign documents and then now we can adjourn so [Music] i move that we adjourn and i'm gonna second it and so we're now adjourned so thank you all right we will start signing documents have a good night madeline