001I can welcome everybody to the to the meeting tonight. Um I have a nice young lady that's going to come up. Camila is going to come up and uh do our lead us in our flag salute. If you'd come up here with me, please. You're going to do great. What you're going to do is you're going to set up and we're going to look at the flag and you're going to tell everybody what to do. We're going to say the pledge of allegiance. Okay? Please tell me when you're ready. Just going to turn around and we'll just go. Ready, begin. Okay. You want me to say it? Okay. Ready? Begin. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
002indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Come over here. I'm going to teach you this and you're going to stand right over here. Once again, right over here. I'm going to give you a little picture. >> Okay. Are you ready? >> We're going to smile and she's gonna go one, two, three. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Good job. >> How are you doing? You haven't seen you in a while. be great. >> And you can sit or >> Yeah. This nonsense is about >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, we'll move on. Welcome everybody. I didn't get a chance to welcome you first. You guys weren't here. So, welcome. Uh any addition or deletions to the agenda? We're good. >> Any public comment? Nope. >> That's even better. >> Even better. GHSASB team would like to
003come forward and give us a little update so you guys can hurry up and get up to the game. >> Yeah. >> Who won a J game? >> Um I think both our teams won. >> Nice. >> Yeah. And I was watching part of the girls. It was already like 30 to five. Quincy makes us look really good. Brandon, I'm our vice president. >> I'm Jay. I'm the president. >> I'm Case Judkins. I'm the secretary. >> I'm Louis V. I'm the ASB assistant treasurer. >> You guys want to start with the dog? >> No, >> uh recently we had our adopt a family project where we collected donations from local businesses in order to um supply gifts to families in need. Uh we adopted 18 families this year and recently on the December the 19th,
004we went to Walmart and shoed for all of them. They all had um needs and wants and we were able to supply all of those to them. Um it was very successful and we all the donations were carried out by the Salvation Army. >> Next we have our coach versus cancer event after adult family and that's going to take place on the 27th pretty much just like a silent auction. So all the kids in leadership fast right now have been assigned at the minimum uh two businesses and we're going around asking for donations such as like items or gift baskets and stuff like that. and that's going to be used in the silent auction on the 27th and it's going to help raise money for people with cancer. So, it's not coming out. >> Um,
005sports, I think I think we our girls and boys will have a winning record for basketball and then our wrestling team just got back from like a really big meet in Seattle. There was like like Texas, Alaska, >> there's like 3,000 wrestler there. >> So, they just got done with that. I know. Um, I don't think there. It was like really successful, but um it was just a lot of competition, so it was hard to score against. Um I think rankings just came out for basketball. I think we're fifth or 10th for boys and fifth for girls in the state for 2A. So that was good. >> Yeah, our girls be sila. That was a good one. >> That was nice. >> Yeah. >> And then today we're playing Quincy. And then tomorrow we have
006our unified basketball game at four. That's our senior night. >> Oh, four o'clock. Yes. And then what else is this week? >> Oh yeah. And then next month we're gonna have our Black History Month. We're coming up with ideas for what we want to do. We're looking for some like student activities instead of us just like usually we make posters. We want some like activities that the students can do. So that's what we're looking at right now. >> Do you want to talk about the summit on the 22nd? >> Oh yeah. We're also having our SIC summit on the 22nd which I don't know too much but I do know I have to make a poster for it. know a few other schools going to be there. I know. Oh, Proer's there. Wilson is there.
007>> Waptoish. >> Yeah. >> And I think the post I think there were six schools. >> I think so. >> Yeah. >> You're pretty good. >> Any questions? Who >> we playing for coaches versus cancer? We were trying to think of that. East Valley >> is East Valley. >> Yeah, >> the East Valley. I think so. Yeah. >> Then there's somebody going to go run down in Florida somewhere or something. Going to go do run running. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. I run in New York. >> Oh, New York. >> Yeah. March. >> A little colder there. >> Chilly. >> I saw that. That's awesome. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Why unified at 4? Man, it's tough to get there at four o'clock. I know it's a lot earlier than they usually do. I'll
008do what? I'll skip out of work. >> Thank you. >> I've done it before. >> Me, too. >> Awesome. Anything else? >> No. >> All right. Thanks, guys. >> Awesome. Thanks. >> Go yell loudly for us and appropriately, >> of course. >> Okay, Jesse, all you >> sweat >> getting ready. >> Getting serious. Yeah, >> I know I'm heat quick. So, this is strictly self-preservation. >> Want to hand out for you guys to accompany the memo that was submitted. So, give you guys a couple minutes to look while I don't mind that. So the memo that was submitted was for some rate uh RFPs that were submitted for this rate funding year. Uh what I came to today is talk to you guys a little bit about give you some background on it. I know
009we have some new school board members. So, everybody has kind of a a high level overview what is uh a description of those RFPs and then talk a little bit about student laptop refresh and student device refresh. See? All right. So, really cool. Uh that looks really small. Are you guys able to see that? Okay. Okay. Cool. Right out of here. All right. So, basically, it's a federal funding program administered by the FCC but managed by USA. Every year we apply for it. Um, we use it to pay for our internet service, infrastructure. Uh, its intended purpose is to pay for connectivity or to help schools fund connectivity to the school as well as fund uh to get internet to the school as well as fund connectivity to the building. So gets internet to the
010schools and then helps you distribute it to all your locations within your building. So that could be your classrooms uh secondary buildings you may have in the schools to get fiber rap connectivity to them. Uh so partial reimbursement so because we are a high poverty school district our NSLP data plays into what our discount rate is. So NSLP is free and reduced lunch. of students that qualify for free and reduced lunch. Based on our previous numbers, which I don't have updated numbers for this funding cycle yet, uh we were at 85% for category 2 and 90% for category 1. I'll go into that here in a bit a little more in depth here in a bit. So category 1 has no cap, right? So there is no funding limit, but it will only fund up
011to 90% of the eligible purchase. So there is no overall limitation to how much we can apply for and use. Category 2 has a budget and it's funded every 5 years. So our budget, our 5year cycle just ended and for funding year 2026 which starts July 1, we get a whole new category 2 budget and that has to last 5 years. So whatever we do, we have five years to use that money before that budget refreshes again. The allocation for this next funding cycle is 2011. So 201 and 57 cents per eligible student. So once we have our free and reduced lunch numbers, we'll know where a category 2 budget is. I'm anticipating right around 600k. Uh but I'll have to wait and see what those numbers actually. >> Is that just high school and
012middle school students or everybody in the district? >> That would be districtwide. Okay. So >> districtwide of those two funding categories, category one, like I said, funds internet connectivity to your building. So internet access, wide area network connections, any fiber. So the fiber that we have between like from our our data centers which would be at HTML going to all the other schools all that fiber that we have is considered category one because it delivers those services to the buildings. Category two is going to be anything inside the building. So for example, wireless access points, cabling inside the classrooms to wall jacks, uh anything you see in a network closet inside of a school is going to be considered category 2. What about the district office? Is that unqualified? >> Uh yeah. So the the
013way works is it allow us to have instructional facilities and non-instructional facilities. So our allocation doesn't change based on how many facilities we have. What it does allow us to do is leverage category 1 and category 2 dollars for both instructional and non-instructional facilities. So here in a bit you're going to see RFP that I talk about for the warehouse location which is right across from 104. That's considered a non-instructional facility but it's eligible for category one uh connectivity services. >> All right. So on that list of RFPs category one you have dark fiber connection to 710 West Country Road. That's warehouse location right across from Ford. So this uh this RFP is our current contract expired and so we're looking out to look for just continuation of service basically whether it's the same vendor
014or a different vendor that comes in takes it over. We're going out for a two-year contract and that's because our existing dark fiber that we have in the rest of the district has two more years on the existing contract. So what we're looking for is to basically just carry this one on until the other ones expire and then we'll go out to bid for all of them together. Category two network switches. So our cate our so if you think about our network infrastructure we've got our internet connection that comes in. We have two main switches that handle all that processing for the district. All the internet traffic that comes in and out. Those two switches are on that RFP. And then all of our buildings each have a head-end switch that uh connects to that
015main those main switches for connectivity. So each building if you look at it um you got the main district switches then you've got your headend switches for each building and then inside of that you have all your network closets that feed connectivity to all the classrooms. So we're going out to refresh our core and distribution layers which is that basically the headend switches for the district. Uh the next one on here I'm going to talk a little bit about cost. I got a little bit ahead of myself. So, the dark fiber connection, uh, based on what we're planning now, I'm projecting about 17K and that's pre- discount to the district. Uh, category two, the network switches, uh, list price for kind of what we have right now is about 550K. We never pay list price.
016We always pay discount rates, but I don't know what's going to be bid in the contract. It may be the same hardware that we have manufacturer. It could be something completely different. So, it's really hard to baseline pricing until we have that data. uh firewall. You guys have seen this one before. If you remember the cyber security pilot program, they have been moving really slow. Uh I had an inquiry over Christmas break, responded to it. Uh they wanted some line item details on what we were going to buy. So I sent that in. I have not heard back since. And so I don't have a funding commitment from them. I don't have like approval denial. I don't foresee us getting denied, but I don't have an approval. So what I'm doing is submitting underate just
017so that we have another funding vehicle for this in the event that doesn't pan out just as a backup plan. So that's why you see that and that 85k is the dollar amount that was uh tied to the contract that we awarded the the wave bid to. That's where that came from. The next one is manage network services. This one's interesting. So, Date has a there's a weird rule that says that if you have managed network services, you can fund your network uh WAN switches under category one instead of category 2. So, if you look on the network switches at $550,000 line item, potentially if we were to go into a managed services contract, we might be able to shift that purchase under category one. The benefit of that is that we would save 5%
018on a total cost. The big benefit is that it preserves our category 2 budget, allows us to use it for other things in district like any kind of cabling that has to be refreshed, other network equipment. Um, I don't know what that's going to come in at. It's strictly an estimate, but once those bids come in, I'll conduct a cost analysis and see what the additional cost of the district is, and then I'll sit down with Brad and I'll look at it and say, "Okay, is this going to be worth it in the long term for us to go into a managed services contract? So, those are the RFPs. Any questions about RFPs? I know that was a quick shot to it, but if you guys have any questions, happy to answer them. All right,
019we're going to move on. Uh, I guess the rest of it is the U category one total to the district is about 1,700 if they come in at what I estimated the cost to be. Category 2 117,750. And that's based off of these estimates on this slide here. 24. So February 4th will be all the bids will have to be submitted by then. That's the bid opening day. My plan is either by the board meeting on the 10th or the 24th to come back to you guys with uh some recommendations for approving contracts, award contracts. The next thing I'd like to talk about is student device refresh. So this is another big one. Uh currently our current deployment model for student devices in district are for students in grades 3 through 12 it's 1 one.
020So for every student we have a device in grades K2 we also have one to one deployment uh for every student we have a device just recently uh we met with principles or I met with principles to gather some input on you know do we need to revisit our deployment model. So when we went onetoone with K2, it was back when COVID hit. I don't know if you guys remember, but OSPI had some funds that became available to purchase devices. And they basically told school districts, how much how much do you need or how many devices do you need to go onetoone to support remote learning? So that's when we went 1:1 K2. And so this is how many devices we need. We got them and so we were one to one since then. However,
021going forward, those funding sources have dried up and so we're going back and revisiting what do we need to do to make sure that we can maintain a five-year refresh cycle. So, principles and you know, we talked about how long devices are touched by students at different grade levels. Uh, you know, the benefits of unfound continued access to a device versus having to share a device. And what we determined together was that students in grades three through five because it was an elementary meeting would need access to a device basically all day throughout the school day. whether or not they use a device all day having a device in the classroom available is was what we decided on. K2 they could share a device. So uh for every one student every one device well for
022every two students will have one device going forward. And so the principles at that point will work with their teachers to schedule you know how those carts get shared between classrooms. So that is going to be the deployment model going forward. So, as we talk about refresh today, you're going to see a large device count, but that's because we're one to one today. But the refresh schedule is going to reflect a K2 uh one device, two student model and 312 1:1 model. All right. So, device phase out a little bit about why or how we when we try to get devices out of district. Uh general rule of thumb right now is about five years. that five years of age, we're starting to see hardware degradation, hardware failures due to not so much vandalism, but
023just hinges, trackpads, screens going out. Uh we're seeing the cost to maintain a device after the third year almost triple on average across all devices. And so at 5 years, it's it's a good time for us to start looking at replacing devices. So the refresh plan reflects a 5year cycle on devices. Uh the other determining factor for getting devices uh removing them out of circulation is Google AUE. So it's not so much now, but before Google had what they called an auto update expiration, kind of like your iPhone says, "Okay, you're not getting any more. You're not you can't download the next app, the latest app, because you have to update to the next version of the software, but your hardware is too old, so you can't update." That's what we were running in. Now,
024we're seeing real extended times for that AUE that exceed the life of the device and we're starting to see hardware failure before we hit those dates. So, that's almost a non-issue going forward, but it is in there and it's something to look at. Today in district, we have about 3,818 devices. That's above our current headcount. That's because as we've taken devices out of circulation, if we still have that model in circulation in certain quantities, we keep those devices as cyclical spares and we take them for parts. So we will not get rid of them. We want to make take squeeze every last bit out of them we can which is why you see a higher number for student for devices in district versus headcount. Okay. So going forward when we look at device refresh, we
025don't want to take any devices that the way I look at it now, any devices that are going to be four years of age and younger are the ones we want to take into next school year. We want to face out the devices that are going to hit the 5-year mark at the end of the school year. So, what you're going to see here, the next the last bullet point there is we have 1,344 out of the 3,818 devices that are eligible to carry in the next school year as devices in our inventory. This table here breaks it down by school and grade B at the elementaryaries. That first column is building. You're going to see high school, middle school, CLC. Elementaryaries are broken out by gradeband again because 35 is one to one and
026K2 is a one device to two students and so that's what that reflects. Headcount is as of January of this year. So whatever enrollment was reported for January and then the spares are the spares that we need at each of the buildings to ensure that we can cycle devices out that have gone down for hardware software reasons uh to give us an opportunity to put a working device back in the student's hand or repair the one that was that had the deficiency. So that last call the third the second to the last column there devices less than four years of age those are the devices at each of the buildings that are at the end of the school year will be four years newer and can be eligible to be carried in the next school
027year. That last column is a difference between headcount spares and the devices that can be moved in the next school year. So if we look at the high school,93 for headc count and then 30 spares we actually need uh what is that 1093 plus 30 is uh 1123 is that right? 1123 1123 to carry over next school year. And if we subtract the 579 that 544 is what we need to buy this school year to be on the 5year refresh plan. Those are big numbers if you look down the list. by 44, 410, 12, 156, 193. Uh the financial burden of having to refresh those amount of devices in one year is high. Now, I still wouldn't recommend it because we're buying them all in one year. And so, guess what's going to happen five
028years from now? We're going to see that big number again. Uh so, going on to the next slide, I'm going to I'm going to circle back to this one here in just a second. I'm going to talk a little bit about teacher laptops and then I'm going to show you guys what the refresh schedule looks like for both student devices and teacher laptops together. Any questions on this slide before I move on? Crap. Moving on. All right. Teacher laptops. So, teacher laptops deployment model is one laptop per teacher. Uh device phase out, same thing. Five years. We try to age them out. Current teacher laptops are about the majority of them are going on six years at the end of the school year. So, we have about 195 teachers in classrooms today. 217 devices for
029those teachers. So, we have a few spares, but of those 217 devices, only five of them will be at the end of the school year four years or nearer, which means that in an ideal refresh cycle, we're only going to carry over or should carry over only five the next school year. That's a big number. This next slide, what I tried to do was kind of level out what we need to purchase every year. Uh, luckily for us, next year is a zero year for us for devices that are going to hit that fiveyear mark. So, that is big numbers that you saw on that table on the previous slide. We have a couple years to make up that ground. Uh, what this slide reflects is uh this year, next school year, making up that
030ground and then leveling off going into the future. What I'm trying to do is make this so that you can use it for budgetary planning going forward anticipate what we need to spend every year. Uh so student Windows laptops for this year for example 483 student Chromebooks 350 teacher laptops 100. Uh teacher laptops are not spread across five years just because when we bought the teacher laptops they were bought in one year. So if I were to spread those across five years we might be asking some teachers to have a laptop for close to 10 years and that's not going to work. When you apply the financials to those numbers, this is what it looks like. So, first column is a school year. The next column is what it is. So, student laptops, student Chromebooks,
031teacher laptops, and then you've got pricing. Again, pricing is estimated right now. The only pricing I know for sure right now is student Chromebooks. The other ones are based off previous pricing that we paid. as of January costs gone up SSDs uh memory uh so we'll see an increase in pricing so I'll I'll go out and get updated pricing but these are it's pretty close uh quantities reflect the refresh schedule in the previous slide and then you see totals for line items coming across as well as totals for that school year for refresh I applied a 4% inflation rate to every year these prices do include taxes but if you look down at the very bottom of that slide you'll see the 5-year total cost for device refract and that's projected based on 1% inflation
032rate. Uh these numbers can fluctuate if enrollment changes because we replace we when we refresh devices we refresh them to headcount and so if enrollment goes up we'll see more devices that need to be purchased enrollment goes down we'll buy less. Uh but we're looking at a 2.2.3 22 $2.3 million uh refresh cycle for five years. >> I think we might met glasses. I say that one more time. I think I get everybody met glasses. >> So, I'll give you guys a couple more seconds to digest that. Do you guys see if you guys have any questions on that one? >> How early in the year did they need to be ordered? um >> to have them ready for the next school year. >> Typically, we would do them over the summer. Chromebooks this year
033at the elementaryaries are a little bit more of a concern. We've carried them on for six years. Uh we're starting to see just hardware failure after hard work building the trackpads. >> When would you order them though? >> If uh if I can get books put together, uh I'd get them ordered within the next couple weeks. Chromebooks, laptops for student devices at middle school and high school can wait till the summertime. >> But you won't have many actual dollars till February, you said, right? >> Uh in regards to >> for the budget to be able to say how much all that's going to cost. >> Uh I can get uh numbers for cost of devices. The thing is when I go to the vendors >> Oh, maybe that was the reimbursement money on >> Oh,
034that's Yeah, that's Yeah, this is completely separate for but yeah, because we are going into that time of the year, I figured I'd bring this to the table as well, just to make sure you guys are aware. >> Um, yeah. So, typically refresh would occur over the summer. In this case, there is a little bit more of a sense of urgency to get these Chromebooks refreshed for the elementaryaries before state testing comes around. Uh we don't want students fighting devices that have deficiencies and trying to struggle and taking the test at the same time. Uh all right. So I'm going to move on to the next slide here. Actually, I'm not going to I'm going to leave this for you guys to review. I went back. What I did was I tied these to the
035plan. Okay. There's a few slides on this. So let you guys go back and review. If you guys have any questions on strategic plan, how it allows the iterate stuff or device refresh, let me know. I'm happy to expand on it. Um, however, the closing slide is I'm not asking you guys to take any action today, but I do anticipate that the majority of these purchases will exceed $100,000. And so, I wanted to make sure that you guys were aware of, you know, what those RFPs entail, what student device refresh looks like, so that when we come back to the table, have another conversation about that. Is there any questions I can answer at this time? No, you made it pretty pretty uh self-explanatory. So, >> very dynic. >> I'm You probably know the answer
036to this. I'm pretty sure Brad probably budgeted for this some of this. >> Um I don't I think so. Some of it I don't know. It's I can't speak for that. I I wish he was here to speak on that one. Uh Rob did >> Yeah, he he keeps his This is one of items. >> That's what I would have thought. Yeah. Okay. Because that's about the same amount of money didn't we spend last year on >> device refresh >> or year before? >> Last year we did not refresh. >> So was it the year before we bought a bunch? Yeah. >> And it was about that much money. >> Pretty close. Yeah. Very close. >> And that's why he he was excited when we said, "Hey, we're going to be 400 to the good."
037>> And and and he said, "And we're going to put toward technology." Right. >> Well, I appreciate you guys' time. I think everything. >> Thank you. Thanks, Justin. >> Okay, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. Mr. Steman, recuse yourself from the consent agenda. >> So, I'd like to call for a motion on the consent agenda. >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> And I'll second that motion. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Okay, we'll move on to new business. Um, so this is a little unique thing. Um, I actually didn't actually know about this policy till it was brought up, but uh um Heather has requested a uh twomonth excuse um and the board has to approve that excuse. Um and that actually if
038you I don't know did you present the policy with this when you sent this out? Brazil. >> Anyway, in the policy, it actually tells you some of the reasonings you can utilize for ex for missing uh meetings, um military, uh things like that, um illnesses, work, different things, but certain ones have to fall into being approved by the board. So, what she did is I had her uh present a letter that was in the packet that she requests um uh two months uh away and we have to vote on that and approve it. And I did actually didn't I knew of this, but if you have four unexcused absences, then you can replace the person. So, um, anyway, so I'm going to, uh, uh, ask for a motion on this. >> I make a motion
039that we excuse excuse Heather's absences. >> I second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> post. Okay. McClair Elementary School improvement plan. >> I make a motion to approve the McLaren Schools improvement plan. I'll >> second it. >> All in favor? I >> opposed. >> Motion carries. Okay, we'll move on to superintendent report. >> Yeah, I'll make this quick update getting board. Yeah. Um, just some news related items. As I mentioned previously, I was part of the one of the committees for this uh interview process for the new YBC president and they asked me for a quote and so I put that in there and added included a link to our website and so they did that. Um, we had a great presentation at the Grand View Chamber a couple weeks ago. It was
040really wellreceived and they actually held Kathy said, "Hey, show of hands. How many are voting for the levy?" So, she forced people >> right then and there like even if you aren't living here, would you vote for it? Be like, "Yeah." So, we have the levies, we have the chambers vote. >> And uh, that's pretty interesting. Brad and I are like, "We can't tell you how to vote." Keep >> a girl. >> Yeah. I got interviewed by the Grand View Herald and they sent a photographer here today to do pictures. So that should be running soon about the levy. Um then they're also going to come to student um the student voice summit on the 22nd. They're going to bring in photographer and reporter down there for that. We had a good write up on
041the front page, the Grand View Herald. Um and then the Apple Valley News ran a segment about uh a levy last night. We've received two grants. Um, one of them is $300,000 grant to replace the clocks in McClur. That's a it's it seems like a big deal for clocks, but clocks are everything. You know, bell schedule, every schedule, recess, bathroom, everything. And so that's a big deal. They've been without consistent clocks for a while. Then Josie wrote a grant um to receive funding for to update ADA entrances and exits at our buildings. We got $150,000 grant for that. And so, thank you, Joseph, for that. >> I didn't know that. >> Did you know that? Oh, that's great. I'm glad we got it. >> So, they're identifying now we're trying to figure out like how
042do we spread that out so everybody gets equal access to it because you you can't do every building, every exterior building and every 150 grand. So, they're trying to figure out they're trying we're going to triage the primary ones. And then um so you're aware we met with um Gloria Mendoza and Gary Christensen a week or two ago um and they want they're we're looking at starting a CDL program here. Last Friday, Betty and um Derek and I were going to take a drive up to Athell because Athell and Connell have them already and and Gary was instrumental helping those programs begin. So, we had to cancel that meeting because they had no assistant principal at the high school that day. Had those two been gone and so we're going to reschedule it, but we're
043going to go up there and get the ball rolling on that. And Betty's also looking into offering a diesel mechanic program and like a ATV farm instrument type mechanical certification program. So these would be really good programs for us to be doing. And then obviously the forklift operator one too. >> So that's a they're they're in the infancy stage. If I were to put a if I were to put a point in the infancy stage, I'd think husband and wife are talking about having a baby. They're not we're not pregnant yet. We don't even have a due date, but we're we're we made a decision to have a baby, so these are the babies we're going to have. That's a weird >> It works. >> We knew what you were talking about. >> Next time
044I'll tell you like, hey, our CDL program is a peanut. Um, Grand View High School is going to start partnering with the the social institute. And this is a program Derrick's really excited about and it's really it does a lot of work around social engineering inside the school but has a huge parent engagement component to it and he explained to me a little bit about it. He told me I could share it with you. Um and once he knows more about it, he's going to come present to you as well. But he's really excited about this because he sees a big gap in family engagement, parent engagement. And you'd be amazed at how many times we sit down with parents in a meeting and parents are upset that the district's not calling them. We say,
045"Pull up your phone." and we call them right there and it shows up as blocked. They're blocking the school's phone numbers on their parents' phones. So when the parent when the high school calls or middle school calls the parent, it doesn't ring. And so so parents are fuming at us for not calling and and we're fuming at them for not responding and it turns out kids are being kids. And so there's all these different things that could happen. And um and so this the social institute is designed to really help create a bigger bond between community and and families in the school and the students taking more ownership of that. So Dererick's going to share more about that with us. And then real quick, I wanted to show you Jose and his squad have been
046working on creating a strategic band strategic plan dashboard. So if you go to the district's website, if you go to the about us section, it's there for now. Once the levy information page we take that off, it's going to be right in the middle. that's going to have a standalone page. You go on here and you click on our goal and it shows you the data for each of those projects and how we've been progressing over the last couple of years. So for our whole person whole learner, our bilingual biliterate goal, um challenged and engaged to high levels, success in their early years, and then thriving in college, career and life. And so it actually shows you what what did we move from one year to the next year. Then as data is being updated,
047they're adding it to it and updating it. So >> nice. >> That's pretty it's pretty cool. So kudos to Jose and his squad for figuring out a wrapping their minds around how do we make this an actual dashboard and b getting on the website. So yeah, that's awesome. So good job Jose and your team. >> Yeah, Jesse, Stephanie, and Amy. >> Yeah. >> Right. And then um yeah uh Saturday no next Friday the student voice committee student voice summit and then the upcoming live information nights going to after this I'm going to go to the high school and set up a booth or sit there Thursday night following Tuesday we have the the big community event and then anything we can if you want to um join the work that Shelby and her squad are
048doing you're more than welcome to do that outside your work hours your school work hours which is a couple nights a week And then we're gonna have a extended edition for a copy of the soup on the the week of February leading up to the ballots. And then and then I'll and then we're then I'm excited because the 10th we have a board meeting. And so I'll leave here. I'll go to Yakama to the assessor's office and then I they will actually announce the they'll announce the first rounds there for the people who have something on the ballot so we can be there and see it live. I mean they'll probably put it online as quickly as they tell us, but it still be >> it'll still be cool. That's my report. >> Any questions?
049>> My next superintendent, my next strategic plan update is going to be around safety and security. >> And based on what we've heard the last couple copy of the soups, one section is going to identify just our our hiring process, how we screen and vet and train and hold accountable staff members because that's come up a few times because it's something that's happened recently at one of our schools. And so I'm going to put that out there as part of this flyer information about our safety and security. So it'll be it'll be comprehensive. >> Very nice. >> Um okay, the board assessment I did it. Sorry. >> Okay. >> So anyway, um we did good. um from the board. Um anybody have anything? >> Uh I think they're they're asking us if we want to
050be involved in senior exit interviews and I think it's the 26th I believe. >> 26th and 28th. I think there's two days, two options, Monday and Wednesday. Yeah. >> Dan, will you tell Shelby that I did mention it to the board so that I don't get in trouble? wanted to tell her I've already seen emails come through our school emails about it, so I felt everybody already knew about it. So >> anyway, um I did go to the curriculum uh thing with Jose and uh um Chuck was there and uh got to listen to that. It would have been nice to listen to the other ones because I only had one to choose from, but I actually thought that one was pretty cool. Um, one of the things that was interesting about it was, and
051it was kind of funny because I was sitting with Jose and the gentleman presenting this was it was on science and he was talking about how, well, yeah, you can get the workbook and you can do this and you have the book and I'm thinking great. I mean, we need to go back to books. I mean, that would be great because all these chords not over the place. But here's the kicker. when you're doing the thing online, it won't let you go forward unless you do a correct answer or it'll bounce you back to a certain area if you need to read a little bit more, but the book doesn't do that. So, you almost have to do it on the thing. So, it really the book doesn't really work very well with exactly how
052he was presenting it. But anyway, it was a really pretty cool uh process. Some of the things they have are amazing. um they can answer a couple questions and if they get them wrong, it kicks them back to the exact place they need to be to answer that question so they can review it. But, you know, >> that's pretty neat stuff. So, >> one of the top two. >> Oh, is it? >> That one in SAS. >> Yeah. >> I I went to I think three of them. How many did you >> four? Yeah. So, I did three of them and that was of the three I saw the one I like the best and it was the other ones weren't didn't cover from 6 to 12. >> That one did. So, I I'm not
053sure it makes a lot of sense to buy something that you got to go buy something else. >> They were very uh people were asking a lot of questions and actually uh >> not fumbled him up but definitely had some in-depth questions that maybe he had to think twice about that. um was good. Um but anyway, and uh some I actually think they had some questions that they're going to end up changing their software and how they do it based on the questions. The way I took it was do you guys do this? No, but that's pretty good idea, you know, like maybe we should. >> Our our staff was very engaged with the three that I went to. >> Uh I impressed with them. they're, you know, it's up to them to come up
054with what they're going to present to us for a a curriculum for science. And from what I've seen, I think they're doing a great job. Um, if you plan on being at the thing on Tuesday of next week, um, make sure we let um, Sabrina know because she'll have to put that out because that is >> I'll I'll be there. >> Something that'll be part of that. So, um, do any of you plan on going to the thing on Thursday? It's at Sunflower. Uh, it's just anformational thing for the levy for the public. >> What time is that at again? >> Uh, I can't answer that question. Do you remember what time did you see? >> I think it's either at 5:30 or 6 >> anyway, but it'sformational thing. Um, I would only assume that
055I'm being roped into going to that, but uh, more than likely. So >> Brad and I will be there. >> Oh, I can't actually I can't cards at night. >> Yeah. >> So I may stop by there on my way. It depends on what time it comes. So anyway, um anything else from the board? Um FYI is the November budget status. You guys had that information in your deal. >> Now we're going to go into executive session.