001We will have a call and a [Music] flag to the flag of the United States of America. your host and joining us Zoom is Carol. That's very important because how many people This is a seven person board. Okay, students. Seven person board. How many do we need for a forum? Who said four? I heard it. You're right. So, we got Okay. Is uh agenda item two, approval of agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So, there's a motion and a second. Any discussion? No discussion. We will have a vote. All in favor of the agenda as presented say I. I. I. Carol. Thank you. Four votes. Agenda item three, public participation. No got. Okay, we will move on then. Agenda item four, communications. Board reports and communication. I got board. I
002want to communicate. Um, as you know, we're we're working on the North Bend School salmon hatchery on Pony Creek. early days and the first meeting was last Tuesday, April 29th at Aggland Marine and we uh had some attendees. It was WDE Lester was there and he's actually the the Northbend school district contact Josh Betsworth who was the father of the middle schooler and it was kind of his idea and Josh is the manager at uh England Marine. Uh we had folks from Lacoma step program uh the cues county step program the Kville Indian tribe and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. So this was the first meeting and what happened the big thing was uh Josh Bettisworth had prepared a uh draft memorandum of agreement that kind of talked about what what would happen there.
003It was, I don't know, five or six pages and we went through that and uh so the proposal is to put a fish hatchery down on Pony Creek on middle school and and high school property. Uh what they did talk about was there's really two technical challenges and uh one of them is the salinity salinity. I can't get that out. salinity of Pony Creek is intertital and so the salinity may be higher than normal where you would raise small at so they're going to do some work on that measuring salinities and high tide low tide and the other things to find a freshwater source and there may be a spring on district property down there somewhere somebody said uh the the forward plan is ODFW and others will obtain the salinity measure measurements take them
004a couple months to get. If the salinity is too high in Pony Creek, what it means is they'll raise the smolds up up in predominantly fresh water, fresh pressure water. So, they want to kind of know that before we move forward. And then on the funding side, everyone wants to know who's going to pay for this thing. I didn't. So it sounded like step uh the step group step writes grants and they will fund the capital pretty much the capital building whatever equipment it needs to be bought for it. Um and it was mentioned that our CTE construction group could help build the building because there's a building to be built down there. And uh so the only mention for for funding on North Bend the district side was the electrical costs, the monthly utility
005costs. So anyway, exciting project for uh the students community 412. Okay. communications or B. Ellie, student representatives to the board, high school representatives. Ellie, Eli, and I don't think Eli and Wayne are here. Um, but I don't know. I was thinking about maybe Clara could double, but I don't know if she wants to like like sports like I don't know like they usually talk about sports like that. If you want to wear it, buddy. Thank you, ladies. You can sit or stand. What's going on in school? Recently, we just had our first men's volleyball game, which that was super exciting. It's a new emerging sport. We also have the girls like flag football who have had a few games recently and they're doing really well and we won the game in the boys volleyball as
006well. Should we play? Do you know? Okay. Oh, it was sweet. I know band is on its way to state which I think is very exciting for band. They're a very great amazing band and I think it's very important for the school to like have this kind of like resource for everybody. I think it's very I think it's just very nice to have a really great band. They make the games the games honestly. Yeah, we have promps. It's May 17th. The theme is going to be Hollywood, and we're going to have it at the same place we did last year at the Bristol Center. I'm personally really excited. I'm a senior this year, so it's my last prom. Is there a song? Is there a prom song? Do you still do? Back in the day,
007you did, you know, you had theme of prom versus song. No. Okay. I don't think so. think about that for Got it. Just another high school play. That's a theater production coming up. Yeah, it's going on next weekend, not this upcoming weekend. And it's basically just about a high school um theater club struggling to make its way onto the stage. That sounds fun. Oh, yeah. Thanks. Hey, thank you for doing it. Hey, communications 4C association report. Northband Education Association report. Here we go. Eva Vargo. Hello. Hello. It's a small group of you tonight. It's beautiful weather. They're all playing. Um, we have a lot going on. Um, Hillrest uh PTA is organizing a carnival this coming Saturday and it's the first time. We've had carnivals in the past, but this is the first one since
008COVID, so everyone's really looking forward to that. It promises to be a really fun fun day. Um, kindergarten registration and marathon madness are both in full swing as well as state testing, which is less exciting, but um, those are all happening right now. So, um, they spend a lot of their day in the in the building testing and then they get to go outside and run some of that energy off. So, it's a it's a good balance to have both of those at the same time. Uh, spring sports is also happening, of course. Um, and that brings a lot of students out of the high school. They're um frequently um absent. Um, but also um that's an exciting opportunity for them to go out and compete. So, like we want them to do that. Um,
009but it does impact the time in the classroom. Um, but one of the most amazing things that has happened at the high school level, I'm hoping I'm not stealing someone's thunder, but um, Christina took a group of students um, up to Salem. Yes. To meet with Jane Goodall and um, more on that later. Excellent. But I just am so excited that they had that opportunity. And um, at Bridges um, they've been they've hatched out some chickens. I guess 11 chicks hatched and there are now six that are like full grown because I weeded out the I don't know how they do it but some are like not they don't grow up. I I don't know. I don't know what they do but anyway there's like six fully grown chickens. They like doubled in size in
010just a few days or a week or something like that. So that's pretty exciting. Um and they've also had an opportunity to visit um a lamming farm. So they got to see some baby lambs. Um, OB has uh finished their season and placed second in state this year. Um, they had a I'm going to read um Alli's um email. She said they had an amazing round of pool play in the morning, winning all four games that they played, a feat that involved beating last year's state champions by 20 points. Um they finished pool play with 198 points placing us um in second uh second in the bracket seating. And then in Elite 8 they handedly beat Madress and Cruz passed Benson in the final four to make to the stage for the final battle against
011Lebanon. And the girls played really well. It came down to just one last question. And so the final score was 70 to 80. So, uh, Aubrey, Betty, Cadence, and Francis were all amazing, and, um, they were amazing all day long, and we're all very proud of the OBO team. So, um, and then also, um, of the graduating class this year, there are, uh, five students who will be graduating with the seal of biiteracy. Um, Paloma Leadma, who was in fact the first one who took the test and scored very, very well. and her taking the test a few years ago kind of boosted um and encouraged others to take it. So in addition to Paloma, uh Luis Deator Rosales, Juliana Deator um and who are all students who've been in the school district for a
012long time. Um but we also have two exchange students, Paulina Ley Kova and Felix Saler have also earned the seal of biiteracy. So that's really exciting to celebrate. And then you're moving on to the slides. So to celebrate staff, there's several um um staff members we'd like to recognize this month. I think the first one is Austin Brazelle. He's works in SEAL and also um helps out in kindergarten um at Hillrest Elementary. He's a wonderful member of our staff. He works tirelessly with our students who often need a little extra support to manage their day. He recently coordinate coordinated a schoolwide kindness challenge where he created these little posters with tear off tabs on the bottom of them um with like kindness quotes and inspirational messages and so you could see uh students and staff
013both tearing off these messages. They'd stop at the poster and read and like and they would take a little tab and they'd stick it in their pocket and keep it with them. Sometimes they would give them to other people. Um so it was just a really cool thing to see. Um and getting to know Austin has also been um just a wonderful reminder for me that um we really do live in a very small world. Um so come to discover I lived in in um Northern California for just short time of my life for four years and coincidentally Austin also lived in the same area and so we have some common friends that we didn't know anyway. So it's just really cool like oh wow like I can breathe that. Anyway, so moving on. The
014next one is Ed Nichols. And um this past year, Ed has created um what what he titled Neuro Notes um a series of professional development infographics for the Hillrest staff that provided us with like researchbased information about brain science, about stress and trauma. And each edition also provided there was like a little video you could you could click and follow to learn more. and there were strategies that we could uh use to bring that information back to our classroom. He also works really closely with the Oregon STEM hub and offers and has in the past um enrichment opportunities for students. Um this coming summer there's like a code dance and create which is a free summer camp for for students in grades four through eight to learn coding, dance and and drumming. And so it's
015really great to to see Ed bring those opportunities to our students. Um I know that he's at when he was at North Bay, he coordinated some weed pools and other um exciting um like after school and Saturday events for for families and he continues to bring that spirit to Hillrest. And the next two um these two were both nominated by their fourth grade team member uh Nora Collins who said of her colleagues uh these team members always have my back. They bring me coffee and other treats and they have encouraged me through this very difficult year. Their presence and camaraderie have brought me a lot of joy. So, Lauren Peterson and Lanny Cheryl. And next up, we have Frank Murphy. Uh Frank is a giver. If you ask him to help out, his response is
016invariably sure, whatever you need. He has spearheaded um the Veterans Day celebrations at the high school over the past several years. He's fed staff at lunch um and at after school activities and his students have not been left out of these meals either. On many weekends he is out in the community providing service for a multitude of events and always has a cadre of young aspiring cooks with him and for many students at Northman High School his program and his personality have been a solid foundation. He always goes the extra mile and that's from Dustin Hood. Um, Frank also was um um I'm missing the right word, but um very important in the recent Peru dinner that uh Raphael Koncha planned this last Saturday and it was very successful, sold out. The food was amazing,
017entertain entertainment was wonderful and I know the Spanish club raised a lot of money for their their trip to Peru uh next month. And lastly, Leah Johnston. Uh she was nominated by Jenny Brown. Leah is in her first year in her new role as the primary literacy coach. She continues to impress her colleagues with her vast knowledge and passion for literacy instruction and practices. She embodies what it means to be an instructional coach. And uh she's always willing to step in and support staff and students no matter the task. She provides clear and consistent direction and stands out as a leader within our district. No question or task too big or too small. She truly goes out of her way to understand um everyone's needs and learning styles like the learning styles of the teachers
018um and always does it with kindness and professionalism. So bravo that's everybody. Thank you so much. Any questions? 4 D Christina Gartman science science national honor society update. We've had a really great year. We've had a wonderful group of students and we've had some really cool opportunities come our way. And these folks are going to introduce themselves and tell you about the slides as we go through them. Um, hi. I am Laura Wles. I am a high school junior currently at Northbend High School. I am the vice president of SNHS. I'm Amore. I'm also junior and I'm a secretary of SNHS. I'm Sasha Hol and I'm the treasur of SNHS. Hi, I'm Clara Mesner. I'm a senior and I'm a member of SNHS. I am Tyler Limborn and I'm also a senior and a member
019of SNHS. Sorry. Um, October Fish was one of the first things we did which was back in October and it was it's basically like a fun festival based on science related groups and invites a lot of attraction for music and food. But we what we contributed was kind of we have pictures of like oobleck, which is a kind of a weird solid with liquidy substance for kids to play with along with um little doll robots that kids can control as well as little making your own ice cream DIY stations. And we tried to provide a way for kids to be inspired to have a interest in future in science. I think Um, so one of our big like uh I guess fundraisers at Oaken High School is our can recycling. So we have blue cans
020all around the high school um that are for SNHS and um basically every Friday we have volunteers that go around and um we just collect the cans up and then we um bring them to bottle drop using the the blue bags which are for our for clubs and stuff. And honorable mention so Brad Castillia he is an amazing guy. So he's kind of spearheading the whole camera cycling thing. He has signed himself up for every single day the whole year of the camera cycling thing. He has spent countless hours. So it's uh it's uh good he's getting some recognition for that because without him um SNHS I don't think we would be funded for a lot of things we've done like going up to uh all of our game the Jane Good old trip all
021those things like the funding for SNHS is like really driven by the can things. So yeah, figured we mentioned that it's been really successful. Okay, so the state of the coast conference happens each year in the fall. And it's a really great first conference because it's for the general audience. So it's not in science speak. It's something that everybody can understand. And we were able to take 10 students all the way up to Seaside. It wound up being an overnight trip, but we got to talk to people from the big fish lab at OSU. We had a presentation on sharks. We got to do some art. And these guys got to experience, you know, just what's a plinary session, how do breakout sessions work? And if everything goes to plan, some of the people presenting
022tonight will be presenting their own scientific research at our next State of the Coast conference, which will be here in Kous Bay. Okay, this is me and Clara. So, um at Seaside, we uh recently acquired our um autonomous sailboat and her name is Hysterperia and uh talk about it really quick. So this boat will allow us to gather all different kinds of research. And the way that we're going to do it is so far we have installed a water temperature sensor which is at the bottom of the Yeah. Yeah. But really cool. So we have um our water temperature sensor that goes through the hole down here. And then we have a solar panel, an air temperature sensor, and a camera. And then on the inside, we have a whole module that controls everything, the
023GPS unit. And so me and Clara have kind of experimented this as the the engineering team. So both of us um aspire to be engineers in the future um after we finished graduating. So yeah. Yeah, it's taken a lot of work to do it so far. And then we also had machine for us and soon we're hoping that we will get to the team and launch it 30th. We are scheduled on the research vessel Pacific Storm and what's going to be really significant is this is the first time that usually it's middle schoolers that do this and it's mostly their teacher. This was very little me. I provided the kit. We had an engineer come down from OSU to help with the sensors and he's like, "Well, your kids did it right." And he didn't
024have to do anything to assist them. The students have been doing the assembly and they will be able to launch it. And you have to be 16 to go on an oceangoing vessel. So, we'll be the first crew in the Pacific where the students who built the ship launched the ship. Really cool, guys. That's really cool. How do you guys choose that? Um as for the wildlife. So will you come back and show us the data that you bring? Yeah. Yeah. And you it will be brought it will be uploaded continuously to the web. So there'll be a website where scientists and the general public can just go in and see where the ship is and what the water conditions are. A lot's known about the largecale uh current system in the Pacific, but the
025smallcale stuff isn't very well known and that's why we uh got to participate in this program to fills in some of the gaps. What kind of engineers are you guys interested in? I want to be an environmental engineer. I'm looking into mechanical. Okay, I'm a patrol engineer. Good. Well, it's a neat project, man. We look forward to you come back and show us some data like a chart. We want to be here and back in my day it's called cool. I don't know what it's called anymore but that's pretty cool. You got to expect to end up in the garbage patch since you're small. Right. The quitta never sink that launched out of Walport this fall went between the big island and Maui. It was within three miles of land. They had a crew ready
026to recover it, but it kept on going and eventually this is going to wash ashore. Doc Danielle is making us some custom bandanas that the folks who recover it can keep the bandanas and they have instructions to send it back to Northbend High School so the next batch of students can refit it and launch it again. How they going to send it back? I think we'll hope they send it back. Let's see if whoever finds it that is with collected collect on delivery. Okay, so this was mentioned earlier, but yes, we all got to go see Jane Goodall. We'd always talk as NHS as if like if someone's super famous like Jane Goodall ever came to Oregon, we would totally have to go. And then Jane Goodall actually came to Oregon, so we were very
027excited. It was an allnighter trip. We left at like two. Yeah. Yeah. We left at like two in the afternoon and we drove all the way up to Salem and then we went to the show which was like two hours. Two hours. And Jane Goodall was amazing. She had so much energy. She was standing for like the whole time. I was shocked. There was chairs and she did not sit in them until the very end. And she was very inspiring. She told us like her entire life story and how she went and studied the it's not girls. The chimpanzees. I'm Wow. I swear I was paying attention. Yeah. She went and studied the chimpanzees and she talked about how her mom like actually helped her and she wouldn't have been able to go without that
028support. And then she talked about like her conservations e efforts and what inspired her to like go vegan and save the planet and start speaking at these kind of events. And then she ended on a hopeful note that she really thinks that we can do something with our lives and like save the planet. So that was really inspiring. And then we all got back on the bus and we got home at like midnight and went to school the next day. But it was so worth it. Oh yeah. Yeah. And there's some pictures of Dr. Jane Goodall. Yes. Well, of us seeing Dr. Jen Good. 25 kids and three teachers. So, one of our upcoming events is a planetarium show held by the SWAT spirit team. They do a bunch of high school internships for um
029anyone between 9th and 12th grade. And I was actually able to do one of those internships at SWAK. I was researching how micromedorites affect plant growth. But we also do a whole bunch of public outreach over there. One of which is the planetarium. And with SNHS, we were able to coordinate. And now we have an upcoming show May 19th. It's going to be about dinosaurs and geology. We're going to be able to watch one of the shows in the planetarium at SWAK. And I think it's going to be an amazing time. Thank you for your time. How many people can fit in that planet? Um, I would say about 15 if you squeeze them all in there. Thank you for that. 4B Northband High School Trio Program. Hey, my name's Emma Meyer. I'm the Upwardbound
030specialist for the TRIO program that we run at Northbound High School. And Laura here, who you've already met, is an upwardbound participant. Um and then my colleague Natalie can introduce herself. I'm Natalie Marorrow. I'm the um educational talent specialist at Markban High School. Yeah. Um if we just have a little presentation that we would like to share with everybody um just in hopes that we can use you guys as advocates to the trail program and we can show you guys all the good work that we're doing at not just Northbend High School but also at Marshfield and a lot of um our Northbend middle schools as well. Okay. So, we have started this new program with our TRIO uh program and it's for student ambassadors. So, basically the aim is to um allow our high
031school students to gain knowledge and experience in being leaders. So, Laura, would you mind sharing a little bit about your experience ambassador program? I am an upwardbound student ambassador with the TRIO program and it very it really focuses on leadership and skills to use later on in life. We are doing an HD 199 class I think at SWAT where it just focuses on producing leaders and making it so that our student ambassadors can help not only their school but their students and the community. Yeah. Another a great thing about the student ambassador program is we have students in this program from all of our different high schools around Curry and Cous County. So Laura is getting experience with students from Brookings Harbor High School uh Pacific and others. So we've also taken them on a
032student leadership retreat at Yes. at the sysin field institute and they got to do some team bonding on the high ropes or low ropes course and again just got to get more knowledge and experience and leadership so and unfortunately oh sorry it's okay MJ is our talent search ambassador but she was able to be here with us so in 1964 president Lynden B Johnson was president and he um initiated the war on poverty which allowed for several programs to be created such as the job core for Head Start and Upwardbound, the first TRIO program of three for exceptionally talented and exceptionally needy students. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson's Higher Education Act generated educational talent search like what Natalie does, which was the second of the three TRIO programs. In 1965, as well, the Office
033of Education funded 42 of these projects serving over 50,000 students nationwide. 1968, Congress initiated the program now known as student support services, SSS, to support college students students. This uh third TRIO program is what completed the TRIO um in which now there are seven TRIO programs. In 1980, Congress standardizes eligibility for TRIO programs to enroll first generation college students from lowincome households. And 2024, last year, we celebrated 60 years as TRIO. Good job. Oh, sure. Um, the educational talent search programs um assist eligible individuals who have the potential to succeed. Um, and they support those participants to graduate from high school and continue on to complete post-secary education. Since they are first generation individuals, they don't really get a lot of help. They don't um have their parents as a source to get into colleges
034and beyond. So, it's very important. And upper bound provides a lot of academic support as well. And it really enriches high school students from same lowincome families and first generation college students. And it prepares them for post-secary education as well. But it also does um after school program, summer enrichment and just a whole bunch of guidance. There's um career exploration and we do a lot of college campus visits in Oregon and out of Oregon as well. And the field trip and there's field trips and cultural enrichment. Um, they do a lot of insistence. I go to Emma a lot for support with college applications, scholarships, post-secary pathways, and just a whole bunch of stuff. Those are called workshops. And that's just where I get a whole bunch of my literacy for college and finance. And
035they also do provide SAT and AC and ACT, excuse me, test prep, which um is provided in 247 online tutoring, which they also do for other classes, not just standardized tests. So, like I mentioned, we have um programs in multiple schools around our area. Uh we can serve sixth graders through 12th graders in our educational talent search and upperbound programs. And then like Laura mentioned, our SSS program at SWAK serves those college students. Um but we have, like I said, Natalie and I work at Northbend. We have an upwardbound and ETSs program at Marshfield. And yeah, those are the two programs that we have specifically at Northbound High School. And then we have educational talent search at the middle school as well. Um, talent surge is a fedally funded free college preparatory program whose purpose
036is to encourage students to stay in high school and graduate um and enrolled in continued education after high school. um some of the eligibility requirements, but you don't have to meet all of them. Um are US citizenship or permanent resident status um potential first generation college student and meets low income eligibility requirements. Um some of our services include financial literacy and academic advising, college and career field trips, and free access to tutoring. So, our upper bound program is a little is very similar to the ETSs program except for we serve a smaller amount of students because we're a bit more intensive on the amount of time we spend with our students and what we expect from our students. So, again, Upwardbound is federally funded through the Department of Ed and we serve first generation lowincome
037students and our hope is that they are collegebound. um being part of Upwardbound, our hope is to get you to college or I mean we we encourage postsecary any postsecondary route but really college is upward bounds um the goal to upward bound really. So, we provide academic support, 27 247 tutoring, um like Lara said, college application help, essay help, scholarship help, really anything that the students need to be successful throughout high school and then off and into college. So, what also separates our two programs is that Upwardbound provides a six week summer academic enrichment program that we host on Swalk's campus. And um we also offer two free college classes to our metriculating seniors that are going to swap next year. They're able to take two free classes in the summer as well. And again,
038all of the services that we offer, all of the snacks, all of the meals, everything we provide to students is completely free to them and their families. Um some of the things that um came out of last year um we had academic persistence at 90% um they successfully the students successfully completed their classes and moved on to the next grade level. Um we had 90% 91% graduation rate students graduated on time with a regular high school diploma. Um we had a 65% rigorous curriculum. Um, so they graduated on time with a regular high school diploma and took at least one successful year of world language and we had 50% college and 57% college enrollment. So they enrol enrolled in a degree seeking program um in upwardbound you can tell so Natalie has uh more than
039119 students now closer to 130 but I only serve those 25 exclusively and we have 100% success rate per last year's um outcomes which is really really awesome and it's easier to do that with a lesser number of people but um these students are really motivated and and willing and ready to go to their next Um, something that's really awesome that we actually celebrated today at SWAT with our graduating trio seniors is today's national commitment day. And so we had all of our metriculating seniors at SWAT for a court ceremony. They were all court eligible based off of this the guidelines that we set as a team. Um, and then we did some laptop drawings. So, how many laptops did 25? gave 25 total away today to seniors that are headed to college and those
040were funded through grants and yeah the Coil tribe provided us an awesome grant for those um those laptops. So again this program serves lowinccome first generation students and it's a lot of them don't have any if if any resources to get to where they want to be even in high school sometimes. So to be able to provide laptops like this to seniors is a huge deal because we all know we're techsavvy world and that's you need that to survive in college. So uh we just really wanted to highlight that program especially that it was cool that it worked out to be at this board meeting today with the event we had earlier today where we got to give out all those laptops. So uh the little note down there is if you'd like to support
041this program and donate to um us for this specific program our director is right here. her name is Neanderch and you can contact her directly. So I would just say Laura um I want to talk about a little because we as an upperbound program were able to take 20 high school students from Marshfield and Northbend. We took 12 from Northbend, eight from Marshfield uh to New York City in Washington DC in December. And it was awesome, right? We were there for we were there for a week. who got to visit NYU, Howard, Pace, um, Georgetown, and Colombia, which I think really sparked a big interest in. Um, so I would, if you're open to it, I would ask you to share a little bit about your experience and thoughts on Columbia and where it's led
042you to maybe your plans for the summer. Oh, yeah. So, Colombia, oh, it was amazing. First of all, it was a a beautiful campus and it was just so culturally enriching. It was in the middle of New York City, New York City, excuse me. Um, which is a known as a cultural melting pot. There is so many people there and the pace is much quicker than North Bend, which isn't a bad thing, but it isn't really a good thing, but it's one of the things that drew me. I did like the pace a bit, but what I really liked about Colombia was their push for study abroad. That's something that definitely interests me later on. They had a huge push to get students out there into the world. Our tour guide, for example, he helped
043with the Paris Olympics. That was something that I thought was really cool and kind of just wanted made me want to go to Columbia even more. Not to mention, they have great academics, so 4% acceptance rate, who cares? But they're amazing. And it was very nice for me to go and see Colombia. It really pushed me to just go and do something more, just to try a little bit harder. And that's what I think the whole TRIO Upward program does is just just pushes you. So, I applied to the QuestBridge College Prep Scholar Program and got accepted like two weeks ago. And basically what that does is it nominates me to several different colleges around the US and they will accept me or deny me for a summer pre-ol program. Co uh QuestBridge is partnered
044with Harvard, Colombia, Caltech, MIT, and a whole bunch of others that are really top schools in the country. I've already received some word from Baldo and Williams about some of their fall programs. So, it's just really exciting to be getting out there into the world and experiencing something like this. And I know I wouldn't have been able to without the help of Emma, Deian, and Natalie. Sweet. So, I I just want to say if you could take anything from this presentation, just um take her story and and keep it close to your heart because that's why we do this work is because we want to inspire and help as many students as we can. And we TRIO, like I said, is a federally funded program. And so, in a um political climate like we're in,
045it's kind of wishy-washy and it's scary for our students and for the people that work in TRIO. It's a nationwide program, but um we just ask for your support and um continued support and um just push for for the trails in general. I used to actually work at SWAT. So I used to teach classes in the summertime, help the upper students. So nice to see them on that become professionals or go to college and and many of them make more money than I do. It's really nice to see you guys come through and do the thing. So, yeah, definitely it's a great program. So, thank you guys. Thank you. Are there any more questions? Okay, got a question. Anyone on three can? So, one of the things you guys do is you focus on leadership.
046So when you think about leadership and and maybe work for some some good leaders, what traits do they have that have made them good leaders or one trait? I would say communication with their team. I think it's very important to see what the team is feeling and not just what you as a leader is feeling. And that is something that is heavily encouraged with the um student ambassador program. There's a whole bunch of communication between all of us. We are very friendly with each other. And I think honestly that push at the start for the um just to get to know each other, it was amazing and I think it would not have been the same without it. It's really important just to have that communication in the team. Good answer. You got a good
047start. Very well spoken. I used to help with Miscus County and you do one of the things that we love which is you don't say a lot of great. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Superintendent report that's this science national honor society and trio program where you go I I feel so so you have I want to remind us next week one from the night is the first meeting of our budget committee which you are all part of that but for the next two weeks and hopefully not three weeks but uh potentially three we're have a lot to work through but uh for the next couple weeks we'll be doing that and then uh so just keep that on on your agenda hopefully everyone will get well so that we will all be here
048in person um And then you know June 6 there was kind of a big day coming up June 6, you know the funny flat hats and wearing the same row. Um all these weird people coming in all exactly alike weird hats happens on June 6. The entire board of course is there join us on stage be graduation cerem that's exciting to come up um tomorrow is kind of a cool day tomorrow is the n national lunch hero and so I just wanted to mention that Amy had mentioned that today and so all of our all our good service employees and our buildings uh are just doing an amazing job from top to bottom. Amy and Gina and the work they do to make that program stay viable and to do the work they do includes
049kids every day through all workers to make that happen. So we just want to honor that group. Um, also literally found out and I apologize to the principles who are in the room. I found out like at 4:00 this afternoon that you know today is National Principal Day. Of course, I found out this I will have to figure out how I'm going to follow the principles different than just saying something in here. But but that also is today. And then, oh, on Tuesday night, oh, I get to I get to have fish and white cookies attempt night on Tuesday. And then um and then I was wondering if Eva was going to mention something else that today about um you posted it on your Facebook page, but um but I wanted today is kind of
050a special day in that it's May 1 is celebrated international workers day. And so what I think is that's right wonderful about that it's not exact well it's a coincidence but it's kind of a cool coincidence that we have our opportunity tonight to consider an action item a contract agreement between our teachers and our ward and our district and I think it's just so wonderful that come on international worker day so that we can celebrate those work so hard and I am here because my parents were such in union jobs that made sure that they had their pay had health insurance and they have opportunity so that I trio people the first college graduate on either side of my family as many generations as I I could research. Um and so I'm a first generation
051college. Opportunities that I have are because my parents were hardworking. So I just appreciate that and I appreciate you and so I want to honor that. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item five, action consent agenda items. Is there a motion? Is there a motion to approve? A motion to approve. Is there one? No, that's just not I don't approve agenda. So there's a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? So we'll move to a vote. All in favor say I. I. Carol. 40. Okay. Agenda item six, National School Nurse Day resolution. We have a school nurse. Would a board member like to read the uh agenda item six national school nurse day resolution? It's about a page and a half. It's it's a big read. It's quite background. Yeah, we'll
052do it. National School Nurse Day has been observed annually since 1982. In two in 2025, it will be observed on May 7th. National School Nurse Day was established to foster a better understanding of the role of school nurses in the educational setting. School nurses support students and student health each and every day of the year. On National School Nurse Day, we take a special time to celebrate and recognize the contributions that school nurses are making the health and learning of our nation's 70 million children. the resolution as follows. Whereas children are the future and by investing in them today, we are ensuring our world for tomorrow. And whereas all students have the right to have their health and and safety needs met while at school setting. Whereas children today face more complex and life-threatening health
053problems requiring care in school. And whereas school nurses have served a critical role in improving public health and ensuring students academic success for more than 100 years. And whereas school nurses are professional nurses that advance the wellness and lifelong achievements of all students by serving on the front lines and providing critical safety net for our nation's most vital children. And whereas school nurses act as a liaison to the school community, parents and healthcare providers on behalf of the children's health by promoting wellness and improving health outcomes for our community children. Whereas school nurses are members of school-based mental health teams and whereas school nurses understand the link between health and learning and are in a position to make a positive difference for children to children every day. Now therefore be a result that DOR school
054district board of directors celebrates and acknowledges the accomplishments of school nurses everywhere and their efforts of meeting the needs of today's students by improving the delivery of healthcare in our schools and offers gratitude to school nurses who contribute to our community by helping students stay healthy in school and ready to learn and keeping parents and guardians at work not just on this national school nurse day but at every opportunity throughout the year. be a further result that the North School District board of directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally expressing appreciation to our school nurses for their dedication and devotion to their work and for plans May 7th, 2025 National School Nurse Day adopted this day adopted the first day of May 2025. So, I would like to
055motion to approve resolution 2025 as set forth the budget. A second. Okay, there's a motion and a second to approve resolution 2025-07 to set forth the budget. Any discussion? Okay, the vote. All in favor say I. I. In 44. Okay, thank you. Next up, agenda item seven, a teacher appreciation week resolution. Is there another member of the board? Teacher appreciation week is celebrated every year during the first the week of May. In 2025, it will be observed May 5th through 9th. The North School District honored their cert certified staff during the week of April 7th through the 11th, 2025. The Northman School District currently employs 122 certified employees. Our educators play a pivotal role in our schools lives, inspiring a long lifelong love of learning and discovery and making a difference in their well-being and
056long-term success. The work they do and skills they bring to the North School District is inadminable. Whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education and whereas teachers encounter students of widely different backgrounds and Whereas our country's future depends upon providing quality education to all students. And whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons, evaluating programs, counseling and coaching students, and performing community service. And whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community. Now therefore, be it of resolve that the Northbend School District Board of Directors proclaims May 5th through the 9th, 2025 to be teachers appreciation week and be a further resolve that the North School District board of directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally and express some appreciation for our
057teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work adopted this first day of May 2025. Motion is I approve the I move to approve resolution 2025-08 as set for the month. Okay. A motion and a second to [Music] approve. Right. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. 404. Thank you. Much appreciated. You guys do a wonderful job. We did have a great deep Okay. Agenda item eight, North Education Association Agreement Action. Thank you, Eva, for joining. You're welcome. Um, but we engaged in our certified negotiations. We had total of three meetings and I would like to say that it was a very positive experience. Yes, I concur. Three meetings. Yes. Yeah. Congratulations. It was good. We all sat like alternately at the table like administration, teacher, administration, teacher and it just felt like a
058nice little dinner party and we had conversation and came to a mutual agreement. It was worked out really well. Yeah, very colleial and um we could both sides were able to just kind of talk through things and and listen and and um give feedback to one another and and come to um a very nice agreement. Um so um on your on your cover page there you have the members for NBEA. Um the the main people at the table were Eva Varga, Zach Martin, Jennifer Hample, um Nico Freriedman, and then on the last session, Jenna Dixon sat in for Nico. For the district, we had myself, Vince Wagerty, Michelle Cook, and Lorie Sullivan. Um so I highlighted the contract is in here and we highlighted the major changes for you. Um and we came to an
059agreement on uh year one 5% cost of living adjustment. um with no insurance increase. Um so that remains the same. But in year two, a 4% cost of living adjustment with an insurance increase of $50. So bringing that total contribution to $1,712 in year two. Um one thing I think that both sides were really excited to to offer in this agreement were the stipens for our specialists. Um it's important that the these positions are hard to fill and um the work they do is is hard and stressful as well and we know everybody's is. Um but there's a there's an extra level of complexity to these these roles and and again finding licensed people to do them is really difficult. So we were able to offer our school psychologists a $15,000 stipend. Um a special
060education teachers so um resource room life skills an extra $5,000 stipend. Um, this would be for fully licensed staff. School nurses a $3,000 stipend, school counselors, a $3,000 stipen. Um, another thing I think that we were both very excited to come to an agreement on was a pathway for CTE teachers to advance on pay columns. um our CTE teachers often come to us and remain in the first column because that their pathway through um you know that their their experience in life and in their career is different than that someone who goes into education to become a teacher. So they often don't have the same level of degrees but we still need to find a way to acknowledge their experience and what they're offering to our students. So we we came to an agreement on
061the way in that they can advance on the pay homes which was really exciting. And of course there there's some there's some smaller changes throughout some of things you know very minor in terms of us switching from trimesters to semesters. There's some wording that changed regarding some legalities or just cleaning up some language from things we've learned. Maybe we didn't word something the way we wanted to. Um, and we just want to make sure it's clear for future staff members, um, certified sters and administrators so that that they get interpreted correctly in the future. And some additional coaching stipens were added. So we add a stipen for emerging sports. Um, OBO, the Oregon Battle of the Books, and the Knowledge Bowl were included in there, too, because those are they they have competitions associated with
062them. So, so it felt very fair to add those to the gosh stipened list. Anything we're missing there? Um, one of the smaller things that I was excited to see was um in in the old contract we had language for teachers who obtained uh national board certification. And I had previously had national board certification. It expired and I wasn't in the classroom at the time. I couldn't renew it. Any um it it since the time when I've returned to Northbend, it's um the way it was worded is that if you hold national board certification, you would move over on a column. But if you were already at column five, there's nowhere to go. You can't move over again. And if I wanted to achieve national boards again, there's no incentive for me to do that
063other than, you know, just my own personal gain. And so we we changed the language so that it's um a stipen $1,500 a year annual stipend if you have national board certification. And in addition, we also added um something sim similar that the Oregon TSPC does called a teacher leader license. So it's a teacher that um has proven that they do uh they go above and beyond what's required of them in the regular classroom and they're doing a lot of um professional development. then bringing that professional development back to the classroom and and but also working with their colleagues and and helping to improve the practices across the district. So, um we felt that that was equal to to national boards. So, that also has a $1,500 annual stipen. So, yeah, that was a good
064one to bring up. I'm glad you brought that up. Um that one one of one of the different um endorsements that I have through the Oregon Department of Education is the teacher leader license in mathematical instruction. So I can definitely vouch for that. It is a lot of work to get that teacher leader license. So it's nice that that those teachers can be honored as well. Um so um like I said very positive Vince um anything you want to add? Really appreciate some you know we said good discussion respectful discussion and I'm just gonna just going to say I'm aware of of aspects of the the bargaining that's happening in our region and some of those sessions are are pretty contentious and some of the things that are being asked by the associations in those
065districts are are extreme. Um and when our association came in with their initial offer. We didn't I think it's going to be okay because they didn't come in with the offer that I'm sure happened all across the region. They came in with a respectful thoughtful and then as we negotiated we continued to negotiate with respect and the language and all the pieces and parts and and we're able to work together to create what we have as opposed to fight against each other and come out somewhere in the middle group. That's not the experience we had. I do recommend approval. I believe you guys I've been a part of a lot of bargaining meetings. classif agreement school district team and the Northman Education Association for the term of July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2027. Seven.
066Second. Okay, there is a motion and a second. And the motion is I move to approve the agreement between the Northbend School District number 13 and the Northbend Education Association for the term of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. Jud request that we have a roll call vote. Yes, sir. We will have a roll call vote. Uh, any discussion? Is everybody happy with it? 98.4% of certified staff who responded to the survey said yes. That is great. We'll proceed to the vote if there's no more discussion. Uh, first one, Carol. Yay or nay? Yay. Yay. I think she Yeah, she Okay, we're saying that's a Dallas. Yay. Yes. Yay. Jim Jordan. Yay. So 4 Z. The motion pass. Congratulations. I would like to thank Tim for that and uh we handled a couple recent
067negotiations and I think it's been collegial and I was involved in a negotiation early days and it was not really and I've seen a lot of negotiation styles and that one was quite memorable. Yes, it was learned a lot experience. Yes, it was. They're all learning experiences. Sound good? Sounds so good. I would like to say a couple things about teachers and admin in general. So, um, when we got a new superintendent, was born a new superintendent, he started one July 2023. And then in August, we had a uh a meeting and we came up with two goals for the superintendent. And who knows what those goals were? Dana, academic achievement and student behavior, which impacts staff morale and culture, climate and culture. Thank you. You've been following the plug. I appreciate that. So yeah,
068and and I'd just like to say that uh you know, we the board actually does listen It may take us a while but we received in the course of the years a lot of feedback informally Safeway church wherever and teachers and administrator will come and talk to us and I mean and what I've heard from Evo Gargo also what and Christina Garin one of the biggest challenges for a teacher is student behavior and so in order to support our teachers that became and because it has such a big impact on academic achievement and teacher satisfaction and um gosh retention. That's a big thing. So yeah, that's a huge thing. I view teachers as the tip of the spear in the education. We just went through a strategic planning process with uh performance fact and I
069I loved pictures and they had a very simple picture with a circle that was the student and then two concentric circles but the next concentric circle was instructional uh instructional effectiveness and that resonated with me and others. So yeah, so just wanted to say that the you guys are the tip of the spear and I'm glad to hear it's a well received contract and you get 90. It's tough to get 100% 98% that's great. Anyway, that's all I have on that. Thank you. Okay, agenda item nine, public hearing, title six, Indian education. Hi, good evening. My name is Dana Cahill, director of teaching and learning. Nice to see you all. Carol, nice to see you. Hey, Dave. I'm here to share some highlights of the North Bend School District's Indian education offerings. Northbend School District
070is committed to supporting American Indian and Alaskan Native students through a variety of opportunities that promote academic success and cultural pride. This work is also supported through programs like Title One, Title Two, Title Three, and Title Four. That's a fancy way of saying our federal program, federal funding. These services, the the the federal funding are based on individual student need and available to all who qualify regardless of the of the of ethnicity. We're proud to partner with the Kuz County History Museum and our local tribes to bring cultural programming, storytelling, and curriculum aligned with state content standards into the classroom. These partnerships also allow classrooms to access opportunities in the community. We work closely with our tribal attendance promising practices grant program or TAP which funds a family advocate for Northbend School District. The advocate's
071role includes supporting attendance and reducing tardiness, ensuring academic success, as well as coordinating and integrating cultural activities. Next Tuesday, May 6, from 6:00 to 7:00, we will be holding our Indian parent committee meeting at the Hall of Champions. This is an annual meeting with an opportunity to review our Title Six Indian Education Grant for next year. But this year at this Indian educ education parent committee meeting, we're especially focused on building community. we've brought together to come to play the traditional Native American game of shinny, enjoy food, and celebrate together. Finally, I'd like to share with the board that Northbend School District has a unique opportunity to offer a 3-day professional development opportunity this June focused on Senate Bill 13. This is called tribal history, shared history. That's what Senate Bill 13 brings forward. This
072is a completely voluntary voluntary opportunity. It's um to for professional development. It's the three days right after school gets out for staff. So it's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday outside of the contract. Um it's paid um it's an opportunity paid through a regional educators network and it's intended for educators to deepen their understanding of Native American culture and better support our students. At this time, I'm happy to answer any questions. Do the teachers that go for this development, those are unpaid days, right? Yeah, those are actually not contract days. So, those are their summer days. And so, this is a this is voluntary. Um, and it was open to um any any educator. So, it could be a classified staff member, certified staff member. We have kind of a nice mix. Um I would say that
073um of the registrants where we we have more elementary staff present but we do have kind of a nice mix of both certified and classified staff signed up and it's not paid through Northbend school district it's paid through another opportunity through a regional educator development network you're elaborating this is actually yes it is this is an opportunity that came to us um through the uh Oregon uh Indian office of ind Indian education the person that oversees that is named Stacy Parish. She oversees the TAP programming in the state of Oregon. And um she came to us with this opportunity because of some of the um exciting things that Northbend School District is doing with our TAP grant. Um last year or to step back just a bit with the TAP grant piece. I know I'm
074talking about the Indian Education Grant, but um over here with the TAP grant, we had a difficult time maintaining the same person in the role. It was previously a classified staff and with that turnover with you know hiring people became a lot of inconsistency. So we brought heads together and we actually um used uh we've braided some funds together in addition with that TAP funding to fund a certified person in that role. Her name is Ruth Ellen Melton and she's doing incredible things for students and staff across the district um and families truly. She you know she does a lot of contact with families. her role is is meant to encourage and increase attendance for all students K5 um but really targeting some of those students that um may be identified as Alaskan uh Indian-American
075or Alaskan Native. Yes, thank you very much. It's at the Hall of Champions next Tuesday. Yes. Do we have to open it? Sorry. Okay, we will. Agenda item 9A. We will open the public hearing for title six, Indian education. 9B, we will go to public comments and questions. Is there anyone from the public who would like to make a comment or has any questions? I'll make a comment the public or staff. Um, so I think this is the first year that Northbend School District is doing it primarily for North School District. Is that what you were saying? The training. The the training. Yes. Oh, I I'm sorry. Yes. This is um this we have not offered this training before as um um Stacy Parish and this this has been a training that this tribal history
076shared history professional development that's happening in June. It's happened in other districts in the state of Oregon but it has not come to Northbend before and as far as I know it had this particular professional development opportunity we are one of the first on the south coast to be offered this opportunity. I believe it was offered through the regional the south coast regional education network a year or two ago and it was to anybody in that region. So wam school district education school district and then the south coast as well and I participated in it then and I was just going to say it's very very good. It is three days they pay you and it's an excellent um training. So I I hope a lot of people I don't know if I jumped in
077somewhere but anyway thank you for that input. Thank you very much for that but I didn't realize that support the seven grandfathers one exc Thank you. I didn't realize that. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Any further or further public comments and questions? Okay, with that 9C, we will close the public hearing on title six community education. Excellent. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you, D. Okay. Agenda item 10, K5, 6 to 8, and 9 to 12 science curriculum update. Bruce. Hey, I'm gonna come up here and start us out. Dana is gonna correct me as we go through as we do that. We'd hope to bring to you tonight a recommendation to adopt a K12 science curriculum or curriculums at each of the levels that Jim just mentioned in there, but we're not quite
078at that point yet. Um, we spent a lot of time looking at materials. Um, and I think we're close at the the high school level. Um Christina has put a recommendation before us, Christina Gman at the high school, uh that encompasses what they'd like to see there that matches the standards at the state and most of it is a readoption of what we currently have with some updated materials in there. At the high school, we use a set of materials that's used at over 70% of the the school districts throughout the state. I believe it's called patterns. Is that correct? Yes. and it is aligned with that. Our materials uh still match that standard real well. We're going to update some of the materials and we're going to replace some of the materials that are
079kind of threadbear in there uh that that really need to be replaced with the current additions that come out in there. But they're very happy with that set of materials and it does a good job of matching that next generation science standards. So, we'll be moving in that direction at the high school level. Um at K8 it's a little different story as we looked at that we looked at state standards out there the next generation science standards and our last curriculum that we adopted uh the next generation science standards weren't in place when we adopted that. Um, we looked at seven to 10 publishers out there this time at each level and we brought teachers in and our idea was let's limit this down to a couple publishers, bring them in and we'll get a
080look at the top top two in each of those areas in there. We had grade level teams from K5 get together. They came in and we had them list the pros and cons of each of the programs that were out there. Things based upon things that made made a difference to them. ease of use, a tie to the standards in there, the rigor in there, and a high level of engagement, things that would engage kids and get them excited about learning. Out of that came the top two that we had, and the publishers came in last week and presented to our staff. Um, when they came in, there were there's quite a a difference in the publishers. Um, and we're ready now to go to a vote to them and and limit it to our
081top choice and hopefully be able to bring back that back to you at our June meeting. Um, we also opened it for public input uh at all the levels as we went through and we've had a few people look at the materials uh that have come in from the public to do that. 68 was a little bit different story in there and you heard me talk about next generation science standards and I know Christina's really familiar with those but next generation science standards are really built on a different approach as you get in there. They're built upon this idea of crosscutting concepts that that go across all the different standards in there and it's based on phenomena based learning as you do that. And they found research has kind of showed especially at the younger
082years that students retain uh the concepts much longer have become better problem solvers and have a deeper understanding with that integrated model with that at the district level. We talked about we really need to take a look at that middle school level and do an integrated approach. The traditional approach has been you teach I think it's physical science at the sixth grade level, earth science at the seventh grade level and life science at the eighth grade level or at one grade level you teach one strand in there. Well, the way the standards are are uh now written you cannot meet the standards at each grade level by doing that traditional approach in there. So we looked at publishers that had that integrated model. We found something really interesting as we dug into it. We found
083some publisher took their original materials and just said, "Okay, teach this eighth grade eighth grade module at seventh grade along with these other modules and throw a seventh grade module in there with a sixth grade." And so they just move some of the the things around and called that integrated science. Well, that's not really the idea of the next generation science standards. So we brought publishers in the top two that we looked at and as we brought them in and looked at that we found that one did a pretty good job of doing integrated approach and the other one uh didn't just so happened that our top pick our top pick the teachers top pick at that point was the one that didn't do as good a job at that integrated approach. So we said,
084"Golly, we we really need to take a deeper look at this." And and as we talked to the publisher, we said, "One of the things we always ask when we get down to the last two," who's using this curriculum in the state? Because we want to talk to somebody about whether that curriculum is effective, what the pros and cons of that are. When we asked this one publisher that's left, they I said, "Who's using it in the state?" Dana and I were both there and they said, "Well, we're excited. You're going to be the first." I said, "Whoa." I said, "I'm not sure we want to be the first publisher when we're in the second year of an adoption cycle in there." So Dana and I got on the phone. We said, "Let's call up
085the the state science specialist." May I say one thing very quickly here? That that rep let one thing slip. That was actually a little bit of a heads up for us. What she said was, "You'd be the first in the state. Twig got the market." Okay. So, Twig got the market which was another curriculum meaning meaning what what she meant by that was that this curriculum had had been adopted more in Oregon than than their own. And so that that was one little bit I wanted to throw in there. Thank you Dana. So we we got on with the state science specialist and said tell us what you're seeing around the state. What are people adopting? And exactly what Dana said there Imagine Learning with their twig program came to the forefront. So, we immediately
086got to the rep said, "Send us some materials." And those came early this week, and now we're going back both at the elementary level because we didn't feel we really took a look at that program at the elementary level. And we're definitely going to take a look at it the at the middle school level to match with the one other program we have. And out of those those additional programs plus what we had selected before that met those standards requirements, we hope to bring back to you in June a recommendation for a science curriculum that we really think will meet the needs of the student. We didn't want to rush through it. We wanted to make sure we picked the right program. It's a big investment. It's with us for seven years. So, we wanted
087to make sure we had what met the needs of the students in there. Anything else in there? Yeah. Well, Bruce had mentioned this, but we did send out this information to families. And I do want to say that we did have at least one family come and look at the material. The family had reached out and said, you know, hey, could you send us some things like maybe in a backpack and I sent some pictures back is said, you know, um that will be very difficult because what actually comes from the the material companies is the physical curriculum. They send you quite a bit of material. They send you the teacher books, they send you the student books, they send you digital access, they send you the materials um consumable materials, non-consumable materials. And so
088it's very difficult to get a s a sampling of that. So we've um asked that family to come into the district office and get a look. Um and it was really it was a a real joy to to have a parent in um answer some of their questions and and get and have them see some of that process. Um that person left today and said, you know, I knew this happened, but I didn't know how it happened. And so that was that was really um they had excellent questions. They sat down, they looked through some curriculum and ultimately said, "I trust that this process will happen how it is. Thanks for letting me thanks for letting me see it." And we surely invite anybody that'd like to come in and look. If you go into
089not the large conference room, but I believe it's conference room one in there and entirely all has the current curriculum we're looking at in there. We have it on display right now more prominently the curriculum that is our top choices in there or the teachers top choices in there as we're moving forward. But if you'd like to take a look at that, we we sure would love to have your input as well in there as we're doing that. Appreciate you guys being thorough. I mean, it's going to be your seven years. That's a big right. And one of the other things I I didn't mention, you k six through eight, you have three science teachers looking at that curriculum. And you know, you get some input from high school sometimes. And at the high school
090level, you have four science teachers typically and and they're looking at curriculums that have their own kind of areas they're in. At elementary, you're bringing in 20ome people in there and you're getting them to agree is a little more difficult as you come in there. And you know, there's a huge difference in need in there. One of the things we talked about was K2. It's hard to teach science if it's not engaging and it's not exciting to them. And what we're really looking for, and we've had that discussion with learning coaches, and Dana and I have had that discussion across, we're looking something that really can engage the ELA and the writing content in there so that we can provide more time for the integration of science in there through another content area. So, how
091can we do that? If if we have an engaging material, I think we can do that. And we're finding there are curriculums out there that really have a strong tie to uh English language arts. And so we can capture back some of that potential writing time in there to be able to do some science in there and write about our science in there and still kind of do both things and do both things well as we think we're doing it. Third, third through fifth, it's a little easier to integrate science. fourth and fifth is where you see it, you know, on a consistent basis integrated, but K2, it's much more difficult in there. So, we hope to see with that transition uh more opportunities to to have science at those younger grades. Is there going
092to be a textbook that that students can take home and parents can kind of follow along or help them? Is there an aspect? You know, I'd like to say yes to that, but I haven't seen one yet. They don't that it's online to access and then there's a workbook that has almost everything in there that they have. That workbook is more of a consumable meaning that it could be something that you know they have perforated pages they tear out. They may be doing a lesson. They may be actually physically writing on it. And so unlike a traditional textbook that may be printed on the high gloss paper and you're using it year after year, these workbooks are typically what most of these curriculums are coming with. A lot of them have a you know a
093scan code. You scan the code. you watch your little lesson or video that you're basing your information on as you do that and then they'll have some of the pages out of the the books that are presented in there for for parents as well. But even when we get to math and to ELA, we don't see the traditional textbook like we did before. We're seeing more electronic versions of those things in there. At the high school level, I think you're still seeing some of the textbooks in there, but I know having the conversations we had, you know, when we look at some of the advanced courses at the high school level, we're looking at the only option to purchase sometimes is ebooks. You know, like you get at the college, you rent them as you
094go through in there. And that was some of the the conversations. I know that at the AP course level, we don't adopt off the state list, but we go with a recommendation from the the college was something that will will meet the requirements of the course in there in conjunction with our teachers here. Meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Other questions? We'll have more for you next month. Yes, we will. We're excited. Thanks for the update and and the level of rigor. One one one last thing if I could mention it. We're in the midst of state testing and we're just starting to see that down. We're turning and you know there's some interesting data coming out. It's too early to say too much about it. Uh but we're seeing some trends out there that that
095are pretty exciting at some levels out there. You can't change everything immediately, but you can see some some good things happening out there. uh and I think for a lot of reasons and a lot of hard work by our educators uh in there using some of the things that have been put in place. So, we're excited about that and we'll give you a report whenever you're ready. Good. I I know we've talked a lot about participation rates over the past year. So, I'll repeat what I've said. You're only limited by your imagination with incentives on how to get kids to participate because I think it's pretty they've come up. They have. They really have. Yes, they have. I know. Dana and I looked at some initial results, got a little scared in there, and and
096some of the initial results we had were not as good as we wanted, but they were some of the kids that that may have not spent as much time in it, but all kids are taking it. All kids are taking it in there. So, that's good. You're going to get good representation from all kids. Thank you all. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item 11, board comments. I just want to say thank you to the principal. You guys are invaluable and I think you guys do a great job. We appreciate you. I want to say thank you to the bargaining team. You guys did a lot in the various sessions. I don't think I've ever seen anything that fast with bargaining whether it's classified and certified max or not but swap anyway. Yeah, those months years
097never session. So that's that's actually that's pretty pat on the back. I and I think a lot of that goes to the fact that we're very collaborative on an onboard basis. I mean we have a meeting tomorrow so we meet usually you know every at least every month you know a couple times a month topics like the trio students and communication absolutely great excellent job okay agenda item 12 information only um Vince I'll reiterate what you said May 8th uh we have first budget committee meeting a week from today And then two weeks from today, we have the second one. Michelle, was there food? I'm not sure all the details on that yet, but I will be budget. Yes. Yes, there will be food. We'll have we'll have dinner across the street. Um 4 to
0985 for the committee members and then we'll come over here to the meeting. Okay. Oh, wait. Five to six over there. Five to six over here. Okay. We just haven't decided. Yeah. And then we're going to come over. We do that previous years. I thought we had tacos last year. We'll have some cool things down. Well, there'll be another one. I'll be gone for two weeks. I leave the seventh. Uh and then I come back. So perhaps a makeup session. Yeah. Yeah. If you guys will hold out for me for you alone details. Okay. Well, thank you all. With that, we will adjourn. Thank you very much. Please.