001proceed with the agenda provided if there's no notice from the board members present for Oregon register revised statute OS 192650 meeting is being video recorded and will be posted on Winston's school district website algled to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for Okay, a roll call. Looks like we have all board members present. >> Um, super we'd like to do the superintendent academic awards. That's like the student. >> Well, our staff member is here, but our student isn't. So we we may need to join the high school next. >> Okay. Okay. Yeah, we can do that. >> Yeah, I don't see that next >> show up. >> Unless she shows up. >> Well, congratulations. All right.
002School board appreciation. >> Yeah, it's the January. Um, so it's school board recognition month. Um, I'll go ahead and just there's a lot of a lot of goodies from a lot of people. I already talked to the adsman and let them know that they could share what their what their schools have done. I'll just start by reading the proclamation from the office of the governor. Whereas Oregonians rely on public education to ensure a prosperous quality of life and strong economic health for Oregon. And whereas locally elected boards fulfill leadership roles and serve as the conduit through which teachers, parents, businesses, and communities demonstrate the care, creativity, and support that lead to student achievement. And whereas public school nurtures and trains diverse student populations with varying resources to give students the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they
003need to succeed. And whereas board members build a framework that makes it possible for education organizations to educate Oregon's children. And whereas we thank the committed community members who serve on the boards of Oregon's 197 school districts, 19 education service districts, and 17 community colleges for their dedication to the education needs of Oregonians. Now therefore, I and this is the governor claim January 26 to be school board recognition month in Oregon and encourage all Oregonians to join in this observance. So, thank you board members. I'd like to thank everybody for everybody that gets um these little little things here that with the students writing things that are really appreciated. Those are there's a lot of meaning in them. So pretty special. Anyway, thank you guys. Um, high school student report community and members of the
004board. My name is Peterson and I'm here with the high school student award. First and foremost, on behalf of Proton Nation, happy schoolboard appreciation month. Thank you for all that you do for our school district. The amount of time that you dedicate to our students is an amazing gift and we appreciate you greatly. We hope that you enjoyed the mugs and goodies. Kurt, I know you aren't much of a coffee guy, so made sure that you got two oatmeal raisin cookies. With Christmas break, December is a short month for us, but we packed plenty into it. The entire school participated in a penny drive and a canned food drive. Both were a success. Our penny drive was a fun competition that we do every year. ASA leadership uses the money raid to buy some gifts
005for children within our school district that are in need of a better Christmas. I was going shopping for the gifts right before break. It's a fun highlight every year. Our canned food drive was amazing. All of the food brought in and donated for the Winston Food Bank, and we were able to take two huge van loads to them. Our sophomore truck president, Cam Liden, went above and beyond to make the canned food drive a success. She visited over a hundred local businesses to help drive support and donations. Several businesses donated money or started food drives of their own because of her hard work. With Kim's leadership, the sophomore class won both competitions by a lane play. Now that we're all back at school, we are focusing on wrapping up the first semester. Finals week is
006coming up next week and everyone is locked in. This time of year, we like to remind all of Trojan Nation that it's not too late to be great as we all push to make sure assignments are turned in and our grades are where they need to be. Thank you again for all that you do for our schools and comm and our community. I appreciate you allowing me to share a little bit of what's happening at the high school. Have a great night and go Trojans. >> Thank you. >> Good job. Thank you. So at this time anyone who does not want to pay for the home. >> Thank you. So now we're going to presentation about audit presentation by safety administ. Hello, it's Dejan with we audited the Winston Village school district financial statements for
007the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025. Audit was conducted in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States as well as governmental auditing standards. An audit provides you with reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free material misstatement. Internal controls are examined and tested in conjunction with audit testing. Auditors are also watching out for signs. Based on our audit, we've given the Wisconsin school district an unmodified opinion, but it was a clean audit with no qualifications or deficiencies noted. Excellent. The governmentwide ending net position for the year was at 31.8 million which is down 8% from the prior year. And the governmental funds ending fund balance was at 6.3 million for the year which is down 13% from the prior year. And we like to look at that 6.3 million ending balance with
008in comparison to your budgeted next year. In this case, typically your fund balance only beginning fund balance to make sure that it's been in line and they're pretty pretty decent. Your ending fund balance was 6,327,000 and your budget is next year beginning was 6,380,000. So, you've started the year 52,000 under um but not a large percent. So, that is pretty darn close. Ending cash and investments were at 20.2 million for the year, which is 8% less than the prior year. Your revenues, however, were 25.4 million, which is up 4% from the prior year. Of that 50% 12.6 million was from state school funding and 9% 2.3 million was some federal funding. Your governmentwide expenses for the year were at 26.2 million which is up 3% from the prior year. and your liabilities governmentwide ended up
009at 27.1 million which is up 6% from the prior year. And I just wanted to point out that the PERS unfunded liability is up to 8.3 million as of the end of the year and that is because the actuaries and Salem has been slain again. That has gone from 4.3 million to 995,000 and now this year they ended it at 8.3 million. So they can't make up their mind probably want to allocate the liability but that will is a long-term liability and will change as your um employee mix changes and based on whatever retirement rules are in effect over the next 30 years. your OPED as a promployment benefit um it is normally an asset and it is ended up at $276,000 asset this year which is up 6% 16% from the prior year. A
010couple of the other things we'd like to look at are a couple benchmarks. One is comparing the general fund ending fund balance to 10% of the general fund average expenditures for the year. We like to see a ratio of at least one which tells us that you have sufficient funds to start out the next year. And in this case you are at 2.3 cents of your next month. And then another good benchmark to look at is comparing uh general fund benefits to general fund salaries. And it is good to see them at 60% or less and you have been at 48% for two years since it's looking good. It's been a nice shift. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. All right. Superintendent report back sheet of the proclamation enrollment was slightly down the decline after September
011started about 492 continually slightly decline. I mean, we spoke we've been speaking about this really just defining enrollment in general just across our county and state and nationwide. We'll keep an eye on it. Um, all things considered, it's not too terribly bad. Um, and we just make adjustments. >> Yeah. moving of the so there's a lot of the social emotional aspect of it. Um there's a lot of postcoid moving back into you know onsite we didn't really get hit too bad with the um the co we were pretty much open you know shut down in March and really this if you guys remember we were back business even that the fall. Um so the students are there a lot of options Baker for web academy virtual academy there's a lot of virtual academy that students
012whom um we might see without those options in the past just continue to be in with us but you know um there's a plethora of reasons that they're they're attending the virtualmies but um >> but for this monthly high school is that right? No, we have in terms of already which would make more sense. >> Yeah. And we have we have the option over to build alternative school which is really just incredibly tough. We've we've been talking internally about you know providing the same option that that a virtual academy would for a lot of kids. Um, so >> that's something we're looking at. >> Something that we've been talking Dave and I along with Craig and his crew over at the alternative school that have been looking at. Um, but we do we do see
013some middle school and some upper like the elementary school kids. But yeah, predominantly it is a it is an option for the secondary kiddos. No, it's a good question. >> Not to one thing that we have also been talking about in terms of engagement and 11th graders whom are either credit efficient or students who are just have all the credit. And so as they move into their senior year, trying to continue to keep them engaged on kind of hitting on both ends. the students who are ready to do the advanced placement or dual credits are looking to go into, you know, get their college credits and then the students that are also I'm so credit deficient that where do I go from here? So, we're really just kind of looking into both ends of their
014junior year moving into their senior year and really we've been talking we we talk about attendance a ton and engagement. So really, it's just having those conversations with each kid and saying, "What what do you need? What what do you need to come to school? What do you need to to be engaged?" Um, so it's a lot of work, but um, you know, I think that we can learn. It's pretty complex to be honest. So Kevin, I was just looking and when you look at the high school stats just from September to now, we lost nine ninth graders. So the biggest portion is ninth and 10th grade with nine and seven. >> Yeah, a lot of those could just be students move into >> Sure. It's interesting that I mean I'm glad to see that
015there's only been like one 12th grader. Mhm. >> So I would I would have thought it would have been reverse. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> We will start seeing some that way, right? >> Yeah. >> I didn't want to say just wait, >> but no, it it is good too. And I think Craig can speak to that too. I mean Craig and Dave, we um I'm sorry Rob now um you know that transition. We're doing a lot of work with the the transition between K through 87, K3, getting them on on track when they're >> so um I think that the vertical alignment is important continuing to build those relationships and really career readiness if you will even from sixth, seventh and eighth grade. The quicker we can get the kiddos giving them opportunities to
016you don't know what you're doing when you're sixth grader when be here for seventh or eth. you know, a binding career technical and we talk a lot about this with the high school success and the CTE programs, the culinary program that that we know are so popular. Um, they're really trendy again. Um, and getting those options and giving those kids those opportunities to figure out what they want to do if they're not collegebound where they can get into our society and start being productive, making money in industries that we need. So, focus on that spotlight for early medicine. >> Yeah, I just wanted to highlight that. Um I'll just read that. So we we had talked about and then the next thing actually see thank you Kirk for elevating that question to you last month.
017um the all the at a glances so which is really the report card for each of our schools. Um I have the district report card last month and then each of the schooling report cards is there for you guys to look at too. But we had talked about having a 10% increase in uh third grade ELA proficiency and we got a few actually almost a week a little bit less than a week after our our last board meeting. Angelica Cruz, the director of literacy at Oregon Department of Education reached out um to a small number of districts including ours um whose ELA achievement data show encouraging growth. In reviewing the data, OD noticed that our district saw a significant increase in ELA achievement and we'd love to learn more about how we leveraged our early
018literacy success school district grant funds to impact student achievement. So, I just wanted to kind of highlight that that we had right about the time we were talking about our increase in third grade proficiency, the department reached out to us and kind of said, "Hey, what are you what are you guys doing? What are you doing? >> What you guys doing?" Odyssey um Crystal Blickett who's our early literacy instructional coach and then Lisa and Emily and Jana they all kind of collaborated and responded to Angelica about all the things that we have going on in our district. So, I just wanted to kind of continue to highlight that there's actually a high dosage tutoring for items for discussion um which we're going to get another grant to further support. Um early literacy prek K12, you
019know, we're really trying to get our kiddos on track to be proficient readers by the time needed to share that. It's kind of cool. ZC is that adds district profile that. So if you guys want your reading material, if you guys want to look at the get a chance to look at those report cards, um our schools had a nice report card. Um looking to have another one 2526. We'll see. That's all I have. Okay. director. I have this before. Uh so on the items of discussion um and Douglas High School, Joseph, >> a weird one. >> Yeah. >> Know what? What do we have going on? >> Well, I don't know if anybody knows the backstory, but I'm happy to like explain like the what's going on. So if anybody everybody is aware of
020the Douglas High School Murwall one part of the Douglas High School Murwall committee was started back in 2021 by David Grandmark was also my dad and when he passed away I took over and his place and as you can see the Douglas High School during up at Douglas High School where I currently stand. >> However, the the goal for the wall was not just putting it up. The goal was to also have solar lighting and signage. That signage is also uh that's part of uh what we want to display as not only the donors who donated for the wall but the meaning for the wall. Because when I went to Bez High School, I had no idea what the symbols meant. If we wanted to put signage up that explained the whole history of the
021wall, what each symbol on each side of the wall meant and the and uh also the the uh the quotes that are mentioned on both uh sides of the wall as well. And then the signage uh or I'm sorry the the solar lighting. So uh we so now that the wall is finished we have with the help of the city city of Winston who is going to be taking on this project we're going to be getting a grant from wake up and they're going to be given some grant that money is then going to be held by the desert or I'm sorry the uh Winston Festival Association. They're going to be our financial fiduciary for this that money. Uh the city found a a contractor which I believe they they use quite a bit which
022is the the I think it's Brandon Boss the Boss brothers. >> Oh wow. >> And yeah Boss Construction. So they I at least one of them took a look at the wall. They inspected it. I haven't uh met with him yet but um solar is up in the air because I think they may be able to tie into the current reader board that is by the the street at Doug High School. So that'll give lighting all the time when it's uh when it's night. So they're gonna be it would be like a photo sensor out there that would detect when there is darkness even illuminate the wall. And so all this additional work would be uh around where the current where the current structure is the concrete um surrounding the the wall. Well or if
023it's solar it would be on the the uh the upper side around the uh the overhang. That's that's kind of what I wanted to explain and and talk about somehow to answer any questions. >> So, how did you learn what the fib >> we So, there was uh there was interrupt. >> No, no, that's okay. There was the Troy Times that was written before I was born and that was I think that was in the school newspaper and it talked about the symbols on the wall and then we later realized that uh oh what's his name? Uh Wilson. >> Yeah. Uh he wrote a book that also explained what all the the meanings meant and so that was very helpful for us as well. And I believe we put that in the paper. But it
024didn't explain what they were. >> No, it didn't. >> I don't I don't think they were. He was never Well, I'm pretty sure he probably knows, but he he didn't in his book and I've talked to him. >> Oh, okay. >> Say what he meant. >> Okay. I believe >> that's why I was wondering how you can explain what all the symb and I believe somebody found one of the original people who actually built the wall >> okay >> built the wall >> or or who there was a group of people who who two two people yeah who who designed and built the wall and they >> they just laugh Oh, >> so for you to write down anything that they need, you can't do that because nobody knows and I'm sure they're not alive.
025>> That I I would have to double check because I believe they were written down. We have note of that somewhere. I think it was time to figure out what they what they were, right? And even the the one by the cafeteria, >> right? >> No, I don't believe we Right. >> That one there, I don't believe you didn't research. >> Yeah. So, >> right. >> I I think that >> Did you ever put something up there? It's not true. >> Pretty sure it's true, but >> according to >> right >> with the original to install the wall, >> was this included in those? So when when David Vandermark when he when he wrote up the plans, there was also a presentation that he wrote and I don't know who to test the problem. I
026don't know what where he distributed this information, but there was a slide deck and it did mention the the the light the solar lights and signage as part of the plan. >> Right. I have not uh been in this position long enough to look. I I don't know the history on on that plan and what what's been done that or what hasn't been done that was in that plan. >> Right. >> And so I need to look in or are you asking uh you are you wanting to add things to to the plan or what? >> Well, basically it's it's basically just adding on the solar lights solar lights and signage as part of the finished current finished product of the wall. >> Oh, okay. Where where are you going to put the signage? >>
027So signage would be on the school side. There's like a well it could be on the any part of the concrete that currently exists that is wrapped around the wall, but there's a larger piece of concrete on the school side. Uh much much wider than what's around the wall currently. >> How big how big would that be? >> Uh we're thinking of a if you've been to like a a national park, you have like a pole and then you have the sign kind of I'm thinking of the crater lake. in my line right right now. So if you're looking at the lake, you have like that the wood. I don't we don't know what material it is. It's just a little flat. >> Exactly. >> But then it would withstand all the all the the
028weather and whatnot. So >> So you're not increasing a footprint or anything. Just using what's already using the current >> already there and you put it in in the cement like voltage. >> Well, that's where it would be. >> Well, not the pole. Just the flat, >> you know, tell everybody worked on it. You mean like a what? Oh, a flat just just on the ground. >> Well, then it would be attributing other it would just be attached. Is that what you're saying, >> Kirk? I see. >> That's not Well, it's not something we've considered, but we can consider that for sure. Yeah, I think if I can work with who whomever like in regards to theou between the alumni association and district to install the current wall the way it is, >> right? >>
029We didn't there was no like thatou has been completed. Yes. As it stands right now. So, if you want to work with your team in regards to a proposal that you can send to me and I can work with Shelby, >> who's our facilities manager in uh >> sorry, Thomas, I believe it's Thomas at the city and then we can I can put together something that's very definitive in regards to the questions that we that you guys are asking >> and then we can present that to the board to look at. Okay. and and we can open it up for discussion further in February. That that would be something that we could do. >> Yeah. >> Yes. I'll I'll get some documentation. >> Have you seen the meanings of the of the symbols? Have you
030seen? >> Yes. Yes, I have. Yes. Yes. I believe we have written >> anything controversial. >> No, because Okay. Okay. No, it's not. It's controversial. So in Dave's original, I talked to Dave about this. You want a water, which is your angel? What else do you want out there, I guess? >> Right. So it would be just lights and signage. >> No, no. Oh, in the future. >> Oh, in the future. That That's basically that is the finished product >> because in the future what Dave wanted was the place to set >> that. Yeah, that was >> you wanted a fountain, >> right? That was >> a whole list of stuff. >> I found a lot of email threads talking about that. We're going to stop at this or you going to keep going? >>
031Right. There were some plans about Yeah. the picnic tables. There were some benches, a sidewalk that went from the school. That's why I think maybe that's why they had the concrete a little bit wider on that school side. >> But then the email said, you know, the emails were talking about how no, there's not, we probably shouldn't do the picnic tables and denters. We should just do lights and signage thanking the donors, explain the meaning and and make it illuminate uh in the evening >> and then complete the project. >> And complete the project. Correct. >> Okay. Well, thank you very much. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yep. district calendar 26 27 first reading Friday like I apologize for the uh not in color usually that's a color and calendar you can see
032the days that are all the things I'll I'll get that to you that's the first reason yeah discussing next month Dave sent that out to um all the people even administrators and so any feedback if anyone's seeing um anything that they recommend being changed for the actual district calendar we'll be have some in February would you like to copy now >> nice and I think you already kind of >> yeah Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. If you guys got any questions, that's just a grant. I think I don't know the exact funds, but it's a two-year grant. We'll use the money um to um for high dosage children. If you have a question about what that is, elementary building principles can probably explain it. Can we >> I think it's um an online theater a live
033person that um meets with two around two kids maybe three depending on the groups we're still working on that. Um it's 30 minutes three times a week and they are on a computer with some headphones with a microphone so they're able to speak back and forth with the live adult. spend a little bit of time building relationships so that the students know a little bit better the adult they're working with and it's very similar instruction to what we're already doing in the um in the classrooms and on some of their small groups that lead um the tutors are provided quite amount quite a large amount of training and follow-up training throughout their instruction um by the company um And this uh allows for more students to receive that smaller instruction oneonone sometimes or two on
034one. So >> will it be during the school or >> it is it's during the time that we're already providing small group instruction at least at my building. So it's not taking away from something that they already received. They just were in a little bit larger group before. >> And Jan, I don't know if it's quite the same. Uh it's a company that we're contracted with who provides someone to do the the 30 minute lesson for whatever wherever the students are at whatever dose whatever dosage they need. >> Air reading. >> What is it? >> Air reading. >> Yes. We met with a few different um kind of shoe range companies and um Crystal, our literacy coach, coordinated all that and and so we met with I think it was three >> um and then
035chose what we thought would be the best options. And there were recommended recommendations made as well from the state um who was granting the funds to us of um companies to look into >> that you had to but it was a starting point and they had kind of vetted these companies ahead of time. >> Did they give us any anyway that's using these companies? >> Yes. >> How does we did ask? Yeah. Um there aren't a lot in Oregon right now. Many of the companies are working in other states. So Florida, California, but quite a few differences. >> What we noticed in Oregon was they were working with ESD three times per week for 10 weeks qualify as a high dose. It'll be a little bit longer than 10 weeks for us, but that that's
036kind of the the minimum I think it to be qualified at a high dosage. We were able to purchase more time than that due to our schedule and the rest of the school year. >> Excited to see how it worked. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> The kids are excited. The kids are excited. We the program we chose it um they designed their own headphones, the noise cancelling headphones and they send them dividers and a little wristband and bigger than bag >> and so the kids were really excited about all those cool things and the headphones are truly noise cancelling. I put them on, oh wow, >> and they have a microphone so they they feel like they're gaming. >> So So they can engage in this. >> Oh, very much. Yeah. Yeah. >> And then they
037also send progress reports to the teachers every so often and also then to us. So and we have 20 um third graders at McGovern doing this program. So we have 10 uh 10 second graders and they give a quick assessment to kind of see where the students are. We looked at our reading data to help nominate students um for this and then they do a quick assessment and then put them into the groups and we start on the 20th with instruction. >> So hopefully we can update you later on >> how that's going. >> Kids are excited and I'm anxious to see what this works. It's new. >> Yeah, they're excited about it. Sounds like it's got a good chance. >> They're an adult that will be listening >> sometimes through the season. >> Yes,
038they have um they monitor on their end as well and we have companies facilitating helping with any technology issues, but once kids get into that routine, it should pretty be pretty sustainable. um our hope on the fourth day where they might be getting high dosage tutoring, we'll have some other um work for them to do that's aligned to what they're already working on. So if they're struggling in something and they send that in our report, we'll be able to follow up on that. >> Is it an AI part of it or >> there is not that I know of. It's a live person. We could use an AI tutoring program for this. That was one of one of the requirements that we could It was really fun to hear the kids often connect with the
039people they were working with because they were talking about their names and then they want one student asked where are you know here you are on the screen where are you um and he was told Florida and he thought oh my you know couldn't comprehend that and yeah his assessment took a lot longer just hang All right. So, Douglas service plan. >> Yeah. So, in your packet is the service plan. We This is pretty this standard each year. Um the Douglas DSD provides services to all 13 school districts in the county which include us. And then just asking to review the plan for 26 to 27. If you have any questions, go ahead and reach out to me. And then there'll be a resolution and as an action item on the February agenda. We get
040a lot of our um special education services from the the speech language pathologist evaluation specialist. Um occupational therapist, physical therapist for students with needs related services. Um that's a big thing. Tech get our tech from the ESD. Um tech support. And so there's just uh there's nothing really new uh in regards to the services that we're asking for because we're not already doing right now. It's everything questions or anything on those discussions. >> I'm sorry. Nobody has anything to make a motion to adopt consensualized. >> Yeah, that's all read. >> Okay. >> Um we have some thank you from um Dillard Alternative Schools to Dillard store for 15 22 oz fountain soda bombs valued at $25. The wasting food bar for any size free fountain drink coupons valued at $100. to Carlos restaurant for two
041free dinner coupons valued at $50 to Aby's Pizza Center for 44 lunch special coupons valued at $396 to a cut above hair salon for a haircut coupon valued at $10. And then we have some thank yous from Douglas High School uh to Columbia Banks for $500 donation to girls basketball to Jackson Street Division for a $250 donation to girls basketball. to Willy's Cafe and Spirits for $1,000 donation to ASC for food pantry drive to Alan Thompson for a $500 donation to the Marley Thompson Memorial Scholarship Fund. To Marily or Marley Dawson for donation of $1,000 to the Marlon Thompson School Memorial or Memorial Scholarship Fund to Noah and Kaylee Wick for $250 donation to VHS metal shop. To Steve Matthews for $275 donation to VHS metal shop. and to David Bird for a donation of
042$5,000 to the baseball program. >> Mr. Thank you. >> I move the Winston School District board of directors approve the consent agenda as seconded. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Unanimous. So motion carries. We're down to action by the time school district 2627 budget calendar as >> second a motion and a Second favor motion car. >> Okay. So, now we're down to the executive session. Um, >> so I'd like to make a motion. I'd like to move that the board not substantiate the public complaint against respondent number one. That second >> a motion and second. All in favor? >> I unanimous. Motion carried. Another motion. >> Second motion. I move that the board not substantiate the public complaint against respondent measure two. >> Motion in a second. All in favor? I
043I >> also like to move that the board not substantiate the public complaint against respondent number three. Second motion to second. All in favor? I unanimous. Will we have >> We have one more motion. I'd like to move that the board delegate authority to the board chair to correspond in writing to the parties involved in the public complaint. >> Motion second. All in favor? >> I unanimous car. So, at this point, uh, do we have anybody signed up? >> Nope. All right. For the good of the word, Rob to stand up. Uh, you know, Keith will tag team this. Um, we want to thank the high school leadership program. Uh, their students will be coming down uh working with the middle school leadership uh program and doing some planning. they're get getting ready to gear
044up to the Valentine's Day dance and really really making sure the students have an active plan and planning that all of our teachers are working really hard with their students to uh finish strong for the for the quarter and make sure we're keeping that focus. Michelle and I are continuing doing our listening sessions with our students. It's it's really nice to get in. Students have finally caught on that we're actually listening and so um we got bombarded with a lot of suggestions today. um many of them really good and so they understand that we're going to have to start a priority list on what changes that we're looking at because we can't make all the changes. And for sports, >> uh yep, we're gearing up for our boy basketball season. First game start next week.
045Um and our wrestlers, we have a handful of wrestlers who are continuing to practice getting ready for our state championship. And I think the only thing is we got our sixth grade lockers. The fifth graders are super excited about having locker know that he's practicing a lot. >> Very cute. >> How many kids are going to the championship? >> Uh I I think we'll have eight. Wonderful. >> Did we have to add lockers or was there lockers available? >> We we were fortunate. We found uh some surplus lockers from another school in excellent condition and so we were able to add some and then the district also has added some extra inventory should you need. >> They're great in great condition. >> We got a good deal. >> Yeah, we got a great deal. >>
046Great. Okay. >> So, thank you guys first of all and foremost the school board for everything you do for us. We appreciate the lobbying. Um we do appreciate that a lot. Um Chol obviously goes through a lot of ourh stuff and but um we do have some uh some good stuff going on. Uh Mr. Jones has a couple numbers we'd like you to hear before our last push into the first semester. Um so I'm going to let him take a brief second here and go over those. Uh and we're we've uh worked with our staff and you know we've all uh applauded everybody and we all uh got together and good stuff good stuff going up there. So I'll let you kind of go with that real quick. >> Yeah. So uh similar to what
047Rob was saying we're in our finish strong so a lot of focus on getting kids across the line staying on track to graduate um as we get to the end of the semester here where all the credits count. So, just briefly, our our freshman right now um as of this week, so it's all current and on our weekly data that we come out with, are 84% on track. Um our sophomores are 82% on track and our juniors are 93% on track. So, with that, that's a huge boost from um where it has been in the past. Um and we're maintaining a solid on track rate, which is a great sign to see. So, we're really happy about that. Our teachers are still trying to get that final push and get a few more across. Um,
048but it it bodess well for our graduation week for sure, especially with that freshman on track. That's our big one. We put a lot of focus into is that ninth grade year is really getting those kids to understand what we're doing, why we're doing it, and uh it it's it really ends up being a lot better off for them, staying on track, and not falling behind that first game. >> What's what's the average on that for for schools? first goals. I know before Rob, correct me if I'm wrong, we were down in the >> 60 64% I think >> probably four or five years ago is what we were averaging about. >> So it we really wanted to get our goal this year was to maintain above that 80% as consistently as we could and
049trying to hit more of that 84 85 um as a as a high-end goal, but just to maintain where we ended last year. Um, hitting that 81% was a big jump for us and we maintain that higher rate this year. So, hoping that we stay above that 80% and keep that consistent. Getting up into the 90, you know, a few years out is what we're really pushing for. So, >> great. Yeah. >> Are you guys working with the eighth graders getting them? >> Yeah. So, >> you realize what's going to happen as freshman. >> Yeah. And so we're we're using a little bit lighter version of that, but yes, we are working on we're we're keeping the same track that we're we're in the uh midapp or 80s for the classes. I'll check on that
050last uh last month we had the district report colored 83 on track was on there and it has the Oregon state average. So I think we it was just it's almost exactly that 83% I think for 93 on track. I'll check Okay. Well, happy board appreciation month. Um, thank you for all that you've done and do to support us. We really appreciate you. Um, this month is all about benchmarking and this week started Battle for Benchmarks. We started this program last year to help get our kiddos more engaged and excited about testing because nobody comes to school um to take a math test. Don't be super excited about that. So, all kiddos on Monday were sorted into a color. They got flagged. Each team has all grade levels on it. So, there's some kindergarten, first
051grade, second grade, all the way to fifth on all the colors. And any tests that they show growth in. They earn puff balls for their team. They put those puff balls in a bucket that coordinates their color. All throughout the week, we're waving our flags for teams. There's the team spirit stick and the team that shows the most spirit, cheering for others. um that earns you 50 puff balls. It's a big deal. Um and it's been a lot of fun. Kids are showing a ton of growth and so far Miss Darren and I have counted 9,244 puff balls. Um that's our grand total so far. So really excited about all the growth. Um the kids are so excited about it that I had a student that thought he was going on vacation um and presented
052a proposal if he could please take his test while he was on vacation and then zoom in and watch somebody put his thumbs in. Turns out he was not going on vacation that week, so he's good. Um, but that's how invested they are in in this program. They're really excited. Um, we're seeing some great growth in math, um, which we're contributing to a new intervention program that we've been using called Kickstart. It's the first time we've ever had a math intervention program that really targets kiddos needs. Um, and all of the kiddos that are in that program showed a lot of growth, but 25 of the 32 went up one grade level. >> Wow. >> And that's huge. That's five months and they have to put up an entire grade level. So, that's really exciting
053for our kids that need that extra. Um, we also have a new um way to help engage our parents that actually started a few months ago. I just wasn't sure how many views I was going to get, so I didn't want to tell you all yet if nobody liked it. Um, but we started um videos that we post on our Facebook page to help educate our parents on different things that are going on in our school. And we have kiddos in those videos. And we've done four episodes so far. We've done one on STAR, which is our reading protocol. So, sit tall, talk big, answer together, and respect each other. That's a star reader. And so, kiddos explained to parents what that was. Um, we've also done one on state giant, strong, accountable, friendly, empathetic,
054and they explained what each one of those meant. We did one on group closures. And then last week, we posted one on what benchmark testing is. So, if you ever want to get on and watch it, the kids think um 100 views because, you know, that's about what you get from a ling Facebook page is going viral. So, if you want to get on there and view, they love when they get more views. They think it's pretty cool. Um, at the end of those videos, we always highlight how partners how parents can partner with us um with that with that episode. So, so it's a great way to get parents involved. Um, our parent club is doing a fundraiser this spring. It's called Tattoo a Teacher where students can purchase a um like a fake
055tattoo and the different sizes will be different costs. So, 25 cents for a small one and a dollar for a big one. And we would love to have a board member volunteer to come also get tattoos. So, start thinking about the nominating. We would love to ask you a board member at the same time. We don't have a date yet. I'll get back to you. And then the last thing I always kind of end with something kind of funny and um that kiddos have said around looking glass and whatnot. We had a new kinder start and he within the first five minutes probably said, "I'm going to go get a drink of water and I'm going to go home." That's not really how this works. Like you're here for a little bit longer. at the
056end of the day he said okay I'll come back tomorrow >> um I also want to thank all of you I'm going to tag on to everyone else but um so appreciate your work um again love being back in Winston and working um in small school district small school board so again thank you um our kids are lucky to have you in family. So, um we too are uh in our assessment week um and we have already started to see some great changes around student learning um particularly around math as well. Um I haven't dove into all of the data yet, but um we'll be spending time doing that. Later in the month, our teachers will be working together to review their data, um, look at how kids are growing, where kids might be still
057struggling, and adjusting their instruction based on that information. Um, we in December had a couple different events. Um, we had a craft night, same thing as McGovern, and I think accidentally it turned out pretty darn good. Um, and our families had a great time. We had Christmas tree and Santa and we had a different Santa on that. Are I know >> um but we had a c we made a lot of different crafts. It was really great to see the families working with their kids and having fun. And honestly, our adults were um partaking in those crafts just as much as the kids were. So was a really great way to end some. Um, I just had our booster club meeting uh about an hour ago. We are planning a family dance at the end
058of February. Um, and we are going to have a Disney themed and so yeah, hopefully uh that will be a great turnout. We're going to hold it in the gym instead of the cafeteria anticipating. Uh, many other we've had quite a few actually new students come on campus. some leave of course over Christmas break as well, but um we've got a really great start to January at Broadway. So feel good. >> Thank you. >> Um again, thank you guys for your district. >> Well, um I hope that you have some time to read all those um letters that your government wrote to you. Um they look pretty precious. >> Um I read quite a few of them and very sweet. Um we're also in the middle of benchmarking this week at McGovern. Um I don't
059have a lot of data to share with you at this point. Uh but I do um I did have a fifth grade teacher um come into my office to celebrate that all of her students because she teaches three classes. It's um close to 90 students and she uh came in to celebrate that all of her um students has um shown growth on dibble. So she was very excited about that. Um I think it's closer to 80 sorry um 80 students. And so we're also starting our out outdoor school planning that's in motion now. And so we have for fifth graders. Um so we'll be very busy doing that here shortly. Um we have fifth grade fine dining at McBurn. Um on Thursday the Smith team and students are very excited about fine dining and trials.
060>> Yeah, he's back. Um and yeah, we have start student assembly tomorrow. We also have craft night. Um like Lisa said, they our students think that broccoli has some real Santa. >> It was quite cute. And then um that craft night was really fun. Um, I don't know much of what went of what went on other than I spent the entire night painting faces with a couple teachers and um, it was a blast, but I know that they had a blast with all the other booths, too. Um, but we had a long line the entire nighting faces. So, yeah, it was fun. And we already talked about tutoring. Um, but love to answer any more questions you guys have about that later. or >> I can keep you back on. Thank you so much. >>
061Let's just keep that going. Uh let's see. No, Kyle, do you have any um fine dining? Sorry, >> no. So, we have fine dining uh going on next Thursday. All fifth graders with the district. So living bus will be there in the evening. Um all al all the creators plus one adult event table and event um culinary arts team at subs are doing for meal four course meal and then we speech about why indicate so important and service. Um and also during Christmas break we serve meals during Christmas break. We fed 600 of the families over uh 4 days um in meals for the day. So that was big success. Thank you Cal. >> Yes. >> Definitely larger than 100%. And then also um we did have additional funds. Um so we will be providing
062meals during spring break for the holiday because they're off. Do >> you want to share about some of the food that's being actually produced that you had mentioned in our last admin meeting actually made in our kitchens that are being served? >> Oh yeah. Thank you. Thank you. >> So So as a district um we're going back to more scratch cooking. So, we're in a we're in the um three month rotational menu, which goes back from having prepackaged product to more scratch cookies. So, uh the kids look at us, you know, like what is this? Um but we were trying to get them and say not everything comes in a plastic bag. It's actually like cooked, real apples and whatnot in there. So, that's where we're going as a district. Um we got the funding
063from the state for buying local. Um, and we topped out of that. We purchased about $15,000 worth of product to grow. We have some more funding coming in spring. So that's where we're going at the church. Then next month with the middle school. >> My granddaughters really love muffins, but they do have one complaint. They think I can fix it all. But they said that the chocolate milk is like nonfat or they don't like that cheese or something about nutritional standards. Well, it did just >> Thank you for the >> there. Anyone else? >> I would like to say thanks again for the all the stuff for the appreciation. It means a lot. >> It's it's great as a board member to sit up there and listen to all the the positive things that are
064going on in the school. the, you know, the early learn, the the kids that are on track, um the food, you know, that's a real reward for for me. I know personally to hear that coming back. Um anyway, thank you guys. You know, you guys do do a lot of work out there. It's really appreciated. >> Thank you. >> Um let's see. >> So, with that, we'll adjourn. >> All right. Let me share.