001We'll start with the Oh, at this time we will proceed with the agenda provided. It's just time. Excuse me. If there is no dissent from the board and vice president and >> pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with all. >> All right. Looks like all board members are present. So, superintendent academic awards. >> Yeah, good time of the night. Superintendent Academic Awards secondary. Um, I'll have Mr. Anderson, Craig Anderson come up and I'm going to turn it over to uh Sam. Um, I'm have Rand tonight. Okay. I would love to give a big congratulations to Alexa board our high school being prepared and a couple of staff members contributed to this as well. Lexa has been a student
002of mine since her 10th grade year, during which time she had proved herself as an academic force in the class of 2026. As a sophomore, I witnessed her maturity and intelligence shine, and now I have the opportunity to have her as a senior. I consider myself lucky to be able to cheer her on as she finishes strong. Alexa is everything you could wish for in a student. She is brilliant and driven, a combination you don't see often, and will serve her well as she enters adulthood. She cares about her own learning and is able to connect and apply what she learns in the classroom to her future. In the classroom, Alexa is engaged and inquisitive, making her a skilled problem solver and critical thinker. Her level of focus and attention to detail are very impressive
003and have been as long as I have known her. Her English teacher, Mrs. Palmu, wanted to share, "Alexa exemplifies dedication and perseverance in everything she does. She constantly pushes herself to take on challenges, including multiple college level courses while maintaining excellence in all of her classes. She is also prepared, ask thoughtful and insightful questions, and demonstrates maturity be beyond her years. She sets a positive example for her peers by always doing the right thing, staying focused on her goals, and approaching every task with integrity and enthusiasm. Her math and econ teacher, Mrs. Jones added, "Alexa consistently strives for excellence. She perseveres through difficult tasks and her dedication to learning has helped her become skilled in all of her school subjects. She is kind and patient with her peers and shows respect toward towards her teacher
004teachers. She has proven herself to be a responsible, genuine, hardworking, and outstanding student and person. She's an asset to have in the classroom and very deserving of this award. Alexa is the kind of student that makes you want to show up to work. Thank you so much, Alexa. The National Honor Society tonight. So, it's a huge Now we have the high school student report. >> Good evening everyone. I'm Peterson here at the DHS student report. October was an incredible month for our school community full of spirit, hard work, and success. We kicked things off with our trunk or treat event, which was a huge hit. Thank you to everyone who decorated trunks, handed out candy, and came dressed in their Halloween best. It was amazing to see families, students, and staff come together to make
005it such a fun and festive night. As fall sports come to a close, we want to celebrate the amazing seasons our athletes have had. Congratulations to our girls soccer and volleyball teams, as well as Hudson Palace, who represented our school in cross country, for making it to state playoffs. You've made us proud. And of course, our football team isn't done yet. They're heading into the second round of playoffs. I'd like to invite you all to show up and cheer them on at Jervis High School this Friday night. Tomorrow is World Kindness Day and the ASU leadership is planning to celebrate with a kindness campaign. We are making posters to hang around school and handing out kindness matters notes where teachers and students get to write down acts of kindness that they have seen and we
006get to pass them back to the students who are caught being kind. Our slogan is in a world where you can be anything, be kind. ASB wants to show how much we care and spread as much kindness as possible. Finally, a huge thank you to everybody who participated in the blood drive on November 8th hosted by our ASB leadership team. Your tremendous acts of kindness helped save lives and showed what it means to be a community that gives back. To all the student, staff, community, and board members who donated, you helped us achieve our goal of 44 units collected. We can't wait to continue being great throughout November. Thank you and go. >> All right, we're going to take a short intermission for those of you who do not want to stay for the whole
007meeting. >> Thank you. Oh yeah. superintendent reports. >> Um yeah, this I mean I have the involvement there. Um and it's it's pretty steady. It's down for from a month ago. Slight down um slightly down from this time last year, but um Kim and I have been having a lot of conversations in regards to enrollment. So other than outside of the enrollment, I don't have anything else for you. If you have any questions, okay, director of the board, I have nothing to it. >> Yeah, this is something that we had spoke about um at both McGovern Elementary and Broadway. um in regards to facility use and when we have volleyball and basketball teams and when we get in there um just a surface that's a little bit um improved from um the last you know
008for the athletes and so we uh we had Shelby look into that it is it is expensive and so um but there's um Shelby received um quotes for some different options for what would be at McGovern Elementary which they it's multi-purpose. It's their um it's their gymnasium and they also is the cafeteria. So I would just wanted to get that those couple options for you guys to look at moving forward determine that you want to >> it's not an action item just how much is it >> it's about 80k >> just for the govern it was about um 61 62 yeah that Branson forest Is it is it a rubber? >> It is. >> It's so the 90. So there's a 60 and a 90 and 110. And the lower the more firm the the
009millimeter the 60 mil or 6 millimeter sorry is the 60 and then the 90 is the 9 millimeter. And so the 110 which is the 11 millimeter that's almost like like gym if you were in a gym and there were treadmills and it's it's really spongy. So they don't recommend that for um because it's also in that Broadway it would be that way too. Um it's multi-purpose they recommend other than the 60 or the 90. So, I don't know if Craig would you didn't you never did play on UC. >> I did. >> Did you? >> That rubber would it be something like that? Nasty. >> A knee grabber. >> Yeah, that was >> Yeah. >> I mean, it was pretty bad. >> Um, that's a good question. You know, I don't know exactly how
010grippy it is, but it would definitely be a lot. It would be a opposite of like kind of what it's kind of like an ice rink right now. So it' be a bitter for sure. That's a good question. >> It's a little updated from what it used to be because like Green Elementary has it in there and >> we can we can if we want to go look has a surface the same surface build. So if we want to go if you guys are interested not a bad idea we can test out >> but anyway there's some there for that you know we at least we got a little bit of information in regards to moving forward. Um, was there anything else you mean like a like a good wax to could to go over
011it or? Um, no. >> They just did. So, we'll have to check out the um >> It helps with the wax helps with the surface, but because of how old the buildings are and the doors jam and just the dust in in general, it it gets it doesn't take long for it to get slick. Just like the old really the old gymnasium at the high school, right? I mean, you can wet mop it and you can be halfway through practice and it'll slip again because of the filtration system and it's a challenge. Um, but >> did he find anything else out there? No, this was Yeah, this was this was pretty much it in regards to being competitive and even even these folks come down those metro areas we're looking in this or Seattle Portland
012Seattle areas to to do a project like this. So, um, really not a lot of great options. Just trying to maintain it. Yeah. FBA. >> Yeah. We were neither there. >> Oh, we did the board. >> Um Jasmine and Susan and I attended the um what was the it was the board rules and regulations. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Yeah. Policies. >> Yeah. Training. So >> yeah understand our own policy better. And then Susan, was there anything you wanted to share after we left, we had to leave. >> Yeah. >> And you stayed with the legislative state. >> Yeah. Basically money struggle honestly. >> That was the bottom line. >> Yeah. Sharpen. >> It might come from this place or it might come from that place or it might not come at all. >> Yeah. >>
013So glad to hear. >> On that note, November 19th, the next budget forecast. So, you know, a week from today, we'll have more information about what the revenue forecast will look like, and then we can have some more in-depth conversations about how we move forward. >> Great. >> Oh, sorry. >> Oh, no. Crystal with a K. >> That's not me. No K here. Um the elementary literacy team we the purpose of this team is to act as the guiding coalition for literacy work within buildings. Members listen to colleagues and act as literacy problem solvers. Teams from each school represent the guiding coalition for the literacy work in each of the buildings acting as an advocate for our little readers. So Crystal Click is our instructional coach early literacy instructional coach. We we've been working diligently
014to we've talked about this a lot moving the needle in regards to read early literacy reading proficiency and so the team really really good idea for Crystal all the hard work that we've been doing really for the last 18 months she wants to recognize the team and so the admin team is Lisa Dick over Emily Led better and Janet Norton want to say hello they if you have any questions about literacy, they can answer them. Brockway Elementary, Alicia Black, Danny McClendon, and Cynthia Wixs. Looking Glass Elementary is Sam Leven, Tammy Taylor, and Haley Walton. Um, McGovern Elementary team is Laura Bennett, McKenna Fusco, Paula Goodman, Brian Hobs, and Sandy Reno. So we have been getting together and we have a early literacy plan. We have an early literacy playbook and there's been a lot of
015there's been a lot of professional development over really King Talison right at King Talison this first year. Um, so we've been trying to the baton has been passed to us and the teams have been um, working hard and smart to improve our literacy instruction and we're we're going to see some um, we're seeing improvements, some growth, >> also include engagement, I mean more engagement with students. For example, one of my granddaughters goes to Tim to Tim McGovern and she's in a little club now, a book reading club, and she's super excited about it. You know, it takes up a little bit of her lunchtime, but she, you know, she's excited about the challenge and and doing that. So >> does it does include engage? Yeah. And that whole team like all things all this team
016will meet and we'll talk about really I mean I should I should love the building principles. You guys want to share anything in regards to our early literacy team specifically what Susma said engagement? >> Um I wanted to add that um all of our teachers are contributing to it. So um our literacy teachers were mentioned but really it's been a team effort among all of our teachers um especially contributing to intervention and enrichment for our students when it comes to literacy. Um and one of the big focuses that we have um and that we're working with Dana um with as well is engagement. And so we want our students to learn to read if um at grade level or higher, but we also really want them to love to read and to love um reading
017the learn. So, one of the goals of the group this last year, we've actually been working on it for about two years, is aligning our reading curriculum and our writing curriculum so that we can bring more engagement into it. So, that kind of what they're reading about is also what they're being asked to write about. And so, for example, our fourth centers just got done with a big unit on natural disasters. And I know I heard at McGovern there were kids outside being hurricanes. So they were outside moving as it was starts and hurricanes and at looking glass was a room transformation and the fourth grade teacher changed her entire classroom into different um different natural disasters for kids to experience. So engagement has been a huge part of yep textbook adoption. Um, >> yeah,
018that's just a heads up because we're embarking on the textbook adoption for both health and social studies starting next month. We did delay adoption for health last year. That's why they're doing two at the same time. Um, we're still well within the uh the guidelines of OD though. So, we're moving forward on that. Um, principles are putting together teachers for that committee and we've invited parents to participate. Been super impressed with how many parents have wanted to be involved. Great news. Every day is like Christmas. Michelle calls me and said, "You got more presents out here. All lined with boxes going through them. Pretty fun." >> Will they be on review here? So people >> they will be. Yep. That's part that and and we'll have a full calendar out soon, but um they will
019be there'll be a couple of weeks that they'll be on display here in the boardroom. In the meantime, you're welcome to come to my office and have a personal viewing. >> Yeah, honestly, we we do encourage you guys if you guys want if you guys have a chance, stop by and talk to Dave about anything especially health related, social studies, we we know that it's important um to ensure that we adopt the I like how do uh Dave you said what? >> Oh, yeah. Well, we often refer to it as a curriculum adoption, but in actuality, the you know, the state has set the standards and we are just choosing the textbooks to present those standards. There's many textbooks and they present them in different ways. And sometimes the teachers like to uh pick and
020choose their own resources beyond the textbook just to make sure we present them in a way that's, you know, appropriate for our own our own community. All right, we want to do field trip. >> Yeah, there's a couple. Yeah, there's a few in there. They've been coming in um pretty frantically. Yeah, the bay's been busy. Um DTS is mainly secondary choir marching band career. Although I will point out MEES fourth grade, they're going to go up and attend that OSU Gil and be attend. >> Oh no, never mind. They went last year and it is fun. All right. >> I just have a question on that one. What is a color infinity group? >> Yeah, that's um Craig, you want to speak to that? uh Celia's group at the high school. >> Yeah, the ESP
021um they they uh a couple years ago they started an affinity group where students of color um get together and have some people come in and do talks and and have a space where they can just pop culture and all sorts of people can drop in and out whenever. So that's kind of what they're doing. >> Okay. And that is that's not specifically in there, is it? It's just the one from Boston. >> No, it's going it's the last ones on the list. They're going to Southern Oregon University. >> Yeah, there's sometimes there'll be I can share I can share the actual request with you too, Susan, if you want more information. >> Curious what it was. >> Did they change the name? What was it? >> Yeah, change up. They changed. >> Yeah, it
022was something else. >> Well, that says infinity. It's actually not. It's ainity. It's not infinity. >> Color ofity. >> Yeah. >> I think sorry. >> Infinity. >> Color I believe was name. >> Yeah. Sorry. That the that's the color affinity. A f i n i >> t y. Sorry. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Let's move on to uh the adoption of consensus agenda. Does anyone have any questions on that? >> You want to raise your donations and stuff? >> Yeah, you can do that. >> That 10 you want to cafe for donation $1,486 the softboard grant. Um, VHS cheer to Big Well Found Josh Bigwell Foundation for a donation of $4,000. And then we have thank yous um from the DHS girls basketball to Best Keep Secret LLC for donation of $200. Thank you from DHS
023to Cascade Community Credit Union for $228. This is a chalkboard grant. Thank you from Looking Glass Elementary prek classes. Cascade for $500 grant. Looking glass elementary PE department to Cascade Community Credit Union for the $164 chalkboard grant and a thank you from McGovern Elementary fourth grade class to Cascade for a chalkboard grant in the amount over $820. Thank you from Winston Middle School to Justice Bford for donation of trombones valued at $400. follow. >> Yeah, we always we appreciate the donations and the chalkboard grant the Cascade Community Credit Union. >> It's a short it's a short um or it's not short, but it's a it's an application um that um the teachers can apply for every year that they call the chalkboard. So, it's nice to get those those funds coming. helps out with classroom
024materials and other things, >> right? >> We just need a there's no other transfer. >> Yeah, transfers. If you guys if you guys have any questions, you can you can see there's some ships about becoming outgoing. I move the W school district board director approve the consent agenda as >> I'll second it. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor? I motion carries. Hello to action items. >> I move the Winston building school district board of directors accept the public complaint and to delegate the authority to the board chair to retain an investigator for the purpose of investigating the complaint. >> Have a motion and a second. All in favor? I unanimous motion three. I move the Winston Dillard School District board of directors approve the OSBA recommended policy update as presented.
025>> Motion second. >> Second. All in favor? I I unanimous motion carries. And then yeah, this OSBA legislative policy committee position number nine. >> One or two. >> Um there are two candidates. >> Yeah, there a couple candidates. >> Uh there are two candidates. >> Yeah, choose one. >> You would choose one of the two candidates. outside of >> you don't have to choose either either >> right neighbor >> I read there >> and he was actually at the meeting she has been on acting >> but I would move that the Wy Hill school district board of directors elect Janice Colony for OSBA legislative policy committee position number nine Second. >> Have a motion and second. All in favor? >> I have. Okay. We have majority. >> Okay. Then there's that 99 outdoor school grant.
026Fifth graders from Lesn attend three-day two nights this year at Grove Camp outdoor school in Jerina. There's a I think that all that has been was in pack two to review. Can you go again or me? Can you go in again or a little different one? I move the Winston School District board of directors approve the funding for Grove Camp Outdoor School for an estimated cost of $46,67511 from the outdoor school grant. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> Unanimous carried. >> Just a side note, there was a cut to that that uh measure 992. So, it's nice for our students to still be able to get that for another another school year. >> It was a good deal. >> Yeah. It's really life-changing experience. >> I would if I
027if it is possible something to push you over the edge, you should check out the picture on that pamphlet where they've got a rock climbing wall built on a tree. A tree must be 20 ft around, >> you know, that that's a lot of fun. They had a rock climbing wall, but it was just >> Was it on a tree? >> No, >> because that special, >> but uh it was condemned or something. So like, oh, this could be cool for the kids and no class that. And then 11, the last action item is Chromebook replacements. Replace 150 student Chromebooks, 25 at WMS, 75 at DHS, and 50 at NBS. These are older ones that um it's time to replace that we do on an annual basis. >> They're not they're just older. They're not
028lost. >> What about sharing another school? >> No, we have oneonone. So, it's all of our students. >> Yeah. I move that W dealer school district board directors approve the purchase of 150 Chromebooks in the amount of 38,755. >> I f the motion motion and second. All in favor? >> I unanimous motion carries. Okay. Communications are okay. We have one one person uh signed up. Um so at this time, anyone wishing to address the board concerning items not included in this agenda may do so. The board reserves the right to delay any response until they can be fully informed on the matter. At this discretion, the excuse me, at the discretion of the chair, further public participation may be allowed. The board will not hear comments regarding any individual staff members per policy BDBH. The
029board shall not entertain or consider complaints until they have first been addressed as per policy KO. The board will now hear up to five comments no more than two minutes each submitted by the audience. That looks like Crystal. >> That's right, Crystal. Well, not the right. >> Hi, I'm Crystal. I am here today because my son experienced a bullying situation last week while my son's also been a bully and now being bullied from both sides of this situation. And then my concern is that this situation was probably a more exaggerated situation or more severe situation, bullying situation. My concerns are with policy and how things are handled when things like this happen to a kid. If a kid is hurt at a school, I feel like the mother should be called directly like first thing.
030And I read your guys policy and it's like within a reasonable amount of time, an hour or I think it says hour within an hour. When my child was heard at the school, I feel like I should have been notified within two minutes. Um, two minutes was a long time. So moving forward, I don't I'm not here just to sit here and complain that my child was bullied. I'm here because my initial instinct was to just pull my child out of these schools because he doesn't fit in this box like my older daughter does. She's an academic scholar. She'll be a neurosurgeon one day. I'm sure of it. My younger child struggles through school. He struggles to make friends. He struggles to communicate things that are bothering him or hurting him. Likely if this situation
031hadn't been seen by a staff member or stopped at some point, he would have never told me about it even because he's just that kind of kid. He holds things in. I feel like as a community right now, there's some momentum going and there's a time right now where we can make real change for these kids at these schools. Because I'm telling you guys, I sit here before you with 30 stories sent to me through Messenger from kids and parents alike telling me their situation and they're scared and they're sad and they're hurt and they need to see change. I have three ideas, but I'm just a mom. I'm just an educator, but I'm begging for change. Like, I'm begging for something to be done about the bullying situation. Well, I will still likely pull
032my child because I'm scared to send him to school anymore. So, I have sent him to school this week cuz he wanted to go. Every single day this week, I've been fearful for his day. I think that to let parents know about the bullying situation through the parent view or the student view, there could be some kind of situation tracker where parents can see if it's getting better or worse. That's one idea. Um, how many bullying situations happened this month and then next month and then like is it getting better or do we need to pull our kids? Right? Make sense? Or what about my daughter told me that there is a program in place at the school where there's a bully buddy bench that you can go sit on the bench and then people
033will come and talk to you if you're feeling alone or scared or sad. But what about starting like a a bully buddy full-on program at the school where kids can sign up to be safe kids and then the other kids know who these safe kids are through assemblies or like you introduced them as these kids are your safe kids that you can go to if you're feeling scared or afraid and that does put some pressure on kids but as parents we know if our kids can handle that situation. So the kids can sign up, the parents can approve, and then at the end of the year, at the end of the year assembly, there's like an award. We give awards for lots of things. I will personally fund an award for the kid that helps
034stop bullying situations the most. I don't know how you promote that. Like I said, I'm just a mom. These are just ideas that have ran through my head through the situation. Another idea I had was what if is there a parent sign up form for can I go watch the playground? Am I allowed to do that? I don't know because I've not been told or maybe I didn't pay attention cuz my other kid I didn't have to pay much attention to. This is the only one that would bring me before a school board. Trust me. Um, but like I said, he doesn't fit in the box of kids that behave this way and he's the kid that gets himself in a sticky situation. And and then it brought me, if it was just my kid,
035I'm telling you, I would have just pulled him and been done with it. I'm a stay-at-home mom. I have all the time in the world to homeschool him. I'm happy to do it. I think I could do a great job for him. But now I'm worried about every kid in the whole school district and I just want them to be safe. There has to be something that we can do as a community, as a school board, as the leaders. Can we hold the teachers and the educators to a higher standard where they're being more watchful? I know they already have over full Thanksgiving plates. Can we raise the expectation in our schools? Can I just know there has to be something and right now there's momentum and when you have momentum keeps the ball rolling.
036All that >> um I I would say from a board perspective or from my perspective bullying is a very serious issue. um something that none of us want to see happen. Um we agree it should be a safe place. Um so so yeah, very serious. Thanks for bringing that to us. Can you tell me how long was he bullied? How has he been bullied for a long time or is it I mean how how are we going to find out? I mean what's your thought on that? >> What do you mean how are you going to find out? I mean, did you know he was being bullied for a while now? Or is this >> not this year? He was bullied through elementary school. He was a bully in elementary school. I'm not standing here
037telling you my son's perfect. Never done nothing wrong. >> This year, I don't think that he was having bullying situations. My my little Spitfire flushed an apple down the toilet and some kids got mad, but his toilet was shut down so they beat him up and it was a well I think I was told sixon-one attack. Six kids attacked my guy and now I'm hearing fiveon-one attack. So that's the other part of my concern is like bullying is a very serious situation. >> We agree. I don't feel like the school resource officers took it seriously. I feel like there was some statements made to me as a parent that I would have been embarrassed to say if I was an officer of the law in this situation. That being said, that could be why parents
038feel like things are getting swept under the rug because I know the schools handle these situations. There's there's consequences handed out, but maybe we can have stronger consequences or >> maybe we could have stronger consequences because when my son flushed the apple down the toilet, the school was gracious and lowered his consequence, but the the basic consequence for that was a week suspension. Well, as far as I've been told, because they can't tell me much, the bullies got a week suspension for beating up my kids. So we do we do we hold school property in the same regard as we hold life like my son >> my son's safety has the same value as the bathroom I can clean and pay for the bathroom I can't fix my son's trauma well I'm trying maybe I
039I probably can I don't know >> I was cur I was kind of curious about how long had gone on that we didn't know about it and it sounded like the from what I'm understanding can't even the teachers were right on it. I mean, as soon as they thought so, he didn't get any further uh he didn't get I don't know how bad it did get beat up. I really don't know. But >> this specific situation, as far as what I'm aware, went on for two minutes. So, >> that doesn't that's a long time to be held >> your hands held behind your back, your mouth covered, and be kicked and punched in the sun. That's a long time in 11year-old time, but it must have been stopped. I don't know cuz I wasn't allowed
040to watch the video. >> Yeah. >> I just curious trying to get information to get ideas as to what we could do differently. >> Well, in this specific situation, that's why I asked, can parents come? And I remember when I was in school, there was parents that walked the playground during recess. Can I volunteer to lock the playground during recess? I've had three background checks this year. I'm a safe human. >> Not for any like bad reasons. I have a disabled kid. I have to have a And we're adopting. It's I just shouldn't have said that. I get my foot I'm like cold. I get my foot in my mouth a lot. But what I'm saying is like not just Colt's situation, but other kids that have came to me to tell me their situations
041and like in general in large like can we get more people at the schools to have more eyes on the schools because the teachers are busy teaching? Can we start programs amongst the kids where they can take pride in helping each other? Because I think they would if there are more good kids than there are kids that are starting trouble. There have to be there have to be or the school wouldn't work. >> Can I piggyback a comment? I'm crystal. Um, I just like to quickly state I think there's an SOP, like a standard operating procedure that could be improved when something like this happens. So, I went to pick out Colt. I'm waiting for Colt. I get a text. I'm in the office. I'm like, I don't know what Colt do because it wasn't
042too long ago where the, you know, Apple situation, some kids put an apple on the toilet and he thinks it's going to be funny to flush it. And so, curious to see what, you know, Mr. Mr. Colt's done today. I go in there and he's sitting in the corner of the office. He's distraught. And I'm like, "What happened?" Well, he got picked on or beat up or something and the assistant principal or principal calling the attacker's parents, whatever. But my boys get pulled out of here cuz he's like disheveled. Uh he had gotten a a root beer, he was pretty happy to get the root beer. I'm sure calmed him down. I'm driving him home. I'm like, "Dude, what happened?" I got beat up by six kids. So, I'm calling mom like, "Um, something very
043serious just happened." And we're about 15 minute drive, you know, absolut. And it was a few minutes later we had gotten home when she had been notified. I'm like, why isn't the parent the first person call? I was like, the injured party, why are we calling the attacker's parents first? So, I think that's probably like first step is probably let's inform the parent of the injured party first before we deal with consequences. And you know, we went and talked um weren't allowed to see the video. We're hopeful to see that maybe tomorrow to figure out more because it sounds pretty serious. You know, you have somebody an older kid that's involved that could face charges and talk like we don't want to press charges. Why can't we be more informed as far as what actually
044happened? Make an educated decision, not just fully emotionally based decision. So, you know, trying to stay calm, solve our role a little bit, actually understand the situation and I think that could be better communicated as well. >> Great. Thank you. All right. Thanks for Yeah. Thanks for Thank you. communicating with us. >> Um can move to the good of the order. >> All right. Well, um first and foremost, I would like to invite our um Thanksgiving walkway on the 26th Tuesday over here along with our food service um work between the cafeteria and the DHS um leadership students can come and help serve and eating and keep things flowing um during the event. It will begin at 11ish and run till about 1. So we get a lot of family at least I think three
045wines. Um we are having um I know pumpkin pie is our apple tree pie or just one pie flavor. >> We will have pie um which is uh definitely delicious and everyone will ask for that. So, um we just uh finished up Halloween, which is always super fun at a preschool to second grade school. Um lots of fun costumes. And then, um we had a very well attended trunk or treat as well at Bron. Um and that was a night of trunk or treats, I feel like, all over town. Um, and so, uh, way more people than I expected, lots of great families that were involved, um, with their time. So, it was it was a great first event for research club. We just finished up conferences and had an amazing turnout for conferences. We
046had our annual bookshare. Um, and then, um, sorry guys, I'm going to take this one, but uh, our elementary admin team, um, where we were able to, uh, go to each school when Dana Nerburgg was here last, and, um, do classroom walkthroughs and look at reading instruction um, within each one of our schools. So, it was a really great opportunity for the three of us to see what's happening in these other buildings to see some of the strategies and skills that we're um using in our reading groups with our consultant teachers. Um was there kind of coaching us and helping us um figure out what our goals and focus were when we went into classrooms and what we were looking for and um how we were going to take those things we saw into each
047other's buildings. So, as hard as it is to leave our own buildings and to spend a dedicated time going into other buildings, it was really really beneficial for all of us. Um, we were able to follow up with staff. Um, Emily generated a great email that um sharing with them what we saw, what our purpose was um and what we learned and how we keep proceeding forward. So um very thankful to be a part of that and um also it's been happening over about the last month that we have um Crystal Plicket meeting with my new teachers. I have um quite a few brand new teachers and additional teachers that are new to our building, but she's been doing some coaching around reading um the foundational skills and in our small group reading instructions um
048meeting with them, observing other classroom planning um their lessons with them. And then also our math consultant um will be meeting with those new teachers as well. You see some really great things happening in the past. All right. Thank you guys. >> Well, we finished up the conferences. We had a big turnout for conferences. A lot of things clean. That was exciting. And it was fun to watch our um new fourth grade teachers walking down the hall after conference were over. And it was a milestone, you know, for one of them. It was their first year. It was fun to see them laughing and heading out um you know, 8:00 at night on a Thursday. um in big spirits and um we have been getting into classrooms which has been really fun doing this time
049of year we do formal observations so um getting into classrooms and getting to spend you know 45 minutes to an hour um in every classroom um it's really rewarding. Um it's encouraging to go in and see what kids are working on, see the things that teachers are doing with our kids and um I feel really good leading up the classrooms after seeing that. Um at McGovern, we also started a bus bingo to encourage positive behavior on the bus. Um, and so if students get their, so they have to go a full bus ride without a citation, then they get a one of their letters bubbled in. And once they get their bingo, they we started out with an ice cream party. >> Um, I'm going to go broke if I keep doing ice cream because
050that was a big hit. So um, have one more ice cream party and then the next we're going to do extra PE for the bus riders. So that's been going well and um Lisa's also doing that with us because we have some broccoli and McGovern kids who share bus rides. Um we also uh had a lockdown drill the other day um in and impromptu lockdown drill which was actually very um it was good and a good learning experience. Thanks to Kim Shigley for her bug. Um, and so if you heard about a lockdown at the cavern and it wasn't planned, that is correct. It was not planned, but all was well. And yeah, we just took the opportunity to do a drill. >> Um, we also um some exciting things that we have going on.
051Battle of the Books, I think, is probably what you were um talking about earlier with your granddaughter. So, Battle of the Books is happening um during lunch. Um we also have our um fifth grade team that's doing specials um twice a week and the ukulele club and school music for our ability and advanced CD are really taking off. So, um, we have, you know, um, a kiddo playing ukulele that, um, really isn't usually excited about school. And so, um, he started as he wanted to start a club and have everybody come in at lunch and play ukulele and it was really cute. So, um, that's it. >> Okay. Well, holiday season is upon us. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and whatnot. And I want to give a huge shout out to my staff. We sat down to a
052staff meeting this morning. And over the upcoming festivities, we're going to be down three staff members. Um, and we're going to have long-term subs in our building. So, I said, "Okay, guys, if there's some of these things that we just can't pull off with this number of us, um, I understand." And they said, "Nope, we got this. We're going to do the Christmas play. We're going to do the Thanksgiving feast. We're going to do all of the fun things for our kids just with half of us." Um, so a huge shout out to them still being willing to take on all of those things even though there's not going to be many of us OGs there for a couple of months. Um, I want to give a huge shout out to Miss Angie. She was
053our staff member of the month last month. So, we started honoring our staff members that are exuding our trait of the month and really um, embracing that. So last month it was responsible and Miss Angie was our winner and it staff voted on. So I took kiddos into her room. We shot off some confetti cannons. Um they said what they loved about Miss Angie and then we gooed her which is a new social media craze. If you goose a teacher and they get out of school early and so she got to leave two hours early and I take over her job which I never want to do again. She's absolutely phenomenal and amazing. She definitely deserves it. Um, and let me tell you, I had to push her out of the building. She could say,
054"No, this kid needs me. This is going to happen in this class." And we said, "Nope, it's all cancelled. Take your coffee card and go treat yourself." Um, but it was really rough pushing her out of the building. So, that was really exciting. Um, to keep noting on Miss Angie, she is working on a climate and culture both for looking glass where we take our trait of the month and we do different exciting things with our kiddos to celebrate that trait. And we also wanted to bring staff in. So this month our trait is gratitude with our ISO curriculum and jerks are strong and our kiddos um the class that gets the most caught me for the week. I go in and share a pumpkin pie with them and we talk about our school, what
055we're grateful for, our teachers, what we're grateful for. Um it's a lot of fun. We just share pie for and I got to do that with fourth grade this week and that was a great time. Um, for our staff, we actually had little tiny turkeys up in our staff room and every staff member was given four feathers and those feathers belong to other staff members turkeys and they have to write something that they're grateful for for their colleagues and then take them up in the staff room. So staff members had a great time going and reading those things. Um, things from I really appreciate the way you help me. I really appreciate the way um that I can always come to you and ask questions. I really appreciate the way that you um exemplify our
056core values for our students. So, it's been a great way to recognize um recognize the greatness in each other. Um we also have a couple great engagement things going on. Um one of them are a couple of our fifth grade leadership students who um have some struggles in math, reading, and writing um to keep them engaged because that work is really hard for them. Um a lot of those things are really difficult. Um they've come up with a business plan and they are creating a soda cart for teachers and they're going to start selling popcorn on Thursdays. In fact, DHS Wood was is building their carts for them and they have come up with different proposals on what they want to spend their money on and I think it's going to be a goal kit.
057I'm not 100% sure what that is, but they are really excited about it. Um, but these are kiddos that we struggle to get to right and they each wrote a three paragraph proposal and they're kiddos that struggle with math and they are and they're excited to learn to count back change and add if you know they're buying three popcorns and they give me a dollar, what do I do? Um, so it's really exciting to see that engagement and also our fifth grade leadership. I had a student um come to school today and I saw him in the hallway and I said, "What are you doing, bud?" He said, "I know I'm supposed to be in reading, but I'm Mr. Justin today." Mr. Justin is our custodian, and he was gone today. And this kiddo has
058been training. He's been a leadership helper to Mr. Justin all year long. So, he knows how to open up and change the paper towels. He knows how to change the soap dispensers. And so, by that's why he came to school today, because he had a job to do. And he worked for part of his day and got all of it done. Very exciting for him. Thank you. >> Last week has had some real highs and some real lows and you know I I appreciate you've heard from family and as the administrator I've engaged in conversations with trying to update our disinformation and so um you know I look forward to you know working through that change. Uh, one thing I've noticed is this event, while unfortunate has been a catalyst with our students. All year
059we have been fighting roughousing during lunch, during during playtime in the hallways. Today, it was an entirely different feel. When kids started rough house, we say, "Hey, you got to stop because if it looks like, you're right." And so, uh, you know, unfortunate situation. So finally and so just the atmosphere with the students and when staff are saying don't rough house instead of we're just playing we're just playing it's like oh you're right and so um sometimes unfortunate situations do have um do have some some lasting benefits in waging the students up to what adults are saying this isn't good them finally understand and unfortunately it over it did overshadow. We had a wonderful academic award ceremony. Our teachers, the nine weeks of work that they put in into their interventions, we had three to
060four to five times. We have three different levels of honor roll. It was times and times over kids on honor roll and with perfect attendance versus our kids outright. And so, uh, academically, we made some some real uh some real uh progress there. I appreciate the idea of bringing in more assistance academically. Um I've been engaging with some community groups. We have students that need more academic help than our teachers can necessarily give them during a class period. And so there are some some community groups looking at coming in. I look forward to working with the board and the community on the behavior piece. What's what's that next leverage? We're starting to make that progress academically. Now what's the next piece for that social that social part? Because I I I think if you look
061around society as a whole we need we need to focus on work on uh now our student success I'm going to have to go to the best bucks mint and probably leverage because I've got kids that have multiple frontal line passes and so I'm going to need to start buying some back and so there are some real positives. I look forward Kyle's working with us to make sure we get our student store reopened where we're following all of the nutrition guidelines. And so there there are some of those pieces that we're really working on and uh you know I think I think the more that we can we can engage the community the better we'll be and Michelle you want to talk about sports. >> Well our players just got back from Southerntherland. I haven't
062heard how well they did, but last week was had lots of wins recent their matches. Uh, and our girls basketball team was down in Cberry tonight. So, that's our superintendent award winner wasn't here. So, we'll recognize her next month. Um, when they have another game against Cenberry, but that would be at home. So, they'll be able to make it here on time. >> Did you hear how they did? >> I did not. I have not heard yet. >> Seventh grade 15. >> I'm not sure about the eighth grade. I have you have to be here. >> And yeah, so tomorrow they have a home game against some basketball. >> Great. >> So right before here, Mr. Well, and myself, we were up at the high school. We had our National Honor Society night. Kevin spoke
063there at the at the awards. It was always a great night up there to uh to induct those those students into the National Honor Society at the big the big bank. So, that was it was fun for us to uh to uh listen to some of the stories and and hear some of the um accolades that they they've done over the time. So, it's it's really fun. The next thing I let you guys know about, we partnered with the uh um the city. So on their in the at their meetings, we're sending different groups. So um through the CP, so FFA started out by sending a group of kids to give a report there. Um last last one, our our metal shop went and they um did a presentation. Um our culinary will do one,
064our wood shop will do one. It's just our way of getting out, you know, what our CT programs are doing. They're really enjoying that hearing different different things going around the school. That's part of their um part of their what do you call it? Have a speech component that they have to get out in the community and do. So that helps out with that. Um so it's just been the city's been really uh really uh appreciative of us getting involved with that. So and then our football team of course uh here we go. Round round two. Here we go. They're going to German. It's exciting times. Buzz is high to school. Uh it's fun listening to the kids. Um uh just just back everybody up and just bring everybody together. So it's a great time
065to do to the living that atmosphere right now. So good things going else we just heard the holiday because I will not be here. Tell your teachers. Okay. >> They won't be here. I promise. >> No, but you guys are all welcome to come a little differently. >> And I'll be cooking McGovern again. Great. I think you said Kim's your design, right? While you're gone. >> You don't want me. Maybe that guy. I do have one more thing. Oh, okay. Just if you can't make it to the fe, I have um started um with our buzz drawings. Students get picked one each class and each week we have a different activity we're doing. So um they have had bonus recess. They get lunch or breakfast with me in the morning. Um they're doing uh lunch
066with a special guest. So Mr. Wiling came up and had lunch with about 12 different kids. Um, so I would love to invite anyone here that would like to be the special guest and to let you know when our next one is. Um, and >> they get to go up on the stage, which is really cool to be up on the stage. And then you'll give them candy before they leave, so they'll love you no matter what. >> But um, yeah, we have three to seven year olds. So preschool is involved as well. thought it out like some of the senior football players or son. >> Yeah. >> Or somebody like that. >> I That is a great suggestion. So, thank you. Um I was going to invite police and fires. Um I've used them
067in the past, but that's a great suggestion >> because I know wherever they go the kids. >> Oh, absolutely. >> It' be great for both of them. For all of them. Did you have anything that you want? Nope. >> Hey, I know that they already mentioned it, but I do want to say that I mean that football thing is a big deal. It's all >> Yeah. >> So, I mean, we >> I think we're the 13 or 14 seed versus the three or four seed on the road. So, it was 134. We were the 13 seed. They were the four seed and we went on the road and they were 9 and0. So, it's Dayton. If you guys I don't know how if you guys know anything about Oregon high school football which the the
068classic program in the state of Oregon and so to go up there and win on the road in that atmosphere is pretty amazing. So >> they got to have a ton of confidence right now. >> They started out pretty slow but they picked it up. >> All right. uh meeting and the next meeting will be regular session at Winston Miller School District office boardroom on December 10th, 2025 at 11 p.m. Yeah, they pull