001All right. >> All right. >> Gave it away. >> Okay. At this time, we'll proceed with the agenda provided if there's no consent from the board members present. All right, start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it standy for all. >> Okay, looks like we have a everybody's present. um attendance report. >> I just summer learning. We talked about this last month, but also uh or we ended on seven. Um so those are a couple pictures. That's actually a quote from a parent score post from a parent looking glass. But the the picture on the left there is the ESY kiddos at Rockway. You see a cute little picture of them over at the safari. Actually, the I think there's something in
002the packet a donation set up there. So, that was at the actual picture of the donation day. Um, they had a bunch of fun including your last meeting. And then on the right there, that looking glass crew over pendown had a lot of fun on that day. But summer learning is fun. Amazing opportunity for the kiddos to have some access. Uh and then this the next slide back to school. Uh the MEES vestibility nearly complete that's exciting changes long time coming and the the control access doors are like the last thing that we're waiting on I believe. And so we're hoping that those those will be wired and functional before kids get here in 25th catch and go. But um anyway, if you guys have a chance if you're at NBS or lees and go
003look into the uh the entrances of the school and you'll see the new best of yours, which is a nice addition. Um all staff return on Monday, Monday, August 18th, which is next Monday. Uh I mentioned the summer school success and then the admin team uh we were back on the fourth on Monday the 4th and the 5th. includes glass roots which have time flies and then we uh we all joined up at Eugene for an AI paint appreciate that um learning about continue to learn about AI and the impacts it has on education and kind of where we're going um and being aware of how we're going to navigate the changing landscape and the world that we live in. Um and then the last on the back page there is an invitation for the
004board members. Um we'll be on the 18th we'll be up at the Douglas High School gymnasium for an all staff breakfast. Those you guys have an opportunity be nice to see you up there have some have breakfast and our entire Ward staff um approximately 220 or so staff members will be there. Okay. Items of discussion. The first one is an executive order. Uh 259 perform electronic devices K12 school description review. I don't know if anybody got to read some of those, but that was pretty interesting. >> And I'm getting a little sarcastic redment. Yeah, the same thing over and over again, but you can >> Well, I mean, I think that summarize it maybe a little better. They'll these guys will agree with me as well. Um order, but um we have a policy in
005place um that has really restricted the use of cell phone during class time. So, we even include, you know, passing periods at the secondary level. So, it's really going to be more of for us it's just an enforcement uh bringing the staff on board and then making sure we're all on the same page for enforcing that policy. Um but you know I the um JFC so OSBA came out with a couple policies that um are in there as well. And then so you know my thought is that we will the executive order um specified that you have to have policy adopted by October 31st. And so with the second meetings my hope is that we can get together um a little committee and just review what that policy should look like. Um we can go
006to that if you want to go to that real quick. the executive order itself is is >> so it's not going to start first day of school. >> Um >> he's saying we already do it. >> Yeah. I've been sitting through with the superintendent for about six weeks now since the day board came out. A lot of them have said we're gonna we don't want them mixed up in the middle of the school year. My concern with that is just having staff come back on the 18th, which is Monday, and then, you know, whatever, however we've been enforcing it in classrooms, in the hallways, having with all of the other things that we're doing um in regards to getting ready for the school year, just implementing the policy right out of the gate on the
00725th and then asking our staff to enforce it and putting them in a tough spot where they're getting power struggles with kids because of the way things that you know um the way we've managed it in our buildings. Um so my thought was that we would just continue to have the policy as it's written in our handbook which already states we're not going to do that and then now our admin team has time to communicate with their staff effectively about this is how we're going to enforce it. staff and student. >> Staff and student and and and parent, sorry. And parent times we're living in, you know, they use that cell phone a lot, >> which is probably a problem in the classroom. >> Yeah. Staff use their cell phones a lot. They did mention
008something in there about the staff being an example for the students and and thinking about that. It's like how do you you know you're telling them you can't do it if you were doing it. It seems like we should be real conscious of that of staff not not being on our phone all the time and doing that if there's a need for it. Is there a time the staff could use their is there a way they put it off to later users? Is there something we can address there? >> Yes. Great. Great. Thanks for bringing that up. Actually, I shared with the team some language around like the staff development. Norma, I was I sent that to you and Terry as well to kind of give them and it's not in stone, but that's another
009piece, Bobby, that I'd like to talk as we get going on the school year. You know, create a team and an opportunity to discuss what the expectations should look like for staff as they do as I say, not as I do. that's not really going to work too well in the case of cell phones. So, it's going to be there is language that we've shared with everyone. Um, and I can share that with you as well that's just kind of like, hey, these are expectations for our staff members in regards to using your cell phone during the workday. >> Yeah. >> So, do they in their rooms have ways to communicate with the office if they use their cell phone? >> Do they have an alarm? >> They have my alarm. Okay. >> That can
010actually receive email like >> the speaker phone. >> I I know how it is in the employment both both places I work, we use our phones a lot. Only recently we can't because we're driving. Uh we it's handsree. >> Yeah. Uh but the distraction it causes and trying to do your do your job. It seems like not only just the students, but the the teachers should be aware that hey, this is taken away from what you're what you're what you're doing and seems like there might be something that we kind of emphasize to them to try and participate in that. >> Absolutely. Well, and and that I don't want to speculate and say I know what exactly how what the phone usage during the workday is for every staff member, but yeah, there's going to
011be there's going to have to be some expectations that and some due process in regards to and really just even the enforcement, not just with administration to how staff are enforcing it, but also for staff and how they're enforcing it with students. And my concern about just starting them right out of the gate is is like I said getting in and supporting teachers without that due process for how what the expectation will look like and getting into power struggle with students. And now we have an incident where, you know, it blows up on us and we have a parent down here who's upset and the staff member saying, "You told me to do that last week on the 18th after we told them one million other things to do to get ready to kids." >>
012And um so I think that we're it's not that we're going slow or we're going to ignore this. I just think that this is asking anyone in our society to give up their cell phone right now is going to lead to some disruption. And so my thought was that we would, you know, um have it have a chance next week when staff are back to really communicate with, you know, I don't even know that. I guess I once again I could speculate on the percentage of staff members who even know that there's an executive order banning cell phones from school. >> 30% 40% hopefully they're out doing their summer things and not paying attention to them. So, I think that um and then Kim made makes a good point too when I say banning and
013there's a there's already schools that have done a lot of Medford has a nice message. Lake County has a nice message and it's actually a web page which I think that we should do as well. And it's really just talking about cell phone. they were a cell phone free um district and and the reasons why we are are are in the executive order about all those you know it said the 54% of students that are at third grade who have seen some inappropriate thing on a PED usually accidentally and so these are the stories of the reality I mean I don't want to get judgmental by any means but this is like an executive order that's about a decade late maybe longer And now they're saying, you know, even in July, so it went into
014the legislative session. It didn't pass, which is why it led to the executive order from the governor. And so now it's we don't want to really, I think, jamming this down our staff and students and parents wrote when we've been doing this for long. That was a really long version, but I think that we should keep having >> I don't know if we need to form a committee tonight. I think that we that we should um yeah, I think that I think that unless anyone has like dissent with amongst the boards right now, if we have kind of we can all agree that that would be the process that we're looking at. If you guys agree with that, um, we can I can work with the team to kind of start to build. I think
015that it's almost gonna be more than one committee. Like Norm is here as a union president, too. You know, um, whatever supports we need to for you to communicate with your staff about there's going to be new expectations for not just how you handle enforcing cell phones, but also how you use them in the workplace. that >> I think I think they're a good tool, but I think they're I think they should be a place at a time. Maybe if you're trying to ask your kids not to do not to do something or to do it maybe a good example and and follow the same and then you know period or whatever whatever you come up. >> Yeah. And and just to clarify, so the what the executive order is saying is you bail the
016bell. So like at the high school, that first bell rings at 7:25. The expectation is that cell phones will be off, powered off and put away either in a locker or a backpack or a some storage area until well, they have an open period until lunch. So the executive order does allow school secondary schools with open lunch periods to use their phones. students may use it during that time. And then as soon as that bell rings to go back to class for fifth period, they're powered off and put away in storage or a locker or their backpack until the bell rings at 2:45. Um and then even when you know there's other things about field trips and extracurricular activities, athletic events, the executive order which the folks have been across the state have been arguing
017about and fighting about this is that like even if I if I go on a field trip at 10:00 a.m. it's between the two instructional period. So there's no cell phone when they're on the field trip. on the bus and that's what it's getting done. people have that it's moved to that point where we can all kind of agree that we're that the bell to bell cell phone ban makes sense within you know athletic events and other times who's going to be monitoring that when they're on bus all so there are some other things that we're working out in the meantime yeah cell phones are going to have to be off I would like to think of it as not a control thing but creating a better atmosphere for >> for the kids to learn.
018I mean so they can stay focused on >> the side effect of the amount of bullying that would school >> you just got broken up by yourself. >> Yeah. every time that goes off, you know, I'd like it. >> So, just in that too, there there's the executive order, there's a frequently um asked question as well that was attached to that and then there's the PE overview and then there's those two policies as well. So OSBA came out just on Monday with sorry there's the the JFC which is peeds and so if you get a chance and there's a lot of little ones you know you see language and then there's like one and then so you go down and it gives you more there's like seven of those now so if you guys get
019a chance you can read through um my thought was that just with the policy we can pull together a committee to include if you guys want to be on that and I can communicate with our email you or call you guys if you want to be a part of that. And then um in September we'll have our first reading of our cell phone policy. Um and then we'll have our second reading in October which I think 10 I believe that the October second Wednesday in October. And so we'll be we'll have our we'll have our policy adopted um by that what the executive order is asking us which is October 31st. And then that'll give us a couple months to continue to have these conversation amongst our our staff and our community and our students.
020And then once our policy gets adopted, it's like those are two short months anyway with with Thanksgiving and then it's like, you know, we're on Christmas break. So it's that last kind of like, hey, when we come back in January, guys, this is we'll be enforcing this and we'll be, you know, this is what the expectation will be. And then so our staff and our students and our administration team, everyone will be on and our parents and our community will all be on the same page for um having a good plan. And the reason why we're turning our cell phones off during the school year [Music] >> student update. Um yeah, that's uh Craig. Actually, I this is my fault. I apologize. I in there I attached just what the new student handbook um looks
021like at Douglas and I did it should have been the track changes one. So where you can actually see the changes OSBA but um so in your board packet is the 2526 student handbook for Douglas High School and then the middle school and the elementary schools will be getting to you as soon as possible. Does anybody have any questions on anything in there? Winston school district motion will second. All in favor? No, eight or action >> action. I'm sorry. Uh, district equity committee. >> Yeah, for that Senate bill, we talked about this last year quite a bit that Senate bill 7332 732, the school board will approve the district equity committee. So, it's really just um you can see the motion there. Um we need to >> we just need to make motion. >> We
022need to make a motion and then beginning in September, we'll we'll have that team where we're meeting and talking about culture. It's really our culture and climate meeting that we've historically always done anyway. Um, so >> I move school district board of directors appoint members recommended by the superintendent in the district exot. All in favor? >> I Okay, communication. Hopefully we have anyone signed up for that. So we're good to the order. Um, Dave go first. I can't I can't one up anybody. >> Huh? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. I'd like to thank Thank everyone at the district office for such a warm welcome. I think we successfully got the uh the meeting recorded tonight. So, off and running. >> Um yes, summer learning ended strong. Kids had a great time like always a great
023thing to do. Um, we also had some great comments from parents um that because they made it fun and engaging, they didn't have to have their kiddo out of bed in the morning to go and participate. So, that was really nice for our summer school teachers to hear. And we also um I don't know the exact number, but our attendance was up from last year. So, kids were more consistent uh being there. So, that was exciting. Um, we have meet the teacher coming up next week. Teachers are very excited to welcome all the kiddos into our building and let them choose their best and around the room where they want. Um, we also have inerson registration. It started today and we had the most ever people come to inerson registration and they weren't even really
024there to fill out the things. They had already done that. They just wanted to be in the building. They wanted to say hi. They wanted around. really interested in the new vestibule and what that looks like. CS building. >> We also have summer school in ESY and our summer school members were definitely higher than last year from what I hear. Um lots of fun, really dedicated staff that um did their very best to help our students have a great summer. um my custodians have gotten to kind of work around all of that that happened. Uh we kept it kind of to one end but super systematic and thoughtful and planning of how to get things done and kind of teachers um and still um we worked really hard this summer to hire and fil position.
025So um we'll have five teams and staff members um at Brockway varying from I think I heard 34 years of um teaching experience down to first year teachers and kind of in between. So I'm super excited to have that going on and again I just thank our custodians for the hard work that they do come along. It feels really good to come into a community night school. Um, and I am very excited about year two at Brockway and can't wait to see teachers and really can't wait to come. >> Thank you. Yeah, >> we also had summer school and our DSY team went to Brockway and I heard from a parent that she's very happy with how filming over there and that the student is very much enjoying it. We This is the second year
026for summer school at McGovern and I think that both years have been a great turnout so far. We've had about 30 kids um in our summer school program. This year we um I was very impressed with our teachers and how many of them were willing to teach um during the summer and just to come in on the summer in general. Um we had two summer school teachers and then we had another teacher who came in for a week to do some Zoom projects with fourth and fifth graders. So that was really exciting and fun and and um we also had a summer planning session um right after school got out which we had many teachers attend attend that and that was really exciting as well. I think we had at least 10 teachers there and
027maybe more who showed up on their own time of work and plans for the fall. um and just goes to show the direction that we're we're moving into covering how our teachers are um for what's coming. And yeah, we also have festival as um so a lot of um physical changes to the building or structural changes. Um and I'm preparing for how we're going to um get that news out to parents before they show up on the first day that hey, there's this huge fence in front. So, so we're working on that. Um, yeah. >> You ready for comments? >> Yeah. >> Are you getting a lot of comments on the fence? Seems to be a topic. Um, great. So, if you show up to school, the football field's green with blinds on. It's that
028time of the year. Kids are out playing football. Soccer fields are full. Gyms are full of volleyball right now. Um, marching bands marching. It's a it's an active campus right now. So, it's uh we're back. Um, it's really neat to go up there and smell that that green grass up there. And, you know, it's that time of year where it's it's starting to starting to all come back. So, it's kind of fun seeing those kids out there running, getting in shape for um for the the fall sports, ready or not, it's going to be Friday night life before we know it. So, here we go. >> Yeah, you can notice a lot of those senior boys. >> Fun year so far. >> Thank you, Rob. >> It has been a nice transition. staff have been
029coming back into the building. They're excited um starting to get things lined out. Our summer school program, while it was smaller than we'd hoped, uh students had a great experience and the last last couple of days, uh they were going around meeting staff. Uh everyone pitched in to even custodians going around and giving tours to make sure all of our incoming uh sixth graders were really comfortable with the whole campus and getting to see things and hey, this will be where you're at, you know, seventh grade year, eighth grade year. So they they got a great preview and uh the last two weeks have been very active. When I have broached into town off the ranch um I have people tracking me down introducing themselves and stuff. There's feels like there's a lot of momentum,
030a lot of excitement and a lot of smile on Facebook. >> Did you have any [Music] uh