001is back in order. Uh we've been in meetings since 2:30. It was called to order at 2:30. So uh we do not have to do the plague salute. Uh we did that at 2:30 during our board retreat. Uh so now we are on to approval approval of board meeting minutes uh for May 27th and June 2nd, 2025. I'll move the approval of board meeting minutes for May 27th and June 2nd, 2025. I'll second. It's been moved and second I approve board meeting minutes for May 27th and June 2nd, 2025. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Uh approval of meeting agenda. I move for the approval of the meeting agenda. I'll second. It has been moved and seconded to approve the meeting
002agenda. Is there any discussion? There any changes? There's no changes. Um probably now I mean maybe when it's happening what's happening that's fine we can make it organic move is uh is there any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I. All those oppose say nay. Motion carries. Uh consent agenda. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those post say nay. Motion carries. All right. Booster fundraiser approvals. Approval of Elmo football fundra. Yeah. got our computers up and going after last meeting. I know that's what we're I was like, "Oh, wait. That's not loaded. We went straight in from our last meeting and it's wasn't up on my screen."
003I'll move for the approval of the Elma football booster fundraisers. I'll second. Is been moved and seconded to approve the Elma football boosters fundraisers. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those post say nay. Motion carries. Thank you. Yeah, you can think it's later. All right. Sketching items. Career and college readiness. I'm on now. You're okay. It's heating up already. [Music] Yeah. I'm just going to really just do a quick overview of career and college readiness uh that overseeing the programs. um a lot of it is uh familiarity to you um and just kind of letting you know about some of the new things that we're starting. So um just moving forward um we have um today I wanted just to talk about the portrait of an Elma
004Eagle um collaboration with our partnerships gear up um high school and beyond plan and career pathways. uh first with a portrait of an element eagle again uh trying to push that out um across our buildings. Um, we haven't, I will be honest, I don't think we've been as intentional this year with it as we did yet last year with making sure that that was all in the buildings and I do, you know, we have it. It's recognized. It's on our website. Um, and now we've also included it in our high school and beyond plan. Um, and we'll have more focus as we integrate that with the high school and beyond plan. Uh, we also continued our partnerships. Mark and I uh were very much invested in uh the WASEM H2P which is high school and
005beyond plant high school postcary which included some surveys and really uh looking at analyzing our data about our students mostly with barriers and uh what are they they're currently thinking about with postsecary options and career limitless was really um is part of the Gates Foundation uh where we also worked where Chris uh and I took some students up to the education round table but we're also in partners partership with WSU School of Medicine, Clover Park Technical College, um Grace Harvard College, and our Ajac for apprenticeships. And we we bring a unique lens because we're one of 25 uh groups selected because we have all of the partnerships from uh CTC's to uh universities to apprenticeships. Um and so it's really been a think tank and just learning about um how we prepare students for career
006and college readiness. And then you in uh bring that together with gear up which we finally were able to implement and put into motion uh this year. And it really all of these intertwine I think and especially with our career college readiness. Um so gear up we did start that this year. Um in fact one of our uh staff members is Jessica here that came in. We really didn't weren't able to really jump start this until January just because of one getting the funding from the state, two getting um the the post the job postings out. So we ended up hiring uh two uh cert certified teachers uh that oversee um students uh 7th through 10th grade, which is Alma Bass, and then Sunshine Perry uh from 10th grade through 13th grade. Um and you
007think of 13th, you're going what? and that is really to transition our students into uh college for that first year post-secary track and or apprentichips andor careers. And so it's to have that summer support when they get uh Twitter pated about going to college and then sometimes just hoping and helping the students find resources. Then we also hired um uh Jessica Ber who is our graduation specialist. So, she works with all of the students um and really works to see, you know, like we focused with the seventh grade to make sure that they're on track with Washington State History um because that's part of our high school connecting high school and beyond plan. We also looked at algebra one at the eighth grade level and then she's working with uh freshman through seniors right now.
008What what we're focusing on, we're not focusing on students who are failing. We're actually focusing on students who are on the cusp of C's and better and trying to work with them to say, "Hey, let's just improve. Let's get those grades up just a little bit because we know that if the students can maintain a 3.0 or better, they have a higher probability of getting into post-secary." And so, yes, we're still working with students that are failing and and struggling, but really our emphasis is getting them to that next threshold and really trying to like close that gap. It's like if you're a C plus let's get you to a B minus or a B B and etc etc so that we can improve that GPA. U also working with family connections uh career and
009college readiness career and college visits. We actually in this short period of time we did a great job um of taking students to evergreen state college uh Clover Park Technical College uh Grace Harbor College and we also connected that with uh different careers. So we were able to do local industry tours um with our students. That one was primarily focused on uh 10th grade, but we got seventh graders out there. We got eighth graders going, ninth graders um and tth graders. And so I think we did a really good job with that FASA. We worked uh with Grace Harbor College um with their TRIO program. We are currently at a higher rate of FASA completion than what we have been at this point in time uh this year. So that's good news. Um and we
010continue to um improve. Uh we're right around the 50% threshold. Um the goal is 70%. Um we're actually and that's what the state goal is. We are actually above the state average right now. So pretty excited about that. Um and this does not include WASPA data. So uh some of our students actually elected to do uh more state financial aid um because of a variety of reasons. Um and so we we can't capture that data. We can only catch capture the federal data. Career connection day with our uh uh sophomores. We also did a take flight career and college readiness fair um which has been supported by our um Elma Flight Foundation. Uh that we had 40 different vendors of um apprenticeships, military career uh colleges um and local businesses and careers. So kids got
011to see careers and what it looks like within our community for future careers, but also Bert was there with the uh Elmo Raceway to give them um a job a job application so that they could also apply for a summer job. So we have a mix of that. We also have been working with WSU School of Medicine for our health science career expo seventh graders and also in in high school. Capstone um is something that Mr. Crumbley's working and we're working with Summit Pacific Medical Center and WSU School of Medicine. It's pretty this year's was amazing. Students really uh poured their heart out as far as what do they see are the needs of our community to make us to make our community healthy. uh and it really it's focused around um drugs and alcohol,
012mental health, um all those different things and really advocating for more uh counseling and honestly a third space which is something that us as a school district has been working with some of Pacific Medical Center also on when we look at our youth collaboration. Also the neat thing about Gear Up is that we get fee waivers. Um all of the the common app is all free to our gear up students and all of our students in Elma High School, Elma Middle School, seventh grade and up and East Grace Harbor High School are considered gear up students. It doesn't matter where their financial standing is. And so those those fees are waved and also uh we're looking at PSAT and SAT. those fees can be waved and we're hoping that we can make it have PSAT
013be uh tested for all of our students, sophomores and juniors and then hopefully be in SAT uh test site too. So again, having more of this at Elma so that our students uh can can take an opportunity of all these know where they're at for college readiness and even career readiness and and so forth. We also be working with some of them in the summer. The simple thing of taking them on the transit bus to go to Grace Harbor College and how does that work so that they can start being independent and things like that. Uh high school and beyond plan. We did put that in Eagle Time for now. Um we ran Eagle Time five days a week, Monday through Friday. Um the intent was that on Wednesdays was work ethic, Wednesdays which was
014high school and beyond plan. Um Mondays and Fridays were a little bit more flex time with uh social emotional learning and um assemblies and celebrations and then Tuesdays and Thursdays uh was academic support. Um challenges you can see there that not we our use of time was not um effective and efficient across the board. Um we have inconsistencies um inconsistencies on what people think is the purpose of it. Um and also we're struggling to get all students to be in compliance along with um our staff. And so now we have to look at it what can we do to uh reorganize Eagle Time. The focus of Eagle Time is to do high school and beyond plan and to support career and college readings. That is the essence of the purpose of that. So what we're
015going to work on is we will continue to use school links which was new this year. It is going to be the will be part of the state pilot. Um but this is going to be required by state by 2026 anyway. Um and that's going to be um housing our high school and beyond plan. It'll be an effective tool for data for our counselors and our gear up staff because it will start um putting our students in areas of career pathways um so that we can better support them what tours they need to go to, maybe what colleges they should be looking at, those kinds of things. Um and then we'll also be looking at how can we um offer that to be a credit for students who are doing the work who are are
016engaged and ready. So that that could be a point a half a quarter of a credit uh each year um as long as they're active engaged with the high school beyond plan and Eagle Time. We're also trying to uh integrate schools links with uh Skyward. Um that'll be something that I have to talk to Eric more about that. Um it's always kind of a nightmare of merging our platforms together. Um, but there's a lot of good things that we could use with school links, including our work site learning uh, programs and things like that. So, lots of good things that we are going to focus on. Eagle time next year will be only on Wednesdays and Fridays. So, Wednesday will focus on high school beyond plan. Plus, our gearup staff has 30 different lessons that
017they're going to be facilitating through all all of our grades. Um, and then Fridays will be some of those lessons also, but we're also Ron and I are going to be working together to try to make sure that we can have celebrations. um like not just uh a pep assembly or an academic assembly. It should be everything together and that we're really mixing it up so that a variety of students are getting celebrated at different times and our gear up staff will be a part of that also. Um career pathway and programs. Uh we did finally we launched the fire science program. We launched the nursing assistant training program. Very exciting. Uh, you know, as you guys know, this has been a a work in progress for what, five plus years. Nursing assistant program. Sorry.
018Uh, we we got that going with Summit Pacific Medical Center. We started it for second semester and crammed it in. Uh, we will not do that again. That was, you know, these poor kids had a fire hose, you know, down their throat. But they did great. We ended up with six students that finished the program. Um, and three of them are seniors, three of them are juniors. Um and we're we can only house eight at a time and so but next year it'll be um full year fifth and sixth period. Um fire science we worked with East Grace Harbor Fire and Rescue again that was housed at their at the fire firehouse. Uh again we had we ended up with 11 students that finished the program. Um they can't sit for their firefighter one test
019though until they're 18 because of live burns and all that kind of stuff that they have to be of age to do that. Um right now we will not have the fire science program next year. Um part of that is uh really just transition with um the the um East Grace Harbor Fire and Rescue with their chiefs and different things and just we got to re-evaluate um our instruction and how we set up the day. So we have we just have some work to do there, but um we definitely plan on continuing that. Our manufacturing and natural resources innovation academy uh is going strong. We um ended up with 24 students uh that finished that that are in the program. Um and we're adding another group cohort of incoming freshmen of 10 and we'll have
020um roughly eight juniors that will will continue to work with that either are going to be in an apprenticeship and or we're going to work with internships and some other things in order to grow that keep that program steady. Uh we are I will just say we are struggling with apprenticeships right now just because placements with labor and industry is is a challenge. Um so hopefully we're going to get over that hurdle. Um in our programs as you know we have agriculture where we still have the school garden the egg co-op greenhouse is going well. Flower shop marketing we have the early bird cafe that has been going phenomenal. um our our community credit union is got the teller intern and I forget to um to highlight that but at um here in Elma we
021always have one high school student that is a teller and training and then once they get uh graduate they start transferring them to shel we even had one that was doing an accounting um internship so that was really an awesome opportunity we're also going to transition where Payton Elliott is going to uh improve leadership and marketing and work with our graphic design teacher um with John and really that whole marketing, graphic design, career pathway is going to grow where we'll work with our local businesses on social media pushouts. Uh Payton's going to start overseeing work site learning. So she's going to be the go-to and the connector of our industry partners. Um and then along John is already doing that with yearbook and created a magazine this year for school and we brought back video
022announcements. So again, great things going in that that career pathway. Uh manufacturing, we talked about that. We also have Eagle Industries Health Sciences. We talked about that. The only thing that we didn't really talk about is WSU School of Medicine is also a mentor program. So, they're bringing medical students to work with our students. And then we're also connecting um our students with former students, former Elma grads that come back and share or or talk about their career life. For example, Laurel Gordon, Leah Gordon, not now she's not Gordon McGrath, but she came back to showcase vet science, veterinary science. And so now we get to see some of our students. Hey, there's an Elmo grad that did this. I can do that now. Um, and we're seeing that even when we go out on
023tours. A cool story. Sorry, I I do have to tell. But Jessica and um went to UDub uh Tacoma, which I was not too, but don't. What was cool here was they took they took 15 students but primarily sophomores and juniors and they were doing a campus tour and two of our Elmo grads were there and introduced themselves joined the tour and you know what it was probably the most delightful and and engaging opportunity for our students to see themselves one there on campus and two that other Elma grads are there so they can do it too. So, I mean, doesn't I mean, that just brings goosebumps when you think about some of those opportunities that we can do. Um, and then with Conor McNeel um on board and Matt Crumley, we are going to
024offer sports medicine next year. So, we will have that sixth period where Matt will be working with students to train them to be assistants when they're on the um different sporting events and you sports. We're also going to be working with biomechanics um where our uh advanced sports training program is. We're going to be working on physics and understand biomechanics and kinesiology. We're going to be able to videotape and capture different things. Um kind of like the combine that you do for for football and different things. We will be able to do some of that. Um and then Connor's connections with Udub and even Stanford. We're looking at ways that we can work with them and and connect those opportunities for our students. again getting the connections, getting the students out there, seeing themselves doing
025some of these different careers. Natural resources, we're working on um stackable credentials and job shadow. Um we have a new teacher we we hired um because James is going to Aberdine, but looking forward to that transition also. And then really the bottom of it is, you know, you think about all of this high school and beyond plan is getting the kids to think and plan, having our staff be engaged with a small cohort so that they can uh build those relationships. And then you add in, you know, we're focusing in career pathways. We have the opportunity now with middle school to even build those career pathways even more and start them earlier. Um, and then you wrap services around with our gearup staff. Um, I really believe that we have a really good trajectory of
026getting more students in post-secary options. Um, and so it's really, I have to say, I feel like it's really coming together nicely. Um, you know, it's just a long time to build this basket of goodies that we get to, uh, share with our students. That was also an Elma grad. I want this week. Yep. That's Isaac. Yeah. And we got I mean, our kids are doing great and they're representing as well. So, and we got um we have a f our first girl to be part of our youth apprenticeship program for this coming year. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. Even with what I love too is all like all of our, you know, we have have a good mix of all our programs are serving a variety of our students with variety of what we serve
027in general and in general education. Um, and we're getting also a mix of boys and girls in our non-traditional programs. It's not all balanced, but at least we got uh men thinking about nursing assistant and those programs. We also have girls thinking about fire science and things like that. So, and now also with our manufacturing and natural resources, he doesn't show it, but I know Mark and you texted to me all the time. Actually, I know you texted to me every three weeks out of our FAFSA completion. That's one of our data indicators. I didn't put it in there. We were at over 15%. So, I thought 44 46. Yeah. I felt like you could answer it. I didn't think it was a gotcha because you texted me that. Really? I just know that you
028like that kind of stuff. you. But no and and what's neat too is that with even the fast boss vote and working with Grace Harbor College, we had Jenny Crawford uh through TRIO that really worked with our student our families with language barriers and was able to to have appointments with them so that they felt like they were uh taken care of and and anyway, it was really good stuff that we've been able to have partnerships with just a variety of different people and um we're just very excited with the things that we're able to do and what we can do in the future. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. You're welcome. Next to your presentation, you've already been talking to Mr. Gins is about the restructure of the uh exploratory programming pipelines. Yes. In
029fact, there our hire that we um are are going to be posting live um will be was connecting more like what Payton and John is doing with our marketing and graphic design and we'll start that at the root. Oh, that's great. And if I can get a shop picture again so that we can have a middle school shop, I need that back in. But that's kind of hard to fix. Different people. Thanks. got some news for us. Um the state came out, OSBI did and announced that they are going to delay port in June. We will not be receiving it all. Um it will be delayed till the end of July. Um just so you know, that's why I asked to keep a balance. Yes, ma'am. Large portion of districts in our county are going
030to need to take out a payday loan so they can pay their employees. And we are in the lucky school of districts that will not need to take out a payday loan to pay our people. Thank you. No, thank you for giving me a fun balance. That's what they pay in July. That's what they pay in July after that. Two months ago, you got Yeah. All right. Where meeting dates? I put the 25 26 dates in the packet. No, thank you. Like they'll take you too many. Looking at a fresh year, it does look uh you know full opportunities. I know I don't have any problems with the dates and I know that we ask this every year and I'm probably going to ask it every year that I'm here. The May um the May
031date, why why do we change it on that? You know what? Honestly, I'll be really honest. I don't care if we want to go back to Wednesday. Um it's been so underprepared. In fact, we only had about a two-eek notice to get our nominations in. It's the uh ESD 113 award ceremony and only five school districts were represented at the last this last one. I didn't even have a date until it was three weeks too late. So I suppose I don't necessarily I'm not so worried about maybe we just begin recognizing our contributors in house as a part of our own recognition ceremonies and no longer participate in the SD one because there's only four or five school districts that even went this year. What it was like the year before? Was it well intended?
032I'm sorry. It was like what was that like we recognized? I just feel like last year we recognized PTA because we had enough notice for PTA's huge contributions on our playgrounds and this year I wanted to recognize some of our employers but the the timeline was just so short that I feel like we probably just do a better job recognizing a lot of our community members here locally. So I don't know I won't have a dog in the fight if you're interested in keeping on Wednesday but that's the story. Okay. I don't I like your idea of recognizing locally. So um and having it on then I would remember you won't be here right then I'll remember that you won't be here that I won't be here I mean I think we we could potentially
033leave it and you might get some feedback in the next u six months from the ESD I mean if it really was that poorly attended. They're either going to fix it and we might select part of it or deal with it. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to be meeting with the uh the new superintendent president of our region region. So I know we have a meeting tomorrow. So maybe like I said I have no dog in this fight or not even a fight. I I was just curious. I could never remember why. I honestly thought it was the FFA banquet but then I realized that it was it was that was obviously it was in the past. Okay. I remember asking that. Okay, that was it. And we don't need approval. Y [Music] All right. Is
034there anyone here for public comment? All right. Uh any business? Approval of approval to adopt accelerate education curriculum. All of all of these curriculums, those accelerator is our online curriculum that we are currently using with ESDA. Um, we may adjust that to egeneuity, but it's something that OSBI has encouraged us to do with our AL employers. Make sure we have that. I'll move to approve to adopt accelerate education. I move and seconded approve to adopt Accelerate uh education curriculum. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those post say nay. Motion carries. Approval to adopt ASU curriculum. I make a motion that we adopt the ASU. There's been move and second to approve to adopt ASU curriculum. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I.
035I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Uh approval to adopt imagine ingenuity curriculum. I'll make a motion to approve the adopt image image image image. Imagine egenuity because that egeneuity gets meenuity imagine eenuity curriculum. I'm already having a hard time speaking. It's okay. I I was off there too. Approval to adopt page engine. Oh, sorry. Is there any discussion? She changed the name. It's just been a long day. Seeing none, is there? All those in favor say I. I. Those oppos say nay. All right. We'll get back on chat. Motion carries. Okay. Approval to adopt construction career connections project book one, two, and three instructional curriculum. I'll move to adopt construction career connections projects books one, two, and three instructional curriculum. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve to adopt construction career
036connections project folks one, two, three instructional curriculum. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Uh approval to issue administrator's contracts for 2025.6. I'll make a motion to approve the administrator issue administrative contract for 2526. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded to approve to issue administrator's contract 20 2526. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. uh approval of the athletic handbook update. Yeah, there's three uh big changes. Uh one would be to have the sixth graders participate as seventh graders in middle school sports. This is pretty common. There's only a couple schools that don't do this in our tri county and a lot of them just have huge numbers.
037of sixth graders for the next school year to 25 26 year and move the uh physicals to two years which is a WIA standard and I have ran this past clear risk and they don't have a bit of problem with this. The third um change in that handbook is to do with our drug and alcohol policy. And specifically on our first offense, we give the kid a choice either being off the team or they can go to True North. What I changed this year, what I put down in that language is I wanted that going to True North and taking that option and staying on a team to have some teeth in it. So I put a 20% penalty of advance. So uh football that'd be two games, basketball four games, right? Soccer somewhere in
038the middle, right? So you have to figure that out, which I like that opportunity to come in and get help, but I think that's absent. Yeah, there's also some real inconsistencies about that because they have to be in the program as well. Well, what if our criminal person's on a vacation and this person s for five weeks, but the next person gets a penalty goes it goes into the office the next day, right? You know what I mean? Do they have to finish prior to? No, they should be enrolled in. Okay. Okay. Is that likely that it would take five weeks for them to wait for a couple but there is you know what if they're gone for a few days and that happened or so I always when I was in the athletic record
039I always ask what do we do about this inconsistency because some parents are going to see this. So I think that we just put in 20% pedaly on period start they will be enrolled going strong when they're ready to play and they're still on the team in good standing with practice and everything Ron um would there be an exception made if a family chose not to do true north but to go private? Yeah, I spoke. Well, I don't know if I make that decision for Chris does or principal. It's gonna be the same thing, but it it should be probably stipulated within your handbook. So, we have to follow what's within your Yeah, that's probably like maybe I make the update where it says or if they do a private program, proof of a proof
040of proof of a private program. But I I really like your idea of having them have some teeth into it because it's holds them accountable and responsible for actions and that's big with kids right now. So, I like that. I'm curious um just as a point of discussion the equity of the student who has a first offense on the last week of volleyball and in essence could lose nothing and starts fresh the next season for you or the student who does the same behavior the first week of volleyball and it I don't know it just it feels like um it doesn't address the the consequence. Do you stipulate? I didn't get a chance to go through that it carries over to the next participating season they're signed up for. No, I was thinking about that.
041You know what's actually let's what happens that my last athletic handbook and I don't think it's actually a bad thing but you'll get like a hypothetical more like a sport a football player that might have a partial season and they're also incredible program so then they'll end up signing up to wrestling but I don't necessarily know if I disagree with that they want to they know that they need to get another season to serve part of their so that's genally will happen. Um, but that's probably the worst case scenario. The transfer problems that I just put out addresses that they put some serious teeth. So, I mean, I'm not really opposed to it. It means that keeping kids involved. So, still as a byproduct, one of our other goals, but having the language that it
042carries into the next season in which they participate, it's just the only like only byproduct is it's not a common that a student is like a good winter spring. Let me ask this is important. Can I can we approve this so I can get going on those first two come back to you month or two or a month with kind of revised version of that to try to address that specific question. I'm for me I'm not really comfortable approving a policy that we can hold up to. So I are you saying like not approve the alcohol drug? Yeah. of it. Take that hole out. So, like we just approve the sixth grade piece. There's some uh issues with our platform and how we're going to get the the physicals changed where show that sort of
043thing that I think the big thing is is doesn't say board policy doesn't really import thing is is that we make sure we're putting the the board policy. Um, but it could be a listing document. So, I think I think so be fine if we approve that it's as read and then Ron can come back and around the 25th. Yeah, I think my other question is it feels inconsistent. Sometimes it's it's addresses the athlete like it's an athletic code, but the front of it says athletic activities. So, I I just wasn't sure what who all this applies to. Um, and I I don't I feel like actually as I read the document, it's inconsistent in lots of different paragraphs. Sometimes it says the participant alathlete and other times it only says the the athlete. So,
044and I really don't know who all just this extracurricular who all that applies to. So because because is it more than just like it's all sports. So if you change it from athlete to just participate participant. So that would be all-encompassing of activities and and then maybe participant discipline procedures. So it's not just saying athletes because you have it like to argue. That's a good idea. But it's just the extracurricular does not apply to co-curricular. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's not I just had a question real quick too about the sixth graders being able to Yeah. to participate as seventh graders. That's only if you cannot if a team cannot be produced with the seventh graders. Yes. Their first role would be to just play JBs at that middle school JB level. We have J
045middle school and then if there's not enough teams for the seventh and they move into that and then they move into the seventh grade varsity if there wasn't enough players except for like cross country wrestling tracks. No football. That is not allowed. We have schools right now that rotate quite a few up to high school from eighth grade because they can't fulfill varsity team. Yeah, we played that last year, which I I didn't know if you were thinking disparity in age or No, I'm What I'm thinking is is that if you've got 12 seventh graders that you can fill a team with, but you got a really good sixth grader outplay five of those seventh graders. Are we bringing them up for that reason? Because that Okay, that's what I want to make sure and
046that question will come up with community. So the coaches of the middle school sports wanted this to get the kids into the system. I started coaching them up earlier and the fact that other teams that were playing do this. I thought it was just natural kind of fit. But what would happen with us sixth graders in that in that situation they play on the seventh grade J. What do you need to prove to actually start going to work on some of it? Can you just take board recommendation that the board's okay moving forward on sixth grade to start putting some of the moving pieces in place and bring it back in two weeks for those adjustments? I don't think you need board approval. I think the board moved to table this tonight. You could still
047take guidance to go to work on putting infrastructure in place with under board guidance uh aimed to get some of those corrections made at the next board. Is that appropriate? I think so. Yeah, I'm okay. Sixth grade and the physical ones. Yeah. Yes. Are the physicals two full calendar years or is it Yeah. two full calendar years. That's nice. Hopefully it'll save some kids money, too. Yeah. And it's honestly as a coach, too, it's a nightmare because of when they expired. Yeah. Right. because like it'll be midway through the season and we're trying to track down who needs a physical and then stuff lights up on final forms red and it's like oh kidding you thank goodness for some care which is a crazy thing to use your physicality so I'll move to table the
048athletic handbook for two weeks with the direction that Ron can continue working on things we tked 63. I'll second that. All right. It's been moved and seconded to table the athletic handbook update um while letting uh the athletic director move forward on sixth grade approval and physicals for two years. Uh is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Go forth. Okay. Thank you. says they can do this. We'll put out a parent. All right. Cool. All right. One more thing about this for the signs. Oh, nice. Got some input on where to put it, but I haven't got your input. I think we'll be rolling in with about 11. Ron's bringing shovels. Can you meet at But can you meet me there at 8:30?
049Yeah. In the morning. Yeah. I'll meet you there at 8:30. All right. Uh, approval of elementary school improvement plan. Not sign of this. Do you want me to share it or I can get on the Zoom real quick? You'd like me to share my big screen? Um, just to be clear, this is overlap. This is the school improvement plan for next year based upon the closing year in data. Um, board changed policy that you'd like to have those by June June 1st. So, they all administrators have them submitted by June 1st. June 25th meeting is where administrators submit the closing year end data that they use to build this. So there's a gap between you're getting next year's school improvement plan before we closed out last year's school improvement plans. So the close out is
050at our next board just to offset that confusion. We do have the data, but I know they're kind of like right on the wire, but a lot of it is updates based upon how SBACK data and stores and that data has come in as they roll over into the new school. Thank you for the communication. I'll move for the approval approval of Elma Elementary School improvement plan. I'll second that. It's been moved and seconded to approve the Elm Elementary School improvement plan. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those post say nay. Motion carries. Approval of Elma Middle School improvement plan. The same. I will say though that Mr. Gins did step in knowing that he's coming in for authoring of the new middle school improvement plan with
051Katie Gallagher. I'll move for the approval of the EMS improvement plan. Second. Move second and approve the EMS and improvement plan. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All post say nay. Motion carries. Approval of EHS school improvement plan. I'll second. I'll move for the approval of the high school improvement plan. Second move and seconded to approve the EHS school improvement plan. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. All post say nay. Motion carries not nay disconnect. All right, we go to the order. Chris, do you want to Today was the last day of school. Um, I don't know if I would like to have another more marathon board meeting on the last day of school again. Maybe this year could be last year
052we ever do this. That would be great. I'm on board with that. Today was day of school. Yeah. Trying to make it the best ever. I heard Mr. Pet did an incredible job cooking at the barbecue that I was over. Nice. So, I'm stabbing some grub. Mr. Katy, when's your official last minute? June 30th. Countdown's on. I thought he was at his last meeting. He's got one more. Oh, we got send off. Any There was a great field day yesterday. I was at the elementary school for field day. Great great weather. So other than that, just thanks everybody for a great year. Forward to next year. Jamie, you and I both commented graduation. An amazing um first of all, an amazing graduation overall. Um but a great staff turnout for graduation. Super appreciative of that.
053And um the high school had their move up assembly today and I heard that went exceptionally well for the students participated. So nice job everyone. Um one thing too about graduation is that choir was fabulous. I was so impressed. I was impressed with the number of students that they had and the quality the quality and that was great. It's been a while since we've seen that. was very inspiring. Along with like with like with like with like with like with like with Steph said we made comment during graduation just seeing the the staff there was uh it was noticed and very appreciated. And then um I went and sat at the senior safe and sober party while the parents all went to the um the what do you call that the senior night assembly and
054uh they did an amazing job out at the fairgrounds and reports was like 87 kids that showed up came and staged. So that's everybody won things, kids were excited. Some kids have that won certain things and others that won they didn't want this or that and they switched and everybody was just happy. I think so. It was that's impressive. Fabulous. And my good news is basically the same. I was over the moon that that many kids enjoyed themselves. Mine included, you know, was like a goo for a minute and he stayed the entire night. So, you know, um they all had a great time and uh and my personal highlight is I got to remove Skyward and parents were offering my phone because I'm done. Sorry, Michael. No. Yeah. I'm just grinning because I have
055a lot of time left. My kindergartener moves moving on to first. So, yeah. Yes. I'm just like it'll go. I now have a senior in high school. Don't blink. Yeah. All right. With that, we'll move to executive session for 20 minutes. We'll come out at 710. Hold on. Oh, a future agenda item. I was hoping that um Chris is it possible if we can get uh a presentation on how the mastery based um grading standards translates to like the you know the near the WA you know like that as far as there's a conversion table that the teachers have been advised that they can use Mark what Ryan's speaking to is how's going to how's it What's it going to look like with gray jacks? Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, the short answer is is
056always going to be is is there's a moving clock that you have to have done when but you can go back and back. So, right. And that's what I'd like to see how we're doing that to ensure that we are staying in compliance with the WIA. Me too. Yeah. I mean um as of right now and actually the last uh what we started day um my stance has been right now our priority is that everything assigned by teachers. We can do it in the next board meeting. The short answer is is everything assigned needs to be aligned to standards and everything needs to be standards aligned. I have not had I think teachers have asked a question on how does that convert to grades. There's a million ways to do it. The teachers were contracted
057when they'd like to have it done in the day. how they converted to a grade is not where the district has focused our interesting priorities. Our priority has been that grades are based off of meeting academic standard. So Mark will go through the recommended and advised uh scales that the teachers have been given, how they can translate it, how they can use it, but we actually haven't sent out a district directive on how they do that translation. Teachers actually still have latitude in how they make that decision. I think the exact quote I used is is grades teachers right now don't grade in the same way. Um and we're interested in seeing what is the best way that works out for our staff. When I was in front of staff, I said, "How did they
058figure it out?" My thought was sleep over. And I'm not saying this has to be on the next agenda meeting, but I know that we are continually transitioning to standardbased grading. And uh you know, and I know that depending on what subject matter teachers have, they have different standards that they're grading on. And so say students getting twos on three of the seven standards, but they're getting fours on the rest. I mean, what what does that really work out to be because they're not meeting standards? Mark, can you do the conversion tables on let us know you're trying to get out of your retired and your hankering for a reader job at Costco? I didn't just throw that out. Before the meeting, I don't know at this point what that there was some further conversation
059is going to have to take place in terms of how that affects grade checks or sports. I don't have an answer. That's we can go through the conversion tables. Yeah, I mean I think it's a fair answer that families will need to know and kids will need to know and and but I'm with it doesn't have to be in the next two weeks. Yeah. I just was it made me think reading the athletic handbook and and I was like and it says you have to pass you know these classes and it's like okay what does that look like? So we'll go through the conversion table. Yeah. Thank you. Mark we can do the conversion table in two weeks if I'm right. Yeah we got that that's already put in place but how it affects when
060we do grade checks. What does the teacher do to say yes this student's passing? I say we just do the conversion table in the next couple weeks. That hearing is already present. That's all I think we do right now. Rest for conversation. All right. With that, we'll move into executive session for 20 minutes. We'll come out at 7:14 with no action to be taken. Great. Come back on. I Hold on. I think I got to start video. I make a motion we adjourn the meeting. I'll second. It's been moved and second to adjourn the meeting. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. All those oppose say nay. Meeting adjourned. I like your gabble. Even though he turns it right at me and I'm the only one. I'm sorry.