001speak order please rise for the I to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right screen in business approval of board meeting minutes for February 26 202 I'll move for the approval board meeting minutes February 12 2025 second it has been moved and seconded approved board meeting minutes from February 26 2025 is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I all those post say nay motion carries uh approval of meeting agenda for the approval of the meeting agenda as this second it's been moved and seconded to approve the meeting agenda as is is there any discussion or changes perhaps there is no recommended changes okay any discussion seeing none all those in favor
002say I all those poos say nay Mo car consent agenda I'll move to the approval consent agenda second it's been moved and seconded approve the consent agenda is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I all those opposed say n motion carry us discussion items focused on kids well Mr H scroggin has been working really hard on organizing some of our incredible presenters that we have here tonight so with that I would like to turn it over to Mr scroggin yeah so every day at El Elementary School you're seeing some of the kids here our staff and our teachers work very hard to uh get these guys ready uh and have them engage in these awesome learning activities so what we're going to do tonight is going to highlight some of these
003and so we have some student presenters and they're going to tell their stories much better than I can so we're going to start off with our second graders first we have two second graders Savannah Lawson and Mason Norse come on up and what they're going to do they've been working on um Penguins they've been working on studying penguins and writing about penguins and so uh there's there there we have some pment right here I'm going to move this up for and they they practice I Haven even this will be my first time that I get to see you guys so we're going to talk to those guys right there okay and so we're going to go ahead and start Savannah you gonna start us off so let's go ahead and turn around and face these
004guys all right go ahead good evening I'm Savannah and this is me we're excited to share our project our penguin research project with you we became penguin all pengu through books videos and even the online world book did you know Penguins can't fly for our swimmers some swim as fast as 15 mph there are 18 different types of penguins some live in cold places like Antarctica and others live in warmer areas like the Gus Islands we also learned about the habitats and food and how they stay safe from predators after learning all this we Shar our knowledge with three kindergarten classes we felt like experts teaching them about penguins we also use n create a life-sized Penguins we measured how tall an emperor penguin grows which is about 4T and made our own penguin that
005height and and king penguin is taller than me this project taught us so much not just about pengu but also about working together writing and sharing what we know being a penguinologist is about exploring asking questions and using what you know to solve problems we love this project and can't wait to learn more thanks for letting to share our penguin Adventures I really like the Penguins it's taller than you I'm actually impressed by that that's really tall you made that one that's significantly tall taller than the rest this one which one did you make that that one right there the rock hopper those are awesome so if we went into your classroom are there penguins all over right now yeah yeah I think so or probably are you almost done with the penguin unit now
006yeah oh you're still penguin in okay what's your favorite Penguin rock how about yours King King imagine that well thank you so much for sharing with us we really appreciate it you guys did a great job thank you right okay next we have our third graders come on okay so third graders they have been working on the body the anatomy physiology structures of the bodies we have Miss East CER and Alex family so they going to share all lot of information with you hi I'm Alex is houst H we were working on the body project we started by by learning about the human body and then miss hendri has traced us and we wrote about the human body and we also made them and cut them out and glued them on them the function of
007the brain is that it helps you control your memories thoughts and movements it is part of the nervous system a fact about the brain is that it cannot it often cannot be function of the lungs is it helps you breathe oy between the fact about the lungs is if you smoke your the job of the stomach is to help you break down your food that you eat into small pieces it is part of the digestive system one fact is that when your stomach grows it's called Bor bery Li the job of the LI is to make energy from the food you eat and it also stores energy from the food until your body need it it is part of the digestive system and the circulatory system one fact is the liver makes F these are
008my this is my pus it is its job is to produce pancreatic juice it is part of the digestive system this is my intestine they part of the digestive system the job of the small intestine is to break down food and the job of the large intestine is to remove water from what is left over from your food this is my bladder its job is to store urine and release it from your body bones their job is to give you shape and protect your organs they are part of the skeletal system this is my muscles the they are of they are part of the muscular system in is actually thank you for letting us tell you about our bodies you have any questions so those are all cutouts on yourselves you were saying that's cool
009I really like the layered look to it that's really cool I like the presentation of it it's like a do you have a big place where you store all your projects at home you're going to hang it up in your room when you're done where's your body gonna go when you're down hanging up can I take your guys this pict I can your all are trying to look how amazing okay you guys did a great job yeah Greg Greg yes so today uh we Mr scroggin I were invited to go to see Miss Hutchings class and their her third grade class taught showed their bodies to kindergarten so um we have our uh monthly learning walks where all the admin go kind of work and recalibrate on teacher evaluation so we had our learning walks
010so we got to go see the debrief in Miss Hutchings class where the students had just presented and then they debriefed on how they could present better and then we got to go watch third grade teach kindergarteners about their body today and it's just an absolutely normally I don't like to use teachers names and board meetings but she just Tanya hings an incredible job so I feel like when it's positive uh it just a great experience of how the students reflected on how they could present and then when we're done I kind of want to talk a little bit about your work on what you've been doing and how just like just been a really good job well I think we have some future teachers here because I got a chance to see you guys
011in action too we had Alex hel and East they went into um first grade classrooms and they when you want in there were uh students presenting and you had first graders all around them they would tell them all about the bodies and and I think you will remember this forever this is this is a great learning experience can we have the first two get a slide their penguin over as a backdrop yeah so we can can you can you swing the penguin the Contex that they're standing up here yes there you go stand by your Penguins kiddos will you move this up just a tiny bit because your beautiful penguin is blocked by all of you to your left to your left just a tiny bit go now I can see your Artic work thank
012you so much good job guys thank you thank you no we have two fifth graders they're um now I'll read to you this is information that Miss Tuttle sent me this says the bi the biography projects for our living wax museum are a fun way for our fifth grade students to share what they've learned about the influential historical figures they have chosen to study the student use sources to research take notes and generate five paragraph informational essays they add text features to their posters to help the audience understand their speeches student presentations occur both during the school day for younger students and later in the evening for believe that's tomorrow isn't it tomorrow evening what time is that 5:30 5:30 so if you're not doing anything 5:30 head out to the fifth grade area you're
013going to see a bunch of these kids dressed up as you're seeing tonight as they give their presentations you're going to see the living wax museum come to live um yeah it's a great project kids love it so so we have Tia and Natalie come on in we have he you girls all right you want to start sof hi my name is Mother Teresa I am best known for founding the missionaries of Charity I was born on August 26 1910 in scope North Macedonia my family includes my mother father sister and brother growing up my father died and my mother continued to race me my major accomplishment in life was the establishment of a missionary of Charity other things I accomplished include being declared a saint winning the Nobel Peace Prize and getting the Pope
014John 22nd Peace Prize at the end of my life I suffered cardiac arrest and passed away on September 5th 1997 in Kolkata India at the age of 87 I got canonized nine years after my death do you have any questions impress nice job did you get to you got to choose your subject very nice very done hello my name is m i Am best known for being one of the world's best soccer players I was born on March 17th 1972 in s Alabama my family included my parents Bill and Stephanie ham my husband noar garia and our kids growing up I played soccer and I was very competitive a major accomplishment in life was when I won two Olympic silver medals two FFA World CBS and four NCAA National Championships with the University of North
015Carolina other things I accomplished included that I was a founding member of the women's United Soccer Association and L the Washington freedom to the founders cup at the end of my life I'm continuing to be a co-owner of Los Angeles UPC and Angel City UPC any questions did you have a lot of fun doing your project yeah yeah you look like it very happy to be me a h what was your both ladies what was your favorite way to find out information uh my favorite way was reading the books about Mother Teresa mine is probably um looking up on different guys did really really good really impressed thank you did you get yes do you want one of them Miss mother and miss me can you both come back just for a second I'll get
016you guys together I did get you separate but just in case we want do okay oh very nice very nice thank you so Mr strin summer reading this work was on a mind in the making um on how to build executive functioning skills with students it's a um book written by Ellen galinsky she's the nation's leading expert on Executive functioning skills and it covers seven executive functioning skills you need to kind of process and today I feel sorry for Mr scrogin so I'm so thankful he was here because Tuesday he had his evaluation meeting today we had our learning walks where all the admin were in his building and tonight he's doing his board presentation but in every classroom we went every student they had groups of tables the students were having student to- student
017conversations the students were working through projects and you can see Mr scrogin work on really building these executive functioning skills how students can work with each other how they can be in teams how they can build projects and set goals has really kind of moved through this building so I just was really appreciative of uh we've had three solid visits uh to the elementary school in the last two days so three visits in two days and Mr scroggin and his team you and your team have just hit it out of the park just some of the best teaching I've seen um this last two days student students teaching students so I just want to tell you I appreciate you well hey and I am one of the luckiest guys in the planet because I get
018to work with Incredible teachers and the greatest students on the planet going to Elma Elementary School isn't that right nice have a community have a special school we are blessed beyond measure yeah so thank you so much you guys thank you uh before we start moving down the line do you think it'd be appropriate if our if our special guests want to stick around they can or you guys can take off you do not have to sck have to stick around for the whole board meeting best has already happened you're not missing sorry no fireworks here one more time man very confident big good night you all right next is the Middle School gy roof update I know we talked about it a lot last meeting I just kind of wanted to update that uh
019we are anticipating that we might have some capacity going forward um we still got to look a little bit but we might actually have the capacity to uh be able to do the roof um project that we're still kind of working through the budget going for right and then from there we'll look towards uh that what am I trying to say contract process yeah so what I guess we going with us we don't probably have to do any action at this time to move forward on on a can begin the the bidding process correct yeah so nothing for us so what I'm doing is I have to do a general fund revision submitted through the state we'll have to do like another budget to get the capacity to be able to do it I believe
020we have money outside of our fund balance so we won't have to change that to be able to use from what I've looked at and we're hoping to start June yeah that'll give me enough time to get everything approved that we can move forward on it that's great so it gives us a good timeline for hitting the summer deadline right or at least our summer window hopefully so that's update on that I just wanted to Circle back on what we talked about last time uh and now uh anybody for public comment all right unfinished business uh approval of policy 4200 parent access and safe and orderly learning environment uh first reading I do not have it open I'm sorry oh my computer doing R things today too so the updates are the references and for
021the family involvement adds the family involvement this one's pretty straightforward as far as as you can see it has the update like Lisa said the update references and then the family involvement portion so I'll move for the approval policy 4200 parent access and safe and orderly learning environment first reading oh second it's been moving second to approve the policy 4200 parent access and safe and orderly learning environment for treating is there any discussion question is there a place I can get access to thaty um we can't engage in a full conversation because um it's it's a it's a the board's meeting held in public but I can say all policies are publicly available on the website this is only a first reading so if there's a question um um any questions you would have I
022would follow up with kendice Goldsmith and they can share it out before the second approval it doesn't become an official policy until the second approval thank is there any discussion seeing then all those in favor say I I I all those oppos say nay motion carries approval of policy 4210 regulation of dangerous weapons on school premises first reading this up updates the RC W I'll move for the approval policy 4210 regulation of dangerous weapons on school permises first gring a second it's been moved to seconded to approve policy 4210 regulation of dangerous weapons on school premises for is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I all those opposed say nay motion car uh new business approval of policy 3205 sex discrimination of students prohibited first reading and this is related to
023the current um law on move for the approval policy 3205 sex discrimination students proh prohibited first reading I'll second SP moved and second as approved policy 3205 sex discrimination of students prohibited first reading is there any discussion see none all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay motion carries approval of policy 511 sexual harassment of District staff prohibited first reading this is another update to the legislation I'll move for the approval of policy 511 sexual harassment of District staff prohibited first reading second it's been moved and seconded to approve policy 511 sexual harassment of District staff prohibited first read reading is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I all those F say nay motion carries reports um hang I got pull it up we um have a
024date for our hearing uh we have a uh um I got to find the email we are set up for our uh public hearing with the city of Elma for construction scheduled for um I'll get there again I didn't have them all open um will be scheduled for the end of the month I think we're still waiting for the actual official date it'll be published on March 12th 2025 with the city of Elma for a public hearing regarding our the approval of our site plan and uh our conditional use permit public hearing for the increase of the square footage of the covered stands but they didn't announce today the 12th when that will be uh oh here it is March 26 sorry March 26 2025 at 10: a will be our public hearing why it'll
025be virtually virtual via Zoom I just had a scroll further well I scrolled far too far Wednesday morning is there a reason why they in the morning yeah so it is people can attend it is when we can get the uh when they can the city can get the uh the hearing examiner so all in all I think the big thing is is to just know that that's going to go out that went out in the daily world that's was sent to the Daily World today and uh I think it's just good to know that we are making adequate forward progress lots of paperwork on getting our stance project completed moving forward progress It's gonna hit a good window too I think is really what's gonna it's gonna all work out right it's gonna give
026all I I know I know I say that and I I know because being an engineer myself and construction yes but i' like it's it's great for our kids too um you know we were going to have to figure out how we were going to juggle things with seniors and stuff on Davis Field so in all in all I think it's gonna work out so I like anything else um probably loads but that's the biggest one sitting on us today okay anybody else have anything uh I just want to say that we did that the student in the life of a student walk um last Friday of the month I really like that format it was great to um get the full picture of what was going on in the classroom because the other learning
027walks that we did a lot of times were jumping in in the middle of whatever they're happen to be doing and so it's always hard to kind of Judge whether the students are engaged and whether the lesson was clearly um explained and um so I just personally want to say that I enjoyed the that new um process that we were doing and I look forward to doing it in the other buildings as well we have the other buildings all scheduled were your students pretty uh open about their learning experiences and what they how they feel like they're learning I feel like mine was as well no holds bar yeah for those that may not you know know what we're talking about we as a board um are doing in the life of a student right
028so we we're we student is assigned to us by the student body and then we get to go to uh three periods of the day and lunch and spend basically with them and see how their learning experiences inside the district and that'll be at all three buildings both the high school middle school and elementary school and I can say like just like Ryan said my experience was was great being in there and then we yeah I don't want to go into too many details but yeah it was it was eye opening in some areas which we've discussed so I completely appreciated the process completely appreciated it yeah and I appreciate the vulnerability building you can you just really can hide anything I mean you're right there for all of it and um that's pretty vulnerable
029to be that transparent but um because the students I think we all said this it wasn't just the student we had but and all of their friends I mean so we got access to um lots of input and insight from students about what it means for to be a student in Elma so I couldn't say they they they couldn't be any more welcoming than they were though staff everybody's like oh that's awesome you guys are in here today yeah there was a lot of a good feedback even got myself a coffee from the what's that the early bird that that was good I actually asked one of the kids what to get because I was like I'm looking at the menu and I know what coffee I like but I want he's like oh you
030got to get this one so I did it was good choice my student and I were looking at board policies I go she goes why can't we do this and I go well let's go look at the board policy and go go see what it says well looks like you actually might be able to do that yeah my student had to run the mile second period and so I opted on that one but outside of that I did participate in everything else I will admit but I I may have skipped second per I'm I'm pretty sure my student want to take advantage of some of my English love in their English class because we got their paper done oh they were asking like can I ask you questions I'm like I'm a student today I'm
031your I'm your buddy I'm your shoulder partner let's write it hey but I didn't see you taking the uh the geometry test I didn't didn't give any answers I behaved yeah what is our next rotation is it the Middle School the middle school yeah so we're working our way down eventually we'll get here into this building we're working through student leadership I think we've been working through the student we worked not I think we work through the student leadership to help us get assigned to students to make sure that every student is very different so then that way we're not all sitting in college and the High School AP honors courses all day I want to make sure like we're we're we're having the full gamut so I'll have yeah was I like the uh
032format of the student and the board member knowing just the night before you know I got a lot of the what did you do well it took a little bit of work on organizing with parents because a lot of students changed so some students like I don't know if I'm comfortable having a board member so then like all right we got to get a new I think it was nice to know last minute might the innovation academy so that was we might be in April that's right you were in the innovation academy all day we might be in April just because that last week that I have this originally scheduled for is half days all week oh before spr break yeah that makes sense that's fine U my good the order I thought it was
033great that the middle school and high school took both of their leadership teams to the capital today they got to have a full legislative day and go down on the floor for debate and meet with our local legislators and and all that so I think that was an amazing firsthand experience and I did not realize how many of our elementary school students are gaining access to swim lessons via the YMCA and some grant funding and I think that's a really incredible the entire Kindergarten is going and um and then I think we have a number on that how many Mr scroggin yeah so uh about 100 students are going to be involved wow in uh lessons the second and it's either the third and fourth week May I believe and what's going to happen is
034when the kindergarten students go to the YMCA in the AM to do their swim lessons we're going to be doing uh screening for the incoming uh Kinder students for the following year we're going to be assessing the kids and doing all that so we're g to uh and the transportation everything's paid for out of the grant YMCA they've received so it's really a wi win learn how to swim and we're going to yeah have get our uh screening event nice work I just thought those were cool I this probably not something everybody realizes is actually happening so I saw it go out but I was curious how many people want yeah wanted to participate obviously a lot yeah so what the kindergarten teachers now that we've uh have this confirmed the dates and everything they're
035going to they put out an initial survey just to see what kind of Interest they would have with you know would parents um be comfortable you know putting their kids on the bus and sending them down because other schools that are Clos to the Y do and that seem pretty common um and they had very favorable response so now we'll formalize that and we'll get the kids signed up and and have put our uh your plans together because I imagine some kids will still stay but we'll we'll be ready for those guys we'll still provide them a great day of learning but uh yeah it's it's a it's a very creative way to teach kids how to swim and and a great way for us to do our incoming Kinder screening so my utmost respect
036and admiration to the adults that are going to help facilitate that because Eric and I have taken an entire busload of daycare kids to go swimming and it is a process to get all those kids appropriately managed getting dressed and undressed and all the Readiness and so well you know what I think I heard I think I heard that St you know I just was realiz that came out of my mouth I'm already getting nervous yeah no that's great that's great they're obviously going to be really exced that's awesome two two other topics that I'm sorry Ryan I was just GNA say and then also there was uh recently there's band concert and also choir concert and both of those events I heard went very well and the kids did great and they had a
037lot of support obviously spring sports are in full swing next week we start league play for a lot of sport for most of us yeah be ready in the swing of it we we had a meeting with the hospital today so I'd like to put on the next board agenda um but the hospital board is interested in doing a a joint Retreat for the for three to three hours in the summer to kind of compare the hospital's achievement data our data and then how do we have intersection that we're really working on similar goals so uh Josh Martin and I would like to come back on the hospital is going to come present at our April meeting about some of their work and then on how could we figure out to nail down some joint
038efforts and then our board retreat would culminate with us working on our own efforts that afternoon and then uh we are also looking at doing a joint um the hospital in the school district Summit Pacific and the uh School District doing a partnership on a kind of a video promotion on a bunch of the work that the hospital's been doing through their blue zones work their constru their construction project but then also our work that we've been doing we do have a full like nursing assistant certified program at the hospitals the only one in the entire state of Washington what're running our CR career training programs so doing a joint effort so the videos would look pretty similar but that way we'll have a series of core videos of the work that we're doing in
039the district and then the hospital would have a series of videos that the hospital's working on kind of really kind of leaning into that collaboration and that multi- agency collaboration we've been building is there somewhere um are we going to get an update on how that cohort went with the CNA nursing assistant yeah I think chrisy was planning on doing something but it's not yeah yeah in May all right I just want to make sure that we get an update on that because I'm really interested in hearing on how that I think that she spoke a little bit like uh just a little bit to the fact that she would like to talk about it more and bring um more of the information forward once she has a little bit more time in um she
040spoke about it at which is why I wasn't here last meeting um at the apprenticeship graduation she touched on the different uh fire sciences and the CNA program and others that were circling around and so and to all the kids that are young men that were at the graduation night because they're all out of high school now with the exception of I think one they all graduated their apprenticeship are Journey entry level 2000 hour Journeymen so and they're all placed in permanent jobs which is awesome great doing good stuff yeah okay do we have legislation visits coming up because of that too that we're aware of we I have have all day Friday at the state legislature because of that okay so Friday I'll be out of District um I have a I don't know
041about 15 legislative reps I'll be meeting with on Friday regarding they wanted to yeah so they were really interested in the program so about 15 I have an agenda filled out um between our registered apprenticeship regarding our school to work program okay we we do have the only program like it in the state yeah I know they we were talking about it when we're doing the application process that there was going to probably be a lot of scrutiny from the yeah from the legislature because there's a lot of policy they had to change yeah so yeah so Friday I will be in Olympia all day I don't have anything further on the order business um next on the agenda is executive session for 30 minutes with no action to be taken so um will move
042into executive session who will come out at 710 thank you good evening and good night yes correct I just make e e e do you guys want to talk with let's give us 15 more minutes all right so just we GNA extend executive session for 15 more minutes e e e we are moving to extend executive session for until uh for 15 more minutes so we'll come out at 7:40 p.m. e e e there we go and then where's the video come back video you're there oh okay hello all right I I make a motion we adjourn the meeting a second has has been moving a second and adjourn the meeting is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I all those all those post say nay motion carries good night
043everybody I like your gabble Mouse I know now my mouse won't ever work again then Michael in the last meeting you said we don't even have