Elma School Board Mtg - February 26, 2025

001with our Middle School to kind of talk about we've done a lot of talking in ASB about um developing student sense of belonging and it started in Middle School ASB and it's kind of carried into high school and I know you guys heard from pressling Holly um a couple weeks ago but I wanted them to come and share some of the cool things that they're putting in motion to um include all students but we are going to start with our awesome middle school students hi guys um you guys want to share your names introduce yourself to my okay okay so um first I'm going to start off with some of the like things in our leadership class we did personality tests to see everyone's personality and then we did activities to see how different personalities

002and the same personalities work together and it kind of showed that different personalities were better than people with the same personalities and things start our semester with leadership because they um leadership is all sense of bonding and it helps us work better together throughout the semester so that we can do bigger things forol and um our next it's not it's ran by our ASP officers and um our goal is to have it up and running by quarter and um we we' had some donations from just like loal places and our store will consist of like not buying with butning tickets from and I think that our school and having that will allow students to be able to nice to each other and each other with like kindness and respect within award and the more that

003kids show that more it's going to affect on our students at our school and by having this store it's going to a really big impact and Mark on our upcoming leadership officers and students so yeah and um last because we got our commit a couple days ago and all of our committies are for like money gu speakers always need money student incentives student celebrations those things for like assemblies and I mean just yeah just funds and like if like we had like a good fund rais and and um my never that and part of what they're going to be fundraising for too is to send a middle school ASB to cisus and so what we really want to do is have all secondary leadership 6 through 12 have that experience so we're developing a through

004line student sense of belonging across all of sary so they'll be going to assist us the summer too and um my plan to obviously and and I just want to like like that sucessful and by the end of year I I I want our to be a good success and I want to be passed on to class and just want my bigest like goal that I want leadership is to students stuff like that and I'll be able to was like my something that they said we do want to bring in a get we specifically in our executive team's uh reflection and um our leadership uh classes reflection we noticed that a common problem that we have within our school is our school culture people don't want to be there and so the culture is negative

005and you you'll get to experience that when you go through that day in a life you'll see people in the hallway you'll see the environments of classrooms and how feel how safe people feel in those environments but one of the things that we want to to fix that this morning we $10,000 for motivational speaker Nam Isaac buts um the package that we got will not only go to a two-day assembly at the high school they'll come to the middle school and they'll talk to our staff because we just figured that something in our environment is is and so the only way to fix that is to change the environment um another thing that I wanted to touch on was to miss home mentioned that we wanted to be more Inus with everything when we went

006to cus we found out that well I went to cus I found out that we are a 70% loow can score the sh and for some reason I didn't know that and I feel like that's not something that we make very well known like we have free lunches and everything like that but it's not something that you see in every day because obviously that's not something that's talked about in high school or in um but we decided that we wanted to make things more accessible to people because like a lot of our after school activities and clubs and sports aren't accessible to some of their students because they have to ride the bus or they have a job after in school and there's just like things that they can't do to become part of our

007school there's nothing for them to belong in so we're looking for more things to help them belong making things more accessible to everyone and we're starting with too we started this last year um as a dance it's just another dance another fundraiser but this year we decided that we wanted to make too free for all students just because sometimes that fee to get in or the thought of buying a dress or a tux or something like that is just so nerve-racking and it's so stress inducing for so many students so our theme is actually vintage this year dress it up dress it down or Bell Bottom Jeans whatever you want but we just want students to feel safe and able to belong in our school because once you feel like you you belong that makes

008it so much easier to be happy to be there our main goal for this year is for students to want to be there it's it's hard when you don't want to be somewhere up and they're like oh my gosh I have to go to school I hate school but if people want to be there if we make things easy for them if we make things fun for them they'll want to be there and hopefully that will improve the negative and I just want to say this was born out of their experience at cispus and talking to students and I mean all the students across every group of kids and so all of this has truly been student L and um I'm just really impressed because if we can get to that place across all of

009secondary it's just going to be so fantastic for every one of our kids so really impressed with both asbs thank you I really like the approach on you want to have everybody included and involved and then you're making active decisions to make look at the specific barriers that are keeping students do you know if we could have um I want hear about the success on it how would you measure the success what do you think would be a good successful sign weally measure it by attendance last year I mean it wasn't great these meetings are recorded I don't know the library today but we have 400 students in attendance and we have a total of like about 600 students in our school so yes that includes like students who fill out the form to come

010from like different schools once they F that but 400 students out of 600 is a big increase in a lot of bends that we've seen through most of our activities and considering that it's an after school out of school hours like activity that people went out of their way to come to was a really big achievement last year and so we're hoping get maybe's just not enough space we're going to open library and include four games and some snacks we're g to open our our store the early bird we're call the late bird and it's just it's going to be some that people can relax little bit so more people feel safe comfortable going to our dances being part of that like that Community socializing like bonding with people in our school district but like

011being able to be there without having to commit or like people who go to dances and then they leave after 10 minutes yeah because it's it's really overwhelming it is a lot especially for like underclass people who are it's just it's a lot so we we recognized that we wanted to make it more accessible to people who might not be as comforable soci that's great news will you give us an update on how it goes about the store stuff do you plan to have in store IDE is that are going to get um like like like Eagle dollars yeah or how we're doing with him just want to be clear now my daughter when she was my youngest daughter was she's an AG gror now was in elementary where we used to live she used

012to save all her money when come home with voice be like I need to buy some stickers but what kind of stuff do you plan on selling so first tell me about how earn your dollar dollars calling doll so have you mapped out how you students earn their equal Debs it's a great idea as far as showing this level board I'm getting curious on how you'll kind of create your dollar value any two hop Middle School one is in a and one and we ended up and luckily for us the vice there was fantastic and took our as officers um on a tour and we were in contact with admin so don't worry the adults knew where we were um and he actually gave them idea this idea for the store that's how their school

013um runs a behavior program and so yeah so we gave them a tour showed up the idea and then for the rest of our day as we came back and uh did our now this better training uh they came up with the idea for the store and there will be tear to um the reward system but we learned it from a middle I think the best ideas always come from that's about two meetings with a Content make so you have our school members raise your hand so these are basically our personality tests that we took in class and they're like our challenge was all come back as a group and see how you match up against each it's actually funny that this up because I just went to leadership training last week and big part

014of it was a personality test how to work with different people thanks again for presenting I really appreciate you okay I sent you guys a not a very good chart some charge with some of the quotes I've already got and things like that basically I want to come talk to you guys today um we have we have a lingering issue with RS in 2005 we did many roasts to the district um and then we are to see some failures on those roofs so um that's uh that's something that we need to stay on top of because our our buildings are going to be here for a long time kind I think the last Bond ask we did we kind of gota feel from the community that they're probably not going to be wanting to start

015building new buildings so therefore we need to put money into the buildings um and then our 8 compliance we have several issues with that that's these are all big ticket items so I feel like we're leading up to the point where we can either Capital project Levy or a bond to re roof every building get into compliance with 8 Emily you have photos and stuff I do I have a PowerPoint um so I don't know when Jeff done if you want me to share what I brought yeah okay I mean there's just it's just it's a GL it's just a glaring every time comes up oh yeah I am sorry is it's it um and then we also have like the clean buildings act coming down the pike it's a little ways out but it's

016it's very real and uh and that has to do with High Energy Efficiency stuff eventually it's going to be pushing pushing us from and so I just these are just things for the future that we need to start making a plan to attack um and then the black up surfaces the Elementary playground when they cut in the sewer there's many uneven surfaces our parking Ms out here starting to degrade um so that would be another part of I think we need invest money our it we're about the bottom third of Levy or I think tax break out of the ESD which doesn't seem like a lot but when you realize that we're equivalent to North Beach is that rate is applied to hotels and our rate is applied to Residential Properties it means in terms

017of total dollars that comes back into the district and puts us pretty low so I think I can show you when I get into our data I'll show you what we get per student um we do pretty well when it comes to lunches and like non-instructional we w't talk about where we are show dasboard data but do you mind U list the money one thing do you mind yes ready for so with parent permission I um we have a student student who is in a wheelchair and the parents said I said I want to present about what's not accessible to your student and they said of course recorder share what you need to so um on this page so in order to get from the main building like the commons so Emily sers has the

018ornamental design plant science and so I have quite a few kids who take her classes because they're amazing um but in order to get to her classes they have to go out the commment to the high school parking lot around through the rocks and back into the building and so this video will show you um so I'm sorry it takes a while but this is reality this is how she gets to her classes each day I think if you click on it it might make it full screen you might hear her teasing me like H my battery's going to die you got to push me um and that's another thing so like if the battery does die like this filter is very heavy um and we would have to push her to get her to

019class it's okay if it doesn't I mean she only teased me a little bit and then she stopped um yeah she's a fun one to be with yeah she is uh but yeah so it'll take a few minutes because it takes a while to get there takes even longer when it's not sunny M yes and that's that's a big thing um so when she gets down to the bottom um one of my little notes is so was it like last week or the week before when it was really icy out there were times where um going around this corner up here her chair slipped and if there wasn't a staff member with her her chair would have tipped and so we just have to be really careful in certain areas because it's not safe um

020like if she turns the corner too sharp um right here there's some loose rocks and uh sometimes her chair gets Rock but that's where it gets really icy so on those days when she went to turn the corner um I was with her one time and then the pairs are usually with her but it's um it can be very unsafe for her to get around these Corners because of um the slope and then we have another student who is um there's times where she has to use a walker and so if she goes this long path by the time she gets to class she is so tired that she may put her head down and she may have to take a little rest because she's exhausted from having to walk all the way around um

021so she'll put her head down and Mrs SI is phenomenal um she is so accommodating um for these kids like she knows they're going to get there late she knows they may need a little rest because of being tired from their truck down there um but yeah we're almost there and then this is just from The Commons to the classroom and I don't know if you guys have I'm sure you've boughten the beautiful plants from the plant science class um so they do a lot of work down in the greenhouse and so um this is just pointing out where the the rocks are very loose and we really got to watch her chair on those so um so getting in there late to class I mean this student is amazing she has you know a

022good sense of um humor and stuff but I mean a lot of students she's getting late to class every single day because this takes longer than the four minutes of a lot of time to get there um and then staff so if her chair does die and staff have to push her like that's there's staff who you know get bad backs and they physically can't do this on a regular basis and so um and just being careful that she doesn't tip over so we don't have to replace the wheelchair um because of the facilities we got um so this next video clip hopefully it'll pop up um this is going from the classroom to where they have the to the green houses where they do the um plant science stuff so this one is she

023goes out the classroom they go through the shop um again we have phenomenal staff members um Lisa Mayberry is one of them she works to make sure because they go through the shop so she works really hard to make sure that there's no um like hoses out or any equipment out that could stop her from getting where she needs to be so they go through the shop I mean kids will be kids so sometimes you know they don't always pick up after themselves um so sometimes we have to pick things up out of her way so that way she can get through there out the doors she does have a wonderful wheelchair um there are some kids whose wheelchairs aren't so I don't know powerful um but she does very well with hers and then

024coming up so where the road meets the gravel it's not I don't know it's not there's one spot where she can go over so that way her chair doesn't get caught because the other ones the dip is just a little too steep so sometimes her chair will get caught and then we'll have to physically push her so um Stacy shereet is the parah who's usually with her um and so she knows this one spot you can see here be like okay this is your spot turn here go down here it does catch a little bit um there are times where if she goes too fast you really have to be careful because if she goes fast she could just flop right over um so and then through the gravels and then here in just a

025second Al turn so all non-disabled students typical peers get a cut right through here to that gate and go to the greenhouse because of the way there's a step so she can't so she has to go all the way around the back up the side just to get inside the greenhouse where all of her her peers are and if um if her wilter dies there are chances that she may not get to go down there because the chair is so heavy it's hard to get her back up the hill and so um Mom and Dad replaced the battery we have had issues but um this year the battery's been pretty good so she's been able to go to the class uh but yeah if the battery's dead that chair is too heavy for one person

026to push on their own they're almost there okay um once she's inside the greenhouse so on the next slide um the this the little lip to get out is um a little too steep so somebody has to like push her up to get her out of the greenhouse um but this is just a picture of um where the those who can walk can step down but those in a wheelchair have to go all the way around because that is not ad accessible she cannot get her chair for one it's too narrow and for two it's a step so she can get there so she's having to go all the way around just to get into the greenhouse where the rest of her F mates are okay this is where the little hump is so they

027just have to lift her up because that lip is too thick for her chair to get up so we have to lift her over the clip there and then you don't have to play that clip it's just a another video of where from where the bus lane is down there um how it's not smooth so it's really difficult to get her chair up you got to be in just the right spot so that way she doesn't get stuck so and then so what can we do so um this year we have a physical therapist here and so I've talked her about this I'm like and we walked this path I showed her exactly what we have to do um I said it's taking her extra long to get to class because of you know the

028detour she has to take and so we're like how can we get her from the commment to the class and uh there are wheelchair lifts um and I don't know if this is the right place for it but I'm was just trying to brainstorm what can we do to help her and so like right outside the comments there's that little strip there um if you know if we find a lift so there's a there's a hyperlink there and there are lifts that just go up and down so if we were to put something in to get her go out the commons get on the lift go down and into the class it would save her from having to go all the way out to the parking lot and then turn and come back in um

029going from the classroom to the greenhouse I think is going to be a little more difficult because there will have to be some Paving just to make it accessible so that way widening the gates Paving so that way it's spoo enough for her wilter to get down there safely so so that's what I have um I just know it takes her a long time and it's hard for her and I would like to get something that work for her look ni so I I had no idea that you I I wouldn't have imagined that a wheelchair could make it down that hill so I did not I thought you guys were D in a band so I mean that I'm in with the wheelchair that I like as far as I'm concerned like the greenhouse

030is not accessible 8 like the the temporary solution was to literally drive down there because it is that bad the stadium project will will give access to that lower level you're still going to have to go out and around there other areas throughout the high school that obviously might have issues too or there are yes so and and not just ice do we know how much it would cost to I don't know at this time yeah we needed we priced out like we started about projects we're in capital capital project range we're aware that an athletic complex will forever be a barrier to resolving some of these issues so we need to get that project done that paperwork is still just sitting with the city I mean we've done all our paperwork with the city

031so it's it's in the city's hands um but we do know that as that project is moving along it's time to start talking about I mean parking lot at the high school is $2 million per lot at the middle schools $2 million roof at the gym is $200,000 $200,000 the Middle School gym Middle School gym is already leaking if we don't resolve that a $200,000 bill will quickly become a um and now just to be clear we have some of the highest salaries in the ESD but we have the lowest draw so we're 88% of our District budget goes to salaries there's not on up there's nothing left over to turn around and put on the facilities so um that's what we pay for and I think we make a good investment when we're investing

032in our people but when we are in the bottom third of the ESV for what we draw at Levy as far as rate someone's taxable rate is in the bottom third and then we also have and we're also not very property Rich when you apply that low rate to a low property rate I'll show you when I do my data dashboard I'll show you kind of where we are comparison to the rest of the state what we get for for student funding and instructional so looking at some of this obviously some of this can be rolled into potentially a capital project some sort but we're still talking months from now to even go out to get so the roof situation kind of looks like it's a little bit more dire something we're to invest in

033before we go off to Summer what I'm kind of leaning towards I would like if there's funding I would love to re roof the Middle School gym um but that and that being said because there's so many roofs that are going to be need to be done we need to start chipping away at them so and that one's like the one right now that's had expert come out and look at it's already had a r roof over top so you the first layer you can do another layer on top after that it's a tery we're at that's where we're it's pretty close to the new gym too right where is that in the well the the new gym is actually that Ro is W that that sloped roof needs replaced okay but then it rolls

034down onto the flat roof which used to be like tar paper with like sand on it well now like all just washed away so I just bring it bring you know I know you know what's going on it's just my worry is is that we have that roof fail and then we're having a wood floor replaced oh yes you know no that could be better and yeah actually the leak most likely is coming from that roof is just making it way to the other forunate that that yes yes and then obviously some of these other projects pretty major and I don't we don't have any uh prices on what it would cost to do compliance obviously said I mean I mean just the way the buildings are built it's like first of all come up

035with the creative idea that actually meet the need and actually be effective and then get a price for that that's you know we're talking like I'm trying to imagine where could you put an elevator stuff like that that and that would be some I would probably bring somebody in maybe that could advise us on that I think that would be a first good step and then just like make a list of you know if if we ever do any kind of um like if we totally remodel the school which I don't think is a bad idea given that we're never going to build probably a brand new one yeah um just speak High SCH any of any of them right I think they all need it um when you do that whenever you do that

036you 8 at that time so um you know what I'm saying so that would be the other option is like just to start like like a big project then that would all be kind of included with it yeah I really hate to do a big project and then turn around and remodel the school would have to do it all again to some extent I mean big question goes as how is the current accessibility legal well the current accessibility is legal because of your grandfathered in you're bound by the ADA requirements for when the building is built so that's what we're held to yeah if we change the building we'll be bound by modern ADA compliance this was an issue when I was doing a junior high program we didn't have Ada accessibility on the gyms

037the question for on the stage so the question was could we do a building Capital project lby well we could but it needs to include enough money for Ada accessibility to the stage because once you start engaging in that building then you need to start having a plan to bring the whole building to Ada accessibility so if we do want to have a plan to do something with the high school we have to make sure that that plan includes Ada accessibility early on within the priorities of that project like we need a lot yesterday but I I and I think getting someone that I think we need some outside Council to step and sooner than later to start getting you know we have lots of great intention I love that you searched in all those

038pieces but we're all in that we have a problem it's it's way bigger than any of us know how to fix and of ourselves so I think that would be my when a lot of these are documented when we did our facility plan the comprehensive Ada accessibility issues are documented throughout the facility Pro plan project we did and we had a plan included to remedy those as part of the bond project it was part of what made the bond so expensive and with Bond failing we weren't able to resolve those issues so now when we came back to the community the community said well we want to figure out this Athletic Facility to get it no longer being a sore so we have a plan for that it's being donated so no cost to the

039taxpayers that project is now moving into the not the Final Phase of construction but the Final Phase of bureaucracy um and as that is moving through the final phases of bureaucracy I think it's worthwhile saying okay if our community was honest about this was our pinch point before we could move on to a necessity conversation now we're trying to gear up for these are the Bare Bones minimum necessity conversations so the timing of this is intentional I mean we were hoping that we would have broke around March 1 but add another permit another set delay but is I will say on the good note the buildings are built like battleships I mean they're not going anywhere so if we do if we invest in them they will be it's not like they're going to crumble

040you know what I'm saying so we can throw roofs on them and them remodel the insights get 88 and we'll have we'll have some nice schools so and then you know like a modernization would be ideal yeah to just start picking a school and what this is all it's we're going to need help from the taxpayer at the end of the day so capital projects are not funded just to be clear Levy is um it's your operations it's your Athletics there is no Capital funding within our traditional state does not give us anation of capital L all of these things would need to come out of money coming in for materials and well learning so it have to come out of salaries so if we do $100,000 it would have to come out of salaries

041it would do 200 thou or instruction materials and we don't put a lot towards instruction materials almost all of that was bought with Esser so salaries so it means we're going to have to figure out what people we need less of to pay for a new roof for the Middle School gym and that would be the decision of this board is what people do we need less people for to pay for more gym or more gym rooms because a gym roof could $200,000 and a flooded gym now become million dollars and without any effort to say hey we'd like my of capital then those are the decisions that will be fixed so moving forward on this um you guys are going to work towards um already already have that capital or the talking the yeah

042the assessment basically so you're to work towards meeting some of their points of the assessment of where the school districts at and then getting um feedback from outside vendors to put together kind of what that total looks like or you no we have a um inflationary index to look at what the cost of inflation would be from when we got price quotes four years ago to what price quotes would be now but I think the further we get away from that point in time the inflationary price the inflationary calculation is that being less and less useful yeah just curious all comes with yeah well I mean you can get budget numbers like you can bring out like somebody that would consider an expert like a outy know legit Roofing guy and that's where I came

043up with the 200,000 first he said 150 oh what about that down there just to be saved 200 now that's going to have to go up to sealed bid so that number is going to be whatever it is um but that's kind of a budget number right and you don't want to I would say that's probably a safe number for that project yeah um but each one of these it's very unique so but yeah you can definitely they'll come out and give you kind of budget numbers without like charging you to do it and then kind of gaug from there and then figure out what we want to go out to we can start Shoring up we have a lot of this information we did the study we have the prices now we just need

044to look at now seeing as what our community said in that meeting where I mean that very vigorous community members I think the paper wrote an article on it but they all agreed if we can resolve this issue they're willing to have further conversations about resolving issues for kids so I think we take our community at their word they said if you resolve this issue we'll have this conversation I think it's time to get ready to have that conversation any other question okay so this was last year when we had the naming facility we had a committee to name uh the baseball fields out there and the board chose Legacy fields to similar to a volunteer field of everybody that's helped or coached or contributed to that field in their in their life would be

045recognized I didn't go to that board meeting but I heard two kind of distinct paths we were thinking and if I'm correct one is to have a sign out there that recognizes those contributions so here's an example I've been working with a company that was out of chahalis that this is an example what it would be that sign would be about that's should be a little higher what it's shown but that's about eight feet in the air at the top and uh it is an aluminum composite and it's very durable and the uh sign is 3 mm thick and the backdrop the back board is 6 mimet so this is a very sturdy sign out there okay cost is about 1,700 we can do the installing um of that right there so that's that's one

046area so we would recognize everybody and it would just be a case of just researching and talking to the people who helped and all that kind of stuff that that's the easy part I've got a couple other bids too and it's all about similar it'll come in some that size will come into about 1500 to 2,000 the other thing if you wanted to hit that website the other track that I heard talked about was somehow illustrating the history of the contributions so I started search and what I one thing that I wanted to kind of explore is what some schools are doing now is they're having their entire history of their school Not Just Sports but the entire history of their school academics Arts CTE the whole works on a touchscreen TV which access to

047the public during events so for example as just said districts in uh Centralia and they have a big touchcreen where you can go up there and and hit a button and you can see who their top 10 is from 1985 or you could see what their current baseball team is and that sort of thing so I've been working with that company can you hit the website is there a link to the website so these screens are touch screens they're very durable you can bounce a basketball against them I wouldn't recommend we do that um but would have access now this would you know go let's say say for example it probably go somewhere in our Commons and it could be used by kids during the day teachers and then when we have events at basketball

048games and people are out getting their popcorn or something they can they can come in and look at it but when you if you went through this there would also be a link for people to use at home so they could read that touchcreen thing anytime they want you don't have to this all this talk about so if you want to flip it up where it says models and pricing that's the one in Centralia right there now and they moved it looks like from last time keep scrolling down there so that that's an example right there of the different types you could get in the frame wall mount I was looking at and it would fit neatly in our little hallway that goes between that and the gym right there you could just take out

049one of the little cased uh what's that trophy case display case or whatever we got there you also have that wall enclosure which are pretty cool but you got to have a lot of area for that I'm not sure we do um but that that's kind of decisions I'd like to leave in the hands of kind of maybe a group of us or or the board where we go this is not cheap what it is it's about a anywhere from 15 to 20,000 for the screen and the and the frame and it's a $1,500 startup for their services and $1,000 a year after that and they provide for the uploading and they also work with us in the design and creating one of the things they do part of their services to create a story

050so when I saw that I thought okay let's do the story of the ventron fields how did they start whatever pictures we can get from that who's done it who helped at this time maybe we could build a timeline or something but they'll do that for us that company is this something you would have out of the fields no this would be in the high school I would suggest be a little bit more money to make it weather safe yeah but I mean for I guess the thought if I remember correctly was that anybody going out to the field Fields would be able to see the history out at the fields I mean we're not yeah then you're looking at a physical structure too that would be comparable in price and in my opinion and

051this is your decision not mine I don't know how many people see that just at baseball fields thought we'd get more bang for the buck to have a digital um alternative where people can access it from their own home computer or phone think would you assume if we put it this sign structure at the field so we looked at a sign that listed out all the contributors that's about 1700 and then a sign that was maybe more solid probably with a solid sheet of metal not the pie probably closer what's closer to 300 or that's we had two kios one to list out the people who donated and one to list out that kind of map out the history of the donations and the processes and I guess can you go back Eric open up

052the aluminum sign yeah because that'd be a little bigger right to to kind of give you I'm sorry yeah 2,000 probably what I'm thinking is is would these signs aren't the signs the placers on this sign you have or not it's set up where it says donors that's why it said best business but I don't think that would be our plan our plan would be looking at all the people who've individually contributed so coached from this time or did from this time no that's just an example that's what I'm saying I I think the example is says best business but what we'd be thinking is on these placards we' be listing out the contributions and the time that the contribution happened it wouldn't be for sponsors and then the more detailed be on Guess that

053is kind of one of the questions we broke up pieces is listing out the contributions capturing what you were looking at throughout the field with the more detailed story on digital because that's one thing that I was actually interested at or softball faceball field having different people that made significant contributions to those particular fields and it'd be nice to have a brief history there at the field so when people read the name they actually know what that contribution was that doesn't turn out it's just a name name on the plaque Nobody Knows the history because for me the whole point of legacy fils is is about the Legacy that those individuals left behind and therefore people need to be able to see that more than just a day I think I think it's lenter their

054their Stadium there when you walk up to their Stadium they've got something out front that explains history of how they are coming about building that Stadium it's not completed but it it gives you a brief story of how they gotten to where they're currently at and I I think that kind of what we were thinking would go out out the fields something that somebody could walk up to and read like a timeline or something that you know Elena lost their baseball during these years and this individual bring it back during these years and then then the fields were contributed during this time by that's the clearing of the fields the logging of it all I think that Jim has a pretty good recollection of how all that came about I like this sign though too

055of of um put names of you know there's pretty prominent families in the community that have contributed over the years but I think are worthy of having their names on like this sign also so we thinking that we would add to this would add to we would yeah we would add names through the years yeah do the story of the programs I'm wondering um I like know detail but I'm also we're trying to capture a a story that will continue to evolved so in five years from now we can have this other really awesome theme that we also would want to add to the story but now we have sign and um I'm trying to think through in a positive way we're not the best about keeping things updated in general um and so I'm

056even wondering even like QR code something that would be more changeable it's something that I mean I'm not the generation of QR codes but who's coming the generation of QR I don't know I'm a little bit hesitant to spend unless it's gonna be like these are these are the Legacy founding fathers and we're just going to feature that story and that's okay but I think you want to think about and then what and there was going to be and then I don't know if it makes sense would we just keep on putting more kiosk you know um how do stay current because you could do that with that sign you could have you know prominent names on that sign but um for the history click on the QR code for example and now that could

057tie into I I like the the Jim Commons you know idea and if somehow we can link the QR code well that's easy that's what they do to to that system and then here's what got me there you know the banners I worked on in the school yeah it was frustrating to get the history because history is lost we will never know the history of how many like our track program and some of the other stuff to be in a spot that we have for the rest of time in the same spot not physical but digital I think we should really think about that and not just Sports this is for everything the buttons at the bottom of us croia CTE Arts uh academics Sports and something else and one more thing about that digital

058one too they have a there's a company in New York that will scan and download all your yearbooks which will be of great interest to everybody too that's one of the things they featured but we I mean I think you're right Chris probably 2,000 more for a story of history or a sign if you want to go with that sign is this more zoom as I go a text message right that was kind of my thought originally I didn't you know depending on the fun you always see those Sports timeline where they actually have a Time beginning right cheer it pops out a person which would be really cool I don't know where you put that I don't know how cost but I mean those are semantics I think you got some great ideas do

059you have any idea on funding for been talking to some groups there's two groups that are very interested but I don't want to speak for them we just have to get to go ahead from probably you guys whenever that is too the only hesitation about the field is exposed and it's not another thing you got to remember about that field sorry but it's very isolated nobody lives around it and graffiti and vandalism is a thing out there so that's K part yeah it's not the best place to put anything of high value that's what I would have to say about that but vinyl those vinyls would go for about which is aot cheap no I can figure out what sign and like ADR sign cost all that kind thanks for the update you yeah appreciate

060it all right Mark I think you're impation of instru all right so uh as you remember as you recall last spring we did three major instruction materials about in the district one was for m and these instruction materials adoptions were a long time put that a long time since we had done did an adoption in sa for 612 in our Secondary School school uh so what I put in your what I sent to you for your board packet was some bullets I I couldn't see bringing a ton of people here what I tried to do is bring one person to present to you just their own perspective uh on what they're seeing with they're liking about the new materials some things that they felt were not so good about the new materials and then I

061did interview several other teachers and did some bullet points and that's what you got in your packet I can go through those bullet points as well know is a long video we just of rely on presentations from the folks that are here just just keep in mind that as they talk it's just their persp you should probably a lot the same I want you also to keep in mind that this we're just one semester in so they've only been using these materials for one semester um and you know one of the things we found out for sure is that instructional materials adoptions are different than they used to be in the past in the past well you guys remember School you you go through your instruction materials or your curriculum and it would be like

062chapter one through chapter 10 and how long how long it took the teacher to get there that's how long it was we are philosophy now and what it really is set up for because the online resources and the hard copy resources the amount to sheer amount of information is that it's simply it's a resource for teachers to teach to the standards find the resource pick the resource that works best for them some cases it could be new material some cases it could be old material could be supplemental material but just remember this is a resource um we're also working on the professional development was a big part of this package in here and so we're working on the midyear professional developments for each of these as okay so I want to thank the board again

063for supporting this move it was a big investment but I think we're seeing some great things out of it teachers feel like they have lot more Tools in there with that I'm G to start with j on our saus have a video I don't think just have unless you guys um I have I think five slides maybe four slides um so sa at the middle school I try to make it as short and sight as possible so I tried to keep it three bullet points um focus on the standards higher level questioning with real world examples and then actually individualizing learning uh with grade level and prerequisite standard of Master I have an example of that too so I click um so focusing on the standards itself and I'm GNA walk up just because I

064feel more comfortable um but teachers uh and students discuss standards outstanding so I'm not just telling a kid hey you have an a right now or Omen R can I get my grade up we're actually talking about hey I didn't understand how to graph I didn't understand what the Y intercept was I didn't understand this part of the standard uh students can identify what part of the standard they do not understand and so if you're actually having a conversation with students they don't just say hey I got a f on test 3.5 they actually to say well I can't graph I can't take this graph and put it to an equation or I can't change my equation and match it to a word um teachers can work with students in small groups to help understanding

065of students standards not mastered yet now not that all of you get to work in the wonderful environment that we get to work in every day um but our classrooms are not always the easiest rooms to work in right or our our our um clientele um our colleagues in the room aren't always excited and so again we can actually work in small groups like I can turn away from another student and learning still happen that that's crazy talk in the eighth grade uh classroom so really exciting for me um and students are able to actually show their understanding um of a standard on an individualized platform so they don't just have to say oh Monro gave me a test on this no okay well if you can't do it on this test do it somewhere

066else and that's one of my aha moments um teaching math um there are a few students that just will not take quizzes they're accidentally sick every time we have a quiz they have to stay home that weekend they start the quiz but they never finish the quiz and so what this also does um I have a student right now and I'm going to share I know um everything and it's actually on the next oh it's on the third slide sorry this is on the third slide um and this can can you go back one sorry I don't want to show my pictures yes um but this shows actual data I blocked out the names after I copied it I blocked it out before I copied it it didn't work I blocked it out after I

067copied it I think it's worked um so I don't this is three different students and I do have a couple more copies if needed um but this actually shows um each of the standard students have been working on individually now these are the groups that I have are three different levels of students but again we have different students in here um I had a student uh that was in one of my algebra classes which is a high school level class and um that student is on this the very top of this uh you'll notice that he's assigned an eighth grade level and he's already gone more than a quarter through his year but the bigger thing is down here before when I was working with our curriculum or instructional material I would have to almost

068connect our standards with that instructional material this shows me right here how many times the kids got a question on the actual standard I'm asking so I don't have to go back through and say oh this kid's asked it this many times so the standard I was testing on was on a statistics right well this kid actually in his individualized program if I looked on here he's already been answered answered a question on statistics four times and he got it four times right that's mastered right and so I could actually take his score from here and put it in the score and so then now he doesn't have to play that game oh I can't take the quiz in guess what you got a grade for it you showed me it maybe you didn't show

069me the way you thought you were going to show me um and then the second second page of this is a student that has a really uh low attendance rate and it's sometimes on Behavior sometimes uh different things but you can see uh they have worked over 15 hours inside and outside school but they have mastered um quite a few standards both in our the level that we're at and the level before and so to me I'm talking to you right now of what my students understand what they don't understand I know the levels they're in there's no way I knew that question my I can say this area right but I can tell you exactly what they don't understand how many times I've assess them so next one sorry I'm trying to do five

070minutes but those of you who know me I don't speak fast um another one this is a I showed this picture because right now we're in Middle School volleyball right Middle School volleyball and I know volleyball picture sorry it would be better if it was a soccer one um but up here um it's showing real world investigation we're graphing what a volleyball does during a game so we're talking about motion we're talking about kids what they're doing right now it's students that look like them right there's not just um students that are um that look like me it's students that look like all of our different students that we have and they're asking higher level questioning it's not questions that are like oh can you remember this uh information it's actually higher level um and

071so an questions are both online in person I had a student the other day go you know I don't really want to read this right now I go great I have headphones and that little play button means it'll read it to you and so just amazing things like that and then the last one again is just the data we're getting um is just in is insane um oh excuse me this is from sorry a quote and again our our eighth graders and their bro Bros and things like that right but this student is one that I feel like I've had a hard time to connect with and I said well what do you think and he goes she goes even if I am not in class I still feel like I know what is going

072on and I can work on my learning no matter where I am and understand that that's not at her house that is a lot of different places um and so to me this is just huge um also she is right now passing with a 92.2 five in the understanding of current eighth grade standards and she has grown almost 70% in her sixth grade standard understanding and so again I am helping her a little bit but she's also helping herself she's it's getting to that own learning and so sorry the last one so this is actually if you see this on my computer it's color and so yes right now it looks it is what it is um but again I can actually go in see where they're at see um mastered or not mastered and

073this year we have implemented coaches and so I have a math coach that also helps me with that but this curriculum is something that or instructional material is something that I could not have ever um even tried to imagine of last year and so um that was it math we're seeing great result results so far you'll see in the bullet points that I gave you some a geometry teacher that iulus keep in mind the calculus wasn't Sav savis didn't have a calculus brand so we had to go with Wy on that and part of our difficulty with that was it wasn't uh the hard back copy that they got was more of a notebook uh three ring binder type thing and so that was that's been her biggest struggle there and I also interviewed a

074special ed teacher she's like she's using the success maker which is another piece to the how do you think uh we generally expect a slide adoption here assessment slide expected well that's what we we've been really talking as a group we've tried to focus on math like having meetings once a week um I've been really trying to refocus us of okay what are our priority standards because we are learning in new curriculum we are learning things we are a little bit behind we're talking about okay guys geometry you know we got to fit those but we all know what our priority standards are and if you would have asked us three or four years ago hey are you guys good on your priority standards we would have said well we're through chapter three our teachers

075are aware how are you feeling un like like we expect as a district no I I feel like where I I have made gains it should even me out it's I've made so many games with different things I feel like it's the goods are the and the bads I appreciate that one of my peers is is it's like hey we've got this new materials so we should be hitting it out of the park but all research would say that would never happen because in an adoption cycle you're finding your Rhythm so like our expectation isn't that we have it hit it out of the park or adoption cycles that you're find we're finding a rhythm but we're also I think the kids are I asked them hey what right now hands down I already success

076maker if I made to do one success maker hands down all of them and to me that's huge because that's our individualized program that's what we want them to do um and that's the thing is that the kids I'm not telling what they have to do they're also like they're excited they're like oh I'm already seven uh seven seven you know seven1 of my way through my school year and I even had I had six kids St bump up a grade level and they're like the questions are too easy um I don't think I would have ever had a student last year tell me that their questions are too easy um the other thing is we've had a lot of conversations of understanding math kids are doing math I'm not teaching but like they're teaching

077themselves and and learning it's not just me showing them examples old school math it's them actually learning to hopefully understand how to do algebra um geometry statistics things later on because it doesn't just stop it doesn't just everything Builds on itself I feel like it's giving us better how's your stress on this it's a different way of doing things I mean how's your stress been on this has been okay I mean it's a different way of thinking sometimes you got navigate W again I work at the middle school so on the stress levels and things that construct materials is on the smaller end of that I said I I think it's different but I do think you did a good job hitting on the point that if you understand where your students are at teaching

078can be easier a lot of times when you're going through your script you're teaching things students maybe already know and then they get disengaged because I already know this and now you start having behavior problems or the opposite you're teaching things Beyond where they're at and then students get dis disengaged and then you start having behavior problems so by being able to ensure your students know where they are it should it's different but it should be easier some of our highest gainers are our hum appreciate that questions thank I think it's great that they're actually trying to teach themselves too Holly Wen you saying while that that what were you guys talking about the one thing kids going to college and stuff just don't know how to learn or teach themselves right so go back

079to alra we were in hybrid hly had me for hybrid and I was I was I was pulling them through algebra and hybrid and and I I really am saying pulling because I feel like right now I'm I'm holding on to coils and I'm kind of excited about it not that I don't love the hybrid Josh B here who been a third grade teacher during the pilot I actually did a split class the year before third fourth grade so he's used C with with third four and now he's the fourth grade teacher so share little perspective CA yeah I'm gonna go over here too I like Jenny's idea um so a couple things that we've noticed that are going really well with CK is student engagement is through the charts they love the stories they

080love um the content that it provides and I put it example down here and it highlights some of the go the vocabulary that it's going through and my favorite part about this part right here that they're going through Peg carrots polio story and I had kids talking about polio nonstop for about a month straight and they also just lived through a pandemic too and so we got to relate pandemic living through this and so it was super relevant to these kids and it left them on this amazing Cliffhanger right there says when I woke up I was paralyzed and that's when we stopped for the day for the reading and when you have a room of 249 and 10 year olds about rioting because you stopped their Ela I think it's doing a pretty pretty

081good job there um our I ready data is pretty good and pretty high this is my second year using it um and at this point in the fourth grade I had done about the same I'm just now into some of the stuff that would be more my piloting year and I started the year with a pretty good amount of Reds in my Ela a good chunk of yellows and only a couple kids starting in green which is to be expected starting the fourth grade you shouldn't be at fourth grade level yet and the thing that I wanted to show right here was um my class average is already at a typical year scrub halfway through the year and I think that speaks a lot to the quality of instructional material that K is we're seeing

082fantastic growth to where you're like my green bar is now a third of my class um at that point in the I cycle with a lot of kids getting really close and my um Reds are starting to shorten up become more yellows which I'm really really happy about personally and informational for anyone who has ever taught Ela is about the most boring thing you can do as an Ela teacher the kids do not like non-fiction and or you either have that kid who really really likes non-fiction and for the most part all of my kids are super engaged with a lot of non-fiction content so we're we're seeing a lot of good things with that um and on the next slide I have a couple things that we were starting to notice and having a

083little bit of a hiccup with and some of that is pacing pacing was one of the things that when I talked to my fellow fourth grade teachers and when I talked to some of the thir grade teachers and the fifth grade a lesson is supposed to be a one- dayer and you're supposed to be able to move on and go to the next thing the very next day and we're noticing that a lesson will take two to three days in order to get through and when that lesson takes two to three days that pushes some other things further on out we have 10 pages of reading a day in fourth grade that we do and we're talking very very dense vocabulary High um count of multi-pc words and a lot of things that are difficult

084for our lower-end readers and so we have to end up picking in choosing what we do and or split it over multiple days and that's going to end up leading to a very large amount of surplus materials they they bulk send us some stuff and right now we're sitting at 185 copies of units 7's workbook in the fourth grade and if we don't get to that unit again next year we'll be sitting on 285 copies of that same workbook and it will just continue to get grow and grow and grow unless we can work that out with cko CK themselves um I had a couple other things I was going to touch on that same um thing real quick um with that having to push some stuff out over the course of days we've noticed

085like they usually only have one big unit quiz at the end progress tracks are a little hard to come by in CA so when you unit quizzes after say lesson 15 that's only two weeks but if you're doing two to three days per lesson you're looking at one quiz every 30 to 45 days and that's really really hard for us to assess student learning on that so we either need to figure out how to pick up the pace or what we can cut and condense in order to kind of get more frequent assessment in there and the content is usually geared towards High Benchmark um I already referenced that we have 10 pages of high level reading per day and it's it's geared towards your benchmark reader so those kids who are strategic or intensive

086if I'm having them just read the content it's a lot more difficult for them versus um if I just have them listen to it but then it's kind of harder because then they're not actually practicing the reading it's just more of the comprehension so it's kind of a difficulty there and one of the things you do to compensate for that is a more more Coral reading I do coral reading in my classroom exclusively some of my higher readers get really annoyed at me but my lower readers thank me and so I have to pick and choose my battle on that and so the battle that I picked is either I read to them we read together or occasionally I'll let them listen to it and we kind of rotate through that kind of a model

087so when I talked to fifth grade they had the same kind of a concern that the rigor and the reading level was a little higher than than what our typical student would have uh with much richer vocabulary we know that lower so socioeconomic uh readers have lower vocabularies and so what we what they found in fifth grade was they're able to put together a lot of vocabul but the students are so engaged in the content that uh it's easier to put that vocabulary into context for them because they're interested they're learning much more Ask Josh a question that then I mean my understanding is we adopted CA under the premise to Marks King's Point Mr King's Point being that that we are 78% pre reduc lunch 78% pre reduced lunch means less summer vacation spring

088break travel you know going to museums which again CA which is where you get that background knowledge and the benefit of C CA is the priority on that background now I think my question is is so we're going through it we're getting that background knowledge vocabulary do you see this as an ongoing problem or do you see as students experience ccla more often and they work through the systems like I almost feel like as I'm hearing it it does sound like it could also just be part of that new material slide because this is the first time students are getting presented with so much background knowledge but as we start getting used to the background knowledge what do you what is your I mean I have an assumption what is your for cast on so

089I think that the students will start to get used to it a lot more another kind of catching Point too is it's a designed as a K5 curriculum it's designed that um in the third grade there it's an animal unit and this little guy named rat andboro Pops in he's like hey guys you remember me and my kids are like no we don't because we have never heard about you before and so the the curriculum makes an assumption that you have adopted it districtwide and so when you're jumping in at third grade and third grade really hits the brunt of it because so far in my experiences in fourth grade it has not hit back as often but in third grade it self- references its material all the time those first couple units and the

090kids are pretty lost until finally we get into some of the newer Stu where it's less self- referencing so I think that our third graders are going to continue to have a little bit more difficult of the time whereas our fourth and our fifth graders will start to get used to it more and more considering that's what we're detail app is there a plan ever to adopt it we um prioritize super kids which is reading uh science of reading priority which kind of goes back to what a lot of awareness um because we wanted to get that K one totic awareness foundational background super adoption earlier it always be up for a future conversation I don't know CK's priority backgr and e e e books and so having a wide selection is very helpful because

091you can focus on those stories they actually they they're going to enjoy um let's see here the online platform we have had mixed reviews on it it will track the students data however it's not at all secure and we're working with the company actually back and forth talking about this because if I assign a test like a unit test I can't lock that test and it's online and so I have to get a paper copy of it which doesn't record the data or if I put it online I don't really that data I'm not really going to use it if my kids can just go home and work on the test when they're outside of my classroom I just don't don't necessarily feel and same thing with a lot of the online stuff we're using

092it more for supplemental things inclass activities like all throw the graphic organizer of the online version up on the board on the screen and they'll open their computers and we'll walk through it together so that we're all kind of on the same page and there's no reason for anybody to be doing um we have another online curriculum that we use that has assessments has a preit a post your assessment and um it it tracks all of our standards and it also kind of like what Jenny was saying with math we can pull up each student we can see how many times they' answered questions on each standard we can look at them as a class we can see the growth chart we can do all of that there and so not having access to that

093in this curriculum isn't really a big deal because they thankfully one of the reasons we chose it was it has enough of enough pieces that we have a really good crossover if the story is in the textbook it's probably also in the other curriculum so if I want to grab the online data for that story I can have the kids go into there and take the assessment on it there and so it's been it's actually pretty seamless for us it it almost doesn't feel like we're using a new curriculum it's just more a matter of like wrapping your head around the way that it's meant to be used which for me I know in my classroom this curriculum is set up on a note taking basis which I've never done that before I I have

094a philosophy with my students in note taking that I don't ever ask them to take notes that they're not going to have to use for something because otherwise what's the point I don't grade their notes it should be for them take and and I I've always done practice of no thaning but always tied it to quiz and the way that the high school curriculum is set up is set up so that as you move through your discussions the videos you're watching you know maybe hardpoint you're going through the um any background context information the kids are meant to take notes and they're meant to keep their notes um as a like a journal and then they use those notes to complete the assignments and it really has put a lot of them a lot more

095onus on the kids to be resp responsible for that you know it's really great when you're like okay guys you know we're going to this it's the note taken day we're going to take notes on whatever plot or find them idea whatever and you actually see everybody get out their notes and they're busy and they're engaged because they know they're going to use them and they know they're going to be helpful and they know that whatever the next activity is they're going to rely on those and and like we just did an activity with my software the other day where they had to pull out notes from a couple weeks ago because we were pulling ideas together we were going back and kind of putting everything together and everybody pull them out they had them

096and they're like oh yeah I've got those definitions and they were able to analyze what we're analyzing and you know C all stuff and it was really it was just really great to see because I think that um I did it because the curriculum told me that I that's how it was meant to be used and it did not offer me um a a crutch to not use it and so I just had to just decide just jump in to do it with I just try it out out and I'm so glad I did because honestly it's changed my teaching and it's changed kind of the rhythm of my classroom in a way that I feels really positive for me and the kids because also going back to what Holly was saying um I do

097feel like it's something that is going to help them in future and I tell them it doesn't matter where you are my first waitressing job I had to learn a 36 page menu and I had to sit in these you know things where they're teaching us all about how to expedite the dishes and blah blah whatever we had to take a big test I I knew how to take notes I knew how to like get navigate that and walk away from those instructional pieces with what I needed and so I just told the kids this is a life skill learning to assembly information and sort through what you need to put down and what you don't need to put down is something that you will use for the rest of your life in whatever Learning

098Place you ever find yourself in so that's been really good um we do wish that we would have realized that the longer novels and things like plays Shakespeare Etc we all the other curriculums I looked at they were included you didn't have to them separately and so we just assumed they were on the list and so like oh there's you know R and Juliet and then when we when actually got it we realized oh you have to elect those and we didn't that's okay because we we have our ways that we could do it and it's fine but it would be nice if we would have known and we could have grabbed a couple of our core bigger texts that we use um like I said they they don't currently offer a premid and post

099assessment but we have one we use and so it's fine for us right now but we are working with them and we are asking for that just like we're asking for them to find a way to lock the assessments and make them secure so that we can use their data I'd really be interested in using their data and the other data and comparing them and see how they measure kids El hard to measure kids because what they could do with one story this they'll be able to do it with an article or another story or a poem and so they just need a lot of exposure and so it's kind of that but basically um overall we're pleased it's meeting our needs well we don't need a lot of bells and it has everything that

100we need it's given us some great ideas and um yeah I'm I'm happy with it especially compared to the things other things we're looking at so question thank you hey and then you also see in your board packet there were some bullet points there what she felt like from grade perspec there any questions for any of the materials or again I want to first of all I want to thank our presenters but also the folks that that I spent some time with interviewing and and get some bullet points for packet I want to thank you again for your support this is was really needed thanks to data update Chris all right so this is our new Eis dashboard Eric gave a presentation on this in December one of the things to note about this dashboard

101is this is based off of our state percentile so when you see regular attendance 60th it does not mean 60% of our students come to class every day means our daily attendance outperforms 60% of all schools in the state so um and this is one of the ones that we're working to go public so you'll see CTE Tech pr4 percentile so that means our students earn college credits in their CTE courses more than 84% of all other schools in State sometimes there's an example where we'd like to be lower than that that percentile average um uh down good example down here students not enrolled in postsecondary education 86 second percentile that means we um only outperform you do the opposite 88 you know 18% of schools in the state so we would like to be

102so when you just make a point to make sure that you're reading these details because it is based upon it takes that score and then that it factors out where we sit within that percentile so this is public facing now this is do we have this one on our website yet or we waiting for round of data this is an active link I don't think we've shared it with on our website as we're kind of Shoring it up um you kind of kind of see like students meeting our Ela 64th percentile students meeting math standard we're in the 52nd percentile whenever I talk about our priorities as a district you'll also notice class size when you hear about our class size 42 percentile so that means our class sizes are smaller than 58% of all

103schools in the rest of the state so we do a pretty good job running smaller class sizes our teacher experience 67 percentile for our teacher experience so it means we have a more experienced staff 56 percentile for how many teachers with advanced level degrees so it does give us a chance to look at where our um where we sit we'll notice in our kind of preparation we sit in the 97th percentile in the state for graduation rate we graduate more kids at Elma High School in our district I mean there's only 3% of the schools the entire state of Washington graduate at a higher percentage rate than we do so we have one of the highest percentile graduation rates whenever I talk about a lot of our priorities though some things are the areas like

104our low our low rate performance we're in the 15th percentile for where our students go going to fouryear University and we're in the 82nd percentile for students going not going to any form of postsecondary so I would say like if you reverse that 18th percentile students so having a really really high again 3% away from the top schools in the state for graduation rate yet we outperform 18% for we're moving on and pursuing a postsecondary education and that's really why we've made that a priority and I actually do have some positive news to share from that when I start continuing to go through this data so we made it a priority and I just wanted to really reiterate when we're setting our priorities we set our priorities off of these kind of big blaring like

105hey this is a data indicator that we really feel strongly we need to make an impact on I talked fiscally there's one area that we do sit in the lowest and that's regular instruction expenditures per year and total expenditures per pupil that's because this is what we get almost everything we get in 18th percentile for total expenditures per pupil eight percentile regular instruction 50th percentile this means for the money we get and I talked about what we're getting in Levy what we get for the state we are eight percentile for what we're getting 15th 18th percentile so 92% of all schools in the state are receiving more Levy funding than we receive so whenever we're going into our community we're talking about adaa accessibility we're talking about what our students gate we're talking about roofs

106I have conversations saying can we get Paras in the hallway well no because we're in the 18th percentile 92% of schools are getting more money per student than we get so there is no money for it because we're only out we're only out performing 18% of the schools in the rest of the state what we're getting as far as funding things and having programs 992 sorry 82 % of all schools in the state have better funding for pupil funding than we are getting but when we put that money I want to go back notice how it says 50th percentile or instructional where the money goes for instruction is when you're being outperformed by 82% of all schools and yet we have a class size that outperforms only 42% it means that our priority has been

107to protect the classroom so again we don't have extras we don't have pars Walking The Halls to provide support for dis areas because we also don't have class sizes I think my wife over at Miller they have class sizes of 37 to 40 they also don't we also don't have class sizes to 37 to 40 so we made the priority of instead of having class size to 37 to 40 to have somebody walk or having somebody Walk The Halls we prioritize smaller classes so this is how we set our priorities this is how it plays out this is how it can be seen because I think a conversation comes up all the time how do you manage this or how do you manage that you're staff for which kind of shows you how we're spending

108our money what we're getting when I say we don't really have the funding for it or how we're setting our priorities or why we want to prioritize kind of this post-secondary plan any kind of questions on this uh kind of public facing I think one of the big concerns is understanding how we set it up where it looks at our percentile compared to the rest of the state and why we set our priorities my observation corre get good yeah when we are in the observation and Paul we normally can't take questions from the outside of the board but when we're in the 18th percentile for instructional funding and we are outperforming the state average that's an incredible return on investment and I think it's because we have prioritized smaller class sizes we have prioritized making

109sure that we have teachers we have prioritized the classroom environment but again questions come up on how we can reallocate that money like we have a concern on this we have a concern on that all of those things are money our priority has always been having the learning environment we could possibly invest in thought it be great to see that on how we compare to the rest of the state one of the things that popped up was our uh students taking a college in the high school class 40th percentile uh I don't normally like to name teachers publicly in meetings because I think sometimes it could you know not always this is a really positive one so I'm going to like Jamie Joe kyes launched a financial algebra Finance 174 it's a five credit quantitative

110math class for University so you take quantitative math class um if you're not in a math required major so we had students taking Financial algebra as a graduation requirement Jamie Joe moved it over to finance 174 and she just added 13 new seniors completing a financial uh Finance 174 5 credit college level math class it's just our first year we think that we are confident that we can totally expand beyond that number but 13 we graduate about 110 so let's say students um I haven't taken college math in a long time but we'll say it's 11 to 12% that is an immediate 11 to 12% increase of students now having college math done and will not need math in college to have that completed or generally students that are in a financial Lal class were

111using that as a graduation pathway have now eliminated a college math as a barrier for completing their postsecondary education without that looking at these high school outcomes again this was a big area for us 8 second percentile for not enrolled 50 percentile for me those were like laring things that we wanted to prioritize especially when you're in the 97 percentile I set of once I'll say it again grad rate and 15th that low for postsecondary going rate it was a big deal for us to make that a priority and I reiterated it because it sounds negative I want to look at this data just got updated last week and for our four-year University going rate for the class of 2023 so this was our second year of our work was 22% I told Eric I

112said and then if we go back to 2020 it was 8% 14% 16% 22% that was a 6% increase in 2018 it was at 19% and looking for another year 19 19 19 20% in 2013 133% so in 2013 we're at 20% so Michael I know you graduated what 02 M so in 02 you might argue that numbers were really high in the late 90s did really well too but going back to 2005 when the data was tracked in a postco so if you read the paper it says postsecondary going rates are an all-time low students are not going student transition is not going in the class of 2023 in our second year of making this work a priority I get it we were only outperformed by 2% from the class of 2013 we had

113the highest University going rate since this data has been being tracked in just our second year of our work so I do feel confident that we've made this work a priority and we're seeing an impact on our students our lowest post-secondary going rate is 53% the last time it was 53 lower than 53% was in 2014 at 39% so we're also seeing a dramatic impact when nobody else is seeing this type of transition on that move and two the number one things that drive postsecondary going rates number one students need to know why they want to pursue some form of Education Beyond High School number two is our students academically prepared and this isn't order so by adding our College in the high school classes trying to ensure everybody's St all their students have a

114Ela or math credit no longer as an obstacle those are the two greatest barriers for completing the post-secondary education is College English and college math eliminating those two barriers and ensuring that students have a pathway in mind um if we can eliminate those two issues I feel confident that we're g to continue to see Improvement within those areas so I did kind of point out like hey these are low areas for our priority of work I also want to back build that on we are also having some of the best numbers that we have as far as prioritizing this work so we're moving I feel like we're moving in the D in moving the areas that the board has decided are our priorities we are making it questions on that I told Eric I said

115I'm going to celebrate over 2% but I think it's still worthwhile sure we only have 22 to 20 but it's 20 years of data and I'll take it um when we look at our ey ready data our teachers do an incredible job our teachers do a very very incredible job amen and when you want to look around at one of the things that impacts education I think what happens is is we we own issues like year to year and I don't think we look at education holistically um and that's really what we need to look at this is really a big point of our Master based learning work if you looked at um Poland's work or on the instructional core they say there's three things that drive student learning number one is a teacher who's

116teaching a teacher who understands the content which they're teaching at teacher number two is content but the third thing and I think we generally forget it is the student because if you're delivering ninth grade material to a student who has an seventh grade reading level you could have materials at content level you could have a teacher teaching at content level but you have a student who doesn't understand that conversation I always use an example my wife was a paramedic forever when she got around medical professionals they would use all the Greek and Latin roots I would have no idea what was going on in that conversation because I'm not a medical professional have a bachelor's degree in it and computers if we have students at a seventh grade reading level or sixth grade reading level

117we're delivering materials at a level that is beyond them you start seeing students being lost you have students you have two parts of that instructional Cort but you have students not knowing what's going on in those academic conversations around them this where I say our teachers are really doing an incredible job because when you look at our I ready data really what you see is you see on average about a 10% loss every year it's a 90% success rate the 90% success rate is an incredable success rate but at the end of say kindergarten you have a 90% success rate that means 90% of your kindergarteners were you know to standard 10% were not now when you go to first grade if you have a 90% success rate that's nine of the 90 now are

118being moved over to join that 10 so you have 19% not at standard because that original percent not at standard you're not really if you're not getting content where you're at you're getting further behind and what it looks like is by the time you start hitting Middle School you start seeing bigger numbers you start seeing like 35% to not to standard or 40% not to standard and it feels like oh my goodness I have 40% of my kids not to standard but really what we have going on is you're adding in a very very small percentage over multiple years this is why we really made our Priority One Year's growth over one year's time and you can see this in the I ready data and that's how we've traditionally presented it kind of questions on

119that theory so the idea is if we can have students making one year's growth in one year's time and ideally be can we stop that 10% from sliding out feel like we can make that Improvement that brings us to these um E's dashboards we have then I'm going to make a gamble because if I move my mouse in the wrong spot a student's name will pop up so when I pull it up I need to make sure that I'm really clear because I don't want to have it I can't have a student's name show um so when you're looking at this this is actually showing us who's making one year's growth in one year's time to an effect size of 0 Z to 0.1 so if you see green so if you're looking at all

120subject levels elementary and middle school or staying in green it means on average our students are earning learning one year's worth of information and one year's time based off of in previous historic assessment years where students were at and that's really what we want our priority to be we're sitting just below that average marker point so we're noticing we're sitting at a negative .12 a negative .15 we're not to a low growth which is A3 to a 0.59 so we're still losing a bit of students but we're not losing students we're not hemorrhaging students when you go to grade level we can see areas where we're outside of that area you get over to the um page six that kind of gives you the mathematics for the notice grade five is actually outperforming so they're

121years growth in one year's time as far as um Ela on page seven way we can see this now dashboard is we take data back you know looks at his student historic data looks at where a student is at takes their assessment scores and shows us is this student on track learn one year's information and on track to learn one year's worth of information and they call it the river and if this loads I will show you the river so this is that kind of main dashboard that tells you are we on track for our student growth area you'll notice like in first grade so when I pull up our winter dat I need to put my mouse right over here students within those blue lines are making one year's growth in one year's time

122students under that line are below the one year's growth in one year's time and students above the second blue line are learning more than a Year's worth of information so then if I hover over it'll actually show us specifically who our students are so then we can identify what students are not learning all of what we want them to learn so we can begin prioritizing information so if we have a student who's above academically Advanced that's what you see in the right so those two yellow lines kind of shows us that average if they're to the far right it'll let us know um who is an advanced student who also is not learning one years's information one year's time this is far left who is a student that was remediated but it's also still not

123learning one years's information or maybe some of those students are out performing and it gives us a chance to begin looking at how can we ensure that students are still getting the best you know the best of that learning era unless students are there and how can we begin building intervention so this is the entire first grade you'll notice um second grade from Fall assessment to Winter assessment has moved up this gives us kind of a number factor to see how are we moving on those Pro indicators notice third grade was not making your red we've actually still improved so I'll take that long as we're always improved I do have a write up from GRE Heather on kind of like what our plan is for third grade third grade is our kindergarten you enter

124that Co so it's one of those years that we want to have a plan in place to continue to accommodate questions now like I said as we've been launching this great book a lot of questions have always come up what do you mean by one year's growth in one year's time how am I supposed to do that it's we just don't want students to continue getting behind because that's kind of where you start saying academic fall off like I said our teachers a great job but the student is an eighth grader that's nine years of education and if that's we're losing 10% a year and we're adding on to that in over nine years that number adds up that's why wanted to make this a priority questions on our data these data reports I already

125just finished our second round our College data just got updated last week so I do not have this in the really fancy online have available at did not do walk kids data or walk Kids kindergarten 3K scores have come down but Eric and I want to dig into that before we present it to the board because one of our things that we noticed in historic data is we run about 100% of our students that received Early Learning services not a an IV not on an I are to stand pass walk is that close to 100% students on anip that's probably that come in that are earning like our special education preschool lower so we would like to see that if we saw a drop in our walk kid scores we also want to see how

126does that line out with students also receiving early learning Services because we we know that our walkid pass rate and our early learning service rate is really tightly comined a chance to see that right Eric make sure I captured our conversation so I mean Paul I appreciate it we are getting a lot of bang for our Bud we have prioritized the classroom questions go can we get this can we get this can we get this well 80 82% of schools fund better 8 82% of schools fund better than we do and we've made a point to ensure that we have small class sizes lower than the average to ensure that that's where our money is going because we do feel that that's the best investment and we do think it's paying off with an incredible

127return on investment that our students are actually learning a lot through out performing the state so I do feel strongly that we should continue investing in our classrooms and our teachers and it'd be great to have the other things that our priority should always be invest in class right next on the list uh is 4,000 policies without changes these are just for your review if you guys want to make changes to them let me know okay yeah cross kind of three schools I cross uh policy 4200 change Parent Access safe and orderly learning environment that one has some changes um it updates references adds family involvement mainly on here to take a and we don't have to have these on discussion either now and then we go from there to how we want to talk

128about we go through first reading anyway so I don't know that makes sense necessarily put them on here and talk about it then go and then talk about or we can just slide you know and then discuss it and then if we decide to change something just goes back to First reading anyway so I don't if you have any thoughts on those we can go from there I guess especially you have a comment have to discuss all right policy 4210 changes regulation of dangerous weapons like School premises this one updates RCW um but there also is the option or to add the pink section to make it a little more strict from what I could tell of other districts not that we have to but uh the other districts have adopted more strict one and

129two in the purple so something to think about looks like we're not requ to but it's just so I don't know anybody have any thoughts on that for moving forward because we put it on first reading K needs to know whether we want to add those or not I cross referenced um hman mono and T water yes I monos I don't think's up to date yet T wat is T water yeah right for those of you not follow options are one is no District employee may bring a firearm or dangerous weapon onto any District property without prior authorization of superintendent and two is no person of Entry renting leasing or otherwise being granted the right to temporarily use the district property May possess or allow its guests to possess Firearms or dangerous weapons on District

130premises provision does not extend a property rented or at least as personal doile it sounds really like state law so I personally have pretty much no matter what yeah pretty straight forward yeah there's um yeah there's other board policies that carry exclusions for Marksmanship team the shooting range two doors down from our library so there's actually Provisions that if Marksmanship is part of your curriculum State accounts for that police officer the state accounts for State training State accounts for which is interesting because I mean it already says that further down in the policy itself funny it's right here in those two Provisions because then it talks about shooting class or hunter safety it actually specifically talks about that so be have saf all right so we'll move those on to action item for next time

131for first reading so that brings us to public comment is there anybody here for public comment on it yeah let me read you a little daily we welcome your comments which are important to us all comments are limited to three minutes it's helpful for the board if you give us your name uh please address your remarks to the chairperson note that we will not be uh entering any dialogue obviously know that and the purp purp of this agenda item is for you the public to inform us the board and about so thank you and go ahead three minutes hi I had zero intention on talking but because this is so far down the agenda and I've heard a lot stuff I now have words um I'm Megan Porter and I have a elementary school kid

132and a middle school kid and there's a lot of good stuff happening in this school district right but only if I came here that's the only way I know there's good stuff happening there's no communication about what's happening at the school the district has an awful reputation amongst the community I talked to other parents kids you know I talk to kids the school district has a really really bad reputation it's toxic and if you're wanting to pass any kind of Levy any kind of bond it's never going to happen until that reputation changes in this community it's just not going to and if you don't have somebody telling the good stories about what's happening here it's the reputation's never going to change um I love this town I graduated from this school I'm raising my

133kids here I'm invested in this and so listening to the good stuff only in this tiny little space is very frustrating to me and hearing that you're going to try to maybe go out for it's never going to pass you know that it's never going to pass until the reputation of the school changes and that's not ever going to happen until somebody comes and talks about good stuff um so that's just kind of my feelings on that and that data that you're going to put out there I really really really recommend you don't and the reason why I say that is there's zero context around that data the people aren't going to understand what you're talking about if you just put these data points up if you're not talking about it and saying what it

134actually means people are going to make up what it means and so I just caution you in putting out a dashboard full of numbers that nobody has any clue what they need so those are my thoughts for today thank you Megan comments anybody else public com I'd like to make a public comment yeah later but um same thing just sitting at the meeting I think that it uh it's important that I say I know I don't look like it I don't spend all my money trying to look cool for the neighbors but my time is very very valuable not only do I run a business myself but I also have a five-year-old son at home that wants his dad to be there right now with I'm hanging out I'm volunteering my time to help with

135a booster club here in town my daughter does not need help from a booster club I'm doing it for the other kids that need help we don't have a lot of extra money flowing around especially into the track program I was really excited that you were bringing up data plants and I thought I really enjoyed hearing those I thought they were informative I can understand if it you know may be confusing at times but I like data I compiled some of my own um second to football track and field puts out the most scholarships for uh College in the country there are almost 20 % more than basketball they're almost 20% more than uh baseball and if you combine the other bottom six there are almost as many scholarships for track as there are and

136this is male and female mining both um that being said I wanted I wanted to say that I think that going forward just as a general thing it would behoove the community as a whole to look at that and say Hey you know um we have a shot here this is a sport that you don't have to be you can be anybody from any Walk of Life and come in there and do it um you can excel at one thing and it's the least amount of money to get to that Elite level of any sport you don't need to have a community pool you don't need to have the best baseball fields and all the bats and balls you don't need to go do travel Sports you can literally go down to anywhere and run

137and be training for track you know um and I just want to say you know that um it's one of those things where I did track in school and I saw a lot of my classmates that went on to higher learning come back to our community with their degrees uh and build the community up make it a better place um I think that so I just want to say but I wanted to say too that I think we need to streamline the process for volunteers if there's any way you guys can work on that you know hours of my night's tough especially when I took two hours off early to get here if there was a way where we could do it via email you guys could approve it and email us back saying hey

138we've approved your fundraiser um just because and I understand you know I've been in here before you guys have to check all the boxes there's a lot of things to take into consideration one of those will'll discuss in a minute um but I just wanted to say proba like one I really hope that moving forward you guys really give tracks some consideration um need they need a little love there um but also I hope that the volunteers that are going for all booster clubs get a little consideration as far as just making a little easier on us because I spent a lot of time this year and it's okay I want to I love doing it I love these kids are great kids I mean it's a great Community it's really awesome but me trying

139to hand this off to someone else in a year or two is like ah I feel like it's like you know you're trying to hand off a Time Bomb to someone like yeah you know what I mean I'm I'm trying to be cognizant of the fact that other parents in the community have to I don't mean to cut off okay thank you guys very much thank you is there any other public comment all right uh unfinished business approval of EHS bball boosters fundraiser so we have submitted the Food Handlers Permit to the concessions uh license that we needed so everything has been submitted to T hopefully move to approve the EHS baseball boosters fundraiser is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I allos to say name motion carries new business approval

140of Elma track booster fundraiser okay so this we're basically doing the same fundraiser that volleyball did at the beginning of the year which is a scratch ticket uh board I have an example to show you guys so you can see it's basically a raffle uh $10 a ticket um they put $400 in we'll put $400 in scratch tickets on a board plus a $100 bill we're going to run it through a program uh software program called zeppy so this will be all digital the kids will be able to go with a QR code or a web address that they can give to friends and family so the kids won't be handling any money it'll all be going directly through the website which will also be great for bookkeeping it'll be you know we won't have

141to keep track of how many tickets we're selling it'll we can put a limitation on that um I am aware from the volleyball booster that there's a limit on how much income we can bring in the only thing you didn't have Clarity on was that if we're we did we knew it was 5,000 but we didn't know if it was 5,000 were're allowed to profit off of it or if it was go to the Washton STS right you can get all that information look for that everywhere I mean I was on there staring find anything about Raffles guaranteed it's there it is it is there also a help button that you can actually email them and just ask question and they're really good about getting right back to you and they'll actually probably even just

142send you the whole link on gambling graffle ticket part of so at our board meeting we just voted to to sell 500 tickets because we weren't sure if we could do 550 uh so we just kept it at that number that volleyball did and it'll explain to you too how you have 100 tickets number right 500 yes and through the software program they actually will number the tickets for us they allow us to add in question Fields so we'll be able to uh you know get all their pertinent information everything like that and then it will actually allow us to do drawing as well the only other thing I would caution on is um having the kids get on all this information as a booster CL well and we're you know we're I I totally

143yeah right oh I think I've got them covered I've got about 20 hours in this so who do I build right I'm about 150 an hour right now so think they're getting a pretty good deal out of me at track over there um so uh the next thing um you guys we had tabled at the last at my last meeting I believe it was in April um because you guys wanted us to carry a general liability insurance policy for some of our out of school activities we have that ball rolling I've been working on it for six months I mean I've back and forth with insurance agents I think I finally have one that can help us it's actually here in Elma so we're just waiting on him to get our quote to us sometimes

144you do it through like USA Track right an event and then they have fundraising events right and then you can do it from them and it's right I don't know if that talking about Mike still the Farmers Insurance yes yeah probably about the same okay yeah well and the thing is is that I didn't know what we were going to be doing so I didn't know what I was asking them to cover so now this year we had a little bit more of a head start so like we're trying to do a dunk tank at heat on the street we're doing the Easter egg deal we're going to do a car wash and so I was able to give him a list of these things give him a start and finish date for all our

145events and then he can give us a quote um and our thought was just to cover if we're over covered fine if we don't get approve for some of those things you know we've been having a lot of conversations too with a lot of our groups because what happens is if you're 501c3 off profit our insurance doesn't extend to you right and then that's why you need to have it but we've talked to some groups going hey this is a lot of work like we've been Shoring up our process to give groups now their ASV budget accounts' been cleaning that up sometimes it's like I just need to get something going right I know Mr Clark has been working real hard on that with Kelly his assistant on how we can just use the ASV

146process because our insurance does extend anything that goes into ASP right Tim been really good about explaining all that to us we haven't actually filed for 501c3 yet we kind of getting all our decks in a row because it's a big filing fee I mean I think it's around 300 you like 600 so that's yeah well 600 if you're doing a certain volume but we're going to be low volume so you know uh but that being said you know we are actively hopefully getting a quote from insurance my if you do need ASB though our insurance extends to ASB yes yeah so I believe Tim's going to be using that for the camp that they do so and that just will be them the funds not us um but either way I just wanted to

147let you guys know we take the insurance thing very seriously because Tanya was very nice about scratching all of them off when I had no for insurance there and be like you can't get them approved until you have insurance make yeah we make your life easier on that we really are try to make everybody's life EAS on Shing up the process yeah and I say that only because I just know that you guys are really busy working hard so just from a parent perspective it's like hey if we could streamline this part of it it would be also I know track paid for my years ofle right on I had to run A50 oh you work for it then yeah you know that's why I say it's a it's something that I really feel like

148this community with they realized how valuable it is on that long term they you know it is it's it's a really good sport and again you get all walks of life there you know you get kids that are going to go places that you know some of these kids are maybe going to be working at NASA someday Etc so um but that being said uh the scratch ticket raffle starting date is going to be March Tuesday March 11th and the Finish date will be Wednesday March 25th and that will be the day we do the drawing um we do have a a Facebook page so we're going to spread to the parents that we'll do a live drawing on that Facebook page on that evening and then we'll deliver it to whoever in person baring

149that they're like out of state or something um the first one volleyball did my cousin from Portland one so I had to drive it down to her but yeah we you know we we're going to make sure that whoever that winner is is notified and and given the prize that day move in second to approve the track boosters fundraiser is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I allos say n Mo car enrollment enrollment well we're up we're up uh just on the right page debating sharing but'll have it we went from 15 18 and our general Ed and Al to 1525 um our big numbers are up in our 11 open doors went down a little bit that flipped over to the regular we're up in the 11th grade I just

150want to point out I contributed because uh my daughter flew back from her year in Japan she got in on like February 2nd and then Eric was really clear she has to be there on that first day to counter so I told her you don't get to recover from jet lag you have to go to school immediately so we did contribute to ensure that we' got one of those 11 graders in so um but yeah we're we're going up after the change of the semester so a it's also continue to go up and a good February all right budget Lisa hey you guys have your reports sorry um any questions on the report I'm making M very short sweet to the point balance is running about 5.2 right now we are starting to drop a

151little have I think um Michael's asked to have those would you say every two months yeah but I would like like I think where you're going with this is big picture right like if we're going to start putting together uh you know starting to put together the big picture and start telling the story and like getting some of that news out as far as where the district's at and how much money we're gonna have to to spend to do some modernization projects or where where we're going to be at there's a lot with that depending on how we as a board decide that we want to go financially there's lots of different options and there might more options out after this legislative session so but think initial 200,000 correct and that's what I was I

152think I was kind of alluding to is I don't think we can wait to um to go out to taxpayers ask for roof I think we're gonna have to we're gonna have to come up with that money if that means we're gonna have to come out of and make a discussion on where that's coming from we need to have that discussion because it think that's what I'm asking when how do we make time to have that discussion just add it to the next agenda you want to have it at the next meeting or do you want Jeff I mean we can build up and kind of pull together what it would cost for the roof yeah yeah I mean I have the budget number so it would just be it like if we're going to

153do it then we go out to seal you want Lisa Lisa how long do you want to work with Jeff how long would it to kind of pull together what you I'm sorry I have two State audits going on right now I've got to do a budget revision for all the grants that people have put in for not something we f it in anywhere something we start work on until the summer but we've got to do the bidding we would have to do it I would say if we did it I'm trying to think maybe midm March I could pull it together second once I feed all of the state auditor enough information second Bo meeting in March you come up with that information I think we could by then I I would want to

154meet with the finance committee prior okay yeah that's kind of why I want to get the ball roll because remember talking about that and I'm thinking of Summer and bid process I'm like get anything done in the summer we're have to decision or not decision to Happ soon I guess it feels pretty much sure to have her do all the work to find bit to go through the bid process if we haven't made the decision well you're not gonna go to the bid process right or I mean we're not going to do anything till you guys decide what you want that so could you before that would it be possible to just get some options like I don't even know what our options are like right like I I've sort of discussed them like I

155mean just so you know School District cannot go to a bank and get a loan okay that's not an option so um for us pretty much is going to be having you guys resend the resolution for the minimum fund balance make it lower so I can free up fund balance and then I can use that out of our fund balance which 200,000 um pull it out and do the roof um basically overriding our our rule yeah but just for this temporary a temporary okay is there any state money that we can appy for for the roof since it's more kind of out of type of not that we would get instantly um I I will call Scott black yeah we can call him there's usually scat money but that has to go through legislation they're

156redoing scat right now yeah the whole scat system is being it doesn't feel like the timing is no I just thought mean the the problem with the roof is it's like a it's a wear and tear thing so it's like the emergency repair fund is like a boiler goes put out out of nowhere um whereas like a a 30-year roof that really only gets you 20 years in Washington they know those are going to fail so if I didn't ask a question somebody else would ask why I didn't ask the answer to it so but I I will I will see wanted to start the conversation so I'm really glad so I guess I'd like that to be on the next set second word agenda you guys are going to have to tell me what

157you want me to do and then we can just get it ready to go and total approval can be at that second me you want to handle that at Jennifer yeah and I was gonna what the reports to I I've been doing agenda preps with uh Chris kind of the week Friday before we have our meeting um anybody's welcome to come obviously as long as we don't have a quorum so somebody else wanted to come and join me in that so we have a discussion if you wanted to we could probably talk about that and and maybe we could pull I know I know you're busy but maybe we pull the two of them really fast and get ideas to come to the board yeah the next one or the uh the second one we

158do it the Friday before the board when Michael and I I was up at Gates Foundation this last Friday so Stephanie you want to do this next one coming up I think yeah then kace will send you an invite for the next one thank you so that takes us to any other comments or questions for the budget report for Lisa forward okay uh go to the order I have we have seven names for our first um that poli's gathered for us H Murphy has gathered us seven names for us to be with for our day in the life it would be the first three periods of the day I just need to know like what board members are able to make it so we can start doing reaching out pering those students we're going to

159start reaching out and confirming with parents tomorrow um we just need to make sure parents know hey be with your child was the day Friday this Friday this Friday yeah 28 so this Friday if you're able to make a day in the life I need to know we prob burette tomorrow I'll be with a student and then I'm actually also having our superintendent advisory so pton did me a solid we have a student who is also going to be in superintended advisory meeting that I'll be following so and then I'm going to have a survey that'll go out kind of write down notes on how your experience has been as you had to go as you got to experience school as our students have experienced school can you um I would love to be able

160to experience at least part of lych okay I feel like that's a area that Community it would be good for us to have some firstand knowledge about I know it it's first through third you want to get a lunch buy a lunch you I but maybe if I'm yeah that's fine that's not an issue is that issue lunch so Chris this is first through third period that's right okay um can I like you know canas tomorrow I might have I might be able to modify my schedule I work Providence tomorrow is there anything you want to add add everything our plan iide exp social imp like being really kind seeing what that food is like how people respond to what the food is um the culture in open up the library having the early I

161suggest if you do go to check out the early bird it's a student score BYO marketing Class A lot of students really enjoy it um I think there's a lot of aspects that you'll see in lunch in the freedom of lunch where students can go they want but it's a lot different than I think what you see in the classro also going get to experence e so I think that's something you guys just started live announcements live announc all our teachers but yeah when I was in your shoes we had the same thing yeah yeah so that was I was thinking about it the other day for some reason because I think I was in the building and the announcements came on and I was like oh be so cool if they were live again

162so that's awesome and thanks for sticking it out at stay this entire time we were other news is uh um Jeff cin was the 1A Washington State wrestling coach the year and we also have a state champion out of Xavier ESP so we have a a state champion and the wrestling coach of the year so I think those are just inredible things to celebrate this last week after wrestling State and just to add to that I I think it's been about 10 years you know top 10 and a lot of our wrestlers I noticed are young they're freshman sophomores that got to compete at State there was a little change this year there was no regionals they went sub regionals districts right to the state but I think it afforded a lot of kids opportunities

163to wrestle the do and may never got that opportunity and our young wrestlers the future looks bright for El wrestling here what good Jeff I've done an incredible job and I think just done a great job he knows how proud we are good to the order just spring Sports start next week so buckle up for another round had a great concert last night that back and it was Full House yeah it like it was very well it's always fun to watch the kids right my son he didn't really want anything to do with it but he he got up there he's saying he had his hood on and stared at the floor but I mean he did it though I was super proud of because he did not want to go so I was really

164glad to see that he went he enjoyed it afterwards you know he's like it was kind of fun being up there with my friends do it so was good to see way back other than that uh make motion the meeting move second the meeting there any discussion see n meeting