001parent, staff, or community member would like to know what was discussed. If you do not wish to be recorded, please let us know at this time. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Bonnie. And I will call this meeting to order tonight at 6 p.m. If you're able, please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. I would like to start our meeting today with board recognition. And as soon as I scroll down to the board recognition uh board, we're going to start with board comments on recognition. So, if you wouldn't mind. Okay, diving into that. Uh, one of my favorite things um to recognize.
002I I love when we get to see a real life education in action. And we had students in Miss Bannon's and Mr. Hurk's consumer math classes at Oring High School recently brought realworld financial concepts to life through an engaging insurance project. Students designed and built dragster vehicles while managing a budget, incorporating safety features, and calculating insurance premiums based on risk factors and coverage options. [sighs] During race day, students experienced the realities of insurance firsthand, [laughter] filing claims, and paying deductibles for crashes, damage or property impacts. The creative project gave students valuable practical insight into financial literacy, risk management, and the importance of insurance planning. >> Unfortunately, [laughter] >> thank you. Anybody else? Oh, this this month students across the district participated in state assessments demonstrating perseverance and commitment as they work to show what they
003know. We want to recognize our staff for the thoughtful preparation, encouragement, and support they provide through testing season and thank our students for giving their best effort in approaching the challenge with focus and determination. And I know firsthand that some of the paras actually go one-on-one and sit there in a quiet room with the kids who need accommodations and they make sure that they that that happens. So I'm really appreciative of that. >> That's great. That's great. Well, I I'll share earlier this month, fifth grade students from Tarmaggan Ridge and Ordin Elementary had the opportunity to attend camp, which they always look forward to that. They spent a week exploring nature, building friendships, learning new skills, and creating lasting memories. Through hands-on activities, team building challenges, and outdoor adventures, students experience meaningful learning beyond the
004classroom. A heartfelt thank thank you [cough and clears throat] to our dedicated staff, high school counselors, and volunteers who made this in um incredible experience possible. It's very fun. I've been to that before and it's a blast. >> So much fun. >> Um I want to uh say a shout out to uh the band last night. We had our high school band concert last night and we had the concert band wind and then jazz band. Um it was awesome last night to watch and put see the dedication that they put in our musicians that put into this and um it was it was awesome. So it was great. I know Ed was there. So yeah. >> Very cool. We also recently had the Oring School District's community um cultural unity fair. Unfortunately, I had to
005miss it this year, but I've been in years previous. Look, it's getting bigger and better every year. Um they had held that at the Ording Middle School, and it celebrated the diverse cultures that make up our school community through food, art, performances, and shared experiences. Thank you to the staff, students, and families who helped create such a welcoming and impactful evening of learning, connection, and celebration. Come on in. Very cool. Come on in. I'll wrap it up with at the end of April, MS proudly welcomed middle schools from across the region for the middle school band Large Group Festival. The event showcased the talent, dedication, and hard work of student musicians while creating an opportunity for collaboration and performances. Thank you to our students, music staff, and event volunteers who helped make this a successful
006and memorable experience. Yeah, we're very cool. All right, now I'd like to turn it over to our May agency superstars. All right. For Oring Elementary School, would Doug Favors please come to the podium here in front of us? >> Come on up. [laughter] >> Hi. [applause] That's awesome. So, Doug, you were nominated by Miss Green. She wrote, "Doug comes to class prepared each day and consistently follows expectations. You demonstrate strong agency by taking ownership of your learning, staying organized, managing your responsibilities, and completing your work on time. Not only do you take ownership over your learning, but you're also always helpful to others, and you remind students of what is expected. Doug, you're performing at or above grade level in every area of your I Ready assessments and you consistently produce thoughtful and high quality
007work. So, that's awesome and we're excited to be able to recognize you tonight for that effort. >> Yes. >> Do you want to share any comments? >> Uh, I only thought that I was above grade level for reading. >> Okay. So yeah, I just now learned that I am above gradely level for like all of those subjects. >> How does that make you feel? >> Uh kind of impressed with myself. So >> that's awesome. >> Um I have ASD and like sometimes when I don't have my med focus. >> Uhhuh. >> And yeah, I still get most of my work done. >> So yeah, >> that's awesome. Well, congratulations. Great job. We're very proud of you. >> Good job. Good job. [applause] >> Everybody at the same time. >> Yeah. >> So, >> Doug, you
008just stand right over to the side when we have recognized everybody. Everybody will have a certificate and some treats and we'll do a group photo. So, if you can just please be patient there for a little bit while we recognize a few more people. >> Yeah. Seat on that big step. >> There you go. Awesome. All right. So, for Oring Elementary School staff super agency superstar, I'd like to invite Christine Prindle to the podium. [applause] >> Christine, I have both Christine and Christina. Do you have a preference? >> Christina. Christina, [laughter] thank you. Uh, all right. Christina Brandle uh was nominated by Miss Jefferson and Miss Jessica. They wrote, "Christina is truly a cornerstone of the OES community. She consistently supports students with dedication, compassion, and professionalism. Her warmth helps students feel safe, valued, and
009understood, and they know they can trust her to support both their well-being and their success. She has a remarkable ability to assist students through emotional challenges and often uh often stepping in at critical moments so that learning can continue uninterrupted in the classroom. Her work not only supports individual students but also strengthens the entire school environment. Each day she shows an unwavering commitment to both students and staff. Our school community is stronger because of her contributions and we are deeply grateful for the impact she makes. >> Wow, >> those are some powerful words. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you for your work. [applause] All right. At Tarmaggan Ridge Elementary School, I'd like to invite Aurelia. >> Aurelia. I love it. Beautiful name. >> So, Aurelia Worth. Uh, Aurelia. Aurelia. I want to say
010that right. Does that sound okay? Aurelia. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh, you were selected for this month's PTR agency superstar for setting personal goals based on feedback from both the teacher and the rubric. Does that sound familiar? >> Yes. >> Okay, good. Aurelia will look at her rubrics and set individual goals based on where she scores without prompting from the teacher. >> She also seeks feedback in order to continue to grow in her learning. That sounds awesome. >> Good job. >> Great job. Good job. >> Can you tell us about a goal that you have coming up or one that you're working on? >> Um, getting my math fluency all correct. >> Oh, nice. That's an important one. >> Great job, Aurelia. >> Nice job. Thank you. [applause] Come on and join our other superstars
011and we'll do a picture in just a minute. Okay. All right, from our PTR staff, I'd like to invite Rebecca Bunker to the podium. [applause] So, Rebecca was selected for this month's PTR agency superstar for co-organizing our first invention convention, which was one of my favorite [laughter] activities that she happened for students based on her passion for science. So this was an amazing event for students to develop their own science invention to solve a real world problem. I hope this continues every year. I'm sure it was a ton of work. >> We love doing it. We were calling it the first annual. So good. [laughter] >> Very good. Well, we want to thank you for being one of our agency superstars and taking the lead on such a cool event, program, >> uh, awesome experience
012for the students. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> All right. At the Oring Middle School, we're from the Oring Middle School. I'd like to invite Raja Sior. >> Did I say your name correctly? You guys got some tricky names for me tonight. >> Raja. Raja. >> Yeah. Raja. >> Rajasina. OKAY. [applause] >> [applause] >> RAJA WOULD DO YOU go by Raja or the whole Raja sa >> I go by Raj >> you go by Raj okay >> Raj would you say your last name for me >> go money >> okay >> you did a fantastic job I'm going to leave with that so Raj was nominated for this month's agency superstar because in the first semester master alone, he spent almost 45 hours on I Ready lessons. That's a lot. >> And
013you passed. This is even more. 147 lessons in reading and 39 lessons in math. >> That is impressive. >> Why did you do that? to improve on my skills. Okay. >> Math and reading. And do you feel like that happened? >> Yeah. >> Nice. That's a big commitment. >> Thank you. >> What do you have planned for second semester? >> Uh I'm trying to uh reach 100 lessons in math. >> Wow. Right now I have 80 lessons. I think >> you're almost there. >> That's fantastic. Congratulations. It's nice to be able to recognize you tonight for being a superstar. >> Thank you. [applause] >> All right. Is Emily from the middle school here? Emily, please come on up. [applause] >> And I don't know if I've met you yet, so Neaterly. >> Neaterly. Yeah, >>
014Neaterly. That's good. >> Awesome. Uh Emily was nominated at MS for being an agency superstar because she has seen that students were struggling with math and alongside staff member Jeff Scott, she came up with the idea for an afterchool math club support group. >> Wow. >> That's awesome and hugely valuable to our students and our families. I I I I have to mention the families, too. I spent a many hours trying to help my kids with the math that's done differently now than it was when I was a kid. >> So, Emily, thank you so much for having that idea and bringing it forward and making it happen at MS. >> [applause] >> I I was actually in the club for a few minutes twice because I'm JJ's nana and >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah.
015Yeah. So, um and I was really impressed. You have high school students that come over. >> So, I also think that I I the nomination like I have I partnered with the the National Honor Society from the high school. So, I have the high school students coming over, >> which that connection with the kids 10 million times more. >> I love that. >> That's why I wanted to bring it up because I wanted really I was really impressed. Um, >> one, it gives the kids some kind of connection for when they do move over there, but also um you know, there's nothing like a little socialization to improve learning. And thank you so much for doing that. Thank you. It's very well attended. >> Yeah. >> How often do the kids meet? >> Uh we
016were doing once we're doing once a week on Wednesdays. >> That's fantastic. >> Yeah. >> Great idea. >> And then the plan is next year to implement a family math night once in a while. >> That would be nice. >> I love that. >> Yeah. Just just brought that idea to the table. >> Yeah. Maybe we'll see you again. >> YEAH. >> [laughter] [applause] >> ALL RIGHT. UH, our OS student tonight who is a agency superstar is Abigail Meyers and Emma Utterbach. [applause] Good evening, ladies. Uh Abby and Emma have demonstrated the vision for agency as a pair by owning the learning of new songs in the absence of their choir teacher. Supporting mastery of these songs by making sure students are practicing outside of the school day. Making sure belonging for our concert choir
017students was happening by advocating for the needs of this group of students related to our ensemble competition season and building their self s self-efficacy by performing in one of the most incredible choir concerts at os on March 25th. Abby and Emma are true representatives of what it means to be a Cardinal and we are grateful for their leadership and resilience. >> Wow. Well done, ladies. >> Well done. >> Very cool. [applause] Congratulations. [applause] [laughter] Although although I didn't have you in class, but I Miss Abby was in my second grade class and I've noticed since she was a little girl and I have to tell you [clears throat] she is definitely a superstar. She has so much perseverance and so much grit. And the thing that I love about her is that even if something
018is tough, you couldn't tell that because Abby is always this lovely, graceful person who just makes you feel blessed to be around her. So, >> and then we have Emma. >> Yes, thank you. >> Emma steps up and she does leadership. She has leadership qualities, but she's quiet about it. >> She's not very boisterous, but she just steps up when they need her to. And this doesn't surprise me that you did this because you always rise to that that they need help and Emma's right there to help them. So, nice job. >> Thank you. And I'm sure that your teacher would be very very proud. >> Oh yeah, >> for sure. >> All right, [applause] we're going to invite all of you superstars to our wall of fame for a group photo. And the key
019is for all of us to squish together and try to get in front of the wall. Yeah, we're going to squish. There we go. >> My whole life. Yeah, I got [laughter] >> I was going to say I'm laughing cuz I know >> I know Look at all cameos. [laughter] >> Okay. Ready? One, two, three. >> Nice job. [applause] Thank you so much. Thank you. I think that's what I >> heard. Where's everybody going? [laughter] Thank you for coming. >> All the fun stuff. >> Thank you so much for coming, family and friends. Thank you >> for supporting your students. >> Thanks for coming, Kyle. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> You don't even have to dismiss them. >> I don't [laughter] say they just never >> I was like the one time I remembered.
020I'm like congratulating myself on my way to my channel. I remember that. [laughter] >> I think Cliff gives him a head up. Do you know you can leave? [laughter] >> Oh goodness. >> Oh man, >> you're holding that table. You can't help, right? [laughter] >> Oh, that was fun because it's wonderful that they all come together. >> All the families that come. That's so awesome. >> Grandparents. >> I wouldn't have >> [clears throat] >> I love it. That's awesome. >> Yeah, >> that's great. >> It's such a high such a great way to start a meeting, too. I love it. I love that. >> I'm so glad we started doing that. >> Yeah. So many things to celebrate. >> All right. I understand from Bonnie maybe surprised to know by the absence of people that
021there are [laughter] no commenters, >> but they love their children. >> [laughter] >> All right, superintendent, I will turn it over to you. >> Thank you, board. A lot of highlights since the last time we were together. The highlight of this week, we have announced our new principal of Oring Elementary School, Miss Allison Lar Roa Flick. She spent the morning meet and greeting staff today. Uh, one of the cutest things I've seen in a minute. Alex and Precious interviewed our top two candidates publicly. We had 73 people provide community input. uh Director Fischer was there. They did a phenomenal job. It was uh truly warming to have our kids involved and our community and staff as well. So, we put that announcement out and we're currently pursuing our next assistant principal candidate. Uh and I'll
022provide an update for you next week about how that's going as soon as we get some more information. Hot off the press, also at Oring Elementary School, dubbed the mascot of the University of Washington the most prestigious university in THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, [laughter] uh is visiting Oring Elementary School in a couple of weeks, June uh 6, at the Cougar Pride Assembly. Dubs will be there to hype our students up as they engage for the second summer in the Husky summer reading program. If you are around around 12:30 uh here, central office, Dubs will be making a guest appearance before we walk him over to the elementary school. Uh who those old-timers on the screen, uh that's myself and fraternity brothers, uh at the national championship a couple years ago, uh where we ran into
023Dubs. Uh what you don't know, one of my fraternity brothers, Brent, uh he's Dub's owner and caretaker. So, we have a special inside track uh which is, you know, you got to pull your cards every now and then. That's right. >> So, we're excited about that. >> Board retreat. Uh thank you for a wonderful day spent in thoughtful reflection. Uh we just wanted to name publicly that you as a board have moved to extend the strategic plan from 2025 through 2028. Uh your feedback around the most important priorities and the first two goals uh was very valuable. What I've heard from many of you is that you'd like the opportunity to get collective feedback on the other two goals so we can be begin to think about priority measures and what we might elevate uh
024over the next couple years. So, uh thank you for your time. It was fun to unveil plans and designs that have involved staff and community and student feedback for both the elementary school and the high school. That feedback is coming back and reshaping the designs based on what's resonating with folks. Uh so sometime in the not too distant future you'll get to see what that update looks like as well. Culture unity fair was a hit. Grateful for our Pua tribal partners for being there and sharing in song and spirit. Uh one of the longest lines again the Satayakum family. We have uh their students and family that work for us. Uh grandma made fry bread. That was the longest line by far that disappeared so fast. Now the last few years I've been in watching
025performances. I knew this time to be [laughter] in the cafeteria. Uh we handed out uh bunches of five tickets to everybody that came. We handed over 250 bunches out. So we're able to serve over,200 meals to students in the local community. Uh it was a huge highlight. And we had art projects as well. Very engaging. And we had representation from each of our four schools. High school culinary students hit it out of the park. Amazing food samples from all across the world. It was a wonderful night. >> Cool. Uh on the downside, if you haven't seen Washington State Legislature math, I will educate you. Uh for next year, we were allocated an additional $476 per student. If you multiply that the six cents, it's a it's it's really not helping. [laughter] It's really not helping.
026Uh if you multiply the 2,800 students times our funding increase, we're getting a whopping $131,768 in material and supply money. Since that happened, we found out our insurance bill, the very first bill, did not go up 18%. It's up over 50%, 53.19%. Our insurance bill alone is going up $480,000. So with the very first bill of the year, we're already in a net deficit. And what you can predict is if that's what we're seeing on that bill, all of our mental health care partners, our commodity suppliers, our private contractors, they will have to pass on goods as well. So you can imagine that deficit that we've been experiencing the last few years will continue to grow. So we have some strong advocacy work to do heading into the next legis legislative session to tell that
027story. Where does that money come from? It comes out of programs and supports that directly impact kids. So there's no way around those further gaps widening, not touching K12. It means we have to spend more K12 money on funding things that the legislature should be funding. So we have some fighting to do, but wanted to make sure you knew and public knows what's happening because we have to keep telling that message and sounding the alarm. Uh funding priorities. Despite those funding challenges, there are some things that we are going to recommend. We pulled this out of your work session in May and we said we'll share it publicly at the regular board meeting. So, here's some things you can expect. We have seen excellent movement and growth in core. I think you're going to be
028very pleased when we publicly release spring I Ready data. Probably by June we can give a forecast and early SBA. I was at OES today. Many teachers are very excited about the growth they're seeing in their kids. So we think we'll continue to see growth, but that doesn't solve the puzzle all by itself. So we definitely see investment in intervention and support heading into next year. Specifically, mathematics and reading comprehension are two areas. Behavior is a strong concern amongst family, staff, and students. So supporting in screeners and supports we think is a strong need for us and continued support around social emotional learning. You've seen and heard as a board the power of when that works and when it's in place. So, we don't want to let them in that. We want to continue that
029support. OS stadium lights, uh, we've heard from our officials association that the LED lights we have are honestly too dark. Uh, and it said to the point if we don't make a move, we might be prohibited from play in town. >> Well, Friday night lights in Bethl doesn't sound as good as ordering, Friday night lights or Thursday in Oring. So, we're going to make an investment in redoing those lights so it's lighter and playable. uh the intervention and support. Even though that we see flat investment with uh title funds, federal funds, we still think we can maintain in that, but we're going to have to provide a little bit more levy dollars to continue that, but that's okay. Our community supported that, and that's what they asked for. Uh and then Aaron will be bringing
030a proposal for you for core curriculum investment in social studies as well as science. So, you'll see that coming up to you in future board meetings, June or July. Uh huge celebration. Coach basket coach Bruce named coach of the year and assistant coach of the year by the National Football Foundation. Pierce County chapter celebrated our two coaches recently and our students Tanner and Noah were recognized for their not only scholarship but for their athletic performance on the field. So kudos to all of those that were down and recognized recently. Uh I didn't have pictures because this was going on when we ran the last meeting but the Lahar was very successful. Thank you to executive director Freeze. Uh who would say I really didn't do anything? Bonnie made it all happen. So by default, thank
031you Bonnie and Cliff. Be [laughter] a Bonnie uh for pulling that off. It was hugely successful. All of our students made it down. We love our partnership with our emergency responders. That was a multi- agency drill, 26 and all between schools and emergency uh partners. We just don't see us doing the full drill every year. So, it's probably a on and off again for the foreseeable future because it's so well ingrained. Like there's really no reason to do the full drill every year, but we'll have a modified drill next year. Uh bond oversight committee, a couple of you might want to speak to this. Uh we have had three meetings thus far. We've developed norms, purpose, operating procedures. Uh we have 12 strong community members that mostly are ordering residents, but some live out the
032city parameter. Uh within those three meetings, we've discussed design, project, scope, what's been approved uh by the taxpayers. They had a little bit of a introduction to Trevor Carlson and funding and tax rates even by this point. Uh and what I'm showing you is one of not the but one potential example of what the new high school career technical education wing could look like. So we've shared some preliminary design work to get their feedback. Uh Director Fiser, Director Tibido, anything to add? uh wanted to do an update since we've met a few times so far. >> Um go ahead. >> I think our the community members that we have are have been great like great good really good input from them. Um very good um uh involvement like they're they're in it. They're in it
033100%. So, um, and they've had some really good, uh, recommendations and thoughts and which has been so helpful to all of us. And I think the architect as well, I think that they came up with some really good ideas. So, having this oversight committee, I think, is >> really positive and it's very helpful. >> Yeah. Yeah. [clears throat] I would add I would just again appreciate the contributions from our partners in these projects. Liz, Matt, our architects. Scansa has been there. Trevor provided the financial overview last meeting. And then, as Levy said, our committee members come from a real diverse uh backgrounds and professions and some with kids and grandkids and no kids in the district. And so, it's made for fantastic conversation and there's a lot to take in on these projects. So, uh,
034even though we're still early on, we're very happy with how the committee is working so far. >> On a related note, Liz Cliff and myself presented to city council yesterday. We reiterated your interest around small labor, local labor, student involvement, community involvement. Uh, and that I think resonated with council. We've talked about when you were looking for a partner and a builder of how we can prioritize and support local dollars staying local as best as we can. So Cliff foreshadowed a little bit about what Scansa related to the passport program. Uh reiterated that there are signitories to five labor unions and we're really expecting a lot of workers that live and pay taxes locally will be involved in this project. Uh so we definitely want to maintain that ongoing partnership. We're appreciative of our mayor
035and administrator being at your retreat, being connected. Uh, and that's something that we intend to maintain that ongoing community connection and partnership as we move from design to permit to actually coming out of a ground and digging dirt next summer. >> Yeah. >> Fifth grade camp. Uh, you heard a little bit about that. I wanted to put some pictures into the report. Uh if you ever doubted the impact of just getting out of the schoolhouse and that learning and agency can continue outside of school just as much as in school, come see camp. It was phenomenal. We are very appreciative of the 40 or 50 or so parents that came out each of those weeks and broke bread with our students and experienced camp life. Uh huge shout out to our PTA. They raised tens
036of thousands of dollars to help make a field trip for every elementary student possible and help make camp possible. So, one of the things we're going to talk about heading into next year is how do we maintain support for that and other programs. They're going to have some transition in their leadership, and none of us want to see that amazing work uh fall down a little bit. >> Uh we did celebrate certificated staff appreciation week. If you haven't seen it, we have our kids and our staff interviewed from each of our four schools. Uh strong traction and support for our certificated employees. and beyond the videos last Friday. Thank you to those of you that experienced the barbecue uh and helped to serve. We had a wonderful all staff appreciation barbecue last Friday. So, we
037served hundreds and hundreds of pounds of chicken and ribs, barbecue baked beans. Uh and even though the rain uh didn't subside, it didn't dampen the spirits. People came out in droves. And also thank you to our labor partners for providing scoops, ice cream, and drinks for everybody as well. Really helps to make that a warm welcoming we uh as part of our positive school culture and climate. >> And I think that wraps up my report. Uh excited again share probably in June some sneak peek uh spring I Ready data and some preliminary SBA data if we have it. >> And the food was delicious. >> Yeah, it was great. >> Yes. happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Uh, as you were presenting, I had a question. Then we can talk about it
038offline. I'm just curious if there's anything we can do to reduce the insurance. >> Yeah, the yes and no. [clears throat] Uh legislatively we have to honestly take on the trial lawy lawyers association. The exorbitant settlements across the state are significantly contributing to the rate increase. Jury settlements are insanely high. Uh and even pre-trial settlements are high because people don't want to settle knowing that the trial is going to cost us uh a lot of money. So I think there's definitely advocacy work uh that can go to help reduce the rates. Internally we always evaluate with Marcy and with Cliff what's our risk contributing? Do we have casualty loss from bus wrecks, slips, trips, falls, errors and emissions. So what's internally leading to that rate increase and they slightly increase or decrease based on a
039risk factor. Marcy shared that with Cliff and I and we're analyzing and we'll look with Carrie uh and internally like is there what we can do to mitigate risk slightly >> but the slight might be a $20,000 variance the half million really coming from the secondary insurance market. People don't want to touch reinsuring our state because the settlements are just so astronomically high. Uh so by being in a pool that's part of what's happening like we paid more out than we receive benefit this year. >> We hope the same is true next year but it like what's happening across the pool in the market is definitely hitting us. So no matter what we do to curb it won't fully mitigate that bill. >> Do we have to maintain a part of the pool? >> You
040do not have to be part of that pool. Uh we would strongly encourage the district to have insurance. >> Yeah. Uh how [laughter] however there are other there are other options uh where to go uh part of our conversation is risk return >> right so is there a better gig out there that might make more sense uh we don't see it yet >> uh but part of what we think is there's an advocacy solution uh legislative wise uh because we expect that cost to be paid by the legislature >> and they make the law. So if you don't like how that's going and if you don't want to fund it, uh maybe they can make some changes that mitigate exposure and risk on their end. >> Uh but on our end, we would ask that's
041basic ed, you should be funding that, right? It shouldn't come out of uh teachers and professional support, >> right? >> So uh a few things at risk, but we think we can as long as we're controlling our risk factor, we can slightly manipulate that down. >> Okay. >> But only slightly. >> Slightly. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. Any other questions on the report? Nope. Okay. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> All right. Carly in Dallas, student reps. Who's starting tonight? >> Me. >> Guys, it's really hot here. >> Super hot. >> I've looked over a couple times. I'm thinking about you in that suit. I'm trying to like pull out how it is freezing doing it. I grew up in Yakama. We worked [laughter] in orchards in the sunny heat. Uh we didn't have AC
042when we were kids. Like we're okay. >> All right. Yeah. Shout out to you. I couldn't do it. [laughter] Really bad. All right. Well, um it's the end of May, so for seniors, you know, starting to get pretty stressful. Graduation's coming up. We have field day coming up on June 5th, and the awards night for seniors is the 29th. Uh Mr. Carlson is going on I think he's going to like this committee or presentations with a bunch of principles. Um, are you familiar with this? >> Uh, probably the South Puget Sound league, I think. But we'll see what you say. >> Um, what' you say? >> It's AWSP. >> AWSP. Awesome. [laughter] >> The the yearly conference. >> Yeah, that with all the principles. and he wanted to get some student feedback about um how
043to what's the importance of student leadership and elevating student voice. So, he interviewed a group of students from that ran our um SPSL uh sportsmanship conference. He took some students from ASB and then he took some students from um the principal's advisory council and he just had a little uh session interviewing them, ask him some questions and give some feedback so we can so um Britney can put together this video and do a whole presentation about it and kind of just you know not you know in his words not tell people what to do but kind of just give them an insight on you know what goes on in ordering and having that feedback. So I thought that was really cool. And then the interviewing that we did uh was at the high school actually
044and we wanted to talk a little bit more specifically about 13ear seniors. >> Um specifically what like did you notice so like noticings what have you done what would you have done differently from you starting here to you ending here? Um what things have changed? I don't know kind of just open conversation whatever you want to talk about your experience here. Um, what I I made a noticing of every person I talked to, they're talking about the spirit aspect of school, like like engagement in spirit days and assemblies and like taking like doing the fun stuff. Um, so like the one of the students were talking about how she can see a defined split between people who want to get involved and who don't want to try and it like takes a toll on events
045for funds for others because it's not like unified and hoping to figure out a way to like tend to everyone and like figure out a way because it wasn't that's like something that stayed consistent from her middle school years to her senior like her high school years. And then while another student was talking about how middle school they thought that participation was lower than how it is in high school because I don't know middle schoolers are awkward and kind of figuring it out and don't want to embarrass themselves or do other things like that. So it's and people find themselves more in high school. So it's that shift of I want to be more involved. But biggest thing that I think I took away from it was just everyone is so focused on recognizing other
046students engagement and like spirit that happens in the school and like the fun that happens in our school. Not. And I didn't really think about that cuz I'm like when I think of I always think bigger picture because of these the conversations that we have and like the strategic plan and everything and like whole child and every all the other stuff. And so I don't necessarily think I'm going to school and I'm noticing that somebody's dressed up for spirit day and I think that's really fun or somebody's getting interviewed for spirit day and I think that's really fun. Like I don't know. So, it was really cool to me that that is what our other students are engaging like noticing that that is what they're that's how they're gauging whether or not like things are
047successful or not because how happy are the students at your school? How much are they engaging in the stuff that you're providing them at school? And how much fun are they having at school is what they're gauging it off of rather than >> like I I said, "How have things academically changed?" And they didn't even try to answer. They're like, "Man, [laughter] don't care about academics. Let me tell you about the one time we had Ann of Sandler's day and it was the best thing ever. Like [laughter] I just I it was really clear to see what is important to students. I was really cool. Um and then like same thing for me I guess before I even got in this position from my kindergarten year to now of like or to before I got
048um as a student board rep. I I guess I didn't think about it either. I didn't think big more bigger picture. I definitely thought is this fun or not. Is this worth engaging in? Is this do I see other students having fun? Like not even just assembly wise or spirit day wise or other things like that. Like in class, are they laughing in that corner? Should I engage in that corner or like my I knew what classes were fun and what classes I wanted to go to because they were socially more fun. They had my friends. They had people that were laughing. they had people that I know that classwork is fun because we make it fun. So, I didn't I I don't know. I I was like, whoa. Everything is kind of just about
049whether or not people are actually enjoying themselves, not necessarily like having just that safe space, but also just fully being comfortable having fun. Like, they just want to have fun cuz then at they're all kids. I forget that we're all just kids. I'm just a kid [laughter] and I forget about that. >> Ad adults like to have fun at work, too. [laughter] >> Like it it does make a difference when you can go to a job and you actually enjoy it because of people that you work with or that you engage with every time are fun. Like they they want to smile and have a good time, right? Sure, there's times when business is business and you get serious and you got to get what's done, what needs to be done, right? But it's really
050nice if you can have some fun in the in the meantime, right? And same thing with school. School shouldn't be a drag. It shouldn't be where you go, I got to go to school today. But if there's some kind of a fun thing that would encourage you to go, >> you're going to want to go, right? You're going to want to be engaged in that. So it it is important. And >> I think right now is the season is like everyone is so is dragging cuz they so close. And I will admit I am dragging. I'm [laughter] so close. >> Seeing your >> Yeah. I'm so close to being done. And it's just like it's the little things that make it fun for me. >> Like today we had an assembly and we never have
051like we've had a club designated assembly. Not like a regular pep assembly. We had a club designated club assembly because we wanted to [snorts] emphasize a lot more on spotlighting our clubs rather than just our sports cuz every year or every >> every um like season we have a club or a sport recap assembly and like a pep assembly that we talk about all of our sports and all our stuff. But it was really cool because we had our jazz band perform and we had we had clubs coordinating games and we had clubs sharing what they did and figuring out that we're sending middle schoolers to nationals. Didn't know that was happening, but that's really impressive and really cool and that's like I thought that was just that was so much fun to me and
052that was I could just like see it also. But also, I could tell that everyone's tired because the way that everyone was talking all the time and I kind of I was MCing and I don't know if I don't know. I feel really bad. I've been thinking about it all day, but I like was like, "Guys, it's so disrespectful for talk [laughter] to everybody else, blah blah blah." And then I said chitter chatter apparently. I remember [laughter] what I said. >> And I don't know. I don't know if Dallas can say anything if I was being crazy or not. I don't remember. I just know that every teacher has [laughter] done that. >> You can relate. >> Y >> I don't know. I was getting frustrated. [laughter] >> I'm glad I'm glad you noticed the
053fun and I'm glad the students welled on that. Those are the memories that all last >> uh way more than the math test, way more than an I already reading assignment. Uh the fun is the connection and the relationships and and we do have that in the business world too, but there's nothing like it is in school. So >> I just thought it was so strange that that's how they were gauging whether it was successful or not or not. Like >> not I was used to be a bad student and now I'm a good student because I get all good grades. It was >> I had fun >> and so that I was successful my school career, my school life from kindergarten to now it was I had fun so it was successful. >> That's
054I like >> I don't know >> I think about what has to be in place for someone to have fun. >> They have to be seen and heard and all of those values that we [snorts] talk about some agency to have a good time. Pick the funny thing. >> I that's what I see. So if they're remembering those things, I'm like, "Okay, we it was all right." 13 years, >> they're good. That's cool. >> Yeah. >> I bet you if you go back and talk to kids that have graduated years, say, "What do you remember about school?" I bet you they pick out something fun. Not >> I passed my math test when I was right. I don't remember that. But they remember something fun like, "Oh, that one assembly that we had or >>
055Carly yelled at us for You [laughter] said China, please. >> It wasn't just one time I had to say something [laughter] like three times. I was so embarrassed of myself. >> And then you're going to graduate and that's going to be like your partying memories. Like, [laughter] >> welcome to adulthood. Precursors. I love it. >> Good stuff, you guys. Thank you. >> It's reality. >> I hope Matt shares his video. I'd like to see that. Yeah, I would >> I want to see >> I really hope I see it before. >> Yeah, [laughter] just elaborating has two presentations at the AWSP WA was statewide conference. Uh Dr. Lee and Dr. Bloomberg are doing uh shared conference about how do you actually take student feedback and use AI to give clear targeted feedback align to core
056competencies. Uh and Matt and team are going to do a presentation as discussed about elevating student voice. Uh part of what Carly Dallas and I met with Dr. Paul and Dr. Lee is next year which Carly got roped into as a freshman at UDub uh invited back and you can talk about the opportunity. But uh we're looking to do a 90minute presentation at this fall's conference in Spokane. So we put Dallas's name as lead presenter. we collaborated and we have a proposal that we're in the draft stage, but we'll submit by the end of next week. >> Not sure if you want to talk about the opportunity, but uh we want to continue to elevate the great work that's happening in our system at the statewide level. And if we uh can, I'd love to
057see a crack at the national stage next year at some point, too. >> Super cool. >> Feel pressure. It's >> like, wait, what? >> Oh, I'm I'm prepared. I'm prepared. That's exciting. >> Anything else? All good. >> Thank you. >> All right, we'll switch gears to our facilities update presented by Liz. >> That's actually a good segue, I think, because um hopefully some of the capital projects, new buildings are going to support the fund. new spaces, I think, facilities, daylighting, and nooks and crannies. That's what we're doing for sure to try to support some of those hangout spaces very much. >> Um, I have a short update, so feel free to ask questions at the end or interrupt me for sure. Um, we uh for the elementary school, we just our biggest milestone was the
058schematic design package that was just issued about 3 weeks ago. We do two things. I don't know if you remember, we talked about this with Matt early on. Two things with that package. First is we take kind of just the design pencils down. It's a good time to have everything in one place in one set of documents. And then we review it internally with the design team, look at also admin and some other spaces um and and administrators to see what other things that maybe we didn't quite get right. Um or also this is usually a milestone that we're still a little square footage a little heavy, right? Usually after a schematic design package, we kind of tighten up the building. So that's happening at the same time as uh the pricing exercise. So um
059Scansa and our pricing um consultant through NAC is pricing it at the same time. We've completed that process and then we go through a reconciliation process. They each look at even square yards and make sure the quantities were similar and their unit prices are similar in that estimating process. Then we take that and then generally there's reconciliation that's done and then we take it with a value engineering kind of pat on our on our um head as well. And so we look at ways to save some money because generally that's usually a budget that we are exceeding a little bit at this time. So we've taken some assumptions and made sure that we've made the clarifications to get the project back into budget. It's a normal process with our schematic design process um normal um
060period that we have right now. We have probably another week and a half, two weeks. We'll probably come back to the board in July with a summary of all of all the findings. Um any questions on that? Okay. Um the owner consultants, we uh had the surveyor back out there to delineate the bridge. We're doing a couple small things and we're wrapping up the owner consultants. Um, we are adding in a peer consultant and so that design is going to be starting as well. Um, so that's kind of exciting because we get into that peer foundation work. Um, as Ed mentioned, we've had a good meeting with the city council and we're having five monthly two times a month meetings with the city. Um, so we're targeting two processes to go in for permit. The
061first one site plan review. I did this uh a couple, you know, last week. It's now moved up to July. So, it's July 24th is the application date that NACI just came up with. It's kind of new information. Um and then where the architectural design review um is going to go probably in July as well. Um the user group meetings, we're talking with the ongoing staff about details down to um cabinetry as we move into design development. And then um we'll look at a couple exterior design mixture images. These are the three images that NAC brought to us. I think some of people on the board have seen these images. So, it's just kind of a quick overview of what they presented. They did a great job to give a couple options and great feedback
062from multiple people on multiple committees. Uh this is what also city council saw as a highlight of just some ideas. And then NAC's office is coming back to the district um with it being um kind of a parts and piece of all the um all the layouts and all the exterior elevations. Um moving on to the CTE edition. It's about um 3 weeks behind the um the elementary school, but we just issued our schematic design package last Friday. So that um then I see NAC's a lot of their office went on vacation for a long weekend this weekend. They've worked my point is they've worked really hard to put two packages out. Uh so we're now pricing that scansa similar and um NAC's uh cost estimator Andy's pricing at the same time. So we haven't
063started the reconciliation process yet. Um I just sent out the survey. It was completed at the entire campus off the high school. That's exciting. And the geotechns were done. Um and then having starting design development, we're starting user group meetings as well. So um we're moving on to specific things on cabinetry and things like that. As we move into design development, I had mentioned design the bond oversight committee which was exciting. And that's um some exterior design options that NAC um came up with on the street side. I think um it showed the uh quad side I'll call it the quad side the back side that faces internally on campus and this is the uh facade off of that's all I have >> could you speak uh just a little bit about value engineering so
064for the board and primarily communities benefit how do we ensure that we are balancing durability longevity with afford affordability and cost consciousness, you know, from a taxpayer perspective. >> Yeah, value value engineering is not that you're skimping on maintenance or anything like that in the long-term future. It's really looking at um systems in much more detail now that we have a cost estimate similar to a mechanical system. Generally, when we have information from a designer or a mechanical engineer, they price it through other project that they've done in the last year. Well, with a new cost estimate um that comes from a contractor, then they really look at that system and can provide an accurate price so that we can decide between two equal production mechanical systems that have the same longevity, uh but are
065costs different. And so, um so that's how we choose between two systems. So, that's a good example of like you're not skimping on, uh a maintenance or long-term issues. You're just really choosing between two different systems. And I will say once executive director Fest realized how much a door costs, he's doing his own value engineering as well. And Liz is telling him, you can't build a school at just one door. [laughter] So we're Cliff is working really hard with our architect and builder to make sure that promises made will be promises kept. Uh and they're building a really solid relationship. So that process is going very well. uh because we know it's critically important for future projects as well as this one that what we present to the community we're able to deliver >> and
066we're on track. >> Yeah. And if you really think about it, a year from now we'll be breaking ground at the new elementary school. That's correct. >> So it's a good, you know, good vision that the board had for sure to think that you're that close right now. >> Year from now. And then you mentioned and forgive me I can't remember which meeting it was uh about the time in the ground like it'll be a long time before the community. So it'll be a year before we get into the ground and then a long time in the ground before we get >> um above. >> It's that's that is true especially with some of the site work components that do be starting next April. Um I did just have a call with Scansa and they're
067they're moving fast. there. You know, every month that goes is an escalation component that we can save money. So, um the once once the um pilings go in, they're telling me that's 10 weeks, which is seems like a long time, but um the the layout of the star of the elementary school school sequences very well. And so, what they're going to do is treat it in four quadrants. So, they're finish one component of it of the pilings, move on. and she's sequencing to the next section. So, I think overall this one might seem like it's quicker just because they're moving on to that other portion of the star. >> But generally the pilings will take 10 weeks. >> Okay, >> great. Thank you. >> But once they go vertical, I was just talking to Scansa
068about steel erection that takes about 9 weeks. So once they go vertical, that actually goes pretty fast when you really think about that. >> Wow. >> Yeah, it's exciting. >> Exciting. Yeah. So exciting. So exciting. Great question. >> Forward. Any other questions for Liz? >> No. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thanks, Liz. >> Thank you. >> All right. Financial report for March 2026. Didn't see any questions come through for that. So, we're all good. All good. Thank you, Director Bannon. And now, employee engagement survey presented by Carrie Joy. >> Good evening. Hello. Um, thank you for this opportunity to present our employee engagement survey. um as we've done over the last nine years, uh the district has conduct an employee ga engagement survey twice um a year and that's really just to kind of reach
069out to employees to gauge to see where are we doing things right where can we see some improvement what are some of their needs um for this school year having not changed the questions in some time I work closely with Dr. Lee Cliff Freeze and also Superintendent Hatson Baylor to look at those questions um to maybe revamp them a bit because when you ask the same questions year after year um people tend maybe not to answer those questions. So we kind of revisited looking at what questions we've asked in the past, what could we move to ask this year and really looking at what what are we hoping to gain from this survey that we can better support our employees. So this year we also moved to there were the general questions of what's your
070position and what's your location and then we had 14 questions. Eight of those were on a scale from one to five and six of them were considered long answers. So people could really truly give a response without just picking a one through five. Um so we could visit those things and truly hear from how they feel. It made me think of what Carly shared and you'll see some of the things things she talked about. Adults ask those same things. Adults do want to have fun. They want to have agency. So, it's kind of a continuum of what they're doing to what we're doing um with employees. Um one thing we did do different this year, we added in a neutral response option. we um in talking with both Superintendent Hatsbeer and also uh Cliff Freeze,
071we discussed the reasons for doing that and there's there's pros and cons. But by offering that opportunity to folks, they our thought was too that it gives them a more accurate response when you force someone to say you agree or disagree, >> you know, and we've probably all done those surveys where we're like, I feel like I'm in the middle. I'm really kind of neutral on this. I'm not feeling one way or the other. So, we did add in that neutral response um for this option for this school year. Um because by doing that, it doesn't choose somebody again, make them um choose between agree or disagree. Um it highlights areas that we might need clarification to. So, if someone is answering neutral, maybe how do we get into the right? How do they get
072into that they really agree? It kind of tells us where >> not just those that may not agree, but if we're just kind of hanging in the middle, >> we still I think we have some work to do. Like there are some folks that maybe we can do some improvement on listening to what their needs are. So looking back um as we've done in years past com comparing 25 to 26 um as shared with in years past the information we um we've learned anywhere from 30 to 40% response is considered good. Well this year um with having about 370 employees the fall was higher. We had 146 employees who engaged. Um, great responses from elementary always seem to be up there. Um, spring was lower. You know, we we typically wait till we're back from
073spring break. Um, and ask for those responses. So, you can see that was lower. So, fall was just that 40% um but the spring we were at 29. So, just below that kind of low end um for responses. Um, and with this information too, I do break it down and it's shared building specific. So, principles do get to see staff responses um, and the scoring and how people rated their buildings because by doing so, they can see how things are going their building, what things should maybe they can be addressing or the needs from their building. for the smaller departments, transportation, district office, some of those smaller ones. Since we do get fewer responses, we kind of combine those because we truly want people to know this is anonymous. We don't be able to pick
074out who made those responses. So, we do combine those um and provide those out. >> I'd love Carrie. Sorry. I'd love to see uh next year tell me how the different employee work groups are broken out by number of employees. >> Does that make sense? >> Mhm. >> So like we're looking at 60% classified and >> 22% of 107 is >> Oh yes. So like >> like what does that So if classified represent represented 25.2% 2% of the responses >> what percentage do they represent as part of the total work group >> of the of the aggregate >> of the 370 I see what you're saying okay >> just interesting to see who part who's participating is informative >> in addition to the numbers >> well and what I can tell you on my next
075slide if this is um for workg [snorts] group what I can tell you on this one is our searchs are much higher So like for fall this year out of two 370 employee employ employees for fall 146 responded. Of those 60% were searchs and 32.9 were classified. Okay. So I did I did have it's not on here but I have to make some notes that so we could see what that total looks like. Um in the spring the searchs did did increase to about 70% and our classified went down to 25.2. So they did go down a bit in the responses and I can include that for the next year. It's not broken down but so you can have that. Absolutely. >> Yeah. Just curious. >> So you can see our over the years I've
076looked at we do seem to get a much higher percentage response from certificate staff. >> Yeah. >> That's been real. We do. Yeah. Yeah. And that's an engagement piece for me. It's like why is why is that? And I don't know how to get to that because I want people to know their voice matters. Yeah. >> Right. It does. So, how do we get them to engage like that? Um, and then this one here is breaking down the fall. Um so this is just taking those eight questions that were choosing one through five and you can see um that is and I have some more slides that break those down individually but you know combined I was looking at it those that are rating four to five agree strongly agree 70% 60% but the interesting
077thing is you can see there are quite a few neutrals >> so um folks that were not forced to say I agree or disagree because if you're in the and someone's like, I can't really say I want to agree, so I'm going to say I disagree. Well, it's not necessarily really true answer. So, but having that neutral that's people land in the middle that aren't leading to one side or the other. And then you can see with our 20 um this spring um again, we just had fewer responses um at 107. And um that again is just those breakdown that you can see for all those questions there. I know you've had I don't know if you have questions, but you've had an opportunity, I believe, to review this. So, you can kind of see
078where folks are landing. And again, the buildings get do get a breakdown to see I do a one for each of them pertaining specific to their building. So, they can see where staff land in their building with these. Um, and then the next slides are really just breaking down comparing spring 25 um spring of 2025 to 2026. And it is a little maybe harder harder to compare because we have that neutral SP response in there um that you can see but looking at it as I look at spring um of the agree and um truly agree there's about 66% and we have our our neutrals but we have those on the other end. So you know what are we missing? Where can we improve? So these ones will just really align um with the previous
079slides I share. One thing with this question here, we did add the word agency trying to tie that in. So we expanded on last year's question to do um add the word in agency trying to tie it in like we do so much with our kids. We hear the word a lot. So with that, our next one is we expanded that question to say, hey, with this question, give it, we are now asking for folks the opportunity to explain that, talk a little bit about um building on that question, what specific actions, supports or practices at your work site help you feel ownership in your work? So those are some of the things and you know it gives you a high level kind of a breakdown what it is but then some of the responses
080people said. So those are the the things we need to look at like professional autonomy autonomy um responsive leadership collaboration um students needs are being met. So it kind of walks through the breakdown of those responses. And then the next question again was a long one and it along provide you could provide a long answer. You know what can we improve that strengthen your sense of ownership or influence? And isn't that kind of what we're always asking our kiddos, right? So this just ties to that how can we make you feel a part of it? Um what are we missing? What do we need to make you feel like you're going to have ownership and agency? And and it can be varied because, you know, bus drivers are going to have a different sense of
081ownership. People in the front office, you know, food service, um, tied, you know, down to our our teachers. Um, everyone's input matters. So, that just kind of and I I wasn't going to necessarily read through each of those because I'm saying maybe you had maybe you had questions. So again, now these are just going to go into the breakdown of each of those so that you could truly have the breakdown with questions that were similar to the same, maybe uh changed a bit or did align with that. And you can see as we go through those, that's one of those questions. Um and then what would make you feel [clears throat] more confidence and capable in your work? Like what can we [snorts] give you to make that connection to make it work for you?
082So that um just was another long answer. We wanted opportunity for people to really provide feedback that we can glean from. Um another question that just um had that one through five with the neutral answer in there breaking down. Um if you feel encouraged to share ideas and collaborate with your colleagues, you know, how can it be improved? So you know how how are they working together? How can we help support that? Um followed by at my work site, you know, my co-workers and I how do they how do they deal with conflict? Yeah, that's a really important one. >> Yeah. >> And um it's a question I work with quite a bit with people. And I really feel like a big part of the role I do is listening to people, understanding what they're
083sharing, and if they have a concern that's legit legitimate to them, I want to hear it. how [snorts] can I help them get there and how can I help people come together because at the end of the day folks have to be able to work together right because if they don't I mean we're here for the kids right our expectation is daily we're showing kids how to work together and get along and play nice in the sandbox right so you know we have the same expectation for our employees so how can we better serve them and what can we give them whether it's training or understanding or what those type of things that we can can help them Um, next question. How does their how do they supervisor feedback important? You know, are they getting
084what they need? Is it coming in a matter that's helpful for them? So, that was just another question in the survey. Um, at my work site, I feel valued and treated as a person whose contributions matter. This question to me is so is very important. people, >> they stay because they feel valued and heard. >> And when you feel valued and heard and you feel you're making a difference, I think everybody wants to feel they're making a difference in their day at work, right? >> And at a school, if you work for a school, what better place to make a difference, right? So, what people what they need, what they share, how can we support? So, um I just find this was a um where can we improve on this? And I I look at
085those lower numbers like we're missing the mark on something and my goal is to figure out a way how can we get there of course with their input and hearing from them. All stack matter and uh communication communication comes up every year and you know it's it's interesting because it it runs a spans like we need more communication. And everybody wants it in different ways, but there were some responses. >> There's so much communication. I get so many emails. So, you know, what's that balancing act that people can find? Like, >> can we put it somewhere? Like, I think about our website. Like, things are here. We store them here. We want you to know they're there. Maybe you look when it works for you. Those important things we need to make sure you get
086out and [snorts and clears throat] have communication on. So, communication has always seemed like be a balancing act because it works different for people, different people. The other thing is that we always think of communication as in are we providing these people the information they need but it's also can they communicate to us. >> Absolutely. >> And so I think that that that kind of relates to some other things that >> Yeah, absolutely. >> I would agree. People should feel comfortable because if they can't come and talk to us I mean what are we missing? you know, um I like to think we're my HR team I think is pretty amazing and people are welcome. We're here to help. HR shouldn't be thought of as a scary place. We're truly here to help folks and
087I see that across the board. >> Our amazing administrators, they really want to listen. They want to help. Now, sometimes we have to come to an agreement. It may not be the answer someone hopes to hear, >> but at the end of that, they should know that they're being listened to. that issue is real to them and we're not saying it's not >> right >> but sometimes it's an answer that doesn't quite work for them but um it's made with a reason and a purpose >> right it's not just I'm taking my is how I look at that >> um and then some of these other ones we didn't ask [snorts] these specific questions because we had some more long answers in there um another one you can see and I know you've had the
088opportunity to review this and then sorry I can't I can't see that far so print out in front of me. Um we talked about the communication and I think this one is just the access to let's see I'm sorry I can't see that part. I'm trying to see what cross. Oh, yeah. Communication we talked about and this is across the organization. The other one did talk specific from their supervisors and across the organization, you know, it is a little harder as we grow. We have different departments that share information, right? I'm sharing it out. Plus, they have their building communication. Um, we have so many avenues to communicate to us. We're like, we're getting it out there. It's great. But people can feel overloaded and we have to respect that but ensure they're getting that
089information they really need. Right? So it's it's really a balancing act. We're trying to make sure we're we're doing good at that. Um just another question that uh was not asked on this survey. And then um this question strengthen mutual trust. Trust was a big question we talked about um when I talked with superintendent dealer and cliff freeze. Um how can we build mutual trust and and like you were saying like people should feel comfortable coming and talking to us and being able to share what those concerns are at open door. So, how can we build mutual trust across all levels of the organization? So, they not only can go to their supervisor, they can go to they can come to district office um and feel like they will be heard and they'll be welcomed.
090So, this kind of touches on what are some of those things that we can look at. And then lastly, communication and collaboration, which collaboration is just a big word like how do we collaborate? How do we work together? um how do we exchange that that feedback information? Um but what is one thing we can do as a district to strengthen our communication and collaboration and it range from there's too much to needing it differently. So it's just a balancing act and it does change each year. So some years maybe we're a little closer, other years maybe not. But one thing we know we have to continue to communicate, right? So, um, and then then we just said, "Is there anything we haven't asked that you you'd like us to know how we can better support
091you in your work?" And that varied um, a lot of different responses. And I just want people know we really we read this. It matters to us and we want to see how we can move forward with it. So, that is my presentation. Do you have any questions? >> Uh just comment board. You'll notice some connections between the ideas around clear and consistent communication, questions around intervention support systems, uh questions around clarity on who does what. Part of when I talked earlier about the intervention support systems, the behavior, social, emotional, we see clear links uh with staff frustration in terms of areas and places where systems are working well and areas where they're not. And where they're not, the frustration grows. And so there's a connection between what you see in the survey uh asks
092around professional development and support clarity and consistency. So right now we're running a tri labor uh party workforce with principles classified and certificated to really look at our intervention and support systems. What is the vision of where we want to be? Where are we at today? And then how do we close that gap? And so part of our fiscal investment will tie directly back to the survey that we're seeing of where things are working great. We want to keep that going. Where they're not, we want to lean into that and really improve. So what I would say is earlier what I was talking about and what she's sharing, there's a direct and clear connection. So that work about how we're going to move forward together is in conjunction with all of our labor parties to
093help try to figure that out. How do we close that gap? So we definitely think investment in systems, structure, clear communication and always investing in culture. Always investing in culture. Uh and I would posit to you where we have stronger relational trust with leadership and supervisors, the feedback tends to be more favorable >> and where I don't have a stronger relationship, it tends to be not as strong. Nobrainer. I mean that's common human relation 101. So uh part of our transition uh within and amongst leadership and as we move forward is how do we improve on all of those areas but we are doing that with labor. So whatever they come up with uh what Cliff and I have done we've set aside a plot so we can invest in whatever those tools and supports
094and resources are and then we'll invest in training and professional development to make sure everybody gets on the same page and we move forward collectively. Actually, that was one of the things I was going to ask about was um it would be interesting because you meet in labor relations meetings. It would be interesting to see if you went just to not each member but to the the people that you meet with and say, "So, how could we do this better?" Because they're going to have heard all the all the issues. One of the things Jennifer said to that triil labor party agreement uh it's really born out of a conversation with OEA but we said we have people missing at the table that have to be at the table so we brought others and so
095we've already uh put in place that there will be a sitebased >> tri labor party workforce at each site for next year representatives will come back to the larger process that Carrie will work on with labor so we get that sitebased feedback and communication opening up and that goes back to the broader group to like all right how are we doing collectively. Uh it'll we're just not all having the same conversation and that will open up the doors to hopefully uh lean into that to a greater degree and then of course if they see things change and they know what's going on and we're moving forward uh we think there'll be an impact to the data a year from now at least we hope so. That would provide um as uh Superintendent Hatsby was talking
096about little consistency across because when buildings are coming together or groups from buildings and hearing from one another, everybody starts doing things a little different. >> But if there can be some cons consistency and people leaning on one another, how are things are doing and what's working for them, that'll also be helpful within this um group we're talking about. So I had one other question and that was so the open-ended questions. I mean I'm really glad to see the responses but I wondered are is each one of them connected to one that they also then give a one through five uh commitment to. The only reason why I'm asking that is so that then you have the data from one year to another to compare which you don't have with the open-ended questions. I kind
097of like to see the open-ended questions for some of the ones that you also have the data for. >> Not not directly. Uh part of what I discussed with Carrie a little bit, there are surveys that are go into greater depth that do a better job than what you're saying it's a little bit more actionable. >> Uh the trade will be timed and linked and will we see engagement. So, I I do think there are probably better tools out there to give greater actionable feedback cuz that's one of the challenges we've had is when 35 people have a different opinion about communication. All right. Well, that's hard to really get some clarity around. Uh but I do think we can examine different tools over time and see does something else help us better actionize the
098data. But I think, you know, holistically, uh we're kind of narrowed to the right groups of things. clear, consistent communication, really improving sightbased culture and relational trust and clear systems that everybody knows what the plan and routine is and we train and support and develop around that. And we think if we move into those spaces, we're going to really work uh together to improve where we're at on that front. >> Um I did have one recommendation for getting more people involved. you know, how we had to um for the safe schools uh tutorials, how we had to have some time set aside for it. So, like say a building meeting, you know, okay, we're not actually having a a whole hour building meeting. You have part of this time to take the survey. I mean
099to to give the opportunity um if we're going to value it, I think we should show them some way >> support. >> Yeah. >> I had a question and I'm not looking for an answer, but one of the conversations we've had in past years is whether we do this twice a year or once a year. And that was something else I thought of is is it necessary to do it twice a year or would I want that time invested on addressing the findings? >> Um, so just something to consider that has come up in the past. >> Yeah, good question. If we were to move to more in depth, certainly I would be thinking about maybe reduce frequency in favor of greater depth and then incorporate that into the school improvement planning process around setting
100goals around that and reflecting. >> Yeah. >> Um >> that can help on participation too. People are like I just you know might feel like I just did it. >> Part of the I think twice a year in the onset was really through the recruitment retention. If we're losing people, why? We really headed that off at the past. Like there is so little turnover. Uh we're retaining very well, recruiting very well. Uh Nita screened over 100 applicants for one teaching position. >> That's amazing. >> Uh so we I think we're we've gotten out of the woods on some of those issues and we've really improved overall relational trust and good trustful working relationships with our labor partners. So uh that could be something we definitely take a look at. The other thing about doing it
101twice within the year instead of you're you're comparing the same group that way as as as opposed to um if you're doing it just each fall then you're comparing one group to a different group you know because the population like say oh yes it's good >> it's going to be a whole different >> situation so I >> I can see the benefit of both of them. >> Yeah. So, yeah, I wanted to just quickly say I appreciated um you verbally um announcing that some of these questions are geared to the same things we're doing with our students. And I think that systemwide if you're um you have your staff members that are all in on what we're trying to give the students with that agency and that same kind of feeling um that they should
102feel the same from, you know, above them as well. So, I really like that that was um actually thoughtfully inserted into the survey. >> Thank you. I thought of that. I didn't write it down, so thank you. [laughter] >> Well, I think it shows too. I think it shows staff that we care about kids. That's why we're here, [clears throat] right? We're here for kids, but we care about you, too, >> right? And so your your feedback is just as important to us as the students feedback. So, um, >> well, when our staff feel cared, just like our kids, when they feel cared for, >> we want them here, >> it's a great place for them. >> I mean, they want to come and they're going to bring others and they need to feel that
103cuz then they'll exude that to their students would be my thought. So I would also personally say that we all know that in the spring, >> you know, things are a little difficult and people's tempers were a little shorter, you know, versus the fall when it's all new and everybody's getting used to each other still. So even though >> the answers might not be as favorable in the spring, I think it's a good time to do that, especially for some of the harder questions. >> Yeah. And it could be you did it once. It could be just it a little later. So some time in the year, [laughter] then you um run the survey and then it gives administrators time to review that and act on it. Have conversations about it um for the remainder
104of the school year. Yeah. There's some options there. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Yes. >> Cool. Thank you so much. >> Nice. >> Thank you, Carrie. Kathy, you had asked me about employee survey. Does this satisfy what you were hoping to know? >> Um, my other questions I already talked to Ed about. So, yeah. >> Great. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Next up, we have second reading of a handful of policies. I saw no further discussion, but I want to check check. Good. Good. All right. So I will take a motion to approve the second read policies. >> I will move to approve the second reading of policy considerations. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. Motion passes. >> All right. Next up is consent agenda. >> Move to approve
105items 1 through 7 on the consent agenda. Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I >> I motion passes. >> Thank you to Bates agreement. All right, we have a handful of action items. Just be over here scrolling. [laughter] Uh first up is academic calendar presented by [laughter] a >> long time no see. >> Yes. >> Sure. Miss K. >> This is the first time we haven't had K. >> It is time off. She's like Carrie. I said I I I got you. You're good. [laughter] So Ken did engage again this year because we do um when we come together and I did lean on Ken. This is my first year working on this, but uh Holly Mortonson who had worked on this before left some great notes and so did Debbie. So was myself,
106Heather Hints. Um uh Kar join in again and Aaron Sluka from the PSC side. So we chose representative um at our meetings. >> Oh, we're having some technical difficult. So I'm not seeing any um other slides populate here. So I will say during my homework I took a look at this and I couldn't believe how >> similar they were. >> Mhm. >> So I thought that was pretty interesting. >> Yeah. >> And obviously a clear favor. >> Carrie, is there any way you could um >> refresh? Maybe >> you might just continue. Do you have >> Yeah, I can. Yeah, >> it's I think you all have it on >> board. So I can just walk through it. >> Typically each year we go out and look at actually Ken went out to see other
107districts. There's only one other district that's actually working on the 2728 and that was Sar Bounty Lake School District that had had any data. Theirs was similar to ours but they are actually starting school on August 31st that year. >> Oh wow. >> So a little different. They have some different built-in days. So um but that that uh the calendar committee met a few times that come together with the information we did send out the initial survey uh one went to staff and then one went to the community with the same questions. Um and after having those results uh we work with OEA because interesting in the OEACBA it does call for three calendars. uh the last few years we've done anou with them because the results aren't such that we could even come up
108with three say maybe a minimum of two or something. Yes. >> So, having been the person that actually negotiated that and K was the very first person who got involved with it. Um, it's because that way we there were some options and the teachers had >> and class and certified and classified had some input and which was really welcome because before that we didn't have it. filled with it. >> Yeah, it's it's good history and you know people they do want to have input just you know as our community does and we share it out with them. So um carrier back oh thank you appreciate it. Okay we just thought of number two here. So uh so as I mentioned the survey data was um used to create two calendars because as you'll see from
109the responses um so responses for the community 93 I asked um someone to run a report for me of how many families we have in like family one. So of 93 responses that's a little over only 5%. just to have you gauge um the percentage of each. So for community 93 responses, I was thrilled to see 93 um but it's about 5% of staff responses. It's about 44% of around of our staff. So you can see >> typical survey response rates are one and a half 2% maybe two and a half on a great day. So to have five is fantastic. >> I just don't want to skip over that. That's like actually great. So it was I think it was 5.3 actually. So it so you can see on the responses on those first
110questions it lined up like >> the um the community and the staff agreed on the first day. Um spring break again hands down same day. Then we got to our snow makeup day. That was a little different. So that one um you can see was a swing a little different by our staff. Um, >> they need that day in March. >> I'm just thinking because it's a I always hear it's a March is a long >> March is a long month. >> And I think and when we asked the time we're asked in the survey, it's pretty much still like >> in their rearview mirror, so I'm sure it could weigh in. But um, so when we did the final two calendars, both calendars reflected all the legal holidays. same first day of school, all
111those breaks and everything. So, we list down there professional development day, spring break, and the second snow makeup day. Then on the staff voting on the second time had 167 responses. Um, you can see which way they decided to go. They did want to move to that March option. You know, it's not a real big spread, >> but it is. It's there. you can see um which one staff uh weighed in on and it could be solely like um you mentioned maybe just they're needing that extra day in March a little bit. >> So um >> A is connected to President's Day. >> Yes, it is >> basically one long weekend and then they don't get a break in March. So >> it does >> I can see why March 10th is a better >>
112I can understand maybe families are accustomed to that. maybe it's a time that they're able to take a vacation. >> Um, but you know, our staff work hard and they're going to >> kind of, you know, try and line up what might work well for them. Um, so they can come back refreshed, engaged because they're feeling good. >> Our kids are going to feel it. So, respectfully, um, based on the outcome of our staff, um, we were requesting to, um, your vote for the option B count. Thank you. Okay. >> I think it's good for our students to have a break in March, too. >> Yep. It's a long month for them, too. Yeah. >> Oh, boy. Any questions? No question. >> Okay. And thank you for the presentation, Carrie. Uh board, you have the
113option of making a motion for A or B. So, I will take a motion. If there's no further discussion, >> I move to approve calendar option B for the 2027 2028 academic calendar year as presented. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. Motion passes. We have a new CTE conditional certificate. I move to approve the request for issuance of new CTE conditional certificates by OSPI for the 202627 school year. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I >> I motion passes. >> And then with the renewal of CTE conditional certificates, I move to approve the request for issuance of CTE conditional certificate renewals by OSPI for the 2627 school year. I second it. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I motion passes. >> And then we have an out of
114endorsement waiver. I move to authorize educator Gavin Anderson to be able to teach in the area of special education through a board approved out of endorsement assignment waiver effective March 31st, 2026. Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes. >> And a second out of endorsement waiver. I move to authorize educator Lane Williams to be able to teach in the area of coral music through a board approved out of endorsement assignment waiver effective May 11th, 2026. >> Second. >> Thank you all. All in favor? >> I motion passes and alternative learning experience program. >> I move to approve the alternative learning experience program. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes. We've all lost steam. [laughter] >> And my favorite surplus request. >> This was a
115good one. >> It's a fine line. >> Can I get a motion? >> I move. [laughter] >> I finally figured it out. I move to accept the surplus request as presented. >> Second. Thank you. All in favor? I believe don't know. >> All right, scrolling back. >> Oh, crying out loud. Board self- assessment questions. Board comments and discussion. Uh, >> self assessment questions for review. um for the questions for our self assessment are presented here. Uh this is everybody but love you. We've taken this now multiple times. Um I would just encourage you to take a look at the questions and uh often we are aligned but also it's really good to think through the questions and if you have a question about what the question is referring to. Don't hesitate to ask. That's where
116we've gotten tripped up on uh survey responses in the past. We go look at the responses and we might not have alignment and it's because we've interpreted the question differently. Okay. >> So, I invite you to take a look at those and feel free to ask. >> Um, >> okay. >> And then, uh, board, this is a new timeline compared to what we've done in years past. So, the plan is that Bonnie will send the link on the 22nd and I believe we have two weeks. Oh, it says two weeks to complete it. So, set yourself some time. What, like 15 minutes for that about how long it takes? 15, 20 minutes. roughly >> depends on if you're interrupted, >> right? [laughter] And then uh we'll review the results at our July meeting. >> Okay.
117All right. And then are there any additional board comments? No. Oh, could Bonnie, could you verify the um date of the senior award night at the high school, please? I think Dallas said the 29th and I have the third on my calendar. >> It is the third. >> It's the third. >> Yeah. I have two things in my calendar just labeled award. [laughter] Well, quit getting so many, >> right? >> Yeah. >> So, it's the 3. >> And I have 6 to 8:00 p.m. >> on my calendar. So, >> is it in the pack? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> That is what is on your calendar. That is correct. Right. Did you find it someplace else? Is that why you were asking? >> No, I don't. I think Dallas just mentioned he thought it was
118on the 29th. I just wanted to verify it was >> what date that was. >> Trouble. I think he wants it to. >> Yeah. He's like, "Let's wrap this puppy." >> Like, "Let me out of school." >> And I appreciate that you asked cuz I wrote down what Dallas said and I had a look at [laughter] the calendar. So, >> well, I kind of Wait a minute. >> Oh my goodness. Okay. Okay. Perfect. >> I'm all set. that I will adjourn tonight's meeting at 7:4.