001Thank you. I will call this meeting to order tonight. Thank you. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God, indivisible and justice for allbody. Okay. All right. First item on the agenda. I'd like to give board recognition and we have quite a bit to celebrate in the district. I would like to start by inviting our union members to the podium and [Laughter] So each year we take time to celebrate the incredible impact of our boarding education association members. This year we have plans to officially recognize them during our educator appreciation week which is May 5th through the 9th. contributions are evident throughout the year. I discuss the upcoming collaborator more intentionally on the vital role play and members play in the lives of students. We are
002truly grateful for all of all of you and that you chose to be a part of and we want to thank for the care and kindness and professionalism you bring to this. Thank you. And if you wouldn't mind, if you wouldn't mind, please introduce yourself and share what part of the district that you're responsible for that you're all here together. I don't know yet. I remember schoolaching. I think you know we love working together. She says she makes make learning fun. Yep. Uh Jaden, Carly, any any words from either of you before we bestow. Just thank you guys. Thank you. We would love to gather a photo. We can meet you over here for Would you grab a chi or two and pass that out to Miss Bonnie? Would you mind doing the honors? Emergency.
003[Music] Like I said, you're just part of the family. Scooch in. Scooch in. Sorry. Get closer. I think you're good. You guys ready? Count of three. One, two, three. Awesome. I'm going to take a couple up here. Make sure his eyes are open. Fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you. Do we have anyone? Anyone from the group? Yes. [Music] All right. I think we're good. Y'all are welcome to stay or get we have played uh tomorrow we will have played nine games in 11 days and we won the play was kind of We know. Enjoy. Have a good night. But still being share community. Let's turn off the she's gonna be here. All right. So, we have additional board recognition to share tonight. So, I will turn it over to the board. I will um
004kick it off with um a shout out to the or high school. Uh they facilitated two excellent field trips that help students connect classroom learning with real world opportunities. Um speaks right to me. Uh first students visited Belmont Cabinet Company in Sar where they learned about career paths in manufacturing and saw how their coursework at Gordon High School aligns with the industry needs. Uh secondly, a group of students took a tour of the University of Washington Tacoma campus and students not only explored the campus but also engaged with representatives from other Washington colleges gaining valuable insight to their postsecary options. I want to say a big thank you to the educators um that took them out on that and for supporting these hands-on learning experiences. Yeah, I would just add I had an opportunity to
005learn quite a bit about Belmont at the project grad option or auction and they have a fantastic just belief in students and helping them get on their feet in the trades. So just shout out to Belmont for being partner. I I want to say a shout out. Um I want to recognize students that proudly represented Oring in the annual daffodil parade. Um I also walked in all four, so that was awesome. Um the tradition is a wonderful opportunity for the students to showcase their their school spirit and community pride. Thank you to everyone that had helped organize, prepare, and perform. It was a joy to see the students show And one more thing to add on that. I just want to shout out to the students who volunteered to help with the wording capital float
006and to Carly who coordinated our princesses and we were able to win an award and part of that was because of their dance moves and the animation they have float. So yeah, it was a really good definitely something definitely that we want to keep here. love it. I I would just like to um give a shout out to um the librarians that we have in our district. I mean, it's so much more than just checking out a book now. It's like they're media specialists. They do read I know at PTR they do they read, they teach reading strategies when the kids are in there and it just makes a big difference. The kids love going in now. They love to to be part of that. So, um there's a lot of different hats that they
007have to wear now. So I just thank them for all that they do um with all the students because every every grade level there's something new to learn and to do. Thank you. I would just like to add that uh I want to recognize the creativity and the enthusiasm for our get outside OSD initiative. I love the pictures that are being posted. Um, we received many submissions showcasing outdoor adventures and one standout came from 10th grade student Miles who explored the tide lands with friends and even forged for nettles. Curious to know what he was doing with those so thank you to everyone who has participated so far and we are excited to grow this initiative. So, community, if you're watching this, please continue to send uh send in your pictures and tag your outside
008OSD. Perfect. Anything else, board? Good. Okay. Well, I don't believe we've got any community or staff comments tonight. We do not. We do not. So, I'm going to turn it over to Superintendent Haters. Good evening, board. Uh, happy to share some sound bites from the last month, uh, since we've been together. Uh, we broke the internet a few times this spring. Uh, one was L elevating to central office. People really happy and wishing him well. Another was hiring his replacement, Matt Carlson. That got a lot of buzz. And the third thing that got some buzz this spring was four double portables showing up in the parking lot over spring break. Uh I I think I stopped counting after a hundred comments, but I'm pretty sure we were close to two. Uh as you recall, we've
009been talking about this for a year or more. We put this in our October newsletter to advise the local community that goes to every resident and we sent monthly reminders after the holidays, J uh February, March, and then again during spring break. But nothing prepares you quite like seeing the preparation of the road. Uh so we did put a letter to our parents and guardians shortly thereafter just reminding them what happened to the parking plan and what the future plans are, things like that. Uh our intention is to really have those housed and ready to go for the start of school. If you recall the portables that came last July, we didn't really get the ability to move in until close to Christmas. And the classes that were slated to be there, the intervention and
010support uh classes had to be in the hallway for the first five months. And uh one thing I know, you can't put eight classrooms of high school students in your halls for the first five, six months of the year. So, we need to get early jump so we can be uh ready to go for the fall. Uh the other piece that we're just trying to be reminding our local community of is we're expecting 1,500 homes to hit our district between calendar years 2025 and 2026. And we don't really know how many students that will bring, maybe up to 300 on the high side. So, we need to make sure we have elementary and high school capacity. This move adds a couple classrooms to the high school and six classrooms at uh Oring Elementary School. Uh
011the bond task force is going in full force. Uh you get to meet with them next Thursday. Since we last met, we took a tour of Oring Elementary and Oring High School. And I want you to hear some of the comments uh after walking and talking with our high school students uh elementary students and our staff at both schools. Uh these are just a few. I about a page and a half worth of notes. One person said, "How can we rate a facility's fair? Many things are not to current code." If you recall that asset preservation and the yearly work we do, we have to rate things from poor to fair to good to very good. Uh they thought fair was too generous based on the condition that they saw. Uh another person remarked that
012our dryer venting is outside actually in our hallways and said that's not okay. They noticed that at the high school. If you remember when that was built that used to be outside and when we grew we enclosed that. So that's something they picked up on. Uh another person said the facilities at both schools are actually worse than she expected. U another person said the facility condition and distance are creating a loss of learning. They remarked and picked up on that seven minutes of passing. And at the point we were sitting sitting there as a task force, they were looking outside and it was dumping and they got to see what our students face every day when the weather is poor. They're outside. They're not safe. They're not inside and protected. Uh and so they picked
013up on the long passing times and also how spread out our high school students are. They said there's no room to eat inside. Uh so lots of comments. They're coming to you next Thursday. Just reminding you and our public, they have reviewed your facility capacity condition. They've discussed with staff and our students some of our current challenges. They've looked at your future enrollment growth through 2035. Uh they've analyzed the previous bond attempts. We've sent data by precinct of what's happened. All four. We've talked about our tax rates and what's been on the different project uh list. Uh we also look at assess valuation and what current project cost estimates are. We move from small groups to whole group to get a sense of where the consensus priorities are. And next Thursday, uh you'll get to
014break bread together at noon. We've invited them in for lunch. At 12:30, you'll have the next hour to talk about what are emerging priorities, what do you think you should do, and why. And I did send you uh the recent election results today from this week. Uh just to speak to that a little bit, three capital facilities were on the ballot. None are currently passing. Uh there are seven educational program and operation levies. Two of the seven are currently passing. Uh and there were five bonds uh on the ballot. Two are currently passing. Pewallet that was above 60% in the February election, but they didn't validate. Uh they dropped five or six percentage points and so they're below 60% and also not on track to validate currently. So, uh, what we've seen is the market
015is kind of concerned about tax rates and rightfully so. So, you'll have a lot to think about and consider, uh, next week during that meeting. Uh, we do want to give a shout out and a thank you to Central Pierce Fire and Rescue. They received, I believe was a4 million dollars from, uh, federal grant money and we were able to access free carbon monoxide alarms and batteries for our central office, our schools, all of our office spaces. Uh, so our facilities team has been busy installing those. So, we're able to cover the entirety of the district and we have a promise for ongoing battery support as well. They have a pretty decent supply. So, we'll make sure we can keep those up to date uh for a long time. Uh we do appreciate also our
016emergency responders. There's some of the same crew out there, Arrive Alive. That's an event we host every year before prom and they actually go through a reenactment. They show some damaged vehicles and what would it actually look like to extract an occupant from a vehicle. Uh, and I'm happy to say all of our students, juniors and seniors, not only arrived alive to prom, but made it home safely. Uh, we just love to get that visibility and awareness out there and say thank you to those emergency responders for everything they do. Uh, happy to say we were signers, contributo signers with 13 other districts in Pierce County with the Puallup Tribe of Indians. Uh, that was an honor with the tribe. They really have deep appreciation. The history in education is not a positive or a
017strong one for many of their members, including some of their elders who have either experience with boarding schools or parents that did. And so to have schools where students can be who they are, to have their hair long, to wear cedar caps or regalia graduation that uh able to speak their language without punitive punishment and that sort of thing means a lot. So they were very excited. Uh we hosted a ceremony where all the superintendents or designates from each of the districts signed and we were greeted with uh not only elders but council tribal members uh which was really cool. So we're able to do that and I'm also happy to say Bonnie and I scored two jars of huckleberry jam uh and it was delicious. So pretty happy about that. uh Chamber of Commerce,
018Tanner, Abby, Carly, Emily, Hayden, I don't know board. If you're interested in recognizing them publicly, we could certainly uh but donating their time to the Chamber of Commerce was really appreciated and we had a lot of boarding representation in the parade. So, huge celebration to the staff and kids that participated and the community that came out to celebrate them. It was a packed house. Uh happy to say my time as Wasa 111 president is wrapping up. We have two more meetings. One is tomorrow and we're hosting it right here in the Ording School District. Author, researcher Dr. Paul Bloomberg will be with us in person. He had so much fun last time on his own dime. He decided to fly back up to Oring and offered a 2-hour extended session for all Watson members free
019of charge. Uh and so we'll have a lot of superintendents or regional leaders uh right here in our office here this morning or tomorrow morning and we'll be here bright and early at 6:30. you have a copy of the book amplified learner voice uh you will have an hour yourself up to an hour 45 minutes however long you want uh next Thursday with Dr. Bloomberg he literally wrote not the book but a book on learner agency he actually wrote two of them so it might be an opportunity just to rub elbows and say all right what what are you liking what's really working what are you wanting to celebrate what do you want to see more of uh and then we're also using a lot of his impact teamwork and are thinking about how to
020really elevate our systems to ensure that every child is benefiting from a learning outcome so he'll be with us across the region tomorrow morning and we'll see him again next Thursday you have a chance to have some conversation with them. Uh where are they now? This was kind of fun. Wazu and University of Washington went headto-head last week with lacrosse and two former grads. Logan Hall was part of our state championship team. Uh he's number 10. Luke Freeze number 16. Uh we went up to Udub to go cheer on uh the Cougs as they battled the dogs. Unfortunately, dogs came out on top. Uh but uh the students left from there. They were headed up to uh British Columbia right after. So uh they're still out being active, which was a lot of fun to
021cheer them on. And you might remember Naen Brandt or Dean uh as they went by. So Dean was there cheering on Logan and uh Luke, which was pretty cool. Uh she got a few more tattoos since you've seen her last, but she's doing really well and her studies are going strong. Uh thanks for the shout out for our certificated staff. Uh Britney's cooking up some ways to really elevate stories and recognition. she reached out to the community to see who might have an interest in honoring certain folks. So, she's been bit uh busy gathering photos and whatnot. You'll see those unfold uh starting on May 5th. A reminder to you, any of you that would like to come out. May 30th is our all staff barbecue appreciation. And we just love that visual representation where
022we're not picking and choosing who gets honoring, but everybody comes together, including our central office staff, our non-reps. Uh, and we'll have some delicious chicken and ribs if you're so interested. I have some blue gloves that need Yeah, we will have some gloves ready for you to help. Uh, I told you this, but I didn't lift it publicly. Uh, we are very happy that the school director association selected your very own boarding middle school choir to do two songs this November. Uh, I know you're going to discuss this next week to see who might be attending. Uh, this year it's in Seattle, November 20th through 22nd. I don't know the exact date, but because they've been asked to do the national anthem, it probably is the 20th, but I'll get clarity as we get closer.
023Uh, but we'll be happy to host our middle school choir at WADA. And, uh, I don't know their second song, but I think they're going to try to tie it in with whatever the theme is. Last year's perspective. I'm not sure what the theme is. Uh, really improving learning outcomes. Here's a shot of your middle school math team working with a facilitator trainer that's not only integrating that building thinking classrooms that you've heard and seen in our board work sessions. Uh director Rab has talked a little bit about that as well, but it's integrated with our actual curriculum that they're in year two of implementing. So they're able to talk and think about how do we modify or use what we have in a way that maximizes student voice that gets them really in deeper
024conversation building conceptual thinking. So, we're continuing that professional development and they're very appreciative uh of your investment in that and I know director AB and May will have some recommendations for further adoptions uh for your consideration. Uh next week, uh we're going to be together. You have a full day 8:00 start on Thursday and part of what we're going to do is find strengths. So, thinking about your strategic plan, you're actually next year is year three. So, you're coming up in the near end. So, what is really working? What are the strengths? What have you heard and seen that you want to recognize and celebrate? What are emerging priorities? Maybe there's some of the same. Maybe there's some of the new. So, we're going to engage you in reflection. Uh remind you and take a
025look at next year's calendar, what we did this year, what our proposal is for next year. Uh we'll dive right away into norms, operating agreements. Uh you'll have some bond conversation. You'll dig into self assessment. So, you got about a week left to think about, all right, what's been really working? What are you excited about? What is it in those goals that you think is some of the right tools for success for our system? And then we'll talk about all right, what's working and what can we do to improve? Uh lastly, uh you'll see a recommendation for next year in work policy. They try to bring that to you a year ahead of time, but you probably forgot about this because you saw early this year. Fifth grade's going to camp. So, we have overnight
026camp coming up next month. Uh so, by time we meet again, I'm sure we'll have some camp stories. That's boarding elementary and Charming Ridge going to Camp Arnold. Uh not on the same days, they have some overlapping days. Uh and we're excited for that outdoor experiential learning. And it's first time that we not that we've done it, but since we've returned from the pandemic that we've had the overnight option. We've had a day trip, but first time coming back to overnight. Lastly, uh we want to just give a strong thank you to our local farmers, our community partners that help to support the FFA. Uh there are some of the students. We had a record number of entries in terms of our hogs, including one that wasn't quite heavy enough. So, if you or anyone
027you know wants to buy into a local market hog for a low price, uh Chloe's selling hers for a reasonable price point. Uh but I just wanted to say thank you to our local farmers and uh donors. That goes a long way to helping these kids and they just are beaming with pride. You can see everyone. In fact, uh once taking a nap on her pig, which is I thought a good photo. Uh but it was a lot of fun seeing them at spring fair and uh within the last week they've been at both elementaryaries doing some of their uh farm-totable presentations, working with our elementary students, which we just saw. Uh and that will be coming up on social media within the next week or so. Britney, grab some photos. So, I think that
028wraps up uh just some sound bites from the last month and happy to answer any questions you might have. Um, I have to tell you, um, fifth graders need to test this. I'm very excited. I've been hearing about it from law. Um, and, uh, I shared the thing about the Puall tribe and the agreement. I share re-shared it on Facebook and I have friends and family that live all over the country and people were very impressed. They were very impressed especially. They said, you know, at this point in time to be making sure that we are honoring that group that they were they were very impressed. So got lots of comments from a lot of people for that. Very good. Any additional comments or questions? Always a lot going on. All right. First item on
029our reports tonight is always our student representative report. So, who's going first? I'm going first. Um, it's been a while. It's been a while. And we our notes that we're bringing to the board today is from March. We went to go visit all of us. So, it's been a while. Um, we went to go visit Mr. Scapes by Pop Club and really um kind of emphasize those voices. Um, and there was a few issues that got brought to our attention. So, um, for starters, um, there are apparently slurs and other like derogatory writings um, written in bathrooms like on the stall doors or like papers and they're just like thrown around. Um, I remember that a lot in middle school. I remember it was pretty bad in middle school. Um, and it's become like a
030sort of normalization where it's like you can't really get every single student in trouble because of how much it happens. Like well, they'll get in trouble, but it's like not severe enough where they'll it stops the problem. Um, so it's like normalization of slurs being said in schools shown in school environments. Um, it's like less strict. It's kind of just, hey, don't do that and then move on. Um, and then also what I've realized is once moving to the high school level, uh, a lot of racism and other like discrimination is kind of less obvious. It's not like it is in middle school where they're just throwing slurs and like words at you. But, um, like I don't know what a good example is, but just once you move up, it's like less um, yeah,
031less obvious, less still an issue that I feel doesn't get a lot of recognition. Like when you think of issues within your school, you're not oh at one's racist because it's not super blatant on your face. Um but it still affects a lot of students that I realize. Did they talk about like what they'd like to see done? Did they offer like it would help me if this I it was more just like discipline like more I wish students like got actually in trouble for what they did. Okay. It was more like more accountability. Yeah. More accountability. And then a second issue which yeah a second issue is just a little bit like it's just more paper towels. [Applause] But it leads into something else as well. Um it's it's just like like little issues
032that we don't recognize. But a student um mentioned that she she has autism and she has sensory issues from like her wet hands and when she doesn't have anything to dry her hands with it really like it it's hard for her. It's a lot harder for her. And so it's like it's those things that you don't really think about as like more paper towels are really affecting people like that. And so those type of things. Yeah. All right. Um switching gears. Um a lot of stuff you guys covered about like the Rival Live and all the field trips that have been happening this week. So I don't really have much for you besides um spring sports are starting to come to an end pretty soon. Um, I know soccer is next week. It's going to
033be their last game. Um, May 1st is also their senior night. Um, and tonight we have lacrosse is senior night against Peninsula. So, I'm definitely that after this. And then, um, tomorrow night we have baseball, softball, and soccer. So, sports. It's going fast. Is it going fast for you, Jaden? I actually quit soccer. Oh. Is school going fast? Yes. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yeah. School speeding towards the end. And another thing I wanted to bring up. I was going to bring it up earlier when we were talking about the field trips, but today actually I went on a field trip to the showware center in Kent and for a career fair. And Miss Fry has been putting like making sure that we make it to like every career and college fair that is in the
034area and I always opt to go to every single one of them. And it was such a cool experience. Like I think one they have lanyards that have like boarding school district on them and the like and they got gave it to us for free and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Um, I got to make my own metal tin box. Like they gave us like the steel like sheets of paper or not paper, the steel. Yeah. And then we like had the h the equipment and gloves and we like hammered and put together a box which is super cool. I got to lay bricks which was really cool. And like so it was just like a it was just I think it's such a cool opportunity to just like experience all those
035seats because I wouldn't think I would be interested in like playing bricks but like now that I've tried it it's like that is like so fun. So yeah it's fun to get dirty. Yeah. It's interesting because I know somebody who's in that field and it is a lost art. It's um there are no people coming up to want to do that work and so it's going to be a real struggle for real brick facilities and any of any of that. So it's cool that you got to experience that. Did a lot of kids go? Yeah, we had two buses. Good. There's another, just so you guys know, tell your friends, there's another career fair called fairgrounds May 17th and 18th. Um, that's a construction trains and you actually get to like get the equipment, dig
036some dirt, move it around, and there's stuff for little kids and then stuff for adults, which are adults. So, another sport, you know, anybody. That's cool. Yeah. I'm glad you got to go do that. I I know the trades are struggling to get people in. So, it's good that they're doing this and that students are are going and getting excited there. I wanted to piggy back on Mr. Collins told us that the task force meeting that there are 10 CT volleyball teams at the middle school. That's how many kids. And when you go up there for sports, there's no parking. It is just there are so many kids going out for all kinds of activities and sports throughout the district. It's just amazing. Thank you for the student. Are you going to get an opportunity
037to visit with students again before the end of the year or is that kind of winding down? Yeah. And we still have another meeting before the end of the year. So I'd love any any additional feedback or anything from the students that want to bring forward bringing their voice forward is really important and a priority for the board. So encourage you to Yeah, just to piggy back off of that, just so that wasn't a pleasant conversation or a really nice update to give. Um, but I applaud you for for bringing it. It's really important that that we hear that stuff. We're not out there with the kids, us on the board. So, we might have some grandchildren or children still in school, but there's there's so much that we miss. And even if it's not
038um like a flower. We really do appreciate your financial report. So, there's a bus on order. Oh, that's good. I saw that. Where will we park it? one spot at the portable. Any questions on that? And then next we have a report from Christensen about sexual harassment prohibited. I see any questions. All good. All right. Thank you. And the next item is presented by director So the Washington school improvement framework we've been talking about now for a couple years. It's been a little bit confusing to track it because uh it started with the identification 2017 18 which is supposed to be a three-year identification. Then CO got in the middle of that turned it into a 5-year identification. Then the next cycle started in 2223 uh and it was instead of a three-year cycle it
039was a 2-year cycle. Then the third cycle started in 22 24 which actually over overlapped with cycle So when I go in and I try to find out what identification is where and stuff like that, it gets a little bit muddy for me. It's it can be a little bit confusing. Um I've set this you you've seen this information in terms of how the identification is made. They have the different components of uh the assessment portion, high school graduation, uh ELA math uh achievement, ELA math growth. They all the schools score in all of those things and then they take the entire state scores and they divide them into 10 categories. So they determine what those what those categories are so that there's 10 decileis across the entire state and then our schools fall in
040within one of those based on their score. They get a one through 10 score in each of those different categories as it as it pertains to them. And then the composite score is what determines whether or not students are in need for identification. And you can kind of see with this slide here, these are the grade levels with which these indicators happen. So they don't happen across all grade levels. Obviously, high school graduation uh would be and uh ninth grade on track and dual credit would be high school only. Uh attendance is all grade levels. English language progress is all grade levels. uh ELA and math third grade through 8th grade and then again in 10th grade. Um and then growth uh fourth grade stops at 8th grade. The reason for that growth is determined
041by two years of testing. So kids in the third grade the test score that they get in the third grade it puts them into a cohort. And then the test score that they get in the fourth grade is compared to their previous cohort test score. And if they were higher than that cohort, then they made growth. If they were lower, then they didn't make growth. So that's the first time we see student growth is in the fourth grade because it's the two-year piece. We don't see it in high school because there's only one testing year. So the last year we see student growth is in the eighth grade. And then dual credit again is just high school only. We this actually gives you the breakdown as to which of the indicators what percentage of their
042composite score uh makes up that because we fit into this. There's a whole list of categories of small schools and learning things. But this is the one that applies to the learning school district. So what I did was I presented for you an update for each of the schools. This is uh uh Oring Elementary School. Now, what's interesting with Oring Elementary School when we get to this slide is they don't have any marks for low income or student with disabilities or whatnot like that and I anticipate that as grades have been changing that this next year you'll literally see you'll literally see measurements in all of those categories because now they have all the grade levels in there. But they're above the threshold, the all schools threshold. Um and so they uh are labeled as
043foundational support which means all's good. Keep doing that. And then uh Carneg Ridge as you know has been in a couple of levels of support. Their cycle two level of support was a compound level support for only one area. It was English language learners. So it was one group but it was in a compound support because they were below the all schools threshold as well as the title one threshold. And so they uh they managed to get themselves out of that within the next cycle, cycle three, but then they were identified for students with disabilities. You can see the line there that they're just based on just 2014. They're right on the cusp. So they've made growth in that area. We did see a drop in low income. So they're below they're both things are
044above the title one threshold but they're below the all schools threshold but they're what is that 0.12 or something. I mean they're they're very very close to bridging the gap. So they moved from a compound situation where they had to submit a school improvement plan and we had a coach that met with us and whatnot and that moves them into support tier one which means it becomes our school district's responsibility to monitor and support them and that continues to be the case for them. You can kind of see I've kind of boxed in the three-year trajectory of what's happening in both of those areas. So you can see that with uh low income, they just had kind of a dip uh from one year to the next uh a little bit of a a dip
045with students with disabilities, but again even that threshold for that year dropped down a little bit. So they're they even got closer to the threshold. Oring middle school was the other school that has been in support for two cycles. They started out in support in three areas. black African-American student with disabilities and lowincome uh stu student with disabilities uh English language learners and black African-American students. Um they have evolved out of that and they uh uh are above both title and all school threshold in uh English language learners along with students with disabilities make pretty good growth in that area. Um, and they also made growth in black African-American students, but above the title threshold, just below the all schools threshold. And I think that indicator is like 0.15. So that's where they sit in
046that situation. And then you can kind of see the what I box for particularly black African-American students because even though they're still in identification, wanted you to be able to see that they're really making in that area as well. Ording High School uh has always kind of been something we've been really proud of the work that Oring High School has done. Uh when you get out of the orange colors and you get into the blue colors, that's really something to celebrate. They've actually done some pretty good work in that area and you can see that um they are above the the the all schools threshold as well as the um title. They're not title school, but they're above both thresholds by quite a quite a distance. And so they're really uh in great shape. Steve,
047why are some of the Why are we not Why is there not an Asian score black Africaname for the high school? I can find that. But there's generally if if you don't have enough data, uh they sequester the data so that students potentially won't be identified. So you need a certain number of 20 students to to be able to be identified for the Thank you. That makes sense. So they'll sequester which twice see variance by grade level. Sometimes we have a lot of English language learners African. So I'm curious about that. Oh, sorry. Remember when we were hearing about what was it? Ukrainian Russia. Yeah. Sorry. I'm just curious why that data is absent on this. Yeah. This is this is pulled off OSBI's website. So that's what they're presenting, but I'd have to look
048into it to see. I think what Ed talks about is to learn numbers, but either they're mixed in two or more races because the identification is sequestered probably would be the two those are the only two reasons why you don't see the data either you haven't met the insize requirement they sequester it or it shows up in other demographics I did send one this to Steve. Uh just an informative question. Just curious on timelines for improvement that kind of thing. So this is something we look at every year. So we'll continue to monitor it. We're pretty optimistic with careful conservative optimism. As you all have seen in your school board presentations, there's a lot to be proud of. There's a lot of really really good work. We're very excited about the work that the schools
049are doing. Uh when they articulate the work that they're doing, you can tell that it's real work, that they really understand it, that they're leaning into. Um we would love to see a pop this spring based on all the work that we've done around not just in the core instruction areas, but in the intervention cycles. Um Dr. Lee and Dr. WTover have done a lot of work already this spring and establishing a really solid framework for systemizing that for next year and we will be uh spending about a half a day with principles and assistant principles before summer break to lay out that framework for them because here's what we know about those guys. They think about it all summer and they come in and their guns are loaded and they've already got a lot
050of plans made. Um and so we really want to give them a lot of uh stuff to think about and plan for it and and as Ed has said with the core collaborative work that we're doing um and uh Dr. Lee and Dr. Westover are really going to take charge of that next year um and lean into that and it's just going to get better. I'll I'll watch it from a distance because it'll be the you know there's sewing and then there's harvesting, right? So uh I won't be standing here in front of you at the the harvest is coming. I was just looking I was wondering so on the Hispanic as far as ELA the difference between math and ELA I know that we have teachers that work with the students on ELA um
051separately. Do we do that with math too like like we have e we have like second language teachers for Hispanic for reading and writing only through the intervention cycle. So they would get additional support the encore instruction. Uh but it would be through it would be with the NTSS support as well as LAP support um um based in their like one of the things that um principal colonist did between as he's done for the last uh couple weeks is he made kind of a a dictate to his school and said uh during our Falcon time we're going to lean in and we're going to support math intervention. Everybody's going to do it. Big bold move on his part. had a few questions that came his way, but kudos to him for making that decision as
052an instructional leader and moving it forward. So, um, it can be it can be very specific or it can be more generalized like that. Okay. So, there's a lot of vocabulary there, you know, thank you. Thank you. We're going to miss your recordings. [Music] with I know this is coming from but Uh so I'm not whispering because I know we're on camera. One of the things we're interested about uh is the really that dichotomy of the transition to 2K5 elementaryaries. If you recall, we were seeing kind of a dip at fourth grade in discipline and achievement data. And you seeing elementaryaries data this year from last year, first time at fourth grade. We're really curious now that fifth graders have been split and they don't have all 225 at once and every teacher trying to
053collaborate at the same time. We're curious to see what some of those systemic shifts have done. Also, you have new interventions in place. You have new diagnostic tools, data analysis, new protocols for analyzing data and new curriculum. I don't know that we'll be able to sort what's making what kind of difference because we have done a ton. And I'll keep in mind uh Dr. Westover introduced the idea that we haven't had an articulated curriculum for our highest need special education students before and that is new this year. So there's a lot in motion and it takes a little bit to figure out how to do all these things. But uh I am definitely after you listen to each of our four schools, I have no doubt we're doing the right work because your own students
054are sitting there telling you I am growing and here's how I know they're tracking and monitoring their own progress. So, what's really going to feed what, I'm not sure, but I am definitely convinced that we're doing the right work. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think my my buttering explain uh was um at least for me, I am looking at this information carefully and we've made significant investments to uh to improve these numbers. So, I'm looking for the year over the year year-over-year progress and while OSPI doesn't necessarily give us complete data for every student group, I'm still interested in it. So, that was as I was muttering to Ed, that's like there's gaps there. There's information here that I'd like to see that I can't and so I'd like to keep in mind the framework
055and Dr. Lee has worked to put all of our data transparently online. He'll show you remember last year you asked at the work session we want to see that the visible community this is the smooshing of your grade level data and not disagregated but this same data set is disagregated by grade level so when he shares SBA data every year with you he shares the disagregation what does it look like by grade level for this report they kind of average everything you don't know how third fourth grade or what's leading to what but that data much of where it exists is available online uh We had worked to make that transparent to our local community as well. So, it is on our website in addition to OSPI and they'll share some of that data with
056you next week. Perfect. Thank you. Part of that is not new data but a reminder of data that we've seen just to clarify. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Next item is second reading of policy considerations. So, we've got a few being retired. Didn't hear any further discussion on these. I believe they are ready. And if someone would please put forward a motion move to approve the second reading of policy considerations. Thank you. Second. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I motion passes. Thank you. And next item up is our consent agenda. There are seven items in this. And if everything's golden, I will entertain a motion. I move to approve items one through seven on the consent agenda. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Motion passes. All right. Super excited for the kids to
057be able to have that experience. Thank you. Our PTA had a big part in that. So, there is a board memo with the intent to participate. And if everything's good, [Music] I take a motion. I move to approve the fifth grade outdoor education plans for the spring of 2026 as presented. Thank you. All in favor? I motion passes. I'm glad you're here tonight. Yes. just so happens. [Music] So this evening we have our annual Washington Interscolastic Activities Association uh board representative selection. So we have two uh two motions. One is for the resolution and one is to approve uh one of our directors to be our WIAA board representative. And so I will open the floor for any nominations for board represented if anyone has an interest in it. I mean seriously I I could
058do it but if anybody else would like to I think you do a great job. I I have um actually when we were at our conference I learned a little bit more. I went to their um breakout and they were it was it was interesting and I realized that there's some things that can do. So yeah. So I Yeah, I like it. Okay, good. Well, then I move to director Joan Tracy as the 2025 26 WAA board member representative. All right. All in favor? I motion passes. In all ser Joanne, we do appreciate you filling this role. You have a passion for athletics throughout our district and a long history of being involved with them. Uh whether it was kids or grandkids and so I think you important insight and the WIA benefits from having
059you as their representative. So thank you. Thank you very much. The next is uh our resolution for the WIAA. So I will take another motion for that. I'll move to approve resolution number 2.2024-2025 Washington Interscolastic Activities Association. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I motion passes. All right. And one of my favorite action items is our surplus surplus list. Yep. House. I'm I'm a book hoarder, so this one was at uh but I I understand it's important. So we can't hold on to everything forever at all. We don't have room, right? We need that space for learning. So, I will take a motion. Uh motion to approve the surplus request as presented. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Motion passes. This next action item is presented by Dr. Christensen. Good evening. I don't have a
060lot to share this evening other than to ask for you to uh consider the approval of a motion to be able to allow human resources to issue annual contracts to our certificated and our administrator administrators that work in the district to fulfill our staff plan for the upcoming year. Anybody have any reason to hesitate about that? Okay. Uh, can I get a motion, please? I move to approve the offering of the 202526 school year contracts to all administrators and certificated personnel who were covered by the continuing employment contract law. Seconded. Thank you. All in favor? I I motion passes. Thank you. I, you know, I did say that with a smile. I am very grateful that we have the ability to afford to approve these contracts. So I thank you for managing our business in
061the way that we all thank you. Next item number this evening I presented to you a memo which describes 11 employees that are current employees who teach in our career and technical education classes. They have full-time contracts but a portion of the job is in CTE at the request of our administrators as they build the master plan master schedule. And we would like to continue that and each We need to renew their certificate. We ask that you approve that so that when we uh enter into the OSPI website, we can authentically answer that you have given the approval for us to move forward with this certificate. Do we still help them um either monetarily or making it accessible to take the classes for the CD credit? These uh good question. These particular certificates are conditional
062and so they're because they meet our need they do not have to take any classes for this unlike those who we hire for example a culinary teacher that comes from background of industry that they have to do a motion motion to approve the request for issuance. of secondary CTE conditional certificate renewals by OCI for the 202526 school year. Thank you. All in favor? I motion passes. All right, I will open the floor for homage. I don't have a lot of comments. Um, but I will say I'm looking forward to next week to sit with the board and hear some hear some things. Um, we've made traction on social media over what some perceive as some negative. um moving the portable into our parking lot. Um just a reminder to anybody who happens to be listening
063that those conversations and those actions are not done. Um that does not mean just because we're talking about them that any of us that sit here um and think with heavy hearts and heavy minds that it's going to be easy is um an understatement. Everybody's going through something. Um, but these are conversations that we need to have. I would just like to thank Marcy because sometimes I might refer people to her and say, "Call Marcy and you'll find out." So, thank you for being available. Have they ever call? Probably not, but at least I I tell it to zero commenters. I I very much wish that people instead of wiring out there in social media land would actually become more informed than just listening to um potential rhetoric. It's um crushing. Yeah. Uh I had
064a comment written down tonight regarding the portables and I wanted to thank the community for their understanding as solutions are implemented for critical work space. Um and I also wanted to invite interestingly the online uh community. There were a lot of new names in the conversation expressing shock and wonder about the portables. And I would just like to invite all those people and anyone who's interested in knowing what's happening with our facilities and our district to follow the Oregon school district on social media to get the facts and updates about what's happening. So there is a source of truth. Follow the Ording School District to find out what's up and then feel free to ask questions and have conversations. It's actually good that the community is talking about the district. We're the largest employer in
065the community. We support the largest number of schools compared to any or largest number of students and families compared to any other organization. So we want people to engage and have conversations with us. We just want them have the information as truth in fact. So, anything else on this? I I just wanted to say thank you to the uh bond task force that that is meeting. Um they came to the table to um look at our schools and and do the tour. um and that they're putting the time and effort in to look at this and that they're going to bring ideas and we we appreciate that and like I say, thank you to them stepping up. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. That was my last ask of the board tonight is to approach
066our meeting on Thursday with a very open mind and fresh perspective. The task force involved a number of people who haven't been a part of this conversation previously and so they brought forward different ideas and different viewpoints and thank you to Kathy for dedicating the time to be a part of that felt like a lot of meetings for a while but yeah we're anxious for you to hear their thoughts and their ideas as we look forward. So, um, we've been we've been through this a few times as a whole board together and there's some new table. That's it. And just the fact that they we invited everyone to volunteer and they did. That's it. And so, it's so nice to to just get people that um we might not know but have an interest in
067the school this week and volunteered for the positions on the task force. That was and they've been really involved and we have a real diverse mix of people. So parents, community members, um a variety different backgrounds. So it's a good group. All right, with that I will adjourn tonight's meeting at 712. Alternate crossfit.