Regular Board Meeting - Feb. 20, 2025

001to be recorded please let us know at this time thank you thank you Bonnie good evening everyone I'll call this meeting to order at 6:03 p.m. if you're able please rise for the pledge of Alle to flag the United States of America [Music] so we do like to begin our meeting by recognizing all the exciting great things happening within the district and the would you also on behalf of the board of directors we'd like to recognize the entire team who earned top at summer camp I know it's pretty competitive which allowed them the opportunity to perform in the Citrus Bowl this year thank you thank you thank you thank you additionally we'd like to recognize Haley Bond who performed in the London New Year's Day parade and is an all All-American cheerleader Bella loar loar

002loar loar thank you who performed in the Memorial parade in Hawaii and is an All-American cheerleader and Bella atin who participated in the varsity Spirit spectacular in Disney World and is also an All-American cheerer so we want to definitely recognize your hard work you wouldn't have had those experiences if you were not hardworking students and athletes and your dedication to cheerleading we are very proud of you thank you for representing a shiny way and both locally and internationally and in Hawaii and in Florida so that's a lot so we want to thank you very much and celebrate you and we would love to get a team picture with the board on our wall of theme and I like to say a few of these ladies have known since they were really teeny and it's just

003so amazing to see them out thank you so much coaches all those [Music] are& I was got it people make you can see everyone [Music] ready [Music] [Applause] yeah they don't have [Music] and so that's why one of the reasons a we want to recognize your success and your accomplishment and elev it to the board level but also we want to make sure the community is where aware of all your hard work and all the good representation of or done and achievements so thank you so much for joining us tonight so we've got some more celebrations and I will turn it over to you got one okay yep I do um what I was going to do is I'm going to go ahead and uh congratulate our bowling team for finishing fifth in the state

004tournament um they went up to Tua um shout out to meline haly all right okay play sixth overall great job to all our athletes for their dedication and sportsmanship and I wanted to give a shout out to February Black History Month and um I have been seeing some amazing artwork that's been shared thank you for sharing it it's been some lovely artwork expressing wonderful thoughts and feelings about um the history of America and um I also wanted to shout out oh the CTE this is CTE month where are you Matt okay and um so we a shout out for all our stem classes for business Education Health Sciences family and consumer Sciences we start now in middle middle school and we have Real World skills in the classroom and down at the field the pigs

005have gotten [Music] really not as big as but and the cows have gotten so that when you walk down there they call out to you Ian they don't say but they they they like it when people and dogs show up so good job Matt and your teachers and all your students for being so enthusiastic um also a shout out to Orin um High School knowledgeable team um that had a fantastic showing at regional tournament at Gig Harbor High School earning their spot at the state tournament and wheni this March we're proud of their hard work and looking forward to seeing them compete at the state level and I think I caught rumor that they beat the [Music] staff so they're really fast at in and Mr mnit doesn't even finish the question when they're already

006buzzing and then we started strong and we fter by about question 38 we melted down students for the win for I think year five in a row so but we'll be back we're coming back next year come back shake it off right I do they beat me on a Frank Sinatra question I don't even know how they know Frank and one last shout out uh earlier this month it was national school counselor week and our counselors do so much for our students and in our schools so we want to honor the seven dedicated counselors across our district and the support that their guidance plays in our Student Success and we're grateful for their commitment to our schools our kids so really important shout out with that one too so anything else all good all right

007uh so cheerleaders I have some good news it is a tradition that after we celebrate and recognize you that you are warmly welcome to stay for the duration of the meeting and the rest of that is to be completed or if you want to sneak out and go enjoy your evenings doing something more you're welcome thank you [Music] uh so the next item on our agenda is community and staff comments and I don't believe anybody signed up to speak tonight that is correct okay thank you very much and with that I will turn it over to superintendent February report some things you already captured uh we'll start with the facility lens and I have some sneak peek inside our classrooms of what building thinking classrooms look like all the way down in first grade uh

008just to share a little bit about the facilities update in spring break we have confirmed delivery of four Portables in the South High School parking lot uh that's where you will see three of them go and uh what we've looked at for next year is we don't have a need for oring elementary to take over the entirety of The West Wing that will allow us to have some adjacent restrooms because these Portables are not wet they're dry so for 2526 the high school will retain possession of the two Southern classrooms which will allow our bus drivers and transportation staff as well as students to use those restrooms we're going to build a hall uh hallway wall in the west wing and the Hing Elementary crew will take the six classrooms to the north uh so

009we think that's the best model for next year for 2627 we would fully transition that facility to oring Elementary as we look at our uh enrollment projections uh we don't feel like we need the whole thing yet uh there's a portable to the back that also will be arriving uh in spring break that's this portable right here so this will arrive in 2020 25 26 these Portables will uh arrive and 26 27 and that'll add the space that we need because as you recall there is no more learning space available at either oring Elementary or oring high and the growth and development forecast leads us to believe that we're going to need that space uh so much so that the high school be a school of about 1100 kids in about 3 to four years

010so that's what's happening on the facility front we have a notice that will go out to families and staff next week we'll have another reminder notice right before spring break and we're currently monitor we have plans set with high school and Elementary admin facilities to look at that because we think those Portables are obviously going to alter traffic patterns create congestion and pinch points and we need to have the safety mindset out front so we'll be walking and looking what that communication plan uh needs to look like and sound like just so kids and families aren't caught off guard when they return from spring break why spring break it takes months and months to get those Portables usable and ready for learning in the fall by the time you think about the ramp and the

011electrical and the technology infrastructure the painting The Furniture uh there's a lot that's going to have to go into and what we learned from PTR we had those delivered uh last may we didn't get those moved in ready until about 68 weeks ago that's how long that takes so we think it'll take us that long to have those ready for learning in the fall uh Bond task force I'm pleased to let you know that we have 14 applicants in aggregate uh two of your directors director Madigan director Tibido have begun reviewing those our intent is to reach out to the successful applicants by the end of next week with a proposed schedule we've already received some information from applicants about their availability and so we're going to create a draft schedule confirm that everybody is

012able to make it along those timelines and then somewhere in March we'll begin the process of working with that committee to help you with a recommendation on what a future Bond should look like and include and why um we will Target at this point your May 1st board work session for committee members to be able to talk with you so that means March and April we'll be walking through a 5 to six meeting protocol to look at your capacity your enoll projections uh basically similar things that CAC looked at a couple years ago uh and help them decide what their recommendation would be to you uh State Bowling you mentioned that uh we had wonderful send off as is tradition students lined out front uh today wrestlers had their send off we saw great success

013and if you keep uh this in mind you just approved that program a couple years ago so they're only a couple years into their existence and already having strong showing which is incredible they're doing a wonderful job I would like to see a staff versus student or board versus student bowling competition we might have to bring that uh yeah Joan's got skills we know that uh senior kns uh been abounding uh this fall there is three generations of oring we have uh Grandpa Gary and coach and daughter from the solinger family representation so just wonderful ways to bring community in and celebrate kids and family and I thought that's just a nice picture to show you some of what's been happening over over the winter months with senior nights for wrestling girls basketball boys basketball

014we're proud of our PTA Partnerships Kim came down made an appearance uh we were pretty stoked but I thought I would show you what this looks like what does it look like with 12200 elementary kids invited to a school dance hosted by our parents uh Bonnie will run that video just so you can hear the celebration so highlight and shout out to our PTA parents and partnership they go above and beyond to create those spaces and enjoyable safe learning opportunity for kids uh and the commment was full while that gym was full the commment was full with activities as well uh so we're just thankful for their ongoing support and partnership and they've raised tens of thousands of dollars so far that goes for kids what a good yeah she was a good sport um

015I don't know how I coached her into that but I'm glad she came uh get outside OSD there's a picture of some of your oring School District staff out and about we're up in the Alpine Lakes wilderness uh this picture doesn't do justice actually how steep that is but your high school secretary Aaron was down climbing backward climbing on a steep slope and that was her first experience uh we said it was familyfriendly so in all fairness she didn't really know what she was getting into uh but we got ourselves in some steep terrain and she had to down climb her way out and it was a wonderful experience uh this spring we'll be working with our kiddos and putting up challenges to create and design stickers and help get our families and kids engaged

016and just being healthy and being outside in the outdoors uh you board can earn a sticker all you got to do is let me know of a goal you've set what you've reach out for yourself and uh we're going to try to get some hikes on the calendar this spring as well but our weather hasn't been super Cooperative uh I thought i' share some pictures of the art show definitely some Talent at the middle school we have 2D 3D art print media uh the cows were apparently quite the hit right behind the middle school here this fall so uh we saw lots of cattle pictures there's some uh paintings and etchings and drawings and uh y morigi just does a fabulous job of promoting art there were hundreds and hundreds of positive comments that students

017and staff and Community wrote to our kids cheering them on so that was pretty cool uh Falcon fellas have been spotted they are back at it again I hope you get to hear a little bit more this spring at your board work session at wording middle they've been over at Tagan Ridge volunteering and supporting second grade and there's a couple pictures of them reading and helping to support learning in the classroom so definitely taking an active involvement not only in the community but in our schools as well I'm anxious to hear a report on what that looks like uh we've talked about dignity how do we Elevate I thought I'd share a little bit of just what our students are coming up with uh there's a sign that we have at Tagan Ridge right now

018positive selft talk what does that look like I just thought I'd share a couple of these comments uh Adeline says use positive selft talk or you might think badly of yourself positive self talk encourages you uh I can actually read that from here and I got Tri focals uh but you can read that at board report uh and see what Walker said I thought it was profound just when we Elevate those voices and get kids out in the front and center and uh hear what their thinking is so we have lots of recognition happening I'll share more next month of a recent assembly at tarmigan Ridge uh that's happening every month we continue to see goal setting and reflection uh director Lee talked with you previously about I ready uh and students can set those

019personal goals and Pathways you heard a little bit about that at the high school that's in our elementary and middle school too where kids can try to use that data to figure out where their learning gaps and challenges are set goals and progress Monitor and celebrate those wins and successes so you see lots of visible signs throughout every school uh director RAB and I were at boing middle today and we see charts and stickers and people tracking progress so definitely lots of involvement in terms of goal setting and reflection uh and our goal as we discussed with you previously titled that inquiry cycle work is every student is setting goals in some capacity in our schools tracking their progress and celebrating their success uh similar to The Summit theory that you've heard uh at the

020high school previously uh building thinking classrooms director R has talked to you about that in the investment of what does it looked like to maybe reshape the way mathematics uh is happening learning in our school district we've had staff from every school attend and I wanted to share just some videos so you can hear this is a first grade classroom this Neil has done a wonderful job and I have three videos so you can see what happens when restructure The Learning in a collaborative environment first uh on the left BN will play this is what it looks like uh when students are independently working and the protocol is one student has the marker one is doing the thinking and they take turns hearing their thinking and strategies and having clearly defined roles [Music] so here

021you have students coming with their own conceptions uh many of the students used algorithmic form or diagrams or charts and they had their thinking and they put it on the table and then she structures a protocol where there's a gallery walk so the student pairs walk around the room and look at each other's thinking and see strategies that they uh invented you hit the middle [Music] one the holding hands part was the cutest ever I don't know why yeah [Music] with so now after the students have seen each other's work strategies how are they sense making and thinking about the learning Target uh the teacher brings them together and starts to facilitate their notic things and wondering so we'll just play a little bit about what does it look like when she pulls them all

022together and anchors the [Music] learning okay take a second and just PE if you didn't get to come to this one for the gallery walk just take a look just like you did when you walk during the gallery walk we're going to do the notice and wonder so what do you see or what do you notice what do you wonder about their work so just in my time I've not seen a professional development leverage or change instruction as fast as what I've seen with the building thinking classroom we have several uh teachers signed up to go again this summer so we're excited about that work continuing and I'm looking forward to you hearing a little bit more at some of the board work sessions in our middle and elementary schools about what does that look

023like so I thought I'd just invite you into the space so you can hear as early as age7 what does that look like and sound like uh that was just uh last week actually so that wraps up my report and happy to answer any questions that you may have not thr about I am not either but I understand why they're necessary think it be hard for the kids to lose that AR space but we still putting in the gravel lot north of the high school correct uh 510 Washington we own 65 acres uh we'll have a good chunk of that uh graded fenced uh not uh a grass tur but uh substrate applied uh Curtis thinks hog fuel uh actually because it's uh perious surface and he's done some research and thinks it'll work uh

024that'll create 70 to 100 parking spaces for high school students and that will be online uh right after spring break so at the same time 60 or so parking spaces disappear 70 to 100 or so will reappear on the other side uh some of those apple trees fruit trees are in poor disarray uh from that previous Farm Cliff's working with our a science and mat will as well to actually graft those trees I'm not sure how much life many of them have but he's going to take graftings and they're going to create a replica Orchard on that space that's not going to be where the cars or future growth would be so that's a project that they're going to undertake uh before we lose any elements to graft and regrow somewhere on that space to

025be determined great vinds great vinds I don't know how salvageable some of those are at this point because they've fallen in and the previous structure is all intertwined and Tangled uh and it's a little bit we probably have to remove that honestly I think it's going to be a little bit of a hazard I don't know if the fence will fall in front or behind yet but the vision someday through a community garden that I don't know if you'll talk about it tonight uh our vision is really where students are learning about homegrown Foods we expand that space for Community Garden Barn and future growth uh as part of our future career development pathway so that's definitely on our radar of something we would like to expand at some point in the future and that's

026part of the bond package as you previously discussed is creating a space and a lab actually for a Sciences right now they're in a portable facility so they're able to do some of the things that we would wish for them to be able to do and another thing that was discussed about that Garden area was um that we do some natural some native vegetation so and have that labeled and have kind of a an ecosystem so that you can learn about the native plants as well farming approach I am excited about the thinking classrooms and look forward to seeing that when we get to do our school visits that's awesome right any other questions feel fre good okay thank you you're welcome I'm glad you're good because you are up first in our reports yes

027um whoa so as um it's been mentioned um lorts over um we had 13 girls and 24 Boys wrestlers um that are getting sent to State tomorrow or he sent them today but they're going to stay tomorrow um so I'm kind of like worried to see [Music] likees but um oring would like to make history with Ajo and Quinton Harding um if they're able to hold a fouryear state championship if they went 40s in a row that'd be pretty cool I guess um no I I would be pry um bowling only had uh two years of being a sport and um they were able to bring home five banners to put on the J Mall this year and last year so that's great um girls and boys basketball they had a better season this year

028um they both ended um well boys ended six um in the district and girls did the season with five in the district so win your sports over now on the spring already so fast and so excited for spring Sports because you play soccer and it's going to be so awesome and so fun um but also this week me and Jaden visited PTR um it was a little spontaneous I'll be completely honest I kind of forgot I was supposed to go and then Jay was like Hey we're going to PCR today went oh so um we got to PTR and I was a little stressed because um we saw that there was an assembly happening and I was me and dud and we're talking about how are we supposed to talk to students if there's an

029assembly happening and we realiz it was K through second but the assembly was great it was an awards assembly and recognition assembly to the students and it was like so cool to see um they're run by their fifth grade leadership students um and which I think is like the coolest thing ever that the students are putting themselves out there and taking those risks and recognizing the students that's that are younger than them and being able to set like a good role model for them which is super awesome to see and hear um my favorite thing was when the kindergarteners were getting their Awards and they're just like she's so cute and just so happy and just um seeing them getting recognized for their work um not only just within their school like reading improvements or

030other things like that but also like character um I thought that was really cool I thought um the recognition for those things really more sincere and um my favorite thing to see was that I didn't see like any student or other kid in their class super upset cuz they didn't have one but they were really excited for their other classmates which was so like I remember I cried when I didn't get an award in elementary school and I didn't see anything like that um there and I saw so many no clapping but the it was so it was so exciting um seeing their smiles on their faces support from their other classmates um but from that assembly me and J watched and stay for the whole thing and then we had like 15 minutes left

031before the school day ended and it was a little stressful but uh fortunately the fifth graders that were helping for the assembly were able to stay back a little bit longer and talk to J and I and we Revisited some of our previous questions that we've asked before um but this time now it's just a different group of students yeah so um as prob said we Revisited some questions um and actually got some of the same answers that we've shared before um so one of the questions was what do your teachers do that Mak training enjoyable for you and the fifth grader said turning U turning learning games or turning learning into games there we go okay and then the other one was what does community mean to you um since we talked to great

032leadership I feel they were able to like give us a more bigger answer if that makes sense so they said what does community or um Community is people around you at school um oh so actually thought I wrote more than that but um just face that thank you Carly um yeah so they said um communities people around you at school and they were saying a bunch of stuff but they're kind of like I don't know the word for it they're kind of like all over the place cuz it just got done speaking in front of a bunch of kindergarteners and stuff and then um they like 15 minutes before the school day ended so it was it was interesting um Carly would you like to um this one I kind of took the of this

033question but it was when you feel frustrated upset what's something that can help you feel calm um this is one of my favorite questions to ask because I think it's really important to have a safe place in soci school um and a lot of them which was really shocking to me because we mixed conver mixed answers when we asked um younger students um but they were talking about how their teachers give us allow them to just take a minute to just like time out hey I'm going to go take a walk like I need to take a walk or I need to put my head down um I remember I forgot what grade level it was but I remember asking another student that and they said that the teacher wouldn't allow them to do that

034um but every single one of them there they said that like their teachers are very like understanding about those things which I thought was super awesome also comment be as every single time we talk to any students is that their teachers are awesome um that their teachers always make them feel like they belong and they like you know have a safe place which is awesome um one thing that was frustrating for them and they were like this is bad awful was their recess time and how frustrated they would get with other students with kids being R to each other and kids not listening to Res staff and other things like that um those type of things and so I thought it was really interesting because they were very excited to tell us that they're making

035a fun video um to set down playground rules and expectations and they get to get like involved in it and I just was like that reminded me of like how I feel when I like help make spirit videos high school and stuff and those type of things um so those that's just really exciting like I don't know if you guys are updated with the OS Spirit account I run it I run it but it's just it's like really um this last week we posted two videos one promoting our Valentine's Day grams and then the other one promoting our spirit gear and just like I saw in their eyes the same visions that I was like feeling in myself like being able to make something for your school and get excited about this where is that

036on Instagram the oh so that was really that was really cool um but also with the the high school this is kind of going off track sorry with the like me connecting it to high school I thought it was just very it's cool to see like the connections because they as soon as when we were finishing asking them questions and stuff um they our their first things was hey we have some questions for you guys and that's something I've never gotten before and I was like oh we have questions for us and they went on about like what is some advice you have for us to go to middle school and what are some things that we should expect when we go to high school and they're like is it like the movies am I

037going to get shoved into a locker like and I just thought that was super exciting to talk about and it was like I felt like I could connect with them I feel like I had a bigger connection like mind opening with them maybe than they did with me but I just thought it was really cool that I could see myself in their positions and also be can I ask you a question about that so do you think maybe we should have ambassadors from high school Vis the eth grade at some point in time the same thing with sixth grade ambassadors me with the I mean you know I had never thought about them having a chance to actually talk to someone yeah I think that would be awesome I think I think my freshman year

038or not my freshman year my eighth grade went to my freshman year I think we had like an assembly where like students were there but I never really like talked to high school students that came in and like talked about what high school is about and like what club you should join so I think it would be really cool if we like put together like something like a not like a buddy system but kind of like a buddy system where you have that person you can go to and connect with and you know get that advice from to make it a little bit less intimidating when you move on to that Stu which is really cool that is cool I love the one of my hopes start going into the schools is that over time

039a you be a familiar face that the kids will recognize you and but also that they would connect connect back with you and and feel comfortable asking you questions and responding to your question so even though it's a different study kids love that connection that's growing and it's getting them thinking forward which is sometimes the hardest part for for you know young teenage kids is thinking about okay what's what's Middle School going to be like what's high school going to be like and that's when they start to goals and Visions for themselves so having the opportunity to hear from you was really cool it's unque yeah and it was really cool hearing that they're like um like they're talking about oh I want to join volleyball really bad when I get into middle school and

040some some girl was talking about she wanted to make a fortnite club I was like that'd be awesome like go go to your middle school and do those things like those opportunities are so great and I'm happy to hear that you shared that they were you know complaining or had issues with what was going on at recess also coming up with an idea to solve it solution yeah Solution that's because as as an adult I want to be like w can I help you know what can I do and it's a a much better solution coming from the kids so I'm really glad you Shar that and and they going to feel part of that so all of a sudden they're like hey now someone's hearing me on that side of it yeah exactly all

041right um so another question we asked is who at SCH yeah who at school makes you feel like you belong here um we've obviously all been known that um teachers is like the number one thing students say I just think that is so awesome because I feel like the teachers now have like like changed in like a very positive way just because of like what students are doing and bringing back to like you guys and like just like it's amazing to me um do you see a difference between when you were at their age and what it was like for you and them yes 100% um also another thing that I just kind of want to add um is ever since uh last year when um Miss alond had that uh Cru education class it's

042still class home but I just feel like there's a bunch of high school students now that go into elementary schools and the middle school and interact with those kids in the world when I was element school middle school I just think that's great and then um they also said friends which is great and as fifth graders you know going into sixth grade um some of those people might not be your friends anymore so we kind of just like warn them about that and like oh yeah no you're going to stay my class right okay um sassy but it's whatever um so yeah so on to the next question um what is something you've done to help other kids that make you feel like you were making a difference they said picking trash up every recess

043um which is great um nobody likes someone who litters so um yeah I actually just have an idea I kind want to share I think it'd be great for me Carly to go to um the middle school or uh elementary school and maybe start like a little Cleanup Crew or something I know we've talked about in leadership the past years you know talk about it a lot around Earth Day so around Earth Day that' be a wonderful time to do that you take care of a couple of things very cool yeah and that's also something that we're trying to do at the high school um Mrs paully She's Doing Great Things um as her first year as being HP adviser and like leadership teacher she is kind of wanting to shift gears on how a

044lot of it is working um and I think it's super awesome I think that it's giving a lot of opportunity for people to get like kind of like not forced but guided Pathways to making sure you're actually doing like getting your work done being involved and doing something for um to take that leadership role into our schools um she's created like an interest for our leadership classes she's created an interest list of things events that you want to participate in because well not like for your grade you have to at least one from each rotation that we do and then um a committee and we've done like we are building like a spirit committee and environmental Community Committee and then a life skills committee um and oh my gosh there was another one I forgot

045it but like just committees um for each student to connect with for their own character where they feel the most comfortable but also still making a huge impact on those things so whole pickup like that pickup crew and the cleanup crew we're trying to work on something there um also at the high school we've been trying to um Implement new events that really get like students involved and making them feel seen in including within our school um for example this last week for Valentine's Day we did um conversation hearts and what we did was we made posters that said like a about love or like motivational quote on this poster and then we put them all around the high school and we had every single Student's name on a heart every student every staff member

046um on a heart and scattered all along the school around those posters um so they would you would like look for your heart and then turn it in and they get like this Valentine's Day like little like candy prize whatever um and I just thought that was really cool because then it's you get to find some like you know that you belong within your school and you see your name in your school and so I think that was really awesome when you look for your name you like get so excited because you're like hey this is my name on this heart and I get to take it back and I get to see like be rewarded simply just because I know and simply because I'm part of so that was really awesome that was cool

047I think that was actually really successful I that yeah I heard a bunch of kids talking about it oh I hard you just didn't some kids were really excited about it and they might have taken more than one piece of candy but it was greately I love the script this is too fun I like it I saw today walking what look like high school students towards the middle school I didn't know I didn't know what why but I was sharing with someone on the phone that that's the beauty of our schools being together and that we get like you guys get to go there and I don't know where he was going with the students but it what a cool adventure you know yeah so I mean just to here but I just really appreciate

048the work you guys are doing as leaders in our district and connect different levels any I think I say I think you nailed but you know question cool I love it well you are first to report out because we want to elevate student voice so thank you very much and thanks for continuing that work I imagine talking with a kids sometimes can be kind of awkward and get to them to tease out their their authentic ideas can be hard work so got to pull that out thank you for doing that all right next item financial report someday I hope to find something to ask try every month every month I try I've given up asking about the percentage complet budget by Department because now I understand the flow of money in and money out so

049it's looking familiar to me but it's taken me years to recognize the patterns so board I didn't see any questions come forward Joan you good checking in with you okay all good all right thank you next item is prepared by director R all prior to graduation is there any questions this is an annual annual report that we've seen before there's anything on perfect thank you Steve and next item is our insurance report nothing out of the ordinary there for me good wonder and then uh also an annual activity but a very important one is the draft of our 2025 2026 budget planning process and that timeline and I did not have any questions or do I want to make any changes but but I do want to invite the community to ask questions there are

050specific you know specific times throughout this process where we specifically invite Community comment and questions in the budget planning process and so I would just like to put that out and if anybody does have questions to please contact our superintendent or our business office with those questions you can ask the why and what is this and all that good I wanted to um make a positive comment I don't know if I never noticed it before but I notice this time that we have the uh deadlines for contracts and when you need to let people go or or bring on new people and I thought that's brilliant to put it on there because that is a big part of the budget and so but I had never I don't know if it's been there all along

051I didn't notice it or if it's new but I thought well that's brilliant because that's just an enormous part so was that shout out to you for putting it very director R we are at modified L drill for 2025 yes thank you I just wanted to take just a brief moment and uh just update you on this year's lar drill which is a modified lar drill we've done this once before back when Chris uh Willis was running it and uh what it it is different than and you guys have this this isn't working so you guys have it in your packet way I think it's off that's would help power it up and look what happens when you hit the power button yeah I'm also the uh director of technology for if you have any

052questions and I'm the assistant um last year we had the multi-jurisdictional multi- district and next year you'll have that again and that will be the purview of our new executive director for business and operations we'll be smiling in front of you for that so this year it's the modified drill and so we're taking any kids that have a different route this year than they traditionally have so that would be our kindergarteners our sixth graders and our ninth graders and so we have it kind of built out each school is kind of doing the drill in the way that it works for them during that day um we do have a collaboration between uh like the high school will be doing it during their PE time for nth graders but then they will collaborate on one

053of those periods so that nin graders and kindergarteners will work together to then go to to exit and return the city of Hing uh they really don't have anything to do with us except for when the kindergarteners do their drill and when the kindergar do their drill they'll have the road sh have the lights going have all that kind of stuff we're not going to blow the siren or anything like that it's just going to be a short Journey uh and you can kind of see the OES uh high school route just goes to the park there and then they turn around and come back and PTR and om go up the the trail to uh probably the bridge maybe not we'll see uh they can probably point and say that's where you're going or

054they might take them all the way there they're doing the middle school is doing PE classes so if I know how that works they'll probably take the whole period go out for a walk kind of look at the scenery and then go back but it really is just an attempt to so that the people that the kids that have don't are in a new school they know the route they're supposed to go at everybody else will kind of just go through the whole slide deck that we have and just kind of as a part of our it's one of the monthly drills we have but it'll just be virtually uh done within the schools in the classrooms you know the schools will will determine all of that I think that was okay goes to Aaron

055oh yeah all right Dr Lee it's already on so don't worry about it thank you thank you you're welcome yeah I always wonder why I get some late in the agenda I'm wondering about that so should be paranoid all right maybe a little bit I love that app so uh back in the spring last spring we talked about our strategic goals and really thinking about making these goals measurable visible along the way and so we we we thought about a calendar and we developed a calendar together and in that calendar uh we took our goals and we spread out our measures throughout the year and we are at February and in February we're looking at the whole child and the progress along the way um thought quite a bit about what does that mean whole

056child uh I think a lot about like why do we have a go around whole child and the important part is so we get kids like Carly and Jaden um kids that really can um self advocate and really be those kids that are kind of like I'm going to persevere and do great things Carly every time I think you present you talk about how you messed up and I think the thing I love about you Carly is that you're like your mess ups are like better than if it was perfect right and that's like a demonstrate little child and so as a as a board you got together you were thinking about how do we measure that how do we measure that ability in kids and then how do we develop that as a system

057along the way so uh today we're really talking about three measures we using for that one is Panorama which I talked about remember back in the fall and we had quite a long discussion around that that was around the academic elements of Panorama and really thinking about like how do students really see themselves as Learners today we're going to talk about how do they see themselves as perseveres of learning and really the grit we're going to talk about attendance and how that attendance really matters along the way and there's some data in there that we're going to look at pretty closely and then that ninth grade on track to graduate which is an interesting measure because if you fail one class guess what you're graduate so so that's our whole Tri measures we talk about

058today uh the first one is around Panorama now this is a this graphic on the right hand side there is I'm sure you can read every single word on there right sure the problem is nice and big for you but this is one of those things where we we talk about measures over time for students here's a one student's measure over time you can see the little dots along the way for every one of the measures this is one one student this is one student correct yeah um we take a look at one student and see the progress through throughout the year so this panoram is given three times throughout the year we kind of see that progress in the idea is to set goals around that really meet with the student and talk about

059that over time and then there's learning attached to that every school's has lessons on social emotional learning that's attached to these as well and so the measures that we have are really around five different measures to Panorama the two I circled in red around perseverance and the growth mindset which we talked about in the past uh this particular measure right here is for 3rd through fifth grade and I didn't label that on because next slide is really for I was looking this one right here this one everything on here is on third through fifth grade okay yeah I didn't label it'll be better next time he wanted us to guess right right and you guessed right yeah there we go that's good so this is our third through fifth grade for perseverance uh perseverance there's

060a a relationship between perseverance and growth mindset uh perseverance is when something bad happens like can you keep going through it can you keep like like most successful people are really good at this right perseverance and growth mindset you have the skills like to know and to get past it so perseverance is can you get past it and growth mindset is and you like actually have the skills to reason yourself through it right and so those are the two measures for whole child that we've been looking at for this year and past years as well but this is uh this is grades three through five and this is grades uh 6 through 12 is the reason focusing on perseverance and growth mindset and not selfefficacy because you kind of need the first two to get

061to the third yeah if remember the last time I was up here talking about panorama we we distinguished the difference between the academic measures and how students are self-reporting around those and these are more of the whole child measures along the way and so whole child is really the the self efficacy that that's part of that but it's really about can you persever the internal characteristics the human characteristics are the other ones are more about the learning and so breaking those down a little bit more here's gr 3 through five I labeled it this time you can kind of see where we are by we oring in comparison to the the national average remember this is a a survey that's given to about a million and a half students throughout the nation and that blue

062curve represents those million and a half students that are out there and that black line represents where our students fall on that so grade 3 through 5 56% of our students reported this is a self-reported test positive result around that so in terms of perseverance when things get hard like are you able to persevere through that 56% rate 6 through 12 the same question but phrase probably more Aid appropriately 54% so they can persevere through that now just because these are results doesn't mean we're not doing anything about data is one of those things that we use for action and if we go back to really how I started this it's really using uh really this data make it actionable and visible that's super important for us along the way um the next one is

063around growth mindset and so remember that blue curve is the national average or that that bubble Falls where are we so growth mindset again is like Do You Believe In Your Potential do you have the skills to really persevere go beyond that right so they're very much related um this is grades three through 5 48% of our students report that that growth mindset in grades 6 through 12 38% now we are below the curve there quite a bit right and so the question I know you're going to ask me is what are we doing about it right and so we're doing several things about it so every school's ask curriculum social emotional learning curriculum you can say curriculum doesn't fix everything U but what it does is it allows teachers and students and small groups

064of students to really have a discussion around what's going on and so those ideas of having a discussion and asking where you fit within that is as a district we spend a lot of time talking about dignity agency U growth mindset is deeply rooted around agency so for elevating student voice we have student student board reps here and again I wanted to to point out that Carly and Jaden have the skills already we want to elevate that and I got to tell you the high school board presentation is a great representation of growth mindset we have kids presenting how they persevere throughout time right and so we're trying to elevate that throughout our system which is why we're sending these two out to say how can we do a better job of that uh we

065also talked about data quite a bit last spring and this is uh one of the data points we talked about was the street data and Street data is when you ask the stories the experience of the people that are in there there's an opportunity on the Panorama screeners that we call where students can say uh just write basically anything they want so one of the pro prompts they have is what are your teachers and other adults in your school what are they doing to support you and so I compiled those into a graph and just kind of made some categories of those um but around like what are teachers doing well well they give you lots of patience and understanding and here's the irony right I'm going skip back and forth between these two slides

066the next one was what can teachers and other adults do in your school to better support you look at the first one we need more patient understanding and kindness this is the thing about Street data right it's the human element of the data let's go back what's the second thing clear and engaging teaching they said that's a positive thing that's great teachers are doing a fantastic job with that right that one what can they do to better support you clear instruction and more health so um but the thing that's really positive about this is that principes counselors can all have connection to this and they can take action with it right so you now look at which students said this thats along the way uh the next really measure that we're talking about is attendance

067and so I I found some pretty interesting I thought facts around attendance uh we talked about chronic absente is being 18 or more days throughout the year and the reason they pick 18 is two more days a month right we have nine uh months throughout the school year and two more days creates chronic absenteeism well that if you look on the left hand side there it says uh 10 to 17 days if you miss 15 days of school that adds up over time by the time you're a senior in high school to a year of school right that's a that's an entire here of school that of lessons that you're missing which I think is pretty telling but then you look at the right hand side how many VI us with chronic absenteeism that's around

06890% we had 108 lessons that ends up pretty quick and so that bar that we set around chronic absente ism is pretty low and so I would suppose that as time goes on we take a look at that um but that's what the state and the law required to still take a look at um but it's not I think it's good enough for us that's just my own opinion and 's like don't tell the board what to do but there you go I'm telling you what to do so here's the data so this is as of first semester so this is the most recent data that we have and so the a district 65.3% of our students have missed two or less daysad is how you read that and you go through and read or

069Elementary 67.5% of the students are not chronic absent um T Ridge 68.9 or M 69.8 and already high school 57.6 now I'll tell you Mr Freeze won't me to tell you that high schools across the state Nation always have the highest chronic absenteeism because they have cars right and it comes to a point where a lot of times parents are like get yourself to school right and so this is pretty typical in terms of the data that's up there Choice have choice right they can stay home alone right doesn't mean we're okay with that and it's a great indicator I think of agency because if students truly had agency across the board I number would be much much much better right Jaden Carly how often are you absent not often not often less than two

070days a month sure you're you're waterm yeah when you're when you're AB from school generally you're like oh I really need to get to school because it's important right like you're you feel like there's something there you're missing that people will miss you right and so that belonging that connection we talk about in agency is is really a draw for students to come to school every day so it becomes more than just a learning it becomes like I belong there I'm connected there so you take a look at the regular attendance over time going back to 2017 18 up through now you can see there's a drop off there sort of a over time and there's something that happened I think something pretty big back in no 20 2020 Co remember that and then you

071can see that we we talk about like there's been impacts from Co that are lasting over time but we can still see that right we're still recovering from it not that that's um something that we're okay with but over time I think attendance is thought up differently now right coming to school and thinking about school and we have better tools now when students are absent and now have prome books and they can log on they see lessons they can turn things in visually so um you know coming to school has to be more engaging in um the last meure we're going to talk about today is really that on on time to graduate um really interesting thing about 24 credits if a student misses one class now they're they're off track which has always been

072something that I thought about that's kind of tough some districts what they've done has just increase the number of opportunities for students to take class in other words they say in a student's day or or School career they say that you you can get like 35 credits right so if you missed one or two here it's okay but we pack them in pretty tight so 24 credits and so those graduation requirements are pretty pretty tight um and I'm sure that you've heard and seen that there's some flexibility within it which is great the state buil some flexibility but for the most part if you miss one now we have to scramble to think about intervention and so here is as of the first semester 12% of our students I cre students offly um the thing

073that I've been most impressed about high school ever since I was the system principal there was if you look at over time like yes the on time contract to graduate has decreased if you look at the graduation rate it's always in the high 90s so that says something about their intervention systems to take those kids within the tight schedule that they have and until they get most kids to graduate which is really impressive and not track is one yeah you miss one no matter what it is it could be PE right you miss one class you got make that up right somehow some way and the high school has done an incredible job of figuring out so good job High School more than happy to take your questions um but next time we meet uh

074well meet with me we'll be talking about our next measure which is going to be the Washington School Improvement framework which is a fascinating measure really complex but uh we'll go over that next time so that's in our schedule to now and then you're going to be hearing from schools which is really exciting I know for you um the thing that's most interesting for me when the schol is looking at the student agency and the whole Child El that you it's always featured every school always features the whole child first which I think I I love it it's great just looking at the slide 15 the high school is the lowest at 57.6% which historically that's it's always at the mostest attendance for a whole variety of reasons but it's interesting that both the elementary

075and Elementary and Tagan are also they're not over 70% and those kids are dependent on parents to either get them to school get them on the bus they parents are making that decision for their kids to only be present less than 70% of the time A lot of times if they're at home the parents at home yeah really here's I don't know if this is dire news or not this is only halfway through the year right so remember chronic abs average right two more absences a month so those numbers are probably going to drop yeah one thing I was talking to uh Mr frez and he said make sure the Bo knows that we are crapping down on attendance and he says that the the pre-approved absences for like when people are requesting to be

076gone for two weeks to go on vacations they're not doing that anymore for those reasons so things like that they're really trying to encourage students to show saw that the data around making sure that you're here because you miss like one day a l lessons you're Miss I I have a question though about so this year we have some of the worst numbers in the nation with flu and nor virus and all those things so is there some way that you can reflect that in attendance because I mean you really can't do it on the one hand we encourage people to not come to school when they're sick but on the other hand we're having I I mean we are having a Hu a huge wave of of flu right now and I mean I

077don't know about you guys but people in my family have been gone for a whole week with it you know so um is there some way that we also reflect that in the data yeah I think there's a way in terms of excuse and excuse we we can sort of filter that out and think about like I mean schools do that by the way as a principle I would do that often think about how many of those absences would do illness versus you know excuse for like vacations for example right and really think about the communication that we have uh but we think about like where aren students coming and a lot of times because of like The Chronic absenteeism is around student anxiety it's around connection it's it's about not belonging not thinking that

078their math lessons are or English lessons are relevant or good um so those are L if I was I was you honestly I think that's probably why a lot of students don't come um there are a lot of students who are sick and absolutely we don't want them to come with a flue because then they spread it now got a bunch other people are sick um but I think if we were really thinking about the whole Tri as a goal and agency as our goal if that was um that was really a reality for us as we got closer to that I think that number would be much higher even with the flu and now I was trying to remember how long have we been doing p Panorama um I think this is our third

079year of doing it yeah and initially we didn't do teaching connected with it we were just Gathering the data but now we're addressing what we're saying yeah most data collection that we have even like Ira for example has lessons that are attached to it and data and one thing I I'll tell you is that the principles right away were saying that students aren't taking the the surveys very seriously and so when that happens what you have to do is you have to attach relevance to it and how you attach relevance to that is goal setting lessons really thinking about that working with students directly unless you do that I don't know if I was taking the test I probably wouldn't take it seriously either so we have to we have to make it relevant way

080and the other thing I wanted to say is so I love that we now address it as whole child because I always tell people when you teach in public school every child that walks in the door is your student it doesn't we accept everyone okay not only do we accept everyone but we accept the whole child when they walk through the door we don't just get to say oh we're just going to look at you academically because when they come in that that's the whole child because they're um they children don't present themselves you know compartmentalized yes so I I love that we we talk about it that way because that is really what we see is the whole talk no matter how old you look one thing I would uh add board just to

081piggy back on what Dr Lee is sharing is that right now we have amazing counselors and they're using this data to run targeted small group intervention at every school I don't have an idea of whether you're going to hear that in the board work sessions because every school has a mild wide list of amazing things that are happening in 45 minutes to share uh but they did come and share with our principal leadership team uh about a month ago and just speak a little bit up the data how are they running groups and if you were to look on our social media accounts you'll see Olivia oring Elementary who is reaching her self efficacy goals and out of her own mouth she describing well I used to have Rock brain and now I have Bubble

082Gum brain and I really tried hard on my test and it's actually making a difference in building that agency right before our eyes we're absolutely seeing success stories along the way uh through how they're taking the data running targeted small groups and that's the power of what aon's helped to bring to the system is that triangulated approach the qualitative and the quantitative and how do we look at the whole context to really identify what's going on because it is complex and there's not a singular solution or data point we can point to uh but it's the right Pathway to lead with that humanization element of putting kids on the Forefront of our work and it gives us a Common Language with the kids and with each other and voice hear voice okay I'm having a

083little I'm thinking about this not approving like a week of vacation or something I is that I feel like it would be better better to look at it on a one-onone situation because I mean if like if the student has Straight A's or the student has B's and they're going to uh their sister's graduation party in Washington DC or whatever I don't necessarily think that it would be good to just say you can't have that week off because there lots of different types of learning to me so what I hear you saying director Tracy is that we should treat students like human beings and take a case my well I just like it better because I feel like I don't want to just I just don't want to just pass something that says we're not

084going to we're not going to pay vacation time I just I don't know that's just me but yeah maybe I misrepresented that um I think they're discouraging it right okay okay I thought it was going to be this no more no that's better then I just don't want it to be this big thing where if you have a really good student or even like you know somebody passing and not having problems in school they couldn't go with their family for a week or something yeah your uh families obviously have the right and ability to take students out it's just a question of how we code it in our system and there's certain absences that are permissible by law as being coded to excused versus unexcused but regardless of how we code it if you want

085to go deer hunting you can do that too it doesn't matter and attendance doesn't necessarily correlate to the outcome side it may or it may not but the general Trend as director Lee showing you on the data I mean this an alarming data point that shows a massive decline over the last five to seven years in our system and it's enough to pay attention to because just logically speaking the more I miss the more likely I am to be in potential Jeopardy of achieving the learning outcomes that we've set but to your point yeah you can go hunting or whatever you want to do uh that's your ability we just discuss how we code it okay and of course say put it way smarter than I did yeah I mean the parents want to pull

086their kids out of school we're like pack one so they they can do well I know how mean you think me thank you for saying that for right thank you very I do want to acknowledge that it is improving since Co attendance is improving so that work with students supporting agency and providing an an environment where they have things to be really excited about at school uh there's growth there so thank you and and I think of the ability to have Chromebooks and right so now they're at home and they're able to like at my daughter's outside right we're like okay get out your Chromebook make sure you're not falling behind right so when you look at it that way you don't want in there s so you're like well you got to have this

087dire exactly I hope we can get back to preco levels I don't think it's going to be this year or next year but over thanks I would just like to add Erin you know I think when we talk about whole child and the work that we're doing in the district that focuses on whole child I think that's a uh sometimes it feels like it's in the air you know if you're a parent and you're hearing about whole child work at the school it cannot feel very tangible what are they doing are they telling them good job and like what does that mean but you do a really good job of putting that into concrete actionable things that are being done throughout the district to affect the whole child and their experience here in our district

088so I just want to acknowledge that that's really important that's really important for for parents who are coming into our system or who aren't familiar with that idea and what does it actually mean in application inside a district I think this is really helpful that's really good point because you're not using educational jargon you're not saying well if we don't meet n you know you're talking about it in in a way that you know a parent would understand and and the child will understand that's what I meant about the common language I like that we that we're all speaking that way um which is much easier to convey information and to reach your goals because you know where you're go yeah when back in the old days when I was Matt for that guy sit

089next to you um I remember employers coming and saying that the one thing that they really had a hard time was developing git perseverance and students like they' hire kids they were smart enough but they couldn't actually work a full 8 hour work day and so the practicality of that one I think out of all of them honestly that's it full child is really important so yeah it's it's I think it's a really good one good job good job picking that goal I have to admit seeing only three second reading documents now after that big wall we had a while I'm like it's only three this time I keep having that reaction looking at this so the three uh four policies that have come forward for second reading are discrimination uh board policy non-discrimination inative

090action and personal leaves final um I had no additional changes no comments or anything so I believe these are ready for action can I get a motion from anyone I move to approve the second reading of policy consideration second thank you all in favor I I good thank you motion passes our consent agenda includes items 1 through six vouchers uh Personnel changes the morning Elementary fifth grade field trip excited for them for that tourament Elementary fifth grade field trip same excited and then our minutes and minutes for both the board meeting and the work sessions so everything's good I move to approve items one through six on the consent agenda second thank you all in favor I good I question passes all right now the first item up for Action Madam president I once again

091would like to yield my time to the gentleman from oring high school The Honorable Matthew William Carlson thank you I do enjoy these meetings let me tell you um it's actually was it was awesome listening to uh Dr Lee Pres information and I got my head spitting back there thinking about how we can tackle that even further um I just want to say I'm excited to be here it is CTE month and I'm uh have a privilege and pleasure of directing CTE work here in the school district I'm very proud of our teachers our staff most importantly our students and I'm just going to share a couple highlights with you I know you got my written report for your plan um if you have any questions about that I'll take any questions but I just

092want to share some real high level uh exciting things uh first as part of CTE month I do want to say that a huge thank you to Britney piger uh our public information officer who's been working with our CT assistant Sarah Gil Crest and myself um we started this work with Bond work it's hard Britney's time is dedicated to a lot of areas in the district but she's been supporting us to create CTE Publications that we're going to be pushing out to um parents and students in our district in a variety of ways including postcards um and a a small magazine that's going to go out to students not through the mail but in person to 8th and nth graders to help them see programs and Pathways that they can engage in while they're in

093secondary schools in our in our district in support of what they want to do after high school so really excited about that work and big thanks to her I also want to say as part of CTE month that the work that we do in CTE are we have great teachers incredible kids but the amount of work that some of our support staff do for our program I I say this to you every year and I mean it um um I I called out Britney but Curtis nio and his crew in maintenance and operations we are we couldn't be where we are without them um we have a par educator we've hired who is doing a tremendous job it's now Jennifer whle um in our in our high school system and then our new CT assistant

094Sarah gilr um what a godsend that that position has been because um it's allowed us to as our program is grown and numbers have increased um the day-to-day operations inside of CTE have gotten tremendous and so having that support I could go into little detail but for the sake of time I won't about all the ways that that that support position is is functioning and supporting our kids really at the end of the day it supports our kids um ctso every uh every CT program of area has a club A Career and Technical student organization uh attached to it the pride and joy of our program for me right now is that we have 134 students that are a part of one of those clubs that's 15% of and I'm I'm specifically talking about high

095school kidss right now but 15% of our high school kids are engaging in an after school activity or Club connected to a leadership component of a CTE class that's huge 99 of those kids are competing regionally or at state so you're talking about out of a a high school of about 180 kids right now uh in terms of our headcount uh 99 of them 100 of those kids are competing this year and what that does we talked about I heard Dr Lee talk about the whole child what that does is it it it improves their desire to be at school it also boosts their academics because there's there's motivation because it's tied to what they want to do so we see a lot of agency inide of our CTE kids are competing in these clubs

096because it's personalized to them it's meaningful and it's relevant I'm really excited that's grown tremendously in The Last 5 Years um we know Co put a hit to that but as we' grown back to see that kind of participation it's pretty awesome I will say from a budget standpoint I just want the taxpayers to know and I want you to know we're spending taxpayer dollars to send these kids to these competitions what an incredible investment I'm committed to still continue to make that happen last year we sent three or four kids to Nationals for TSA and um uh I I want to say that it's expensive as costs go up travel costs go up but these kids these are lifetime once in A- lifetime opportunities that our kids get to use to leverage their future

097careers and it's worth every penny um but I do want the board to know that that is something that as we cons as we grow we'll consider to tackle from a budget perspective uh you know we try not we're trying to avoid fundraising right now because we we really believe we want those dollars that come in to go right to the kids but we will get to a place some point in the near future where National competitions things like that will have to be fundraised they can't just come out of the budget um but that'll be a problem that'll be fun problema to have down the road so um but I want you to know that's really exciting and then last but not least I just want to let you know I'm hosting on March

0987th the oring school district will be hosting the CTE Pierce County directors from around the county um I attend those meetings monthly and the reason I want to draw your attention to that as a board is because I am we know that your support of the bond over the last four years aot huge component of that is around CTE I share reports of bond updates with those directors uh when I attend those meetings as we've gone through those different cycles and they're all I want you to know other school districts other CT directors are behind our our cause to see our facilities grow and increase the reason I I'm I'm bringing them out we're going to have our regular monthly meeting and we're going to tour our facilities these uh directors have advisory boards in

099their school districts some of them are we're talking tooma School District C school district suar school district I know that their industry Partners who sit on their advisory boards when they can share that message of what we're trying to do here in oring I really want you to hear as a board that's going to I I really believe help support our efforts and I appreciate the bond task force and what you guys are doing because that's really going to Ben we need these programs so desperately and these these buildings uh as you know uh to support the work of our kids inside of CTE so um just we will continue to tell that story to as many people that will listen so very excited CT month you're going to see some uh Social Media stuff

100come out uh we will continue to elevate and highlight the work of the kids um but at this time I'll just take if you have any questions about CTE program U I'll take any questions um one I'm so glad you're hosting that because um I went to a CTE class at our was the conference and um one of the things that was so obvious when they were talking about you know brainstorming and working about um ideas that you could U bring back or that you could uh broaden the scope of and every time what it came to when they came to me was I said well we don't have enough room yeah that that was the Crux every single time was well we don't have enough rooms yeah other people were talking about they didn't

101have enough people they didn't have enough interest in no we we don't have enough room and um one of the the things that I saw there and I actually have a copy is is um because it was North it was ever it was ever at school district and I have a copy of their communication publication that they put out for the younger kids about their CTE program so I'll I'll drop it off at the high school because yeah I saw that so um and if you ever want any of us to visit your Advisory Board I'd love to see that oh yeah I'll make sure yeah absolutely be great I one question I didn't know what the um PC3 connect was oh yeah um so that is the Pierce count connect Consortium so in Washington

102state um we uh have articulations we signed with community colleges and technical colleges for so our kids can get college credit right it's uh it's really an incredible thing in Pierce County and I don't know who started this it was before my time but um the directors got together and they said we need a Consortium to go and do this work on behalf of us as directors where you go and connect with the college Deans so we pay into the PC3 and then the PC3 goes out they have workers that go out and meet with the Deans and then bring the articulations back to us the reason that's so important is there are CT directors around the state who don't have that and they are then responsible to go make all of those connections and

103try and and that's a that's a thing that takes place literally all throughout the year and it's updated not just annually but the the because the quarters the colleges are in a quarter system those articulations can change and fluctuate plus there's an entire system where kids uh uh log in to register for the college credit and that's all maintained by PC3 and it's become so popular that now uh other they've gone beyond Pierce County um and they sit um we I'm a member of Pierce County Waka and the uh there's a seat on our our uh leadership team from PC3 who sits with us on our kind of I would call it our governing board but there are it's our leadership group and they report out that districts now from King County from thirst County

104and even districts from Eastern Washington are reaching out to try and articulate because the the workload is tremendous especially smaller districts where you don't have the full-time CT director and Staffing at the district office so it's kind of like the ESD serves the purpose exactly perfect analog yes okay yeah and well that's that's that's wonderful because that is so needed because it's you know you you might need that thing one time and you don't want to have to pay somebody to do that full time when you need it's worth every penny that's and they and just so you know they negotiate so in terms of the the dollar amount uh based on the size of your District it's a sliding scale so they take that into consideration yeah and their governing board uh meets annually

105to make sure those fees are are correct for the size of districts so wow I'm really impressed yeah I don't know that I have any questions but just want to thank you for the hard work I think a testament to the quality of the program is when the other schools are developing CT to get kids into the CTE program so that that percentage of kids participating I imagine will grow over time yeah uh the budget considerations are on my mind as you know field trip after field trip yeah um uh but wow if we could figure out a way to solve for that so that can go I completely agree that that's a valuable experience I think I think Paige Anderson was the perfect example at the high school presentation of the of the Wonders

106that getting an opportunity to present yourself someplace else how that you can learn yeah such a to become more of of who you are in your interests and express yourself yeah and uh I don't know the direction the task force will take they're going to review the same information that we have reviewed and and all the information we have available uh leading up to a potential Bond decision yeah I imagine they're going to come to the same some of the same ideas about needing more facilities that support these important programs so uh we're going to keep looking hard I'm with you on that one too as well can I ask you a question about the whole thing with the carpet removing the carpet was that one the agenda plan oh is that for the portable

107um so that's for yeah so for the animals so when you when we don't have facilities we sometimes have to get creative so we're in a portable ourg our animal science custom is in a portable and it has carpet so I'm like budget wise we might want to think about we need to eventually if we're going to do it right we might want to have a better surface in that classroom than carpet if we were actually doing it right so that's why I put that in there I can't wait to see the magazine I think that'll be an important uh informational tool for the community if there's a way they can see it and to see the kids bring it home I hope it will inspire them and Britney thank you you are busy but

108I appreciate you dedicating some time to that I love that idea yeah good job all right any questions the four year plan I don't want to disrupt it I want to see it continue to grow we'll do it we will do it all right all right thank you sir thank you guys thank you thank you thanks for hang out than thanks [Music] buddy for theer Ed program can I get a motion a motion to approve the career in technical education program was presented second thank you all in favor I I from Joan Mo perfect the second item for action on our agenda tonight is a surplus request I will entertain a motion if there's no discussion I motion to approve the Surplus request as presented second thank you all in favor I I motion I

109I join up passes thank you very much I don't know why I find this requests funny every time there are some weird things on there weird things it's all good it's important and I'm glad we surus I'm glad I'm aware of what we're Surplus I appreciate that opportunity to r that every time I had to Sur at my house all right we've had a long meeting tonight but I really appreciate the reports and the discussion that's why we do what we do so if there are any additional board comments St reps anything you need from us more space You shook your head no you should have said yes one final comment um principal Cliff freeze was recently named Executive Director of Business and operations for the oring school district starting July 1 so we've sent

110communication to our families uh this afternoon that we will be seeking a new high school principal that position will go live starting Monday uh we do value parent Community student voice in that uh staff as well so our process will look similarly to what we've done in the past with regard to students having a component our community and families having the opportunity to engage in meet our candidates so probably similar to last time I'm sure we'll have our top couple of candidates with down through an interview process and move out to some Community Forum uh where others will have the chance to meet and greet and provide feedback on that process so you'll see that go live starting on Monday congratulations I hear it was a pretty emotional meeting today when it was when Cliff

111announced he was looking it was all his emotion I was fineac not choked up at all [Music] yeah the teacher even that emotional very much so yeah it's uh he has done an amazing job leading that school he'll be sorely missed but when we think about the long-term growth and the planning and the thousands of homes coming we not only have one bond in the near term that needs it desperately but another one right on the heels and there's no better person to help design and lead and Champion that work than somebody that already has a strong background of Community Trust uh to help us lean into that I think he'll do a fabulous job y i agreee i he's had tremendous impact at many levels in the district to see his leadership extended to

112all of our buildings it will be a really cool really cool thing to be able to witness and I'm excited about who fills those shoes they have a tall order absolutely thank you anything else all right then with that all J tonight's meeting