001You were looking at the public. >> No, I don't think so. Um, well, when Stephanie comes back Oh god. Last year we had Everybody, it is 700 p.m. Today is Tuesday, September 8th, September 9th, 2025. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and begin with the pledge of allegiance. Ready? Begin. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Uh, any changes to the agenda, Dr. Finch? >> No changes. >> Okay. Communications with response to public comments. >> That's a placeholder this evening. >> Okay. And oath of office for student representatives. All right. So, we have our new representative for the junior class is Georgia Bonds. We have
002Katie Champy is returning. And so, we'll have both of our students take the oath of office. And I I have the script here. So, we'll go in the order of the agenda there. So, Katie Champy, come on up first. It does say Katherine. Is that okay? >> Yeah, that's okay. >> All right. Here we go. Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I, Katherine Champy. I, Katherine Champy, >> do hereby solemnly solemnly swear >> do hereby solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> and the Constitution of the State of Washington >> and the Constitution of the State of Washington >> and the West Valley High School Associated Student Body Constitution >> and the
003West Valley High School Associated Student Body and constitution. I will endeavor to promote >> I will endeavor to promote >> the interest of education >> the interests of education >> and to represent >> the West Valley student body >> as I faithfully discharge >> the duties of student representative >> the bodies of duties >> the duties of student representative >> to the school board >> of the West Valley School District number 208 >> of the West Valley High School school district number 208 >> in Yakma County in Yakima County >> in the state of Washington. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> This should be a piece of cake. It's exactly the same script. All right, here we go. Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I, Georgia Bonds >> I, Georgia Bonds, >> do hereby
004>> so solemnly swear >> solemnly swear >> and the Constitution of the State of Washington >> and the Constitution of the State of Washington >> and the West Valley High School Associated Student Body Constitution >> and the West Valley High School Associate Student Body Constitution. I will endeavor >> I will endeavor >> to promote >> the interest of education >> and to represent >> the West Valley student body >> as I faithfully discharge >> the duties of student representative >> to the school board >> of the West Valley School District number 208 >> of the West Valley School District number 208 >> in Yakama County >> in Yakima county >> in the state of Washington. >> Congratulations. >> Now, we appreciate our student representatives and uh they'll be giving a monthly report uh from the
005ASB, the Associated Student Body and also we have them join the audience because sometimes they have homework to do and sometimes our board meetings go long. So they are able to quietly slip out if needed rather than having them be up here and say I have have homework to do. So we appreciate you being here this evening and welcome to the school board. Let's give them a hand everyone. I'd like to add an extra congratulations and thank you for being linked to take on this role. It's an important responsibility. So we welcome you and I'm very happy to have you. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. He's ready to go. >> We're ready to go. These guys did a great job queuing everything up for me. >> Yep. So, let's go ahead and have the
006board join the audience so we can watch the presentation and then we'll have some time for question and answer. >> We'll do it afterwards. We have to excuse Mr. >> Can we do that real quick before we take a seat? >> It should look >> I'm sorry. We should have just done that real quick. Can we just do it real quick? >> I move to excuse Mr. Heat from tonight's uh meeting. Thank you. All those in favor say goodbye by saying I. >> Good evening. Joners, executive director of innovation and one of the programs I oversee is our current technical education. So tonight our focus will be on kind of a review of last year and then some looking forward to things for this year upcoming in career technical education or as we'll say and
007education acronyms a CTE. Yeah, CT or career technical education really fits with goal four on career pathways. Yeah, works out really well with that. We also master standards, you know, goal three fits in as well, but really CT is all about building connections in between courses. I think as we go through night, one thing I like to say is sometimes you think of CT or current technical education as a set of classes, but really I think going with uh goal four is it's a vision how everything connects that we do. So it really puts a purpose behind why am I learning my statistics, why am I learning my algebra, why am I learning how to give a presentation speech, why am I learning this history or geography, all those things spin. So really I see
008this as career path is really K12 because that's our goal here in education is really graduation is not our education graduation is not our goal where they just fall the stage and we did our job. how are they prepared to go in the future to be members in our community, you know, to be employed, to have families that'll come back in, all those different things like that. So, that's kind of where I see as we talk about career technical education. Tonight, we kind of think more about a subset of classes. No, there's really a higher vision that connects all classes. So, even if somebody's not a CT teacher, it's not a CT program. Everything we do really as a district should really be fitting into career pathways and getting our students ready for the future,
009even with starting at first grade. That's why we're teaching you how to read and write is we want you to be prepared for whatever you do in the future. So we're looking at a subset but kind of goes some basic things I'll just kind of highlight. I'm not going to read over all but some highlights we had from middle level campus last year is we did a lot of upgrades into some of the CT classrooms our science ones. They haven't been renovated or upgraded since the 19 since really buildings or 70s. So we did some things that way to modernize those so the classrooms could be used. This year we got some great feedback from families just in the look and the feel. And the instructors also said the students came in operating a higher
010level just with newer furniture that wasn't all chipped up furniture that kind of matched retrained some walls and some LED lights and some things that way to fit. We've been doing LED lights as a district overall in different phases. We were able to help out with that and that kind of helped. So those are some things that we're doing just the mid-level campus upgrade. Uh we started a sustainable our sustainable living class last year that was a hit. We actually for this year broke that up and we took it really into egg bentures class folks a little more agriculture which leads into our high school pathway in agriculture and then took that into a other class there was actually a food nutrition now course for this year. So last year we had great success with
011sustainable living. They kind of fit in healthy lifestyles and a little bit of agriculture how we grow our food and then using it. Now we really split those course apart because we had a lot of interest and our mid-level c campus had capacity for another instructor there for those areas. So this year is our first year running both those. So actually is interesting now as we kind of get in the next part is for the food nutrition classroom. We're actually putting back some stuff that 10 12 years ago was removed in some of those areas as far as some kitchen stuff goes. We updated that. Our instructor Gretch and Hansen came to us from that cheese for a long time and a few years in the school shoot now back with us. Her husband Matt
012Hansen also teaches down there. So good team. Um and just kind of she's been able to bring some stuff to the just to our school there for kind of going on this year. That was neat. Charity scene now actually has a three-lane range that they were using last year above kind of there's a auxiliary room next to the wrestling room. So they've been able to do some stuff there and that leads as a good pathway right up into our high school with our breath marksmanship class there innovation center. Last we did a robotics aggra science program uh that went really well. We did some stuff hydroponics and then really getting kind of the mechanical design. That's area we got per tech here represented um with Casey. But it really leads into a lot of high
013tech areas that really pay well. This year we've done some redesigns on that how it looks. It's kind of joined our STEM program. There's a lot of overlap in some of those skills and we'll kind of hit that on more of our this next year's plan there. Some STEMline upgrades and things like that. We had some apprentices, one at Pexico and one at Van Dorne. So that was great. Uh with our community recognition, we had Dave Graham. He came in just about every week. Worked with our Welley students in the 1012 STEM program. He also brought in a lot of different community members that he knew as well. We had a truck with somebody from the pipe for his union was out there. They're welding that. We had a local orthodontist which is kind of
014but he does laser welding on the side. So that was really neat that we had to set up all these curtains, all the warning signs and he showed you how they could laser weld and do some things which is high and they're doing in stainless steel applications lot. So just some really neat things that again a community partner brought in things that we normally couldn't have had in there. So that was neat. We'll talk about kind of the last one with some of our pictures coming up. High school. Some things we did is actually Giza worked with us. We've been working with them the la past few years to get this ruling. And then over last January, Giza came in and set up a high school credit union here um in the high school. So
015that's been great. Students, we had student workers and the student worker for that was actually employed with Giza starting last fall. So they get training for about five months and then they could open up the credit union and we had some other student workers. So that employee was really Giza runs a lot of it. So hats off to Giza. They've done a really good job of they take care of all the finance stuff. We just kind of house it and they do all the stuff promote with our students. They've got a great partner with our credit our credit union uh debit card stuff like that the school's taking on. So last year was our first year of our construction 101 and 102 class that really took off. They did some work with habitat for humanity.
016You may have seen that actually KMA did an article on that. It's really that was just the first year of the program. Stephen Mattite did a great job. This year we actually have more sections that we could fill. most of our he could teach. So we had somebody else come in and teach one of those. Keegan P is one of our science teachers that also has a CT endorsement. He was he's teaching one of those this year just because construction's really taken off. So they've done a great job with that. Some really cool projects. Again, lots of different things between JRTC financial algebra class. Um some reality fair stuff. Dataf Bay. So again, just lots of great things happening at the high school and districtwide. Overall, we had a number of students last year attend
017the pathway to the top. It's a career and college expo held at Sundome and again we had students tour job core local businesses HLA engineering number of different colleges and tours like that. So a lot of great things happening last year in the district. Here's one of the big things just kind of reported our career path and launch grant. That's a two-year grant. So every other every other year the state awards this grant and then you have two years really spend the money. It's really supposed to be used for equipment. Four years ago, we received the grant. That's where we got some of our robotic stuff for the innovation center. This year that or the last two years, we've been working on getting everything for the Cub Crackers kit plan that you see up there.
018We got some amateur trainers. The trainer on the bottom left there working on hydraulics, mechanical systems, fits right into the aviation part and really making the plane fly and all the thrust part of it. We got some those trainers. Actually, we got some surplus from another district and then we were able to buy some of the parts we need to upgrade it because we're missing some parts. And then we have five flight simulators that look like that one. It's a TD2 with Redbirds. This the airport downtown has that one except it has five screens. We're looking at with some grant funding this year to purchase a threec screen one just to kind of get a little more wrap around to it. But those are working out great and they're just starting to get those going
019in the classrooms right now. So this was a great partnership. Again, this is a kind of community partnership. We didn't get it d the kit donated to us from Cupcfter. be able to use the grant funds and partner with them and they've been able to supply work with us on training for instructors having people come over and actually I was given a tour to a innovation center student who was looking at coming in actually as we were talking we kind of talked about that they looked at each other like oh what's going on he's like oh I'm a machinist for cupcfter so it's all those connections that then we can build in so we can have some of these families come back in they can help teach our students some of the stuff so they
020can take pride in showing students what they do as a job then mark their job and upskilling our students innovators there. So some initiatives looking at for the next year is really continue the mid level campus for the past few years have been using masterbased learning. Last year is really our first year jumping in. So really working on the CT standards that we need to so business and industry standards along with like nextgen science standards in corp nutrition. We have the egg ventures. They're working on outdoor gardens. If you go to the junior high in between the art room and the gym you'll see a little fence stop area. It's got a fence about 3 and 1/2 ft tall. They're going to be planting garden in there in the spring. So that's our construction engineering
021technology class at the junior high. They'll be working to build some of the raised bed planters and then the egg ventures class will be growing some stuff in that. So a great partnership between classes and then continuing to work on we have a sixth grade STEM program. So continuing to work between the sixth grade STEM and then our elementary steam programs. So high schools, this is our first year of the whole whole school year of the Giza credit union. So getting more of that financial literacy stu standards to students helping all of our students even if they're not in our financial literacy class or financial algebra class to really become more finan financially aware utilize a pace lab. So this is one of some of our special education programs. We move that lab to the
022innovation center to have more room and capacity for that lab. It's going to work out well too because it's going to kind of take the students that are here at the high school and then they can almost feel like they're going to a job site to learn those job skills and then come back over here. So, it's allowed some more room that we didn't have before, but it kind of takes it away a little bit away from location. So, we think it's going to be a win-win this year for that. That's actually right across from our special education department office. So, they can go in and see that in operation a little bit more. High school. We also started a food nutrition course here at the high school. So, again, our goal is to build
023pathways so we don't have a bunch of disjointed classes at the high school. Then we have food nutrition science class. Key Tesy is teaching that one for us. So, she's all excited. Been doing a lots of stuff to there. that's going on cuz I just in the healthy cooking, healthy eating. Our goal is I say less Thanksgiving meal preparation and more health wellness things that teenagers, young adults are going to need to know as they go up. So we're looking at, you know, some hot plates, air fryers, blenders, things like that where they can make meals you can do more in a class period of time versus something that's big. Not that we won't learn some formal meals, but more of the the more efficient meal, more what they're going to use for meals. And
024then also the business side of it too. If we talk about a food truck, well, what could be the theme of your food truck and then making the food for the food truck, think about the dietary needs, everything that way and then the marketing advertising side. So trying to wrap it more than just we made a grilled cheese sandwich just to make a grilled cheese sandwich. What are the standards in behind that? I think that's part we as I kind of brush over in CT, but that's I think the part is really about why are we learning this? So as we talk back to it and we talk about teacher clarity, the districts, we've really been working a lot with our staff and throughout all the buildings is why are we learning this? students don't
025know why they're learning something. Well, then there's no reason to be learning it. You're just like, why should I learn it? So, if we can back it up with a reason we're learning this food prep for healthy lifestyle or hey, this is a pathway to a career. All these different things that then it starts building more relevance increase dual credit and do enrollment industry certifications and other items like that. Innovation center, some of our updates for that. We've redone course master there. So to make our innovation center courses align to what you might see on a high school transcript also kind of align with as students move back and forth that way. We've gone from a trimester model to a semester model to be more align with the district some things that way. It's our
026first year of our STEM aerospace program. So we had a a STEM program before was really machining welding. We also had that a robotics program. We really kind of combined those then we've combined the classes. We brought Greg Bum who was instructor here for the last four years. He is now one class here in the rest of high school or at the IC. He's got a background in air or air force and other things like that. So he fits right in. Doug Terrell's our other teacher there. So actually works out well because they can team teach. Sometimes the CT you're a lone wolf you're just on your own doing it but having somebody to teach alongside and share ideas with. It's valuable. So they've been able to do that. So they're starting our STEM aerospace
027program increasing your connections and then co-eing really at that innovation center it's co-eing collaboration with the designers to build in that relevance. So that's one of our areas we're stressing really just education in general but also under the CT umbrella some district initiatives working I'm working a lot with our teachers on a safety plan so documenting all of safety as students have safety tests keeping those on records for years to come get a lot of documentation that way and that's been good to see a lot of classes they're really stressing safety was just around with the innovation center today and I think three of the four classes were of seventh through nth graders were doing safety it was neat because they were working in their ELA standards as well. So they're doing safety. It wasn't
028just I'm learning safety. They were putting together a CE. Um I'm trying to think what all the acronym was, but it's really standards you learned in English class, but now they're related to standard. So instead of saying, well, just watch out for cords then we move on. The students were thinking about what was the caution they need to what might happen of it and then what's their response to that? How do they fix and mitigate that? So then they're starting to do presentations, documentations. So, it's neat to see the English language arts terminology and standards incorporated into a safety lesson that way. So, that was one of the neat things there. Uh, let's see. We promote, again, it is a district- wise, we're trying to promote non-traditional opportunities. There's more things. JobCore was a big
029hit. We taking a lot of our students. Lots of great opportunities for them after they graduate if that's a pathway increasing our data. And then career pathways again through school links, which I'm going to highlight here in a minute, and our CTSOs. So, I was told to make it all short. So I usually talk fast but I just want to make it go fast so we can >> acronyms. What's CTSO? >> CTSO is a career and technical student organizations that be like your FFA, DECA, HOSA and other things like that. So we're trying to increase opportunities for students outside the classroom is what it comes to. Some of them are actually like your more well-known ones of DECA RFA and some are just at the middle school. We have a STEM club or we have
030a science club or other things like that they can work in the innovation center. have NESBY which has really worked with robotics and aerospace and working with Central on some ideas like some competitions or just some student engagement. There's a rocket club that's going to come down almost monthly now to work with that group down at the innovation center from Central. So school links I'll kind of give you a little background. This will kind of highlight this is a little part of our program is high school and beyond plan. Every graduate in Washington state needs to have completed or check kind of a box of they complete a high school and beyond plan. Really what that's saying is we don't want you to get to graduation. You go, I took all these classes, but I
031really don't know why I'm here. I just was going towards graduation. Now I graduate and I'm done. But it didn't make sense. The high school beyond plan, the goal is starting really in like mid-level campus or even earlier. You start looking at who am I as a learner? What things am I interested in? What things might I be good at? What might I excel at? And what might I struggle in? And then how might that fit into things that might be a future for a career or learning? Different things like that. And then once you kind of figure out first what's some of the post-secary opportunities can I go right into that? Can I do I need to go to Perry Techch or technical college? Do I need to go to a two-year college or
032four-year college? So that's really goal is to get students thinking about that throughout their whole career and building connections versus just senior year now it's all thrown at you and all those things. So So that's kind of So we'll kind of go through just a few things. It's a little hard to see in this one but um in our board packet you were able to see it. on the screen right now is students go to the main screen and this is grades 6 through 12 are working in this program. So we've done trainings for staff at the high school and the innovation center tomorrow morning is training for mid-level campus staff. We just hired on we had a >> this new this year. >> This is new this year. Yep. And the reason we switched
033we had Zello was another program for the states actually look to adopt a statewide program for high school and beyond. The nice part about that is if a student moves between schools, that's transferable. Also, they can take this with you after they graduate. Typically, in the past was once you graduate, the program was done. You had to download whatever you had. Their goal is is to make this where it goes with you. The state's also investing a lot of training for teachers and then building some of their stuff where they can feed statewide data into the system. They weren't doing that before if it was an independent system that schools were contracting with. So, we had to pay Zelda. Right now the state's providing this free. Again there's been some budget things with the state
034but right now they're providing it for free. So it's nice where there's a lot of data that comes in. So to go through some of the highlights we'll see why a state plan is really nice. And also regionally we have ESD 105. They can do some trainings and they can offer some supports with this because they're you know working with the state on it. So it gives us a nice statewide approach versus every district or every region doing their own things and us having a feed to lock into it. So we'll kind of go over some of the features in it. So yep. So, our students in grades 6 through 12 right now will be in working on this this year. If they're a senior and they're already in some stuff in the other programs,
035there's some things that they need to meet for the high school plan, they'll be able to work on those this year. So, although some of the stuff they've done for three years, it helps build them up to where they're at. They'll be doing some more activities in this one. So, you check off that towards high school because every student before they graduate, get their diploma will need to check off a box that says they do this. But ideally, we want it to be more than just checking a box. You want to really be immersive thing that drives what they're learning and why. So this first thing if you look there, it's really just they're talking about find your path. What would you rather do? What are your top skills? What's your social emotional learning? Your
036learning style, student focus and lifestyle. So those are those boxes if you can't read them there. So students will go through the first time they log in, take some different interest inventory quizzes. That'll help to identify what type of learner they're and what careers they might be interested in. This is something ideally they take either every year or every few years because if you're a sixth grader, by the time you get to 11th grade, your interests may have changed. Common for a sixth and seventh grade classes here is professional sports athlete, social media influencer, and those are probably the top few by by quite a ways. And then we get into some other careers. A lot of the careers are things that the doctor, the dentist, the teacher, the things that everybody knows. So I
037think some of the nice program is nice is it starts to introduce them some other careers that might be related to something you know but it's not because not everybody in this room we have a few we have a lawyer and we have a few other we have teachers in here but there's a lot of careers that other people have that aren't common that students don't think or they haven't been to work. So that's part of I think the brilliance of this program as we start to maybe work into it earlier and you know we have elementary here is how do we get students to think about all those different opportunities the earlier we can introduce it the better because then this world's still wide open. we start to get into middle level and high
038school either teachers, somebody's going to comment to you, something else. All a sudden you're kind of you're like in a track. So, how do we keep that open? Let the students choose a track. I know I had my my grandpa one time was like, "Oh, I was in outdoors and landscaper." He's like, "Well, the landscapers don't make any money." So, you well, I could have been a really good landscaper, but I don't know because he just shut the door on that. So, I was like, "Oh, I'm never going to do it again." Even though money wasn't the driving factor there was just he was like, "No, that's not a good job." So, I think the more we get students interested in different things, see what they are, test them out, learn about them, and now
039it's easier than when they get later and go, "Oh, I've invested so far. Nope, this wasn't what I wanted." You know, so some things that there's that part. Other things they can do, again, they're looking at top career goals. They're looking at different careers. This will pull in Washington state data. They could also segregate it down to Yakma County data, Kittas County, saying start to say, "If I don't want to leave the Yakma Valley, what are the career choices for me related to what I want?" a lot of our students want to stay here. The west side looks scary. Well, if you just give an employment data that's Washington state, you're seeing the price of jobs and other things like that on the penny on the west side. You're like, well, that's pretty good. It's
040different over here. So, it helps if the students wants to stay here. Well, if I'm, you know, in a position here versus somebody in a position on the west side, there might be difference. So, it's good to have students kind of see that local data on the careers. They look at education. So, start looking at this is jobs. You can look anywhere in the country. They'll also be a look at, hey, if I found the job I want, where do I need to go to school? Do I need to school for that? And they can take virtual tours of different universities. Perry Tech's in there. There's a lot of different ones. They can go through here's some of the university part there. So they can see a map, see how far they are. Sometimes ne
041you hear about these schools, they come visit the campus here and they talk for a lunch period. They come and you get the flyer and they just realize like, oh, I don't want to live in that city, but that's where it's at. So, I think that's kind of neat to be able to see the map, take some virtual tours, and really realize what the campus is all about and what programs they offer there. We have some students that say, "I want to go to this college." They have no idea why they want to go to college. It's just like, "Hey, I love Ginsag. That's a school I want to go to. I want to go to a basketball game, so that's where I want to go." And they felt like, "Oh, they don't have my
042major there. They don't have anything I want to do." And that's good conversations you can have in either Ramstrong or with your teacher, families, a counselor to have some of those before you go to Gonze and you realize like, oh, there's nothing that I wanted to tour. It was just I want to go free for basketball or watch games. >> Gonzaga does have a lot of good things. >> Yeah. No, >> I was just going to say Gonzaga is the greatest. >> No, it's all good. >> Many of our colleges don't have all the programs. So, you go kids like, "Oh, I thought they had this." And then we have the conversation like no really you should go over here if you want to go to that one. So uh let's see. So here just
043is some stuff local jobs. So actually this is one if you're interested on job here they have can see this is actually talking about apprenticeships in the area. So some of these might be apprentichips they can do in high school. A lot of these are apprentichips right out of school. So this one has a sprinkler fitter right there and a general electrician. Those are two apprentichips in the Yakama Valley. So, the neat part about this firm that we didn't have with the other ones is this has got connections to Indeed and other local employment agencies that can put information in on here. As we start to work as a school, we identify some local employers as people give us jobs and typically we'll have people will call be like, "Hey, I'm looking for a high
044school student." We have Walmart hires a ton of students. They're right here in our community. We can get their information up here. So, students looking for a job. I have a number of students that have that work at Walmart. Great place for them to work. Flexibility. It would be great if we can have this here so our students that are looking for jobs in our area in West Valley can go right to this and find those versus well I'm going on deed or I'm trying to find this website or I'm going door to door. How do I do this? We can have links to local employers right here that want to partner with us. So that's I think a neat part on the employers they can see regional state but then also vary things down
045to the Yakima and then that's then some of the other neat things is we start to look at like if there's a summer camp we can promote that through here. If we take a tour to Eastern, Central or Gonzaga, whatever it might be, if we take tour, we can do that sign up right through here. Before we had to do a Google classroom list, send out the link, Joseph. We can do everything from here. And we also can we find out if we have a last we had a survey or come and do a presentation here kind of in the comments. Well, we can use this to filter and figure out what students might be interested in surveying and then we can direct message them. So, we can get them to the speaker. We can
046get the students the things that they need that fit what they want versus just a general announcement. Sometimes when you do those well if I'm in math class I don't want to be in math class all of a sudden I'm going to this thing even if I'm interested just because I'm not a good class. So it allows us to start to really get some good data and connect to our students really provide some great opportunities for our students there. So a few highlights a lot more things we can go through in schoolings but this is a neat program we'll be working on. My goal in talking to the teachers here at the high school and the innovation center during our inservice time at the Millow camps tomorrow is this shouldn't just be a we do
047this in advisory and we check off a box to say we did it. So typically that's what this kind of done like a rampster advisor. I said if I'm in a physics class I should be taking my physics students and we should be doing a career find looking at what careers actually use physics because if I'm trying to have my students find value in physics class like why are we doing this? I should be able to go in here, help them find careers that say, "Oh, this is where the things we're learning are going up." If I'm in an ELA class, I could pull up so many careers where writing is important. Think about, you know, police officer now. Well, there's a ton of documentation. Healthcare industry, you need to document everything. Pharmacy, there's a
048ton of different careers that have a lot of documentation writing that they may not think of writing ELA skills connect. So, I think this that's one of the gems is there's a lot of stuff in here that every teacher can use. So, whether you're band, choir, whatever it might be, you can use this program. So that shouldn't be just a standalone. We do it and then everybody just does a check the box but doesn't find any value. So as we build it more over the next year to two years there should be a lot of value and this should be incorporated into all classrooms. Everybody has access. It's kind of just a few plugs in school. >> Last slide right? >> Yep. That's the last slide. >> We'll have the board come back and then
049we can do some question and answer. Well, first of all, thanks Jud for your leadership and really appreciate the year in review and then looking forward to this school year. It's a nice way to start off the school year, our really our first uh our first program for the 2526 school year and all about all the great things happening in our district and what we're going to look forward to in the future. So, thank you, Jen. >> No problem. I get started then end with the innovations. Maybe go throw ELA or ALA in the middle somewhere. >> Okay, any questions for Jen? >> I just had a one comment and then a question on the last slide. So, I didn't know you educated me. I didn't know that there was such a thing as Northwest
050School of Wooden Boat Building thing. >> So, that's interesting. Secondly, uh on the last slide, you know, with with like these various jobs and what you're talking about in terms of getting the students matched up with How does the data get in here? Who's inputting that? >> I think we can import some local things we want to. We'll have access, but a lot of it is the state with some of the people that are running school links is then incorporating. So, schools a national company. So, they're looking at um whether it be work with like local career centers, Indeed. So, they have some filters they're running through scanning the internet to pull in a bunch of jobs are in there. And we can also import jobs to put as local ones as well. >> Okay.
051because I was just I was just trying to think like how would a local business communicate with the West Valley School District that this is a place that they should be on. >> So that'll be our we just actually we had a change. We had Jesse El was our career and college pathway specialist. She did a great job. She was looking to more do some individual counseling and in the role it's sometimes a little less individual. It's more you know process wise. So we just hired she started on Monday uh black momo. So she'll be in her new career pathway. We moved up to coordinator level. So she'll be helping get this to schools, but then she'll be reaching out to local employers, ideally working with the chamber, South Central workforce, getting this information out
052there so then they can get. The nice thing is too is because this regional if Yakimma school district is working with local employers to get on there, we can get into that too. So it doesn't have to be just us and stops at the 45th 48th Avenue. It then can be everybody, >> right? It seems like it'd be something that the general advisory council that we do on a regional basis in the Aqua Valley that they would be able to to link into it, right? >> Yep. Yep. So that's something through as we meet with that way. That's what I love is it's a regional partnership. We have a strong regional partnership in CT anyway. So it saves us from having to do all lifting. Everybody's lifting a little bit together. >> Thank you. >>
053Questions. >> Just want to say thank you for the presentation. I love the way you integrate the different courses with other courses and I think that's just really good. And I love the question, why are we learning what we're learning? I mean, I've heard you say that before. So appreciate that. I have a question that you didn't even talk about but I saw in the notes. Okay. >> Is how how do you put together advisory committees and how many do you have and just tell me just a little bit about that. >> Yeah, that's good. So that's um regionally we have a good the Yak well actually we just changed I'm trying to think what the name up until this year will let's say there was some local advisories. So it might be our really
054as a district our sports men or as a region sports medicine FFA our agriculture teachers they have some really strong advisories some of the other areas we maybe don't have that strong we've used a lot of a regional approach so as a region us yak masila and tapish were kind of the some of the school district leads to bring in all the regional schools to two three meetings throughout the year and at that we'd also invite business we'd bring in all the teachers it's nice too to bring in the businesses and then also nice to bring in teachers because a lot of the teachers if I'm here and I'm agriculture teacher. Well, I'm the only one. Now, if I go to and see, oh, there's 10 other agriculture teachers. We all can start to co
055plan, work together, build some network in that way. >> Yeah. There's also higher ed at the table and then workforce development and economic development. It's all working together as a region. >> Yep. So, we kind of have a theme usually with each meeting. Uh that worked out well. Uh was going really well. CO started to come back well. One of the challenges with that regionally is if myself and my counterparts Bonnie Smith at Yakma who runs YB Tech and their CT department, Jeff Cochran Sila and then Monica Selbar at topish, we all have full-time jobs. So sometimes hard to do all this regional work. So ESD 105 over the summer then hired Jeff Cochran from CILA to help lead some of the regional work which has been great. We've been working with them as they
056crafted the job just because we don't have the capacity to do all the things we'd like to do as a region to get school links everything else to bring out those employers. So it's be nice we can partner with ESD 105 but they can help set up some agenda and really provide more supports for our teachers that that role is really set up to support the work that we've already started with that regional advisory and then to even add to that. So I think we're going to see some good growth over the next year or two in that part. So it's really bringing services to the districts and our teachers together. >> And the advisories are based on career pathways, right? Yep. So and so how many do we have? >> We have typically the
057OSP kind of varies, but we have typically OSP is kind of like you have agriculture, health science, business and marketing, business marketing gets big. So sometimes we like computer science group because they're a little bit different than maybe a business teacher or financial teacher. Health teachers kind of their own group as well too because a lot of them teach similar content in there. also skilled in technical sciences which really creates everything from and some ceramics and art applications to weld into construction. So there's some smaller subsets in that and then family consumer education is last one. There's kind of education subset and then more your traditional family consumer education be your health nutrition things like that. So yeah there's a lot we have a lot of really strong regional work I think over the next
058few years we're going to see it growing because that's one of the areas ESD is really seen by some of us have really worked with them on building that up. So, I think we'll see some good things coming that's really going to support our district here, our students here, but then also the whole region as a whole, which it does help the regional one because then it's not us, our teachers trying to invite the same business that's going to a nachis one or a highland advisory meeting and they're like, oh, it's three nights out of this week. Everybody put their advisory meetings at the same time and there's some state paperwork and stuff we need to do. So, ideally, if we work together, it helps build us all up, make us stronger. um the uh
059CTSO clubs you talked about trying to get some more interest in that. And I'll just say from my youngest is is in middle school now and my wife got up at like 1:30 in the morning to sign her up. Okay. >> Because our previous child like couldn't get in because it maxed out pretty quick and then I heard there's a couple other parents. So I'd say there's >> there's there's good interest. Uh but uh um I had a couple questions about um one when is the college and career expo and then also the the Giza branch. Yep. >> Is that essentially >> just to help kids open up their own bank accounts? What what's what's happening at the Giza branch? >> Let's see. All right, let's go. What your first I'm trying to think first
060question because >> what are the dates when the >> Oh, the dates. Yep. I'm hoping there's be a career college pathway expo. There may I'm still waiting to hear from ESD 105. They haven't set that up. They've gone through some restructuring the past year. It was great. I think some of the things they had to put up like $15,000 to like rent the sun dome and some other things. So, if they don't have it right now, they'll be working on some other options. There are really with um cell central workforce, they have a different bunch of employment conferences or workshops. So, we'll hopefully send some staff as they start doing like some jobs or send staff and students to those. So, I don't have a date on it. Typically, it was like two weeks after
061the fair. I think they might have moved it back if they're going to do it because they found out last year was heavily involved in the fair too. So they go from the fair to another big event. So we'll if not we'll be doing some smaller things here. So we'll kind of see where they going that way. And then going back to your second Ga part. Yep. So Giza was is it's a branch kind of right across from our counseling office. Used to actually be like a ASB window or kind of a sales window that's right across kind of on the way to the auditorium. Could have been a ticket window um in the original plans. So that opens up. That's all run by GISA. I'm trying to think of all your questions there. So,
062it's working out. But, but the goal of it is really to get students starting to manage money, starting to think about that in their own money versus I'm going to my parents all the time. So, it's they don't get there's no credit card. So, there's all it's a bank account. They have to have the money in the bank. They can deposit money here at school and then they can withdraw money here at school. And typically we'll do promotions where if they do six deposits or withdraw even if it's the same like $5 back and forth then Giza because they're credit union and they have funds they need to use for things they would put $100 into their account for them. So they open a checking or savings account that way. They do it with there's
063Ike there's a number of different regional schools between here and Tri Cities that they have and really throughout the state they work in they have a good network a good like process to all of it and then our worker there then when they need diesel will come and get the money. We have a small safe that can collect up to such amount of money and then the rest of it. Then they come, they do all the transactions that way. So our we have one worker that's handling the money, but we're not worried about making deposits, sending a kid with a money bag to the bank, anything like that. It's all in a secure network, too. So really, it's outside of our network. GISA then takes care of everything. And that student again has been trained
064for six months. So it's really a GISA employee that's working here, but it's one of our students. And then a lot of times after school, they'll go work three, four days a week at Giza after their school day ends. and they're getting paid for that time. >> Cool. >> A lot of you do Yeah. Lots of other advent. And the nice thing is it ties into like our Tina Martinez's business American class, Jamie Zeller's financial algebra class. So there's a lot of co planning things they can do. And I think as we keep it going, there'll be even more stuff we can do to help our students because financial literacy is now a big push from the state, which it should be because I have teenager and a 19-year-old and 22. I want them to
065be financially, you know, independent things. They're now at that point where they're starting to think about all those things that sometimes my son was like McDonald's cost that much. I didn't know that. I was like, "Yep. Every time you wanted to go and I didn't get anything, you got something." That's why. So now as he's buying his own stuff as a dad. >> Yeah. And so I think just getting the students think great. >> Yeah. >> Right. Thank you for I just I don't have a question per se because they've had some good questions already, but just a comment. I I really like how the program itself is sort of tailored and fits into the workforce we find in our own community. These are things that the kids see every day have experienced as they
066were growing up with maybe within their own families. And now to get a chance to actually put their hands on the type of work that potentially their parents either did or they may be doing, I just think it's a wonderful approach to education. So I really like what's going on over there. Keep it up. It's just a fantastic uh it's a bright spot in our our community and our school district. So, thank you. >> Yeah. Well, I think all of our buildings, we got great great opportunities in each one. I think that's the neat thing here is we got there's things IC can offer things the high school can offer things mid-level campus and our goal is and as we work through programs is there's not really much compet. It's all supporting each other for
067different pathways students want to take and then with our instructors supporting each other. So, I think we've got a great job and as you saw on the actual board more the strategic plan was more of those pathways. kind of went through some of those. So, there's a lot of plan that goes on to it and we need to tie those. It's one of the state requirements. We need to tie to our local connections. We can't be offering things that aren't offered in our area. So, we need to tie it into is there opportunities for students in the Yak Valley or at least in our region, then we're good. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. >> All right. Next, we go to the public comment of agenda items. and get out of read the disclaimer here,
068but everyone should know it at this point. Um, members of the public who would like to provide public comments will sign in. Speakers will be called in order they they signed in to speak. Speakers will be given three minutes for their comments. Public comment is not the proper forum to address concerns about a specific staff member. A person has a concern about a specific staff member, they should make an appointment with the superintendent to address their concerns. So, first on the list, uh, Carol Blevens like there's no mic. >> Uh, well, I I know I've been, you know, talking about this and kind of citing some other states and whatever that have had prayer at public um, meetings. So, but today I guess tonight I would ask that I would like to get a little
069more clarity on the subject of prayer at school at this school board meeting in Washington state. Uh I would like to ask directly if I can use my first amendment rights uh of speech during my public comment time to pray the Lord's Prayer. What I understand from the first amendment is that I can uh you you know speak as long as I'm not speaking obscenities or inciting violence uh that then it is not against the law. Um so if it is against the rules at West Valley School to not pray during public comment time, could I please um you know dur you know out loud have the you know next time maybe the regulation that uh says that we can't do that and have it read out loud so I can understand why we can't
070do that. And uh the other thing is I just a little side note that yesterday the president said that soon the department of education will be issuing new guidelines for protecting prayer in our public schools. >> Nice. That's all I got tonight. >> Thank you for your comment. Um I don't see anyone else on the list. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to say anything at this point? All right. If not, uh, public comment period is closed. We will go on to item nine on the agenda. Um, action items. There are a number of items there. Um, take a quick look again. We can go through them individually or we can take them together. I suppose we should probably take them together. I mean apart. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's not not consent
071agenda. Yeah. All right. Um, so any anybody um would like to make a motion on the approval of the minutes from the last board meeting? >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from the last board meeting. >> Okay, we have a motion to approve the minutes from the August 26 25 2025 board meeting. We'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries 5 >> 4 I'm sorry. Missing one person. Next item B, approval of travel request. Um, as you can see, there's a junior high CTE Glendale Observatory Night Sky program and Golden. I'm sorry, not Glendale, Golden. >> So, um, if anyone has any comment or any question they would like to ask about that, otherwise I'll entertain a motion
072to approve the travel request that's presented there. I'll move to approve the travel request as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Torn. So, we have a motion to approve the travel request for the Junior High CTE Golden Observatory Night Sky program. We'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. Oppos same sign. Motion carries 40. Next, we have approval of resolution. Um, we have two there. First is the approval of the Depance 2019 bonds. Hopefully, we've talked about this quite a bit and there are no further questions, but if there are, this is a point to bring it up. Otherwise, we'll go ahead and I'll entertain a motion for that. >> I'll make a motion to approve 2609780. >> All right. Thank you. Excuse me, Mr. Walcott. We have a motion to
073approve the approval of the defeasance of the 2019 bonds. We'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Both same sign. Motion carries. 4 Z. There's also the next one, career technical educational program. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve that? >> I'll make a motion to approve 2609781. >> Thank you. Excuse me. We'll go ahead and vote. We have a motion to approve that. We'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 4. Next, we have approval of the 2025 2026 TBIP instructional plan. Um, I think that's >> transitional bilingual instruction. >> It's in your packet there to look at. Um, do you want to add anything to that, Dr. Finch? >> No, there's
074a cover memo there and it include the plan. So, that's uh our plan for the 2526 school year. >> All right. If there's no plans or further discussion on that, I'll entertain a motion to approve the 2025-2026 TBIP instructional plan. >> So moved. >> Thank you. We have a motion. So we will go ahead and vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries for zero. Next we come to items arising. Um anyone? Item 10 on the agenda? Nothing. Okay, then we will move on to item 11, superintendent report, which is also in the packet. Um hopefully everyone had a chance to review that. Any further comments, Dr. Finch, or any comments from anyone? Oh, did I just shared our new certificate staff who
075are new to the West Valley School District. We actually had uh two of our elementary schools, Ottown Valley and Cottonwood did not have any new certificated staff who are new to the school district. And at the middle of the campus, our middle school did not have any new certificated staff who are new to the school district. All the other buildings, the staff are listed there. And so, we welcome them all to the West Valley family and look forward to a great school year. >> Thank you, Dr. Finch. All right. Next, we go on to item 12, board reports, board developments. Anyone? >> I just say um going back, I think I I appreciate everybody on the board just the the conversations that we had around um the defeasement and I thought, um it was one
076of the best conversations we've had and it I enjoyed working and going back and forth and so I just say thank you guys for that and good work. >> All right. Thank you. Anyone else? All right. Uh, thank you for that. Item 13 is adjournment. We'll go ahead and adjourn tonight's meetings. Today is I mean again September 9th, Tuesday, and we adjourn at 7:49 p.m. Thank you everyone for attending tonight's meeting. >> All right. Uh, please sign the resolution only.