001like, "Oh man, that is me." >> Yeah. I'm guilty of it for sure. >> Yeah. >> Personally, I'm like, "Oh my gosh." >> Well, and we can we can say, "Well, it's part of our work." But, you know, we don't give kids driver's licenses until they've been, you know, taught how to drive. Certainly don't, you know, there's a lot of things that we keep away from kids for their own good health. >> Yeah. >> That's why we're the adults and they're >> ready, set. >> Are we ready, Jen? Just let me know when to hit start recording. >> Are you able to hear now? Got it. Okay. Good evening everyone. Welcome to Centennial School District governing board meeting on Wednesday, October. >> Recording in progress. >> I'm going to go ahead and gave us call
002to order at 6:30 p.m. Uh, first order of business is approval of the agenda for tonight that was distributed in board book earlier today. May I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> And a second. Perfect. All those in favor? I >> I thank you. >> Okay. Uh first up, we have our Centennial Transportation Transportation Director and Superintendent Owens. Would you like to provide an introduction? >> Great. We have two new leaders in our transportation department. So, I'll invite them both up to the hot seat up here. >> There's two different chairs. Yes. >> And uh I'll have the pleasure of introducing both of them. So, we'll start with Suzanne Cummings. We're pleased to announce the selection of our new transportation director, Suzanne Cummings, who started in
003the role this past summer. Prior to starting in this new role, Suzanne served as the assistant director in our transportation department. She also has previous experience as a bus driver, dispatcher, driver trainer, training and safety lead, as well as a business owner. In her spare time, Suzanne enjoys hiking, gardening, and dabbling in improv and and standup comedy. say you've got a board member who you need to talk to after this. She's been married for 23 years and her son is a senior at the University of Oregon this fall. There's Paul. He likes that. >> Suzanne is excited to bring her leadership experience and background in student transportation into this new role and looks forward to continuing her work with our transportation department team as well as the entire Centennial community of students, staff, and families.
004So, please join me in wel welcoming Suzanne. [Applause] And then I'll introduce uh our transportation supervisor as well and then we'll open it up in case they have any comments or if you have any comments for them. So it is also my pleasure to introduce Masameliano Bruce Brushi. Did I get that close to right? >> Yes. >> How would you say it? >> Masameliano Bruski. >> Oh, I didn't want to say Bruski and get that wrong. So, it's my pleasure to introduce Masameliano Bruski as Centennial School District's new transportation supervisor. Masameliano brings extensive experience in student transportation. His professional journey includes 13 years in the restaurant industry before finding his calling in student transportation where he has served most recently as a training consultant for Portland public schools and an Oregon Department of Education credentialed
005instructor for Behind the Wheel and other OD transportation classes. Born in Rome, Masameliano enjoys life's lighter side outside of work. He shares his home with a lazy dog named Lily. I didn't write this. and and six sassy chickens. And he loves spending time with his family and friends playing board games. Masameilliano began his new role on July 7th, to be exact, and looks forward to continuing to serve our students, families, and staff alongside our outstanding transportation department team. So, let's welcome them both. So, would Mr. Bruski or Miss Cummings like I just wanted to say um like to share anything with our board and the button here um on your mic would need to be green in order to make sure that the audience can hear you. So as long as you're green, you're good.
006>> Hi, it's a pleasure to be here. Um I've so enjoyed being a part of Centennial School District. Um, like Superintendent Owens mentioned, uh, last year I got to serve as assistant director and it's a wonderful opportunity to, uh, explore this new role. Um, thank you for all the hard work you do. Very excited, um, in the next couple of weeks. We'll be adding more transportation. The supplemental plan that you approved last spring uh OD approved very recently and so we will be transporting even more students to Parklane, Patrick Lynch and uh Oliver Middle School. So very exciting about that. Um really excited to have Masimilliano join the team. Just to clarify, I became director July 7th. Masm Milliano joined us about three September >> September 8th. September 8th. So um thank you for all
007you do. happy to be a part of it. >> Uh thank you board and the district. Um just want to say that I am passionate about uh you know uh addressing some of these uh historic and systemic barriers that have too often uh too often limited access or opportunity for some of our most vulnerable communities. Uh I look forward to the supplemental plan as well helping those students uh get to school even though infrastructure may not be there for that uh in terms of walking and rolling uh if you will. Um but just wanted to say that uh I'm I'm really excited to join this smaller district. Everybody's been extremely welcoming. So uh I thank you all and Suzanne has been a wonderful mentor uh thus far. Uh so I look forward to this new
008journey and uh thanks for having me. Great. >> You're welcome. We're both really We're all really excited to have you. Play an important part in our our kids uh education. So, thank you. >> Dynamic new energy and new team. So, we're super excited and we have a great transportation staff. So, looking forward to great things. >> All right. So, uh, now if you'll yield the hot seat, we've got two other folks that we'd like to call up to the hot seat. >> Cam and Pia. >> The hot plate. >> All right. This evening, you were treated to a culinary sampling courtesy of our dining services crew led by director Kim Burns and nutrition and wellness coordinator Via Watsick. In fact, we're proud to announce that our dining services department has received a healthy meals incentive
009recognition award from the US Department of Agriculture in partnership with action for healthy kids for their use of innovative strategies that provide nutritious school meals. The award category, innovation in preparation of school meals, recognizes the work of our dining services team to incorporate new menu items that are prepared from scratch and use local agricultural products or USDA food while elevating student engagement and feedback. This award highlights the efforts of our dining services team to improve the nutritional quality of our district school meals. This includes expanding the farm-to-school ingredients offered in our cafeterias as well as adding menu items that represent the cultural diversity of our students and families. So, I'll turn it over to Kim and Pia to tell us a little bit about the menu items they provided for a sample this evening and
010also about the national recognition the department received. >> Well, I'll start. I want to say uh thank you to our amazing dining services team. Um really um their um innovation was part of it. Um the meal that you're getting tonight is a chicken schwarma meal and we actually uh we cooked it one day and one of our employees her name is Lu Jane call goes no this isn't correct and was able to really um take some of her culture into the kitchen and be able to um share her uh knowledge with us and I really give a lot of credit for her for this meal. Um, this was one of the meals that did um, win us an award. And I really want to thank Eastston who walked in, one of our students, and said,
011"This is what I had for lunch today." And it's really true that we um, we really do serve these these type of meals to our students, this chicken schwarma meal. And it's um, it took a bit for the students to really get, but it smells amazing in the kitchen and the cafeteria smells great, too. And then Pia's going to talk about the other two ones that we that we won. >> Hi. So, the three dishes that we won the award for were the chicken schwarma. We won for the meaty pasta bake and the beef girro. All three are using USDA products. The meaty pasta bake uses USDA beef crumbles and the gearro uses a sliced beef that we buy from one of our producers. Um, and they're all scratchade or semi-cratchade within our kitchens. >>
012So, thank you so much for the award. The cool part, one of the great parts of the award was um that we were going to get this really great trip, but unfortunately with some of the federal cuts, we were not able to go anywhere, but we're going to do a virtual conference. And the great part about that is the other 50 states, so only a few districts, one in each state, and we're going to get to share in their um innovation as well. And so we'll be able to be able to share recipes. So possibly some of our recipes will be served in in other states and throughout the country, which is amazing. and um we'll be able to get some other great ideas to be able to serve our students. So, thank you. >>
013Y delicious. Thank you both so much. >> Okay, now we're move on to approval of the minutes from our September 24th uh meeting. We have a motion to approve. I move to approve the minutes from September 24th. >> Thank you. [Music] >> A second. All those in favor, please raise your hand and say I. >> I. I. >> I. Be unanimous. Thank you all very much. Okay. And we'll now move into uh public forum. I understand that we have one person uh registered virtually who's going to deliver remarks. And uh let me just read our board policy on public forum before we bring Mr. Rosa in. During the public forum section of the agenda, individuals are welcome to share constructive feedback on district operations and programs. The purpose of this agenda item is for you
014to inform us about your views. By board policy, the board will not hear comments regarding any district staff member and the use of appropriate and respectful language is expected. Board members will not respond to public comment and will refer matters of operations and programming to the superintendent. Your statement should be concise and will be limited to three minutes. Your time will be monitored by our executive board assistant. Please address your remarks to me as board chair, not to specific board members or the public. Thank you for your understanding on that. Please state your name and spelling if helpful and your association with the Centennial School District. Thank you. And Mr. Rosa, I think we're we're ready for you, sir. >> Great. Thank you so much. Uh, hi, my name is Drew Rosa. I am um
015the president of the Centennial Education Association. Uh, at this time I still have not received a response from the board regarding the CEA's request to restore our regular position to give board reports. Um, hearing directly from staff, both classified and certified, who work in our schools, gives the board a fuller and more accurate understanding of the realities behind your decisions. Without that voice, you primarily hear from administrators who may discourage direct questions to staff or attendants for at bargaining sessions uh leaving the board without a complete picture needed to make fully informed decisions that in the public interest. I sincerely hope that this delay is an oversight and not an intentional decision to include or to exclude e educators from this table. Uh board members in neighboring east county districts regularly serve on bargaining teams
016that uh and that collaboration strengthens both trust and transparency. Many of those districts also maintain a regular agenda spot for their certified and classified associations to share updates. Because openness and inclusion make districts stronger. This report is not about division, it's about inclusion, I will continue submitting CA updates during regular public comment until a formal response is received. These updates represent the voices of hundreds of employees, many of whom are also parents in this district, and reflect what is truly happening in our schools and in our community. I also want to provide an update on our contract negotiations. As you know, we ended the school year last year without a settlement and began this year with a this year still without a contract. Despite that, our educators continue to show up every day for their
017students and their community. We have reached tenative agreements on several articles and those successes have come when the district's leadership team and CA were able to speak openly and directly. I do want to acknowledge that this week's bargaining session was much more productive. There was a greater opportunity for conversation and I want to give credit where credit is due and I appreciate that movement. However, many challenges still remain as we concluded our 13th session. The legal approach guiding the district's side still tends to limit meaningful dialogue. Too often we raise concerns or and and we are told by the district's attorney to simply put it in a proposal and the conversation stops. This tactic prevents the collaboration and keeps us from finding the creative student- centered solutions our educators and families deserve. solutions that should
018be shaped by the people who will live and work under them, not by a contractor whose compensation grows the longer the process drags on. We want a fair contract, and reaching one is what's best for our kids. Every day takes that focus away from classrooms and adds strain to an already overextended workforce. CA remains committed to working in good faith to reach an agreement that strengthens this district and supports our educators and serves our students. Thank you. >> Thank you. And do we have anybody else out there for public forums to make sure we miss anybody? Okay. Hearing none, we will now move on to the next portion of our uh agenda with reports and our student representatives are up next. I'll now turn it over to you uh East and Yahir. All right. Thank
019you for this opportunity once again. Um, uh, we would like to update you guys about the centennial homecoming student council had. To start, we had our annual uh homecoming assembly and it was a significant event filled with excitement and enthusiasm. The crowd uh was very excited and had a lot of engagement compared to past years. We outlined the week's homecoming activities including the parade, dance, and themed spirit days. The introduction of our homecoming um court royalty was a highlight met with applause from peers. We also took time to honor Hispanic Heritage Month, recognizing the contributions of the Hispanic community within our school and beyond. And by that, we did a we did a dance, the student council people, we did a Hispanic dance during the assembly to show um to embrace the culture that our
020school has. And overall, the assembly uh fostered a strong sense of pride and unity among students. >> Yes. Um, this is actually the video. I'll just show a few a few little seconds. Oh, it doesn't. Okay. Um, dance. >> It's kind of glitchy on the screen. Yeah. Um, we reached out to different members from the Centennial community seeing if different students wanted to take the opportunity to perform, but unfortunately there were other conflicting scheduling issues. So, we decided as student council to do something to recognize rather than just um not doing anything. And yes, there's still more. But um yeah, um the next event was our homecoming parade. Um we had different groups like our Centennial District walk and um different clubs. It was really awesome seeing all the clubs and all the crowd walking
021into the homecoming. Um, and we had our grand marshall. Yeah, we had our tailgate before uh and then to halftime of the football game where clubs could sell items to raise funds for their club. And it went really well. There was a lot of sales. I'm pretty sure majority if not all the clubs did make a profit. There was there's huge lines and there was a lot of people coming out to buy and then uh student groups provided the opportunity to engage in fundraising initiatives while the centennial community offered a selection of delightful treats. >> Yes. Um seniors had crepes and it was a 15minute wait. So yeah, very de on demand. Um and then we have our halftime and royalty. Um we had different groups performing like our cheer team and our dance team.
022And we also announced our homecoming royalty. Um yeah, in our firework display, it's very um very popular. Um we got scared with the first fireworks. We thought that was those were our actual fireworks, but it was just a test, so everything was fine. And then we Oh, >> we had the dance which went really well. Um there was a lot of turnout. I'd say the decorations were very nice. It it was just a really hype night. There was a lot of engagement with the students and just a lot of building in the community. um students were just partying together and having fun and I saw a lot of new like new people meet and it was just a real big bonding between everyone in the school. >> Yeah. >> Um overall in the whole week
023like all the homecoming events we saw majority participation from all the classes and especially a um a highlight was all the freshmen. They most of the dance was actually freshman, which to me was surprising cuz I felt like seniors mostly go to the dances, but it was really nice to see that freshmen are coming in with such energy. All right, thank you guys. >> Thank you. This is my first chance to go to homecoming this year. I couldn't go last year and it was it was a lot of fun. Got to do it again. It's a great job. All right. Uh let's see. We have next we have personal electronic devices and director Olsen. What we've all been waiting for. >> Principal Miller, do you want to come up and join? >> Oh, okay. While
024Director Olsen and Principal Miller are queuing up, I'll just add a few things. Um, you saw in board book uh this week, there were some uh additional items that were added uh adjacent district policies. just to give you some perspective of what other uh districts um are doing with regard to personal electronic devices and their graduation policies apparently as well because one of them was an Easter egg in there that wasn't didn't belong. Nevertheless, it's in there. Um as well as a crosswalks uh so that it's a little bit easier to see our uh proposed policy in relation to adjacent districts as well. And then um director Shields had provided some research um excuse me, Chair Shields had provided some research for um review as well. So those were some additional items. Um and we
025also have director Olsen who is going to give us an update uh presentation with regard to um some of our own internal research that we did regarding some perspectives uh around personal electronic devices. So, I'll go ahead and turn it over to her. And uh Principal Miller is here as well. He's been helping to lead on this policy and here he'll offer some interjections as warranted. >> Uh good evening. Uh thank you. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to come and share some of the data we um collected from our survey to our community, to our staff, and to our students uh around implementation of the cell phone policy practices uh this fall. so far. Um I do want to add some just public clarifications that um kind of came through in the survey.
026Some of the survey comments that um maybe there's some misunderstanding around what's in the executive order. And one of those is that passing time and lunch are included in the executive order. Those are considered during the instructional school day and we cannot make um exceptions for those times. Additionally, field trips, same rule, unless um we do a local exception to that because a field trip is considered instructional time away from campus. Some of the big themes that came through in the parent survey um are the first one related to safety and emergency access. This was the most frequent concern. Um many parents worried that students couldn't contact them during emergencies um and wanted um students to be able to carry their cell phones on their person in the event of an emer of a of
027a true emergency. Um a small group highlighted medical needs. Um so I think an implication for the board to consider um based on those is a clear and consistent communication on emergency protocols, medical exceptions and parent school communication channels. Um, another was about um concerns um that maybe the bell-to-bell rule wasn't explained well enough. So, we uh will go back to um in our communication channels as this policy gets adopted and ensure that that is really clear. Um some students or some parents were asked acting for uh more clear and pro proactive information about how to get a hold of their child um in the event of a schedule change or an emergency or um you know a a medical appointment something like that. Um and there were a lot of calls for multilingual communication
028um with lots of um reminders frequent reminders. Um the uh parents reported hearing from their students about uneven enforcement across classrooms and hallways and between staff and there were comments um asking that staff model the same standards expected of students. Um some parents um overall parents really um are not uniformly against the policy. they support strict enforcement. Um but some do feel like the approach is too punitive and we have opportunities to teach responsible use. Um from an educational and developmental perspective um again most parents uh reported that they uh believe let's see nearly 80% that limiting student personal device use during the school day helps their child focus and learn. Um so so that that was um pretty strong. They um again there were some um reports of maybe non increased non-academic um web
029browsing on Chromebooks and so that is something we'll need to continue to monitor as kids are seeking those dopamine hits. Um and then some comments came up about practical afterchool issues. um those uh what parents want students to be allowed to use their phones immediately after the final bell in case there is communication that needs to occur um uh for safety. There are also was were some comments regarding difficulty retrieving phones that were confiscated especially if it was on a Friday or if the parent is just unable to get to the school to retrieve a phone. um and they are requesting real-time updates, for example, when um like a practice or a club gets cancelled um in the middle of a school day. Um and that parents were requesting uh better communication about that. We
030did um hear that the safety and emergency access and the the communication theme came much came through more strongly in our uh surveys um that our uh Spanish speaking community completed in Spanish. Staff survey themes were uh kind of follow similar you'll see a similar uh thread in some of these across the three different surveys. um clarity and consistency and staff alignment um was um was came through. Some staff, especially um particularly like our classified staff, wanted some um clarification about their specific roles and responsibilities if they were in a classroom and a teacher was in the classroom as well. Um calls for uniform definitions like what does off and away mean? Um so I think the implication for the board here is just to really ensure that our policy is clear so that implementation
031is um is clear. Um there there were some staff comments about student behavior. Um students are attached to their devices and when asked to give them up there as board discussed uh two weeks ago um sometimes there can be some um some resistance to that. Um so they uh reported also seeing some sneaking behaviors. Um um uh so th we just need to continue to be you know clear and those will be mitigated eventually I believe. Um staff also asked for clear systems around tracking violations um knowing if a student has already had a warning earlier in the day. Um um and then um additionally support with earbuds and headphones because those are easily concealed. Um other um other themes that came through uh are also the need for guidance on exceptions. So that is
032in the AR. Um that's that's some language that we'll be looking at what are those exceptions and what is the process to request an exception and then what is the process that we use to ensure staff are aware of which students have exceptions. Um and then additionally um some um just uh staff were requesting parent outreach tools, maybe some knowledge about research on phones and um that they can share with parents. Um parent engagement sessions um and um clearer messaging to families um were came through with the staff too. All right, the students um again are requesting um well first I'll start and say that most of our students a large share reported no impact um to them from this policy. Some comments we saw were I never used my phone in class or this
033is the same as last year or I don't have a phone. Um so most of our students seemed to also um associate some positive impacts of this. A more higher amount of focus, less distractions, um they can participate more that their temptation has been reduced. Some negative impacts that were mentioned um are related to not being able to have music or headphones to help self-regulate, especially when working independently in the classroom. Um and some students have increased have um reported an increased amount of anxiety over not being able to have their phones on their bodies. Um uh they feel uh some said they feel less safe because they can't contact families if needed. Um they did report um on their peers behavioral workarounds that students are still using them that lunch and passing time are
034challenges for them. So that gives us you know some opportunities to again be be clear in our communication with students. Um students are asking for um oh I should have already moved my slide along. Here we go. There's where the positive negative students are asking for clearer consequences um and enforcement consistency. They want a warning first before their phone is asked to be confiscated. Um they want clear um reminders verbally signs, posted announcements. Um they want to be treated respectfully when they are uh caught using their phone and asked to um give it up to a staff member. Um and they again the the overarching theme was uh emergencies, worried about emergencies. Before we move uh forward, I just wanted to offer um survey samples that wasn't included in the report. And as of Friday,
035when information um was shared with our board, we had um staff with 108 responses, parents and guardians with 312 responses, and then students with the most with 1,623 responses. So, this was a popular survey amongst our students. So, Okay, this Thank you, Director Olsen. This time, uh, let's just go around the room, see if anybody has any additional comments. Just like to remind my fellow director that we will most likely be voting on this policy, uh, at our next meeting. As to meet the governor's order, we have to have a policy in place by the end of this month and for it to take effect January 1. So, let's start with director Stanley and then we'll just go. >> Can't wait. Um, I'm clarifying. Do we still have open campus for lunch for some students?
036>> For some students, >> right? So, how would we handle open campus lunch for some students that will be off property and not having their phone? That seems odd to me. That could be where an actual emergency happens somewhere and they might not have their phone. That seems something worth talking about is the only thing that popped out in my head. And then um about the IEPs just like if we could look at exceptions there lasting the life of the IEP instead of yearbyear. >> So let me um answer the first question and then I would pitch the second question to um Denise um director. Wright. First question is the way that we handle it. Um there's an application process for off-campus launch. You actually as the board help set hey certain standards to um
037earn the off-campus passes. And one of the things that we are doing this year is when you're actually issued the off-campus, we actually go over the expectation, hey, you don't use your phones. Um because it is considered instructional time and it's a parody with what's happening in the lunchroom. Um the truth is, you know, if they go to McDonald's, they're off campus. We don't know about it if they are using their phones, but they are instructed not to. And then the second part of that question, um IEPs, 504s, and guidance around that. So, >> use a microphone. Thank you. >> IEPs are required to be reviewed annually. So, it would have to be reviewed annually and all accommodations are looked at to see if they're still relevant or not. And so, teams would still need
038to um discuss if the tool is needed and or if other tools have come up. >> Yes, understand that. Follow up with that though. Sometimes the review isn't the start of the school year. So like would it continue until the actual review, not September. Like if I have a student that uh cell phone is an accommodation and it's September, but the review is not till May. Like we're not expecting them to do at the start of school. We're going to actually follow the date review of the IEP. Just checking. >> That makes the most sense to me. I know that's part of the language in the policy that gets to be chosen, but it makes a lot of sense. each year an IEP comes up that that would most natural time to do it. >>
039Great. Thank you, >> Stanley. Dr. Newman, >> I'm just trying to think if I had any specific questions. I don't think I do. I appreciate seeing the survey results. Um the the answers I'm seeing in here are not really surprising to me. Um so, thank you. >> Thank you, Director Newman. Uh Chair Shield, you would normally be sitting next to me. would you like to chime in? >> Just how much I appreciate the work that's being done in such a short period of time and the um the crosswalk that Superintendent Owens was able to provide for us. I thought was really important to be able to see that there's actually consistency across districts as well, which I think will be important. I think the results of the survey just especially when I was reading some
040of the parents' comments is the fact that this is kind of thrust upon us without a lot of educating beforehand. They were getting the survey kind of while we're what do they call that? You know, like flying the plane while you're building the plane. That's what's it feels like going on. and whatever we can do to help our um community, our parents, our students understand uh why and I think sharing research with them and providing that type of research on our website would be helpful as well. It would be nice for us to be able to point to a location um for the district as to why this has come about um and why cell phone use is being limited in the education environments. Thank you. >> Thank you, Chair Shields. I will go I
041will go ahead and go next since I'm in line. Uh thank you so much for putting this presentation together, especially getting the feedback. And I'd like to say thanks to the students and families and the staff members who participated in the survey and I encourage the the PTA last night where I was to make sure they get them in if they haven't already because we want to hear from as many people as possible. It's especially encouraging to see the feedback from students who are the most impacted by this decision and so really just grateful for that. I do have one clarifying question regarding the con on the consequences page. I know there was some conversation around equity and and some family members may or may not be able to easily meet with um staff if
042we get to a third non-compliant issue. It seems here though in the third instance of non-compliance we are saying that there will be a meeting arranged with the family but maybe not necessarily that day. It'll just take place at some point. Is that am I reading that correctly? >> Yes. And um the current policy or the current um recommendation is that a meeting has to happen. Okay. That's actually written into the governor's executive order. when that happens is up. What we've been finding in practice is because we've, you know, we've been following our um building cell phone policies since the beginning of the year. What we find in practice is often we will actually have a meeting or we'll say, "Hey, we'll meet in two days and then we'll often return the phone pending that
043meeting." And then that's one of the things that you heard this come out in the survey. Hey, I can't come after school. the the whole goal of it is not to be punitive, but to figure out, you know, work with the families to figure out how to avoid the this in the future. And so we find that it's best to have that open dialogue, set that meeting, get the cell phone back to the family and work with that um problem solve in the future a restorative part of this. >> Uh Vice Chair Morgan, if I can just ask a follow-up question there. So can I just quick clarify because my reading of the policy was that returning of a phone at the end of the day was not necessarily dependent on the meeting happening yet.
044Is that correct? >> Okay. >> I wanted to clarify that that was seemed an important feedback in the >> uh surveys. >> Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that response. Principal Miller. Uh one sorry I had another question and I completely lost my train of thought. Oh, are you able to share with us tonight what percentage of students may have reached that third instance of non-compliance since practicing the policies? >> It's different for each of the three primary schools. Um, we're seeing far less reaching that third at the middle schools than we are at the high school. Um, you're asking me for a percentage of students. Um, it's less than 10% have reached that third level. And I could actually get you the data. We're doing a pretty good job of tracking it. Um and so
045if you're interested I can um provide that to um you for next time. >> Great. Thank you. And uh MC Jessarden, Director Harden, excuse me. >> No questions. Thanks for the energy around it. I appreciate the direction that we'll have. It seems like it's been kind of ambiguous and no one is really sure what the policy was. So I'm glad to have some finalization to it. >> Thank you, Director Harden. >> Thank you. >> Perfect. One last call for any Oh, yes. East and Yahir, would you like to add anything? >> It's It's okay if not. I mean, I I imagine you completed your survey. >> Yes. Um yeah, just like um well it hasn't I'm not on my phone but um when a student does are on their phones the teacher usually reminds them
046well always reminds them and always gives them a warning before proceeding to more action and yeah I just appreciate the teachers always reminding before going into further. >> Thank you. Yeah, I'd say the staff does a pretty good job at finding out when students are using their phone. Today it was the only time I used my phone at school and Mr. Miller caught me because >> because I was too lazy to get out my Chromebook in the courtyard to read an email. So, I just pulled out my phone to read the email and then Mr. Miller came up behind me and I was like I was like, "Oops." I I wouldn't normally do this, but um because this came up in the survey, um was my interaction respectful? I was always curious because this is
047what we're always interested in. >> Yeah, I was respectful. I felt as if there was no like ill intent with it. I felt like it was nice and I was like, "Yeah, I I forgot. I should have just gotten my Chromebook out and read it that way." So, I just put it away and it was nice and quick and easy. >> Okay, great. We would like to hear more stories of that. That was not a plan. >> Not making eye contact. >> Okay, great. Thank you, Yah. Again, appreciative of you as well as all your fellow students getting in the robust the robust response that we did get from from all of you. Okay, Superintendent Owens, you are up next. Great. >> Thank you. medium medium length. Uh greetings board members. It's my pleasure and
048privilege to share with you this update about happenings in the district. October is National Principal Month in which we have the chance to honor principles in the Centennial School District for their significant impact on the growth, success, and well-being of our district students. Please join me in recognizing each of our principles in the Centennial School District, including Principal Miller, who's here this evening. From left to right, on the top row in the picture you see displayed, we have Jeb Hubs of Oliver Middle School, Christina Anderson of Pleasant Valley, Dr. Zachary Ramberg of Centennial Virtual Academy, Diana Mitchell of Parklane Elementary, Marin Miller of Centennial High School, and Gail Imran Sedaris of Butler Creek Elementary. On the second row, we have Amy Schroeder, principal of Centennial Transition Center, Lisa Klingan of Meadows Elementary, Ally Marx of
049Centennial Middle School, Jared Austin of Palute, and last but not least, Lesie Van Clee of Patrick Lynch. So kudos to all of our principles for National Principal Month. [Applause] In recognition of the National School Lunch Program, which serves more than 30 million children each school day, all Centennial Schools will celebrate National School Lunch Week from October 13 through 17th, 2025. This year's theme is Taste the World: Your School Lunch Passport. The campaign highlights how school meals introduce students to a variety of flavors and cultures while supporting their health and learning. And that was evident in the sampling we had this evening. Centennial school lunches include a variety of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and milk. Meals meet federal nutrition standards that limit calories, saturated fat, and sodium, ensuring students receive well- balanced options each day.
050All Centennial students can continue to be eligible for both breakfast and lunch at no cost, helping remove barriers and promote consistent participation in school meals. Board members are invited to visit a school during the week to experience lunch with students. And if you're interested in arranging a visit, please contact Missy for scheduling support. National School Bus Safety Week is quickly approaching, and I'm sure our transportation leaders are appreciating this plug. held each year during the third full week of October. National School Bus Safety Week is a public education program to bring awareness about the importance of school bus safety. The week is supported by the National Association for Pupil Transportation, which provides sample news releases, social media content, and graphics for local district use. School districts throughout the country observe school bus safety week each
051year, and this year's event will be October 20th through 24th. We encourage our community to help spread awareness and re reinforce safe behavior. Speaking of safe transportation to and from school, today Palut Elementary participated in International Walk and Roll to School Day, a global event that encourages students and families to walk, bike, and roll as part of their daily commute. Communities in more than 40 countries take part annually. And I understand that Oregon currently leads the nation in K8 school participation. Yay. At Palute, students, families, and staff were joined by community partners, including the Portland Bureau of Transportation and Portland Fire and Rescue. Participants could choose three route options. Two walking school bus uh groups departing from 168th and Powell and Southeast 162nd Tibbitz and a park and walk group departing from Southeast 70th in
052Franklin. Principal Jared Austin joined one of the walking routes. The school uh the event reinforces Centennial's commitment to safe routes to school and support student safety, health, and community connection through active transportation. So, it was a fun event. You can see even the cheerleaders at the top were cheering kids on as they were entering. >> And you can see Commissioner Dumpy from zone one in Portland that was was there as well. Um, you've already heard the feature uh from our students, but this past Friday, I had the pleasure of joining Vice Chair Moing, Director Stanley, and Director Newman in the annual Centennial Homecoming Parade, which this year began a a new staging area at Centennial Middle School and ending up as usual in the CHS stadium with Director Harden once again serving as the announcer.
053The evening featured a variety of studentr run food stands and concessions that were mentioned, the crowning of the homecoming royalty, a fireworks display, and a spirited football game against Parkrose High School. While the results of the game is not what we had hoped for, it was a wonderful community event that reflected the pride and energy of Centennial students, staff, and families. Today, staff from across Centennial participated in the first session of a four-part professional learning series facilitated by West Ed's engaging equity team. The series, made possible from a grant from the Oregon Department of Education, supports members of each school's tier 1/quity team in deepening culturally responsive instructional practices and building school-based professional learning plans aligned to the transformative social emotional learning or T- cell standards. The October session titled activating funds of knowledge to
054build relationships and boost learning engage teams in experiential learning role alike conversations and collaborative planning time. Participants reflected on their own funds of knowledge, explored instructional strategies for drawing on students cultural identities, family experiences, and community- based knowledge, and began drafting monthly professional learning plans focused on integrating those approaches across content areas. Each team includes two to four staff members per building, including at least one administrator. Participants are selected based on their knowledge of universal supports and equitable practices related to attendance, behavior, social emotional learning, and academics as well as their relationships with students and colleagues. Substitute coverage where needed is funded through the district's early indicator and intervention system or EIS grant and upcoming sessions in the series will take place on December 10th, February 11th, and April 15th. On a related note, Centennial
055School District remains committed to maintaining safe, welcoming, and inclusive schools for all students and families. In a message that will be shared with the community shortly, the district reaffirms the protections in place across our schools and outlines the expectation staff and families can rely on. Amid regional concerns related to immigration enforcement activity, the district's communication reinforces its long-standing position that Centennial Schools will continue to provide access to education regardless of immigration status in accordance with state and federal law. The message also highlights procedures for handling legal requests, staff training protocols, and district policies on privacy and non-discrimination. Families seeking more information can contact the district's immigration resources web page or contact a school counselor, principal, or teacher for support. The message closes with a reminder that the diversity of Centennial community is a source of
056strength and that our schools will remain places where all students and families are welcomed, supported, and respected. And back on the topic of safely getting to school, as was mentioned earlier, as a part of our continued efforts to support student access and well-being, the district is moving forward with expanded school bus service for students living living within the walk zones of Parklane Elementary, Patrick Lynch Elementary, and Oliver Middle School. Beginning Monday, November 3rd, bus transportation will be available to all students attending these schools regardless of walk zone eligibility. This is pretty big. This has been something that's been talked about for years. So, I just want to note the importance of that. Families are in the process of being notified and schools are currently coordinating registration and students must be registered to ride in advance
057um in order to ride the school bus. This expansion reflects our commitment to ensuring um safe and reliable access to school for every event. >> Frozen. >> It was that it was a mic drop moment. >> There you go. Coming up at the end of the month is Oregon School Board's Association Fall Regional Dinner is scheduled for Thursday, October 30th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Embassy Suites in Port at the Portland airport. This event brings together schoolboard members from across the region for discussion and connection around statewide education topics. Board members who plan to attend are asked to submit their RSVP and meal selection by October 26th. Missy previously sent a calendar invitation with the RSVP link and additional details. Please reach out to her directly if you have any questions or need
058assistance. And something that we have done for years and I'm making a point to highlight is featuring work from our schools on the walls as you enter the district office. Typically, these rotating uh displays have lined up with the month that the school boards uh the schools board presentation and more to come on those school board presentation soon. Um and despite not having a school report this month, we do have our first school display feature um from Parklane Elementary. October's feature titled hopes and dreams showcases the work of Parklane's fifth grade fifth graders as they launch the school year by identifying personal goals. Students reflected on both academic and social areas, wrote individual goals, and heard from family members who also contributed their own hopes and dreams for their children. Teachers use these reflections as
059a foundation for setting classroom expectations and building a supportive learning community. This display centers student goal setting while also highlighting the intentional connection between students, families, and staff in shaping the classroom culture and offers a clear example of how social emotional learning and culturally responsive practices are being embedded into everyday school experiences. I thought the one on the bottom right was cute. You'd have to look at it later when I send it to you. I'm not going to read it out loud. He says, "I I want to work on writing because I suck at adding details, spelling, and also I want to work on not getting distracted talking to friends while the teacher is talking or teaching us. I also want to work on active listening so I know what to do." >> Excellent. >>
060With that, I invite any questions or comments you might have. And that concludes my superintendent's report. >> Thank you, Superintendent Ellen. directors. Any follow for superintendent hard? >> I had a question about the transportation. That's great news. Uh with Park Lane, Patrick Lynch, and Oliver Middle. Have there been other schools in the district that we've identified needing a similar service? >> That's a great question. And Missy Gindle, will you see if uh Director Southerntherton is in the gallery? He's in the building, but he's in his office catching up on some work. And he would be a great person to uh address that question. And I don't know if Suzanne might be able to field it as well. Yeah, feel free to come on up. Um, it's a great question. So, we decided to um target
061um the Portland schools uh because of socioeconomic factors um drop off in attendance with bad weather um and start there. I think the ultimate goal is to expand this to the whole district. We haven't told OD that yet, but uh um I think next would be Palute um for sure. Um Butler Creek does not seem to necessarily need it. Um so we'll start with these three and and hopefully um in the spring be looking towards expanding it. >> Great. And Director Stherton just popped in, so let's see if he has anything to contribute. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, excellent question. Thank you, Director Harden. Um, in regards to um exploring additional uh supplemental plan updates in future years, uh, as the transportation director, uh, Suzanne shared, we'll continue to evaluate all our schools based on
062the the needs and the conditions, um, highlighting that the the unimproved roads around the schools, the unsafe um, uh, traffic areas, congestions, other hazards that our students may be walking um, to those schools. So, as uh she identified, pal but encounters many similar issues that Patrick Lynch Park Lane and Oliver encountered. So, I do anticipate that um being a priority as well as Meadows Elementary because of the catchment areas. Um as Suzanne shared, Butler Creek has many sidewalks and improved areas, wider roads because it's largely newer subdivisions and newer developments, so they don't have many of the same hazards that Meadows and Palute have. Um, and Pleasant Valley is currently already approved in our supplemental plan. So, um, that's not needed to be added at this time on the south side of our district. >>
063Thank you so much. Thanks, Paul. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you very any anybody else. Okay. All right. Just real quick check everybody's feeling good. We keep going. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Perfect. Okay. Next, we have confirmation items. Uh confirm and mass. Do we have a uh motion? >> May I ask a question before, Vice Chair, please? Um not to, you know, I don't want to rework any of these, but I'm just curious about the calendar. May I ask a couple questions about the calendar before we >> move forward >> for the preschool? >> Uh just the calendar in general, but yes, primarily because the additions of preschool. >> Yeah. >> I Let's have uh Dr. Katsuda and Director Olsen come up to help field the question. Okay. I don't think it'll be super complicated.
064It's just getting very hard to read because there's lots of info on it. And I wondered if there was any movement to maybe separating out prek and elementary buildings that have them in and then like middle school buildings or just making the calendar easier for families to read. >> I think you bring up a good point because of a few things here. I'll give you some historical context and see if there's anything that Dr. Cassuda or Director Holles want to clean up. is um it's been kind of an accordion over the years. We've had five calendars for 10 schools and and our thought process is how do you have five calendars for 10 schools and Portland public can have one you know that kind of thing and so um number one's that so that the
065initial attempt is to try to consolidate uh calendars but I think some of the messiness comes up with the fact that that particular calendar tries to accomplish too many purposes for too many audiences. So you have >> it's just very >> it's intended for staff, it's intended for parents, and I think we need to distinguish and um dis distinguish and differentiate those calendars um so they're not so cumbersome and hard to read. I don't know if there's anything that you'd like to add to that. >> Oh, yeah. I I do. >> I live this world. >> I figure if I have a hard time reading it. >> Uh and to to make things even more complex, you have no idea how many employee calendars we have. So there are calendars for calendars, right? So I
066I'll say that is true. So when I first started in the district, there were many calendars. Our objective was to consolidate the calendars. So we had one for secondary and one for uh elementary at one point. Um and um I think that went pretty well until we had a couple of last minute add-ons, right? And so it's the more exceptions you make on a calendar, the more the calendar gets messy. So you bring up a good point because as we were adding that to the calendar, um we recognize the the messiness of it for families and we're we'll pull it apart next year. Uh I think uh yeah, not to over promise something we haven't yet settled on, but there's some benefit to having an elementary, middle, and high calendar. And elementaryaries uh hours would
067probably fall preschool probably fall with elementary, right? And there's probably >> there's some logic in that, but we'll look at it and revise because originally it wasn't so messy and then different exceptions came along and sort of >> and and I understand that too many calendars. I just was like, "Holy cow, if I'm having a hard time struggling through that and I look at these all the time." Um, so and and to be clear, I I'm totally excited that prek is getting their their time and all these additions are happening. Super valid. Just >> for the future, I think it could maybe be talked about, looked at. probably needs to be that we need to have a a familyf facing calendar and a staff facing one and not try to conflate purposes. >> Okay. Thank
068you. >> Thank you, Director Stanley. >> Or I could say, but that but that's the way we've always done it. [Laughter] >> Just like my brain hurts. >> Okay. May I have a motion to approve confirmation items? >> I make a motion to approve the confirmation items in mass. >> Perfect. Do we have a second? I'll second. >> Thank you. Uh any other discussion or questions on confirmation items? Okay. All those in favor say I and raise your hand. >> I says unanimous. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to old business. We have the superintendent evaluation discussion. And uh just briefly, my fellow directors, this is our an important opportunity that we as the board had to reflect on progress towards the district goal, review the performance of the superintendent and align and make sure we
069are aligned on priorities for the uh year ahead being this year. And uh we will look at the uh flow of the timeline and superintendent Owens, do you mind posting that up just so everyone can see? I know we put it in board book, but you mind putting that out uh on the screen just so we can all look at it. >> No problem. Happy to help. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Bug is kind of a funky tool, so bear with me. >> Take your time. >> Add it. I'm going to see if I have it somewhere else that's not workbook. >> Vice chair. >> Yes. Um would this be a time to take just a a three minute break for our stupid representatives to be um released to go home and do other things
070this evening if they wish? >> Do you do you have homework to do gentlemen? >> Yeah. Yes. Let's let's let's let us work through some technology kinks here for a moment. Let's go ahead and adjourn for three minutes. That's closer to five minutes than 15. Thank you. >> You guys can go now. Recording stopped. >> Thank you. Thank you, Melissa. Sorry guys over here holding you. Thank you so much. We're gonna go ahead and >> let me know when we're at We're good. >> Recording in progress. >> Okay, welcome back everybody. We are uh moving along to the superintendent evaluation discussion as we previously discussed and I believe we had worked out the technology kinks to bring the timeline up so everybody can >> Thank you Chair Shields for uh providing me some grace to
071pull this up without everybody watching me fumble. >> Okay, perfect. So uh here we are. Uh here's the flow of it. So August we we had that and when we met were our retreats and then this last month we um all provided feedback to superintendent and here we are in the October to December period where we can uh develop a list of stakeholder engagement to see if we'd like to do anything differently than what we had uh done this past year. Chair Shield, Chair Shields and I um proposing we keep things as is and if there are potential modifications or suggestions for modifications, we work on detailing those out to implement for next year. But I'd like to open the floor to everybody and see you hear any of your thoughts or questions. >> Yes,
072Dr. I agree with keeping things as they are and discussing through them as we go through the year if we want to change things. I don't really want to talk about changing things when we've started things make sense for the future year. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, just so you don't go we don't go silent. I agree with keeping them as they are. >> Okay. Thank you, Director Newman. Dr. Harden. >> Uh yes, keep them as they are, especially for this year for the same reasons as others. uh in the future might be good. Um so we're not trying to remember in October or trying to remember in May and June what happened in October and so kind of have it an ongoing process but that's not any 2025 2026 thing. >> Perfect. Thank you.
073Chair Shields anything to add? just that I appreciate um the comments of other directors and in uh referring this back to OSBA. Um they too uh think that keeping things status quo for one additional year is good because it gives you some comparison without having something else new yet again in an evaluation process. and they were interested in helping us with maybe a targeted um feedback process uh that they can help administer and we can bring that back to you towards spring in our preparation for next year as you all have um indicated. >> Perfect. >> Okay, we will revisit uh the timeline here before before the calendar year is up so that we are prepared to hit the ground running with the spring portion of it. Sound good for everyone? Excellent. Thank you. And
074uh moving on to new business, we have uh Dr. Katsuda is going to give us first read policies with adoption to with option to adopt on the CA educational equity advisory committee. >> All right. Uh so um what you see in front of you is the proposed educational equity advisory policy CA. Uh slightly shifted from uh if you recall what we have uh discussed with the board in the past uh from legislation in 2021 that the district equity advisory committee was uh selected and appointed by the board and advised the board from legislation in 2021. they've shifted that since then. Uh so there uh I I appreciate their the surfacing of this policy because it just clarifies that shift. You'll see here some of the big ideas is the selection and and appointing of the
075uh district equity advisory committee is done by the superintendent versus the boards. it's a little closer uh to practice. Um and again stipulates the selection of the committee or the committee being reflective of the community. Um and the purpose of the committee still remains the same which is to advise a superintendent about equity impacts of policy decisions and practices in the district. want to open it up for any questions or do you have other >> I would just interject that the legislative change in the spring was that the educational equity advisory committee is an advisory group to the superintendent versus the school board which was the original legislation I think you might have just mentioned I was I was side talking >> yeah when you were side talking >> I was with the chair >>
076my apologies >> no yes yes so yeah that's a that's a fundamental shift but all the other concepts remain the same um I do also appreciate that they say uh or that the policy elevates the option of the committee uh to prepare an annual report for the board. Uh I believe that's something that we've already assembled the district equity advisory committee once this year and there's some interest behind that and even though it doesn't list it as a requirement it just provides a little bit more momentum and formality to their work and an ability to uh share uh their u advisory suggestions in a public way. So open up for any questions. >> Thank you Dr. Katsuda. Uh, director, any questions or clarifying items for the policy? >> I just have a comment. I think
077that the shift makes it seem less elitist >> and much more targeted and focused to serving the community with people that are closer tied to the community. So, I I appreciate the shift. So, >> yeah. >> Dr. Newman, >> no. Nothing for me. It makes sense. >> Dr. Harden, >> nothing for me. >> Thank you, Chair Shields. Just one um question about the very first sentence has the bracketed subsection one footnote. Unless we are anticipating changing the name in any way, can we go ahead and eliminate that and that footnote out of the policy? >> Dr. Cat shaking your head in the affirmative. Okay, perfect. So, so if we were to vote um on it this evening, we would vote on it without mentioning a need for changing that name because I would I would
078propose um to motion to accept the prop to accept the proposed policy as amended for tonight. >> I would second that. Okay, first and second uh record there. Any other comments or clarifying questions? Oh, perfect. Okay, we'll go ahead and call a vote then. Raise your hand or please say I. >> I. >> As unanimous. Thank you all very much. Okay. Moving on to first read of policies regarding personal electronic devices. This is a first read only. Director, the floor is yours. >> All right, she's back. Um, as you know, Executive Order 259 requires school districts to adopt policy prohibiting student use of personal electronic devices during the instructional day. Uh I'm bringing to you tonight uh for first read the proposed JFC policy personal electronic devices as well as the AR proposed that goes
079along with this. You'll see that there are the previous or current policy and AR are proposed to be deleted. As we look at the personal electronic devices policy, you'll notice that we are striking out student possession to just be student use of the policy kept in the language that we discussed prior about this applies when students um are not on school grounds and not under the supervision of school personnel other than a bus driver. um includes the uh footnote number two. Um Oh, thank you. >> Oh, okay. >> Stanley. >> Footnote number two. Um with the uh all of the items that are inclusive in uh as a personal electronic device. Um the exemptions uh are standard um language in the proposed policy except for extending the uh school administration response to an exemption request
080from 10 to 15 days. If we go on to the second page, um, personal electronic devices, the language we're proposing tonight is may be kept in students by students in lockers or backpacks, but not to be stored on students person or in the students clothing during regular instructional hours. The language in the first, second, third and beyond third instance of non-compliance are the proposed language um that does not include anything around confiscation of a device um that is to be left to the schools um and will not be in the policy. Um the uh footnotes that are crossed out before are actually just those suggested comments to the board. Um not necessarily something we're striking out. Um we are at this time leaving in the language um that starts at the bottom of page two
081of three. In accordance with OS 336840, students may be allowed to use personal electronic devices that support academic activities and independent communications except as prohibited by this policy. and then goes on to explain um that students um will not be required to use a personal electronic device for any portion of the curriculum and that we will provide them devices uh to access free of charge if it's necessary um which we do. Um the requests for exemption to the policy um appear in the process for that in the AR. Um and we are just adding the language that appeals are filed with the superintendent or designate. Um so that is the proposed language in the policy. If you'd like then to look at the AR um nothing has changed since you saw it last. It is
082um the the language that was proposed by OSBA. The one place is in the footnote where we had discussion prior about the maximum duration and of an exemption and based on board conversation two weeks ago. Um we are electing to say that that is to the end of the students enrollment at the school. Are there any questions or conversation? Dr. Stanley, >> I just have one clarifying question. Um, I don't remember which page, but it's about the lockers versus backpacks. Again, this is probably just my brain being tired. Does it mean personal classroom lockers, not hallway lockers that would be out in the hallways, various places in the school, but does it mean those wonderful little phone boxes that I saw? What does it what does it mean >> in this in this uh context?
083It means this the school provided locker that the student would have access to in the hallway. If a teacher, >> you know, decides to provide >> um in a specific place for in the classroom storage, they can do that, but that's not um implied in the policy. Um follow-up question for that. If we're making one policy for K through 12, many schools don't have hallway lockers. I I just want it to be clear and I want it to be consistent, but >> I I also would not want my student to store it in the hallway locker for theft. So, I I would like to not see the hallway lockers be an option. And that's just a weird thing, but in backpacks or in classrooms for storage is something. It just makes me paint. >> Principal
084Miller, do you have any uh thing to offer on this? Not to put you on the spot, but >> Sorry. Thank you. >> The questions about lockers or backpacks and that's what you all are already doing. So, you might want to speak to what that is looking like in practice as it relates to Director Stanley's concerns. >> Yeah, we have found um giving students choices um is better. Um and again this is for policy but what I have found is that the students will pick what what they're most comfortable with. Some of our students would rather store in lockers. Um some of them would rather have backpacks. Some of them do try to sneak it on their person. Right now our policy is backpacks or um lockers or preferred don't even bring it. >> Sure.
085I and I I don't I'm not saying don't give students choice. >> Sorry. >> Not all of No, it's okay. Not all of our schools have lockers. So, if we just want to make a K12 policy, I just think then if we're going to put hallway lockers, they just need to be more specific. Please and thank you. Whether it's classroom or hallway lockers or backpacks, I just if we're going to look at that consistent, clear piece that the survey data shows our families want, not all schools have lockers. >> Do you have any teachers at Centennial High School that are um have any sort of in-class storage mechanisms that they're using? we did up until this year. Most of them actually had moved it away from it. So, one of the things that we saw
086is like, hey, they would do the little pockets and everybody put it into what they didn't like or what was hard about this is just the liability because anybody could reach into the pocket and take the cell phone at any time. So, they actually at this point I don't know of any um staff member that is actually doing that. Um, I do know at Centennial Middle School, I believe it is, there are staff members, or I think it might be Oliver, that um have a little cubby system that they use. >> CMS has some CMS has some of the classroom lockers. I know just cuz I went and I saw them and they're cute little white boxes. I don't mean this to be a huge deal. I just want it to be clear and consistent.
087That's all. So, we can move on if that is preferred. >> Sounds like we may just need to add one There are two words to that to for classroom storage. >> Hallway or classroom locker room. >> Okay, great. Thank you, Director Stanley. >> Fellow uh director, Director Newman or Director Arvin? >> Uh will you repeat what you said about in accordance with OS 336.840? It looks like it's struck out here. Is that correct? >> It is not struck. Um, I'm looking at the bottom of uh page two of three above the line where the footnotes are. I'm >> catching up with you to display it for people. >> Okay. Maybe with >> that's showing differently. It shows on top of page three on what we're looking at. >> Yeah. And it has a strike through
088the line looks struck through. So I just wanted to clarify that. So that is intended to be in in accordance with RS336.840 students may be allowed to use personal electronic devices blah blah blah. >> We need to clarify that. >> Let me pull it up so that we're all looking at the same document. >> Yeah. >> I thought this is the one that was in board. Oh no. Sorry. That is my error. That is my error. I'm looking at the wrong one. We did decide to strike that language. Um, >> can you Yeah. Can you speak to the rationale? >> Yeah. >> Um, we uh that was kind of a a a late late change in the game. It came from reviewing some of the other districts around us and that had decided to to
089strike that language. um it seemed a little um permissive um that if there was a an activity that a staff member might deem worthy of students taking out their phones, they could um they could allow for that. Um and so uh we made a determination um initially um that language was not brought to the board last the work session because it wasn't in brackets. Um, but it has been a practice of other districts to not include that language. >> And Principal Miller, can you speak to how that was looking? I I think our our stance, as I understand the discussion that we had, is that if we're having technology be a part of the curriculum and what students are doing, then we need to be providing that and it shouldn't be reliant upon the students
090to be pulling their phones out for it. >> Yeah. And that um it creates this inequity issue. um whether you have the fancy calculator or the you know my parents and I can only afford the cheap whatever we're if we're providing curriculum and we're saying that you need to access X I'll be honest we need to provide the access and it needs to be equitable otherwise what are we doing you know that that is the equity stance that we stand for so that that's part of the thinking here >> well that's an interesting question so I mean you mentioned calculators I'm just thinking about students who say you're taking calculus and using the fancy graphing calculators. Would this policy preclude them from bringing their own? I mean, they're not cell phone attached. I think that
091would be >> Yes. >> Okay, >> that's sounds good to me. Thank you. Very good uh question. There are some I I had students try to tell me that this computer that they are bringing um is, you know, they need it for class. The answer is no, that is a first electronic device. But no, >> you're so clever. Teenagers are endlessly amusing. >> Thank you, Dr. Great question. >> Great catch. Thank you. >> Yeah. Uh the only question I had was about the exemption form. I I'm going to assume that's going to be available in multiple languages. >> Absolutely. >> Is that standard protocol? Okay. Thank you. >> Good question. >> Chair Shields. I'm good with the clarifications that we've received tonight. >> Perfect. Thank you. Yes. And thank you for all the work you're
092putting in to condense and summarize and synthesize all the various stuff that's going into it. It's it's obviously an impactful thing that we're doing >> and um it seems like we are setting ourselves up for success and allowing the latitude necessary to kind of make adjustments as we implement this across the district. So, thank you. Thank you. I agree. >> All right. Future agenda items. Superintendent, what do you have? >> All right. We have the potential of a lighter meeting for the work session, but we'll see. Uh what is scheduled on the docket is the division 22 annual report. Um we also have uh potential of interview of budget committee um candidates. So that's something to look forward to. And then we have the personal electronic device policy second read and adoption. >> Perfect. Any
093suggestions from fellow directors? Hearing none. Anything for the good of the order? Anybody got anything going on in the community you'd like to share with us? >> I always have a show. So get ready for Miracle on 34th Street. at Lakewood Theater, but also the high school's working very hard on their fall production. So, get ready to check that out, too. >> Perfect. >> Director Harden, >> I just want to say thank you to the students, staff, and community members that helped put together homecoming. There was a lot of people there. It was great to see everyone uh the stands full and everybody um everybody out and about together. So, that was uh great job everyone. Thank you so much. So fun. >> So fun. >> Was an excellent production. Kudos to all involved. Okay.
094Well, that does it for us tonight. It is 7:57.