Corvallis School Board Meeting (March 20th, 2025) PART 2

001e e e okay the um board will now reconvene the public meeting at 6:32 p.m. as a reminder um Theresa is attending virtually online Shauna is is excused and Sammy will be here shortly um and the first item on our agenda is the acknowledgement of Developmental disability awareness month Calis School District 509j J acknowledgement of development disability de developmental disability awareness month resolution number 22205 whereas the caral school district recognizes and pays tribute to the significant contributions made in our community by people with disabilities and whereas the corval school district affirms that students families staff and community members should be valued for all aspects of their identities and whereas developmental disability awareness month grew out of Grassroots efforts advoc advocating for human rights of people with disabilities in the 19th century and whereas Fair Haven

002uh training center in Salem Oregon was opened in 1907 as the Oregon state in Institution for the feebleminded through State legislation in order to institutionalize people with developmental disabilities including children and whereas people with disabilities have historically been subjected to institutionalization and eugenic practices in Oregon Na and nationally and whereas the orgon board of eugenics was passed through State legislation in 1923 in an effort to sterilize people with disabilities including Developmental and mental health as well as other members of society and whereas Force sterilization in organ occurred until 1981 and was not abolished by the Oregon State Senate until 1983 and whereas National development developmental disabilities awar awareness month was first proclaimed nationally in 1987 and whereas people with disabilities of all kinds have contributed to the history and Collective future of Corvalis and Benton

003County or and whereas developmental disabilities Awareness Month provides an an opportunity to continue the district's growth and learning about the many contributions of people with disabilities to the nation world and local community and whereas education is a necessary component for creating a more Equitable and anti-racist Community nation and world and to equity and anti-racism and whereas the corala school district has a responsibility to honor and respect the diverse histories of our community and therefore let it be resolved by the Board of Education of the corval school district does hereby Proclaim March [Music] 2025 as well as oh 2022 as well as March annually as developmental disability awareness month in the district and strongly encourage students family staff and community members to establish and participate in local celebrations and in encourage all schools in the district

004to help highlight this month in grade appropriate ways as well as highlight the contribution of people with disabilities to the local community nation and Beyond both historically and in current times adopted by the board of directors of school district number 509j Corvalis of Benton and Lynn counties Oregon at its regular meeting this day this 2 4th day February 2022 thanks everyone and as a reminder we continue to read these proclamations every month um to reaffirm the district's commitment to um what they say yep and the next item on the agenda is board member reports do we have any board member reports Judah Bernie and I have alarmingly similar reports because we both both went to different robotics competitions I went to the one at CHS and I don't want to ruin all ber fun but

005I was going and expecting it to be extremely cool and my expectations were exceeded I felt like I was watching a liveaction sci-fi movie it is so cool so I highly encourage if you have an opportunity to go you will not be disappointed it's really exciting and really cool and it's an unbelievable feet when you think that high school students built each and every one of these robots and they're all so different so go I also Echo the the how impressive the the two uh robotics teams or I went to a a tournament up in Salem um and um I think what really impressed me was how the business end of running such a complex operation as well uh the students were writing grants they were getting donations and they even participated in uh legislative

006a advocacy and uh that's all pretty impressive and I would encourage the board if we can maybe ask couple of the representative to come and talk to us about all the the great uh skills that they have it's really good representation of uh CTE uh programs and educations as well uh a couple other uh events that I I also attended uh Delta um uh and also deedi I think uh for the deedi meeting we specifically talked about uh the student uh um what was it the the youth truth surveys that's it and uh and the family participation and I think that's going to be uh uh very important and it's a good reminder to the community to participate uh in that when when that when it's available to them um I also attended uh the

007meeting on Tac where we uh did the the final I guess review of the the great job that our kids did in Oliver uh which closed a couple weeks ago so uh again I applaud uh the whole cast and and crew and and directors on how well uh they did and then uh finally I attended another event uh earlier this week it was uh put together uh it's in conjunction with the Corvalis sister city program with gondar uh Ethiopia and kids from the Franklin school as well as the Corvalis waldor School uh did the art for a book that they uh they did together it's called hands and uh it was very impressive their participation and and the kids uh got to read uh sections of the book and and uh it it it truly

008shows the integration uh of uh the whole Community here yeah I uh was able to attend the Delta meeting as well and I just want to really I wish marcianne was here because I just want to thank her for such a empowering and Rich environment of discussion around community members and um staff and I just thought it was really um I'm always feel very privileged to be there and and um honored and um I attended the sustainability Fair um Eileen there um and some different schools um representing what they are doing in their schools to um show how they are um helping our economy our environment and um Eileen did a great job there representing College Hill and um you know and Kathy faser who I know that was her last day but I just

009really want to say thank you to her for um such an outstanding job and just really getting a lot of our schools involved in Camp Patton as well um and I just also you know as I talk to each School each person that was representing the different schools I was just so impressed that they you know I knew it was evening they had worked all day I was kind of walking in saying You must be really tired and really they were very energetic and just excited to share what their schools are doing and I just what students are doing so I thought that was really great and then um I also got to attend um a special event at CHS the other night where they were um it was the winter sports awards our own

010Sophia was there being represented for her basketball team and the great work that they've done but um we um I'm I'm sorry if I'm taking your thunder but I'm going to share that um we um the foundation honored elain Markley as well as the CHS booster club and just all the amazing work that elain Markley has done for CHS as a volunteer um she was there when my daughter was in basketball and she is still there today as my granddaughter is playing basketball and has just um spent most of her life there seems like um volunteering and so she received the Stellar service award and then the booster club also recognized her and is naming the concession stand outside of the gym in in her honor and so that was really fun to watch that

011be watch her be very surprised that's it does theres have anything online yeah thanks um not much to add I uh was able to attend the um CHS open house um as they prepare to welcome the E incoming eighth graders and that was really delightful I got to hear the Acappella group perform and that was just really and impressive performance um we have uh when I get to experience things like that I'm reminded about the value of a really strong Arts education in our community and um so I really appreciate that some of those kids have been studying music in this community since kindergarten and then they really put on a wonderful performance um for for all of us um and I was uh really impressed I've been in the school before but never touring

012it from the parents side um just about the extensive programming in the CTE classes that were available and it was really um particularly a joy to see my own eighth grader get very excited about the opportunity to take some of these classes reminds me um that we can't stress enough the value of CTE how it contributes to graduation rates and so um made my heart a little happy that he wants to do wood shop um anyway really wonderful job done by all of the staff and uh it was really just great to see so many kids excited and buzzing around getting energized about their new school so I appreciate the staff staying so long and late into the evening to make that happen um but I think it's definitely well worth it when we we

013help our kids feel like they're it's going to be their space soon so I appreciate everyone's work on that thanks teres and um I was able to also attend Delta and that was a really awesome conversation um appreciate being part of it and all the work that they do to build community and connection um and I also attended the Corvalis Public School Foundation um Retreat yesterday and that was really nice to hear what's going on with them and also um to think about ways we can continue to engage with them so for fellow board members they suggested maybe they could reach out to us when they're going to do some fundraising and need volunteers and that's another way for our board to be involved with their board um so i' would love to see some

014of us um be able to do that so I'm not sure when that will be announced what it will be at cuz they are very early in planning that yeah super early it was a brainstorming activity um and then let's see the oh the community Forum I also attended that and um also helped facilitate some of the conversation about legislative advocacy I was um really excited to see how many people were there was it like 70 there was about 70 there's 74 people here the room was full and um really appreciated people coming through and being able to ask questions and also um in a more informal way than our board meetings where we can't engage in those conversations um and just the amount of work that went into everything so I just want to

015say thank you for that and um hopefully we can have more things like that in the future as well um and then also um this is connected to the osba oh wait I also went to the sustainability Town Hall I wasn't able to make the full fair I got the tail end and then got ushered into the room for the town hall part but it was really cool to see all those efforts happening across the community and also learn more about um all the work that's happening across just the whole region not just here in town but like in the surrounding areas too because everything's connected in that way um I was able to go to Salem for the Oregon School Board association's cauca color um and kosa Equity team combined effort um for legislative

016um uh advocacy and we spent the whole day in Salem talking to legislators I talked to seven and one day that was a lot and we heard from the governor um about some of her priorities the three things that we um focused on were the state funding and um had conversations about that and also advocacy for the two special education bills are the other two things we were advocating for and also accountability um that uh the governor's accountability measure measures being taken our bill that she's introducing and encouraging her to work with osba and kosa on um helping make those more attainable for school districts is really important so we had some great conversations um there and that's that's what I was up to do you have anything you wanted to report that's not osba

017or or well that was part of osba but i' said but welcome Sammy thank you I apologies for uh the board and the community for arriving late I I let them know you're you're going to be coming pretty soon and that we were we're on board member reports so if you don't have anything it's okay but if you have anything you wanted to report we're still there osba or general reports General reports General reports um Oliver was amazing moving and really impressive so want to thank the students for making a phenomenal show and looking forward for the next one nice okay and and then um we went over a couple minutes um sorry about that everyone um we're on the but we did have a lot we were doing a lot of things so keep

018inviting us to stuff when we say board members like going to things we do sometimes we can't make them I was really sad to miss the robotics ones for example for niece and nephew birthday parties um but I would love to go to one in the future too so keep inviting us um for those and then the next item on the agenda is the osba and nsba updates um and so I talked about the legislative day as my involvement there um but in general um osba is focusing on the long session um with all the there's tons of bills that impact education and they're keeping track of all of those and finding ways for board members to be involved in helping advocate for the communities that we represent and so I appreciate all that work

019they're doing um and they're also doing some reviews of the caucuses and um that was I would say those are the main two things I would update from osba um besides all the technical things that would probably be really boring to report on did you have anything for nsba Sammy absolutely uh I want just to share and remind folks about NBA's involvement keeping up to speed with what's happening on the federal government uh including the most recent uh uh Federal action by the executive branch uh the president making an executive order toward dismantling the Department of Education uh it's yet another uh point of inquiry for community members for board members and our colleagues across the state and the nation and nsba is providing resources how we're navigating those uh updates and making sure that

020we have answers of what we can do and what we can't and also how can we keep our focus in support of our students no matter what happens uh we're standing by each one of our students and their needs uh both in terms of uh fiscal appropriation and in terms of advocating for the policies and the projections that uh are in place locally Statewide and federally so that's the updates I want to share about the nsba uh another update I just received from our partners uh at osba the PTA uh Association that's in engages parents uh they are invited to take part in advocacy day as well so Schoolboard members are going to be invited for an osba advocacy day in April and uh uh parents are going to be invited as well to take

021part in another one in April so for those who might be interested in uh reaching out they might reach out to their local PTA or happy to share that information with them directly thanks Sammy I think that date is available I was just looking for it um and thanks for that reminder too osba also has guidance for districts too and um around the many things that are occurring and so that's really helpful that um they provide that guidance for us to um keep supporting the schools um in the ways that we do as well so those are those ones I can't find the date really fast oh it's April for or no that's not it we'll let you all know when we have the date for engagement and the next item on the agenda is

022the superintendent um report or no yes yep yes so there's a few things I want to highlight and some some of them are um in process so and some of them have actually already happened because we haven't had a business meeting for a little while so on um March 3rd through 7th was classified appreciation um that week is meant to appreciate all the classified staff we have in our schools that do everything from lead in our offices to work with students individually to making sure that our students are fed um and supported um making sure that our technology Works making sure that we're able to pay our bills um the list goes on and on and on the things that our classified staff do so as you're out of in the community as you always

023are if you run into some of our classified staff please thank them for the work that they do uh because they um without them we couldn't do our jobs um and without them we couldn't take care of the our students in the way that we can so again um while a comprehensive facilities um conditions assessment and that uh included a walkth through last week so we had a couple of different companies come through and provide walkthroughs of the of Osborne so that they're able to give us a clear proposal on what it would take to bring Osborne back online um they're going to have that information to us um early in April and so with that information then we'll be able to better communicate with the community what it's going to take um for our

024community to bring Osborne back um and at the same time we know that the outdoor pool has started to be used so there is progress being made and I know that it's slow um but we are making progress on it and then also we've worked with the city so that we have some shared community ation um so you can find that information on both the city's website as well as our website so again we're looking at how do we work together in Partnership to continue to work to move that forward uh last week I had the chance to um along with Shauna who wasn't able to be here tonight to go meet with students who came together including Eileen to um talk about our youth TR survey so students came together to talk about the

025survey how we use that information and also how to encourage um students to participate in it and give us good feedback because it really does matter and we use that information as we make um investments in our budget and ways that we make sure that we're supporting students um and so their perspective in that is really important but I think hearing from other students that that's really important means a lot more than hearing it from me so I appreciate our students coming together and working on that it was our safe groups from our middle schools and high schools that came together and that was led by Nikki and marcian so again um that survey is going to start on March 31st it's coming up soon and then after that's done we'll also be having a

026opportunity for parents and community members to come together um to look at the parent survey and help again to inform our work moving forward as a school district um the other day I was meeting with marcianne and we were talking about um recognizing that we have a number of Staff in our schools that were students in our district who went through the DLI DLI program and so we just started to count that number and we have over 20 staff members in our district who were participants in DLI as students everything from an office manager to somebody in our technology department to classified staff to teachers so it's just really cool to see that come full circle and we sometimes talk about it but just just take the time to identify who those folks are um

027it just feels really affirming of what we're doing in our DLI program and it was really fun to be able to to think about that and identify the progress that's being made um and just to think about the S skills that those folks bring as folks who are bilingual bicultural and can really add to um what's happening in our school so it's a um it's a real great example of grow your own um two other things I wanted to highlight one is appreciation for attorney general Dan Rayfield um so recently he um shared made a statement that was shared um on behalf of both K12 college and universities about our um ability to continue to support our students and do our Dei work um that was a cous statement that he made and I appreciate

028the fact that he provided us guidance that in a time that we really needed it and then finally um yesterday the we Ways and Means co-chairs came out with their budget it's at 11.4 billion for the banum it is pretty much the same number that we received from go the governor um so as we talk about that number and what it means for k 12 it's basically the the number that we've been using as we've been developing our budget it doesn't change things for us the things that would still change things would be if the cap is changed for supporting students with disabilities um that would be a number that would change our number um but what we have right now is status quo with what we've been planning for um it also included a

029piece around accountability in the statement from the co-chairs and when I think about accountability I think accountability is important and I also think it's important that we look at the measures and the assessments that we're using um and having rules in place that um have the ability for us to measure the growth of all of our students not just some of our students with an opt out provision um I I see that as problematic and I think that that's something that we need to continue to um bring up and have conversations about because I think that makes a difference as we are looking at the successes of our schools um so I just wanted to provide both some State highlights as well as some District highl highlights and I'd be happy to answer any questions

030questions for Ryan go ah Juda since that students with disabilities cap is up for legislation could you tell us more about why it's important to for the cap to be increased yeah so that cap of 12% um which means that there's a second um funding like a kind of a double weight is what we call it for students with disabilities up to 12% when that was established that was established about the time of major 5 back in the 90s and that was when the state average was about 12% of students with disabilities in our schools now our number is closer to 15% um and that is a difference in the amount of services that we're um able to provide a whole school system um by not having that additional funding and so that funding is

031really important to us because it allows us to better serve our kids so it's maybe a question or requests or a comment on the last point which is uh I haven't seen the co-chairs budget yet but seeing the number 11.4 which is slightly more than 11.63 uh 36 36 uh that's still short of the $200 million that the special education uh priority bills including raising the cap including raising the um high cost disability account uh funding so if we do not have an appropriation for those bills the state is going to say to us you shall fund that from local Resources with the same resources that you're receiving so my request is probably what stories can we come ready with in April that's help us navigate that complexity because we always prioritize our students who

032deserve the support and who deserve the those Investments uh regardless of where is the cap and regardless how much we getting reimbursements on the high cost disability but if we are not getting those Appropriations from the state and we're getting exactly the same budget that did not include those um I I think we're going to have really hard decisions and challenges ahead of us yeah you can't raise the cap to 15% without infusing another 200 300 million dollars into the system otherwise you are just further diluting um the the overall well you're just not making a financial difference you're just counting more students yes and when sorry and when we do that all students H because now we're downloading the support the basic support for all students including our students with disabilities correct um we're

033going to continue to meet the needs of our students with disabilities um and at the same time that um becomes more challenging for us to provide services systemwide um without those additional funds thank you I would can I just add in I'm just going to add in that if community members are listening to this and this sounds really confusing I feel free to reach out to us for further conversation since we can't really have like an Engaged convo on um on it and stuff so um because it can be a lot to try to sort through yeah yeah and it's a legislative priority for both kosa the organization that I'm a part of and osba organization that you're all a part of okay any other questions for Ryan we have 36 seconds so maybe not

034but if you had questions I would possibly extend it because we are ahead somehow we were behind now we're ahead again huh okay okay if there's no more questions for Ryan um we have the student representative reports our next and I don't know who would like to go first call show can go first okay all right there are some great things happening at College Hill right now first off the urban farm uh program has been making all sorts of preparations for the upcoming spring planting season in our Greenhouse lots of tiny vegetables are starting to sprout and in the garden there are two new beds with different types of asparagus and tons of peas a new native plant pollinator section has been built and the blueberry donated by someone who deposited two Leg Horn hens

035into our the farm luckily for us luckily for us they're great layers and we now have some white eggs to add to the mix with egg prices as high as they are right now urban farm eggs are the best deal in town selling at5 doar a dozen next off the construction students are right in the middle of the micr shelter build season currently they are working to build these structures to provide housing to the people in our community who need to have a place to live it's very inspiring to see the work these students are completing and their desire to give back to their Community um we just had our first dine out to raise funds for the College Hill yearbook at Panera last night we're having another dine out at Burgerville on April 3rd

036from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. if you'd like to support our yearbook program you can mention College Hill when you're ordering and will receive 20% of the total price and um there were therapy dogs at our school earlier this week and it was it was a lot of fun to get to pet the dogs and see all the students um engage with them thanks Harvick and Eileen um which one do you um I can go so congrat congratulations to Mone for winning the Golden Apple award she is the health and Leadership teacher at CV and it was a great surprise from The District's people and there were some really delicious cookies so Sports um just started a week or two ago but there were a lot of Great Performances froms the past few month despite the

037tough conditions swimming at different pools the CV swim team pushed through demonstrated great sportsmanship and resiliency with the boys winning both the district and um state championship and then cheer got their second consecutive State title basketball and wrestling also had an amazing season with many individual achievements and then the second blood drive of the Year place two weeks ago this week is having our own Madness lunch periods is Laura's mic fading and out just one second we're going to get you a new mic okay yeah thank thank you sorry we just want to make sure everybody can hear your awesome stuff you're reporting on do you want her to use Bernie for now there it goes thank you okay and then um where was I so we had we are having our own March Madness

038during the lunch periods as well as the spring Spirit Week this week then CV robotics has had a great comeback this season they were among the winning Alliance at their first competition Oregon State Fair and they recently travel 6 hours in a bus ride to yaka Washington for their second event currently they're ranked six in Pacific Northwest districts and they're hopeful to be able to qualify for Nationals this year and additionally the leadership class is looking into painting one of the bathrooms at CV we're currently working on getting it improved and probably finish painting it by the end of the year thank you thanks Sara um so similar stuff as CV as far as sports Spring Sports started a couple weeks ago and um it's looking promising there's a lot of new athletes I've heard

039in each uh sport like track and golf I know that girls golf got first place in their very first tournament which is awesome um so good job to them and um yeah we had a lot of uh awesome achievements from the winter sports athletes um I know I think it was two girls wrestlers and one uh maybe one or two boy wrestlers placed in state and we had uh quite a few swimmers do uh really good too I'm not sure the exact places they got um yeah and I know that we're having last week and I think a couple students finished it up this week too um which is awesome and oh uh yesterday we had our unified assembly unified basketball assembly so our life skills class and the even the students from I want

040to say it's called Wings at CV um had a uh raised over $7,000 for the Special Olympics which is we did that through the uh polar plunge which happened coule like it was it was March 8th I think so that's awesome I think we surpassed our goal and what we made last year so that's really great um and I know leadership is planning the blood drive and some other events like flag football and girls flag football and boys volleyball after Spring Break um this is the second blood drive of the year the first one went really really well we had uh I think one of our highest turnouts which is great right I feel like I'm forgetting one more thing sorry um yeah I think that's about all I have actually yeah than all right

041thank you um everyone thanks Sophia and everybody else um any questions I think people want to know where to get these eggs though I think that's proba I don't they usually sell out fast too pretty fast yes um I can't remember just off the top of my head Eileen do you know on Fridays there's a farm stand at the back of the College Hill property so it's like on the I don't remember the street but it's behind College Hill and it starts at 9: I don't know I think it starts at 9: thanks Ryan that way we know we how to support the Farm Stand yeah yeah um okay the next item on the agenda is public comment do we have any public comment okay he no public comment the public comment period is going

042to um open and close and the next item on the agenda is Pages update um as Emily and Melissa come up I just wanted to say I'm really excited about this presentation and what has happened with our 21st century Grant um we were all excited when we learned that we had earned that or been awarded that Grant and lots of really great things have been happening so I'm just excited for um the opportunity to hear more how about this I'm excited to introduce you all to Emily Peterson Emily has been a teacher in our since 2014 when I hired her um at Katherine Jones Harrison and uh she has stepped up to become the coordinator of our after school program I sit in on every interview that we have to do for the program and

043I typically introduce myself as Melissa Harter I don't do anything I just supervise Emily she does it all and that's really what's true so I'm excited for you to meet Emily tonight and have her talk about the great successes of the 21st century program thank you I am Emily Peterson and as um Melissa mentioned this is my 11th year in the district I was a first grade teacher at Jes Harrison Elementary and then um after the pandemic um started not ended um I did some work with Amy Leon in supporting our leading Intervention Program within our monolingual schools and then last year school year I stepped into this position um the 21st century Community Learning Centers Grant also known as Pages or pahas within our Corvalis School District runs at Laticia Carson Garfield and Lincoln

044Monday through Thursday after school from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. the grant is a 5-year Grant supporting Title One elementary schools really thinking about supporting academic interven and enrichment within that time but also um providing lots of fun activities to make that happen and um we originally partnered with the Corvalis Environmental Center as our community partner and you'll hear a little bit about them in a minute there are four goals of the grant the first is Equitable programming and providing that safe inclusive and welcoming environment to students as well as that academic enrichment so including those school day um and state and local standard connections so that we are supporting our students in their growth we have Youth Development as well thinking about how we can spark joy and curiosity and connection for students and then

045family engagement so thinking about how we can support our families and promote that experience to connect them with their students education and connect them within the school district as a whole I'm we as I mentioned we are at three sites at Lincoln we serve second through fifth grade we currently have 46 students enrolled and we have seven staff there supporting those students at Garfield we do third and fourth grade where we have 24 students enrolled um and we have four staff kind of um we are very lucky to um have two wonderful Garfield educational assistants who stay late 2 days a week to support our Spanish intervention and so they trade off their two days so really we have five but it's four staff on site at all times and then at Laticia Carson we

046just expanded to fourth and fifth there so now we're second through 5ifth we have 40 students enrolled and seven staff members at that site each day our students follow a structured schedule We Begin by providing supper prepared by the corval school district um and so they get a full meal and then race us because they've been sitting and it's time to get outside and move around um our goal is every student outside every day and then they come in and they have an opening Circle where we focus on social emotional learning it aligns with what all of our K5 schools caring schools community so it's doubling those skills and those Castle skills to help support students in their growing community and becoming successful within that community and then we also are really um focused on

047providing students you'll see them laying down in that one photo they're working on mindfulness so feeling where um all of those feelings were in their body and so really supporting them and giving them strategies to be able to have that emotional competence and be able to support themselves we have several Community Partners we are partnered with smart reading um and they are at Lincoln and latia they come once a week each student is paired with an adult reader the same adult reader because they really value creating relationships to help build that connection and then every other week students get to take home a free book and I love when I show up and they're like look Miss Peterson what book I got and so um they are wonderful Partners to have we have bilingual readers

048at Lincoln which has been really great to create that connection with the community and then we are partnered with the Valley stem Outreach Club so they come uh once at Laticia Carson a week and once at Garfield it's all the high schoolers have written their own stem lessons and they teach a stem lesson to the students and it's been really cool to see and our students are like enamored by the fact that they are high schoolers like teaching them and that they're going to go to that high school so it's been really cool to have that connection as well our other Community Partners our original Partners who were really passionate about the grant the Corvalis Environmental Center they send nature Educators three days a week to support so they're another member of our staff they

049do all of our staff um engagements together we do trainings together at the beginning of the year um I would say the most notable hit for them is the animals they bring um you'll see potato the guinea pig um there and Pooky duuk the turtle and then my least favorite day snakes um and then they do a lot of cooking activity finding ways that students can use local ingredients to make their own food and they get to take the recipes home so this year their favorite so far has been the sushi that they got to make and so they got to make a like a California Royal Sushi and they were really excited about that so it is usually the highlight of most students day we look forward to those three days they really really

050do a great job in spark that Curiosity and even our students when at first they're like I don't know if I'm going to like this activity they end up really getting into it and being able to have that connection to science and then our um one of our rotations each day is steam so during our steam time we're really diving into topics one for a week period or two week period um we've done space capsules we've done Northern Lights art um Lego robotics has been a really big hit this year we are just finishing up our um or we're in the middle of our Pop-Tart unit students created clay Pop-Tarts and now they are practicing sewing and they're going to sew their own Pop-Tarts after when or spring break and so um students are engaged

051in math during that there's always a writing component there's always vocabulary introduced so they're getting that but they also don't know that they're learning during that time they just see it as fun so um most of our projects we really try to do as a group and work on that collaboration and being partners and that conversation and decision making um and then one of our rotations is academic we support reading intervention and math intervention our reading intervention is um with two different program sips which works on learning letter sounds decoding and highfrequency work words and then El proximo which focuses on the same but in Spanish and then we do um Bridges intervention so that goes alongside what the students are doing during the school day and connecting I work really close with the school

052teams in supporting students and so the mtss and I are always in contact as they are supporting those scores and then also we have really program specific um assessments that we are using to make those instructional decisions for our students I'm really Hands-On with this as I feel very passionate about making sure our staff is in a comfortable position to provide this academic enrichment but also um I love seeing the student growth which we're going to dive into in just a second um our hopes is that with our students who need just a little bit more in our program that we can provide that on top of the school day to further close that Gap and get them one step closer to becoming um on grade level and so we use our district benchmarks to

053help that and so in our next slide in our data um I'm going to dive in here and explain for a second so our schools in the green um are our three sites that we have and pages is in the blue so when we look at our students decoding and putting letter sounds together and creating nonsense words like Nan or but with a c um and all those different um blending of words together you'll see that the average for our schools was six and a half words um per minute and our Pages students are doing it at nine words per minute so we're seeing that growth and that double happening and then we are so close with that decoding of real words and that accuracy we see that happen second just because they're just almost

054there with all their letter sounds at this point and so now we're really working on making sure that we're making real words and that it makes sense and so we are closely behind with one word per minute which is really impressive especially for our students who are reading at a kindergarten or first grade reading level and then the accuracy percentage um this is something that all teachers feel very strongly about we don't want you guessing the word we want you accurately reading the word and so um our schools average of 8 and 1 half% um in their minute reading and our pag of students are actually 155% in a minute with their accurate reading so what we're doing is really working for our second and third graders and it's really exciting as we look at

055the district Benchmark that's just like a a a dipping it in and testing that water so that we know and then we can really use our program assessments to support our instructional decision from day to day this date is a little different for fourth and fifth grade um because is our dat District's um Benchmark doesn't really test decoding after third grade um it's expected as a benchmark assessment that third graders are readers and so it's a little bit harder to see within our district Benchmark but um I was excited to see that we're still seeing that same growth as well so students in our schools um are reading at they had the average of growing 4% from beginning of the the year to middle of the year and our students had the average of growing

0567% from the middle of the year to the or the beginning of the year to the middle of the year so our next big step for our fourth and fifth grade students is working on fluency and really being able to read at a rate like you're speaking but also accurately so we first work on that accuracy and then that fluency piece um again we were really pleased to see how close we are with that fluency I've sat through many of our are um reading RTI meetings and being able to see that growth in our students that those that were teaching at a second grade reading level are still accurately reading and have the same fluency in a fourth grade passage so we're really seeing that come together another part of the grant is that they

057send out a survey at the well I send out a survey at the end of the year that the state would like um and the families um at the end of the 234 school year 100% of the fames said that they feel pagesor pahas is valuable and meets their need their needs and the needs of their students we had 93% of families say that they felt empowered to use their voice to help shape the program um which was really important to us last year as we were building this from nothing and being able to create something that's going to be meaningful and then we had that 95% of that idea of trusting and having that relationship with our program staff that's also really important to us cuz we're with their student for a significant amount

058of their day as well and we want to make sure that they're um feeling comfortable talking with our staff and having those connections you'll see there were some quotes from there of just seeing Improvement in their students learning having them be able to open up and become more social a lot of these students are going home and playing video games if they're not with us and so being able to have a place where they're social after school and then also just making sure they're in a safe location so that they're not home alone or going somewhere where they maybe shouldn't be and um making sure that we are providing that location for them and then I did ask um students what their favorite part of pages and pahas was um and the first girl yelled

059everything please don't make me choose um and then um corval Environmental Center was a really big hit I was super excited to see our fourth and fifth grade students say reading group just because we know at that point their confidence is often affected and that it's sometimes seen as a chore to read and so the fact that they really want to do that um and then um getting to hang out with their favorite teachers and then just everything about it so it has been really awesome to see the kids growth we had quite a few returners from last year so to see how far they've come it's been really cool to also see now I can answer any questions wow thank you so much for that report it's amazing um questions comments from the board

060um how are the students um identify to partic uh participate are they volunteer uh parents volunteering uh to participate or we do some sort of uh intervention or identification ahead of time so um we work closely with the schools to identify students that would um best benefit from that double dip of getting intervention during the day and with us um our dual language schools a lot of them are getting their Spanish intervention during the day and English intervention so they're able to get both when that's not always the case um so we are this year we used a lot of the district benchmarks um from the end of last year to look at to identify and then um really working with teachers and seeing who would be the best fit to join that's really a

061highlight of our program is the fact that Emily is so connected to the schools she has credibility because she is a teacher in the district and people know who she is so she's able to join those um uh response to intervention meetings at multiple schools and have these conversations about students other questions do you got one Sammy I have plenty so I'll start with one okay takey back with uh what was shared do you find it are are you are you at capacity where there's a weight list of the students who meet those benchmarks but unfortunately they can't um we are at most of our schools yes um we have the ability to take in 30 students to a classroom but in the classrooms we're currently in that's a lot of Stu one a lot

062of bodies in one room um and then space capacity of being able to expand and have more students and serve different grade levels um so we do we we're like at a 1% no um when we ask families if they want to join so we do have a high rate of those who want to be in the program Staffing and Staffing Staffing is also a limitation yeah so my thought is this is great really thank you this is amazing and The Benchmark you want to compare to is your control group are those students who are on the waiting list and unfor we don't have the resources to get them in and then the general population yes so you can see the growth being made for students who meet those benchmarks at the intake instead of

063the general population does that make sense yeah no so Sammy likes data and so um I think what you're saying is taking a look at those students who were unable to help and how I hate to think this but how they're not growing um in the way that we would like them to because they're not receiving the double dip right correct yeah correct I have more bp until others questions you have questions go ahead and ask more question then can you add five more minutes on there we have plenty thank you phenomenal what I heard five years investment from the state after the five five it's an investment from the feds fedal this is a this is a federally funded program that runs through OD this is title four B um Federal Federal funding so

064we are we're just kind of hoping that things continue into next year as they have been um title 4 a we have those funds that are coming through I'm I was just searching combing for information on title 4B I can't find anything but what I did find for title 4 a is that that funding is continuing through the end of at least through the school year and that they're not hopefully that's going to remain so if we're in some way a part of that we should be okay but um we are waiting to hear from our um leadership at the state as to what the future looks like for the program do you know how can we be Advocates and sharing those stories so whether uh the grants continue or not that those Investments continue

065helping the students we we have to we need to meet the needs of our students and we have found this incredibly creative and positive and successful way to do it and if this Federal funding went away um we would need to get creative again and it probably wouldn't look the same but I know that we're going to meet the needs of our kids that's what we do here so we'll figure it out thank you so I would say that because it's Federal funding um our best Avenue is through um through the times that we're able to interact with um one of the or two senators or a representative for our region um in either town halls or in emails I think that's our best advocacy at this point wonderful thank you and with permission last

066but not least I want to say thank you for the investment in giving students physical Books A legislature shared yesterday or two days ago that there's a statistic 80% of children don't have access to a physical book at home I want to know how much is that true for Coralis and also how much we're moving the needle with basically effectively changing that statistic one student at a time for all of the intake for those who go through that program yeah I don't know those statistics I don't know the statistics for Corvalis I do know that a lot of our students don't have access to what we call Good Fit books at home so books that they can read that they can practice their reading when you think about children's books they're great but often times

067their teachers are reading them or families are reading them to their students right so that idea that we are providing books that students are accessing and reading um I was pleasantly surprised with the smart reading you can the kid can choose to have the adult read to them or them to read to the adult how many students really want to read to the adults and so they're practicing they're getting 20 minutes of one on one time and so a lot of the books that smart chooses they do what's called Mirror books they want students to see themselves within them are books at their level that they can read wonderful thank you of course wonderful does teres have any questions no both of my questions got asked already by someone else so thank you okay just

068want to make sure um I had a question of um can anything that's being learned in these in this program be applied broadly like what can you take from there do you think or what can other teachers take from the program I think we have to start getting really creative in how we can teach reading through other subjects as well right A lot of my science curriculum I'm adapting to make sure that they're at the needs of students which takes time and takes resources and so being able to have um that access is important and being able to spark that Joy um and then also I mean continuing our intervention during the day and supporting our students with our reading groups it's working in our program and so we know it's working in schools so

069now how do we continue that at a momentum where we have the Staffing and the availability right thanks okay I think that's all our questions in thank you well thank you both so much and for all your work on that too thank you okay so um let me double check where we're at everybody's still okay do we need a do we need a break yet or are we good we're good okay let's keep going then might as well yeah I know the reason I was asking is because we have like another do we have any public comment on this um because the next on the agenda is public hearing for Testimony regarding the integrated guidance report hearing no public testimony um we will move on to the 2025 integrated guidance application Melissa oh and and

070the crew hello we can share there he goes oh wait maybe not there goes okay we'll share okay that big chair okay we have a slideshow that Kim's gonna put up for you um while she's putting that up you have the um what you have in front of you or at least in the board report what was um a summary of the uh integrated guidance that we're going to be submitting to the state by April 30th so that's not the full application but it's most of it so we wanted to take some time um and talk about the highlights of that focusing um on how we communicated with our um community and gathered um information about needs what we are investing in and what we're hoping to see as outcomes so with that we're up

071here um there's our uh agenda for tonight we'll remind you what the um integrated guidance is or teach you what it is if you haven't heard of it before describe our development of our plan um share our investments answer any questions and then ask for your approval to continue to move forward with the plan so as a little bit of background just as a reminder integrated guidance is um multiple streams of federal and state um funds and initiatives that all come together in one plan where we do all of the work to um receive those funds in one Fell Swoop and we do it now every bium so that's where where we're at right now uh we are assessing needs Gathering data for everything and then put pulling it all together into one plan in

072order to um get information on the next slide all of these programs so um who you see here the what we're representing in front of you today is um as as we go down the list continuous Improvement planning is something all of us do everyday matters is attendance that's something all of us do um career connected learning is something that we do k12 and then as we get into targeted programs High School Success is Nikki's area the student investment account is all of our areas but tonight I'll be representing that for everybody early um indicator and intervention systems is Nikki's area early literacy success and School District grants is Amy's area Career and Technical education is Nikki's area and federal school Improvement for comprehensive targeted supports I don't even know that is it's Nikki it's

073Nikki it's Nikki there's so many of them so um if if we wanted to go through what's kind of is um most important to us and and what is what we're focusing on tonight I would turn it over to Nikki to talk to us about high school Success in Career and Technical Education First just give us like a rundown of what those will oh on each of those yeah of your your two or three my two or three okay um so I'll start with high school Success so high school Success has um kind of three um bucket areas so we've got college level opportunities so we use funding um to support um access to advanced classes so um in particular from these funds we support um students with new materials which have to be updated

074every 10 years years because of the requirements of the College Board we also do um we support CTE with high school Success funds and then Dropout prevention so a lot of our supports and interventions that we offer at the high school are funded through High School Success and then um eiis that is on there somewhere early inter early indicator and intervention systems we have a system called grade Guardian that allows um folks to look at data um from our students and provide targeted intervention it also pays for some of the uh the Staffing that support the data conversations that are happening at the high school and then um CTE we while CTE is built into High School Success we also receive federal Perkins funding that's Regional funding that's distributed based on the number of CTE

075programs we have and we have 10 here in our [Music] district and briefly I think about this time last year I came to you and um early literacy was by itself and it was a separate Grant and now it is included as part of all of this Grant and just a reminder or new information that um allowable uses in that early lit Grant are um purchasing curriculum that's um culturally relevant curriculum you can do training uh for reading all this is focused on literacy and reading um professional development High dose tutoring which is basically some one-on-one or small group very um intense and intentional instruction uh and summer programs or after school programs so those are a gist of the things that we can later on I tell you what we're actually doing here and

076just to make a connection the 21st century program which just presented we braid funds from early literacy with 21st century in order to get some like more out of our um out of the money that we're receiving and um Emily who you just met does training with our staff on reading intervention so she does that through the early lit Grant um high dosage tutoring happens at one of our Title One schools because we couldn't we couldn't lift a program off the ground there the way we wanted to with numbers so we turned to high dosage tutoring which comes out of early literacy so we're really trying to be creative with the funds that are in front of us um when it comes to student um investment account there are five allowable buckets health and safety

077increased instructional time Community engagement reducing class sizes and well-rounded education so that's um what the state tells us that we're going to be spending that money uh for we are your planning team members and also part of this group we have to have the money people so um Lauren who's sitting in the back and Maria mled Downey who's the accounting manager who is the queen of all grants and all Grant budgeting and all kinds of spreadsheets she has been super helpful in all of this the spreadsheets that you see in your board report that are downloaded for year one year two that's all her work Nikki all right so um I actually think one of the interesting I don't know if I'd call it fun but um things about all of these grants is that

078we we go from looking at like we have in our mind what the board goals are we go out and listen to the community um to to their ideas on what we can do to better achieve those board goals and then those are all connected to how we spend our money so there it just feels like there's a through line so one of the things that we're always trying to do is make sure that we have multiple ways for students and um the community to provide feedback so um was it last it was two years ago when we did the the large community engagement events and um we continue I am continuing to really engage students in making my plans um at the high school level so I think on the next page on the

079next slide there we go um one of the things that Lauren and I heard from students when we met with them uh we as we were asking them what is the best way for you to give us input is it face to face um is it through surveys and they said actually surveys are great as long as they're really focused and so I've been able to push out some small surveys on canvas to get really focused feedback from students student so that I can then use to think about Investments um I've done high school student listening sessions uh where we ask students what is working um we we kind of have shared what our investments are and then ask what's working um what what are some things that we could do better and I've used

080that to build the budget and then we've asked similar questions with staff including our principles and um and then with the federal dollars because those um are they they come into our region we are setting goals at the regional level for our Perkins spending so it's me again and so for high school Success there are lots of priorities um one of them is restrooms and it's really about the restrooms just being more welcoming some of our restrooms particularly at Crescent Valley are pretty dated so as you mentioned um we received a request to do some murals on the Stalls in some bathrooms it was actually in the highest use bathroom areas um but we had already were already on a plan because of student feedback to refresh those restrooms with new partitions new lighting and

081new sinks that aren't the old style petal ones um so we met with the students and said hey we want to do some work on the main bathrooms in at Crescent Valley to refresh them and make them more welcoming and inviting we're also going to be refreshing the ones that are used by the public um near the gyms at CV and then the students will be um uh in this in the science and CTE is where those improvements will be made I just met with the students who submitted that um facility's modification request yesterday um we also heard that the clubs that we have at school are really important having alternative Pathways um including things like the construction program and the urban farm which are also funded through High School Success um access to Advanced

082courses which I mentioned before um we have both dual credit and a courses and all of our students get to take the AP exams without paying a fee so they can earn college credit before they graduate from high school access to relevant materials is something that does come up so one of the big Investments is just making is um in materials and making sure that the material students see and the equipment that they use um is up toate um intervention and support so we pay for a lot um with you know we're in a different model than Elementary and some of the activities that Amy has described but we have um classes that students are we we use data so I mentioned earlier that we have we are using Eis funds for um our data

083system so we use that data to then look at how students are doing and determine different interventions that might support them to find more success particularly in core um and especially in language arts and Mathematics and then CTE spaces are spaces we continue to improve last over the past bium I used High School Success funding to up dat our culinary space at Crescent Valley which used to look like um a 1950s like home at class it now looks like a nice brand new culinary space um over the past month we have been clearing out our health science CTE space we will be doing work um in that space and installing new flooring over the spring break and then we will be creating a health science lab and working in partnership with um Samaritan Health to

084have a plan so that our students really have um a learning experience similar to what they would have in a in a CNA or other um health science program and these all came from students so it's it's great work should got this one oh two I don't know I'll go here um so with uh our early lit money throughout the year I've engaged back on that Community engagement one of the um I have found most effective ways to get feedback is this called rounding and I'm sure you've heard a little bit about it but it's really having a dialogue with um one person or a group about what's working well with this what suggestions do you have um who's been helpful and and through those conversations and then through um the opportunities that we've provided

085for staff and um mostly with staff this has been the priorities that have come come uh continue with coaching and supporting of the implementation of our new reading curriculum because it's new at um Lincoln and Garfield and updated at our other schools um we have been doing some science of reading coursework and that coursework is intense it's multiple hours it's 40 hours of of time and outside of school and it's new a lot of is new and it's um we pay the teachers to participate in that and pay for their course that costs anywhere between $500,000 and people really liked that the next step that I'm hearing is they want to come back together regularly to to continue to learn and to to be in cohort with each other and then the other priority I

086hear about is continued access to intervention materials and then PD around those materials the priorities that emerg for siia are up there um the importance of our nursing staff for a lot of our folks in the buildings the nursing staff really takes that pressure off of them for complicated um health concerns they have for students our mtss Specialists it's our multi-tiered system of support Specialists they're in every elementary school they're looking at data they're doing assessments they're all getting trained up right now to do the osas testing for the state um but they also create intervention groups talk to every grade level about their um their reading data these are the meetings that we just talked about Emily joining so that she can learn more about how all the students are doing and what we

087can do in our after school program too our Behavior Deans you know are new in the last two years and you've heard reports about that that was a priority that we heard from our staff as um maintaining Behavior Deans um any special education support we can provide our mental health staff and extracurricular programs particularly not um clubs but also Athletics that don't cost any money for our students so when we um went back to this and and I think if you remember back to a whole other report I did earlier this year when I was reviewing the full last year of our um integrated guidance plan one of the things we were really excited about is to finally have um uh goals that we could align to that made sense for us so this year

088we were able to update our um application to include the for our outcomes these four board goals and for our key strategies the key strategies that you've already identified so we feel super in alignment right now with all of that and all three of us in the three areas that we're looking at have um are using these outcomes and strategies to direct our spending and investment So speaking of Investments yes um so from the listening sessions these are some of the Investments that um that we are going to continue with and add the restroom refresh being one of them so you can see a list there of ways that we invest in college level opportunities um I didn't talk I was actually surprised that nobody mentioned the Benton County College and Career Fair that we

089had on March 4th which was an amazing event for juniors and seniors across our region organized by our um two grad coaches who are also funded with high school Success um we have an adviser committee which is where we're doing a lot of our um pushing in a lot more of our College and Career learning as well and then a variety of dropout prevention I've been questioned on restroom refresh as a Dropout prevention but I have heard from students that some of them prefer to go home to use the bathroom um so if we have more welcoming restrooms then we can keep students at school and improve attendance and then you can see the others there that I've already listed and I've also talked about our CTE spaces one of our goals with our federal

090Perkins funding is uh retaining our CTE staff um there are a lot more limitations on those federal dollars than on the State dollars so one of the things that we are doing as a trial this year um and I think we would like to continue when we see what the funding is is machine maintenance typ ends a lot of our CTE spaces have a lot of Machinery that require um a lot of extra time on the part of our staff so one of the things we can do is compensate them for that extra time as a retention strategy all right so for early lit kind of taking off what we heard and what's working well the key the main areas we're spending money and we plan to spend money next year is um with staff

091maintain maintaining our coaching staff uh that are bilingual and also coaching staff part part of Emily comes through with this because as you could see she's she's quite knowledgeable and really helps us a lot um continue to pay for those science of reading courses I think Ryan did you already tell them I think we have like 70% of our K2 teachers have participated in the science of reading course evaluation yeah it's um it's it's super awesome and exciting that we can use this money to pay them and to pay the tuition for it and then um some money in there for materials continued access to those and with SIA R key Investments for Sia include our district nursing and nursing support staff so we're paying for all of our nurses and all of the um

092little extra hours we give here and there to um staff members who support us in health rooms it's coming from SIA our mtss specialist talked about them our mental health therapists are all funded out of siia we have a contract with Benton County to uh contract for two Health Navigators we pay for part of their half of their um contract and Benton County the other half and they're stationed at Garfield and Lincoln and LP so maybe it's three then um so P we pay half still yeah so we're paying our half out of Saia um all of our Equity coaches Equity tosas who are throughout the district the district Athletics fund which funds free Athletics for anybody any student Middle School through high school so we have added Middle School sports which is incredibly popular

093I heard the other day that there are 180 kids out for track at LP so it's it's popular and it's a way to retain students it's a way for them to feel connected to their school and to find a trusted adult because I think there's like 10 coaches out there so hopefully they can find a trusted adult out on the track um and then also to purchase culturally relevant curriculum so um this comes from the state what are they looking at to make sure that we're being successful in the use of our investments so you can see that we're measured in multiple different ways I think the ones that you're most um interested in are our longitudinal performance growth targets those lpgt are the things that you're tracking in number one your number one goal

094of an excellent learning experience third grade reading graduating in four years graduating in five years ninth grade on track and attendance we have a local optional metric that we've added and that is the completion of Algebra 1 which we talked about earlier so that is one of our our local optional metrics that we're also looking at and oh I just said all of these things so there you are so this is what's next um we're here hoping that we can get approval for our plan we'll submit it to OD um in April they will take that plan and they will review it and they will send it to a group of people to look at it as well that's the qalp then we will meet with OD to develop our LP GTs for next year

095and those longitudinal performance growth targets will be based on how well we did this past year so we sit with a real data analyst who has a really cool spreadsheet and she helps us to develop our targets for next year then they'll send out our grant Awards and we'll come back and tell you what it is that we're being measured on and what our our goals are and that kind of is the conclusion of this part of it I think the questions is next I want to head off one of the questions because if I don't say this first I'm going to forget I want to say that these um three giant buckets High School Success early literacy and Sia they come from the state and there's a lot of conversations sometimes about paying for

096early lit by carving out of the general fund or paying for something by carving out of Saia funds just like we talked about before that isn't helpful at at and these things are working these are wonderful Investments we're making our kids are feeling that success and if we allow the state to take that money from places that we're already spending like general fund that that's not helpful we would want to advocate for the maintenance of where these funds are coming from and that they're above and beyond that general fund allocation just wanted to get that in thanks you all such um amazing work happening um can we add like 10 minutes on and before we do questions um from the board I wanted to remind the student um Representatives that you are welcome to stay

097and if you need to leave it's like almost 8 so if you need to leave at 8 we understand if you have homework but if you want to stay that's okay too so I just wanted to remind you all that okay questions Bernie um when you submit your plan to the state uh do they administer the federal Monies to or the federal uh specific Source uh funding streams that would be your Perkins funding yeah only for Perkins and Perkins goes to um Dale Moon who's our regional Perkins coordinator at LBCC and then we are already like the all the district and building leads in the CTE world we meet with Dale every month to talk about our goals that we're going to set and what we think our key Investments are so we're still working

098on that Perkins plan um right now but that's really the only Federal stream in this uh list and I would just add all of the other federal funds that we receive are different applications so this is streamlined for this but we have three or four other title those require different applications in a process other questions Chris um first of all thank you I know that this is a lot of work and every line item I know is a lot of work and so um I know sometimes we get comments about you know cutting people from district office and I wish they could see all the work that you're doing um to help all our students and really make a difference and so I really appreciate that it's very I know how involved it all that

099work is and so thank you uh question how does Middle School um come into play with all of this High School Success for Middle School yeah um we can spend High School Success dollars just down to 8th grade so we have invested um in the past we have invested some funding into um like alternative Pathways and supporting students who may need you know may need additional support in order to be successful in high school so actually one of the Investments I didn't talk about that we do is a transitional math is funded um for students coming uh from 8th grade into nth grade um we have a math Camp that's a couple of weeks long in August to help students find success in algebra um the other place I think where you know where Middle

100School does show up is in Sia Investments High School Success can only go down to the e8th grade and so in those places in the rubric where it shows shows up it's like how do you support students with transition that's where parts of my position and Kim's position where you know we're collaborating to figure out what we can do to to meet um the success criteria that are outlined in the rubric there's not a measurement for Middle School except our local option local optional metric which is uh students having algebra by 9th grade that is fully supported by the middle school we couldn't do that unless the middle school was doing the work that they were doing but a lot of these Investments especially my siia investments go right into middle school as well guess

101and initially when we added some stem classes at the at eth grade those were in high school Success as well which allowed us to to add those positions in time I'd love that you went out to schools and talk to kids and ask them I mean that's right what the core of everything should be around is what our kids want and so I guess I would love to hear if we could get to our Middle School kids and ask them as well especially when I hear things like the results are our safe clubs and our pride clubs I mean do we have those in all our Middle School all of our middle our Middle School K8 yeah I would also add that the the youth truth group that got together last week I'm losing track

102of time Ryan but it was last week um we had middle and high school students I did a followup today with one of the high school students from Crescent Valley that was there and the first convening was kind of like learning about you youth truth but what the student shared with me uh today is how excited they are to actually see the data and then give the adults feedback on the activities that we invest in like H that's a dumb idea or yeah this is what you actually should be doing if you want to move the dial and also help us to prioritize while we have these goals that are lined out here there are a lot of things that emerge from our youth truth data that I think really matter to students and those

103might be different than the things that matter to adults and I think that's going to be important place for both our high school and middle school students to have voice on the activities that we do to try and improve our schools thanks I have one more question sorry um how about College Hill like when you're doing all this and how does that how is some of the work that that's happening involve College Hill students well Eileen was also at that event um I mean I did talk about for high school Success both Urban Farm Staffing and construction Staffing as well as equipment that we've been able to purchase for um the construction program in particular has all been funded through High School Success because our students and our principles both believe in the the value

104of alternative Pathways uh Perkins for construction as well and then Urban Farm got a I think it was a USDA Grant I can't remember who the grant awarde was last year and so um they've been spending that this year to improve uh the urban farm program as well other questions Sammy thank you for asking and answering the first question I was planning for I want to say thank you for this table I believe the object codes that maps to every activity and maps to uh for every activity is also mapping to what kind of Revenue source is is something really helpful for us to have this shared accountability uh communication with the community when time comes and the budget uh documents is there I can actually map both here yeah so thank you we're we're

105practicing accountability and transparency here I have a confusion though the five metrics that you had on the slide the last one ended with a local metric and there's four mandated metrics yeah those are the metrics I'm hearing currently and the marble building in Salem saying this this is what we want to measure you on Visa the general fund the state general fund I'm confused if that is the case and I want to give uh the bill uh benefits of the doubt and probably we can contribute with amendments but if that is true they're saying we want to hold accountability on those metrics and if you underperform within few years we're going to coach then we're going to intervene I think that coaching is already happening within the boundaries of those grants but if they're going

106to measure the same thing for the general fund do we have a systemic issue here it feels like it doesn't it we we're already being um we're being held accountable to those standards for all of the funds that we're we're talking about today so I and we're held accountable to those standards for this board and Ryan's held accountable to those standards when he sits in front of you for his evaluation I so I I guess that you could say there's a systemic problem maybe it's um that's a difficult question to answer Samy yeah so how can I frame it what Fe what feedback would you have regarding here's what you should actually try to consider measuring with the general fund since we're already doing this work for the siia and other grants it feels like

107we're being double measured yes yes yes well is that all we had to answer the other thing I oh go ahead I think that um we one of the other pieces that we're really advocating for is that in this um conversation around accountability we're also talking about um narrowing down the number of reports that districts are submitting um because it is easy to get confused between this um while this is a consolidation there's still significant reporting requirements that we all have to to do and so if this is going to be the thing that Salem's going to focus on for more than one bium um and they're going to look at it in ways that um account for high stakes testing um but require everybody to take it um and then we put together a

108plan like this is and then this department comes in to support that I think that's all well and good but in order to get there we need to have a seat at the table um as Leaders to be able to talk about what accountability really looks like in Oregon thank thank you just just a comment Nikki I'm absolutely in love with the fact that you sused out the bathroom issue and I just want to say that goes to Equitable systems and absenteeism um which are two big things that we're focusing on so I saw that I was like yes that's amazing thank you the other thing I was going to add just around accountability related to that question one of the funds we didn't well one of the funds we didn't talk about because I

109don't really think it's a fund is the federal school Improvement for comprehensive targeted supports so both of our high schools are on targeted um supports um which is just more reporting on how we're spending money to uh to um to support focal groups so at one school um we you know we have the results aren't as good in testing um State testing for our Ells at CHS and our students with disabilities at Crescent Valley and and so we're on this targeted support which just means more reporting not more money not more money so I do I do want to say like based on what I think I heard you say was like oh we they'll identify schools that need more support and they'll be funding to go with it that is not what we're currently

110experiencing when we have a group that um you know is performing at a lower rate than their their peers we're just being yeah being told to do do some more reporting um we are what's I mean what is good is that the funding we're spending is built in to improve the outcomes for those focal groups does theres have any questions um I had one question about the um the algebra one so I was wondering if I I think I followed it but I wondering if you could um connect for me and maybe for anyone else who who um wants to understand it a little bit better I know that the benef I know there's a benefit to our kids getting Algebra 1 in in 8th grade what I'm not sure about is um how do

111we think that that is contributing to completion rates or better graduation rates or better outcomes in high school we talk about that being pivotal to reaching that ninth grade algebra Benchmark my question is really about this is that kids need two years of math is that right they need three years of math um algebra one and above algebra okay so does so that e8th grade algebra class is counting toward that even though they're taking it in eth grade no no we don't start to transcribe credit until they're in the ninth grade except when there's unusual circumstances okay like what would be an unusual circumstance where we would not do that uh one that came to me yesterday is a student that's completed through pretty highlevel math at Oregon State University and is just entering the

1129th grade so we will transcribe their three credits from Oregon State um before they enter the 9th grade that would be one example another example would be um we had a I've we sometimes have a student um who does algebra 1 in the 8th grade and then takes geometry in the ninth grade algebra 2 in the 10th grade that would give them two credits in their nth and 10th grade year and then they um struggle and have strugg in the math classes Beyond Algebra 2 and so we've gone back and transcribed the algebra 1 Credit when needed that really was my question I was curious about um for kids for whom that momentum toward math might stall at Algebra 2 are they disadvantaged if they take Algebra 1 in 8th grade where it's not counting

113toward those three years of math um but you answered that and so that's really what I wanted to better understand so thank you thank you okay I had a couple questions too um I had a question about the algebra optional um piece because it feels like a lot of people feel like that is required as a metrics and that's one that we're trying to that we have established here is that what you're saying right it's not um one of the five required measures from the state we've added it as a local optional metric because we want to track that based on all of what we've just talked about with yeah that makes sense I just wanted to re ask that for fol because I think that one's looked at sometimes as like tied to our

114state funding yeah okay and then um there was a number that I thought was really amazing in the summary I indel didn't put any numbers on the thing and I was like where's my Sor it's all where's my data just kidding because well not everybody's gonna probably knows where to look and stuff like that and so I hope that people will look at that packet cuz some of these numbers are really amazing so I just wanted to point out the um third grade reading one yeah and um going from 38% in 2223 to 51% right in 23 24 that's a huge increase and so I had a question about what do you think contributed to that um what do you think it had to do with like coming out of the pandemic learning pieces or

115do you think there's some of these other pieces too I would say yes and yes I think we're in a we're starting to see a phase out of the pandemic where kids that missed so many key things in first grade um and prek and K are were kind of coming out of that and we also did a pretty heavy push on on reading and um and using our curriculum and doing you know before we even had the money there was a little bit of that so I'm it was above our our Target so it was exciting to it was very exciting it was very depressing to set that goal for 39% it hurt all of our hearts um and so when that came back at 51 now we'll get to re redo that goal that

116lpgt when we meet with the state that's great yeah and um I think for when Community sees 51% like this is horrible it's important to look at what it was the year before that's a huge jump and I think that's really significant and even with the math even though that's a local um one for it to go up by 3% and year it shows that whatever you all are doing with the um with this plan is working and I'm looking forward to seeing those continue to go up same with attendance went up like 10% yeah that's a lot from 60 to 70 and so those are like when people see the numbers sometimes they don't see the number before it and so I wanted to point that out and encourage people to check that report

117out my other question was with all this a awesome work um is it only the so the CTE would be impact Ed without Federal funding is that it I because it feels like there would be more yeah it does feel like there would be more um I mean of course our I think our we've talked about declining enrollment so when I think about high school Success and all the wonderful things we're able to do in CSD with that funding I worry about the impact of declining enrollment on that particular budget that comes to us that's that's State money but um I have not heard anything yet about Perkins or changes to Perkins and we're still moving on like moving forward with with planning for that Grant like it's coming our way I worry about that

118Domino that we've talked about when federal funds are ended and then we still have kids to feed and we still have Title One students who need um you know Equitable systems that we're going to have to dip into General funds and what that also means for us and for some of our funding is that we can um we can tear that spending and say this is what we want to do what we showed you up there but if we don't get the title one funding we need then we might be using early lit and Sia to kind of cover that a little bit which means we get less creative with what we're doing um so that's and special education too so that's what I I would kind of worry about prek and prek as well

119Head Start which is kids not coming in as prepared if that disappears so we're watching it closely yeah um and also with the title title two it doesn't look like it's going to be funded at the rate that it has been which means that we're going to lose um um we do all of our math uh PD and um all of our the great work you're seeing with math here has everything to do with that so that's a concern as well so we have to start we would have to rep prioritize that's why I was asking that about what the impacts of losing Federal funding could be um and I would hate to think that it actually will be gone but it is something very significant I think that people should be thinking about in

120the community as we hope that we were able to continue to do the some work you are doing um and stuff like that and I know that everybody will continue to do good work right it's going to be just really harder yeah Ryan you had something it looks like you unmuted yeah I had a question from Chris the other day about summer meals and so um I asked Kathy to give numbers from last year so last summer and this again through federal dollars we had um serve over 6,800 meals um or 6,800 breakfasts 23,000 um lunches and close to 4,000 suppers across 11 sites so those funds um are really important for our kids yeah goe and just for for our community to hear when we are out there feeding kids during the summer we're

121also we have eyes on kids right and so we see what's going on with our families during that time when they're not in school where you know teachers and staff don't have H handson and and have kids in their sight and go know what's going on in their situations so not being able to feed them in the summer is more than just not feeding them which is huge so worry about that thanks Chris um and thanks for answering that question and I know it's a tough one to answer right now with not knowing for sure but um yeah okay no further discussion we went way over I usually don't go way over we're ahead we're we're actually on the time we were supposed to start this one so we're good um does anyone wish to

122make a motion I'll make a motion good Chris I move to approve the corval school district's integrated guidance application for submission to OD second okay it's been moved by Chris and seconded by Bernie is there any further discussion okay it has been moved by Chris and second by Bernie to approve the corval school district integrated guidance application for submission to OD and um Judah I Sammy I Chris I um Bernie I and theres I and I vote I motion passes thank you all so much for all your work on this and hopefully we hear good news on that okay we're going to take a five minute break before we go to the next ones e e e okay um the next item on the agenda is the superintendent 20242 evaluation and I'm going to go

123ahead and read that right now uh the corval School District Board of Directors evaluation of superintendent Ryan NOS 2024 to 2025 Dr Ryan NS is completing his ninth year as superintendent of the corval school district this past year has presented challenges as well as opportunities to share our district strengths Ryan and his team have continued to show they are committed to helping students move towards graduation and prepare for Life After K12 despite increasing state budget reductions and damaging National rhetoric about public education data shared offered a lens to see areas of strength and areas of growth both are important to keep in mind as the needs of our students in our district continue to evolve over time this is the first time that superintendent NOS has been evaluated using the new board goals this evaluation

124has been compiled in a way that synthesizes key items shared by board members the areas evaluated are the 2023 to 2024 priorities which is goal one excellent learning experience goal two Equitable systems goal three relevant and engaging learning goal four healthy communities okay bear with me as I read because I'm not the best at reading out loud so um the executive summary says uh there were areas of growth identified by board members which were also highlighted by Dr NS in his report board members pointed out ways in which they see the district moving towards addressing those needs despite bu budgetary declines academic Excellence remains a priority for Ryan which is reflected in the growth of students trending in the right direction following the pandemic years programs and initiatives that have been prioritized and are evidenced

125by the algebra one completion rate increase and the reading score increases in Spanish it was noted that there is work to do to address serious gaps in learning outcomes particularly noted for students with disabilities which were also reflected in Ryan's report while overall rates are increasing there is room for growth to help support this upward Trend continuing to increase the board is confident in Ryan's dedication and collaborative approach in addressing those needs in the future particularly as it pertains to reading sociopolitical tensions coupled with the economic and housing crisis crisises uh continue to impact students in our district as a leader Ryan demonstrates strong dedication to ensuring Equity is embedded across all areas of the school district for students staff and families even still youth Tru data reflects something continues to be missing most notably

126with black students participation in the black Student Success Grant offers promise in identifying and addressing these issues the participation in the federal Indian education grant models the positive impact of these tailored Pro programmatic initiatives reflected in the significant increase in positive data on American Indian Alaska native students in the youth truth data the board noted that Ryan continues to seek ways to support students students of all identities and look forward to seeing the district remain committed to these efforts particularly the board is interested in seeing how cross analysis of data can help identify Gap areas in order to address them corval School District excels in providing ways for students to engage in trades and pre-apprentice programs the board finds Ryan's commitment to CTE as commendable which is exemplified by the 99% graduation rate for our

127CTE concentrators exposure to a wide range of opportun of opportunities helps prepare students for post-graduation Pathways and ways that make sense for them the board looks forward to seeing increased Partnerships with the community to support the continued growth of CTE as a leader Ryan has demonstrated a strong commitment to ensuring students have support holistically to the degree possible related to their academic learning as well as mental health support and physical nutritional support he has also continued to show dedication to listening to and learning from staff related to their well-being needs to better ensure that they that they are and feel supported in their critical roles the investment in mental health support is noted as a strong area for CSD Additionally the board noted that there are areas of concern remaining related to student mental health

128and that the that supportive and responsive learning environments are key to helping help address this in combination with the existing mental health supports in place continuing to strengthen Partnerships with Community organizations will help ensure students receive comprehensive support both inside and outside the classroom Dr Ryan NS is described as a strong leader ethical student centered responsive and inclusive the board notes that Ryan has a commitment to transparency Fosters a culture of collaboration and accountability and thinks out thinks out of the box for creating systems that support high level teachers and support staff under Ryan's leadership each of the updated board and District goals are well supported with concrete examples provided of how the district continues to work toward expand expanding and enhancing these areas for the well-being of students their families and staff he upholds

129the highest ethical [Music] standards prioritizing Equity Student Success and Community Trust his recognition as Oregon superintendent of the year is a testament to his dedication and the respect he has earned from both peers and the broader education Community the board has confidence in his leadership for the next year as we embark on many critical decisions where the community is trusting us to make the best decisions with available resources for the betterment of every Corvalis child budget decreases enrollment downward Trends and continued push backs on public education supporting students holistically are all a lot on their own facing all at the same time takes someone who is Forward Thinking and willing to work collectively with the board staff and families corval school district is fortunate to have Dr Ryan NS as superintendent not just because he

130was superintendent of the year but because of his strong and compassionate leadership okay that was a lot to read thank you for bearing with me everybody and well and thank you for that um that evaluation um really it comes down to the board and superintendent team and we have a solid team and that makes a huge difference in my leadership so thank you to to all of you too thanks um okay with that um our next item is Consolidated action as a reminder the items under this portion of the agenda are for Action does anyone have a question about anything in Consolidated action I have a comment comment for one of the items and I don't know when is appropriate time for me to make that comment pull it now which one um sge director

131which number is that on here it's under executive team contracts which one SG I don't know 13 oh executive team one in there okay sorry um I was looking for the exact wording thanks you all yes okay so ex we'll take item 13c executive team contracts anything else anybody has a question about okay it's not really a question I just want to say I'm so excited that Byron um is is being hired in that role um for a couple things one is he was my principal when I worked at Adams and he was one of the best principles I ever worked for second I love that we've hired wh from within I think our district stopped doing that many years ago and then we're doing that again and I think it just brings people with

132more passion and and um just um somebody that really has a lot of love for our district and has done some really great work and so I just want to congratulate but also just really appreciate that Byron's been put in that position because I know he's going to do a great job and and um really affect and help a lot of students so that's it agreed yes Al righty um anything else on that one from anybody okay does anyone wish to make a motion chair I would like to make a motion and then brief discuss uh brief uh uh comment during the motion uh I move to approve Consolidated action as presented seconded okay it's been moved by Sammy and seconded by Judah go ahead Sammy I just want thank uh Melissa and the board

133uh for us engaging in some really what some folks will call nuanced conversations around policy but to my understanding they were very very critical for us to understand what the policies mean and how some simple Awards may have a huge impact and uh many of the suggestions that we had over the course couple months or more uh have produced uh those uh actions that we are solidifying here so really to the point of that culture of cooperation and and doing our role as policy uh approval approvers uh I just want to thank this board and staff for engaging in some really really good conversations that's led into those Mo those discussions and and the policies that we're voting on thanks Sammy any other discussion TR have anything on there okay no looks good to me

134okay has been moved by Sammy and second in by Judith to adopt the Consolidated action items as submitted um Judah I Sammy I Chris I Bernie I theres I and I vote I motion passes the next item on the agenda is Consolidated information as a reminder the items under this portion of the agenda are for discussion would anyone like to discuss an item and Consolidated information okay the next item on the agenda is board member comments does anyone have any comments good Juda sami's discussion M me want to thank Melissa because you've had two huge presentations for this meeting and a pile of policy and so you've been very busy so thank you thank you so much I know a ton of work went into that she likes policy I do that's good that most

135likes policy any other board member comments okay I just want to say one thing before we leave is that um I know it sounds like we've been chatting a lot about like legislative work and like a lot of things federally and at the state level um and I want the community to know know that we're not just saying that it's because we really care about it and that's why we're advocating for you all and listen to your needs and take them with us um into those conversations so I just wanted to make sure folk knew why we were we comment a lot about that and report on it um and we truly care about doing what we can to make sure your voices are heard too um in the needs of our community here in

136Corvalis so I just wanted to say that that way people knew because I know we we did spend a lot of time on it this even evening um and with that being said the meeting is adjourned at 8:36 p.m. thank you have a good night e