2024 Nov 18 Regular Meeting of the TTSD School Board

001good evening everyone and welcome to this regular meeting of the tiger twon school board I will call this meeting to order at 6:31 p.m. and just to let everybody know we did meet earlier this evening in a work session to discuss school sip plans and we're going to hear a little bit more from board members about that later um with that are there any changes to the agenda there are no changes to the agenda all right hearing that I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented I move that we approve the agenda as presented second motion was made by Vice chair Himes and seconded by director miles is there any discussion on the motion I had a question about the um various communicable disease policies because it looks like we have a

002first read for a few different um policies and then there's one that's in the consent agenda that's it says it's an AR but when you look at it it looks like a policy is it an AR yeah so look to me is it okay thanks okay I'll double check um all right so we have a motion in a second is there any further discussion on the motion hearing none we'll move to a coral vote all those in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries and with that we will move to recognition and good news with director who's doing recognition director kin no you guys okay I know Lisa isn't here so then I wasn't sure there we go I'll try again good evening members of the board and cabinet thank you so

003much for having us here tonight my name is Alison Heath I'm an instructional support tosa supporting the areas of social science Health tag and tribal history shared history and with me tonight I have my name is Bryce Bennett I teach sixth grade at twality and uh I also help out with tribal history and I am a member of the scallum tribe in The fuget Sound area in Washington next slide please so we're going to start off with some fun today and we're going to have a little homework assignment for you um we have the nine confederated tribes of Oregon on this map and so we're going to hand out these maps and we're going to see how many of the tribes on the right hand side that you can match with their location on the

004map we have about two minutes to do this [Music] so as you're going it's okay to talk to people around you too see what they know and uh see what they're having as well and if you're at home you can check out the map too try to try to guess what you have and put on what you know yeah okay we got about 30 more seconds left about 10 more seconds little task all right we did thank you so much for for working with us on this and next slide please if you could just take a look at the tribes and N tribes and go ahead and check your answers okay we're g to we're going to see how many of that uh everyone got if you got one or more raise your hand please

005thank you all right if you got four or more raise your hand nice if you got six or more raise your hand eight or more if you got all nine raise your hand nice oh my goodness thank you um so this is just something that we do within our training as well um it is in a a slide in our fourth grade lesson next slide please and these fourth grade lessons can talk about the geographical regions and also talk about the uh the history of oron when it comes to Native Americans and it being time and Memorial and just the fact that Native Americans have been around Oregon in all regions for a very long time um and so uh we just wanted you to participate in one of the lessons that we had a

006little slice of um what we have created and next slide please so what is tribal history tribal history is a uh it's an agreement between state of Oregon and the nine federally recognized tribes um to give information about the rich cultures of tribes in Oregon and they've done it because many times tribes have been misrepresented in um in regular social studies classrooms where the rich cultures aren't seen and the contributions of Native Americans people today and in the past haven't been um seen and uh and and shown so next slide please okay so our um tribal history shared history lessons if you can see on the screen are divided into five different content areas they reach from Ela Through Math Science social science and health and they're designed to be implemented at the fourth 8th

007and 10th grade level and these are the lessons that our students in ttsd are getting this year next slide please so I'm putting this slide back this is a slide we presented almost exactly a year ago when we were last here for the good news portion of a board meeting this shows the implementation here in ttsd of our tribal history shared history going all the way back to the beginning in 2014 when OD adopted the Native American Alaskan native state plan through the 2017 passing of Senate Bill 13 um which is what we call now tribal history shared history through the creation of the lessons by the nine confederated tribes of Oregon and all the way up until we started ruling that out here way back in 2020 with our biggest push of training being

008in 2022 when we had over 150 teachers trained at those levels and now we're in a cycle of upkeep where we train new teachers as they move into the grade levels um and next slide please here's what we've noticed so I teach sixth grade and since we did the big push in 2022 to uh implement it fully and get everyone trained uh this is my first group of having sixth graders that have been that have had the lessons and so something I showed you last year in that 2023 section was um when when I asked what students knew about Native Americans they would almost verbatim use the the uh past tense in their verbs and this was the first year where I've asked this question where I have seen present tense and it was just

009really good to see that that change was happening and also the the bottom one wasn't necessarily in 2024 wasn't necessarily present tense but it was also something that I was like oh my goodness uh you know maybe what what we're doing is is doing a lot of good for our kids and they're getting a lot of information from it and changing their perspective and their mindset next slide please okay I want to share with you a little bit about what we've been doing this past 12 months since we were last invited to share about tribal history shared history um last January the 24th we LED another PD session for teachers at the fourth and eth grade level we had a guest speaker cheyan height who is the curriculum specialist for from the confederated tribes of

010the grand Ron as our guest speaker she's am amazing gives an oral history of her tribe um then we focused on our nine essential understandings of Native Americans and organ and the critical orientations of indigenous studies we rolled out the OD tribal history history shared history lessons and then we talked about the instructional resources that we as ctsd has developed to wrap around those lessons and we had really good feedback from our teachers about effective um um providing historical context and background knowledge for the teachers as part of the training so they understand the why of tribal history shared history and also that we were able to provide materials and resources to help teachers actually teach the lessons in their classrooms next slide please and we were able to collect teacher voice so this is

011um information that we got from the current reality curriculum survey that was given to all elementary teachers just a month and a half ago the prompt was please share more information about your experience using ttd's tribal history shared history curriculum and we had some really positive responses I'll let you read them I don't want to brag one response that did help us um inform our path moving forward was the the response that said um much of the material is too difficult a reading level to be accessible making this a hard to teach without a large amount of work on the part of teachers to make it workable this is something that um teachers across the state have noticed about the tribal history shared history especially the fourth grade lessons so you'll see that we have

012some ideas on how to remedy that next slide please our ongoing implementation goals are these we hope to in the very near future offer another new to teaching tribal history shared history PD that will be January 15th and we have funds to train up to 70 teachers we're still working on the invite list but we have a substantial investment from the teaching and learning Department to make that possible by subbing out our teachers for half days we're also having t vaa and Creek Side Community join us in those trainings which is really exciting we're planning on um developing additional resources I know we have seven out of the 13 Elementary slide Texs translated into Spanish we want to uh translate the rest the last five and then we want to work on adjusting the Lexile

013level of the text for elementary and we've had some practice using AI for that purpose and it actually works really well and then we were dreaming big and hoping that maybe we would be able to get funding to create slide decks to support the Middle School tribal history shared history lessons as well because we've had such good feedback for the elementary slide Decks that we've created in house and finally we really love our support from our administrators and we need that support to continue in the oversight of the curriculum implementation throughout our schools and offering opportunities for teachers to check in and get support from their training team and from our instructional coaches next slide please okay so that is an update from tribal history shared history thank you so much for inviting us any

014questions questions or comments yeah hi there um I talked to I talked after you guys last year about Native American Heritage Month um and last year sort of brought up high school and how that's being implemented I love what you're doing with like Elementary in middle school and how that's going but also what are your plans for high school so our high school teachers are going to be invited in all the trainings that we've had um we don't have at this moment specific plans for creating slide decks I know our high school teachers are very um more independent in their curriculum development um but that's something that we could consider in terms of just building out the resources to make that across the district teachers have what they need to make these lessons come to

015life always open for other um ideas from people so we would love to hear if you have ideas to help that so just to tag on to that because that was one of my questions was so currently what high school is using are the sort of on if you go to the sp13 page kind of the resources that are there they're just not currently unless oneoff teacher are using their own resources or materials yeah that they're kind of the standardized ones at least from okay yeah perfect okay thank you very much thank you this is wonderful um oh sorry I just wanted to say thank you um it's really important work and I feel like it's obviously been a long time coming but it's never too late to do good work so thank you thank

016you thank you so much all right with that we will move into student rep reports uh okay okay at toon um last week we had a special schedule to adver advertise the theaters production of Alice byart uh to students during the third period classes uh they put on three shows last weekend and this week they have two more one on Thursday and two on Saturday uh then they have a quick turnaround before they uh start preparing for their winter production The Crucible uh also a quick turn around for sports as fall sports are officially ended for twon and um today's the first day of winter sports then this Friday we will be debuting win time which stands for what I need at twon it's an adjustment to what we had earlier which is flexx time

017uh it's a more convenient uh built-in time for students to retake a test get extra help uh just get caught up on assignments um clubs also can meet during this time so it'll be interesting to see how it goes okay and then to add on to what Jamie was talking about with when time um what it was what when it was implemented um previously it was implemented um after third period um but now this Friday they're starting to do it um at the beginning of school so it'll be from 9 to 9:40 which pushes classes uh a little bit later in the day um to accommodate for that change um today also was the debut of beta FAFSA so a bunch of seniors are working on that and over this past weekend cross country the

018boys and girls team went to well okay not over this weekend they went to state but they went to State um a week ago and then they went to Nike Northwest regionals in Idaho this past weekend um and I know it was a lot of fun it was a overnight stay in Idaho so I'm sure that was a great experience and then um recently ASB has started new kind of like event SL activity where we hid um a bunch of like tiny stuffed animal wolves um all over campus and students who find these little wolves that are hidden across campus basically have to like take a selfie with them and we have like a little Google form that you just fill out and upload your selfie with the wolf um and then you can be

019entered into a raffle for like a gift card or um something of this sort so for Target high school tomorrow we have our fourth Affinity leader Round Table uh that's at 9: this is our fourth session of the year um and then on Friday for Grand's leadership we have a conference that's at Leo High School uh me and Evelyn will be presenting about Community engagement regarding Sports unfortunately our T High School varsity football team lost against North Medford 8-15 in the playoffs which unfortunately means the end of the season however this upcoming Wednesday for one of the clubs I help uh co-president for work to be well we are doing a slime workshop for the whole school so is going to be so exciting there's going to be glitter there's going to be food ders

020it's just going to be a sticky mess and I'm super super excited to see how it [Music] goes um so I'm going to talk about mea so our meta seniors including myself oh actually not myself um because I'll be going to the leadership um conference but we'll be going to lynfield this Friday um to there we're having like a scholarship pathway conference it's to help Latino students with Scholarships in college and again it's going to be in lynfield in our Portland um campus and for theater last Thursday was opening night had we had some kids running away because they were scared of the zombies which was very interesting to see from the behind but yeah but overall was very successful uh we still have three more shows um our play is called Night of the

021Living Dead it's begins at 7 o'clock on the 21st which is our Thursday and our Friday the 22nd and then it starts at 2:00 on our Saturday which is the 23rd theer will also be having a princess and te on December 14th between 12 to 3 so that just means it's where um the community comes and brings their children around and then either we'll have Peter or people from theater dress up as like Snow White or any anyone like that and it's very fun so I definitely recommend coming you don't have to be a kid you can You' come if you wanted to um it's $5 per kid plus a chapon and then $2 for an additional shop and then there'll be snacks games and then princesses and princesses so yeah that's all for me

022you okay for tolon Tiger tolton Virtual Academy we have our started oh my God start of the second quarter was last week so it is a fresh late now for everybody and to start off for second quarter which I need myself uh senior graduation orders are due today for their caping gowns so they'll be nice and ready by June of course and that'll be it for us great reports from all you guys this week that was awesome thank you so much for all of that um all right we will move on to superintendent communication thank you very much um first off I just want to say thank you to Alison e and Mr Bennett for the really great presentation you gave on tribal history shared history for several years I grew up in the syst

023syst going to Oregan schools and for several years it felt like we always um made these declarations about how important tribal history and shared history was but we never really saw that reflected in our curriculum so um I think it's really encouraging to see how far we've come in a short amount of time um one question I didn't get to ask which I'll take offline is how we are um incorporating input from our local tribes and tribal councils I think that um of course it's always great when we can have a collaboration with our local tribes and that gives um I guess more more legitimacy to some of the curriculum that we're doing so again uh overall I was just really pleased with um how much you've done and I really learned a lot too

024because I'm still I can still claim the new card so I'm still learning about the curriculum that we do here at dtst so thank you very much good job um other things in my update today I wanted to say um we'll just first off recognize that we were able to pass a local option Levy and that's a really big win and want to say thank you to the voters for saying yes to schools 71% of um our voters were really invested in our students and we're grateful for that and I also wanted to give a huge shout out to um Karen hugard and Karen Emerson for all the work you done out front and behind the scenes you're just so instrumental in in getting the word out and um this is a tremendous win for

025our district so thank you very much and on that note I want to talk a little bit about where we're going with our bond so last week the long range facilities planning committee met to reconvene planning for the bond this spring um later this evening you'll hear from director palosi with he'll provide more detailed updates on on where we landed with that um long-term facility with the the meeting we had with the long-term facilities Planning Group um I will use this moment though to encourage the community to make sure that you're staying tuned into these conversations the more that you're tuned in the more that you're informed the more that you're active the more that you can make a informed decision in the spring and um I really just see it as a uh a

026way for us to get feedback from you all as well so we'll have more details about what community engagement events we have but there's more to come on that today as well um I want to talk a little bit about um bargaining and negotiations so tomorrow we're going to reconvene for our second dayong bargaining session with our licensed Association tte um things are moving a little bit slower than we hoped for our licensed uh contract negotiations but it isn't for a lack of effort or a lack of collaboration um from both sides uh sometimes these processes have a tendency to go kind of slow and the before you know what something happens and they start speeding up and so um while things are slow we shouldn't be discouraged and there's something that I I did

027want to point out as well that um one thing that we've been able to make a lot of progress on is uh some of the conditions or some of the things in the budget that are related to that aren't related to finances right so finances as War we're kind of moving a little bit slower right now but there's other things um that are really important to our license staff outside of finances things around um other forms of compensation uh teacher voice especially in the form of committees uh areas related to working conditions and I think that we have a lot of Articles where we're really close on those things and I think that's a story that's worthy of telling in the public and worthy of celebrating as well because too often um we see with

028neighboring districts sometimes the contention or the negative element is what gets what gets highlighted and don't get me wrong we wish we were further along but there's other areas where I think we are really demonstrating um how to work collaboratively and so it makes us hopeful for for what there is um for what's to come tomorrow also um I did think about this article that uh director zerm sent to me it was uh I think she sent it to all of us it was about um things that are important to our instructional staff and while u and sometimes sometimes why instructional staff leave the profession and every now and then it's for compensation but oftentimes it's not it's for it's for other areas um related to again working conditions related to how much support they

029have related to how much they feel valued and those are the areas that we do have um a lot of control over even if we don't have control over all the uncertainty ities that are um there with our finances so those are some things that I want to just say out loud because those are things that we're going to continue to be committed to getting right for our licensed staff so I just want to say that um in the public um so again we're going to meet tomorrow and hopefully we'll make some make some good progress and then I wanted to end my comments today on a bright note Thor can you help me out there you go so I always uh when I get an opportunity like to show off some great things that

030we're doing doing for students and um most recently we got an email from Chris Luellen who coordinates our interc comio mentoring program and also does a lot of work around career in college readiness and you wrote us to inform us that ttsd was the recipient of a sec secondary career pathway Grant from OD and in total ttsd was awarded about $100,000 that can be spent on improving our CTE programs 20 out of our 22 programs did receive fund and examples of the programs that we have are related to um architecture and general construction marketing early childhood education Digital Arts Health Science Compu computer programming is so much more but this is an example of how our state funding funding is integrated with College and Career programming so that our students are industry ready uh when

031they leave our school in a variety of fields and it's also an example of the types of programming that we're providing that differentiates um the needs of our our different Learners um and so these programs are a reason why a lot of our students continue to come to school every day um we're doing a lot of work to tackle attendance but uh having engaging programming where we're showing an investment for students they see the relevance um the moment that they leave school is one of the big wins that we can have for kids and so just want to celebrate that and then um next week we will our next not next week but next board meeting we'll talk a little bit more about the siia which again um is really tied into this career in

032college college readiness work we do in CTE so that's all I have for today wonderful thank you so much all right board Communications any first sure Vice chair um not much to say other than I went to the play that Nathan is in and um he normally I would say that you know my son carried the production but this time around uh it was Nathan because I don't know if you guys have ever seen um a zombie but like he was like the embodiment of a zombie like it I was I was one of those kids that was freaked out and ran out the ran out the door so uh that's just that's all I wanted to say he he's doing an amazing job as a zombie about about other things I don't know but

033as a zombie yes all right anybody I just want to piggyback on what our superintendent said regarding that article I actually didn't send it to the rest of the board oops um but that's because I got it in my spoiler alert I got it in my nsba osba clipping service so I assume you guys all got it too um but if any of you didn't get it let me know and I can for it on to you but I didn't want to break public meeting by sending it to all of my fellow board members when I knew you already had it um I did want to talk about the osba conference that was two weekends ago now um there were some really amazing sessions there and even as a an experienced board member I find

034every year that I go I still learn stuff there um great new information as well as um real affirmation that ttsd is doing things right I to a the keynote speaker spoke about using Ai and teaching kids about AI not so that they could just use it but also so that they could learn about its limitations um just like with any technical tool and I was really struck because I was listening to him that our own technology department has been doing this um already and we're once again TSD is ahead of the curve and that made me feel really good I went to a session on uh students civil rights where um the the folks from OD were there and were saying now how many of you have this on your web on your front

035web page and very few board members in the room were able to raise their hand and I was like we do that so again it was just it was really nice to see that there are so many places in which ttsd really is a leader in this state um I did want to mention that um one of the Hot Topics that I attended was on uh new policy that osba is putting together on cell phone polic uh cell phone use in schools and so I'm pretty sure that will be coming to our policy committee and then coming forward to the board in the next month or two and that's my report director Weston director may go ahead um I just want to thank the community for really showing up for public education um our community

036really shows up again and again um and gives input and participates and really upholds the work we're doing um I also want to thank um the people working in our schools who um really want to lean in and continuously improve and share their voices and keep making our our system better um and I also want to just appreciate all the um workers and students and staff and everyone that shows up every day um our communities uh doing the good work as we've heard about from some of our other updates and people are just continuing to show up day in and day out and um and be together as a community and and put that time in so thank you Dr mes just one quick thing speaking of all the um theater stuff I did go

037to the um the the twon high school play Alice by heart that was fantastic we have an amazing drama program here at our high schools and um uh yeah not not a dry eye in the house at one point I think and just fantastic Talent by our students so thank you and I will just close it's like I've said before it's lovely going last because I had a list Levy gratitude check osba conference check um which I will just add to that that it was really wonderful part of the conference is um getting together with your region and really going over legislative priorities and so um which has been interesting and so I've been working with a smaller just a few of us in Washington County and kind of looking at um what is really

038critical um not just to our region but overall especially with a lot of considerations and things up in the air right now and so it was really um that's always a really good time to um be able to come together and really have all of us whether your Banks or your ttsd all the different sizes um of districts and really look at what is really meaningful and what really matters um across the board and um sometimes those conversations are tricky and complicated and um but I think a lot of really good work was done and so as a the LPC or the legislative kind of policy committee um which director Z is also a part of um as a region we're coming out with sort of a one pager that will be um collectively sort

039of giving to everyone to take a look at and also when we meet with parents and legislators and and all the folks um that we can be sharing kind of the same information and making sure we're getting out that same message um long range facilities check bargaining check I'm going to the plane next weekend we were not able to go this weekend so I'm super excited about that um and I just wanted quickly similar to what director Weston was saying um It just strikes me with the presentations tonight um from Allison and Bryce and the Sip Brown which we'll get to in a moment um and also having an opportunity to go into schools there's just really amazing things and learning happening all of the time and really cool different things happening all the time

040and as a student there were days I remember like this was a great thing and some days it's kind of boring and it's not a great thing and so all of you right now might be kind of thinking like that's not what I'm seeing right now um but they're happening and so it's really really cool to see that and in terms of students every update the things that you guys share as leadership groups that are doing um the little hiding of the Wolves or the Slime day which I'm lowkey G to maybe show up at we'll see um are just these like really creative and beautiful ways to build community and do things kind of thinking outside of the box bringing people together um in really playful fun ways and so I really I think

041that's unique to this district and so I just wanted to say a little bit about that and I'm done um all right just to confirm there are no public comments but there is one written comment so um those will be part of the minutes and you can take a look at that on the spreadsheet uh and with that we will move to our first report and discussion item which oh is me um so like I said earlier prior to this evening's board meeting uh board members and school administrators met in a work session um to kind of go deeper into the continuous Improvement plans for each School um and so at this point I'm asking each board member to give a quick three minute um kind of the highlights of what they learned whether it's

042a connection or a clarification that they kind of got or a curiosity that they might still have but really just what they learned from their school so anyone want to volunteer to go first all right Vice chair um I had the pleasure of meeting with Meer Elementary and Miss Swindle and it was an amazing um time and um I was really excited to see what uh they had included in their continuous Improvement plan some of the highlights are that they are taking their reading to the next level going from last year going from 29% proficient in the fall to 59% proficient in the spring which like really just knocked my socks off it was amazing we saw last board meeting about how they're using their Partnerships with Portland State University and leveraging the plus framework

043in order to service our multilingual Learners and also um we were talking about how they have started a cohort with uh several teachers uh implementing letters at their school and so for those of you that don't know letters is U uh having to do with the science of reading and um going back to the phic awareness and the phonics of uh early literacy also in math they um last year they went from 16% proficiency to 50% proficiency which uh is amazing growth and U something that they are working on is going from knowledge of a concrete knowledge to representational knowledge then an abstract knowledge of the fundamentals or what um you know like an addition and subtraction how to represent that and if the students are not able to uh get to the abstract knowledge

044yet then they go back and they scaffold going back to that concrete um representation to then uh abstract or representational sorry then to abstract and uh one of the things that they're doing is well I guess the districtwide is implementing the new I ready curriculum going from the math expressions that I think has been used U for such a long time and then implementing this new curriculum I read which is an amazing curriculum and it comes with its own Diagnostic and um or test um you know and U and with with a new curriculum obviously comes different uh complexities in terms of our staff being trained into it and making sure that the diagnostic and making sure that all of the curriculum components are then integrated and becoming their own experts in uh that curriculum

045so that they can then turn around and um learn it with with their students um another thing that they're doing is co- teing and co-planning with their um ELD Specialists or English language um development Specialists so that they are able to not only develop that language scaffold to and deliver it to their multilingual learners but also to uh every other Stu every student that is in that classroom because that benefits every student having um that language development and with that what they've seen is they've seen an increase in those multilingual Learners that are um already exited out of U receiving English language um development uh services that they are going in in the osas so the state testing and literacy going from uh 44% proficient to 60% proficient and so that's uh also another big

046jump and while in fifth grade the monitor multilingual Learners are about five or six they achieve the at a 100% rate of proficiency so that was another um amazing thing that they're doing there as well as their family engagement with their Pacific Islander population where they brought together um most of their Pacific Islander students and had a potl with them so that they could celebrate not only a sense of belonging but also encourage attendance and having that um attendance tracker so that they're building them or including them into their School community and culture and one last thing that I want to say and I apologize as I think I went over my three minutes is that uh they are looking at inclusion as one of their best practices and bringing in experts to uh train

047their staff in best practice for our neurodiverse students and how to not only include them in scaffolding the materials into their lesson so that they can have access to the to the lesson but also to ensure that they are um being uh represented in having a friend with them because that is what true inclusion is once you've got somebody that you know that you can um count on or that you feel welcome then um that is what the true inclusion model should be and so they're using also the imprint lessons that they' always done with the is program um and you know the the the imprint lessons that we've talked about where they you live in imprint they're using those to also uh include in their inclusion or new inclusion model very cool thank you

048so much director Weston thank you so much so um I had the pleasure of um of hearing about some of the things going on at Fowler middle school with principal um Pichi and I'm going to start off by talking about a particularly strong area um at Fowler is some of the um culture and climate work so um one thing was a focus on attendance in sixth grade and um the goal would be to go from 81 to 85% and um and so that is the majority of students with um good attendance already so that's um that's good we also talked about the youth needs survey and how um that's helping identify needs and plug young people into the some of the um supports that are helpful um and we talked about how different young people

049might respond differently to stress and um act that out in different ways and kind of how that shows up um they're also doing a big effort to make sure that all student concerns are carefully tracked and responded to um 100% um also making sure to interrupt sorry making sure to interrupt hate speech 100% of the time and and have those skills and be really consistent with um following up on those concerns and also um interrupting uh those kind of hateful incidents we also um talked a lot about the reading program um a reading work and it was really interesting there was some effort to look get kind of an open-ended input from the teaching staff to see what they wanted to focus on and what they thought would have the most impact and then um

050boil that down into themes and then have people work on what they were interested and I thought that was a really strong approach because it was open-minded and it let um it let the solutions float to the top and um instead of assuming because we have all this great research but that's not always what's happening at a particular school so it's uh good to be open-minded in that way and um there was more but that's the general summary um there was a couple things um some good work happening in math especially with some training that was particularly helpful um there was also some wonderings around um why some of the kids are showing up to middle school with negative view of I ready and what that might look like or how that's being used so

051we talked about that a little bit um but overall some really strong work uh particularly around um getting the information and applying it and um and really supporting a positive environment so thank you thank you so much Christ director miles so I had the pleasure of sitting with Mary Woodward and jeret Mary Woodward celebrating year 13 in that role um wonderful so this is a this is a school that has declined in enrollment from over from about 600 students pre-co to now about 420 students and um it was really wonderful to see the the things that they're working on um one of their successes is seeing an increase in attendance so that's one of those big things that you know we struggle with Statewide and um and they've seen some great increases in attendance um

052we talked about them being excited to follow kids in cohorts and really look at their progress over time instead of taking each grade yearby year they're really tracking kids progress in cohorts um they've really focused on small group work especially in reading and talked about how both the PSO and the foundation provide funding for IAS in both reading and math and those really targeted supports provided by that funding really help them get those supports directly in the classroom um they do um instructions uh observation Cycles with their teachers that are really important to them so they they do peer peer feedback and classroom walkthroughs that have nothing to do with evaluation he has no part of that work and so there's a lot of freedom in that a lot of um autonomy for teachers to

053really give each other um candid feedback and and they've seen like amazing things happen because it's not an evaluative process and so that's uh a really exciting thing for them to do um in their no place for hate group um they're really doing some peer modeling where fifth graders are really teaching kids in lower grades to be upstanders instead of bystanders when they see um when they're observing hate speech or other bias or incidents of discrimination and that has made a difference because we know that kids listen to other kids um but one of my favorite pieces of this conversation was um when I was reading through their Sip and I noticed that in the culture and climate piece it kept ref referring to the math adoption kept referring back to math adoption and I

054asked why and he was saying you know families just really wanted to know more about math they wanted to understand how they could help and um you know so they've been hosting more math curriculum nights I ready nights and we talked about how math can just really be a thing there can be a lot of anxiety there there's a lot of psychology in the way we think about math and they really wanted to acknowledge an great um the like you are you are welcome to understand and we are teaching math differently then maybe we learned it as kids and we want to like have math be part of the the welcoming environment here and so creating an atmosphere to build community around math and math instruction and understanding and I just thought that was like

055such an enriching enlightening way to look at at math um to be part of building community and when I asked Jerry what he was most excited about he said staff retention they've had very little staff turnover and so little staff turnover can really allow staff to then make those deep connections and relationships with each other and families and he also said that having counseling and Deans and behavioral supports helps staff and him um and teachers focus on classroom instructions and observations while students are still getting what they need um behaviorally as well so it was wonderful to sit with him and learn more about Mary Woodward thank you so much me so I sat with tiger High School um with Melissa Baron and her team and um this is Melissa's second year as principal and

056it was kind of fun because last year was her first year and I got to sit and listen to her SI then and it was all about what did she want to do with this school um and so this was you know here's my first year in here's what we have done um and the the couple of really amazing points of Pride um in the upbeat survey by staff um trust in the principal teacher relationship went up 23% in one year um the the teachers feeling of there was a strong instructional leader in the building went up 30% in one year really impressive numbers um they had a Ready Set Ro uh program to kick off the year which was the brainchild of uh AP ggs bar and they had 1400 families this is a

057school of 1,00 kids 1400 families showed up to that event they had a barbecue they walked kids through the process of what it is to be in school um it was a hugely successful event one of the things that I thought was really wonderful was the sro's at that event were the ones who were dishing up the barbecue they were doing the the cooking and the idea of the sro's serving the kids if what an amazingly strong image right because the the The Stereotype of the SRO being the authoritative figure who come come down and tell the kids what to do right no but the SRO really are there to serve the kids and so I thought that was a wonderful um image for that they're um talking at at the school they're talking about

058uh credit attainment and how that has been uh a really strong point over the summer and hopefully the state will continue to fund such that we can have credit detainment uh programs for kids over the summer um they're doing um some intervention teams um working with toan high school um so that the the aps from both schools working together so that it's one program that's the same at both schools um working on monitoring students on Ninth Grade on track which as we know is super important um one of the things that uh that principal Baron did mention that is a a point of Pride and also needs work is that ninth grade on track is at 88% which is better than most places across the state find a high school with an 88% nth grade

059on track it's pretty rare but it has plateaued there and so uh really trying to figure out how to get it to move up because the next goal is 91% um attendance is still an issue it started to go up last year and then it plummeted back down and so they've been looking at what exactly is the cause of the attendance um problem and they've drilled down to the point where they see it's it's that same thing that director heus was talking about it's that lack of connection with peers in the class and how to build that so that students feel like they do have friends in the class even if they don't have a friend in the class right they they feel strong enough to go in and make friends in that class um

060and also the mental health challenges that kids are facing we all know this right um and how do we how do they work with bringing in online coursework but also getting kids face to face so that they have that pure interaction so that they have that want to go back to school and I think I went over my three minutes too that's wonderful so I will be brief Jamie and I were both at um uh table with CFT and principal Tim gross and um there sort of overarching Hope and goal was really um it kind of starts with climate and culture and that sort of is what builds conditions for learning for kids and so that was sort of the launching point for everything and a couple of highlights and there was a lot that

061they were doing and it was really sort of as an educator it was cool to kind of hear these sort of outside of the box things that um he was willing and the staff was willing to kind of take a risk with and do um and so sort of based on some of the survey results from kiddos um there were um some kind of interesting uh statistics around particularly like referrals and 85% of them were male um and so that was like this big like what um and kind of and and so the root cause analysis is what they really like it was such great work that they did um and so a lot of it was if they're not engaged and when you're not engaged you get busy doing other things I was like

062that and I would start like stapling incessantly you're like you want to get up and move around and all these things and so one of the um the things that they are doing they kind of notic this class instruction is not active enough and relevant enough for all of our students especially boys of color um and so what they have started doing is um bringing more activity into every class when they can and so not it's not different instruction it's just a different delivery is sort of how they talked about and so teachers are really trying to figure out okay when I'm doing this reading lesson how can I bring in something active or engaging um and sometimes you can't and so there's also that balance of different spaces maybe require a different kind of

063vibe and so but kids are really really um feeling the difference in terms of these opportunities to get up and talk over here about this thing and I'm going to get up on the board and do a puzzle or like a problem over here with a partner and then I'm going to come over to this part of the room over here and do another practice problem and so really about walking around in the space um has been seeing some really good some good results um and then the other thing that they're really building in is why sort of like as adults we've all heard the Ted talk about what's your why but they're really doing this at this classroom level which is if we're reading this informational text we're doing this literacy skill why why

064is this important how is this relevant where would I use this as my real life and even more so with math that has lower um sort of osas results and things like that and I ready scores um really looking at while the teacher has this gradual release of responsibility in terms of like I'm going to show you how to do this and you can follow along with me it's that piece where they go to do it independently where there's the disconnect um because they can't take it out of the cont like they have no context for it and so really um all the teachers and he said every teacher is just fired up about this like how like in a good way fire like stoked um and like how do we bring this question of

065why and this and then it ties into oracy and this discourse in the classrooms around like let's talk about math and if we're doing these three-digit uh subtraction problems where would we use that why would we do this why is this important and so kids get to have all of their own lived experiences now in the math learning environment and sort of normalizing that there's not always a right and wrong answer there's different ways to get to that answer there's different contexts for why you would need that math and so um that was something that they've been really excited about so um lots more happening but those were kind of the big um takeaways that I got from that Jamie did I miss anything was that good he there okay um so yeah that was

066wonderful we'll be back with another um group of round tables on December 9th um so we'll get to hear about more cool things um with that we will move to our next item which is the diverse educator pathway program and colleagues of color Affinity space with director Reed while you're sitting down I forgot and I had a sticky know right here we have some birthdays to celebrate really quick and I have to pass some cakes out um so we had some summer birthdays because we weren't in session yet um so and we do have one upcoming so Evelyn on the 14th of November Nathan's from um August 17th Britney's from August 26th and then Sky who isn't here but maybe Jamie can bring your her cake um so I'll be passing around cake as you

067get started it's hard to compete happy birthday I know all right am I good to get started or you want me to wait we're ready okay I heard you get started all right well good evening board members and superintendent and cabinet members uh both Mariela um and I are here this evening to um talk to you a little bit of our diverse educator pathway and our colleagues of color um Group which is part of our efforts to not only diversify our staff but also um a strategy um around employee retention can we go to the next slide so as stated um we have two initiatives in HR that we have been working through over the years um that is our colleagues of color um which is our staff Affinity space that's inclusive of not only

068licensed but also classified staff um and then we also have our diverse educator pathway um which is um a program that uh we have in which supports our educators are primarily are classified and students so we have two pathway programs and I'm not going to steal Mariel's Thunder on that um and she'll talk more about those pieces but we have these efforts in order to diversify our Workforce um and to continue that effort in um having our staff reflect our students next slide so I want to take a little bit of time to talk about why we should invest in a pathway program um if you have read any of the literature um and been at any of the presentation even at OD or osba around the teacher shortage uh this is one of the

069ways in which we can address the teacher shortage educator pathway programs help address teacher shortages by creating a direct pip pipeline of qualified Educators especially in high need areas like special education and dual language um programs and then by developing Talent within our community districts are more likely to retain these teachers who often have a deep commitment to their local area the second reason is that we want to build a diverse and inclusive Workforce so these programs can be tailored to recruit and support individuals from under representative backgrounds which is one component of our program we support all Educators within our classified um fields and students you know we support them all but we do use this as a tool to really recruit and focus under on our staff um of a diverse backgrounds um

070fostering a teacher a teaching Workforce that better reflects the student population and research shows that students benefit benefit academically and socially um from having teachers who have similar cultural or racial backgrounds so diverse teacher pipeline can contribute to improve students outcome the next thing that it does is that it strengthens uh Community ties educator pathway programs often involve local high schools community colleges and universities building strong Partnerships that engage the entire community in supporting local students career goals uh our partnership uh one of our um entities in which we partner with is Northwest Regional our estd around this program they were the first ones to kick off actually focusing on the student pathway and then we slowly grew that to including our classified and working in terms of um getting classified to enter the teaching

071Workforce and then some of the universities we have worked with you heard about PSU but we also had a partnership with PSU around Pathways um and working with Western Oregon University around pathway programs uh PSU has a bilingual teacher pathway program and so does Western Oregon which which many of our current students um in the program are attending in terms of becoming Educators and then last but not least the important part around this pathway program is enhancing teacher retention teachers who come through pathway programs tend to be more prepared and committed reducing turnover costs and creating more continuity for students all of our folks that have come through our pathway program are still with us right so we have being able to mitigate that turnover that is often seen when we get people from outside

072and when I say outside that they're not you know invested in the community in some way uh many pathway programs include mentoring and coaching which provide new Educators with a strong support network network increasing job satisfaction and retention and one of the things that we see in terms of impact and investment in terms of growing in diversity within our district and I'm not saying that we have you know we have reached the you know closing the Gap in terms of the diversity in our student and staff but now we have staff members that are able to Mentor when I say staff member staff member of color that are able to be mentors for new staff that are coming in which we didn't have that when I first started here so to see that now increasing

073and being available and they are able to not just only Mentor staff of color but they're just our mentors period And so being able to share that wealth and knowledge um and you know those opportunities with all staff that are new to us that come through the district so they're available to do that all right next slide all right okay so how do we offer support for the two different Pathways here in the D so through our classified staff pathway we offer increased tuition reimbursement so we offer up to $10,000 in tuition reimbursement um we also help in creating a bridge between teacher prep programs and the district and what I mean by that is it's often hard for our um bipo staff especially if they've never navigated postsecondary systems before it can be really

074daunting it can be overwhelming I know this as having I had both of my parents went back to school um after they immigrated here they they both started as assistants and then they both went back to school through the PSU btp and it was like how do I register what is fasta how do I do this there's a language barrier the culture barrier um um and so we help mitigate that we help make those we help take down as many barriers as possible so that they can access and achieve their academic goals and pursue becoming an educator uh we also have these monthly check-ins with all the EP participants even those that have technically graduated from the program and are now in our schools we keep in constant contact with them um even folks who

075have come to us just to dip their toe in and they're interested in the program like I don't know if I can do this quite yet that's okay we can support you we can support you and we'll keep checking in so when you're ready we're here um once participants have come through the pro their teacher prep program they have guaranteed interviews for positions that they qualify for in ttsd and so it's none of that like you know uh turning in their their application and being like are they going to reach out to me I don't know if this is all been for nothing no you're going to get an interview with us because we believe in your potential as a future educator if hired obviously they sign a licensed educator contract with us and again

076they have the support of having bip men ment that we already have in buildings they have support from us um and HR and so we want to set them up for success as much as possible for our students um we're offering paid internships during winter break and summer break so that they get real classroom experience um they could see different Dynamics they get to see how teachers um interact with students and have students interact with one another and then in the summer they help with our summer programming as well and then on top of that they're also making connections with other Educators in the district they're making C with administrator so they're networking already even before they've graduated from their teacher prep programs um we also do monthly group like as a cohort check-ins with

077us and our connectors which I'll get to in a second they've been amazing um we do we offer support in resume and cover letter writing so they're not immediately going to chat gbt um and just we even had a quick meeting with a few students who are graduating this year about interview strategies and just what is it that we're looking for during an interview what are some of the questions that they might encounter during an interview again just setting them up for Success um and yeah so that just some of the things that we do um also as part of what I do is as soon as I hear about a scholarship or a grant opportunity I am sending that out to our D students so again they don't have to have that barrier like

078if they don't have the time because they're focusing on class to look for these different opportunities I'm offering it for them and I'm breaking down that barrier for them so yeah next slide please can I pause so if we can go back to one more slide go back one more so you see the picture here I wanted to highlight this picture um this past this this what this past fall um the students that you see here are our students these are our high school students that are part of our um path that are high school they're currently in high school that have shown an interest in becoming Educators and so there is an aspiring educator day at Western um Oregon University and so our students here attended that um and it just gave them an

079opportunity to attend a class learn about the college line learn about the programming as you can see they're highlighting their programs and how they support students um whether they're trying to be bilingual Educators or Educators in the district so this is again one of the Partnerships that we have um with our our University now we can go forward to slides thank you th so these are our amazing connectors I wanted to highlight them because of the important work that they do we currently have five connectors um adores who's a twe teacher at Fowler um and Stacy Rogers second grade teacher here next door at Templeton their main uh roles in the D program is to um recruit classified staff and then they also have um a case load of our college students that they're checking

080in with on a regular basis um and then we have hasmine Chavez who's a counselor at twon high school and she's helping us recruit tton high school students and what's wonderful with her is that she was a former D participant she went through our program and so now she is wanting to sort of Pay It Forward by helping recruit others and she can speak to the experience which is wonderful um we have VI Morales and Michela Diaz who are both uh a counselor and learning specialist respectively at Tiger high school and they're both helping and recruiting students um by visiting classes such as interio visiting Avid 12 classes um and then together we've coordinated having um lunch sort of in-person recruitment sessions um by visiting the two high schools and so that's been a great

081way to sort of get ourselves on students radar we also uh Michaela helps with our Instagram as well um and just getting that information out there and overall about over 100 classified staff members and students have been helped by our connectors in the few short years that we've had this program next slide please so let's talk about data and I know you already heard about upbeat um this is a great way to check if you know hey how things are going out there and remember that this is just one component one strategy in which we are utilizing to um say you know how is the environment supporting our staff of color so that they feel like they can stay um and overall our staff so what I did is actually this is data for all

082of our bipo staff um so I filtered everybody else and bip staffs this is the data for that they provided and this there's question number 55 which says teachers at my school are racially ethnically and culturally diverse so this is perception data and you know you know by the sense in which in your space you know do you feel that diversity is increasing over time and so as you can see based off of this since 2002 when we initiated this um this U particular survey that that has increased to 7% today again of course not you know not saying that we're fully there but we are making moves in the right direction and that's affirming that people are seeing the diversity being reflective um in the teaching staff next so how can the board help

083support uh these programs we haven't gotten to colleagues of color quite yet but it's important that we get the word out about these programs um and so hey have you heard that ttsd has a d program has the COC with the intent to recruit and retain staff of color and that we want to support them and make sure that they Thrive within this District we see potential we believe in them um and so as I say here on the slide believe in these programs with us and believe in their power to change the educational Journey For ttsd Students their families and our community and again I can speak to this on a personal level why I believe so powerfully in the impact of these programs is I started my so my parents went through uh

084psu's btp program and then I as much as SW I'd never be a teacher um I followed in their footsteps a little while later and I also went through the btp program and again it was really difficult to navigate so many of those barriers um and I feel like if there had been if I had known about a district that had a pro these types of programs that like we see you and we want to help you thrive and become a leader and all these sorts of things I would have had a much easier time transitioning as a first year teacher and you know as I developed into my practice um and believe that a district but had my back so that I could flourish into the leader that I wanted to become so that's

085why I so fully believe in the impact that these programs can have next slide please so talking about the colleagues of color and why we have our hosta Infinity space and that is because again anchoring back in creating an inclusive and supportive uh work environment um for us as a district this demonstrates our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion um and being able to have an affinity space is a reflect for our staff is a reflection of our commitment in that um and then also you know offering U mentoring programs for new educators of color to support retention um that's another aspect of this we want our staff to feel welcome value seen heard and empowered that's one of the things that we say that we want all of our staff but especially our bipo

086staff to feel and then we know that by gathering together and having these opportunities um it allows for um the staff to feel that sense of belonging within the district does do we have like every staff member attending no not every staff member may need this but for those that feel that they need this we have this available okay next slide please so as Len was saying we strive in the COC to empower Elevate and celebrate ourselves as bip staff and ttsd and we've seen the increase in engagement we've grown from 63 members when I took on this role in 2022 to 204 in 2024 um we've had increased Innovation and by that I mean our members have gone on to start clubs to take students on these amazing field trips and provide opportunities for

087them to become Affinity leaders themselves in our schools um to go on and do the equity Sparks programs through o and so they have felt it's not just an affinity space in my mind it's it's a foundation for people to plant themselves and then grow from there and Thrive um and then there's an overall increase in workplace satisfaction and I know this because we um are we have a COC leadership team and we push into buildings um we try to push into at least two to three a month um we take coffee and some snacks and that's just a chance for us to check in with bip staff at these different buildings and sites and they'll tell us you know like it's such a relief seeing you here and I've been able to meet new

088people and I have friends that I've been able to connect with through this and when's the next Gathering you know and so I know it's having a a positive impact within our district next slide please here's a couple just snapshots of some of the things that we've done again we have our site visits where we take some snacks we've had art nights we've done Bingo here in the training center we've had ice cream socials that's what how we kick off the school year most often we've um last year we had a really generous Grant from the enrin and we had a guest speaker come who's nationally renowned David Jameson and it was amazing and and many many other smaller Gatherings to larger Gatherings where we have members bring their families because we know how empowering

089it is for the Next Generation to see a group of bipo leaders all in one space supporting one another so next slide so going back to the data and you know how are we seeing impact when we look at the data again of our B staff and their responses in the upbe survey you you can see um over time since 2022 I feel like I belong in my school went from 78 to 89 from this last year okay next slide and then the um next question is I can see myself teaching at my school for at least the next year again getting at that retention like can are you going to see us see it you know me here moving on so from 82% to 92% of our bipod staff are saying hey I'm going

090to stay on so again just you know anchoring all the work in which we're doing in the data um and how that's impacting that in the end last slide we have some really big dreams for the future of these two programs I would love to implement a sort of learning series for I bipo staff that maybe are you know obviously the classified staff and partnering with d and and Bridging the two together um I would love to bring in more guest speakers I would love to do book groups uh it's just it can go on and on I could be here all night um but what we really need is for the colleagues of color and D to be recognize as a necessary and crucial part of ttsd plans for growth recruitment retention and most

091importantly for the urgent need for bipo educators in our school and that the district will some at some point fund it as such um because one of the concerns that we're having currently is that uh we want to maintain the level of the momentum that we currently have and it's it's difficult when we are completely funded by grants um that means that and by all means we are super grateful for our grant Partners on this Regional has been fantastic and ren has been an amazing partner in allowing us to really get this program off the ground um but it does mean that it can be sporadic and sometimes inconsistent means of support and so we're hoping that at some point um the district will be able to to fund both of these programs and um

092and really just let us you know take off the way that we're we're hoping for all right question any questions questions or comments direct M thank you for this um I love that you brought data that shows that it's that this is not only impacting perception but that that last piece particularly that is about like I can see myself staying at school and it's getting near 100% right I mean that's a huge thing um you talked a little bit about the partnership with the ESD in the very beginning what does that partnership look like are what kind of support is North Regional providing you you can go for that one yeah so first off um they help with the setup of the initial program in design um they support um Mariela and the connectors around

093tools um in which they can use when they are working with students and with staff um they provide the opportunity so like the financial piece is probably the big part that right now that they offering is the the Grant in which we can apply for annually and this year was significantly less and so you know we recognize the up and down around grants and so forth but they have been a a huge contributor not only around the grant to make the colleagues a color leadership team happen um but around diverse educator path way those connectors also receive a stien and they fund those stiens so and within that they provide professional development for those individuals they also have make connections with the universities and the community college and so like for right now um they

094are offering a class in which any classified staff member can take for free um around education um they just have to sign up through the ESD and they'll be able to take that class in the spring and summer to and gain credit to their work so they try to work on opportunities like that partnership so that um you know folks can get their their foot in Ni well I was going to say amazing but I was just giv some instant feedback of uh me saying amazing too much so let me go ahead and go with um because they also send me a bunch of other U thing add that I can do so let me go ahead and go with um a inspiring or astonishing so this is you know great work um as a

095previous member of colleagues of color um I think that what you all are doing is amazing um having our own Affinity space as students is great as employees is also um is also great because we are able to not only support each other but see us um and and Elevate ourselves right have this sense of belonging that we normally um wouldn't feel and you know and that's just real that's our Our Truth and some people might like it some people might not but it is what it is you know sometimes we don't feel like we belong even in such a progressive um District that we have here and and like I said that's just real talk another thing is that um you know with the bilingual teachers Pathways that I went through to become a

096teacher or else I wouldn't have been here um I think that you know having that and and getting the students involved as well is a very great opportunity to oh no I just said great three times now than you um maybe somebody will send me another adjective list but uh you know just ensuring that we're tapping into our resources that we have coming up and that we are you know growing ourselves essentially for a lack of a better word right and getting you know getting our future to think of themselves as Educators is one of the the reasons that I show up every day to be an educator is so that students can see themselves and in you know what I am um putting out there and so guiding them and so having these programs

097amazing work so thank you so much I said amazing again you're you really got to work on the amazing and and the great it's a problem um I just wanted to sort of reiterate what director he said without using the word great or amazing um but I really appreciated uh what the points you made about staff of color are now experienced enough that they themselves are mentors I think that's a huge step as we've been rolling this process forward to have achieved that and that's that bodess very well for the future I also really um wanted to point out the the connector you mentioned who herself was a student um that went through the de program D program to have that person as a role model so that current students can see themselves and say

098oh she did that I can do that too is hugely important um so I feel like we as you say we've got really good momentum going but the thing you said at the end got me worried when you say we're reliant on grants every time I hear the word Grant I think okay does that mean it's running out soon is there a new Grant we can apply for or is something we really have to start looking at general fund for in the future right so right now our diverse educator pathway we are funding that with the exception of the connectors which is part of what the ESD is you know providing um the colleagues of Color Group which has really taken off is 100% funded by the grant that is being offered that leadership group

099since the onset of that leadership group it has made a you know you see the correlation just a greater impact on staff and their sense of belonging and feeling empowered and the things that they you know they get to doing and talking about so um we're seeing that um we're not sure whether this is going to be a next year there's going to be funding this year they didn't add any new funding so it was already it's already diminished for this year so we had some limited funding and so it's a com It's a combination of what we had left and then some of the HR that you know like okay maybe you know we can add a little bit to it but in the end that's just something that you know it was great

100for when we had it but then how do we continue and sustain something like that thank you won I just want to start off by saying um really appreciate this work um especially that our diverse staff is kind of putting in the extra work to help uh bring bring um bring up the next generation of Educators so I really appreciate that I also want to talk a little bit about um something that was touched on and that our community is becoming more diverse over time and um that shows up especially with particularly diverse um Young students and then um some of our more seasoned Educators um aren't as diverse and that reflects our population a little bit uh but we also need to make sure that our um diverse young people are able to break

101break into education and um and be able to um have that pipeline grow so um so I think that's really important I also want to um I want to bring this forward a little bit thinking about um how we fund our educational system in Oregon um and I don't want to disparage the idea of um first in first out when we have to make Cuts because I think we need to Value um experience and um and people need to have job security and be valued for the time they've put in with a district but I also want to bring up um at the state level if um if we don't adequately support education and we continue having to do reductions in force that will fall disproportionately on our diverse Educators who are more likely to

102be younger and so what are we doing that comment doesn't reflect on you all we got you um I have a comment and a thought but do you want to answer answer that can you rep I didn't catch all that question can you repeat that last part of that question the first I think it's the the first in first out but I think those there are some I Protections in place me I think she means last I'm saying that when you go ahead when you um when we do our reductions in force we do um sorry it is last in last out so I misspoke um all of you seasoned to Educators generally probably know the phrase though but what I'm saying is that when we are forced to do reductions in force with an

103inadequate state budget then that's going to fall disproportionately on our more diverse staff because they tend to be younger because our demographics are becoming more diverse over time and so that um underfunded educational system is also giving a short shrift because as that pipeline becomes more diverse with our younger Educators um those are the ones that are more likely to get Cuts good so um currently as it stands with our riff with our riff uh policy uh there is a seniority based um Clause that we use and so any staff member regardless of their their race and ethnicity um if they're um least senior when it comes to doing reduction and force in certain content areas then there are uh there's a likelihood that they would um be those that would be displaced uh when

104it comes to riff um so with that being said um we've done a lot of work to try to ensure that we are being thoughtful about the way that we engage in in um riff work so that uh it's a last it's a last um Resort when it comes to our budget reductions as well so and I'll add that there is um legislation HB 2001 that gives some protections for bike pox St but there's very specific criteria that have to do with the demographics of the school demographics of the students um that allow for us to skip a more senior member or skip them for a more senior member but again it's nuanced and so there are some protections that are in place at from the legislative level to um put some Protections in for

105um bip staff and and a lot of those are also connected to language yes and so th those are areas where there are so protections for our diverse staff um one thing that I I did want to say just U while I have the the the floor is I just wanted to say thank you for all the work that you have done with this we we know um Statewide that there's uh or Nationwide that there's research that suggests that grow your own programs they work not only in diversifying um our Workforce but also in in really providing um students with enrichment and educational experiences that benefit all students and even though we know that stuff doesn't mean it's happening in our state and so I think that uh we can have we can have all

106the research and we can have all the data but at the end of the day this is really heart work that we do and so I want to thank you for all the heart that you put into this work um and it's not easy work uh there's be funding aside uh coming up as a person of color um in in a very homogeneous State there's always um times when you're going to second guess yourself uh while there might be some discouragement or there just might be some real barriers and um is it's not always easy to look someone in the eye and then encourage them to say hey you can do this but that's what we need if we're really going to have diversify the pathway so um it's really important work and I'm really

107glad that you're doing it and we need to invest in this work so thank you so much all right thank you I feel like we should end it that was I don't want to go after that um that was great I was the only thing just kidding I'll say something um the only I was going to add um was that hadn't been mentioned um and I again the first thing was of course just thank you for all of the time and the work and the like he said the heart that goes into this and um that I I love the consistent transparency around how um these are really what we want to see happen and it's hard work and it's not always getting where we want to be as fast as we want to get

108there and we can have all the right things in place and there's still Pockets where it's not good and we still have work to do um to really Elevate that work and and make it happen um I loved hearing that sort of organically teachers that were part of um both programs really were kind of bringing that um into their own teaching spaces for kids just sort of not like this is my next check box is I have to talk about Affinity spaces with my students but really like modeling that in a really authentic way I think is really powerful for students um and then the other thing just sort of a charge for the board is our our one of our big goals in our strategic plan is talent and the exact thing that these

109programs are doing so I think when it is time to look at the budget um and that's why we have a strategic financial plan um is to make sure that we are funding the things that we are saying are really important and so this is an area where I would just encourage us as a board um to look at that and make sure that we are truly in all areas putting our money as best we can when we have enough money where our mouth is for that and so to continue to support that so thank you so much thank you and I'm stay and you stay up here correct all right you can go you want to be here for policy you know tempting but no thank you all right so we have some first

110reads and so we had so one of the things that had occurred um on the April 2024 session that there was some dismantling of the communicable disease policy and some of these pieces were taken out and some of them were optional so one of the ones that um was a new one an optional one was the the headli and so what you see is the guidance on exclusion of students found with headlice has changed in recent years and um prevention recommends against excluding students with headlights or um Nets so there is the policy around that we did not have that before but are there any questions this is brand new so there isn't a previous policy to compare to all right moving on uh one of the pie so again communicable diseases those things what

111you see are a couple that were deleted um the students HIV hbv and AG deleted communicable diseases students deleted and then there was a update to the immunization and schools supports participation that was highly recommended um and it requires a written pre ition orientated Health service plan for students and so were there any questions on that one all right keeping moving um again student health and services and requirements was deleted and so student welfare um was updated this was an optional one which we had so it was an update um to student welfare and it requires again that prevention orientated um Health service plan for students that was included in that one any questions and last but not least another update to corporal punishment um which included uh procedures for responding to an incident or

112restraint or seclusion um that was abended by Senate Bill 1024 any questions on JGA [Music] all right so I wanted to clarify the question Crystal that you had so back in August we updated the policy for the um AR that you had a question on the communicable diseases and so this is the AR that's being updated okay and if you look at that one with the current AR you'll see that that they're similar and that there's just changes by adding students a lot of the language is just addition of students to that language thank you and that's it wonderful thank you all right next up we have may 2025 Bond information with a a group of friends I think good evening uh chair Irvin Vice chair James members of the board and always my favorite

113are student Representatives I was a student representative at school board about 100 years ago so I'm always glad to see your presence and uh especially at a time like this this a what we're going to talk about tonight is a it's a pivotal moment for our district so I'm really glad to have the students present at this time um it's a pivotal moment not not just for the amount of funding that we're talking about which is substantial but for the implications for our students um these are decisions that touch thousands and thousands of of lives over many years and we're talking about Legacy Buildings that uh will outlive uh some of us here in the room so it's a it's imperative to get it right and I'm glad to have some folks with me here

114tonight to to uh talk about uh the point we're at today um this represents over two years of work and a lot of work that's been going on in the background uh by many people so that we could come here tonight to bring bring you the information we are to date with the idea of coming back to you at your December 9th meeting so um Ben Patinkin who is with us from Seattle he's a consultant we've been working with on polling is going to first talk about uh the polling that we did on this which second round of polling if we can bring him in we can hear you fine Ben I think [Music] REM [Music] so um sorry second all right so this slide right here um this this is a look at um

115just a quick understanding of um sorry my phone is going nuts here I apologize um this is a look at how people perceive a facility condition across the district we're basically asking folks whether or not facilities are an excellent good fair or poor condition this is a little counterintuitive we want voters to believe that they are not in good condition because if it isn't broken no one wants to fix it um in the case here a plurality of likely May voters believe that the school condition across the district is either fair or poor and if you look on the grid on the right hand side that's an important finding if you look at the middle row those who have a net negative opinion so fair plus poor um those voters 81% of them want to

116vote Yes uh on the bond uh those who have a positive perception of school uh condition that's 23% of Voters um 52% of are voting no on the bond and those who aren't sure that's 33% that's gray that's the gray portion of that bar um they are also voting no uh because they just aren't sure of what's going on so long story short the more people know about the challenges faced by facilities in your District the more likely they are to vote no which just underlines the importance of any education effort you continue to the next slide and the next one please all right so this slide looks at probably the most important question in the survey it's a mockup of the likely bond caption in question so on the right hand side the caption

11710 words uh bonds increasing safety technology modernize or replace facilities address overcrowding followed by the question 20 words shall District increase student safety accessibility modernize or replace facilities technology issue $421 million in bonds with citizen oversight audits required uh now I know that that reads A a little bit like Sanskrit but we are constrained by organ law to just 10 and 20 words respectively now when we read this to voters we get to 49% yes 38% no 14% undecided um the intensity of feeling is very similar with 22% saying they're going to vote Yes strongly and another 17% saying they're going to vote no strongly but what that means is there are a lot of half-filled heads or empty heads when it comes to an understanding of how they think they're going to vote on

118this Bond which again underlines the importance of an education Network moving forward next slide please just really quickly in terms of the demographics on this particular question uh it's important to note number one at very top row there parents are the base of this Bond effort 84% of them are voting yes that is frankly a very abnormal number normally we expect to see Parental support between 65 and 75% uh being at 84 is uh frankly way overperforming um parents really like this proposal that's reflected in terms of lower down support amongst younger voters where 75% are supporting uh um the bond there um and it also underlines again the need to go out and educate because older voters over those overage 50 are leaning no by 11 points um and they represent a good portion

119of May 2025 voters so making sure that younger voters show up and turn out is going to be critical next slide uh next slide beyond that um in this survey we tested price sensitivity we tested a $421 million Bond at $337 million Bond and a $225 million Bond now uh we did not rotate these we started at the highest level and then went to the lowest one um and at each step we outlined what they would lose for the lower costs so at 421 million they got uh the the uh um restoration of four uh elementary schools um at a cost of $25 per month along with all the other things including replacing fouw uh at $337 million uh there was just a modernization of two elementary schools but now the cost is $17 per

120month and at $225 million uh million dollar there is no modernization of elementary schools but the cost goes down to $9 per month and then next slide please when we outline that to voters really interesting happens here you actually see support for the $421 million Bond hold relatively steady if you recall this was uh what we tested in the ballot language there's just a three-points uptick on the no side which is within the margin of error um so really $421 million stays the same as what we see with ballot language when we drop to $337 million you see a decrease in the noo an increase in the yes vote um and what we're seeing that is we're holding on to our base those younger voters as parents and we're adding in a few older voters

121a few more conservative voters when we start lowering the price tag uh but when you drop it to $225 million you see a much larger decrease in the yes vote and a much larger increase uh excuse me larger decrease in the yes vote and a larger increase in the no vote and what's happening there is you're actually losing your base parents and younger voters uh more liberal voters uh they're jumping ship because they want to see more work done not less even at the lower price tag um so what I see in this slide is basically saying the $337 million Bond or even the $421 million Bond are uh more likely to be supported than going for less you have your your base of Voters again who just War you to to invest more in

122your schools next slide please um these next two slides uh are long we tested a large battery where we uh looked at each one of the individual uh projects that could be funded by this Bond long story short for both of these slides um not a single one of these projects Falls below 50% support so every single thing that you want to do in this bond is supported by a majority of your May 2025 electorate um and it's sort of all over the map in terms of like the the highest priority items so it's a combination of security oriented things like uh um adding in uh doors you know locking doors to classrooms uh mergency notification but also fire safety items um technology uh uh items um as well as uh Heating and ventilation uh

123and that sort of thing so it's all over the map in terms of the top tier items if you go to the next slide you'll also see though that there are things that you know testing at 56% replacing F Middle School um so again just a lot of uh items that are seen as as uh priorities by a majority of your electorate here go go to the next slide please and what that means is when voters learn more about what you want to achieve with this Bond you see an increase in support it goes from 49% yes for a $421 million option in the ballot language uh to 56% support so that's a seven point increase that's outside the margin of error uh you see the no vote Hold Steady at 38% so you're gaining

124all of that support from onesided voters which makes sense um and the end result is again I think uh an indication that you should go for a higher level Bond um and that uh you will have voter support behind it should you embark on a strong education campaign that's the critical piece here remember this is a snapshot in time at this point we're just modeling a potential outcome when we educate voters if they're not educated it's more likely we're going to see support back down around that 49% number uh so with that I think that is the last slide uh I can hand it back uh to Alex e e e school years we have our 2005 bond refunding which was expiring which is going to um probably only bring if it were to be

125renewed um would be about 27 cents per, and you know um just what that would yield in a bond sell was not enough to really even chip way at like our renewal of our onetoone technology or curriculum needs and so when we tried to look at Alternatives you know generally when you're looking at debt you're either looking at asking your constituents to support a levy increase or you're fiddling with the maturity you know in like personal applications if you can borrow money for a little longer you might be able to borrow more money so we've just been working with our financial advisor and came up with a couple scenarios trying to keep in mind um sensitivity to our constituents and what they could financially support and that's specifically why that polling was so important because

126it actually pulled in community voice and we did some polling in the spring which was actually um a shorter duration but it was an 84 C increase and it would have only yielded $200 million and so that's just where we really see expanding that maturity looking at a tolerable increase um in the levy rate were able to potentially um take a $420 million package to our community so that's just been the summary of our work all right good evening I want you to know I'm still thinking about glitter and a mess and sticky and glitter got a little twitch going but never mind I'll try to focus tonight on this so um anyway any we're glad to be here um first off I'm going to just take you really quickly through kind of you've heard

127a little bit about the started two years ago our journey I'm going to kind of go through that real quick with some pictures and just kind of show you where we were at kind of what got us to today so Thor if you can do next slide so if you look at the slide above you you can see the the dot line the red hash line that's where we are today so you two years ago we did some fact finding we engaged in a long range facility process engaged with a lot of engine and Professionals in the field and um we've had lots of committees um through this process that have been that we've engaged with um principles administrators community members um looking at all that information to get to where we are today where

128we're ready to um make a recommendation on a on a number that we feel really good about we feel puts the district in a really good position you know moving forward and then you can see from that red line going to the right we've got a really short amount of time before with the the real hard work begins and uh before the May election okay Thor so we started off with a facilities assessment two years ago and those are a lot of the companies that we um engaged with that and the experts in their field that gave us an idea that of the we went over the roofs and the envelopes of buildings and all those items on that left hand side um they caught a lot of things didn't catch all of them you

129know as they get into buildings and look um you know things appear every week we get surprised once while some of the things in our building but overall as what they found um was they went into the buildings they gave us some cost estimates for those Thor and out of that process they they created long list of priorities and so those priorities were broken out into priority one two threes and fours ones were immediate need to be addressed right away twos Within within a 5e peri from now to within five years priority 3es were within 10 years and priority fours were lower priorities should be addressed that might be a a roof that's 10 years old it's going to be 10 years from now or 15 years from now is going to be need to

130be replaced okay so you can see wh easy there tiger we you can see that all those numbers added together that's over two that's over 200 million that's a lot of money and as you heard earlier we were talking originally if we just follow a on drop off at 60 million up to a high of what we're looking at probably was around 257 and so all the work that's gone into this up to this point was based off of okay what are the highest priorities because we can't get to all those and so when we came up with the 421 number it really opened the door but it also opened the door that oh boy we got to relook at things okay so remember the numbers up there in those categories over 200 million okay

131Thor and so we started off with some task force groups and a lot of our um teachers were involved administrators involved taking the information that came to us from that long range facility plan um report and we started prioritizing we started looking at different bucks buckets of um opportunities in District so we looked at outdoor spaces what do we need across the district and as you heard earlier those might be some real um needs have to have those are repairs critical to our district and then some wants okay what are some things that'd be nice to have for our community and for our students so we looked at outdoor spaces we looked at self and safe and welcoming schools and then we took a look at infrastructure and infrastructure is that really that must have

132bucket the things that um protect our investments that our prior um folks in our district to support these bonds over the years um those are things that put roofs on our envelopes for our buildings and protects that long-term invested we have over two Mill two billion dollars worth of buildings and it takes a lot to keep those up and it's our duty to protect those in that investment that our communties made in those spaces okay next okay a then after we engaged um with our administrators and and folks in our buildings we came together with a long range facility planning committee and that was an involvement again of District folks a lot more community members Community leaders um and we met nine times from June of 23 to June of 24 and we did site

133visits we went through lots of data we went through lots of needs and wants and discuss things um this group we really um operations Department really brought the musthaves these are the priority ones and twos this group um listened to those and gave us kind of the thumbs up yep we agree with those and then this group was probably really more involved in some of the um I don't want to say necessarily once but those nice that these would be nice to have these would help supplement programming in our district um but it wasn't Mission critical like a roof or an HVAC system okay um next slide these are some of the documents that we looked at so on the on the left you see along the every school's got itemized things that um we

134could do those projects and things like that with the cost to it those are all all kind of rough what's the font on that what's that what's the font on that is like a three font probably about at least a nine it's emphasizing the sheer magnitude of the work done so so we' so you see every school has some of those just an example of that and we've been going through last week we went through and refined those list and keep refining them um and then and so those are just you know until we actually engage with um we pass the bond we engage with a contract we start getting hard bids those lists are kind of soft because if they if the prices come in lower than expected that list gets to grow a

135little bit if they come in a little bit more than expected we got to make some tough choices and decisions okay the the on the left hand side there you see a project list ranked by survey results so our long range facility committee went through and looked at these items they and they did a survey and ranked them as importance and so we really I want to honor the work that the longrange phly group did we want to look at the um what they felt were the greatest needs for the district also we using the survey results what our community said were some of the things that they really want to support and so that was the lens that we used as we started pulling together this final um draft list that goes into this

136$421 million project so next slide and here's just a quick this is the polling that the long range facility committee um that was the final results so you see the highest priorities at the top and as it moves moves to the right those were lower priorities all great things all things that have importance in our district um a lot of these items um although won't make the initial cut because we don't have those all the funds they will go on a parking lot list and so that just very similar to this last Bond as we got in this Bond we had a bond premium we had an awesome Grant we had some savings from projects and we had a parking lot list of items that didn't make that first initial cut and so we we'll

137we'll utilize our bond oversight committee which is a committee of really experts from our community that will help um guide us on decision making for any dollars um that we can reinvest into some of our um some of the things that are on this list and other things guarantee you from the time that we passed our bond to halfway through the bond there's going to be things that come up that aren't even on this list it's just we get surprised all the time by something that goes on an the building so just know that we value all this input we will have a prioritized list that our bond oversight committee we'll then have you know some great discussions on what's next what's the next thing that we want to fund if there's if there's dollars

138available okay next okay so next slide so this is where we're at so um as Jessica talked about um and I mentioned earlier we we really were 257 257 million was like that High Mark and then when Jessica and came on board and we started talking about a 20-year maturity date that did quite a few things for us so all of a sudden it jumped it up to that four over $400 million Mark and one of the really important things is in in earlier conversations we're talking anywhere from 60 million to the 2 257 we also in that conversation were talking about in five years we will probably need to go back out for another Bond because of those 200 M 200 plus million dollars on those property one twos and threes and so the

139original conversation prior to this would wouldn't even take care of the priority ones okay and so what this now does the conversation shifted to a 10year cycle so that's priority one two and three so now we're talking about priorities not priority 1 two and three because all those priorities would be in this bond in a 10e cycle 10e cycle also gets Us close to a from this point moving 10 years we'll have another Bond drop off of the current Bond and so um it starts getting us on a a path to planning with regular 10 years 10 years and so we can really do some long range thinking for our district and uh and keeping it um really keeping up to date with modernization of some of these school projects keeping the systems in place

140that work keeping our kids safe and comfortable okay next slide so here you see the bond package so again that picture we took the numbers off we're really looking at those priority 1 twos and threes now and um because it because this Bond will cover really a 10e potentially a 10e mark okay and so you can see some of the items that we need to include with with those in those different buckets okay Thor so one of the buckets is the technology and curriculum this last Bond we had 30 million total 20 million for technology 10 million um for curriculum and that was not enough we've had to supplement that and so now going out for a longer period of time we really needed to double that I still don't know if that's enough money

141but it sure helps and gets us along the way the way we adopt curriculums different than the way it was you know six years ago 10 years ago um and we have aging infrastructure with some of our technology and so by passing this it keeps us really in pretty good shape and for the next 10e cycle for both you know curriculum and with technology another bucket outdoor spaces and so a lot of these are um some of the you know some of those not not a leaky roof or not an HB these are things that really could enhance the access you know accessibility at schools how our community uses our spaces after school weekends things like that so um in this bond package we'll be looking at um you know outside with you know whether

142it's accessible playgrounds we have some playgrounds that are more accessible than others across the district and some that are real real challenge restrooms outside for different like sporting events turf turf replacement um lighting um putting potentially putting light at turfs like at quality that would activate the you know those fields so now instead of get when it's dark at 5:00 and you can't use anything with with lighting those those fields can be used for longer amounts of time can uh really support our community and our Athletics also adding potentially adding lighting to our high school swalton I only has one uh lit Turf on the on the site and then replacing an outdated set of lighting on the soccer field at Tiger high school so these are all projects that are kind of on the

143board um fall protection that's more around ada8 accessibility we have a lot of sidewalks with raised edges uh it's going through and really doing extensive boxs at school and and then um drainage and irrigation in our Fields sometimes when they get wet they stay wet for months we've we've seen that so those are just some of the items outdo Thor Safety and Security was another bucket that we put things in and those things included things like fire Replacements and upgrades within a lot of our buildings most of those are original to the to the construction of the buildings the NAD accessability some fencing were needed um cameras we're doing some some cameras right now we'll get this next summer we'll we'll put a bunch of new cameras but we also have hundreds and hundreds of

144cameras that are 10 years old 15 years old that need to be updated and replaced as well um and access controls how do we um access our buildings what controls do we have on when doors are a jar things like that so under Safety and Security those are just some of the highlights there next slide and then here's the fun part right the elementary school modernization so we picks you know our four oldest elementary schools and we are recommending about $100 million so that's roughly $25 million each some of the schools might take 25 million some might take 20 everyone's a little bit different and so it's going to be a great opportunity to work with those schools their communities to really for 25 million you can really refresh a school and we're looking at

145um you know this the interior finishes and spaces from flooring the lighting um a lot of the older schools we're talking about your germs and B rooms and Bridge ports have partial walls that have built been built up over the years that don't go all the way the ceiling and so there's just a lot that you can do including the envelope of the building including the out you know including playgrounds things like that so anyway this will be the if these projects for these four elementaries will really bring those schools up when you walk into those spaces I think you're going to just go like I can't believe I'm in a 40y old school or 30-y old school similar to this space work in here right as we refreshed this space here okay next um

146and replace Valor that's our biggest headache right now is um we' been nursing that thing along and putting in lots of money to keep it going and so a replacement of Fowler would really give us an opportunity to um have some Modern spaces that will be you know we're looking at flexible space and engaging with that community that staff that principal really what what are the needs that need to be met for fer in the community gives us an opportunity to um when you go into fer it's pretty limited where the space is so we kind of get to redream the property a little bit you know if we place a school over here can we take a look at how do we how do buses come in how do parents come in for parent

147pickup so when you start building a new school you have a great chance to really um make it more efficient okay next slide and so here's the package and those are rough numbers those numbers will be probably um moving as things come up between now and by the time we get bids and um and through this process but as you see on the infrastructure upgrades we're looking around $69 million and those are those must havs those are the the roofs and the HVAC and things like that keeping our buildings current we got you know envelopes Windows um you see 150 million right now is the estimate for Fowler Middle School to replace uh four elementaries we've we've put in a Target there of 100 million um that we think we can do a substantial remodel

148with with that amount technology 40 million curriculum 20 million those outdoor spaces at bucket um is 27 million but we tried as we pulled into those we pulled in like Turf Replacements we we have a lot of new turfs in this bond by the end of this next Bond they're going to have to be replaced and so we always think those as new at least I do I'm like we just what do you mean we just built those turs right and now in a few years it's going to be time to replace them so we needed to build in all of that into those outdoor spaces and so we're really trying to think how do we take care of our district for you know for at least the next 10 years and Beyond and then

149our Safety and Security bucket right now is sitting around 14, 600,000 and for a grand total of 421 plus and so that's where we're sitting and today those things are going to adjust a little bit but we feel really good if we're able to go out for this amount we think it's the best interest of the our community I think it's going to be great for our district and for our students so with that I'll turn back to B thank you I want to Circle back quickly to Ben's presentation I made a big ask of Ben which was to compress about a half hour presentation into like seven minutes which really unfair to him as it happens uh a number of us have heard him present uh three three times I want to say and

150so we've had a chance to kind of internalize that so I think that was kind of a tough ask but I wanted to honor your time uh tonight and ask him to Super compress that I'm going to take the liberty of of um sharing with you what what I've taken away from Ben's polling which is that at the $421 million figure and the $337 million figure are statistically very closely packed at 49% and 53% very close when we tested the the lowest number which was 225 million it fell way down and the the take away from that was that our core supporters are just saying hey that's that's not enough going back to the the two higher figures the 421 and the 337 when our pollsters shared with the individuals they were talking with the

151backstory which is how that money was actually going to be spent everything got lifted up into the the high 50s and so uh as a committee our group felt very strongly that the uh $421 million figure was uh the one that we should be be looking at um and when our long range facilities planning committee met last week that was the figure that that they asked to go forward with um looking ahead our uh our consultant and our Council are working on finalizing resolution and ballot title to bring back to your board uh on December 9th and I think those of us who have been involved in the process I I less than anyone it's been a short short learning curve for a steep learning curve but a short one for me feel really good

152about where we are in the process and I know that uh Dr do would like to share his thoughts with you as well yeah thank you very much I I uh appreciate the the presentation and all that you've been able to really compress in in a relatively short amount of time it doesn't really do justice to all the work that's that's led up to this point but I do want to touch on one thing that I think will give us something to think about as we really get into the bond campaign um earlier this this evening I talked I showed pictures around CTE and what that really does is it it speaks to our 21st century learner that's something that we reference often when we do our school Improvement plans when we do our strategic

153planning um as it stands I remember when I first started here in July and one of our our big undertakings was making sure that the piping and the sewage and the water was all right and Fowler so that we can take an old school and make it operational we're pouring all this money into that imagine if we're able to pour that money into learning spaces and so um as we kind of bring closure to this I I just want to say that um we have a lot of 21st century Learners in our presence right now and then we have the next generation of Learners that are coming up and right now we have outdated spaces that we're continuing to pour money into and so our learning spaces for students shouldn't be this this static space

154It should be environments that evolve along with the needs of our kids instead of us having these spaces and US asking our kids to adapt to these spaces so we have uh an incredible opportunity to to make an investment and if this Bond goes through it would really show um an investment not only in our our building spaces but actually in our Learners and um the return on that investment is something that we really can't measure so thank you very much couple questions or comments all right director won yeah just want to start off um thank you so much for all this work it's really um exciting um I'll start with a couple questions um does this generally include seismic upgrades if the big earthquake was to hit we have applied for one seismic Grant

155not all the spaces new spaces obviously we would do that another spaces um we um last time last round we applied for three different GR grants didn't receive any and so we're resubmitting for um one school we're hopeful but we're probably not at the top of the priority list the way that they prioritize those seis grants but those are always in our thoughts and planning how do how can we utilize those to help make our spaces safer as well okay thank you and then um my next question is um has the committee looked at all a Turf um as opposed to maintaining grass over time because of the cost and there's also some increased um information about health effects of turf and environmental impacts and she just wanted to bring that up uh generally is

156something to look into yeah no we've had those discussions it's it's about as we transition the turfs from grass fields um there been a lot of research on those around cost and things like that they tend to be cost neutral because in order to maintain a a grass Turf like we used to have grass like is in real grass um with irrigation things like that um those are substantial costs and substantial manpower to put into those um you have to have a crew to maintain those spaces and stuff um also with our committee we talked about we're seeing less and less requests for grass real grass space and majority of our requests for facility use everyone wants Turf because of the environment where we're in right um with it so wet and rainy out and

157and playable fields and things like that um what we'd like to do in this bond is some of it is is better irrigation better drainage and stuff improve some of those grass fields those playing opportunities for kids to get engaged um and then also our turfs and how can we activate make our turfs available for you know longer periods potentially during the day so we've really we have had those discussions um we always have to you know in the winter or summertime when it's really hot we have those elevated Heats on those turfs so we've had those discussions group as well um right now I would say overwhelmingly from the committee and the people that we've worked with in these committees folks are leaning towards Turf still just because the playability in our region all

158right thank you so much and then I just want to um finish off my comments with um it seems like with inflation um being an ongoing issue it's really appealing to me to invest the money um upfront um at today's prices or as close to to's prices as as we can and then um I also just want to say um the community really continues to value our um our young people and that's really exciting and um really great so thank you so to your point it was it's funny that you say that because one of the things that we struggled with um early on in the process was when we were deciding on what all when the group was deciding on what group or what package to to choose it was sort of like this

159these numbers are going to be wrong Darren but um the $70 million school now becomes $140 million school next time and so while it you know to that point so that doesn't necessarily ease all of the concerns that maybe some voters have and that um that we are in theory asking for more but but that kind of that look at it like that is like wow we can we're sort of saving um all this money by doing as much as we can now and I think um I know director zers and I have been on this with you all for the Long Haul and um I love um director C kind of having your New Perspective and eyes on this and coming up with this plan to because our goal was always to keep it

160under a dollar um and that really limited our scope of what we could do to what you guys talked about and so to have this sort of like new idea of how to arrange these things and kind of go out this 20 years instead of 15 and it kind of set these other things in Motion in a really positive way um I really appreciate that and it's it's been a load of work for I know the the financial team and the facilities team um to kind of get all these numbers and and crunch them and Rec crunch them and then Rec crunch them again um so I'm I'm having watched this process it's I'm excited at where we landed and the the creative ways in which we got there so I really appreciate it I

161wanted to say um especially to members of the public who might be watching that 421 Million number is terrifying right it's huge it's scary it's bigger than many of our neighbor districts have done but because of the way we're talking about financing it and it's a 99 C increase as we start talking to the public about the nature of this Bond and we're looking at what is the the actual tax rate to our citizens um we will be lower than almost all of our NE neighboring distance neighboring districts even after this increase and I think that's a really important point to make sure people know that yes it's a lot of money but yes our buildings need it and it's not as much as you might think and if we go to certain districts to

162either the east or the west of us they're paying a lot more than what this will be um so yeah I think the other component as we are educating the public we really need to make sure to bring the public into some of our elementary schools because I know for the committee it was an eye opener people like oh my school is great so all the schools must be great and then walk into one of these four elementaries we're talking about Remodeling and it's like oh it's not all sunshine and Roses in every building and there are many buildings that need a lot of work and so I think those are going to be two really important p pieces of the education campaign going forward thank you that's a very good point and and it

163works out to for a home of of median value about $25 a month so there there's going to be a lot of Education about you know what that really means big numbers can seem really scary but you know making it seem real and just talking about what does this bring in terms of you know generational investment in young people so that uh you know uh you know these young people won't immediately benefit from that but little brothers and sisters or heaven forbid another generation down the road is going to benefit from this over U 40 50 60 years so thank you Dr miles did you have a I was just going to Echo just what has been said is that you know the I I think folks tend to look at what is the total

164bond amount right and then and then stop there and and then easy I mean you know $400 million oh my goodness that's going to cost me so much but the messaging beyond that is well how much is it going to actually cost you right and and that is that is the the part that we need to make sure that that we get across and just that what does that investment mean and everything that you all talked about tonight I mean I know we can't show this PowerPoint everybody out in the community all the time but like the importance of what you talked about and and you know know creating that um that that infrastructure that is about improving the educational environment and providing for all of those Safety and Security so you know it's a

165both and um but also just that like we can also get past sticker shock if we really think about like okay but what does it mean to me it's much lower to me than what I think it is when I'm not looking at the total package because we do tend to compare like well what is this District paying what is this dist paying total different tax base all of that stuff so I think that's part of our job too is to is the education excellent thank you yes for some people at at you know six and a half bucks for a latte it's basically a latte week that one would have to forego for you know a medium priced home so all that messaging is really important and appreciate your points there anybody else I'm

166looking around all right oh Nathan I do have to say I am actually kind of excited and I hope that this Bond moves forward because just reading it through even though $421 million is a lot and I hope I make that in my lifetime uh uh when I read it addresses needs uh needed upgrades to high school sports and Performing Arts facilities that really hit me because my theater really needs a good paint job and so that just really excited me but even if that's not the case and we don't get the fullest amount um I really felt that the fer middle school which I also went to having that new replacement for like the security was really important back way way before Co um the summer before my seventh grade year I was in

167leadership class and over the summer we had some training and unfortunately we had a lockout the one of my we were all outside and we were just playing around doing middle school things and one of my friends came out and said there's a man with a knife so we all had to get into the building we all huddled into the library and it was really scary and Military armored trucks had to come and escort us out so that's why I really really hope that this passes because I feel like security is a number one thing that and I don't want any other future students at scho to experience what I because it was scary but yeah thank you thank you so much all right thank you all so much really appreciate it excited to keep

168moving forward and now we have our final reports and discussion items which is the new health standards with director kin good evening board chair uran members of the board student reps and Dr Udo Sena uh tonight Allison Heath is joining me for her second presentation of the evening um and we will be U discussing the new Elementary um health stand standards so we will um present an overview of the 2023 standards we're going to talk a little bit about K5 alignment the scope and sequence communication and roll out okay next slide please okay so in October of 2023 the Oregon Department of Education released a new set of K12 health standards as it does every seven years these new standards are currently rolling out across the state and are required to be fully implemented by

169the 2526 school year which is next year last year our previous director of teaching and learning Todd Robson determined that we should implement the new 2023 Health standards this current school year and this is in a two-phase implementation Elementary this year secondary next year next slide please okay so the new 2023 Health standards incorporate several key ships from the previous 2016 Health standards which our current scope and sequences are built upon the first major shift is the way that the standards themselves are organized this is based upon eight major topic areas which are integrate both Knowledge and Skills together the topic areas which you can see above are wellness and health promotion safety and first aid substance of use misuse and abuse food nutrition and physical activity social emotional and mental health healthy relationships in

170violence Abuse Prevention growth and development and sexual and reproductive Health next slide please the second major shift is that the 2023 standards feature a condensed number of Standards while maintaining coverage of topics this chart here shows how in each grade level there are fewer standards than there were pre previously and another shift is that these organ Health standards um are integrated with the transformative seal or the t- cell standards at each grade level um this will support od's recommendation for an embeded t- cell model next slide please some final shifts worth noting is that the new 20123 health standards integrate the importance of diversity throughout all topic areas while working to reflect current health issues in our state and our nation at the elementary level these new and expanded Health topics include healthy eating and

171the digestive system dental vision and heart health the benefits of exercise and sleep the circulatory system bones and muscles managing stress and anxiety living with physical and learning challenges an emphasis on safety which includes internet use firearm safety bike safety first aid and natural disaster preparedness and even expanded smoking drug and alcohol abuse prevention next slide please and to help us visualize the learning progression of Health topics in the 2023 standards OD has created the K5 and 612 learning progressions which are pictured here if you're interested in learning more about these I'd suggest looking at the OD Health standards and learning progressions documents which are easily accessible on the OD website next slide please so now that You' had a chance to get to know a little about the new Oregon Health standards I'd like

172to share about the wonderful works that we have done here to prepare for the roll out of these standards in gtsd next slide please in Spring of 2024 a team of ttsd teachers coaches and administrators met three times to crosswalk lessons from our adopted Elementary Health curriculum the great body shop with organs 20 23 standards I think it's important to note that based on od's 2024 curriculum adoption committee recommendations the great body shop which is published by Children's Health Market is the only Elementary Health curriculum that fully meets organs adoption criteria so good for us we have it the chart pictured here on the screen says the work of our committee here you can see the kindergarten Health standards broken down by topic area on the left and the corresponding great body shop lessons that

173can be used to meet each standard on the right next slide please so once the standard crosswalk work was finalized we were able to begin building our scope and sequence of instruction for each grade level to meet the new standards some lessons from last year scope and sequence were let go of while new lessons and activities were added this chart shows a coverage comparison of last year's Elementary health scop and sequence versus this year's new scope and sequence all of the great body shop lessons highlighted yellow were taught last year and will be taught again this year while lessons without highlighting have been added to this year's scope and sequence to meet the new 2023 standards next slide please all of this work completed by our elementary Health scope and sequence revision committee last spring

174paved the way for the creation of our new 20242 Elementary Health scope and sequence which which is rolling out this week to teachers in our schools next slide please so pictur on the screen you see the first grade tab of our community facing scope and sequence document you'll notice that there are columns listing great body shop lessons and activities taught within each unit and the health standards and transformative T Cell standards that these lessons are aligned with the top half of the CH chart with the light gray and white um shaded units represents the health content that can be taught at any time in the school year while the teal blue shaded section represents comprehensive sexuality education lessons that can only be taught in the third and fourth quarters after our parent notification preview and

175opt out process has been completed next slide please that document will also be shared with families of all of our elementary students this week with messaging describing the new health standards and our updated Elementary Health scope and sequence now to help teachers better integrate the new health standards with other content areas a team of teachers instructional coaches and toas collaborated last spring to create these integrated writing prompts the team selected standards which are highlighted yellow for each grade level Topic in the areas of Wellness health promotion safety for Sade food nutrition and physical activity and social emotional and mental health and informative opinion and narrative genre writing promps were created for each grade level so that writing could be integrated into the health block next slide please the next phase that we cover tonight is

176communication next slide please so the heavy lift of this work was done last year as Alison described uh this fall we just prepared for the implementation and the roll out um through the vetting of our uh through our leadership teams and and um and also cabinet next slide please so this is the teacher facing communication and this will go out tomorrow and it will have details on the new standards as well as the updated lessons and the scope and sequence next slide please and then the following day will be the community facing message that goes out to our parents so they are up to date on um the new Lon and the topics covered okay so now that you've seen the overview of the 10 months of planning and oper and preparation invested in a

177successful implementation of the 2023 Health standards let's talk a little bit about how we're going to support this shift moving forward thank you Thor next slide please so to to support our teachers in implementing the new scope and sequence of instruction I've created this Elementary health teacher guide the guide covers much of what we've just shared with you tonight about the 2023 Health standards the alignment process we went through our new scope and sequence additionally it covers the instructional resources we've adopted and developed to best and best practices in teaching Health this teachers guide will be the basis of an optional virtual PD which will be offering to all K5 teachers on January 17th to help Orient our teachers to the new standards and prepare them for success next slide please finally in early December

178will we will be training our elementary principles and office staff to run the annual comprehensive sexuality education parent notification preview and opt out process all elementary families will receive notification letters in early January through both parents square and in the mail these letters will provide directions for how parents can preview Health materials both virtually through the great body shop portal in or in person at their school's office starting on January 6th they will also include a link to the opt out form so parents can exempt their children from any portion of the comprehensive sexuality education content they wish these opt out notices will be due by the end of January so that teachers May begin teaching the comprehensive sexuality education lessons as early as February 3rd which is the beginning of the third quarter and

179that is our update on Elementary Health do we have any questions or comments I will just speak on I was part of the health adoption the curriculum team when this was we were first rolling this out I think it was two years ago um and I know it's been said before it is a really thorough and time consuming process um and particularly with health when there were as we looked at it was like aund and something when you look at all the different standards and strands and grades I mean it was a huge undertaking so to kind of have this two-phase roll out and then the kind of calendar of implementation all the community um sort of communications that are going out I really appreciate the thoroughness in which this second phase has been thought

180out and kind of and also having to look at all the new things that are coming out again and sort of how we are overlaying that on on the work we've already done in a way that is um meaningful and um sort of efficacious within the whole process so I just wanted to thank you for all that work it's a it's a big under taking um and particularly with this um it comes with its own sort of host of challenges and so I appreciate the thoughtfulness that um you guys have done in terms of implementing this and and getting it out there thank you one last I also really appreciate the transparency of it and everything you've walked us through this evening is really helpful and I would encourage you in addition to having the

181materials in school and online to have um a link to both this slide deck and this meeting um so that parents who have further questions can go and hear your presentation so that it makes sense what we've done why we're doing it and how it rolls out moving forward thank you so much for all of this work all right thank you so much thank you all right we will move to our one and only action item for this evening which is um some osba elections um and really quickly I'll I can read the cover sheet and then I just have a couple of notes around the the resolutions um so the Oregon school boards Association election is underway board members of the tiger twal and school district will be voting on open osba board of

182directors positions number 15 and 20 and resolution number one that amends the osba DU schedule resolution number two that creates the Oregon school board members Pride caucus and Design a seat on the osba board of directors and LPC and resolution number three that adopts the proposed amendments to the osba bylaws um and just really quickly and then we can do a vote or I we can answer any questions um both of the people that are up for um reelection that kind of says it all they're they're both uh really active I've worked with them closely um in this region both Christie and Nancy um so they are and they've been really really good and really involved especially around the legislative policy work um and advocacy work there in terms of the resolution particularly the dues

183I just wanted to say a couple of things um the first is that the dues have not increased in 25 years since the 1999 2000 school year um but the needs have increased dramatically particularly around legal work policy work and board development um and so they just simply can't keep up with with all of that with the dues being so low um so a quick breakdown is that if the do they we want to start um kind of create a floor of $1,500 um and it's all variant on the size of your District um So currently if the dues are already $1,500 or more there will be a 15% increase for five years and then we'll be in alignment with the Consumer Price Index um so that's sort of how that tier of of districts

184will look and then if they're below that $1,500 now created floor uh there will be a 250 per year increase until that floor is reached so there the the OSB is really trying to make sure we can get all of the costs covered to continue doing all of the work that osba does um while also keeping in mind that it's a money is tight for districts across the state um and so this was something that they worked with a Consultant Group around um and had a lot of a lot of behind the- scenes work coming up with this plan so that I just wanted to pull that out a little bit um and we have the color caucus um and so the pride caucus is very similar in structure and they've gone through all the

185the processes in order to get to this point so um I would read if I would entertain a motion if there aren't any questions or comments and then I just had a misprint in one of the director's positions so there's a print out with the correct number 15 and number 20 if you want to read the motion you can read it from the paper back won so this might be addressing what I'm bringing up um but it seems like well not seems like this is what happened so they had the um the color cus and then when they added the rural caucus it split the funds and so that was bad and so I'm thinking part of the reason for the increase in the dues might be Rectify that because if you continue particularly to

186add additional caucuses it just splits the resources and then eliminates the impact of the original color caucus so just bringing that up yeah so the the funding for those is in very nominal compared to the costs that are incurred for all of the the board services that are given and there was a lot of conversation around another caucus and um and sort of what what do all of the caucuses rural caucus being included sort of mean in the the bigger um sort of organizational structure and one thing that was was really I think said by a lot of us was the the folks that wanted to start the pride caucus they were given the go-ahead and sort of here's the checklist here's the steps of things that you need to do in which BR caucus

187had to do caucus of color had to do in order to get a caucus and so while there were conversations about moving forward let's put a hold on any more caucuses so that we recognize is the work being done in those caucuses that we wanted to if we're not sort of um diluting sort of the the um the importance of caucuses by having too many we also felt like they asked do the work they did the work it would not be in it wouldn't make it it wouldn't show number one good faith to say you've done all the work now we're not going to do it and it would send a really clear message to our lgbtq students and staff and board members to say this is the one we're going to say no so

188I think there there is going to be some shifting of finances but in terms of the dues increase this was not like a part of that conversation that helps yeah I think the the caucus conversation and the du's conversation are two completely separate um um issues the the dues honestly is that dues have not increased for 25 years the reason for that because I've been on the board long enough I know is that many many years ago osba used to provide our insurance and when they stopped doing that they kept a lot of our money and so they built up a huge endowment um so you want to talk about how cross people were with osba 15 years ago that's another conversation but they kept this money they the endowment over the last 15 20

189years they've been living off of that endowment to cover osba costs that's now pretty much been depleted and now districts actually have to pay for the services that they have been getting from osba for the past 25 years so or 20 years I should say um and so that's why the dues have to come up and so yes it's a big increase over five years but it's because they haven't had any increases for so long so it's it's hard to swallow but it's also we have to pay for the services we are using and they are crucial services that school boards need we need those I I would be dismayed is heck of an understatement I would be dismayed to not be able to pick up the phone and call osba when there's a legal

190question that this board faces and all districts across the state face these issues and so we have to have osba it's just it's a crucial part of doing business as aboard in a s way I didn't that it was huge I was just hoping a little bit of that increase might go to funding all the cuses a little bit better which it probably will I would hope so yeah I move that the tiger twt and School District Board of Directors support Christy koty for osba board of directors position number 15 and Nancy Thomas for osba board of directors position 20 as presented second motions made by director zme and seconded by D Vice chair Himes is there any discussion on the motion hearing none I'll move to a coral vote all those in favor please

191say I I I any abstentions I abstain thank you very much next motion I move that the tiger twon school board or sorry I move that the Tiger Quon School director District Board of Directors adopt the resolution number one that amends the osba due schedule resolution number two that creates the Oregon school board members Pride caucus and designate a seat on the osba board of directors in legislative policy committee and resolution number three that adopts the proposed amendment to the osba Vias as presented I second motion is by Vice chair Himes and seconded by director zme is there any discussion on the motion hearing none I'll move to a coral vote all those in favor please say I I I any abstentions I abstain both motions carry and with that I will adjourn our meeting

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