Jul 13, 2022 Board Meeting

001all right good evening ladies and gentlemen i will call this regular meeting of the tiger 12th and school board to order at 6 32 pm uh thank you all for joining us this evening um first dr ricky smith are there any changes to the agenda there are none sure hearing none i would entertain a motion to approve the agenda yes thank you for flagging so um patty has reminded us that uh item c under reports and discussion student board representative updating recommendation has been added we've talked about this in previous meetings um and we'll hear more from director durbin and jaime's on that item under reports discussion so uh the motion would be to approve as presented i move to approve is presented hi second motion was made by director urban and seconded by director

002jaime is there any discussion on the motion hearing none will move to a coral vote all those in favor please say aye aye motion carries unanimously all right um next up we will move to uh superintendent in board communication uh dr rick smith thank you so much chair again um you were all with me but i i always enjoyed putting this into the record which is last week we celebrated the class of 2022 graduating 934 students as of the count although we know that there will be others that will come across the line uh during the summer over four graduations at creekside community high school tiger high school high metropolitan virtual academy it's a doctoral class and 12 is in high school and i'm going to say kudos and offer kudos to texas roma bayley

003dewolfe and de lerva and their staff for the commitment to our graduating seniors this year i noted an increased number and diversity of student graduates who crossed the line and was particularly impressed with the ttpa inaugural class where graduates affirm the importance of a virtual personalized learning option a special thank you to this board for your support of standing up this new school platform cfo moore and secondary ed director amber fields and defensive the wolf for their hard work and dedication following our graduation celebrations i have the opportunity to share the day with chair um bowman and director irvin at pride week on sunday where our student gsa affinity group and partnership with the city of tiger held a parade that rounded its way from quality middle school and ended in tiger high school uh

004where there were family and community uh activities and i will leave the rest for shareholding because he has much to share about that uh relatives but i will again show my thanks to this board and to our city of tiger councillors heidi lube and john goodhouse as well as tiger tv who supported this inclusive community event and was particularly impressed uh to see the number of families with children who were participating uh and enjoying today and then last our summer school begins on july 11th for our k-8 students registration went out on friday june 10th already we have 700 plus students enrolled they ate with more in the queue and we are going to be a victim of our success as we were last year high school credit recovery starts in late june last year

005we served over 1200 students day eight and we covered over 100 high school credits serving 800 high school students now that is my report all right colleagues would like to first search hi uh welcome everybody um i don't have much to report other than what um uh superintendent uh said but uh i wanted to take a moment to congratulate the class of 2022 for all of their achievement and to thank you for allowing me to participate in their graduation yeah i think we've essentially spent the last several days all of us together so our reports would be very similar um thank you to everyone that's here and i also wanted to thank um and congratulate the retirees uh class of 2022 that we just celebrated earlier at quality um and had a lovely reception for

006them and so that was really wonderful to see all of those faces um that's it question thank you so i have a few things to share um and i'll tell you you'll understand why in a second but i want to congratulate the class of 2022 um i had a chance to attend all the high school graduations this year uh and i was just really proud to see those students graduate and as the superintendent said students all across the spectrum in terms of diversity in every way that we can think of so congratulations to our graduates also congratulations to our retirees i'm sorry i was not able to be here i'm in the midst of doing some things that i'll share with you in a uh minute other things i want to speak to before talk

007about the last thing again that forgive me for the length of this announcement but um one is that i attended a um a silent walk for race unity uh yesterday it was actually right after pride in tiger there was an incident where an african-american gentleman by name paul harris was verbally assaulted called the inward and told to go back home as he was walking through the summerfield neighborhood here in tiger so many of us gathered yesterday to uh and walk to that same place to say no to hate and um and so i thought you'd want to know about that given all the work that we're doing at ttsd the other thing that i want to acknowledge and talk about is this the shooting of school children and two teachers in uvalde texas and we

008haven't as a board had an official response to this but i think that i want to acknowledge the pain and the hurt that i know a lot of educators and students are feeling um and this is again another attack um directed at communities of color and so that's an extra layer of anxiety and trauma i think that we're also experiencing that i want to acknowledge and speak to the other thing that i learned about [Music] that school rob elementary school is that there historically has been a fight to ensure that it will be integrated that teachers of color could put in back teach there uh and there were parents on npr the other day talking about that sort of long enriched tradition and a history and how important that school is in terms of that

009and so um i just want to as a board member really acknowledge that horrible and tragic situation but also express some joy that our country seems to be moving forward with some legislation on gun control the last thing i'll say is that um this will be my last in-person meeting um for a little while because uh i'm in the process of packing up and moving some of my things to denver where i'll be taking a position at the university of colorado denver and so um i will be attending some meetings in person some virtually but for the month of july and probably if there's another meeting in june i don't remember i'll be attending those virtually and then i'll hope to attend the first meeting in august in person and then they'll be kind of

010a switch off for me at that point so um i did bring half of a sour cream pound cake that was left over from a little gathering we had yesterday and i brought it because it is the best thing on the planet i have forks and plates for anybody who wants to um my friend um dean of the college of arts the roy bynum hosted celebration for us yesterday and and made that amazing cake so uh it is yours i cannot take it home with me because i you know i just can't it's too much but so i wanted you to know that as well so thank you for obliging me thank you vice chairman just a couple notes from me one i didn't want to say thank you all for for being here this

011evening we did come from the retirement section before uh it's been an emotional day for me but i one of one of the teachers who had like the greatest impact on my life um i saw his name on the plaques i was thinking about so made me a little emotional but congratulations to our retirees and our graduates um who are moving on um i was pleased to join vice chair lina at the silent walk that was a powerful event after pride for pride you know i've been thinking about a lot um i'm gay and grew up in this community and truly never thought that we would have a pride parade or at least feel that i would feel comfortable walking in it um so that did mean a lot to me and not just to

012have a pride parade but to have such a huge turnout i think there's probably a couple hundred people there and i know our our district team um and some school leaders helped make that possible so thank you to those folks uh and the folks at steve tiger who um i think sent a pretty strong message to people that were a community where everyone's welcome um and then two fun notes well actually one not as fun though to to um vice chair lynn's point about the shooting that happened i did want to i want to thank director darren bernard for um there have been some constituents who have reached out with concerns about physical safety in our school buildings and we've made because of the support of our community through bond projects we've made some pretty

013significant upgrades to our school facilities in terms of safety in addition to some practices so if folks are interested please do feel free to reach out and get that information to you but it's been on a lot of pokemons recently and then two fun notes to end on uh vice chairlin and i got to meet with the fifth grade students at templeton elementary last week for moving on to middle school and hear you know things that they wanted to change about templeton for the next generation of students and their fears about moving on to um to middle school which included getting lost at school for getting the combination to your locker which are things i very much remember um so it was fun to talk to them and then finally uh congratulations to the tiger

014high school softball team for becoming state champions i have now seen the winning play from two separate angles uh it's becoming like an espn play but um we've now had state champions from tarleton we have state champions tiger we have folks going to nationals in our arts program um so uh it's been a great week for the district and um i'm very pleased about those any other items to add those okay then with that patty can you confirm we have no agenda-related public comments okay we have one non-agenda okay so that will come after our action items so we will move to reports and discussion item one safety and security report good timing director darren bernard and director jarvis gomez uh um i know um the board as well as a lot of our administration's

015questions lately about safety and security so we've given the board um some updates to ask we just want to bring it board once again just do a reminder of where we're at and some of the processes that have occurred and some of the processes processes that we're engaged in currently and that are happening so first off i just want to remind everyone that prior to the bond we set forth a committee um right prior to the long-range sales plan we was engaged in a process by three core educational values and values for educational programs safety and athletics so that task force was created it was composed of staff members community and then each area was given each area of focus was given to charge and so we're going to focus on the safety committee so

016that safety task force their charge was to discuss school safety issues faced by tiger faults in schools as well as district policies on access control and incident response protocols they've developed a long list of key issues and action items related to the school safety and security issues their concerns and then always those lists are really long right and so in any long process they prioritize those items and then that's what we saw in our lawn and complete a lot of those so on this first slide that we talked about is some of the things that were recommended by the district safety team and focused on hearing our bond and so one was creating secured vestibules at all of our schools and that's that was quite an upgrade four of elementary schools we had we have

017offices deep into the schools all those offices were brought to the front get good visibility so that that's been implemented across the district also we have installed quite a few more new security cameras district-wide continue to add cameras our team meets with administrators on a regular basis and we're looking for areas where we can improve and things like that so that's that's a process of adding those and adding capacity um across the district uh install door locks can be locked inside one project is reducing number of heat access points on the outside of our schools we have a lot of we have a lot of outdoor keys and then oftentimes those keys will get lost or displaced or copied and so one of the things that we did was took away a lot of those

018accesses do you put a just a blank over the doors you can't use a key we've added hard swipes outside of our buildings so we have reduced the number of overall outside access points and with safety and security oftentimes comes in convenience so it's going to get some adjustment for some of our schools to be used to their patterns of going in certain doors to all of a sudden the team and the committee felt that having that one main entry point our buildings was top priority we've also added lots of signage inside and out of our buildings we we're current process operating indoor access controls and so um being able to schedule and know when doors are open the upgrade that we're in the process of doing now will allow us to you know over

019time we can keep adding to the system and build on it and so those systems can be as robust as much money as you want to spend on stuff so but we do have a we are excited about the new program that we're going with we've also are looking at fire system upgrades across the district as well so that's some of the stuff that was it's been completed or being wrapped up this summer thank you good evening good work i hope you guys are tired so uh director bernard talked about could do or has done i'm just going to share some things that we're asking our schools to do that they can do to help keep their school safe later on um that that's a presentation that our team went to every school and gave

020to the secretary so they've seen that training review safety protocols with staff that's what administrators can do once a year twice a year just to keep up to date with what's happening and it's also good reminders unfortunately and sadly from the tragedy we faced uh this year uh it's really good to make sure that we fall through with those safety do not pop doors open uh we know that the words get popped open sometimes it will be a nice day and they want to take the class outside or something like that we need to talk about it's like that safety can be an intermediate sometimes and so making sure our doors are shut uh how teacher just in the hallways just be present right administrators sros camp security everybody just be in the hallways during

021passing times that just makes kids feel safe uh and then just monitor social media there's so many things that kind of pop up that if we're paying attention that we learn a lot of things and talk to students and learn quite a bit to make sure that our schools are safe get ahead of some things that uh hopefully so just things that we think our school administrators schools can do right now and a lot of them are doing this next so some uh items that the safety team ttsd has done on top of the director garage just shared reinforced uh secure investor protocols building administrators so we have talked about those what they should do and how they should operate just this year you have a long training in your packet we do conduct two

022lockdown drills uh at each school uh just this past week we did one here which was uh pretty neat because we did three campuses uh with california templeton and quality and what's unique about that is we know that if there is a tragedy uh on this main campus area that all three sites will have to respond immediately and so we were able to do a lockdown reel simultaneously and that goes to the next goal is the blue button so that blue button is a button that's in every main office then you push it it puts a school lockdown that means doors shut locked all all that and the neat part was as we push the button here at california and it set all three campuses so and it was very successful which we were nervous

023about because it was our first time we do have a couple other sites that we need to do that with tall to high school in byram because they're close and creekside and durham elementary so those are some sites that we still need to combine i just talked about that lockdown deal on this main campus we did uh get radio um are the aquatic districts tied into that for 12 10 tiger i i have to check on that this summer part of me thinks yes because what you might know in the bond i don't know is this this is something they brought up we'll look into it okay it's every good um sorry so the the camps we did purchase radio so there can be communication to all three um school sites here on this campus

024together so there is an emergency they can talk to each other uh we met with the police department to serve that serve ttsd and review our insert response protocol so that was a few of us here dr smith and so forth just communication and conversation with our police departments to see what their response would be and it was a very positive and a great conversation i guess the readers digest versions they're going to respond fast and take care [Music] all of our officers in our city because i think this also came out in texas that they didn't have access to get into the school all of our officers not just sros all of the officers in king city 12th and tiger have access to our schools they have badges and keys so they can get

025anywhere but they need to get two best on top of that tiger has purchased some other tools that will help them get through barricaded doors if they need to and fall to the police department we also meet uh bi-monthly with our sros there's a few of us that meet at the 12th of police department is just to have conversation about what's happening how we can do better how we can partner on certain things so that happens bi-monthly and as you know uh two months ago the board passed the no gun policy and so we have those signs up in our schools currently um and then uh just recently we had in that conversation with dr ruby smith and myself director bernard part of the conversations in in a tragic event where would command posts be

026uh i met with them at one of those bi-monthly meetings and we have a tentative list of where those spots were will be for each school next slide and then these are some action lines that we still need to continue to work on we have an emergency procedures handbook we do have one it just needs to be updated so we are currently working on that on updating that it's it's a large handbook it's not just about like a school shooting so to speak it includes things like if there was a tornado or a earthquake or something so it incorporates quite a bit of stuff so we're working on that uh yearly confirmation of our reunification sites i'm not going to share where those are because we're not supposed to share but there we do have

027three that we've had in the past so we're just confirming that we still have those same three what does that mean oh sorry so we have to reunify so there's a tragic event and we have to get our students to their parents in an off-site location reunification is those off-site locations and those three are supposed to be somewhat secretive because we don't want people necessarily know where to go it's free for the whole district yep and it just depends on where the tragedy might be uh just audit our schools on vestibular use you know i think sometimes like director berg said again it can't be a nuisance and to be secure but sometimes i think we can get uh comfortable when things are going just fine and we gotta make sure that we don't be

028comfortable that we're safe all the time for the rest of the protocol so we just need to make sure we're auditing that with our schools make sure retrain our custodial staff to make sure that they do speak so that our doors are locked at the end of the day and then at the same time just that our school staff knows the same thing that we want to make sure that our schools are locked and that we have the one point of during school uh and then again we're always available to train we've been around and asked lots of questions people come in and say hey can you show us this so we're available for that and then just we do an ongoing safety security assessment with our with our schools so for example ask where

029do you want new additional cameras if you need so that's just one small example of what we've done to see what they need or if they feel like there's um an entry spot that that's work not working or or the swipe's not working so we're always constantly trying to find ways to make sure that we're helping our schools be safe questions i did have a couple of follow-up questions um so for the next bond um i know we're not quite there yet um well is a safety task force automatic for the long range space part of it yes so we're gonna we'll go we're just now starting to we have a team meeting with all of our administrator building administrators right now and getting their take on you know as we go up this next

030bond what are the your needs and ones that you're building so again we'll be same process we'll start generating issues at each building every site and then look at it at a bigger level those conversations in the future um and then the only other question and i'm not coming out with strong feelings i haven't done enough research yet but there were some questions about how we're training students and staff to respond in lockdown situations with an active shooter whether it's uh run fight hide or shelter in place can you describe a little bit about how we're training yeah so i would say most of the portland metro use uses i love you guys foundation and what that is is it's basically secured type of thing so we're going to lock our doors turn off the

031lights and hide in the corner that's what our district has been doing for 20 some years since i've been in in the district i do know that there is a uh another option you know it's it's either or flee basically and um we've had conversations but we haven't had probably enough conversations about if we wanted to go that direction or continue what we want to do because i think there's with anything right there's positives pros and cons to all of it thank you thanks children yes i appreciate that you're addressing the people component of this you know um i come out of a space where schools were community schools schools were open right schools were accessible and as a parent and as community members as a person with certain belief systems around schools i think

032that's a good idea i also recognize that we live in a time where that's not very safe and so how do we continue to confront people people who think like i do that you know schools should be open all the time um and unfortunately uh you know in a couple of these mass shootings in schools we heard that um doors were popped open or that keys were given to students right so that students would have access which again is in theory i think a great idea but how do we ensure that our community keeps safety as paramount i i just think it's a continued conversation right and retraining because we do like classical messages we do get comfortable with procedures we were at schools last week and as you rolled up there's a few doors

033popped built on a nice day and there's always those reminders right and so um like i said earlier um safety oftentimes is an inconvenience there's a challenge at times or i gotta walk a little bit further and stuff but you know that our committees have they had a whom we first developed our safety tests course they were really interested making sure our we wanted to maintain our schools as safe but yet invite and so how do you do that in a you know you can't have you don't want to walk through fences and arm security get into a school but yet how can we make our all our schools very inviting welcoming and we know with a lot of procedures and protocols making sure we're checking um folks into the main office things like that

034know who's in your building that's what we ask our site administrators to do is during the day our campuses are closed when they do when people do come on our campus is to go for a walk or walk their dogs or somewhere if we have some walking paths on some of our schools um it's usually a conversation sometimes this goes well and sometimes they don't because our community use it as a public you know it's like a public park or access as well on the weekends our schools are very busy with community and so it's just a continual conversation we keep reminding folks and trying to be um with our policies and expectations across the district director first of all thank you for your thorough presentation makes me sad that we have to go through

035this and as a former teacher i it makes me really sad to think of all those times when we have to have the lockdown drill you know just hide in place and my students would be crying because you know no matter how much you tell them that it's that it's fake that it's just a simulation they still internalize it and they uh you know they see it right they see the lights go off and we're all huddling and then somebody comes to the door it like shakes it and uh it's it's pretty scary and um but i also know that and thank you to the taxpayers because with those vestibules that were built i know that we were safer and we also had conversations um you know especially at bridgeport where i used to work

036that we had those conversations about making sure that we were safe but also inviting and had those equitable conversations about how do we maintain that sense of being a community school being open to our community but also ensuring that our students are safe and you know i'm just so proud of what the policies that we've implemented in terms of keeping guns out of our schools and just you know don't want to get political but if if we can do that here at our school district why can't we do that nationwide but um you know just thank you so much for making sure that our students are safe and for this thorough review of our processes thank you both very much um we will move to report and discussion item number two tag services update with

037presenter melissa baron welcome back good evening everyone just hopefully thanks for having me um it's nice to be here and be able to close the feedback and close the loop around tech services and we have been engaged in a lot of conversation around tech services this year and so i'm thankful for the opportunity to come and share where we're at and we're more importantly where we're going as you know next slide friday um we have a tag plan that is on file with the department of education that outlines six goals um around how we will ensure that all of our students are receiving tag services but most importantly receiving just what they need in order to grow as students and so throughout the year i've given you different types of updates about what our current

038reality is and you can see these on the slides for goal number one which is increasing the staff awareness of the characters in this we started with kind of some hit or miss training and that again i've been really honest about that over the year that we have had the best of intentions to ensure that all of our staff were trained around tax services and differentiation for rate and level but for a variety of reasons that wasn't able to occur however what i'm really excited about is our next steps and what we in teaching and learning have really committed to is a systematic approach to ensure that tech services are provided in all of our buildings next slide please and what that looks like is this tag services plan and what we are saying is

039that by october december february june we will have very specific expectations for our building leaders and for our teachers in terms of how we are ensuring that all of our students are receiving tag services all of our staff are aware of the students who are identified and not yet identified as gifted and and that will occur again very systematically which i'm really excited about because we can with confidence say that we will know that our students are receiving what they need um and so that that is the update and the next step for goal number one for goal number two is around the primary support of the identified tech students that has shifted to the classroom and so that's where we've spent a lot of time talking about differentiation for rate and level and and

040what that looks like in classrooms and again in the spirit of transparency we acknowledge that that didn't occur into the level that we had hoped for this year and that the training didn't occur to the level that we had hoped for this year however next slide next year um we have plans in place for a k-12 administrator alignment and calibration around tech services and so this will be in our august retreat so that all of our building leaders are very much aware of what the tag service expectations are what the look fors are in classrooms different training modules and so that's where we really are putting a lot of our emphasis in in this next step is ensuring that our building leaders can help us and we can partner together because frankly i can't be

041in every building and monitor what's happening in every classroom and so i'm going to partner with my colleagues and hope that we will be able to have a better system in place additionally we are moving our elementary type specialists to supervision in teaching and learning right now they are split between two buildings and between two principals trying to supervise an employee who is time and we've found that it's very hard to calibrate and to stay aligned in terms of what's happening around identification at the elementary level and so we are bringing all of those employees into teaching and learning to again really focus on alignment of the system calibration so that we are very much talking the same language sharing the same information having the same conversations with teachers and things of that nature and

042then the last bullet point for goal two will be just the implementation of the ttsd tech services plan outlined our third goal for our tech services is around reducing the disparity that exists in identification and so really being intentional about providing opportunities for our students who come from underserved populations to be identified as gifted but more importantly to receive instruction at the level that would be appropriate for them whether or not they're identified as tank with this specific identification process and we have been partnering with ode in this particular realm and that's something that i'm really proud of and just want to give public acknowledgement to our tag specialists and to our teaching and learning tosa who have been partnering with the oregon department of education around tech services and developing resources that other districts

043will use to ensure that identification for our underserved populations is occurring on a more consistent basis and so that is just some public acknowledgement there next steps around this woman's sciences is again very similar to what i outlined in goal number two so making sure that our administrators are on the same page everybody understands um when we say differentiation for rate level what does that mean when we talk about equitable identification processes what does that mean and then bringing everyone into continued collaboration with ode is another big goal of ours and our team is really excited for the opportunity to continue partnering with them um as we develop resources at costco across the state next slide please goal number four was just around increasing collaboration between teachers and grade levels and this is where we

044talked about how we shifted our team tag plans how we have moved um to supporting our secondary students with the support of administrators all of those sorts of things but again that that lack of pd days and um that shift that happened mid-year caused us to not be able to do everything that we had hoped for so that's our current reality for goal number four but our next steps are please to really look at implementing this tech services plan again and i know it's repetitive but we really want to make it clear that we are being systematic in our approach and how we're going to provide services and for us what we've realized and what we've as we gathered feedback from so many stakeholders around tag services is that the lack of clarity is what

045has caused a lot of the confusion and the lack of understanding it's just really been about a lack of clarity and not a lack of will or lack of skill it's just we didn't know we didn't understand exactly what we were supposed to do when we just said differentiation rate level and so again being really intentional and building out teams of support um as we have looked at tech services we've really come to this realization and understanding that it isn't just one person it's not going to be just a classroom teacher that's going to provide all tech services and do all of the things for all of the students there are a lot of support staff in place that want that we will utilize to help all of our classroom teachers feel confident in providing

046opportunities at every student's rate and level goal number five was around articulating roles and responsibilities for our tag coordinators and so this was a place where we have have wrestled with honestly we at the secondary level in particular we don't have the same level of staffing that we have associated with our elementary level and so what our plan is moving forward is to utilize our teaching and learning tosa as well as the addition of the assistant principal sorry the assistant principles at uh the middle level and then also partnering with assistant principals at the high school level to have them be point people and partners in ensuring tech services are provided um again this is mentioning what i just talked about but also thinking through the tag specialist coming into teaching and learning that was

047a big step for this particular goal so that again we can ensure consistency and message and consistency and services last goal next one is goal number six which is just capitalizing on technology and one of the things that we have been really proud of this year is the the seminars and webinars that we provided to our community throughout the school year and those have been opportunities for families to come and learn about different issues affecting students who are identified not yet identified as gifted but also just strategies for advocating and things of that nature and it's been a really fruitful conversation that we've been able to have with our community and so those are the things that we've done this year next slide moving forward we hope to continue to build this bank of resources

048for our families and for our students and for our teachers around tech services around giftedness in general um and again this is another place that we're partnering with obe gathering resources that can be used across the state so that we can share with all of our stakeholders just about what tag is and and what the school district is providing so those are the updates on our tag services for now questions comments director irvin and vice chairman thank you so much for that update and i appreciate also just the transparency in that we had goals and we got some of them and and some of them they're still works in progress so i appreciate that i had a couple of questions first is what so you mentioned the process or that there is a process to

049sort of better identify um students that have been from historically underserved populations can you explain a little bit what that process looks like so historically when students have been identified for tag it's been off of a test score really it's been about how well did you score on the spec now we call osas test and what we have adopted in our identification process is much more robust opportunity for us to identify giftedness and so it includes things like a parent interview so every family is interviewed and we gather qualitative information from that we do teacher rating sports skills so that every teacher has the opportunity to now speak into this evaluation process we use standardized test scores as well as one data point but really what our specialists are doing is looking at the student

050as a whole and identifying what what does it mean to be gifted and how can we qualify a student based on a variety of databases and are we looking at also linguistically diverse students too and sort of understanding giftedness that would show in sort of a native language versus english that's not their yes and so our tag specialists are working with paul verstrade who's our assessment coordinator and working with ion and pulling data really consistently across the board of where students showing up in advanced ways or in gifted ways and then identifying from a variety of places okay and then my second question is you know from the teacher's standpoint there's a lot of differentiation that happens in classrooms from one end of the spectrum to the other and everything in between and so i'm

051wondering in terms of you know really having consistent and quality and um practical differentiation practices within the classroom is the bulk of that sort of conversation happening with that training in august are there pd sessions that you hope to have i mean i'm just i'm trying to figure out as a teacher that knows you know we're finding these goals we have this data how is the best way even you know with ketosis and instructional approaches really in our classrooms you know are there some clear kind of consistent things that we will be knowing to do or look to in order to best serve in this case our tech students yeah so what we're planning for and we all know the best side plans but what we're planning for is to build a team around teachers

052so that includes the tag specialist the instructional coach the contentosa and really individualizing professional learning and what's happening in classrooms for each individual classroom nation students and so what that would look like is i'm teaching a high school language arts class and i have three students who are identified as gifted in writing and language arts and so i am going to first look at you know my assessment data be able to figure that out but then also go to my coach and say here's where i have this assignment how can i differentiate it based off of the depth of knowledge of the dok so that i can ensure that there are as many levels as possible in terms of content access for all of my students and so we're not looking at specific strategies we're

053not looking at all students will get differentiation in discourse like that's not the direction we're going we're really looking at diversifying or differentiating every single assignment to give access to every single level wonderful thank you so much yeah i was as a parent of gifted students i'm really grateful to see this really detailed plan um where you're responding to i know you've got a lot of feedback and you've got some really enthusiastically engaged parents right i know them personally uh and uh so so kudos to you and to uh director robson for the great work i think they've been done in putting this together i was one of the people who talked about a lack of clarity and i don't feel i feel like this is very very clear and i i'm excited about uh

054the future so thank you mr heinrich um i also want to congratulate you for a clear plan i one of my questions is how feasible is this plan that's your question richard um i really do believe it is useful i think because of the way that we are stepping through with empowering our building leaders and providing um what we're the plan is right now is to put together the learning in a module that's acts as accessible through canvas and so that our teachers can access it at any point in time so we can asynchronous opportunity to learn and then a refresher and you know all of those sorts of things um and also understanding and i think i've said this before that this is a process and it's going to be individual so there's no

055expectation that when we walk into classrooms in the fall everybody has differentiation for brain level we can check the box that's not the direction that we're going we're really thinking about how can we support our teachers in doing what they want to do which is provide what all of their students need that's that is what they want to do and so we just want to provide as many tools and resources and supports as we possibly can and that's you know one of the reasons the district has been so intentional about investing in instructional approaches and really believing that having a peer that can walk alongside you as you are implementing new strategies and give you non-evaluative feedback and all those is so important and so that i really believe that this is a feasible plan

056and that this is something that we can put into place connection how many tag students do we have goodness i was just wondering um it says here by october 2022 uh team tag plans are completed for k8 so what what does that mean what's a team tax plan yeah so we moved to team tag plans for this school year this iteration of our time plan and what that means is that not every individual student has a specific plan it means that all of the students in ms barron's english class receive differentiation for grade level using these strategies and using these particular things and so at the team level what we're talking about is at the fourth grade level at bible all of the fourth grade teachers meet together talk about this is how we are

057going to differentiate these particular lessons to make sure that we hit all four levels of the okay um and so it is in a specific student plan it's for that entire team and the way that we will accomplish that and why it's feasible is that we will partner with our building leaders around their 100 meetings which is where they talk about all of their students and talk about how they're going to meet the needs of all of their students using the data and our tag specialists will be able to be a part of that conversation and engage in the conversation and those will all occur and they have occurred this is a new structure that already exists in every building and so that's how they'll happen k5 and then six eight we will they do

058a similar process and so we'll engage sorry i that's okay no i i love the plan i'm just wondering you know just based on my own observations as a teacher as a as a parent of a tank student and just wondering do you know part of our our work here as board members is to see about um you know investing in the programs right and the budget and just wondering how how we can help direct some money and you know dr sue might be able to tell us more but when if i remember correctly i think uh we had three tank specialists um that were leading the work right or tosas i guess um and then you're the coordinator for them right and and so how many like how many staff members do we have

059that are dealing with this tax program so there's me and i'm the tech coordinator tag services coordinator we have a tosa in teaching and learning who's part of her role is to support secondary tag implementation so that's part of the rule and then we have five elementary tag specialists who are half time and so you're saying that with that staff there's enough staff to go to all the 100 meetings at all the schools i'm saying that in partnership with all of our other support yes that our tag specialists they i mean they i'm not speaking for them because they're not but like that we have had this conversation and they really do believe that it's possible for them between their schools because 100 meetings are generally two days and so they can alternate between the

060weeks so one week they can be at school a and attend 100 meetings go to 100 meetings and so that's also why we put the due date in october knowing that we have six weeks between the start of the school year and when we will need to have sex and i know like this is i'm not that's okay it's not a criticism review or anything i'm just i'm just you know putting it out there because uh one of the things that i have heard that makes me really sad is um some of our staff members saying that they don't have any training in terms of being able to differentiate and that should not happen in the school district we should be able to give customers as much training as possible on how to differentiate and

061so um i appreciate that you're that you're putting this uh plan together so i you know thank you for that and i just i really hope i'm hopeful that it comes through fruition for our students and i do want to just i echo that the training and the lack thereof has been one of our biggest barriers and that again i don't believe as an educator that differentiation we're ever going to be through it's going to be this constant iteration this constant development and engagement in conversation so i think that that's also something that we all acknowledge as we are working through all of this is that by fall october of 2022 it's not going to be everybody is trained in differentiation and everything is perfect for our students it's that we are going to be

062committed to having the conversation and starting the conversation and partnering with our teachers when there's a need that arrests and being able to say you have an instructional approach we have a literacy specialist we have a type specialist we have a building administrator we have all of these people who are here to partner with you as you engage other questions comments question well i think what i hear you saying director famous is that you know should there be the need for additional support for this ambitious plan right this is an important priority and i think it it's in line with our goals around that so thank you again all right thank you very much for being here um okay dr iggy smith yeah thank you so much uh for giving me just a moment as

063we shift to uh before we shift into imc um we have set out uh the remainders from the uh retirement party uh road gate so that is available uh if anyone like in our audience would like to take that cabinet wait till the audience is bad first so all right then we will um move to item number c uh item letter c i should say student board representative update and recommendation uh with presenters directors whoever wants to jump in i will jump in um so really on behalf of director myself and the rest of the committee that included also this current year's student reps um that we're tasked with selecting the student board reps for the next school year and we have something that we would like to share and also present for the board's

064consideration and so one thing that we have seen over the past few years is a trend of increased interest by students wanting to serve in this goal and this year we had 11 highly qualified and incredibly diverse candidate supplies and we also really recognized while interviewing all of these candidates that they have number one a ton going on and number two while they are connected to a lot of communities our high schools are very large and it's hard for one person to connect with everyone in all of the different communities and affinity groups or asb or student unions et cetera and you know in and not being able to do that not necessarily hearing everyone's concerns or advocating for everyone's idea um it's kind of an impossible task and so we looked at this from

065the very beginning when we saw some candidates you know coming in in this list of really incredible young people we actually kind of saw an opportunity and so we have these policies that we have written and approved that define and reinforce our commitment to expanding and centering student voice and so in being sort of intentional to this process and really anchoring back into those policies we believe that it might be time to recalibrate a bit and actually expand our student board representation to include two students per school um we believe that after this 20 to 2022 2023 school year we can look at data we can get feedback we can look at the impact of this decision and perhaps down the road continue to expand and certainly this does not mean that we would have

066four students necessarily at this table we would you know work on a plan of alternating who would be sort of the voice at that meeting everyone would be in attendance we want to make sure that all of those rules still apply and those those two board representatives would kind of decide amongst themselves who would be sort of the speaker for that particular meeting um and so and we are willing to you know discuss and entertain questions um if the board is willing to move forward with our recommendation we are happy to announce next year's board reps um and then formally both goes in during the june 27th meeting but we also don't want to announce without that full consensus we have also looked at policies specifically acc bcba and bcba-a-r and believe that this works

067within the policy but we would also be happy if the board members prefer to do a full policy review to make sure that this falls within sort of the language of those policies directory makes anything you want to add to that uh no i think that she pretty much covered it so you're basically asking do we want to move forward with the recommendation of two and then if so we'll announce tonight um correct okay so bcba is the student policy yes and then the vcba-ar has sort of specifics for the role what their eligibility is etc oh and um director irvin and myself kind of take a point in figuring out with working with the students to see you know which meetings they would want to attend it would be kind of like a mentoring

068of sorts well some couples all do a couple initial thoughts interesting to hear from the vice chair lynn um obviously directors are not here tonight so we'll have to make a decision um i like the idea of expanding the opportunity what i would be interested in is making sure uh and we're talking i'm talking to henry about this how do we make sure that the if we have four well we should also talk about quick side and potentially dtva as you mentioned um how do we ensure that relationships are being filled with the board superintendent um so that they feel comfortable in access i like the idea of making sure that their attendance if they're not necessarily sitting there because you might miss some context that might be really useful um but as we've seen

069and this has always been true by the way it's perfect attendance from the student representatives it just doesn't happen with all these students so i like the idea even if someone can't be there we'll still have a student voice represented um so yeah i like the idea i think that we're moving in a good direction and just ensuring that the relationships are being built and that students are still feeling like they're able to be part of the process you know access to the superintendent in there i don't know you might be holding a triple number of meetings you've been having students to that point i would say that we have established this routine community relations director grows in a meeting with student reps once a month and first and foremost just trying to get them

070comfortable with the work of the board and then um where do you want to go what's the work that you want to do this year and uh so we support that as well and um it's been a wonderful opportunity it's been two years now i've had that process and you know i'm going to be selfish i've learned so much from these students with these students um but based on the hugs that i got i've been both tired and college and graduations i'm thinking that perhaps they felt the best value yet so so can i ask what is your thinking on uh gtba and creekside so we have had conversations um with creekside and um so i mean i think if ttva is interesting um certainly and that was just something that i kind of came

071to mind today as we really kind of think about thinking about whether it's one representative or five sort of building out do we have representation across all high schools um and certainly um i know that the principal at creekside has been working to find some students that are able um and and wanting to do this work and i then again tgba sort of came across my mind today um so that is certainly further discussion in terms of additional student representation on the board to your first point um with the sort of how do we have continuity and how do we build those relationships i in some ways i actually think each student not being at an island at their school in some ways that helps you have another person at your school seeing different sides

072at the same point in a way um to bounce ideas off of um we certainly talked about really mentoring some of these students have a ton of experience in leadership and different roles some of them don't um and and so we get to kind of come alongside all of those students and and mentor them in different ways as what everybody on the board is as you know co-mentors and so i think i don't see an issue with that piece i think we could have a continued discussion specifically around ctva maybe see what principal will you recommend well i appreciate the innovative thinking here yeah go ahead oh i was just going to say if we are you know opening it up opening it up to students you know at the high schools and at uh

073creekside and which is another high school right i mean why not tva i think that it should be it's part of our district so we should definitely have uh some representation from them as well and if we're opening it up to two students and you know and we have to students that apply i think we should definitely do that poor patty logistics of this new arrangement may be challenging but we could make it work um okay adventureland thoughts questions i think generally that that is that's an interesting idea i think worth considering i i have noticed you know that uh the the task the job of one rep uh trying to represent the entire school time is a lot i've helped um students at times so i think uh sharing the lows uh it's probably

074not a bad idea um the meeting that we had at templeton was really that was a wonderful of student ambassadors that came together to kind of share ideas with ben and i about what the students wanted you know for this school for the district and i i have had some conversations with a couple has been about the idea of a elementary student ambassador um not necessarily serving as a student rep to the board but maybe having some kind of engagement interaction before maybe or something like that but we get to hear from our students at the elementary level but also well so yes the other thing that was evident to me is that we have two reps um who are challenged with trying to represent everybody in their school but are really only representing their

075school not necessarily just so thinking also about ways to really reach out to student groups that's not that's not a plan to have more reps that's that's more engagement yeah i love that idea that sort of council idea where there's representation each of the schools as we found out if you provide pizza this is a huge attraction for elementary school students um so i'm comfortable moving forward with this um today and hearing hearing the students i think i'm talking on the fly here but i do think we should do a policy review just to ensure and i'm wondering if um trader ebert that's something we could add to the agenda for next um uh two weeks meeting the student representatives section just that policy um to review whether this make sure this this arrangement fits

076well into that before we formally adopt the decisions does that work uh yeah yeah let's do that let's just follow the process as we as we normally would so it's bcba dash ar is the one that really lays out which would be good to do especially if we want to include ttva because that would be another thing that we could add or make the language more broad so that it's sort of high school students generally instead of naming their high schools so it's point of clarity and view that we're talking about it conceptually here tonight so folks are aware okay so and yes it's quite servicing applause anniversary yes and then go to action as an action item on the june 27th yes and director search means all the policy so hopefully as well one

077thing i would also like to include that conversation for discussion um this was talked about that we presented actually at nsba some folks asked us about advisory votes for student representatives not able to actually vote but providing advisory vote on certain issues i'd like to consider that pros cons feasibility etc interesting conversation yeah the other thing i think we could consider in terms of policy change and i'm just getting familiar with the policy here but um you know there doesn't seem to be any uh guidance around participation and engagement in meetings for students and sometimes i feel like our student reps are here and most of the silence and so what obligation do we have to engage them to ask their opinion to get their feedback even if they're not voting um and and maybe

078the updated um you know uh ar could speak to that on some level provides more space and clarity about how i like yeah so i'm hearing general consensus about people with this in fact no objections um so you haven't alerted the students yet so they'll be hearing for the first time this evening and then i'm sure is this the normal process that i want to make sure that's i think we should do that just so that if students weren't selected their hearing before everyone else is being separated okay of course yeah for sure i'm thinking that um so we're good on the new model we'll do a policy review and have potentially either the policy works or will recognize the next meeting students will find we've already made your selections for under this model yes

079i can email patty real quick perfect then stay tuned for an announcement meeting um make sure we're structurally set to go uh cool and there's no vote on this question any other questions comments data great well thank you both for your leadership on that um this is a exciting exciting time for us to continue to kind of pave the way and ttsd on student voice which is exciting um you know what it's 7 41 i am feeling like i want a bit of recess so with the board's um indulgence we will take a seven minute recess we'll be back at uh 7 48. thanks everyone all right welcome back everyone i will call this meeting back to order at 7 50 p.m a couple minutes late um so we'll start back on action items uh

080item number item letter a adoption resolution 2122-26 to commemorate june t we have sorry all right so uh juneteenth is um the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the emancipation of african american slaves and is so named june 19 1866 adoption of black independence day in galveston texas um i want to thank director rose again for organizing this resolution we've done this in years past actually and it is now a federal holiday i believe so uh an important thing for us to be observing so with that i'm going to ask director haimes to read the resolution of the record thank you so much so resolution 21 22-26 to commemorate juneteenth whereas juneteenth is the oldest celebration of the emancipation of african-american slaves and is so named for the june 19 1866 adoption of black independence day

081at galveston texas and whereas juneteenth celebrates america's commitment to liberty and equality in accordance with the constitution of the united states along with emancipation proclamation issued by president lincoln on january 1st 1863 and the 13th amendment to the constitution which abolished slavery gratified by congress on december 6 1865 and whereas the history of african-american is a study in resilience for the plight of slavery in our history and today for the over 45 million people in forced labor child labor and other forms of human trafficking now therefore be it resolved that the board of directors for tiger 12th and school district recognizes adopts and proclaims this resolution to underscore the freedom with dignity of every human being as a government body we oppose and reject any form of oppression and pledge to support our residents churches

082and organizations working to achieve genuine equality and protect the human rights of all people all right someone like to make a motion too i move to approve resolution 21 22-26 to commemorate june t as presented second motion was made by vice chairman and seconded by director climates is there further discussion all right we will move to a choral vote all those in favor please say aye all opposed say nay motion carries unanimously we'll move on to letter b adoption of resolution 21 22-30 uh to commemorate pride month um pride month began in june of 1969 on the one year anniversary of the stonewall uprising in new york city after the lgbtq plus and allied friends rose up and fought against the constant police harassment and discriminatory laws that have since been declared unconstitutional and i

083believe by sherlin's grievous resolution to the record whereas tiger tualatin's school board policy states that all persons including those who are lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer have equitable educational opportunities and a school experience that is validating empowering and just and whereas this commitment to educational equity means that a student's success should be neither predicated nor predetermined by race ethnicity socioeconomic status gender gender identity sexual orientation housing status familial status immigration status disability status linguistic difference religion culture or any protected class status and whereas pride month began in june of 1969 on the one year anniversary of the stonewall uprising in new york city after lgbtq plus and allied friends rose up and fought against the constant police harassment and discriminatory laws that have since been declared unconstitutional and whereas many lgbtq plus youth and

084and youth perceived to belong to these groups um continue to face harassment and physical violence and whereas lgbtq plus youth are almost five times as likely to have attempted suicide compared to straight cisgender youth and each episode of lgbtq plus victimization such as physical or verbal harassment or abuse increases the likelihood of self-harming behavior by 2.5 times on average and whereas having a gender sexuality alliance reduces a child's risk of attempting suicide by 50 and students at schools with gender sexuality alliances experience less bullying around gender and non-conformity and whereas federal law guarantees students the right to form gender sexuality alliance clubs where other non-curricular clubs exist and whereas the tiger charleston school district believes that the rich diversity of families and communities is one of our greatest strengths and furthermore believes that a family

085is a supportive unit composed of various genders orientations cultures races and ethnicities and whereas the tiger carlton school district celebrates values and welcomes the diversity of our student body our teachers our staff and our administrators including the diversity of sexual orientation and identity in our community now therefore be it resolved that the board of directors for tiger paulson school district declared the month of june 2022 as lgbtq plus pride month and urges residents to recognize the contributions made on members of the lgbtq plus community and to actively promote the principles of equality liberty and justice thank you very much um i'll just remark briefly i think there um there's sometimes misconceptions about pride month and you know this perception that perhaps it's about trying to get more rights to one group that other groups don't

086have but um to me pride month is actually about quality because and particularly for us as a school district where we have undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands i think by one recent national survey something like 20 of generation c identifies as lgbtq plus in some way or another that's a lot of students in our care and those students experience higher rates of suicide high rates of bullying higher rates of homelessness lower rates of esports particular participation they're less represented throughout society and numerous other metrics and so pride month isn't about giving special rights to people but recognizing that there are serious disparities in our system today and that we need to do a better job of protecting providing opportunities for those students um just like every other student so i just wanted to frame it

087in that way so folks are clear that um you know lgbt issues can sometimes be culture war issues where we saw tv ads on commercials for politicians talking about these issues but there are real kids who hear those messages and they go to our schools and it's our job to care for all of them but provide them all a high quality education and that's what we're saying so i'm honored that um it was brought forward and thank you again to director yeah thanks cherlin i also appreciate the kind of intersectional nature of this resolution it really recognizes the diversity of the lgbtq plus community right um to sort of stay away from any idea that there's a sort of narrow kind of singular identity attached to to this broad category of identity so i i

088appreciated that um and i think um i've seen both in my church but also here a kind of a way of handling what could be a conflict around sort of uh pride and and guilty right and i i have seen as sort of a way of recognizing both and in fact you'll enjoy this um and in my church we're we're referring to june 20th as um black gay father's day because it's also father's day we have juneteen i just want to say that um i hope everybody realizes that you know with the passing of all of these resolutions whether it might be for juneteenth or whether it might be for lgbtq plus or the ones we've done in previous months that it's not just lip service here at ptsd we actually you know what is

089it walk our talk and um you know we are for equitable outcomes for all students and equity means you are getting what you need in order to succeed it's not about equality it's not about giving everybody the same but it's about making those equitable outcomes and part of those equitable outcomes is making sure that students are represented that students feel welcome they feel safe in our schools and by having these resolutions we're essentially sending a message to our students saying that at the top level we are saying that we are welcoming you we are you know here for you we are supporting um you know your needs and and so at our purview we're going to do whatever we can to make sure that that you you feel safe in our schools and so i

090just want to say that you know just because we're we're doing these resolutions it just doesn't mean that that's it right this is where the work ends this is actually the beginning of the work because then it goes into implementing not the resolutions but the work behind the resolution so thank you um and i would say in addition to what all of my colleagues have said i think that the two additional things would be you know walking that talk is evidenced in the parade um and festivities this weekend we have the unity walks we have the multicultural celebrations of the schools on unity day i mean there are all of these things that for the most part are you know and a lot of times student driven um really brought alongside by district personnel to

091really help help these things become that walk of these resolutions and so you know doctors who mentioned at the beginning how you know at the parade um and certainly at the unity evening and the multicultural evening at tiger they're all of the families and the children and you know one of the things that director and had families do when they came to the parade was right affirmations and words of support in in chalk and so just and it ran the gamut of beautiful sentiments and so i think that it just it really brings that all together so we are you're really bringing communities together as i talked about in the the resolution it's about family and not just sort of how maybe our students identify but also we have a whole host of different kinds

092of families and what do families look like and how do we support the different families so i just i feel like we've really shown you know this year so many and in past years so many examples of of walking that talk and supporting our students in showing who they are whether that be culturally whether that be how they identify in terms of gender or sexuality how they identify in a multitude of ways so i i think that's lovely sorry um and you know just wanted to reiterate that the fact that um like we've been saying equitable outcomes means equitable outcomes for all right receiving what people what students need in order to succeed and one of the things that you know just happened here is we were talking about tank services and we were saying

093you know what do those students need in order to succeed so it's not just about certain marginalized communities or you know just what other people might think is that we're doing in order to increase diversity but it's not it's about making sure that all of our students have those equitable outcomes and you know equity is not a pie we are not taking from some to give to others we are making sure that everybody receives what they need would you like to make a motion follow up sure with that i move to approve resolution 2122-30 to commemorate pride month as presented second motion was made by director highmates and seconded by by sherlin any further discussion hearing none will move to a portal vote all those in favor please say aye aye all of those say

094name motion carries unanimously thank you all and with that we'll move to action item c agreement with the superintendent um so following the superintendent's evaluation uh i am recommending a contract extension with the superintendent uh i guess none of you were on board last year so we had a longer conversation on the board last year about compensation um and this leaves almost all of that unchanged correct dr the the high points to to note and be aware of are as for our past precedent um dr seuss cola will be calculated at the end of the bargaining cycle um we've extended the contract um until june 30th 2025 and we amended the unilateral termination by the board clause to align with the recently passed state legislation which basically requires a 12 12 month notice for a

095no cost generation any questions on the proposed contract extension sure yes so with the uh cola increase will that be then made retroactive or you know if negotiations don't finish um now and they extend that once the salary gets increased without being right practice to now or i mean july i think it's aligned to what the teachers agree to so if they do then is that how it would work we're looking to direct them more yes good question and that's happening is there a motion i move that the tiger trolls in the school district board of directors ratify the tentative agreement between the district and the superintendent second motion was made by director irvine seconded by director imace is there further discussion hearing none will move to a coral vote all those in favor please

096say aye aye aye all opposed say nay motion carries unanimously all right we'll move to item d property and liability coverage for workers compensation and cert insurance for 223 presenter director david moore good evening chair bowman members of the board uh this means i would like the board to consider our property liability coverage approval for uh next a year effective july 1 and um several parts to this but um the property liability coverage is acquired through pace which is a coverage tool that many or most districts in the state in addition to some community colleges belong to and with our premium for 2223 it's being proposed at just over 810 000 and this is a 5.78 increase from the current year and the good news is the increase is significantly less than the 18.42 increase

097we realized uh for the current year coverage and uh the breakdown of the increase is six point five three percent of property and three point nine eight percent for liability there are less than that the increase for property and the five percent increase reliability will be projected so good news there um so of course uh with a insurance pool like this the risk is spread across all districts that belong so we still go through an individual underwriting process during the community period and then members including argus should pay for uh cruel losses on a percentage basis so um i'm going to give a breakdown of the coverages uh for the the property coverage it's uh the limit is 100 million dollars and also related to that we have 50 million coverage for boiler breakdowns um

098we have crime coverage of one million dollars we also have uh cyber liability coverage of a million dollars the tricky thing there is um the limit for all districts uh losses period is five million so if the hackers went rampant one year there could be a risk there for non-covered activity we're in the process or our agent is in the process of soliciting quotes for additional coverage are these um are the limits that you mentioned standard for all districts or do they calibrate by budget size or their standard good question uh so the other piece related to the cyber liability the good news is so far this year our agent said there's only been six hundred thousand dollars in losses so it falls way under that so hopefully that's a good trend going forward we

099also have uh auto liability coverage of 15 million as part of this coverage and trying to think there's anything else as far as the coverages are concerned but i think that it's the high points um and then lastly separately from the coverage through base we require coverage to be safe for workers compensation so good news this year with that our premium is going down about fifty thousand dollars and the primary reason is the factor that is used to help identify our premium and the modific experience modification factor is going down from 0.9 to 0.76 and the this experience factor is based on the average losses over a three year period the good news is is that we had losses in 1718 and 309 000. these are being replaced by losses in 2021 at 110 000

100so that results in that odd factor going down or pretty long down uh to give you an idea one 1.0 is the kind of the benchmark for districts overall kind of the average loss i'm going to stop there i think that's about all i have to say about it unless there's specific questions so the way that i read this was the the cyber attack the cyber extortion was a limit of 200 000 per member with a coverage umbrella of two million dollars is that correct yeah that's that's for extortion so like um france you may heard the term ransomware system that's for that particular type of okay i thought you had set five million there for for a minute but that's for the data reach yeah for other types of cyber library where we have

101to investigate so there's multiple types of events i have a question and um no no complaints against pace but i am curious i know i think some of the larger districts self-insure or buy your insurance on the private pool have we done uh an analysis recently to know uh how that would shake out for us if there's a financial incentive for us to look at are we too small no we have it i think we're probably too small for that for economies of scale there we would rely on our agent who we also pay a fee an annual fee to helps with the renewal process pace helps us find coverage different coverage if we wanted to with the workers comp we did change uh it's probably seven eight years ago we changed over to say

102from another carrier so they're kind of our liaison when it comes to procuring uh altar coverage and if it's never come up so i think it's probably you're right it's based on i move to approve pace for property and liability and safe for workers compensation coverage in the fiscal year 2022-23 as presented second motion is made by director irvine and second by director emmis any further discussion hearing none we'll move to a portal vote all those in favor please say aye aye all of those say nay motion carries your name listen all right moving to item e 2022 23 construction excise tax rates director moore yes back in 2007 the legislation was passed to create the construction excise tax so this is optional for districts to enter into and requires a resolution and agreements with

103the jurisdictions that are within our premises including claques county washington county cities of tiger 12 durham city and uh the department of revenue is charged with identifying the rates uh for the construction excise taxes so these get updated on an annual basis and proposed for is a rate increase for residential to 1.45 dollars per square foot and then for non-residential residential 72 cents per square foot up from 1.41 70 cents and then there's also a maximum square footage for non-residential and that's going down from 35 200 to 36 100 and so we have a resolution prepared for consideration 21-22-29 kind of gives the history of the different rate changes since the district implemented this tax in 2008 and just to give some additional background information as of now we currently have approximately 8.3 million dollars

104in the construction excise tax fund our most recent use of the fund was a year ago we had to replace the turf field stadium filled it at tiger high and used costly a million dollars for that purpose and then so far this year from washington county city of tiger and city of walton we've collected 900 and so um just to expand on the uses of these dollars are intended for capital purposes so um that would include uh any needs or in between bonds and it could be for long-range facility and bond planning and also supplementing bond projects we use a small amount at the beginning of the bond bond things were still uncertain whether resources were going to be sufficient and then also they can be used to supplement property purchases so you're saying we

105have 8.3 million dollars yeah what is the projector great question uh director behind us um so the way it works is when a developer files a commit each jurisdiction that i mentioned as part of the permit process so their plans would include the square footage they would get charged and then depending on which jurisdiction this might be they pass during the recession things things went down as far as real estate activities so we saw a lot less time sure and um if we didn't raise it this time around that would be our next opportunity next july other questions and there are also uh stash statues that allow certain projects like once a non-thoughts house once in a while we get a request for something that's beyond statute for exception we consider those within usually going

106through them i guess i'll just ask the question that i was trying to get at so with having 8.3 million dollars what it would be the reason why we would need to increase the tax rate now uh rather than waiting until next july i mean is there a projected expenditure that we are expecting to do just it doesn't seem fiscally responsible going into what could be a recession to increase taxes for taxpayers so i just i just want to know what the you know what the reasoning behind it is yeah just to clarify it's not a it's not a um a tax at all it could be like i think earlier this year you probably remember when we brought the agreement forward with the river terrorist developer that um but it's not it's not something

107that's going to apply to every resident district so to answer your questions about specific resources i could see it coming because we won't have a lot of capacity to raise a lot for capital because our first priority would be we're going through our process right now and when we did it back in 2019 [Music] four year renewal cycle replacement cycle that leaves approximately 30 million these dollars would help offset some of those costs and also the bond plan once we get into our facility planning process we have to hire a consultant to look at costs look at projects these dollars would be used all right i would entertain the motion to adopt resolution 21 22-29 has submitted modifying construction excise tax credits effective july 1 2022. our second all right is there further discussion on

108the motion hearing none we'll move to a choral vote all those in favor please say aye aye aye all opposed say name all right motion uh i think we have to record roll call if we're not online correct you have it okay correct your hemispheres now all right uh then we will move to our final action item of the evening 6th through 12th grade health adoption recommendation director todd ross we might be able to grab that extra microphone from the table too if we want to save thank you all for being here tonight yes reporter bowman members of the board great to see everybody this evening uh we i'm happy to uh present uh alongside uh my colleagues and members of our committee 612 voucher committee this evening i've got jamie meyer who is district

109tech support assistant assistant assistant tech specialist in our district kathy wilson faye who is our mental health and wellness coordinator uh and then allison heath uh in who is in all things health so appreciate all the hard work schweda miller who was an instructional tosa uh with us and um and so representing our as we move communities this presentation so one of the things you want to do is uh is just emphasize that this was uh this was a community effort as we took on this task during quarantining and all things uh working through this process uh in a virtual setting uh and then also um getting to a place where we finally get together face-to-face next slide so i just want to point out the members of our committee this was a committee of

110about 30 plus folks uh including um the facilitation of tml but also um our health teachers we had seven health teachers from middle high school uh who represented help teachers across our district we had administrators principals vice principal who were part of our committee we had two of our board members who were also on our committee with us and that's been a process that we've used throughout all of our adoption as a conduit community uh we had other ttsd representatives as you can see there uh that ranged throughout our district in terms of professional uh experiences and then uh we also brought on a and that was an exciting part of our process we wanted to make sure we had a lot of different perspectives especially um um you can see at the bottom there

111as well our ode partner sasha damier who's a sexuality education specialist she was alongside the ride and uh okay so quickly just to give you a sense of the adoption process what you see here in amongst these years uh starting in uh about well early november we started to really um pull this together uh after we brought the committee um got the interest from our committee and put that that group together what you see here is a culmination of moving through really the process of looking at best practice looking at policy laying the foundation with our group developing a philosophy and best practice statements um and as i shared in the word practice we've done that through not just a philosophy statement sentences to kind of call out what we think is best practice but

112really under the headings of instruction that dot dot dot and then powerful statements that come with that uh curriculum that and then also assessment path and then that worked to build that foundation uh we did standards alignment uh we looked at the we annotated uh the many different performance indicators are part of our health um our health standards and through that work then it allows us to do a gap analysis take our current resource that's out there look at that alignment and then be able to see where we have gaps and then really ask the question in the end do we simply just need to do some additional professional development do we need to do some professional development alongside supplementing materials with our current resources and then of course we moved into um not only

113bringing our advisory or advisory committee on board but then a phase one two or next slide please okay so our work in the sculpture process has been rooted in the oregon what you see on the screen here are the eight national health education standards which oregon as well as most of the other states in the us haven't taught it standard one is known as the knowledge standard it lays out the health concepts and that students are to learn as they progress through high school standards two through eight are the skill based game groups that ask students to demonstrate a set of health enhancement skills and they range from analyzing influences standard two to accessing valid information three using interpersonal communication skills standard for using decision making skills five goal setting skills six practicing health enhancing

114behaviors standard seven and standard eight is um advocating for personal family and community health these eight national standards are the framework upon which oregon built their extensive networks of health performance and next slide please so back in 2016 the oregon department of education adopted our current set of health education standards and performance indicators in this adoption ode built upon the framework of the eight national health education standards and went further to specify over 900 health performance indicators you can think of them as like many health systems these health performance indicators entail exactly which health concepts and skills students should be able to demonstrate at each grade level kindergarten through high school they're designed to build upon each other from great to great as they gradually increase in depth of complexity now for ease of use

115oregon's performance indicators have been grouped together into these nine sub-topics to scan their slides um we call them the nine topic categories or themes the three topic categories you see that are start are special because in these three areas oregon has laid out a very inclusive and thorough set of performance indicators much more so than most other states therefore going into this process we knew that these specific areas necessitated a deeper diet by our adoption team while vetting the health curricula that was written for national honors so when laying the foundation for our adoption work we set out an ambitious goal we test our adoption team the job of reading analyzing and annotating all of the middle and high school performance indicators that's over five hundred performance majors we did this in order to identify

116the rigor specified at each grade level to understand how the performance indicators build upon each other from home care and identify when mastery of concept or skill is required when we finished our teams set of beautifully annotated performance indicators up from middle in high school stretched in a document that's over 70 pages long now during the many phases of our adoption process we returned to this foundational document over and over again next slide please so not only does the oregon department of education prescribe what health content is to be taught they also define the principles of how a health instruction should be delivered ode requires that health instruction be medically accurate age-appropriate inclusive and not fear or shame-based here on this slide you see the working definitions laid out by colt gill director of ode

117that our team used as our north star during our search so our challenge as a health adoption team was to find a comprehensive health curriculum that provided both the knowledge and skill related content laid out and the performance indicators within all nine topic categories in a way that was medically accurate age-appropriate inclusive and not fear or based and upheld organs and any laws regarding health instruction so as we started our health and adoption process our partners at ode forewarned us that finding one comprehensive health curriculum for both middle and high school that meant all of these requirements would be very difficult because most of our nationally written health curricula are not written with oregon's performance indicators of mind therefore we mapped out a curricular vetting process that allowed for the possibility that supplementation to a

118comprehensive curriculum might be a necessity here you can see uh that map that we did very early in our process in november anticipating all of what allison just shared in consultation with our obe specialist that it was not potentially likely that we would find a national comprehensive curriculum that would meet all 900 indicators um or 500-ish for secondary um so this was our plan for the year and we did end up following this with both color-coded phases um so at the very top starting with phase one looking at all of the curricula that were essentially possible we gathered a list by discussing options that other area districts were using as well as recommendations from obe among other sources we whittled that down into a phase two phase three and recommendation to the dot process there

119understanding that when we might come to a recommendation to adopt a national comprehensive curricula that it might not meet all of those 500 plus indicators so we had a side-by-side phase process for additional materials to meet any gaps and standards next slide so that phase one uh just for reference this was the initial list of curricula that we gathered from different sources to review at the very top of our process so we'll see names of some familiar curricula listed there next slide that three phase process that took several months and our entire committee participated in and then our parent community joined in that later phase two so phase one where that list we just showed we did a digital curricular review where we did not have representatives come visit or look through print hardcover materials

120but actually just looked at what was available on their website to narrow down that larger initial list to some functions that any potentially needs then we moved into phase two where we did invite publishers across three different programs for middle school and high school and in phase two we got to dive deeper into specific lessons and curricular components and consider how well they aligned to our 500 plus indicators that as a team we had thoroughly analyzed we are very familiar with we ended up with two finalists for middle school and two finalists for high school so things were going as planned then we moved into phase three and had those top finalists come and present to us and we got to experience lessons as our students would we also as we were experiencing those lessons

121we were keeping top of mind actual feedback we gathered from over 200 of our secondary health students have currently in health class about that how is that perspectives gathered we developed a survey with many questions and we had our current health teachers for that survey and you'll actually get to see some quotes first at the screenshots that's fine so after phase three we did end up with a replication uh to move forward next slide yes so phase two here you're seeing backwards a little bit just a glimpse from that initial list of the seven or eight curricula um the stars in the middle school column are the ones that move forward and the stars high school curricula are the ones as well and next slide in phase three [Music] oh okay yeah no just uh

122i wanted to take based on the topic categories really asked students about the interest level topics um scriptures of those as they were learning very very good and then we also shared a perspective as to as to how you know how important it was so those results what we what we found was fascinating students in general um fell into the from the uh from neutral to somewhat important cross supported all the customers that didn't have any responses so anyway that was that was a part and so what you see here on this last slide is a overwhelming committee response to middle school health prevail that is good card real costs uh comprehensive tax debt and high school uh yes and there was no no one there's no one who this wasn't there everyone now every

123people yeah that was exciting you know let's see so what i want to do now is just move through fairly at a fairly quick case these are what i wanted our team wants to give you is just some highlights of uh the curriculum itself our partner and mary mccarley who is and after we finish this uh so next slide please um one of the things about gw impressive is how long it has been published and how it's been developed [Music] so this is just a snapshot of you know one of the things that we consider is so one of the things that is a highlight is looking at this system because the lms that we used uh and so uh just again these in terms of age appropriate evidence these are the things that you

124found are analysis as resources those terms medically after my bias those uh and then just in terms of appealing uh how it appeals to the rewarders uh there are a number when you use the different methods that are used to was resource offers a side-by-side direct translation and then in terms of sexual health promotion um it is has looked at the comprehensive materials at both middle and high school discovered a range of absolute ranges so uh how we deliver instruction including uh conscious of our students needs in terms of social emotional parts this resource also provides uh focuses on the stl aspects so we were impressed by that and uh and then interestingly enough to know our students came forward one of the things that jumped out at us was expecting protecting environmental health lessons

125and the number of lessons that are called climate change and environmental health that feed right into uh uh and then uh jamie's gonna talk a little bit more about accessibility but uh i'll leave it at that in terms of assessment conversations uh [Music] does a really nice job of providing a stimulus for our readers and our students that is far from donald's faces but it does branch out students families that was a big part of what we're looking for but beyond that um going deeper was none of was that the content around the kinds of poems that was beat with different perspectives um and then things that stood out as well in terms of the skills and allison was talking about it and really being able to uh build in activities that allow the students

126to practice skills as they were being introduced to them is and the skill based features again along with collaboration what we found was were relevant in real life and then the interactive tools part of this enhancing the learning for those tools was another many different curricula now moving forward uh these are the many different kinds of skills-based student workbooks so it has kids start to move into teachers have the ability to promote the next steps uh this really was something that we're looking at specifically um uh and just some more handouts and how basically um again just another example um and finally teacher tools this gives you the span and a look at a number of different resources and including powerpoint presentations these and then finally when you look at the idea of sensitive uh

127and then finally one of the things that comes about with both instruction is um [Music] well okay and then this piece right here was important um um really efficient effective uh feedback um and then this was really interesting opt-out resources you know as part of the health programming parents have the right to talk that and uh one of the things that comes with this is good wilcox has produced uh opt-out lessons already across a number of different health topics so if a student and family chooses to opt out would the student be i don't know how to say this remove physically removed from a classroom and share this alternative curriculum in another location yeah that's a great question those are generally yes finding a place where students can engage in the work that they're doing

128um in a way that again is not isolating um is something that we're working on as a system as well we did that this year at the elementary level um where students were engaging in alternative texts those who were in that position and it was done in a really seamless way as a part of the general instruction health is required high school students how do they know that well in terms of opting out parents have the right to opt out they can look at the human sexuality and say that these concepts are not that's something we yes okay so um you can move to the next slide but that gives you some highlights the many highlights that come from so you saw a thorough overview of filters in gw for middle and high school that

129aligned to the principles and philosophy documents and standards that we overviewed earlier but what we did also find in our thorough analysis and standards alignment again those over 500 performance indicators those are those mini standards students are expected to demonstrate specifically in oregon if you recall the nine beams the color-coded categories there were three that were starred one of those is titled affirming identities and anti-impression and it has 13 performance indicators to middle school six seven and eight um so in regards to just those indicators for sixth seventh and eighth grade you did find some gaps in the gw curriculum from middle school we as you can see here we calculated that 25 of those 13 were fully met by this resource of the high school indicators were met by this resource because of a

130burping identity that anti-impression being a top category in the oregon indicators and because this resource full almost fully met our need for high school and almost for middle school we did see the need to continue our process in that flow chart we showed earlier having been warned by ode that we may not find something that meets all of the oregon topics we voted as a team to start the phase process over again to look at replacement nonsense so again that three-phase process started with an overview a list of all of the human sexuality curricula that we had previously looked at and to determine which one of these might be expression so this is our initial list for replacement or supplemental curricula next slide and again we've repeated that same three-based process that i will go

131into detail about but you can see here we follow the same thorough process of the committee to get to a recommendation for replacement next lessons and our team voted unanimously after looking at a side-by-side comparison of our top two options uh we ended up selecting a total of five replacement lessons that would meet those 13 performance indicators for absorbing identities individuals those five lessons are shown here three of them four of them from rights perspectives so just a quick uh next steps that we took as part of this process was uh coming out of all that work that the recommended curriculum um that's offered up in our schools in hard copy it responds digitally to all of our parent community we wanted to engage in that we had hard we had an opportunity for folks

132to ask questions uh through a parent night that we held on june 1st and then the questions then were a part of google form that we put out to allow that to really for us to capture perspectives if you will so that was process that we took and that was uh that leads us here to tonight and uh getting us to a place of recommendation with that we also have uh voices that we want you to hear from uh that's colleagues here in our teachers as well next slide please and uh we'll start with cathy hellman is one of our high school teachers she was unable to make it with us tonight but this is something she wanted to share with her absolutely i can read it um so kathy hallman was a high school

133health teacher she wrote this that the gw or good heart will cox curriculum stood out clearly among the others for being the best choice for a variety of reasons reason a is it's available in parental and online in english and in spanish b she said there they are there are ready to use slides activities etc that make it more user friendly see she says it's updated annually with new material being added to keep up with her trends in her education she said the the pictures in the textbook are up to date with statistics and also show great diversity in people that are presented it's important for our students to see someone who looks like them in the textbooks in order for them to feel validated represented she said e that there are great activities that

134will be beneficial for the students to do something our health educators like students to be active with the material not just sit and get she said f i love using warm-up questions to start each day's lesson sometimes a quick review of last class and then questions to get them talking with their av partners about the lesson today this gets them focused and ready to learn goodheart wilcox curriculum has a variety of questions to use as warm-ups she said gee the gw curriculum does a great job of fitting the needs of students who identify as lgbtq plus the other curricula did not have adequate resources for this group of students while some parents may not like that this information is being taught and schools their students are seeing it and they may have peers in this

135group it's important that we all learn about it so we can validate all of our students through education on this topic and lastly she said having the middle school using the same publisher as the high school also helps with continuity did you have to say kathy holland was my health feature so i don't know if you're cherry picking your statements if it works very effective uh effective use of teachers well jennifer uh gerardo is a middle school health teacher here at middle school and she very similarly um from a middle school health teacher perspective talked about the idea of continually updating materials not extending you know a new cover on old which you saw on a couple other options but also fully integrated with canvas which we've talked about the professional development from gw directly

136with authors which is pretty awesome um you know both online uh textbooks and hard copy which our students also said they'd like to have both of those resources and then you know efficiencies teachers talked about those in terms of many different teachers and then customizable kinds of materials which is not something we saw across the board allows the teachers to take that opportunity to get their own skill sets and learning styles accessibility for competencies and a certification in assistive technology applications so my field of expertise is pretty nuanced and if it's not something that you spend a lot of time digging into it can easily be overlooked or misunderstood and so i really appreciated the opportunity to be on the committee from the beginning because the silver lining of covid is that we all learned

137more about digital access and how to reach students in a non-traditional way and so before the before times we did a lot of retrofitting with the assistive technology to make our curriculum accessible for students in all sorts of areas um one of the things with the good part wilcox is you can see on the slide here that they take all of that accessibility into account so it's accessible in alternate formats which means that the documents are in word document which provides optical character recognition which is what's needed to make the words recognizable by screen readers and also to be translated into braille and large font things like that um that leads me to font size because you can manipulate the digital text and using these screen readers it can be made bigger you can change

138how close the characters are to each other how close sentences are to each other how large the margins are you can change what color the font is what the background screen color is these are all of the things you can do with digital text and so this is super important and something that we don't have retrofit after we've already purchased the breakdown the audio reading supports that goes into all of those things that i just mentioned before with the screen readers there's apps there's we have a license for read and write for chrome so our students chromebooks have easy access to auditory reading supports um with our uh ipads we can put them into an app that we use a lot with our students called voice stream reader and that allows you to manipulate the

139text and have it read aloud and closed captioning in these lessons they have a lot of videos and they are closed captioned because they are put through youtube in this curriculum so the closed captioning is there for those auditory supports as well and something that's really important we talked about it in the section with the pride month recognition is that we want all of our students to be recognized and have equal access no matter what their space in life is and so often with students with disabilities whether they are severe enough to qualify for an iep or a 504 or they're in gen ed with disabilities we don't want to have to make our students have different devices or different pull-outs or things like that and with an accessible and inclusive curriculum we've reached that

140of course with us so that's fine two cents good evening i'm kathy wilson faye and i'm the mental health wellness coordinator for the district and i came to this curriculum committee uh not as an educator as much that's not my background but more uh from the world where behavior will help first i want to say thank you actually to the amazing trio of schwetta miller and allison heath and todd robson they really kept the committee informed and super organized and uh and helped keep us moving forward which you can imagine this could have been challenging um but i'm very pleased that we chose gw health curriculum for middle school and high school um many of the reasons have already been mentioned so i'm going to focus in on the behavioral health piece of the curriculum

141mental health is health right and our students survey that over 200 students listed mental health as one of the most important topics that they need for their health career gw does a great job with mental health vocabulary literacy suicide prevention just building self-esteem how to have a healthy relationship identity formation and affirmation and many other topics correlated with mental wellness it covers well the importance of reducing stigma around mental health and suicide and the practical steps a student can take to help a friend or to help themselves and then substance use is also a huge um area that i'm so happy that that gw does a great job with again research-based developmentally appropriate um prevention is so important i'm excited to have tier one universal support uh through this curriculum at the secondary level we

142just have not necessarily done a great job of that and it's a critical piece to an overall approach to reducing substance use but this curriculum does a great job talking about prevention especially raping both nicotine and cannabis and other substances including especially cannabis again and alcohol i'm impressed with the inclusive up-to-date approach of the curriculum with discussions of science medically accurate information media and corporate advertising distortions instead of that shame or fear-based tactic that that we know is not always so thank you uh for making time for the community to share okay so during our whole adoption process we sought to make student voices central to what we're doing here and what you see on the screen now are actual quotes from our students these are pulled from our student health survey and what you

143see here was chosen specifically because these are sentiments that were echoed by many students in the 200 responses that we've got so i'm going to read these to you so you can hear the words of our kids one of them said i like the idea of learning about diversity including lgbtq plus topics of health another said they needed to know how to deal with mental health another said that open class discussions between students and unhealthy relatable necessary topics and information about how to maintain healthy relationships schedules etc as well as important to them they wanted to know how to talk to people if they ever needed somebody they wanted to know how to deal with stress and heavy emotions how to handle problems and drama between friends and friend groups and one remarked that the

144sex ed unit needs to be revamped so we are from what they had previously used to be revamped to be more inclusive and less genuine disability and neurodivergent need to be talked about and ableism should be a topic that's talked about in our classrooms wow we feel confident that our good heart will cost curriculum for both middle and high school will address these topics that our students so that we want more information about okay so just quickly here future kinds of steps that we're looking at taking um are we have uh started the planning for um the building of our health scope sequence which really is heavy lifting after you adopt a curriculum um and that planning in terms of getting teacher teams together to be able to do that alongside your tnl staff is

145underway alongside our fall in fall 2022 our teach professional development plan with our partners at gw but also internally with our with our folks at tnl and uh engaging with our teachers uh and then finally the um you know that implementation to be uh ready to come out of the gate next year and uh and really get this getting curriculum moving and get our teachers and our kids engaging in this next slide please and then just wanted to make mention again that we shared this too uh specifically with our parents um you know to understand that part of this this work is um you know around that right for parents you know one to be notified the comprehensive human sexual instruction that's going to be a part of our system it'll be tight in terms

146of making sure folks understand when that instructions get taught the ability to preview health instruction lessons and materials across the board giving folks the opportunity to do that throughout and then being able to request that your child be excused if that's a choice as a family to do that and then having a clear system in place that is around the ability to say listen i'm gonna tap on this particularly um and then the board adoption uh upon a board adoption will communicate a timeline for parents around this work and make sure that those systems are in place as we get ready for next year next slide please so thank you that is a presentation and well um i uh asked director irvin i believe you were part of this process director search meeting is the

147other member but is there anything you'd like to share about the process or anything for the board i mean that was such a wonderful thorough presentation so thank you and really being a part of that process i mean that's exactly what it was it was thorough it was thoughtful it was inclusive of stakeholders in our community and in our schools that had um people that had lots of different questions and concerns and perspectives um and so i think you know and also really listening to our students and knowing what was really important and what was seeing those standards and all these performance indicators i mean there were so many pieces it was this wild i feel like tetris puzzle of trying to put all of these different things together that were all very complex and

148complicated um and and i think as part of that process being able to say this fits most of it and also not all of it and so let's find something it does so that we really have the best options for our students in terms of learning these these topics and making it incredibly inclusive um and affirmative so i think it's very exciting i i love the pieces that we chose so yeah board members comments questions direct your hands um and i saw that you brought quotes from teachers and students what did the parent advisory team have to say yeah that was the that was a really fun part of our process to be honest we having 11 parents from across our schools representing midland high school parents was really allowed us to go deep into

149perspective beyond just teachers beyond the administrator beyond the district um you know employee if you will and so we haven't shared and captured the like quotes from parents but that was really this ultimate recommendation lives on the backs of everybody on that committee including those 11 parents who represented our community and so their voice is um just laid throughout this process in terms of layers of perspective that we use we gain through the protocols used to allow folks to have their voice heard so um that's that's my response to that is that this really our parent voice um really came forward through that advisory committee that sat as a part of this committee and did the work to really vet and rate discuss the kinds of materials that were being presented but we don't have

150anything we've got a overwhelming recommendation for a curriculum that's part of that consensus that we saw there that was so overwhelming they were that voice as well so so this is not a question specifically about the recommendation but it's more about um you know the relationship between what i would consider a textbook and curriculum and teaching and and i guess i'm dating myself because i i was a teacher age of teacher at one time that was a long time ago and i remember you know curriculum was was broader than a book right and so the fact that you can't find a book um to represent all of the standards i would absolutely expect that to be the case and but i would also expect tulsa's and and teachers and others to be creative uh and

151to develop curricular materials to supplement the text so is this is there opportunity for that kind of creativity uh within this i would respond to that by saying yes i agree with everything you just said with the idea that teachers have the ability to you know have autonomy to really take a look at materials we always say this that you know the curriculum doesn't teach kids teachers do the however to that is one of the things that we want to do in bringing a an aligned viable and guaranteed curriculum to the table is just is wrapped around alignment and making sure that when we have conversations as teachers and ptosis and support staff in looking at resource and building out the kinds of instruction that kids are getting through our system that we're doing that

152in an aligned way so there are some guard rails to reach to that extent in terms of not supplementing and not bringing in materials just as people find them and say look i'm going to use this mystery this particular resource and then it becomes a part of our our classroom instruction if as we develop the scope and sequence and we bring teachers together there's a cycle bringing teachers back to the table to really discuss and talk about how those lessons are unfolding and that's a reciprocal responsibility that we have in terms of making sure our teachers do have that voice to talk about the kinds of strategies they're using the kinds of ways they're using the many different resources in the curriculum offers and when teachers come to and say listen i've got something here

153that i think is really beneficial what we want to be able to do is talk to that and not just assume that it is something that is a part of now the learning that is just fine without betting that looking at that collectively and lining around the resources that we use in class so what this does is it provides that viable guaranteed curriculum that we can build off of across our system and i want to add that the word textbook curriculum but i'll remind you that it was hard to see in our big flyby glimpse of the materials but it's what's in the textbook are rich open-ended gestures so when you talk about the creativity teaching and all of that learning that's actually happening it's not just oh there's text written in the text reading

154and then regurgitating what's in that textbook are rich scenarios complex subtle nuances to health topics um practice skills of research into the media collaborative tasks that gets engaged so it's in a textbook but that's what it is so those kinds of discussions and i'll i'll also add that in the flyby curriculum we showed that the textbook is paper copied it's a digital copy it's in spanish and it's accessible and all of those are pages page they look exactly the same but also with some of these handouts and worksheets in this curriculum like i mentioned before they're a word dog and so if the teacher wants to have a little something in there to make it more relevant for the students and i would actually add part of the teacher feedback that we got was it's

155really difficult when there's all of a sudden these sort of gaps in like we're supposed to teach this standard or teach this topic and it might be something that's more current new that they haven't taught before or something that they just personally might be uncomfortable knowing the right way to do it and so to kind of scramble and find are these the right resources are these inclusive so they were really also saying it would be helpful to have the scaffolding of lessons in a textbook and something to kind of at least be the guide post in in these topics not that they have to do direct construction for all of them but i think that was what we were getting at towards having is you know checking as many boxes as possible having the editable

156powerpoints and word documents so that they could still make it their own but at least they know okay this is this is where i can start and then expand if i want to i just say i like the idea of thinking about the lack of a better term and textbook as a foundation a creative engaging educator that he builds on right and thinking about the gaps but also thinking about what is actually happening in this environment right now for these students so i think that's critical i'll just say i've been tracking this pretty closely from afar and conversation with dr sue over the last few months and i don't have any specific questions but i um wanted to say thank you and also acknowledge that it's a pretty big deal the way that this is

157coming to us and a departure from what other communities have seen where it's become a very divisive thing and i think the fact that you anchored in such transparency and welcoming people to the table and being willing to have challenging conversations is a big deal and um feeling excited and proud um tonight so thank you for your work and bringing this before us i feel like we're in a very good spot and i'm sure there will be bumps in the road ahead but this is really encouraging so thank you for all the hours you put into this all right entertain a motion i approve the purchase of a six-year adoption of comprehensive health skills for middle school and comprehensive health grades 9-12 curriculum for publisher goodheart wilcox and including professional development supporting transformational instruction practices

158in an amount not to exceed 256 000 as well as five specific replacement lessons addressing gaps and standards into middle school chapters specific to affirming identities anti-oppression as presented second motion was made by director irvin and seconded by vice chair lynn is there any further discussion on the motion hearing none will move to a coral vote all those in favor please say aye aye all opposed say nay motion carries unanimously congratulations and thank you very much thank you very much yeah um so with that uh thank you all again for coming we will move to public comment section two for non-agenda items and um we have one individual signed up let me just read through our protocol tiger 12 and school board meetings are public meetings meaning that the business of the board is conducted

159in an open meeting for the public to observe as required by law however regular public comment at board meetings is a policy choice of the board not a legal requirement as the board values input from our students parents and district community members that we serve the board provides these opportunities for community members to provide input on important topics in addition to public comment community members may submit written comments to the board secretary at each meeting or email comments directly to the board the email addresses of the school board can be found on the district website this section of the public comment of public comment is for non-agenda items public comments are limited to three minutes each and should be brief and concise i'll ask correct urban would you mind uh timing course since church research

160means not here um speakers may offer objective criticism of district operations programs but the board will not hear complaints concerning specific district personnel we are also unable to hear praise or commendations about district personnel but we invite you to submit commendations to the superintendent all right um before you speak please share your zip code director irvin will be timing she'll hold up a uh one finger to let you know that there's one minute left and then you'll hear her phone buzz when the timer is up um you can finish your your sentence but at three minutes your time will have expired um if you would like your public comment in the meeting minutes please make sure a written copy is provided to our board secretary please know that this is an opportunity for the board

161to listen to the community but we do not engage in a dialogue in this section instead are here to listen of course additional comments can be submitted to this board all right with that uh valerie johnson it looks like you are ready to go yeah so please start with your zip code and then once you begin speaking director irvine will start the timer last friday president biden issued an annual proclamation celebrating tomorrow june 14th as flag day and the week of june 12th has now added to 18 as national flag week was it a deliberate oversight on your part to exclude it from your agendas tax how is the flag honored by this school district are you in compliance with the oregon revised action which requires quote that each district's school board procure a united

162states flag to be displayed in every classroom in every school to provide students for the opportunity to salute the flag at least once each week of the school year by reciting the pledge of allegiance end quote the first board meeting i attended here was a year ago i immediately noticed a difference between your meeting and ones in other districts you did not recite the pledge of allegiance i questioned the board chair about this and he told me that in the 10 years that he's been here no one ever brought it up but that he would discuss it with all of you apparently you have decided not to honor the american flag but you're happy to recognize other plaques there is only one fully inclusive plan it's the american flag quoting from the proclamation made by

163president biden quote our flag belongs to all americans and it's red white and blue colors are woven into a rich tapestry of cultures backgrounds and beliefs i encourage the people of the united states to observe with pride and all do ceremony those days from flag day through independence day set aside by the congress as a time to honor the american spirit to celebrate our history and the foundational values we strive to uphold and to publicly recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america you have a beautiful flag here and i am going to stand and pledge allegiance to the flag if any of you want to join me i welcome you to do that i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states thank you for your public

164comment and thank you everyone else for being here this evening and with that i will return the meeting at 9