Dec 13, 2021 TTSD Board Meeting

001all right everybody i will call this regular meeting of the tiger fault school board to order at 6 31 pm thank you all for joining us this evening just for your information prior to this regular session we did hold a work session and we covered two items the city of tualatin presented on a waterline project uh and director david moore was joined by some colleagues in the operations department and debbie pearson of jcpm to discuss bond project prioritization um so with that uh dr ricky smith are there any changes to the vendor there are not sure all right with that i would entertain a motion to approve the agenda motion's so made by vice chair lynn is there a second second seconded by director cersei is there any discussion on the motion hearing none we'll

002move to a choral vote all those in favor please say aye all opposed say nay passes unanimously all right and to kick us off i will hand it to uh director zinnia un on recognition good news uh implementing the no place for hate campaign director on fun all right hello everyone my work is here that will share a little bit [Music] well patty is finding the slides welcome everybody thank you so much for coming thank you and if um uh folks will introduce themselves or they accept that okay great so again tonight we are recognizing our staff and students and committee members who have been a part of our no case repeat program in our schools as we talk about operationalizing our niche planner and our bias incidents and speech policy um we are going

003to talk a little bit about the e which is education and engagement um at ttsc we believe that students are the experts of their lived experiences which requires us to partner with our students in the educational experience so uh no place for hate i don't know rob if you wanted to talk to us with me and [Music] uh sure happy too so no place for hate is actually a national campaign that is organized by the anti-defamation and so they have regional offices we work with the northwest um office uh for no place for hate and essentially it is operationalized in schools across the country and aimed at making schools and learning environments more safe welcoming environments for all students to feel belonging and a sense of community within their schools all right i'll take this

004one too yeah that's right that's me in the picture i look warmer than i do um so the steps to become a no place for hate school it's all very structured and very supported by the organization but essentially it starts with students you have to reach out to students kind of at a grassroots level get you know recommendations from teachers reach out to students that you know might be interested in this type of opportunity and get organized and and really empower your students to take the lead on this work and so what really goes into it in order to be technically a no place for hate school you have to have a committee you have to meet regularly you have to have the right people in the club a mixture of staff students families you

005have to have an opportunity for your entire school population to sign the no place or hate pledge you can have a no place for hate facilitator come in and train your students and your staff if you would like but essentially over the course of the year you have to have three school-wide events that are intended to address issues of hate bullying uh harassment anything like that three school-wide events to try and make a positive impact on your school community and if you do those things then you get a fun banner to hang in here in your school building and so i wanted to just share our partnership with um no place for gates really aligns with our economic colors as we know we have um [Music] and so um the we are recognizing um schools

006that ttsd even during the pandemic um committed to ensuring that uh we'll have a message from our partners at uh food history and then we'll go into hearing more from the local level [Music] no place for hayden has really helped us gain a greater connectivity be able to speak out and empower them to be upstanders and not just bystanders this past year has been hard for everyone and no place where he encouraged extra kindness that we all needed it really lays the foundation to have difficult conversation and provides touch times to circle back to as needed throughout the year to be able to hear their voices and their opinions they count where we can discuss disagree and also find common ground without the not be where we are today we just um have a spirit

007and a climate of love here on our campus and it's because of no place for hate letting others know they are loved and important is what brings happiness to everyone [Music] as part of our commitment to celebrating diversity promoting respect for differences and challenging bias and bullying at all levels [Music] all right so we these are our no place for hate schools at ttsc we have tualatin high school bridgeport elementary alberta writer hazel brook fowler and high school and we'll have some folks from the local area tell you a little bit more about what that looks like in our schools go ahead hi i'm dr bobby brown i'm the associate principal of bridgeport elementary and i'm going to share a little bit about our journey with no place for me okay just click down so

008um in students and families reported incidences of hate and bias hate speech and bias and bridgeport the community really wanted to change the school climate to address hate speech and bias and to assure that we were really coming up for our families and students in a way where school is a safe place for them to be so we learned a lot through the process you know with no place for hate there's a as has been mentioned there's a very long process that goes into becoming a school it's no place for hate and what we really learned and we continue to learn but what we learned very quickly is that we needed a system to have an immediate response to addressing hate speech we also needed a more explicit instruction for students um that you know

009that's embedded in an anti-bias curriculum and anti-bias instruction throughout the school so that those were the early lessons and so we became you know we work towards becoming a school and no place for hate school and what that means is that we do three activities a year and it's a it's a great way to to have a structure around explicit teaching um to you know to address hate speech and bias and prevention and one of the ways that we do that is through an imprint lesson that we do every year and so what that looks like i'm going to give you a small example of part of what that lesson looks like so part of what students learn are imprints what an imprint is and how imprints can have positive and negative impacts on people

010and students also learn how making positive imprints can heal from negative imprints um and so we have an example here i'll talk you through it where um we do a heart emoji activity it's a it's an analogy that we do with students both instructionally and then there's also a project that goes along with it and so i'll show you a little bit about that so here is a bridgeport student the heart emojis represent positive imprints and then here we have a student and you can see that there are sad face emojis and sad face emojis represent negative imprints what we can do is we can offer support to our friends when and when students experience hateful speech or hateful behavior and with those positive imprints of sticking up for our friends and in really interrupting

011bias we can add on those positive imprints for our students one really great component of the program is student involvement so at bridgeport we have fifth grade students who we call ambassadors and they're our student leaders and any student who wants to participate is welcome to do so we have monthly meetings students participate in the no place for hey pledge they help lead it and they also give input to lessons that we do school-wide another great component to this program is that we have family involvement so we have a very active family committee members and teacher members that get together and get lesson plans we plan events and also we just really um gain valuable knowledge about what the families in our community need to feel safe at school so here's some quotes from our

012student ambassadors i wanted to include some things that they say about the impacts of no place for hate and their participation as ambassadors and so i'm just going to read through the comments so what some of the student ambassadors have said is i choose to become an ambassador to help people and make this school a place where they feel welcome and safe i have learned that i'm not the only person who has had problems in the past and that we can all make a difference by helping others being an ambassador is something that gives you the chance to explore and share your voice i learned that bridgeport is a safe place to learn and make new friends and that everyone is different but you can judge them i am new here and this is so

013far my favorite school because it is so welcoming um i am sherry gamash and this is my partner amy campbell and we are both second grade teachers and our the building faculty coordinators and we are also um partnering in um no place for hate being the faculty leader like this how do you make this good right here okay sorry there you go i think i'm going to turn that out volume off but it doesn't matter okay so how did it start with us it started with the wondering um members of our building equity team some parents and students wondered how we could teach students um starting in kindergarten about acceptance and inclusion we wanted area to be a place where everyone felt safe valued and hurt that is how no place for hate began and

014alberta writing our first year was during a pandemic surveys were sent out to students and parents to perform the no place great leadership team 17 students and several parents signed on everything was implemented virtually we were able to do the pledge and all three activities during our virtual morning meetings throughout the 2020-2021 school year now we're in year two and live thankfully um this year we have over 70 third fourth and fifth grade student leaders we were um the students had to fill out a form and get their parents to sign so this i mean it was more than just saying i'm in um two parents and two staff members are also on the team on october 26th the leaders led the pledge in every classroom the entire student body and staff signed the pledge

015banner which is proudly displayed in our cafeteria and then families also had the opportunity to sign the pledge either virtually or um on another banner that we had outside because that was because parents were able to come in the building um and also the other thing i wanted to say is no place for hate last year was the catalyst for our um a parent group that is now the diversity equity and inclusion parent group at alberta writer um it's because they wanted to do more that they and and so it was just like a springboard for for parents to get more involved so now we'll take an opportunity to tell you what our leaders are saying from from our student leaders i like being a leader for no place for hate because it helps stop

016bullying at our school i like to go to the younger kids classes to help teach them about treating others fairly no place for hate is important to me because everyone should feel included at are the reason i think no place for hate is important is because kids can gain self-confidence and not have to be bullied by anyone all right tough acts to follow um but this is all really exciting i remember when we first started no place for eight this is our fourth year now at tiger high um henry maybe you'll get a chance to speak for the to this but i think you were one of like four kids in the room when you were um you know a freshman and here he is the president of tiger high no place for hate and

017we've got you know yeah over 80 students signed up and um regularly closer to 20 students that participate in our meetings which shows the growth that is capable when schools really commit to what no place or hate can be um and what really drives our no place for hate group that tiger high is the students um i think luckily at the older grades we can really take a step back as staff especially now that we have more student leaders stepping into that role and we've really seen over the last really last year when we empower students to take on those positions they're doing tremendous things so i'm going to kind of rush through my part because i think it would actually be really valuable for you all to hear the student perspective of what no

018place for hate at tiger highest um but really quick as i mentioned um every year we do a no place for hate pledge signing that's taken many forms over the years we've had a giant tiger poster that students have used their names to color in the stripes this year we went we printed out small pieces of paper with the no place for hate pledge on it students signed their names and stuck it to a banner that hung in our commons so that's just a really good first note i think for to reintroduce no place for hate to the school community um and kids always do a really great job with that uh one thing that they were able to do earlier this year already we spent a couple of extended second block lessons at tigard

019high back in october talking about the issue of hate speech specifically at our school obviously an issue that school-wide district-wide nationwide is really in the spotlight and rightfully so it's a major uh issue and our students really took on leadership roles in designing those lessons um and what several classes ended up doing was filling out these cards um that asked students to reflect on what should tigard high be and what will you do to interrupt hate speech and then the no place or hate students took those cards well over 500 of them and put them down onto posters and hung them throughout the school for students to see so i thought that was a really great visual thing and in the past they've done everything from design week-long seo lessons for the entire school to

020go through kindness cards really a great balance of not only stopping hate speaking out against bullying abuse harassment things like that but also lifting up through kindness and love and community and trying to share um compassion um and so they've really struck a really good balance i think with that so we certainly have a lot of work left to do we are continuing to try and grow no place for hate grow our student equity efforts but the no place for hate kids are the ones that are willing to do the work right now and that are showing up and giving their time giving their effort and we are incredibly proud of them and lucky to have them um so this is henry castillo he is our president we also have angela aguilar here she's our

021vice president and now i saw hannah back there i don't know if any other but we're well represented this evening and uh if you'll just allow our president henry to to speak for a minute you just want to kind of talk about your perspectives on what no place or hate is and its impact on our school yeah hello my name is henry castillo and i'm the president of no place for hate at the tiger high school and to me i feel like no place for hate i just really want to make a more inclusive and very welcoming community at school and i believe that there are a lot of students that are willing to put the work in into that and i'm just feel i feel very happy to be a part of this and

022to have the support of mr barnes and all of my members that have joined it thank you for being here for your presentation i imagine board members might have comments or questions so i will open it up to my colleagues director shall i start okay um well thank you so much all of you for being here especially students for coming and sharing um i could say a whole bunch but i just some of the notes that i wrote down um i love that you all as a group and as students as adults are really teaching kids how to and be empowered um and have that agency um to kind of normalize empathy and positive relationships and inclusion um and to your point it is very relevant right now um locally nationally all of it and

023so i really i appreciate the work you're doing and recognize that it is not easy work um and i love also that you said that you are guys and gals and that are willing to do that work and um and keep doing it even when it feels a little bit maybe tumultuous and hard and like is this going anywhere and you're still doing it and you're still showing up and you have teacher and adult leaders that continue to show up and you know doing that work so i just i commend you all that work that you're doing and i think it's a huge asset and benefit to our whole district community that you're doing that so i was going to say something but director urban just pretty much said exactly what i was going to

024say so i'll just say thank you for all the work that you're doing for the district and especially the students thank you for standing up and doing what's right hi chairman i'll say um thank you also for your leadership i'm particularly impressed with the student leadership components as well as the level at which teachers are engaged in that work and leading that effort i think that is very important and so thank you yeah um i also just want to say thank you for everything that you guys are doing i know that the work at breakfast when um director mills started it you know it was it was it was great and we really needed it out there and i'm sure that all the other schools have benefited from it being uh here at um ctsd

025and thank you for your leadership and for um showing the rest of the student body that um you know ttsd is really a no place working thank you yeah i would i would echo all my colleagues comments what's what strikes me and what i've been thinking about and we'll hear more about from doctor in a moment about the incident that occurred but what strikes me is you've got elementary folks who are starting this um years before students are going to get to high school and so the downstream impact of your work and these investments is going to show up for years to come in our district and we might not feel that right away but it's just so important and to the student leaders who are in the system now before this program existed thank

026you for starting and modeling for younger students who are coming up what real leadership looks like so we are grateful for the work that you're doing and for being here on this evening to share with us so with that i will close our recognition and good news and thank you again for coming and i will hand it over to dr sue for our first report and discussion item uh and we will have others later so dr seuss gonna move around so she can present let's just tell you this [Music] i'll make sure i was driving this correctly good evening board it's my pleasure this evening to give you a brief update relative to the status of the district's implementation of board policies related to bias and hate speech specifically this evening i will be providing

027a high level uh overview of our students constitutional rights relative to freedom of speech and expression as well as an overview of the incidences of bias and hate speech both national data as well as district data i will provide an update regarding the implementation of board policies acb all students belong and jvc gbb bias incidents and hate speech i'll also provide a high level overview of district security responses to threats of violence as well as uh bond upgrades that have been made relative to improving school facility security and then leave you with some last thoughts relative to ongoing work in in the coming months first and foremost i want to start with anchoring this into uh student rights students do not share their constitutional rights when they enter into the school buildings uh specifically the

028two that i would uh refer you to this evening is the regulation of speech and expression and the right to do due process when the student is alleged to have broken a rule or caused an interaction additionally students do have informational rights relative to content in their educational record what can be shared and what cannot be shared this is guided by the family education rights and privacy act also known as ferpa and i'm going to go here so where i want to go is that school districts are guided by what's known as the tinker standard this refers to tinkerbee des moines a 1969 supreme court ruling which had two main principles the first is is that students do not share their constitutional rights freedom of speech of expression at the schoolhouse gate the second that

029seems to be somewhat in conflict with that however is the fact that it also affirmed the need and of the opportunity and requirement that states and school officials have to prescribe and control conduct in schools that however ends when it interferes with the rights of others under tinker a school may also take action in response to speech that collides with the rights of other students to be secure and to be let alone and lower courts have held that situations that involve a true threat also impact the rights of others in that students have a right to attend school without fear of being harmed i think there has always been thought to um refer to and see i can get to the right slide there we are um only speech that is conducted on campus um

030and other courts have ruled that that is true that you cannot rule relative to off-campus speech however there has been a mixed bag of court rulings uh at the lower courts uh finally some of that was laid to rest uh this year and a case where a freshman cheerleading student at a texas high school was disciplined for posting two snapchat posts where she used vulgar language and obscene hand gestures to express her displeasure relative to a cheer squad decision placing her on the jv versus the varsity team when other freshmen were placed on the varsity team what the supreme court ruled was yes the student's speech could not be constrained that she had a right to uh voice her her opinion however they disagreed with the third circuit court that said that any speech that

031is off campus is beyond the school's reach and they said that the tinker standard still remains for example any off-campus speech that is serious or or incites severe bullying or harassment and targets particular individuals is not can be constrained threats that are aimed at teachers or students failure to follow class rules orphan or follow lessons breaches of school security devices including material maintained within school computers are all within a school's right to discipline now we'll take just a quick moment to talk a little bit about ferpa just a very high level in essence there are a set of student educational records which are precluded from public viewing unless they are provided um a signed release by the parent if the student is under the age of 18. or if the student has is 18 or

032older that the student themselves have control over their record and so must give consent the piece that i want to bring to the attention this evening is relative to disciplinary records that is part of the protected content and requires permission from a parent or from the student depending on the situation and i know this runs a counter to what we as a community want in terms of understanding what disposition occurs in the policies that calls for an understanding of how an originator of the bias or hate speech was handled relative to this i now want to make a just a brief statement here that acts of bullying bias and hate uh inflict immediate and lasting harm on their victims that is that is the fact that is what we believe in ttsd and we know

033that board policies acb and jbc gbb communicate no tolerance for those acts and an expectation of an immediate response by staff the 2122 district implementation is focused to ensuring a systematic and consistent response to these incidences and so here what i want to share with you is currently the national data this is data comparing instances of what they refer to as hate crimes that we would con constitute as bias or hate speech uh instances if you notice in 2015-16 31 30 166 of reports across the k-12 system uh in 1718 that had ballooned to 5732 i would anticipate dated that if you were able to get it in real time today would show that that number has continued to increase additionally the number of schools where there is at least one hate instance um also

034more than doubled um almost more than doubled in between 15 16 and 17 18. just one so where do we stand as a district if this is a national problem we know that school districts and schools are a reflection of the communities that they serve we greet the public and our students where they are and we embrace them and we work to build a community much like what you heard this evening relative to no place for hate where the community is safe and secure and children feel that they learn that is why it is important for us to track our office distance referrals relative to behavior such as bullying and harassment that impacts the health and safety of our schools what you will notice this is quarter one data for this year in parentheses of

035the total numbers of students enrolled currently at that level out of 5128 students we've had 22 incidences in the first quarter relative to harassment and bullying of which four are related to race at middle school we have 2717 students enrolled there were 35 incidents of bullying and harassment reported of those two were race related and at the high school uh we we have a total population of 3576 of which there were 15 incidences of bullying and harassment reported none were related to race we anticipate the situation at tiger high school will show itself in the second quarter i have to go my slides unfortunately have gotten out of order student voice is in a critical aspect what you've heard this evening from our students and the way in which they work with our teachers uh

036just with no place for hate is is a glowing example of the work that is possible when our students are able to voice and express their first amendment right these are who we serve and so you as a board received in your board packet on on friday or over the weekend our first blush at taking a k-12 student perception survey data this same data will be presented to the each committee on the 16th it provides and asks questions of both elementary middle and secondary students as to how they are receiving our schools our classroom and work with their teachers i believe that probably as we are with any new implementation of such as these two policies that we are probably they're still under reporting uh or potentially delayed reporting our student voice continues to tell

037us that hate speech is pervasive k-12 especially during unstructured times such as uh passing in the hallway lunch and recess um and that i've heard students repeatedly express particularly at tiger that there is an inconsistent staff response when reported student listening sessions have been in place and you saw this evening all the various ways in which students are are being heard and gathering input from students our goal is and i will share this in our my last slides relative to work that we wish to do on uh expanding those opportunities for listing sessions with each committee with board with district personnel and potentially with our state legislators now i want to come back to this slide there we are so the two policies again that we are working to implement this year acv and jdc

038gbb in august all district school administrators and and district central office administrators received the training during the three-day in-service on these policies it is a required component of the 2122 school continuous uh improvement plans and the board heard in a round table uh it's on november 22nd um you had an opportunity to look at those plans as well as listen to how schools are implementing those you will have an update on the 28th of february and again on april 11. november also uh the all admin leadership team which is their professional development time they continue to work on their niche plans and shared them with their fellow colleagues and got in ideas as to how they could further deepen the implementation within their buildings and with staff in terms of my communications to the community

039an open letter went to the community on october 22nd relative to the increased inc increase in hate speech and ways in which families and resources could have that conversation with it with their students in the last two minutes with dr sue on december 3rd and december 10th i've addressed this issue and again the resources and as many of you know i have been the subject of media interviews both in the local market as well as nationally on this issue the district also on its website has a variety of resources and lists our policies as well for families as a resource and our community now to the situation at tiger um and i want to just walk as quickly through how that mesh lined up with two policies and the implementation in those policies is a

040very clear process that first calls out that the moment that we are notified of a particular issue of bias or hate speech that an investigation is immediately started and then there is a process that we need to work in terms of identifying the the originators caring for the victims and communicating to the community at large depending on the situation so on wednesday november 24th principal bailey and district leadership team received information concerning a tick tock hate speech video the investigation began immediately on wednesday to identify the originators and then continue through the thanksgiving break on monday november 29th a letter from principal bailey was sent to the entire school community that addressed and acknowledged the the video um the the disgust and hate that it expressed that this this was counter to our school and

041district values that harm had been done and avenues to support the the multiple victims um which is the entire student body um and in ways in which they could seek additional support and assistance but the communication did not include it was information that the investigation was still ongoing and that will be an adjustment that will be made in future communications you know should unfortunately another situation like this occur also the school building equity uh coordinator team was engaged in support of uh listening sessions and the investigation continued on that monday but unfortunately not all of the identified originators were in play were at school on monday on tuesday i had the opportunity for a regular sit with sue out with staff and we discussed the video and fielded questions the missing originator who was not

042in school on monday arrived on tuesday and administration immediately sought to interview the student the student body however noted that the student was an attendant and questioned why the student student was an attendance at school given the egregiousness of the tick tock video on tuesday evening principal bailey and the district leadership team was notified of our walkout instagram post on wednesday december 1st principal bailey i had the opportunity to join him and meet with the student leaders of the walkout we he did a masterful job of working with the students and answering any questions that he could answer relative to the investigation he authored a school-sponsored student listening session in the main commons that day during the third period and to the students as well the student leaders made the decision that they wish to

043start in the commons and let's have students tell their stories and then proceed with the walk out which is what all right and we've talked about student voice i'll get through these slides these are also uh within your packet i want to shift just very quickly relative to threats of violence to the building and give a high level there as well any time there is a threat against an entire school a student or group of students or staff regardless of time of day we receive those those reports through either safe organ which is managed 24 7 by oregon state police or social media that is brought to our attention or our student staff or parent or community member who reaches out to us to make a report and we are grateful to all who have

044done that to date um immediately we um sro if it is during the school day or local law enforcement if it is after hours are notified they it's there's a simultaneous notification to the district team which is made up of the security leads myself the director of community relations and the appropriate level director the sro or law enforcement and initiate an investigation and means to execute the threat the district team then convenes following the invest investigation assesses the level of threat with law enforcement including the potential for criminal intent and then determines the appropriate security response as for the student originator of the threat a threat assessment is always before regardless a determination is then made by the threat assessment team regarding that student's placement can they maintain a safe um safely be safe at

045school or does an alternative placement need to be um done based on the outcomes of the threat assessment if they are too determined to be safe to remain in school there's a safety supervision plan that is put in place and that may include any of the following that are there including frequent check daily check-ins by admin daily backpack locker and vehicle checks use of school computer and phone monitoring a change in scott class schedule as well as potentially mandatory counseling additional psyche valves and other other strategies a communication plan also then goes out first we always seek to work with the parent not against the parent of the student who has originated the threat then we work with the students and our staff if they were individually threatened and make ensure that their safety is

046is cared for then if it involves the entire school there is a staff stand-up meeting and an email that follows for any of you are not able to be there for whatever reason and then a school community communication at large relative to our school facilities thanks to the 2016 bond we have security cameras that are now operating district-wide the schools have lockdown systems that immediately lock down a school in the event of an imminent threat and at the same time simultaneously notify law enforcement of an immediate threat as well as distant personnel we every single one of our schools k-12 have a safety vestibule which is a first layer that keeps individuals from the community to immediately access our buildings or main offices they must be buzzed in once identified the door locks are now

047our push button on every single classroom so the teachers do not have to go out into the hall and lock them with key and remote control door closers and our new doors to close off caution areas uh from the main entrances and the main office or have also been put into place additionally at woodward byrom bridgeport durham and fowler the main offices have been relocated to the front of the building so that staff have immediate line of sight uh relative to the parking lots and school exteriors and can see who is coming towards the building now i'd like you to just given that information walk you through the situation that involved quality high school um and a threat of violence on december 10th on thursday december 9th the school administration were notified that the potential

048threat of harm had been made to a student by a classmate in mid-afternoon the sro was dispatched to investigate the sro in interviewed the student and parent assessed the student's ability to execute on the threat and determined that the student uh that the threat was not credible and that it could not be executed at that time there are no means to execute school administration team scheduled the student fourth right assessment for the protocol later much later that evening these uh student social media posts uh state stating that there was going to be a school shooting a friday was reported and again it was late very late thursday evening the district security team then very early on friday morning convened reviewed the sro and administration data and evaluated the social media posts to see if there

049was any new information there that could be blamed the team based on all of that information determined that school was secure for operation additional district security and administration staff were deployed to the building to provide additional line of sight in in the hallways and supports to students who were noticeably um concerned about their safety in terms of communication the threatened student and parents were notified staff were notified tarleton high school community at large was notified on friday a stand-up meeting was held with carlton staff myself and district leadership were in attendance and then we stayed and one want to say thank you to director cersei for being there as well i had an opportunity to speak with those who still needed more information or just a chance to to just to to converse and then

050threat assessment discipline and safety plan process is still um in in process for this situation ongoing work the second meeting of the east oversight committee will be on december 16th and my thanks to our director harness and and direct and vice chair lin for their support and and leadership on this committee they will review the quarter one office discipline referral data that i presented to you this evening they will also review the uh each plans against that data as well as the student reception data that you have a copy of and then they will consider and provide recommendations for school implementation of those plans additionally we are working to plan additional student listening sessions with the each committee in january of meetings with board district and state legislative representatives who have expressed strong uh interest

051and support for our students and continue with our student perception surveys so that we can compare data over time and uh we will be at work with administration and staff trainings in terms of supportive fidelity of implementation will continue with that i will field any questions or comments you dr sue and i realized i should probably have given you a better intro the reason why this was arranged in this meeting today is as my colleagues can attest to we received a high volume of questions um both about hate speech and how we respond to the district and also about threats of violence and so we put this special agenda item so dr sue the front end of the meeting can provide this information to the board and to the community um so there's a lot

052of information there colleagues questions or clarifying comments for the benefit of the public are those each meetings open to the general public yes they are and we receive public comment as well there's a period provided at the end of the meeting a 30-minute public comment and those are both those dates uh patty i believe that you notice those movies do you not yes okay thank you dr sue thank you for that information and with that um we will move to student representative reports who drew their short stride it's a tradition for me to go first um so first thing was that i would kind of have to address was the hate speech walkout um when i got to school that day there were a lot of mixed feelings from my peers i had a lot

053of mixed opinions that i was hearing before that as well um but there were students that were for the protests and students that were not necessarily against the protest as much as against the spontaneous nature of the protest um they were i know students who participated i also know plenty of students who didn't um there i've heard that there was like some sort of rumor about a um anti-protest and that to my knowledge didn't that really happen um all i know is that students really stayed in their classrooms if they didn't agree um i had students come to me um specifically students of color that were afraid the desks could get out of hand and reflect poorly on their communities so that was another protection standpoint of making sure that the protests didn't get out

054of hand in that way um so besides those mixed opinions the walkout was huge uh there's pictures from it there were a lot of students that attended um most notably publications was there taking photos and actually the magazine 17 reached out to a student to ask to put her photos in a article that they were writing which was pretty um crazy um the reactions that came out of the protest i think were the most interesting um there were a lot of conversations that were sparked but the day of i remember a lot of students um coming with uh words that were like um i'm very tired um upset there were a lot of that but i think the overwhelming atmosphere was just this overwhelming sense of being tired um which was really interesting when i

055got home i also found out that i was very tired um it was it was a stressful day but moving from that day forward we've kind of come to a place of the conversations haven't ended but it's um gone back to normal the school environment doesn't seem to be as impacted as it was that day um and then more than anything from what i've gathered from all the students that i've talked to about this was the protest was for transparency more than anything um it wasn't so much for the hate speech itself as much as it just they felt like there wasn't anything going on behind the scenes um and so that's what sparked to put those to my knowledge um other than that uh there's really good news um there's this really cool thing

056the leadership put on a thrift store so basically students donated clothes um from december 1st to the 10th and basically they donate their extra clothes and all the extra clothes from the thrift store will go to the caring closet and all of the money from this their store that will be put on students to shop at all of that money is going to habitat for humanity um so that was a really cool idea um and then we also had the rainbow out for lgbtq students and i mentioned that because it was kind of crazy the amount of students that dressed up for that day it was inspiring to see so many students in support um i can't say that i expected that which was it's kind of a sad thing to say but it was

057it was there was a lot of people um and i was really proud thank you jenny okay i'll start off on a lighter note i guess it's actually not that much but right now because we talton played central catholic in the football state championships and we lost it was a tough loss but it was really cool to see our school community um come out together in support not only on the day up but in a rally assembly earlier that week um and then into the tigard walkout the tiger walkout sparked much meaningful conversation at tualatin surrounding racism and the way we address it in our schools additionally i think it sparked a lot of curiosity in the student body on how to know like the correct way to go about reporting incidents of hate speech

058and bias which i think is really valuable because i think things like the age committee and the way that we report hate-station bias through the district um it's not very publicized as your body and by far and away most kids don't know how to do that um correctly um additionally friday was a pretty stressful day with the shoveling news of directive violence against students at tualatin um it was one of the weirdest days of the school i've ever experienced and the attendance was like pretty much half in most of my classes um it was especially scary given the recent school shooting in michigan which was last week which i think is what prompted a lot of students to stay home that day um and friday was a reminder of the student body's desperate desire for

059gun control and how necessary um it is and how horrible it is that i was scared to go to school um on friday and um our next issue of the wolf drops on friday and it can be read at teenagerswolf.com and unfortunately due to limited number of print copies i can't bring in hard copies to bring to the board um but the pdf version of our page designs are made available i would say on friday and last week was the conclusion of our school-wide canned food drive and these stress the last few weeks have definitely left students excited for winter break well said thank you both for henry i would also like to add that our cancer drive was also super successful um there were large barrels of cams probably better than walton there's also

060this new i forgot about this on the communications committee for um tiger leadership there's a new prank coming out um it's called the toilet times and it's going to go on stalls in bathrooms to give all of the activities and news and so i thought that was pretty interesting and also kind of genius we're waiting just to make sure that there's a piece of parts between the two high schools so yeah i think we're gonna need a weigh-in but truly thank you both for the updates um i know it was a tough week for students and i'm sorry for both of you and for both your schools that you had to live through that but here we are um so with that we're going to move to board communications i imagine folks have some comments

061they would like to make so i will um open the floor and anyone who'd like to go first [Music] so i was actually at home high school on december 9th i had my first uh sit with a board member still in the name from they sit with sues but uh met with students at colton high school in the library at lunchtime and had seven or eight students come by in that time we had some really great conversations primarily uh the the tiger high incident of course was was heavy on everybody's mind and so there were a lot of questions about what was going on there um but talk about bias incidents in general and the classes that are being held at the school in which students are talking about sel and bias incidents i was

062delighted at how sophisticated some students were in their requests of what they would like to see what they would like to see is those bias incidents workshops and conversations happening within a real uh construct of academics and um and real world rather than just now we're going to do our bias incidents less frightening so because as the students pointed out it's too easy to ignore it and it's like that whereas if it's really meshed into and grounded in the academics it's a much more meaningful experience um i will be having i got interviewed by the weekly wolf as a for a promo sponsor which was so much fun the kids are uh jason uh really great kids working the the tech there um i will be doing another one probably every month for the remainder

063of the school year so the next one will be january 20th again during lunches and then the other thing is that the health curriculum team when we met we voted and the team agreed to pursue a new curriculum rather than a renewal of the existing curriculum for some reason curriculum that was adopted in 2005 is deemed somewhat out of date i i don't know how that that's what i've got thank you dr irvin yeah i'm doing that okay it is definitely committee season um so we already went over the health curriculum meeting um there was also the bond oversight committee meeting which really went through which we talked about earlier um the prior prioritization schedule of some of the remaining projects um and as being a new member to the committee this was kind of

064a good primer um kind of absorbing what's been happening and what will continue to happen and really that whole process so that was a lot of kind of just listening and absorbing at that point for me um i also attended a kind of the part two of an equity two conference through cosa it was held in eugene that was december 1st i believe um which was wonderful and so it was a lot of school administrators and just kind of going through especially for students sort of the inundation of um biases that they're seeing in media and being able to better recognize those and um being interrupters which we talked about earlier with the no place for hate and sort of learning some tools for that and that was a really wonderful time to just be

065with other educators that are interested in equity and then basketball season is underway and as a parent i've been attending the tigard jv and jb2 basketball games and we're having a swimmingly good season so far i must say um so that's been really great and we did some work with the strategic plan but we will get to that later that's all i have thank you director irvin director highmix um so i had the pleasure of attending a smarter school spending steering community meeting uh with chair bowman and i'm sure he'll talk more about that we were kind of given a bunch of information all at once and so it was a lot to process there um you know so after the after the incident that happened we were talking about uh dr sue it was

066it was sad as a parent to one see the video and then to have my own children come up to me and be like well you're a board member what's the what is the board at ttsd uh doing and basically they they told me that we weren't doing anything and um at that time it was uh that was hard right it was hard to notice that which prompted me to um you know prompt vice chairlin and be like we need to put something out and i'm glad that we were able to work together to get something out to the community so they understand that we we are trying to you know we're here we're here for them and you know we're here for you guys and uh to uh for them to understand that uh

067it's gonna take time but we were working hard behind the scenes to do that um after that then i went to the talton matchup meeting and that was a it was also it was it was good and sad because they were saying oh yeah you know they're they're singing the accolades of the first elected um latino um board member but also they're like asking me well what are what are we doing what are we doing against um hate speech and uh i got to hear a lot of the same and how they said that there's really um they don't understand or they don't know the the ways to uh communicate when races or violence incidents happen so that put that on my radar that we need to do a better job of letting the students

068know how to how to communicate that and listening session that um happened and again there it was um a lot of we we don't know what's happening we don't know what um what's going on and uh we don't know why our kids are are walking out so there's definitely a lot of um misinformation and information that we need to fill for our constituents and hopefully we're able to do that and you know just want to pass out the the word that you should come to the the mar the december 16th fish community meeting so that you can get a sense of what we're trying to do um you know the good work that we're doing in the district and and [Music] working with the policies and working with the system to ensure that you know

069our students are being kept safe and especially our students of color and while we're you know we can't stop every incident from happening we're definitely gonna do our best to create those systems and put those systems in place to ensure that there's accountability and when things happen and that there is ways of reporting that communication is sent to students to allow them to better report those things and um because it's that when when you're at um essentially the the top and you're you're on you can't look your children in the face and say yeah we we're we're stopping which you know we we're trying and that's what that's what we can do right because we can try to to do it and we can try and keep everybody as safe as possible thanks jeremy yeah

070this this has been a challenging time for us parents um because i have a student at tarleton and uh and you know we debated about whether you should attend or not and so on so it was it's just it's been a difficult time and then to have that occur on the heels of you know the hp gen sedan and in general i think with the pandemic and all of that we're concerned about health we're all stressed out so uh so kudos to everybody for sticking with it and and continuing to smile and show up and be positive because i think uh that takes a lot of effort and i have to really give our superintendent a lot of credit for her leadership and as that being said when this happened you know we sort of

071put our heads together and said we need to respond and and then ben and i worked with the superintendent and with our director communications to to produce uh i think what was a really great statement you know and again our message is that the hate speech is not tolerated in the district that it is not acceptable um and that you know to take a strong stand against it and we support our superintendent and this board believes that uh and wants that to be very very clear to our students to the families of our students to our community that hate speech is simply not acceptable um and we are we are going to do everything we can to eradicate that you know i think there's work that that has to be done in our community as

072well around uh racial literacy uh i think we we lack that in this country uh we don't understand the history of race and racism in the united states we we do a lot of victim blaming and pointing fingers when we should be deeply trying to understand what has happened that has made it okay for kids to think that they can refer to their black or brown colleague as the n word right will be what what what what what has happened in our history in this country to make that an acceptable way to behave um and so we need to better understand that and i think you know one of the things that i could see happens is the school district potentially partnering with community-based organizations and other organizations to think about how we can support

073community education around oregon's racial history at portland state we we have some resources available for sort of talking about this my colleague walida immorisha does a lot of work to help understand organizational history she looks through the lens of policy right that we're a state that actually um where it was illegal for black people to live here at a certain point and that was a law uh and it took a lot of work to undermine that and to eliminate from the books that from the books so you know i think one of the ways in which we will be working to you know eliminate hate speech is by understanding our history better as a community and learning how to better work with each other as a result of that and also i think the the

074school district has been doing a lot of work around recognizing internal biases that we have right toward each other and i think we probably could extend some of that work to um to our students it was so nice to see um the elementary schools doing some of that work uh already because that's where it starts um you know in the neighborhoods i mean i serve on a um a number of boards and i also serve on the uh the uh homeowners association board where we're dealing with you know things like uh can you put up a door of a certain color and things like that but we're also looking at and concerned about the overall health of our community and i can tell you communities don't have the resources that they need to be able

075to develop racial literacy to be able to understand how you talk to somebody else how do you what's the right language to use so i think we have to invest in that kind of project and i and again i'll be looking to see um how we can partner with community organizations to support that effort but again i want to i want to thank our superintendent and thank our board chair and all of you for continuing to do the work that you do every day to make sure our schools are safe uh and that they are good places for our students to learn thank you thank you guys um i want to thank folks for speaking from a personal place tonight i know that's usually what kind of run-down events but hearing the perspective as parents

076i think it's sitting with me i'm hearing that and thinking through it um a couple things i wanted to to share through uh and then i have a couple words i want to say in the incident as well um uh i did see vice chair lynn at the uh the championship football game we were both freezing cold the entire time um but congratulations second place ain't bad and i think first place for public schools um [Music] i attended the uh the tiger christmas tree lighting and the tigers third annual menorah lighting which is also in the same place right along um main street in downtown tiger which is very cool uh just a quick word on the smarter school spending steering committee that director honestly i attended i wanted to thank director moore and his

077team this is a very cool thing that ttsd is doing and basically in fact i think it dates back to when director albertson was on the board but it's something that ttsd kind of has a reputation for and it's how we uh invest our public dollars in a way that we believe is going to have the greatest impact on student achievement so we really got down to a science how to analyze our investments for the greatest outcome for students so there was a ton of information shared with us but i'm excited to dive in this is something that um previous board chair maureen walt used to sing the praises of to at the state level so very cool to be part of that um and then so a note on the incident that occurred some

078of you might remember i was talking to uh abdi uh a former ths student um a president former president of black student union now in college at a prestigious university and i was talking to him about the incident just trying to he he was the co-chair of the committee write each policy which as a reminder is very new this is the first year in person that we've actually implemented it so it's not surprising that there's things that we're still working through but his comments he had two things that he said about it he said first he's really proud of the students at tiger who protested and stood up and tried to draw lines and say that's not acceptable and then the second thing he said was i really hope this doesn't ruin her life which

079i've been thinking about a lot because it strikes it strikes me as that's what he and i think the committee that we built was trying to infuse into this policy of high school students middle school students they're going to make mistakes they're going to say stupid things they're going to say i said things i am ashamed of from when i was in high school in middle school and the point is that we're going to eliminate these forever and it's never going to happen again the point is when this does happen how do we respond to the community and i think director and hit that on the head when she was presenting um beforehand so i've just been thinking about that and i hope that the community thinks about that i've also been thinking about dr

080seuss as often as she said tonight you know we don't change who walks through our doors we accept whoever comes in our doors and so in some ways this is the issue of hate hate speech and biased incidents that's a community problem that's not just a school problem and in fact i think just about every school in the state could have and probably does happen at tiger high school in their schools and this got national attention for us and it's embarrassing for us it's shameful for us it's not acceptable um but it's also an opportunity for us to showcase what we have built in terms of infrastructure and try to make things better um moving forward so yeah and then the final thing i wanted to to touch on and i appreciate i think both

081of you have touched on this but when we were going through the each commitment this was at a time where we were and this is still true moving away from what's called zero tolerance you might have you might have heard of zero tolerance it says that this idea when a student um breaks the rules they get they get suspended or expelled and there's been a large movement away from this in the education policy community because it generally seems pretty ineffective it doesn't actually change behaviors and it gets kids behind further behind academically but what's important and this is vice chairlin helped me understand the languaging for this moving away from zero tolerance doesn't mean that we have threshold tolerance of hate speech we have no tolerance for hate speech in this district but that what

082it does mean is if a student says something we don't kick them out of school indefinitely and try to remove them from the district that sort of response actually to obvious point can make the problem worse and can help people um uh it can create the wrong responses so um yeah i've just been thinking about that and i appreciate vice chairman for helping me kind of see that the languaging around zero tolerance we need to be clearer um as a community okay so that was a lot um about a lot of heavy topics to start a board meeting off so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take a five-minute recess give folks the opportunity to take a breath and then when we come back at about 7 50 we're going to jump

083right into public comment then report some discussion items part two and then finally action items okay so we're gonna take a five minute break bye bye guys [Music] all right everybody i'm going to uh excuse me i'm gonna gavel our meeting back to order at 7 53 pm uh i apologize for the distraction but we are going to be passing around a little candy bowl cabinet will remember this but a former school board member some of you know i know uh director barry albertson former director served for 16 years and had a tradition as a board member making what he called his christmas candy and handing it out to cabinet and board and he very kindly just dropped by and offered his offering for this year so um thank you to barry for dropping that

084off and without what we're going to do next is move into public comment so um i'm going to read a little bit about public comment we've got our list of public commenters uh and then uh director research we'd get your yourself ready over there because you will have a crucial part in this so tiger 12 school board meetings are public meetings and what that means is that the business of the board is conducted in 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 which you'll see in our board policies and not a legal requirement as the board values the input from our students parents and district community members that we serve the board provides these opportunities for community

085members to provide input on important topics in addition to public comment community members may submit written comments to the board secretary patty roberts at each meeting or email comments directly to the board the email addresses of the school board can be found on the district website so this section of public comment that we're about to enter into is for items directly related to a board meeting agenda items public comments regarding board agenda items will be shared during this time for folks who have public comments that are about something else in the district something that's not on the district agenda that section is at the end of the agenda and there's 30 minutes for each session but based on the folks who signed up tonight that should not be a problem so here's how the protocol

086works public comments are limited to three minutes each director zerschmid has cards in front of her so you'll be sitting at that desk if you're providing a comment director zurich will be right in front of you and she's basically going to tell you how much time you have left she's also going to have an alarm on her phone you'll hear it when it goes off when you hear the alarm that means your time is over you may finish your sentence but the alarm is going to stay on until your remarks are done and we ask you to finish right at three minutes okay this is important speakers may offer objective criticism of the district operations or programs but the board will not hear complaints concerning specific district personnel we're also unable to hear praise or

087recommendations about district personnel but if there are about specific personnel but if there are commendations that you have we invite you to email dr sue so those that those can be heard and acted upon uh and so just to put that in clear terms if the district employee's name is named i will cut you off and the public comment will be over if you don't hear specific names in public comment um so this will not exceed 30 minutes so i don't need this section so a few protocol items please wear your mask when you speak and speak you don't need to speak directly into the microphone because we have new technology in the new california center as long as the light is green you will be on and you can i'm this far from the

088microphone and it's picking it up fine before you start your comments please share your zip code if you would like your public comment in the meeting minutes please provide a written copy to patty roberts our board secretary right here at the end of the table and those will be included in the minutes when they're posted also please know that this is an opportunity for the board to listen to the community we as a board do not engage in dialogue in this portion but instead listen i do have the discretion to respond when needed but in general our practice is not to respond additional comments can be submitted to the board via email okay so with that we're going to move into our first uh we've also decided uh as a district to have students who

089sign up for public comment go first then parents and then community members and then folks from outside of the district so first up we're going to hear from tiger high school student henry castillo is henry still here henry come on up you can have a seat up right where you're sitting when you're presenting um and so the way it'll work is uh as soon as you start speaking director zerschmid will press uh her start button and then we'll just go from there any questions henry no cool all right whenever you're ready hello my name is henry castillo i am involved in many different things i'm but mainly i'm the president of no place for hate but today i will be talking on my own behalf i hope you all understand that despite what i might

090despite what i may say today these are my own views and not reflective of those of my fellow members and organization today i will be talking about my personal experience with hate speech i remember around in late september i was having a conversation with my younger sister who is a sixth grader i asked how her experience was going at middle school and she replied and she said it was going well it was only a several weeks later that she came home with tears running down her eyes running down her face and with pieces of paper in her hand she told me that these pieces of paper were slipped into her locker and that she broke down into tears once she read them on these pieces of paper there were slurs written on them as well

091as a message of telling her to kill herself as an older brother this broke me i have never personally been targeted but to see my younger sister who's only 11 years old to receive death threats it made me scared for her safety and her well-being this of course was reported but we have yet to hear about any action my main point is that hate speech and racism isn't just a high school issue and it's a district-wide issue it frustrates me that despite that this being reported such a while um such a long time ago that even today my family have yet to receive a response of any action not only that but i also want to talk about the status of walking in the hallways at school every day i would walk down the hallway

092and i would just hear sins use hateful and racist language there would be times in which students would use this language in front of staff members and it would frustrate me because a lot of these times the staff would just give him a warning there's no actual punishment for this behavior and it just shows why this behavior has been continuing building up and just increasing in general and it terrifies me how things could continue to escalate and how the environment once my sister it terrifies me how the environment would be once my my sister enters high school and yes i'm aware of the current change that is currently happening but i just want i just want to ask you all about what if the recent what if the recent incident hadn't happened do you think

093that all the schools in all of this change and all these meetings and everything that's been going on would still happen if you say yes then why hasn't it happened earlier that's all thank you for your time thank you henry next up on our public comment list is sarah joy brown sarah joy here there she is great thanks sarah joy um so just like henry as soon as you start sequence when director zerschmidt will press start on the time the floor is yours okay um the last time i spoke at a school board meeting i didn't have to wear a mask when i spoke it's really hard for me to speak with a mask on the mask has to stay on while you're speaking everyone else this evening has spoken with the mask on the

094spoken we've been able to hear them so your three minutes is going to start right now okay um [Music] i asked to speak about trauma of all kinds in our schools especially related around racism bullying and gender identity trauma can be the result of many things it can be brought about intentionally when someone does something directly to us it can be the result of life circumstances such as losing a family member or it can be the result of unintended consequences so let's start with intentional acts as i sat here listening to all of this testimony tonight i was moved by one particular thought i believe it was dr sue but maybe it was somebody else stated that the students were upset about the fact that the student who posted the tick tock video was in

095attendance at school i'm wondering why they had a right to even question that i get hate speech is is a horrible thing i am not trying to say that i am not trying to say that racism does not exist or that it is not something to be concerned about what i am wondering is why students who may not have even known that student directly had any right to question what consequence was being meted out what is being done by the administration or the board and why they feel entitled to stage a walkout to me this is just gross uh i don't even know where to start i mean so my son has been beaten up three times by the same kid at school physically assaulted three times at school by the same child my son

096has an iep he has special needs and yet this is not i am not allowed to question what happens to that student so how are students who i mean the video of the students in the walkout some of them were white how are they affected by that speech it just now i have not seen the tick tock video granted i i'm not on tik tok i have no desire to see it but i'm wondering how they can see they that they have any right to ask what is being done i was i asked what was being done and i was told a behavior is reported it is investigated through individual interviews and with witnesses where applicable a consequence is given or not and communication home whether or not a restorative practice is implemented is dependent

097on the safety well-being and agreement of both parties involved specifically the victim thank you very much all right our next public comment is from janet bailey excuse me janet you're on deck it's uh marta biamon marta perfect so marta saying will be true for you once you take a seat um the time will start once you start speaking so take your time and whenever you're ready to all the attendees here when i read the report about the increase of hate speech and bias incidents in our tiger 12 schools and the outcry of our students standing strong and determined in their protest and walk out i was both heartbroken at the cause and uplifted by their bravery to speak out against injustice applaud and i am encouraged by the immediate response of our superintendent and this

098incredibly wonderful school board to me there's no more important place than our children to give ongoing support and hearing air when they look to us they must see that they are our first priority if one of them is disparaged minimized belittled denigrated harassed abused slurred or diminished we must not turn a deaf ear as the adults we must show our children that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated in any way shape or form they must know that under all circumstances and with all types of people school will be a safe place to be bias and prejudice and hate have been part of the american fabric since the beginning of our nation sometimes it goes underground for a while but when circumstances are ripe and leadership or lack thereof shows itself to be bigoted

099it gives license for others to follow suit this is why it's so vastly important to keep a watchful eye and a hearing gear on what's going on in our children's lives so these types of incidences can be quelled swiftly and decisively if and when they happen and the ever-present reinforcement of what is expected in our classrooms and hallways and buildings is known to them luckily the staff and leadership of ttsd that i know is willing and committed to this work as a former employee of this school district and myself a person who's working with other groups to educate the public of the insidious and systemic nature of the prejudice i hope that all here and every one of your family members and neighbors will support by whatever means necessary this district and this board thank

100you all right thank you uh janet you're up uh tony carrasco is on deck and janet's same is true as soon as you um sit and begin speaking that's when director zerschmidge will start the time so take your time the only problem i have is when i have the mask on it fogs my glasses and then i have trouble reading from my cell phone yeah i'm sorry uh unfortunately that is the rule so the mask has to remain on okay is this the mic yep and you don't have to i can suggest if you put your mask higher up the bridge of your nose i know but that's what i do that's when i but when i breathe and it comes up [Music] okay equity is not equal opportunity equity might sound great but it's

101the opposite of equal opportunity don't be fooled equity demands an equal outcome equity only happens by dividing and manipulating to favor one group against another equity is not the same as equal opportunity this school district is not teaching equal opportunity but instead teaching equity by dividing and teaching kids to be reactionary and controlled by their emotions stop gaslighting our children with the critical race theory lie by convincing black kids they are under achievers and white kids they're they're bullies and need to apologize stop dividing our kids this leads to the tiger high school uh out with all due respect this school's response is wrong in many areas this school has taken it upon themselves to create a political demonstration during class time the local news was just strategically notified to beat the walkout video and

102interview certain students supposedly the walkout was in response to a tick tock video that some kids said it was had offensive verbage the video was not created at school or promoted during class time actually several students and parents think the whole thing was a setup used to as a decoy from the bullying that some teachers and students are forced to endure at this school it is not the role of a school to police free speech outside of the school environment the schools involvement is not is not lawful and goes against the first amendment and against viewpoint discrimination statutes condoning the walk-out behavior is teaching students to be reactionary and controlled by their emotions it teaches to punish anyone that might say something that could hurt your feelings if a student said something on video that

103was bullying then shame on that student but the parents should be the one to discipline their own children come on students teachers and parents let's judge one another by the quality of their character and not the color of their skin currently oregon ranks spread from the bottom academically in our nation and now our government our governor has removed the f grade so our kids don't even have the incentive to earn a high school diploma how how will our kids ever be able to compete in the job market as adults our kids are failing and therefore you are failing our kids kids are brilliant instead of dividing our kids let's concentrate on teaching them reading writing math true history and that does not mean the 16-19 project all right next up on the public comment is

104i'm tony carrasco and my zip code is 97062 thank you for listening to parents and grandparents and protecting our children no one should be harassed at school or anywhere else i'm sad for the students enduring this harmful action and impressed that their friends support them it's great that kids understand free speech but your rules can and must be used to let them know protests will only happen outside of the school hours and properties they are at school to learn not to take over and break rules if that means helping them understand that any organizing of such activities must also happen outside school hours and off the school property it's your duty to see that that happens sidewalks are public access right outside the school parking lot that's public access and they should be made to

105understand this so they can have their first amendment rights they can protest but not during school hours you have policy remedies in place for this fomenting of political and racist behavior and it also often involves your sro officer i hope you know how much you need that officer to correct protect children from racist talk as well as behavior such as tripping name-calling other harassment such as notes in the lockers it's great that kids understand free speech but your rules and policies can and must be used to let them know it will happen only outside they are at school to learn not to take over and break rules if that means helping them understand i think i've repeated myself here school procedures and policies should not be aligned with or encouraging any type of protest let

106alone one that promotes further unrest i can understand why the person posting over thanksgiving and reinforcing this type of despicable behavior will be considered for suspension or expulsion even though it happened off school property and hours and this is a notice to parents this kind of stuff needs to happen so that parents understand everything they need to have a consequence so that their parents can remedy but then the person also carrying the end white privilege sign in the protest must also be suspended for racist activities we don't need to divide our kids by allowing this type of activities on school property all right that is your time thank you very much next up is valerie johnson your wrist has a ways to go in the recovery black lives matter yes they do so do red

107yellow and white lies james mcbride is a black man raised by a white mother in 1996 he wrote a tribute to her in his book the color of water no one taught james to judge his mother based on her skin color she never apologized for her whiteness my own family is multiracial america is not my first home but it's the only home my children and grandchildren know and i want them to attend schools where they aren't judged based on their skin color my son is black korean he left korea when he was two years old his closest friends growing up were polish muslim and hispanic he survived taunts by ignorant people but racism wasn't the issue it is today my young grandchildren are being confronted with things they shouldn't have to deal with and seem

108ridiculous to them their cousins are a beautiful blend of black korean and white is the white parent of these mixed-race children to be condemned for her whiteness does a race-based curriculum honor multi-racial families does it provide balance to the posters and messages in classrooms that only black lives matter we are told that we need to be more progressive as a society the dictionary depart just finds progressive as advancing moving forward how can white shame and asian hate be anything but regressive a race-based curriculum that assigns guilt and shame and teaches a child that skin color is the most critical determinant of who you are and what happens to you in society is wrong destiny is not based on the color of a person's skin black children can be empowered without shaming their white peers don't

109diminish their potential for success by using skin color as a litmus test give them a new lens to look through one that is the color of water black lives do matter all black lives in this season of giving i've brought tangible reminders that even the smallest black lives matters and i gave some to caddy for each one of you thank you very much okay so at this point in the agenda uh and our first presentation is from director amber fields and it will be a ttva update dr fields foreign down right patty all right down okay that's a good first step yep it's on all right good evening board and thanks for having us here this evening we're here to give a ttva update um and here with me tonight uh yourselves yes hello my

110name is uh paul verstrade i'm the district assessment coordinator and i'm jenny dewolfe principal of tiger 12th and virtual academy so awesome college to be working with and we wanted to start a little bit with just the story of ttva um and just kind of that timeline so in spring of 21 we decided to host an online school in large part response to covet in august we then got to hire our awesome principal mr wolf who has a ton of history and background in online learning then in august september time frame enrollment increased over about a three week period from 73 students to across k-12 which had a significant impact to increase staffing we also shifted to ask for a semester only commitment as opposed to an entire year um so that has been our

111current model around um basically replicating brick and mortar online and we are also currently in a visioning process which we'll go through a little bit more this evening um around based on best practices how we're going to look at the future of ttva as opposed to right now which was very much more pandemic response all right so currently we have 576 students at our school close to 300 or elementary the remainder are secondary um so we've had kind of an even split between elementary and secondary when we were looking at as amber mentioned that one semester commitment students who wanted to remain at the virtual academy and those who might want to return to their neighborhood school we also asked why did you choose ttva for this first semester and the overwhelming response was 88

112of our families said that they were in the online school in order to um keep family members students themselves safe during covent so that confirmed again what we saw with that last minute uptick in enrollment is that it was largely a coveted response so our current metrics are as you might imagine kind of a sampling of what you'd see throughout the district so our school does serve students from every school across the district and some of them are coming in on track others are one or more years behind and so our teachers are working diligently to help make up for those gaps in skills or other academic learning that might need to take place over the course of a year same is true with our 10th through 12th grade students coming in with credits some

113are on track others need a little help with either credit recovery which that program is in place now at ctva or additional coursework to make sure that they're also on track for graduation and uh to give a brief look at um the numbers from this year compared to previous uh previous year um what you're looking up there is um how we might project the students to end up this year based on their current grades so looking at these graphs the column itself is projected to be at the end of this year compared to where they were last year so if you look at the 10th grade the line above it is the number the percent of students who were on track at the end of their ninth grade year and the column underneath it is

114students who are currently projected to be on track at the end of this year i have to say that projected means a lot when it comes to grades compared to actual credit attainment because these are just their current grades quarter one not their uh credits earned at the semester and uh when we move to the uh the full district uh dashboard presentation i'm going to explain why a little bit further as to why we are not creating a dashboard around grades versus waiting until semester for the full credits to come in but that is a a good place to start for putting interventions in place to get to um to get students back up to that line of where they were the previous year thank you yeah by sterling so these are these are students

115that were obviously in a different setting last year okay so i mean are we comparing apples to oranges there or it is a little bit of a difference in comparison because the environment was very different but in the previous year they did spend a large majority of their time online as well oh okay um because of uh comprehensive distance learning well right right yeah okay so for second semester enrollment we put out a survey um in november to families to make a decision about second semester so of the 395 that responded uh we will have 43 of those students returning back into their brick and mortar and again with that 88 saying they were here for just coveted reasons it's not too surprising that number of transition in total i believe it's about 164 students

116total um of our current student body the rest will be remaining online um and just oh yeah go ahead can i ask so um my immediate question on that is how uh how's the workload or excuse me teach how's the teacher distribution affected by that change um we're going to be okay so what we've done is look by every school by each grade level sat with um debbie ebert and looked at current brick-and-mortar sizes no classes will be above the board approved cap and it's we're able to make it work there's some shifting within ttva um but we've done our best to remain and keep classes whole and consistent for students and so over part of why we did this earlier so we have the month of january to partner with neighborhood schools uh both

117of our principal and associate principal will be meeting with every single administrator and school registrar to share the list of kids who's coming what grade level so we can have a tight transition plan for them all to begin on february 7th that's awesome so that will that will that mean that about half of the teachers will be going back to a brick and mortar setting no it doesn't take numbers down to that point where teachers from ttv have to shift back into brick and mortar okay so the other piece that we are doing right now alongside uh serving current students is planning long term so we are um working with our facilitator eric nessie and we've got a group a kind of core committee and then we'll also be meeting with ttva teachers students families

118k-12 administrators cabinet etc where we are running through process of evaluating best practices and talking about what our long-term vision for an online school and ttsd could look like based on best practice we are aiming to complete that plan by february 25th in order to bring it to you the board so that we also can time spring student recruitment where families have plenty of time to make that decision schools will also then know truly how many students will be attending in brick and mortar and again our goal is to be a partner within brooklyn brick and mortar schools to possibly provide more flexibility to our students and really land the learner profile for ttba and the best students that fit that profile for learning and then we will look to do student and family onboarding

119to that online learning model and as well with staff coming in august for onboarding and training which we all know just due to time frame was much more challenging this year so we're excited to be way ahead of that and be able to do all of that onboarding and training and lastly i just wanted to thank our ctva staff not all of them are featured up here but these folks do work so hard day in and day out learning new systems um the majority of these teachers are brand new to the district so they're learning how we do things in tiger tualatin and um there's a fantastic team to work with so they're definitely working to serve their students every day i'm just going to close with a little shout out to our cabinet and

120mini cabinet without the support especially director ebert director kinch director bernard being able to lift the school would have been near impossible so it really took the mighty and the collaboration of money to make this happen so a big thank you to our colleagues all right questions comments from board members has the deadline for uh parents and students faith in the children that come and gone or sorry the door closed to switch back into brick and mortar yeah or to to go from brick and mortar to online or that deadline passed so the official big deadline has passed as far as coming in it's a space available so out in the newsletter last friday there was um an announcement in there that if you're interested where to email and sort of space available as grade

121level opens we'll be able to take students in so there's an email that students can or families can contact in order to get into ttva and as far as returning if someone's missed the deadline typically what we do is a whole evaluation process trying to figure out can we problem solve in the current context work with the family and if ultimately that's not able families can fill out the transfer process and go through that which will then be the administrators talking to see if that's the best move for the student thank you other questions all right director fields i think you're staying put i'm staying with so it's called thank you thank you for coming thank you we appreciate it so with that we'll move on to our next uh report and discussion item this

122is quarter one preliminary data dashboard presentation okay so a big reason we just sort of caveat why we're using the word preliminaries as we know quarter grades at the high school level are a progress report they are not transcribed grades there is definitely a different rush to the end when we're talking about semester um so we just want to be very transparent about that but we do use this information obviously to project and to respond to students and provide support so i did want to start just reminding of what our goals are not you don't already know them by heart um but that we are looking to increase our ninth grade on track by five percent for all eight percent for those who historically underserved and really our goal is to get back to our

123pre pandemic um we also have our goal and that again all that research aligning to the university of chicago for 10 through 12th grade effort to increase um on track and credit attainment by five and both eight percent for our historically underserved underserved communities which we know will then directly impact graduation rates i did also include on here creekside because of the nature of who creekside serves and the kind of constant turnover and adding of new students we set a goal specific to that community and the work that they do so creekside's looking to increase the percentage of full-year students who earn credit at an track rate by eight percent so that's the data that we'll be sharing today because at quarter they do transcribe so we'll be sharing their data as well today but

124really wanted a goal that a line specific to their community um and then this is just i've sort of shared that second aim around the five percent for all with those same goals um and regarding the the public dashboard that we put on our website um i did want to share a brief timeline of how this is going to be produced and put out there on our website the first dashboards are out there for k-8 they were put out there back in the fall these are based on the i-ready assessment gazant that um that our k-8 students took um and it is already publicly available the um uh mid-year we are going to against put out a k-8 dashboard for um the i-ready assessment um which will be added to that would be the the

125credits attainment is going to be the data that we are going to be providing for our high school-age students and then again at the end of the year we'll be providing again k to eight and uh uh i mean kid aids i ready and then credit attainment at the end of the year so that's the the uh the the current timeline of when will be updating the the website with the public data um as we are developing what that is going to look like for the high school we are basing it off of the dashboard that we created for the elementary and the middle schools on the left-hand side you see what we have for our con for the district overall um and it'll be what um uh what we are going to produce uh

126for all of our our schools uh we uh share attendance data uh and the level of regular attendance that uh students have so the percent of students that have above a 90 percent attendance rate uh we add to that credit attainment um credit attainment is based on whether or not it's at an on-track rate so the percent of students that um the percent of students that have uh in ninth grade uh uh by the end of the year the percentage students that have um six and a half or more credits and 10th graders it's 13 credits and um 11th graders it's 19 and a half credits and so we have that data that's that's going to be on the dashboard the um uh the dashboard on the right-hand side is what we have for uh

127creekside um it is one of the reasons why we are providing a updated uh differentiated dashboard for creekside is because if you look at credit attainment solely you're going to see that it looks like they are failing every year because of the population they serve and the purpose of which they and the design of the school itself and so that is one of the reasons why in discussions with the principal there is going to be differentiated data for that school this is the same looking graphs that i had for the ttda just as a way to show that there is always a gap between where the students were the previous year and where they are now with the projected grades that always happens uh at the quarter one and so again the purpose of this

128is to identify students that need to be supported uh to make it so that they reach that line up um by the end of the year so paul that would be true even in a non-pandemic situation you would always expect there'd be you'd always expect there'd be a gap even in a non-pandemic year yes uh that's partially because it's not finalized uh grades and as uh director field was saying there is that run up to the um to the to the credit attainments uh to the semester to be able to make up work and earn that credit thank you um and so this is uh the data for creekside specific it's not something that i am as familiar with as we are developing that dashboard for them um but as you can see in the

129the to the way we're trying to think about creekside is that um how many students are earning uh credits at an on-track rate so for uh creekside they use the oregon diploma of of 24 credits versus the 26 that we have for our comprehensive schools here in tigard and so they are using that as their on track rates so for quarter one because they do give out credits at the quarter at the quarter these are students who have earned 1.5 credits because that 1.5 plus another and another another adds up to six so this is more concrete data from greek site and then on the right hand side and then you have the same for the ninth grade and then on the right hand side it's the percent of students oh sorry the average uh

130credit attainment that occurred and so you as you can see the average number of credits that a student at creek site earned is well above the 1.5 uh that is necessary to be on track thank you paul and i'm just going to sort of pause and celebrate for a minute this is the first year that also creekside has brought in a class of ninth graders and to see where the successes and that incredible growth they've had at q1 i think speaks a lot to the way that community wraps around their students we know teacher acts as advisor in a very real sense of the definition of that word and it's paying off in the success of students and just the collective way that they breathe and work and love their kids um i think is

131really evident in this data so just want to pause and celebrate that community um and what i just wanted to share in closing was a real quick question on that and i think that is fantastic news um and and just so clarifying question on the on the um the second percent of ninth grade on track so super high number versus what um traditionally might be true 80 something percent of the percent of students who aren't on track those are freshmen who we know currently don't have enough credit to graduate they each i imagine have some sort of personalized plan or what what does it look like for those students who aren't part of that bar graph so for students that are not not on track so quickside has a system where the teacher the counselor

132and the dean have a wrap process where they talk specifically about the student because each advisor has about i think 15 students that are theirs like they are mama bear papa bear of that 15 and they have this tight one-on-one wrap process that they do almost on a weekly basis and they are constantly setting goals alongside that student in partnership with the family whenever possible around how that student is going to make up and or get access to those credits so the plan looks a lot of different ways how credit is possible um but that wrap around each individual student happens like on a weekly basis so you it would not be i mean obviously a lot of factors but it would not be unheard of for that ninth grade entrepreneur for when that cohort

133graduates for the graduation rate to be 90 or higher say under the care and love of that staff very highly possible that's that's fantastic yeah and again i think bringing in i think what we're learning is because crit site has built such a culture of vision in a community to be able to bring it but historically it's been very much junior seniors in out right you have made it in the comprehensive so you go maybe junior year your may even have zero credits etc and they've really built a school to be at for four years we have cte we have access to so you know all of these different programs um their community action squad so many things that make a four-year experience that also allow the culture to be held by the students for

134four years it's hard when you have a lot of interruption to maintain sort of a vision right and that culture and climate um and so i think this is a real opportunity so i would say i'm going to say yes i'm going to bet on that ben i love it thank you sorry for director bowman my apologies um so the other thing i wanted to share was what we do so while we have this data kind of at a snapshot point of q1 what we know is where students are every two weeks data is pulled this is a snapshot report of what tiger high school puts together that goes out to their teachers and administrators every two weeks and as you already know at the ninth grade level we run student success meetings where we're

135looking at students with ninety percent or more attendance one or more f in the core because that problem solving is students are directly in front of us and so we should be able to figure out how to better serve them but essentially we know and monitor where students are consistently the following slide each school also has very specific tier one two and three teams that use a talk protocol in order to talk about all their different students systems level um we've also created a district mtss team just to vet our systems vet our processes get to some better alignment in some spaces where there's some opportunity for improvement but ultimately there's interventions and supports happening every two weeks to support students to that growth which is another reason why we expect to see that increase

136of on track as it comes to semester one and grades are actually transcribed and that is our q1 update colleagues questions or comments for paul or director fields bye cherlin thank you for your report um looking back at um percent of students on track to graduate when you compare the percent of overall students to students of color if i look at 12th grade you may have explained this so if you did i apologize uh it looks like a little less than 65 percent of historically underserved students are on track to graduate is that correct um yeah it looks like it is a a little bit about 60 yes and that data is uh not just uh student underserved students of color it is uh inclusive of all of our underserved categories for example economically disadvantaged

137students in english language development and special education and so it is a comprehensive of all of those categories it it mirrors what the state of oregon considers combined disadvantaged are there um special efforts underway to change that or or to improve that in some way or yeah i would say this is where it falls into that mtss process where again every two weeks we're pulling that data and for each of those tiers like there's a decision rule for where you would fall into that tier one tier two and tier three within supports and interventions alongside that um and at those tier two kind of in that deeper sort of orange into that tier three is where we're solving at the individual student level and tier two is around those systems where we finding themes identifying

138trends of where we're seeing some challenges and having some system shift so that's where we are catching things every two weeks as we go as opposed to this oh gosh at quarter one we now all of a sudden no like it's not shocking to anyone everyone's known where kids are along the way and then doing responses in between um again what gets a little hard about porter is there's a i may have this one or two papers to get in but because it's a snapshot progress report i can probably explain that to my parents but it really matters when semester hits so we tend to see quite a different swing on that alone in addition to just all the support and intervention efforts that are put in place thank you yeah other questions or comments

139i just want to say how much i appreciate um the way you broke down data because that's always been a tough nut to crack to understand what's really going on there and i really appreciate the way you did that i thought i was very serious thank you all right thank you both very much thank you move to our final report of discussion of the evening uh director debbie ebert to present on a first reading of another set of uh board policies two of all right undetermined good evening everyone we are on part two of our board update this month we've got nine more policies to take a look at so without further ado i'll just dive right in all right first one is bddh public comment at board meetings the update here this is a

140highly recommended policy you will notice that we made sure to add if the policy was highly recommended required by osba or if it's our own policy so tonight we're looking at all required and highly recommended all right so bdh public comment the osb language that's being recommended is in number two in the gray and our committee recommended we keep that language in there that was the only change could i make a suggestion on uh the number three i know we haven't it wasn't a change this one but i was reading the number three and it's so clunky and i was wondering if we could maybe rephrase that so that you'd say if an opportunity is provided by the board for public comment a person wishing to provide public comment will follow the directions given prior

141to the board meeting something like that do you mind emailing me a suggestion i might be mailing you suggestions okay i'll just make a note that you will yeah that would be clear that is if the rest of the board agrees that that's an improvement i don't really understand what here so it's just a first solution it's just the way that the sentence is broken up it's really funky and it sounds almost like the person is supposed to be getting the public comment prior to the board meeting sometimes kind of move around the clause we're okay with rewording number three to make a little more sense you can take a look at it in second reads in a couple weeks and yeah okay okay djc is bidding requirements this is a highly recommended policy and

142these changes come out of the explanation there from senate bill 420. any questions about the changes to this director moore has taken a look at this as well all right wait time i'm going for an okay on that one okay jbn a a slash jhff this is our suspected sexual conduct with students reporting requirements and this is recent revisions to ors 339 and the adoption of house bill 2136 this is require these are required changes per the law so i'm always hesitant to make any changes on a required policy but i'm wondering if in that second paragraph that big chunk that's now gray just like the words in the same spot it's it's a very long and clunky sentence with a lot of semicolons and i'm wondering if we broke that out into a bullet

143list the sentence that starts sexual conduct does not aim to and then it lists off several things it does not include but it's got there's a degree of detail there this would be a better way to process that information and so it would be it's not include touching rather physical contact verbal written electronic communications [Music] towards the end that sentence just kind of i mean my gut is saying that i'd rather just leave it as the way that the osp attorneys wrote it because it's such a heavy topic oh that's yeah that's what i was listening do not clause um and ensure it's not some sort of typo or something like that which one the do not create an intimidating or hostile educational environment yeah i think what would what directors originate is pointing out

144is you've got this long list that it's saying these are it's saying these things do not include or sexual conduct does not include then it less has a list of things and then it says do not create an intimidating or hostile what about any policies of the district or any applicable employment agreements is that separate would that be a separate bullet i think that's what we're trying to figure out that's what i can't figure out when i tried to parse this sentence and it's just that last sentence is like five lines long it's just very long the sentence goes on for so i think i get it i think we should just leave it it's conductor communications describing the definition of that it's just it's because it's all one it's really hard to parse it

145which is why i was thinking breaking it into bullet lists might make it a little bit easier to parse but i agree we should check with ospa's label to make sure we don't comment in the process i would say if osba says this is written as intended then we just keep it but we do need to change footnote for which it comes before the words footnoting rather than after at the beginning of that paragraph it says footnote for sexual conduct means okay hold up number you number four in footnotes you'd like to change what the footnote number four which comes at the beginning of the second paragraph yeah probably should come after the words sexual conduct yeah okay but not changing the footnote not just below just where the number the little four is got

146it okay okay so you'd like me to check in with osba about the gray paragraph because it's important stuff but because of the way it's written it's almost impossible to parse and so anybody who reads their policy doesn't know what we're talking about oh and at the very end of the policy the second class paragraph is a bad paragraph i assume just in case you haven't i didn't quite hear all at that very end of the policy the second to the last paragraph is a bad line break in between then individual students or as directed by district administration it's just a formatting image and i imagine there is on it but i just wanted to make sure okay next one is g b n a b j h f e and in addition we have

147the ar behind that which is also required to be approved by the board so this is suspected abuse of the child reporting requirements and this is again same adoption of house bill 2136 and senate bill 51 that made these changes let's start with the policy any questions about the policy changes i've got a note to myself that my handwriting is so bad but i can't read it well i think it says great work on the policy rewrite no comments you can email me if you figure it out oh the the two footnotes at one page what is this two they're not in the correct oh they need a line got it good catch okay and then the ar that goes with this has many of the same adjustments a little thing right at the bottom

148on page three second to last paragraph uh second line at b is one word instead of two second to last paragraph second line at the is one word instead of two i'm sorry page three did you say yes just above the number two the second line starts themselves at the office i'm so sorry i don't see it officials wishing to remove a student from the premises shall present themselves got it thank you right okay igbha alternative education programs this is a required policy updated to better align with ode's rural government governing alternative education programs just a couple changes here just a quick little on the fifth paragraph where it has the upon approval from crossed out yep the line below there just needs to be a space between the if yep this one i find

149it kind of interesting we have some gun out of our way in this district to no longer refer to them as alternative education programs right we don't talk about greek science alternative i don't know what the board what i've heard in state conversations about this is people don't like the term alternative but there isn't a widely agreed upon alternative also that same paragraph that i was saying on the very bottom line a space between as and required good catches same paragraph second choice the same i'm sorry that i was speaking of so where upon approval from is crossed out that paragraph the very bottom line prior to expulsion or leaving school and then as required to see this okay got it okay all right igbi another required policy on bilingual education versus english language learners

150is the title it's really the only change other than adding on to that first sentence good there okay [Applause] iia is a highly recommended policy that we already have these are changes from house bill 3041 this is more of the gender identity changes in this second to last paragraph of the first page okay um this it's about supplementary materials and then after it's after gender identity's been inserted sexual orientation or sexual bias as a semicolon i think but then we talk about the instructional materials i'm not sure if there we also don't need supplementary materials because that's what this paragraph is about so it should be the supplementary materials will contain rather than instructional so we've got a paragraph okay you can ask and then we've got a this page intentionally left next um where

151it says recommended instructional resources and materials will be free of racial color national origin religious those terms don't necessarily cohere i guess maybe you say race do you also want to say color as well well the color is the new language that came out of the updates okay so we're going to change ratio to race then yeah in a different form that is weird this might be the changes well i guess it doesn't make sense well i think what it all these words are leading up to their different forms of bias so national origin bias disability bias racial bias color violence so i think that's what it's trying to do but it's clunky the fact that it's been the the change has been made throughout did you suspect that that's what calls out specifically and

152this is one of those instances where we have to just suck it up but we can check if we're going to check on you know all these other things it doesn't hurt to ask thanks you could you could still put the word race in and it would make sense with the revise of the embrace and it would make sense without it so we prefer to change it to race if that coincides with the law is that why i'm hearing that would be my recommendation i'll prefer to okay a man with a phd all right i j school counseling program let's just add a gender identity easy one anybody see anything else there okay [Applause] and then last this evening is the updates to this required policy jfcf the hazing harassment this is around the notification

153in addition to adding the gender identity to the policy those are the two big changes in this one at the top of the second page the paragraph on there's an end bracket there's no oh yep zika okay gotta end on page four um we're exciting about when notifications provided a notification must occur one within a reasonable period time or two from queen numbers usually suggest you do one and then you do two well let's say you do one or the other i also don't know how a layman reading that is going to behave differently if they choose one or two within a reasonable time or probably i mean that's it's a hard distinction to make but it sounds like the way it's written now it sounds like first they have to do it within a

154reasonable period of time but it says war right now claire has that right did you catch the and and prohibit it together as one word separating those in the second paragraph no where was that uh the second paragraph is this is jfcm yep yep what page are you on first page oh first page okay second paragraph the last sentence of the next the last sentence oh yes yep got it that's weird that that keeps happening these words get conjoined it needs what it also looks like the font is smaller on when notification is provided does that look accurate okay but i'm not sure if all of that stuff isn't yeah it's just good to alert her to it then she'll check it and then on the very last page you really sticky tacky it says

155house bill 3041 and there just needs to be the end parentheses after twenty-five i think the later we the later it gets the picture we get space before the come on okay thank you very much all right thank you director ebert we should be able to finish this update in january we've got one more round to bring forward for first rates all right folks it's 908 i'm going to take a quick four minute recess let people reset and we'll come back to finish our action items at 9 12. all right so are we good to go all right i will call the meeting back to order at 9 14. with that we will move on to the final section of our agenda action items our first action item uh will be presented by director moore

156with i think some assistance from a couple of our board colleagues on strategic planning facilitation contract director moore getting chair bowman and members of the board uh yes uh we recently completed a rfp or request for proposal process for strategic planning facilitation which we will begin in 2022 and um vice chair lynn and director urban formed the subcommittee the board subcommittee uh for this work uh supported by superintendent leakey smith and directors rose and moore and um we been working on this over it seems like an eternity but it's only been a few weeks um and um i think we have a good outcome to share this evening and [Music] we reviewed uh five proposals and evaluated them written proposals and then interviewed two finalists in the last week and uh with that i'm gonna

157turn it over to the vice chair lynn and director irvin to share more about the process and um our recommended firm and um with that dr urban well i will get us started and like director moore said we did start out with five firms that we evaluated both individually and came together as a group um just to kind of look at alignments with the strategic plan we've already had in place our four cornerstones um and really kind of decided which ones we wanted to take to that next step and so there were two that we asked to interview um and after that interview process it was really wonderful to come to um the decision that we would be asking a group called point north um to move forward we had a zoom call with lisa

158katie colleen and jake and really had some wonderful dialogue around their values and missions as a group and how those align with ours um and one thing a couple of things that really stuck out to me at one point they mentioned that they really look for groups school districts in this case that live equity at all levels and so i really think that value of theirs so aligns with the work that we're doing um and as we're kind of seeing in the current climate and incidents are happening currently really having a strategic plan that lives and breeds equity it's infused throughout all of those pieces of it is critically important um and the other thing that they mentioned at a certain point was implementing accessibility practices which i really um stuck with me as well

159just in terms of during this process bringing on students and parents and culturally responsive partners district leadership community members so many groups of stakeholders to make sure that this process is really organic and so at the end of this we have a product and this sort of living breathing document that has really included the sort of holistic sense of this community i was impressed with this group for several reasons um one of one of which uh they have demonstrated experience around uh strategic planning and uh i think embedded within their um history is also a focus on equity they have a diverse team of leaders who would be working with us uh and there were a couple of other things that i found really great is that they emphasize the need to engage students in

160the strategic planning process and they even talked about having students as leaders within the strategic planning process and knowing how great our students are i think we would benefit greatly from that so i look forward to to that they also knew a lot about our district uh they talked about the four pillars they talked about various processes that we practice uh that align nicely with what we'd be doing and during the strategic planning process so um just overall very impressive and i think tristan and i felt very very comfortable in bringing uh them to you uh to vote as uh to recommend them to be our facilitators for the strategic planning process any questions about the process questions well thanks to our two board colleagues for putting the time to evaluate these proposals um even

161just the the proposal we selected was very in-depth so i imagine took quite a quite a while okay so now would be the opportunity for a motion correct director more yes all right is there a motion i need to authorize the superintendent to negotiate is there any further discussion on the motion you know i guess um like just one clarifying question based on their i'm on page um is part of the negotiation dr going to be you saying okay we do want this we want a little less of this we want a little more of that so these numbers aren't exactly what they'll be necessarily um and that was a question that we had specifically asked them and so and they addressed very clearly that this is really um they're tailoring to what we need

162and if we need they need to kind of push in certain places or pull back on others in terms of what's in the proposal as well as during the process that they are absolutely flexible to that and we will sit down now you know once this passes and be able to kind of cash that out yeah i think the specific thing in that regard then is they included a strategic financial plan and we specifically said we don't really need that um they said that's fine you take that out so that'll that will be eliminated from [Music] um i appreciate that context um very much because i do i'm really excited to work with these folks um and i think there might be some of these things that we don't need as much as others that

163they've listed um but the qualifications these folks are really exceptional and i think it's great i think good for ttsd that will have them as partners all right so without any further discussion on the motion hearing none we will move to a choral vote all in favor please say aye aye all opposed say nay motion passes unanimously all right moving on to our second action item of the evening uh director moore will present on art rutkin amendment number two to guarantee the maximum price direction yes back in february of this year the prior board uh approved the original uh guaranteed maximum price in the art record project of just under 41 million dollars and since then a couple items have come up including supply chain issues this is a wood frame building so lumber prices

164have escalated over the last several months um so there's a pending uh change order request of 959 000 due to that or excuse me 805 000 uh the second change order request is in my mind some of the best spent money if we do it if you agree to do it in the bond and that's making the soccer field a year-round surface and as far as artificial turf is concerned with especially in this day and age where we're looking for space for pe and we will need that space year round and as you remember i think with this board we earlier had you approve the playground equipment or maybe that was the end of last year i get years mixed up anymore but um so even though the cost of the additional turf is around

165350 thousand 000 uh the net increase of the contract in this case be 154 000 because uh there's some things coming off and then that that turf price increase would be a net increase of 150 4 000. so the total increase to the gmp request is 959 000. so that's what we're asking the board to consider this evening as far as the change to that guaranteed maximum price all right questions from board members so my my quick question on this is and i think director bernard has noted this in the past we have a our turf fields last a long time i i assume that this would be open to community groups to use probably under the same sort of guidelines that our high school turf fields are under correct all right and hopefully it

166wears less because it's smaller feet other questions or comments all right uh entertain a motion i moved to approve amendment number two in the amount of 959 and increase the guaranteed maximum price gmp to 41 million 900 two 152 for the art redken elementary school project motion's been made and seconded by director irving and then director any further discussion on the motion moving to a choral vote all in favor please say aye aye all opposed say nay motion passes unanimously all right director moore your next item is the investment of funds policy dfa and dfar yes so um every year under policy bfa the board is required to re-adopt the policy dfa and approve in addition any changes to the related ar and this is because earlier in the bond we were investing dollars out

167longer than 18 months because we're getting our money up front projects were scheduled out multiple years and statute requires any investments over 18 months to be under a reviewable annually reviewed board policy so um some years we don't even have any change the policy other years like this year there's no changes in the policy but there's changes proposed to the ar not [Music] committee available happened earlier this fall so the changes that are being proposed include [Music] changes to some of the investment categories there formally were multiple categories of u.s agency investments those are combined into one some of the the terms the maximum terms for particular investments are being changed and then some of the ratings are being changed and these are all to align with statute so we could get much more technical

168than that or i can stop to answer questions thanks director boy question so i actually understand the the ins and outs of all of the changes it reads so what i'm going to do is completely cheat and say do all those changes in ar do what the memo outlines you need to do to the ars ask that last part again do the changes reflected in the ar now um do those reflect the changes that the memo outlines yes okay yes good those changes were made by the same person i'm glad you mentioned that because all the changes were proposed by our investment advisor and the owner of the investment advisory firm serves on the oregon state treasury short-term investment board so we have we have a good in there that gives me that gives me

169good confidence and i believe to further create profits i believe these were presented to the financial oversight committee which does have industry experts who do know what the red changes mean any further discussion on the motion hearing none will move to a choral vote all those in favor please say aye aye all opposed say nay so she passes unanimously thank you director moore and for our final action item of the evening uh we have osba elections so um this will be the first osba election for for some of our colleagues but for folks who are unfamiliar the oregon school boards association is a member group of which we are a member of and uh the leadership of that organization on the board of directors and of the legislative policy committee are elected by uh school

170districts in certain zones uh and so you can see we have two separate elections that we will vote on this evening one is for the board of directors positions and one is for the legislative policy committee positions of which we have a candidate among us um so before we get to that let's start with the osba board of directors election uh the cover page is page 139 i know we skipped a bunch in there um so if you're following along on 139 uh the candidates for the election are susan greenberg of beaverton school board and erica lopez of the hillsborough school board um and they are running unopposed i moved to the tiger 12 the school district board of directors supports susan rieber aj for the oswa board of directors position 15 and eric lopez

171is there any discussion on the motion i'm just i'm very glad all right with that we will move to a coral vote all those favor please say aye all opposed say motion passes unanimously and so for our final vote of the evening uh this is for the legislative policy committee so uh mark watson and becky tim chuck mark watson of the hillsborough school board monkey tim chuck of beaverton are running unopposed uh and director marvin lin is running for the open seat against a gentleman um from i forget which district yes gaston that's correct so uh director lin do you wanna give us your pitch or tell us a little bit i think we talked about a little bit but you want to explain why you're interested in serving on this role yeah i think

172that um policy education policy in the state of oregon i've been sort of in relationship with state legislators for the last four years as a higher education administrator and i uh part of my observation is that education policy sometimes happens in a kind of somewhat um unstrategic way and uh it can be uh and so i i have um called for and asked you know talking lessons about the need to have policy be historicized and sort of shaped by and influenced by the contextual factors you know what what what are the needs of the district what are the needs of the community uh and how has policy influenced those needs in the past or met those needs in the past or not um and so to really look at policy historically i think is important

173but i think also to think about how policy um can impact the work that we're trying to do around equity uh and to be smart about that i think we sometimes get excited about doing something on behalf of underserved communities but maybe we could look more deeply at best practices uh what actually works and again how policy can support school districts like ours to really do their best work so that's another thing and then i think the other issue is around school funding and making sure that we have a voice um at the table when it comes to advocating for funding for our district thank you vice chairlin i will just say that i think you are exceptionally well qualified for this position uh thank you i anticipate that you will have our support um

174and i do also want to know former board member former board chair maureen wolf was a long time leader in osba is currently finishing up her term as osb president so i think it would be appropriate for us to have a ttsd voice going into a leadership position at osba um and kind of continue that tradition so uh with that um if we're on page 150 and i think we can combine these into one motion um if someone has the uh ability to go for it character that makes you want to take a stab you'll be drafted by director um i hope that the entire 12th and school district board of directors support mark watson comes for 1j for the oaspa legislative policy position as perceptive and move that the tigers school district board of

175directors support vicky uh beaverton 48j or the osba legislative legislative policy committee decision 16 as presented now i moved the the tiger charleston school uh district board of directors for dr martin is there any further discussion on the motion just i'm a little concerned actually when i look through these and i see that hillsboro's got two names uh got two names up and then tiger 12 is going to have our one name on um because an awful lot of little districts start getting it i just want to be mindful of them recorded any further discussion all right we'll move to a coral vote all those in favor say aye aye all opposed say nay all right motion carries unanimously congratulations thank you vice chair lynn um and with that we're going to move to our

176final item of the uh evening um public comment we have one public comment on a non-adjustable item that we've received um so let me pull it up real quick okay so um is alissa creed here hi alyssa so what you can do is come on forward and take a seat at that presenter table and were you here earlier when i explained the public comment rules no but i've read them okay i'll just give a brief rundown just so we're on the same page basically you'll have three minutes total from the time that you start speaking uh please keep your mask on while you speak if you'd like your comments to be reflected in meeting minutes you can give your hard copy to patty roberts our board secretary and she'll include them please indicate your zip

177code prior to your starting speaking uh director zerschmidt will be timing you she's getting her phone ready she's also got little slips of paper to tell you how much time you have left in case that's helpful um [Music] and yeah we we don't respond to this section so we'll be listening to you but we won't be offering a response um at this time and uh if you're unable to complete your comments you can submit them in writing and we will review them that way i know i ran through that really quickly any questions no okay thank you thank you for your patience and waiting for us to get to our agenda uh great research are you ready okay whenever you're ready my zip code is 97223 it is with utmost love and concern and care

178that i present my comments tonight i know how much the ttsd cares about all students all students are precious in our community i was invited to be a part of some meetings and discussions as the school district formulates how to teach and present the new to us elementary health curriculum standards for the state of oregon i am aware that under law the school district is held to teaching these standards as a parent i was told the curriculum would be presented as free of shame and fear medically accurate age-appropriate and inclusive of all students i thank you for honoring the family by allowing information to be shared three weeks in advance as this rollout comes to fruition and for offering an opt-out for the upcoming lessons on human sexuality instruction one concern is that i believe

179some of the content is not medically accurate nor is it age appropriate for all learners i wonder if by presenting topics such as gender choice versus gender assigned at birth in third grade if it opens the door for many students to question who they are or who they were made to be when they wouldn't have before in trying to accommodate and include everyone many students may become confused this is not developmentally appropriate nor is it necessary for all students to learn about the various types of gender in the world today beginning in third grade also while keeping some sexual anatomy terms vague and gender neutral in regards to male and female students may be confused further i ask that the curriculum and supplements chosen stick to the basics rather than telling children too much especially

180in the upper elementary grades this is vital on another note by having male and female students together for such discussions including anatomy and reproduction this could cause some to be feel shame disabled and embarrassed even though it's not the intention of the teachers although some things are important to talk about not all children are at the same readiness to discuss so much especially among their peers lastly by being inclusive of all those who choose to opt out of the lessons are now not being included so it really isn't inclusive after all is there another way please reconsider the type of rollout and progression of these subjects there are so many opinions about them in the world today please speak basic truths to our students they're so young and vulnerable and have a whole future ahead

181of them full of life choices can we keep basic school subjects the main focus along with a solid sel time keep student keep teaching students to love and treat everyone equally without adding in so much confusion and ideologies they are children not adults parents please take the time to do your research take time to preview the materials as they become available be involved in your child's education as i said i know the community and staff care deeply about all students we are teaching our children to love and respect everyone let's keep that the main thing thank you for your time all right with that um i know this is our this is our last meeting before the holiday break so i just wanted to say thank you to our student board for being here thank

182you to cabinet for staying late on this last day i know i think you're you've been thinking about your comments about how we're just tired i feel like we're all tired so i hope everybody's able to get some rest and relaxation over the break and we'll come back ready to fight when we get back in january but thanks everyone for your work we really appreciate it and with that i'll adjourn the meeting at 9 40 p.m