WSD Board Meeting, 2025/03/10 at 7 p.m.

001e order start with theedge ofed to the flag of the United States of America and the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible Li okay first up on the board of education we have board budget vacancy um so just a reminder that um we still have three open positions on the board coming July 1st 2025 um the three positions that are up will be Carly Dan and Justin if any of you are wanting to still run in your position and for anybody in the community that's wanting to apply the deadline is March 20th so that we're coming right up on that so um be sure to get that in if that's something that you want to rerun for um the superintendent evaluation templates um I had some interest the last meeting of providing

002some other ideas beyond the osba um superintendent evaluation so I provided you just a um the one that osba so you have a reminder what that is uh the template that they used to use before here in our district as well as a couple other districts that responded and um sent their superintendent evaluation if we um stay with ospa we don't really need to um adopt a new one if we have any changes or we want to go with a new template we will have to adopt that and we really want to do that by next month because we will get be getting down to the wire I'd like to do the superintendent evaluation by May um so that takes some prior doing ahead of time so um just if you could get back to

003me within the next week or so of any ideas um comments or suggestions on any of these if I don't hear anything or if there's no changes on anything I'm going to assume that everybody just wants to stay with the osba template and we will use that as our um guideline and you're talking about the first yeah that's the yeah the second one was the one that they used prior to um probably before you were on the board and um with prior superintendence and not all things meet maybe um the same thing uh you can add edit whatever if you decide you want to use that one um it's your it's kind of your evaluation process so you kind of decide osba is just a good guideline of what you should be evaluating on it

004provides all the um uh areas of that what you you're looking for and what you've talked about when hiring the superintendent so um it's a good guideline to kind of keep you tracked uh I did include a format that's used as a Google Document so that's also something to consider we could even take the a template and move it over to something like that you want to but David you would have to open your email for that so D we may have to stick with the paper version for a little while longer so we also have openings on our budget committee yes our our budget committee we do have one seat open too if you know anybody that's interested and um looking at our budget and going over that that'll be coming up here soon

005as well so um yeah so just kind of get back to me with any ideas suggestions you want to stay with ospas uh that's fine to just shoot me an email and say oh you're good with how that for is you could turn this into a Google format um yeah we could yeah I there's I don't think there's any anything on there that we couldn't switch over to a Google format and say like two members wanted Google forms and two three members wanted because it would be change in the document we vote on it next we have to vot on yeah I mean just just because you're changing the format and style even though it's the same even though it's the same just because it's been a paper version I would still like everyone to

006be in agreement with that and so uh yeah we would just we still vote on it so so if we use the OSB version of it yeah it says so do we all fill out an evaluation then we come together give one evaluation or do all yes so what happens is um I so you you do everyone submits an evaluation I do a consensus of all of that and then um we hold an executive session and we review all that with Mr gas yeah you get and there's one document that and then there's one document that is provided with um the the score evaluation and then any comments or anything like that we put it together first before we meet with Mike um well you get the evaluation and each individual person does their own

007evaluation on their own time and does their own thing and then they submit that to me and then um I compile everybody's if we do a scoring format which is like this osba and the second template then I do this will provide all the scores and um and and do all that too so you can kind of see the consensus of everybody not not everybody's individual answers or scores but just the consensus of everything I've had it done a couple different ways I've met with whole board in exact session and I've also met with like board president or a couple reps to go through it so you can choose how you do that as well process and then just to remind the board the goals that we set with Doug is that the guy yeah

008Doug um I continue to update those monthly in that spread sheet so that Gold Tracker you still have those things that are cook along live around attendance um um you know you have that survey in there from November different things like that to at your disos all right next up we have our consent agenda I'll move to approve the consent agenda is presented second just without you okay yeah um all those in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented signified by say I all those opposed signify by saying n is pass okay next up under our correspondence we have first up our superintendent's report sure all right um many of you been watching in the um update the um my inner workings of the place shed ground issue um I think I say you

009this plus I think uh in your update you also had I think two of you had it before that I think you guys got a I thought I pushed play yesterday and last night I was going through my emails like oh going get that to you essentially what I've researched and found we looked at moving that structure to the other end of the build other end of the field kind of down more by softball between that but it would suck up basically all our driveway access in there where we would be driving through the shed looked at it on the far side over there but we have elevation issues looked at rotating it to where the shot putut area is um but I again I have an elevation issue there and the same soil so

010really the ideal spot is where we're at the challenge is that drain pipe I highlighted in pink um drains the inner in inside of the football field plus all the storm water off and this upper campus goes down through that area and that process um the Geotech basically the the challenges we're dealing with about two feet of clay soil which is expansive soil Engineers would like us to excavate that and bring that back with rock um which was kind of an unknown when we um started down this as we took on the Geotech as the district in that process in hindsight it would have been awesome that they would have Geo done the Geotech last year and kind of understood what the the magnitude of the the challenge is but long story short they don't

011want to just go in there and cover up that pipe with a building they want to open it up look at it while it's opened up and look uh we know it is a covert type what did you call it David tin whistle galvanized galvanized covert pipe um they have different products now we looked at the option of trying to line it um sleeve it type options and if we're going to open it up they they're like we might as well just go in and and do that so um last pricing that I saw we were probably about uh to do that and then add an additional foot of gravel to meet the Geotech um you know somewhere north of 120,000 um that was the high side is what they were telling me um today

012looking at um some some bomb language clear back from when you guys adverti that project is actually listed in the bond so I think we're committed to get it done um I've been working with Lisa I think we got some opportunities uh in our existing budgeting to kind of come up with some things that um you know we can mitigate some of that cost pretty easy just in in some maintenance accounts and things that we're not touching right now um but part of that would would need to maybe have a an adjustment at the end of our fiscal year to do an appropriation and kind of pick up whatever that I can't find within under all the heral rocks in our budget this year so um so the project in total is $120,000 or it's

013an additional it's additional the total projects 700 it's a big steel building but it's crazy to me and and so again circling back and I think I shared with a couple of you that stopped by the office um with the interestingly enough price of steel on March 1st went up 25% our order for our building was in the queue before that so if I pull out of the order the next time it gets rebid I was told pretty much Bank on 25% increase if we had to get back in line and it's a total metal steel building with sheeting and the the structure um so I will continue to work with our contractor on options um you know if we want to get a second opinion on that I can chase those numbers tomorrow and

014see what I can come up with at least Mike was that an estimated $120,000 or was that um up to $120,000 no it's estimated at this point of be an additional and that The Rock and sleeping the The Rock and the C the replacing the cul and all that stuff getting it back to zero how big is that c I think it's 24 I think I saw him here somewhere it's it's pretty yeah it's a 24 inch uh right yeah 24 in so it's it it handles some water that was the issue is we didn't want to under sell what comes off up here go into that pond um you know at the time they put it in it was probably the most logical place and way to take it out there so so I

015will continue to chase that but I think we're committed and I continue to to look at ways to absorb that fund I'll try to catch up to you later on this stuff all right um got some ideas so that um construction budget adjustment would be if we went if we if if we continue that project that would happen at the end of the year um Roy and uh David were working with me last week on construction management and we hired HMK uh they're finishing up Amity doing a nice job there they did perale um the guy that actually runs that company Dave okay um was the guy who helped author the awesome Grant so he also brings that to the table of like how to in his outs of all the different relationships and um

016super knowledgeable guy was super impressed with him um we interviewed three firms or interviewed two of the three firms um and uh you know became pretty obvious with his experience and knowledge of our campus I guess they were in on the CT building as well U they they were on that so um he's been he's been good to work with and so we've I sent out the intent to award it gives them a s-day window to appeal so a week from today we go live and um if they give us a contract before spring break I may need to pull three Vats together to just approve that and keep them on the on the hunt while we go on so Mike are we going to go through the the bids at the end or we

017just covering that now I'm just giving you an update we've made that decision with that group so I noticed they didn't really give a they gave their hourly wages but they didn't give a price where the other two like gave an estimated price yeah they gave a percent okay and then the 360 group actually gave us a astronomical number right right right I noticed that and so because they don't know the total uh scope at this point they operate on a percent perc and they just took the the five million the two and a half so yeah so that's kind of the math we were doing on that is looking at like okay if you look at it from a percentage point of view yeah so what is the 3% at the two and a

018half I didn't even figure that out oh it it was on two or well 3% on 5 million's what almost 20 50,000 I think I don't know I had to WR down there's a ma50 150 yeah so I think we'll be 150 2,000 in management uh we oddly enough can use our um the PG money rebate organ Energy Trust money the sen Bill 140 1149 1149 and uh so we have a way to fund that out of some money that we already have allocate or in our possession so hopefully there'll be a value add in that process just question yes what happens of cost First during construction um so the next phase will be once our commit our manager so then we have those rfps that we got in January they have those now at

019HMK they're reviewing those going do we need to so we got to go through a Divi a design phase go through a scope phase um so yes I'm sure prices will increase I think one of the things that I've asked uh the board to consider is is um looking at um earmarking some of our res Reserve specifically over the next two budget Cycles to act as a contingency in case we get to that point what's interesting in Oregon is when you move stuff from um your general fund reserves to capital projects in Colorado I could never move it back but Oregon allows us to move that back if we don't need to back stop those projects so um least and I are feeling better about that because we're in charge of those budgets versus kind

020of the clay the clay maker over the Hill that I got that was there was not a lot of we downsized that one based on budget so we didn't have any contingency build per se in that one so um you also got to worry about change orders while they're doing construction well and HMK does a pretty nice job in negotiating the heart cost so you know when they they want to mitigate um as many changes as they can in the front end of it so that it's all included and not coming up late on us so that's that was another reason we were fairly impressed with them so and I may or may not have talked to the superintendent knowing they'd already talked but he returned my call so I just wanted to be my

021son and go take a look at it and he said their $ 35.4 million bond that they passed that HMK saved them that amount I mean saved them a million and they their charges about a million they went to the city they they do a lot of proactive to keep our cost down they're working for us because I was in the beginning I'm like why are we paying somebody a lot of money but I I've swung to the other side now yeah and I they're going to be beneficial the best example I can tell you is it's like hiring your account to do your taxes you're going to pay them and you the goal is they save you a lot more by doing it than if you did them yourself will that company be um

022choosing or is there still going to be a a committee put together to I know we'll have a we'll have a fullon construction and then we need a bond oversight committee which will be uh that I've already got a crew kind of lined up to be that um you know so we'll have some high engagement along the way staff will be involved in designs um and you know upgrades happening you know that uh so we want a lot of input on that as well to keep the community feeling good about their investment okay uh we just wrapped up classified appreciation week uh was super impressed with u the the way our our teachers and our administrators honored our classified folks um lots of fun stuff I think every classified person probably gained five pounds based

023on lunches and snacks and lots of fun stuff going on our kindergarten screening will start on May 7th so we'll start to get a look at our first um first look of incoming hinders um and so we with our new uh system will be able to register those kids uh when they show up with Synergy so we can start to collect uh information to contact them in summer and Jump Start programs and different things like that that we run um our CTE CTE kiddos um are in a welding leak um and they're doing really well uh and they're getting they're getting some good industry uh exposure with that uh if you haven't seen um their trailer I don't know if it's parked out back still or not um but they're going to they built so

024we got a big plasma cutter through a grant they took all the packaging or some of the packaging of that they cut it all apart made this trailer uh it's pretty impressive U it's parked out back behind the shed it's like nicer than any trailer I've ever own it's like a fancy car trailer fancy car hauler it's got a wench on it lights and it's pretty they painted it I mean it's it's pretty racy they're taking it up to the Portland car show uh with the electric car uh this week and this week this week yeah this week um I said well you should probably throw a sign on it see if you can make some money on in the trailer business um also we will I'll be bringing forth a list of surplus and

025the process for that anything we have that's in excess for instance we got some old mowers we've got an old Dodge truck now that we replaced that truck with the new truck um we don't need those things sitting around just kind of rusting so um we have an actual policy around disposable of surplus so you have to look at it approve it um before I and if it's under $5,000 then it gives me a chance to get that stuff kind of moved over the summer um if it's above a certain amount of money then I need to there's a whole another process formal process that goes with that so I'll be bringing some of that um we in may we also have a a tap uh State meeting where they're bring in all of our

026um tribal attendance folks together in Oregon City and we'll we get to do a thought exchange with that learn some new things so I think a couple of us will be going to that um we also are meeting with our ESD on our services for next year our ESD provides uh kind of the one-off services around special education they help us uh in purchasing they help us with our legal it's kind of a menu of things that I get to pick from uh And subscribe to one of the things that is new on their menu that we'll talk about as we get our new board seated and uh decide if we want to do it is actually have a new piece coming in where we can do some strategic planning um kind of setting that

027long run that long range piece for three to five years out um and they can help us work through that and do that in a way that um allows us to kind of set that Vision with a new board as we come on or whoever returns um so I'm excited about that I really think we have a lot of good things going on but I don't know if we have that long that long shot you know where we want this place to be in three to five years and how we get there and what are our priorities and you know it depends on who you talk to I hear everything from you know we'd love culinary and we'd love foreign language and we'd love you know but yet we're in a diminishing enrollment and so

028it comes with some choices and challenges around what we focus our resources to on um did get to go up and watch uh State High School wrestling I was super proud of our kiddos uh we had a two-time state uh champion in Zoe um Zoe Brewer and um Roy did an excellent job of live streaming all the matches so when I forgot my glasses and couldn't quite see what it was I could chime in on Roy's Facebook and not for a while now since yeah Roy's been hacked for the public uh so you might not want to click on any anything Roy say do not give them any information it's not me um also had a chance to go watch our girls in their District uh basketball over at Cascade High School the weekend before

029that um in we lost to Taft it was at the end of third quarter we were only down four and we we I thought we had a shot I had too um ironically T then went the next week in the in the playin game and beat uh Corbin and they ended up in Koz Bay uh in the state tournament so we were that close our girls which was kind of fun because those girls worked really hard kind of took it on the chin early I've been also meeting with the chamber um you'll see integrated gr uh Grant stay on our on our agenda just in case we need to do anything uh to do that but I think that we started entering that information integrated Grant basically compiles title funds so title 136 um title

0304 and then all of our CTE stuff into one big nasty project that principles and I take on it's my least favorite thing I found to do um but it's worth about three4 of a million dollars all in in that process so we continue to play the game and track the things they want us to to track I do sit in on weekly briefings from kosa um the next two weeks and education at the state will be pretty Lively lots of different things going on there I think I put that in your update just that litania bills and some of them make sense and some of them don't um I don't get too excited until it actually it's time to get excited because a lot of things get thrown at the wall and it's kind

031of like spaghetti they always wait to see what sticks um continue to work with Kanas um I'm going to meet with the town on the development that's happening kind of around the as you start up the hill from our where our street starts there's that left C curb cut where everybody kind of drives up into nowhere there's 25 lots that are going in there um and I'm going to be meeting with the town they want to meet with us because if you can visualize as you drive up the street the street was theoretically supposed to go straight but now it kind of veers for us um and now that is designated as a part of all things um right there by the stop sign and so we're trying to figure out easements and who owns

032it they need a I so I'll keep you posted on that but um you know I'm I'm of the mindset it needs to be a benefit to the school either um financially or in some way uh for us to honor and ease you know it's like with you know it's nice to be a good neighbor but at the same time we all also got to do our fiduciary duties to to make sure that we you know are taking care of our district so I'll let you know what kind of deals I get us in trouble with there in that process um and then we're gearing up uh for our certified negotiations we'll have an exec session next month on that and that's really just to have you all give me some parameters and strategy around

033compensation and different things I'll have a list of things that we'll go through but kind of need to know what what our our limits are because at the end of the day um you're one of the approvers of that agreement we get it settled Chris and I've been pregaming that a little bit so I feel pretty good about that process um any questions okay um I'm going to give us a couple more tick marks Angie is not here here tonight to do the the tribal report and Michaela has a report I think that she put together she's not here as well um but it looks to me like and I'll I'll read this way you're gearing up kind of covered half yeah yeah I think tracks getting going I think that's exciting baseball softball we

034talked about wrestling um one thing that you know I think that and we'll talk about it here down the in the uh reports and discussions um it was good to have some conversations with some of our senior wrestlers around what's next in their world and I saw a shift over the season around what they're thinking about doing in their post secondary at least what they're thinking about China so I was excited about that um we do have a carnival coming up and I've never been to this Carnival but I'm here and it is a carnival there is like everybody in town shows up for it so what is the the 18th 18th Tuesday next Tuesday okay remind me plug plug this one in there is scary how quick so he lit entire there change that

035come on Mr Booker there It Go um sorry I didn't change the date because I added on to what I did last time but um I just I'm it's been really a a big lift for the middle school this this year with the amount of uh data that we're being able to get on students and uh just data just brings about more curiosity and questions and what we can be doing um for our students and um I'm just I want to give a shout out to our teachers because theyve they they have been um asked to to learn a lot of new platforms this year and and different things and there's with anything there's so much more you could do with it but you at when you first start you've got to decide like what

036is the thing that we're going to focus on or how are we going to move forward and so um are we good good oh okay so um I just want to I want to go through and show you kind of where we're at from that achievement side real briefly um but really what I'm proud of is the some of the growth that we're seeing and that's the part that um um we talked about it last in October that um there's like these cut scores where that's the achievement side so if you're below a certain score it's considered like far below or below and we had a considerable number of students in that in that area um in in October and um but and we still do we have a long way to go but a

037lot of our students have made growth within that area and so they're moving in the right direction and it's been it's been really um really great to see so um we'll start with our our our reading data and so our sixth grade at the top is the beginning of the year and below it is midyear and obviously the far-left column we're trying to reduce from um over time because that's bless you our intensive far below and um we're trying to move that that dial more towards the right so for our sixth grade uh beginning of year and middle of year the average scores um for The Benchmark was uh 421 and um and at the middle at the mid year it's at 571 which that stands for like the first number stands for grade level

038and the second number stands for about month in that grade level so if you look at the first 421 that's about fourth grade second month um is that Lexile score yeah it's not a Lexile score but it that's it's similar the way you read it yeah so um our students are making um in most of our in most cases students are making more growth than what is typical for these programs so that that um that is re refreshing so seventh grade same thing our beginning of the year and then our midy year and just a reminder in the blue that's our Dibbles data that we gathered um which is which is reading fluency and some comprehension and then the red is the ISL um so same thing we're trying to get that the top the

039from left to right s so just because people in the audience might not have seen this so you're looking at Red Bar versus Red Bar yes from from the top to the yeah mhm thank you um same our seventh grade reading um went from a 484 to a 539 for growth and then our 8th grade [Applause] um went from 548 to 594 so um part of this part of some of the things we've learned through this process is um the are three ways you can use ilel one is to get students on um weekly we're asking that they spend uh about 25 20 minutes a week on um what they call being in the arena which is where they get a chance to kind of show what they know and it's um the the the

040test that they're doing or the assessment that they're doing in the arena is adaptive to where where they are at so it gets harder as they answer question questions correctly um so that helps pinpoint where at um in addition there are after they do while they're in the arena or while they have they're they're doing these assessments um there are recommended skills that they can work on for each area that they have shown that they could work on so there's lessons that have been recommended for them and then in um and then also teachers can assign a lesson so everything is attached to the standards so if you're working on something specific in class and you want to assign an additional lesson or an additional resource to students they can use that um they can

041do that uh within um the teacher can assign that to a student to the students um and then we have our read 180 that's at the middle school and when we first started um the data we recognized um how much uh intensive help we needed and so we upped the we doubled the re 180 licenses um mid year and so we were able to start a second round um at the second semester um and it required us to to do some some a lot of work some magic on the scheduling just because of the way that it worked out but um we're fine so so that top one and the bottom one are a little bit it's kind of hard to compare because one is where where it was like 60 licenses and now we

042have 120 licenses so it's not necessarily Apple stles because we had more students um oh I was going to go back on that so I met with the the midyear um I had my midyear meeting with the re10 folks this week and just got some really good we were able to kind of decide what how we could get the most bang for our buck with our students and we um we met today and we set some goals for this final quarter so I'm really looking forward to that um piece and um where we want to focus our energies because once again like I said it's overwhelming the teachers feel overwhelmed by the amount of resources that they have and and you never feel like you're doing anything really well so it's like let's pick the

043thing that you know we can focus on and not worry about getting it all um all the pieces but um just being in the re 180 classes it's pretty I don't know it's pretty awesome to see our students getting the support that's targeted for the areas that they need that that they would not be able to get in the regular classroom because just some of the needs are such that our our teachers don't have the they don't have the training or the skills to give them that within the regular setting so they're getting some really targeted targeted instruction before you leave that one of the things I think that we will see with the particular group that are Middle School you go back they were kind of just right they were coming out of that

044uh learning how to read phase right about when Co hit and so we kind of lost them there for a minute and so that continuity piece and then they get dumped into our secondary programs and typically our secondary teachers are not well schooled in um reading instruction pic awareness you know all the things that you know if you ever want to really appreciate teaching I always say go go to a first grade classroom and watch what they do on a daily basis with those little guys uh teaching them all the different things they need to read so I think that this will be a Target group for us their whole way through um just to close that Gap because they had such a deficit we see a much different profile when we look at our

045data um in our sixth Fifth and fourth graders they seem to have better foundational skills but for some reason this three-year window of kids right now you know they they need some some work and polish um our math um this this is probably the area where I feel um especially in our sixth and seventh grade math I've been watching our teacher Casey Anderson um just really dive into the ISL and use utilize it um she utilizes it pretty masterfully in the classroom with students and it's very specific and targeted and this is where I see that um I don't know I'm just like it you can really see the growth happening so um that's the sixth grade and that's the seventh grade and that's the eighth grade and then I have this um this is

046the the the growth from the beginning of year to middle of year for our our um math and so I feel like we're making some strides especially in the sixth and seventh grade um it it it prompted I had a we had a meeting with the Middle School principal in Amity for something else and we got to talking we had a really great conversation and she we started talking about math and she talked about uh one of her teachers in AMD who has who has really dived over into ISL and figured out they figured out a really great kind of just this math flow that they're using and utilizing Theo and they're seeing great um re or great results and so I reached out to him and he came and visited with us a couple

047weeks ago and he brought all of his stuff gave it to all of gave it to us was awesome to share um and so I think um we're looking forward to having those conversations at because we're getting we're we're heading into Master scheduling so we're having conversations with all the Departments and so with middle school I'm really looking forward to seeing where we can maybe Target our efforts where we're going to see the Gray's growth and that's that's the piece that um that we're looking forward to and we have some really good um resources that we can work with and build off of what we've done especially in sixth and seventh grade just keep in mind this is all on top of our direct instruction regular curriculum stuff too um just overall this was just

048a I just did a snapshot of this like in Middle School our math student our students in math have um mastered 5,397 skills they've Proficiency in 9,767 and La um you can see on the other side as well and so this is just represents like the students being active in the program and um like I said when they're working on something um it gives them a score a running score and it tells them when they've hit proficiency or Mastery and so a lot of them will shoot for that Mastery level um our attendance um we've been really focusing um a lot on our attendance uh we just uh trying to to divide and conquer because attendance is a really it's a really big lift and um so we've uh our Middle School attendance has gone

049the zero to 70% has gone from um a 9 9.8 to a 7.3% so that's the one we want to go down and then um and then those students shift into the other categories so we've got our 70 to 80% overall um students who were here 70 to 80% of the time 11. 5 to 10.3 and then the 80 to 100% has gone from 78.7 to 82.5 so that's an area that we're really trying to focus on um we've done um we've initiated an attendance challenge just because attendance is a really heavy lift and it it we need everyone's all hands on deck with this and so the teachers have formed teams and they've chosen we've identified students who are in that 70 to 80% range where we can hopefully um just just do some

050small things and interact and connect with students and find out ways to encourage them to be um at school and so the the each team has each teacher has about four to five students that they're that they've chosen and then that team is working together to just see what they can do to um boost that attendance so every week um we update it and um we're going to do some sort of any any student who makes the desired percentage growth will have some sort of a reward but we're going to do something for the the team that that can produce the largest amount of growth um but it'll be interesting to see what strategies they're using and what seems to work and what um what sticks what doesn't we've done some schoolwide awards uh for

051like a grade level that is showing the highest level of attendance um both middle school and high school um sixth grade have our big best attendance um actually I know Middle School sorry I went the wrong way seven um sixth grade has about similar to seventh grade right now yeah but they're all they're moving in that direction eighth grade is a little less but um like I said we're just we're working on that and um really trying to Target those areas it's just nice um it's nice when you can have different people focusing on different aspects because it is a lot of data to manage and it also is depends on what you're looking at and how looking at it and so um and it changes because we're it's changing on the weekly so just

052trying to keep up with that but it is still good information and it's showing us that the efforts that we're putting in are working and that um you know change takes time but we also want it to be as targeted so it can move as quick move the dial as quickly as possible um this is something oh yes question yeah how much do you think Monday's influence we haven't done a deep dive into that yet because that really hasn't been like the thing that is we could we could pull it by dat yeah um you know I think that what I what I've seen is January particularly January we had in the elementary we had all kinds of illness I mean it wiped us out staff and kids um High School is a different Beast

053because those are kids that we continually Chase in that process Middle School seems to be our sweet spot because they're kind of old enough to get on the bus by themselves get here and their captive audience they don't get to leave or drive yeah exactly and so I think you know we have an open campus um you know which allows some of those kids to to you know and so as we get into that phase of um you know that Pathways to promise peace one of the things I'm really focusing on is how do we eliminate the open periods in a kid day so they don't get distracted and they continue so we'll talk more about that but we can pull that data by date you know what I typically found is it typically is

054is Mondays and Fridays because you have Athletics you know different things going on at certain days of the week and but we can we can run it I've just heard parents say I don't my kid doesn't have to go because I don't they're not finding value in it then other kids are saying you know yes it was great because we're able to go see teachers and do that but now that format's changed right don't they go to a short version of classes all day with the idea that that we wanted to be able to maintain the ability to get that help and and retake like get um retake tests and make up things because it isn't happening in the classroom because they're moving forward and so that was one of the pieces that the students

055really valued that they could get the help or get get the like missing work some time to get it caught up with the teacher during the week Chris do you have an opinion one way or the other is math guy I have not not putting that a SP do you see less kids on Mondays than other days showed up I think it's better this year than last okay well I have two time people hammering them but I do I do still see and hear the I didn't bring my backpack today because we don't do anything on Mondays and I keep continue to drive home we still are in school we're still learning we're still doing things it may feel different than Tuesday through Friday but we're still expected to do stuff and I will leave

056it at that okay that is that is one of the places that one of the times like our students will get on tol and do their Arena time because it's a shortened period And so that is one of the places that some of the teachers are utilizing questions just comment my student commonly mentions he hates mon I just tease him that he's Garfield from a teacher perspective I feel like it's more valuable to have a full day of instruction and the ability to like shift if needed if there's need to redo assessment assessments or work onl or whatever it would be is the reason that Mondays is still adjusted for Biddle of high school does that have to do what what dictates that decision um well we did some we did some uh like empathy

057data Gathering last spring and just you know it's our professional learning it's the time when they can meet together as staff because um we don't we don't have like common prep periods and things like that so it's just it's um and then that's that's like our professional learning time and our time to connect and our time to work in teams and work in groups and then how you structure the time with kids is based off of like we switched it based off of did it used to be Wednesdays or something from an equity perspective Elementary doesn't have light start so what is their PD they have a shorten day five days a week and so their PD times are after school so they have an hour of extra time right they actually have two hours

058extra they have two hours extra hour before hour after but the hour before is their prep time the hour we about currently the day they don't have a beginning yeah I think it's a before school starts that's their prep time is my understanding but I don't want to speak for him because I don't know there Sky I mean the positive thing I've heard is that that they're doing the fire science type thing on Mondays and that there were several kids interested in that we've got former students that are part of the fire system through Grand Ron now but do you have that you talked about a student organization or student panel it' be interesting to just get there to on what their thoughts are yep talking to classmates and just their observations too and said

059put on the line what I can do is I can give you a digital copy of their master schedule so you can see how it's formatted starts at 8:30 we both start at 8:30 they do 8:30 to 2:30 we do 8:30 to 3:30 but their day starts at 7:30 that's the extra day or that's the extra hour you're talking about and you guys don't start till 8:30 right our teachers are here before school yeah is one why mean you don't have like you're not like8 to four um so uh last week or last month I I talked a little bit about our um senior coaching pilot that we that we're trying um just to meet with all of our seniors and interview them and find out um you know what their needs are and we've

060had two reflection meetings on those and I think this morning um Scott had done 37 of the interviews and um just we're learning that um we're learning a lot from the process which I'm really happy about because it's that's the whole point of like trying this was like what's working what works about it you know what would we change um and just learning that uh we've had um you know there's some students that we thought maybe would think that a plan and they don't and then and when they get with you oneon-one it's a safer place to just kind of spend some time talking about it um also some students that had plans that were unknown um to the school staff um one thing we did learn is that our students are not um they're

061not great with email like that's a form of communication that a lot of um indust like outside people will use like colleges and you know you'll that's where you get a lot of information and a lot of our students um don't choose to check their email that often and so that's something that we're learning like that is a piece that even though maybe it's not their form of of communication it's how a lot of the world is going to communicate with them so like being able to to to be able to do that um we had we had a couple um just really good stories about the um we have a student that um was really um interested in the culinary arts and we were able to connect him with the uh swack down in

062KZ Bay and he has been working really hard um to fill out all his paperwork and so it like it's just been awesome to like make these connections with kids and then and then help set uh connect them with the right um Pathways or like people but um I don't remember I don't think I shared this maybe I did at the last meeting but um there's the rped grant that is for Yam Hill County that um is for Rural districts around College and Career Readiness through um through Shema and so I met with the with the with the leader of that um I don't know it was it was maybe it was a few weeks ago now but um essentially there are these Pathways that students can um there CTE Pathways that students can choose

063from and a lot of our students when they hear CTE they only think shop because that's what we have when they hear CTE and that's a lot of times used synonymously with the classes out in the shop is CTE but CTE has Pathways in like um you know Health Sciences culinary arts business there's a lot of different different um Pathways and there are some really excellent dollars there's some dollars that we can access to help our students get on a pathway if they're interested and they can earn up to like a bachelor's degree um or or a certificate or associates degree and so we added that to our we hadn't started the the um it might have been right after our last board meeting but um we started before we started our interviews we added

064that piece in there because if as students show an interest in a pathway then they would either come out and meet with students and give them more information but they also want to bring students to the campuses the different schme campuses and show them what those look like and um and so uh I just I just um at the time when this had happened I think he'd done 30 interviews but I just captured some of the um some of the data but we just one of the questions is just what are your plans for next year um just kind of getting an idea of what students are thinking um that they want to do and then did I go oh okay and then this is that um the CTE uh Pathways and so we just

065are asking students like you know which ones might you be interested in and so we we know where we want to like um reach out I I sent this slide to the the G I met with too and just to see you know how many students makes it worth her time to come out here or how many do we need to go on a on a um on a visit and and like I said he's done some more this last week so it it has it this isn't even real time but the students are actually really interested and they've been following up with hey when are we going to get to talk to someone about you know this piece so they were very interested we also have there's a like a psych a psych class

066that is available for free for the students to take this spring online if they were interested and it is a generally a prerequisite for most of like the CTE Pathways and so it could be one of their classes that they could um take um we've also asked students like what have they accessed or started working on from job applications to scholarship to osac um Oregon promise jcaa Scholars resumés um letters of recommendation their Justin's order I me just all sorts of things yeah all all sorts of things that that that some of them don't even um know you know what what to do maybe next and so um that's been really great we had a lot of students that um completed the osac and then we brought out Shema uh a gal from Shema and

067she worked with our students applying for Shema Scholars because that's one of those where if they have a 3.5 or above they can qualify for free Shema for two years but some kids right now are like oh no I think I want to do this but in July or in June they might say you know what I think I might want to go to Shema and if you haven't filled it out now then it's too late and so we want to try to get all of our kids to apply for it that and then they don't have to take it if they get it they don't have to accept it but at least they have that as an option so the or promise it closes in June or it says no one's thought about it

068yet is that the it because when we did it it was it's no longer open I mean so she like we screenshoted what we had but those are um the Sac is no longer open um so she had the so see the see the very bottom the Oregon promise and the osac is reflected but then yeah but then that now it's like when when he's meeting with students like it's not the trains left the station just remembering last year it was really cool when they went out to the trial gym I drove them out and they were able to the cha the gal yes made an over and over come see me if you're not sure let's fill it out and and I thought that was great she's come out several times she's awesome she

069likes our school um these are just some of the other topics that we've discussed with students um you know just things that um like just have they thought about or do they need help with and um I think what we're finding is that a lot of our students are are having a hard time identifying adults that they can go to to get help in their life like as they move on like where would they go to get help and so um with some of these types of things and so I think that's just good information for us to have um and you know as we expand our College and Career just model and our vision for it um students knowing that like we we are a resource you know for them even even after they

070graduate if they're if it's as fast as a time again and they can't remember what you know we can connect them with the right people and try to help them because it as a parent it is very hard to navigate a lot of this um it's it's confusing and so to have somebody that knows it and can sit down with students and and really help them U has is great but I would say that this has been um probably one of the the the feedback piece um is I was trying to think I left my notes on my my counter but there but so we met today to to review and what was really awesome is like Scott was able to get get a lot of this information but then he can say this is

071something that we need oh I know we had a student that um that was having a hard time getting to school because she lives outside of WAM minina and the car is not reliable and and so one of the questions was could we get her bus passes and could she take like city bus to get here because it's outside of our district and so um could we help her with that can we show her how you know to to use get transportation and so then like Trion was like okay our our counselor was like all right I'm going to go see what what that is and I'll see if I can do the research and figure that out but um so it was really nice to have somebody like gather information but then like here's

072something I don't know what to do or I don't know what to do with and we can take it and and go further with it um this is kind of overwhelming because you think of all the things yeah um just I mean we just have a lot a lot going on we're taking our Juniors I'll just highlight to the pp County Youth Conference next week um it's called picture your future that's the um that's the theme of it so it's all we took them last year as well and it's all about they they choose um strands that they want to be like a like a a certain strand that they want to be a part of and then they have three sessions on that so one of like handson and there's like industry people so

073we're excited about that um it was really successful last year and then um yeah we had our OD tap site visit um for the secondary and that was um very enlightening and good to spend the day with Stacy Parish from OD and um yeah so there's a lot going on it's Gary up for a very busy spring how many days till graduation 50 something right we're about 57 according to senior County Justin's got a question oh yes sorry sorry I should asked us what before we moved on from the data but I looking at this I it looks like there's definitely growth and that's really good but my concern is this 8th grade class um there was no increase in their scores for math and then the score for literacy it's a 594 so how

074is this data being used across schools like from that that transition from elementary to middle school and then that b and the biggest transition I would argue is other than graduation is that e8th grade to nth grade transition so if you have a large number of students that are math wise scoring I would I'm hoping they'll be improv data at the end of the year that but considering this you'd still have a fair number of students that are well below grade level so what's the plan literacy and math and if they're well below in both literacy and math you can kind of assume it's going to affect every class they go through especially at high school especially literacy yeah so what is the plan for like remediation of skills also considering they're doing this work

075in addition to whatever classes they're in right now like what does the success look like for those students that are scoring really low and are in eth grade math like are they getting anything out of it or is there and considering the sixth and seventh grade class there similar concerns so is there a way that like in conversations of what it will look like in the future remediating skills before you're putting them in classes that they may not have the skills to be successful in as it is because presumably a lot of those kids when they transition especially for math in freshman you're like what what class do you start them in is there a specific class that is for remediate skills for those extremely low students before you put them in a class that's

076going to be alra or whatever that might be um and I know you said you guys kind of talked about that but is are data meetings happening across schools is my biger we it affects everything yeah so we're so the master schedule meetings are those are going to be the data meetings and I'm setting those up right now so like math is going to be a huge conversation and so one of the things we're looking at is our numbers for next year because we are going to be declining um because we're losing a larger class and so looking at sections of how many sections we're going to offer and how can we rethink some of the things that we're offering for students and we we started problem solving that today sort of um some of

077the math we started looking at just kind of that model I was telling you about with with with that middle school teacher from amid like can we can we ask fresh for freshman can we put something in place that really targets those skills for them um and so I think that's a piece that we're looking at as we're looking at sections and how many like where we can free staff up to um to be able to where can we free staff up to be able to to maybe offer some things just to fill that Gap is Reed 180 only at the middle school right yeah butl is is K12 so we could utilize that um so yeah I mean but that's the piece is like as we're going forward like what is what are the

078things that are making the the best growth and what are the things that are helping us and that's the eth grade class is exactly the one that we were focusing on today in our conversation and you're asking the right question you know one of the things that um I think we've made public early on is you know we've been reidentified in our Middle School to go back on watch so that puts us on a clock that we've got to make some major improvements which you know I think one of the things that we really focused on this year is as I get to know the system in schools we've also talked about that verticality and sharing this data so that we're looking at it that we're processing in with it um which I think has

079been a bit of a new uh opportunity for our staff here so I think that um as we get through this whole process you know we'll get one more snapshot on these kids but then I'm really curious to see what we lose over the summer in any grade level and so that's where you know I think it kind of retools our our opportunities in the summer as well that summer melt regression so and we are sharing like all this data with our middle school high school together mhm one another I mean just final concern is the gaps are huge like the the at grade level and then far below I'm concerned about the students that are at grade level like are they being challenged is they are like you know yeah it's just a big

080gap it's a big gap between your students that are above and then below and so what does that mean for students that are at grade level and their progress and well I think that's where having um espe especially with like the tools that we have they are very pinpoint they very they very much Target where students are at and that's because there's such a disparity that's really hard to do just within regular differentiation which we are also like encouraging those pieces like vocabulary development those kinds of things but like it really helps to have these tools that can give us some very targeted um lessons for kids so that we so that they can still get grade level like exposure to grade level material but then there's like another opportunity for them to practice like

081um I think you're bringing up a good thought as we plan for how do we compact curriculum for those kids that can can get away with it you know and move those kids faster well that's what I have you have has it been exp I don't I don't know if it's been done recently but has it been explored the opportunity for those students that are above grade level to possibly move into a upper class like if they're eth grade and they're testing at or above grade level but you've got a large percentage of the class that's below can you pull that student into a high school class and that's difficult but because maturity and all of those things however you can kind of gauge what that looks like right now we have 10 eighth graders

082in high school math okay so they they have the option if they're testing just for but just for math okay and and I think that's the piece like math is a lot easier to do that with um just because because it's very like um linear and whereas language arts it's a lot easier to differentiate within a language arts class if you can but we we with the second addition to the read 180 we do have three literacy classes that the kids are in and two of them are read 180 and one of them is not so that is a little more um not to track kids but that is it the way by adding the second one it allows them to have a different you know there there is a little bit of um differentiation

083just on where they're placed but these are all things that we're working on and you know we're exploring AI tools uh in our Monday morning professional development that are for teachers that can help you find different ways to like give kids good feedback and like we're just I know we're we're trying to find ways to make things to work smarter not harder and find like ways to Target what kids need give them the right feedback give them things at their level um yeah and my thought for literacy could be very similar in that if you have a large number of students that have low AR test have low scores they would stay in a core class and then have maybe one or two classes that are options for advanced like Literacy for advanced students presumably

084it's a smaller number and so you have the ability to do real targeted instruction for them and I don't know that makes the Gap even wider but it I think it would go towards meeting kids where they are we'll trying to find opportunities for that right and so like just being able to um being able to determine if we have students that are you know that like how do we meet the needs of those students as well and that's part of what we're looking at with our numbers and our like Staffing we might even have to explore the option of some of our high school middle school staff like working together because there we are going to have less sections and so we might be able to offer like a class for our like higher

085middle school students to to do with maybe some freshmen or you know like that type of thing these are and that these are all the things we're going to explore in those master schedule meetings that are real specific to those content areas to see like isn't things like this isn't this the reason they have like tag the talented and gifted and but yet you don't do any talented and gifted Middle School at all actually we just um we are re like I don't know what the right word is like redeveloping revamping that but we're starting to get after that I was told you don't do tag at all in middle school I would I would guess it was probably three years all I know is we have a Shannon is our lead administrator on that

086I know she's been testing and getting that lined up but you could be very well right I think it's hard because it's an unfunded mandate right yeah but but to your point you know it my philosophy on on talented and gifted is they really have to be talented and gifted yeah but at the same time they're not just for a period of day right so what is our program right it's like you know it's like when you know talented and gifted is a a subgroup of special education so how do you then take that philosophy of that you know we used to call them it Alps Advanced learning plans and how does that apply across a kid's day so my question is is like a lot of these kids what I'm saying is is maybe

087some of these kids aren't talented and gifted they're just at I think that's probably more likely the cas that you've got kids at grade level that aren't necessarily like above and beyond there could be some that are but I think the majority of them are just where they should be and so like accommodating instu how do you do that well and you bring up this is plain and so beautifully into my next presentation but the question really becomes how do we know where our kids as a system perform because we don't have summi of measures that really kids buy into and families buy into so if you've read my last articles in the in the bulletin kind of championing that hey we need to understand where our system sits because I think we got some

088false positives in the world where to your point it's like we have kids that are on grade level they kind of feel like they're gifted and they're really just grade level right and they leave us and they go out into the other worlds of Academia or you know the job or whatever and like wow I was a top dog and you know I mean that's the way the world Works anyway you know but I'm here and not here so you know that that's kind of we're going to go there yeah so that's that's coming up here and soon as James done [Laughter] thank you that was it for our report sorry I okay next up we have our audience time so now is the time for any audience input um is there anything from the

089audience that they feel needs to come before the board that's not on the current agenda absolutely do I need a mic this okay what's that you should just yeah there's no mic name and Oscar Warz uh I have a kid in sixth grade uh I noticed that she was she is creative every time she picks up a tool so uh me myself being a product of CTE I thought CTE would be a great pathway for her um so I started to volunteer here at the high school 20 months ago hoping to get her started early um I am at the point where it's it's becoming a concern to me because there's been several approaches at establishing structure that continue to to fail uh just uh recently has come to my attention that some of the

090equipment is going to be uh surplused and every time new equipment or new teaching tools come in I've observed that it it likes to research as far as a curriculum or a structure behind it to be applied in the classroom for example the uh the last uh set of go-karts that was about a few weeks ago um when I asked if if there was any curriculum or any structure behind it it was it was just a plain no it became a great con concern to me when I when I saw the post on Facebook that uh highlighted that the the carts were uh built from the ground up when they showed up as kids and they were put together in three in three days uh it just uh shows to me that you know on

091social media you're you're willing to fabricate success at my kids expense um I feel like it's a gamble with my kids only currency which is time uh I uh come to find out that there's going to be another approach which is manufacturing of products through uh through the shop and uh so I I feel that that there should be a uh some sort of curriculum or approach researched before the next next the next round of equipment that uh the school continues to purchase and only entertain a cop the bodies of five kids using this equipment um I uh volunteered um for the first month and and I noticed this this lack of lack of structure so I I put together a a uh a nonprofit to assist with this with this uh lack of structuring

092and lack of research behind all this all this equipment and uh 20 months later it's just more concerning to me because my kids is going to be in that shop or plans to be in that shop 16 months from now and I feel that if I haven't seen or I haven't helped enough to make change in the last 20 months I won't see any change in the next 20 months and 16 months we forgot to mention that it's a three minute he's at us three minutes just giv him a warning so do for curriculum for CTE that's not the same kind of curriculum as adopted curriculum for literacy and math so how is the curriculum created is it created by the teacher or do we um you want to talk to any want me go

093for it I mean I I'll I'll chy in with you too um you know one of the things that I've noticed being here is uh you know we've gone from wide trying to narrow that Focus uh you know to Oscar's Point those go-kart kits where I tried to steer the middle school program into looking at uh kids need to be able to take things home that are tangible um you know projects they can do on a six week rotation um and so I think um we've given suggestions to the instructor around what can you do with that time frame and that process and that elective rotation um you know we have had a significant CT infusion of dollars from uh grants um and so we do have some impressive things as far as Surplus you

094we had some donated machines um you know that aren't necessarily appropriate for the type of production that we doing um you know we do have some kids that are pretty impressive that that CTE shop is kind of their home away from home so to speak so you know I think we're trying to again in the first six months that I've been here trying to Wrangle and understand and kind of align programs one of the things I think we lack is kind of a um front-facing entrepreneurial kind of General business um you know how to manage a business kind of vibe that potentially you can go into a specialty area whether it's Auto or the production or the FFA or the um you know whatever offerings we have going on so it's it's a work in

095production for sure so certainly understand the the lens and the Optics that Oscar brings and that and you know it's um you know we're also playing to the talent and skill set of of our of our teachers that run those programs and I'd say I'm just picking back the I mean just briefly on the the go-kart issue it the plan is was to take them was to put them together from the ground up but when we ordered them they didn't come in until the in like the last couple weeks of the first round of Middle School so we tried to figure out a way to allow them to be a part of it and so it wasn't built from the ground up but then they took them apart and so now this round of six

096weeks is building them back up so the idea is that they can understand all of that um our last year we purchased some AWS welding curriculum because our students um wanted to join skills USA and go compete and so we we've got kids that are working on that um we have our CAD you know curriculum where kids are learning some computer a design um we know there's a lot going on out there and it happened really fast and we're trying like like Mike said we're trying to like get a little more focused a little more you know but it takes time and there's multiple things going on out there multiple classes as we're looking at next year that was one of the things we had talked about was trying not to be so trying to

097look at like what we're going to focus on and like how we're going to um try to get some of that organization some of that structure you in place um but it is it's different than a regular classroom and um but yeah I mean Oscars talked to me about some of those concerns and you know these are all things that we're working toward but it does take time to to build that and a lot of really great things are happening too a lot of for a lot of our students what uh just off the top of your head do can you do you know like all of what encompasses like the CT I know they do welding that's like the hot button thing welding they also have screen printing if I'm correct they have theof

098coffee cart or coffee machine or what and then you talked about computer like design is there anything else under C like the CTE umbrella well it's a is what our programs of study are in agriculture so we have our wood shop um all of our classes on on the other side of the shop wood shop forestry um Construction um horiculture horiculture thank you and then um our welding is it's kind of like not like necessarily like this is welding and this is manufactur it's it's kind of all manufacturing with well the way it's more integrated and so that's just a different way of of looking at it and so that's where we've talked about um trying to hone in on some more of those skills and um so it's it's welding Manufacturing Automotive um and

099the design the computer Aid design then they all have a middle school class for a CTE rotation so they get six weeks of an a right now six weeks of woods and six weeks of manufacturing welding but there will they're not welding at the middle school sorry it's just more like in the shop thank you um anyone else from the audience I do real quick um Barry Wilson I'm coach semi coach whatever been here for a while but just kind of an observation my wife worked in the school and uh been in kindergarten for 20 years I tell her she never got smart enough to graduate to the next grade but you went to first grade but just observations over time I know it's hard to teach and stuff and come up programs but you

100you built a great facility here you guys doing a good job athletic wise but we're not building athletes and I think that kind of happened back when PE kind of got eliminated from schools somewhat you know what I mean kids are getting I'm going to call them soft my filter's not real good anymore I kind of speak what I want to say so uh when PE changed I got deleted because of cost kids sort of changing in a way that's harder and then Along Came technology and that got slammed on them you know I mean a newborn can reset my phone and I can't you know what I mean so they're just being programmed differently but I think it's changed a lot in a sense and then over the years I've noticed programs come in

101and education wise we're going to do this for a while and they're all said oh that's no good we're going to do this we kind of just start bouncing along and kids never really got a the set Rhythm and it kind of came I think back even how to hold a pencil all that really changed on them and kids are kind of struggling with growth because they don't get that consistency for a while I think you know some way got to get back to the I guess the basics and I think that's where you're kind of heading but I think it needs to be narrowed down but a lot of a lot of it is kids are can't hand classroom very long because they don't get no physical release and a PE is is different

102program than a than a recess you know what I mean and so if it got some more structure to that side I think they would do better in the classroom I think it would when they got I work more at the high school level so I see kids and and in the wrestling room I challenge them I push them to go beyond where they ever gone before and they just crave it you know and so kids crave the kind of energy to be released if they have release for it I think it would help if it got put back in in somehow some so we do have physical education requirements you want to talked about how many sections you have I don't know off the top of my head we have a lot of sections

103of PE um and weight training it's Pro weight training is probably one of our high highest rip requested classes Elementary lower levels where you have a lot of problem kids you know they go to Echo and get a toy and candy and get some back however they diffuse them I don't know it's not the greatest program from what I've heard but you need that release for these kids at younger age I guess I won't cut any more time but I know is Elementary get PE every day no once or twice a week I think I think it's twice a week and then the rest of it's I have grand kids are in there and they're fighting the whole time because they got a lot of energy and they got nowhere to go they go out

104and play soccer and get in a fight because I think teachers have the option to take their class out but it's not a they're not all participating in it right I think is what some come well that's Alex has lots of supplies I know it's a 3 two so over the course of two weeks I think they get W Monday Wednesday Friday they get like five out of 10 so yeah every other day pretty much on it okay anyone else U my name is Michael I'm a recent arrival to uh the area and I'm a friend of U Oscar I thank him for inviting me to visit the uh CTE uh shop it was a pretty amazing shop when the students there are uh well into the uh equipment and everything and um they taught

105me a lot and um and I've been a classroom teacher for few years and I've been education for about 40 years and I just have to say that a lot of your questions are are very insightful in the sense that when uh Miss Flynn had asked a question about the gaps uh you know what about the students who are not at grade level um one of the things I found uh is that a lot of times we don't take the time to look at the youngsters who are below grade level and find out exactly what is it what is it that they're lacky the Gap and teach to that Gap so that we can close that Gap and move on because when a child doesn't learn something new information new learning become stifled because failure

106is cumulative so if um there's some time taken to look at the data and see all the students who are theay great level and and um figure out each student and then find out each student's deficit and then teach to that you know to your point they would um start to um catch up and it may take two months of instruction to get one month of growth but after that it'll be one month of instruction one month AG gr or they'll be at grade level and the idea that uh youngsters graduate from school with uh competency and skills when they go to another place they find out that they don't feel as if they were um exposed to the right educ but I think they were conceptually they were it's what we call the horizontal

107learning the enrichment a lot of that stuff doesn't exist in a lot of schools and that's where the big struggle is and but over time they seem to be able to absorb a lot of that stuff so I think being on the Schoolboard is um it's difficult it's um it's commendable and in my mind being on a school board you're the closest to the fire you know because the parents are there the students are teachers of their administrations are there and you're um taking an oath to do the best you can for the kids and so you spend the time and the effort the thought so I I think um just want to say uh I appreciate that and then um also to uh drill down even further with the type of questions you have

108is you know come back to us with the information so that we can um monitor each child's growth uh IND vure rather than just talk about levels in in general terms so uh again thank you for the time and thank you for your work thank you all right there's no I just say one more thing I'm sorry you know I know both of you and BJ girls were really talented and I think you're in that part you that gifted talented gifted Pro you I mean and some people thought that was like a discrimination it's the feedback I got like why are they special you know I mean but it was just you challenge yourself to be better so I think that kind of went away for a while and that's why that disappeared because a

109lot of people felt like it was in just discrimination kind of thing so it kind of got dropped but it was here for a while you know and it was but and I think you were above normal I mean in my honest opinion there are some that were above and so there was that need for that but there are some that are just at level like you're talking about and so some people thought well why are they special it's that whole scenario of discrimination so I think that's why I got dropped it used to be here for a while but kind of went way oh it's coming back right no there are people that are acceptable you know and you recognize that it's not wrong it's just getting over the stigma of being a you

110know a gift yeah what you're doing it when you send youngsters to high school math classes that's recognizing their advancement you know let's challenge them to get better yeah you all don't go anywhere cuz you're going to like my next presentation I got a bathroom can go fast y I got AI policy okay yeah weal review for AI so in here in your packet you have a draft of the AI policy that was pulled from the um orian School Board policy we went through and did a lot of what ifs what ifs what ifs and we sent it to them and they came back and said too much detail to granular in the major policy so um where I Richard you're back there you're a part of this the guy behind the curtain call him

111out um he and Brent have taken the lead on this and basically the the feedback we got is AI is changing so quick that we need a this General policy that you've seeing in front of you and then we would do what's called an AR um administrative regulations behind it that would be more dynamic in changing of kind of the real rules as they kind of change and move um but I think that uh this is the general kind of consensus across school districts right now to keep it broad enough that every time it blows up and changes we're not changing this we're changing the the back end of it on the AR site AR on AI question I just like what what is the disciplinary action for misuse of a a i because it

112it says students in staff and violation policy are related or related rules may be subject to discipline and may be referred to law enforcement but and my example is if you have a like a sophomore student that used AI to write their paper and you can clearly tell that they used it like what's do they get a zero on the paper and then how does that that' be kind of like plagiarism like right now maybe where they would do that and so like a lot of times the depending on the age level and like like what the skill you know where they've been taught like sometimes teachers will pull them in and just talk to them first and like have give them an opportunity to redo like their assignment um in other cases there have

113been cases where students don't get credit for something um but I think right now we don't see a lot of that come across like around that the plagiarism but um a lot of times a teacher will just call and say I like maybe they don't have proof but they have a strong feeling so they'll just sit down and have a conversation with the student about it and then give them an opportunity to to do an alternative like do something different or that's so that's what my concern is is if I I feel like it would be more beneficial to have a really consistent set of like consequences to misuse of AI um because if you have one teacher that is just going to call you in and have a conversation about it but you have

114another teacher that's like no absolutely zero tolerance you're going to get a zero for that that's really hard for kids I feel like across the board it should be agreed upon that kind of this is the order probably they probably use AI more often than we know but if it's very clearly Ai and it's very clearly plagiarism um then I feel like there needs to be a consistent action for especially those high school students for how that's going to be handled yeah and you know as far as involving law enforcement what comes to mind is anything inappropriate you know Graphics um that are generated that bleed into technolog interesting in the fact that a lot of it happens and is generated outside of school but somehow it lands in school do kids show up here

115um and so we end up getting involved so you know while it's good thought to have that consistency um I also think we need to have somewhat flexibility because it changes so I don't know but we're spending a lot of time as administrators on AI I know you just did a session on it today and your this is your second session right uh with high school staff on training and looking at different things and um playing playing with it you know I kind of made the statement um you know remember when you thought cell phones weren't going to be allowed in school um guess what you know AI is your next cell phone so you know and you got you know teachers across the board that are like you know hell or high water I'm

116not going to have ai in my content in classrooms and you have other people that um are like I think I can Embrace this and figure out you know there might be some application in my my content so I think it's going to be dependent on the content it's going to be dependent on is this a creative piece that I'm working on for art and I need to generate a graphic you know that's going to be on a web you know web design I so I think there's a lot of work to do in this and we're going to be learning as we go on a lot of it in that process um you know I justed listen to a podcast today on the way in around um you know teenagers and um what do

117they call it uh sextortion oh yeah um and that whole process where kids are getting fished and you know social media and you know they're getting shamed and you know getting held up for rants it's crazy what we got to educate with kids on technology right now so you know this is just one more layer of all that stuff that we're fighting the battle on so this is a draft if you have input get that to Richard did you want to add anything you and brand Richard likes to talk good comment observation like I do think that there should be some not specific but yeah we definitely need to put some education into our and put it into our acceptable use policy you know so parents are aware and signing off so that if we

118do get into a a sticky discipline that you know we've got us covered there at the high school level I feel like what you see a lot is like using it to do skills that you don't actually know how to do without AI so like in text citations an APA format take but then they don't have know how to list out the resources so that it takes proper so you can very clearly tell it's AI yeah but if I think if kids are given the option to redo they just learn how to use AI better and there wasn't really a lesson learned around like don't plagiarize they're going to learn how to do that anyway but also if in instruction they're being taught how to write an essay and then you you say okay you

119learned how the basics of writing an essay now let's use AI to help us make this better if we have the ability to do that so like integrating it really into curriculum so that they kids learn how to use it to their benefits it is really great I use it all the time but they need to be a they need to know how to use it effectively fundament and to really help them not do it for them appropriate and effective and that's one of our goal is to kind of include it in the curriculum yeah what is this do we still have a student handbook is there something in there on plagiarism or should include AI in the plagiarism section I think right now we're just trying to get our teachers to see what's out

120there some of them had never even used chat see before for so it's like we're trying to get them to actually see what it can do CU right now it's just like this big thing that they don't really understand and so we're just we're trying to just work through it and see to your point how do we you how do we get ahead I w't say get ahead of it how do we learn about it so that we can use it effectively instead of just like assuming that they're not going to do it but they are so it's like how do we how do we set those things up because it does it changes the whole scope of the classroom um how you similarity with that with cell phones see it is the same thing

121there were teachers that were it was teachers specific is what I wrote down because there were some that like taking their phone others are like I don't have computers use your phone and so and I I've told kids over 40 years every teacher's different and their rules just like an employer in one place is different than an employer and another place so just do the right thing it's going to move fast I just know I will time lately okay let's move on to the integrated guidance report update nothing to report there but that'll be a standing item just in case I need to bring that back for our okay all right Pathways to promise all right so this is kind of where I've been doing a lot of thinking around um some of the things

122that that you've been hearing over time meaning um obviously it actually started the Bob Bishop tournament as I'm watching our kids and you know I said What will what is Willam Min doing well and we you know we wrestle well and I get to talk into these kids that are seniors and they're doing I'm like what what's your plan and they're like I don't have a plan and so um luckily we have a semester to to figure that out and we're making subraction but the concept is really um you know we have a unique community in the fact that we have some resources um you know in in our in our in our tribe we have resources in Hampton we have resources um you know in our in our community in general but really what

123I'm hoping to do is to really make sure that we have a program that's targeted and really provides holistic supports for students throughout various programs whether I'm a CTE kid whether I'm a music kid whether I'm our kid whether I'm an academic driven kid um want to make sure that we help them explore that and then what is The Next Step Beyond Willam minina High School um and it starts clear back in our kindergarten and educating our families and getting families engaged in our in our educational process um but to your point I think we need to have students gain that confidence to compete and Thrive you know as as the world gains that complexity and so that's kind of that that Vision piece um you know when we look at it I think some

124keyas we need to focus on are you know different opportunities around college and financial literacy I've spent a ton of time talking to you'll see my list of thought Partners I've talked to some bankers I've talked to um representatives from the tribe around um when kids get their their 21 money and some of the things that kids do with that and what what are the options they have that they don't necessarily access um I got a whole workshop on um kids can leave that money invested with the tribe and the rates of return are actually in pretty good in some of their Investments they have going um how do we use some C culturally responsive counseling um which is really just a fancy way to say how are we engaging uh the tribe has a

125halftime counselor um and she operates sometimes in isolation out of our system system and we want to be able to welcome that to come on campus work with other kids I think Roy you know referenced that they had a a FASA night or a college night they do a college fair and we need to get our kids out there in a better fashion so how do we work together to bring that whole Community piece together um how do you know how do we use um our tribe as a resource for some of the job shadowing opportunities they have EMS fire police they have pretty much a hospital um um they have you know W they have educational opportunities um that we can they have Hospitality uh in the casino and culinary and so we have

126really what I consider a micro version of a job core so kids can be doing some halfday internships I'm already busting kids back and forth um out there midday um you know how how can we organize that and create some things um Workforce Development uh you see that up there and what are those uh you know Fields like technology agricultural renew renewable energy Health Care uh that we don't offer how do we get those kids opportunities there and then really how do we create that family engagement Community engagement um to be parts of this you know and partnering with our tribal leaders Community organizations um you know and our local businesses in that process um you know we want to leverage these things like our counselor from the the tribe um one to revamp parent

127uh conferences we talked about this in leadership today a little bit you know but how do we shift from uh parent teacher conferences in the traditional sense of the secondary to where that really becomes a family meeting where we're talking about this kid's plan of like you're a freshman what's your plan we're going to map this out as they come back as sophomores and juniors it's like how we doing on your plan did you take that math class what what's going on in this how are you doing and is is it changing let's make these changes what do you need to be doing test score-wise around you know sat some colleges are test optional well let's take the test and see how we do and let's see if we want to make that test optional

128and hold that out of your portfolio do we super score it for a college do we do all these different opportunities to get your best placement into that what kids don't realize is a lot of the honors programs in college do require those test scores um AC C sat um how do we increase our course offerings for juniors and seniors I think a statistic that that I really started playing with is um you know we have a lot of Juniors and seniors that have open periods in their day they either show up a little bit later or they get to leave earlier um I think when Trion and I ran that I'm going to test my math here I think we said that 20% of the schedules had open periods in them and part of

129that is because the requirements are low right so we have the graduation requirements low so how am I Shifting the culture that kid goes I got an open Period I want to go do you know whatever it is whether it's a graphic art whether it's an art whether it's you know out in the CTE whether you know find something to do to fill that time you know one of the the best things I've seen this year um and I might get an educator out of it is I had a high school girl floating around the first couple weeks of school and we needed we needed a body and I said I will pay you on your off period to go be in kindergarten because kindergarten is a little crazy at the beginning of the year

130um you know and now she's continuing to sign up the her open periods and she's getting that experience well if she can log that on a resume now and she's talking about maybe looking at chaa for early childhood and then eventually going into a classroom teacher um you know so we've got to just give these kids these opportunities uh because a lot of times not seeking those on their own and don't know how to do that um so increasing those offerings um decrease the open periods um you know do we offer to to get you know I think uh one of the conversations that we started to have is what's a Willam minina diploma what's a Willam minina diploma really mean because you can have the Baseline i' met all my grad credits but we

131have a group of kids and I think Oscar you guys have seen those kids out there you know the Evans of the world could leave with a pretty nice endorsement of I have these machines on my resume and I put in God knows how many hours I have to kick the kid out of there on a snow day um you know but that guy can he can be teaching that next generation of kids coming up and he's got those kind of skills you know we've we've had West Salem Machinery out here um looking at our shop and our kids um and frankly there's some people out there that want to form n nil deals on our kids and for Tech you know it's like you can't have them McMinville you know they were out here

132the other day um but I think that's the I want that passion not just in the shop I wanted across all our curriculums so that if I have an open an an open deal and I want to take a science credit you know in environmental science or something because I want to go into forestry and I kind of like the forestry stuff you know can we offer that either on campus or here or at the tribe in that process um you know I I think getting kids onsite and offsite for industry visits and college fairs and college visits um we had our wrestler did you go with them to Oregon the other day or no I got left behind well one of the reasons I you were Babys first I like these kids are going

133to miss school but then I went okay they they get to go watch good wrestling but at the same time Ari made it a point to walk them through the campus with kids on it because a lot of times you're walking in on weekend there's not a lot of people around you know but they got see the vibe and they got to feel it they got to go eat in the student union and you know so I think kids can start to visualize themselves accessing those opportunities in that process they deer in the headlight looks but like there's a lot of people here and the little uh those little boats the little food vendor guys the robots robots robots um yeah so I mean but those are the same kids that can help you get

134your phone fixed I know um you know so my goal would be every student leaves us with well thought out plan with options um and regardless whether you're going to college you're going into industry you're going to a a trade school or a two-year school every kid needs a quality resume and interviewing skills you got to be able to talk to people um you got to be able to interact it's a lost skill I think you were talking about that a little bit um you know how to fill out a job application okay that's a hard one you know and and um you know a well-rounded transcript that reflects their best effort you know what do they have on there that met the basics but at the same time this is my emphasis area that

135I really I really honed in on um you know and then do they have an opportunity to be accepted to at least one postsecondary experience not necessarily college but in experience whether it's going to be trade school whether it's going to an internship um you know we were talking to superintendent actually went up and had a meeting at the McMinville air space Evergreen Evergreen whatever I can't ever figure out quite the name the place it has a water slide and a bunch of missiles um you know and and we got to talking about those guys actually came down and they're talking about picking some of our kids up as interns on their vacation times because our kids aren't necessarily taking time to go to Mexico or you know wherever on vacation so we've been negotiating

136with them like can can our kids go up there and work with some of the restoration guys on that whole process um and then by the time the conversation was over they're like we might have you makeing parts for us because you have the Machinery to do it that we don't so Connecting People locally how kids can then see themselves in one of those experiences in that process might I just say something yes along that line I did a lot of interviewing for Boise before I left and we had a lot of situation it was called a star program situation task action result you you had to give us a situation what you didn't finish you and younger kids could could not did not have the experience and they couldn't sell themselves so I think

137you're on the right path getting kid to be able to explain what he what his strengths are and you know good contact may not have experience but he has some strengths he need to be able to tell them and tell a story that people understand sure and you visited out in the shop did you have kids kind of come up and introduce them eles and yeah yeah so I mean part of that is that culture I've pushed kind of classroom ambassadors so when kids see some a it's a safety thing but B it also you know it's an interaction where hey we want to show you what we got going on and you know I TJ and I worked hard to say look them in the eye shake their hand you know so hopefully you

138got the experience that you know and then we want kids to as I think Jamie was talking about really having a connection with a key adult that'll pick them up and follow him even after After High School just to check in and so as Scott's going through and interviewing all these kids one of the other things he's doing is grabbing their personal emails so that a year from now we can say hey how you doing you know we want you to come back at Christmas break and talk to our seniors about all the things you wish you would have done but you didn't do that you wish you done now um you know so working on those kind of things as well kind of tracking these kids post secondary experience yeah it might be it

139might be better for a a senior that just graduated and went out and did it to come back to the young because it doesn't help being a father and trying to tell your kid no it doesn't it doesn't you're right you know but but but the the other piece is um you know it's a cultural shift and so we've got to get it going and once we get this thing going just like these routines we're doing around tracking the data and you get to ask the questions great questions and it kind of drives okay you know there are people that care about this data there are people that aren't going to accept this performance and scores you know I need that in my parent group as well to to really but they need to understand

140like you know I'm you can be proud of your kid but we still got to get them to read on grade level you know that's our goal and so do you have a question well that was my question how are you engaging parents in this process is my biggest I I feel like the largest difference from maybe 15 years years from now or back to now is parent engagement and parent involvement and the accountability for parents like I just remember when we were like when we were in high school it was not an option not to do well it wasn't an option not to go to college like we had so how is that how is that messaging happening early on how are we engaging parents so that they can support that messaging or ask

141questions or have the ability to support at home and uh maintain a higher level of expectation so that second piece of that um what is the rec like the recognition of academic success for kids so like I remember in high school we there used to be like an academic award ceremony at the end of the year where you'd be recognized for all things from like trigonometry to Ceramics and whatever that would be and then at the elementary level is there something that similar at to like acknowledge the academic achievements of students because I feel like something we also see is like oh you tried really hard in your math tests like that was lame and kids are like okay so they like shrink even at the elementary level and so how do you like lift

142those kids up and help them understand like this is this is where you want to be isev I've been in places where you had an academic letter you know whether you were you know so like you actually letter for having you know GPA and you know different things I don't know what do you what do you do here I haven't been to that part of the school year yet well I think that's one of the things we talked to the kids about was how do you want to be recognized and how do you like what what do you want to be recognized for and a lot of them uh wanted to be recognized for like they don't they don't necessarily want to be called up in front of an assembly and like called out like

143I'm talking about our older kids um they they much rather would have the the personal like like um and so we developed our our recognition for character traits that's what we wanted to start with and so that's what we focused on and they help choose them and we identify them and then that's what we do right now and then the teachers write them a very specific like thing about that but as far as academics goes I mean we we do do our true Bulldog which is academics attendance and behavior Al together um but we don't we don't do right now we don't have any form of like a recognition um like an H Society right yeah we have National Honor societ National Junior Honor Society still yeah yes yeah yeah but Chris how long has

144it been there used to be a parrot night and a recognition for all how old am I now how long has that been gone away preco and it never came back after Co see that's too bad because that does engage the parents and it's the parents that are pushing kids some of those skills that kids are lacking that I mean that Barry touched on is like that they don't have the ability to be in conversation um they can't give speeches they can't talk about themselves they can't be proud of their achievements and know what that like they just they don't have opportunities to do that and so how do we create opportunities for them to what at lower level too like even in element at the elementary level how do we create opportunities for them

145to be proud of those academic achievements or wherever they are regardless of if it's in front of their peers or whatever it might be but I feel I feel like that's one of the things that is lacking is the like academic acknowledgements in a public space or like a school did your son get called out Elementary I remember when I was subbing here they used to have a star you put on the board and recognize them for good behavior call parents in and there'd be in a whole assembly in The Little Gym and recognize each teacher would recognize kids that's gone away too I I agree with exactly what you're saying Justine um I think the biggest thing I I see is building a culture around um recognizing the kids but also building a culture

146around the parents and this comes from me like I still feel like I'm an outsider and we've own property here in the district for 18 years um I don't feel like I'm part of the community and haven't been and it starts with the school it's the only really contact we have with the community because we live we're all like our closest neighbor is a quarter mile away you know and um uh I think having something where you're getting parents together and you're recognizing the children and you're giving them Awards it's another chance that parents see each other and have another contact point and they're speaking and they're talking but like my kid doesn't see any of his other class means ever outside of school you know and at the high school level I think I

147think being honest with kids so one of the things I remember that impacted me was like I looked at what their job requirements were for some of the jobs that I was interested in and to realize that you can't get a job in the field that you want without a bachelor's degree you go okay now I need a bachelor's degree to do what I want to do how do I get there and so confronting kids what do you want to do and how do you get there and let's look at the requirements of that or H bring people in to talk about that like how did you get to your pathway and like even I know that JJ would be willing to come in and say I didn't go to school I have a career

148but it was hard like I had to there were things I had to do to get there and so like really confronting I think Co made it so we we minimized the people that were coming into the building we kind of there there's been that feel like bubble wrap almost around schools because we're preventing that so like how do we bring people people back in the building and allow them to share like this is the path that was taken and these are the obstacles you're going to face if you choose to go the path of least resistance or most resistance um but really showing them these this is what the job market looks like these are how many like whatever that job would be these are how many are is available and this is how

149many applicants are in there are you would you be competitive in that even at the middle school age talking about that those kind of things like really giving them some real world perspective of where they are sure no I mean you're you're saying all the things I've been been cooking up um you know so I think that um in in the effort of time that the last side in there is as a board member I would add um you know as you think about things either write them down here shoot me an email you know of like hey you know based on that conversation I'd love to see you know parent workshops that are spread out through the year in the evening where we're talking about you know what is our reading curriculum and how

150do you support it a you know a math night to you know financial planning for postsecondary options you know it's it's an I've always said it's an unfair expectation for us to create the Beast of the postsecondary kid and then all of a sudden there's no money behind them to go you know and I know that as a as a parent I started saving like in fifth grade and it was like 50 bucks a month I was like it's going to kill us and then after a while I didn't miss the 50 bucks and all of a sudden by my son's freshman year it was like okay got first semester you know it gets you in the door and we you know get a paper route before I go to you know work no I

151don't know but you know I think we've got to take a more holistic approach to it on the parents side and I also think I I like the you know the kid recognition particularly that it's cool to be smart you know it's okay it's okay to be tough and wrestle your ass off and be smart at the same time you know cuz that's a well-rounded kid in my book you know well that's the other thing though too is like College athletics are a possibility if you have really good grades you know becomes a Second Avenue not just not just wrestling baseball softball those are possible if you have a 3.5 and better or a three and better you can get academic scholarships well and now and now junior colleges don't even count so you can

152go wrestle for two years basketball football a and it doesn't affect your eligibility so all of a sudden we get these six year and that's that's what became the narrative is that if you wanted to go to college which that was the only way you were going to get a high paying job you either had to have really good Athletics or they were going to accept your med not mediocre but midlevel grades follow your talking no you or you needed to have true to academically you needed to be successful because that was going to open scholarship opportunities and you weren't going to be paying like a million dollars out of pocket for school and that was where that leverage comes in it's like oh this is why this is important yeah well and kind of

153the vibe we also playing with is you know we have a lot of kids um and I have a couple kids that I hold up just because I've gotten to know them pretty well in an intimate you know but like a Kai um he wants to go into business but he's also really heavy into preserving culture and working within that so I've been working with and he wants to play college football it's like well I got a place for you you know and so you have Fort leis College in Southwest Colorado which honors indigenous it's free tuition they're building as a football program seeing they're not very good so a kid can walk in there and play and have a good experience and it's one of the top business schools in the state of Colorado

154so he can go at least try it and you know it it's still they still have the indigenous studies degree and things like that that he can kind of and and he's looking at it you know other kids that's not as important even though they're tribal so it doesn't matter I want to I want to be able to check all the boxes that a kid has an opportunity for as we plan these parent meetings in that vertical 912 but I don't want it to be like oh you're tribal or oh you're non-tribal it's like no you just have access to all these other components and we need to make sure we explore all those for you to make sure that you access the maximum opportunities because life's hard you know it's it's like we have

155a lot of people opting out of state testing and things like that but you can't opt out of requirements of life you know and that's kind of where I'm trying to take these guys of like because we have really good kids I've been super impressed with the quality of kids we have they just need those experiences in that process so kind of on the soap box so your homework is a lot of decision items to go through and it is pass we have to do them one at a time right so let's uh minimize the chitchat here I want to say one last I've been talking to a lot of people in the community and I felt like this group was kind of being left out so I'm glad we got to spend some time

156and conversation on it because I felt like I was behind with you folks okay we have our renewal and non-renewal of license Personnel I mve for the renewal of twoyear contracts for all district license contract Personnel for the 2527 school year as recommended by the superintendent president 25 26 this that should be 26 it says that's two years for for teachers that are already contracted yeah got it one year for everyone superintendent yeah thank second all those in favor of um the renewal of all the two-year contracts for district license Personnel uh signify by saying I I all those opposed say name a motion is passed keep it rolling Roy go ahead I'll second I move for the renewal of the thirdy Year probationary license staff to be considered contract for the 2526 school year

157as recommended by the superintendent and presented this Daye second okay all those in favor of renewing the third-year probationary license staff uh to be considered contract signifi by saying I I I I all those opposed signify by saying nay motion is passed I move for the renewal of the second year probationary licensed staff to be considered thirdy year probationary for the 2526 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this state all those in favor of renewing this second year probationary license staff to be considered third year uh signify by saying I all those oppos motion is passed your turn around just jump four I move from the renewal of the first year probationary license staff to be considered second year probationary for the 25 26 school year as recommended by the superintendent presented

158the state second who who second David David all those those in favor of renewing the first year probationary license staff uh to be considered second year signified by saying I all those oppose motion is passed I move for the non-renewal of temporary contracts for licensed staff for the 25 24 or 25 26 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented the state second all those in favor of um the non renewal of temporary contracts for licensed staff signify by saying I all right all those opposed motion is passed I have a question on the first is that a 25 to 28 yes because it's a three-year for admin I thought they were one also that is um only for probationary and then they move up like one two and three and until they're contracted

159I move for the renewal of contracts for administrative license Personnel for the 25 2025 2028 school years as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date second and we don't have to do their okay all those in favor of the renewal of contracts for administrative license Personnel signify by saying I I all those opposed motion is passed I move for the renewal of probationary contract for administrative license Personnel to be considered third year probationary status for the 2526 school year as recommended by the superintendent and presented this date second all those in favor of the renewal of probationary contract for administrative license Personnel to be considered thirdy year probationary status signify by saying I I all those opposed motion is passed remve for the renewal of probationary contract for administrative licensed Personnel to be considered

160seconde probationary status for the 25 26 school year as recommended by the superintendent presented the state second all those in favor of renewing the probationary contract for administrative licensed Personnel to be considered second year probationary status signify by saying I I I all those opposed motion is passed okay then we have adopt budget and amend Ed board meeting calendar so we did move up the um last date in June on the um for the typically we combine our regular session and the budget hearing um that to that last Monday in June and we moved that up a couple weeks um because Mr gas will be out of town um and so that seemed to be the best date that kind of worked so in making that change to our budget calendar that also affects our

161budget meeting calendar public meeting so I um would need an official motion on that to change the regular session calendar in addition um to approving the budget committee calendar is there any way we can move these to Tuesdays from Mondays um I think we can look at doing that um for next year I don't know that um do I have to go on we just have to have a we have to have a quorum at least for the budget hearing e went in and change the rest of the year's meetings no just the budget me the budget ones oh that's what we talking you want to go on the 15th well the budget meetings um are all on I think M Monday the 20th because my kid has baseball games on Mondays he doesn't Tuesdays

162and I'm a coach gotcha stuck between I missed two games in the month of of of April and I missed two games potentially two games in May because of the regular meeting and then the budget meeting is there any reason we can't April do you know um I would just uh defer that to Lisa I don't I don't know I don't well if I said I move to approve the budget calendar for 2526 as amended and then if this is good with it we can just make that Amendment and we've already got the motion um let's see she has have for and sounds like why don't you just vote to amend it to to to the uh to Tuesday Tuesdays and then if we have to Circle back as amended to Tuesday keep it clean

163Tuesday yeah as amended to Tuesdays okay what we found is typically the budget meeting goes maybe one or two of those Mondays but we roll right okay I mean I was hoping I yeah and then the final one the 16th is a Monday so we're good there I'll be getting my budget adjusted because my daughter's getting married so you're wri a big check that we did anyone second that motion a second okay okay all those in favor of approving the budget calendar for 2526 um for Tuesdays say I hi all those opposed motion is passed I move to approve the amended change to the budget meeting calendar moving the regular session to 616 2025 so that was board meeting calendar and that would then change to 6117 is that what we would do for the

164June meeting if we're going to change it to Tuesday that's a budget hearing and a does that work better is that for the schol is that that's a regular meeting and the budget meeting well it's a yeah we combine those at the end of the month I mean as long as I'm not missing two like I'll Skip One a month but two a month tough but if if we do do Tuesday that'd be great but 67 Dan that great let's make it Tuesday that'd be awesome did you second it second okay those in favor of approving the amended change um 6 1725 signifi by saying I I those opposed motion is passed okay we have our construction project manager actually we talked about HK so I did put a motion in here um to approve

165that recommendation from the committee at the time that we printed I did not know who that was going to be because um we have to get this out sooner so there is a motion so that was HMK I move to approve the recommendation of HMK to provide project management services for the future Bond construction projects second that was Roy yes all those in favor of approving HMK signify by saying I I I all those oppos motion is passed okay and then purchase of mini bus is that bringing that back around um in your update I think week before last I gave you the pathway to purchase one um we're using the bus replacement fund which part of it the other part of it um we would we would look at uh you know different funds

166to clean that up so and I think we do they do had they do had it's getting late time change they do have one sitting there with our name on it if it's approved then it will be here sooner than later so the the risky run is when people start buying those things later in the year they could be a year away I moved to approve the purchase of one new Mini Bus based on the attached figures funded from both the general fund bus replacement and Equipment purchases second those in favor of approving the purchase of one new Mini Bus signify by saying I I all those oppos motion is passed so you just yeah just okay make it true and then Mike you're going to put look at another one for the next year's

167bud yeah yeah you saw our mileages I went back and you know you're at 9683 1892 not that we would get rid of anything at this point other than we would just put those on the shortest Loops yeah but you'll look at putting that in the budget for next year on this budget okay future agenda items we have executive session negotiation strategy I'm looking to do that in April um so for um the um negotiations with the certified un um we'll be getting that and so um Mr G wanted to go over the strategy for that and um so we just need to figure out an executive session before our regular session and suggesting 6 PM or 6:30 before 7 o' time 6 o' okay we do 6:30 yeah next month yeah I'm not we've

168done those in the past but really what I'm looking forward is we I'll invite weisa did that as well Lis Anderson our finance person so we'll kind of we'll we'll have some some numbers to share with you around and what we're really looking for is magnitude and scope of what we're willing to go as board as you approve that um I don't think it's really fair for you guys to find out on the back end what was negotiated and then have to approve it so I want to kind of have some discussion with you all around um what we're comfortable with particularly knowing um going into construction going you know there are some things that I think we want to make sure that we're making sure we're not making some some moves that aren't that

169aren't going to play well in the future I think there's a lot of examples of working in school districts right now that overshot it um back pedling a little bit Chris and I have had good conversations around you know kind of what expectations are we're kind of thinking on both sides so and then we also have school calendar for next year coming up for future agenda items yep we ran that past our leadership today um one of the things the teachers asked because we we took a lot of input and Chris worked with the the Union on it um we do back up some days um that are kind of make four day weekends and we're a little bit concerned that families will use that as a 4 Day weekend and for get to come

170to parent conferences um so we're going to track the data we decided we would track data in attendance on that um if we do a good job with some of the things we talked about tonight people will be so excited that they'll we go vacations and long weekends on really no it'll be a data point we got it you know before we totally shake the snow glow all right further on the agenda to discuss the meeting of the will school board is now adjourned