001uh Miranda Johnson up to lead us in the flag salute. So, let me sorry, sorry, sorry. I need my little piece of paper here. Okay, it's all to you. Ice flag of America and to the stand one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good job. Good job. Right there. [Music] That's what geniusly does. Oh, I did not not even take it off now for a minute. No, wait. I've already filled it up. Oh, good. Good. We haven't even done anything yet. I like it. Like to welcome all our guests. We have a lot which is very nice. I'm glad. Uh approval of the agenda, any addition or deletions, anything. Any public comments? Amen. Amen. On the consent agenda, uh Mr. Stegman, you refuse yourself from approving the um following vouchers. The
002general fund voucher uh 188179 and 188246. So, I'd like to move to approving the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I second it. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion carries. New business. I'd like to call for a motion to approve the resignation of uh school director Scott McKini. Wait, what do we do if nobody if nobody says anything? I will say something. I make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. But that's not effective. That's doesn't take effect for a month, right? April. April 8th. April 8th. Okay. Yeah, it was in his letter. Um, tonight I'd like to welcome the high school ASB leadership students who will be sharing their report with the board. Good evening. Um, I'm Santi Novar. I am the
003ASC president. uh for our report today. We are I would just like to say that we're starting our Munch Madness uh food drive event. Uh we've currently started it about like a week ago and we've just started getting donations right now from all of our classrooms. I believe someone already brought 30 cans in by themselves. Wow. Freshman. Uh please someone else expenses. Um we are also getting ready to start our uh spread the word and a word week. Uh it's normally just based on uh uh focusing on eliminating the rword from our uh schools. uh we wanted to add on to it and now we're going to call it inclusion week which so now we're not just focusing on the R word we're focusing on all heat speech and like trying to promote not doing
004not spreading any of those words that's what we're doing right now we do still figuring out the activities for him but we do have some dress updates already uh set in motion these are the PJ day on Monday which is a dream big include all. Tuesday is jersey day which is the dream team. Wednesday is wacky Wednesday we are all unique. Thursday is twin day be a buddy not a bully. And Friday is greyhound gear where we all belong and uh that's our uh report. All right. Thank you. Talk talk to me about the food drive. Is it do you donate anything? Is it just canned goods? It's mostly it's mostly canned goods or packaged goods or and deliver them where? Uh normally students bring them to their first period and then on certain days
005we'll collect them because it's like a bracket system where you're going up against another first period class and if you win you move on. So if somebody wanted to donate we would just get a hold of somebody and Yeah. Okay. Maybe I don't want your class to win. And whoever wins gets a breakfast from the ASB. Nice. Clever name, too. Munch madness. That's Yeah. Very nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'd like to welcome the district athletic director, Scott, uh who will be introducing the coaches in the varsity winter sports athletics. Okay. Um, we have several uh teams and activities that earned the academic award through the WIAA. Um, I think we only have our girls basketball team here tonight. Um, so I'll turn it over to them here in a minute, but
006our band, they earned a 3.361 grade point average. Mariachi was 3.45. Boys swim was 07. Cheer was 3.375. and boys basketball was 3.258. All of those earned the distinguished award and then our girls basketball team had a 3.573. They were the highest and they earned the outstanding award. So, good job, Lady. That's great. Yeah. Um just want to take this opportunity to thank the board um for all of your support with our athletic program um and all the different activities you guys allow us to do. We have a lot of things going on at the high school and we really appreciate um all the kids that are involved. We have about 360 a little over 360 kids out right now for spring sport. So we have a really good turnout. I think 150 for track.
007We've never had anything near that. So we have a really good track. Before we go to them, what about um what was Dutch's award? Oh, he won. Uh I at each weight class I just learned this. At each weight class, I guess they pick a uh an outstanding academic uh student for each weight class. We I wish I I don't remember the name after I sent that out. We actually had one of our female wrestlers um that also earned that award as well. So like the highest GPA in that weight class at state. I'm assuming that is what it is, but I don't know exactly. So that was Dutches at 150. I didn't hear about the other one. Yeah. And our girls, they took nine girls over there and they ended up ninth in the
008in the state, which really really good. Great. All right. So I will uh any other questions I'll turn to. Um first off, I just want to thank you guys for your support this season. Um, I know there was a handful of you that were um at our games regularly. Some of you may be getting in trouble by some of the refs and we really we really appreciate that. So, just having there coming all the way, you know, to CELA for our final game of the season was really important to me and I know important to the girls, too. Uh, Dan, you let us into your home. He um we made homemade pizzas. The girls got to watch film and hang out um and just had a really good time. And Chuck, I know you offered.
009I'm sorry we we haven't been there yet, but we do plan on coming over and having some pizzas with you as well. So, thank you for just, you know, opening your homes and coming and supporting the girls. I know it means a lot to them and it means a lot to me as well. Um the girls this season academically obviously did a really good job. I wanted to rub it in in some of the other coaches, but they're not here yet. But they did a really good job. I did um we they knew that if they weren't passing their classes, they'd have to have 7 am study tables with me before school. So, I think that probably helped a little bit um just keeping them on track. They, you know, don't want to come to
010school at 7 a.m. and do that. So, we didn't have I think maybe one week. We had one girl maybe just on probation. Um but other than that, it was amazing not getting, you know, phone calls every week from different teachers. They really just um took care of business in the classroom, which as a first year coach made my job, you know, a lot easier. So, thank you girls. You did a really, really good job. On top of that, they're most of them are leadership students and they do a ton of work in the community. Um, and I give them a lot of extra work in the community as well. So, they're just all very well-rounded, you know, students and athletes. Uh, just to talk about our season a little bit. Um, I threw a
011lot at them. There was a lot thrown at me and a lot thrown at them, and they just totally welcomed me and rolled with it. and we had a really good um successful season on the court and off the court. We had a big focus on like mindset this season. We brought in a mindset coach um that came in and just worked with the girls on their mindset and kind of work with us all season long. Um and I plan on just bringing her in every season to really like grow and build off this. We have a pretty young team. All these girls in here are freshman um sophomores and then angels are our one junior, but they're pretty young. So, I really was excited about just starting and laying that foundation of the importance
012of mindset in our sports. Um, and then for just our games, we um had a winning record. Uh, they they did really well. We had three overtime games. Uh, we did take, you know, some beatings to Ellensburg and Crosser this year, but those two teams went on to play second and fifth in the state and um beat some teams pretty good at the state level as well. So, um I'm just super excited about the future. We had four girls make um an all league team as well. Um which is really impressive. All four girls that were nominated were able to make a team. Uh Leila's actually playing in our all in an all-star game this Friday up in Richland. So um she'll get to kind of South. Sorry, South. You got changed. Oh, okay. So
013she'll be up there, you know, just representing Grand View, which I think is a huge accomplishment. Um and yeah, I'm just really excited for the future and thank you girls for being here and thank you guys for all your support this season. All right. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Next, we're going to move on to Dr. Darling who will give us his uh board report. Y'all don't have to stay. If you don't want to. Yeah. You want to stay? You can. We do some really fun stuff, you know. Thank you for coming, ladies. Sorry, I picked them out. All right. So um last time we chatted we had spoke about the student advisory council organizing an immigrant information uh immigrant immigration information night and it was completely all ran by students all organized by students
014and we had almost 190 people there including participants and such to the point where they they actually ran out of food for the kids that were running it. They had to go buy pizzas to feed them and stuff and so it was a good problem to have. They was such a well attended night. Thanks to Dr. Vera for helping um host that evening and kick everything off. He did a good job representing the district and explaining our policies and procedures right now. Um as as always, we seem to have completely different conversations almost every time we have a coffee with the suit of that. Yeah. And uh and it's actually really interesting because it keeps it lively that we've had new people show up every time. The last time I think we've had almost all
015new people except for Keith's always there the Monday morning. Um Jens is always there for the Monday morning one and then we have a couple um roies for the Tuesday afternoon one as well. But we've been having a good time having some really good conversations and again conversations we probably never would have had um had we not put it out there and so we we appreciate those that are continuing to show up. Um and we also had a real good conversa real good training session at on our monthly Schwin meeting in Granger right before winter break. We had all the superintendents here and we were kind of modeling with them the work they were doing with our principles and now they're trying to replicate that work in all the other districts in our ESD. They're
016trying to really help those principles as superintendents kind of function how we're functioning with ours. And so it was it was a good it was a good affirmation for us that we're doing the right work and it was a good reminder for us different things that we can continue to do better. And then we had our teacher in service day on Friday. So, you probably saw a lot of kiddos around town because there was no school and staff were here busy with all the principles in their buildings. And so, we appreciate the building leadership. Uh, tonight, if you can still make it, it's MC takeover night. I ran down there earlier. Got a couple McChickens. I didn't see anybody. I went through the drive-thru. I should have got through the drive-thru. So, if you go
017go in person, um, spring sports are underway. We already started events on Saturday, I believe. Um the March 18th our superintendent student advisory council will be attending a summit put on by students run by students is soil east valley Davis umish us I'm trying to remember who else is sending students so it's a pretty big event and so it'll be really good for our students to see what's happening with the other districts to share their work they're doing and then March 19th is the 21st century family night at Smith March 19th is also the human trafficking presentation at the middle school and I believe it's the same one that we had last year. Same group that's putting it on March 27th to 28th. Our parent teacher conference is no school and that leads right into
018spring break and that's my superintendent report. I have to say I went to the um coffee with the soup on the the Tuesday evening and uh I have to say I was very impressed with uh uh Dr. darling. Uh people were bringing things up and he he he really knows how to put it. So, so what do you want to do about it? You know, really kind of instead of, you know, let me look into that or, you know, that a lot of people might do, it's so what do you want to do or what what do what do you think we should do? Really kind of help get some information out of them as to their ideas on what they think. And I think that really impresses them that they actually may have may
019that they actually have some say into what may change or may not. I mean, it it may not be possible, but I was impressed with it because there was a lot of different subjects going on. It was it was quite the the evening. In fact, I thought it started at 4, so I was there at just a couple minutes after 4:00 and there was actually a couple people there. So, we ended up talking and they started asking me. I'm like, "Wait a minute. That's why wait a minute. I'm not I well I'm not the guy here. I'm just visiting. So it was but it was very interesting. Um some good conversation. People brought up some stuff about the middle school stuff. But very good talk and it was uh Yeah, I think we need a
020coffee with the president. Yeah, Trump's coming to town. What's the deal here? That'll be 4:30 4:30. So anyway, yeah, it was it was good. if you ever get a chance to go, it's it's it's good to see it and I think they liked it. I don't know, you know, who are you on the on the school board? So, they were Anyway, it was good. I'd like to ask about the Schwin and Granger, what you were mentioning with the conference. What is it that's unique about our district and the way that you all work with our leadership here versus what the other districts are doing? What's got their attention? Well, one thing that we've been doing, we've been partnering with the Center for Educational Excellence out of UDub and they kind of have an instructional leadership
021framework. And so, we sat down with our principles and we figured out like for you to be what does an ideal state look like for you as a principal as an instructional leader, not somebody who's chasing a kiddo, not somebody who's worrying about a budget, but when you are in your sweet spot, what's that look like? And so, they kind of they did a lot of work around what that looks like and said, "Okay, now where are you currently in that state?" Like, what are the steps that you need to take to get there? And then we identify like okay what's your next step and the the key question is what can you do that's independent immediate and without resources. So we don't need to buy you anything. Don't need to provide you anything because
022principles need need to be they need to be supported in their work, but they also need to recognize that I I have it within me to get where I need to go. And then we walk alongside them to say, "Okay, here's how I'm going to help you through this process." But it's on them to really figure out and then and then once we figure out where their ideal state is, what their current state is. Okay, now how is this reflected for you to get from here to here? What are you doing in your schedule each week? or what barriers are we removing that are stopping you from getting there? And so it's very intentional and every so clearly we have five different pathways for five different principles, but they're all hitting the right place. And
023so a it gives us a good understanding of do they really are they really are they going where we want them to go because if they ask something different or one of them's way off in a different completely mountain, they know then we have some good feedback with them. Um, but because we all have the head in the right direction, then we have good conversations and kind of shephering them where they need to go. And so, and so now it's kind of a systematic every time I meet with them and every time we meet on Mondays, we're talking about their specific goals and they're hearing what what where they each of them are in those efforts. And so the principles, the superintendents, the other districts are recognizing that they need to be more intentional in
024supporting their their principles the way we are. We've done a lot of work with Brad's department, with Josie's department on what can we do to remove systems that we have that are causing them more work. And we even did an audit a couple days ago with our cabinet figuring out, okay, what are the reasons why principles call you the most? And they started outlining all these reasons like, okay, is there something you're doing that's causing them to call you for these things? Really been reflective of what can we systematize for them. So they either have the answer or they have the the trust from us to know that they can make the right answer, not have to call for approval or whatnot. And so thanks. Yeah, we have some interesting ahas just from that simple
025conversation about onboarding new employees and what's our process for that and how is it dragging down and what are the ways we can improve that and and transportation like they call me all the time but it's because we they don't know where a student is. We have a late bus. So some of the transportation ones like something's really on fire we got to put. So, but it's also good for us to be able to continually reflective of what are we doing that is pushing out a barrier for them to get up the steps they need to get to. And I challenge them. I was like, look, if you if you can if you can um devote 20% of your week to getting where you need to go, you're going to be an awesome principal. Just
02620%. Like, give us an hour and a half or two hours a day and you're going to be fantastic. And and it seems like well that's not very much but there's a lot of research around if you can be very good at a little bit of stuff you know consistently over the course of time you're gonna make big gains. Well thank you for sharing. Anything else? All right we'll move to Mr. Shre uh talk about some budget sessions uh and dates. Uh, I don't know if it changes anything, Brad, that we're probably going to have a couple new members. So, I think we're definitely going to have to carve out some time for uh some budget session stuff to make sure everybody's on board with that and understands as much as possible. So, I just
027wanted to put some dates out there today so you start putting on your calendar. Um, has not finished yet. And also because we just mentioned about new board members possibly coming on board the the first date I would put down suggest is April 22nd which is the second meeting. Is that right Jean? Is that the second meeting? April 22nd. I can't make that. We expect you to come back. Are we in video? We're not on video. A pen at him. We'll help with the math. Will we have the new board members sworn in by April 22nd? That depends. And if we have on one of the timelines, you will you would do it that day. Yeah. Right into Brad their first. So we'd have to have a board study session with them before they were
028sworn in. No, we would do it after probably. You would probably have to have them sworn in prior to the meeting and then we would have to probably have the session after the meeting. Something like that. I'm out of town on April 8th. Just I know we're trying to time this whole thing. I'm out of town on April 8th. I'm about April 8th. So another that what what if we did the first one on the first uh meeting in May? Is that starting that be? Yes. Is that starting too late? No, I don't believe so. You've been you've been through this a couple of times. We, you know, and if we needed to have one ahead of time, we start talk about enrollment like a 30 minute enrollment discussion and then and then start with
029the rest of them. Whatever works for you. whatever the Well, I think the other thing that we're going to look at doing is when we do our calendar for the year, which we're going to do that this summer, we're going to put these dates in that calendar. Now, we don't have to use them, but I think we'll have it. We'll have a spot for it instead of talking about it now. It's already going to this summer when we do our calendar, we're going to have those already set and we're going to set it if the board agrees. I can't say that. Um, but yeah, I think I think we should set those and then we can also decide, okay, do we need to have one or not? And we but it will be on the
030board. It'll be on the calendar. But anyway, no. Um, if we swore them in on the 22nd, they would be at that meeting and then we would do it the next meeting. That's do it at 5:00 before. If we try to do it after the board meeting, it's going to get us out of here late because there's going to be something come up at that board meeting that it's going to be a long board meeting just because of the way things work and then would be an hour after that. And I mean, we could do that. But no, the first board meeting of the month does not have the um or wait, this would be the second. The 22nd is the second one where we do the policy stuff. So, it does. Yeah, you're want
031to change it to the first one in May. first one in May and then which we don't have our policy review. Yeah, we won't have policy review which helps and then we can do it at 5:00. That's my suggestion. I think we're going to end up having to sacrifice a little bit especially with two new board members that we're going to have to probably do a little bit longer on a few. May 13th. Yes. But the first one. So May 13th. May 13th at 5 p.m. So do we just want to set one now, Brad, or do you want to set a couple? You two because an hour will not be enough. You want to set two right away? you always change it. So, let me ask another question. Do we want to do I
032mean just for sake of trying to onboard them at least with what they need with the beginning um information because budget's going to be important. We talked about doing an onboarding like overview. Um do we want to do two hours and move that meeting to a 7:00 meeting and we'll try to keep that agenda light for that day on which one? The May 13th one. Yeah. So doing a 5 to 7 start our meeting at 7 and we'll keep the agenda light you know that way we can really give them the opportunity to get an understanding of what they will be doing introduce them to everything I and I know we can go through and critique you know the are you thinking of doing the onboarding on the 13th or on the 22nd so we'll
033do the onboarding at five so an hour before we'll do the onboarding okay I was thinking the 13th but we're talking about so the 13th is doing the budget. I we were thinking we can get them in on the 22nd. Okay. So, if we get them in on the 22nd, we could have the onboarding at 5:00 on the 22nd, do the onboarding for the hour before, have our normal meeting, then in two weeks, we would have start at 5, do two hours of budget session, and then do our meeting. Is that what you're thinking? You could also do onboarding on the 15th of April on the off the off Tuesday if you wanted to. So swear them in. It'd be kind of nice to have the onboarding so they you would be explaining a little
034bit of what the meeting was like. You would have a the other way you would actually have a meeting without them having the onboarding. Do we want to have the onboarding before they go to an actual meeting? Let me hand I'm going to hand out a couple of scenarios here. Okay. Yeah. I think it'd be helpful though and for them to have an understanding because remember the first time you got the packet was at home that just take one G. Yes. Take one and pass it down. So I came up with a couple different timelines. The first one is uh we will only advertise tomorrow in the Grand View Herald uh Sunnyside Sun and on our website. We'll be running it on our website. But it says that um we can fill the position after
035suitable public notice. So one of them is advertising two weeks and the other one is advertising one week. Um and the one if you advertise one week I put down that you could possibly onboard April 15th you could have your twohour meeting and then on the April 22nd meeting you would do the oath. Well I see what you're saying. So, we would actually do the onboarding the week before. Yes. And that was um I I saw that in some of Heather's correspondence. So, um and I'm cool with this. If we did the onboarding on the 15th, then we could still have a b a a study or a budget session on the 22nd for an hour and then we could do another one on the 13th for an hour. That would work. You don't don't
036even don't even look at me, Scott. You don't even care. You don't even care. I see it. You're like this. I thought that, but I didn't say that. But anyway, that that would I like that because that I think they should have the onboarding before they come to their first meeting. Hopefully, if it would work out that way. So if we did it on the 15th, we could do the onboarding on the 15th, then do a study session at 5 on the 22nd, do our normal meeting, do another one on the 13th at 5, and do our normal meeting. Okay. I don't know. What do you think? I like that. Yeah, I think that's a good thing. then we won't overwhelm them too much either because it's going to be they're going to have certain
037things they're going to already have to um do with the open board governance training and other materials they'll be looking at and also on the 15th we're not time crunched by saying we got to be done in an hour if it goes longer or if it goes shorter I mean however it goes we don't have anything against us we can be done when we're done so we want to do that at five or at the onboarding. Yeah. I think we just do it at six. I agree. The 15th. For the 15th. The onboarding. Well, if we have a two-hour agenda, do we want to do it at No, no. There's no meeting on that one. Oh. Oh, you're saying your thing is a two-hour agenda. I mean, if it stays as is, we we'll talk
038about that, but we'll want to give ourselves time. I mean, I don't mind doing six to eight, but if we did a 5 to 7 Well, I don't care. I I more worry about you being able to be here by five o'clock if that works for you. I I can be at five o'clock if I have to. So if that works, it also may that could change by whoever we get for applicants if maybe they work till 5:00. Yeah. So we'll leave that open on time. Sure. Okay. So I'll make the motion that we do onboarding for new board members on April 15th. Time to be determined. A budget study session at 5:00 on April the 22nd. in a budget study session at five o'clock on May 13th. I'll second that. All in favor? I
039opposed. Brad, are you okay with that? Yes. At a boy Brad, way to be a team player. This is your thing. Another good thing about having the oath and appointing them on the 22nd. um you have to file for election May 5th through 9th and so they will already be appointed before they have to file. Yeah. Um they'll have to they'll have to file, right? Um position. Let's see. Andrea's pos both of them. Yes. Yeah. I think they have to have to because if they got appointed after that date, right, they wouldn't have to. They would actually stay if nobody else applied until the next tell the next which would be next year. Okay. So, okay. All right. Thank you for the outline, Jean. Thank you. So, throw this one away then get it mixed
040up. Anything else, Brad? Um, just an FYI, there'll be a resolution at your next board meeting. the usual one we do at the end of March which is a possible rip. Okay, the deadline the first of April. I just want to give you that make sense. I wonder it doesn't make sense the way the law is written, but it does make sense why we got to do it. I wonder if we should vote on the April 8th uh special board meeting um to interview Oh, April 8th. Um, April 8th at five o'clock interviews. I make a motion that we have a special meeting of the board on April 8th at 5:00 to interview uh potential board members. Second. All in favor? I both. There you go. Thank you. All right. Okay. Do you have your
041assessment done there, Mr. Are we Are we from the board yet? Oh, you do the assessment first. Never mind. Board assessment, then it's from the board. Okay. You want to get that ready again before we give you guys open mic. Yeah, we might get offkilter. We didn't do that last. So, you know, we didn't do it, right? Yeah, I did. Oh, no, we did. Did you do it? I did do it. Oh, perfect. Good job. It's memorable. Okay. Yeah, we didn't do any policy reviews. You got to skip half of it. Perfect. It was a great absolutely perfect. Thank you for having me do that, Dan. Nice. Fantastic. Well, you'll have one next two weeks, too. get a couple out of you before you're done. So, general meaning behavior was a five. It was good.
042Um I'm not going to read every one of these, but every one of them he gave us a five on it. Um yeah, all good. I like it. Okay, now we go from the board. Um I have a couple things. I went to CTE conference in Sacramento last week with uh Jose and Derek Anderson and Betty Palmer. It was really interesting. One thing I took away from there that they do is they do CTE exercises with kids all the way down to TTK and which is the preschool. And it was really interesting. They actually hire a company to come in and it's as simple as they dump a bunch of Legos on the middle of the floor and they all get down and they give them something to build and just to get them started
043thinking that. I thought that's a great idea and I think Bettyy's going to look and see what we can do here maybe to to mimic that. But I don't think we need to hire a company to do it. We've got my idea was we have a teacher academy at the high school. I would like to see to was try to work both ends on that. Have the teacher academy come up with that and take it down there. Uh they do it one day a year in those classes. I mean we could make it look like anything we wanted it to look like. And then that program builds upon itself from uh preschool all the way up in through uh through grade school to where then it gives them just they go from Legos to building
044blocks to different deals and it just I thought it was something that would be pretty cool to try to mimic here. So uh there was a lot of other good information down there. Uh I'm glad I went to that. Uh, second thing I have is the student advisory committee. I went to that immigration uh, information night. It I thought it was put on very well. They had a couple hiccups with the food, but I told the little gal that ran it, this is just like a wedding. The bride and her mother's beating themselves up because nothing's going right. Nobody else knows. So, you know, it's uh, what was her name, Jose? Carla. Carla. She did such a nice job. Uh, I went and talked to her when I left, shook her hand and told her
045what a nice job she did. She had a great big smile on her face. That was it was the only challenge is I was sitting with Lucy and a couple other gals from the district, Maria. They were translating for me when the lawyers were talking and so the two Hispanic ladies let the white lawyer try to talk Spanish. And even my interpreters needed an interpreter because they didn't want to say it. It was It was kind of funny. So, but very well done. And then the only other thing I have is we had talked about once we got strategic plan done, board governance, uh, policy governance done that we might want to look at student representation on the school board and are we at a point now that we need to start talking about that?
046Maybe try to have that ready for the beginning of next school year. I think you just need to figure out like what would be the purpose and what do you want from them and of them. Okay. From them. The other districts that do it, what how does it look or what does it look like? Um sometimes they'll have them on there to have a voice. Okay. Um they're not they don't often often have them there as a voting member. I would think you couldn't do that. But I can get um someone from Wazda to give us some more information about the different ways that districts use I can reach out to them and find out different ways districts use students on the panel. And then we would need to look at do we want somebody
047out of the student advisory council or do we want somebody separate from that? I mean I I wouldn't mind having a student on here to hear their point of view on things. Does this need to go through like Michelle Swearington when they have elections? Is this something that not necessarily? It was I thought it was I thought it was something that um the student the way that WASDA had explained it because we we went and attended a couple of sessions is that it depends what our selection process is um and it depends on the capacity that they serve. They recommended you know we also have like mentoring and onboarding for them as well. So, I think it's worth um discussing to figure out a timeline of when we want to implement. Yeah. And I would
048also caution that if we're onboarding to new members that we want to focus on that as well. Um so that we bring them on at the right time when we are all acclimated and in and um oriented to our positions too. Um, but I do think it's worth taking a look at it because we set some pretty ambitious goals a few years ago when we attended WASA and we're getting and we're working through them and it may be time here soon to start revisiting that and setting out the timeline. So, I can reach out to WASA and have them share different ways that boards are not only selecting students but also how they're utilizing students. Yeah. Okay. Well, and I think we need to we're going to end up needing to build a policy around
049that as to how it would be set up, how would we run it, how would it what what what do they do? We would need to build that almost first on how we want it to look and then however we decide to bring one on either it's voted nominated the schools the school nominates four or five and then we interview and whatever whatever we decide to do. Maybe that's a good thing for one of our summer sessions that we talk about that, right? How do we want to see about bringing that in and maybe at that point Rob can get some information from the some of these other schools or from Wazdon how they're doing it and then we can look at it and see. Yeah, I just wanted to plant the seed and uh
050I would assume we would run it through the school year. So bring somebody on in the first month of the school year and then they excuse me they would serve until school got out. And the last one I saw on there they actually had a senior and a junior to where the junior would move up to the senior and then bring the other one on to where you would always have one for two years and they could help out the new one that comes on. At least the one that I sat in and looked at was uh they did that. So, they got appointed for a two-year term and then they would bring another one on and that you would have one to help the other one. But anyway, however we want to do it.
051Yes. Um, one other thing from the board, I don't know if this is exactly the time for this, but uh, we're going to have in our next meetings packet, we're going to need to start looking into uh, Dr. Darling's contract. uh him and I have talked a little bit about it and he's coming up with a few things that he would like to look at in it and so I was having him uh draft up some uh potential changes um and then what we'll do is get those out to us and then we'll set up another uh executive or exempt I don't know whichever it is probably exempt exempt uh session at the next meeting for a little bit for us to review some of that and maybe go over it with uh uh Rob
052a little bit if we need to and then we can meet and decide what we want to do. It's going to be a tough time, but I want to try to get it done before Scott leaves if at all possible or as close to it as we can since we're all still here. But that will be in the next packet. Uh maybe not in the packet. You probably send it out alone. I don't think we send So anyway. Yep. So anyway, I just want to let you know that that's coming. So, uh, we'll have that set up in the next meeting to where we can kind of go over it a little bit and see what we want to do. I've got one. I just want to make sure that, uh, for our new possible
053board member. Um, it's a great thing to be a part of. It really is. Um, I've been on the board almost nine years, so um, two superintendent. Um, a lot of change, but it's really great. So, I I'm glad that you you showed interest in it. You you won't regret it. It's fantastic. Does everybody know? I um at the from the board too, a couple of things I wanted to share is one I had the opportunity to attend the Washington State Counselors Association um conference last week u for my work and it was nice to see Graham View represented out there. I know our high school counselors, we didn't have as many because they have another opportunity they're going to and for other reasons, but um it reminded me and I think of our new
054teachers, but I guess just something that I I was wondering about. A lot of uh sessions were focused on mindfulness, um you know, reducing anxiety, mental health, etc. But there was also sessions on engagement and other things. Um, I think about our new teachers and our uh PLC's and our coaches that we have. Do they help new teachers with strategies? Like the energizers when you see that students aren't engaged and with I'm seeing Jose shaking his head yet. Yeah. So, they help them with strategies and how to kind of bring the classroom back into focus and everything. Much after recess, if you walk into like especially at the primaries, you'll see them doing um the wiggles or mind breaks or different meditation type stuff in high school as well. So, I was curious. I started
055thinking about that. I thought with the structures we have, do we help them with those types of classroom management type activities? Because that was very helpful. And um one thing that was brought up in our session was or one of the sessions was that there's a gap between what the counselors learn for reducing like anxiety or for like helping students who they called it they went into the whole attachment theory and everything but like defiant behaviors and such that when they go to the counselors they know how to work with the students and they can kind of start to diffuse it and then send them back to class. But that we were talking in in the small group, not Grammy necessarily, just in general, that there's a break there in the system because we want
056to keep them in the class, right? Rather than pull them out. So, how do we help our teachers in the classroom learn those strategies and techniques? Is there some way that we bridge that here so that they know if a student's struggling with anxiety, this is what works for them to help them cope, for example? Yeah. So it's teaching 101, building relationships, you know, knowing kids name, last name, their stories, connecting with them as they come in, knowing them more than just their identity, their race or culture, their situation. So building a relationship. Yeah. Deescalating skills. Yes. You never want to get in a power struggle with the kid. That's what they talk about. We always say um you're you're the teacher. The minute you call someone else to come in to the classroom, a
057principal, vice principal, or somebody else, you as a teacher, you've lost your power. They're basically saying, "Look, I can't control you guys anymore. So, I need the principal learning." So, teachers, they get that training from the principles. They get in schools. And so, yeah, so they know how to do all those they have those strategies and and and skills. Um, there's a variance obviously between teacher aid to teacher X, right? And so, we try to support our teachers to you're the you're the teacher in the classroom. Build those build those relationships, create that culture of belonging, and you'll get you're going to get further down the road. There's always those one or two kids are going to challenge you and and we talk about through our PBIS and MTSS, you know, what is it? Is
058it attention-seeking behavior, define behavior? What is it? And that's what you try to discern. Um, if you can't handle in the classroom, then you do want to then talk to the counselor, talk to the principal and find natural breaks in the day of instruction where a kid can be pulled out and not miss core instruction or intervention. And so, so that's what we're we have and we're building and getting better at with our MTSS model. Okay. Okay. Uh PBIS, you know, punishment doesn't work. We know that. Research supports that. So, how can we keep the kid engaged, keep them in the classroom and um but also support the teacher and that student. So, giving them coping strategies and ways so that um they can make better decisions in the future. Okay. And we've worked closely
059with our principles, supporting our principles and supported teachers. Yes. So, sometimes you'll see principles getting called to a classroom and they'll show up, they'll say, "I take your class. You take that kiddo." Okay. because it's really easy for a principal to take a kiddo out of a dirty pond, clean them all up and put it back into a dirty pond. So, they have the it is because supporting the teacher and supporting the principal, but sometimes the teachers needs a break to be one-on-one with that kiddo and so we'll support them that way, too. So, there's a lot of there's strategies happening on top and the bottom. Yeah. No, I appreciate that information because like I say, I was listening to the conversations and I know there's a lot of techniques that you can utilize, but
060then with the mental health, you know, challenges and engagement in general, I was wondering at what point do we have that connection? Because to me, it sounded from the counselor's perspective that how do we help our teachers because they send them to us and then we got to send them back and we're just going back and forth, you know, kind of speaking to what you were saying is we want them to stay there. We want them engaged otherwise they may also pick up that that's the routine they can do if they want to you know get escape I guess for a lack of a better word but anyway well thank you for sharing that and then um on the second note the whole learner our I took I took I took our graphics that we
061had for the packet um for our welcoming of our new school district board of directors um I sent it out uh we didn't have a chance to put it on the agenda, but I want to ask if anybody has had the opportunity to review it. Um, if there are any questions or feedback or things that we may still be missing when we onboard this individual or individuals. Now, um, you know, or any feedback in regards to things we may not need on there. Um, thank you to whoever did the artwork. Like I said, they made it easy for me. I think it looks good. I think it's great. I've read it. It's not real wordy. I like that it's but I think it's got enough information in there. It gives new board members a good
062start and that's I think what we're trying to do, right? And I think utilizing it, especially if we're going to utilize it with a couple of uh new board members is we can get some feedback from them and we can also change it as we go and and that'll be a perfect instead of trying to build it and not use it for a year, we're going to hopefully use it right away and build a make changes if we need to. Yeah. So we can So when we do this, we're going to want to have access to computers so things we can utilize. Well, we so we can do it on the screen. I would imagine so because we have the links and if we print it out all the documents one is videos um too,
063but there is a lot of pages on. Yeah, I think if we did it where we had the computers either we do it at the learning center here, one of the two we got a pretty big screen down there. It might be easier to do it down there, but um that way we'll have a computer and be able to just Okay, here's a link and because they're going to need to know that anyway because all of our meetings are based on the links. So this is where you go find them. She was my inspiration. That we have now they are pretty nice. You don't have to search. I like I do like that. But you spoiled them then. And then links if anything doesn't work on links like I was sharing with um Chuck, just
064let me know because on my end it works since I'm the one that has the account. It's on my computer. But if you can't access it, let me know and I can definitely look into it and make sure that the right access is is shared for everybody. Um, Jean, if you could just look at the dates for the required, I'd appreciate it because I tried to capture them in notes and then looked at the websites, but just to make sure we capture it. I didn't go into everything in depth because, as you know, once they start getting into filing and running and all that, that gets really into a whole lot of dates, but I put the link to those dates for this year. Um, and then the other thing then was the onboarding agenda.
065I know we talked about setting dates. We've got that approved. Does the roles and the agenda seem to work? Okay. I have some TPs on there that we'll probably need to figure out before we get there, but does that seem that might acceptable for everybody? It works for me. Works for you. All the TBDs are Dan is what I heard. TB Dan TV Dan. Yeah. Um, then we'll probably have to figure out, I guess, before we get to the agenda who will take on those parts of it. But if that works, then I guess my job is done. Yay. Awesome. Thank you, Heather, for doing that. Okay. Anything else from the board before we move on? So, we're going to move on to an executive session for 10 minutes. No action to follow. So, that's
066nice. Great for coming here. Thank you.