001Good evening everybody. We'll call the meeting to order. I'd like to call up Jay Solarzano from Mrs. Foster's first grade class to lead us in the flag salute. You come right over here. You're going to tell us all what to do. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now you get this and you get your picture like you never had one with me before. Pull that down just a little bit. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you. My grandson Now, if you need to leave, you can leave. That's the one thing about it. Like to welcome everybody tonight. Um any uh additions or deletions to the agenda? No changes? No. Other than the consent?
002No. Any public comment? No. No. No public comment. I hate to do this to everybody, but we have a five minute um executive session that's just the board. So, if you would all please step out there, we're going to have a five minute little deal and then we will have you come back in and we will um do the rest of the meeting. Thank you. Sorry about that. Not you, Josie. God, I hate I feel bad making people leave. The last Yeah. Yeah. We We never have people show up. It's not our fault. Of course, doing it cultivating kindness thing. Cultivating kindness before this, but anyway, just a quick update for you all. So, you'll see there's a revision to the board agenda that I added um this morning. Was it yesterday? God, I don't
003know. Oh, it's What is today? Tuesday. Yeah. So, yeah. So, it would have been today. Um, so Friday afternoon we received Mr. Pena's resignation. Couple of things about that. So we talked about um we were kind of going back and forth with the union. We told them we were going to be uh issuing a notice of termination to Mr. Pena um because we had enough evidence that we believe that he um was guilty of you know violating the policy for boundaries. And so um through discussion with them we allowed his resignation. part couple of reasons why um I don't know you can chime in anytime you want. Okay. Um couple of reasons why. One is that you know when we allow for a resignation there is the definitive um it's definitive that he'll be gone
004from our district. Um if we allow if we press for termination there's a chance that they would well it's probably like almost 100% chance they would grieve the termination and then we would go through the grievance process possibly go to an arbitration. um if we go to arbitration that's pretty costly process for the district. So um you know there's a chance we don't win and there's a chance that we lose and that he's back in the classroom. Um so we believe that that was probably the best approach is to allow the resignation. The other thing is in the past you may have seen where we'll do like a resignation agreement. So, we'll allow somebody to resign with certain circumstances like um they're not eligible for unemployment or um we're going to provide a neutral reference,
005right? We kind of have to give and take. In this case, we don't have a resignation agreement. Um so, basically the doors open for us to be able to provide honest references. So, if we are contacted and he tries to work in another district, we can provide information about what happened and they will have access to his file which has all the paperwork in it too. Yes. and we do provide records um to all schools that he will work at going forward. So um and that's a requirement. So we'll be sending off the uh personnel file whenever whenever we do that. So they'll have seen the discipline history record in the file and then um if they contact us for a reference, which they do u pretty frequently, then we'll be able to provide an
006honest reference. And you know, in the past it's been they're always honest, but they're um maybe limited in information. And in this case, it's not. Um so our I guess our opinion was that we're not paying a bunch of money, A, and B, we're um getting him out of our district, and C we're able to keep him from working in other districts if they contact us and see his his file. So that's um at least the disclosure and let the decision make whatever. Yeah. But at least we can tell them we can tell them what happened. And in some cases, you know, you don't have that that opportunity. And so I think that they probably knew that we had a pretty strong case. We have um it was my first time kind of going back
007and forth with the new WA rep who it used to be Janet Beck and now is Saul Olivea when it comes to a termination. And he, you know, I felt like he was pretty fair uh when it came to this. It was kind of kind of refreshing. And he also saw that we had done our due diligence and following the steps and yeah, taking measures to give every possible opportunity. Yeah, I think she saw it as, you know, a pretty close shut case, I think. And so maybe that's why he didn't push so much cuz that's obviously his job, but for whatever reason, he not once asked for a settlement agreement or a severance or resignation agreement. And I think that's telling um cuz you know 90% of the time they will. Yeah. Well, and
008we know what the other instance experience was with him, you know, over the process. So, exactly. So, that's where we're at right now. So, you'll see that um resignation added. That was kind of sweet, but I wanted to get it on there because I didn't want to let that drag on for a month and then maybe he get wishy-washy, change his mind, decide to, you know, pull it, grieve, whatever. And it's interesting that he's here in the crowd. I Yeah, he's here today. I was fully expecting public comment. I don't have a cultivating kindness by Okay. No, I review all of them and make sure I was just like that'd be ironic because I Yeah. Anyway, no, I review them before I'm part of the committees just in case I need to pull people who
009shouldn't be getting guidance. That sounds that was bad. But that's everything. Any questions? Thank you, Ch. Yeah, that was that five minutes. Yeah, we're right now. Okay, let me go. Let me go grab everybody. Thank you. Thank you guys. Now you're going to leave, aren't you? I mean, you don't want to watch Cultivating Kindness. Pick them. So, I don't Well, there you go. Sorry. Yeah. Bye, Josie. Have a nice evening. Let's see if we lost any. We lost We lost grandkids. Lost grandkids and daughter and son-in-law. Sorry about that. I'm glad you stuck around. Okay, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. Like to call for a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Under new business, resolution 12,
010the policy governance system focusing on student achievement, clear goals, superintendent oversight, and discip uh discipline board operations. Uh anybody have any questions on that? Do you guys all get a chance to look at it? You got any questions? Uh so if we're good with it or nothing, I'd call for a motion to approve that. I'll make a motion to approve approve resolution 12 policy governance. Have a second. I'll second it. All in favor? I posed. Okay. Plan dates for uh budget work sessions. Uh Mr. Shrieve, I think you kind of thought we should have at least one more at least one either the end of uh this. So SPI still doesn't have the software of yet. We need So do you thinking maybe towards the end of June? End of June or then the next
011meeting after that is the end of July or the first one in August. Yeah, because our we'll work on the first one in July. So um anybody have any uh issue with possibly doing the second meeting in June, do a five o'clock 24th. Uh I may not be able to make that. Let me see. June 24th, you're saying? Yes, I know I can make it to the meeting. Um I don't know if I could do a budget session that day that whole week. Um I will be at um a conference in Spokane. The AWSP was annual conference. How about the first or there's only one in July? No, I know. So we probably the 1 of June won't it we probably still won't have information by then. Have the pieces there. I don't have I
012can zoom in if that's what you want to do. Well, how about the 1 of August because we're trying not to tackle it on to July's. Well, July, we only have one meeting in July. The other meeting we're we're going to talk about having our little uh our little study session in that first meeting in July, remember? Because we don't have a board meeting. Could we combine it with that? Good. If that's your Yes. Why don't we combine it with that and have it at five o'clock and then what we could do is um meet at 5 for 45 minutes budget and then we can move into our other stuff. It may go till 8 but I'm not sure any it's not the end of the world. That'll be the 8th. Uh is that the
013second July 8th? Yeah. July 8th. Yes. Yeah, that works. I can do that. Okay. So, we're going to do a five o'clock study session. Well, let's do a let's somebody's gonna have to make a motion on this. We can do a five o'clock study session for an hour. Then later down the thing, we're going to do a training session from say 6 to whenever. I make a motion that we do a budget study session at 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of July. I second it. All in favor? I post. Okay. Motion carries and that will be at the learning center. Yeah. for the study session and the board meeting. Yeah, we'll just do them both down there. There's no board meeting. There's no board meeting. I thought we just said we only do one. We're
014going to do our train our our budget or our our uh a calendar and Okay. So, 22nd will be our meeting. Yeah. Gotcha. And that'll just be a regular one at 6. Thank you. Okay. I think the one got moved to the 29th of July. Look at the calendars. No. Is that right, Jean? Okay. Those are 20 references. Thank you. It's good to know that for me, didn't you? So 22 seconds my birthday. Exactly why we did it, Chuck. Okay, so we have that passed. Good. Thank you. Cultivating kindness. We made it. Amy, it's all yours. This time around there was a new combo nomination. So there's a combo winner and we'll tell you about that in a minute. The very first winner is Daniel Lopez from the Grand View Middle School and you are
015a math teacher there. Correct. Correct. Wonderful. This is what Stephanie S uh I believe she's a community member had said about you. always wanted better for his students, pushed them for continued growth inside school and outside of school, helps build them to be great and responsible members of the community. You deserve the cultivating kindness award. Come on up here. You spent all night trying to figure out who Steph is. I saw your face going, "Who's that?" So, this is yours, Daniel. And this is made from our um CTE students at Brad Burkart's classroom. So they make that by hand. And then perhaps has made a little bag for you. Thank you so Maria. She's Maria is um from our Smith Elementary and she is our 21st century family engagement specialist and you also do you
016assisting counsel too, right? Yes. I swear I didn't know Ria. So I love working with Maria and whenever she needs like an event fire or something, we always coordinate together and she's just wonderful. You were nominated by Megan Case and this is what she had to say. Maria has gone above and beyond helping create an impactful after school program. She's gone done a great job interacting and communicating with families within our program. She has always provided resources and hosts family nights for our 21st century participants. Thank you for cultivating kindness. Maria, this is yours. Thank you so much for cultivating kindness. and just sit around. You'll get a picture. Obviously, this kind of struck us and stood out to us because it was just so endearing. So, we had a double nomination for Miss Wilson
017Maderos. Did I say Madaros? Maduros. Okay. And for Dr. Rob Darling. the two of you you were asked or actually you both were nominated by your one of your SACE students Carla Marquez. Okay, this is what Carla had to say. Throughout the last year, Dr. Garling and Mrs. Wilson took the initiative and started the student voice committee. This is something that has never been done before and it truly makes me so happy to know that our voices are being heard and that we are making an impact in our communities and district. Everyone has been proud of all the things we're doing this past year. However, Dr. Darling D, excuse me, Dr. Darling and Mrs. Wilson are the ones behind everything and without their support, this wouldn't have been possible. They never failed to listen to
018what we want. They never failed to be to not be there for us and they even were there for the smallest or biggest thing. They made our ideas come to life and that is something I will forever appreciate as a student. So thank you Dr. Rarling. So usually we have Dr. Darling sign these. So I think he'll get a kid. We'll take a quick picture. That's what we can take. Thank you so much. We just thought it was so endearing that the students at the time write a copy of that. I'll send it to you. You're doing all right, Jean? Just doing our survey. Oh, Jean's doing our survey tonight. So, Rob happens to be the next part of the session here, so we're gonna have to uh let him get through his little picture.
019I don't know. Can I move on a little bit and talk about something? Jean, can I bounce around a little? Okay. Um, when we get down to the next part about the monitoring, I noticed that we didn't not everybody so we had talked to Trey a little bit about it and he had missed it on his f on wasn't on don't didn't go to his phone so he didn't think to look on his computer. So he was there was one that didn't get on any of them. I noticed we only had four on most and three on one of them. So if you are it's something to look for after the first meeting of the month because we're going to have that's when we the surveys are done. So the right after the first meeting
020about the time you get your signature packet to sign for the meeting should be looking for that to be coming out. So and if you don't get it then please give them a call. Really like to see everybody have the be able to get on there and do that. Okay. Good job. Yeah. Plus I turn the AC on. Good job. Sweet. Okay. So we're gonna go we're going to bounce back to uh Dr. Darlene's uh report. Yes. Alrighty. So, um, so last within the last couple of weeks, we had the Wasa annual banquet. I included pictures of, um, from the Rotary receiving the award. Jerry wasn't able to make it. I guess he had a a work emergency. And, you know, usually that means a fire or something or nobody has power. It was kind
021of bold, but then we had ourh students there. And I thought it was great for our students to be able to represent us and they did really they did a really good job. Plus, they got to bring a parent or a a significant other with them. So, it was a good night. Um, Jose helped me host uh Dr. Deng from the the new dean of arts and science at YBC and he visited the high school. He's comes from um the career technical ed. He worked in the um technical colleges over in Belleview and Reton area for a long time in Lake Washington. And so, he was very interested in like our pathways for students or alternative learning opportunities. And so, he asked a bunch of really good questions. And this kind of piggybacks off the
022conversation we've been having with YBC about how can we offer more college and high school classes from them? How can we use their our campus to host Running Start classes? And so we're looking forward to this, you know, continuing that momentum. It was a good visit. We had our migrant spring event where we had um Dr. Rivera was there to help recognize all of our our migrant students who are receiving their diplomas. And I wasn't able to make it, but I saw the pictures online. It was really well attended. Of course, the ladies in that that office did a fantastic job of decorating. They they go all out for that event. And I wanted to make sure that Brad and his department got a shout out. This isn't on here, but you saw the email
023from the state auditor's office about getting a clean um audit. And for things so scrutinized as using our emergency funds from COVID funding and for them to still come out with the, you know, clean as a whistle, it really says a lot to about Brad and his leadership in in that department. So, thank you, Brad, for such a good job. and upcoming events. Thursday night, we have our balorate at the auditorium. If you want to attend, that'll be the at 7 o'clock. The 2nd in the stadium, we will have the eighth grade recognition. Um, as an FYI, on the 4th at we have the graduation start at 8:00 p.m. So, be um in the gym around 7:30 at the latest. They'll get us lined up. We'll we'll parade down there, go on the stage. Don't
024forget your sunglasses because until about 9:00, the sun is right in your eyes. And everybody will try to figure out why you're squinting in every picture and why your forehead's sweaty. So maybe bring a tissue too because And if you come around towards the stadium side and come in that way, you can get the doors will be open because that's where we come out of. Yeah. So if you come around on that side by the where the stadium is, it's easier, but there's no parking usually there. I know. Yeah. You park in the back. They'll let you in. They if you just tell them who you are, they were stopping them to not let many people back there, but you just go up there and tell them you're a board member and they let you
025come back there. You can pass you can park by the bunny rabbit hutch back there. Yep. Um and then the sixth, believe it or not, last day of school for the class of 2020 2024 25. And then June 10th, u board meeting, June 24th board meeting, July 29th board meeting, August 5th was this is the first time we don't have it same as board meeting. Yes, that's nice. Yeah, we have our national night out, the Westside Park, and then our 12th and 26th board meetings. So, the national night out is a what what time? 6. It starts at 6 to 7. 6 to 7, right? Then we have a a 9m minute board meeting last time. So, we made it So, they have it over here at the park. What we do is we just
026go over and we may wear a school district shirt if you or whatever, but we go over there and mingle and see what's going on. And Rob usually gives a little spiel. and so does the mayor. And um anyway, they have a a uh they'll have the little uh um food wagon over there and they're giving out hot dogs and chips and water and stuff and then the kids will swim in and do a bunch of stuff and all every school has a booth set up answering questions, passing out information. Um Save the Children had a pretty big booth giving away a lot of stuff to extra mile. We have a we have a good showing there. It's a good event. And usually the fire trucks there spraying kids. So, you have any kids that
027you think are stinky or need to be sprayed down, that's the time to do it. And that's my report. Awesome. Okay. So, we're going to move on to the uh board response on our monitoring. Um, we did talk a little bit about this, how we didn't get everybody on here and when to really look for that. and if you have any issues trying to get on is to get a hold of Sabrina and uh she'll confirm that you got it and then if we have to get uh it involved to for some reason you didn't they will um and get you taken care of. So the first one is uh board member uh compensation and uh did I skip that one for some reason? Oh no, that's the first one I'm on. GP1 GP10 okay
028so there's so the first one question one um the one thing I don't understand about this is at least on mine and you guys tell me differently here question one has a um not does not apply or not enough information but I don't see a comment that didn't allow a comment but I'll speak to that one and that particularly because we don't get compensated for our time here. We, you know, how we don't ask for any type of compensation for meetings and so I didn't think it applied to us necessarily. Um, when we go out to our meetings, this is all volunteer and we haven't been paid before. I don't think it applies to us. Would this also apply to when they pay for rooms or meals or would you think it would or no
029pay for that? That's paid directly from me. No, but we I that has been done. Haven't we had some compensation before if somebody had to pay for something themselves? Yeah. Reimbursement or a meal reimbursement? Yeah. I don't know. I I haven't had it done, don't get me wrong, but uh um I think it's there for that reason, but no, I get what you're saying. Um, if that's the case, then yes, I think we I think we are in compliance because I know we have to go by whatever the district's policy was, but I thought it was specific to being paid. Yeah. Oh, I get what you're saying. Yeah. And I know that we've have voted before that. We don't Correct. Right. You said that you weren't able to leave a comment on that. No, I
030wasn't able to comment on that. Should we check it out? Uh, then the next one was uh board members. Oh, well carrying out the response for board members may be reimbured from district funds. Um, that was all in compliance and then board members to have reimbursement out of district travel. I guess that's your out of district travel. Maybe you were a little more right on the first one because I didn't read on down. So, this one does a little bit more on that. So, that that first one may be something we do need to think about. May maybe that question is a little more directed to being compensated because they are addressing the other ones I was talking about in the other questions. So maybe since we don't do that, maybe that we remove that
031or it's something we talked about possibly removing it. Yeah. That portion of it. Yep. Na for right now. Um then we go on down to the other one and we do have another comment on this one, but it was allowed to have a comment. outofstate travel included in the board agenda for approval. Is all the question is is all board member outofstate travel included in the board agenda for approval? I I'm honestly I know we've talked about it at some meetings but do we it is like when I went to the two out ofate deals I went to whoever was the responsible adult on the trip filled the form out and they listed who was going. Okay. Okay. So that was my question because I know we've talked about it like you know check where
032people might be going to the you know um I don't know CTE conference or something like that but I just didn't remember if we formally had it on the agenda. Yeah I think it actually what it said on the last one was uh one school board member traveling along I think is if I remember right. So what is your uh contention on this one with the first one? Uh I think a note on or what do you guys think about this? Let's make a note on the first one that uh we review this policy to see about maybe removing that portion of it or doesn't I don't know how what we want to do with it. I would recommend and offer you know invite your thoughts. I would recommend that we keep it on should
033a board later on that they do want to be compensated for their time. Um that way we don't forget that it's there. But as right now that we are not um being compensated, we can just choose to say that we are it does not apply to us right now. I know I wish this actually had a comment on it because I'd like to have the comment say currently the board is not compensated for their time because that that would answer the question as to why you but it doesn't have that ability. So I mean if we decide that that's what we want to do, I would be happy to make a motion for that. Um, but are there any reservations with that or further discussions? Because I I guess when I read that I didn't
034take it because that is like drawing a salary is what this one I think is talking. I think you can get what is it up to $100 or $50 actually do. They get compensated. Yeah. But we're not $250 a month or whatever it is. But I agree that should stay there. But yeah, it would be nice if we can put a comment doesn't apply. Rob thinks he can add a comment to that. I think if we put that in your motion that whoever brings the motion up on this that we approve these based on the comment that that is on here. Well, actually we could remove that comment the one but question one add comment um as to does not apply at this time. Yeah, that the that the board does not get compensated. Any
035questions or reservations, Amanda or Trey? Okay. Then I will go ahead and make a motion to approve GP10 policy with the amendment to question one. Um that it does not apply at this time with the additional comment that the board currently does is not compensated for attending meetings and the remaining will stay the same. Do you want to leave your comment in there on the one about are they um put on the agenda? We really don't need that one because they are about having their names on the travel request. I mean, if you want me to, I can extend the motion out to remove that. But yeah, or you don't add it. If you if you just say I'm doing it with this one comment, the other one would fall off because remember we make
036the motion to with comments. Okay. And then in addition to to remove the question or comment from question three. Do I have a second? Second that. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. So then we will go to EL1. E1. Well, it's all about you, Mr. Darling. It's all you. What might help with council? Everything. Everything. I think you got pretty good marks on farm tater tots. So, yeah, whatever it takes. Fixing uh trailers, whatever it takes. Super. Okay. This is a district mission one. No, this is expectations of the EL1. E1. E1. Okay. Uh superintendent shall not cause or allow any practice, activities, decisions, conditions. That's first question. Everybody was in compliance. Um second question. Oh, there's only one question. Yeah. So, have a motion on this one. Make a motion to approve EL1.
037I second it. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Okay. So, let's go to ends one the district mission. So, we have uh see here. Do you find um there's really Why is there not a question in the first one? Mine says, "Do you find the superintendent made?" And then that's it. This is the one that had all the data. Um you you have to save those on your own if you want to read what it said. But basically, let's see if I can find But what shouldn't the question be on there though? Well, it makes a statement with the Do you find the superintendent made but made what? That's what mine says. Progress adequate prog. Yeah. Yeah. But a progress at what? I guess that's my question, right? I think it was copy and
038pasted in there. Oh, and then you have uh that's it right there. No, that's No, that's the comment. It's a link, but I don't have it. I think it's just in the survey where it shows um so this district what they presented and how it was just one com it's one question one comment so that that's the comment so everybody see the comment Oh yeah, I was just trying to update the Okay. Does anybody have questions, comments? Um, well, I see Well, I'll speak to the comment. I did have the comment of us feeling that we didn't make reasonable progress based off of the data that was presented. And that comment, you know, is what I had indicated. There were some upward trends of attendance, but overall, our district ascendants does it demonstrate that we've
039made reasonable progress. Um, same thing with ELA, math, etc. based off of the data and then um I again I can't reference the same thing that you were talking about Dan where they had the specifics laid out but I believe it was like to the sense of belonging you know things like that um it was really nice to hear what we heard from the sack and then it referenced that there's a CE and a health youth survey data but the data had not been provided um I will say that since I made these comments I had requested access because I didn't have access to the WEDAS scores. Um that does show that there's some progress made with our multilingual students, but uh again overall our scores I don't see them increasing. So what can you
040uh Jose and Rob speak to that? Was there the information? Did we not provide the correct information to show the the increase or was there no increase? Well, this is this is a I'll just say from the get-go, this is a a monster. I mean, in terms of data, and we're we're measuring on one unit or one measurement, a moment in time where students take a um stressful test, which is a smarter balance assessment. So, on this particular day, how does students feel or you know, how how are they behaving? How are they feeling on day one when they took the ELA test, on the math test, the science test, right? So what what I would like to go move to do moving forward is provide the board with multiple points in time and not
041just the SBA but looking at um our STAR assessment data looking at I ready data and then start looking at common formative assessments at the building level but then the board can triangulate the data looking at math ELA and science. So it's it's going to be a lot of data for you for the board to to digest to look at to analyze. So, um, even when I was putting this together, they were just like, how much data do I really provide the board because I want to overwhelm Yeah. But I also don't want to not give you the what's going on out there. So, did you have multiple things because it sound based on the comments and I read this week two weeks ago and trying to figure out all that was in there. Um,
042because you're basing this your comment is you're basing the data. It was so there must have been more than one uh thing of time because we're not showing improvement against something. Well, the nice thing about it and I will say I am appreciative of this. You know how we've talked about we want an apple to an apple, not an apple to an orange and not you know whatever decided to pull out that day. We could continuously see that this was the same test for the three or four years. I can't remember exactly. Um this was the same test. this is the same standard that we're assessing it by. So for that I appreciated it. It was a lot of data. I did have to do it over a couple of nights because you know obviously
043we have other things too. Um and I don't think there's anything hindering if the board's okay with this with bringing in the other data. The only thing that I would add is ultimately though we are looking at state assessments on how we score because that impacts our funding as well, right? Whether we become a school that is um I can't think of names right now. school improvement. Yeah. Things like that. So, I would also think that we want to also have this fighting data. Yeah. And then the state looks at progress not um hitting the mark if you will. So, even though we're we're not the state wants us to be that that mark, which is like 85%. We're we're still demonstrating upward trajectory, our kids are making progress. Okay. Um, right now every school
044is going to be out of school improvement except one and we're working on that particular building. And so so and and I guess my question is what is reasonable progress and and and Heather, that's kind of a question for you and a question for Jose. Yeah. If we improve a couple of three percentage points, is that reasonable province? Yeah. There's an actual state formula. I don't know off the top of my head. I have no problem if you know it, but the state will based on a three-year average of our SB test. If they see that we're making progress, that's and I can get that for the board. That's what is that's what amatica progress is. That means that they're at a school improvement. Um, and there's three categories. All students, special ed students, and
045our multilingual micro students. So, if we're making if students are moving forward and making progress, they might not be proficient where we want them to be, but they're making progress. Yeah. And what they do instead of taking like from this year three years later, they take this three-year chunk, then this three-year chunk and this three-year chunk. So they show a growth of time as a bigger in a bigger perspective. And so we can and so the state has a formula to show and they code us based on a color like the more blue you are, the more progress you're making. The more orange or red you are, the less progress you're making. So we could show that more clearly next time instead of just those three chunks in time of the SBA. I think it
046would be helpful. The other thing that I think about and I also want to acknowledge this because I think this may have something to add to the conversation. It may not we can't really do a cause and effect but um the research if I do remember does show that when you have a change in superintendence and when you have a change you know like for example if it's um on board or taking on a strategic plan and developing that you know that sometimes there are impacts to student learning or to test scores. I don't know if that has anything to do or if that's been disproven since you know it's been a while but um we have had a transition and we have had co that we're coming off the cusp of it could be
047lending to these things but I think that if we think of it from what we've talked about from the policy governance of this being our first year we have data this is something that could be our baseline and benchmark for us to go on for our dual language I think is going to affect a few things for a few years until we get more of those students into it for periods of time. Um, and then is this the correct time? Sorry. Is this the correct time to do this um assessment or I was going to say that. No, because we're we're in the middle of the state testing. Okay. So, we're getting in Weda scores. Weda scores were just officially released last week. So, I gave you guys last year's, you know, and last year
048we um had some successes with our language learners. This year we made even more progress. But I was able to change too, right? and the guidance from the state that can also help demonstrate that our students are making with wida and language acquisition tests. It's always a moving target. So when would you have the the upto-date data? I think including graduation graduation rates. I think this I think this will be better served in August because make a note of that but because when we do our calendar we can look at moving these around. Yeah, we're in the middle. I mean that the attendance data is the attendance data that's always coming and that's fresh but this that standardized data um a lot of schools are finishing up like at the primary grades finishing up their
049I Ready and start testing around this time so it's really hard to compile all that data at once SBA is still happening data is trickling in right now as we speak so and in August would OSPI have their attendance data because I know that our raw I can't say Rai Rawi I can't Rawi um doesn't always coincide, but I know that OSPI is obviously they they take a little longer. They wait till like October before they release a report card around October. Okay. But for us, and that's why I wanted to give you guys multiple data points so we can look at SBA, which is standardized state assessment and then we have a local assessment that is norm referenced um ready. And then locally or in the buildings, what are they doing? Because again, this
050is one moment in time. It's a it's a very stressful test. a lot of kids will just guess on it. If you guys remember the CAT test back in the day where you just circled things and made patterns or whatever, you know, sometimes kids don't take it as serious and even with our WEDA test um until we can, you know, say that every kid is 100% focused on taking this test, you know, really putting their 100% into it. But right now, we know that they don't. And so this could be a false positive or false negative. So, so just having multiple data points is really what I what I want to put before the board is um you know how's doing on a state level on a local interim assessment and then at the classroom
051level what's the progress how's he moving along or not moving right so just be able to triangulate the data look at multiple data points versus just one moment in time one test and this would be good what we could do is have a data a data study session on the week before this report comes out. That would be nice. So, we can walk through the data, show you all how we're doing compared to a couple years. So, you don't have to try and interpret it on your own. We could help, you know, put it up there and here's the here's what it is and then the following week you do or two weeks later you do this survey and then talk about that data. I like that idea. We could do this at the first
052meeting of the month and then we're going to get the survey. You do it in an hour. Um, probably could. Yeah, it's a lot of data. I mean, it depends on what the board really, but you could send it out uh in the board packets and then at the first meeting of August, we could do a study session at five. Yep. And then do our meeting at six. Uh and and then the two weeks after that, you know what I mean? Then yeah, sorry to interrupt you. I think that's a great idea. And what we could do is we could research exactly like what is the the last possible date we get every piece of data including the grad rates and then the very next board meeting we plan that to be in the study
053session. Yeah. Well maybe at our when we get down to the next part where we do our own little study session uh 1 of July we can make notes of this for our calendar so we can try to build it into our calendar. Yeah. Yeah. this I can see this kind of kind of ballooning out a little bit more but I like the the study session because then you just you look at all your students as as one big category and then you want to look at your sped students how are they doing then you want to look at your gifted students your ICAP students how are they doing your MLS your multilingual learners then your migrant students I mean you can even go down to McKenna students so we can disagregate the data by
054those subcategories I mean the only thing is that we go down rabbit holes right because there's there's so much data so many subgroups we're looking at but again it's What what's the wish of the board? What do you what do you really want to see? What are you more interested or you just want to know how many good in it or not? Or do you want to look at all the subcategories? I personally would say I I would like to see the subcategories only because that lets us know if for example we we're implementing dual language right to the point that we're expecting it's going to help our multilingual students. Bless you. But we also want to show that and demonstrate it. um you know looking at our sub populations um especially with the potential
055changes that may be coming are we still serving their needs because they are unique needs and that's why they're identified as those special populations. So and one one thing we could do also is show you cohort data because sometimes you'll see kindergarten data from this year and then next year's kindergarten data but they're different kiddos and so you're not really comparing apples to apples like you were talking about. What we could so show you is how they did in kinder. Are they making growth in first? Are they making growth in second? So we can see are they making trends as they go through our system. So we can show that data. Yeah, that was one of the nice things about the LITA data that was present like I said and I didn't have it before
056otherwise I would have made the comment but it did show by cohort. Yes. How our students were improving which was nice to see. Y I would really like to see the data data we're talking about is as one thing, but I would like to see something for the the dual language program. So, say at at how did our first group do? Then next year, how are they doing at the second grade or at the first grade level and how were how are the ones and we just track them until they get to where they're out of it and let's see how that went at least with the first or second or third group. I think it would be a good thing to get information. Is this working? It is. We have some preliminary data right
057now that we just looked at last week with our dual language teachers and none of our students are in the red. So now we put students in the red, um, yellow, and then green. All of our students are where they need to be on their reading and on their math assessments that we just gave her star. So that was really encouraging. Yeah. So seeing that and then seeing how they do the next year and the next year, I think that'd be great. That almost be a separate little Okay. How is the dual language program and once they start taking the state assessment, they are they are flagged in the state assessment um portal. the state's tracking them separately as well. They're tracking these are the dual language students taking the English assessments. So they're they're
058also taking that. So you go on our website and once we have enough students in that system, you'll be able to start clicking on the report card from the state and it shows dual language and it goes in there data too. So for our scheduling meeting could because I don't know I had a copy of it that tells us what months we're doing what uh policies that we're reviewing them. So maybe this is going to be a big policy to review. Make sure August isn't full. We don't have a whole bunch of them. Maybe September's a better month to do it. And maybe we need to move a couple out of August. Just have our calendar from last year and it'll have all that in it. Maybe just move things around. Would want to hear
059more around like grad rates. I mean those we have two of them. One is what the high school um publishes and then what the state publishes and they're on the four-year core grad rate. So students who enter as freshman, ninth graders, how many do graduate as 12th graders, not kids coming in or kids leaving? Because there's there's two graduates. So we can look at both of those. The other thing that we want to do, which part of our strategic plan is looking at our industry recognized certifications. That's something that um Stephanie and um Miss Palmer are working towards. We just don't have all that data yet. Um and also want to look at how many students are going off to college, two-year, fouryear, military. um trade school and or to the workers and also I
060think it's good for us to know how many are dropped out or pushed out. I think that's important for us to as a board to discuss and talk about. I agree with you but I think we monitor that in another we monitor that in another governance policy because I know we had talked about the graduation rates the CTE rates and what was it that we were trying to you know gather from that data. Um so I think that place is very specific to gradu the plan of graduating what is it 90% of our students or something like that um or the strategic plan. Yes. So I think that probably could stay there. Um and go going back to this I actually found in our policy governance expectations is that we have um let's see unethical
061unsafe disrespectful imprudent unfair inequitable disruptive etc. Um I think this is the part where if I remembered when the summary was um added the sense of blocking I don't want to forget about the CE survey that ask students how they feel you know when they come to school and things like that and uh they use health survey too. Yeah. [Music] Awesome. Okay. So what do we want to do on this uh policy? Um Do we does the board feel good with um proceeding on with making a motion that as is right now that um we are not demonstrating adequate progress and it'll be revisited in August with additional data available. So we would not we would probably need to make a motion to table this one until then and not make a motion that on
062its approval or not. Okay. I would that I that's what I would think because I think you either need to say it's one of the three. You've you've uh reasonable progress reasonable progress with exceptions or did not make reasonable progress. If we need more information, usually we table it until we can we're asking for more information and revisit it. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. table until August or at whatever month we decide in our scheduling if we're going to do it. Do we need a motion for that? Yes. Yeah, we would need to we need a motion uh to table this one until a later date uh scheduled. I'll make a motion that we table uh policy ends one uh to be rescheduled at our uh July 8th meeting. We second it. All in favor?
063I opposed. Motion carries. Okay, it's the end of those. Had some great conversation there. Jean, last one. You will not be sued. Huh? Okay. Board assessment of the meeting. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Is it all smiley faces? Oh, we have some crossouts. Went out the bang. Read it. We usually do. We do. Usually do. I have to say. and and I'm glad it's it it needs to be as honest as you get. So, we had uh and this this one isn't very open because I couldn't tell you who it is to be honest with you. But um we had all goods uh we had one part uh participation was balanced, all participated, no one dominated. I think uh I think the more we get uh into this the more people will
064will get involved. Um board action occur at the policy level rather than at the operational level. The board reviewed policies about their topic before discussing that issue. In writing additional policies, the board starts with a a broad statement. That's an NA because we didn't do any of that. uh minimize time spent monitoring past performance. Yeah. Board routine de uh dedicated time to reviewing uh improving its own pro uh process. The board supports the superintendent any reasonable interpretation of its policies. Great meeting with a smiley face. Just one smile face. I should have had you sign your name because we're going to put this in our file. Go down. Last board action. Yeah, I had to get her on something. I couldn't have her do the pledge of allegiance. I'd kick my grandkid out of there
065for that. I'd have got in trouble over that. So, from the board, um I would like to uh make a uh well, first I'd like to have a discussion uh about having a scheduling meeting the um first uh Tuesday of July. It's we don't have a meeting, but we do have a budget session that night at 6 or at 5. I mean, I would like to have a scheduling um training session for the board uh from 6 to say 8 um and have dinner provided that the eth. So, we'll basically be going 5 to 8. Yep. Um, I can make a motion on that if you wish. Yep. Or if there's any more discussion on it. Anybody have a problem with that meeting? Um, so I make a motion that we have a scheduling um
066study session for the board at the uh learning center on July 8th starting at 6 and running till around 8 or so. I second it. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Um we will get um look for and I I have to ask this very nicely if Sabrina would do it. Um we'll do dinner and maybe uh we'll figure out where to have dinner and we'll be able to get uh uh send out a little menu they can choose from. Um okay. Anything else from the board? Do you need to know how many of us are going to be at like eighth grade ded recognition and graduation or does that matter? Does that matter? Okay. So like graduation or anything we don't need to do anything that we're all there discussing? Nope. We're not
067supposed to call. I will be at Baloria. I will be at eighth grade recognition and I will be at graduation. About me too. You'll be at eighth grade also. Okay, James. So, um James said he has something for you to do. I think you leave the pledge. I I did lead it last. Well, actually I had one of the sped students come out and do it last year. Yes. So, um but they do like to know if you are coming because they do put seats up there for us and we do Are you guys all planning on being a Graduation, I believe. So, let me check the other stuff right now. Yeah, this this Thursday is back, right? Graduation. It feels so early. I know. It's like it just came around. Um, we do hand
068out diplomas, just so you know. You can take turns. We hand them out on both sides. Are they doing it both sides again? So, it is uh June 2nd. It's eighth grade recognition and the graduation is fourth. And what time is 8th grade? May not be able to go to the eighth grade recognition. It looks like I'm supposed to be in college place that night. Okay. Because they do put seats up. So if you are going to be there, at least let Rob or Sabrina know because they'll put seats up there for us to sit. If something changes, I'll I'll text you guys so that you have that. Yeah. Eighth grade recognition is 7 p.m. at that stadium. And then Wednesday's graduation. I have that. And it doesn't quite got anything else. I could say
069and uh um Baloras Thursday and I think that was it, isn't it? Yeah. Balorates in the auditorium. Yeah. And there won't be much for anybody to do. No, we just sit there last night. Yeah. We sat in the crowd. Yeah. So, it was nice. We talked to a lot of the kids and stuff. Yeah. What's that? What time is that? That's at seven also, is it not? Yeah. 7 o'clock in the auditorium. Um, anything else happened from the I think I'm think okay trying to think what I if I did anything from the board. Oh, I did go up. Was that since then? I did go up to the recognition thing that Rob was talking about where the students got awards and the um Rotary Club got one. We had the most people there of
070anything. In fact, Rob got a little jab from his uh ex uh boss for uh having students involved and had to make a snard little comment. Yeah, he didn't have anybody there. So, so Shelby kind of made a made a comment about that which is pretty funny. But uh we had a lot of students. Uh I was impressed and uh had two tables pretty much full and uh it was a nice little turnout. Yeah. So that's not something I do a really good job of the recognition component of it. So, I'm glad that we can recognize people who have opportunities. Well, it was nice to see the students involved. It was nice to see Rotary involved too and everything because they've been very supportive that Rotary does. It really surprised me the lack of some
071awards that some of the town some of the towns weren't some of the school districts weren't there at all. Yeah. I mean, they didn't do anything. Yeah. And uh some of them only did a community or some of them only did a student. It just kind of surprised me a little bit that you had this opportunity to thank a lot of people that do things in your community that they don't take advantage of that and and yeah, they had people come from Bickleton, from Royal. So, some of them travel quite a ways to be there. Oh, yeah. They hammered on the Royal guy, too, because he had to talk about football. So, the the superintendent from uh Yakma had to say, "Oh, I bet you 50 bucks. He'd talk about football. You owe me 50
072bucks." So, that was pretty funny. So, anyway, I did go to that and that was that was really cool. I'm glad I went. Um, anything else from the board? Okay, we'll go down to the FYIs. I did look over this a little bit. I do have one question on the enrollment, Brad. Um, or maybe it was on the the budget status, I guess, if I'm going to jump to that. We budgeted we'd kind of been dropping in enrollment, but yet we budgeted more this year than we did la than we than we did last year. That kind of surprised me a little bit. Maybe a cola cost expenditures are going up even though the enrollment's going down. Yes, expenditures expenditures still go up cost. Yeah, people are losing kids are spending more money. No, that's
073true. But we had budgeted third uh 3364 I think something like that. But was looking at that it was actually more than the year be we budgeted more or at least what was on here what I was looking at maybe I'm all screwed up pretty sure it was under budgeted okay so on the budget status not cash flow no on the budget what we budgeted based on number of students just the the number of students enrollment enrollment enrollment report yeah I'm sorry um yeah so we budgeted 3364 students am I on the right page yeah I believe so I'm not on the right page so and then the average so far 3 364 right now we're at 3364.53 so we're 0.53 above budget we're more than likely going to be below that after June's enrollment
074but going June June usually goes down and brings that average down every Yeah, I saw that. Uh but we did and the um and we dropped the budget by 161. Not on here. It's on. It's just I guess what got me was we budgeted the year before 2324 we budgeted for uh um 3349 and then this last year we budgeted for 3364 but our trend had been going down. That was the only thing that kind of caught me a little bit. But we hit it pretty close, didn't we? No, no, I totally agree. But usually you're you're budgeting 10 or 12 low. You usually or close to it. Yeah. So that yes last year was 3349 but we were 77 students above that yes at 3426 and so when we went last year's number actually
075was 3426 and budgeted 3364 so we're still what is that 36 and 24 um 60 students less yes than what what actually showed up last year. So we we kept up with that that decline. It seems like more. So anyway, it's just it's it's been steady all the way from 18. Steadily going down. It has. So I've not I noticed that anyway. Um I don't think that's unique to us though. I don't think it is either. Cash flow looks fine to me. Budget status. Um anything on the policy 2110? Yes. Thank you for the heads up, but we don't have to approve anything with that policy. Awesome. Okay. Next meeting will be June um 10th. Uh we will wait for June 10th. We will not have a budget session. So it will just be at
0766 and it will be here. Anything else? Okay. We'll call the meeting adjourned. Good deal.