001okay 6 o' if you could all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I Ali to the flag the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible and justice for all lost my pen okay has everybody had a chance to peruse the agenda a motion to approve this evening's agenda I'll second it okay with that uh all in favor I I I and we have an agenda next item is superintendent report Mr Jesse great thanks board president wander good evening School Board State uh student Representatives staff community members parents and Guardians and our other students over here to perform um I will start uh this evening uh talking about Shelton promise if you haven't heard uh we have a an agreement with Evergreen State so for any of our graduates
002this year so so any of the three high schools if you are if you are graduating um here as part of the Shelton School District this school year and next year you can have free tuition if you're accepted in Evergreen State so again free tuition plus a reduced cost in a free application and they will assist you in your application as well we have a lot of information on Shelton promise right on the front page of our website Shelton schools.org or you can always stick around I'm sure if either I can answer a question for you or a couple other staff members that I have here in the crowd can absolutely point you in the right direction about um Shelton promise so uh lots of excitement we have a number of students being accepted and
003um are going to attend Evergreen State so I think it's a really good unique opportunity here for the Shelton School District our community and most certainly our students and their families to be able to attend a your school for free tuition so I just want to do my plug uh tonight's one of those nights uh is a combination of a number of things uh that folks who are attending today get to see uh one I will start off uh is around our strategic plan we have four priority areas high quality literacy College and Career Readiness effective teachers and leaders and safe and welcoming environments the reason why tonight is a really um unique night for that is because we are going to hear from a number of our staff about all of their work around
004literacy if you didn't know all over the last three years we've gone from 20% of our third graders meeting standard in ela reading and writing to now 43% that's an incredible rise other like school districts do not have those same kind of performance numbers they're usually in the low 30% so again our third graders are outperforming other like districts here in Washington state in ela um and it's due to our teachers and the other part is effective uh teachers and leaders a number of our our teachers receive effective professional development when I came to this district one of the things I heard loud and clear was please provide me with some quality professional development and make sure that it's got some continuity to it meaning year to year and not just something new every year
005we also provide coaching uh for for our novice teachers so teachers in their first couple years and a number of them are also here to present this evening and specifically in the area of literacy so I just really um feel very proud to have an opportunity to hear their voice and their experiences with their students so many of you uh who are either listening on uh in the crowd or on TV know that these are some of your students teachers and you should feel very proud to have them educating your child I know I do feel very proud as a superintendent and we have obj's band and uh really excited and uh some people don't make connections to things but we've had a 70% decrease in suspensions and the reason is is because we not
006only are really working to engage our students but we also are providing high quality literacy and high quality instruction to bring them in into the old help teach them pro-social skills and then awesome engagement and enrichment just like the band that you have here these students have worked really hard they're proud to attend obj and um they also have some not completely uh some new instruments here and we have a lot of new instruments for the high school band it's one of the Investments the district has made uh over this last couple years is new uh band equipment so instruments for our students so we get to hear them tonight and I can't wait so with that I just want to say thank you so much for having a huge crowd here this evening lots
007of great things going on for the Shelton School District lots of things we're proud and most certainly we get to hear the students from obj so with that thank you so much thank you um with that uh the reason I'm here tonight uh the band OB G let's go I'd like to introduce Nick Sanders our band teacher at Oakland Bay I'm Maryann Marshall I'm the principal at Oakland Bay and I'm excited tonight for our students to be able to perform for everyone all right good evening uh my name is Nick Sanders I'm the band director at Oakland Bay junior high and this is our Advanced band and we're gonna be performing two pieces for you tonight uh the Correll from Jupiter uh from Gustav Hol uh the planets as well as fantasy and an Irish
008clogging tune arranged by John Kenyan thank you for being here [Applause] [Music] to [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] the [Applause] [Music] the la [Music] oh la [Music] [Applause] hey before you guys all slink off um um that was outstanding uh thank you very much um yeah brought back a lot of dragging my clarinet around memories so thank you very much [Applause] okay on to the next item Community comments as part of the regular school board meeting P the board welcomes community members to make public comments in person and or by phone as conditions allow see the please see the full script with the call-in instructions and guidelines for Community comments displayed on the screen above first up will be Amy Wagner no okay thank you and the next one is shalisa
009I can't read it Smith hi am I supposed to say my address no just your name because I know I butchered it all right it's Chalisa my name is Chalisa hi thank you I first want to acknowledge um the difficulty in managing a school district during lean times um and say thank you for taking the time to participate in your community by being on the school board and I really appreciate what you're doing so thank you um I know that my focus of my communication tonight is already on your minds which is the ly vote that is coming up um how do we communicate to the community that a yes vote is what is best for our community um I believe that some of the tactics that we've used in the past to persuade people
010might be um useful but I'm wondering if maybe we might need to imagine some new possibilities um I'd like to um maybe giving a place for our community members and our Schoolboard members to meet together with less than 12 months we have time to communicate and persuade our voters but I don't think there is time for delay in my classroom I have a mindset and a teaching practice of gentle urgency this is a there's a deadline coming up and for me it's the end of a unit assessment and I'm keeping the pressure on my students to do something gently so I'm wondering if we can consider this in our Livy vote and how might we imagine having our board and community members do something together together in an effort to get to a goal um
011which is past the levy my concern currently is that we don't have the community support for a variety of reasons and I'm not convinced the message of vote Yes for kids is the persuasive tool we need in this moment despite its truth I wonder if a good place to start might be a monthly Community um round table or a forum I don't know that it's the right answer but just like in my class sometimes I try things because I need to try and um get my students to think and sometimes it's a great success at getting my students to talk but it isn't successful at generating the critical thinking that I was hoping for right now I think we need a place for our community members to feel hurt and around table could possibly be
012a place for that and from there we might even find more possibilities that may gently urge our community toward the goal of needed continued public education support though I'm asking for consideration and action from the board I also urge our community members to consider the consequences of our community of a no vote on the upcoming Levy and get involved in conversations that help build a stronger Community for all of us thank you thank you okay uh next we'll move on to uh reports and recognition uh 6.01 report from the student board representatives and we'll go ahead and just start with Abigail Hurst Shelton High School spring Sports have started back up again boys B baseball has their first home game this Wednesday boys soccer first home game is this Friday girls golf golf is against
013Aberdine this Wednesday dance team is attending districts on Saturday track has their first home meet Wednesday the 26 tennis is away at Kelo High School this Saturday and softball's first game is this Wednesday in their first home game will be on the Friday the 21st against riveridge this week one of our students Yenni Mendoza Pablo was recognized as Washington State's High School athlete of the week this week is currently finals in wrapping up second trimester moving into third trimester we will start using our digital Hass system this H pass system will that our ASP purchased will be used by all students around campus available to them by Chromebook currently staff staff and admin are training and we are working close closely between leadership and admin to make this a success one of our FCCLA members
014was elected at as the region State one vice president this is the first time in years that there's been a region one state officer April 7th through 11th is spring break our Ann annual button robe ceremony will be held in the sub building on May 16th at 6 p.m. and our broadcasting crew was invited to the second year to work with WIA boys and girls State basketball finals the trip was 3 days long and our students did amazing our leadership class is putting on a talent show the talent show is work is on March 28th in the Performing Arts Center and we are currently hoping hosting open auditions during first lunch thank you alen Ramirez from Cedar yeah I've got quite a bit of stuff to uh talk about Cedar now so we've had a
015large amount of our seniors that have actually already applied for and have been approved to go to Evergreen through the uh Shelton promise I think last I checked it was about 11 or 17 of our seniors so a pretty decent majority about 56% of them have been accepted into into Evergreen thanks to the Shelton promise since we are nearing the end of our trimester a lot of our staff teachers are helping uh are helping students get their grades up for the end of the trimester they've had a lot of fun with that especially the seniors they're uh they're really going they're really working hard now to try to get their grades up for their final year um we also uh this Thursday we're going to have our seniors present their high school and Beyond plans
016which is always super exciting because some of them you should see the presentations that they make they make entire you could almost call them mini movies about how they're going to be after high school we also have our counselor Susie she continues to provide us with great opportunities keeps on giving us information in our I think it's weekly newsletters keep been giving us really good information telling us to go to a uh work on our FAFSA waa all of that we are ALS we have also received news that un fortunately next year we won't be having a principal anymore Amber Hosford we understand that this is due to budgetary restrictions that the district is facing I think we can all agree that it is a rough time for everybody students staff parents community members everyone
017is going through tough times right now but there's already been talk at our school about how the about how the sort of upper classmen being Juniors and seniors we'll work together very closely with staff to to maintain Cedar's culture and keep it how it is and we are going to we are going to be working very hard to have the olders the older students in our school be the ones to teach the uh freshman and sophomores how Cedar is what it is what it's all about and we are not going to slow down in our community projects but rather we're going to continue to make bigger and bigger Community projects going forward that's impressive I I love the fact that you guys have found an adopted a culture to the point that you're going to
018take this on yourself so good job uh Kaylee Allen um there's this District program commonly known as Pathways and our choice we have this and it's for students with I APS um aged between 18 to 22 and and there are they are continuing to work on their independent um living skills for their transitional uh plans Pathways is a community based and um vocationally focused uh program where the goals for the students is to leave for with with a paying job and to make connections through adult agencies which will step in once they graduate um most recently three students from the pathways program were on the Special Olympics team and just one first place at the champion Tour Tournament in manci uh this team was coached by one of our teachers uh Brendan Adams uh the
019open doors program has been working with DVR and Morningside to bring weekly workshops to eligible students with for de Developmental employability and interpersonal skills they've also been working with a work source and have several students attending the young adult hiring event this Friday uh the main open the main mean the main focus of the open doors program has and financial literacy and um and uh planning for the future sorry uh the program sets goals for credits and they have hit their credit goal for first trimester and some for their second as well uh open doors was recently featured in the Cascade PPS publication for its work with the Senate Bill 507 for barrier reduction and funding for chronic absenteeism and treny um the Middle School um um the choice Middle School just went on a
020field trip today actually to the United States uh Geological Survey they explored the geological formation of at the mman mountains down in near uh Tano uh next we have our spirit week coming up which features a variety of themes such as uh anything but a backpack day 80s day and of course pajama a day uh all set up by our wonderful ASB members uh to add to that we have planned a movie reward for students uh uh meeting a a a b average and above uh and lastly it's also staff appreciation week and our contribution to that event was we had a poster which was made by a few of our middle school students and from there we had it passed around the school and we had uh students chime in you know leave little
021heartfelt messages or just sign it to show how grateful we are for our staff and all they do thank you uh moving on to 6.02 recognition of classified staff with Tabitha Whiting can you hear me okay there it is good evening school board that was a great segue into um my presentation here this evening I feel very privileged and honored to have an opportunity to come back again this year and just talk about um our amazing classified staff that we have um as I was thinking about what I wanted to talk about I started thinking about some of the amazing things that I've witnessed our classified staff doing over the many years that I've worked in education um and I had a hard time actually pairing it down because the list could go on and
022on I think that um a lot of times our classified staff are in the background they don't interface with our families nearly as much as some of our administrators and certificated staff do so it's easy to forget all of the amazing things that they do that really impact our students and um honestly we couldn't operate a school district without them um there's more of them than there are certificated staff and they're behind the scenes making sure that everything is running correctly so I just wanted to take a couple minutes and just talk about um some of the great things that I've witnessed classified staff during over the years just to um provide some insight into how impactful they are to our school district I've had a bus driver share a story with me about a
023student who after graduation came back and uh told that bus driver that they were the reason that they finished their school day every day because they were the only person in their life that at the end of the day asked them how their day was I've seen mechanics drive out in sideways rain to fix buses that were broke down on the side of the road so that students were able to get home safely that night I've watched a custodian who went out of their way every day to say hi to a student who ate lunch Alone um and while I don't have a personal story from that student I can't imagine how impactful that was for that kid I've watched facility workers and maintenance workers work um late hours into to the night to ensure
024that lights are working in a Performing Art Center though so that the next day students could perform as scheduled I've watched a food service worker uh jump through all the hoops and read all the legalities to create a sharing bin to make sure that kids who wanted more food had an opportunity to have it um in a safe and compliant way we have an Office Professional here who is so passionate about yearbooks at the elementary level that she's actually um taking that on herself to bring that back to the elementary school so that the kids can have a yearbook at the end of every year in their Elementary years um our par educators are massive and they do so many things for us um but I've seen actual numbers of student attendance increase um in
025a specific spefic classroom that this Paris served in on the days that she was there because of the relationship she had with the kids in that classroom I've received many middle of the night calls from Tech staff letting me know that something was going on something was broken um and that they were on it and that they were going to fix it to make sure that when students and staff showed up in the morning they were ready to go I've witnessed campus security RAC into situations to help students that most people would race away from I've watched our uh I've watched an LPN actually save a student's life after they ate something that they were allergic to and I watch our own staff in the central office that I get to work side by side
026every day um making sure that everybody is paid that everyone has their benefits and really the hours that they put in in August and September to make sure that school is ready and that everybody gets a paycheck is quite amazing like I said I could go on and on um the giving more examples of the amazing things all of our classified staff do um and they really do ensure that our students um come to school every day in a warm and welcoming environment and make sure that um all of our operations continue so thank you to all of our classified staff we couldn't do it without you thank [Applause] you okay 6.03 reported on highly capable Services Adrien miny got it not this one the highly capable thank you good evening board president wander and
027other board members I promise we will present on that in a minute but first we're going to present on highly capable services thank you whoops coordinating our Tech here there we go so every year um in accordance with our board policy and state law we do open a referral uh window for highly capable uh services this year it was open we tried to open it a little bit earlier this year from October 18th up until winter break and we notified staff and families via multiple methods so email take-home letters uh backpack mail robocall our district website and our social media outlets in addition we do screening Universal screening for all second graders and fifth graders so that was new last year that happened across Washington State so with the referral process students that were ident
028identified through the screening process so at second grade they took a shortened version of coat and then we do a screening of all data available for our fifth graders and those students who were referred by family members community members and in one case um in some cases actually students themselves or even they can refer themselves um they ended up taking the coat uh about a month ago and then we I was informed just got the results back so our multidisciplinary team will be meeting um within the next month and we'll re be reviewing that data as well as multiple data points to make those decisions so we do attempt to use multiple objective criteria the um breth of assessment data that we have the referral information from families and from teachers and um looking back
029at past performance as well so services that we provide for identified students include differentiation project-based learning we cluster classroom placements and then we offer Advanced coursework once the students start to hit secondary school so as you can see I'm proud to report that through some um increases I think in both communication and coordination with our feeder schools to make sure that we have continuity of service we have been able to increase numbers of students identified each year so in this school year at this time we have 101 students identified and that's before we open up before our multi-disciplinary team meets to identify students and again you can see here outlined but delineated by grade level more about um how those Services play out in our K8 versus our three high schools so we do offer
030the differentiated instruction along with our small group instruction in M they offer something called Academy time and so they the all of the teachers work together to provide that small group instruction during that time and then we provide uh start to provide more advanced cours work in grades seven and eight which then bridges into our high schools with our preap and AP coursework college in the classroom running start and stamp testing I put in there it's an it's a great opportunity for kids to earn credit for their language proficiencies we do offer professional learning and support to our Educators so that they're able to provide um Services continue to provide services and grow as uh Professionals in this area so in K4 we offered um High cap uh modules for asynchronous work to all of
031our elementary Educators as well as provided guidance uh new guidance this year for small group instruction um we provided additional professional learning in uh our approach with our Academy model was really focused on a breadth of learning around word study from uh real foundational work all the way up through High School level learning in that area and then additional AP training for teachers who are teaching that those courses and with that I will open it up to questions from the board thank you that's that's exciting I wonder if you have any data on um trajectory so graduate graduation rates um for high cap and those kind of things engagement do you have any data on that at all I do so within I don't have it readily available for me but I can send it
032to you but what I I just don't want to misreport numbers but within our data management system which is called Home Room we have a special um platform built out for me to monitor how our students are doing at every grade level so I can monitor attendance monitor coursework at the at the high school level monitor um on course to graduate and so forth um and typically our students are doing quite well who have been identified for service I can say that is a trend does anybody have any other questions I I don't have any questions I'm just super impressed and and pleased that the the numbers keep going up and and uh good job everybody involved in this holy smokes it's great thank you I think I'll just stay for the next presentation okay
0336.04 uh repeat on uh report on the Strategic plan priority number one high quality liter literacy instruction you can kind of stand so as you can see I'm so pleased to be able to welcome teachers from all three of our elementary schools as uh who are here to help present and also here to help support it means a lot so thank you very much so we are providing um a report on high on the first priority area in our strategic plan high quality literacy instruction and specifically around the area of word study we had some new work in this area this year so I will share some of that and then I'm going to hand it over to our teacher representatives to be able to share their perspective on implementation this year so you can
034see here which what we we called we started this last year project word study team and task you can see quite a few of us in this photo with our matching t-shirts and what we realized is we have been working on implementing a comprehensive approach to literacy instru ction and an very important area within that especially at the elementary level is the foundational skills that students are learning so the really the how to read part and so we have an adopted curriculum but within that adopted curriculum there were about six manuals that teachers needed to flip through to find the materials that they needed to do they needed to use in order to teach in this area and it it was Pro proving difficult and so it ended up being a lot of variance in
035how it was being applied so our team of experts who you can see in this photo came together and I'll read their names quickly so Julie Roberts Kristen Barkman and Katie bremmy at bordeau Kelly Manchester Nancy ell and BB Heraldo at Evergreen Tiffany skogstad Jackie rhods Janet dagel Jerry deero Who's now retired but still subs for us and Michelle Waters at Mountain View and at the central office Christine Chamberlain Lori Goodell cat Kelly and myself worked together to pour over the materials that we had to really pull them together into a more cohesive resource for our teachers to use so it took hours of work in the spring countless hours of teachers after hours and summer work as well so our formul which we put together was we really wanted that consistent materials and approach
036across the grade levels in schools because we saw that there was some inconsistency there and that this team of experts had both content content expertise and instructional expertise to put these materials together and we set a lofty goal for ourselves so our goal was that excellence in word study instruction would lead to 80% or more of our students meeting Benchmark in foundational skills at their grade level so we're really we're setting that bar high for our students and I think what you'll see is we're well on our way towards meeting that goal so in front of you you have a packet as an example of what's included inside these guide books the photo on the left shows an example of what the front cover of them looks like and a lot of this is education
037e so the front part of the manual has all of the techniques the definitions the explanations and this team helped put together the professional development and then has helped with their administrators provide coaching as well in what the terms mean and how to implement but um it has so what you'll see there for example lesson three I think this is unit four week three in grade one exactly what they're doing with the games and then applying those skills to Connected text you'll see um high frequency words just the simple flash cards that go with uh the materials and then that idea of the decodable or connected text where kids are practicing the skills so here's an example of some of the growth that we're seeing so this is map which is a nationally normed uh
038comprehensive literacy assessment and this is showing the growth year-over-year from second grade in the 29th percentile went up to the 42nd percentile from Fall to Wi that's showing what the growth is from fall to winter year-over-year in third grade went from this 56th percentile to the 71st percentile so we're really proud about that and this is districtwide data our teachers are working incredibly hard in their own classrooms and as teams to monitor their data to be reflective on the practice and then adjust instruction I couldn't be prouder so this is showing an example grade level how teams are collecting their data unit over unit and working together to work towards that 80% goal of mastering the skills that kids were taught on the right what you'll see is an example classroom where a teacher was
039collecting pre post data for her own students so the blue columns the blue on the left is where they were scoring at the beginning of the unit and the red is on the right how they did at the end of the unit and what you'll see is every single student in that class made growth so breaking down I'll walk you through the five components that we uh that we provide instruction in in this area the first is phonological aw uh phonological awareness and phonics so hearing the sounds and words and learning how to read them and spell them so what you'll see here is a dual language classroom and all of the kiddos engaged with their whiteboards writing the sounds that their teacher is sharing hold on one second then I'll I want to press
040play and then be able to tell you what it's about first let's just listen surise below tomorrow all right the first sentence says blank is my birthday oh Del is not here we've got love people ABS my goodness Garrett Garrett come on and see if you can find the word that you think needs to go at the beginning of that sentence blank is my birthday okay go grab it and I have a question for everybody so he says tomorrow thumbs up if you agree yeah okay let's read that sentence together ready tomorrow is my birthday you so amazing instruction there my Miss Mrs gell um who also helped write the materials so what you'll see there is students really putting those skills together on the side are those high frequency words which are incredibly important
041for students to learn and master you'll see some of the statistics there the first 13 make up 25% of all the words we read the first 200 make up the next 50% so noticing there the cold call strategies that she's using for engagement every child in that class was accountable for knowing those words I sat there and watched that that video was a minute and she went through the whole thing and kids helped them helped one another when they weren't sure so it's pretty impressive I'm waiting to say okay I checked and I didn't I have an ey remember put your two BS together what's the word nice jck ready you nice job what's the word sound it out was a fun [Music] ready nice so the games the students engaging in games just to
042practice their learning they were learning different spellings for the long you sound there and you can see every kid in that class just a quick pace and engagement that they were uh they were able to experience there so here's a photo of students reading uh the decodable at the end of the lesson so that they're practicing with the sounds and the high frequency words that they were taught and then they get to take these home and teachers have systems to communicate with families about what are those skills that your kid is learning so that then you can practice them at home and then pairing that with small group instruction because some students might need more Challenge and some students might need more support so we have our whole group lessons in uh K3 and then
043pairing that with the small group support for that differentiation and we have one more short video in this so oh and I'll press it in one second this is very sensitive so just showing that this is the experience for students across the district um when we click to the next video in a second what you'll see is a primary aged student and how she's really uh just becoming a reader and the magic of that experience helping Toby's team Toby's team needs lost of things for the basketball game how will we carry everything asked Toby we can use my my wagon I said well I pulled it we pulled put everything in the in the w it's heavy now I said great so we won't go through the whole video but just the magic that our
044teachers get to experience and I get to experience when I go to their classrooms um when they're teaching kids how to read that emerging experience is just not you can't repeat it it's magic so with that I want to turn it over um we have representative voices as m Mr Jesse mentioned um I asked some teachers in their first uh couple of years of teaching to be here to share their experience we have teachers from our dual language program and Veteran teachers who helped write the materials and get to go into a lot of classrooms to see them in action so with that hi my name is Ali how I teach second grade at Bordeaux and I'm in my first year teaching I wanted to share about my positive experiences teaching the word workor curriculum
045we were provided wonderful manuals that were developed by Shelton school district teachers even as a first year teacher I have seen amazing growth in my students in their word studies I'm sorry even as a first year teacher I have seen amazing growth in my students in their word study skills with the use of the manuals I've been able to guide my students through a variety of strategies that allow them to be stronger readers we spend time sitting on the carpet using whiteboards sharing and talking it's a great little moment in our day where the students are up close and personal and are getting excited about their growth hi there my name is Emily burbs and I'm in my second year of teaching first grade at Bordeaux one of the things I really like about the
046word work is the High student engagement that proves productive to their learning and growth the instruction is student friendly and um and there are many opportunities for games activities and skill application we play the games as a whole group and then students can also use them during small group time where they can practice together with not much teacher guidance um it's an excellent time for peer learning and this student-friendly approach has allowed students to gain the confidence and skills and the students and I look forward to word work every day hi everyone my name is Haley Peak and I'm also in my second year of teaching first grade at bordeau the fluid structures and routines of word workk enable my students to gain a robust understanding of the new spelling patterns students then apply these
047skills to authentic reading materials found in our classroom libraries the creation of word workor study guide book uses a research-based approach to provide access to the necessary skills for all Learners the thing that we love the most about the word workor study guide book is that regardless of the grade or teaching experience it's easy to follow and gives us the power to do what's best to support our diverse learners through the help of our TOA Christine Chamberlain our amazing lap team Kristen Barkman Caitlyn bremm and Julie Roberts we feel confident that our students will gain the skills needed to be independent readers by the time they leave bordo thank you good evening um everyone my name is IMA Costa usara and I'm a third grade teacher at everen elementary school and a dual language class
048and um I have the opportunity and to support my multilingual students as they develop their academic skills and and I I'm excited to share with you today the positive impact that our work structure has had on a Student Success one of the most imp impactful outcomes of our work structure has been the incredible growth and a student Independence and engagement through intentional routines and structures a students have developed the confidence and skills to work independently er every aspect of our day um reinforces academic growth and as a result students are not only improving in leadership but also uh eager uh they are eager to learn and their progress in FMP and word work has been remarkable with the entire class because I can see they are moving up great levels uh with a strong found
049um foundational skills in place as students now want to read ask for more challenges they are um they take ownership of their learning by tracking their own data and setting goals they are engaged motivat this is about giving access and opportunities so I'm very proud of my students and their dedication thank you well next up comes I guess the old dogs good evening members hi I'm Janet dagel and I am a long lifelong member of this community as well as an educator this will be my 30th year of teaching been here a long time I've taught first through fifth grade and um now I'm ending my career hopefully in a few years not now as a reading teacher at Mountain View I'm very happy to have worked with this talented group of people and Educators
050to create these guides for our teachers to use they are foundational skills in a systematic and strategic format while my part was very small this team did amazing work our district is very lucky to have such a large group of Educators with deep knowledge and understanding of reading development this team worked very hard and thoughtfully to create these guide books that truly benefit and support Student Learning and Development I am very proud of the work we've done by this team and teachers I'm also proud to hear I haven't got to hear these statements before before and it's nice to hear that our younger teachers are using them I have seen a couple of them in action and it is wonderful to see our students working in my current role as a reading teacher I'm able
051to see the benefits of this work in small group instruction and our students are learning the necessary foundational skills needed to be proficient readers and writers um teachers are using the lessons and strategies daily in turn our students are learning to read and enjoying it I just want to thank thank the district office for their support in this project and every member of this team they truly worked hard do what to do what was best for kids thank you good evening I actually don't have a whole lot to add to that Janet and I share a room so we were kind of bouncing ideas off each other um and she has a grandbaby on the way so I thought I would be speaking for both of us this evening um but no just myself so
052I am Jackie rhods I am a title lap reading teacher here at Mountain View I'm only in my 27th year of teaching 14 of those years have been in kindergarten and 11 have been working within tile and lap in some capacity I was an instructional facilitator for a while and I've been teacher for a while so um when I was asked to join this word work team I was more than happy to do so um I'm hoping that you were able to glean from adrianne's slides that these plans were created in order to ensure that our students districtwide were receiving a systematic approach to learning these foundational literacy skills um the science of reading shows that the number one uh predictor of success for students who learn who are learning these foundational skills is that
053they have an explicit systematic instruction for learning those skills and these word workk plans that was the intention behind building them um I feel that the district was very mindful in who they selected to be part of this team they ensured that they pulled um teachers from each Elementary building to be part of this team so that throughout the year they had people in place within each building who were immediately accessible for the teachers and I have received many questions that I'm happy to feel throughout the year um I have been asked to fix some of the things that are within the plans because as you know nothing is ever perfect the first time it's put out these are work in progress um so we are collabor collaborating with teachers along the way to make
054slight revisions and make sure that they really understand um where they're where they're going with the plans and um I just want to say in closing that we have amazing teachers in our district amazing teachers um they are very dedicated to the literacy success of their students and they're doing the work every day and our kids are making progress and they're super lucky to have these individuals teaching them thank you thank you so thank you to these teachers and with that I will open it up to any questions from the board thank you um I want to say that I uh can see how your uh collaborative expertise has really created these resources that are reaching all students at every every level in our district when we're we're building in these K3 and the amount
055of work and effort you you put into this and thought is just really incredible you're you're giving each student an opportunity um to to be engaged and be successful um on that I I really appreciate how these detailed lesson plans allow the teachers to focus more on their tiered supports their uh and refocus on engagement in classroom management um since you know it's a lot of kids in a classroom a lot of time it can be difficult so these these simpler simpler things just to add to add to a teacher's already busy day okay um one of the ways the district can easily close gaps for students is by ensuring that students are learning the same thing across School levels across grade levels at the district and um I I was curious with these plans
056does this mean that students are learning the same same things in the classrooms each classroom the same week or does does the teacher have more flexibility in building these there is some Flex time built in so we have a scope and sequence built out across the year and there are some flex days built into that but um there are so many skills included within the standards so we're trying to both hit the breadth of what those skills are with building in that Flex time and then also with the daily small group instruction I will say um to your point which I think is a great point one of our strategies that our amazing title lap teachers um have been helping us to understand is the importance of the pre-teach in addition to the reteach so
057they know their kids the best and they know um you know the teachers in the building collaborating with one another both the classroom teacher and integrated supports teachers know those students so we'll know I think these kiddos might need a little bit more help and so I'm going to do some up front work with them so that they're more successful when they get to the whole group thank thank you thank you I just wanted to say thank you for um a presentation that invites us kind of into the nuts and bolts how we got here and as parents watching at home go back and watch this it's it's just a great presentation so much information and to bring in your team behind you uh they're really doing amazing work so thank you guys so much
058yeah I want to jump in and say that too I've just personally had some things going on in my life where I almost did not come tonight because I wasn't possibly going to be able to and I was thrilled to see the band and then to hear this presentation honestly just what you said for anybody in our community to hear about your professionalism and your expertise and the fact that we are seeing results is amazing and we can see the passion and the dedication that you have and I grew up in this community and graduated from these schools too and we have always had wonderful teachers and I I know some of you I've known you throughout the years and I can't believe you've been teaching for this long because I don't think I'm that
059old either but um it's just amazing to me the work that you are all doing and to hear the you know newer our newer teachers putting this into action and having these kinds of results with kids um is just truly amazing I'm I'm very happy I was able to make it tonight just to hear this presentation honestly it was thank you very much for for giving us this thank you and thank you again to our amazing teachers we couldn't do this without them so they are they're the heart of the work thank you I could say more but really there's nothing else to say you guys are doing outstanding work so oh Lauren go I'm so sorry I missed part of it but I I I do want to share that um I have a
060kindergartener and a third grader in the district so I'm very familiar with these materials and um even this year with my kindergarten versus my third grader uh we've had a lot more material come home there's been so many more flashcards the books that you shared that uh the teachers PR off and send home one of the big things for for me is that I feel really engaged and involved in my student um with my kids uh you know you you have to read your child every night but with these materials we're able to move that into what she's learning in the classroom and and make sure that she's succeeding and it's just it's really fun to take things from her classroom work with them she likes to color in all of those books we just
061keep them all stacked up because they're just such a wonderful resource and just want you to know that they're very much appreci appreci it at home and I'm sure other parents in the classrooms feel the same way so thank you anything else okay you can sit down thank you thank [Applause] you on to item number seven the consent agenda as everybody had a chance to look over all that I move that we approve the consent agenda I'll second all in favor I I okay item number eight discussion and action items uh 8.01 the proposed 2025 26 school calendar good evening again um in front of you today is a recommendation of approval for the 2025 2026 school calendar you'll see that it's uh very similar to this school Year's calendar and like last school year
062I invited in Union leadership and other stakeholders to provide input um on the development of this and so we were able to collaboratively create this calendar to present in front of you today um like I said it's it's very similar to last school year but I'm happy to answer any questions if anybody has any any questions my birthday is still not a holiday but um otherwise were you looking for approval on this tonight yes please I motion to approve the 2025 2026 School District calendar and I'll second that all in favor I I all righty we got a calendar legislative update all right good evening again everybody uh We've passed the halfway point for this legislative session uh tomorrow March 12th is the house of origin cut off so Senate bills will begin to receive
063public hearings on house bills and vice versa bills that do not pass through the floor vote by this date are typically considered dead budget proposals from the house are expected this week in advance of the March 18th state revenue forecast uh the Senate proposed operating budget has been released um in a quick glance of the report uh before the meeting it looked like about 94% or 33 billion of osi's requested funding was uh proposed and approved in the Senate bill um so moving on to the big three we've been tracking um the student transportation bills do not look like they're moving forward at all those have died um however uh Senate Bill 5263 concerning special education funding is expected on the floor for debate this week uh the third one uh Senate bill 5192 concerning
064Material supplies and operating costs also known as MSO has uh seen a few Evolutions but has been moved to the house and referred to the House Appropriations Committee out of Senate uh this bill increases allocations for M Material supplies and operating costs um it provides that these calculations must use a three-year rolling average for enrollment adjusted annually for inflation and it eliminates the categories that uh require districts to uh report disaggregated expenditures I want to close with another plug for MSO as it has uh struggled through multiple iterations and want to stress the need for uh schools to have these increased allocations as operating costs outpa State funding leaving levies as the only real option to backfill the widening gaps on Essentials such as insurance and utilities so thank you everybody can you remind us
065again what mck stands for uh materials supplies and operating costs okay thank you thank you okay as we start to wind up get into board remember comments Mr Dale yeah just two quick ones um parents of obj students that performed tonight you should be really proud of that band I've listened to a lot of middle school and high school band over the last 10 years that was excellent so well done teachers well done students and and shout out to all of um our our peras and our bus drivers it is a tough time but you are seen and appreciated thank you for all the behind the scenes things that you do that make Shelton School District happen so thank you director gilo i' like to thank all the families that stayed with us tonight and
066came and all the comments and I've spoken a lot tonight so thank you director Davidson all right yeah thank you to the band who came and all of the support people their family and friends that came to watch them that was truly they did such a great job and Mr Sanders was one of my daughter's teachers and they always enjoyed him as a teacher as well too so it was wonderful to see him again um I actually attended the Evergreen promise uh the event for families that occurred I think it was just a week ago um with my husband that was really well attended it was really nice to see so many different family members there getting information for seniors graduating this year or the Juniors that will be graduating next year Evergreen had a
067number of speakers there to talk about their academics their Athletics there's a variety of students that have come from Shelton that are excelling there now so it was really nice to hear all of those stories and I know there's just a lot of great information for people that want to um take the Evergreen promise up on there that opportunity thank you very much to all of you um teachers that came up and spoke tonight it is wonderful to get that window into the nuts and bolts of what you do for Education because that's something that those of us that are not teachers don't always understand what goes into that and again just to see your professionalism your expertise and the results that you get is truly amazing and I really appreciate everything that you do
068I want to wish all of the students good luck for finals week I know that's going on there's a lot of tests this week and that's a lot of stress at least you get a three-hour uh early release on Friday so that'll be nice and I also want to say congratulations to candy rainy um for that librarian award that she got I know that that was announced um by the school district and hopefully we can also do something to celebrate her because that's an amazing accomplishment and I had several people email me to make sure that um that I knew that the board knew and um it's really wonderful to go out and see just all of the things that she's done she's an incredible educator and just thank you again to our classified staff
069it was wonderful Tabitha for your presentation too just hearing all those personal stories of what goes on I really appreciated that as well every now and then I need to be reminded of why I sit up here and nine times out of 10 have somebody and yell at me from the stands and holy smokes um if there was ever a reason to be involved in Shelton School District right now the the band The Sports I mean even our broadcast kids are being invited to go to Wi con contests um our teachers are are are showing us Improvement that literally was off the chart there were so many 100% on the second half of that uh man um literally Tonight Tonight is the reason that that we show up for free and thank you um and
070and this community needs to be here thanking you loudly there needs to be Applause and parades and and everything for the work that you're doing um the love that you show for the kids thank you with that um we do have to kick out of here for a minute for an exempt session um and then we'll come back for an adjournment there's going to be no dis uh no decisions in the exempt session about 10 minutes