WLWV School Board: Good evening, everyone. I will now call to order this evening's Westland Wilsonville
WLWV School Board: School Board meeting
WLWV School Board: and quick apologies. We had some things that we did take care of in executive sessions. We're running a little late today, so we appreciate your patience. And
WLWV School Board: alright. So I'm gonna pass it over to Director
WLWV School Board: Douglas to call Roll. Thank you. Director, shoemaker, director, sloop here. Chair Taylor, vice chair, Wyatt, Director Vidal here. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: All right.
WLWV School Board: thank you.
WLWV School Board: Well, we're going to get right into
WLWV School Board: board reports, and we'll start with
WLWV School Board: Director Shoemaker
WLWV School Board: other than to mention how wonderful graduations were. And in particular,
WLWV School Board: the adult transition centers
WLWV School Board: graduation of students other than that. To say, those were fabulous. I'm going to pass along my time. I know we have a lot to get to tonight.
WLWV School Board: Alright.
WLWV School Board: director slew
WLWV School Board: my own authentic me here.
WLWV School Board: Today, as I was running an errand, I passed 3 schools today, and it was a primary middle school and high school, and I was like, as I was driving by each school I felt led to pause and reflect on the past school year
WLWV School Board: as a School Board director. I'm so grateful for the personal connections.
WLWV School Board: I value the conversations with the stakeholders which are the students, the parents, community members. The teachers and Administration
WLWV School Board: board meetings or adopting policy aren't necessarily the highlights. It's the people I meet
WLWV School Board: last August the district invited the Bernier family whose son Emilio has down syndrome to speak at the district kickoff.
WLWV School Board: Emilio reminded me that each and every student has their own set of unique gifts to offer when given the opportunity.
WLWV School Board: The Family Empowerment Center hosted a back-to-school fair with area vendors to help families learn and navigate the available resources. The students received a backpack of supplies, and even got to enjoy shaved ice.
WLWV School Board: Our bold goal of visiting schools and their Pta Ptso organization meetings are a favorite. I look forward to the school tours with the principals, and observing the morning routine of the students, they are truly a joy to watch.
WLWV School Board: I even had the opportunity to try the nutrition services, cultural menu, and ate lunch at Rosemont Ridge. I loved observing all the middle schoolers during their lunch.
WLWV School Board: There's so much energy.
WLWV School Board: Last fall. We celebrated the opening of Riverside High School, and Athy Creek Middle School
WLWV School Board: during the tour of Athe Creek. After the ribbon cutting director, Shoemaker, Director Vidal, and myself
WLWV School Board: were led by an energetic middle schooler. She was so articulate and knowledgeable as she led us through the school. The new school.
WLWV School Board: our district also celebrated the opening of the performing arts at Wilsonville High School, I can honestly say, watching elf was a highlight during the holiday season.
WLWV School Board: Lastly, just a few weeks ago the Human Center for the adult transition services was officially dedicated
WLWV School Board: with Judy's brother Rick attending. I had the honor of speaking about the Center and adult transition services which is near and dear to my heart
WLWV School Board: as a board. One of our goals this year was to host 2 listening sessions with the high schoolers.
WLWV School Board: the listening sessions, covered career technical education programs and co-curricular activities.
WLWV School Board: I was so inspired by the student's transparency and depth of sharing.
WLWV School Board: These high school students are articulate and honest.
WLWV School Board: These listening sessions provided so much insight and connection with the students.
WLWV School Board: Speaking of co-curricular activities, our athletic teams made significant achievements with numerous playoff berths and championships.
WLWV School Board: Mock trial and cheer also took state titles. The Wilsonville Choir and Westland journalism also received honors, and the Wilson robotics team hosted the Frc. District tournament.
WLWV School Board: A board goal was campaigning for the local option. Levy Levy to retain 90 teachers.
WLWV School Board: I had the opportunity to have several conversations with parents and community members.
WLWV School Board: we accomplished another goal of adopting the new Ela curriculum for K through 5.
WLWV School Board: I am so grateful for the Teachers and Literacy Committee members who spent half the year assessing different publishers to the select the best curriculum for our primary students.
WLWV School Board: I truly appreciate all the conversations and insight from our parents in the adoption process.
WLWV School Board: I wish, as a board we could have more conversations with our even our staff in the district.
WLWV School Board: One recent highlight was attending the Willamette marketplace, in which 4th and 5th graders crafted a project to sell.
WLWV School Board: I was so impressed with her creative creativity and business skills
WLWV School Board: the birds have eaten all the birdseed from my bird feeder and cinder was happy to have the dog treats.
WLWV School Board: and I especially enjoy the special events that each school hosts
WLWV School Board: closing the school year. A highlight is attending the high school graduations. It's a true honor to hand out the diplomas to graduates.
WLWV School Board: The excitement and energy at memorial Coliseum is riveting.
WLWV School Board: I received many strong handshakes and very few sweaty ones.
WLWV School Board: Last Friday 7 adult transition students graduated from the program.
WLWV School Board: The graduation is small and very personal
WLWV School Board: as each student is highlighted, followed with a croissant sandwich lunch set up by the students.
WLWV School Board: I even connected with the grandparents of one of the students. I helped the brother of one of the grandparents when the brother and his wife were involved in a serious accident at the end of our road.
WLWV School Board: I truly value listening to parents, students, and community members. You are the stakeholders.
WLWV School Board: Thank you for sharing your concerns. Whether it's about Site councils, boys pean on the toilets and stalls at wood, or concerns about inclusiveness.
WLWV School Board: A board goal which especially resonates with me is together. We will value community voice and authentic engagement with parents, guardians, community, and students.
WLWV School Board: I will continue to advocate and engage for our school community and have a great summer.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Director Biddal.
WLWV School Board: Yes, just a moment. So I'm going to start off my board report tonight, reading a quote from Teacher Mr. Jason Jenkins, ap English teacher at Wilsonville High School, who
WLWV School Board: really encapsulated all the joy that graduation is, and really
WLWV School Board: really spoke to me to my mother's heart. So he said, to teach a student is to teach to their spirits, to teach to the little light inside their hearts, to take good care.
WLWV School Board: graduates, when your parents or trusted adults would check in with you at the end of the day, and look you in your eyes and ask, how was school today? What they were really asking was.
WLWV School Board: how is that little light?
WLWV School Board: Are you still letting it shine?
WLWV School Board: Show how your light shines?
WLWV School Board: And I loved that quote, and he is right, and we need to remember that as we advocate for our students
WLWV School Board: every day, and what I saw at the graduations at Wilsonville High School in Westland High School was students radiating light. There was so much positivity in that room. It was. It was humanity at its finest. It really really was. So I would like to congratulate all those graduates. I would like to congratulate those teachers. And I also like to congratulate the 5th graders.
WLWV School Board: I have a 5th grader graduating. I'm on a vet. 3 on Thursday. So and the 8th graders, of course. As they, as those students, the 5th graders and 8th graders transitioning to Middle and high School find their sense of belonging, and I want to bring that around to pride month. So, as we know, June is
WLWV School Board: Pride month, and I want to let our teachers, administrators, and students know that you do belong, and you do deserve to feel safe at school.
WLWV School Board: and we are so glad you're here, and I yield the rest of my time.
WLWV School Board: Vice chair, Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: the a special guest in the audience, and so I will yield my time, so we can hear from him.
WLWV School Board: Right? Thank you.
WLWV School Board: And I am going to follow that cab, and I'm going to yield my time also for our guest.
WLWV School Board: and I'll pass it down to Dr. Ludwig
WLWV School Board: to bring it home.
WLWV School Board: and should we let Senator Wagner go, and then I can go right after you would like to. Okay, that that works.
WLWV School Board: Okay. So we're gonna put you on stage. Now, Senator Wagner.
WLWV School Board: just to say a couple of things about our our guest, Speaker.
WLWV School Board: State Senator Rob Wagner, represents the Oregon Senate District Number 19,
WLWV School Board: which includes the communities of Towalaton, Lake, Oswego, West Lynn Rivergrove, Durham.
WLWV School Board: and also a portion of Southwest Portland.
WLWV School Board: and as the President of the Oregon Senate, his top priorities include balancing the State budget ensuring the Senate is focused on the State's top priorities and empowering Senators to do their best work on behalf of Oregonians.
WLWV School Board: President Wagner grew up here locally, and his personal legislative agenda focuses on creating educational and career pathways to help lift organ families into middle class and preserving and expanding access to organ's natural beauty. So, Senator Wagner, we would love to have you
WLWV School Board: come up to the podium and
WLWV School Board: and talk to us. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: It's bad. Oh.
WLWV School Board: that is so much nicer than what I get at home.
WLWV School Board: but not on me.
WLWV School Board: This is so interesting. I'll say a couple of words about my service on school board, but
WLWV School Board: the formalness of this we were at Mackenzie. My legislator and I were at Riverdale School Board. There. You're meeting in the library around a table. If you've ever been to the administrative offices of Lake Oswego School Board. They are. They are in need of some attention. But I feel like when I'm up here at this microphone, I should say, may it please the Court? Feel like it's like I met the Supreme Court.
WLWV School Board: I also wanted to say briefly, thank you for letting me attend the day Long Equity Summit that was at Westland High School. Such an an honor to be there! I was looking for my signature on the banner over here earlier, and also just
WLWV School Board: to your superintendent, Dr. Ludwig. She is not only just a force in this community for what you do, what you do, but I need to tell you. I have conversations with my colleagues from across the State, and she is recognized for her professionalism and what she does to lift up students every day. So I just wanna say, thank you for your service to this community as well.
WLWV School Board: So for your record, I'm Rob Wagner, as mentioned, I'm the State Senator percent of District 19. And those those communities that were mentioned in the largely in the South Metro area.
WLWV School Board: And I represent just shive about a hundred 50,000
WLWV School Board: people and students in 5 school districts as well, and this
WLWV School Board: interim we're working diligently to get out and meet with every
WLWV School Board: School Board, and I hope that you understand. This is maybe a presentation tonight, but it's more of an invitation, and I hope you know that I'm looking forward to engaging in real dialogue about the challenges that are facing your students, and I would invite you when the legislature is in session, or just if you feel like coming down or bringing students, and if they've never been to the State Capitol before, we would love to have you to be able to host you, and to bring students down to kind of introduce them to their State government as well.
WLWV School Board: I have a real soft spot for the work that you do
WLWV School Board: a little bit of my history. It may sound like yours.
WLWV School Board: You start out as a school volunteer, and all of a sudden someone's like, would you want to be on site counsel? And then you meet somebody, and it's like, Hey, how about the Schools Foundation Board? And then it's Hey, maybe should run for the school board, and then.
WLWV School Board: you know, you're off and running so I got my start in elected public service similar to what you do here
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: It's interesting. The conversation about graduation
WLWV School Board: tomorrow night my youngest of 4 is graduating, so I'll be entering empty nest hood
WLWV School Board: here. But the comment about, I actually
WLWV School Board: former school board members get to come back. So I get to surprise her on stage so hopefully, she's not washing tonight. And I remember from being on school board. Many, many sweaty hands shakes over over the Lake Ridge and Lancaster High School.
WLWV School Board: I also was able, while I was in the Legislature
WLWV School Board: to be able to serve on School Board for a full legislative session. I tell you I chaired the Senate Education Committee, so I was doing education policy, which was interesting for my colleagues, because we would have conversations about policy. And then every other Monday night I would scurry away and head back to the school board and actually watch the people that were putting it into place on behalf of the children and their districts. And it was really valuable because I would hear that. And then I'd come back and be like.
WLWV School Board: that's not working. What you think you're doing is actually not the way that it's getting implemented at the local level. So I want to say, Thank you. And also.
WLWV School Board: when I was school board chair, I remember people would come up and they would testify, and they would say, you and all the money you're making, and you know, doing these jobs as School Board members, and I would turn to my vice chair, John Wallin, and say, you know, is board chair. I make twice what you do. And it's been a while since I've taken algebra, but I'm pretty sure 0 times 0 still equals 0. So
WLWV School Board: so thank you. And for that, and sadly, I have moved on from the School Board, but
WLWV School Board: in addition to
WLWV School Board: the service that I do to my legislative district.
WLWV School Board: I also get the honor this last year and a half of serving as the Senate President for the State of Oregon, and in that position I often get asked, what is that?
WLWV School Board: It's a little bit of an air traffic controller. There's a mentor. I'm a coach therapist, and really the last year have been working diligently to get around the State to get Republicans and Democrats and Independents
WLWV School Board: talking to each other to try to keep our government, especially in that partisan sphere, running smoothly, so it can actually work on the critical issues that are facing our communities.
WLWV School Board: So the job comes down to supporting senators, crafting budgets and building good policy to help Oregonians.
WLWV School Board: And in doing that I try to focus on 3 things, building relationships inside and outside the building.
WLWV School Board: approaching the job with kindness, sometimes humor
WLWV School Board: and listening to all 4 corners of Oregon, because good ideas can come
WLWV School Board: from anywhere.
WLWV School Board: and I am proud to say, especially this last legislative session, with all the bills that get introduced. Actually, since the start of my tenure as Senate President, there's over 3,500 bills that have been introduced in a long session in a short session about a 5th of them actually passed. And of that
WLWV School Board: number over 90% of the bills we pass are broadly bipartisan. And that's not a story. I think, that sometimes gets told there's so much work that's happening underneath the scenes. It's kind of the boring stuff sometimes, where people are coming together and working toward solution. I think some of the more
WLWV School Board: highlight inducing the stuff that's going to lead the nightly news is the stuff that people generally focus on so trying to put division aside in coming together.
WLWV School Board: I'm very proud of this last legislative session. I'll highlight a couple
WLWV School Board: of the things that we worked on, things that I was really passionate, supporting, and where I felt like we brought
WLWV School Board: bipartisan coalitions together
WLWV School Board: to make what I would say, and what I think independently, was the most successful, short legislative session since we
WLWV School Board: started this experiment back when the voters changed the Constitution in 2,010. So there's been 8 of them.
WLWV School Board: But leading before the legislative session. There's so much work that happens. Committee work people coming together, testimony going around
WLWV School Board: different communities. And we were laser-focused Democrats and Republicans on homelessness.
WLWV School Board: on housing, affordability, and addressing the drug crisis in this state.
WLWV School Board: and at the end of 33 days it is really a sprint. The longer session, I'd say, is a little bit more of a marathon.
WLWV School Board: We passed bills and budgets that work. On putting Oregon
WLWV School Board: toward a pathway of overcoming these challenges.
WLWV School Board: we were able to put strategic investment dollars into expanding access and addiction and mental health treatment services which impact the students in this district. I think sometimes people think, oh, it's southwest suburbs. Nobody faces these issues, addiction.
WLWV School Board: behavioral health. This is impacting all of our communities everywhere.
WLWV School Board: Everything that we need to do to partner with local communities to be able to step up to support families. Everything you're doing. The State is also trying to be focused on as well.
WLWV School Board: working on cleaning up our communities so that they're walkable and safe and addressing housing affordability.
WLWV School Board: not just
WLWV School Board: for for shelter support, but trying to sustain and keep people in their houses. And also we passed landmark legislation to try to bring more housing production and middle housing online. So one thing I do want to note, there was
WLWV School Board: some strategic investment that was put into a program that actually started and was build out at Beaverton School district, called One Pill can kill. And so I'm sure that you're well aware. But getting the word out to our local communities to try to address fentanyl addiction, but really unnecessary, overdose death.
WLWV School Board: So we also did things like expand limits on campaign contributions and childcare access and trying to set ourselves up right now for successful interim. So we can have a great 2025
WLWV School Board: session.
WLWV School Board: Did we agree on everything?
WLWV School Board: No, but similar to school boards? Hopefully, it was more collaborative. We were able to be able to have civil dialogues for people to come together and express the differences of opinion.
WLWV School Board: and my hope is that in the future, as we debate and disagree philosophically that we should do so as a state, remembering who we're trying to put forward to be able to do the work for every community
WLWV School Board: in Oregon. Every community I go to. I just did a 1,600 mile tour around the States, meeting with people from local governments visiting our State parks, meeting my colleagues out in rural Oregon.
WLWV School Board: from Malawa County and Crane School district and other places. But when you actually take the time to listen, they want good schools for their kids. They want a thriving local economy. They want healthcare for their seniors. They want to be good stewards and expand access to outdoor spaces, because Oregon is one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, and I think we need to elevate things that are aspirational and inspirational to it's not just the stuff that kind of brings us down every day.
WLWV School Board: So just looking ahead, and then I'll kind of close here.
WLWV School Board: The legislature.
WLWV School Board: especially in even numbered years. We only meet just for that month, but there is so much work that is happening right now. We just came out of legislative days
WLWV School Board: setting up for the next legislative session. I'll say there's probably a few people in this room that are interested. Transportation is critical. It is critical to how you're getting kids and families to their schools and their work life and being the State Senator that represents 2 5 to the Abernathy Bridge.
WLWV School Board: You can imagine I get a little bit of an earful about how we're funding transportation and what it means to bring tolling regimes online, that disproportionately impact Clackamas county. So that is going to be front and center. As we look comprehensively at our transportation system that brings solutions and revenue solutions forward. That means that we actually have a sustainable future. We need to be able to do the critical things. But we need to do it. That doesn't disproportionately impact certain communities disproportionately. So
WLWV School Board: I will close with this.
WLWV School Board: You all, just like we do at the State face, really tough choices right now.
WLWV School Board: and unlike the Federal Government, they're the only branch of government that gets to run deficits. We don't. At the state level. We were as dependent
WLWV School Board: on Arpa dollars as you are on Ezra, and so when people are coming together, knowing that we still face the challenges in every program area.
WLWV School Board: no matter behavioral health. If you look at our criminal justice system. If you look at all the different issues that we have to face. Seniors still need medication schools still face huge, huge challenges. But that Federal pandemic era resources they're drying up.
WLWV School Board: So the legislature, I know, is digging in and partnering with the Governor, thinking long term about. What are we doing? Not only with measure 98, and the Student Success Act, but thinking through a new model, to be able to educate people about what is a quality and sustainable level of funding for the future of our K 12 systems. So I look forward to partnering with you, and we need you. We need you as
WLWV School Board: part of this dialogue. We need your voices. We need the community to continue to educate legislators, because, like I said, we have to balance every dollar we spend on K 12 means a dollar that's not getting spent on
WLWV School Board: housing or behavioral health. So how are we figuring out solutions where we're going to bring people together to solve these problems together.
WLWV School Board: I think I'll leave it there and just say again.
WLWV School Board: I'm very passionate about civics, education. I got my start volunteering. I remember the 1st time I I came to the Capitol, and even though we're under a big
WLWV School Board: seismic retrofit of our 1938 building, I really hope
WLWV School Board: that when there's an opportunity, especially when the legislature is in session, that if students want to come down and I would invite you all to please come down and share your stories and experiences and the stories that you're hearing from districts, because this is what
WLWV School Board: we need to hear in order to influence policy and be able to provide sustainable funding for the future of our schools. So thank you so much. I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you tonight.
WLWV School Board: Intention. Thank you so much.
WLWV School Board: I'm assuming there's a lot of people that probably want to say a few words, and you have a big agenda. So I would be here for questions all night. I don't know if you wanted to entertain them, Mr. Chair or
WLWV School Board: are there any questions from the
WLWV School Board: directors.
WLWV School Board: You may or may not want to ask
WLWV School Board: anything. No.
WLWV School Board: anything.
WLWV School Board: You're off the hot seat all right. Thank you so much. Oh, I also want want to note that
WLWV School Board: Mackenzie Worthington here. We can't do this job without. I've got the best team in the building, and Mackenzie is my point of contact. My legislative aid. So if there's particular things, and I'm a little bit slow on getting back to people, she's really rapid, so feel free to contact our office, and we'll be right on it. Well, you're not quite off the hot seat. Oh, okay, yeah, superintendent. I just wanted to take an opportunity. Thank you for your public school advocacy. Thank you for coming to our Equity Summit, spending extraordinary amount of time with our school community.
WLWV School Board: Both with the keynote speaker who spoke, but also when we broke into small groups you joined a circle
WLWV School Board: you contributed. You spoke to our community and want to thank you for that, and also I think it was just a number of years ago that Dr. Spencer Rimes and I went down and testified to the Education committee that you were on around inclusive schooling.
WLWV School Board: and it's near and dear to our heart. It's our kind of our stake in the ground, and want to thank you for inviting us that day for listening to the stories of our parents and our school district, and appreciate your advocacy in that area as well. So thank you for all that you're doing, and if people don't know you are the model district for the work that you did upstream, and people are learning from you about. And we know that there are huge challenges, challenges with inclusivity. But you're you're definitely the bright light
WLWV School Board: for for the State.
WLWV School Board: We'll come and visit. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'd love to be back in the schools. So thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Alright. Thank you. We appreciate it.
WLWV School Board: Right.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: I I move that we approve the consent. Agenda.
WLWV School Board: We'll talk about exactly.
WLWV School Board: That's why I was looking.
WLWV School Board: Are you ready now for the superintendent. Report put up my Powerpoint.
WLWV School Board: Just love your summary director, sloop
WLWV School Board: of just kind of the year in review. It was beautiful. Thank you, and thank you for your words, Director Vidal, about just the energy at the graduation. So thank you to all of you for being there for students and families. It means a lot when the when the full board is present
WLWV School Board: and makes it a priority, it means a lot to families.
WLWV School Board: So there we have some of our May and June events. As Senator Wagner mentioned the health of our community, of our young people
WLWV School Board: with mental health, awareness, and and drug abuse. Awareness is really important, and I want to thank again. Andrew Kilstrom in the panel that came around the Fentanyl awareness Community Forum
WLWV School Board: want to thank board members who were able to attend the Judy human
WLWV School Board: dedication, appreciating again her brother Rick for flying in from Arizona to represent the human family and
WLWV School Board: his comments. I don't know if you've seen the video that our videographer Justin, put together. But I think it really encapsulates
WLWV School Board: the spirit of that day, and that Judy would be incredibly proud to give her name and her legacy to the center.
WLWV School Board: We also had a wonderful celebration. I want to thank Shila Waldron and her team for putting together the staff retirement celebration along with Wwe, Wwe and Osea. It's a collaborative effort recognizing our teachers who have
WLWV School Board: dedicated their careers and their service to young people in education.
WLWV School Board: and then, of course, we had our many high school graduations. Middle schools are having their celebrations. Primary schools are out
WLWV School Board: getting sweaty and and jumping for joy with field days and all sorts of things. So this truly, is that time of year that's really special.
WLWV School Board: Next slide. I just want to recognize that we had some students. We knew this would be a big agenda meeting, so we didn't invite them during the recognitions. But they're here on the screen.
WLWV School Board: We had 5 high school students who were invited to Isf world in Los Angeles, and 2 of whom brought awards back. You can see those on the screen. And there are 5 participants who competed with their science fair projects. And and these are really very sophisticated. Science projects. Those of you who have been to the Isf
WLWV School Board: science symposium.
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: competing alongside
WLWV School Board: over 1,500 students from all around the world who kind of descend and have the these showcase events. So I want to thank Danielle Schroeder for again
WLWV School Board: leading that group and devoting so much time and expertise to our young people
WLWV School Board: next.
WLWV School Board: as you know, you gave direction to school staff to begin updating the long range plan. You can see the the current document. There's the cover of it on the screen as just a reminder and charge the long range planning committee to begin updating that. So we contracted with
WLWV School Board: some folks who do that kind of work with school districts, and Rebecca Stucker is our our lead on that. She's working on updating the narrative, doing a lot of interviews and looking at artifacts in the district, and we also then contracted with flow analytics to give us a 10 year forecast. Where do we see the district growing in the future.
WLWV School Board: And then Pat Mcguff has put together 7 task force groups
WLWV School Board: that have been working through looking at reports and artifacts and survey data as well as information from focus groups to think about contributing also to what?
WLWV School Board: What is it that the district currently has in place? Where are the needs, and we'll be synthesizing that. And then we want you to know as a School board that's been the work since you charged us with this and that we're hoping this summer to have a draft update to you as as the board, maybe during your retreat or at a meeting.
WLWV School Board: and then out of that will come. Then the final
WLWV School Board: long-range plan document
WLWV School Board: which will give some direction to the School Board as to where we're going next. So it kind of serves as a strategic plan of sorts in terms of facilities and needs of the district.
WLWV School Board: And then, just lastly, tonight, you'll be taking a look again at the Budget document and making decision as a school board. But I just want to let you know that we are still actively monitoring to see what where we're going to end fiscally the end of this school year, taking a look at
WLWV School Board: how reports and how expenses are coming in
WLWV School Board: monitoring our enrollment. And then, of course, we are still finalizing our negotiations with our 2
WLWV School Board: labor unions, and out of that, if there's any changes we'll be letting the Board know. But just wanted to let you know that
WLWV School Board: while you're making a decision tonight, there are still some unknowns around where we will end this school year, or what will be an impact for next year. But nevertheless, we'll have to take the estimates that we have going forward.
WLWV School Board: And that's it. So thank you so much
WLWV School Board: alright moving on to the
WLWV School Board: consent agenda.
WLWV School Board: And I'm a
WLWV School Board: I'd like to move that we pull the proposed policy deletion of policy, DNA. Disposal of outdated instructional material into our agenda.
WLWV School Board: Okay? And
WLWV School Board: do we have a second
WLWV School Board: or do all of you know what's being asked
WLWV School Board: before I.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: I'll second.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: Director Douglas, would you call a vote to remove
WLWV School Board: the proposed policy deletion from the consent agenda for us to be able to? Yeah. Can we have it for this, we have a discussion about
WLWV School Board: without pulling it.
WLWV School Board: Yeah, I don't know if you need
WLWV School Board: actually isn't a vote needed to pull it. Yeah, you just any member of the board can pull anything from consent agenda. And it becomes the last item on the agenda. Okay, so we'll we'll talk about that chair, Taylor. Then you would just consider where you'd like to place it on the agenda. Got you? So what I'd like to do is just place it here now so that we can address it and then approve the consent. Agenda. Move
WLWV School Board: through the rest of the
WLWV School Board: of the meeting. If that's okay, yeah. Do you want to approve the the consent, agenda without this? Yes, and then yes, so do we have a motion to
WLWV School Board: approve the consent, agenda without.
WLWV School Board: The proposed policy deletion. I move that we approve the consent. Agenda. With the removal of Item D, the proposed policy deletion of Policy. DNA. Disposal of outdated instructional materials.
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: alright. Director Douglas, we call the vote
WLWV School Board: director, shoemaker. Aye, director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair. Wyatt
WLWV School Board: director vidal aye thank you.
WLWV School Board: Now I will move to. We can have a discussion around
WLWV School Board: the proposed policy delete deletion, and I believe
WLWV School Board: Pat Mcguff was going to
WLWV School Board: provide some clarity on that for the board.
WLWV School Board: I think before we have
WLWV School Board: Pat Mcguff talk, I think we would want to hear from
WLWV School Board: the Board member what the questions are, and then we will. We'll do it that way right and not assume that we know where the concern lies or the questions lie.
WLWV School Board: Okay? So in regards to the
WLWV School Board: outdated and or disposal of outdated instructional material
WLWV School Board: I totally get.
WLWV School Board: We don't want to keep 12 years of textbooks for every subject
WLWV School Board: for use of space.
WLWV School Board: But
WLWV School Board: in reference to the disposal of district property it does not mention anything about the curriculum, instructional material, and I believe, with all of these
WLWV School Board: adoptions coming up for curriculum, we really should have clarity. So each
WLWV School Board: there's no question, and there's no
WLWV School Board: room for, you know. Lack of trust, of not knowing what to do with the instructional materials that are
WLWV School Board: being replaced with new
WLWV School Board: material.
WLWV School Board: So I would like to have more of a.
WLWV School Board: The outdated or the disposal of outdated instructional material still have that policy. But change or amend the 12 year. So we have something that's more reasonable. But we're still have some accountability on how that disposal of instructional material will be taken care of.
WLWV School Board: So that would be a discussion and a motion that would be a discussion for the Board, and then we would be taking it to attorneys, to amend
WLWV School Board: and create a policy, because right now the advice of the attorneys at Osba is for us to remove policy, DNA, because
WLWV School Board: it's actually when the district created. It's not one that came from Osba.
WLWV School Board: Most districts
WLWV School Board: use DN
WLWV School Board: with their instructional material disposal. So I think if we were going to keep DNA, we would then want to work with our attorneys on on that. And
WLWV School Board: or we could amend this one. It's just
WLWV School Board: very generic. And it's yeah, pretty much talking about like property and equipment, and not
WLWV School Board: textbooks and instructional material. So I mean, I don't have a problem with looking at
WLWV School Board: amending this one where it includes instructional material.
WLWV School Board: the ins inserting something about instructional material.
WLWV School Board: We would just want direction from the board.
WLWV School Board: Okay? Well.
WLWV School Board: we brought Pat Mcguff all the way up here. I'm sure he's gonna
WLWV School Board: you've just heard that
WLWV School Board: you're gonna give us more information. So that
WLWV School Board: we have a better context of.
WLWV School Board: yeah, the the information is pretty straightforward. It is that in a survey of surrounding districts. No one has a policy, DNA, like ours.
WLWV School Board: They all have cited
WLWV School Board: policy. Pn is how they deal with outdated curriculum.
WLWV School Board: and that is subject to the determination by the teaching and learning staff and the superintendent.
WLWV School Board: All surplus material, even curriculum, would be brought before the board before it could be declared surplus, so you would always have the ability
WLWV School Board: to
WLWV School Board: have weighed in at that point on whether it is truly surplus or not. So it is not
WLWV School Board: awfully
WLWV School Board: cutting out a step, all of the steps would still remain in place.
WLWV School Board: Okay? Discussion questions
WLWV School Board: from
WLWV School Board: anyone. So is that
WLWV School Board: without doing anything to the
WLWV School Board: disposal of district property policy.
WLWV School Board: policy. DM.
WLWV School Board: All surplus material must be declared surplus by the board, and at that time, when we bring that forward, we identify what that material is.
WLWV School Board: So at that point we would identify old curriculum
WLWV School Board: of
WLWV School Board: materials and and textbooks.
WLWV School Board: So that's what surplus. I mean, I have a different definition of surplus
WLWV School Board: versus outdated or
WLWV School Board: irrelevant curriculum, because we're adopting a new curriculum
WLWV School Board: such as the Ela for K through 5.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: in specifics, what's gonna happen to Lucy Caulkins and Fontess and Panel. So we have our teachers all learning together on the new curriculum. And they're teaching the same thing because what's comfortable. People tend to go back to what's comfortable. And
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: takes longer to learn the new stuff.
WLWV School Board: Yeah, I'm
WLWV School Board: I'd have to defer to. Dr. Sorry are you?
WLWV School Board: Are you suggesting that we keep those materials in teachers, classrooms for them? No, because our plan. They're already collecting them and removing them?
WLWV School Board: It's just we don't have room in this
WLWV School Board: the storage for them, and I'd like to dispose of them.
WLWV School Board: Yeah. So I would. I would like to just to say, like in this policy, that
WLWV School Board: any old instructional materials would just be disposed of
WLWV School Board: and not have any gray area of how it's going to be handled
WLWV School Board: so that they were, there was actually an operations. And you have a process where you actually stamped the materials. And it's sort of a stamping them as discard. And so, for example, the font is and panel materials. Because we actually wanted to make way before the new materials came.
WLWV School Board: And that's a process we use the only thing we do, for example, in social studies there's some old copies of something called we the people constitutional. There might be something that's keep 5 copies sort of piece for something like that. A multicultural reader is one that we just did this process with last week
WLWV School Board: for Middle School Language arts in anticipation of, we hope, you know, ordering new materials, and that's 1 that's keep 5 copies. But when you have large math curriculums, Ela curriculums, we actually have a process because we have to work with our district operations team to collect round up all of the materials. And that has been done.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: Is there any wording that is needed to be
WLWV School Board: added to this that you would like to
WLWV School Board: propose
WLWV School Board: in there.
WLWV School Board: so that we can then take a vote on
WLWV School Board: on it, or do we want to table it? And
WLWV School Board: so what was in the agenda was
WLWV School Board: to
WLWV School Board: to delete
WLWV School Board: policy, DNA what was not on the agenda was to amend policy. Dn. That was not advertised to the Board or the community that we would be amending a policy. So I think tonight your action would be on policy, DNA. And then, if you, as a board, want staff to bring forward Policy, Dn. With a proposed amendment, then I think we should.
WLWV School Board: for transparency put that on the agenda for the community.
WLWV School Board: and then have your discussion in action.
WLWV School Board: because there's only one policy on that was in consent, agenda, and that was DNA. The deletion of that one.
WLWV School Board: DN is still in place.
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: I'm lost right now. So I'm I'm
WLWV School Board: this whole thing.
WLWV School Board: There's only one policy to take action on tonight. And that's policy. DNA, right? Okay? So we can just call a vote on that. And
WLWV School Board: then at any time. Okay.
WLWV School Board: Board, you know. Several board members or staff know about it
WLWV School Board: to bring forward policy. Dn, to the next meeting.
WLWV School Board: Okay, alright. So
WLWV School Board: we need a motion, then.
WLWV School Board: Aye.
WLWV School Board: I move that consistent with the staff recommendation that
WLWV School Board: that we
WLWV School Board: eliminate board policy, DNA or delete it from our policy. Guide.
WLWV School Board: I second.
WLWV School Board: All right, Director Douglas, would you please call the vote
WLWV School Board: of more discussion? Okay.
WLWV School Board: I just was just doing a quick scan. And currently, we have
WLWV School Board: almost 370 board policies or school district policies. And so, as I'm hearing from Mr. Mcguff
WLWV School Board: the fact that we have DNA
WLWV School Board: duplicative or redundant from word policy. Dn, and so I'm supporting this motion, and I
WLWV School Board: don't have an interest in revisiting board policy. Dn, because that does give us the latitude to dispose of curriculum materials, and so.
WLWV School Board: in the in the name of not adding more policies to an already lengthy list, I'll be approving this, and would encourage us to just focus on board policy. Dn.
WLWV School Board: yeah, this is Dan
WLWV School Board: idiot. No, we're just a minute.
WLWV School Board: Any other
WLWV School Board: questions concerns comments
WLWV School Board: I just want to clarify. So we already have be in right. So we I think your suggestion wasn't that we add
WLWV School Board: a new policy? It would be an amendment
WLWV School Board: to DM, to the language in Dn, okay.
WLWV School Board: okay.
WLWV School Board: you have something director. We don't know
WLWV School Board: you're you're out in left field with me. Okay?
WLWV School Board: I will pass it to Director Douglas for the vote. Thank you, director, shoemaker, director, sloop bye. Chair, Taylor. Hi, vice chair way. I direct. Just Dell. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: And I I would just like to add that I would be happy to work with director sloop to bring forward an amended version of Dn. To a future Board meeting work with our attorney, and then put that in the consideration for the board.
WLWV School Board: so be happy to work with you on that
WLWV School Board: Again stamped.
WLWV School Board: And and Dan, too.
WLWV School Board: it sounds like there's a
WLWV School Board: an agreement there. So right? Okay.
WLWV School Board: all right.
WLWV School Board: on to public
WLWV School Board: comment. And
WLWV School Board: in this 1st section of public comment. We don't have any
WLWV School Board: so we will skip that section.
WLWV School Board: and we will move on to board business
WLWV School Board: from Department of Teaching and learning.
WLWV School Board: Dr. Jennifer Spencer Iams
WLWV School Board: and Dr. Soisson. I'm sorry
WLWV School Board: I just saw her moving. We're gonna kinda tag team with it tonight. Director Taylor. Thank you so much.
WLWV School Board: Well, we're excited about this opportunity to connect with you and give you information about the English language arts adoption process
WLWV School Board: for grades, 6 through 12
WLWV School Board: and we'll we'll give a little bit of overview to start things off here on the next slide.
WLWV School Board: So we actually conducted 2 separate processes, one at the middle school level and one at the High school level and both of those processes included extensive information gathering and decision making each separately at the middle school level and at the High school level
WLWV School Board: we built upon a lot of the information and models that were shared through the K. 5 English Language arts adoption process, including thinking about the 5 plus 2 pillars of models of teaching, reading where we think about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency as well as oracy, writing all of those components of literacy.
WLWV School Board: These processes were very exciting and fun actually cause we had wonderful teachers who participated. We invited all unlike primary school where teachers are teaching so many different subjects, so just a certain group of those teachers can sometimes participate at middle school and high school, we were able to invite all of the language arts, teachers to participate as well as our learning specialists
WLWV School Board: and our language specialists. And we ended up with about between 30 and 36 teachers in each group.
WLWV School Board: These folks came together. They identified, and you'll, as you'll hear, ultimately selected materials to bring forward to you tonight.
WLWV School Board: And it's also important to note that our school administrators were
WLWV School Board: involved throughout the process. Observing, participating, being there. It's really important that school administrators are part of these processes, so that they can help bring that learning forward as we move into the implementation phases of curriculum adoption.
WLWV School Board: So a little bit about our timeline.
WLWV School Board: These sessions were. Some were half days, and some were full days during the school day. As well as some after school time, so a combination of some substitutes during the school day when we pulled teachers together, and sometime after school as well.
WLWV School Board: and both of these processes were going on at the same time, and kudos to my colleague, Dr. Soisson, who was very busy facilitating both. I was just at the high School one myself.
WLWV School Board: and, as
WLWV School Board: we said before, I already talked about the K 5 part being so different. But at the high school and middle school level we could use some substitute teachers, which was very helpful.
WLWV School Board: We worked hard to try to not have conflicts with the time, so as many people could participate as possible, and the timeline actually extended in both processes from what we 1st estimated, how long it would take us to do it, and as we got into it. The participation was strong. The questions were many, and we ended up adding sessions at both the middle school and high school level, so that we didn't feel rushed, and we filled that we could really take our time and do a thorough process.
WLWV School Board: So tonight we're seeking board approval to ensure that we have the materials before the end of the school year, so that we can use these as we plan for summer collaboration and learning in August. So that's the goal we have at the end of this
WLWV School Board: presentation, that we will have given you enough information about the process that you will feel very comfortable moving forward to approve new curriculum.
WLWV School Board: So a few things about the process that are the same as the
WLWV School Board: K 5 process, and some things that are different. 1st of all, we just always want to emphasize that it's we're doing this for improvement, for learning for our students. That's what curriculum is. But we talk about that triangle of curriculum instruction, assessment.
WLWV School Board: and we always have to start with the instruction, the practices. What is the good teaching? What does the research show
WLWV School Board: and the assessment. How are our students doing beyond overarching scores, but really drilling down to having that going into it to see? What is it that we need to do so, starting with
WLWV School Board: large, and you'll hear more about that from those who participated. What are the current evidence-based and Peer reviewed
WLWV School Board: research pieces that are really really important at high school and middle level to pay attention to.
WLWV School Board: And what do they tell us about the kinds of instructional practices that make a difference.
WLWV School Board: Again, looking at outcomes data, you know, our our state assessments, our Nwea map scores. We actually look especially in high school at student work and grades and other pieces, because, you know, they only take OS in in 11th grade.
WLWV School Board: We also, we learned the criteria, and this is all similar to the K. 5. But really looking at those 2 parts of the triangle, first, st to identify the what are our priorities
WLWV School Board: as teachers based on what's currently in place. And what are some things that maybe require deeper or different attention?
WLWV School Board: That also comes from looking at the assessment data.
WLWV School Board: And we establish that because then, once we actually move into the other side of it, the implementation, we start this cycle of ongoing collection of assessment data. So the the teachers involved in the process of looking at what we need with assessment data, then move into as we implement.
WLWV School Board: how is it going? What's working? What do we need to adjust with the use of the curriculum and the instruction.
WLWV School Board: There's also, when we say, consideration of all students learning needs, that's talking about students
WLWV School Board: with ieps, students who have learning differences, students who need challenge, and that so that includes talented students. We also look largely at multilingual learning. And there's a research base behind that as well.
WLWV School Board: We also look at
WLWV School Board: parent input about instruction and or materials. And I do have to observe that in doing these processes I'm finding that our parents in our community actually get most interested in the actual instructional processes. And I'm finding, you know, there's the materials. But there's also, then what are those things? Because they notice?
WLWV School Board: Let their students come home from school
WLWV School Board: saying they participated in. They noticed their motivation. They also notice how they're applying those skills.
WLWV School Board: And lastly, for all of our adoptions, we have stayed with the Ode approved Materials list. You can do independent adoptions. We don't take that off the table as an option. You have to look at it. Standard space that is not occurred
WLWV School Board: one last thing to consider, though, even though sometimes you'll see the same publishers.
WLWV School Board: 4 k. 5, 6, 8, and 9, 12. That does not mean that the material sets these publishers produce, for these levels are the same.
WLWV School Board: And so when you hear
WLWV School Board: you know us talk about well, this didn't really meet our needs, and you'll think but wait a minute. You were saying that at another level that was really appropriate. It's because they tend to focus. And also when you look at your data and what you need, we just don't find that, for
WLWV School Board: you know, 13 years of schooling that there's this one size fits all. But that's important to bear in mind.
WLWV School Board: Thanks.
WLWV School Board: And then some ways. The processes are really different for K. 5, and then for middle and high school. So when the poetries, when they look at grades 6 through 12. The curriculum programs include
WLWV School Board: they have brochures. They have catalogs of novels.
WLWV School Board: Text you can buy that you can order sets of because it's not assumed that students are just going to work with one reader sort of thing.
WLWV School Board: And so that's something that makes it very, very different. And they offer ways to purchase these, and they offer their own sets of instruction with that.
WLWV School Board: What's different in our district is, we have a process that is more than 10 years old, with standards-based
WLWV School Board: assessments based
WLWV School Board: units of study that have been developed in for each grade level.
WLWV School Board: And there's criteria that come for selecting those texts from the National Council of Teachers of English. And also we look at, because originally, 10 years ago, there wasn't enough about multiculturalism or diversity. So we use the learning for justice. They have standards as well.
WLWV School Board: and there's a set of criteria for even having materials considered.
WLWV School Board: then developing standards-based unit. When you hear teachers in Middle school and high School say they go to camp Curriculum camp. That's something where there's that development. It doesn't happen just then.
WLWV School Board: But in our so in our district. We are not waiting, or necessarily looking, just to use the
WLWV School Board: catalog of books, although we've looked at it. And that's a place where you can look to see if you're developing new units.
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: these they continue. And there there's a process for revising them, updating them.
WLWV School Board: changing them. One theme right now is more that have choices of novels within a theme, more reading within a single unit.
WLWV School Board: Finally, one thing that's also a little different is we start to collect even the things that come in middle level conferences that come from
WLWV School Board: parents in forecasting, working with high school counselors, and a lot of that is about instruction, and how their students are experiencing language arts that comes through a little more strongly through even the forecasting processes. With counselors. So we start on the front end with with using that in the secondary process.
WLWV School Board: And that's in addition to you'll hear more about the formal, you know, in person session online session that's offered. And the the input that's collected
WLWV School Board: just a summary of these things that have specially come from conferences. One thing that we've heard is, have them read actual books, please, and have them use handwriting, and that's, I think, still, coming out of some of the pandemic.
WLWV School Board: a lot of use of technology, but really an ask. And that has been universal from our parents and caregivers. A lot of talk about writing skills
WLWV School Board: along with reading.
WLWV School Board: and especially so that students can write outside of just language arts.
WLWV School Board: balance, skill, development is critical thinking
WLWV School Board: and making sure that there is some full length, building, reading, stamina, reading longer things.
WLWV School Board: also, along with the shorter research pieces,
WLWV School Board: science material background things that they need in other classes.
WLWV School Board: And there was also, we got just as much feedback about the need for challenge for students as we did for support, which is, you know, just a piece that came through really strongly in the 6 12 general feedback, and you'll hear more about that feedback later.
WLWV School Board: All right. Here comes the exciting part of the evening we get to introduce some of our amazing teachers.
WLWV School Board: who really helped participate and lead throughout this process. And we it just we're so lucky that we had such wonderful professionals willing to come and give up their time tonight. To share more about this process so that you really understand it. So I'm gonna introduce to you Lily Arraho Smith, who's a middle School language Arts teacher and instructional coordinator. So you can come on up
WLWV School Board: and Yannet Ayala, a district El D. Coordinator.
WLWV School Board: Selina Huggins, who's 1 of our High School language arts, teachers from Wilsonville High School, Kim Holtren, who's 1 of our language arts, teachers from West Lynn High School, and Christina Lounge, who's 1 of our learning specialists currently at Athe Creek Middle School.
WLWV School Board: So they are going to take it away from here.
WLWV School Board: Alright. So at the High school level, we studied the research and Ela standards that we were really interested in making sure that our students know.
WLWV School Board: We looked at improving adolescent literacy, effective classroom and intervention practices, teaching secondary students to write effectively and guidelines for teaching middle and high school students to read and write well.
WLWV School Board: and we also audited all of our current units to see what standards we concentrate on what we're missing and the ones that we teach repeatedly across the different grade levels.
WLWV School Board: The key findings that
WLWV School Board: came out of this was that we need more emphasis on teaching, writing, and composition, especially
WLWV School Board: more instruction with comprehension and having those skills assessments.
WLWV School Board: especially fluency in the 9th grade level.
WLWV School Board: We also wanted to make sure we focus on vocabulary and comprehension. Instruction.
WLWV School Board: With all genres, but especially a variety of fiction and nonfiction as well, not just literature.
WLWV School Board: And our standards audit shows that there needs to be more emphasis on that informational text, analyzing information in varied forms, meaning word meanings and context, and reading across genres.
WLWV School Board: Continuing on with what Selina said. We looked at kind of 2 points of data points. We analyze the different organ standards and the Ela data, especially at the 11th grade level. And then the second thing that we did is was a little kind of fun and exciting. Each teacher that participated we brought 3 different samples. So a sample of students who were at demonstrating skills at grade level.
WLWV School Board: and those who whose skills were not quite at grade level, and those who were above grade level.
WLWV School Board: And then we looked at everyone else's samples and compared and
WLWV School Board: some of our key findings that we found from that from the Osas data is that we found that students really need practice informative assessments in applying reading, comprehension and vocabulary skills
WLWV School Board: to different contexts and seeing their progress with those reading and writing skills.
WLWV School Board: And then from the writing samples, we saw that proficient writers need more experience with analysis versus just summarizing data or what they're reading. Embedding and using evidence
WLWV School Board: sentence structure. The improving writers really need experience with writing in more formal tones. We see that a lot in the classroom, interpreting and explaining the evidence that they come up with and their conventions. And then the beyond. Proficient writers need more models and experience with writing structures that are less formulaic than just the basic structures.
WLWV School Board: Alright. So our priorities came out that we need more scaffolded materials for reading and writing. And we especially need culturally responsive strategies and materials. We want to make sure that we don't just read a lot of dead white authors, but that we read a lot of different cultures and experiences.
WLWV School Board: and we also need materials that provide access to support our students with ieps as well as our eld students and multilingual learners.
WLWV School Board: We need a sequenced approach to the standards. And we need print materials. We need to make sure that we're not just relying on digital access for everything
WLWV School Board: we need higher level and critical thinking skills and materials with assessments that inform differentiated instruction.
WLWV School Board: So when we identified the curriculum, we used Ode instructional materials to 1st get our list of approved materials, and we stuck with 4 Hmh. Into literature, inquiry by design, my perspectives and study sync.
WLWV School Board: And then we received demonstration logins from all of these publishers, so we could get a further in-depth. Look at their materials.
WLWV School Board: And this is just an example, it's kind of hard to see it. It's pretty
WLWV School Board: blurry. But this was an example of one of I think this is the 9th grade. One of the unit outlines which I like, because you can see how it scaffolds it. And you kind of have. Each unit is a theme based unit. So we can add, we can keep what's working well in our novel, our current novel units. But we have a lot of selection.
WLWV School Board: to add to what we have. And it shows just kind of the different reading and writing skills, how those are integrated, the rigor, and all the different varied, formative and summative assessments beyond. Just test. It's kinda hard to tell, but it it all the themes, all the units are theme based, and it starts with like whole class learning, and then goes into more small group and independent learning and a lot of different performance assessments.
WLWV School Board: So we also looked at various, or took various curriculum considerations in to ensure that we would have learning and progress for all of our students.
WLWV School Board: Some of those included scaffolds, like graphic organizers or summaries of stories that also will promote promote independence.
WLWV School Board: We looked for opportunities for progress checks throughout a unit to determine what specific and additional instruction needed to take place.
WLWV School Board: We also wanted frequent practice that would carry over to other courses, not just language arts.
WLWV School Board: and looked for embedded instructional strategies for both reading and writing to ensure that everyone has access.
WLWV School Board: We also took in consideration for our language learners, our multilingual
WLWV School Board: learners in our classrooms, curriculum materials should guide teachers and planning daily instruction that include and connect reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
WLWV School Board: In addition. It is essential for multilingual learners to benefit from using, listening to support reading and speaking, to support writing
WLWV School Board: materials that are culturally responsive in terms of diverse authors and instructional strategies that build on students. Background experience are essential.
WLWV School Board: And I'm
WLWV School Board: oh for understanding and motivation.
WLWV School Board: Also using data from curriculum assessments that focus on progress with skills and the application of skills is key for seeing where students are with language, proficiency, proficiency.
WLWV School Board: and aligning daily instruction, task, feedback and practice with the annual
WLWV School Board: English language. Proficiency, assessment, which is the Alpha
WLWV School Board: teachers and language. Specialists ask for curriculum resources that align with these practices for using assessment information to inform daily and weekly planning.
WLWV School Board: It is important to have resources that let students read text at their reading level, and also have shorter text segments that teachers and specialists use with strategies for reading complex tests.
WLWV School Board: so that students practice this and can apply
WLWV School Board: it all
WLWV School Board: in all of their classes.
WLWV School Board: So in addition to our committee's works, the community of West Linn and Wilsonville had opportunities to provide input regarding the secondary Ela adoption.
WLWV School Board: Online as well as an in-person session.
WLWV School Board: The input summary that was given from parents and caregivers were
WLWV School Board: curriculum and instruction need to limit the time students spend on screens.
WLWV School Board: Students need to do more reading and writing off of the computer
WLWV School Board: balance, reading, writing, skill, development, and critical thinking and advanced writing skills, especially technical writing in high school.
WLWV School Board: ensure that students read full length, challenging texts and have more complex writing tasks that align with what they need to be able to do in other subjects and beyond high school
WLWV School Board: provide a list of texts.
WLWV School Board: students. Sorry. Let me read that again, provided a list of text. Students will read at each grade level
WLWV School Board: and then other input comments were, send notices about input sessions in the Principal's Newsletter, in addition to parent view
WLWV School Board: and school district website, and finally, a request to keep specific types of novels out of schools.
WLWV School Board: So the high school findings. Came out and we decided that Hmh. Into literature was going to be eliminated, based on not having high quality scaffolds for El D. At the high school level. Just like they were talking about. It might be okay at some levels. But at the high school level it did not work for us. We developed tasks and questions for the publisher, presentations for the last 3 publishers, which they received in advance before they came to meet with us again.
WLWV School Board: Sorry I forgot. This is me, too.
WLWV School Board: Once we heard all of those publishers presentations. We used odes curriculum, evaluation criteria, where one was ranked to the highest, and we put it on a giant sheet to see what fit overall we found that study sync offer sequencing, but not enough critical thinking and rigor and angry by design, fits well with our current units and approach, but does not offer the systematic strategies to address the gaps that we are seeing.
WLWV School Board: Gonna say, you could probably continue. And if you look at the chart, my perspectives was a pretty clear winner for us. It includes all the systematic skills and strategies for language and learning, differences, formative assessments, and the rigor we liked as well.
WLWV School Board: So if you see the chart in the middle, the ones pretty much across the board.
WLWV School Board: At the middle level we studied several research and Ela standards. We looked at improvement. Adolescent literacy, effective classroom and intervention practices, teaching secondary students to write to write effectively evidence-based instruction for other lessons.
WLWV School Board: comprehensive literacy, instruction for multilingual learners, and the and we also audited the current units that are being used to teach the standards. We looked at you know what standards are, you know, being taught repeatedly, but also what standards might be missing.
WLWV School Board: So some of the findings that we had were that we do want to continue reading fluency, instruction.
WLWV School Board: an assessment in middle school. We do like to have more explicit instruction in vocabulary and reading comprehension skills, also an and better integration of reading and writing, instructions, instruction for students and kind of the
WLWV School Board: structure, the teaching of the writing skills in a more more systematic way.
WLWV School Board: And also help students to learn how to tackle new words when they're learning new vocabulary.
WLWV School Board: So when we considered the standards that already been taught.
WLWV School Board: that will be in the next slide
WLWV School Board: degree level language arts, curriculum maps include the standards. But we again, we were looking at what is currently being taught, and we'd realize that we do need an increased emphasis on teaching, critical thinking
WLWV School Board: and analyzing text, just like at the high School text comparison, and also really working on interpreting informational texts. Although these standards address the skills in reading and writing the ones that have been used right now, we want to teach those skills more systematically, as I said.
WLWV School Board: and just like the high school did. We also looked at data. We analyzed
WLWV School Board: the most recent map data or the measures of academic progress
WLWV School Board: for strengths as well as areas of need in vocabulary, literary text, and informational text.
WLWV School Board: We also analyzed and looked back on the past 2 school years of the Oregon State assessment
WLWV School Board: in the Ela test.
WLWV School Board: So from that map data, we see that students need more work with informational text.
WLWV School Board: whereas vocabulary is a strength
WLWV School Board: and then skills with interpreting fiction and nonfiction texts independently and applying those skills to new texts also needs some improvement.
WLWV School Board: Our statewide assessment data shows that students are making the most improvement between 6th and 7th grade.
WLWV School Board: They need skills, work with informational text as well as strategies and practice to apply those reading comprehension skills to their content area texts.
WLWV School Board: So we had a set of priorities that we were using as a framework for our selection. We all
WLWV School Board: knew that we wanted a balance of print and digital
WLWV School Board: with active learning.
WLWV School Board: We wanted something that had integrated vocabulary, grammar, fluency, reading, comprehension.
WLWV School Board: and that these materials would support multilingual learners, but also students on ieps.
WLWV School Board: We want it shorter texts. But also, you know, book length texts for students to have
WLWV School Board: a systematic instructional approach to reading and writing, and definitely an emphasis on interpretation of texts and being able to apply those skills in other subjects areas just like high school.
WLWV School Board: We use the Ode, Instructional Material Criteria and the Ela 6 to 8th grade approved materials list. We identified at the beginning with identified several programs that we wanted to look more into the Carnegie Meres and Windows, Hma into literature, inquiry by design studies, think, and my perspectives. And then we we were able to receive information so that we could log in and kind of
WLWV School Board: look at all of these programs. And then we also had the publishers that came and presented
WLWV School Board: so one thing that the middle school level or the middle level did was really emphasize importance of writing. And so they highlighted this writing instruction tool which we see right here which is writable and is through. Hmh, but they found it to be very helpful, because it gave
WLWV School Board: feedback to the students. And it was accessible for the students to have different writing modes.
WLWV School Board: And that was that was intriguing for for the teachers there.
WLWV School Board: So we did further study at at the beginning. As I mentioned, we had 5 programs that we were looking into, and then, since we got login accounts that allowed us to have, like, you know, a better picture of the larger differences. And we were able to narrow down our interest to 2 programs, study Sync and Hmh into literature.
WLWV School Board: And we ended up eliminating the other studies think because there wasn't a consistent or comprehensive reading and writing strategies. And then also we found that it didn't have cultural responsive materials
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: as a group, we developed tasks and questions for the publishers to answer when they came, and they received those questions in advance, and they were able to answer a lot of our questions.
WLWV School Board: So again, just as the High School level team did for their selection process. We met in grade levels and discussed
WLWV School Board: the various curriculums and
WLWV School Board: ranked them according to our priorities. We
WLWV School Board: considered the strengths and look fors in both programs. However, we felt as though Hmh. Into literature
WLWV School Board: being that it is now aligned with the map assessments.
WLWV School Board: and because it also has a rich variety of fiction and nonfiction, text selections, learning activities and the systematic approach to teaching the skills
WLWV School Board: as well as allowing for a stronger trajectory from kindergarten through 8th grade in the Ela.
WLWV School Board: Curriculum.
WLWV School Board: that is, that is our recommendation.
WLWV School Board: So as you can see here. Oh.
WLWV School Board: are we talking about the yeah. Okay, just the rating. So number one is the 1st like that's the one that we liked the most, or that we thought met the criteria or the
WLWV School Board: standards, or I'm sorry. The the criteria that we had. So we had
WLWV School Board: to look at the standards had base standard based tasks.
WLWV School Board: They had evidence of access to support for multilingual learners and students with Iep. They had culture, responsive and strategies, and it was represented with like different authors, diversity in their writers and just resources for teaching, reading, and writing, engaging, and also filling in the gaps with the current units that we have.
WLWV School Board: So we came up with these ratings. Number one is the number one, the one the preferred, and then it goes with
WLWV School Board: number twos, as you can see. Hmh, into literature had the most
WLWV School Board: boats.
WLWV School Board: So there you have it. The recommendation is for middle school to go with Hmh. Into literature and for high school to adopt them my perspectives.
WLWV School Board: Each had a very thorough process. I hope that came through with lots of teacher, input lots of learning along the way. Community input as well, both through that formal time. And, as Barb mentioned before, just ways that we're always gathering data from the parents who are really good communicators with us around what? What works best for their children. So we know that our next steps if we get to adopt tonight, there's there'll be a lot more work to do around gathering those materials.
WLWV School Board: planning professional learning, bringing everyone into orienting about how to use those materials and different sorts of ways. So we'll have revisions of grade level curriculum maps based on how these new materials play into those standards gaps that we identified along the way. So it's it's a very exciting time, and now we'd like to open it up to see if you have any questions for any of the teachers or for Barbara. Barbara. I.
WLWV School Board: Q.
WLWV School Board: I'll start down with Director Shoemaker.
WLWV School Board: Thank you. And I want to thank you for your
WLWV School Board: the energy that goes into an adoption year and adoption process. And I want to thank your colleagues
WLWV School Board: that aren't here tonight that have also put the energy into it. So I'm going to grossly abbreviate this.
WLWV School Board: We start by looking at data. And I appreciate how many times you mentioned data as an important part of this work.
WLWV School Board: We start by looking at data, some of it state Summit of data
WLWV School Board: that tells us where what we need. Right?
WLWV School Board: We then have a process, a really nice thorough process.
WLWV School Board: and then we adopt in in the hopes that we can improve in the areas we want to improve? Right?
WLWV School Board: How do we know when? How do we know that this material is
WLWV School Board: is doing that. I'm not gonna say, how do we know it's going to do that because we don't know until we do it? But is there are? Is there anything built into these materials that will allow you, as a teacher, to get that feedback quickly about how students are doing
WLWV School Board: versus waiting to the next summative assessment. That's at the end of next year, right? Like, we want to know. We want to know if these are. If this we want to know if we adopted well, because adoption is a big deal to us. So how do you know? How will you know?
WLWV School Board: Well, I can speak for the Hmh. At the middle level, it does have a number of progress checks and assessments that are built in throughout the units, so that as teachers and specialists, we can get feedback
WLWV School Board: as the teaching is occurring to know if we need to go back and reteach or go into something more thoroughly.
WLWV School Board: Yeah, thank you.
WLWV School Board: And if I could just add to that one thing that they did, middle Level had a much harder time.
WLWV School Board: they were.
WLWV School Board: There was deeper discussion, and we had to add a session just, and and it some of it was around assessment. But in looking at this, one of the things they pulled out is, we want a curriculum that doesn't just assess how the students do with the curriculum.
WLWV School Board: But are these assessments actually looking at reading and writing skills that will then transfer to map and Osas. And there's a difference. Because you can test. Do you know what this just says, sort of thing.
WLWV School Board: Or
WLWV School Board: what does this do with you? Being able to make an inference and transfer it? So that was part of the debate and argument. Specifically in, you know, helping the middle level separate out. And I I don't know if we have an an example for my perspectives
WLWV School Board: for assessment.
WLWV School Board: So the my perspectives does have pre assessments as well as the post assessments. Which was something that we found very valuable. But I know I will send Bill level, and I believe that at Westland also they we meet together as a team and do the writing sample thing. We actually have done that several times throughout the year. So that process is kind of built into our own
WLWV School Board: what we do on campus, anyways. So we would just do the same thing with the curriculum as we move forward.
WLWV School Board: I would just add that
WLWV School Board: the I saw some of the most excitement around some of the support materials and some of the assessments at the high school level. Because the High School doesn't. As you know, high School doesn't have map.
WLWV School Board: High school only has Osas one year, so we don't have some of those other assessments that come as frequently and so the high school teachers got very excited about having readily available both sort of unit related assessments, but also skill related assessments that they could just pull out as needed or give as a whole plc, that could really a professional learning community. Help them really move the work forward together.
WLWV School Board: One thing, all of the my perspectives are
WLWV School Board: you? Can. You can change it really easily. So you can add, based on what you think by each class. Even
WLWV School Board: so, you can change the assessments. Does that make sense. That's not making sense. But so if you wanna hit like really hit, the grammar of feeling like the the whole class is not getting the grammar as well, or even just individually, you can divide it up, which is really nice.
WLWV School Board: There's 1 more thing for middle school. As Christina was mentioning that it has different progress checks the the brick one that we really liked. H, literature. Also has the addition of the integration of map data. We have been using map data to inform our instruction.
WLWV School Board: But we're really excited about this curriculum that has that integrated and it gives you a lot more options of how to use the data and how new students are performing, so that you know they will also guide you in terms of stop holding and differentiation for those students that are needing those skills. So we really like that idea as well.
WLWV School Board: Any other
WLWV School Board: questions.
WLWV School Board: Alright, director slope.
WLWV School Board: So 1st off, I just wanted to
WLWV School Board: to thank your your team
WLWV School Board: and colleagues. The thoroughness and the intentional
WLWV School Board: thinking that you put together the thoughtfulness.
WLWV School Board: You answer my question about the assessments.
WLWV School Board: And so, my my only question is, you mentioned doing? Hmh, 6. Through 8 to kind of continue that trajectory from K through 5.
WLWV School Board: How does transitioning to the my perspectives? Is that an easy
WLWV School Board: transition for that direct trajectory as well?
WLWV School Board: So in some ways it is a little bit different. A lot of the systems are different that the students would have to change to. But what we noticed is if we continued hmh, across through the High school level. The el supports dropped off, and at least at my campus, I mean, I have 2 brand new students in my classroom within the last few weeks.
WLWV School Board: That don't speak English at all, so we need to make sure that we have those supports, and when it dropped off pretty drastically at the high school level is when we decided that we needed to look at something else. And that's why we decided not to continue with. Hmh.
WLWV School Board: thank you. That's it. Sounds like a
WLWV School Board: in my perspective, is a great
WLWV School Board: great selection for high school.
WLWV School Board: Right?
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal.
WLWV School Board: I just wanted to thank all of you for your hard work. And echo Director sloop's comments about your thoroughness and intense intention in reviewing all your curriculum. I was wondering at the middle school level.
WLWV School Board: You had mentioned that.
WLWV School Board: I don't know if this is the right word, but you kind of tested out the curriculum with your students at who are reading at grade level, who are reading like above grade level, and then under grade level, and I was just wondering at middle school. How do you think the students are doing right now in reading overall and writing?
WLWV School Board: I know that's not part of this.
WLWV School Board: Is that something you if you don't want? If you don't. Well, when we reviewed the current units that we have, we can clearly see, that there are. Some of the standards are being repeated, and some that we, you know, wanna put more emphasis on, and that had to do with like analysis of informational texts.
WLWV School Board: and also being able to continue the fluency, you know, and reading comprehension, skill development into middle school, because that is mostly, you know, in elementary school when we focus on fluency, but we realize the importance of continuing that into middle school and then also having
WLWV School Board: and more systematic way of teaching reading and writing skills so that they can be more integrated with each other. Hmh, also has a component that's called writable.
WLWV School Board: That comes with that. So we have a reading, you know, component that has grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension strategies, but also the writable that students can use to integrate their reading into the writing, and also the other feature that writable has is that it can
WLWV School Board: provide easy feedback among peers. So peers can see each other's writing. The teacher can set it in a way that is anonymous. So they're reading each other's writing and giving peer feedback, and then the teacher is also able to provide feedback on their writing, so believe that that combination was a strong one. Given the the fact that we do want to continue improving our reading and writing skills for our students.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Vice chair, Wyatt. Anything.
WLWV School Board: I don't have anything either, and thank you all for all of your hard work.
WLWV School Board: We can tell a lot went into that. So thank you.
WLWV School Board: Appreciate it.
WLWV School Board: Yeah.
WLWV School Board: like a motion. Oh, yes, yes, I'm looking for a motion. Okay.
WLWV School Board: I move to adopt HMH. Into literature as the Westland Wilsonville School district's grade 6. Through 8, Ela. Instructional materials.
WLWV School Board: Second
WLWV School Board: director. Oh, any any further discussion before we call both okay. Director Douglas, would you please.
WLWV School Board: Director shoemaker, director, slew Hi, chair, Taylor. Nice chair, Wyatt, I Director Vidal. Hi, thank you.
WLWV School Board: Alright, and I move to adopt my perspectives. Savass at the As. The Westland Wilsonville School districts grade 9 through 12 Ela. Instructional materials.
WLWV School Board: A second
WLWV School Board: any further discussion.
WLWV School Board: No, all right, Director Douglas, please call the vote. Check to shoot me fair. Hi! Check to sloop. Hi, chair, Taylor. Hi, vice chair, Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.
WLWV School Board: Thank you for that work. Yeah. Chair. Taylor, could I just make a comment? Yeah, sure. Just wanted.
WLWV School Board: Thank Dr. Soisson and Dr. Spencer Ims for leading that work, and to those who came tonight and presented, Thank you so much. I know behind each of you our many colleagues who would be here if they could, and who spent an extraordinary amount of time
WLWV School Board: I'm committed to looking over materials and selecting the ones that you felt were right for students and for you and your colleagues to deliver the best instruction. So thank you for all your time, your good thinking, your commitment and dedication.
WLWV School Board: Appreciate all of you.
WLWV School Board: Thanks for coming tonight.
WLWV School Board: Really appreciate the time you took after a long day of teaching. So thank you so much.
WLWV School Board: Yeah. And you you are welcome to leave. You do not have to stay on Monday.
WLWV School Board: so
WLWV School Board: maybe we can thank them with a round of applause for
WLWV School Board: oh, yeah, yes.
WLWV School Board: and I think what we'll do is we'll take a short recess, maybe 5.
WLWV School Board: We're back on time, so
WLWV School Board: I would like to keep us on time since we made that up.
WLWV School Board: So if we take a quick 5 that still leaves us 5 min ahead. So see you back at
WLWV School Board: 7 55.
WLWV School Board: No, but
WLWV School Board: well, welcome back, everybody.
WLWV School Board: and we will now move on to the superintendent's office, and I'll pass it over to Dr. Kathy Ludwig.
WLWV School Board: Hey? Thank you. I'm excited to bring forward this next agenda item. You've been hearing about it for a few months this is about
WLWV School Board: Our contract with 3 Rivers Charter schools. So I'm gonna invite Director Megan Alston, to just come up to the podium in case you have questions for her. Back in February you already took a very important vote, made a decision as a board to go ahead and renew
WLWV School Board: the charter for 5 years. That then tasked Director Elston and myself along with Director Vidal and Board Director,
WLWV School Board: Sheila Walker at 3 Rivers Charter School to meet on several occasions and look at what components of the charter needed any updates or revision.
WLWV School Board: and we came back to you in May and shared that we were keeping the majority of the charter, as is
WLWV School Board: other than some lighthouse keeping, involving, updating just the dates.
WLWV School Board: or making sure that statutes that were referenced in the charter had the most current language again, not substantive, but just
WLWV School Board: just some mild updates, but that there was one section that we did want to add. So in your draft you'll see where there are 2 tabs.
WLWV School Board: and it's on the section around enrollment.
WLWV School Board: And in May we came to you with the new language, and you'll see it typed up
WLWV School Board: in Roman numeral. 6 starts at the very bottom, and essentially with your nod of approval. In May we added this language, the contract which allows
WLWV School Board: the Charter School to enroll, in addition to the 110
WLWV School Board: students that we allow, and cap 5 additional students
WLWV School Board: who would be the children of employees.
WLWV School Board: And again, if there are no children of employees at that time. Then those 5 spots just stay vacant.
WLWV School Board: They're not
WLWV School Board: given to anyone else. They're not added to the 1,010 for those on the wait list. These really are reserved for employees, children. And primarily this was around
WLWV School Board: the with the workforce shortage and a challenge in recruiting staff, and we all feel it.
WLWV School Board: It is helpful. Particularly if a prospective employee says
WLWV School Board: I can take that job.
WLWV School Board: If you know my young children could come with me for a period of time, making it easier in terms of navigating family obligations.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: we felt that was reasonable, was the same reason why our own board opened transfers for our employees. Children to transfer to the district makes sense to extend that to our charter school, as well for continuity purposes.
WLWV School Board: so that language is the only substantive new language there that you already saw in May, and gave approval. And here it is in the charter. Our attorneys have reviewed it. We had several conversations with them.
WLWV School Board: And so what you have in front of you is the draft that should you approve it tonight is what we will then
WLWV School Board: formalize and have for both of our
WLWV School Board: organizations.
WLWV School Board: So with that, I'll look to a motion, and then any discussion or questions for Director Elston and myself.
WLWV School Board: I move that we approve the contract between the Westland Wilsonville School district and 3 reverse Charter School as presented for a 5 year. Duration of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029.
WLWV School Board: I'll second
WLWV School Board: open for discussion.
WLWV School Board: None. Oh.
WLWV School Board: I don't want to see.
WLWV School Board: Sorry about that. I got so excited. Because I know what a well loved part of our school district. 3 Rivers Charter School is, and so I am excited to vote. Yes, on this motion.
WLWV School Board: To think that we have 5 years of runway ahead of us that we can attract even more talented teachers to the school, if they can enroll their children. And just really am excited about the vision that you have for the school and everything that you put into place. And having this opportunity to offer to our kids. So a very enthusiastic yay is coming your way when we take the vote.
WLWV School Board: Anything else?
WLWV School Board: No.
WLWV School Board: alright, director Douglas, please call the vote. Thank you. Director, shoemaker.
WLWV School Board: check to sloop. Hi, chair, Taylor, vice chair. Wyatt. Hi.
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal. Hi, thank you.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: and we'll extend you the same offer if you're ready to go home for the day.
WLWV School Board: Okay, thank you again, Director Alston, for all your time with this. And please thank your board member and and Kate.
WLWV School Board: yeah, I appreciate it.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: All right.
WLWV School Board: We will move on to the department of Operations, Mr. Pat Mcguff.
WLWV School Board: Once again.
WLWV School Board: Good evening. If you recall, we have 3 positions on the long range planning committee that are coming to an end.
WLWV School Board: And tonight we have 5 candidates that have submitted their applications to be part of the long range planning committee.
WLWV School Board: 3 are in person. 2, I believe, are remote.
WLWV School Board: Ryan, Ingersoll and Ashley Robinson, I believe, are online, attending virtually.
WLWV School Board: but in the audience we have Miriam's.
WLWV School Board: There you are
WLWV School Board: Jenny Cole
WLWV School Board: and Amy
WLWV School Board: Fashion Park. I'm sorry I was close Fashion Park.
WLWV School Board: so tonight.
WLWV School Board: you will make the choice, for who will be part of the long range planning committee.
WLWV School Board: Right?
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: in your folders you will find a ballot sheet and a
WLWV School Board: set of cards.
WLWV School Board: and it is
WLWV School Board: traditionally
WLWV School Board: we'll use these cards. We'll place a vote on here for 2 candidates. Correct all. Go ahead.
WLWV School Board: Did you want to give the directions first, st and then hear from the candidates? Do we hear from the candidates, and then do the directions
WLWV School Board: they get up? Do they get like a minute, a minute or 2 each to share why they want to be on the committee.
WLWV School Board: and so why don't we move?
WLWV School Board: Since you brought that up? We'll just move right into it, and and I'll I'll call each of the candidates who are present. Forward, and I'll just start with
WLWV School Board: Miriam.
WLWV School Board: and we will give you. Is it 1 min or 2 min.
WLWV School Board: Traditionally.
WLWV School Board: 2, 2 couple.
WLWV School Board: Yeah. Okay.
WLWV School Board: So, Miriam, come on up, Miriam, you'll be able to come forward to. You don't have to. You can say pass, or you can. You can speak for a couple of moments. So it's 2 2 min, 2 min. Okay.
WLWV School Board: hello. My name is Miriam Panoli, and I'd like to share a little about myself and the reasons why I'm interested in serving on our longer distance. Our our district's long range planning committee. I'm an educator by trade. I taught English and history at the middle school level full time, and most recently, though, I've subbed in our school district for actually 11 years now.
WLWV School Board: This month I will be finishing up my second term and 8th year, serving on the Wilsonville City Library Board, where I've had the opportunity to work with fellow board members, library staff, community partners, and our city council to ensure the library's strategic plan. Budget and policies and procedures are in line with our library's mission statement.
WLWV School Board: Tomorrow I will be completing my graduate program in education, public policy through Drexel University. So if you see me run out of here. That's because I have a research paper to to finish up. I am a mother of 3 children, the last of which is graduating from Wilsonville High School next year. My my children have had a a great privilege of
WLWV School Board: of benefiting from the rigorous academic programs and excellent music programs, and really competitive athletic athletic programs and the empowering stem programs. That our district offers. My older 2 children were academically and socially very prepared for their higher education experiences. I feel like this is in large part because of their experiences in both our schools and in our wider community.
WLWV School Board: The 3 main reasons why I'd like to serve on the long range range planning committee are. First, st I'd like to utilize my talents and my strengths to give back to our school community. Second, I am excited about the opportunity to learn from my fellow community or committee members and other colleagues.
WLWV School Board: and 3rd as a daughter of an immigrant from the the Pacific island of Samoa, and as a parent educator and engaged community member, who truly cares about the successes of all of our children in our school district.
WLWV School Board: I hope to contribute to better access and equity for our students by utilizing our our district facilities in the most optimal way possible, and forming and strengthening partnerships within our community
WLWV School Board: to increase opportunities for our students which will hopefully lead to clearer pathways, to either higher education or directly into high demand jobs in in our local workforce. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Oh.
WLWV School Board: we also have Amy
WLWV School Board: and remind you, would you like the opportunity to speak.
WLWV School Board: All right.
WLWV School Board: Hi, my name's Amy fashion. Par, I'm a
WLWV School Board: can you hear me? Okay, yeah. I'm a resident of Westland. I'm interested in the long range planning committee for the opportunity to support the School Board and their capital Improvement goals.
WLWV School Board: I've bred the 2019 long-range facility plan and the meeting minutes and
WLWV School Board: looking at that information, I believe my background and experience will aid future conversations and planning for the district
WLWV School Board: a little bit about myself.
WLWV School Board: I'm a registered architect in the State of Oregon. I've dedicated my career to public architecture.
WLWV School Board: My wrote about
WLWV School Board: not public speaking. My last project as project architect was addition and renovation to Salem up to Pingle elementary school in Salem.
WLWV School Board: That was part of the Salem Kaiser School district bond. So I have experience in bond programs and school building.
WLWV School Board: My current project, which is just starting, is for a new athletic and wellness facility for Catlin Catholic School in Portland.
WLWV School Board: and I just really welcome the opportunity to take my experience and knowledge and use it in my local community, my local school district.
WLWV School Board: my son, started kindergarten at Chilliam Creek this year in the dual language program.
WLWV School Board: and my daughter will be joining him in that community in 2 years.
WLWV School Board: So I'm just really looking for a way, now that I'm in this district in this school to take my experience
WLWV School Board: and get
WLWV School Board: for the community and take my experience and help get back.
WLWV School Board: So thanks for your consideration.
WLWV School Board: and thank you
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: we will move on to Jenny.
WLWV School Board: Good evening. Can you all hear me? Okay? Oh, yeah. Great. Well, I'm Jennifer Cole. If I've not yet had the pleasure of meeting you. I go by, Jenny, and the reason why I look forward to joining the long range planning committee falls into 3 buckets.
WLWV School Board: First, st I'm always finding ways in which I can give back to the community that gave me so much. I was raised here in this community I attended elementary through high school. I married a Westland native, and our child will in just a few years attend Westland Wilsonville schools, and so the success of our community and our school district is very important to me.
WLWV School Board: Secondly, I'm a former public school classroom teacher. I know firsthand the struggles of teaching in facilities that aren't up to par for what our staff faculty and students need. And so I look forward to bringing that 1st hand experience to this committee and to inform the projects moving forward to better serve our community.
WLWV School Board: And lastly, in my current role in the humanitarian nonprofit sector, I work day to day with massive financial documentation. I help run with audits.
WLWV School Board: I engage in program and project design and implementation. I know intimately how important cross cultural competencies are. I also am fluent in 3 different languages. And lastly, I know how important community stakeholder investment and involvement is in any program and project design, and I look forward to bringing all of those skills to this committee. Thank you all so much for your consideration and your time.
WLWV School Board: We appreciate it
WLWV School Board: alright. And so we'll move to
WLWV School Board: our online
WLWV School Board: candidates, and we'll we'll be able to hear them.
WLWV School Board: And we'll start with Ryan Ingersoll.
Ryan Ingersoll: Can you hear me? Okay.
WLWV School Board: Yes.
Ryan Ingersoll: Alright. Well, thank you for the opportunity to come to you. I have 2 young kids that I had to do bedtime, so that's why I'm here. Remotely, thanks to technology. I'm really interested in serving on this commute on this committee to sort of get back
Ryan Ingersoll: to the district in areas that I have expertise. I've had the opportunity of serving higher Ed for 2 decades. I'm an educator administrator, including adina libraries overseeing digital learning Ed tech and supporting it.
Ryan Ingersoll: Initiatives across university campuses and a school district before. I've experienced creating, designing and supporting, teaching and learning spaces.
Ryan Ingersoll: Everything from traditional classrooms to computer labs, to maker hubs those types of things as well. And then I also have experience collecting and listening to community stakeholders and getting feedback as part of strategic planning initiatives and implementing those strategic payment planning initiatives in both the nonprofit
Ryan Ingersoll: nonprofit world and in the higher Ed world. I have a future kindergartner entering Lowry next year, and IA second grader at Lowry right now, and I serve the nonprofit world as an executive director supporting
Ryan Ingersoll: students going to college with scholarships and mentoring and coaching. And so that's kind of what I do in the current day. So, looking forward to the opportunity supporting the important work that the district has ahead. With. This this work. So thank you for the opportunity to share.
WLWV School Board: Thank you, Ryan.
WLWV School Board: Alright.
WLWV School Board: and I will
WLWV School Board: to
WLWV School Board: Ashley Robinson.
WLWV School Board: Ashley Robinson's online.
Ashley Evans Robinson: Hi! Everyone! Can you guys hear me?
WLWV School Board: Oh, yeah.
Ashley Evans Robinson: Awesome. Hi! I'm Ashley Robinson. I am
Ashley Evans Robinson: 1st and foremost a mother, and I've got 3 kids in the district. I've got a current 4th grader, a current, second grader, and a a kindergartner. They're all at sunset, and
Ashley Evans Robinson: we love it here. I grew up here in Westland. I'm a native. I also moved back here and married a native Westland. Person my husband and I
Ashley Evans Robinson: We love Westland. We love the district we love Wilsonville, I grew up on the Wilsonville side of the district and then moved over here when we moved back into town. I was a classroom teacher for 7 years. I was over at Oregon City and then Salem Kaiser School district, and then have subbed a little bit in the Westland Wilsonville School system. I'm a coach
Ashley Evans Robinson: I coached at the High School. I've coached college. I've coached little kids, and so that's that's a little bit where I would love to see my experience
Ashley Evans Robinson: and helping the district kind of navigate what the youth programs needs are and how we can mesh together. That in the bond measures and the long term planning. I work for. I started my own nonprofit, and that's what I do on my day to day and I also started and founded the Westland Youth Vib Program which serves
Ashley Evans Robinson: 500 young ladies in the district ages. 3rd grade through 8th grade. So that is my passion. I'm excited to see what future holds, and how I can help and establish the continued success of this awesome district.
WLWV School Board: You.
Ashley Evans Robinson: Yeah.
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: now, what we'll do is we'll get into placing a vote
WLWV School Board: for each position. We have 3 positions to fill.
WLWV School Board: Position 2, 3 and 5, each board member will list their top, 2 choices for each position starting with Position 2,
WLWV School Board: and the applicant that received the most votes
WLWV School Board: as the top. One or 2 choices secures that position.
WLWV School Board: so in the event of a tie, the board repeats, repeats the process, and we'll select the top choice
WLWV School Board: of the 2 tied applicants.
WLWV School Board: Alright any questions on that
WLWV School Board: before we
WLWV School Board: so do we write. I have not started looking, so do I write like number like one
WLWV School Board: dot, and then their name, and then 2 dot their name, and so on. Correct, you can rank, rank them in order of
WLWV School Board: of who you want to list as one your 1st candidate, your second one would be your second candidate. And so if we've got 4 votes for
WLWV School Board: for Ryan and 3 votes for Miriam. Obviously Ryan wins in the case. There's a tie between Ryan and Miriam. We'll recast those votes, and however that comes out.
WLWV School Board: that will be the person who is securing that position, and we'll do them position
WLWV School Board: 2. First.st Cast a vote.
WLWV School Board: then we'll go to position 3.
WLWV School Board: Cast the vote, and then position. 5. So
WLWV School Board: excuse me.
WLWV School Board: and and then, Chair Taylor, you'll come down to
WLWV School Board: verify the votes.
WLWV School Board: and the results are in.
WLWV School Board: and we do have
WLWV School Board: a a winner for that particular position.
WLWV School Board: and that one will go to.
WLWV School Board: Miriam!
WLWV School Board: Panoli!
WLWV School Board: So congratulations and welcome to the long range planning committee.
WLWV School Board: Yeah.
WLWV School Board: all right.
WLWV School Board: we will move on to
WLWV School Board: position number 3,
WLWV School Board: and there are 4 candidates left now, minus Miriam.
WLWV School Board: and so we can cast the next vote again, ranking one and 2
WLWV School Board: in.
WLWV School Board: Well, chair, Taylor, you know just a reminder at the very end. There will be a motion, and you'll see the sample motion where
WLWV School Board: you can do all, you know, all 3 at that time, but you'll have the names to be able to put into that those blanks.
WLWV School Board: and once again we do not have a tie
WLWV School Board: and position. Number 3 is being awarded to Jenny Noel.
WLWV School Board: So congratulations!
WLWV School Board: Oh, Cole, I'm sorry.
WLWV School Board: Yep.
WLWV School Board: that's the one thing about the board that will quickly correct you.
WLWV School Board: Yeah, don't worry about that.
WLWV School Board: Right?
WLWV School Board: Alright.
WLWV School Board: One more position to go, and that is position number 5,
WLWV School Board: all right, and
WLWV School Board: we have a
WLWV School Board: winner for Position number 5,
WLWV School Board: and that
WLWV School Board: position is being awarded to Ryan Ingersoll.
WLWV School Board: So congratulations Ryan online, if you're still there.
WLWV School Board: And you were awarded position number 5.
WLWV School Board: And
WLWV School Board: do we want to have a motion independently for each one or all 3?
WLWV School Board: I was gonna make a motion. Yep, okay.
WLWV School Board: I move to appoint Miriam Panelli to position number 2, Jenny Cole to position number 3 and Ryan Ingersoll to position Number 5 to the long range planning committee.
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: any comments, questions.
WLWV School Board: I just like to comment that this is the best group of candidates I think I've ever seen.
WLWV School Board: Just an outstanding
WLWV School Board: group of candidates.
WLWV School Board: And Dr. Ludwig. Yeah, I would just add, I know Miriam and Ryan had applied previously and then were not selected. They gave it another go and we're selected. So the same thing, I would say then to Ashley and Amy.
WLWV School Board: you're clearly amazing community partners, and you're interested. And there are always other openings to their committees.
WLWV School Board: and we will have people coming off long range planning committee. And we will need people, you know, interested to step up so. Thank you for applying this round, and we hope you toss your hat back in the ring when there's openings again. So.
WLWV School Board: and I echo that. Thank you for taking time out of your evening to
WLWV School Board: come and speak with us and
WLWV School Board: again.
WLWV School Board: I encourage you to continue and and and
WLWV School Board: keep an eye on openings, cause we'd love to have you so
WLWV School Board: alright. So I will pass it to Director Douglas to
WLWV School Board: cast the vote.
WLWV School Board: Thank you, director, shoemaker, director, sloop, Hi, Chair, Taylor.
WLWV School Board: Vice chair, Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: Jack Davidal. Aye, thank you.
WLWV School Board: And now we move on to. Are you going to pass it off to
WLWV School Board: Remo, or you, I'll pass it off remote. But I'd like to before I do that. Thank you all for applying, and I look forward to connecting with you on the long range plan.
WLWV School Board: One of the tasks of the long range plan is to give. Give the board an update.
WLWV School Board: and sadly, this will be Kim's last update that she's giving because she has vacated.
WLWV School Board: But I'd like to invite Kim up, and just to let you know that this will be her last update.
WLWV School Board: I do not accept her resignation. I mean to just like sneak into it real quick and leave. You don't have to say anything nice or acknowledge it's fine. It's fine. And I knew this is gonna happen is that when they were talking, and all the applications that I was going to be like Dang, but such a good group, so excited for the future of it.
WLWV School Board: just awesome applicants and and good thing. I didn't put my application back in, because that was a tough. That was tough, though. So anyway, I'm here to talk about the quarter run report, and that was held in April on the 17, th
WLWV School Board: and my report is actually gonna be really brief. I wish I had a more exciting one for my last one. But when I was looking back at my February report. This one is so similar, because, although big things are still happening
WLWV School Board: compared to what we have done over the last 3 years. It seems slow, but we're still building a whole nother school, but because we've done so many things so far, it seems really quiet and calm, at least to me, probably not to Remo and Amy and Pat, but so you'll notice in your packet your packets a little slimmer now, because there are 3 projects that just aren't listed anymore. We're not doing updates on
WLWV School Board: that was West Lynn. We've been done with that one for a long time. We're done with Riverside. And then the Wilsonville performing Art Center you won't see listed in there.
WLWV School Board: So the ones that are left, the things that are kind of of note is Athe Creek. If you've driven by there or you get the subscriptions, you know that 2 big things are happening. The track
WLWV School Board: that starts next week and goes for about a month through the summer. That should all be finished this summer.
WLWV School Board: and more of note around Athe is the roundabout and the road, and the
WLWV School Board: bumps, and the parking, and all that. So that is in progress, and that will be hopefully finished this summer. One thing we kind of talked about at our meeting is they have started
WLWV School Board: doing construction on the part of Fields Bridge that creates a big backlog on the weekends when there's tournaments. That is not a district thing. So just so that you know that that's Westland baseball, or whoever is using the fields at that time. But it's really tricky. Because how do you communicate to all these people who are coming to these tournaments? You know where to park and don't park on the street, and this is temporary and whatnot. So they're doing their very best. There's lots of signs
WLWV School Board: to try to get people to follow through on that. But that's not a a district thing that's a rental situation. They are using the parking at Athi and walking down under and and baseball has done a good job of trying to say, go under. Don't try to run across the roundabout, you know, with your kids or whatnot. So so that's good. That's the Ap. Situation.
WLWV School Board: new school at Fraud Pond, that is slated to open in the fall of 2025. There's also a considerable amount of street construction going on there. There's the work that's already happening with the city. But then the 2 roads that the district is working on around there to eventually give more access to staff and neighbors
WLWV School Board: coming into the school and being able to navigate in and around and out of the school, and a lot of those updates you would have seen because they come through from Andrew on the bond updates. So and I think that kudos to the district staff. There's a lot of maps on there and clarity around what's happening so that people who get those reports can know
WLWV School Board: and then the other thing I just wanted to. Briefly, highlight was the facility improvements. There's the 4 that I talked about last time. Those are getting all queued up to kick into high gear as soon as students are out of the building. So that's the the boiler at Boon's Ferry, the rewiring at Willamette.
WLWV School Board: the Security hardware at Westland High, and then the track at Rosemont Ridge, and that track in Rosemont Ridge is that communications gone out to the public as well start warning them. You're not gonna be able to have access there. Why, they do that resurfacing
WLWV School Board: so. And if you'll allow me, I just wanted to say something about this being my last presentation
WLWV School Board: went to. I was invited by then Superintendent Bill Rhodes, to go to the Bond Summit in 2,01410 years ago.
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: I didn't know much about the district. My kids were a lot younger, and I was a little busier with them. And
WLWV School Board: It was awesome. It just was so interesting, and it just spoke to something that I didn't know about, and I applied. I was on the safety Committee, and I applied in 2,018. So I've been doing this work for 6 years.
WLWV School Board: and I hope that I've been an active and contributing member. I've loved it. It's been great, but mainly I just wanted to say that Pat
WLWV School Board: Amy Remo, you know, before I've I mean.
WLWV School Board: they're just so wonderful, and we're so lucky to have them. I have never seen anyone so willing to sit and answer questions from the public for literally hours, so that they can get the right information out there, then they will. I mean, they are willing to just dig in.
WLWV School Board: They have encyclopedic knowledge about
WLWV School Board: the district and the buildings and the sites and everything, and it's just awesome. They're fun to work with, and it's just been my absolute pleasure. So thank you for letting me do it.
WLWV School Board: Okay, don't say anything.
WLWV School Board: all right. So
WLWV School Board: there is obviously something wonderful that Pat has brought for you.
WLWV School Board: We have just.
WLWV School Board: Kim has been the longest serving member of our committee, and we have lost great historical knowledge, but we know where she lives so she can never get away. Thank you, Kim.
WLWV School Board: start a position called Consultant to the Long range Planning committee. Yeah, I'm sure there may be some words that
WLWV School Board: directors may want to share, so I'll start from the left. If there's anything director, shoemaker.
WLWV School Board: and then I'll just move on. I'll you know, as as as someone who has benefited having kids go through the district, having worked in the district and
WLWV School Board: benefited from the publics aspect of this work.
WLWV School Board: It's it's evident in our buildings that it isn't just
WLWV School Board: Pat Mcgov.
WLWV School Board: making decisions right? I really value the contribution of of our community members. So thank you
WLWV School Board: for that. Thanks
WLWV School Board: direct to Sloop.
WLWV School Board: I just appreciate you taking the time to give it. Give us the reports. They always make it sound fun with all these construction projects and everything that's happening in our district.
WLWV School Board: You've always been point on with what you have to say. So thank you so much.
WLWV School Board: And, Director Vidal.
WLWV School Board: I just wanted to say, when I started observing these meetings. I did think you were a consultant. I had no idea none, that you are a volunteer, so you have a future
WLWV School Board: ahead of you as being a consultant. I think you should just like make it up like on your resume. But I wanted to just applaud you for your professionalism, your enthusiasm. We know our schools really matter where our kids learn matter. And so I wanna thank you so much, and congratulations for your future as a consultant
WLWV School Board: advice to your wife. So the 2 years I spent being the liaison to the long range planning committee was. It was so much fun. And it was so interesting. And
WLWV School Board: one thing I just wanna recognize it's not just that you were able to really clearly communicate about the complexities of of spending down the bond money, and then also the projects. But you also just provided a leadership to that group that made it successful, and we went through a period where some people weren't showing up to meetings, and the concern you took in making sure that we found committee members who are gonna
WLWV School Board: take this seriously. Just a real, true form of leadership. And so even behind the scenes, you are making sure that this committee, which you know is exceptional, I think, in in the State for how district do capital planning? You were the driving force and making it be a a productive group which is always a great way to volunteer time. Is when you know you're gonna go to meetings and they're gonna be meaningful. So thank you so much.
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: and echo some of the things that you had to say there. But I have been impressed over the past
WLWV School Board: several years listening to you present, because
WLWV School Board: the level of seriousness that you have put into your work and your craft, you would never know that it wasn't your full-time job.
WLWV School Board: And so I'm
WLWV School Board: I'm impressed with just the passion in which you've done this work. It's volunteer work right, and I'm impressed with your expectations and and some of the
WLWV School Board: the ways that you've raised the bar for others to
WLWV School Board: have to stand up or live up to. So thank you for that. And we we hope that that culture continues in your absence, and thank you for setting a culture in an expectation
WLWV School Board: that as a school district. We strive to be the best, and we have the best long range planning committee, too. So thank you for your work and dedication. So.
WLWV School Board: Dr. Lugan.
WLWV School Board: I just wanna echo the sentiments of of the Board members and just add, while you may have joined the summit for 2014, you also helped to lead the 2019 Bond Summit and brought all of that experience to that group. You've got this long institutional knowledge that really brought depth to the group, and was something that we, as staff, counted on, that we had a citizen voice and not just our own knowledge about where we've been.
WLWV School Board: You always read every single report you came prepared, you came ready to engage, demonstrating to the rest of the committee that this is what it means to volunteer for this type of work. On top of that. You then chose to join the district as an employee with this great work at Willamette.
WLWV School Board: and just brought your heart and soul to that school, and I just couldn't thank you more, Kim, for being such a great parent, being a great longish planning committee member Wh. Which also serves as the Bond Oversight Committee, and has done some beautiful work around, reading all those reports and analyses, and and looking at the audits of that. So
WLWV School Board: thank you. Thank you. And you know we often bring consultants to the meetings. Who's the gentleman that
WLWV School Board: comes from the planning committee on
WLWV School Board: Keith Lyden. So you and Keith, you know, are now that will that will bring and hope that we can call upon you now as a community member for
WLWV School Board: other work in the district which you can lend your experience and expertise. Thank you, Kim, thank you.
WLWV School Board: So at this juncture.
WLWV School Board: we will take a pause, and I am going to close the School Board meeting temporarily and open the Budget committee
WLWV School Board: meeting. But I will
WLWV School Board: ask, does anyone need a break prior to us
WLWV School Board: moving into that? Everybody?
WLWV School Board: Good.
WLWV School Board: Right?
WLWV School Board: Alright. So I will.
WLWV School Board: okay.
WLWV School Board: and.
WLWV School Board: by the way, any of you candidates who've come or secured positions. You are not obligated to sit through the remainder of this meeting, and I will also extend the offer that we extended to Staff earlier that if you would like to go home and enjoy your family, feel free if you'd like to stay, we love to have you so
WLWV School Board: all right. So I'm going to.
WLWV School Board: Is there one more thing down there?
WLWV School Board: I wasn't for sure
WLWV School Board: I do have it. It's right
WLWV School Board: here. Yes, I have
WLWV School Board: alright. So I'm gonna close the Westland Wilsonville School Board meeting temporarily.
WLWV School Board: And now we will get over to the business office, and I'm going to open
WLWV School Board: the Budget Committee, hearing
WLWV School Board: alright. And I'm gonna turn this over to Dr. Ludwig.
WLWV School Board: You're Gonna move to public comment is the only thing you have to do for the hearing. Yeah, that is right.
WLWV School Board: So the only thing that we have for this portion of the meeting is public comment.
WLWV School Board: and it looks like. We have one
WLWV School Board: speaker.
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: I don't have to read the rules. John Mccabe, you're familiar with the process. So welcome back.
WLWV School Board: Some of you should have reached
WLWV School Board: something you should have received today
WLWV School Board: layout from the report. There. There is a serious problem with page 3, 20,
WLWV School Board: where it shows
WLWV School Board: 4,000,004.4 million dollars. That
WLWV School Board: says
WLWV School Board: that there's no description for it but the audit. There's no such item.
WLWV School Board: And so the item is for the audit.
WLWV School Board: a figure for 2223 is not correct.
WLWV School Board: Then I set a spreadsheet along with it.
WLWV School Board: because one of the things that occurs with item
WLWV School Board: 3, 20 d regular
WLWV School Board: Geohan.
WLWV School Board: is. The amount that you've approved to collect is about $900,000. More than that's needed.
WLWV School Board: The reason being is.
WLWV School Board: the upper portion equals the lower portion.
WLWV School Board: but the lower portion is supposed to be $19,000. Less than that.
WLWV School Board: because of that's the actual value of the bonds is 30 million change
WLWV School Board: instead. You've approved 31 million 31 million plus
WLWV School Board: on the lower portion.
WLWV School Board: Guess you've you've approved
WLWV School Board: $31,320,000
WLWV School Board: when the actual amount that's needed is 30,030,400,000,
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: you're able to up till June 30th to make and any change.
WLWV School Board: I've already been in contact with your department of revenue.
WLWV School Board: Show them the information, they said. That was correct.
WLWV School Board: I do not know if they have been in contact with the district on this issue.
WLWV School Board: But we need more than that.
WLWV School Board: as of
WLWV School Board: the audit of 2223
WLWV School Board: the
WLWV School Board: getting fund balance in the area which basically is supposed to get to 0 is at 1.7 million dollars.
WLWV School Board: Sort of
WLWV School Board: it should be much more
WLWV School Board: because on the excel spreadsheet that I also sent.
WLWV School Board: I have a highlighted in red
WLWV School Board: the district for years more than a decade
WLWV School Board: has credited no investment interest income
WLWV School Board: to the Geo. Bond collective funds. When they come in they go to the bank.
WLWV School Board: probably with the regular general funds.
WLWV School Board: and what ends up happening is none of them are allocated to the Geo Bond Fund.
WLWV School Board: and we're basically 4 million dollars
WLWV School Board: short of what should be in that fund.
WLWV School Board: What fund it would come out of. I don't know.
WLWV School Board: There is a lack of transparency. I've asked for certain records, and I've been informed by the Administration. You don't get them
WLWV School Board: I've been told by Albert Todd with the
WLWV School Board: Attorney General's office. That's not correct.
WLWV School Board: I do get them.
WLWV School Board: So the question is.
WLWV School Board: will the Board help me get them so that we can get the money where it belongs.
WLWV School Board: and help the citizens of this district.
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: and that will conclude
WLWV School Board: or budget hearing
WLWV School Board: meeting.
WLWV School Board: And I will now reopen the Weston Wilsonville School
WLWV School Board: Board
WLWV School Board: meeting.
WLWV School Board: Okay?
WLWV School Board: All right.
WLWV School Board: I'm gonna turn it over to. So yeah, evening board member. So before we show you the resolution. 23 2023 dot 10. We would like, we have a few information to share with you before you adopt a budget.
WLWV School Board: so tonight you'll be able to have further deliberation as a School board. You got to see the Budget document as part of the Budget Committee. The 5 of you. Now you are tasked as the Board to do the final approval of the budget. You have more opportunity. You've heard public comment. You've had time to think. Several of you have asked verifying questions of District staff. In the last week or so, so you have an opportunity to have further discussion.
WLWV School Board: And what we did here from a few of you is again to emphasize with the budget reductions. Where are we still keeping a strong priority around academic achievement and closing those opportunity and achievement gaps for students. Given that, we have, as you heard tonight.
WLWV School Board: A. K 12 literacy adoption that's being implemented. And then also, as we go into the year with mathematics.
WLWV School Board: So I've invited Dr. Pryor and Dr. Soisson up here in case you have questions for them, and we've prepared a couple of slides that we thought would augment the information you received as part of the Budget committee.
WLWV School Board: And so the 1st slide just speaks to sorry about the small font, but you also have a hard copy in front of you, with even smaller font realized. I printed those on even smaller. So this one addresses really K, 8 literacy, and that in the general fund
WLWV School Board: we have preserved opportunities for
WLWV School Board: continued professional development. Of course, this year 2324, we had funding for students to re for teachers to receive quite a bit of training. There were times when we came to you and detailed what types of professional development they were going to, whether it was Mz or being part of the Renewal Committee, which also required reading a lot of data and research and looking at instructional practices.
WLWV School Board: So where we'll continue that in this next year is making sure that school work plans give both time and resource towards teachers now implementing those materials
WLWV School Board: and having time to meet with colleagues and grade level departments, to unpack the materials and think about how they transfer and translate into their work with students, whether it's high dosage, tutoring or explicit reading, instruction or small group work, one to one conferring or large blocks of time for writing, as you heard about tonight.
WLWV School Board: We also have assessments built into the curriculum. You've heard about 6 12 assessments
WLWV School Board: that give that opportunity for ongoing, monitoring. And you heard about the built-in assessments for K. 5.
WLWV School Board: So there'll be time for teachers to take a look at those in professional learning time, staff development as well as opportunity, then to work with those tools with students in the general fund. We keep 2 literacy coaches employed, and with the early literacy grant approved by the Governor, we have 2 literacy, also 2 literacy coaches funded as well as funds going towards high dosage, tutoring, and professional learning.
WLWV School Board: We can always come back to the slide, but just wanted you to know that we have a strong priority towards K. 8. Literacy.
WLWV School Board: and then, in terms of mathematics.
WLWV School Board: The grade 6. Through 12 mathematics materials were already adopted and paid for in this school year's budget 2324
WLWV School Board: and those teachers have the have had a whole year to unpack and begin using those materials, and then there'll be another opportunity in August for them to come together. Review data, how students been doing in mathematics this year with the new materials.
WLWV School Board: and then what additional learning do teachers need for refinement going into the next year?
WLWV School Board: This will be the year for K. 5 mathematics teachers to do a full review just like you heard tonight. They will look at the data. They will look at the research. They will look at samples of materials. They will consider parent input, and then they'll make a recommendation. So going into 2425, our K 5 teachers will begin that mathematics renewal process
WLWV School Board: and then they'll bring that before you as a school board.
WLWV School Board: And then the last slide before we open up for any questions.
WLWV School Board: There are questions around, do our teachers review student assessment data? Absolutely. You heard tonight lots of examples. You heard it during the K 5 Presentation Middle School has regular Plc sessions to review their map data, their curriculum assessment data and other types of State standardized data. Our high school departments meet in their department teams, their plcs
WLWV School Board: to look through their curriculum maps to create common assessments. You heard tonight examples of where teachers bring writing samples and look at them. And so they have that type of data to look at. And of course, our primary schools have both formalized data teams as well as their grade level data teams to review data regularly and inform their planning as well as their work. With students.
WLWV School Board: Do. Teachers feel the need to improve math and reading outcomes absolutely. That's why, there's high interest to be part of these renewal committees. That's why they're engaged in their data teams and in their grade level meetings and their plcs.
WLWV School Board: They want students to do better. And that's why we had close to 80 teachers in part of the language arts, renewal, adoption, and over a hundred primary teachers have opted into that Mz training on foundational reading
WLWV School Board: and secondary teachers have the option, and I believe there's already a good turnout on the list to come in the summer to review their curriculum maps and create common assessments. Teachers also write their professional goals every year, based on increasing student learning outcomes. So there's a commitment there and then. Principals create school work plans. And you've seen those
WLWV School Board: that also have a commitment towards improving learning outcomes for students. Of course, it's in the District
WLWV School Board: Integrated Plan, where we have these long range goals. But the district plan doesn't mean anything unless school plans and teachers goals also identify
WLWV School Board: a need for increasing student learning outcomes.
WLWV School Board: So we'll just kind of exit out of that
WLWV School Board: Powerpoint.
WLWV School Board: because you do have a copy. Hard copy in front of you, if you'd want it back on, just let us know.
WLWV School Board: But now, as you think more about the budget, if there are any other questions, or, in particular
WLWV School Board: about those 2 academic areas and student learning outcomes. And our commitment towards that, even with the budget reduction, Dr. Soisson and Dr. Pryor are here to answer any questions, or or go deeper with any of the information that was on the slides.
WLWV School Board: Well, thank you.
WLWV School Board: This gives us the opportunity to deliberate and
WLWV School Board: have a discussion around additional questions that any of us may have
WLWV School Board: in regard to the budget, or
WLWV School Board: in regard to any new information that may have been presented. So
WLWV School Board: Just as
WLWV School Board: matter of formality, I'll start down.
WLWV School Board: Director, Shoemaker. Is there any questions
WLWV School Board: comments, concerns
WLWV School Board: from you?
WLWV School Board: Yeah, I want. I want to thank you for putting together these slides, because th those do come from questions that that we had, and and that's a nice addressing of some of the concerns
WLWV School Board: in the face of of of a more challenging budget. I think
WLWV School Board: the message we've tried to send is that
WLWV School Board: we don't want to
WLWV School Board: lose ground in this push that frankly, I feel really good about the
WLWV School Board: the process for the the literacy adoption. So
WLWV School Board: you know.
WLWV School Board: highest
WLWV School Board: commendation for that work
WLWV School Board: that everyone knows that the the real work now now happens. And we I just want to make sure that we have support
WLWV School Board: for our teachers in that work. And also, I'll
WLWV School Board: again say.
WLWV School Board: our ability to help our teachers be nimble. And I appreciate hearing
WLWV School Board: from all levels around Litterbox TV
WLWV School Board: teachers say that. Yes, I'm going to get real time data
WLWV School Board: so that I can make adjustments
WLWV School Board: when I when I know this, students aren't reading at the level, I didn't read, so I appreciate that.
WLWV School Board: I I wonder if you could speak a little bit to the rigor of the math adoption
WLWV School Board: relative to the
WLWV School Board: to the that great adoption we completed with Reader.
WLWV School Board: Well, the process in terms of starting with you know that triangle instructional practices and looking at the assessment data that we have so far, it'll it'll
WLWV School Board: have similarities to that. We also in in working with some of the things that we have done since, and our High School mathematics adoption, which actually was prior to this year. Is a good example of
WLWV School Board: how the adoption has allowed us to live into the rigor of continuing to collect data, because what happened with our district, we were on the front end of looking at high school mathematic materials. We got interrupted by the pandemic. You've heard us talked about that talk about that. Which is why we didn't
WLWV School Board: continue, you know, with 6 we wanted to start
WLWV School Board: at.
WLWV School Board: you know we started with Literacy K. 5.
WLWV School Board: But we did the opposite with mathematics, because mathematics so much opens up into very, very different course trajectories. And now it's been formalized into different pathways. So we wanted to start out and
WLWV School Board: specify those. And since that time there's been there's been continued development in Oregon with the math 2 plus one model that looks at that. So the rigor of looking at that we have found that what we created with the adoption several years ago, and this even has stood up when we have
WLWV School Board: some teachers who have left or retired, you know, and we have new teachers coming on. But once you start. That process of this is what we're committed to. And you saw those things named in literacy, you set it up to continue looking at those pieces, and I think, as you know, better than any of us in this room. Director, the the algebra piece, you know, starting with that. And where are we? And how do we know? And how do we look at
WLWV School Board: continually? Do we have not just, we've purchased a curriculum. But how are we using it. How are we pacing it? Pacing is huge in mathematics, because it can seem like Whoa, you know, going back to K. 5.
WLWV School Board: We did fractions in 4th grade, and they still need some work on fractions in 5th grade. And of course that doesn't mean you don't want to start working with equations with fractions in them, but really sticking to that process. Which is why you hear us talking about curriculum maps and pacing, and how you organize standards, and what you draw from the curriculums again with mathematics in the
WLWV School Board: 9 12, and in the 6 8 adoptions you heard a lot about
WLWV School Board: assessments built in real time what you call formative assessments to make adjustments and also to do maybe some intensive grouping work
WLWV School Board: individualized work. So with the K. 5, we will be looking at the same thing. You know you look at the balance of how do you develop conceptual understanding along with math
WLWV School Board: proficiency? In doing that?
WLWV School Board: we are real adherence to the nctm.
WLWV School Board: Not just this
WLWV School Board: practices, but also the guidelines. They produced a guideline for curriculum, and how you how you should look at curriculum, and so in terms of a checkpoint for the rigor of our process. And what we look at that will be another thing, you know, that is in place for that. But I I would suggest that I think we are really working towards a data culture.
WLWV School Board: I think Dr. Pryor can speak to what that looks like with literacy with the data impact teams that we will be transferring to mathematics. So it becomes part of your teaching. It's part of the what do I do next? And part of your planning, and increasingly that's something that our district has has really embraced, and and
WLWV School Board: I don't know. Would you like to speak to the data teams? Because we'll bring the data team and the data impact team in K 5, which is what the math adoption will be in from Ela which they've focused on into mathematics.
WLWV School Board: Yeah, I would just add that. I think the I appreciate the way you worded your question around the rigor of the process, because I think the rigor in our revamped processes where teachers are educators are the actual ones. Reviewing the peer reviewed research and developing a strong, shared understanding of what makes a difference for all students
WLWV School Board: has led to a chomping at the bit to implement them in the right way. You know. And the question around, like, how where can we see in the budget strong efforts toward raising student achievement and closing opportunity gaps. You know, there are some very explicit things we can see, such as literacy coaches and class size of a reasonable level where teachers have the physical and mental capacity to participate in data teams or meet after school.
WLWV School Board: But there's also it the fact that a strong budget also liberates us to whether it's teacher leadership or district leadership to promote the actual strategies that allow us to strongly implement and to assess along the way and so like within this budget, there, there's the flexibility for leaders to get classroom substitutes. So teacher teams can come together multiple
WLWV School Board: times of the year. Look at the data for their grade, level themselves with facilitation from their leader. Determine what's working well, and what do we need to adjust? So we stay on pace. So we finish the curriculum. So students get what they need.
WLWV School Board: And every school has been perfecting those data teams.
WLWV School Board: One thing we're talking about this morning is. It's through a stroke of coincidence. Hmh, is also the same company now owns Nwe map, so that curriculum works really well with an assessment tool which we look at deeply 3 times a year.
WLWV School Board: The literacy coaches are also looking at that data district wide to help us with that work, and then I think at every level. Teams leaders have already been planning for next year, like we've already been thinking, how do we have a strong 2 h block. And how do we organize our day? Where do we put wellness and music and library to allow that to happen? And we've
WLWV School Board: principals who've already taken the lead in creating a specific block of time for high dosage tutoring instead of weaving it into the two-hour block.
WLWV School Board: Are sharing their plans now. The whole primary team is now already looking at their schedules for next year to create a block where every student gets that time for for double dosing, while students who are on track might be participating in literature groups or working with a parent volunteer or or extending a project
WLWV School Board: to meet some of their other goals. So you know that it all kind of works together, and where it might be hard to specifically point to all of that in the budget. I do think the comprehensive nature of the budget allows us to maintain staff who are excited to work in our district, and who do have that capacity to participate in these other extra things that allow them to assess and evaluate their practice all along the way.
WLWV School Board: And if I could just add to that within the budget when we budgeted and and we're going to do the same thing with mathematics that we did with K. 5 literacy when Dr. Pryor and I budgeted for K. 5, literacy, we built in the pieces and with the support of the Literacy grant for the Mz training. For the last week E. Every
WLWV School Board: K. 5 teacher has been to 3 h of Hmh. Training and our learning specialists. We
WLWV School Board: worked it out.
WLWV School Board: you know you don't bring all of them at once. But we had sessions that we ran last week. The reason we waited till last week is, they had the materials.
WLWV School Board: And so then, and one of the
WLWV School Board: things that we ask that they show is, how will that work with our 120 min literacy block.
WLWV School Board: We did it by grade level.
WLWV School Board: across schools for consistency, across schools. And then what assessments are within this? How will we use them? That came up a lot. And we call that a launch.
WLWV School Board: because then teachers go home over the summer, and they are thinking of this, and we have something to build on. The literacy coaches were there. And that's a real capacity building way. Because when they're working alongside the teachers and the instructional coordinators are there, then the things that they might do, even when they are not present. Physically, those practices continue. So we have designed and budgeted for the K. 5 mathematics
WLWV School Board: process to follow that same piece and to look at implementation as actually part of the launch.
WLWV School Board: not just when you select it, but also in how you actually navigate your contract with the publishers, because, for example, they send teachers. They don't send the sales reps to do what we're describing as the implementation professional learning. So the rigor in terms of looking at how we use this with what we know about instructional processes and the growth we need to make.
WLWV School Board: That's that's our plan, you know, for for taking what we did in literacy and doing it in mathematics.
WLWV School Board: I mean, come, yeah, you want me to come back to you.
WLWV School Board: Well, this is you. Can. You can ask it now
WLWV School Board: have a question.
WLWV School Board: when we
WLWV School Board: we're at the Budget Committee meeting.
WLWV School Board: I not really sure that $20,000 that we switch from one function to the other. Can you explain that again?
WLWV School Board: That's listed in the
WLWV School Board: yeah, that that was professional Development fund that we give every year to our licensed staff. It's in our contract with them that will set aside money so that they can
WLWV School Board: dip into professional learning and get reimbursed.
WLWV School Board: and by error. It's supposed to be each year we up it in our contract, and so we really should have set aside and I don't know if Shyla wants to come to the podium
WLWV School Board: 131,000, and it was 111. And so we caught that error.
WLWV School Board: And because it's in the contract, we have to have it say that.
WLWV School Board: And so we just shifted it, and from somewhere else and put it in there. Okay.
WLWV School Board: so the contract language originally started in the 2,006, 2,007 year, and then it was a set amount of money, I think, around 76,000 ish, and then
WLWV School Board: the number of fte. When we went up, we had to go percentage each year. And so this year, when we were in bargaining, we agreed to put what the current amount is in there and then that, and then, if we don't add fte, the amount stays constant. And so it was just an error in what the amount should have been based on our current fte. Yeah, I just couldn't remember if it was something that we had to move from one category to another, or if it was
WLWV School Board: just a
WLWV School Board: error on what the writing was. So thank you. Now, I remember, and sometimes we can later adjust things, even if it doesn't change the bottom line. But we really wanted this document to reflect what was also in the contract. So we wanted it to be.
WLWV School Board: you know, to be
WLWV School Board: typed in the document accurately.
WLWV School Board: Pardon me coming.
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal
WLWV School Board: anything. No
WLWV School Board: vice chair, Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: I just wanted to make the comment. You know we shared a slide during the Budget committee meeting about
WLWV School Board: how public sector, and especially public education budgeting is different than what we might experience as individuals or as families or as businesses.
WLWV School Board: And I feel like dr. Swiss. And Dr. Prior's presentation is precisely why making cuts to the magnitude we had to make is so incredibly challenging because we're not just talking about.
WLWV School Board: you know. SW, you know, turning off the lights more switching to the cheaper brand of toothpaste. I mean, we're really talking about outcomes for our students. And we're thinking about, how do we maintain this level of academic excellence when we're cutting millions of dollars from our budget? And so I appreciate that you took some time to walk us through that because it would have been
WLWV School Board: You know it. It seems dire to have to cut money, but to know that you've put all of this thought and care and attention into how we continue in these tough times. You know, I just can't thank you enough for prioritizing that and and for sharing that. And you know it's just a reminder that we are not in a situation of our own making with this reduction.
WLWV School Board: You know this is a a flaw in the public education funding model in the State of Oregon. We're not here because
WLWV School Board: we were irresponsible with spending, or that we didn't project the right amount of revenues. We're in a situation. And hopefully, you know, when we hear messages from our State reps and State senators that they're gonna do something about education funding in the future. Hopefully, we can count on them to do that because it's not a great place to be, but you've handled it with
WLWV School Board: professionalism. And my favorite aunt always told me that you need to roll with the punches, because you just never know where life is, gonna what it's gonna throw your way. And I think that this budget, while it is unfortunate that we've had to make some cuts. Is rolling with the punches in the best way. So thank you for your time and and for sharing that with us, and thank you, Dr. Hughes, and your team for putting a great budget together.
WLWV School Board: I don't really have any questions, but I did find the public comment, interesting in regards to bond interest, credit. So I was hoping that
WLWV School Board: Dr. Hughes would be able to
WLWV School Board: maybe give us some information in regards to
WLWV School Board: bond, interest, credit, and how that
WLWV School Board: may or may not play a role in
WLWV School Board: what buckets it falls into and whatnot would you be willing to?
WLWV School Board: And I also invite Pat. Look up to come in up to the podium. Because
WLWV School Board: yes, this idea that
WLWV School Board: you know the 900,000 this is, we still do have
WLWV School Board: principle in our
WLWV School Board: in our 2,014 bond. And if you're you have your document in front of you. This is fund 300 but also the 2,014 bond is in Fund 425 so just in general, as I know, Remo isn't here. He could provide way more specifics. But if you could just speak to that
WLWV School Board: in general terms, as, as
WLWV School Board: Dr. Ludwig says, Reboot keeps the very specific line items, but in general terms, the $900,000
WLWV School Board: in the 2,014 bond is currently there. It's encumbered under a project. So if you're not quite sure where to look.
WLWV School Board: it will.
WLWV School Board: it will appear to be zeroed out, but it's currently held for a future project at Beckman Creek to repair the roof.
WLWV School Board: So the money is there. It's just allocated currently and held
WLWV School Board: so it isn't
WLWV School Board: spent in on other projects. Thank you. So for the born office. When we go out to sell the born born office we'll call 2,014. But when we put this into the budget we call siri. 2015.
WLWV School Board: So for the account inside you will hear. Born 2,015 and 2,015,
WLWV School Board: we also have a refinance. So in the budget book. You see, siri. 2,000 series 2, 0 1, 5, and then another series, 2 0 2 0 c.
WLWV School Board: That 2020 c. That is another refining portion of the 2,015 bond.
WLWV School Board: Okay?
WLWV School Board: So that so that is needs to be accounted for. Still, which is why it's the 31 million, and not the 30.
WLWV School Board: So it is encumbered. It is there, and sometimes it
WLWV School Board: may not show up in some places, as as described in
WLWV School Board: maybe overlooked in the community. But it's yeah.
WLWV School Board: It's there we have to do that project. So under the general bond Depth Services Fund 300. When we add up of the theory of the principle and intrit
WLWV School Board: the total
WLWV School Board: depth services will be 30.3 million. But because we have to factor in only 97% of collection rate. So that why the tax to be levied to the county will be 31.3 and the the different. That's the difference between 30.3 million. That's the total debt service and how much we asked to collect. And from the county that is factored in the 97% collection rate
WLWV School Board: Gotcha. And then we do have a financial company called Piper Sailor. That reviews all of our bonds, their principle, their interest, the debt service, and reviews all of the documents
WLWV School Board: in this in this budget, before we present it to the Budget Committee. So they have verified that our general obligation. Bond debt service, as
WLWV School Board: listed in Fund 300 is correct.
WLWV School Board: Another ones is the intricate interest income. This question been asked several time, and I also present it to the Oregon Department of Revenue. Gina
WLWV School Board: we're talking about.
WLWV School Board: I think a community member believe that when when we have the intric, when we put the money when we had a bond, proceed money, put it into the Lg. IP.
WLWV School Board: The limitation in the Lgip account is 59 million. So if we have more than 59 million, then we invest with piper into a short-term investment.
WLWV School Board: and we unintered
WLWV School Board: within lg. IP. And also what the investment shortcom investment.
WLWV School Board: that interest income according to community member, that it should reduce the collection rate from the county.
WLWV School Board: There are 2 options. You can do that. But
WLWV School Board: we can do that intra- income
WLWV School Board: to support with the current project. They can with the current project, with the inflation, with the pricing, changing the interest income really half hour with the current project for that.
WLWV School Board: and I have a very deep explanation to explanation to the Oregon department of Revenue. So
WLWV School Board: well, thank you.
WLWV School Board: I don't have any further
WLWV School Board: comments or questions. So
WLWV School Board: this does require board action.
WLWV School Board: So we would need a motion.
WLWV School Board: I move that the Board adopt the 2024, 25, financial budget for the West and Wilsonville School district, as presented in Resolution 2023, 11, in the overall amount of $276,577,298.
WLWV School Board: Do we have separate?
WLWV School Board: I second.
WLWV School Board: Alright,
WLWV School Board: we've already had questions and comments. So
WLWV School Board: anything additional before I pass it to Director Douglas.
WLWV School Board: Alright, please call the vote
WLWV School Board: director, shoemaker. Aye, director, sloop.
WLWV School Board: I'm
WLWV School Board: Chair Taylor, I vice chair, Wyatt, I indirect readout. Aye, thank you.
WLWV School Board: Right on time. 9, 15. Jumping into board policy. I'll turn it over to Dr. Kathy. Lovely. My last item will be the current financial report.
WLWV School Board: Apologize on that.
WLWV School Board: Yeah.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: this is not much different compared to the report that I present to you on mesa.
WLWV School Board: The only 2 item that different is our first, st because from now until June 30th we're not foreseen any emergency. So therefore, we release the contingency of 1 million, and this 1 million will go toward to the ending fund balance.
WLWV School Board: and then the another one is a hundred 50,000. That's a from resolution €2 to 3 dash 10, when the district, asking permission from the Board member to postpone the death services to the future year, and we got approved from the board. So between 1 million contingency and 150,000, that money will go work to the end in fund balance.
WLWV School Board: So at may 6. They ended up violent estimate at 20.5 million, and that money
WLWV School Board: that ending fund balance. Were you at the beginning fund balance for the proposed budget for fiscal year 2425,
WLWV School Board: but at this moment report, we have the additional of 1.1 million. So the estimate as of now for 2324, the ending fund balance will be 21.6 million or 16.3 6% of the total revenue
WLWV School Board: and no action required on this. So
WLWV School Board: any questions
WLWV School Board: in regard to any of that
WLWV School Board: lone.
WLWV School Board: okay, thank you so much. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you
WLWV School Board: and I will try this again.
WLWV School Board: We'll move into a board policy.
WLWV School Board: and I'm gonna turn it over to Dr. Ludwig.
WLWV School Board: Thank you. This is our last item
WLWV School Board: tonight until we look at the calendar. Yeah, so you have the memo on this policy. J. Ea, back in 2,021 there was a Senate bill, 8 17, that required school districts to remove from their policies or their ars.
WLWV School Board: classy violation for irregular attendance. So then, it after that Senate bill. It just took a year or so for statute to catch up.
WLWV School Board: and so that the statute was adopted.
WLWV School Board: The middle of June of 2023, and then giving school districts the year 2324.
WLWV School Board: To then take the recommended policy, change from Osba, and make the the change accordingly.
WLWV School Board: So what you see is the new policy, JEA. Which removes
WLWV School Board: the
WLWV School Board: the option of a school district citing
WLWV School Board: families. The class see violation for irregular attendance. That's no longer allowed.
WLWV School Board: What you'll also see is just some other updates that Osba took the opportunity to do, which was to have some more clarity around attendance for students who might be homeschooled or enrolled and then had to kind of report to the Esd. And so those really are the substantive changes in the policy.
WLWV School Board: I just also then took some liberty in the memo to just talk a little bit about the importance of attendance.
WLWV School Board: and that since the pandemic Oregon, along with other states across the nation, have really experienced more chronic absenteeism, of course, understandably through the pandemic. But then even coming out of that, some
WLWV School Board: some late either behaviors or concerns around just coming back to school full time, maybe families even more sensitive to when their children are sick, keeping them home more frequently.
WLWV School Board: And so everybody's working on increasing student attendance again. And we want you to know that that's on our minds as well, since we're talking about an attendance policy tonight. And that our staff is paying attention to it. We're getting communications out to families.
WLWV School Board: You'll see it in our school work plans attention to attendance and wanting to do whatever we can, because when kids come to school they have access to their learning. So we wanna make sure that
WLWV School Board: that we're doing better with that. So even though that's not what's on the topic tonight, I just thought I'd put some data in the memo there and and share that with you. So really, what you're voting on tonight is around the update to policy. J. Ea.
WLWV School Board: thank you for that clarity.
WLWV School Board: This does require board
WLWV School Board: action, and so do we have a motion.
WLWV School Board: I move to adopt the updated policy. J. Ea. As presented to comply with State legislation.
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: any questions, concerns, answers. No, alright.
WLWV School Board: Oh, I just wanted to comment and say, I appreciate the data I have been receiving comments particular in Wilsonville, particularly parents of high school students. And so thank you so much for addressing this. I really appreciate it.
WLWV School Board: I'll pass it over to you, Director Douglas, to call the boat, please.
WLWV School Board: Thank you. Director, shoemaker, director, sloop, I chair Taylor, Vice chair. Wyatt, I and Director Vidal. Hi, thank you.
WLWV School Board: Long room.
WLWV School Board: Huh!
WLWV School Board: I will. Okay.
WLWV School Board: alright. So we are in
WLWV School Board: the public. The second public comment section.
WLWV School Board: and I don't have
WLWV School Board: a name.
WLWV School Board: are we doing? The meeting dates first, st and then public comments? So let's do. The meeting dates first, st and then we can end with the public.
WLWV School Board: Well, there we go. Let you know I missed it unless you want to switch in here. No, that's for now I'll I'll do.
WLWV School Board: I'll do meeting dates, any questions around
WLWV School Board: the proposed board meeting dates, and this is a
WLWV School Board: an action item for us all.
WLWV School Board: I just skipped over. My eyes are starting to cross a little bit.
WLWV School Board: Anything jumping out
WLWV School Board: at
WLWV School Board: anyone.
WLWV School Board: any conflicts.
WLWV School Board: You're seeing these dates.
WLWV School Board: so there's no
WLWV School Board: sporting things that you want to be attending. No, no, I've I've thoroughly.
WLWV School Board: I've thoroughly looked at the dates these days.
WLWV School Board: We're done in very good coordination with the vice chair, so now we're just trying to run them through the rest of you to make sure that you don't have any conflicts.
WLWV School Board: I won't make the September 9 meeting date.
WLWV School Board: and the problem is, the next week. I won't be here on that Monday, either. So, but there's really not a easy fix for that.
WLWV School Board: I'll be in the
WLWV School Board: up on Vancouver Island, and the question will be whether or not I'll
WLWV School Board: access. But
WLWV School Board: working on that.
WLWV School Board: I would suggest not having access
WLWV School Board: Pat Monday, and just enjoy your Monday.
WLWV School Board: any other conflicts or anybody seeing anything that jumps out?
WLWV School Board: Yeah.
WLWV School Board: you have a couple. Oh, that's okay.
WLWV School Board: We we can always
WLWV School Board: adopt and post these, and if something comes up that you thought about by the retreat, then we can amend it.
WLWV School Board: But at least it gives our community a little head start.
WLWV School Board: Well, there's this style.
WLWV School Board: I'm guessing for now.
WLWV School Board: Okay,
WLWV School Board: October 7, th and
WLWV School Board: and September. What's the other one?
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: cool.
WLWV School Board: So do we want to
WLWV School Board: maybe a
WLWV School Board: table it and and bring it back for discussion, so that that we might be able to make an adjustment for those dates for the both of you.
WLWV School Board: and we can bring it to the July 8th for final
WLWV School Board: approval.
WLWV School Board: Chair, Taylor. When these are created, I I line up all 3 of our calendars, the middle high and primary. And look at when when do high school students have school? When did they not have school, for instance, in April you'll notice that they're flipped because it's a grade day.
WLWV School Board: And so, whatever we propose, we just need to check and make sure
WLWV School Board: what else is happening on those states. Okay.
WLWV School Board: they said. So
WLWV School Board: maybe we'll just give it one last
WLWV School Board: one last look, and then we can approve it. Come.
WLWV School Board: you, you could do this as a 1st read, and then come back to it in July, or you could adopt as is, and then work on amending it with a different date
WLWV School Board: for the work session in September, or something like that to accommodate schedules, or what? What do you think.
WLWV School Board: M.
WLWV School Board: Okay, when? Why don't we do this, why don't we adopt what's in front of us.
WLWV School Board: or
WLWV School Board: put it up for motion and vote.
WLWV School Board: and all 3 of us can can
WLWV School Board: take A gander and work with Director Douglas to see if there's any balancing act that we can do to make it.
WLWV School Board: that you could be here, and and if not.
WLWV School Board: we will party without you.
WLWV School Board: The show will go on. Okay, so
WLWV School Board: do. I have a motion to prove the
WLWV School Board: Board meeting Calendar as presented with.
WLWV School Board: I moved to, you know, make some adjustments. I moved to adopt the 2024, 25 School Board meeting dates as presented.
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: right,
WLWV School Board: please call the vote.
WLWV School Board: Yes, and I just like to acknowledge that this is the last vote
WLWV School Board: for the school year.
WLWV School Board: Yay, at 9 30 at night we did it. We did a great school year, so thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Director, shoemaker. Hi.
WLWV School Board: director, sloop! Aye, chair, Taylor's
WLWV School Board: vice chair. Wyatt, director of it down. Aye, thank you
WLWV School Board: alright, and that will.
WLWV School Board: Oh, no, we have public comment, public comment.
WLWV School Board: Let's not forget that
WLWV School Board: this we have one
WLWV School Board: speaker
WLWV School Board: for public comment.
WLWV School Board: and it is gonna be Dean, sir.
WLWV School Board: I believe Dean is familiar with our public comment.
WLWV School Board: etiquette. So I will not go through reading all of that to you. But welcome, and you have 3 min. Thank you. And I guess I'm the last thing between you and quitting tonight to tell you I came from a Clackamas County meeting left early to join you, so I'm I'm glad that I'm glad you're running late tonight.
WLWV School Board: I'm Dean. Serve from West Lynn, and I'm here to speak about the OP- Lander fields. Issue
WLWV School Board: the potential sale of that property to the city of Westland, and I know some of you hopefully, all of you are familiar with that. I just wanna let you know that. We are well aware of the the status of what's going on with that heading to court. I think there's an August date August target date. I haven't heard an absolute date yet, and just to remind you that it was just over 2 to one
WLWV School Board: the vote by the citizens of West Lynn to support the 3.5 million dollar bond measure. That would be the funding source for the purchase of this property. There's keen interest in the community. I can't speak for my you know the Westman or the
WLWV School Board: Wilsonville counterparts which you also represent?
WLWV School Board: But certainly in Westland. This this is a very important topic, and I encourage you to look at the paperwork. If you haven't. I know you've got good attorneys. I think the city has pretty good attorneys as well. They're gonna duke it out in the courtroom.
WLWV School Board: But just to understand kind of what the core issues are.
WLWV School Board: what the stance. And you may have talked about this in executive session as well. But what are the core
WLWV School Board: anchor points for?
WLWV School Board: Why, why, you don't want to proceed with the the signed sales agreement
WLWV School Board: And obviously the judge and and jury and process will will work that out.
WLWV School Board: But the real way to do this is to settle in advance, and I just strongly encourage you
WLWV School Board: to to think about that. We've been talking about this for a couple of years now, but to
WLWV School Board: consider
WLWV School Board: the risks, I guess the benefits potentially on the upside, that if you could sell that property for much higher, then I understand that. But
WLWV School Board: it is regardless of whether the school district owns that property or the city owns it.
WLWV School Board: We, the citizens of, we, paid for it.
WLWV School Board: We will. We, as citizens, will benefit from that. We've been very supportive of
WLWV School Board: as a community supportive of the school district.
WLWV School Board: The bond measures and we love our schools. We love the work that you do into the wee hours. So I just appreciate that and just wanted to to just let you know that we're still paying attention and and we will.
WLWV School Board: maybe we'll come back and celebrate, and we're all going to be good neighbors afterwards, regardless. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Right. That was
WLWV School Board: the only public comment
WLWV School Board: guests that we had.
WLWV School Board: and that will officially conclude
WLWV School Board: tonight's meeting.