WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.850 --> 00:00:03.990 WLWV Board Room: All right. 2 00:00:04.050 --> 00:00:09.760 WLWV Board Room: I'm. Opening this meeting of Westland, Wilsonville School Board of Directors, Ms. Douglas, will you please call role? 3 00:00:10.280 --> 00:00:14.759 WLWV Board Room: Certainly. Director Kelly Sloop Here, Director Lewis Taylor. 4 00:00:15.250 --> 00:00:16.029 WLWV Board Room: present 5 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:23.139 WLWV Board Room: chair, Chelsea King Here, Vice Chair, Christie Thompson. Here, Director Kitchen Wyatt. Here. Thank you 6 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:38.390 WLWV Board Room: all right. We'll get started with always my favorite part of the evening. Thank you to the students who braved Stafford Road in the dark to get here, and I will start by calling up Westland High School student, Representative skygones. 7 00:00:42.730 --> 00:00:58.609 WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ledwig and School Board members. It is so nice to see everyone again, and i'm very excited to update you about everything that happened this past January, and then some of our plans for February, and once again I appreciate the opportunity to share with you what is happening at Westland. 8 00:00:58.790 --> 00:01:17.260 WLWV Board Room: We didn't have a ton going on in February because everyone was preparing for finals. But we did have a few fun events. Our leadership program put together cute little gift bags for every one of our students as a treat for ending off the semester strong. They had lollipop stickers and just a few other fun things in them. 9 00:01:17.540 --> 00:01:33.449 and then, after finals, we celebrated by having our winter ball. The theme was under the Northern Lights. We had an Italian soda Bar a candy bar, and then all night we changed the lights. It's kinda hard to see, but that was one of the light colors of the night at the top. 10 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:39.759 From the feedback we received everyone had a great time, and it was a really great way to end the first semester 11 00:01:39.780 --> 00:01:57.719 and then all season long our sports teams have been doing super well, and we're really proud of them for that, along with our clubs have also been super busy model. UN and Affinity hosted a lantern festival this past week, and then our choir held their annual spaghetti dinner, which was also super fun. 12 00:01:57.730 --> 00:02:15.850 And then, looking to February. We have our annual amazing race competition coming up at the end of the month, and then our May Court is actually starting tomorrow. Applications are due tomorrow, which is super exciting. And then we also plan on hosting an open forum in the coming weeks to plan more fun, events and activity 13 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:21.710 WLWV Board Room: activities as well as discuss any concerns Students may have that we can try and address. 14 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:26.609 I will update you on all of those next month, and once again. Thank you so much for your time. 15 00:02:32.970 --> 00:02:38.230 WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Sky, and we'll move on to Wilsonville High School Student Representative Eli Sievers. 16 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:50.659 WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig, and school board. It's great to be back to talk, to discuss some of the exciting accomplishments. From this past month 17 00:02:50.830 --> 00:02:54.929 WLWV Board Room: we have begun our second semester for the Squire, finishing up with finals 18 00:02:54.970 --> 00:03:05.699 WLWV Board Room: and opening up to new classes and schedules. After our first semester students have been highly anticipating our annual winter formal, which will be taking place this Saturday with the lovely 19 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:12.570 WLWV Board Room: winter themed evening. Our Student Council has been working very hard to ensure a fun and safe night for all students. 20 00:03:13.220 --> 00:03:18.020 WLWV Board Room: Last Saturday was the eleventh Annual, Colton Holly wrestling tournament at Wilsonville. 21 00:03:18.040 --> 00:03:25.620 There were many teams that came out competing with excellence respect and great sportsmanship and honor and remembrance of Colton Holly. 22 00:03:25.980 --> 00:03:29.620 WLWV Board Room: For most people Jasmine Brown won for her individual class. 23 00:03:29.930 --> 00:03:48.419 WLWV Board Room: Continuing this weekend, our Drama Club went to Organ City High School to participate in the theater regionals competition. It's such a great time with a unique form of competition from Wilsonville, Grace Hack, and Kate, Thomas Thomas we're finalists for experience. Duo, comedic acting. 24 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:53.239 And then speaking of drama Club tickets for the springplay puffs are now on sale. 25 00:03:53.260 --> 00:03:59.169 WLWV Board Room: The Harry Potter parity can be seen. February the 20, third through 20, fifth, and March the second through fourth. 26 00:03:59.550 --> 00:04:08.340 WLWV Board Room: Next, our black student Union created an impressive mural that showcases influential members of history that have created an impact in the arts. 27 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:14.110 WLWV Board Room: science, military, and literature, and it included it in the top right corner right there. 28 00:04:14.150 --> 00:04:25.109 WLWV Board Room: I was lucky to speak to Lydia Harms, who is a Bs student advisor, and she explained that she wanted a space where students can be reminded of the many amazing colored figures that have made history. 29 00:04:25.810 --> 00:04:38.270 WLWV Board Room: and then finally to promote the vision of Wilsonville High School from different lenses. I brought Sophia and Cassidy with me today to talk about one of our highly involved clubs kids making miracles. So thank you so much. 30 00:04:44.580 --> 00:05:00.669 WLWV Board Room: First off. Thank you to Eli and the Board for this opportunity to speak with you tonight. I'm, Kassy Yorg and this is Sophie Lebe, and we are the co-presidents of kids making miracles. This is a club where we raise money for the kids at Dorne Becker's Children's Hospital. 31 00:05:00.700 --> 00:05:07.149 WLWV Board Room: Upon joining freshman year, we have restarted the club and 6 men have raised over $15,000, 32 00:05:07.330 --> 00:05:13.579 WLWV Board Room: some notable fundraisers that we had in the past actually, in December, we created the holiday bizarre. 33 00:05:13.620 --> 00:05:23.070 WLWV Board Room: where we got a bunch of local vendors to come and sell their products and all the donations from that, and that went to Dorn Beckers, which is roughly over $5,000. 34 00:05:24.280 --> 00:05:35.780 WLWV Board Room: It was a big thanks to the student body for normally helping get these vendors, but setting up and just making sure the event ran smoothly Another thing is springfest which we did last year 35 00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:46.090 WLWV Board Room: in 2,022, and we're going to do it this year as well. Where we get the whole student body involved. And not only are we advocating for dorm factors. But we're also raising money and raising school spirit. 36 00:05:46.540 --> 00:06:05.659 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. And with that an upcoming event. That is a great way for our student body to interact with our club is our ballogram fundraiser, in which all proceeds from this fundraiser. Go to Dorn Becker. We strive to prosper a greater connection between the students and the help that we believe that they can bring to the community through our club. 37 00:06:05.670 --> 00:06:12.320 WLWV Board Room: And with that we would like to thank the district for your support and time in our club's mission. Thank you. 38 00:06:19.550 --> 00:06:26.030 WLWV Board Room: I think everybody I bought a gift for this December got something from that holiday fair. That was an awesome event. 39 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:31.290 all right, and then we'll move on to Riverside High School student representatives, Aaron. 40 00:06:31.420 --> 00:06:38.250 WLWV Board Room: New Tas, and Jack Merrill, and feel free to correct the pronunciation of your name. If I did it wrong. Okay. 41 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:46.989 WLWV Board Room: Alright, my name is Aaron nuts. I am from Westland school district. I am in ninth grade, and I will be 42 00:06:47.010 --> 00:06:50.109 WLWV Board Room: representing what's Riverside High School. 43 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:55.260 WLWV Board Room: So a reason why I chose to go to Riverside was for their 44 00:06:55.730 --> 00:07:04.309 WLWV Board Room: program of architecture and construction, which was a main part why I chose to go there. Another one is the Ib program 45 00:07:04.570 --> 00:07:08.020 WLWV Board Room: for the college credits. It is a good opportunity 46 00:07:08.180 --> 00:07:14.250 WLWV Board Room: when going towards college due to the career choice of architecture, and how many years it takes, so it will help 47 00:07:14.450 --> 00:07:16.379 WLWV Board Room: drastically in the years there. 48 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:19.479 WLWV Board Room: Another thing I will talk to you about is the 49 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:30.149 WLWV Board Room: information nights and everything we've been holding at the High School to just spread the word of what riverside stands for, and it'll provide for families and kids that join. 50 00:07:30.200 --> 00:07:32.609 WLWV Board Room: So the first information I was 51 00:07:32.660 --> 00:07:35.689 WLWV Board Room: bringing families in to talk about just 52 00:07:35.830 --> 00:07:39.210 WLWV Board Room: the standard things that are going to happen. And it was 53 00:07:39.380 --> 00:07:43.429 WLWV Board Room: just a basic knowledge just to know what is going to happen. 54 00:07:43.520 --> 00:07:57.790 WLWV Board Room: And moving from there it went to family Latinas rose, just trying to spread more word to try to grab people from more sides and more backgrounds, just trying to spread the word of what Riverside offers the community 55 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.330 WLWV Board Room: and the pizza lunches were a big help 56 00:08:00.690 --> 00:08:12.890 WLWV Board Room: because it comes to your school, and even if friends say they didn't know about the school, they can come, join you for lunch, and then they can meet, see, and maybe it changes their mind to join, too. 57 00:08:13.230 --> 00:08:18.959 WLWV Board Room: And the course selection in the future of March. I think 58 00:08:19.270 --> 00:08:26.210 WLWV Board Room: it will be giving kids choices and just showing what the school will provide with 100% 59 00:08:27.070 --> 00:08:28.030 WLWV Board Room: courses. 60 00:08:29.790 --> 00:08:30.640 WLWV Board Room: And 61 00:08:30.840 --> 00:08:33.260 WLWV Board Room: Jack will be showing the 62 00:08:33.640 --> 00:08:35.520 WLWV Board Room: programs and such 63 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.289 WLWV Board Room: I'm. Jack Merrill. I'm. A freshman at Westland High School. 64 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:43.839 I've also decided to go to Riverside because the architecture and construction program 65 00:08:43.880 --> 00:08:49.700 WLWV Board Room: I'm personally really excited for it, because, like you said, it's gonna give a lot more opportunities to 66 00:08:50.580 --> 00:08:52.509 WLWV Board Room: figure out how to get into that field 67 00:08:52.540 --> 00:08:54.530 WLWV Board Room: and how to do the job. 68 00:08:57.460 --> 00:09:02.770 WLWV Board Room: Recently we've had a lot of people ask about how they can help at Riverside, and there are a few ways for them to get involved. 69 00:09:02.950 --> 00:09:11.300 WLWV Board Room: There's an athletic Booster Club that they can join, which helps sell concessions and stuff at football games, basketball games, and other sporting events 70 00:09:11.570 --> 00:09:19.869 WLWV Board Room: they could help raise and or donate money for programs and athletics which will help support more sports and different 71 00:09:20.400 --> 00:09:22.450 WLWV Board Room: classes to come to the school. 72 00:09:22.630 --> 00:09:29.980 WLWV Board Room: And then there are also community partnerships that they can help with, which is spreading awareness about Riverside throughout the community. 73 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:32.460 Alright. 74 00:09:33.030 --> 00:09:34.320 WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. 75 00:09:40.620 --> 00:09:50.579 WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much to all of you who came out, and you're welcome to stay as long as you want, and you're also welcome to stand up and leave whenever you are ready and go do homework 76 00:09:55.620 --> 00:10:05.360 WLWV Board Room: all right. We will move on to our recognitions, and we have Ms. Lauren Briggsby, our student services Director doing school counselor appreciation month for us. 77 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:13.020 WLWV Board Room: Well, hello! What a pleasure to be able to share with you about our school counselors this evening, and having 78 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:22.429 WLWV Board Room: spent time just today with our school counselors, I am moved to have this opportunity to be able to share with you about them. 79 00:10:23.020 --> 00:10:23.990 WLWV Board Room: I 80 00:10:24.040 --> 00:10:27.950 WLWV Board Room: going to use a theme of community, and there's going to be a lot of different 81 00:10:28.650 --> 00:10:37.779 WLWV Board Room: mit ctl, and quotes on these slides from professionals in our district, who are shouting out from the rooftops about the strength and the capacity that our school counselors give each and every day 150, 82 00:10:37.830 --> 00:10:41.300 WLWV Board Room: and I'm just going to share with you a little bit about 83 00:10:42.510 --> 00:10:46.459 WLWV Board Room: them in community, and that's going to be. How I want to center in this today. 84 00:10:47.450 --> 00:10:50.460 WLWV Board Room: Our school counselors. They're actively engaged in 85 00:10:50.480 --> 00:11:01.960 WLWV Board Room: helping students examine their abilities, their strengths, their interests, their talents and to lift them right to lift them from that angle. What do we know about this student? And how do we support them in achieving these dreams. 86 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:09.899 WLWV Board Room: They work and focus on positive ways to enhance students academic and career and social emotional development. 87 00:11:10.370 --> 00:11:14.109 WLWV Board Room: But most importantly, they work in in tandem, in 88 00:11:14.330 --> 00:11:15.700 WLWV Board Room: with each other. 89 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:17.130 WLWV Board Room: with 90 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:28.879 WLWV Board Room: our students, with our all of our colleagues, with our mental health specialists, with our school psychologists through and their work is so integrated to be able to do this lifting. 91 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.749 WLWV Board Room: So I kind of i'm thinking today in a couple of different areas to highlight the work of our school counselors 92 00:11:33.780 --> 00:11:44.179 mit ctl, and they work to remove barriers. And to say, what do we know about this individual learner? And what is what is an area for them that might be harder for them to be able to lift these strengths and to be able to show them 150. 93 00:11:44.190 --> 00:11:53.899 And they do this through supporting our section 504 plans. They do this through continuous honing of their work in circles of support, saying, how do what do we know for this kid 94 00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:55.590 WLWV Board Room: how can we support them? 95 00:11:57.030 --> 00:12:16.640 WLWV Board Room: They also are part of our leadership teams, and when they're part of our leadership teams, i'm thinking about our high schools right now, and one of our high schools at Wilsonville High School. They call it their big team, and they get together, and their big team is there, and their school counselors are huge, integral part of it. Looking at data, looking at what do we know? Looking at? What are we hearing and data being our 96 00:12:17.180 --> 00:12:19.300 WLWV Board Room: data that we have from 97 00:12:19.880 --> 00:12:27.120 WLWV Board Room: talking to students, from hearing, from educators, from our academic data, from social emotional data. Each and every way to say, okay. 98 00:12:28.140 --> 00:12:29.919 WLWV Board Room: are we gonna what's our next step? 99 00:12:29.970 --> 00:12:37.720 WLWV Board Room: It might be we're gonna be really leaning into how we greet students at the door. We're gonna be really leaning into how we connect with students in the hallway. 100 00:12:38.180 --> 00:12:45.970 WLWV Board Room: and we're going to be really leaning into the circles of support process for these individual students. So they have this huge, vast array. 101 00:12:46.890 --> 00:13:03.380 WLWV Board Room: I was recently at Westland High School and our school counselors, the start of the semester and students are getting ready. They're thinking about. We just had our somewhere students here talking about this beginning of the semester, and you're planning for your classes, and you're connecting with what you need to know, and 102 00:13:03.390 --> 00:13:23.190 WLWV Board Room: our students know their school counselors. They know them to be able to connect with them and say, hey, here's what i'm thinking about for second semester. And what happens is our students are coming to the counseling office to be able to connect and say, here's my problem of practice. Can you help me navigate this? And throughout a short time 103 00:13:23.570 --> 00:13:33.209 WLWV Board Room: so many students were able to come and say, here's what i'm thinking: how can you help me with this and they problem. So they're really taking that time to think about those barriers 104 00:13:34.290 --> 00:13:36.090 just in collaboration. 105 00:13:36.640 --> 00:13:54.700 WLWV Board Room: In general, when we think about collaboration, our school counselors are working in classrooms, whether it's supporting our child protection units or if it's really saying, okay, we're going to co- plan and or co-teach our social emotional lessons in the classroom. 106 00:13:55.100 --> 00:14:13.349 WLWV Board Room: If you come to one of our middle schools, you're going to see our school counselors diving into those advisory lessons and saying, hey, here's how we can craft this social, emotional learning for our students here, so we can craft these executive functioning components for our students, and to be able to share it with all learners by being able to craft it across that advisory time. 107 00:14:13.420 --> 00:14:15.410 They do such a beautiful job 108 00:14:16.350 --> 00:14:18.019 WLWV Board Room: in community again 109 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:37.830 WLWV Board Room: mit Ctl. And they're working to support our caregivers, thinking about resources that a family might need, and that collaboration comes from our school counselor team connecting with each other. What resources do we know about right now? Right? What resources are we getting from our community that has been shared? And they talk to each other, and they connect about. Hey, what do we know? 150? 110 00:14:38.330 --> 00:14:51.519 WLWV Board Room: Can we connect with our family empowerment center to be able to connect with, to support families in another way. Our mental health specialists, our social workers. So they do this work so beautifully in tandem to wrap around our families. 111 00:14:52.590 --> 00:15:10.660 WLWV Board Room: They also respond in community, and they respond in community in such a variety of ways that exemplify how they're able to take these really grounded pieces of integral being a part of that leadership team in the school, really thinking through that data and work 112 00:15:10.670 --> 00:15:19.140 WLWV Board Room: mit ctl. And and then saying, there's times we really need to respond in really meaningful ways. Whether or not it's supporting a student and a family through a suicide risk assessment, 250 113 00:15:19.510 --> 00:15:26.359 WLWV Board Room: partnering with their providers which might be their outside providers, their school team creating a plan to support a student. 114 00:15:28.990 --> 00:15:46.119 WLWV Board Room: We have school counselors that are saying, You know what a family just experience something that was really difficult. And we're gonna make sure that we can connect with them. So they know the resources that they have. We know that this is important. To be able to do that, and to be able to build that trusting relationship with a family and with partners 115 00:15:46.130 --> 00:15:49.169 WLWV Board Room: is a key part of that responsive work that they do 116 00:15:50.200 --> 00:16:03.020 WLWV Board Room: mit Ctl. And in our primary schools, and you'll see each of these examples at primary, middle, and high, are exemplified across each level. But of course I'm holding on to what did I see just this past week, as i'm walking through a building right? I'm holding on to the recency piece, one 117 00:16:03.470 --> 00:16:21.179 WLWV Board Room: immediately in a restorative conversation. Our students come to our school counselors, and they know that they're going to be able to help them guide in that relationship with each other so they can get back to. How do we restore? How do we repair? What are the steps that we take together when we 118 00:16:21.330 --> 00:16:28.899 WLWV Board Room: need to. And now we can get back to our learning and get back to that key space, and that, learning that they're doing through. That restorative conversation 119 00:16:29.030 --> 00:16:35.960 WLWV Board Room: is huge, right? It's huge to help us center. And our students trust our school counselors to be able to do that work 120 00:16:37.770 --> 00:16:46.070 WLWV Board Room: another responsive piece, and I will I will. This will be my last example is our school counselors are an integral part of our flight team responses. 121 00:16:46.150 --> 00:17:05.830 WLWV Board Room: They become trained in being able to respond. When we have a need in our schools. If we have experience the death of a student or a staff member. It is critical for us to be able to wrap around the community, and our school counselors do this work alongside our school psychologists and our mental health specialists. 122 00:17:06.490 --> 00:17:12.499 WLWV Board Room: but they immediately say, what do we need in community? What do we need for this group of students and staff members. 123 00:17:12.550 --> 00:17:15.780 WLWV Board Room: and to be able to give. That is a gift. 124 00:17:15.940 --> 00:17:23.499 WLWV Board Room: and the work that they give their expertise that they give is a gift for our students and our colleagues and our staff. So thank you for 125 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:25.450 WLWV Board Room: celebrating them with me today 126 00:17:25.790 --> 00:17:26.839 WLWV Board Room: and 127 00:17:27.180 --> 00:17:28.139 WLWV Board Room: be in here. 128 00:17:28.990 --> 00:17:29.560 Okay. 129 00:17:37.260 --> 00:17:46.470 WLWV Board Room: so much, Lauren Briggsby for that presentation, and I see Dr. Ludwig would like to say something, and and then board members would like to. You're welcome to 130 00:17:46.590 --> 00:18:04.180 WLWV Board Room: thank you. I I can't not say something. And Lauren, thank you for that real, comprehensive description, the combinations of the pictures as you were talking, the quotes, the description of the work, I think, really captures, how multi layered, and how complex it means today to be a school counselor. 131 00:18:04.270 --> 00:18:13.110 and I think of all the things that you described. These are individuals in our school who really do have that opportunity to know children for many years. 132 00:18:13.120 --> 00:18:28.189 WLWV Board Room: Often, you know, teachers rotate in and out of children's lives. They go from their first grade teacher, their second grade teacher or different courses and secondary school. So a lot of adults know our students. But our counselors have these unique positions to really 133 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:37.069 WLWV Board Room: know for many years certain groups of students and become a mentor and an advocate, a a trusted adult in their life. 134 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:55.839 WLWV Board Room: and they're incredibly relational group of people. They're kid magnets. They're approachable. They're trusting. And i'm just so grateful for our counselors, their spectacular group of individuals, and they work incredibly well together. So they draw upon their individual strengths, but also each other's strengths, so 135 00:18:55.850 --> 00:18:59.569 recognizing them. This month is very appropriate. 136 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:06.320 WLWV Board Room: Today was a hard day in one of our school communities as we did some grief counseling for students and staff. 137 00:19:06.350 --> 00:19:12.910 WLWV Board Room: And that's when you really lean into understanding how remarkable your staff are in those really hard times. 138 00:19:12.980 --> 00:19:21.330 WLWV Board Room: So any counselors are watching. Thank you so much for all you do. Thank you, Lauren, for guiding that group, and being their mentor as well. 139 00:19:21.780 --> 00:19:24.109 WLWV Board Room: so i'll turn it back over to you. Chair King. 140 00:19:26.740 --> 00:19:29.440 WLWV Board Room: When my oldest daughter. 141 00:19:29.780 --> 00:19:41.080 WLWV Board Room: her first year at the High School there was that day before school where you kind of win, and you you paid some of your fees, and if you had an opening in your in your schedule you went to go see your counselor. 142 00:19:41.510 --> 00:19:44.659 WLWV Board Room: and she had told me she did not want me to come with her. 143 00:19:45.190 --> 00:19:47.220 WLWV Board Room: but I did end up going with her. 144 00:19:47.390 --> 00:19:55.539 WLWV Board Room: and we ended up sitting in the Counselor's office, and Lexi's words, when we walked out of the Counselor's office was that couldn't have gone any better. 145 00:19:56.500 --> 00:19:57.910 WLWV Board Room: and 146 00:19:58.670 --> 00:20:08.499 WLWV Board Room: of course her counselor happened to have a special place in my heart because she was in my biology class when I taught at Hillsborough High School. So i'm talking about Miss Moon. 147 00:20:08.510 --> 00:20:24.429 and that obviously dates me, saying that my kids counselor was a former student of mine, but she really was. From that first moment that Lexi walked in her classroom. Lexi knew that she had someone that she could go to for the next 4 years. And then what happened is. 148 00:20:24.570 --> 00:20:39.450 WLWV Board Room: my younger kids knew that as well right. They watched Lexi. And so, you know, she became a a person that Lexi knew she had a safe place to go to. She struggled later with some concussions and different things, and 149 00:20:39.460 --> 00:20:46.750 WLWV Board Room: Mrs. Moon always had her back, and was sending communication out to teachers when Lexi was really struggling with headaches. 150 00:20:47.740 --> 00:20:53.299 WLWV Board Room: So I just want to say firsthand, and that was my experience. But I know that 151 00:20:53.690 --> 00:21:02.929 WLWV Board Room: lots of that experience has been replicated hundreds and thousands of times in our district the way that our counselors make a difference in our kids lives 152 00:21:06.550 --> 00:21:08.430 WLWV Board Room: Alright, Thank you. 153 00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:17.219 WLWV Board Room: And we'll move on to the next agenda item, which is the board member and superintendent reports, and Director Taylor will start with you. 154 00:21:20.510 --> 00:21:23.860 I will concede my time to 155 00:21:23.980 --> 00:21:25.470 the next director. 156 00:21:27.940 --> 00:21:29.990 WLWV Board Room: you and Director Wyatt. 157 00:21:31.080 --> 00:21:45.970 WLWV Board Room: Hi, Thank you. So I just wanted to start by thinking Leslie, Sarah Kara, Julie Becca, and Yarrow, who met with me for coffee, to talk about their experiences with the district's literacy curriculum. 158 00:21:46.010 --> 00:22:04.519 and I wanted to specifically call them out hopefully. It's okay by name. But it was a really wonderful and meaningful meeting, because I had a chance to hear what they had to say, and I think it also just illustrates how this district works really well, hopefully, from their perspective as well 159 00:22:04.530 --> 00:22:07.929 when they have a chance to meet with us as members of the School Board. 160 00:22:08.050 --> 00:22:23.879 and so we had a chance to share our experiences with our kids in schools, and with learning to read, and I learned more from them. And then they asked really great questions that I didn't have answers to. But with their permission I was allowed to take notes 161 00:22:23.970 --> 00:22:36.769 and record all of those questions from the meeting, and then share those back with Dr. Pryor to inform a meeting that he then had with this group, and then, as well as our board work session that we had a couple of weeks ago. 162 00:22:36.840 --> 00:22:48.269 WLWV Board Room: and I just want to thank Dr. Pryor and his team for putting together that work session. And really this idea that when parents and the district work together we can start moving toward 163 00:22:48.280 --> 00:22:57.959 and finding great solutions. And so I know we have a ways to go, and that work session was a great chance to hear from principals and teachers and instructional instructional coordinators. 164 00:22:57.980 --> 00:23:15.700 And so I know that we have work to be done. But it's just a great. It's great to see that partnership happening, and as we think about curriculum renewal, and we think about the opportunities that are out there, i'm just really grateful for the time and energy that our parents put in, and then obviously our staff as well. So thank you, Dr. Pryor. 165 00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:34.330 I also attended a long range planning committee and bond oversight Committee meeting, and I know we'll hear from Kim Jordan a little bit later. But again, another example of a volunteer in our community taking their spare time, and then coming forward and doing something to really help our district get better and stronger. 166 00:23:34.520 --> 00:23:47.780 And then, while I have the mic, I just want to clearly restate for the record my continued opposition to the banning of books and our schools, and I want to do that today by sharing my appreciation for our teacher librarians. 167 00:23:47.860 --> 00:24:04.160 WLWV Board Room: So we're fortunate to have staff in our district who are both trained teachers and trained librarians. And so we have folks in our schools who have education and experience and perspective that we need to teach our kids about the world around them. 168 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:21.519 WLWV Board Room: These teacher librarians are teachers, their instructional designers, their leaders and their thought partners to our teachers, and they help our kids with their information literacy skills, I mean. So just knowing that there's more to the world than putting something into Google or goodness. You know, Chat, Gpt. 169 00:24:21.550 --> 00:24:28.299 And they support the school's curriculum. They reinforce reading, comprehension and concepts of print 170 00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:37.839 and Fundamentally, our librarians promote a love of reading and of literature, and they manage written and electronic information and ideas. 171 00:24:38.130 --> 00:24:45.760 WLWV Board Room: And so I want to mention this again because it's important to characterize this incredibly important work that our teacher librarians are doing. 172 00:24:46.050 --> 00:25:01.070 WLWV Board Room: and I really hate that they are painted by some people as seeking to harm our students, because in actuality they are on the front lines of ensuring that our kids have access to books and information that will make them lifelong learners and readers. 173 00:25:01.290 --> 00:25:15.899 WLWV Board Room: so i'll restate it again. I'll continue to ban all efforts. I'm going to continue to oppose all efforts to ban books from our school libraries. I support teacher librarians. I support their professional integrity to select books that are age-appropriate 174 00:25:15.910 --> 00:25:30.449 WLWV Board Room: and grow the world views of our students, and I support a parents choice to be involved in their child's education. But one parent's judgment or preference for a book for their family should not be extended to other students and their families. Thank you. 175 00:25:34.540 --> 00:25:38.020 WLWV Board Room: and next up is Vice Chair Thompson. 176 00:25:38.540 --> 00:25:42.360 WLWV Board Room: Oh, next up is Director Sloop. Thanks. 177 00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:51.749 WLWV Board Room: So a week ago my husband and I went to the Bolton Chinese New Year. 178 00:25:52.290 --> 00:25:57.329 WLWV Board Room: and I was blown away by the talents in the K. Through 5 179 00:25:57.670 --> 00:26:02.000 WLWV Board Room: with the music, the language, the costumes. 180 00:26:02.260 --> 00:26:10.160 WLWV Board Room: the choreography. The food was wonderful, and then they had activities in some of the classrooms. You could participate in 181 00:26:10.280 --> 00:26:13.400 calligraphy. You can make a little hockey sack 182 00:26:13.590 --> 00:26:15.760 WLWV Board Room: a Chinese lantern. 183 00:26:16.120 --> 00:26:20.349 WLWV Board Room: It was very well attended, and we had a great Friday night. 184 00:26:20.820 --> 00:26:34.939 WLWV Board Room: and then i'm looking forward to tomorrow. Dr. Ludwig is going to take Director Thompson and I on a tour of Lowry for the dual language program, and then on to Wilsonville to experience some of the career technical training programs. 185 00:26:35.310 --> 00:26:37.219 WLWV Board Room: And then I'm. Going to 186 00:26:37.560 --> 00:26:52.429 WLWV Board Room: take advantage of Dr. Ludwig's generous offer of experimenting or experiencing some more with the full inclusion for K. Through 12, and then the adult transition, as well as the Hub and the family empowerment center. 187 00:26:54.340 --> 00:27:04.840 WLWV Board Room: As far as getting dialed into the community, I still am making myself accessible to anyone in the community that wants to grab a coffee. I'm more than will it lean to listen. 188 00:27:05.130 --> 00:27:09.380 WLWV Board Room: I attended an all day training for mental health for youth. 189 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:12.350 WLWV Board Room: I'm trying to add more tools to my toolbox. 190 00:27:12.620 --> 00:27:16.900 WLWV Board Room: and I've become involved in the drug-free communities. Coalition 191 00:27:17.100 --> 00:27:20.409 here in our or Westland. Wilsonville community. 192 00:27:25.510 --> 00:27:33.360 WLWV Board Room: All right You're up. Thank you first of all, and I don't. Are you going to give a shout out to our soy? And in your superintendent? 193 00:27:33.770 --> 00:27:45.990 WLWV Board Room: So Barb won an award this weekend with Allah, and can you just specify what that award was? Because i'm worried? I'll get it wrong, but I just want to make sure you get recognition. Bar. 194 00:27:47.470 --> 00:28:07.320 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. And Dr. Soyson is incredibly humble and does not want to draw attention on her work, and in all of her humility grabs other people into all the efforts that she does. Dr. Soy and Re. Received the Tom Rule Ally Award from Owala, which is the Organ Association for Latino administrators. 195 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:15.300 WLWV Board Room: and it's an award given by our Latino community for an educator who, they believe, has gone above and beyond 196 00:28:15.350 --> 00:28:28.759 WLWV Board Room: in support and advocacy around their involvement in education, but also in aspiring leaders, mentoring and supporting aspiring leaders. We recognize Barb a couple of months ago and embarrassed her 197 00:28:28.770 --> 00:28:38.909 WLWV Board Room: with big picture and full screen, and lots of applause and and fanfare, and this weekend she was honored at the Iwola Conference. I just wanted to make sure that 198 00:28:39.320 --> 00:28:51.020 WLWV Board Room: that you got your your your your do honor. And and then the second thing is, I just want to remind my fellow fellow board members that coming up in March, and we will do our next interim 199 00:28:51.220 --> 00:29:01.909 WLWV Board Room: superintendent evaluation. And so I will be sending you all an email with the reminders of the standards that we look at, and such just with more specifics. 200 00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:06.450 And then I did just want to make a statement tonight. And so 201 00:29:06.930 --> 00:29:13.080 if you're worried that you might be triggered by certain language. I'm just letting you know right now before I make my statement. 202 00:29:14.070 --> 00:29:20.319 WLWV Board Room: I want to start off by applauding Dr. Ludwig and her staff for so quickly coming up with a book review process. 203 00:29:20.510 --> 00:29:25.779 WLWV Board Room: After hearing the concerns expressed from some of our parents during our November Fourteenth Board meeting. 204 00:29:26.110 --> 00:29:32.720 WLWV Board Room: It is my understanding that the book Review Committee has already met and began the process of vetting the 8 books in question. 205 00:29:33.290 --> 00:29:36.219 WLWV Board Room: while the rebook review process is a great start 206 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:46.759 WLWV Board Room: what we still do not have as a policy or process for determining whether or not a book being considered for one of our libraries is age appropriate for the students who may check it out. 207 00:29:47.180 --> 00:29:54.129 WLWV Board Room: I would argue that it is even more important that we have a review process for choosing what books we will allow into our libraries 208 00:29:54.370 --> 00:30:01.330 WLWV Board Room: not only to help guide our teacher librarians with new book selections, but also to bring consistency to the process. 209 00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:06.209 WLWV Board Room: When I express my concerns to Dr. Ludwig. In an email on November 20, eighth. 210 00:30:06.350 --> 00:30:14.879 WLWV Board Room: I was told that currently our teacher, librarians use general criteria from the American Library Association and School Library Association. 211 00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:23.209 WLWV Board Room: as well as the reviews and recommendations from organizations such as school, library, journal, and concept. Excuse me, common sense Media. 212 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.909 to make decisions about what books to add to our libraries. 213 00:30:27.250 --> 00:30:34.460 WLWV Board Room: If the books that were read from on November fourteenth came into our school libraries using such criteria and recommendations. 214 00:30:34.510 --> 00:30:39.469 It is time for us as a district to come up with our own review process and criteria 215 00:30:39.990 --> 00:30:48.350 as a board member whose responsibilities include ensuring a safe school environment for all. I left the November fourteenth meeting deeply troubled. 216 00:30:48.630 --> 00:30:56.440 WLWV Board Room: I do not want to be any part of exposing students to sexually explicit obscene and age inappropriate reading. Material 217 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:06.530 WLWV Board Room: parents do not send their children to school to be exposed to sexual content and images about which we have to warn an adult audience before it is read. 218 00:31:07.070 --> 00:31:20.480 WLWV Board Room: It makes no sense that our worry about triggering or offending adults in our public meeting audience should outweigh our concern of how these books may trigger or cause emotional stress for minors in our schools. 219 00:31:21.190 --> 00:31:27.190 WLWV Board Room: It is the responsibility of schools to provide safe and educational resources for our students. 220 00:31:27.530 --> 00:31:30.509 WLWV Board Room: parents in trust, the district, the board. 221 00:31:30.540 --> 00:31:36.089 WLWV Board Room: the administrators and teachers with those they love, cherish, and care most about 222 00:31:36.110 --> 00:31:37.260 WLWV Board Room: their children. 223 00:31:37.610 --> 00:31:46.279 WLWV Board Room: They expect schools to air on the side of safety in all areas, facilities, curriculum, staffing books. 224 00:31:46.590 --> 00:31:52.129 WLWV Board Room: public schools should not be a part of distributing obscene and age inappropriate materials to minors. 225 00:31:52.730 --> 00:32:00.780 WLWV Board Room: My words tonight are not in any way whatsoever meant to pass judgment on any adults who might find meaning and such literature. 226 00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:10.830 WLWV Board Room: What I would like to point out, however, is that as a society we recognize that adult brains are more fully developed than child and adolescent rains. 227 00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:14.480 WLWV Board Room: That is why we set age limits on when one can drive. 228 00:32:14.730 --> 00:32:16.990 WLWV Board Room: vote and consume alcohol. 229 00:32:17.470 --> 00:32:24.700 WLWV Board Room: Just as the motion picture association rates a movie suitability for certain ages based on its content 230 00:32:25.020 --> 00:32:29.960 WLWV Board Room: shouldn't. We, as educators, also rate books according to their suitability 231 00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:33.869 for the ages of the children that have been entrusted into our care? 232 00:32:34.530 --> 00:32:37.449 WLWV Board Room: Do we really want books? And here's where I'm morning. You 233 00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:43.209 WLWV Board Room: do. We really want books in our libraries that talk about eating pussy 234 00:32:43.630 --> 00:32:45.310 WLWV Board Room: and sucking decks. 235 00:32:45.610 --> 00:32:48.999 WLWV Board Room: that encouraging what that encourage watching pornography 236 00:32:49.290 --> 00:32:53.809 WLWV Board Room: that have sexual words written in the crotch of a woman who has her legs spread wide 237 00:32:54.280 --> 00:32:56.550 WLWV Board Room: that have passages like the following 238 00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.590 WLWV Board Room: quote. 239 00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:02.029 WLWV Board Room: He got her with his fingers like he's scraping the inside of a cantalou clean 240 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:03.230 WLWV Board Room: end quote. 241 00:33:03.630 --> 00:33:07.789 WLWV Board Room: and that contain pictures of fingers with vaginal juices dripping off of them 242 00:33:08.650 --> 00:33:09.550 WLWV Board Room: again. 243 00:33:09.950 --> 00:33:15.110 WLWV Board Room: Parents do not send their kids to public school to info expose them to this kind of information. 244 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:28.690 WLWV Board Room: Furthermore, these books could create an uncomfortable and painful environment for students who do not want to be exposed to this type of material. If they unknowingly pull such a book off the shelf, not knowing it's in there 245 00:33:28.710 --> 00:33:31.010 WLWV Board Room: or given it by another classmate. 246 00:33:31.210 --> 00:33:36.060 WLWV Board Room: especially students like myself, who may have been the victims of sexual abuse 247 00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:39.960 WLWV Board Room: according to the national sexual violence Resource Center. 248 00:33:40.070 --> 00:33:47.209 WLWV Board Room: about one in 9 girls, and one in 53 boys under the age of 18, have been sexually abused or assaulted by an adult. 249 00:33:47.820 --> 00:33:58.540 That same source estimates that approximately one in 25 boys and one in 4 girls under the age of 18, will experience some form of sexual abuse or assault 250 00:33:58.620 --> 00:34:01.219 from appear before they reach adulthood. 251 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.560 WLWV Board Room: Thus a significant percentage of children under 18 252 00:34:06.620 --> 00:34:08.850 WLWV Board Room: have been victims of sexual assault 253 00:34:09.060 --> 00:34:13.390 WLWV Board Room: and keep in mind Child sexual abuse is not often reported. 254 00:34:13.409 --> 00:34:19.790 WLWV Board Room: So these figures probably underestimate the actual number of students in our schools who've been the victims of such trauma. 255 00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:29.529 WLWV Board Room: Public schools have a responsibility to promote a safe and respectful learning environment for all students, including our students suffering from sexual abuse and trauma. 256 00:34:30.350 --> 00:34:37.329 WLWV Board Room: A recent letter to the Board from Doug Eriksen, the Director of library and Community services, and John Williams, the Westland City manager. 257 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:43.080 WLWV Board Room: highlighted the existence of West Lynn Public Library's Collection Management policy 258 00:34:43.139 --> 00:34:46.629 WLWV Board Room: which outlines how and why their staff select materials. 259 00:34:46.710 --> 00:34:53.219 WLWV Board Room: Mr. Erickson's and Mr. Williams email goes on to say, quote with a policy and procedure in place. 260 00:34:53.239 --> 00:35:00.499 WLWV Board Room: There's a transparent way for patrons and library staff to have a respectful and expedient dialogue around materials end Quote 261 00:35:00.680 --> 00:35:02.609 WLWV Board Room: I. Wholeheartedly agree. 262 00:35:02.830 --> 00:35:08.360 WLWV Board Room: and would point out that their statement lines up with Westland. Wilsonville's district Goal number 3, 263 00:35:08.570 --> 00:35:09.790 WLWV Board Room: to quote. 264 00:35:10.020 --> 00:35:23.380 WLWV Board Room: operate in an accessible and transparent manner to encourage and generate community involvement. As our parents students and community partners are an integral part and valued. Excuse me, valued voice in our district end. Quote 265 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:26.430 now to make sure you have not Miss heard me. 266 00:35:26.600 --> 00:35:31.390 WLWV Board Room: I am not speaking today about banning books that contain controversial topics 267 00:35:31.450 --> 00:35:39.790 WLWV Board Room: or stories about marginalized communities. Nor am I speaking about getting rid of books that highlight various types of relationships and lifestyles. 268 00:35:40.010 --> 00:35:47.870 WLWV Board Room: Once again I am addressing books that contain age inappropriate, sexually explicit and obscene language. 269 00:35:48.290 --> 00:35:53.769 WLWV Board Room: The Board has received several emails from community members stating their opposition to banning books. 270 00:35:54.280 --> 00:36:06.230 WLWV Board Room: I think we can all agree, however, that there are certain books that should never make their way onto the shelves of our public libraries, our public school libraries, for example, books that promote racism and hate 271 00:36:06.470 --> 00:36:08.770 WLWV Board Room: books that deny the holocaust occurred. 272 00:36:08.870 --> 00:36:13.230 WLWV Board Room: and books that contain graphic images of people engaged in sexual acts. 273 00:36:13.470 --> 00:36:20.310 WLWV Board Room: This discussion is not about whether or not to ban books. Our school libraries cannot hold every book that was ever written. 274 00:36:20.520 --> 00:36:25.759 WLWV Board Room: and so we must make intentional and wise choices about the content of the books we do select. 275 00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:31.659 WLWV Board Room: Do we want our kids to have access to books that have sexually graphic images and descriptions. 276 00:36:31.780 --> 00:36:33.409 WLWV Board Room: And what about violence? 277 00:36:33.590 --> 00:36:36.119 WLWV Board Room: Especially in books and primary schools? 278 00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:41.799 WLWV Board Room: Should we not be pondering these questions as we make decisions about the books in our libraries. 279 00:36:42.710 --> 00:36:52.619 WLWV Board Room: My ask is that just as we came up with a book review process to address parent concerns about books that are currently available to students in our libraries. 280 00:36:52.810 --> 00:36:57.230 WLWV Board Room: We also create a review process for the selection of new books. 281 00:36:57.370 --> 00:37:07.300 WLWV Board Room: and in the spirit of district goal number 3, we invite our parents to be a part of this process. Along with teachers, librarians, para educators, and administrators. 282 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:13.219 WLWV Board Room: This is a needed next step toward ensuring that we make the best use of the shelves in our libraries. 283 00:37:15.190 --> 00:37:16.060 WLWV Board Room: Not exactly. 284 00:37:20.190 --> 00:37:20.790 WLWV Board Room: you know. 285 00:37:22.810 --> 00:37:48.600 WLWV Board Room: All right, so is my turn, and I am just gonna speak to our agenda and our plan for this evening, and just what came up for me as I was preparing for it, reading through all the materials, and we do have, as the board appears well knows, a very long meeting with, packed with a lot of good stuff. I was just struck that this feeding is an incredible demonstration of the power of our public education system, and 286 00:37:48.610 --> 00:37:57.629 WLWV Board Room: I piggyback on this idea of community, and how important community is like. Last night I went to bed to a text that one of our students 287 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:07.429 WLWV Board Room: had unfortunately passed away, and I woke up this morning to news of an earthquake overseas that killed nearly 3,000 people. 288 00:38:07.750 --> 00:38:10.570 WLWV Board Room: and and I was. 289 00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:19.319 WLWV Board Room: you know, basically thankful that I I was waking up safe with, You know, Kiddos going to school and 290 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:30.519 WLWV Board Room: and was reflecting on just the role of community when things like that happen, and how important it is that we can lean on each other when we have challenging things like that happen. 291 00:38:30.660 --> 00:38:40.789 WLWV Board Room: And so I was holding that this morning, and then I started to prepare for this meeting, and looking at the agenda, I was just thinking that this was I, the quintessential Board meeting 292 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:57.419 WLWV Board Room: where we have the Blackness Education Service District coming to speak to us about all the amazing support that they give to our district and to the larger community around early learning and tech support and supporting, you know, student services and school counselors. 293 00:38:57.430 --> 00:39:15.889 WLWV Board Room: Mit, Ctl and and I was reviewing all these memos and presentations and policy updates and plans that we'll be voting on. And they all were pointing to ways that we're being responsive to the needs of our students to those changing needs and the learning that they need to have in their schools 150, 294 00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:29.420 WLWV Board Room: looking at things like financial literacy. You know career and college planning some of the things that maybe at 1 point may have come from, you know, family and community. And now, like our schools, are really being called on, and to fill in those gaps. 295 00:39:29.430 --> 00:39:47.250 WLWV Board Room: and that we're doing this while looking for ways to increase their time at school to finish their work, to reduce their stress loads. And we're doing all this tonight, while we're planning for growth and looking at the capital bond and maintaining our grounds with our integrated pest management plan and 250. 296 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:56.759 WLWV Board Room: I was thinking about people I know, who had students who have gone through Wesley and Wilsonville schools, and you know those students are currently attending Harvard. 297 00:39:56.790 --> 00:40:14.139 WLWV Board Room: Ucl. Obona Community College Lin fields close by Osu They're operating businesses. They're in our adult transitions program. And i'm just thinking about that wide range of student needs that we're responding to. 298 00:40:14.150 --> 00:40:24.690 And that's you know what we're doing tonight with this packed agenda that we have. So I just wanted to name that, you know. I've been on the board for closing out 8 years now, and 299 00:40:24.730 --> 00:40:33.169 WLWV Board Room: and I. So I just had to admire the agenda and recognize. You know we don't do it perfectly. We can improve. 300 00:40:33.220 --> 00:40:40.269 and we're all basically called to do this collaboratively, and you know that's why we're here working together as a community 301 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:50.359 this past week I attended the Marian Folk youth and family Services Summit. It was not our district, but there were a panel of young people. 302 00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:56.070 and they're part of this organization called Backbone, and I listen to them. Talk about 303 00:40:56.120 --> 00:41:07.569 WLWV Board Room: their desire to just have basic needs, Matt, like they they wanted to. They wanted housing, They wanted food, and they wanted clothing, and they wanted transportation, so that they could have career opportunity. 304 00:41:07.580 --> 00:41:18.179 WLWV Board Room: and and their big ask for adults was, Don't be condescending to me, You know I I talk to me like. I'm an adult because I've lived through a lot, and 305 00:41:18.190 --> 00:41:36.070 WLWV Board Room: and I want to be, you know, treated like i'm capable of, you know, managing my own life, and this had powerful voices. And so I was just holding all that. As I prepared for this meeting and thinking about public education, and how it's being asked to change and be responsive to the needs of our students and communities. And 306 00:41:36.080 --> 00:41:44.530 WLWV Board Room: how like that's what we're going to be doing here tonight. So i'm looking forward to the good work on our agenda, and that's my forward report, and i'll hand it over to you, Dr. Ludwig. 307 00:41:47.890 --> 00:41:49.240 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And 308 00:41:49.260 --> 00:41:55.640 WLWV Board Room: speaking of full agendas. I just have a couple couple of slides, so making it short of this evening. 309 00:41:56.020 --> 00:42:10.289 WLWV Board Room: just to highlight, and our high school students did most of it for us just the the incredible events that did happen in January this month. A director sloop, mentioned about the multicultural nights when it Bolton, and there was when it trillium sunset. 310 00:42:10.300 --> 00:42:20.019 great to see family communities come out and celebrate and have so many great activities. So thank you to the staff to put those together a lot of time and effort in those community events. 311 00:42:20.490 --> 00:42:25.280 WLWV Board Room: Our staff, as you know, have been deeply working with the center for educational leadership 312 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:39.390 WLWV Board Room: around getting into classrooms, observing instruction, thinking about where we see implementation of program and practice, and then how to give valuable feedback and helpful feedback to staff through those learning walks. 313 00:42:39.720 --> 00:42:48.659 We know it's basketball season. It's all around us, and I just want to highlight one of the great additions in our program is it's called unified basketball. 314 00:42:48.690 --> 00:43:07.549 WLWV Board Room: and that's a co-LED basketball teams represented from each of our high schools in our middle schools, and they play other teams. And what's special is that the students who are involved are students with disability without disability, joining in a team together. So it's a chance to be competitive, but also in a. Co. LED experience. 315 00:43:07.560 --> 00:43:10.010 and have those opportunities to play. 316 00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:23.169 I mentioned to the Board a while back that well, 7 or 8 years ago we had a comprehensive safety audit done, which informed some of our bond projects, as well as our work around the district with safety. 317 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:35.529 WLWV Board Room: We've brought that consultation group back true North. It's. Originally they were called alert, and they've moved into segmenting their organization. So true north is the component that the school safety 318 00:43:35.600 --> 00:43:49.099 WLWV Board Room: and they were here interviewing, examining our facilities, doing kind of a review of our safety program and our implementation, and will give us some feedback on what they believe we're doing well 319 00:43:49.110 --> 00:43:56.979 WLWV Board Room: where they might see some gaps, and then some recommendations. So we're looking forward to hearing their review in a few weeks. 320 00:43:58.260 --> 00:44:08.640 WLWV Board Room: as I mentioned to you. We've started a new collaborative in the State of Oregon that I am a part of leading, and we had another meeting, and Larry Didway was 321 00:44:08.650 --> 00:44:26.610 a part of that meeting, and then we were able to present at Oakoa at a conference around our work around inclusion, but mostly around, just supporting each district around their work with special education, supporting students, instructional practices, and then the leadership work that goes along with that that can be incredibly complex. 322 00:44:26.620 --> 00:44:35.080 WLWV Board Room: and it's ever evolving and changing, and and so having a a supportive group for superintendents, is really important in this work. 323 00:44:36.250 --> 00:44:49.439 WLWV Board Room: And then, as we mentioned, because Director Thompson reminded me to recognize Dr. Soyson. We had the Owala Conference on Friday and Saturday, hosted by Hillsborough School district. 324 00:44:49.450 --> 00:44:59.640 and there were, I think, about 450 people there, including our own staff. We had teachers, peer-educated principals, district leaders there. 325 00:45:00.240 --> 00:45:12.749 WLWV Board Room: learning about our work with emerging bilinguals, but mostly supporting our Latino educators and aspiring administrators in that conference. It was a great great event. 326 00:45:12.980 --> 00:45:15.329 WLWV Board Room: and we are hosting it next year. 327 00:45:15.420 --> 00:45:35.179 WLWV Board Room: so we'll think about one of our high schools as a venue, and by that time it might be 500 attendees. So it'll be a really vibrant experience, and the organization is incredibly grateful for our partnership with them, our sponsorship of the organization, our support of their educators, and that will be hosting next year. So 328 00:45:37.130 --> 00:45:45.670 WLWV Board Room: i'm, just showing this slide again. This is the the third meeting that I've shown it just because we continue to have some questions. So I want it to be out there publicly 329 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:49.599 WLWV Board Room: that we have received some concerns about 330 00:45:50.350 --> 00:45:55.040 WLWV Board Room: 8 or 8 of our books 9, if you include the part, one and part 2 of the series. 331 00:45:55.100 --> 00:45:57.909 WLWV Board Room: and we do have our book review group 332 00:45:58.030 --> 00:46:00.469 that is comprised of 333 00:46:00.520 --> 00:46:05.030 WLWV Board Room: district administrators, librarians, community members, parents and student. 334 00:46:05.220 --> 00:46:14.530 who are reviewing those books. They're also reviewing all of the comments that have come in. There's a a binder of those that have arrived. 335 00:46:14.790 --> 00:46:23.200 WLWV Board Room: and they have about 4 or 5 meetings set up. They have already conducted one of the meetings. They'll have their second one this week. 336 00:46:23.390 --> 00:46:34.480 WLWV Board Room: and then the other 2 in the coming weeks. It's taking some time because they are reading every one of the books. They've been asked to do that, and then they're working through a process to think about that book 337 00:46:34.930 --> 00:46:39.819 WLWV Board Room: to consider its text selection, criteria to consider its age and development 338 00:46:39.900 --> 00:46:46.629 as Director Thompson mentioned how important that is that we do have that criteria in place, and so they are considering that. 339 00:46:46.770 --> 00:46:52.270 WLWV Board Room: and then they will bring their findings and decision to the superintendent, and i'll be sharing that with the board. 340 00:46:53.290 --> 00:46:57.880 WLWV Board Room: So again, just letting it pause up there so folks can see that whether they're at home. 341 00:46:58.580 --> 00:47:16.639 WLWV Board Room: Okay? And then next Curtis. Thank you. There's also been some questions around, not just the books that were brought forward with concern. But how do books get selected when they're considered supplemental and put in our libraries so just wanted to share that also. So folks at home can see that. And those who are here 342 00:47:16.910 --> 00:47:34.139 WLWV Board Room: that our teacher librarians, has. Director Wyatt mentioned an exceptional group of professionals educators. They have regular, twice monthly meetings around a number of topics, but it's in those meetings that they continue to review 343 00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:38.529 or refine their process for selection of new books 344 00:47:39.530 --> 00:47:49.139 WLWV Board Room: as a group. They meet in the different levels, primary, middle, and high, and discuss new titles with each other to identify the best choices, to add to collections. 345 00:47:49.330 --> 00:47:54.820 WLWV Board Room: and, as mentioned by Director Thompson. They do use criteria from these 346 00:47:55.850 --> 00:48:04.329 WLWV Board Room: these resources. The School Library Association, American Library Association, common sense media, which does have 347 00:48:04.450 --> 00:48:09.480 WLWV Board Room: viewpoints and input from students and parents as well as educators 348 00:48:09.700 --> 00:48:13.899 WLWV Board Room: and other nationally recognized children's literature. Review sources. 349 00:48:14.470 --> 00:48:18.780 WLWV Board Room: They do prioritize age. Appropriateness is their one of their criteria 350 00:48:18.930 --> 00:48:20.739 WLWV Board Room: quality of the literature. 351 00:48:20.860 --> 00:48:25.380 WLWV Board Room: and being the best current representation of books on a topic that is relevant. 352 00:48:26.520 --> 00:48:44.200 WLWV Board Room: So that's some of the process that they use also feedback from students, and the school community is considered when selecting new books. They hear about things from kids who are excited about literature, or something that may come to them from the community about some new literature, and they take that into consideration. 353 00:48:44.410 --> 00:48:47.589 WLWV Board Room: So just wanted to share that because there's been some questions 354 00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:54.750 WLWV Board Room: about that process. And then, lastly, just looking forward, because I know our next board meeting. Some of these events will have happened. 355 00:48:54.780 --> 00:48:57.079 WLWV Board Room: so I just want to put them on your radar 356 00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:01.259 WLWV Board Room: that we have our annual crest, Jane Goodall Science Symposium 357 00:49:01.370 --> 00:49:04.379 later this month, February 20, eighth. 358 00:49:05.340 --> 00:49:09.240 WLWV Board Room: And what's really exciting is our keynote. Speaker. 359 00:49:09.380 --> 00:49:22.919 WLWV Board Room: I'm not sure she's doctor yet, but she is getting her doctorate, so I kind of gave it to an advance. Maybe Nicole Day is coming. She is an alumnus from Wilsonville High School, graduated in 2,015, 360 00:49:23.030 --> 00:49:26.319 and she went to Oregon State University. 361 00:49:26.940 --> 00:49:31.070 and pursued a bachelor of science in bioengineering. 362 00:49:31.490 --> 00:49:35.509 WLWV Board Room: While she was there. She did an incredible amount of research at Ohsu. 363 00:49:35.690 --> 00:49:39.299 WLWV Board Room: and then quite a bit of research with 364 00:49:39.470 --> 00:49:55.469 WLWV Board Room: acronyms and names I can't pronounce in the medical field. She graduated in 2,019, with an honors. DC. Is entitled, and now you know why role of P. 2 Y. 12 inhibition in par one stimulated platelet, dense, granular release. 365 00:49:56.240 --> 00:49:57.789 WLWV Board Room: All know what that means. 366 00:49:57.930 --> 00:50:10.330 WLWV Board Room: She's gone on to now. Pursue her doctorate in bioengineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and is exploring magnetically controlled particle systems for the delivery of cancer immunotherapies. 367 00:50:10.820 --> 00:50:24.950 WLWV Board Room: While she's been doing all this, she's been helping at schools with STEM activities and research and partnering with local high school working with senior design students to solve biomedical problems relevant to her lab. 368 00:50:25.420 --> 00:50:26.629 WLWV Board Room: So 369 00:50:27.200 --> 00:50:30.439 WLWV Board Room: what an amazing opportunity for one of our alumni to come. 370 00:50:30.810 --> 00:50:49.830 WLWV Board Room: We've been doing this for a few years, where we brought some of our alumni back to talk about their journey in the in the sciences and what they're doing today in the field, and how they got there. So we're excited to have her. We hope that you can attend her keynote address, though there's always questions by a panel of students, and it's that same night that we also give our awards 371 00:50:49.840 --> 00:51:00.029 WLWV Board Room: for the International Science and Engineering Symposium. Will that be at Western High School again? It is at Wilsonville High School, so we try and trade off. 372 00:51:00.080 --> 00:51:05.710 WLWV Board Room: and we're always watching construction constraints. But we believe we can do it at Wilsonville. 373 00:51:06.490 --> 00:51:07.600 WLWV Board Room: So there we go. 374 00:51:08.030 --> 00:51:25.479 WLWV Board Room: followed a few days later by the Middle School Science Fair, which is also well attended, and those students do such a fabulous job of also engaging in the scientific inquiry process, and parents are welcome to come, and their science Fair projects are also judged and awards are given that evening as well. 375 00:51:26.970 --> 00:51:35.880 WLWV Board Room: And then, lastly, we have our annual community, Equity Summit coming up on March 11, which is an invitational summit to members of 376 00:51:36.230 --> 00:51:52.809 WLWV Board Room: both cities, City councils, mayors are attending select invitations to law, enforcement and TV F. And our rotaries, some members from the Chamber students. And so we get a representative group from the community to come together 377 00:51:52.820 --> 00:51:57.970 WLWV Board Room: and think about our collective work around being a community that values equity and inclusion. 378 00:51:58.420 --> 00:52:04.170 WLWV Board Room: and our keynote speaker is going to be Kwame Alexander, who is a notable poet and author. 379 00:52:04.350 --> 00:52:12.789 WLWV Board Room: and if you had middle or high school students that have read the crossover or some of his books. It's now on, I think Disney plus or Netflix, and so 380 00:52:13.030 --> 00:52:31.940 WLWV Board Room: he is well sought out, and I think it's just amazing that he's inspired to come to our community to spend the morning with us. He'll do keynote, and then he'll do a special closed session breakout session with some of our middle school students about his book and his poetry, and hearing from them, and engaging with them. 381 00:52:32.120 --> 00:52:37.670 WLWV Board Room: So I want you to get that on your calendars, and if you Haven't, Rsvp. To us yet, please do that 382 00:52:38.020 --> 00:52:40.919 WLWV Board Room: want you to have those experiences 383 00:52:41.500 --> 00:52:43.690 WLWV Board Room: to be able to to participate. 384 00:52:44.180 --> 00:52:45.969 WLWV Board Room: and that is it. 385 00:52:48.580 --> 00:52:49.209 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 386 00:52:49.230 --> 00:52:57.919 WLWV Board Room: All right, very good. Thank you. So we will move on to the next item, which is the consent agenda. Do we have a motion. 387 00:52:59.960 --> 00:53:02.310 WLWV Board Room: I'll mention that we've asked the consent agenda 388 00:53:03.150 --> 00:53:03.950 WLWV Board Room: a second 389 00:53:04.060 --> 00:53:09.039 WLWV Board Room: alright. Thank you. If I share with the motion, and Director Taylor with the second Miss Douglas, you please call the vote 390 00:53:09.510 --> 00:53:10.640 WLWV Board Room: that just live. 391 00:53:11.490 --> 00:53:16.740 WLWV Board Room: Hi, Director Taylor. 392 00:53:16.860 --> 00:53:19.619 WLWV Board Room: Director. Why, excuse me, Thank you. 393 00:53:20.660 --> 00:53:30.959 WLWV Board Room: Okay, then we'll move on to public comment from residents that are directly related to the agenda items. We don't have any falling in that category. Okay. So we'll move forward to 394 00:53:31.190 --> 00:53:50.019 WLWV Board Room: board action on executive session. We met under OS 1, 9, 2.6, 6 0 to B, which was personnel matter, and so we can now take action on what we discussed there, and i'll entertain a motion. 395 00:54:03.030 --> 00:54:11.879 WLWV Board Room: I move to not investigate, and to close the 2 identical complaints discussed in executive session and authorize the Board share to communicate that decision to the complainants. 396 00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:15.350 WLWV Board Room: All right. We have a motion 397 00:54:16.230 --> 00:54:23.650 WLWV Board Room: a second, All right. Vice Chair, Thompson, with the motion Director White with the Second and Miss Douglas, we please call vote Certainly. Check your slip. 398 00:54:26.350 --> 00:54:34.269 WLWV Board Room: Hi, Director Taylor checking alright, Bye-street Thompson. Hi, Jack to Why, I thank you 399 00:54:34.820 --> 00:54:40.329 WLWV Board Room: all right and we'll move on to the next item, which is from the business office. Looks like Dr. Ludwig, your app 400 00:54:40.420 --> 00:54:44.149 WLWV Board Room: and looks like we're going to be handing it over to 401 00:54:44.230 --> 00:54:57.659 WLWV Board Room: back my Csd. Huh? Yes. So at this time I'm going to invite Superintendent Larry did way to the podium representing class from as Esd. And I know he's got some board members in the audience, so I hope that we could introduce them as well. 402 00:54:57.900 --> 00:55:13.440 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here tonight, and I want to say thank you for welcoming us. I am here with 3 board members from clacking the Csd. And i'll have them wave behind me here first is our vice chair, Linda Brown. 403 00:55:13.930 --> 00:55:18.269 WLWV Board Room: and also John Imman and Greg Mckenzie. So. 404 00:55:18.370 --> 00:55:38.979 WLWV Board Room: and we really appreciate you giving us this time. This is our annual meeting when we come to present to you our local service plan for the coming year, and it is designed to serve all 10 of our school districts in this region. We also provided you with an annual report and an individual district report, including 405 00:55:38.990 --> 00:55:56.300 WLWV Board Room: copies of our other districts as well, so that you can see our most recent examples of our work. But before I talk about that local S, our local service plan process, I really want to provide a couple of very sincere Thank Yous beginning with to your superintendent, Superintendent Ludwig. 406 00:55:56.310 --> 00:56:13.210 WLWV Board Room: who is very much a highly respected leader in our region, and she is a part of our regional superintendent's group that collaborates regularly and comes together to discuss and share information and address challenges, and we've had a few of those over the last couple of years. Haven't. We 407 00:56:13.220 --> 00:56:43.159 and I also want to call out her leadership and advocacy for inclusion among leaders around the State. So it's it's very it admirable, and i'm inspiring. I also wanna call Kristy Thompson director. Thompson is has served on our Budget Committee, and we really hope that you will continue to join our Board members along with other School District Board representatives again this year, and I want to call out Pat Mcgow and experience facilities professional, who is very well respected 408 00:56:43.170 --> 00:56:57.189 WLWV Board Room: by his peers and his council is invaluable. There are a list of advisory group members from Westland, Wilsonville School district on pages 10 through 11 in the local service plan. 409 00:56:57.200 --> 00:57:13.290 WLWV Board Room: and I would encourage you to look at that. That those group of professionals meet regularly with their regional colleagues and advisory groups that are facilitated by the clack from the Csd. And their commitment to this collaborative work really has been particularly critical this year. 410 00:57:13.300 --> 00:57:31.590 WLWV Board Room: School board members I really want. I I would be remiss not to mention that we just missed school Board appreciation month, and and so we want to say congratulations, and say how grateful we are for your leadership and dedication and volunteer service on behalf of the youth. And 411 00:57:31.600 --> 00:57:46.160 WLWV Board Room: in this community and for public education, not just in January, but throughout the year, and it's a gesture of our thanks. We're pleased to present you with a set of note cards, featuring student work from my 2,022 clack with Csd regional art, show 412 00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:54.920 WLWV Board Room: a few notes about the local service plan and how we create it. It is in this document that looks like this. 413 00:57:55.840 --> 00:57:56.709 WLWV Board Room: are you? 414 00:57:56.750 --> 00:58:07.080 WLWV Board Room: It is a yearly plan that's required by the State. It covers all the services that clack the Csd will provide to local service districts in the coming fiscal Year 415 00:58:07.450 --> 00:58:27.410 WLWV Board Room: District Advisory groups provide input on the Plan development, and that plan is approved by our regional superintendents and our Esd Board before it comes to you for your approval. We have 3 documents again for you tonight. One of those is for you to Review and approve. That's the local service plan. And then there are 2 others for background information 416 00:58:28.100 --> 00:58:37.600 for the local service plan that really reflects a productive partnership between the clock with Csd. And all 10 of the school districts that we serve 417 00:58:37.870 --> 00:58:44.959 WLWV Board Room: is a comprehensive review of all of our services, including the resolution services that are available to all of those school districts. 418 00:58:44.970 --> 00:58:59.210 Those are in the area of special education, technology and data and teaching and learning support, as well as district revenue for you to apply, as you see fit, to Esd services of your choice, but also covers contracts and grant services 419 00:58:59.220 --> 00:59:14.040 that covers areas like early learning, special education, technology and teaching and learning services also, and has multiple student support services and district technical support services that are provided through the Student Success act funding 420 00:59:14.350 --> 00:59:35.049 WLWV Board Room: the local service plan has been approved by all 10 of the clack, most chief Administrators Council, or the group of the 10 clack of a Chief Administrators Council and the President of Clackness Community College, and it's also been approved by our Esd. Board of Directors, and we bring it to you here tonight for approval. 421 00:59:35.330 --> 00:59:52.759 WLWV Board Room: Also included, are 2 items of information. One of those looks like this. It is a user guide for you. It's a detailed report for your district, indicating the overall cost of services delivered by Clack in the Csd. And highlighting some of the key services that we've provided. 422 00:59:52.880 --> 01:00:07.729 WLWV Board Room: Your print packets included reports for all districts, but I want to highlight a few things from West Lynn Wilsonville. More than 5.9 million dollars in total services were provided, and that was an increase of about a 1 million dollars from the previous year. 423 01:00:07.740 --> 01:00:23.360 WLWV Board Room: and more than 3.1 million dollars in revenue was funneled directly to you, and that's up for about about $300,000 from the past year. It has a reflection of vibrant partnerships in supporting school nurses and counselors 424 01:00:23.370 --> 01:00:31.370 WLWV Board Room: helping address students. Mental health needs, improving support to multilingual learners, providing early learning, support services. 425 01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:41.829 WLWV Board Room: support for students with significant social, emotional and behavioral challenges, providing data and technology support and supporting improvements to curriculum and instruction. 426 01:00:41.930 --> 01:00:59.939 WLWV Board Room: We hope the format of that report provides you some more contacts on the many ways. Westland, Wilsonville school district and clack my Csd collaborate to serve students, educators, and families, and we would really welcome your feedback on how we could make that any more useful to you in the future. 427 01:00:59.960 --> 01:01:04.339 And then, last, but not least, is an annual report that looks like this. 428 01:01:04.660 --> 01:01:19.219 WLWV Board Room: and that just provides more information about the impact of clack in the Csd. In our region through data and stories and smaller negative of information for you, we hope that report is also useful to you would welcome your feedback on that as well. 429 01:01:23.340 --> 01:01:34.570 WLWV Board Room: Very good. Thank you so much for being here and to your board members for being here, and we can probably entertain a motion first, and then to approve the 430 01:01:34.620 --> 01:01:40.549 local service plan for 2,023 2,024 and then, if there's questions or comments. We can also do that. 431 01:01:44.950 --> 01:01:52.130 WLWV Board Room: I will make a motion that we approve the Local Service Plan presentation, Local service plan as presented this evening. 432 01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.240 WLWV Board Room: Great, Thank you by sure, Thompson, I second. 433 01:01:55.360 --> 01:02:00.529 WLWV Board Room: and do we? So anybody want to say anything or ask any questions? 434 01:02:02.670 --> 01:02:03.819 WLWV Board Room: I just want it 435 01:02:04.030 --> 01:02:06.349 WLWV Board Room: my own guess. Now I am 436 01:02:06.830 --> 01:02:08.660 WLWV Board Room: the breadth of things 437 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:11.830 WLWV Board Room: that you do as an organization. Thank you. 438 01:02:12.010 --> 01:02:16.109 just as I every year read through, and I feel like 439 01:02:16.150 --> 01:02:21.409 WLWV Board Room: I always knew about the clock of a Csd before I became a board member, and each year. 440 01:02:22.220 --> 01:02:30.029 WLWV Board Room: like the learning I've been able to learn even more and more services. And really what you provide, not just to our district, but to every district 441 01:02:30.090 --> 01:02:39.779 WLWV Board Room: in Clakamus County. This. Thank you. I feel like every year I learned. Oh, they do that too. They do that, too, and I and I probably need several more terms as a board member 442 01:02:41.030 --> 01:02:55.439 WLWV Board Room: to find out all you know before I truly understand the breadth of all the things that you provide. So I just want to say thank you, and I enjoyed being on your Budget Committee last year, and i'm happy to do it again. 443 01:02:55.600 --> 01:02:56.650 WLWV Board Room: Great, Thank you. 444 01:02:58.850 --> 01:03:02.250 WLWV Board Room: You got that recorded right. 445 01:03:04.890 --> 01:03:21.760 WLWV Board Room: I just wanted to mention. Last year I had the pleasure of working with Andrew Kilstrom, our City Communications director, and Shirley Skidmore from the Esd. On a communications overview and audit here for our district. But it was such a wonderful experience, so incredibly professional. 446 01:03:21.770 --> 01:03:37.929 It was like working with a pro communications consultant to come in and really look at all of the ways that we communicate in ways that we could survey our community and find out more about how we can be the best communicators, and it strikes me from looking through this report and this just reminder that 447 01:03:37.940 --> 01:03:42.749 you really provide the economies of scale that it takes for school districts to be successful. 448 01:03:42.760 --> 01:04:02.379 You really make it so we can rely on you for things like like this technology page alone kind of blows my mind in terms of the number of agencies that you're working with. And I think, as we think about, you know how we run our district most efficiently. It's relying on expertise from everything that you do, and so we experience that first hand 449 01:04:02.390 --> 01:04:16.229 WLWV Board Room: in that communications audit. But I think throughout this report we can see what it means when we have somebody that's working with districts, and it really raises the bar for for everyone in our region to your work. So thank you very much. Thank you. We appreciate that. 450 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:35.959 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I I just want to. Lastly, say the staff at our clock, and this Esd. Are remarkable. They're they're talented. They're generous with their time. They're responsive. If they don't have something that we've wondered about or asked. They're ready to go and look for it to resource 451 01:04:35.970 --> 01:04:52.140 WLWV Board Room: and superintendent did. We has over just even in a short tenure brought on some remarkable talent, and also empowered other folks to work in different ways. We're getting a lot of support around the many grants and components that come from Ode. 452 01:04:52.150 --> 01:05:10.199 WLWV Board Room: not to mention, when we were in the pandemic, that we there was a lot of resource there for school districts. But even on this side of that, to just dig right back into teaching and learning and resourcing for school districts. I also want to say the monthly meetings that superintendent did weigh leads with all of the 453 01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:18.699 WLWV Board Room: 10 superintendents and president of this community, college, Tim Cook are led with great thoughtful agenda 454 01:05:18.850 --> 01:05:38.719 WLWV Board Room: in the spirit of collaboration. How we can work together collectively to make Clackamus County a really strong place educationally for students to thrive, and he sees all of us as a a collective and a team, and he fosters that kind of culture in our meetings and in resourcing for us. 455 01:05:38.730 --> 01:05:50.029 WLWV Board Room: And i'm just so grateful. I know that's not true everywhere, and for it to happen the way that it does is a real commitment on the part of your leadership, and I appreciate that. So? Thank you. I appreciate you. 456 01:05:50.040 --> 01:06:03.070 WLWV Board Room: Our Our mission is to lead, serve, and innovate for learning and and and what I've learned here is that next year I might just have some of you go and do our presentations. So thank you. 457 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:04.860 WLWV Board Room: Appreciate the where it works 458 01:06:06.300 --> 01:06:08.350 WLWV Board Room: All right. Very good. If you wouldn't call the vote 459 01:06:08.500 --> 01:06:09.639 WLWV Board Room: Director Slope 460 01:06:12.520 --> 01:06:19.339 WLWV Board Room: to Taylor, checking. Aye, aye, Thompson. Hi, Director. Why. 461 01:06:19.600 --> 01:06:20.270 WLWV Board Room: thank you. 462 01:06:20.290 --> 01:06:29.969 WLWV Board Room: Thank you very much. Very good. Thank you. And i'll say the same thing to you all as I do students. You are welcome to stay, and also you are welcome to go. So thanks for being here. 463 01:06:33.650 --> 01:06:36.049 WLWV Board Room: Okay, and 464 01:06:36.500 --> 01:06:41.649 WLWV Board Room: You have very good timing, Ms. Kim, Jordan, and we're moving on to 465 01:06:41.700 --> 01:06:45.109 WLWV Board Room: the section pat. Did you want to come up first and 466 01:06:47.660 --> 01:06:58.760 WLWV Board Room: on quarterly reports? Good evening. We have 3 items we're bringing before you and operations, and the first one is Kim Jordan, with the long range planning update. 467 01:07:03.530 --> 01:07:04.629 WLWV Board Room: I 468 01:07:05.900 --> 01:07:10.100 WLWV Board Room: I missed you last quarter, but i'm back. Can't get rid of me. 469 01:07:10.730 --> 01:07:13.480 WLWV Board Room: Yes, thank you. 470 01:07:13.750 --> 01:07:19.520 WLWV Board Room: We had an exciting meeting. I know. I say, that every time it's so nerdy, but 471 01:07:19.590 --> 01:07:30.220 WLWV Board Room: so i'm going to kind of jump around, do something different than what I've done before, and just highlight 2 particular things. But if you want me to go back to anything else. 472 01:07:30.430 --> 01:07:31.649 WLWV Board Room: Just let me know. 473 01:07:31.690 --> 01:07:42.250 WLWV Board Room: This is a report based on our meeting in January. We had of our 7 appointed people 5 come, which is great. 474 01:07:42.420 --> 01:07:52.230 WLWV Board Room: And the reason I kind of mix this up and not go through every single page. One is because a lot of our projects are done, and so we don't need to keep talking about those. 475 01:07:52.240 --> 01:08:07.359 WLWV Board Room: but also just because of the really long meeting tonight. I wanted to just hit the high points. So I wanted to talk about the middle school dollar. Angie Angela Kaffir came and did a presentation for us about that. 476 01:08:07.450 --> 01:08:21.939 WLWV Board Room: And so this is the summary page from your packet, but the slides to follow. I'll kind of hit the points on the summary page, so the first slide that she showed us. These are just updates from November until now. 477 01:08:22.029 --> 01:08:31.639 WLWV Board Room: so if we can just go forward one side, there we go, so it's becoming a school. And so right now. There's trusses in 478 01:08:31.859 --> 01:08:46.009 WLWV Board Room: there's cement walls. There are temporary roofs. So if you haven't been by there recently, you would be shocked to see what's there it looks amazing. It's really down into 479 01:08:46.189 --> 01:09:04.870 WLWV Board Room: the area, so that it's not like some enormous structure that's sticking up over. I think the homes nearby are going to be really happy with the the roof lines there, and it's kind of tucked into the hill and coming together really well. The next slide shows how 480 01:09:04.930 --> 01:09:20.389 WLWV Board Room: There's already interior work going on. This is the Arts porch interior, and I don't. We talked about it last time, but they did the pre fabricated walls where they made the walls in in total and brought them in. 481 01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:30.750 WLWV Board Room: and instead of doing that brick by big fibric on site, it took them 11 days to put it, all the walls up that were that were made elsewhere. So that was super exciting. 482 01:09:30.939 --> 01:09:37.510 The sidewalks on the next slide, the sidewalk on the school side is done. 483 01:09:37.689 --> 01:09:50.759 WLWV Board Room: and the slide that's on the right hand side. That's the track. So right now it's being used as a staging area, but it's roughed out, so you can actually see where the track is gonna go, and that beautiful skyline 484 01:09:50.810 --> 01:09:52.760 behind. 485 01:09:53.359 --> 01:10:00.730 WLWV Board Room: and the second floor has been framed. The next slide is the second floor Framing 486 01:10:00.820 --> 01:10:04.729 WLWV Board Room: is going in where the classrooms will be. 487 01:10:05.450 --> 01:10:12.830 WLWV Board Room: and then this is my favorite one. And so this is the bird's eye view of how the school is gonna look 488 01:10:12.890 --> 01:10:18.499 WLWV Board Room: so just to orient you. If you don't mind, i'll talk you through this part a little bit, and the bottom 489 01:10:18.590 --> 01:10:21.559 road that's dollar. 490 01:10:21.790 --> 01:10:31.299 WLWV Board Room: Oh, thank you for doing the arrow, and then the the one across that's limit. False drive, and you could see there's Fields bridge Park there with the the fields. 491 01:10:31.420 --> 01:10:39.180 WLWV Board Room: and they've developed the road. That's the school is going to be called Brandon Place. We have an address and everything. Now 492 01:10:39.210 --> 01:10:45.780 WLWV Board Room: the bottom part of brand and place will be blocked off, so that won't be accessible 493 01:10:45.790 --> 01:11:03.709 like people. Aren't going to be cutting through there. That will be it. It has a driveway, but it will have a barrier, so that you know people aren't trying to duck down dollar and up in there, and then the road is gonna go arcs up, and then there will be a drop off in front of the school. Yep. 494 01:11:04.130 --> 01:11:09.770 WLWV Board Room: right there and then. The main entrance is where that arrow. Yeah, there we go. 495 01:11:09.990 --> 01:11:11.080 WLWV Board Room: team work. 496 01:11:11.650 --> 01:11:29.900 WLWV Board Room: Oh, go back, go back. The oxygen and the main gym are on yeah the bottom level. And then there's actually going to be a back entrance, because the buses will come in through the back. So the back entrance is where the arrow is, and the buses are going to come along 497 01:11:29.930 --> 01:11:36.670 WLWV Board Room: above where the track is, and they'll kind of loop around and drop kids off there, and you can't see in this picture where the 498 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:41.840 WLWV Board Room: buses will come in. It would be on the far left of this frame. Exactly. 499 01:11:41.890 --> 01:12:00.669 WLWV Board Room: And then the classrooms will be right through there, and the library is like again, like a centerpiece like a lot of our schools will be so. It's so exciting. It's actually starting to look like an a real school. One of the really cool things that's happening now is that there's a temporary roof 500 01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:15.890 WLWV Board Room: so that they can work on doing the dry wall now, instead of waiting till the real official roof is on there. So there's a lot of stacking going on where things are all happening at the same time, instead of literally just 501 01:12:15.900 --> 01:12:20.800 we're speeding up that process, making sure we stay on a test so that we are opening 502 01:12:21.010 --> 01:12:26.519 WLWV Board Room: this fall. The next slide is 503 01:12:26.550 --> 01:12:43.499 WLWV Board Room: Oh, I actually asked him to take. Oh, yeah, yeah, this is just funny to people who are in construction, and the rest of us are like I don't get it. But all the construction people are like. Look at all the people working together side by side in this slide. And so you've got your people doing 504 01:12:43.510 --> 01:12:53.889 WLWV Board Room: whatever the electrical and the H. F. And all the things that you do. But they were really excited. So I wanted to leave this in just just for remote, and and the rest of the people. 505 01:12:54.170 --> 01:13:10.749 WLWV Board Room: and then the this is from the back. So this would be like if you're standing on dollar kind of looking at the back of the school. This is the view from that. So you can see how it's sits a little lower, because that was a a hill. 506 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:18.910 WLWV Board Room: and but it will still be all 2 stories. So it's coming together really great. It's really exciting, and if you haven't been up there. 507 01:13:18.990 --> 01:13:34.220 WLWV Board Room: and the other thing to note is the other side from this picture is all blue. It's not going to stay blue. I guess a lot of people were concerned about that. That's what they put the brick over the blue. So just happens to be blue right now. So not to worry. 508 01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:43.530 WLWV Board Room: You live in that neighborhood like I do. We're not having a big old blue school there on the hill. So any questions about just this property in particular. 509 01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:48.039 WLWV Board Room: Okay? And then this 510 01:13:48.120 --> 01:13:51.990 WLWV Board Room: I was trying to get to it faster. But i'm slow these days. 511 01:13:52.130 --> 01:13:55.479 My question is in regards to the fields. 512 01:13:55.740 --> 01:14:05.779 WLWV Board Room: Is it just a track in a open field, or is it, or is there more baseball diamonds and things that also go out in that areas and just to track in the field. 513 01:14:06.390 --> 01:14:07.269 WLWV Board Room: Do you know. 514 01:14:12.080 --> 01:14:13.330 WLWV Board Room: Gotcha 515 01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:15.769 WLWV Board Room: Gotcha? Okay. 516 01:14:16.010 --> 01:14:21.859 WLWV Board Room: I think we'll we'll have remote repeat that because he's got a microphone, so folks at home can hear. 517 01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:40.129 WLWV Board Room: We all get excited about this stuff. So Kim correctly noted where the track was. On the left hand side of that you can see there's a lot of gravel and material being stored. That is a single multi sport field your football soccer across. Then, of course, all the track and field 518 01:14:40.370 --> 01:14:41.340 WLWV Board Room: events 519 01:14:44.410 --> 01:14:47.740 WLWV Board Room: and no, there are not other sports fields at the site. 520 01:14:52.700 --> 01:15:07.479 WLWV Board Room: The second thing that I wanted to focus on always is, we like to go through the financial summary, and this is too small for anyone to read, so you'll have to look at your your packets. But we have some good news, so that's that's nice. 521 01:15:07.490 --> 01:15:25.179 WLWV Board Room: You will recall that we were going to sell the rest of our unsold bonds on the advice of Piper Sandler, kind of waiting for that timing to be just right, and it turned out that their advice couldn't have been better, and Staff reacted. 522 01:15:25.230 --> 01:15:29.660 WLWV Board Room: and we ended up getting a very favorable sale. 523 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:32.550 WLWV Board Room: so that 524 01:15:34.040 --> 01:15:41.079 WLWV Board Room: we received a premium of 6.8 billiondollars to add to our our project funds. 525 01:15:43.030 --> 01:15:50.030 WLWV Board Room: There's some shuffling that happened, and that's in a memo that you received. So i'm going to kind of go on, and then we can go back to that in just a second. 526 01:15:51.220 --> 01:16:04.850 WLWV Board Room: Just I had pulled the quarter report for Q. 3. I wasn't here for that. That was when remote. Did the report to you, but in that one the forecasted over under was 11.5 over. So you'll notice in this one. 527 01:16:04.860 --> 01:16:24.420 WLWV Board Room: We're down to 4.8 over. Obviously that's a considerable decrease, which is amazing, but also not reflected in this report which would be reflected in in the next time Someone, maybe me comes and talks to you is the investment made from the sold bonds, which is an additional 3 million. 528 01:16:24.430 --> 01:16:30.209 WLWV Board Room: So we're anticipating that this is going to be down much closer to 1 point something 529 01:16:30.380 --> 01:16:39.610 WLWV Board Room: So that's all great news, good news coming which we like to hear because of that, and because of some 530 01:16:40.660 --> 01:16:54.710 WLWV Board Room: projects that ended under budget. There's this redistribution of some of the the money which is in the memo from remote, and I think we have that one to put up as well. 531 01:16:54.890 --> 01:17:02.420 WLWV Board Room: So what it means is that we're a lot closer to where we want to be. 532 01:17:02.440 --> 01:17:17.989 WLWV Board Room: and if you have maybe specific questions on this, I could answer them. I've gone through it about a 1 million times, making sure that I understand it. But the memo is much easier to, or much more clear, I think, than maybe the the total summary 533 01:17:18.390 --> 01:17:25.350 WLWV Board Room: so represented in the budget change increase in decrease would be that 6.8 million 534 01:17:25.440 --> 01:17:28.930 WLWV Board Room: less fees that we would have that we had to pay. 535 01:17:29.220 --> 01:17:30.510 WLWV Board Room: and 536 01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:36.260 WLWV Board Room: also in that pod of 6.3 would be the 537 01:17:36.900 --> 01:17:50.319 WLWV Board Room: we under budget for the High School. And then what reflects us under budget for learning, with tech or facility improvements? Those were some of the facility improvements that we decided to take off the table temporarily. 538 01:17:50.400 --> 01:17:52.660 WLWV Board Room: to leave us with a little more breathing room. 539 01:17:52.960 --> 01:18:04.349 WLWV Board Room: and then you'll see that the under program, that number that's where some of that money was redistributed to hold in there for contingencies. 540 01:18:06.660 --> 01:18:07.290 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. 541 01:18:08.140 --> 01:18:13.569 WLWV Board Room: thank you, Kim, Can you remind me what does the line item program? 542 01:18:13.830 --> 01:18:17.930 WLWV Board Room: So that there's that's kind of a 543 01:18:18.030 --> 01:18:25.499 WLWV Board Room: catch all, maybe, that you want to call it. So that includes a staff cost that includes contingency money. 544 01:18:25.510 --> 01:18:43.189 WLWV Board Room: It started off being maybe it was confusing, because that's where we had listed. Things like the awesome grant we had put under there. But but now that's kind of where our contingency money sits and our staff costs are sitting. 545 01:18:43.300 --> 01:18:44.190 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 546 01:18:48.370 --> 01:18:52.950 WLWV Board Room: Anything else I can answer about that, or is the memo make sense or 547 01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:53.719 WLWV Board Room: okay. 548 01:18:59.040 --> 01:19:05.510 WLWV Board Room: And then just one last point around that, because I know you talked a lot about Frog Pond last time. 549 01:19:05.690 --> 01:19:12.030 WLWV Board Room: So Frog pond while still listed as being over. 550 01:19:12.090 --> 01:19:21.629 There's 5 qualified bidders the right now. Remember, at this stage in the con in the process 551 01:19:21.810 --> 01:19:27.430 we include all the things. So you put in all the things that you would want 552 01:19:27.550 --> 01:19:34.079 WLWV Board Room: those. There's a lot of shuffling that can happen over time, and then 553 01:19:34.410 --> 01:19:40.049 WLWV Board Room: once we get much closer like. For example, one of the things that's listed in there is a covered play area 554 01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:58.969 WLWV Board Room: Does that stay in If you're not comfortable with how much that cost Does it come out? Is that one of the pieces that you maybe move around? But once it gets once we have a competitive bid, and we know exactly the dollar amount. The staff will come back to you 555 01:19:58.980 --> 01:20:16.780 WLWV Board Room: and make a recommendation, and then it will be up to you to decide based on how the bond numbers are looking. You know how comfortable you are with over your over under at that point, so that's still a number that's influx and determined by you guys, ultimately 556 01:20:20.150 --> 01:20:25.900 WLWV Board Room: any questions on any of it. I didn't talk about any of the other projects, but i'm happy to, and able to if you want. 557 01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:40.479 WLWV Board Room: I think you've done a great job in the memos, and the slot slides, and everything you put together are very thorough, and thank you for your years of being on the long range planning committee which helped you to be able to speak to it. 558 01:20:40.490 --> 01:20:56.130 WLWV Board Room: I i'm not seeing any further questions. I do have one for you a little off topic. During my board report I bragged a little bit about different schools that our students have attended. Do you want to make a mom brag about where your a high school graduate went to school. 559 01:20:56.740 --> 01:21:03.799 WLWV Board Room: or you don't have to. 560 01:21:04.850 --> 01:21:09.739 WLWV Board Room: All right. And how would you like to come back up. And as a remote, okay, great 561 01:21:17.490 --> 01:21:18.730 WLWV Board Room: Good evening Board. 562 01:21:18.890 --> 01:21:23.220 WLWV Board Room: It's another really challenging presentation on the Quarterly report for me. 563 01:21:23.270 --> 01:21:25.459 So thanks again, Kim. 564 01:21:25.500 --> 01:21:29.100 WLWV Board Room: for always knowing that so diligently makes it quite easy. 565 01:21:29.660 --> 01:21:31.910 WLWV Board Room: So the next item on the agenda 566 01:21:32.060 --> 01:21:35.349 WLWV Board Room: is something probably a little new for the board. 567 01:21:35.480 --> 01:21:39.600 The notion of a name brand, call out. 568 01:21:39.920 --> 01:21:42.179 This is 569 01:21:42.220 --> 01:21:43.820 well 570 01:21:43.890 --> 01:21:46.969 WLWV Board Room: under the standard process for competitive bidding. 571 01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:52.200 WLWV Board Room: The district is required to provide options for any and all products. 572 01:21:52.220 --> 01:22:09.000 WLWV Board Room: so that there's always competition, and it drives price down and provides opportunity for various firms to get parts of contracts. The law does allow certain circumstances and reasons why you might limit that to a specific brand. 573 01:22:09.060 --> 01:22:24.910 WLWV Board Room: And so, having gone through a process over the last several months around, specifically, our rooftop mechanical equipment for the new primary school we are. We have set a number of findings, and we're asking the Board for authorization 574 01:22:24.940 --> 01:22:28.259 to name a specific brand for that equipment. 575 01:22:28.470 --> 01:22:37.849 WLWV Board Room: I did speak to it at some length in the memo. Perhaps i'll hold there and and see if there any specific questions, or if you'd like me to 576 01:22:38.120 --> 01:22:41.440 WLWV Board Room: go ahead and speak to that more deeply. I'd be happy to. 577 01:22:47.100 --> 01:22:58.570 Well, I read the memo, and I think it were you kind of asking like, Should we have a motion first or a discussion? Yeah, yeah, I think that we could get a motion on the table 578 01:22:59.020 --> 01:23:02.509 WLWV Board Room: first. I'm looking for sometimes we have sample language. 579 01:23:02.830 --> 01:23:07.070 WLWV Board Room: Do you know if that's provided that's in the resolution? 580 01:23:08.540 --> 01:23:09.740 WLWV Board Room: Hmm. 581 01:23:12.380 --> 01:23:13.599 WLWV Board Room: Oh, there it is. 582 01:23:19.830 --> 01:23:28.310 WLWV Board Room: all right. I'll go ahead, and my mic is on, i'll move that we pass Resolution number 2022, 583 01:23:28.510 --> 01:23:34.130 to specify a brand name for the new primary school in Wilsonville. 584 01:23:35.090 --> 01:23:36.109 WLWV Board Room: I'll second 585 01:23:36.240 --> 01:23:41.269 WLWV Board Room: all right. Thank you, Director Taylor, for a second. Yeah. Are there questions or comments? 586 01:23:42.620 --> 01:23:52.680 WLWV Board Room: My only question is, Help me understand why this school, what's going on with this school that requires this type of technology versus some of the other schools. 587 01:23:53.660 --> 01:24:02.010 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, it's actually not necessarily specific to the school or even the design. It's a question of where we're at 588 01:24:02.040 --> 01:24:07.129 WLWV Board Room: globally the economically and in terms of production of material and equipment. 589 01:24:07.390 --> 01:24:23.190 WLWV Board Room: I. When you're specifying this equipment, it used to be that similar to purchasing a nice car. There's a lot of adult add features, you know. You might get, I mean keyless entries kind of common now, but you know all the different features that you might 590 01:24:23.260 --> 01:24:33.509 WLWV Board Room: select or not for your car, and it changes the price. Similarly, with complex equipment such as this mechanical equipment, there are a lot of different things that would help you to in certain 591 01:24:34.100 --> 01:24:38.009 factors in this case. Primarily it's about how loud the units are. 592 01:24:38.450 --> 01:24:46.409 WLWV Board Room: And so with the economic challenges. Over the last few years a lot of those optional features have gone away. 593 01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:52.910 WLWV Board Room: The manufacturers have really streamlined their production, and if you want this size of unit from this manufacturer. You 594 01:24:53.060 --> 01:24:56.789 WLWV Board Room: there's pretty much just version a, and that's the one you can get. 595 01:24:57.160 --> 01:25:11.580 WLWV Board Room: The issue for us. Is that depending on the specific equipment needs for the school. One brands may be several times louder, and, in fact, in this case the next closest is 3 to 4 times as loud 596 01:25:11.880 --> 01:25:29.850 WLWV Board Room: as the one manufacturer. There's no brand loyalty to the brand in question here. We have several brands that we use in the district that operate reliably, that our folks know how to maintain that we can get parts, for there's nothing in that about this request. 597 01:25:29.860 --> 01:25:44.960 WLWV Board Room: But in order to accommodate any other brands that are large, reliable, known brands, we would have to install large concrete slabs onto the roof as wide as big as 30 by 60 feet per unit. 598 01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:57.890 WLWV Board Room: we'd have to double the thickness of the exterior walls. We'd have to purchase special windows. We'd have to change the ceiling types inside the spaces in order to avoid a large audible rumble in the space, which is 599 01:25:57.920 --> 01:26:01.460 WLWV Board Room: obviously it interferes with teaching and learning. 600 01:26:01.540 --> 01:26:07.940 So we had a long drawn out process, working with our mechanical engineers as well as our acoustician. 601 01:26:07.980 --> 01:26:16.330 WLWV Board Room: and studying all the different brands, we actually opened up the conversation to several brands that we typically didn't use, but we're 602 01:26:16.470 --> 01:26:22.619 WLWV Board Room: reasonably good quality in order to try to maintain that sense of competition in this field 603 01:26:22.660 --> 01:26:28.869 WLWV Board Room: and those other brands were yet louder than the ones that were in the the report that was in the board packet. 604 01:26:29.080 --> 01:26:37.380 WLWV Board Room: so it would cost the district several 100,000 additional dollars to allow competition on this particular piece of equipment. 605 01:26:37.470 --> 01:26:40.470 WLWV Board Room: and that being the case, there. 606 01:26:40.860 --> 01:26:44.600 WLWV Board Room: it just got to a point that that cost difference was so high 607 01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:49.490 WLWV Board Room: that we felt that that cost outweigh the the benefits of the competition. 608 01:26:49.910 --> 01:27:07.890 WLWV Board Room: And so there's there's no preferential treatment to any contractor or subcontractor. They're all able to reach out to the different distributors that are allowed to sell this equipment from the manufacturer, and it, you know the findings go go on at some length in the memorandum, but 609 01:27:08.210 --> 01:27:16.460 WLWV Board Room: it's it's truly a question of. Does the school district want to spend several $100,000 to reinforce the building 610 01:27:16.540 --> 01:27:29.699 WLWV Board Room: and provide additional sheltering around the units, so that the noise isn't impacting the staff and students, as well as the neighbors and and staff, would recommend that we not go to that additional expense. 611 01:27:31.950 --> 01:27:49.719 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, that makes a total sense. And I'm I'm. Definitely leaning forward, being a Yes, on this resolution i'm tracking all those reasons. And I think the only question I have, and I should have given you a heads up. I was gonna ask us. I bet you you already did this so because you all are on the top of your game, and that is like the click, the cost 612 01:27:49.730 --> 01:28:01.780 WLWV Board Room: analysis, like $300,000. Now to be able to say, you know, to get whatever equipment and versus like maintenance of particular material over many years, you know, 20 years, or whatever to come. 613 01:28:01.910 --> 01:28:08.020 WLWV Board Room: Sure, there's there's nothing about the alternative that is more favorable in cost. 614 01:28:08.100 --> 01:28:18.469 WLWV Board Room: The equipment that we're recommending. In this measure there's there's no disadvantage in terms of the cost they're all they these top flight 615 01:28:18.580 --> 01:28:25.100 WLWV Board Room: units from various vendors. Again, we have no preference between them there's, no 616 01:28:25.330 --> 01:28:30.829 WLWV Board Room: known or quantifiable benefit, cost-wise, operating efficiency or any of those things 617 01:28:30.940 --> 01:28:33.549 it's purely a question of. 618 01:28:33.830 --> 01:28:39.370 WLWV Board Room: Do we want to incur additional cost to allow additional firms to to come to the table and bid. 619 01:28:42.550 --> 01:28:47.049 WLWV Board Room: and it's how we have. We use this brand before in the past, or is this a new 620 01:28:47.080 --> 01:28:50.240 WLWV Board Room: brand being introduced into the district? 621 01:28:50.730 --> 01:28:56.840 WLWV Board Room: It's a brand that we've used a number of times. I think we have 4 or 5 across the district. 622 01:28:57.010 --> 01:29:08.349 WLWV Board Room: and 3 or 4 of those are ones that we like very much, and this is one of those. Again, if the acoustic data came in differently, and it was one of those other brands that would be who we'd be here talking about. 623 01:29:08.420 --> 01:29:16.570 WLWV Board Room: or if through all this additional work, we had found at least one other brand that could play, then we wouldn't be having the conversation. 624 01:29:22.120 --> 01:29:29.719 WLWV Board Room: Very good. Yeah. Just a great example of the how much front loading. Oh, sorry. I didn't even see you back there. You're on. 625 01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:31.799 WLWV Board Room: So I just had one question. 626 01:29:32.100 --> 01:29:33.860 WLWV Board Room: Since we are 627 01:29:33.950 --> 01:29:41.800 WLWV Board Room: limiting with the call out, is it reasonable to include or ask for, an extended warranty on this Hbac? 628 01:29:44.510 --> 01:30:02.139 WLWV Board Room: I don't believe so. You know. There, there's still enough competition in there, and and things that the pricing is reasonable, and those warranties are standard across, and we we how we hold. We are the ones who get to specify what we want in a warranty. 629 01:30:02.150 --> 01:30:04.760 WLWV Board Room: and we're not shy about doing so. 630 01:30:10.370 --> 01:30:20.260 WLWV Board Room: All right. Very good. Yeah. Thank you to all the information you put in the memo that helped prepare us for the discussion, and i'm having a sense that we're done, and you can call to vote 631 01:30:21.320 --> 01:30:22.499 WLWV Board Room: track just loop. 632 01:30:26.440 --> 01:30:28.070 WLWV Board Room: Thanks. I. 633 01:30:28.400 --> 01:30:35.529 WLWV Board Room: Director Taylor, checking our Vice Chair, Thompson. I Director Wyatt. All right. Thank you. 634 01:30:35.840 --> 01:30:37.509 WLWV Board Room: All right. Very good. Thank you. 635 01:30:41.930 --> 01:30:43.699 WLWV Board Room: Okay, you're up again. 636 01:30:44.010 --> 01:30:46.530 WLWV Board Room: Last, but not least. 637 01:30:46.590 --> 01:30:47.849 WLWV Board Room: Good evening again 638 01:30:47.910 --> 01:30:52.349 WLWV Board Room: here to give the Ipm report for Jeff Chambers or 639 01:30:52.370 --> 01:30:56.130 WLWV Board Room: Ipm Coordinator. Jeff is under the weather tonight. 640 01:30:56.340 --> 01:30:58.590 WLWV Board Room: I don't know if you know I 641 01:30:58.890 --> 01:31:01.300 WLWV Board Room: I was the Ipm coordinator, for 642 01:31:02.740 --> 01:31:04.930 WLWV Board Room: since the inception of the law. 643 01:31:05.150 --> 01:31:06.689 WLWV Board Room: and 644 01:31:06.930 --> 01:31:14.240 WLWV Board Room: I want to, I want to go back in history for those of you who don't know about the IP. Along before it was passed. 645 01:31:14.500 --> 01:31:19.609 Pesticides and herbicides were used routinely in our district 646 01:31:19.770 --> 01:31:22.490 WLWV Board Room: Monthly. At every site. 647 01:31:22.850 --> 01:31:26.709 WLWV Board Room: We literally bought pesticides by the barrel. 648 01:31:27.220 --> 01:31:30.729 used hundreds of gallons 649 01:31:31.120 --> 01:31:33.969 WLWV Board Room: over the course of time. Even before 650 01:31:34.140 --> 01:31:40.369 WLWV Board Room: Ipm became a law in 2,012, we began to reduce our our usage of 651 01:31:40.620 --> 01:31:43.380 WLWV Board Room: all herbicides and pesticides. 652 01:31:43.410 --> 01:31:50.330 WLWV Board Room: Then Ipm became a law, and now we are required as a district to report what we use. 653 01:31:50.610 --> 01:31:53.690 WLWV Board Room: In the last year we used 654 01:31:53.910 --> 01:31:55.530 WLWV Board Room: approximately. 655 01:31:56.160 --> 01:31:57.980 WLWV Board Room: I'm sorry i'm on the wrong page. 656 01:32:01.260 --> 01:32:04.809 WLWV Board Room: 280 ounces of 657 01:32:05.390 --> 01:32:08.429 WLWV Board Room: round up to treat 658 01:32:08.750 --> 01:32:10.600 WLWV Board Room: herbicide 659 01:32:11.110 --> 01:32:13.030 WLWV Board Room: to treat weeds. 660 01:32:13.170 --> 01:32:16.490 WLWV Board Room: These particular ones were to kill 661 01:32:16.670 --> 01:32:18.950 WLWV Board Room: hemlock at 662 01:32:19.100 --> 01:32:21.069 WLWV Board Room: the 2 schools mentioned here. 663 01:32:21.420 --> 01:32:23.370 WLWV Board Room: Rosemont and 664 01:32:23.820 --> 01:32:26.769 WLWV Board Room: Westland High Hemlock is poisonous. 665 01:32:27.030 --> 01:32:29.180 WLWV Board Room: and there's no other way to treat it. 666 01:32:29.440 --> 01:32:34.070 WLWV Board Room: We also made 1816, 18. 667 01:32:34.790 --> 01:32:35.740 WLWV Board Room: I'm. Sorry. 668 01:32:36.510 --> 01:32:37.619 WLWV Board Room: Jeff's metal. 669 01:32:39.410 --> 01:32:43.209 WLWV Board Room: 16 emergency applications for wasps 670 01:32:43.390 --> 01:32:47.789 WLWV Board Room: primarily in playgrounds. We get a call where there's 671 01:32:47.810 --> 01:32:53.390 WLWV Board Room: in a playground, and we'd have to go out and treat that. That is considered an emergency response. 672 01:32:54.630 --> 01:33:02.899 WLWV Board Room: The second page of this you'll note our last 4 years of usage it has varied. It has gone up and down. 673 01:33:03.030 --> 01:33:06.679 WLWV Board Room: depending on the use. I I want to. 674 01:33:07.620 --> 01:33:14.830 WLWV Board Room: at least for warned that this number changes every year, depending on what what the needs are 675 01:33:14.860 --> 01:33:19.600 WLWV Board Room: it will never be 0. There are some places where you just cannot 676 01:33:19.830 --> 01:33:27.289 WLWV Board Room: treat and remove weeds with anything but chemicals, cracks and sidewalks, cracks, and asphalt. 677 01:33:27.380 --> 01:33:32.080 WLWV Board Room: You can't remove them mechanically. It does take herbicides. 678 01:33:32.170 --> 01:33:40.760 WLWV Board Room: There is some again like hemlock that will require treatment. You can't remove it by hand. It's actually dangerous to our 679 01:33:40.930 --> 01:33:43.540 WLWV Board Room: or craftsmen that have to work on. It 680 01:33:43.980 --> 01:33:46.170 poses a health risk. 681 01:33:46.260 --> 01:33:49.040 WLWV Board Room: so there will always be some usage. 682 01:33:49.430 --> 01:33:54.680 WLWV Board Room: But if you could see we have declined from barrels down to ounces. 683 01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:57.800 WLWV Board Room: and I think we're we're always 684 01:33:58.230 --> 01:34:00.179 WLWV Board Room: conscious of where we're gonna 685 01:34:00.350 --> 01:34:07.149 WLWV Board Room: apply chemicals, and we do it judiciously after review by both the Ipm coordinator and our grounds 686 01:34:07.320 --> 01:34:08.139 WLWV Board Room: lead. 687 01:34:08.550 --> 01:34:12.129 WLWV Board Room: So with that i'll answer any questions. 688 01:34:16.640 --> 01:34:19.700 WLWV Board Room: My question is, Have you found that 689 01:34:19.760 --> 01:34:22.239 WLWV Board Room: school grounds are in 690 01:34:22.550 --> 01:34:26.940 WLWV Board Room: better or worse condition since you've had to have a reduction of 691 01:34:27.190 --> 01:34:29.929 WLWV Board Room: of the pesticides, and 692 01:34:30.570 --> 01:34:33.989 WLWV Board Room: as I drive and pick up my daughter. Every day I look across it 693 01:34:34.150 --> 01:34:35.330 WLWV Board Room: the Stafford 694 01:34:35.460 --> 01:34:37.809 WLWV Board Room: field, and I see a 1,000 moles 695 01:34:39.340 --> 01:34:45.250 WLWV Board Room: and and and I can't help but wonder that if it's not a chemical based 696 01:34:45.500 --> 01:34:51.610 WLWV Board Room: pesticides that you're using, and it's something that's more environmentally friendly. They drink it like it's cool aid. 697 01:34:51.780 --> 01:34:54.869 WLWV Board Room: And so I'm: just wondering 698 01:34:54.910 --> 01:34:57.160 WLWV Board Room: how does the correlation between 699 01:34:57.500 --> 01:35:11.449 WLWV Board Room: use using a pesticide, and maybe the ill effects of that or the cost of that way on the cost of having a 1,000 potholes that our kids are running through every day, that we then result in broken ankles, foot. 700 01:35:11.940 --> 01:35:16.860 WLWV Board Room: and major injuries, and I understand that we have an environmental responsibility. 701 01:35:17.140 --> 01:35:21.929 WLWV Board Room: But last I check. We're all sitting here today, and we ran through fields full of pesticides growing up. 702 01:35:22.100 --> 01:35:24.549 WLWV Board Room: So i'm just trying to figure out. 703 01:35:25.260 --> 01:35:28.820 WLWV Board Room: When does it become more of a hazard to not 704 01:35:29.130 --> 01:35:30.330 WLWV Board Room: use 705 01:35:30.530 --> 01:35:33.260 WLWV Board Room: something that can keep our school grounds 706 01:35:33.490 --> 01:35:39.910 WLWV Board Room: from not being full of weeds. And if you have anybody, if anyone in your asked Kids who play youth sports. 707 01:35:41.420 --> 01:35:46.380 WLWV Board Room: Our fields are I mean, it is not. I don't mean this with any disrespect. 708 01:35:46.660 --> 01:35:49.310 but it's going to be disrespectful. 709 01:35:49.550 --> 01:35:54.629 They're I mean they're in horrible condition. I think we've had a conversation about it before. So 710 01:35:54.670 --> 01:35:58.049 WLWV Board Room: when does it become more of a liability for the district 711 01:35:58.370 --> 01:35:59.700 WLWV Board Room: versus. 712 01:36:01.560 --> 01:36:03.440 WLWV Board Room: you know, complaints from 713 01:36:03.820 --> 01:36:07.260 WLWV Board Room: people who are worried about little Joey. 714 01:36:07.530 --> 01:36:11.830 WLWV Board Room: you know, getting a skin rash. I you know i'm using. I don't know if that's the correct example. But 715 01:36:11.890 --> 01:36:13.050 WLWV Board Room: you know what I mean. 716 01:36:13.180 --> 01:36:13.940 WLWV Board Room: I do. 717 01:36:13.980 --> 01:36:22.419 WLWV Board Room: It is a balance that we've tried to strike as a district, and previous boards have had a focus on this topic. 718 01:36:24.220 --> 01:36:29.310 WLWV Board Room: The mole holes, you see, are the domino effect of weeds in 719 01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:31.010 our 720 01:36:31.040 --> 01:36:32.440 WLWV Board Room: open fields. 721 01:36:32.610 --> 01:36:36.439 WLWV Board Room: Once you get weeds and then grubs and 722 01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:46.869 WLWV Board Room: bugs feed on the roots of the weeds, and then right behind them come the moles and the gophers and the bowls. They feed on the grubs. So it is a domino effect. 723 01:36:47.400 --> 01:36:50.070 WLWV Board Room: The cost of using 724 01:36:52.660 --> 01:37:02.190 WLWV Board Room: herbicides is lower than the cost to keep a built field maintained. If you want to keep a built field, maintain 725 01:37:02.260 --> 01:37:04.890 WLWV Board Room: you have to fertilize, oversee 726 01:37:05.040 --> 01:37:07.019 WLWV Board Room: air rate. 727 01:37:07.290 --> 01:37:09.149 WLWV Board Room: make sure you irrigate 728 01:37:09.210 --> 01:37:22.239 WLWV Board Room: on a regular basis, and those are things that over the course of time have been interrupted for one reason or another. At one time we were asked to stop irrigation by the city of Wilsonville 729 01:37:22.280 --> 01:37:24.409 WLWV Board Room: when they were having a water grow 730 01:37:25.030 --> 01:37:31.750 WLWV Board Room: the cost of irrigate or fertilization, and overseeing 4 times a year. 731 01:37:31.950 --> 01:37:36.630 WLWV Board Room: I can describe that a well maintained field will take about 732 01:37:36.730 --> 01:37:41.050 WLWV Board Room: 8 to $10,000 a year in maintenance costs. 733 01:37:41.220 --> 01:37:46.750 WLWV Board Room: and our budget is only budgeted to spend about $1,500 a year. 734 01:37:47.010 --> 01:37:52.909 WLWV Board Room: So it is a cost factor that that we have always weighed 735 01:37:53.380 --> 01:37:56.360 WLWV Board Room: a tolerance for weeds versus 736 01:37:56.420 --> 01:37:58.029 playability. 737 01:37:58.390 --> 01:38:03.279 WLWV Board Room: We have tried to have our playability be on artificial turf fields. 738 01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:06.630 WLWV Board Room: That's where we've invested our money 739 01:38:06.930 --> 01:38:10.010 WLWV Board Room: to provide the best sports fields. 740 01:38:10.170 --> 01:38:15.509 WLWV Board Room: But there are so many teams and so many practices for so many sports 741 01:38:15.550 --> 01:38:24.820 WLWV Board Room: that they do end up using our natural turf fields, and they're not in great shape. There's no way to sugar coat that. 742 01:38:30.190 --> 01:38:38.109 WLWV Board Room: Why are you wanting to? Yeah. But you can get us, don't. I know that 743 01:38:38.340 --> 01:38:51.920 some of the passports that we've sat on when we've had people who were concerned about pesticides. Something that has come up is that it seems like more and more of our schools. Our parent organizations are getting involved and 744 01:38:52.080 --> 01:38:59.570 WLWV Board Room: doing meeting parties, or whatever. I was just wondering if you could speak to that. How you've seen that, how that might be affecting. 745 01:38:59.610 --> 01:39:04.430 WLWV Board Room: You know these totals that we've seen go down and also speak to. 746 01:39:04.880 --> 01:39:11.400 WLWV Board Room: If there are schools who, you know, just putting out that interest again for schools that maybe don't have those programs. 747 01:39:11.510 --> 01:39:20.460 WLWV Board Room: how they might go about that, or how that might be encouraged 748 01:39:21.090 --> 01:39:23.730 WLWV Board Room: to have garden committees. 749 01:39:23.920 --> 01:39:29.680 WLWV Board Room: That would we make the commitment to not use. Or, besides that, there are schools. 750 01:39:29.820 --> 01:39:33.449 WLWV Board Room: That answer is, yes, we've had some successes. 751 01:39:33.670 --> 01:39:37.479 WLWV Board Room: The most successful consistent 752 01:39:38.270 --> 01:39:45.999 WLWV Board Room: committee has been a Trillium Creek and a shout out to them, They have. They have kept that up from the start. 753 01:39:46.420 --> 01:39:48.070 WLWV Board Room: Other committees have 754 01:39:48.190 --> 01:39:49.080 WLWV Board Room: I had 755 01:39:49.750 --> 01:39:53.139 WLWV Board Room: high interest. And then there are kids move on to middle school. 756 01:39:53.450 --> 01:39:57.449 WLWV Board Room: and that's always the problem. And then the the commitment 757 01:39:58.230 --> 01:39:59.820 WLWV Board Room: then becomes 758 01:40:00.410 --> 01:40:01.309 void. 759 01:40:01.350 --> 01:40:06.160 WLWV Board Room: No one's taking care of things, and then we end up having to go back 760 01:40:06.340 --> 01:40:08.559 WLWV Board Room: and use herbicides again. 761 01:40:09.080 --> 01:40:14.750 WLWV Board Room: There are active schools right now that have committees that are that are 762 01:40:15.180 --> 01:40:22.999 WLWV Board Room: doing everything they committed to. And so when they do that we don't need to apply herbicides at those schools. 763 01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:29.040 WLWV Board Room: and this is where I would have to defer to Jeff. I can only name 764 01:40:29.140 --> 01:40:41.170 WLWV Board Room: 3 schools off the top of my head, but there might be 6, for all I know I know Sunset has an active committee. Well, Lam, it has an active committee, I believe Cedar O has an active committee. 765 01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:43.260 WLWV Board Room: but 766 01:40:43.460 --> 01:40:47.500 WLWV Board Room: there, when they when they do get participation. 767 01:40:47.800 --> 01:40:49.300 WLWV Board Room: They they do a great job 768 01:40:49.870 --> 01:40:51.849 again. 769 01:40:52.130 --> 01:40:56.139 WLWV Board Room: All of our kids were older. They all moved to the next school. 770 01:40:56.250 --> 01:41:02.639 WLWV Board Room: and nobody wants to go back and still maintain the primary school when they don't have a students there. 771 01:41:02.730 --> 01:41:08.370 WLWV Board Room: So that's been the hard part when schools make those commitments. 772 01:41:08.920 --> 01:41:18.299 WLWV Board Room: So if there are parents listening from a school that Doesn't currently have one of those gardening committees Who would they contact? 773 01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:25.589 WLWV Board Room: They just need to reach out operations, Either Jeff Chambers or me, and we'll. 774 01:41:25.660 --> 01:41:31.040 WLWV Board Room: We'll meet with them and outline what you know. What the needs are what the expectations are. 775 01:41:31.160 --> 01:41:33.430 WLWV Board Room: and get them started. 776 01:41:33.580 --> 01:41:34.959 WLWV Board Room: It does take much. 777 01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:39.690 WLWV Board Room: You have a question. 778 01:41:39.730 --> 01:41:42.800 No, I don't have a question. 779 01:41:42.930 --> 01:41:46.879 WLWV Board Room: I'm. I'm a sports guy, so I like tuck sports. 780 01:41:47.280 --> 01:41:53.489 WLWV Board Room: My other question is of the fields that are being used are most of our fields also getting usage by 781 01:41:53.630 --> 01:41:56.939 WLWV Board Room: some of the youth programs. And 782 01:41:57.180 --> 01:41:58.260 WLWV Board Room: is that 783 01:41:58.370 --> 01:42:02.410 WLWV Board Room: is there a fee that the youth programs pay to use those fields, and 784 01:42:02.620 --> 01:42:05.460 WLWV Board Room: is part of that fee going towards 785 01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:12.509 WLWV Board Room: your crew for maintenance and pesticides, and to maintain the fields is that with the fees that are being collected 786 01:42:12.660 --> 01:42:14.530 WLWV Board Room: currently from youth programs. 787 01:42:14.740 --> 01:42:19.289 WLWV Board Room: useful, or we fully funding that as a as a district. 788 01:42:19.380 --> 01:42:24.910 WLWV Board Room: and then just allowing the public to to use the fields, you know, because they get beat up with cleats, and 789 01:42:24.990 --> 01:42:32.590 WLWV Board Room: whatever else. So how does what's the core? What is the coordination of correlation between youth and public versus district. 790 01:42:33.130 --> 01:42:44.839 WLWV Board Room: So youth sports make up a vast majority of our field use, and we charge a minimal fee only for field reservation. None of it goes to maintenance. 791 01:42:45.080 --> 01:42:47.280 WLWV Board Room: It is to literally keep 792 01:42:47.590 --> 01:42:53.960 WLWV Board Room: to teams from arguing about who has rights to the field. They have to schedule through us 793 01:42:54.190 --> 01:42:57.220 and outdoor fields, or 794 01:42:57.910 --> 01:42:58.820 WLWV Board Room: I should. 795 01:42:59.280 --> 01:43:03.079 WLWV Board Room: I'll try and repeat this off the top of my head. I believe it's $5, 796 01:43:03.360 --> 01:43:05.900 WLWV Board Room: and that's just it 797 01:43:06.290 --> 01:43:12.989 WLWV Board Room: to keep the fields organized in. Who's booking them? None of those fees go to the maintenance department 798 01:43:14.940 --> 01:43:17.780 WLWV Board Room: primarily, even you, if you makes 799 01:43:17.910 --> 01:43:21.610 WLWV Board Room: high use of our artificial turf fields for their games. 800 01:43:21.670 --> 01:43:23.950 WLWV Board Room: primarily only for practices 801 01:43:24.060 --> 01:43:26.909 WLWV Board Room: that they all use our natural for. 802 01:43:27.540 --> 01:43:31.549 WLWV Board Room: So my question would be, I guess, for anyone who could answer it is. 803 01:43:32.390 --> 01:43:37.279 WLWV Board Room: How is it that we get balance in that? I don't. I don't see the equity, and allowing 804 01:43:37.890 --> 01:43:40.429 WLWV Board Room: our public to use our fields and destroy them. 805 01:43:40.850 --> 01:43:45.710 WLWV Board Room: And for the kids that only get a certain amount of playtime at school who don't play sports 806 01:43:45.810 --> 01:43:48.060 WLWV Board Room: have to come run on, destroyed fields. 807 01:43:48.320 --> 01:43:53.809 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. And so i'm. I'm trying to figure out how does the youth programs 808 01:43:54.110 --> 01:44:02.849 WLWV Board Room: who are so mighty and proud? And I've had kids that play in them right, and we're first, and everything right now. So obviously the fields are benefiting the parents and whatnot. 809 01:44:03.020 --> 01:44:07.050 WLWV Board Room: and I can't see justifying the price of $5 just to 810 01:44:07.320 --> 01:44:16.769 WLWV Board Room: organize and babysit the people who want more feel time, but they're not participating or helping maintain the field. So is there something that we can do as a district 811 01:44:17.200 --> 01:44:27.989 WLWV Board Room: to add in some type of cost, to help your team to be able to maintain them so that they're safe for the kids who don't place for it. It just need a safe place to play for a half an hour. 812 01:44:28.140 --> 01:44:28.840 WLWV Board Room: So 813 01:44:29.630 --> 01:44:30.400 WLWV Board Room: yeah, I 814 01:44:31.530 --> 01:44:42.279 WLWV Board Room: This is all interconnected. Some of that has already been done. Many people have noticed that we have landscape contractors out now helping maintain the grounds 815 01:44:42.370 --> 01:44:44.110 WLWV Board Room: that is freeing up 816 01:44:44.250 --> 01:44:49.809 WLWV Board Room: our maintenance department to now begin to focus on rebuilding the fields. 817 01:44:49.900 --> 01:44:58.220 WLWV Board Room: Candidly, our sports teams Don't, wear our fields out. Our fields are in poor condition because of lack of maintenance. 818 01:44:58.300 --> 01:45:07.559 WLWV Board Room: Once we can get them maintained, they still don't wear them out. Even our youth teams know to not go out when when it's been 819 01:45:07.630 --> 01:45:13.710 WLWV Board Room: or in down ran. They'll turn the field into a mud pit. They self-regulate, they don't ruin our fields. 820 01:45:14.000 --> 01:45:23.709 WLWV Board Room: So what we have done with the contractor is freed up that time, and this is the first year with the with that. Now our 821 01:45:23.770 --> 01:45:27.320 WLWV Board Room: our grounds department can focus on rebuilding. 822 01:45:27.440 --> 01:45:34.260 WLWV Board Room: overseating, slice, seating, fertilizing air, rating the turf fields that we have 823 01:45:34.400 --> 01:45:39.330 WLWV Board Room: to not only choke out the weeds, but to bring up the quality of the playing surface. 824 01:45:39.510 --> 01:45:44.530 WLWV Board Room: So if I hear you correctly, it's not youth sports ruining the fields. 825 01:45:45.070 --> 01:45:48.870 WLWV Board Room: And now you have subcontractors doing that. 826 01:45:48.950 --> 01:45:54.059 WLWV Board Room: Is there still a budget issue with getting them up to a point where we don't have 827 01:45:55.040 --> 01:45:56.750 WLWV Board Room: a 1,000 mole heels 828 01:45:57.240 --> 01:46:02.080 WLWV Board Room: running through every school field. So i'm trying to figure out where is the 829 01:46:02.370 --> 01:46:04.800 WLWV Board Room: what is the issue of the tipping? Yeah. 830 01:46:04.970 --> 01:46:20.009 WLWV Board Room: the tipping point is time nothing will happen overnight. If we had. If we had a 100 grounds people's tomorrow, we wouldn't eradicate all the moles. It is with the growth of new grass that chokes out the weeds 831 01:46:20.040 --> 01:46:20.670 WLWV Board Room: that 832 01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:38.499 WLWV Board Room: breaks that food chain for the moles and the bowls and the gopers. That's the important part it's choking out the weeds, and you do that with grass. You plant a lot of grass, and you fertilize it and you, and that takes time. It'll take anywhere from the 6 months 833 01:46:38.810 --> 01:46:40.570 WLWV Board Room: time period to a year 834 01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:42.520 WLWV Board Room: to rebuild those fields. 835 01:46:42.790 --> 01:46:45.660 WLWV Board Room: We currently have 836 01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:51.419 WLWV Board Room: 4 fields targeted to begin this spring. When the rainy season stops, you have to. 837 01:46:51.720 --> 01:47:00.819 WLWV Board Room: You have to get something. You can roll tractors on right now. It's too soft, and it's too early, but we have 4 fields targeted. 838 01:47:01.060 --> 01:47:04.469 WLWV Board Room: and we'll keep after it until we get them all 839 01:47:04.590 --> 01:47:05.969 WLWV Board Room: good. Thank you. 840 01:47:09.060 --> 01:47:27.459 WLWV Board Room: Very good, nice job we responding to the will of a board over and over and over again. I know it's not always easy. I think you need action to approve, or we just need to receive the report. Yeah, and to be available for questions. 841 01:47:27.550 --> 01:47:32.999 WLWV Board Room: Very good, and there's no action needed 842 01:47:33.020 --> 01:47:41.439 WLWV Board Room: so much easier than the other side that we speed this up. So alright, thanks back 843 01:47:42.210 --> 01:47:46.710 WLWV Board Room: all right, just checking in because we have a couple of pretty 844 01:47:47.230 --> 01:47:50.309 WLWV Board Room: link. We have a couple of policy and 845 01:47:51.570 --> 01:48:02.980 WLWV Board Room: a couple of more board action to take. I'm comfortable moving forward, but also i'm comfortable taking a break. Yeah, so we'll take a short recess of 5 or 10 min. 846 01:48:06.270 --> 01:48:08.840 WLWV Board Room: We're getting started again. 847 01:48:10.050 --> 01:48:16.820 WLWV Board Room: and we're going to go ahead and move on in the agenda. If I could have everybody. Please 848 01:48:16.950 --> 01:48:24.520 WLWV Board Room: be quiet again because we have a long agenda to get through. Hello, everybody. Hello. 849 01:48:24.880 --> 01:48:32.750 WLWV Board Room: Please stop your conversation and rejoin because the meeting is open again, so we can get through our agenda. 850 01:48:32.940 --> 01:48:34.690 WLWV Board Room: Very good. Thank you. 851 01:48:34.960 --> 01:48:36.200 WLWV Board Room: Good. 852 01:48:36.650 --> 01:48:49.969 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. We're trying to get started again. Thank you, and we will move on to the next agenda item, which is the proposed update to board policy I the graduation requirements. And, Dr. Jennifer Spencer, I am. You're on. 853 01:48:50.550 --> 01:49:04.179 WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. I am very excited to share with you a little bit about the background, and then bring forward the new policy to increase our high school 854 01:49:04.260 --> 01:49:13.490 graduation requirements. But before we move forward I just want to take a moment. You may or may not know that we have 3 of the finest 855 01:49:13.770 --> 01:49:14.969 WLWV Board Room: principles 856 01:49:15.150 --> 01:49:16.449 WLWV Board Room: in the country 857 01:49:16.730 --> 01:49:17.879 WLWV Board Room: that work 858 01:49:17.930 --> 01:49:25.050 WLWV Board Room: for our high schools. It is amazing work they do, and I would just love Kelly, Schmidt, Trevor, Mana, and Nick Chapin to stand up 859 01:49:32.450 --> 01:49:51.089 WLWV Board Room: everything that we have been doing around supporting high schools, or bringing forward changes or continuing to emphasize. Really good work that's happening is is work that we've been doing as a team. And so I just really appreciate each of them being here, and if there are things that come up that I can't answer they may. I invite them to join in? So 860 01:49:52.660 --> 01:49:56.330 WLWV Board Room: we're going to move forward and talk about 861 01:49:56.950 --> 01:50:12.339 WLWV Board Room: change. We're getting ready for some change in our high school, so you might think our high schools are very successful. We have Westland and Wilsonville high schools have been noted in us. News and world report as some of the best high schools in in the State. 862 01:50:12.350 --> 01:50:30.020 WLWV Board Room: and that's fantastic, and we know that it's important to keep moving forward and think about. Who are those schools working for? How can we continue to strive to even get better? And that's what's motivated us today is this embracing change and this opportunity for growth? 863 01:50:30.300 --> 01:50:45.789 WLWV Board Room: So we embarked on a process more than a year ago, and about a year and a half ago now to look at our high school schedules. But really, if you look all the way back to the high, the superintendent's high school study 864 01:50:46.030 --> 01:51:00.089 that took place, and I back. When Christy Thompson was a parent volunteer. Part of that a lot of things came forward about why we should continue to look at improving our high schools, and several things came from that, so 865 01:51:00.310 --> 01:51:11.520 WLWV Board Room: I could share with you about this whole process. But I've decided we'd rather bring in some other voices that really did the work. So we have a couple of teachers that are going to share with you right now 866 01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:19.739 WLWV Board Room: in. Oh, so we've got the high school study that here. Oh, i'm sorry we'll go back to the High School study. That's my fault. Sorry 867 01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:38.190 WLWV Board Room: you can read you can find this on the website under the long-range planning. If you'd like to read the whole high school study is very interesting a lot of studying around best practices, surveying students, looking at innovation, looking at different models of high schools. 868 01:51:38.200 --> 01:51:49.130 WLWV Board Room: And here's the Skinny, if you will, on the right side of the 6 key findings so really talked about. Relationships are key 869 01:51:49.140 --> 01:52:05.359 to high school success for students. They need to feel connected. They need to feel supported. They need to feel like they've found the place, whatever that might be, within a large high school system. We also heard from students that they're very engaged in their academics, and lots of co-curricular activities. 870 01:52:05.380 --> 01:52:19.249 WLWV Board Room: as you learn every month from our High School Student Board reports. There is a lot going on. And Sometimes our students have said, it's a lot to manage, and that can add to some stress for them that they were looking for Some relief from 871 01:52:20.050 --> 01:52:36.339 students have again and again said that they have a high interest in hands on learning activities, relevant learning, learning that can happen through cte coursework internships and other kinds of work based experiences. We also know that that's 872 01:52:36.540 --> 01:52:46.360 an indicator. When students pursue those kinds of learning opportunities, they're much more likely to graduate and transition successfully into the post-secondary life. 873 01:52:48.800 --> 01:53:00.890 WLWV Board Room: There was an finding in the high school study that as a district we should rethink our high school schedule for more student choice and more opportunities for teacher collaboration. 874 01:53:01.150 --> 01:53:13.989 this, that study also talked about the importance of the instructional strategies that teachers are using in the classroom, that that really makes the difference about whether a class is interesting, engaging, whether students are learning in that class. 875 01:53:14.040 --> 01:53:20.760 and then some advice around our facilities that we continue to think about learning spaces that are students centered. 876 01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:26.540 WLWV Board Room: So with all of that in mind, we embarked on a journey 877 01:53:26.680 --> 01:53:35.820 WLWV Board Room: more than a year and a half ago, and we have 2 teachers, one who is from Westland High School, and one who's through Wilson from Wilsonville High School. 878 01:53:35.830 --> 01:53:51.560 each from very different content areas. And I liked that because they represented just the diversity that we had a voice in this process of studying about our high school schedule. So we're going to share a short video with you, where they explain the process 879 02:00:20.340 --> 02:00:38.969 WLWV Board Room: to Justin from our communication department, who put that together beautifully, and of course, to Tina and to Chad for their willingness to speak on behalf of our large group of teachers that participated in that process. So, hopefully you got a sense of the overall 880 02:00:38.980 --> 02:00:56.560 WLWV Board Room: reasons and process behind that. And again the skinny here is we're moving from this 6 classes per semester, where we have what's called a rolling block, where currently students have all 6 classes a couple of days a week, and then they have 881 02:00:56.790 --> 02:01:04.130 WLWV Board Room: 4 of the classes, and they roll on different days. Part of that means it's a lot of unpredictability. 882 02:01:04.150 --> 02:01:04.969 WLWV Board Room: Oops! 883 02:01:05.590 --> 02:01:20.809 WLWV Board Room: I can see we I didn't save my final part there, so sorry about that and lot of unpredictability for some students that has been difficult. One of the things that's been very challenging is when a students very interested in music and language. 884 02:01:20.960 --> 02:01:32.279 and maybe they want to take a cte course. There's literally no space in their schedule right now to do all those things, whereas in the new schedule, with the 8 periods they will have more flexibility to get there. 885 02:01:33.920 --> 02:01:40.899 WLWV Board Room: more predictability of time for period for classes each day, and a straight 886 02:01:40.970 --> 02:01:51.789 WLWV Board Room: a repetition of it's an a day. Now it's a b-day. Now it's an a day dance a v day. So less confusion about what kind of a day is, and and less transitions between the days 887 02:01:51.940 --> 02:01:54.330 or between the classes as well. 888 02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:58.769 WLWV Board Room: One piece that I will clarify is. 889 02:01:58.900 --> 02:02:12.570 WLWV Board Room: since our last meeting with Tina I actually the total number of credits students could earn, if they took all 8 classes per semester, now would be 7.5 each year. So a total of 30 possible 890 02:02:12.630 --> 02:02:31.379 not 32, because the new class that we're proposing as a requirement sometimes called the House class in Ninth and Tenth. We're focusing on that on personal growth and development. How am I successful in high school. What are? How am I learning those study skills? Executive functioning skills? How am I getting time 891 02:02:31.390 --> 02:02:50.449 WLWV Board Room: to work with a math teacher? If i'm having math questions that's built into the day where I don't have to come after school, because maybe i'm also in the play or sports after school. But I have some structured time during the day to get that support in eleventh and twelfth grade. That class will focus on college career, future planning. 892 02:02:50.460 --> 02:03:05.320 and we'll include things like financial literacy. We'll include some of the things that we're pulling kids out of class now to meet with a counselor around college and career planning will be built into that time in that house period. 893 02:03:05.680 --> 02:03:17.060 So those are some of the reasons that we have proposed. If we're going to increase the credit options that much. We also want to have 894 02:03:17.780 --> 02:03:21.189 WLWV Board Room: find that sweet spot with the credit requirements. 895 02:03:21.260 --> 02:03:39.490 WLWV Board Room: So we don't want it again to be so tight that there's no flexibility in the schedule. But if we kept our requirements at 24 credits, we feel like that is too much flexibility in the schedule to help students really feel like each year they have meaningful learning and 896 02:03:39.510 --> 02:03:44.699 responsibilities and things that they're taking on in their planning, moving forward 897 02:03:44.970 --> 02:03:58.989 one of the other things that we wrote about in the memo that I just wanted to emphasize is the last time that our high schools went through the accreditation process. The one area. Of course, our high schools did beautifully in the accreditation process. We have so many things in place. 898 02:03:59.000 --> 02:04:14.019 WLWV Board Room: but the one area that both high schools were marked down on was fulfilling that educational plan and profile with each student. So, having a really structured ways that students are learning about themselves, their interests, their strengths. 899 02:04:14.090 --> 02:04:33.860 WLWV Board Room: their options, and developing that educational plan and profile. That is an Oregon graduation diploma requirement by State statute, and it is something that we have certainly met that requirement, but not in as clear in a structured way as we'll be able to do now with this new schedule. 900 02:04:34.480 --> 02:04:42.879 WLWV Board Room: Finally, currently, teachers, high school teachers have one day a week with this rolling block schedule that they have no Prep. 901 02:04:42.960 --> 02:04:43.880 WLWV Board Room: Period. 902 02:04:44.250 --> 02:05:00.960 WLWV Board Room: So I can see our former high school teacher. That's a reaction to that. It's it's it's difficult to do your best for every class period. If you have no opportunity to prepare anything during the day, or have those moments. So we're excited about 903 02:05:00.970 --> 02:05:06.790 WLWV Board Room: a teacher's having a prep period every day and carving out some key collaboration time. 904 02:05:06.800 --> 02:05:24.880 That is more and more of what we've learned is necessary to support the needs of all students, whether it's emerging, bilingual students, students who are experiencing disability or have dyslexia. How do the content. Teachers have the right things in place for them, and a lot of that happens through collaboration. 905 02:05:26.500 --> 02:05:27.760 WLWV Board Room: So 906 02:05:29.430 --> 02:05:30.939 WLWV Board Room: I did. I have another slide 907 02:05:31.510 --> 02:05:32.559 WLWV Board Room: like Nope. 908 02:05:32.790 --> 02:05:46.690 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. So here. So this is it we're proposing, based on the new schedule that we have already moved forward with planning, as I did appreciate that Chad mentioned. We have taken this entire year 909 02:05:46.700 --> 02:05:57.859 WLWV Board Room: to be preparing for the new schedule. So we made the decision last. May I provided for you the document that we created at that time that has some more background on that process. 910 02:05:57.930 --> 02:06:06.889 And throughout this year our principals, our studio classroom teachers. What we've really been working on is, how do we 911 02:06:06.930 --> 02:06:10.150 WLWV Board Room: continue to build up those instructional practices? 912 02:06:10.230 --> 02:06:12.439 So you use that time? Well. 913 02:06:12.500 --> 02:06:23.890 WLWV Board Room: right now. There are some students that say I prefer the shorter classes right in in our surveys. We heard that from some students other students that I prefer the longer classes. But what we found is. 914 02:06:23.900 --> 02:06:52.069 WLWV Board Room: it really depends on what the teacher is doing during the time. So we've been really emphasizing in our professional learning and in the modeling and peer support that's going on right now. Everybody's working on. How do I use a block time, really? Well, so it's been a common focus for all of our high school teachers. And then we just are working through no new course proposals. So we have some new courses that have come forward 915 02:06:52.460 --> 02:07:02.930 WLWV Board Room: to help. We have a bigger schedule. We we might have some new courses we can offer. Sometimes it's just offering another section of our current course. 916 02:07:02.940 --> 02:07:20.089 I think it was last year at Westland high school we had something like 250 students who wanted to take ceramics who couldn't get in. So just even offering another section of ceramics will help meet more of those students needs. We've had some students from 917 02:07:20.100 --> 02:07:35.579 WLWV Board Room: with strong student voice, from an affinity group that have advocated that we add a class and ethnic studies, and this gives us the opportunity to to add that, and people have spaces in their schedule to do that. So we've been using this year to prepare. 918 02:07:35.590 --> 02:07:42.560 and we believe that it's the right move to increase our graduation requirements, so that students earn 919 02:07:42.650 --> 02:07:46.059 WLWV Board Room: one more full credit in elective of 920 02:07:46.320 --> 02:08:01.200 WLWV Board Room: whatever is that their interest could be. A cte course could be going deeper to language. It could be a science course they're interested in could be extra physical education and health, whatever is of interest to that student. 921 02:08:01.250 --> 02:08:02.550 and then 922 02:08:02.620 --> 02:08:10.699 WLWV Board Room: having those house classes, the personal growth and development and the college career, future planning courses. 923 02:08:10.710 --> 02:08:27.250 WLWV Board Room: and those are at a point 5 credit instead of a full credit, because about half the time they'll be engaged in learning activities, and about half the time they'll have time to work on work from their other courses. So it's really only representing about a half credit for them. 924 02:08:27.260 --> 02:08:32.599 so moving it to 27 credits. Total is our proposal. 925 02:08:32.660 --> 02:08:38.709 WLWV Board Room: We have did a lot of research about other districts around us, and what 926 02:08:38.930 --> 02:08:39.969 WLWV Board Room: they. 927 02:08:40.710 --> 02:08:45.220 WLWV Board Room: when they have a schedule like this. What kinds of requirements they have. 928 02:08:45.290 --> 02:08:48.290 WLWV Board Room: One thing that's really important to know is that that 929 02:08:48.340 --> 02:08:56.519 WLWV Board Room: we are proposing that 27 will be our Westland Wilsonville Diploma, and that is what we will be striving for for all students. 930 02:08:56.780 --> 02:09:16.400 WLWV Board Room: However, the Oregon diploma of 24 credits is still a viable option. If a student were to move in. Maybe they weren't working towards the 27 credits they move in in their senior year, or they have some other circumstance. We will absolutely work with them, and 931 02:09:16.410 --> 02:09:25.649 WLWV Board Room: be able to grant them an Oregon diploma in those situations, and they would still count towards our graduation rates, and it would still be a a full, valid diploma for that student. 932 02:09:25.700 --> 02:09:43.590 So we are working to meet those individualized needs of students as those come up in very valid and supportive ways, while at the same time making sure we're raising our bar and our rigor and our opportunities as we've provided more opportunities for learning for students. 933 02:09:43.820 --> 02:09:46.799 WLWV Board Room: So any questions i'm open. 934 02:09:49.210 --> 02:09:53.469 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I I know we have questions. Go Go ahead. And by sure, Thompson. 935 02:09:55.720 --> 02:09:58.300 WLWV Board Room: So currently right now 936 02:09:58.540 --> 02:10:13.249 WLWV Board Room: students can earn. If they take this. They take 6 periods, and so every year they have the opportunity to earn 6 credits, and so by the end of their senior it'd be 24 credits, and in order to graduate they have to have 24 credits. So, moving forward 937 02:10:13.260 --> 02:10:26.170 WLWV Board Room: with this new schedule, they would have the opportunity, you said, to earn 30 credits, because it would now be 7.5 credits here, and we're saying, we want them to earn 27. Can you just speak to in the past. We've said you have to earn. 938 02:10:26.330 --> 02:10:35.540 WLWV Board Room: You can earn 24, and you have to earn 24. And now we're saying you can earn 30, but you only have to earn 27. Can you just speak to that discrepancy? 939 02:10:35.550 --> 02:10:49.469 WLWV Board Room: And why? Yeah, I I appreciate that and we we certainly spent a lot of time thinking about this, and there are districts around us who use this same schedule, who 940 02:10:49.590 --> 02:11:00.769 WLWV Board Room: stay with the 24 credits there's a district. A neighboring district uses the schedule who has 25 credits. The only district we found there was one district 941 02:11:01.090 --> 02:11:04.429 WLWV Board Room: on another direction that had 28 credits. 942 02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:07.870 WLWV Board Room: So we at certainly 943 02:11:07.940 --> 02:11:27.180 WLWV Board Room: looked at that. One thing that is very clear to us is, we want to support students investment in their learning, so we will continue to provide those opportunities for students to have a full schedule all 4 years. The more we have invested in things like 944 02:11:27.400 --> 02:11:37.889 WLWV Board Room: dual credit options, Ap. Coursework, Ib. Coursework. There are many students that are highly motivated to use that entire 945 02:11:38.160 --> 02:11:39.050 WLWV Board Room: time 946 02:11:39.140 --> 02:11:46.110 to move forward. We also know that sometimes students may have a an illness. 947 02:11:46.200 --> 02:11:48.110 a 948 02:11:48.230 --> 02:11:55.000 a misstep, a family emergency something happens, and maybe they aren't able to earn 949 02:11:55.110 --> 02:12:04.800 one or 2 of their credits in a particular year. This would allow them to get back on track without necessarily having to 950 02:12:05.020 --> 02:12:07.050 WLWV Board Room: give up 951 02:12:07.590 --> 02:12:20.009 WLWV Board Room: the opportunity to work in the summer, for example, by being in summer school, or one of those other opportunities. So we debated, and we felt like this was sort of that sweet spot 952 02:12:20.020 --> 02:12:39.019 WLWV Board Room: of raising the requirement, but still leaving some flexibility in the middle, and this we would be the district with. We we felt like 27 credits. Was the right sweet spot between those 2. Okay, so it sounds like you looked at districts around us, too, and kind of did a comparison. 953 02:12:40.010 --> 02:12:41.010 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 954 02:12:53.840 --> 02:12:56.210 WLWV Board Room: I was excited to see that you 955 02:12:58.980 --> 02:13:00.120 WLWV Board Room: Okay, now, it's working. 956 02:13:00.200 --> 02:13:05.500 WLWV Board Room: Finally offer something centered around financial literacy. 957 02:13:07.270 --> 02:13:11.089 WLWV Board Room: and I hope that's a class that ends up in the curriculum. 958 02:13:11.280 --> 02:13:15.409 I also couldn't help, but as I read through this prior to the meeting 959 02:13:15.640 --> 02:13:23.200 WLWV Board Room: Is this an opportunity for us to provide more reading literacy, using other science space 960 02:13:23.290 --> 02:13:26.380 WLWV Board Room: programs that you can fill in some of those holes 961 02:13:26.400 --> 02:13:34.229 WLWV Board Room: for someone who might not like You say, my a student that has dyslexia, or something like that, where they can now finally get that support from a trained teacher. 962 02:13:34.560 --> 02:13:35.660 WLWV Board Room: and 963 02:13:36.240 --> 02:13:41.889 WLWV Board Room: I don't know. Have you selected the classes? I guess you have your set amount of classes right now. 964 02:13:42.080 --> 02:13:47.560 WLWV Board Room: Has there been a lottery system or pool of classes that you're thinking about bringing in 965 02:13:47.660 --> 02:14:06.130 WLWV Board Room: to kind of fill out that the options for for the 30 credits, and what does that look like? 966 02:14:06.140 --> 02:14:27.390 Had the opportunity to be thinking about this again. This was another reason why we took a whole year to prepare to think about within their department. Where are they hearing that students want more. I'm thinking about at Wilsonville. There was some interest in adding another really interesting kind of engineering robotics 967 02:14:27.400 --> 02:14:43.460 focused course that some students had brought forward a teacher brought forward, and so they wrote that course proposal, sent it into the Course Proposal Committee, and we recently just approved that. So we have a number ups of 968 02:14:43.560 --> 02:15:13.209 WLWV Board Room: new courses that are going to be added to the course catalogs at both Westland and Wilson Bill, and then again some course, some departments. It's more about just adding additional sections of existing very popular courses that sometimes kids couldn't get into. So the other thing that you talked about in terms of. Could there be other opportunities to deepen skills, learning around literacy? Other things like that? I certainly think this schedule will allow us to address that even 969 02:15:13.220 --> 02:15:24.119 even more fully. Riverside, All those courses are. We're coming up with lots of new course proposals, and we have some exciting new cte programs. 970 02:15:24.390 --> 02:15:44.029 WLWV Board Room: We've talked about the 3 at Riverside, new cte program also being started at Wilsonville High School, in addition to the ones they already have there for in education, and so that's an exciting addition there. So there are a bunch of new courses coming in from that. We have some new dual language courses 971 02:15:44.040 --> 02:16:03.610 WLWV Board Room: that have been proposed that are quite interesting and engaging. One thing that I'm really excited about earlier. I think it was Dr. Ludwig who talked about the Jane Goodall Science Symposium. And if you've ever been to that, it is just the most inspiring thing. 972 02:16:03.620 --> 02:16:09.800 When students go deep in inquiry about something they're passionate about something they want to learn about. 973 02:16:10.160 --> 02:16:20.209 WLWV Board Room: But one of the things we have we've had goals about diversifying, who participates in that Isf. And science symposium and we haven't 974 02:16:20.440 --> 02:16:37.399 WLWV Board Room: to firstified as much as we would like in terms of who feels like they can take that on when it's all outside of school time to put in all of that opportunities to work. So one of the courses that we were just came through the course proposal process was to add an iset class. 975 02:16:37.410 --> 02:16:53.680 Not every student in Texas will want to take that class. Some of them might say, Yes, I can balance that with my outside work. But for some students having time during the day with the support of someone who's skilled in helping students with research, science, and inquiry 976 02:16:53.730 --> 02:17:09.180 WLWV Board Room: to now have it during the day. We think that will open up students who never maybe saw themselves as participating in the Science Fair now can. So that's just another example. Another thing is about internships or work based learning experiences. 977 02:17:09.190 --> 02:17:22.299 WLWV Board Room: That was an interest back in the high school study one of the challenges now, with our current rotating block schedule. So say you are going to have 6 period, which some days is at the end of the day. 978 02:17:22.540 --> 02:17:49.240 WLWV Board Room: and you could set up to do an internship or work based learning experience during 6 period. Well, it's not always at the end of the day, because some days it doesn't exist because it rolls out, and some days it's earlier in the day. So it makes it very challenging to work with community partners or employers to say, this person can come work in your business at this time, and then they really can't because of our schedule. This way it'll block out more time. 979 02:17:49.250 --> 02:17:52.410 and especially with 980 02:17:53.070 --> 02:17:58.120 WLWV Board Room: students who maybe are seniors. We're going to have a lot of opportunity to think about what's engaging to them 981 02:17:58.420 --> 02:18:01.059 WLWV Board Room: in terms of work. Or maybe 982 02:18:01.270 --> 02:18:10.090 WLWV Board Room: they're a student who is pretty independent, and they may want to move forward with another kind of like a college class that we can offer at that time as well. 983 02:18:15.700 --> 02:18:31.290 WLWV Board Room: I I was an amazing process that you went through, and this plan is so well thought out, and all the research that went into it. It's really high quality work, and I respect it, and I appreciate it. It's really incredible. 984 02:18:31.299 --> 02:18:45.649 WLWV Board Room: I all like all the detail in the memos and just listening to you. So i'm going to fully support it, even though I am one of those parents who has a kiddo who frequently complains about block schedule 985 02:18:45.680 --> 02:18:50.220 WLWV Board Room: A, and and that's one of 3. 986 02:18:50.530 --> 02:18:57.180 WLWV Board Room: There is, I would say, just the one. The one place that I zone in on is 987 02:18:57.320 --> 02:19:00.790 WLWV Board Room: this lovely sheet that i'm just admiring. That says. 988 02:19:00.799 --> 02:19:28.609 WLWV Board Room: additional tasks necessary prior to implementation, and the reason why I really like that she is because it shows you. You know you you're showing me like these are These are places where we know there are, you know, weak spots in this approach I mean No, no. Schedule is going to be perfect, and you're acknowledging them and and saying, we need to work on these so that you know we're just like hidden, that 100% mark. And that very first one implementation of effective engagement strategies, ongoing feedback and assessment and fully implementing. 989 02:19:28.620 --> 02:19:38.559 WLWV Board Room: I could roll grading practices, and even that second one engage in strong professional learning. Obviously those 2 are connected. But that's the one area where I'm super curious. I know you've spoke to it, and I 990 02:19:38.570 --> 02:19:53.880 WLWV Board Room: and I. I know you're gonna keep working on it. And if you want to speak to it any more about those 2, I think that that's the area where, as a parent of high school students, I could see, you know, is will really help us knock this out of the park. 991 02:19:54.080 --> 02:19:54.780 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. 992 02:19:54.890 --> 02:19:55.600 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. Great? 993 02:19:55.790 --> 02:20:00.140 WLWV Board Room: No, I I appreciate that. And I think that 994 02:20:00.170 --> 02:20:03.940 WLWV Board Room: your feedback is similar to students that we've all 995 02:20:04.270 --> 02:20:07.699 WLWV Board Room: talked with. There's also very content 996 02:20:07.910 --> 02:20:20.959 WLWV Board Room: connected feelings as well. So if science teachers tend to love the block time because they can set up a lab, and they can get engaged in that, you know, if 997 02:20:21.260 --> 02:20:23.520 world language teachers 998 02:20:23.670 --> 02:20:35.030 WLWV Board Room: may, even though we did have world language teachers on this committee, and they came forward to support it as an overall solution, you know, just given their drothers having kids a little bit every day 999 02:20:35.110 --> 02:20:54.040 WLWV Board Room: might be a better, you know they can see a lot of advantages to that model, so that's that's the the play that we're going through. I will say that the professional learning that's been happening this year getting to use that boost that we got through the recruitment and retention. Grant 1000 02:20:54.050 --> 02:21:01.370 to allow some of our teacher leaders to really move into this. What we're calling studio, classroom, teacher, role. 1001 02:21:01.430 --> 02:21:05.599 WLWV Board Room: where peers are coming in and watch them teach. And then they're 1002 02:21:05.840 --> 02:21:10.920 WLWV Board Room: talking together about how did you plan that lesson? These are teachers that are showing 1003 02:21:11.060 --> 02:21:20.829 WLWV Board Room: really cool ways to have students engaged up moving, doing lots of different sorts of tasks that are 1004 02:21:20.840 --> 02:21:35.479 getting them thinking deeply. Engaging movement embedding some fun, keeping it rolling in the pace of the lesson. So we're with you. We're committed. There's a lot of really good work going 1005 02:21:35.750 --> 02:21:48.639 WLWV Board Room: through. Our teacher workshops. Our professional Development day in November was almost exclusively focused on that topic with a lot of different teachers, leading workshops, and trying things with each other on that work. 1006 02:21:55.440 --> 02:22:02.960 WLWV Board Room: I just had a question regarding the actual policy where some things are marked out 1007 02:22:03.260 --> 02:22:08.019 WLWV Board Room: and on 4 credits of language are. You have one unit in written composition 1008 02:22:08.050 --> 02:22:09.179 WLWV Board Room: crossed out. 1009 02:22:09.540 --> 02:22:13.109 WLWV Board Room: Are you eliminating that requirement? Written composition. 1010 02:22:13.500 --> 02:22:18.090 WLWV Board Room: It's just not no longer in the state 1011 02:22:18.630 --> 02:22:20.289 WLWV Board Room: requirements. 1012 02:22:22.360 --> 02:22:23.480 WLWV Board Room: So 1013 02:22:24.450 --> 02:22:30.080 WLWV Board Room: we were trying to align. So language changes. So, for example. 1014 02:22:30.230 --> 02:22:31.800 WLWV Board Room: the science. 1015 02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:36.479 what's in parentheses next to science. It didn't used to have 1016 02:22:36.810 --> 02:22:43.859 WLWV Board Room: the include scientific inquiry and lab experiences, or in social studies, now 1017 02:22:43.880 --> 02:23:02.559 WLWV Board Room: point 5. A credit from physics is required, so Sometimes the state requirements go up and down. Written composition is a bedrock tenet of our language, arts, coursework, and we had some really interesting course. Proposals come forward 1018 02:23:02.570 --> 02:23:10.470 that engage in writing also in in some new and exciting ways that are really focused on 1019 02:23:10.980 --> 02:23:18.580 WLWV Board Room: on fiction, writing, writing that can double as a writing 121, or 122 credit. So 1020 02:23:18.730 --> 02:23:30.060 WLWV Board Room: we highly value written expression and working with students on writing. But that was we. We took that out because it wasn't. It's no longer specified in the state requirements. 1021 02:23:30.450 --> 02:23:31.880 WLWV Board Room: but it's still going to be 1022 02:23:34.160 --> 02:23:36.150 WLWV Board Room: part of the Westland Wilson Bills 1023 02:23:36.660 --> 02:23:47.110 WLWV Board Room: curriculum. A 100%. Yes, the standards around writing are deep and extensive, and I think that's one of the things that our school district does really well. 1024 02:23:47.910 --> 02:23:55.799 WLWV Board Room: And then I just wanted to clarify. You said that this will continue to operate for more opportunities and dual enrollment and 1025 02:23:56.250 --> 02:24:00.049 WLWV Board Room: college credit and career technical training opportunities. Yes. 1026 02:24:04.050 --> 02:24:06.640 WLWV Board Room: one thing that jumps out at me is. 1027 02:24:06.660 --> 02:24:09.659 WLWV Board Room: you know, as our world has so rapidly changed with 1028 02:24:09.790 --> 02:24:28.490 WLWV Board Room: what the path to different careers looks like whether that path includes a traditional 4 year on Campus College, and just exposure to like some really changing career fields. It really seems that this speaks to the ability to give our students the chance to explore more 1029 02:24:28.720 --> 02:24:46.590 WLWV Board Room: of those career pathways. And then also just get into this mindset of of learning more about the world around them, and then being able to take course work that matches that. And I know that over the years, and I think something that we're all really proud of is our cte program. But 1030 02:24:46.600 --> 02:25:03.430 WLWV Board Room: could you just share a little bit more about? You know, as we look, if you look in the red line version of the policy change, You know. I think anyone will see that the addition of credits is really in this field of you know, the elective coursework. And then also this exciting 1031 02:25:03.500 --> 02:25:21.460 WLWV Board Room: of personal growth and development and future planning. But could you just speak a little bit more and just kind of reinforce how this is going to give our students even more opportunity to think about their future. However that may unfold 1032 02:25:22.020 --> 02:25:32.929 WLWV Board Room: it's so exciting. Teachers go into this work because they love their content area, and they love kids right. And so this opportunity, whether it's music 1033 02:25:33.060 --> 02:25:36.020 WLWV Board Room: where a student might 1034 02:25:37.030 --> 02:25:51.789 WLWV Board Room: come into high school with a passion for music and really want to be able to take. How can I develop to from sort of those initial band orchestra type classes to really taking on leadership roles. 1035 02:25:51.800 --> 02:25:59.530 maybe being the student conductor of an ensemble or writing pieces as that kind of capstone work, our 1036 02:25:59.710 --> 02:26:13.669 WLWV Board Room: journalism programs, thinking about when students enter and they're learning about journalism. They're taking on some roles, but if they stay in that program and go deep with it by the senior year, they're the editor of the 1037 02:26:13.680 --> 02:26:27.289 your book or the literary magazine and getting those real life leadership experiences with a lot of responsibility. Autonomy things like that. Other students 1038 02:26:28.410 --> 02:26:29.449 WLWV Board Room: may 1039 02:26:29.570 --> 02:26:45.880 WLWV Board Room: their path might be. I want to try lots of different things, and so this schedule allows them to open up and try. I want to take a music class, and one of the things that we are hoping this proposal Hasn't, come across yet. 1040 02:26:45.890 --> 02:26:54.679 But you know you don't have to change everything in one year is some some more opportunities at the high school level for kids who maybe don't already have expertise in. 1041 02:26:54.690 --> 02:27:17.220 WLWV Board Room: say, a music or an arts program? And how is there a more entry level course where they can try things out, and maybe they want to try music, and then maybe they want to try robotics, and then maybe they want to try something else. Both those things are so valid for high schoolers. Sometimes a student finds that pathway and really builds that connection in that niche. 1042 02:27:17.230 --> 02:27:21.280 and sometimes they're going to try lots of different things. So I think 1043 02:27:21.580 --> 02:27:26.870 WLWV Board Room: this allows that depth of learning 1044 02:27:26.980 --> 02:27:37.550 WLWV Board Room: for kids who are going to stay with something for a while. Our arts, teachers, our music teachers, our cte teachers, are really thinking about. What does senior year look like? That's 1045 02:27:37.590 --> 02:27:49.799 WLWV Board Room: that's exciting. That's engaging. That's the thing i'm looking forward to as we move forward. So I will also say that I presented this to some students. 1046 02:27:49.810 --> 02:28:07.410 WLWV Board Room: 2 different classes at each high school, a leadership class and a success studio class, and most students were pretty supportive, but one students like I've been waiting. I've worked on my schedule so that I could have a late start period my senior year. Does this mean I won't? Get to do that, I said. 1047 02:28:07.540 --> 02:28:15.009 WLWV Board Room: You got it. You will still get to do that. So there, you know. There, that's that's real, too, for some students, and this 1048 02:28:15.110 --> 02:28:19.359 WLWV Board Room: we're phasing the requirements in. So some of the students that were seniors. 1049 02:28:19.380 --> 02:28:28.119 We'll be seniors next year not to worry it. It will. This will not mess up your plans, but it will maybe provide you some different opportunities. 1050 02:28:32.390 --> 02:28:37.590 WLWV Board Room: Just one more thing that comes to my mind, and I love the idea of our students having more lectives. 1051 02:28:37.920 --> 02:28:57.320 WLWV Board Room: and it sounds like there were teachers a part of this committee. So we've had teacher, input and they they are. I don't know if we survey teachers, but there's the staff is. The feeling must be that the staff is on board at our high schools with this new, and I was just gonna point out one thing, and Dr. Ludwig. You right remember this. 1052 02:28:59.070 --> 02:29:04.899 WLWV Board Room: It was, is it, Henrietta? Some will asks, Yes, the school that we visited in Vancouver. 1053 02:29:05.230 --> 02:29:10.310 WLWV Board Room: and they had amazing programs. But one thing that we learned from them 1054 02:29:10.470 --> 02:29:27.999 WLWV Board Room: is that their teachers got burned out in the first couple of years because they got so excited about all these singlet classes that what ended up happening in their process of trying to accommodate all of these different interests of students is that they ended up with 5 Prep. Periods. 1055 02:29:28.020 --> 02:29:29.020 and 1056 02:29:29.040 --> 02:29:56.310 WLWV Board Room: then got very quickly burned out. And so I love the idea of new electives. I just want to make sure, and i'm sure we will. But that just that reminder of that was one of our learnings on the height. That was a huge learning for me on the High School study group. Oh, it's not just about trying to offer it's. We also need to protect our teachers and not burn them out, because I believe they told us. There was a 50% turnover rate in that high school after the first. 1057 02:29:56.320 --> 02:30:09.850 WLWV Board Room: like couple of years of the teacher. So just something to I think we need to be mindful of, and I know our district will, as we go forward and get super excited about. We can do this, and we can do this, but also protecting our teachers. So 1058 02:30:09.940 --> 02:30:12.960 because we have great teachers. Yes, and we want to keep them. 1059 02:30:13.820 --> 02:30:31.779 WLWV Board Room: I do remember that I think part of what was challenging for them is that school also had an intense focus on health sciences and health careers with a big commitment with a partnership hospital next door, and there are just some commitments I think they made on the front end. That should they have done that differently. 1060 02:30:31.820 --> 02:30:44.589 WLWV Board Room: they would have phased in more gradually, so they, I think they over committed, and then had to live into to some of that. And then just to clarify, because I know the word prep gets used sometimes, interchangeably 1061 02:30:45.970 --> 02:30:47.420 WLWV Board Room: rep. Can mean 1062 02:30:47.530 --> 02:30:52.969 WLWV Board Room: a a class a period when you're not teaching students so that you can prepare 1063 02:30:52.980 --> 02:31:14.900 WLWV Board Room: and prep can also mean You've got a certain number of preps or classes that you teach. So you would. You were referring to 5 different classes that they might have to prepare for not just math with one group, then the next group that comes in, and the the next group. Yeah, but that may teach math and then a science, and then maybe an environmental class. 1064 02:31:14.920 --> 02:31:19.090 WLWV Board Room: So we just wanted to clarify for those who might be watching or listening. 1065 02:31:19.180 --> 02:31:27.790 WLWV Board Room: that when we say there's a prep every day. It meant a a class with an opportunity without students, so that they could prepare. 1066 02:31:28.040 --> 02:31:31.960 But 1067 02:31:32.470 --> 02:31:45.860 WLWV Board Room: perhaps, or types of classes, they're teaching. Yes, it's an excellent point I was. We were having this discussion just the other day. We actually have pretty clear language in our bargaining agreement 1068 02:31:45.870 --> 02:31:55.879 WLWV Board Room: around high school teachers, and the number of preps. And so we have have already have definitely considered that you know the the 1069 02:31:56.170 --> 02:32:01.139 WLWV Board Room: both Westland and Wilson mill have a a scale that 1070 02:32:01.490 --> 02:32:11.990 WLWV Board Room: it's not going to be at any concern, you know. We're continuing to to watch closely at riverside. The smaller the school, the harder it is to to balance the 1071 02:32:12.360 --> 02:32:19.709 WLWV Board Room: number of different props. But that's work. That Principal Chapin and Carrie Wilhelm are working hard on 1072 02:32:20.990 --> 02:32:25.839 WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good. I think it's would be a good time for a motion. 1073 02:32:28.760 --> 02:32:34.589 We're looking to vote on this the updates to board policy. I 1074 02:32:35.980 --> 02:32:40.820 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, go ahead. I move to approve the updates to Board policy, Ikf as presented. 1075 02:32:41.640 --> 02:32:51.319 WLWV Board Room: I second. All right, Thank you. Director Wyatt has the motion, and by Sir Thompson Seconds and I'm. Assuming we had our discussion already. Is there more? 1076 02:32:52.220 --> 02:32:57.350 WLWV Board Room: My only last question would be long Window question by any means. 1077 02:32:57.800 --> 02:33:00.159 WLWV Board Room: Is it currently set up right now? That 1078 02:33:00.400 --> 02:33:03.149 WLWV Board Room: and I don't know that that I've ever seen it this way 1079 02:33:03.440 --> 02:33:05.920 WLWV Board Room: that since there's going to be this new offering. 1080 02:33:06.010 --> 02:33:12.469 WLWV Board Room: When we log in to parent view, we currently get a like a one pager that says 1081 02:33:12.510 --> 02:33:14.089 WLWV Board Room: our kids have met 1082 02:33:14.230 --> 02:33:15.660 WLWV Board Room: these different 1083 02:33:16.660 --> 02:33:22.599 WLWV Board Room: pieces to their graduation, and then, as they do them, you get kind of a check box is that already on there? 1084 02:33:24.400 --> 02:33:38.330 WLWV Board Room: So if you got world history and you're now you've got 3 supplemental classes that you, because you just don't like world history. But there's these other new classes that are there that would satisfy that credit. 1085 02:33:38.340 --> 02:33:50.979 WLWV Board Room: Do we have it set up so that parents can say, oh, my kid just really doesn't like world history. But now that she or he has these other 3 options that they could choose from to fulfill, that credit is this set up like that for us now 1086 02:33:51.050 --> 02:33:53.740 WLWV Board Room: at home, to log in and look and be able to 1087 02:33:54.610 --> 02:33:59.520 WLWV Board Room: at where i'm. Seeing nods from the real experts in the room. I will say that nothing 1088 02:33:59.530 --> 02:34:24.669 WLWV Board Room: has been changed in our student information system to reflect the more credits yet, because obviously you haven't voted on it so it doesn't exist. But we've been in conversation with it to make sure that we can have that. Be as smooth a transition as possible. 1089 02:34:24.680 --> 02:34:25.420 WLWV Board Room: Thank you 1090 02:34:27.030 --> 02:34:30.170 WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good. I think we can call the vote 1091 02:34:31.790 --> 02:34:32.960 WLWV Board Room: director Slip 1092 02:34:33.160 --> 02:34:37.779 WLWV Board Room: I to Taylor checking I 1093 02:34:37.960 --> 02:34:42.399 WLWV Board Room: Vice Chair, Thompson, I Director Wyatt. Thank you. 1094 02:34:42.970 --> 02:34:54.790 WLWV Board Room: I appreciate the support. Yeah, thank you to all of you for all the work that you put into it, and the work that's going to come to right to implement it well. And so this is just the beginning, I know in a lot of ways. 1095 02:34:54.800 --> 02:35:11.709 WLWV Board Room: and if if you're a high school principal who's sitting in the audience, and then give you the same statement I give the students, which is, I know you have, you know, a full job to attend to in the morning. So if you decide, you want to get up and leave, because you've been here and you're going to work at 7 am. You're welcome to. 1096 02:35:15.810 --> 02:35:22.520 WLWV Board Room: Okay, Well guess what you get me for another topic, and i'm excited about that 1097 02:35:24.940 --> 02:35:44.350 WLWV Board Room: to share some information with you. So we're just gonna start rolling through these slides and board members. I have a packet that I've Also, that is our full application. I'm gonna direct you to different parts as we go, and hopefully, that will lead you through for what you need to know tonight. 1098 02:35:44.750 --> 02:35:46.210 So 1099 02:35:46.860 --> 02:35:58.150 WLWV Board Room: we had a couple of community input sessions last week about this draft proposal application of bringing forward. And it was really nice in those community input sessions 1100 02:35:58.160 --> 02:36:07.439 We one was in person to we on zoom to start with this moment of when you talk about school improvement. 1101 02:36:07.470 --> 02:36:30.720 which is right and true, we want to keep getting better. It's also good to stop for a moment. And just think about all that's going really well in our schools. And so it was really fun to have community members share some ideas, talk about teachers, particular sports or clubs, or libraries or gardens that they were enjoying. So we won't Belabor that tonight. But I just 1102 02:36:30.730 --> 02:36:34.699 set with that mindset of there's so much to celebrate going on in our schools. 1103 02:36:35.750 --> 02:36:47.349 So the reason that we are coming forward to you with this application today is our legislature, and our voters have passed a number of different 1104 02:36:48.550 --> 02:37:07.680 WLWV Board Room: initiatives that support public education, and each one of those has been had a wonderful ideas and money behind it. Each of them has had their own timelines, their own community engagement processes, their own reporting requirements. 1105 02:37:07.850 --> 02:37:09.860 And I, 1106 02:37:10.160 --> 02:37:12.549 WLWV Board Room: we are very thankful that 1107 02:37:12.560 --> 02:37:32.610 WLWV Board Room: ode has worked hard to bring those into alignment and take these 6 major initiatives and say, we can. We can combine, reduce some redundancies at the school district level and at the Department of education level around processing all of these different plans, applications, grants, etc. 1108 02:37:32.620 --> 02:37:38.409 WLWV Board Room: So that's why we're here today is to work on what's now called the integrated 1109 02:37:38.570 --> 02:37:42.150 WLWV Board Room: grant application or integrated initiatives application. 1110 02:37:45.620 --> 02:37:46.699 WLWV Board Room: So 1111 02:37:46.870 --> 02:38:01.430 WLWV Board Room: here's a visual that helps folks. See. You may have heard of all of these initiatives or my guesses. You've heard of at least some of these initiatives. The High school success to an investment account. 1112 02:38:01.440 --> 02:38:10.749 The requirements to districts engage in continuous improvement planning. We've talked quite a bit about cte or career and technical education. Tonight. 1113 02:38:10.760 --> 02:38:30.120 Everyday matters is a statewide attendance initiative, encouraging students to have good attendance at school, and then a a small grant that's actually run by one of our former principals, Saskia Dressler, the early indicator and intervention systems initiative. So they have a lot of common elements. 1114 02:38:30.130 --> 02:38:42.389 WLWV Board Room: As we said before, focusing on equity, thinking about students who Haven't always benefited from our schools. And how do we do a better job for them? And a lot of common goals 1115 02:38:42.500 --> 02:38:47.610 WLWV Board Room: around well-rounded education, engagement and strengthening systems and capacity. 1116 02:38:51.180 --> 02:39:02.630 WLWV Board Room: Just a little more detail i'm not going to go through all of it. But you are welcome to read ahead on the slide. But just as a reminder, the High School Success Act 1117 02:39:02.950 --> 02:39:14.240 WLWV Board Room: also sometimes called Measure 98, because that was the ballot measure that voters voted on, and it was all about supporting graduation rates and college and career readiness 1118 02:39:14.250 --> 02:39:33.059 WLWV Board Room: and really focusing on that high school work. A lot of it. Language around that career and technical education was in that measure 98 or high school success. The student investment account is really focused on students, mental health and behavioral needs, and reducing 1119 02:39:33.260 --> 02:39:46.640 WLWV Board Room: disparities for student vocal groups and increasing academic achievement for all students. That student investment account is was funded with taxes on businesses that 1120 02:39:47.050 --> 02:39:58.870 WLWV Board Room: is, then funnels through to some other work. The bigger laws called the Student Success Act, and then the part that goes directly to school districts is through this student investment account. 1121 02:39:59.910 --> 02:40:03.970 So that's just some background and let's go to the next slide. 1122 02:40:05.030 --> 02:40:05.800 So 1123 02:40:06.050 --> 02:40:07.359 WLWV Board Room: couple things. 1124 02:40:08.810 --> 02:40:21.860 WLWV Board Room: These are existing funds. So this is not brand new money to us. If it were brand new we might have a wider discussion and a lot of other things going on, but we. We have existing money, we have 1125 02:40:22.020 --> 02:40:41.870 WLWV Board Room: staff. We've already been funding projects we are working on that are in existence, and we'll bring those up for you in a minute. We just got our projections a couple of weeks ago for what we should be getting next year. Through each of these the at least through the high School success and Sia and the good news for high school success for us is our 1126 02:40:41.880 --> 02:41:00.400 WLWV Board Room: allotment is going up a little bit from 2.6 million to 2.8 million. So that's great news. Unfortunately, at the same time, the Si. A account for us is going that Grant is going to go down from 7.2 million to 6.8 million. So a net we're down 1127 02:41:00.410 --> 02:41:03.739 a little bit in our district when we look at those grants together. 1128 02:41:07.700 --> 02:41:17.769 WLWV Board Room: So one of the common goals, we said, for all 6 of these initiatives is engagement, and I will go ahead and 1129 02:41:17.940 --> 02:41:21.659 WLWV Board Room: have you look at Tab number one in your packet 1130 02:41:22.650 --> 02:41:27.649 WLWV Board Room: before Tab Number One is just introduction about our district. 1131 02:41:27.820 --> 02:41:38.159 WLWV Board Room: Tab Number One is where we start listing out the ways. We've been engaging with our community in the last year that have helped inform this application process. 1132 02:41:38.200 --> 02:41:40.799 So you'll see lists of 1133 02:41:40.820 --> 02:41:44.479 WLWV Board Room: surveys, focal groups. 1134 02:41:44.930 --> 02:42:02.299 WLWV Board Room: input processes, and then just a little summary of some of the main themes that have emerged from each one of those processes. So you can see in there. We have really worked hard to engage with community engage with parents in different ways. 1135 02:42:02.760 --> 02:42:07.830 WLWV Board Room: Teacher input classified staff input student input. 1136 02:42:08.130 --> 02:42:24.019 WLWV Board Room: looking at an input through data or or standardized assessments, our attendance data, other things like that. And in the center I love the little equity lens to think that throughout all of this we're trying to think about 1137 02:42:24.170 --> 02:42:37.160 WLWV Board Room: who's really benefiting, who's maybe not benefiting from some of the things that we have been doing, so that we can really focus on that each child, every child success that we're working, working towards 1138 02:42:39.040 --> 02:42:39.680 WLWV Board Room: great. 1139 02:42:40.420 --> 02:42:41.360 WLWV Board Room: So 1140 02:42:41.890 --> 02:42:42.890 WLWV Board Room: again. 1141 02:42:43.250 --> 02:42:49.909 WLWV Board Room: Interest of time. I know we have some folks who have been waiting a long time to get to speak, so i'm going to try to move forward here 1142 02:42:50.180 --> 02:42:57.650 WLWV Board Room: through all of those engagement processes. There were a few big trends that really came forward. 1143 02:42:58.300 --> 02:43:12.980 WLWV Board Room: Family engagement, strong literacy practices, opportunities for advanced coursework, thinking about attendance, mental health, different pathways to graduation. These were some of the trends that emerged 1144 02:43:15.420 --> 02:43:16.420 WLWV Board Room: so 1145 02:43:16.780 --> 02:43:18.540 WLWV Board Room: based on those 1146 02:43:19.650 --> 02:43:43.180 WLWV Board Room: trends and sort of our overarching mission of the school district we have, we make lots of smaller goals that are often in service of these larger goals. So we might make a goal of. We want students to be engaged in a co-curricular activity at least once during their high school career. That's a worthy goal in and of itself right. But it's also in service of we know when students 1147 02:43:43.240 --> 02:44:02.839 WLWV Board Room: are part of a co-curricular activity, they're more likely to stay in school and to graduate. So the graduation is sort of that overarching goal that we're working towards. So these are our are 3 big overarching goals, graduating on time in 4 years, with plans and steps towards that post, secondary learning. 1148 02:44:03.080 --> 02:44:11.390 WLWV Board Room: and then meeting benchmarks at the middle school level, in reading the mathematics and primary school and media reading and mathematics. 1149 02:44:14.860 --> 02:44:17.839 WLWV Board Room: So i'm gonna pause before we get to the 1150 02:44:17.980 --> 02:44:19.030 WLWV Board Room: next 1151 02:44:19.350 --> 02:44:23.310 WLWV Board Room: T. That was tab 2 was the goal. Sorry I forgot to direct you to it. 1152 02:44:23.760 --> 02:44:26.410 WLWV Board Room: and we're going to get to tab 3 next. 1153 02:44:28.720 --> 02:44:31.320 WLWV Board Room: Go ahead to the next slide, please. Thank you. 1154 02:44:32.280 --> 02:44:33.480 WLWV Board Room: I did want to just 1155 02:44:33.730 --> 02:44:37.940 WLWV Board Room: note 2 things for the board and for our community that might be listening. 1156 02:44:38.800 --> 02:44:46.910 WLWV Board Room: You're going to hear about some strategies that will focus the funding from the Sia grants and the high school success grants. 1157 02:44:47.170 --> 02:45:04.619 WLWV Board Room: That does not mean we don't have many other strategies that we're also working on. So just because it doesn't appear in this plan doesn't mean we aren't also using maybe our general fund money or Federal dollars or other important things to other strategies. So Don't think of this as 1158 02:45:04.630 --> 02:45:10.600 comprehensive of all the things we're doing in our school district to invest. But these are the investments 1159 02:45:10.620 --> 02:45:14.589 WLWV Board Room: from those grants that apply to those big are over our ching goals. 1160 02:45:14.720 --> 02:45:17.910 WLWV Board Room: The second thing to note is that 1161 02:45:18.010 --> 02:45:22.579 when Grant funding comes in the same from one year to the next. 1162 02:45:24.590 --> 02:45:33.420 WLWV Board Room: Our costs are never the same from one year to the next. Our costs always go up a little, so when it's the 1163 02:45:33.770 --> 02:45:35.209 WLWV Board Room: same, funding. 1164 02:45:35.360 --> 02:45:44.119 it's all in some ways almost like a decrease, because our costs have gone up. So sometimes we need to move someone out of a fund. 1165 02:45:44.700 --> 02:46:04.649 WLWV Board Room: Take that, move them over to the general fund, because maybe the Grant funding stayed the same, or maybe it went down a little bit. It doesn't mean we're going to necessarily not going to continue to employ that employee, but they may need to move to another fund funding source if it's important that we keep them as part of our educational team. 1166 02:46:04.660 --> 02:46:06.939 WLWV Board Room: So just keep those 2 things in the back, your mind. 1167 02:46:09.840 --> 02:46:16.499 WLWV Board Room: I'm going to direct you to tab 3. But before we start tab 3 any questions. So far. 1168 02:46:17.110 --> 02:46:18.320 WLWV Board Room: Good. Okay. 1169 02:46:18.470 --> 02:46:20.760 WLWV Board Room: All right. So Tab 3 1170 02:46:20.940 --> 02:46:24.730 WLWV Board Room: is about the strategies 1171 02:46:25.100 --> 02:46:32.040 that we are investing, proposing in this application to invest in. 1172 02:46:32.080 --> 02:46:44.530 And so just to orient you, because these slides are gonna be the same each time up at the top, under next to the strategy you can see Si a. If it's fits under that student investment account or high school success. 1173 02:46:44.590 --> 02:47:01.570 WLWV Board Room: the short little narrative sentence about this overall strategy, and then is it a current or new investment. So this one is a current one. We already had a strategy of trying to funding social workers, school psychologists, counselors, nurses. 1174 02:47:02.740 --> 02:47:08.650 WLWV Board Room: You'll see that we've now outlined the 3 levels of potential funding. 1175 02:47:09.110 --> 02:47:12.689 WLWV Board Room: So tier one is 1176 02:47:12.890 --> 02:47:21.830 WLWV Board Room: what we're looking at right now. So we you. We heard that we're seeing a decrease in the funding overall back on the slide where we said high school success went up 1177 02:47:22.020 --> 02:47:37.699 WLWV Board Room: Si a went down, so we went down a little bit so in tier one. We're not looking to add more staff from this grant we're looking to maintain 21. Fte so we have 1178 02:47:37.910 --> 02:47:39.810 WLWV Board Room: a 1179 02:47:40.170 --> 02:47:52.999 WLWV Board Room: spreadsheet that will go with this grant that lays out the exact dollar amount when you say 21 fte. And who who those names are where they are on the salary scale exactly how much that comes out to. 1180 02:47:55.210 --> 02:47:56.130 WLWV Board Room: Yes. 1181 02:47:56.380 --> 02:47:57.810 WLWV Board Room: next year 1182 02:47:59.550 --> 02:48:04.550 WLWV Board Room: revenue were to come in much higher for this grant than we had been anticipating. 1183 02:48:05.410 --> 02:48:19.650 WLWV Board Room: We have some great ideas of if we could hire some more staff in this area about how we could even further bolster support for students. So by writing this with a tiered model. We don't have to come back 1184 02:48:19.840 --> 02:48:22.399 WLWV Board Room: and redo the grant application. 1185 02:48:22.480 --> 02:48:26.549 But we can be a little bit responsive, because 1186 02:48:26.620 --> 02:48:31.119 WLWV Board Room: that's what happens with these grants, it's hard to predict what 1187 02:48:31.310 --> 02:48:45.439 WLWV Board Room: level they will come in at. We don't think we would see less than we're getting this year, so that's why we're starting with the tier one, but we have plans that we could easily add more in tier, 2 or tier 3 1188 02:48:46.760 --> 02:49:00.669 WLWV Board Room: in the interest of time. I'm going to move us along. But please jump up if you have another question. So let's look quickly at strategy, too. This is a broad strategy really focused on increasing academic achievement and reducing 1189 02:49:01.040 --> 02:49:08.430 academic disparities by supporting those class size targets. That's one thing we hear a lot in our community engagement 1190 02:49:08.530 --> 02:49:25.110 is our community really values. When we maintain and really think about class size as your teachers, and then funding for specialists whether it's learning specialists to put support special education, eld specialists to support our merging bilinguals. 1191 02:49:25.120 --> 02:49:35.700 WLWV Board Room: or those additional amazing pair of educators support. So again, tier one we're looking at just trying to maintain 25 ft 25.1 fte 1192 02:49:35.710 --> 02:49:54.740 WLWV Board Room: in there, and we already have plans. If we could add those 2 additional in tier 2, we know some places where some case load sizes have have risen on some important pieces, and so we already have plans. If we could get to that tier 2 1193 02:49:55.290 --> 02:50:06.539 WLWV Board Room: again. That was a current investment. So here we on 3. Thank you. Another current investment is supporting some of our mental health needs by investing in some curriculum assessments and training. 1194 02:50:08.060 --> 02:50:10.939 WLWV Board Room: You have it in front of you. So this one is, I think. 1195 02:50:11.030 --> 02:50:21.119 WLWV Board Room: just maintaining some of those materials that we already have. But it's an annual license. So you have to pay for it every year. We'd love to be able to fund some more time for teachers 1196 02:50:21.130 --> 02:50:32.230 and staff to work with those materials more and deepen our learning around how to use them. So if we had more money in this fund, we would love to add some professional learning connected to that 1197 02:50:34.710 --> 02:50:36.590 WLWV Board Room: on Strategy 4. 1198 02:50:36.640 --> 02:50:40.459 WLWV Board Room: We started our online learning. 1199 02:50:41.840 --> 02:50:55.589 WLWV Board Room: thinking even before the pandemic, and we have maintained a commitment, even though it the what it has looked like has shifted due to the pandemic. But we have some families that have really found 1200 02:50:55.660 --> 02:51:06.150 WLWV Board Room: online learning to be working for them, and it's an option within our school district. So we want to maintain for Fte that are supporting that program right now. 1201 02:51:06.160 --> 02:51:20.769 WLWV Board Room: We would love to expand in the future where we could have more some of some hybrid options where you weren't all in on online learning, or all in on brick and mortar, and maybe add some options in the future if we had more funding. 1202 02:51:21.850 --> 02:51:31.139 WLWV Board Room: so the next one is new. So this is would be a new investment, and I want to just pause on this for a second. We've had a lot of community input 1203 02:51:31.300 --> 02:51:35.359 WLWV Board Room: in many places, including our board meetings around literacy 1204 02:51:35.450 --> 02:51:52.819 instruction, and we want to know that that's been been absolutely heard, and we also want to pause and say that we are expecting through the governors proposed budget, that there may be a whole nother fund coming that will really support literacy 1205 02:51:52.830 --> 02:52:06.899 WLWV Board Room: specifically. So we are. We are watching that closely. And again, just because there, there that may add even more resources to what we could, how we could accelerate some of our learning and thinking around literacy. 1206 02:52:06.960 --> 02:52:12.580 But even with the Sia money we felt like, it was really important to 1207 02:52:12.890 --> 02:52:29.720 WLWV Board Room: to fund some staff support and some professional development for all staff in August, and would be very excited to add more professional development really focused on literacy instruction. If we had more in this area. 1208 02:52:29.940 --> 02:52:38.439 WLWV Board Room: can ask a question on that. If you did give supplemental funds, would you take a 100 of those funds, and I'll allocate them specifically 1209 02:52:38.460 --> 02:52:39.619 WLWV Board Room: to that. 1210 02:52:40.270 --> 02:52:43.179 to that item, to that strategy. 1211 02:52:43.390 --> 02:52:45.509 WLWV Board Room: So let's just say you had 1212 02:52:45.610 --> 02:52:50.569 WLWV Board Room: 20 million going to this at the beginning of this, because that's what was fully funded for 1213 02:52:50.760 --> 02:52:55.309 WLWV Board Room: tier one. Then all of a sudden supplemental funds come 1214 02:52:55.480 --> 02:52:58.380 WLWV Board Room: and you get another 15 million. 1215 02:52:58.510 --> 02:53:10.819 WLWV Board Room: Would that whole 15 million be added to the existing 20 million to support that one category. It will depend on what are the requirements and restrictions that come with that next fund. 1216 02:53:10.830 --> 02:53:28.359 so generally. Now, very seldom does money just come to us with the you know. Use your best judgment about how you're going to meet your goals in these sorts of grants that often comes with some requirements around it. So we we are watching closely to see what those would be. 1217 02:53:28.480 --> 02:53:29.980 and 1218 02:53:30.100 --> 02:53:43.990 WLWV Board Room: see how we might be able to use those. We have lots of ideas of how we could invest, make some very strong investments around our literacy renewal process, and we would welcome that opportunity for some more funding that came. 1219 02:53:45.220 --> 02:53:52.340 WLWV Board Room: I just want to reiterate that this isn't the only place where you'll see literacy support. We also have our general 1220 02:53:52.690 --> 02:54:01.110 WLWV Board Room: budget, and that's where curriculum renewals and adoptions gets funded from. We set aside an extraordinary amount. 1221 02:54:01.140 --> 02:54:02.369 Now 1222 02:54:02.520 --> 02:54:18.300 WLWV Board Room: you had some very extraordinary mounts in your example you were talking 20 and 15 million. Well, we're lucky to get. Maybe you know, 500,000 or a 1 million, you know. So when we set aside for curriculum renewal processes, that's in our general budget. 1223 02:54:18.360 --> 02:54:25.789 WLWV Board Room: So, teacher, training materials, all of that is planned for in the general budget. This is in addition to that. 1224 02:54:26.090 --> 02:54:28.330 WLWV Board Room: we've set aside some S. I. A. 1225 02:54:28.510 --> 02:54:33.760 WLWV Board Room: And then, if you read the Governor's budget, she's proposed a 100 milliondollars statewide 1226 02:54:34.010 --> 02:54:50.190 WLWV Board Room: for literacy, instruction, and training, and then an additional amount of 20 million for summer literacy support. So those are funds that we're not sure how that's going to come and get implemented from the State. It's also her proposed budget. 1227 02:54:50.480 --> 02:54:55.929 WLWV Board Room: So there could be some changes to that. But in the coming months we'll learn more about what 1228 02:54:55.970 --> 02:54:58.640 WLWV Board Room: that additional amount of money means. 1229 02:54:58.800 --> 02:55:03.540 WLWV Board Room: So just stay tuned for that. And as we have more details, we'll be able to share that with you. 1230 02:55:05.200 --> 02:55:06.889 WLWV Board Room: Great question. Thank you. 1231 02:55:07.220 --> 02:55:13.199 WLWV Board Room: Let's go to Strategy 6. So this is a current 1232 02:55:13.320 --> 02:55:16.370 WLWV Board Room: Si a investment, and I just wanted to pause that 1233 02:55:16.660 --> 02:55:27.390 WLWV Board Room: in the community engagement processes. When we heard from migrant families, or from our primarily Spanish speaking Latino families. 1234 02:55:27.590 --> 02:55:38.040 WLWV Board Room: this was incredibly important to them that we would have resources, events and staff that are connecting with them in their home language. So 1235 02:55:38.250 --> 02:55:52.259 WLWV Board Room: this is about maintaining one Fte and the family empowerment center. But we would also love to if more money were available, increase our capacity around family engagement broader in in other ways as well. 1236 02:55:52.620 --> 02:55:58.849 Strategy 7 now shifts Our acronyms has shifted here to the High School success. 1237 02:55:59.330 --> 02:56:01.600 WLWV Board Room: So this is 1238 02:56:01.630 --> 02:56:17.869 WLWV Board Room: focusing on ninth grade teams and ninth grade on track status which is an indicator of success at the high school level. So this would allow us to maintain our 3.6 Fte. That includes some support for 1239 02:56:17.930 --> 02:56:29.609 WLWV Board Room: current eighth graders helping them enter high school, strong as well as some support for High School ninth grade success teaming, and we had had 1240 02:56:29.830 --> 02:56:35.500 WLWV Board Room: great work happening around the bridging pathways program, which is kind of a summer 1241 02:56:35.710 --> 02:56:52.750 raising. The vision and excitement of students who maybe ha are come from family, had never experienced college to really allow them to enter well, and it with some excitement and planning. So we would like to bring that program back. It's the summer 1242 02:56:52.830 --> 02:56:55.640 opportunity for students to really need that. 1243 02:56:56.950 --> 02:57:16.020 WLWV Board Room: I'm gonna go ahead to 8. Yeah, this one would be about that rigorous coursework advanced placement, Iv: Dual credit and cte, and this is maintaining. We are funding a lot of our cte teachers right now out of this fund. So we want to maintain that. 1244 02:57:16.030 --> 02:57:31.249 WLWV Board Room: And we did our bringing back that internship slash work, based learning position, because we know with that new schedule next year we need to get back and get those internships developed that we kind of lost during the pandemic. So there's some excitement there. 1245 02:57:32.450 --> 02:57:33.999 WLWV Board Room: Strategy 9 1246 02:57:35.240 --> 02:57:40.139 has to do with some of the work that's happening in our hubs. 1247 02:57:40.160 --> 02:57:45.950 How are we meeting the needs of kids who haven't, you know, always traditionally felt 1248 02:57:46.150 --> 02:57:58.530 WLWV Board Room: success in high school, and then some of it around all students. How are we implementing these this new house class, so that it it really meets their needs that professional growth or personal growth and development and college career planning 1249 02:58:01.570 --> 02:58:12.109 WLWV Board Room: the E. I. S. Is a very small grant right now, and it's, I think, about $26,000. But we we want to make good use of every dollar we get that. 1250 02:58:12.130 --> 02:58:23.050 WLWV Board Room: and the ideas that are behind this are that. How do we keep getting better at noticing kids, noticing when they need some support and get some good plans around them. 1251 02:58:24.560 --> 02:58:25.550 WLWV Board Room: Those are 1252 02:58:25.770 --> 02:58:27.119 WLWV Board Room: strategies 1253 02:58:27.460 --> 02:58:29.860 WLWV Board Room: that are outlined for you on Number 3 1254 02:58:30.790 --> 02:58:32.260 WLWV Board Room: Tab 4. 1255 02:58:33.470 --> 02:58:37.120 WLWV Board Room: It starts a giant section of this application. 1256 02:58:37.730 --> 02:58:40.469 There is nothing in there that you don't know. 1257 02:58:41.160 --> 02:58:46.039 WLWV Board Room: It is basically a summary of work that we do in our district. Questions like. 1258 02:58:46.280 --> 02:58:51.460 WLWV Board Room: what strengths do you see in your district around equity and access. What 1259 02:58:51.830 --> 02:59:04.140 WLWV Board Room: How do you think about equity in your district? How do you think about cte programs in your district? How do you do? You value well rounded education. Do you include music options for all students in your 1260 02:59:04.150 --> 02:59:17.809 So it's more of a response to the Grant writers. There's nothing in this section between 4 and 5. That would surprise you. It's kind of a summary of the work that we do here in Westland, Wilson, though. 1261 02:59:19.160 --> 02:59:24.499 WLWV Board Room: So i'm going to move you all the way over to Tab Number 5. 1262 02:59:26.380 --> 02:59:30.819 WLWV Board Room: This is the last part of the application. 1263 02:59:31.050 --> 02:59:34.289 WLWV Board Room: Aside some attachments and assurances. 1264 02:59:34.440 --> 02:59:41.399 and this one is a little bit interesting because we are required to present to you draft 1265 02:59:41.780 --> 02:59:44.839 WLWV Board Room: longitudinal growth and performance targets. 1266 02:59:47.140 --> 02:59:55.069 WLWV Board Room: If you were to approve this application, we would then submit this to the organ Department of Education. They would hopefully 1267 02:59:55.280 --> 03:00:07.860 WLWV Board Room: approve all the rest of the application, but they won't, approve these draft targets until they set up a meeting with us individually as a school district, and we co-create 1268 03:00:07.890 --> 03:00:11.509 WLWV Board Room: a final version of these draft targets 1269 03:00:11.900 --> 03:00:19.279 WLWV Board Room: and then we have to come back to the school board to have the School Board vote on what's on on approving those final 1270 03:00:19.440 --> 03:00:31.639 longitudinal growth and performance targets. So just for our community, we said, we said, we want all students to graduate from high school. What are some key markers along the way that we're going to be actually watching and measuring. 1271 03:00:31.980 --> 03:00:39.960 And so that's what we've laid out here in your packet. We have some more details around baseline data, but these are the 1272 03:00:40.210 --> 03:00:45.520 WLWV Board Room: of course we're going to keep watching graduation rate, not just overall, but also by student groups. 1273 03:00:45.700 --> 03:00:51.329 We're gonna look at that ninth grade on track data means by the end of ninth grade. Our students credit whole 1274 03:00:51.350 --> 03:01:05.469 WLWV Board Room: attendance data, and then we are really interested in the Ap Ib. Cte enrollment. As we've expanded our schedule, we want to follow those numbers, and see if overall and by student groups, or or what are students taking 1275 03:01:05.960 --> 03:01:11.509 at? You can see what we're proposing there at middle school and at primary school 1276 03:01:11.600 --> 03:01:13.469 to be those 1277 03:01:13.800 --> 03:01:25.299 WLWV Board Room: big data points. Of course, at the school level they're looking at all kinds of much more specific data. But what at a district level would be our kind of temperature checks that we're moving towards our goals. 1278 03:01:30.170 --> 03:01:31.270 WLWV Board Room: So 1279 03:01:31.430 --> 03:01:36.029 WLWV Board Room: I've walked you through a large document in a short amount of time. 1280 03:01:36.200 --> 03:01:37.459 but 1281 03:01:37.540 --> 03:01:51.810 WLWV Board Room: I want to outline for you some next steps. So one next step might be. You feel like you have had enough information tonight that you might want to go forward and approve this app and vote to approve this application. 1282 03:01:52.140 --> 03:01:53.729 WLWV Board Room: which would be fantastic 1283 03:01:53.850 --> 03:02:00.709 if you said Ash, I would like some more time to read all of this, and I want to treat this. We're going to treat this as a first read 1284 03:02:00.780 --> 03:02:20.269 WLWV Board Room: and come back to it. We could come back to it at our very first meeting in March. It's all due to Ode by the middle of March, so we have a a fairly tight timeline, but we decided we wanted to bring it to you sooner, just in case you had questions or directed us to go find out some more information 1285 03:02:20.280 --> 03:02:26.130 rather than wait until March, and you only have the one look at it, and then we go to vote. 1286 03:02:26.390 --> 03:02:27.580 WLWV Board Room: So 1287 03:02:27.620 --> 03:02:31.270 WLWV Board Room: that is my presentation. I'm open to questions. 1288 03:02:31.750 --> 03:02:33.930 WLWV Board Room: My only question is. 1289 03:02:34.230 --> 03:02:37.509 WLWV Board Room: what is in the 96%? 1290 03:02:37.650 --> 03:02:45.789 WLWV Board Room: It says multi-racial. What groups are rolled into that multi-racial, I understand, Latino pointed out, emerging bilinguals 1291 03:02:45.960 --> 03:02:47.019 WLWV Board Room: pointed out 1292 03:02:47.690 --> 03:02:54.509 WLWV Board Room: students with disability and homeless. But what's it? What's is everybody else in multi-racial? No, it's. When 1293 03:02:54.710 --> 03:03:10.819 WLWV Board Room: when a a student enrolls in school and they get to check that demographic data, they, if they would check either. I think it's either that says 2 or more races is the box that they check that that results is that being multiracial. 1294 03:03:11.410 --> 03:03:25.559 WLWV Board Room: So I we didn't put. There are some other really important groups that have very small cell size, that some of their graduation data was suppressed because it was 1295 03:03:25.930 --> 03:03:30.960 WLWV Board Room: very small cell size. I get, I guess i'm i'm i'm asking that because 1296 03:03:31.460 --> 03:03:33.739 WLWV Board Room: we don't have a group on here for white people. 1297 03:03:34.420 --> 03:03:38.820 WLWV Board Room: So i'm trying to figure out. Are we not tracking them now by tracking everybody else? 1298 03:03:42.780 --> 03:03:56.650 WLWV Board Room: I'm happy to add that here we just. I. I would like to know what the graduation rate target is for white people, because it's not on here. 1299 03:03:57.190 --> 03:04:00.150 WLWV Board Room: Purpose of the focal groups has been to think about the 1300 03:04:00.590 --> 03:04:19.180 WLWV Board Room: smaller groups, but I will absolutely have that. And we're working with definitions that ode has. So when they say, here's the large group, and all of that. You can break down all the different demographics that's there, but they also want to make sure. Districts are paying attention to what they call now focal groups, which is 1301 03:04:19.280 --> 03:04:35.539 WLWV Board Room: a smaller group of students than the dominant group, and making sure that we're also watching data there, and it doesn't get lost in the large number. I'd like to get my my white brothers and sisters to get them all there all right. They're well cared for 1302 03:04:41.570 --> 03:04:58.889 WLWV Board Room: again, like exceptional work, a really high quality, excellent caliber. Thank you so much. I i'm so proud of our district to be on the Board that submits this. I know that that took an incredible amount of work, not just to produce this, but to lead up to it. 1303 03:04:59.250 --> 03:05:19.190 WLWV Board Room: Yeah, it's Group Group F: yeah, I will need to be this. This is this is extensive and really high quality. I can't find a single air. There's not a typo that I can find, so the only place that I I could just really feel, and it doesn't have anything to do with this work, right? This is really good work. 1304 03:05:21.450 --> 03:05:27.070 WLWV Board Room: but I remember sitting up here when I feel a little emotional talking about it, because 1305 03:05:27.340 --> 03:05:34.150 WLWV Board Room: I have kids that are graduating in 2,025. I remember sitting up here when we said we'd have 100% graduation right 1306 03:05:34.460 --> 03:05:35.460 WLWV Board Room: that year. 1307 03:05:35.980 --> 03:05:39.369 WLWV Board Room: and that was like what, 6 years ago, or something you said that. 1308 03:05:40.560 --> 03:05:42.239 WLWV Board Room: So i'm looking at this thing. 1309 03:05:42.940 --> 03:05:43.869 WLWV Board Room: We're back 1310 03:05:43.940 --> 03:05:45.130 WLWV Board Room: that one, and 1311 03:05:47.100 --> 03:05:53.440 WLWV Board Room: my heart goes out because I have a nephew who didn't graduate high school. I think the re the results of Covid like just 1312 03:05:53.490 --> 03:05:55.690 WLWV Board Room: he didn't graduate different school district. 1313 03:05:55.990 --> 03:05:58.399 WLWV Board Room: So i'm thinking about those kiddos we lost 1314 03:05:58.500 --> 03:06:02.380 WLWV Board Room: because of Covid, and also because our our systems. Just aren't serving them. 1315 03:06:02.810 --> 03:06:04.000 WLWV Board Room: Covid aside. 1316 03:06:04.230 --> 03:06:06.520 WLWV Board Room: You know the gaps are getting bigger. 1317 03:06:07.680 --> 03:06:13.339 WLWV Board Room: So when I look at that, I think okay. So we kicked 100 out the window 1318 03:06:14.070 --> 03:06:17.560 WLWV Board Room: A word to 95 also. Noble goal. 1319 03:06:19.090 --> 03:06:21.690 WLWV Board Room: How are we going to get there like where we're 1320 03:06:23.340 --> 03:06:32.189 WLWV Board Room: these when I look at these numbers? What's the other document that you produce, and the other strategies that we're employing to hit some of these marks. 1321 03:06:33.070 --> 03:06:39.560 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. And you know whether you answer that right now or not. I just wanted to share that. I I see that and acknowledge it. 1322 03:06:39.670 --> 03:06:40.539 WLWV Board Room: I 1323 03:06:40.860 --> 03:06:44.250 WLWV Board Room: share that feeling. I'm 1324 03:06:44.930 --> 03:06:49.919 WLWV Board Room: with some personal experiences with kids and one of the things that 1325 03:06:52.540 --> 03:06:58.380 WLWV Board Room: when you get to pretty high graduation rates as our district has been. 1326 03:07:00.340 --> 03:07:02.459 WLWV Board Room: you can actually name 1327 03:07:04.130 --> 03:07:05.890 WLWV Board Room: and know the story 1328 03:07:06.010 --> 03:07:08.929 WLWV Board Room: of the students who didn't graduate. 1329 03:07:09.330 --> 03:07:11.470 WLWV Board Room: and that is 1330 03:07:13.670 --> 03:07:20.079 WLWV Board Room: extremely challenging. But it's also encouraging, because the more we look at a name 1331 03:07:20.120 --> 03:07:25.239 WLWV Board Room: and know those students, the more we can understand. What 1332 03:07:25.540 --> 03:07:28.169 WLWV Board Room: What is it that they needed that we weren't 1333 03:07:28.820 --> 03:07:33.680 WLWV Board Room: able to provide? And how do we do a better job of of getting there? 1334 03:07:36.390 --> 03:07:41.100 WLWV Board Room: I'm. I'm: so glad you asked that question, because this is the hardest part of the 1335 03:07:41.240 --> 03:07:44.729 WLWV Board Room: document actually for our team to work on, because 1336 03:07:44.860 --> 03:07:49.899 WLWV Board Room: we want to put. We want to put 100 in every single box, because 1337 03:07:50.100 --> 03:07:57.830 WLWV Board Room: the minute you don't you're asking Well, which are we? Okay? Then if someone doesn't reach that target, and we're not okay with that. 1338 03:07:59.990 --> 03:08:09.240 WLWV Board Room: The way you have to work with Grant targets is, you know, we do have to report our baseline and then give what the State would say is, what's a realistic. 1339 03:08:09.670 --> 03:08:14.369 WLWV Board Room: you know. Are you going to go really from 50, you know 79 to 100, and just. 1340 03:08:14.500 --> 03:08:15.960 WLWV Board Room: you know, load a 100 1341 03:08:16.280 --> 03:08:18.620 WLWV Board Room: percent as a target and all the boxes. 1342 03:08:18.740 --> 03:08:21.829 WLWV Board Room: There's just a a question that would come back at. 1343 03:08:22.260 --> 03:08:26.020 WLWV Board Room: you know. Were you taking this seriously. What are your strategies? 1344 03:08:26.700 --> 03:08:33.500 WLWV Board Room: We're always going to aspire and work towards a 100. We we can know you can get there 1345 03:08:33.520 --> 03:08:36.130 in terms of that information. 1346 03:08:36.410 --> 03:08:38.209 We also work. 1347 03:08:38.420 --> 03:08:41.379 WLWV Board Room: cautioned every school district 1348 03:08:42.060 --> 03:08:43.560 WLWV Board Room: to not just 1349 03:08:43.840 --> 03:08:46.159 WLWV Board Room: take this document and write in 1350 03:08:46.430 --> 03:08:52.200 WLWV Board Room: that kind of an aspiration that doesn't feel then, like the State knows exactly 1351 03:08:52.530 --> 03:08:56.290 WLWV Board Room: what we were planning to do. If that makes sense, that's why they're also coming 1352 03:08:56.410 --> 03:08:58.930 WLWV Board Room: personally to every single school district 1353 03:08:59.030 --> 03:09:03.319 WLWV Board Room: and looking at the numbers, and they're calling, you know. Co- collaborating with us. 1354 03:09:03.350 --> 03:09:04.990 WLWV Board Room: They want to make sure. 1355 03:09:05.440 --> 03:09:08.909 WLWV Board Room: You know, we've written in target percentages 1356 03:09:08.930 --> 03:09:09.720 WLWV Board Room: that 1357 03:09:09.930 --> 03:09:14.709 WLWV Board Room: can be attained. And I think the way we like to think of it is as what's 1358 03:09:15.360 --> 03:09:18.490 WLWV Board Room: what's the floor there? We can go to the ceiling. 1359 03:09:18.770 --> 03:09:23.110 WLWV Board Room: But let's let's also think of these targets as we don't want to go anything less than that. 1360 03:09:23.410 --> 03:09:27.869 WLWV Board Room: But we can always reach higher than that. So there's another way. We can also think about that target 1361 03:09:28.270 --> 03:09:29.569 WLWV Board Room: as 1362 03:09:29.940 --> 03:09:32.520 WLWV Board Room: the base, and that we want to go beyond that 1363 03:09:32.620 --> 03:09:33.839 wherever we can 1364 03:09:40.980 --> 03:09:43.619 WLWV Board Room: well board we are. We 1365 03:09:43.700 --> 03:09:45.130 WLWV Board Room: we have 1366 03:09:45.200 --> 03:09:55.339 WLWV Board Room: the report, the process. We certainly can avoid revisiting this in March by passing it. Now, if you feel like it's complete. 1367 03:09:55.480 --> 03:09:57.229 WLWV Board Room: and your questions have been answered. 1368 03:09:57.260 --> 03:09:59.050 WLWV Board Room: and which case we need a motion. 1369 03:09:59.880 --> 03:10:00.989 WLWV Board Room: or we can 1370 03:10:01.200 --> 03:10:03.279 WLWV Board Room: revisited again in March 1371 03:10:05.540 --> 03:10:11.589 WLWV Board Room: and make a motion to approve the District Improvement Plan and integrated initiatives. Application as presented. 1372 03:10:13.090 --> 03:10:15.150 WLWV Board Room: Thank you Vice chair, Thompson. 1373 03:10:15.200 --> 03:10:17.309 WLWV Board Room: Really super you going for that second? 1374 03:10:17.540 --> 03:10:18.199 WLWV Board Room: No. 1375 03:10:20.410 --> 03:10:22.740 WLWV Board Room: All right, very good. 1376 03:10:23.270 --> 03:10:24.949 WLWV Board Room: I think we've had our discussion 1377 03:10:25.440 --> 03:10:27.150 WLWV Board Room: all right. We please call the vote. 1378 03:10:28.630 --> 03:10:29.770 WLWV Board Room: Dr. Slope. 1379 03:10:30.390 --> 03:10:31.190 WLWV Board Room: I. 1380 03:10:31.270 --> 03:10:32.429 WLWV Board Room: Director Taylor 1381 03:10:35.030 --> 03:10:35.850 WLWV Board Room: Hi 1382 03:10:36.360 --> 03:10:40.619 WLWV Board Room: checking I Vice Chair, Thompson, I check to. Why. 1383 03:10:41.150 --> 03:10:41.970 WLWV Board Room: thank you 1384 03:10:43.400 --> 03:10:45.999 WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good, thank you. 1385 03:10:48.610 --> 03:10:51.820 WLWV Board Room: And we will move on to 1386 03:10:52.260 --> 03:10:54.850 WLWV Board Room: public comment from Thank you. 1387 03:10:56.140 --> 03:11:00.320 WLWV Board Room: I'm. From residents, and thank you. 1388 03:11:00.860 --> 03:11:04.160 WLWV Board Room: Who are speaking to items that are not on the agenda. 1389 03:11:05.930 --> 03:11:10.240 WLWV Board Room: hey? That's you all right there. Hi! 1390 03:11:10.350 --> 03:11:16.389 WLWV Board Room: All right. So i'm going to share our process and procedure. 1391 03:11:16.650 --> 03:11:17.590 WLWV Board Room: That's 1392 03:11:17.810 --> 03:11:18.720 WLWV Board Room: is 1393 03:11:19.320 --> 03:11:26.679 WLWV Board Room: Oh, the way that we do public comment, and it's designed to facilitate the process. 1394 03:11:26.720 --> 03:11:31.559 WLWV Board Room: and just to maintain dignity and decorum and the boardroom. 1395 03:11:32.080 --> 03:11:33.030 WLWV Board Room: If you 1396 03:11:33.230 --> 03:11:52.800 WLWV Board Room: our speaking and I interrupt you, it's just because I want to clarify a process or a procedure that's not being followed. Don't worry If if you make a mistake and I have to interrupt you, we'll stop your time, and I can just explain what's going on, and we can adjust behavior. 1397 03:11:52.810 --> 03:12:11.689 WLWV Board Room: because if it turns into a shouting match, then I have to gavel close into a recess, so I can regain decorum, and that's been happening lately, and so I just share that as a way of saying like, If if if I interrupt you just give me a chance to to say what's going on, so we can alter the behavior a little bit, and just proceed. 1398 03:12:13.630 --> 03:12:31.850 WLWV Board Room: So let's see here, thanks for being here. If you want to speak, then you would have signed up here already. This is our chance to I'll I'll call you by name. We invite you when I call your name to walk up and state your name. 1399 03:12:31.860 --> 03:12:39.060 and the address is a way of us just making sure that we're hearing from folks who live in our district. 1400 03:12:39.750 --> 03:12:55.450 This is a time for us to listen to you and collect information. So we won't engage in dialogue. There won't be a back and forth. And so if you see us listening, and we don't respond to something, it's because this is the forum for us to listen, and that's what we're doing. 1401 03:12:57.130 --> 03:13:16.089 WLWV Board Room: Let's see here. Oh, if you want to single out somebody, we have a separate process, complaint process that you can go through. So that might be One reason why it could possibly interrupt. Somebody is, if they start to complain about an individual that that's a a separate process other than doing so in the public meeting. 1402 03:13:16.210 --> 03:13:31.850 WLWV Board Room: Also, this is a chance to speak to us, not a larger audience. That's not inside of the room. And so that's why we ask you to look at us, when you speak to us, and also we won't cheer, or clap. 1403 03:13:31.860 --> 03:13:50.100 WLWV Board Room: or boo, or hiss, or anything like that, and and that's really again, just to maintain a certain dignity into quorum in case folks are speaking different perspectives on the same issue. So we don't end up with lots of booing and clapping, and things like that to just come up and and speak, and the audience can stay quiet. 1404 03:13:50.710 --> 03:13:56.820 You get 3 min. If you get to 3 min i'll interrupt you and ask you to stop. 1405 03:13:56.880 --> 03:14:01.340 We have 45 min set aside for this public comment. 1406 03:14:01.420 --> 03:14:03.020 WLWV Board Room: and 1407 03:14:06.270 --> 03:14:10.059 WLWV Board Room: the board can always vote to extend that if the Board chooses to. 1408 03:14:10.100 --> 03:14:20.880 WLWV Board Room: And also we receive a lot of emails, and we read them. So if you feel like you didn't have enough time to say everything you wanted to say, feel free to put it in writing and send it to us, and we'll read that. 1409 03:14:20.970 --> 03:14:23.229 WLWV Board Room: and I think I hit 1410 03:14:23.380 --> 03:14:25.079 WLWV Board Room: all the highlights 1411 03:14:25.530 --> 03:14:26.699 WLWV Board Room: all right. 1412 03:14:27.050 --> 03:14:31.669 WLWV Board Room: and we'll get started, and i'll invite up Kara Clark. 1413 03:14:35.670 --> 03:14:37.010 WLWV Board Room: Hi, guys. 1414 03:14:37.740 --> 03:14:47.469 WLWV Board Room: wake up. Okay, I came today to ask the district what ideology are we using to make decisions? And who are we serving? 1415 03:14:47.570 --> 03:14:56.110 WLWV Board Room: If we continue on the path of balance literacy As an approach. I don't think we should be able to promote our identity as an inclusive and equitable district. 1416 03:14:56.130 --> 03:15:02.179 WLWV Board Room: Balanced literacy, although full of beautiful and inspirational ideas, leaves the majority of the kids behind. 1417 03:15:02.410 --> 03:15:08.759 WLWV Board Room: I want to say that it might not be a blatantly obvious to most parents that they should be concerned. 1418 03:15:08.890 --> 03:15:23.969 WLWV Board Room: I kind of think about it like a tree. When you plant a tree in a pot the tree can be beautiful. It can have a pretty long life, but it usually needs a lot of outside assistance to stay healthy fertilizer pruning water, and it's Growth is limited to its space. 1419 03:15:24.060 --> 03:15:30.769 WLWV Board Room: Then, for kids like mine who are dyslexic. They are so root-bound that they fail to thrive at all in their environment. 1420 03:15:31.270 --> 03:15:40.269 WLWV Board Room: Teaching kids to read by discarding scientific theories also limit their capabilities and potential growth. Even when everything looks just fine. 1421 03:15:40.400 --> 03:15:47.859 WLWV Board Room: These conversations are uncomfortable and emotionally charged, but vital for all of our young children starting out on their learning journey. 1422 03:15:48.020 --> 03:15:54.869 WLWV Board Room: A social movement has been happening across the country, and it's not without controversy. It is not a trend or fad. 1423 03:15:54.900 --> 03:16:07.770 WLWV Board Room: It's been around for decades. It is about a body of evidence-based research that is so large that it's amazing that I have to spend my time advocating for the implementation of the science of reading curriculum in this district. 1424 03:16:07.790 --> 03:16:20.930 WLWV Board Room: Once again, the ideology of balanced literacy is that children can learn by exposure in creating a love of reading. If it was that easy, then we wouldn't have our painfully low proficiency rates here and across the country. 1425 03:16:21.130 --> 03:16:36.940 WLWV Board Room: I was going to talk about the legislation that is taking place across the country in favor of the science of reading. States are creating mandatory compliance on curriculum, requiring universities to change their instruction and training. Teachers that were not educated, and how to teach kids to read. 1426 03:16:36.950 --> 03:16:51.840 WLWV Board Room: Since 2,01926 states have passed laws to help teachers learn about the science of reading our State was not one of them, but neighboring districts have been taking action against being, for without being forced, our teachers need training and the science of reading. Now 1427 03:16:52.030 --> 03:17:07.810 WLWV Board Room: I want to take a moment to talk to teachers in the public forum. Since parents don't have that chance, i'm sorry I want teachers to know that we love you, and we see you. We know how emotional and challenging this conversation is for you, and there is no plane being laid. 1428 03:17:08.050 --> 03:17:24.180 WLWV Board Room: It's hard for parents to speak up, because it hurts to feel like we are disrespecting you. We want to help you as well as a teacher. Can you imagine what it would feel like to be in a classroom where the majority of your students are on grade level and have the ability to access the information you were teaching. 1429 03:17:24.370 --> 03:17:38.309 WLWV Board Room: I want you to know there is hope and the content works. I have seen it work with my dyslexic child, and after you see it you can't ignore it as parents who know better. We Won't: Stop until this district. We finally do better. 1430 03:17:45.210 --> 03:17:46.630 WLWV Board Room: Emin Dong 1431 03:17:47.860 --> 03:17:56.719 WLWV Board Room: Imani Imon: okay, great. Thank you. And is it an O. Or an a ding or dong? Dong? Okay, Great Imon Dong: Thank you. 1432 03:17:56.830 --> 03:18:04.160 WLWV Board Room: All right. My name is Imon. I am a parent, teacher, special education, teacher, and aject instructor at Portland State University. 1433 03:18:04.230 --> 03:18:12.299 WLWV Board Room: My passion lies in teaching literacy, and reading using evidence-based culture, culturally responsive and equitable practices. 1434 03:18:12.390 --> 03:18:30.400 WLWV Board Room: I am concerned about the district's approach and use of the fantas and panel, curriculum and balance literacy approach. When selecting a reading curriculum, it is essential to consider only evidence-based options. It is important to differentiate between research, base, and evidence base 1435 03:18:30.410 --> 03:18:35.220 WLWV Board Room: as the latter requires efficacy data to support its effectiveness 1436 03:18:35.420 --> 03:18:39.249 WLWV Board Room: the fountains and pinell curriculum is not evidence-based 1437 03:18:39.340 --> 03:18:58.969 WLWV Board Room: Before students can develop a love of reading and learn from reading they must first learn to read explicit literacy instruction grounded in the science of reading, backed by decades of cognitive and neurological research, has been shown to close equity gaps and provide literacy for all students 1438 03:18:59.000 --> 03:19:10.649 WLWV Board Room: by aligning with the science of reading. Westland, Wilsonville school district can improve students reading levels, help those below grade level, catch up and work towards more equitable community 1439 03:19:10.710 --> 03:19:13.920 where every student can enjoy reading. 1440 03:19:14.050 --> 03:19:20.379 WLWV Board Room: the curriculum adoption process must be based on objective criteria and evidence-based practices 1441 03:19:20.490 --> 03:19:30.849 WLWV Board Room: devoid of personal biases and opinions. The science of reading is the best method proven to help every students, including black, indigenous. 1442 03:19:31.370 --> 03:19:48.080 WLWV Board Room: and people of color Students, English language, learners, and students with disabilities learn to read. It is imperative to challenge the status quo of literacy instruction that we are using in this district, and adopt an evidence-based approach that will help all students learn to read. 1443 03:19:48.110 --> 03:19:55.219 WLWV Board Room: This is a crucial moment for our district to advance and support all students, especially those in the marginalized communities. 1444 03:19:55.420 --> 03:19:56.830 WLWV Board Room: As educators. 1445 03:19:57.080 --> 03:20:05.249 WLWV Board Room: We have the instructional power to ensure all students in our care receive instruction that will provide them with the opportunity to learn to read. 1446 03:20:05.440 --> 03:20:08.279 WLWV Board Room: withholding quality, reading, instruction. 1447 03:20:09.930 --> 03:20:15.909 WLWV Board Room: and not using science. Reading will adversely affect students, ability to access knowledge. 1448 03:20:15.930 --> 03:20:22.880 WLWV Board Room: access to an education that leads to career pathways and the knowledge to advocate for their civil liberties. 1449 03:20:22.990 --> 03:20:32.789 WLWV Board Room: nationwide, and other school districts here locally, are shifting towards the science of reading. It is time for the Westland Wilsonville School district to do the same. 1450 03:20:36.850 --> 03:20:38.360 WLWV Board Room: Leslie Jensen. 1451 03:20:49.000 --> 03:21:04.390 WLWV Board Room: Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Leslie Jensen and i'm a resident of Wilsonville. In the past I have had the opportunity to work in the district as both a parent educator and a certified classroom substitute alongside many amazing, hardworking teachers. 1452 03:21:04.470 --> 03:21:13.079 During the last 3 years I have worked exclusively with dyslexic students and their families having been trained in the Linda Mood bell phonemic sequencing program. 1453 03:21:13.250 --> 03:21:24.199 WLWV Board Room: learning how to teach reading with the focus on building, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension without using the 3 queuing system has been transformative. 1454 03:21:24.410 --> 03:21:30.829 WLWV Board Room: I have had many moments of clarity around how to teach foundational skills after working with and learning from 1455 03:21:30.940 --> 03:21:40.080 WLWV Board Room: misunderstood, bright, hard-working, dyslexic students, these students are hungry to learn and desperate to successfully crack the alphabetic code. 1456 03:21:40.370 --> 03:21:56.840 WLWV Board Room: what these students, our schools and our community need is to have more conversations and training opportunities in an effort to understand what dyslexia is, and how we can support this large group of learners up to 20% in our school succeed in all areas of literacy. 1457 03:21:57.230 --> 03:22:04.380 I want to spend the remaining time that I have discussing a myth around dyslexia, and an effort to help encourage more open discussions. 1458 03:22:04.410 --> 03:22:05.490 WLWV Board Room: Miss 1459 03:22:05.530 --> 03:22:09.079 WLWV Board Room: D. Select children with dyslexia are just lazy. 1460 03:22:09.140 --> 03:22:10.969 WLWV Board Room: They should try harder 1461 03:22:11.290 --> 03:22:12.280 WLWV Board Room: fact. 1462 03:22:12.340 --> 03:22:27.090 WLWV Board Room: Research has shown with the technology of functional magnetic imaging fmri, that people with dyslexia use a different part of their brain when reading and working with language under activity in some regions and over activity in others. 1463 03:22:27.100 --> 03:22:32.779 WLWV Board Room: that, according to research, accounts for the difficulty they have in extracting meaning from the printed word. 1464 03:22:33.050 --> 03:22:48.969 WLWV Board Room: This myth is more clearly understood when examining Dr. Sally Shaywitz, the author of decoding dyslexia, who defined dyslexia as an unexpected difficulty in reading in an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader. 1465 03:22:49.290 --> 03:22:58.509 WLWV Board Room: Without knowing much about dyslexia. It can be often easy, then, to dismiss a dyslexic students struggle because of their intelligence and ability to cope 1466 03:22:58.820 --> 03:23:12.029 WLWV Board Room: by coping. Dyslexic students can be mistakenly viewed as learners who will catch up eventually, or again, viewed as learners who are lazy and need to try harder. This myth is simply perpetuated, due to the lack of understanding. 1467 03:23:12.360 --> 03:23:29.710 WLWV Board Room: At this time the Oregon Department of Education requires only one teacher, administrator in each school to be trained in the area of dyslexia. All our administrators, teachers, parent educators, and school communities need to have the opportunity to learn facts about dyslexia and how the brain learns to read. 1468 03:23:29.870 --> 03:23:49.770 WLWV Board Room: I encourage the School Board to seek this information in the School Board Training Session. We have so many experts in the Portland area that would be willing to objectively provide education around. How we acquire the ability to read, how our brains learn, and how we can best assist all our learners to achieve their full potential. Again. Thank you for your time. 1469 03:23:53.250 --> 03:23:55.730 WLWV Board Room: Maggie Traversso. 1470 03:24:05.530 --> 03:24:06.369 WLWV Board Room: Hi. 1471 03:24:06.700 --> 03:24:15.309 WLWV Board Room: My name is Maggie Travers, so i'm a Westland resident. My daughter is in first grade. I'm here to discuss literacy and the upcoming Ela curriculum adoption. 1472 03:24:16.010 --> 03:24:25.220 WLWV Board Room: In early January. I read the article in the Oregonian title. Too many organ children can't read. Should districts be forced to drop discredited curriculum. 1473 03:24:25.740 --> 03:24:38.730 WLWV Board Room: I was surprised to see Westland Wilsonville mentioned in the article. The author claimed that children in many districts, including ours, are not getting the foundational instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness. Crucial to becoming successful readers. 1474 03:24:38.760 --> 03:24:41.610 WLWV Board Room: I thought perhaps the Oregonian was sensationalizing. 1475 03:24:41.820 --> 03:24:45.300 WLWV Board Room: This is a top school district. It's why my husband and I moved here. 1476 03:24:46.340 --> 03:25:04.540 WLWV Board Room: Then I received the district's response, explaining its philosophy of balance literacy, and that it includes instruction and phonics and phonemic awareness. I'm. Not an education professional. And so the terminology used in the letter, and the names of the curriculum authors, Lucy Caulkins and fountains and Pinell didn't mean anything to me. 1477 03:25:04.620 --> 03:25:08.059 WLWV Board Room: In fact, the letter rang true with my daughter's experience. 1478 03:25:08.180 --> 03:25:15.500 WLWV Board Room: She brings home to codable books and phonics lessons. She excitedly recites, phonics, rules, she's not a struggling reader. 1479 03:25:15.900 --> 03:25:21.540 WLWV Board Room: The district's letter resonated with what I was seeing, so I surmised that all is right, and Westlin. 1480 03:25:21.640 --> 03:25:23.300 WLWV Board Room: the Oregonian must have it wrong 1481 03:25:23.870 --> 03:25:28.399 WLWV Board Room: at a play date. A week or so later I casually mentioned all this to the other mom. 1482 03:25:28.590 --> 03:25:33.080 WLWV Board Room: That afternoon I learned that my daughter's experience is not the Norman Westland. 1483 03:25:33.290 --> 03:25:42.209 WLWV Board Room: I learned that our daughter's teacher is curating her own reading lessons, because she strongly believes in the importance of explicit and systematic instruction of phonics. 1484 03:25:42.500 --> 03:25:50.850 I also learned the district's most recent third grade benchmark assessment revealed that only 56% of our third graders were reading at or above grade level 1485 03:25:51.250 --> 03:25:55.390 WLWV Board Room: down 13 points from pre-pandemic levels. I had no idea. 1486 03:25:55.810 --> 03:25:58.639 WLWV Board Room: Since then I've been learning about the science of reading. 1487 03:25:58.820 --> 03:26:04.149 WLWV Board Room: I've learned that neuroscientists have known since the mid ninetys that explicit phonics instruction is essential. 1488 03:26:04.470 --> 03:26:13.450 WLWV Board Room: I have also learned that leading reading pedagogy coming out of the 90 S. Often called Balanced Literacy, and advocated by culkins and fountain and panel. 1489 03:26:13.580 --> 03:26:15.749 WLWV Board Room: has mostly ignored the science. 1490 03:26:16.160 --> 03:26:21.369 WLWV Board Room: I've learned that because this pedagogy was endorsed by such prominent institutions as Columbia University. 1491 03:26:21.420 --> 03:26:28.959 WLWV Board Room: most of this generation of teachers did not learn about the science of reading and Don't have the training or the tools to teach these concepts effectively. 1492 03:26:29.220 --> 03:26:31.120 WLWV Board Room: My message is not one of blame. 1493 03:26:31.480 --> 03:26:34.959 WLWV Board Room: The problem is bigger than Westlin. It is not, it is national. 1494 03:26:35.130 --> 03:26:39.069 WLWV Board Room: Let's not look backwards, but instead choose to lead on this issue. 1495 03:26:39.360 --> 03:26:46.109 WLWV Board Room: I encourage you to embrace a growth, mindset, and be open to the science. As we enter our curriculum adoption cycle 1496 03:26:46.640 --> 03:26:53.670 WLWV Board Room: beyond curriculums like beyond curriculum selection let's support our teachers with paid training and phonics instruction 1497 03:26:53.830 --> 03:26:56.509 WLWV Board Room: at the heart of it. This is a matter of equity. 1498 03:26:56.660 --> 03:27:00.909 WLWV Board Room: My daughter's experience should not be the exception. It should be the rule. 1499 03:27:01.570 --> 03:27:02.330 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 1500 03:27:06.230 --> 03:27:07.670 WLWV Board Room: Tricia Britain. 1501 03:27:18.360 --> 03:27:36.289 WLWV Board Room: Hi! Good Evening Superintendent Lovewig, and board members. We are here in our fourth month, seeking better oversight for library books, while I appreciate the efforts of having a review committee for these 8 books in question. That is not good enough. Therefore I am again requesting these 3 things: one create a policy for reviewing books prior to purchasing and placing in district libraries 1502 03:27:36.300 --> 03:27:51.209 WLWV Board Room: 2 create an oversight committee equally balanced to both administration and parents, and 3 remove book explicit books and books currently in libraries that do not fit the new policy standards. I would like to clarify questions and statements that I have heard from the district leadership, administration. 1503 03:27:51.220 --> 03:28:01.110 WLWV Board Room: Mit, Ctl. And parents, students, librarians, community members, and some board members with regards to these books, shared November the fourteenth. No, we have not mentioned librarians. 1504 03:28:02.200 --> 03:28:06.429 WLWV Board Room: We have not mentioned librarians. That was that was mentioned tonight. 1505 03:28:06.440 --> 03:28:24.510 WLWV Board Room: We have only mentioned a better outcome for Library Review process. No, our request to remove these books do not target the Lgbtq community. In fact, last month a transgender woman advocated in front of this board in favor of our request, and several other of the books under review do not have Lgbtq children in them. 1506 03:28:24.520 --> 03:28:39.849 WLWV Board Room: No, these books do not sit quietly on the shelves. You already have a formal complaint, stating that a young student received one of these books by an older student, and, sitting quietly on the shelves, was again proven false last month as a creature last month, as the Craig just young, sexually abused team. 1507 03:28:39.860 --> 03:28:49.119 WLWV Board Room: one into detail of what her panic attack would look like if she picked up a seemingly innocent book, titled milk and honey from the shelves of our school library. No, it's not a book. Fan 1508 03:28:50.040 --> 03:29:06.129 WLWV Board Room: her school libraries do not have every single book written. Therefore, understand. This is about removing books that are sexually explicit, age inappropriate and unsuitable for school libraries. No, this is not a parental choice issue. There should be no choice for children to choose these books inside a school library. 1509 03:29:06.140 --> 03:29:24.270 WLWV Board Room: No, these books are not literacy or coming of age topics. There is harm that all these both can cause a child which is unknown and multi factorial. Let's remember a neurologist with 40 years experience stood here in front of you last month. She a month. He specializes in concussions and stated whomever agrees with keeping such books are choosing to concuss children's brains. 1510 03:29:24.280 --> 03:29:43.070 WLWV Board Room: But yes, these book. Yet these books are still on library shelves. Every single opposition that has been placed in front of us has been thoroughly refuted. The bottom line is that these types of book. Do not. Books do not belong in our school library, and while we have brought forth 8 books, I want to state there are many more of these books in our K through 12 libraries, so it won't end at these 8 books. 1511 03:29:43.080 --> 03:30:01.669 Consequently we need policy for checks and balances in order to provide a safe and educational environment for children. Additionally, this Isn't about parents versus the district. This is truly about understanding the consequences of exposing children to inappropriate obscene material and the harm this can cause, while at the same time not exposing them to academics, to enrich them 1512 03:30:01.680 --> 03:30:19.139 WLWV Board Room: mit ctl and educationally for their future. 44% of third graders are not meeting State benchmarks for reading. That is not okay. As a district, it is your job to uphold your responsibilities and academically educate children, and when sexually explicit books are termed literacy. But yet true literacy, like reading, is failing in our district. That is a problem. 1513 03:30:19.150 --> 03:30:27.740 WLWV Board Room: Westland Wilsonville, I am arguing you to argue, and urging you to re-establish your priorities, goals, and intentions for the future of these children. Thank you. 1514 03:30:29.530 --> 03:30:31.190 WLWV Board Room: Joe Nielsen. 1515 03:30:34.660 --> 03:30:44.419 WLWV Board Room: Well, hello, I'm a West Lynn Resident and a retired pediatrician; and when I heard about a set of books that 1516 03:30:44.930 --> 03:30:50.530 WLWV Board Room: I think Trish was referring to that that have content and pictures 1517 03:30:50.680 --> 03:31:04.959 WLWV Board Room: that have such obscenities in him that I I really became concerned; and part of it is because, as a pediatrician, I used to give talks at parent groups in the public schools, about the effects of television movies 1518 03:31:05.070 --> 03:31:07.890 WLWV Board Room: on our children, the students 1519 03:31:07.910 --> 03:31:18.039 about violence, sex, all these kind of things. And so that's kind of dear to my heart in that sense. I You know you've heard that a picture 1520 03:31:18.140 --> 03:31:20.000 WLWV Board Room: says a 1,000 words. 1521 03:31:21.460 --> 03:31:34.909 WLWV Board Room: These kids don't even have to read these books. They can just look at the cartoon pictures in these books that I've seen, and that sticks in their memory. I just recently was working with a magician 1522 03:31:35.060 --> 03:31:36.590 WLWV Board Room: learning about memory. 1523 03:31:36.770 --> 03:31:48.370 WLWV Board Room: How do you memorize the first 10 Presidents in 10 min, and things like that? And what you do is you? You picture in your mind like if i'm trying to remember somebody's name. I picture their face and features about them. Then I 1524 03:31:48.450 --> 03:31:50.100 WLWV Board Room: can get that name. 1525 03:31:50.260 --> 03:31:52.139 WLWV Board Room: and so 1526 03:31:52.240 --> 03:32:02.259 WLWV Board Room: our memory works with pictures. You may flash back pictures of when you were a three-year-old that you still have stuck in your mind These are long-term memories. 1527 03:32:02.360 --> 03:32:05.000 WLWV Board Room: and when kids look at these pictures. 1528 03:32:06.420 --> 03:32:08.080 WLWV Board Room: it may really 1529 03:32:08.120 --> 03:32:12.580 WLWV Board Room: traumatize them for many years. I'm very concerned about our children. 1530 03:32:13.570 --> 03:32:20.770 WLWV Board Room: There's so many other excellent books in our world. Why do we have to spend money on? Looks like this? 1531 03:32:21.290 --> 03:32:34.590 WLWV Board Room: And lastly, I couldn't find a library policy or a committee that included parents that helps to review books, some some policies for purchasing books before they get into the libraries, where 1532 03:32:35.040 --> 03:32:40.610 WLWV Board Room: we we have an opportunity for input a library policy that we don't have to keep re-emitting the wheel every 1533 03:32:40.740 --> 03:32:44.810 WLWV Board Room: 3 or 4 years, or whatever it is. So thank you for letting me talk. 1534 03:32:52.160 --> 03:32:54.139 WLWV Board Room: I think, Paul Reim 1535 03:32:58.050 --> 03:32:59.440 WLWV Board Room: all right. Thank you very much. 1536 03:33:00.320 --> 03:33:07.409 WLWV Board Room: I have 4 children. I live in the Willamette. I have 4 children spread throughout all the schools in the district where the levels, anyway. 1537 03:33:07.520 --> 03:33:09.969 WLWV Board Room: and i'd like to talk today about 1538 03:33:10.550 --> 03:33:11.260 WLWV Board Room: Well. 1539 03:33:11.560 --> 03:33:17.369 WLWV Board Room: we're into the first year of extra time for the curriculum adoption process. I think we're going to be taking another year. 1540 03:33:18.120 --> 03:33:23.389 WLWV Board Room: I want to discuss one aspect of how the decision is made about what the curriculum may be. 1541 03:33:23.690 --> 03:33:27.869 WLWV Board Room: and that's the research and data relied upon in order to make the decisions. 1542 03:33:28.310 --> 03:33:30.780 WLWV Board Room: So what is available to 1543 03:33:31.120 --> 03:33:31.750 WLWV Board Room: the 1544 03:33:33.110 --> 03:33:33.860 WLWV Board Room: Yes, sir. 1545 03:33:34.080 --> 03:33:34.660 sure 1546 03:33:34.770 --> 03:33:40.439 WLWV Board Room: what the research and data is available to the people who are making the decisions about this. 1547 03:33:40.460 --> 03:33:47.470 WLWV Board Room: First, you have things like studies, modern studies on how people learn how to read. There's some cognitive studies, a bit more science based. 1548 03:33:47.650 --> 03:33:59.250 WLWV Board Room: There are other districts, I think, Dr. Spencer, I am talked about what other districts are doing. They, I think that one of her things she talked about looking at what other districts were up to. And that's important, because that provides a real world experience 1549 03:33:59.360 --> 03:34:01.069 WLWV Board Room: about improvements that they're making. 1550 03:34:01.440 --> 03:34:06.269 WLWV Board Room: And there's an analysis of the efficacy of the various reading curricula. 1551 03:34:06.520 --> 03:34:10.869 WLWV Board Room: There are comparative reviews of those curricula. The media even, can sort of 1552 03:34:11.010 --> 03:34:15.729 WLWV Board Room: give people an idea of what's going on out there give them an idea of what they should explore more fully. 1553 03:34:15.800 --> 03:34:22.969 WLWV Board Room: Then, of course, there's the Organ Department of Education. The Organ Department of education has done a lot of these things. I already analyze a lot of these things already. 1554 03:34:23.190 --> 03:34:26.140 WLWV Board Room: and they have a a list of approved curriculum that 1555 03:34:26.830 --> 03:34:28.770 WLWV Board Room: districts and boards can look at. 1556 03:34:29.380 --> 03:34:38.719 WLWV Board Room: Now we don't know I don't know exactly which curricula are currently under consideration by this district. During this curriculum a review review process. 1557 03:34:38.830 --> 03:34:42.670 WLWV Board Room: We've heard a lot about Lucy Caucins. That's what we've been using for the last 10 years. 1558 03:34:42.980 --> 03:34:49.989 WLWV Board Room: and this board was given a presentation on fountain and panel, I believe, and the district seems pretty keen on that. 1559 03:34:50.280 --> 03:34:55.469 WLWV Board Room: But fountain, Some panel is not on the organ department of education. This neither is Lucy Caucins. 1560 03:34:55.640 --> 03:35:00.279 WLWV Board Room: So what information has been arrived that are used to arrive at the best curriculum for our students. 1561 03:35:00.750 --> 03:35:02.980 WLWV Board Room: If we look at 1562 03:35:05.360 --> 03:35:14.139 WLWV Board Room: the information that was provided to this board. The information that's been provided to parents that are interested seems to be largely If we're talking about analyzing false and panel 1563 03:35:14.280 --> 03:35:16.600 WLWV Board Room: information from fountain and panel. 1564 03:35:16.740 --> 03:35:24.800 WLWV Board Room: You need to have the outside research. You need to have the outside analysis. You need objective observers and objective experts who can look 1565 03:35:25.020 --> 03:35:26.230 WLWV Board Room: and 1566 03:35:26.620 --> 03:35:33.159 WLWV Board Room: and analyze the systems. Now there was a one page, I think, that the screenshot I saw one page of various 1567 03:35:33.230 --> 03:35:43.779 WLWV Board Room: references for fountain and panel, and it's at fountain spinel, 2,020. So I assume they that came from Fountains and Funnell. So if those references came from fountain and funnel, you need to look outside of that 1568 03:35:43.800 --> 03:35:56.080 WLWV Board Room: also. If you look at those references, it's impossible. It's just very difficult to understand what they are, where they come from, and how to actually assess them yourselves. Actually, if you do look at one of those things Education week. 1569 03:35:56.110 --> 03:36:01.880 WLWV Board Room: they do have a review of found this, and and they didn't like it very much. So i'm worried about those being current so 1570 03:36:03.020 --> 03:36:07.750 WLWV Board Room: essentially outside objective analysis. That's what we have to have. 1571 03:36:07.900 --> 03:36:08.600 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 1572 03:36:12.230 --> 03:36:13.810 WLWV Board Room: Yarrow Curry. 1573 03:36:15.120 --> 03:36:16.800 WLWV Board Room: Okay. 1574 03:36:18.550 --> 03:36:21.970 WLWV Board Room: Tracy Norm normal. 1575 03:36:37.790 --> 03:36:46.199 WLWV Board Room: Good evening. I'll try to talk louder. Thank you so much for your service. I did prepare something, because last time I didn't. 1576 03:36:46.780 --> 03:36:59.400 WLWV Board Room: and it kinda all went. Left. My name is Tracy Normal, and i'm a parent. I'm a 1,994 graduate of Western High School, and the daughter of a 25 year employee of the Western Wilsonville School district. 1577 03:36:59.590 --> 03:37:11.869 WLWV Board Room: I spoke at the November Board meeting about my family's, lived experience with a Dyslexic child and my son's challenges to access the resources he needs to successfully read. 1578 03:37:12.360 --> 03:37:28.849 WLWV Board Room: Subsequently a parent shared, and I've i'm. Passing this along, a parent shared my 3 min of fame on 2 different sites in Westland social media. In one she included her own lived experience of similar exasperation and frustration. 1579 03:37:28.870 --> 03:37:31.680 The comments were overwhelmingly positive 1580 03:37:31.780 --> 03:37:37.359 WLWV Board Room: creating a community of. There's a lot of other parents that are facing some of the same things. I was facing 1581 03:37:37.580 --> 03:37:42.629 WLWV Board Room: in another post she shared, but didn't include her post. 1582 03:37:42.770 --> 03:37:45.079 WLWV Board Room: my mom would probably do something similar. 1583 03:37:45.490 --> 03:38:01.590 WLWV Board Room: and so it just was the link to my video without context. 87 people and 18 pages of comments are included in what I just printed and provided, sharing their their own similar exasperation and frustration 1584 03:38:01.950 --> 03:38:04.990 WLWV Board Room: with their lived experiences, similar challenges. 1585 03:38:06.610 --> 03:38:08.729 WLWV Board Room: I was also called Racist. 1586 03:38:09.030 --> 03:38:14.119 WLWV Board Room: for expressing that my son was struggling to decode a second language. 1587 03:38:14.930 --> 03:38:17.580 WLWV Board Room: I was called Anti-lgbtq. 1588 03:38:18.070 --> 03:38:24.880 WLWV Board Room: because I happened to speak at the November fourteenth meeting, where other organized groups were speaking. 1589 03:38:25.080 --> 03:38:26.630 WLWV Board Room: I came on my own 1590 03:38:26.710 --> 03:38:28.850 WLWV Board Room: with no group of elation. 1591 03:38:29.070 --> 03:38:30.560 WLWV Board Room: as just a mom. 1592 03:38:31.560 --> 03:38:34.070 WLWV Board Room: I came here tonight because 1593 03:38:34.260 --> 03:38:38.190 WLWV Board Room: just parents face real risk 1594 03:38:38.360 --> 03:38:40.000 WLWV Board Room: to come, speak to you 1595 03:38:40.300 --> 03:38:44.719 WLWV Board Room: and share our experience and voices on our lived experience. 1596 03:38:44.840 --> 03:38:51.169 WLWV Board Room: And I didn't ask the admin of the Westland Community page to take down my image and those 87 comments 1597 03:38:51.280 --> 03:38:54.510 WLWV Board Room: until my child was asked, Why is Mom's horrific? 1598 03:38:55.690 --> 03:38:56.530 WLWV Board Room: I'm? Not? 1599 03:38:56.700 --> 03:39:02.080 WLWV Board Room: And so? I left those comments up because it was an engaging dialogue in our community 1600 03:39:02.130 --> 03:39:06.130 WLWV Board Room: about something. People are uncomfortable talking about. 1601 03:39:06.710 --> 03:39:14.879 WLWV Board Room: not knowing how to read. Being in a public school, the foundational element of our public education is to teach our kids how to read. 1602 03:39:15.350 --> 03:39:20.860 WLWV Board Room: And there's kids in this. Well affluent district who just aren't getting that opportunity. 1603 03:39:21.490 --> 03:39:27.109 WLWV Board Room: So I left that comment. Those comments up for quite a while. But I did want to come 1604 03:39:27.260 --> 03:39:31.219 WLWV Board Room: to let you know the risk that parents are taking to come. Speak to you. 1605 03:39:31.370 --> 03:39:32.780 and I did. 1606 03:39:33.030 --> 03:39:39.990 WLWV Board Room: Even if my voice shakes, I will keep coming and telling you, Ethan Norm Oil story of special education in this district. 1607 03:39:41.550 --> 03:39:58.470 WLWV Board Room: and I did just want to say that the January tenth communication about the Literacy program and the work session. We're extremely invalidating, Tracy. I'm going to have to interrupt you over 3 min. Okay, all right. And Terry coming. 1608 03:40:13.860 --> 03:40:17.170 WLWV Board Room: Hi, Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. 1609 03:40:17.620 --> 03:40:21.500 I'm coming to you tonight for 2 reasons. One of them is 1610 03:40:21.630 --> 03:40:24.370 WLWV Board Room: as a former Westland City counselor 1611 03:40:24.450 --> 03:40:28.640 back in 2,009 and 2,010. 1612 03:40:30.000 --> 03:40:31.429 WLWV Board Room: Just want to. 1613 03:40:31.610 --> 03:40:33.409 WLWV Board Room: No! Why. 1614 03:40:33.490 --> 03:40:41.900 WLWV Board Room: you chose to try to sell up and Lander Park, and why you are litigating against Westminster 1615 03:40:41.940 --> 03:40:44.199 WLWV Board Room: in 2,010. 1616 03:40:44.480 --> 03:40:53.900 WLWV Board Room: We, on the Council unanimously voted to put 2 measures on the ballot that would protect up and Lander and preserve it. 1617 03:40:54.080 --> 03:40:55.940 WLWV Board Room: because Wesleyan 1618 03:40:56.210 --> 03:41:06.630 WLWV Board Room: school district had identified that it is necessary to keep up and Lander for a school play field, because so many of the 1619 03:41:06.800 --> 03:41:13.309 WLWV Board Room: primary schools in Westland were built so long ago that they had inadequate field space. 1620 03:41:13.890 --> 03:41:15.760 And so 1621 03:41:16.060 --> 03:41:19.850 WLWV Board Room: there was a coordinated effort on the part of Westland 1622 03:41:20.210 --> 03:41:23.559 WLWV Board Room: City Council and Wesleyan school district 1623 03:41:24.260 --> 03:41:28.090 WLWV Board Room: that if we put a measure on the ballot to 1624 03:41:29.650 --> 03:41:33.180 WLWV Board Room: asked the voters if it was okay to use a part of 1625 03:41:33.410 --> 03:41:34.470 WLWV Board Room: Sunset 1626 03:41:34.510 --> 03:41:35.789 WLWV Board Room: Park, what 1627 03:41:36.130 --> 03:41:38.510 WLWV Board Room: which we have to go to the voters for 1628 03:41:38.760 --> 03:41:44.970 WLWV Board Room: to sell it to the school district, so that if they could expand since that grade school on site. 1629 03:41:45.300 --> 03:41:47.749 WLWV Board Room: then they wouldn't move 1630 03:41:47.800 --> 03:41:52.780 WLWV Board Room: over to up Andlander Park and and expand, since at Grade School. There 1631 03:41:53.360 --> 03:41:55.120 WLWV Board Room: Roger Wool's letter 1632 03:41:55.260 --> 03:42:01.180 WLWV Board Room: identified that it is necessary to keep it as a sports field for the school 1633 03:42:01.290 --> 03:42:08.880 WLWV Board Room: for the entire school district, and that's him. I give you a copy of his letter, and I believe that some of you were there 1634 03:42:09.190 --> 03:42:13.690 WLWV Board Room: at the time, and know about this, and I hope the rest of you have read the letter. 1635 03:42:13.770 --> 03:42:19.710 WLWV Board Room: and all I can say is to ask you to please end. Let end the lawsuit. 1636 03:42:20.660 --> 03:42:23.940 WLWV Board Room: Stop wasting our money on litigation 1637 03:42:24.040 --> 03:42:30.799 WLWV Board Room: and and keep the field space, because you, unless you found some more fields, place to replace that. 1638 03:42:30.920 --> 03:42:31.970 WLWV Board Room: It's not. 1639 03:42:32.010 --> 03:42:33.550 WLWV Board Room: It's not okay 1640 03:42:33.700 --> 03:42:41.119 WLWV Board Room: to not honor the will of the people who voted in favor of those measures in order to keep sense at school Onsite. 1641 03:42:41.380 --> 03:42:44.000 WLWV Board Room: where it was originally built 100 years ago. 1642 03:42:44.110 --> 03:42:47.599 WLWV Board Room: and to keep up in manner as a much-needed sports play field. 1643 03:42:48.550 --> 03:42:51.840 WLWV Board Room: The other thing i'd like to bring up 1644 03:42:52.240 --> 03:42:58.040 WLWV Board Room: in listening to you. Talk about the Sia is, I think, one of the most important things 1645 03:42:58.110 --> 03:43:01.169 WLWV Board Room: that we can teach our children throughout 1646 03:43:02.040 --> 03:43:06.469 WLWV Board Room: grade, school, middle school and high school is nonviolent communication. 1647 03:43:07.070 --> 03:43:11.180 WLWV Board Room: Non-violent communication helps people identify 1648 03:43:11.370 --> 03:43:17.480 WLWV Board Room: their needs and their feelings. And to understand other people's needs and feelings and how to talk about it. 1649 03:43:17.650 --> 03:43:20.240 WLWV Board Room: It's very important. It's essential. 1650 03:43:20.700 --> 03:43:21.600 WLWV Board Room: Thank you. 1651 03:43:23.300 --> 03:43:28.539 WLWV Board Room: I have a Katie G: Where are you? Where do you live, Katie? 1652 03:43:31.560 --> 03:43:33.030 WLWV Board Room: The camera on the board 1653 03:43:33.080 --> 03:43:42.630 WLWV Board Room: that that's okay. But yeah, you buy Katie, where do you live? I'm. A resident of Westland, and I'm. A parent of a high school or at Westland High School. Okay, Great. Thank you. 1654 03:43:48.510 --> 03:43:54.499 WLWV Board Room: I am here to speak on the 9 books that have been targeted for removal from the High School libraries. 1655 03:43:57.360 --> 03:43:58.250 WLWV Board Room: Sorry. 1656 03:43:59.340 --> 03:44:06.579 WLWV Board Room: I think it's extremely disingenuous for people to cherry pick quotes from these books, and claim that they are 1657 03:44:07.020 --> 03:44:14.490 WLWV Board Room: pornographic, or just filled with smut. I think it would be no different than if I picked the Bible, and some rise by saying, hey, yeah. 1658 03:44:15.140 --> 03:44:19.649 WLWV Board Room: Lot offered up his 2 daughters to be gang ranked before sleeping with them himself. 1659 03:44:20.390 --> 03:44:23.699 WLWV Board Room: I wouldn't be acknowledging the entirety of the Bible. 1660 03:44:23.820 --> 03:44:25.700 WLWV Board Room: and I would not be acknowledging 1661 03:44:26.580 --> 03:44:27.820 WLWV Board Room: the comfort 1662 03:44:28.350 --> 03:44:31.369 WLWV Board Room: and value that the Bible brings to so many people's lives. 1663 03:44:31.440 --> 03:44:32.839 WLWV Board Room: if that's all I did 1664 03:44:33.800 --> 03:44:34.900 WLWV Board Room: I? 1665 03:44:35.870 --> 03:44:44.900 WLWV Board Room: And I wanted to share a couple of examples of books that have been targeted that have offered comfort and value to 2 students at Westland high school. 1666 03:44:47.750 --> 03:44:52.960 WLWV Board Room: When my daughter told my friends that I was thinking about speaking here, some of them texted me. 1667 03:44:53.100 --> 03:44:58.400 WLWV Board Room: and these are 2 things I got from them the first and i'm redacting names for privacy. 1668 03:44:59.610 --> 03:45:01.919 WLWV Board Room: The first is regards to hard stopper. 1669 03:45:02.550 --> 03:45:05.939 It's a a book about young homosexual love. 1670 03:45:06.840 --> 03:45:13.820 WLWV Board Room: So the book Heartsopper taught me to love myself, and told me that I was not weird. It was very helpful 1671 03:45:14.280 --> 03:45:20.119 WLWV Board Room: reading books with characters that portrayed love in the way that I felt it made me feel happy and safe. 1672 03:45:20.270 --> 03:45:26.349 WLWV Board Room: These books were to be banned. I would fear that homophobia would become more prevalent in our school. 1673 03:45:26.890 --> 03:45:31.269 WLWV Board Room: because to not talk about something is a way to say it does not exist or shouldn't. 1674 03:45:31.640 --> 03:45:38.549 WLWV Board Room: and I would fear that other younger members of the Lgbtq community would not see the love that they truly felt. 1675 03:45:38.830 --> 03:45:40.620 WLWV Board Room: and help them come out and feel love. 1676 03:45:41.780 --> 03:45:43.619 WLWV Board Room: and with regards to milk and honey. 1677 03:45:44.840 --> 03:45:48.429 WLWV Board Room: That is a poetry book that 1678 03:45:50.100 --> 03:45:51.449 WLWV Board Room: touches on 1679 03:45:53.190 --> 03:46:03.470 WLWV Board Room: sexual abuse and growing up female and sexuality. So you know it's very clear, and very few people pick up this book, not knowing this ahead of time. 1680 03:46:04.640 --> 03:46:06.030 WLWV Board Room: Hey? Rachel's mom 1681 03:46:06.460 --> 03:46:12.249 WLWV Board Room: redacted told me what you're doing, and I wanted to tell you how one of the books on the list helped me 1682 03:46:13.200 --> 03:46:17.679 WLWV Board Room: so and so said that you'd not tell our names if we asked. So please. 1683 03:46:23.080 --> 03:46:25.650 WLWV Board Room: So please don't tell Rachel mine. 1684 03:46:27.560 --> 03:46:28.530 WLWV Board Room: I'm sorry, because 1685 03:46:28.820 --> 03:46:30.139 WLWV Board Room: and beat this for me. 1686 03:46:30.920 --> 03:46:31.630 WLWV Board Room: Okay. 1687 03:46:33.890 --> 03:46:35.679 WLWV Board Room: So please don't tell Rachel mine. 1688 03:46:35.990 --> 03:46:42.110 WLWV Board Room: Most of my friends don't know what happened to me, and I don't tell everyone because it's really hard to talk about. 1689 03:46:42.400 --> 03:46:46.680 WLWV Board Room: But one of my friends that does know said I might want to read milk and honey. 1690 03:46:47.040 --> 03:46:52.939 The book made me cry because it was such a relief to see my feelings, even though another girl wrote it. 1691 03:46:53.230 --> 03:47:07.259 WLWV Board Room: I think having books like this is important because people like me can feel not so alone, and maybe people who Haven't been abused can learn how we feel sometimes. All right. I'm sorry i'm gonna have to apply this. Yeah, I know the your 3 months up. 1692 03:47:08.510 --> 03:47:19.819 WLWV Board Room: And so the same people that want these books removed, for fear that their children will see they are also denying other children comfort 1693 03:47:19.830 --> 03:47:29.380 WLWV Board Room: and correct. So thank you and Janet Bailey. I know we have this conversation every time because you right to wallet and down. Do you live in the Westland Wilsonville School district. 1694 03:47:29.750 --> 03:47:37.389 WLWV Board Room: Okay? Then I'm gonna move you to the next batch of folks who do not live in the district and are not speaking to an item on the agenda. 1695 03:47:44.390 --> 03:47:47.269 WLWV Board Room: All right, Emily Steele. 1696 03:47:57.840 --> 03:48:13.199 WLWV Board Room: Hi! There! My name is Emily Steele and I live in Westland, and I teach in the North Marion School district. We can keep the camera off me as well. I'm pretty nervous to be up here, but I appreciate your time and staying late, and just all of you being here and doing what you do for our students. 1697 03:48:14.500 --> 03:48:17.810 WLWV Board Room: I believe that we should give teachers the tools to teach. 1698 03:48:18.090 --> 03:48:36.369 WLWV Board Room: arm them with the funding so that they can help our students identify, understand, and avoid books that may trigger them. We cannot ban every book that upsets a student or a parent. Look at what is happening in Florida, and ask if that's what we want here. As a teacher who is on leave with my baby son. 1699 03:48:36.380 --> 03:48:42.249 WLWV Board Room: That is terrifying to see. The teachers are afraid that they're going to get charged with a third-class felony 1700 03:48:42.290 --> 03:48:43.479 WLWV Board Room: for books. 1701 03:48:44.070 --> 03:48:49.309 WLWV Board Room: That is the trajectory where we are going, I believe, at its core we may all actually agree. 1702 03:48:49.630 --> 03:49:07.620 WLWV Board Room: Our means for achieving this AIM, however, are different. I believe, as an educator, as a mom and as a member of this community no student who would be harmed by a book should be forced to read it. I also believe every student who would benefit from reading a book should be allowed to read it. How do we bridge this gap? We pay teachers. 1703 03:49:07.660 --> 03:49:19.850 WLWV Board Room: and we give them the ability to teach our students how to understand the literature with our phones there is 0 content that cannot be accessed by our kids. I think it's terribly naive to think that these books 1704 03:49:20.350 --> 03:49:25.590 WLWV Board Room: are the biggest threats to our children. Please ride a school bus If you think 1705 03:49:25.770 --> 03:49:29.250 WLWV Board Room: that books are the worst place that things are said. 1706 03:49:30.160 --> 03:49:46.260 WLWV Board Room: Our kids can access videos of police murdering young men in the streets. They can read stories of a woman in this our sunset neighborhood spray, painting the inward on her house, facing her neighbor. They can look at Porn and pass it to a friend. They can look at countless images on tik tok. 1707 03:49:46.390 --> 03:49:48.370 WLWV Board Room: Nothing is inaccessible 1708 03:49:49.740 --> 03:49:52.869 WLWV Board Room: as parents. We want our schools to be safe. We want our kids 1709 03:49:53.570 --> 03:50:08.500 WLWV Board Room: to be free from temptation and harm. Unfortunately, as the Eighteenth Amendment shows us prohibition is not the answer. Education is, I'm. Calling on our school board to increase funding to our teachers and our library services to train them on how to best to teach students functional literacy. 1710 03:50:08.980 --> 03:50:16.710 WLWV Board Room: teach our kids how to research books, how to understand the context, the purpose, the passages of a book in order to better serve our students. 1711 03:50:16.920 --> 03:50:17.949 WLWV Board Room: Students 1712 03:50:17.990 --> 03:50:29.220 WLWV Board Room: who should avoid these books need to be taught how to. They need to understand how to look up a book how to understand the meaning they need to the students who need to find these books should be able to 1713 03:50:29.250 --> 03:50:36.630 WLWV Board Room: don't, ban the books, educate, give teachers the tools to protect our children and let teachers do their jobs. Thank you. 1714 03:50:40.440 --> 03:50:47.590 WLWV Board Room: Right. I do believe we have a resident of the district who wants to speak to an item, not on the agenda who is online. 1715 03:50:47.810 --> 03:50:48.490 WLWV Board Room: Yeah. 1716 03:50:49.070 --> 03:50:51.339 WLWV Board Room: Just one correct? Okay. 1717 03:50:52.260 --> 03:50:53.500 WLWV Board Room: All right. 1718 03:50:56.710 --> 03:50:59.030 William House: Yes. Can you hear me? 1719 03:50:59.560 --> 03:51:07.640 William House: Well, William House, we can hear you your on 3 min. Go ahead. Thank you. I'm. William House. I was at in West Lynn. 1720 03:51:07.710 --> 03:51:11.280 William House: I have a child in the Westland Wilsonville School system. 1721 03:51:11.750 --> 03:51:17.750 William House: I appreciate the time the Board members devote to our community, and I thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. 1722 03:51:17.900 --> 03:51:26.610 William House: I'm speaking tonight about the national book banning campaigns that I see spreading to our community and potentially affecting our schools. 1723 03:51:26.990 --> 03:51:30.289 William House: One of the greatest benefits a child can derive 1724 03:51:30.320 --> 03:51:40.330 William House: from its secondary education is the development of independent thinking skills. With these skills they can navigate the conflicting opinions they will encounter daily as adults. 1725 03:51:40.400 --> 03:51:46.560 William House: critical thinking skills allow a person to exercise freedom of making up their own man. 1726 03:51:47.260 --> 03:51:52.460 William House: But intelligent decision making relies on access to knowledge and information 1727 03:51:53.300 --> 03:52:01.870 William House: after more than 50 years of researching and implementing age-appropriate curriculums. We now have groups advocating that we scrap that work 1728 03:52:04.000 --> 03:52:15.170 William House: those currently seeking to ban books in our schools understand that limiting access to information is an oblique way to hobble the next generation and corral them into a narrower worldview. 1729 03:52:15.340 --> 03:52:18.139 William House: Should parents want to do this to their own children. 1730 03:52:18.560 --> 03:52:20.329 William House: then that is their prerogative. 1731 03:52:21.080 --> 03:52:32.029 William House: But under no circumstances should they be able to police my children's thoughts. I urge you to resist any and all calls to ban books that have already been properly vetted by educators. 1732 03:52:32.290 --> 03:52:36.620 William House: Books in their libraries are there because they have been vetted and deemed age appropriate. 1733 03:52:36.710 --> 03:52:38.149 William House: Please keep them there. 1734 03:52:38.980 --> 03:52:41.359 William House: Thank you very much for letting me speak. 1735 03:52:44.670 --> 03:52:55.950 WLWV Board Room: All right. Very good. That closes the portion of folks who live in the district, not speaking on an item stage, and then we have one more person doesn't live in the district, not speaking to an item on the agenda, Jenna Bailey, you're up. 1736 03:53:05.600 --> 03:53:09.010 WLWV Board Room: Hi, you guys, I'm. Janet Bailey, I live in to Wallaton. 1737 03:53:10.240 --> 03:53:28.339 WLWV Board Room: I stood here at this podium almost 5 years ago. I stood here, and I started speaking because a mother who was very distraught, held a condom in her hand that her son had been given in middle school that day. That was 5 years ago. 1738 03:53:28.860 --> 03:53:34.480 WLWV Board Room: Things have not changed since then. They've just gotten worse. They have not become better. 1739 03:53:34.930 --> 03:53:37.130 WLWV Board Room: We get calls from 1740 03:53:37.240 --> 03:53:41.300 WLWV Board Room: a mother as an example of a daughter who woke up 1741 03:53:41.470 --> 03:53:44.090 WLWV Board Room: hysterical. During the night 1742 03:53:44.270 --> 03:53:48.330 WLWV Board Room: she, her mother, went into comfort her, and the daughter said 1743 03:53:48.450 --> 03:54:07.759 WLWV Board Room: that she was crying because her teacher had told her that she could be a boy, she said. Mommy, mommy, I don't want to wake up in the morning and be a boy. I like being a girl, or the little boy who came home from school and asked his mom if he was a boy or a girl, said that his teacher told him 1744 03:54:07.770 --> 03:54:10.369 that he could be a girl if he wore a dress. 1745 03:54:11.930 --> 03:54:19.860 WLWV Board Room: These are not reading books that are in the classes and in the libraries. I'm talking about picture books. They're not teaching, reading. 1746 03:54:19.870 --> 03:54:42.000 WLWV Board Room: These are picture books for young children. I'm not talking about high school kids that can read and learn about this. These are little small children that are what? Looking at picture books that are showing them sex. They're showing them how to give blow jobs. They're showing how to masturbate, how to do group masturbation. You guys. 1747 03:54:42.010 --> 03:54:48.129 WLWV Board Room: this is not something that a small child needs to learn. This is pathetic. 1748 03:54:48.640 --> 03:54:59.050 WLWV Board Room: and it's not getting better. It's not for me. It's not about banning books. It's about coming down to the realization that these are young children. 1749 03:54:59.300 --> 03:55:12.250 WLWV Board Room: And you're they're having pictures put before them that they don't need to see. It's not it. It's it's farther than age appropriate. It is so inappropriate. It's pathetic 1750 03:55:12.260 --> 03:55:20.210 WLWV Board Room: that when our kids walk into school they are not walking into a safe zone. They are walking into a danger zone. 1751 03:55:20.370 --> 03:55:26.229 WLWV Board Room: Dangerous because these things are. These pictures are imprinted into their heads 1752 03:55:26.890 --> 03:55:30.519 WLWV Board Room: when they're when they're shown this at school they 1753 03:55:30.950 --> 03:55:37.329 WLWV Board Room: become inquisitive. Then they start experimenting with this at at a young age. 1754 03:55:37.460 --> 03:55:44.349 WLWV Board Room: You guys, it's not reading right now or again, academically, is second from the bottom in our nation. 1755 03:55:44.400 --> 03:55:46.119 WLWV Board Room: That is pathetic. 1756 03:55:46.250 --> 03:55:48.369 WLWV Board Room: That means our kids are failing. 1757 03:55:48.560 --> 03:55:53.380 WLWV Board Room: and if they're failing, our schools are failing. You're failing our children. 1758 03:55:53.570 --> 03:56:01.600 WLWV Board Room: They are not going to be ready for the job market as adults if you're starting them so young. Looking at pornographic pictures. 1759 03:56:01.860 --> 03:56:08.550 WLWV Board Room: you guys, these are pleads from parents. These are children. These children are going to be adults tomorrow. 1760 03:56:12.590 --> 03:56:20.909 WLWV Board Room: That concludes the public comment portion of our agenda, and I do believe we just have 1761 03:56:21.310 --> 03:56:22.860 WLWV Board Room: the next 1762 03:56:23.010 --> 03:56:27.459 WLWV Board Room: dates for our future meetings and anything else. 1763 03:56:27.920 --> 03:56:30.070 WLWV Board Room: All right. Meeting is closed.