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WLWV Board Room: All right. I'm gonna open this meeting. I'm: the Westland, most of the School Board of directors. Thank you so much, Everybody for your patience. Every once in a while it's just. We run a little behind getting started, but here we are, and we will start with roll call and the schedules we please call roll.

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WLWV Board Room: Certainly. Dr. Kelly slew here

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Lewis Taylor

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WLWV Board Room: chair. Chelsea King Here, Vice chair. Christy Thompson here. Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good. So we will get started with our students and the reports from their high school, and I will start with Wesleyn High School and Skye Gones. Please come on up.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig 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 February, and then some of our plans for March and April, and once again I appreciate the opportunity to share with you what is happening at Westline.

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February is full of lots of unexpected weather, which, through a loop in some of our original plans, but we always found a way to make it work. Starting with our annual amazing race. 10 teams of seniors competed in a week long competition.

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WLWV Board Room: It was a week full of fun and last for the contestants, and our student body also loved getting to watch the update videos. Each day

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WLWV Board Room: every team received a certain amount of money for their charity of charity of choice. At the end of the week, and over $2,000 was donated. Kyle and Ella, who was shown at the top right, were our 2,023 amazing race winners.

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WLWV Board Room: All of our winter sports finished out their seasons, and we were super proud of everything. They accomplished. Our wrestling team took home the State Championship and our Baswell team got second. Everyone worked super hard, and it was really fun getting to support all of them.

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WLWV Board Room: Thursday through Saturday of this week. Our theatre program is putting on the production. Twelfth Night Curtain opens at 7 Pm. Every day, and everyone is welcome to join next week, Monday through Wednesday. Each night there will either be a band, choir, or orchestra concert at 7 Pm. As well

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looking to March in April. We have 10 days of diversity which started today and continues through next week. Each day is run by a club in which they get to share and educate each other about something that they are passionate about. We have come up with. We are alliance with different roars for this Year's Mona.

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WLWV Board Room: The goal of these next 10 days is for our students to learn more about each other, and some of the things that they like to do.

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WLWV Board Room: After spring break we will be hosting powder puff, and then at the end of April we will be doing our annual May Day celebration, which I will continue to talk about next month as always. Thank you so much for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: I think also i'll go ahead and say this now. I don't know if it's. May that we normally ask our student representatives to tell us what they're doing next. So just giving you a heads up that that question will be coming at you in the next couple of months.

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WLWV Board Room: and Eli Sievers from most of the High School, please come on up.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig, and school board. I'm very excited to be back and talk about the many accomplishments we've had in the past month. So I got a lot to talk about, so we'll just get started.

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WLWV Board Room: So on Friday and Saturday we hosted a robotics competition and our robotics team error, code, 0, one a creativity ward, and had the highest autonomous score in the event.

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and they also in the playoff brackets, and were crowned overall winners of the events.

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WLWV Board Room: So congratulations to them. And then one of my favorite parts about this is that we were able to host it, and I just thought it was really great to have a space where a bunch of different teams were able to come together for very creative events. So that was really really fun.

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And then, with winter sports finishing up, we had a lot of accomplishments, starting with voice basketball.

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WLWV Board Room: After long season of dedication and teamwork, the boys basketball team earned the State Championship for the second year in a row.

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WLWV Board Room: I was unfortunately unable to attend the game. However, I thought the image in the in the middle was a perfect symbol of our wild cat spirit, very, very engaged, as you can see.

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WLWV Board Room: And then next, our wrestling team had their first state champion in our Wilsonville wrestling program history. Her name is Jasmine Brown, and she won for her bracket in the women's division. Her coach explains that she had a great season on the mat, and was a great leader for the team.

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WLWV Board Room: and then next, Helena Jones won an individual State State titles in 2 events, 200 and free style. She also broke 20. S. Aa. Records, one of which was her own, from one of the of her 2 state titles last year. So congratulations to her.

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WLWV Board Room: And next we had our is of Science Fair. We host the is of competition. We had many students who participated in our moving on to states and nationals. Many awards were given to exemplary students who displayed incredible STEM, discovery.

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WLWV Board Room: creativity, and understanding. Many students came up with incredible designs to very complex problems. So it was really really fun to go and look through all of those projects that they had developed, as well as a few Osc. Scholarships, were given to 2 students.

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WLWV Board Room: and then, next after school. On Thursday, March seventeenth. We are having our 20 seventh annual, Gordon Becker Faculty Challenge Fundraiser, which is where students get to play staff teams and play basketball, or dodge ball, and it's super fun. You get to make team names and costumes

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over the years we've raised over $180,000 for the research hospital and hope to raise thousands more over the course of this year's campaign.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, lastly, we recently had our incoming ninth grade nights, where over 500 students and parents were able to come and learn about future attendance at high school. And so it was very exciting for New Ninth Grid to see possible clubs and sports that they could participate in as well as exciting new classes.

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WLWV Board Room: And so that's all I have for today, and so thank you so much for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Eli, and we have a riverside High school. Our student was not able to make it, but we have our principal nick chicken.

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WLWV Board Room: First of all, I apologize for not being a student, but I have an update nonetheless. So thank you. Board of directors and Superintendent Ludwig. Just a couple of updates for you.

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WLWV Board Room: Is there a slide before this one

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WLWV Board Room: perfect? So one of the projects that we've been working on all year is thinking about our maxims, our mission in our vision going forward for Riverside High School. So this is a final version of that with the slogan raptors rise. This was built from input from students, parents, community members, staff members, part of our plan planning team.

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WLWV Board Room: and it wraps up really nicely with our international baccalaureate program and the key components of that program. So we explore our world. We elevate our community, and we embrace our future. And then from the learning profile, those words underneath

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WLWV Board Room: are part of the Ib. Learning profile. So it it meshes really nice with what we're building at riverside. So we're excited to continue to share that, and continuing to move that vision forward.

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WLWV Board Room: As you know it's spring. The weather might not be acting like it very much, but it is spring, they tell me. And so we've been working hard at doing forecasting and course selection. So we've been at all for middle schools meeting with future raptors, and also both high schools meeting with future raptors.

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WLWV Board Room: We had a family night like Wilsonville on March seventh, and we've been doing middle school visits. This is actually course, selection week for our middle school students. and then we'll do individual meetings with those students as we go back to make sure that they have all the courses that they need scheduled. And then we're gonna bring all the ninth grade to campus at a creek on April twentieth to talk about the continued vision of building riverside. So it's been a busy spring.

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WLWV Board Room: We're also super excited. We almost have a full staff now at riverside that is super exciting for us, as we can build a new planning team with staff that are actually going to be in the building and start to work together to push that vision of riverside forward to an opening this next fall.

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WLWV Board Room: And lastly, I did want to update you on a couple of things so international Back Laureate has 3 programs that we're going to be running at Riverside. All 3 are in candidacy right now, so we're super excited about moving those things forward, and also for our cte programs. We've been working really hard on creating pre apprenticeships and our construction and health ox programs.

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WLWV Board Room: and I believe those are going to be moving forward with options for our students next year to start to participate in those offerings

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WLWV Board Room: and those pre-apprenticeships in the health occupation. One will be the first high school level pre ox or pre pre-apprenticeship health box program in the State. So we're really excited about pushing that vision forward in those 2 programs specifically, while also adding the business and marketing program. So thanks a lot for listening, and have a great rest of your meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Sky and Eli for being here. I know you have a busy life right now, and taking the time and the benefit of daylight saving time, is it's still light outside when you drive home on Stafford, which I appreciate. So you're welcome to stay, of course, or or go, and

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WLWV Board Room: hey? And Nick and I just want to let you know I had a great conversation with a parent, and the stands recently had a lot of good things to say about your leadership over the years, so I just wanted to share that with you, and it's a pleasure to watch you continue and grow riverside.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: okay. And with that we'll move on to recognition, and we'll invite up Mr. Pat Mcguff for the the nutrition services. Appreciation.

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WLWV Board Room: Happy coincidence! We've been planning to honor our our nutrition services staff for some time. Now, and it happens to co coincide with classified week.

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WLWV Board Room: So i'd like to bring forward Lindsey Flores, our nutrition services manager.

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WLWV Board Room: Talk about our staff.

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WLWV Board Room: I am going to talk about our staff through a short presentation.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. I'm. Lindsay Flores here, with Barbara Finch representing nutrition services tonight. I'd like to highlight a few characteristics and accomplishments by our team

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WLWV Board Room: nutrition services is resilient.

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WLWV Board Room: We have the ability to recover from setbacks. adapt well to change and keep going in the face of a diversity.

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WLWV Board Room: We are caring

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WLWV Board Room: creative with solutions.

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WLWV Board Room: detail oriented.

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WLWV Board Room: flexible.

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WLWV Board Room: supportive.

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WLWV Board Room: We adjust to the unknowns.

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WLWV Board Room: We are teamwork.

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WLWV Board Room: oriented

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WLWV Board Room: connection builders.

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WLWV Board Room: warm greeters.

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WLWV Board Room: dedicated.

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WLWV Board Room: always learning

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WLWV Board Room: We have fun.

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WLWV Board Room: We personalize the experience. To each school.

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WLWV Board Room: During the pandemic we delivered food to classrooms.

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WLWV Board Room: He served outdoors.

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WLWV Board Room: and we portioned and packaged all the food

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WLWV Board Room: we know, the students by name.

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WLWV Board Room: We work at multiple locations in one day, especially when we're hiring.

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WLWV Board Room: and we served 200,000 more meals last year with half the staff.

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WLWV Board Room: We're resilient.

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WLWV Board Room: and we have the ability to recover from setbacks

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WLWV Board Room: to keep going in the face of adversity.

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WLWV Board Room: We have an incredible team.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm honored to represent our team and say, Thank you for all you do.

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WLWV Board Room: We appreciate you?

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WLWV Board Room: So I I want to add, on top of our incredible classified staff. I want to have a special thanks to Lindsey and Barbara, who have kept this going with

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WLWV Board Room: a constant need for more help. So if you know anybody that is looking for work, send them our way. We're hiring. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Lindsey, I just want to. Yeah, Barbara can't run away. We still have nice things we want to say to you. This is. Thank you. I just want to say, thank you. Play a very important role, I know, and all of our students lives in my own students lives, and we just know nutrition is so important for that learning brain.

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WLWV Board Room: They're using so many calories, and that food that you feed them is really important, and that experience, too. And so I know it has not been easy, and you have risen to the challenge, and I just want to personally thank you for feeding my kids

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for that.

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WLWV Board Room: there we go.

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WLWV Board Room: I also want to let you know that you have a great grilled cheese sandwich at.

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WLWV Board Room: I went on a tour with with you and part of your team, and she fed me a grilled cheese sandwich. and I I I think I chewed my fingers off in the car. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thanks, Liz

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WLWV Board Room: And and anyone else want to go. I just want to thank both of you for the tremendous work you do. I know it's not easy. And all those words that you said about your team and your staff could also be applied to the 2 of you, your resilience, your nimbleness, your leadership.

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WLWV Board Room: working through adversity, and doing it with great joy, and knowing your staff by name, and knowing each school so personally. I was at Westland High School a while back, and

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WLWV Board Room: I was there for another meeting, but I happened to pass by the the kitchen, and lunch was getting ready, and

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WLWV Board Room: immediately the team swooped down. Kathy, you've got to try what we're having for lunch today. I think I left like you did with a whole arm full of all the different things they wanted me to try. But the most important thing was how they talked about when they created that menu the students they had in mind.

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WLWV Board Room: and getting feedback from the students, and then wanting to see their expression on their faces when they heard that feedback change something, and then could say to the students: we made something special for you today.

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WLWV Board Room: and so the meal is more than just sustenance. It's about

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WLWV Board Room: the service to kids. It's about a relationship responsiveness, getting them excited and and just creating this amazing culture of interaction with them. And they're just so connected each of them to their schools and their students, and that comes from knowing that you are also connected to your team.

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WLWV Board Room: and that you care about them. So there's a beautiful kind of modeling there from from your leadership. So thank you both.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you also for taking good care of us just this last Saturday at a huge equity summit. So appreciate all the work around that on top of what you do Monday through Friday. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you to your team

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WLWV Board Room: all right, and now I will welcome up Miss Shila Walden and the classified staff appreciation.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Board. Thank you for having me here tonight. You can send right next to me. Thank you. So the last week the week of March sixth, through tenth, 2,023 was classified recognition week.

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WLWV Board Room: and while we do take this opportunity to show our gratitude and appreciation to our classified staff during those 5 days, it's also important that we remind them of their amazing value and dedication to our students and district throughout the school year

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WLWV Board Room: from our nutrition services team that you just heard about the for parents or food to our students every day, and our pair of educators to provide care and learning opportunities for all of our students. Our it specialists that ensure all the technology equipment is functional and maintained to support learning

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WLWV Board Room: our maintenance team that keep our building structures and systems in good use each day.

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WLWV Board Room: Our custodial staff and engineers that keep our building. Oh.

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WLWV Board Room: i'm sorry. They clean our buildings every day and night, so we can start fresh each morning, and the administrative assistance to help staff our schools on a daily basis with substitutes, and keep things running on a day to day basis. Our health assistance to support the high level of medical needs for our students

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WLWV Board Room: and our transition specialists that help our students enter the workforce. And then all of our classified staff that make up this amazing group of people that really provide an intensive level of support that is needed to have our district be the successful district that it is

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WLWV Board Room: so we are indebted to our classified staff for their commitment to the district and to the students we serve. So thank you for giving of yourself in your role every day to make the Wesley and Bible school district the wonderful place that it is.

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WLWV Board Room: and then to accept the classified recognition is Jessica Pricer, who is the President of Osea. She's been an amazing partner in our work to support the district together and find ways to support all of our classified staff and our students, and help us improve our organization.

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WLWV Board Room: I just want to say Lindsay is at the bar a little high.

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WLWV Board Room: I was not warned. There will be presentations. No, thank you. I thank you for the appreciation for recognizing classified Appreciation week, and i'm very pleased to accept this on behalf of all the classified staff.

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WLWV Board Room: and i'm pleased to accept this because i'm really proud of my people. My people work really hard. They they work hard, they do good work they problem solve, and they offer ideas to enhance the work that they do in the situation that they work in despite the fact.

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WLWV Board Room: So let's face it. A lot of the tasks assigned to classified are thankless, not in that they don't receive thanks, but in that not very many people are fighting to take those tasks on.

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WLWV Board Room: A lot of the tasks that classified do are invisible, because no one sees them do it, or they take care of it before anybody knows it needs to be done. So my people do thankless, invisible work, and they do it. They do it work, they do it well.

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WLWV Board Room: and they, it adds value to the district. I think that we have value, and I know that you guys recognize that the District Administration do the School Board does, because year after year you have continued to ratify the classified contract that we've bargained.

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WLWV Board Room: Every contract renewal is an opportunity to show appreciation for classified staff, not just in a verbal or a symbolic way, but in a way that's really practical, and people see every month when their paycheck comes through.

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WLWV Board Room: and I received a lot of thanks this year for that, Bart. For that contract that we bargain, especially at the increment weather, which we had some of this year. I received a lot of thanks, especially from our maintenance staff, about how that really gave them peace of mind, and it it helped people know what was going to happen, and what was going to move ahead? You approved that

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WLWV Board Room: we could have. We could have bargained ourselves blue in the face, and if you hadn't approved that it wouldn't have gone forward. So the thanks were passed on to me, and I want to pass them on to you. So thank you for your words of appreciation. Thank you for your words of recognition.

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WLWV Board Room: and I thank you for doing your best to value my people as much as I do.

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WLWV Board Room: Jessica, I just want to say something to you directly, and the classified staff have my respect and adoration forever, and and I echo your comments. But Also, I just wanted to say to you that I I just have appreciated your leadership the past

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WLWV Board Room: 3 years. Yeah, you just have proven to be a very steady, thoughtful, grounded, articulate leader, and I'm thankful for you to be heading up the classified staff. So thanks for the extra stress and time and commitment that you've taken on in that leadership role. Thank you. And you're welcome

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WLWV Board Room: ready. I'm ready. You're gonna make me cry. No, because that would also be. You want to know about Jessica, as you never want to go after Jessica at an a. A welcome back assembly, because she just has

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WLWV Board Room: a way to think about the work a way to think about. People

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WLWV Board Room: connect it with often beautiful literature and poetry, and create this picture of the work that we do together. And when you walk away there really isn't this

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WLWV Board Room: sense of us them, or classified certified, but it really is. We're a family, and we know each other by our name, and less really about the position or the classification, but about who we are together.

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WLWV Board Room: and I want to thank you as well for the years that you put in. I know you didn't start thinking it would be this long you filled in for someone as a favor. Someone told me. Yeah, it's easy. You just have a couple of meetings a year.

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WLWV Board Room: and what transpired is that we all just what we knew about you in your work as an it specialist. Just transition beautifully into your work as a leader for Oscar as you were thoughtful, you were prepared. You sought deeply to understand a situation. You listened. You were patient.

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WLWV Board Room: you you let kind of like a teacher of a classroom, really thinking about caring for your students, your people, and thinking about what needed to come next, and it's been a joy to work alongside you.

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WLWV Board Room: and I know that wherever you go with leadership or whatever your position continues to be. It's going to be a joy to to be a partner in the work with you, and thank you for representing classified staff so beautifully, and we are so grateful to all of them.

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WLWV Board Room: They may not be watching this tonight, but let them know that they are the heartbeat

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WLWV Board Room: of this organization, deeply valued and deeply appreciated. Thank you, Jessica.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, and it is National School, Social Worker Appreciation month, and Ms. Nicole Hyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: There you are. Hi, come on up

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WLWV Board Room: all right. I need to move this down a little bit, as my father in law likes to remind me. I'm short on one end.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. Great Good evening. I'm here to share and celebrate with you tonight the work of a small but very important group of professionals in our district, our mental health specialists.

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WLWV Board Room: This team embodies the word empowerment on a daily basis. They use their mental health lens to support and empower our students, families, and educators, and they do it with such care.

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WLWV Board Room: I know I'm inspired whenever I am fortunate enough to observe their work, whether it be at a training on anxiety for parents, or to observe as an Iep team member, or when they're working hard to help a family find outside support for their child.

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WLWV Board Room: Our team recently reflected on why they became mental health specialists. In the first place.

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they wanted to be a part of a community to focus on prevention and mental health.

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WLWV Board Room: They remember their own student experience, and they recognized the power of their remembrance to support our youth.

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WLWV Board Room: Despite working in multiple locations and providing mental health supports across the team. They recognize that schools are a pillar.

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WLWV Board Room: Students spend the majority of their time at school, and providing these services in this context is critical, and something that they wanted to do.

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WLWV Board Room: and up here you will see there are a small group. You'll see pictures of them with their families. And first I want to highlight. Brittany book holds, and you will find her right there at the bottom in the middle.

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WLWV Board Room: She's our middle School social worker on the team, and she shares that she loves bridging the gap between support outside of school and support in school. So students have the mental health support that they need in educational settings.

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WLWV Board Room: So Wilson, who is our West Line High School social worker on the team, recently share that with the community, our District Equity team and at our Equity Conference about her collaboration with our school resource Officer

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WLWV Board Room: Mit. Ctl. And we know that high school is an important time for our young people, and they were able to share. She and the resource officer were able to share about the collective work of prevention, building meaningful relationships through culturally culturally responsive practices and restorative practices 150.

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WLWV Board Room: Catrice or Wilsonville High School.

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WLWV Board Room: Mit, Ctl. And Mental health specialist on the team, and also a school psychologist, shared about empowerment through listening and presence. And if you met Katrice, you will. You can see that in action. One.

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WLWV Board Room: And then Sarah Hyatt, our primary school social worker on the team, describes the essence of her work as a values-based profession where the mental health Specialists

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WLWV Board Room: code of ethics requires them to always be working within their social work. Values including social justice, service, dignity, and the worth of each person.

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WLWV Board Room: Sarah sees the essence of her role, encompassing these values actively working towards social justice and social change.

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WLWV Board Room: An anti-racist and anti-appressive practices. Her role includes reducing stigma surrounding mental health by increasing education and supporting the mental health needs of our students. Within the education. Model

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WLWV Board Room: This lens allows them to lean in with colleagues and think deeply about how we support our students and families. We could not do the work of education without them, and we are deeply grateful for everything they do for us each day.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Ms. Hyatt. Would you like to stay up here while we show you with a little more appreciation? Yeah, Not so fast.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I just want to recognize that that is a small team, and you do big work. And that very last statement that you said that that we can't meet the education. This is my paraphrase of what you said. We can't meet the educational needs of our students without also meeting all these other needs as well. And so thank you from doing that challenging work. Thank you for your team, and I hope just to continue to see you know your team grow and the the resources provided to you continue to stretch.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Yes, it is an important, and it's important work that they do, especially over the last few years. They have Really, their work has grown a lot, and we appreciate them very much. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, Wasn't, that long ago that we had one social worker right in the district. That was Cheryl, and she was at our tech high school. And you know it was that when we, when we needed that kind of connection for families, we would reach out to community and resource, and it became apparent that there were staffing shortages in the world of social work.

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WLWV Board Room: like the Sia Grant, and those kinds of funds have allowed us to expand that team. We first moved and added Brittany to work with Cheryl, and had Cheryl at the high School level in Brittany, across all the middle schools.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's nice to see now that there's a team. They present workshops together for the community for our families, and then together they become a very strong network of resource and support. So thank you. I know that part of your role, Nicole, is to work with them, to bring them together to help them think

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WLWV Board Room: all right. That concludes our recognitions, and we'll move on to the board member and superintendent reports, and we'll start with you. Director Taylor.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. Everyone Nice to see you all.

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WLWV Board Room: It's not just about me. It's about you. But as I think about you, and I think about the majority of the people that we spend our time with is usually you.

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WLWV Board Room: to those students and the the students build that robot completely, independently. The Mentors just kind of guide it. I think I heard that the Westland team got second. Yeah. So really really cool it's an exciting day, too, when you're there like they're dancing, and they're dressed up, and it's a very loud.

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WLWV Board Room: And then the highlight for sure was the dis. The District Equity Summit on Saturday, with the different cities and rotaries and people from around the district, and the student voices just to kind of piggy back on what you were saying, Director Taylor. I sat in on the affinity group with the Wilsonville students.

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WLWV Board Room: So I think the kids stole my thunder and everything. I was going to talk about this first slide. But it has been an incredible couple of weeks, and I've been also incredibly impressed with how board members have been at so many of these student activities and events

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WLWV Board Room: They work together in a variety of roles. On the left you'll see our Wilson, our Westland team, to be determined. That took second at Regionals. They were in a different competition. There's a lot of teams now, so they have to have different competitions around the State. So they were at the clack in this competition that was held in Oregon City.

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WLWV Board Room: And again, I was not part of the committee, so I can't speak to specific comments or details. That was an agreement made by the committee around their conversations. But we're going to speak, to the process

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WLWV Board Room: and to the outcomes.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes. so next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So here you see the first 3 books

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WLWV Board Room: heart stopper volume, and this meeting is recorded so people can watch it later. If you can always watch the recording

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WLWV Board Room: the first book heart stopper volume One

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WLWV Board Room: Currently it's in all of our Midland High Schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and after discussion and review the committee has determined to continue to keep these books in their current locations with no restrictions.

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WLWV Board Room: There were some votes to restrict. but the majority said to keep them at the Midland High Schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and there were no votes for complete removal of that text at all.

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WLWV Board Room: With the book Heart stop for volume 2. Currently. They're in our middle and high schools. and you can see again that the committee determined, after reviewing, to keep them where they are in the library with no restrictions.

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WLWV Board Room: There were a couple of votes to restrict, but the majority set to keep them where they are, and there were no votes to remove that text.

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WLWV Board Room: The third book, me and Earl and the dying Girl. currently at 2 of our high schools and at one middle school. and the decision by the committee is to restrict that text just to the high schools only.

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WLWV Board Room: and there was some acknowledgment that

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WLWV Board Room: the intention was for this book to only be at the high schools and unsure how a copy was it? One of our middle schools, and perhaps when it came out in a movie that somehow

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WLWV Board Room: the book got in one of our libraries there. So there was an acknowledgment

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WLWV Board Room: of that to restrict the text to the high school level. Only in the first round of voting there was one vote for removal of this text completely.

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WLWV Board Room: but this is one of the books that did go to that 2 round

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WLWV Board Room: voting system, and in the second round you can see the result, then 6 to 3.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. Next

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WLWV Board Room: the book beyond Magenta, which is currently at 2 of our high schools and one of our middle schools. The decision was to continue to keep these books in the library with no restrictions.

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WLWV Board Room: There were a couple votes to restrict to specific levels, and this was the also one of the books that had a vote for removal in the first round of voting, but in the second round

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WLWV Board Room: we see the results of 7 and 2.

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WLWV Board Room: Hmm.

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WLWV Board Room: And those were the only 2 books beyond Magenta and me, or on the dying girl that had

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WLWV Board Room: a first in the second round voting

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WLWV Board Room: the next book, Milk and honey is currently in our 2 high schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and the decision was to continue with these at the High school with no restrictions. There were 2 votes to restrict to specific levels.

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WLWV Board Room: but there are no votes for that text to be removed

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WLWV Board Room: from from the library all together.

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WLWV Board Room: The sun and her flowers also are at both of our high schools. and again you can see the decision by the committee was to continue keeping them in the library with no restrictions.

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WLWV Board Room: There were 2 votes to restrict. but there were no votes for removal of that text at all.

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WLWV Board Room: and the next.

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Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah. it has to do with their So restriction means placed only at certain levels like high school or middle school grade level.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, I guess I

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WLWV Board Room: My question is, what if the

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WLWV Board Room: I'm just in the High School?

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WLWV Board Room: They're already restricted to the High school. So what's the difference?

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, that's where i'm at that's Does that make sense like that's where i'm not if there's no they'll just they'll stay there for now.

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WLWV Board Room: So the next book is Lawn boy.

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WLWV Board Room: and it's currently only at Wilsonville High School.

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WLWV Board Room: and the decision is to continue to keep it in the library with no restrictions. There were 2 votes

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WLWV Board Room: to specify or restrict to specific levels. But there are no votes for removal.

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WLWV Board Room: The book Flammer is at both Westland and Wilsonville High School.

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WLWV Board Room: and this one was to continue in the library with no restrictions. There were 4 votes to restrict to specific levels.

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WLWV Board Room: but the majority was to keep in the library with no restrictions.

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WLWV Board Room: and there were no votes for removal.

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WLWV Board Room: And then the last book is crank currently at both high schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and this one had 7 votes to restrict this text to high school level only.

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WLWV Board Room: and there there were 2 votes for removal of this book.

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WLWV Board Room: The majority determined to restrict text to high school level only.

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WLWV Board Room: Hmm.

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WLWV Board Room: So next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So this concludes the review by the committee of the 9 texts. These decisions are final.

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WLWV Board Room: so they don't come before the superintendent for any adjustment or the board.

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according to our policy and AR. This is where the decision remains.

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WLWV Board Room: They can be reviewed again in 3 years.

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WLWV Board Room: If there's a request by a parent or a student or a staff member.

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WLWV Board Room: we will share these decisions right away with our teacher librarians who will make those adjustments to the Texting library accordingly.

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WLWV Board Room: And again, just to remind our board and and anyone watching that we do have a selection process for library books and any new books that come. Our librarians do go through a process

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WLWV Board Room: for how to determine how books get in the library. They follow their handbook, the guidance that's outlined in their handbook and in our policy. AR,

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WLWV Board Room: I want to thank

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WLWV Board Room: the committee members. There was a lot of time and work on their part to read the text. They did research.

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WLWV Board Room: They took this very seriously.

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WLWV Board Room: They listened. They were incredibly respectful.

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WLWV Board Room: The the report that came to me was this was a very good example of

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WLWV Board Room: dialogue that really sought to listen, to understand

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WLWV Board Room: and to think about each other's perspective. They were challenging conversations, but everyone worked to make a determination that they felt

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WLWV Board Room: was in the best interest

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WLWV Board Room: we know. There's a range of feelings about each book. and we got a lot of good feedback through that process. and so that feedback will be shared with our teacher librarians, and our staff

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WLWV Board Room: on how to continue to think about the importance of when we select library books

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WLWV Board Room: how to make sure they're appropriate for students. Other interest in learning needs and their developmental level.

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WLWV Board Room: So that concludes my report to you about the outcome of the Library View Committee and those 9 texts. The review has been completed.

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WLWV Board Room: and the decision has been made, and then we'll act accordingly in terms of adjusting as need be, where any of those texts may or may not be.

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WLWV Board Room: That's it. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright.

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WLWV Board Room: So we're gonna move on to the consent agenda. I was just gonna ask it. Can I just ask a couple of clarifying questions about, and it has nothing to do with? I just want to understand

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WLWV Board Room: some of the restrictions and exactly what they mean. Is this: an okay time to ask that? Or yeah, i'll, I'll look to the Board share, because again I was. I want to be really careful that we don't share things. I think committee members said, or yeah, no, i'm not asking anything. I just want to understand. They're just 2 thing. I just had 2 questions. One was on.

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WLWV Board Room: When you say restrict, anyway, i'll wait and let you decide if I can ask him or not. But it was just understanding the verbiage. That's it. It it's by Chair Thompson. I think if you feel like this is the right time for you to ask a question about the process, and it's an easy answer. Then we could do that. Otherwise it could be something that you follow up with after the meeting, and it's not about the process. It's more just about exactly what it means. So, for example, like when.

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WLWV Board Room: let's say, we had the book in Westland High School in Wilsonville High School, and

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WLWV Board Room: it vote there voted to be. Let's say it said no restrictions. My question was.

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WLWV Board Room: Does that mean? It can also be in the middle schools, too? Or does that mean it's State? So if it's already just in high schools, and the vote was no restrictions. I guess. My, what my question is does that mean? No restrictions? Even if it's just in our high schools, it can still go down into the Middle schools to see what I'm.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I don't know if Curtis can you? Because i'm just trying to clarify what that means. Let's just look at the the definitions there.

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WLWV Board Room: because my assumption is, if I have those questions that people watching might have those questions, too. The librarians selected these books for middle and high school, and that's where they felt they felt and went, since the current is where they were appropriate to be.

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WLWV Board Room: So there. Thank you, Curtis.

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WLWV Board Room: And if you can just do full screen, so we don't see the

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WLWV Board Room: the slides on the left. I think we could see the text larger there. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: So your question is, what does what's the difference between a and B, and I guess it might be helpful if you put up one of the slides that shows like

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WLWV Board Room: the books there.

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WLWV Board Room: and where it'll say, like, okay, this book. So, for example, I let's just say lawn boy, and it said that it was in Wilsonville High School, and the vote was no restrictions. Does that mean

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WLWV Board Room: that it can also be in middle school

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WLWV Board Room: 2 if it says, No, if there's no restrictions, does that mean? Even if we only have the book in a high school right now, it could also. But it could. If the teacher librarians feel that that's where they'd also like to include the book right now. They've decided just to leave it at the High School.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, but it could. If there's no restrictions that does mean

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WLWV Board Room: okay. If at some point in time 2, 4, 1012 years from now, there's a sense of. There's some eighth graders that may want to read this book.

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WLWV Board Room: What they would

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WLWV Board Room: no, or come to understand is there isn't a restriction to just keep it at the High School right now. There, isn't

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WLWV Board Room: any ask of the librarians to move beyond what you saw there, but the

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WLWV Board Room: the committee didn't feel like they wanted to put a restrict that it should have a restriction to just one level. Okay, thank you. That's I mean, that's my clar fine. And then the other thing that I wanted to ask just, and you mentioned this at the beginning

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was: you said there is a process for parents. If they do. Parents who have concerns that might want to limit their kids from being able to.

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WLWV Board Room: And and so I just my guess. My question, and

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WLWV Board Room: what I want to make sure is that is this communicated to our parents, I mean, is this something that every single school communicates to parents and parents know that, hey, if there are books that we want to say, and are, there are the books labeled somehow, so they know

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WLWV Board Room: or do the parents have to know? I guess what I would love to hear is just more about

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WLWV Board Room: that, or I feel like our parent community needs to hear more about

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WLWV Board Room: if they do have concerns about these books. How might they go about expressing those concerns with their librarians to make sure their kids don't end up with what's

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WLWV Board Room: they don't want their books. That I can do exactly to do. Exactly what you said is, if there's a concern they can talk to their child's teacher. They could talk to librarian

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WLWV Board Room: about either the text they're reading in their classroom, or a text that they'd have access to at the library and then work with the teacher, the library and around you an alternative text or restriction around that text. Okay, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Those are all my questions. Okay, very good. So we'll move on to the consent agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: I do have one question about the consent agenda, because i'm not seeing in the materials that I know the B. This item B. Is it in the that was executive session? What we reviewed?

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WLWV Board Room: That was

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WLWV Board Room: all right, so entertaining emotion

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WLWV Board Room: i'll make a motion that we let me commission that we passed the consent agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll second

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WLWV Board Room: Alright, by sure. Thompson moves and Director Soup Seconds and Miss Douglas, will you please call the vote?

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WLWV Board Room: Check your slip.

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WLWV Board Room: I get to Taylor Chair King, All right by chair. Thompson. I thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good. So we are going to move to the public comment portion. and i'm noticing that we have

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WLWV Board Room: about 7 folk. So that's gonna be about. Maybe you know, 20 to 30 min.

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WLWV Board Room: This, my my fellow Board Members, feel good moving forward with that segment or taking a break first.

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WLWV Board Room: because we've been going for like 90 min. Pick a break. Yeah. So just a brief like 3 to 5 min kind of bio break, and then we'll come back for the public comment portion.

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WLWV Board Room: putting us into recess.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. I'm going to call this meeting back to order. and we will jump into the public comments.

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WLWV Board Room: Portion of the meeting for residents of the district who are speaking

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WLWV Board Room: 2 items that are on the agenda. and there were a few folks who signed up on the sheet who did get moved to

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WLWV Board Room: a different sheet because we what we do is have folks who are speaking to something on the agenda go first, because it's something that we'll be making a decision on, and the folks who are speaking to something that we're not making a decision on go at the end of the evening. So if I don't call your name at the second portion.

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WLWV Board Room: and I am going to just read some guidelines that we follow, so that our public comment go smoothly. And

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WLWV Board Room: yeah, we thank you for being here and for watching everything that led up to this moment and time. And if you're here to make public comment, you probably should have already signed up on a sheet. So if you need to do that, and you haven't done that yet, then let me know.

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: and this is our chance as a board to listen to you and to collect information. It's not a time that we engage in dialogue. So if this is your first time to be here for public comment. What you'll see is a Us. Just sitting, listening, sometimes taking notes.

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WLWV Board Room: but not answering questions, or or saying anything in return. So this is a chance for you to speak to us, and then we do ask that when you're up at the microphone that you're speaking to us, and not like turning and speaking to a camera or to the audience. So really, just addressing the Board, this is your opportunity to give us information.

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WLWV Board Room: and we ask that you not single out an individual? If you want to single out an individual, we have a separate process for that where you can go through a complaint process, and you can access that on the website.

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WLWV Board Room: You get 3 min. The timer goes off. This thing runs so you can see how much time you have left. And then, if that's not enough time, then you're welcome to submit your comments and writing we read everything that comes to us, and

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WLWV Board Room: we have 45 min set aside for public comment.

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WLWV Board Room: and so everybody gets 3 min, and when we get to 45 min and that public comment period has ended, and if the board determines to extend that time, then they can.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I think it's. Those are the main things. I'm saying anything

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WLWV Board Room: all right. So with that I will start calling folks up.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm going to start with Becka.

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WLWV Board Room: I hope I said that right. I know I've heard and said it before.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Board. Thank you, Superintendent and Dr. Soyson. My name is Becka Pascas. I live in Westland, and I have 3 kids in the district. I am here tonight to talk about reading curriculum. I am a lawyer. So when I learned about the curriculum renewal process, my instinct was to research the rules.

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WLWV Board Room: I wanted to understand how the process worked and what previous curriculum adoption looked like.

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WLWV Board Room: I requested records from the Oregon Department of Education and the district, and I have shared those records with all of you.

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WLWV Board Room: What I found out was that our district has been out of compliance with State law on reading curriculum adoption for at least a decade. Why does this matter? The required process involves a comparison to state criteria that ensure curriculum quality.

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WLWV Board Room: The required process involves the teachers who implement curriculum and parents whose children learn from it. The process requires approval by you, our elected School Board.

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WLWV Board Room: But our district has not followed the required process back in 2,013, which was the last curriculum cycle. Our district purchased the Lucy Caucins units of study and began implementing it.

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WLWV Board Room: There is no documentation that the units of study was approved by the School Board, or that it was formally compared to state standards. Our district continues to use this curriculum, which has been discredited by education, experts and abandoned by school districts all over the country in favor of science-based approaches that have been proven to be more effective at teaching kids to read.

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WLWV Board Room: More recently in October 2021 Ode, the Oregon Department of Education adopted a new list of approved reading materials. Many of our neighboring districts adopted something off that list. Portland public schools, like Oswego, Gresham, Barlow, and many more began using their new materials in the fall of 2,022.

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Our district chose to postpone adoption until the fall of 2,024.

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WLWV Board Room: While this is allowed, our district leaders never sought the required School Board approval for the postponement. which is what brings us to tonight and the agenda item you have before you. In my view, a postponement is inevitable. A good renewal process takes time, and what choice do we have when we are already behind schedule?

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WLWV Board Room: At the same time you cannot give the District a blank check for the next year and a half according to State law and district policy. You, the School Board are the ultimate decision-makers on curriculum adoption.

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WLWV Board Room: You, the School Board, have the authority to guide this process, and you are the ones who will be responsible for the result.

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WLWV Board Room: I am asking you the school board to put some guardrails on the renewal process. The handout I provided has some ideas. Make sure that all teachers have a voice in the process, start with consideration of the Ode, approved materials, and understanding the non negotiable criteria.

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WLWV Board Room: hear from experts on the science of reading. Maybe even hire a school board, approved consultant. get parent input early and require regular updates to the school board and community over the next year and a half.

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WLWV Board Room: Please stand up for our kids tonight. Do not approve a postponement without a renewal process that we can all trust.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, and we'll move on to Sarah Lawrence.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm commenting tonight about reading curriculum, postponement, and specifically the memo from Dr. Soy and to the School Board as a concerned parent who has been following this process carefully. The memo raises a number of questions. I've listed them in the handout I just gave to you, and I hope that you will ask these questions during your discussion this evening. Number One. The memo references in Oregon Department of Education form for postponing curriculum adoption. However, I do not see a copy of the Forum. Provided with this evening's material.

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WLWV Board Room: According to the postponement rules, the Board must approve the district's application to Ode, which means it must approve the information on the form. Have you, as a board seen a copy of the form that the district plans to submit to Ode, if not, please, request a complete copy of the form before you approve it. I provided a copy of a blank form with my handout page 2, and, as you will see, the form includes the reason for seeking postponement; and importantly, the materials to be used

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WLWV Board Room: is during postponement. It is important that the form that you approve includes accurate information about the materials that are currently being used in our district. So this includes the Lucy Caucum's unit of study, fantas and panel foundations, which is being piloted at Willamette, Primary

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WLWV Board Room: and Heger T. Which is being piloted at Booms very primary number 2. The Memo states that District Staff initiated collecting data about K through 5 readers. Progress is a key factor for identifying gaps with current materials and looking for the materials to adopt for the next 7 to 8 school years. So please ask what data has been collected. This data needs to be shared with the Board and to the community for transparency Number 3. The memo references, a training process

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WLWV Board Room: that has already begun involving principals, instructional coordinators, teachers, and learning specialists. So again, please ask what was the content of the training? Was the training specific to using an already purchased curriculum? Or was the training on evidence based reading instruction to allow our teachers to help differentiate their approach? Number 4. The memo states that District staff proceeded with collecting information about the use of current materials and reviewed research to guide adopting material.

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Please ask what information was collected about current materials, what research has been reviewed, and by whom?

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WLWV Board Room: Lastly, the memo describes a renewal process that has already begun. It is important for the School Board and the community to understand the investments that the district has already made. Please ask what Ela materials has the district purchased since Ode approved the new curriculum list in October of 2,021. Please request documentations of all Ela materials purchased, including curriculum, assessment, and intervention materials

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WLWV Board Room: the board and the community deserve clear answers. So I hope that you will ask these questions tonight. Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. I invite up Heather Hall.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Heather Hall. I have 2 daughters. One is in college, and one attends Westland High School. I'm. Also an educator that teaches reading interventions in the David Douglas school district. The topic of reading is very personal to me. I believe all students deserve to learn to read, and I believe, as educators. It is our responsibility to teach them.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm here tonight to discuss the current reading curriculum in the upcoming breeding curriculum adoption. I learned several months ago that the Westland Wilsonville school district did not participate in the Statewide curriculum adoption process, and is looking to postpone the process again this year.

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WLWV Board Room: I also learned that the district is using a curriculum that is not on the Ode approved list, and is known to be not grounded in the science.

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WLWV Board Room: Can some kids learn to read using the current curriculum. Sure.

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WLWV Board Room: but all you have to do is look at your current reading test scores to see it doesn't work for all students. Now, as educators. This was a curriculum. A lot of us were taught to use in our teaching programs, and even in my reading endorsement program. So I understand why in years past this curriculum might have been used in the district. I personally have used this curriculum in the past, but there is now an abundance of scientific evidence that supports the fact that this is not the best way to teach kids to read.

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WLWV Board Room: My district did go through the reading adoption process last year, and is adopted a curriculum on the Ode List, even though this is our first year of implementation, i'm already seeing a difference

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WLWV Board Room: in students ability to do decode words, and with that, and increase confidence in their ability to see themselves as a fluent reader.

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WLWV Board Room: Even though my district district looks very different than Westland Wilsonville. The science is not different when it comes to how the brain learns to read.

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WLWV Board Room: Most districts have used that science to shift to evidence-based curriculums the email from this district that came out to families about literacy. Instruction in regards to the article in the Oregonian makes it clear that Westland Wilsonville district is choosing to ignore that science.

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WLWV Board Room: So what does that mean for your students while you have postponed your reading adoption for potentially 2 years, you have students in your kindergarten first and second grade classrooms, not learning to read.

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WLWV Board Room: Parents have entrusted you with the responsibility of teaching their children to read. These students deserve to learn to read.

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WLWV Board Room: So what happens when the curriculum the district is using doesn't work for them If they are lucky and their parents have the financial ability they get private tutoring to make up for where their district has failed them. But what happens to those students whose family Don't, have the potential, the financial capabilities of providing private tutoring.

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WLWV Board Room: The reality is, they sit in their classrooms

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WLWV Board Room: every day, falling further behind, not just decoding the words on the page, but because they are unable to access grade level books. They are losing ground on their vocabulary, acquisition and comprehension skills in comparison to their peers that can read

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WLWV Board Room: the time to act as now. Put aside your feelings about this curriculum, commit to doing better for the students that have been trusted that you've been entrusted with as leaders of this district. You need to educate yourselves about how the brain learns to read, and what are the best methods and curriculum to facilitate that growth for our students. You have a choice to make. You're going to choose a curriculum that works for some or for all.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, I invite up Yarrow Curry.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Yarrow Curry, and I'm a mom in this district, and before I had kids I worked in clinical social work in school we studied a lot about childhood trauma and its effects on children.

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Big traumas were the center of our conversations. We weren't talking about the impacts of reading trauma on kids. But now we are psychologist. Stephen Dykstra says: in the past 10 to 15 years trauma-informed care has opened our eyes to the idea that kids

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are more deeply affected by a low-grade trauma that repeats itself over and over than the big trauma that happens only once and never repeats.

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WLWV Board Room: No trauma is ever good. But evidence tells us that kids are able to recover with some with support from those giant traumas.

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but not as easily from the chronic trauma that wears you down over time. It is more devastating for children in a way that we really didn't Understand? Before i'm here tonight to talk about this trauma preventable trauma.

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WLWV Board Room: the persistent day in day out. Trauma kids experience while facing reading difficulties, this type of trauma is very disruptive to a child's development. Think about it, reading as part of every aspect of school, even the small things like reading the lunch menu.

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As a mom. I know the act of sending my school, sending my kids to school, knowing the difficulties they face

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WLWV Board Room: has been the single hardest thing I've had to do as a parent.

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There are things parents parents can do to help their children combat this trauma, but in the end you send your kids to school, and you feel helpless as adults. If that daily trauma persisted in your job

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WLWV Board Room: eroding your self-confidence, what would you do for kids they have no power in our reading system? Kids and families are often blamed for reading failures, because our system, isn't backed by any supporting evidence to say otherwise.

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if behavior is communication, what are our children saying about their school experiences, I know, and a lot of the parents speaking up to night. No 2. It is heartbreaking. So we are speaking up not only for our kids. But for the kids who are slipping through the cracks, whose parents cannot afford private tutoring, and whose parents are unaware that these struggles aren't the fault of their kids, but rather a broken system

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WLWV Board Room: in kindergarten My daughter said to me, I don't have a reading mind

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This was heart-wrenching to here, and it also gives us valuable information about how our reading systems can impact kids. Even in kindergarten.

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WLWV Board Room: Many problems in life are not fixable, but this one is our district doesn't only need a brand new Ela reading curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: It needs a group of well-informed souls to build an equitable reading program from the ground up starting with the needs of all children to end these cycles of trauma. Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. I'm inviting up Josephine Tane.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Josephine Tang, and I own a home in Hamilton, on Hamilton Street, in Westlin. My husband and I have 2 boys, one of whom attends school at Bolton Primary.

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WLWV Board Room: I am an educated working mom with a degree in statistic and an Mba from my time living in Vancouver, BC. And I speak 6 like 6 languages. Professionally, I am a real estate broker.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm here tonight because i'm concerned about how the district is teaching my son and other kids to read.

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I like to share with you, my older son's struggle

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WLWV Board Room: in September, the twentieth 20 he attended kindergarten virtually through the pandemic. He has an iep

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WLWV Board Room: during one of the iep meetings through Zoom. I attended a loan. the district representative label, My son, without a diagnosis. During the meeting I asked about what are the categories of eligibility

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WLWV Board Room: with her over 20 years of experience, she should be able to summarize to me in a few sentences about it.

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WLWV Board Room: She repeated 4 to 5 times that the category of eligibilities were complicated.

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WLWV Board Room: I can read, and I can do my own research through Google.

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WLWV Board Room: My son continued to have challenges in reading

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recently through private diocese. My husband and I found out that he has dyslexia. My son's struggle to read is real.

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WLWV Board Room: like so many other kids in the district.

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English is not my first language.

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WLWV Board Room: or even my second language.

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WLWV Board Room: Growing up in Malaysia, I was taught English for 280 min per week.

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WLWV Board Room: Every class I attend the average 45 students. Fortunately I was taught how to read using phonics.

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WLWV Board Room: I would cut out interesting articles in newspaper, and then paste them into my diary. I underline what I could not understand, and I look into my dictionary.

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I learn how to read

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WLWV Board Room: the words True phonics.

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WLWV Board Room: In the last 2 weeks I found out that wrestling with some you is using balance and all O. C. Call queue method to teach my son and other kids to to reach through guessing methods and not phonics. No wonder why a staggering 61% of third grader are not fully proficient in reading as written by Julia Silverman, in the Oregonian.

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WLWV Board Room: Let's say you're going to a restaurant to auto. Stick the Rachel Say, you have 61% of chance getting salmonella, which you eat the steak. I'm. Sure you would not.

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WLWV Board Room: Then why is the district is still repeating the same mistake of using a method to guess, to read instead of phonics

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WLWV Board Room: and science based reading method. Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. And Kara Clark

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WLWV Board Room: today I'm. Handing out a petition that I put on change.org 3 days ago, and we already have 189 people sign without much that effort put into it. And on my part

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WLWV Board Room: Westland wilsonville parents call for a district-wide Literacy program that aligns with the science of reading

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WLWV Board Room: literacy is a civil right. We are calling for the Westland Wilsonville School district to eliminate balance literacy and adopt structured literacy. Currently, only 56% of third graders are reading at grade level in our district

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but we know that 95% of students can learn to read and meet grade level expectations when instruction is aligned with the science of reading. I've been closed. The definition of the science of reading for you.

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WLWV Board Room: our ass of the Westland Wilsonville School district, number one curriculum

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WLWV Board Room: adopt an evidence-based k 5 curriculum backed by science that is systematic cumulative and explicit with ongoing assessments to to guide intervention.

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WLWV Board Room: This program needs to align with the national reading. Panel's Report. To include phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It must also be organ department of education. Requirements number 2:

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WLWV Board Room: intervention.

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WLWV Board Room: Invest more resources to support students reading below grade level, perform consistent tracking of intervention supports and the resulting student outcomes. This includes assessments consistently, consistently use assessment tools that identify a specific strength and weaknesses and students reading abilities.

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including diagnostic assessments of phonological awareness and sound syllable knowledge decoding

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WLWV Board Room: Mtss.

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WLWV Board Room: Develop a clearly articulated written plan for multi tiered systems of support. This must include how students are identified at each tier. What interventions are being used, and how students at as being tracked and communicated with parents.

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WLWV Board Room: Number 3. Professional development provide additional training for all educators in the science of reading that is, curriculum agnostic. Start with at least one full day of training for all primary school teachers, learning specialists and staff delivering reading instruction

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WLWV Board Room: teachers involved in tier, 2 and tier. 3 intervention should have access to additional structured literacy, training and fair compensation for attendance. Number 4 dyslexia

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WLWV Board Room: develop dyslexia awareness and implement effective supports. Up to 20% of students are dyslexic. These students cannot be left behind.

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WLWV Board Room: All educators and educators in our district must understand what dyslexia is, and how to serve the needs of dyslexia students. This includes assessment and early intervention perform universal yearly dyslexia greetings for all k to 2 and any new students entering the district

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WLWV Board Room: ensure that the intervention for dyslexic students at all grade levels is scientifically based with attention to frequency, intensity, duration, and fidelity.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. I'm going to invite up Maggie

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WLWV Board Room: Traversal.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, hello! I am going to continue where Kara left off. So, under the assessment we want to. We we progress. Monitoring and assessments must be science based quantifiable and objective ongoing support, provide prescriptive and intensive evidence based intervention to close the gaps in decoding encoding and vocabulary to support reading, comprehension.

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WLWV Board Room: provide structured writing instruction, ensure access to classroom supports and accommodations in a manner that protects student dignity and allows equal access to grade level content.

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WLWV Board Room: Number 5: transparency be accountable to the Westland Wilsonville community and to our kids. This includes form a committee of teachers, administrators, and parents to discuss and monitor the interests of the community throughout the upcoming curriculum adoption.

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WLWV Board Room: provide progress, reports to the community at regular intervals with clear and specific goals and documented outcomes. This must include regular reports on reading assessment data.

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WLWV Board Room: I think a quote from Kareem Weaver, who

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WLWV Board Room: is noted in the recent documentary. The right to read his quote is the science of reading must not be considered an ideological preference, pedagogical, an inclination or inevitable swing of an instructional pendulum.

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WLWV Board Room: Rather the research consensus and supporting science must be applied as a matter of equity and civil rights.

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WLWV Board Room: This is a call to action. Every child deserves to have the right to read. Adopt the science of reading now. Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. And then Tracy normal.

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WLWV Board Room: I didn't. I'm prepared with anything which got me in trouble last time, so I or 2 times ago, I think I would just ask that you would each put your business hats on and think when you are reviewing something, whether it's in your business or your comcast bill, that you would consider

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WLWV Board Room: alternatives that you would look at the pros and cons of the system that you have in place. And then also look at the what a competing system might provide. One of the things I was concerned about. During one of the board work Sessions.

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WLWV Board Room: led by Dr. Prior, was that we heard a lot about the existing program. but we didn't hear pros and cons of

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WLWV Board Room: competing programs. And so when I, as a business person, that's when we have a request for proposal, we get 3 bids, and we look at costs and pros and cons multiple options. I think that's pretty standard business.

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WLWV Board Room: I guess. I would also ask why we're okay with delaying a core function like reading and the adoption of a new program. We weren't okay, with delaying the construction of the new a/C Creek building. Despite 3 X costs in petroleum, lumber, and steel, we still persevered and have that building delivering on time.

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WLWV Board Room: And yet we are not going to deliver

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WLWV Board Room: the program for how our children read on time and are seeking a delay. So those are just 2 things that I think we haven't considered

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WLWV Board Room: in other news, Ethan

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WLWV Board Room: also this: my son, who I've spoken to about. They won their back the Middle School State basketball, championship in Bend, and so we are both working on being word smart and our body smart, and I also wanted to

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WLWV Board Room: to share that we got his most recent iep updates, and both in all of his curriculum comprehensive. His comprehension, computation, all of his scores have sadly declined since the fall.

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WLWV Board Room: and so I've reached out to my iep team because I didn't hear anything directly from them. They just all declined more than 10, and his scores are not in the twentieth percentile for any of the markers, so

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WLWV Board Room: great, smart, brilliant, delicious little middle schooler in our own district, with private tutoring. It is still struggling, so I just

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WLWV Board Room: told you I would keep telling you he can't story, so he's a State champion basketball player. He's still struggling to read in our district.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. That concludes the portion of public comment. For folks who are here to speak on something that's on the agenda. Am I missing anybody who thought that they were

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WLWV Board Room: signed up?

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WLWV Board Room: I think we're good. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: very good. We are going to move on

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WLWV Board Room: in the evening to the next item.

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WLWV Board Room: which is the business office and Dr. Solely Hughes. you're up

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WLWV Board Room: that even in board, member and superintendent.

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WLWV Board Room: So tonight I will present to you the information about the financial information for general fund.

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WLWV Board Room: This information is, as of February, 28 of 2023.

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WLWV Board Room: This information, is very much similar to the information that I presented to you in January.

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WLWV Board Room: The only difference is the estimate and infant violent for fiscal year 20

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WLWV Board Room: estimate an infant balance from Fiscal year 2122 February over into this year. So first let go through the gender own fund revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: The difference between the Ga. And and you project it and the adopted by Chat a 6.3 million. And that's it. Point to a 1 million comprise many factor in that.

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WLWV Board Room: The first factor is the local revenue. Local and revenue

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WLWV Board Room: come by the Poverty Tax Common School Fund, County School Fund and Federal for us, piece that for category combined together, it considered local revenue

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WLWV Board Room: and a property tax played a big portion percentage in the local and revenue with is 41.9

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WLWV Board Room: 1 million for the butcher. and you in projected at 42.5 million. which is about over 600,000 more than we've got, with it

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WLWV Board Room: and this information coming from.

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WLWV Board Room: So this over 600,000, this source coming from a clock amount and wasn't in county, and the information that they certified for us I only you 2% it's at 96% to be safe.

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WLWV Board Room: The second factor is the stays.

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WLWV Board Room: There's a sculpture at 58.7 million. However, due to the increasing the iep

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WLWV Board Room: we projected to have 61.1 million with a 2.4 million higher

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WLWV Board Room: back to number 2. Is it a local and ups and tax

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WLWV Board Room: we got the certified from Black a. Mac and Washington county and I apply a 96% at their recommendation and dissipate to bring in 12.4 million, which is about 1.6 million higher dandy adopted by Chat.

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WLWV Board Room: The factor Number 4 come by preschool intuition, investment, earning, and extra curriculum activity.

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WLWV Board Room: When we put a butcher together in march

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WLWV Board Room: factor in any interest on on the investment

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WLWV Board Room: but in

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WLWV Board Room: 2022 to Federal reserve.

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WLWV Board Room: increase the interface that allow us to bring in more interest on our investment on the turnaround fund, so that for now, with the estimate, with the current investment that we have, we anticipate to receive 1.9 million.

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WLWV Board Room: What is it actually

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WLWV Board Room: higher than what we anticipate

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WLWV Board Room: in you're in a like that process.

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WLWV Board Room: the preschool situation and the curricular. We have more preschool student Return back to school, and we have more students participate in through the extra curricular activity compared to the Covid years. So right now

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WLWV Board Room: I can take to pay for us to bring in around over 200,000 between the preschool intuition and

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WLWV Board Room: the pre school situation will bring in

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WLWV Board Room: more what they about 99,000 and then the extra curriculum will bring in additional 332,000 compared to the adopted by chat.

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WLWV Board Room: Last, but not least on the other item, anticipate to have to bring in more revenue than they adopted, but chat

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WLWV Board Room: they so it deliver, remodel, and dissipate to bring in a little bit less. We budget at 2.2 million, based on the statement that I'd. Received from Black a Mac Esse.

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WLWV Board Room: we about to bring in 2 million, which is 571,000 less than the the adopted by chat

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WLWV Board Room: so of our own

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WLWV Board Room: for the total and revenue year and projected, we have to it

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WLWV Board Room: 1 million higher than the adaptive. But check out the today information

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WLWV Board Room: under the expenditure. We might have some saving in here

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WLWV Board Room: at that time. It's still early to have a concrete information to share with the board, so I keep this expenditure number at the same. At

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WLWV Board Room: January report we see 130 million So the difference between the total revenue and total expenditure. with the estimate ending from Valen for fiscal year. 2122

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WLWV Board Room: bring it over

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WLWV Board Room: it's give us the estimate and in from Marlon for fiscal year. 2223 at 26.7 million.

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WLWV Board Room: which is about 21.8, 4% of our total revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that open for question.

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WLWV Board Room: You go.

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WLWV Board Room: hey? Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: just taken in. It's not. It's not my cup. It's not my jam. This, so it takes me. It takes me a minute.

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WLWV Board Room: I think. Just one thing i'd like to ask about.

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WLWV Board Room: It's always vulnerable for me. I feel like i'm outing myself the on and on to their expenditure.

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WLWV Board Room: What I'm seeing as a general scene here. I think the overarching theme that i'm seeing is.

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WLWV Board Room: we have a lot more revenue than we anticipated, and there's 4 or 5 reasons in the memo, and thank you for laying those out where I can see how we ended up in that position.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the things i'm seeing under the expenditure with the associated payroll cost is that that stayed very flat that didn't change.

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WLWV Board Room: and so I guess i'm wondering

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WLWV Board Room: why, when we had a lot of additional revenue coming in.

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WLWV Board Room: My thinking would be that we would see that line item go up, that we would be doing more hiring or but there'd be more movement there.

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WLWV Board Room: as we could make more moves with this increased expense revenue coming in. And so when I see that staying flat, I guess I just wonder what happened this past year to keep that.

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WLWV Board Room: So what? Yeah. We he can.

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WLWV Board Room: we? We have several.

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WLWV Board Room: but some of them we unable to feel because of the market.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, we we have responded to every need that has been asked for additional staffing. We have approved those positions

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WLWV Board Room: we've posted some. We've been able to fill some we haven't, and that's not uncommon across the state.

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WLWV Board Room: You probably heard on the news some districts that have had, you know, 7 8 until positions. In certain areas, like learning, specialist or special education.

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WLWV Board Room: we have unfilled positions in nutrition, pair educators.

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WLWV Board Room: custodial and maintenance. We post and hire as quickly as we can. It is

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WLWV Board Room: the it is what's happening around a staffing shortage, and some of it's

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WLWV Board Room: movement to other jobs around the State, or where they may be higher paying positions. I think all employers are dealing with that, and we're no exception, and it's happening in education, almost every district you could talk to their superintendent and their Hr. And they've got unfilled positions, so

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we keep them in the budget, because at any point we want to be able to have the money when when

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WLWV Board Room: they come forward and take the job. And that's why we we will probably see some adjustment at the end where we had set aside money for someone for a whole year, and only ended up with maybe 6 months because of just delay and being able to hire.

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WLWV Board Room: But we have responded to every ask by principal or supervisor, for when they have needed more staff we've posted.

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WLWV Board Room: so it's not for a lack of reducing or not wanting to hire it's just

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WLWV Board Room: a a real challenge right now in the State. So it's fair to assume that I I know it's been a hot labor market, and that that's a theme across all the industries. And we're seeing a shift potentially recently, and for some shift in projection. Is it fair to assume that in the coming year that we might be able to see

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WLWV Board Room: I I I guess that here's the next headline coming from Chelsea King is. I think we have way too much money, and we need to spend it.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm concerned with the ending fund balance, and I know that we have to have 2 months operating fund, and we need to have we, you know, 4 years ago it was too low, and we needed to work it back up. So I get the fluctuations there. But when I look at this budget today I think we need to spend that, and we need to hire a lot more people and get them into our classrooms and into our schools.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I guess i'm wondering what can I anticipate, and seeing this, reflected that flat.

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WLWV Board Room: associated payroll line, and this big increase in the ending fund balance and the revenue stream. How am I going to see that being addressed in the coming budget cycle.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, to note. I put on the bottom here the value of the end of in front violin, making at the final audit when we complete the final audits, or

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WLWV Board Room: also based on the final enrollment. Or if we view of the appreciation

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WLWV Board Room: also, we have this ending on violent will help support when we enter into the net biennium, because when we enter into Netflix

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WLWV Board Room: the current service level that

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WLWV Board Room: when

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WLWV Board Room: when the course are to the survey for 40 school district

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WLWV Board Room: we really need 10.3 billionfrom the State level. But right now, the governor what just is based on 9.8 billion

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WLWV Board Room: And when we build a budget based on 9.8 billion

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WLWV Board Room: We are Julie.

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WLWV Board Room: we don't. We don't have enough revenue to really cover our expenditure compared to the co current service level that we needed. So therefore this carry in, and from Balin will help us with the next by any of it's good.

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WLWV Board Room: When When I build a butcher for 24, 2,224. You might see some I in from balin in there, but

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WLWV Board Room: that end and fund balance drilling it for 2425 as well.

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WLWV Board Room: I think, as we get into looking at the budget for next year. There will be you know.

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WLWV Board Room: We would spend it on the positions that we have if we if we could, and they're there. But you'll see as we've worked with the governor's budget. It's. It's far short of the current service level. Some districts are already right now.

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WLWV Board Room: creating reductions for the next biennian. We're not in that position, because we have this additional.

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WLWV Board Room: It's very strong ending fund bounds. It's not a sustainable one.

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WLWV Board Room: but it it's one that could carry us through the next 2 years, where we would likely not have to make reductions, but i'm getting ahead of myself because we're not in the budget process yet. So when we put our Budget Committee together you'll see those documents, and and then we could make some decisions going forward with that. Thank you. I just have one more question. Then i'll have you go before, and

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WLWV Board Room: you know I've Yes, I've heard that, for you know, for many, many years now, and I get that, and I appreciate that because I also was around when we did cut programs, you know, after a major economic fault.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I guess i'm just asking about striking that balance, because what I saw with the Governor. The initial budget is that it was actually a little bit, I think, higher than what folks that you know anticipated are coming out of the gates with.

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WLWV Board Room: So that's just one thing I'll say I appreciate the delicate balance. But like where I don't think we're striking it quite yet, i'd like to see the

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WLWV Board Room: more spending. And also if I hold that it's hard to hire folks like okay, so it's hard to find to fill the positions. But then I look at preschool tuition going up, and the revenue there. Then my brain goes to. Why are we even charging for preschool? Then, if we have a lot of money. I mean, what what ways can we use this money in our communities in a beneficial way, if it's not to hire folks? Can we

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WLWV Board Room: make preschool more accessible, for example. the preschool intuition, because when I,

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WLWV Board Room: when I build a budget, and I estimate the preschool, will bring in 150 to 1,000 not 151,000 all have enough to call for the staff that run the prescription program. So, with the additional 99,000 we'll have upset

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WLWV Board Room: the

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WLWV Board Room: so go into 2324, you know

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WLWV Board Room: week.

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WLWV Board Room: What about what about the situation? That we' on the preschool situation

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WLWV Board Room: Very much. We try to upset the

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WLWV Board Room: run to support that program.

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WLWV Board Room: because if we reduce the fees prescription

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WLWV Board Room: what I mean, we don't bring in enough money to call for us back. Then auto program, how do you do to support that?

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WLWV Board Room: And it? Not self-sustainable.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, I do

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WLWV Board Room: thank you for the budget By the way, I know it's not a easy thing to have to deal with on a regular basis.

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WLWV Board Room: I guess I have a question

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WLWV Board Room: about our ending fund Balance, if it continues to grow.

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WLWV Board Room: Is there anything that puts us in jeopardy of a penalty or a claw back? Because in the university system, if you don't use your budget, the State says, then you don't need that much.

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WLWV Board Room: and they clawed back.

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WLWV Board Room: and they give it to other places that are falling short, so that we're not building up this extra millions and millions and millions of dollars, while others are falling short in neighboring districts. So is there a chance that there's a claw back

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WLWV Board Room: on our budget.

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WLWV Board Room: But if we look at, and I can share with you the crap and the act, or end up on violent, that we have for the last 10 years we stay between 9 million to maximum 12 million.

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WLWV Board Room: That's it, the average ending on violent that out it would have. So this is very like last year, and this year the the Bubble, because of the so support

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WLWV Board Room: Gotcha.

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WLWV Board Room: And I guess that was My next question, too, is, when you're doing your budget. Is there typically a court, or like, if I think about pat and remote when they forecast the project. Sometimes it comes out, way over budget. A remote does a good job of explaining that.

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WLWV Board Room: You know we get nervous because this thing is going to cost so much, and he says, Well, you know the cost that we forecast it will more than likely come down. Is there typically a corridor or a percentage that you know that you over forecasted, and

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WLWV Board Room: that 26 million is gonna back up because we we're going from 16 million right to 26 millionThat's a huge jump for ending fund. Balance

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WLWV Board Room: and doesn't mean that we should actually forecast the true cost associated with preschool versus not forecasting what it truly cost, and then supplementing from other areas.

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WLWV Board Room: So should we show a bigger deficit for preschool, so that the impact of what we're really facing is shown on here versus

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WLWV Board Room: not, and that we're pillaging from somewhere else to

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WLWV Board Room: to make it right. Does that make sense?

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WLWV Board Room: If I might just add. I know we kind of got

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WLWV Board Room: when we we give information we get hung up, maybe on a detail. But I think the the larger changes here actually came from adjustments from Ode. and those are parts that are going to be variable throughout the year. That's that's the challenge with the school budget different than a home budget or business, but is because

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WLWV Board Room: all 197 school districts have to share

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WLWV Board Room: this one pot of money.

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WLWV Board Room: and as there's variations across everybody, kind of adjusts with sharing this amount.

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and as we enrollment shifts or local property taxes come in differently than the State adjusts.

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WLWV Board Room: Sometimes they'll come to us and say we gave you too much on the front end. We're now going to take some away.

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WLWV Board Room: or we were because or what you reported was too conservative. You actually had more students, and we're going to adjust again. So it's really challenging, being a Cfo of a school district, because

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WLWV Board Room: you're really not in control of an isolated budget. It's contingent on 197 budgets all working together. And so this back and forth with ode is kind of this dance that happens. The other part is predicting. For example, the taxes that will come in.

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WLWV Board Room: We get recommendations to only anticipate 96%.

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WLWV Board Room: If our community does a tax return rate at 98%, then that's good for us. We get some more of that local revenue in.

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WLWV Board Room: but it could be 96, so the caution is always Don't. Lot of people defer their taxes or don't pay their taxes. Things can happen in a volatile economy. so there are ways we can take a look and say maybe we should

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WLWV Board Room: be less conservative and go ahead with 98, and get a little closer to what we end up, actually taking in from local taxes for our community. But the advice we always get from

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WLWV Board Room: tax assessors and and county is to stick with the 96 so that's where you're seeing one of the adjustments there

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WLWV Board Room: preschool number is relatively small compared to those big ones. The other is, we don't know who's gonna move in and who's going to, You know, when you have Adm. And the Atmw is weighted. So students who have additional service needs, whether they're on an iep or there have language support.

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WLWV Board Room: or their students that are working through their families are working through poverty. The State does adjust and wait that amount accordingly, and that can fluctuate with people moving in or moving out, or students on an IP or not, and so that was one of the adjustments as well is. When the State was able to verify

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WLWV Board Room: our number, they went ahead and gave us the revenue to match that. And they do that through. The student counts that we submit with various reports. They have to wait till it's verified. They don't just

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WLWV Board Room: take our word for it. They have to kind of see the numbers come in. So those were the bigger factors that created that that difference than the the tuition one we're

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WLWV Board Room: for sharing you where we did see a difference. But it's not as big as as the other ones. and those are ones that

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WLWV Board Room: we don't know where we're going to land sometimes in terms of sharing that

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WLWV Board Room: what's called the the Common School State Fund with everybody else. So it's. It's challenging, and I I guess I would say, when we get into that budget looking at the budget for next year.

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WLWV Board Room: and we see. Where does the 9.8 Put us as a school district? Likely you'll see that we won't. Have this large of any fund balance in the subsequent years, but it will get us through

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WLWV Board Room: some big moves for our district. We're opening a new high school. Got a staff that we've got some costs that we don't know yet. So there are some projects that are unique to us that could benefit having a little more cushion and not as tight of a school year going especially into next year.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, my, I'm getting ahead of myself, because this is really the conversation for the Budget Committee. When we have those documents I I have been trying to get to a Budget Committee committee meeting for forever, and I just can't fit it into

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WLWV Board Room: to my schedule. But I guess from what I just heard there, if if i'm not a part of the board, and i'm listening as a parent

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WLWV Board Room: when I hear the State is rewarding more money for kids that are getting on Ips and Bible fours, and our 5 or 4 and Iep percent is going up. But we are not hiring the staff to support that because of the difficulties.

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WLWV Board Room: To me it feels like the perception could be that we're making money off of poor performance.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: that is where I get a little nervous on on hearing that statement, which I know that our hearts are not there. I'm just saying that there are a lot of people in this community who might take that that way. And so I just want to make sure that we're being mindful

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WLWV Board Room: as to what the extra money, and we're talking about

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WLWV Board Room: more structures and more buildings and more these and that which we we will need to staff riverside

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WLWV Board Room: that maybe we turn our hearts towards some of the other needs

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WLWV Board Room: of. and and I want to be real clear that our hearts are there and our actions are there

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WLWV Board Room: we are. We're not doing what you'd maybe speculated that. So I might suppose out there. So I want to be really clear that as we've increased with student needs. We've hired staff as well, and in fact, some people would look at our district to say

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WLWV Board Room: your staffed well beyond what even some other districts may have. So we've done. We've increased our special education staff each year accordingly.

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WLWV Board Room: So that speculation of we're making money off of poor performance is not true for us.

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WLWV Board Room: but we should control that narrative is my my point, because, if not left to the public to come up with their own conclusion.

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WLWV Board Room: my email box is going to fill up.

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WLWV Board Room: So one more reminder that as of it's about August or the will make the adjustments based on our actual ATM. W. And local revenue. So this is Jetter. Remind me of, because I haven't backed this in my report, yet

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WLWV Board Room: based on the information that we received from ode is on 2122 record

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WLWV Board Room: the number

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WLWV Board Room: the dollar amount that i'd report to the ode is on the poppy. That's in 2122 is less than the actual property that that we received. So i'd report 44 million. We received 40.8,

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WLWV Board Room: so that is a 144,000 more.

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WLWV Board Room: and then on transportation we 3, 4, 6 millionand the actual expenditure is 5.9 million. The different is 84,000. So the combined property tax and transportation is 228,000, and that is

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WLWV Board Room: is the dollar amount that possible. The district has to reinforce back to Ode because they over pay us in 2122,

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WLWV Board Room: all right. It looks like Vice chair. Thompson has questions.

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WLWV Board Room: So I just wanna just as we talk, and I feel like when I first came on the board. Chelsea. Correct me if i'm wrong 4 years ago is that when we were having more, or I feel like our ending fund balance was more around the 5%.

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WLWV Board Room: And so what has happened is that then we got into Covid, and that's when we got our S. Or money. So is part of what we're seeing with these larger ending fund balances, because we still have that benefit, that padding from some of our us or money.

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WLWV Board Room: and that, and and we received 3 different right, the s or 2, and s or 3. So just my assumption is that that is why we still have some of that ending fund. Balance is so much larger, and perhaps why we have that caution of

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WLWV Board Room: We've maybe expanded some programs.

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WLWV Board Room: thanks to us or many, and we want to make sure that we're able to keep them. So i'm just asking, is that part of it does that play into our larger and new fund balance as well.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, that it's been. It's been increasingly challenging for school districts the last few years, because there were Federal grants that came all of a sudden money. We budgeted, for for example, summer school, and then we would hear.

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WLWV Board Room: for example, last year, right before summer, that the State was giving us some money, so that we didn't. So then we had a matching situation that we but we had set aside that money so as these Grants roll in, whether they're from State or Federal to support, which is what we want. We had

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WLWV Board Room: allocated money towards that, only to receive the grants and support, so that that's some of the factor.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, combined with just staffing shortage. Setting aside to fill all these positions, and not being able to or filling, and then folks leave so that impacts benefits. It impacts salary. And

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WLWV Board Room: and we're just not seeing that that output that we had set aside for. So there's a combination of those things. There are some districts that Haven't spent, you know. They they are still rolling out their S. Or funds because they have several years to use, so they have that bubble in essence as well, and have a certain amount of time to spend out their funds.

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WLWV Board Room: We went ahead and allocated it right away to those things like Florida virtual, if you remember, in some of our online programs and some work that we were doing and

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WLWV Board Room: and recoup that which then created some benefit in some other areas for us that we were going to spend the money. We're gonna use some general budget for that, and ended up that the s or money covered for that. So we're seeing the bubble here, where some other districts are just extending out their S. Or Funds and Haven't spent it all. Yet

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WLWV Board Room: so districts are at different places, depending on how they work through those State and Federal grants. and some money we recorded under the special revenue Fund, which, if 1 200 different, separate from from 100,

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WLWV Board Room: so for auto school district, that they

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WLWV Board Room: they allocate their some money throughout 3 or 4 years. Then you won't see they affect much in their general fund. They can just spend in coming out of their current with the special revenue.

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WLWV Board Room: When we receive the some money we decide to use to lie that right away. That's why we ship a lot of expenditure, especially expenditure relate to Covid

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WLWV Board Room: to the so that's why we free up the money in the general fund, and that why, it's great a bit bubble.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. I'm gonna move us on, and we're getting a little behind schedule here. So everybody is good.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Doctor, he. So my his and we'll go to the Department of Teaching and learning Dr. Barb Soy, and with the Ode requirement to approve post format.

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WLWV Board Room: So. Oh, first, you know, want to begin by saying that I think I speak for all of my colleagues in teaching and learning to just say that we believe

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WLWV Board Room: our parents. and we believe in the urgency with children who are struggling to read.

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WLWV Board Room: and what it means for us in improving practices and ensuring practices are in place, so we can adopt new curriculum

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WLWV Board Room: that really is able to be used.

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We also know we have really strong teachers. So this is not about our teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: Our teachers are asking, as you know many of us when we I actually was in the group that learned to teach phonics. That just shows I've been in the profession for a while. But there has been a whole span of years when what you learned in your education program

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WLWV Board Room: was not necessarily looking at those 5 components of reading. So our teachers are asking 4, not only to pilot

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WLWV Board Room: a specific program.

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WLWV Board Room: but those teachers who did that got some training. because we know, especially with this type of curriculum that you can't just

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WLWV Board Room: have things you take out of a box. You have to know.

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WLWV Board Room: What does it mean to have a multi-sensory approach to learning phonics

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WLWV Board Room: as opposed to just practicing phonics.

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So just wanted to preface with that that there is no disagreement

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WLWV Board Room: among us, and I'm, speaking for my colleagues, and for our principles that we believe

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WLWV Board Room: what you have heard. And that's where our sense of urgency is. and a postponement does not mean that there isn't a sense of urgency. The postponement is an acknowledgment that our school district

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WLWV Board Room: does not have new materials in place in the 2,02223 school year.

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WLWV Board Room: We did start the process in 2,021 last year when we returned to school

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WLWV Board Room: with the idea that we needed to see where our students. or and we did start then with training in using assessment

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WLWV Board Room: to look at students reading progress

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and

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WLWV Board Room: this renewal of instructional practices right now

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WLWV Board Room: it started is going on now. It's not as if we are waiting.

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WLWV Board Room: and when we say that we're asking for a postponement, it means that the materials we will be in place by fall 2,024 doesn't mean that they won't be in place sooner

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WLWV Board Room: but that's just in speaking to Ode guidelines. What a postponement means.

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WLWV Board Room: and regarding the form that we turn in when i'm kind of describing what we're doing here. that's what goes on the form, because it's it's a a form that just asks. What are you asking for.

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WLWV Board Room: and why? And then it asks mainly that a school board

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WLWV Board Room: knows and approves that we're asking for that.

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So what this is saying is.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, we did not have materials in place at the beginning of this school year. and the latest that we will have materials in place will be fall 2,024.

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WLWV Board Room: However.

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WLWV Board Room: as it said, that urgency to make sure there's consistent systematic instruction in what we see as the 5 components of reading, and I think you heard them this this this evening. There is no

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WLWV Board Room: there's no disagreement about that, and that determines the kinds of programs you look for.

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and it's phonemic awareness.

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WLWV Board Room: phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. That is the focus we are working with that now we work with that when we observe in classrooms.

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WLWV Board Room: so just wanted to begin with saying what a postponement is, and what a postponement is. Not

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WLWV Board Room: so, then the question is. why a postponement?

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WLWV Board Room: You know why? And if you're gonna get one, why, isn't all it already in place. And when we started the renewal process in 2,021. We

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WLWV Board Room: required that we use the same assessment. And because if you're going to look at systematically working with instruction, you have to be measuring things in the same way. But using these assessments, not ones where you just go online and take an assessment.

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WLWV Board Room: but ones where teachers read with students and know what to listen for, and then take action, steps right away to look at. What does this child need more of, or in some cases. What is this child ready to do next? They can already do this

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that takes significant training.

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WLWV Board Room: And we did look at that. And the area of fluency when you're doing this reading. That's kind of your

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WLWV Board Room: sign post.

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WLWV Board Room: When you don't hear fluency, that phonics and phonemic awareness are the areas where you need to do further instruction. So that did start.

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WLWV Board Room: and we were doing that last school year

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WLWV Board Room: at the time.

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WLWV Board Room: Some of us in this position we are aware of Ode guidelines. We are aware of adoptions, and talked with our colleagues at Ode, and saying, You know, are we on track?

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WLWV Board Room: We also in our district? We have colleagues in other districts, and belong to groups where we look at teaching and learning topics together.

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WLWV Board Room: and we know, and we realize then we are not the quickest to adopt.

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WLWV Board Room: and the reason for that is, we do believe here in adoptions that you have to listen to those using the materials, and you not only need to listen and ask them what they want, but they have to participate in the process.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, in a. K. 5

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WLWV Board Room: program that's a lot of teachers. That's all your teachers. So we do have processes that we have used. We used it in mathematics, where we have a larger group that I think some of the school districts you have heard mentioned

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WLWV Board Room: involved in their process.

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WLWV Board Room: and we usually do things like. Take a half a day and get substitutes with that group.

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WLWV Board Room: Then we have set

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WLWV Board Room: pieces for gathering information they take, and they go back to the rest of their colleagues

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WLWV Board Room: to share, to gather, maybe to work through something and look at it. And you space those pieces out.

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That's not a real real process.

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WLWV Board Room: Also, in a year when you might be needing a lot of substitutes, and you still might be having a lot of absenteeism. You really have to think about the effects on children when you pull those teachers out of the classroom.

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WLWV Board Room: We do a lot of our professional learning compensated time after school hours, but we're talking about 90 min at a time.

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WLWV Board Room: So again, when we look at a form for ode, and we look at the reason why we did get slowed down more than we thought, and we also, though talked about that with her colleagues at Ode, and

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WLWV Board Room: we weren't the only school district in that situation. And initially, the idea was.

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WLWV Board Room: just see, because our

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WLWV Board Room: Ode is not looking to.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, penalized school districts. They're looking to work to work with us. So we operated

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WLWV Board Room: with that assumption, because again, those of us here

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WLWV Board Room: did call we're in contact and in console

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WLWV Board Room: with them, you know. As the school year progressed, as we were seeing this slow down.

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WLWV Board Room: the other thing just to clarify is, we always use the state lists.

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WLWV Board Room: They've already done a lot of the work with the rubrics of the same things we're looking for, which start with the standards they start with access to materials for all students. They are, especially in the last 10 years, much more equity driven in terms of the learning needs of all students.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: for my colleagues and myself, there's no reason that we would not look at that, as

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WLWV Board Room: you know in, unless there was something there we could not find. But that's what we do.

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WLWV Board Room: The adoption we did right before the pandemic, for example, was high school, mathematics, and of course those materials are off the the Ode list for High School mathematics.

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WLWV Board Room: So that said then in this February, which is why we're sitting here now. On March thirteenth. Ode made courtesy calls, and the one that I received said, we are calling all of the districts

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WLWV Board Room: there. Initially, there was not a postponement submitted.

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WLWV Board Room: We are saying, Go ahead and do that now.

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: you are compliant with

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WLWV Board Room: division 22. Initially, I know, in contacting Ode

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WLWV Board Room: early this fall, because I reported to you about division 22 in November.

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WLWV Board Room: That was the question. And because it was understanding that things were taking longer. That's where it was. Still, you know, as as you recall in division 22, we don't hesitate if we're not meeting someone to something not to check the box we did that with physical education

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WLWV Board Room: this year in our district, as you may recall, so this would have been another one. There's no hesitation to do that. But that's

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WLWV Board Room: kind of the reason that we're sitting here tonight, and we had hoped to have this as soon as you know. I received the phone call in in February.

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So that's just kind of the the short, and I'm. I'm anticipating that you will have questions, but that's why we are

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WLWV Board Room: where we are. But it also has nothing to do with the urgency, the use of ode lists and the training that is

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WLWV Board Room: that we are planning, that we are doing that we are working with our teachers now

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WLWV Board Room: and again as a reminder in looking at a postponement.

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WLWV Board Room: all you're doing is acknowledging that materials were not adopted by fall 2,022, and you are giving those on staff directions that

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WLWV Board Room: you have to have this in place by 2,024.

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WLWV Board Room: That said. There can still be discussion with Staff about

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WLWV Board Room: presenting the new curriculum materials to the board earlier than february 2,024. If that makes sense that's separate than an actual.

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WLWV Board Room: So just last slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So just to clarify when we're talking about reading and the things that are guiding us in looking at materials.

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WLWV Board Room: These are the statements, and I believe that Dr. Ludwig has has sent this to you. We shared this with our Pta. Parents and

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WLWV Board Room: principles. K. 8 recently.

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WLWV Board Room: and i'm I'm not going to read it all. But you'll see that these

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WLWV Board Room: statements didn't just come up now, but these are

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WLWV Board Room: the overarching, really large beliefs

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WLWV Board Room: Last thing I should mention, and we look at all teacher voices being involved in a process we never run a materials process in the school district without having our special education teachers and our eld teachers

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WLWV Board Room: as part of that. So when we say teachers, that's what we mean, because we know, as it indicates there that we need to sometimes have some different materials and more intensive

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WLWV Board Room: instruction, and sometimes different instruction. With students we have all some and few, and those are other pieces that put together when we look at materials.

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WLWV Board Room: So I think i'll stop there. I'm assuming that there would be some questions.

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WLWV Board Room: Go ahead and Dr. Slope.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah.

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Okay. So in regards to the form.

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WLWV Board Room: it says that the application.

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WLWV Board Room: some middle of the application needs needs to be approved by the board.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: do you have that form like I mean I I I have the form like I printed it off, and I think Sarah also included that.

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WLWV Board Room: But have you filled out the form? Yes, but you can't do anything with it. You can't push, send until you have the date of the School Board adoption. so that has not been submitted. We can't. They don't want it until they know, because that's the purpose of the form it's an acknowledgment that publicly

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WLWV Board Room: We have stated that we did not have materials in place in fall 2,000, you know 22, and that our school board knows that, and approves that

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WLWV Board Room: we are requesting a deployment. So it's it's an electronic form, and you thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: You know you can fill it out, but it just stays. You Can't you know

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WLWV Board Room: it? It doesn't work, or it's not accepted until that date, because you'll see the box. Is there for the data board approval. Yeah, Dave postponed. It Request was approved by the Local School Board.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: it's hard for me to approve something that I don't know what i'm approving, unless I actually see like this, build out like that. It would in indeed include

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WLWV Board Room: identify materials to be used during the postponement, Everything that's being listed checking the box below the district is providing an assurance that this postponement.

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WLWV Board Room: causing and out of cycle purchase, will not delay future purchases and other subject areas. And then the other question was reasons for seeking postponement content area.

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WLWV Board Room: So again it's.

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WLWV Board Room: Is there a way that you could

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WLWV Board Room: type up the form and allow the board to see what those answers will be of. Yeah, of course. And I was attempting to kind of outline that tonight, first of all, we use our current materials to. We have new materials, so you don't buy anything else. So we would list

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WLWV Board Room: the materials that we are currently using for that question. The reasons are that we found, and it's kind of in those points on the first 2 slides is that we started the adoption in 2,021. We found that we were not able to proceed with the groups that we have, that we did the training then, and that it was taking more time, and we did not have the bandwidth to have the groups of teachers out of classroom. So

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WLWV Board Room: that's what we'll go in writing. Certainly, if if you want to

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WLWV Board Room: see that you can. But I I would write, be writing what you saw on the slides.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm wondering because we did that January work session where we shared with you about our current program and the materials.

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WLWV Board Room: I think you wouldn't be surprised to see. You know Lucy Caucins units of greeting and fantastic, but not we kind of shared a couple of different venues what our current materials are, so that part shouldn't

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WLWV Board Room: hopefully be surprising? Or would it include the pilot from Willamette. The foundations that was being used for the that was purchased on such a small scale that it would be unfair to say that children were being provided a significant number of children were being provided with learning with that. So that

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WLWV Board Room: part of doing that is to inform us of, you know, a small scale example. But there was nothing purchased on a large scale

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WLWV Board Room: for that. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. Question of clarification director. That could be Yeah. I was just going off the Oregon Department of Education, Chapter 581 division, 22. And so

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WLWV Board Room: when it says approval of the application and the date of such approval.

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WLWV Board Room: because I know that

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WLWV Board Room: you know there's not a perfect curriculum out there, whether it's what we are currently using. or just another

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WLWV Board Room: phonics and the old adages, you know if you continue to do the same thing over and over, and expecting a different outcome. That's kind of the definition of insanity.

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: you would know me. I tend to look for data in research unless so I pulled up. I would like to get the benchmark assessments and the aims for all of the board to see before.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, moving forward. So we know, like where we're at, what what the data is showing. because so I pulled up.

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WLWV Board Room: You know the Ode assessments for all of our

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WLWV Board Room: schools. and

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to find something that addresses our children with reading disabilities, but also our

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WLWV Board Room: second language learners our English second language learners, because what we're

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WLWV Board Room: what we're providing is not the right fit for them. It's not an inclusive practice. Culturally a receptive for them.

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WLWV Board Room: And, as I said earlier, Boone's Ferry.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, they're at 37%. Their Latino population was 12% literacy. Lowry's 59%. The Latino population's, 31% literacy.

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WLWV Board Room: sunset, 69%. Their Latino population is 47,

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WLWV Board Room: and then stafford is 63% proficient at literacy.

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WLWV Board Room: But and they didn't have it they have like one student that's in the Latino population.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, when I was doing my tour last week, they were saying.

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WLWV Board Room: Melissa was saying that you know that could be like a pilot program moving forward to to show the other districts of how they're doing the large groups, and then the teachers will go off with a smaller group.

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WLWV Board Room: and I thought, oh, okay. But then I realized. you know, is that going to work?

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WLWV Board Room: Is that whatever they're doing is that diverse enough to

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WLWV Board Room: work in Wilsonville, where, you know, Stafford has one Latino student. But then, Wilsonville, a lot of our you know. Schools have more of a diverse population.

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to make sure that when we are

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WLWV Board Room: looking at this, that we have some parameters in place, and that would be, you know, Lucy Culkin's found to some panel is not approved by Ode. I would I would

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WLWV Board Room: hope that the district would consider something that is, on that approved list. My other concern is

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WLWV Board Room: Governor Kotek is talking about completely revamping our literacy program with a solid focus on

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WLWV Board Room: a heavy, You know phonics and Lucy culkins and found just in panel, is not known for that. Not only that, but it's not approved.

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WLWV Board Room: so I would like to have those parameters, and I would like to

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WLWV Board Room: here from other.

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WLWV Board Room: from other phonics experts. because I,

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WLWV Board Room: you know, in the past, like us, we go Westland. We're always neck and neck. I mean

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WLWV Board Room: it. Just they were. And so I was looking, and they've done phonics for the last 5 years, and they've had a constant improvement. and they had a fall assessment

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WLWV Board Room: on or above grade level standards, and it was 54% in the fall, and it's jumped up to 71 for their winter assessment

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WLWV Board Room: and below grade level. In the fall there was 36% of their students. and winter was 20 at the latest assessment. It was just 25 of their students were below grade level.

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WLWV Board Room: and then I went and pulled, went on Ode and I pulled our at a glance.

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WLWV Board Room: Pre Covid for Westland Wilsonville. and I would say that we're not

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WLWV Board Room: strong, you know, strong in third grade language arts back in 2,017 2,018 we were 66% literacy.

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WLWV Board Room: and in 2,018 2,019 we were 69%. So I still feel that

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WLWV Board Room: we're missing the mark on finding a program that fits the majority of our students to give them the ability to succeed. because I do feel that

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WLWV Board Room: one of those articles that you sent me, and it said.

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WLWV Board Room: See, should you should acknowledge and support that the greatest avenue to reading, and that for all students is access to books and reading in their homes, schools, and community.

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WLWV Board Room: And I kind of have to disagree with that because I had a a struggling reader myself.

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WLWV Board Room: We, you know, we would get those scholastic little brochures, and you know he would get all excited, and we would, you know, order those books. We would go to the library.

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WLWV Board Room: It didn't matter how many books I had at home. He struggled.

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WLWV Board Room: and it, you know he. I gave him all the access he wanted, and he struggled to read.

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WLWV Board Room: and I just feel that we need to find something that addresses the the phonics component

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WLWV Board Room: in the beginning and in our key younger grades, because that is the basis for learning anything, whether it's science, math with story problems, social studies.

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WLWV Board Room: It all starts with literacy. and

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WLWV Board Room: we we can do better. I mean, I I don't want to continue with the

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WLWV Board Room: the data that I have. But you know, like us. As I said, like as we go.

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WLWV Board Room: they're

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WLWV Board Room: they're doing a phonics program. It's into reading, but they also have letters training. They've been doing this for 5 years.

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WLWV Board Room: and you know they have a

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WLWV Board Room: 7% Latino population. We have more than that, but

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WLWV Board Room: you know they are getting it. And same with their children with that have reading disabilities as as far as a dyslexia or some other hidden reading disability.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, I appreciate that. And I think you started by talking about Ames web data and benchmark data, and One of the things that might be useful is to look at

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WLWV Board Room: the percentages that you see in the At a glance. That's from the Osas

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WLWV Board Room: that's not looking at phonics. It's looking at. How do students put all of that together? So, of course, the component of phonics is is very, very important.

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WLWV Board Room: but there are some things in breaking that down, and that's exactly what

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WLWV Board Room: in a process we are doing. I think, when we

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WLWV Board Room: talk and you at the work, study session, and looking at the renewal process was at the end, and there was

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WLWV Board Room: language around finding the gaps. And that's exactly what I hear you talking about, and acknowledging that, and I I know that

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WLWV Board Room: in articles we there isn't any acknowledgment that having children have lots of books, is a way to teach reading. I mean. That's the way that you want to have that environment, you know, with a literacy rich classroom.

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WLWV Board Room: And you want to have reading materials, but that is no substitute for instruction.

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WLWV Board Room: The other thing that

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really want to to think about is

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WLWV Board Room: the materials of the materials and the h into reading Hope, Mifflin, Harcourt priest, you know that is not a phonics program. That's a comprehensive reading program, and what a number of districts are doing is from the Ode. List. There's some comprehensive reading programs. And then you look at

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WLWV Board Room: what do we need? Specifically? And it's a supplement because more and more in different subject areas. There's not just one package

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WLWV Board Room: material that does it all. So that's the direction that you know that we are looking. You want them to fit together.

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WLWV Board Room: and You mostly want to look at instructional practices and make sure that teachers have some training with

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WLWV Board Room: teaching phonics regardless of what you buy, so that that's the direction that we are going. And again, what you see there on that slide is really what captures what we believe. And you notice that it

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WLWV Board Room: it does talk about teaching phonics. It does talk about

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WLWV Board Room: that. You need to have some other experiences for students who need more support. So that's what we are looking for

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WLWV Board Room: we can say that one thing in in our district, with inclusive practices, an inclusive instruction, and our approach to Ld. And to working with students with Ips. We really look on the at those instructional practices that you have to adapt

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WLWV Board Room: for students to use curriculum. So you don't just give them a different thing to use. The teachers have to know how to use it when we do a thorough renewal process, they're involved in that. So you know, if you have a student who has a specific reading need one year.

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WLWV Board Room: but not for another 2 years. Well, if you've been part of

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WLWV Board Room: this is what we are doing to learn to teach reading again. That's not necessarily the fastest way to do it, but that is, you know the the reason that it has taken us a bit longer, and we have run these processes before. In the past, when we have been able to take

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WLWV Board Room: groups of teachers, you know, for half days at a time, and and that was not the reality in the 2,021 to school year.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. And I, I just want to say this is not meant

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WLWV Board Room: anything against the teachers. Every every classroom that I was witnessed was, you know, observing our teachers rock, I mean, they

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WLWV Board Room: are amazing, and

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WLWV Board Room: I think that we as a board, the best thing we can do is just give them the training and the right tools, and I want to make sure, moving forward, that that's also a part of it. But I would like to make sure that we're giving them a free open. No judgment

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WLWV Board Room: of ability access to give us any input that they want on what they're thinking. what their ideas are and what their choices are moving forward

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WLWV Board Room: with this curriculum adoption. And I think, can I just say something to that? I mean, that's exactly why our process involves more teachers. There are some districts where it's a small group

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WLWV Board Room: that

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WLWV Board Room: only deal with that adoption process, and we wanted to involve more teachers for exactly what you're describing, so it I appreciate hearing that.

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WLWV Board Room: But that means the small group goes back to their school

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WLWV Board Room: shares with the larger group. The larger group gets to be involved, gives feedback back to the representative group that comes back, so that back and forth recursive process is what involves more teachers to be able to have that voice Instead of

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WLWV Board Room: you know, a small group of teachers went away. For 3 days they got to look at stuff. They came back and

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WLWV Board Room: decided something.

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WLWV Board Room: and that's what we ended up with. That would be quick might get you something sooner than later. But what is it happening? Is folks, miss? Out

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WLWV Board Room: on the understanding of why something was selected, and getting to have a voice which is exactly what you're describing, and when the process is thorough it involves more people.

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WLWV Board Room: Then there's more ownership

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WLWV Board Room: of the materials of the training and a collective sense of of doing that work together and understanding it's Articulation, Grade, K. 5, and how we're all using the materials, and there's more buy in, because more teachers have been able to be a part of that process and have that voice.

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WLWV Board Room: So I appreciate hearing you describe that because that has been

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WLWV Board Room: our district's philosophy, and that's why we call it a renewal, and not just a an adoption of some materials, you know very quickly over and done. But a renewal involves looking at the research, looking at what we're currently doing, looking at the data. Where are the gaps getting more teachers involved in the process than looking at

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WLWV Board Room: materials, having them try some out, giving feedback, narrowing down that list until we get

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WLWV Board Room: the one that when we come to the board, and you ask us, is this the one that the teachers have determined is the best in order for them to be the best reading teachers, we can unequivocally say yes.

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WLWV Board Room: We had a very thorough process.

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WLWV Board Room: and most of the teachers want.

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WLWV Board Room: You know these materials because they've all had access, and a voice in that process.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: go ahead.

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WLWV Board Room: So I did email you before the meeting, just to say that I was gonna ask this. But I know. One of the questions that has come up was just when the current Ela curriculum was adopted and approved by the school board, and if we if it wasn't. If we don't have documentation of it.

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WLWV Board Room: Then what was the process that it came to be adopted so just that interest in? How did Lucy Cawkins that we currently use come to be adopted. And so I just think that would be helpful for the public to hear kind of the process and and and understanding behind that.

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WLWV Board Room: And that's just my first question, and then I have a couple more later. But

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WLWV Board Room: so the the Lucy Hawkins materials there were Lucy Cawkins units of writing, and Lucy Caulkins units of reading, and

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WLWV Board Room: our

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WLWV Board Room: those were started to being phased in, in, say, 2,011,

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WLWV Board Room: those working with curriculum, you know, at the time were finding that they were starting to

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WLWV Board Room: I I it was bigger than a pilot, worked with them in some of the schools, and then they were gradually added.

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WLWV Board Room: And

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WLWV Board Room: we do not have record of this coming before the the Board for a presentation of a process, and

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WLWV Board Room: we believe that was because it wasn't something that just happened.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, in one set like we have a defined process for the reading renewal right now.

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WLWV Board Room: but that these materials were added. Prior to that, my understanding was, there was sort of a

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WLWV Board Room: not a set of materials, but it was a process called the the Daily 5, where there were practices taught in literacy.

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WLWV Board Room: So in bringing those in, you know, and bringing the writing units in, and then the reading units. It just was something that was more of a replacement, a gradual replacement as opposed to a wholesale

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WLWV Board Room: adoption.

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WLWV Board Room: and I know that being asked, and when there were, you know. Even as for public Records request, we didn't want to be

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WLWV Board Room: disingenuous. But to say that's what our understanding was was that happened, and I know when, for example, some of us who are now working with curriculum

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WLWV Board Room: in 2,014 and 15, started working with professional learning. you know intensive professional learning around using those materials.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: that's that's a process that that was or was not in place at that time, and I appreciate that because I think there isn't anything that anyone wants to hide here, You know that's what happened. But I I do. You know we understand that if you think well

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WLWV Board Room: what happened with the last adoption, and that wasn't on the list. And I think that also carries over to at the work session, where the request was, Explain what you're using now, and how you're using it. If that was, you know, construed as, and this is what we want to keep doing just the way we are. You know that

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WLWV Board Room: that's not correct. I mean, this was leading into. So now, what are some elements of our practice that we would keep.

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WLWV Board Room: and those would tend to be in the practice, not the materials and part of that would be. Yes, we will keep rich classroom libraries.

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WLWV Board Room: We'll have decodable books in them more systematically, you know, would be just one example of that, but it has nothing to do with keeping the specific materials.

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WLWV Board Room: Follow up questions. So my first follow up question is. is. were there different guidelines from the State at that time as required like? So now we know that we as a board, are supposed to adopt curriculum. So was it different at that

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WLWV Board Room: we were where the State guidelines different. That's one of my questions. And then my other question is.

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WLWV Board Room: do we have record at least of so you said we phased in Lucy Cawkins. But do we have record at least of looking at Lucy Caucins and comparing it to okay. These are the state standards.

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WLWV Board Room: These are the State expectations, and this is how this curriculum fulfills that. So those are my 2 follow up questions. So

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WLWV Board Room: the first one Yes, there there is a there is a and and was an alignment

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WLWV Board Room: with the the State with the common core, which came into place in 2,010. And so I don't know that it was that started at first, but there definitely was an alignment because we ran some of our own writing assessments in years. After that that we're definitely based on state standards.

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WLWV Board Room: and the State standards

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WLWV Board Room: are definitely within that curriculum. So that was, you know, that was checked. I wouldn't say that the state of Oregon had different guidelines for that adoption, but

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WLWV Board Room: they I don't think it was as formalized the processes that they used. Now, if you go and you look at instructional materials, you'll see that there are those

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WLWV Board Room: for specific documents that outline both the timeline, and then they outline. You know the the processes for looking at materials.

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WLWV Board Room: so I wouldn't say it wasn't there, but it's definitely formalized. It's definitely more a clear part of division, 22, and

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WLWV Board Room: I think this acknowledgment that there will continue to be more clarity and tightness of that process, but that they were still there. You still, you know, had a state approved list

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WLWV Board Room: in.

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WLWV Board Room: you know. I'm thinking back to when it was not in this position, but you know I remember it in like 2,008, you know you would have state approved list, as most states do I'm: sorry I do have one more question. And then, yeah, and then my

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WLWV Board Room: last question for right now is so. When I was looking at you know just kind of organ department of education and doing my own kind of, you know, learning.

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WLWV Board Room: I came upon a page that said instructional materials, adoption, schedule, and it. It was revised in June, 2,018. No, I'm sorry. It was revised in June 2,020, probably with, you know, after the pandemic and knowing that

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WLWV Board Room: kind of pushing things off. But it has one column that says revised Oregon State review cycle, and it lists all of the different subject areas, mathematics, science, health and physical education, social sciences, etc. And then it says, the next column is

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WLWV Board Room: for when it needs to be in for use in classrooms by fall. So when I look at that, and I look at the Ela curriculum, it says that it needs to be in classrooms by fall of 2,022, and I know that's what we're addressing right now you know, asking for that postponement. But as I go down the list. Then I look, and it says mathematics

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for you in classrooms by 2,023,

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WLWV Board Room: which would be next fall and then science for use in classrooms, 2,024. And so I guess when I see that I wonder we have not if i'm

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WLWV Board Room: we haven't started the mathematics process.

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WLWV Board Room: I just want to make sure we're not Well, we did, but mathematics. We started because the other thing. Now, when the state of Oregon revised this. you know, you can't assume that every district is on the same 7 or 8 year cycle. So, for example, we had purchased

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WLWV Board Room: K. 5 materials.

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WLWV Board Room: the ones that were we purchased the longest to go was high school. So before the pandemic we did in 2,019

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WLWV Board Room: 20, we adopted high School math. We are

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WLWV Board Room: now doing middle school math, and we will then be looking at. Then we'll come up for K. 5 again

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WLWV Board Room: last. But we are going to be adopting the reading materials. First, because one of the unique things in K. 5 is those teachers teach everything. So when you adopt for social studies, science.

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WLWV Board Room: Eli Math, and you take groups of teachers you have to be, you know, thoughtful of how much they can do at one time, but we will be following the English language Arts adoption in reading with K. 5 mathematics again.

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WLWV Board Room: But Kate K. K. 5 was the last group to get new materials before, so that is a a reason that ode also recognizes and has this postponement.

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WLWV Board Room: because sometimes there it's for finances. Sometimes it's for things like Well, our materials were before you put out this new timeline we had just adopted

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WLWV Board Room: those materials. So does that mean we'll have to fill out a postponement form for math for next fall. because we won't, because it says for use in classrooms by fall. So we would then fill out a postponement and say, and then get on. Because this is Why, now that they made this new timeline, you have to kind of get yourself back on cycle.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, Thank you. Because it was yeah, Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: just 2 questions. One might be pretty straightforward, and one might be a little harder. And so.

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WLWV Board Room: recognizing that when. during the renewal process.

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WLWV Board Room: do we assume or start. Do we have the assumption in place that we will be selecting when something is proposed to the Board here in about a year. You know 14 months, whatever that that the curriculum would be from an Ode approved list. Is that a safe?

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WLWV Board Room: That's the easy question. And then the other question is just sort of a curiosity, because I I have a lot of trust in you, Dr. Soy, and in your process, and i'm I know you're a consummate professional and expert here.

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WLWV Board Room: and i'm just curious if you could speak to just one or 2 things, maybe, that you you and you feel like your team has learned, so far as you've been embarked in this process like the past few months, or you know 6, 9 months. Can you just tell me something you're already seeing.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, we're seeing that

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WLWV Board Room: we do have a wide range of teacher experience with teaching phonics. I think that was the other thing that you know. We just realized that when we say yes, I'm teaching phonics, or are we using materials, or are we actually

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WLWV Board Room: teaching phonics? We are also seeing that some of our. I guess there's some data that it's not all the same, leading up to the percentages on osas we've seen in Mac in map nwa map. We've seen some

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WLWV Board Room: growth strength, you know there's achievement. And then there's growth, and we see that in some grade levels, because you also want to look at progress Students are making not just benchmarks sort of thing. So those are.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, 2 big patterns that we've seen. We've seen

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WLWV Board Room: that I think we do have, and that's what we try to grow. We actually try to grow some common interest, and I think we've seen that

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WLWV Board Room: most of our teachers would welcome a a change, and some shifts in not necessarily what we call the reading workshop, but

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WLWV Board Room: some materials. We've also seen that there's some parts of when we talk about workshop. We talk about some routines where there's some direct instruction

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WLWV Board Room: from the teacher.

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WLWV Board Room: and then students have some times when they work in different small groups where you can do

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WLWV Board Room: some work with groups as they need specific support. You can do some reinforcement. and we've seen that when that is really in place. It really supports the use of

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WLWV Board Room: curriculum, because there's something direct. Everyone gets it. That's exactly, you know, clear to students, but then it's not just

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WLWV Board Room: practice. There's some actual group work that is is very structured. So we've seen that when that is in place.

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WLWV Board Room: students tend to do better, you know, with with reading.

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WLWV Board Room: So those are 3 big ones I could

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WLWV Board Room: I go on

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WLWV Board Room: for like I see that you have your hand on your mic. Should I continue with what i'm about to say. Are you okay? So I I think we've we've been discussing this for quite some time, and we're about an hour behind what we thought we would be at, and we still quite a bit of public comment to go.

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so I think it could be helpful to get a motion on the table, and then we can see if there's any further discussion before we call a vote.

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WLWV Board Room: I move to approve the postponement of the districts. K 5 literacy renewal from implementation during the fall of 2,022 to implementation during the fall of 2,024 for Oregon Department of education's requirement.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll second it all right. So we got the motion in the second. And is there any further discussion before we call the vote?

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WLWV Board Room: Bye.

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I I guess I

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WLWV Board Room: I have a question and a comment. I'll start with my comment.

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WLWV Board Room: I reached out to

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WLWV Board Room: a teacher in the district that I have a relationship with, just to get

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WLWV Board Room: kind of an unfiltered

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WLWV Board Room: view of what is currently being taught versus the things that we hear.

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WLWV Board Room: You know out there, and I just wanted to have a better understanding of what

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WLWV Board Room: their lived. Experience was, versus what all the science and the books, and the and everything else says, and

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WLWV Board Room: some of the talking points that that came back. We're good for

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WLWV Board Room: good bad. I don't, I mean I don't think they were good orbit, and I mean they

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WLWV Board Room: and some of the positive things that

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WLWV Board Room: that I heard from this individuals that the writing it's excellent with Lucy cawkins the fiction versus non-fictions, and they the progress that she was seeing in.

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WLWV Board Room: For students

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WLWV Board Room: love the concept of the freedom that they have to evaluate students and make adjustments along the way.

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WLWV Board Room: even using this program. So they as a teacher, they're monitoring each kid that they are teaching to see their their progress

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WLWV Board Room: felt. It was a little wordy. Lucy Caucins could be a little wordy and a little cumbersome at times, but

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WLWV Board Room: but they're also always supplementing to to bring in the things that maybe where they're short falls

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WLWV Board Room: sound like there's some materials coming for K. Through 5, but not at the upper level. So what'd like to seeing some of this

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WLWV Board Room: things that we're talking about with K. Through 5 be offered

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WLWV Board Room: at the upper levels with middle school and high school for kids that didn't have the opportunity to have access to some of the new stuff that you put in place

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WLWV Board Room: and grade 4, 5, I believe no phonics. But district is adding materials for that

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WLWV Board Room: is my understanding.

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WLWV Board Room: and which what she was explaining to me, she always goes back. What's the purpose of reading right? And so in any curriculum, no matter if it's changed, or it's existing curriculum. She tends to fall back on what's the purpose of learning how to read.

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WLWV Board Room: to help influence, because, no matter what you offer a teacher. They're not going to teach it from page one. the page 110, the way that it's laid out.

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WLWV Board Room: They're probably going to use their favorite 20 pages of it. and then they're going to get supplemental documents, and then they're going to add the art to the science. What makes them

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WLWV Board Room: what they are right, which is why, every time we ask students about what their experiences in school they always name their favorite teacher, and I like him or her, because they do this, and they feel like I belong, or they help me when I feel like i'm failing, or they reward me when I feel like i'm succeeding.

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WLWV Board Room: So I think teachers are doing an amazing job, and I think they'll do an amazing job of no matter what they're given to deal with.

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WLWV Board Room: But one of the other things that came back was, I said, Well.

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WLWV Board Room: if your program was to be just ripped out of your hands, and you had to have a whole new thing to start teaching. How would that impact you? And the response was that

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WLWV Board Room: that would be more harmful than good.

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WLWV Board Room: and I was surprised to hear that

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WLWV Board Room: because what I was also surprised to hear was that

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WLWV Board Room: her reflection on her history in this district was that

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WLWV Board Room: our district tends to grow things in there and then. The teachers are scrambling to adapt to learn these new things every 2 years.

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WLWV Board Room: and if we were to do that again. It would be this continuance of the district

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WLWV Board Room: just making the chick teachers jump through hoops. And now.

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WLWV Board Room: he said, she's already planning 8 subjects. Sel has Chinese 2 times a week, and so they're so short on time that

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WLWV Board Room: when are they going to have time to be trained and learn something new in such a short period of time. right? And so that had a big impact on

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WLWV Board Room: me sitting here tonight and having to make a decision, because as much as I want to rush this thing forward, and I don't know how i'm voting. I'm torn on this whole thing. I have to be honest.

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WLWV Board Room: but

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WLWV Board Room: the fact that they don't have any time to to do this with 8 subjects it does make me.

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WLWV Board Room: and she made it clear that she doesn't speak on behalf of all teachers right. This was just her lived experience.

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WLWV Board Room: And so what I know of her. She's been here a long time. She's a straight shooter.

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WLWV Board Room: and the fact that she gave it to me the way I wanted to hear it was was like a I was cheering down the street when I was driving here I was like out finally

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WLWV Board Room: somebody who's not afraid to talk in front of administration, someone who's not afraid that if they speak, then they're gonna. you know. Take off one of the colleagues, and so just to get it that way. But

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WLWV Board Room: she also ended with saying that

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WLWV Board Room: she did believe that whatever our next act is that it that she felt it should be an Ode approved

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WLWV Board Room: program because her feeling was that

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WLWV Board Room: Od. Has a lot of resources, and they don't just pick something and put it on there, and those resources go out and find and research, and do all these things. and that Oregon is pretty progressive when it comes to education. Her view.

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WLWV Board Room: Some people might say, we're not, but and so there was trust in the Ode List is, is the bottom line.

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WLWV Board Room: And so if there was going to be a change, then it she felt it should come from an ode program, and they would adapt if they have time to to do it. So I I wanted to share that, because it was

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WLWV Board Room: time that I put into have a conversation with a person from their perspective.

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WLWV Board Room: But I guess.

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WLWV Board Room: as some of our

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WLWV Board Room: public said tonight. I mean I would. I mean it's hard for me to vote on something just on pure, blind faith, and I do have trust in all of you also, just as Chelsea and I think the rest of the board.

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WLWV Board Room: But there's no way on God's given earth that I would walk in with my profession and tell someone that I want you to give me your life savings.

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WLWV Board Room: and I just need you to sign this blank document and know that i'm going to come up with an idea that I know will work for you. So you give me all your money, and i'll be back

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WLWV Board Room: right. That wouldn't work for me. I mean it it. But I also understand that in private business. The process is different than in public education, so I don't want to sound like, you know. So I you know I I I say, that just to

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WLWV Board Room: ask, is there going to be

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WLWV Board Room: because you've been doing this work? Is there going to be something presented

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WLWV Board Room: to us that, hey? We've looked at option a, B and C one that supports what we have.

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WLWV Board Room: one that tweaks it, or one that just wrecking balls it, and we bring in a whole new concept. Are we going to have that type of opportunity to make an educated decision on how we represent

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WLWV Board Room: this whole place?

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WLWV Board Room: You have a couple of really good questions in there, I think. And first of all, the time piece

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WLWV Board Room: our district, in addition to a a process that involves teachers thoroughly, and you know, looks at that student learning data

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on the other end.

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WLWV Board Room: There's 2 years of spending time with using, so it's not just now. It's something else in working with those materials. And that means that principles devote those Wednesday afternoon when

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WLWV Board Room: children go home from school early to that professional learning, so that they have time to actually work with it with their colleagues.

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WLWV Board Room: Then, in terms of what actually does the new curriculum when that comes forward? Yes, absolutely, we will be bringing that forward with the process, and you will approve that process. The only thing that this vote is about

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is saying.

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WLWV Board Room: We approve that you didn't adopt in 2,022.

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WLWV Board Room: You have to have materials by 2,024, but it doesn't preclude you from giving staff direction about the move faster.

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WLWV Board Room: So I I just want to be clear about that. It it's by 2,024. That's an endpoint fall 2,024. The actual postponement vote is just approving

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WLWV Board Room: that. So sometimes, as things get confused.

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WLWV Board Room: it's it for me.

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WLWV Board Room: all right. It's. I don't want to go past you. If you want to say something. I just.

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WLWV Board Room: I think just one again for some clarity. What is the vote about tonight? Because I know there's 2 things. There's a lot of interest in the renewal process. What we're going to get.

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WLWV Board Room: how teachers are going to be involved, what's going to be presented to the Board if you want it sooner than February that that's separate

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WLWV Board Room: from the ask that's here tonight, which is, we didn't get the materials in in this fall.

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WLWV Board Room: We'll get them in at least by next fall. So

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WLWV Board Room: we need to be able to submit that we need to be able to send on that document that Director Sleuth was holding up, and there shouldn't be any surprises about what we fill on it, because we provided that information. It's. It's what our current program is, and you know the reason why

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WLWV Board Room: the need for for the postponement was was there.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's very simple for us to fill out and give exactly that information, and we want to be able to get that to Ode right away.

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WLWV Board Room: so that now we can shift and focus on the bigger piece, which is what I hear a lot of interest in which is, what are we doing going forward? And what is that renewal process going to involve?

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WLWV Board Room: So what i'd like to do is

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WLWV Board Room: we're gonna call the vote. But before we do that i'd like to just say what Director Wyatt emailed me, and she couldn't be here. And then i'll just speak a little bit. I'll just kind of explain the the direction i'm going to vote and speak to. Why so, Dr. Director Wyatt had said that she was in support of the procedural postponement

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WLWV Board Room: for, and she gave a bulleted list. And it was things like this is really only about complying with an ode timeline. It doesn't mean that we're stepping away from best practices with our early readers

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WLWV Board Room: that this vote is more procedural. It doesn't slow, the the the steady and determined work that we're doing to review and renew the literacy curriculum, so that it will work for all students.

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WLWV Board Room: And basically a point around that that trying to fast track by not approving this to to use that as a tactic to fast track. A process that's already underway is not

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WLWV Board Room: the appropriate approach, and would deviate from. You know best practices that we follow as a district.

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WLWV Board Room: She She has several more points, so I think that that's enough to kind of give a sense of where she was falling. We don't do proxy boats, so you know, she just wanted to voice kind of where she would land.

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WLWV Board Room: And then i'll just say, based on what I'm hearing from our parents and the materials that I took in

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WLWV Board Room: from them, and what i'm hearing from you, Dr. Soy and i'll vote Yes, to approve this ode requirement, and i'm making that vote based on a few things. One is yes, the form is blank. And yes, we had a thorough presentation that's gonna populate that form. So I understand that I I was just delivered the content that's gonna be placed into that form.

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WLWV Board Room: and that I I I trust our administrators in the process that you go through. And so when you tell me that that content is gonna populate that form. I believe you.

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And then also just a recognition that that this is an ode requirement. And it it did allow us to have another robust discussion. And what I'm really hearing is that

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WLWV Board Room: you know the board is gonna get regular updates at any point the Board can ask for another update that doesn't go away. and

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WLWV Board Room: that the process will be robust, robust, that you are involving, and will continue to involve educators voices, and I know we already have been listening to parents. They're shaping the process already by you know their advocacy.

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and we've been responding to their advocacy, and you know that will continue. That's not going to stop.

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WLWV Board Room: and so I know that those steps and are are already going to be in place. That voting voting. Yes, to this allows us to file that with ode, and just continue the process that we're doing to choose an ode recommended

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WLWV Board Room: curriculum, which is what i'm hearing you say we plan to do so. A lot of what I'm hearing our advocates ask for. I'm seeing is it's it's happening. It's in place we're doing it, and so I feel comfortable, saying yes to a procedural move with ode, trusting that the process will be robust.

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WLWV Board Room: and I invite, if anybody else wants to say anything about which direction they're going to vote you're welcome to. Otherwise. If not, we can call the vote.

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WLWV Board Room: I i'm all right. My microphone wasn't on. I just want to say I appreciate your sense of urgency, and the fact that you mentioned that

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WLWV Board Room: you know we need to have it in place by fall 2,024. But we are looking to see how we can possibly even speed that up, and and what I didn't here was. Speed it up just to get something in, you know, to get something earlier. But

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WLWV Board Room: as Chair King talked about that, it would, it would be a robust good process, but with also that sense that we want to do best for our kids. And so

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WLWV Board Room: we I know we've always tried to do that, and I. You always talk about Dr. Ludwig the Maya Maya Angelo.

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Her quote about you. Do the best

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WLWV Board Room: you can until you know better, and then you do better. It's something I know that's not perfect. But I think about that in this terms.

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you know it sounds like based on

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WLWV Board Room: yes. what the thinking was earlier we adopted what we felt was best, and now we're learning things, and maybe we know a little bit better. And so we understand

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WLWV Board Room: that now we want to do better for our kids or different, whatever that might mean. But I just want to say I appreciate that sense of urgency. I asked that question during the work session that we had

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about. Hey, when we first rolled it out? Is it possible to speed up this process? And I hear that there is that sense. The other thing I would say is that I do.

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WLWV Board Room: I mean, there's part of me that would really like to see the form. I certainly do trust, and I know you've presented it. But i'm wondering if at least we could. The the board could receive a copy Once it's filled, you know I I know you've talked about what you're gonna put on it, but I do think just due diligence follow up. It would be wonderful once it has been submitted

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WLWV Board Room: that if the Board all received it, just so we had it. That would be great.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And i'll be boarding to approve.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, Miss Douglas, please call the vote.

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WLWV Board Room: Try to slow. Hi. Dr. Taylor

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WLWV Board Room: checking. All right.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, Great. Thank you. So that concludes all of our agenda items, and we'll move on to the public comment portion

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WLWV Board Room: and thank you for those of you who are sticking it out. I will

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WLWV Board Room: revisit some of our guidelines for public comment before I call you up. This is the for folks who signed up here. It's for folks who are

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WLWV Board Room: speaking to

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WLWV Board Room: items that are not on the agenda. and you do live in the Westland Wilsonville school district.

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WLWV Board Room: and just in case you were not here earlier, I think a couple of main things are that you get 3 min.

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WLWV Board Room: Please come up to the podium and

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WLWV Board Room: address the board. You might not see us.

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WLWV Board Room: or you won't. See us respond and engage in dialogue. That's because we're listening, and we ask you to direct your comments this direction. Since you're addressing the board rather than turning around and addressing the camera or some outside audience other than the board.

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WLWV Board Room: and everybody's been doing a fantastic job of not coughing and booing for the most part. That's great. We try to hold a certain decorum, and so don't, clap, or boo, or anything like that from the audience.

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WLWV Board Room: If you have a complaint about an individual. Then we have a separate complaint process that we ask you to follow, and that can be found on the district website. Doing so in the public meeting here is not the process that we follow?

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WLWV Board Room: I think that that's it. Yeah. all right. So I will begin calling you up.

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WLWV Board Room: and I will start with Catherine Pellegrin.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! My comment is regarding something that's already been resolved, and I was thankful for the outcome of the library committee meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: However, I wanted to express my views. Nonetheless. My name is Katherine Pellegrin. I'm speaking here tonight in response to the recent opinions voiced in support of banning books from our school libraries.

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WLWV Board Room: I've been a resident of Westland for 11 years, and i'm the mother of a Rosamond Ridge, sixth grader, as well as a class of 22 Westland High School graduate. I'm. Incredibly grateful for the education that both of my children have been privileged to receive.

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WLWV Board Room: while both of my children have vastly different interests. Their learning has been unconditionally nurtured by an outstanding group of teachers, administrators, coaches, and librarians. At a time where our country is experiencing unprecedented division

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WLWV Board Room: the value of an unbiased educational approach is critical, for every student's voice can be heard, honored and seen, no matter who they are or what they believe. The adolescent and teenage years are an incredible, incredibly delicate time for our kids. It is a time of uncertainty discovery, curiosity and joy.

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WLWV Board Room: and sometimes loneliness self-doubt and trauma. providing support from every angle during these years is essential, and in some instances life-saving

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WLWV Board Room: we are all unique. And it is our duty as adults as parents and as educators to support and celebrate each child, no matter who they are. Access to literature that represents all children, is paramount.

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WLWV Board Room: Literature provides infinite benefits. including showing an expanded view of the world. offering new perspectives, escapism, developing empathy, fostering new ideas and helping to prepare the reader for the future.

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WLWV Board Room: The right book can provide recognition and even validation of an idea or feeling to the reader who might have otherwise felt alone awkward or insecure about books, provide a path for understanding complex issues, and young people deserve to see themselves reflected in what they read.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm proud to live in a country that does not restrict how I express my opinions, who I marry, what religious religion I practice, or what I read.

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WLWV Board Room: The attempt to infringe on these rights is rooted in political ideology and moral prescriptivism. The notion that a fellow parent, not an educator, should dictate the books that are available to our kids is simply outrageous.

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WLWV Board Room: and this great country. Every family can freely decide on the value system that reflects reflects their beliefs. This is what makes us uniquely American.

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WLWV Board Room: and I have a warning to the group in support of this moral policing. If your child has ever used the Internet be it for casual searching, gaming, or social media.

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WLWV Board Room: they have been exposed to far greater dangerous material than what will ever be found on our library shelves. The content of the books in question, in contrast to the violence, pornography, predatory behavior, bullying and harassment online cannot even be prepared.

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WLWV Board Room: If your kid isn't watching this at home, I guarantee you they will elsewhere. This my fellow parents is where our children are most vulnerable. Not in their school libraries. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Jeff Garcia.

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WLWV Board Room: Before I get started. I just want to say thank you to Kelly. The work that you do for the board is amazing, and I think that goes, and being a day of respect and and representation, Thank you. So

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WLWV Board Room: good evening. My name is Jeff. Garcia, and I do have children attending our schools. I'm here to thank our Review Committee first and foremost, for rebuking these demands from the quote Unquote Organs, Moms Union

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WLWV Board Room: Boy. It was absolutely embarrassing that our district was making the news for the wrong reason, reasons, joining the likes of Florida in Texas. I'm. Very proud of the work that you have done. And now we can focus on the real issues that are affecting our students.

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History has proven time and again, that inclusion and access to information is far more beneficial than exclusion.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for striving to create an inclusive environment that respects and values. Diversity protects our first amendment rights and our kids access to these literary masterpieces. If your child access something that you told them not to from one of their friends. Well, that's a parenting issue that needs to be addressed between you and your child.

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WLWV Board Room: This mom's union has made it clear that they will not stop at protesting. These 8 books. If you look into their post by this group and the other members of this group, They're also against the American Library Association. They're against the National School Board Association. They're actively encouraging teachers, our teachers to leave their unions, and they're pushing back on climate, curriculum, gender, inclusivity, and more.

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WLWV Board Room: They've already stated that discuss the discussing rape in literature is equivalent to pornography. That's disgusting rape is a violent crime. And it to label it as anything else other than a prime.

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WLWV Board Room: is completely reprehensible. Let's be real. This was never about pornography or drugs in books, or protecting our kids as they try to claim. This was simply about them, imposing their beliefs on everyone else, especially evident when the 2 Union Captain's children are already graduated and are homeschooled.

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WLWV Board Room: And furthermore, it is deplorably unacceptable that one of the only you, Captain stated, and I quote

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WLWV Board Room: being gay, is a sin.

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WLWV Board Room: But in that last meeting, they said, they don't have any issues with Lgbtq community. Is that not hypocrisy or misleading? At the very least. such harmful and hateful discriminatory beliefs have absolutely no place in our community, and they create a toxic environment for all of our students, not just the Lgbtq students.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for setting up against hate, and rejecting this bigotry and racism in all of its forms. We must not rest, and we have to continue to disavow this group and any any other group that tries to erase, ignore, cancel, or ban important factual aspects of our history. Nor will they be able to infringe upon our first amendment right by attacking important literary masterpieces that address factual, real world issues like sexual assault and drug addiction.

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WLWV Board Room: or simply coming up age with questions about oneself, and not having a parent. You believe that you can trust

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WLWV Board Room: our LGBT community, deserves respect and representation in literacy. They deserve representation and art in history. And look. I know that facts can be hard to believe, but sometimes climate change is real. Gender is different from sex, and no, you cannot get a concussion from reading a damn book all scientifically proven. In fact. Yeah, racism and bigotry are clearly still alive and shabble priority history

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WLWV Board Room: at Johann Olivier.

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That was a good try. Your first of all, i'd like to thank the Board for their very, very difficult job that they do day in, day out, and it's clearly become a lot more complex.

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WLWV Board Room: I came here tonight because I heard about

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Banning books

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WLWV Board Room: that bought me here and made me stay till now. I'd like to thank the board. because I see that there's a rigorous process in place to ensure

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WLWV Board Room: that those that would ban books to not have their way without very thoughtful

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WLWV Board Room: and comprehensive process.

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WLWV Board Room: So thank you very much. I'm mollified. I'm not going to take up my time. I can take any more more time of the folks here this evening. But thank you very much.

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WLWV Board Room: I appreciate the work you do. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Brian Beau.

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WLWV Board Room: I may have lost Brian

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to the clock.

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WLWV Board Room: Jenna Wrangle.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Jenna Randall, and I'm here to bring awareness to an ongoing issue at Lowry Primary, which some of you may or may not be aware of

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WLWV Board Room: lowry struggles with elevated Radon levels which has been a known issue since 2,020 Finally, in the summer, of 2,022. They renovated their h back system with the intent of it, lowering the amount of Radon present in the building.

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WLWV Board Room: While it did improve the overall levels. There were a number of rooms that were still at dangerous levels, and over 4 piccuries, which, according to the EPA, is considered hazardous.

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WLWV Board Room: At the beginning of the school year they were aware that the Radon issue had not yet been resolved. However, they chose to not disclose this to the parents.

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WLWV Board Room: One classroom in particular, has especially high levels, but regardless students were placed in the classroom since the beginning of the school year, and not one parent of the students in that classroom was made aware.

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WLWV Board Room: Larry spent 6 months calibrating the H back system in this classroom, knowing that it wasn't functioning as they hoped it would. A Rad on level test was conducted early February, and 5 rooms came back with dangerous levels of Radon, one in particular classroom coming in at 7.4 almost double what the EPA deems a safe level of Radon.

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WLWV Board Room: The EPA also states that Radon poses a greater health risk to children than adults.

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WLWV Board Room: My six-year-old twin daughters, starting their kindergarten year at Lowry, were in the classroom with the highest level of Radon.

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WLWV Board Room: The school placed children in a classroom that they were well aware, had dangerous levels of Radon, and it was not disclosed. The offer-mentioned classroom has now been shut down, and moved to a new room.

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WLWV Board Room: Last year students were placed in the same classroom with high rate on levels with no mitigation, plan and effect. How can it be acceptable for a school to willingly place our children in toxic classrooms without as much as disclosing the risk to parents

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WLWV Board Room: as a community. We place trust in the hands of our school administrators, and they opted to gamble with the health and safety of our children.

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WLWV Board Room: This is a public health issue, and should have been disclosed to the parents of every student in the school.

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WLWV Board Room: Ultimately the health and safety of our children reside on the parents, and we should have been given, and we should have been made aware, and given the choice to proceed. Elect a different classroom, or possibly a different school.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Melissa miracle.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Melissa Miracle, and my daughter Audrey is 6 years old, and in kindergarten at Lowry Primary

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WLWV Board Room: on February 20 third, I got an email along with the rest of the parents at the school, stating that 5 of the 38 locations tested for Radon were above 4.0 picocuries per liter, which is safety, which is a safety limit established by the EPA.

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WLWV Board Room: At that time there was no communication about exactly where in the school the high levels of Radon were.

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WLWV Board Room: 5 days later I got a second email, stating that my daughter's classroom was one of the locations that tested higher than 4, and had, in fact, tested at 7.4 picocuries per liter nearly double the acceptable limit.

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WLWV Board Room: The Administration informed us that they were moving the class to a new room out of an abundance of caution, their words. such high rate on such high test results.

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WLWV Board Room: and the decision to move classrooms was alarming news for parents. The last time this classroom had been tested was in 2,020, and it had tested at 7.5 piccuries per liter.

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WLWV Board Room: which means that Lowry's administration made the decision to place children in a classroom with known high Radon levels for the entire 2,021, 2,022 school year. And then again, when school started at the beginning of this year.

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WLWV Board Room: neither instance where parents of incoming kindergarteners informed of the Radon levels in the classroom or the school.

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WLWV Board Room: In addition. Pat Mcguff, the Director of Operations, explained that since the test performed in 2,020, the 2,023 test revealed 4 new locations where Radon measured above 4.0 picocuries per liter. And because of this he called the situation, quote a building wide problem.

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WLWV Board Room: What I and many parents are angry about is the lack of transparent, detailed, and timely communication by the Lowry administration to the parent community about the Radon levels, their locations, and how the Administration plans to mitigate this building wide problem. Moving forward.

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WLWV Board Room: we understand that the Lowry Administration has done everything legally required of them in terms of read on testing attempts at mitigation and informing parents. However, this is clearly not sufficient to maintain the safety of our kids and the trust of our parents.

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WLWV Board Room: My hope is that you all would agree with me that it's not ethical to usher in kindergarteners into a classroom with known hazardous levels of Radon, without first informing parents.

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WLWV Board Room: I am asking you to amend the Radon testing and Protocols plan that was adopted in 2,016. I would like you to include protocols for actively informing parents of recent radon levels. At the beginning of the school year.

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WLWV Board Room: After a test, all parents should be notified of hazardous results. Their locations and detailed plans to mitigate.

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WLWV Board Room: We deserve updates on mitigation and proof that it has worked. We expect and deserve a higher ethical standard from lowry, administration, and the district. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Lauren Z. Really.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. My name is Lauren Zarelli, and my daughter Nora is a kindergartner at Lowry Primary school. I grew up in this district I went to a Lambet athe and west line.

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WLWV Board Room: On February the 20 eighth I received an email advising my child's classroom exceeded the 4.

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WLWV Board Room: I can't see it per liter of error, action level

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WLWV Board Room: with an exact reading of 7.4. These are our babies where Radon lives at the bottom. I went and volunteered. In those classrooms those kids sit right on the floor where all the Radon is supposed to build.

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WLWV Board Room: I no idea what this meant. I had my house tested for Radon before, because it's a common Oregon practice. Nothing was disclosed to our family prior to the school year, starting when we. and we

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WLWV Board Room: and all we had to do was to start digging for answers and demanding clarification and transparency.

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WLWV Board Room: We met with the current administration, and honestly i'm disappointed by the response we've received. And this is why i'm here. The communication we have received is not acceptable. There should be guidelines in place to keep impacted, families and staff informed.

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WLWV Board Room: We've been given platitudes without guarantee of action or urgency. We've asked for follow ups and a plan for communication and the responses we have received are less than satisfactory.

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WLWV Board Room: We all have the same goal here to create a welcoming and safe place for students to learn and thrive. So i'd like to use my time to focus on the Westland Wilsonville School District Radon Mitigation plan that was signed by the Director of Operations in 2,016 in response to Hb. 2 931 which would later became Ors 332.1 6 6 1 6 7,

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WLWV Board Room: I'm. Asking for a media implementation of a communication and education strategy to the Westland Wilsonville, Radon testing protocols, the lack of communication and transparency gives the parents that the school and district are trying to hide the issue. If there is nothing to hide and help us build back trust which has been lost.

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WLWV Board Room: The communication and education strategy should include, but is not limited to at the every. At the start of every school year new and returning families should be advised of the Radon mitigation plan and dates of testing and levels in the classroom. In common areas every room should contain a posting visible to all students, staff and visitors, other rooms

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WLWV Board Room: mit Ctl. And date stamped and advising of the most recent levels measured. Lastly, a detailed communication plan to update and educate staff students and families impacted in every classroom, undergoing, testing and or mitigation where testing levels were above the 4 level. This would include regular

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WLWV Board Room: emails 30 days for the Administration to provide us with a status update, something that I have begged and pleaded with getting a regular update.

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WLWV Board Room: This

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WLWV Board Room: would provide us with updates. Also an advertised town hall of experts, including administrations, operations, and subject matter, experts to address questions and concerns.

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WLWV Board Room: In conclusion, my expectation is that the Westland Wilsonville school district will choose to demonstrate to the students staff and families that our concerns are being hurt, and immediate action is taking place. We shouldn't be here begging for the safety of our children.

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WLWV Board Room: Karen Selvetti

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feels good to stand up for a second.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. It continues to be stated that library books are not curriculum that they are supplemental.

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WLWV Board Room: though classes have required library time where they must attend the library and look out and check out books. There are multiple projects where students need to use supplemental books for the required curriculum. My sixth grade daughter, for instance, has multiple independent reading journals that are required.

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WLWV Board Room: They have to do a project at the end of the term for each of these, using the books from the library as part of their curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: to say they are not being required is being naive.

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WLWV Board Room: The district has standards for movies being shown in schools for a curriculum being chosen. Why not these supplemental curriculum items

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WLWV Board Room: on the budget. Tonight we learned that the same amount of money is being spent on textbooks as on library books, $600,000. The Budget showed. I submitted a formal complaint at the lack of process and procedure for library book selection.

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WLWV Board Room: I heard from Barb and from Dr. Ludwig. and response to my complaint.

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WLWV Board Room: Barb shared with me that they were creating a more detailed process to library book

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WLWV Board Room: choosing. I'm hoping we can see that as a community

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Log was shared with me that there will be no committee made for reviewing new or current books selected. What, specifically is the process and criteria for librarians. It's been shared.

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WLWV Board Room: that they meet monthly, and they use some websites, but no checklist, no specific procedure, no criteria, if that is available, Can it be shared?

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WLWV Board Room: It was stated, there's a handbook and policy is that available for parents to see.

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WLWV Board Room: This goes back to goal. 3 of the district and the transparency of the district strives for to generate community involvement. This community would love to be involved in this process. Can we? Will you let us in?

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WLWV Board Room: There's clearly passion on both sides of this library book topic.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't know how much the Board can help with this, but those of you that can see there is a lack of transparency and a lack of procedure. Can this

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WLWV Board Room: desperately needed policy and procedure be looked at like all the other curriculum can involve the board? Is that something that you guys can step in and help with. As I have been stopped in my public

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WLWV Board Room: complaint forms.

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WLWV Board Room: I am disappointed at the Book Review committee. I'm glad it happened. I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the outcome. It's disappointing for me as a mother of a sexual assault victim from when she was 7 years old.

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WLWV Board Room: Nobody gets to walk up here or anywhere, and say that the way I parent or the way anybody parents is wrong. You've never walked that you don't understand how wildly protective you become over every situation. Outdoor schools coming up. I visited the location yesterday with many other parents.

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WLWV Board Room: She probably won't be attending, and I want to come to the Board with a new location for that, so

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WLWV Board Room: that will be up next for me.

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WLWV Board Room: Matt Bell.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. School Board representatives, Kathy and District leaders. I'm. Here today as the Vice President of the Union to address current issues regarding our libraries. We're concerned that recent public comments, critical of our teacher. Librarians have lacked merit and have lacked up proper process and intention of dealing directly with teacher librarians.

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WLWV Board Room: We hope that the process revised in January 2,023 can tighten further can be tightened. Further, so that community members who have concerns deal, do start by the process by dealing directly with staff. This demonstrates that we, as a community, value those staff as dedicated professionals and human beings, and encourages honest dialogue and conversation.

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if if necessary. Further action can be taken at the district level.

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WLWV Board Room: Our teacher librarians are dedicated, certified professionals following local State and Federal guidelines, and maintaining our library resources with a goal of supporting our students as lifelong readers. Their goal is to make sure that students have access to books that fit them as individual readers, and our students are extremely diverse.

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WLWV Board Room: When community members challenged several books this year, none of their concerns were brought directly to teacher librarians. Maybe not. Each book review process has evolved to superintendents, to teacher librarians and a combination of teachers, students, and parents. They met for 2 h, not including time used by staff to read the books None of the books are used in are are used in classrooms for students.

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WLWV Board Room: Teacher Librarians have stepped up for this district in a big way since returning to normal schedules, taking over the online program to get students more learning options.

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WLWV Board Room: They're central and supporting staff. When we're transitioning to distance learning. They're continually supporting classroom teachers and getting classroom materials, both print and online. Each of our school libraries are built in recently, intentionally has a library in the center of the school. So teacher librarians are frequently support for students having academic or social problems. They are central people and our staff who need your support. We ask this board and superintendent ensure the following.

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WLWV Board Room: All concerns about books: Go first to the teacher, librarians, and there is a clear process and procedure for community members to follow if they're concerned, including a formal written complaint, and the it, like grandstanding, is discouraged and and redirected to a process that is focused on dialogue and clear communication.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. That concludes our public comment portion. We do not have anybody here speaking from outside the district, and so we will just take a look. Here.

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WLWV Board Room: We don't have a another meeting in March. The District Equity summit took the place of a work session, so we'll meet again for our regular meeting on April third.

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WLWV Board Room: and the meeting is closed.