WLWV School Board: Second.
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: Good evening, everyone.
WLWV School Board: I would like to
WLWV School Board: call this evening's Westland Wilsonville Scoreboard meeting into session.
WLWV School Board: and I'm going to pass it to Director Douglas to call the vote. Thank you. Director Schumacher.
WLWV School Board: director, sloop
WLWV School Board: here, Chair Taylor.
WLWV School Board: present Vice Chair, Wyatt, here, and Directory, though.
WLWV School Board: Here, thank you.
WLWV School Board: Thank you. And we're gonna jump right into our district communications and we're gonna start with our riverside representative, Laura Venegas.
WLWV School Board: Welcome.
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WLWV School Board: Ok. Thank you. Where was I? Oh, Matilda won the promising young scientists award with her project in the expression of dark energy within galaxy clusters
WLWV School Board: and sophomore page won third place in the life sciences category with her project of using natural mechanics to replenish poor soil with composted fertilizer. This qualified her for the State level Northwest Science expo, and it takes place Friday, April fifth, and Paige also won the Association of women. Geosciences award. We are super proud of the hard work our students put into Isf this year, and we are ecstatic to see how Page does later this week you can see some of their photos here
WLWV School Board: super exciting for them, very proud. And speaking of State qualifiers, riverside ski teams, very own ailer got nineteenth out of 124 competitors competitors at State, which is a huge accomplishment, and all our clubs have been doing extremely well, including Riverside's Rotary Club, which, partnered with joy of life, Chiropractic and Wilsonville to host a fundraiser bake sale. They earn upwards of $500, and the proceeds will contribute to local and global Si service projects
WLWV School Board: and the Riverside repertory theater celebrates March as national Theater and Education Month and the theater education teaches vital 20 first century skills critical to success on and off the stage. And that's all for March. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to seeing you next month.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: All right. And next up
WLWV School Board: from Westland High School. We have Beatrice Gilroy.
WLWV School Board: Welcome.
WLWV School Board: Good evening, everyone. I hope you all had a nice month of March at Westland High School. There was a lot going on as is common. We kicked off the month with a woman's forum held in the auditorium during life Class Asb worked with our administration to host this forum in recognition of Women's History month.
WLWV School Board: any female identifying students were open to come to the Forum to address women's issues on campus, share personal stories that impacted their lives and offer suggestions as to how to better support women at Westland High School. This was a very successful forum, and the people who attended felt happy that their voices were being heard.
WLWV School Board: Since this forum our administration has already implemented some positive changes on campus, and we look forward to hosting another forum or 2 before the school year ends.
WLWV School Board: In the performing Arts Center. In March our theater department put on their production of exit, the King. This play took place in the black box, and it was full of humor, but also impactful life takeaways.
WLWV School Board: our choirs, bands, and orchestras, all had their spring performances in March as well. These concerts included showcases from our many individual students and ensembles headed to state in total between choir, band, orchestra and Thespians. Westland had over 70 students qualify for state, so we are very proud of our line musicians.
WLWV School Board: Another group of students I would like to. Highlight is our mock trial team. Not only did Westlin have 3 teams qualify for state, which was more than any other school, but we also had 2 teams placed in the top. 3. Our mock trial gold team, consisting of all senior students, placed third and our mock trial black team, a powerful group of junior girls placed first in state.
WLWV School Board: The black team will be heading to Delaware later this year to compete at the national level.
WLWV School Board: A couple of our clubs hosted their own events this month, which was great to see on the screen, is a picture of the 2 final teams in a 3 on 3 basketball tournament, hosted by the fellowship of Christian Athletes Club. On our March early release day
WLWV School Board: our black student Union also hosted a movie night after school where they showed Black Panther overall. Westland has loved seeing club involvement and initiative increase this year.
WLWV School Board: Spring sports have officially begun at West Lynn. Our teams have been enjoying their season so far, and many of them, including our boys and girls, lacrosse, girls, golf and baseball, have all traveled out of the State to compete this month.
WLWV School Board: One student athlete in particular I would like to share more about is Hayden Williams Downing, in the bottom right corner on the slide.
WLWV School Board: She is a junior member of our track and field team, and during the month of March March she broke the school record in women's javelin. This Pr. Also placed her in first in the country for Women's High School javelin. Yes, I know huge news. We look forward to watching her continue to have a strong season, as well as all of our other line athletes.
WLWV School Board: Lastly, before we left for Spring Break, there was a diversity week at Westland High School this week aimed to highlight all the ways we lions are special, unique, and different from our music tastes, favorite colors, fashion styles, backgrounds, and involvement on campus. There are many things that make us individuals and deserve to be celebrated.
WLWV School Board: To acknowledge this. We had spirit dress up days. Denim Day was definitely a school favorite. So it's included on the slide clubs hosted different activities at lunch, such as a scavenger hunt and a popsicle stand, and there was a diversity forum at lunch, where students discuss future ways to celebrate diversity on campus.
WLWV School Board: We ended the week with a schoolwide assembly, featuring family feud games, performances from our symphonic choir and State qualifying string quartet and a cultural fashion show organized by our black student Union.
WLWV School Board: Thank you, Dr. Ludwig, for attending. It was great to see you coming up in April. Westland High School will be participating in an equity summit.
WLWV School Board: We also have some fun. Events planned for the student body to enjoy, such as senior brunch powder puff, and May Day
WLWV School Board: that wraps it up for today. I'm looking forward to speaking with you all for our final School Board meeting together. Thank you for your time.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: And both of our student representatives from Wilsonville High School were not able to make it this evening, so filling in for them is the wonderful, wonderful Kelly Schmidt, the principal.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Well, good evening, board they were unable to make it due to rescheduling of some spring activities this evening. So while I'm sure you would much rather hear from them. I'm thrilled to be able to speak on their behalf.
WLWV School Board: This is that time of year where, as a high school principal, I just can't help but beam with pride the hard work, dedication, and perseverance of our students is on full display. And in a way, I'm I'm kind of happy that the had other commitments this evening. So that I can share what I left work for spring break thinking about
WLWV School Board: and that's just that our scientists and engineers and musicians and Thespians, athletes, artists, are just. We have great humans at Wilsonville High School, and I'm just so fortunate to be able to work with them.
WLWV School Board: So who would imagine that our students might consider how to reduce infective endocarditis in artificial heart valves or find a solution to capture excess heat from hydrogen, electric airplane engines.
WLWV School Board: Well, our scientists and engineers in the International Engineering and Science Fair have done just that.
WLWV School Board: And I selected those 2 to highlight, mostly because I could pronounce all the words, and I understood the project objectives. We have so many brilliant and curious students who are truly inspiring, and 2 Wilsonville students received automatic bids to the International Science fair. And so we have many competing at state. So we just wish them all the best.
WLWV School Board: Friday before spring, break our error code 0 robotics team hosted a tournament at Wilsonville High School, and we welcomed 35 teams into our school to showcase their talents.
WLWV School Board: Problem, solving the engineering, the design, the programming, the teamwork on full display during the day, while all of our students are there to be able to see. That was just really noteworthy
WLWV School Board: in the theater. Our students tackled Shakespeare as fluently as a first language in their rendition of The Tempest and stay tuned for the spring show, sense and sensibility.
WLWV School Board: The orchestra quartets were entertaining and creating ambiance as guests entered for the spring band concert, and then they performed with elegance and grace, inspiring our middle school students and their and their guests.
WLWV School Board: having band members joining them for the symphonic orchestra, and they only rehearse on Friday mornings, and it just blows my mind that they can pull these things together with just this one weekly rehearsal
WLWV School Board: our vocal musicians sold out, placed as full first alternate in state, and Wilsonville High School students won 3 of the 4 solo categories as well.
WLWV School Board: I also want to acknowledge our winter sports and the playoff runs. The teams made boys basketball, notably finishing second.
WLWV School Board: Our girls. Snowboarding team has also brought home several first place finishes.
WLWV School Board: and we're only a third of the way through our spring sports season.
WLWV School Board: So mark your calendars, come out and catch a tennis or golf match, or maybe a softball baseball or lacrosse game
WLWV School Board: and track.
WLWV School Board: and finally, I included a few photos from a couple of classrooms that I visited last week. Students were working through some mock trials in Us. History. Another student in our Child development class was helping a Beckman primary kindergarten student with a stem project.
WLWV School Board: I included a picture from our student of the month luncheon, where we recognize students who exemplify inclusivity.
WLWV School Board: Each of those students represent? What matters most?
WLWV School Board: How do we include each other? Increase the sense of belonging in our community, and make school a place where others want to be. They make us so proud to be part of the school community. So on behalf of our Asb Presidents, I thank you for your time tonight, and they will be back next week. Thank you
WLWV School Board: alright. And so this is the time that I give my offer that I usually extend to you lovely students to you're more than welcome to stay for the Full Board meeting or
WLWV School Board: enjoy a bunch of sun for the rest of your evening. So thank you guys so much for coming. If you decide to stay. And if you're leaving
WLWV School Board: drive safe
WLWV School Board: right.
WLWV School Board: yep.
WLWV School Board: we'll get into board recognitions. And we have Dr. Swissen.
WLWV School Board: Good evening. It's more than appropriate that it's such a beautiful spring evening for us to give an update on the center for research in environmental sciences and technologies known as crest. And since it's inception in 2,001, 2,002, Crest has shown again and again that it's not just a place. It's not just a program, but it's a
WLWV School Board: ever growing set of programs. And these 2 people, Amy Shower and Helena Kilstrom are the muscle and the mind and the heart most importantly, behind that work, and they're going to speak for themselves just to give a brief current update about their work. But do want to point out this evening that we want to especially
WLWV School Board: recognize and thank Amy Shower for her years of service to our school district. She is going to be retiring at the end of the school year.
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: to think
WLWV School Board: beyond crest to all that Amy has contributed in our school district
WLWV School Board: is really important. The International Science and Engineering fair is near and dear to her heart. And if you've noticed that for the past 5 years we have had students who come back from their careers in the sciences.
WLWV School Board: all aspects, medical science. Students who've gone out to say, how can I make this a better place, and how can I contribute what I learned in my K. 12. Education to my ongoing life?
WLWV School Board: Amy knows all of them. Amy nurtured all of them. They all have something to say about how she inspired them. She brought the Middle School Science Fair into being
WLWV School Board: and looked at something that comes really from who she is. Amy. Her own sense of inquiry is what drives her. She's a researcher. She's always been a researcher. She will continue to be a researcher and science in its pure form. What does the data tell us?
WLWV School Board: How can things get better? And how can we use this to improve our life specifically with crest mission on the planet is very much her work. So just wanted to say that before they give you an update about the program this evening that we want to express our sincere appreciation for all of the work that Amy Shower has done for this school district.
WLWV School Board: Thank you, Dr. Soisson, that's a that's a little bit of an overwhelming introduction. I have to catch my breath here just a little bit, but thank you all so much for having us here tonight to give you an update about our program.
WLWV School Board: As, as Dr. Swisson said, I am Amy Schauer, I am the director and instructional coordinator. At Crest, and behind me is Helena Kilstrom, our school garden coordinator. We are joined in collaboration with our work at Crest by
WLWV School Board: representative from student services. Mindy Dobley, who also does works with our adult transition students, yeah, and uses Crest as a workplace skill development site.
WLWV School Board: So we have a rich and vibrant community working there small but mighty
WLWV School Board: So if you'd like to learn any more about Crest after you hear the the few points we have share with you tonight. I invite you to join us at any time, drop by. We would love to have you see the work that we have going on and show you around a bit.
WLWV School Board: If we could go to the next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So the update I have for this year we we track our schools and how they use crest year to year.
WLWV School Board: So far this school year as of this date, we have had over 2,900 student field research experiences estimated, made possible because of crest. Most of those have happened at crest and a field research experience, as we define it, is a student in a class of students visiting crest. That's one field research experience.
WLWV School Board: That is focused on real world research problems, using science to answer questions and solve problems. And we're going to return to that theme again and again.
WLWV School Board: looking at our calendar for the rest of the year, I think I can confidently say that we will more than double last year's crest student contacts by the end of the school year, compared with the last school year, and just hypothetically, or or maybe I should say hypothesetically, or something like that. My hypothesis is
WLWV School Board: that we are looking at pandemic recovery, certainly.
WLWV School Board: But we have also been working very hard to build relationships with teachers and
WLWV School Board: show them that we're delivering high value learning experiences that connect very tightly to the classroom. We work really hard with teachers to grow capacity for science engagement at every level. So we're working with teachers and with students to make science relevant and important to them and get them out doing hands-on experiences.
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: the majority of our students who use crest are K, 5, I think it's fair to say that the need is probably a little greater there, since we have specialist teachers at the Secondary level. And we do a lot of teacher support there. Most of those 2,900 I mentioned are one time visits. A few classes, though a few kids have been counted more than once in there because a few classes do use crest multiple times per year.
WLWV School Board: The lessons. As I said, we're building capacity. So the lessons are co-taught by teachers and myself, and we design those together prior to their visit to make sure that they're connecting tightly to classroom instruction, that we're working in opportunities not just for science, but also for using the math and literacy skills that they're working on at the time in the classroom, giving kids applications for that learning out in the real world.
WLWV School Board: A typical visit is one class at a time. We try to to minimize the number of activities instead of have a rotation of a lot of stations and a lot of different exposure. We go deep into our topics. And so a class may stay typically for an hour and a half to 2 h, sometimes much longer.
WLWV School Board: And we will even divide the class and flip, so that we have very small groups of kids who get to use microscopes full-time themselves. They're not sharing materials. They're definitely diving in and doing their own work and thinking and then exchanging ideas with each other, plenty of time for student talk.
WLWV School Board: hey? I'm ready for the next.
WLWV School Board: We do most of the visits, as I said at Crest. I am open for preschool in particular, and especially at the secondary level, where we have students who, you know, get given the class period time can't make it to crest as easily
WLWV School Board: for their science classes. We sometimes go to the the schools. Helena spends a lot of her time at schools. I spend most of my time at crest. Because schools value those specialized instructional settings that we've been able to create around their curriculum.
WLWV School Board: So we have worked hard to make sure that we've been building on the legacy that Bob Carlson left the places and spaces that lend themselves particularly well to learning at a larger, real world scale. For them. We really do emphasize that when a kid comes, a lot of kids will come up to me and say, Hey.
WLWV School Board: I helped you solve that problem last year. You know, what? What have you got going on this year? And we try to frame it like we have a question. We have a problem. We're going to use some science today. And you happen to be studying this. This is a perfect time. Let's come together and work together to figure out this problem. And so they're using what they've learned.
WLWV School Board: We're helping the teacher and I are working together to give them new knowledge and skills that they can use to
WLWV School Board: work together to learn and solve together solve problems together through engineering and research.
WLWV School Board: We do a lot of other things. I really wanted to just highlight a few of those pieces. I know this is a wordy wordy slide
WLWV School Board: but we also are supporting primary summer school through providing curriculum and learning spaces and materials. We give support for the middle level summer learning program. We host those Isf projects when there's something based in agriculture, environmental science, agricultural microbiology's been a big one.
WLWV School Board: We do. I have 2 student interns who are interested in going into education, trying to really nurture that passion in them and working with them on becoming science educators.
WLWV School Board: We also have a lot of different context for leadership, development
WLWV School Board: service, learning, workplace training. And we have places where the community occasionally will have events on the weekend where the community and educators and students come together to work on a project together, such as pruning our orchard, which I'm very proud to say we were able to accomplish. With the help of Al's
WLWV School Board: garden and home. They came and and worked with us, and taught the printing workshop and got all our trees pruned, and people learned a lot, and kids did a lot, and it was an awesome day.
WLWV School Board: So that's a few highlights for my end of things. But as I said, we divide and conquer. So I'm going to turn it over to Helena for the school garden update.
WLWV School Board: And I'm like, yeah, that's that's that. That's incredible. Yes, I so like, she was saying earlier. And so was Barb. I work with our primary schools. Supporting our garden spaces. If you didn't know. Each of our schools currently have their own school garden, which is really wonderful. 9 school gardens soon to be 10,
WLWV School Board: with Pat's help. And we're so excited to have this awesome resource resource at each school. But it can be really overwhelming for teachers in all honesty of how do you use this space? How do we support this space? Each of the different gardens have
WLWV School Board: originated at different times and different ways, maybe from a Pta or a parent group, or they were built with the school with their newer schools we're putting in. And so my job is to support those spaces and coordinate all of the support with different departments in our district to support those spaces
WLWV School Board: and coordinate the programming that happens in there. And it's a total blast, especially this time of year, when the sun's finally out. And I'm not having kids, you know, digging in the dirt, and it's frozen and that kind of stuff. So it's really fun this time of year. We have a unique model that we use here, and Amy and I have worked hard to develop this model. And it's working swimmingly. And it's up on that slide so you can kind of understand it.
WLWV School Board: But really we are using our spaces as an extension of this of each classroom. And we're actually having our teachers teach these garden lessons. This is actually a very uncommon
WLWV School Board: model, I would say even in like Portland area, but also across the nation. When I talk to people at conferences, this is unique, and this is rare and so so so special, that it's happening here at Westland, Wilsonville,
WLWV School Board: we are able to support teachers with the materials and the
WLWV School Board: the actual
WLWV School Board: training and all of that kind of thing, but then they are the ones that are rolling out these wonderful lessons that have been created by their peers. I will work with teachers and have professional development, with teachers to create 5 week garden lessons.
WLWV School Board: And so it's a really a deep dive kind of like what Amy was talking about earlier, you know, not only having kids do one thing for a little bit of time and then move on. They're really getting deep into these explorations and finding solutions to problems in the garden. So that's been really wonderful. And then these classroom teachers are able to personalize these lessons and make them work for each of these students that they truly know more than any of us ever will. In a deeper way, and
WLWV School Board: add in, you know the math that's happening in their classroom, and the reading and touching on things that they already are doing in the hour later. So let's move it into the garden as well. And just really seeing these spaces as a true extension of their classroom. So that's been wonderful.
WLWV School Board: With that. I've also been working closely with facilities and our wonderful grounds team. They are supporting me in such crazy ways, always trying to help me with broken things in the garden, which, let me tell you, is the envy of every other garden program that I talk to
WLWV School Board: across the whole nation that we actually have district support for gardens. It changes everything. Me! Being able to call our grounds and say, Oh, my gosh!
WLWV School Board: The irrigation is broken again. Help me! What do I do? And what about this pile of weeds that's over here? And can you drop off this dirt and this soil instead of it. Relying on a parent, we're able to provide this as a true district
WLWV School Board: item. So it's really really wonderful. Little side project of mine. Is this fresh food tasting program, which has been very popular. It's currently at 3 schools. It started with Lowry and then cedar, oak and sunset primary.
WLWV School Board: We're interested cause I saw it happening. And then this fall we ended up doing a tasting for all schools with help from nutrition services. They kind of footed the bill for schools that hadn't aligned funding for it already. So everybody try to care it.
WLWV School Board: You'd be amazed at how many people had never tried to car it before we gave them the whole carrot. You can see from this picture here. Kids were really into it. They got it at lunchtime, and it was very eye opening to me. I grew up on a farm. I I know how care it grows things like that. But kids were legitimately asking me, like, What end do we chew on? And like very curious.
WLWV School Board: you got to try things. So it's been fun having students try
WLWV School Board: whole items.
WLWV School Board: that otherwise they wouldn't see. So that's been very, very fun. The impact here I was just trying to total numbers and things from this year. So far.
WLWV School Board: 1,092 students have spent time in their school garden. This is so far, so just think about like the weather we've had, and that's where we're at. We're not even to the good spring weather yet. And then we're at about 5,600 tasting so far, so kind of fun. Yeah, we have a lot more ptas that are invested for next year and want to provide funding for that for next year. So
WLWV School Board: I'm excited to see that grow. But yeah, the next slide. These are just some upcoming events, like Amy was saying. We'd love to see you at any time over at crest and kind of show you what we're doing. But also we have really adorable kindergartners that are in their garden right now, and first graders are going to be in their gardens in about 3 weeks from now.
WLWV School Board: Let me know if you ever want to stop by they are adorable. So it's very fun to watch them doing all their fun things in the garden, and we also have an event on Earth. Day is on the same day, but different timing on the twentieth of this month we are partnering with
WLWV School Board: the city of Wilsonville and backyard habitat certification. So if you've ever wanted to certify your backyard.
WLWV School Board: come to crest and learn how to do it. And you could check out crest at that time. Get a tour. Things like that.
WLWV School Board: We also have our annual plant sale coming up. Our greenhouse right now is exploding. We are
WLWV School Board: at Max capacity yet again. But we have our adult transition students at press working very hard. They've seated everything they've and they're now starting to transplant things, and our pre-sales will
WLWV School Board: likely be very popular yet again. So you'll get a link for that soon, and then we just always have different volunteer days and kind of like what Amy was talking about so
WLWV School Board: you could join in on one of those if you want. Sometimes Barb comes.
WLWV School Board: I can work it together.
WLWV School Board: It's very fun, isn't it? Yeah, she works hard. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Do you guys have any questions for either of us or
WLWV School Board: anything?
WLWV School Board: Director Schumacher? Well, I'd like to just say a few words. Thank you for the the work that you do, and I'm going to pick on Amy for a minute, just because I can't believe that this is kind of the
WLWV School Board: the end of this run. Some of what I'm gonna say to you applies to Jay as well. So I'm kind of looking at at both of you. The you know the the stewardship. I I saw stewardship on one of your slides, and that just kind of describes you as a person you are a steward of everything you're involved in. When I think about how Crest began those many years ago, it could have been something that that that a district just put on a shelf and said, Yeah, we comply. We did this thing.
WLWV School Board: but that was never what happened right? And that's thanks to Bob Carlson and Amy shower on that line.
WLWV School Board: It's really been something it's been. It's allowed us to have outdoor school
WLWV School Board: all year long.
WLWV School Board: and I just I appreciate all the ways that you're a great educator from being flexible, reliable.
WLWV School Board: I, when when I can speak from experience, when students would leave my building to go to Crest. I felt really good about that, and if I got to go join them I felt really good about that.
WLWV School Board: and you have to feel. You have to feel that way. You have to feel confidence that your kids are going to a place that's really they're they're they're gonna there's value there value added to their education. It's not just entertainment. We want them to grow.
WLWV School Board: I I just, I I so appreciate the work you've done. I can't believe that it's any. I I would remind you that there are ways you can serve after you retire. It's just
WLWV School Board: it can happen. But I know you will. I know that you that you both will continue to contribute to your communities, because that's what you do. So thank you for your for your great work.
WLWV School Board: Director. Slope.
WLWV School Board: Yes, I just wanted to say thank you. I think
WLWV School Board: press is like the cats meow. You know the chinchilla that you know classes can take care of and the plant sale. It's more than just a plant sale, I mean, it's
WLWV School Board: veggies, herbs, flowers.
WLWV School Board: I. I bought a bunch last year, and I didn't kill any of them, and I was so excited we had like a great garden and wonderful flowers last last summer. So
WLWV School Board: thank you so much, and I will definitely be prepared. Priority. And that was the way to go. You just drive up.
WLWV School Board: They just load your. So you know, students just load your
WLWV School Board: order and away we go. So thank you so much. I I wanna come back and visit
WLWV School Board: all that student magic in those plant spots that it has to be. It has to be so. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal, anything.
WLWV School Board: My son, is a fifth grader at Lowry primary, and so he and his classmates have been depressed a few times, and then I love the tastings you provide at our school, and before I was on the school board. I was on the Pta for 3 years, so I think we help, you know. Bring that to Lowery. And so I just wanna thank you and
WLWV School Board: congratulate you on your retirements. And now you need, you can, you know, grow your own garden and spend time, you know. Yeah, making your own jungle of carrots. So thank you both so much. Yes.
WLWV School Board: vice chair, Wyatt. Anything.
WLWV School Board: I think it's programs like crest that make us an exceptional school district. You know, every district can just do the bare minimum. But it's it's our decision to invest in and value and prioritize crest that makes us exceptional, and that's only possible because of both of you and your work and your commitment. So thank you and I'll just echo congrats on your retirement.
WLWV School Board: and I think these guys have all done a great job of
WLWV School Board: of of summarizing it. But congratulations on your retirement. I wish you well, as your journey continues beyond this district, and we get to get left in great hands, of course. And I I'd say it's just impressive to to see the growth
WLWV School Board: from where you've started, and to listen to Director Shoemaker. Talk about the evolution of how far you've come
WLWV School Board: and it. That's a Testament. And that's not only to the belief that you've had at all the different schools. But you guys have changed kids lives. I mean, now, kids are eating carrots. Look at that.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: so thank you for coming and sharing, and we wish you well.
WLWV School Board: May I also end one thing in response?
WLWV School Board: Besides, my heart of things.
WLWV School Board: I I just wanna say that the momentum that we have in this press program the traction that we have among all of our schools. I just, I'm confident we'll continue to grow. Bill. Teachers really want to use this kind of thing and group, we are working with teachers to
WLWV School Board: to grow, not just those numbers that kids were reaching, but to understand more deeply the learning outcomes that are associated with specific experiences, that crest, too, and how those translate when they take data from crest back to the classroom. We want to know, you know more about how that feeds into their classroom learning and how that grows their learning. So there's just the sky's the limit for crest, I think.
WLWV School Board: Thank you very much. Yeah. I hear a few. Yeah.
WLWV School Board: don't go. Yeah. One more. One more.
WLWV School Board: yeah, like Director Shoemaker. I remember the impetus of
WLWV School Board: Crest way back when and the vision for it by our previous superintendent, Dr. Roger Wool around, really creating a center that had scientific inquiry at its core, but not just
WLWV School Board: direct experience, but also building teacher capacity, which is what you were just now speaking to Amy that teachers who are wondering how to be better science instructors themselves could see that modeled
WLWV School Board: and then take that back to the classroom. So it was really a place for professional development in real time, while students were learning science, there was this modeling that was happening to teachers around how to build scientific inquiry. I remember as a principal at sunset, Bob Carlson coming over and saying.
WLWV School Board: Okay, you're doing this field trip. Second grade.
WLWV School Board: You know. What are you going to ask the kids on the field trip? And he was talking to the teachers. How are you going to get the most out of that field trip that's coming up, whether it's a tree walk or you're going to see the salmon.
WLWV School Board: How do you make the most of those field trips so that you can bring back more scientific inquiry, and by having Bob Carlson either go with them or model those kinds of questions teachers were growing in their own capacity around being
WLWV School Board: science teachers. And I think that's what also makes this so unique is it's not just a place for students to experience, but for teachers to come back feeling their capacity has grown, and that they're better science teachers for having that experience themselves. And that's been your work, Amy working so closely with Bob Carlson. It was just such a seamless transition, because you both had worked together, and you just carried on that vision.
WLWV School Board: I remember it was either the second year of Crest or the third, but Jane Goodall, of whom the crest center is named. After. It's the Jane Goodall Crest center came herself.
WLWV School Board: I remember the parade of students. I remember Jane Goodall with this big dove.
WLWV School Board: What? Almost like a Pied piper
WLWV School Board: with teachers and students, and it was really this commitment
WLWV School Board: to sustainability
WLWV School Board: to doing right in the world, to thinking about our interaction with the world around us, to being responsible stewards of this environment and really encapsulating a lot of what she stands for as well, which I think you've done beautifully, Amy. Thank you for your years of service.
WLWV School Board: Every time I've watched you with kids, you light up the room and they light up the room. Can we bring back one of the pictures of the kids. Andrew, on there. Because I think when you see the kids in action, you get to see who Amy is really at the core of her work.
WLWV School Board: You're looking really carefully inside that little bowl, you know, using little tools and holding little magnifying glasses. They become the keynote speakers
WLWV School Board: who come back and speak to. They're they're working at NASA. They're working in scientific laboratories all over the world.
WLWV School Board: And it starts in these kinds of environments. So thank you deeply, Amy, I noticed Jay is also here. Thank you, Jay, for all of your support of crest as a teacher in the classroom, but also on weekends, and I saw you at the Science fair behind the scenes, making sure everything went so well, and giving your support. And Helena, our school gardens
WLWV School Board: only are magical because there's someone who's thinking about them all the time and helping teachers be at their best with those school gardens. Otherwise they're just episodic experiences. And you've brought great alignment and consistency, your professional role around it, helping them not just have fun, but to really understand from soil to produce what happens around plant life
WLWV School Board: and the interaction of insects and dirt and weather. There's far more that goes into those tastings and into the garden. I know than what you were able to describe tonight. But it's really helping students understand the life cycle and have their first interaction around their place on the planet and how to impact it.
WLWV School Board: So thank you for the joy you bring, the immense planning all those relationships with all the schools and making sure that that program is really thriving. We appreciate you both so much. I know we have a gift for each, a plant, nonetheless
WLWV School Board: for each of you. Keep it live. Keep it growing.
WLWV School Board: Thank you for all that you do. We appreciate you both so much.
WLWV School Board: You want to take a picture back.
WLWV School Board: make sure you stick around the 4 year. 4 feature.
WLWV School Board: All right.
WLWV School Board: Well, we are going to
WLWV School Board: do a little schedule flip
WLWV School Board: in the spirit of our wonderful guests that we have who've come to join us from Clackamas Community College to talk to us about
WLWV School Board: the Bond renewal, and we have
WLWV School Board: the president of Clackamas Community college, Tim Cook, here today, and we're so excited to have you. And we look forward to hearing what you have to show us. Thank you. Chair Taylor. Thanks for your time tonight. I was. I've been really looking forward to this thing.
WLWV School Board: looking forward to coming and speaking in front of you tonight. It's been a. It's been a minute since I've been in front of you and I just wanted to. It was really gosh! It was really heartwarming to listen to that presentation. And I have to just say thank you to the superintendent, and thank you to all of you for the partnership that we've had for a long time. We you know we're fortunate. We get to work with all the school districts here in Clackamas County. But this partnership we have with Westland. Wilsonville is what I would call really an authentic one, where we really work together on shared goals, around equity.
WLWV School Board: where we really look toward pathways and and partnerships all the time. And when we talk about those we're really trying to figure out, how can we help our kids from very early on, you know, grow up and and achieve their dreams. So I just, I'm just so appreciative. And I, that's why I really wanted to be here tonight.
WLWV School Board: And in addition, I'm also one of your constituents here in the district. So I'm quite proud of that as well.
WLWV School Board: So and I, yeah, we'll get the presentation up. And so we are getting ready to do A, we're actually investigating doing a renewal bond in November of this next year. And so we're going out doing a little bit of a road show and chatting about what? What's possible to try to get some feedback to see if these projects resonate projects resonate, and to see what kinds of questions you may have.
WLWV School Board: it's called planting seeds for student success. So thank you for that segue from the the previous one. It'll, that'll make some sense here in a bit. When you see one of our major projects that we're looking at around a horticulture. But really, if you think about the the proverb about you know we are planting trees that we will never sit under.
WLWV School Board: That's kind of the thought that we have. So the college has been around for almost 60 years, and we really benefited from the work, from those that came before us from decades before us that worked to make sure that we had a college make sure that we had really nice facilities and buildings.
WLWV School Board: So when we thought about the next 1020, 30 years, and beyond, we said, We, you know, we're likely not to really see much of the fruit of this labor. But we need to be really thinking about these trees that we're going to plant and and make sure that the college is around long after many of us are gone.
WLWV School Board: So if you can do it. Yeah, you
WLWV School Board: do. I have a control or to just click on. Okay, I'll just nod. Oh, yeah. Next slide, please. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: So just a just a quick reminder. Not. Everyone is aware that we are again almost 60 years old. 66 3 campuses. I know you're very aware of the Wilsonville campus. I'll talk about that as well. Our Oregon City campus, and then we have a campus in Milwaukee as well, which is primarily a healthcare campus. But we we offer a number of programs there
WLWV School Board: just a little over 900 employees. And that actually, student populations a little low. The next slide will show a more accurate one around 20,000 students that we have over 108 career technical programs. And then a variety of other educational programs. As well. So next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So as I said, yeah, just about 20,000 students. We were pleasantly surprised a couple months ago when we were looking at the statewide data. There's 17 community colleges in Oregon, and we're now number 2 largest behind. Portland Community College. We we usually kind of fell behind Mount Hood and Shimekada, but we've done quite a bit in the last few years, and our enrollments up significantly. And so we're we're pretty proud of that fact.
WLWV School Board: and you'll see a little bit, too. We're now about A third known racial minorities on our campus, and that's growing dramatically as it is in your school district as well.
WLWV School Board: And so we have a number of programs that we're assisting and making sure those students are being successful. Too
WLWV School Board: interesting. One, only 15% of our students are full time. And this is a a data point I like to bring up. Often. You know, most students that are going directly to universities tend to tend to be full time students, maybe living on campus or living in there, and you know their their job is to go to school.
WLWV School Board: Our students are primarily part time, and many of them are parents. Many of them are working. And they're taking classes when they're able to. And we're working on completing those degrees. There's some. There's some real, some pluses and minuses around that. That I, you know, probably don't have time to go into tonight.
WLWV School Board: but it's it's important to really notice the distinction between the between the 2 different populations. So 32 average age. But when you look at our dual credit programs and our more traditional students, and actually, we're now at 22% of all of our students are high school dual credit students.
WLWV School Board: It drops down significantly down to down to about 24.
WLWV School Board: So if I can get the next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So you know what a bond is. I don't need to tell you that. What I will say is, community colleges are not allowed to do levies. The only way, that we can build buildings without a significant donation is through a bond. And so all of our buildings on all 3 of our campuses are because of past bond success.
WLWV School Board: Next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: and we are very thankful that we've had strong community support for our previous bond measures. Over the last 25 years, and even longer. Our communities have supported our college, and we really work really hard and really proud to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars.
WLWV School Board: So what we're proposing for this November is a renewal of the existing bond that was passed in 2,014 and will not raise taxes.
WLWV School Board: Since 2,014, we've had a plan to responsibly ask voters for support across many years, and are making this ask as part of that overall plan that's been in place now for more than a decade.
WLWV School Board: Next
WLWV School Board: slide, please.
WLWV School Board: Just as a quick reminder. I know my Vice President of Finance was here a few months ago, talking about the 2,014 bond that we just completed.
WLWV School Board: but that bond was a 90 million dollar bond that the voters passed in 2014. But we were able to leverage that over a 50% with additional funds from the State, from Federal Federal Federal grants, local grants, and a number of different areas that we were able to increase that bond to a total of 136 million dollars, which really fundamentally changed our campuses. We got
WLWV School Board: 4 new buildings out of it. 3 of them on Oregon city, one in Milwaukee, and then a number of upgrades throughout the campus, wayfinding, you know, public transit and and number of other security things as well. So as we think about our 2024 bond.
WLWV School Board: Whether we'll get to 50, we'll see. But that's certainly our goal is to really, you know, leverage as much as we can. And we've had some success, really, some success recently with Federal grants. And we we want to continue that work
WLWV School Board: next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So how did we get here? We've been working on this for about 2 years now to try to figure out where we needed to go, and, as I said, as we think about, you know the future of education, certainly higher education, as you're well well aware, education's changing, and has changed dramatically. How we offer that. And certainly the college is thinking about. You know what is relevant today. But also what's gonna be, you know, relevant and flexible. 1020 years from now. And so we did a comprehensive master plan for all 3 of our campuses.
WLWV School Board: We also did an athletic facilities master plan, both for our own athletic programs. But we get significant on all 3 of our campuses, actually significant use from the community that uses our outdoor spaces. And so we wanted to to really think about. What do we need to do to upgrade our outdoor learning spaces as well?
WLWV School Board: And then not surprising, you know, a mechanical and electrical and plumbing master plan. You know some of our buildings are are approaching 60 years of age, and even the ones that are 20 years of age need you know, need upgrades and need to make sure that they're that we're taking good care of the
WLWV School Board: the workings of those buildings. So we came up with a bill of 335 million dollars, which we knew would not fly, and so we had quite a few folks working on how we, how we narrow that down.
WLWV School Board: And so staff and students, you know all the internal folks we did a number of surveying internally, and we did quite a bit of external polling to about 6 months ago to find out what what projects really resonated. So next next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: and we've come down to it. So our renewal amount is about 110 to 120 million dollars, depending on what you know, what the bond market looks like around that time. But that's our estimate at this point as a renewal bond.
WLWV School Board: And we've identified 3 main areas that we're looking at, and I'll go into more detail here in the future. Slides. So preparing our students for success in modern learning spaces.
WLWV School Board: Certainly enhancing our partner and community connections, and then preserving and maintaining our assets. So next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So here's how this connects to your your gardens and all of your work with Crest that I found so so fascinating. Listening to.
WLWV School Board: we have an opportunity to create what we're calling a center of excellence for horticulture, farming, welding a wildland fire on our Oregon city campus.
WLWV School Board: We those are current programs that are growing and are really important to our community, particularly horticultural and fire. Actually all all 4 of those are, but they're in our oldest spaces on campus kind of our back door over off of Beaver Creek Road.
WLWV School Board: and we Clockmus, or, excuse me, the Osu Extension Office for Clockmas County approached us about a year ago, wanting to move onto our campus and collaborate with us.
WLWV School Board: and we. We came back and said, Well, what do you think about going in together on a building and really creating, you know, this space where we can for the county really teach advanced farming. We can teach really all the methods, master gardening. They, you know, they run for H programs. They run a Tree School. They they do a number of different forestry pieces.
WLWV School Board: and they're quite excited about this. And so we've been having a number of meetings and assuming, you know, again, we're successful in November. I think we're gonna be able to create this. What I, the vision that we have what I what I think about is this beautiful building? And I I I give you the example that Osu came to us and said, You know we'd really love to have, like a big, tall, 2, 2 or 3 story space with trees inside, where we can show off forestry and show off, you know, timber, and and
WLWV School Board: and that really the history of this place, I said, well, it's funny. You say that because we have an arboriculture program, and they wanted like an indoor climbing gym, you know, with trees and stuff on. It sounds like we could probably do both of those things and really showcase. And then, you know, showcasing. We, we currently have organic farming. We have a number of community gardens. We have a number of greenhouses, but really showcasing for the community. Again, how to grow your own food, how to really grow? You know. And again, that in Clackmann County there's the highest number in the state of
WLWV School Board: family farms that have been passed on passed down, and many of the generations that have received these farms don't necessarily have the time to run them. And so learning really, again, using advanced techniques, using robotics, using AI around horticulture and farming is something that we can be teaching there. So it's pretty exciting opportunity.
WLWV School Board: And then I think you'll also be intrigued by this. Or no. Excuse me, that's the next one. This is I'm getting ahead of myself. The modernized learning spaces. So you know, the the days of the like big lecture halls are long gone. And you know, we really need to rethink some of our spaces and have those be more flexible.
WLWV School Board: You know, we're offering classes now, fully online hybrid we're offering classes. You know, we're for some students that that are in class. Some students are at home, and and of course, in a number of face to face classes, we're finding interesting things like a student might be taking a class that gets done at 11 o'clock, and then they're trying to find like a nook or cranny somewhere where they can hop on a zoom call
WLWV School Board: for their next class.
WLWV School Board: And so even creating smaller workspaces almost like, you know, I call them little phone booths or conference spaces where where students can hop in and work together or hop on again. And using technology is something that we're really rethinking in in many of our larger classroom spaces as we think about that.
WLWV School Board: So next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So literally, every presentation I get. I remind people that communities quite literally are middle name. And so we we really work hard to make sure that we're, you know, good community partners.
WLWV School Board: And so we've got some thinking around this that I I think you'll be pleased with, but I'd love to to hear more if you if you aren't so stem opportunities. This is what I was talking about this picture on the far right here, with the kids in front of the computers, there's a national nonprofit organization
WLWV School Board: called the Challenger Center Project, that literally, and the only one in the Northwest is up in the Seattle area. But what they literally do is they create a a stem opportunity. I kind of think about it as like a NASA NASA kind of an opportunity for kids as young as fifth grade all all the way up to high school to come and have a number of different opportunities to either, whether it's making sure a space shuttle blast off, and you know, and some of them are in the
WLWV School Board: in the shuttle itself. You know the simulation itself. Some of them are, you know, ground control, and they're they're all have. Have a place in this, for you know about a half day or or longer simulation project.
WLWV School Board: and we think that's a pretty exciting opportunity for our K. 12 partners to be involved in. But we also think it's an opportunity for our college level stem students to help facilitate and help be involved in as well.
WLWV School Board: Wilsonville. So in in Wilsonville, as you're aware, we have a campus, and it's a one building campus. It's been since 1,991, primarily a partnership with Pge. We do a lot of apprenticeship work there.
WLWV School Board: We really see a big opportunity to think about workforce training and partnerships at that Wilsonville site. And so we're looking to see where and these are some of the conversations we've had. Where do we really create intentional pathways
WLWV School Board: with Wilsonville High school. So that students can come up through those through us and through Oregon Tech. If that's where they want to go or where can we really look and make sure that we've got a workforce center that's really meeting the needs of that community there, cause that that's a, as you know, a fast growing community. And so
WLWV School Board: we're excited about some some work there
WLWV School Board: on our Oregon city campus. As I said, athletic fields, we also have an opportunity potentially to construct a a larger track and grandstand and host. There's nowhere really to host larger events like track and field championships. Nike is now doing their
WLWV School Board: Oh, gosh! What what do they call it? They're invitational where they bring all the cross country kids onto our campus couple 1,000, you know, runners under our campus, and we have an opportunity to do some some more around that would track and feel, but also potentially have a large space to hold graduations throughout the county, and we have a walking trail that lots of people use on our campus a 2 mile trail around that has parts that are missing where you have to be on the road. It's not very safe, so we'd like to complete that
WLWV School Board: next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: Not the most exciting, maybe, but certainly no less important. We really need to upgrade our technology, our computer labs, our safety and security. Some people are aware we had a significant cyber attack in in January really took us out for like a few weeks, and we're back. But it's you know, is is that much more
WLWV School Board: realization that some of our technology really needs attention. We've got to work on that.
WLWV School Board: In this larger picture here with this this boiler. You know, we? We are still using technology from the the seventies to heat and cool some of our buildings. And so the ability to do Hvac, you know, for individual buildings. That we can, you know, regulate is certainly something that will actually save us money in the long run, and is really important. Now
WLWV School Board: and then some some other repair and and upgrades the outstanding debt. We have about a million dollars. We bought one of the last parcels that was adjacent to our campus. It's it's just trees right now in woods, but we're thinking about what to do with that. And so we have about a million dollars an outstanding debt that we would retire as part of it as well.
WLWV School Board: And next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: As I mentioned. You know, we're really looking to, you know. Do whatever we can to, you know. Increase that 110 million to, you know another 50 million if we can, or more.
WLWV School Board: Oregon State is going to bring some significant financial resources and others to that. We were in DC. Recently talking to our Senators about some congressionally directed spending toward that challenger center and some other opportunities. And we have a program in Oregon where for each of our buildings the State, we we can qualify for a state match of 8 million dollars per building that we we build
WLWV School Board: next slide.
WLWV School Board: So how much is it gonna cost? It's a renewal. It's a 25 cents per 1,000. So we're fortunate that, you know. Unlike the school districts where you've got a more limited geographical area, we cover the whole county, so that allows us to really spread it out. A little bit more. And so we we want to be really judicious about what we're asking voters, but we think you know 25 cents per 1,000. Again renewing what what has been there for? The last 10 years is a is a reasonable ass. So we're hoping people will agree
WLWV School Board: next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: and we have a a site up for people to give feedback. I gave you a packet with some seeds in it that about the bond, and then also a one pager that explains this, and it's got the Ccc bond.org, and then there's also a a packet in there about our economic value that we we did an economic study this last year about what we're bringing to the to the county what we're returning, and then before and I'm not sure if I'm over time, or if you have questions or not. But before I continue. I know you. You're typically interested in this
WLWV School Board: dual credit last year I I wanted to let you know that it westland High School. Last year 563 students earned 6
WLWV School Board: 1,269 credits, saving their families, $677,000.
WLWV School Board: Wilsonville students, 324, earned 3,892 credits, saving them $420,336 in tuition.
WLWV School Board: So yeah.
WLWV School Board: it's really great. So thank you. Thank you for the time. If you have any questions for me in any feedback. I'd certainly love to hear. It
WLWV School Board: sounds good. Any questions. I'll start with the
WLWV School Board: director shoemaker just in case we thank you for mentioning the dual credit, because that's such an important part of our high school programs. I'd also just like to put in a plug for your continued invitation to the community.
WLWV School Board: Last summer I was able to visit your kind of
WLWV School Board: completion if we need the bond projects I really appreciated being able to see, to go into buildings and see that work as a community member. And then there was also an open house where I got to see some cte programs. It was also really valuable. So thank you for that kind of outreach. And I hope you'll continue with that. Thank you. Yeah. So there's another cte open house coming up in a couple of weeks I should have that date on me. But I
WLWV School Board: direct sloop anything.
WLWV School Board: No, Director Vidal.
WLWV School Board: As someone who grew up in Oregon city. I definitely know the value of Clackamas Community College, and also I live in Wilsonville now. And so we definitely appreciate your partnership and our high school students and their families definitely appreciate getting that college credit. I'm just wondering, with the
WLWV School Board: the increase increasing costs of universities like 4 Year Universities. Do you think your increase in enrollment is because of that like, or could that be a factor? It? That's a really good question. I think I think there's a number of factors. I we've been doing a lot of work around short term trainings, as we've heard from people, you know, that they
WLWV School Board: really need to they that they can't spend a year or 2 years in college. We really need skills quickly. And so we've we've done quite a bit of work. From that we've seen some success.
WLWV School Board: We have a number of programs now that are entirely in Spanish, and those are booming like we have the only early childhood education program in the country that's entirely in Spanish. We have a wait list that's out the door. And we started a welding one
WLWV School Board: and the same same thing. And and because we've had those programs now, we're starting to offer things like math and other classes like that as well. And so we're seeing a lot more students that are non native speakers that are taking these programs. And then our in our English to second language programs have also boom number of people from Uk, Ukraine, Russia, others that are that are taking classes. So it's
WLWV School Board: yeah. I I suspect there's some. You know that because transfer has gone up. That people that are wanting to come here and save some money to do that. But it's really there's in in probably just about all of our categories.
WLWV School Board: Vice chair Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: I will be incredibly supportive of this if if you put it on the ballot and will advocate for you and support you. Because I think this is just an investment. It's an extension of our investment in education. I I think the one thing that some feedback that I've already heard has been that you know we are still in you know, some tough economic times, and there are
WLWV School Board: families in our district where you know, they would look at this as a potential hardship. And so I would just encourage you to really emphasize. That it's a continuation
WLWV School Board: that it's not a new it's not a new bond. And really emphasizing that value, that rich value. Add that you provide to our communities. And I think, again, you know, it's it's it's always hard to think about money measures. But and I know that there are families in our district that will be skeptical. But I just would encourage you to really emphasize that. And I know that you're a great communications team and
WLWV School Board: your great planning will will accomplish that. But I would just encourage that as as being a key focus or a key message.
WLWV School Board: and I have nothing. I think you guys have done a good job. So thank you for coming out and sharing. Oh, Dr. Ludwig, once again.
WLWV School Board: I always have something to say. You know I know you do, and we actually give up some of your time. I'll keep it brief. But I just wanna emphasize again, it really is a continuation partnership. When we think about students in high school already taking classes with the dual credit program. But then we have students who choose Ccc. As their next pathway.
WLWV School Board: and it really is a a gem of a community college almost kind of the hidden gem of Oregon. I mean. It's remarkable to be on the campus to see the quality of the facilities, the program, the caliber of the faculty. Not just for our K. 12 students, particular high school students, but also the partnership we have with our adult transition program, which is like none other in the nation. And when we have visiting school districts, and they hear about
WLWV School Board: our partnership with Ccc. For our students with significant disabilities, being able to take classes at Ccc. They just wanna know how. How did you make that happen? And it is a Testament to your leadership. Your faculty to being inclusive to understanding that that's where their next peer group is. That's where their next learning should be embracing that vision and making it happen. And it is the envy
WLWV School Board: of so many who come to visit Oregon and look at inclusive schooling and seeing that it's beyond K. 12. But it's K. 16, and how that can happen for students. And then again, just all of our
WLWV School Board: high school career pathways and cte programs always have Ccc in mind because we want students to see where where that work and that thinking is going.
WLWV School Board: So want to thank your faculty for meeting with our team for thinking about what's next helping us refine our programs have that strong articulation. It's such a strong partnership. So I think the communication of what do families get out of supporting this bond is, you get remarkable extension of learning for your students while they're in high school, and it might be their next place
WLWV School Board: to go and invest to get their next training or their next step into into career and and college. So thank you for your leadership. Thank you for having an amazing team and
WLWV School Board: always kind of thinking outside the box and having that vision. And we appreciate so much your partnership.
WLWV School Board: Well, we couldn't do without strong partnership. So thank you. As well really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Thanks again for the time. Thank you. Yeah.
WLWV School Board: Well, this carries us right into
WLWV School Board: board and superintendent reports, and we will open with Director Shoemaker.
WLWV School Board: Well, I'll try to keep it brief. I feel like we're way past board reports tonight. But I just want to make a comment about springtime in schools, and how how much I appreciate
WLWV School Board: the the degree to which we we, we do culminating activities. And how important that is. Many years ago, I wanna say 20 years ago, we all read a book called The Ethic of Excellence, and it's a reminder of the importance of of not only a project based learning, but also of all the many culminating activities from grade school up through robotics, competitions, and
WLWV School Board: all the stuff that's gonna happen in high schools over the course next hold on a couple of months. There was so much energy at both the science fair and the robotics combinate competition, and that really is because really, I in my mind, because of of because it's culminating right? This is they've gotten where they're gonna get. And they're really ready to show it.
WLWV School Board: It's just an energy you don't get at other times, and there's a lot of that to come as the year goes on at all grade levels as students get to these culminating activities. So I just wanna say how much I've appreciated what I've seen so far and how much I look forward to those things this this spring.
WLWV School Board: That's that's it for me tonight.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Director sloop
WLWV School Board: April is alcohol and counseling awareness month, these 2 topics impact our students, family and community
WLWV School Board: alcohol awareness month is an opportunity to educate teens about drinking and to give them tools to handle situations involving alcohol.
WLWV School Board: We tend to be a bit more social, as the weather turns from rain to sunny skies, and we start to venture outdoors. Our youth are no exception.
WLWV School Board: A teen would not, nor a teen who would not normally be tempted to drink, could find a certain social situation which may draw them in
WLWV School Board: parents and trusted adults can play a meaningful role in developing use attitudes toward drinking.
WLWV School Board: Westland High School has the Teen Advisory Board a substance use club made up of students who support a loved one with substance, misuse, or want to educate themselves and others about substance, use awareness and prevention.
WLWV School Board: Director, shoemaker and I attended the national drug and alcohol. Fact week Kickoff lunch hosted by Tab at the High School.
WLWV School Board: and it was great to see so many students participating along with local leaders attending.
WLWV School Board: I'm a member of the drug free community coalition directed by Pam Pierce here in our community to educate and raise awareness about substance, misuse, and prevention
WLWV School Board: according to state data, 64.6% of eighth graders and 48.8% of eleventh graders never drank more than a few sips into 2022. You can do with the math on who has tried.
WLWV School Board: You may have noticed commercials on TV from Oregon, health authority on rethink, rethink the drink about educating Oregonians on excessive drinking.
WLWV School Board: and here are some stats. Oregon ranks, fifth, highest in alcohol, use disorder, but Oregon ranks last in access for substance use
WLWV School Board: disorder treatment, including alcohol.
WLWV School Board: According to Oregon health authority, excessive alcohol use is responsible for over 2,000 deaths annually.
WLWV School Board: Binge drinking costs the State 4.8 billion dollars in 2,019, and Eco. Northwest has the report of that broken down
WLWV School Board: last spring. Dr. Christopher Collier, who authored, who authored
WLWV School Board: neuro whereabouts guide for parents hosted an informational meeting. She discussed high-risk behaviors in children and teens and brain development
WLWV School Board: studies show our brains actually go offline during puberty until the age of about 25 or 26.
WLWV School Board: During this time the frontal lobe, hippocampus and corpus colossum further develop
WLWV School Board: teens don't fully understand consequences.
WLWV School Board: They lack fear, and so are they are prone to risky behaviors.
WLWV School Board: Research also indicates that alcohol misuse during the teenage years can interfere with normal brain development.
WLWV School Board: Alcohol use during assault. Adolescence also significantly increases the risk of developing alcohol use disorder later in life.
WLWV School Board: and not to mention injury. Related conditions diminish cognitive function and mental health issues.
WLWV School Board: Alcohol, misuse can impact academics, attendance, sleep and cause depression and youth.
WLWV School Board: Early warning signs of alcohol misuse are mood changes problems with authority, depression, unhealthy relationships, disengagement from school
WLWV School Board: changes in relationships with family and friends or attendance in school and their activities.
WLWV School Board: Alcohol misuse can be due to a variety of reasons wanting to fit in stress, loneliness, experimenting, or their home environment.
WLWV School Board: And what can you do?
WLWV School Board: Find activities that are endurable or get involved? Get it, get enough sleep, eat healthy, and take care of your body through walk.
WLWV School Board: walking like exercise or exercise, walk, meditate, and also seek counseling.
WLWV School Board: April is also counseling Awareness month.
WLWV School Board: This month not only promotes mental health but highlights, the different types of counselors, mental health, school and college substance, use and career.
WLWV School Board: These counselors are available to help. And it's okay to ask for guidance. We aren't born with all the coping tools and answers needed to navigate life
WLWV School Board: in early years of civilization. Tribes would share their experiences with each other, and many turned to elders for their words of wisdom.
WLWV School Board: Churches became a place where people would seek advice.
WLWV School Board: Now we are realizing the importance of self care and seeking therapy.
WLWV School Board: There are seminars and symposiums available to sign up for online or in person, like a mom support group grieving support group or caregiving support group.
WLWV School Board: Individual counseling is another resource. You don't have to have a mental disorder to seek a counselor.
WLWV School Board: Counselors are trained in many areas.
WLWV School Board: relationships, everyday problems or careers, counselors, listen, help, evaluate and give objective options.
WLWV School Board: counseling awareness. Month is to honor our counselors, counselors, but also to educate society in order to lessen the stigma. So people do not feel judged for seeking help. It's okay to seek help to take care of yourself, and there is no shame in that.
WLWV School Board: The self-reflection and skills learned can be shared and have a positive impact on others.
WLWV School Board: Director of Vitall!
WLWV School Board: Hi! I have some slides.
WLWV School Board: but
WLWV School Board: great, thank you so much. So April is child abuse, prevention month.
WLWV School Board: and this month you may see blue PIN wheels planted in the ground, and they are symbols for child abuse, awareness and neglect. Prevention.
WLWV School Board: I'm shining a light on child abuse, prevention, because for some children and teens a teacher, counselor, school resource officer, or para educator at their school is the only person at they feel safe.
WLWV School Board: opening up to. So in honor of the Children's Center's courageous and strong work surrounding child abuse and neglect. I'm going to inform you about this organization located in Oregon City next slide.
WLWV School Board: The Children's center is a private nonprofit Children's Advocacy Center, accredited by the National Children's Alliance and children are referred to the Children's Center by law Enforcement child Protective Workers, parents.
WLWV School Board: teachers.
WLWV School Board: healthcare providers, and others concerned for children's welfare, and they provide coordinated support to children and their families. And so you can see on the slide. The left side would be without all the support a coordinated organization provides, and there families can get mental health medical services and coordination with law enforcement, and many times the Da family support services.
WLWV School Board: forensic interviews and therapy by providing medical examinations and forensic interviews. The children center supports Clackamas, county children and families, experiencing suspected physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. And this includes a drug endangerment and witness to violence. Next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So within the last year the Children's Center has provided 493 assessments, 1,128 therapy sessions, sessions. And they've trained 2,070 adults in prevention training. But there's so much more work that needs to be done to prevent child abuse and neglect. Next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: The following data is sobering. But it's important to understand just how many children in our community are being affected by child abuse and neglect.
WLWV School Board: So at children's advocacy centers throughout the State of Oregon. The proportion of children who experience their first child abuse or neglect offense are as follows, so 35%. It happens birth to 6 years old.
WLWV School Board: 33% is 7 to 12.
WLWV School Board: And so you know, that's pretty sobering to see 12. And under that it happens, 68% happens when they're 12 and under and then 13 to 18 years old, it's 32% and child abuse affects 8.7 girls per 1,000
WLWV School Board: 7.5 boys per 1,000. So, according to the Us. Census data in Wilsonville and West Lynn, we have about 12,375 children, which means 107 girls, may be affected by abuse, and 92 boys may be affected by abuse. Next slide.
WLWV School Board: and when we relate this data to adverse childhood experiences or aces, we can see just how child abuse is impacting our students.
WLWV School Board: Education and wellbeing and aces are based on 10 different types of childhood trauma, and the first 5 are abuse. So physical, verbal, sexual abuse and physical and emotional neglect.
WLWV School Board: So when you look at this graph, you can see the proportions of children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences next slide.
WLWV School Board: So there are many costs of child abuse and neglect in our society we see this in healthcare, child welfare, criminal justice.
WLWV School Board: education, and special education. We see a decrease in productivity from the victims of abuse, and we see risky social outcomes from victims as well. Next slide.
WLWV School Board: When we relate this to their educational outcomes, we can see that neglect is associated with significant risks, like deficits and executive functioning and attention regulation suppressed. IQ. Scores
WLWV School Board: poor reading skills and low rates of high school graduation.
WLWV School Board: And among girls who experience sexual abuse.
WLWV School Board: we see that nearly 40% have academic difficulties and 48% are reporting below average grades and 37% have cognitive ability scores below the 20 fifth percentile
WLWV School Board: next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: the educational out impacts on children lead the staggering financial impacts as well, not only to the people who are abused, but to their communities and the United States. So, according to the children's center, the estimated lifetime cost for a non-fatal child maltreatment victim. So a child that's been abused
WLWV School Board: is about all nearly $831,000, and in the United States in 2015 it was estimated that the economic burden from substantiated and investigated cases is 2 trillion dollars
WLWV School Board: next slide, please. But in Clackamas County alone, in 2022. The cost of abuse to children was nearly 445 million dollars, with almost 2,800 investigations
WLWV School Board: and 4 fatalities next slide, please.
WLWV School Board: So what can we do about
WLWV School Board: childhood abuse and neglect? I just want to. Again shine a light on the children center for being an incredible organization. That's a great resource for our parents.
WLWV School Board: our families, and our educators. And they can support our our teachers and staff with different trainings, on trauma, on child sex abuse, prevention, on online safety and on healthy boundaries. They also do consultations and community conversations next.
WLWV School Board: and because of child abuse awareness month. They're hosting a free outdoor family fun day at Mary S. Young park in West Lynn on April thirteenth, from 9 to 12. So thank you so much for the time, and that's it.
WLWV School Board: Vice chair, Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: Nothing this evening, alright
WLWV School Board: and myself.
WLWV School Board: I just have something really really quick, I conceded my time for
WLWV School Board: director of y'all to be able to give her presentation. But I just wanted to thank my
WLWV School Board: board
WLWV School Board: colleagues up here because I attended a
WLWV School Board: a chairs, luncheon, and one of the things that was interesting from board chairs from all over the State of Oregon
WLWV School Board: was the dynamics of boards
WLWV School Board: around the around the State. And so a common thing that I guess, goes on is
WLWV School Board: how to deal with unruly board members.
WLWV School Board: And so that was a topic that came up on this
WLWV School Board: zoom call, and if you know anything about me, I was fascinated by that, because I don't mind a little drama so long as I'm not involved in it.
WLWV School Board: So you know, one of the questions that came across is, How do you deal with an unruly board member.
WLWV School Board: and I couldn't speak from experience, so I didn't really have anything to say. But I definitely started eating popcorn and listened. What in the heck is going on out there, and it's fascinating. So if you ever get the opportunity
WLWV School Board: to attend
WLWV School Board: a board chairs meeting.
WLWV School Board: it is fascinating. So
WLWV School Board: that is all that I have to share, and I just wanted to thank you all for making it easy for me not have to get in a wrestling match with you in front of the public. So I'll turn it over to Superintendent Ludwig.
WLWV School Board: Thank you for that transition report. Report.
WLWV School Board: So first of all, I just wanna thank Director Sloop and Director Vidal for bringing forward and highlighting those aspects of where, as a school, not only do we support academics? But it's really about the whole child. And when we look at pictures of our children and circles of support and creating learning communities for thoughtful children, thoughtful people for the world. It's also recognizing that
WLWV School Board: we're working with humans who come with all the dynamics of things that are going on in their lives and society, and and helping them learn through that in spite of that and supporting them. So wanna thank you for recognizing that we have counselors, and that we have curriculum that teaches to those aspects that we have a partnership with the children center. They are a resource that we do provide to our families through our social workers and counselors. So thank you for highlighting.
WLWV School Board: both the important message as well as partnerships in the work.
WLWV School Board: and so next slide
WLWV School Board: just want to share some highlights of March. It was disability, awareness month, and just want to recognize our amazing staff who work with our students who do have identifications with a disability. Our students will tell us they don't want to be defined by their disability, but they want to be recognized that when they have one they need access and they need opportunity.
WLWV School Board: So when we talk about opportunity gaps in our district goal, we want to remember that we have students who do count on us to make sure that there is access for them to that rigorous curriculum. However, they present, and what their needs are, and we have amazing staff, who by profession are skilled to do that, but also work is work really well in a team to make sure that we're growing in our capacity to to support all of our students.
WLWV School Board: We've already spoken tonight multiple times around our science program. And thank you.
WLWV School Board: director, shoemaker for attending the Science Symposium for being there for those science projects. They really are a culmination of incredible research and thinking. I think it is one of those aspects where math, literacy, science, critical thinking, public speaking.
WLWV School Board: reasoning, they all come to bear in those types of projects that then become public opportunities. You'll see the picture down below on the far right corner is our keynote speaker. Dr. Sabrina Levy Mose, who was an alumnus of our school district, and started out by reminding students that she was right where they were with her science fair project
WLWV School Board: being mentored and and tutored by Amy Shower and others in the work, and now is
WLWV School Board: working on her second doctorate and and doing amazing things around human memory and the brain for both practical research, but also compounding research as she thinks forward. With innovation and technology around where her studies can take her.
WLWV School Board: And thank you also, director, shoemaker, for recognizing our robotics competition. I think I was texting you all pictures of wilsonville High School hosting once again that event and our students doing remarkable thinking and teamwork as they presented their final projects.
WLWV School Board: And March did kick off for us some many meetings. Now, as we are going into 3 contract negotiations with licensed classified, and also our charter schools. So these are some busy times as we work with our partners to think about how they experience their work and how we can help them continue to do great work in our district
WLWV School Board: next slide.
WLWV School Board: Earlier this year you voted as a school board for us to update our long-range plan.
WLWV School Board: and that has now the current. One is kind of sunsetting with the last capital bond. And so our team is in the process of doing a lot of work around that with a timeline and incredibly sophisticated gantt chart that moves us through that work of updating that plan for you as a board.
WLWV School Board: We're looking at development in the area enrollment forecasts. We're updating our narrative which involves doing a lot. Looking at a lot of anchor documents and interviews and task force groups to look at. Our facility needs and you can see that once we update that long range plan. We'll have a better sense with our long range planning committee to be thinking about. What is it that we then need to respond to the needs that arose. Through that update of the plan next slide.
WLWV School Board: We've divided our work into what we're calling these 7 task force groups that are each looking deeply into each one of these areas.
WLWV School Board: I wanna thank Director Shoemaker for being on the long range planning committee and staying close to this work as your board liaison and learning more about each each of the task force groups and what their deep dive will be. We have focus groups and anchor documents that then bring
WLWV School Board: information to the task force group. Who then considers, what is it that the district needs next in terms of each of these areas
WLWV School Board: next slide.
WLWV School Board: This is that time when you were hearing about budgeting for next year, I did send out a community message that you, as a board, had already been
WLWV School Board: previewed to. As we get our budget, our financial updates from Dr. Hughes at our board meetings. And you did see the message that we are looking at a modest reduction for next year. When asked often, How is it that K. 12 public schools in Oregon find themselves needing finances when we hear about additional grants, or we hear about an increase every 2 years from the State.
WLWV School Board: it's a lot of reasons. But maybe it's these 3 coalesce around. Probably the the 3
WLWV School Board: strongest reasons why K. 12 schools in Oregon continue to be in a budget reduction mode or needing funds.
WLWV School Board: One is the model that the State uses for projecting what schools will need every 2 years. It's not the same model that districts are using. And so there's often feedback to the state about
WLWV School Board: how how our finances do increase every year, and what we need from the State. And here's an example, the State projected that
WLWV School Board: school districts would only need about 5 and a half percent of an increase to personnel costs when the reality was. Most of us had an increase of about 14%. When you consider the cost of living and inflation increases as well as steps for for years of service.
WLWV School Board: Another area that is outdated and underfunded is support to special education. Currently, in Oregon. The funding cap for special education is at 11%.
WLWV School Board: When really the State averages about 14 and a half, and the national average is around 15. Some school districts in Oregon have as high as 18 to 20%. We're at about 13.
WLWV School Board: So it is outdated, and it needs to be increased and has been in other States. It just hasn't reached that marker in Oregon that would allow us to use that additional funding instead of
WLWV School Board: tapping into our our general funds for for that extra resource.
WLWV School Board: And then, lastly, as we've heard tonight from director sloop and Director Vidal, support to families and students around. Mental health increasingly, has has fallen on school districts. We're the ones that are hiring more counselors, more social workers, mental health professionals, and we're often the place where families go and say I need help, and I don't know where to turn
WLWV School Board: and schools are not medical facilities. They're educational facilities. Our teachers are educators. They're not clinicians. And yet there's this increasing expectation that school districts are the place that attend to mental health support for students, and that is a repeated ask
WLWV School Board: of our superintendents, as well as other education lobbyist groups to appeal to the State that we need more systemic mental health support
WLWV School Board: in other services in the State that are coordinated like the children's center so that families can get that assistance right when they need it. So more investment in that area that's not then
WLWV School Board: being expected of schools.
WLWV School Board: Just a reminder of that budget timeline. I won't read all that to you, but you can see the progression. This was also mentioned in my communication to the community.
WLWV School Board: you will see a community budget message going out in April with an online survey for a feedback opportunity. And then in May
WLWV School Board: you'll have the superintendent's budget message
WLWV School Board: to you as a school board along with the you're part of the Budget Committee, so the whole Budget Committee will be sitting up here, and you'll receive that, and then, of course, you'll have your deliberation and your meetings as a budget committee.
WLWV School Board: As a board. You'll get that
WLWV School Board: approval that recommendation from the Budget Committee, and you'll make your your decision in June
WLWV School Board: next slide.
WLWV School Board: We're excited that we get to co-host the urban collaborative. This is a national network of over a hundred school districts across the nation that are committed to inclusive special education services. We are a member district, and as a Member district. We get to be a part of these semi-annual. They're called meetings instead of conferences, because they're from members only
WLWV School Board: where you bring your practice forward and you get to problem. Solve together as well as share your your strategies and your work. We are the co-hosts along with Portland public schools, which means that all those who are coming
WLWV School Board: get to visit our schools. So we'll have buses of educators descending upon 3 of our schools, watching instruction in classrooms, getting to see examples of inclusive schooling. And then the next day we have to present our work
WLWV School Board: to these various members and a problem of practice, an area that we're hoping to get better for them to give us feedback. So it's a very unique type of a meeting conference where you're working with colleagues from across the country to put your work out there vulnerably to them, and ask them to see spaces where we could make improvements, to give us critical feedback and to help us grow.
WLWV School Board: So we're excited that we got chosen to be one of the co-hosts, and for this opportunity for our staff
WLWV School Board: to showcase their work, but not only that, to see it as an opportunity for learning and growth for all of us. So it's
WLWV School Board: it's great for our school district, and if there's anything you'd like to learn more about that, you can certainly contact me individually, and we might be able to
WLWV School Board: tour you around a little bit, but just remember it is a Members conference, so we'll have to. You might be sitting in a meeting where you're not sure what's going on.
WLWV School Board: Additionally, I would say, along with this meeting comes the opportunity for an artist, a national artist, to work with students who are part of the co-host. To then display their thinking, their creativity and their work. So this week we do have remind me the name of the artist Kyle Holbrook.
WLWV School Board: Kyle Holbrook
WLWV School Board: is here
WLWV School Board: all week with our adult transition students who are at the Judah Human Center, helping them co-create a mural
WLWV School Board: that depicts who they are, who they're proud of being their their work, their life, and
WLWV School Board: and also their connection to the Judy human center. So he individually works with students to draw out from them what they'd like to put into this mural the message they'd like to send, and they're co-creating it each afternoon this week, and then it'll be
WLWV School Board: videoed, and then it'll be highlighted at the conference, as as he also then works with conference goers, goers around creating an artifact of that
WLWV School Board: meeting conference. He'll also showcase what he did with our students this week. So we're really excited for for him, and the students are over. The moon, excited to work with a nationally renowned artist, and to create this mural together.
WLWV School Board: And I think that's it.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Appreciate it.
WLWV School Board: And
WLWV School Board: onto the consent. Agenda.
WLWV School Board: I move we approve the consent. Agenda. Thank you. Do we have a second?
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: right? Perfect any questions about the consent, agenda? Any concerns? No.
WLWV School Board: all right.
WLWV School Board: I'll move to Director Douglas to cast the vote. Thank you, director, shoemaker, I director, sloop, I chair, Taylor, I vice chair, Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal. Aye, thank you.
WLWV School Board: And do we have any public comment? I don't see any. Okay.
WLWV School Board: so move them right along.
WLWV School Board: just real quick.
WLWV School Board: t-,
WLWV School Board: do you need a break? Do you need water. I saw you reaching.
WLWV School Board: No, okay, yeah.
WLWV School Board: I'll take a break. Okay, can can?
WLWV School Board: Yes, alright. So what we're gonna do before we get into board business. We're gonna take a quick 5 min break
WLWV School Board: alright, so we'll see you back here at
WLWV School Board: 7, 48,
WLWV School Board: right.
WLWV School Board: The board meeting is back in session.
WLWV School Board: and we will move to board business and
WLWV School Board: we get to start with Fan favorite.
WLWV School Board: Pat Mcguff.
WLWV School Board: Good evening. What we're
WLWV School Board: tonight. We bring before you 2 updates to Board Policy Board Policy, KI. And Kj.
WLWV School Board: They are
WLWV School Board: somewhat related in that when we took the recommendation from the Oregon School Board Association, Osba. They suggested that they both be updated together.
WLWV School Board: The simplest one is the first that I'll begin with is Policy KI.
WLWV School Board: And that is solicitations in the public. So solicitations in the district.
WLWV School Board: There is only one slight change that we are proposing tonight, and it is an edit to the very last sentence of the current policy. We simply remove that.
WLWV School Board: I'll read the whole sentence. Application for approval shall be submitted to the superintendent at least 30 days prior to the date designated for such activity.
WLWV School Board: We have removed the 30 day requirement because some of these are more timely.
WLWV School Board: and it just became quite awkward at times to
WLWV School Board: have these kinds of approvals.
WLWV School Board: So tonight you have the option to have this be the first reading, or you can take action. Staff is recommending that you pass this
WLWV School Board: edit to this particular policy, and there is a sample motion
WLWV School Board: attached to the memo.
WLWV School Board: Oh, and I'm sorry, and we have had our legal counsel review both of these, and they have approved these changes.
WLWV School Board: Yep. And my understanding is that we're we're taking action on these independently.
WLWV School Board: as like, okay, good.
WLWV School Board: I move to adopt the amended board policy. Ki, public solicitations in the district as proposed.
WLWV School Board: I'm second.
WLWV School Board: right? Any
WLWV School Board: questions.
WLWV School Board: Comments.
WLWV School Board: Okay, I'll pass it to Director Douglas for the vote.
WLWV School Board: Thank you, Director Biddal.
WLWV School Board: Hi.
WLWV School Board: Hi, chair, Wyatt Tay Taylor. Hi, Director Sue, Hi, and Director Shoemaker. Thank you, how was that for?
WLWV School Board: Okay, it moves us to the
WLWV School Board: a. J,
WLWV School Board: okay, Kj, is a substantial change in our current board policy
WLWV School Board: current board policy. KJ.
WLWV School Board: specifically prohibits
WLWV School Board: the advertisement of any commercial
WLWV School Board: venues or
WLWV School Board: enterprises on district property. For instance, a banner hanging in the gym that supports the sports team.
WLWV School Board: We have
WLWV School Board: actually been in violation of this policy for decades.
WLWV School Board: Advertising in school year books is prohibited under our current policy.
WLWV School Board: We have kind of always looked the other way.
WLWV School Board: and it is.
WLWV School Board: and awkward at best it is. Put our building principles in kind of an awkward situation. It puts District Administration in an awkward position.
WLWV School Board: And so we reached out to the Oregon School Board Association, and they did have a template board policy that is used by other districts around the metropolitan area. Some of our closest neighbors have a policy very similar to the proposed Kj.
WLWV School Board: This policy recognizes the reality of how we do business today. In schools businesses advertise on our yearbooks. They advertise on our sports fences. They advertise in uniforms. They advertise on scoreboards.
WLWV School Board: So
WLWV School Board: this policy is really to bring
WLWV School Board: board policy into alignment with current practices and the future
WLWV School Board: going forward with at with
WLWV School Board: businesses that want to
WLWV School Board: partner with the district.
WLWV School Board: Okay.
WLWV School Board: I am the motion. I move to adopt the amended board policy. Kj. Commercial advertising as proposed.
WLWV School Board: Do we have a second
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: questions.
WLWV School Board: I do have one question.
WLWV School Board: and is there any rules to the sign? To the size of a banner or whatnot. If a business is wanting to advertise, whether it be inside the gym or outdoors on the fence, is there a rule to that that where they have to be 24 by 24, or
WLWV School Board: that typically will be addressed in the administrative rule. The AR that accompanies a board policy. We do have a sample AR that we are refining right now. Currently, all signs are approved through the community Services Department. And technically, they're all supposed to be approved there now, some of the sports teams have taken on their own.
WLWV School Board: for instance, the softball at Rosemont.
WLWV School Board: Their their banners would probably
WLWV School Board: be
WLWV School Board: over the limit. But we'll adapt those in consultation with both our all 3 of our athletic directors
WLWV School Board: and our current policy, and we'll incorporate those into the AR
WLWV School Board: Gotcha. And my my second question would be
WLWV School Board: if in violation of assigned size.
WLWV School Board: from somewhere, and funds have already been given from an organization to support.
WLWV School Board: like we just heard today that many of our teams travel out of State.
WLWV School Board: Hawaii, and and various places for competition.
WLWV School Board: and if that money has been used to buy plane tickets and lodging, and all of that, and then the sign is found to be in violation of the code
WLWV School Board: is, what is the ramification? Is there a refund back to the company who enforces
WLWV School Board: what's in violation and not in violation.
WLWV School Board: Typically, even when signs are oversized, unless there's a formal complaint from the cities which there those have been rare.
WLWV School Board: We would typically allow it to go through the season or whatever event they were sponsoring with a a
WLWV School Board: you know, a warning. Next year your signs need to come in compliance, but if there was a
WLWV School Board: significant disagreement, then we would probably work out a refund of some kind. Okay.
WLWV School Board: that's my only question. And I would just say, You know, our relationship with our youth sports and and our booster clubs and our community is incredibly collaborative. We want to support and typically, when mistakes are made, it's not intentional. It's new people in that volunteer role.
WLWV School Board: not realizing that they needed to check something. And so there's a lot of grace on our end around understanding that and working forward. And
WLWV School Board: this is this is the policy, but, as you can imagine, the AR is going to be much more extensive around giving that guidance to both the superintendent and designees around.
WLWV School Board: How do we
WLWV School Board: allow this? But allow it in a way that it doesn't overtake the mission of A. K. 12 school, and that these are learning institutions first and foremost.
WLWV School Board: and that place is
WLWV School Board: just for advertising, but that we do understand. It
WLWV School Board: happens on the back of the child's fun. Run t-shirt, you know, with a Pta that there's a dental office, or somebody who's been so generous and gracious, and and our own district goal
WLWV School Board: is around making sure that we connect with our community, and that they see our schools as a place where there's partnership not for financial means, but that they invest in the wellbeing of our students, and we wanna support and honor that as well.
WLWV School Board: Well, it has my full support, because it's another way that we keep our kids being able to have experiences that are
WLWV School Board: funded by our community. So
WLWV School Board: I'm gonna pass it to Director Douglas for the vote. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Director Vidal.
WLWV School Board: Hi, nice chair, Wyatt, I and Chair Taylor. Hi.
WLWV School Board: director, slew. Aye, and Director Shaker.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Well, we're gonna stay right here on this channel. Okay, well, thank you all very much. The final item that I have tonight is in reference to our long range planning committee. As you know that we have 7
WLWV School Board: positions on the long range clinic planning committee.
WLWV School Board: 2 are set to expire on June thirtieth of this year. That is, position 3 and position 5.
WLWV School Board: When once we put this on the agenda, we subsequently have had one resignation
WLWV School Board: for position 2.
WLWV School Board: So we actually have 3 openings on the long range planning committee. As you know, we are currently going through the process, as Dr. Ludwig explained earlier in her report
WLWV School Board: of updating the long range planning long range plan
WLWV School Board: that could lead to a future bond proposition.
WLWV School Board: So these positions, it is the
WLWV School Board: the time where the this is the heavy lifting for the long range planning committee.
WLWV School Board: They need to be deeply engaged in this work, and having a full committee is vital at this time.
WLWV School Board: So we are asking the Board to declare the positions open
WLWV School Board: and to
WLWV School Board: solicit applications for the appointment of new members.
WLWV School Board: We do want to thank all 3 of the exiting or expiring term
WLWV School Board: Board members, Kim Jordan.
WLWV School Board: Amy Patterson, Sandy, and Miss Cresswell for their service on this committee.
WLWV School Board: And we we hope that
WLWV School Board: we'll have
WLWV School Board: the same, or we people are, can reapply for this position if they so choose.
WLWV School Board: Gotcha, do we have a motion to open and solicit 3 new members to be a part of our
WLWV School Board: long range planning committee. I move the Board declare positions 2, 3, and 5 open for application to the long range planning committee as of April first, 2024.
WLWV School Board: I second
WLWV School Board: any questions
WLWV School Board: comments.
WLWV School Board: Could I just make a comment? As pat mentioned position 2 would have expired in 2025, and instead of asking you to fill it just for the remainder of that term, we are actually gonna switch that to a New 3 Year term. Otherwise you'd be one person would only apply for one year, and 2 people would be applying for 3 years. We've made all 3 positions 3 years, so just wanted to make sure that was
WLWV School Board: clear to the board. What what we've done with that we have changed the term limits of position to now.
WLWV School Board: does anyone have a problem with that
WLWV School Board: semantics procedure will change sound. Okay? Sound? Good. Okay. Thank you. We have one question for you. And I, just this is more of a comment just for the record. But the long range planning committee. I had the chance to be the liaison and it is an incredibly well run committee and the opportunities
WLWV School Board: especially at this point in time with updating the long range plan and the capital improvement plan. It's just really an exceptional way to make a huge difference in our district. And so just would encourage anybody who is interested in the future of this district to consider applying. It is time well spent. You can't always say that about every public meeting, but it is there
WLWV School Board: tremendously well run, so just would encourage anybody listening, or hopefully, we could get some coverage in the tidings. And their view. About how important this committee is, and how fun it is to be part of it, because you're really shaping what our district looks like in the future.
WLWV School Board: And just to remind this committee also serves as the district's Bond oversight committee. So they do back to back meetings with separate agenda items, but they do serve both those roles.
WLWV School Board: Sounds good.
WLWV School Board: I will pass it to Director Douglas for the vote. Thank you. Director of Ital.
WLWV School Board: Hi, nice chair, Wyatt! Hi Taylor, director, sloop alright, director, shoemaker. Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Right
WLWV School Board: that leads us into public comment. Our second session. We didn't have any
WLWV School Board: community members for the first session, and so we have one
WLWV School Board: for this session, and
WLWV School Board: he's a regular, so I won't go through the board
WLWV School Board: rules and and guidelines. He's very aware of them. So I'm gonna welcome up.
WLWV School Board: Mr. John Mccabe.
WLWV School Board: Thank you, John Mccabe, Westland, Oregon. Nothing, I say, will be an April fools joke.
WLWV School Board: even though I sure do have some
WLWV School Board: like the blazers. Anyway, on. My item is an item that I have sent out to the Board members.
WLWV School Board: the
WLWV School Board: Department of Education has already come up for next year. What amount of revenue based on the 8 Emw. Waited for this year?
WLWV School Board: Because what we keep on giving to the our Department of Education, the enrollment in this school district just keeps on declining
WLWV School Board: statewide. It's going up 2,000 students.
WLWV School Board: but we're declining
WLWV School Board: numerous years in a row. So next year
WLWV School Board: we are only going to get 4 million dollars more.
WLWV School Board: and we have for this year.
WLWV School Board: And when you look at our spending that we have for this year.
WLWV School Board: only getting 4 million dollars more.
WLWV School Board: You see it in the news all these school districts talking about their cuts they're going to bring through.
WLWV School Board: We're not talking about it.
WLWV School Board: We're going to get the. You're going to get the meeting unless you have it in the executive
WLWV School Board: to board.
WLWV School Board: I don't know if you people will have been informed of what the situation is.
WLWV School Board: but I think the public needs to know if we're going to do cuts.
WLWV School Board: Let's let's let's make it transparent. Let's get out to the people.
WLWV School Board: Not may fourth and approve the budget. May fifteenth
WLWV School Board: seeing that we're only going to get 4 million dollars more next year than what we got this year.
WLWV School Board: we're like all these other school districts that are doing things drastically.
WLWV School Board: We don't need to do things drastically. Well, maybe we will.
WLWV School Board: but we need to talk about it. This needs to be transparent
WLWV School Board: and
WLWV School Board: The numbers are current
WLWV School Board: because it was just done. Last week.
WLWV School Board: It was done last week for the
WLWV School Board: 2324 year, and it's also been now done for the 2425 year.
WLWV School Board: But
WLWV School Board: way in the past. When I was in the
WLWV School Board: Budget Committee.
WLWV School Board: we had meetings with the public
WLWV School Board: in advance.
WLWV School Board: just to be transparent.
WLWV School Board: But this is really critical. Because you guys did a great thing with the primary school
WLWV School Board: letter C.
WLWV School Board: It's needed.
WLWV School Board: I hate to see it go away immediately because of how little money we're getting.
WLWV School Board: and I know it can be used. The cat text could be used.
WLWV School Board: But
WLWV School Board: you're gonna be part of the group that does it. And
WLWV School Board: it's almost like the workcast is. The work should have started months ago.
WLWV School Board: They should have been aware that this might might would happen.
WLWV School Board: But I'm going off to figures.
WLWV School Board: and the State goes off the figures that are provided by the district, and it's really concerning to me, and it should be to the community.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: Yes, we have
WLWV School Board: a comment from
WLWV School Board: Vice Chair Wyatt.
WLWV School Board: I just wanted to just make it clear that not only in the Board report this evening, but also in an email to the entire school community as well as a front page news article in our local papers. Has covered this fact and the fact that we are looking at
WLWV School Board: the need to make some reductions. And so I think a call for transparency. I think we are well on our way of having a really open conversation talking about it in the press. It's been shared out to our school community. And so I think we're well on our way. And in addition, we typically do that survey every
WLWV School Board: budget season where we reach out to the community and ask for their feedback. As we prioritize what the proposed budget looks like. So I just wanted to provide that clarification as we head into this next month of budget season and then, in addition, you know, always have found Dr. Hughes and her team would be incredibly responsive if we ever have questions about what's happening with our budget as we anticipate it. So just wanted to just make that clarification.
WLWV School Board: Thank you.
WLWV School Board: I don't see any other
WLWV School Board: radars up. So I am going to
WLWV School Board: move on to important dates for the board. Our next board meeting will be on April fifteenth for a work session at 5
WLWV School Board: and you can look at the rest of them and the next superintendent Buzz. It is May sixth.
WLWV School Board: which is our regular
WLWV School Board: Budget meeting. So
WLWV School Board: session is at Wilsonville High School at Wilsonville High School. Correct.
WLWV School Board: right and our next regular board meeting is June tenth.
WLWV School Board: I'm sorry.
WLWV School Board: Isn't a regular board meeting in May.
WLWV School Board: Oh, I'm sorry I did say may sixth. I was looking at.
WLWV School Board: You know what you're right. You're right. So I stand corrected. There.
WLWV School Board: and I'll let you guys finish out the rest. So before I make any more mistakes.
WLWV School Board: meeting adjourned.