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Regan Molatore: Alright, we'll go ahead, we will start this regular session of our school board and

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Regan Molatore: Kelly would even do Ronald

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Kelly Douglas: Reagan mala toy.

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Kelly Douglas: Kelsey King

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Kelly Douglas: Prison.

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Christy Thompson: Christie Thompson present

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Kelly Douglas: Ginger Fitch.

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Ginger Fitch: Here.

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Kelly Douglas: And then when doing comes on, we will love him in the minutes that he has arrived.

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Regan Molatore: Perfect. Alright, so as we go through this meeting this evening. Just a small little outline. I'm going to do my best to kind of set expectations for each topic. So we kind of know how conversation around those topics will

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Regan Molatore: Flow and then we're utilizing the wave your hand.

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Regan Molatore: In hand demand feature before we speak and we get to start with our district communications and, in particular, we get to hear from

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Regan Molatore: Our three high school students. And we are so, so very grateful to have the three of you back and joining us for this meeting and it gives us the opportunity to see you at least one last time and we get to hear how you guys are doing and coping with the changes to your education and

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Regan Molatore: Change and unforeseen changes in your school year and then also

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Regan Molatore: We just look forward to you, keeping us informed on how things are going with you and sharing with us, please, what it is you will be doing next year or anticipate doing next year. And I also

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Regan Molatore: Wanted to thank Miss Dressler, Mrs Schmidt and Mr Newman, who are your principles and who have been

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Regan Molatore: Supporting the three of you as you come and speak to us each year, often with their physical presence at our meetings and I think tonight is is not an exception, I believe that they're working to join us as well. So they they can support you through to the end.

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Regan Molatore: So I will start by by calling them each of you. And then I'm hoping. Yeah, you could just share with us how things how things are going and as well as what your plans are.

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Regan Molatore: For the next year and then definitely hang on the line with us for the alarm, because I know our board members probably each like doctrine to thank you, collectively for your service to us this year so Avery, are you going to start us off.

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Averi Fels: Yeah, definitely. Um, well, I appreciate the opportunity to come and see all of you guys, again, it's definitely been strange not having a routine.

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Averi Fels: But I think I speak for myself as well as a senior class that this is obviously not what we planned.

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Averi Fels: But I think that it's provided a really cool opportunity for all of us to figure out what community means even though we can't be together and has provided a lot of perspective on

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Averi Fels: What we find important in our lives. So I think that I've definitely been missing friends a lot definitely been missing staff members that have made a huge impact on me and I wish I could think in person and see another time, but

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Averi Fels: I'm sure that a time for that will come around right now is be is planning a lot of virtual stuff. We just did a virtual spirit week

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Averi Fels: We're hosting SP officer elections for next year all online in the next coming months. So that will be interesting.

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Averi Fels: And basically it's also been a really cool chance for all of us to figure out as kind of a student body. Like what, like I said before, what community means, but also how we can provide for our students.

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Averi Fels: In a meaningful way. Knowing that everyone is having the same opportunities and experiences right now and being sensitive to that and being mindful to that. Um, so yeah. As for next year. I'm going to attend the University of Oregon.

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Averi Fels: Didn't have that go ducks, and I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to major in but I know it's probably going to be a science with a double major in Spanish and my professional objective is to become a physician's assistant. Um, so yeah.

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Regan Molatore: Excellent. That was fantastic.

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Regan Molatore: Thank you.

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Kathy Ludwig: And and and Avery.

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Kathy Ludwig: Will get this to you. Somehow, I don't know if you can see this, but there is a plaque.

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Kathy Ludwig: From the school board recognizing and thanking your contributions and you'll be receiving that and you can add it to all your other memorabilia and memories of Westland Wilson bill so we'll get that out to you.

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Averi Fels: Thank you. That means a lot.

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Averi Fels: It's been a pleasure talking with all of you guys for this entire year. I'm so blessed that opportunity. I'm glad to have gotten to know all of us. So I'm definitely gonna miss that next year.

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Regan Molatore: Thank you, we thoroughly enjoyed you and hang. Hang on. Don't take off.

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Averi Fels: All right. Thank you.

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Regan Molatore: Like to share with us now.

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Lindsey Hartford: Did you call me.

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Regan Molatore: Lindsay, please.

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Lindsey Hartford: Oh yeah. Okay, perfect. Um, first of all,

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Lindsey Hartford: I just want to thank you guys for inviting me to this. It's great to be together. One more time. I know that's like a big thing.

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Lindsey Hartford: For my class right now. We've had a few student councils zoom meetings as well where we're just talking about how in the future. Can we all get together. One more time, maybe or

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Lindsey Hartford: Have different sorts of opportunities to connect so um

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Lindsey Hartford: Yeah, that's pretty much what we've been doing. We're trying to think of new creative ways we've gotten creative. We've got some like

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Lindsey Hartford: Instagram accounts or see news can send them what they're doing. Next year, which has been super cool because I could see where everyone's going, since we're going to set on decision day at school, which is kind of sad, but

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Lindsey Hartford: You know, we're make we're starting new traditions, maybe. So, um, as for me next year. I'm going to Oregon State University, and I'm majoring in bio health sciences.

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Lindsey Hartford: Yeah, my goal and the end I'm gonna, I want to go to medical school after Oregon State and then eventually specialized in neonatology. So the little babies. That's my goal on the end. Yeah.

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Lindsey Hartford: Um,

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Lindsey Hartford: Yeah, that's about it. I'm just excited for the future and hopefully that we can try some new things and learn from this. I feel like the communication between like my class and my friends has just gotten so much better from

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Lindsey Hartford: Not being each other. So that's kind of a unique benefit and then one last time, I just want to thank all of you, and especially mishmash I don't really see her on the screen, but I know she if she's listening.

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Lindsey Hartford: I want to thank all of you and it's really been something. I look forward to every month is coming to the school board meetings and I really cherish the

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Lindsey Hartford: New relationships that I've been able to have an opportunity that I've had from being able to speak with all of you. It's really something that I will remember forever. And I'm very grateful. So yeah, and

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Kathy Ludwig: And Lindsay, we have your plaque that will get to you thanking you for your leadership work.

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Kathy Ludwig: As a liaison between your school and the board and all three of you should know your principles are watching, they're just not panelists for this meeting. So they're in the participant viewing so you can wave to them, but we will be back. But they wanted so desperately to be able to

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Kathy Ludwig: Be online and watch you speak one last time for the board, so they are there watching so Lindsay, this will come to you and your, your home, someone's gonna bring it to your house.

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Lindsey Hartford: Okay, thank you so much.

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Regan Molatore: Thank you, Lynn.

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Regan Molatore: I'm Caitlin

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Kaitlyn Finn: Hi. Oh, man. Um, well, I don't really, I'm not her senior yet so I'm not really going to be going off to college quite yet. Um, but

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Kaitlyn Finn: I want to thank you guys for all being here. It's amazing that we can connect in this way.

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Kaitlyn Finn: And I i'm not i'm going to be a senior, I'm going to be a senior next year's what I'm going for, I'm

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Kaitlyn Finn: Hoping to

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Kaitlyn Finn: Go and continue my automotive classes that I've been taking

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Kaitlyn Finn: Hoping to continue to make my art portfolio and to continue to widen that up as I've continued practicing my art.

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Kaitlyn Finn: And probably after high school, I'd move on to college classes. And from there, possibly going to Clackamas Community College.

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Kaitlyn Finn: That was that that would be that would be something that's that's pretty neat.

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Kaitlyn Finn: definitely interesting being able to communicate, like this, and especially cuz it's, we're not being in school all the time, but it's amazing that we can come together and this way and be able to talk mostly face to face.

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Kaitlyn Finn: But I want to thank you guys for all that you do.

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Kaitlyn Finn: Teacher Appreciation Week, so I I think everyone as a whole for being being here and being able to

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Kaitlyn Finn: Do what you guys do, even if it's via internet

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Kathy Ludwig: And Caitlin that data. It's one's going to come to your home again. Thank you for being the liaison between your school and the school board and making time every month on top of everything else you're doing to share about what's going on at art tech and being such a great representative

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Kathy Ludwig: Really appreciate all that you did this year. So we'll get this to your house, someone will surprise on your doorstep with it already.

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Regan Molatore: Thank you gradually came to and I'm hoping that that next year, you might be able to stop in and say hi update us as well.

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Regan Molatore: Yes, also wanted to give my fellow school board members the opportunity to share say thank you to these students, Chelsea. I see your hands raised.

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Chelsea King: Yes, it's definitely a highlight of mine to see each of you every month and like my fellow board members, I do this because I love students and so thank you for being the face of those students and coming in.

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Chelsea King: And you just showed up so regularly, even though I know you have busy lives and other things that you could be doing. So just know you are a highlight for me and

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Chelsea King: I share. I'm in whatever sadness, you might be experiencing with the end of things being an end of your junior year the end of your senior years being what we didn't expect them to be.

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Chelsea King: And I'm just reminded that we all have hardship in our life and we don't always get to choose what that hardship is

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Chelsea King: But we get to choose how we respond to it, and each of you are demonstrating and responding with resiliency and and hope and that gives me a lot of courage. So thank you, and best of fortune to you and the future and I hope to see you around.

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Averi Fels: Thank you.

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Regan Molatore: I've ginger.

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Ginger Fitch: And I think the three of you for being here and for being here throughout the year.

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Ginger Fitch: It is always good to be reminded regularly about what's going on in the schools in each of the schools and also to know about the opportunities that we have as board members to come to those events that's

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Ginger Fitch: hearing it from us a lot better than getting it in an email or or some other way. And so

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Ginger Fitch: We're listening and appreciate what you did in that regard to communicate with us about what was going on in your schools and about what we could participate in as well.

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Ginger Fitch: I also noted how resilient all three of you sounded and that's always a good thing for us to remember during these kinds of times

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Regan Molatore: Christie.

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Christy Thompson: Yeah, I just feel like every time the three of you come and present

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Christy Thompson: You present with such excitement

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Christy Thompson: For what is going on in your lives and at your school and it makes me excited about what's going on in your life. So it's not just that you come and you share information with us.

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Christy Thompson: It's just the funnel and encouraging and very professional way with which all of you come and share that information. I have been so impressed and

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Christy Thompson: And as you often share. I think back to myself as a high school student and I think there's no way and that I don't think I could have done delivered in the same way that the three I've seen the

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Christy Thompson: Three of you deliver with confidence.

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Christy Thompson: The way you organize your presentations, just I want to compliment you on all realms of your presentation and just know that it makes an impact.

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Christy Thompson: It takes the way you put it, you know, and just like I said again the excitement that you share and

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Christy Thompson: I love just the positiveness that that you guys are even bringing tonight.

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Christy Thompson: And I hope that you will continue to see is something that I've always learned is that I feel like a lot of times, my greatest blessings come out of the biggest hardships that things are the hardest and

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Christy Thompson: It sounds like you guys are finding that as well that you know sometimes we learn the most and take away the greatest blessings from those harder times. And when we're disappointed and we don't get what what we want and so

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Christy Thompson: I'm confident that each one of you and your classmates are going to use this type of disappointment.

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Christy Thompson: Just to learn from and to grow and for the next time disappointment comes because we know it's just a part of, of life. So I just want to compliment each one of you and just tell you what a what an absolute pleasure that has been to listen to you, month after month

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Regan Molatore: And Dylan.

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Dylan Hydes: Thank you for taking the time each night you know as board members, we've caught a reading of memos and words and graphs and charts. It's nice to have kind of that.

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Dylan Hydes: Foundational base to start each meeting with like to have that connection to students. And so to give us one more means into into schools is very much appreciated.

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Dylan Hydes: And I know you guys made this am out that we make.

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Dylan Hydes: This man. I really appreciate that commitment to service. And I think your peers that are really good job. Selecting three outstanding representatives of their schools and whether you're a senior next year or going on to college next year I really

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Dylan Hydes: Want to, you know, invite you to continue that level of service and don't think that because you're a freshman in college. You have nothing to contribute. You've got great voices and really excited to see what happens next few lines. Good luck.

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Regan Molatore: Yes. Best of luck to all three of you and thank you so much for taking time this evening to join us in this last meeting that you know we have the privilege of sharing with you. So thank you. Each so much

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Lindsey Hartford: Thank you everyone.

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Lindsey Hartford: Get kind of dressed up.

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Kathy Ludwig: Maybe we'll admit the same

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Kathy Ludwig: Take care of the three of you. We care about you tremendously. And we're so proud of each of you and just wishing you all the best. And we know we'll see a couple of you in June, as we think about that graduation week together. So we'll set eyes on you that week.

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Kathy Ludwig: And Caitlin. We're glad we get that you get to hang around for a while so

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Averi Fels: Philly. Thank you guys.

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Regan Molatore: Alright, moving on to our next topic, which is recognitions and we will begin with teacher appreciation and Shiloh will end up coming on and kind of introducing this topic, then I have a proclamation to read, on behalf of the school board and then

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Regan Molatore: We are. We're fortunate enough to have both lane Johnson and Jennifer sarason joining us this evening and

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Regan Molatore: We'll give the board, the opportunity to express their appreciation for our teachers so that both lane and Jennifer are able to hear and can share it with their peers. And then if later Jennifer one an opportunity to talk

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Regan Molatore: And share their thoughts there, they will be invited to do so, and then we will conclude this topic with Dr. Ludwig, who I think also has a video for us to share so Shiloh, would you like to please start us off.

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Shyla Waldern: Yes. First, I would like to say how excited we are to honor our teachers for teacher Appreciation Week.

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Shyla Waldern: We have an amazing group of licensed staff with the Western Wilson full school district in

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Shyla Waldern: This group of staff in the past month and a half has shown their level of creativity, innovation and perseverance and moving to a distance learning model and

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Shyla Waldern: We couldn't be more impressed with their skill set and with their dedication and commitment to the students in this district and

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Shyla Waldern: And we'd like to thank lane and Jennifer for being the Presidents of WWE EA and working with the district.

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Shyla Waldern: In such a positive and collaborative manner. We appreciate the great relationship we have with the two of you and all that you do on behalf of the licensed staff of our organization. So thank you for

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Shyla Waldern: For all that you do for both the district and for the license staff and we hope that you will bring the great appreciation, we have for all of them back to them.

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Regan Molatore: And in that vein, we have this teacher Appreciation Week resolution.

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Regan Molatore: Whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education and whereas teachers encounter students of a wildly differing backgrounds.

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Regan Molatore: And whereas our country's future depends on providing quality education to all students.

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Regan Molatore: And whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students and performing community service.

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Regan Molatore: And whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community.

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Regan Molatore: Now, therefore, be it resolved that the less Lynn Wilson bill school board of directors or claims may 4 through eighth of 2020 to be teacher Appreciation Week.

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Regan Molatore: And be it further resolved that the Westland Wilson Ville School Board of Directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join us in personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work.

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Kathy Ludwig: I think you're on mute. Reagan.

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Regan Molatore: Sorry, with that and to see if any of my school board members would like to express their appreciation by all means, raise your hand.

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Regan Molatore: I feel that this week, you know, school appreciate teacher appreciation

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Regan Molatore: Has gone up leaps and bounds. If we hadn't already tremendously APPRECIATED OUR STAFF. I think it was Christie, who I was having a conversation with early on as we made these moves to distance learning humid cold to my intention in particular.

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Regan Molatore: How her first years of teaching were and how immensely difficult that very first year was and I imagine Dylan can relate to that as well and you know with this distance learning being

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Regan Molatore: Really quickly put upon our teachers. We know that you know they're they're doing all they can even more now in

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Regan Molatore: Very difficult times, and are being placed back almost where they were during their first year of teaching and their efforts to do so. So I am

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Regan Molatore: Am and have always been tremendously appreciative of our, our teachers and I hold with tremendous pride that I'm a graduate of the Western Wilson Ville school districts and

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Regan Molatore: I think the teachers I had when I was a student for what I've been able to do with my life, and I am so grateful to our current teachers for what I know they're doing, and not just my children's lives, but in all of our students lives. So thank you.

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Regan Molatore: Christy

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Christy Thompson: Thank you. And you know, one of the biggest reasons that I ran for this school, or one of the many reasons was to be an advocate for teachers just as a former teacher myself and I want to speak to the fourth. Whereas on that proclamation that says, whereas teachers spend countless

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Christy Thompson: And I know it's a countless it's not an eight to five.

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Christy Thompson: You know the countless hours that you spend preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students performing community service. And I know, the list goes on. Beyond that,

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Christy Thompson: I know that you're not just teachers from 830 in the morning until five at night. I know that it is your life.

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Christy Thompson: And that your teachers as soon as you wake up in the morning and you started thinking about your interactions with your kids that day, your teachers during your prep period during your lunch hour where kids are constantly coming after school, and now they can get ahold of you through

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Christy Thompson: Different forms of email and that sort of thing. And that you often grade papers at night you're grading papers on the weekend. And so just know

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Christy Thompson: That I appreciate you for every single one of those seconds during the day that you spend teaching our kids and just for the shift that you have to make

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Christy Thompson: In these last few months, going from, you know, being a classroom teacher, which we all love and thrive on and being interactive to

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Christy Thompson: Now kind of having to learn a whole new way of teaching. And so just thank you for how you've gone about that with your heart and soul.

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Christy Thompson: How I've heard about adjustments that have been made as you've gotten feedback from parents about hey this is working. Maybe this is a little too much, you know, and I see as I'm reading all the different list serves just the adjustments have been made.

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Christy Thompson: You know, just thank you for caring enough to make those adjustments for listening for being flexible.

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Christy Thompson: And what I'm saying right now in these few minutes cannot even begin to express the things I have for for everything. So I'll just stop there and just say for all those things I didn't mention thank you as well.

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Dylan Hydes: I think the appreciation for teachers may be at an all time high. Right now I am I saw somebody say that, hey, teachers. You lied to me. My child is not a joy to have in class.

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Dylan Hydes: My, my next door neighbor is a fourth grade teacher and

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Dylan Hydes: I'm just talking to her daily over the fence about how she's taken her

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Dylan Hydes: Dining Room eternity basically into the studio to record videos for kids and that she's spending 20 to 30% more time on the distance learning and she would if she was actually in the classroom.

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Dylan Hydes: Is eye opening. I think might hear people say, oh, teachers have a kind of have it easy right now. I set them straight. Now this is worse. They have all the work of teaching without the benefit of actually being able to interact face to face with all the kids.

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Dylan Hydes: And the teachers that I have three kids, second grade fourth grade in sixth grade. And so I'm working with the teachers.

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Dylan Hydes: And they've been so reachable every question I had, it has been answered in less than 10 minutes

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Dylan Hydes: And they exude this positivity. So every morning when my kids start their curriculum, but the video from the teacher. It really starts with national right both these positive

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Dylan Hydes: Role models for them talking about learning inspiring them and keeping that process happening as best we can to this process. So thank you.

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Dylan Hydes: Wayne and Jennifer, please send this message back the teachers that it may feel not me. It feels lonely what they're doing, but they are so appreciated by the parents in this community and the kids.

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Regan Molatore: And Chelsea.

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Chelsea King: Hello. Thank you for being here and representing all the teachers and Westland Wilson ville.

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Chelsea King: I'm a little bit at a loss of words which doesn't happen in my life often just because it's an enormous task to express gratitude and words to teachers and

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Chelsea King: Director Hines was more bold than I am, citing means that have captured it, but I have really enjoyed reading some of the education and teacher mean to have come out.

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Chelsea King: And which in it using humor demonstrate just what a big role. You all play in our communities and the lives of our, our families and our students. And so I suppose I just ask

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Chelsea King: That you continue to persevere and that that you know how important you are and

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Chelsea King: And that you just hold hold true to that and be steadfast with us. And because this is a difficult time and we don't know what the end will look like. It's an uncertain time and so

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Chelsea King: I just stand with you and a commitment to staying the course and and I hope you just can share that message with the teachers as well.

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Regan Molatore: And ginger.

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Ginger Fitch: Thanks. I just want to also express that we recognize that each of our teachers are individuals who have families and other things going on in their lives while they're at home as well as the general stress that a pandemic has caused upon our world and that

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Ginger Fitch: The grace with which

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Ginger Fitch: You are extending to families and to students we return that to our teachers as they go through this time, and congratulations on your commitment.

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Regan Molatore: And lane or Jennifer either comment.

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Lane Johnson: I would be happy to go first. I claim seniority here.

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Lane Johnson: So first of all, board and all the district administrators and any of our students if any of them are still on. Thank you so much.

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Lane Johnson: On behalf of all of our teachers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Lane Johnson: It was wonderful to see students. Again, it's like, Oh my gosh, it's a student to student citing

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Lane Johnson: Yeah, it's a, these are interesting times. And I'm so proud to say that the people

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Lane Johnson: That I work with have stepped up and they are

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Lane Johnson: Doing everything that needs to be

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Lane Johnson: Done in order to make this oddball system of education, work and people are working so hard. It's just, it's a pleasure to be a part of this group and to

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Lane Johnson: Know, just what an incredible group of people we have in this district and I am personally just so proud to be just a small part of that group.

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Lane Johnson: And as we transition as the WW EA transitions.

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Lane Johnson: Service serve them and so that's been a huge pleasure of mine. And speaking of times of transition. It is time for transition in the WWE. So I will present my co President Jen sarason who will be leading the WWE a in years to come. JOHN thanks lane.

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Jennifer Cerasin: Um, yeah, I just want to say thank you for having us here tonight and doing this reg recognition and, you know, we appreciate you guys just as much as you appreciate us. I think we are grateful for the opportunity to be here. I was just thinking that

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Jennifer Cerasin: Lately feels more and more like a family being part of this organization and being part of the staff here in the district and

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Jennifer Cerasin: With everything that's been going on and kind of helping each other through these times, it really does feel like family. And so we just appreciate the care and the respect and the grace that

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Jennifer Cerasin: We receive every day from everyone, as we're working through everything. And as we're teaching and definitely missing our students. So it's, it's just a really nice to be here and see everyone. Thank you.

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Regan Molatore: Well, Elaine. Also, I'm glad you mentioned the transition because it called to my attention that

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Regan Molatore: This may be the last time we have the honor of speaking with you in your role. And I also want to thank you for your service.

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Regan Molatore: On behalf of your peers in helping be their voice and the connection and link between your peers and your superintendent and your school board and we're just really grateful.

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Regan Molatore: To have had you in this role and appreciate everything you have done and we will miss you. In this role, but by the same token, you know, Jennifer, we, we look forward to having you continue on as well.

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Lane Johnson: Thank you, it's been it's truly been my, my pleasure to serve as as part of this organization, both the Westland Wilson Middle School District in the Muslim wasn't bill Education Association, so thank you.

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Regan Molatore: Dr. Ludwig

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Kathy Ludwig: I think lane has agreed to come back as a long term sub next year so

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Kathy Ludwig: Well, we have a tradition every year with the retirement celebration and of course with

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Kathy Ludwig: Physical distancing. We're not sure how that's going to look. But we are holding to a possibility of some time later in June, getting together. So, at that time, we can again give our appreciation to lane and others who have just given tremendous service to the district.

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Kathy Ludwig: So I think if that was it from the board. I'm going to go ahead and do my tribute to our teachers and can I share the screen Curtis.

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Curtis Nelson: Yes, you should be able to. Okay.

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Kathy Ludwig: All right.

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Kathy Ludwig: I hope what you see

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Kathy Ludwig: Do you see Mr. Fred Rogers.

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Kathy Ludwig: Show me there on the left.

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Kathy Ludwig: Yes. No. Great.

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Kathy Ludwig: So I have a tribute. It's called channeling your inner Fred Rogers a tribute to our teachers.

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Kathy Ludwig: You only need to say the name Mr. Rogers and our minds immediately conjure up the twinkle of the theme song, the iconic entry. He makes to the door into his home.

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Kathy Ludwig: The exchange of his jacket for zip up sweater changing his shoes smiling at us through the camera and warmly saying hello neighbor.

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Kathy Ludwig: But Mr. Rogers didn't start his career pathway, thinking he would educate children through television, he began college studying music composition

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Kathy Ludwig: And apply recognizing the power of media, he began working entry level positions at various television studios and in 1953 he opened up the first Community Supported education TV station in the country.

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Kathy Ludwig: He started behind the scenes directing and producing and soon moved to host launching what we now know as Mr. Rogers neighborhood airing for the first time in 1968

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Kathy Ludwig: Fred Rogers reflects I'll never forget the sense of wholeness. I felt when I finally realized after a lot of help from a lot of people

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Kathy Ludwig: That I was not just a songwriter or a language buff or a student of human development or a tele communicator. But someone who could use every talent that had ever been given to me in the service of children and their families.

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Kathy Ludwig: And I want you, our teachers to know

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Kathy Ludwig: That you're doing exactly the same thing. During this time,

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Kathy Ludwig: You are discovering how to blend your academic knowledge with music and poetry and story and artwork and drama and Child Psychology through today's technology.

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Kathy Ludwig: You are recreating your own Fred Rogers moments for your students you imagine your students turning on their laptops and waiting to hear you say hello neighbor.

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Kathy Ludwig: Whether you've made a small theater set or set up an easel or use the shower stall as a whiteboard or play the piano, the guitar or the didgeridoo

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Kathy Ludwig: Make a video, read aloud, or have a fun fact of the day you're finding creative and engaging ways to enter into the lives and homes of our children to educate

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Kathy Ludwig: Comfort support and be the kind of teacher and the kind of neighbor. Every child deserves you're using every talent that has ever been given to you in the service of children and their families.

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Kathy Ludwig: We won't know today. What this newfound adventure will bring us tomorrow or how it will transform us. That's the magic of taking a risk being creative.

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Kathy Ludwig: Embracing playfulness and becoming an inspiration when you dive into something new and give it your all. You might be surprised at what emerges.

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Kathy Ludwig: We have for you.

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Kathy Ludwig: A slide show that captures how you are embracing a new way of reaching out from your homes to educate our students stay connected and prioritize the power of relationships.

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Kathy Ludwig: Thank you for channeling your inner Fred Rogers. I'm so inspired by each of you. And so proud to work alongside you. You're making it a beautiful day in the neighborhood for every child in our community.

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Kathy Ludwig: So here we go.

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Kathy Ludwig: It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy.

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Kathy Ludwig: So there we go, a tribute to our teachers, little bit of nostalgia with Fred Rogers.

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Kathy Ludwig: And I just want to thank lane and Jennifer. I just couldn't feel more grateful to be going through this time with the two of you at the helm, and I would agree. Jennifer, we probably laughed more in the last month and a half and our weekly meetings and and bonded in new ways, and

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Kathy Ludwig: I'm just so grateful and appreciate your leadership and how you've

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Kathy Ludwig: Kept our members assured through all of this and also taken their needs into account and brought them forward and been such a great sounding board as we move through very unique decisions together and

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Kathy Ludwig: Thank you for all that you do and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at our weekly Tuesday meeting.

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Kathy Ludwig: So enjoy the week. We hope you feel as appreciated as

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Kathy Ludwig: We were able to capture this evening and know that there's a lot of folks out in the community. They're sending well wishes to Andrew on our social media sites and websites again.

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Kathy Ludwig: Capturing just how greatly. You're appreciated.

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Regan Molatore: Thank you. And we will move on to our next recognition, which is the superhero Ambassador Award, which I think is a fantastic name, who does not want to be the recipient of the superhero Ambassador award. So Dr. Spencer, if we do take the opportunity to share about and about your votes accomplishment.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Well, I would love to. Thank you so much. Director monitor and I would say that just to echo the words that each of you shared about our teachers in general, I just can't pass up the opportunity to to share my

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Appreciation but also as director King was saying appreciation just doesn't feel like enough of a word. And so we've coined a new word today. We're calling it mega awesome liberation.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And that is what I'm feeling for our teachers right now.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And it was so fun to see that slide show because as we started this work around distance learning. One of the first things I said to our teachers was

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Kinds of classrooms. I can pop in and out of which was so lovely to see what students are experiencing there. But what I was missing was what we just saw in that slideshow, which is this

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: What it looks like on the teachers and in their homes as they're transforming themselves and their spaces to make these

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: For your support for our teachers and I think each one of our teachers so much and there is a member of our Teachers Association, who happens to have won.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: The Super heart hero Ambassador award and you did not know may his mental health awareness month. And one of the most important things as

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Director Fitch pointed out, you know, we are in this these times because of a pandemic and in these times our first concern is about students connectivity and safety. And so it's a great time to honor Brittany bugles, who has been with our district. Now for four years.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: She is a social worker who has earned her LCS W while she has been here with us. She has mentored

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Several other social workers into the profession as an awesome mentor and brought them alongside you know Brittany brings to us this combination of humility.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Warmth and leadership which is truly unparalleled she created an entire program.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Out of some vague ideas that we had. We knew as a district that our school counselors were coming to us and saying as mental health situations have risen across our community. We need more support. We need someone that can

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: come alongside of family and walk them through that often complex situation of how to get mental health services someone that could step in and fill the gaps. When students need help now and can't wait two months for that next appointment.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And Brittany has created this program. This way of being. She balances the personal and the systemic

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And Brittany is an incredible networker. She is a member of the children of incarcerated parents group to support families that may have those issues in our community part of the Alliance for suicide prevention.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Has become a trainer in our district around question persuade and refer to

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Eliminate suicide in our county. She's been part of child abuse prevention work with Sarah Taggart, and the children's center.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: She has helped the teen advisory board at Westland high school supporting substance abuse prevention and promoting promotion and wellness and

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: I could not have thought of someone more deserving of this award for people who are really champions for mental health and connectivity and support in our community. So I hope you'll join me in congratulating Brittany On her Award from the Clackamas County Health Department

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And Brittany I have a big plant and a big hanging plant and I was going to bring it up and show you but it started like spilling dirt out as I brought it. It's really an outdoor plants. So I'm going to drop it by your house later this week.

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Brittany Bucholz: I'll thank you. It's been a, you know, unique opportunity during these times to spend a lot of time outside in my yard. So it's going to look beautiful.

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Brittany Bucholz: And I just want to thank everybody for even, you know, inviting me to be here and to talk about this award and

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Brittany Bucholz: I was so surprised to hear about it because I just think I wish that our whole district could could receive this award because really, without

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Brittany Bucholz: You know, the board support and recognizing the need for, you know, supporting our students and for our students voicing their need for counselors was in their need. You know, this

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Brittany Bucholz: I wouldn't even be here. So I feel like there was a little bit of a you know a chance taken on this position and you know on me being here and I just really appreciate

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Brittany Bucholz: I appreciate that. And I can't wait to keep seeing how our team grows for the years to come, and I'm excited to say we've hopefully planned six QPR trainings this month. So we're certainly trying to keep busy and support mental wellness in our district.

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Regan Molatore: Well, Brittany, I would just like to say, on behalf of the Board. Thank you. This is such an incredible honor that you know Clackamas county as bestowed upon you in your role, but we also want to acknowledge

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Regan Molatore: Our gratefulness for you being in the role and with to serve in our district as well as being an ambassador for our schools and really as somebody who helps connect and

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Regan Molatore: Get your community partner, like you're connecting ideas and help via to our parents and helping assist them do a better job as well as helping our students and whether it's through the QPR training or

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Regan Molatore: I believe you were also involved in the anxiety work. And that's just had an incredibly positive feedback.

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Regan Molatore: Just within our own district. And so I'm just incredibly happy for you that efforts are acknowledged, not just here in our district, but on a wider stage. So thank you so much and Chelsea.

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Chelsea King: Thanks. I, yeah, I can't raise my hand anymore. So you'll just see me wave at the camera when I want to speak and yeah and just echo what share mullet or said and

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Chelsea King: Brittany I don't think you and I have had the honor of meeting one another in person yet, but I hope to meet you sometime and

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Chelsea King: I don't know. I was just curious, like when you hear all those great things you did use it feel like you actually do them or is it kind of odd.

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Chelsea King: All read back to you because I could see how you would get a ambassador of superheroes award with that type of achievement.

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Chelsea King: And so well done and just love the statement around balancing the personal with the systemic and and as Jamal Torah saying like building those networks and those are two lenses, by which

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Chelsea King: We really need in place in our people to move the world forward. So thanks for bringing that to our district.

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Brittany Bucholz: You know, it definitely is weird hearing it all said back. I remember when I first got it. I was like, it must mean somebody else. I don't. This doesn't feel like so much. And then when I hear it. I'm like, oh yeah, but those are all things that are factual

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Chair mala to her if I could just add a couple more things. And one is that I'm Brittany knows all of the mental health providers in the metro area.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: She knows who they are. She knows what kinds of therapies, they do. She knows what they specialize in. So when she's working with that family and trying to help them. She understands all of the insurance.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: For the families that need it really take them by the hand through a difficult time in their life so that they can move forward and so that child ultimately can have those basic needs met and engage in learning in new and exciting ways. And without that

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: What they specialize in what kinds of therapies. They do, how they connect so that she can really come alongside those families, it's really been incredible to have that connection. And that was something we absolutely we're missing.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: You for Brittany and then now of course Sarah Hyatt working alongside her but Brittany really started that and

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Again, when we started, it was one social worker for the whole district and she just took that on so well. So I just I hadn't left that out and it's such a huge part of the work that she does.

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Kathy Ludwig: Brittany I just want to say as we wrap this up that I remember when we were interviewing you, and just

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Kathy Ludwig: Thinking afterwards, turning to Jennifer to saying, Are you sure she's going to say yes, like, can she really come and join us. She could go anywhere and work for any organization.

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Kathy Ludwig: And just thinking we were the luckiest school district to have this type of a person with this level of resource, but also this level of real personal care.

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Kathy Ludwig: And it was in that first year. I don't know if you remember, but we sadly experienced a student suicide.

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Kathy Ludwig: And as prepared as our team had been prior to you being here around flight team and understanding you in that moment, showing up at the school comforting working with families brought a whole nother layer.

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Kathy Ludwig: Two what it meant means to have wraparound support in the times of trauma and tragedy that we didn't realize we were missing.

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Kathy Ludwig: And you brought this great sense of calm and understanding and having worked with families.

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Kathy Ludwig: In those exact types of moments you knew how to anticipate how to intuit how to understand and just brought our team and our district to another level of kick here and

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Kathy Ludwig: And since then it's just continued and I want to thank you for all that you've done. And I know

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Kathy Ludwig: You're humble and I know that you're also incredibly collaborative and that this does feel like teamwork for you. And so thank you for

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Kathy Ludwig: building capacity among those who have come in new doing the work, as you've been guiding them on.

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Kathy Ludwig: Being a social worker in our, in our district and building the program. So thank you tremendously from my heart and I'm just so glad you said yes. When we interviewed you and joined our team. So congratulations.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Also a a less Lynn Wilson, they'll graduate, by the way.

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Regan Molatore: All right. And with that, we will move on to our last category of recognition, which will will have Dr. BB So Jason

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Kathy Ludwig: We have one more. Sorry to monitor that the nurse appreciation day

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Regan Molatore: I apologize. Yes. Um, thank you. I didn't want to skip that as well. So we'll, we'll go. We'll go back and for nurse appreciation day and Dr. Spencer items I understand you will also help share with us about

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Regan Molatore: The role of our nurses and all their wonderful work that we are very appreciative for

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Yes, thank you so much and we have such a great nursing team and we have six f t of nurses actually seven people because one is

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: To folks share job, but we have six nurses in our full time and they are hopping and they are busy. I'm just a few statistics to give you a little bit of information about some of the things that they do.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: They support 300 they write and support 347 asthma plans.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: They support 118 confidential medical information plans they support.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Life threatening allergy plans and they support 44 plans for children was seizure disorders and medication for that and then 29

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Diabetic plans and for a school nurse have a diet, when a student is newly diagnosed diabetic and you know at first said this. It's brand new. It's brand new for the child is brand new for the family.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: It's an unknown place it's unknown how much insulin, they need. And so the school nurse literally has to be at the school 100% of the time with that student for sometimes

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Three to six to 12 weeks as the family and the endocrinologists and the school nurse all and the student figure out how to manage that diabetes, so

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: It is a really big part of the work they do when a student is newly diagnosed or when we have students who might have long term.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Barriers to becoming more self sufficient with diabetes. In addition to that, they support some of our sexual health education with at the fourth grade, fifth grade and sixth grade levels, also with some

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: handwashing and other kinds of education that happens with our younger students around communicable and non communicable diseases.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: They conduct vision screenings for every child in our district kindergarten through fifth grade, we were planning on adding middle school this year and then the

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: coven closures happen, but they are all excited about that. They manage the immunizations and making sure that children have their immunizations and then every year they run a clinic.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: They provide the ER T trainings for every that's emergency response teams that were they train school staff in first aid child adult an infant CPR use of a EDIS

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: So they have a team at every school ready to go. That year teaching they practice drills with them about how to respond if a child breaks their arm on the playground, what do you do

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: They're really amazing group and they also do things like support our when we have students who are pregnant or parenting help with education.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Resource connection and they are looking forward to helping as our in our high school renewal process, they have been involved in that about supporting a CTE program that's focused around health occupations.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And are excited to continue with that work moving forward. So they do a lot of amazing work and and they weren't able to be here with us tonight. So I just thought I would share a very quick. This one is like 22nd slideshow of

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: And I'm going to turn my volume down wrote myself a note, so it wouldn't be too loud.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: So we're very thankful we have amazing nurses and I just wanted to share that with you tonight. During nurses week also

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: They have a couple other just very quick things they've been making sure a working with Andrew kill strum to send out a health related note,

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Every week in our community bulletin, because we know we're home for pandemics our voice of our nurses really needs to, to be clear, and supportive for folks. During this time,

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: Also the Oregon Health Authority put a call out to ask for volunteers with medical degrees and licenses to be willing to help as

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: You know, as it's an unknown what the next steps are with the pandemic and several of our nurses volunteered and signed up for that additional training so that they can help with some of the

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: traipsing and testing that may be coming in some of their own time to volunteer their time in addition to the work that they're doing with our school district so many more things that I can say, but I'll stop there and just thank you so much for your support of our amazing nurses

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Regan Molatore: Does anyone on the board and have anything they would like to add

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Regan Molatore: All right, Dr. Sunshine. Thank you so much for that video that it just really brings it home.

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Regan Molatore: We all know that, you know, our nurses do a tremendous amount of work for a large number of students and, you know, if we had our ability to

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Regan Molatore: receive additional funding, we know directly where where and how we were channeling that and because we know what and

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Regan Molatore: How important, the work is that our school nurses do so and I am tremendously appreciative as I know my entire board is for

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Regan Molatore: The work they take on the heart. They put and bring into their work and the care they take for our students. So please communicate our appreciation to them for that.

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Jennifer Spencer-Iiams: I will, and their, their phrase is always healthy, healthy children learn better. So that's that they see their mission totally tied with the missions that you have put forward for that. So I will convey that and thank you so much.

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Kathy Ludwig: Jennifer you've done a real thorough job and describing all that they do and the video was very engaging and and really captured

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Kathy Ludwig: Not only their expertise but also their personalities and how joyful, they are as a group and that helps young children when they're feeling nervous to have

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Kathy Ludwig: Such a kind and caring nurse to to sit alongside them. They really are a remarkable group. I haven't had experienced with any other group like this. And so kudos to all of our nurses in our district and around the nation. Thank you.

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Regan Molatore: All right. And now the next and last and final recognition. It's kind of fun in these really tough times to have so many wonderful things and individuals to celebrate and

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Regan Molatore: We, it seems inappropriate to to not celebrate our students and, in particular, we have we'll have Dr. BB spacing, who is going to share about

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Regan Molatore: Isis awards and our students who were honored and then as I understand there's a video that's been put together that will be shared with us where our students are through the video sharing about their projects in their work and what they've learned from the experience. Dr. Susan

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Barb Soisson: Yes. Good evening, I'm Danielle Grenier and I talked about maybe having the students who you're going to see walk by your homes with their science fair boards and then we decided we go with the video.

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Barb Soisson: So yes, this is about student learning and

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Barb Soisson: In even in distance learning what we really realize all the time. It's, it's about how much students get to ask their own questions, how much we can engage them how much we can interest them and

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Barb Soisson: That's what makes the International Science and Engineering fair different from just a project and it's something that in our district, we are really proud of because it's not instead of but increasingly

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Barb Soisson: It is linked to science classroom learning this year, our press team has started to look at how are we going to be redesigning the primary school k five science fairs and a little, a little of that got put on hold this year.

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Barb Soisson: But more and more. The idea is all students can inquire all students can learn all students can

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Barb Soisson: Reach this kind of science learning that is also more and more in our district about community service and doing some work that matters. If you've been at the science fairs at will send our high school in 2019 and it was in high school and

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Barb Soisson: The speakers, we're our own graduates who are now working for NASA SpaceX and working on cures for cancer, and it gives us a glimpse of where this work is going that our students are doing

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Barb Soisson: We also are looking at the opportunities that all students have to participate. So the students, you're going to meet this evening. Our students who would have been in Anaheim starting on Monday.

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Barb Soisson: And they have already gone through a virtual state science fair and gone through virtual judging and found that it's very different in challenging to try to present yourself.

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Barb Soisson: Quickly and put together a portfolio and a way to share your work in that way. Some of these students also and I'm going to ask. Danielle Grenier to introduce the the short video that we have

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Barb Soisson: They're still working. I have the good fortune to be in Danielle's google classroom. And as you know, when you're in Google Classroom. You get notified when

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Barb Soisson: somebody submits something or add something. And these students are still working. Even though I Cephas over some of them are preparing their work for publication for science publications

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Barb Soisson: And so it's something that truly fits with learning that starts in k five. And it's also something that increasingly is looking at college and career readiness, we find that a number of our students are doing internships.

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Barb Soisson: Related to their science interest also that they are coming back and elaborating on projects and building on them from year to year. So with that, I want you to just meet Danielle and then you will meet the students

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Danielle Grenier: Everyone. It's lovely to see a lot of you again and to meet somebody for the first time, I am unbelievably proud of the students here about to me.

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Danielle Grenier: For those of you who didn't quite realize I said was the Tuesday before schools shut down.

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Danielle Grenier: And so we were we were counting our blessings. I was probably in shock for several days after our regional fair just that we had managed to make it happen and recognize these students work, um,

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Danielle Grenier: I think next year we will have an entire category dedicated to coronavirus research so please make sure it's a priority to come and see the 2021 ferret Wilson Middle High School.

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Danielle Grenier: These kids are tenacious as BB mentioned they are still actively working. I'm still getting emails about old projects that they'd like to

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Danielle Grenier: tie up loose ends on and new projects that they can't wait to start. And what can they do at home and

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Danielle Grenier: I, they have a very special place in my heart. This particular class. It also happens to be the first class of students that I've seen all the way from the freshman year to their senior year. So

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Danielle Grenier: Um, I will not take any more of your time, but I would love to roll the film so that we can really enjoy these students accomplishments this year.

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Greeting school board members, I'm Danielle grimier and I work with Dr. Jennifer wells and Mark parish to organize the school district science fairs.

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I'm happy to report that the 19th annual class Jane Goodall science and Sam was a tremendous success we had 134 projects done by 204 students from all three high

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I have secured a new title sponsor this year and from here on will be known as the regenerative International Science and Engineering fair

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We were invited to send for projects and two observers to Anaheim, California to compete this year.

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The same level fair the Northwest science Expo was done entirely virtually

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We had 48 students submit digital portfolios of their work that were judged by a panel of professionals and we brought home many awards.

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And now we have the chance to hear from the international team. We have a DD Bhaskar and Katie Ramsey, who are both ninth graders and our observers.

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Neil Jane Eli serially Casey culbertson Nina pitching a bitch and Jared Wieland OUR FINALISTS. I'm happy to have them share more about their experience this year.

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My name is Katie Ramsey, and I'm an eighth grader. It was limited school my project was looking at the role disturbance place in shaping species diversity in Iraq inner child.

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Rights Management. I said, has really transformed how have you mind learning experiences throughout high school and it allowed me to pursue topic.

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marine ecology that I would not have otherwise been able to study with my classes, especially in the depth that I was able to for my project.

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Booked in college and for having great mentors to me throughout the whole experience and I'm continually astounded by the wall for lunch. The process across a wide variety of topics.

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I was also able to get great field experience during my project that I probably would not have been able to receive until college otherwise.

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At the symposium. It was enlightening to see all the other projects that students came up with and see all the different ways that science can be used to help a community. I agree to experience. Jane, I said, and I'm excited to continue doing it throughout high school

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Since it was a huge multi year project. I had to wait to find a sub topic provide I said project and I was running out of time. We'll miss counterpoint mean direction.

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And I really decided on the topic last minute, so I had to put in every spare minute of my day. So three weeks for the business to my life but they're also very exciting.

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But it's all expected because it was such an ambitious task. After I finish my project and God presented, though I felt really accomplished.

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And I was really happy that I've done it and come up with more than just a presentable project. And it's so little time. Thanks again to everyone who keep going. It was a really great experience. So sign to do it again next year.

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My name is Neil Jane. I'm a junior at worse than high school and this year did a project involving crop production and maximizing harvest yield.

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assess the situation say, okay, what can I do, what can I do right now sometimes go to a plan B, that I might not even have. So again, gotta cook something on the spot.

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But especially because I am planning to go into stem. I think it's really important to have that mentality that okay I can solve any problem that comes towards me. I just need to be able to think about it.

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And then I can work from there. And I feel like that's really going to help me and serving. Well, as I get older.

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Hi I'm Elijah and I'm Casey

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Currently around 300 million people live with visual impairments help these people we have designed a system that we believe will allow them to gain back some of their independence and safety through an increased awareness of their surroundings.

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Together we created a pair of glasses that use that use artificial intelligence to detect obstacles in a user's environment and alert them of their position and distance through text to speech.

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Through this project I had the opportunity to apply. Much of what I learned in my classes into a more practical environment.

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I've taken several computer science courses at Western high school and I enjoyed the theoretical aspects that they cover very much but it's immensely more satisfying for me to be able to take that theoretical knowledge and apply it to these real world problems.

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To create these glasses. CASEY And I had to combine our many years of cumulative knowledge in computer science and robotics Electrical Engineering, Computer design.

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And what was so nice about it is that it allowed us to learn how to combine these skills in every step of the process to create something that can hopefully have a meaningful impact.

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We plan to continue working on this project in the future. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you.

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Hi, my name is Nina peachy knowledge and I am a senior from Westland high school and my project for the past two years has been developing a biodegradable plastic from Hacker waste.

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So the things I will be taking with me for myself are well I'm going in December. So of course the technical aspects and the techniques that I learned

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During is if you know I got to go to a bunch of different labs and use really fancy equipment and a lot of stuff that I might not have had access to

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Even later in my college career, but I got access to it early, which was really great. But most importantly, as if has taught me to be more okay with failure and how to tackle failure and when things don't go the way you expected, how you want them to

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And it has taught me to always look for other solutions and how to make the best out of situations that go wrong and how it always look for solutions.

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Jared wheatland is our fourth ISO finalists, and as a senior at Wilson belie school Jared project was entitled identifying novel sis regulatory element in the viral genome of a dino associated virus. This year would have been Jared second trip to ISIS.

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This year, our four finalists and observers would have attended the regenerative International Science and Engineering fair in Anaheim, California.

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And been part of 1800 students from around the world, presenting their work. However, the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus that said all of the students abstracts will be published and available for viewing worldwide it all will be considered alumni of the ISF program.

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We hope that this will serve as a wonderful stepping stone for whatever they want to do next, and we can't wait to see what that will be. Thank you so much for supporting our students and our program and for listening to our brief presentation.

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Regan Molatore: Wow. That was incredible and Danielle. Also, I wanted to acknowledge and thank you for being here and present with us this evening and

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Regan Molatore: Sharing the work of your students that you've been helping and aiding along the way. In this process, it's

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Regan Molatore: Always, as I've said this, I think this is actually one of my favorite student presentations.

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Regan Molatore: Annually that I have the opportunity to sit through and observe and hear just a fraction of their work and I'm always blown away. So

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Regan Molatore: Thank you, even during this difficult time please thank those students as well for putting that video and sharing their presentation so we could have a little insight into all their hard work.

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Danielle Grenier: I'll certainly share that with the students. They were, they were very, very pleased that they were still going to get to share with you, they were worried that that was off the table. Since we wouldn't be making our big trip and

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Danielle Grenier: I'm they were very pleased

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Regan Molatore: God, thank you.

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Barb Soisson: Danielle is a Western Wilson Ville school district student, by the way.

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Danielle Grenier: This is true.

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Kathy Ludwig: I just want to add that I remember. Danielle that we got that science fair. Just under the nick of time being there on the stage.

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Kathy Ludwig: When I think back, I actually shook all those hands so I I hope we didn't spread anything during that time.

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Kathy Ludwig: But we got all those awards given and I'm glad that a portion of that work was recognized among their peers and with their parents in the audience.

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Kathy Ludwig: Because it is an accumulation of so much hard work and I know that there are number of

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Kathy Ludwig: Teachers who attend that science fair who remember their students from elementary and middle school who come. These are elementary teachers who just go to the science fair because they love to see

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Kathy Ludwig: How their students have grown and matured as critical thinkers, but also just as really good young people who want to make a difference in the world.

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Kathy Ludwig: And you know, that's the theme I heard throughout this presentation is not only the academic knowledge they gained in the technical aspects that they had a chance to

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Kathy Ludwig: Interact with but that they thought about problem solving and they thought about resolve and grit and how to work through something those soft skills that really will carry them through life.

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Kathy Ludwig: And a number of the mentioned how they wanted to apply their learning to to solving real world problems and making a difference.

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Kathy Ludwig: And I'm just really proud of these young people and I want to thank you and Jennifer and mark for your tremendous leadership in this work and

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Kathy Ludwig: These things just don't happen unless there's a lot of real thoughtful adults kind of nurturing and guiding along the way and helping kids meet those milestones and and supporting them through it. So thank you tremendously and congratulations to all of our students.

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Regan Molatore: All right. Alright, and that will conclude our recognitions portion of our meeting.

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Regan Molatore: We went a little bit longer than anticipated, but it's kind of good to hear all these positive things and Dr. Ludwig unless you're raising your hand.

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Kathy Ludwig: Well, I was just looking at the time and I noticed that we do have some attendees at our board meeting or virtual board meeting, and I'm wondering, since we're a little late. Some of them may have come to maybe they sent in community feedback.

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Kathy Ludwig: Wondering about if the consent agenda is going to pass. I wonder if we could at least do those two items before I do my report.

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Kathy Ludwig: Or if you even think that the attendees were hoping to hear the financial update, which was scheduled for 720 I'm fine with moving my report.

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Kathy Ludwig: And bumping it down. If you would like to move any items forward.

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Regan Molatore: Actually that's maybe not a bad idea. And our board isn't providing their typical board report and but we are having an opportunity to just share closing thoughts.

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Regan Molatore: If we move you to the last agenda item and some are closing thoughts might piggyback on you know information you share them so everyone's agreeable.

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Regan Molatore: With had not. Okay. Thank you, guys. Alright, so then we will move the superintendent report down and we will proceed to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion.

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Christy Thompson: Emotion that we approve the Consent Agenda.

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Of a second

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Dylan Hydes: I will second

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Regan Molatore: Excellent Christie, a move and Dylan second end approval of the consent agenda. Kelly, can you call it.

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Kelly Douglas: Ready.

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Kelly Douglas: Yes Chelsea King

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Hi.

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Ginger Fitch: Hi.

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Kelly Douglas: Christy Thompson.

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Kelly Douglas: I Dylan hides

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All right. Thank you.

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Regan Molatore: All right. Excellent, or consent agenda passes, we, our next agenda item has to do with community and public comments due to the statewide

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Regan Molatore: Restrictions on public gatherings related to the coronavirus outbreak and the

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Regan Molatore: Board or public boards are able to accept public comment through a variety of means that do not include in person testimony and the means we have chosen to utilize for our boards meetings is through email, and so

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Regan Molatore: Members of the fee are welcome to review our agenda and then send us an email in advance of the meeting at this time we received three public comments that came in before four o'clock, and I will just summarize

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Regan Molatore: Who, who we received those by and the first one was from a Jason Smith regarding what planning a question around what planning is happening with regards to the potential for distance learning next school year.

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Regan Molatore: We received a comment from Tricia Britain regarding questions about next year's budget and the prioritization of academic learning

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Regan Molatore: And third, was from john mccain regarding a his perception that projected enrollment was or has decreased and with thereby reduce the district's projected at WM receipts.

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Regan Molatore: As well as a commentary with regards to our 2009 bond proceeds. And I'm just maybe by a knot of heads has all board members had an opportunity just to review those communications.

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Regan Molatore: DYLAN WOULD YOU LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY. We're not making a decision on any of those content, but if you'd like the opportunity to do that, we could allow you, that the chance to check it out.

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Dylan Hydes: I'll just, I'll just say that those were emailed out just before the meeting and I was in a meeting just before this meeting. So, but I will go back and review those

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Regan Molatore: Excellent. I attended a oh SBA webinar. I think along with Christie just about

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Regan Molatore: Procedure around the new kind of meet the requirements in light of covert. And one of the things they said is just to ensure give board members the opportunity to review those comments if they want prior to the meeting so

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Regan Molatore: All right, and then just as always, and I should have community member I still want to express yourself or share something with the board, they're welcome to email us at any time.

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Regan Molatore: All right, and so then with that we will move on to the report from our business office and Dr. Hughes. And as Dr Hughes's coming online. I just wanted to preface this just a little bit that um

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Regan Molatore: While they're there may be the potential to have wanderings about the budgeting for our next school year.

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Regan Molatore: For the purposes of this particular financial report, the information is going to be shared financial information shared pertaining to this school year and our finances through the end of last month and then

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Regan Molatore: Those wondering that we may have about what's going to happen for future budgeting, we just want to be really mindful that we wait until our entire budget committee is together and explore those thoughts together and we're not excluding our budget committee with that Dr. Hughes, please.

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Regan Molatore: Leave us

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SonLe Hughes: Yes, thank you so much and good evening, everyone. So in front of us. The, the finance or report.

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SonLe Hughes: Because this. Can you have me share that information.

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Curtis Nelson: Where is it, son.

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Curtis Nelson: Is it in the board packet

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Curtis Nelson: Yes. Good. Give me just a second here.

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SonLe Hughes: I'd really appreciate

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SonLe Hughes: mala mention about. We don't want to go ahead on the budget committee or board member and I understand that a lot of you might have a lot of question regarding to the chat for fiscal year 2021

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SonLe Hughes: But a purpose for that meeting tonight. I only focus on the general fund financial report for fiscal year 1920 add up April 30 is

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Curtis Nelson: That what you want.

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SonLe Hughes: To report, please. Yes.

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SonLe Hughes: So with that, please focus on the JIRA and protection.

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SonLe Hughes: In here. So you look at the end infant violin for this curious what they can point 9 million compared to last month report last month report, I have about a boy.

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SonLe Hughes: A point 8 million estimate up and infant ballin from this year carry forward to next year the different is about 2 million

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SonLe Hughes: That 2 million makeup first form a one time saving that we have for this year, one time saving that we have this year's is about 1 million

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SonLe Hughes: And this 1 million comprise entry have come from three area. The first one, a transportation. So we allow for student transportation to build us up to

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SonLe Hughes: A protein at a discounted rate because at that time under the information that we have. We believe the school will resume on

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SonLe Hughes: APRIL, APRIL 28 so therefore we continue to utilize the surface form for student transportation and then a

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SonLe Hughes: Few days after when we receive the order from Governor Brown saying that we don't

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SonLe Hughes: Tell scorn and re Stillman do to enter the US by then we reaching out to our legal counsel have a conversation with them and then we terminate the contract work for student reputation and and with that is allow us to save about 400,000 interpretation.

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SonLe Hughes: Are not items in this one time cost saving is the subject of particular and license license and classify so at, you know, our district they paint very heavy on the subject of to fuel our classroom and they play a very critical role and

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SonLe Hughes: What a success of our district. However, when we are now that school clothes for the rest of the school year. We don't ask them to report to work. And with that we be able to save about 318,000 or substitute for teacher and classify

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SonLe Hughes: Last but not least, we, the Department of operation. What can very diligently on

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SonLe Hughes: Utility because we don't have school. So the facility manager turn now did utility and water and that allows us to save about 250,000. So with that, to a big component. It allows you to save up to about 1 million for one time cost saving

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SonLe Hughes: Or not a million common form contingency. So this a very normal and for our CFO from a cost it in Oregon. We look at

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SonLe Hughes: If we have any major expenditure that might come up from now and do too, and talk to us and by talking with the

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SonLe Hughes: Leader in Detroit, especially with the operation department, we don't force into how any major expenditure that come to us from now until June 30 so therefore

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SonLe Hughes: It's very safe for me to free up that money and allow it to grow and do our in infant ballin so what 1,000,001 time cost saving 1 million free up from contingency that give us the additional 202 million grow into our fun Marlon

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SonLe Hughes: It might alpha and infant ballin do 10.9 million carry from this year and do next year.

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SonLe Hughes: Any question before I move on to the investment.

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Yes.

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Regan Molatore: So I just saw is that percentage below the 10.9 million is that 8.83%

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Regan Molatore: That's

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SonLe Hughes: A 10.9 million is that 8.8% based on 120 4000 when when 24 million nasty. Yes.

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Regan Molatore: I like to look at that, to kind of figure out where we are within the

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Regan Molatore: Go full a recommendation. So thank you. Yeah.

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SonLe Hughes: Curtis, would you scroll down to another report, please.

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SonLe Hughes: So this one ejecta graph to show you the comparison between the adopters and a current project. And the first one is the revenue and under bottom one is the expenditure jet for dough whole visual and what IDC graph.

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SonLe Hughes: Net place.

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SonLe Hughes: So this is the

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SonLe Hughes: Investment based on general fund only secure look at the total in our general fund. We have 73 million

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SonLe Hughes: We get right now at this report at up April 20 s

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SonLe Hughes: On the LG IP with a local government investment pool, the maximum money that we allow to keep into that account a 59 million

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SonLe Hughes: That's a very much. Our main operation we money coming in money out the reason it go down 35 million because on April 20 on April 22 I have before that April 19 I have to try and for a lot of money from LG IP into the US Bank to pay for payroll so that why that number drop down

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SonLe Hughes: I have to give an ice on the air tip, and now I'm actually not a seat. The 55 million. That's a to cap the internet own from LG IP say 1.75%

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SonLe Hughes: In March is due to be 2.75% interest earned for last year. And then last March, it dropped down to 2% and then this April, a drop down to 1.75% so baseline money that we have energy IP that we keep for our operational expenditure on a daily basis.

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SonLe Hughes: I also work with pile Piper Sandler to invest some of the money file Dietrich on a short term basis.

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SonLe Hughes: We have 15 million invest with federal and home that earn points by a 4% interest and that deals next month. And then we have 10 million. What better own farm that allow us to own the interest of point nine two person.

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SonLe Hughes: Does Sam, what US territory and our company.

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SonLe Hughes: So what does shocked home investment is allow us to have

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SonLe Hughes: Their in the income that earned from the interest is about 325 house and for now and do the majority of our this investment.

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SonLe Hughes: This investment is very stable because it doesn't have. So when we have a short term investment with agency and organization out there. Piper Sandler select a very stable agency for us to work with because it

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SonLe Hughes: During the short time. It's very risky. If we own more interest and what a company that not stable. So because of that, I am very confident due to share with you that our investment is under control and on track with our projected interest income for this year.

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A new question.

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Chelsea King: I do have one question. I just don't understand that the row, the total I don't understand the hundred and $35 at the end of the date column.

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SonLe Hughes: I'm sorry, that's not $1 nasty the day the average

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Chelsea King: That's an hour. Okay.

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SonLe Hughes: I'm sorry I mess up the formula, but that's a the average if we divide or if we add all that up and divide by

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SonLe Hughes: Six investment that we have. Then lastly, the average maturity date.

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Chelsea King: Okay, from today. Basically, all right, or as of April 20

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Chelsea King: Yes. Okay. Thank you. Yeah.

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SonLe Hughes: Thank you very much.

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Regan Molatore: Are there any other board questions not seeing

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Regan Molatore: Anything else. Okay. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Doctor, he is a appreciate that report and catching us up on where we are financially today, so thank you and

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Regan Molatore: Next is we have Chelsea, who's going to she's been working kind of hard all year, as you know, providing us with updates and fine tuning of our

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Regan Molatore: Superintendent evaluation process and then right when we thought we had all of it fine tune and we're contemplating making a few different changes in light of the new circumstances and information we've received from our SBA and recommendations with regards to

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Regan Molatore: Evaluations, not just of our superintendent, but of all professionals within our school system. So with that, Chelsea. Thank you for your work and ready to hear from you.

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Alright.

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Chelsea King: Forgive me if I look look down a little bit. It's my notes. Make sure I hit all the points here.

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Chelsea King: Yeah. So as you're, you all know, but for the participants are the guests benefits. The Vice Chair, I run the superintendent evaluation and

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Chelsea King: This coming at the end of the academic year would be the time that we do our final set of

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Chelsea King: Feedback based on the nine standards that Oregon school board Association gives the super internet valuation.

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Chelsea King: And we're a bit innovative in that we've been doing that already. And throughout the year. We've decided as a board to nest our

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Chelsea King: Feedback and evaluation system and to be similar to the rest of the academic model. And so we've been engaged in feedback formative feedback throughout throughout the year.

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Chelsea King: And after discussion with the chair and the superintendent, it's been decided that we would follow the same

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Chelsea King: Protocols as the rest of the academic system and that any of value to marks based on standards would be held in place any up to march 13 and as far as a formal record permanent record.

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Chelsea King: Goes, so we have that are the work we've done on standards, up until March 13 we had the two rounds already. So what I'll do is your vice chair is

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Chelsea King: Take that feedback and compile it into the document that would ultimately be the the permanent employment record and then we will do more of a

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Chelsea King: Formative style feedback.

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Chelsea King: For, you know, current day work so that basically the thinking here is that we're in a pandemic, nobody's done this before. And there are no protocols or best practices in place.

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Chelsea King: Always be a doesn't have standards for how to do distance learning and a pandemic and so everybody's kind of

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Chelsea King: I read in an article today, like on the field with no playbook. And so, in honor of the fact that that's the situation that we're all in

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Chelsea King: We won't evaluate performance, although there will be an opportunity to give feedback. And so just, you know, the motivation there being, of course, the nested approach to leadership.

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Chelsea King: As well as just honoring the reality that everybody's doing the best they can with a situation that nobody's ever done before so

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Chelsea King: Like I said, we're in a pretty good spot and that we already have a lot of great data to create a document and an evaluation.

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Chelsea King: That is reflective of work that happens during a normal academic year. And that will be part of the permanent employment record additional feedback that we might have around

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Chelsea King: You know, all good feedback has some praise and some, you know, constructive and some wanderings that will be couched in a less formal

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Chelsea King: Method via me as your vice chair. And as you all know, of course, you're always welcome to speak directly with the superintendent about any you know wanderings or feedback that you have

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Chelsea King: So let me just take a peek at my notes. Make sure I hit, hit the things yeah so short of that and the rest of the process will be the same.

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Chelsea King: We always look at the contract will still do that as your vice chair. I'll begin that process and I'll bring to you as the board.

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Chelsea King: You know, the proposal or some ideas that you'll review before we move forward. Similarly, the document.

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Chelsea King: The summative evaluation document that will be part of permanent employment records and we will also review as a board and discuss prior to

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Chelsea King: Kind of not finalized stamp. So the rest of the process stays the same. It's just a piece of sort of freezing evaluating performance based on standards that exist for normal circumstances.

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Chelsea King: So with that, I will take questions or comments and

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Regan Molatore: Center.

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Ginger Fitch: I have one. Um, I didn't see a time frame where you were hoping we'd get that kind of information to you.

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Chelsea King: Now, that's a good point. I didn't, I didn't have a time frame. So, um, I think, of course, if it's directly to the superintendent, then you know coordinate with her. And for me, probably what I'll do is

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Regan Molatore: I'm Chelsea, if I could.

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Chelsea King: Yeah.

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Regan Molatore: Have a timeframe for our that we put together that you put out at the last board meeting for our evaluation process. And so we would just stick to that same timeframe.

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Chelsea King: Case, people would be sending me any feedback that you have right now because the time frame for that was for me to call for it last week, so

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Chelsea King: If you have praise or wanderings and curiosities about how things are going right now, then you can email them to me and I can deliver them to superintendent, or you could do a fireside chat with her. Does that sound.

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Chelsea King: About right I can send an email if y'all want me to telling you to send that to me but consider this an invitation to do that.

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Chelsea King: And then the rest of the time frame stays the same as far as you know all the other steps and when they were going to happen, that doesn't change.

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Chelsea King: Sounds good. Everybody say that sound alright with people. Okay, I see people nodding and nodding. Okay.

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Thanks.

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Regan Molatore: Chelsea. Thank you, Dr. Also thank you for working with us as

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Regan Molatore: We're approaching this process. So thank you.

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Regan Molatore: And then we will now move on to what is

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Regan Molatore: The

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Regan Molatore: superintendent's report and largely the way we've developed this as, you know, it's kind of a unique time and there's a lot of sharing of information with regards to new happenings in our district. Some of it might be a little bit more

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Regan Molatore: It might be information. The board or a board member has already received, but it

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Regan Molatore: May be the first time a member of our community or public is hearing it. And so the report is not just so much for us as our larger community and understanding the work that's taking place during these unusual days of distance learning

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Kathy Ludwig: Thank you, Chairman Latour Thank you everyone.

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Kathy Ludwig: I just wanted to also acknowledge and I forgot to mention this. When Dr. Hughes finished up her financial report.

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Kathy Ludwig: Our budget committee for those listening, our budget committee process for adopting our budget next year we moved it into June. So those dates have been updated.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so those of you who want to be a part of hearing that process coming to those public work sessions. Those are noted on our district website.

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Kathy Ludwig: In the space of time until then I will be sending a communication out this week that just sets the landscape for what we

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Kathy Ludwig: Currently know about next year, there is still tremendous speculation as the economic forecast report for May 20 has not been delivered yet. But there are some indications of

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Kathy Ludwig: What the financial landscape will look like next year. And so I'll just create a a letter of context to send out to the community to have at least this next month as we wait for the budget committee process then in June.

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Kathy Ludwig: I didn't know that one of our

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Kathy Ludwig: Parents who are community members who submitted a community comment asked about the budget for next year, so please join those meetings in June. To learn more about it, but also be looking for a letter that will come out from me this week.

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Kathy Ludwig: Oh, by the way, this is a, this was taken from the and this is posted on a teachers website as students are sending in their projects they comment to each other.

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Kathy Ludwig: Not, not only getting feedback from their teacher, but getting feedback from one another about videos, they're submitting or projects that they've done some research and

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Kathy Ludwig: I thought it was a great reminder of all the different people in your life who can give you feedback on your learning not just your teacher, but also your, your peers.

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Kathy Ludwig: Just very briefly. This is a an update from operations so that our community knows we are continuing to provide meals to students and will continue to do that to the last day of school. On June 5

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Kathy Ludwig: We stand ready to serve as one of our provisions that the Governor has asked to provide emergency child care of called upon and we do have a task force team that has met and reviewed all of the components of what it means to provide emergency childcare as a district.

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Kathy Ludwig: And we stand ready to do that if called upon

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Kathy Ludwig: At this time, we're also utilizing

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, empty buildings as a way of getting in and doing some much needed repairs and maintenance of course

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Kathy Ludwig: abiding by physical distancing and allowing staff to attend to those items that they feel comfortable doing health being a first priority health and safety.

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Kathy Ludwig: But it does allow us to get in and tackle some of those projects that would have been held off till summer, a little earlier on, and have more time to do that.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so just want to let you know that that's beginning to happen in very small groups or or in pairs in some of our buildings we continue to distribute Chromebooks.

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Kathy Ludwig: We're at a place now where it's not the first time getting one. But it might be a parent who says, we thought one to share between two kids would be fine. But we actually would like

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, two or three, one for each of the children. And so they're coming back for an additional Chromebook.

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Kathy Ludwig: We also, as I mentioned in our last meeting have purchased hotspots, to see if that would help for some families who need better internet connection, we bought about I think 250 of those

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Kathy Ludwig: And Curtis is let me know that we've so far, given out about 25 families who indicated that they thought they would need one.

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Kathy Ludwig: When we followed up with them a number of them said, you know, actually, I called our, our carrier Comcast and whoever it was and

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Kathy Ludwig: During this time, I think a number of carriers are expanding their services and trying to improve it and that has naturally just helped in a lot of circumstances so families who thought they would need when have actually not needed one, but even today. We had staff.

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Kathy Ludwig: Available to give out hotspot connectors, as well as either repairs to a Chromebook or additional ones.

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Kathy Ludwig: And as you've seen, parents are beginning to see in listserv but community members may not know we're beginning to think about

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Kathy Ludwig: How do we return items that are in the school back to students. We have a plan in place for our primary students and that will occur next week with a curbside pickup of items that have been bagged up and then we're waiting for secondary students and we'll do that.

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Kathy Ludwig: Later, as we feel it is safe to have students in the building and to work a plan for that this time.

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Kathy Ludwig: Our team at crest is busy and active Elena kill strum who coordinates, all of the garden programs across all the schools and greenhouses and our secondary has been busy in this absence, when we don't have volunteers and teachers and students. She's been

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Kathy Ludwig: Going to every school garden and making sure that what was planet is kept up with so that when we return in the fall that hard work of our students is as much as possible is saved. So not only doing that and keeping crest running but also providing opportunity for

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Kathy Ludwig: Ecology lessons that have been posted as well as an event like this where families who came for meal pickup could also pick up plantings for their own garden.

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Kathy Ludwig: So I want to thank that team for continuing to work every day, maintaining things keeping things sustainable, but also being creative and creating other ways for children to have learning at home.

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Kathy Ludwig: So most of you Board Members have asked for me to continue to do an update on distance learning and how things are going.

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Kathy Ludwig: Well, first, just provide some context for is that

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Kathy Ludwig: Since this all began we across the state. All 197 school districts have been working very aligned and waiting for guidance from O. D. The Oregon Department of Education around how to coordinate a lot of the delivery.

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Kathy Ludwig: Of distance learning and staff at the Oregon Department education and consultation with many stakeholder groups and teachers and specialists.

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Kathy Ludwig: Have put together documents to provide very important guidance so that families across the state have a more aligned experience with school districts

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Kathy Ludwig: Then differentiated experiences we've gotten guidance on special education and how the laws will support this deep learning

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Kathy Ludwig: We've gotten guidance on language development for emerging bilingual students and you've seen letters come out from me and also from principles around guidance with

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Kathy Ludwig: Grading for seniors and grades nine through 11 high school as well as primary middle school. So as these roll out our teachers and districts have more clarity.

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Kathy Ludwig: Around how to navigate through as you mentioned, director came some very unusual times there's no playbook. So we're writing the playbook as we're in it. And I do want to commend for O D for doing a magnificent job drafting all those documents and getting them to us in a timely manner.

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Kathy Ludwig: So so distance learning is very much informed by the guidance that we get from O. D.

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Kathy Ludwig: There's some unique factors that we can do on our own, and the district, but we are actually more alike than different district to district based on the guidance that we're receiving

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Kathy Ludwig: The governor's newest executive order that came out extended that school buildings be closed through June 30

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Kathy Ludwig: If you recall, it was till early June and then now it's been through June 30 so this does impact.

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Kathy Ludwig: Schools who maybe had a longer school year, but also those who maybe had a shorter school year and then had a summer school program in their facilities and now have to offer that food distance learning. So it does extend that

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Kathy Ludwig: School District provisions need to continue in this newest executive order and those provisions are providing distance learning

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Kathy Ludwig: Providing meals to students and providing emergency childcare, but that only is to continue, while the school district is in session. So once we close after June 5 we no longer need to do the meals of emergency childcare or the distance learning

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Kathy Ludwig: There was a new provision a new

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Kathy Ludwig: Allowance in the executive order that is acknowledges that there are times when a small group or a student may need to have an in person instruction experience and how to keep that very limited and very safe.

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Kathy Ludwig: Acknowledging health standards safety standards, social distancing standards.

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Kathy Ludwig: These might be for a student who is maybe taking a CTE class and needs to demonstrate to the teacher something with welding

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Kathy Ludwig: Or might be taking a hands on class and needs to present or demonstrate one more type of hands on learning in order to receive their proficiency. Great. It could also be a testing situation for a GED.

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Kathy Ludwig: It could also be a very specific therapeutic coaching session or the maintenance of an argumentative device where the family needs to bring in their students.

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Kathy Ludwig: Learning device and work together with a specialist for it to be productive and helpful at home.

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Kathy Ludwig: So instead of just cutting off all physical connection there is now going to be some allowance for very limited small group one to one instruction for specific purposes.

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Kathy Ludwig: And once again we are being instructed to wait for guidance from O D on what those allowances for those specific purposes are

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Kathy Ludwig: And how to go about doing them safely and and thoughtfully. Other than that, the executive order remained very similar to the previous one, in terms of expectations for school districts

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Kathy Ludwig: So within that context, you know, we're in the fourth week of distance learning and you've asked as board members that in this meeting, I share. So, how are our students doing who's engaging who's not engaging, what do we do if someone isn't

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Kathy Ludwig: How do we support with social emotional learning students at home who might be having some anxiety or feeling isolated. And what about those kinds of specialized instruction with a student with an IEP for special education or English language development.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so we're going to work through some of those questions together tonight.

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Kathy Ludwig: Before I do that, just a sample for those watching. We did get guidance, also from the state on how distance learning would be organized so it doesn't replicate a six and a half hour day.

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Kathy Ludwig: As it previously did but there was guidance around how much time a day would be teacher led learning how much time a day could be supplemental activities that family could choose an opt into

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Kathy Ludwig: And then just thinking about nutrition and wellness and as a family is mindful of breaks during the day and how to attend to social emotional needs that this is what might comprise a typical day for a young child with distance learning and maybe a day. More like this with

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Kathy Ludwig: grades six through 12 that have about six different subjects asking teachers to only create about 30 minutes of learning per day for a subject.

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Kathy Ludwig: Three hours maximum allowing time then for the student and family to opt into still any kinds of supplemental activities. You can see some examples.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then attending still to their nutrition and wellness needs that they would have also during a brick and mortar school day, having their lunch or breakfast. Their breaks

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Kathy Ludwig: So again, this is this was the guidance of a typical day or recommended day in which we designed distance learning and families have been experiencing it for four weeks now.

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Kathy Ludwig: So at primary level.

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Kathy Ludwig: There's a lot of text in here so allow you to just read through that we're having a lot of success with students engaging

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Kathy Ludwig: There are a few at each school, whether it's one. At one school or up to five at another where students have not been participating or engaging

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Kathy Ludwig: But otherwise, it's a very high percentage

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Kathy Ludwig: You can see how many are using Google Classroom attempting to use it. And this is for young children. So this is really remarkable percentage of young children with their families. Getting into Google Classroom and learning how to navigate that and access their learning.

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Kathy Ludwig: We still have it of all of our levels are highest percentage of using paper packets is that primary

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Kathy Ludwig: And what we're hearing is that actually some families are doing a hybrid they they like google classroom, but they also want paper packets for a time when maybe they wanted to limit some screen time for the young children.

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Kathy Ludwig: And give them something that looks more paper, pencil and could be a little more independent and not navigating through

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Kathy Ludwig: Google Classroom all the time. So what we're just being at our school is incredibly flexible we're keeping both options open and available to families.

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Kathy Ludwig: In some situations, we've got some grade levels where every student is participating, the Google Classroom. And so we've stopped making those paper packets, because the families weren't picking them up and didn't need them.

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Kathy Ludwig: But where are they are being asked to continue to provide them. We're going to do that right up until the last

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Last day of school.

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Kathy Ludwig: So what happens when a student is not engaging

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, the teachers know that right away. They know who their students are and they know the families. And so right away. They would email or they're able to call through

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Kathy Ludwig: Google messaging.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so they're trying to reach out and get ahold of the family, find out is it something around access. Is it something around. I'm not understanding what's being presented

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Kathy Ludwig: Maybe the family has temporarily relocated living with another family member to share the responsibilities. During this time, and we just need to understand what's going on. And so we're trying multiple ways of reaching out and we're at a place now where

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Kathy Ludwig: There may be a very small handful, but we could always do a wellness check which would involve a social worker accounts or we do have a team. And so we're beginning to move in that direction for some of these really it's about care for the family. It's not about

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Kathy Ludwig: Any kind of accountability to

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, not being in school. It's really about a wellness check to make sure the family is ok to see if they've moved or relocated or if there's any difficulty that we're unaware of and how we can help.

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Kathy Ludwig: Again, this is a little bit of text. So I'll let you read through it. What trends are we seeing it primary level.

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Kathy Ludwig: Well, we see that younger students are using more packets than the older students. So, that makes sense. Older kids feeling more comfortable with navigating to google classroom.

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Kathy Ludwig: There was some confusion about do we have to do everything that you've suggested know there's a lot of options and suggestions, pick the ones that you know, that makes sense. And if your child's overwhelmed and back off. It's okay.

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Kathy Ludwig: In our dual language classroom is depending on the language of the families, there's varying

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Kathy Ludwig: Support so families who speak English are doing more of the English part of the packet with their children, families who speak Spanish, you know, of course, feel more comfortable with that but but both language.

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Kathy Ludwig: Activities are being offered and allowing families to pick and choose. So we did notice a trend there.

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Kathy Ludwig: We're making a lot of special efforts to support children again with special education emerging bilingual

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Kathy Ludwig: And so these support staff are reaching out working with classroom teachers with their lessons, as well as connecting to families.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then we do, we have been hearing from families just concerned about

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, trying to limit screen time for the young children, and I think that's why we're seeing some of the packets still wanting to be picked up so that their, their kids aren't on a laptop all the time, whether it's doing schoolwork, or other things. So just being mindful of that.

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Kathy Ludwig: I thought it's rolling a picture after all that text. I thought this is a family sent this is a great snapshot of. So here's the teacher through her video showing how to do an art project at home this very industrious

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Kathy Ludwig: Young man working so hard on it and to that he's able to send a picture back to his teacher and his classmates that he was able to make that lion.

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Kathy Ludwig: So maybe we'll do questions. I think at the end, I'll just work through. Okay, I'm seeing a not

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Kathy Ludwig: So at middle school, just let you look again. We do have very few, but one or two families who are indicating to us that they're still having difficulty with internet access.

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Kathy Ludwig: We they are connected with staff. We do have a bilingual family engagement specialist Maria Horton who we have charged with really working this summer to connect with many of our families or get translators for families who need them to find out how they're doing.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so she has done brilliant work there also with Dr Matta Gomez to help us locate migrant families or families who may have some challenges around connecting with internet

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Kathy Ludwig: And again, this number is we're not able to contact, same thing. There's been emails, phone calls outreach and this week we're beginning home visits.

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Kathy Ludwig: Just again wellness checks and then a few of those that we thought were going to have to do families got back to us. So, some of them do take care of themselves.

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Kathy Ludwig: Not as many using paper packets, but still a few there. One of our struggles with trying to replicate replicate the richness of what a student could interact with with in a Google Classroom and all the teacher pose is really hard to replicate that in a paper packet and try to keep

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Kathy Ludwig: The quality of that comparable. So what happens is teachers are really boosting up that paper packet to try and

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, look very similar to what is in distance learning. And so we're ending up with like 75 page packet middle school that a family would pick up on a Monday.

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Kathy Ludwig: Because there are six classes that are represented in that and some of our families have said, Whoa. That just feels overwhelming. Just the sheer size of that packet

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Kathy Ludwig: But what it's trying to do is in six classes provide learning over the course of the week for the middle school students.

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Kathy Ludwig: So we're getting some good feedback on that from the families were using them as to what's helpful in those packets and what's not, and adjusting those along the way.

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Kathy Ludwig: Here's some trends, we're seeing at middle school.

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Kathy Ludwig: Just let you take a look at that.

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Kathy Ludwig: Where we were first kind of working on access you know now that everything has shifted to engagement. We know the kids have Chromebooks. We got them on the Internet. Now, how are they engaging in the lessons and we're seeing an uptick

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Kathy Ludwig: Know from week to week

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Kathy Ludwig: Historically, I'm reminded by folks in this work that historically what happens, what happens with distance learning is there's a lot of novelty in the first few weeks and then there can be

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Kathy Ludwig: Kind of a tapering off as students, maybe get less motivated or things get a little harder or just maintaining

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Kathy Ludwig: That self motivation to log in every day and to keep up with things. And so we're really working hard to acknowledge that there is that trend that downward trend of when students drop off with distance learning

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Kathy Ludwig: Virtual schools experienced that all the time. And so how do we counter that and introduce some new ideas. And I think our introduction of video conferencing that's now happening is going to give another new novel way for students to re engage with their teachers in their classes.

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Kathy Ludwig: We're seeing more eighth graders and sixth graders login regularly. So that's interesting in brick and mortar. It's probably the other way around. But in distance learning we've kind of seen it it flipped. So a lot of effort and keeping those sixth graders engaged.

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Kathy Ludwig: And looks like folks are choosing to really get those core classes attended to first and then as a priority, and then others seems to be the trend.

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Kathy Ludwig: And interestingly, there's some students who are doing better with distance learning who

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Kathy Ludwig: Are finding that this is a mode that either works for them because they can pick the time of day, that works best, or can you go back and repeat.

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Kathy Ludwig: Lessons or review things more in their own pace. So whatever it is we're finding that there's a place for us to learn. And why is it that some kids are more successful. During this time, and what can we learn from that to implement under ordinary circumstances to

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Kathy Ludwig: A lot of texts, but I'm just here some more comments about what we're noticing in middle school.

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Kathy Ludwig: It's our advisory classrooms where a lot of our specialists are working through advisory to connect with students to sit in those

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Kathy Ludwig: To connect, whether they're an LD specialist or special education teacher or a counselor connecting using that advisory class was kind of their homeroom

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Kathy Ludwig: Because we know students change classes all the time in secondary school. So how does advisory become the home base and those specialists then work with that home base at teacher

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Kathy Ludwig: Even have some examples of teachers and principals going to those lunch and packet pickup sites to talk with families about are you stuck with Google Classroom. Is there any other feedback that you could give us so meeting with some families in person.

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Kathy Ludwig: At the lunch or packet pickup sites to get feedback and we're teachers are making adjustments as they're sending out surveys and hearing feedback from parents continually making adjustments. So it's workable.

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Kathy Ludwig: There's some comments that

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Kathy Ludwig: Dr. Jason was able to include, as we've been hearing back from students and parents and teachers about how they're experiencing distant learning

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Kathy Ludwig: Think this is a great comment about when something is hard, but having a video to watch allows you to go back and review something

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Kathy Ludwig: Feeling like the district is is listening and responding to parent feedback was a theme. We've been hearing

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Kathy Ludwig: Teachers learning new ways of teaching and thinking and working really hard to make it work.

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Kathy Ludwig: And kids missing their friends.

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Kathy Ludwig: So at high school. It hasn't been as much of a new experience most high school students were already engaging in some form of

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Kathy Ludwig: In google classroom with most of their teachers, it, it is a method that teachers post lessons or assignments or give feedback. And so it wasn't as much of a uphill climb for our high school students.

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Kathy Ludwig: What was different is just all of their teachers using it. Some had maybe been using a different platform but getting everybody on to Google.

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Kathy Ludwig: We have very strong engagement at high school to about 85% average

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Kathy Ludwig: And then

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Kathy Ludwig: Making sure we connect and reach all of our students.

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Kathy Ludwig: Do you have one of our high schools where we're working a little harder with making sure that we keep students engaged at art tech

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Kathy Ludwig: Some of the students have a very personalized schedule. It's a small option high school. So just inherently in the nature that small school

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Kathy Ludwig: A lot of students choose it because of the flexibility of the schedule and allows them to have a job or personalize their the way they approach learning

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Kathy Ludwig: And so, for reminding them to keep working on that. And that even though it's very personalized and we have distance learning that we we need them to stay engaged with that individualized schedule.

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Kathy Ludwig: We get weekly reports from Curtis Nelson and his team to see how students are logging in and we have about 90% of our students.

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Kathy Ludwig: Are engaging over the course of two weeks, and we look at the data, which is incredibly high. That's from Google Classroom data. So, you know, if we add in who's picking up paper packets. You could add that number, you know, on top of that.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so that's comparatively across the state.

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Kathy Ludwig: That's a really strong number, a lot of online programs and online schools will say they probably get about a 70% average engagement.

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Kathy Ludwig: Percentage that they work with 7075 so in our district to have 90% is a remarkable tribute to our students who are staying engaged and our families who are supporting that engagement at home and our teachers who are creating lessons that

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Kathy Ludwig: Students are connecting with and finding successful

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Kathy Ludwig: And if a student isn't engaging also at the high school level, reaching out using our counselors are doing quite a bit of that.

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Kathy Ludwig: One of the factors that is unique to high school is that we're really working with our seniors around passing those classes and

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Kathy Ludwig: So there's a an effort to

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Kathy Ludwig: help a student, if they're overwhelmed with passing quite a number, let's just work on one or two at a time and then shift to another one. So they're really individualize it and they've made that plan with that student in that family.

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Kathy Ludwig: On what will be most helpful and workable for you to feel that you can do this distance learning and pass those classes.

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Kathy Ludwig: I mentioned just again about the home visits to students and families, the Wellness checks if we're not able to reach them.

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Kathy Ludwig: Again art Tech High School. Just a beautiful way the staff there with that very small hop option high school can even personalize that further and they're delivering care packages to every

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Kathy Ludwig: High School student in their school and adult transition student, just to keep them connected and supported. So there's many creative ways that we're doing that.

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Kathy Ludwig: And the trends, we're seeing with high school

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Kathy Ludwig: Is again just

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Kathy Ludwig: If the students not engaging, you know, what could it be an often the response we get is, I'm also working a job or this is a different kind of mental health strain than when I was at school.

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Kathy Ludwig: I I'm just not getting what I need from that certain teacher, but I am from other teachers. So then teachers are talking and how do we change things up so it feels

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Kathy Ludwig: More aligned for what the student needs, maybe some navigating of Google Classroom and then finding that many of our high school students are experiencing additional responsibilities at home, caring for siblings.

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Kathy Ludwig: Being home alone if the parents are working or just other things that might be going on and how to understand that a lot of that is landing on the shoulders of our older students

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Kathy Ludwig: To pick up some of the the home responsibilities.

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Kathy Ludwig: Just let you take a look at that.

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Kathy Ludwig: So that was primary middle and high school just some similarities. Some uniqueness, but all three of them involve specialized instruction during distance learning, whether it's

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Kathy Ludwig: Counseling and social emotional learning or English language development or special education. And what's really been helpful for us is using this framework for universally designed instruction.

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Kathy Ludwig: And a number of weeks ago I sent you just a copy of that framework that really shows how teachers can

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Kathy Ludwig: Kind of design with those accommodations and modifications in mind as a designer lessons options for teachers have some more training with that that was going on during those first couple weeks.

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Kathy Ludwig: When we were shifting from supplemental learning to distance learning helping teachers grow their capacity for using the Google

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Kathy Ludwig: Classroom platform as well as universally designed instruction. So because we have that framework we're finding that teachers are saying, I'm using that as a way to fold in

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Kathy Ludwig: Accommodations their access points for language accommodations and access to the learning for my students who have an IP and then those specialists.

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, because we haven't an inclusive model in our school district and they already were used to working alongside classroom teachers supporting that general curriculum.

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Kathy Ludwig: Are just able to carry on and do the same. And so they can see the lessons that teachers are posting in Google Classroom.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then follow up with students on their caseload to make sure they're able to access them and any kind of accommodations or modifications, they need, as well as reaching out to families and seeing what they need.

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Kathy Ludwig: In terms of any translation or supports our counselors are delivering social emotional lessons.

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Kathy Ludwig: Either video you saw in that slideshow that I did for our teachers earlier on, and number of counselors are reading stories are presenting lessons in a video format that students and families can then access later.

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Kathy Ludwig: On O D provided us this really well thought out tiered model for checking in with students, how do you check in with students in a distance learning format.

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Kathy Ludwig: Or when students are at home to see how they're doing emotionally and what's you know some of the first basis of checking in and then

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Kathy Ludwig: If you're concerned, you know, what does it look like when maybe there's more wraparound level of support with the student and the family around mental health concerns if there's some depression or feelings of isolation or suicidal ideation really remembering to keep

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Kathy Ludwig: Keep that checking in with students at the forefront and understanding what could be going on.

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Kathy Ludwig: So starting this week we allow teachers to begin doing zoom video conferencing after watching for a few weeks and making sure the platform had increased some safety provisions before we

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Kathy Ludwig: Bought licenses for that putting together a webinar training for our staff.

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Kathy Ludwig: It also is good that teachers have had a lot of practice with zoom video meetings, just like we are tonight with adults because you start to learn about all the features.

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Kathy Ludwig: In a more safe place. And you practice a lot. And then you're better at it when all of a sudden you have young people and students. And so the training has been a lot easier for staff because they have a lot of context. Now for the features. What could go wrong. What could go right

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Kathy Ludwig: And how to make sure that when students start this week, they're feeling great success.

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Kathy Ludwig: And making it optional for teachers and optional for our students. And the last time we checked. We just put out the webinar. I think Thursday evening.

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Kathy Ludwig: Last week, and we've already got over 250 teachers have quickly taken the training that prob that numbers probably increased even over the course of this meeting.

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Kathy Ludwig: So we'll likely see

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That increasing

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Andrew Kilstrom: That number is over 350 now doc looks when we had a better

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Okay.

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Kathy Ludwig: And thank you, Andrew. I also want to make a comment that we're asking all of our parent educators are classified staff to take that training so that they can be the second adult

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Kathy Ludwig: That we're requiring to be in that zoom conference with a teacher and they're just doing such a remarkable job getting a lot of trainings done during this time and are really eager learners. So this is another one will have offered for them to grow their capacity with understanding

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Kathy Ludwig: The zoom platform.

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Kathy Ludwig: So that's where we are with distance learning and an update.

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Kathy Ludwig: Just to wrap up. I'll just what we're talking about schools, um,

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Kathy Ludwig: We want you to save the dates of june 2 third and fourth for graduation. We are holding to those dates.

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Kathy Ludwig: There may be

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Kathy Ludwig: Other kind of celebrations that could happen later in the month as students anticipate. Maybe there's some gradual lifting of social distance group numbers.

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Kathy Ludwig: But for right now in terms of the graduation ceremony of receiving their diplomas, we're going to hold to the dates that we have

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Kathy Ludwig: Our primary reason for that is we believe it gives us the greatest confidence that 100% of our students will be able to participate.

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Kathy Ludwig: Anytime you change the date and move things out the likelihood that one family two families for families a dozen now cannot participate increases.

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Kathy Ludwig: Maybe there was an expected relocation or move, but they had in their calendar, you know, to be there for that last week of school. And so we don't even want one or two families to miss this. It's an important closure and recognition to well deserved and K 12 experience.

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Kathy Ludwig: How we're going to craft those we're going to start getting that information out to families.

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Kathy Ludwig: As soon as we can.

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Kathy Ludwig: But I wanted you to have those dates and I will. I'm going to warn you that expect to if you want to participate. Or can a big block of time.

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Kathy Ludwig: Because like this will be something that's drawn at over hours of being able to provide the diploma to a student in a socially.

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Kathy Ludwig: Distant safe manner.

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Kathy Ludwig: So we'll get that out to you soon, but save the day. If you can, we are

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Kathy Ludwig: Going to acknowledge that we'd like that week to be senior week and think of a lot of special events for our students that week we've reached out to our city mayors Westland

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Kathy Ludwig: Mayor Axelrod has already agreed to proclaim it senior week we're waiting for Wilson bill, but really excited for

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Kathy Ludwig: The proclamation of that being senior week for the class of 2020 allows much more of the greater community to get involved businesses and nonprofits and other organizations rotaries and chambers, who really want to acknowledge our seniors, especially under these circumstances.

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Kathy Ludwig: So more information will be coming out to the community.

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Kathy Ludwig: As we prepare for these important celebrations.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then lastly, because we have community members watching our board meeting.

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Kathy Ludwig: And we even heard a committee member tonight, asking, what's going to happen next year. And how long is distance learning to continue and

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Kathy Ludwig: I'll be wondering about the reopening of schools, the governor has put out a press release under the the broad

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Kathy Ludwig: Declaration of reopening Oregon. It's very much aligned to the federal plan for reopening of America.

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Kathy Ludwig: And so there are criteria that she has outlined in her office around. What does it take to reopen Oregon, the gating criteria that really talks about looking at this as a health

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Kathy Ludwig: Crisis and a pandemic and so wanting to see a decline in those cases, then the the state's continued ability to be prepared with contact racing, as we heard about

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Kathy Ludwig: With our nurses appreciations more nurses could be helping with that, making sure our health care has capacity that we have the proper protective equipment.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then there would be phases of lifting any kinds of restrictions.

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Kathy Ludwig: All of this information for those who are interested in our community and want to know more details. If you go to the website, the state government website, you'll be able to find

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Kathy Ludwig: The reopened, just type in reopening Oregon. All of this will be spelled out

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Kathy Ludwig: So in phase one, which would be the first phase, what we can see a schools will remain closed.

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Kathy Ludwig: So there isn't a sense that you know schools would be able to function fully even under phase one and the restrictions there.

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Kathy Ludwig: But that there might be the the opening or continued support with childcare. So you can kind of see what phase one.

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Kathy Ludwig: would begin

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Kathy Ludwig: To open up

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Kathy Ludwig: Each phase would have a period of time of observing and collecting data to see if cases increase plateau decrease for the next phase to be implemented. So there's a 14 day kind of observation period, whereby

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Kathy Ludwig: Health Workers and the governor's office will watch to see what happens in the opening one

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Kathy Ludwig: And then phases, two, and three again.

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Kathy Ludwig: With would be evaluated carefully. But there you can say put a yellow arrow.

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Kathy Ludwig: As we get into phase two, where gatherings would increase, you can start to see some openings of schools but what that looks like. We would need to have some guidance.

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Kathy Ludwig: On that. So I know there was a, you know, wonder about that from a community member this evening, who sent in a comment around what what will School look like in the fall, we just don't know yet.

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Kathy Ludwig: As we work through these reopening phases.

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Kathy Ludwig: You can kind of see a timeline that was provided they're working through a lot of consultations, thinking about the framework.

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Kathy Ludwig: Providing the step by step reopening plan finalizing those discrete steps and then as some of us know there's this ongoing coordination with Washington and California, the West Coast states have made some agreements around reopening coordination.

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Kathy Ludwig: We know communication during this time is really critical. And we stay committed to providing information as much as we can.

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Kathy Ludwig: As often as we can, without over inundating families because we know they're also getting a lot of communication. Now in written form from teachers and principals and distance learning just kind of increase that amount that's coming at folks. And so being very mindful of how we're communicating

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Kathy Ludwig: Doing that as diligently as we can as thoughtfully and updating our website as much as possible.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then in our communications. We try and give parents some sense of the events to come into to block those into their calendars.

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Kathy Ludwig: So that

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concludes my update. Thank you for patiently listening through all of that.

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Regan Molatore: All right.

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Regan Molatore: I'm sorry, guys.

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Regan Molatore: For some reason, my cursor froze. So I

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Regan Molatore: Had to log in a second time, because I'm on mute on the other. So, Chelsea. Do you mind taking over and just conducting calling on people who may have questions and closing out the meeting.

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Chelsea King: You bet I ginger director Finch.

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Ginger Fitch: Thank you. Thank you for the detail in that Dr. Ludwig, the numbers. I thought were important, and

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Ginger Fitch: And the trends that you're seeing it seems to me, and I just want to confirm that if distance learning continues and even this year, you might see a drop in graduation numbers for areas that we had been working really hard to try to

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Ginger Fitch: Increase graduation numbers. And then the other question I have is just, can you tell us how many

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Ginger Fitch: Meals we're serving every week. And if we have anything in this year's budget to continue that in the summer.

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Kathy Ludwig: So in terms of making sure let me check. I'm not muted. Okay. Am I still on. Okay.

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Kathy Ludwig: So in terms of making sure that we help our students who are projecting to graduate. That's the group we're working really hard on

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Kathy Ludwig: Helping them stay engaged and participating as you know what wherever they were as of March 13 that status is

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Kathy Ludwig: preserved in terms of not wanting to penalize students, but we do want them to get as much learning as possible.

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Kathy Ludwig: We also have all of summer for those students up until through August in the past. We haven't often utilized that as assertively but we're very committed to doing whatever we can all the way through August

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Kathy Ludwig: To capture those kids and make sure that they have every opportunity to pass. And so we're

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Kathy Ludwig: We're not looking at it as

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Kathy Ludwig: We're actually encouraged by what we're seeing, especially with that 90% 85 to 90% engagement. That's really strong.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then really working hard to connect with the students who aren't and then utilizing all of summer.

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Kathy Ludwig: For some students, there's maybe a relief that there's a pass incomplete and that they can kind of get through a few more weeks.

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Kathy Ludwig: It might be a lot going on at home, but if they can just kind of get over that finish line, it might feel more doable, then any different kind of a circumstance, so

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Kathy Ludwig: And then I should have predicted you to ask about meals, we were doing about 3000 I think a week. So I want to think it's probably about similar, but I can get that to you and an email that to you. We

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, we're only asked to do meals through June 5 so we'll do that. And then I think we'll reevaluate and see

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Kathy Ludwig: You know what kind of resource or funding maybe there'll be something from the state that can allow us to do it over the summer. It would be asking staff then to come to work during the summer to, again, prepare all those meals. So what we'll take a look at that.

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Kathy Ludwig: But thank you for that question.

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Kathy Ludwig: If we're able to do it, it would be, it would be nice if we could, we're not one of those districts that qualifies for some of your summer meal programs. So it is entirely something we would fund in our budget.

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Kathy Ludwig: Unless there is a provision for us to have to get reimbursed. In the summer right now.

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Kathy Ludwig: We haven't heard that news. I'll check with our nutrition director, we are getting reimbursed for what we've been doing now above and beyond what we would qualify for

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Ginger Fitch: And as a follow up, then, is that

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Kathy Ludwig: Oh, sorry, I'm Andrew kills him just texted me we're up to 5000 meals a week.

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Ginger Fitch: So is that funding that we're getting from the state or the or the feds through the state. If it's legislators, what level are we get

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Kathy Ludwig: It was part of the very first provisions within the executive order from the Governor, if you would call paying employees, making sure meals were given

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Kathy Ludwig: Transportation if we needed to do that emergency childcare and so the money is getting reimbursed from the state. Now, whether they're getting some from the federal government through a supplemental grant, I don't know, but

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Kathy Ludwig: They right away, made that declaration and committed to funding it and reimbursing school districts

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Chelsea King: Thank you. All right.

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Chelsea King: How about director. Hi.

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Dylan Hydes: Yeah, a couple questions. Dr. Ludwig. First, you mentioned saving the dates of june 2 third and fourth for high school activities are you asking us to keep clear that entire day from so like 7am till 9pm or

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Dylan Hydes: Just evenings and I'm okay with whatever the answer is I try to make sure if it's the whole day that I keep like that out.

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Kathy Ludwig: Thank you. It will likely be afternoon all afternoon, evening so because originally those events where if you remember the be like a six o'clock hour seven o'clock hour at

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Kathy Ludwig: Gregory forum or child center or rolling hills those places have close to that. So that now opens up. We don't have to do it in the evening and when would be a good time to do it. We're trying to figure out, but also keep, you know, something that allows it to be in person.

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Kathy Ludwig: And then that

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Kathy Ludwig: requires some physical distancing which just stretches things out. So if you can keep those afternoons open, that'd be great. Okay.

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Dylan Hydes: And then my other question is, I'm just kind of reading about districts in states across the country, how they're trying to respond to the huge loss of instructional time

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Dylan Hydes: And there have been some districts that are talking about are these non toxic considering maybe opening early like late July.

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Dylan Hydes: I understand there's a huge amount of obstacles doing stuff like that but you know there been any talks at the state level about the possibility of starting earlier than the normal

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Kathy Ludwig: I haven't heard that yet.

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Kathy Ludwig: You know that every school district with its budget with its association has a set number of student days were guided to provide a certain number of hours.

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Kathy Ludwig: How we construct that year, making sure we get those instructional hours in is left up to local decision. If you recall, we're one of the two or only school districts that actually start Labor Day. So we already have an earlier start

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Kathy Ludwig: So when would have that that week prior to Labor Day.

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Kathy Ludwig: You, you can start earlier. It just does that mean you end earlier in June.

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Kathy Ludwig: Which that may be what some districts are thinking of doing is just shifting their calendar if they were going to extend the school year, it would mean

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Kathy Ludwig: Increasing compensation to staff. If you're going to have more more days in a school year you're going to pay more and I, I'd be on i i don't know many districts in under this economic situation that would extend the school year and have to pay more.

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Dylan Hydes: Have well we're possibly

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Dylan Hydes: Taking days off of this year. Adding on to the start of the next year. I don't know. I'm just wondering if I I heard the district talking about this. I was wondering if our district to our state that he had had that conversation.

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Kathy Ludwig: And are you talking about districts might end this year. Early furlough and then add those days into next year.

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Dylan Hydes: Yes, as a possible funding option.

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Kathy Ludwig: Yeah, I have not heard anyone in our state mentioned right now that they would be doing that kind of an exchange. I think they're trying to commit to finishing this year where with distance learning

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Kathy Ludwig: We haven't accomplished contemplated that

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Okay.

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Dylan Hydes: Thank you.

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Kathy Ludwig: creative idea have to work through it but

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Chelsea King: I'm Dr. Thompson.

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Christy Thompson: Thank you. And thanks for all of those great numbers that you shared about the center of engagement and

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Christy Thompson: I'm wondering, is it possible to get some of those slides that you shared during your superintendent evaluation, just so as people

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Christy Thompson: As parents and community members ask. I would love to have. I took a picture of some of them, but I don't even know is that protocol. Is that okay to ask for some of those and have you email, some of your slides out or not.

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Kathy Ludwig: Yeah. So what Kelly will do with my superintendent reports, if they end up being reports that you as a board indicate you like copies of then we'll make it public record and post it. What I would then do is probably remove some of the pictures.

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Kathy Ludwig: Just, just to be on the safe side.

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Christy Thompson: Okay. Yeah, I would love to have just have those emailed without the pictures just to have those numbers and percentages and such to share with other people. So thank you.

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Christy Thompson: And and then my other question is being a parent of a high school graduate 2020 graduate. I was on a call with

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Christy Thompson: The grad night committee for Wilson bill the other night, and they were talking about dates out in

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Christy Thompson: Possibly postponing graduations out until January or July or later. So is it my understanding that that is not going to happen from a district level that we are going to go ahead with whatever. However, we can do graduations will go ahead and be on the set dates. Okay. Yeah.

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, I want to really express gratitude to those committees, they've been doing a lot of rapid brainstorming trying to think about, you know, waiting patiently, seeing if social distancing might lift kind of gauging what's going on in the state.

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Kathy Ludwig: And they've been incredibly patient. I know that they've worked hard, up until now.

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Kathy Ludwig: With plans that they thought were going to be in

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Kathy Ludwig: Place. And now we're trying to shift things

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Kathy Ludwig: But some of what the you might be hearing is the the thinking around a celebration for students. Later in June. So how do you take

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Kathy Ludwig: May fest prom, the graduation party kind of rolled into one. And what would that look like. And there's more thinking of that event happening later in June when it may be safer for small groups or

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Kathy Ludwig: You know more of the social, we might be in phase two or three of the reopening and and some of that could happen.

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Kathy Ludwig: There, there is some thinking across there was early on for a number of school districts around. Do you even delay the graduation in terms of the delivery of diplomas for later. And while there was some contemplation of that thinking it might

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Kathy Ludwig: Benefit to wait later because you may not have to do as much virtually we're in this for a little while longer. I think we're seeing that we're not at that place with it, lifting before

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Kathy Ludwig: early June, so more school districts are now moving towards keeping their original dates and creating a modified ceremony on those dates and working with their

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Kathy Ludwig: Passing the plans to Oregon Health Authority, making sure Oregon Health Authority believes they're safe to do. Working with their local law enforcement to make sure the community.

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Kathy Ludwig: Has a safe plan around that and getting those out. So there's all sorts of plans going on. But I think more and more districts now are just bumping it back to

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Kathy Ludwig: Let's just keep those original dates, providing closure for our students. And also, I think they were starting to hear feedback from some families that

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Kathy Ludwig: The further out you push it, the less likely you'll get 100% of the students able to participate because of just some natural disbursement happens over summer as kids move on to things or families have other plans. There's more likelihood that we would

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Kathy Ludwig: Lose some kids who couldn't participate in their own graduation. Okay.

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Christy Thompson: Thank you for that clarification.

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Kathy Ludwig: Yeah, I'm glad you asked it, because there was

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Kathy Ludwig: A story going around that Westland had decided to do its graduation at the end of June, and we're other districts going to do that. And I don't know where that started but it

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Kathy Ludwig: It may have been a brainstorm, you know, weeks ago around that possibility. But, but this is what we're working with.

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Christy Thompson: Yeah, I think there might have been some misconception out Wilson go high school to as I was on that call. And there was a lot of talk about graduation being pushed back to a date of July 24 and what do we want it to look like, do we want to do it at a drive. And we want to do it so

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Christy Thompson: I think it's anyway.

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Kathy Ludwig: Everything.

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Kathy Ludwig: There were some yeah

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Kathy Ludwig: There was some are like brainstorming.

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Kathy Ludwig: You know, wondering if that was better. And then once you start brainstorming and talking it out, you start hearing people's reactions to that. And while there was some

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Kathy Ludwig: Interest and maybe that would work we were starting to also hear actually that will work and for these reasons, so

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Christy Thompson: Okay, thank you.

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Thank you for the question.

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Chelsea King: Okay, that you probably saw ginger put a chat in that she needed to leave. I don't know she'll be back or not. Since we're kind of wrapping up

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Chelsea King: And chair mall to our looks like you got your audio figured out I saw you, problem solving, like a tech pro over there.

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Chelsea King: I'll just say, just briefly, I know we've been at this for a while. I can't even imagine how much time you spend in front of zoom right now. Dr. Ludwig, but

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Chelsea King: I just think about everything that we've been saying for years I've been on the school board. I've heard it time and time again.

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Chelsea King: We have a growth mindset and we lean into the you know the challenges and we lead for all and it's I can't help but think about just those

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Chelsea King: Beliefs that you know you really show your character in hard times and things like that. I know everything is harder right now.

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Chelsea King: 7am to 9pm for our graduation, like it's a real like actual realistic requests that we might make each other. So everything is taking so much more energy. And so I just appreciate your stamina and your problem solving and your dedication and

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Chelsea King: And to my fellow board members as well. I just appreciate you all continuing to show up and press into the work. So I wouldn't want to do this with anyone else.

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Kathy Ludwig: Agreed.

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Christy Thompson: Although I'm just going to be honest and say I miss Kelly's hospitality of feeding us so well. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's going to say that and Kelly. I really miss your strong coffee that you always make

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Regan Molatore: That

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Regan Molatore: So, a week ago weekend so not this past weekend the weekend before outside do my chores and it goes to my mind on my

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Regan Molatore: Gosh, we haven't received our board book. I don't think yet.

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Regan Molatore: And so I come in and a break and I check our, you know, checks up now. We didn't receive board book and go back out, do my work. I'm thinking about our board meeting and

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Regan Molatore: You know, I don't even think I saw it publicly noticed that's really rare, you know, Kelly wouldn't fall behind. I end up sending Dr. Ludwig and Chelsea both an email like on Saturday.

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Regan Molatore: A week in advance. Yeah. Hey guys, you know, I haven't seen anything for our board meeting on Monday.

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Regan Molatore: And they were so kind and so gracious, but my weeks are all messed up that I thought we are having this meeting, like, a week ago and I solved my problem before that I realized it was still April not may 4 but

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Regan Molatore: Before they had to get back to me. But that's just, you know, I know everyone's mind is operating very similarly. Everyone is engaged in the work, but you're not always heard what's coming at you, on any given day. So thank you all and

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Regan Molatore: Thanks to Dr. Ludwig and Chelsea for their, their patients and working with me as well.

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Kathy Ludwig: So I think that might be it last item on the agenda. Yeah.

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Chelsea King: We just got I think you all have the date we have a board work session on 518 that's still

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Chelsea King: still on the books I believe that has not been changed. So we'll be back together in a couple of weeks and feel free to email me feedback if you'd like me to give some informal feedback for Dr. Ludwig, and that's it. Good meeting. Thank you.

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Regan Molatore: Thank you all. Thanks, Chelsea for finishing us out.

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You're welcome.

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Chelsea King: Thank you. Bye.