October-7-2019-Regular-Board-Meeting-segment-1
[00:00:00] All right. We will call this board meeting to order and get started this evening Miss Douglas. Would you please take roll Chelsea King Martin? Here danger Fitch here Reagan Molitor here Casey Thompson here Dylan hides here. You'll notice some smirks amongst us board members because we're trying some new technology this evening that takes a little getting used to.
All right next on our thing will go to District Communications and from Arts and Technology High School Caitlin.
Welcome.
Once again, I'm Caitlin Finn [00:01:00] a junior at Art Tech. I'm happy to be back at school board meeting to let you know what's happening at our school. We are sponsoring a Red Cross blood drive this Wednesday, October 9th at aths. That is an open to the community. The drive and the Kiva from 9 a.m. To 2 p.m.
And we will still have spots available. You can go sign up online at Red Cross Blood dot-org search our ZIP code 9 7 0 7 7 0 you can be a hero sign up to give blood. The fall goal of studying time is that our school? All students have goal-setting conferences this Thursday each student meets with our families or Guardians as well as our crew leader to ask to set an academic and social goals for the school year.
We'll check in on the smart goals throughout the year. Laura B Ko or amazing Wellness teacher has brought CrossFit to a THS. [00:02:00] CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program consisting mainly of a mix of aerobatic exercise calisthenics has not come forward Olympic weightlifting CrossFit used equipment from multiple disciples, including barbells dumbbells, jump rope kettlebells medicine balls resistance band and very smash.
Last year law replied for our school to be an official CrossFit athlete and the free students participated in high school CrossFit competition at Cleveland High School in Portland this year. Our school was awarded a thick thousand five hundred dollar Grant from the CrossFit Foundation to enhance her fitness program.
We already have begun receiving new equipment for our PE classes and students are having a great time with Crossfit. This year the adult transition Services is on the Clackamas Community College campus two days a week all students [00:03:00] are taking first year experience class, which is a class. All CC students take Becky Hancock transition specialist who works at Crest has worked with the CDC staff to develop work and learning experience around the PCC campus which start tomorrow the students and staff are enjoying their new opportunities at CCC.
At 80 FS. We provide we pride ourselves on building a positive healthy school Community crew and Community meetings are two of the many ways that we are able to create the art technology. If you're Cheryl Wilson our counselor and social worker is planning to Circle conversations for our Monday crew sessions.
Okay, Goethe or academic success coordinator and will lie. Our science teacher are working together to plan Community meetings. We've been doing collaborative art projects in the community meeting and we are looking forward to guest speakers over the next two weeks. Lastly 80 Rocky the 80s [00:04:00] rock band has its first concert on Friday, October 25th at the youth music project in West Linn come and check it out.
Thanks for all you do and please let us know if you would like to visit our school.
Thank you so much Caitlin for that presentation and from Westland High School Avery Fells. Oh and a guest to hello. Hello, this is Ryan and we're going to hear from him a little bit later later. He's on our seniors. Good evening, dr. Ludwig and school board members. My name is Avery Fells and I appreciate the opportunity to share with you again a little bit more about what's happening this month at Westland.
It's been very successful. Very exciting last Friday. We celebrated our Century homecoming we kicked off the festivities in the morning with our homecoming Spirit assembly featuring our symphonic choir pep band [00:05:00] and the annual varsity football cheerleader dance as well as the introduction of our new staff members.
Additional highlight of the assembly was the Showcase of an Incredible video and at this time I'd like to introduce Ryan. It'll man to share a little bit more about the creation of this video. Yeah, so over the past few years Western students have created some amazing films featuring our athletic teams, and we wanted to take advantage of these filmmaking skills.
And so during this during this special year being the century year Westland. So me and Joe jahal another senior, we hold a bunch of old videos and photos and current videos and photos and put it all together in a video and we showed it at our assembly and the students loved it. So we wanted to show it to you as well.
[00:06:00] [00:07:00] In overdrive. Yeah, I know. Are we going now?
[00:08:00] Yeah, so as you can see, we just thought that was an incredible opportunity for a couple of our students and we're super proud of the final product that they came up with. So yeah, we showed that our homecoming assembly the students got super excited about it. It's kind of playing to a lot of the things that they're interested in.
So yeah, that was awesome. Thanks again to Ryan. So the afternoon of homecoming we hosted our all ages homecoming carnival at which several clubs. It's in order to fund raise and connect with our community members the carnival also showcase showcase performances from a few student bands and musicians which was incredible and the carnival was extremely successful with High attendance from our primary and Middle School families.
We were also really excited to include our robotics team in the festivities by having them operate a drone that delivered the [00:09:00] crown store senior Royals at halftime coordination and oh, yeah our Mighty lion soundly defeated Sherwood to. The night ended with her homecoming dance in the gym, and it was a great day to be a lion.
We've already moved on quickly to our next activity which is breast cancer awareness week and we're hosting like ass we go for pink out football game is Friday and we'll be raising awareness about teen driver safety the week of October 21st. Another notable day in October is next Wednesday on which all of our sophomore students will be taking the piece at a twisting all of our fall Sports football, which is currently ranked seventh and State volleyball, which is currently ranked 6 boys soccer girls soccer, which is currently ranked ninth cross-country and unified.
Parker are deep into the regular seasons with the cheer team serving as a great support and the Deb's dance team rehearsing for upcoming competition as for Performing Arts are fall Musical Chicago high school edition opens on November 8 our Cadet choirs and band's first concert is October 22nd with our top bands orchestras and choirs [00:10:00] performing on October 23rd.
We invite you to join us as always on those evenings for some great music. We look forward to continuing to incorporate elements of Westlands Rich past into our year-long. Celebration of our Century of Pride and for the most part we are enhancing activities and events that are already a regular part of our calendar, but we invite you to save the date for a special Century celebration event at Weston High School on the afternoon of Saturday, March 28th.
So stay tuned for more information about that. This year will be filled with memories. And of course memories come with mementos. So to thank you all for your support of Weston High School. We'd like to give you with our Century spirit shirt. They look like this. This is our old Wesson High School Crest Centre of Land Pride 1922 2020 pretty cool.
So more information about that later. We have a couple sizes. Dr. Ludwig Ludwig and I worked a little bit about that. So we'll get those [00:11:00] to you and we also have our homecoming rally towels for you guys after the. So, yeah, thank you so much again for the opportunity to share and I look forward to seeing you all next month, so yeah.
You both so much and thank you. We enjoyed the video as well, and I'm certain we will enjoy the tokens as well. So thank you. Thank you Ryan also for coming. I know it's not typically in your schedule, but was great. Yeah and sharing the video that you made. So thanks, that's awesome. All right, and then we'll move on to Wilsonville high school and Lindsay Hartford.
All righty, good evening, everyone and happy October. My name is Lindsey Hartford and I'm a senior Wilsonville high school and although I don't have a video for you guys tonight. I'm super excited to be back to share [00:12:00] about another great month at Wilsonville some of the September highlights from last month included a great homecoming dance a Spirit Week preceding homecoming.
Many sporting events of girls and boys and a robotics competition more play rehearsal and we really ramped up the amp academics for this school year this month. We're going to continue this great start with even more events that involve the student body faculty and the community an important October specific week that just started today is our pink wig pink week is a way to encourage all Wilsonville students to support cancer awareness and have a chance to donate to a great cause.
King of pink wig tomorrow night. We have a home volleyball game where the number four ranked volleyball team in the state for 5A. We'll use tape to collect money as a donation and stick it to cancer in addition to the volleyball game tomorrow. We have girls boys and unified soccer as well as [00:13:00] football games that will be full of pink spirit and will be collecting donations at all of these games.
For sticking it to cancer and we'll donate those to cancer research at these games. The concessions will be offered by the booster club, which has a very prominent and positive impact on Wilsonville students, especially this year. I know for me personally. I really felt the involvement of the booster club more more.
Wilsonville is also hosting the PSAT and the sat on Wednesday, October 16th as an opportunity for all students who wish to take it to take. Students can take a during the school day. So they don't have to come in on a weekend and it's in a familiar classroom for them. So this is a really great opportunity.
There's also a full band concert later that night at seven o'clock and in addition to the band concert music lover should come out on October 22nd and enjoy our orchestra concert choir performs the night after that if you just haven't had enough music yet and you should definitely come out on October 22nd.
[00:14:00] October 23rd, which is an early release day for Wilsonville. The first blood drive of the year is coming up at the end of the month on October 30th. But before that we're going to be celebrating our Dia de los Muertos festival for our Metro Club is going to put on food different. Events games and it really broadens the worldly perspective and the culture at Wilsonville high school and it's a great event for families people of all ages students of any grade.
So I definitely encourage you to come out to that on the 25th of October. And then also we have that day at the end of our first quarter. So we're ending the term off strong at Wilsonville and we are super excited to continue building Spirit Wilsonville high school and involving the community more and more.
Thank you so much for your time tonight, and I'm really excited for another great month that Wilsonville and I can't wait to share all our success next month.
[00:15:00] Thank you. Again. Lindsay. Really? Appreciate it Lindsay. Can you remind us the musical at Wilsonville High School is Cinderella, right? Okay,
good.
Thank you. Perfect. Okay, great. Thank you. Well, since you're asking about musicals West Lynn you have Chicago, right? Okay,
as you guys are tickets on sale. Do you know yet? Not yet? Okay, excellent. Thank you. Alright, then. We'll move on to recognitions. And we have some special teachers [00:16:00] here as well as our middle school and administrators to introduce. Our teachers are Chinese language teachers. And is there as Barb?
Oh, yeah. Okay. There you are Barb. Thank you.
Our goal is to have more people up here than are seated.
So we are really pleased just to update you about our Chinese World language program. Since 2013 when doctor doctor Ludwig initiated it the middle schools in our district have hosted Chinese teachers from the Confucius Institute at Portland State University and the institute's purpose has always been and still is language proficiency with culture.
So that the reading writing speaking listening is really what you work with but you also understand [00:17:00] culture and at Portland State they really take culture to mean the Arts. So their specific interest is a lot of music and a lot of visual art. There was a visual artist AT AP Creek middle school today and students were there and they were joined by Meridian Creek Middle School students so that they got to do some carving.
And the this year we have 386 students in the school district in our four Middle School's just our middle schools who are taking Chinese language and culture and most of them are learning the the Mandarin language. There's a few who are taking just the culture class. We have 97 students in our high.
Courses and they have increased incrementally every year, but mostly what we are proud of with the program is the levels. We now have a p a Chinese Mandarin as well. Are three teachers from [00:18:00] China are returning this year for either second or third years and that's something that we are really pleased to see also also want to credit.
Dr. David Pryor for working with the Confucius classroom program that we have in our primary schools because this is a real example of what children start with in Primary School follows through to middle school and to high school Mandarin is a complex language. You learn and both the the register of the voice as well as the characters or something that that require a lot of work from students.
So these teachers also we are proud to say are part of our professional learning. We work with the ACT fell standards and the teachers here this evening have all participated in that professional learning and beginning last year and continuing this year. We are using an hsk exam which in China is a pretty prestigious exam.
Meaning that students [00:19:00] are becoming prepared to work in business Beyond k12 and this very much fits with our College and Career Readiness goals, so it's something that really give them credit for for working with this and it was very wonderful to hear at one of the curriculum nights. I heard a parent saying well last year.
My child took the first level and of course the teacher was well, we're doing the second level this year. So I would like our principles to actually introduce our teachers and our teacher intern.
All right, good evening. First of all, I would like to say how incredible it is to have dong Mei about back for a second year their first of all, she's an outstanding educator, but she's building our program we have. Considerably larger number of students in our sixth grade cohort and I had the pleasure of going [00:20:00] in and watching her teach with our new wonderful member of our community community when you and I was able to watch them teaching a culture lesson in preparation for a field trip that they're going to be taking to downtown Portland and I was really struck by the visual that they were showing so they had lots of Wonderful.
Clips of architecture and cultural aspects from China and then they were able to teach them the vocabulary. There was a lot of back and forth and a lot of laughter and a lot of fun, but again all in preparation for what they will get to see when they go to Portland. So thank you so much. We're so glad you're here.
Good evening. I'm Joan Sebastian the principal Athey Creek Middle School. It's a pleasure to be here tonight and to introduce these two Educators that are working with students learning Chinese and so teacher [00:21:00] died as Barb said has returned for her second year and this year her intern is teacher Lee and I think just along the same lines as what.
Gabby was saying a moment ago. What's happening in Chinese class is really fantastic rigorous learning and I'm all I don't know. I don't know how teacher died stands at the end of the day because it's like. The the movement that she has in around the room and in helping students really enunciate and the Accents in the language are terrifically nuanced.
I mean as a non Chinese speaker, that's what we know about Chinese is the nuance and the sound of the language and so she has all of these techniques to help young people. Really understand how to apply those accents to the words, and I just think that teacher Lee is in great hands to learn internally to learn how to become a teacher what teacher died and so [00:22:00] it's just a pleasure to have them both back this year.
So, please join me in recognizing them.
Good evening, and I'm Anna Coulson from Philip Meridian Creek Middle School and I am so thrilled to have mang here for her third year at Meridian Creek. She started the building with us and I cannot say. Enough wonderful positive things about having mang in our building about growing a program.
She is always collaborating and connecting with other teachers in the building to really highlight and in and enrich the learning opportunities for kids in our building. She came to me on Friday and said, can we go to AC on Monday? No, it was to Thursday. You told me dude a turnaround for a field trip and we made it happen to our students got to go to a secret today to experience.
What a really amazing a opportunity to see. Nut carving, which he brought back pictures and kids talk about what a great experience that they. Got to participate in there. So thank you for allowing the field trips to take place also because it's such a rich part of our [00:23:00] language learning programs, but specifically with Chinese and we have similar opportunities that are other principles of shared about but we are thrilled to have her and are hoping maybe her building will let her stay again, but maybe not we're hoping if we could have her again.
We would absolutely keep her because it's been warmer wonderful. So.
Mike's Randy principle it would had another event this evening. So we'd like to introduce Tianjin and the wonderful thing about her is she was a Confucius Institute teacher who then stayed and got a master's degree and is now a certified licensed teacher teaching at would middle school. So we feel very fortunate to have TN.
I just want to invite would any of you be paying with any of you like to say [00:24:00] anything? I want to talk about this year because this is my second year and I want to say I really want to know how much progress the students could make, you know last year sometimes, you know, I don't know what to do and this.
You know different different teacher they use different books. So sometimes we cannot okay make the decision. So how my programs are what level the students are. So this year I use the hsk books and I think it's a really fun for me and we had you know from the pronunciation and strokes and the sentence, you know, just only one month, you know, my students could translate like.
What kind of tea do you like to dig? So this is really a long son. As you know only one mouth. My students could do that. Okay, nishimura Hashem taxi. This is a very long sentence this year. I want [00:25:00] to tell so from me. I want the teacher to use the hsk book and to teach the students step by step and then.
In my opinion, I think if they could learn a chess game and books, so maybe in high school not watching High School are we also will high school? I think the teacher will know what level they are. And then maybe they could just get the level 2. Maybe they just maybe just escape and I will well and to the level to I think so.
I will try my best to so this year I came. Pushing my students a little bit and then maybe more strict with them so I can see they really made a lot of progress. So this is my decision maybe from me and maybe unless the teacher or. The teachers could use the books and to have the students to make a lot of progress.
So I talked to mr. Sebastian and you know at the end of the semester [00:26:00] will have this kind of test about hsk and then he will prepare the special schedule that day. So I really appreciate that and the pay's really great really great principle. So. This is my research. I want to talk about this kind of Chinese program, but I don't know but it is a the school the students really so great, but I don't know whether Isis schools could do this.
So we will discuss that and then maybe we can make the final decision. Yeah. Thank you.
And they didn't tell you that they went camping and Yellowstone came back really and it was the first time camping and they are they are rugged so we would like to welcome you get everybody together, too. Take a picture and you offer something. We have a gift for each of you to thank you for making this your home this [00:27:00] year and last few years for committing so much to our students and then I think a quick photo with the board members would be wonderful for our teachers to have in their collection of memories as well as for our district support of our of our world language program.
[00:28:00] [00:29:00] Alright says everyone is working to get Mike's on we will move on to board and superintendent reports and Christy. Why don't we start with you? I see you look like your best. You're already mic'd up the [00:30:00] best.
I have had a fun last month in the school. So I think just as a former educator. My favorite thing is to be back in the school. So I have taken full advantage of that and I attended the parent coffee at the cedar Oak Park at Cedar Creek Park. And then also make the principal took me on a tour of their lovely garden and then I was at two different back to school barbecues at Trillium and then Sunset Primary attended a grad night meeting because I have because my last ones a senior which.
Don't love that as much went to the Wilsonville homecoming parade with a bunch of bunch of my colleagues as well. I also met with dr. Hughes for another budget tutorial, which I'm going to continue to do it until I'm a budget master. [00:31:00] I attended fun runs at Bolton element Bolton Primary Beckman primary Willamette primary as well as Rosemont Ridge and then.
So went to the we lathon at Lowry so and the weather was good for all of them, which was great. And then on top of that sorry, I'm still getting used to this. Okay, there we go. Hopefully that's better just lots of physical. It was fine until is long as you don't touch it. I think I moved it.
Yeah.
Okay, I'm taking off my glasses, but then I can't see so I'll just remember. Oh, she can go old school.
Oh just talk normal. Oh, okay, and then lots of lollipops. So that's just kind of been my opportunity still kind of did a little bit to [00:32:00] get in the schools. The other thing that I have been working. And we talked about it at our last board meeting the opportunity to get the more involved in schools as board members and start that with the work plans that we're all going to go into schools and possibly have that be our first engagement in the school and then continue each of us continue relationships with those schools throughout the year by engaging in.
Their school communities and so at our last board meeting my fellow board members kind of suggested or asked if I would put together just some opportunities for engagement. And so I have done that. I need to carry this with me.
Okay, I think I need one. And this is just a starting place just some [00:33:00] things and some of you shared some things with me some ideas as far as what you thought would need good ways to get involved in our schools. I appreciate it Ginger gave some great websites that we can go to just to learn about them.
So. So I think part of it is is that I'm fighting the fact that I use a different mic when I teach at the club, and I'm used to always having to adjust it. So I'm going to keep my hands off.
You want that one off? But if I'm not going to talk anymore. Okay, I'm still on.
You turn this off. All right, so then Dylan, would you like to share? So the month started for me I to the back-to-school night at Three Rivers charter [00:34:00] school, which was fantastic because one I have never been in the school for into I'm now the board liaison between us and Three Rivers had a chance to meet with their principal and parents also had a back-to-school night at Willamette, which was my chill to my children school, and they.
Both have probably the two best teachers I've ever ever had. So we're just so happy with the quality of teachers including one of them is the first year teacher at women and he is just amazing had a chance to meet with dr. Hughes who's not here tonight for approximately four hours. And so we discussed all things budget.
Bonds levies purrs Resort reserves and also the resolutions that we were also confused about last time. I Now understand and now we don't need to vote on it. But if we needed vote on it I could leave the way so I want to be think dr. Hughes for her generous time and dr. Ludwig for allowing her to spend so much time with me to get me to a point where I understood it all.
I've been working a lot on the bond with my fellow board members for the past 30 days [00:35:00] and you know, the best part about that process for me is just been going out talking to people including people that had a lot of questions or Reven opposed to it before our conversation and including yesterday we canvassed and I got to walk around the Sunset Primary neighborhood and talk to a lot of people and the message I heard more than anything else was people wanted more Career and Technical education.
Resources and so I was like fantastic that's what this bond does. And so people were really happy to hear that. So it was an example I think of our board in our district being responsive to what the community is asking for. So that's it
Chelsea.
Hello everyone. Thank you Christy for putting this together and Dylan for the email summary of your time learning about finances. I appreciate your efforts there. Yeah campaign season, right? I know all of us have been super engaged and. Working to ensure Victory come November 5th on the capital Bond and local option [00:36:00] Levy and like director hides.
My favorite thing is just the opportunity to talk with my community about what we're doing in the schools and why the local option living in the capital Bond are important. And so that's one of the benefits I think of campaign life is connecting with the community. So I've also been enjoying that.
A couple of my highlights one is that I had the opportunity to sit down and have lunch with dr. Ludwig and City councilor from Westland and a city councilor from Wilsonville. And it was just a chance for us to build some relationships and slightly less formal fashion and just open lines of communication and particularly we focused on the upcoming multi-city Equity Summit and talked about what it would look like for us to all attend that.
And you know what Equity efforts look like in our schools and in our cities and how we might even follow up after attending that event and just keep the lines of communication open. So that was definitely a highlight of the past month. And then I also had the [00:37:00] opportunity to come in and meet because I have been the long range planning committee liaison and leading.
Up to the long range planning committee proposing the capital Improvement plan and the board adopting all this and so there was a lot of conversations around traffic flow on Willamette Falls Drive and what new construction of a middle school in limit Falls area would you know due to that community?
So I met with dr. Ludwig and mr. Woodley and dr. Downs and a man named Scott who works with dks and he's a traffic expert and. Answer Scott man, sir. Yeah with dks, right? Yeah. Yeah, and so they'll be an FAQ coming out just for the community. So they've done a preliminary study. It's an iterative process.
And so this is just the very, you know, beginning stages, but we talked about [00:38:00] he created a nice little one-pager to help help me understand. Basically the numbers of they're coming up with and I think a couple highlights that I could share right now is some you know logic would probably tell you that traffic will be reduced in some ways because so many of the students live right around where that middle school would be and a lot of parents drive their kids.
And so instead of being on the lam it falls all the way out to Borland to drive their kids. You know at 8:45 start time or not, you know around 8:45 on the road for a 9:00 a.m. And start time and again, you know, it's 3:45 in time that about 20% fewer buses would be running as those those numbers of students would be walking in.
Riding their bikes to school so put there's a potential for a reduction of school transportation on Willamette Falls Drive. [00:39:00] Primarily with reduction of buses and then increased walking and also in traffic studies that they have an assumption or they they work with the Assumption or they kind of know that in a school zone you reduce commercial traffic and so as you know, people are making decisions about do I take 205 or do I take Willamette Falls Drive to try to get somewhere there's a potential for with the school route.
And the additional traffic controls and speed speed zones going in that there could potentially be a reduction of traffic there as well. As you know, delivery drivers and commercial drivers opted to stay on 205 and things of that nature. So those were a couple of my highlights as far as what they're thinking would happen to traffic on Willamette Falls Drive that the big takeaway to is that this is a process and so this.
You know the beginning of the planning and typically what happens is that during the planning stage. This information will be taken to [00:40:00] the neighborhood association and the city will hold public hearings. And so there's a there's a public process that still needs to be followed. And as far as like designing traffic flows, they have an idea of what would work, but they'll be a public process that they follow.
And I think just on that note. It was also an opportunity for me to have a conversation with with the district around ways that the district does accommodate public requests during times of construction. So an example was given of like Meridian Creek Middle School and headlights of vehicles coming in during dark.
You know when it was dark and that headlights flashing across a residence windows and the residents same to the district. I don't like this additional traffic and the the Light Flow. And so there was something was constructed or planted trees were planted to you know, create a buffer and so there were several examples that were given about ways that the district tries to [00:41:00] be responsive when people have Construction in their backyard and how do we make that really, you know something that's favorable to the whole community so.
Takeaway is that you know, there's a lot of thought going into it already, you know, we heard people say that they have this concern and it's being considered and thought about and they'll be more information to come including an FAQ and and then the whole public process.
Thank you Ginger.
I want to do some shout outs to begin with and one is I had an opportunity to go to unified soccer game at Wilsonville high school and I just want to know that. The athletic director Dennis Burke was there and it's just not unusual for him to be at activities and events and to be mingling and just [00:42:00] his presence and his commitment to his work is evident and want to recognize that and then in addition.
Plus I have two stones. I Wilsonville high school. And as I'm thinking about board goal number three as well as board goal one principal Schmidt sent out a letter to all the parents recently, which was notable in a few ways one. I don't recall having one recently in that. Manner and when I say A letter came in the mail and it was concise, so I was able to note, you know, three or four or five important things on the first page and succinctly and then she provided a complete list of calendar important calendar events for the upcoming year, which is on my wall and which I'll be able to send to [00:43:00] grandparents.
I just felt one that it was a way to operate in an. Accessible manner to all the parents in our community and it like I said extending to public to extended family as well because it was that kind of thing that we could share easily and then also. I'm very aware. I was at the school for various senior high school nights as well the financial aid night the going to college and I the curriculum night and that is yet another way to.
Courage students to attend school and for parents to be a part of that and to encourage parents to be a part of those next steps in their child's life. So I just want to shout out that that was I think just a commendable step and important stuff that was consistent with at least two of our board goals, and I [00:44:00] appreciate that.
In addition, I was a curriculum night at Lowry and Athey Creek and.
it's really notable to me how many parents come out to those nights and it is. One we have something important to say that people are going to keep coming and that they're interested and committed to working with the district to further their students work. I met with Barbra Streisand a regarding where we are at with talented and gifted programs throughout our district and.
I'm encouraged that as we move into the possibility of passing this Bond and we're thinking about Career and Technical and we're thinking about the [00:45:00] expansion of our third High School to really have some opportunities to and we're thinking about high school changes across all three schools that this might be an opportunity to focus on how.
Wanted and gifted fits into those things. I went to homecoming parade Wilsonville High School. I communicated with the Oregon Health Authority on the need for Mental Health Resources in South Clackamas County and the Wilsonville area. And again, I think it's a resource that are. Our community needs and our students and families would benefit from.
also paid close attention to the recent. meetings of the wolf [00:46:00] Westland city council and regard to our work and also Wilsonville City council's. work and the things that impact our students in our high schools.
Oh, thank you. Do you have it? I am an attorney I represent parents and children in the district or I may represent parents and children in the district and should anything come before the board that would benefit one of my clients. I would refrain from participating in the discussion and that decision without revealing the name of my client.
Thank you. It's interesting as I sat here and listen to each of you that we knew we had very busy October and as a result we chose to not have our normally scheduled [00:47:00] work session and what I'm amazed about is I'm hearing how involved each and every single one of you were in our schools. And in addition I know how involved you are out in our community with regards to trying to educate and encourage a yes vote on both of our bond and local options of which each of you significantly minimized your acts in that regard.
So thank you and thanks for you know, not replacing one activity with the other but upholding your responsibilities to our schools and getting to know our students and community. There as well as taking on this additional task. I had the opportunity to meet with both representatives from at different times with dr.
Ludwig from the Education Foundation and then from music and arts partner. We met with Joe Walters from the foundation and its really in response to board goal [00:48:00] number three about Community Partners. And and how can we better support them? And how can our work, you know come together? And what is our alignment?
And what is those organizations Visions for the future? So then we also met with. Or something. I just wonder if you just missed him. I'm going to go check. Okay? Okay. Okay. Good. Thank you. All right. whenever we have kids here, we want to accommodate the best way possible as well as I met with Barb wiser and Jenny Evers from Maps as well and had those same discussions and just got to hear about how.
They Envision growing their organization and what are their next steps and how can we come alongside them in that work? I also had the [00:49:00] opportunity the Rosemont neighborhood association reached out to our school board members asking somebody to come and. Peek inside the opportunity to go and speak to them last week about the bond and local option.
I've been maintaining just weekly meetings with the superintendent and oftentimes if a board member if you raise a question or concern with me, then I utilize that time too. Facilitate communication and find answers out and move things forward. I did attend Wilsonville High School's homecoming. I got to also go snuck in and went to their assembly or pop-up assembly in advance.
And that was actually a lot of fun just to see and I'm always so impressed and I don't know why because at this point in time my expectations should be different of our students, but how when they're funneling in and out of the gym or in between classes. Just how calm and collected and for that volume of students how quiet and orderly those activities are so, you know hats off principles you both in both.
Your school's [00:50:00] do an outstanding job of that and your students. Yeah set the bar High. I had the opportunity to volunteer. There's a sixth grade mixer at Meridian creaks. I just got to be a parent and go set up and organized for its sixth graders to come in and play a bunch of games and do some team building activities.
I did get my Cinderella tickets and I had to ask about Chicago because I definitely want to go see Chicago the high school version as well and. I also had the opportunity to attend the beginning of a wle a meeting as well. And again just share and educate around our bond and local option and I very much enjoyed working alongside my fellow board members in our work around the campaign.
So, thank you each of you. alright doc.