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WLWV Board Room: I'd like to call to order tonight's meeting of the Weslen Wilsonville School District School Board, and with that I'll ask Miss Douglas to call the role.

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WLWV Board Room: Certainly. Director, shoemaker, director, sloop here. Vice Chair Wyatt. Here Director Vidal.

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WLWV Board Room: here. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Going to jump right into our board member reports and our superintendent reports. So director, shoemaker, why don't you get us started?

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WLWV Board Room: I think you'll keep it pretty brief. It being july, August. I had a community member ask me about

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WLWV Board Room: schools and II decided to do some walkabouts. So I was able to walk

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WLWV Board Room: around every primary.

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And and it was, it was interesting to do that. It was interesting to have that experience. It's been a long time since I've been to all of our primary. So we I very much enjoyed that. It's amazing how many of our children are at our primaries

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on playgrounds and adjacent spaces during during the summer. Was and with with Director Vidal I was at the Osba Conference this past weekend.

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WLWV Board Room: Very good stuff. Glad I went, looking forward to November's conference and I'll keep a pinder with that

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WLWV Board Room: director. Sleep.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll yield my time.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. Like Director Shoemaker mentioned. We're at the Oregon School Board Association Conference, where I really learned intensively about my duties as a School Board member, and I was able to meet many school board members throughout Clackamas County in the State of Oregon. So that was that was so nice. Meeting people and making new friends.

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I am really looking forward to attending our back to school resource event this Wednesday. And I'm also looking forward to attending the screening of Forget me not next Wednesday as well.

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WLWV Board Room: Ii got to meet our brand new principal at Lowry, and we're so excited to have Principal Freeman. It was it was really great to see all the parents and families there with a very long line to meet her, so I hope she felt very welcomed. We're so happy to see her there and then I just wanna give a huge shout out

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to our teachers and our families as we all get ready to go back to school at the end of the month.

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WLWV Board Room: and that's it.

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WLWV Board Room: And just as a note Director Taylor, chair, Taylor is out on excused absence. This evening. Which is why I'm running the meeting. And so we hope he's having a nice and enjoyable vacation. My only updates.

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I attended the long range planning committee meeting at the end of last month and have really enjoyed my time as a liaison to that committee. It's just amazing to see the work that we've made on all of bond projects. We've had a chance to tour the new Wilsonville Theater, most of the High School theater. If you haven't had a chance to go and look at that space yet. I mean, it's just phenomenal. And I think one thing that's really exciting about it is

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WLWV Board Room: in addition to just being a wonderfully equipped theater. There's also so many career and technical education opportunities that go along with that space in terms of lighting and set design and costumes. And so just really thinking about the educational opportunities that these major capital projects bring is really exciting. One of the emphasis points from that meeting is that yes, the new Ap Creek

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Middle School, and yes, the new Riverside High School are going to open in their brand new locations. We had heard that there were some rumblings amongst students like, oh, they won't be open in time. And so there was just this reinforcement that yes, these great new schools are, gonna be open and so talk through the information sharing plan. That the team has in place to make sure that all of our kids go into those 2 new facilities. Nowhere to go on the first day. So that was really exciting.

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WLWV Board Room: And then have been doing some retreat, prom planning with Chair Taylor. So the School Board has

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a retreat once a year, and we typically do that in August. So we're planning for our retreat later this month

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WLWV Board Room: and looking forward to it being a really great chance for the 5 of us to work together. And we're really gonna focus on creating some board goals. But then also really defining some of the work session topics that we'll explore in this next year, and then also just areas where each of us individually would like to meet with the superintendent for fireside chats and to continue to grow our own knowledge. And so

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WLWV Board Room: Looking forward to that, and I'm I'm sure that by our next meeting we'll all have a report out on how that retreat went. So huge thanks in advance to our staff to who are helping us put that together. So those are all of my updates.

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WLWV Board Room: Superintendent report. Thank you. Got my Powerpoint queueing up. Thank you, Curtis.

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WLWV Board Room: So usually I have a kind of a slide for the year. This is the one that you'll become familiar with, and I'll talk a little bit about our theme elevate in a little bit.

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WLWV Board Room: Next slide. So just an overview of what's happening in August. Some of you have already mentioned some of those events, we did kick off the month with our district. Wide leadership retreat. So all the leaders in the district, whether they're leading a school or a department.

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We meet together annually. We set the the vision for the year.

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WLWV Board Room: kind of more at a 60,000 foot level. Some of the the large rocks in terms of the work that we want to get accomplished, and we had that retreat to kick off.

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WLWV Board Room: We are in the process this month of having a number of curriculum camps going on. They're actually happening this week. So

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WLWV Board Room: right now, there's a primary literacy curriculum camp going on. I'll talk about that a little bit later, as I give you an update on our K 5 literacy renewal process. But we have 60 teachers staff over at Meridian Creek. Engaged all day, and they will be between now and Thursday. So the fourteenth, 15, and seventeenth in a 4 day. Camp

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WLWV Board Room: we have a middle school. Collaborative curriculum planning camp going on. It's gonna start tomorrow. August fifteenth and sixteenth at Rose want Ridge Middle school. This is Co. Planned with staff.

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WLWV Board Room: and it's for our middle school staff to come together and work on

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WLWV Board Room: math curriculum. As you know, we've adopted amplify math curriculum. So they're going to get some work with that as well as universal design for learning.

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WLWV Board Room: Again, these are optional camps for teachers, because they're not required to come in the summer, but when they do we? We provide these opportunities for them to start the year with some of this work under their belt.

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WLWV Board Room: We also have a high School collaborative curriculum planning camp going on. It's gonna start also tomorrow, the fifteenth and the Sixteenth called it Westland high school, and they're going to. As you know, they're moving into a new high school schedule.

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WLWV Board Room: And so this is a chance for them to think about those types of instructional practices that really maximize student engagement with this new high school schedule. So I wanna thank in particular, our teaching learning department.

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WLWV Board Room: a number of them who are here. Dr. Barb Soissen, Dr. David Pryor, Dr. Jennifer Spencer, Iams, and Dr. Lauren freaks bee as they put they give their input, into these curriculum camps and support. Our staff who are engaged in those

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WLWV Board Room: we have a number of department kickoffs that happen in August. Whether it's operations. Their 2 day orientation and training. That was last week. Nutrition services will have theirs coming up

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WLWV Board Room: this week is also administrative assistance are having theirs. Which is co-facilitated by Curtis, Nelson and ms. Kelly Douglas.

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WLWV Board Room: we have a new teacher. Orientation for those who nearly hired. We have new student services. Does a number of events for new teachers with special education as well as a student services kick off

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WLWV Board Room: you mentioned the Family Empowerment Center

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal. So that's happening this week as well. So August becomes kind of this busy getting everybody ready for school to start in terms of orientation trainings, workshops,

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WLWV Board Room: and kickoffs, and then, of course, you have the flyer about our free event for our community. So anybody watching, if you haven't heard about it yet look it up on the website, or contact, Andrew Killstrom.

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WLWV Board Room: This is a free event for the community. A showing of the documentary. Forget me not about it, family and their story with inclusion.

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WLWV Board Room: and the baroniers, who are the filmmakers as well as the parents, are going to be with us that evening, and we'll be able to be in a panel afterwards with us.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, of course, the following morning, all of the district employees, over 1,000 of us will gather for our welcome back Assembly to kick off the New Year together.

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WLWV Board Room: and school will start

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WLWV Board Room: on August 20 ninth. In all those spaces, current and new. So thank you for mentioning that, and a shout out to

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WLWV Board Room: all the contractors and the staff who are working so hard on those transitions and those moves of furniture and supplies, and getting staff where they need to be, and for school to start.

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WLWV Board Room: if you recall our theme last year was

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WLWV Board Room: belief and belonging. And we worked a lot on that idea of self-efficacy around belief and collective efficacy. And then a sense of belonging for students, staff families.

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WLWV Board Room: This year. Our theme is the word elevate

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WLWV Board Room: because we want to carry over all the good work we did last year, and not forget about the importance of belief and belonging. But this idea of how do we just take it to the next level?

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WLWV Board Room: How do we just raise it up a little more. Bring it to the forefront, and elevate our practice and our work. So

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WLWV Board Room: You got your bracelets that say elevate. We've got some journals. But you'll see us kind of work with this idea of places in our work this year where we can pay close attention. Move the work forward and and elevate outcomes as well as processes that help us to continue to be an exceptional school district, and one that the community deserves

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WLWV Board Room: in in our work with the center for educational leadership out of the University of Washington

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WLWV Board Room: we use this idea of how do we get better. How do we take stock of our current state?

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WLWV Board Room: And then this vision of the ideal state, and what are the actions to get there? So we oh, at our leadership retreat we use that notion of that's the work of elevating is moving from current state to ideal state, and making sure that those actionable steps along the way. Are ones that

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WLWV Board Room: get us the outcomes that we want to see with student achievement as well as instructional practices

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WLWV Board Room: So we focused at our retreat. And this year we'll focus on, you know, there's a lot you could be working on. But we also want to hone in on a few ideas. So we talked about, how do we elevate

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WLWV Board Room: the student experience? In the classroom? Their access to learning, their sense of belonging, and also their connection to the learning. Is it meaningful engagement? So those are some areas that we'll focus on in terms of elevating the student experience this year.

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WLWV Board Room: And then how do we elevate the way we work together as teams? We know there's a lot of research around effective teaming. And what that does to impact student learning outcomes. So how do we take that? Also to the next level lot of opportunity? To think about that and to put some practices in place to build upon the good work that we're already doing, and just take it to the next level.

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WLWV Board Room: and then for our own professional growth as leaders. How do we continue to elevate our thinking so that we're constantly researching and reading and growing and thinking about ways that we can affect change as leaders.

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WLWV Board Room: So you saw kind of the the district logo of that half window? That is iconic to our district. It actually coincides with John hatties, dials or barometers of all the Meta research that he's done in his books, visible learning

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WLWV Board Room: around what practices do impact student outcomes. What are those ones that are high leverage? And what are those ones that? Yes, we can do them in the classroom, but unless they're in combination with a number of other things. They're not as

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WLWV Board Room: productive. And so his synthesis of 800 meta analysis. And actually, he's done an update with about 1,200 Meta analyses. Now, talks about moving the dial, so to speak. So that you get that effect size or that impact. That's in the zone of desired effects.

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WLWV Board Room: So our staff's gonna come back as we think about elevating our practice.

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WLWV Board Room: Not that we want to do more or in terms of running people ragged like. Oh, great! I spent a lot of time working on this. Now I have to do more to elevate. But how do we do it? Smarter? How do we look at things creatively, or maybe more judiciously, or with some precision? So it's not necessarily adding more to people's plates, but thinking about what's on the plate.

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WLWV Board Room: What's high leverage? What should we do? More of and less of in terms of really being strategic with our instructional practices and those things that make an impact. And you can see, here's an example of one of hatties dials that of all the studies on teacher, student relationship.

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WLWV Board Room: it has a very strong effect, size of point 7 2. So it's definitely in that zone of desired effects which we all know when teachers and students connect, and students feel a sense of

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WLWV Board Room: belonging with their teacher and and respect, and that their teacher believes in them, it impacts their learning.

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WLWV Board Room: Next, here's another example of a dial, and this one is so off the charts you can't almost see it. But this is about collective teacher efficacy which fueled a lot of our work last year around belief.

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WLWV Board Room: When teachers get together and they believe they can make a change, and they put some actions together and they work on them. That's one of the the strongest correlations to seeing growth in student learning outcomes. It's definitely within that zone of desired effects. And then just one more example.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Curtis. The next one.

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WLWV Board Room: So here's another one that we know makes a difference for students is when they get effective feedback. It's actually good for adults, too, when we know how we're doing and specific. And it's connected to the learning. That helps that helps us. And so using Hades dials coming back to some of these this year is a way that we could really think about elevating the work. So

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WLWV Board Room: it was kind of interesting that our logo kind of matches, hatties, dial and gets us thinking about places that we can move the work.

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WLWV Board Room: These are a couple of text that we're going to be diving into as leaders, and you have copies of nuance, and we'll make sure you get copies of the 10 mindframes of leaders. This is also based on Hattie's work, the the 10 Mindframes one is on, on the right. The left is written by Michael Fullen, but when we think about elevating our leadership, thinking, and you can.

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WLWV Board Room: we'll talk about this at the Retreat as well at the Board Retreat. It's really about, how do effective leaders not just create a checklist of the things to do that year, but actually lead with some real thoughtful

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WLWV Board Room: thoughtfulness in mind and purpose, in in a way that sees the nuance of the work. And I think the next quote kind of helps with describe that a little bit courtesy. Nuance leaders see below the surface detect some patterns. They connect to people. They. They see themselves as as teachers. Not just leaders. But I've got

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WLWV Board Room: some communication here, and an opportunity to teach. They have an instinct for orchestration, humble in the face of challenges, determined, proud to celebrate success, and courageously, relentlessly committed to changing the system for the betterment of humanity.

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WLWV Board Room: So pushing ourselves as well as leaders of the organization around, how do we see the nuance in the work and not just the surface structure of it go deep, do a deeper dive, elevate our own practice? Continue learning as professionals.

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WLWV Board Room: and finding ways to do to do better for for humanity and for our school district.

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WLWV Board Room: Moving along. I've committed to giving you updates on our K 5 literacy renewal process. Again, this is just as a reminder folks may be watching for the first time, but also to you as a board. This is kind of that big picture timeline of those series of years of where we are in the process.

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WLWV Board Room: And you, I know you have copies of this. So, moving along.

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WLWV Board Room: If we do a deeper dive into this year, Curtis, if you can show them. There we go. These were some of the activities that you saw occurring with that renewal process, as we

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WLWV Board Room: did some pre-learning together, and then we sent some folks in the summer to some trainings. and the next slide shows kind of where we are now in the process. Here we are.

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WLWV Board Room: and there's little typo that should say August fourteenth through 17. So the fifteenth. So this is a 4 day workshop. So this is where we are now, as I mentioned, we have about 60 of our teachers at this workshop. Currently you could see a little picture there. I slid into the corner of some very

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WLWV Board Room: listening and learning going on for all day workshops and those who cannot attend this week will have the opportunity to attend in the fall. So this is required for all teachers in the district, and with an opportunity or option for grades? 3. Through 5 teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: So what are they learning during these 4 days in the next slide?

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WLWV Board Room: So during the 4 days, the teachers are learning the teachers and learning specialists. And we also have our language specialists there. They're reviewing and practicing key instructional strategies for teaching reading. We're using the Oregon literacy framework as one of our guides

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WLWV Board Room: centering also on the pillars of reading

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WLWV Board Room: from the National Reading Council, and then as I mentioned again, the organs, organs, early literacy framework which just came out before school ended. So giving a chance for folks to kind of dive into that and unpack it.

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WLWV Board Room: And this summer those who were able to sign up. We did have representation from all of our 9 schools. So we will have teachers who will have this training, this workshop under their belt, going into the year at least from all 9 schools while we wait for the others to join.

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WLWV Board Room: So you can see some of the things they're gonna study together and practice around explicit instruction and systematic instruction. the ways that we use language and students use language. Lots of opportunities to practice bill fluency and review

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WLWV Board Room: adequate time, exposure and practice of decodable text. These are all things that we're gonna review in terms of how to teach reading

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WLWV Board Room: and as well as our reading workshop model. how to plan for all these things within that model.

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WLWV Board Room: we know it's also important to talk about differences for readers, and and maybe what are stuck points for some readers. So there is specific attention. This summer in that 4 day workshop for our teachers to learn more about dyslexia.

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WLWV Board Room: who are identified with dyslexia and the importance of differentiating instruction for them, based on what they need.

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WLWV Board Room: watching closely to see how, how they respond, because not all students, even not all students who are identified with dyslexia display reading challenges in the same way. So not a monolith group. We want to make sure that we're really knowing each student really well.

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WLWV Board Room: and watching their responses in progress.

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WLWV Board Room: So they did a lot of that work this afternoon, unpacking that framework. What I show on the last slide as well as dipping into. If you can go. Not yet, Curtis back.

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WLWV Board Room: and then in the afternoon I was able to go for the afternoon session today, and they got into some work with some lesson plans and some sessions to kind of practice some of those elements, and to see how the curriculum support some of that work.

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WLWV Board Room: and they'll they'll keep working for the next 3 days. Thank you. Now, Curtis.

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WLWV Board Room: and then, lastly, I shared this also with you last month, and we did have been getting some messages out to the community. It's not unusual in the summer for us to just review where we are with bus routes.

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WLWV Board Room: Students graduate families move in. People move to different homes. So we're constantly looking at what are the needs with busing and the stops and getting those routes out to folks? But over the last years. It's become more challenging. For the situations mentioned above. And it's not unique to us. This is actually happening across the State and across the nation

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WLWV Board Room: as there are shortages with bus drivers and gas prices. And then just changes for school districts. We're really having to do a little more each summer in terms of evaluate where we are and making sure that we can

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WLWV Board Room: service kids to get to school, and back home as well as we know we're a community that relies very heavily on a lot of it looks forward to a lot of co-curricular events and activities that also take bus drivers and buses and a lot of expectations to keep all those activities up and running.

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WLWV Board Room: So it does require us when we hire folks to really think about not just

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WLWV Board Room: not uncommon. It's going to happen. But how do we try and mitigate a lot of the factors that make that

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WLWV Board Room: more frequent than less frequent, and so doing, a really deep review this summer. We're hoping to come out of it.

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WLWV Board Room: In the bottom. You can see that our review and our adjustments will get us to a more sustainable way to operate our bus service. Keep our drivers

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WLWV Board Room: cause they're so good, and when we invest a lot in training them we want them to stay

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WLWV Board Room: to make sure our bus routes are as efficient and timely as possible, and stick to those pickup drop off times that we know parents need, and that punctuality. And so

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WLWV Board Room: we're getting some of those messages out. We know it might mean a change for some folks if we consolidated a stop

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WLWV Board Room: You know, parents could certainly reach out if they have questions, and those routes my understanding will get posted this week. So

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WLWV Board Room: I move to approve the consent. Agenda. I second that motion seconded. Miss Douglas, please call the roll, please call the vote director, shoemaker. Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: director, sloop. I vice chair. Why. directly, though. Yes, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: It is time for public comment, and as a reminder, our first opportunity for public comment is related to items that are on our agenda this evening. I think that the folks who have signed up to talk have been to our meetings before, and they understand

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WLWV Board Room: complaint. There is a process that you can follow and available on our website. And again, this is a time for addressing the board and not the audience, and so we want to make sure that this is a productive and helpful time. And so we don't. We don't have. We don't do cheers or claps or negative noises, or booing because again, this is a time for us to have productive conversation with the community.

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WLWV Board Room: We do set aside 45 min for public comment. But this evening we only have 2 people signed up. So we will get started. And as a reminder, you have 3 min and there is a timer up on the screen. To help you manage your time. So first up we have Julie Fraser.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, directors of the board.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm Julie Fraser. I live in Weslin, and I wasn't going to speak this evening, but I saw the naming of the new Adult Transition Services Center was on the agenda this evening, and I wanted to share some thoughts.

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WLWV Board Room: In the in

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WLWV Board Room: We all watch a lot of movies back then. And this. This was when I became a Gd. Human fan.

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WLWV Board Room: Judy Human's first spot for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1,973, she famously was a member of the 504 sit-in at the Federal Buildings in San Francisco, in 1,977,

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WLWV Board Room: from the section 5, 0 4 accommodations. Adults benefit from accommodations in the workplace. and students and adults benefit from transition services to help them move to life after K. 12. Education

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WLWV Board Room: Actually, I cannot find a correct word for the smile that it puts on my face. On Wednesday my son will travel to his university on the other side of the nation.

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WLWV Board Room: The most coveted items on his 504 were extra time and audio for long passages, books, and directions. transition services for him would have been extremely beneficial.

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WLWV Board Room: and we didn't have any blueprint or guide map to follow. As I've said numerous times. It's a lonely road these have been.

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WLWV Board Room: I have handed you a packet from the youth transition services that they provide, and I hope that the new human center can be inclusive of students with 5 or 4 plans, and give assistance to navigating the many documents and meetings required to gain accommodations in college and the workforce. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: This ballot measure does not need to occur till 2024, which is in the data here here. and I think that's what it should occurs. Wait till 2024. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And that concludes public comment. This evening we have 4 items for board business. First up is an update from the business office. And I'll turn it over to Dr. Hughes.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, everyone. It's so nice to see you today. So. And I have a financial report, please. So in front of us here. With the next slide you will see the financial report for the general fund as of July 30 first.

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WLWV Board Room: And director. Why don't thank you for pointing that out. I think some folks may be watching at home or in the audience may forget that, unlike, maybe a personal budget or your own

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WLWV Board Room: or send updates to school districts, and one of them was just mentioned this evening when they decided to allocate more funding.

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WLWV Board Room: a description of current state of emerging bilinguals. We choose to also just do a little bit of contrast with how we're doing in our own school district and specifically progress with assessments, attendance, graduation, and just looking at that, we are funding our English learner programs. We have just completed an audit this spring.

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WLWV Board Room: accessing the services at the adult transition service program. So you have the memo in front of you. You have a little background on Judy. Human, you you have in front of you that

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WLWV Board Room: the Board has named other facilities, not just for geographical locations, like. you know, Rosemont Ridge or streets, but also for for people. There are times when we make that exception, and you have those examples in front of you.

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WLWV Board Room: And so our staff would like to submit to the board a request that we name this facility, which we will do the ribbon cutting ceremony? As soon as we can the human center.

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WLWV Board Room: is there a second? I'll second great. So it's been moved and seconded.

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WLWV Board Room: Make a quick couple of comments. II would say generally I am not in favor of naming buildings after people as as a practice. I don't think that's a great practice. Not only can that be fraught.

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WLWV Board Room: I think this is a a worthy choice, but also, II hope, in our thinking about how  we can live this the way we intend to that we that we are able to keep that connection because so often a student

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WLWV Board Room: goes to a school. I went to a middle school named after a person have no idea who that person was never did, and I wouldn't II don't want that for our students. I'd like I'd like all of our students to know that. So that said, I will absolutely vote yes for this

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WLWV Board Room:  alright seeing no other discussion, i'll, just make a quick comment, that for anyone watching the agenda packet. The memo is very well done, and explaining why.

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WLWV Board Room: This is such a worthy and worthwhile naming opportunity. So I encourage you to read the agenda packet. And I just wanna read this one section and it says the values and goals of Wesley Wilsonville School district align with those of Miss Human, that is, for all of our students to be treated fairly and without discrimination, for full inclusion in our schools and classrooms, and that every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

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WLWV Board Room: So I think that that's just a perfect summation of why, I will also be supporting this motion. And so I think at this point, if you wouldn't mind calling to vote

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WLWV Board Room: director, shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi Sher Wyatt. Bye.

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WLWV Board Room: directive, Vidal. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: We're really excited. This allows us to move forward with some of our plans. That will. Now we can. Make some of those final accommodations. I also want to just assure you that

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WLWV Board Room: They had to trust us that we were gonna uphold to those values, that this wasn't gonna be a whim or a trend, but that this was going to be long and enduring commitment.

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WLWV Board Room: and when they did their research on who we were, and we had to go through a vetting process with several of the staff and the committee, and running it by the family. There was a long, deep consideration of our district's wordiness to this family name, and when they called with the news, part of it was just we now know about you. We now know your work. We vetted you, and we we believe

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WLWV Board Room: And so they were really honored to give their name to this. So I think now it's incumbent on us to live into that.

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WLWV Board Room: And our last business item of the evening is from the Communications Department, and we'll welcome Andrew Kilstrom to give a staff report

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WLWV Board Room: good evening board. So before you, you have a second reading of our local option levy

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WLWV Board Room: As we discussed in our July meeting. The levy is a true renewal, so it would renew the existing tax rate not to exceed a dollar 50 per $1,000 of assessed property value and

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WLWV Board Room: in practice, that's actually closer to a dollar 35 in in past years, and even lower that than that in the past couple.

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WLWV Board Room: The local option levy. We're very fortunate western Wallsville to have had it in place since 2,000. And it does currently fund approximately 90 teachers across.

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WLWV Board Room: We are recommending and requesting board action tonight. We do have an August eighteenth deadline if the Board would like to proceed.

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WLWV Board Room: We did query, surrounding districts. And there was a question last meeting about how does this rate compare to other districts in the area? And it does fall between a dollar and and $2 per 1,000 assessed value. Some examples nearby Beaverton. Is that a dollar? 25

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WLWV Board Room: Sherwood and Eugene. School districts are both at a dollar 50 the same right rate that we are requesting here.

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WLWV Board Room: Like us, we go. School district is at a dollar 64, and Portland public is a dollar 99 I think the highest in the State.

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WLWV Board Room: So, bypassing a resolution tonight, the School Board would be authorizing the school district to file the ballot measure with the Clackams County Elections office

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WLWV Board Room: Great. And II believe, for for this type of resolution there is some specific wording in terms of making the motion. Is that correct? And so, if you all wouldn't mind referencing the agenda packet, and I will open this up for a motion.

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WLWV Board Room: I move the Board approve. Resolution 2023. Dash 2. Calling a measure, election to submit to the electors of the district. The question of authorizing the renewal of a 5 year local option tax at the rate of a dollar 50 per $1,000 of assessed evaluation to finance district operations.

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WLWV Board Room: has achieved the excellence that it has is because of our staff and our class sizes, and our student teacher ratios. And to me no new taxes and keeping 90 teachers. Is the definition of a no brainer. And so when we think about losing 45 primary school, primary level

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WLWV Board Room: enthusiastically help campaign and the communities to get approval. Because I think it's what we've come to expect from our school district, and so we'll be supporting this motion this evening.

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WLWV Board Room: I wanna thank the team here at the school district office for all their work. On preparing this for us and providing us with the background information we need to support this as well this evening. I believe that our rate is in accordance with the rest of the rates in in our metropolitan area, and that

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WLWV Board Room: and by voting on it in November if it does not pass, it would allow the district time to make adjustments. Accordingly, whether it's budget

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WLWV Board Room: or working with a union to eliminate some of those positions rather than waiting until closer to when it expires in

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Director Sloop, for for pointing that out, because for me, the question isn't, do I favor a local option, levy? The question is the timing of this right, is it? Do we? Do we need to do this now? Should we do this now? Does that make sense? Do you want to add any more of of your I know you mentioned at the last Board meeting, and you and we've got some things in front here. Would you wanna mention a little bit about that timing.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, we are on the earlier end. And intentionally doing so, knowing that there is some some planning we could do in the event that

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WLWV Board Room: a measure did not pass. It would also provide additional opportunities to propose a similar same same same measure in in future elections leading up to June thirtieth, 2,025.

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WLWV Board Room: So there's kind of 2 prongs to that. This isn't the only time the district has gone out this early. They did. We did do that in 2,014, I believe so. It's not

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WLWV Board Room: entirely uncommon to go out 2 years early. But given the November election with Presidential primaries, knowing that there will be a big voter turnout. We think it makes sense

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WLWV Board Room: seeing no additional comments or questions. Please call the role

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WLWV Board Room: director, shoemaker, director, sloop, I vice chair. Wyatt, I direct to Vidal. Yes, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: That concludes our board business item of the agenda. Next up we do have another public comment period. This is for items that are not on the agenda this evening, but we welcome the chance to hear from the families here in our school district, and so these are people who live in the district, and we currently have 3 people signed up. And first up is Leslie Jensen.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. My name is Leslie Jensen, and I'm a resident of Wilsonville, and I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: A few months ago I spoke about House Bill 31, 98. The bill concentrated on how to help turn around the early literacy crisis facing Oregon. This past June House Bill 31, 98, passed all Government hurdles and was signed into law, which is great news.

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WLWV Board Room: The Els Grant is giving districts the support to have early grade teachers lease at first further training and research, aligned strategies, and the critical foundational skills

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WLWV Board Room: in literacy. These strategies, strategies and practices will create learning environments that provide all students the best chance to succeed in learning how to read and write. There are many exceptional training opportunities listed on the ode website that would be hugely impactful to our teachers and administrators. And the why and how around these topics

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WLWV Board Room: I'd like to share with a quote from the Orton Gillingham Institute of Multi-sensory Education Manual that a cadre of Wesley Wilsonville teachers and administrators received when they attended the week long learning session. This past June

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WLWV Board Room: teachers are the direct links between literacy and children. The responsibility is one of the greatest in any profession teacher, knowledge is invaluable.

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WLWV Board Room: if a child in the early grades, even late kindergarten, or first grade, regardless of his or her background, is not responding to quality, direct instruction in learning the phonetic rules and word attack strategies, then appropriate intensive support needs to be given so that the child does not fall behind creating further academic and emotional issues.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, I'm Andrew Clark. I'm a resident of Wes Lenn and so I'm here today to talk about our families. Experience with inclusion in the school district. So last week I was excited to see an email from the school district, noting that they were hosting a free showing of the movie. Forget me, not right. This is a movie about a family struggle getting their kid accepted, getting their kid included in the classroom and bringing them forward.

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WLWV Board Room:  but this isn't sustainable for them. We see them at the end of the school year they are burnt out.

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WLWV Board Room: those they would be out of business. We we would. There'd be a minimal amount of kids lining up to get these services. We personally seen the power of these services, our daughter's growth grown exponentially over the last year. One year of doing it, and she's close to reading a grade level again.

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WLWV Board Room: You know, in the June School Board Meeting meeting. Dr. Ludwig mentioned that Wessel Wilsonville is one of the few districts practicing a full inclusion model, and commented about the notion of belief and belonging? And how do we ensure that our students, staff, and families, feel that sense of welcoming?

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for letting me come up. I wanted to take a moment, and first thank you, Kathy or Dr. Ludwig, for mentioning dyslexic today. I felt like I had a moment of exhale after the last year, and I appreciate for once, I'm like, Wow! Are we moving together? Are we actually? Have we been heard? Are we going to the next phase of this and I just wanna take a moment to talk about elevate and what that means to me.

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WLWV Board Room: We know our kids best. We see the challenges. I think that we have the right to have a voice in the system

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WLWV Board Room: we can help.

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WLWV Board Room: We know what works. We know it doesn't work. We we monitor every day in our household. We want to be a part of it. We want a voice in the process of the this this district. We don't.

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WLWV Board Room: We deserve to be a part of it. And we don't have that in this community.

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WLWV Board Room: It's a big piece that's missing. These kids deserve it. And I know that you want parents voices. So let's go ahead and make it a formal process where parents can be more involved in a way that maybe we can have better results.

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WLWV Board Room: The other thing I also want to ask is that you put in a formal committee for interventions.

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WLWV Board Room: We are looking at the Ela curriculum. However. they say that we are going to be looking into the intervention system as well. We need to adopt

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WLWV Board Room: intervention systems. These should be talked about and looked at. It is a part of the curriculum. We have our tier, one and tier, 2 curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: and then we also need to look at the other side. Every kid in every school. from every classroom. Any learning specialists should have the right

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WLWV Board Room: to the same access to evidence-based

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WLWV Board Room: intervention that works.

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WLWV Board Room: It shouldn't be that hard. This is also going to give you the crossover. If everybody is on the same language, just like the science of reading language. If everybody's on the same language

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WLWV Board Room: we can ensure outcomes. If a teacher's gone, they know exactly where they are.

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WLWV Board Room: It's

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WLWV Board Room: it's not rocket science. We can do this. Let's look into it. Please set up an advisory committee. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright. And that concludes all of our public comments. Just a quick reminder.

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WLWV Board Room: the board has. We have our retreat next week on the twenty-twond the first day of school is on the 20, ninth, and I know that will be exciting for all of us parents and staff and teachers. And then our next regular meeting is on September eleventh at 60'clock and September. We also have a work session. So with those updates. I will adjourn tonight's meeting. Thanks. Everyone for coming.