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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. I am going to call this meeting to order for tonight's Wesley and Wilsonville

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WLWV Board Room: School Board meeting, and I'm going to turn it over for

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WLWV Board Room: to Mrs. Douglas for the roll call, please.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Director, shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: director, sloop your chair, Taylor. Vice chair, Wyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: Here, Director Vidal here. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. So we're gonna kick it off this evening with our high school representatives. And we have one individual who has been stuck in traffic. So

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we're gonna give her some time to get here. So we normally would start with Riverside High School. But instead, we're gonna move on to

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WLWV Board Room: Westland High School, and we will have Beatrice coming forward to speak with us. How are you? Good?

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WLWV Board Room: Hello! Everyone nice to see you again. My name is Beatrice Gilroy, and I'm the Asp president at Westland High School this year. Since I saw you all last in September. We've had a lot of fun events at Wesley. First off we had our club fair. So a great thing about having life classes. Asb is able to host a lot of our events during this time, and not have to take away from the traditional academic learning time. So we had our life. We had our class

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fair in the main gym during life class. In the middle of September we had around 60 clubs in attendance, so lots of different options for students at Wesley, and each club really made it their own, as you can see on the screen. They brought candy lots of different decorations. Our robotics team even brought their robot and had it shooting baskets the entire time. So it was really great, for our students see it that one on one time with that club

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WLWV Board Room: leadership and join some clubs while they're at it. And then the second event we had was our ninth grade scavenger hunt. So a big goal for asp this year is we're trying to have an event that's specific to each grade level. We sometimes find that we're leaving out certain grades with a lot of senior oriented events, or a lot of school wide events, but they don't always get that one on one time with their their friends in their grade. So ninth graders could

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WLWV Board Room: come before our wear white football game, and they could come either as individuals or as a team, and we had them race all around campus. Our winning team is featured on the slide. They got Dutch rose gift cards, and they were very happy about that and then we also had pizza and soda at the end. So it's a great chance for ninth graders to spend that time with each other.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, as always, spirit at Wesleyan is very high, especially this year. We're continuing with our spirit competition. So this is really a goal with trying to unify the school as a whole. We're all working towards those 20,000 spirit points for surprise event at the end of the year, and then also maintaining that competition aspect throughout the different grade levels so few ways students can earn points is by dressing up on students

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Fridays. You'll see. That was from our white themed day around mid-september. Our staff goes all out for these spirit dress up days, I want to say, around 95% of our staff consistently dress up

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WLWV Board Room: for these spirit days. They're earning those spirit points. And then another big goal has been trying to get students to go to games beyond just football. So we're trying to get students at volleyball soccer, cross country things like that. So they can also earn spirit points by going to those games. We do have some of our students sections featured on the slide as well, and then for our wear white game. We handed out rally towels. That was very popular. And we're gonna reuse those at other games as well.

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And then just 2 other updates about year long things that we have going on at Westland High School. Our live roar broadcasts is very popular. We have that weekly again in life class. So not taking away from that academic time. That's been a good change this year and we share all things. Westland High School from club events, sports. And then just general announcements on this broadcast

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we're able to feature guests, either. By video that they send in or live as you can see, we had 2 guests from our journalism department sharing about how to order your yearbooks. So that's very nice. That's where a lot of students get all their information at Westland High School. And then, lastly, the store. Our student store sales have been way up this year, which is great. We're selling food.

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WLWV Board Room: Celsius. Energy drinks have been very popular. Students love to get that at lunch, and our new merchandise is really helping with those sales as well.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, in the month of October, our upcoming event. That's really been our main focus is homecoming. Our kick off was today. And we've been having all sorts of events like spirit days students got to dress in their pajamas today. So that was fun. And then we'll have our Assembly homecoming court football game a unity event on Friday, and then our dance on Saturday. So at the November School Board meeting, I'll be sure to share how homecoming went.

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WLWV Board Room: So thank you all for your time, and I look forward to seeing you next month.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for that. And my daughter was one of the kids up there in the white. She's a freshman. and then I have one who's a senior. And now this makes all the sense why they're going to so many games. I didn't. I thought they were just motivated.

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WLWV Board Room: It's because they get that spirit reward. So this makes sense. Now, thank you for for putting me up on the T

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WLWV Board Room:  Next, we're gonna bring up Beatrice. Oh, excuse me, we just have Beatrice. We're gonna bring up Trenton Bonfilio from Wilsonville High School. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: Greeting school boards. Members. It is a pleasure to speak to you again. My name is Trenton Bonfilia, one of the Asp presidents here at Wilsonville High School. Last meeting I was able to highlight some of the massive strides we were making to improve campus quality and student experience, and I'm pleased to say that even though it has only been one month since I last saw you guys. We have even more positive improvements to share to the board.

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WLWV Board Room: To begin with, we had our first Pep Assembly. This assembly was unique compared to assemblies we've had in the past, because this assembly was entirely scripted, planned, and ran by asb officers and leadership volunteers. The results spoke for themselves, and according to teachers this has been the best assembly we have had in years. The mass student participation was incredible. We are already planning to replicate this process for our homecoming assembly, which is taking place in just over 2 weeks

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WLWV Board Room: on the subject of homecoming. The construction of homecoming floats is already underway. The outlines for parade floats have already been written by Asb, and we are overseeing the process of assembling these floats.

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WLWV Board Room: each one of the classes has their theme, and they've been hard at work for the past week. Smaller individual pieces will be fully assembled as we move closer towards the homecoming game, and we are excited to see the final results. Homecoming game. The homecoming parade is October thirteenth, and will be departing from the Wilsonville parking lot at 50'clock, and we hope to see everybody there.

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WLWV Board Room: Let's see here.

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WLWV Board Room: We are also proud to share that we are hosting the girls. Gen. Robotics event, this weekend girls, Gen. Is a one day opportunity for students whose gender is underrepresented in stem to gain experience in a wide range of competition goals. This event is hosted by our error code, 0 robotics team, all are invited to stop by and watch the competition this Saturday.

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WLWV Board Room: and when it comes to new things that have been implemented. Our weekly news broadcast is getting a massive upgrade. We have recently cleared out and reassembled our recording studio.

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WLWV Board Room: That we have not been using. The new studio is complete with a green screen lighting Wilsonville color, desk quality microphones, teleprompter, and 4 K. Camera.

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WLWV Board Room: Our weekly announcements are about to receive a monumental improvement in quality compared to the iphone videos we were recording previously given that our videos have already been a hit having a near-professional level studio will take things to the next level.

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WLWV Board Room: Our first video featuring the new space and equipment will be airing this week. During our life. 100 class. You can find our new broadcasts on the Wilsonville Broadcast Network Youtube page and website.

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WLWV Board Room: the Wilsonville community. And I have an undying commitment to making our school a better place. I'm excited to return with even more good news, and I thank you for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. and I believe our next representative is just coming in.

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WLWV Board Room: I know. Take you could take your time.

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WLWV Board Room: So from Riverside High School we have laurel venegas, and take your time. You can gather yourself. So no pressure. Yeah, I just came from practice. I had to do an impromptu change in the car. So thank you to the superintendent and the board for having me

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WLWV Board Room: Riverside throughout the last month, has had a couple very successful school-wide events. In mid-september we had curriculum night, which was very well attended and great for the parents to meet with the high school staff.

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WLWV Board Room: We also had a student Run club fair last week, or maybe the week before that or so many of the clubs established were done by students like the DND club, the Snowboarding Club, the Gsa. Club, and some of our other clubs, like the National Honor Society, and speech and debate, as well as hosts.

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WLWV Board Room: business and marketing will be starting up a club as well. and teachers have been a great support to help start these clubs. So a big thank you to them.

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WLWV Board Room: Theatre preper theatre auditions have also happened, for Riverside's first ever show the Twelfth Night an adoption by William Shakespeare. The cast list was released, and the students are looking forward to their roles. We also have students ready to step in with tech rehearsals began this week, and the Twelfth Night is set to show on December seventh and Eighth, and this is Riverside's first chance to raise money for the drama department

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WLWV Board Room: for Athletics dance team has started their practices. Wrestling and Baskwell have had their open gyms with a great turnout. We've got a lot of engagement for winter sports, and I think more so than the fall sports.

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WLWV Board Room: Last month I was elected as President for Hosa, and that is the health occupation students of America. Hosa is an international student organization, recognized for the Us. Department of education and a Health Science Education Division of Act E. That's being run by Mister Whelan. So big. Thank you. To him

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WLWV Board Room: a Hosta promotes healthcare opportunities in the healthcare industry, and the goal is to enhance healthcare for all people. In the month of October, Riverside's Host a club is focusing on breast cancer awareness, and we plan to take action by wearing pink on national breast cancer awareness day next Friday, on October thirteenth.

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WLWV Board Room: We will also be passing out breast cancer awareness pins to wear for the duration of October. We partnered with leadership to make an announcement, and the morning announcements, as well as put flyers out around the school.

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WLWV Board Room: So good start for Hosa. Leadership has also been doing some of their own work planning spirit Week and Riverside's first ever school Dance spirit week will be October sixteenth. Through the twentieth, with Spirit day themes voted on by the students. The school dance will be on October nineteenth themed the fall festival, and we have a school assembly on the seventeenth. Leadership has done a great job planning and arranging our school, related events. So a big thank you to leadership, and their teacher, Mister Mitchell.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, and our Cte program have also made advancements. Health occupations is bringing in several guest speakers throughout the next month to teach students about what life in the health field is like. Construction is partnering with parts and Rec to get materials like plants and wood, to build bird houses to place around the school campus. We're very excited to see where our cte programs go

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WLWV Board Room: overall. The students have been the base of riverside. And there is so much student led action, whether they are just participating in clubs and the international baccalaureate career and tech programs, or even just in class. So on the behalf of my classmates, thank you to the staff at Riverside you are very appreciated.

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WLWV Board Room: And then more on Ib. And CTE. Last week Riverside had an introduction to our international baccalaureate Ib program. The goal of Ib is to focus on active, compassionate, and lifelong learners who understand that people and their differences can also be right. Riverside staff will start highlighting Ib's goals and nominating student per month who's nominated for a characteristic. They embody

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WLWV Board Room: coming up on October eleventh, on the riverside campus, from 6 to 7 Pm. We have a dedication ceremony for the community to see Riverside high school renovations, the library, the classroom, gyms, etc., are all finished, and we are celebrating its completion. We hope to see you all there, that's all, and thank you for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: This is usually the moment that we allow our student representatives of their high schools the opportunity to get back to their normal lives and and not have to sit around and listen to us adults. And we want to say, Thank you guys for all coming out. And

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WLWV Board Room: one of the things we get to see real time what our students are faced with when they're athletes

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WLWV Board Room: like like laurel when they're in leadership, and they're juggling all these different things and having to prepare for a School School Board meeting. And I think that

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WLWV Board Room: it's interesting because I was a student athlete in college, and I remember just trying to barely get to something, so I wasn't late, so I made me think about myself running through that door late. So anyway, I it that was fun to see so I will give you guys an opportunity to exit if you like. You're more than welcome to stay, of course.

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WLWV Board Room: but I'll give you a few minutes, and thank you for having the courage to stand and

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WLWV Board Room: Alright. Well, that will take us into

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WLWV Board Room: recognitions.  and we're going to start off with recognition of our capital construction bond program and, Dr. Ludwood, I'm going to pass it over to you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. We have

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WLWV Board Room: 2 very important recognitions this evening. I get the opportunity to talk about the first one before I pass it off to our board colleagues to talk about the second one.

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WLWV Board Room: This is Remo Douglas, who most of you are very familiar with at this time, and we thought it was important that even though the bond is not fully complete, there are still projects that we pause and celebrate

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WLWV Board Room: just the momentous work that went into some significant openings. This fall in the district that are connected to the Bond and Remo is our bond project manager, bond program manager.

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WLWV Board Room: He's been with the district about 14 years, now came in as a project manager with several projects, soon became senior project manager.

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WLWV Board Room: and a few years ago promoted to our capital construction program manager or bond program manager.

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WLWV Board Room: Remo has a Bachelors of Science from Oregon State University

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WLWV Board Room: in construction engineering management. He's also a licensed Ccm.

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WLWV Board Room: Which means a certified construction manager. So a person with an enormous amount of skill, experience, and is leading overseeing one of our largest capital bonds in the history of this district at 206.8 million dollars, with 7 major projects.

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WLWV Board Room: Few of them that are completed, others that are in that Punch list kind of category that you'll hear about, and and then a few still underway.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the things I appreciate about Remo among many things is his ability to lead in both a macro sense as well as a micro sense. So you can get the big picture very easily.

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WLWV Board Room: Around what it means to oversee and put a timeline together for a series of projects, working with city planners, working with codes, working with hundreds and hundreds of staff and subcontractors, and he can pause in the middle of all that

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WLWV Board Room: and meet someone at their dining room table to talk about what kind of tree they'd like to see outside their window because of a project that we have going on, and our commitment to be good neighbors in this community.

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WLWV Board Room: and they'll take the time for those individual connections.

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WLWV Board Room: as well as be able to scan back and just

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WLWV Board Room: So we are incredibly appreciative that various project managers and our contractors were able to get

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WLWV Board Room: we've just heard from Riverside. They were able to open their doors, and

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WLWV Board Room: in this time, when we know there's labor shortages. there are construction delays happening everywhere material delivery delays

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WLWV Board Room: other districts that we know we're putting some things off, and the fact that we could keep on schedule and open

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WLWV Board Room: Athy Creek Middle School's new location and Riverside High school is a true Testament to

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WLWV Board Room: but also to Remo, and the integrity in which he works, and those connections

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WLWV Board Room: So we're here to appreciate and recognize your leadership. Primo and I know that behind you, you would say. are dozens of people that you rely on every day in their work. So we're gonna allow you to bring your team up

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WLWV Board Room: each of them, and collectively your team? So that we can recognize their great work. Thank you, Kathy, for the kind words and the opportunity to speak about the bond team.

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WLWV Board Room: what's now Riverside and Stafford, quietly working way down there. There's a whole lot happening. Would ask the team members that are here. If you wouldn't mind standing. I'm just gonna say a few words about each of them. And recognize their work. It's it's unfair for me to accept any accolades associated with this work without speaking to what they do.

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WLWV Board Room: How about you guys? What can you line up right next to remote? Come all the way up so we can. Sure. Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: first. He's unable to be here today, but I always like to make sure to reference our Coo, Pat Mcguff, my boss

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WLWV Board Room: and a tremendous steady, guiding presence for our department as a whole and a tremendous mentor and partners. We've worked through this program over the last few years.

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WLWV Board Room: We have Amy Berger here our capital bond program coordinator. She has also been here with the district for the last 14 years, developing a deep knowledge of the district's design, philosophy and construction management strategies. She's become key to numerous aspects, program leadership, including design, procurement and communications.

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WLWV Board Room: Angela Caffrey, beside me is our senior project manager.

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WLWV Board Room: She is a seasoned veteran in the construction management field. In education she's led the design and construction of our largest project, the new Athe Creek Middle School, which, as we noted, opened successfully.

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WLWV Board Room: She also, at the same time along the way, managed a very complex project in the Westland High School Stadium improvements which we're all benefiting from for the last couple of years. Now.

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WLWV Board Room: Ellen Leventhal second from the right. There

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WLWV Board Room: ellen, is our bond accountant. She quickly came into our department with her in-depth accounting skills, dove right into learning and understanding construction management.

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WLWV Board Room: Her tireless efforts ensure the prompt and accurate payment of all of our vendors every week, and it is exceedingly quick, which is something we pride ourselves on, and something that quietly the industry really appreciates about working for us. She also makes sure that our financial audits and reconciliations are smooth and efficient for everyone involved.

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WLWV Board Room: Our auditors really like us, we give them everything they need really quickly and nothing. They don't want to see

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WLWV Board Room: Brian Hendrix on the end. There is a senior project manager. He's with Turner Townsend, but works in our office. Bryan's management of the stunning Wilsonville High School auditorium has provided countless benefits. He has a background in theatre as a student, a teacher, a lighting control technician and a project manager.

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WLWV Board Room: He also managed early work on what is now Riverside High School for the program.

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WLWV Board Room: Nick Reiner in a white shirt there Nick began with the project with the district a couple of years ago, managing a number of small projects for us and providing project management support on some of the big projects.

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WLWV Board Room: Nick has proven to be a very quick study with a rapidly growing tool set. Most recently Nick was assigned the project management of the construction phase of our new primary school in Wilsonville.

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WLWV Board Room: Not here. But Brooke Bashan was a project manager that worked with our team from Turner and Townsend. She completed the Frog Pond design process and then moved on to work with another firm. But wanna make sure we recognize the excellent work that she did

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WLWV Board Room: and then finally, Adam Neal was a project manager here for the last 3 years, he said. I could share that. He's currently relocating out of town to support some family medical needs but he worked with us over the last 3 years to do a ton of our safety and security upgrades amongst other projects, and most recently completing the last phase of work for Riverside High School.

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WLWV Board Room: And then I think she's hiding towards the back. But Kelly Wheeler, with Turner Townsend is a supervisor with that firm does excellent work supporting us in the program. That's a firm that we work with has a lot of different capabilities, and every once in a while we call up, say, Hey, Kelly.

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WLWV Board Room: we've got this problem. What resources can you all bring to bear, and she helps. Make sure that those things happen for us. So

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WLWV Board Room: very, very proud and appreciative of everyone on this team. Everyone here has given very long days over a period of the last few years to make sure these projects happen for kids.

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WLWV Board Room: There's been a lot of celebration in the last couple of months, as things are wrapping up on some big projects, getting students in seeing staff excited about their spaces, really making them their own. And we're looking forward to continuing the last couple of summers of summer work finishing up the primary school. So again, really appreciate the board. Taking the time to recognize the work that we do.

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WLWV Board Room: It's very appreciated. And it's a good rare chance for these folks to to get a little public recognition for what we do behind the scenes.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Remo, for that. Would any of you like to speak for have any kind words to add. Alright.

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WLWV Board Room: vice chair. I've had the pleasure of being the board liaison to the long range planning committee for the last 2 years, and my term just ended. I'm excited that Dan's taking that on but in that time I had a chance to see this team. Really.

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WLWV Board Room: see them in action. Getting updates on the projects, hearing more about the delays and the staffing issues and the challenges that go into spending down 206 million dollars, and

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WLWV Board Room: it's not lost on us that one of the biggest items that we're entrusted with as a district is when we have a capital bond, and when we have the opportunity to do things like build new schools, open new schools, upgrade our already amazing schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and then, as they get into materials working with publishers.

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WLWV Board Room: and I think they have actually about 11 11 sessions that you're doing. So. There's quite a few. So we just had our first session in September. There'll be a couple more in October.

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WLWV Board Room: We have 63 licensed teachers and specialists on the team. So specialists means whether they work with language learners, El D teachers or special education teachers. We have reading coaches, teacher librarians. So these are folks that are involved with literacy, with students, but may not be a classroom teacher. That's why they're called a specialist. And then also classroom teachers. So it's a large group representing all 9 primary schools.

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WLWV Board Room: each of the participants got. So you can have your own folder and you'll see inside

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WLWV Board Room: a copy of the Powerpoint facilitating through the session that first session a couple of the research articles that they that they had, and the idea of that first session, as you can see, was around building background

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WLWV Board Room: and then also making some decisions about how to get ready for the next session what some of the homework was, and always going back to their buildings to share out with the whole staff. So that's this reciprocal recursive process where they come, do some work, but then go back and share that thinking and work and get input also from their staff back in their buildings

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WLWV Board Room: So in looking at some of that research, what emerged were these key qualities. Of what is it that we're looking for? In reading materials based on the research they were reading?

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WLWV Board Room:  and again, this is some of the lists that came up.

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WLWV Board Room: The text that we put in front of children is incredibly important, that they're high quality.

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WLWV Board Room: So, as I mentioned, there'll be a couple more sessions for them in October, and I'll be able to share in November some of the learning from October, and we'll do our best to keep giving you some of the items that they're working through, and you can keep your folder and

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WLWV Board Room: tuck those things in there, and you'll have those materials available to you as well.

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WLWV Board Room: And then I just think about the opportunities that you have with your school site visits.

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WLWV Board Room: the first 2 weeks of school there's a lot of excitement and newness. And then it starts to get

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WLWV Board Room: hard and you're in it every day, and you're starting to work. Look at the data and work with students, and it gets complex. And while there are many folks on the teachers team to support their own grade, level team or department, their instructional coordinator, they're administrators. Sometimes you just need folks who are specifically focused on our new teachers. So we have experienced mentors at the primary middle and high school level.

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WLWV Board Room: who work regularly with our teachers, who are in their first or second year of teaching.

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WLWV Board Room: So not if not if they're new necessarily to the district, but new to the teaching profession their first or second year. So they're assigned a mentor, and they meet with them regularly, and that doesn't mean that the other folks drop off. This is in addition to

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WLWV Board Room: we also, this year have a experienced administrator mentor for our first year administrators, and we have a number, a couple of new principals who you met and assistant principals. And so we have about 10 mentees

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WLWV Board Room: and an experienced administrator mentor who is meeting with them. It doesn't mean the supports that Dr. Soissin or Dr. Pryor, Dr. Spencer Eames give, you know, drops away. This is in addition to all the other ways that they're supported by their colleagues.

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WLWV Board Room: and then we do have a few folks in their second year as principals who just would like another year with a mentor. So we have a different person. In the queue lined up

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WLWV Board Room: to do that for a few of our administrators who are in their second year, which brings its own, you know, challenges to

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WLWV Board Room: while you're out and about in schools. If you want to ask questions about mentoring when you're in your site, visits as well.

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WLWV Board Room: and at the very end

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WLWV Board Room: So the the state assessment results are out.

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WLWV Board Room: and you probably read some things in the media and the wonder sometimes is, what do we do with that data? Well, this type of data, that summative has its own set of purposes and limitations.

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WLWV Board Room: hear from statisticians and those who put these assessments together is that this kind of data really helps you take a look at your program or some longitudinal trends. And so all of the district and school-wide data for every district and school in Oregon is available on the ode website.

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WLWV Board Room: But we then distribute it to our staff.

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WLWV Board Room: and it's used by our principals and teachers. They get their own school. They have access to a little bit more of the discrete data.

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WLWV Board Room: and it goes to inform their school work plans. So when you're out in schools, you'll hear more about that school's data in the work plans, because that's the context that you'll be in.

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WLWV Board Room: and your principal will share with you

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WLWV Board Room: what was the data the year before last year's data? What they're noticing with it some of their strategies and their goals.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, of course, individual data.

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WLWV Board Room: Because it is confidential to that student, is sent home, you know, securely. So parents will get that data now that it's been officially released.

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WLWV Board Room: So again, as you get ready for your school site visits, there's an opportunity for a lot of things for you to look at and ask questions. And of course your principals will be able to tell you about

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WLWV Board Room: State assessment data along with our own district interim

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WLWV Board Room: assessment map. And if there's any other formative assessments that you're curious about, too.

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WLWV Board Room: and that

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WLWV Board Room: thank you for your patience. See end of my report.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: We will now move into our

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WLWV Board Room: consent, agenda, but I'll give some of the folks a little bit of time there to get out, so that

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WLWV Board Room: Not yet. I just wanted. I think.

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WLWV Board Room: alright. Looks like we've cut the room down a little bit, and now we'll get into the consent, agenda! Do we have a motion

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WLWV Board Room: to approve the consent, agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: I move we approve the consent. Agenda. Thank you. We have a second.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll second

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Mrs. Douglas. Would you please call the vote

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WLWV Board Room: director shoemakers?

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, Director Sleuth, I chair Taylor. Aye, that's chair Wyatt. Director Vidal. Yes, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: everybody's favorite public comments.

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WLWV Board Room: The is there anyone in the room who may have missed the sign up sheet for public comment and wants to have their name added to it before I

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WLWV Board Room:  can we just pop it. So Julie Fraser, who failed to arrive to be recognized because

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WLWV Board Room: because she was with she was at the city doing the same work. Yeah, thank you for that. You missed being called to stand back. Julie, did you? Wanna II saw you raising your hand, did you? Wanna

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WLWV Board Room: okay? Alright, I will add, we'll get you on there.

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WLWV Board Room: We embarrassed other people by having them stand. But you you weren't here.

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WLWV Board Room: and Julie, would you be so kind as to share what topic you'll be talking about.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Just wanted to make sure I got it correct.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, I will go through

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WLWV Board Room: The public speaking or public comments. Excuse me, etiquette. Most of you have been here, and I see a lot of familiar faces, and you're pretty familiar with the etiquette, so I won't

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WLWV Board Room: go through everything, but it's a time for us to listen and not respond

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WLWV Board Room: to our speakers. We ask that you are cordial.

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WLWV Board Room: We ask that you refrain from clapping and bowing, and all of the other exciting things that can come about.

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WLWV Board Room: Please keep your comments to 3 min. and

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WLWV Board Room: I will say we we usually reserve about 45 min for this time. There have been times where we've gone over many times we go. We stay under, so if there.

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WLWV Board Room: if we get to a point where we've gone at that 45 min, Max. Then, as a board, we will collectively have a discussion, and if we want to extend it, then we will, and if we don't, then we won't. So

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WLWV Board Room: we. We have a couple of different

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WLWV Board Room: processes with this. Now. The first is that the first session is anything that any topic that is part of the board business. We allow

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WLWV Board Room: those community members to speak about board business topics. Then we move into a later

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WLWV Board Room: public comment from community members that are speaking on topics that are not a part of board business, and then we open it up for non-community members who are talking

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WLWV Board Room: about topics that are not part of board business. and that's when they will get their opportunity to speak. So for the first session. We only have one

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WLWV Board Room: speaker who would like to speak on board business topics, and that topic is the topic of division 22, and that is becca puskas. Would you please come forward?

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WLWV Board Room: First of all. Thank you so much. Everyone in the room and all the board members and everyone supporting dyslexia awareness month. It certainly means a lot to my family, and you know, to a lot of people in the community.

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WLWV Board Room: I wanna talk about the division. 22. Compliance agenda. Item. what is Division 22. I just want to read a little snippet from the Oregon Department of Education website.

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WLWV Board Room: the division. 22 rules are the educational standards that the Oregon Legislature or the State Board has determined must be met in order to be a standard school district. Compliance with the division 22 standards ensures. Every student in Oregon public schools is provided with a baseline level of service.

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WLWV Board Room: So these standards are important.

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WLWV Board Room: The State, to my surprise, doesn't collect any independent information. On compliance with these standards, they rely on the districts to self certify. So this agenda item, that you have before you tonight. It's really important, because it's the district's representation to the community, to the School Board and to the State about compliance.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the ways that the school districts ensure baseline level of service is by adopting core curriculum that has been through a formal school board. Approved adoption process.

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WLWV Board Room: We all know from the public discussion at the March 2023 Board meeting, that our district has not always followed the required process when it comes to adopting reading curriculum. So I was trying to figure out why the division 22 assurances memo doesn't address this, and I've only seen the one posted on the website. So I hope it's addressed further in the discussion tonight, and I hope you'll ask questions.

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WLWV Board Room: The only reason I can think of that it might not address. This is, if you think of it like this.

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WLWV Board Room: When there was new curriculum approved by the State a couple of years ago, there were 3 options, adopt curriculum off the Ode list independently, adopt curriculum with School Board approval, or postponed for up to 2 years

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WLWV Board Room: since the School Board approved a postponement. We're all good. We're in compliance.

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WLWV Board Room: and but that is not what how I see it.

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WLWV Board Room: And this is why I think it's not right. Division 22 standards don't just apply some of the time they apply all of the time they are about a baseline level of service

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WLWV Board Room: for all of our kids. Our school district is still using reading curriculum, the Lucy cockins, units of study and the fountains and Pinell phonics program that has never been on the Ode list and has never been through a required adoption process.

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I thought we were past this issue, and I really wasn't planning on being up here tonight. But I really just want to see the district acknowledge this in the discussion and on the form that we send to the State.

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WLWV Board Room: I do think the district has a good plan to move forward to correct the situation. The School Board approved a postponement. The district has assembled a curriculum committee involving teachers, as you've just heard about. It's clear the intent to involve the community and seek board approval. We are headed in the right direction.

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WLWV Board Room: but we are not there yet.

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WLWV Board Room: If you look at the compliance assurance rule that I handed out under Number 3. It says districts must report compliance with the preceding school year. That's what this reporting is about.

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WLWV Board Room: So I just really encourage you to ask questions. Make sure you know what the district is certifying and make sure that it's accurate. And I just want to say the last handout I passed out, I think, is the correct form that needs to be submitted, and it has a calling, compliance status and also on the evidence to support compliance. And I don't think that's what we see on the website.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright.

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WLWV Board Room: That is our only community member for board business topic.

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WLWV Board Room:  this will take us

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WLWV Board Room: into board business. And I think we're gonna start with department of teaching and learning. And Dr. Swayson, I'm gonna turn it over to you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Slides, please.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, this is the annual division. 22 standards assurance report, and we always make that report for the previous school year. So when the

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WLWV Board Room: the form is submitted, it's talking about what was done in the 2223 school year

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WLWV Board Room: So yes, these are the overarching standards for elementary and secondary education. Everything that comes from ode in the State of Oregon is 5, 81, and the part of this is 22. Hence the name division 22,

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WLWV Board Room: It's. It's a compliance piece that says that we have met all of these standards. Many of them

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WLWV Board Room: talk about having plans and processes in place, although not all of them. And what's really important to know about them is they're considered the floor, not the ceiling. This is baseline things to have in place, and that addresses why, they're really looking for plans and processes to be in place

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WLWV Board Room: So there are the rule categories. And there's 50 individual rules on the form, and they are in the categories of teaching and learning.

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WLWV Board Room: health and safety, district performance, accountability and human resources and staffing. There are also more standards within teaching and learning and health and safety. The there are subcategories

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WLWV Board Room: next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: and some of the things. This is just kind of a snapshot where some of them fall. The requirements for instructional time, and that's one that I'll be making a comment on. So that's within teaching and learning as is human sexuality, education, instructional materials, comprehensive school counseling. So this just gives a sense of where these

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WLWV Board Room: these are just examples of some of them. I didn't put all of them there next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So the idea here is that what

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WLWV Board Room: school districts are required to do? And there was reference made to a form. So by November first make a report to

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WLWV Board Room: the school district about compliance from last year.

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WLWV Board Room: Then the full form is posted by November fifteenth, because it also includes by that time the minutes from from this School Board meeting, and that's what will be posted on the district website. Ode has made some changes. It used to be that just submitting that you have

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WLWV Board Room: have the minutes from the School Board meeting, showing that you have complied was what was posted, and now they've gone to having an actual template with the columns of are you in compliance? Are you not in compliance? And then what would be examples of your of your evidence for that? And so that will be for 2223,

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WLWV Board Room: using that template which is required this year for the first time that you will see on the posted on the website.

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WLWV Board Room: It'll be before November fifteenth, because we're only on the second day of October.

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WLWV Board Room: So the idea of reviewing and following up is something that's

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WLWV Board Room: that's part of the process for ode. They very much take a guidance stance, and it is self reporting. But again, it's with looking at your evidence. And some of these things are, you know, kind of duplicate themselves, it'll say, do you have your talented and gifted education plan, for example, posted on your website? So there are things that you know do show up as as being evident

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WLWV Board Room: So they do waive specific assurances for time to time. One right now is the state of Oregon has had in a graduation requirement that

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WLWV Board Room: in addition to credits, you have to have essential skills. And that's been shown, students can demonstrate that through the Osas assessments, and also what are called essential skills assessment

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WLWV Board Room: that

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WLWV Board Room: is under discussion right now and has not been decided yet by the by, the Legislature. By the State Board of Education.

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WLWV Board Room: There is a part where you still have local performance tasks, requirements in all all grade levels, and that has always been in effect, and still is

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WLWV Board Room: the other thing that was waived for 2223 is

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WLWV Board Room: The PE data collections were suspended because and they will be reinstated. But there were some changes in the legislation

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WLWV Board Room: late, and that affects, you know, part way through the year, meeting those number of minutes. But some of these things. When we're talking about evidence in the evidence column, they come from things that are drawn and reported from

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WLWV Board Room: state documents. And so again, there's sort of a planned redundancy to it. For example, we have to fill in every year. And it's actually our information technology department that will put in, how many minutes do we have in physical education at all levels? So those are things there's just set reports for those.

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WLWV Board Room: But those are 2 that the only 2 that are waived were waived for last year

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next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So if a district's out of compliance, they

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WLWV Board Room: have, they have to put in a plan for corrective action, and then, if it's not approved as submitted. The again Ode does take a stance of trying to provide some assistance.

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WLWV Board Room: and it must be taken this corrective action by the beginning of the next school year, and I'm using as an example for Wesley Wilsonville last year on in this report, when when I gave it, noted that we were out of compliance for the number of minutes for middle level

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WLWV Board Room: PE,

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WLWV Board Room: so we have a corrective action plan, and that was going to involve looking at. You know, currently, we have a half a year of PE wellness and a half a year of world language, and we were looking at restructuring our elective program. This one was a bit unusual, because meanwhile, in 2223, and by December 2,023

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WLWV Board Room: there was a revision that was submitted to the Legislature to look at, amending that

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WLWV Board Room: also the minutes were

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WLWV Board Room: waived, you know, than for 2223, because all of this came together at the same time. It takes things a while to go through legislation.

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WLWV Board Room: it was revised. And so that is why Wesley Wilson, Bill, you know, did not go ahead with the corrective action to alter the elective program, because the requirement for the minutes was changed. So that's an example of, you know, the the one

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WLWV Board Room: from the previous year that we had not checked, and that we would have had to check again this year, or we had a plan in place, and ode

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WLWV Board Room: either accepts or says that your corrective action is not acceptable, and continues to press for other actions to be taken. They have to approve what you've submitted as your corrective action.

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WLWV Board Room: The the bottom line is that if you do not comply after you've looked at your corrective action, then state monies can be withheld.

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WLWV Board Room: So again. Well, wait. I don't know if there's any questions about that, but this is one example of our district needing to be looking carefully at at compliance with the physical education minutes. And that was there were a series of meetings. That looked at the rationale behind that and looked at the reason for changing it was

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WLWV Board Room: equating a number of minutes with what it was meant to accomplish. Sometimes just a quantity of number of minutes is not the way to do that. So they went with looking at. Let's look instead at actually the elements of the activity level of. And how are you working with your middle level PE program

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WLWV Board Room: next slide?

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WLWV Board Room: So another one. What about instructional materials. postponement, and compliance.

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So a school district

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WLWV Board Room: may request a postponement for an instructional materials. Adoption and districts do that usually because of a combination of funding.

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WLWV Board Room: Sometimes it's things that have built up with several adoptions that have come closer together. We had our math adoption interrupted, and that was okay. We had started it prior to the pandemic

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WLWV Board Room:  If the postponement is approved and to you have to put the rationale for the postponement in, and it needs to be approved. The district, then.

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WLWV Board Room: has the next school year to adopt the instructional materials for the granted postponement. So Wesland Wilsonville. there was a postponement

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WLWV Board Room: last March.

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WLWV Board Room: And so what that means is because we're reporting this evening on 2,02223,

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WLWV Board Room: we are in compliance

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WLWV Board Room: for 2,02223.

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WLWV Board Room: What we have to do then we now

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WLWV Board Room: It was for K 5 literacy materials, and

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WLWV Board Room: we have until this

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WLWV Board Room: beginning of the 2425 school year to have materials in place, or we will be out of compliance for the 2324 school year, if that makes sense, because we're always looking back.

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WLWV Board Room: And so that's the the way that it works. There have been in speaking to questions about

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WLWV Board Room: earlier materials not having going gone through the adoption process that the district has acknowledged that there were times when Ode was looking at more.

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WLWV Board Room: The process was not as formal, and that there were looking at whether you had materials that had gone through some sort of vetting and not being on the ode list, and you can still do that with instructional materials you can do an independent adoption that's become a more formalized process.

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WLWV Board Room: And what you would do if a district chooses to do that, you still have to use the ode rubric to show that

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WLWV Board Room: it meets the standards. If you choose to do that, and then you submit it, and they have the prerogative of saying it's approved or not, approved. And I'm just mentioning that because that that was a question, you know, that was brought forward

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WLWV Board Room:  as I think, has been stated for this current adoption team.

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WLWV Board Room: we are definitely using the Oregon Department of Education List, and that's the piece that we will be doing by our third session.

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WLWV Board Room: In doing that.

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WLWV Board Room:  but that's what the postponement and compliance that's how that works. So the big thing to remember is you're always looking at the year

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WLWV Board Room: prior to when you're actually reporting next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So the actual report.

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WLWV Board Room: the school district is in compliance with all of the division 2223 standards, and I am only reporting for last year

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WLWV Board Room: we are on track to have K. 5 literacy instructional materials adopted in the spring and in classrooms in the start of 2425 school year, and we are

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WLWV Board Room: now in compliance with the required number of Pm. PE minutes. We always were in compliance for grades. K. 5. And it was just grade 6 through 8. Those they were on a scale where they kept rising every year, and that's the legislative change

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WLWV Board Room: next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: So just some things that are coming up. This is from Ode they're still looking at and this may be adopted at upcoming meetings. The

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WLWV Board Room: essential skills. Graduation requirement is very much under discussion. Whether it will be postponed. There is still a committee looking at that, and then the other. Only other one is the menstrual dignity, and some of the changes that are being discussed are just making it more

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WLWV Board Room: doable and more kind of straightforward for school districts to comply with that and some of the times, and for one like ones like that. It's depending on the the size of your school district or across the State. You know that they have looked at that. It doesn't mean on either of those that they would go away necessarily. But those are under discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: So that

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WLWV Board Room: said, what are your questions or things that may need to be clarified.

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WLWV Board Room: Do we have questions?

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WLWV Board Room: Clarifications?

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WLWV Board Room: Director sloop?

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. So I had asked a question. That you had answered regarding the

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WLWV Board Room: drug and alcohol prevention. and how that under those rules it has to be reviewed and updated regularly. And I asked if it was updated regularly due to the Fentanyl crisis that we're dealing with of our students.

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WLWV Board Room: And you responded. So I was wondering if you could share that response. Yes, and actually, I appreciate that. Thank you, director, sleep? One of the ones some, you know, in updating instructional materials or in complying with standards that changes every 7 or 8 years. But there's an exception in health education, because information from the Center for Disease Control.

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WLWV Board Room: or if there's something that is especially risen to the level of high importance, and in this case it's it's Fentanyl and looking at, do you're not gonna wait until a curriculum adoption, or you're looking at your instructional practices.

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WLWV Board Room: So yes, we have done that. And this primarily affects students in grades 6 through 12. Although the great body shot materials in grades K through 5. Although they, although they don't talk as specifically about

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WLWV Board Room: all of those substances they have updated. They update every year because it's actually a brochure that children and families get. And then they update the guidebook and the lessons around that

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WLWV Board Room: in grades 6, through 8, and in grades 9 through 12 updated information. And actually, there was

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WLWV Board Room: discussion around. One of the ways that we're gonna address it in high school is with speakers and with looking at, how do we really really raise the awareness of this in something that is looked at as a crisis. So those are just the specific things we are doing with that

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WLWV Board Room: director shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: So you you've heard this this concern of our being out of compliance right?

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WLWV Board Room: And

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WLWV Board Room: I'm wondering, is there a way?

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WLWV Board Room: I understand the process is for us to tell the State. If we're in compliance or not. is there a way to simply ask the State if we're in compliance?

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WLWV Board Room: So I think what was being referenced? Is that the materials that are being used while we're going through the

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WLWV Board Room: K 5 literacy materials adoption process are not on the state list, and it's a point that. Yes, that's that's correct.

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WLWV Board Room: Again, this report for the 2223 school year we are in compliance with

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WLWV Board Room: that. I think the point is, but if they hadn't gone through that, and that actually has been discussed at at previous board meetings around the evidence of a full process which predates some of us. And so we're not handing that off, just saying that we are working with

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WLWV Board Room: what we have now before us, and every year have been looking back at the previous year to see if we are in compliance. Once you have materials in place, you have until the next adoption cycle to replace them. So we are in in compliance. Technically, II understand, you know, the comment that was that was brought forward. But it would be as if

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WLWV Board Room: if you had something that was not on a state list, are you going to continue year after year after year, to be out of compliance until another adoption cycle comes around is is what that speaks to, and the state of Oregon does not

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WLWV Board Room: ask that you do that. It asks, have you for the year. There are.

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WLWV Board Room: There's a list of adoption cycles coming up for subject areas, and what you are

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WLWV Board Room: required to do is go through the process for that year and be in compliance, and that's the one we took a year's postponement to do justice to the process.

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WLWV Board Room: So

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WLWV Board Room: yes, we are in compliance. We've checked that several times. And II don't have anything more to add.

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WLWV Board Room: if something was and

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WLWV Board Room: approved to put forward.

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WLWV Board Room: And you know it's continuing to be the materials in use until the next cycle.

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WLWV Board Room: It it feels a little bit like a technical discussion of whether we are are not in compliance. Really, my question is, is, have we checked with someone at the State? Yes, we have. We did that verbally last spring? When this came forward.

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WLWV Board Room: I do it again when before I make the report, in a couple of areas, just to make sure, because some of them are a little technical around the timelines. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: any other

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WLWV Board Room: questions concerns.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Dr. Zeissen.

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WLWV Board Room: This will take us to the business office. Dr. Hughes.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, board member. It's so nice to see you tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: So I have 2 items that I would like to present it to you. The first one is a financial information for the general fund, and the second ones is the Budget Committee. Appreciation are opened.

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WLWV Board Room: I forgot to send a Powerpoint, so

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WLWV Board Room: they're working on locking it out.

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WLWV Board Room: But the financial information for General Fund Dickman, is the same as we have. From August that I reported to you.

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WLWV Board Room: The information for this month is,

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WLWV Board Room: okay.

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WLWV Board Room: nothing different from the number in here. The GM project is the same at the last report that I present

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WLWV Board Room: there are 2 updates that

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WLWV Board Room: will have some change in in this report for this coming month. The first item is the

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WLWV Board Room: Students investment account that came in the actual world came in stronger than the adopted budget by 1.4 million

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WLWV Board Room: and the another Gram is the high schools.

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WLWV Board Room: high school success student that came in a little bit less with the 260,000 less than the adopted budget.

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WLWV Board Room: So we are in the process of identify qualify fte because we have more 1.4 million more in the sa grant. So we identify qualified employees from general fund to ship over to the Sia grant

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WLWV Board Room: in the meantime, we also tried to identify Fta that eco up to around 250,000 to should do general fund in order to ensure the budget. Stay the but the Richard stay within the adopted budget and the actual world from the agency.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that changing the year end projected number will be 10, and that will be reported to you by the coming month.

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WLWV Board Room: One item that I would like to pull out the different between the adopted budget and the work in budget.

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WLWV Board Room: So the adopted butcher, the budget that you adopt this in June.

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WLWV Board Room: so we can spend up money on on July first

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WLWV Board Room: the work can budget so throughout a year for sample.

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WLWV Board Room: If if SIA. Grant, came in 1.4 million less than the adopted budget.

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WLWV Board Room: and we have to ship the FDE. From SIA. Grant into general fund. Then the expenditure under the salary and benefits go up more than 1.4 million with a if we don't come back to the board for the supplemental budget or the budget adjusted, then we will violate a budget.

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WLWV Board Room: So when we, when that happened, we will come, present the budget as justice, and then that information will go under the the adjusted column, and then the work in Budget E, the combination between the adopted budget and a budget adjusted together to come up through the work in budget.

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WLWV Board Room: But in this situation, because we are shifting the general on fund expenditure fte into the Sia Grant. So we are stay within the budget that adopted budget. Because of that we don't need to do any adjusted. So therefore you you will not see any information under the adjusted column.

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So that's if my financial information report for the general fund. And I wonder if you have any questions for me before I move to the next item.

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WLWV Board Room: Any questions. Quick. Question. Okay? So just to to confirm what I'm hearing correctly, we're moving $250,000 from the Sia fund into the no. Oh, geez! I'm glad I'm confirming it.

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WLWV Board Room: Because the student and the high school success.

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WLWV Board Room: the actual work came in 260,000 less than the adopted budget. So we going to move Fte up to 260,000 from the High School set into the general fund, and then for the student investment account.

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WLWV Board Room: the actual work came in 1.4 million higher than the adapted. So we're going to ship qualify Fta from Sia Grant into general app, we will ship the F. Qualify fte from general fund into the Sia.

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WLWV Board Room: So much.

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WLWV Board Room: And just to add that we're not unique in that those Grant allocations were adjusted for every school district in Oregon, and that had to do with the

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WLWV Board Room: the capital activities tax that's collected to fuel on the Sia grant. And so when

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WLWV Board Room: almost like what Dr. Soiss, sometimes you're working a year with a year behind or a year ahead, and because those funds came in, they gave us estimates.

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WLWV Board Room: or when we're in the budget process. When it became more firm numbers, they reallocated to all the districts. So everybody's going through that adjustment. Yeah. Because when we view the budget, we start a process as soon as January, and then I meet them with a school in February, and then Digital Learning department provide information for us. Like early March.

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WLWV Board Room: April, and then the actual world won't come in until September. Just recently, like 2, 3 weeks ago. So that's why a lot of time

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WLWV Board Room: the special revenue with the grant and contract that come under the special revenue. We rarely meet a hundred percent of the adopted budget one way, a little bit less or more. Unless we have a 2 year. A world, then we know for sure what the next year look like.

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WLWV Board Room: So my next items. do you have questions?

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WLWV Board Room: The next items I have see the Budget Committee vacancy.

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WLWV Board Room: So at current the District Health, 2 portion open portion number 2, and position number 5. This position open, due to the aspiration of the term of Mrs. Helena Seoul, and the second is the election shoemaker as board member as up. July first, of 2,023.

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WLWV Board Room: So portion number 2 is a 3 year portion

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WLWV Board Room: years of service will start fiscal year 2324, and a budget year will be 2425, 2526, and 2627.

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WLWV Board Room: Position number 5 is a 2 year home. and this will be the fiscal year will be 2324, but the budget year will be 2425, and 2526.

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WLWV Board Room: So if I could get the approval from the Board to declared it open vacancy, so we can post it through the local newspaper school newspaper. And on the digital website. Okay, do I hear a motion?

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WLWV Board Room: I move the board approve to declare budget committee position number 2 and number 5 vacant.

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WLWV Board Room: Third.

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WLWV Board Room: any questions. Discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: I just have one quick question for the the people that apply for the Land use committee. Will we be notifying them of these openings on the Budget Committee in case they're interested, or they'll see those in the newspaper or wherever it's posted

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WLWV Board Room: for the long range planning committee. Goodness, yes.

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sorry

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WLWV Board Room: we wouldn't do a personal outreach to them. But we'll just generally have to it. It doesn't mean that any of you couldn't make a personal connection, but generally the district call individuals and ask them to apply

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WLWV Board Room: any other

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WLWV Board Room: questions concerns. No. Ms. Douglas, would you call the vote

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WLWV Board Room: director? Shoemaker? Yes, director, sloop. Aye, chair, Taylor. Aye, vice chair, Wyatt.

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WLWV Board Room: Jack de Vidal. Aye, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. So with this. Tomorrow we will post appreciation. And then we will close the application on November thirtieth, and then we hope to have the candidate come to meet with the ball on December on December sixth for the interview.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Thank you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright

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WLWV Board Room: I'll just do a quick board check. Does anybody need a break? Anybody need anything? Okay?

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WLWV Board Room: I think I'd like a drink of water, too. So just we'll take a

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WLWV Board Room: quick 2 min recess. Just

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WLWV Board Room: okay, so we're gonna move into our second

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WLWV Board Room: public comment section. And we do have a number of of speakers.

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WLWV Board Room: And I'm just going to ask you once again to refrain from

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WLWV Board Room: clapping or booing. and I know that sometimes we get excited about topics and whatnot, and we did get a few claps last time. So work with me.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: So we have

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WLWV Board Room: 2 separate topics for discussion. Most of them are on dyslexia awareness, and then we've got one on the OP-in Lander sales so similar to a grocery line. You guys are kind of a big cartoon, and then we've got one individual would just

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WLWV Board Room: a gallon of milk, so So I'm going to call forward and allow Dean, sir, to cut the line

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WLWV Board Room: and speak on OP. And Lander, and then we'll get to the big grocery cart. You guys could be so kind. Thank you. Lot of things, but never a gallon of milk before I start. I do just want to commend you all for the compassionate and transparent and honest reception of the families

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WLWV Board Room: and the advocacy and support. It's it's so important that we see this connection as well. So thank you all for for all of that.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Dean, sir. I live in West Lynn. I wanna talk about Opin Lander. Tonight? I was around in 1962. But Opin Lander wasn't. It came about 10 years later, in 1973.

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WLWV Board Room: For 50 years that property has been used as a community resource school district very actively early on, and then, in subsequent years, more community engagement and of recent. There's a declining school usage of it. So you declared surplus property in 2021.

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WLWV Board Room: Shortly thereafter

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WLWV Board Room: the school district, to your credit, initiated conversations with the city of West Lynn, with presumably the intent to keep that as a community asset. And again, I wasn't part of those meetings. I was at arm's length.

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WLWV Board Room: but the meetings kind of broke down. There were, for whatever reason, the meetings broke down.

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WLWV Board Room: A group of neighbors and myself got together. I formed for a friends of Opin Lander, and we brought the parties back to the table that resulted in you all negotiating and talking some more. A little more cordial engagement, which was great, and then it ultimately resulted in a sales contract. Make sure I get my years right. Sales agreement was signed. Excuse me, was was generated in 2021, the middle of 2021.

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WLWV Board Room: The terms of it. It was actually signed at the end of the year in December by the city, and in January by the school district

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WLWV Board Room: as required by the sales agreement.

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WLWV Board Room: There was an appraisal. There was an a joint appraisal, I think a lot of us were surprised where that number came from, but and in retrospect we look at how it was put together, and it seemed to make some sense.

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WLWV Board Room: The sales agreement required that a bond measure be passed which city of West Lynn, the residents of the West Lynn did at a 2 to one margin this was in 22 in May.

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WLWV Board Room: and since then

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WLWV Board Room: the 2 parties have been at an impasse. The sales agreement has not been executed, the property has not been transferred, and it's just disappointing. It's frustrating part of the delay in the cycle right now since last June, when the trial was supposed to occur is that the judge didn't have enough space on his docket. At least that's what I was told for a 7 day jury trial. So it's been deferred. Now, the decision, the legal decision out to the middle of 2024, so 6, 7, 8 months from now.

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WLWV Board Room: my our request, and I should say that we are very supportive of the school district. Some people have come to me and said, Hey, why aren't we campaigning against the bond measure that's coming up right now

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WLWV Board Room: as a point of leverage. And I told him I said, that's just not what we want in this school district. We want good schools. We know we have to pay for them. This issue is is, it's about money, but it's separate from that. So II want you to know that we're trying to keep this in a positive attitude. But our ask is that we settle. We don't run up the legal fees anymore that's whittling away at the money that's really coming out of all of our pockets.

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WLWV Board Room: and that you sit down in good faith with the city, maybe take another run or 2 or 3 or 4. We've got 7 or 8 months to do this, and let's get this behind us. So thank you all for your hard work and the time I appreciate it.

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WLWV Board Room: and we will transition into

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WLWV Board Room: dyslexia. Awareness in our first speaker is Sarah Lorenz.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Sarah Lorenz Wesley, and I'm gonna refrain from just spending 3 min doing cartwheels up here. My girlfriends here know I'm serious about that. I'm just so excited this has been for me 12 years in the making. And really it's all due to these lovely parents behind me who have been advocating. But what really comes down to

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WLWV Board Room: is the 5 of you Board members. I hope that you recognize and understand because of tonight just how powerful

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your positions are in those chairs that you tonight showed a beautiful example of the change that you could make happen here in our school district.

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WLWV Board Room: So thank you. I know some of you really fought hard for tonight to happen. I appreciate your fervent efforts. And also I wanted to share that tonight, as you mentioned, Julie Fraser was over at the city of Westland. They had their city council meeting there, and, thanks to her, she had initiated, and our mayor read off a proclamation for the first time ever tonight that in the city of Wesley it's dyslexia awareness

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WLWV Board Room: month. So we have 2 things history in the making here an official declaration here, recognition for dyslexia, awareness in our school district and and then also for our city. So thanks again, this represents, you know, 20% of our population, both our students, and then also

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WLWV Board Room: our coworkers and our adults. Dyslexia is something that you never grow out of. If you looked around the room tonight in all of our red shirts.

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WLWV Board Room: It's a hidden disability. You would have no idea

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WLWV Board Room: who is dyslexic or who isn't, and that's part of the difficulty of it. I appreciate that. You, you know, recognize all these different awareness my husband here always points out, hey? Don't forget the the left handed Awareness month. He's always reminding me of that one, but he also understands that when it comes to education, reading is the foundation of what we do, anyone that comes and

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WLWV Board Room: buys a home here in Weslin or Wilsonville, or taxpayers. They expect. The one thing they really really expect is that you would teach our children how to read. And right now, as I've shared before, with only 56% of our third graders reaching benchmark for being able to read, that's just not acceptable. So I appreciate that you also have that same heart. And you wanted to

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really take a deeper look at what are we maybe missing? How can we improve our literacy? The good news is, there is a solution, and we don't have to look far. Neighboring school districts like like Oswego are about 5 years ahead of us. And this change, it does start with dyslexia awareness, and then the other pieces, of course, are adopting that new curriculum and teacher training. So, although tonight is really an exciting night and certainly a night of celebration, I do hope

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WLWV Board Room: that you use it, and all of this wonderful momentum for really just a springboard for adopting those those next steps. Change can be really hard if you make it, and change can be really easy if you embrace it. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, Whoa! Whoa! Whoa, please. No claps, please. Yeah, please. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Next speaker, Cindy Singh.

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Method.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, thank you.

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Tracy. Warm oil. Am I saying that right?

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WLWV Board Room: She left. Okay?

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Kara Clark.

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WLWV Board Room: I just speak. That's so much. I wanna say, I wanna take a moment to thank Director Sloop and Vidal for your presentation on dyslexia awareness month. I hope you know how deeply meaningful that is to me and the community who have been living through a time when dyslexia has been considered an unspeakable word. Over the last 10 months I've been sharing the stories of my children and the struggles that our family have faced in order to start raising awareness of dyslexia, and then a in the inequities they face. In our district

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WLWV Board Room: there are other parents who have also been brave enough to come here and speak up about our experiences.

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WLWV Board Room: Our family story is not unique. These stories are hauntingly similar, and I hope that this district can make it a priority to make changes to interrupt the continued cycle.

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WLWV Board Room: However, today I want to talk about myself, and why I want my children to have confidence with what it means to have dyslexia.

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WLWV Board Room: I am an undiagnosed dyslexic who didn't know until I was 40 years old. I went through my entire K. 12 education in Weslin, Wilsonville, and never knew, but felt less than my peers when I was trying to help my children, and was educating myself, everything became clear. I have so many memories that are small, and to most people would be insignificant, but over time compounded themselves into losing my sense of self, and took away my confidence.

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WLWV Board Room: I have dealt with anxiety for as long as I can remember, and I learned to protect myself by disqualifying my intelligence and apologizing. When I speak my mind in my trauma.

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WLWV Board Room: I took on the view of myself from my educators. I was invisible. I was a mediocre student. Despite effort. I was always a slow reader, and I was told multiple times that I just wasn't driven.

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WLWV Board Room: I remember every paper handed back with the sea of red ink. I can remember always being uncomfortable and in survival mode.

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WLWV Board Room: I remember one specific creative writing topic when I was a freshman that I put my heart and soul on the page, and the next day the teacher thought I had plagiarized it because it was too good.

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WLWV Board Room: too good to be from me.

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WLWV Board Room: I have the most amazing parents who told me all the time that I was loved, and that I could do anything. I put my mind to, but even that can't mend the image that is built from 13 years of educational tests, papers, and verbal cues, that I was not one of the intelligent ones, one of the kids of value. I carry that with me.

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I learned about dyslexia. I finally found myself and understood on a deeper level that I no longer need to carry this emotional baggage.

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WLWV Board Room: I have value. and I work entering the world. I will not let my kids be invisible and not know their worth. Dyslexia, awareness.

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WLWV Board Room: We'll create a world that is ready to see them for their value and let them access their potential in a way that doesn't cause unnecessary anxiety and emotional harm.

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WLWV Board Room: I will continue to work.

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WLWV Board Room: On no longer apologizing for speaking up, and hope my children will have enough strength to do the same. And I want to thank Doctor Ludwig for the call out earlier today I'm just a parent, and I appreciate the fact that you understand that

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WLWV Board Room: we're pushing. But I'm pushing you just as much as I push myself. and I appreciate all of your time. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi. My name is Sarah Melland. I've been in education for the last 14 years working as a classroom teacher, a reading specialist and instructional coach, and I'm currently a structured literacy teacher. For 7 years I was lucky enough to teach at Stafford Primary school, and as a Westland High School graduate. My love and gratitude for this district are deeply rooted

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WLWV Board Room: over the 11 years that I spent as a classroom teacher I taught second through eighth grade. One thing that each class had in common was. There were always students who are having a difficult time reading

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WLWV Board Room: every year there were a handful of kids that I just couldn't reach. I was doing everything I'd learned in grad school, following the curriculum and taking tips from other teachers. But nothing really worked, as I remember each of those frustrated faces and their struggles. I now realize that the majority of these students likely had dyslexia. While I was struggling to teach my struggling readers, I reached out to one of the outstanding learning specialists at Stafford.

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WLWV Board Room: She introduced me to the Wilson reading curriculum. I eagerly accepted the manual and went off to see what I could do. Unfortunately, without any training, it was not a lot.

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I had students in my second grade who didn't even know all of their letter sounds

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WLWV Board Room: as their peers were silently reading. Just write books. These students were flipping through pages, looking at pictures and pretending to read.

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WLWV Board Room: While I was out on maternity leave, I decided, would be a great opportunity to learn a little more about dyslexia, so I could better serve my students. When I returned in the fall

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WLWV Board Room: that winter changed everything for me. I didn't even know where to begin.

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WLWV Board Room: So I started with the Wilson course, because that was all I knew.

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WLWV Board Room: They use the Orton Gillingham approach, and is founded in the science of reading. The science of reading was a term I'd never heard before, and the more I learned the further down the rabbit hole I fell.

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I was determined to return to school in the fall, and be the best advocate and support for these students that I could be. However, the more I learned, the more overwhelmed I became.

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WLWV Board Room: How was I going to help these students in the short rotations during reader's workshop. Why didn't I learn about any of this in graduate school?

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WLWV Board Room: How could the curriculum and Guru I worshipped be letting beginning readers down

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WLWV Board Room: when I came to the realization that many of the things I had been doing to help students was, in fact, actually adding to their frustration and confusion as they desperately tried to read. I cried.

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WLWV Board Room: I cried in my own frustration for the loss of time, that I could have been helping students in my class.

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WLWV Board Room: and for all of the kids who I felt that I had personally disappointed.

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So the new question for me became now what

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WLWV Board Room: that ultimately led me to leave my teaching position in the district and start a business in structured literacy.

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Our clients often have the misconception that they just aren't smart, or they just aren't good at reading.

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WLWV Board Room: They have never been given the tools or time to realize their true potential. which is what brings me here today to thank you for your efforts and the changes that you are making in the district. We have current or former clients from Stafford, Willamette, Cedar, Oak, Lowrey, Sunset, Trillium, and Rosemont rich.

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WLWV Board Room: It's exciting to know that they will be receiving structured literacy to help support their ieps or circle of support interventions, and that there are literacy coaches who have received some is me training in the school's coaching teachers. I'm so grateful for all that you're doing, and that no teacher or student has to feel like they're failing.

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WLWV Board Room: I can't wait to see what else is to come. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I believe it, says Maggie Travers

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WLWV Board Room: Traversal, I'm sorry I didn't see the oh, on there! That's some fancy writing you got there

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WLWV Board Room: at all.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! I'm Maggie Traverso. I'm a Westland resident. I've spoken here before, and I just wanted to share my gratitude with director, Sloop, and Director Vidal and all of you board members for this amazing evening. Recognizing dyslexia awareness, and Dr. Seison and Dr. Ludwig and I just have a few little

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WLWV Board Room: badges of flair to to share with you, and then also

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WLWV Board Room: just the events that were mentioned earlier. So I'm gonna put these over in the same basket that Sarah provided again. Thank you. We appreciate all that you're doing

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WLWV Board Room: here a day.

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WLWV Board Room: No, Kara.

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WLWV Board Room: And last, but not least, Julie Fraser.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah. I was at the city earlier today. This week, actually in 2015. This exact week was the same time that my oldest was first diagnosed with dyslexia.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's a really important time right now, and I'm so grateful to see that the district is not recognizing dyslexia awareness.

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WLWV Board Room:  so students with dyslexia are often misunderstood because they are so bright when they so, and but they still struggle to read and write.

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WLWV Board Room: Recognizing dyslexia is so helpful to the community because those students with dyslexia grow up to be adults with dyslexia.

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WLWV Board Room: People with dyslexia have the soft skills that companies and employers are looking for in today's workplace. Their strengths include creativity, adaptability, leadership, innovation, problem solving and critical thinking

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WLWV Board Room: dyslexics cannot only solve a problem with their outside box thinking, but they can also determine simpler ways to get you to the same results

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WLWV Board Room: as adults with dyslexia. They often feel that their learning differences have helped them to succeed.

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WLWV Board Room: Some examples of dyslexic thinking in individuals are Carol Mosley Braun, who is the first African American woman elected to the US. Senate.

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WLWV Board Room: She's quoted as saying, we need to encourage these kids to believe in themselves, because if they are taught to they will. Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California.

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WLWV Board Room: He also has dyslexia, and he's quoted as saying that he will never forget reading in front of a classroom. While everyone was laughing.

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WLWV Board Room: Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation.

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WLWV Board Room: Learning differences weren't acknowledged during his childhood. He has said that you're either slow or stupid. people would say, Why don't you do better? Just work harder?

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WLWV Board Room: These are similar words that are said to many children and adults with dyslexia even today. But these times they are changing. So thank you so much for recognizing the one and 5

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WLWV Board Room: the children and adults that experience dyslexia and learning differences. I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And we'll conclude our public comment for the evening and

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WLWV Board Room: takes us into important dates for the Board and

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WLWV Board Room: just want to bring it to your attention that our 1016, our October sixteenth meeting, our work session

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WLWV Board Room: has been canceled for

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WLWV Board Room: our school visits.

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WLWV Board Room: and Dr. Ludwig is passing out.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm just passing down the dates

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WLWV Board Room: board members can reference. Which meeting you're talking about. Okay, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: It's it's similar to the list, but maybe just a different visual. So we can see which our board meetings and which our work sessions, which ones are open. And

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WLWV Board Room: October sixteenth work session we've canceled because we'll be doing our student our excuse, not student, our school

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WLWV Board Room: visit

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WLWV Board Room: and then we had a goal that we set as a part of our 4 goals. where we wanted to reach out and have 2 student listening sessions. That was one of the objectives that we set as a

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WLWV Board Room: collectively as a board, to make sure that we could set some attainable things that align to the district goals.

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WLWV Board Room: and I am proposing to all of you this evening that we

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WLWV Board Room: our work session on November thirteenth for a student engagement session

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WLWV Board Room: with Wilsonville high school students. We've previously done it with middle school students. I thought it might be a good opportunity for us to talk to our high school students about their experiences within the schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and then the other proposal would be

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WLWV Board Room: for our February twelfth work session to do in our second student engagement se session with Weselen High school students. So we would

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WLWV Board Room: use those 2 in lieu of those 2 work sessions, we would have the student engagement. And we can figure out. I'm sorry.

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WLWV Board Room: that's just for the first 2 to meet the the, the objective that we had. Now we also can

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WLWV Board Room: discuss using another session for Riverside if we want to add one. So I'm not opposed to that either. Just so that we get all through. Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: So maybe we would use the next work session.

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WLWV Board Room: which would be a Yes, April fifteenth.

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WLWV Board Room: and we would have Riverside.

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WLWV Board Room: and that does give those students some time to actually have an opinion, since it's all new

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WLWV Board Room: and then to get some feedback on what their experience has been like in the stem program, and so on and so forth. So

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WLWV Board Room: do any of you find any fault, or have any questions about that.

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Ludwig. Anything to add?

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WLWV Board Room: For your your board goal, number 2, which is to host a work session to learn about several of the district implemented systems that build confidence, confidence and self-efficacy.

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WLWV Board Room: That would mean holding another work session that's not listed here. So be a special. It would be just another one we would need to add to the calendar, got you and we had, we could add, well, it's up to to the collective board. We could add a work session and do it prior to a board meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: existing board meeting and showing up an hour early.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. and what's a good date for that, should we?

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, we could do that. Why don't we use the December fourth

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WLWV Board Room: meeting for that?

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WLWV Board Room: And does. December fourth. Is there anyone out of

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WLWV Board Room: Better question for me. Our work sessions are generally 2 h long, so instead of coming at 5.

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WLWV Board Room: Would it be possible to come at 4? Yes, that's fine that works. Does that work for everyone? Or thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: director Shoemaker, does that work for your retirement schedule.

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Okay?

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WLWV Board Room: And it doesn't need to happen tonight. He's got a little bit of time, but I appreciate you giving us the heads up so Staff can begin to prepare for these, and especially with the student engagement ones. We need students there. So you know, that helps with the board goal number 2, where you want us to. Provide a work session.

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WLWV Board Room: If you could let us know which one of the

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WLWV Board Room: systems they each. We could talk about each one of them for 2 h, or give you lots of information.

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WLWV Board Room: so maybe we could have Ms. Douglas

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WLWV Board Room: send out doodle poll. And we could kind of work through because there is a system of professional growth

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WLWV Board Room: assessments for learning, social, emotional learning, or equitable inclusive practices. If you want to pick one of those.

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WLWV Board Room: then we would know how to prepare for that. That'd be fine. W. Would it be okay if

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WLWV Board Room: we give you. How much time do you need for that? Since we do have school walkthroughs? I'm sure

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WLWV Board Room: we're gonna learn some things as we walk through schools that might trigger a topic of discussion. But how much lead time do you need for the staff? Give us a month or a few weeks, and we just need to know which staff have to be at this meeting and because we would, we would take at least the topic, and then work with the chair and the vice chair to figure out

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WLWV Board Room: how to get more specifics about where we're going. With that, so I can. I can see some back and forth too, so, and then I'll reach out to you each, and we can talk about

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WLWV Board Room: if there's something

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WLWV Board Room: on the tip of your tongue that you want to learn more about. So

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WLWV Board Room: anything else

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WLWV Board Room: can I ask question about the

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WLWV Board Room: the student engagement sessions about like recruitment or or having students selected to be there.

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WLWV Board Room: will we be informed about that process, or is it okay? Okay, great. And then it would be nice to give the students. I'm sure we'll do this, but a way to ask us questions out loud and also written in case there, they don't want to speak out loud. That's always nice to offer them both those options if they have questions for us. Yeah, just briefly, in the past, you know, we've put forward teacher, the principals.

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WLWV Board Room: The idea of the engagement session and and students. We've also heard from the Board that they'd like that student group to be representative of the school. So I'm thinking about

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WLWV Board Room: gender representation grade, level.

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active in various things, you know,

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WLWV Board Room: divert of diverse groups, so that you're hearing from multiple experiences. And maybe not just the Asb students, for example. And so we work hard. And then just also some of the limitations, at least for middle school it was who could get there whose families could get them. There may not be that much for high school, but we want to think about how busy our students are and who's available those evenings. So we'll do our best to get a representative group.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, I think the other thing that was unique about the experience was

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WLWV Board Room: that we remove parents from the room, and it was just students. And

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WLWV Board Room: when you remove parents from the room, you're really surprised at what students truly think about their school experience because they're not

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just filtering out the words that they've been indoctrined into. And we don't know what people watch at night on their Tvs. We don't know what they're listening to.

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WLWV Board Room: but everybody has a different lived experience at school, and what we learned as we sat at different tables with different groups of students.

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WLWV Board Room: as they heard each other speak. it triggered memories about.

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WLWV Board Room: and mostly positive memories about teacher, engagement, or athletics, or whether it be

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WLWV Board Room: arts and and things of the sort. So it's it's interesting when you get that unfiltered information without someone there with a child.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, maybe talking about some things that

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WLWV Board Room: maybe their parents might give them a look and say, Hey, we don't talk about that outside of our home. right? We all. You all remember those books. So you kind of get that unfiltered information. And it's nice, because then we're able to.

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WLWV Board Room: Then, as board members

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WLWV Board Room: like, take that and really do something with it. So so, and we had groups. And then we had a board member sitting at each table, and I believe there was a district like

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WLWV Board Room: staff member. I can't remember if it was a teacher or or whatnot, but we had district employee, board member kids. And then we had list of questions. and they were open-ended.

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WLWV Board Room: And then it was kind of a group conversation, and then we would have

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WLWV Board Room: either a student or board member would present what the findings were around, you know.

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WLWV Board Room: Not always so good topic, you know, and then you kind of get their perspective of you know what their lived reality was. So it's it's a really nice kind of set up an environment. And it's really welcoming. And I think it was. It was by far the favorite thing that we've done since we've been board members over the last couple of years. So

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WLWV Board Room: it's a good experience

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WLWV Board Room: as a reminder director sloop is the board liaison to help us to work with us to put those 3 together. So she's gonna be pretty busy right now after she gets her site. Visits done. And she will be the key communicator around. This process, as well as maybe generating some questions. So I think, rather than 5 board members, you know.

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WLWV Board Room: contacting us. We will work with director sloop to hear what it is collectively that you're hoping to learn. and then she'll be facilitating those 3 events.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. In advance, director. Slip right? I'm listening about 20 unnecessary questions.

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WLWV Board Room: No, anything else.

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WLWV Board Room: No.

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WLWV Board Room: thank you for doing that very helpful. So we can get planning, and then what we'll do is we'll turn this around as quickly as possible for you, so that gives you and your team enough time to

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WLWV Board Room: to prepare, and we can prepare ourselves. So meeting adjourned.