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WLWV Board Room: Good. Good evening, everyone nice to see you all. I'm going to call tonight's Westland Wilsonville School Board meeting to order. I'm gonna pass it to Mrs. Douglas. Can you call roll, please? Thank you. Director Schumacher.

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WLWV Board Room: Here.

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WLWV Board Room: director, sloop here, chart, Taylor, present Vice chair, Wyatt, here. Director Vidal here. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: we are going to jump right into tonight's agenda, and we're going to start with

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district communications. And we have our student representatives here. There's 3 of them representing our 3 high schools, and we are gonna kick the night off with Riverside high School with

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WLWV Board Room: laurel Venegas, would you please come to the podium?

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, board, Superintendent Ludwig. It's my honor to introduce Laurel Vannegis as our board speaker this year. Laurel's a Sophomore at Riverside High School came to Riverside, really seeking the Health Ox program, and I will let her take it away.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, thank you to the Board and the administration for having me like Mr. Chapin said, I am Laurel Vanegas. I'm a sophomore at Riverside, and I'm the student Ambassador.

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WLWV Board Room: I am enrolled in our health occupations program, which has been really helpful to learning more about becoming a nursingist which has been my goal for a really long time. We've learned about certifications and

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WLWV Board Room: goals and education and requirements that I will need to achieve that goal. It's been a really helpful program to have already in these past few weeks. I also row competitively with, like us, week of community rowing, and I have for the past 3 and a half years, and as I come closer to my graduation, I intend on studying at the University of Washington, and with our collegiate team the new life's 102 class that we've been ass are given to us has also been really helpful with getting ideas of how to get to college.

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WLWV Board Room: And that's something I'm really looking forward to learning more about

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WLWV Board Room: and some info about Riverside. We've had a really really strong start these last 2 weeks. The classes have kicked off well, and the cell phone policy has been enforced. Very well. So students, I've noticed, and my classes have been more engaged, focused and interactive with their classmates and teachers more than what I've seen like ever. So that's very exciting to see conversations with classmates and teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: We've had a lot of vibrancy and energy, especially in a new school that has continued into our fall sports lap, and we've gotten wins from our track team, our volleyball team and our cross country team so very exciting. Last Friday we had our first school assembly where we went over fall sports school culture and had a staff versus competition. Students have one. So that was very fun coming up this week. Volleyball has a home game on Thursday against Portland.

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WLWV Board Room: Academy at 4 30 Pm. Soccer has a game on Thursday against Salem Academy at 4 15, and students are already planning on showing up and shink for them, and our Yearbook Club will be taking photos

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WLWV Board Room: the raptors are showing. Great school spirits and clubs are also up and running. We have Hosa health occupation students of America, which is a club that I will be enrolled in, and the Riverside High School with Espn. So we're excited to get rolling. So we are looking forward to great school year at Riverside.

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WLWV Board Room: and next we're going to bring up from Westland High School to give us the Westland High School, T. Beatrice Gilroy. Please feel forward to

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WLWV Board Room: feel free to come forward

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WLWV Board Room: Greetings School Board and Dr. Ludwig. Thank you for giving us this time tonight before I bring be up. I want to introduce just one more special person. Our leadership teacher Miss Blake Williams is here. So Blake.

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WLWV Board Room: so Beatrice is our school or our Asb President this year. She is a senior, and she is awesome to work with, partner with, and is a positive force of change in our school culture and our school overall. So I'm really excited for you all to get to meet Beatrice and get to know her this year.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Mister Mena. Like, he said. My name is Beatrice Gilroy, and I'm a senior at West Lynn. This year I am our asp President. So I just wanted to share a little bit about what Asb has been doing on campus.

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Our work actually started before the school year began. Blake and I were in the school. Doing a lot of things. A lot of it revolved around painting so as you can see on the slide, we painted our bleachers. So we really wanted to emphasize that like, this is a student spirit section. And we really wanted to get our students excited to go to all the different games that we have on campus.

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And then also just emphasize again that spirit. You can see they're painted green and gold for the different sections of the different grades. And then below that picture Blake worked very hard to paint every porch in our school. Just labeling them, we noticed sometimes it can be hard for new students, and especially our ninth graders navigating the school. So we really wanna make it

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WLWV Board Room: clear before the school year began all the different porches, and then, on the first week of school, like Riverside, we had some class assemblies so these consisted of some talks with administration. We led the students through a fight song. We taught them some new cheers, and then we just set some expectations for the year when it comes to things like hallway etiquette and

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student spirit section etiquette. So that was really fun. We handed out some spirit points that's new. This year we're doing a spirit competition throughout the year to try and unify the different grades and the school as a whole.

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And then our sports teams I wanted to talk about are off to strong start. I got back at midnight on Friday from the Sheldon football game. So our football team is off to 2. No start.

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WLWV Board Room: Girls, soccer and boys soccer both have a game tonight. So I'm really proud of our sports teams and then on that same note we introduced a new team called Spirit Squad. So this is about 5 to 6 students from each grade level, who will be representing. They're not related to asp. But they're the students we can rely on to be the loudest in the students. Section positive role models on campus when it comes to things

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like dress up days and student section etiquette and then going to games other than football. So that's another thing, we wanna emphasize our football team has been lucky enough to be really strong. But we wanted to get a bigger student section at girls soccer and volleyball and other sports. So they're gonna help us with that.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, also on spirits, we this year remodeled the student store and bought new merch for the entire school. We're actually buying a T shirt for every lesson. High school student. You'll see

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WLWV Board Room: it on the right over there. It says, respect to roar part of the pride. So that is our slogan that we are pushing this year as a school. So we are all lions. We may come from different backgrounds. We may have different beliefs and interests, but we are all lines at Wesley High School, so respecting each other's roar, and then respecting the roar when we go out and compete

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at arts and sporting events. So, and then I just wanted to share a few things that we have on the agenda that I'm sure I'll cover in the next School Board meeting. But we have our club fair happening on Thursday. So this is an opportunity for students to come talk with club leadership. We're really hoping our ninth graders can join some clubs.

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And then some seniors, too, if they haven't joined the club yet. But that's going to be happening during life class. That's a really great opportunity. We don't have to take away any class time or lunch time. So this can take part during life class. And then something new this year is we're doing an event for each grade. So our first event is for ninth grade, and that's on Friday before the football game. So we're gonna

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WLWV Board Room: send them through a scavenger hunt. We'll have free pizza and just get them really excited for the football game. So we're hoping it ends around 6, 30, and then they can just go up to the student section and then. As you all know, we have homecoming coming up to. That will be the first week of October, and I'll share more about that in our next board meeting, but I just wanted to express

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WLWV Board Room: that we have a overall positive feeling on campus staff students. We're all excited to be back on campus. There's real positive energy when you're going down in the halls. And all our club leaders and sports teams are really excited to be back at the school. So thank you all for having me, and I look forward to speaking with you soon.

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WLWV Board Room: and last, but not least, we have

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WLWV Board Room: our Wilsonville, High School student representatives and we have co Asv Presidents coming up Venetia Gonzales and Trenton Bonfilio. Please join us at the Podium.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright, Dr. Ludwig and School Board. I'm Kelly Schmidt. I'm the principal at Wilsonville, and it is my pleasure. We had our very first asp elections at Wilsonville High School this spring, and we were so fortunate that we have these 2 seniors as our Asp presidents, Vanessa Gonzales and Trent and Monfiglio Filio, and they have some words to share this evening.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening School Board to begin. We'd like to thank you for allowing us to present and talk about the events at Wilsonville High School.

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WLWV Board Room: coming up on our calendar, is our first school assembly on the 20 s. Our new Asp counseling leadership classes can't wait to show the school what we have been working on, and we think it's a great opportunity to get students excited about the new School year. Also on our calendar are auditions for a fall musical elf which we can't wait to see.

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WLWV Board Room: This picture is a capture of the first drama. The picture on the screen is a capture of the first Drama Club meeting that occurred last Wednesday. During lunch. At this meeting they talked about auditions and tech meetings for the musical.

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WLWV Board Room: We'd also like to bring up of our fall sports, volleyball, soccer, football, and more. We've had many wins, and the student section energy has been great so far our first football game had an amazing atmosphere and so much school spirit. It was a great way to start the school the school year we had made positive. We had positive comments from multiple different teachers and students. Our band director, Chad Davies, and Athletics director, Mister Davis Davis.

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WLWV Board Room: even made the comment of saying it was the most united. They had seen the students section, the band, and the cheerleaders. We had an amazing time and couldn't agree more with these comments. Finally, we're looking forward to our senior sunrise, which is happening this Friday. Students are allowed to bring snacks, blankets, and speakers. I know many students are excited to attend, and are very grateful to the Senior Class Council for planning this event.

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WLWV Board Room: Awesome.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, members of the School Board. My name is Trenton Bonfilio. I am one of the newly elected asp presidents here at Wilsonville High School. I alongside President Vanessia here, and the rest of our Asp Council have made great strides in making Wilsonville a better experience for both students and staff.

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WLWV Board Room: We are already seeing the positive effects of having a student government first hand in various fields. We have already accomplished a great a deal in a short amount of time, and we hope to highlight some of our accomplishments to the board.

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WLWV Board Room: Starting off our school year, we made massive efforts to increase communication with the student body specifically over the timing of events and themes at the school. One of the largest complaints we heard last year was that there was a lack of organized communication towards students.

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WLWV Board Room: especially when it comes to things like after school events, spirit weeks and sporting events.

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WLWV Board Room: Our Asp Council, in conjunction with the journalism department, Wilsonville broadcast network, has created a new weekly news video show that is shared throughout the school during our new life. 100 class.

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WLWV Board Room: It is a new and effective way to share information for information on sporting events, advertising before and after school events. General announcements and the reaction to the new videos have been overwhelmingly positive.

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WLWV Board Room: The application and utility of these weekly announcements just can't be understated.

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WLWV Board Room: Communication is not the only thing we're doing to increase student engagement. A new point of student pride has been reopening our student store

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WLWV Board Room: with help from our volunteers. In the student leadership program we have reopened a previously out of Commission student store. The store is a great way for students to represent their school with fresh designs and a regularly rotated lineup of goods that fit upcoming themes for sporting events. The new store is also great for students of all financial backgrounds to get fun clothing to represent their school.

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WLWV Board Room: This new store.

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WLWV Board Room: We saw how useful the store was at our first football game, where we sold items that matched the beach out theme at affordable prices. Everyone who has who wanted to was able to participate in the theme for that week the Wilsonville student store is a great way to unite students with a stylish peril for all.

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WLWV Board Room: after everything Asb Council has already done this year, our community of parents took things to the next level.

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WLWV Board Room: At the very beginning of the year several parents, along with several students and me, got together, and we painted the entire away team bleachers and the locker room tunnel. You can see that on the

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WLWV Board Room: up there.

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WLWV Board Room: Uhhuh. The the previously chipped down and worn out paint has been,

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WLWV Board Room: given a new coat of paint, and the volunteer turnout at this event was excellent, and we were able to repair years worth of weather, damage and general wear, and only 2 evenings of work

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WLWV Board Room: upkeep of our facilities is a source of pride here at Wilsonville, and our parent colleagues went above and beyond. With this one we are excited to hold many great events in the future in our fresh looking stadium

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WLWV Board Room: between Asp Council, better communication, video announcements. Reinvigorated student spirit involved new and improved facilities, and the new student store. We are excited to see where this year heads, and I'd just like to thank the board for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: We got.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you guys. That was wonderful. And I wanna say, it takes a lot of courage to get up and stand in front of a room, and this being your first board meeting of many that will will be in front of you. I just wanna say great job, and you all spoke with so much confidence. So I wish I would heck that type of confidence when I was your age. I didn't have it so my hat goes off to you.

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WLWV Board Room: Anything anyone else like to

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WLWV Board Room: I just want to say thank you to the 4 of you stepping up in these kinds of positions, we know, takes

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WLWV Board Room: courage. It also takes extraordinary amount of time, and you're all busy. Whether you're a sophomore or seniors. You have a lot going on. You have busy lives. Whether it's looking at colleges or work, or your school schedule, and then to also lead a school and keep on top of what everybody else is doing and coming with a positive attitude.

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WLWV Board Room: It's just a tremendous gift of your time and dedication that you're giving this year. So thank you in advance for all that we know you're gonna do. And we look forward to every month hearing from you. So thank you for stepping into this leadership position this year. We couldn't be more proud of each of you, but also incredibly grateful for the time you're giving to this. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Any of the other board directors have anything

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WLWV Board Room: I just wanna say, we we really do look forward to this. This is. This is important for us to hear from students, and we don't. We don't have as many opportunities to hear from students as as maybe we would like sometimes. And so we really appreciate you're doing that, and we appreciate your leadership.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, I just like to echo everything everyone said. But, we do really enjoy hearing from you. And we we really do want to know what's going on at the high schools and want to know how we can help, and what we can do to make a difference for all of you, and we thank you and

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WLWV Board Room: You are leaps and bounds ahead of where I was at your age, and I'm being very serious. So take that experience and help that want you into your future. So thank you so much for being here

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WLWV Board Room: nothing alright, and before we move on to the rest of our board agenda, this is an opportunity that we always extend to the students to be able to exit if you would like, so you don't have to stay for the rest of the meeting. But you are obviously more than welcome to, and before you either decide to leave or stay, I can tell you that I need to get my gear right.

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WLWV Board Room: So, looking at all that swag up there. My daughter's a senior at Westland High School, so I'm always in just Westland gear, mainly. But I don't like going to the Wilsonville game wearing Westland lion pride when I'm there to cheer for the wild cats, right or Riverside. And so

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I owe you all an apology, because I only we're lying here. But I'm gonna get my game right this year.

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WLWV Board Room: and my gear is gonna match my game. So I'm coming to the games to cheer on and the right stuff. So I'm like, I promise you that. Alright. So this, if you'd like to stay, you're more than welcome. If you'd like to get going and enjoy the rest of your evening. It's sunny out. You're you're free to do that, too. So thank you guys.

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WLWV Board Room: alright that's gonna take us into district recognitions, and we're gonna have Dr. Pryor and Dr. Barb Soissen

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Soissin and I are going to take turns to do our introductions. I have the incredible privilege of introducing our new principal of Lowry primary school, principal Christie Freeman

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WLWV Board Room: Christie. I remember first meeting her in 2,018, when she came to our district from the Miami-dade

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WLWV Board Room: area, where she had been incredibly successful teacher and teacher, leader and with an incredible enthusiasm for mathematics. And we first hired her to be the instructional coordinator at Trillium Creek primary school, because, in addition to having great teaching skills, she was also, or is also, by cultural and biliterate, which was an incredible asset for one of our dual language schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and she was a very strong leader there and then.

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WLWV Board Room: was ready to be an administrator before we had a position open, so briefly served as an assistant principal in the Reynolds school district until the very day we had a position open, and then we stole her back the following year, where she was the assistant principal at Meridian Creek, Middle School, and then this year being hired to be the principal of Lowry primary school just a few weeks before school started. We were just

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WLWV Board Room: thrilled to have her move into this role and join the primary team once again. If you've had a chance to get to know Principal Freeman, you would know her to be not only incredibly passionate and

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just deeply committed to every single student, but she's also a relationship builder. In fact, I think director Vidal got to meet her at the first.

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WLWV Board Room: Then she held, which was a an ice cream meet and greet with the principal, where she said she felt like a Disney character cause. The Lowry community came and formed a line, and each person got got to meet her that day. But just we know she's gonna thrive in this role. She's already. I worked incredibly hard, as you can imagine coming on late in August to hire a partner who is a new instructional coordinator for the school.

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WLWV Board Room: to get to know staff and students and begin setting this stage for an incredibly successful role. So we just feel so fortunate to have a leader of this quality join our team. And it's my absolute pleasure to introduce you to Principal Freeman.

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WLWV Board Room: We do we? Do you want to go first, or do you want me to? No, you go ahead. Go ahead.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, I could echo everything that Dr. Pryor said, and I remember vividly our first interview with

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WLWV Board Room: Principal Freeman when we were interviewing her for Trillium Creek and all. It was as as we got her in that position, and she left the building. I think we looked at each other and thought.

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WLWV Board Room: this person's gonna be a principal. Pretty soon. We just we just knew that she had that instinct, that ability, but also just all those kind of intuitions around leadership that set people apart. So we're just glad that she's stayed with us and wants to invest in this district as much as we want to invest in her as a leader in our school district, one of the first days of school I was making my rounds

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WLWV Board Room: and wandered into Lowry, and in the office, I said, I'm just looking for Principal Freeman, and they said, she's in a classroom, and I remember thinking, of course she is, because as you mentioned Dr. Pryor. That's exactly where she'd wanna be is with kids, and I found her in a kindergarten room sitting on the carpet

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WLWV Board Room: with a little one who is having a hard time on their first day of kindergarten, and so that the teacher could continue to do what she needed to do. Principal Freeman was right there. Responding to a student and unsolicited, the teacher came up to me and said, We just love our new principal.

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WLWV Board Room: So we're just thrilled that you're at the helm at Lowry, and we know that you do so much to build capacity among others and partnership. And we're excited for what's gonna happen at Lowry? With you right there as principal. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I make you guys proud. Anyone else.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, I'd just like to say congratulations and good luck this year, and

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WLWV Board Room: I can't wait to. I've walked through Lowry a couple of times, so can't wait to come out and see your work so congratulations.

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WLWV Board Room: One thing that was on my list I forgot to tell you which is another great benefit, is principal. Freeman is also an acting board member of the Awaly, the Oregon Association of Latino administrators. And so she is an incredible supporter of Latina and Latino administrators who are looking to spread their wings and move into new leadership positions in schools. So she serves them that role too awesome.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. Well, it's an honor, and actually just plain fun to get to introduce y'all to Nolly Sturmeyer. Nali is the principal at Athy Creek Middle School Brand New Building, Athy Creek Middle school.

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and Nali has a very strong background as a special education teacher in the Sherwood School district. She also has been at Wilsonville High School as an assistant principal.

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WLWV Board Room: and in that role she was especially interested in supporting language arts. But literacy and growth with literacy, especially as students get ready to move on to

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WLWV Board Room: post K. 12. And what can they actually do with their reading and writing? She also is a real champion of multilingual learners, and has worked with the eld program and supported and looked at. How do we actually develop that

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WLWV Board Room: much more? Nali is

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WLWV Board Room: energetic. And lest you think that when someone works in our school district, and does very well. They move on to a next position. The next position. I think you've seen it in writing, but do know that the interview involves having. And if it's

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WLWV Board Room: in the summer, a video of a classroom teacher with the teacher present, and part of the interview is looking at how the candidate gives feedback

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WLWV Board Room: to a teacher.

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WLWV Board Room: And we watch for what does that candidate notice about the students, all students with the learning what's put before them.

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WLWV Board Room: Then we actually act as a staff, and we want to see what a

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WLWV Board Room: early staff meeting on a given topic is going to be. What? How is that going to be professional learning and not just a meeting?

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So lest you think that we kind of move people along? It became very, very clear to the parents and the staff members who were part of that, that this is someone who we really want to work in our community.

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WLWV Board Room: And she's embraced with energy and with creativity, the working with the new space. But one of the things that I most admire about Nolly is what you don't see.

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WLWV Board Room: she had dug into data before the first day of school. As you may know, our leadership retreat that has about 80 of us working, you know, for 2 days we focused on data.

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She is in classrooms, she is with students. She has had conversations with students and with families. We have students who are ready to work beyond eighth grade math. And that's one of the

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and then to Principal Freeman. I saw the the very long line at Lowry, and I waited in that line while you there you are. I'm like, where is she? While you really connected with each of the families and really met them where they were and talked to each family member. So we really appreciate that at our school. So thank you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Shoemaker. Want to thank you in advance for all the hard work you're going to put in as as a hero. So

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WLWV Board Room:  But you know, II really believe in the leadership of schools, and I and I believe the impact that you will have on your staff and your students. So thank you for that.

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WLWV Board Room: Anyone else. No? Well, I just want to say congratulations to you. It'll be weird, not seeing you at Wilsonville High School when I visit, but I always, I'm interested to see with Director Shoemaker. I have to say, as an ex principle to another incoming principal. So I'm always listening. But just congratulations. And I wish you the best of luck this year on your journey. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, Dr. Ludwig. One more and I was just going to say, principal Stromeyer is another person that we've been watching for a number of years along with Christie just being so steadfast and strong as assistant principals working hard as a team. Your capacity to know students so deeply has always

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WLWV Board Room: the team, and you knew every student beyond that you knew their context, and may probably even their schedule where they should be. They were still in the hallways. But it was just this deep care and connection, and outreach to families and follow up with families. So you're, gonna I know, be tremendously missed at Wilsonville High School, but that also makes your leadership Aty Creek. So much more powerful because your reputation goes with you.

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WLWV Board Room: and already one of the first days of schools. I was wandering around Athe Creek, failing in my attempt to help students open their new lockers, and others were rescuing me, cause I was even messing it up. You know, right, left, right, or something, and already she just knew every inch of that facility as if she had been part of the planning team. And where's Pat Mcguff?

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WLWV Board Room: We both commented so many times that you're the right leader at the right time to move into this space. But how quickly you caught up to speed as to what was happening, what needed to be done to help staff feel comfortable moving in attending to their needs, but also getting ready for that first day of school is just remarkable. It's a Testament to your dedication and commitment, but also to just how quickly you learn something and figure out the leadership moves that are necessary. So

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WLWV Board Room: that's a precursor to what is coming ahead. We're just in for something absolutely tremendous and magical at at Athe Creek. So thank you. Thank you both for stepping into these roles, and we're just so excited for your school communities to have you in the leadership there.

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WLWV Board Room: and leading us off. Director, Shoemaker. Thank you. I first want to ask Pat, are, is it retinal scans for the lockner half the new school.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay? Alright. I know that Dr. Lug will talk about some of the new beginning of of school activities. So I'm not going to go through the the things that we are fortunate to be able to attend. As the as the year started off, I just wanna say my noticing in our communities people I've talked to how excited they are to start school and and how much it reinforces my belief that there is no more hopeful activity than sending your kid off to school.

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WLWV Board Room: and it takes an an enormous amount of trust and belief to do that. So I'm I'm grateful for all the work that goes into making school start. But I'm also grateful to our community for entrusting

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WLWV Board Room: suicide, ideation, and 9% of teens attempt to take their own lives, and 40% of gender diverse teens attempt suicide. And this is a rate that has not decreased in the past 6 years. So to our young people out there, I would just like to say, Stay here, and we love you.

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WLWV Board Room: On a a happier note in August I had the privilege to attend the back to school event with our teachers at Meridian Creek Middle School, and I will have to tell you I have never witnessed

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learning environment that they can learn in now, but that generations will learn in for years and years to come. So that's the reason why we build these buildings is so generations of our children can learn in a safe

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WLWV Board Room: Well, thank you, Director Vidal, for that perfect lead in to, I think, what is going to become my broken record over the next 3 months, which is this amazing opportunity our community has right now to reflect back that support on our teachers and staff, and that is by renewing our local option levy. And so at the last School Board meeting we unanimously approved

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Taylor and I were brainstorming. You know. How do we have this pack? Reflect how we feel? And so the pack's name is, we love Wesley Wilsonville schools, because that is how we all feel, and it's how we are approaching going into this campaign. And the reason it's important is because our local option levy funds, 90 teachers and staff positions.

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to reflect back that support and that love we have for our teachers and our staff. Our website is, we love WL uv.com, so you can go there to learn more. I just posted a nice picture of Director Taylor on there today. With, you know his words of support. You can make a donation. If you'd like to support our pack. You can learn more about this, and then next week, at our work session.

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WLWV Board Room: We'll be talking more about the measure! Why, it's so important and sharing more information. Out to our community. So that's my board report and for the next couple of months. I think we'll all be talking about how this is so critically important if we wanna preserve these incredible schools that we've had an amazing start to the school year with. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Vice chair. Wyatt, I guess, is my turn

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WLWV Board Room: and I was in Miami. I was in Korea. I was in Vietnam. I was in Montana, and I and I spent very little time this summer in the State of Oregon.

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WLWV Board Room: and during that time. as vice Chair has. Why, it has spoke about. We have this local option, levy renewal. We have all of these filings that need to be done. We have the website that needs to be up. We have a pact that needs to be developed, and I did none of that.

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WLWV Board Room: and I didn't know how incredible you are, and I just wanna thank you publicly for all that you have done, and working with dr. Lugwood and

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WLWV Board Room: And the way you've rallied around me to support me is is tremendous, and I couldn't have asked for anything

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WLWV Board Room: more. And I wanted that to publicly be said, because I think it. It's people don't really understand the amount of work that has to go into doing a local option levy. I'm not really a fan of politics. So for me to like dive in, that is, it takes a lot for me.

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WLWV Board Room: So you all have spoken about the the start of school, so I just have a few pictures here that hopefully capture this, the best of the spirit of how we all experience the start of school. You can see pictures on the

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WLWV Board Room: How we wanna think about this school year? Going from our current state to our ideal state and the steps that we need to take in between. There's chair. Taylor, who did speak incredibly moving way, departing from the text, so to speak, and I still have staff who

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WLWV Board Room: You can see the the launch of the early morning. We were at 5360'clock, sending bus drivers out with donuts and and cheers as they went off to pick students on their first day, and then the other pictures are just some of the scenes that we captured. Overall. I mean, just incredibly proud of

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WLWV Board Room: I do wanna mention that we have curriculum nights coming up. So I wanna thank the board who are finding spaces in some of their evenings to be at some of those schools. So thank you for making your way into those schools, and albeit as many as I can. We do have 7 primary schools all in one night, so we can't clone ourselves, but we'll try and get around to. That's on the fourteenth, as many as we can, so

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WLWV Board Room: I'm proud to say that this year we have our first American sign language, Asl class at Riverside High School. It was quite a feat to secure a teacher. There's

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, and next month I'll have a little bit more to share with you. Just wanna give on an update on our buses. The last 2 board meetings I shared with you that we were doing some workaround routes in light of national bus driver shortage increased in inflation and cost that just asked us to take a look at how we were doing with our own routes.

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WLWV Board Room: and areas here and there, whether it's electric lines or the Beckman Dip road that is now being fixed, parts of Wilsonville road that are being fixed. Parts of 60 fifth. So we've got those kinds of components as well as work that's being done in Wesley, and that will also be done on Willamette Falls drive. So we're working really hard. Wanna tell our parents. But there's just components of traffic and construction that everybody just gets caught up in

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WLWV Board Room: And then last, I'm just going to pass this down. This is just some information that individually, you know about as well as collectively in the last board.

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WLWV Board Room: that I've shared with you some information. We have a policy. Ifca, about 20 First Century Schools councils. You may have received sometimes some public comment, or maybe an email. I've been able to provide some information to you, either individually or to some of you who are on last year's board. We have a district practice around how we implement the policy

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WLWV Board Room: what we worked on this summer, and I wanna thank director sloop for tremendous amount of time. We spent several meetings on this giving feedback based on what she had also heard in the community, and what we had heard around how to have clarity around the implementation practices. So this is just the AR, the administrative regulations, which is how we implement the policy and so putting it in writing where our community can find it cause. Some of the feedback we heard is

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WLWV Board Room: through those monthly Pto Pta forums and share more around academic goals and progress, social, emotional goals and progress, and not just events and activities that connect families to school. But the impact of

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WLWV Board Room: and it's become kind of a a theme for us this year as well. So thank you. That's the end of my report.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright. Can you call the boat? Mrs. Douglas? Certainly, Director Schumacher.

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WLWV Board Room: director, so I cher Taylor. Vice chair. Why, I, Director Vidal. Yes, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And Shyla, I I'm sorry for the rudeness. I wanted to hear you speak, but they decided to to stop it. Alright public comment. So

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WLWV Board Room: The second public comment comes later in the evening after we do board comment and we open it up for our community members who wanna talk about things, who might not be on the agenda? Or that might not be on the agenda, and then, if there was time, we would open it to non community members to speak and share what was on their heart.

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WLWV Board Room: of the public comments. Section I would be open to allowing that second session which would start at 8 15, that person to be able to just speak during this session, and she is a community member. And that way, if they wanna get about their evening, they're not waiting an extra 40 min with the board. Be okay with that.

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WLWV Board Room: So I'll read the formalities and and what the etiquette is, and the expectations of the board. And first off we wanna thank you for for coming and and sharing with us public time. Comment is a time for you to share what's on your mind with us? Not a time for us to respond. We ask that you're courteous and respectful.

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WLWV Board Room: This is not a time for you to use this moment as a soapbox to address the community. But it's a time for you to address us and allow us to listen to you.

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WLWV Board Room: Our speakers tonight or our speaker tonight, is very familiar with that process, so I won't continue to go down the formalities.

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WLWV Board Room: So, in the spirit of that, I'd like to call up Mrs. Sarah Lorenz.

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WLWV Board Room: and you have 3 min. Yeah. good evening. And thank you. Board members. My name is Sarah Lorenz. I have a student at Westland High School, and I also have a 19 year old, son. He graduated one year ago. He's doing fantastic. He did kindergarten through eighth grade at our Westland schools, and then, unfortunately, our family had to make the very difficult decision to pull him out of this school district, and to place him into a more inclusive

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WLWV Board Room: school for him. And what I mean by that is what I want to speak on tonight. That school was much more inclusive, and that they they acknowledged, and they celebrated dyslexia awareness. That is something I've been passionate about now in sharing with the school district for 12 years.

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I am so hopeful, and I come with a real heart of gratitude and thanksgiving. I appreciate all of you listening to me for this last year we've been more involved in this conversation, and I'm really excited about removing some of these hurdles. If you will. Moving forward this year.

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WLWV Board Room: I wanna just clarify as Barb Soisson and I were talking about this evening before the meeting started. You know, what does that awareness look like? And so I wanna just kind of simplify it. It really comes down to 2 pieces. The first piece would be creating awareness within our classrooms within our schools, the teachers, the the librarians, and Dr. Ludwig and I already had this chat via email last week. She is on.

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I am so grateful. Thank you. She's going to be emailing all of our teachers and our librarians and being proactive and taking those steps so that students like my own feel really well understood. We remove those stigmas

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I would propose that you do like our governor does. Every year in the State of Oregon. She has made a proclamation that October is dyslexia awareness month. This is celebrated nationwide and actually worldwide. And I'm so happy that she has gotten behind it. I'm asking our school district to do the same, to rise up, to elevate, if you will, and to create a proclamation that here in our school district every October will be dyslexia awareness month

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one in 5 people are dyslexic. So that's 20% of our population and 20% of our students, myself included. So with that direct communication that goes out to all of our parents. Please have that include the early signs of dyslexia, because that would have been an absolute game changer for our family, and have it also reflect all of those beautiful strengths of dyslexics I have shared before. You know there are so many famous dyslexics and fun stories, and of course, all the kids, their favorite

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WLWV Board Room: And just to do a spot check. Was there anyone in the room who may have wanted to address the board, but just may not have seen the sign up sheet, or forgot to sign up

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WLWV Board Room: and we're going to start with the Department of operations. We're going to bring forward Mr. Pat Mcco.

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WLWV Board Room: I tonight we're bringing to you applicants for the long Range planning committee. As you know, the Long Range Planning Committee currently has 2 vacancies. That committee is appointed by the Board to be actually an advisory committee to the board on

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WLWV Board Room: I have not had the opportunity to meet any of them, but I would like to, at least, read their name and ask them to at least wave their hand if they're here. Brian Hall.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, well, with that I just wanted to check, because I'd not had an opportunity to meet any of the candidates. So

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WLWV Board Room: Freeman. No, it's okay. I appreciate that because I do have a tendency to to move along quickly. And so the way the process will work is that there's 2 positions that are looking to get filled. There's position one and position 7 inside of your binders. You will see cards, the green card for you to vote

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WLWV Board Room: So good evening, and I really appreciate the opportunity to address you in person? I know and I wrote a speech I do want to get, but II have served on the board, as was mentioned for the past 3 years, and it has been an honor to do that. It has been a pleasure for me, both professionally and personally.

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WLWV Board Room: I really enjoyed. I've been the liaison for the Wilsonville performing Arts Center. And II feel like a little bit like a nerd when I go back, and I say all these exciting things, and I go out and tell everybody about it. So on a personal level that's been very rewarding to me.

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WLWV Board Room: And you know, a few years ago, when I first applied it was something I really wanted to do to get back to my community. And so that's why I'm reapplying. Cause I feel really important that that giving is important. My 2 children went through the district from first grade to twelfth grade of the things that they're able to do. Now, what I've seen, their opportunities they've had. And I really I feel that that's what the district has given them. And that's something I wanna give back.

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WLWV Board Room: I really enjoyed learning about the long range planning and the the overseeing, the bonds, paying attention to what's happening in all the buildings, thinking about the future. Thinking about, you know. 2040 years. I don't. I don't plan to be. I don't think I'm gonna be around at that point, but really thinking about how this district has done such a good job of thinking forward and

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WLWV Board Room: it means a lot to me. And that's why I just wanted to have the opportunity to speak to you today. And just so you can hear my words and and have that opportunity to say, I would like to continue to serve. However, you decide tonight, I will continue to serve in my community in whatever capacity I can. So I appreciate the opportunity. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: to go through the tallies for the position one, then she'll already have them in her hand for position. 2. Would you all be open to that? And if there's a tie we come back.

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WLWV Board Room: Could I could be that outcome of Number one could affect Number 7? Got you so maybe they'll do one at a time, and that's why I count on people smarter than me.

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WLWV Board Room: So we will start with position one done this several times we will start with position one

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WLWV Board Room: For those watching from home who may have just tuned in. Now the board members are writing their top 2 choices for position, one of long range planning committee and submitting those for a tally.

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WLWV Board Room: and I think we would ask either chair Taylor or Vice chair, Wyatt, to observe. Ms. Douglas, open these and tally them.

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WLWV Board Room: You. I'm I'm okay. You've been doing a lot of heavy lifting. Let me go ahead and just just walked down.

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WLWV Board Room: The results have come in and for position 7. And we actually have a three-way tie.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I move to appoint Mary Pettinger to position Number One for the long range planning committee and to appoint David Ruells to position Number 7 for the long range planning committee.

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WLWV Board Room: We can call a vote. Thank you, Dan Shoemaker. Excuse me, director, shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: thank you. Director, sloop, I chair, Taylor, Vice Chair, Wyatt and Director Vidal.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, thank you like, if you

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WLWV Board Room: All right. So yeah, Taylor, while you're looking for that memo could I just also thank the people who applied, even though they didn't get the vote?

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WLWV Board Room: there are many other opportunities to serve. We'll have budget committee openings, and sometimes people step down off of the committee

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WLWV Board Room: unaware of. You know, when they sign up that they can't finish their term. So those of you out there who submitted applications. Please look for other ways to serve, and we'd love to have you in other capacities on other committees. So thank you for being willing to

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WLWV Board Room: to serve a large planning committee whether you were chosen tonight or not, and I. And I hope that the the people who did apply to understand that we do go through it pretty thoroughly, which is

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WLWV Board Room: and thank you for that. Dr. Ludwig.

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WLWV Board Room: Moving into the board section one of the things that we did at our board retreat was.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I'm I'm gonna read to you just a quick memo about the work that we have done. But the Wes on Wilsonville School Board directors, are excited to announce the setting of our own independent short term goals for the 2,02324

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WLWV Board Room: school year. These goals were the result of a collaborative body of work with feedback from the district communities we serve and the school district, we feel it is important for the board to set short term goals that are aligned to the district's long term goals. Furthermore, the Board wanted to ensure that these goals are measurable, achievable.

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WLWV Board Room: and optimally timed.

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WLWV Board Room: The Board wants to provide a strong foundation for the school district to make continual progress by setting metrics that are aligned in support of the district improvement plan.

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WLWV Board Room: And one thing I want to note about the District Improvement Plan. You can review that at The Weston Wilsonville School district website. And it's in the about Us. Section under District

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WLWV Board Room: integrated plan.

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WLWV Board Room: and some of the things that you'll hear as short-term goals for us.

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WLWV Board Room: And we're we're gonna talk about this as a board, too. If there's wordsmithing or anything that needs to be changed. This is the our opportunity in front of you, the public to Wordsmith, and address those goals so it could take us some time. We thought about them in advance. But we all have our own ideas. So sometimes you get to witness those play out in front of you in real time

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WLWV Board Room:  the metrics that we speak of, the measurables are going to align to that district integrated plan. And so those are already defined, and some of that direction is coming from the Ode, and you can correct me if I'm wrong there.

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WLWV Board Room: As far as targets that we're looking to hit in different categories. So rather than us make lengthy goals that we're so specific, and had all the tactics tied into the strategy, we left that to alignment for what the State is telling us that

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WLWV Board Room: we need to be hitting and growing in these different areas. So just know that if you wanna know the metrics that we're trying to heat to achieve. You can find them on our website in those sections.

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WLWV Board Room: And there's some really good information in there. So

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WLWV Board Room: so the 2,02324 board short-term goals that we have set are goal one, and we've set 4. The first goal is together. We will approve the literacy renewal process which follows ode guidelines and includes input from teachers, parents, guardians, and the community.

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WLWV Board Room: Our second goal

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WLWV Board Room: is together. We will design and host, a work session to learn about several of the district implemented systems that build competence, confidence and self-efficacy

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WLWV Board Room: goal 3. Together. We will value community voice in the authentic engagement of parents, guardians, and students through Board appointed site visits to each school, and their excuse me

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WLWV Board Room: and their respective K. Through 8 Pta Slash Pto organization meetings or monthly forums and 2 board facilitated student engagement events this year also

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WLWV Board Room: goal 4. Together. We will teach or excuse me with teachers and the community, we will receive voter approval to maintain current programs and staffing levels at schools for the next 5 years through the renewal of the school District local option levy, which will be on the November 20. Third.

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WLWV Board Room: Voters ballot. Those are our 4 goals.  do we have a motion before we get into discussion to approve the 4 goals that have been presented by one of our

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WLWV Board Room: directors. I move to adopt the West and Wilsonville School Board Directors 2023, 24, board, short term goals with measurable metrics. These are goals that are defined by the District Improvement plan and set by the board.

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WLWV Board Room: Do I have a second.

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WLWV Board Room: so I'll second.

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WLWV Board Room: Director, Vice Chair. Why, I just have just a couple of comments. First of all, I wanna thank directors Vidal and shoemaker. You know, since joining this board

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WLWV Board Room: they have been a reminder to us that they just recently went through a really active campaign. And so they heard from our community, loud and clear, and I think that the the rest of us were listening as well. But it was very nice to have this opportunity to set some goals based on the perspectives that they brought directly from the campaigning and the work that they did.

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WLWV Board Room: In addition, I feel very fortunate that 2 years ago director sloop served in a role, putting together a middle school, listening session that

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WLWV Board Room: to date remains one of the highlights of my service on this board. And so what I'm really proud of with these goals is, I think we have woven together the things that

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WLWV Board Room: our directors have heard as they've been campaigning out in the community. We've lowered together. This really deep value that director sloop brings with student and family engagement, and I think really topically bringing in this huge goal that we have to renew our local option levy. So I am in great support of these goals, and I don't have any edits

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WLWV Board Room: Prioritize what we wanted to achieve this school year. And always keeping the community in mind, and what is best for our community and families. So I just wanted to thank them for their leadership. And it was actually a a joy to work with everyone and come together. And I, I'm a yes vote on this as well, and I have no edits.

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WLWV Board Room: our students, our families, our teachers. Now, we don't just step aside and now work on goals. Right? This, this is, yeah. This continues to grow. And it requires that. So I want our community to be aware of that.

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WLWV Board Room: And anyone else.

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WLWV Board Room: Could I just add that for those who may not know that the short-term goals are connected when Chair Taylor mentioned the long-term goals.

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WLWV Board Room: these ones that I don't know if you can see on camera, but there are on the Board website, and these are long, enduring goals, even though we have a a year subscribe to them. They're really very aspirational in terms of

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WLWV Board Room: the language, but also long term goals. So the idea being at every school, teachers, leaders work plans

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WLWV Board Room: to echo what? Director Shoemaker said. Well, well, I've also written goals and submitted them to the board that connect to these 4. Obviously these 4 goals don't describe everything you're going to do this year, individually as well as collectively. These are ones that you've identified to highlight. But individually, you're gonna go above and beyond, and do

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WLWV Board Room: many more things to connect with the community and to contribute to these. These 4 goals represent ones that 5 of you are gonna work on together. That will be evidenced in the community of something that you've chosen to do as a as a group.

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WLWV Board Room: and so just wanted to remind the community what the long-term goals were.

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WLWV Board Room: We actually passed out the long-term goals to all of the directors in advance to make sure that they had a copy, and what the ask was was for each

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WLWV Board Room: board member to think about the district's long-term goals. and to put some thought process into when we were together as as a group for our

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WLWV Board Room: that you come in with some perspectives, so that we're not trying to figure it out why we were there so that we could be intentional on how we used our time. And so what we had was kind of a war room set up of

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WLWV Board Room: one of the well. There was 4, and there was each on each side. You got to see one of the long term goals of the district, and then we would wanted to figure out, how can we be effective as a board within those

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WLWV Board Room: 4 goals, but also making sure that we're honoring the community that we serve. And so we wanted something that we actually could achieve. And we talked a little bit about as a board member. Sometimes you come in

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WLWV Board Room: off the campaign trail and you've got these big ideas on how you're gonna change the world only to realize that you need the support of

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WLWV Board Room: And so what we wanted to do was make sure that as we set out for this year we had 4 things that we could be held accountable for we could hold each other accountable for, but also so that they were achievable.

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WLWV Board Room: There were 5 different independent perspectives that then were tallied similar to the vote that we did today. And then we combined those and made

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. I'm looking forward to kind of get all these accomplished this year, so

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WLWV Board Room: But we thought we'd just take just a couple of minutes to provide a little bit of context around the policy of expulsion, which is just not a term we use very often in our district. And so I wanna just provide a little bit of context for that.

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WLWV Board Room: And I don't know if you caught it in the Riverside report tonight. But I'm just gonna say, I was a little bit excited about the feedback about our new Clara clarity around cell phones at high school that there was a lot of angst about this this year. Teachers worrying. Would students live into that expect? Take expectation?

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WLWV Board Room: So as we think about effective physical spaces, we know students do better behaviorally when the space is is clear, well laid out and supportive for them. We also know that

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WLWV Board Room: when we have those relationships with students, and we clarify that we have high expectations, we believe in them that they can do it, and they can rise to those high expectations. We know that from research we know that from our own anecdotes of working with students at all times, so I won't go any further in this. But I just wanna say, this is where the bulk of our work is is the work that we're doing every day to set the conditions and provide the active kind of coaching and support because

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WLWV Board Room: One of the other things that I included for you is just some work we've done with our association. We know teachers. Voice is so important. That is just laying out what are our shared values around bringing positive behavior to just continuing to support that in our school? So that's again, just sort of background for you, but something we continue to live into all the time.

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WLWV Board Room: So the work is on prevention. The work is on building positive culture. And sometimes things happen. And we need to respond appropriately.

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about whether or not the student. Ha! Is a student with a disability. We talked earlier. Both director, sloop and director of it all talked about suicide risk. Sometimes that is sort of comorbid with other safety things that are going on for students, a really important thing that we're paying attention to. So our administrators really think deeply

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WLWV Board Room: about when something happens that's either unsafe or a real violation of school rules. We're gonna think through which one of these apply, or 2, or 3, or some combination. Sometimes we might use something like school discipline to suspend a student for a day or 2.

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WLWV Board Room: If we have heard. There may have been a threat, and we need time to investigate. Was that threat credible? Do we have the right supports in place to bring that student back lease back safely to school all those sorts of things. Then we might come back up and really think about restorative practices. If there was a threat made, and there were some students who are really scared. How do we bring that student back into community? And how do we work together to help students get what they need so that they can feel safe moving forward and learning.

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So all of these systems of support

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WLWV Board Room: work together in lots of different ways, and school discipline is an important part of that. It's not all of it right

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WLWV Board Room: in the next slide. This is just a very simplified

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WLWV Board Room: way of thinking about school discipline, that you might think about the very most frequent thing that we do at the base of that pyramid might be reteaching or redirection. Sometimes you see this in a primary school where students are really struggling with how to walk down the hallway, and the teacher might say, Hey, let's try that one again, and they go back and try it again, and are more successful doing that

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sometimes there's those natural consequences of gosh! I, you know I wasn't on time to school, and so I missed an event that I wish I had been at, and so there's some things there for that student. Sometimes we bring students into community and talk about

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WLWV Board Room: how they experienced an event that was problematic and how they can make amends

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WLWV Board Room: and be held accountable amongst each other and to their community to make it right. And that's when we think about those restorative practices.

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WLWV Board Room: is maybe taken out of a class for a period of time. Maybe we need need a day to just let students cool down and let emotions calm while we get some other things in place, and that might be what we would do is either an in-school suspension, or, if it's very serious, we might have an out of school suspension. Those are very regulated by the Department of Education. They'll have a lot of rules about them. We have to document them carefully. Parents have to be fully informed. If we have do any sort of suspension.

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WLWV Board Room: then at the very most rare situation we. We have in our continuum of discipline processes something called expulsion. Expulsion is very serious and very, very rare. I've been involved in my 11 years in the district in 3 expulsion hearings

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WLWV Board Room: so very, very rare. Most often they have to do with serious weapons violations where we have a real safety concern. So there's something in the new policy that talks about, not ex, you know. The concerns about expelling students below fifth grade that's required by law to be put in there. It's not something that we've had a concern about in our district. We have expelled exactly 0 children.

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WLWV Board Room: fifth grade and under

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WLWV Board Room: at any time that we were able to find Curtis is our institutional knowledge. We went back and tried to look. Did this ever happen? And typically if we had a situation that was very unsafe with a student. That was younger. We would be employing some, using some of those other systems of support to help resolve the issue.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that background, we're bringing forward today a proposed shift in our policy around expulsion. It's required that every school district has a policy around expulsion. And these shifts today both bring in the legislative requirements that are very clear to limit expulsions for young children.

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WLWV Board Room: and are more clear about what's the Board's role in an expulsion process. So the policy we're bringing forward clarifies that

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WLWV Board Room: the superintendent or superintendent's designee

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WLWV Board Room: would appoint a hearings officer to run the expulsion process. This is typically what we've already done in our district. It's really not a change for us, but it's writing it more clearly in the policy, and that the Board's role would be than if there was ever an appeal to an expulsion process.

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So those are the things we wanted to bring forward to today with giving you a little bit of context around expulsion, and I'll leave it to your discussion.

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Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: for that. Education that is complex.

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WLWV Board Room: and before we get in any discussion, do we have a motion to approve what has been presented? I move to approve board policy, Jgee, as presented.

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WLWV Board Room: I second alright. That opens it up for discussion questions.

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WLWV Board Room: do. Does any of the directors have questions or comments? Okay, I just wanna thank Dr. Spencer. I am for providing all of us context, I really appreciate it. I feel like this is a thoughtful and planful explanation, and I really appreciate that in the last 11 years

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WLWV Board Room: only 3 students have been expelled. And to me that means that we really strive to keep our students in our community, which is the most important thing for our students and our students future. So I appreciate that. Thank you. I'll be voting. Yes, on this

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WLWV Board Room: anyone else.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, I want to say thank you for all the work that that has gone into

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WLWV Board Room:  developing a system

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WLWV Board Room: to follow, because I know that as I've been inside of the district.

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WLWV Board Room: There's been talks and debates as to what is the proper

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WLWV Board Room: pathway to take for issues that arise that have to go through maybe a a pyramid like this.

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WLWV Board Room:  and I hope that I don't know if this is up and available on our site. But I hope that when you have

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WLWV Board Room: issues with your children, which naturally there are going to be issues. their kids

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WLWV Board Room: and that you would

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WLWV Board Room: take the time to go look at where maybe something that you're experiencing might fall on this

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WLWV Board Room: kind of scale.

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WLWV Board Room: I know that as board members, we get a lot of emails about parents who are experiencing things with their children. And it's important for for people who email us to know that

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And we can give you guidance as to

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WLWV Board Room: the steps that you start with. And typically that's going to start within your school, and the more that you educate yourself around

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WLWV Board Room: what the school process is. You can maybe think about some of the frustrations that you have prior to arrival. Maybe you deal with some of those emotions prior to coming to have a conversation with a principal

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or vice principal

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WLWV Board Room: or a counselor.

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And at least you're you're coming in with some perspective of the steps that they're gonna take you through before it reaches

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WLWV Board Room: a vice superintendent or a superintendent, and maybe a board in the case of an expulsion appeal. So thank you so much. And I hope that people are listening and

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WLWV Board Room: understand that because I know that I'm going to use this as a tool to respond to emails like, Hey, by the way, did you know we got this fancy stuff that you can go look at. So thank you for the work.

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WLWV Board Room: and thank you for listening to my soapbox rant so. Shall we call the vote?

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Schumacher? Yes. director, slip. Aye.

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WLWV Board Room: chair, Taylor.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, share Wyatt. Yes, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. We do have one quick addition.

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WLWV Board Room: Earlier. When we asked if there was a a public comment that remained, we didn't

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WLWV Board Room: have anyone, but we did have one come in. So

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WLWV Board Room: we have one more public comment from a member of our community that we'd like to extend that grace to.

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WLWV Board Room: You have 3 min. Thank you. Friends. I wasn't planning on talking tonight, and I really appreciate that very explicit description of what at the new board policy is going to be and discussion in front of the board. I'm gonna talk about the 20 first Century Site Councils AR. That was just put through without any kind of formal discussion in front of the public.

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WLWV Board Room: This is a place for parents in the district, and we should be talking about this in a forum where parents can discuss it and be privy to the conversations of what the district's decisions of where are places in the district? I wanna mention something. And this is, says Per statute. This is in the new AR

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WLWV Board Room: per statute. I'm not going to read the numbers. If a School District Board determines that a School Site Council is unable to fill the requirements of the section and the needs of the school site to require different composition. The School District Board shall establish the 20 first century Site councils in a matter that best meets the educational needs of the district.

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WLWV Board Room: Sorry that was very jumbled, because I'm very upset about this, because we deserve to talk about it. This needs to be a public conversation. and it was put through in an AR. Now, if you don't know, we already have a board policy that says

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WLWV Board Room: that.

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WLWV Board Room: it is the Board's belief.

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WLWV Board Room: Sorry I'm so upset about this. It is the policy of the Board to establish 20 first century site councils in each of the district schools

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WLWV Board Room: in our board policy. It says that you believe that we should have these institutions in our schools. It is in the law to have them in our schools. An. A. R. Can follow the Board policy. But it is not following the Board policy

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WLWV Board Room: you as a board. It is your responsibility to write what a site Council should be for us. And this is a place where parents and teachers collaborate for the outcomes of our children.

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WLWV Board Room: We deserve to have this place. We deserve to have a space safe place to talk about the needs of our of our kids and the nuances of the people in our building

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WLWV Board Room: a Ptso does not do it. A Pta does not do it. It requires money to be enrolled in a Pta. To be a member of it, and that is not equitable. These organizations are separate organizations that have their own agendas and roles that is not meant for Site council. This is the school buildings safety net.

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WLWV Board Room: This is the safety net for our kids.

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WLWV Board Room: I really wish that you'd bring this up on an agenda item for the public. Let's have a real conversation about what our district needs and where we're going. And let parents have a voice. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room:  important dates for the board.

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One of the things that I brought up.

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WLWV Board Room:  in my own mind.

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WLWV Board Room: our work sessions with our board meetings, meaning that we would come an hour early, have the work session and flow right into

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WLWV Board Room: the board meeting and  There was some discussion around how we go back to that format potentially.

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WLWV Board Room: if it's okay with the existing directors, and collectively, the board

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WLWV Board Room: to do that again. initially, my concern was the location of of where people might work.

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WLWV Board Room: And I pulled aside. Director meet all because, you know, she works for a hospital system, and I thought that she was having to commute from across town to get all the way back to Wesleyan and 50'clock traffic, and so I pulled her aside to say, oh, well, you know, you're the one who's being impacted the most by this, because you work the furthest out of all of us being that

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WLWV Board Room: you're up the hill. You're up the hill. I'm right down the street, and you're up the hill, and so I just wanted to throw it out for the the Board to at least have a discussion around

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WLWV Board Room: and ask Dr. Ludwig and Mrs. Douglas. It would it be disruptive if we were to go back to a format like that because it's already

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WLWV Board Room: print it, or is it not disruptive? So I just have an open forum to kind of discuss that you have any thoughts around that Dr. Ludwig.

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WLWV Board Room: So I just wasn't prepared for this topic. So I didn't. So just to clarify. Are you wanting to change the board calendar with the meetings and the work sessions.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, is there an opportunity to combine work sessions with the board meetings? If not, then it is what it is.

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WLWV Board Room: go ahead to clarify. Are you saying that like for October, for example.

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WLWV Board Room: the work session that's scheduled for the sixteenth take place before our regular meeting on the second.

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WLWV Board Room: so we would just come in a month, where we have a board meeting and a work session. We would combine into one night. Is that what you're saying? Correct? Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: which is what we did before now? We don't have to. I'm just throwing it out there for the board, and I don't have a preference. So you, I think you guys should know that I don't have a preference one way or the other.

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WLWV Board Room: I was just thinking about it through the lens of the the rest of the board, so II don't know if it was a regular practice. It may have happened occasionally, because you also have executive session. Sometimes that happens before a regular meeting.

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WLWV Board Room:  So on a night that maybe you knew you wouldn't have executive session.

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WLWV Board Room: and it was hard to find a date for a work session. You could do it all in one night. It does make a long night.

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WLWV Board Room: And there were times when I think, that worked for the board with with

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WLWV Board Room: whatever was on that year's agenda. I know during Covid, when we were making a lot of big decisions.

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WLWV Board Room: That there were times the Board was learning information as well as then having a meeting, and wanted it all in one night. So II think

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WLWV Board Room:  you know, it's really up to you as a board. If you decide you want to go to that format again. No pressure. I thought I would bring it up just in case so. And really it came to me thinking about

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal having to being that she works for Randall Children's Hospital. I was thinking that she was commuting all the way from northeast Portland. I really appreciate you thinking of my work schedule, but I do work from home the majority of the time. And so it the schedule is actually okay. If it would be disruptive. And I didn't think about

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WLWV Board Room: the executive sessions coupled with the work session and regular meeting. So I yeah, gotcha. So in the spirit of that, I didn't know if any other board members may be impacted. So I figured I'd bring it up. And but

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WLWV Board Room: other than that, there's nothing that needs it to be changed. And I think just you know, we can stay flexible. I mean, you've set the calendar as the year progresses. If something comes up where you feel it's advantageous to do something with work session, regular meeting in one night, or there's

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WLWV Board Room: you, you discover you can't have a quorum because of just life happening. We can. Certainly staff will be flexible with what the Board needs to reconsider in terms of schedule this this year. Awesome.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I believe we have nothing remaining. So

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WLWV Board Room: I'm going to call the meeting.