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[00:00:00] Regular session of our school board to order and Miss Douglas. Would you please take roll Ellen hides here. Mr. Thompson here Reagan Molitor here Ginger fetch Chelsea King Martin. Excellent. Now we are on to District Communications and I want to welcome our new students who are here for this school year.
We are so excited to have you here and to hear from you and I want to. I encourage you to please and not at all be nervous that we really, you know, we love it. When our students come to talk to us. We also love that it's a way for us to get a glimpse into your life at high school and what it's like and it's also a way for us to hear the ways in which we could maybe better support you so with that we are super excited to have you here and we [00:01:00] will have Caitlin Finn if you feel comfortable coming up first.
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[00:02:00] update orientation where we fell. Went to 4.
Ecology to team building and a student panel of seniors who talked about their experiences a tech dot art Tech so far what their transition plan were for After High School on the second half of the day, we previewed our schedules and ended with pop very fun. It was a great day of meeting news.
Thing familiar faces and getting I committed back into the school the teachers and students all have comment on what a nice start to the year. We've had there been high level of Engagement that has been great for classroom discussions. For instance in English day. We had a lively classical discussion on the American dream and then we read an article to help direct our conversation.
[00:03:00] Our classes today. We had the first Automotive class at the world of speed which I'm taking and I'm exciting to be learning earning college credit and learning about mechanics, which was something that I had an interest in for a while and I can imagine working with cars and airplanes of the career.
This is the fifth year of partnership with a world of speed and students from all three Westland. Wellsville high schools are participating and this year. We are working on working with the new instructure Tom Landon the also the class time has moved from 2:30 to around 4:30 during the day. I'll share updates from the program throughout the year.
We have great new teachers joining our AP Creek High School Community. We have Chesley a sure as joining us at our full-time English teacher. She's teaching teaching English 3 [00:04:00] and English for we have Juliet Weston. She joined us at our part-time learning specialist. And then we have Katie who has added a half-time role as a Student Success coordinator.
We have some Transformations over buildings. The summer that is operations remodeled the Kiba bathrooms from separate men and women's 22 non-gendered private bathrooms students and staff had appreciated this project incredibly and it has the make the bathrooms more inclusive for all students. Thank you through our district operations for your support and investment in their school.
What family engagement art Tech High School where a team were families are involved with the school. We had a successful curriculum night and family Barbecue in the first week of school our school goal. This year is to have a hundred percent of family meaningfully connected to the school [00:05:00] our parent and family group has already had their first meeting of the year and they are planning events activities for the rest of the year.
On Thursday, October 10th. We are holding a goal setting conferences where students families and teachers will collaborate to set goals and make plans for the students each success. And now we have a rock band, which the eight are Arts and Technology High School Rock Band had its first concert of the year on Friday, October 25th at 7 p.m.
At the youth music project in West Linn. We hope that you will be there to see the band. Thank you for supporting our school and we hope you have a sometimes visit soon.
Next we have our student from Westland High School. Is it Avery [00:06:00] Fells? Okay. Thank you. Good evening. Everyone. My name is Greg Newman the principal at Westland and I'm very happy to introduce everyone to come on every every is a senior at West Lana Beyond her work with ASB. She's also a part of our theater arts department does wonderful work with all of our link crew in our ninth graders and she plans on attending U of O in the fall.
I also want to acknowledge the wonderful do everything in Kaiser for supporting everything. And so I think you're being any with that. I like to juice a refill. Evening, dr. Ludwig Ludwig and school board members. My name is Avery Fells and I'm this year's Westland High School ASB president. I appreciate the opportunity to share with you.
What's happening this month and year at Westland. Our first two weeks at Westland have been very successful. We are proud to be celebrating a century of lion pride and can't wait to see what this year brings on August 29th. We welcomed back. Our students with class meetings in the Performing Arts Center are ASP [00:07:00] officers discuss the many ways that students can stay informed and choose to get involved in school activities and our administrators and counselors spoke to each class as well.
Last Wednesday during lunch. We held our annual Club fair at which we showcased almost 30 of our Westland clubs and teams students have the chance to get information from Club representatives and parents were able to visit the club Fair tables that evening at curriculum. All of our fall Sports football volleyball boys and girls soccer cross-country cheer debutantes dance team and unified soccer have started their seasons and of there have already been some really fantastic games in matches.
We're looking forward to seeing what happens as the season progresses the cast for our fall Musical Chicago high school edition was announced last Friday, and we're really excited to see the show in November. And of course we invite you to join us at the performances. This Friday night from 8 to 10 p.m.
Will be throwing our first dance of the year and the Westland High School auxiliary gym The black-and-white Bash students are encouraged to wear their favorite semi-formal black and white attire and all grades are low or welcome. [00:08:00] We love this dance because it's a fun and stress-free way for a younger and new students to start finding community and less than activities.
Looking ahead to a busy October. We're already starting to plan for a breast cancer awareness week National teen driver safety week and our Westland. Century homecoming celebration on October 4th this year. We look forward to incorporating some fun Westland Traditions from decades past in honor of the Centennial starting with her homecoming festivities.
Thank you so much for your time, and I look forward to seeing you next month.
Thank you. And then our next speaker from Wilsonville High School Lindsay heart fell heart forward. Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Good evening. I would like to introduce Lindsey Hartford. You can come on up Lindsay is a great student athlete at Wilsonville High School. You may have most recently seen her playing volleyball and I [00:09:00] think what you'll quickly come to know is the the warmth that Lindsay brings to wherever he's at and she takes great pride in our school and will represent us well.
Good evening, everyone and thank you so much for letting me come speak tonight. I'm really excited to be representing Wilsonville because Wilson bills off to a really great start this year. Everything is running really smoothie with our new principal and assistant principal. Not only do we have new administrators, but we also have a lot of really great new teachers and at Wilsonville this year who are just adding to the school's culture and makes it a really warm and welcoming environment for all the students this week.
Our big thing is homecoming. It's homecoming season at Wilsonville, and we're going to start it off with spirit week next week. Where will the dress up and get a lot of school spirit to prepare for our homecoming dance, which is coming up on September 21st. In addition to the dance. We've got the homecoming football [00:10:00] game and prior to the football game on September 20th.
We have a homecoming parade where each class is built a float and with a different theme and then they'll get to show it to around the neighborhood around our school and then again at the homecoming football game. Not only did we do we have Homecoming coming up coming coming up. But um, we just had our first dance our back to school dance after a nail-biter of a football game.
Hopefully our football team will do a little better during our homecoming game, but that's okay because that brings me into. So we have our great football team. We've got volleyball and boys and girls soccer are also playing this week and addition to cross country Dance and Cheer in addition to sports Wilsonville is really focused on the Arts this year.
So they just cast Cinderella the show will start in November and we're [00:11:00] working really hard on it. So, I hope that a lot of people come out and including anyone here who wants to come. Watch Cinderella.  And then in addition to this we have back to school night this Wednesday coming up. So teachers are preparing for back-to-school night on September 11th.
And then in addition to that there's lots of preparation this week for all seniors, whether their College Bound or not. The counselors are really getting involved. They came to my classrooms today like our English classes are really on it. For planning for college or the military or trade or whatever seniors might want to do our counselors have been really good about expressing all the options and then there's senior college family night on September 19th from 7 to 8 lastly.
And again with the seniors. We just had senior Sunrise last week and we took our senior picture and we had a great turnout and it was really fun event. [00:12:00] And the senior class is really ready to make the most of their senior year and then in part of making the most of their senior year, we have our club Fair coming up next week and this will spark students interest in getting involved in school, which I think is something that is really cool about Wilson bills.
We have so many clubs and so many students getting involved and making new friends. Thank you so much for letting me speak and that's it. Thanks for your support.
Thank you so much to each of you did a fantastic and very thorough job and hopefully it'll be even easier for you. Next month will look forward to seeing you then. So thank you. We will move onto recognitions and. We have dr. Jennifer Spencer. I'm oh, okay. I was like, I didn't see Jennifer. I was like, okay.
Hello and [00:13:00] welcome. Yeah, dr. Spencer items. Unfortunately. Oh, so I get to present our recognition tonight. And so I'd like to invite Nina jewels and Jared helmet. Took him up here. Nina is a DHS family coach and Jared is a case aid for the family coaches. And as I look up here on the wall behind you looking at District goal number three and meaningful Community Partnerships Circles of support as we think about ways that we try to bring those things together.
One of them is a partnership, excuse me partnership collaborative relationship with DHS and the school district. We've been partnering to provide a space for Nina as a family coach at Meridian Creek Middle School [00:14:00] and the intent of this joint work is to help families adults and students. Identifying address barriers to effectively engaging in work training and educational programs and attendance at school.
Thereby increasing family self-sufficiency and student connection well-being and performance placing a family coach at reading Creek and the case a Wilsonville Library helps eliminate barriers and increase accessibility to the self-sufficiency program services and resources for our community members.
So we're excited to develop this partnership and continue to support families in our community. So thank you and Jared have some things they want
to share as well.  Thank you for inviting us here. It's always a pleasure to work with the community. You are the front-runners you see the.
[00:15:00] At the front lines, which is really important. We don't often get them out to DHS office because of availability right location being another big barrier Transportation though being being able to work with a collaboration with you guys at the Meridian School.  Something we have been wanting to do for a very long time.
So always come by any time. I'm there Mondays Tuesdays. Friday's, he's at the library Tuesdays and Thursdays you have any questions we're going to leave some information on the back. If you have questions for us you wanted to shoot us an email. You have a question about if the only thing that we do ask is that if you do have a particular question about a parent or a family we have rights and responsibilities at DHS.
There has to be a release of information. So keep your questions, very big. Don't use family names and we can certainly kind of help you in the general direction of where you need to go. That's the question. [00:16:00] That's the key point of all of that. But yeah anytime you have a question or you want to run something bias.
Do you think the family please reach out with that's what we're here for if you have suggestions for anything else that we might be involved in within the community like tonight was a great invitation we. If there's anything else that's coming up that maybe Jared and I can participate in one of the we have over 25 family coaches at The Alchemist in Oregon City
opening the window and the doors to all of these community.
So we're going to leave some information on the back with our information and times phone numbers are going to be on the back, please again out to us. Thank you for letting us come in. So Nina just stay there because there might be some comments from board [00:17:00] members and I'll just start by saying this is a partnership.
We've been waiting a long time for. And a number of our families when they're working with our counselor. We're trying to think of resource at one point. The closest resource was Oregon City which often just feels that is that much far away for especially families in Wilsonville and then to be approached last year by DHS with well, if you've got a space we can actually bring someone here.
And we thought why not take up that offer. And so this has been we're going to our second year together with this location. And then with Jared at the library is just another great addition and so our counselors are aware of this resource and our school principals and now and we get those questions from parents.
We can provide them with direct access to Nina and her Department that can get the resources that they need and they don't have to make that Trek. Oregon City or Gladstone owner.
[00:18:00] Boone's Ferry we can go to in the primary schools. We can go if you reach out to us with the teachers. I'll reach out to his counselors to ever reach out. We can do home visits. We can do site visits. We're pretty flexible about where we can go we can bring services to the clients Transportation buses bus passes.
I mean and that kind of stuff so we're not bound by just one location. It's where we had some office space and they could move a desk and a chair and bring their phone in their laptop. So we were glad to find a location to to house them. So any comments from board members or. Oh, I sure did. Thank you so much.
I was so excited to see Jared that you were at the Wilsonville library and we think Pat Dooku's the library director there for engaging you there and to Second this is absolutely consistent with our [00:19:00] district goals that we have this kind of collaboration and partnership. Including with the library and the larger community and its really connected to outcomes for our students to we know that when students go to school when they're not worried about their family's health.
More their families not worried about their own health and were able to take care of basic needs that our students graduate in our students are successful. And so and they do well when they're learning when things are going well at home. And so you are absolutely connected to the kind of outcomes.
We want for our students. And in addition you are sometimes addressing kids who have larger achievement. And so we are wrapping services around those kids and we appreciate their families and we appreciate the work that you do very much. We have an ongoing need for help in the South cock Miss County area in terms of DHS and mental health and and government [00:20:00] services.
And so I just hope that we continue to grow that collaboration.
I Echo what she said no need for me to repeat that but I am curious what resources exist for our Spanish-speaking families. So if someone kind of a family comes to and they only speak Spanish, is that how is it excessively? Yeah, DHS is pretty prepared for that. We do have what's called The Language Link, but if we can know that's where you the teacher.
Answers, come can be really good advocates for them because if I know that somebody's coming at seats Miranda Mandarin Chinese, whatever they speak we can have somebody that speaks because we do have an awful School HHS staff that do speak several languages. So we if. More comfortable to them than doing what's called the language line where we pick up the phone they speak into it and then we have that communication which can be cumbersome at [00:21:00] times and not and not is one-on-one.
So we do try to avoid that but we do have quite a few staff that speak different languages. So we I'd really like to set that up for Success then failure with the phones, which is often what happens, right? Yeah, so we are certainly open to that just heads up and we can make
out.  I thank you for being here tonight. And I'm at the end. I had a question you mentioned that you are able to assist students throughout Wills the City of Austin Villar do offer services to students in Westland. Or do they go to Oregon City still? How does that work? No, we a lot of our resources and services found, Wilsonville, Oregon City NorthPark mall, so, it's Clackamas County which is, Oregon.
I have a [00:22:00] lot of resources that will.
and if we don't.
Have a resource specialist at all. She does is try to find resources within that area that we are in and most most community resource.
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don't so does that mean you do help kids in Westland? Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I yeah, I yeah, Westland Wilsonville within the school district here. So you're in.  Right. Thank you are available spot was at Meridian Creek, but it's for [00:23:00] both. Yeah.
Okay. Thank you.
Before you leave we have a little token of appreciation for you Jared. We didn't know you're going to be here tonight, but we know where to find you at the Wilsonville Library, so we will get a token over to you and me.
I'll for you time. Thank you.
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[00:24:00] right. We'll move on to our board reports and Chelsea will start with you. Hi everyone. Wow, what a whirlwind month a couple of the things that were pretty standard that would have happened in a year would was the long range planning committee meeting. Although the topics of the meeting are a little unique to this year with the bond in the local option Levy being coming up on the ballot in November and the welcome back.
Breakfast as well, which is something we do every year and it's so neat to see all the teachers walk across the stage and get the flowers and just have everybody come together and eat and just have that kind of festive kickoff. I did have the joy of I'm going to a couple of Varsity games at Wilsonville High the volleyball game and the football game and got to watch my son who's a freshman playing his first [00:25:00] High School football game which ended in a concussion and it's been kind of a rough entry into high school, but definitely shout out to brunelle Wilsonville High School who was fielded my many phone calls and emails at all.
Earth to help me navigate what that looks like for returning to activity and academic progression as well. So pretty good system. There just were all on the learning curve. The campaign that's been just a huge part of what myself and I think my fellow school board members have been up to so we're hitting all the back-to-school nights.
I had the joy of being at Bolton and speaking their just updating the parent Community about the bond and the local option Levy and I would just you know, Wow, you all are putting in so much of your personal dollars and time and energy and [00:26:00] just a special shout-out to you Reagan because you had this Herculean effort of all the paperwork that needed to be sent to two different counties.
We had two different deadlines a deadline on Friday and a deadline on Monday and. From like you're an expert in bureaucracy now, I'm sure and thank you for jumping through all those hoops. And then I think the more substantive thing I've been thinking about is this this addition to our goal and disrupting systems of racism and the work the work I've been doing in reading the text that dr.
Ludwig has given to the board and you know the rest of the District staff and. Just thinking about race and the experience of race and our students and also, you know because I'm a parent and I'm a Community member thinking about the experience of race as an adult in our communities and recognizing that that's really where my sphere of influence rest and thinking about ways that I [00:27:00] can engage in the topic with with my peers who are the parents and the community members.
I did get an email from somebody. I don't know if the rest of the board thought it but basically asking what was what was meant by disrupting systems of racism and to articulate three a specific examples of ways and I'm going to do that and it was a great question and it really got me thinking and so I have a list of five I won't share them right now at the mic, but I'd be happy to talk with anybody who wants to talk about what that looks like.
I'm in our own lives to live into that Mighty and worthwhile
goal.  Fair.  So first of all, I want to shout out to Pat McGuff. He is in operation Center. And what he noticed one day before school started is that there were [00:28:00] some located or some lines on the road in Wilsonville? And he very quickly because of his experience and connection to our district realized that something was going on that was going to impact our schools in our students and was able to quickly get it to the attention of others and get some answers and that began further discussions that.
An engagement he had with the city and parents and law enforcement and and the bus services and such to make sure that our kids are traveling safely to and from school during construction that was taking place that we were unaware of and the City of Wilsonville. And so I just wanted to note that we are
we are well served by the longevity. Our staff here and were it not for their connection to our [00:29:00] community and their deep knowledge. We wouldn't have the kinds of outcomes for our students that we get and just want to thank Peppa death that so I did spend some time with the city and with dr. Downs and others looking at safe routes to school the first week of school.
They're in Wilsonville and that's ongoing conversation. I also after the the staff welcome back breakfast stopped by three of the fire stations and thank them for their commitment to our communities and the the collaboration they have with dr. Ludwig and as our emergency responders as well as just doing their regular safety checks of our schools.
I went to Cedar Oaks and arts and Technologies curriculum nights and. But I noticed that cedar Oaks again is the work they are doing with their families that have students [00:30:00] with special needs and having space for them before meetings to talk specifically and make sure that they have resources and then Arts and Technology just the differences that our approach to the students and their families makes in the lives of the families there.
And then finally this issue mental health is coming up. There was report out this week that they're here in Oregon. There's increased numbers of anxiety stress depression and the after effects of those on our students. And so I continue in my work think about ways that we can bring mental health services to our students and our families in this area, you know, And I'm also wondering how that fits in with the careers of the future and making sure that we're perhaps bringing up students who want to go in that field to the continue to serve their Community
[00:31:00] Dylan. It's been a very crazy month. My month is mirrored. Chelsea's very closely. And I know much of yours with the work that we're doing on the bond campaign. I'm get to be the treasurer of the bond not because I have a background and finances or banking but somebody has to do it. And so I just get your account set up doing your pack set up and helping to recruit people and fortunately mostly Reagan and the rest of us to put together a really great team of volunteers people, I think.
Almost it's not every school almost every school is represented on our leadership committee. So really excited about that got to speak at Trillium last week about the local option Levi and the bond measure and will be speaking about laminate primary on Wednesday of this week and ballots go out and 37 days.
So this is a very compacted campaign. So I know all of us are working very hard on it. I have three kids are trying to school in the district this year when we just this week, we're [00:32:00] starting soccer five football and gymnastics. So balancing all that and I missed the last meeting we had about amending the board goal is to discuss disrupting systems of racism.
I really wanted voice my support for my fellow board members for adding that to our goals and at our board retreat. Dr. Logue just did give us that book White fragility by Robyn D'Angelo and I've had a chance to finish that book. And excellent read and it's interesting on my 7 year olds asked me last week when I was reading in to explain it to him.
That's an interesting conversation. But an important one that we never had before and so it's opening up, you know new spots my mind that I thought we were already well discovered, but really weren't so I want to thank you for bringing that book to my attention.
So I too have been doing my work on the bond and I get to be the secretary and. So just [00:33:00] working with all of my fellow board members to help get that passed and this is my last season of volleyball. My daughter is a senior at Wilson. My youngest is a senior at Wilsonville high school. So I will be enjoying volleyball games every Tuesday and Thursday night.
So I was there. Kelsey I'm actually I was sitting at the table as the score table making sure that the official score was correct. I too got to attend. I enjoyed intending the welcome back breakfast that we had for all of our staff for me. It was that was my first time being on the other side the last time I was at one of those.
One of those staff, you know meetings was when I was a teacher at Hillsborough in Hillsboro School District. So it was interesting to be on the other side of that. I was back in my old stomping grounds on Friday night in the concession stand at the football game the Wilsonville football game. Which I love doing.
I love seeing the parents and the kids [00:34:00] come up. And so I got to do that on Friday night right before I went to that. I also attended the Stafford Stampede just to welcome our families and just check in with their kids and with our families and see how. Back to school had gone at Stafford and I'm looking for and I plan on attending the cedar Oak parent coffee on Friday morning as well as the Trillium and the sunset barbecue sauce on Friday evening.
So just to kind of do the same and get to start to get to know more of the parents and their families and the teachers and the staff at those schools, and then I will be speaking. At Wilsonville high school for their parent back to school night this Wednesday. And finally, I have the senior homecoming float at my home in our barn.
So that's super fun as well. That's kind of an added bonus. So.  I don't know how it works. But I don't know if I would disclose the location of a float in a public [00:35:00] meeting for future reference. It's strongly frowned upon. I dunno I understood that the floats are entered Under top-secret Wraps because since the classes are competitive, I have been working with my fellow board members as well to kind of in our dual roles 21 inform our community and to share the facts about the bond and local option and through that work.
We've each shared taking. Back to school curriculum nights and I had the ability to go to Sunset as well as Westland High School. It was really fun to be back in Sunset. It's a great place to be because you can it was built on with the 2014 bonds. And so as your they're discussing, you know, the potential of what comes in the future, you know, there's really no better.
I'm not a physical space to be in to describe what we can do in other parts [00:36:00] of our district. And then it was also fun to be at Westland High School. It was probably the most nerve-racking one because they videotaped it in advance and then played it into the rooms. But again, it was such a tight like a connection between that act and utilizing their Career and Technical space their media.
Center room and using that technology to reach to share information with the parents of that school and thinking again, then this Bond offers that more widely across the district to all of our high school students. So it was kind of fun to have that experience and see what our. Students get to experience and what we can potentially bring students.
I also just company doctor Ludwig when she gave a presentation to the West Linn City Council and against just that fact sharing [00:37:00] about both our local option and the bond and the information about those and allowing the city council to ask her questions. Just since they also are key communicators out there so that they could understand the work of the.
Strict and come alongside of us and help us, you know, share messaging sure factual information with our patrons. Dr. Ludwig did actually a fantastic job of just going through if anybody wants to know what the bond or local option is about go see the city council's link to their website because right at the beginning there's a short presentation by dr.
Ludwig. It's really good. I also have a back-to-school activities getting into the swing of that whether it was kind of the sixth grade sneak peek or. Football games at the high school or I did have the opportunity as well to sit down and [00:38:00] talk with Andrew and I got the opportunity to sit and meet with the incoming president and treasurer of map and just to hear whether music and art partners are planning and how they Envision their work and are growing their support to kind of come along and ate our music and arts programs across the district and.
I will call that to an end or call this part to an end. All right, dr. Ludwig.  Thank you short slideshow here.
Well school started early early in the morning for our bus drivers and want to thank community members that responded to I think this picture got posted in a few places and it was great to see the support. We are really fortunate to have a company like [00:39:00] first student that has been so responsive and great with our students as well as working incredibly hard to get.
The complex needs of routing and all the software that coordinates all of that. It's really complex and yet they do it. They make it look easy really appreciate them. This happens to also be the year when they're of a renewal of the contract. So we'll be talking about that later this year as well.
It's great to start in their venue to get things off and rolling. You've all mention school has started. These are just a few pictures of great assemblies that Middle School's classrooms that look so inviting particularly teachers who often we've got a few teachers that were hired like two days before school starts and they're madly scrambling to not only meet with colleagues to know.
Get caught up on the curriculum that we use and those big picture ideas, but also make their spaces so inviting for children if you [00:40:00] principles were adjusting class lists, right in the last minute as we went from some large class sizes down to some smaller and hired a few more teachers. But it makes the long the year, you know goes so much better when you've got the class sizes that you know, you want to live into so I want to thank the staff for just being so great getting School up and going and our students coming back ready to learn and parents helping students get ready for school.
You've mentioned curriculum nights. We're about halfway through those want to thank our board members for making those personal conversations had a lot of great comments of not only being able to see a face and a name and your presence at those board meetings, but also providing the information and such a personalized Manner and I know you've adjusted the messages also to the audience and the context which has been really appreciated by our family.
So thank you. Our principles have done a remarkable job. Kicking those off and again staff being ready to share with [00:41:00] parents what the year will look like.
We're also off to a great start with a new program for adult transition Services. We shared with you last year this new partnership with Clackamas Community College that we were hopeful would get up and going and we were able to mention a little bit of at The Retreat after watching the movie the documentary intelligent lives.
And we are in the signing of an mou with them a memorandum of how we're going to make that work and students are going to be taking classes all students taking classes at Clackamas Community College. We've got this was a few pictures from Joel if you can do the next one parents who came that night who were able to come to an information night.
We had some staff in Clackamas Community College there a professor as well as the. Lee Center coordinator Christina wiglesworth was there and getting kids to [00:42:00] acclimate to this idea that you will have work experience training skills and all of that still but we also want you to take classes in college people go to college for a lot of different reasons you go because you want to think about employment and your career, but you also go because you want to connect with your peers you want to be part of a community and all those say those reasons resonate for everybody and we.
That experience for all students. So you see some pictures there where we were engaging with students asking them what they were hoping hoping for their hopes and dreams engaging parents that picture at the bottom. We thought you know, this is something we need to document. Years from now when family say how did this all start we need to remember that there was a small group of parents and students who were willing to take a risk and it always starts with that little critical mass who Brave themselves forward something.
We hadn't done before and say we'll do it. And sign us up and so we wanted to document [00:43:00] that that pioneering group who was going to go through this and I really want to thank Clackamas Community College. This is this is unprecedented in the state of Oregon. This is new work. This is pioneering work that a community college isn't just opening this up for a few students but is saying we we envision this for all of Clackamas County.
So they're starting with us so we can kind of work together get some of the. Kings figure it out a just do the learning we have the capacity to do that as a district. And then the intention is to scale it across all the school districts in Clackamas County and make it available. So that's exciting.
We're already planning our. First responder safety breakfast meetings director Fitch mentioned stopping by Tualatin Valley fire and rescue to thank them for their partnership. These are those breakfast safety meetings where we all come together. We think about safety protocols. We make sure that we have similar.
[00:44:00] Response strategies run through some scenarios together a few of you were able to attend the last year or two. If you haven't been able to take a look at these dates or reach out to Kelly and if you'd like to attend one, we'd love to have you there. I want to thank Athey Creek Church. They have a nice large facility space.
We've kind of outgrown this room as well as ample parking and so that's been a great venue for us to have our breakfast meetings there. And then just on my end in terms of providing some factual information giving that to you as a board. It is our responsibility as District staff to make sure the community has the information about the capital bond in the local option Levy.
I've had Andrew kills from and I made two presentations to both the city council of Westland and Wilsonville last week. We are very close to landing on a date with the both rotaries for our annual rotary [00:45:00] luncheon will have some presentations for them when we get that date solidified will get that out to you and then I'll be on the circuit with school PTA S&P TOS.
We will go live with a bond website this week. I want to make sure that the language we have on there does clear with the Secretary of State's office around language that that matches what we've sent for our ballot and title in our explanatory statement. And we're in the process then of getting that literature out to families in terms of mailers from the district and those kinds of things again is the school district's responsibility to provide the information.
It's not our job to persuade one way or the other but to get that information out to the community and we're working hard on that.  And then just lastly you have in front of you a binder. Write with a colorful lot of colorful circles on [00:46:00] the front. Each board meeting we are going to give you information about the Student Success act.
We've met as a team we met for about three hours last week organizing this this work. We have another meeting this week the visual on the front cover. Its mirrors the one on the inside if you turn to the inside you see the first page which looks like. The organizer on the right there. It's a way of just kind of showing that our school our district development plan.
Our work plan now has all of these programs and initiatives factored in it, whether it's the high school renewal is that reflected in there? Whether it's the high school Success act formerly called measure 98. The student investment account which is part of the Student Success act the investment account that yellow circle.
That's the [00:47:00] four buckets. If you remember the 500 million that is allocated back to school districts Underwood to fund any of those four categories, and then you can see we get funding for title projects we have our. Arts and Technology high school reimagining so all of these programs and initiatives come together and will be reflected cohesively in our work plan.
We don't want these initiatives to be siloed. So how do they come together? How do we apply an equity lens with all of our work? That's that circle around it. And then how did the school work plans? Reciprocally become informed by the district work plan as well as inform the district work plan that so the data that we have from both and then in the gray box.
We're trying to capture that idea that different than other plans that were submitted to the state. We now have to engage in A needs assessment with the [00:48:00] community. What is the community's interest involvement hopes and dreams around what's for their children and areas that they see around closing the achievement Gap and mental health and reaching out to families who have historically been marginalized.
So this binder is the attempt to give you an organizer as we provide you with information. You can make the tabs. However, they make sense to you. You'll see some categories already. I've set up that front visual then you'll see one tab that says the Student Success act. It's got a nice little back-to-back infographic flyer that just kind of over is the one with the bus on it.
Explains the Student Success act reminding us again of where the 1 billion investment goes. The next tab is the student investment account. That's the grant will be applying for after we write our [00:49:00] continuous Improvement plan the district work plan. Once that gets submitted and December then we can apply for a part of the grant that will that will Fund in those four buckets?
Then you'll see the next tab is called engagement tool kit. These are strategies from the state. So how do you engage the community around this funding so that you have your priorities that will be reflected in your Grant application and in your District work plan, and then I haven't put anything under the sit, but that's where that.
District work plan would go so as we continue to engage the board there will be places where you'll want to keep some of this information to refer to if you want a bigger binder just let Kelly know but otherwise, we don't want these things to get lost but the way for you just to organize some of these items.
Those are yours. Yeah. If you have information that you've gathered before and you want to put it in certainly can [00:50:00] but we're going to try and help make this manageable. It's complicated how it all fits together, but we'll go through it part by part over the coming weeks and months and certainly through the year as we go through the different stages of this.
Okay, and that's where I'm going to end at this point and turn it over to.