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WLWV Board Room: All right. I'd like to call to order the first meeting of your 2023 to 2025 School Board, and we have a very exciting meeting this evening. But first, if Miss Douglas could please call the role. Certainly.

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WLWV Board Room: Dan Shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: can we sloop here. Louis Taylor?

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WLWV Board Room: Here, Kirsten, while here. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And so now

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WLWV Board Room: of the evening, I think. I'll turn it over to Superintendent Ludwig, to swear in our new board numbers. Absolutely. This will be fun. We want to have a full board for the rest of our meeting, so we will do that first. Dan Shoemaker, I'll call you at first. We'll just meet in the front here, and you can leave

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WLWV Board Room: all right. so you can raise your right hand

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WLWV Board Room: and repeat after me. I, Dan Shoemaker, do solemnly swear, I, Dan Shoemaker, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution, and the laws of the State of Oregon.

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WLWV Board Room: During my term, I will faithfully and impartially during my term, I will faithfully and impartially discharge the responsibilities as a member of the School Board, discharge the responsibilities as a member of the School Board to the best of my ability, to the best of my ability. Congratulations, Dan. Welcome aboard.

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WLWV Board Room: right! And

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WLWV Board Room: that's who do you have here as family.

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WLWV Board Room: My wife, Megan is right here.

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WLWV Board Room: I like that idea

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WLWV Board Room: what to do with this thing.

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WLWV Board Room: That's a lot. Thank you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And now I'm going to call it Megan V. Doll

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WLWV Board Room: over here.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, if you're gonna raise your right hand. I, megan to be doll, do solemnly swear

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WLWV Board Room: I, Megan Vidal, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution, and the laws of the State of Oregon, the Constitution, and the laws of the State of Oregon and the policies of the Westland Wilsonville School district. During my term I will faithfully and impartially

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WLWV Board Room: during my term, I will faithfully and impartially discharge the responsibilities as a member of the School Board, discharge the responsibilities as a member of the School Board to the best of my ability, to the best of my ability and congratulations. Thank you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: Hey? You want to introduce your family.

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WLWV Board Room: There we go.

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WLWV Board Room: Yay.

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WLWV Board Room: yay.

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WLWV Board Room: so I am sitting in this chair just on a temporary basis, because our next item is to elect a school board chair and vice chair and typically what we do at this point is to read through the duties of the School Board chair. so it's just very clear what this responsibility entails.

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WLWV Board Room: it's a lengthy document. And so, to save us from having to listen to me, read every bullet. I'd like to direct you to the full document online, and I'll just give a high level summary of the responsibilities of our School Board chair, and once we finish that, I will open up for nominations. for not to nominate our next school board share We'll wait till all nominations have been made.

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we'll look for a second, and then we'll vote, and then at that point in time the School Board chair will take over. the meeting and I will give the gavel to them, and we will continue with our meeting this evening.

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WLWV Board Room: but for a quick overview the typical duties of a school board chair. They preside at all meetings of the board, and perform all duties imposed by our board policies.

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WLWV Board Room: They assist the superintendent and planning the Board agenda represent the district and the Board at official functions, except when this responsibility is delegated to others. They're responsible for the orderly conduct of all board meetings they call special meetings when required. They appoint all committees and serve as the ex officio member on those committees unless otherwise ordered.

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WLWV Board Room: They keep the vice chair informed on all pertinent matters, in case the chair is apps absent. They act as a resource to the superintendent. They sign the minutes and all official documents, and they assume other duties, is authorized by the Board.

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WLWV Board Room: The Oregon School Board Association also makes it clear that as an elected official, the Board Chair is expected to participate in board actions, and as the Board leader. They do not dominate the discussion or force an opinion of the board.

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WLWV Board Room: The chair can make motions, and does not have to leave the chair to participate in discussions.

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and Osba recommends that the Chair use their authority to make motion sparingly.

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WLWV Board Room: The chair is expected to vote on a motion, provided there is no conflict of interest. and pursuant to Oregon's public meeting, law requires that the vote of every Board member be recorded by name in the minutes

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WLWV Board Room: The board chair is expected to understand and enforce the rules for public meetings.

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WLWV Board Room: and this includes giving appropriate meeting notices, holding meetings within the district boundaries, holding meetings in a location that's successful to the public, and conduct the Board's business in public at public meetings, and provide written minutes for Board review

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WLWV Board Room: specific. Here to the Westland Wilsonville School district. Our Board chair provides leadership regard regarding our board operating agreements. They meet with the superintendent and Board secretary each week to prepare the School Board meeting agenda, or as needed.

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WLWV Board Room: they respond to community emails, letters, and messages that are addressed to the Full Board and provide a copy of that to our full board.

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WLWV Board Room: and they work with the Superintendent and District Communications Director on the Content of responses. The School Board Chair also responds when the complaint process has reached the point of the School Board, and they work with the superintendent and Hr. Director on responses.

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WLWV Board Room: and then, lastly, they communicate with fellow board members on any issues or concerns regarding a board member's code of conduct. And most importantly, they lead by example and help problem solve toward a resolution that involves direct and respectful communication. So again, this full listing is available online. But with that I will open nominations for our Westland Wilsonville School Board chair.

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WLWV Board Room: I nominate Lewis Taylor for board chair.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll second

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WLWV Board Room: we have any other nominations for School Board chair

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WLWV Board Room: alright, seeing then, please call the roll. Certainly Dan Shoemaker.

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WLWV Board Room: Kelly flu.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, Liz Taylor.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi.

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WLWV Board Room: Megan Vidal. Yes, Kirsten Wyatt, I thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. Oh, don't forget.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. Here we go.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you guys all I'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you. And I've learned a lot from Kirsten and Kelly and the previous board members, and I look forward to learning a lot from you, Dan, and you 2 main. So thank you for your trust. Appreciate it.

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WLWV Board Room:  The next item on the agenda is now to nominate and elect a vice chair

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WLWV Board Room: and in the spirit of of Kirsten's

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WLWV Board Room: process I'm gonna do the same thing just explained an overview of what the vice chair is responsible for, and the typical duties of the School Board. Vice chairs entails an absence of the board chair, the vice chair shall perform the duties of the chair, and when so acting

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WLWV Board Room: shall have all of the power of the board share

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WLWV Board Room: the vice chair of the board, will supervise the superintendent. Evaluation process, tabulate data, summarize narratives, and present the results for discussions at the public board meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: The Vice Chair will distribute the superintendent and evaluation to the board members and the superintendent. By June first of each year the evaluation process will be completed no later than June thirtieth each year.

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WLWV Board Room:  the Vice Chair will also, for the school district provide leadership regarding the Board's operating agreements and code of conduct. Policies

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WLWV Board Room: meet with the Superintendent, board, secretary, and board share each week, if possible, to prepare the Board meeting agenda, receive updates, and review any correspondence and communications.

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WLWV Board Room: and so I will now open the floor for a nomination.

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to nominate Director Kirsten Wyatt

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WLWV Board Room: for vice chair.

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WLWV Board Room: I I would I would second that motion. Huh! So we have a motion in a second.

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WLWV Board Room:  Shall we

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WLWV Board Room: take the vote before I go to that? I to ask, is there any other nominations for for vice chair?

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WLWV Board Room: I hear none. Now. Shall we take the vote

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WLWV Board Room: chair, Taylor? Could I just make. I just want to thank both of you for stepping up to

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WLWV Board Room: Take on more responsibility and more time with me than this staff. And just, you know, the last 2 years watching you serve with such integrity and thoughtfulness.

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WLWV Board Room: it's just exciting. And we're looking forward to your both of your leadership on the board. and we know that we're in good hands. I want to thank all 5 board members

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WLWV Board Room: for your service, and stepping into this new school year and serving our community. So thank you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I appreciate it.

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WLWV Board Room: Next on the agenda our the board member and superintendent reports.

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WLWV Board Room: So I have the wonderful opportunity to meet with both Megan and Dan before we have the Board meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: and I'm very excited to

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WLWV Board Room: welcome them aboard, and also just work with them and our collaborative collaboratively as we move forward for this next school year.

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WLWV Board Room: as School Board director is one of the most rewarding

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WLWV Board Room: duties we get to have is attending the graduations, and that's always a fun time. It's an honor to hand the diplomas to the graduates of Westland

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WLWV Board Room: and Wilsonville High School, and next no, no, next year we won't have oversight. But That was a fun highlight.

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WLWV Board Room: and just getting together

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WLWV Board Room: without the official duties. The 5 of us Carpool down to memorial Coliseum.

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WLWV Board Room: And then I attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new primary school in Wilsonville on a super hot day.

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WLWV Board Room: but it was fun, and we got to wear hard hats and best, and had a golden shovel and got to break in the ground for the new

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WLWV Board Room: And then I have some other meetings, and I'm ready to continue on.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room:  I'll move myself to last, because it's okay with everyone. we'll move on to Director Vitall.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. I just want to say first, that I'm so honored and humbled to be here to be elected by the voters. I'm I'm very excited to serve with this board and with this excellent administration here in our school district.

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WLWV Board Room: in June. I attended a fourth grade, dual language, poetry cafe, which was a really unique experience at my son's school, which is Lowry primary. I was also a Field Day volunteer for 4 h.

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WLWV Board Room: and I attended a pta meeting. I also was very impressed when I intended the math curriculum meeting here at the district.

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WLWV Board Room: with principal hubing, and Dr. Soyson about the the diligent work all of our middle school math teachers have done, and I attended that with director's loop, and I was so happy to have her there and to meet with her. This month was was really nice as well as well as chair. Taylor. I really appreciate everybody's

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WLWV Board Room: tutelage to get to get up to speed. I also attended the groundbreaking for Frog Pond, which is very exciting, since it's in Wilsonville, where I live. I'm excited for that elementary school, and that we also in Wilsonville had a Juneteenth celebration, where I got to meet some of our black student Union members

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WLWV Board Room: from Wilsonville High School, and they led children and attendees on a bat. Black history scavenger hunt which was really fun and educational. So that's it.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: And director shoemaker

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WLWV Board Room: slow us to trigger that if I can. So first I want to thank the community for the trust they put in boards, and particularly for the the trust in us. I want to thank the the many people and individuals and groups that that I was able to meet with over the course of the month from January till now.

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WLWV Board Room: People just care about their schools. And it's just so clear that

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these are not grievance oriented people. These are people who just care about their schools and care about education. So I I appreciate that. And I look forward to continuing to hear those voices.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, one highlight I I I was able to visit one classroom of a Todd Jones at West on High School, right as he was retiring, and his last class of kids, that seniors were already gone. So these were the the mostly juniors in this class, and it he invited me just for the last couple of minutes, and the kids stayed around. They wanted to talk

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WLWV Board Room: and What I heard from the students is one. They want to be prepared

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WLWV Board Room: for whatever is next, and they don't know what's next, and they want to be prepared anyway. they want choice.

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WLWV Board Room: and they're excited to have some options next year for choice that they felt like they haven't had in the past.

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WLWV Board Room: and they want parking. But they're going to

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WLWV Board Room: and and that's that. That's what that that fits with what I've heard from parents over the course of the last 6 months, and so I'm I'm grateful to hear it straight from kids to that's it.

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WLWV Board Room: And I'll you an apology for saying, Shoot maker! it's it I still, I'm haunted by that last name, because when we played Uc. Davis in college. There was a wide receiver named Shoemaker, and he torched us, and every time he scored they throw shoes onto the field. So when I see that name. I still go back to those moments, so I know it's Schumacher. I apologize it. It it's shoemaker, but I I promise that I will not in any way torch you because I I got it right. I lacked those. I lack those skills.

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WLWV Board Room: thank you. next up Director Wyatt. They may throw shoes at you, I guess, depending on how this goes. But I just wanted to mention that if folks haven't had a chance to drive by the new Athe Creek Middle School or drive by and see the new sign for Riverside High School.

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WLWV Board Room: both things will just give you goose bumps with excitement, because it's so exciting to see the progress that's being made, because both of those schools open this fall, and I've talked to some people in the community that think that we have another year. And no, it's happening. It's happening this fall. and it's really exciting to just see those schools coming together. And to think about the new communities that are going to be built there. and I have to also just give a shout out to the Riverside Instagram account.

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They have done a wonderful job of really humanizing and introducing all of the teacher and teachers and staff who are there? It gives you a sense of all of the pride and excitement that that school will bring as well as all of the sports and activities, and then, of course, the Cte curriculum. So just If you get a chance, drive by those 2 locations and then give a riverside, a follow on Instagram, because they're doing a great job.

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WLWV Board Room: Thanks

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WLWV Board Room:  First off I'm honored to have the opportunity to serve in this role.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, the last 2 years has been very rewarding. Get one getting to know everybody up here and getting to know many of you who are in the crowd tonight. And so I look forward to continuing that work forward and moving the needle on things that are important to our community, to our kids.

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WLWV Board Room: to our staff.

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WLWV Board Room: And I think you guys again for having trust in me and yeah. And and you know, putting me in this role of leadership. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I, too, have fun at graduation.

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WLWV Board Room: at Wilsonville High and at West Lynn and I actually kidnapped all the board members after one of the graduations and kind of took him on a field trip, and and they were a little bit surprised. So he said, Where are you taking us? So I didn't tell them. But

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WLWV Board Room: And we ended up having a really good time to celebrate graduation and my summer has been kind of low key. So I don't have a lot to report other than just watching while you guys go through your races

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WLWV Board Room: and kind of sitting back. And and I remember having that experience and what it was like. And I didn't envy you to tell you that much. So welcome aboard. I look forward to getting know you guys a lot better. So thank you. And that'll be all for me today

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WLWV Board Room: up next we have the consent agenda which will require board action, and we're going to start with the personnel report by Miss Shadow Alderman. our director of human resources. Before we do that, could I do my superintendent report?

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WLWV Board Room: I did just skip right over you did not. So you know, I we're gonna back up a little bit, and I'm gonna make some mistakes. By the way, today, everybody so be prepared for them. I'm sorry the superintendent report, Dr. Lugin, please. You have the

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WLWV Board Room: all right, so we'll just go to the.

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WLWV Board Room: So what have we been doing in July? You've been able to share some of what you've been up to.

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WLWV Board Room: Our biggest event in July with our students is actually summer school. And you're going to hear about that in a little bit. I've invited Dr. Prior to share a few pictures, and some of the highlights of summer school have very active, vibrant summer school with a K 5 program, a 6, 8, and then, of course, high school. So you'll learn a little bit more about that. But that's what's been keeping a lot of us busy. During July.

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WLWV Board Room: as you'll get to see through the consent agenda. We've also been hiring a lot of people, and so a lot of interviews screening meet and greets Hr then meets with folks who have been hired and gives them a little bit of an orientation, and so we've been hiring staff like crazy, so that they are in place and ready to go in August when we have a lot of our orientations.

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WLWV Board Room: and we're already preparing for August. So sometimes people wonder what happens in the summer. We're actually preparing for the fall very busily, so that when people come back. Things are in place. some of that does involve reviewing

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WLWV Board Room: some of our many documents or policies, making sure things are updated. we have recently updated our student rights and Responsibility Handbook. And I want to thank our Director of Communications, Andrew Kelstrom for leading that. And that Revised Handbook will be up and available to families right away.

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WLWV Board Room: in August. we're reviewing our community use facilities just to see how we're doing in terms of serving the community and making spaces available. And what the rental fees are, and just whether we have good, clear communication about our facilities.

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WLWV Board Room: and then something new for us that you we might share a little bit more with you as we go along. But we're starting a new program called Smart Start in August. This is for students with who are served with an Iep individualized education program or on a 5 or 4 plan. So it's through special education and additional opportunity for them to meet their teacher

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WLWV Board Room: and their case manager before school starts. So sometimes when you think about the ice cream, social or the Popsicle social. Sometimes that's the first time teachers get to see their students and vice versa. It can feel very busy and low hectic. And then the first day of school sometimes feels a little overwhelming. So the intention with this is for students to have kind of a quieter, calm, more individualized opportunity for some meet and greet So we're getting ready for that new program as well.

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WLWV Board Room: And one of the other reviews that we're doing, that we want to give you a heads up on is about our bus routes.

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WLWV Board Room: and as we all know.

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WLWV Board Room: across the nation there is still a school bus driver shortage Just the other day, as I was driving around as in a different school district area, and soft bus drivers out with their signs, and some of our folks picture shows some of our out folks out recruiting trying to find drivers for this next school year.

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WLWV Board Room: we also know that wages have increased and gas prices have gone up. So part of the review that we're doing this summer is to review that contract with first student make sure it's still is competitive in terms of what our neighboring school districts are offering and in line with competitive wages, so that we can retain our good drivers and also be able to recruit effectively. So the review is considering those components.

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WLWV Board Room: We also reviewing our bus routes because we're opening a new high school. And so part of that means getting some busing options for students, which means taking a look at our high school routes, which means. Then taking a look at middle school and primary. So it's been a good summer

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WLWV Board Room: for us to get out maps and look at bus stops.

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WLWV Board Room: people who have put together our summer school program. We as you probably know, we offer summer school. It's a starts in upcoming first graders through high schoolers. And I'm just going to share with you some key elements of both the primary middle and then the high program.

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WLWV Board Room: and if you want to to come back to primary school classrooms, bring some pond water into your classroom. It's incredibly effective. the middle school has put an incredible amount of time and effort into developing units of study that you can see listed here. which students self select based on their interest. So you can see by some of these titles, aviation, Academy, reading and writing poetry

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WLWV Board Room: And then again, I I'm standing up here representing a lot of hours and planning and tinkering from many, many people. First of all, I just want to thank all of our summer school teachers, I think, finishing up school and agreeing. I'm joyfully agreeing to attend to training a few days after school is out and setting up another classroom. I think it's an incredible

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WLWV Board Room: at the middle level. We have our middle level mentor, Allison bond savage. our crest Coordinator Program Corner, Daniel Schroeder and Instructional coordinator for student services. Marian Watmanoshima

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WLWV Board Room: for all students. Every day our operations team is in the middle of closing down schools, starting projects, also building new classrooms and locating furniture so we can open it. one thing you'll never see is the work of our nursing team, who scrambles to review every child who's enrolled to make sure that we can meet all their health protocols because they're peanut allergies or or other things that we need to attend to.

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WLWV Board Room: now i'll move on to the present agenda which will require board action. And we're going to start with the personnel report by Miss Shadow Walden, and she's our director of human resources.

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Barb, forcing. Excuse me. with the department of teacher and learning, teaching and learning.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening and welcome director, shoemaker. do welcome, Director Vidal, and it's really going to be fun to present to this new board about this work we've been doing, and we'd like to be joined by

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WLWV Board Room: some of those who actually done the work on this. So if you'd clown up, I'd like to introduce those who will be talking about the work that we've been doing for several years on this curriculum renewal and adoption. As as you know, it takes a while for us to do this. to do this right. So this is Katie Canalis, and Katie is the Ld. Teacher or language specialist at Athy Creek and Rosemont Ridge, Middle Schools.

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WLWV Board Room: Middle school, but he was math teacher at Westland High School, and has a a really deep math history, and he has been colliding this work, and Scott Mays, who's a learning specialist at Wood Middle School, and we're going to sing no

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WLWV Board Room: every 6 to eighth grade math teacher. Prior to this, every high school teacher was involved.

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WLWV Board Room: So we have done that. And then the the process. There's a team. And again, every math teacher, middle level was involved in the middle level adoption.

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WLWV Board Room: Thanks, Dr. Soyson. thank you. I'm really excited to be here to share about this process. It's been there has been a process, has been a number of years now that we've been working on this, and really excited to tell you about. You know the sort of timeline that we've been working on together, and then ultimately the the outcome of our selection.

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WLWV Board Room: class content In response to seeing the successes that our students were having again. This work was supported throughout the school year, and I think this is really important to mention that teachers were coming together, not just once or twice before the school year started, but really continuing ongoing work and and developing these students collaboratively and looking back and seeing what the data showed them along the way to make adjustments. And it was really was great to be a part of that process as well.

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WLWV Board Room: our, what our instructional philosophies, what are the ways that we're going to be assessing students. and what do they need to be ready to learn at each grade level, so that, prepared as well to be able to look at some curricular materials.

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WLWV Board Room: And then again, as I mentioned the eighth grade course, is also looking ahead at the High School to see what changes are are being made there in the courses that they're offering And then, by March of 2023 this year, all of our middle level math teachers, our specialists and administrators had participated in some form of renewal work looking at the scope and sequence, looking at the unit plans so that everybody is in a really well situated place to start looking at. Okay, what are the curricular materials we want to bring in to help us execute this plan.

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WLWV Board Room: And we used as Kenny, I think, alluded to. We use the math instructional practice as the national ones that the national recommendations for finding in math curriculum. And then Oregon had their own set. So we made sure that the ones we used were ones that were approved by Oregon.

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WLWV Board Room: interesting and engaging materials that prompt the students to inquire and go to the next level with their math thinking? And am I looking at what we're going to recommend. It seems like it will do that. materials that provide not only additional practice, but applications, extensions, and links to the next learning with similar concepts. And so students who are ready to go further, there's material there to to pull from and use

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WLWV Board Room: the conceptual understanding. And they're using a language that's needed for the task of learning. So those are some of the things that our, you know, kind of what we've been using as our lens when we've been working with with our English language learners, and I had the opportunity to work in Rob's class. a couple, you know, for 2 years now, and it's been really, really, really fun to see students engaging in some of that work and feeling really confident.

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WLWV Board Room: So 10 of the students did increase in. you know, they they met those growth targets on the map, mathematics, assessments from winter 2,021 to one or 2,023 at sixth and seventh grade, and that reflects some of this renewal work that that the math teachers were engaging in

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WLWV Board Room: okay. So the implications for the math curriculum materials. So the materials that we you know that we want to be using.

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WLWV Board Room: They prompt student talk. They prompt that interactive processing that I was talking about for understanding the materials ideally will include visuals and clear examples, and they would make clear and frequent connections between math vocabulary and the problems or tasks and consistent use of that conceptual vocabulary for for language learners.

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WLWV Board Room: we did quite a bit developing formative assessments and eld over the past year. through an Oregon State University force that we took, but we know that formative assessments are extremely important for our language learners, but also for all students. to distinguish. You know that math content, understanding from like language, learning.

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WLWV Board Room: So here the considerations for multilingual learners, students need curriculum materials that promote daily, purposeful student talk about the content that they are learning in classes.

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WLWV Board Room: Students need visuals and examples. They can access as part of the curriculum and having materials available on Spanish. the first language of most of our multilingual learners in Western Wilsonville is an advantage for learning. kind of brings me back just to assume that Rob and I had We were, you know, spending some time making materials for the student and making sure. You know that in those first few

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WLWV Board Room: So Rob shared a little bit just that there. There were some comments not specific to curriculum or materials. Just that. students sometimes think math is really hard, and they feel like they're not good at it.

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WLWV Board Room: conversely, need more challenge and rigor and math and and also parents, have asked how middle school math is going to prepare their students for high school math and science courses, and have asked for assurance that their students will be ready for success with high school math and thank you, Kenny, for what you shared about kind of planning for for you know the high school math, and how that's going to be implemented in the some of the eighth grade

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WLWV Board Room: All right. I'm back to bring it home here. So we narrowed it down to 4 curriculum sort of programs. after going through the ode rubric, spending a lot of time really creating those look fors before we really engage too much with like, okay, let's get into this text. Let's bring it into my classroom and see what it looks like. Let's just make sure that these curricular programs that we're looking at really aligned with what we're doing programmatically across the district.

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WLWV Board Room: So we had these 4 folks come in and then, if we can go to the next slide.

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WLWV Board Room: practices in the way that it's set up. Does it include adaptive practice and skill practice that will address some of our learners that are at varying levels. Right? We know we have to differentiate in the classroom is the curriculum going to support that it has a strong digital component which I'm excited to tell you about, but it also has the resources and the materials that they have. You get to write in as well. So the the student textbook which has all the information, and it also has the space for students

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for our middle schoolers. It's really important that they just have kind of one place where everything lives, because the more it lives in different places, the more likely they are to lose something, or you know how. Guess? So the the really great thing about this amplified program is it's a partnership with Desmos and Desmos is kind of an interactive digital tool. that many there's been around for a while that many of our teachers have already had the experience working with.

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WLWV Board Room: And as a teacher you have the ability to see everything that's happening on your student screens in real time as well. So you can be like, wait a minute. We've got somebody on like screen 12 over here, and then most of the classes on screen to. Still, we need to pause. We need to see what's going on. We need to figure out how to support that student that's going really far ahead of things. And we need to figure out what's going on with the rest of the class, too. So lot of great digital feedback. And it's a great great tool.

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WLWV Board Room: in for eighth grade students. and as we've seen in classroom pilot so far, students really like it. And it's it's been engaging to work with. So

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, this is the last slide. part of it is back to the process. And that's our communication. One of the things about these processes is the working with informing the community. Getting input from parents is ongoing. And for the math one, it actually started in June 2,021, when we were all still doing

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WLWV Board Room: How is that going to happen? So every child every day has new learning, and then the last one is the being ready for high school. One of the reasons for moving the standards around was, we have seen. And this isn't just sort of nationally. been in place for about 15 years that students need to have a solid algebra one background before they go to high school.

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WLWV Board Room: and that sometimes in the courses that we had, you know, 6, 7, 8. There were some students who were doing that. The other thing we wanted to communicate with parents and get input on is we have not removed the accelerated math classes at seventh and eighth grade, and part of it is eighth grade. You have algebra and geometry, and right now there is still a statewide discussion, and all high schools in the State are looking at geometry

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with some of this math, 2 plus one initiative. So we hooked into that.

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WLWV Board Room: Our eighth graders will use the same geometry curriculum that the high school students use, but that

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WLWV Board Room: starting with

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WLWV Board Room: in June 2,021, and honestly, we'd expected that some families might not be real pleased, because that had been something that had been in place for a long time. We have not had

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WLWV Board Room: feedback about not having accelerated math. It's still come back to those themes individually with students that we acknowledge that we need to work on. And that's why we picked out those gaps, you know, percentages and gaps. That that's where we're paying attention to. And this during the renewal process, I'd like in that to, you know, when you go through these processes we don't want to wait for our

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WLWV Board Room: community and our parent input until it's here's the materials, you know, parallel. That was, for example, in literacy. There were nights in schools this year. Where

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WLWV Board Room: come on in. Let's look at literacy.

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WLWV Board Room: And as you know, we're not looking at materials yet. So that

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WLWV Board Room: collection of input is ongoing at middle level. A lot of the collection of input from parents happens at conferences.

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WLWV Board Room: And that's something that you saw in an earlier slide that

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WLWV Board Room: the information from parents came from, you know, 2,015 to 2,019. We kind of just collect some of those same themes, you know, again and again.

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WLWV Board Room: So anyway, that's the communication about the process. And then we have not had a lot of direct feedback about the

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WLWV Board Room: amplify math. Desmos. it's been on our website. Andrew Kelstrom sent it to every family, you know. So it wasn't just passively there. And

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WLWV Board Room: there's been some interest, but not anything that has said. you know

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positive or negative things. about the curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: so we continue to leave those on the website.

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WLWV Board Room: and you know, have the that out. We had 2 sessions that we offered. that we we didn't attract a crowd. We'll put it that way. you know, in in terms of coming in and talking about math

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WLWV Board Room: that's kind of where we are with looking at the process to collect input the input from the staff. As we've already said several times. Everybody was in on that, you know, with this. So there wasn't, you know, there wasn't something that we were concerned with about that, and we included our

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WLWV Board Room: high school staff as well. So that's something that you know, we'll continue to work with and continue to like. Look at the especially the the gap data, the challenge, and the preparation for not only the math scores and students go to high school, but what's their choice of math courses based on this in science courses? That's also data that we keep. So

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WLWV Board Room: we're ready for your questions.

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WLWV Board Room: do we

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WLWV Board Room: have questions?

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WLWV Board Room: I can start with you. Do you have any questions? No.

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WLWV Board Room: you haven't. You have any, Dan? Yeah, I could real quickly.

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WLWV Board Room: thank you that was very thorough. I appreciate that. I I did have a question about, and and Dr. Soy and I have had conversations about this

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WLWV Board Room: for years. about sometimes in high school there is a sense

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WLWV Board Room: that math is is just about the mechanics right? How do you mechanically do algebra, as opposed to the understanding of algebra at a level where sometimes a high school teacher may say

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WLWV Board Room: that student doesn't quite understand algebra. What they really mean is they can't deal with fractional coefficients or something like that.

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WLWV Board Room: when.

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WLWV Board Room: Ha! Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: there, there were times when when high school teachers were involved. Right. They have different materials that they're using in vision, as I as I understand.

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WLWV Board Room: we do. Did they have feedback on that piece like how well this prepares kids sort of for the mechanical part of doing

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WLWV Board Room: math. You can all talk any one of you whatever. Yeah, I'm happy. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room:  I think that. Yeah, no, I think it's really vital to have the high school teachers as a part of this process, because their input, and what they're exclusive, right? These are our students that they're going and then working with at the high school level. So it's really important that we're taking in their input as well. I do know particularly. You know some of the colleagues that I work with at Westland High School. they've used the Des most math program as well. And I think again.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, when I change the coefficient, for example, to like a a lower fraction or a negative fraction, or something like that. What does that look like? And how does that come up right away? And they get that immediate feedback. So I think students have a more engaging experience of understanding why some of those mechanical operations that you speak of like, why they work the way that they do, and not just in a way that's like I'm doing some worksheet that has me drawing lines. But actually, no, I'm doing this fun activity that's about like the slope of it.

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WLWV Board Room: or the car going down down a racetrack or something like that. And so they're getting that feedback on those mechanical operations in a way that

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WLWV Board Room: one, they get more repetition, which I think is really important, because that builds fluency, but also they see the connection to. why, if I change this, how does it actually affect the experience, or the the line, or whatever it?

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, thank you. And I would just add to that that it it is procedural. I know that the common core now with algebra, it it sometimes give them the algorithm. Let them see what that is, as opposed to the math curriculum, and some of the ones, all of them that came from the last iteration were more explore around in the problem.

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WLWV Board Room: And I know that that's what we've talked about is what's the balance with that? One thing that I think we we might not have clarified is a lot of times in curriculum, renewal, and adoption. You hear this word core and supplemental.

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WLWV Board Room: And the way this worked with this math program, it just so happened that amplify which is a core curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: has merged

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WLWV Board Room: with Desmos, which would be considered a supplemental

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WLWV Board Room: when we do our curriculum, renewals, and adoptions. Here we bring both forward. But we haven't specified supplemental as much because of that, because it happened in some of the other programs. For example, in mid school math, they didn't necessarily have a

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WLWV Board Room: supplemental or something that allowed for adaptive practice. And that's again, kind of that balance of foundations, procedural practice. What are the rules? What do you have to know? Sort of thing with the actual application in the core curriculum? So you're hearing when you hear Desmos think that that's that's what we're bringing forward.

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WLWV Board Room: Any other questions.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Appreciate the in-depth explanation of all of your work, and it does sound like it was a lot of work. So thank you all for for the time.

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WLWV Board Room:  do we have a motion to

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approve the amplified education as been presented?

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WLWV Board Room: I moved to adopt, amplify education for middle school, mathematics and vision math for high school, algebra and big ideas, geometry for middle and high school. And do we have a second. I'll second

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WLWV Board Room: and any discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: I didn't. Yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: I initially was going to ask this as a question. But then Dr. Soyson was

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WLWV Board Room: so attentive and included at the end. But I just wanted to make a comment about How impressive the work is that that you all did the time that went into it. The study, the energy, the expertise and

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WLWV Board Room: that specifically

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WLWV Board Room: means that I'm going to support this this adoption, because I know so much hard work and energy went into this process. But I'll also say, as a board member watching curriculum, renewal and adoption. This is also just been hugely informative and understanding the effort and time that our professionals put into curriculum evaluation, and especially as we've talked a lot about our literacy curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: watching this from start to finish. and seeing the time and energy that has gone into it from our staff. and the involvement of parents. it's been really, really, enlightening. And so I really appreciate that ability to see this In addition to the fact that you know, you shared with us.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, hard data on test scores. But then you're also looking at things like our panorama data. And you're thinking about the needs of all of our learners. And it was so apparent, in your presentation tonight, and then just in the

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WLWV Board Room: the staff packet online. And so just really, wanna thank you for that. And I think the the one thing I I do want to point out is You know, one thing I feel like Dr. Ludwig always reminds us of is you could have any curriculum, but it really comes down to

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The talent and the passion of your teachers that are teaching that curriculum. and I felt like Mr. Hyson when you were talking about how excited kids were, and how they felt like mathematicians. that comes directly from teachers like you and your peers. who are doing this work. And so

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WLWV Board Room: the fact that you've invested time to identify these as the right curriculum paired with the work that you all are doing. for me makes this, you know, absolute you know, want to support the work that you've done make this adoption And and hopefully, we have all of our kids saying that their mathematicians, too, because that really was a meaningful way to describe that. So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: director. Sloop.

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WLWV Board Room: yes, I

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WLWV Board Room: we will reiterate what, director? Why, it said, is

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WLWV Board Room: After going to the meeting that principal you, you, Banks, had, as well as Dr. Soyson.

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WLWV Board Room: I was very reassured as a whole curriculum process, and how it started back in 2,021. The teachers had hands on

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WLWV Board Room: a voice, and they went through ode approved list. They went through the rubric, and then they did their own of what they wanted. in particular, that would best fit all of our students.

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WLWV Board Room: and I will definitely be approving this curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: I love the fact that it has Desmo's integrated in it. Where you get immediate feedback. So it is is Mr. You Bank said

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WLWV Board Room: a teacher immediately. Can tell who's who's getting it and who's not, and can adjust the classroom? I like the collaboration that allows the students. It has adaptive practice for our eld and our Iep students.

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WLWV Board Room: And that's our student interaction where they can collaborate together. Because sometimes, if you're hearing it. it takes a as another student in a different language of time, of explaining it.

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WLWV Board Room: and that there's the digital. And then also the textbook.

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WLWV Board Room: or text version. But what I really liked as a parent is the workbook. because I don't know common core math. I learned the old fashioned way.

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WLWV Board Room: but the descriptions in there were so thorough that a parent who was trying to help help their child could easily read the workbook and understand it.

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WLWV Board Room: and also the workbook. Everything is together. So you're not relying on your students to make their own math book, you know notebook, and then trying to go through their notes and understand what they were learning that day.

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WLWV Board Room: So the notebook workbook is very thorough, and then the biggest thing that I think that is an advantage to this, that it's available in Spanish.

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WLWV Board Room: So a a parent who speaks Spanish only at home could

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WLWV Board Room: be engaged in their students learning for math Or if there's a Spanish student that wants to have that in their native language.

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WLWV Board Room: Or if there's a

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WLWV Board Room: take it up and watch and learn Spanish math or math through Spanish language. So

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WLWV Board Room: I think this offers a lot of checks a lot of the boxes off, and I will be voting us on it

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WLWV Board Room: the any other discussion.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. I just want to first

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WLWV Board Room: thank all the teachers and presenters tonight I attended the session. A doctor. I have elevated your title director and It was so informative. by Dr. Soyson and principal, you, Banks, and I

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WLWV Board Room: I really appreciate it. How they guided me through their process and the content of the curriculum. And the reason it's so important to me is because I have a fifth grader in the dual language program at Lowry, and he has

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WLWV Board Room: learned math all in Spanish, and he He really excels that. And so for me, math is really important for all kids to learn, and it was very concerning to me when I looked at the data from the Organ Department of Education

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WLWV Board Room: in the last 4 years to see that our students in our district, our math scores, were declining for our eighth graders, but I believe that this curriculum will raise them all up like you all mentioned during your presentation today, and I really appreciate your just candidness and your passion. for math and your in food.

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WLWV Board Room: And I think that will translate to your students, especially when you talk about these dynamic conversations surrounding math that I never had as a student. And I love to hear that students today are having these dynamic conversations

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WLWV Board Room: the adaptability is very important to me, the visuals and Also, I do appreciate that parents

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WLWV Board Room: along with this Desmo and the workbook can follow along with their students and assist them if they need to. when they're doing their homework. And then, lastly, I'm so happy to hear that all the math teachers that worked on this rated amplify a one except for one giving it a 2. I think that really signifies to me

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WLWV Board Room: the quality of the curriculum. So thank you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. And I echo what I've heard up here, and I trust in the work that you've done.

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WLWV Board Room: And One thing that I was most excited about was the ability, for.

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WLWV Board Room: I think that when it went from the old school math that we've learned to this new map that no one could figure out

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WLWV Board Room: to going back to something that will allow parents to be engaged and not feel frustrated and like they don't, you know, because I know there was many times when I was trying to help my daughters.

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WLWV Board Room: or I just say it just, is the answer, because it is

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WLWV Board Room: right, and you know you get frustrated as a parent and your your child as you. But then, how do you know? Because it's right.

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WLWV Board Room: you know, trust me right. And I think that when you have the explanations to be able to walk a child through that. Not only does it give apparent credibility

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WLWV Board Room: that maybe they would have never gotten. and it'll build the lines of communication and trust between child and parent, and maybe a a different level of confidence when they come in the classroom.

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WLWV Board Room: knowing that they can go home and get that support that maybe they didn't have in previous years. So thank you for finding something that allows us as parents to feel like we're winning to so, and lastly, my my last favorite part was, I always enjoy seeing

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WLWV Board Room: kind of the rough draft things behind the scene, and my favorite slide was the slide with all of the tally marks.

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WLWV Board Room: and the ones and twos and threes and fors. I mean in my world that just shows that you sat in a war room, and really had to figure out what was important.

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WLWV Board Room: and being that there is a race marks and pencil and all the other stuff I love to see that part of it, because I think it it. It shows kind of the due diligence that went into it. And so thank you, and I'll be supporting this curriculum to also.

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WLWV Board Room: I'll turn it over to, if that's all, and there's nothing else. I turn over to Miss Douglas.

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WLWV Board Room: Jack to shoemaker

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WLWV Board Room: chair. Taylor bye.

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WLWV Board Room: Director Vidal. Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: and Vice chair one. Alright. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. Chair chair, Taylor. Could I? Could I make a comment? I just want to build off of what our director said, and just thank the 4 of you. I know, who represent far more of your colleagues who couldn't be here tonight. So first of all to the 4 of you, thank you for setting aside some summer time

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WLWV Board Room: away from your families to be here tonight. You perhaps set aside some vacation time or a fun activity to be with us tonight. Clearly your presence, you telling the story of your hard work was so important for our Board to understand the process. So thank you for your time commitment not only during the process, but also tonight, and preparing for tonight. And please extend our thanks to your colleagues who you represent.

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WLWV Board Room: And I heard that comment, Rob, you're ready to start right away. Get those materials ordered, and what'll be exciting is an invitation, I think, for our Board members to visit math next year to make that a priority in the fall, and come and see some middle school math and action, to watch some Desmo's activities, and and to be in classrooms, and to see what you're describing occurring for our students. So we'll be watching math next year.

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WLWV Board Room: So thank you so much. Really appreciate.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. moving on to the Communications department. Mr. Kelstrom.

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WLWV Board Room: All right.

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WLWV Board Room: good evening board

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WLWV Board Room:  before you. You have a memo and accompanying documents regarding our school districts. Local option levy.

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WLWV Board Room: we are incredibly fortunate. in Western Muslim that we've had a local option might be in place since 2,000 And what the local option is is, it's a really additional

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WLWV Board Room: funding source for teachers. So we use it only for teachers in our school district. It currently funds about 90 teachers in our district.

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WLWV Board Room: as you can see. This is a true renewal. It would not be a an increase to the tax rate, but it would be a renewal of that $1.5 per 1,000 assessed value.

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WLWV Board Room: it is set to expire in June thirtieth of 2,025. So we are proactive and bringing this to you. as a first read tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: in terms of timeline. If we did want to place

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WLWV Board Room: local optional local option renewal on the November ballot. the deadline to file it is August eighteenth. So tonight would be a first reading and in August. we would need adopted language so that we could place it on that November

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WLWV Board Room: in front of you. You have the proposed language, the ballot title, question, summary, explanatory statement.

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WLWV Board Room: it has been vetted by legal counsel. It's very similar to language we've used in the past.

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WLWV Board Room: there are advantages to placing the the local option on the November ballot.

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WLWV Board Room: really, it provides time for planning for the district in the event that it was either passed or not passed.

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WLWV Board Room: it does also allow for additional opportunities. should it not pass to to go out again?

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WLWV Board Room: November is also obviously a presidential primary election. There will be bigger turnout. kind of cuts down on some of that variance you might see in some of those smaller special elections.

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WLWV Board Room: and then further timeline again. the local option could be placed on about any time up until it does expire in June thirtieth of 2,025

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WLWV Board Room: And and again, it's just a first reading tonight. We're here to answer any questions you might have. If you want any background on the history of the local option, the district. I'm happy to answer your questions.

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WLWV Board Room: any questions from any of the directors.

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WLWV Board Room: I was just gonna add that it also gives you time between now and our meeting in August to reach out to Mr. Kelstrom, or myself or Dr. Hughes. So you don't have to think of everything tonight, but you can digest the information. You can look at more numbers if you want to. Just kind of think through scenarios and have some of that

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WLWV Board Room: opportunity. And then in August we'll really get into looking for some direction from the board. as to what you'd like to do.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't. I don't see any question. Oh, no, we do it. We do have one.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm not sure if you'll have this information right now, and if you don't, that's fine. But I was wondering if you knew some of the rates in in surrounding communities and surrounding districts.

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WLWV Board Room: certainly, so it it does vary, and not every district has a local option. I should add, we are. We are very fortunate to have that in place and Westland Wilsonville.

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WLWV Board Room: really, what it comes down to is you can't exceed the $5 per 1,000 assessed value. So we also have, of course, a capital bond in place, so that affects the rate as well. lake Oswego is the most recent example of passing a local option. They did that in May they rate 150.

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WLWV Board Room: I believe it's a dollar 85. I'm not 100% sure on that. Oh, it's like. in those days we have a total of 197 school district in Oregon, and it's only around 6 school district. How the local option, so I can hit through their lists up. What's going up how to upfront

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WLWV Board Room: And then for our So we have to

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WLWV Board Room: levy. The first one is a permanent property tax. So that's it. A $4 87 cent. Per 1,000, and that is in the last

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WLWV Board Room: at least a dozen year. we. We stay on that great, the second one, it a local option, and 2,012 is about $45 a 45 cent. Per 1,000 and then now we have $1 16 cents per 1,000,

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WLWV Board Room: and then the last it to go on levy. But a capital, and that's it below $3 per 1,000.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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director. Why, it

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WLWV Board Room: procedurally, do we, for a first reading? Is it just that we have this in front of us. We don't have to. You don't need to do anything. If if you feel you've we, we're kind of giving you the opportunity to know what's coming up in August. giving you materials to read, giving you opportunity to engage in conversation with Staff, and it'll be in August when then

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WLWV Board Room: we'll get into more of a robust discussion, and you may want to weigh

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WLWV Board Room: options in terms of timeline. Think through that the advantages, the disadvantages instead of doing all of that in one meeting it's a big decision

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WLWV Board Room: we wanted to

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WLWV Board Room: give. This is just start to think about it, start to learn about it, engage with Staff. So no decision or even discussion really needs to even happen tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: give yourselves time to think through it.

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WLWV Board Room: So whenever you feel as a board that

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WLWV Board Room: you're ready to move to the next agenda item. You can certainly do that.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Mr. Custom. We appreciate it. And

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WLWV Board Room: thank you for giving us a heads up and plenty of time to look it over and and meet with everybody. That's always what I appreciate. So, thanks

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WLWV Board Room: right.

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WLWV Board Room:  hmm!

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WLWV Board Room: We'll be gone to

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WLWV Board Room: looks like we're down to the end, don't we? board meeting dates?

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WLWV Board Room: And have you open to them as one?

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, all the board retreat.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. So you should have the list of those dates Kelly prepared. Kelly Douglas prepared a draft for you. One of the ones. We will need a decision, for this evening from the board is around your retreat. good due. August the eighth or the ninth

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WLWV Board Room: and then, whether you wanted morning or afternoon.

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WLWV Board Room: And then you have the

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WLWV Board Room: the list of the regular meeting dates and the work sessions there. So

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WLWV Board Room: they, the the 2 dates that are up

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WLWV Board Room: for

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WLWV Board Room: for consideration, or the eighth or the ninth? Or is that the eighth and the ninth?

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WLWV Board Room: Well, part of what was a little bit of the challenge was, as we didn't have a full board to have the discussion. We didn't know how how long of a retreat you wanted

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WLWV Board Room: whether you wanted it

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WLWV Board Room: half day, retreat a full day, how much work you felt! You wanted to accomplish, what were some of the things you wanted to work on. So I think if you you could

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WLWV Board Room: start with an idea tonight, but certainly going from this evening, now that we have a chair and a vice chair. It's one of the first things I'm going to do in the morning is reach out to the 2 of you and say, what do you think, as the leaders of the Board would be helpful in terms of a board retreat, and maybe even some input from your colleagues, and then I think you could start to think about.

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WLWV Board Room: Is this a morning with, you know, break by lunch? Do we need a whole day? Do you want to break it up into 2 days.

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WLWV Board Room: So we found a couple of days that staff could be available to you and that weren't in conflict with other things going on like the leadership retreat, or some other trainings going on in the district?

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WLWV Board Room:  okay. Are there any thoughts on that? Are we prepared to have a discussion, or would you rather take it offline, or I'm I'm open to having a discussion about it today.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm prepared to have a discussion. Yeah, I'm prepared to have a discussion. My my first discussion point is that I'm supposed to be out of town, both the 8 and the ninth. So okay.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm gone on the ninth. was the only day the eighth works for me, but

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WLWV Board Room: that was me

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WLWV Board Room: to stop doing like scheduling

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WLWV Board Room: cha cha cha, like, should we? Maybe Google, yeah. Knowing that director shoemaker can't be there? rather than trying to guess right? Is that okay? With, I mean and make sure that it's asking me, would you like Ms. Douglas, to

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WLWV Board Room: do a doodle poll? And

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let me.

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WLWV Board Room: because we've already got 2 dates that 2 of us are new, so that makes sense

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WLWV Board Room: on a positive note for me. I have no other conflicts with any other scope of dates that you have, and as typical, the calendar follows, you know, the first Monday and the third Monday. So, barring a a holiday or something, is where we've we started with that that draft of the calendar. Is that correct? Yes, 1 one thing that we did change

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WLWV Board Room: for all of you to give you a a little gift is. We made June's board meeting not the same week as all the graduations.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Dr. Jennifer Spencer. I for making sure that happened

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WLWV Board Room: so if you'd like to approve the rest of the calendar today. Then we can do a doodle pull on the retreat.

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WLWV Board Room: I have

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WLWV Board Room: one request on one of them, if I might

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WLWV Board Room: throw in a a suggestion. Is there any way we can move?

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WLWV Board Room: The January Eighth Board meeting

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WLWV Board Room: to a different day in January.

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WLWV Board Room: which would be the

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WLWV Board Room:  15.

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WLWV Board Room: They will be the fifteenth

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to the fifteenth and the

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WLWV Board Room: oh, oh, that's yeah. that is Martin Luther. So that's a holiday.

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WLWV Board Room: If if it is a conflict just with you. Chair Taylor, is that something where you could ask the vice in the, in the art of transparency?

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WLWV Board Room: That is the National Championship day

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WLWV Board Room: for college football. Yes, I heard that, and we we've missed the game for years, and so I I brought it up last year and the year before. If we could try to find a different day to have that.

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WLWV Board Room: that is a big day for families to gather, and typically us 5 or not, with our families that are all huddled up.

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WLWV Board Room: So I was hoping that in consideration of

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WLWV Board Room: personal lives, we could enjoy the National Championship. 1 one of your options could be to forego the work session that month and make it just a regular meeting on the twenty-second and not have a work session in January. If we need a special meeting. For some reason in January, around some

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WLWV Board Room: emergency business, we can always call a special meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: I would be up for that selfishly

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WLWV Board Room: and everybody else. Don't get that many Mondays in January with the New Year, and then mark on the King. It only gives us those 2 Mondays to work with. So unless we go to a different day of the week, which we know is a challenge because we've asked board members to reserve Mondays. And does the twenty-second work for everyone?

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WLWV Board Room: Would everyone be okay with that?

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WLWV Board Room: Well, you know I am because I I part of that. I just want to double check. Right? Okay? So the 20 s would work.

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WLWV Board Room: All right.

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WLWV Board Room: I ask a question, are we able to amend the calendar during

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WLWV Board Room: the school year to add, like a work session in December, if we needed one

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WLWV Board Room: to make up for the January, or or that might not be needed. So I just wanted to ask that question. Well, how about we? Traditionally, I had the work session prior to the board meeting in the past.

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WLWV Board Room: It's been challenging to have one for December because of winter break, and so we can usually just get in one regular meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: and I think one of the other tasks that the board chair and vice chair will do, and then bring back to the full board is to think about what are the topics that we know ahead of time that you, as a board, may want for your work sessions? What are those areas that you want to do more learning about.

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WLWV Board Room: because that's the goal of work. Sessions is they're not regular meetings. They're usually learning sessions.

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WLWV Board Room: about something that might be coming up.

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WLWV Board Room: For example.

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WLWV Board Room: if you did determine something about a local option Levy, you decided you wanted a work session on that. You could. We could invite an attorney or our Cfo to present more information. or if there's some other big decision you're about to make.

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WLWV Board Room: you could have a work session prior to that

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WLWV Board Room: Sometimes the Board has done a work session with a city council, and they've done a joint

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WLWV Board Room: meeting where they've each talked about their priorities and their goals for the year, and it's about networking and partnering with a joint City Council School board. work session together when they've had mutual topics of interest to each other like a bond and facilities.

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WLWV Board Room: that they're both working on improvements within the community.

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WLWV Board Room: So that's one of the things we would do is kind of look at what are some possible work sessions. And if you then have a topic that needs to happen in December.

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WLWV Board Room: you know there could be maybe a different day of the week that you designate with that work session or something.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay. thank you. So just to recap, we'll do a doodle poll for

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WLWV Board Room: the retreat, and we will amend the board

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WLWV Board Room: meeting scheduled to have our board meeting on the 20 s versus the 8. Is that correct? Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: the eighth. And we're making the 20 s regular meeting. So no work session

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WLWV Board Room: so far in the month of January

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WLWV Board Room: a a vote or a motion. Okay? I move that we approve the 2,023, 2,024 School Board meeting calendar with a tentative date to be set for the Board retreat, and a change to the January 2,024. Meeting from January eighth to January 20. Second.

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WLWV Board Room: do we have a second. a second. any questions or discussion? No. Miss Douglas is all on you.

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WLWV Board Room: Check, just loop.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. Chair. Taylor. Director Vidal. Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: thank you.

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WLWV Board Room:  and we don't have any public comment today.  I think. if I'm not missing anything, I think that adjourns our meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for putting up with my mistakes today, and we'll get better. We'll get better hanging there.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.