Oct 14, 2024 Board of Directors

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RIGHT. GOOD EVENING.

[1. Call to Order]

WE'LL START WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

NEXT, WE'LL HAVE OUR ROLL CALL.

ALL RIGHT.

VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT ONE MARY SNITILY HERE.

DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT TWO DEBBIE JOHNSON.

HERE. DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT THREE TED CHAMPINE DIRECTOR CHAMPINE HAS A PRE-ARRANGED ABSENCE AND DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT FOUR TERRY TATE HERE.

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE JULIA STIFFLER HERE.

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE ITZEL CONTRERAS MONTIEL HERE.

MADAM PRESIDENT, WE HAVE A QUORUM.

THANK YOU. MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO EXCUSE DIRECTOR CHAMPINE? I MOVE THAT WE EXCUSE DIRECTOR CHAMPINE FROM TONIGHT'S MEETING.

OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 4 TO 0.

NEXT UP, WE HAVE OUR AGENDA APPROVAL.

[4. Agenda Approval (Board Vote w/Student Voice)]

THERE'S NO OLD BUSINESS TONIGHT.

TWO ITEMS OF NEW BUSINESS AND THEN WE WILL TALK ABOUT FUTURE ITEMS AND BOARD EVENTS.

AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A SHORT EXECUTIVE SESSION BEFORE WE ADJOURN THE MEETING TONIGHT.

ARE THERE ANY ITEMS OR QUESTIONS THE BOARD HAS BEFORE APPROVING TONIGHT'S AGENDA? HEARING NONE. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

I MOVE THE AGENDA BE ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED.

WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

I LOOK TO OUR STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR ADVISORY VOTE.

PRO. PRO. THANK YOU.

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 4 TO 0.

NEXT UP WE HAVE COMMUNICATIONS STARTING WITH STUDENT VOICE.

[5. Communications]

IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME TO THE PODIUM.

TELL US YOUR NAME AND YOUR GRADE.

HELLO, I'M KYLIE BURLESON AND I GO TO TUKES VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND I AM AN EIGHTH GRADER.

HANG ON JUST A SECOND. YOU CAN COME UP HERE.

THANK YOU.

HI. MY NAME IS JOSEPHINE MALDINI.

I'M IN SEVENTH GRADE.

SO, WHAT DO YOU. OH.

GO AHEAD DENNY. YEAH.

YOU GUYS CAN START.

OKAY. HELLO? I'M. I ALREADY SAID THAT, BUT.

HELLO, I'M KYLIE BURLESON AND I GO TO THE TUKES VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.

I AM HERE TO REPRESENT OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE IN DREAM TEAM.

YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHAT THE DREAM TEAM IS.

THE DREAM TEAM IS A PROUD GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO PREVENT USE OF DRUGS AND SUICIDE.

WE GO ON ALL KINDS OF ADVENTURES, MEET NEW PEOPLE, AND LEARN WAYS TO HELP AND CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COMMUNITY LIKE DRUG TAKE BACK DAY WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TEENS FOR TOMORROW PREVENTION TRAINING.

FOR THE STUDENT STORE WE MAKE ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS FOR STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND STAFF AT BOTH TUKES VALLEY PRIMARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL.

WE MAKE OUR PRODUCTS OUT OF 3D PRINTERS, VINYL CUTTERS, AND LEGO ROBOTS.

THE PRODUCTS WE SELL ARE HATS, BAGS, MUGS, TUMBLERS, FLEXI WOLVES, AND EARRINGS.

THIS YEAR WE ARE GOING TO START SELLING T SHIRTS AND SWEATSHIRTS.

WE TRY OUR BEST TO MAKE THESE PRODUCTS GOOD QUALITY AND FAIR PRICES.

THE PRODUCTS ARE YOUR EARRINGS.

KEYCHAINS. AND YOU GUYS MAKE ALL THIS YOURSELF? YEP. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF OUR FLEXI WOLVES.

WE MAKE ALL KINDS OF HATS LIKE THESE.

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YEAH, THOSE ARE GREAT.

WE ALSO MAKE BAGS WITH CUSTOM NAMES ON THE BACK.

PENCIL POUCHES WITH ALSO CUSTOM NAMES ON THE BACK.

I ALSO WANTED TO THANK THE STAFF AT THE SCHOOL WHO TRIES THEIR BEST TO HELP EDUCATE US AND GIVE US A GOOD TIME IN GENERAL.

WITHOUT THE SCHOOL.

WITHOUT THEM, THE SCHOOL WOULDN'T HAVE A WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A POSITIVE PLACE.

ANY QUESTIONS? DO YOU DO YOU HAVE A CLASS WHERE YOU MAKE THESE OR DO YOU DO THIS OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL TIME? THIS IS BOTH CLASS AND OUT OF SCHOOL.

OKAY. AND YOU CAN STUDENTS CAN PUT IN ORDERS AND THEN YOU MAKE THEM, OR DO YOU JUST HAVE THEM FOR SALE? STUDENTS PUT IN ORDERS AND WE'LL MAKE THE ORDERS THAT THEY ASK FOR.

SO LEARNING SOME BUSINESS TOO, AT THE SAME TIME.

YEAH. THAT'S GREAT.

YEAH. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF COMING INTO YOUR CLASS LAST YEAR, AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.

WHAT I AND WHAT I REALLY FOUND ADMIRABLE IS HOW MUCH YOU GUYS ARE JUST ON TASK.

AND, I MEAN, THE IDEAS THAT ARE FLOWING.

YOU HAVE YOUR TEAMS THAT ARE WORKING AND DOING DIFFERENT THINGS.

I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE TUMBLER THAT I GOT.

IT WAS IT WAS INSCRIBED TO ME.

SO IT HAD MY NAME ON IT, AND IT'S ON MY DESK.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW, I USE IT EVERY DAY YOU KNOW, KEEPS ME DRINKING MY WATER, SO IT'S GOOD, BUT.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.

I WAS REALLY, REALLY IMPRESSED.

AND I WAS WONDERING, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING IS I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD INCREASE SCHOOL SPIRIT.

ARE YOU NOTICING THAT WITH WITH WITH STUDENTS? YEAH, I'M NOTICING AN INCREASE OF SCHOOL SPIRIT BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S WALKING AROUND WITH WITH TIMBERWOLVES STUFF.

YEAH, IT'S ACTUALLY VERY, VERY COOL.

YEAH. YEAH. THANK YOU GUYS FOR THAT.

YOU'RE WELCOME. DON'T YOU GUYS DO SOME THEMED STUFF TOO? IF I REMEMBER FROM THE TOUR LAST YEAR, WERE YOU DOING HOLIDAY STUFF? I YES, WE ARE FOR THE HOLIDAY BAZAAR.

WE'RE MAKING CHRISTMAS THEMED STUFF FOR, LIKE, OTHER RELIGIONS FOR CHRISTMAS.

VERY COOL. VERY COOL.

NICE. VERY COOL.

YEAH. WELL, THANK YOU GUYS FOR JOINING US.

I KNOW THIS IS NOT EASY TO COME UP HERE.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE FIRST ON THE AGENDA, IT'S LIKE OH, OKAY, WE'RE JUST GOING IN.

BUT YOU BOTH DID A WONDERFUL JOB AND.

YEAH. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.

YEAH. FANTASTIC [APPLAUSE].

HI. MY NAME IS JOSEPHINE MULVANY.

I LIKE TO GO TO SCHOOL MAINLY FOR THE SPORTS, FRIENDS, AND OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, LIKE DREAM TEAM OR ADVANCED ART AND MATH.

RIGHT NOW, I'M PARTICIPATING IN CROSS COUNTRY AND DREAM TEAM AND ADVANCED ART.

I HAVEN'T GONE TO DREAM, I HAVEN'T GONE TO A DREAM TEAM MEETING YET, BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO IT AND CROSS COUNTRY.

I'M DOING REALLY WELL AND SO IS MY TEAM, IN MY OPINION AT LEAST.

BUT I KNOW OTHERS THINK THAT TOO.

THIS LAST MEET WENT REALLY GOOD.

BUT TO BE FAIR, THERE WERE ONLY TWO SCHOOLS THIS TIME, WHICH MEANT ONLY EIGHT OR SO GIRLS COMPETING IN THE RACE.

I GOT THIRD PLACE, WHICH I'M HAPPY FOR, BUT I KIND OF WISH THERE WERE MORE SCHOOLS COMPETING IN THAT RACE.

MY TIME IS I MEAN, MY TEAM IS REALLY SUPPORTIVE AND NICE.

MY FAMILY, FRIENDS AND TEACHERS AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE SCHOOL ARE TOO.

SOME OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS SUCH AS OLIVIA, MOLLY, LOGAN AND EUGENIA ARE ON THE TEAM, WHICH IS REALLY NICE.

ALSO LATER THIS YEAR WHEN TRACK AND FIELD STARTS UP, I INTEND TO JOIN THAT TOO.

I'VE TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH I LIKE RUNNING A LOT ALREADY, SO I'M GOING TO SWITCH THE TOPIC AND TALK ABOUT ART.

RIGHT NOW I'M PAINTING A MURAL ON ON ONE OF THE WALLS OF OUR SCHOOL WITH TWO OF MY OTHER FRIENDS, SETH AND NOVALEE FOR ADVANCED ART.

WE HAVEN'T QUITE GOTTEN STARTED YET, BUT WE'VE DECIDED WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO, AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO TO DO IT.

I LOVE DOING THINGS THAT INVOLVE ART, LIKE THE MURAL, AND THAT'S WHY I PARTICIPATE IN ADVANCED ART.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.

ANY QUESTIONS? YES. YEAH. I WOULD ASK JULIE IF YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR HER ABOUT RUNNING.

YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE ADVICE FROM ME BECAUSE I HAVE TENDONITIS RIGHT NOW.

DO YOU KNOW WHICH HIGH SCHOOL YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO? BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL.

OH, YEAH. I'LL TELL DONOVAN TO LOOK OUT FOR YOU, BRO.

I DO, I DO TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY SO AND ALSO, IF YOU DO TRACK, THEN MAYBE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO WORK SOMETHING OUT AND I MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP COACH YOU, WHICH WOULD BE KIND OF COOL. THAT'D BE REALLY NICE.

THANK YOU. YEAH.

OF COURSE. DID YOU DO TRACK LAST YEAR? YEAH. OKAY. WAIT.

WHAT DO YOU DO? THE 200 LONG JUMP, 100 METER HURDLES AND LAST YEAR, THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH KIDS TO DO THE SEVENTH GRADE

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THAT'S SO FUN. I DO HURDLES, I COULD COACH YOU, BUT THAT'S SO EXCITING.

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH THE MURAL? WELL, I THINK THAT MY FRIEND NOVALEE, MY ART TEACHER, ASKED HER TO DO THE MURAL, BUT I THINK SHE ASKED US TO COME AND DO IT WITH HER.

THAT'S SO FUN I LOVE THAT.

JOSEPHINE, WILL YOUR SCHOOL BE PARTICIPATING AT KC ON THURSDAY.

THE TRACK MEET ON THURSDAY.

YEAH. OH, WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

YEAH. WE CAN JUST WALK OUT OUR OFFICE DOOR AND WATCH YOU GUYS AROUND.

WE'RE VERY EXCITED. THAT SHOULD BE A FUN COURSE FOR YOU GUYS TO RUN ON.

SO IT'S PRETTY COOL BACK THERE.

YEAH. YEAH.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR MURAL.

I KNOW I WAS GOING TO ASK.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS A SURPRISE OR SOMETHING.

NO, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE, BUT MOST OF THE SCHOOL DOESN'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING AT LEAST I DON'T THINK THEY DO.

BUT IT'S GOING TO ONE OF THE MURALS IS GOING TO BE ON THE.

SO THERE'S A HALLWAY AND ON SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A HILL GOING UP, AND THEN THERE'S GOING TO BE LIKE A LINE OF TWO WOLVES, AND THEN THE WOLF IN FRONT WILL BE HOWLING, AND THEN THE, THE BACKS OF THEM WILL KIND OF LIKE KIND OF BECOME SHAPES, I GUESS.

AND THE SHAPES WILL BE GREEN.

KIND OF LIKE WISPS.

SOME MORE SCHOOL SPIRIT THOUGH, TOO.

YEAH. REALLY FANTASTIC.

YOU SEEM WELL ROUNDED.

YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT THE ART STUFF.

YOU'VE GOT THE SPORTS STUFF.

YOU'VE GOT THE ACADEMICS.

GOOD FOR YOU. THANKS.

YEAH. OUTSTANDING.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

YOU'RE WELCOME [APPLAUSE].

I JUST WANT TO SAY INTRODUCE BEN SITTING IN THE BACK.

HE'S THE PRINCIPAL OF TUKES VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SO, BEN, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU GUYS. AND YOUR PARENTS ARE HERE.

THEY WERE UP TAKING.

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THEM.

THIS IS A GREAT PART OF OUR EVENING TO HEAR FROM THE STUDENTS.

SO JUST KNOW WE APPRECIATE IT.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER STUDENTS IN THE AUDIENCE THAT DIDN'T GET ON THE AGENDA THAT DID THAT NEEDED TO COME FORWARD.

WANTED TO COME FORWARD TO TALK.

OKAY. HEARING NONE, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO OUR OWN STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR UPDATES.

ALL RIGHT. I'LL GO FIRST THIS TIME.

SO SINCE LAST MEETING, WE HAD OUR HOMECOMING SPIRIT WEEK, HOMECOMING HALFTIME SHOW AND HOMECOMING DANCE AND TALKING TO STEPHANIE WALTZ, OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, SHE GAVE US THE OPINION THAT THIS YEAR WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL YEARS.

COMPARING IT TO LAST YEAR'S, I THINK DURING ESPECIALLY HOMECOMING HALFTIME, IT WAS DEFINITELY VERY UNORGANIZED.

BUT THIS YEAR WITH ASB IS TRYING TO CHANGE WHERE STUDENTS ARE TAKING BIGGER ROLES AND KIND OF TAKING LEAD AS STUDENTS LEADERS.

AND THIS WAS OUR FIRST YEAR ACTUALLY GOING TOWARDS THAT AND KIND OF LETTING OUR STUDENTS TAKE LEAD IN PLANNING ALL THESE EVENTS, AND IT DEFINITELY CAME OUT REALLY SUCCESSFUL.

A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD FUN AT THE HOMECOMING HALF HOMECOMING ASSEMBLY.

WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOW UP AND LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE DECIDE TO, LIKE, NOT GO SOME YEARS BECAUSE THEY DON'T REALLY LIKE HOW THE ASSEMBLY TURNS OUT.

BUT I AS VICE PRESIDENT, I WANTED TO HEAR A LOT OF STUDENTS OPINIONS ON HOW EVERYTHING CAME OUT.

AND A LOT OF THE SENIORS SAID THAT THEIR THE HOMECOMING CAME OUT SO WELL THAT IT'S A MEMORY THAT THEY WON'T FORGET AND THAT WE HAD A LOT OF SCHOOL SPIRIT DURING HOMECOMING SPIRIT WEEK.

A LOT OF PEOPLE DRESSED UP, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY DID KIND OF LIKE CAME TOGETHER AND WORKED WITH EACH OTHER.

WE HAD ONE DAY WHERE IT WAS DRESSED AS YOUR GRADE, WHICH IS LIKE FRESHMEN WOULD DRESS UP AS BABIES AND THEN SOPHOMORES AS TEENAGERS, JUNIORS AS ADULTS AND SENIORS AS GRANDPARENTS.

AND THEN A LOT OF PEOPLE MADE LIKE LITTLE FAMILIES WITH EACH OTHER.

I PERSONALLY MADE A LITTLE FAMILY.

I HAD MY LITTLE FRESHMAN DRESS UP AS MY BABIES AND MY SIGNIFICANT OTHER WAS THE DAD OR WHATEVER.

AND THEN WE HAD MY OLDER FRIENDS BE THE GRANDPARENTS AND EVERYTHING.

IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. A LOT OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATED AND IT CAME OUT SUPER GREAT.

AND THERE WAS A VIDEO ON PRAIRIE ATHLETICS POSTED ABOUT THE DANCE, AND THE WHOLE

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IT WAS JUST EVERYBODY WAS DANCING, EVERYBODY HAD FUN, AND EVERYBODY LOVED THE MUSIC.

AND I JUST HAD A LOT OF POSITIVE COMMENTS.

AND THAT JUST MADE ME SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THIS YEAR WE'RE DOING A LOT OF STUDENT LEADERSHIP AND THEM TAKING LEAD AND JUST SEEING HOW POSITIVE IT CAME OUT. IT JUST MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY FOR THOSE THINGS COMING UP LIKE TRUNK OR TREAT.

SO THAT'S ALL FOR ME, MAN.

[INAUDIBLE] WELL WHERE SHOULD I START? I GUESS I SHOULD START WITH MY SCHOOL.

SO SINCE OUR LAST MEETING WE HAD AT RIVER HOMELINK, WE HAD SIX ASSEMBLIES, AND WE HAD ALSO OUR FIRST ESCAPE ROOM NIGHT, WHICH WAS SUPER FUN.

SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW, RIVER HOMELINK IS A K-12 SCHOOL, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE A LOT WE HAVE A LOT OF KIND OF GROUND TO COVER WHEN IT COMES TO OUR EVENTS. SO WE WHEN WE DID OUR ASSEMBLIES, WE HAD A K THROUGH TWO ASSEMBLY, A THREE THROUGH SIX ASSEMBLY, AND THEN A SEVEN THROUGH 12 ASSEMBLY, WHICH IS LIKE THE BIG ASSEMBLY. AND WE HAD A PRETTY GOOD LIKE AN OVERALL POSITIVE WHAT'S THAT WORD? I DON'T KNOW, THE ASSEMBLIES WENT WELL AND WE HAD A LOT OF GOOD FEEDBACK FROM SPECIFICALLY THE K THROUGH TWO, ONE PARENTS LOVED IT.

THE THREE THROUGH SIX KIDS HAD SO MUCH FUN.

THEY DID LIKE THIS HOPSCOTCH RACE.

AND IT WAS LIKE IT WAS SO FUNNY.

THE THIRD GRADERS TOTALLY CHEATED, BUT WE LET THEM WIN ANYWAY AND IT WAS LIKE THEY JUST RAN ACROSS IT.

LIKE I DIDN'T THINK.

I DIDN'T THINK THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HOPSCOTCH WAS, BUT THEY DIDN'T.

AND IT WAS TOO LATE BY THE TIME WE HAD DONE IT.

SO IT WAS FINE. BUT AND THEN THE NIGHT OF OUR LAST ASSEMBLY, WE HAD AN ESCAPE ROOM, WHICH WAS K THROUGH 12.

SO WE HAD A K THROUGH FIVE ESCAPE ROOM AND A SIX THROUGH 12 ESCAPE ROOM.

AND WE HAD SO MANY FAMILIES COME, IT WAS LIKE THE MOST THAT WE HAD EVER HAD COME TO A K THROUGH 12 EVENT, LIKE EVER.

SO IT WAS AWESOME.

EVERYBODY HAD SO MUCH FUN.

THERE WAS MUSICAL CHAIRS, THERE WERE BOARD GAMES AND ALL THAT STUFF, AND WE HAD LIKE HUGE LINES FOR EACH ESCAPE ROOM BECAUSE WE HAD THESE ESCAPE ROOMS. EACH ONE TOOK TWO CLASSROOMS. PRETTY MUCH IS HOW THAT WORKED.

AND IT WAS LIKE WE COULD HAVE HAD MORE, BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD COME.

AND LIKE PEOPLE KEPT COMING UP TO US BECAUSE IT WAS FREE AND THEY WERE LIKE, YOU SHOULD CHARGE FOR THIS.

AND WE'RE LIKE, NO, WHY WOULD WE DO THAT? AND IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS WHERE THE COMMUNITY OF RIVER LIKE, REALLY SHINED.

SO JUST KIND OF FLEXING ON ALL OF YOU GUYS, JUST SAYING, K THROUGH 12 SCHOOLS ARE WHERE IT'S AT.

BUT AND I ALSO WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT, SO I RUN.

I RUN FOR BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL FOR CROSS COUNTRY, AND I'M NOT RUNNING RIGHT NOW.

BUT WHEN I WAS RUNNING, I DID NOTICE THE CROSSING GUARDS.

OKAY. NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT THE CROSSING GUARDS.

SO I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE CROSSING GUARDS AND HOW THEY'RE LITERALLY THE BEST.

AND EVERY TIME WE'D GO ON OUR ROAD RUN, THEY'D LIKE, STOP EVERYTHING.

THERE'D BE LIKE, BUSSES AND THEY'D, LIKE, RUN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.

THEY'RE LIKE, LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO.

THEY CAN'T STOP. AND THEY'RE LIKE, SO NICE.

AND THEY'D BE LIKE, HAVE A GOOD RUN, GOOD LUCK.

LIKE, KEEP GOING AND LIKE, JUST STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND LIKE, YOU RUN ALL THE WAY DOWN THE ROAD, YOU PASS ALL THESE CROSSING GUARDS AND THEY'RE SO SWEET AND LIKE, THEY SEE US EVERY TIME.

THEY'RE LIKE, AGAIN, THIS ROUTE.

AND LIKE MY ENTIRE TEAM JUST HAS SO MANY AMAZING THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE CROSSING GUARDS AND JUST HOW LIKE KIND THEY ARE AND HOW THEY WAVE AT EVERYBODY DRIVING BY, AND HOW THEY REALLY DO LOOK OUT FOR SAFETY FOR EVERY STUDENT AND EVERY PERSON CROSSING DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO BE A STUDENT.

SO I DID WANT TO POINT THAT OUT.

SO THAT'S REALLY AWESOME.

AND THEN FOR UPCOMING EVENTS FOR RIVER HOMELINK, WE HAVE OUR FALL DANCE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE HOMECOMING, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SPORTS.

SO WE HAVE JUST LIKE A FALL DANCE THAT'S LIKE GENERALLY THEMED THIS YEAR IT'S 1950S THEMED, SO THINK GREECE, BUT LIKE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, 1950S.

AND SO THAT'S ON OCTOBER 25TH.

AND THEN WE HAVE A SPIRIT WEEK THAT WEEK TOO.

SO IT'S OCTOBER 21ST THROUGH THE 25TH.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE THEMES ARE RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT'S K THROUGH 12.

AND THEN THE FALL DANCE IS GRADES SEVEN THROUGH 12.

AND THEN THE DAY AFTER OUR FALL DANCE, BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL IS HAVING THEIR HOMECOMING.

SO AND THAT THEME IS NIGHT AT THE BAYOU.

SO IT'S LIKE PRINCESS AND THE FROG THEMED.

SO I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.

I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD THOUGH, BECAUSE THAT SOUNDS SO FUN.

BUT YEAH, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

SO THANK YOU FOR SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT THE CROSSING GUARDS.

THAT'S VERY NICE OF YOU. I LOVE THE CROSSING GUARDS.

IF THEY HAVE ZERO FANS, I AM DEAD.

ALL RIGHT. FROM THERE, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COMMITTEE REPORTS.

WE'LL START WITH THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.

OKAY. SO THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME YOUR INPUT ON THE PRIORITIES FOR OUR POSITIONS.

AND I'M JUST GOING TO READ WHAT WE PRIORITIZED.

IT'S DIFFICULT BECAUSE SO MANY OF THEM ARE SIMILAR.

ACADEMIC RIGOR AND EQUITY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AMPLY FUNDED STAFFING LEVELS ASSESSED VALUATION BASIS FOR LOCAL EFFORT ASSISTANCE, EQUITABLE FUNDING FOR RECOGNITION AND STAFF MIX, A REGIONALIZATION AND STAFF MIX, STARTING EQUITABLE SCHOOL FUNDING, FISCAL NOTES AND UNFUNDED MANDATES, FULL FUNDING OF BASIC EDUCATION, LOCAL CONTROL, AND SCHOOL AND

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BUT THOSE WERE THE PRIORITIES THAT YOU HELPED ME CHOOSE, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND THOSE WILL WERE SENT ON TO THE WSSDA ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT, AND THAT'S PART OF HOW THEY FORM THEIR LEGISLATIVE POSITIONS.

SO THANK YOU.

OKAY. NEXT WE HAVE AN AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT.

WE HAVE AN AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING.

WE HAVEN'T HAD OUR MEETING YET.

IT'LL BE ON THE 22ND.

OKAY. BATTLE GROUND EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

BEFORE I FORGET, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I SAY, WELL, MY WHOLE REPORT IS REALLY VERY SUBJECTIVE BECAUSE I HAD A GREAT TIME.

BUT YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT I HAVE ACTUALLY SOMETHING WRITTEN TO READ.

BUT BEFORE I READ THAT.

COLLEEN O'NEILL.

COLLEEN. COLLEEN OR COLLEEN? COLLEEN. COLLEEN O'NEILL WAS HONORED AT THE EVENT FOR ALL OF HER WORK AND ALL THAT SHE'S DONE.

AND IT WAS VERY TOUCHING, VERY MOVING.

I WISH WE ALL HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW HER AS WELL AS SOME DID OR DO.

SHE'S NOT DONE. SHE'S.

SHE'S AROUND. SHE'S JUST RETIRED, YOU KNOW? BUT IT WAS JUST.

JUST A WONDERFUL MOMENT.

A WONDERFUL MOMENT.

OCTOBER 5TH, THE BATTLE GROUND EDUCATION FOUNDATION HELD ITS ANNUAL DESTINATION GRADUATION AUCTION DINNER.

THE FUNDRAISER WAS COMBINED WITH A CELEBRATION OF ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY, AS WELL AS HONORING COLLEEN O'NEILL FOR HER TEN YEARS OF SERVICE IN WELCOMING THE FOUNDATION'S NEW PRESIDENT, ALISON BULLOCK.

CATERING WAS PROVIDED BY CHARTWELLS AND WONDERFUL STUDENTS FROM BGHS, ROTC AND CAM ACADEMY HELPED SERVE.

I THOUGHT THE FOOD WAS WONDERFUL.

GUEST SPEAKERS WERE LYNELL MURRAY, DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS. TAMRA SCHEETZ, DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SUPPORTS.

AND HEATHER ISHIMURA, PRINCIPAL OF BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL.

THE BGF BOARD WOULD LIKE TO THANK BATTLE GROUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE ENTIRE BGF COMMUNITY FOR ITS OVERWHELMING SUPPORT THIS YEAR, WHICH SAW THE LARGEST ATTENDED EVENT AND MOST DONATION IN BGF HISTORY.

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS, DONORS AND SUPPORTERS FOR MAKING THIS WORK POSSIBLE.

I PERSONALLY FOUND IT QUITE ENLIGHTENING.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FUN AND INSPIRING TO MOVE FORWARD INTO THE NEXT YEAR WITH GREATER AND BETTER THINGS.

I THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT.

I ALSO WANTED TO COMMENT THAT I HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST A DOZEN PEOPLE HAVE COME UP TO ME AND TOLD ME HOW MUCH FUN THEY HAD STANDING IN LINE TO GET INTO THE EVENT BECAUSE OF MR. TATE AS THE GREETER WHO WAS TALKING TO EVERYBODY AND SHARING STORIES AND MAKING PEOPLE SMILE.

SO PEOPLE, PEOPLE AND I AM BEING VERY SERIOUS.

I HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE COME UP AND TELL ME THAT.

SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT AND PLAYING YOUR PART.

I KNOW YOU WERE THERE MOST OF THE DAY ALONG WITH JACKIE, WHO HELPED SET UP, SO APPRECIATE THAT AS WELL.

GREAT TIME. YEAH.

YEAH. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT.

YEAH I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

YEAH, WELL YOU'RE GOOD AT THAT FOR SURE.

NEXT WE HAVE OUR TOURS COMMITTEE.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY TOURS THAT ARE PASSED, BUT WE DO HAVE TOURS UPCOMING NEXT WEEK, I BELIEVE.

AND WE'LL GO OVER THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE MEETING.

AND THAT WOULD BRING US TO DIRECTORS REPORTS.

IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING TO REPORT ON, I HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING, BUT I JUST WANTED TO REMIND PEOPLE, IF YOU HAVE NOT IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE YOUR WSSDA VOTING, YOU WILL BE RECEIVING AN EMAIL TOMORROW REQUESTING YOUR VOTE.

AND IT'S EASY TO DO.

AND SO JUST REMIND YOU TO CHECK YOUR EMAIL TOMORROW IF YOU HAVEN'T VOTED, PLEASE VOTE.

THE OTHER THING FROM WSSDA THAT I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP AND I, I HAVE NOT BEEN AWARE OF THIS I DON'T THINK, THERE'S THE NEW DIRECTOR'S NETWORK.

DOES ANYBODY ELSE AWARE THAT THERE'S A WEBINAR TOMORROW AT NOON? AND IF YOU JUST CHECK YOUR EMAIL FROM WSSDA, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A LINK TO THIS NEW DIRECTOR'S WEBINAR, WHICH SOUNDS INTERESTING.

HAVE YOU DONE IT BEFORE? I HAVEN'T DONE IT.

I ACTUALLY DID ONE. OKAY.

THOSE ARE JUST THOSE TWO PIECES.

I ATTENDED THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING LAST WEEK, AND IT WAS A PANEL MEETING, WHICH WAS I PARTICIPATED IN THE PANEL AS A BOARD DIRECTOR, ALONG WITH DIRECTOR CHAMPINE.

AND TWO FORMER BOARD DIRECTORS, STEPHANIE MCCLINTOCK AND CURRENT BATTLE GROUND MAYOR TROY MCCOY.

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IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO HEAR KIND OF THE JUST EVERYBODY'S INPUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DIFFERENT AND SIMILAR IT WAS AT THE SAME TIME.

WE ALL HAD EXPERIENCES TO SHARE.

I THINK JUST WHY WE RAN LIKE, WHY, WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO RUN FOR YOUR POSITION WAS KIND OF A GREAT QUESTION TO START OFF WITH, AND EVERYBODY REALLY HAD A DIFFERENT REASON.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT WAS SO, SO I HAVE ALL THESE NOTES, YOU GUYS, BECAUSE DENNY SAID BE PREPARED.

AND SO AND THEN THEY WENT ROGUE ON ME AND SAID, AND WE HAVE A BONUS QUESTION.

AND I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER.

BUT ANYWAYS, IT WAS WHAT SUCCESS HAVE YOU BROUGHT DURING DURING YOUR TIME OR DURING YOUR TERM? AND IT WAS VERY COOL TO HEAR HOW STEPHANIE MCCLINTOCK'S TALKED ABOUT THEY DID A SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH AND HOW PAINFUL IT WAS HOW EXPENSIVE IT WAS AND HOW HER LEGACY WAS THAT WITH HER BOARD WAS TO BUILD A SUCCESSION PLAN.

AND SO WITHIN WITHIN THE BOARD, AND TO WHICH TROY FOLLOWED WITH HIS SUCCESS, WAS BRINGING DENNY ON AS THE SUPERINTENDENT. IT WAS HARD NOT TO CORRECT HIM THAT I WAS PART OF THAT DECISION AS WELL.

BUT I JUST LET HIM HAVE IT.

AND SO BUT BUT SO IT WAS JUST KIND OF LIKE IT JUST KIND OF FOLLOWED.

RIGHT. AND THEN TED AND I TALKED A LITTLE BIT TOO ABOUT OURS, BUT IT WAS JUST IT WAS JUST VERY INTERESTING TO ME TO HEAR WHAT THEY FELT WAS THEIR LEGACY THAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. AND SO AND WE'VE HAD A GREAT RUN WITH SUPERINTENDENTS SINCE THAT TIME.

AND SO IT'S, IT'S BEEN WE ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU.

AND SO I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH THE BOARD BECAUSE THAT REALLY SPOKE A LOT TO ME.

AND THAT'S WHAT I HAD.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING TO THAT.

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY WE'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE WITH THE CAC.

IS THAT THREE YEARS AGO, TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD A STUDENT PANEL WHICH WAS REALLY WELL RECEIVED.

AND THEN LAST YEAR WE HAD A TEACHERS PANEL, WHICH WAS REALLY WELL RECEIVED.

AND THEN THIS YEAR WE HAD THE BOARD PANEL, WHICH WE THOUGHT WAS FABULOUS.

YEAH. AND AND WE'RE ALSO HAVING A PANEL IN, I THINK IT'S JANUARY OR FEBRUARY.

I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT DATE.

AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR REPRESENTATIVES FROM OUR ALE SCHOOLS.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM SUMMIT VIEW FROM RIVER HOMELINK FROM CAM, AND FROM BATTLE GROUND VIRTUAL ACADEMY TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT GOES ON, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN'T AWARE OF OUR, OUR ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS.

SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIGHLIGHT THOSE PROGRAMS. SO THE PANEL IDEA HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AND REALLY APPRECIATED THE BOARD MEMBERS FOR ATTENDING.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING THERE.

VERY INSIGHTFUL. AND WE GOT GREAT FEEDBACK FROM FROM THE CITIZENS ADVISORY GROUP.

THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TERRIFIC.

OKAY, GOOD.

ANY OTHER DIRECTORS REPORTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? YES. EXCUSE ME.

I JUST WANTED TO SHARE A FEW THINGS THAT I HAVE LEARNED BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SEL CURRICULUM.

I'M GOING TO BE ON THAT COMMITTEE, WHICH I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT, TO BE A PART OF THAT AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT THAT PROCESS AND WORKING WITH THE OTHER PROFESSIONAL FOLKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ON THAT AND THE COMMUNITY TOO REALLY WONDERING I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

I JUST WANTED TO JUST BRIEFLY SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GRANT.

JUST BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THERE WAS FOR ME SOME MISUNDERSTANDING AND CONFUSION ON IT.

AND I THINK THAT MIGHT HELP THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND IT A LITTLE BIT BETTER, TOO.

AND I KNOW DENNY IS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT TOO.

SO I'M JUST GOING TO JUST BRIEFLY GO OVER A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I LEARNED RECENTLY.

THE GRANT WAS RECEIVED AND ACCEPTED IN OCTOBER OF 2023.

AND SINCE THAT PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE IN DECEMBER, WE'VE BEEN THE BOARD HAS BEEN MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT PUTTING THE STAFFING IN PLACE, THE CONTRACTS, AND THEN NOW IT'S AT A PLACE TO CHOOSE THAT CURRICULUM.

AND I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME CONFUSION WITH THE COMMUNITY, WITH RELATIONSHIP TO CASTLE, WHICH IS BEEN KIND OF A, A BIG, A BIG AREA THAT I MYSELF WANTED TO RESEARCH AND UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT.

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THIS IS WHAT I'VE COME TO LEARN ABOUT THE SEL THE AND THEY BASICALLY EVALUATE THE PROGRAM AND THEY EVALUATE THE CURRICULUM SO THAT WE CAN HAVE MAKE CHOICES.

AND DENNY JUST SHARED WITH ME THERE'S LIKE 98 DIFFERENT CURRICULUMS THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM UNDER THIS GRANT.

AND I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE AND I DID SOME RESEARCH ON SOME OF THE, THE DOWN SIDE OF CASTLE.

AND I HAVE A DOCTOR THAT HAS WRITTEN ABOUT HE FEELS LIKE THAT IT'S A WOKE AGENDA TO DISTRACT FROM ACADEMICS.

IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE.

IT'S AN INDOCTRINATION TOOL.

BUT FROM WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING ABOUT CHARACTER STRONG, WHICH IS A RESEARCH BASED CURRICULUM THAT WE ARE USING IT ISN'T ANY OF THOSE THINGS. IT FOCUSES ON GOAL SETTING, RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING, REGULATING EMOTIONS AND RESOLVING CONFLICT.

AND I THINK EVERYONE WOULD AGREE THAT THOSE ARE AREAS THAT THAT STUDENTS NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOCIETY.

AND THOSE ARE JUST A FEW THINGS I'VE LEARNED.

AND I WAS JUST INTRIGUED BY IT AND WANTED TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH AND SHARE THAT WITH THE BOARD.

AND ALSO THE COMMUNITY, AND JUST HAVE IT BE SAID OUT LOUD SO THAT WE ALL HAVE MORE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT'S ABOUT AND HAVE A DEEPER A DEEPER DIVE INTO IT A LITTLE BIT MORE.

AND I THINK IF EACH OF US WERE TO DO OUR OWN RESEARCH, I THINK WE'D FIND THAT THAT THE CURRICULUM, I THINK IS BEING LOOKED AT FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

THAT'S WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING.

IT'S FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

IT'S NOT GOING TO BE JUST FORCED DOWN OUR THROATS OR, YOU KNOW, FORCED INTO THE COMMUNITY.

IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS BEING LOOKED AT IS A COMMUNITY FOCUSED CURRICULUM.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT I THAT'S WHAT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE TODAY, AND I'M IT DOES SHOW ALSO THAT IT INCREASES ACHIEVEMENT BY 11% AND THAT'S RESEARCH BASED.

SO THAT'S EXCITING TO KNOW THAT FOLKS ARE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ACHIEVING MORE BY HAVING THIS KIND OF EXTRA SUPPORT IN THE SCHOOLS. AND ALSO IN OUR FAMILIES, IF WE TAKE SOME OF THESE CONCEPTS AND BRING THEM INTO OUR FAMILIES, IT DEFINITELY WOULD, I THINK, HELP THE SCHOOLS IN THEIR DAY TO DAY.

SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE ALL THAT RESEARCH THAT I'VE LEARNED MYSELF AND PRIVILEGED TO SHARE THAT WITH ANYONE ELSE AND CERTAINLY AM NOT AN EXPERT ON IT.

STILL LEARNING MYSELF, BUT I WAS EXCITED TO LEARN THESE THINGS AND FELT THAT THEY WERE GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR OUR STUDENTS TO KNOW TOO, THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEING LOOKED AT.

AND AGAIN, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE CURRICULUM THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT TO CHOOSE FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THAT WAS ALL I HAD.

IF I MAY, I'M GOING TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT FOR A MOMENT IN MY NEWBIE NESS.

MY NEWBIE NESS REPORT HERE.

OKAY. I WAS I WAS LIKEWISE CONFUSED.

I FOUND IT A LITTLE CONFUSING ABOUT HOW WE WERE BEING ASKED TO APPROVE SOMETHING THAT WE WERE ALREADY IN THE MIDDLE OF DOING AND MOVING FORWARD WITH, AND, AND I GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT IF I HAD TO APPROVE IT, I COULD ALSO NOT APPROVE IT KIND OF A THING, YOU KNOW? AND SO I WAS REAL APPRECIATIVE OF THE CONVERSATION WE HAD ABOUT THAT AND HOW THIS ALL WORKS.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO SAY SOME MORE, SO I'D LOVE TO HEAR THAT.

BUT BUT FOR THE SAKE OF DEBBIE, I JUST THOUGHT I'D PUT ON THE TABLE THAT I FOUND IT RATHER CONFUSING HOW IT WAS PRESENTED, AND I GOT MIXED UP IN MY OWN MIND ABOUT IT.

CAN I JUST COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU JUST SAID? IF SOMETHING'S JUST BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU IF SOMETHING'S PUT BEFORE YOU AS A MOTION TO APPROVE YOU DON'T HAVE TO APPROVE IT.

YOU CAN NOT APPROVE IT.

IS THAT WHAT YOU MEANT? CAN YOU JUST CLARIFY THAT? BECAUSE THE THING THAT'S CONFUSING ABOUT IT THAT I'M STILL NOT CLEAR ON IS THE FACT THAT WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS FIVE YEAR GRANT THAT WE'RE PURSUING, AND IT INVOLVES GETTING CURRICULUM.

SO WHAT WE APPROVED WAS THE PROCESS TO NOW.

YEAH. NOW LET'S START WITH THE CURRICULUM.

WHAT WE RECENTLY APPROVED.

THAT'S CORRECT. WE APPROVED AN RFP FOR THE CURRICULUM.

THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I WOULD SAY NO TO THAT BECAUSE WASN'T THAT A PART OF WHAT THE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO DO SET FORTH IN 2023? YEAH, THEY'LL CERTAINLY BE AN OPPORTUNITY IN ALL OF OUR CURRICULUM PROCESSES TO APPROVE IT GO THROUGH.

RIGHT? YEAH, BUT I WOULDN'T SAY NO TO THE THE RFP OR WHATEVER IT WAS AN RFP. BUT YOU REALIZE EVERY TIME A VOTE IS PUT BEFORE YOU, YOU CAN SAY NO.

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BUT IT WAS THE WAY YOU SAID IT IT'S LIKE I'M REQUIRED TO APPROVE IT OR NOT.

YOU CAN SAY NO LATER.

SAY THEN WE WOULDN'T TAKE THE GRANT AND WE WOULDN'T TAKE THE OTHER $4 MILLION.

I DON'T KNOW THAT. YEAH, I IT'S A LITTLE MORE CONVOLUTED THAN THAT, BUT THAT'S THE THAT'S THE POINT.

SO IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

WHY WOULD I SAY NO TO SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD APPROVED IN 2023? THE BOARD DID NOT APPROVE IT IN 2023.

OKAY. DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THE GRANT? YOU HAVE YOU HAVE DATES.

YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THAT IF YOU WANTED TO.

THE BOARD DOES NOT APPROVE A GRANT.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN AND CLARIFY THIS, BECAUSE IT'S NOT A BOARD ISSUE THAT GRANT DID NOT REQUIRE BOARD APPROVAL.

THE BOARD WAS NOTIFIED OF THE GRANT, CORRECT.

IN ON 10/9/2023 THERE WAS A PRESENTATION DONE.

AND IT'S ON BOARD DOCS IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT AND IT TELLS IT OUTLINES WHAT THE GRANT.

[6. Superintendent and Staff Updates]

SO THIS WAS A PRESENTATION THAT WAS DONE ON 10/9/2023.

IT WAS A IT WAS A COMBO PRESENTATION.

SO THE FIRST PART OF THE PRESENTATION WAS ACTUALLY LISA, CAN YOU SCROLL DOWN? SO ABOUT SAFE AND CARING.

SO WE DID A PRESENTATION ON THE HEALTHY YOUTH SURVEY.

YOU CAN GO BEYOND THAT LISA.

HEALTHY YOUTH SURVEY.

HEALTHY YOUTH SURVEY.

OOPS. IT'S NOT LOADING.

CAN YOU GO TO THE KEEP GOING AND SEE IF IT GOES TO SOMETHING? MAYBE HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT.

KEEP GOING. YEAH.

SO RIGHT THERE.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID IN 2023.

SO YOU CAN SEE WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT THE PROJECT AWARE PROGRAM IS.

SO PROJECT AWARE ACTUALLY STANDS FOR ADVANCING WELLNESS AND RESILIENCY IN EDUCATION.

THAT'S WHAT THE ACRONYM STANDS FOR.

AND IT WAS ACTUALLY CAME OUT OF IT WAS A IT WAS STARTED BY THE US CONGRESS AFTER THE SANDY HOOK SHOOTING.

THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR SCHOOLS.

AND SO THE GRANT HAS BEEN AWARDED SINCE 2004.

WE RECEIVED A FIRST GRANT IN 2014, AND THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED OUR POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION SUPPORTS PBIS.

OUR PREVENTION INTERVENTION SERVICES WERE STARTED AT THAT TIME, WHICH IS IRONIC BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO SEE A PRESENTATION TONIGHT IN A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT ABOUT OUR PREVENTION INTERVENTION PEOPLE.

OUR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS.

SO THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED WORKING WITH OUR MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES.

WE STARTED WORKING WITH CHILDREN'S CENTER.

AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE? COLUMBIA RIVER MENTAL HEALTH.

AND THERE WAS ONE OTHER ONE.

AND THEN WE DID SOME TRAINING FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR OUR STUDENTS IN YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID.

AND SO IN THIS PARTICULAR GRANT, THE AWARE GRANT 2.0, WE HAVE THREE POINTS TO MAKE HERE.

21 SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

COMMUNITY AGENCIES AND MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES ACROSS THE NATION WERE AWARDED THE GRANT.

WE WERE THE ONLY ONE IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON WHO WERE AWARDED THE GRANT.

AND ONE OF THE KEY FACTORS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAID TO US WAS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE GOT THE GRANT WAS THAT WE SUSTAINED MANY OF THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WE STARTED WITH THE FIRST GRANT.

WE WERE ABLE TO CONTINUE.

TERRY, TO YOUR POINT, I THINK YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, I HAD SET ASIDE $500,000 EACH YEAR THAT WAS TO KEEP THOSE OTHER THINGS ALIVE ONCE THE GRANT ENDED. SO NOW THE NEW GRANT, LISA NEXT SLIDE.

THE NEW GRANT, IT HAS TWO, TWO MAIN GOALS.

NUMBER ONE IS INCREASING KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS AND PREVENTION OF YOUTH BEHAVIORAL ISSUES THROUGH TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS, STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

THE OTHER IS INTERVENING IN STUDENTS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEEDS BY IDENTIFYING STUDENTS IN NEED AND MATCHING THEM WITH THE MOST APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS.

IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER IN I BELIEVE IT WAS IN IN 4/8/24.

SO BOTH BOTH THE NEWBIES TO USE YOUR WORD YOU WERE HERE.

YOU APPROVED A CONTRACT WITH [INAUDIBLE].

[INAUDIBLE] IS A MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY THAT HELPS US CONNECT OUR FAMILIES WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

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AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT SINCE SINCE WE STARTED THAT IN SEPTEMBER, WE'VE HAD 97 TOTAL REFERRALS OF FAMILIES AND STUDENTS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE.

35 APPOINTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE.

59 FAMILIES STUDENTS HAVE DONE ANONYMOUS SEARCHES TO TRY TO GET RECEIVE HELP.

WE'VE HAD 4812 TOTAL COMMUNICATIONS INVOLVING OUR FAMILIES AND STUDENTS WITH TEXTS, EMAILS, PHONE CALLS FOR THE 97 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO PROVIDERS.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A COOL STATISTIC THAT SO FAR [INAUDIBLE] HAS COMMUNICATED WITH OUR FAMILIES FOR 5792 MINUTES AND COMMUNICATED WITH OTHER PROVIDERS AND TRYING TO HOOK OUR FAMILIES UP WITH SERVICES FOR 1473 MINUTES AND COMMUNICATED WITH STAFF FOR 366 MINUTES.

SO IT IS WORKING.

SOME OF THE OTHER ACTIVITIES, LIKE THE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID.

WE WERE ABLE TO EXPAND SOME OF OUR SUPPORT SERVICES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEN A SMALL PART OF THE PROGRAM OF THE OVERALL GRANT IS TO WE ALREADY HAVE SEL PROGRAMS WE USE.

AS DEBBIE POINTED OUT, WE USE CHARACTER STRONG IN GRADES K THROUGH EIGHT.

WE DO NOT HAVE AN SEL PROGRAM IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE EXPLORING HERE.

AGAIN, TO DEBBIE'S POINT, AND THANK YOU FOR SAYING THOSE THINGS.

THE, THE THE ROLE OF CASTLE IS THAT THEY GO THROUGH AND SCREEN THESE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE EVIDENCE BASED.

THEY DON'T TELL US WHICH ONES WE HAVE TO CHOOSE FROM, WHICH ONES WE CAN USE, WHICH ONES WE HAVE TO LOOK AT.

THEY DON'T HAVE ANY PART. IT JUST NEEDS TO BE ON THE LIST THAT MET THIS CRITERIA.

WE DON'T DETERMINE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORKS WITH CASTLE TO DETERMINE THAT.

AND AS AS DEBBIE SAID, THERE'S 98.

THERE'S A RANGE OF 98 DIFFERENT ONES.

WHEN WE PUT OUT OUR RFP, WE GOT 13.

WE PUT IT OUT SPECIFICALLY FOR HIGH SCHOOL.

WE GOT 13 VENDORS WHO SAID, WE'D LIKE YOU TO LOOK AT OUR PROGRAM.

SO THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT.

OUR GROUP IS GOING TO BE MEETING ALL THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE FALL INTO THE WINTER.

AND IN SPRING, THEY'LL NARROW DOWN THOSE CHOICES TO PROBABLY 2 OR 3.

AND THEN THEY'LL, THEY'LL THEY'LL TEST THEM.

THERE MIGHT BE SOME PILOTING IN SOME OF OUR, OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.

WE WILL AT THAT TIME RELEASE IT TO OUR COMMUNITY SO THAT OUR COMMUNITY CAN INVESTIGATE IT.

THERE'LL BE A MONTH LONG PERIOD WHERE OUR COMMUNITY CAN REVIEW THE CURRICULUM, TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

AS DEBBIE SAID, WE DID THAT LAST YEAR.

YOU GUYS APPROVED THE CHARACTER STRONG.

WE WENT THROUGH THAT AND THAT WAS ALSO GIVEN TO OUR COMMUNITY AND IT WAS FOUND TO BE ACCEPTABLE.

SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN FIND THAT SAME THING.

BUT AGAIN, TO TERRY'S POINT, THE BOARD WILL HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE AT THAT POINT WHETHER OR NOT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO REVIEW THE CURRICULUM, TOO, AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT SO. SO THE CASTLE ROLE IN THIS IS, IS VERY, VERY, VERY SMALL, MINUTE IS THE WORD THAT I, I HAVE USED FOR THIS. AND SO TO DEBBIE'S POINT, IT COVERS A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS.

AND THERE IS GOOD STUDIES OUT THERE THAT SHOW THAT IT DOES INCREASE STUDENT LEARNING.

WE HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT IN ORDER FOR A STUDENT TO LEARN, THEY HAVE TO BE IN THE RIGHT HEADSPACE TO LEARN.

THEY CAN'T LEARN IF THEY'RE DYSREGULATED.

THEY CAN'T LEARN IF THEY'RE UPSET.

THEY CAN'T LEARN IF THEY'RE STRUGGLING.

AND SO THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM, AS WE'VE SEEN IN OUR SEL ROOMS HELPS HELPS JUST KIDS GET KIDS READY TO, TO LEARN.

SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.

AND I APPRECIATE DEBBIE AND THE REST OF THE BOARD FOR FOR BRINGING IT UP AND CLARIFYING IT.

I HAVE A QUESTION OR CLARIFICATION.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS CASTLE DOES NOT EVALUATE THE GRANT, RIGHT? NO. CASTLE. CASTLE IS NOT THE ORIGINATOR OF THE GRANT.

NO, NO. AND CASTLE DOES NOT WRITE THE CURRICULUM.

CASTLE IS ACTUALLY SEPARATE FROM THIS GRANT.

YES. AND ONLY IS A FRAMEWORK.

YES. IT'S ONLY A FRAMEWORK.

RIGHT. OKAY.

FOR SEL CURRICULUMS, BASICALLY, IT'S A CLEARINGHOUSE.

IT'S BASICALLY THE WAY IT'S REFERRED TO.

OKAY. YEAH, YEAH.

FOR RIGHT NOW, IT'S JUST A CLEARINGHOUSE, RIGHT? WILL YOU REMIND ME WHO GAVE US THE GRANT? IT'S AN ACRONYM, SO.

SAMHSA. SO IT STANDS FOR THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION SPEAKERS]. WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WHAT USED TO BE THE OLD HEALTH, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT IS NOW CHANGED

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THANK YOU. SO TO HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND AGAIN, IT SOUNDS LIKE THEN IN MY MIND, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT THERE ARE WAYS OF SPENDING THIS MONEY THAT WE CONSIDER AND WE MAY OR MAY NOT CHOOSE TO GO IN A CERTAIN PATH, LIKE THE GROUP THAT WE CONTRACTED WITH FOR SERVICES, YOU KNOW, THE COUNSELING SERVICES AND THINGS WE CONTRACTED WITH THOSE FOLKS.

BECAUSE THEY MET OUR NEEDS AND THEY FIT OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEY WERE WILLING WAS WILLING TO PAY FOR THAT.

YES. YES. OKAY.

SO THAT'S THE SAME THING WITH THE CURRICULUM, WITH THE SEL CURRICULUM? YES. FOR HIGH SCHOOL, IF WE IF WE BROUGHT FORTH A CURRICULUM, FOR INSTANCE, AND THE BOARD WAS TO FIND THE COMMUNITY, AND THE BOARD WAS TO FIND THAT CURRICULUM NOT ACCEPTABLE, WE WOULD SIMPLY GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND TRY AGAIN.

SURE. UNTIL WE FOUND ONE THAT FIT THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR STUDENTS.

RIGHT. SO WE RECEIVE $1 MILLION A YEAR, AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO USE THAT MONEY TO IMPROVE WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH OUR KIDS.

YES. AND WHEN WE WROTE THE CURRICULUM OR WROTE THE GRANT, WE HAD THINGS THAT WE WERE EXPECTED TO DELIVER.

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE'RE EXPECTED TO DELIVER ON OVER THE COURSE OF THE GRANT, WE ARE EXPECTED TO PUT IN A HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM TO HELP SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH THEIR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING.

SURE. SO THAT'S JUST ONE ASPECT.

I JUST HAD TWO OTHER QUESTIONS THAT ARE JUST GOING TO THROW OUT THERE.

ONE WAS, I'M WONDERING ABOUT IF WE COULD SEE DATA ABOUT HOW THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING WAS HELPING.

AND THEN ALSO JUST HEARING FROM STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, GETTING FEEDBACK FROM ACTUAL STUDENTS WHO ARE RECEIVING THIS SUPPORT AND HOW IT'S HELPING THEM. I WOULD LOVE, LOVE TO HEAR THOSE, THOSE TWO THINGS.

I KNOW WE WE RECEIVED SOME OF IT DURING OUR BOARD TOURS WHEN WE'VE BEEN VISITING THE SEL ROOMS, BUT WE COULD CERTAINLY DO A MORE THOROUGH AND DEEP DIVE INTO THAT AND BRING SOME OF THAT. AND I DO THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT TODAY AS THE FIRST CASTLE GRANT.

I MEAN, IT'S THE FIRST CASTLE GRANT GOT ME.

OH, SORRY. SORRY ABOUT THAT.

I APOLOGIZE DEEPLY THAT THE FIRST SAMHSA GRANT THE FIRST AWARE GRANT.

YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THAT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR PREVENTION INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS SPEAK TODAY.

AND THERE WILL BE DATA ABOUT THAT, AND THERE WILL BE DATA AND WE'LL GIVE WE'LL GIVE UPDATES ON THE AWARE GRANT AND PROVIDE DATA ON THAT AS WELL.

THANK YOU. AND AM I CORRECT TO ASSUME THAT THERE IS AN INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR ON THIS GRANT, AS THERE ARE IN MOST GRANTS? THE INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD ON 4/8/24, AND THAT'S THE OSBORN COLLECTIVE.

THEY WORKED WITH US ON OUR FIRST GRANT, AND WE ALSO HAVE ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT, A FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH OSPI, WHO WILL MONITOR US AND THE FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE WASHINGTON STATE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY.

SO WE'LL HAVE AN INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR.

WE'LL ALSO BE EVALUATED BY OSPI.

WE'LL ALSO BE EVALUATED BY THE WASHINGTON HEALTH.

ALL OF WHOM I'M ASSUMING WILL HAVE TO GATHER DATA.

YES. AND THEY WILL GATHER DATA.

AND THERE WILL BE A REPORT RELEASED, A PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE REPORT WAS RELEASED THE FIRST TIME WE WENT THROUGH THE GRANT WITH THE OSBORNE COLLECTION.

SO YOU'LL SEE THE END RESULTS.

THANK YOU. SO DOES THE K THROUGH EIGHT SEL PROGRAM GENERATE MEASURABLE DATA? YEAH, I MEAN, I.

PART OF WHAT IT MEASURES IS HOW MANY MINUTES ARE SPENT ON THE, WITH THE CURRICULUM, SOME OF THOSE TYPES OF MEASURABLES IN TERMS OF WHETHER STUDENTS ARE TAKING THAT IN, I'D HAVE TO LEAVE THAT TO TAMRA TO SPEAK TO.

BUT WE HAVE A FIDELITY IN THAT WE CAN TRACK THE AMOUNT OF TIME THE KIDS ARE GOING THROUGH THE LESSONS.

DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING HERE? SURE. SO ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE GATHER DATA ON THIS IS THROUGH ANY OF THE THAT'S THEIR WAY OF SAYING YOU'RE NOT USING YOUR TEACHER VOICE.

GET ACCUSED OF THAT A LOT.

SO WE COLLECT DATA IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.

ONE OF THE WAYS IS BY TRACKING THE FIDELITY OF USE, SO WE CAN SEE HOW MUCH ACCESS TO THE CURRICULUM STUDENTS ARE GETTING.

BUT THEN WE PAIR THAT WITH OTHER PIECES OF DATA LIKE OUR BEHAVIORAL DATA.

SO ANY TIME A STUDENT HAS A BEHAVIORAL AN INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR, WE KEEP TRACK OF THAT SO WE CAN BE SURE THAT WE'RE

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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LIKE TO DO IS SEE IF THERE'S A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE TYPES OF LESSONS THAT WE HAVE TAUGHT THROUGH CHARACTER STRONG VERSUS THE TYPES OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE'RE SEEING, BECAUSE THEN WE CAN GO IN AND DO SOME ADDITIONAL LESSONS IN THE AREAS THAT KIDS MIGHT BE STRUGGLING WITH.

SO THAT'S ANOTHER WAY THAT WE LOOK AT DATA.

AND THEN IT ALSO COMES OUT THROUGH JUST INFORMAL INTERVIEWS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT COUNSELORS AND OUR OTHER INTERVENTION TYPE STAFF DO WITH STUDENTS.

SO THINGS ABOUT THE THINGS THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT, THE ANXIETIES AND THE CONCERNS, THE FRIENDSHIP ISSUES THAT THEY HAVE.

SO I ALWAYS LOOK AT THE RULE OF THREE FOR DATA, ANECDOTAL DATA, AND THEN TWO SOURCES OF NUMERICAL DATA.

THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. I THINK THE COMMUNITY WOULD WOULD AND OUR INTERACTION WITH THE COMMUNITY WOULD BENEFIT FROM HAVING MORE OF THAT SUCCESSFUL DATA TALKED ABOUT MORE FREQUENTLY.

IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE WE'RE GOING TO HEAR SOME DATA TODAY.

BUT IT WAS ALWAYS OUR PLAN TO PRESENT THE DATA AS, AS YOU SAID, TERRY, THE FIRST YEAR OF THE GRANT, WHICH WAS LAST YEAR, WAS REALLY JUST A PLANNING STAGE, GETTING STAFF IN PLACE, SIGNING CONTRACT AGREEMENTS, STARTING PROCESSES.

SO THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR WHERE WE'RE STARTING TO DO THE TRAININGS.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE CURRICULUM, THE CURRICULUM IF WE WERE TO APPROVE THE CURRICULUM, WE'D BE ABLE TO COLLECT DATA FROM THREE MORE YEARS IN THE GRANT.

SO WE'D BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT.

SO DATA WILL BE WILL BE FORTHCOMING AS WE MOVE INTO THAT.

I WAS REFERRING TO K THROUGH EIGHT.

RIGHT.

WE'RE USING IT EVERY YEAR.

WE KIND OF GET AN ANNUAL REPORT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IN THE DATA THAT WE RECEIVING, IT'S IN THERE.

BUT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WAS REPORTED MORE FREQUENTLY ABOUT THE SUCCESSES OF THAT WOULD BE.

YEAH, I THINK I THINK TO TAMRA'S POINT, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT REFLECTED IN OUR DISCIPLINE DATA.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT REFLECTED IN OUR ATTENDANCE DATA.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT REFLECTED IN ACADEMIC SUCCESS.

SURE. THAT'S WHERE WE HOPE YOU'LL SEE IT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

AND I WOULD JUST SAY AS AS THAT DATA COMES FORTH, MAYBE HELP US MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS CONNECT THE DOTS ON THAT.

ANYTHING ELSE? NO. IS THAT YOUR UPDATE? THAT'S MY UPDATE.

I'M GOING TO TURN IT RIGHT OVER TO SHELLY.

WELL, THAT'S WONDERFUL BECAUSE, TAMRA, WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT ABOUT PREVENTION INTERVENTION AND I'LL LET TAMRA GET US GOING AND INTRODUCE SOME KEY PEOPLE TO YOU.

YES. I AM REALLY HONORED TO SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT THE PREVENTION INTERVENTION PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE DISTRICT.

IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN IN THE DISTRICT SINCE 2014, SINCE THE FIRST AWARE GRANT, IT WAS PUT INTO PLACE WITH THE FUNDS THAT CAME FROM THE AWARE GRANT.

AND I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE PROGRAM IS, HOW IT BENEFITS OUR STUDENTS, THE DATA THAT WE HAVE TO SUPPORT ITS EFFECTIVENESS.

AND THEN I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO A FEW OF OUR PIS, BECAUSE THEY ARE HERE IN THE CROWD WITH US TODAY.

SO THE GOAL OF OUR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAM IS TO REDUCE AND PREVENT THE USE OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND OTHER DRUGS.

IT ALSO HELPS TO IMPROVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF OUR OF OUR STUDENTS AND TO PROMOTE A POSITIVE OVERALL SCHOOL CLIMATE.

THERE'S A FEW WAYS THAT OUR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS DO THAT, ALL RANGING ALL THE WAY FROM WHOLE SCHOOL ACTIVITIES DOWN TO INDIVIDUAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES.

SO SOME OF THE SCHOOL WIDE THINGS THAT THAT OUR PIS DO TO HELP STUDENTS WITH MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES, TO HELP THEM TO REDUCE OR PREVENT THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY WILL ENGAGE WITH ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND OTHER DRUGS INCLUDE SOME AWARENESS ACTIVITIES.

SO SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ME TALKING ABOUT RED RIBBON WEEK, WHICH IS COMING UP.

IT'S OCTOBER 23RD THROUGH THE 31ST.

AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT AS WE GO ON.

THERE ALSO ARE SOME PREVENTION CLUBS.

YOU HEARD FROM TWO DELIGHTFUL YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE INVOLVED IN OUR DREAM TEAM EARLIER TODAY.

I HAD NO IDEA THAT THEY WERE COMING, AND I WAS THRILLED THAT THEY WERE HERE TO TALK TO YOU TODAY BECAUSE THE DREAM TEAM IS ALSO TIED IN WITH OUR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION ACTIVITIES. SO THE DREAM TEAMS, WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONE AT SCHEETZ MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT'S BEEN LONG ESTABLISHED.

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, ONE WAS STARTED AT TUKES VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND WE ARE WORKING ON GETTING ONE UP AND RUNNING AT PLEASANT VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, WITH HOPES TO CONTINUE GROWING THAT THAT GROUP.

SO IT'S A GROUP OF OF STUDENTS.

AND THEIR GOALS ARE TO REDUCE RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND DRUG USE AND ALSO TO PROMOTE POSITIVE FACTORS.

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THERE'S A LOT OF VOLUNTEERING, THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITIES THAT THEY DO TO BUILD CONNECTIONS WITH THEIR PEERS.

AND THE DREAM TEAMS ARE SUPPORTED BY OUR PREVENTION INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS AS WELL.

THERE ALSO HAVE BEEN SOME PARENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT NIGHTS LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE IT WAS ABOUT THIS TIME LAST YEAR, THERE WAS A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES COMMUNITY AND PARENT ENGAGEMENT NIGHT AT PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL.

THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ATTENDED.

THERE WERE A LOT OF DIFFERENT BOOTHS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT WAYS TO PROMOTE POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH FOR STUDENTS.

OH THAT'S TRUE. THERE WAS ONE ON FENTANYL.

THAT WAS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO AT CHIEF.

AT CHIEF? YEAH.

AND A LOT OF THESE THINGS ARE DONE IN CONCERT WITH PREVENT TOGETHER, THE BATTLE GROUND PREVENTION COLLABORATIVE.

SO WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THEM.

SO MOVING FROM SCHOOL WIDE TO CLASSROOM.

WE OUR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION SPECIALIST PIS.

I'M JUST GOING TO CALL THEM THAT FROM NOW ON.

OUR PIES DO WORK WITH OUR FIFTH AND SEVENTH GRADE CLASSES.

THEY GO IN AND DO SOME PREVENTION EDUCATION WITH ALL FIFTH AND SEVENTH GRADERS.

THEY ALSO DO SOME PREVENTION EDUCATION WITH NINTH GRADERS.

AND THEN RECENTLY WE'VE ADDED SOME HEALTHY CHOICES ACTIVITIES AT OUR FOURTH GRADERS WITH OUR FOURTH GRADERS.

THE PURPOSE FOR THAT IS TWOFOLD.

ONE, IT INTRODUCES THE FOURTH GRADERS TO AN ADULT THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT WITH WHEN THEY MOVE TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH CAN BE A SCARY TRANSITION.

SO THEY'RE FAMILIAR WITH SOMEBODY WHO'S A POSITIVE, FRIENDLY FACE.

AND ALSO IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO START PREVENTION WORK.

SO AT THE FOURTH GRADE, OUR LESSONS REALLY ARE ABOUT JUST MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES, BEING ABLE TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF, THAT KIND OF THING.

BUT IT REALLY IS WITH THAT, THAT LENS ON PREVENTING FOR FUTURE BEHAVIOR.

FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY ENGAGED WITH THESE BEHAVIORS OR WHO MAYBE KNOW SOMEBODY, A FAMILY MEMBER, A FRIEND WHO WAS AFFECTED BY ALCOHOL, TOBACCO OR OTHER DRUGS THERE ARE A VARIETY OF SKILLS GROUPS THAT THEY CAN ATTEND TO HELP THEM WORK THROUGH THOSE THINGS.

AND THEN FINALLY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS SOMETHING THAT'S CALLED AN ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE.

SO FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE CAUGHT USING ON CAMPUS, THEY ARE PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO ELECT FOR LESSER DISCIPLINE, BUT ONLY IF THEY ENGAGE WITH THEIR PREVENTION INTERVENTION SPECIALIST.

SO THEY CAN TAKE A SERIES OF 4 TO 6 CLASSES TO HELP PREVENT FURTHER USE.

IF THEY DON'T ENGAGE WITH THAT, THEIR DISCIPLINE GOES BACK TO WHAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY.

BUT THE IDEA IS TO USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH STUDENTS SOME HABITS, AND ALSO SOME STRATEGIES AND SOME TRUTHS ABOUT CONTINUING TO TO ENGAGE WITH THOSE KINDS OF BEHAVIORS.

ALL RIGHT. HERE'S SOME DATA.

WE PROVIDED A SURVEY TO ALL STUDENTS WHO WENT THROUGH ANY TYPE OF PI ACTIVITY LAST YEAR.

SO WE HAD THIS DATA REFLECTS 1049 RESPONSES.

SO THOSE ARE CLASSROOMS THAT PIS WENT INTO TO TEACH PREVENTION ED, THESE ARE STUDENTS WHO TOOK SOME QUITTING NICOTINE ONE ON ONE CLASSES AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN. IT WAS DONE ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5, ONE BEING LOW, FIVE BEING HIGH.

SO WE CAN SEE, WHEN WE ASKED THE QUESTION, I BELIEVE I GAINED VALUABLE INFORMATION BY PARTICIPATING IN THE PI PROGRAM.

THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY ANSWERED THAT THEY DID BETWEEN 5 AND 4.

WE'VE GOT ROUGHLY 70%.

WHEW. OKAY.

AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 9% OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ANSWERED 1 OR 2 TO THAT QUESTION.

ALSO, WE ASKED THEM IF THEY ARE GLAD THAT THEY PARTICIPATED IN THE PROGRAM.

AGAIN, WE HAVE LET'S SEE, 64%.

WE'RE IN THE FIVE AND FOUR RANGE, AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 11 ISH PERCENT, 12% IN THE 1 TO 2 RANGE. SO OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE THAT STUDENTS FELT ABOUT THE PROGRAM.

AND THOSE ONES AND TWOS ARE PROBABLY STUDENTS THAT WE NEED TO INTERFACE WITH THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS SUPPORTING ALONG THE WAY.

WE ASKED, HAS THIS INFORMATION MADE IT LESS LIKELY THAT YOU WILL INTERACT WITH SUBSTANCES IN THE FUTURE? 74% OF OUR STUDENTS SAID YES.

18% SAID NOT SURE AND 7% SAID NO.

AND THEN FINALLY, I BELIEVE YOUNG PEOPLE RISK HARMING THEMSELVES BY USING ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES.

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28% SAID THERE WAS A MODERATE RISK AND 5% SAID THERE WAS NO RISK.

OKAY. I WANTED TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT.

I WANT TO BRING THE PROGRAM TO LIFE FOR YOU.

I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.

AND SO I KNOW THAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED HAVING A PI IN YOUR SCHOOL.

SO WE HAVE A FULL TIME PI IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL AND A HALF TIME PI IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL.

AND THEN WE HAVE A 0.5 A HALF TIME PI IN EVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL.

FOR OUR ALTERNATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, THE ADMINISTRATORS REACH OUT TO ME ANY TIME THEY WANT PI SERVICES FOR ANY REASON.

AND I REACH OUT TO THE TEAM AND WE FIND SOMEBODY WITH A CAPACITY TO GO SUPPORT AT THE ALES.

SO HERE ARE SOME ACTIVITIES FROM LAST YEAR'S RED RIBBON WEEK.

WE HAVE [INAUDIBLE] OVER HERE ON THAT SIDE FROM PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL.

AND THEN WE HAVE FELICIA SANDBERG ON THIS SIDE.

LOOKS LIKE THAT'S AT AMBOY MIDDLE SCHOOL.

AND THEY ARE WITH THE INFAMOUS WHEEL.

THEY HAVE ONE WHEEL FOR THE PROGRAM THAT THEY PASS AROUND AMONGST EACH OTHER, AND THE KIDS LOVE IT WHEN THE WHEEL COMES.

THEY PLAY GAMES.

THEY HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTHY CHOICES AND FACTS TO HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND DRUG AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS.

AND SO THAT'S THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU SEE HERE.

WE'VE GOT SOME DREAM TEAM PICTURES.

WE TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.

WE WERE HONORED THAT ONE OF OUR DREAM TEAMS COMPETED IN KARI WAS IT SPOKANE? GREAT WOLF LODGE. OH, IS IT GREAT WOLF LODGE? THAT'S RIGHT. THEY COMPETED.

THEY COMPETED. THIS WAS A MIDDLE SCHOOL GROUP, AND THEY COMPETED AGAINST A BUNCH OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

WHAT THEY HAD TO DO WAS PRESENT THE ACTIVITIES THAT THEY DID AS A DREAM TEAM, AND THEY WON AND THEY WERE INVITED TO NATIONALS.

SO IT WAS AMAZING.

THIS IS A PICTURE OF SOME OF THOSE DREAM TEAM STUDENTS AT NATIONALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C..

THIS IS A DOOR DECORATING CAMPAIGN DURING RED RIBBON WEEK.

AND THEN FINALLY SOME OF OUR COLLABORATIONS WITH WITH THE PREVENT COLLABORATIVE HERE IN BATTLE GROUND WITH PREVENT.

TOGETHER WE HELD CHAI WITH THE PI OR THEY DID AND WE SUPPLIED THE PI WAS KARI KOLLER, WHO YOU'LL MEET IN JUST A MOMENT.

AND THEN ALSO UPCOMING, THERE IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST ANNUAL PICKLEBALL FOR PREVENTION.

I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE SOME PICKLEBALL AFICIONADOS ON THE BOARD.

AND THERE'S A AN EVENT ON OCTOBER 26TH THAT'S DURING RED RIBBON WEEK AT THE CHIEF GYM.

SO WE HOPE TO SEE SOME PEOPLE JOIN WITH THAT.

I WOULD LIKE TO BRING OUR PIS UP.

WILL YOU GUYS COME FORWARD, PLEASE? I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF.

OH, OKAY. I'M AMY WARNKE AND I WORK AT BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL.

AND I'M KRISTEN MCHENRY, AND I'M AT LAUREN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

KARI KOLLER OBERG AND I AM AT PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL AND PLEASANT VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SO SINCE WE'VE GOT THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE UP HERE, I WANTED TO OPEN THE QUESTIONS TO ALL OF US SO THAT YOU CAN HEAR FROM THEM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROGRAM.

QUESTIONS? OBVIOUSLY THERE'S ALWAYS MORE THINGS WE NEED TO BE DOING.

BUT IS THERE SOMETHING THAT IMMEDIATELY COMES TO MIND THAT IS WOEFULLY LACKING THAT YOU WOULD SAY, WE JUST CAN'T.

WE NEED MORE, WHATEVER IT IS, MORE PIS, MORE MORE BIGGER PIS, MORE MONEY, YOU KNOW.

YOU KNOW, RESOURCES.

WE NEED ANOTHER WHEEL.

BUT THAT WAS KIND OF SOUNDED LIKE TO ME.

YEAH. WE ALL WANT THE WHEEL.

THE STUDENTS LOVE IT.

WAIT, DON'T YOU HAVE A SLUSH FUND? YOU SHOULD BUY THE WHEEL.

BUT THINK DEEPLY BECAUSE IF THAT'S ALL WE'RE LACKING, THEN HONESTLY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LIKE.

IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING'S COVERED.

NO NO NO NO NO NO.

WE WE CAN ALWAYS USE MORE, MORE PREVENTION.

WE LOST OUR LEAD POSITION.

WE LOST A FULL TIME WITH THE BUDGET CUTS.

AND SO THAT'S WE FELT THAT AS A TEAM.

BUT WE'RE WORKING REALLY HARD TO KEEP THAT UP.

I ALSO HAVE THIS DREAM THAT WE CAN PILOT VAPE SENSORS.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD ABOUT VAPE SENSORS, BUT A LOT OF THE VAPING HAPPENS IN BATHROOMS, AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IF THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR DISTRICT, SO THAT

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I LIKE THE IDEA OF A PILOT.

YEAH, I WOULD LOVE THAT.

I HAD A STUDENT LAST WITH ME LAST YEAR WHO ACTUALLY DID A REPORT ABOUT THAT WAS HER PROJECT FOR HER SCHOOL, ABOUT THAT.

SO I HAVE SOME INFORMATION IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THAT.

SEND IT MY WAY. OKAY.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

SO ON HERE, IT SAYS THAT WHEN IT SAYS ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE, WHEN IT SAYS CLASSES WITH THE PI.

ARE THOSE CLASSES LIKE WITH MORE STUDENTS? LIKE, IS IT A LOT OF STUDENTS? WE DO GROUPS.

UNLESS A STUDENT IS REALLY ANXIOUS OR SOMETHING AND THEY'RE LIKE, MISS AMY, I JUST DON'T WANT TO DO A GROUP.

WE CERTAINLY DO ONE ON ONE WITH STUDENTS AS WELL, BUT WE WILL WE GET OUR REFERRALS IN AND THEN WE MEET WITH THE STUDENTS.

AND AFTER WE GET A HANDFUL OF THEM, WE'LL PUT GROUPS TOGETHER.

AND THEN WE MEET ONCE A WEEK FOR FOUR WEEKS IN THE GROUPS.

AND IT'S REALLY COOL BECAUSE THEY END UP BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER, AND IT'S REALLY A NEAT THING.

AND THEN I ALSO HAD ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT THAT.

SO AT THESE CLASSES, I KNOW WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THE DATA, A LOT OF STUDENTS GAVE LIKE FIVES OR SAID THAT THEY WOULD THEY WOULDN'T EVER POSSIBLY DO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL.

AT THESE CLASSES DO YOU EVER HAVE SOME SORT OF STUDENT VOICE OF LIKE, KIDS WHO HAVE TAKEN THE CLASS AND HAVE COME AND KIND OF TALKED ABOUT HOW THE CLASSES HELPED THEM? BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF STUDENTS KIND OF LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND KIND OF I KNOW A LOT OF KIDS WHO MAYBE HAVE GONE THROUGH CERTAIN MISTAKES OF DOING DRUGS OR DOING ALCOHOL, AND THEN HEARING FROM ANOTHER STUDENT OF HOW THESE CLASSES KIND OF HELPED THEM INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THE CLASS IN A BAD WAY.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE EVER THOUGHT OF THAT IDEA OF POSSIBLY BRINGING SOME STUDENTS WHO ARE COMFORTABLE IN TALKING ABOUT KIND OF THEIR PAST SITUATION AND HOW THE CLASS HAS AFFECTED THEM IN A POSITIVE WAY, AND HOW THEY KIND OF GOT THROUGH IT.

AND YEAH, THAT'S KIND OF MY QUESTION.

NO, THAT'S GREAT.

SO IT'S KIND OF IT'S KIND OF COOL BECAUSE WORD GETS AROUND WITH THE GROUPS AND I'LL HAVE KIDS COME AND THEY'VE GOT IN TROUBLE AND THEY'RE LIKE, OH, I HEARD GROUP WASN'T BAD.

AND I'M ACTUALLY KIND OF REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE.

THE OTHER THING THAT I DO IS I DO.

I CALL THEM MONTHLY REUNION GROUPS BECAUSE KIDS DON'T WANT TO BE DONE WITH GROUP AND THEY NEED THAT ONGOING SUPPORT, BUT WE CAN'T DO IT EVERY WEEK.

SO WE'LL GO TO ONCE A MONTH.

AND SO KIDS THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH HAVE GONE THROUGH THE CLASSES WILL COME IN AND, AND KIND OF SHARE THEIR HOW THEY'RE DOING.

AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD PART OF THAT.

YEAH. GOOD QUESTION.

THANK YOU. YEAH.

AND JUST SO YOU KNOW LIKE THE DREAM TEAM YOU GUYS THERE WERE 40 TEAMS AND THERE WERE THREE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

THE REST WERE HIGH SCHOOL.

SORRY SORRY SORRY.

THERE WERE AT THE DREAM TEAM.

THAT THE KIDS WON AT STATE TWO YEARS AGO AT GREAT WOLF LODGE, THERE WERE 40 TEAMS FROM AROUND THE STATE AND 37 OF THEM WERE HIGH SCHOOLS, THREE WERE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND CHIEF WON, SO I'M STILL PROUD.

I THINK IT'S AMAZING THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE LEADING EACH OTHER IN THIS WORK.

THAT IS AMAZING.

SO THANK YOU FOR THE LEADERSHIP THAT YOU'RE GIVING THEM IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

IT'S BIG.

SOMEONE ELSE I'VE GOT SOMETHING.

I WAS JUST ALL I'D ADD IS THANK YOU FOR EMPOWERING OUR STUDENTS, BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS SCREAMS TO ME IS EMPOWERMENT.

AND OUR OWN STUDENT REPS ADVOCATING FOR MORE STUDENTS, TEACHING STUDENTS AND NOT THAT AND IT JUST REQUIRES THE LEADERSHIP TO LET THEM GO. SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THE SERVICE YOU'RE GIVING BECAUSE IT'S JUST HUGE.

AND SO I'LL AGE MYSELF, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE THESE WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL, AND IT'S A HUGE I MEAN, WE DIDN'T GET TOLD IT WASN'T A BAD.

IT WAS A BAD THING, RIGHT? SO THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

YEAH. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

SO I'VE GOT TWO THINGS.

GO AHEAD. THE BEST PART IS BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE STUDENTS.

YEAH. SO DATA SHOWING TRENDS WITH REGARD TO THE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE ADDRESSING.

IS THERE DATA WE'RE COLLECTING? AND ARE THE TRENDS SHOWING AN INCREASING PROBLEM OR A DECREASING PROBLEM? WELL, I FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY KRISTEN IS BRAND NEW TO US.

SO SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO PUT HER ON THE SPOT.

WE ARE SO EXCITED TO HAVE HER.

SHE IS HOW IT JUST STARTED THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO BUT AS FAR AS THE DATA GOES, I'M TRYING NOT TO BE OVERLY OPTIMISTIC.

I WANT TO KNOCK ON WOOD, BUT I SEE ALL THE REFERRALS THAT COME IN FOR DRUG AND ALCOHOL ACROSS THE DISTRICT, AND THERE HAVE NOT BEEN VERY MANY.

AND I AM VERY, VERY EXCITED BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THE UPSTREAM APPROACH, THAT DOING PREVENTION, REALLY GOOD PREVENTION WORK.

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AND SO THERE HAVE BEEN LESS REFERRALS THIS YEAR SO FAR, JUST ANECDOTALLY.

BUT I, I HOPE THAT THAT TREND CONTINUES.

WE'RE WORKING HARD THAT IT WILL.

SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU'RE HOPING THAT DATA IS COMING IN OR THE DATA HAS COME IN? WELL, WE SEE ALL THE REFERRALS FOR THE DRUG AND ALCOHOL REFERRALS FROM ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

AND THERE ARE LESS THAN THERE USUALLY ARE AT THIS YEAR AT THIS TIME, OVER THE SCHOOL YEARS THEN HAS IT BEEN DECLINING? YES, YES.

WE CAN SEE THAT FROM HEALTHY USE SURVEY DATA AND REFERRALS.

ALONG WITH THAT. THEN YOU MENTIONED THE RELATIONSHIPS.

THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD WAS THEN IN REGARDS TO LIKE WHAT DO WE NEED? SO LET ME ASK IT THIS WAY THEN ARE THERE ENOUGH PIS TO PROVIDE THE GROUPS THAT WE NEED TO KEEP THE GROUP SIZES AS SMALL AS WE'D LIKE TO HAVE THEM? SO THERE'S LIKE, SO ARE THERE GROUPS TOO BIG? WELL, WE DO WE DO PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION AND IT DEPENDS ON THE SCHOOLS.

BUT OUR ALES HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT TO ME AND LIKE WE WANT, WE WANT THESE SERVICES AS WELL.

WE WANT PREVENTION AS WELL.

AND WE WE DON'T.

I MEAN, WE'RE GOING TO DO THE BEST WE CAN, BUT WE WOULD LOVE OKAY. SO WHAT ABOUT AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS? LET'S JUST FOCUS AT BATTLE GROUND AND PRAIRIE HIGH.

WE HAVE PLENTY OF PIS AND THE GROUPS, PLENTY OF GROUPS.

AND THE GROUPS ARE SMALL ENOUGH TO, TO TO HANDLE THE LOAD THAT WE HAVE.

I THINK SO, YEAH.

OKAY. YEAH. OKAY.

SO THANK YOU.

THERE'S NO THERE'S NO PREVENTION INTERVENTION AT ANY OF THE OTHER SCHOOLS OTHER THAN THE HIGH SCHOOL.

NO, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, ALL OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS, BUT NOT THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS.

NOT NOT A PERSON.

THAT'S JUST FOR THE SCHOOLS.

WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES, BUT WE BORROW PEOPLE FROM OTHER SCHOOLS.

WELL, WE DID SAY IT WAS 0.5 AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, SO THAT'S HALF A PERSON.

WE GOT A HALF, HALF A WEEK.

IT'S A FULL PERSON, A HALF TOP AND A BOTTOM.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT THERE'S A HALF A PERSON OVER THERE.

SO I'D LIKE TO ASK JULIA, DO YOU THINK THIS IS A NEED IN THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS? I FEEL LIKE FOR RIVER HOMELINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE PARENTS ARE EVERYWHERE.

SO PARENTS ARE ALMOST LIKE THIS BUILT IN PI SYSTEM BECAUSE, LIKE, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING AT RIVER HOMELINK THERE ARE 20 CLASSROOMS, LIKE YOU'RE SHARING A BATHROOM WITH A KINDERGARTNER AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

BUT I DO THINK IT'S NECESSARY.

NO MATTER WHAT SCHOOL YOU'RE AT, I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY TRUE.

I THINK ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS ARE LIKE, IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN WHICH SCHOOLS COULDN'T HAVE A PI, I THINK ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS ARE A LITTLE BIT LESS LIKELY TO NEED THEM AS MUCH AS A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT'S SET UP.

KIDS ARE THERE LESS THERE ARE ALREADY MORE BUILT IN INTERVENTIONS BECAUSE MOST MOST ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS HAVE MORE SUPPORTS FROM LIKE STUDENT TO STAFF, JUST FROM LIKE IN, IN COMPARISON TO COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS.

SO THAT'S WHAT I THINK. I THINK IT'S STILL IMPORTANT.

I THINK IT'S STILL NECESSARY, BUT I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DON'T HAVE AN ASSIGNED PERSON AT EACH ALE ESPECIALLY LIKE CONSIDER SOME OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL.

MOST STUDENTS GO THERE ONCE A WEEK, SO YOU'RE NOT SEEING YOUR STUDENTS VERY OFTEN.

THERE'S NOT AS MUCH OF A PRESSING NEED FOR INTERVENTION, EVEN THOUGH THERE STILL IS A NEED, AND IT'S JUST NOT AS IT IT SHOWS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY AT ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS THAN AT COMPREHENSIVE.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT NONE OF THESE POSITIONS ARE FUNDED BY THE STATE.

ALL OF THESE POSITIONS ARE FUNDED BY LEVY AND BY, YOU KNOW, GRANTS AND ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.

VERY IMPORTANT. SO SO IT'S NOT AS THOUGH, YOU KNOW, THE STATE IS SAYING THAT'S A LOT OF A LOT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS DO NOT HAVE.

I DRIVE ALL THE WAY FROM OREGON SO THAT I CAN DO THIS WORK.

THESE POSITIONS WERE ORIGINALLY FUNDED BY THE FIRST AWARE GRANT.

BUT WHEN THAT GRANT SUNSET IN 2019, THEN IT HAD TO MOVE TO THE DISTRICT.

SO THE DISTRICT FUNDS THESE POSITIONS THROUGH LEVY DOLLARS.

AND WE AREN'T ABLE TO BRING THEM UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE NEW GRANT, BECAUSE ONE OF THE FEDERAL RULES IS THAT IT HAS WE CAN ONLY USE THAT MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT'S NEW, NOT SOMETHING THAT PREDATED THE GRANT IN THE DISTRICT.

SO WE HAVE MADE IT A PRIORITY BY KEEPING IT RUNNING SINCE SINCE WE LOST THE FIRST AWARD, SINCE THE FIRST AWARD GRANT ENDED.

BUT AND WE HAVE ADDED TO IT WHEN WE HAD FUNDS AVAILABLE.

SO AS KARI TALKED ABOUT, WE HAD A LEAD.

BUT WHEN THE ESSER FUNDS ENDED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, THAT'S HOW WE WERE FUNDING THAT LEAD POSITION.

AND SO UNFORTUNATELY THAT TOO WENT AWAY.

SO CERTAINLY NOT BECAUSE WE DON'T NOT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO WANT TO DO IT.

CAN I CAN JUST ALSO GIVE A PERSONAL KUDOS TO YOUR POSITIONS BECAUSE THIS TOUCHED OUR FAMILY

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AND THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HELPED OUR FAMILY WAS THERE 100 AND REALLY DID.

I MEAN, IT DIDN'T CHANGE THE CIRCUMSTANCE, BUT IT DID HELP US WALK THROUGH IT.

AND SO AND HELPED MY STUDENT ALSO WALK THROUGH IT.

SO IT'S DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY NEEDED.

AND HOPEFULLY THE COMMUNITY WILL BACK THE LEVY SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THIS GREAT WORK AND EVEN DO MORE IF POSSIBLE. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO.

IT'S IT'S SOMETIMES THANKLESS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T ALWAYS END UP THE WAY WE WISH IT DID.

BUT THE HEART AND SOUL THAT YOU PUT INTO IT, I CAN TELL ALL OF YOU ARE JUST VERY COMMITTED TO TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT A LOT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT, DEBBIE.

YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU.

YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANKS FOR BEING HERE [APPLAUSE]. WELL, I GUESS WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE A LITTLE BIT MORE DATA FOR YOU.

I HAVE ALLISON AND LACEY HERE TO TALK TO US A BIT ABOUT OUR SBAC SCORES.

YOU DO HAVE SHEETS IN FRONT OF YOU, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE.

THOSE ARE FOR A DEEPER DIVE LATER.

YOU WON'T NEED THEM NECESSARILY, FOR WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO COVER NOW.

GOOD EVENING. I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO LACEY MARSZALEK.

IF YOU HAVE NOT MET HER BEFORE, SHE IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT ASSISTANT TO ASSESSMENT.

THERE IS A TONGUE TWISTER FOR YOU.

THIS IS HER THIRD YEAR WORKING WITH OUR DEPARTMENT AND SHE OVERSEES ALL OF STATE TESTING.

SO THIS YEAR WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE APPROACH WHERE WE'RE STARTING WITH OUR YOUNGEST STUDENT DATA AND WORKING OUR WAY UP.

SO FIRST WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WAKIDS KIDS.

AND I'LL LET LACEY TELL YOU WHAT THAT IS.

SO IT'S THE WASHINGTON KINDERGARTEN INVENTORY OF DEVELOPING SKILLS.

THIS IS AN OBSERVATIONAL ASSESSMENT THAT KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS GIVE TO STUDENTS OVER THE COURSE OF THE FIRST 12 WEEKS OF SCHOOL.

IT SHOWS STUDENT READINESS AND ALLOWS US TO TRACK TRENDS ACROSS YEARS.

THERE'S SIX DOMAINS TESTED, MOSTLY OBSERVATIONAL.

TEACHERS GO THROUGH A SPECIFIC TRAINING AND SOME EVEN PARTICIPATE IN INTERRATER RELIABILITY TESTING.

THIS TESTING IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING AND REQUIRES HOURS OF STUDENT OBSERVATION AND DATA INPUT INTO THE STATE SYSTEM.

WE PROVIDE TEACHERS NINE HOURS OUTSIDE OF THEIR CONTRACTED WORKDAY TO UPLOAD THE DATA TO THE STATE SYSTEM, AND THAT'S HOW WE GET THESE RESULTS.

A 2022 STUDY FOUND THAT AFTER ADJUSTING FOR OTHER VARIABLES, THE ODDS OF MEETING THE THIRD GRADE ELA STANDARDS WAS 62% HIGHER FOR STUDENTS WHO WERE KINDERGARTEN READY ON WAKIDS LITERACY.

WHILE THE ODDS OF MEETING THIRD GRADE MATH STANDARDS WERE 72% HIGHER FOR STUDENTS WHO WERE KINDERGARTEN READY ON WAKIDS MATH.

AND IF YOU LOOK, ROUGHLY 81% OF OUR KINDERS ARE MEETING THE READINESS STANDARDS WHEN THEY COME TO US IN THE FALL.

OKAY. AS WE MOVE UP, WE GO INTO KINDERGARTEN.

AND WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER TEST THAT WE GIVE, WHICH IS CALLED ELSA.

AND THIS IS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MOVIE FROZEN.

IT STANDS FOR EARLY LITERACY SKILLS ASSESSMENT, AND IT COVERS MULTIPLE SKILLS.

OUR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN I-READY TESTING, SO THIS IS THE TEST THAT WE GIVE INSTEAD.

AND SO WE TEST THEM IN PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, RHYMING, BLENDING, SEGMENTING SOUNDING SOUND ADDITION AND DELETION, AND THEN LETTER NAMES AND SOUNDS AND THE LETTER NAMES AND SOUNDS IS WHAT WE REPORT TO OSPI.

SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE GRAPH THAT WE HAVE HERE THAT IN THE FALL OF LAST YEAR WE HAD 800 AND WELL, LET'S SEE, WE HAD 800, 766 STUDENTS WHO TESTED IN THE FALL.

WE HAD 834 STUDENTS THAT WERE TESTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

AND THE REASON THAT NUMBER IS DECREASING OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR IS BECAUSE ONCE A STUDENT SHOWS THAT THEY ARE PROFICIENT IN SOMETHING IN KINDERGARTEN WITH THE LETTER SOUNDS, WE ARE NOT RETESTING THOSE STUDENTS.

SO WE ARE TESTING FEWER STUDENTS IN THE WINTER, YOU WOULD CERTAINLY HOPE.

AND IN THE SPRING.

AND SO THAT'S SHOWING OUR DATA IS SHOWING THERE THAT WE HAVE ABOUT 80% OF OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE PROFICIENT IN KINDERGARTEN WITH THEIR LETTER SOUNDS AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, AND ABOUT 20% THAT WERE BELOW PROFICIENCY, WHICH TRACKS WITH THE WASHINGTON KINDERGARTEN INVENTORY OF DEVELOPING SKILLS.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

OH, WE CHANGED OUR LITTLE ORDER HERE.

OKAY. SO THEN WE MOVE INTO THE SMARTER BALANCED TESTING, WHICH IS OUR THIRD GRADE AND BEYOND.

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SO THAT'S SHOWING OUR I-READY TESTING AND OUR SMARTER BALANCED TESTING.

THERE IS A LINK. SO IF YOU WERE TO GO INTO YOUR PRESENTATION THE COHORT DATA, THAT IS THE BIG HANDOUT.

THAT'S JUST A LINK TO THIS COHORT DATA THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO IN.

I WANTED YOU TO HAVE THIS SO THAT YOU CAN DIG INTO IT AND LOOK AT IT.

BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO SPEND THE TIME ON IT THIS EVENING.

AND THEN YOU CAN LOOK BY GRADE LEVEL AT OUR I-READY TESTING AND OUR SMARTER BALANCED SCORES.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THOSE TWO TRACK REALLY WELL.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I-READY IS REALLY TOUTED FOR IS ITS ACCURACY BETWEEN THE THE PERCENT PASSING IN THE I-READY TESTING AND THEN THE CORRELATION TO SMARTER BALANCED TESTING.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR THIRD GRADERS, WE HAD 44% OF OUR STUDENTS PASSING THE I-READY READING TEST AND 46% PASSING THE SMARTER BALANCED ELA TEST, SO PRETTY CLOSE.

AND RELATIVELY CLOSE ON ALL OF THOSE EIGHTH GRADE THINGS GET A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

WE DO NOT GIVE I-READY.

WE DO NOT REQUIRE THAT OUR TEACHERS GIVE EIGHTH GRADERS THE I-READY TESTING IN THE SPRING.

AND SO THAT DATA IS A LITTLE BIT SKEWED.

BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THE REST OF THAT IS PRETTY CLOSE.

LET'S SEE, WE ALSO ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION ABOUT OUR STATE TESTING AND THE TESTING IRREGULARITIES.

SO WE HAD WE GAVE OVER 10,000 TESTS THROUGH SMARTER BALANCE THIS LAST YEAR, AND WE HAD 137 TEST INCIDENTS, WHICH IS LESS THAN 1% OF OUR INCIDENTS.

BUT MOST OF THEM ARE THINGS THAT ARE RELATED TO CELL PHONES, WATCHES, SO SMART WATCHES AND EARBUDS.

SO STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE ON THEIR PERSON DURING TESTING.

AND WE STILL HAVE SOME THAT DO, THAT RESULTED IN 19 TEST AND VALIDATIONS, WHICH MEANS THAT THEY COULD NOT GET A SCORE BACK.

SO THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO USE THAT TEST FOR GRADUATION PURPOSES IF THAT WAS A HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL STUDENT.

SO THIS IS JUST 10TH GRADE ONLY, BUT THESE CHARTS COVER OUR DISTRICT COMPARED TO OTHER DISTRICTS IN WASHINGTON STATE.

THE CHART ON THE LEFT SHOWS DISTRICTS THAT ARE SIMILAR IN SIZE AND DEMOGRAPHICS, WHILE THE CHART ON THE RIGHT SHOWS DISTRICTS THAT ARE LOCAL TO THE AREA.

IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THAT COMPARABLE DISTRICTS HAVE VERY SIMILAR TRENDS TO US, WHILE THE LOCAL DISTRICTS HAVE SOME SIMILARITIES, BUT YOU CAN SEE SOME DISTINCT DIFFERENCES.

AND THESE TWO ARE FOR ELA 10TH GRADERS.

AND THEN NEXT SLIDE.

THESE CHARTS COVER THE MATH SCORES IN COMPARISON TO LOCAL DISTRICTS AND COMPARABLE DISTRICTS.

WHILE IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE ALL OVER THE PLACE THAN ELA, YOU CAN STILL SEE THE TRENDING SIMILARITIES.

SIMILARITIES ACROSS BOTH CHARTS.

NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS TO KIND OF PRESENT SOME NEW DATA FROM THE STATE FOR YOU.

THIS IS THE ONE PAGER THAT THE STATE PUTS OUT ABOUT THE REPORT CARDS THAT COME OUT EACH YEAR.

THIS YEAR, THE STATE RECEIVED COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SMARTER BALANCED CONSORTIUM ABOUT FREQUENT MISINTERPRETATION OF SBA SCORES.

SO OSPI HAS DECIDED TO ADJUST HOW THEY PRESENT THE PUBLIC FACING DATA BEGINNING THIS YEAR.

THIS IS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED AS A CORRECTION TO EXISTING ACHIEVEMENT LABELS, BUT TO HELP CREATE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

THE STATE TESTS ARE NOT A PASS FAIL ASSESSMENT, AND THE STUDENTS WHO DO NOT MEET THE COLLEGE READINESS PROFICIENCY STANDARD ARE NOT NECESSARILY BELOW GRADE LEVEL IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE. THE SPECIFIC DATA IS I GUESS THE THIRD ROW DOWN.

YEAH. UNDER ASSESSMENT.

SO THAT'S THE NEW DATA.

SO THE DATA ON THE RIGHT THAT SHE'S POINTING TO THERE.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE USED TO SEEING.

SO THAT'S GOING TO INCLUDE YOUR LEVEL THREE AND LEVEL FOUR STUDENTS THAT ARE CONSIDERED TO BE COLLEGE READY.

AND THEN THE THE THREE CIRCLES ON THE LEFT THAT SAYS FOUNDATIONAL GRADE LEVEL KNOWLEDGE.

THAT IS NOW INCLUDING STUDENTS WITH LEVEL TWO, LEVEL THREE AND LEVEL FOUR SCORES.

AND SO THIS THE DATA ON THE LEFT INCLUDES WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL OUR C STUDENTS.

THEY'RE NOT ILLITERATE, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO PASS THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS. AND SO THIS IS JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE THAT THIS IS HOW OSPI IS GOING TO START PRESENTING OUR STATE ASSESSMENT DATA GOING FORWARD.

AND THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT LEVEL TWO IS PROFICIENT IN ELA AND MATH.

THIS CHART IS ANOTHER NEW WAY THAT OSPI HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO REPRESENT OUR STATE ASSESSMENT DATA.

AND TO START A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT WHO IS NOT INCLUDED.

THIRD GRADERS ARE NOT PART OF THIS CHART BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TWO YEARS OF DATA, AND ANY STUDENT WHO DID NOT HAVE TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF DATA IS NOT A PART OF IT.

AND FOR 10TH GRADERS, IT'S GOING TO SHOW THEIR 8TH TO 10TH GRADE SCORES.

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SO THEY ARE ACCELERATED IN THEIR LEARNING OVER THOSE TWO YEARS.

AND THEN THE GRAY IS THEY HAD A HIGHER PERFORMANCE SUBLEVEL, BUT THEY'RE THERE'S STILL A LEVEL ONE OR A LEVEL TWO.

SO THEY MOVED FROM LIKE A LOW LEVEL TWO TO A HIGH LEVEL TWO AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

AND THEN IN ORANGE, IT'S THE SAME LEVEL AS PREVIOUS YEARS.

SO A ONE STATE, A ONE, A TWO STATE A TWO.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE A THREE.

THAT STATE A THREE, IT'S JUST ONES AND TWOS.

AND THEN THE BOTTOM BLUE IS GOING TO COVER STUDENTS THAT REGRESSED OR WENT DOWN PERFORMANCE LEVELS.

BUT IT STILL ONLY INCLUDES LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO.

ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT ONE.

AND THEN NOW WE'RE KIND OF DONE WITH HIGH SCHOOL, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT COLLEGE BOARD INFORMATION.

THIS IS JUST TO SHOW OUR PARTICIPATION RATES IN SAT, AP COURSES AND PSAT RELATED ASSESSMENTS.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'VE HAD AN INCREASE ACROSS THE BOARD WITH THOSE COURSES AND TESTS.

AND WHEN IT COMES TO SAT SCORES FOR A CLASS OF 2024.

OUR AVERAGE TOTAL SCORE WAS 1131.

AND OUR STUDENTS ON AVERAGE, YOU CAN SEE WE SCORE HIGHER THAN THE STATE AND THE NATIONAL AVERAGES.

AND THEN THE PSAT 10TH, 11TH AND 12TH GRADERS CAN TAKE THE PSAT, BUT ONLY THE 11TH GRADERS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE SCHOLARSHIPS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

SO THAT'S WHO THIS COUNTS HERE.

AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE SCORING HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.

AND THIS IS JUST ABOUT AP COURSES.

THE GRAY COLUMN IS THE NUMBER OF OF EXAM TAKERS.

SO THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT ARE TAKING EXAMS. THE BLUE IS THE NUMBER OF EXAMS GIVEN.

SO THIS SHOWS THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE TAKING MORE THAN ONE EXAM.

AND THE BLACK IS THE NUMBER OF EXAMS THAT RESULTED IN A SCORE OF THREE OR HIGHER, AND THEN THE GOLD PERCENTAGE OF THE UP ABOVE IS THE REPRESENTS THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS THAT ARE GETTING A PASSING EXAM SCORE IN AP COURSES.

OKAY, SO WE WANTED TO CALL OUT SOME OF OUR AWARDS.

SO WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED CAPSTONE RECIPIENTS.

AND CAPSTONE ARE THE STUDENTS WHO SCORED THREE OR HIGHER IN AP SEMINAR AND THREE OR HIGHER IN AP RESEARCH AND SCORED THREE OR HIGHER ON FOUR ADDITIONAL AP EXAMS OF THEIR CHOICE.

SO WE ONLY HAVE ONE SCHOOL THAT OFFERS BOTH RESEARCH AND SEMINAR, AND THAT'S BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL.

SO WE HAD THESE FIVE STUDENTS WHO WERE AWARD WINNERS FOR MEETING THIS CRITERIA.

SO BRENDAN DOUGHTY, ADDISON FAHRNEY, HYOUJU SMITH, SORA TOLLEY, WHICH YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE THAT NAME, AND MARLEY WING.

SO WE ALSO HAD THREE STUDENTS WHO QUALIFIED FOR AP SEMINAR AND RESEARCH CERTIFICATE, AND THAT'S ANOTHER AWARD THAT NOW I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PULL IT UP AT THE TOP OF MY HEAD REAL QUICK.

SO THEY ARE ELLA GALLOWAY, CHASE HARSHMAN, AND ELIZABETH MCLEAR.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

YES. ALL RIGHT.

AND THEN WE HAD ONE SCHOOL WHICH IS CAM ACADEMY, WHO MADE HONOR ROLL.

AND SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THEY HAVE A COLLEGE CULTURE, WHICH IS 40% OR MORE OF THEIR GRADUATING COHORT TAKING AT LEAST ONE AP EXAM AND 25% OR MORE OF THEIR GRADUATING COHORT GETTING A THREE OR HIGHER.

AND WITH AT LEAST ONE AP EXAM AND 2% OR MORE OF THEIR GRADUATING COHORT TAKING FIVE OR MORE AP EXAMS DURING THE HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. SO THERE'S A LOT OF AP TESTING THAT HAPPENS AS PART OF THE CAM CULTURE.

AND THEY RECEIVED THIS HONOR ROLL CERTIFICATE.

THAT'S COOL. SO WE ALSO ARE GOING TO BE ADDING NEW THIS NEXT YEAR, THE PSAT 8/9, WHICH MEANS 8TH GRADERS AND 9TH GRADERS WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAKE THE PSAT.

AND THEN WE USE THOSE TEST RESULTS TO HELP US DETERMINE WHAT AP COURSES WE SHOULD OFFER IN THE FUTURE.

SO IT WILL HELP US WITH FORECASTING, AS WELL AS GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT AP TESTING LOOKS LIKE AND HOW TO GET THEIR FEET WET WITH

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OKAY, SO THEN WE WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GRADUATION RATES.

SO THIS IS FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS TO MEET.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS.

SO THIS GRAPH SHOWS YOU SMARTER BALANCED.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE BROWN SECTION ON THE TOP LEFT ON THE LEFT HAND CHART, THEN IF WE GO COUNTERCLOCKWISE YOU SEE CTE/SBA.

SO THERE ARE SOME STUDENTS WHO MET BY TAKING BOTH OF THOSE OR EITHER OF THOSE.

AND THEN THERE IS A LARGE GROUP OF STUDENTS THAT MEET THEIR GRADUATION PATHWAY JUST BY CTE.

AND THEN WE HAVE UP TOWARD THE TOP OUR DUAL CREDIT, OUR APS, SATS, ACTS AND ASVAB TESTS.

ALL OF THOSE ARE THEIR OWN PATHWAYS.

SO IF A STUDENT WERE TO PASS THOSE EXAMS, IT QUALIFIES THEM FOR GRADUATION.

AND THEN WE HAVE THE CHUNK THERE THAT DID NOT MEET, AND THAT'S ABOUT 19%.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE CHART ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAD A LOT OF STUDENTS, ALMOST 50% OF OUR STUDENTS WHO MET THEIR PATHWAY IN ONE WAY.

BUT THEN WE HAD SOME THAT MET IT IN TWO WAYS, THREE WAYS, FOUR WAYS, AND FIVE WAYS.

SO SOME OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE MET BY TAKING EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE EXAMS KIND OF A THING THEY'RE BUSY KIDS.

SO OUR GRADUATION RATE, IF YOU LOOK BACK ON THIS SLIDE BEFORE, SORRY, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO BACKWARDS.

SO NOW I'VE MESSED THAT UP.

THANK YOU. IF YOU CAN HELP ME OVER THERE.

YES, WE HAD ABOUT ONE MORE. THERE WE GO.

81% OF OUR STUDENTS MET A GRADUATION PATHWAY.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR GRADUATION RATE, OUR GRADUATION RATE IS 81.6%.

SO THAT TRACKS PRETTY WELL.

WE HAD A DROPOUT RATE OF ABOUT 11%, AND WE HAVE ABOUT 6.6% OF OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE GOING TO CARRY ON.

SOME OF OUR STUDENTS NEED LONGER THAN FOUR YEARS IN ORDER TO GET ALL OF THEIR CREDITS.

AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS NEXT CHART, THIS IS THE ADJUSTED COHORT GRADUATION RATE, WHICH MEANS THAT WE'RE TRACKING THE GRADUATION OF THOSE STUDENTS FOR MORE THAN FOUR YEARS.

SO WE HAVE A FOUR YEAR RATE, A FIVE YEAR RATE, A SIX YEAR RATE, AND A SEVEN YEAR RATE.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THAT DIAGONALLY, YOU CAN SEE THAT PARTICULAR CLASS FROM 1920, THEIR GRADUATION RATE WENT FROM 75.2% UP TO 83.6%. THEN IF YOU FOLLOW THAT DOWN AND YOU LOOK AT 20, 23, 24, YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR GRADUATION RATE IS STARTING HIGHER THAN IT DID BACK IN 20 1920.

SO OUR SEVEN YEAR GRADUATION RATE, BY THE TIME WE FINISH THAT CHART, BY THE TIME STUDENTS AGE OUT, SHOULD BE HIGHER THAN IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST. SO AND THERE WE HAVE OUR PRESENTATION.

SO ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO ASK ONE TO MAKE SURE IT'S CLARIFIED IN MY OWN BRAIN.

DO I HAVE THIS RIGHT? WITH REGARD TO THE SBA, THE STATE NOW HAS THROWN OUT A CAVEAT WHERE JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE AT LEVEL TWO DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN YOU'RE NOT AT GRADE LEVEL. DO I HAVE THAT CORRECT? LEVEL TWO DOES NOT MEAN NECESSARILY THAT YOU'RE NOT AT GRADE LEVEL ACCORDING TO THE SBA, CORRECT.

SO LEVEL TWO, I'LL SAY IT.

AND THEN LACY CAN JUMP IN.

OKAY. SO LEVEL TWO MEANS THAT YOU ARE NOT PROFICIENT, BUT YOU DO HAVE BASIC SKILLS.

SO YOU ARE NOT COMPLETELY ILLITERATE.

SO YOU MIGHT BE AT GRADE LEVEL ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY.

THEY'RE TRYING TO INFER THAT THAT MIGHT BE GRADE LEVEL.

IT'S THE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS FOR THAT GRADE LEVEL.

IT'S THE VERY, VERY FLOOR ENTRY LEVEL INFORMATION FOR THAT GRADE LEVEL.

BUT THE TEST IS GIVEN AT THE END OF THEIR 10TH GRADE YEAR.

THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE SKILLS.

SO THEY HAVE ENTRY LEVEL SKILLS INTO 10TH GRADE OR EIGHTH GRADE OR WHATEVER IT IS, BUT THEY HAVEN'T GAINED THOSE SKILLS THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE THROUGHOUT THAT YEAR.

SO LEVEL TWO MIGHT BE GRADE LEVEL.

YES. THAT COULD, THAT COULD BE.

BUT IT IS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE PROFICIENT IN ELA OR MATH.

SO IF THAT STUDENT WAS TO THEN TAKE THE COLLEGE ENTRY EXAMS, THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT PASS, RIGHT? SURE. THANK YOU.

I WAS CURIOUS ON THE CAPSTONE YOU MENTIONED IT'S ONLY AVAILABLE AT ONE SCHOOL OR BOTH PROGRAMS. COULD YOU TALK ABOUT WHY THAT IS AND IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET IT AT ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS? YEAH. SO BECAUSE BATTLE GROUND HAS ALWAYS CHOSEN TO OFFER THOSE COURSES.

AND SO WHEN THERE WAS A COURSE PROPOSAL TO PUT SEMINAR AND RESEARCH INTO PLACE, THOSE WERE APPROVED.

THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS PICKED UP BY THE OTHER SCHOOLS, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE APPROVED COURSES FOR BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL, THAT MEANS THEY ARE APPROVED COURSES FOR

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SO THERE IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO PUT IT IN PLACE IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO.

AND I WOULD JUST ADD TO THAT, THAT WHAT DRIVES AP COURSES THAT ARE OFFERED IS WHEN STUDENTS FORECAST, SO ENOUGH STUDENTS HAVE TO FORECAST FOR THAT COURSE IN ORDER TO RUN IT.

AND TYPICALLY THAT'S 18 STUDENTS IN ORDER TO RUN A COURSE.

SO IF 18 STUDENTS DON'T CHOOSE THAT, THEN WE CAN'T OFFER IT FOR THE WHOLE THE WHOLE SCHOOL.

AND THAT'S WHERE THAT PSAT 8/9 PLAYS IN.

IF WE SEE THAT THERE'S A GROUP OF STUDENTS COMING THROUGH, SAY, AT PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL THAT WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE OR THAT WE SEE THAT WOULD QUALIFY FOR THAT OR HAVE THE APTITUDE FOR THAT, WE CAN SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH THE SCHOOL AND SAY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER PUTTING THIS COURSE IN PLACE.

NOW, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

THE TEACHERS HAVE TO GO THROUGH DIFFERENT TRAINING THAN YOU WOULD IN A JUST BEING AN ENGLISH TEACHER.

THAT IS NOT AN AP COURSE.

SO YOU HAVE TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE PLANNING AND THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GET THEM TO BE PREPARED FOR THAT COURSE.

BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IF WE HAVE THAT DATA, WE CAN THEN SHARE WITH THE SCHOOL AND SEE IF IT'S SOMETHING THEY WOULD LIKE TO PUT IN PLACE.

WHEN YOU SAY THE STUDENTS KNOW ABOUT THIS, LIKE HOW DO THEY KNOW ABOUT IT? AND I GUESS THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE IF I'M FORECASTING AND I DON'T KNOW, THIS IS AN OPTION AS A STUDENT, HOW DO I GATHER 17 OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS TO DO THIS WITH ME? RIGHT. SO THAT IT CAN BE A PART OF IT.

BECAUSE I JUST DON'T THINK I DON'T THINK STUDENTS KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW.

RIGHT. IF THEY DON'T KNOW, THIS IS AN OPTION.

IF THEY DON'T KNOW THIS FULL PACKAGE EXISTS THAT THEY COULD ELEVATE TO THIS LEVEL.

I WOULD GUESS AT THIS POINT, IF IT'S BEEN IN PLACE AT BATTLE GROUND FOR A WHILE.

IT'S ADVERTISED RIGHT WHERE IT MAY NOT BE GETTING ADVERTISED AT ONE OF OUR OTHER SCHOOLS BECAUSE IT'S NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AND WE HAVEN'T DONE THE TRAINING.

SO HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE ALL STUDENTS HAVE EQUAL ACCESS.

SO THAT'S THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO BRING ABOUT.

SO I DO ALL OF THE THE PSAT TESTING AND THE ESSAY.

I ADMINISTER THOSE TESTS TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AT THE DISTRICT ON SATURDAYS.

AND SO THAT'S WHY WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT PSAT 8/9, I WANTED TO OFFER IT AT OUR DISTRICT SO THAT WHEN THOSE I'M GOING TO PUSH IT AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, HOPEFULLY SO THAT EIGHTH GRADERS CAN TAKE THAT, BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE FORECASTING INTO HIGH SCHOOL.

AND THEY ALL GET IT'S A DIGITAL TEST, AND THEY'LL GET A DIGITAL REPORT AND IT'LL TELL WHAT KIND OF AP COURSES THAT THEY WOULD EXCEL AT.

SO THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE THAT TEST.

IT'S KIND OF LIKE AN APTITUDE TEST WHERE IT'S GOING TO TELL THEM YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOOD AT SEMINAR.

AND SO IF WE HAVE ENOUGH AND I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ALL THOSE SCORES.

AND SO ALLISON AND OF COURSE WE'LL SHARE, WE CAN SHARE THE RESULTS.

AND SO THAT WILL HELP US BETTER FORECAST.

SO IF WE'VE GOT A BUNCH OF KIDS THAT ARE COMING THROUGH THAT THEY KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE GOOD AT SEMINAR BASED ON THEIR PSAT SCORES, WE KNOW THAT WE MIGHT HAVE 18 STUDENTS THAT ARE GOING INTO PRAIRIE, AND THEN WE CAN PLAN FOR THEM TO ARRIVE.

I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT IS IMPORTANT IS THE NEW, RELATIVELY NEW LEGISLATION THAT TELLS THAT A STUDENT WILL TAKE THE NEXT HIGHEST COURSE BASED ON YOUR SMARTER BALANCED SCORES.

AND SO IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE SMARTER BALANCED SCORES AND SEE THAT WE HAVE A GROUP COMING THROUGH THAT WOULD CREATE A CLASS BIG ENOUGH TO DO THAT, WE CAN TALK WITH PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL AND SAY, THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN DOING BASED ON THE SMARTER BALANCED SCORES THAT YOU'RE SEEING FROM YOUR 8TH GRADE STUDENTS.

BUT IT'S NOT JUST PRAIRIE.

I MEAN, WE WOULD LOOK AT OUR ALES AS WELL.

SURE, WE DON'T HAVE AS MANY AP CLASSES THROUGH ALES CURRENTLY.

WE HAVE A COUPLE AT RIVER HOMELINK.

BUT SOME OF YOU AND ONLINE GPA DO NOT OFFER AP COURSES, BUT CAM.

BUT CAM. CAM DOES.

YES. SURE.

AND I THINK PART OF THE STRUGGLE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AP VERSUS INTERVENTION COURSES, AS YOU KNOW, WE WE GET OUR FUNDING BASED ON ENROLLMENT AND THEN WE GET FUNDING FOR PROTOTYPICAL AMOUNTS OF TEACHERS.

WHEN WE FORECAST AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, MOST OF OUR CLASSES ARE FORECASTED FOR 30 STUDENTS.

THAT'S A CLASS SIZE.

SO ANYTIME THAT YOU HAVE A LOWER CLASS SIZE BEING RUN, IT COULD PULL FROM ANOTHER CLASS, WHICH MIGHT BE AN INTERVENTION CLASS OR MIGHT.

SO IN THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THINGS, WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT YOU HAVE THROUGH BASIC EDUCATION AND ANYTHING ABOVE IT IN ORDER TO OFFER SOME OF THOSE AP COURSES MIGHT COME THROUGH LEVY DOLLARS OR OTHER THINGS.

AND SO IT'S A BALANCING ACT, WHAT WE CAN OFFER ONE YEAR VERSUS ANOTHER.

SOMETIMES OUR SCHOOLS WILL OFFER THEM ON ROTATING YEARS.

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THEY HAVE A SYSTEM WHERE THEY DO IT EVERY OTHER YEAR SO THAT THEY CAN OFFER MANY OF THOSE COURSES, AND THEY'VE KIND OF FIGURED THAT OUT OVER TIME.

AGAIN, TO JENNY'S POINT EARLIER, WHAT DO WE NEED IN OUR SCHOOLS? MORE FUNDING? IT'S BECAUSE WE WANT TO OFFER MORE PROGRAMS TO OUR STUDENTS AND MORE CONSISTENT OFFERINGS TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.

BUT AT THE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT SOMETIMES IS DRIVEN BY THE BOTTOM DOLLAR AND WHAT WHAT MORE STUDENTS WANT THAN OTHERS OR MORE STUDENTS NEED IN ORDER TO MEET GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS.

SO IT'S A BALANCING ACT, AND THEY DO A NICE JOB USING THE DATA TO HELP DETERMINE WHAT THAT IS.

SO BUT WHAT I WILL SAY AND I'M WE'RE PROUD OF THIS, IS THAT ONE OF OUR GOALS ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN SAYS THAT WE'RE GOING TO INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO COMPLETE AP ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES.

AND IN 2022, WE HAD 296 STUDENTS WHO TOOK AP CLASSES IN 2023 WE RAISED THAT NUMBER TO 517, AND IN 2024 WE RAISED THAT NUMBER TO 536.

SO WE ARE MEETING OUR OBJECTIVE OF CONTINUING TO RAISE THOSE NUMBERS.

THE SAME IS TRUE.

WE HAVE A A GOAL ON OUR ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN OF INCREASING FOUR YEAR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES.

AND OUR GRADUATION RATES, WHILE SMALL, HAVE CONTINUED TO CLIMB.

AND IF WE LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS WE CAN SEE THAT YOU KNOW, THAT IT WAS YEAH THERE YOU GO.

FOUR YEAR GRADUATION RATE WAS 79.2, 78.4, AND NOW WE ARE AT 81.6.

SO AGAIN, WE CONTINUE TO MEET SOME OF OUR OBJECTIVES FOR OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

THANK YOU FOR CONNECTING THOSE DOTS.

IT'S HELPFUL. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

AND THAT'S IT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING.

LET'S GO TO FINANCE.

THAT'S A LOT TO FOLLOW UP ON, BUT YES.

ENROLLMENT. WE TOOK OUR ENROLLMENT COUNT FOR OCTOBER 1ST, AND I'M PLEASED TO REPORT THAT WE GAINED ANOTHER 100 STUDENTS.

SO WE'RE UP 137 FROM BUDGET.

AND WE'LL HAVE A FULL REPORT AT THE NEXT MEETING WITH THE GRAPHS, AND IT'LL TALK ABOUT SOME OF OUR CATEGORICAL GROUPS.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW ON THAT.

AND WE ARE WORKING ON OUR END OF YEAR CLOSE STILL WRAPPING THAT UP.

AND IN NOVEMBER WE DO A FULL REPORT ON OUR PRIOR YEARS, FINANCIALS, THE ACTUALS WITH ALL THE INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN FINALIZED FOR OUR REPORT.

THAT'S ALL. AND AS FAR AS I KNOW I THINK THAT WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW SCHOOL ONLY SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON THAT HAD INCREASED ENROLLMENT THIS YEAR.

WOW. SO AGAIN, POSITIVE FOR US.

MR. JOLMA.

THANK YOU. SO IF YOU'VE NOTICED THAT WE'VE RECENTLY REPAINTED THE STADIUM DISTRICT STADIUM LOOKS GREAT.

GOT RID OF THE GREEN AND NOW IT'S GRAY.

OUR CENTRAL OPERATIONS BUILDING WE BROKE GROUND AND PROCEEDING QUITE WELL.

THERE'S BEEN VERY FEW SURPRISES.

I'M GLAD, BECAUSE THAT SITS ON ON TOP OF THE OLD CENTRAL BUILDING, WHICH WAS DEMOLISHED.

CULINARY ARTS REFURBISHMENT.

JUST STARTING TO WORK ON THAT AT THE AT THE TWO HIGH SCHOOLS, WE'LL BE WORKING WITH JEAN FRITZ, WHO WORKS AT BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL, HE'S APPARENTLY HE'S DONE QUITE A FEW OF THESE DESIGNS, AND I'M GLAD HE HAS BECAUSE I HAVEN'T DONE THAT MANY KITCHEN DESIGNS, SO HE'LL BE HELPING US OUT THERE.

FUTURES PROJECT.

WE'RE JUST STARTING TO GET READY TO START THAT DESIGN FOR THEIR NEW BUILDING AND COORDINATE THE CONSTRUCTION SITE PLAN OVER OVER BY BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL.

THOSE TWO BUILDINGS WILL BE WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY.

BATTLE GROUND VIRTUAL ACADEMY.

WE'VE FINISHED UP OUR BUILDING DESIGN, AND WE'RE WELL ALONG IN OUR OUR SITE PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS GOING WELL.

THAT WILL BE OPEN NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE BUSY ALREADY.

OH, YEAH. THANK YOU, KEVIN AND AMANDA.

GOOD EVENING. I JUST WANTED TO MENTION A COUPLE OF UPCOMING EVENTS.

COULD WE ACTUALLY PULL UP THE SLIDES, PLEASE? THANK YOU.

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NEXT MONDAY, WE HAVE THE COLLEGE AND CAREER FAIR.

THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM ALL OVER THE DISTRICT, OR EVEN FROM OTHER DISTRICTS, TO COME AND LEARN ABOUT APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS, TRADE SCHOOLS, MILITARY AND COLLEGES.

THIS EVENT ALSO INCLUDES A FINANCIAL AID WORKSHOP, SO IT SHOULD BE A LOT OF REALLY GOOD INFORMATION.

THEN WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE SPORTS BROADCASTS COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE VOLLEYBALL AND FOOTBALL GAMES.

AND JASON FOSTER AND HIS STUDENTS ARE WORKING REALLY HARD TO BRING THOSE TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO KUDOS TO THEM.

THANK YOU. AND THAT'S IT FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF UPDATES.

GREAT. THANK YOU.

THAT BRINGS US TO CITIZENS COMMENTS AND WE WILL START WITH SHARING THIS IS A MEETING OF THE BATTLE GROUND SCHOOL BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO

[7. Citizens' Comments]

THE BOARD WELCOMES COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS DURING CITIZENS COMMENTS, AND ASKS THAT THOSE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD SIGN IN ON THE SIGN IN SHEET PROVIDED, WHICH IS LOCATED CLOSE TO THE ENTRANCE. PLEASE FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES FOR CITIZENS COMMENTS BY STATING YOUR NAME, LIMITING YOUR TIME TO THREE MINUTES, AND REFRAINING REFRAINING FROM DISCUSSING CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS.

THE BOARD REQUIRES THAT ALL COMMENTS SPOKEN AT THE MEETING BE APPROPRIATE FOR A FAMILY AUDIENCE.

COMMENTS INAPPROPRIATE FOR A FAMILY AUDIENCE CAN BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING.

BOARD MEMBERS DO NOT NORMALLY RESPOND TO QUESTIONS OR PETITIONS DURING CITIZENS COMMENTS.

THEY WILL LISTEN AND GIVE DIRECTION TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM IF ACTION IS DEEMED NECESSARY.

WE DO HAVE A TIMER ON THE SCREENS, AND WE DO HAVE ITZEL WHO WILL BE WAVING SIGNS WHEN YOU'VE GOT 30S LEFT AND WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. IT IT IS HARD TO MAKE EYE CONTACT, SO IF, YOU KNOW, JUST CHECK IN, LOOK UP A LITTLE BIT AS YOU'RE READING NOW AND THEN.

I WILL STOP YOU IF YOU GO OVER YOUR TIME JUST TO BE AWARE AND BE RESPECTFUL TO THE OTHER CITIZENS WHO CAME TO SPEAK AS WELL.

WITH THAT, WE'LL GET STARTED.

WE HAVE LAUREL CASTILLO.

IF YOU COULD COME TO THE BOARD, TO THE PODIUM, AND IF I SAID YOUR NAME WRONG, I APOLOGIZE.

NEWS ON TELEVISION, AND I WAS APPALLED AT SOME OF THE BOOKS I FOUND OUT WERE IN THE CLACKAMAS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

AND I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT BOOKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE HERE.

ANYWAYS, THIS IS THIS IS FROM THE CRIMINAL DIVISION OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO THE US FEDERAL LAW ON OBSCENITY.

SECTION 1466 A OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE MAKES IT ILLEGAL FOR ANY PERSON TO KNOWINGLY PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, RECEIVE, OR POSSESS THE INTENT TO TRANSFER OR DISTRIBUTE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS SUCH AS DRAWINGS, CARTOONS, OR PAINTINGS THAT APPEAR TO DEPICT MINORS ENGAGED IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT AND ARE DEEMED OBSCENE.

THIS STATUE OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PROLONGED OBSCENITY TESTS, A LOWER THRESHOLD THAN THE MILLER TEST.

THE MATTER INVOLVING MINORS DEEMED OBSCENE, DEPICTS THE IMAGE THAT APPEARS THAT A MINOR IS ENGAGED IN GRAPHIC BESTIALITY, SADISTIC OR MASOCHISTIC ABUSE OR SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.

IF THESE IMAGES LACK SERIOUS LITERARY, ARTISTIC, POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFIC VALUE, A FIRST TIME OFFENDER CONVICTED UNDER THE STATUTE OF FACES FINES AND AT LEAST FIVE YEARS TO A MAXIMUM OF 20 YEARS IN PRISON.

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THAT'S A FINE AND FIVE YEARS TO A MAXIMUM OF 20 YEARS IN PRISON.

SCHOOL BOARDS, MEMBERS AND TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS VOTING YES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THIS MATERIAL SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH THIS FEDERAL OFFENSE.

THESE BOOKS ARE ABOUT GROOMING.

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO NORMALIZE SEX AMONGST CHILDREN SO PEDOPHILES CAN GO AFTER THEM AND GET A SLAP ON THE FACE PUNISHMENT IF CAUGHT.

WHAT IS THE MINIMUM AGE THAT YOU CONSIDER HAVING SEX APPROPRIATE? TECHNICALLY, YOU'RE NOT CONSIDERED AN ADULT UNTIL YOU'RE 18, BUT ONE SHOULD NOT CONSIDER HAVING SEX UNTIL THEY WERE CAPABLE OF TAKING ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING SEX, SUCH AS UNWANTED PREGNANCY, GETTING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE, OR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES THAT MAY BE LONG TERM, SUCH AS TRUST ISSUES. NOT MANY 18 YEAR OLD'S CAN SUPPORT THEMSELVES, LET ALONE RAISING A CHILD.

ADOLESCENTS HAVING CHILDREN ARE DEFINITELY NOT READY TO TAKE ON THE CONSEQUENCES.

WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING ABSTINENCE AND NOT PROMOTING SEX.

WE SHOULDN'T BE HANGING THE LGBTQ FLAG IN OUR SCHOOLS OR GOVERNMENT PROPERTY EITHER.

IT IS A IT IS A DISPLAY OF BEING PROUD OF HAVING SEX.

IT IS.

IT USED TO BE THAT SEXUAL ENGAGEMENT REMAINED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WITH TWO CONSENTING ADULTS DO IS THEIR BUSINESS.

I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE GAY OR STRAIGHT.

YOU SHOULDN'T BE HANGING A FLAG THAT PROMOTES PRIDE IN HAVING SEX.

LAURA, YOU'RE OUT OF TIME.

IF YOU COULD WRAP UP, PLEASE.

THANK YOU. GWEN GERSICH.

HI. MY NAME IS GWEN GERSICH.

AND IF YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO IMPROVE IN GRADES, STOP THE FLUORIDATION.

YOU'VE GOT ALL THE PAPERS THAT IT LOWERS IQS.

AND I CAN IMAGINE THE TEACHERS HERE WOULD BE FURIOUS THAT THEY SHOULD BE DOWN AT THE CITY HALL.

AND YOU GIRLS AND YOUR PARENTS, EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY THAT LIVES IN THIS TOWN SHOULD BE TELLING THE MAYOR TO STOP THE FLUORIDE.

AND YOU KNOW THAT IT LOWERS IQS.

IT CAUSES CRIPPLING BONE DISEASES.

THERE'S ALL KINDS OF BAD STUFF THAT IT DOES.

AND YOU'VE GOT ALL OF THE EVIDENCE.

AND I'M PUTTING MORE ON TONIGHT.

THE MAIN THING IS HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET SOME TOXIC TORT CASES GOING.

AND THE MAYOR SAID WHEN YOU ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ONLY, ONLY ADDRESS HIM, NOT THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS.

SO I GUESS HE'S TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR NOT STOPPING THE FLUORIDATION HIM AND THE CITY MANAGER.

SO WHEN THE TOXIC TORT CASES COME AND WE ALL HAVE OUR BLOOD TESTED, THAT WE'RE OVER FLUORIDATED, WE COULD SUE HIM AND THE CITY MANAGER.

WOULDN'T THAT BE NICE? THIS WOULD BE REALLY SOMETHING.

BECAUSE IF EVERYBODY TOOK THEIR BLOOD TEST, DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY THERE'S OVER 30 DRUGS THAT HAVE FLUORIDE IN IT? AND I'VE GOT THE NEW LIST, WHICH I'M GIVING YOU TONIGHT OF ALL THESE DRUGS.

SO ANYBODY THAT TAKES THESE NEW APPROVED BY THE FDA, IF YOU'RE TAKING A FLUORIDATED DRUG AND YOU'RE DRINKING WATER THAT'S GOT FLUORIDE IN IT, AND THE PFOAS YOU'RE DRINKING MORE POISON, RIGHT? YOU WANT THESE KIDS TEST GRADES TO IMPROVE.

YOU KNOW, SEEING THOSE CHARTS WERE A JOKE.

I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING.

MY SISTER JUST HAD SOMEBODY AT HER HOUSE THAT WAS FROM ENGLAND, AND SHE SAID, IN ENGLAND, NOBODY FLUNKS.

EVERYBODY HAS TO PASS.

THEY ALL WEAR UNIFORMS TO SCHOOL.

THERE'S 200. AND WHETHER IT WAS 2800 PER SCHOOL AND THEY GO UNTIL THEY PASS.

IF THEY GET ON DRUGS, THEY SEND THEM TO A DRUG REHAB, SEND THEM BACK, AND THEY HAVE TO PASS BECAUSE THERE'S NO WELFARE RECIPIENTS IN ENGLAND.

NONE. THAT SHOULD BE YOUR STANDARDS.

THERE SHOULD BE A STANDARD THAT EVERYBODY GOES TO SOME KIND OF COLLEGE OR TRADE SCHOOL OR WHATEVER.

BUT TO SEE THESE GRADES THAT YOU HAD UP.

WHAT A JOKE. YOU KNOW, IN THE BAY AREA IT COST OVER 100, AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE OVER 125,000 TO LIVE THERE.

THERE'S NO KID IN THE BAY AREA WHERE WE CAME FROM THAT HAD YOU HAD TO GO TO COLLEGE, THERE WAS NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS AND THE PARENTS WERE ALL OVER THEM.

LET ME TELL YOU, THEY HAD THE, YOU KNOW, THE THE DRAGON MOMS, THE CHINESE, THEY WERE ALL OVER THEIR KIDS, THE MUSLIMS, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT SEX.

THEY WANT THEIR DAUGHTERS VIRGINS WHEN THEY'RE MARRIED.

ALL OF THIS STUFF ABOUT LGBTQ AND THIS AND THAT, THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN DOWN THERE BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY NEED TO DO THIS AND THIS IS SOMETHING TOO.

I'M PUTTING A LOT OF STUFF ON PUBLIC RECORD TONIGHT.

AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT DO CHECK THIS ONE OUT.

WHAT I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS ON MENTAL HEALTH CCHR.ORG.

CCHR.ORG.

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SO THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR CHILDREN.

AND I HOPE THESE LADIES HERE DID SOMETHING ABOUT THE TAMPONS AND KOTEX.

IF YOU WANT TO GET TUMORS DOWN THERE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET THEM.

SO PLEASE LEARN CIVICS AND USE YOUR RIGHTS.

GET THEM TO GIVE YOU ORGANIC TAMPONS YOUR TIME IS UP. EUNICE INGERMANSON.

GOOD EVENING BOARD.

MY NAME IS EUNICE INGERMANSON AND MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE HER.

I'M A COMMUNITY MEMBER AND A VOLUNTEER IN THIS DISTRICT.

THREE DAYS AGO WAS THE NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY.

OCTOBER 11TH HAS BEEN OBSERVED ANNUALLY SINCE 1988 TO SUPPORT LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TAKING A COURAGEOUS STEP TO COME OUT TO THEIR FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES OR THE WHOLE WORLD AND CHOOSE TO LIVE OPENLY AS LGBTQ PLUS.

HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA HAVE A FOOTHOLD WHEN PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ANY LGBTQ PLUS INDIVIDUALS PERSONALLY, BECAUSE IT IS EASY TO FEAR THOSE YOU DO NOT KNOW.

UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO THAT WAS THE CASE FOR ME.

I WAS TOLD THAT THEY WERE TWISTED, SINFUL, REBELLIOUS AGAINST GOD, IDOLATROUS AND COMPLETELY OBSESSED WITH AND ADDICTED TO SEX. AND I BELIEVED IT.

THEN MY CHILD, WHO I KNEW TO BE AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN WITH A PASSION FOR JUSTICE AND COMPASSION FOR THE POOR, CAME OUT FIRST AS GAY, THEN AS TRANSGENDER NON-BINARY.

NOT ONLY DID THAT GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK MY BELIEFS, BUT IT HELPED ME TO SEE QUEER FOLKS AS HUMANS JUST LIKE ME AND MY CHILD.

PEOPLE WHO WANT THE SAME THINGS I DO LOVE FREEDOM, FRIENDSHIP, RESPECT, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AND LEARN AND LIVE AND PEACE TO JUST BE.

IN HONOR OF THE NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY I ALSO WANT TO COME OUT TO YOU.

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, I REALIZED THAT I AM WHAT PEOPLE CALL ASEXUAL.

I GOT MARRIED AS A VIRGIN AND THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS I WAS JUST A BIT MORE VIRTUOUS THAN MANY OF MY PEERS.

IT TURNS OUT THAT I WAS JUST MISSING THE SEXUAL APPETITE THAT MOST HEALTHY YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE.

GO FIGURE.

IF YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU KNEW A QUEER PERSON BEFORE, NOW, YOU DO.

SO WHEN YOUR CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, STUDENTS, COWORKERS, NEIGHBORS, OR FRIENDS COME OUT TO YOU, I HOPE THAT YOU APPRECIATE THE TRUST THEY PLACE IN YOU AND PROVE TO THEM THAT THEY WERE RIGHT TO TRUST YOU WITH THIS VULNERABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THEMSELVES.

AND I HOPE THAT YOU JOIN ME IN WORKING TO MAKE THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THIS COMMUNITY A SAFE AND THRIVING PLACE FOR THE QUEER STUDENTS WHO MAKE UP 20% OF OUR DISTRICT AND FOR ALL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

ALI [INAUDIBLE].

GOOD EVENING BOARD.

MY NAME IS ALI [INAUDIBLE] I AM A RESIDENT OF BUSINESS OWNER, A PROUD SUPPORTER AND VOLUNTEER IN THIS GREAT DISTRICT.

AS TODAY IS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY.

I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LAND, THAT THIS LAND ON WHICH WE LIVE, WORK AND MEET THIS EVENING WAS INHABITED BY MULTIPLE INDIGENOUS TRIBES, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE COWLITZ AND WESTERN KLICKITAT, AND A MIGRATION REGION FOR THE CHINOOK, WHO ARE STILL FIGHTING TO REGAIN FEDERAL RECOGNITION AFTER IT WAS RESCINDED IN 2002.

THE SILETZ, THE GRANDE RONDE, THE CAYUSE, THE UMATILLA, AND THE WALLA WALLA PEOPLES, WHO ARE ALL FAITHFUL STEWARDS OF THIS LAND, ITS WATERS AND ITS INHABITANTS FOR HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS BEFORE THEIR COLONIZATION AND ASSIMILATION.

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT THE CARETAKERS OF THIS AND OTHER LANDS AROUND THE GLOBE, INCLUDING WHICH TRIBES INHABITED WHICH AREAS AT NATIVE-LAND.CA. IF YOU CLICK ON THE INTERACTIVE MAP, YOU WILL FIND OUT GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS AND THEN YOU CAN DO A DIG, A DIG, A DEEPER SEARCH INTO EACH TRIBE OR NATION.

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THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

JOSHIAH GREEN.

MY NAME IS JOSHIAH GREEN AND I JUST THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

I JUST WANT TO BEGIN OUR YOUTH ACADEMIC FIELD HAS BEEN SAVAGELY INCAPACITATED.

TRANSFORMATIVE SEL IS NOTHING LESS THAN THOUGHT REFORM OR CNOW IS THE WASHING OF THE BRAIN.

MAO ZEDONG OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY DID THE SAME THING IN EDUCATIONAL PRISONS.

AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IDEOLOGY IS TO REMOLD THE MIND AS WELL AS THE FACE OF CHINA.

THEIR APPROACH STANDARD TECHNIQUES OF THE AUTHORITARIAN STATE WITH THE SYSTEM OF THEIR OWN INVENTION.

LIKE ANY AUTHORITARIAN STATE, THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA HAS THE POWER TO ENFORCE ITS EDICTS AND PROTECT THEIR IDEOLOGY BY ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF EDUCATION AND ALL REGULAR MASS MEDIA. THIS IS UNDER THE GUISE OF HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CHALLENGES, AND TO PREPARE THEM FOR THE ECONOMIC FUTURE.

OUR CHILDREN ARE IN THE SCHOOL OF PAULO FREIRE, WHO PUSHED FOR A RADICAL CONSCIENTIZATION CASTLE IS AN ATTEMPT TO CAST ONE'S MIND BACK TO THE FREIREAN DISTORTION THAT ALL EDUCATION IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

SEL IS A COMPLEX SET OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL WORK BASED INTERVENTIONS, WHICH POSES AS VALUABLE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN.

THESE PEOPLE ARE PLAY ACTING AS TEACHER TEACHERS BUT ARE TRULY CONNIVING ACTIVISTS.

THESE PEOPLE SHOULD FACE JUDICIAL CHARGES FOR OPERATING SAID WORK ON CHILDREN WITH NO LICENSE IN AN UNCONTROLLED NON-THERAPEUTIC SPACES, IN ORDER TO CATECHIZE CHILDREN OF WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG ANSWERS TO SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY RELEVANT CIRCUMSTANCES.

THE PRACTICE EMBODIES THAT DROVE US SURVEYS TO IDENTIFY WHAT WOULD BE THE PROBLEM KIDS, OR TO IDENTIFY WHAT PROBLEMS EVERY KID HAS.

THIS IS DONE BY BROAD SCREENING THEM, THEN BROADCASTING.

THE GOAL IS TO SYSTEMICALLY INFUSE IT INTO EVERY ASPECT OF CURRICULUM, PROGRAM, AND SUBJECT.

THIS ASPECT OF THE SEL IS A MANIPULATION OF CHILDREN'S EMOTIONS, AS THE WORK IS TO TURN CHILDREN TO THE CULTURE OF BEING FULLY DEPENDENT ON THE STATE, RATHER THAN TO RATHER TO GOD AND THEIR OWN PARENTS, WHICH BY MARXIST RADICALS ARE VIEWED AS THE ENEMY.

THIS THEY CAUSE AN UNJUST DIVIDE, MAKING THE STATE THE SAVIOR WHO OFFERS LIBERATION.

AS I SAID BEFORE ON THE GOD WHO IS YAHWEH.

HE IS PERFECTLY RIGHTEOUS IN HIS TREATMENT OF HIS CREATURES.

GOD WILL, AS HE PROMISED, TO BOTH OFFER REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS.

GOD WILL BRING JUSTICE WHEN NO PARTIALITY.

HE WILL NEVER OVERLOOK JUSTICE.

DEUTERONOMY 3235 VENGEANCE IS MINE AND RETRIBUTION.

IN DUE TIME, THEIR FOOT WILL STUMBLE, FOR THE DAY OF DISASTER IS NEAR AND THE IMPENDING THINGS ARE HASTENING UPON THEM.

HIS EYES ARE NOT BLIND.

NOTHING IS HIDDEN.

HEBREWS 413.

THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT, BUT ALL THINGS ARE UNCOVERED AND LAID BARE TO THE EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE HAVE TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT.

YAHWEH, WHO IS FULL OF ABUNDANT MERCY AND EXCEEDINGLY COMPASSIONATE AND FORGIVING, WILL NEVER DENY HIMSELF OR BE UNFAITHFUL AS HE EXECUTED JUSTICE IN THE GARDEN AND THE PERFECT JUSTICE AT THE CROSS OF CALVARY, WHERE CHRIST FULFILLED ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS AND WAS CRUSHED BY THE FATHER IN A PLACE OF VILE, WRETCHED, OBSCENE, PERVERTED CREATURES.

CHRIST'S PERFECT SACRIFICE AS MAN'S SUBSTITUTE COMPLETELY ASSUAGED THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH HE VINDICATED HIS HOLY NAME, SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN FAITH WILL BE MADE NEW CREATURES AND GIVEN ETERNAL LIFE, [INAUDIBLE] FREE FROM SLAVERY AND CONDEMNATION.

THANK YOU, RACHEL RIDGWAY.

GOOD EVENING BOARD. MY NAME IS RACHEL RIDGWAY.

AS AN RN WHO HAS WORKED BOTH IN PEDIATRICS AND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS, I'M GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SEXUAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM PROVIDED FOR BATTLE GROUND STUDENTS STARTING AT THE AGE OF TEN OR IN FIFTH GRADE.

SEX EDUCATION SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO CHILDREN BY THEIR PARENTS FIRST AND FOREMOST.

SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT, SEXUAL INTIMACY, AND STIS ARE TOPICS THAT EACH PARENT MUST DECIDE TO TEACH EACH ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN AT THE TIME THEY DEEM APPROPRIATE.

PARENTS HAVE BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY BY GOD TO TRAIN UP THEIR CHILDREN.

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO TEACH CHILDREN THESE TYPES OF TOPICS.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THE CURRICULUM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS USING UNDERMINES THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE, WHICH CLEARLY STATES WHEN SEXUAL ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ENGAGED IN.

IT'S WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MARRIAGE OF ONE MAN TO ONE WOMAN, AND THAT'S IT.

OUTSIDE OF THAT, NO ONE SHOULD BE ENGAGING IN ANY SEXUAL ACTIVITY.

CHILDREN NEED TO BE TAUGHT THAT GOD'S WAY IS THE BEST WAY, AND TO HAVE SEXUAL INTIMACY OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE IS TO DISOBEY HIM AND LEADS TO UNENDING CONSEQUENCES PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY.

SEX EDUCATION IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THE SCHOOL TO TEACH, AS SHOWN BY IT BEING REMOVED BY BATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT IN 2019.

IT'S NOT EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING STIS, AS ONE OF THE GRAPHS I WAS LOOKING AT ON THE ON THE WEBSITES.

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HOWEVER, 2021 DATA SHOULD BE INTERPRETED WITH CAUTION DUE TO PRESUMED COVID 19 PANDEMIC IMPACTS ON STI TESTING, TREATMENT AND CASE REPORTING, WHICH MEANS THERE IS A HUGE IMPACT ON PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN GET REPORTED AT THIS POINT.

SO SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION IS A DELICATE TOPIC, AND NOT ALL CHILDREN ARE READY FOR THIS INFORMATION AT THE SAME TIME.

TEACHING ALL TEN YEAR OLD'S THE SAME INFORMATION IS FOOLISH AND NOT CARING FOR THE WELL-BEING OF THE CHILDREN.

BOYS AND GIRLS SHOULD BE TAUGHT SEPARATELY AS THEY WERE CREATED DIFFERENTLY, MALE AND FEMALE, BY GOD.

SEX EDUCATION AT MINIMUM SHOULD BE AN OPT IN PROGRAM, NOT OPT OUT.

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SHOULD ASSUME THAT PARENTS ARE TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN THESE THINGS.

PARENTS ALONE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO TEACH THEIR CHILDREN THE DETAILS OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND INTIMACY.

STOP OVERSTEPPING THE AUTHORITY GIVEN TO YOU BY THESE PARENTS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU.

JENNIFER HANEY [INAUDIBLE].

GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS JENNIFER, AND FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO SAY I REALLY ENJOYED THE PRESENTATION ON PREVENTION INTERVENTION. THANK YOU LADIES.

I HAVE A BROTHER.

I HAD A BROTHER WHO WAS A DRUG ADDICT SINCE 1985.

AND WHEN HE STARTED, THERE WERE NO INTERVENTION PROGRAMS IN SCHOOL.

MY PARENTS REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

THEY TRIED BUT HE CONTINUED TO BE AN ADDICT UNTIL HE PASSED AWAY A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.

SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS PROGRAM.

AND I HOPE WE GET AN OPPORTUNITY AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS, MAYBE TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND GET MORE KNOWLEDGE FROM THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PUTTING TOGETHER THE PROGRAM.

BUT I WHAT I WANT TO TALK TODAY ABOUT IS CASTLE.

AND THIS MIGHT JUST BE, FOR THE RECORD YOU KNOW, SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING WAS CREATED TO PREPARE STUDENTS TO LEARN.

THAT'S AWESOME.

BUT WHEN I GO TO THE CASTLE WEBSITE AND LOOK AT THEIR FIVE PILLARS, ONE THAT REALLY STANDS OUT IS SOCIAL AWARENESS AS A PILLAR OF THEIR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING.

WELL, THEY SEEM TO EMPHASIZE THAT SOCIAL AWARENESS AWARENESS QUITE A BIT.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE IS TRANSFORMATIVE SEL AND THEY DEFINE THAT AS A FORM OF SEL IMPLEMENTATION TOWARD THE AIM OF CONCENTRATING SEL PRACTICE ON TRANSFORMING INEQUITABLE SETTINGS AND SYSTEMS, AND PROMOTING JUSTICE ORIENTED CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.

ONE OF ITS CORE FEATURES IS ENHANCING AND FOREGROUNDING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES NEEDED FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

THESE INCLUDE REFLECTING ON PERSONAL AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES, EXAMINING PREJUDICES AND BIASES, INTERROGATING INTERROGATING SOCIAL NORMS, DISRUPTING AND RESISTING INEQUITIES, AND CO-CONSTRUCTING INEQUITABLE AND JUST SOLUTIONS.

NOW, FOR SOME PEOPLE, THOSE MIGHT BE GREAT VALUES.

AND THEY THEY REALLY LIKE THIS.

THEY WANT THEIR STUDENTS TAUGHT THIS.

BUT WHO IS TEACHING SOCIAL NORMS? WHO IS DECIDING WHAT TYPE OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND WHAT SHOULD THEY BE PROMOTING OR FIGHTING AGAINST? THESE ARE ALL SUBJECTIVE, DEPENDING ON WHO IS TEACHING SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING WITH THIS SOCIAL AWARENESS FOCUS.

SO THAT'S NOT PREPARING STUDENTS TO LEARN.

I THINK THAT WE CAN PICK A CURRICULUM FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOLS AND WE DON'T NEED TO INVOLVE CASTLE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

JESSICA COLE.

HELLO, BOARD. MY NAME IS JESSICA COLE.

I'M SUPER EXCITED THAT THE DREAM TEAM HAS TALKED ABOUT SO MUCH TODAY OR SHOWED UP.

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EVEN THOUGH WHEN MY KIDS ARE GRADUATED AND I LEARNED STUFF THROUGH THE PREVENTION ALLIANCE ABOUT FENTANYL OR WHATEVER, IT EDUCATES ME.

AND ALWAYS MORE MONEY IS NEEDED FOR PEOPLE AND PROJECTS.

SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT.

AND SPEAKING OF PREVENT TOGETHER IN THE DREAM TEAM, THE DRUG TAKE BACK IS COMING BACK ON THE COMING OUT OR HAPPENING AGAIN ON THE 26TH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, RIGHT AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

AND YOU JUST DRIVE THROUGH AND DROP OFF.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAR.

AND ALSO IT WAS ALREADY MENTIONED ABOUT THE PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT AGAIN TONIGHT, AND THE PRICE DID GET REDUCED TO $20.

WE'D LOVE TO SEE LOTS OF YOU.

AND I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT IT, SO I DIDN'T WANT TO, LIKE, RATTLE OFF WHAT I'VE ALREADY SAID IN THE PAST.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS.

THAT WRAPS UP CITIZENS COMMENTS FOR THE EVENING.

NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH ITEMS A THROUGH I.

[8. Consent Agenda (Board Vote w/Student Voice)]

WE STILL MAINTAIN A QUORUM WITH THE THREE BOARD MEMBERS.

ON TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA WE HAVE THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2024 SPECIAL MEETING, THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE FROM SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2024 REGULAR MEETING, PERSONNEL REPORTS, STUDENT TRAVEL, COMPLETED PROJECT REQUEST FOR APPROVAL.

APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION NUMBER F-24 THE CANCELLATION OF OUTSTANDING WARRANTS.

THE ISLAM FAMILY FOUNDATION DONATION AND SUNBELT STAFFING.

ARE THERE ANY ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT, OR YOU WOULD LIKE REMOVED TO BE VOTED ON AS THEIR OWN ITEM? I JUST WONDERED IF I COULD GET CLARIFICATION UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THIS OUTSTANDING WARRANTS.

I DID TRY TO READ THROUGH IT.

IS IT JUST IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE PAID THAT I GUESS I'M NOT REALLY CLEAR ON IT.

IF SOMEONE COULD CLARIFY, I CAN ANSWER IT OR MICHELLE, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE IT, GO AHEAD.

NO, NO. GO AHEAD.

IT'S YOUR THING.

YEAH. SO THESE ARE.

THESE ARE.

THESE ARE WARRANTS THAT WE HAVE ISSUED TO VENDORS OR TO PARENTS THAT HAVE GONE UNCASHED.

AND WE DO REACH OUT IN SEVERAL WAYS, TRYING TO REACH THOSE FAMILIES TO REISSUE THOSE WARRANTS.

AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY'VE MOVED AND WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER TO REACH THEM AT.

SO WE ARE REQUIRED BY THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO TAKE THOSE WARRANTS, THOSE THOSE UNCASHED CHECKS. AND WITH YOUR APPROVAL, WE SEND THEM TO THE STATE OF WASHINGTON AND THE STATE OF WASHINGTON WILL TRACK THOSE, AND THEY WILL KEEP THEM IN THEIR SYSTEM.

SO IF THOSE FAMILIES DO FIND THAT THEY DO HAVE UNCLAIMED PROPERTY, THEN IS WHAT THEY CALL IT, THAT THEY CAN THERE'S A PROCESS FOR THEM COLLECTING THAT MONEY FROM THE STATE.

SO WE WILL SEND THAT THOSE FUNDS TO THE STATE.

SO THOSE ARE THAT LIST THAT YOU HAVE IS A LIST OF ALL THE ONES THAT WE JUST COULDN'T FIND, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH THE FAMILIES, YOU KNOW, TO GET THEM TO, TO REISSUE THOSE, THOSE IT COULD BE A REFUND, A LUNCH REFUND.

IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, SOME SOME TYPE OF COMMUNITY ED PROGRAM THAT THEY DIDN'T PARTICIPATE IN BECAUSE THE FAMILY MOVED.

SO THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT REASONS WHY WE HAVE THOSE THOSE UNCASHED WARRANTS.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I MOVE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.

WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR I LOOK TO OUR STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR ADVISORY VOTE.

PRO. ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD?

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AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 3 TO 0.

THANK YOU EVERYONE.

DID YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE ISLAM FAMILY FOUNDATION DONATION? IS THERE ANYBODY HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT THAT? CINDY IS HERE. CINDY COULD SPEAK TO IT.

COME ON UP, CINDY. HI, EVERYBODY. SO THE ISLAM FOUNDATION HAS BEEN VERY GENEROUS TO CTE OVER PROBABLY AS MANY YEARS AS I'VE BEEN A DIRECTOR, AND INCLUDING THIS YEAR ROB SMITH'S PROGRAM AT PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS DONATION.

AND HE ALREADY HAS PLANS TO UPDATE SOME OF HIS EQUIPMENT THROUGH PROJECT LEAD THE WAY.

SO PROJECT LEAD THE WAY IS A PROGRAM THAT WE USE WITH ROB AND HE NEEDS TO DO SOME UPDATES.

SO THAT'S THE PLAN.

THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. CINDY. ALL RIGHT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? AFTER THE CONSENT AGENDA APPROVAL.

AND WE HAVE NO OLD BUSINESS TONIGHT.

WE HAVE TWO ITEMS OF NEW BUSINESS.

[10. New Business (Board Vote w/Student Voice)]

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THAT, SHELLY? YES. SO THIS IS UP FOR RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU TO RETIRE THIS POLICY.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE ANOTHER POLICY, SO IT'S REDUNDANT.

THAT POLICY IS 5001 HIRING OF RETIRED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.

THEY ESSENTIALLY COVERED THE SAME THING.

AND THERE WAS SOME SPECIFICITY IN THE THE TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATORS THAT HAD YEARS ON IT THAT HAVE SINCE PASSED NOW, NOW EXPIRED.

SO IT WAS TIME FOR US TO JUST DO A LITTLE CLEANING.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT OUR POLICIES THAT NEED TO BE RETIRED WHERE THERE'S REDUNDANCY, SO THERE WILL BE MORE IN THE FUTURE.

BUT THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY REDUNDANT.

IT'S UNNECESSARY TO HAVE THEM SEPARATED BY THE TYPE OF EMPLOYEE.

QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.

I MOVE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, APPROVE THE RETIREMENT OF POLICY 5612 TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATORS.

I HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

I LOOK TO OUR STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR ADVISORY VOTE.

PRO. PRO.

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 4 TO 0.

NEXT WE HAVE THE REVISION OF POLICY 6220 BID OR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS.

MICHELLE SCOTT.

THANK YOU.

REQUESTING APPROVAL OF THESE REVISIONS.

IT'S BASED ON A CHANGE IN STATUTORY LAW UNDER SENATE BILL 5268, AND THAT BILL WAS ADDRESSING EQUITY AND EFFICIENCIES IN PUBLIC WORK PROCEDURES.

AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT JUST KIND OF MODIFYING OUR SMALL WORKS ROSTER REQUIREMENTS AND ALSO PROVIDING MORE CLARITY ON PROCEDURES WITH INTERLOCAL AGREEMENTS AS WELL.

AND SO WHICH WE FOLLOW, IT'S JUST KIND OF MEMORIALIZING THOSE PROCEDURES.

THE AUDITORS WERE FINDING A LOT OF DISTRICTS, YOU KNOW, WERE KIND OF MISSING SOME OF THEIR STEPS AND NOT FOLLOWING BEST PRACTICES.

SO THEY FELT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO WRAP IT IN ALSO WITH THE SMALL WORKS PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE UPDATES THAT THEY DID.

SO KEVIN, I'VE WORKED WITH KEVIN JOLMA ON THIS, AND HE'S, YOU KNOW, WE'VE UPDATED ALL OF OUR PROCEDURES TO BE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THIS, THIS NEW LAW. AND SO THIS JUST KIND OF MEMORIALIZES ALL THAT WORK THAT WE'VE DONE.

ANY QUESTIONS? JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSTANT THOROUGHNESS IN ALL OF THIS.

AND I KNOW YOU GET A LOT OF GUIDANCE WHEN YOU HAVE AN AUDIT, BUT YOU ALWAYS FOLLOW THROUGH ON ALL THOSE STEPS.

THANK YOU. OKAY.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

I MOVE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO APPROVE THE REVISIONS TO POLICY 6220 BID OR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS.

A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. I'D LOOK TO OUR STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR ADVISORY VOTE.

PRO. PRO. FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.

COMMENTS. HEARING NONE.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 4 TO 0.

[02:20:02]

AND I DID WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO D'ARCY SPIECKERMAN.

SHE IS OUR PURCHASING AGENT AND SHE REALLY HELPS US TOGETHER.

WE WORK GREAT ALL STAYING IN LINE AND FOLLOWING OUR PROCEDURES.

SO THANK YOU. LADIES, DID YOU LOOK AT THIS LIKE, REQUIREMENTS AT ALL? I WAS JUST THINKING, DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU WANT TO GO INTO A JOB WHERE THIS IS ALL YOU DO? I DID LOOK AT IT.

AND YOU'RE NOT RUNNING TOWARDS.

I'M NOT. I'M NOT SPRINTING TOWARDS THIS.

NO. NOT POLICY.

IT'S A LOT. AND YES, KUDOS TO D'ARCY BECAUSE SHE'S AMAZING AND IT'S SO MUCH TO DO.

SO THAT BRINGS US TO FUTURE ITEMS.

[11. Future Agenda Items and Board Events]

WE DO HAVE OUR BOARD TOUR COMING UP ON THE 25TH.

THE FOUR OF US WHO ARE EVERYBODY'S YES, EVERYBODY'S A YES.

TERRY, ARE YOU A YES? I'M A YES. ALL RIGHT.

FANTASTIC. AND TED IS THE BOARD MEMBER WITH THE ROTATION WITH THE BY THE BY.

I WOULD JUST BRING UP A FUTURE, FUTURE EVENT NOT TOO FAR AWAY OUR WSSDA CONFERENCE IS COMING UP.

AT OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING, I AM HOPING TO GET A THE LIST OF ALL OF THE CLASSES THAT WE CAN GO TO SO WE CAN KIND OF PICK AND CHOOSE AND NOT DO A WHOLE LOT OF OVERLAP SO THAT WE'LL TRY TO GET THAT SENT OUT BY THE END OF THIS WEEK.

SO YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT IT PRIOR TO THE BOARD MEETING.

THAT'D BE GREAT. AND SO WE HAVE THAT COMING.

AND THEN OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING ON THE 28TH.

ANYTHING ELSE THAT ANYBODY WANTS TO MENTION COMING UP? HEARING NOTHING.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, THEN THAT WILL ADJOURN THE MEETING FOR THE TWO OF YOU.

THE REST OF US WILL BE GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.

[12. Executive Session]

SO. OKAY, SO IF WE STARTED AT 25 AFTER.

TAKE A THREE MINUTE BREAK 22? YEP. OKAY, SO THE BOARD WILL BE ENTERING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR PERSONNEL PER RCW 42.30.1101G WITH NO ACTION FOR 15 MINUTES STARTING AT 8:25.

THE BOARD WILL RETURN AT 8:40 UNLESS WE NEED ADDITIONAL TIME AND THEN I WILL COME OUT AND ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL EXTEND IT.

IT IS 8:45 WE HAVE RETURNED FROM OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR A PERSONNEL DISCUSSION WITH NO ACTION.

WE ARE ADJOURNING THIS MEETING AT 8:45 P.M..

THANKS EVERYONE. HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.