Each central office administrator and board member shared something they observed in the District or community. 

Middle School counselor Rachael Roll, started a multicultural club mid-way through this school year.  Club members are made up of all grade levels, 6-8. There are almost 40 students signed up with more wanting to participate next year. The main focus of the club is "how do we make a school better and make it a better place to be?" 

Multicultural Club's Mission is to help create school culture where students respect each others differences. The club likes to highlight celebrations and stop racism. They decided to make t-shirts with their slogan VIBE (value, inclusion, belonging, equity) this year and they've been a big hit. 

They wear their shirts on Mondays when the club meets.  Club members have noticed that other students come up and ask about getting into the club and what the shirt slogan means when they're wearing their shirts. Other students also know they can talk to club members when they see things that are bullying and racist. 

T-shirt slogan this year vibe

The club students would like what they're doing to become part of the school as a whole, not just a club that meets once a week. 

Our student representatives have other school activities tonight so they're not able to attend. However, they did meet with the Superintendent to document what they saw on their May building walks.

Chuks visited Michael Anderson Elementary and asked students what they like about school right now. Popular answers were lunch, recess, and snack time. He noted that students also said learning part was an important part of their day as well. 

For things they're looking forward to, as military students, moving away was number one, they're excited to meet new friends. Learning harder things as they grow like math, bigger words. For 5th graders, moving to the MS was their top pick. (Chuks noticed that MAE students have a strong foundation that sets them up for later school years, and he attributed it to the staff).

Trinity visited Hallett Elementary. She said 5th graders are looking forward to moving to the Middle School, getting to have lockers and different classes in different classrooms. Students like the Wit and Wisdom curriculum and hands on science.  The school did a word wall along the hall and liked learning new words, they said that Foundations was instrumental for learning those new words. Hallett students said they would like to have longer recess times. 

Gabby went to the Middle School. Student there like the teachers and staff, and specifically feel staff is involved in their learning process. Some students said they like block schedule, because there is less homework. They said they'd like to see more sports for 6th graders. 

Ashley was at the High School. With sports being over and all the testing going on, students feel like this time is more of a grey area, between happy and boring. Things they'd like to see are more bands and clubs, additional spring sports with more student participation and more summer conditioning. Our student representatives said we have a great education system compared to other kids in the area. They'd like to see more improvement on the bathrooms. There are still small groups hanging out in them doing things they maybe shouldn't be doing. High School students would like the opportunity for fine arts classes. 

The students talked about fundraising opportunities. They feel it would help if families knew why fundraisers still happen with the levy having passed, show them what the schools can pay for and what they cannot.

Dr. Headrick is going to have the student representatives be involved in the quarterly student connections meetings. Have them participate and co-run the events. 

Lyra McGirk said "it's hard to believe it has been 4 years since our Connect+ program started."

Right now there are 37 students in Connect+ at the High School, 14 are 100%, 16 that are in a hybrid model, 3 participating in work place experience and 4 doing running start.

The Middle School has 19 Connect+ students, 16% full time and 3 hybrid.

Michael Anderson Elementary has 5 attending full time while Hallett Elementary has 3 total, 1 of which is hybrid.

Lyra will be meeting with the building coordinators for an end of year meeting to work on creating a more consistent grading practice and enhance general communication protocols.  Our goal is to make the online program more meaningful. 

Tawni Barlow shared some slides highlighting some of the results from the 2023 Health Youth Survey. 

Healthy Youth survey is a collaborative effort with OSPI, the Department of Health, the Health Care Authority, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery and the Liquor and Cannabis Board. The voluntary, anonymous survey provides important results regarding youth and adolescents' take on their health and mental wellbeing. 

The slides compared our students in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12 with others in Washington State on topics about vaping, drinking, drug use, depression, bullying, suicide and others. 

Tawni says it's a great tool to use alongside our SEL screener to help our students that need help in these areas. 

Typically our summer meetings, in June, July and August are at 4:00 pm. We know this time frame can be difficult for some of our board members. We can do either a 5:00 pm start or keep all meetings at 6:00 pm. 

The Board unanimously agreed that a 5:00 pm start for summer meetings, June, July and August, was good.

A brief 30 - 45 minute session started at 7:00 pm and ended at 8:11 pm.