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I'm a little pissy today as the district is a continually frustrating group.  My main issue is two-fold.

If I have trouble finding information at the district's website, I can only imagine the difficulty for people who don't know the district (or the less-than-clear manner in which to find links).

Second, the lack of timely information.

For example, I didn't know that Nate Van Duzer in the Board office got a replacement.  That would have been information that could have easily been put up on the Board's webpage but wasn't.  Here's info on his replacement:

Ellie Wilson-Jones
Director of Policy & Board Relations
206-252-0041
eswilsonjone@seattleschools.org
 
Nor did the remaining person in the Board office, Michelle Ramirez, have an email contact.

Michele Ramirez
Board Office Administrator
206-252-0040
boardoffice@seattleschools.org
 
I note that both are now available directly at the Board's webpage but that shouldn't be because I nagged them.  It should have just been a matter of procedure.

Here's the agenda and documentation for today's Curriculum&Instruction committee meeting; items of note are:

-Approval of Board Policy No. 3220, Student Expression in School-Sponsored Media.  This is based off a bill approved by the Legislature in their last session, SSB 5064.

Prior to the passage of SSB 5064, there were no state statutes requiring public schools to adopt policies related to student expression in school-sponsored media. The new state law  provides that student editors of school-sponsored media are responsible for determining the news, opinion, feature, and advertising content of the media; states that a student media adviser may teach professional standards of English and journalism to the student  journalists and may not be terminated, transferred, removed, or otherwise disciplined for complying with the student expression provisions; and establishes an appeal process for students who allege a violation of the student expression provisions. The law also  protects school officials and governing boards from civil or criminal liability resulting from school-sponsored media prepared, published, or broadcast by student journalists.

-  Annual Approval of Schools per WAC 180-16-220 (otherwise known as C-SIP, Continuous School Improvement Plan) - This starts on page 32.  It include the C-SIP manual which I have never seen before. My favorite line:

There is no requirement that the School Board approve each school’s C-SIP. Instead, the requirement is only that the School Board ensures that the plans are in existence. 

So yes, every school has one on the district's website.   The examples they give as "comprehensive" plans are on page 58. I urge you to go and read about your child's school and see if it matches what you have seen/heard on the ground.   For example:

Schools shall have individual school-based homework policies that are communicated to students and families and posted in a visible location. School policies should include the school’s policy on grading late work and on expectations for how much time families should expect a student to spend on homework.

What's fascinating is that on page 74 is section of how the C-SIP relate to the teachers' contract.

On page 80, there's a report from Dr. Caleb Perkins, Director of College and Career Readiness with an Update on 24 Credits and Secondary Re-visioning.

On page 84, there's a report from Kyle Kinoshita, Chief of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction on updates about instructional materials including Science and Spanish. 

Three other adoption efforts which are not yet underway are Since Time Immemorial, Ethnic Studies and Career-Technical Education. Since Time Immemorial is awaiting revision of Policy 2015, “Selection and Adoption of Instructional Materials”. Ethnic Studies instructional materials are in the process of being developed, and will also be subject to the revision of Policy 2015. Career-Technical Education is working on an inventory of needs for instructional materials.

Staff is pushing back against the Board's pointed questions about the changes for Science including now this:

However, the current Policy 2015, “Selection and Adoption of Instructional Materials” outlines an extensively detailed process that is aimed at evaluating materials for a commercial purchase. There is currently no language that considers the possibility that a non-commercial selection would be considered, and the language aimed assuring a fair competitive process does not apply. This creates a problem that an attempt to adopt a non-commercial material would not be in compliance with the current Policy.

 I have, once again, expressed to the Board that it is a hardship to have to ask for each committee's documentation for every single meeting.  If I didn't do that, the public would likely not see the documentation at all.  That seems less-than-transparent.  I know staff sometimes needs to make changes to that documentation and yet they are fine doing updates to Board meeting agendas. 

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