To: Michael Green
From: Jake Hall
Date: 12.7.22
Re: December 2022 Board Report
Family and Community Resource Center
Knights of Columbus donated 4 boxes of new coats of every size to us. These much needed coats have been going out the door quickly in this cold weather!
Our focus at the FCRC in the month of December is our partnerships with the Woodland Community about Rotary Christmas Giving and Shop-with-a-Cop. Shop-with-a-Cop selected 42 families (81 students) from our school district to take shopping at the Woodland Walmart on Saturday, December 10th! The remaining 100 families will be gifted through Rotary’s Giving Tree Program on Thursday, December 22nd, at the middle school between 3pm-6pm.
Highly Capable Program
At Columbia Elementary School, students designated as highly capable have been meeting multiple times a week to investigate solutions to problems, practice public speaking, and further discuss elements involved in both. Following a few weeks of learning about public speaking, third and fourth-grade students from Columbia Elementary went to "Dog Man: The Musical,” and students were able to see how a production comes together in a real live performance.
At North Fork Elementary, first-grade students learned some background information about turkeys and listened to the book How to Catch a Turkey and designed and built a turkey trap. Second graders learned about the origin of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from the book Balloons Over Broadway and designed their own parade float character and had to come up with a way to keep it afloat without using helium. Third graders have been working on a research project of their choice and creating a Google Slides presentation to share what they have learned. Fourth grade is working on video editing using WeVideo, learning how to edit a green screen and add text and sound effects. Students will be doing a book talk as their first project using these tools.
The Woodland Middle School Lego Team competed December 4th at the Salem Qualifier. They scored a third place finish and were complimented on their hard work and presentation of their innovative power solution. WMS students also finished up a research project on Innovative Storage, Transmission and Generation of Power.
Learning Assistance and Title Programs
Learning Assistance and Title would like to extend a huge shout out to our paras for the incredibly impactful work they do with students and staff, leading individual and small groups in reading, and helping students in math classes. LAP and Title are continuing their work to identify and meet the academic needs of students. The impactful LAP and Title work is made possible by our team of caring, dedicated paraprofessionals in each of our elementary schools and Woodland Middle School. Thank you to our paraprofessionals!
Lewis River Academy
LRA families are settled into the school year, the vast majority making good progress within the alternative learning requirements. Most of our families prefer Google Meet for virtual, online tutoring. However, we are thrilled to have students back in the classroom live and in person for tutoring, as well as weekly enrichment for rotating topics: Music, Math, art, Writer's Workshop, and Science. It means a lot to have on-campus events and occasions back on the calendar!
Multilingual Learners Program
As reported earlier, Woodland has mirrored OSPI in renaming English Language Learner (ELL) to Multilingual Learner (ML). The “why” for this change in nomenclature is to identify students as emergent learners of multiple languages helps all stakeholders to focus on an asset based approach to learning.
Woodland School District is currently providing support for 228 Multilingual Learners. At North Fork, the ML students are receiving additional curricular support via Language Studio, which was purchased as part of the new CKLA curriculum. At Columbia, the ML department has been working with multiple stakeholders to provide differentiated instruction for each of their 95 ML students. Currently, WHS intermediate and advanced ML students are writing persuasive essays. Also, the WHS ML teacher and counselors have been collaborating about each of the ML seniors to make sure they are on track to graduate.
Nurse Services
There is a lot of activity in the health rooms with the current influx of RSV and flu. Our Health Room assistants and nurses are monitoring and report to CCHD when absentee rates are greater than 10% due to illness.
The annual immunization report for the Woodland School District has been completed and turned in to the Department of Health.
State mandated vision and hearing screenings are almost finished. We want to thank the volunteers from Woodland PTSA and Director Stuart for assisting in this important effort to identify student needs!
Special Services
We currently have 348 students identified in Woodland School District as having a disability that requires specially designed instruction. Five of those students attend our 18-21 year old program, Partners In Transition.
Our School Psychologists, as well as our Speech and Language Pathologists, are resuming their monthly meetings with their colleagues in the region. This is very exciting because they haven’t been able to collaborate in person since March 2020 due to the guidelines and then the impacts of the pandemic. It is wonderful for our specialists to be able to confer with other professionals about best practices in serving students with disabilities.
We are working on our “Safety Net” documentation to submit to OSPI for reimbursement of some of our costs related to students with highly impactful disabilities.
Student Engagement
Our Student Engagement Coordinator, Lindsay Noble, attended the BECCA Conference in Ellensburg, Washington. Lindsay reports that the conference had great information to gain for her position. One of the outcomes of the BECCA Conference is knowledge about a specific assessment with students that identifies the barriers for students to engage in school and offer resources to fit their needs.
Lindsay has been working closely with ESD 112 to put together an Attendance Workshop that we can refer families to that need additional support. This will be put on through ESD 112 once a month and will most likely be virtual, so it's easier for families to attend.