James Fitting

This Educational Specifications document outlines detailed design requirements for Orchard Prairie School, derived from extensive engagement with staff, students, and community members. It prioritizes creating modern, flexible, and community-centered facilities that honor the school's unique character and rural legacy. The plan details specific needs for academic spaces, a multi-purpose room, administrative areas, and support facilities, all designed to foster a safe, equitable, and engaging learning environment while inspiring academic excellence and responsible citizenship.

The meeting will include reports on enrollment, budget status, and cash flow. Old business includes bond updates, land updates, and testing/academic updates. New business includes approval and certification of expenses, totaling $118,200.39, covering payroll and accounts payable. Upcoming board meeting topics will be announced, and the next board work session and meeting will be confirmed. An executive/closed session is also scheduled.

The meeting covered the upcoming school calendar and district budget for the 2023-2024 school year, along with an upcoming EP&O Levy election seeking $225,000. Discussion included the PTO's financial reports, the Camp Reed fundraiser, the Prairie Dog Jog event (including sponsorships, action items, and volunteer coordination), and plans for the annual auction, including themes, prizes, and fundraising goals.

The Orchard Prairie School District's Academic and Student Well-being Recovery Plan focuses on addressing learning and well-being gaps through universal and targeted supports. Universal supports include building relationships, common assessments, early learning initiatives (K-4 literacy), equitable grading practices, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), narrowing standards, professional learning, social-emotional learning (SEL) and mental health supports, strategic staffing, student voice and perception, and transition supports. Targeted supports address specific student groups (American Indian/Alaskan Native, Black/African American, White, English language learners, low-income students, students with disabilities) using strategies such as building relationships, common assessments, early learning, equitable grading practices, mastery learning/project-based learning, MTSS, narrowing standards, professional learning, SEL and mental health supports, and strategic staffing. The plan utilizes various diagnostic assessments (e.g., curriculum-based assessments, FAST, GOLD, OSPI screeners, Read Well, running records, Smarter Balanced assessments, WA-KIDS, teacher recommendations) to monitor progress and inform adjustments to strategies and interventions. The district will monitor progress using diagnostic assessments at least each trimester, and the Equity District team will use the results to develop adjustments to strategies and interventions or provide additional supports.

The meeting will cover approval of January 2025 board minutes, review of the agenda, comments for the good of the school, public comments, reports (correspondence, superintendent's report, enrollment, budget status, object/expenditure, and cash flow), old business (video contract proposal, bond update, outdoor learning center heating project update), and new business (approval and certification of expenses for February 2025 payroll and accounts payable). Announcements will include upcoming board meeting topics and confirmation of the next board meeting. An executive/closed session is also scheduled.