IBB team sets yearlong review on classroom-safety design; recommendation due during 2026 negotiations

The Moscow School District IBB joint team agreed to continue work on a classroom-safety design and to prepare a recommendation for the 2026 negotiation season.

A participant read the draft design aloud: "Classroom safety. The issue discussed this year was need to create a safe classroom environment for all. The joint IBB team has agreed that we will continue discussing classroom safety during the 2025, '20 '6 monthly IBB meetings, and we'll have a recommendation ready to report during the 2026 negotiation season. During these meetings, we plan to address ways to empower staff to create a safe classroom environment, explicit procedures for maintaining classroom safety, ways to support teachers in providing a safe learning environment." The IBB team will schedule topics and invite relevant positions to those monthly meetings, and will gather data and feedback from district employees.

Why it matters: the work plan formalizes an ongoing, cross-stakeholder review of classroom practices and procedures. The group moved the draft from the "wood" stage to "brick," signaling a decision to include the subject in later white-paper or negotiation discussions rather than to finalize immediate contractual language.

Discussion vs. decision: this item is a planning commitment, not a final policy change. The team agreed to continue monthly attention to classroom safety in 2025–26 and to produce a recommendation for the 2026 negotiation season.

Next steps: create a schedule of topics at the September monthly meeting; gather employee feedback and set the agenda at the end of each meeting for continuing work; include the classroom-safety work plan in the white-paper discussions as the group moves toward brick and formal negotiation.