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Students report activities; district outlines $8.3M SIA investments in mental‑health, data and family services
Summary
High‑school student leaders gave updates on spirit events, arts and athletics while the board heard an annual Student Investment Account report detailing roughly $8.3 million in district investments for mental‑health staffing, academic supports, an online academy, data tools and a family empowerment center.
Adeline Hutchinson, an ASB student‑store manager at Westland High School, told the board the student body’s pink‑out week raised $1,500 for Breast Friends and highlighted musical, athletic and cultural activities this fall. "All proceeds from the sale were donated to Breast Friends," she said, and noted several students were named all‑state musicians.
On a staff presentation, Dr. Jennifer Spencer Iams summarized the district’s Student Investment Account (SIA) spending. The district’s SIA award grew to about $8.3 million in 2023–24, she said, and the district has concentrated that funding in five strategies: behavioral and mental‑health positions (school social workers, nurses, counselors, psychologists), investments to support academic achievement (classroom and learning‑specialist staffing), a data dashboard for earlier intervention, continued support for an online academy, and a Family Empowerment Center that connects families to continuing education and county services.
"One of the things that can be confusing ... is the interplay between general fund and these special revenue funds," Dr. Spencer Iams said, explaining that some SIA uses can augment general‑fund activities while other restricted grants cannot. She described the data dashboard as integrated with the district student‑information system and able to provide nightly, disaggregated views at district, school and (with permission) individual‑student levels to help teachers intervene earlier. "So it brings it forward, in a nightly connection and update," she said.
Board members asked how the dashboard disaggregates data and whether families could be served more quickly; Dr. Spencer Iams said the system provides both school‑level and student‑level views and that permission controls protect student privacy. The presentation also highlighted family‑facing offerings: in partnership with Clackamas Community College, continuing‑education classes for families and a resource event that grew from about 35 families initially to roughly 600 this year.
The board will receive the required annual SIA report and a 2024–25 report due later in the month; staff said they are planning additional community surveys and focus groups to inform the district’s next SIA application.
