Tumwater PTO Board Agenda
Date: January 23, 2025
Time: 6:30-7:45pm
Location: Tumwater MS
January Board Meeting Agenda
Topic | Presenter |
Welcome & Call to Order | Lee Carson |
Principal Update & Tour
Semester end
Conferences
5th Grade incoming students
| Matt Smith |
President Update
| Lee Carson |
Vice President Update
| Julie Dibble & Lisa Teuber |
Treasurer Update
| Amy Heang |
Secretary Update | Dawn Duncan |
Volunteer Update
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Katia Kaeser & Air Duke |
Adjourn Meeting | All |
COMMITTEE UPDATES Art Lit (Kristi Nelson and Renee Nepokey)
OBOB (Kristi Nelson)
Staff Appreciation (Lauren, Jen, Alexandra)
TEMPO (Jo Salicos-Murphy)
8th Grade Celebration (Brittney Pineda)
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GRANT REQUEST #1: Name of applicant: Kori Taylor Email: kori_taylor@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS?: Spanish Department Proposed purchase or activity: Online learning tool-- Gimkit subscription Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): $59/ year x 2 = $118 Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO? Gimkit is an on-line learning and practice program that we can align with our curriculum and learning targets. It can be used for homework, practice, studying and in-class games for practice and community building. The students love it! Grades or demographic impacted: 500 students Date Needed: January 31, 2025 Discussion
GRANT REQUEST #2: Name of applicant: Benjamin Lloyd Email: benjamin_lloyd@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS? Design Teacher, LITT Proposed purchase or activity: Software for the CTE Future Labs Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): Air Manager iPad software for Flight Simulator (we had different software that stopped being supported, update to add back our instrument panel on the flight simulator) - $22.99 Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: No anticipated ongoing maintenance for these items. We do fund a lot of things in the future labs using district-allotted money but software has always been a bit of a hangup for purchasing, the district tends to deal more with volume licensing for use on the student devices and it has been pretty hard to purchase software like this for the CTE Lab since they won't reimburse and we're requesting individual / one-off type software purchases. Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO? The flight Simulator is one of the more popular modules in our 8th grade curriculum, likewise the Aviation after school club has seen a dramatic increase this year and there are 20-30 individuals benefiting directly from the functioning flight simulator. Grades or demographic impacted: Primarily Grades 7-8 but some reach to 6th grade through the after school club. 250+ students in Design. Thanks for your consideration and all you do! Date Needed: February 03, 2025 Discussion
GRANT REQUEST #3: Name of applicant: Mikaela Gladstone-Saucedo Email: mikaela_gladstone-saucedo@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS?: Drama Teacher/Program Director Proposed purchase or activity: Costumes & Props for Beetlejuice (replacing that which was lost in the storage room leak.) I pre-bought several items during the past show that were intended for use in Beetlejuice. All of it had to be thrown out when the water fountains in the gym leaked through the wall, as they were stored in cardboard boxes. My intention is to charge a small costume fee for actors in the production, because all of the costumes need to be bought anyway - but this loss sets us back about $800 for just costumes - not including the new storage totes that I would like to purchase. Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): 10 Plastic Storage Totes (Home Depot - $9.98 each). We didn't lose these, but I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: N/A. The plastic storage totes are water-tight and ensure that another leak will not ruin props or costumes. Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO?: We have a very robust theatre program at Tumwater, and I'm proud to have kept building it for the past four years. We produce very high-quality productions. However, part of that is reliant on the stock of costumes/props/set pieces that we have built and maintained over the years. Recently, due to a leak in the Aux Gym/storage room we lost two whales (giant dumpsters) full of costumes and props that molded. We are trying to replace and recoup the loss of those items, many of which were to be used in Beetlejuice. Grades or demographic impacted: We usually have around 80+ students from all grades participate in each production. Date Needed: February 03, 2025 Discussion
GRANT REQUEST #4 Name of applicant: Jeffrey Borcean Email: jeffrey_borcean@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS?: Technology Support Specialist Proposed purchase or activity: Purchase replacement projector lamps for the projector in the main gymnasium. It requires two lamps installed to operate. The lamps burned out late last school year. There is no school budget allocated to fund replacement. https://www.purelandsupply.com/panasonic-projector-lamp_PT-DW830WU.html Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): $432.10 item cost Shipping is included, installation to be completed by on site custodian at no additional cost Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: None. Lamps rated to last 3000 hours. The original lamps in the projector worked from Timberland's (ACMA/Vose host sites) opening until late last year. Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO? Allowing our PE teachers to project their lesson materials once again during class, as well as enabling the use of the projector during assemblies and other events. Grades or demographic impacted: 6-8, all TMS students Date Needed: February 28, 2025 Discussion
GRANT REQUEST #5 Name of applicant: Jordan Rick Email: jordan_rick@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS?: Art Teacher Proposed purchase or activity: Purchase of clay for 8th grade students to make an animal shaped jar using multiple types of building techniques. Students would be choosing an animal that is endangered or facing extinction, studying the different textures and colors of the animal and be taught different methods for achieving those textures on a clay surface. They would also be studying the environmental impacts and why that animal is endangered or facing extinction. Students would be guided through multiple methods of hand building, including pinch pot and slab building. They would also learn how to attach clay to build up any details such as noses, tails, wings, etc. We would study the art of Julie Clements and Julie Wilson, both are ceramicist artists specializing in endangered animal sculpture. Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): All supplies purchased through Georgies in Portland, no shipping will be needed for local pick up. TRAIL MIX c4-7 CLAY- 100 lbs- $ 107.00 GLOSS STONEWARE c6 SAMPLE SET- 6 sets of 31, 4 oz. bottles- $ 1,090.80 Total $ 1,197.80 Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: No ongoing expenses required beyond initial purchase would be necessary. Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO? Students would be introduced to a material that is not often available to them unless in a specialized class. They would learn design and aesthetic development, along with more practical skills such as time management, attention to detail and a sense of touch and control. All of this links to fine motor skills. Students would be studying beyond clay and looking at their animal through a real would connection. Why is their animal facing extinction? Why is it endangered? What conservation efforts are being implemented to protect endangered species? What are the impacts of losing biodiversity due to endangered species decline? This exploration would help students to make a real world connection and see the project beyond the classroom. The final projects would be displayed with an explanation for other students and staff to see, giving them knowledge on the animal and what they could to help. Grades or demographic impacted: 8th grade students, ~80 Date Needed: April 07, 2025 Discussion
GRANT REQUEST #6 Name of applicant: Tiffany Tran-Parta Email: tiffany_tran-parta@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS?: 6-8 grade design teacher Proposed purchase or activity: Students will research and learn about the uses of drones in various industries and fields. They will create design briefs in their notebooks using book creator. They will learn how to fly a drone and take pictures and videos in ways that allow them to be used to generate 3-D maps and models using the software from Dronelink. We would like to get 4 more drones to be able to use them in the same day with 2 classes of 8th graders. Each class can use 4 drones as the ones used by the first class will have to rest, cool down, recharge after use. We got 4 drones a couple years ago from PTO to use with our 8th graders. They really got excited about learning to fly them and using them to capture aerial images for use in photo grammetry. Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): https://docs.google.com/document/d/19WxIyGPRcZNTQHVi4hBTVRh3hBoNl--P7-2_gcnvjZY/edit?usp=sharing $2958.72. We would be happy to accept any amount that you would help with this project. Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: We will be using our technology budget to buy replacement items such as propellers and batteries if they need to be replaced. Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO?: Students will use the design cycle to research and document their use of drones to transform 2-D maps into 3-D maps. They will also use Bookcreator to capture pictures and photos to be analyzed in class. Our students love doing these types of hands-on projects as they are of high interest and most have not done something like this before. Sherpas or student helpers will be trained first and then they will help others in small groups to fly the drones outside, thereby also learning to collaborate and teach others. This project will cover all 4 of the MYP design standards. Grades or demographic impacted: 8th grade (~75-80 students) and potentially 7th grade ( ~70 students) Date Needed: February 17, 2025 Discussion
GRANT REQUEST #7 Name of applicant: Sarah Glosier Email: sarah_glosier@beaverton.k12.or.us What is your official connection to TMS?: Speech-Language Pathologist Proposed purchase or activity: Conversation Paths curriculum https://www.socialtime.org/store/p/ccpev Amount of funding requested (be specific and itemize all costs, including shipping and installation): $65 Ongoing expenses related to purchase, including maintenance, and proposed funding source: None; all items are digital and included in the $65 cost. Goals that will be achieved, including benefits to students, staff, and volunteers. How does the purchase or activity help meet or maintain education or enrichment goals set by the Beaverton School District, Tumwater Middle School, or the Tumwater PTO? Conversation Paths is a comprehensive program that provides a structured teaching curriculum, visual supports, rubrics, and assessment materials designed to explicitly teach conversational skills. These resources are particularly beneficial for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), social anxiety, and other diagnoses that affect social reciprocity and communication. The program aims to address the unique needs of these students by fostering the development of essential social interaction skills in a systematic and semi-structured manner. Grades or demographic impacted: 15-20 students Date Needed: January 31, 2025 Discussion
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2024-25 PTO Meeting Dates Speaker Series with Chelsey Goodan: Thursday, 1/30/25 Community Meeting: Thursday, 2/13/25 (with Sunset Principal, Elisa Schorr) Board Meeting: Thursday, 3/6/25 Community Meeting: Thursday, 4/3/25 (listening session) Board Meeting: Wednesday, 5/6/25 (Draft 2025-26 Budget for May Community Meeting) Community Meeting: Thursday, 5/22/25 (Vote on 2025-26 Board & Budget; Q&A for incoming families) | |