Thank you. Um, we needed nine more blue chairs. Blue chairs. Were they teacher chairs? I'm I'm sorry. I don't know. Just Kate sounds like she knows. Sorry, they're big people chairs. Okay, that's what I thought. Maybe for for uh you know, we got some big kids and big teachers. So, yeah. And we're at a school within kids and tiny chairs. You don't like sitting on the floor, huh? Yeah. Going down's not bad. It's going to back up, right? That was nice of Legacy to do that for us. And is it Wnik? Uh, Dawick. I think it's Widow. Widow. Wedawick. Okay. What kind of books were these? Does anybody know? What were they children's books? So like in preschool they Oh, for preschool. Okay. And so it was big books. Okay. All right. I need right now. We're all about the big stuff right now. Big chairs, big books.
She made a Google file folder. Um Mr. Reeves was involved as well. Like she was constantly um asking because she wanted to do what was best for her students that that she was prepping for the test. So very deserving. Um so thank you Miss Adams. Continuing over. Um well my my photos are kind of in different orders. Um I'm going to go down on the left hand side and we're going to recognize Mrs. Michelle Breeding. Um she works at the CMS middle school um for the foods. Whether it's adjusting the kitchen schedule or testing, field trips, or any last minute changes, she handles it all with grace and a smile. Her organization, friendly nature with students, and openness to new ideas truly makes a difference every day. Thank you, Michelle, for all of your hard work, kindness, and unwavering support. You are so appreciated. And then moving up and over towards Miss Adams, we have our Parkview shoutout, which is Mrs.
Yeah. Yeah. Still think it's strange though that they have to decide at that early age their path. Yeah. Whereas we let the kids go through high school and they're choosing their path in college. And I kind of like and sometimes they still don't know, right? But my understanding I studied over there when I was in undergrad in Germany and my understanding was one of the kids in the where I was living she had to make that choice because she was heading into high school and the mom was all stressed. Yeah. And the next kid was coming up gonna have to do it soon, too. The whole idea of how can this child who should be a freshman or sophomore in our high school have to choose a life path then? And it's really hard to change. At least in Germany, it could be different where you were at.
We're in, right? Yeah. Thank you, Lance. Since you're sitting here with us, thank you very much for the donations of your materials. Um, that was really nice of you, Lenor Nelson. Wow. So, where do we put the TV that she donated? I don't even know. I'm sorry. It's at middle school. So, I don't know where at middle school. It's not in the teachers lounge. I don't think so. No. Okay. Mm- Okay. I really wish to thank everybody and I'm sure that this is not a complete the complete list that there are people. No, I think we have some things that are not on there. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. I'll get Cass uh uh smacking people around to submit the forms because I know we got we have some other things. Yeah, I'm sure that the community is I know she's been doing it. I'm just giving her a hard time.
Christine Thompson. She is um one of our new teachers um this year to the district but not new to education. She came from Waterlue. She is in an incredible elementary school special education teacher. She truly has patience of a saint. She always is ready to lend a helping hand, support her colleagues, and go the extra mile for her students. Her caring nature shines through in everything she does, but she also knows how to challenge her students to help them grow. No matter the situation, Mrs. Thompson stays calm and composed and full of positivity. We are beyond grateful for all she has done and we will definitely miss her next year. She's transferring to Eagle View. And then our last shout out goes to the whole entire Eagle View staff. Last Friday they had their breakfast with buddies which I was able to attend and it was such a well attended event.
It's very similar. They did have some schools that were more like a general studies kind of school, but um most of them are the trade specific or career specific high schools. And uh very interesting thing is is over there Um the the schools are funded by the municipalities. So uh Stockholm for example funds all the schools and um the money follows the student right. So um what they're noticing is they are having a lot of independent schools pop up and um people are turning them into businesses and making money. Um and so the schools are comping for attendance um in Sweden. Uh and in some ways um there obviously pros and cons to a lot of that. Right. Right. The big thing that I saw though is is the um the ownership of students and the the self-reliance and the belief in what they can do at early ages.
Um, I know that we have I know that we have uh an employee who has donated a number of u the glass white the glass like whiteboards only they're glass uh to the district and uh kind of refuses to turn in the donation sheet. Uh, but at this point, I mean, we've got the nice big eight foot one in here and we have six foot ones and three foot or four foot ones at particularly at Fox Creek and every time somebody does something like that, you give them a absolutely we give them a thank you, but sometimes they won't fill out the little form. Well, I really appreciate this and I think that everybody on the board appreciates those who donate to the schools. Um, it's just those little nice things that Yep. that we don't normally provide. Item 2.7, adoption of the agenda. I need a motion to adopt adopt the agenda for tonight.
Um, it is almost a 40-minute event that requires considerable planning and work, and every single staff member plays an important part in the planning, collecting of the RSVPs, and decorating, setting up, greeting, and serving, and cleaning up in time for the first PE class of the day at 8:15. The smiles on the children's faces and families make all of the hard work worth it. And there is no way we could put this on, this beloved event on without Eagle View's outstanding staff collaboration. And again, I was able to attend. And it was it was heartwarming because they get to choose the one person that they want to bring and sometimes it's a parent and sometimes it's a big brother, big sister. It it was just really heartwarming. Those are our shoutouts. Um as uh my timeline has been um projected, social studies curriculum is going to be a recommendation on tonight's agenda for an action item.
So I assume the students have to there's no public transportation as far as buses. They have to get themselves to whatever school. So, no. Uh, so there's no transportation like busing like what we have. Um, in Sweden, most people walk, a lot of people ride bikes, and then you'll um drive a car, right? Um, I I didn't see any buses when I was there. Um, what I saw was most students, regardless of the level, they were walking and walking to school and many of them by themselves through the streets of Stockholm. Any other questions or thank you, Dr. Harp, this was an awesome experience. Thank you for sharing. Thank you. Yeah, learned a lot and there's some small things that I I think I'll pick up on and maybe talk to Dr. Long and Dr. Simmons about what what could we do, you know, at North, maybe do some research or some studying in small groups.
I make a motion we adopt the agenda. I'll second the motion. All those in favor? I Melinda Sabraski. I Charlene Diaz. I Fred Rushton. I Barb Zarziki. I Judy Ree. I was looking at this last night and looking forward to this. I just want to see what these guys have done and obviously they've done some good stuff. So, Miss Hall, Miss Hall, would you introduce your uh your your your crew because I know it's more than just the students presenting, but so it would be nice for the board to know the other folks as well. Good evening. Um, tonight we have the Life Academy, a couple Life Academy students um with us to show you guys some of the things they've been doing. They've been working this last semester real heavily on research projects. So, they've done various different um projects so far this year.
Um it has been displayed in the boardroom um for the month of well March to April. Um we are recommending grades two through five um get the MRA Hill impact. That was the best series for those grade levels. Um TCI which standards are all the same. It's just a different program with different needs fitting that grade level band would be using TCI. Um, and then the high school would be getting McGra Hill because they're so course specific and McGra Hill was the better of the two companies to fit into the course needs and those dual credit options because they work with the colleges and they do a lot of the college textbooks there and they could help with matching what they needed for those courses. Um, I'm already pending your approval tonight working on professional development for those grade level bands to receive help before um school starts next year to make sure they're all ready to use those new resources.
So, appreciate your presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Next on the agenda, we have I'll turn over to Dr. Long. Thanks, Mr. Daniels. Um, we've shared this before uh numerous times and we just wanted to make a final report tonight. Again, there's no board action necessary for this. We just kind of want to give you the last bit of information and share some of the feedback that we've gotten from our staff as we've discussed this and our guiding coalition and and what our uh I think what our final schedule will look like. Um, we've talked about this numerous times. Our why, you know, we we we started off with this and if you remember, I told everybody I I made a presentation 17 years ago on changing the start time and if if if not slow, at least I'm persistent. Uh, we're still talking about it 17 years later.
We've had some projects on um right now they're doing cities. They like picked a city within the United States and they have to do a whole research project on the city. They've done body systems. What else did they do? Debate. They've done debate. Debate. Um and so with me over here in the corner I have Miss Johnson and Miss Downey. Um they're two of the para profofessionals um that work within the program. Miss Ashley Pierce, we stole her from preschool. Um she was a preschool parah and then she joined the dark side with us. I have Mr. Schnobble. He is our teacher extraordinaire. Uh and then I have Owen and Cecilia who um are both eighth grade students this year. Um have been with us for quite a while and they're absolutely phenomenal at what they do and they wanted to share with you. they actually volunteered to share um and to come present tonight um with you.
Continuing with uh curricular resources, you can kind of see um in addition, we've added a few more curricular resources to the boardroom. We are um looking at our ELAc curricular resource K through 8. we have be become very disjointed in those grade levels and ELA being our reading and our writing and all of the good things that go with that. It's really important to have consistency. So, we do have grade level leaders from each grade coming together. I was in meetings all day today and yesterday meeting with them, meeting with content specialists from both programs um and having those discussions to see if there is a curricular resource that would better fit our needs going into next year. um it's a little quicker but at this point in time um I think that would definitely help the continuity of what we are teaching and learning in the district for ELA state testing we are very excited to announce um it is over uh we we did I successfully and then 9th through 11th the pre-ACT and ACT I will tell you um we did have a little hiccup and and I can look at Mr.
But our goal was originally to adjust the sleep time to better uh align with the sleep cycles of teenagers. Um, we tried that. It didn't really work very well for our community. It kind of popped back up that maybe we could slide a little bit and it would benefit our secondary uh students uh without doing any harm to our elementary students. The other thing that we heard when we looked at our student schedule was, can we find a way to make it consistent? The early release on Wednesday was a was problematic for some of our parents um for daycare reasons or other other issues. And then the the thing that really blossomed out of this was, hey, we can develop this schedule and have a some additional teacher time uh that'll help us balance out our our prep periods and give them some time to collaborate together.
We asked all of the students and these kids were like, "Yeah, let's do it." So um they wanted to share with you what they what they did within their um Thank you. presentations. They had they got to choose the output of pre like what they wanted to do for their output of their research project. So some students did oral reports, some students did PowerPoints, they did trifold boards. So they're going to start. Cecilia is gonna come up first. My name is Sal. I am in eighth grade at Life Academy. Today I'm going to be telling about the nervous system. I can't hear. The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord, and complex networks or nerves. ALS is when motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. Um the body system overview the stem the stem the sorry the stimuli from the sense organs change to electrical signals.
Reeves for this with the ACT. They had a 45minute delay, but that was not just Colombia specific. Um, schools around Illinois had some ACT issues. Um, and ISBY was hearing all about it. Good news. We are excited with all of the hard work that we put in on the forefront before ACT. Um, and we're excited to continue those programs, both the Horizons and the afterchool program next year to continue to hopefully build on those ACT scores in the coming coming years. We're excited. And then happy spring break. Any [Music] questions? Thanks. Excellent. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And move on to our superintendent report. Dr. Brody. Yeah, it it's um it's April and and it's going to be the end of the year soon. It just seems to be moving so fast. We are in the time of banquetss. FFA was this week and music is next week and we got pensers coming up and all of these things and it's neat to go to those and see all the kids getting their awards and being singled out for all the great things they do.
And and we'll see in the next slide that uh Hattie has done a bunch of research and collective teacher efficacy has a an impact of 1.57 on the effect. Uh and I tell everybody that you know we always hear about well class size is really important but the the effect on on class sizes was like 0.20. So having time for teachers to have collective efficacy is far more important than than the class sizes. And so that became our challenge is how do we develop a schedule that gives our teachers that time to work together. Just to follow up on that there's some surveys out there. the educators for excellence in 2024. Only 46% of the the the people surveyed thought that their their profession was collaborative, which meant the teachers had the opportunity to work and learn together. And and really sadly, only 26% reported that it was dynamic, meaning the teachers had opportunities for growth.
The nerves carry these electrical signals to the brain and the spinal cord. The brain decides what the stimulus is and how to respond to it. Ner nerves then carry the response or what to do message to or away from the brain. The message is delivered to the part of the body that will respond to the stimulus. The disease description ALS is a progressive neuro degenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons travel from the brain through the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. When these motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to entertain and control muscle movement is lost when voluntary muscle action is progressively affected. People may lose the ability to speak, eat, breathe, and move. The risk factors are older age, male sex, a family history with the disease, a military service, potentially exposure to environmental toxins or he or heavy metals, lifestyle or occupational choices.
Um we've got this spring break for this weekend and it's always fun as the kids get ready to have the time off. There was an announcement today in Park View over the loudspeaker with Mr. Dugan saying, "Do not run in the hallways, please." It's everybody was exiting the buildings, but it's just it's a fun time of year. Uh we have been looking at our HVAC systems at the middle school. I know that we're doing the construction at the high school, but we've talked before about our electrical costs at the middle school. We're starting to compile all of the kilowatt hours we're doing per month because our uh Chris Schulty, our new HVAC guy, has been on for about a half a year and he's finding a lot of reprogrammings, things where we've heated it up and then cooling it down and and uh hopefully the middle school is starting to see that the temperatures in the classrooms are a little bit more more more solid, but we're hoping that we're actually going to start seeing some improvements in those kilowatt hours.