and um and that's a requirement. So um uh we work with we work with everybody on on those kinds of fees and those are good questions. So thank you for asking those. Um so where where are these people coming from? Uh these three are all from the Philippines. They're all from the Philippines. And Jen's been busy working with principles, interviewing candidates all week uh this week because um uh you know, we're trying to fill as many of these 28 positions as we can. And they're not all uh international teachers that we're interviewing, but um a number of them are, and it's partly because we do not get applicants from the US. Um if we did, of course, they're going to be in the pool to be interviewed and um you know, and we go from there. Okay.
Any questions regarding the social studies curriculum adoption? Hearing none. Would anybody like to make a motion to adopt the curriculum? Curriculara. I'll make a motion. Thank you, Moren. Second. Second. I think Tyler Beach. Tyler. Tyler. All right. Roll call, please. Greg Meyer. Yes. Lisa Schumacher. Yes. Tyson Search. Yes. Noren Friedrich. Yes. Adam Humpkin. Yes. Andrea Corey. Yes. Kelly Moyer. Yes. Perfect. Our last time for action this evening is the first reading of the board policy press pass. Yeah, I called it the grody gainy. Usually you get the uh press policy because we get all the updates from the Illinois board of education. But there are really three groupings of policies here. The first one, board policy 42 240 is the school board policy and it talks about our school board. Uh Mrs. Schumacher had brought up from the journal article um for the from the school boards that there was a a a a the option that we could have a high school student sitting on the board.
And I know there was time, there was effort here. This is a shift. Everybody realizes it's it's just moving back a little. And in that shift, the time, the effort, the meetings, the input, I don't know how many different schedules they've they've shown to us over the time. I don't know if it got to 100, but it got to 50. The effort that's been put into this, this wasn't taken lightly. This was taken very professionally, letting everybody give input, and I'm happy that everybody had that opportunity. Not everybody's happy with changes. Not everybody's happy with any change, but I can say that the administration did a did a wonderful job of of trying to put something together that that works the best we can for everybody. Um, knowing that you can't always please everyone. And I think Dr. Long hit it on the head. You know, we challenged them whatever change they made, make sure it's students first, make sure it's best for students.
Uh any questions about recruitment and retention? Okay. My second my second category um uh one of the things that you all talked about recently was looking for a new assessment platform uh to replace Galileo. And uh I probably should have Jen present this to you, but I'll do it. And then if I make mistakes, she'll she'll jump up and correct me. Um so uh there was a committee and they reviewed at least three at least three uh companies uh and uh selected uh a program called DNA. I don't know what the letters stand for but it's called DNA. Um and that is uh the equivalent of Galileo. So it is the benchmark testing. Okay. Um and it is very much aligned with our state standards. Um, and interestingly enough, only costs about half of what Galileo has been costing us per year. First year it will cost us the same as we've been paying for Galileo because we'll have to it's program, you know, it's a program.
They would be um need to go through a process and be selected. The high school student would then be on our board. Um when we go into close session, they would not go into close session. They would not be able to vote, but they would be there to listen to the discussion items and give the students perspective. Um, and so this will be the first reading of that. Um, if there's any discussions as to the pros and cons, concerns, questions, please let us know because that'll be a a a decision that needs to be made. and then two through seven. Um, as we've been going through some some personnel things and dotting eyes and crossing tees, my uh bookkeeper, my payroll bookkeeper brought to me these board policies and um they've not been updated for some time. It does say that they follow the contract, but if you remember our last negotiations with the SESPA, we've added insurance and so I just want to make sure that that these board policies are in line with what we've negotiated.
And as Dr. Simmers and and others have told us when we look at the additional collaboration time, the additional prep time, that's what's best for students. So, I I applaud everyone in their efforts and uh let's let's let's make this work going forward. So, I that was a long speech. See, you don't let me vote. I have to say something. Anybody else have anything else to say? I went first. Usually, I go last. No, I would just add this is going on around the state and around the country. Uh many schools did a total flip uh of elementary and high school. Uh we we worked on they worked on what best fits the Sen Grove community uh with that. There's even one school here in in the state that went to a 4-day elementary. Now imagine that. So uh kudos to coming up with a good thing that fits our community.
So, we'll have to have it installed and we'll have to have training. So, year one will be about what we've been paying for Galileo. After that, it will drop back. But in that process um one of the things that uh this company also offers is a program called uh fastbridge and that provides screening so skill screening and um uh progress monitoring in math and math and ELA both of those. So, if you remember when Jen presented our goals, our district goals, uh one of them was to find screening instruments for uh students so that we can figure out, okay, coming in, what are they missing, you know, what are skills that they're missing, but then we also want progress monitoring. So, we've been teaching and a student doesn't do well maybe on a benchmark or maybe doesn't do very well even on uh a formative test that's not the benchmark.
Um, and so I' I' I've got those there for the first reading. And then the last section of the board policies is board policy 7270, administering medicines uh to students. And and Dr. Gayy brought that one to us. You want to speak more about that one? Sure. So, I've been meeting with the nurses since the beginning of the year. Um, every quarter we've been meeting as a team to discuss how we are doing things am um in health at each one of our buildings. Um and reviewing board policy has been one of those parts because we want to make sure that if we are doing it that it's in our board policy and we have a policy to support it. Um one of those policies that uh Jan Turley brought to me and we started reviewing was the administering medicines to students. Undesated medications are in that board policy.
I I think the only other comment I have is I'm I'm glad to see that we're we're finally finding a solution to the early release on Wednesdays for the last decade that's driven me insane. Um and everybody who submitted comments, I think there was 489 comments and some of the material we got. And I I I know I and several of us, if not all of us, read all 489 comments. And um appreciate everybody's comments, everybody's input. Um I know this team here took all those comments very seriously. We and I think we cracked the joke. We're going to go to Roman numerals because, you know, as as this materialized, they were getting feedback. They were making changes based on the feedback. um you know that they were getting and and when they saw opportunities to refine that's that's what the team did and that's that's a sign of a good process and and great leadership when you guys are are willing to to do that and take that kind of feedback.
Well, the teacher really needs to know what's what part of this did they not understand because I, you know, I can give interventions. I can do retaching if I know which piece the student didn't didn't understand. So, um, this program goes handinhand with DNA. It's the same company, so they're really meshed together and, uh, and really meshed with our state standards. So, um, that program, uh, uh, is fairly expensive. It it costs about what Galileo cost us, but we were going to be looking for screeners anyway and we had that in the budget. So, uh so we're okay um to to put that screener in progress monitor in. How is this um the DNA benchmark? How is that um in relation to our state assessment? Is it is it pretty help? Well, it's very much I I I can answer the part that it's very much aligned with the standards and I can say to you also that the state uh has been making uh some identification of what they're calling what we used to call essential standards.
That would be like your EpiPen. Maybe you don't have a prescribed EpiPen because they don't know you have a high allergy but you go you have an allergic reaction at school. Um, as a parent, you would probably want to know that we had some epipens on standby in that case, but we also need a board policy to certify that we have trained individuals to use those undeed designated medications. It's the same with albuterol. We have undesated albuterol um currently and we don't have it in our board policy. So this review is to review that we are going to approve undesated aluterol based upon the training that our staff would receive. If somebody was to have an asthma attack without an inhaler at school, we would be able to give it to them to help. Um does that make sense? Um I will tell you and I'm just going on a side note here with CPR.
So um I'm not sure we quite made it to Roman numerals but we were getting awful close because we were running out of letters and numbers. So anyway, great job. Well, I would tell you that Dr. Taylor was really instrumental in taking all these ideas from our teachers and our the community survey and our administrators and and coming up with the you know there were probably maybe 10 12 different options that we had and just constantly being able to refine them and still meet the needs of of what our objectives were. And so he he was really good. He he can knows his way around the spreadsheet. I think you kind of tax the cell a bit on this one, didn't you? Any other comments or from either admin or board members? Thank you. Appreciate everybody's involvement. Thank you. Um, public comments is next on the schedule.
We know that there are lots of standards more than we can possibly have time in the year to teach. And so they've identified key ones and then the the assessments the state assessments starting next year about 60% of the items on the state assessment will be from that pool of items and the other 40% approximately will be from the whole standards. Okay. Um they can't they they would ruin the validation and reliability of the test if they suddenly changed the whole thing. Um but that's uh that's a piece of it and Jen can answer any of the other part. So um this the questions and the question types are aligned to the state standards. We have there's a couple options. They do have benchmarks that are already set. So we can give the three benchmarks and similar to what we were doing with Galileo. We found that also when we looked at the Pearson products that they had set benchmarks and there once again the yearly standards like we're doing but there's also you can your own as well.
CPR is another um part to what we have been working on as as a nurse team and we have so many CPR certif uh certified staff and I feel like we're really going in a strong direction. We're understanding how we're doing things at all the buildings and this board policy is another example.
I see that no one has signed up for public comments. I'm still waiting for our our favorite dog to sign up and come up and bark at us someday. So, Hopper, we we need to get a paw print or something. Two bars. Next, we'll go on to the consent items. Um, everyone's had a chance to look at them.
And so you can pick certain standards. It has an item name. You can choose them based on the um DLK or the rigor level. You can you can choose the questions. Um so they're very much aligned. It um also has what they call mimics. So at some point maybe we haven't figured out all the the timing logistics, but um it is like a mimic of the state of the state assessment. So it's the same blueprint um as our state assessment. Um so it would be very similar. So we could give that assessment to really see like predict where our students would be on the state assessment and use that to intervene. So Galileo you can pull questions um to practice if you will. Does this DNA have the same type of uh ability to do that? Yes. In fact, it's even easier. So, you can go in, you can choose your grade level, your subject.
So please let me know if you have any questions on undesated medications. All right. So administration would recommend the uh first reading of these policies. Um the key one that we're going to need to to uh discuss more at depth is is probably the school board. Um the the medicines also being an important one, but uh it's my understanding that if someone if we think they're an aniflaxis and they take an EpiPen, it is not dangerous. You can I mean it's not good to give somebody a things but it's not um but board policy does support that you have to be trained and that's what we have to make sure we're doing as a district as well to support the policy. All right, makes sense. So, so this would be the first reading in the schoolboard policy. First reading mentions the portion about having students as part of a board member or as a board representative in the in those.
Does anybody have any questions or comments on the consent items? Hearing no questions or comments. I'll ask for a motion. Mr. Pre, Mr. President, I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Thank you for trying, Mr. Russell. Thank you, Mr. Alexander. Thank you, Mr. Russell. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Opposed. The eyes have it. Thank you. Next, we're going on to uh our one action item for tonight was which is the organizational plan for Center Grove Community School Corporation Board of Trustees. And um in that, I believe, is this something Dr. Long you're presenting? Yes, sir. Thank you. So, I you know, when we have a action-packed agenda like we do, it's hard to to fit things in. But, um, tonight we have one action item, but it's a it's a required action item for the school board to take.
They have reading, math, science, and social studies, which we haven't done social studies before, so I'm kind of curious to see what those look like. But they um you can pick a standard and it automatically comes up with their test, you know, sample questions. You can and then you can just from that list pick which ones you want to include in that. So, they there's a lot of features. The the reports I think are a lot more friendly for parents. They have reports for students so students understand what their progress is. Um you can you can almost like AI you can give it a qualifier and then it'll sort the data based on the qualifier you want. You can sort it by standard. So you can really track the standard um a lot better per student. Um it even has a feature where if you were doing a test and you can monitor kids are doing, you know, on the test.
Okay. Then I attached the wrong document. Yeah, it took a while for us to find from ISB the document with the notes that talk about the student. Yeah, it's just what what's in the packets here does not I will email you the the the document. And then my second question on that would be how we how are we going to go about selecting the one student there. I guess Lisa, you probably more versed in this than the email that I I I sent out that had the link to the journal article and I'll find that and I'll resend it out. But it has on there some interviews and some guides. Yeah, I recall reading I'm just saying if we're going to establish a policy, we need to have our procedures to go with it as far as what what methodology we plan to implement. as I was reading through this um because you can have like up to two.