Yeah. Or she lost lost their balance. Took a knob to the head there, you know, those high locker things or whatever. You never know. Get wild out there. I'll never forget when I was high school principal, the uh it's probably like 4:30 in the afternoon and the custodian came to my door and so we got a problem with a locker. All right. The lockers have pre-drilled holes in them for the old combination locks that we would put in screwed in. But we didn't do that. We gave them padlocks and the kid stuck his finger through the hole and couldn't get it out. Ah, we' call the jaws of life. Cut the lock. If you want to see the locker, those old school lockers would stop a train. And so Jaws of Life to get the kid I'll never forget watching the boy like this where this massive thing is trying to cut the the locker off his hand.
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So uh first we're going to you're going to see me twice. Um this first one is for a survey that we're um we give every two years. It's for board policy 6.195 in which we check on students uh participation and extracurricular activities. Um we also ask about their interests and also possible reasons why they may not be involved. So for this survey um several years ago we gave the survey separately. Um we started combining the survey because um when we gave the survey separately we had about 350 students respond. Um and as you can see we have 2,675 responses from students this year. Um we had 2,683 last year. So it's pretty consistent. Also number of family responses last year was about 430. This year about 700. Um and staff uh was went from 318 to 295. So all of the numbers are pretty consistent.
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Thank you, Chris. This is a great school improvement plan. Um I think overall it reflects uh certainly Quinn's needs, but also um the collaboration with the other elementary schools is certainly uh shown here. My only question I have is I'm just curious as to what was the reason initially why Swiss was abandoned. Um and now we're looking because you were using at one point I'm assuming and then um I think for us we were trying to find a balance with Swiss data along with any data you're inputting. It does take time. Sure. Um, so when you're inputting the behavioral data and the setting and the time and that, you know, we were trying to see is there a better way, a more efficient way than Swiss. We really weren't sure. We were trying to kind of figure that out and come to find out we haven't found that.
There's a bird walk for you. I think that's our segue. Yeah, we don't do that. Yeah. Um Okay. Any other uh questions, concerns on this one before we move on to the regulations? Got lots of questions on that. Yeah, we may not be able to answer. Um, so the regulation just kind of outlines a a tiered response system. It's a regulation to consider. Um, well, regulation we don't really it's up to you, right? Yeah. And this is just something that we're talking about. Um, a tiered response, you know, I I think progressive discipline generally makes sense. Um, but I've never been a big fan of saying it has to be first response we do this, second response we do this because context matters. Circumstances matter. And so I just share this with you because we are looking at some of the regulation around this and when we resolve that I'll I'll kick it back to you just so you can see what it is.
One of the first things that we do is we ask students about their participation. Um those of you that have students in the district, you know they're heavily involved and that doesn't mean just in a district 99 activity. So we do ask a range of questions. Um the very bottom, yes, I'm involved in the current club or sport. Um 896 from North and 933 from South indicated yes. Now that is of the 2,675 students that responded. Remember we have about 4,600 students in the district. So this represents about 56% of the students across the district. We do have a lot of students who are involved in club sports. If you follow IHSA, I know there's something going through right now that would talk about students being involved in a club sport while also being in a school sport. We'll see if that passes, but right now students who are involved in club sports during that season, um they're choosing between one or the other.
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We think Swiss actually is the better way and that's okay. Um, so I think we tried something new kind of homegrown just to see um, we kind of shared it out with who we felt needed to. So there were some benefits of having kind of a Google doc that you could see in live time and kind of go back to. Sure. Um but at the end of the day, I think it was more the data collection and analyzing the data that Swiss just does so much more for you. You know, you can print out those reports, you can look at um kind of the data that it gives you and you can go to a meeting and have these great discussions where it's a little bit harder. It's more work to kind of do that when you're just looking at a Google doc. So, I think we decided that we wanted to go back to that and we had the uh the blessing from Mrs.
I mean, this is pretty serious stuff what they're talking about in A, B, and C. And then they're they're saying that we you could potentially allow it to happen more than three times before a kid is expelled or again, whatever. I think context matters. You know, the way I mean, that's pretty serious. Clearing classroom, physical violence. Uh, yeah. I mean, that's like stuff that can show up on the news. If Sparky's, you know, a first grader throwing a chair or kicking a chair around the room because they're throwing a tantrum and I clear the room, that's different than Cletus, who's an 18-year-old senior kicking a chair around the room. Well, yeah, I was going to ask about like a mental health uh situation or, you know, a few years ago we were talking about um restraint, right? Right. Like that kind of stuff. We still engage.
So those students would not be participating with us. And also, we just have students who don't want to be participating after school. They're in um jobs. uh they have responsibilities outside of home. Um also there's a lot of students who participate um with their friends in either a band or they're gamers. Um and you'll see that in some of the other responses that come through. We also asked them if there's any sports or activities that they would like to see. Um I embedded two sports that are coming next year already to see if that students would indicate other um other interests. Uh we you can see though um once flag football and boys bowling came up on the roster there are a lot of students who are interested in that and so those responses were simply like I can't wait for flag football. Um competitive uh foot sorry competitive pickle ball and boys flag football also came up.
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Dianio to do so. So, we're very grateful for that. Great. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Dr. Steven McGuire, did you want to make any comments? You know, I just I I hope the thing that excites me and I know I'm so excited that um Dr. Thomas and Mrs. why I feel the same way and other school folks that are involved in in develop the developing the school improvement plan is that the district's strategic plan is driving the school improvement plan. And because of that, it's not about checking boxes or making it easier, but it's about making it make sense and not having those documents that literally just sit on shelves. And we want to be able to talk to, you know, our educators and our community about what the work is that's what's actually happening and then what's the impact of that work. And and as we move forward and we work through the strategic plan, we look forward to coming back to the committee and having the conversations about what the impact of the strategies, the initiatives and strategies have been on student outcomes and on on obviously how our teachers are feeling about the resources we're bringing into the district that they've helped select.
Yeah. So, like I to keep kids safe from hurting themselves or others um on occasion. Uh not something that happens frequently, but when necessary. Uh and typically it's with students who have um significant developmental disabilities um who aren't really doing it as a conscious act per se, um but more as a response to a stimulus. Uh so yeah, we're in the process of reviewing that. So I'm sharing that with you. Um, so is this meant for general ed students because there's a whole different set of things that we were just talking about there. Yeah. I think that's why we want to probably tailor this a little bit differently. Yeah. Um, and generalize it a bit more and and be conscious of the fact that context matters. Um, so that's why we want to take another look at it. Just so you know, this is more of a This is what we were getting.
I highlighted them in yellow. We do have pickle ball clubs at both schools currently. And the reason we don't um have flag football is because we already have football for the boy sport. So girls flag football is the partner to that. Surprisingly, boy bad mitten came up as a top getter. Some of the responses were I'm not interested in boys bad mitten, but the guy next to me asked me to write this down. Um so of those 66, it's difficult to tell um how many of the 66 are individual students who would participate. Um but that is a sport that is beginning in sort of a club level up north. Um oftentimes when you see something hit Stephvenson and new career eventually it trickles down to us in three or four years. Uh we will see how that goes. Um and the next uh survey that we ask um that might be a sport that comes up.
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So, we I'm very grateful for how well it's been received and um and thank you. Thank you everybody. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I don't have any questions, but good work. Um and do we vote on this now? Separately from Yeah. Okay. So, uh looking for a motion to approve this motion to approve the uh Quinn Elementary School improvement plan. Second. All those in favor? I I against unanimous. Um and next up, the second school improvement plan. Uh Mr. Rossi. There he is. Mr. Rossy and his team. I see all here.
This is what we were getting. Yeah. And we will. The second page is talked about PPTs. Yeah. You can overregulate as far as I'm concerned. What? You don't need You can put too much down in life. Yes. And then the third If it ties your hands, this is exciting. Yes. This is the third and exciting final reading. um of this iteration. Now um this is in essence what we've doing now. We've really focused on enforcement of this. I think there's still room for growth there, but we are way better than we were. And I say I would say at the high school level, uh the students are way better than they were, but it's an ongoing effort uh to try and police that. Middle school are night and day, and they've been great. Um because I mean it's it's a smaller building. There are um the students are developmentally in a different place than our high school kids are.
I also highlighted HOSA. Uh we have a HOSA at North this year. At South there is a medical professionals club that is starting for next year. Um and so those clubs are um active. So it's nice to see that students are looking to get involved. For this question, we asked families uh if they're satisfied with what we offer at school and how do they feel about communication. You can see that about 95% of the families um rank it a three, four, five. I do want to point out the math. You might be thinking, how can that possibly add up to 100%. We have multiple families with multiple grade level students. So, you can see the 83% um in the fives. The student uh parents who responded to the survey that were very pleased about the activities that we have. Um they have multiple students who are here.