Sal so as many of you know what we typically operate with assistant principal and principal positions were the two panel interview system and it includes a wide swath of administrators and teachers staff members all of whom contribute to this vetting of candidates for the assistant principal position typically we require white writing samples and we have a pretty rigorous questioning policy in these panels and this year was no exception to that rigor it was a little bit different given the kovat crisis we collapsed into a single panel so fewer participants but none more enthusiastic ever than the panel that we had this year that also included our board member mr. D'Silva and some administrators and teachers as well so people who run the gauntlet here in danbury certainly have to go through their motions whether they are new to us or whether they are interims as our two candidates this year were and it was just a nice opportunity I think for each one of them to showcase their achievements from this year and before and so we'll turn it over to dr.
Kellis and all of the teachers that have been tireless in making sure that their students had an extraordinary experience and what is now known as the online experience it's been compared several times to homeschooling and I don't think it's anywhere near homeschooling because of the amazing staff and the excellent way that things were handled and all of the things that went on behind the scenes up into providing all the equipment and the computers and every schedule and every possible help that we could possibly have so I definitely appreciate you on that and mr. Leonard if I could just also put a plug in for all of our support staff and our administrators they equally did an extraordinary job and we could not have done it without their support thank you how much really I don't I don't think right down to the the general janitorial and the kitchen staff I don't think we could have done it without every single person pitching in and doing a little bit more than is normally expected in many different ways than they probably ever thought that they would be working so we definitely kudos to them and thank you for everything that you've done first this year and continue to do for us as we close out an extraordinary and different year for sure appreciate you and things for that update we're going to move on to d2 governing board updates all start had the opportunity to go to the Vista today and just record my brief section of what will be the alternative graduation so that was amazing and humbling all at the same same point I didn't realize how much I took for granted all the hard work that goes into putting all these things together as well as all the people that make the magic happen behind the scenes and help everybody in every situation that was amazing to see the people there and also just kind of reminisce a little bit on graduation and how it will be different but still very impactful for those seniors barring any of the government's changes and hopefully governor Ducey is in a good mood when he continues to allow us to operate and hopefully we can all stay healthy also had the opportunity to do an audit that was interesting but good I think we're it was a financial audit I think we're in good standing there and so completed that as well as it was good to see some some of the happy faces that I've missed so much by being socially distanced so it was good to run into some of the principals and administration at the Vista so definitely enjoyed that we'll go ahead and go around for the updates will start with gen Tanner do you have an update for us see here um not really just an update just an observation I I think I said at the last meeting I'm super impressed with our staff and how much that they've gone above and beyond to just reach out to students to help the families as much as possible during that time to give support and just try to help our kids feel like they're missed and and loved and I especially have seen some amazing things happen with our seniors I I really feel for them because I know so many of them want that traditional experience of a graduation and and kind of that last senior year that they feel like they missed out on and I really feel for them they never got to kind of go and just go this is my last day this is my last day I'll be with my friends at school and kind of had no idea what was gonna be happening and so I've seen some teachers staff go above and beyond to really try and help these seniors feel appreciated and help them know that their hard work through their public school education experience was not gone unnoticed and I just really appreciate those who have who have done that to help them feel like during this time when they kind of feel so separated from everybody to feel that inclusion and to feel still the love from their teachers staff and things like that so I really appreciate those in the district who have gone way above and beyond to help them feel that so that's all I have think you appreciate that and definitely echo that sentiment as well miss Densmore do you have an update for us um just you know for what what everyone else is saying about everyone going above and beyond having a senior this year that's been incredibly important to my family and just having that those extra special moments and and you know even more deliveries and sign deliveries and senior gift deliveries it's been absolutely incredible and the learning experience is definitely not stopped with Dysart so I appreciate everything that all of our teachers are doing and all of our staff are doing to make the learning experience continue through the end of this year so thank you amen thank you for that and let's go with mr.
Reese I echo your sentiments it was surreal watching employees with Ghostbuster looking deodorizers and wiping down everything in between but I was so thankful that we took all the precautions that we possibly could I even heard that some of our schools they're not even doing the cap and gown portraits which Lou coupie came and did portraits for us and they've only done a handful of schools already so we have done everything we possibly can in our power safely to honor these kids and I know that that's not what every parent can you know wants to hear they might not think we did enough but you know we can still just do the best we can in this crazy world we're in right now so and I just want to shout out too because there's so many unique cool ideas that have come because of these situations we have parent we have teachers doing virtual cheer tryouts and I mean dance places have opened up to have one person at a time do their routines so that they can still have a dance and they've just we've gotten so creative in the educational world to still honor students I know that Sossaman is now I think if they're doing their drive-by I think it's a drive-by excellence or something I mean there's just so many things out there I can't even keep track of what's going on at every school to honor the little kindergarteners and the sixth graders and the eighth graders and like I feel like we've gotten so creative and I'm just so grateful so thank you okay we're gonna move on to consent and I move that the governing board approves consent agenda items five point one two five point ten second I just want to point out on five point six we had Barrett financial give a $50,000 donation to wipe out all of our lunch debt and it came to fruition because an employee was just thinking what could we do he had a student here at Higley and they they forego their bonuses as employees so that they could provide that $50,000 and so I just want to again thank them so much on behalf of the board and our community and yeah that was a big chunk of change thank you any other questions or comments on consent mr.
Begich and mr. Jenson you guys have done so much for the theater program at the school and I just wanted to thank you for a great four years here we go this is Ryan Castiglione ass 2020 and I don't think every time at these past four years I've met some of the best people I've known and I made some great friends and I love them all and I miss everyone so much thank you I'd like to thank miss Shane back miss Chuck and miss Culbertson for creating and being a part of the amazing rural program we have here at we go it's thanks to incredible people like you that I've not only had the privilege of creating memories and having wonderful experiences these past four years as both a role mentor and/or director but that I've also had the opportunity to create a wonderful family whilst helping countless of others realize that they're not alone here at school and that we go along with his people has so much to offer thank you for believing in me and gifting me with the opportunity to even be director in the first place and although it's a shame that our final roar didn't get to happen I'm still super grateful for the time I got to spend as a part of the program and for the lives you got to touch because of it I will always look back and remember everything and every one of you fondly Haley though it's Erica class of 2020 I just wanted to take some time I think all the teachers and staff members at West Park Community High School I couldn't be any more grateful for all the bonds that I've created and I will never forget them I'm grace tourney class of 2020 first off I want to start off by thanking my Chicago community high school as a whole for being the school that built me and shaped me into the person I am today also I want to thank all the teachers and staff for standing my mind and making sure I was at my best everyday lastly I want to thank all my amazing friends for sticking with me these last four years in making high school one great experience thank you hey we go it's Maddy Mitchell class of 2020 just wanted to give a big thanks to all the staff and students who positively impact Romania that we go on it and thank all the friends that I've made throughout the years and I want to give a special thanks to miss genteel who's always going to go to girls since freshman year thank you I'm gonna miss you all hi we go it's Lexie certain class of 2020 I'd like to thank miss Akari for not only showing altruism doing these hard times but for always making class engaging and always caring about what her students have to say and I'd like to think we go as a whole for the best almost four years of my life this is Mark Begich class of 2020 I think you told my teachers out there hello all cats my name's Aaron Lopez from the class of 2020 and I have to say that my favorite ice cream memory was this year the last semester homecoming after-party it was just probably like the best party I've ever went to and yeah like to take all my teachers that helped me especially especially miss blue shoutout to miss blue there we go this is Oliver Bonilla from the class of 2020 I like to thank all my teachers that I've had in these past four years and if it making me the person I am today and my fellow classmates who guys enjoyed unforgettable moments and have just made this these past four years unforgettable all for a reveal Wildcat hey Wes Chicago my name is Joey Stewart and I'm part of the class of 2020 out of my four years of being at we go I've had so many great memories so many great teachers to help me get there I've been you and I hope that all the other younger students have great rest of their year as well and hope it doesn't end badly hey we go my name is Brandon Garcia class of 2020 I just want to say thanks to all the students and teachers for making Weagle such a memorable experience I wish you all the best in the future go watch it here we go my name is wen Jian I'm class of 2020 and I just want to thank all the teachers in the school that I've had and they love have in hand we're always pushing the students to be their best and to always be truthful to themselves no matter what thank you so much hey well kids my name is Dylan were at class 2020 and I just wanted to thank all the amazing people I met at we go during these three and a half years thank you for making it such a memorable experience and I wish I ruined the bus from here on out hey we vote Ricardo plus 2020 and I just want to take a moment to thank all my classmates and I want all teachers and all set that we go for an amazing three and a half years and I was nothing but luck and success for let's point hi my name is Nathan home and I am part of the senior class for 2020 I would like to take this time to thank one of the greatest teachers and the greatest people here at West Gago high school mr.
Louis University scholarship as well as the campus housing award Kane is a graduating member of National Latin Honor Society and he earned the per aspera ad astra Award for outstanding personal and academic development in the CHS Latin program Loren Brown Loren is a member of the National Honor Society and a tryam music Honor Society member Seth Bruesewitz Seth is a National Honor Society member and he receives the southwestern Illinois College top 20% full tuition scholarship Gregory buddy he receives the Swick platinum chef best utility team award logan Bittner logan earned a first rating for his ensemble at the IHS a solo and ensemble competition Logan was also named outstanding student in CP electronics Rebecca Burkhart she receives the Lincoln Trail college scholarship and is a National Technical Honor Society member with over 80 community service hours earning honor cords and a stole Edgar Calderon Edgar was named our student of the month for August he is a member of the National Honor Society he receives the Southern Illinois University cougar pride scholarship as well as the genetic Ailee scholarship he is a member of Mu Alpha Theta Edgar was a Hispanic Leadership Institute attendee he a Key Club cord recipient and edgar received an illinois seal of biliteracy in Spanish next we have Evan Kopecky Evan was named our September senior of the month he scored in the top 10% on the AC T he graduates summa laude from CHS Evan was named an Illinois State scholar he receives the st.
rooster okay I have nothing else thinking okay we move down to information do you have any additional information on say no so the board share personal report my report is very briefly the evaluation committee met on Monday and to discuss the annual evaluation process and given the challenges presented by the confident the closure and the tremendous time and attention involved in the move to distil earning we determined that this year it would be most appropriate for us as a committee to use the cap the cave's caps recommendation is superintending valuation firm as well suggestion that last year it was suggested last year and two to narrow the focus to four errors that are set forth in a superintendent post those four errors are number one family school and community partnership planning for growth number three accountability and organizational learning and I'm a for college and career readiness for all students we the committee so to decide that we are going to recommend a narrative can we just lose her looks like she's up there yeah Gladys Gladys sorry to interrupt your your your signal cut out about partway through that last sentence if you could just repeat it please actually Gladys your signal cut out right after you said college and career-readiness the last bullet if you can locate advance bullet was college and career readiness for all students okay so I have all four right and then there was one more sentence after that Gladys the board will be recommending a narrative this year okay we're gonna use water to form and we're going to be making it into a noun to end those four errors that I just mentioned and for all board members we all have the superintendent evaluation form and if you don't have a copy let me know and I'll make sure Carol gets a teacher mark so you can have a time to look at it and digest okay secondly I just want it all thank the committee members you know coming out and those chairs Jill Britton had a committee meeting wait you had a committee mean and thank everyone for putting forth and having board members the committee expressed their concern next the last thing I want to say I want to appreciate everyone because I believe we should work together and I know some people don't like to be called them at last minute and I think Rachael and I had talked to Kate earlier and I asking you to please read your information and if I call you ask you to make a motion it's just have everybody participate so that's my only thing okay and it's not gonna be the same people all the time this is a new year one do something different and I want people to participate okay thank you if I don't have anything else I entertain a motion to adjourn second the motion who made a motion I said so moved okay okay thank you all so very much have a good night everybody have a good night thank you you
Saul that's how you who they are we start Westside no school this is Jennifer with this but Jennifer certainly she serves currently as the interim assistant principal at Westside she had worked with us as a language arts specialist for a four year where she did work with social affective development of students both intellectually and socially as I mentioned she was responsible to the building principle for literacy administrator to coordinate the program with them and she during that time demonstrated great knowledge for diagnosis and intervention acceleration of students probably that she worked in in Hartford she was interim principal at her book schools from February 2018 to July at Thurman Milner school she also was the assistant principal curriculum instruction literacy at the Hartford Public Schools from 2013 and she left and came with us and in that role she as you imagine she was really not what I call just dealing with the student deportment but she worked as an instructional leader which led her I think into the positions that she has now where she's been a great resource to tour district into the principal I'll let dr.
Hoyer think though I echo the comments that everybody has made especially what miss des Moore just said as far as those special moments I know that having a senior and being with them during this difficult time that is a special moment that you'll be able to talk about for years and I know it's a little bit difficult for all of our families but everybody has stepped up and worked hard and they will remember this for years to come so congratulations on everybody across the board I just wanted to say that I had finished up with the four or five remaining CIP presentations the school's continued they diligently they continue to be excited about the progress that they've made and also what areas that they need to focus on to be successful for the next year we all know that this was a difficult time to monitor everything but it was they know what they need to focus on for next year attended a couple of webinars of course they all relate around to the kovat the relief funds there was even one that was creating a digital content and one of the folks that was on this was our former director of public relations act fountain and this had to do with engagement during the köppen 19 so that was an awesome thing to sit through and I just wanted to give a shout out to Ryan McGinley he continues to do a fantastic job with videos and if everybody hasn't seen the Dysart hero heroes tribute to our wonderful staff members they need to see it it was great and Ryan the camera do continues to do an awesome job that is a lot of talent right there and that's Thanks and save the best for last miss Richard um everybody's pretty much kind of expressed my sentiments so just to just to briefly recap again just very appreciative of our our staff members our teachers everyone who again unexpectedly came together and just built this whole online experience kind of talked about building the plane as we're flying it so a lot of appreciation out to our employee groups but also just wanted to thank our entire Dicer community even just outside of our district operations because really this whole community I mean the whole state really but our just speaking in our community you know we've all felt the impacts of this Kovach 19 and you know from our our business owners you know our our government officials our retirement communities everyone has just reached out to to support one another and to support our community again even like what we're seeing with the adopt a senior program that's really taken off and I sit as well just complete strangers helping one another and it's so heartwarming and it's been so wonderful to watch and be a part of and just finally wanted to give a shout out to our seniors and and to all of our students really I mean because they've we talked about how difficult and the challenges that we've all kind of had to overcome building again this at home type online learning unexpectedly we've built it but these students have had to endure it and it has not been easy for everyone and they continue to persevere and do the best they could so from all of our even our youngest little learners our preschoolers all the way through our seniors good job all of you and just so proud of all of you that you made it we're where we finished up the year and we all did the best we could and I think some things should go to our students but again back to our seniors just again they've been doing a lot it definitely wasn't the typical senior experience but I would say from what I've seen and heard our seniors just really approach to these circumstances with so much maturity I just couldn't be more proud of them and they've they've really taken this unexpected turn of events and in stride and remained future-focused and just kind of continued to persevere and push through and so I just wanted to really say how impressed I am with them and want to wish them all the the successes that they deserve and they work so hard for and congratulations to the class of 2020 don't let it end it did you have something else awesome that's a great way to end it thank you so much for that implement and perfect ending to that section so thank you for that all right let's go ahead and move on let's move on to a one I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda consent agenda items as presented second was that miss Pritchard yes excellent motion made by J Leonard so I can invite mr.
Glover thank you madam president just two things 5.9 I just have to make this comment that we all have to make in the in the hopes of educating our public so this is a screening testing of students policy I'm not arguing against the fact that vision testing is good for kids but you have the state government mandating something and and again not giving any money to get that task done and furthermore I'm I often hear people to cry you know how much we spend on administration but administration that the notion that that conjures up is that you have principles driving mercedes-benz you know and it's not it's all going to those administrative costs but this vision testing is it is it as an administrative cost and so we just have to keep that in mind I think when we talk about administrative costs and continue to help educate the public so I just every time if something like this comes up I will continue to to voice that and then the second thing is item 5.10 and it is a modification for the evaluation process and as you guys alluded to earlier we're finding out that some of the things that we thought were important aren't important or as important as we thought and there's things that we're learning about how we could do better and be more efficient so you know I just want to say a couple things about our evaluation process one I think I think we should I think we have agreed to at some point look at them more carefully I think it should be done before contracts are issued I think that should be a goal of any evaluation instrument I'd like to see them simplified I'd like to see them focus their support for young and new to the profession teachers and teachers who are struggling and could improve as opposed to may and and making it easier less work for qualified veteran teachers that we know are doing a good job I think our PLC's help all teachers work to get better and so you have PLC's but then you always had evaluations so how can what what redundancies are there that we can and possibly eliminate I think there's an opportunity to offer multi-year contracts for veteran teachers that are that are doing a good job and so we don't have to spend our time and effort and resources on them because we know that they're doing a good job and we can focus on some other people that we need to keep in the classroom that can improve and spend our money where it will move do the most good some of the instruments that exist across this nation are very cumbersome for the the person being evaluated and the person that is the evaluate or so making that more simplified and streamlined would be good I'm not sure that doing full-on or even we have we have something that it's a little bit less but it's not as less as I would like for some of the folks who are well anyway doing an evaluation a comprehensive evaluation for every employee every single year is really not going to have the desired effect we just don't are the people who do the evaluations don't have the time to to really do that effectively so I hope it's something that district administrators school administrators the HEA and our teachers can get together and endeavor to improve as time goes on Thank You mr.
James Wallace there is unending commitment to our music program Thank You mr. Wallace [Music] and we go on Michael and Felice senior class of 2020 I just want to say thank you to all my teachers and my friends for making this one of the most memorable years of high school and one of my favorite memories this year was tdawg winning homecoming king all right introduce myself my name is Taylor McGee the homecoming king one that got that award but I guess for my senior I like to think the teachers wanted it to be more but you know everything else sure we only gonna do something though even no problem over we say thanks for all the people that stay true to me since you know pioneer those are the oh geez but also the people that weren't switching up to me back when I was just growing being myself you know [Music] [Applause]
Louis University vice president's tuition scholarship as well as the campus housing award heaven receives the National Merit Scholar letter of commendation he also took first place at the IHSA Regional scholar Bowl tournament he is a member of the National Honor Society he scored in the top 10 percent on the SAT Evan took first place I CTM regionals on the calculator team and he is a Mu Alpha Theta member next we have Logan Carlisle Logan graduates laude from CHS he is a National Honor Society member and Logan receives the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville scholarship as well as the purple pride scholarship next we have Antoine Catchings Antoine receives the st. Ambrose University scholarship he also receives the Freeman pollard diversity award he is a Xhosa honor cord recipient and he received an illinois commendation of by literacy in spanish next we have brett Cates brett was named our Student of the Month for November he receives the southwestern Illinois College top twenty percent full tuition scholarship Brett was named an Illinois State scholar and he is a senior international thespian society member with honors we have Christina cheese burro she is a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 2020 scholarship recipient as well as a housing scholarship recipient Christopher chai Chris was named our September athlete of the month and he receives a scholarship to Missouri Baptist University Cassandra Toma she was named our student of the month for September Logan copper Logan had perfect attendance for all four years of high school Marysol Cortez Marisol was named to the Swick platinum chef best utility team Naya Crockett Naya is a National Honor Society member as well as a try em music Honor Society member she took top ten hos estate 2020 winner in Community Emergency Response Team Naya is a Xhosa honor chord recipient she received an illinois commendation of by literacy in Latin and Naya receives the Loyola University Damon scholarship next we have grace Crowe grace scored in the top ten percent on the AC t she receives the Daughters of the American Revolution good citizen award she will be graduated magna laude from CHS grace is an Illinois State scholar she is a National Honor Society member she receives the Illinois State University Presidential Scholarship as well as the legacy scholarship she also receives the collinsville Education Foundation Scholarship grace was also the DAR essay contest district winner and she is a member of the Spanish Honor Society Delaney Dalton Delaney is a member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society Delaney also receives the Illinois commendation of by literacy in Spanish Kaitlyn Daniel Kaitlyn receives the Murray State University Dean scholarship as well as the Jules Harcourt scholarship and the racers give award scholarship and Kaitlyn also received an illinois commendation of by literacy in Spanish Elizabeth Denny Elizabeth receives the Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville aim high scholarship and the housing scholarship she is a Xhosa honor cord recipient and she is a national technical Honor Society member next we have Sydney drum Sydney is an Illinois State University red bird academic scholarship recipient she graduates magna laude from CHS and Sydney is a member of the National Honor Society Gabriel Duncan he earned first place in photography at the Illinois junior classical league south convention third place on the Latin three mythology exam at the Illinois junior classical league north convention and Gabriel received an Illinois commendation of by literacy in Latin next we have Carly Durbin Carly was accepted into the Millikin University Festival Chorus Laurent Gela Dini Laurette was named our February athlete of the month Julia Eversman Julia graduates magna laude from CHS she was named an Illinois state scholar she is the 2020 recipient of the Illinois junior classical league Louis Dion scholarship she earned second place on the Latin three vocab you exam at the Illinois junior class colleague south convention Julia also took first place in t-shirt design at the Illinois junior class colleague south convention as well as first place on the upper level vocabulary exam at the Illinois junior class colleague north convention Julia took third place with her team at upper level certamen at the Illinois junior class colleague south convention and 5th place in upper-level charts and maps at the Illinois junior class colleague north convention as well as 5th place in upper-level small models at the Illinois junior class colleague north convention julia also earned 5th place on the upper level grammar exam at the illinois junior class colleague north convention julia is also a graduating member of the national latin Honor Society she received a magna laude certificate on the Latin 3 prose national Latin exam and Julia received an illinois seal of by literacy in latin paul fall b paul scored in the top 10% on the AC t he will be graduated magna laude from CHS he is a member of the National Honor Society and an Illinois State scholar and Paul receives the South Western Illinois College top 20 percent full tuition scholarship amaya Farley amaya earns the Eastern Illinois University full tuition Presidential Scholarship as well as the transforming word scholarship and the my family scholarship amaya was also named our student of the month for January Loren Fortner Loren receives the southwestern Illinois College top 20% full tuition scholarship she is a Key Club stole recipient Lauren also took first place at the i HS a regional scholar Bowl tournament she is a member of the Spanish Honor Society and Lauren received an Illinois commendation of by literacy in Spanish next we have Kaler Frank Kaler receives the Ohio University trustee award and the Ohio pathway scholarship next we have SEBI Franklin Sadie is a member of the National Honor Society she is a Key Club Skull recipient she is a German National Honor Society member and she is a Xhosa honor cord recipient next we have cierra Frazier cierra receives the South Western Illinois College top 20% full tuition scholarship daelin fracker daelin graduates laude from CHS Jessica frisbee Jessica had perfect attendance for all four years of high school and she earned an associate's degree at southwestern Illinois College Joel Garcia Ramirez Joel received an Illinois commendation of by literacy in Spanish Tyler garner Tyler took third place with his team at upper-level certamen at the Illinois junior classical league south convention he also took 2nd place on the Latin for Roman life exam at the Illinois junior classical league south convention Tyler is a graduating member of the National Latin Honor Society he received a magna laude certificate on the Latin three pros national Latin exam he is a Latin Honor Society recipient of patches and pins and Tyler received an Illinois commendation of by literacy in Latin next we have Payton Gepard Payton receives the Greenville University Panther preferred scholarship she is a Wendy's high school Heisman school winner Payton receives the president's volunteer service award as well as the Delta Epsilon future educator award and Payton is a recipient of the K Hawk strong Frederick John fierce Memorial Scholarship cadence Gillespie cadence receives the southern illinois university edwardsville cougar pride scholarship hey-zeus gomez hey-zeus is a member of the try em music Honor Society grant Goodson grant was named an Illinois State scholar and he receives the Northern Illinois University scholars award next we have Celeste Hager Celeste is a top ten Xhosa state 2020 winner in nurse assisting Celeste is a Xhosa honor cord recipient and she receives the Fontbonne University merit-based scholarship our next senior honoree is elise hall Brooks Elise graduates magna laude from CHS she is a National Honor Society member and she is a Key Club scull recipient Elise receives the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville cougar pride scholarship she is a Spanish Honor Society member and Elise receives an illinois commendation of by literacy in Spanish Madison Hall Madison receives the southwestern Illinois College top 20% full tuition scholarship she is a member of both the National Honor Society and the tryam music Honor Society and Madison is a national art honors society chord recipient Alexis ham alexis is a member of the National Honor Society she is a recipient of the Murray State University deans scholarship she is a Spanish Honor Society member and she received an illinois commendation of by literacy in spanish next we have Kayla hancher Kayla receives the University of Missouri at st.
Lebon can now talk a little bit about her and then we'll go to the next game congratulations there Jennifer Frank thank you dr. South so it is just wonderful to have Jennifer blue as our official assistant principal now she comes to us with such a wealth of knowledge and I think you know for me personally it's such a great complement to my skill set in terms of our instructional sharing she manages our humanities departments while I mentioned stem Department said and that work we do together especially around helping students accelerate their learning she's got such great strengths than that and I think that's a huge value she's made such positive relationships with our students and our parents and she's such a welcome part of the Westside family and I look forward to many years working with her congratulations Jennifer Jennifer get online [Music] here she goes oh nice background where'd you get that where'd you get that background can you hear me won't say anything would you like to say let's say thank you very much for this opportunity I I enjoyed my job so much at Westside it's just a wonderful community and I feel fortunate to be working there so I'm honored and grateful and look forward to the upcoming school year about this dark cloud of virus over us but we'll manage we're gonna manage we're trying our best so I thank you very much thank you thank you congratulations okay and next over at Broadview middle school she we have Shelley Rinaldi and Shelley currently serves as the interim assistant principal and she's been responsible for doing evaluation doing collaboration curriculum facilitating the professional development prior to that Shelley did work with us in the era of literacy and ela curriculum she really personally created our intervention program maintained it was giving us a lot of information for making decisions for youngsters so that they were being placed in the right programs get the assistance that they needed and when we had an opportunity to look for someone who could help in terms of the structure of a middle school understanding child development and had such a wonderful curriculum background dr.
Pritchard let's go ahead and vote still waiting nope you've got yours never mind way to find that button Jen alright motion passes thank you let's go ahead and move on and we are gonna move down to g1 information item and we're going to talk about policy governance board monitoring adopting policy section 12 education agency relations is dr. Castellano still here yes all right and crotteau will introduce this item good evening president Lambert member to the board superintendent calcine cabinet tonight we continue on with monitoring our policies in tonight is section 12 and we do not have any changes to propose this section at this time shorten this week you get extra points for that I appreciate it and do we have any comments from the board ok I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the confirmational re I was getting a little excited there all right we'll go ahead and move on to G 2 G 2 and that's a summary of the meeting and conference session dr.
Glover I think we've all learned that less is more right now in this pandemic that we have been able to continue to function and do a lot of things but less of them so yes thank you for those comments all those in favor aye aye motion passes 5-0 okay we are going on to our well this is just our monthly six point one monthly financial report any questions for mr. Hollin this morning we're gonna be hearing from him in a little bit on another budget item no questions okay dr. Foley is going to update us here on the updated calendar for 2021 school year thank you yes so I have a quick update for you on our calendar committee based on our conversation that our last meeting I took back the governing board's feedback particularly around middle school parent-teacher conferences PD the month of September and October where our end February we're needing to be reevaluated so if you'll slide to the next slide I'm happy to provide some feedback so following our meeting on Wednesday morning met with our middle school advisory group with our administrators to talk through the feedback so that we could bring a recommendation to the calendar committee the following week one of the things that we decided was really important looking at the data on the number of parent-teacher conferences we decided that we wanted to recommend to the calendar committee to keep the fall ones because those were utilized really well and that knowing that that that time was something that we felt was really important to have at particularly with that transition obviously moving it back and keeping it so it was at a time was more important where we had more information they wanted to keep it there the other thing we talked about was consistency based on the feedback you had provided on making the Thursday the later evening Friday you'll notice that these no longer backup to a three-day weekend so that there's some consistency between those parent-teacher conferences we also decided to for the month of September we kept the early release for the middle schools for this reason the hard part is the way we're doing the professional development elementary and high school there's isn't highlighted out because it's an every Wednesday thing keeping them consistent particularly with a break so that they had that PD we wanted to protect and keep it just so happens that that next year in that month is September with Fall Break falling at the end of it September is going to be an interesting and interesting month but we also decided that moving or taking away that time made middle schools just a little bit less and we thought that was not the best proposal so we decided to bring those recommendations to our calendar committee who then reviewed that and felt that that were some good recommendations so next slide so we made those revision updates that was a fabulous feedback in fact it led to some great conversation with both the middle school administration and teacher team and the committee and then we made the adjustments to the following calendars with that feedback so that that's what was updated for those calendars next slide what we did then was updated the instructional minutes because that put back some instructional minutes for middle school so that when we took a look at it it was more accurate so the way the calendar kind of crumbled next line and no change was made to the professional development so the thing we again feel really good about is the equity at the secondary level for professional development for our teachers in unique ways but consistently across and something we're proud of next line I just want to tell you again how much I appreciate the members of this committee again multiple perspectives were represented here including mrs.
Louis Chancellor scholarship as well as the honors college scholarship she received an illinois seal of by literacy and spanish she graduates laude from CHS and kayla is a member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society Mitchell Harris Mitchell will be graduated summa laude from CHS he is a National Honor Society member he was named an Illinois State scholar he receives the collinsville Education Foundation Scholarship as well as the st. Louis College of Pharmacy Dean and athletic scholarships he receives the st. Louis College of Pharmacy founders leadership scholar award he is a Mu Alpha Theta member and he is an association of the u.s. army scholarship recipient Isabella Hendler she is a National Honor Society member and a recipient of the southwestern Illinois college scholarship Hanna Hermann Hanna graduates laude from CHS she is a National Honor Society member Hannah a division one rating at the IHS a solo contest for a flute performance she is an Illinois State scholar she receives the CHS band directors Award for outstanding achievement Hannah is a member of the tryam Music Honor Society she also earned third place on the Latin for derivatives exam at the Illinois jr.
Thomas said hmm what shall I do and I'm gonna let her talk about Shelley right now honestly Shelley is well bombed and every principal looks for someone who can fill the weakness whatever area weakness and her strength and intervention and being able to look at students at different angles is some we're gonna definitely need that broad view and she just has a great disposition nothing seems to faze her every morning it's almost annoying because we meet at 8 o'clock in the morning and she's got a smile on like a tagline one and just smiling and in return I think this has been a great position for her to be filling so we're real excited and not only that we're excited at the middle school level because we have two amazing assistant principals that are joining us and I think it's gonna make our team extremely strong show you there thank you show you them Shelli isn't here I'm sorry shall we had a family emergency so she did tell me to let you guys know they should really appreciate it and she thank you very much for the opportunity she is so thrilled to be in a one place in a building and she just wants for me to just reach out and say thank you that's it thank you bubbly participation there is no public participation as well right according to my agenda we're looking at the consent calendar first we looking at the consent counter yeah that's next yeah and then then employee rep okay so okay you want to make the motion for the consent calendar yes Thank You Gladys I'll make a motion that the Board of Education approves the items on the consent calendar exhibit 20 - 47 through exhibit 20 - 49 as recommended motion made by Kate could I hear a second Al's got his hand up there animate 2nd emotion any questions concerned emotions seeing that could we do Mancow okay told to do okay so I'll do a just a roll call on that yeah roll call just the Britain who's all Rachel she Leske Kate kinetic I laughs Cooper hi Lauren Daly aye Joseph DaSilva hi Catherine Hodgson i richard Ginelli Kathleen Molinaro Albert Rousseau I Ami's Polina thank you the motion is terrible thank you employed represented you know person Cooper can we let the parents know I met the parents and the students know that it's okay for them to leave yes I'm sorry excuse me right okay the students we just want to take this moment to congratulate you all and we appreciate you staying on but you also just wanted to let you know if you left that's also okay but we thank you guys for being part of the meeting and I know we also have some schools student rep so if you guys are hanging around we're looking forward to hearing from you okay cool Oh Thank You mr.
Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet the meet and confer process is a way that the district has enticer for probably over 20 years has worked with all the different employee groups to make recommendations to the governing board for employee salaries and benefits and Ken Hicks will introduce this item and share what the recommendations are good evening mr. president remember dr. Kellis colleagues and community members I'm very proud here to present our IBM recommendations - first it was all right can I just check in and hear me any better yes you're much clearer thank you good so first I know we talked a little bit about the process but I would like to thank all those people that participated and so we have a list of all of our team members that were part of our IBA team this year and I would also like to think renamed Costa she's not listed on this but she did provide a training course of one-day training who take that was also very insightful and hopeful as we get some new members on our team this year and so I'm really thankful for the training but I'm also very thankful for all of these people for all that they do they dedicate their time themselves to the district to the progress I get emails throughout the whole time so I just appreciate everybody buys in and is all in on this process so thank you to all of our participants just a little bit about the process and dr.
Wilson who was on here representing the governing board and as a parent of an elementary an incoming middle and a high school parent so again we had great conversation and dialogue and I think a lot of difficult conversations that are bringing our proposal to you so we are comfortable today bringing these recommendations to you for consideration for approval thank you dr.
classical league south convention she is a Mu Alpha Theta member and Hannah earned first place in three dimensional models at the Illinois junior classical league south convention Hannah also took second place in girls costumes at the Illinois junior classical league south convention she receives the Florida State University scholarship she is a graduating member of the National Latin Honor Society and Hannah received an Illinois commendation of by literacy in Latin next we have Tyler Hill Tyler was named our student of the month for March she is also a senior international thespian society member with honors Morgan Hoffmann Morgan receives the southwestern Illinois College top twenty percent full tuition scholarship and she was named our October athlete of the month Chloe Hoffman Chloe was named to the Swick platinum chef best utility team bailey Hollingshead bailey graduates magna laude from CHS she is a National Honor Society member as well as a member of Mu Alpha Theta Bailey is an Illinois State scholar and she receives the southwestern Illinois College top twenty percent full tuition scholarship and ICT M outstanding performance in AP statistics next we have Jacob Holton he graduates magna laude from CHS he is a National Honor Society member and a recipient of the collinsville Education Foundation Scholarship he is a Wendy's high school Heisman school winner and a recipient of the Southeast Missouri State University copper dome scholarship and he receives the Redhawks Achievement Award and the Residence Life Leadership Award Rebecca Howard Rebecca graduates magna laude from CHS she receives the Spring Hill College presidential scholarship award and is a member of the science National Honor Society Rebecca was named an Illinois State scholar she took first place at the IHSA regional scholar bowl tournament she receives ICT M outstanding performance in AP Calculus BC she is also a member of the Spanish Honor Society and she received an illinois seal of biliteracy in spanish mackenzie hunter mackenzie earned an associate's degree at south western illinois college she receives the Murray State University deans scholarship as well as the Illinois Grand Prix scholarship Andrew Hilton Andrew was appointed to Illinois State Senator jason plumbers Youth Advisory Council Katie Janis katie is a Xhosa honor cord recipient next we have destiny Johnson destiny scored in the top 10% on the AC T she graduates summa laude from CHS she is a member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society destiny receives the McKendree University Honors Scholarship she is an Illinois State scholar she receives the ICT M outstanding performance award in AP Calculus BC destiny was also named our September athlete of the month and she received an illinois seal of biliteracy in spanish heizak johnson isaac was named the outstanding student in criminal justice Melanie Johnson Melanie will be graduated magna laude from CHS she receives the Murray State University Provost scholarship as well as the collinsville Education Foundation Scholarship Melanie is an Illinois State scholar she is a senior International Thespian Society member with honors Melanie also earned second place in upper level mosaics at the Illinois junior classical league north convention as well as first place on the Latin three vocabulary exam at the Illinois junior class colleague south convention Melanie received an Illinois commendation of by literacy in Latin melanie took first place at the IHSA regional scholar bowl tournament i CTM outstanding performance in computer science Melanie is a member of Mu Alpha Theta and she is a graduating member of the National Latin Honor Society Hunter Jones Hunter had perfect attendance all four years of high school Zachary Jones he earned a division-one rating at the IHSA ensemble contest for a saxophone trio he receives the CHS winter guard Spirit Award and he was named the outstanding student in automotive repair hunter yang all Hunter scored in the top 10% on the AC t he graduates laude from CHS he is a National Honor Society member he is an Illinois state scholar and he scored in the top 10% on the SAT Hunter receives the K hawk strong Kelly Liljegren Memorial Scholarship he earned first place I CTM regionals on the calculator team he is a member of Mu Alpha Theta he receives ICT M outstanding performance in computer science Hunter receives the Donald J and a will de P Mathews endowed scholarship he is a Spanish Honor Society member Hunter received an illinois commendation of by literacy in spanish he receives the Missouri University of Science and Technology groundbreaker scholarship the S&T Achievement Scholarship the honors Academy scholarship and he receives the dr.
Watts good evening everyone I hope everybody is doing well tonight good it's good to see everybody and see all of your happy healthy faces tonight I am wanted to take a minute I'm gonna do this a little bit teacher style so when we write report cards we always start off with all the positives that we want to talk about we couch in a little bit of the things that we want to work and get better at and then wrap it up with some positives so I want to start out with some really amazing positives that I want to tell you about our teachers continue to show their commitment to the community through their volunteerism their outreach and their generosity and so with this pandemic going on and a lot of our union sponsored events that were canceled we wanted to take that money that we weren't using on some of our events like our retirement end-of-the-year teacher celebration dinner and we wanted to put it toward a cause that would benefit our students and our families so our members took a vote and they voted to donate five thousand dollars to the community which all went to combat food insecurity in our community we donated a thousand dollars to the Connecticut Food Bank we donated a thousand dollars to the Daily Bread Food Pantry a thousand dollars to the new American Dream Foundation to continue the meal program on Saturdays which has been so successful and then we voted to donate two thousand dollars to the Broadview pantry and I just want to give a shout out to this group of teachers that has been doing amazing work at Broadview they were doing amazing work year round making sure the needs of their students were taken care of by setting up a little boutique in the school to provide food items and sanitary products for the students that needed them and hygiene products they were doing all this wonderful stuff before this happened and then the pandemic struck and they knew that they had families that really needed some support so they wanted to continue the program but the program has actually taken on all new legs and what they're doing is feeding approximately I think they're up to 35 families now on a weekly basis and it's a really an army of teachers not only from Broadview but from other schools as well that are shopping that are collecting amazon food orders that the community has donated and their dry these packages that they put together to students homes on a weekly basis making sure that students have bread milk eggs and basic essentials for them I I do need to mention that one of our wonderful paraprofessionals that broad the Laura Hollis actually really played a huge role in this because she donated the greenhouse Halas farm property in which she owns to make sure that all of the packaging and all of the food items could get sent there and it's sort of as kind of a distribution spot for all the teachers to collect and socially distance put these packages together so these are the kinds of stories that you know kind of warm my heart and show all the things that teachers do and to go above and beyond and show our staff dedication to help our families in need so that's some really good news some more really important good news to share was is that teachers are becoming increasingly proficient with their new technologies they're taking new risks to apply their new learned technologies and your strategies to their Google classrooms and they're taking risks to use all these new things like screen sharing and little little tools that we've all learned how to do in this pandemic to make sure that their students are getting the benefit of good quality instruction they're improving their engagement strategies and teachers are now beginning on mass to implement synchronous learning techniques which involve live meetings with their students and this is something many many teachers had been doing already but now it's going to be something that's going to be moving forward going to be part of our weekly routines it's very important and we need to make sure that we're connecting with our students to improve the social-emotional learning process make sure our students feel connected with us connected with their community connected with their schools so these live meetings are going to be serving as a really positive step forward in our distance learning plan so that was that was something that I really wanted to make sure that everybody understands the hard work that we've kind of put forward to make all those different phases of our distance learning plan come together and this is kind of the last crucial piece that we're going to be working on for the remainder of the year and holding on to all that new learning in case we need to use it which I'm sure we're going to in the months to come for next year moving forward I want to just talk a little bit about something that Commissioner Cardona said a few days ago when talking about returning back to school in the fall he said a return to normalcy will have to be a marathon and not a sprint and he also discussed of how it's not going to look anything like any of us are used to with that in mind I really want to implore and caution the board not to fall pressure to rush to return to school without a thoughtfully put together plan that makes sure that safety is paramount and that safety is the focus of our employees and our students I know that there's going to be a lot of push from outside sources and community members and you know statewide a push to maybe move forward and if we're not quite ready I'm imploring you to make sure that our plan is put together and don't fall victim to that pressure we want to make sure our students our staff are not sacrificial lambs just to jumpstart the economy our health and safety is the most important thing and you know we can't have quality learning and quality instruction if we're not healthy so we need to make sure that that is the focus I know we have a team that's put together to study the re-entry and I just want to also make a request while I'm part of that team I want to request that there are other teachers and actually all building stakeholders or district stakeholders employees at work that will have a voice in putting the plan together you have an incredible breadth Lake brain power that's collective and putting that rain power together to work on up we really need to use those resources for our safe return and I think that it's very important that you tap into the ideas and the experiences of our staff members I've already had many many emails from people offering suggestions collectively moving forward our state union has a set of guidelines that they're going to be really emphasizing for the going back to school process which includes things that we've already heard in the news and that we've talked about comprehensive testing for our staff members potentially our students as well contact tracing and track tracking of the virus requirements and this is really important a requirement for making sure we have everyone that comes back to school is wearing protective equipment district provided protective equipment is something that we're going to need to discuss moving forward we'll need to make sure that the district protocol for disinfecting and sanitizing is put into place and that the district has the funding to continue to do that while we still need to do that it's not something we should be you know falling short and worrying about back ordering of products it's something that we have to be prepared for and that we have to have it in place in order to restart school there are a lot of other items that you know we'll be talking about in the weeks and months to come but I just wanted to kind of put that in the mindset of the board of knowing where we're coming from that you know obviously safety is paramount for all a couple of things I think that our teachers are voicing we need to get better as a district and I don't think anybody would disagree about that is how we're reaching out to our families to make sure all of our students are engaged and some of our students who we have not been able to connect with or reach or bring in to the day to day distance learning process on the collegiate level we need to make sure that those contacts are done in an efficient manner my example for this would be currently teachers are making the predominance of all the phone calls to parents and the secondary layer would be guidance counselor's and PBS staff as we move forward we're gonna need to really utilize all of our employees to make sure that they're all reaching out and connecting with students and it's not just the teachers we're also providing instruction also providing you know writing new curriculum and - that's going to be distance learning appropriate teachers shouldn't be the only ones doing the heavy lifting with the parent communication so we need to come up with a plan district-wide that that improves upon what we're currently doing I want to just also talk about very briefly I know it's budget season and being that teachers are doing this extreme heavy lifting to make all this work happen I want to make sure the board is going to continue to support them by making sure that they have the resources and financial support to continue to make all of this happen we as a district we know this swirling short-changed here in Danbury and now more than ever we need to increase our educational funding last September ranking 169th we all know was an absolute disgrace but right now that disgrace has turned into an emergency and we can't continue we can't afford to fall further behind them we already are we've got to make sure that funding is priority and that you know we're we're shouting to all the people that are going to listen statewide in our in our community that ensures that our students aren't shortchanged and they get all the resources that they need I told you I'm gonna wrap it up with some positivity that was all my my couch things that we need to work on I have to say and I will give a shout-out to dr.