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ralph it's your last game bud now we got it up on the scoreboard there we go now we got it right should be 14 though there we go now we got it right stoney on what could be his final game he's been doing it i believe he said since the 2009 season is what he thinks it was he used to be winners right yep it was mr winner john winters he had the perfect voice for it didn't he yeah he was here whenever his son brian was quarterback stoney took over after that and like coach horner had said there's guys that just show up and he doesn't even have to really worry if they're gonna be there or not stoney's got the voice and he's got the boys to be the spotters and clock managers for him so makes coach horner's life easy the chain gang same way four guys over there always dependable same way he doesn't know who's going to show up as long as there's four guys he doesn't care and there's always four guys here for him i also heard coach horner say before this game that a couple of these referees this is a crew that's that's coached a lot of uh or wrecked a lot of state championship games at the ihsa championship level so uh pretty pretty nice to see some of these referees out here um roughing this game but it's nice whenever what you have we got one two three four five reps out there so um it's nice to have i i ihsa is always full of great refs and um i know i couldn't be a referee i don't know about you but that's definitely a business that takes it takes the right person because um it's definitely a tough tough spot to be in whenever you have fans barking at you coaches barking at you players barking at you so um definitely got to give credit to a lot of these officials out here on every every night running clock 707 remaining columbia leads it 49-14 after this play we will go to peyton westfall and aaron two-train to round out our senior class for this evening dominic vaglion at quarterback going to take the hand off give it to jarvis he's going to go up the middle bulldoze his way through for about nine yards and this is westfall and 2 train what they have to say i'm peyton westfall i'm number 40 and i'm thankful for my family hi my name is aaron teutrain number two on columbia football team i'd just like to thank both my grandparents for being there for every single home game and that does it congratulations to the class of 2020 sticking through this goofy year 21 sorry the goofy year the goofy season you made the best of it and you're gonna get a win on your senior night second down in one for the eagles vaguely gets the quick snap he runs hard man as you can hear the fans they like it too they appreciate it they see it [Applause] fun you start thinking about a player of the game here i heard mclaren's name a lot tonight i don't know about you but on the defensive side of the ball mclaren and schroeder were two guys that were stepping up and making tackles forcing everything back inside which was a big key to the game tonight um forcing them to pass the ball and stop on the run which is what we've we've done tonight so we don't know i don't think a post game though i think we should go schrader oliver schrader okay first intent for the eagles in oilers territory i'll probably start getting set up here in a minute high snap handled by vaguely hand it off to jarvis who's going to gain four so like i said the 21 seniors are gonna leave a void you just hope that you leave the program the way better than whatever you got here and uh like i said the adversity that they had to face this year you're coming you're following a very successful season last year as well and uh losing a lot of seniors and these seniors step up had one returning senior on the offensive and defensive side of the ball so in that was london little so kyle jackson there too yep a lot of spots that were filled and done greatly motion man here is number 34.
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going forward on fourth here here we go could get the ball at midfield yeah we'll see what they run you gotta think this one's either going to hoffman or he's going to throw or he's going to roll out and throw if i'm a betting man he's going to roll out survey the field and make a decision that's right i don't think they're gonna be sweeping this one nope maybe a little play action so here we go fourth down spartans trying to force a turnover biggest play of the game thus far for the men in red and they go off the gut and a stick made spartan defense comes up big [Music] east middle at the stop turn over on down first down into any sloan meadow sticking with becker on the quarterback spot here how about that just what the spartans needed huge play huge my feet are absolutely frozen it's going to be one of those painful thought outs too yeah it's going to be there like is this is pain or even just a hot shower it just doesn't help you're not even going to feel it no becker takes a snap looks throws complete mojon it'll be good for four second down six to go with under four minutes to go quarter three how would a score here be mike it would be good nicely put yes yep you're welcome thank you that's why they paid me the big bucks here by big bucks you mean free admission i mean yeah i wouldn't be watching this game if it weren't for el cap and becker there's a quarterback draw he is sticked at the marker looks like he will be close enough we'll see if they give it to him let's see what kind of move the referees are in yes sir roll the chains yes the man in the stripe says roll the chains and that's what we'll do first down 10 to go big play by shane becker who's trying to muscle his team back into this one [Music] three minutes becker he's gonna roll out to his left this time he'll hang on to it and a big block there by kalodi becker with a good piece of yardage he's gonna have i think another first down mike becker the freshman is not by any means afraid of any contact those last two plays he's tried to truck a few kids and seems like he's gotten one or two yards on or after contact both plays you know devin i do not like his blue cleats though i'm going to be honest mr becker if we could change those up at least for next year maybe they're sentimental you don't know and it's a pass complete to manning only good for about one a little extra there from the lancers referee's gonna let him play [Music] two minutes and eight seconds left on the clock here for uh quarter three but you gotta think four down territory given the timing aspect of this one absolutely i am chilled to the bone yeah no it's it's a cold one yeah it's not warm no it's not i apologize for going wait did i find no that's my folder i thought i found the roster for a second which i think blew away when we were warming up which is a shame becker oh dj khaloji does third and one they didn't give becker the first down now it's gonna be fourth down and two four thousand and three did he lose one he may have lost one fourth and three wow good for you thank you as much as i would like to see cj field goal attempt here i think coach morsino's want to know what i enjoy conversions on forums yeah yeah you know what let's stick with that i was gonna say fire and heat but my toes would take a little bit man we do take for granted yeah yeah we are very blessed and becker it's a pitch and mojo firing it downfield it's a trick play yes pass is complete oh my gosh this one may be coming back might be a hold mojo not seeming too thrilled what a play call this one is indeed going to come back how about that call ineligible receiver down field is that what i heard no can't be that didn't seem possible on that play cj calogy field goal i mean i wouldn't count that out he has a foot he has oh you're right i can kick it it was ineligible down field yeah no it's kind of a silly call i don't know how that happens on that play no i feel like it was designed like that anyways we'll redo it shane becker ball don't lie fires and it's intercepted going the other way the lancers and so just like that momentum the opposite direction interception doesn't necessarily hurt more than a turnover would have though no yeah what's going on [Music] and this time it'll be a give and a good gain [Music] we are not happy not thrilled wow i don't know if you guys can hear the wind humming in your warm homes i'm sure it's here yeah i'm sure it sounds cold feels cold did we mention that it's cold to the viewers at home for those who are tuning in now it is [Music] and it cold be the end of the third quarter 26 13 is our score end of the third quarter 2016 as ours 26 13 is our score you're watching sword football live on [Music] cats trying to get fired up with the tom petty i don't know if it's gonna happen i could use some of that wow it is cold red sox game unfortunately was postponed oh wow my aunt sent me a video of fire that wow something that would be nice seems very enjoyable i don't know if if she's trying to rum it in or i don't know regardless thought that counts we appreciate it unfortunately it's not going to translate through this line um however you're you had a nice tweet yesterday about the red sox red sox day games make school days way better yeah no i couldn't agree more honestly even though i lost yesterday no i didn't no tom petty being issued for mr macarene can i have a conversation with him a little puzzle you know it's cold when friction doesn't help just numbness all right we got to stop complaining about the cold although it is cold i i will not stop complaining at the end of the second period bruins uh with a two goal lead over the new york islanders who they've had trouble with all season but last night with a 4-1 win now they're up 2-0 anyway so it'll be first and five in casablanca i believe we'll have enough for a first down here is the clock not running now i don't know what's going on with the clock just added eight seconds now it took away three huh yeah i don't know there's some witchcraft going on let's just because it's cold hoffman with room fires end zone wide open touchdown longmeadow someone in the parking lot is happy for the touchdown mourinho i believe was the last name on that touchdown as i said earlier roster blew away um while we were warming up so apologies currently 32-13 if i'm a betting man i'm gonna say after this next nap it'll be 13 to 33.
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he's gonna take it in a cut-up field and he's gonna gain four yards and bring up a third down in [Applause] go one ryan morton it's great to see some of these guys that don't really get too much action it's great to see them get in the game and because every time that you look down here every every given night those guys that don't get much action they're always on the sideline they just love being a part of the team and love being a part of the game um so it's great to see them get in here and seeing london little and adam webermeyer and mclaren and all these guys cheering for them as um they're getting a little time to shine number 33 week is the sniffer back jarvis is gonna follow a week he's got a first down and he slips but not after he's gonna move the chains and give us a fresh set of downs with three minutes and 40 seconds to go in the ball game [Applause] j rods headed down to get oliver schroeder tonight's player of the game a quiet kid that we have said his name a ton this year stepping up as linebacker and that sniffer back [Applause] doubles for the eagles we sniffer back to the left side jarvis is the running back in pistol he's gonna go downhill try to cut it to the outside where he's gonna be bet by number five who lays the wood elijah's jarvis on the carry tackled by josh franklin number five gets up jarring a little bit after the big hit the official's still going over to him it's always a good thing whenever you don't talk about the officials as they've had control of the game all night tonight and as jared said getting into the state championship caliber officials they've done a great job charisse the motion man he's going to get the toss gets up the middle and he's going to get four yards brings up a third down in being a roll three yards on the plug kaczynski comes on 14 spencer and poultr comes off great career garrett poultry third down and four just under two minutes remaining in the ball game columbia fans showing up and staying tonight on the brisk evening hand the ball off up again to jarvis he's going to gain a yard they blew it dead before the fumble very close to a first down like just short fourth down and one fourth down and a we'll call it two first down and the game is over [Applause] like to thank you all for listening once again we're gonna have some cool things in the future as we hope i've had text all night tonight listening here listening there hope you're back again next year with us [Applause] vaguely on the handoff to jarvis he's gonna get it first down columbia elijah jarvis on the carry picked up and that should bring out the best formation in football [Music] [Applause] 30 seconds on the play clock 40 seconds on the game clock so we will have to take a snap to finish this thing out great camera work tonight watched a game we watched central and salem and their guy was zoomed in so close you couldn't see anything and then they zoom in even farther so great work columbia takes a need and that'll do it 49 installed wood river oilers 14.
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oh hopefully you're not a betting man good thing i'm a good thing i don't gamble um maybe a fake it is cool and incomplete yeah good thing you don't bet yeah wow this is quite the uh little photo up here on this blanket that we were gifted for the game rob gronkowski is keeping me fairly warm i think i'll just the person that's keeping me warm is not necessarily a good human being anymore he was grunk or necessarily a human being any now he was gronk's counterpart in the early 2010s run he was the other tight end a weapon of tim tebow's florida yes not a very good dude anymore but he's on the blanket he's keeping me warm so former connecticut president and you come no he played for uconn for a little bit i think and then transferred no he listened to he was tim tebow's wife in that florida but that's okay i think he transferred no no transferring he may have transferred from uconn to florida but he ended up in florida at some point and that ball gets by mojon he's gonna have to recuperate and he fumbles that time i believe this is gonna be recovered by island meadow 11 11 devin make a wish i wish to be warm there you go this guy is shivering in front of us wow yeah no i i feel could use a little bit of offense here from the spartans um 32-13 our score at this contest i'm gonna make a prediction here that uh mr johnny ferentino will have quite a pickup on a passing play so i can't wait to be proven correct [Music] first down east saw metal from their own 20.
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big round of applause for columbia eagles that'll do it for senior night as the eagles win it 49-14 they improve to five and no four in one rather after the week five victory jared's gonna get set up with schrader we will have a post-game interview with oliver [Applause] hahaha oliver you got me down there good game tonight good career you finally got into the end zone tonight we've said your name so many different times on the defensive side of the ball it's pretty cool to say your name on the offensive side of the ball as well [Music] farm for another rushing or were you excited when he said hey we're going to blast past this here [Music] good deal well congrats again on senior night good victory once again and uh you got one more and end your career on a high note well thank you enjoy tonight and enjoy the victory thank you [Applause] we're back here we're back here with the post game conference now you hear the eagles say blue pride and it's uh once once you say it that one time it's blue pride for life and seniors come off the field for that final time with a 49-14 victory that'll do it for us tonight there are a ton of people that make this production possible every friday night and that starts from administration mr reeves coach horner as the athletic director and it moves its way down and mr nickerson does a great job making sure this production on our end goes well he gets students to run the cameras me and jared up here in the booth he's got a whole system set up for us and wouldn't be possible without all these people chain gang we've mentioned them pa announcers stat guys howie buddy and sharkey we can't do it all without you we will see you all next season we won't have a broadcast of this caliber next week at alton marquette we are unable to make it to that game so we will be back next year hope that you're back with us the game will be streamed one way or another that will be on east alton's streaming devices for next week so that'll do it for us tonight columbia wins it 49-14 improves to 4-1 on the year and they'll have one more game next week as they take on the alton marquette explorers on saturday afternoon and that will wrap out the 2020 season thank you all for listening and we'll see you next time [Music] you
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[Music] first down 10 to go 11 11 in the game it is 8 46 and it's a pump fake and a run for robodoo calling out blocks he'll have enough for the first and he's forced out of bounds might be a late hit go play there by rolling did you say flag no oh 16 yard run by connor roberto first down east long meadow [Music] once again we'll take the snap the clock is i don't know what is going on we're having technical difficulties off the wazoo tonight there you go and robadoo forced out fires almost intercepted intended for mojon special weather report it is dry ish no rain coming down from the heavens i can't believe i almost didn't wear a sweatshirt under this i would probably ran through your brain when you were like no i was like i was like i'll be fine no no i do have pajama pants underneath the sweatpants i'm feeling pretty good [Music] really just the toes nobody will take this one on second and long and it's going to be an option play he'll keep it himself and only get a couple mojon wanted the football didn't get it three are game [Music] third third down seven to go and robadoos pass is intercepted flag on the play i believe that's after play though so this probably was not coming back in the spartans possession interception on the play oh first goodness i believe a 15-yard penalty there on the lancers post interception 1002 to go we still have a lot of loyal listeners on the stream yeah um much appreciation and this one and a stick made three spartans among them among them or was mctaggart i believe no wrong wrong answer man where did that roster blow off to unclear that's a shame [Music] taking their time nine minutes 20 seconds left in not only the quarter devin or the half but the game [Music] flag on the play could be on the spartan tier neutral zone infraction is my guess [Music] oh just time nope i believe just a timeout timeout longmeadow and we'll get a timeout long meadow that was very uninspiring chant unfortunately spartans seem out of it you can't let that happen in a rivalry game they trail by 19.
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no but you want to still see that fire [Music] [Applause] cold and i give this time i believe that's casablanca trying to create some room and he'll be very very close to the first down marker third down and one third and one you heard it there under nine minutes now thank you for joining us on this blisteringly cold evening at east long meadow high school devon dobeck alongside mike moynihan hello spartans trail 3213. lancer seem to have gotten the first down on that they did indeed michael [Music] 7 55 and ticking down lancers with a 19 point lead over east long meadow and it's a pitch play to mard gain some speed until he's eventually stick down good tackle there but a solid game by mard before he was hit you can't feel good to have cold metal hit you in these conditions no god no like imagine the kickoff team who goes out there once every 10 minutes after freezing on the sideline and then just ramming into someone that can't be a good feeling no these kids are bred differently really give some respect to uh i don't know like aaron rodgers just like why would you ever play in green bay for as long as he did like [Music] and this time the give will be good for a first down and plenty more six minutes 40 seconds left in the game that isn't fact i almost just said i almost just blended fact and accurate i'm just yeah you know what mike hoffman throwing deep down field touchdown it's gonna be number four again just a nice ball mike you know what cold brain syndrome might be a thing i think so you may have been experiencing it a little bit when you were telling me that it wasn't a thing not an inaccurate statement hold on the play against longmeadow wow so this one's coming back so that negates the throw and catch by longmeadow [Applause] oh my goodness [Music] 6 15 to go it feels like 30 degrees according to the weather app and often fire is complete won't be enough for the first but more than half gained back james mclaughlin on the reception it'll be second in about four or five played by 35 landon five minutes 46 42 40 seconds left that not a pass that was a pass so [Music] and tackle made there we'll see where they mark it it'll be enough for a first down first down on the play release longmeadow 17.
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[Music] first down 10 to go under five now remaining in the game and mard's gonna break this one out and extend longmeadow's lead it'll be 38-13 17-yard touchdown run by 23 sam mard [Music] wow i'm sure that sounded cold oh my goodness like when did we when it is it was i was wearing short sleeves yesterday like what is going on well you were wearing short sleeves yesterday i don't even remember yesterday my it is just frozen like i sometime this week i was wearing shorts tuesdays well honestly sundays [Music] firing end zone touchdown longmeadow [Music] there that makes the score 40 to 13. yeah or yeah i'm yeah it was a two-point conversion i forgot about the mard touchdown of course um 40 to 13. four minutes 50 seconds left here oh my goodness the game you know i'm gonna stop complaining because any of you spartan football fans for the past decade can understand that the thanksgiving game of 2018 yeah 2018 thanksgiving football game between the spartan sponsors in which hunter mazza had an unbelievable run it was 11 degrees it was i was in with wind so it was shockingly cold i will never i can't complain because we experienced no i'm still going to complain but literal literal rocky mountain weather that day on thanksgiving after the spartans had previously lost to the lancers in the western mass game correct game correct [Music] and this one is received trying to cut outside as long ago ducking through a few hits breaking a few tackles until finally he's forced out of bounds returned by number preston longo 440.
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smart offense looking to go back to work here oh my gosh i'm gonna use the umbrella as a wind blocker oh smart that's innovation that excites accurate no nissan no i can't even press the button my finger is so cold that's okay can i get there from mr billback after saying he wouldn't do now better looks fires down field looking kaloji intercepted number four has been all over the field he's got a few touchdowns interception he's having a great game [Music] my wind blocking contraption is not doing a terrible job however my legs are cold oh yeah four minutes and 31 seconds left on the clock expect the lancers to take advantage of the run game here and it's a run this time right up the middle starts trying to free that football [Music] four minutes remain in antarctica where the spartans decided it would be a good idea to play football game against longmeadow lancers in this type of of weather and this time give we haven't seen number eleven thank you auntie kara for reminding me that it's cold i kind of forgot for a second and i did not but she did remind me and this time not much there three minutes now this is like this is like the excitement you get coming into new year's eve right here this clock counting down because yeah let me tell you i am i am cold yeah yeah i would i'd be okay with no more stoppages in time i don't think they're gonna run it are they i mean i think they're gonna run i can't think straight and another give this one will be close to the marker carry my number 11 tommy he is will davoy he is 80 right there right there next to mr 69 wow look at him william j sharp is he see a freshman that would be a correct answer gold star for you mike thank you you're welcome you get three of them you can trade them in for for what for like a bigger gold star or a bag of gold fish i would okay i'll take like the snack size bag that's fine no can i get the milk carton no how many gold stars is that it's gotta be at least ten now ten dozen no ten dozen 120 gold stars dude work with me here i do love my curtains of goldfish i might have to rip open one of those are you talking about the mini ones or the monsters no the mini ones but there's a monster one no no poor yeah dude i haven't had a goldfish in like goldfish ever a phenomenal snack so here's a here's a million dollar question mike as we close in on a minute here i'll call this play and then we'll we'll leave it open all right and hoffman i believe victory formation nope he's just going to charge up the middle uh for a first down yeah it was fourth down um mike yes million dollar question which i think you've already answered but goldfish or cheez-its goldfish a million times out of a million i see i'm going to agree with you there sometimes sometimes i'm in a mood and i'm like wow cheese it like sounds really so you know what it is for me is i'm never in a cheesy mood but sometimes it's not for everyone oh well no let me explain sometimes i'll come across a cheez-it and i'll pop my mouth and then i'm in the mood so i've always have to be initiated by a little bit of a cheez-it to get into it under 30 seconds and now we will get a victory formation long now we'll take this one 40-13 mike final thoughts yeah um spartans definitely were in the game for a little bit there um unfortunately things didn't start going their way and then i didn't quite fight back as hard as i could have i believe so something to take into the uh to the next week and see see what we can do here and they take home the battle of the metals battle of the meadows trophy on east long meadow turf that can't feel good hopefully that sticks with them for next year that trophy will be going back to longmeadow high school westfield game i will be back on the call um i believe brennan mclaughlin will also be making his debut um so looking forward to that one up in westfield be sure to tune in but on behalf of all of us uh jamie on the camera mike moynihan and myself devin dobeck the voice of the spartans we'll see you next time final score 40-13 stay warm everybody thank you you
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okay good evening let's call to order will call please nancy kepko present mike davenport here dan nicholas here carrie pavisic here rick pavenato here joanna vazquez drexler here zoe boyd and sam thank you we have a quorum to stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay well we have a pact agenda so i'm going to try to be like an auctioneer and speak quickly first i'm looking for an approval of the minutes for the march 15 2021 business meeting the april 12 2021 work drug meeting and the april 12 closed meeting joanna terry thank you very much second i oh i'm sorry dan i'm sorry dan was the second dan was the second thank you so much correct okay thank you joanna vazquez drexler hi dan nicholas hi terry pavich aye rick pavinato aye mike davenport aye shaw fellow on the minutes thank you and nancy kupka i'm nancy popkin i apologize sorry okay this brings us to uh this is our approval which brings us to us our first reception of visitors public comment uh there's two opportunities for comments for the audience this first uh is intended for audience members to address the board about any agenda item on which the board will vote anybody wish to address the board seeing none do we have any comments uh none that are related to action items okay we'll move on to the recommendations report of the superintendent the 2020-2021 school update all right so uh the not much we were back last week so not much has changed in a week we continue to move forward with the full in-person plan contact racing continues to be a major effort with the rules that are there you can see between last week and this week it's a total of about 400 students that have been identified as close contacts we continue to follow the guidelines as we must that are provided by the idph i continue to advocate along with other superintendents for at least closing some of the inconsistencies and logic that appear in those those guidelines however we have no right or authority to make changes to those on our own but we'll continue to advocate for changes i'm also serving on the isb superintendent advisory committee we had a lengthy meeting last thursday night i do believe that isbe does understand the concerns of superintendents school districts and parents in returning to school next fall however i don't know what the outcome of those recommendations or guidance will be and we're also told that there's the the guidance we will receive as it has been all year some of it will be from illinois state board of education but we'll also get additional guidance from the illinois department of public health we expect that that guidance will start coming out towards the end of april and then student vaccination options we were able to with our good friends over at fenton open up an opportunity for 200 of our students to get vaccinated their first dose last friday there's another round that's going through woodridge right now and then we heard from dupage county health department today that they're going to start allocating a tray of pfizer doses a week to high school students so that's 11.70 a week 1 170 doses they've ordered all of the schools in order of free and reduced lunch percentage and that's the order that they'll distribute them to so we are eighth on that list in dupage county however uh schools are and we are as well are working to acquire vaccines for through other means other than dupage county health department so right now we're looking at nine weeks out for when we would receive those but if we're able to acquire them through other means or if other schools are able to and then we move up on the list that could come sooner and then they dupage county health department reminded us today that their site is now open to anybody including our students over the age of 16 and they only distribute pfizer there so we'll remind our students that they can go to the dupage county health department site and get vaccinated or you know obviously many national pharmacies are providing a variety of vaccine options so that's what's going on with return to in person any questions on any of that i'll just say uh the you know the the e-logic some of the illogical things that we're dealing with right now i appreciate you trying to push for some sensibility there you know the 14-day quarantine versus the 7-10 that the rest of the world's doing the you know the the the contact tracing the three versus six feet that sort i mean some of these things just don't make a lot of sense and i know that there's a lot of frustration in the community and i and we're we're feeling it too but i want people to know that there's we don't have a choice with with with this um you know this is what what's being dictated to us um otherwise we might we might think about these things so i appreciate you advocating and trying to push for some change here so yeah very much so thank you thank you mike yep all right uh next item uh support staff association contract extension earlier this year the support staff approached us and said this year is a little crazy if you haven't noticed so rather than enter into a full bargaining process we'd like to talk to you about a one-year rollover they have agreed to on your rollover at 2.8 percent which falls within the district revenue stream which is the parameters that we tend to stay inside of for all the work that we do no other changes in language were made it's a one-year agreement so then we'll actually go into a full bargaining process with this group next school year we appreciate you know their their work for us and respecting the world that we're facing right now and the administration recommends to the board that we approve this later on this evening any questions on this draft board protocols this came last week we've had a week to look at it president kupka made a wording suggestion a slight revision that was made in there the document that's there represents that change what was that hank because i tried to look it's uh it's one word and i can't remember the third bullet was was something like we want to understand our individual jobs and and uh collective responsibilities and i had to change do we want to fulfill okay okay our individual jobs thank you i would have had to look it up so we made that change and sees the request so although the board doesn't make recommendations in bor or the administration doesn't make recommendations and board work um this is an action item later in this meeting for the board to approve the next one this came was last week this is back again this week for approval and the concept is that all in-district tuition other than drivers education would be covered by grant funds this summer a combination of a variety of grant funds that gina has pulled together and rob had pulled together out of district tuition would remain at 420 dollars per semester and this is also up as an action item later this evening and the administration recommends approval of it any questions on this one all right many of these are returning from last week so right uh south high uh south high school title one school wide waiver this is our title one funding that gina organizes and puts together uh the whole plan along with ed and to meet the south high needs really the goal of this is as you can see supporting academically high risk students and meeting the needs that south high has if you have any questions about this i can pull gina up to answer them otherwise you know this comes back every year at this time looks like none all good all right the administration recommends approval of this later on this evening this one i'm actually going to bring gina up to speak about a little bit because this is pretty exciting and a new grant that we've received so i'm going to turn this over to gina to discuss a little bit here good evening it's definitely on now stand back a little bit so this is very exciting so last summer we were awarded by the illinois state board of education the education pathway grant which is designed to promote students to go into education and hopefully diversify the students the teaching candidates that we have and so we were awarded our fy 20 funding and fy 21 funding at the same time for just over 135 thousand dollars and our cte department chairs have been fantastic they've been working with this they've really done the lion's share of the work i can't say enough about melissa damen and pat fardy as we've worked through how we're going to use those funding to support our education pathway and as you know we already have courses which culminate in introduction to teaching but we've done some great things so far with the funding and we're hoping that the board will approve the contract with high-res um productions for a video and website but what we've done so far i want to share a little bit with you we've hired a part-time education pathway coordinator who has already forged relationships with five in-state universities we are in the process of developing a mentoring program for our students who graduate from district 99 go on to college into the field of education for mentoring beyond district 99 so extending that when they're in college we are in the planning phase of a kindergarten camp this summer that would be free to kindergartners where our students will be the teachers and our teachers of course will supervise the entire camp we've also purchased some supplies some supplemental supplies for our early childhood care class child development class and our introduction to teaching courses so we are very excited to get promotional materials available we're not just doing the video of course with website brochures all kinds of materials out there to really spread the word which is the goal of this grant so we're asking the board of education to approve the contract with high res for twenty thousand five hundred dollars i'll give that a quick question is the video is it going to be used for the the teachers or the staff to recruit them or just it's for for students and the community and even beyond that and our teachers will be part of that okay as well as some of our students thank you thank you all right and this is also an action item up for approval later on this evening all right next i'm going to turn it over to mark in the third quarter financial report okay there we go so um we actually are tracking very well compared to budget um we have a few things that are unusual here this year on the revenue side we are getting sr funds in fact we received our first payment i believe is just under 300 000 and this is to be used for helping cope with the covet and the issues the educational issues that we've had and help us improve our either facilities or just [Music] purchase services to increase the learning or take it to take advantage of that money for uh closing the gap that that we all think has happened because of the covet and the way that we've delivered it been able to deliver education for the last year but we have on the revenue side it's pretty clean if you see the projection property tax is 100 collected replacement taxes better than expected so those should come in better than expected which is a positive for us big monkey in the middle there is 10 million dollar bond proceeds and typically it's not really reflected in the operating funds on a normal basis that's one time bond issuance kind of messes up the percentages in terms of amounts collected but it's it didn't change it too much there interest income we're going to fall way short of that 400 000 target that was optimistic and expecting hopefully for some of the inflation to finally take hold in our economy which it hasn't yet so we're still seeing interest rates that are below one percent uh no matter what we try and do and everybody's fighting for for those that one percent um so most of the other items food services weighed down as you can see and that's that's a something that we anticipated and for our a lot of you know jury etheridge has done a tremendous job with the community service of getting food dispersed in coordination with districts 58 and 68 and the the esser money is helping to pay for that part of it as well because we're not we're not charging food but there are costs we're paid to chartwells um to produce the meals and we have an action item coming up a little bit that before the renewal of that contract with chartwells but i'll get into that differently they were they really were good in helping us with this effort so we have registration fees are down we decided not to charge any athletic fees that's really the only thing missing there that's going to be stay down other local revenues that's right on target federal aid is a general stated another that's where the sr money will be please record there's going to be an sr2 and then an american relief act which is it can be another piece that overall we expect to receive more than four million dollars of federal support um that's in the in the last item they're federal but the state aid above it is is tracking where we think it will be i think we have two payments still yet to come in our evidence-based model formulation so that's pretty much right on track so um revenues are looking good right now if we go to the expenditures i don't know if there's any questions about the revenues first maybe sorry though thank you i don't know if we can get rid of that bar on the bottom at all let's uh click the button yeah i have to have to do it from paper here just to get you those totals so the salaries and benefits are tracking pretty much right in line with last year we're going to be fine i think by the end of the year purchase services are running lower partly and that's because of busing costs that were down we did use buses and we did pay for buses even though we didn't use them on certain days we paid either 40 and sometimes 80 percent of of the the cost of running a route just to keep the drivers intact for the whole year and it did help because we're with coming back here we've really had no significant problems with busing when we started back up so it's going to be that's a positive there and you'll also see a couple contracts for for general ed and special needs transportation coming up in a minute too as part of tonight's presentations the big piece there of course is in the fund balance on this last one is the working cash 10 million dollar issuance and that's really propped up our operating funds it's something that we needed to do and it'll help us get us through the next several years we're still you know still waiting for the economy to come back and that will affect some of our revenue stream and that just gets us in a safer space in terms of the reserve level that we want um when we take the 10 million out of the operating revenue in this exhibit our percent of revenues will grow up into the 40 percent range so it will be closer to a safety level 33 if it were to stay there if it would have dropped below 33 we would have to come back with another plan but we've already got the plan in the in the revenue side so it's already there um so overall we're tracking very well we're hitting we think we're going to come in probably better than budget this year largely because of the asser funding and what we get there and also because of reduced expenditures on the transportation side so we we expect a better finish than we originally anticipated uh for the district so that's nothing but good news i think from our perspective if you have any questions i can help you with slightly better than what you expected for the year um i know the working cash the bonds that we took out earlier this year were really a safety measure for the next couple of years at what levels do we look at retiring that bond early or returning that money so that's not you know on the the book city one well it was see i think we had an even larger deficit plan for next year somewhere in the three million dollar range so we need to really wait and see i mean in my plan we don't i don't have it to return it back as much as just to give us a safety net safe safe balance where if you were to compare it to some other schools even at or 40 percent on the cash basis you know we're still probably in the minority of those of districts that travel with that kind of money in fact this year what what i'm doing though with with the additional funding uh available to us working cash is uh um we're going to go off of the leases for the chromebooks this year we're going to pay for those direct as opposed to leasing them out and i'm working on that side of the the balance sheet trying to get rid of those liabilities because we we put them into a three-year lease and i want to get rid of those leases and that stop paying interest at a higher rate and then it'll be a decision at some point depending on how if things settle down and we feel like we're in a steady economy we could certainly go back and pay pay off the bonds early recall though they were done with debt service extension base so the rate didn't go up on anybody but it just stayed constant so and we strung it out and it i think it's only a seven year bond six or seven years time that so if we get into two or three years we could go ahead and pay it off but we'll see what things hit us in the future that that look you know we would compare it to to make that decision glad to hear we're gonna we're looking at using you know some of those funds for some of the leases next year for the chromebooks et cetera so thank you yeah the chromebooks have kind of moved up a year because of this explosion and technology created by the kent pandemic we were warned by cdw and others that we had to get on in the queue quickly to order these and get them in and so we've really moved an expenditure for next year's incoming freshmen into this operating year which is about a half a million dollar bump to our expenditures that we're going to have and we'd like to do that this year starting this year just to again start that track of getting rid of all of the debt through the next couple years so that's that's one more piece of the puzzle anyone else okay oh you're going to get tired of listening to me i have a lot of items that's just one of eight i think i have on the agenda tonight and there are pillows and then sleeping bags on the back if you do go too far into this you think he's kidding all right the the next though are ones that return kind of on a yearly basis here so the next one is first student per student um they're they really have done a good job with us this year we've we have a four percent increase expected or asked for it in this contract it's in comparing this to other school districts everybody's in the three to five percent range everybody's you know concerned about raising they're going to raise their prices for the drivers and i think the breakdown of the four percent is one and a half percent of that is to turn over the fleet um because we even our original basis contract the requirement that we have have buses that are no more than 12 years old on there and so that will cause them to replace some of those older buses and improve reliability although we've had no problems with with that as it is an issue with this vendor then one percent is for salary increases and then that they're going to do just again to be competitive you'll hear that in the sunrise contract as well and then that leaves one and a half percent for their just regular inflationary costs and their cross personnel and leasing and things like that so i think the four percent is fair and both district 58 and in 68 have already signed for the same amount with their with the first student with their contract and extended it as well and this is one that we do in cooperation with them so it would be pretty difficult if we were to break away from them at this late point in time mark i was trying to remember did we see a little bit of a increase last year too surely could you yeah a little bit what i've increased last year too with first i thought oh yeah yeah last year's increase was oh well all went to good i thought we had a pretty high one a couple years ago it was two years ago i think we had a double-digit increase when this thing really started with the bus drivers i think last year's was a similar rate to this so it's it's just you know it's a very difficult trade to try and get people to go into especially this last year it was hard for them to keep the drivers who had a very regular schedule and some days would you know be on some went on welfare and got better deal there and didn't come back and so they had to replace those drivers in the middle of the year when even though they didn't know if they were going to be really using them this year because of the way things work so it's a crazy crazy situation to be in yeah or difficult at least all right any other questions next one's very similar this is transportation for special education services with sunrise with a five percent recommended increase yeah the original contract was put out by sasid our educational cooperative uh trying to get as many districts involved behind one one vendor as possible for improvement of services and just getting because some of these like sunrise has had they have contracts with chicago public schools we think we're big and we think the asset is big but in comparison to sections of chicago public schools were small potatoes and so getting them to be interested to come out here and provide services at a pretty good level a very good level um is has been a challenge the good thing about this they best for a five percent increase they they have not caught up yet with all the salaries and they're going to have a bigger push on the salaries to get them to twenty dollars and fifty cents um starting salary for these drivers but the good thing about this service is that it's for special needs and there's an eighty percent roughly eighty percent of it is reimbursed by the state board of education so the impact to us isn't as great and again five percent is what's going around both 58 and 68 have signed they approved it last month with their board and it's it's the general number that they're treating we we kind of make them tell us what they're giving everybody else so that we can make sure we're not paying more than the others and sometimes there's good rationale like this the fleet is you know needs to be replenished and they make good arguments that we we understand and accept sure so that'll be an action item any questions on that one as mark mentioned both transportation contracts or action items this evening that the recommend recommendation is to accept uh the next one is tax rates all right so um final loving extension for those that have been here and for a number of years this is my the famous worksheet that tells us how much we asked for 84.5 million dollars in total operating fund levy back in december um the county this is something maybe you didn't know so i left this column in the loss plus cost is something that the county tax on just because of appeals and possible losses that where people don't pay over initially and they have to do leaning so they tack on one percent to each of those and it produces a rate that would be about one six eight nine one in total then in march we get the clerk actually tells us our exact dav so we know that it tells us exact new construction and so then we're able to for the tax caps know exactly what our cap rate will be and it's always going to be a little bit less i think it's about 97 percent of what we had asked for so we have to leave three percent off um when we when we do this and that's where what this does it shows that our final rate has to be one six five one point six five four eight dollar sixty four dollar sixty five remains so um that's that's the tax cap rate and so we had to shave some off eight hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars to um to stay within that tax rate and if you look down in the lower right hand section the that's just the operating rate the debt service levy rate is 22.76 it's gone down a little bit compared to last year um and uh the combined rate is a dollar ninety one thirty one and that's a drop of you know three cents so when the eav grows faster than cpi and the concentration the rate of inflation our rate is always going to drop it's a mechanical calculation and then yeah so i think that's that's what we did that we were required to turn in the dollar 1.6548 by march 31st at the county level so we've already done this so really we're asking you to ratify or uh ready to fire to ratify what we've already done so uh we do this the first uh shot at the levee goes in december am i correct when they first the board first saw you probably remember every year i talk about to the board that many school districts will balloon levy or will just throw a big number in there and just ask the board to approve it and i tell you that mark injury do a lot of work to get very close to what we're actually going to receive so that the community sees that we really take this seriously and that we are carefully managing their funds you can see in an 80 million dollar budget in a in you need to put a number out there that you're not lower than right that mark and the finance team here do a very fine job of coming very close to what we expect to end up at so it's just another example of the fine work that mark does let's jump two slides actually there's there's i'm going to point two things out if you look at the upper up section assessed valuation the the 2020 actual assess valuation finally topped five billion dollars and right before the great recession um we we were poised i was thinking we were going to hit 5 billion that year and everything went down and uh so it's taken us this long to recover in our assessed valuation since since that point in time so that was just one thing to point out but if the the new revenue stream is of those calculations that'll be for this levy it'll be revenue for the 21 22 school year is 3.2 and this is where we get a 0.9 not quite one percent of new construction value tax cap rate of 2.3 and that's how we get 3.2 that we use as a guide for us to understand and when we're looking at our projected revenue 84 of our revenue comes in at that level so that's the number for the next year that will try to stay underneath right for anything that we're doing is under that 3.2 percent mark let's skip this slide we'll come back to in a second i want you to talk about that one next okay now this is one where you know we just found out really that the state started collecting is you know the annual tax rates for all districts in the state and it's it's a year old really it's only got uh we're maybe two years old now i think they'll be coming out with with another one next you know sometime and they didn't do it in march here i couldn't get a more recent calculation but if you look in the left hand column lowest tax rate there's a there's 856 individual districts in the state of illinois that levy attacks for their operations and so all of these numbers in that left-hand column is where they where individual districts fall between one and eight hundred and fifty-six and the district 99 is 20 so we're the 20th the lowest school district in the state of illinois now there's different types of districts unit districts elementary districts high school districts but if you just look at the high school districts in dupage county we have the second lowest tax rate second only to hinsdale high school which has a much bigger assessed valuation than we do at one point they had one and a half times our assessed valuation we're kind of closing the gap because we've had some some really good increases in our own assessed valuation and so and this uh you know a doubling 95 is where that's where we were on the right hand column in 2018 our total tax rate was 1.95 compare that to the 1.91 this year so we dropped you know four cents since then but but this is i think this is uh just a definitive and shows how we do care about tax rate and it's better than all right mark yeah yeah we care about uh we watch it very closely it's i have something i've always wanted to take care of and make sure that we didn't get out of line and it's interesting you'll see some of those schools or high schools even much further down the list than you would expect so we recommend that the board tonight later approves this is an action night any questions for mark all right well done mark thank you all right renewable food service management contract you'll see here uh it's below that revenue stream of 3.2 at 2.3 we try to stick to cpi on this this one comes back every year for renewal so we're asking that the board tonight approve this if there's any questions i can turn it over to mark all right the next item is district treasurer services this comes back to the board every three years so three years ago we were discussing a renewal similar to this with mr wagner he is the the independent he keeps an independent set of books to double check all of our team's work we've he has been employed by the board for quite a while and we're recommending that we renew his contract for another three years i'll turn any questions over to mark on this if there are any hearing none this is an action item this evening as well next one is district's auditor service this one comes back on a yearly basis they perform the comprehensive independent audit of the district's books and then later on this year come back with a lengthy report for the board to talk about any anything that they see that we could improve which is rare to have those things and uh and then audits all of our books for us and provides a report both for us and for the public of our financial accounting uh anything else we need to add to that mark well just we're already in a this is the fourth year of a five year proposal i mean we can leave it at any time but typically when they put the bid together they expect it to be over five years unless there's a problem arising with their services and we decide to leave them but i'm very pleased with them in fact they've got a one of the best uh seniors in in turn that lasts in this last group that they've had that we've ever had he's really good he's very efficient he you know it just really takes a lot of load off of us having to get the list of things that he needs he gives us plenty of time to get it so we're very satisfied with those their services it takes a lot of load off a jury so i appreciate that is the 39.5 a number that was set contractually then yes okay yeah so they're still on target for what they proposed any other questions for mark all right this is a consent agenda item and we recommend that it be approved later on this evening next south high marching band uniform bid we have a rotating cycle where about every 10 years each school gets a replacement set of uniforms we did this last in 2016 with north high south high went through the process of specifying what they would like receiving bids on uniforms and then choosing the lowest responsible bidder that comes in a total amount of 104 193.85 south high is reportedly very happy with the quality of the product and how it looks it will look fabulous debuting in our brand new stadiums next year once everybody can come back and enjoy football in the fall under the lights and of course the best part of football as a former band director is the marching band um and uh mark and dre and the south i team have done a lot of work on this but we recommended for approval later mark anything you'd like to add to that no that's other than this you said it they really liked the each one was supposed to bring a uniform for reviewed one bitter didn't do that so he was excluded but then they really liked this one that they they brought and it's very high quality is this the same company that did it last time is this the company that won the north iberia no fruhoff was uh won the further oh that's right so but was here but they were you know they were not as low in price and as long as they were happy with the design and the construction of the uniform we were fine with it and and i think the superintendent probably speaks highly of uh approaching miller i do that company they're they're a very big company very good in this area this is their stronghold i would have liked to have seen the rendering of what our uniform is going to look like i can't hear you yeah we can get you a picture of what what it's going to look like sure i'll send that out and uh yeah they're making some changes a little bit of changes to it and then they're required to have an active reset of the uniform and everything sent to us before we give them final approval to mass produced so at that point we can show it together cool all right this is also an action item later this evening all right master facility plan some continuing good news on the master facility plan front we continue to be on time and ahead of budget mike was able to go on a little tour of south high today with members of the core committee we're going to go out and visit north high next week former board member renner was with us today and got to see a lot he hadn't been able to come through the buildings in over a year so he was excited to see and as mike saw the south high auditorium is breathtaking right so really moving along here so financial contingency where we sit a little above 1.3 million dollars and we still have quite a bit in in allowances especially for phase c which is the work that's going to happen this summer remember those allowances serve as the kind of first line of contingency that's that's built into the work and then our contingency that you see there at 1.3 million it's kind of that second line well because of how we've been progressing and the way that the work's been going and where we're at with everything white has allocated back to us uh about eight hundred thousand dollars worth of contingency to go back to to accomplish projects that we pulled back on at the beginning to make sure that we had a contingency there at the end both schools have gone through and i'll show you the list of projects in a second and have identified their top kind of ten projects that they would like for us to add back in so remember these were on the original we would hope to be able to accomplish this were pulled back to make sure we had enough contingency now that we have enough contingency we're able to release in and accomplish some of those projects that we had always hoped to do in our discussion today uh i'd like to point out that part of what allowed this contingency to be here was the fact that there was a pandemic going on we were able to accomplish a lot more work during the traditional regular shift and you know if we had students here all day for the whole year there would have been certain loud activities or those kinds of things where you would have had to push a certain amount of work into more expensive after later in the day hours or weekend hours that we were able to accomplish during the school day so some of that contingency is just because the world that we're living in right now and we were able to accomplish some of this kind of more intrusive work uh during regular work hours so with that being said um south high's list here and you're going to see a common theme running through both schools the things that we pulled back from the improvements generally overall were hallways and corridor improvements what you're going to see here though in the original replacement costs was the idea of removing a baiting asbestos and then replacing what you're seeing here is an encapsulation cost where we are covering prior floors with new floors that's the less expensive uh option we're at the point where we have removed lots of asbestos from the project and at this point it's time to just encapsulate and then yeah it's it's going to be down the road we're going to have to to deal with it but it's the prudent way to go at this point to finish out the project and connect all of the pieces one of the major concerns we heard as people on the core committee visited other schools and we've heard from students that have gone out and visited other schools that have done projects like this is that a lot of them end up with islands of areas of their building that look new that are connected by ancient corridors and it creates kind of this parts of the buildings that are halves and have nots here at south high it would be like the first floor would look beautiful and the second third floor would feel like these islands that we didn't touch what this allows us to do is to finish out a lot of those projects on the second third floor and make the whole building feel as though it was taken care of as a result of this project if you have questions specifically here about north high i can call ed up and answer any of them otherwise that's kind of the big overarching look at what we're planning on doing i have just what's up what's a lift station uh lift station pump replacement is it's a it's a pump that pulls water out of which part of the building it's the okay thank you yeah so so it's a very old piece that we would hope to replace as part of our infrastructure as this plan but it kept kicking it down the road in your house it's your ejector pump in your basement taking care of your laundry any others on there you're going to notice over at north high a very similar set of projects a lot of entrances vestibules hallways it's those connector points between all of the new construction so same story different school if you have questions on this i can ask janice to address it with both of them it looked to me like there are some items that we have more exact numbers and others that appear to be more allowance sort of thing is that really is that what you're seeing some we've already because we've done the similar work before it's priced out and we know exactly what the costs are and there's a couple other areas that are square footage costs that assuming that we move forward past today and that i haven't heard any concerns from the board then we'll actually get so are those those numbers such that um we we won't need more than this there's a chance that dollars this is about my worst case scenario okay that's so that there's a good chance then that there could be some dollars left over from this that we can still advance there's actually there's a whole nother list beyond this that dennis and jim are working on that are as more contingency is hopefully released as allowances come back to us because hopefully these projects come in under budget that then we just keep working it's very much like how we handle capital outlay that we have this wish list and we get through as much of it as we can that's the way it'll work forward with the contingency now there's there's still money left over for furniture machine yeah the burn the ff ffe allowance that's the furniture fixtures and equipment you can still see sitting there and that's uh that's where we sit right now after i believe everything for phase b and c so we still have like a contingency in that that furniture budget because we know that once everything gets put into place and equipment shows up that there there's going to be things that we still wanted or missed that you know it's like when you move into a new house and you think you're fully furnished and then you realize oh wait you know that that didn't quite work out as we expected that there's still a budget there for that could it be maybe following up here a little bit on terry's question um might it be that that we look to move uh more contingency dollars into doing more with ff and e right going forward it's important we're trying to weigh that against these priorities and that's that's a discussion we'll have for yeah the goal is to meet all the the needs of the project by the end so uh you know by august so that's that's where it all kind of fits in so it could be that as everything works out that this comes back into the contingency it could be that we realize that parts of the building now that we've moved in need something very different plus we're reallocating existing furniture to places you know once you get it there maybe right so this could kind of flow both ways with the contingency good because i was worried that we wouldn't have enough for some of the furniture no we're actually we came in our our bids for furniture came in really really well for facey now do we have to order them like now that's already so that they'll be ready double or september yeah that's one of the things we've been working on this year so everything is queued up ready to go for this summer okay yeah good seems that getting furniture is a big deal as far as the timeline to get things in yeah we we're we're on projecting on time to have everything ready for when students return next year you know obviously there will be the finest finishing touches and punch lists and you know the the growing pains of moving into a space but everything should be ready for occupancy and for our students to move into it to start the next school year yeah we've all heard about all the supply chain issues that have been going on right so this is um really a testament to the fantastic planning that's been done all the way through that has you know that we've been ahead of it and you know the issues haven't really affected us in terms of construction or in in purchasing uh ff e so i mean well done thank you yeah we have a great team working on it yeah so all right so that's it for master facility plan for your requests we received those and have filled those and those are all available and listed on our website so that's it for superintendent reports hearing none we'll move to the consent agenda does anybody have anything they'd like to take out of the consent agenda no but i did have a question on c of the consent agenda and it's the hank so could you open up c on your computer the personnel report i don't know if i can display it up here no do you need to no i it was just a question about i was surprised at the discrepancy from one step to the next at the same level and i guess i haven't looked at i guess i haven't looked at the contract and is is that typical throughout the contract i guess it would depend on the step they're identical except the only difference is 15 credit hours yeah there could be there is a a lane there i was surprised at that increase between masters 15 and masters 30 at step one yeah i mean it's huge it's what's in the it's in what's in the bargained agreement with the dga yeah so yeah i mean i could send the board the link to that and you could you know you can see how that salary schedule is but that that's the bargained agreement that i know it is but i was just i was looking at the numbers and i that was an apples to apples comparison so these are straight off of the lane yeah this would be directly this isn't yeah this is directly from the bargained agreement yeah yeah the master's 15th of the masters third step one there there's there's a large jump it's really big like more than the cost of the classes would cost yeah i mean but that's what yeah yeah that's the bargained agreement with the dga that that's that over the years that's that's where that big jump happens in a teacher's contract yeah again because that's typically when you earn the masters is that the 30.
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either way we can donate i'll leave it to you yes second yes yes yes gorman yes please join us individuals i'd like to thank everybody for coming out tonight and those at home watching the stream and dr stern looking out there tonight wow it's a little loud i'll move back a little bit i want to i want to thank our incoming board members for joining us tonight uh jfe and mark thank you for being here we have our leadership from cea thank you for coming out and uh community members as well thank you for being here and our administrative team with part of different presentations tonight thank you all well i'd like to recognize a few board members that have served on with us for a while to thank stewart we've worked for a couple years 2019 uh christina johnson from 2017's the past four years and jeff kellenberger from 2013 so as long as we'd like to thank you all for your great service and just you know working with you guys it's been a pleasure so i know um what i'd like to share is that many times people i don't think they understand the the service the the servant leadership qualities of a school board member and that you run for you run for office but unlike many political offices a school board member is not a paid office so you receive no compensation for your service to the community but it really speaks i think to to your nature of giving back and always trying to keep the central 301 moving forward making it a great place for families and students and staff we've been through a lot especially this last year this last year on all the challenges that we've had to face as we wrestled with cohen and yet we were able to do really good things for our kids and for our region of course our work will continue you will be missed but um i know also that our incoming board members are excited about picking up that mantle and continuing to move our district forward in a positive direction so thank you all as a token of appreciation we do have clocks for you thank you i can hear yeah i got um just a couple things to say i kind of wrote it down just um just so i uh wouldn't miss anybody but i'd like to thank the administration and staff for being proactive in education excellence in the eight years i've been here being in real estate i know our district is a huge draw and many parents want their kids educated here so um i think a lot of that credit goes towards our the board members here and some of the past ones and especially our staff uh the board and uh the board and administration recognized that teachers deserve a big thank you for the efforts they put in every day and especially last year with covet dr stern and dr mongan since i've been on the board i've always emphasized we've got great teachers so um hopefully if there's any out there listening that uh you could take that to heart because it they they really do say they don't say it just in public they say it to us in in our other sessions too so i'd also like to thank my fellow board members especially jeff laura and mitch we've served together for for eight years and and we've had a lot of good times some tough ones some tough decisions we've had to make but overall i think it's been it's been very rewarding for me together with administration team we have negotiated many labor contracts added air conditioning to the buildings at a classroom space at the high school along with a gorgeous field house and added the vet science program and and just many many other projects so i think we the four of us especially uh have a lot to be proud of so i leave this board uh feeling very good about the future and wish the new board members that are with us tonight best wishes no that's fine i've said enough last two years all right next we'll move on to public comment please keep your um for three to five minutes first we have david cruz uh hi everybody this is my second time attending i didn't speak last time i just wanted to see how things work um like jeff just said my name is david i have three kids going to 301 schools i've been in the district a long time and although all of my children have suffered from the forced lockdowns this last year i'll focus on one who went from being a straight a student and a happy well-centered person to falling apart over the long winter being prescribed to stare at a screen of zoom classes for endless hours losing the community of school classmates and sports that child woke me up one morning at 5am crying in fear because the excess number of pills swallowed and attempted suicide i brushed that child to the emergency room thankfully uh everything's okay it seems so now at least health-wise not necessarily mental health i did get a call from the school principal and the prescribed amount of concern seemed to be shown but of course the district still kept our kids locked out and at home staring at zoom screens uh policy seemed overly fixated on cove adult understandably concern right there are a lot of other concerns too that i think didn't get the attention or maybe still don't get the attention they deserve regarding this child i subsequently discovered a trove of journal entries and poems and the tone went from whimsical and happy and positive preschool lockouts to the later mentions of suicide of blood flowing through open veins of furious teachers perceived as being the ones forcing the home confined prison sentences poems reflecting the anguish of sitting alone staring at a zoom screen and of a life that had been taken away by policy decisions i don't state he she or which child this is because i respect that child's privacy but i'm sure that this is not the only child in our school districts that has suffered similarly my child might blame the teachers but i don't blame the teachers teachers from my understanding don't set policy i'm still trying to understand where the policy and how the policy gets decided why indiana wisconsin or might i say even illinois private schools are more open than illinois government schools doesn't seem to me to be because of teachers it's also not because of the virus the virus in illinois is the same virus that is in other states the problem is how the illinois public school system has reacted to the virus in my mind or maybe should i say the problem is how we are still reacting to the virus now anders now that we have examples of other states that offer more to their kids is inexcusable not to follow best practice anyway what's happened to my child months ago um is in the past i guess right and we've progressed so where are we at now yes we have started all the in-person classes four days a week um when did we start in-person classes the cynical part of me noted that was on the magical date right before the election i would hate to think that that had some significance nevertheless i will take the win and say thanks for giving our kids a chunk of their lives back but we still have more work to do when picking up another of my kids on april 8th from school 11 days ago i saw junior high kids cross-country kids running through the field outdoors with masks on when i first witnessed that site i thought maybe it was a voluntary act by one runner maybe one singular child that was terrorized into thinking that the virus spreads alone in outdoor sunshine or that a 13 year old athlete outdoor is really at risk but then i saw one by one as all the runners ran across the field that all the children were wearing masks my first reaction was to laugh at the embarrassing absurdity however my second reaction was that it is outright abuse what happens when an athlete who administrators have instructed to a-run hard and b cover their air intake then gets dizzy or light-headed blacks out and falls do we know the underlying health conditions of each athlete that is told go out into the sunshine run hard but cover your oxygen intake i repeat i think it's abuse that policy needs to be ended last point i saw on cbs nightly news this last sunday evening that 50.2 percent of american adults have had at least one vaccine shot not to mention all those who've had the virus and recovered and i believe we are getting three million more vaccinated daily maybe it's two maybe it's three biden said that at some point in may that every american that wants or can have the vaccine will have access so lots of immunity now under such awesome progress i sure hope that we have plans to totally end the forced masking of our precious children both running through fields and elsewhere as well as return to full five days a week of schooling as adults it's been hard enough and we have some mental capacity to adjust to these things kids don't have that at least at least a lot of them that i know otherwise we will continue to damage the precious children we're supposed to be defending like i said at the outset i don't really know how policy gets gets affected i hope that we can all be vocal to try to get this back for our kids thank you chapman good evening uh first on behalf of ceo i want to thank chrissy stewart and jeff for all your your years of service as a school board member i know there's a lot of time and effort that goes into this position so thank you for all your your hard work um i also want to thank the entire school board for changing the calendar so that the friday before spring break could be an institute day i know that day was very valuable for staff there was a lot of effort going in with all parties involved on that day um and i was unable to go to the last school board meeting but i did hear president gorman kind of just wondering what people were doing on that day so we did ask members to share what they did so that we could you know kind of show you guys what they're doing on that day so i did compile there's enough for everyone it's a little heavy i just put together a couple different ones um it's not everyone's but just kind of gives you a good scope ec through 12 what people did on that day you can really see the value and the appreciation of having that time to work there's a lot of collaboration that goes in to prepare for the transition after spring break you know some teachers have new students that are coming in so being able to collaborate with their old teachers to see what their strengths and their areas of growth are is really valuable and takes time also transitioning to a learn new learning model also changes the type of instruction and the activities that you need to modify your lessons and things like that so having that time was very valuable even just creating seating charts takes a lot of time because now we're three feet instead of six feet so we are very appreciative of that time that you guys gave the staff and then i did want to give a big shout out to the custodian staff they did an excellent job on that friday i mean they were running all over the place trying to set up classrooms and everything like that so definitely thank you to custodians and dan and everyone so uh but thank you all right move on to action reports i need a motion second to discuss and improve the consent agenda revenues and expenditure reports are in your board packet revenues are currently at 50.12 compared to 48.02 a year ago expenditures are at 55.82 compared to 57.21 a year ago this month the district received two months worth of impact fees so february brought in 86 472.83 for 12 home starts uh march impact fees came in for 184 600 and 64 cents for 38 home starts and then transition fees came in for february were five thousand seven hundred dollars and two cents march came in at eighteen thousand six hundred and ten dollars and four cents and then the bills payable for central and northern keener are typical for april great thanksgiving any questions for all right johnson yes kellenberger yes nolan yes bro yes yes alex we need a motion a second to discuss and approve the bid to direct energy as our natural gas supplier for a three-year term our contract with constellation is up for renewal um july um july 1st nania energy advisors ran a live reverse auction on march 31st in that auction there was two different parts the first part four different suppliers participated in it mid-american constellation santana and direct energy from that part of the bid mid-american came in with the lowest price at 0.29 per therm and then after that we had asked for the second part to be 100 swing product to protect us for the big swings like it happened in february and march this year so that winner only two people quoted us on that one so consolation and direct energy where direct energy was the lowest we signed with direct energy for a three-year term with our first meter read being in july recaps in the package and then also our transportation and maintenance department the little mobile unit has very minimal usage so they're underneath a customer select account is what they call it um it's just because it's a smaller amount so that went out to bid and constellation came in at the lowest price for that so we also left in for a three year period with them at point three five one per third pretty good questions was that where you anticipated it being um cost wise yeah it went up a little bit but not far from where we were at before we we locked in a good rate the time before and having this hundred percent swing um protection it helped us tremendously compared to a lot of other schools that didn't have that with the cold in february yep so that's great okay helen berger yes nolan yes yes rape yes brown yes johnson yes gorman yes thanks to motion and second are required to discuss and improve the annual resolution of mid valley for classroom space for specialized programs so the the mid valley special education question oh sorry some moves i'll try it so the the mid valley special education cooperative that we're part of is in agreement with batavia geneva saint charles and kainland and we pool our resources to provide certain special education student populations that would be cost prohibited to offer in a standalone program individual districts so in central 301 we host um a classroom at perennials middle school in a classroom at central high school for the educational life skills program is at perennials middle school and um the new pathways program is currently housed at the high school since we're since the districts are paying themselves for the rent uh what you're going to notice is that the rent never seems to change so i think for the last five years the rent has been the same but we charge six dollars a square foot because it's just it's one district paying another district so um it's part of the cooperative to offer these services so i would recommend approval of the annual agreement thank you there'll be no movement around we won't get any buildings no new classrooms this year no nuclear everything will stay as is spring yes next motion second are needed to discuss and approve the annual ihsa renewal second so a memo was included in your board packet ihsa did things a little bit differently this year and director diversity would you like to speak to that for for the board okay so the change this year the reason why this usually comes a month earlier everything was delayed till april because they were waiting for their executive board to meet because they need to regain financial status because they're they've been you know uh destroyed by covet as well without all the state tournaments so they delayed the renewal based off of the approval of a three-year membership fee so those of you that have been around the ihsa these they have this about a decade ago and then it kind of got washed out when they started generating a lot of revenue from all the state tournaments but due to their deficits they instituted this three years so next year and it's all based off of uh school-sized enrollments so ours would be 1625 for 21.22 and then it decreases over the next two years so that's was part of the membership renewal going in you know for next year is this agreement to this so this should get them back to an even playing field and then hopefully as i'll mention later they're going to run state series in the spring to help recoup some of their deficit as well so that was where the delay came in in the renewal thank you all right yes rabe yes brown yes johnson yes yes yes yes we need a motion second to discuss and improve the gymnasium roof replacement at cms good evening um so this project um as you know they've been around for a while i think going on five years ago we had this project go out to bid when we did the full roof replacement at central middle school we decided at that time it wasn't cost effective to do it so we decided to push it down the line that roof is still holding strong but it is way past its life expectancy so we decided to bid it out at that last time when we did it about five years ago the price came in at eighty thousand dollars so as you could see um top roof incorporated came in under what our allotted budget was which was substantially higher than eighty thousand dollars and even cheaper than five years ago um so i'm recommending we uh open bids last week we did a scope review we discussed with them the project and shales mcnutt and my recommendation is to move forward with them one thing to note is they are a non-union contractor which by law we must pay you know our vendors contractors must pay prevailing wage so we can offer them the opportunity to bid but they have to follow all the same rules as far as paying prevailing wage and all the osha requirements and everything else a union contract would provide we reviewed all that with shales mcnutt and reviewed that with their owner actually came to the school preview and they assured us and we get that documentation so we're comfortable moving forward with them what's the normal procedure for referrals or references for these companies because you always hear you know you take the lowest bid all the time i know we normally do so part of the bid package so when we use shales mcnutt part of the big bid packages they provide five references they have to provide all their osha accident data they provide all that they provide references so we have um companies and other you know jobs they've done they've done a lot of uh government work so they've worked in municipalities and other districts so yeah so there's a process to to review all that that's just great thanks rave yes brown yes johnson yes nolan yes as long as dan's still standing there we need a motion second to discuss and approve the window replacement at cms and chs um so this this project is one that um was taken on i mean well before my time in the district where we did the front side the north elevation of central middle school so now we decided it's time to wrap the rest of the building so we'll complete the south elevation to more or less match the south elevation in this uh process again we uh our bid estimates it came in under underestimate and then at the same time the south elevation of windows of the existing building of the high school we've had some issues with over the last few years as far as air leakage and we've had to screw them shut and seal them so we decided to take a bid alternate to do those at the same time and again those came well under um under what our projected costs were and again a lot of these costs are up 40 to 50 building costs between metal and wood and all these products are substantially higher now so we were lucky that they came in you know well under our estimated costs um rock valley glass who did work on the high school edition who's you know a good vendor that's worked for the district you know many times was the the low bidder and that's who we recommend we move forward with so your recommendations move forward with the cms window replacement and the alternate bid correct for the high school window replacement correct so yes where the goal is the start of school um the only snag that the event that rock valley sees is we're doing slider so the active windows instead of the old school tip outs we're doing sliding windows for emergency evacuation and stuff that's a better design but the issue is is there's a little longer lead time so there's a chance those active windows won't be in for the start of school so we'll just have a fixed piece of glass in there until those come in but all the rest of the material they said won't be any issue getting it done before school starts correct correct yep brown johnson yes yes nolan yes yes yes gorman yes next we need motion second to discuss and improve the asbestos abatement related to the window replacement at cms um so one of the oops sorry i'm sorry as i was gonna say sorry um one of the issues why i believe this wasn't done early on is the asbestos piece of this project the window caulk and glazing on the exterior of these windows has asbestos-containing material so as part of this project we have to remove that all that all of that work will be done from the exterior we're going to seal those openings from the inside and all that work will be done from the outside so that made the scope of this project a lot better so we're going to incur a little bit of cost by blocking off all those windows 100 on the inside but it's going to save us a lot of frustration and aggravation we could still occupy the building and use the building like we normally would that is not the case at the high school the high school was built after they were using asbestos-containing materials so there's no issue there so this is just at central middle school we had multiple bidders the timing of this work is going to be in july so the timing of this work there was a lot of bidders that were were interested in this project because of the timing of it based on the schedule zone so we got a very competitive bid and universal was the little bitter and we're recommending to move forward with them no no they were so we use tem as our environmental consultant so tem vets them and manages the project for us they're like a shales mcnut for abatement and all of our other testing and stuff that's how we use tem environmental but it's the same exact process same references the same process yes and last we need a motion second to discuss and approve the addendum to agreement between nsn and um central this uh memo is put forth uh if you can recall a little earlier this school year we had a situation we still have a situation across the state and the nation regarding unemployment claims and fraudulent claims that have been coming our way we talked about that we have employees who consistently get fraudulent claims still coming from medicine although we're seeing a decline in that one of our questions became what does our contract show us in terms of having productions for secure data and any data breaches so in the memory i have language that you can see regarding the data breach language that we did submit within the addendum as we're signing this contract that we're looking for a board approval line to really put in additional protection for secure and safe data going between us and unemployment the agency that we work with we don't work with our employment plans obviously we hire an agency i'm a little surprised this wasn't in there already actually yeah when i read the contract uh we came forward for a renewal when i was reading the contract when i was going to sign it i recognized we didn't have a data breach addendum so i did submit with our legal counsel who then put forth uh the addendum that you see here to make sure that we were protected i agree it's been we've been with them for 12 years this is the first contract that i've seen come through so questions yes move on to information items athletic director of diversity is here it will give us an update on athletics activities all right i kind of have a lengthy but quick report um so we'll start out with athletics this is the final week for what i'm calling the spring one season uh football concludes friday at mchenry uh girls volleyball has had uh what i would consider a 180 season you know last year we were at the i think bottom two teams and this year we finished our regular season and got the two seed so we're gonna host tomorrow night and wednesday night and then if we win those two we're on the road to crystal lake central um and that'll be an uphill battle but anything can happen on any given day and our girls are playing really well um so on april 5th we started what i'm calling spring tour hsa's calling summer season so that's our traditional baseball softball boys and girls track and girls soccer so needless to say uh there was a little bit of overlap for the last two and a half weeks so a little crazy sharing athletes our coaches have done a great job uh getting the kids everywhere they needed to be so they didn't miss out on a lot of things um and wrestling started today so it's you know we're picking everything back up and you know it's a good thing like i mentioned earlier we're gonna have a state tournament for all the sports except for wrestling i do know that the uh wrestling association very similar to kind of summer baseball they're going to try to put on some sort of a state tournament as an individual aspect not so much a team so that way those those wrestlers that are committed to doing those things that need those accolades can partake in that as well it's very similar to the frosh soft state that they run every year they're just gonna offer it for juniors and seniors this year as well um as far as masks you know we started on april 5th and you know it was it was a big task you know having these kids run play baseball catch throw do all of these things uh fortunately on april 12th the hsa executive board met with their smack committee they they came back out with the new mitigations from idph which allowed all all of our spring athletes outside when they're engaged in activity they can take their masks down so in baseball softball where they're on the field of play the masks come down as soon as they get to the dugout masks up track when they're engaging in their activities practice competing masks down back when they're talking with their coaches or team camps masks up uh wrestling anytime that they're engaged with another wrestler the masks can be down due to safety considerations and then anytime they're on the bench and everything else the masks have to be up so they're starting to recognize i think you know outside versus inside and some of these things in safety which is a good move in the right direction so and i can tell you our athletes and our coaches are very happy with that because it's definitely not easy when your distance runners are outgoing or you're sprinters and doing those things so that's a good sign as far as spectators as a conference it's really hard to govern how many people enter a baseball field or softball field because it's not like a football or soccer stadium where it's totally fenced in so we've mapped out the areas for the dugouts to extend the space needed for the social distancing and then we're just encouraging all of the people that come stay within your own household unit social distance from the next family and we're just constantly promoting that we also realize that it is an uphill battle as to try to govern adults when they make a lot of decisions on their own and our main focus is the kids so that's where we designated extended dugout areas so like for example uh working with director polloway we went out to girls softball our dugouts could only hold technically six six people so we we snow fenced off the back part and took the bleachers so now they can extend out and go up here to the bleachers and now our fans have to be down the right field left field lines in the outfield so it's so far it's been working just fine so that's kind of the sports update moving into the next realm which is fine arts uh april 9th through 11th we aired our our high school play clue and you know give give kudos to ms heckman and mr billin it was a great production i know she's disappointed because we did not get the viewing numbers as she was hoping but i thought it was pretty awesome considering it was a high school production you know and you watch it and you know you think of the old original clue and then you see the newer version you see our kids and and i thought it was an exceptional piece given the current times it was very well done yeah i sold my membership to many other people but it was it was an excellent program yeah and i thought it was a cool added piece that you could start it pause it and then just come log back in and finish watching it later so you didn't have to sit through the whole thing if something else comes up too so it was it was a nice uh added piece to see hey something else now in the repertoire if we have to do something in the future as well i do know they're working on the musical and trying to finalize script and those types of things right now so more information for that coming later another fine arts update is banned at is working to try to set up some sort of an outside concert we're working on you know levels and nights and all of those things so information will come as as that planning you know gets solidified there uh the biggest piece that i entered into the board packet was our academics as you can see every year we compete scholastic bowl our math team and then our wise team and we usually pick one of those board meetings and recognize those accolades because there are so many individuals so i'll focus as a team and then as you guys review the board packet you can see the vast amount of individuals but there's a couple things i wanted to highlight i know scholastic ball last year we finished a little higher in the conference than this year but i think being covid it was all virtual so talking to the scholastic bowl coaches they said it's just not the same whereas you know the pressure of sitting in the room having hit a buzzer there's a lot of delay so you know it was really hard to see okay who really truly buzzed in first but you know they got their competition season in and then coach cenove's preparation for them allowed us to do a 180 because then the ihsa came out and said for regionals you're in person so now you spent two and a half months all virtual competition we had two days of practice to gear up for an in-person regional and we took second in a regional that we did not anticipate making it out of the first round because you know there's no classifications like in sports it's big school small school you go to this area it has no bearing so you know we lost to a you know an 8a type school if you're looking at size but we took second so that was it was a great season for them um and they learned a lot about their kids and everything else in regards to virtual training versus in person and it also helps because we were still able to do those practices when we had snow days or couldn't be attendants because they're virtual so now they have that avenue for future if we have bad weather they can still continue to work on things uh the next one was our math team in the past our math team was pretty much it was a conference team you competed one or two times within the conference and that was it well we had we had a new sponsor come on board mr palmer this year so we still competed in the fox valley conference for the second time and we finished third well mr palmer said i want more for these kids so he decided to do the research and we joined the illinois council of teacher of mathematics contest so it's a whole nother regional piece with batavia geneva st charles all the schools out in this area to get more competitions in so i'm like fine let's do it so we jumped in knew nothing about it and our team finished second in the regional so you know pretty awesome and now we're going to get into other competitions because what he found out is batavia hosts a competition on a saturday i'm like all right fine let's go you know so it's nice to see that that building and developing as well uh the third one our wise team which we know always gets tons of accolades you know finished first in the regional um i did not get a team place for the sectional but we qualified an abundance number of kids and unfortunately due to spring break the timing of when the test was administered spring break we still haven't gotten the final state results so hopefully they're coming within the next week or so they said but as you can see on may 3rd we're going to we're still going to conduct our annual academic banquet at elgin community college granted it's very restricted you know 50 people that's it they're following all the covid precautions for everything that is going to take place that night and we're still working with them to see if we could do some sort of a virtual telecast for the parents that can't attend and so forth and so on with that event but uh you know it's kind of nice to come and finish the night with with the academic piece and all all the things that our kids have been doing and we're looking to continue that into next year so questions congratulations yeah great job thank you next we have the in-person remote learning update uh dr stern dr mangan well i had my um had a meeting with the king county health department today and received her siren reports also from the state today on our coveted updates some of the news um is promising in that they're reporting that 53 of individuals 18 and up have received at least one dose of the vaccine and right now they're going to start more of a push for 16 year olds and 17 year olds to become vaccinated and right now it's been by appointment only but they're in the near future they believe they will start accepting walk-ins at the clinics in aurora and batavian elgin um hopefully as more vaccine becomes available there's talk about the trials that are going on right now with vaccines for children and where they're at there's there's some belief that it's very possible that the vaccine that's now being offered to 16 year olds will be scaled on back to even 13 year olds so that could be something that could be coming out in the near future as well again they're really pushing um for the vaccination clinics to continue to move forward one of the one of the issues that our school districts in kent county are facing and that we we share our concern with the king county health department is that we're allowed to have three foot social distancing in the classroom but when it comes to contact tracing uh due to an exposure we have to contact trace six feet so we've been advocating that the contact tracing matches the social distancing guidelines for the classroom but right now it doesn't and so what that means is that when we do have a someone who comes to school ends up becoming symptomatic we have to contact trace 48 hours um deck so if they come to school if they develop symptoms on a friday we have to contact trace on thursday and wednesday so what this means though is that we have a greater number of students now that are being quarantined due to potential exposure and i know that's that's causing some frustration we've shared our frustration as well but with the health department but unless things change with the guidelines of idph in the health department those are the rules that we must follow so that's an area that we continue to deal with school districts around our entire county that's a 10-day it's not a 10-day quarantine because they the reason why it's a 14-day quarantine is they offer a caveat that with testing um after you know at the seventh day then you could end your quarantine at the 10th day but you can only end your quarantine at the tenth day if you can guarantee six foot social distancing and their classrooms aren't set up for that so yes so they say well this is a possibility but it's not real a realistic possibility because we don't we don't have the space to allow for the six foot distancing for those four remaining days and then you can go back to the three that makes absolutely no sense sorry um well it's we've asked for some data and you know we've asked for research on it um because we we have some information as well but the issue is that we know people are going to become more frustrated because again you have you have your classroom which is allowable three feet contact tracing is six feet that it doesn't doesn't match so um and then the whole return from quarantine we'd love to be able to return people from quarantine after 10 days with testing but we can't do it realistically with the six foot social distance so what's the next stage then they it's just the health department advocating with the illinois department of public health until rule change comes through right we're obligated to follow the guidelines of idph and isb so we we in other schools have made representations and then how do they give you any time frame for response or hold on we've been asking for this for four weeks probably at this point okay so nothing has changed yet so i don't give you any promises to say we'll come back to you whenever they'll say yep so anybody listening out there so pick up the phone to your congressman or yeah right yeah add some sanity to this process please i mean the bottom line is from the very beginning we've we followed the guidelines of the idph and isb you know from and we have to continue to follow those guidelines but at the same time we can advocate for for change that seems realistic well i mean certainly the logic should apply it right so yeah so those are that's the that's the issue that we're facing right now so it's got to be more difficult for students and teachers and you don't have the remote options and now they're out for all of those days so it takes us to next year right so as we continue to look at where we're at right now and we continue to look at the guidelines being provided to us by the illinois state board of education in conjunction with idph in kane county you know our goal is to get again all kids back as quickly as possible in person following the mitigation strategies that are put in place by our government officials so as we're looking at one of the challenges is right now the guidelines allows us to bring off back all students in person which is our expectation for next year with the exception people who have a medical designation if they come back with a medical designation at the 6th 12th grade level our assumption is we're going to be doing a via a software program at mentum which we currently use with some of our other students who sometimes have trouble getting their credits to graduate and at the elementary level we'll probably do remote teachers depending on the number of students we still haven't got the guidelines in terms of how many students is that that's going to make up a classroom we have to look to hire multi-grade teachers it really will depend on the number of students that have medical needs for this year i think the three weeks is our third year our third week coming back the tuesday town hall has been very positive we did ask we did not have the opportunity our elementary group was very quiet last week very very quiet i think they were just getting awake we moved their time frame to early morning and so they were getting ready to get their school going and lots of things going but our high school staff and middle school staff said they really appreciate having students back a lot of energy students were very excited sometimes getting strategies back in place for school how to do school back in place was a big challenge so how do you get them kind of wrangled back into classroom management the strategies of what you do inside of a full classroom maneuvering within the hallways keeping their mass up not covering down below their nose just kind of implementing all those strategies but overall very very positive i think teachers are excited to see the excitement i know annetta bliss you know she i love her because she just gets so excited and she made a comment about she was just so excited to see the kiss she was taping them talking and interacting and communicating she was so excited about it so it's awesome to see that kind of excitement from the staff and being just the third weekend full-time and really having to reestablish what school is has been a challenge especially at our elementary school level so kudos to our staff again for the work that they're doing and the adjustments and the flexibility that they're showing and for our students i'm sure it's hard to be here all day especially at the k5 they had half day for so long now they're extended to the full day but i think everybody's doing their best and i believe we're doing a great job for our students here in central 301 so kudos to the board for allowing us to open at the beginning of school year and continue to progress as fast as we can so the first friday after we opened i made it to all seven schools on that friday and it was just just a different vibe having been in all of them the friday before break to check in with teachers and kind of see how people were doing and to dave's point at this thing i didn't want to say anything done but you know they were all very appreciative and it was like they were throwing back thank you so much eric we really appreciate the board doing this and so that was the feedback that i got from all them too but especially the fifth day and it was great to see like a relatively normal number you know i went into a couple i went into a kindergarten class for me to my fourth grade school is to kind of see what the little ones were doing and how they did meeting new friends right because they know these other kids presumably in the first half and then at the middle schools in high school was really great just to kind of be in the hallways during passing periods and just see it you know depends on swinging a little bit more in the direction of pseudonormal well i think i think it was dr hogg who said this to me i was talking into the principles and seeing how it was going and i think he said it's just so nice to not hear that silence because when it was you know half of the class there it was so quiet and the interaction just wasn't the same as when you finally get that full class in place and everybody's talking and meeting up with their friends and the conversations are much more rich and so much more collaboration going on that it's very very exciting you're starting to see a sense of normalcy come back for our students and for our teachers and that's always a good thing how's transportation holding him investigation is doing a good job i mean they did a phenomenal job for us over spring break all the way to the bitter end until sunday night i swear they basically rerouted the entire district they did have to much of the district to make sure that we could get the students on the school bus and stay underneath that you know 49 students plus the driver so the 50 marker but they've done a phenomenal job of managing that plus bringing back our remote students at the middle school level and our high school to do testing that's mandated by the state of illinois that has been exceptional and they're yet up against a challenge for the elementary group now so big kudos to translation she's done a phenomenal crown port on her team have done outstanding well done to everybody and holding up very positively yeah all right next we'll review the proposed changes to the elementary school handbook good evening board of education we have three major changes proposals for the handbook at the elementary level the first one is for our cafeteria which is an updated payment procedures which is the rationale behind it is district-wide change in lunch payment program so we are going to be using a different payment program that actually is going to benefit many families if they have multiple students so that's one our second one is our visitors section where we are going to be updating our current idph symptom lists where we will be removing congestion or runny nose and nausea and our third one is as dr mangan just stated for next year the change in the ab schedule our am pm schedule and full time remote for next year full remote will be for medical exemption only based on the current guidelines questions thank you thank you thank you dr schreiber next we'll review the middle school handbook good evening everyone um we have a few uh changes this year almost all are subtracted just to get us back in alignment with our new practices as as the pandemic has has eased the first three are found on page five uh two under attendance policies removing language um because we don't have an a b hybrid schedule any longer so that is not applicable um we are only either in person or remote the third one on page five is steps to follow and absent from school once again pulling some language out and rewriting that language because the old language implied there would be an a b schedule and that no longer exists our next three are found on page six and these are language cleanup items the first item is for some reason last year there was not a number four so we just re renumbered things um second one is steps to follow and absent from school again clarifying language tying that language so that the reader goes directly to the appropriate section under makeup work during absences and the last one on page six there is again cleanup of language getting the article a in the sentence uh the next three items are found on page eight school arrival and departure um if you recall we moved up our school day this year uh to coincide with transportation so we are anticipating that we will go back to our normal start time of 8 12 which means students would arrive in new orleans 7 45 that would also then impact the next item which is parent pick up and drop off again updated office hours 7 45 to 4 pm for drop off of materials and then the third one on page 8 is similar to what dr schreiber said in our visitors section correcting symptoms language for their report removing congestion of runny nose or nausea to align with idph symptoms the next two items are found on page 10 and 11.
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um uh oh all right all right good late afternoon early evening on a beautiful day you are here to be a part of our bartholomew consolidated school corporation read regular school board meeting here on monday the 19th in the administration building we're very glad to have all of you here this is the fullest this room has been in quite some time all right we start each of our meetings with reflections from one of our colleagues and this evening i'll turn to mr grimes this being my first reflection let me start by saying how fortunate and honored if you'll be sitting here as a member of the bcsc school board over the past several weeks i've kicked around a few possible ideas for my comments this evening however while driving home from our last board meeting two weeks ago my final choice became clear and evident upon reflecting on the segment of our meeting when this year's bcsc teacher of the year nominees were introduced i started thinking about the teachers i had that made a lasting impact on me i won't mention them all by name for fear of leaving out several of them but i would like to talk for just a short time about one in particular mr ross wallace was my sixth grade teacher at kent elementary which is now abc stewart school even though it was 40 years ago i still remember so many things about sitting in mr wallace's portable classroom at the back of the school so many of our daily lessons turned into life lessons nearly all of them were found outside the pages of the textbook in place of the popular scratch and sniff stickers at the time that other teachers used i clearly recall mr wallace putting warm fuzzies when they were deserved on our returned assignments and papers the warm fuzzies were little round furry balls complete with googly eyes they were typically partnered with the banner off to the side letting us know why we had received one mr wallace placed a continual emphasis on how important it was to be kind to one another because of that i also clearly remember taking the time to celebrate individual accomplishments as a class as a result when a peer might have received received a warm fuzzy when others of us did not we eventually became happy for them rather than resentful and jealous we knew our time would come to get one if only we cared enough about ourselves to do our very best it was easy to tell that mr wallace cared for each and every one of us we all felt important and that we mattered he made time for all of us and made a point of interacting with us as individuals each and every day mr wallace's sense of humor and willingness to take the time to laugh with us also contributed to such an inviting atmosphere however it was an old touchy feely with mr wallace looking back i now know that he had an uncanny ability to reach us through his kindness without letting up on his high expectations for us he wanted all of us to get the most out of our ability it is so evident now that mr wallace believed real education went well beyond the four walls of the classroom later during my high school years i was fortunate enough to receive more of mr wallace's invaluable lessons when i attended the church where he was pastored his sermons were always self-provoking and practical several years after that mr wallace continued to influence my life when he married my wife cammy and i his inspirational pre-marriage counseling and words of wisdom were great for both of us i consider myself very fortunate for having had mr wallace as a teacher pastor and friend in my life i'll just close by congratulating again all those teachers selected in their buildings this year for the 2021 bcsc teacher of the year recognition and say thank you to all the other teachers out there that are making such a real difference in the lives of their students i'm certain you're making more of an impact on the lives of your students than you often think or realize i know it's not easy particularly during the course of the last year but the positive difference you're making can potentially last a lifetime thank you so much for sharing that if you are able we ask that you join us in the pledge of allegiance one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice all right six of your elected school board members are here miss day off dwyer is not feeling well so we wish her the best and with that we have a quorum and i get to do that all right so we did to start our meeting with the who and why and you'll notice that we have uh listed here on the screen as well as behind us our school corporation's mission and vision which lead all of the decision making that we'll make here this evening and each and every evening and also our listing of our high expectation objectives which guide our thoughts and discussions with that i get to go to public hearings and that means i get to play with those scaffolds so many times i just love that part all right so i'm going to javel out of this i'm gonna do one for two okay and then i will turn to mr phillips for our public hearing regarding our revised capital projects plan thank you dr shed both of these public hearings tonight are related to the same topic that's the additional 265 000 in capital projects kind of equipment purchases that we covered at the last quarter meeting five vehicles and two freezer units for kitchens in the district both public notices of tonight's public hearings were published 10 days ago on the website and in the republic so at this time taking a couple questions or input from hearings as you wish all right i'll be more than happy to have any questions that you might have we've talked about two freezing units and five vehicles do you know the approximate age of what we're replacing medical one a crazy agent or let's refer to dr bose they're each about nine years old and near end of life mileage cost repair is exceeding the cost of value sure all right thank you thank you are any other questions people have about our capital projects all right i'll have you go next are these two those are together they are the same 265 they're both items they're variations from what you approved in october as part of the budget so the capital project plan had to be revised for the additional 265 thousand dollars and then the additional appropriation overall the authority to spend those dollars so they are the same topic we're just required to hold a public hearing for each of them all right and you'll note also later on in the school board meeting under approvals each of these items are listed separately but you'll be voting on these with all our other approvals that we typically bring up at the end of the scoop all all right thank you so much we are out of that and we are back so we get to celebrate um at the start of our who and why so i will turn to mr newell and miss shoes as well as dr roberts with our columbus east high school 11.
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see the screen yep yes we're good we're good i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands okay um first item of business do we have any public comment at this stage we have no public comments okay um all right um item two review of the minutes of the march 9th 2021 meeting you all have received the minutes and had a chance to review are there any corrections or additions that we need to make i move we accept the minutes thank you anne do i hear for a second i second uh all in favor i abstain i wasn't there okay um great so under the item of new business there's nothing listed does anyone have any new business to to raise no new business no new business um wow we're moving right along here um old business uh again nothing listed but does anyone have any old business they want to raise okay no old business so we move right into item five this is speedy um the informational items we're going to hear a number or a couple of reports tonight um one coming from the cheshire curriculum council on the um agp executive summary presentation and so we might as well open with that if we could well as you know the chesh um the cheshire curriculum council made up of representatives from k through 12 as well as administrators across the representation across the district heard from a number of subject areas this year and the two we are going to hear from tonight are agp which is our academically gifted program and we have laurie holm with us to share an executive summary of that presentation so lori thank you so much for being here with us tonight thank you thank you so much for um for inviting me uh this will be great i'm gonna make sure that you can all see um the screen and that the font is um adequate uh can everyone see that are you seeing it looks good lori looks good all right great well um i'll just move right in and i'm going to keep up with the speed of this agenda boy i wish i was on every committee was like this okay so um moving along to the next side then first of all my name is lori holm and i have been your gifted education program specialist since 1997 and i am very happy to be sharing a quick overview of our most recent ccc with you this evening i very much thank you for inviting me to speak with you so this slide is our cheshire public schools program mission statement and i've underlined a few key phrases that really are very much at the heart of what has guided us as we've evolved our present delivery model so um i'm actually going to start with chapter 5 because i want to make sure that you're all still awake and i need to move along i've been given my allotted amount of time but the entire presentation is available i think either marlene or kevin could share that with you so i'm going to start at chapter 5 because that really is leading into what we have now which also leads into sort of where we ended up uh as a result of the ccc review so in 2015 agp adopted a google classroom as a service delivery platform which i always say it was just like you know the skies parted and and a bright light came and descended from heaven i'm in love with google classroom back to the topic so in 2015 the agp specialist that is me remained itinerant located at each school on a designated letter day weekly and the agp curriculum was redesigned field tested vetted and revised so that it would interface with google classroom beginning with sixth graders and working down through the grades each year the students were issued chromebooks making the curricular bridge and and access between the regular classroom and agp complete during this evolution of agp students attended a one-hour weekly help center session for one trimester per year the students were encouraged to work on academies within the regular classroom and because of google classroom the regular classroom teachers also had the ability to track their students agp progress and performance because all fourth through sixth grade teachers were invited into their students agp academies as co-teachers however in spite of the ability to access the agp curriculum during the school day many students ended the year with their agp academy barely completed or in some cases incomplete so we'll move to the next slide from 2016 to 2019 year-long agp participation was phased in so that by june of 2019 approximately 250 to 275 students in grades four through six were participating in a gp for the entire school year with the opportunity to accomplish multiple academies the students attended a 45-minute help center class weekly and were encouraged to work on their academies via google classroom throughout the week in spite of now being a year-long program the average rate of completion was still only one academy with a few students partially completing a second academy i continued to travel to each school on a designated letter day weekly until march of 2020 when like everyone else agp went 100 remote unlike everyone else however this was neither a drastic undertaking nor detrimental to the program in fact the opposite can be said it had some unexpected outcomes and was lemonade from lemons so to speak because agp had been for many years both web-based and virtual we could for the most part continue to do business as usual while agp did lose a few students that spring because of a multitude of reasons that i do not need to explain to this group something transpired that i had been unsuccessful in achieving before march of 2020 for the first time ever i was able to dialogue with my students across all the schools and assist them all day long in their agp academy work the successful completion percentage nearly doubled that spring in spite of our sudden coveted remote teaching and learning situation i became somewhat of a switchboard operator sitting at a computer answering student notifications as they rolled in and for the first time ever in spite of what letter day it was or where i was located i could respond to and assist any student in any of the grade levels at any school in a very timely fashion no student had to wait a day to get help that they needed the help came in an hour or even in minutes uh the situation finally leveled the playing field regardless of the size of a school regardless of the classroom teacher encouragement or permission to work on academy assignments in the regular classroom regardless of scheduling conflicts and this in turn really fueled increased motivation with the students i was able to maintain even social correspondence with my students chatting back and forth about what they were doing at home on any given day the students finally had the gift of time during the day to work on their advanced studies moreover agp even picked up many new students during this time because their classroom teachers and parents deemed they needed more challenge and opportunity to fill time so all of this was both enlightening for me but also very thought provoking so we're moving now into the coveted next generation for this present school year uh given the space limitations the scheduling issues the cohort concerns at the buildings this year all agp personalized learning academies have been delivered virtually september was oh i think i accidentally went forward or did i i'm not sure september was dedicated to streamlining the selection process revising all 19 academies by embedding additional teaching and learning resources and completely redesigning all of the assignments to accommodate this 100 virtual model the model has eliminated all scheduling conflicts and space issues completely and most importantly it has increased the student to agp teacher time the one-to-one contact time by creating a very unique coaching situation the virtual delivery and personalized learning model with embedded coaching were two goals from way back in 2014 when we came up with our paperless model design that had not been able to be achieved until now so i continue to function as a switchboard operator daily this year from 8 am to 4 pm for all the students at all the schools regardless of the letter day as has been the case since the implementation of a full year program for 250 plus agp students i do make a point of answering my students help requests and reviewing assignments on in the evenings and on weekends in order to make sure that they all get the help they need in a timely manner there are important reasons for this the amount of time students have for agp studies during the school day varies greatly from classroom to classroom therefore many of the students also choose to work on their agp outside of the regular school day and these students need to be supported to maintain their enthusiasm because the work is very challenging the students help requests continue this year to be addressed in the order they're received the only thing that preempts them is i get an email or a call from a site administrator or a parent but usually i'm able to answer the students within a few minutes to an hour depending on the volume on a particular day every completed assignment is now able to be reviewed and accepted or returned for attention by the student with feedback for every assignment and this was made possible because i am available now to the entire agp population at all times so this year a few new things that were also added the classroom teachers and principals receive agp snapshots of their students bi-weekly students who have not interacted with their agp studies for two weeks receive email reminders on which their teachers are blind copied and when a student successfully completes an academy the classroom teacher receives notice and details related to the student's final rubric assessment and feedback and this serves to really celebrate the students hard work and accomplishments and has also boosted motivation and enthusiasm for their challenging work as we speak there are 113 sixth graders fifth graders and 87 fourth graders participating in the program district-wide including nearly a dozen that were added as a result of manifested talents and potential this spring communications and support have increased exponentially under this emergency model and at the present at the time of this presentation students across all three grade levels and at all of the schools have completed as many as five agp academies and they have taken much more ownership of their learning again by way of reminder historically the average completion rate was one academy despite being a year-long program so having said all of this there is still work to be done if you take a look at the windows of the starship enterprise you can see the missions accomplished with previous models on the right hand side these things included a shortage of chromebooks for the agp participants that affected their ability to access their program advanced learners receiving directed agp support for only one third of the school year and the agp rubrics and assessment tools measuring their growth and their progress as competition with oneself rather than a competition against others and this was accomplished by the infusion of the personalized learning model into the academies and to recap on the left side of the window uh the missions that were accomplished with the 2020 2021 model we have resolved all the scheduling conflicts and the building issues and equity issues across the buildings and we have created a bridge between the agp and regular classroom which had previously been incomplete and we have successfully created a shift in the gifted education teachers role from mentor and instructor to facilitator and coach and we have successfully promoted a greater student ownership of learning finally in the center window on this slide are the missions still in progress we have not addressed the unique social emotional needs of this group of learners i have not yet been able to create one e-academy per grade level for grades one through three based on feedback from primary teachers so that they have a start on something that they can use and there is also still work to be done with respect to promoting ownership for advanced learners by regular classroom teachers there are still misconceptions about giftedness and programming for the gifted and agp and the role of the classroom teacher those things all still persist i'd like to take pause at this first in progress mission the one relating to creating and facilitating monthly or quarterly agp participant social emotional support sessions here's the bottom line on that one historically there has never been any place or opportunity or time to address this mission and i cannot stress how very important this particular item is i could share all kinds of research with you on college dropout rates for bright students under achievement for the gifted and the special social emotional issues that are common among these learners but i realize that we don't have that kind of time today i'd like to suggest this as a starting point for giving this subject a placeholder going forward next year i'd like to start by adding into the agp program and invert oh if i could if i could interrupt for a minute we went through those first items so quickly please don't feel rushed if you want to elaborate please do okay thank you faith thank you so much and i would be happy at the end to answer questions too as best i can um so i'll i'll continue through these and then i'll see what what you all are thinking and um what may seem clear to me that didn't come across so clearly for all of you um so moving into the fall i'd like to start by adding into the agp program this in-person component in a manner such as that which is shown in this slide this would give me a chance to form relationships with my students that are outside of discussions just about their assignments and their advanced coursework the topics that i have shown you on this slide are are based on research in the field and about group agp sessions that would be extremely beneficial for for the students next i want to talk about uh the next two points so the notion of promoting ownership for advanced learners with the regular classroom teachers coupled with the misconceptions about giftedness and programming for the gifted and agp and the role that the regular classroom teacher can should could play in all of this i'd like to tell you all that i have worked since 2013 to build this bridge between the regular classroom and agp but this fact remains i've been in this field for over 30 years and there will always be differences in philosophical beliefs about gifted education among constituent groups and as today's story has told there is much work that has been done on the agp end of things over these past two decades toward building a bridge and it's been very difficult work the result is a beautiful comprehensive package tied up with a bow on it what stands before us now requires nothing more of the classroom teachers than to acknowledge a partnership recognize their students with potential give those students permission and encouragement to engage with their agp academies when and where appropriate throughout their school day and that's it the classroom teachers do not have to generate a single thing for their advanced learners they do not have to post a review or give feedback on an assignment with a staff of one we in cheshire public schools have created a 24 7 year-long program for our advanced learners in this district and that is becoming increasingly rare in this country there's a direct correlation between the students who are especially successful in agp and the regular classroom teachers who acknowledge and encourage these students there are many teachers in our district who are doing that and it shows in their advanced students agp success thanks to google classroom i can give you extremely specific longitudinal data across all the grade levels across district about bright spots where agp is an active component of the regular classroom and i'm able to do this because google classroom notifications private comments correspondence is all date and time stamped so i know exactly when and where every one of my agp students is working on his or her academy so having said all of this i've shared sort of the good the bad the ugly with you and i'd like to share with you on these last two slides sort of a proposed timeline for accomplishing those remaining agp missions that i showed you in that center window i haven't been able to get to yet so if we move to this slide in preparation for this most recent ccc review and with the help of very thorough records and data to examine due to google classroom i really did have time all through this past year to examine and re-examine and reflect on the tasks that were put before me over the past two decades and i really feel i've done my best to give every constituent with whom i work everything they've asked for so this next slide and the one that we're looking at really represent my plan on how best to achieve those missions in progress that are still left unfinished because i don't like to leave things unfinished i like to accomplish those things so um having said that i would like to also say to this group that any things we would think are great ideas or other things to be added would have to be done at the expense of some of the things that we've managed to achieve on this very long road to quote star trek scotty i've given it all we've got we need more power um so i feel that the plan that i'm outlining on this and the next slide make very good sense the social emotional piece and the common understanding still need time in addition as i have already mentioned i i owe something to the primary grades and as a result of restructuring all of the academies this year i really wanted to make sure that i was keeping a handle on what my students were thinking and feeling as they were going through these virtual academies so one of their assignments at the end was a real reflection piece where they gave excuse me gave me their opinions about things and their wishes and their hopes and what i learned from that is that they would really love to see me develop more academies right now we have seven in sixth grade and sixth in both 5th and 4th but these students would really love more cad programming than the academies i have in that area they would like more engineering they would like coding they would like interior design that's just a few of the things so over the next five years what i would like to consider doing as you could see from this slide there's the next two years here each year creating another one to add to our array of academies for our fourth through sixth grade students and then also adding one each year working from third grade down but most importantly promoting those understandings about giftedness through coffee and conversation with the regular classroom teachers and addressing that social emotional piece for um for this population that i really am passionate about working with and feel that i know well after over 30 years and i'll digress for one second just to say that it always broke my heart when i was housed in humboston and i would walk in the door and i would see one of my former students in humiston because they needed that support network because something had gone south for them um so i would really love the chance to start putting some supports for those kids in when they're in the fourth fifth and sixth grade so that they have more tools in their tool belt um as they get older um so as you can see for a 20 23 and 2024 and 24 and 25 again continuing that working my way down for the primary grades adding more for the fourth through sixth grades promoting those understandings and providing that social emotional support for these kids would then um bring us back to ccc again in 2026.
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no matter 60 is it or i mean you're yeah master's right you're halfway there to do it yeah so are we leaving that in the consent yeah did you want to did you want to no i just wanted i wanted clarification okay no that's fine um because i was like shocked when i saw the numbers between the two i was i was really i couldn't believe that there was that much of a discrepancy yeah those 15 credit hours yeah those are kinds of things develop over time as as you know as agreements are bargained and structured and how those i would assumed that would have been closer i i'm just i'm shocked that the the increase that's just the structure of how the contract is written okay all right any other questions on consent i had a quick question about the ihsa um do we does that normally come up annually i okay i couldn't remember yeah this is a yearly renewal it comes up every year at this time okay well either this month or may some at the end of the school year okay did you have something to follow up or that that was it yes welcome to the timeline anybody else anything else okay hearing none we need a motion for the board of education to approve the consent agenda which includes a waiving of first reading and approval of board policy 3.69 assistant controller b the imrf resolution to allow benefit protection leave c personnel report appointment certified appointments classified leave of absence classified appointments exempt appointment administration compensation d the personnel report resignation certified retirements classified resignations classified e the financial pages f south high title 1 school side school-wide waiver g the district auditor services h the illinois high school association ihsa membership and i the resolution of appointment to dupage area occupational educational system board of directors thank you again gina zaccardi so moved mike and joey thank you mike davenport aye joanna vazquez drexler hi cherelle fuller aye dan nicholas aye terry pavercich aye rick pavinata aye and nancy kopka aye the consent motion excuse me the consent agenda curious we'll move on to the recommendations for action first we need a um motion for the board of education to approve the one-year financial extension to the support staff association collective bargaining agreement that expires on june 30th 2021.
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these are updates actually from the food services department of new payment procedures that are in place and these are changes district-wide to our lunch program following that section then on page 11. and i apologize for the the memo it's actually page 11.
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we're doing this a little differently here this evening we've got a video coming up in just a second how are you doing i'm good how are you great hi thank you so much for having me i'm kristen schutz i'm the director of counseling at columbus east high school i'm thrilled to be with you tonight to introduce our top 10 actually 11 at columbus east this year um we actually had a tie for the spot of valedictorian and those two students who tied are both csa east students so that was really cool so it's pretty remarkable to have two students after all the classes that they take have the exact same cumulative gpa so pretty exciting so we are recognizing 11 students and they will each introduce themselves they share their plans for next year they introduce their parents and a favorite memory of their time here with pcsc thank you thank you so much video wise mr burnett thank you very much dr roberts and to the board and uh everyone for this honor as it is every year and the honor is being able to work with such great young men and young women who are going to go on and do such great things which is just further proof that what we do in bcsc works each and every day and every year and i'm excited for you to see what they're going to do uh sometimes i feel almost a little intimidated when i hear these kind of people but the most important thing about our kids in our school district is they are so talented across the board it's not just one thing they do well in so many different areas that again what a great testament to our parents to all of our great teachers the administration to the board creates such a wonderful opportunity for our students all right and they're all our students regardless of what high school they're still all our students okay so again thank you very much for this honor and sir pleasure to be here thank [Music] my name is arturo lopez my parents are artur lopez and avail lopez i'm going to purdue next year and my favorite part of the bcsc experience was the friend making i've made the classes i've had as well as some events like the tricrace hi my name is trisha your duty my parents are barbie month endowed and narendra your duty i plan to attend iu bloomington to major in psychology and study on the pre-med track and my favorite part of the bcsc experience was getting to meet lots of different students from different backgrounds and cultures especially through opportunities like north's culture fair hi my name is eda lind and my parents are ricky lynn and morton jensen after high school i plan to move back to denmark and study something in environmental science my favorite teacher at north is brian munoz the band director because he is very passionate about what he does and loves students hello my name is colvin iorio my parents are tammy and chris iorio i will be attending oberlin college to study in an area probably related to math or physics my favorite part of the bcxc experience has been my ability to partake in many different areas like theater and sports all simultaneously hi my name is kirby das and my parents names are shellendra kamardas and smithy punja after graduating high school i plan on attending purdue university where i will be pursuing a bachelor's degree in engineering and my favorite part of my bcsc experience was finding a set of classes and extracurricular activities that truly align with my interests hello my name is kyle carlson and my parents are mark and jenny carlson i plan to attend purdue university next fall and study accounting and my favorite part of my bcsc experience is the relationships that i've developed with students and teachers while still being able to pursue a high quality education hi i'm samantha crossman my parents are david and laura crossman next year i plan to attend a four-year university to major in biochemistry my favorite bcsu teacher was mr lay because he was the one who first got me excited about science and now that's what i want to pursue i'm natalie monica and my parents are campett and joanne minicha i'm currently planning on going to xavier university to study something in business uh my favorite teacher in bcsc would be mr seavers because not only is he my golf coach but he also teaches personal finance and he's a great teacher to like engage the classroom hi my name is nayla riddle my parents are eric riddle and christy smith my future plan is to attend indiana university to study computer science and my favorite teacher at north was mr nalin because he was a great calculus teacher and we had a lot of fun experiences in that class like top parties and raising cans for the can drive hi my name is zoe preston my parents are jenny and ryan preston and i plan to attend indiana university to study biology with an emphasis on cellular biology and molecular genetics with a minor in spanish my favorite part of my bcsc experience has been how active bcsc encourages their students to be in the community i've been doing community learning for quite a while and it's made me who i am and it's also made me the leader i am so i'm very grateful for that hello i'm brock berbering my parents are justin laura burbrink i plan on attending purdue university to study mechanical engineering and my favorite teacher throughout my csa experience is mr schroeder because he it's clear that he puts the students first and he's just a really great teacher hi my name is emma edwards and my parents are nancy in the late ward edwards upon graduation i will be attending butler university to major in health sciences pre-physician assistant my favorite memory at bcsc was being interviewed by channel 13 news for the puddles to park project in second grade hi my name is jalen nelson and my parents are nicholas and jamie caesar after high school i plan to attend purdue university to study biomedical engineering and my favorite bcsc teacher was mr chastain um he really makes the class really fun and you can tell he's super dedicated to the students and teaching us such a difficult topic my name is hannah hemerly my parents are rodney and april hammerline after graduation i'll be attending miami of ohio to study biochemistry and my favorite part of my btxd experience has been playing soccer hello my name is gloria henderson my parents are anita and matthew henderson after high school i'm planning on going to brigham young university idaho and studying elementary education my favorite bcsc teacher was probably either mr schmidt or mrs hambling because i could tell how much they cared about me as a person instead of as a grade or a number in the class hi my name is the major my parents are a mark and jill major after high school i plan on getting indiana university to study finances my favorite bcsc experience is planning the 2019 ijc state baseball championship game hi my name is emma martin my parents are daryl and laura martin and i plan on attending purdue university to study environmental science and natural resources next year and my favorite bcsc teacher would have to be mrs knowles my sophomore physics teacher because she was just a really fun teacher she knew how to reach the students and she knew how to get the content across while still having a good time hi my name is catherine wolfe my parents are patrick and laura wolfe after high school i plan to attend the university of notre dame to study finance and economics and my favorite bcsc teacher was mr schmidt because his class is one of the reasons that i plan to study economics after high school hello my name is rebecca moore my parents are greg and nicole moore and i will be studying nursing next fall at purdue university my favorite part of my bcsc experience has been being able to be part of the csa program from kindergarten all the way through my senior year hi my name is vanessa brooks my parents are wayne and julian brooks after high school i plan on attending indiana university to study human biology on a pre-med or pre-dental track and my favorite bcsc teacher has been mr cooper because he makes the classroom really engaging and enjoyable hi my name is hope journal my parents are angie journal and chef journal and after high school i plan on going to purdue university to study nursing my favorite bcsc teacher was mrs rouse because she really helped me decide what i wanted to do after high school which was you know go into nursing and helped me grow as a person and in my education [Music] so we have to applaud even better [Applause] we should all be quite proud they're most impressive and congratulations to them and to their parents and all the teachers of whom they were absolutely what a great way to do it so not that i don't enjoy seeing them in person but it was equally personally personal to have that particular video so thanks for that work as well you know as we go through that can't wait till we get kids back into this room but as we make do with with what we have uh thanks josh for putting that together i think it's a couple of weeks in a row now that we've had our super meetings in a row we've done a video to make up for not being able to have everybody here so it didn't turn out very well kristen and pat thank you for being here and pass on our congratulations to our kids outstanding young men all right and do all those teachers know they've been named and are in a video now good good you be sure to share that as well all right now we um have the opportunity for our annual food service update i'll turn to ms mill spell it's very nice to see you thank you for beating us the other but i do night that thank you to the board dr roberts and dr shed the rest of you to invite me to update you this evening on the food service department i can get this to work thank you nick the bcsc food service we actually operate four different usda meal programs national school lunch program school breakfast program the after school snack program and the summer feeding program studies show that students basically who participate in school mail program have been shown to have better concentration improve test scores more energy receive healthier meals and we feel that we make more than meals we feel that we make more successful students one trade at a time good service funding we do not operate under the regular operations fund we're self-supporting from federal cash reimbursements based on our meal participation by our students non-federal funds from adult meals a la carte sales students accounts and catering sales as well our reimbursable meals must meet federal nutrition guidelines we have specific nutrition standards for certain key nutrients like sodium calories fat we need to provide five vegetables subgroups of weed whole grains protein fruits and milk in addition to the cash reimbursements schools receive usd foods at a reduced cost a variety of usd foods it really depends on the quality solar available during the growing season as well as market prices during the pandemic the usda issued waivers for the summer meal program which removes some of the regulations that usually fall under that program this some of those waivers were allowing multiple meals to be served at the same time it allowed for meals to be eaten off-site it allowed me else to be served without it should i'm sorry to say that without this child the student present and then allows for meal distribution in areas that they may not need the 50 pre-reduced meal eligibility threshold the waivers have actually been extended up until september 30th 2021.
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um so having said all of that and i i don't know i think about maybe 10 minutes or or so um thank you for your ears and eyes and heads and hearts and i know we're all washing our hands even though we've been vaccinated so i i i don't know you're all sorry thank you very much okay thank you i i have a a couple of things i would hope that you might elaborate on a bit um you know we certainly spent a great deal of time during the ccc um talking with teachers about how we can build a better bridge for sel we also spoke with the elementary principals about really engaging them and making sure and making a plan for professional development training learning making making sure people there's an awareness out there of our teachers of our staff on those unique social emotional learning needs of academically gifted students and i'm very encouraged by that i'm very excited about the work we can do there and how that can transcend not just the elementary grades but also we can share that training and information with middle school and high school teachers because i think there's such a wealth of information there to be shared you spoke a lot about um sort of the teachers end of this can you speak a little bit i'm sort of switching gears now can you speak a little bit too when you refer to the academies what an academy is what that looks like how you have created those academies and maybe you know you could list list for us that the multiple options that are available to give students choice in what they'll learn and then maybe just just give the board members a little bit of an idea about what what what kinds of work the kids are doing that they become self-directed learners and much of this is independent and that your role is so important not because you're taking a step back but because the kids have really engaged and they need to check in with you because of the kind of kids that they are and you can kind of guide and facilitate which spurs on that learning process for them sure yeah i just realized i left that whole logistical piece out so thank you so much for for asking for clarification on that one of the things that i realized in in starting out this year and what i learned from when we had our instantaneous 100 transfer over to our remote learning is that it made good sense for me to take every one of the academies which i'll talk about in just a second but i don't want to lose this thought and make sure that they are all set up in the same way so that for because of course for many of these students i have them for three years they're my kids i meet them as fourth graders and they stay with me i also do pick up new kids as they you know demonstrate these maybe latent or just emergent um gifted tendencies and behaviors as they go along but so all of the academies are set up in the same way in terms of format which the parents have also thanked me for so for example each academy has 15 assignments each academy is set up in the same way with how i present and give them their instructional support materials and their assignment sheets um every student tells me some of them are very succinct they just send me one word the word says done and that tells me in their email they want me to check their work others uh say hey miss h oh my gosh i'm sorry it took me a couple of extra days but i was really on fire for this story and now i'm done and i can't wait to hear what you so it varies from one single word done um but everything is checked so what we have um beginning with standards and and core curriculum uh uh as our as our foundation and student interest in what i have observed over 20 years of being here in cheshire with the topics that appeal most to these students and those evolve of course we have academies in as i mentioned before all of the the language arts math social science science uh sixth grade has one that's called kaleidoscope which is really probably the best way to describe that academy is to say that it's an interdisciplinary academy where the students are looking at the latest technologies that are going on um in terms of nasa's work so that they're looking at ways to colonize and create more space as the earth becomes increasingly smaller sorry i just need to rehydrate for a second and that wasn't a purposeful segue but i just realized it works and makes good sense because in fourth grade the students study water but for these kids you know they studied water the first time in the first grade and they learned about the water cycle and whatever else so their their water academy for agp is on water scarcity and they really start to look at wow the population is growing exponentially but we still have the same exact amount of water that we had when george washington was alive and when the dinosaurs were alive and oh wow this could be crazy and so for the student who um completes that academy in grade four when they get in grade six they're already thinking about okay so if i'm going to create a colony on the moon based on what i found out in research they think that there is water on the south pole of the moon so if i made my colony there and i looked at you know separating out hydrogen and oxygen molecules from the fuel source that got us there and this is where their brains can be by the time they get to sixth grade so that's one example i'll give you another example in fourth grade the social science academy for our kids um is you know kind of taking that notion of the basic needs we have as humans which of course one of those is having a home having a roof over our head but for those kids it's designing their dream house it's deciding where when they are thinking of themselves 20 or 25 years in the future would they want to build their dream house and we look at uh you know 70 different styles of architecture and american architecture and they figure out that they're in love with certain styles and and then they maybe want to come up with their own style of architecture that's a combination of many other kinds of architecture and then i teach them how to use a cad program and they learn what architects do when they meet with a client and they start out and the first thing they say is well so um mr hanlon so you're retiring and you want to have a house by the beach now when you're cooking your food do you want the kitchen to face the water or maybe your herb garden in the backyard and they learn how architects use bubble diagrams and then from the bubble diagrams those grow into floor plans and these fourth grade kids actually learn how to use the cad program to design those and then the very last thing they have in that cat academy is a cad program that is more sophisticated which they fall in love with but then that's the end of that academy so that i think is part of the explanation for we want more cad programs we want the more advanced level cad programs because they start to design rooms and get into very specific things and it was very exciting for me when i attended uh you know our spring um showcase at the high school which we didn't have last year but two years ago to see some of the high school kids who had been my students as fourth and fifth grade and sixth grade kids who you know now are doing these amazing models of of all kinds of buildings and students who go on to college and major in architecture but to segway so now that fourth grade child when they get to fifth grade just stop me at any point in time if i'm boring you guys or i'm just rambling but when they get to fifth grade so they've got their choices of what they might want to choose for the student that really was in love with that architecture they in fifth grade can create the ultimate playground based on a scenario where uh where it's an urban setting these kids do not have backyards like the kids in cheshire so a spot of land gets donated with uh input from students an ultimate playground will be designed so they learn pythagorean theorem and they learn how to use the cad program to design now playground equipment that's safe and inviting and fun um lori those are great examples i'm so glad i just wanted you to kind of get me so that people kind of saw what what some of those things were okay thank you sure thank you does anyone um on the committee have any other questions have questions for lori about her her presentation or her program to the ccc i just laurie it's one quick question and thank you so much for all this detail i know i know your heart's been in this for a long time so thank you for your help on this you had mentioned earlier some misconceptions about the program i never really thought about that is there like a a top one pers misperception that comes up i i'm not sure what the misconceptions would be sure uh well i can speak to that um from two angles and i'll be very uh brief about this so the universal angle that that i guess i would want to share with you um first do you go by tony or anthony i'm not sure um i'm in trouble but tony's fine okay so um there's this common misunderstanding that if a student is gifted first of all he or she doesn't need any special program because they're going to be fine no matter what anyway because they're smart the other thing is that they're smart in everything if if they're if they're quote unquote gifted and and that's a hard burden if you think about an eight or a nine or a ten-year-old child that is a very hard burden because first of all that's a lie they may be brilliant mathematically and and and not as strong in language arts and and so that's one thing that leads to a whole bunch of other issues that this night is not long enough for us to get it um and then the other thing about um misconceptions is is the best way to support these kids and tony you know i've been here uh i walked into coming from california in 1997 i walked into hummuston school i was given the keys to the third floor um and for many years the students would trek up those three flights of stairs where where we existed up there and it was like a country school they would arrive in the morning they would stay with me all day and then they would go home and what happened with that model was that those kids were cared for by this other woman down at the at humiston school and her name was lori and so when those kids returned to their regular classroom teachers their regular classroom teachers said okay they got their gifted prescription they have their dosage of that um so you know when i made the comment that we have created something that's 24 7 for these kids historically back in that day when those kids were busting me first of all it was a fraction of the number of kids that we have now and and and cheshire does a great job of creating kids that are strong academically so we weren't serving all of the kids who should have been served second of all then what was waiting for them when they got back to school you know this kid's already doing a triple digit multiplication um but they're now going to do this worksheet where they're doing 7 times 8 is 56 and so so those are a couple of the misconceptions is that starting to answer what you were watching you know i was i was always curious uh i honestly i think one of my daughters went through it several years ago but i don't remember i don't remember familiar to me probably in culvertory sadly i don't remember which one it it's not such a long time ago although uh yeah it's only probably four or five years ago but um i'm actually a little longer since one graduated but now i've always kind of curious yeah i never really thought about what folks think about the program um but i do know kids are generally excited to be part of that you know for experience i think it's come up a long way this space in the history you pursue you just describe because there's more opportunities for them or time set aside and more challenges so again i just want to say thank you for bringing your staff's work on this and it's a very positive thing for kids thank you so much and do you have any questions yeah thanks laurie can you um just reiterate you probably said this how many students in the program and the right now grades four through six yes um i believe when i counted up this morning you know what i'll go back uh just because i want to make sure i have the number i just i just want a ballpark uh about a little under 300.
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moved back to mike and joanna mike and joanna thank you mike davenport aye joanna vazquez drexler aye shirelle fuller hi dan nicholas aye terry pavich aye rick cavanado hi aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the draft board protocols as presented so moved mike and terry i think this is jazz hands or your second name yeah okay fine mike and terry thank you very much mike davenport hi terry pavicich aye rick pavinato aye joanna vazquez drexler aye shirelle fuller hi and dan nicholas hi and nancy kupka hi motion carries next meeting in motion for the board of education to approve the updated summer school toss costs and tuition as presented so moved back then mike schroeder thank you mike davenport aye shaw fuller hi dan nicholas aye terry pavich aye rick pavinato aye joanna vazquez drexler aye and nancy cupca aye the motion carries next we need d a motion for the board of education to approve the contract with high-res productions the amount of twenty thousand five hundred dollars and that the administration be approved to sign and otherwise execute any related documents pertaining to this contract so moved mike and joanna thank you mike davenport aye joanna vazquez drexler aye cheryl fuller aye dan nicholas aye terry pavich aye rick cavanado aye and nancy kupka aye motion carries next we need the motion for the board of education to approve the amendment to extension of pupil services agreement proposed by first student inc for the 2021-22 school year and authorized the administration to execute all necessary documents to continue this contract so moved second mike and joanna thank you mike davenport aye joanna vazquez drexler aye cheryl fuller hi dan nicholas aye terry pavich aye rick pavinato aye and nancy kupka aye the motion curious next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the amendment to special education student transportation services and transportation contract with sunrise southwest llc for the 2021-22 school year and authorize the administration to execute all necessary documents to continue this contract a second joanna won joao joanna and mike thank you joanna vazquez drexler aye mike davenport aye shirelle fuller hi dan nicholas aye terry pavich aye rick pavanado aye and nancy kapka aye the motion carries next we have a motion for the board of education to adopt the resolution entitled resolution authorizing the dupage county clerk to instead to extend specific tax rates for tax year 2020 bill second joanna and mike thank you joanna vazquez drexler hi mike davenport aye cheryl fuller hi dan nicholas aye terry pavich aye rick cavanado hi and nancy kupka ah in the motion carries next we have a motion for the board of education to authorize continuation of the food service contract with chartwells for the 2021-22 school year and that the administration be authorized to sign the contract renewal agreement for food management services non-profit food service program salmo second i think that was shirelle shirelle and joanna okay shirelle was first and joanna was second correct thank you shirelle fuller hi joanna vazquez drexler hi mike davenport hi dan nicholas aye troy pavich aye rick cavanado aye nancy cupca aye the motion carries next we need a motion for the board of education to approve the resolution entitled resolution continuing appointment of school treasurer in order to continue the appointment of mr eric wagner cpa as district treasurer for community high school district 99 for the period of time beginning july 1st 2021 through june 20 excuse me june 30th 2024.
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the new lunch prices going into the 2021-2022 school year then the last item it's actually an item that that we missed from last year it was it was in play solved last year it wasn't updated in the handbook it's um it's removing language uh regarding our interventions and special education courses rationale here is that reading intervention is now taking the place of an encore course which is worth half a credit um self-contained special education math and ela take the place of regular education math and ela for students and that's one credit so we just needed to align that so that we were stating students got the appropriate amount of credit and that covers the middle school questions you have thank you dr holmes thank you next we'll review the high school handbook changes hello thank you for having me here tonight for the high school we have a few um that are on here listed for more major items the first one is going to be in our table of contents we'll be removing the duplicate dependencies we don't need it on there twice um on page two and seven uh we are going to update the ap name i don't look much like terry stroh so if we could get that updated uh page 20 we are also echoing what the elementary and the middle school are doing and um the verbiage is the same so we'll be updating our cafeteria to make sure that that language is correct the next one is actually on page 29 on the visitor section we still have some symptoms in there that are listed that are no longer valid so we will be removing those on page 30 also echoing what the middle school is said we will be removing the language about a b hybrid as that will no longer be valid on page 32 under excused absences uh we just add a little change in how that was worded so it was clarifying the language for the reader it read that it was directly below but when you're changing pages that was a little confusing and then our last major change is on page 39 in driver education there is a paragraph that is no longer valid we require students to be 15 before the first day of class and do not have any rules as far as behind the wheel once they have their permits and they're enrolled in the class they are allowed to drive there are a lot of other items listed in the memo a lot of them are grammar spelling capitalization i didn't think you would waste all of your time for that but if you have any questions i'd be happy to answer them questions thank you mrs ferrington all right thank you all right next we have uh some new board meeting dates for a 21-22 school year so um typically the board meets on the third monday of the month i did share the 2021-2022 board meeting dates with our incoming board members so they have those and then just part of information the board packet those will be posted to the website um as well for the community a couple of dates are highlighted in black sometimes in september we have to move the september meeting date a little bit later in the month because the budget has to be able to be on review for 30 days before it's acted on but in this case there are 30 days between the august meeting september meeting then um we also move the the january and february meetings to the tuesday uh because of martin luther king's birthday and then president's day as well so i'm assuming that we're still going to have this live on youtube so that the outgoing members could watch it we'll still be able to be live stream you can join us thank you all right that's all we have for tonight's meeting we need a motion second to adjourn going to the executive yes
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and what that did is it allows us to during this school year not feed under the national school lunch program in the breakfast program that allowed us to continue with the summer feeding program and all those regulations helped to us to feed more children at the age of 18 and younger breakfast and lunch daily at no cost to the child whereas there is a cost under the national school lunch program and breakfast program it also allowed our department to receive a higher rate of reimbursement for those meals compared to being on the national school lunch program so that was the benefit of choosing that program under the other two this year as a district moved to make the necessary changes to meet the educational and safety needs of the students during the pandemic the food service department also made some meal changes to support those needs so we had to get creative with our meal service it included a variety of ways to get meals to the children whether it was a bus mobile route curbside meals grab-and-go meals into the classrooms we've started some weekend meal service for children to take breakfast and lunch home for saturdays and sundays in-person service as the children were in school we continued through meals to increase popularity with the children and we also had collaboration with the parks department kids common in the library for some programming for the children at those sites these are just some shots of some of the different services some of these phones were taken before ppe was required during that time so this is some of our mobile bus routes our drive to walk-up site or side pickup grab-and-go meals being set up to go into the classrooms and then some of us doing our weekend meal service for the students this slide just compares our normal june and july meal service under the summer feeding program you can see during the 20 20 pandemic we had considerably more meals breakfast and lunch served during that time from march to july bcsc fed two thousand nine hundred and eight thousand eight hundred sixty-two free meals to children in our community this just is again our august through december for this year this is though even though we continue to feel free meals throughout the school year our overall participation was still down about 177 000 meals so the impact of the pandemic on our service the waivers did help offset some of the extreme financial losses we had due to the department shutdown during march through july but participation is still down from that we've experienced labor issues as everyone has food change supply shortages make some of the food hard to get at times pay for good shortages and then a negative impact to us financially so our future plans to help alleviate some of those issues is to ramp up communication so that families will realize that we are still giving the meals up through september 30th and hope is for anyone to participate in with children under 18 so we hope they'll take more advantage of that and use that service we're trying to maximize reimbursement opportunities by offering some of the weekend meals that parents can order for their children to take home for the weekend or working with vendors for more competitive prices as you'll see with our bid packet this evening we're trying to streamline our menus to make them student friendly to make sure the students are getting what they want and we're planning our menu also with economics in mind using our inventory on hand and using our usda service foods as well as we can we'll be continuing to offer our summer feeding through to the community at various sites we're working on finalizing that schedule at present and we are trying to push for the support of universal meals at the national level this is just a price comparison of bcsc prices compared to other schools in our areas the healthy hunger-free act of 2010 um basically mandates schools to raise the price of lunches if we're charging less than the national average and that's determined yearly with a cap of 10 cents on those those raises um this has not been released for you this year as you can see just yet but current prices do not meet even the 18 to 19 national average this is a history this last slide of our meal prices and a request to establish our meal prices for the school year 2122 in case we have to go back to the national school breakfast program if the waivers are not extended past september and i'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have questions calling yes this time um we have a vendor or maybe you had a vendor back when we were charging for meals that would take money out of the parents checking accounts to cover the lunch at school how's that vendor doing i mean essentially we've stopped doing business with is that right on my school box it's it's still called actually parents can still put money into the children's accounts adults can use it in the district as well as as our students are in in-house the parents still can add more money to that we are taking in considerably less money of course because it's not needed at this time but they've not gone after this yeah we're still taking in money from that any of our other vendors you talked about shortages of different supplies any of our other vendors had financial troubles or calamities during their academic i i think all of them in the nation that deal with restaurants or schools or any kind of food service they've all felt the pinch of this i think that's in part why we had the shortages um because what they found is the manufacturers even had to scale back what and like we're doing with our menu just providing the basics and the favorites that's what they're doing as well so a lot of things we would like to provide they aren't available right now do you think the competitiveness of any of the bids that we're going to look at tonight has been affected i do um i i think that we are still getting good prices i i know that i've been contact from other vendors seeking you know to to check out our pricing and to see if they should bid or not they're already checking into some prices that we currently used to receive and we actually they couldn't compete with them so we're feeling we're still very competitive with that but we would like it to be better of course as things improve that's good thank you for your work thank you are there questions individuals have i think i'm still shocked by the summer numbers oh my goodness i i do have to just give accommodation out to our staff on the food service department and also in working with the people on the bus that helped us do the meals this summer my folks don't usually work year-round they're off during the school during the summers and we had so many people volunteer and offered to work during that time it was very uplifting to know that they were wanting to be there to help serve the children awesome very very appreciate nancy saying that i think that we all realize how different the work was for everybody in every situation right including education um but when we started the killed stuff last spring there were a few things that jumped out to us in terms of departments doing a heck of a lot that maybe they hadn't had to do before and technology and all the things that make it is nick and brady and their team had to do to make sure things were working to get through last spring and then our food service department under under nancy so i look around the room here and if people have changed we need to see josh and kelly and ready quite a bit we don't get to see nancy maybe as often so good to have her here this evening to recognize the work that she and her team have done because serving that that's just from the june of july we look at a couple hundred thousand meals i think last spring nancy that we served during that time frame and then although that the numbers for the fall looked a little different down nancy shared you have to remember that we had 3 200 students that chose to stay home and from a virtual option then we had about 30 days between november 9th and vacation a winter break where all students were held so those that certainly change the numbers in terms of what they're presenting nancy did a tremendous job as we're getting ready for the english language arts presentation this slide is up here just for a second and i want to remind you that you vote on this during the voting period so nancy did indicate that we would have a slight increase in regards to meal prices those are really governed based upon how the usda and the food distribution distribution reimbursement program works and so those are our numbers following the formula we need to pay attention to when it comes to charging prices so that will be loaded out here dr roberts just to make sure i remember correctly increases are mandated because we are below the national average right yes what nancy was indicating earlier too is although the sy 2122 numbers have not been released our numbers are even lower have been lower than the 18 19 292 so we're going to make that recommendation all right well it's lovely to see you so it is time for our elementary textbook adoption in the english and language arts so dr mrs foster thank you thank you dr shed school board members of dr roberts we wanted to come tonight to talk about a written adoption process and the steps that have been taken to get us to this point but i also wanted to give recognition to whitney foster who put this presentation together but was unable to be here tonight so i'm filling in for her so if i missed it please feel free to reach out to her gail is also here as as witness to say hey laura you messed that up but we need to fix that so um so again thank you to lindy foster who has put this together and then the hard work that she has done so we'll start by letting you know that our goal tonight is to present the materials for bolton mifflin hard work which we um usually call hmh and make sure that you fully understand why we have chosen this is our leading adoption series for the next few years you can see that again in the system we have a timeline we want to make sure that we met that timeline and we also wanted to make sure that we involved many stakeholders and to do that that typically takes about a year so you can see we started a year ago having conversations with nick with ray with different stakeholders to make sure that everyone fully was on the right page of how to adopt and what needed to happen within our district to make it successful these are key players we have an adoption guiding team and this was that smaller group of leaders coming together to really talk about what do we need to have happen with the reading source adoption in elementary so i'd like to give a shout out again to some people that are here tonight to support the work i'd like to recognize freddie kumar i'd like to recognize jenny detmer and tammy keyboard who are in the room amy london is also here as well and if i've missed someone or someone walked in a little bit later i apologize i'm looking back to see but making sure that these people are recognized because again on that smaller guiding team to bring you this presentation tonight we also wanted to make sure that we had teachers involved in the process that reviewed the materials who better the teachers who are doing reading reading instruction right now in the classroom to have the opportunity to review the materials presented and we did present three vendors you'll see two presented our two talked about here tonight and we did narrow down to one but we did start out with three and then again a final product to you tonight going back i apologize going back if you see an asterisk they were part of the reading adaption 67 years ago whenever we did the adoption and so again we wanted to bring a consistent pattern coming forward as well as some historical perspective good evening let me just take two seconds to introduce myself i am gail kors work in the um elementary curriculum and instruction here tonight to help sorry no you're fine madam president board members dr roberts thrilled to be here to talk about reading and writing we know the importance of reading and writing the foundation it sets for student learning and growth and success for all students so we're presented with this huge challenge to find a resource that would meet those reading foundational pieces in the primary the multi-sensory instruction the phonics the phonemic awareness all of those foundational pieces as well as meeting the rigor and the increased depth of knowledge that we want students to have to practice and create those critical thinking skills we want students to be able to see themselves in the text so looking for that resource that really let the students identify with themselves with the text and with the world so really looking for that evidence of culturally responsive and diverse opportunity for students the writing goes hand in hand with the reading so that was a big piece and really looking at all the digital pieces we know that is our world right now so really looking in a wide range of topics to find the right resource for students and for teachers as we think about professional development and getting ready our professional development really is historic it's current it's also futuristic everything we do comes out of the udl framework so we're looking for ways of multiple representation multiple expression what are those engagement pieces you heard those seniors just talking about their favorite teacher and what was favorite they made the learning fun they were engaged in the learning we know that's important it has to come through in every pd so as we look for these culturally responsive and comprehensive writing curriculum we look at that vcsc writing plan that the elementary schools are using so how do we make those pieces engaging so our pd revolves around all of those aspects the resource review team came together they used in fact they came together in this room we were spread out far and they used the rubric that again is based on the udl framework looking for those multiple means of engagement engagement representation and expression and there were also sections in the rubric that dealt with these topics you can see that are important to students and teachers they filled out a rubric for each of the three series and we then brought them together to present this visual with blue being 85 or greater of the possible points on the rubric you can see the key the green was below the 66 and 84 mark and then the yellow going below the so looking at hmh again and mcgraw-hill which is our current adoption we really looked at what the teacher said they sat they were here for half a day they sat and dug through they asked questions they were collaborating across the table from each other it was really good and encouraging to see so you can see the results there and of course hmh comes to the top we have one yellow looking at the cost and of course we were all flabbergasted at the cost of all of them but again that leads us to where we are today we were pleased to find as we really looked into reading which is what this series is called from hmh that they have a working relationship with carol dweck who works with growth my growth mindset and the research base that we know students have greater success when they believe they can so a growth mindset so that was just an added positive part of inter reading and looking forward to getting into that partnership with carlsbad the next two slides are comprehensive because they really go into what the student experience might be as well as the teacher experience please take time to review those if you have additional questions we'd be happy to answer those but again those slides really talk about those two experiences so then that financial impact making sure that we fully understood that the big dollar amount that um that was brought to the table by both companies was was um was concerning so we wanted to make sure that we were created in knowing that now is not the time to raise our our textbook resource adapted materials for our families and so we really worked with with mr mr phillips and we really worked with mr williams and this group to really come together to say what can we do to be creative as well as mrs skinner and so knowing that we did look at opportunities and you can see that we will have to change for next year five to our sixth grade students and then we'll look at additional opportunities the following year with our social studies adoption but to do this it took the hard work of many people coming together because reading adaptive materials are not cheap but we know that this is the best package and we are amazed at how how this turned out so thank you again to those people involved in that process so then this again is our our suggestion and our request to you is to please uh consider letting the elementary adopted society and all of our elementary team what questions do you have could you elaborate on a social studies piece for 22-23 i didn't understand that sure so we know that we'll be adopting next year the social studies piece and so we want it to be creative in that dollar amount that's coming off of the textbook rental fee for families and then what does it look like for the next few years with social studies knowing that we already have a hardback resource book and so what other online components could we add that may add just a small increment amount in the future but not a huge amount because again we have solid textbook adapted materials and we can we'll know that we need to adopt something that will drop in an online component but we already have hardback resources okay can you go back to the assessment where you compared both those options can you just say a couple words in your opinions what were the wow factors of hmh over mcgraw hill that you know i'll let gail do that but one that came to the top for me was the reading foundational piece and then the solid writing piece the teachers and and to expand on those just a little bit the teachers were very excited about the reading foundation piece the multi-sensory piece that primary that k2 was very strong hmh has a i'm going to say stand alone but it's connected to the reading but a an instructional piece for writing that mcgraw-hill doesn't and that was quite appealing to teachers because the schools this year and you may not be aware have really been focused on a writing plan the district writing plan but then within their building what does that look like for us what does that look like in this grade level and what does it look like for our building as a whole so they saw this hmh piece as a direct link a direct tool if you will to help with that plan that was huge i'm thinking the writing resources the digital resource the digital resources there are ways for teachers to individualize the learning the assessment piece is pretty big there with the standards based uh recording and assessing so those were all positive components the um oh the text the text options in hmh the students will have one book that has all the resources they need for the reading with mcgraw-hill they would have actually a consumable book and a hardback book that hmh has combined them it's a consumable student book there are venn diagrams they can take notes they're it's it's quite usable and student friendly and their comparison texts are right there they don't have to go to a different source for those so that was that was huge that was big on the same slide that we're looking at right now one of the biggest differences seems to be one of the major factors that sets hmh apart from the growing ill seems to be that class-sharing rostering co-teaching where apparently they just meet and grow badly what what exactly is that how important is that i know these aren't ranked in order now how important is that briny actually has a a terrific way of addressing that brittany would you mind so in terms of the the technology pieces between the two um hmh offers our teachers the ability to really have co-teachers in classes more seamlessly and easily than what mcgraw-hill does there's a lot of manual back-end support that has to happen that we have to do in the technology department to get to teachers who might be co-teaching in english units together and wonders that they have frankly haven't updated over the six years since we last adopted them whereas hmh you can have multiple co-teachers in there there's even the ability and hmh4 if you're using the assessment testing platform within that tool it builds every single year and you can keep that student's data so next year when the student goes into third grade and i have that new student in my classroom i can see their growth over all those different years and i can even go back and look at some of the assignments and identify well maybe they need more assistance here before i move on to those pieces so did that answer your question yeah i know that's a tool that's been used at south side that's where my boys went is that common across the district the co-teaching and progress here by year by year i would say that there's definitely some buildings where it's more common than others the co-teaching piece i would say looking at performance over the years is consistent across all of our buildings and feeling but we could also think in terms of ell teachers having access as well to the the classroom and special ed teachers so not just in terms of co-teaching but that is one of the components but those support teachers as well could have access hmh doesn't charge extra for adding in support services staff members into that system whereas overall does thank you okay so since i have experts here on a personal note what's your perspective of graphic novels in the uh you know third fifth grade range for young boys that a real thing should i be letting them read those things putting a different book in front of them reading is important and if that is the only thing they'll read i'm saying that goes to the engagement piece yeah really you know so appropriate of course and so that comes back on you guys here but reading is reading that's my philosophy yeah and one thing to consider is reading it with him or at least checking in on the reading that he's doing and making sure you're asking appropriate questions and then not perusing anything um that they are people yes he does like mommy to read the same folks as you know i'm hoping you're going to get fail me you did it so that's okay did you have questions i did i know i'm going to ask the same question i to you that i did i think with our world languages or decaying and what is the prospect of open educational resources in the elementary area as far as adopting those kind of things are we getting there are we what's happening with that in your area and actually lindy foster has put together a document that really talks about the open those opportunities for us to look at those those resources and what does that do right now again this this resort that that best practices and also research based close to the top but definitely is something that we're not only we will consider not only the issue with any sort of meaning to some women but also the future for sure just several things to think about and one of them being that we want to make sure that everything's completely vetted and and they can be on a list and not be vetted so some accountability on our part there also consistency and looking forward will it still be accessible so those are all things that that we're looking at and we want to be sure before we would really delve into two one but we do have a really nice document that will be created so we'd be happy to show that thank you one last question how how does the transition of our students from k-6 to secondary how does it play into this selection i didn't see anybody on the committee that kind of represented secondary as sort of a customer of our k-6 decisions how do we get that import that voice when making these decisions we on one hand we do trust we have to trust a bit the resource providers the publisher companies and trust that they are moving into that transitional piece i believe and there are other people in the room that can help support this the middle school adopts or do they adopt with the heist the secondary they're coming up next in fact i think i think they're up next so they might be able to address that transition piece because they actually see our sixth graders then coming in as seventh graders so i am deferring that to them when they get up here and sometimes with your misters and we talk so much about our reading foundational pieces the phonics and and those uh pieces of phonemic awareness and vocabulary at that younger age that moving on to the middle school in high school they're more into that comprehensive piece and so we want to move our students to that so we feel like we have a strong foundation those in those pieces and then start with comprehension again as early as we can then there is a stimulus transition no matter where they go but um it is something to consider i know we have udl we have some yellow people on there that also span so it could be in that we also have children of our own who have gone through middle school high school again another opportunity for us there wonderful other questions thank you that was extremely thorough thank you very much thank you all right so thank you for the segue it's time to go through the secondary textbook adoption in english and language arts these are coming up for the secondary language piece i just want to remind board members that this is the first presenting information to you that i know this the next support meeting which we made kept you have the opportunity to vote on this one similar to how we did world languages last time and during our approvals later tonight you'll have that opportunity to put on there setting things up for you thank will you all do me a favor and introduce yourselves to us okay thank you so troy williams the deal facilitator at north and east high schools back again laura oozley the udl facilitator at the two middle schools chastity county island columbus department chair and i'm katie chaplin i'm the english department here at columbus north as well as northside middle school thank you it's good to see you all again i think you'll find that cory and i and brittany follow a very similar process that we used with the world language through our goals when we began our resource adoption were twofold first of all we knew that in on the front end we wanted to provide professional development making sure that we connected udl and also culturally responsive teaching and we did that through the use of udl guidelines and the windows mirrors and doors protocol slash article which we shared with you the last time the second part of our goal after we provided professional development we really wanted to have time to evaluate and select materials by bringing in a ton of vendors for our teachers to pick their favorites their best choices and so again we invited a variety of vendors in and then we asked our teachers to use the rubric so that it wasn't just arbitrarily decision making but they were actually taking time and judging against what what what are the pros and cons of each of the vendors so our professional development started with establishing group norms we're bringing together teachers from five different schools um so that you know they don't normally get to see and work with each other and we reflected on our current resources you know pros and cons of what we have what do we need to look for out of new materials and have some shared learning opportunities around the culturally responsive teaching windows mirrors and doors that laura mentioned and we talked a little bit about a couple weeks ago when we were here with world language and that emphasis on really making sure our students are reflected in the materials that they have and then also that they see in the other into other cultures and then developing a shared understanding of the rubric which some of these teachers were very familiar with before because six seven years ago when ela adopted last time they were really kind of the group to first start developing this rubric and so they got to see that kind of progression and how it has evolved over the last few years and then our second day we looked at the futures protocol where do we want our students to be six years from now when we're doing this again what is that kind of dream state and then what do we need to do to get there what are the pieces that we need and how can we um you know continue having these successful graduates like what we saw at the in beginning we picked up with vendor sessions we scheduled them and were able to record them most of them were zoom calls or something similar to zoom and so that took us through the first couple of weeks of march up you know of course we have spring break and then returning back all of the teachers the high school level are getting their kids back all in person at the same time and so we gave them a few days to recoup and then on the last day of march we wanted to check in make sure that they didn't have any questions that we need to follow up on we met with the bookstore ladies to make sure that we were on the right track and getting the information they needed to process and give us estimates for football costs and then by april 9th it was decision time so department chairs talked with their teachers or the teachers talked with their principals and they submitted their final selections for 9-ish right we got close to that 4-9 and so committee members um again bernie laura and i were facilitating our department chairs and then um i feel so bad we have one name left off of this our new type representative and veronica butler did a ton of work for us when we were alphabetizing the names it must have gotten off there but she was fantastic and was their representative and worked with mr reed and the rest of her ela teachers but we had all five of the secondary schools represented on here and because again we were able to make the or all of the sessions had to be zoom or google meet they were all recorded um and so then even if the teachers weren't on this kind of smaller committee they all had access to all of the recordings and so when the department chairs talk about surveying their teachers later all of the teachers had input through those surveys and all of them had access to view all of the different vendor recordings so one of the kind of bright spots out of not being in person for these was that we were able to provide access to teachers who in past adoptions wouldn't have necessarily been as involved in the process and so on to our decisions okay so i'm very pleased to tell you that both middle schools have come to the same consensus so they are looking at adopting sabbas the my perspective series and that comes with the digital access for each student and then each teacher would get a small set of class books to keep in their room just in case physical copies are needed in addition to the service my perspectives which is an anthology very similar to what you saw the elementary ladies up here presenting about in addition to that series we're adopting some digital tools listen wise which is a non-fiction podcast program it will help with listening standards which are somewhat new to ela vocabulary.com which we are hoping to help with not only vocabulary but reading levels as well and then quill.org which is a writing website and so our cost info is listed on the screen and then i wanted to go into a little bit about the rationale which someone asked a question it's hard to tell when you're in the back row who asked the question and then gail deferred to me so i did want to give a bit of rationale about the middle school because we at the middle school are very unique in that we are not quite high school but we're not quite elementary and so the last time we were up for reduction the textbook companies were basically offering the same thing that we already had and then their digital offerings were very much we're basically just a pdf of the book and so there was no need to adopt the book because we all had class sets of the book at the time now six or seven years later the quality of the digital resources has greatly improved it is very accessible a ton of embedded tools i was just really blown away with that series and by selecting the sabas resources we will get a combination of a few physical books for you know students who have computer issues or students who may have temporarily lost privileges or forgotten their computer at home et cetera we wanted to have a few physical copies they'll get their digital resources they'll still have access to short stories and the reason why we liked sabas over some of the other companies is that they offered a very generous novel allowance so this is where i wanted to talk about the middle school so we wanted to keep like the the reader that they're familiar with from k through 6 so some kind of resource book but then also once they hit high school they're going to be reading novels and so we wanted to make sure that whatever we adopted did come with a little bit of flexibility and novels rolled up into the price so that at the middle school we can have some textbook and we can have some novels all of the same price so that was our rationale for the middle school and i hope that answered some of your questions so i was uh part of the last test textbook adoptions uh about six years ago and so laura put that pretty pretty beautifully um during that time the the print options and the digital options were basically the pdf so really good job on the rationale with that um so during that time what really came out of that adoption was our learning management system which is a really good thing um to have had this past year with um covid so what we intended to do when we adopted last time was to build some resource courses within its learning at the at the high school level and so we have the option at that time to do consumable novels that students all get their own copy of that they can write in that they can annotate in that they actually own which is a bit of excitement for some students who've never had that opportunity and so over over the past six years on the on the left you see this year's title so this is what we're currently teaching this this school year but on the right um since our last adoption these are different titles that our teachers have been able to try and work on engagement and lessons and see what works and i feel very fortunate that bcsc allowed us to have that opportunity to have consumables that we we do have that flexibility with so that we can be more culturally responsible responsive to our students so um when we started talking about all of the different vendors that they had lined up which were a lot i wanted to make sure that i was focusing um our our group on what our teachers felt like was the most need and so teachers were asked do you want to look at an anthology at this time or do you still want that flexibility of your consumable novels and overwhelmingly the east teacher said we want our the flexibility of our consumable novels but some of the pieces that they wanted that don't come with your consumable novels is grammar and vocabulary and non-fiction resources so that's what we really focused our efforts on um looking at in terms of all the vendors that were lined up is what could give us the instructional tools in grammar and vocabulary and non-fiction that we could use at the secondary level for teaching and learning so what we decided for east is to keep our consumable novel flexibility we're going to use our professional development time to update and improve resource courses within its learning so that way our student our new teachers or teachers who teach switch levels they'll have a bank of resources with literature lessons activities that they can go and and look look up according to standards or according to whatever whatever their focus is at that particular time and then um we are also going with quill as our grammar supplemental which teachers were excited about either the whole class instructional piece with that or the individual student piece and vocabulary.com as a vocabulary supplemental because even the newest novels that we have they have vocabulary resources for those texts so that was really exciting along with different levels of vocabulary for ap act lower levels higher levels so we felt like there was a lot of flexibility it's not listed here but we are going to use common lit it's not necessarily something we have to adopt because it's a free resource the only thing that i found i think you guys would agree with common lit that we could have purchased was the data and we just really didn't feel like our stakeholders needed to pay for that data piece so these are these decisions all right so i'm going to talk about new tack um since veronica couldn't be here tonight so they on the last adoption um got class sets of novels and so they would like to continue that so it's not one-to-one but then they've actually developed a pretty nice library of novels over the last six years um but similar to kind of what you heard from east is what they found lacking were some kind of supplemental things from just getting the novels and so they chose to go with no red ink for their writing support um and then they use the free version of grammarly already and they're going to continue with that and then listen wise which you're going to hear brought up quite a bit tonight which is this curated source of npr podcasts with transcripts um activities that go with them it is it is really fantastic um it was by far the presentation that we all left and we're so excited about and so um their uh average course fee for the year will be an average per grade level of about 25 which is about a 16 increase but again it's because last time they only got class sets of novels and so their course fees at the start of this were a lot lower than pretty much everybody else so their increase is a little bit higher but it just kind of brings them more in line with with the other schools and other forces so i know veronica and mr reid they were all very excited about about these options okay so that brings us to north um we as a department uh wanted to make sure that all of our teachers had a voice in our decisions and so we utilized three different department meetings for discussion reviewing resources and then making our decisions when we got to april we also had two formal surveys with teachers to get their feedback their suggestions and where they thought they had the biggest needs as far as materials to help students and so those surveys clearly indicated that our teachers most felt that we needed a strong vocabulary resource as well as a non-fiction resource non-fiction has been a struggle because we're always looking for something that feels relevant and authentic to students and the textbooks that we currently have have non-fiction pieces but they're also from 13 or 14 years ago and so a lot of that authenticity and relevancy doesn't necessarily strike home with our students so my teachers have been just kind of scouring free resources and trying to find what they can but they really have had trouble finding non-fiction resources especially those that offer excellent audio and text to give our students choices and so these are the two things that we were looking at most closely excuse me as corey mentioned all of our teachers had access to view the recordings so that was kind of the blessing of covid and all of our zoom presentations our teachers also had access to lots of different online trials for our different options and we've had a table full of physical samples for teachers to look through over the last couple of months so i have our decisions um outlined by grade so for ninth grade we are keeping our consumable novels in most classes we did have a couple of classes where we're switching to some class sets and then we also have listenwise and vocabulary.com and you'll see this on all of the remaining slides pretty much because my teachers were just blown away as corey said listenwise is an excellent resource it not only has audio available but it's really good engaging audio that we think our students are really going to like and i don't want to be too repetitive with vocabulary.com but that was far and away the most udl resource that we saw for vocabulary and offers just an incredible wealth of flexibility so that teachers and students can have um some different directions to go with as as far as where they need vocabulary development and we believe it will fit all of our courses regardless of the grade or the ability level and needs of the students so on average for ninth grade our current course fees are twenty dollars per student our increase for those courses will be no more than six dollars and 81 cents um to clarify our nine standard classes going up three dollars and 25 cents uh nine college prep and nine accelerated are and then our 9 standard level 5 class is actually going down by 4.37 for 10th grade um again we're sticking with novels rather than going with an anthology we'll add listenwiseandvocabulary.com um our current average course fee is 30 per student for the year and again those increases vary a little bit actually in 10th grade 10 college prep is the only course that is going up and that's the six dollars and 81 cents for vocabulary.com and listen wise 10 standard is going to decrease by a dollar and 78 cents 10 accelerated will go down um roughly 11 we had some novel changes there that decreased our price and then ten standard five is going down four dollars and thirty seven cents so three of our four tenth grade possibilities are going to decrease in price when we get into 11th grade again you'll see a pattern here we're going to stick with consumable novels in most of the courses we are making a couple of switches that will help us out and cost a little bit currently our average course fees are 35 dollars per student per year um and again that increase will be no more than 6.81 per year ap lit is actually only going up by a dollar and six cents and then for 12th grade we do have one new course fee that is a rather large increase but this is our ap language class our ap language teachers are adopting perfection learning which will give a hard copy anthology as well as digital access for all of our students that will be 39.74 for the entire year and that course fee does include the listenwise and vocabulary.com we know that this is quite the raise but we have not had a course fee at all for ap language in the last two years because we haven't had a textbook that really fits the new test requirements for ap language so for the last two school years my ap language teachers have been really developing their content from scratch and putting hours and hours and hours and doing a wonderful job and preparing our students for the test but as we look at adding additional teachers to that course we felt that our students are really going to benefit from this text but it's also going to help our teachers put more of their precious time into giving students feedback and building those relationships and putting their time where they really want to put it rather than reinventing the wheel over and over so um our existing teacher as well as the new teacher we're adding next year have both looked at this book and they absolutely are in love with it and think it's going to be a wonderful resource for our students so so again ap language will go up by 39.74 from zero right now and then our standard and college prep levels are going to continue using novels add lists and lies and vocabulary.com for our standard and college prep levels our average course fees for senior year is 30 dollars per student per year and it looks like our college prep level will raise them that students were using as a consumable and we're going to switch to a class set for that okay and then at north enl is taught through english and it's english credit so you saw the enl at east in the world language presentation at the last meeting we are actually asking for the same text that east will have we think that's going to help our enl teacher have some collaboration opportunities with east so it's the voces esl one and two currently our enl program operates on a two-year rotating cycle so students can stay with the program multiple years and they're not getting the exact same materials and curriculum each year so the two texts will help us with that we also have class sets of novels that we'll incorporate with this but those are our novels that i've purchased with department supply funds so that's not a cost to our students at all we will add in listenwiseandvocabulary.com most of our esl or sorry our enl students will pay that fee through their english class so that will not be an additional fee along with the text it will just be the voices that they're paying for for the 2198 per year so that is a new course fee but i think that's going to give us some amazing language acquisition help for our students in that course okay and then the last one for north are journalism classes um we have two wonderful journalism teachers who reviewed several different um sources and they really decided that the only paid source that they really needed for their students was digital access to the ap style book and we found a way to get that and actually share several digital logins and so this course fee is actually decreasing by 27.16 so we're very happy with that um and my teachers are looking forward to the digital access as well so everybody's happy with that one i think so just like last time we've compiled all of the vendor recordings for the selections that we've made um sorted through and took out the ones you don't need to see uh we have a lot of different vendors and so there's online access previews there's the session recordings um anything that you would need to see in terms of any of the options that we've selected so you can access it with that google doc or like last time you can contact laura or myself and we're happy to show you whatever you would like to see from these selections questions for us you and your colleagues have done a lot of work it's so impressive questions that you all have how do you so if i'm a parent and i have a student in 12th grade and i have a new course to be how does how does that relate to me so um if you look at our current ap literature feed this is actually going to be less than our current ap literature fee right now our ap literature fee is 44.45 and um so the ap language will actually be a little bit lower than that at the 39.74 we realize that that's a big jump from zero it's amazing to me that we've been able to offer ap language for any amount of time at no cost but it's just not a sustainable process for us i'm going to lose all of my ap language teachers if i have to keep you know the same that there's not a text to help them with that but the changes college board has made in the last couple of years to the ap tests the previous texts we've been using really don't prepare students for this new test a lot of things have changed and the text that we're asking for we think really will help our students be prepared while also making the class engaging and interesting and preparing them for college are there any parents on your any of the decision making committees she's got a middle schooler i'll have another middle schooler next year so good good with that course fee so those they will be paying most of the kids in that senior ap english class because these will all take effect next fall have paid that forty some dollar course fee and two years okay and then they'll now have a 30 some dollar horse fee as when they take that classes so it will only affect next year moving forward i think your question was how do parents find out about it i think it's in the curriculum guide so when students sign up for their their classes there's a description of the class and prerequisites and of course um listed there so if last year would have said zero course fee and this year it'll say what yeah so it's very interesting that you know everybody does it differently so good job other questions we can't thank you enough for all of your good work and that of your colleagues please let them all know thank you thank you okay dr roberts again just a reminder with the english language arts pieces you'll have a chance to vote on those at the next meeting but certainly thanks to the ladies for the hard work with that a lot of hours of time into their research um with the kova 19 update i'll jump right into that picture is from columbus north the other day we did have a vaccination clinic i'll share a little bit of information about but just a reminder we have been five days of interest morning since we came back from spring break on monday march the 22nd um that was the first time all students have been in the building since friday november 6th as we phase things in a reminder that we've had all mitigation strategies in effect since the beginning of the school year would not change those tonight i bring to you a recommendation from us that for the identification of close contacts i would change the 60 to 3 feet when in the regular classroom setting only as a very specific situation if uh students are facing the same direction they have their face masks these coverings on all these kinds of things that we look at three feet versus six but it would not apply in any other situation in terms of our school environment school buses lunch recess uh other classes uh band choir pd others that they might be in working closely together or whatever the case might be so in very specific situations we would like to look at that and it would simply be in terms of the process from scoop operations standpoint our educators are doing a great job of making do with the space they have in keeping students at least three feet away from each other it's the six feet that is the challenge so we know that students oftentimes are within that six feet range and to give a specific example of recent situations we have had recent situations where if it would have been three feet instead of six feet we go from uh 31 close contacts to the room because the educators in those classrooms are maintaining the three feet which is a number that we provided in our reopening plan back in august about if we could not get to six it's at least keep three so as we look at the remainder of the school year we realize that the fourth quarter is a challenge anyway uh we have students that it is the best meeting class to the degree necessary we finally got all students back on monday march 22nd and losing time now he gets exaggerated uh in the fourth quarter compared to the rest of the school year in some cases we've had students multiple times we had a person recently who was identified as a close contact for the fifth time in the school year so obviously we are concerned about physical health october 19 catching that tigers uh we're also concerned about social and emotional wellness and that comes into play too we're looking at situations like that so in short my my recommendation is we go from three from six feet to three feet in these particular settings or situations going back to process really the people that this affects because we will continue to keep students at a distance to the degree we can throughout our buildings all the time is kelly or school nurses the administrators when we have a positive case that when they are then identifying close contacts they are using a different measure from this standpoint in the classroom setting the students facing singers so that is our recommendation kelly anything to add from your perspective on that questions about that don't know that this is necessary for a vote on this particular item um it is as we have been advised on closed contacts back in the fall for example uh we did we were told by the department of education state department of health that we began to accumulate minutes so initially beginning of the school year our close contact identification was within six feet for 15 minutes at a time been 15 minutes and that was a close contact we were then told it's an accumulation in 15 minutes so five plus five plus two plus three and now we get to fifteen so we made the change in the process here the cdc the american academy of pediatrics the state department of health um the northumberland county health department close regional health for all in support we have made those contacts to ensure that if we go this direction that we have support from those in the medical profession and we do have that support questions about that this is kind of an indirect question i guess and maybe do most of the how most of the teachers and staff have they have their most of them have vaccinations that's a good question dr biltz i think we certainly have made progress with the percentage we put out a survey after spring break and then had a second round we had about 800 participants in that survey but we have 2 000 staff members of those 800 about 700 it indicated at least one shot or main deployment so that was after spring did you see yes so the last last go around that was a couple of weeks ago so perhaps we've had an increase there so the the rate of those who participated in the survey was high 700 out of 800 um but that's still 1200 individuals yeah it wouldn't make [Music] right one of our mitigation strategies by far physical distancing is the most challenging i i jump to this slide real quick just because of uh in terms of cases uh since monday august the 10th we're at 642 now um you see the breakdown of that group but since march 1st which would include obviously spring break but those cases accumulate we do get notified at some point in time about those this case this movement uh we're averaging 11 positive cases per week since monday march 1st and that's been repeated about that number i think 14 maybe last week but almost all those new cases in the last two weeks all one actually have been students it doesn't mean our staff is not becoming positive or whether the vaccination is occurring or other other factors are coming into play the accumulation continues to happen more with our students and that percent rising so 409 students thousand three percent the last time i shared this thing that's four percent of our student body now dr chen since we're all not doing up in arms we you know that we are attached to reapprove yeah yes we given your feedback we can add this as a request for approval and this week what's happening from my perspective i want you to know and your administration to know that we're supported so you want to vote for that yes okay oh good we get an m i wanted to give a lot of items there and my point in regards to the recommendation we have we've tried to follow even as changes have been made um the centers for disease control recommendations and this is one that's been out there for a while but we are not asking there are other changes for example the seven day and ten days instead of fourteen days we are not asking that that be the case that if we have a close contact even identified with this in this manner and stay at 14 days and not be reduced to seven or ten but those are other recommendations that have been passed to us by the centers for disease control so you want us through this later or not or is it a request okay then um just other information for you the cova 19 vaccination clinic um we did we were able to add one uh for students ages 16 and 17.
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