In the same way, educators spend day in and day out ready to meet the needs of students where they are, offering encouragement, guidance, and a safe place to land. And just like Buzz and Woody learned that every toy has a unique role to play, every adult in the school community brings something special to our children and to help them grow. So, we chose this theme because it captures who we at Fairview strive to be for our students, our families, and for one another. And tonight, we'd like to show you a little bit of what that looks like in action, specifically through the work of our special education department, as I mentioned earlier. So, what makes what we do special isn't just what we teach, right? It really is so much more than that. It's how deeply we commit to every single child and their success, no matter how long it takes or how hard the journey is.
Any opposed? The eyes have it for the approval of the RFP for mental health services. Thank you, Miss Neee. 3.02 approval of the request for the RFP for student devices. Mr. Harsha. >> Good evening, Madam President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Uh, I would like to request approval to put out an RFP for Chromebook devices as submitted. >> Second. >> All right. Properly moved, Miss Lawrence, and seconded, Dr. Mhalland, for the approval of requests for the RFP on the student devices. Any final questions or comments? All right, we will move to vote. All in favor, say I. >> I. I.
And here on this slide, you can see this year's groups who with the support and guidance of the fourth and fifth grade teachers continue in the tradition of supporting our school and the community with many acts of service. In fact, just today, uh, Gifts to Give published an article on their website about our fourth grade student council's work over the years in organizing donation drives for clothing, winter coats and hats, and mittens uh, and sports equipment, all to benefit uh, South Coast families in need. And I can tell you this recognition filled the buckets of the entire school today when we when we received the news uh which was particularly needed in the aftermath of yesterday's big game. And we are so proud of our fourth grade student council as well as our fifth grade student councils. So, uh, here are pictures of yet another exciting group of students at DLO school, our 2024 and 2025 DLO invention convention teams who not only competed in the Bridgewater State University invention conventions, but took first place both years.
So I think we're we're proud of those efforts. The budget this year takes that into consideration very heavily. Um and that's where I you know you see the the ask that you do um this year. um should we continue to get flat funded, you know, we could see a a consolidation of services. Um if if our enrollment goes down, we might be able to collapse some classes and move staff and group differently. Uh saving some money there, but also, you know, we if if enrollment continues to go, we may want to talk about how to consolidate across the school system um in terms of facilities staffing and and how that goes. So really depends or that enrollment uh conversation is going to be a critical one over the next year.
Um, so I've been in a communication with a program. She's doesn't work for her program anymore because she actually works for the state agency. Um, but like you know she just shared like at their school they did like 12 slots per grade level and then like then there was a weight list and they would determine you know she kind of shared their process. The benefit to that number one, one of the reasons I think that we should move our grant forward this way is um I'm really struggling this year more than any year that I've worked here to get people to teach in my program. We are working under our staff like we have to say what our staff ratio is in our grant. I'm pretty much under ratio every day in my program. Um so because if you don't know if you're teaching 22 kids or 12 kids intersection, it's really hard.
Do you have any questions? All right. I took um a couple teachers with me on January 28th. We went to Reality U in Ellenwood. Took the eighth graders and the sophomores. Um it was a great day. The kids did a fantastic job. Um and there were some really cute comments. Um like I asked a couple of kids how they were doing. Um, and they say, "Well, I had to go get another job because she's got to have a dog." And so, it was super cute to listen to them have like marital arguments, you know. Um, but they really worked together really well and they did an excellent job representing our school. Um, homecoming was last Friday night. We had a packed house um for that game. We'll have our Hall of Fame game and senior night will be February 19th at the Canton Galva game.
>> His family is here. Yay. Thank you for getting it for him. and she was my fourth grade student. >> Our next student is Xadrien Lewis. He was recognized by Miss Martin, the culture teacher. He is always engaged and participates in class. He is always willing to share his thoughts and ideas. He continuously contributes to the class discussions. He works well with his peers and strives to complete his assignments. He always has a positive attitude and eager to learn. and he said that he would like to make the community a better place where people should learn the AAM language and get involved in traditional games. And he thinks that we should put ourselves out there to learn the language. And next, middle school, high school, Miss On. Zoe, did I miss you? Zoe Pablo. Okay, so our seventh grade um student of the month is Zoe Pablo.
our parent nights, our seasonal gatherings, just a lot of of little extra pieces that aren't part of our normal day. Then monthly we do a rotation. So we all see the different campuses, the staff sees us, the the students see us, and once a month we just go to one of the different campuses kind of on a on a cascading rotation. That way they all know us, they all know who we are, we see them, the staff sees us. Um, and it's really it's it's eye openening because you see the different age levels. Um, and it's kind of neat for me because, you know, and I think for the other guys, too, but you get to see your kids that have moved up to the next school and and it's neat to go on those rotations and, you know, have them officer Matt and getting to see them again and them getting to see you again.
She feels like she has good ideas that she could implement to positively change the school. And so she wants to pursue that extra leadership role, which once again will come with that extra time commitment. And in doing this, I didn't, you know, realize I was doing this, but it did connect a lot to that December meeting that I talked to you guys about. I try to I try to interweave my meetings if I can. And the December one, I talked a lot about free time. And I changed my graphs here. I'm not saying I changed them better. Um, but you know, at least now instead of just the one letter, you have the abbreviation. So you have except May. Well, obviously May, but yeah. So, um this, you know, as my more detailed graph, if we remember, that left is what a lot of people assume it is.
>> Um I just want to know if there's any Okay, if you are the person I should direct it to, that's fine. >> But I was also wondering if there's any literature um that I might not be privileged to, well, not not privileged to, but I don't have in my possession. I have the parent student handbook and I have some of your board policies. So, if there is something that I'm missing, I uh I'm a little concerned. I will be at the school at 11:30 tomorrow. Believe I have a appointment with Mr. Cornwell. >> Um, we can discuss it further at that point if that's okay with you.
We're like, why? We are so happy that we were able to do this this year. And so, I'm so excited that you guys get to talk a little bit about what you're doing. So, I'll introduce our coach, our head coach, Scott Gan, and he'll introduce our students. >> Hello. Uh, Scott Gallen. I previously the girls bowling coach at Downer's Grove North. This year transferred over to the boys program. Um, I'll speak real quickly just on behalf of all the boys. Also on behalf of all the boys on the south side, I think I can speak for them as well. Uh Adam and I have worked really closely together. Um [clears throat] we really appreciate the opportunity to have this have this opportunity to, you know, put this together for the boys. It's been years. I've spent years being a sort of a sponsor for guys that were doing it individually and participating in the IHSA uh state series but not having a team.
It's very individualized and self-paced, especially for our learners that are um accelerating a whole grade level. This can be really important because when they start the year, often when you accelerate a whole grade level, there's a grade level that maybe they skipped. And this provides that in intentional instruction to help them continue to be successful in areas like math. Teacher support is the dates listed there and that transitions into high school offerings. You can see this year it's at us we go east. We have opportunities for our students that is self-paced both initial credit and credit recovery again through egeneuity. And Dr. Dubial is going to give you an overview of our ESY program throughout our district. >> Thank you. Um Dr. Campbell. So extended school year is for students with an IEP. It is designed for students to recoup any learning that was previously um needing to be enhanced during that summer school um opportunity.
Um and I can tell you I like it um a lot better with students in it. We got to tour the building as it was being built. Um beautiful facility, but it doesn't feel alive until you have kiddos that are learning um in this environment. Um, I have been on the school board for 21 years and in that amount of time I've seen a lot of really great uh, students come through. So, Molly, I'm hoping as an author someday I'm going to be able to see your book. Um, I I feel like these two maybe um, it's Stella and Lucy. Yeah. Um, you both have really good speaking chops and um, Mr. Langford and I are uh very much involved with the Avon High School speech team. Okay. So, would love to have you come out and uh try out for speech. And then our leaders um you know that's it's just a wonderful thing to see student leadership.
It's really cool to see because like going back as a loan from Great Crossing and Sacart and all that, we're seeing like what they get to do that you know that they'll love to c And it's also helped me a lot with my video editing skills because I've learned to do that a lot better. >> I think it's cool. People are reaching out to you, Mrs. Fisher. And then we have the alumni there for the hoops. >> Yeah. >> And it's creative with the concert that they can't travel. So you can do that with the technology. That's really cool. >> It also helped the the parents be able to see it too because they weren't able to go to it because it was during school. So that's a >> So yeah, most of choir's concerts can be during school and when they practice and most parents I mean they can't come into the school and see that.
>> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Go home. Take care of your family. >> Uh, next item on the agenda is public comment. Nobody signed up tonight for public comment, so we will skip over that portion, which brings us to the consent agenda. which includes review and approval of minutes of the executive meeting on January 5th, board reorganization and board finance meeting on January 12th, and the regular session board meeting on January 12th, a review uh or claims, fundraiser report, uh we'll just give you just some just a rundown of some of these. Uh fundraiser, volleyball fundraiser for selling flower baskets, uh daddy daughter dance for the junior class. Uh coming up uh donations, we had some donations to the auto mechanics and the FCA uh program. Um as well as field trips were several field trips listed here. Um if I can find those.
>> Any discussion? >> All in favor of 5H say I. >> I oppos. >> Okay. Um, at this point we will invite Mr. Hawk back for the DCES school presentation. Excuse me. >> I am fortunate to have two very talented educators here to talk about how they teach Indian history in fourth grade. Mr. Jim Walker >> and we have two other partners both and she doesn't off yet. So we gave her the night off and then Mrs. job and has three children that she's got to take care of because her husband's working. So, um, both of them are integral parts of our team. Um, fourth grade is the only grade in Indiana where Indiana history is the focus. And so, we pretty much start off the whole our whole entire year is in based on Indiana history. So, we're going to kind of run through some of the things that we do with history.
That first one there, you're mainly just paying for the equipment, those types of things. >> Yeah. Right. And as we go through, like right now, what we're doing with our school resource grant is we're replacing our doors. Um, as we get done with those doors and we do other things, we can also possibly eventually come back and fun as well. So, so just be aware of that. We can fund that someplace possibly down the road with a grant. So, >> I got Thank you. I got a motion. I got a second. >> I got a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Okay. Oppose the same. Okay, that passes by vote. Along those same lines, the same company, um I want to give kudos first of all to uh Mrs. Cruz, wherever she is. Anyway, uh we are required legally to have an anonymous reporting system and she did this this this year um through Google.
And then when we went to Deaconist, I was able to shadow in the women's hospital. Um and that was really cool for me. I learned that I want to work in nursing and I think specifically in the NICU. Um and then I feel like ASM has really helped prepare me for college. Um, currently I'm in a research class where I'm working on a research paper and that class has really helped me to learn how to write scientifically and be able to learn things for myself um, and just write as a scholar would. And I feel like I wouldn't know what I want to do, what I want to pursue without having ASM behind me helping me every step of the way. >> Fantastic. Thank you all for for being here. Now, some of the board members may have questions, but I just want to say I actually uh several of us sit through a class and my god, I am so happy there are smart students like you out there and I will tell you that to me, this is one of our blue ribbon programs.
So for our colleagues in our special education classrooms, that can mean yearslong commitments to individuals. Um, and so that's often what brings these teachers the most joy and the most meaning in what they do is seeing the progress over time and building that relationship with a student that lasts more than one academic year. And at Fairview, we are blessed to serve our population of special education students through three different pathways. We have the crosscategorical services, the practical skills classes, and the essential skills class that Deina teaches. And each of these pathways um support students in different ways, which we'll go over tonight. And we like to share a little bit with you about what that looks like at Fairview. We'll start off though with our incredible speech team. We are absolutely blessed to have our SLP Margaret Harvey Harvey and her lovely assistant Melinda Schaefer.
Any opposed? All right. The approval has passed for the request of RFP for student devices. Final action item 3.03, approval of the personnel report. Miss Carla Johnson. >> Good evening, Madame President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. Approval is sought for the personnel reports. >> All right. I'll entertain a motion for the approval of the personnel report. We have a >> Oh, okay. Do we have a second? All right. Properly moved, Miss Lawrence and seconded, Miss Dunn. Any final questions or comments on the personnel report? All right. All in favor of the approval of the personnel report say I. >> I. Any oppose? The eyes have it. The personnel report has been approved. Moving into administrator and board comments. We'll start down here. Dr. Mahaland. [snorts] Okay, Miss Pucket. >> Not a lot. It's It was a pleasure going to Capitol Hill to advocate for our funding for part B.