So I just want to give you a heads up. Um, >> so at this point obviously this is still a thing. I remember wasn't potentially going away in trouble with >> they they've been renewed um and um funding is um actually a little stronger um than it was in previous years. >> So nice. >> Yes. And just so for everybody's uh information, not only do we use it to purchase um equipment, but it um they also conduct bids on our behalf for um internet services. In other words, getting the internet to Stephvenson at a very affordable cost. That has come we get reimbursed for that. That has come down significantly in pricing. It's a great thing for us. >> Great. and the for the smart LC smart. >> Yep. >> I thought we already did that. >> We haven't had a group. >> We we do have a group that we work with local um it's mostly the local schools, the theater schools, police, fire, public works.
Like you can look at whatever report card that you see online, but this is the stuff that you as a board have decided that's mattered and we are delivering that for you. [clears throat] So, it's important to highlight that and celebrate that. I think it's important to point out or to thank the teachers because they're generally the first intervention and they're taking time out of their day to do that and that's obviously they've done it a lot more this past year. So that I think that's huge and we need to say thank you for that. >> I also love I love the bubble chart. I just think it's so intuitive but I think it also shows the relationship mapping that you guys right it's it's sometimes it's the nurse it's a fellow student it's I mean it's a lot of different things. It's like, you know, meeting kids in the way that they I think that that's so love the bubble.
So again not to dissuade anybody from submitting a foyer in fact that is the right and that is an important part of our transparency but the first question would be is that information available online and then to create that information what is the impact of it so and what's the goal >> thank you education piece for me >> did we >> any other discussion Miss C. I >> Dr. Pock >> I >> Miss Robinson >> I >> Dr. Martin >> I >> Mr. Cerrone >> I >> Miss Wenmouth I >> Dr. Mario >> Hi. >> Motion passes 70 uh 10 information per 10.1 ESL course proposal and recommendations. >> Welcome Miss Lopez. >> You Thank you. All right, good evening. My name is Maria Lopez. I am the director of multilingual learners in our wonderful district. Um, tonight we are coming to uh uh discuss and or share and inform on a new ESL course proposal as well as a recommendation for change in a current uh ESL course that we have two courses that we have at the high school at both high schools.
Um, my my only thing that I would like to say today is how proud I am always of being in the Avon community, but particularly in the last week. um with the headlines that have been made about various responses to student walkouts. Um I'm so happy that our administration um in particular our Mr. Matt Shockley is in tune enough to know how to communicate a difficult message in a very uh cohesive and supportive way. Um and I'll never take that for granted. I always um am amazed to look around just like looking at um funding shortages of schools that are nearby us. Um I always feel badly for those communities um as they face that and as they face the communication issues that have been caused by the student walkouts. But I'm always pleased and proud that Avon does such a great job in handling um uh communication like that and funding issues like that in just the most Avon way.
The issue is that with 14 students in the program there is no way that our current staffing can can meet all those students needs. Um you know the alternative to this is is really not palatable. Number one, we would not be a there would be students that we would just not be able to serve in in the program and um [cough and clears throat] the from a financial perspective it would make absolutely no sense because the cost of you know send sending a student out to a different program in which we'd be paying tuition would be significantly more than this cost. So so I I think it's a a wise investment. We're also recommending one special education team facilitator position. So, this position would support um support students with special needs and the staff that serve them. With the addition of this position, we would we're we're we've got a plan in place that we are um working on currently, but what it would mean is that the high school and middle schools would have additional support um and really have uh full-time support at both of those facilities.
So sorry I had to get up there. >> The one thing I noticed on there is last year on the average STEM score we were well below the state average but it looks like we bounced back up which would It's kind of an anomaly. >> I mean, it happens. >> It's >> So, >> yeah, >> that's good. What I was really not wanting to see was another year where we were low and then we maybe had the beginning of a trend. So, >> if if we had a second year where that was trending, then we really have to start looking at the type of electives that we're teaching in our classes that have to do with our STEM related uh test scores. So, year to year, hopefully that's more of an indication that it was a one-year anomaly versus trend. Look at this. To me, it looks like we're right around average.
>> I agree. >> I I agree with that suggestion. So, do we have we have a date yet for the fourth quarter? >> I'll send you some dates via email and please confirm with them. That way I can confirm with my staff as well. >> Okay. Any other uh requests for future agenda items? At this time, >> that's pretty clear. >> Okay. So, let's go to item uh K. Adjournment. >> Hello, >> Sylvia. Sylvia Hendris. I second. >> All those in favor of the motion. Kathleen Vance. >> Masappo. >> Silia Hendricks. >> Masappo. >> Dion letter. Motion carries. >> We are ajourned at 7:42 p.m. >> Thank you everyone. Happy birthday, Ross.
>> Yes. So, any questions about the YC change up before we move on? >> Great. >> I'm really excited about it. >> Does it cost the students anything? >> What's that? >> Does it cost the students anything? >> Cost the students absolutely nothing to graduate with an AA or AS or a list that um I'm really excited about it. Um when we met with YC to go over our dual enrollments and career in classes in the beginning of the fall, I asked why we don't do a pathway because I've always heard there's other schools in our community that do it. why don't we do it? So, I'm really excited that Megan um and Dean from YC have been working with us to get this on our campus. >> I think it's exciting. >> Um I'm going to take you to 16. So, you see advanced theater is crossed out.
Um but this expands our connection to the entire county. Um, there's expectations for when we have an incident, but it's also expectations on how we can help when others have an incident as well. >> How does this tie in with what's the name? There is that Lake County. It's not LC Smart. There was another >> 911. >> Oh, the the 911 eervices. >> So, this is there's a security issue. I thought there's a program where there's coordination between all the police and >> there is there's the um oh god what do they call it? U >> mutual aid. So there's a mutual aid response team for on the county level as it relates to first responders. This is actually a version of that for schools. So the school it's helping specifically the schools not everybody in Lake County. That's why the ROE is taking the lead on this.
Very helpful. >> You know, I have a quick question. In the bubble chart where the student one was, was that like individual students coming to people they trust and trying to ask for help and trying to establish a plan themselves? Like was that student being self-led and taking that accountability? >> What we did is we took just the entire student population and took all the uh contact types or interventions that were recorded from our CER class. So any anytime a counselor, a social worker, a psychologist, [cough] you know, met with a student, that's what's captured in this. So in this case, it could be that um you know, academic wise, um it's it's based on the totality of like how many So we have different like literally those type of note types or contact types that our counselors put in. So if they do a one-on-one, they'll enter it a certain way into the system and then that's what's recorded into this kind of graphic.
So for our current curriculum course change recommendations, right now we have an ESL1 course that is uh for EL students at O and as well as an ESL2 class right now um at the high schools. We're looking to change the names of the ESL courses because we want it to reflect correctly on the transcript so it doesn't look like the students are taking the courses out of order. Um so right now our recommendation for ESL1 uh for this uh upcoming currently it's called named ESL1 for next year it would be foundations um ESL 2 is uh for next uh actually we want to change that to connections and then um we are looking to ESL 2 uh is is not a course that we will be necessarily running next year we'll be running ESL1 one and one course proposal that we would like to discuss in a moment.
Um so I just um am pleased and grateful um that we have such supportive um administrators um that make difficult times like that a little easier. Um thank you to everyone that was involved. Kevin, thank you so much for hours and hours, I'm sure, of trying to craft messages and communication. Um, and we don't tell you thank you enough because during the referendum, you certainly were the mainstay that helped us to communicate our message. Um, but a a large part of why we are successful is because we have great people um that love and support our students, but also that we do a phenomenal job in communicating. So, thank you so much. >> I have to agree with everything that Josh and Lim have stated. Um, I think this is the first time that I've been in this building since the ribbon cutting and it's fascinating to see such a new building and see it work so well and have great students.
>> And did we ask for that last year and then decide not to? you. We asked for team facilitators last year and we did add two team facilitators. So, knowing that we wouldn't be able to get as many as we needed last year, now we've added an additional one to this year's budget. >> Thank you. >> And since and I'm just asking just because you you said it was okay to interrupt. I don't want to lose you I don't want you to lose your your train of thought, Mr. Kylie, but either either you or um Dr. SA Magcguire, can we just talk a little bit about for everyone at home and everyone in the audience around what our sped team facilitators do because they hear people hear facilitator and not teacher and you know people may wonder they're not directly in front. >> Here comes Mrs.
>> Yes. >> To state, >> correct? >> Sometimes just above, sometimes just below, but right around, very accurate. >> Okay. Anybody have any more questions for me? >> I'll accept the science. >> Motion second.
We're not getting rid of theater. We're just combining the two theater classes because my theater teacher next year is also teaching yearbook. She's teaching dual enrollment and she's teaching senior English. And so I there's not enough time in the day to have two separate theater classes. So that's why we're just going to combine the um intro and the advance to have one theater class. Okay. >> So how many uh students can be enrolled? >> Well, there could be up to 25 30 in that class. >> That's really all we have now between >> that's all we have between the two. So, we're just going to combine them. So, I think that's big cross out. Cindy mentioned it earlier um that we are adding digital media arts. Thank you to Brian. He went last Thursday and um had that approved by Mountain Institute. So, we're really excited about that.
>> Sean, can you do a quick 30 seconds on what firewall replacement means? I I can very very uh uh briefly, but um we have a series of protocols uh or equipment, excuse me, um that blocks um outside traffic coming into our network and using our network. Um and those are um at end of age and we would have to, you know, replace those anyway. It's good timing that we can use the -ray program um to help offset these costs. Um as Doug would um say, these are are probably some of the most important tools we have when it comes or equipment we should I should say we have when it comes to um protecting our network. >> So this is this is hardware. >> This is hardware. Yep, that's correct. >> Okay. Thank you. Anything else from the business side? >> Uh, that's it for tonight.
So we just did a total like how many academic interventions were recorded through CS last year. >> Got it. >> Okay, that makes sense. >> Yeah, that does make sense. Just real quick, I want to um highlight the work that CS and the teachers and everyone has done to get us to where we are now because this has been an ongoing um area of importance that the board has put forth for a number of years. Mike can attest to um and I really want to draw attention to what you said about the 100% because it it means a lot and it makes you know having students not fall through the cracks is a huge piece because even if it's just you know a base level intervention >> small things can help students from falling off the cliffs you know >> and and I think it's just incredible work from the whole team uh Scott and Gina thank you all the CS folks who are not watching this but uh [laughter] who deserve all the credit.
Um but more but the purpose for those changes and I'll I'll share the the name of the other course in a moment is really so that that reflects on the transcript and it doesn't look like the students are taking the courses out of order on their high school transcript. So for the new curriculum course proposal we're looking to add ESL3 which we will um be calling we would like to call bridge um that's really bridging um the students um language development. The purpose for these courses is really for our newcomer students. And our newcomer is defined as students who have been in the country for three years or less um in EL students because you could be in the cure country three years or less and not be an EL student but are EL learners. And the the purpose of this uh for these courses is really and for this course ESL3 is so that students are getting that language development support in all four domains of language which is speaking, reading, writing and listening and to support that content area.
Um, and also like Kim said, I'm very proud of our corporation for the way it's carried itself. I mean, it's very I feel very proud if you say, you know, we're part of Avon. Our kids go to Avon. It's a great school corporation. So, thanks for everybody for coming. >> Great comments, fellow board members. I I'll try to be brief and this will be a little bit of just a continuation of something I said earlier. Um, you know, we are really lucky to have each and every teacher who does not only the job that they're supposed to do, but even more. Um, my dad was a high school math teacher from the 60s to the early 90s. And um if he saw the state requirements and additional requirements that teachers have today, he would be shaking his head. I can promise you. Um and in addition to meeting all those requirements, we also hope, and that's really what we have to do, is hope that teachers will also do things like let's take on genius hour.
Denisio right to the microphone. >> I figured she might be coming up here. [laughter] >> Um >> did they make a difference this year? The two that we we invested in? I think they made um quite a difference. Uh we hold anywhere from 10 to 25 IEP team meetings a week in the various buildings. Um and so these uh team facilitators have sort of taken on that burden of running the meetings. They're also supporting special ed teachers and related service providers with scheduling meetings, which is really a lot. Um, and also the paperwork, the IEPs, um, and sort of shoring that up after the meeting. So while it's working great and they have been an amazing addition, um they're scheduled in different days in different buildings which um sometimes can burden the staff in that buildings because they might have two or three uh team meetings in a day which is a lot when you're trying to you know teach a class or see kids.