Any questions regarding Laren? I don't. I'll make a motion to accept Laren Nett as the new summer school teacher going forward. I'll second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And let's see. Next on the agenda is approval of medical leave. Mhm. So, I would ask that tonight the board um retroactively approve Jen Stall for a medical leave of absence. Again, I've been in communication with you guys. Um she does have provisions that have allowed her to have her leave and so her leave began on December 4th and it will go through the end of the school year. And so while she is protected under FMLA and ADA, you're not necessarily proving that side of her leave tonight, but just a medical leave um as recognized by the board that would help her with some of her paperwork.
Last few bond projects we were able to kind of do this in phases and that's that halo lit DeKalb Middle School sign there that looks so good. But that black metal siding just changes the entire look of that of that school. These are the sections of the roof that we have completed over various bonds like 2023 bond for example. The white sections are the new section. We the board did approve in the go bond last fall for us to do some roofing at the middle school and the high school and we'll be completing another section of that roof this summer. Can explain to people who don't know what the middle school looks like what's what each of those sections represents? Absolutely. Yeah, so the section to your extreme left this it's called the smallest kind of rectangle is the aux gym. Then the middle section larger square rectangle is the main gym and then that really large section that's kind of going over the common and the kind of really the heart of the building the commons the lecture room and the library and some of the classrooms that surround those areas.
>> Any questions on any of these items? >> I'll just say that the Well, actually, go ahead. The members can speak. I I jumped in too quickly, but um just just in general, the the elementary um network was so dilapidated um and inefficient and slow and um you know get the fact that we had moved into a onetoone um you know computing you know across the district for the most part um and with the number of things that we have running on our networks postcoid um things just you know they were not able to keep up. So having the upgrade and having the wiring um you know really was a a really welcomed um update to our infrastructure and it's not one of those fancy things that you can see you know it's not one of those shiny objects that you walk into a school but I can tell you when when you have a reliable internet network system um that reduces teacher frustration, administrator frustration, student frustration when they're testing um it's it's a big deal.
Another resource we have available to us this year through the direct services grant is a tool called Amira, and she is an AI reading coach that the students can read to, and they do specific lessons, and she's adapted to the student. And so, that practice of that oral reading fluency, where children are um reading to someone else, um is able to happen. So, we're layering it in with the support of our literacy instruction as well as some digital tools, not to mention all of the work that is happening with our SEI teachers as well. And I don't know if you want to elaborate on any of that. I And the only follow-up question that I have from that is um what do you know where Amira is being implemented right now? Do we have um samples of actual schools that are doing that? Yeah. Yes, and we can certainly provide you a board update with those specific numbers, but Amira has been rolled out in partnership with our technology team um at all of our campuses.
Tier three has students that demonstrate the greatest gaps in their learning compared to their classroom peers scores below the 20th percentile. Tier two students are those that need slight academic boost to get them caught up within the classroom with their peers scoring in the 21st to 30th percentile. Tier one, the majority of the students in the classroom score in the 31st to the 89th percentile. Tier zero are those students that score at the 90th or above on those same assessments. District interventionists focus their work primarily with, but not limited to, tier three students and work in conjunction with our building reading specialists. We typically see students during our WIN block, the What I Need block, for their instructional day and we focus on math as needed, reading or reading support services. With reduction or elimination of interventionists, this will change. My fellow interventionist, Todd, is here to tell you more.
So. She was frustrated with the president. I told you not to tell anybody. >> I didn't. All right. Okay. This will be the last time I think for Okay, can I have a roll call, please? On the motion. Yep. Dr. Hall. I. Mr. Sawallish. I. Ms. Wolfolk. I. Ms. Venegas. I. Zeits numbers is an I. Mr. Gallegos. I. Mr. Brown. No. Just kidding. Oh. Please keep from the eye. Okay. I. All right. Let me take At this point, do we have Cheryl to book? She cannot carry on at this point, right? Cuz she's no longer >> Can I just mark the next votes or She's no longer official >> You have to appoint an interim. Right. Cheryl. Yeah. Just to kind of carry us home until we actually It'll be a momentary thing. So, the the board agreed to allow Cheryl, our executive secretary to the superintendent, become the pro tem secretary as needed throughout this meeting.
Any questions regarding the leave? No. Entertain a motion to accept the medical leave for Jen Stall. All right. Yes. Mhm. So moved. Second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. And next on the agenda is superintendent report. Okay, so at your actually listening agenda. Don't let me forget to do that. We do have another tonight. I gave you a packet of pictures. I was looking back at some of the events and recently I knew that our students had attended the Uplands made student run business and so I went to grab some of the pictures to share that with you and then I saw some others that I wanted to share as well. We've talked in depth for a few years now about our ready schools grant and the work that we're doing and wanting to have the student run business, wanting to have hands-on learning be one of our components, wanting to give our kids real world opportunities.
What we'll be doing next will be if you take that large rectangle that I just uh highlighted and just move yourself down to really kind of south southwest that is the front office and first hallway and we're going to start doing those those classroom areas will be covered this summer and we're going to kind of wrap around a little bit. And it's it's a big roof uh but after that project we'll be in we'll be uh about halfway there. Knowing that some of that roof like the extreme northeast corner is 2001 that's that's one of our newer roofs. But still gosh that's 25 years ago. Hard to believe 2001 25 years. So that's a fun project that we're doing this summer. We did an interior I was still principal when we did this uh this was interior facelift for the middle school just to throw a few show a few pictures there.
So, we're very thankful for that. >> Um, the next uh section is the 57,000. There was uh about million and a half overage there. And these are just I picked four items. Um, these really the the person to speak to these would be Mike Celig. um he really has his thumb on the pulse here, but these are just related to um certain projects that we have um with Garland uh BMP who we use for most of most of our construction uh projects. Um the the big one there you'll see uh BMP for 250,000 is for uh adult education. >> Um and then the 58,000 account dues and fees and staff development. This is really more about um the um instructional supplies. Uh school specialty was uh one of the larger ones where we got some much needed chair uh furniture tables, chairs, um some um hex tables, you'll see, and um kidney shaped tables, which I found out what that was this year.
Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Mhm. And I should note in second and third grade. Okay, interim measure 3.3. This is specific to students in grades 4-8 who score low risk on FastBridge auto reading. Our goal is to see an increase from 21% in May of '25 to 24% in May of '26. Auto reading for our fourth grade students includes foundational reading skills like encoding, word identification, and vocabulary. The data follows a similar trend to what we've seen in previous years. To reach our goal, we must increase by 6% to reach the goal of 24% of our students in grades 4-8 scoring low risk as measured by FastBridge auto reading. To achieve this goal, we need approximately 132 students to score low risk on FastBridge. And again, this Sankey graph illustrates the different types of movement that we see between our proficiency bands for our students who are in fourth through eighth grade, our multilingual learner students.
Next we have Todd Swanson. Good evening. Uh Todd Swanson, interventionist, and I'm going to continue where Jess left off about talking about the impacts of these cuts to each of our tiered levels of students. In tier three, a dedicated interventionist who has taught or worked with and navigated our district math curriculum, Eureka Math, upon which our new math intervention curriculum is based, will be gone. Also, our reading specialists will be tapped to take on these math groups as their reading schedule allows without having a background in Eureka Math instruction and Eureka Math intervention. In tier two, support from interventionists for classroom teachers who typically administer tier two interventions, which range from training, progress monitoring, and data collection, will disappear or be added to another educator's responsibilities. In tier one, support for grade levels like our kindergarten and first grade students to assess learning readiness and whole grade level assistance in areas like sight word analysis for all learners will disappear or be severely impacted by increasing the amount of time to complete these assessments and further delay services.
Okay. Great. Okay. Can I have a motion? Yeah, that's where we got that from. Okay. All right. Action item report number B, Bravo, Board of Education. C, Charlie. May I have a motion to appoint We're doing nominations? I don't think we need Yeah, that's the appointment. >> I think we got a nominee. I think we got to open it. I don't think this is right. >> Okay, that's Yeah. We got a nominee. Can I have a Can I have Is there any nominations for the vice president of Crete-Monee School Board 201U. I nominate Jamie Zeitz Stumbris. Okay. Is there any other nominations for the vice president of 201U School Board at this time? Okay.
And this spring we've had some great opportunities for our students. So the first page that you have, you see our students, they went to the Uplands student-run business convention that's held every year, and we've actually attended as a school who has watched. And so, we've sat and watched other schools present. And when we were doing our Ready Schools work, we toured several schools who had the student-run businesses. And honestly, we sat there thinking, is that ever going to be a like, are we really going to be there one day? And this is just goes to show that we are. Our students were there. Our students presented. They actually had to move our students from their current venue to a larger room because they had so many people sign up to come and listen to our kids present. And so, that was a really neat opportunity for our kids.
We got new lockers wall coverings flooring some signage some we uh Mrs. Weishart was able to get some new furniture that we just added uh and I believe that was part of the 2024 bond some of these bonds are starting to run together for me. Very inviting space there some um some more classroom seating and staff seating staff lounge area for lunch. There's classroom furniture so the middle school is just beautiful inside I I remember my last year there we had a basketball game kids walking in. Wow. I can't believe this place and this is a building from 1974 and it looks like it's was just built yesterday. So beautiful just did a great job on that a complete [clears throat] facelift and makeover. Moving on to Country Meadow not as much at Country Country Meadow here but they if you recall we did that one of the first projects I got involved in was I learned how to build a playground.
Um the other big one was Lakeshore Learning. um Broadview Middle School Library uh went had a reh redesign proposal and after that was uh Robert Lord again chairs and tables uh cafeteria tables and um I think the last one um maybe Carrie you know the William um Ori um >> that's the bogan system >> well the bogan system is a communication system so that's our PA those are our PA systems which are very sensitive and when they don't work, it's a huge safety issue. So, we did I do believe that that was one of the upgrades um to that system um because that is a big safety issue. And just a mention about the furniture um you know there are many teachers uh desks and student desk teacher desks in particular who have the name of a teacher you know for a few generations ago um and those desks and and chairs are still in service.
While the majority of our students have stayed within that same risk level, we do see some dips um with about 90 students decreasing in their proficiency band, but we do also see where we can see growth, the red to the yellow, the yellow into the green. We do see movement, um which is an indication that some of the adjustments we've been making along the way were leading to some change, which we anticipate will have even greater change in the in the next assessment. Have you identified what some of those changes are? I know that changes is a very broad term, but specifically I love your face right now. >> Yes, we do. And Taya will share those with you in just a few slides. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> Uh here on this slide, this is again the school comparisons that we've been sharing with you.
In tier zero, the opportunity to take our most underserved students and accelerate their learning past the tier one curriculum will be gone as well. Additionally, a valuable member of each school's blitz teams will disappear. Monthly updates of progress of intervention groups, student problem-solving dialogue support, and grade level team liaisons will be eliminated from that team, adding additional workloads to the remaining blitz team members. I regret that I cannot get into much more detail in this short amount of time, but I'd like to leave you with some questions that would be very worthy of your while to get these answers to. As interventionists, we still don't have answers to many of these questions. Number one, who will be providing intervention services when the reading specialist already has a caseload of their own at the same time? Two, with the very clear email that explained the upcoming changes with elementary instructional coaches, don't the changes in our intervention services deserve the same care and attention to detail?
Hearing none. Roll call, please. Pro tem secretary. Does she have to accept the nomination? I accept the nomination. Oh. Oh. Okay. No, I was >> Thank you. Be honest. Do you accept the nomination?
And they did phenomenal. On the second page, you're going to see Mr. Harrington's Principles of Business Management class. They traveled to the University of Evansville to compete in the JA Social Innovation Challenge. And so, we had two teams who went. The JBM team, the Optics team, they took two different hunting pieces of equipment. I'm not going to try to name what they are, but something along a scope and something. And they said, we use both of these, but what if you could bring them into one? And so, they designed a product where they combined the two pieces of equipment into one, and they were able to go and then do their pitch, very much like a Shark Tank experience for them. The Eco Sense group, they took recycled materials and found a way that if we could turn them into fertilizer, and then use that and convert that into a resource that could be used.
I think uh Tony I remember you came out there um this is Feaster you were out there Katie you were out there I think Mrs. Armstrong I think I think I saw you out there too. Um turning some wrenches and so that was a community project that playground that's the poured-in-place material that you can see there that's really cool nice and soft very safe. Uh that was a fun project that was 2 years ago 20 summer of 2024. We just did that's the cafeteria they had you heard Mark talking about carpet in the cafeteria I'm not sure. And by the way that was the second I found out that was the second round of carpet for that cafeteria. So we did carpet twice there. So it's a nice flooring right there. We did that just over spring break. Uh Country Meadow is set to get new carpet in their hallways this summer.