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reading 32 percent of our kids are going to perform at or above the college readiness level on the reading subtest of the act in 11th grade math 26 of our kids we're right there with the state average on both reading and math writing we were at 33 i don't have state data because that has it's not normally reported so this will be the first year we'll get those averages but we they haven't shared those with us yet and when we say committee when mark's talking about the committee's talking at the state board so the state board of education is having meetings in the beginning of july and in july to create the cut scores act this is a scale score um so what you're looking at here is how we did on each of the subtests the two that will be used for the a through f letter grades are going to be math and ela so you can see our 11th graders um above the state average in english and reading and writing a little bit below in math and a little bit above in ela what we don't know again is what that cut score is going to be so the next two charts you're going to look at are hoping to give you an idea of where we might fall depending on what that cut score will say so this is the actl ela this is the number of students that got a particular score on the act ela subtest so um so if the state puts the cut score at say 21 this bar right here all of these kids will be proficient all of these kids will not be proficient and the challenge i have is right now for the ccri that we have to submit to the state where our seniors get points um for the a through f they get points for english scores and reading scores but they don't get points for an ela combined score again because writing was not considered to be a normal part of the act and that writing score factors into the ela so it's a guessing game right now where that point might lie and i'm on that committee to to look at those so i'll have a lot more information at the end of july but i have to sign a non-disclosure agreement as well so um so a question or a statement one they do when the committee sets the cut scores if it's part of the a a to f the reality is they're looking for a bell curve correct when i sat on the committee to do azmerit it was very the process was not necessarily a bell curve we started out looking at actual items and ranking those items in terms of difficulty and then used that to determine a point and then they threw it up and said what does the curve look like so so the bell curve wasn't the the starting point but there was an end did what we do create a bell curve and and if it was accurate enough then that that's what the recommendation of the state board was i don't know what the process with act will be because i'm not sure how much pearson will share their items like air did so it'll be like i said it'd be an interesting opportunity and only bring that up so everybody understands though that that now the politics plays and so there's only going to be a certain percentage of people that are going to be at the top and there's only going to be a certain percentage of people to be at the bottom because you can't afford to have too many at the top or too many at the bottom so we're talking about a bell curve or some notion of a curve that is going to play a role in what takes place here so let's not kid ourselves as we have this conversation it could be beneficial to us or harm us but we're not getting into psychometricians and having a conversation that's non-political we're having a conversation that is political and therefore and they and to the point of in previous years with adaf they have blocked the numbers from coming out and they've had special meetings to re establish the cut scores because the initial cut scores one year in particular i'm thinking of there was an error made and there was going to be too many people that failed so please keep that in mind as we have this conversation it's much more so than just a conversation about test scores there's a political question and conversation in this discussion so we want to keep that in mind uh marx early you said that if the cut score would be at 21 everyone to the right would be considered proficient and everyone to the left which would be a greater majority would be so if they made it 18 for example it's almost just eyeballing it 50 50.
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so that would be the way to interpret this graph correct okay here's math and what i do know on math what i don't know again is what that cut score will eventually be but i can make a pretty good guess is that if the state board was saying 22 is enough for a senior to get points on the ccri then we're probably looking at ballpark around a 22 is this cut score which means everybody to that left of that line is not passing and the reality is if we look at our act aspire data it's that 26 percent of our ninth graders are going to perform at or above college readiness level 22 being college readiness level we're at about 30 percent of our 11th graders that would be at that level uh on this assessment so again right now it's all guesstimate the committees meet in july that information then goes to the state board in august uh state board for information probably state board will make approve it in september early drafts of a through f will come out and into september october and the final drafts have to drop by november 1.
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so that's when we'll get our final a through f scores will be right around october no beginning in november any other questions the i can provide subgroup data i didn't put it in here because it gets really complicated for a big level it's in the data files uh i think act and act aspire have it but i haven't had a chance to disaggregate and really look i did an eyeball test on aasa special ed and it was about two percent of our kids passing aasa in ela and about eight percent of our kids passing math but as we as we bring on you know as we go through the summer we'll we'll dive down into the subgroup data uh from you know from the state to other questions okay talking shelly what we're going to do because we've been sitting for a while we'll go ahead and take uh roughly a 15-minute break get up stretch your legs then we'll come back for the next couple of presentations i'm sure thank you okay we'll go ahead and get started if we can get seated we'll go ahead and go back okay so what we're going to look at so just from everybody perspective here we'll probably do about an hour of a couple different presentations uh then we'll break for lunch uh i think it's italian that's coming in and then this afternoon we will work on the um shared vision and the um codes uh that will go no later than two o'clock because at two o'clock we'll start our regular board meeting the regular board meeting will be we have to do the uh proposed budget we'll talk a little bit about that when we get to that portion of the board meeting and then i know for the principles there's a science curriculum that we have to get taken care of and a couple of little things like that so we'll have a regular board meeting so just for planning every day that's kind of what we're looking at so we'll go ahead if we could pull open the organizational development plan that's why i'm not locked behind a podium which i'm not good at so when we talked about the road ahead and what's happening the road ahead 2035 um really what we're talking about is organization development plan we've been talking about this for a couple years so i just want to give the board a chance to understand where we're going and how it's all coming together uh it's been kind of uh taken apart a little bit with cobit so we slow slowed us down we were supposed to do some work uh that march and april of covid when they shut the schools down we couldn't do it so we've we've had to back off uh and some of this we alluded to before um with um the the annual report so an organizational development plan just as a reminder for those who don't aware it's basically a planned system of change so when we start talking about what is it we're going to do to get the results that we want this is part of what the organizational development plan is all about and so you start with three key questions where do you want to go where are we and how do we get where we want to go and where we want to go for us started with the grad the portrait of a graduate that's where we wanted to go if our kids were going to leave us at that point in 2019 it was about 12 years ahead or 13 years ahead what were we looking for where we're at was now to take a look at our true vision mission core values and then how do we want to get where we want to go that would be the strategic plan portion of it and i will tell the board we will show some goals for strategic plan that the leadership teams are working on but they're not finalized we're still working on that piece but that way you get an idea of what we're trying to look at again we completed the graduate the profile graduate portrait of graduate in and then we did vision mission core values this year and we'll have the strategic plan completed and we'll talk about how we align that with what we're doing with hashtag forward because we're trying to create alignment between all the things we're doing so that starts to make sense we also did a whole process of a portrait of a graduate uh the portrait of a graduate then links into the new research when we talk about research-based practices bill daggett is who works with model schools for those for the board members if you're not aware with model schools uh that's that icle that we use to come in and look for rigor and relevance and he's not the only one that does this if you look at what double asa the national organization's doing and others they start to talk about you should have portraits of a modern learner a modern educator a modern leader a modern school a modern district so we just expanded off that portrait of a graduate into these other areas and we decided in part because it was aligned with success indicator 114 for modern teacher was that we would look at skills knowledge and characteristics the original document and you still see some documents up there the one up here we've not had a chance to change it the original document said 21st century skills knowledge and characteristics we're just talking now about skills knowledge and characteristics so we framed everything off of that notion so when you look at the portrait of a graduate the key thing is i'm not going to go through all this detail it's been out there for a while but the key things to start taking a look at is are the words that are shown in the skills the knowledge and the characteristics and the definitions and it's important that you take a look at it because in order to create consistency and alignment you will start to see some of the same words show up over and over and over again so as we create these portraits and as we create definitions you will see just like one hashtag ford came in i don't know because it's been a number of years if people realize or remember that much of what was done with hashtag four theory of action uh and our instructional model in many ways were tied to the priority map that the district was using at that time and so it's not a case of saying we're no longer going to use the visual of a priority map so we're going to get rid of the priority map completely it's how do we take what we've done with the priority map and meld it into some different document that still creates alignment between what's been done here in the past the goal is not to throw the baby out with the bath water and start over fresh every single time those districts that roll over leadership roll over boards a lot that's what they do and all you do is spend every two years starting over again so there is linkages so that that's not the case that's happening with us so so please look for those linkages i'm not going to go there's a lot of words um where we don't need to go over the words in some of these cases this information is for the board so that on your own time if you want to really dive into it um you can dive into it but i'm not going to read you paragraph by paragraph by paragraph every single thing that's taking place okay so this is what started in 2019 it frames everything we do although this is the visual that we use to tie all the pieces together we're moving to uh this particular visual and so again at the center of this whole thing is still the portrait of a graduate we do not have the definitional pieces but the words that around the outside of this gear okay still show work ethic integrity adaptability those same terms and then what we started to do was take these different portraits so in this case of the district and you're still looking at the same terms the terms that are unique to that particular area where did we get these terms it varied so when we did students the learner and the portrait of the parent we talked to kids and we talked to parents so we have the superintendent the parent advisory they're the ones that created the portrait of a parent and its initial phase then we put it out to parents for a rank order of what they thought the most important characteristics were for parents with kids it was a very similar conversation using thought exchanges and surveys as we moved into we did the same with educators but when we came to schools and district we did something different which is we started to take a look at the instructional model that we're using in in hashtag ford and the theory of action and we realized if you really looked at the instructional model in the theory of action you were talking about schools and districts so there's no point uh there's a real fine line that i think people need to understand everybody always wants input and they always want us to do input a lot of people don't want to give input so you can only go out and ask so many times when you get a return to the point where you're not getting the value of return why do you keep asking the same questions so you have to balance out how many times i'm going to go out and ask people for information and if they're not going to give me any information back because they're tired of being asked then we have to take a look at it differently we were starting to see that with a number of our surveys in a number of our thought exchanges and so when we looked at the idea of the theory of action in the instructional model and this is critical for the board to understand is the instructional model is now framing everything we do and we'll talk about that instructional model in a second so you know if you're not remembering it you're familiar with it but it frames everything we do so the school and the district portrait was based on those two components and then the portrait of a leader was developed by the leadership team so the stuff that's up there has been worked on looked at and developed by a variety of different people throughout the district whether it's our kids our parents our community or our employees and that's the kid that's the case of getting involvement at what level and to what degree depends on the particular situation that we're in and what we're trying to do so i just tell you that because sometimes people say where does this come from this came from a lot of different people if you really want to take a look at the total numbers we're probably looking at north of 500 600 people that have at some point time been involved in one portion of another of the civil organizational development plan so i think it's critical for our community knowing for our board to know that when we do this stuff it is coming back and asking people for their opinions and then it's not done behind closed doors with a few people just working on it now these next ones for the portraits this is for the board i am not going to go through all this but i share this with you so if you go back to the previous page if we took a talk about a modern learner we just pulled out these bold words this is the definition that goes with them obviously you cannot put all those definitions on this particular screen because as it is we have a hard enough time seeing it try to put two sentence paragraphs three sentence paragraphs with each one of those would make it an impossibility but i ask that you take a look at this because what you will start to see is connections to hashtag ford connections to the portrait of a graduate connections to the vision statements connections to the core values connections to the mission statements so all the terminology that's being used in an indirect or direct way is connected together through this process it's not us a suggestion to see how many different ways we can say something new and have no connection to it so when you talk about global awareness global awareness is tied into that concept whether you want to call it an ever-changing world never changing society global awareness it's all the same stuff personalized learning personalized learning is what the foundation of hashtag forward is about so you're going to see personalized learning in many areas growth mindset that's a component of hashtag forward it's described under our instructional model so please keep in mind when we take a look at this stuff that there are connections now i'm not as i said i'm not going to read this to you but you can see we did the same thing for educators leaders parents this is probably the one that that moves a little bit further away from hashtag forward and that's only because parents maybe are not as aware of some of the terminology that we used but it is unique to them making sure that they understand and they have knowledge of their child's learning style that becomes critical for us if we're going to work with kids it's beneficial for our parents to understand how their kid learns so that's where that becomes important but you still see in other words that are very much throughout the whole document expectations collaboration communication respect and responsibility accountability engagement those are all things that are inherent throughout the entire document and so it's important again not for me to read this stuff for you but for you to understand and take a look at it and if you look at it and if people are researching our district they should start to see who we are and what we're about this critically defines who we are and what we're about and i i think it's crucial for us to understand that so again i'm not going to go through each one of these but a student-centered experience that's what we've been talking about professional learning that's written all over what we do with hashtag forward assessments again innovation both of those are key components of our instructional model that's why we have what we have some cases we may use the word culture or nurturing culture but again it's back to the same concept again for the district so at each of the schools in the district and then this became the vision developed by about 30 employees across two meetings and we also did a thought exchange to get some input from uh all teachers and staff and administrators in the district and so this is the end of the final product you'll see it's not super far off of where we're at before but it's a little bit more tightly aligned to hashtag forward and some of the concepts in the hashtag forward so empowered learners driving innovations and excellence okay then we came up with mission same group of 30 people they worked on both of these again not significantly far away from what was in the priority map but a little bit more tightly aligned to what we're doing with um ford modern teacher that we are dedicated developing learners who leverage the skills knowledge and characteristics do we not just talk about skills knowledge and characteristics in our portraits there's the linkages to flourishing and contribute to an ever-changing global community no different than what we've talked about before with global awareness and ever-changing community so i think it becomes critical that people understand that that how these different parts are connected i know some people like oh really we're going to go through this did you plan once again but for lots of people it does show who you are and what you're about and there are individuals that look to see whether they want to come and work for us or not and they will look to this kind of stuff so it becomes critical for us to drive where we're going in our core values this was a different committee this was a committee of probably about i think 20 we did a survey of the staff for what they thought thought exchanged for what they thought were the highest values i think we ended up with about 12 values then we brought a committee together they went ahead and narrowed this down to eight then they wrote definitions then we put it back out to our staff we then voted on what they thought were the top values uh their top three values and this is where we got these five again it becomes very critical to the same terminology that's being used in all aspects of the organizational plan when you look at these definitions they also very much tightly aligned with the conversations that we have had with hashtag forward as well as other components of of uh what we're doing with modern teacher and so again it's trying to tie everything together as the groups worked it we shared with them the portrait of graduate we shared with them the priority map we shared with them hashtag forward vision and hashtag forward instructional model that's why you're seeing some of this connection so that they didn't just go off on their own tangent and take us away from where we're talking about this is new so for board members we have not had core values before and so this is a component of the of the strategic plan that's that's different than what we've had in the past okay so this framework i want to spend a little bit of time here on this framework only because this is instructional model that was developed by the district before i even came on and so we again looked at our four quadrants nurturing culture innovation purposeful learning and assessment if you look at those definitions again you're going to start to see key words taking risks positive relationships ever changing needs authentic engaging learning experiences you have words down here that help to further describe what we mean by each of these areas so if we're talking here nurturing culture growth mindset positive relationships board of environments student-centered experiences those words show up in the portraits those words show up in the definitions of the portraits those words show up in the core values those words show up in the vision mission one you look at this holistically why is this going to become critical because two things have happened the 301 committee which does performance pay for teachers because of the changes that the board made to take the 3 200 and move it into the base and only have 800 the 301 committee came together to make changes to our 301 plan we're still working on it we've probably had i think we're up to five or six meetings because now there's only 800 and so is there a way for us to change what they came to as a realization was that they should write four goals and those four goals should be nurturing culture innovation purposeful learning and assessment what they looked at was the statute and when you look at the statute there's specific provisions in the statute those you that are really interested in statute stuff it's 15 977 and what it does is it tells you this is what you need to do in a performance pay plan and so we looked at and said how can we do these things which one of those four areas does it go to and then based on that they then started to develop a rubric that could say how could we measure so purposeful learning as an example in many ways can be measured by the pd that dorsey's crew does now why is that important number one it gives value to what's being done there's money attached to it at the end of the year the amount of work that the teacher has to do is minimal in the sense that they have to show up and they have to pay attention and hopefully they're going to apply it but they don't have to track all the information for the end of the year there's systems we have in the district we can track the information for them why is that so critical because if we start to take a look at our test scores and we start to take a look at what we've done in the past we want our teachers focused on teaching not collecting data a hand in at the end of the year so they can get performance pay money so the ideas of what we do with this instructional model is trying to figure out what's the easiest way to go ahead and make sure that teachers are freed up to teach and not just collect a bunch of data so when we start talking about assessment it could be test scores or letter grades we don't have to like the test scores we don't have to like the letter grades we don't have to do any of that stuff but the fact that matters we get that information from lots of sources teachers don't have to go spend the time doing that it is important for them to do the work to ensure that the test scores go up and the letter grades go up to get the most benefit the most money so they're not off the hook any more than administrators are but we're not creating an exercise and collection of data or creating exercise and people doing their job and people going ahead and getting the results that we need and that becomes critical why is this critical because we'll be coming forward to the board as we discussed as part of the budget but haven't brought it to you yet to go ahead and have a performance pay system for administrators as well as classified staff that plan will be based on four goals what are those four goal areas nurturing culture innovation purposeful learning and assessment so this becomes the framework for where we're moving forward in terms of everything we're doing in the district and so you want to make sure you're very familiar with this because we'll come back to this assessment can be any number of different areas purposeful learning can be the same way our nurturing culture we have to do parent surveys and student surveys per the state statute right away that falls under nurturing culture do we create an environment that parents and kids want to send their uh excuse me parents want to send their kids to and staff wants to stay i'll tell a short story as a segue but this weekend on saturday um my wife and i went to come from away i don't know if you guys know what come from away is out of this world best best musical i've ever seen in my entire life come from away is about what happened in gander newfoundland canada on 9 11.
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so what happened on 911 when they hit the two towers is they shut down airspace across the entire country well you had something like 244 250 planes that were coming across the ocean from europe and they were not allowed in american airspace so they were forced to land in canada in several different places in canada the largest contingent was gander newfoundland why gander newfoundland because it used to be the jumping off point for planes back in world war ii and before where you had to get refueled before the jumbo jets you would have to drop on the gander then you could take off and get over across the pond okay so they had to give you perspective i learned this yesterday because intrigued by it they had a runway that was something like 1100 feet wide normal runway is 200 feet wide and so gander got 38 airplanes that came out of the sky between nine o'clock in the morning and 12 o'clock at lunch and they were not allowed to go anywhere the people of gander opened up their homes they took over these people for five days it's a phenomenal story to listen to them they didn't ask to be done they just naturally said they cook more food than they know what to do with they prayed with people they laughed with people they cried with people i tell you that because the mayor of that town now says people used to come to gander newfoundland for three things the weather not quite sure because it's on the edge of canada and next to the analytic ocean that's pretty dang cold but the weather the culture or the historical significance they come to get gander newfoundland now for one reason and one reason only the culture because enough people have heard the story to see how these people to give you perspective gander newfoundland has ten thousand people seven thousand people landed in those planes so they almost doubled the population in four hours and literally to the point where they said you guys don't have a place to stay you only have 500 hotel rooms you come to my house by the way here's my refrigerator here's the bed there's a shower your clothes you take what you need i have to go to work i'll come back in a couple hours and see how you're doing and the kindness of those strangers was such that people come to gander newfoundland right now for the kindness culture that that community has why do you tell you that story because if that was a culture that we had in this district we would have people come back to this district for the culture of kindness if you have not looked at the story i tweeted it out if you haven't looked at the story look it up it's an amazing story would that happen in every other any other community around the world i'm sure in some places but if you listen to what they did in the lifelong friendships and if you go to that play it is absolutely phenomenal i've seen hamilton i've seen lots of other plays i'm not a big play person but the rest of my family is so i go to those place far and away the best play i've ever seen far and away not even close it's the message in a time that we're as divided as we are and people are attacking us the way they are if we have a culture of kindness that makes all the difference so when we look at these things up here keep that in mind of what we're trying to do this is what makes the district special this is what we have to shoot for so i give you this framework because we get into goals we have the goal the strategy and the action steps we're still working on strategies and action steps this is rough draft of some goals given to the board i will bring you the goals for your approval probably in august i don't think we'll get to july so they may change but i want you to get an idea you've seen some stuff about celebrations you've seen some stuff about test scores so when we take a look at this stuff here you can see that we're starting to take a look and address some of those so in this first one we're talking about learner center and uh environment sense of long and high levels of engagement by five percent increased annually through june 2027 it's a five-year strategic plan as measured on a variety of surveys and measurement instruments so if we go back to the performance pay plan for teachers and for administration and for support staff if surveys of parents on how we're doing is a component of 301 then this is also going to be a component of the district strategic plan so they're linked together so that what we're trying to do to get better we're going to go ahead and do in our goals as well as the strategic plan down to the individual's plan for for people in district so again goal number one nurturing culture just like the instructional model goal number two purposeful learning we talked about student achievement a little while ago what we're basically suggesting that we will have student achievement increases of five percent annually through june 2027 so we should see a 25 increase in our student achievement scores over the next five years that's the goal that we're talking about we'll get into the specific action steps of what we're going to do with that again these may be modified a little bit as we move forward but that's the essence of what we've worked on goal number three innovation okay one of the areas that we're going to really work on is moving towards personalized learning plans that's a key component of what's in hashtag forward it's a key component of the framework of modern teacher and so there will be work done on personalized learning plans but that'll apply to both students and staff so what does it take for me to be a successful person in this organization not just a successful student and that becomes critical when we move forward we want everybody to be moving forward we talk about a discrete a personal learning plan that's aligned with the work when we talked about major clarity and what's happening with major clarity and the word we got from a major clarity in many ways this is all aligned to that kind of stuff major clarity is saying kids where are you going to go for career readiness where are you going to go for college what's the plan you can start in 4th grade to start looking at and exploring where you want to go that is in essence a personalized learning plan they are talking about themselves if we do learner profiles that's how do i learn best did not our parents did we not ask our parents to make sure they understand how their kids learn how do i learn best that becomes part of a personalized learning plan if we give student choice in student voice and staff choice and staff voice are we not talking about a personalized learning plan we're saying kids what how do you learn best so let's give you a voice and choice when you're in the classroom that becomes a learning plan and then our fourth goal is assessment and we have both student services and cia working together on a framework this talks about tier one tier two tier three interventions and how well we do in those particular areas so this is a tentative idea and i only want to give it to you because it's june but i want to get give you a sense of we've talked about this organizational development plan for the last couple years since i first came in and so we went ahead and did specific steps to move us forward first step portrait of a graduate second step mission vision core values third step goals now it gets more complex than that because of all the different pieces we've added to it but there is a sense of where we're going and now that we're back into more of a traditional strategic plan a little easier to measure than what maybe the priority map did we would hope that we would start to see everybody moving in the same direction everybody rolling in the same direction and we're going to get the results that we need so this kind of just a summary update but are there questions especially from the board oops before one last thing then this would be our pl goals for hashtag ford again goal number one is nurturing goal number two is purpose of learning goal number three is assessment goal number four is innovation i wonder where that comes together so the other stuff was tied off of this work that was done several years ago okay and so we're if you look at these words you're still seeing the same words over and over again we're trying to tie everything together so people hear the same message over and over again if you ask us who we are and what we're about this is who we are and this is what we're about bob you had a question so when i look at the previous four slides goal one two three and four they all appear to follow the smart model with exception of goal number three there's nothing that says a specific time when that needs to be done so it might want to say yearly or by a certain date or something like that yeah that's good observation we're looking at the goals were smart goals and so that just as we put it together we didn't get that so we'll make that adjustment other questions from the board or leadership any comments okay key point to all this as we as well [Music] and i'm not going to put i'm going to put dorsey on the spot for just a second because i wasn't around when they built some of this out and it's through modern teacher framework so she might be able to explain those a little bit better sorry can you tell me exactly what you need again right those are actually were not created in a smart model at all they were actually taking our instructional model and relating them to the pl goals within the modern teacher framework so what they did was we we took the nurturing culture piece we articulated what that meant and then we were able to match professional learning sessions that would meet that goal so within the modern teacher framework what we have is a percentage goal of teachers who take the literacy portion with just just the learning portion but really where the action hits the road is when teachers are able to show their learning through the fluency portion when they um present that in their classrooms or their we have evidence that their culture has changed and so that's how those goals are actually represented is just through the match of professional learning and the implementation of that learning and what it looks like on a teacher reflection form in a walk-through yes and what i'm asking i'm asking craig to call it up real quick and throw it up on the screen so right when we had done this with our coach we related them to goals because they are actually connected with our goal um cycle on um the framework so we could right and but but as you scroll scroll up on this or down or whichever direction we want to go the opposite we're at right here keep going it becomes critical and dorsey can speak to this but these become some of the the areas that that um they're going to go ahead and take a look at as teachers and is it on this page dorsey is on no i wanted to look at the architect of learner center classroom well this is the cover page to craig so if we go into is it in framework try gold cycle why she's looking at that no but i but i think it's but i think it's critical to that that you understand so look at the goal cycle i don't know if it's school cycle no it's not professional learning move over professional learning and district pl goals and so we go here then keep going down there and and so this becomes and where there's ties in bob and i think it's important to understand is then we get into this whole notion of literacy and fluency and so what happens is the teachers go ahead and move through on the literacy level first which is to perform and understand the particular area so if we talk about architect of a learner-centered culture when they go through on the on the litter so open that up again craig when they go through on the literacy level they're completing and keep going down they're going to complete their knowledge and understanding but then they come down here stop to the fluency and fluency is application in the classroom and so that's where you start to get although not written a smart goal we can possibly modify them but the idea is their ability to complete both literacy and fluency for the different components of each of the goals should in turn mean that they're now in the classroom doing the work that they need to do to get us to the level of success that we need to do and there's a series of so in this case if you minimize that craig for goal one it you have architect of a learner-centered classroom and architect procedures for modern learning in the other three goals if you open them up you have different sets that's going to teach you so architect for rigorous learning experience and architect for learning using effective pedagogy so all of those are tied to the goals in hopes to build their skill level and their ability to apply it to to their teaching practices to end up getting better results in the classroom if i've modified that the wrong way dorsey please jump in yes and um when we come back to modern teacher we're looking at a percentage of teachers in the district that were able to achieve the fluency goal so if you have goal one and you have your two areas of goal one within fluency when we're looking at um teacher reflection tools and walkthroughs we're really looking at a hundred percent of teachers being able to make that goal so if the district has 60 of the teachers implementing the fluency goal within goal 1 then it's measured on our on on a tracking system that's within that as well but the timeline is definitely not there because it is a process as people move forward i just have a clarification question um i love oh as far as a comment i love what you guys have been doing it's this is fantastic it's great to get everybody heading in the same direction i think that's wonderful um uh just clarification like on the on the goal number two where it talks about purposeful learning when it says measure i'm talking about right there so where it says support increase student achievement of five percent annually um i just want to clarify when we say student achievement are we talking about a five percent increase in the number of like in in how yeah like well there's there's two things right there's so okay so that so you you want to go by the percent proficient how many kids achieve proficiency that's what you mean okay right and there's just two you know there's two measures there's the there's the percentage of like getting more questions correct on those assessments right and what are they increasing how many questions they're getting right are they increasing their score on the test and then if more kids start to increase their scores on tests then eventually the percentage of kids who meet the benchmark or the proficiency cut off then those that proficiency will increase by five percent um anyway just make sure i just want to see if we make that clear because my experience has been that sometimes it might be more achievable to to make that five percent achievement an increase in five percent achievement on the test the assessments themselves that their scores increase by five percent or more and then the percent the percent proficient will just naturally start to increase here's the thought and i think what's going to happen with these because remember this is a five-year strategic plan so if this is the goal i think the danger that everyone runs in any of these goals is the notion of rigging relevance and so at what point you know it's that old notion of of stretching the rubber band the tension in the room to get the results you want to get and so for the first year i think you look at the student achievement component if we are not seeing the successes we think we should achieve then the question is why are we seeing other successes and i think in future years your action steps underneath here may in fact be modified modified based on the conversation you're having but i think we have to be very careful because there's a lot of places where if you create modifications to the goals enough you don't create enough rigor and relevance and therefore the goals become achievable not because they're rigorous enough but because they're simple enough and that's that's the real differentiation if we're going to get true success and it's a hard one for all of us because we're we're all online but at what point in time do you make sure it's rigor rigorous enough to get the the results that you need to get the change and so that when we look at our test scores we say yes we're seeing a upward trend and i think that's what we're playing around with this right now but that's why we're shooting for five years and it's not like we're gonna necessarily see uh everything's gonna stay static for the next five years we write this one and doesn't change we may have to make some slight modifications in the least action steps any other questions okay the last thing we'll go before lunch this is just bob for a chance to take a look at um the ag's report the ag's report is is changing and i will bring that piece up too i think someone's going to may have to click it when we get there i'm not going to read again every single piece okay but just as a quick reminder uh auditor general's report applies from proposition 301 back in 2000.
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it's done by auto general classroom spending versus non-classroom standing please understand that this report was released in march 1 of 2022 and applies to fiscal year 2021 so some of your data is not necessarily totally accurate or not it's not that it's not accurate but it's not for this year so there may be factors that happen this year in terms of people staying or leaving that are not necessarily reflected in this data your salary is not necessarily reflected by the growth that we gave last year even and this year it's reflected by two years ago so keep that in mind these are the areas i would just argue the only thing i would argue as we take a look at this is i would argue these six areas and they were chosen because they're used across the country the big discussion is how much is going to the classroom i would actually argue that all three of these go to the classroom oh but by the way so do these other four people don't want to argue that because you know those dirty rotten administrators they make too much money anyway and so when we look at these things we don't count this as dollars that affect kids in the classroom when in fact food service and transportation if you can't get them to school then it's not impacted by them if you don't feed them many kids don't have any food otherwise and so but that's the political nature of the game it's a report that's been out since 2000 so we're talking on 20 years of data my initial plug would just be it's only for traditional school districts charter schools are not covered by this so you keep in mind there are a couple different groups that we we get compared against and it's for specific reasons you may take a look at it and not understand the comparative groups but but they use peer districts for comparative so when it comes to district operational expenses these are the districts we're compared against let's base the degree on free and reduced poverty rates within districts and some other characteristics so you'll see that these are probably more consistent with who we should get compared against it doesn't necessarily compare us against the mesa or pv or some of those the second way we're compared is against transportation and now you see all of a sudden we have chandler and and deer valley in that group and gilbert and that's because it's based on rot miles and miles per rider so in this case if i'm in a rural district and i'm driving all over the creation i'm not going to get the same comparison as if i'm in a in a large city and so they take a look at some issues i tell you there are some districts but i tell you to take a look at this because when you look at this data you have to understand the peer data and it's not as simple as just taking a look at a number and saying it's all the same it's not it depends on a lot of factors within these particular school systems right out of the gate with transportation there's obviously a difference between an elementary school district a unified school district and union high school school district you're going to see a different kind of travel when it's a union high school district like tempe so you have to keep that in mind but this is done by the auditor general it's not up to us it's up to them so i'm not sure if this can open up or not nope if we can open it up real quickly i don't know if you guys can do that or not okay i might have you toggle through some of that as we're talking but note that this year this is different than what it's been in the past it's no longer the one pager you have to take a look at if you hit the district demographic information this used to be at the top of all the scale now it's just put into this format so when you're looking at some of this stuff if you want to go back and take a look though you're going to see five year change in students attending right now we're on two percent decrease if i talk to 15 people out in the real world about what our growth is in this district they would tell me that i'm probably growing at 10 percent that understand that the growth hasn't come across the county line but it also gives you stuff like special education population english language learners you can see that that data is from 2021 we only had seven schools we now have 10 schools that's because it's not this year's data it's last year's data so you have to keep that stuff in mind as we scroll down this is what you've always seen in terms of what our spending is so not a whole lot of difference within that if you continue on down um you'll start to see they start to throw some numbers out again a little hard to to compare what's going on in the past because you don't know what the dynamics were if we go back to our highest year spending in 2006 we're a school district of about 500 kids or a thousand kids so who knows what the dynamics were back then in comparison to right now so it's a little bit different and if you go down a little bit more and then i'll go ahead and get in this so if you can pull me out of that and get me back to the other one i will go ahead and take a look at that oops there we go so i'm just giving you four year trend data so you can take a look at it of what we spent for classroom spending in terms of the districts and where we are with peer and where we are with the state average so we're still a little bit lower and so if you just want to look at classroom spending that could be a negative view of where the district's at however when you go to classroom spending on instruction that shows you one number and you can see the peer and the state are a little bit higher than us but if we get over here to student support you'll also see that we're higher than they are so we may have put our resources into student support which counselors social workers parapros other districts may not have had to do that or may have not wanted to do that so again it's not necessarily good or bad but you have to be careful when you look at these numbers because you're not comparing like with like everybody made a decision at the local level and that decision may be different than what our decision was but you'll see a consistent pattern across where we're at for the four years we go and i'm not going to go through all these numbers again you probably need to understand some of the school districts and why the numbers are the way they're at especially for the peer group and instructional support a little bit different a little closer on everybody right there non-classroom spending were a little bit higher within two percentage points over a four-year span that would include administration transportation food service and plant operations it raises an issue for us in administration you can see that we're right at this uh state average and quite quite frankly uh below the national average in many cases they didn't quite do as much with the national average this time but if we look at plant operations here's where we have an issue but you have to understand with plant operations we have schools that were built before charters came out here and so we have capacity especially in our elementary schools that we would normally not had had the charters not been here and so you have a conversation about what do you do and especially when we anticipate growth in the next decade so you're not going to shut those schools down you're not going to move all the kids from one school to another school because first of all then you have to sell that piece of property off and it can go to a charter school which exacerbates the problem and we know the growth is coming anyway so why would we do that but so for right now when we look at plant operations compared to the number of kids we have in the school system it looks like we have more schools than we should for the number of kids we have but that's an anomaly for we're at at this moment in time if we go ahead and take a look at this over the next five years and we continue to grow you're going to see that number change and so even when we look at these people want to look at them in isolation and they take a number and they want to say well you're not doing as well as but they don't want to hear the back story and understand why so please keep in mind keep your mind on that when we take a look at these and again i'm not going to go through all these numbers food service doing a good job with food service you can see that we're operating efficiently relative to the state transportation a little bit misleading again there's a school district in inner city phoenix that travels one square mile so they're in the mix the same as the district up on the reservation that travels forever and and sunday uh every single day so the transportation is a little bit misleading we're compared on a pure average with other districts that travel roughly the same in the miles and ridership the same as us so that's a better indicator necessarily than the state average just because um i know in payson as an example we went uh 1400 uh miles and so that's a little bit different than what we're driving here when you're doing a 5x5 teacher salary this is some of the stuff bob talked about before you're starting to see our salaries go up the big climb will be next year when we see the report for next year because we bumped our way up to 50 000 for our starting salary so that 51 is obviously going to probably go up commensurate so you may see a i would expect that we would have closed the gap significantly between us and the state average next year because we're given uh uh when everything's said and done coming off where people at they're getting in the neighborhood of uh 9 10 11 raises so what's a positive as we moved up i think that just the positive of the fact that we're 41 just short of 42 and 18 and we're already up to 51.
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and 20 by 20 was already done in 18 or the big chunk of 20 by 20 was done so it's by operating in a more efficient and effective manner and turning money over to our to our employees i don't think we can sell when we talk about a celebration i don't think we can sell that enough the amount of money that's going into our employees we value our employees so much this year that we said we would go ahead and stop any other money coming in unless the budget comes down in a way that's favorable and we would take all the initial investment into our employees so that's a significant commitment on our end to some of bob's points you can see that students per teacher we've actually seen a decrease so we have smaller class sizes so you're looking at me like how did that happen we're still trying to look at the data ourselves because that one doesn't totally make sense but again this is off auto general numbers average years of teaching experience the fact that we went from 8.5 to 11.3 that means our people are staying longer to come with more experience and so that's a positive and then you're looking at teachers in your first three years that's critical thirty-five percent of our teachers so one-third of our staff in 18 is at 35 is in their first three years and it's all the way down to 16 so again we're attracting people with more experience and we're not having to automatically just go get the teachers that are coming out of the universities so what we are seeing is before we are seeing an exodus in this direction i will just say from some of the people we hired this year we're seeing movement back in this direction does that mean that every teacher we have we have experience no we still have teachers that are brand new teachers but you are seeing more teachers that are willing to come out and take a look at us and stay with us than you were in the past because the salaries are commensurate with our neighbors and i would like to say because i've heard this enough and people are recognizing these good things that are happening in this district that has been communicated on more than one occasion on a consistent basis we are hearing communication i tell you that because it's a compliment to the people in this room for things that are happening but we are getting people that are willing to come out here because they know good things are happening out here and we saw that this year although we lost several teachers in the science department as an example practically the whole science department at the high school some of those people moved to get closer to home so it wasn't just a case of dissatisfaction as they're moving back to the midwest we have hired six but seven six out of seven as of right now and there's never you today for seven to seventh one i don't know if we'll hire or not the point is people are not automatically discounting us this is telling you a good story so don't forget this and the story that we're telling questions on this now remember whoever asks the questions it's between you and lunch i'm just kidding any questions okay we'll go ahead and take at least a 45-minute break for lunch there's olive garden there so anything you like uh italian olive garden uh go ahead and grab a bite and we'll come back somewhere in the next 45 minutes an hour okay we'll go ahead and get started again just um [Laughter] you know having to keep them board members on track pain in my existence um just so we're on the same page uh again we will this has to be uh done uh by two o'clock which is when we'll stop because we have to run the board meeting the board meeting will probably only last about depending on how many questions shelley asks maybe 10 to 10 to 15 minutes um you know um so what we're going to do is just uh as a reminder i'm just going to go through this quickly we've done this several times but just as a reminder to the board part of the modern curriculu modern teacher and the hashtag forward initiative we do do a learner-centered culture giving staff voice by creating a shared vision which is the same stuff we do in classrooms so we do this in every classroom in the district and we go ahead and try to do it also um within different groups so the leadership team went through this and and and you'll say why are we doing this because we have a vision and a code that's up for the leadership team in the book governing board over here on this end and then back there we have a leadership team uh vision and code from last year so why are we doing it again this year and it's because this process uh we do a new vision and a new code every single year based on uh changes in the dynamics of who the who the teams are or who the classroom is and so again it's just part of making sure that we present the same thing from the top down that we're expecting teachers and staff to do so learn insider culture um again the biggest the biggest piece to remember with um for the board is the shared vision is the why and then the combs is more the how so why are we doing what we're doing and then how are we doing what we're doing and it's a collective group that's why you're mixed in with uh with leadership team uh we do have a slightly different question we'll ask than some of the others we'll go through this for five steps so we depending on how fast or slow we're uh we may speed up the process uh uh to do it um but we want everyone to come up with uh you know at least two ideas or two answers to uh each of this process we want to make sure the process is is done in a manner that's um true to the true to what we do with our kids in the classroom um let's see again a clear collaboratively shared vision between the governing board and leadership we are the leadership in the district and therefore it's critical that we have a voice on how we how we're going to operate in our meetings uh and with each other let's see okay and again it's part of creating uh what what kind of work environment we want um in this collaborative voice uh and why the work done uh really what we're talking about is why the work done by um uh the minister of the board and the administration so what we do i think i'm going to skip right to the questions in interest of time the affinity tool and so what we want to do is uh individually reflect for just a few minutes or two on each question we'll read the question in just a second and then on the sticky notes that you have you want to answer one or two or three um things that that you think are applicable we fast track it a little bit and so i'm going to skip through some of these slides then we put the the sticky notes up on the question which i'll read in a second and then we consolidate what everybody says into uh key bullet points from what everybody put up there we vote on which ones are your top priorities okay i'm taking a bunch of slides and condensing them into this this piece here we go ahead and vote and then we create a second question we'll do that five times with five questions so underst on your uh uh um dots when you vote you'll get two votes for each one okay so you should have two in front of you so eat two dots for each questions two times five is ten for the math majors in there um so that's how we're going to get to that after we get the shared vision we then move into the codes um and so within that process about an hour and a half so it'll be up around a movement um and so i'm kind of any questions especially for board members of how we're doing this yeah the ones up in the front are the ones that we did last year with this group and so that's ones will be replaced the ones that the leadership team did the other day those will be replaced we just haven't gotten around to that yet let's see so the first question there's the first question why do we want to be leaders in the j.o combs unified school district so take a few minutes to think of some ideas it's back here in the corner because the chairs so you want to come back here and place your sticky notes and your ideas of why we want to be leaders in the jlcoms unified district back there and then we'll work on that okay um go oh [Music] thank you family oh much while dorsey's writing the next question it's going to be why do you want to make a positive difference with students and staff why do you want to make a positive difference with students and staff that's the second question we'll put up in just a second why do we want to make a positive difference with students and staff hi why not you want to make a positive difference oh thank you um okay the next question why do we want to create a sense of belonging and a strong community why do we want to create a sense of belonging and a strong community one oh i'm stinky now um next question why do we want to be a unified body with a common goal why do we want to be a unified body with a common goal that's where i begin folks hello yes last question why do we want to create a common direction to support student growth and success why do we want to create a common direction to support student growth and success why do we want to create a common direction to support student growth and success um thank you yes bye [Laughter] oh bye uh thank you hey [Applause] i'm really worried bye you
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hello everyone um we're gonna get started uh we have a few people who are on the way but we're gonna at least start with the uh public meeting statement the pledge and a few other things that we can do while they uh all right look at that well my presidency is short-lived unfortunately here he is i didn't get it further than saying hello public meeting statement that's not the agenda sorry thank you my apologies for my tardiness everyone uh so let's get started the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interest is discussed in active public in accordance with the pre provisions of this act and board of education policy zero one six two the board of education of the borough of bound brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board office and at baltimore high school and mailed or faxed to the courier news brownbrook borough cleric southbound board of education and any person who has requested individual notice and paid the required fee please stand for the pledge of allegiance 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 [Music] i mr bell here mr fabio here mr dawson here miss casino here miss lima mr minhas here okay so we have our six members and we have a quote correct correct correct here we go um for president's comments tonight i'll actually reserve them and just uh get us forward into the gems activities and uh i do have some comments about bringing them to business if that's okay okay all right are you students of the month first time oh yes absolutely i apologize so let's start off with our students of the month dr s would you like to do uh remind me annex please good evening [Applause] laura turner [Applause] for lafayette all right our first student of the month for lafayette is naomi lopez [Applause] um [Applause] and we also have juliet panetto [Applause] first smalling mr edwards good evening everyone our first recipient is chad sanders [Applause] our next recipient victoria velasco rojas [Applause] our next recipient nazareth antonio romita velazquez [Applause] and our last recipient matthew [Applause] hello everyone the community middle school is proud to recognize as student of the month adena commodore [Applause] the community middle school is also proud to recognize as the student of the month eternity baptiste [Applause] and for the high school mr smith good evening everyone the high school is pleased to announce the recipients of the crusaders citizens of the month first one leslie solis [Applause] so [Applause] our next recipient alison gutierrez [Applause] our third recipient daniel gutierrez [Applause] and last but certainly not least jaden grimage [Applause] thank you i think we're going to wrap back around to dr s for the jeff award for uh this lunch german system is lisa brement our school secretary this is always happy and willing to help staff students and parents need it she goes above and beyond and regularly recognizes and addresses matters that needs to be done she's even gone on her way to learn some basic spanish words to help her spanish-speaking parents she's also met with parents and told them how to log into their children's chromebooks or help create a genesis parent portal beyond being a natural better and problem solver she's always willing to assist if needed as a true team player she helps everybody without asking questions and always keeps me informed of what's happening in the building she upset morning arrivals dismissal after school activities and anything else that needs to be done we are lucky to have mrs brandt as part of our team congratulations and thank you for your hard work so [Applause] foreign lafayette's jump for the month of students renee jacob brower through her constant dedication mrs jacobs brower has helped students not only strengthen their speech and language skills but also their social and cognitive communication with each therapy session mrs jacobs brower has helped students gain confidence allowing them to develop as learners and individuals with tailored support to meet their needs her ability to clearly communicate with families and other members of the child study team has allowed the adults and students lives to access the most up-to-date information while including specific ideas on what can be done to further support the student at home and outside of the therapy sessions mrs jacobs per hour creates interactive lessons that make her therapy sessions engaging creating a fun environment leaving her students eager to return mrs jacobs brower thank you for your dedication to our students lafayette appreciate you [Applause] mr edwards mr distortion is the most deserving of this award for jewish he takes on all physical education classes from grades three to six and four to six health lessons his classes are always an enjoyment to watch team building integration of music mindfulness old school and new school games are some of the lessons that students get on a daily basis some other recognizable childhood myths that make smalling school better are the smelly olympics where grade level homers pick countries and play games to get the most points the closing ceremony is tomorrow will take place for gold silver and bronze he also plays the field day events with our health feature with kodak again we had another successful year that they were to hit and the students got a nice pop that's why mr story isn't just a physical education teacher but he also has a coaching district high school in baseball he participated in the district dodgeball tournament representing sloaning school he attended dangerous events for students and the district mr desoriti is always supporting his colleagues and administration he had a slideshow and physical education standards ready for our spring open house he helped with our multicultural night he even was the principal for swelling school for five minutes to play an april fool's joke for our students he changed his schedule around to helping the dave absolutely goes above and beyond for the students and staff at solely school thank you mr desorte for not just being a physical education teacher but a positive influence outside [Applause] foreign good evening again the community middle school is proud to recognize kim kardas as its gem award recipient for the month of june i'm proud to say that mrs fragatis is emblematic of staff at community middle school who go above and beyond each day in order to put their students needs first and help them succeed you'll find no stronger advocate for students than mrs cadets over the years ms k has worked very hard to help identify students with learning difficulties and insurance all apartment and relevant data is collected and shared in order to ensure her kids receive the additional supports they need recently the child study team at cms recommended that a student be assigned a mentor in the building in order to help address social emotional needs mr davis who already served as a teacher mentor quickly volunteered earlier this school year during the basketball season coach melissa hosted a teacher appreciation night student athletes on the marketing basketball team selected a teacher that made a significant impact in their lives of course mrs cradatas was one of those teachers ms k volunteers for fundraisers attends various high school and middle school events in support of her students and stands down the best favorite at the community middle school when i think of what it means to develop a school community i think of things in terms of a family being there for one another throughout the highs and the lows that not only come with teaching but are a reflection of life itself in many ways mrs the heartbeat of cms she helps organize staff breakfast volunteers for the sunshine committee and as recently as today organized a retirement luncheon for mr lee for the upcoming school year i asked teachers if they would be interested in having input regarding next year's eighth grade class rosters mrs cadavers not only volunteered but garnered input from the seventh grade team and presented me with a completed list of future recommendations within a couple of days mrs predatos makes sure that all students and staff leave their mark at cms she does this in a liberal sense by creating thumb print posters each school year which can be seen in the main office live for all of this and more and on behalf of the members of the cms staff i would like to thank ken kravatis for her contributions and for always [Applause] evening once again it's the great pleasure that we announced mr pierre asked as the high school gem for the month of june mr abbott has been a huge asset this year in helping our school and holding our students accountable as well stepping in to ensure the safety of our students for example during the study hall period mr ad covers the front door greeting visitors as well as help helping to track down students he has been consistent in reaching out to several parents this year in regards to students grades and behavior he emails and calls parents not only for negative situations but also to let parents know when students improve at this class this communication is essential for students to be successful in school furthermore mr ab is always ready to offer an encouraging word or to offer help to any one of his colleagues who may need it when there's a stressful situation going on mr abb is always good to provide a form of comic relief or encouraging word to help these distress he's always quick to act when a staff member is in need of assistance mr ad is currently in a graduate program pursuing his master's degree in educational leadership throughout the program he has been learning about the inner workings of our school and the administrative decision-making process lastly beyond the classroom mr abs demonstrates a willingness to organize and participate in extracurricular activities as he assumes the role of varsity boys soccer program this year he also volunteered to volunteer to play on the high school team for the cms dodgeball tournament it is for these reasons and among many others that mr ed is deserving of the title gems or going the extra mile [Applause] and one final student of the month from dr ress school of student of the month two steps we're going to take a brief five-minute recess if anybody wants to get a picture with your favorite principal please feel free uh we'll resume the meeting uh in about five thanks everybody you are you're unmuted and good to go awesome so we are going to call back to order 657 if it matters uh we are up to item in our section number three which are our committee reports i believe our education committee and governance committee met earlier this evening mr bell would you like to update them sure i'll fill everybody in um we'll start with education uh maybe we should yeah there we go maybe people can hear me now sorry for those of you behind me i apologize um started talking about the uh still yet to be filled spanish position it's been open for quite a while as i'm sure you know spanish is a very difficult position to fill right now um we're going to be using a company called elevate k12 i don't know if you guys know exactly what that is but they it's i would call it like a hybrid model almost right you've got a virtual teacher that's kind of contracted out and then we've got an instructional aide in the classroom that's doing more of the classroom management type stuff um it allows kind of us to hire them and cover more spots than one person in the district could do especially because obviously we can't fill that position right now so while it's not ideal it is much better than what than rosetta stone so um southbound work is using this program and they've had pretty good success with it so we're going to see how it goes next year that's one questions on that i'm sure mrs fisher would probably do a better job answering that i do have um documentation that i can share i can include that in reporter wherever you want it disseminated so okay do you want to mention number two on that list uh we discussed it we we discussed um substitute secretary pay rates let's just say that and they'll be changing by law we have by the law you have to be in line with the minimum wage no we're not okay they haven't been updated uh kind of an oversight so they'll be updated and brought up to minimum wage yeah okay um kind of a really positive one um the elementary school teachers have been asking for some common planning time we've found a way we think to make that happen for them um we're going to bring back into the district something that was here many years ago which are lunch and recess aids that's our goal so that they can have 25 minutes instead of covering a recess they can have 25 minutes to meet with their their grade level their grade level peers so it's something you know we kind of build it in at the end of the day but the end of the day is very difficult with pickups and other things happening it can be really challenging to actually get together to meet so this will be a dedicated time for them to get together and meet hopefully every day that's the plan so um it should it should be a really big improvement it's something that the teachers are looking for so happy that we're able to give that to them right um substitute rates with something else that we've talked about we know that this has been an issue in every district in the state i don't even know probably the country i would imagine definitely in the state um and we are talking about maybe possibly bringing those rates up a bit um budget pending we have to take a look at the budget and see if that money is there but we want to try to be competitive with neighboring districts and hopefully get subs that can relieve our teachers instead of covering a million classes and moving our principles moving people around and i know that's not fun yes that is that is i'm sure the worst part the worst part of my job is being called in the office and you know what's coming what you don't fit period guess what you're doing now yeah that's not a fun conversation so hopefully this helps a little bit we don't know uh what that rate is going to be because we have to look at the budget and we'll see how that go you know what what money is there for it but we hope we can do something there to be competitive uh some districts have decided to move you know moving them up so we're going to try to do the same um you maybe want to talk about the awards and the staff positions so um we were approached to come up with some ideas to put together for the new jersey school board association school leader awards so we are going to be putting in three applications one of them is for our mental health services that we provide in the district the second is for robotics and the third one is for our work based learning cte program all of those we received information from the district leaders who are responsible for those programs and then they went to the pr firm who put the finishing touches on our applications and the applications are due on the 24th so after this meeting i'll make sure that everybody has them to take a look at before we finally submit them later this week the sac position um that was a position that we were looking to hire for the high school it was a bilingual sac slash counselor that position was tabled and we are putting it back in uh we're able to fund a large portion of the salary through um title funding so it should offset um there's a couple things that we're doing here we have our current uh district sac will be moving into the bilingual sac position at the high school and we will be hiring um to backfill her position a district sack who will be housed at community middle school and working with our um grade five six through eight population but also the two of them will work together as a team providing our services that we need in that area that's that any questions from any members and just to add if i can add um if i could add to the elevate k-12 um it's also a great program because it does as if children are having difficulty and things need to be modified they are able to look into those areas of need and they are able to assist the teachers um to provide them a plan as to how they can assist those students who are struggling um so it really is a um [Music] very thorough again it gives you it gives us that flexibility at this time like it's that represents outbound broken at this time we're only using it for spanish but there definitely is the possibility of using um any other languages if that is something that um the district would you know want to offer is that only an education platform i mean a language platform or do they yeah it's okay okay we started not talking about the website um just a little bit where that stands and where it's going um just because you know maybe you want to kind of give your summation of you know your thoughts yeah sure so um it looks like they're on track to get the site done this summer that's what i'm hearing so we'll have a follow-up i'm sure with the website development company um we did receive a quote which i think is in the agenda tonight for the upcoming school year for website service support and um pr support for that so um you know i have some notes on that that's not really associated to the website that is on track to be launched this summer uh and as far as i know i think everything is on track we've gone through the the testing we've had comments from the community on the look and feel of it so i think we're in good shape on that so it would just be about the upcoming contract again um the other stuff that we really talked about a lot of it has to be put on hold honestly until next month um because we're talking about things like a board retreat and what we're going to discuss there and things that we're going to be doing going forward um setting goal goals for next year for the coming year really not let's not call it next year the coming school year as a board and what we're looking to do one of those may be possible is restructuring the way we meet uh whether that be stated committees or some kind of hybrid or we completely abandon committees that's something that will probably all be worked out in the coming months but i think that's probably something we'll have to discuss at that retreat i would imagine but i think once dr freeman is officially on board we can really have a lot a lot healthier conversations there you know because he's gonna have his his input as well so so it's hard for us to have those conversations but we did kick around some ideas um you know pros and cons and there there are a lot of pros and cons on each on every side of this this conversation so we uh to be quite honest we didn't get very far in the direction of our resolution but there was a good healthy conversation about it at least any questions for mike on either of the two committees before we move on okay at this point we are open to the public for agenda items only section 4.1 are you able to get online [Music] 620.
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mike davenport here christopher espinoza i'm sorry not yet okay um jenny hagstrom here terry pavich here nancy kupka here we have a formal standpoint 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 we'll start this evening with approval of minutes we need a motion to approve the may 16 2022 business meeting and the june 6 2022 workshop meeting with action items so moved second terry and mike thank you very much terry pavich aye mike davenport aye jenny hagstrom aye and nancy kepka aye the minute it's carrie thank you we'll move to the first reception of visitors the meeting agenda includes two opportunities for comments from the audience the first reception of visitors is intended for audience members to address the board about any agenda item on which the board will vote there's a list of the topics the second reception of visitors is intended for audience members to address the board on any topic pertaining to community high school district 99 comments will be limited to three minutes to provide all visitors an equal opportunity address the board individuals needing more time should submit their thoughts and writing to the board secretary mrs nydak visitors addressing the board need to submit a comment slip to the board secretary and will be invited to the microphone prior to addressing the board audience members should state their full name the proceedings are being taped recorded for the purpose of producing accurate meeting minutes and this is being live streamed i reserve the right to modify these protocols if circumstances warrant and audience observation of these protocols is appreciated uh we have one speaker for an action item okay laura hoist good evening i'm laura hoist i'm asking that two items on the agenda recommendations for action be postponed for a vote at a later date 7a approval of illinois state board of education consolidated district plan and 7c approval of dupage area occupational educational system intergovernmental agreement i was unaware of either of these measures so i think we need time as parents and residents to weigh in and know what's what these mean they appear to increase government control and expenses uh and are consistent with a global agenda first we asked that 7a be a postponed to allow for public review and comment on the proposed isbe consolidated district plan which seeks to comply with federal grant requirements addressing address how d-99 will use grant and other funding sources title 1 low income title 3 2 professional development 3 language instruction spanish to english 4 academic enrichment and lastly part b idea esser funds as anyone who has ever applied for a grant knows grant making is an expression of power by those with resources over those seeking them and by definition a grant exists as a privilege to be won and usually results in rewarding of some and denial of others so we're interested in knowing what this means d99 seeks to comply with federal grant requirements to keep money flowing in while parents and residents need to know exactly what these requirements are and what this means for us and our children does it mean more equity sel and anti-racist practices what exactly does timely graduation foster care transportation professional development safe learning environment mean in light of the recent masking lockdowns vaccine discrimination and punitive measures denying students their rights secondly we ask you to postpone a vote on 7c an intergovernmental agreement which will create a dupage area occupational education system to develop a regional education for employment program while some of this sounds good we need to know what it's going to cost taxpayers i may be alone but i've not heard or seen anything about this for the reason that many families do not have big salaries and need to know what this means in terms of higher taxes and and what what are our students would be affected if grant monies are utilized how will these programs reward some and deny others perhaps or will equality of opportunity rule and be provided for all families again we are respectfully requesting postponement of these measures and more communication to the parents and residents of district 99 as to these two measures we we know that the emphasis has been on equality of outcome equity etc and that's a concern to many of us thank you the next one is for the next reception of visitors okay all right um we're going to head into the uh superintendent reports but before i do that um today is a very special day it is ed's last week so yeah tears from back there so uh i'd like to just have all of us recognize ed for a wonderful career and for all your service i know you don't want me to go into details but i will thank you your countdown is done [Laughter] that didn't count down time with kids he counted board meetings all right uh a few end of the year type items this evening uh the first is the end of the year goal summary as the board is aware we start out the beginning of the year over the summer with uh goals which we'll bring you draft ones at our next meeting and then we go through the year the board is kept up to date through communications throughout the school year and at public meetings and then this document becomes the summary for the end of the year the board was provided this got a little bit of feedback from the board and administration made some changes this is the final public document that then goes on our website under our just rolling strategic plan documents of goals and year-end summaries if there's any questions from board members i'll take them at this point otherwise this will become the the document that we file as the administration on the website that's me all good yes all right sounds good thank you item b is uh scots this is our annual revisions of the student handbook we typically bring activities and in athletics but there's no changes recommended in that one this year this is up as an action item this evening and as always the student handbook then becomes essentially board policy once it's approved by the board scott's here to answer any questions uh the board members might have about any of these changes can i just highlight one of them just to make sure the board so the one of the if you notice on the it's like the third one down about the tardis going from 20 minutes to 10 minutes just wanted to make sure everyone knew that um that that will help us just keep it consistent and define how we um you know support students that are running things like that i just want to put that one out there since it's a big change from 20 to 10.
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i pledge allegiance to the fact of the united states of america and choosing a republic for which it stands one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you everyone first on the agenda uh adopt the agenda mr president i move we adopt the agenda as presented moshe's been made the second adopted agenda all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes next on the agenda is the recognition and presentation okay thank you um this evening we are honored to have uh with us a few state representatives that are going to offer a recognition of coach moore and their successful football program so coach if you could come up here and um i know would you like to study a few things [Laughter] michelle davis and this is representative peggy mayfield where also representative john young couldn't make it tonight and senator jack stanley could make it as well but we all wanted we all worked together to create a resolution of the state house and the general assembly recognizing the pat well we did this last year too but recognizing both years as the undefeated football team state champions two years in a row what an awesome program you all have here at center grove and we just wanted to take a minute to recognize that and let you know that we recognize that at the state house as well with the general assembly so very proud of you do good work you have a great leader my son played through him so i'm a little biased so just wanted to take this chance just to share that um each player and coach will get a copy of the resolution um okay house concurrent resolution number 38 introduced by representatives michelle davis peggy mayfield john young sponsored by senator jack sandler adopted by voice vote on march 8 2022 during the second regular session of 122nd general assembly a house concurrent resolution congratulating center grove children's football on their undefeated season and winning the ihsaa 2021 class 6a state championship whereas center grove children's football achieved their second consecutive undefeated season going 28-0 through the 2020 and 2021 season whereas the center grove children's football team has won back-to-back state championships whereas center grove football won the ihsaa 2021 class 6a state championship state championship game with a final score of 27-21 over westfield high school whereas indiana football hall of fame coach eric moore won his fourth state championship as head coach of center grove football whereas the center grove trojans football team has demonstrated hard work preparation resiliency and tremendous teamwork and whereas center grove children's football has made the community proud representing the community with class and dignity therefore be it resolved by the house of representatives of the general assembly of the state of indiana and the senate concurring that the indiana general assembly congratulate center grove children's football on their undefeated season and winning the ihsaa 2021 class 6a state championship [Applause] great thank you thank you peggy and michelle for taking the time on your union tonight to come here for that that was wonderful thank you the next on the agenda is public comments our board policy states public comments for the union can be addressed to the board for items we're taking action on this evening we do have two people signed up for public comments but neither one of those or for action items will be taken action upon so with that being said we're going to move on to the next agenda item which is reports action items only we're moving on important doesn't take action yeah we don't take action on reports we only take action on action items reports okay thank you uh the first uh report this evening uh dr long is going to share with you the annual safety and discipline report dr long thank you tonight we are fortunate to have lieutenant back with us from the center grove police department and lieutenant beck's going to cover the police reporting information and then i will cover the the student discipline part so i'd like to introduce lieutenant peck good evening everybody thanks for letting me come if you could just roll through the slides and we'll we'll just hit them as we go so center grove we take pride in making sure that we do a good job both in the schools and outside of the schools on the street and so as you can see right here cgpd uh we have had uh in 2021 2022 we've had 391 runs uh total and uh and and without of that it has resulted in 59 uh various arrests whether that be uh filing charges or uh outright arrests okay you can go to the next one yep um within within our arrest this is kind of a breakdown as to what we normally see it ranges across the board a lot of it is battery criminal mischief uh possession of marijuana or or that also includes thc or uh those kind of those kind of uh devices so all of that uh is encompassed here that makes up the 59 arrests uh either filed or outright that we have that we had this year uh through the department we have three canines um canine ido is a bomb dog uh canine ozzy which is my dog he um he tracks narcotics and weapons and then canine lampio is a narcotics only within that we've had nine deployments or searches basically those are when we're invited into a school we conduct a search whether that be of the cars or of lockers or book bags the dogs perform a search and then from that we take action if needed this year it didn't result in any arrests from that those canines did not find anything of the illegal nature that any particular person had in their possession another bonus to having the canines is that we can perform school presentations so within within the school year we've done eight presentations at different grade levels everything from elementary to middle to high school just showing the the dog what it can do how it works how the nose works and all the different ins and outs of what the dog can do and then within the 73 training hours that that encompasses training of the dog because those dogs just like us if we don't stay in shape run lift weights eat right then we can get out of shape same with a dog so the dog has to go through training throughout the year and that's what is represented by this the 73 hours so the citations uh those are traffic stops so when i say we we patrol the inside and the outside of the schools these are traffic stops that we make the blue column in 2021 2022 represents uh warnings that we give i'm sure if anybody's driven before and you meet a nice cop and they give you a warning you want to say thank you that's we we live in a community where we want to help the community so we do offer warnings but we also have to uphold the law and offer citations as well so within that we had 81 total total contacts 40 of which were warnings 41 of which were citations and then as law enforcement you have to have training throughout the year we would be very foolish if we thought we knew everything and we just showed up to work and did what we thought was best so all year long we go to different trainings there's a bunch listed there we participate in all sorts of trainings we're mandated to have 24 hours of ongoing training that's from the state and then on top of that 24 hours we we perform multiple hours of training as a matter of fact we just did an active shooter training a couple weeks ago that was lights out it was it was absolutely the best training we've ever been to but all of that is just to make us better officers uh for the students and the staff and that's all of my piece so don't know if you wanted to ask questions questions for lieutenant beck now before we go on to the rest of it well just uh i know at times we get call up for off campus because the deputy sheriffs might be busy on something so we do share duties yes we work really closely with both bargersville greenwood and johnson county because our district where we can patrol actually goes anywhere the buses can go and so if there's an accident up at county line with one of our buses at county line in 3135 we're gonna we're gonna respond to that so not everything happens within the school buildings like i said we patrol the streets and the schools and so some of our off-campus uh calls are represented in those runs but but it's it's it's an all encompassed department so that we do we do help with center or with johnson county bargersville greenwood those guys we we had a bus get run into on county lane road and we had greenwood police there center grove police there and the perry township schools came just to see if they could support i mean we're really appreciative of all the law enforcement agencies that that help us and then we in turn can help them too sometimes how's life in the new eoc it's good it's it's uh yeah we figured out that tv's put off a lot of heat and so our monitoring room was we had like seven fans blowing in to try to cool it down but we've got it under control i think so yeah it's it's working out great we really appreciate it good anybody else have any questions i just want to say thank you for everything you do and all your other officers do absolutely i am glad to see the three the dogs you guys have because i've heard from multiple students and administrators and teachers here that those those dogs kind of give a good opening for children to feel comfortable with the police officers and kind of break that ice i guess you know something now they feel comfortable with that officer so there's ever an issue there's every concern that that student has they feel like they've got a friend in that person and they can kind of go through them so absolutely not only do they provide what you said they also kind of provide some other things too i think the dog so anyway thanks again for everything you do and your whole team seriously thank you so much thank you board appreciate it thanks okay we'll go on and talk a little bit about student discipline in our schools this is just a list of of incidents by type and and what grade level they happen in you can see the high school 873 incidents middle school 733 and elementary 422 not surprising the numbers if when you look at the sizes of the schools and the reasons for um for for us being for an entry to be made you know we talk about this every year with the the other category these are doe reporting categories and so there and we'll talk about a little bit later so there are multiple offenses that fall under other that's why it looks odd that 535 out of the 733 or other but i'll break that down a little bit more for you on the next slide do you want thank you in school suspensions and out of school suspensions you could see again the high school has the most but they again have the most students that's that's the number of days that's not necessarily the number of students that have served an in-school suspension and then the same thing with out-of-school suspensions i think our schools really try hard to to make sure we don't suspend kids out of school obviously it's tough to learn if you're not in school so they work really well with the students trying to keep them in school go ahead so these are the reasons for the high school in-school suspensions and out-of-school suspensions you can see you know defiance by far the biggest category that we have um don't know that that's something that's um a particular problem at center grove than it is in any other school corporation especially with high school kids and most of you have all had high school kids so you know what it's like to have a high school kid 231 attendance i think that for me that's the other item that sticks out a lot for us and we work really hard with the family resource program through the johnson county uh to to try to limit that and uh we've worked hard and uh dr nelson's been working really hard to align our three level attendance policies and get everybody on board with with the family resource program we had this this spring we had a meeting with the prosecutor and the judge and probation and the family resource people to talk about attendance and what we can do to further that because everybody knows that kids need to be in school it's the best way to learn keeps you out of trouble especially at the high school age if you're in school middle school suspensions again these are the others that category of other of those were basically um inappropriate acts uh aggressive behavior was 90 of them uh disruptive behavior 63 inappropriate language 45 insubordination 35 and disrespect 29 so that that's what kind of fills in that other and so you can see why it's large it has a lot of broad categories in there uh elementary suspensions um the other uh i don't have my notes on that um just again the the same types of other cat things for the elementaries as well um you know i think if anything we're seeing our numbers grow a little bit at the elementary level with discipline but i i think that our our deans and our assistant principals and principals work hard with the parents to try to keep that down to a minimum and with the teachers as well is that is that proportional duck along with our student group um you know that's a good question i'll have to go back and look at our other the previous years you know we've given this report for probably four or five years and let me go back and look and and get back to if you don't mind don't mind okay so uh expulsions uh the high school we had 20 alternatives to expulsion and our yeah and five at the middle school and actual explosions 10 and eight and um i think this is an area that that i'm really proud of because the schools have worked super hard to try to keep kids in school and and they're coming up with ideas as an alternative to expulsion and and probably almost every single time the parents agree to it because they know that they need to be in there so those numbers have gone down i there was a year it's probably been eight or nine years ago i think we did 59 expulsion hearings so our numbers have gone down significantly with that so i don't know um jason do you want to talk about this just a little bit this is the report that mr hubbard has been anxious to to hear not the expulsion the next one do you want to flip go to the next slide the sro app so um this year we we got an app for our sros to carry around with them that can record any kind of contact with any student and we wanted to share that information and we have a whole year's worth of that information and i think this is really good information because not all of our contacts with our students are in a negative light in fact a lot of them are in uh developing relationships and jason can talk to you a little bit about those yeah so the uh the nazro mentality is a triad and that's counseling and mentoring that's guest speaking and most important the law enforcement side of it so the app allows us to track that more on a real time so if we're having conversations with kids we leave we can just pull the app out you know make a note of it and then it's it's trackable data so that you know people are like well you're just a school cop what do you do all day well i do a lot actually i you know i interact with kids so what you're seeing here is so in to do the law enforcement portion of it i mean that's what we do every time we wake up in the morning and put the belt on so the law side of it was represented in the call the runs that we that i presented earlier so within these graphs it's not that law enforcement portion of the triad isn't there but what we did put in there is traffic control just so that you know it makes sense when you guys see us with our lights on and we're directing traffic and and how much time that actually does take so within the months it's broken down um and this is all done by hours so the white little section is the guest speaking usually at the beginning of the year we we allow the teachers to get used to the classrooms to get the students used to the teachers so we don't want to interject too much in in bombarding them with hey can i read a book to your class can i present a canine to your class um so the first couple months we we try to tailor the amount of guest speaking however what we do on top on the back end of that is more counseling and mentoring so anytime we go into a school the first couple months and kids are still learning the classrooms or learning the teachers or having a hard time coming off a summer to get into the school we pull them aside we talk to them when they're in the hallways if if they're trying to do math in the elementary schools and they're sitting down at one of the tables we'll sit down next to them and just try to help them out so that counseling and mentoring side is represented in the red section the red section is is per month that's how many times we have those contacts with the students and then the gray section is just the amount of time that that we have spent out directing traffic so as you can see uh i mean the the months as they go get a little hairier um i'm sorry the traffic control gets a little smaller because you've got christmas break thanksgiving break and all that so the traffic goes down but the student connection goes up the this because now we're developing those relationships with the kids uh we're we're allowed to have more interaction with them we actually look for those interactions now we've made connections with students who you know maybe have piqued our interest a little so we try to like pull them aside and shoot baskets with them or you know whatever the case may be so so you'll see that and then second semester is where we really start hitting the classroom harder so in january for example we spent seven and a half hours teaching whether it be canine presentations how a bullet travels through the air uh the amendments uh or we guess speak i taught art class one time this year that was fun kids learned how to draw a really spectacular stick figure but uh so you'll see that the the classroom time picks up within the second semester uh but we really my my the thing i think in my opinion the biggest impact that we can have as sros is that student mentoring and an informal counseling portion of it i tell the guys all the time if that if that number ever gets lower than uh the the traffic control or whatever we're in trouble because that is our key that's what makes an sro and sro is being able to connect with those students and we do that from the elementary levels all the way up to the high school levels so april uh i know i had to talk with the guys because there's 57 hours of student mentoring and 60 hours of traffic so we had to talk so if you see the next slide it should jump way up or maybe not way up but close but all total at the end of the year we spent 522.5 hours of traffic control 43 hours of actual guest speaking and then 391.5 hours of student mentoring and so that's what i take pride in is that student mentoring section so you guys have any questions about that where do you log your time in uh pre-planning and like what you're doing tonight does that go under guest speaking i mean that goes into that plan no we have we have we have every monday we have a meeting that we just sit down and lay out what the week looks like uh we talk about you know where we're at with students and um it's a time for me to connect with the with the other officers to see what they have if they have any issues and so that's kind of where we put the plan in place well i guess my point is there's more than just these three big buckets that you guys are doing oh right yeah absolutely that this doesn't represent that i think you should get credit for no no i mean we do we do a lot and this is just something that's trackable data right so um if we meet kids for lunch you know that that's that's part of the student mentoring but if we go to a football game and we see the kids in the stands and we have conversations with the kids as they're playing you know throwing a football with them as as they're passing around uh underneath the bleachers even though i know footballs aren't allowed in the stadium i understand that um but but that that's the kind of thing that i think you're getting at that we don't we don't track that but it still has value and so i'm i'm blessed to be a part of center grove's sro program because of the connection that we get to have with the kids on a daily basis so well next slide is that all officers together i'm assuming that's the whole it is yeah now do you guys keep track of each individual officer to kind of see where you can coach other officers yes we do yes it's all within the app it breaks down as to what officers are reporting and responding and all that stuff so so yeah that's that's something that i can look at as lieutenant kind of coach them if they need a little more help with classroom instruction or making sure that they're getting in the schools and having those connections with the kids but that's done on like a monday morning type roll call to what mr alexander's point was so but yeah this is just total what we all do every month thank you yes sir okay go ahead so we have an anonymous reporting thanks mr russell for cueing that up there we've not reported on this before so i thought this would be a good addition for this report if you want to go ahead and go to the next slide so we had the 77 is that right yeah 70 anonymous reports and the categories they break them down into are bullying harassment intimidation uh safety or just a general tip and and the the people that that submit that click on what that category is we we didn't put those in those categories so um you know if we went back through we could probably take most of the general tips and put it either in safety or bullying and harassment but i wanted to present what what we showed what from the data when we when we pull the data i think one of the things that we talked about when we were looking at this is a lot of these came from secondary which is probably understandable but we want to make sure that we communicate with our elementary parents and even our older elementary kids about the the having this we push it out to all their devices it's listed in their handbooks but i don't know that everybody is fully aware of of the the ability to do this um yeah it's a website yeah they click on it and they can download their phone they don't need to it just takes them right to the web and they fill the format right and it's on our website stacy's will put put a link on our website so if you wanted to you could click on it and it takes you right there to um to do to submit a an anonymous report but i i would like to see us push this a little more so to get more information from parents it goes to the building principles or an assistant principal whoever they've delegated and it also goes to me and then if it's not responded within a few hours i get another notice saying hey that that report you know number 278 uh hasn't been acted on yet and and then so sometimes and but if i see it i won't wait for the the building principles to depending on what it is i'll forward it to chief jackson say hey you need to get on this right away let's not wait for um a building administrator to contact you dr long how long i would think about three years does that sound about right it may be older than that well they keep they've changed names so um it may be a little bit longer we have been or we did early in the first semester we did a lot really early um and then it kind of tapered off again kind of like jason's charts and tapers off again and then it starts to pick back up again and so it kind of it ebbs and flows i think so i think we're and i think we can do a little bit better job of promoting that out to make sure people are aware of it and maybe it'll keep the school board from getting emails and if we submit an app or a report just uh not to be overly picky but backing up on the other category that you mentioned in the earlier slides sure i appreciate you giving us verbally what those were i would ask next year if you could include that somewhere on the slide so we can see the kind of subcategories of other i don't know i'm talking about it sure yes well i mean general tips well just so we can visualize it instead of just hearing it yeah i think um i want to work uh dr nelson and i have talked about a way to when we do the reporting if there's a way we can have that pulled out rather than have to go through all 533 and put a little you know count a little tally mark by each one of them which is what my assistant lin did so i think there's a way that yeah but we've already talked about that dr nelson i did slide 12.
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please join us in the pledge of allegiance welcome to our monday june 20th school board meeting and we'll start off with our agenda approval deletions additions dr baraka thank you mrs you do have an amended agenda before you you've got some amendments under roman numeral seven d one and two under mrs castaneda's in seven f three under mr ledger's section thank you move to approve the agenda as stated we have a motion by dr medlin second by mr marshall any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes thank you kelly is there any correspondence nothing to report on this evening all right we'll move right into our liaison committee updates mr marshall uh nothing to report this evening thank you mrs kelly uh redevelopment commission i don't have anything this evening parks department we had our ribbon cutting to reopen norman park this saturday so it's fabulous uh fabulous job equipment looks great take a look if you get a chance um splash pad push back construction rain we're hoping for the end of july fingers crossed we'll see oh parks department if anybody has a high school student who's looking for a part-time summer job still parks department is desperate for summer help so keep that in mind thank you dr medlin um nothing to report other than um i am going to talk to somebody with regard to the wellness committee to see what things they have coming up for this fall that is all great dr malcolm lake central education committee met and they're working on their fundraiser the next one will be in november and that will be our run that we have last year where we repeat that again this year i'm not sure of all the particulars yet that's in november and then the second fundraiser will be um it's going to be a wine tasting event i believe to be held in february i will keep you updated about that because hopefully we can all attend and show support and dire parks department meets um i think next week so i have nothing to share with that thank you okay and my st john redevelopment commission meetings i have nothing to report and dollars for scholars we are going to be posting that meeting for planning for homecoming so if anybody'd like to join us with that too we'll be doing that and i know that there is a community member that is also going to be putting together a zombie run and he is going to donate all the proceeds back to dollars for scholars so um that'll be happening these i think he said the saturday after homecoming so i think that's the eighth if i'm correct but uh when i have that information i will be sure to share it so we'll move on to our official school board business topics consent agenda dr veraco thank you again seek board approval for the minutes from our special board meeting on june 6th as well as our regular board meeting and then also seek board approval for the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures that you have received in advance in your packets motion to approve those items motion this is kelly in a second by mr marshall any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you is there any public comments regarding action items there are none so we'll move right into our official school board business topics regular agenda dr veracle we are excited to have members of the keeler staff here to be recognized for their work with best buddies i'd like to bring up tim doyle assistant principal for him to do a little intro and we get to hear uh about this neat recognition yes tim doyle assistant principal at kahler i'm excited to be here tonight to recognize four of our staff members who have served as sponsors for our best buddies program and these four three of which are with us tonight have worked tirelessly to to promote inclusion in the building and to quickly grow the program into something that's really been embraced by staff students and and the people in the community as well so and their efforts have been recognized by the state of indiana best buddies who this year recognized taylor middle school as the outstanding middle school best buddies chapter in the state of indiana is not with us [Applause] um [Applause] tim can you act as my proxy and give him a high five for me that's quite an accomplishment ready thank you [Applause] i was going to say a few words just about best buddies uh we started working on kayla best buddies in august of 2019.
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open to the public well i actually got there this time and there are no questions online okay did we ever backtrack and look at last okay we are up to section five this is the approval of our minutes from six six so resolve the foundry board of education approves the minutes for the following meeting regular executive meeting minutes of june 6th 2022.
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so 10 minutes can make a big difference yeah yep i did have one question yeah i know we struck village ordinance fine did he ever have a i don't believe we really did it that's why we were cleaning up i think we the language on that um i don't recall any that we've had he didn't but the village did right but there was a law that was passed a couple years ago that eliminates all of those at school and in the village so it just clean up good day all right the next item school wellness policy implementation review there is a uh small line in board policy um oh what policy has it's got 6.50 that we need to provide an update to the board each year on the food service we've talked about food service all year so this year's report is kind of relatively short provides a kind of an overview of some of the key takeaways from this year and overall it was a very successful program this year you know jeri and our folks in the buildings um really did a nice job of pulling off a major change this year with great feedback from students on it i think there's any questions on that one well these are all positive i know in the past we've addressed some negative ones well the biggest thing yeah making the change this year addressed a lot of the negative that we've heard in the past so well you can tell by the bottom line yes absolutely you know yep so that was a good thing all right the next one is the isbee consolidated district plan i will turn this over to gina to provide a summary and an update on this one so the consolidated district plan it we're required to submit one annually i know the board has seen it many times before we've been doing this last several years i want to point out just a few changes from previous years um we have an increase in our dual credit courses i listed them as 10.
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but yeah i i appreciate that i i do appreciate you giving those numbers this year because i think we hit you with that question last year so thank you very much that that's helpful yeah i appreciate lynn pulling and doing the little tally marks for me so that's right that's that's the end of our reports if there are any more questions or my report anyway dr gabriel will present this for you this evening and dr gabriel this will be your last report to the board this evening yes i'd like to talk a little bit tonight about the impact of circuit breaker losses on our district something you haven't really talked about before but we're in the process of preparing next year's budget right now this turns out to be a an important factor that we thought we should mention so start with what is a circuit breaker loss at a very high level um and it starts with taxpayers have a constitutional limit on their tax bill and when um the taxpayer reaches that constitutional limit they just don't pay the rest of their tax and various units of government lose out on that revenue and just to give an example and this is a very generic type of an example if you think about a home with an assessed value of 60 600 and 500 000 of that is taxable after various deductions if if they live in an area with a rate of tax rate of two dollars and 20 cents which is what some of our districts has and that represents of course their total rate for all of taxing units then you can see the calculation for the tax bill it would be eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars but homeowners have um a limit of one percent of their assessed value in this case one percent of six hundred thousand dollars would be six thousand dollars so that would be what the taxpayer would pay and the difference of five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars would be a loss to the various government units and this tax rate again represents all the government units that would be collecting taxes so that would be the school system the appropriate fire district the city or town if they were in it the county the library the waste management district the fire department all those various units of government would share in that loss for this particular homeowner and this applies [Music] by the county does this calculation for every parcel uh individually and we've used a data analysis firm to help us better understand this data and kind of do a little bit of a deeper dive into it next slide so just to put some perspective on this i like to show this chart this is our tax rate for the last 13 years and we've maintained a very level tax rate during that time and feel as if we should be able to continue to do that going into the future if you look at what's happening with losses what's that yeah right [Laughter] right the next next slide so if you look at what's happened with the circuit breaker loss this chart shows the dollar amount of the loss which we as a school district received in in each year and we just in the last couple months got the figures for 2022 and as you can see 2022 is a much different year that dotted line is the is the mathematical trend line of what's been happening with with circuit breaker losses and this year we really had a pretty significant jump and that was kind of the reason for us to bring this to everybody's attention because this is clearly going to have an impact as we develop our budget for next year unfortunately not a very good impact so if you can go to next is there another slide after this one yes okay i'm sorry yeah go back i'm sorry i didn't i had an older version of this so obviously people are want to know well what happened in 2022 that's so different than um the other years and uh in looking at trying to dig into the data there are a number of factors that enter that have an interaction uh and that but primarily you're talking about the assessed value and the tax rate and what we've determined in digging into this is that the really critical factor in 2022 was the uh tax rate and this chart shows the increase percentage in tax rates in the various taxing districts so we have six or seven taxing districts that just is based upon where you live and your tax rate is based on that mean you either live in the county or in in the township or in bargersville or greenwood or neither and all those things things that affect your tax rate but what you're looking at is the increase percentage that you see the height of the bar represents the total increase in tax rate across those districts and the red portion is the increase that was pretty small for us this last year eight tenths of one cent on our rate uh so of that total rate increase you can see the the small part that was due to uh to us and um as we looked at the data this is the principal reason that we've seen um such a significant increase in the in the dollar amount of circuit breaker losses in our district now we're ready for those this the last one so what does this mean well we're in the process of developing our budget for next year and um unfortunately uh there's that's going to be an additional 600 000 in tax revenue that we were projected to receive that we won't receive next year and um in our operations fund tax revenue for next year was originally projected to go up by five hundred thousand dollars but in fact it's going to go down by a hundred thousand dollars so for next year we will need to cover this loss with increased funding from the funding formula which is based on the number of kids and what the state legislature provides to us through the funding formula and for 2023 we will we will be able to do that that simply means we have less money to spend on other things we'd like to spend it on but that will be how we'll cover it in 2023.
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we wanted to set our chapter in a big way we spent the year planning uh preparing and fundraising we officially became a chapter in the fall of 2020 and at best buddies international's annual leadership conference we were honored as the outstanding middle school chapter in indiana our chapter also became an established chapter we had a successful year in spite of the coded restrictions but it was not the same this year we were honored as the best buddies indiana mills middle school chap of the year and we are in the running for the best buddies internationals middle school chapter of the year we were finally able to hold in-person events for the first time we worked hard to come up with fun educational inclusive events one of the things that we wanted to do was to get other clubs and teams involved along with the staff for our first event our art teacher chris guzman provided a lesson on keith herring and showed us how to draw our buddies best buddies logo we work with our track teams to attend the conference track meet several of our buddies participate in the unified 100 meter dash we are we also started an initiative to get more staff active at our events which we hope to grow next year for disabilities awareness month many of our members gave speeches during advisory teaching students and staff about various topics related to this month including inclusion best buddies down syndrome awareness day and many others we held three fundraisers that raised money to enable our chapter to help our school become a champions together school for which he raised over two thousand dollars and we also helped best buddies indiana by raising money for the lake county french county friendship law which we raised over three thousand dollars we also held our second annual end of the year breakfast where we honored several of our members for the hard work cannabis buddies has worked hard this year to grow our program promote inclusion and help our school and community to become more accepting we have strived to follow best buddies missions and goals the dedicated members whether they are buddies peer buddies associate members or advisors have worked together to make best buddies of force within our school and community [Applause] thank you tim brent you guys are welcome to stay for the rest of our meeting or you can head on out enjoy the evening if you have other things to do but we appreciate you coming out and sharing with us the good work at kahler and i think i'm very proud of how we've expanded what we've done in the area of inclusion not just to keeler but in all of our schools but thank you so much for what you've done and i was going to add that i was talking to a parent just this afternoon and his child has graduated from lake central but he just is so honored that his child attended lake central and had the experience he did and was amazed at the outreach and availability of support services for his son and he loved the tap program and that's not the first time i've heard that so kudos for you for establishing a part of that foundation that follows them through the years you know what they say the cream rises to the top right so you're the foundation you bring it on up so good for you okay i'll move on to my next item which is to give the board an update on our uni project the uni is the mobile library i was visiting with elena ahrens recently and if you recall about a year and a half ago we were able to double the size of our shelving if you've ever seen us when they pull it out at the park they put the books on display and have some benches for children to sit on and sometimes we have teachers show up to be uh guest readers at these events and so we doubled the size of our shelving but then with covid we really didn't utilize it so i'll give one final shout out to my fellow rotarians in the shareable rotary club because they paid for about half of the second installment of shelving units and elena was lamenting the other day that she's having to go back to the elementary libraries and raid books because so many are being checked out which if there's any sign of success with the program is that kids are taking these books and they're continuing to read all summer long and so the project is been an incredible success and we're really happy for that and i wanted the board to know um just where we are so any questions about the the uni and where it's going there is a calendar of upcoming visits posted on the website okay thank you my next item is to give the board a recap from the seminar we went to on june 1st down in indianapolis it was a legal seminar there were some important topics that we heard about and in some ways discussed on the way back from the trip mrs seuss and dr meddlin attended with me the first item was one that i think we're in pretty good shape on and that was a discussion about public comment at school board meetings there was a piece of legislation passed that forced boards that weren't taking comments at every meeting to do so this does include our work sessions so since it's a public meeting we would have to take comments at a work session we typically review board policies in its initial form and then bring them to this setting for action and that's typically when we've had comments if we have comments at these public meetings but if someone were to show up we would need to listen to them it was interesting that the attorney said you know while at your regular public board meetings you have to listen to comments you don't necessarily engage in a back and forth at your work session since you're not taking action you probably wouldn't engage in a back and forth you can but you likely would not um and so we have a format here where we have a section for public comments on action items and we're intentional about it and we're specific about it so that anyone who says before you vote i'd like to say something because i'd like to influence or at least weigh in on what i think about how this could impact our students and so given that i believe we really have that well covered and then the people who want to comment about something that's not on our agenda but they think maybe coming down the pike or in the future that's when we take comments at the end of the meeting and so we do satisfy both types of constituents both types of guests at our meetings they did cover the limits most people are doing a two or three minute limit per person we've been at three we have never stopped taking comments we asked people not to be redundant but you know we have allowed for some of that because if people come and sit in the room this board going back to the first board i served under believes people who show up deserve to be heard and i think that's a good policy you know to do that i mean i want to say one more time though that the public access counselor who was one of the two presenters on this did say more than once it's public comment they don't have a right to grill you and try to dig down deeper and catch you off guard so in many cases the answer is you know we'll take it under advisement or we'll get back to you or you know um the superintendent can do a little more research on that and get back to you in the next week if you come up at the end of the meeting and give contact information so i think we're doing pretty well on that piece and um some you know kudos to this board and the boards that preceded you for hearing people the next item was a transgender issue i just wanted to touch briefly on to make sure the board understands that it qualifies as a title ix issue and that's where the the legal pieces come into play with the office of civil rights possibly even the department of justice could get involved in enforcement there was one recent case that i want to mention with a student who was a transgender male who was using the boy's restroom and then when a staff member caught wind of it said i'm not comfortable with that the school denied the formal request to use the boys restroom the lower court granted access it went to the seventh court of appeals and they affirmed against the school district so the seventh court is the one that governs us and so the most recent case law is that that student gets to use the restroom of their choice um it's important to know that this case law will continue to change and we'll continue to watch it diligently it has not been a big issue for us thus far i i don't think people are trying to make waves or be outlandish but i do think that they want to use the restroom of their choice and currently that's the standard that we'll follow and then my final piece is they did a presentation on employee rights to political speech and this gets into when is it appropriate and when is it not and it really comes down to sort of a litmus test we've followed for years if it interferes with the performance of their duties well then you know you have the right to step in and say that's that's not what you're supposed to be teaching in mathematics talking about the presidential election in the manner in which you're doing it it always gets gray though because our teachers you know they're well educated so when students ask them questions that aren't even on topic they like to address it with students if you don't if you ignore student questions it creates a problem with a relationship but there is a point at which someone's making a political statement that can be disruptive to the school day similar to what students do if you go back to the case law and when students can wear an armband or not or when students can you know have signs about using drugs well if it's considered disruptive to the school environment it's a no if it's not disruptive then you probably need to allow it and so that part hasn't changed it's just important that our board meetings can be considered these political things and so the board members they even talked a little bit about board members if they're up for election can they make a statement on the stage about their candidacy or can they pass out materials and of course you know if you allow it then you need to allow it for all and it was a pretty simple summary on that and then one thing that wasn't at our conference but i did want to put it on this sheet just for um just for our board because there was some legislation passed regarding training for officers working inside of school buildings this is really terry's lane and most of these notes i got from a conversation with terry but during the 2022 session any person who is assigned to one or more schools during the school hours would need to have the specific nasro training which all of our officers have where it gets gray is you know we have at the high school a two to six person who generally comes from the county and they not only walk the building but they also drive the grounds and they are just a presence for the roughly 800 kids we have here doing extracurricular activities and so that officer or those officers would too moving forward need the training mrs mucha is arranging to figure out how to accommodate one of those such trainings here at lake central high school to make it convenient for our local officers not only who serve lake central but who serve other school systems in the county um but they need to receive the specialized training the nasro training the one that we go through is the most common there are a couple other acceptable ones but i don't think they're the ones that are being offered in indiana right now so we'll keep you posted on that but the difference being in a nutshell our five sros have always been certified it's some folks who may come in for two hours at lunch or do the two to six shift those folks would also need to to be certified somebody supervising at a football game doing traffic and crowd control would not need that it's not for those evening activities it's inside of the building is what the law pertains to but we're in pretty good shape on that and we'll tighten up the little piece that that's missing before we get into too far down the road any questions about any of those pieces no thank you thank you i'll turn it over to mrs mucha move right on to our director of human resources personnel mrs mucha thank you i'm asking for a recommendation to accept the personnel that was in your packet so i have a motion by mr marshall second and a second by miss kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you i also had a professional leave form for diane aliva to attend and i'm asking for your approval for that professional leave motion to approve most by ms kelly and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye aye thank you and my last item is i provided you with the last five handbooks that you needed to go through um and i'm asking for your approval for those minor changes to those handbooks move to approve the employee handbooks a motion by dr medlin and i would like to second that second but i don't appreciate seeing those thank you second by dr malcolm any discussion hearing none all in favor motion passes thank you and they'll be posted on our website so thank you thank you and we'll move right on to our director of secondary education mrs castaneda thank you for my first item i'm seeking your approval for the professional leave request the revised copy that you received this evening move to approve the professional leave requests we have a motion by dr medlin second second by ms kelly any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you and for my second item i am seeking your approval for the revised copy of the field trip request motion to approve um motion that we accept that all right we have a motion by dr malcolm in one second second by miss kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor motion passes thank you thank you and then for my last item i just wanted to share some highlights from our summer administrative professional development week which just wrapped up last week on monday june 13th we held our usual administrative meetings that's always nice when we have that break in the summer to bring everybody together including the assistant principals additionally the elementary principals met that day with dr bracy and becky gramala to talk about some increased student behaviors that they're seeing at the elementary level talk about how they could better utilize their staff and help out students who are in crisis mode as well as providing emotional support to staff and students so that was a very valuable conversation for that group to have on tuesday june 14th then in the morning we had a workshop with franklin reed franklin reed is a parent in the community who also works in the public sector and so he was able to come back and continue some training with us this particular training focused on cultural competency which is being aware of your own cultural identity as well as learning about the cultures of others we talked a bit about some of the covering behaviors that people sometimes demonstrate in order to try to hide their differences or downplay them and also about the concept of cultural humility where we're trying to then recognize where we might have some biases and be sensitive to others we discussed ways that we could improve our cultural humility as a district by engaging with people who are different than us showing empathy listening and of course being an advocate on that afternoon on tuesday the administration went through cpi training which is an annual requirement for our building leaders and then on wednesday and thursday june 15th and 16th we had professional development for all the secondary administrators as well as the secondary counselors and ssps on restorative practices this was provided by a group called the neutral zone out of michigan they had previously done some training with our elementary principals and some of our counselors and teachers at that level and they've had very good outcomes with students using restorative practices so that's something we want to continue to bring up through the middle and high school level so we talked about restorative practices which if you're not familiar is an approach used in schools to create a positive climate by building relationships and so on day one we discussed strategies for building relationships that way students feel that they're part of a community no matter how big the school is we also talked about some concepts within social discipline so they're feeling a high level support as well as a high level of structure we talked about fair practices in dealing with students or parents because these can be relationships involving adults as well and then we also had a second day where we talked about the restorative practices continuum which ranges from more informal things such as statements about feelings questions about what happened and how they feel a situation might be resolved to more formal types of conferences and circles i think by the end of the two days that all the secondary staff felt it was a very beneficial training it was good because some of the things they spoke about are practices that we're already doing so that positive reinforcement for our administrators is definitely something that's always appreciated and they also shared some new strategies that we can start using as soon as this next school year so it was a very beneficial day for the secondary staff two days i should say the elementary team on thursday june 16th had dr christine eaton come in from the indiana school mental health initiative she focused on addressing the social and emotional needs of our students and the elementary principals are going to continue to work with her virtually throughout the 22-23 school year any questions well my my big question is how does you know this has to filter into the schools and so what's the plan to get that done because right now it's at the administrative level so to to bring that down into all the teachers in the classrooms any ideas on how you're going to do that so i think a lot of it was very practical when they put it in the lens of like social discipline where you know you can be punitive you can be permissive or you could be restorative that makes a lot of sense and i think we we all knew moments where we we had hit that higher level being restorative but also moments where we kind of slid back into being a little more punitive or a little more permissive and so i think that's something that easily can be done with our staff a lot of the community building activities they actually suggested doing with the teachers to demonstrate that to them the other thing is that some of the activities that we have built into our pte and our advisory already at the middle and high school level do focus on these community building type of activities and developing coping strategies learning how to relate with other people and express your emotions in a productive way and so we do have elements of that i think the next step is going to be to try to um educate the staff more about it and then also possibly partnering with the neutral zone we're kind of thinking how it'll work but they have like a train the trainer model where some of our staff who went to the two day training could then come back and start working with our teachers and so we think that's probably the next step we're going to be heading in okay thank you you're welcome thank you thank you all right we'll move right on to our director of facilities mr ledger thank you thank you mr seuss uh tonight i have about seven items uh i'll be discussing with you uh some require action my first item is to seek your approval award execute the site work trade package three site concrete for the bivich project to larson danielson construction company for 114 140 on june 1st we opened bids for for this package we had two bidders cns and lmd um they were very competitive and on this one l d won for 114 thousand 140.
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have a motion thank you mr powell a second second thank you mr zeno any discussion i need to abstain thank you mr defazio that would be reflective thank you very yes okay can we have a roll call please mr bell yes mr fabio have you guys abstaining yep mr dawson yes mr vino i have dope stain as well okay miss lima yes uh miss massan yes miss bruce oh i'm gonna jump down to mr januzzi yes just bear with me for one second actually i have to ask a question [Music] thank you [Music] sorry about that okay so we are up to section six uh 6.1 resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under district and high school this is six point one through 6.14 and motion motion thank you mrs defazio a second second thank you miss muscle any discussion i have a question 6.14 [Music] um he's going for his educational leadership certification oh okay i i would just like to say oh let me do this i would like to say that it's amazing to see all of these employments um it i know that it is no easy task hired this early in the cycle um great job by administration to get these people in before the summer get them in position to get wrong quickly really awesome yeah and then the only other thing that i would add is uh mrs zuzuna actually had a really good suggestion which is to help board members kind of keep track of all the puts and takes it would be really nice if we had an opportunity to view or review kind of a more organizational type chart of you know where we have open positions and where people are coming from and going to so i think mrs fisher and the team have already started to put some effort into creating something of that nature and hopefully we can use it as an aid moving forward to you know better understand the impact of some of the changes that are being proposed really helpful thank you okay any other questions or comments okay hearing none can we have a roll call please mr bell yes mr fazio yes mr dawson yes miss casino yes miss lima yes miss missing yes mr januzzi yes all right we are up to 7.1 resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools this is 7.1 through 7.14.
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we have a few that are in the works that i'm hoping we'll be able to pull off and get approval for by august so that number could change or change throughout the the course of the year but that has increased we have increased el programming and the other change is we are moving and this relates to the title one plan as well but the title one plan is also encompassed in the cdp we're moving from being a school-ed program at south high school to a targeted assistance program in order to be school-wide you need to be at 40 or apply for a waiver you have to be at 20 so between 20 and 40 to even apply for the waiver and we are hovering around 19 so we will go back to being a targeted assistance program which is the the biggest change to our title one plan as well so for clarity this is something we do we've done every year we do every year we're requesting discuss it every year gina means with staff that's right parents you just highlighted the changes from the things that we've been the big big changes and um and this is something that's been posted and these are not competitive grants these are the federal grants most of them issued to districts based on free and reduced launch and this went in on our on our agenda when was the public was posted last thursday at midnight so it's been up all week now okay as required by law uh you said that we're hovering right around 19.
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um if this happens again it's very difficult to say uh what we will do to cover that loss but we've got it taken care of for this year fortunately uh the data analysis firm that we're looking at is predicting that it will not be this bad the year after that in 2024 so hopefully if that prediction is accurate we'll we should be in better shape than we are looking at 2023.
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move to proof motion by mr marshall second second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you my next item is to seek your approval award and execute the bid package one site work trade package for building concrete um to cns concrete construction for 506 again these were opened on june 1st and it was l d and c s and this one cns1 with a very close bid of 506 000 also moved to approve we have a motion by mr marshall seconded by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes i thank you my next item is uh to seek your approval award and execute the contract for trade package five the asphalt paving striping and parking lot signage to wreath riley construction for 159 408 dollars again this was june 1st we had three bidders site services reith riley and the former walsh and kelly as mr marshall and i discussed last board meeting and they were all three very competitive and wreath riley was the low responsible bidder at 159 408 dollars motion to approve motion by ms kelly i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you my next item uh was my revised agenda item and it's kind of a big update along with uh seeking the board's approval to move our bid date um i just asked you for approval on what we had what we called the site package that's that's this package we got done on the front in the project that we could we could get done expeditely and get it out for bid uh that included the three awards you just you just approved as well as site work and site utilities we did not have great coverage on that so we're rebidding that next week and then the remaining package is what we call the building package this is all the other trade packages involved in the project including the expansion part of the project i mean i'm sorry the renovation of the existing building which includes the hvac renovation as well as the acoustical ceilings of the existing hallways and classrooms so it's basically everything what except for what you approve tonight and what we're opening uh we had a big pre-bid meeting last week we finished up the drawings earlier last week we had a pre-bid meeting we had a pretty good turnout but a lot of contractors feedback again we've talked about this these are unique times right now uh between between manpower issues uh material and the supply chain and right atop the holiday they've asked that if we could extend the bid date and i think right now it's really not a priority for that work like site work is so i think it'd be a lot more beneficial lake central we did give that extra time where we could get a lot more competition and with bidders so we'd like to move the bid date we advertise for um june 28th and we'd like to move to july 13th so that's what and i talked to our legal counsel this morning early and there's code in here we had to abide by which is basically the letter i gave you guys at your stations so but basically it is asking your approval to move the bid from next tuesday the 28th to wednesday july 13th i think the rationale there makes sense so i moved to approve that recommendation by mr marshall i'll second that second by miss kelly any discussion all in favor any opposed motion passes thank you and just to review um i i brought up mr ledger's request and for that special board meeting we meet on july 11th that we would meet we need to meet briefly to approve what he's going to get in on the 13 i'll let you go from there right yeah as dr rocco's said i asked him about possibly because of the july one board meeting um i we we're going to open bids on july 13th and then our next board meets not to august first so um the week of july 20 i think that'd be july 18th i might need a special board meeting for critical lead time items i won't bring you the whole package but i may have a half a dozen like hvac equipment steel those type of items that i'd like to get approved just as soon as we get the project scoped out so as i said to dr rocco we you know as long as three of you can attend and we could do it in the morning or afternoon it would just you know hopefully i was going to see there's 40 minutes or something right i was going to suggest to my fellow board members we make it convenient for them to select a time and we can get a quorum there sure i'll let you know once we open bids so i can have my agenda items and so probably the 14th i'll i'll let the board know with an email fair enough okay we will make it work thank you i appreciate it i'll need uh mrs kelly and mrs seuss to sign that document at the end of the meeting i'll bring it to you okay sign that thank you for that uh the other update on vivid uh we're drawings are done out for bid like i said we had pretty good response um but it's the market's tough right now and you've we also have found out last week i kind of knew it in the back of my mind but i was hoping it but some contractors are affected by the crown point hospital because their workforce is depleted anyhow and a lot of them are on that so so that's also factoring into the market as well so but we're we're going forward so um my next item is a grimmer project update um that's going very well i wanted to bring the board's attention i talked to dr veraco about this um i worked with mr volkman the town manager sheriff as well as the town and they approved and waived all of our permit fees for this project which exceeded 43 000.
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have a motion motion thank you mrs defazio a second [Music] second thank you mr bell any discussion i would like to wish miss hendershot nothing but the best she uh she's been a teacher here for a very long time uh she's been wonderful and i i wish her luck in her retirement agreement yeah and for seven nine and ten were are they not is this person not going to be employed or correct she i'm accepting a position in another question okay okay any other questions all right here now can we have a roll call please mr paul yes mr falcio yes mr dawkin yes miss casino yes miss lima [Music] item number 8.1 resolved that the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school this is just 8.2 have a motion motion thank you mrs defazio a second second thank you mr dawson any discussion i read about that i think that's a wonderful uh trip that they're making that's awesome yeah did we i have a question would he be ever interested in opening that up to let's say sophomore and junior level students because i see a lot of it is about preparing college preparation but i just wonder if students it senior students already sort of have gone through a lot of that preparation that a younger grade level might um it might be helpful to kind of you know look forward to that i don't just a note yeah because i agree like uh you know by junior year you like that's where you've done all your applications kind of gone through all of that yeah so like having that in the soccer your might might be beneficial i agree okay thank you [Music] all right any other comments or questions okay hearing none can we have a roll call please mr bell yes mr fazio yes mr dawson yes mrs pavino yes miss lima yes miss muslim yes mr januzzi yes all right we are up to item number 9.1 resolve that the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in policy resolutions under district and high school this is just 9.2 have a motion motion thank you mrs defazio a second exactly thank you mr paul any discussion so this is adding a second school resource place right so this would be replacing because we're not going to have an sro replacing that with two class three uh officers and what's the difference uh small resource officers actual police officer with police accounts special law enforcement officer he's a former police officer who's retired and has more limited authority to active school there's still armed with the conservative security function if you need any police officers okay and so now we have two where are they going to be housed do we know how we assume the high school is i believe the intent was the high school and the community middle school as a base but with you know the opportunity to float as necessary to the other buildings the one thing that i will add and i think it's more administrative than anything else there is a reference in the contract there's actually multiple references in the contract to an exhibit a which is not actually a part of the information that was posted to the agenda so i think we should probably table this the only thing that gives me a little bit of pause is the fact that it's set to begin on july 1st of this year so does that present any particular challenges because you can um so that actually would be my recommendation just so that the members have the full breadth of the contract before we actually have to take a vote okay so i'm going to move that retable to motion i second it thank you michelle um should we do a local or can we do a show of hands you should debate uh the motion from motion to table okay i apologize yes so any comments or questions regarding the motion to table before we vote i was going to are those resource officers needed for summer programs i in the past we had a resource officer here for the summer program so i'm not aware no i don't believe we need to say yes so i don't i don't think we need to do this okay then i think that's the best course of action and this is considered a shared service correct because we are effectively purchasing services from alberta okay but you and i i wasn't sure about the actual title of the role like the person in in the role but it sounds like it's a retired officer so would this officer be doing duty within the borough and then partially doing it for the school district i think the intent is specifically just to be assigned to schools okay so this is not a service that the school district can hire on its own without needing the burden or is it i guess my i'm wondering what the definition of services you're you're you're you're sharing it but it sounds like we're we're paying for it the service is being done for the district well i think the sharing comes in the fact that the officers would ultimately be an employee of the borough right and then they're assigned to us based on the shared service agreement and we're paying an amount commensurate to procure those services so this is where their location would be where they go report to work correct okay okay so they they were required to be hired by the girl i don't know it's technically required it's just the way that it is correct so they're hiring former police officers then correct so the law limits people that you know carried a firearm um one exception with the law was this establishment of special law enforcement officers specifically for operations so i believe about this correctly this is the only location that can act in that role in this world there's another sleo that's two that can do like uh special assignments type thing but um so do they have to be former bankrupt police officers and they can't really service the borough in any other capacity than working for the school experience yesterday ranked position i believe it's only school-based assignments i'd be really interested to see that that a an exhibit a to see the financial breakdown of that yeah yeah listen even without that i think if the options are between hiring an slo3 and going to a private security firm or even a full-time officer i mean part of the reason why we're having this conversation is because um you know hey we don't have an sro potentially available right but also because economically we can probably afford two of these officers versus one sr problem because of you know the benefits that are associated with the sro position versus what's required with these so financially this actually i believe is the path of least resistance gotcha okay but the financial as well exhibit a should enumerate all of that in copious amounts of detail mysterious exhibit there you go okay so i believe we have to vote the motion to table item number 9.2 okay all right mr mr paul yes mr fazio yes mr dawson yes mrs cavina yes miss lima yes miss mussen yes and mr januzzi yes so the motion carries and 9.2 is tabled hopefully only until our next meeting okay we are up to item 10.1 resolved at the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in special services resolutions this is 10.2 only i have a motion motion thank you mr fazio a second second thank you mrs cusino any discussion okay hearing none can we do a roll call please mr bell yes mr fazio yes mr thompson yes miss casino yes miss lima yes miss massan yes mr germany yes okay we are up to the longest resolution that i've seen in my tenure on the board item number eleven point one resolved at the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions this is 11.2 through 11 19. emotion thank you mrs defazio a second second thank you mr dawson discussion yeah i wanted to i wanted to make a note that um the document that was attached to the agenda was of a spreadsheet of showing all of these expenses but the column with the description was truncated so it's really hard as a board member to go through the list and know exactly what the definition of the expense is if the definition is truncated so if we can either get an excel sheet or pdf with all of the columns expanded that would be super helpful i think that's fair um are you suggesting that we should hold action on that item until we have that information um well i do have a hold on one of the items under a button so i don't know if that holds the whole list it does not oh no you want a table 11.13 right [Music] so eleven three's payment of bills eleven thirteen thirteen sorry yeah it was something that we discussed during governance that that we had a discussion and we think that we need more information and discussion on that topic okay before we want to move it so lisa are you going to make a motion to table 11.13 um yeah can i make them up to you you may to 11.13 thank you mrs defazio any i have a table discussion about the tabling of motion 11.13 you know this is where you would tell us why you're on the table really just again if you want i think you've already covered it for the most part what i heard was that the documentation that was attached to the agenda uh was truncated so it's difficult to fully understand and i think nominally we want to be sure we understand what's in sky with the scope of services and how they relate to what we're already providing in terms of district personnel um so that we can understand that they're either complimentary or so sorry so we'll be talking about all the old right now we're just talking about 13 13.
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19.5 i think that we would get to and so i've been monitoring that regularly and we have and we've taken all kinds of steps to ensure that families are applying as needed and we have not gotten to the 20 percent we also are facing reduction in our title one funds so some of the things that we would have been able to provide because we were school-wide due to the reduction in funds we will not be able to provide anyway so i'm i'm not overly concerned about being target assistants we ran a targeted assistance program for a number of years it's only been maybe the last three or four that we've had the school-wide option so we'll be reverting back to target assistance and this is a standing agenda item every year at this point if you were to go back in time you could see how this plan is changed and developed each year to year i recall public documents the the only other changes that they added um s or arp in terms of one of the grants that we need to acknowledge some of the work that we're doing and that's in the summary doc and we were doing much of that work last year as well anyway okay our grants all right i just thought if we were close maybe i know we were close we were keen on jury and the building team's work to just make sure that any students that we thought you know might not have submitted the paperwork and submitted had done so or was encouraged to do so but that's where we ended up at so you contacted them yeah we reach out directly almost two percent yeah by reaching out that way two percent is still a lot mm-hmm you know i mean when you when you think it helps families yeah since this was brought up in public comment um as a something that suggests that we might might delay our options here are to approve it or to not approve it if we didn't approve it then what uh we would have to bring it back in july we have to have submitted an approved plan in order to uh to put in our application for the other grants so for example the title one two and four grant which is open now cannot be submitted until july first but we have to submit the cdp the consolidated district plan prior to submitting that application so it would just delay everything but some things it wouldn't change the questions or the answers because we have to answer with what we're doing so we're required yes yes we have to submit that's a key concept consolidated district plan and um and then of course if if there was non-compliance there would be lack of funds right but still obligation to comply with the law so i depending on how long we delayed yes right so i just and programming for the start of the school year could be impacted yes so this this is something that you know ultimately um we don't really have a whole lot of choice about it's about following guidelines following the law and putting a plan together that complies with the law and we try to do it in a way that makes the best sense and takes advantage financially as well as you know strategically helping the students that need by by doing this and that's what you've presented here as you do every year gina puts a great deal of amount of work into this along with many other staff members to get to this point this isn't something that was written last week right okay thanks all right the title one plan this is also related to what gina was just talking about i'll let her go on about this one so the title one plan you have to answer some of the same questions that are in the consolidate district plan there's even sections of the consolidated district plan that have some of the same questions so you'll see a lot of similarities between the two documents again the biggest changes is increase in dual credit courses which has been a board goal and the change or reverting back to being a targeted assistance program versus the schoolwide program and as i said before with the reduction in funds i think we can operate a target assistance program and not a school-wide without any any real challenges we have been school-wide for the last few years but we have experienced target assistance for many years before that those are the the biggest changes to our title one plan you're not required every year to write a title one plan only when there have been significant changes and reverting back to target assistance from schoolwide would be considered a significant change it's usually kind of a good change isn't it well yes i mean it's not maybe not for us but yeah for the community for the it's a great yes it's a good communicator that the community is heading in a more fiscally stable direction yes but it does mean a reduction of funds for us so that's why gina has to work through all of this and figure out what we continue to support and what we change but yeah overall that's our constant conversation of well that's good news but it's basically but you know we have to figure this out now you know of how we change as a result of that well it is what it is i think yeah regretfully yeah all right uh so deos the intergovernmental agreement is the board is aware from the memo that's posted in the public content of the board it explains this in detail of what this involves so this is technology center of dupage as deos which has been in existence since 1980s 1986 is the this agreement been in place since since then too yes what's that the agreement has been in place since there has been an agreement in place since 1986 yes but that agreement did not contain a dissolution process so if tcd should go away which district 99 was a founding member of tcd there needs to be the auditors said there needs to be a process for how you would break up all of those assets the property and come up with a process knowing that like we're an original founding member and other districts came in later but some districts have had more students enrolled there so they've paid more tuition over the years so gina worked pretty much all school year with the deos board and attorneys to come together with the intergovernmental agreement that's there today deos has vo the the leadership of daos has agreed to bring this forward to each of their member boards we're recommending that the board adopt this it reflects the fact that we're original founding member there's nothing indicating that tcd is going to go away this is very much you know auditors financial kind of check box that needs to be in place for tcd so this would just approve kind of that agreement from our end into the iga all of the member schools will i'm assuming do the same and then there will be a documented process if there's ever a dissolution of tcd if you have questions on the actual language or specifics gina is the expert on that and our our attorneys looked at this as well and are recommending that we looked at it from the beginning and said yes there absolutely needs to be dissolution language and it has to be respective of those districts like ours that we're founding members and balance between enrollment we are also a district that sends a significant number of students and i'm happy to report more students next year then i think we've ever sent but i can tell you in the last 18 years we ever sent um i've been trying to find documents from before that but it's been a little bit more challenging um but we're up to 170 students starting in august that's going um so and that's almost 50 more than this year wow almost not quite but almost so um that's just so i'm very pleased to report that so i'll tell you to be honest with you that is one of the best programs that we have available for our students it it it is just so helpful for them and especially and it's not just whether they they want to use their college experience or whatever but if they want to find out if they really like that career it's exactly what my niece is doing is just to see if she likes it to determine whether or not that's what she wants to study in college so it's not it's not always an alternative no no but but then our students also receive the benefit of um sometimes a whole year or two years of of apprenticeship for a career that they would be happy in and i'll tell you it i would be really sad if we ever disillusioned them and that's not the plan something's growing because it is so valuable to our students and to the community i mean they don't seem to realize that that that plumber that they may have to call to fix whatever um might have gotten their start at tcd and found out that they really enjoyed that and want to make that their career choice so whatever we need to help them is what we need to do so sorry didn't mean this is up for approval this evening to enter into that agreement and i would just you know because this was also something that was brought up in public comment and you know so the way to think about this is is this is an agreement that we've had for a long time the only thing changing about it is the fact that an auditor said hey you know there needs to be some sort of process involved for how to just you know take this thing apart and a fair and equitable way to do that attorneys have been involved it's been looked at and reviewed and there's really not a whole lot to debate here and and certainly not something i think that people need to have more time to consider i certainly don't as the one of the people has to vote on it so that's it all right uh the next one is property liability and insurance renewals uh this is marx if you can give the more slide yeah grab up there we go usually red numbers on a graph is bad in this case very unusual top here a lot of cost and coverage like for anything in like a building for a car we've gone way up because of the cost of you know my daughter had someone running back our car car was took three months for them to replace the bags and she's buying a rental every day you know so it's that kind of a world right now and so they know it and they're they're pushing high on all the programs but we had a lot of success was we shopped very hard on the workers comp plan and you can see right there it's 100 the grouping on the top left is combined i should have started with that district 99 and and our largest feeder district 58 combined to get this coverage and it gives those uh carriers a bigger market for us for them to get to hit into and it gives us a little more room in any kind of problems that we have we rarely meet any maximums in terms of liability workers comp though is one that we've we've worked hard and actually our broker works with us they also follow down if there's a workers compensation claim they make sure that we filed it properly they push the attorneys they try and you know take care of it quickly and um between the district and the broker we've done a good job with those claims and you can see for the district 99 it's a 24 reduction in the workers count from the second one from the bottom 24 reduction in the policy and that's our biggest policy so what it did is it covered all of the losses basically and all the other of all the other premiums going up basically virtually all of them went out and what it did is it gave us room to finally access a new potnet new policy but new to us a policy a primary coverage which is i think it could be wonderful for our families and for individuals to come here we've a student never tripped or this let's say a student gets hurt in pe class and his parents don't have coverage insurance they call us and say we have no coverage and we can't do anything we are going to get a policy that will have a zero deductible if the board approves it the annual cost is 34 000 34 511.
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