05/24/22 BoE Workshop/Meeting

001[Music] so [Music] the board of education has been in closed executive session to discuss the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body the purchase or lease of real property for use of the public body and discussion of collective negotiating matters between the board and representatives of its employees no action was taken during close executive session i would now ask everyone to join me in 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 for all at this time i would ask that you remain standing i'm sorry oops if you would just remain standing for a moment of silence for 14 students and one teacher who

002were killed by a gunman today at robb elementary school in uvalde texas our hearts and prayers go out to the families students teachers staff and the entire community of uvalde during this incredible tragic time we like to have a moment of silence now in their honor thank you all right for our listening audience this meeting is not fully open a fully in-person meeting is not practical or prudent because of covet 19. do we have a recommendation for tonight's agenda yes yes we do i recommend the board approve tonight's may 24 2022 open session board meeting agenda as presented can i have a motion so moved have a second any discussion all in favor by saying aye aye those opposed same sign motion carried we will now move on to our work session and i'd like

003to turn the meeting over to superintendent clark and assistant superintendent of p12 teaching and learning jeff dace to discuss and share recommended changes regarding the school code policies section six instructions policies six and sixty curriculum content and policies six three hundred graduation requirements okay as mr days comes up to the podium we're going to be talking about the upcoming changes for the graduation requirements as you know for the 23 school year graduation requirements go up to 24 and the 24 school year graduation requirements go up to 25 and so we would like to show you um some evidence as to why we believe the credits should remain at 22 and mr uh dace will provide that information for you moving forward and will probably be supported by mr marquis stewart assistant director of teaching and

004learning so at this time i will turn it over to mr days all right um for secretary ms bradford they don't have the copies right thank you and that is director marquis stewart alright um good afternoon well i guess it's pretty much as what superintendent clark said the proposal is to go from right now we're on a sliding scale where the credit requirement will go from 22 to 25 credits in the year of 2025 and during the pandemic we saw a lot of requests for well students were requesting for flexible schedules as far as they had to work some of them still had things to take care of at home so that was like a light bulb that went off of offering flexibility to our students which provides some rationale for the proposed i wouldn't

005say reduction in credit but a stay in our credit requirement at 22. and if you see the document that i just gave you all you see on the left-hand side the current dps graduation requirements and on the right hand side you see you see the proposed dps graduation requirements and the only changes are pretty much the electives um our electives will right now we have a seven eight class schedule where allows students to take an abundance of elective courses we want to reduce that so students will have the option of taking electives that go towards their career goals or career aspirations and it will give them more room to be flexible and we can entertain offering work study programs where students can leave early from school to pursue their career options before they leave the

006before they leave high school another change that you will see that is highlighted is moving from currently we have science our classes are life life science and physical science but the state board of education is moving towards biology and chemistry being requirements so we figured we would start that early then later when the board when the state board of education requires those and with that also those are more challenging and rigorous courses where our students will be more prepared in english math and science and for those stem and stem career goals before they leave high school and that would make our students more better prepared so they can persist in college once they leave high school and dps so with that said that's pretty much it and you have that in front of you and

007we're proposing to stay at the 22 credits to provide our students more options to pursue their career college and career goals early on in high school yes we have an abundance of career paths right now the high school course guide is available online but pretty much if you can think of it we do have the career paths available for our students technology agriculture nursing so the career fields are there we would just like to offer more hands-on opportunities where they can go out and work and you know some of the times that make a difference of if you stay interested in that career or if you decide you make another decision and i do want to add one more thing mr dave also works with ashley granit and i and with major clarity i'll pop

008in every now and then on the meetings and what we're asking the counselors to do and what they have started doing with our students in terms of letting us know the path that they may be interested in has been great we had a nice increase this year from the year before in terms of the number of students that were in major clarity looking at possible jobs we still have a little bit of work to do but it's been a great increase and so i love that but what that does for us is tells us we are either on the right or the wrong track or we need to add and right now we are on target i'm confused though i i have no problem with students going towards whatever goal they're working towards and there

009are work study programs they do give credits so i don't know why that means we don't need to have the same number of credits we're planning when i when the school district went from six periods to seven um what you're then saying is you have 28 possible periods in four years so if you only require 22 credits a student can fail 12 classes 12 semester classes and i think that is not and a statement we want to make to students you know i agree that we i you know i want to support students in working in whatever direction they want to go i don't know what that has to do with not moving the graduation requirements up to a level that is more respectable i don't think this makes our district look very respectable to

010allow that many classes to be failed and still get a high school diploma so actually it's not allowing our students to fail and still get a high school diploma what it is doing is giving them an opportunity to retake a class if they fail so we looked at a lot of different factors when we were discussing this our graduation rate our student mobility rate our chronic absenteeism a lot of that plays a part into whether or not a student can graduate in four or five or six years from high school we have to remove barriers for them so for us if a student failed their freshman year of math and they have an opportunity to make that math up without being further behind the following year that's a that's a plus for us so that's

011what we were looking at i still think it's a huge number of classes that they can you know you're not talking about just one or two you're talking about 12 semesters and students should if they fail algebra one first uh one or two semesters they should be taking summer school so that they can go on the next year same way with english one if they don't pass english one they should be taking summer school so therefore they're not getting behind in credits if they do what's really needed the other question i have is has the state board actually said chemistry is going to be required because chemistry to me is one of the more demanding physical science classes and to make that a minimum requirement for a science graduation scares me i think either then

012you end up watering down chemistry so that anyone can pass it um and that just concerns me i'm very concerned that the state's even talking about being that specific with what's physical science class you'd take yes i don't have a grade right now but i see the next year or the following year that biology and chemistry will be a required science course well we already kind of do require biology because it's the only life science class we offer but the chemistry really concerns me and if they do that i know we can't do anything about it it's just i think there's other you know there's earth science environmental science it's not something those are not college prep science classes but not everyone's college prep so i think when you talk about graduation requirements it needs

013to be the minimum that needs to be acknowledged for a student to graduate from high school and i know sometimes organizations change that into being let's be a college prep high school and make everyone prepare for college this is nothing against you guys at all i'm just very concerned that the state is is talking about that in those senses um one other thing i assume you mean in the box called language and art music or vocational education that's foreign language yes yeah okay language yes okay is this comparable to surrounding districts as far as the number of hours credit hours for graduation yeah that's a great question and we were looking into that just as as of today i think we had a couple of districts right so um i was looking just just kind

014of peeking in on just a few districts and you do have some districts that are lowering uh requirements spring for for example just lowered their as i believe it was last year going back to the other question about summer school this is a prime example this year as it relates to summer school and what we're able to offer once again we're looking at trying to remove barriers within the four-year time frame six-year time frame for those that need it and what is the minimum required by the state i think we were around 18 yeah so kevin to answer your question i was curious as well as we've been sitting here so mount zion has 24 credits moreover forsyth has 28 credits warrensburg has 28 credits meridian has 24 credits springfield 186 is 26 credits not

015that i'm just letting you know that that's what that is and i'm not saying that that student population is the same as ours and that what the i'm just saying i was curious myself so to the extent that that is helpful i already did that homework thank you so we should have called her [Laughter] um you know i think that al your point is well taken and certainly i know that there's been a lot of discussion over the years i've been on the sport about being competitive and marketing together to other students and trying to bring people into this district and that sort of thing but i think also we really need to think about the kids that are in our district right now and how best to serve those students to make sure that

016they are able to graduate and the students that need more resources and support which i don't think we can deny that a lot of our students do need more resources and support due to whatever extenuating circumstance they might be encountering um i think that you know and i could be wrong and you're you guys are the academic you know experts um i think that where we bring down the requirements or keep them the same then then maybe we do have parents who are here and want more enrichment for their students that might get you know concerned about it and so i think as long as we have the opportunities for the for that additional enrichment for students that want it you know um or for families that want that you know that's a that's important

017yeah no and those are the lines that i'm going off of thinking from the growth mindset you know they will have an opportunity to explore explore options more especially in their last year when they pass everything their first three years so it gives flexibility my concern is if some of these courses are say optional if we're not going up to the say the 24 the 26 standards of the district how are we staffing these extracurricular classes i mean if there's going to be a limited not every high school kid's going to want to go beyond above and beyond what is required of them they're going to hit 22. done how are we staffing these extra extracurricular classrooms you definitely will have to look at the staffing um allocations as far as whether you have the

018trend is going to be trending over time of how many are enrolling so you're gonna have to keep track of this over time to see if we have to reset or level off in some of these classes but we're gonna i mean in the beginning it's not unlikely that we'll have five or six kids in one class because they're the only ones that signed up for it right well we're going to know we actually yeah we're going to know that because we're actually going to be in the buildings looking at those classes the other thing that i want to add going back to your question about more rigorous or those that are above we've just actually asked how many kids are able to take these certain classes and we need to start moving them in

019that direction but at the same time how many kids are needed that extra support so if i have to pull a kid out of a freshman math class for remedial i can do that i now have the the time frame to do that and get that child where he or she needs to be because if we don't do it then richland's going to do it or whoever it is i mean i think that's right getting our kids educated and prepared for that next step whatever that is if it's career or if that's you know richland or if that's four year or whatever that might be you know i i do think we hear things in the community about our students not being ready for that and if if you know and i don't like to

020hear that it's just that is what i hear and to the extent that we can do more for those students you know i guess i'm not seeing the um downside of that you know we just sat there at graduation saw how many rows were the academic scholars and how many rows were we're not and you know have we done everything for those kids that we could i don't know and so i think thinking along those lines seems like a good thing to do so i know like you said mr days that this has kind of dictated you know the pandemic and needs that have arisen because of that how long are we planning on keeping this curriculum at just 22 credit hours to graduate is this going to be a just for the next five

021years permanent i mean i know we reevaluate every couple years yeah you um once you it would be it's not appropriate to in my opinion to change midstream so if we were to start this it would be four years out because you would want to communicate with the freshman class that this is their requirement so whenever you change you want to make sure you start they go through the entire system but re-upping every four every year because every year you can start with another class if you wish to stop you got to give it four years to stop because every new class you you're committing to another four years you give it four years to weed out under that under that current requirement that i think that would only be fair for the for the

022freshman coming in well i mean i get that i'm just asking like how many how often are you planning on reviewing this to maybe propose increasing the credit hours every year every two years but right now we're going to review it every year because the state is adding requirements every year and then are there any repercussions from the state if we stay at 22 for say two more years no because we're strengthening and we're still over there minimum okay yeah we're over there minimum and we still have the minimum requirement contents that we offer okay the other thing this is a minimum requirement we still have the availability of ap classes we have the dual enrollment classes to get you into an associate's degree but i think this provides still a well-rounded education to everybody

023yeah and just like with everything whether we have 18 22 or 28 it's all about what you offer in those classes because we can have 28 but as um board member schneider referenced um if they're watered down then our students still not prepared so there was a time that we tried 28 with more rigor and it was not productive i was going to say you can also look to see what these high schools have is their like what's required i mean some of this is keyboarding and stuff like so you can you know if to the extent you guys are curious you can look to see what you know those additional required courses are a lot of them are just as like four years of pe instead of two years yeah it's called keyboarding it's

024called keyboarding it was called typing when i was a kid well you know it's pretty impressed i mean i'm all for i appreciate the idea of of lowering barriers but a barrier is there for a reason you got to get over it or you don't proceed i mean barriers exist for that purpose explicitly um i like i understand al's point that 28 credits gives kids room to fail because i i do believe if you don't i'm getting sick to the point where you have somebody who's waving at college giving a high school graduation certificate at you and they can't find the area of a circle so if they can't do that they can't pass the requirements of the course they need to have latitude within their remaining course ability to retake that course so they

025can as long as we're if they're if they're being held back or failed for a reason then i'm all for it as long as it's not we're not lowering standards just so we can push people along no what we're trying to do is provide rti for those kids that need it and we're and rti is in several different forms it's not just for the struggling kid it's for that kid that's way above everybody else like what are we doing for those kids so we have to be able to meet everybody where they are and move them forward you have to have room to be able to do that andrew i have an advanced degree and can't find the area of a circle i'll show you afterwards okay okay now i am confused though because last

026year when i was a counselor uh we were told that it was going to go to 24 and 25 but then i've heard from counselors that that they were told that that's not true so uh this is we never this board has not in the past year that i've been here voted on a graduation number this is the first conversation that we're having right this conversation has only been between me and tnl yeah i think we did graduation require i think we changed that policy with the last board yeah is every year goes up yeah yeah until 2020 that's the last time so what you're saying is the class of 24 we'll have 24 and 25 will have 25 and then you're going to go back to 22 for class of 26. now we're asking

027to stay steady at 22. for the all the current classes to change the policy okay i just want to make sure that's what we're talking about okay all right right i just want to make sure because of what i had heard before you know and whether that you know was being discussed or not so what would be the reason for increasing i hear a lot of um critique about decreasing keeping a lower number what what i guess what's the reason to increase the number of credits because the number of periods the number of periods went from six to seven and study halls are not allowed so when you had six periods a day that's 24 credits possible in four years when you have seven periods a day that's 28 credits possible so it just seemed

028logical to move up i didn't understand why we didn't move up right away you know every year that the student has seven periods now if the school allowed study halls that would make a difference but its school does not allow study halls at this point so just to me logically you have more periods you have more credits required to graduate and they don't have to be harder classes and if a person needs to have remediation i've been one that i disappointed that we don't have what's called basic english or a general english class for kids coming in from middle school who we know already are struggling with writing paragraphs you know i mean they just need that smaller it's kind of the in between you said rti it's the in-between group between those in special

029ed who really need the most and those who don't need as much and you need to have some smaller classes for those kids starting right out in high school and i i that's another separate issue from this but i'd be very much in support of having different levels of english one right to start with we have you know we have the honors english and and the regular english but i i think we're leaving out those kids who need help right from the start because we know that there's a lot of kids coming out of middle school that both in english and math are really struggling and when i was a counselor meeting with those kids i would love to have said you know based on your scores based on teacher recommendations that this is the

030kind of class that would be best for you to go into and i think that's something we really need to look into so to wrap this up in my mind so the reason for this is so that we are not so we're not trying to bump anyone forward but as you said we're meeting them we're meeting students where they are to help move them from where they are right okay and i think this is a great idea thank you any other questions for jeff okay that just lost that just confused me so we're not we're not just pushing kids through for nothing but we are going to go to that child and say you're struggling um here are some things that we can do if you fail this this is the class that we can

031put you in to help um give you the interventions now it's making sense but like what al said do we have those classes do we have the remedial math and we have some of the remedial englishes and i mean i kind of agree i know this is a state thing not a dps thing but like the whole chemistry thing is there going to be like an intro to chemistry available for some of these kids so that's a question i would need help with from mr dace but basically go ahead in terms of that intro um english and math classes that they to get some of the skills that they need coming from middle school it's just all about having a system that's monitored to make sure they get enrolled in those there also used to

032be a problem jeff with kids coming out of middle school after general math and walking into algebra and flunking right out of algebra because it was just so different that was me we do have they do they started three years ago the algebra uh two-year approach basically it's the same as when years ago was called pre-algebra and then algebra one it's just it doesn't matter what you call it um they call it algebraics and algebra y some school districts call it algebra a algebra b but there is for those students who need that two years to learn algebra that's working but to my understanding that would be a there would be a staffing concern with that right no not a staff concern just making sure we you have to look at a lot of metrics

033like i'm outside teacher recommendation looking at their scores looking at their grades if they struggle then hey you know we recommend that you take algebra x before you take regular algebra so okay just something we have to be consistent in so basically an iep for everybody so really in essence because are we are we guaranteeing that information is being relayed from the outgoing middle school student to the freshman counselor at macarthur eisenhower that this student needs to be like say in pre-algebra or something like that that's something we're looking at because right now currently in talking to the counselors this year majority of it was just off of teacher recommendation so we want to make sure we're looking at the student performance also because it shouldn't always be just one lever that determines what class

034you take because some students may appear to struggle on paper but you know that teacher says hey they got a lot of grit and they really try so give them a try with support and i would think yeah along the lines of individual plan for each student but making sure we're providing supports to hit their individual needs so this gives us room to do that so we're basically going back to nobody gets left behind if you can't do one level we will provide you a level that will enable you to move up that's what it's about mtss multi-tiered systems of support yeah no child left behind was a wonderful phrase sadly the laws kind of messed it up but the phrase was always beautiful when you know it's like that's exactly what we should be

035working on not leaving any child behind yeah and do students currently have the option if they start say freshman year in algebra but they struggle so then they can drop algebra like say it the semester and then go down to a lower math do they have that option currently i mean technically you have that option very rarely with with that happen and that's why we want to look at to providing them support because sometimes they could struggle but if we provide some outside or inside push in support it doesn't have to just be spared but right but they do have the option if they're not ready yeah that option is there but it it may mess up the track as far as their pathway however the option is there but that's rarely rarely used any

036other questions okay got that hammered out thank you i think we should yes so if i can have the student ambassadors to come to the podium and based off of what you just heard give some insight on what you think i uh you want to lead off hello good evening um after listening to that i definitely see the upsides uh kind of like you said um not leaving anyone behind um i do though think that going into this uh kind of to al's point we need to make sure that even though they do have this room to fail these classes that we need to make sure that we're not um encouraging that almost because when any any kid hears like hey you have 12 chances at this they're going to lay off like they're not

037going to think oh well i have to do this on the first time i mean a lot of the our generation's mentality is well if we don't we will have another chance it's fine we don't really have to try this time so i do think that overall this is a very good plan but going forward making sure that we still put the pressure on that these classes are needed and you need to put a hundred percent percent effort no matter where you're at so thank you skyler um i agree i think uh that there's merit to keeping the credit requirement where it is in order to help students uh to succeed where they are particularly i thought about kofi 19 i know a lot of a lot of fellow classmates who failed a lot of

038classes during covid so that put a dent in their the amount of credits they'll be able to earn by the end of their year at the same time though i do think that there's merit in uh in pushing students to do the best they can and when when i think about the math there's uh 24 credit if if it were to be moved up to 24 credits there would still be room for retention for what would that be eight classes yeah eight classes so that's there would still be that buffer there so i i'm wondering would that still be enough of a buffer with that and i mean it's not like you're asking kids to it's not like you're requiring all 28 classes for graduating just curious uh yes on both counts yes um and

039the other the other thing i was thinking of when you were talking about uh students needing uh needing help with certain subjects needing help with basic math skills or reading skills depending on what they come in from middle school with uh what i like what mr schneider was saying about a basic basic classes and a need for that i was also wondering would there be possible for any possibility for district paid tutors or anything like that after school on a regular basis for some of these students who might really appreciate that one-on-one attention to get down these skills while they're taking the classes that way they don't flunk out and have to retake it instead they are learning the skills with the help of somebody else while taking it so it's like you were in

040my meeting um so basically um and tnl has been looking at that too we actually had someone to approach us with a grant to bring in some outside resources but we also have before in our extended day that also works in helping our students as well that makes sense and the other thing i was wondering i'm talking about the want to push students to succeed would there be any possibility of an extra extra incentive or something like that i don't i don't have any ideas of it but extra incentives for students who get all 28 credits when they graduate anything like that to try to to push those numbers up of of students going above and beyond pushing their grade point averages and course loads if you're getting all 28 credits we want you in

041the dual enrollment program you'll get an associate's degree while you're doing that and yeah that is basically the goal to help them to understand their path and put them on that track and then align their classes along the track that they are seeking so yeah you could possibly have someone get that because like you know he said you're probably doing a dual credit at that point or you're majoring in a foreign language and you're taking multiple foreign language classes so yes there's a possibility that can happen but in terms of incentives that's something we would have to look at that makes sense i'm just thinking out loud here with if if we were to keep if you were to keep the credits required credits at 22 credits to graduate it i think it would be

042uh it would leave opportunity for some uh some students to take that opportunity to slack off and not not reach their full potential if there's not uh extra incentive the other way to try to get them to do as many credits as they can just yeah i think also just to add on to that really quick um we're trying the goal right now is to try and get these these students into their careers whether that be going right into a career a trade school a richland a two-year college a four-year university um you know we have to keep in mind if we're putting so like a 12-12 semester buffer there we have to keep in mind once they get to these careers that's not going to be there anymore when you get into college or

043your trade school or your career the expectations are going to drastically change and we need to make sure going forward with that that that is expressed because once you step into real life when somebody asks you to do something and you've been qualified for it they're going to expect you to do it right and they're going to expect you to get it done right the first time um because of well resources money that's kind of how the world works runs off of money so and that makes a lot of sense and i thank you for that which is the whole purpose of why we're trying to do this because it is important that we teach students how to be students so they know how to be effective in the community you i appreciate it our

044seniors everybody [Applause] technically we're way since we've been very diligent in slaving away here we're going to take a 15-minute break before we continue with the agenda since it's only uh 45 minutes before we're supposed to be here so six o'clock if you come back you can teach me how to find the area of a circle y times already a square i just googled it i don't know what those words mean so [Music] it'll be 6 30 before we get done there's so many district highlights i think yeah yeah there's anybody ready five reports they're short all right now that everybody's back and ready to roll we will now continue with our open session agenda and move to our district highlights i would like to call zach shields executive director of the dps foundation to

045the podium to introduce the eisenhower high school ffa presenters i don't think zach came tonight the eisenhower ffa if they don't mind coming to the podium oh they weren't in the room okay hello right here juanita hi hello so first i'd like nice i like them awesome thank you oh they're heavy that's seriously heavy thank you no problem thank you now where do we put in an order for the jackets yeah right for them i don't think you guys want to wear them not too comfortable because you know you know two board members getting a slap fight thank you thank you okay you want me to start so we are the eisenhower ffa chapter my name is jasmine schnetzler i am our now retired reporter i am bryson snatchler i am the current uh president

046and we'll just talk a little bit about our chapter um so over the past year we've had um a lot of great things come out of our chapter of course this is our first fourth year going into it and we've seen some great things come out of everything that we've been able to build up with the howard g buffett fund and um watching our students grow and build our own savings account for the next year when our will no longer have the howard g buffett fund um we've watched students go all the way from the bottom where they earn their green hand degrees their freshman year to now they are earning their state degrees this summer at state convention next um this over the summer we hope actually it was over the fall we hosted

047the state awards at eisenhower those are the coins we hand it to you guys that's a pretty big thing because not only does only one school get to do it it's the entire state of illinois gets to come out and we get to accomplish everyone for what they've like won awesome we have partnered with different departments at our school we've worked a lot with the life skills introduced them to several animals and other things that we do in agriculture we bring them around to the classrooms we gave them a little fun halloween day where we brought out candy and kind of talked about the agriculture program we've brought in dogs from paw print ministries before and they've got to meet them and we've also brought them out to the farm to meet our sheep and

048we've also partnered with the art department and they made us t-shirts for next year's officer team um we have quite a few courses going into this fall next year we have added one that is new this year which is wildlife management which is wildlife management so we we don't know what it's going to be like yet but i'm excited to take it next year that's great um and next year our ag department will be having about 235 students is the last number we got wow great job with 12 of them being officers that's great along with students receiving their state degrees at convention this year we are also being recognized as a silver chapter and a gold chapter for our building communities division which we worked with different activities throughout this whole entire year set

049to the certain like areas of requirement and that's how we got these awards um we are also currently planting cops at our farm we also just raised money to get ducks we are also working on doing turkeys so we can have turkeys for thanksgiving we had our horticulture students grow different types of flowers in our greenhouse that is right next to eisenhower this over the spring like while school was still in and we sold them at our um annual flower sale in the greenhouse and with that money that we made from those greenhouse sales we are sending two ffa officers which is actually bryson and i to leadership camp this summer in washington dc wow congratulations thank you uh i appreciate that is that it yeah oh we can talk about a quote yes yeah

050we also have a paper for you guys of our courses that we offer um your first base class is introduction agriculture that's what everybody takes as a freshman and then from there um if you did not take a biology class your freshman year you will go into ag science um but that also counts as a biology credit um and then from there is where we start all of our pathway classes um you can go a couple different pathways we've got horticulture which is a dual credit option through richland um agriculture business which is an honors credit uh wildlife management management which is also an honors credit and then animal science and small animal science which are honors credits so with the whole pathways we pretty much want everyone to do what they want to do

051so if they're into animals they can go into animals if they like more the mechanic side and the business side of agriculture they can go into that they can go into plants if they want we just want everyone to do what they want to do in agriculture we don't want to force anything on anyone it's a nice open space for everybody to kind of figure out what they enjoy doing i know i personally came in knowing absolutely nothing and i tried out all these different classes like hey this is really cool like it's not just farming look at that i i've also met a lot i've met a lot of cool people i've learned i'm i've learned how to become a leader which i'm not a great leader but i'm working i've learned tributes of

052what a leader is and it's been a great experience meeting people all across the united states and our final piece of paper that we handed out to you was our newsletter from this past first semester of this year um it kind of highlights some of the stuff we did some of our activities that we worked on throughout the year to get those awards i talked about earlier some of our classroom ideas and it highlights our officers that just graduated so fantastic but we're proud of you guys thank you thank you guys congratulations to you both [Applause] it's amazing how fast that program has grown exactly next highlight i would like to call dr juanita morris dawson institute coordinator to the podium to present a jerry j dawson civic leadership institute update hope everybody as well

053i'm going to try to get through this so i am dr juanita morris and i'm the coordinator for the jerry j dawson civic leadership institute this is probably my year two two and a half first six months of the program i spent with community trying to understand what needed to happen or what does it look like and and the goal is fairly simple is to connect our students to careers in civic related areas and so how we do that was open uh to to kind of explore and so hopefully i'm slowly building something that's a little different and a little more unique that's specific to our community in the first six months with all of the meetings that i had there was five areas that emerged and those are the pillars for the institute which

054is law enforcement health care local governance entrepreneurship and education we think and i believe in our community shared that we need more employers and more employees in any and all of those areas because i started with community from the outside in i had so many conversations and this program only works with collaboration and so on the screen you'll see some of the collaborations that we have but there are many many more that i'll share as i walk through the program so the first one is law enforcement law enforcement and entrepreneurship are two that are coming online this year and my year one health care and education came online and what i say what i mean when i say come online this spring we had two groups one from eisenhower and one from macarthur that spent

055an afternoon at macon county law enforcement training center going through simulation having some discussion what does it look like from a law enforcement perspective this summer we are building a two week book it's really two months but it'll be a fairly intense two-week law enforcement boot camp for our students who are in high school they will be housed on campus with me at millikin university i'm pretty sure that's not a good idea but it sounds okay today because it hasn't happened as we go through that they'll also take a course in criminal justice for credit through richland and then we'll also do cpr certification under each pillar the idea is to make sure that our students are taking something away and so we spend some time collaborating with decatur police department we also spent some

056time collaborating with macon county law enforcement training center this one is so important because this project emerged during covid and also during covet we watched george george floyd in the trial and so it's sensitive and it has taken some time but i think that is slowly starting to build ground but we have to be very very intentional about how we engage and what we communicate and how we do those things the next pillar is health care so health care worked on last year during the summer we launched a six-week residential cna program we had seven participants who were dps students all seven past and all seven are working in our community so we again i moved them to millikin university's campus for six weeks and the institute covered everything whether it was tuition whether it

057was fees whether it was food whether it was housing there was no expectation for our students to cover any of the expenses associated with the program we had a full day we spent time at at richland in class and then we also had family dinners with folks who were in our community to talk about what it looks like how can we better serve our community how can we provide access to health care options for for our community so we done six-week residential cna program last summer we also piloted a health care boot camp we sent students our students to saint mary's for a full week and they were inside of st mary's they were in the o.r we went to decatur ambulance they walked away with cpr certification and some of those students are transitioning

058into the residential program this summer last summer we had seven residential cna this summer we will have 12. last summer we had about four or five in the week-long boot camp this summer we'll have right at 25 or 30. we'll launch a health professions club this fall in collaboration with dmh and saint mary's and we also provide some cpr training for our students entrepreneurship working on this one will come online this year but working on an entrepreneurship camp for our middle school and high school students this summer i've seen some of the other programs that are floating around outside of our community i think that we can do it a little different to meet the needs of the students in our community so this one will slowly come online and build some collaborations in the

059entrepreneurship space i spent a lot of time last year working with innovative programming to build a solid pathway for students who are interested in becoming educators and just had a really good time we wrote a grant through richland for about a quarter of a million dollars to make sure that we purchase curriculum and do those kinds of things so the courses were launched in both of the high schools and we also launched an education club dual credit courses in the summer mrs blackener and angela thomas at both of the high schools were amazing in education those students who participated in the education club over the past couple of years would transition to richland and they would transition to richland with all tuition fees and books paid for the duration of their stay at richland wow

060another piece of the institute is the internship program internship program last summer we placed our students in about 15 locations fifteen dollars an hour they're able to work up to 35 hours per week it's paid through the institute and not the employer they meet with me once a week half a day for professional development in that in that position in that picture you'll see tramar brown who interned last summer with usb um who's a macarthur student you'll see jaden elliott who just graduated in the center who is also a macarthur student who interned with the city of decatur last summer and they subsequently hired him part-time throughout the school year jaden is transitioning to richland with tuition fees and books and expenses paid for the next couple of years and in that picture you'll also

061see alex hickman who just graduated from eisenhower this year and she was a residential cna and worked at st mary's for the duration of the last school year this year our internship program is expanding a good bit decatur police department jillian tucker from macarthur who just graduated will begin with them next week central illinois regional dispatch has an eisenhower graduate who will begin who has begun this week city of decatur richland crossing healthcare will take a student who is interested in becoming a physician salvation army and a couple of private law firms for those who are interested in becoming attorneys so the internship program is is growing uh quite quite a quite a bit quite a bit there was two who were placed in this kyle building last year as interns one was in hr

062and the other one was in innovative programming and they had amazing experiences here in this picture you will see shoot that's alex and cheyenne both who are dps graduates who are both cnas working in health care we're building a leadership program we're meeting twice a month we have 10 young men who are all at johns hill who are transitioning i think all most of them are transitioning to macarthur so their their ceremony is tonight a couple weeks ago we were in with about 15 of them seven young women we were at the play in in st louis at hamilton they will attend a week-long leadership conference in july and we have a common book read and we're doing some other things around civic engagement and discussion and how do we better present ourselves and those

063things that are important in terms of leadership this this is kind of interesting and part of the institute we built an interpreter certification program and it's about 11 weeks 60 hours we have an increasingly spanish-speaking population in our community and so the question with the civic institute is how do we better serve our community and this certification will allow them to help to translate and interpret for not only our students but also our our other community members so this was a collaboration with richland and with dc dmh as well as dcli to figure out how do we do that better which is an intensive intensive program some of our educators are here i believe there is one who is at persons another one who is at johns hill who are teachers and who teach esl

064also are in this program and the institute as well as richland is covering the expense for for the program itself in the picture you will see holly triana who was a a secretary at stephen decatur the institute worked with her to become a ta pass the t exam she was hired at hope she's been at hope the past year completed the associate's degree at richland community college and she's now going to stay at hope while she transitioned to uis to finish her degree in education and in special ed and remain with our district here treyjon is a macarthur graduate who also worked on we worked with him to become a ta he is at hope academy we cover the expenses for his tuition and fees and books at richland so he too like it's growing

065our own and making sure that we are clear about who we want in our community and who we want in our buildings and they are committed to us and the institute allows us to to commit to to them and their studies and helping them to transition holly we worked with uis to make sure that she had a scholarship that would cover all of her tuition and fees as she transitions to uis as long as she remains here in our community college scholars you i've mentioned covering tuition and fees and that's part of the institute there's 400 000 allocated to cover tuition and fees through richland and so we're spending that we're spending that on residential cna we're spending it on college credits and we're also expending those funds on students who are enrolling at richland

066who full or part-time as long as they are interested in one of those five areas and as long as there's some connection to the institute i think it is important that even though we have funding and the project was probably 2.4 million and there's 400 000 that's allocated for scholarship we want to be good stewards of what we've been given and i tried to work to leverage funding and so for example even with education we wrote the grant to make sure that we were able to secure an extra quarter of a million to do some of the work we wanted to do united way has provided some funds for our students who are in residential cna because we don't charge our students anything to participate in any of the programming that you've seen and we

067work to build collaborative relationships because what we found is because it's based on community community will support the work so what do we have we have a leadership series week every year for our students who are involved in any programming at all with us over the course of the summer so if they're in the residential cna or if they're in the internship program or if they're in the healthcare boot camp they come and we just have some time with them where they are able to kind of understand this is how we show up this is how we engage in community and so we spend four days with our students and then saturday july 30th we have a um an award ceremony and we celebrate all of all this year will be all 12 who will

068pass the the cna exam it will be all of our interns who will be amazing and the rest of our students that um participate in in any of the programming over the course of the year and that's me thank you that's incredible work yes [Applause] did i ask yeah that's tremendous and that's why i want to ask uh what the application process is for students the application process is super simple i either get an email from a counselor or we have civic leadership 101.com and they click they answer two or three questions it all comes directly to me and they get a response from me and they indicate what they're interested in with the understanding that sometimes their interests change what time of year is that always no the application always yeah because even now

069so for example we'll launch the uh healthcare club in the fall and so students that are interested in that they can always go online and indicate what they're interested in and they can be folded in so you don't have a limit on how many students can be involved no wow we set limits right and so this year because like the residential cna we had seven last year we set the limit at 12. we have 30 slots for healthcare boot camp for a week but in terms of our clubs and our leadership like we try to make sure that our students have access like that's the goal is to provide access and opportunity to a wide range of students it really is okay we want to keep this kind of thing going i don't want you

070to open the books or anything right now but for from the foreseeable future you're you're healthy on your funds or it was um established as a eight-year project right right and so part of that is even making sure that we're able to leverage funding and do some other grants and do things to extend the duration of the programming and what we're offering and that's going well yeah i think so good okay are we included in that part do you receive any funding from decatur public schools no no no it's all funded through um howard g buffett foundation it was the original 2.4 million allocation a couple years ago and the dps foundation is very much involved in that as well from what i understand yeah it goes through the dps foundation yes fantastic thank you

071[Applause] all right next highlight i'd like to call jeff dace assistant superintendent of p12 teaching and learning to the podium to share a community opportunity for our students and families you got a tough act to follow before i begin i want to do a fact check if you say it in public you should correct it in public um now that board member schneider it's a laboratory science it's not necessarily biology or chemistry the requirement will be a laboratory science okay yeah thank you so and that that is for the 23-24 school year so we'll look at that okay yep all right okay all right now community community function oh yeah this will be the third year that i'm doing this in the previous years we've had we were at fairview park where we were running

072the stairs um this year we will be at planet fitness yeah planet fitness um and you'll get a chance to see if you can last side by side with me on my stairmaster and my exercise so i'll be there every wednesday at 601 you know i like with the six plus one theme um and i usually stay on the stairmaster for at least 33 minutes um holy cow chess press and so i look forward to the community coming out and exercising staying in shape over the summer it'll be the first six six wednesdays of the summer plus one that last wednesday in july i have to take a vacation in between there so with that said and also i always welcome any community member listening please invite me to your block clubs your events because

073i want to get involved in the community more so that will be my summer and community engagement with decatur public schools so i look forward to continuing this for third year straight thank you thanks [Applause] next to highlight it i'd like to call denise subbing for maria to the podium to share information regarding the ipa student leadership award we have several outstanding students that we want to recognize tonight on may 2nd there were three dps students honored by the illinois principals association at its annual leadership breakfast in springfield last board meeting we recognized miss rachel miller she's an 8th grader at johns hill magnet school she's recipient of the ipa student leadership award tonight we want to recognize two more students the first is malachi chalmers an eighth grade student at dennis lab school malachi

074was nominated by his principal mr dan lynch and this is what mr lynch shared about malachi malachi is a natural leader amongst his peers both in the classroom and outside the classroom in extracurricular activities frequently other students look to him for direction and his decisions help set the tone in and out of the classroom unfortunately malachi is unable to be here tonight but we still wanted to recognize him as one of the many student leaders that we have at dps so congratulations malachi [Applause] our third recipient of the ipa student leadership award is brayden thomas who just graduated from eisenhower in the class of 2022 nominated by dr amy zam here's what she wrote about brayton braden is a hard-working responsible kind and honest student braden will be a 2022 graduate with a weighted gpa

075of 4.73 and is ranked fifth in his class he's taken honors ap and dual credit classes throughout his high school career he has completed more than 50 service learning hours while at ehs he was involved in national honor society class council football baseball cheerleading freshman mentor program and panther pals he always supports events other students and any community events at ehs and i think braden is here tonight with his parents do you want to tell us about your plans now that you graduate [Applause] so i learned a lot about myself this year obviously it being such a tough year and really just everything i was involved in i had to figure out a lot about myself and through that journey i've learned that i'm a very ingenuitive person so that's why i decided to pursue

076an engineering degree at the my dream college the u of i so i'll be going there this fall and i hope to continue community service that's been something very important to me over the past year and i don't plan to stop that anytime soon congratulations [Applause] awesome all right um yeah i think that's all we have for the ipa student leaders so those three students are wonderful amazing doing great things i believe mr stewart is up next to recognize district-wide math bowl champions a photo with braden and dr clark [Music] we have to have a photo op a picture and the parents are here too right you guys want a picture too [Laughter] your parents up there mom and dad wants one amy mom and dad where are you going it's a whole production there's

077a lot to celebrate proud [Applause] good luck to you you have i that's great you will enjoy the place good evening just wanted to provide a quick update we our department hosted our very first middle school math bowl competition on last week at johns hill middle school and i think they had the home court advantage johns hill middle school students actually won i want to give a great shout out to all those students who participated they did an outstanding job and i'd also like to give a shout out to kelly murray who orchestrated and planned out everything with the assistance of our team at pdi so thanks thanks to everyone who participated uh principals thanks for preparing your students and that's all i have to share thank you thank you [Applause] just keep going you're

078doing great on this page one more time recognize our graduating student ambassadors tonight as well uh throughout this school year daniel flores and skylar tracy have been a consistent presence right here at board meetings sharing a unique and essential perspective about what's happening in our schools and how the decisions made here in this boardroom impact our students they've shared insights about challenging issues and have always made sure to showcase the amazing things that our students are doing as well both daniel and skylar graduated this past saturday and we are very much going to miss these two at our board meetings um dr clark board members anything you'd like to add to our student ambassadors skyler had to leave us to go to a band practice but daniel's here representing yes actually i would first of

079all thank you for i mean i promise every time we have a conversation guys you wouldn't believe it it's like he's in my office and he's heard everything that i've said because he's always in my head but thank you for everything that you've done everybody that you represented you represented well the students look up to you i appreciate you and everything that you brought to the board of education and to my awareness i look forward to all the exciting things that you're going to do in the years to come so again thank you congratulations on everything that you have going for you right now because i know you're going to be awesome and remember what i said looking for your picture on the wall good job daniel [Applause] i'd like to say that maybe in

080nine years i'm celebrating nine years out of high school eisenhower maybe in nine years you can also sit up here so yeah yes dana would you like to come tell us about your future plans [Laughter] whatever it is you can't wipe down the podium we've got somebody uh well uh it's been a fun journey at macarthur and at dennis for me i've been in this district eight years it's been a good experience uh i'm going to be pursuing a degree in political science at berea college next year which is in bria kentucky it's located about an hour south of lexington and i'm looking forward to it's a work college so i'm going to have a job there and i think it's gonna be fun congratulations daniel good luck hey good luck that's right those are

081some of my favorite classes dr levesky we will now move on to public participation the board of education would like to note the following during public participation identify oneself and be brief any public comments received will be read during this time and comments should be limited to three minutes for our listening audience please note during the board of education meeting and public participation board members do not respond and or comment to public comments all comments are referred to administration furthermore the board refrains from referring to specific students or staff members by name and requests that public commenters refrain from doing so as well the request that you omit names is made to protect you from allegations of libel or slander or from violations of the illinois student services records act it is not intended to

082shield an employee from criticism miss bradford do we have anyone wishing to speak to the board tonight or do we have any comments to be read we have both lloyd davis good evening board ms clark mr days mr oaks this is my last fight this school year but i will continue superintendent when are you going to step in and help our children it's your job you wanted the job now be responsible and take care of our children stop leaving their voice behind you are responsible for our children to step up and accept responsibility for our kids it's not the kids fault are you guys that careless fix a mistake it's not right and everyone listening tonight understands this how is one teacher going to take on a caseload of 36 kids even divided and apply

083them at sea i've been deceit it's like a prison garfield has room to house the sed program for the 2022-2023 school year if not three classes and let two classes that have teachers and age transfer with all ed program that was the original plan in the april 21st 2022 board meeting k through k through second grader are more of a behavioral issue with a lot of students transitioning into sed leave them with a seat in the event a third teacher is hired they will have a place at garfield mrs greer and mrs fonner pending for certification can teach the kids and mainstream them with proper education there's seep teachers on facebook bashing the scd program on decatur public schools parents who have ieps with kids i won't allow my child to go to a prison

084platform like seat that is supposed to be positive more like preparing our kids to fail it's not the best to keep sed it's what's appropriate placement for each and every child in the program the director of making pie says it's a vacancy but has she informed you that they're losing seven more jobs with the sed closure out of all the board members only three have expressed concern with the closure of the sed program i'm a parent that's filed mediation i'm a parent that's filed due process i don't know about the other parents but most of you are probably tired of me but the truth be told this has just begun i won't go down without a fight and most of you that know me that do know me understand and see that i'm not an

085emotional person but when i walk through the halls of the sed and students say hey that's the guy from the news that's fighting for our program and fighting for us it makes a different impression on you you guys wouldn't understand that do you guys support me absolutely not okay i have several to read and for the record there were several that with the same verbiage and some came from the same email address so i will not be repeating those sheree park to whom it may concern i am a teacher in dps for 21 years and unvexed for covet i played the game of testing weekly and masking staying home when i was forced to i i have not had covet and have not spread covet i was never sick and never tested positive for covet

086but i was forced to use many of my sick days due to others having covet since i am unvaxed our district will not return any of my sick days to me vaccinated employees are getting all of their sick days back and some of those had to take off several weeks of school this year because they have they had covet and were sick i'm extremely disappointed in district 61 not giving all staff their sick days back is showing their lack of support for staff in our district getting vaxxed for covet did not prevent people from get from getting or spreading it so why in the world would only the vax get their sick days returned can anyone in our district give me a good reason for lack of support of their employees can board members explain

087this to me i will copy and paste the email below that was sent to dps employees in case you are unaware of what is happening this is just one of the reasons people are leaving our district i will see what kind of response i get from this email and then i will be louder make it make make it make sense make it right shari park classroom teacher in dps for 21 years cindy davis i am writing to ask the school board to please reinstate you sick time due to covet for all employees of dps i have worked as a teacher assistant for making pie special ed for 18 years i feel as though i am being discriminated against when even though i fully complied with dps guidelines and tested weekly for covert for months as

088requested i was given a choice to either get vaccinated or test weekly and now i'm being punished for the choice i was given cindy davis life skills teacher assistant stephen decatur middle school lloyd davis my child is in the social emotional development program is currently housing a specific school's indicator school district for students grades k through 12. this program teaches core academic subjects and safe environment while focusing on teaching specific social and emotional regulation skills this program offers a full-time social worker to address the emotional and social needs of the students who need this program students work on goals for self-regulation of emotions coping skills and peer interaction skills students earn increasing privileges by completing assigned work in a timely manner and by adhering to the behavioral guidelines of the program now the c program

089is a social emotional alternate program providing alternative placement options for students who experience difficulty with the traditional school setting the seat program is considered one of the most restricted placements for students students are placed at seat when the behavioral needs of the students exceed the resources in the public school the focus of the program is to offer focused behavioral training within a highly structured curriculum to help them return to the public school successfully social work services are integral integral to help these students make their goal to return to the public school the director of making pie special ed made sole decision to dissolve this said program the district is allowed to change location of the program but they are not allowed to change placement of a child with an iep in illinois therefore making pirate

090special ed director has continued to violate all the children's rights in the special ed program making pie special director has continued to violate each and every child's due process rights with the disabilities and someone has to help me save this program and save these children's education enough is enough and we need help from these babies is not fair dr rochelle clark when are you going to step in and help our children it's your job now you want to be the job be responsible take care of our children stop and leave their voice behind parent inspect program lloyd davis greg hanson dps 61 superintendent how is it that you show us to visit show up to visit these kids tell them you're working on something but how when you're not you're just sitting at the desk

091and ignoring all these kids voice when it is gonna be enough when is it gonna be enough what if this was your child what would you do then probably nothing these teachers have agreed several times on doing whatever it takes to save this program but i bet making pie director didn't mention that that did she so how about you ask the teachers what they would do like to do there's plenty of them willing to take these open positions there's room at garfield for these classes send a little kids to seat they have been more of a behavior problems and send the other ones to garfield it's crazy that you go to facebook website and they only show pictures of seat kids but yet these teachers are spending money out of their own pockets for water

092balloons bounce house and food but this ain't their job to pay for stuff like this don't this show that they care about these children so it's time to let these kids voice be heard and not let them down then you got a seat teacher running her mouth on facebook saying seep ain't prison i'm a parent i took a tour and yes it is prison like structure how is it that these teachers stand up for these kids but get in trouble look at the gate to outside of sea it's like a prison fence at menard correctional center greg hanson cambrie davis part of her email is part of her document is exactly what i've already read i will start here how is one teacher miss brawler going to take on caseload of 36 kids at seep

093and place them into prison that is it again i will acknowledge others that were sent i had a said rock from 2022 didn't leave a name i had another one from lloyd davis that was exactly the same i had another one from heather maltby that was exactly the same and i had another one from said matters they had the same email address that was exactly the same thank you very much okay i'm sorry with your permission i would like to make a statement i do understand that there is a lot of concern regarding the sed program but i do want to make something very clear that the making payet board which includes myself amongst others will continue to work with kathy horith regarding the sed program and placement of students as she finds the necessary

094staff she will inform the board and we will take necessary action at that time until then we will continue to follow her guidance in terms of what she is looking for for her staff meeting finding staff and we will move accordingly thank you the board of education thanks everyone for their public comments we will move on to the student ambassadors report daniel what do you got tonight my last time last shot make it good let's see well the school year hello yeah the school year has ended for all of us at high schools now and uh at the elementary schools as well so all i think all in all uh most most of my classmates i've talked to have said that they've had a pretty good year they've had their ups and downs but they

095uh said that they enjoyed being back in person that was a lot better than last year and that they're starting to feel like it was like like the atmosphere is like it was before covet so i think that that's very positive and uh yeah and it's been a pleasure uh working with you all these past two years online and hearing present and uh i uh wish you all the best in your future and hope the other student ambassadors have as much uh fun and fulfilling in this role as i did we thank you for your participation [Applause] we will move on to more discussion is there anything else to discuss at this time hearing nobody jumping up and down enthusiastically we will move on to reports from administration i'd like to call jeff dace assistant

096superintendent of p12 teaching and learning to the podium to introduce the presenter for the first class educator report all right it gives a pleasure to introduce miss lotia brooks who is the senior education consultant for first class educator this is the group that has provided training in equity and culturally responsive climate so at this time miss loser brooks [Applause] good evening dps board superintendent clark and assistant superintendent days dps community i am so thrilled to be here me and my team is this what i use here okay the green button thank you all righty so this is the first class educator team i do have a few consultants with me here tonight if you guys can stand those who are present and those who are not here today they send greetings as well so i

097am really excited to stand before you today i know earlier in the year we were trying to get to a board meeting to present so the other consultants had some other arrangements for this date but again i really am thrilled about dps's forward movement your resolution on racism your commitment to working with equity i pay attention to a lot of board meetings and i know that it is challenging to do the work and for you all to accept the challenge and the climate of america right now salute to you all so i just wanted to go over our work with the district for the last two years and so we're going to discuss the completed phase one and phase two in the board packet that's posted online you guys have all of the data and

098extended presentation but for time sakes we did cut it down all righty so in our first year we work with two groups we work with the district leadership team with establishing equitable practices and that was spearheaded with dr frego bringing us in on net and then we worked with all of the administrative team all of the principals with cultural proficiency and so the ultimate purpose of that first year was to create systemic change throughout dps so the idea was to work with all of the district leaders and to work with all of the principals to create a shared language before proposing to work with any of the staff these were the measurable outcomes and goals that were set forth i won't read them all but most importantly we are working on creating visual visible cultural

099artifacts within the district and so that is the goal that is still in progress that is the only one that has not been met aside from the ones that are still in progress as well the book that we use with the first group was everyday anti-racism we also use this book as well with the groups this year with all of the teaching staff our um our readings came from this book we did small and whole group discussions breaking down articles that related to each of the subgroups that we work with so district leadership team we make sure that we pull relevant articles and relevant materials so now that we're in phase two again using the same book to kind of lead us as well as pulling in outside articles specific to the decatur community these

100are the schools that we're working with this year and i'm speeding through this guys because i i want you guys to see the qualitative data that we also have captured through video and i don't want to take too much time so we work with these schools this year as well as continue to support the dlt through coaching them through their equity goal commitments that they made last year as well as the equity goal commitments that the administrators committed to last year so this is some of the qualitative data from some of the post session surveys so as you can see you have a mixture when we are doing equity work you can expect to have some the decisiveness between some of the groups just because this work is challenging to talk about racial equity but

101for the most part many of the decatur staff were very open to the idea of having these conversations so as you go through the data and you see the comments you can tell that a lot of them found the content to be interesting a lot of the material that we pulled in again was specific to the decatur community and many of the staff members really enjoyed that we didn't bring in material from st louis or from any other community but it was specific here to decatur in particular we always hear about how looking at the map in regards to redlining and how a lot of staff members did not know the effects and how it affected the community so we're really proud about the fact that we bring in material that is specific to the

102decatur community to hone in on how it's actually affecting your community and so again just some process post session survey data about how the groups gauge the effectiveness of our sessions and as you can see fours and fives on most of the areas and the areas that receive ones and twos are only a few staff members who rated it with a one or two hi my name is okay before we get into the video i just wanted to provide you with some context can i go back okay this video here one of the equity goal commitments um by principal mary brady she wanted to create an after school kids club that was basically a culture club so that was her equity goal focused and so she invited us to come back to her school to

103take a look at the culture to take a look at the artifacts that they had displayed in the building so she did allow us to bring in a videographer to capture that so this is just a short video it's two minutes and then we have two other videos of staff indicator so here we go all right i might need some help hi my name is losa brooks i am the founder and ceo of first class educator first class educator is an educational consulting firm where we specialize in staff development one of my favorite offerings is our diversity equity and inclusion work with districts we have been contracted to work with decatur public school 61 with all of their teaching staff over the next two years so we are so excited to be here today we

104are at baum elementary where principal brady has welcomed us to come to her school for an additional walk-through and she focuses on making sure that her school is culturally reflective of their student demographics and so one of the things that she wanted to ensure was that her school incorporated artifacts that represented her students and walking through you can tell that they have been very intentional about designing their boards and making sure that their classroom has artifacts that represent their students and so we wanted to come in and be able to take a look around complete a walk through with principal brady and actually be able to make suggestions and provide her with feedback on how to enhance what it is that they're already doing and so one of the things that i truly enjoyed is

105that when we entered one of the classrooms the students spoke so highly of one of their teachers mrs kramer we got it in here this is where it is [Music] she does just science you got to get mass breaks she's the best teacher ever okay and it was it was such a powerful moment because these students could tell that their teacher cared enough about them that they wanted to highlight her when we were in the classroom she is one of the teachers who's sponsoring the culture club and this is the reason why i do the work because there are educators out there who actually want to use their sphere of influence and help their students to give them a voice in my team that i've put together that i've staffed that i've hand-picked and selected

10680 of them are my former teachers that i had the privilege of having as a high school student as a college student and these are the teachers that i know actually cared for me and actually gave me a voice so to see these educators and bomb actually doing this for their student made me think about how transformational and how education reform what that actually looks like in the grand scheme of things i hired my teachers based on the fact of they made me feel like i had a voice they made me feel important they showed me that they cared and not only about me about the issues that people who look like me go through and actually giving us the space to talk about that we all know that representation matters and so this to

107me is just full circle moment of showing this is what education reform looks like when it's done right and at the end of the day is love is love and understanding and willingness to communicate willingness to use your space willingness to step forward to sit at the table to talk to have uncomfortable conversations to exchange dialogue and to share alrighty and then i'll go to the last two videos these are a few um dps teachers just talking about their experience with first class educator wait look okay all right hi i am datrice weathers and i am a fifth grade teacher here at hope academy i really appreciated this training i thought it was awesome to bring the staff together we're diverse staff it sparked some conversations that needed to be had in order for us

108to really make change here among our students helping to give us an understanding and we as the teachers learned as well we know that we have to remain teachable in order to teach the population that we are in charge of so we're so grateful for this thank you so uh could you tell me your name and where you teach okay my name is lorraine major and i teach at south shore school in decatur illinois fantastic could you tell a little bit about your experience with first class educator um this was my first year with first class educator what i really like is the things that we've had to read have made me double check myself and think about what i'm doing and what i'm teaching and how it's affecting the students and it's kind of

109made me take a double i don't know how to take a double look at what i'm doing and what positive changes i can make in the classroom can you think of any particular session that was a big aha for you every session's been in our last session and this last session was an aha session with um the the article about our our town and the differences between opportunities for black people i didn't realize how the discrepancy how big it was how large it was and um in a way it made me angry because i've been here for a long time and i really didn't know how bad it was so but it also gave me awareness thank you so much all righty thank you all so much and if you all have any questions i

110can answer any questions for you at this time what challenges have you faced during this process uh so i wouldn't say me personally but i know my consultants when we talk about the the dialogue that's being exchanged in the very beginning there were comments made such as i'm not sure why we have to do this training i don't see color having people to really think about why this training is necessary in 2022 so the pushback a little bit but being able to lean into it and i assure you i have the best consultants working with dps61 so we've been prepared we thought about what the challenges would be before coming and so most of it is based on just the sensitive content so those are the challenges and i mentioned you had an unmet goal

111and i believe you said that that was for cultural what was it i'm sorry seeing the artifacts present in the buildings and so that is something that we anticipate that will take some time so there's not an overnight that's not something that you're going to see that change overnight it's definitely going to take some time but over the last two years we have definitely seen some progress and considering variables such as kovit teachers having time to decorate their classrooms or the outside the the boards and things like that but that is something that isn't proven but we want to see that number be 100 percent of course thank you anyone else thank you all so much [Applause] all right next report i'd like to call ashley grant executive director of innovative programs in strategic planning

112to the podium to present an innovative programs update start your own chance i was waiting on dlt to hype me up ashley ashley oh well now it's just awkward [Laughter] good evening everyone thank you for having me on this evening to come up and present an innovative programs update to you all all right innovative programs could not go move chuck and jive without these two wonderful ladies that you see here on the screen miss leslie risby is the innovative programs coordinator and ms sherry johnson is the extended day program coordinator literally the heart and soul of innovative programs they are out they are in the buildings they are out in the communities out in the communities trying to make a difference so this is the program leaders within innovative programs all right innovative programs what

113do we do our alignment is directly to our district strategic plan strategy one we feel that we dabble in all of the strategies right whether directly or indirectly but we feel like strategy one really speaks to our department the most which is ensuring unique innovative learning experiences for all students so all of our work aligns back to this strategy which overall supports the work of the district really trying to progress our district move it forward keep us competitive making us look different making us feel different while giving our students meaningful opportunities so our focus again to develop sustain and create meaningful learning opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom pre-k-12 another major focus of our department is community community partnerships and you all will learn in the upcoming slides why our community partnerships are

114so important we live in a very unique community i don't people think people really understand how much our our community supports decatur public schools they want to help whether it's with their time their treasure or their talent right so my department tries to connect our community to our schools so that we can make sure we're being effective and efficient in our work our department really focuses on career pathways i've said over the last few years it has been a true pleasure to really see our district focus on career readiness and not just college readiness and really what what does that mean that means meeting students where they're at that means saying every student is not college bound and that's okay but how can we tap into every student's passions and help them be productive thriving

115citizens not just in this community but how can we transfer those skills right and so career pathways is a true focus of our department over the last several years we have really developed a lot of co-op opportunities which are paid opportunities for our students we have partnerships with local organizations and businesses such as caterpillar they focus in manufacturing and welding dmh focuses on nursing and we're always looking to expand into other within other departments dpsit has really branched out and been a sounding board for our students and then hiring them after they've graduated our dps maintenance department as well is offering co-op opportunities for our students really interested in skilled trades and then st mary's we've been very fortunate to have a cna nursing co-op for the last several years where our students are hired

116as cnas during their senior year and then when they graduate high school they are offering full-time jobs so we are very excited for our co-op opportunities we also just finished up our inspired futures um internship program uh we had the luncheon this early may that was the seventh year that seniors in their seventh in their senior year of high school they go to school half a day and in the other half of the day over 30 local businesses host our students during their senior year and so they leave school the last two or three periods of the day and these are non this is a non-paid internship but they go out into local businesses like the united way um the art farm we really tap into the interests of the students and then leslie goes

117out and for example if we don't have a business partner in that industry we go and find the business partner so we have them in rehab we have them in veterinarian you name it we have it well over 30 business partners for the last seven years when we first started this initiative with grow decatur we had seven businesses and we've grown and served well over 300 students in this internship program career pathways a little bit about some of our programs so we have the workforce prep program which was a unique partnership with the enrich program reverend courtney carson and his crew last summer they we piloted this program during the summer for our students trying to build up our students capacity in the essential skills arena arena so when we talk to our business partners

118we're asking them we've sent out surveys um through the cd edc um asking our business partners what are the gaps that you're seeing when our students are coming in for internships or you're hiring them in your workforce no matter if it's at mcdonald's or target or they're 18 and going into the workforce what are the gaps so that we can build that capacity and remove that barrier and so the feedback was they need more essential skills getting the job keeping the job drug testing all of those professional traits so we partnered with reverend courtney carson and his team with this feedback and we piloted a workforce prep program um the community foundation graciously donated money so that at the end of the program the students in the summer they received gift cards we had a

119big old luncheon for them and celebrated them but they also walked away with essential skills training um and certifications that we hope assist them during their their um journey in life we also have the teacher club dr juanita morris as she mentioned earlier this is a grant we are always trying to build our pipeline of students educa interested in education right so with all of our pathways we're always looking to develop and expand we needed to revamp our exploratory teaching course so a couple of years ago we started working with richland community college on a cte grant and we revamped our former exploratory teaching course to a teacher prep program and so there's a club portion of it at both high schools that operates after school and then there is also now a credit bearing

120class that the students are enrolled in they receive graduation credits these students are also employed in our extended day program and this summer through working with teaching and learning in our hr department the students are working in our summer programming as well another program is skilled trades with going out talking to the community we are we were constantly hearing there's a pipeline shortage right we have the students what are the gaps and so over the last several years we've worked very closely with ed walton and the building principals to really develop a pre-apprenticeship program it's a building trades course taught at both high schools the local trades come in and partner with those students we go on field trips and really we are building a pathway for those students that has removed barriers that once

121was a starting age of 28 going into these pre-apprenticeship programs to now our students are transitioning right out of high school so because of a lot of the programs whether we've piloted or they're after school or different things like that we were able to add some courses to the high school course guideline now workforce prep as i mentioned before is now a course um we partner with enrich the the official course will launch this fall we will have the richland instructors coming in prepping our students working with them and really building up their capacity in this curriculum building trades again that is an exploration of the pre-apprenticeship programs teacher prep dual enrollment we are always looking to um have ap and dual enrollment so we're always looking to expand our dual credit offerings so that

122we're meeting the needs of multiple students that have interest in different career paths and of course the prep academy which is our associate's degree in high school diploma in four years very excited about this program all right innovative programs we are always looking at ways to expose our students and this is something over the next year we really want to dig deeper into our elementary grade levels but over the last few years we have partnered with our local businesses we have a health care day so in april we had a day for middle schoolers and a day for high schoolers they all went out those students interested in health care went out to richland community college and it was phenomenal it was a super cool exposure event they got to tour richland they got to

123have lots of different organizations there learning all things healthcare very great event manufacturing day this is a day to really expose our students again that are interested in possibly not going and going into the collegiate realm but really working with them on the skill trades and job opportunities that are there so we've been very fortunate to have manufacturing day and this was a pilot for our other exposure days and then we also have a building trade today that we participate in over in springfield we bus middle and high school students over at the capitol convention center once a year and they get a showcase from union laborers on in hands-on demonstrations again focusing on career exposure this past april we launched our very first dps college and career week that was a pre-k 12 event

124every day of that week was a designated theme day whether it was alumni or dressed for success we had a touch of truck event super cool we look forward to doing that every year and really expanding on that bigger and better each year we also have job expos at the high school every spring we have over 30 businesses that come out that are looking for full-time part-time jobs employees for the summer or full-time opportunities they set up in the high school small gyms and the students go down there and a lot of times they interview them on the spot or they set up interviews or they get to learn about different opportunities and then we've also focused in the realm of financial literacy pre-covered we had a high budget event at the middle and high

125school level we looked to bring that back in the fall we've also partnered with miss nikki gary with your money matters to really focus on the whole student right building their capacity letting teaching them about credit and money and all of those things and so these are just a lot of the opportunities we focus on the prep academy speaks for itself we're very excited earlier this month we celebrated both cohort 1 and the incoming cohort 2 at macarthur with the prep academy signing day very cool event the current 8th graders were excited the current freshman there was a panel those freshmen rocked it out i mean just to see their growth and excitement i'm very excited so in the fall we will have around 108 students enrolled in prep academy cohort one and cohort two

126so i'm working very closely with mr jeff day's teaching and learning building out the supports the mentoring and different things like that because we recognize it's going to get harder as the groups grow and expand so making sure we are continuing to connect with those students and so at in four years they have a prep academy cord at graduation as well career signing day we have we had a busy we had a busy month one week my colleagues were like ashley what are we doing this day we were just really busy so we had a career signing day for those students that were in the co-op programs that received full-time jobs so those seniors whether they were going into apprenticeship programs they received full-time job offers from cat st mary's a workforce program we celebrated

127them just like we celebrate college signings and and athletic signings three years ago we started doing a career signing day and so we look to expand as we truly continue to develop career paths and celebrate all students so nobody feels like they're left out all right um extended day um i just wanted to give you all an overview as we have ended today at 5 30 p.m our first successful year of extended day as you all know this program launched in september it was free to all pre-k through eighth grade students including making pyatt students this program ran at 13 sites as you can see here on the screen monday through friday 6 a.m to 5 30 p.m we were operated this program on half days and district days off as well very excited about

128this program cares funded we as you all know we try to contract this work out the barrier was cost right and so last year myself and the team decided we're going to be good stewards with a lot of our cares money which is the goal is to provide the gaps and supports from covid how can we do this and it was to launch our extended day programming so the enrollment and register numbers of students 1348 students number of students district wide were enrolled in extended pay between the 13 sites on an average we serve 470 students between the 13 sites i'm very excited about that also a data point to note is we employed employees and this included site coordinators teachers tas other district staff high school students college and external staff so not only

129are we providing a resource for our families we're also providing an economic boost for employment for our community just a little bit about the academic side of extended day we provide academic assistance with homework help and educational games we provide one-on-one test prep and then the sites created a reading buddy program that really supported the goals of the students to really focus on reading comprehension growing our students in that area the extended day enrichment activities we partnered with several the girl girl scouts there there were also art activities and then wrap you music as well children's museum they came out and did a children's museum on the move with our students at different sites and we are looking to really expand as we launch year two so we sent out a survey to our families

130and we had a 102 respondents i always like to gauge the success by the surveys from those that we served we also talked to our principals as we were in their building serving their students always like to hear their feedback and on things and how we can improve so as you can see here we i asked on the survey name some strengths of the program and then we also asked for areas of improvement right i mean we launched we had a successful year we served a lot of families what can we do better so one of the areas of improvement as you can see kind of blurry um is that the the parents wanted a way to enroll for a month or the year and so um we staff by the week therefore by the

131week so therefore there's a cut off time every thursday at 5 pm because we have to staff based on enrollment for the next week we have to staff based on enrollment of the needs of our students if there's a 101 ta needed is somebody out stick with covet or if a college student or someone can't be there we try to keep those staff to student ratios really low and also ara with meal prepping and planning the reason we have the weekly and they can do it bi-weekly as well is for meal prep we cannot afford to waste a lot of food because what we've seen was families would go in and yep i'll be there and then maybe they don't need it because it is a drop-in dropout type of program so we are going

132to look at ways to maybe help streamline the process but overall um the feedback was very well received we received a lot of this was great we hope there's a year too keep it going always we're going to work on communication and making sure it's prompt and ongoing and different things like that but we are very excited about uh year two and moving forward so what's next um both the defta and dea signed an extension for extended day to operate for 22 23 school year very excited about that a lot of our staff our site coordinators will be working over the summer pd training program prep and doing different team meetings and different things like that that we really just didn't get done last summer with the launch ongoing staff recruitment and interviews and placement

133again we had over 1300 registered we served 470 we still had a wait list right that's based on staffing we're not unique to that we were able to reduce and chip away but again the ladies were interviewing today miss sherry johnson is going with carla in hr tomorrow to a recruitment fair so it's ongoing right we hope to have the online registration up and running early july open houses in early august and we are planning to launch in the fall that date will be determined in an upcoming update all right that was a whole lot of words any questions comments a lot of wonderful things good job very concise you know i love extend today my kid is in it he really enjoyed this year he really liked innovation learning he really loved extended day

134and and the friendships he's made there and that sort of thing and i think that i always talk about this every time you do an update and i don't trust my math so i'm not going to give a figure but the amount of money but the amount of money that i that we have saved families so if you think about it thirty to forty dollars a day you know for kids 180 days a year somebody do that math i want to say it's more than a million dollars i mean we've really saved our families a lot with this program and it's it it's tremendously helpful they come home fed they come home happy they're ready to do their reading and get ready for bed it's fanta and all the other things you do go without

135saying but i you know really this is such a strong impact and daycare especially during covid and and subsequent to that has been such a stressful thing for people and and so anyway it's been great mm-hmm absolutely [Applause] next and last report i promise i'd like to call jeff days again assistant superintendent of peace while learning and teaching to the podium to present a magnet school process update now i want to just wait till next meeting yeah 38 seconds we're already here all right uh dps magnet lottery update all right application process parents and guardians or allowed to able to submit applications during the open enrollment process you can see the dates that begin and dates that it ended from december 1st to january 31st online parent guardian meetings took place you can see the

136dates there december january january so parents had the opportunity to hear about the programs for each magnet school tracking the online progress by december 8th we had 304 applications january 5th 405 and by the conclusion of the magnet lottery process we had 612 applications for each site you can see first choice second choice and third choice for american dreamer john seal and montessori academy for peace out of the 612 demographic breakdown you can see for american dreamer john seal montessori comparison from the previous year of the demographic breakdown you can see there was an increase african-american slight decrease because they were smaller numbers for uh several other ethnic groups increased for caucasians and if they were larger numbers there would increase smaller numbers there was a slight decrease of sun overall a plus 171 application

137change so that was good more people are interested in the magnet magnet process for our schools or magnet schools overall this is just a graphic of the breakdown demographics and applications that were received same data from the previous slide just in a graphic this graphic depiction wait list traditionally each school maintained their own wait list but last year or previous year yeah last year school year student services is tasked with maintaining the wait list so now when slots come open or student services controls the process or parents are interested to see you know exactly where their kids are they can contact student services how do we compare the wait lists you can see from year to year with american dreamer and their wait list from 2 21 22 and 23 so overall total go from

138seven to eleven to four on their wait list so you can see most of the slots at american dreamer were filled john teal from 21 22 23 from 139 to 26 so we made great progress last year john's hill increased in size and sections last year so again you see now we went back up to an increase of 94 because people do not tend to leave the madness schools so once they're there you pretty much have very few slots that are open each year so you can see the wait list for mana for um jantil and then you have montessori which again follows the same pattern once they're in they tend to stay there so you tend to have an increase you have more people interested in the magnet schools less spots so that's why

139the numbers are going up so went from 34 28 good progress last year but now we're back at 124 for montessori so a lot of people selected montessori for their first choice but unfortunately well you know it's a it's a dilemma that we have but montessori is providing quality settings so they tend to stay there improvements to the process previous years compared to last year we went from paper to online a new feature this year that we were definitely happy uh once you submit your application you get an email confirmation because previous years they didn't know if they submitted their application or not and it was a lot of back and forth during the magnet process and then some people were i knew i know i submitted an application and after the process and it

140was over with so this new feature helped us out a lot that they get a confirmation email once their application is submitted then continue improvements parents completed you know the one electronic application instead of completing application for each site in the online where a lot of all you had to do was attend one session in previous years they had to attend each session for the schools so just trying to streamline it and making it more accessible and more opportunities for our parents and with that this is the magical team that made it all happen sherry carroll super secretary which happens to be my secretary maria robertson denise worthout lawrence trimble and robin miller so thank you team any questions all right i just have a comment sorry we clapped so fast and i didn't want

141to interrupt that he's come back i'm sorry i don't know if it's a comment or question and if we're going to outsource it it might be something that that you don't even touch on or that we don't touch on moving forward but what some of the feedback that i got just one piece of feedback i got is that it didn't seem like people were getting no people were getting notified of acceptances but people weren't getting notified of being waitlisted or not being accepted and so i think it made people a little hesitant to accept because i don't know my status with maybe another school that i applied to and so i guess i just offer that that to the extent we can communicate both in acceptance and a placement on a waitlist i think you

142know that might reduce phone calls to to buildings and you know yeah so one thing the secretaries are great about is documenting you know positives and you know areas of development for next year so i definitely take that into account when we meet so thanks all right thanks jeff thank you you might want to know while this meeting has gone on six more people died in texas it's up to 21. oh my god that's already here um that will end our report for from administration we will now move on to roll call action items do we have a recommendation for the personnel action items yes i recommend the board approve the personnel action items listed in the memo from deanne hillman interim director of human resources as presented you have a motion so moved second

143second any discussion roll call vote miss banks aye mr oaks aye mr scheider aye mrs lewis aye mr taylor aye and dr collins brown aye 6i zero nay one absence promotion kerry do we have a recommendation for the employment of a principal at american dreamers stem academy yes i recommend the board approve the employment of rita ellis as the principal at american dreamers stem academy as presented can i have a motion so moved second second any discussion roll call vote mrs lewis hi mr schneider aye ms banks aye mr oakes aye dr collins brown aye and mr taylor aye 6i zero may one absent sales was unable to attend the meeting tonight so we will recognize her at a later date do we have a recommendation for the employment of a principal at dennis school

144yes i recommend the board approve the employment of camera matter as a principal at dennis school kaleidoscope mosaic as presented can i have a motion please no moved second second any discussion roll call though mr taylor aye mrs lewis aye mr shiiter aye dr collins brown aye mr oakes aye and miss banks six i zero made one absent motion carried uh mismatches stand up [Applause] you get you get a free pass at the podium first president oaks dr clark board members community my friends who are here tonight i am so excited i am just so grateful and humble and full of just wonderful feeling for the work that we're going to do and i just thank all of you for this wonderful opportunity so from the bottom of my heart thank you congratulations [Applause] and

145dan just one second just because i see principal lynch is here i just wanted to say thank you for your service to our district and i wish you all the best in the future [Applause] hey do we have a recommendation for the fiscal year 23 consolidated district plans yes i recommend the board approve the fiscal year 23 consolidated district plans as presented emotion so moved second second any discussion roll call vote dr collins brown aye mr oaks aye ms banks aye mrs lewis aye mr taylor aye and mr scheider aye 6i 081 absence motion carry do we have a recommendation for the 2022 summer program scholarship agreement yes i recommend the board approve the 2022 summer program scholarship agreement as presented you have a motion moved second second any discussion roll call vote mrs lewis

146aye dr collins brown aye mr oaks aye mr taylor aye mr shiiter aye and miss banks six eye zero eight one absent um i just want to thank everyone thank you that came out i mean all love i wish you could have seen it everyone i was giving um videos and pictures because i was at another event so to all of our community partners that came out for the summer sign up thank you thank you thank you we had over a hundred families to show up and if you are still needing assistance please reach out to us so we can do what we can to get your child or children signed up thank you again alrighty that's great do we have a recommendation for the fastbridge illuminate education proposal yes i recommend the board approve

147the fast bridge illuminate education proposal as presented you have a still moved second second any discussion roll call vote mr schneider aye mrs lewis aye mr taylor aye ms banks aye dr collins brown aye aye mr oaks hi 6i zero nade one absent motion carry do we have a recommendation to award bids for asbestos abatements at franklin grove monthly and parsons elementary school yes i recommend the board approve and award bids for asbestos abatements at franklin grove monthly and parsons elementary schools as presented have a motion please throw moved second second any discussion roll call vote mr oaks aye dr collins brown aye ms banks aye mr taylor aye mrs lewis aye and mr scheider aye 6i zero made one absent motion carried do we have a recommendation to reject bids for american dreamers stem

148academy renovations and additions yes i recommend the board approve to reject bids for american dreamers stem academy renovations and additions as presented motion please though moved second second any discussion roll call vote miss banks aye mr oaks aye mr scheider aye mrs lewis aye mr taylor aye and dr collins brown aye 6i zero nade one absent motion carried we will now move to our consent items does anyone want any item pulled from the consent items to discuss and or vote on separately hearing none do we have a recommendation for the consent items yes i recommend the board approve the consent items as presented which includes a minutes open closed session meetings may 10 2022 b financial conditions report c treasurer's report you have a motion i'll move second second any discussion roll call vote dr

149collins brown aye mr taylor aye mr oaks aye mrs lewis aye ms banks and mr scheider 6i zero nade one absent motion carried we will now move on to announcements the board of education and administration sends condolences to the family of elmer mac mcpherson who passed away friday may 13 2022. mr mcpherson was a former superintendent of decatur public schools as well as the principal stephen decatur when it was a high school we will now move on to important dates may 24th last day of school attendance for pre-k to 12. today may 25th decatur public schools 2022 assistant principals and dean of students leadership conference reinvent recreate and re-engage richland community college 8 a.m to 4 p.m may 30th memorial day holiday all district offices are closed june 6th through 30th summer school programs for

150pk through 12th grade monday through thursday please note for any and all questions regarding the summer school programs please contact the director of p12 learning and of teaching and learning marquis stuart at 217-362-3041 and or via email at mlstuart at dps 61. one more summer hours for uh the kyle building will start june 6 through july 22nd the cal building will be open from 7 30 a.m to 4 30 p.m monday through thursday three day weekends for all the public portion of the next regular meeting of the board of education will be 6 30 pm tuesday june 14 2022 the kind of administration building do we have a motion to adjourn so moved second second all in favor say aye aye you can't do both ready to go are we those opposed same sign motion

151carried we are adjourned