001e one two e e e awesome great um I would like to call to order this uh meeting uh regular Board of Education meeting and public hearing for renewal of e-learning program agenda on this Wednesday August 14th 2024 uh if we can have a roll call please at 6:02 p.m. nice look at us go yes Dr Michael Thomas present Lauren D present David sheer pres Rachel Marin present Denise Jones yes Michael Miller present Colleen clemac present all board members are present excellent all right if we could stand please for the pledge of the United States of America to the rep for it stands Nation godible with libery and justice for all right uh a quick glance to approve the agenda if I could have a first motion after we've had a moment make a motion
002to approve the agenda EXC and a second second excellent Michaels have spoken uh and a roll call please yes Michael W Miller yay Dr Michael Thomas yay Lauren D yay baby Shephard yes Rachel marquin yes Denise Joe yes Colleen climac yes motion pass awesome I will pass the time perfect so our first report is from our D12 Foundation I'm GNA offer our opportunity for Sam to speak on behalf of the foundation and of course we have a lot lot going on with our bass next week that time of year good evening thank you so we're going to start with a back to school bash the flyer up there on this screen it's coming up next week first day of school Thursday the 22nd will be at Central Middle School 5:30 to 7 and we are
003very excited that a down Broadband is going to be our main event sponsor and we have other local businesses who always show up and and help us out with this so they've given us the opportunity to keep the foam pit Dr Woodland's favorite um we have games and activities for the kids um food tacos and pizza um that you can purchase so you have dinner on your first night of school you don't have to think about that um we're really happy and excited about some fun new things and we'll get tickets up on rev Che in the next few days so people can pre get order those tickets for Raffles and food and activities um and hopefully give them extra time to have fun with their kids supposed to be a nice night we looked
004at the weather a week ahead talk about it I'm sorry sorry Jim I jinxed us no we can't jinx it right now it looks perfect hopefully it stays that way we do have a rain date but we're not talking about it because it's gonna be it's gonna be fine uh we also are running our football sweep Stakes um a $20 donation gets a a card with a randomly a set of selected NFL teams each week 18 weeks of the NFL season um we're going to get that information up on the website in the next week or two um but if anyone's interested all of the information is on our Facebook page right now um teacher wish lists we did this last year and the teachers absolutely loved it we're really excited to be able to
005do this again so we're going to randomly select five teachers from each of the five buildings and fulfill up to $250 of their wish list um it's really excited to feel like to feel like Santa Claus again it's really fun wishes how cool is that coming up in September we're doing our kindness Day t-shirts again um to honor Alan Landor and we he would have been a senior this year which is crazy to think and we have invited his classmates to have a little competition and design the t-shirt for us um and then we're going to open up the sales to his classmates up at the high school um as a way to honor his senior year what would have been his senior year unfortunately and uh we are also going to keep up with
006our food drive uh monthly food drives in each of the five buildings this year um in a competition for that trophy um an ice cream party um and keeping with competition we're doing with Culver uh each of the five buildings will have a share night every Wednesday in the month of October you'll be able to go to Culver's and support your school and have a little fun with it the winner of whoever whichever School raises the most from that we'll also get an ice cream party because we like competition and we like ice cream parties that's all I've got any questions a lot we like cupcakes cupcakes nice ice cream pairs nicely with cupc at least we're consistent yes exactly thank you thanks Sam so my next report is regarding our strategic goals for our
00724 25 school year the focus of this presentation will be surrounding our academic performance glows our student support services department and as well as our goals around diversity equity and um inclusion I'm going to save our communication goal for September to review those more in detail so our strategic plan alignment in order for us to continue to focus on our five goal areas it's important for us to understand where we were as an a district we had a committee of nearly 55 individuals to determine what the five goal areas are they are culture communication curriculum and instruction diversity equity and inclusion and student Support Services so what have we accomplished thus far so District 124 prioritized tier one curriculum needs based specifically on stakeholder Fe feedback and we implemented a high quality tier one instructional
008framework the focus of this was on academics social and emotional learning and behavior of our students we implemented a K8 Ela curriculum we've implemented a K8 math curriculum we have implemented a 68 science curriculum that we are actually piloting this year and a 68 social St curriculum it is then our goal to look at common assessments and our common assessments to which we have currently developed have started in the area of mathematics in our K8 Continuum vertical alignment was something that our parent population really emphasize so for example when I started here along with Dr Carl there was inconsistencies in implementation and what that looked like and sounded like um particularly in our K2 and 35 band so it was important for us to see what that Continuum of curriculum really looked like for students
009so that we could understand the importance of that vertical articulation and allow for teachers to continue to have that alignment as well as a district we've also taken a deep dive into our PBI in community-based resources to establish a systemic approach to tier one Behavior we've had deep level conversations around the needs of our students in terms of their mental health and well-being the district implemented a response to student Behavior manual a bullying prevention and response procedures and our newly adopted curriculum at Central Middle School so what is next to come so as a district we will continue to work on our highquality instructional framework with a focus on our diverse Learners and specifically differentiation and within that our highquality tier tier one framework has particular components that really emphasize these particular categories and we're
010going to be providing training to our teachers around those Concepts we're going to implement a common assessment platform to assist in tier one data collection and Analysis and that's specifically in grades three eight and our goal behind that is to ensure that we're providing access to grade level content and that our teachers understand the development of where students are again on a progression we're going to continue to address the overall academic achievement of our student population tied to these particular goals and what's critical to this is we've spent a lot of our time focusing on tier one however we're going to start to to Branch into that tier two category focusing on particular interventions that are aligned to our Core Curriculum resources we are also going to continue to review our PBIS and community- based
011resources we if you recall we have a district Community leadership team so that team will continue to meet quarterly and we have an intensive focus on refining our disciplinary practices to address particularly the disproportionality of our non-majority students that is a particular goal area of our strategic plan and something that directly needs focus and something that we intend to keep solid data on um I have to applaud our Central Middle School um Administration for really supporting and putting this together and then our elementary principles who have reviewed that process to ensure that we have a solid start to this school year so what does this look like in practice and how do we intend to support our teachers so one of my um Dan if you can go to the next slide one of my
012all-time favorite topics to still talk about with every every individual that I work with is professional learning goals and it's ultimately because at the end of the day we need to be able to support our teachers and also differentiate for their um professional learning needs so there is a list that I'm going to go through that I cannot take credit for for and it's because my team has really put that together and that's Dr Carlson Patricia Roberts Rebecca Terell um our principal team with feedback and that's really to ensure that we're providing the Intensive support to teachers that they have a requested and or based on where we are in this trajectory of our strategic plan and it's critical for you to know that um there was a lot of detail in our professional learning
013calendar that was again very intentional in nature so we intend to provide training on the use of our Common Assessment platform that platform is called Otis we are going to increase access to our grade level standards through um scaffold and instruction and math for all is a pilot group that we'll Implement at Northwest and Southeast we're going to continue ongoing teacher collaboration through the use of math and Ela committee work so our teachers had the opportunity as they've always said to have cross um building committee articulation and so ultimately Dr Carlson leads out this work they meet um throughout the course of the year and they talk about what's going well within their curriculum they review common assessments they review data to really have streamlined collaboration to increase districtwide consistency so that's always the goal
014is that we have districtwide consistency and we intend to implement a refined data collection process to assist in tier one data review um you'll learn a little bit more about this tonight specifically to our K1 students in an mclass um adoption which will essentially take the place of star our diversity Equity inclusion and student Support Services has quite a bit of overlap because they feed into both departments so we intend to Pilot our Progressive disciplinary Matrix at the administrative level and that's to assist us in consistent implementation districtwide which will also be aligned to our student handbook we ex plan to continue to expand our our Partnerships around our mental health and well-being with our students we continue our district focus on our inclus our inclusionary practices specifically restorative practices deescalation um and Trauma informed
015we will be piloting our seal curriculum that um is at Southwest and Northeast and we'll be implementing oural curriculum CMS so ultimately now that next tier of saying we've adopted our curriculums for our core content and how do we now have alignment for oural curriculums and we will continue to provide ongoing training to our jna and specialed teachers on the use of differentiate to support students in accessing um grade level standards so a snapshot of what this looks like by grade level and I won't speak to each of it but we were very again intentional by grade band of the tailored professional development means for our prek through 2 grade teachers our three through five teachers and then our K through five with they be implementing um it essentially an intervention that's aligned to CK
016and then this also speaks to CMS CMS um Dr mhler has worked exceptionally hard on putting together very streamline professional learning specific for CMS to ensure that we're meeting the needs of each department and then our last slide is a preview of our Institute day and all the mo moving pieces so we will have our building based day on Monday um on Tuesday we have K2 specific training to meet the needs of our diverse Learners um 35 we'll have our math for all training which is tailored instruction using using urea to support differentiation and then our K5 will um receive training on capturing kids Hearts which is our curriculum and then Wednesday we kick off with our great theme of um our district gathering at Central Middle School are there any questions regarding our updates
017for our strategic plan give you a lot of information but this is what I spent two days on with our administrative team which leads me into our next topic of our administrative Retreat so we have a theme this year of to be a coffee bean hunts your little treat that's on your table and if anyone has ever heard of Damon West he is someone who has wrote a both a kids book and an adult book about being a coffee bean and the concept behind this is that if people believe they have the power to transform their lives and environment around them even when things are difficult this message is based on the idea that when coffee beans are placed in hot water they change the water and release their flavor and fragrance simply people can
018choose to respond to adversity in a way they transform them rather than giving up and becoming hardened so our theme for the year is let's make positive change together and so we will be excited to welcome Damon West on our opening Institute day next Wednesday excited and there's coffee and there's coffee and we will have a whole coffee bar right son I can't wait clever very clever yes um and then our last update that I have for today or that I have for today is on registration and enrollment because we still need to welcome all of our students right um so our registration and enrollment numbers Elizabeth Lopez has not left the building since August 1st um but she is working diligently to ensure that all of our students are enrolled for the first day
019of student attendance so our new student completed registration is 128 new students and then we currently have um returning student registration at 1,387 students and then our total number is currently at 1,515 um we consistently are watching for class size to ensure that we are on target and at this time we are on target to ensure the needs of all students um and yes class size is always one of those things especially at kindergarten that you cannot predict but I think we actually got it right this year so I'm excited to see that we'll have the proper support at each of our kindergarten um sections and numbers across the district um and we continue to look forward to welcoming any new students who are looking to register in between now and the beginning of the
020school year because we start next week wait for the first day yes yes any questions on registration you should have gotten your postcard this time right you got your postcard I know we're postcard happy but it works it seems to work so all right thank you so much next I have Eric who's gonna share information on money hello y money I like thank you my gosh that was that was a lot of a lot of content I'm excited okay hello statement of expenditures um we spent so far $1.4 million out of that majority salary um our property Casualty Insurance and then the capital projects for the HVAC HVAC building HVAC at North East outside of that nothing unique really to this year so far revenues a little unique compared to last year you might notice
021that we've collected $5.2 million in Revenue already and at this point last year we only had $941,000 um we got the levy the tax payments are starting to come in more on time so we did happen to receive a lot of revenue from that we received some CP PRT revenue and then also Medicaid Revenue with evidence base fonding and as a result our fund balance went up couple million dollars but I I expect that to get back to where it currently was in June just because expenditures would keep going up on the revenues we received a big chunk already I believe like 177% of our revenues budgeted for the year wow and now I have the presentation of the tentative budget some maor tone of voice I know now now we are talking budget we
022all heard and we appreciate that yes we do so some major f factors this year to the budget Revenue wise the property tax relief grants two-year abatement Windows officially over we're going to continue to look to see if there's any you know opportunity for us to qualify for the property tax relief Grant um the funding the formula doesn't necessarily benefit the elementary districts where it benefits the high school districts more because there's a multiplier so you know when that comes out you I'll follow up on that course um the district is to start receiving the Tiff revenues annually as a result of the intergovernmental agreement with the Village um we should be seeing that relatively soon it wasn't really positive if it was going to be the end of last fiscal year or the beginning
023of this fiscal year so and then the last one is the American Rescue plan grant opportunities are officially over with as of September so that is like the Esser grants Community Partnership those things um as a result of the pandemic that all is gone so there's been a lot of reporting to do just to close out then chapter expense wise the average percentage salary increase of approximately 4% health insurance premiums will increase at approximately 8% uh out of District tuition expenses are projected to increase by roughly $500,000 this year due to an expected rise in student costs along with increased tuition costs and then the last one is capital projects budgeted for a total of $1.5 million this year budgeted revenues I budgeted 26.69 in real estate taxes um 1.8 million in other local 5.1
024in evidence-based funding uh roughly a million dollars in other state grants and then 1.6 in federal grants for a total of$ 36.4 million which would be a $1.98 million increase from next year United numbers expenditure wise I budgeted $19 million in salaries 5.3 in employee benefits 4.2 in purchase Services 1.89 million in supplies of materials 1.9 million in capital outlay 1.4 in debt payments 2.2 in tuition and other and 224,000 in non- Capital Equipment you you'll notice you know the benefits and salaries that's a big increase from un audited fiscal year 24 to budgeted fiscal year 25 and then the other one is two and other objects the increase in uh a a district tuition but for the uh the line item itself I mean 815 isn't that drastic of a change when we're looking
025at almost 20 million so right like that's also the change being you know less than 10% less than on some of the other ones too it might look like a big number but that's actually like I said not too unreasonable it's really not too two different it's just out of all the changes that's one of the larger one yeah kind of yeah um education fund budget so I budgeted local sources at $22.3 million um State sources at 5.7 million or 5.8 Federal sources at 1.7 million for total revenues at 29 m765 th000 out of the Ed fund and then expense wise $18 million in salaries 4.2 benefits 2.5 in purchase Services 1.3 million in supplies of materials $25,000 in capital outlay $2.2 million in tuition and other and 220,000 in non Capital to get a
026surplus of 1.25 million yet F budgeted for this year and then you'll see a breakdown of the sources of revenue on the grass PR I really like uh a bar graph but I'm liking the pie um it just to gives such a it's such a visual right of the whole 100% And what part of it um when we need to explain things to our community and people who stop us at the grocery we were talking about last week like right so so um it this is really really helpful so thank you so much operations and maintenance fund budget local sources of $2.3 million for total revenues of 2304 million that and expenses salaries at $996,000 benefits at 246,000 purchase Services 377 supplies materials 563,000 Capital outlay at 265,000 2,000 for tuition and other and 4,000
027for nonat for a total budgeted deficit of $149,000 here's a breakdown of the budget by fund um and please note you know this is a tentative budget there are some Revenue sources that are still coming out that I expect to have a more accurate idea between now and the next board meeting so I do expect these numbers to change slightly so in the Ed fund I budgeted 29.760426 m 515,000 in expenses operations and maintenance 2, 304,000 in Revenue 2, 453,000 in expenses Bond and interest or Debt Service uh 1, 156,000 in Revenue 1, 146,000 in expenses transportation 1, 468,000 in Revenue 342,000 in expenses imrf Social Security fund 1,300,000 in revenue and $892,000 in expenses capital projects $90,000 in revenue and 1.5 million in expenses working cash $233,000 in Revenue Tor $1,000 in Revenue and
028$251,000 in expenses and life safety $23,000 in revenue and $200,000 in expenses to get a total ending balance budgeted of $7,988 518 which would be a surplus of roughly $77,000 pretty tight lot numbers but I'm still seeing Surplus so hey yeah and then this last is uh slide is the historical and budgeted fund balances and all funds for the district from 2016 to 2024 the black line on the top is the six-month Reserve which is board policy and then the Gray Line in the bottom is the three-month Reserve which is the state minimum policy and the six months of fund balance reserves is the highest we'll get you the highest audit score in the profile score of a 4.0 look at how the last three years we're above both those L you might not have
029heard my heavy and then my look at Jenna but I yes like I've been around I'm old I've been around for the other years um and uh that is just phenomenal um healthy it is healthy and that's what it me so thank you Eric what year did you start 21 22 22 okay okay no this is really it's awesome it's really great I I do think it's also important to recognize the board's commitment and the Union's commitment because the union was very very intentional with us and working together in Partnership during our last negotiations and I I just want to say that I I greatly appreciate their efforts and their willingness to work with us um and ultimately the board also made a commitment at that time to say that we knew that we were
030going to to ask the community for a 5% Lobby because we had the opportunity to do to do so which is so essential in a school district to never leave money on a table um and so I just want to say I appreciate the board members who were part of that process and our Union because it is a collaborative approach and um Eric made it all happen so it was a team it was a team I love it thank you so much thanks does anyone have any questions on that presentation and then we had a foer request from Miss Rebecca Marie Fone and that request has thank you that was a lot really appreciate it though hello I am excited today see you back good to see you um so I'm going to report on
031um hiring update and if you recall in September I talked about some of the initiatives we were going to use to fill our 24 25 positions and then I think in May I talked about all the resources we use to slowly do that for example like our golden apple partnership our um virtual and in person job fairs um student teacher pipelines that our principles um accepted a lot of student teachers for um all of those type of platforms the social media the booth that we did on the social media sites all of those things um we talked about last time and so now I get to waila results um I want to say before I I I hit this is that I hope you all know that the Ming reason we were able to accomplish
032filling a 100% fill rate for the school year 2425 were certified positions including our hard to fill positions like science and math especially at Central Middle School um it was teamwork I mean from our principls to our admin staff from Rebecca to to Ashley to our Dei coordinator Amanda um Megan lock um who just supported all the in-person job fairs and Evelyn Guerrera my team uh Lisa gallik and Tracy our payroll manager like everyone did their part to make sure we filled all those positions this year so I just want to make sure you know that um but anyway we had an total open uh 41 positions at the time of me determining uh what positions we filled of those positions 26 of them were teachers and of the 26 positions seven of them were
033like our main hard to fill positions like the math and the um in the science positions um so just a real kudos to all of our teams for working together on this um you could see that of course Central being the largest filled the most positions um throughout that time um I want to talk a little bit about our diversity hires we're moving the needle I hope you know next for meeting to talk a little bit more specifically about some of the more specific initiatives we're taking to try to move this even further as you can see we filled four teacher positions um with minority staff um several of those being at Northwest school and you'll see that some of our other positions that we filled um with uh minority candidates are deemed social worker
034position par professional and our lunch recess position so now that I'm looking very closely at our Baseline of where we stand with our you know our minority uh percentage so we're at a baseline of 20% based on the number of employees we have today we have 35 employees 64 of them are minority and 408 of them are male and you can also see that we're even trying to do a better job of increasing our male employees you can see that we have five um new teachers that are male that's really awesome and um five other male candidates in other positions too um but you know they say an average um thing to to look for is 60% Beyond whatever your rate uh of minority percentage is so my goal and is to really increase this
035every year by 20% until we reach that goal um and so hope time hope to talk to you next time about how we're going to do that with some of the initiatives that are very specific to this I do want to like speak to one thing though um most often people think when we talk about diversity hires that it means that we just pull in People based on their race or color and I just want to stress that um we have never taken that stance here at every Green Park School District 124 every candidate we consider and our principals hire they are considering those people based on their skill the knowledge and their ability to do the job so I want to make sure um and we will always do that um so that's our
036challenge we're up for it I'm up for it and as you can see I'm backed up so that's it any questions so far 100% 100% 100% this is the first year that I've been here that we have been 100% full failed to start the school year and I absolutely agree with Patricia it's a team effort yeah but Patricia did not give herself credit and she deserves a ton of credit in that regard too so thank you so [Applause] much did you have a comment no I like those affirming I got you enough right and we welcomed those new staff today I'll just say it was a great day we had new teacher orientation so they were all here and their mentors and we went on the bus tour and um it was it was a
037great day so I'm I'm really excited about what's come I think that we have a good staff that's coming aboard with us so's exciting so we're going to give you the end of the year star growth and achievement update um generally we've done this in in June but we're kicking off the year with it um so our principles will share um their fall and spring Benchmark data um they're sharing grades two two to five and then six to eight um as Dr Woodland mentioned we are making a shift this year to mclass which aligns to our ccla so that will be the Benchmark assessment that we will use in grades K to one um we have had a number of years where it gets really messy students coming into kindergarten start with star early literacy
038and then they transition into star reading and that data we were just finding is not correlating well between those two tests um which was making the results kind of messy um in addition that assessment was not giving us the information that we needed um when we are looking at foundational skills in Reading which is we wanted kids to be learning to read um a lot of the data that we were getting from that early literacy assessment we were finding that we were having to do additional assessments on kids to get what we need so this aligns with the program that we have it will also then provide us with specific um reports that will say this is what the student is is needing here are some interventions that you can provide that are aligned with
039with the reading program that we have so we're really excited to kick that off this fall um teachers will be trained on that next week so we're looking forward to that um so I will give it up to the principales who'll be sharing that information so I think we're starting with Jenna we we mixed it up a little bit this year so Jenna start hi everyone um good to see you guys so I'm gonna share a little bit about our reading and math data and then I'll shift into our action plan for both academics and then um culture so um you can see our fall Benchmark and our spring Benchmark here I really want to highlight the growth from seventh grade reading um the SGP is at 61 which is great that says that although
040it dipped a little in terms of achievement percentage um that the students grew so I'm really excited about that um and same with math we see still slight drops in achievement um but we see pretty decent growth and I do want to highlight seventh grade as well that that 51 SGP um and I do recognize that we do have a lot of work to do um and although the scores are low we are seeing growth which is good and we do intend to hopefully be on an upward increase um and that kind of brings me into our action plan um our first my goals which would be helpful to share my goals first and then my action plan um so these goals were actually co-created with our school Improvement team and so by the end
041of the 2425 school year we will improve the percentage of students that meet and exceed in reading and math on our star assessment by 5 to eight% from Fall 2024 to Spring of 2025 and then we also have um a growth goal so by the end of the 2425 school year the average SGP will be 50 or above for all grades in math and reading on the star assessment from Fall 24 to Spring 2025 and then how we're going to get there got a lot to do but we're ready for it um so again the continued focus on just the high quality tier one instruction with that emphasis on lesson planning and structure and what Dr Woodland talked about aligned with our strategic plan too differentiation and really making sure we're being responsive to the
042kids our our room um and then we are also piloting math for all which I'm really excited about because I do feel it's a really strong framework to help our teachers be able to like take your re and take the students in their room and and differentiate and intentionally plan for those students um we are going to increase intervention options and ensure the effectiveness of the interventions um for our students who need additional support um right now we have math and um Ela like lunch group options but we want to expand that and also like assess the effectiveness of the kids who go and utilize those options if it's working um we want to have a continued emphasis on job embedded professional learning um through team and Department time and that's based on like um
043observations that the dean see Lavin sees I see the coaches see and then providing that job embedded feedback or job embedded professional learning at the team level um we found that was really successful with seventh grade last year um so like if they needed help with classroom management we would push into their team t time so it was it was in a smaller scale and then it was easier to then check on okay is are they actually implementing then what we what we um talked about um we are going to analyze common assessments as a department to reflect on what students do and do not know so um Dr Carlson is going to implement Otis for us which I'm really excited about which will really help because last year we did have it was challenging
044to analyze common assessments when we have like 120 without some sort of place to house it when we have 120 math assessments to look at it was pretty tedious to like enter those all manually into a spreadsheet um so I'm really looking forward to that because it will give us immediate feedback on like okay so majority of the students have mastered this but we have a small percentage of students who haven't well I'm going to pull that small group in the back which um is kind of an inconsistent practice currently um we're going to continue to have um analyze star at the team level and then we're going to be consistent this year with um analyzing star at the department level so the coaches are going to lead that work with math and Ela to
045actually analyze at the department level so they're looking at individual students and and their scores uh we're going to continue to support our new teachers through professional learning mentoring um Matt and Julie the instructional coaches have created a lot of supports for new teachers this year which I'm really excited about um one being last year we got some feedback from our mentors that it is kind of hard to be like everything to the new teachers because because they have questions like not only on curriculum and instruction and like how to teach but also like how to use the printer and all of these other like logistical things and so um we did get feedback when we did our listening and learning tours that it was just a lot for for the mentors so um Matt
046and Julie they're always up for for a task and so they created this comprehensive um new teacher like training slideshow and it goes through like how to enter grades how to enter a referral how to use the printer and it's yeah how to use Hall Pass like everything you could possibly need to know is there and then teachers can actually reference that all year so I I'm really excited about that I'm hoping that it will lessen the load for our mentors um and then we are going to build student ownership and buyin with our star assessments through goal setting and incentives so we'll have individual and grade level incentives um which I'm also excited about and then we will support the science and sociales curriculum adoption and implementation this year so that's a lot but
047I'm excited for that and then for culture um we are going to continue with our implementation of that intentional explicit curriculum in advisory and then we also have a leadworthy sixth grade course for sixth graders um so that will be one of their four specials and that is a more intensive umal course that will so they'll get both essentially and the thinking behind that is then sixth graders can have a more intensive um intensive work on their seal competencies and then that will carry with them through seventh eth grade so I'm excited about that I thought were you all still GNA do something in advisory in regards to se where everyone will be able to kind of dive into the yes so we'll have so we're doing capturing kids hearts in in advisory and we'll
048have intentional lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays so everyone will get that six seven and eight this is a more intensive class that'll serve as one of the four specials the sixth graders get so they'll still get stem art music and now they'll get this more intensive um course which I'm really excited about it essentially replaced their speech class um and then we did set a structure for each Jane advisory so we'll have the Tuesday Thursday for them to do the intentional seal lesson um on Mondays we're going to do a pool tool reboot so we'll review expectations every Monday Wednesday which I'm really excited about we're adding in um like a power school grade check in where the students will then email their parents home so we're still working on how we'll do the of
049that to make sure all the kids do it but I really think that will one get them to check their grades and then two help with the parent communication so that's something we're adding this year and then Fridays will be goal setting for the following week so our PBIS team last year created a lot of like um goal setting sheets like really small ones where kids would create goals and then they could pick like an incentive for them so we're going to try to do that schoolwide as well on Fridays so I'm excited for that it'll help with a lot of the executive functioning things that we're seeing so um um we're also oh sorry Kellen did you have a question no no the wheels are turning like crazy it's all good okay um we
050are going to provide parent education on the importance of student attendance um design monthly tier one attendance incentive programming and then develop more effective systems um to address chronic absenteeism and then we will modify criteria for students who need a tiered intervention um clarify like who and how this data will be pulled and really focus on progress monitoring the effectiveness of the intervention um so we have currently we have a few outlined like tier two interventions check in checkout and 2 by 15 and we're really going to focus on this year making sure that we have data on all of the students so if they're on checkin checkout making sure we get those sheets back so we can track are they meeting their 80% goal and if they're not like reassessing at that six week
051Mark on do they need to then shift into tier three or are we switching the intervention um so that was I I really feel a missed opportunity that I think will really help us um and then I'm going I uh in the spring Lavin and I did listening and learning um tours with all the teams and we got really good feedback on that and actually the teachers said that they would like it in the winter and the spring so I'm going to continue to conduct the listening and learning meetings with teachers in the winter and spring and then I did add um I'm going to do like during two late starts like drop in for principal office hours so if staff want to just share something they can hopefully they would at any point but
052more of a structured kind of time um and then I did create like a specific principal goal based on like the five Essentials like principal teacher trust um so I'm going to send out like a quarterly survey just to monitor like my own progress on my goal um and that's going to be based off of the five Essentials I like that self accountability yes and then the admin we created a goal as well but I really it was important for me to create a goal as well and then also like share progress on my goal to my staff so they know that like I'm also I'm learning and growing and want to succeed here um and then I'm also going to do a principal student impact group this year to increase student voice um so
053any students who are interested they can apply and then this Core Group which they'll be one at each grade level so six 7th and eth and we'll meet during lunch um they will will meet monthly and we'll just discuss important issues can provide feedback help plan maybe incentive assemblies or some fun events and really just promote um positive change so that was a lot I'm excited can we get a little feedback like as as it go along like yeah what the students williz yeah yeah and actually I'm going to put that not this week but next week um I'm going to put the form and more information on it to in central connection so families know that it's an option too um and then on the first day of school we're doing like a little
054admin presentation and at the end I'm going to talk to all the students about it if they want to join but yeah that's a good idea not do that and I can always ask Jenna for updates and share with the board directly there's something specific you would like to thank you exciting thank you Dr W I have a question for you are we can I just invite Dr Muller back up this is a you question yeah Dr Jenna are our mentors receiving a stipend they do receive a stipend I was actually just looking at the contract today it's $500 a semester or annually who can answer Eric or Ashley I didn't hear I didn't hear the question the mentors mentors mentors yes mentors get stiens annually it's annually a $500 stien look at anual sens
055question answered but knowing that they're not spending their time on how to use the printer is brilliant right like brilliant hello also brilliant I think my hus has another followup question so I'm gonna ask it's a it's a personal statement it's not really a question okay but we can talk about it later okay perfect I just want to make sure I got his question answered thank you good evening haly from Principal Southeast um I want to start by saying at the end of last year I had a staff meeting and I really had the opportunity to thank our staff for for really an incredible Year from start to finish um I actually teered up in the staff meeting because I was so proud of really the work that Southeast has done um I'm not going
056to tear up again but from like culture and Community within the building to successful parent events to inclusion for our self-contain students um to the systems of academic and Behavior Support within the building we have come a long way and so while I know we still have work to do we definitely felt that a sense of accomplishment at the end of last year and I I think it's important that star is One Piece of data an important piece but it's really one piece when we look at a school and the success of a school and tomorrow I'm sitting down with our leadership team and really looking at all those pieces from last year we started this at the end of last year and then tomorrow we're kind of wrapping up finalizing our goals so this
057is tenative right now um knowing that our leadership team meeting is tomorrow um but this is our star scores in Reading at Southeast um a highlight definitely a second grade um the percentage of students meeting and exceeding and then their meeting and SGP um again 50 is kind of the average and so we're looking for 50 or above so second way above and then third and fourth definitely um a celebration that that SGP is above 50 and right at 50 fifth grade is definitely an area of growth both in reading and math um we did have a challenging group of fifth graders last year to motivate and we also had two first year fifth grade teachers and one seconde teacher so it was a young team that we really did try to invest a lot
058of support in but um definitely more growth to go with that team going into this year for math um we do again second grade kind of sticks out in terms of achievement um that is a a a team that has been together um Marine Burke and Sarah bledo for many years and so that experience together um you know it is no surprise that we see those results um mediate SGP at 85 again well above 50 when we look at achievement in math it's a little higher than reading in third and fourth grade um which I think again May contribute to the fact that we last year were in our second year of um Eureka com compared to our first year of CA that could be a factor there but again um fifth grade definitely an
059area um of growth as we go into this year and supporting our fifth grade teachers so our academic goal again I haven't met with my leadership team to finalize this so after tomorrow um but tentatively at the end of next year when I'm presenting to you this data from Fall to Spring next time time that all of those achievement meeting and exceeding will be 5% high at least 5% higher um from Fall to spring so it's a lofty goal but I think we can do it I think we're definitely moving in the right direction talked a little bit about the things that we're proud of um we had a lot to be proud of last year in terms of our culture Collective responsibility together um and just yeah it's been it's really a great place
060to work and so I feel like most of us have felt that um focus areas for this year again I think just for us just continuing to work on culture celebrating the positives high expectations for students for teachers open and honest communication relationships um I'm jumping on with krie and I I know um Jenna just said but having a student Advisory Group to have more student voice in kind of those schoolwide decisions attendance has been a focus for us this isn't new it's continuing to be a focus um the new parts of it is we're going to have check in check out for attendance so just like we have for behavior um attendance so students that have attend concerns kind of have that adult within the building that's checking with in with them the beginning
061of the day at the end of the day we're going to copy I think Northeast on this traveling trophy um for attendance so we did add some attendance incentives last year but we want to add even more um and then just continue to increase communication with our parents about attendance we had um we focused last year on family and Community Partnerships it was one of our goals and it will continue to be but we had monthly family events that were really successful hundreds of people really at all of them um and so that will continue to be a focus area we also have a whole new um ceases our booster club we have a whole seven new people that are kind of taking the lead of it so it's a huge shift and they're really
062excited about the work that they want to do their young um K12 parents for the most part and so we're really excited about that shift and kind of working with them obviously curriculum instruction um huge piece of what we need to do but we are one of the schools for math for all um so really making our math lessons accessible to all our students um should help with that proficiency score um again the focus on common assessments and with that the meetings we have with our um grade levels on common assessments after we take these common assessments we meet with them and then we discuss like how our students do we have a data sheet that Megan Franco actually made that's really in-depth and shows many different factors and so we are able to kind
063of reflect with them and so um just kind of continuing to build on that um just more frequent feedback from me and Kathleen as I administrators in the building and our also our coach and then the areas of the high quality tier one instruction we've been focused on learning targets and student discourse so we want to continue to kind of be have that as a focus area but student ownership of learning and maximizing instructional time are other main focus areas for curriculum and instruction so that's Southeast any questions tomorrow any comments tomor was really hard on herself today so I would like for one board member to give her a compliment I love those SGP numbers yeah achievement is all well and good but growth is why we're all here and why we're doing what
064we're doing and you should be very proud of the growth numbers that you guys are producing very important was growing yeah so as long as we see the numers are growing that mean you are right witnessed a family and Community Partnership with the events that you all throw us yeah I participated in your only events and they are they are crowded they have a lot of people tend to do a good point D thank you thank you so much I appreciate it thanks thank you thank you hi Dr Dr we really did mix up the order you did it's throwing me off uh so just starting with Northwest reading uh so we had some good growth in a lot of the grade levels uh second grade uh third fourth uh the SGP numbers were good
065and actually compared kind of the growth numbers with I and they they were fairly similar in terms of the growth on I testing as well too so it's good to see the correlation between star and I those scores are not here but we did see some good growth uh so I think we're we're finally moving the needle after covid and getting back kind of on track to where we were so math um we had some good growth as well too um and even just to point out like even though third grade stayed the same 80 to 80 that still means that they did grow so getting an 80% in the fall versus an 80% of the spring the the the standards are higher in the spring so even though those scores are the same it's
066still a good score so should have start off that my teachers worked really hard last year so I I compliment them on all their hard work and we we did a lot of work around Ela and math so I just thank them for all their work and for being able to achieve this um in terms of our academic goal so uh kind of similar to what southeast was in terms of 5% increase from Fall to Spring uh so just kind of especially in math I think that's going to be our area of focus as you'll see on the next slide just kind of to move that needle a little bit more with with math uh for next year so in terms of our uh our goals so just culture uh we're continuing our after support
067our after school support for students um we're also emphasizing emotion management um we're looking at more like giving teacher skills for deescalation within the class classroom so building those skills as well um we're also working on attendance and tardies just like everyone else as well too in terms of curriculum instruction continuing our accountable talk focus and really working on that student discourse and initiating student to student discourse as well within the classrooms and then we've been doing unit planning uh for ELA and math as we adopted the new curricula the last few years so now we're going to take the next step with our math and focus on the actual lesson planning um so looking at the progression of skills from grade levels making sure that there's a Continuum of and teachers can see that
068Continuum across the grade levels we're also part of the math for all which will help us kind of differentiate the lessons and utilize that assessment data to inform instruction and focus on that differentiation within the classroom um part of what we've realized uh with especially second through fifth grade math is there's a big emphasis on word problems and so sometimes math problems can become actually like reading comprehension problems and so just really focusing on that within the classroom and finding ways for teachers to to focus on like word problems and doing more reviews and spell reviews for their students and then uh also looking closely at closer close reading and student responses for ELA just giving students some more opportunity to respond like read something and actually respond in writing just to give them that
069practice of being able to take the information and then kind of develop their thoughts and ideas with writing through that that is our plans for this year questions questions comments idea to kind of um have the problem and then um you know have the child to engage especially with the uh math and uh with the reading in fifth grade primarily I saw the numbers but so I think that will improve in area things look good thank you Dr Carson I feel like you can handle this so I'm gon to put you on the spot we've had three principles now talk about math for all I was G bring it up after but I will bring it up right now I'm sorry Scott sorry Scott right next month but I'm just so excited um so math
070forall is a grant that has been given by the US Department of Education to a group who's been doing a lot of work and has shown this um excellent success with their programming and what they do is they come in you are selected and we asked and we're selected which is exciting um they work with grades three to five or grades six to eight and so we have two of our elementary schools that will be doing it this year and then the other two will be doing it next year and Central Middle School will participate this year they bring in coaches um actually from all over the United States they fly them in um and they come in and they work with our team of teachers on their current curriculum so we have Eureka math
071squared they will take your curriculum and what they do is they train you on the diverse needs of students and so you learn about you go through five Cycles it includes a training cycle so where they will train our teachers on the diverse needs of of different students within their classroom the teachers will then have an opportunity to work with these coaches to plan a lesson around what those needs are within their math curriculum they will then teach that lesson and then they will collaboratively debrief then they will train again on other diverse needs and students in their classroom and plan and teach and debrief and they will go through this cycle five times throughout the school year um and and just learn and grow about it our our special education students um because we're
072really focusing on increasing grade level access for all students within our within our buildings also they part partner with the um IRC the Illinois Resource Center who focuses on multilingual students so they will also be um working on those needs as well um so it is just it's a Hu and it's free like they they do it say tell them what it cost free it's free and actually um we sent this all came up very suddenly because they were kind of closing out their window of acceptance um and we got in right at the very end and then we're lucky enough to in in all transfar they told us it would be either grades 3 to 5 or 6 to8 so I was like great we'll focus on Elementary one year Middle School the next
073and you're not sure where you will be selected because it's also part of a study and they collect our data and do all of that well they ended up picking two of our elementaries in Central Middle School which is yeah it's means there's a lot of puzzle pieces that we have to put together as far as timing and professional planning um but it'll be a two-year process so the other two will take um will take part in it next year what is especially awesome is they um we will have coaches within each building that will include um our assistant principles our instructional coaches who will work closely with the facilitators and they really work to build the capacity within your District so they will build the capacity of those coaches um and the information that
074they're learning about these diverse needs while the focus is on math that learn learning will be able to translate to other content areas we will also be able to extend this down to first and second grade after so um it's just a huge opportunity and we're we're really excited to to be able to do it so now that's job embedded professional that's job embedded professional development so yeah it's awesome so we've already heard about the cross District articul like the the right so like even though it's only at two buildings I can't imagine that yes and then and the other two the other two will go next year so it will it will correlate we have this great opportunity two years in a row that can what what is ironic we sent uh not only
075is it free but they will also pay like we sent uh Matt when we have sent some to um the training in June and they actually paid for our teachers to go so um there's a couple of data collection pieces that they will pay for too the grant that they got is enormous and we're very happy to be taking advantage of it so so um so we're doing two elementaries and central two elementaries and Central this this year and then next year it will be Northeast and southwest so they will Central doesn't get two years they only get one but they're building the capacity of the team so they will be able to to continue to take advantage of it so yep so we're excited right time because we have math teachers we hired them
076all remember we hired them we're going to train them and then we're work to retain them yes and I have to give a huge shout out to um to Rob linger because he is working at his doing our coordinator work and he randomly I mean we're talking and the very end of the school year he's like I was talking to somebody at the IRC and they mentioned this math for all thing it might be worth checking out so I get on the phone and instantly I was like please sign us up for this so um we were just very lucky to to get selected so question actually I don't know if you know um but when they send out like a group of teachers to coach our teachers is it like the same person who's
077kind of our consultant yes so we will actually have two coaches so it's somebody who works for Math forall and then they're partnering with the IRC so we will have a math raw person and then an IRC person who is local to Illinois at that will work with the elementary schools for the entire school year and then a separate math forall person and an IRC person for Central Middle School and they'll work with us consistently all year no that's good okay yep y it's y Mass squared this will be our this we're going into our third year with it yep and I have to applaud all of our teachers Dr Carlson and all of our principles because we were really really tight on scope and sequence and making sure that they followed the curriculum with
078Fidelity and so it it's it's hard sometimes to tell a teacher how to teach but we did it all together and our teachers were really responsive to it which I think is super important about and I feel like we've noticed this year in the math sport specifically it it takes a little bit for it to trickle up because those gaps are bigger when you're adopting a new math math programs especially those gaps are bigger when you give them something when they're in fifth grade that they haven't had K1 2 3 four so we're really beginning to notice the impact of it I feel really at that two three level especially this year and it will I do feel continue to work its way up so head in the right direction I feel like last year
079in our conversations you identified the need for intentional planning to be so focused and then here's this great opportunity that just like builds that capacity internally it's just C gos all right thank you well that was good it helps us to all celebrate and understand yeah great please perfect thank you hello hello actually have a good segue on that topic um because a couple years ago when we were piloting ckla um we had a pretty pretty decent chunk of our kindergarteners um enroll in that in that uh curriculum and so those kids were second graders and we see a little bit of a higher uh jump from I don't know if that's correlation or causation or um the concept of them having the opportunity to to focus on those foundational skills that ccla really emphasizes
080in the science of reading um you know that that was our highest performing grade uh last year in terms of achievement numbers so um when we get to the math scores we kind of see that you know the repeated um implementation or the consistency um kind of play itself out so I'm optimistic that uh the numbers uh for reading um as those kids start to move up to their grade levels we'll see those strong foundations um you know manifest themselves and in better better ability to access those grade level skills as they go up the band um so strong growth numbers and and achievement numbers um for those kids in in two through five um really strong in math as as I was talking about as it relates to um just be the comfortability with
081the programming um the consistency Eureka is really built in a in a in a meaningful way where the the stuff that kids learn in kindergarten um comes into play in third and fourth grade and so having teachers speaking the same language utilizing the same graphic organizers um really just gives our kids um a solid opportunity to be successful um and Achieve at high levels and we're seeing even though those achievement numbers are really really high the growth numbers are high as well so we always talk about especially as that achievement number goes up that we want to continue to move kids um into that that bucket um so we're not just meeting but that we're exceeding as well um we've been talking um as a as a leadership team um just about making sure that
082this not only exists in Star um but also on our state testing as well so in terms of uh our our goal at Southwest um really wanted to hone in on reading and I'll speak to that a little bit in my action planning um as to why I wanted to focus more on reading based on some of the things we did last year uh for math um that that seemed to to be beneficial but so we want to see that meeting exceeding bucket um increase by 5% um from Fall to Spring this year so I'm going to jump down to the third bullet point um one of the things that we did was be really intentional with math um on our state testing last year and so we were able to look uh at the
083the the skills that our students did well on and the skills that our students struggled with and then in a meaningful way um provide them extra at bats throughout the course of the school year so we did some really deep item analysis on the math side to say okay we really just struggled converting a mixed number to an improper fraction and just making sure that the kids had the opportunity throughout the course of the year that the first time they saw a problem that looked like that or that they tackle had to tackle that skill wasn't in March when it came to the the the assessment and so that that understanding where our kids struggled and then meaningfully building those opportunities throughout the course of the school year really helped and I think um we'd
084like to take a similar approach to ELA um and and hope that it it plays out in the same way okay additionally um we're going to utilize our sit team and our coaches uh to support that reading instruction it's the second year where everyone's doing C so just becoming more efficient with the current program resources uh to be more targeted in data form data informed with our instruction CK is a treasure Trove it is comprehensive um there's things in there that we really haven't touched yet as a staff there's built-in remediation guides um that can help our intervention our interventionists um match you know and already have uh provided resources so that that time is used well um that goes with the mclass um that gives us that really concrete data also you know naturally
085weaves in with CK um and then uh the district focus on common Assessments in the ELA program as well should should be uh helpful for us um another thing that we looked at a lot was our master schedule um and just being really intentional uh with our intervention blocks we're departmentalized third through fifth grade um which is challenging when you're trying to make sure that everybody gets the services that they need um without missing core instruction and so we've set aside an intervention block um really intentionally in third through fifth grade um so that they can get uh the the the consistent focused targeted support uh that they need and then our culture really proud of uh the work that we continue to do there um continuing with our enhanced extracurricular opportunities and after school
086supports for students we designate certain certain days of the week as kind of academic days and other days uh as some of that enrichment or um more interesting uh options for kids sometimes so that no one has to pick and choose between going to papier-mâché club uh and getting a little will help in math um and so that's been helpful and we really had I mean I think we had over 65% of our kids involved in an extracurricular activity last year um so we look to continue to explore different options for kids so we keep switching it up um but also giving that um opportunity for our kids did a lot of good work with PBIS last year uh clear and consistent implementation uh of expectations and reinforcement I mean that's a a goal across
087the district K through 8 um and so being really intentional about that our assemblies are and our that common language piece um really uh want to continue that work and then as always just having fun and celebrating the successes uh strong instruction is happening we have a very tight-knit staff and um we want them to to Leverage The expertise that's in the building um so that they can continue to home their craft great job thanks Northeast alphabetic like it's not alphabetical it's not for best for I heard that okay um okay first up reading so I wanted to talk um first of all I want to say super proud of Northeast achievement and um their growth for the 2023 24 school year um little things about fifth grade that I want to talk about with
088reading um my staff had to do an exceptional job of building background knowledge you know with CK and ex you know the the lack of experiences um that our students had just being able to connect to the curriculum I think they had to do a lot of front loing um for for them to get to where they needed to be but we're still happy with their achievement and their growth score and then for math something interesting um we looked at especially in the second grade um in the area of second grade we have the highest number of transfer students so we had a lot of students that were they were not exposed prior to coming to Northeast with Eureka so we had to go ahead and you know retach some of uh the vocabulary and
089the basic skills and things so something we're going um to keep an eye on is our transfer students and our new students that come from out of District um right away and kind of doing some pre-assessments and seeing if we can identify some gaps and some holes and provide them with the support that they need you know to get them up to par but again also in math um super happy with our achievement um scores as well as our growth um like I said when we Dove a little deeper into our data saw that second grade had the highest number of transfers which I thought was interesting so something definitely that my teams need to keep an eye on um looking at goals and I just want to make sure that I you know explain
090this we I have a goal that we want to improve by 5% or more from our group that meets to exceeds but something else that we look at is the the students that are in the blue so they're kind of the ones that are in the middle we really want to hone on those students because when we sit at academic tier meetings and we sit around the table and we talk about students we talk about the students that are tier three that really really need you know you know that extra support and we're on it and we create these plans we talk about our students that are exceeding and getting them qualified for some enrichment and um we I really with my teams this year want to look at those kids that are on that
091bubble like in the blue we call it so um so I want to increase those students by 5% to go ahead to the meets I think that's key um so how are we going to do that well um my staff I really want to congratulate them um and they're accomplishments um we have lots to celebrate one of the things we really uh you know took pride in is creating and making relationships with our students and then I not sure if this was mentioned before but this is kind of like one of those Buzz buzzword right now in education is trauma many of our students um are trauma informed students so we like to identify and get to know their story and then capitalize on that know what their strengths and weaknesses are um know you
092know what might set them off we talked about this a like a lot with our um our admin team you know it might be something as simple as like someone's having a bad hair day you know and that is really important to elementary school children and so they just might need a little extra pep talk or a little extra check-in at the beginning so I feel like my staff did an awesome job we want to continue building that culture at Northeast that everyone feels included and everyone feels heard um continue to collaborate um our interventionists along with our building leadership team this end of the year data that we've C uh created and collected and to streamline it into our student goals and you'll see in my action plan when it comes to curriculum instruction
093that all comes from those building walks um those learning walks that we were doing so we have the information you know we take the time to do these walks now we need to have action along with it so um making sure that we're following up and holding ourselves accountable when we're doing that um strengthen always student voice and parent voice I know Haley mentioned so our um PBIS ambassadors our student group it's kind of like a first year we brought it back um since covid last year so we we now are going to capitalize on these words of the month and um invite them to share the message to the other students and really you know again have them have this active peace and this vested interest in what our mission and our goal is
094at Northeast um one added thing also same as Southeast we kind of have a revamped um booster club as well um lots of energy their table was amazing yesterday at packet pickup um I you know they did a great job of just kind of like sending little um incentives to get more active parent participation um one thing um Miss Franco already did out of the gates this year is already surveyed our parents so there's already a survey in their packet for them to to uh complete just kind of like what what would you like for this year at Northeast school and then we'll go ahead and report that out in our first newsletter and talk about those goals um common plan time is super important to me it was important to me as a teacher
095as an educator we learned the best from one another um so we are going to continue to utilize those workout Wednesdays which were very um we saw you know much success from those um where I can tell you right now already there's 12 Wednesdays that in the school year that I have planned that we will have common plan time and that includes special ed articulation time which is super important um so these were the goals uh working with jendale um last year at the end of the year we did the learning walks and then as a team we sat and we set and prioritize some goals so fostering student discourse it seems so um just easy to do but and and but sometimes it's not because teachers have they have like curriculum to cover and
096so we really want to push and make sure that our staff continues to focus on that students are engaging in highlevel conversations because that just makes them have deeper connections to what they're learning um student grouping structures also um having students take more ownership by providing more opportunities for them to work within Partners in Cooperative groups um you know grouping structures and then having them have some roles so our theme this year is Rock Your Role so it's r o e so we really are going to work on that word role like what role are you taking in your learning um and then the last one student learning expectations so you know um we need to raise the bar you know we're okay we're doing fine we're making our study growth our achievement but I
097feel like I have to push my staff a little bit more and I have to push my students as well to become better critical thinkers any questions we have some terrific administrators District I I may or Maya have just sent a text to Jenna that said we have excellent we really do thank you as I looked around the table at our administrative Retreat there were so many returning faces and so to me it's like this core team just coming back together working towards our strategic plan goals and really aiming at consistency which is I just cannot be prouder of them and I love them all it seemed it seemed like quite the part yeah you stopped it it was it was fun wasn't it we had a coffee bar we might have had a coffee
098bar there too um so renewal of our e-learning plan our e-learning plan was approved back in May of 2021 this is the plan that we use in the event of a snow day it's hard to think of snow um or ice or any other sort of emergency day um this time of year but that plan does get renewed every three years so that we are able to use those days um in L of a snow snow day and then tacking remember when we would have to add those days on to the end of the calendar um we no longer have to do that um but we will be asking you tonight to um renew that plan it is the same plan we've used it now for three years it's worked well um on those few
099rare days that we've had to put it into place um but we will be asking you to R it tonight so that's all I got thank you you next on the agenda is opening the floor that's it sorry we need to do this for the E learning plan mention that as part of it but I forgot so thank you that's it's right here good perfect got it good um to open the floor for a public hearing regarding the e-learning plan do we have any comments does my board have any questions I love that we don't have to add days to the calendar I'm jealous as a former student that lost many days summer calendar so yeah I did ha that's the that's the trade-off right like I know it's not always easy for families to
100manage that during the school year but we always hear about it if we have to extend the school year because of of Mis days so like there do miss snow days I know so there is a well placed snow day but it's N9 to 9 to two yeah it it it definitely is a little bit more I mean you have to have the certain number of hours that you do have accounted for but I think that our teachers are really good at kind of working in some pretty fun activities or things that also allow them to enjoy the day you can still go out and build a snowman you just can't do it till two you may have to write about the Snowman that you just filed there you go sliding right right going out
101and throwing some snowballs or sling I love it um I do think like I said the and I know it's hard in the moment but we I don't get angry emails in May and June now so I'll take I don't get angry emails when I call an e learning day no I don't I'll take it we'll take it um closing the floor closing the floor okay on the uh public hearing regarding the E learning plan thank you very much okay and now public comments I'm gonna read my I'm gonna read my thing okay so we are up to the public comments portion on the agenda um per board of education policy 2230 a few reminders specifically about the logistics of public comment portion of every meeting including this evening as is posted on our agenda
102publicly for every meeting to respect all our stakeholders our commenters our board our public we adhere very closely to the three minute limit for comments for everyone we will set a timer and we expect everyone to respect their three minutes in addition we do not respond to public comments at board meetings but we hear them we respect them we listen to and take into account all the Community member concerns and if there's a specific spe ific question that comes up we can respond to after the meeting we will do so in a time man thank you on to board reports with Mr aill thank you thank you so the finance committee met apparently just a couple weeks ago but we were just joking about how it felt like it was like months and months already
103um but we we met because we with the the tasks that we've given our Architecture Firm it's brought up questions about spacing facilities updating of facilities plan and it got us thinking about making sure that we have a good handle on our our debt our Debt Service as they call it uh so we met with Tammy from PMA who walked through with us the foundations of healthy debt with a school board uh or school district and just some options as far as paying for different facilities updates or any other spacing solutions that come up I thought it was very informative uh it's interesting to think about debt being healthy because like from a personal standpoint when you manage your own finances you try to eliminate debt but as a large entity you do need to
104maintain a certain level of debt uh to be able to not give sticker shock is like what we we landed on yes uh without getting into the really nerdy details of it but outside of that you know there were no real like action items or decisions made from it it was purely just make sure all board members and staff members that are part of the finance committee have a good understanding of what goes into this and it just kind of laid out some next steps for us as it relates to our Architects when they come back with their next set of recommendations excellent job yes I forgot I was doing this until you did you did great and it's it's it's the lumpsum like we need a a a big bubble and then we sit
105you know what I mean and then we use it and then we I mean we just bonded three years three years ago and I think the one of the first votes I took I think right and we got you know bonding 101 like with with Tammy from ma because we're like okay what does all this mean so I appreciate that she came back and um we do have to we H it's a bubble and then we spend it and then there's a bubble and then we like that's just how it works well and to make it really contextual that is how we updated Northeast air conditioning this summer so that our kids can come back to a nice cool building and have the best learning environment possible and so that's again what we're looking to
106accomplish long term is how do we provide long-term facilities upgrades for our kids ultimately and pay for it because it has to be paid for oh yes oh yes that no the weirdest thing they won't do it for free um thank you and that was um Mike and Michael yes you guys run however long a week a month whatever it was it's not clear how long ago that was have to check the notes back in the calendar um next up is uh an update for our mul Crone um scholarship review um I don't think I shared all of this with you guys via email this afternoon when I finish writing the report I'll be honest um but I did reach out uh a refresher at our April board meeting uh we awarded 13 of our
107students District students $300 each toward their summer athletic um Camp experiences and last week I sent an email to um whoever uh whoever um sent in the recommendations so some of it was students some of it was other students and some of it was parents so I did reach out to all 13 families we'll just go with that um about how uh they spent the funds because I was curious and that was something that my board asked about when we distributed the funds is tracking better how it was spent and what you know what we might want to do about that um keep in mind did have only student emails for some of these students and shockingly they didn't get back to me um because they're not in school right now so I totally get
108it um I did hear back from um six families of the 133 and I thought that was great and there was one student who said oh oh yeah that I don't think I followed up on that how do I do that so he's not in here but I also was able to facilitate that process and I really appreciated him um him asking that question so um couple things that stood out with me like I said I'm not going to you guys have these in front of you it was great to hear back from parents and I always love it when the students are the ones to respond to um the hi thank you for giving me the Mone scholarship I'm using it to play a lot of sports and get better at all of them
109make new friends uh score some goals in soccer had a lot of friend had a lot of fun and improve my sport skills isn't that that's the point right um so what I also what stood out to me as I was reading these um is our students are awesome um but it also gave uh the families that did report were all um almost all of them spent their money in other Evergreen Park organizations yes right so it's like we're sharing the love which is kind of nice so it may have been the difference between kids attending EP C uh Community High School camps and not so I kind of like that we were able to do that um it is um definitely building skills okay A little selfishly if these students are coming back and
110playing for Central Middle School they're gonna do a better job playing for Central I was like oh look at how that works um and I really did appreciate that and then there were also some students who took it beyond the borders of Evergreen Park which I thought was pretty amazing um there was the USS that's a lot of s's USSSA All American games in Florida um and it went towards you know part of the money to cover registration for that so um I just really I want to commend the students who did good things this summer and um I really liked seeing the impact there was leadership mentioned um there was uh I mean Dr Parker wrote a lovely like just how much in impacted positively the family and the student and um yeah I
111just thought that was remarkable and as if I get any more I'll continue to share um but I thought it was a good uh opportunity for us to really appreciate the impact that that has on our students and our district which is pretty great it covered so many so many different sports there was baseball you had baseball basketball you had softballs soccer know dance classes I mean we even had a wrestler in there that made me we did have oh okay there you go um but it really did it really uh it yes it took full advantage yes and it well I liked the leadership like the the last one um assistant teacher for other students right in their summer classes as well like how cool is that so and we just hired her mom
112to be I know I was very excited to hear from her I got to respond to all of these families and thank them for um getting back to us but I just like I said when we talked about this back in April I know that you had asked for um more followup and things like that so I want to make sure that be sh that publicly that our students did a good job this summer so this is awesome thank you awesome and now you have it but I'll send it to in digital form too sorry about that um great okay so we are on to action action items um consent agenda item a is to approve the monthly transaction reports for July of 2024 I two is to approve fund balance reports for July of
1132024 three is to approve the expenditure report and projected payroll report for August of 2024 four is to approve board minutes from the regular meeting of July 17th 2024 five is to approve the closed session minutes for the regular meeting of July 17 2024 six is to approve destruction of closed session tapes from April of 2020 and seven is Personnel recommendations as listed on our agenda with additions f La a medical leave and a few resignations as well that were from um June um if I can have a first motion to accept consent agenda item a please motion to approve consent agenda item a thank you and second please second oh this side is man uh roll call please Michael Thomas yeah mik Denise Jones yes Rachel marquin yes baby Shephard yes y colen CL
114yes motion pass awesome thank you very much um Item B is to approve our tentative our tentative budget for the 2425 school year as presented by Mr gry if I could have a first motion please I'll make the motion and a second second and roll call Rachel marquin yes Dr Michael Thomas yes Lauren D yes David shepher yes Le Joe yes Mike W Miller y kie clim yes motion passed awesome item C is to approve our e-learning plan on our three-year anniversary of that um as presented by Dr Paulson if I could have a first motion please motion to approve the he learning plan excellent and a second second and a roll call Dr Michael Thomas yes Michael Miller y Denise Jones yes Rachel marquin yes baby Shephard yes Laur D yes colen kimac yes
115item D is to approve the second reading and Adoption of revised board policy 7190 as recommended by the board policy committee as much work as the board did on board policy over the last year the board policy committee has been spending a lot of time this summer and I appreciate you greatly so that too approving second reading and Adoption of re revised board policy as recommended um if I could have a first motion to approve please I'll make a motion and a second nice all right that would be the board policy committee excellent and if I could have a roll call please Rachel Mar yes shepher yes yes Dr Michael Thomas yes Denise Jones yes Michael wer colen climac yes motion passed item e is something we do every year approve applications for occupancy for
116the mobile classrooms if I could have a first motion to approve motion to approve applications for occupancy for mobile classrooms you're so good about that and a second please thank you I'll second thanks and a roll call please Dr m y Rachel yes David Shephard yes Lauren yes Denise Jones yes Mike W Miller there will come a day where we are not any see finance committee report yes yes okay fair enough col yes I was waiting for you to vote no with the caveat I I respect that I absolutely do okay okay so we are um item 11 is to recess to close session to discuss the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the district or legal council including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or legal
117council to determine its validity um we will uh wait recessing we will return to open session and we have one more action item I have no idea what that is and we will not be uh live streaming after that um so all in favor of recess at 7:38 oh motion I'm sorry motion to recess to close thank you okay you guys are keeping me on the straight and arrow a second please that's a good catch I thank you okay Michael Thomas yes Denise Joes yes Rachel marquin yes DAV shepher yes m you bet awesome thank you all hey us yeah