001and >> we're good. >> Okay. [laughter] Thank you. Good evening. The February 23rd, 2026 Board of Education meeting will now come to order. Uh Mr. Loba, would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? 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. >> Mrs. Mo, roll call, please. >> Mr. Mle, >> here. >> Miss Ligman. >> Miss King, >> here. >> Dr. Martelli, >> here. >> Mr. Rusty, >> here. >> Mrs. L >> here. Miss Becker >> here. >> Mrs. here. >> Mr. >> Here, >> Dr. Bruno >> here. Thank you very much. Uh, as we typically do at the start of our meetings, we have some celebrations and recognitions. And Dr.
002Mcu, you will introduce our presenters. Yes, we have some Hadley students with us. Uh, this is February is Black History Month and we have some Hadley students who are going to come and maybe you could introduce yourselves. And you've got some poetry for us. Is that right? >> Okay. I'm I'm looking at Mr. Dively. Miss Love, do you want to give a little bit more context to this? >> So, this is now our um third annual uh Black History Month assembly, which we have done that's been student led. Um it included a couple different celebrations. One was our jazz ensemble that performed um and then we also had students reading um poetry by famous black poets. Um, we had a host Naa Leggings who I'm going to introduce to come up and she's going to
003share a little bit about her role and about the assembly and then we have a video of the performance and then we have two students here live to read their poems. Good evening members of the board. My name is Na Leang. I was one of the hosts of Hadley's Black History Month assembly on Friday along with Brain Currents. During our Black History Month assembly, we celebrate the life and legacy of Duke Ellington. one of the greatest jazz musicians and composer in American history. Through students, speakers, and performances by our jazz ensemble, we learn how Ellington helped shape jazz music during the Harlem Renaissance and influence his to break racial barriers to stand for inequality. We also share powerful poems by influential black poets to highlight how music and words can tell story, inspire change, and
004bring people together. Tonight we are proud to show you a short video clip of our jazz ensemble performing selection from Duke Ellington music as part of this special celebration and to share the poems that were shared during the assembly. [music] Happy birthday. >> [music] [music] >> Happy birthday. [music] >> [music] >> Happy glor. >> [laughter] >> Hello, my name is Alice Baker and um during the assembly and right now I will be reading Still I Rise by Maya Angelo. [snorts] You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Cuz I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns
005with the certainty of tides. Just like hopes springing high, still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes. Shoulders falling down like teardrops weakened by my soulful cries. Does my hauntiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard? Cuz I laugh like I've got gold mines digging in my own backyard. You may shoot me down with your words. You may cut me with your eyes. You may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I'll rise. Out of the huts of history, shame I rise. Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, whing and swelling. I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear. I rise into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise, bringing the
006gifts that my ancestors gave. I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. [snorts] [applause] [clears throat] My name is Robert Rancis and I'm here to read the poem A Talking to by Jason Reynolds. I could tell you all the bad things. All the bad things that cut and scare and howl and growl and nash and bare teeth. Bright and sharp that glint in the moonlight. I could tell you all that's frightening. All that's frightening and lurking and looming and hiding in the brush. Reds are hair pricked up on the back of something too sly to see. I could tell you about all the loud things. All the loud things that scream and shriek and shred our ability to hear each other. The beasts behind screens scrolling banners
007of bully banter. I could tell you all the things. all the things they're trying to tell you about but how about you about how you should run and how you should run and how you should run but I'm about you above all things so above all things I'd rather tell you one thing and one thing only everything bad and frightening and loud will always hide when you hold your head up will always hide when you hold your heart out will always sing a shrinking song when you Hi. [applause] >> Well, first of all, is this the first time we've had a poetry reading at a school board meeting? >> Maybe. >> We need to do it more often then. Uh, thank you. Um, from the music uh uh to the spoken word, uh, very artistic
008and very meaningful. C can I um well first of all are do board members have any comments or questions? You know I got a couple that I'm going to actually throw out there but maybe I should defer to to to my colleagues if you do. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> Yeah please Katie. >> I just want to say thank you. Um I think the reason that we all do this is for the students. I mean that's why we all want to be on the board. So when you guys come and do this it is such a great reminder of what we are doing. So thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. Yeah. Anyone else? So, can I ask all of our uh creative artists uh if if you would you made some selection?
009You chose a poem or song because the poem or the music meant something to you. It it moved you in some way. And if you would be willing to say a little bit about why that poem or why that song that you chose. >> Yeah. >> Well, I'm going to ask I know you got to take the correct I know this is putting you through a lot. >> I know. Yeah. >> But you're getting around really well at things [laughter] and sorry about that. >> Um my class for literacy actually had a whole poetry unit and I still am in it. We get to write our own poems as well, which I really enjoy. Um, but we got to analyze a few. And this poem, Stella Rise by Maya Angelo, it really stood out to
010me after we all talked about as a class. And I just felt like pride being able to read it in front of a lot of people cuz I feel like it was one that really just struck deep even though it didn't exactly like correlate with me, but I really liked talking about it. >> Beautiful. No, that's great. Well, thank you so much and thanks for sharing that. >> Yeah. >> Um, I'm in the same literacy class as Alice. So, uh, I went through most of the same things as her. I have written poems, too. We've also analyzed them. Uh, I chose my poem because it covers a larger part of the human experience. Like, it covers many forms of struggling. Uh, it covers like bullying of all kinds and I felt that would be more
011like relatable to an audience. >> Well, thank you so much for bringing that forward. You you educate us when you talk about what inspired you about the work and why it's important. Okay. Any other Duke Ellington songs that anybody wants to play? Yeah, that was kind. [laughter] Oh, but thank you and parents, we appreciate you being here and and allowing your uh your children to step out like that. Um, very good. Um, we will then let you leave. You probably don't want to sit. Believe me, the rest of the meeting is not very poetic. [laughter] That was it. That's the highlight, but thank you for coming and for your great work. Appreciate it. And Steve, to your to your team and to that literacy teacher in that literacy class. >> [applause] >> Okay. So uh
012first up we have a presentation and uh this is about technology industry 41 and fiso is very poetically and prosaically going to explain all this technology to us. So fiso welcome thank you very much that is a very hard act to follow. So I'm going to try to be a little bit not boring but you know try to present what we have. Uh I want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. McHugh and the board for letting me present and I wouldn't have been able to do this without my team um Ed Barta Jim and uh the building uh text that we have also I have a wonderful crew and it makes my life and job a lot easier. With that said um just kind of want to go over briefly a bird's eye view
013of um what's going on in the district. Um give some updates um and and give some fact findings. Um, you know, I I want to thank Dr. McHugh for handing me an audit when I walked in. That was incredible. It was extremely insightful. It helped me think things through before I got here and and start digging in, looking at things and talk to my team and to see, you know, what we have, what kind of risks we need to manage, so on and so forth. And overall, it was it was a good report. But we saw some things in there that I'd like to share with you and then tell you what we're doing about them as well. um and the things that we've sort of trying to accomplish and have accomplished as well. Um
014so just with a little bit of an update on the pond network that we finished, we just recently finished the pond network. Um it took about a year to get some feedback to make sure everything was up and running. We had to deal with straight with the manufacturer. We had some issues uh with our fiber because it's kind of dated and I'll show you that a little bit in this as well. Um but we're finally finished with the product uh the project. Uh so we it's a - season right now. So we're looking at Hadley doing some wonderful things at Hadley. Um I'll share some things with you as well over there too. Um so without any delay, let's talk about some of the things that we kind of discovered and uh remediated and and
015look look for some challenges and hopefully make us future proof. So initially when um you know right now we have a single point of failure for our internet access meaning that we have one device that connects the entire district to the internet and that resides at cso. So even our backup internet is connected to that device the firewall. So if our main internet goes down that device switches over to our backup internet. So just thinking in layman's terms it's like having one door you know in case of emergency. we haven't had an emergency, but everybody lining up and going through that door, that's not the most optimal uh way of doing things, especially when it comes to making sure that five, six different buildings are up and running simultaneously. Um, so we're looking at, you
016know, and our like like I said uh earlier, our fiber is from the '9s and we have no documentation on our fiber. So when we had some issues, I don't want to take too long, but it was a funny story that I'm going to share anyway uh with Jim. Hopefully it's okay. couple of years ago, three, four years ago when you know Jim was driving along at Hadley, he saw a cable flapping in the wind and realized that was our fiber connection and one of them the fiber connection was down and we had no documentation of how to get it fixed. So that just happened to be there's a vendor on site and he was able to hook it back up and we were okay. So thank you Jim for your keen eye as you're
017driving too watching things just you know flailing on this happened a few years ago. It's not a recent thing, but it just tells you the state because fibers ran aerial over here in this area, meaning it it's condu it's not conducive to the weather that we have in the Midwest. So, we had some fluctuations during this process of pawn, but now we've sort of established what we needed to Hadley and with this new with this new concept of, you know, making Hadley uh our our our backup site. So, we're also paying an abundance of 35,000 annually for just for an internet backup >> for one gig. Um so basically what this all means is like you know we have a single point of failure if one device fails at CSO we're all down all the
018schools are down and our some of our infrastructure we don't have documentation on so you know that that that's an issue and we're spending some money on on things that you know old technology trying to make it better let's not do that I learned that from the book by the way that that was very good um yeah so moving forward um what we're doing is is adding Hadley as a secondary site uh meaning that we're going to throughade program through our um state they're going to run brand new fiber for us for free. It's not going to cost us anything and it's going to be 10 times faster than what we have now. So we're going to get a new connection between Hadley and CSO for internet backup and then an internet connection out from
019Hadley for 10 gigs as well. And that would eliminate the 35,000 that we pay annually for our internet backup. So that's an annual saving in perpetuity basically moving forward because we're we're taking advantage of -ate and they're going to install that for us. Um like I said all all the upgrades are through the only thing that we have to pay is for the firewall the secondary firewall at Hadley meaning that secondary device. Now we'll have a failover uh from CSO no matter what the schools will be so be able to get out if something happens at CSO power outage and the battery goes down or anything like that. all the schools can find a different path to the internet through Hadney now. >> So, we're going to connect that this summer. Um, that means is,
020you know, less downtime for us, faster speeds. Even when it's back on running on backup, it'll be 10 times faster. Um, and and obviously a reduced annual cost to us, taking away the cost that we pay uh for our long-term, you know, so and the other thing we can do is each school is looked at as a community. Each building is a community, meaning that we can connect every school now to Hadley as well because every school is connected to CSO on old fiber from the '90s. So, what we're going to do is take advantage of the -ate and connect every school, brand new fiber to Hadley. Um, that way it gives us multiple paths for all of the schools. Um, you know, it'll be stable connectivity as well. So that means any kind of
021you know outage that happens a school will find a way to a multiple path to get out to the internet but we just won't rely on cso uh we'll be able to get out through Hadley and the long term eventually what's going to happen that's about three to four years down is every school will have an internet connection through ICN through free so meaning we're still going to monitor everything CSO but if something happens it's called load balance balancing so it sort of runs and detects who's getting heavy traffic or not or anything like that and it'll just reroute to a simpler [snorts] faster internet connection throughout our district's buildings. So I think that's >> that's it >> what I had. Thank you. >> Yay. >> That works. >> Wow. I like that door analogy.
022>> Oh >> that escape door analogy. Questions, comments? >> Yeah, Amy, please. Uh, just a comment. Thank you. That sounds great and always exciting to upgrade things, especially when they're at no cost to the district, >> right? 3.99. [laughter] [gasps] >> Anyone else? Um fisel does doing this uh by having this secondary route through Hadley and then ultimately through each school are we more secure against cyber attack in that regard too >> it's managed fiber so it's it's private fiber that's through ICN yes we're very secure so we're not sharing the fiber with anyone it's our exclusive fiber so very secure >> correct >> and when this get done. >> So Hadley's phase one this summer I've already put in procurement is already done. The following year we'll connect all of the schools to Hadley
023and the year after that each school will have its own internet connection. >> So threeyear phases basically with brand new. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> I just had I just had one question. the audit that you referenced. Yes. Do we review that audit as a board on occasion annually? >> I'm not I feel like I'm not familiar with that cyber security audit. I don't know if that was shared with us prior. Yeah. I'm wondering. >> Yeah. >> When we might look at that again to see in what other areas we might want to tighten up due to cyber security issues. >> Well, go ahead. I >> I'll start and then you piggy back on there. So, we did this audit, great question. We did this audit at this
024time last year. So, it was January through probably April or May. And we did that audit be because first of all, we hadn't done an audit for years prior to that. >> And we wanted to see where they were. Secondly, I was new coming in and I selfishly wanted a lay of the land of where we were where we were at. And that net 56 audit gave us not just cyber information. They looked at all sorts of the state of tech infrastructure and all these pieces. And kudos to you Fisizel. He had gone through there and working with not only me but also Dave and B&G and Eric to see we you can't do everything at once. And while we did get I thought overall it was a good audit. Yeah. >> But this was
025one of the pieces that really stood out is we have a single point of failure. They said you should really do something about that. So within your first year, we're already doing that, which I think is positive to me. The cost aspect is I was wondering how much more are we going to have to pay, but this is going to be especially not having to spend 35 grand a year for the for a backup, >> right? >> We're going to be saving money with faster speeds, more secure, and a stable Hadley that we can count on in the event that the others go down. reliable and secure and safe. >> Fisel, what are we giving up with this? Because if I'm a board member, I'm wondering this sounds too good to be true. >> It
026is. It It does sound too good to be true. It's the state. We're not giving up anything. We're gaining resources. We're still going to have our old fiber ring the way it is, but you know, we'll have a newer fiber ring to connect all the schools. So, we're not really giving up anything at all. Actually, we're just gaining. This is a plus plus for us. Bob, what did I miss? >> Well, you didn't miss anything. I was going to note I had written down the the net 56. We consulted with them and brought them in right at the end of the school year for the reasons that you did uh talk about. So, that report's out there and that I I was assuming that was the one you were talking. >> Yeah, I was. I'm
027sorry. >> Yeah. >> Should have made it that clear. >> All right. Yeah. Very good. Well, Fiso, thank you so very much. Appreciate that. Thank you for that up >> and and no, I didn't fix the projector just for my presentation. That's a new Mhm. [laughter] Could have that have been all right. >> Love that you dropped that in right there. >> Okay, great. All right, we will then uh move to public participation. Members of the public who wish to address the board should complete a green form and submit it to Mrs. Bo, >> the board recording secretary. Speakers are asked to maintain respectful decorum and limit their comments to three minutes or less. Please note that all meetings including public comment are livereamed and recorded and become part of the official record. Mrs. Moch,
028is there anyone wishing to give public comment? Hearing none, then we will move on to the superintendence report. All right. Thank you, Dr. Bruno. This looks like a long one, but these six topics are going to move quickly. Here are the six topics that I would like to run by you today. And we're going to lead off with um to me I I don't want to say the biggest but boy this instructional technology has been quite an engagement. So if you recall we started this at the end of last year. This came out of the engagement around what schools could be. And the personal devices went so well we thought now let's look at instructional technology in our schools. And after the surveys in the fall to families, to staff, and to students, bringing this
029to our CIT, our continuous improvement team multiple times, every be building leadership team looking at this, our cabinet, our principles. We landed on a one-mon trial in April to look at three different things. Um, Chromebooks in grades one through five. Kindergarten, they're already uh staying at home. one through five. We're going to try in April to keep them at school. Now, this is not unanimous. There are some families who have expressed they want them coming home. There are teachers who feel some of my students need them still going home. And there are some students who want [clears throat] to bring them home. And we decided through all of this engagement, the only way we're going to truly know what we need to bring it home for is if we stop doing it. And then we
030can decide where to go from there. Indoor recess. We heard loud and clear from parents that they did not want their their students on Chromebooks during indoor recess. Many of the staff feels the same way. And as we heard from uh at at our CIT at our continuous improvement team meeting, the students like playing oftenimes better than being on the Chromebook. So we are going for elementary to do a no Chromebooks during indoor recess at all with with the elementaryaries in April. And then uh no Chromebook use during lunch. We have grades K8 there. It's really not an issue in the elementaryaries. It is an issue at Hadley and I hope you don't mind Khloe and Joseph that I mentioned at our superintendent student advisory council. We talked about this and the students said, "Yeah,
031Dr. McHugh, it is a problem, but it's something that we're going to give a try in April of we're not going to use Chromebooks during lunch. We will get feedback from students, from families, from staff to look ahead to not only May but next year, what do we want to do? Now, in the meantime, in order to do this, we need charging carts. And one of the questions that was asked was, if we're buying charging carts to grades one through five, which we are, then is this a done deal? And the answer is no. The answer is, uh, charging carts are, while they're not cheap, they're not going to break the bank. And no matter what we do, there will be a place to have those carts in the classrooms one through five. Whether we're
032sending Chromebooks home sometimes, uh whether kids need to charge things, they will still be utilized. But we wanted to try that for April because we really feel like we're going to learn that those Chromebooks don't need to go home every single day for those grades. And it might work out where we don't send them home at all. But we're going to try April and then we're going to get feedback. committee the whole you were all there for the people who were at home you missed a wonderful engagement on the book what schools could be uh thank you Erica for taking some of the the themes and pulling them together uh what resonated most a few of the things were real world engaging learning a broader definition of student success and preparing students for a changing
033world and some of the priorities that could apply to us is we need both strong foundations and future focus future ready skills, more student voice and ownership in the learning and a support for innovative teaching. So this was an appetizer to what's coming up next which is the new strategic plan which is our next slide here. So this spring I am going to bring forth some consultants to the board to look at to lead us through strategic planning next year. This is year four. So in year five, we need to be building the new plan and there is going to be a lot of community engagement and I would like to utilize a consultant because I feel like the bang for the buck. We did that with Dr. Sullivan for the refresh, but I would
034like to bring some different options to the board so you can see who's out there for that. And then hopefully starting in the fall, we will begin that engagement to create a new five-year plan. And again, I think that the committee of the whole was just the appetizer to that. e-learning. Uh I I love that picture. First of all, I I do want to remind everybody that we don't use e-learning only because of snow. E-learning could be used because of extreme cold, because a pipe burst and we can't have school on a given day. But we are in year three of an e-learning plan. Is that right, Dr. Webster? Year three of three. So, we're going to need to write a new e-learning plan for the state. Before doing so, I would really like to
035get the community, the staff, the board's views of where do we want to go with this? Do we want to continue using e-learning as we do, which is as soon as there's a cold day or a snow day, we go right to e-learning, or do we want to look at I have heard parents have mentioned it to me, we just like to have a good old snow day and either tack a day on at the end of the year or there are ways to amend the calendar work. It's built in. And I do wonder if getting all of that feedback from the community, from staff, from the board, if [clears throat] we figure out what we want to do next year and then we'll build the new e-learning plan off of that for what that'll
036look like. So, I'd like to make it through a little bit more of the winter. Um, I think we're thinking, I'm looking back at my cabinet, March, Aprilish or so, we'll do some surveys and then we will have all of this figured out before June so that we can get a new e-learning plan ready for next year, whatever that would look like on file with the state. We're sticking with the E, ebikes and e- scooters. There was a lot of feedback at the beginning of the year. I certainly heard it. I think you did too from community members about ebikes and e- scooters and how dangerous they have been. We have had uh at least one student get hit by a car. Um we have them zipping around town and it it has become an
037issue. >> So the question is for our schools, what can we do? and there wasn't a whole lot we could do because the ordinance was vague. So this was truly a great partnership. We our district along with district 87, district 89 worked with the village of Glenn Ellen. We worked with the police department, with the park district. We got everybody together and from there there was some desire to relook at the ordinance and just a week ago Monday I think this new ordinance was passed for the village of Glenn Ellen prohibiting individuals 16 years of age or older not permitted on sidewalks anywhere in the village. This is going to have implications at our school especially Hadley. So our next step is I'm going to work with the village, the other two school districts on
038a shared communication and then we will come out with a plan. We'll communicate to parents, to students, to everybody saying now that we have this new ordinance, here's what it means at our schools. So that will be coming out soon. So even though this ordinance is in place, we do want to do a shared communication, get the message out for everybody, but this will change the bike racks being full of ebikes and e- scooters at Hadley. So enjoy them while you've got them. if uh if if if you two still have them. And last but not least, as we look ahead to last uh to next year, the Hadley schedule, we had that wonderful presentation last week. We're meeting on Steve, I think Wednesday. We're meeting on Wednesday to reconvene. We've been getting a lot
039more feedback, not only from you, but from others. Registration is open right now. So for those of you who have not registered, please register. It's it's a little less than what we would have expected to be at this time. And we need that for the third bullet point, class sections, because we have guidelines for class sizes in district 41. And registration information helps us determine how many sections of classes we're going to have at the elementaryaries. And then at Hadley, how many sections for each. So, please register. Hopefully, you've done so by done so if you have an incoming kindergartenner already. That registration closed on the 20th. And now anything further if you want to change or if you want to register um I will be involved in that just to make sure that we're
040getting people where they need to be. That was a lot of information. So I'm going to come up for air and see what questions you have on any of these topics >> as can I please >> can I go to the I think it was the first one you did about >> where is it the instructional technology piece. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all of those bullets. I just had a couple of questions about the K5 no Chromebook during indoor recess piece. While I agree with it a thousand%, do we have something to help replace that? Knowing that in a traditional setting, teachers would have board games, chess, checkers, things that students can engage with partners with or groups of kids because with nothing at all, I just fear what that indoor
041recess may look like. >> So, yes, I'm going to give you a two-part answer for that. I want to give kudos to our buildings first of all because the principles, the assistant principles and the staff, >> I think they saw this coming. They were reading the tea leaves and they were already making those adjustments. >> I know PTAs have been helping. I'm sure Dave, I'm sure you've been doing things. Teachers have been asking for that. But we also are asking our principles, our cabinet, what do you need from us and how can we support so that there are board games and activities and so yes there will be a replacement but they already have taken it upon themselves which is wonderful. >> Yeah. And then are we sending feedback out did you say to to
042parents after that month trial? >> We're going to talk to all the stakeholders again. We want want to know what students, what staff and what families think. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Very good. Thank you, >> Katie. >> Yeah. And related to the same topic, so will every elementary classroom now have the charging cart in all schools? >> It will. Okay. >> And Fisel has a number of different options. and he's going to be and by he he and Dave are going to be bringing them building to building to have teachers come and check them out to see what they think for the teachers to give feedback because they make a big at least the previous ones made a fairly large footprint that teachers don't want big clunky carts in their classroom. So Fisel worked
043with a number of different solutions and then in conjunction with Dave that they're going to roll that around to the different schools to get feedback to see which ones that we want to go with for grades one through five. >> Awesome. No, I mean it's exciting to hear. I remember during my time volunteering in the library at Lincoln, they only had a certain number of loaners and then you have the kids forgetting to charge. So it's an interesting or an exciting pilot to do and it's going to take away all I forgot to charge my Chromebook last night. anyone? Yes, please. Amy, >> I have a couple. As far as charging the Chromebooks, I know in a previous meeting we talked about like do these carts have and the building infrastructure, are they able to
044do that? We're not going to be blowing breakers. And >> that's a question that I was asking both Dave and Fiser. Are we going to be able to do that? Um, in in the past we had a charging cart in every classroom and where infrastructure is fine. >> Okay. >> Then the newer ones I think are more energy efficient, the Chromebooks. >> Um, >> better to ask that now than before we buy them all though. So, thank you. >> Where's the question? >> My next question was does anyone turn assignments in online where they would be doing the work at home and turning that assignment in? >> Likely yes. >> Okay. Yeah. But we don't know yet who that may be or >> Well, you do that at Hadley, don't you? There's some assignment turning
045in. This will be an adjustment. This was not a slam dunk. There were some there were some people that did not want to do that trial because of the way that things are currently operating. Okay, >> so this will impact for a month. The question is when that month is done, do we want to go back to the way it was before or will teachers look at that differently and say maybe we could do that a little bit differently? >> Okay. >> But yes, if you're wondering will there be an impact, there will um which which also made me a little bit uneasy with this because I know that technology is not bad and we're not suggesting we're not going to use technology at all, but unless we do this trial, we're really not going
046to know what we need to add back in. >> Yeah. My concern was more from the standpoint of like we're not setting kids up for failure when all of a sudden they have incomplete assignments because [clears throat] they aren't able to turn them. >> Correct. Right. >> Um and then it sounds like we may be getting to this later, but my last question was how does not bringing home Chromebooks work with remote school days? >> Excellent question. >> Very well. So, the plan would be, boy, we have to put a big asterisk on here. So, let's say on April 10th, there's going to be a big snowstorm on April 9th, we would send the Chromebooks home, >> okay, >> for them to do that. One of the big reasons that I heard the reasons that
047we have Chromebooks sent home is in case we have an emergency day the next day. And I think through all the engagement, that's not a reason to send them home every day. If we get caught where the Chromebooks aren't at home, we would have to call up an emergency day, a traditional snow day, and tack on a day. >> I feel the way DuPage County has been operating. We talk about weather that's coming for about a week before. Chris, you know this. We're all talking about it for a week. So, for an entire week when people are like, "Hey, have you thought about the snow coming Friday?" It's all I'm thinking about is that. And we will prepare that if we needed to send it home. That would be the exception, a big old asterisk
048on not going home at all. >> So, if I could just add to that, Amy, we don't send them home with our kindergarten students and we do just what Dr. McHugh suggested. So, you know, you see the day kind of coming and we communicate to all those teachers, make sure the students take their Chromebooks home tonight and more times than not, we've called the day and they've got them. So, there's ways to avoid that. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Again, I'm glad you're asking now and not after we've done it and we thought, "Oh, why didn't we think of that?" >> Ted, >> uh, regarding the e-learning days, I'm I'm curious, uh, what are the trends in um, in other elementary districts? I I don't expect you to have the answer off top of your
049head, but as part of the investigation, I'm wondering if we could get some details on that. >> That's a great question. I'm seeing a little bit. I'm just going to speak from my own experience anecdotally what I'm seeing and then I'm going to look at cabinet to nod that's what I'm seeing too jeeoff or stop talking right now I'm seeing a little bit of a swing back I think when e-learning days got approved by the state everybody was running to do that this is wonderful we don't have to use snow days and I think some communities are starting to push back to saying I would rather have for the one or two days we needed a year a traditional snow day I feel like it's more bang for the buck and we would just rather
050do a snow day or an emergency day and tack it on. Um it will be interesting as we talk to other districts what they're doing, but I also think what do we want to do here in in district 41 and I've heard a lot of things from staff from um even from students but from families about this and I think by getting all that data we'll be able to make a more informed decision. Kit >> I mean >> yeah Jay please >> we had look back or look at you know looking forward to next year strategic plan you're talking about or the book or what you know what school could be what do we want those days to look like and do e-learning days look the way that we want e-learning to look like what
051do we want the school day to look like and are we getting um as a district what we want out of a day at school at an e-learning day. Yeah, it's very important question, right? Right. You should start with that. [clears throat] Can I just invite Chloe and and Joseph? I can't invite. >> Uh well then I'll appeal invited. >> I'll beg. There was a number of items up here from what Jason just mentioned to the east scooters and the Chromebooks. And I know you have your advisory and you have the benefit of their wisdom. I was just curious your reaction uh to some of these proposals ideas. >> Um pro probably my biggest um like aha was about the ebikes and the e scooters. I feel like that's not really going to work because
052they're they're still going to use it. But yeah, that's just what I said. >> Yeah, I agree with Joseph. I'm a little bit curious about how the school is going to enforce the rules on the ebikes and the e- scooters. And then for e-learning, I feel like emergency days would probably be a better choice because I don't think a lot of learning happens on e-learning days. I think it's more just work that is done instead of actual progression. >> Thank you, Chloe. >> Yeah, please Katie. >> Well, I want to ask you guys this too. What about the Chromebooks at lunch? Cuz I was shocked when my kids were telling me this and I'm curious. How do you think it'll go? >> So, um, for the Chromebooks at lunch, I remember in sixth grade and
053seventh grade, that was a really, um, there were a lot of kids using Chromebooks. In eighth grade, at least at my table, there's not really that many um, Chromebooks. But yeah, I I remember that in sixth grade and seventh grade it used to be a problem. >> I feel like it is definitely like a grade by grade problem. I don't think it's I think that there's a problem in every grade. I just don't think the problem is the same in every grade. >> Thank you. >> Can I ask a follow-up question on the Chromebooks? Do you have a sense of overall like what are Hadley kids doing on their Chromebooks at lunch? Like are people trying to get their homework done or catch up or get ahead or are they like playing games that I
054can't even name cuz I don't even know >> and I have a Hadley kid but I don't still [laughter] >> I feel like at least in eighth grade I see more games but I've heard that in seventh grade it's a lot of school work being done. I'm not entirely sure though. >> Great. Great. Well, thank you. Appreciate the feedback and Dr. Mchugh, thank you for the the report. Okay, then let's move on to board reports. Board members, anything to report? Have you been out and about? Katie's been out and about. >> Yeah. Oh, thanks to Jeff uh took me on a tour of Forest Glenn two weeks ago. I had never been inside of Forest Glenn before. Um and he always asks us when we go, "What did you learn?" So, I was thinking about
055this before I came. I learn I'd never seen the preschool space before. So, it was really interesting um to see that as we've had discussions about um preschool in this district. We also there were two So, it was around lunchtime when we were there and we got to sit in on a mindful lunch. Um the school psychologist was doing it with a few of the students. So, we worked on um breathing exercises. It was so cool. And then we actually got to be in the lunchroom when second and fourth graders were eating. And Jeff asked me like, "What do you think about the noise level?" And I was kind of like this is great. They they're so well behaved. So, um I that was like a big learning that it's not like some crazy I
056mean they were so good opening their food and I was I was very impressed. So, thank you Jeeoff. It was it's always like thank you for taking the time to do that with us because we learn a lot. Um and then I'll also put Jason will probably say the same thing but I'll put a plugin for the Hadley musical legally blonde. Yeah. >> Next weekend. >> Yep. The weekend of the sixth. So if you have nothing to do, come check it out. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. Yes. Anyone else? Do you want to talk about >> Sure. I can have a googly line. I can talk about lunch too because I think lunchrooms are looking forward. I think it just it's a neat thing to look at and especially when you talk about noise
057levels and it's a neat thing to look at because when you think about kids inside the lunchroom and what a lunchroom can look like, right? Like what should school look like? That that includes lunch. If you have some kids, I have a child and that's that sometimes it can get loud and overwhelming. And is that just a noise level thing? Is there something structurally, you know, looking at, you know, crucible panels, things we can do in looking at what we want a school day to look like to kind of help with that noise level? Is there things that we could do to make that a more inclusive site for people? And I just wonder that when you brought up like an interesting, you look at Jeff and I walked through church was Friday, Thursday, someday,
058a day recently. Um, and my wife asked, you know, what you going to walk to church or fall? I said, I don't know, just didn't walk through it. And and I didn't say it like flippantly. I never really know why, but I was telling Jeff until you get there. >> And then you get there and you say, "Oh, when we're talking about text instructional technology and the use in the classroom, just seeing it how it's used, you know, it just it's when you have those conversations now, now you've seen you see how different teachers use it, you know, I saw Jeff, our own Dr. McHugh is learning Spanish, which is quite impressive. and seeing him interact with some of the students in a language that is not his native language was impressive and nice. But
059just expanding that is what what can school be and when you make you know conversation with someone that wasn't able to conversate with people before you all of a sudden didn't see a light in his eyes. So I thought that was kind of impressive. Um I also and Mali as well we went to the umbing thing in front of me. I still don't really know what it was. um an intellectual uh an ID. What does that even stand for? >> Molly intelligent and developmental disability community form with the blood all community relations commission. >> It's a mouthful. and and it was it was a basically an open forum of that was ahead of it myself on behalf of the district while his counterpart at D89 just to discuss um of issues that are faced and
060I'm you know how the village can help you know not necessarily address but recognize be aware of um issues faced by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in in the village and next steps that that can take and I think this is going to be more of an ongoing conversation as opposed to oneoff so that was a in love with it. >> Yeah. Legally blonde next weekend. Was it the 6th? March 6th through the 8th or something. Friday, Saturday, Saturday next weekend. >> Very good. Very good. Anyone else? >> Go ahead, Amy. >> I attended the Forest Glenn PTA meeting in January. They are looking for a new president and treasurer for next year. They talked about their book club that happens during lunch. It's once a week brain fuel and you can sign up
061to do um like book study with friends and you do a craft along with it. >> Um they had some fundraisers and they are looking for volunteers for their highinterest day on April 24th. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Um I also attended the um kindergarten center winter fest. >> Yes. And those kids were having so much fun. They were limboing. There were bozo buckets. They could go down the slide. >> Buckets. >> There were crafts. It was Oh, a hot chocolate bar with sprinkles. >> Oh, >> if you're wondering, >> a hot chocolate bar. >> There was whipped cream. There was um um chocolate morsels. Why can't I think chocolate chips? And >> a huge shout out to the Forest Glenn custodial staff. [laughter] >> Hold on. >> That was the kindergarten
062center. >> Our kindergarten center's custodial staff. Huge shout out to them. [laughter] >> And yeah, kids just seemed to be having an absolutely great time. And I saw Mrs. Rodriguez there and she mentioned one of the things that she thought was really, really great was how many families had brought younger siblings. And once they get to kindergarten, they're going to be familiar with the building and feel more comfortable and have it feel more like a community. >> Oh, lovely. Wow, that's great. Thank you, Amy. Julie or Ted? Ted. >> So, um, end of January, I attended the, uh, finance committee meeting. Um, Dr. Bruno was there as well, um, from the board. And uh uh we had Mr. Deporter give us sort of a overview of where where we are financially um in preparation for
063a um you know just to run some stuff by us in preparation for doing a a presentation later this year. >> Um February 3rd, unless one of you two is going to talk about this, the IASB page division. Yes. >> [laughter] >> Julie's got it covered >> to to uh Miss Hill here cuz she was there as well and she'll tell you about that one. And then um on February 5th, I was at the uh PTA executive council meeting. Um I would say the the part that that was most memorable there was there was a pretty good discussion about the Hadley um schedule change and what are the impacts and and how a lot of good suggestions. I mean, we got a little in the weeds, but a lot of good suggestions in terms of
064how to communicate um things in terms of course uh trajectory, I guess you'd say, um when you're when you're choosing what what to take when you when you're enter school there. >> Thank you, Ted. Thank you, Ted. Julie, did you want to do this report now or do you is it part of your go your >> I don't have anything for later. I'm just going to put it all on tape right now. >> Go. Okay. How you doing? >> Do you guys miss me? I haven't seen you in a while. Thanks for letting come back. >> Um, >> I don't have dates for anything, but here's what I've been doing. Um, I went to the Hadley PTA meeting, and I would say the highlight of that is they are starting a field hockey club, which
065is an excellent sport for parents because it is fun to watch and it tires out your energetic children. So, if your kid needs a sport, field hockey is really fun. As a former field hockey parent, I didn't play. My children, my older child played. Um, and it's actually a really fun sport to watch. Um, so if you got a Hadley kid, look for it. It's somewhere in an email, but you can sign up. Um I attended on Friday advocacy ambassadors through um IASB and we talked about uh the state budget address and a whole bunch of state bills, federal legislative bills. They're doing a um advocacy day in March in Springfield. Um and they are going to put out some um fact sheets for districts who are interested to do with those what they will.
066Um so maybe we make use of a few of them. Um I will keep you posted on that. Also, I attended the last lend meeting at the end of last month and I'll be there this Friday morning. Um and we will have a federal committee update. Um there's like six or seven of us on the federal committee and everybody has kind of taken I needed a new notebook because the old one ran out. Um so I have two um each committee member has taken a subject matter area. So the people who are following those specific issues will be reporting um at the LN meetings. Um and I went to this thing with Ted and Bob and I took some notes but I won't read them all to you. They talked a lot about the accountability
067redesign. Uh presently you have like the commendable um and the what were they exemplary commendable and developing. Is that what it's called? Something. Um so they have broken them down differently and there are more of them. So like it makes more sense and means more to whoever is curious about it because it was like the top 10%, >> the middle 90% and then like the bottom 10% or something. So broken up a little more will mean a little more and people can figure out where where everybody stands for whatever. Um so it's got some legislative priorities. Um I wrote down here, it's been a few weeks. This is pretty foggy in my memory. Sorry. Uh chronic absenteeism, uh finance, school code cleanup, foreign language credit, um charter schools, which isn't really a thing around here.
068Um, and then they mentioned the um, school vouchers thing, which I think you guys I know you guys because I did watch it addressed while I was gone. Um, and the budget. So, that was that was this division meeting. >> I think that's everything I have, but thank you. >> You've been busy. Nice to have you back. Yes. Very good. I I just want to note that I do have the the privilege of attending the CIT meetings and Dr. Mchugh uh mentioned the uh deep dive around instructional tech and what I just want to affirm and I'm probably repeating myself is that you really do see um serious deliberation and thought and free speaking um and an effort to collaborate around what would be the best way to to to utilize the technology and I'm
069always impressed whatever the topic is that that setting really does show u t both uh uh from the principal level to to teacher leaders uh how we're getting that collaboration from our staff or faculty working uh with our with our principles and I think Dr. McHugh does a nice job of [snorts] of moving that conversation and in fact creating a safe space where people can say maybe things you don't anticipate and then it causes you to okay let's pause let's go back let's rethink a little bit. Um it's just it's a it's a real privilege to to be in those meetings. So thanks for letting me in. All right. Although uh uh Dr. Dr. Bruno never really gives me enough time to talk in these meetings, but that's what [applause] I set him up. [laughter]
070I set him up for that. Okay. Now, student board members, what do you got? >> So, in sixth grade, not a whole lot is really going on, but the whole school pretty much is preparing for I >> um and I don't know exactly what that stands for, but it's a big test. Um Illinois. >> Illinois Assessment of Reading. >> That's the first question on the test. They're going to ask you what it stands for. That's the first question. That's worth 50 points. >> What does it stand for? [laughter] >> Of writing. >> Of readiness. >> Oh, readiness. Okay. I thought I heard writing. I'm like, it's an R. [laughter] >> Okay, Chloe, please. And then in the eighth grade choir recently went on tour to all the elementary schools to show the fifth graders what
071is done at Hadley and choir and I think that was a great opportunity for the eighth graders and for the fifth graders to be able to see all the fun that we have and it was a very good time. >> Thank you. So, um, eighth grade, uh, incoming freshman to Glenard West had an athletics and club night at at Glenard West where they, um, where we got like introduced to the athletics and clubs there. And there was also a staffer student basketball game on the 13th. >> There was a student staff basketball >> a student staff basketball game. The staff won by like 30 points. And the staff won >> by like 30 points. >> By three points. >> By like 30. >> Oh, 30. >> Any staff member to get injured? >> What? [laughter]
072>> Get injured. >> Um, no. >> That's good. >> 30. Huh? >> 70 to 40. >> There is a deficiency in the district right there. Our these basketball talent. Come on. We got to raise that up. Maybe a new goal for you. Well, [laughter] thanks both of you for for the report. Okay. Very good. All right. We've got a discussion discussion item on 2627 student fees and we're going to turn to Eric Deorter for this. >> Yeah, this is kind of our annual first uh swing at student fees for the upcoming school year next year. So, registration fees. Um, just as background, um, typically this is about a $300,000 revenue item for the district. Um, that's the average over the last three years that we've collected. Um, what you'll see on the board report tonight
073is is really very minimal change. Um, in fact, all of the grade level uh fees, the basic fees and the junior you have the junior high fees are unchanged. The only change from previous uh year's fees is really at that bottom grid. Um, we increased the eighth grade field trip by $3. Um, that's purely just driven by cost increases at the venues. Uh, and then also Mr. Dively suggested we increase the organizational/acordian folders by $1. So those are the only changes that are presented tonight. So tonight again is just for discussion. Um, based on the feedback, we'll bring a report in March for approval. >> Questions? It's good. I >> ask you a question about this. >> No, actually I didn't have a question. I was going to comment. It's good to see them stable.
074And I think in your reports you noted that for perhaps a decade the >> Yeah, it there was a question about when the last time these have changed. >> I've been here nine years. The only change that we've done is we did change the iPad fee. >> It used to be 20 um not iPad Chromebook, sorry, Chromebook fee. The technology fee went from $20 to $40. And the reason we did that is we shifted from a lease environment where we had to give them back to a purchase environment where now the student gets to keep them when they they leave Hadley. So that was the only change. No increase on any other fee has happened since I've been here. >> Did you I just remember they were they're having conversations whether this want to continue
075or not and I didn't know where anybody stood regarding that conversation. >> We can certainly open we should probably provide some feedback uh to folks. We did have a discussion about that. We did take a a look at that in the time the board decided to uh to stay with the status quo, but we did at one point talk out loud about eliminating uh those fees. So if there's thoughts that you have, >> the only question I ever had at that point and it was answered at that time was like not wanting fees to be a barrier for entry specifically over club fees, sports fees, band, orchestra, those kind of things. And and that was addressed >> and that was addressed that that is not a barrier. Eric, do you want to >> correct? Yeah.
076If if if it is a barrier, typically we would drive those families towards a fee application, a fee waiver application, and then if they qualify, they wouldn't have to pay those fees. Good. So, we're good. You okay? Well, very good, Eric. Thank you. >> All right. Then we'll move to the action items and our consent agenda first. Are there any items board members would like to be removed from the consent agenda to be considered separately? Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda which includes employment recommendations, resignations, and resignations with retirement as noted on the personnel report, disposal of surplus property, donations and gifts, freedom of information act report, investment schedule, monthly revenue expenditure summary report, school district payment order, summary of bills and payroll, treasures report, the January 26 open
077and close session minutes, and the February 9th open and close session minutes. I need a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> There's that second. Roll call. Mrs. Mo. >> Mr. Rusty's. >> I'd like to thank the uh Abraham Lincoln and Ben Franklin PTAs for their very generous donations. And I vote yes. >> Dr. Martelli. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lab. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hill. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Becker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Robot. >> Yes. >> Dr. Bruno. >> Yes. Thank you. And we have a recommendation now on the approved board policy manual. May I have a motion to adopt the Glennel and District 41 board policy manual as prepared by the Illinois Association of School Board and reviewed by the policy committee and administrative staff and outlined in the board report. >> Motion. >>
078Second. >> I'll second that. >> There's a second. Any further discussion? >> Just quick. I I saw the questions that were submitted and I saw the responses regarding the the APS and I I actually like the response. I think I I do think that those APs are administrative and and they're not part of the handbook. They're more of an application and so I do like I did like that that response as to be them being maintained outside of the book. >> Yes. Very good. >> Yes. Okay. Very good. Mrs. Milk, roll call, please. >> Mrs. Lidd. >> Yes. >> Mer. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hill. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lach. Yes, >> Dr. Martelli. >> Yes, >> Mr. Rises. >> Yes, >> Dr. Bruno. >> Yes. Thank you. That motion passes. And consistent with IASB
079recommendations and sound board government practices, the following two resolutions are presented for adoption. The first is, and we'll vote on these separately, approve resolution to regulate expense reimbursements. May I have a motion to approve and adopt the resolution to regulate expense reimbursements as presented? >> Motion. >> Second. Any further discussion on that? >> Mrs. Milk, roll call, please. >> Mrs. Becker, >> yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Mr. Loach. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lau. >> Yes. >> Mr. Est. >> Yes. >> Dr. Melli. >> Yes. >> Dr. Bernham. >> Yes. Motion passes. And the second one is to approve a resolution to prohibit sexual harassment. May I have a motion to approve and adopt the resolution to prohibit sexual harassment as presented? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Mo. >> Mrs.
080Hill. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lobach. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rest. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lau. >> Yes. >> M. Becker. >> Yes. >> Dr. Martelli. >> Yes. >> Dr. Bruno. >> Yes. Thank you. And that motion passes. Uh then we'll move on to board governance learning together. Typically this is where we turn to Miss Hill but she already >> presented >> gave us a very comprehensive presentation there. Okay. So nothing on the advocate. Anything else from board members? No. All right. Then upcoming meetings March 16th here at Hadley at 6:30 and then our April 20th meeting here again at 6:30 at Hadley. Uh, may I have a motion now to adjourn to close session to confidentially discuss section 2C1, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees. >> Need a motion >>
081of each one. >> So move >> motion. Sorry, I was just >> maybe it's the way I read it. It didn't come out didn't sound all that intelligent [laughter] as I read it. It happens with me occasionally. So, thank you. >> There's three in here. So, that's what I was looking You got it all. All of them. All right. So, we have a motion. Do we have a second? Any discussion? >> All right. >> Yeah. >> Who was the second on this? >> Ted's scratching his >> second. >> Chris is the sec. Katie is the second. Chris and Katie. >> Whatever. >> We have two and two and a half. [laughter] >> Mr. Robot. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mcker. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Linda. >> Yes. >> Mr. Marelli. >> Yes. All
082right. Uh then the board will not be taking any action after the close session. Good night. Thank you folks. >> Good night.