Board of Education - Feb 24 2025

001e e and Mr dowy we are ready good evening welcome to the district 225 Board of Education meeting Madame secretary would you please read the role Mr dowy here Mr glowaki pres miss mullenbach Mr O'Hara here miss Seguin Mr shine present Dr Steinberg K six members present item two in our agenda is a motion to approve the agenda so moved second all in favor I I any opposed motion carries good evening everybody we have a quite a full house it's great to see everyone tonight and I'll slightly warmer weather and so it's uh all is going well in the district right now uh well in the second semester and heading towards March in a hurry uh this evening we have our typical uh opening uh board and superintendent reports and recognitions uh we have Community

002comments uh and then we have our consent agenda we have three items on our regular agenda the first is new instructional materials proposals the second is the typical and annual release of tenure non ten and part-time certified staff and finally we have three policies up for their first reading tonight again we really do appreciate everyone being here uh this evening uh we now move to item three on our agenda which our board and superintendent reports uh Dr Johns thank you Mr daddy obviously we have a lot of excitement in the room it's great to see so many of our students here this evening both to be recognized for their considerable achievements and also to learn what happens in board meetings as we conduct the the Affairs of our community I'd like to start off with

003our superintendent's reports by starting off with uh Miss Mandy Hugh who give us an update on gbn all right good evening we're going to start with our recognition of our students who have been participating in the ilmea All State um so with the students um who are being recognized come join us up here and also the music faculty who's here as well okay so each fall more than 21,000 music students across the state of Illinois auditioned for regional honor ensembles in band choir orchestra jazz band and vocal Jazz ensembles students are selected to these Regional honor ensembles through a highly competitive audition process that includes the creation of an audition video to demonstrate Mastery of skills our region is called district 7 and it is considered to be one of the most competitive districts throughout

004the state the top performing students from each region are then selected for audition and placement in all state ensembles selected students collaborate with nationally acclaimed guest conductors and peers from all corners of the state culminating in performances at the conclusion of the annual Illinois music education conference so we're going to be recognizing and our Glenbrook students by name um so if you want to wait until the very end we'll applaud at the end um so from Glenbrook North we also have a a plaque to give you so from glbr North we'll start with Allison Chung uh gbn honors Orchestra and violin We Have Allison Andre gbn honors band and flute Ian GW gbn All State Orchestra and Horn David Kang gbn All State chorus tenor one Sophia Lim uh oh I I was trying to

005group them by school and I had a um sorry I'm going to come back to soia okay okay yesha mystery gbn honors chorus elto 2 emol gbn honors chorus soprano 2 and from GBS we have Sophia Lim GBS honors band clarinette and Leah plasterer GBS honors chorus soprano 1 and Jeremy rabor GBS All State vocal Ensemble tener did I make a mistake okay all right all right so we want to um recognize you let's give them a great Round of Applause and as our directors hand out the plaques for the students I wanted to also give some thanks to our music faculty who is here today we have Aon Kaplan for the Glenbrook Symphony Orchestra Dan gregerman for GBS Jazz Chad Davidson our gbn is and also a coral director and Cody halstad the GBS

006is and band director so thank you very much all right so you get to do a round yeah congratulations careful congratulations congratulations congratul congratulations congratulations Michael's proud congratulations [Music] congratulations at wonderful than Miss Hughes are there more updates from gbn or should there there are yes but we're starting with South today yeah it's Dr thanks Dr gell has some exciting news to share this evening as well all right good evening everyone and again congratulations to our student musicians for their amazing accomplishment it was really cool to be back down in peia for the conference and seeing all of them in their rehearsals through concert um this evening we have that opportunity to recognize some new leaders that will be joining our team in the coming school year and so as I pre prepare to assume

007the role of superintendent I want to highlight the outstanding achievements first and foremost of our teachers and staff including the phased in implementation of the accelerated placement act the creation of our first districtwide course guide and the launch of School links for 4-year planning these accomplishments have truly laid a strong foundation for our Spartan and Titan families navigating high school and postsecondary options looking ahead to next school year we will enter the second year of our strategic plan our shared work were Center on student empowerment culture and climate reimagining learning and leadership development strong leadership will be absolutely essential for establishing timelines facilitating meaningful conversations and ensuring that outcomes are effectively communicated and aligned with that strategic plan to ensure our district is well supported in fulfilling this critical work I've partnered with Dr John's

008and the Board of Education to review our current administrative structure following this review I'm excited to share several adjustments to our district office structure next year that will allow us to allocate more resources directly to our schools and enhance operational efficiency through a more streamlined administrative structure while maximizing our resources these changes reflect our commitment to strengthening School level support while again maintaining that high standard of service across all district oper ations with Dr ad's departure at the end of the school year I have asked our current directors of student support and teaching and learning to join the superintendent cabinet next year many of you are familiar with these individuals but just to remind you Dr Lura Cummings and Mr Ryan briag have demonstrated exceptional leadership in their respective roles and their inclusion in the

009cabinet will further strengthen our District's ability to support students and staff together they will continue their outstanding work while collaborating closely with our school teams to enhance daily support for students and ensure alignment with our District's priorities before I share a little more about Laura and Ryan I wanted to update our community regarding my own replacement as assistant superintendent for business services as the board shared in November the district launched a comprehensive search for our next chief School business official despite conducting several rounds of interviews we were unable to identify a candidate who fully meets the needs of our growing District after careful consideration we have decided to pause the search process for that role and plan to reopen it on October 1st in the inter term to ensure continuity and business operations I have

010asked Miss Vicky Tarver our District's long-term director of business services and Treasurer to take on an interm leadership role overseeing the day-to-day operations of the school business office additionally I have asked our associate principles of operations and student experiences Mrs Lauren Bonner and Mr casy Wright to support some key initiatives related to facilities operations safety and Technology areas that directly impact the day-to-day experience of our students and staff in schools this collaborative approach led by m Tarver and myself will ensure that all operations remain efficient and responsive to the needs of our schools most importantly it will provide us the time necessary to identify an exceptional candidate to serve as our next assistant superintendent of Business Services I am truly grateful for the unwavering support and Partnership of Dr John's and the Board of Education

011and as we embark on this new chapter together I look forward to collaborating with each of you to strengthen our schools and enhance the educational experiences of every student at this time I'd like to transition to introducing the two members of our administrative team who will be taking on new roles and in these roles play a vital function in advancing our mission and supporting our schools in the years ahead to begin may I ask Dr Laura Cummings to join me at the podium hello throughout her career Dr Cummings has exemplified optimistic resilient leadership always Guided by an unwavering dedication to Student Success her steadfast belief in the potential of others shines through in every interaction with our students our staff and our families while her official appointment is still ahead Dr Cummings has already played

012an instrumental role in shaping the student experience in the Glen Brooks her leadership has D driven several key initiatives that enhance student services promote well-being and strengthen Community Partnerships her contributions to the opening of The Glen Brook School Health Center and our ongoing collaboration with Advocate Children's Hospital have significantly expanded health care services for our students and staff as a direct result of your work Laura the district has made remarkable strides in immunization and physical compliance reducing the number of students not in compliance this school year to just one student a testament to her dedication and Effectiveness in addition Dr Cummings has strengthened vital Community Partnerships with Glenbrook Hospital and the NorthShore crisis response Network sustaining external support systems for our students and families her work in developing and overseeing the district crisis manual has

013ensured comprehensive and effective response framework reinforcing our commitment to student safety and well-being additionally her leadership in expanding professional development opportunities for staff including prepare behavioral and digital threat assessment and Mental Health First Aid training has empowered staff with critical skills to support our students from an academic perspective Dr Cummings earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Bradley University a master's and doctor of Philosophy degree in school Psychology from lyola University Chicago and before joining Glenbrook South High School in 2011 she served as a school psychologist private placement coordinator special education coordinator assistant principal in two other districts and as an adjunct faculty member at lyola University we are Beyond grateful for Dr cumming's contributions so far and ex are excited for her to step into this new role your passion expertise and

014deep commitment to student support will undoubtedly continue to make a lasting impact on Glenbrook Dr Cummings is joined this evening by her husband Joel I want to thank Joe and your entire family for your ongoing support of laara in her amazing work here at Glen there you Jo and with that may we take an opportunity and just recognize Dr Laura Cummings our new assistant superintendent take a picture so much let's let's have a picture picture right next up we have Mr Ryan bag we are very excited to announce that Mr breeg will assume the role of assistant superintendent of teach and learning beginning this July with 25 years of experience in education including 19 years within District 225 Mr Bag is a dedicated and Visionary leader committed to fostering student engagement empowering Educators and driving

015innovation in teaching and learning as an award-winning educator Mr Bag is deeply passionate about creating learning environments where students and Staff feel valued and supported your Innovative leadership has been instrumental in advancing so much regarding student well-being including the development of a districtwide well-being committee implementing a social emotional screener and reimagining the physical education curriculum to focus on functional fitness recognizing the importance of datadriven decisionmaking Mr Bag has worked closely with Educators and staff to develop and launch a student data and Student Success platform these tools TOS are used by our teachers each and every day to provide invaluable resources to our students and families helping them navigate the high school experience and plan for postsecondary Success before joining the Glen Brooks Mr briag was an English teacher at hinley Big Rock High School in

016District 225 he has served in various leadership roles including coordinator of instructional technology director of instructional technology associate principal for curriculum and instruction and director of teaching and learning through each of these roles you have been a driving force in curriculum development instructional innovation technology integration all to support and enhance student learning Mr breeg holds a bachelor's degree in English and secondary education a master's in curriculum and instruction and Leadership from Aurora University and is currently in the process very very close to being done uh as he earns his doctoral degree in educational psychology and Leadership from Northern Illinois University his doctoral research focuses on the mental health of today's student athletes underscoring his dedication to student well-being Guided by a student- centered and teacher and empowered philosophy Mr brag is excited to build upon

017his Rich Traditions at Glenbrook while embracing the opportunities of the future we are grateful and look forward to your leadership in advancing curriculum design instructional best practices and Student Success in your new role Mr breeg is actually being joined virtually today by two of his children children Finn and Fay who are both student athletes at home on the field or at the we'll just go was on the field uh in competition for track and softball thank you for them joining us thank you to all of Mr bag's family for their ongoing support of Ryan and we're looking forward to his amazing work in his new role welcome Mr Bag is new assistant superintendent right conations watch your Stu and our final announce today will come from Dr Cummings announcing our new director of special education

018who Dr Cummings will supervise starting next year I am pleased to introduce Dr Dr Skip Kum who will assume the role of director of special education beginning July 1st replacing Dr Jennifer Pearson who is retiring Dr Kon began his career as a special education teacher working with students in the Juvenile Justice System where he also served as a case manager and a department chair he was then selected to be a scholar in the National Center for leadership in intensive interventions at vanderbelt University during his three years there he trained under National experts specializing in databased decisionmaking to implement evidence-based academic behavioral and social emotional interventions following his doctoral studies he worked as a visiting research scientist at the University of Alabama contributing extensively to the field over four years in Academia Dr Kum authored more

019than 20 peer reviewed research papers papers and book chapters and presented nearly 40 times at national conferences driven by his passion for working directly with students Dr Kum returned to the public education and has spent the past five years as the assistant director of special education and director of student services in Elmhurst Community Unit School district 205 in those roles he oversaw programming and services at York Community High School and the bridges transition Center he earned his bachelor's degree from the University of debuk and his MERS of art from National Lewis University and his Doctorate from the University of Illinois Chicago during his doctoral studies he was a scholar with vanderbelt University's national Center for leadership in intensive intervention please join me in welcoming Dr Kum welcome to the district here we go friends three

020and thank you Dr gavell now do we return to Dr georgees yes good evening good evening um so I'd like to just share some quick updates of the amazing things going on at Glenbrook South this week um first of all in athletics our girls basketball team our regional Champs they beat Lincoln Park and nutrier to win the Regional Title and with the victory GBS will be advancing to the sectional round of play during this upcoming week which will be taking place at Glenbrook North our girls will play Maine South for the third time this season on Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. so please come out and join them and cheer on the Titans um in the uh swimming uh boys swimming they qualified eight boys to the ihsa state meet in all three relays and

021nine individual ual races and including two divers the ihsa state meet is going to be this upcoming Friday and Saturday down in Westmont um so please cheer on our boys as well we're looking forward to see how they're going to do in the next level of competition over in the Arts V show V show V show um it was our 50th anniversary of the variety show at Glenbrook South and if you got the chance to watch it it just brought chills I'm always so impressed with our students and their creativity and their talents um this year our students really looked ahead um as they always do trying to improve the show each year with an infusion of technology and new acts that are a more diverse representation of our student body but this year they

022did something significant there was also a a deep a deep reverence and honor of the past of the the last 50 years of the variety show uh they infused clips of old vsh show acts um and they just did a really good job of of blending the past and the future uh one of the most wonderful things of this past week of the 50th year celebration is we had an alumni brunch um where former V show staff and students returned home to Glenbrook South uh to enjoy each other's company uh in particular we had former principal Mr David Smith who founded the vsh show here at South and former AP of Student Activities Mr shelard who is an instrumental player in advancing the quality of the variety show of the years all of our were

023able to share fond memories and make connections with old friends while enjoying lunch together you know observing this moment it made it very very clear how the variety show has a lifelong impact on our students um it was a beautiful beautiful moment to witness and I was um so grateful to be invited now even though we just closed the V show literally Saturday night they started strike we are already on to the Musical Chicago um so they're they're already rolling and we look forward to seeing our students on stage again very soon over in activities our FCCLA last week we had 25 of our FCCLA students competed in sectionals at Harper College uh they competed in both individual and team events across a variety of the family consumer science categories and I'm so thrilled and

024proud to announce that GBS finished with an incredible nine gold medals and seven most outstanding awards for earning the highest score in their category um we are incredibly proud of their achieve achievements and can't wait to see what they do next and then finally in academics our art students I'd like to congratulate 12 of them for um our national art Honor Society students for being selected for this year's National exhibition um our national art Honor Society board chose every single one of our submissions this year and it's the first time in history our n our nahs submissions um were alled so again so proud and excited to see what these students um will be recognized in this show and with that I'll pass it over to Miss Hughes one more okay so um we had

025an exciting week last week um on Monday which was a day offer President's Day we had 13 female athletes and four coaches um attend the Empower her conference at Deerfield High School along with students and coaches from GBS as well as 700 other athletes from the Chicago suburbs our students had a chance to interact with our incoming athletic director Molly Tomlinson who coordinated the conference with planning team members from across the CSL and the students had a chance to hear from Sports journalist Sarah Spain and other speakers about leadership and lessons learned from their athletic experiences we also had one of our boy wrestlers Shane onx and four of our girl gymnasts Juliana moff Lexi glowaki Shir Rouch and Anna Bozarth compete at their state tournaments we're very proud of their success and hard work

026throughout the season season and at their tournaments and finally at the end of last week we had a great booster bash event this weekend which included a recognition of John Catalano and his leadership of the athletic department so coming up this week we are looking forward to our girls basketball team who are also Regional Champions who will be playing lyola on Tuesday night for the sectional semifinals before the GBS game um and gbn is thrilled to be hosting sectional games for girls basketball for the first time ever as well as the sectional finals on Thursday so we'll have to see who ends up might be a c game okay uh we are also sending off our athletes for girls wrestling boys swimming and boys diving to their state tournaments one special success of note for

027one of our divers Matthew Yuan he not only qualified for state but he has set major and I would say set I really mean smashed records for his dive at sectional so he is the one to watch at State on Wednesday our boys basketball team will be a oh I'm going to come back to that one I'm sorry I'm all out of order today this is my second time for that so I just want to acknowledge I'll get it right for the next time okay so for activities we hosted a fantastic incoming freshman Athletics and activities night last week that allowed our eighth graders and families to visit with sponsors and coaches as well as hear from speakers including our essay board president Neil Gandhi about the importance of getting involved um we sent our

028speech spechers to State and we are pleased to announce that Maya gersin placed fifth for radio speaking and Via gavil plays seventh for impromptu the rest of the week at gbn is filled with fun activities and excitement we have turna palooza spirit days and our dance coming up we have a Nazar North dance Workshop taking place a Morgan Wallen tribute concert and our boys basketball team will be away at lyola uh to play Main West for regionals on Wednesday and as well as our winter athletes will be honored at sports award night on Wednesday so it's a busy busy busy time at Glenbrook North so well thank you principles and thank you Dr graell for bringing so much happy news to the district uh at times we get used to this but it really shows

029how much Excellence um is revealed on a weekly basis by our students led by our staff and we're always grateful for everyone's support of our students and our staff as they go through all the many things that they're able to participate in in our district and of course we're also very excited about our new administrator and the promotions as well looking forward to the work that they'll be uh achieving for our district that is it for tonight thank you Mr that's all okay um that was amazing uh really really outstanding uh to see uh all the tremendous work at every level of our of our district uh as Dr John's noted uh we can sometimes almost take it as a given but we should never do we never ever get complacent we are very very

030fortunate and we appreciate the many ways our opportunities uh are brought to us and and to watch our students Excel and our faculty to lead them and others in the district is is always exhilarating and reminds us why uh we have such great community support and we interact with the community uh with such great appreciation uh Doc board members anything you want to add this evening yes one so we always talk at the board about sometimes decisions that either we make or somebody else makes and how we want everybody to be involved and Community to be involved and and how we want to hear from everybody so I I was on the side of this this week I I got to attend a meeting of the finance exam committee and I got to see actually

031the district at work so there were teachers instructional supervisors couple of students parents or represent parents there board member Administration was great great not just simply seeing people work or being part of the people working but seeing the level of commitment and the people are asking is this good for the students is not good is this not good how this affect their their emotional wellbeing was Mr bre somewhere there he wasn't there at the meeting when he always talks about social emotional well-being very thoughtful process I know was meeting two out of how many two of four and I know more things are going to come out way but it was really energetic to see you know how I was committed during the day some of them had to run at the end go back

032to class and different things so so I appreciate not only the leadership of Dr IDR and I don't think Bob is here but Mr LeBlanc but everybody who was involved there so Kos to everybody well thank you for sharing that Dr Steinberg and and thank you for the partnership with the many with whom you inter interacted it's it's great to see that uh we move to item four oh I'm sorry Mr shine okay um I just wanted to comment about the V show uh like excuse me like many of you I had an opportunity to visit both shows uh performance is wonderful um it's it's great to see the participation along those lines I think we probably need to do some more work for outreach to our middle schools um I felt I I know

033the V show at South a little better so I'll speak more specifically to that that it felt like participation was down somewhat and I think that is not so much a reflection of interest uh in our from our students and staff but just the way I think Co really had this impact on uh student participation in the Arts and the event like the V show brings so much positive to the entire School culture and community that I hope we can think of ways to bring the younger kids and families and working with the staffs at the middle schools in whatever way might be appropriate um just for example um going back in time a freshman freshman act you could barely fit on the stage and you can so you can see that change and this

034isn't a criticism and please don't take it that way but without singers and dancers and performers um so more the better and uh on the other side it was wonderful to see the Legacy um all of our history all of the people who came back love the V show it was nice to talk to David Smith and Mr shelard and Mr s and you know all of them um there's this this cultural thing we have and it's really precious and it's to be valued and uh music is a great communicator and um to see the students up there uh so many of them and I I don't think we we fully understand or how many of them go on to careers not necessarily in the Arts on the stage but in other things directing sound

035lights you know whatever there's just this huge impact U um performing um the business of of developing per and producing performances so and those might be people we would want to come back and perhaps speak to our our our staff and our kids and our families to say hey there's there's something out there for you um you know be part of this and so just thanks to everybody who put it on I know it is an unbelievable amount of work um to to pull that show off and there are plenty of pro professional Productions who would be thrilled to to deliver for that level of quality um that we are able to do so kudos to to the whole group thanks well thank you for those uh uh really important words uh the Arts community

036at at the glum Brooks has been incredibly strong and Rich uh for the entire time I've lived here and I'm sure that others up here would say the exact same thing and it really is a community good uh that people not just in the school Community enjoy but uh it's something enriches all of us so U thank you for the words and and inspiration that that is tied to them item four on our agenda is recognition of community visitors this is an up to 30 minute portion of our meeting we always value uh the folks who come here uh right now under our uh procedures we ask people to sign up ahead of time we have four speakers tonight we I'll get to in a moment um you have up to two minutes I mentioned

037uh please give us your name and address if you have not done so uh if you wish it does help us with followup uh we do remind you of a few things first we do not respond uh to you during this part of the meeting uh we do listen very carefully please keep in mind that we maintain confidentiality and privacy and we don't discuss individual employees or students please note the board does not control the topics raised or the substance of public comment fourth we remind our speakers uh that to direct their comments to the board and make sure your comments relate to District business this is not a political Forum we also remind speakers that their comments are not automatically protected by any immunity or legal protection or privilege and finally we ask everybody

038to maintain Civility and respect uh with that preface I have the list for this evening uh I first call on if I I'm I'm not sure I'm reading this is it a mani saw I'm probably not reading it right and I apologize in advance all right I wasn't too far off okay my handw writing is horrific so I have no I'm no one to talk okay um My Name Is Amani saai and I am a junior at Glenbrook South um I live at 47 Brier Road okay do that okay so uh I'll just start um as some of you may know the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts this weekend and will last through the end of March um Ramadan is a month of fasting reflection and spiritual growth for all involved um for many

039students it also represents it also presents a unique set of challenges balancing the physical demands of fasting with the mental and emotional demands of studying can be very taxing um as students we are expected to perform our very best on tests assignments and um in our extracurriculars and fasting requires us to forego food and drink from dawn until dusk yes even water um often leaving us fatigued and distracted and struggling to concentrate this makes it harder to engage in classes completing assignments and um focus particularly in the later hours of the day um our schedules change to adjust for pre-dawn meals and late night prayers so it can feel a bit overwhelming to keep up with both religious practices and our academic obligations given all of this um it's clear that the end of Ramadan

040this holy month um is a time for celebration and for rest e fither is a significant um occasion for students to take a well-deserved break relax um and enjoy their time with their friends and family but in many districts including ours students are expected to return to classes and continue their studies or take their tests immediately after their holidays I myself don't participate in any athletic activities but um my sister I know that from my sister that missing class can also mean missing out on athl athletic activities and um and uh by allowing the day off on eeve we would acknowledge the sacrifices they've made throughout Ramadan and it would give them the chance to fully embrace the joy and spiritual fulfillment of Eid without the stress of academic obligations in summary I'm asking for

041the district to give us the day off for Eid it would not only benefit me and my peers who celebrate but the rest of the student body by helping us educate each other through sharing our experiences thank you thank you very much uh our second of four speakers this evening is uh Mr James Williams Mr Williams thank you everybody when I was a student in the district gbn I must say was not as diverse is as it is now and the population of students in special education like self was not as substantial as it is now but one thing I can say is this because nsed has always had a larger geographical area that it serves compared to 225 other districts when I was a student peer mentor in the TLs classroom the ethnic diversity

042and student diversity within the TLs classroom was always greater than among the rest of the student body indeed back then if you were a peer m you learned about diverse Traditions such as the tradition mentioned in the previous comment as a peer mentor you learned not just about disability back then you also learned about that diversity but one silver lining of that diversity in that growing population is that so many things that the parents of students of past Generations have fought for have happily become standard procedure in so many ways in District 225 it is my hope that as this District becomes more diverse that many things that parents and students have to fight for will become codified and into standard procedures and policies at District 225 because the truth is we're becoming a more

043diverse world and all of us in any public school district need to acknowledge this thank you very much thank you Mr Williams our third our third speaker tonight is Mr Julian Chang Mr Chang hi I'm Julian Chang from Glenview good evening District 225 administrators board and community members I'm following up my last public address as the board gave me steps to help with identifying areas of improvement for belonging yet you remained silent for 10 days and did not address the racist and body shaming social media post on February 6th directed toward a diverse group of GBS girls of Mexican Indian Korean Taiwan and European American Heritage these posts contained references to diverse to body order a jungle animal and a picture of an ice police car for at least one of the victims neither parents

044were contacted then within the last 24 hours A friend of mine the mother of an African-American female gbn student posted a video to Facebook where other gbn students repeatedly called her daughter the nword I understand the situation was addressed with the children and the families involved and an email publicly emailed out uh at 6:20 p.m. today denouncing the situation thank you Mrs Hughes we are still waiting 18 days later to hear the public denouncing of the GBS incident we prefer not to repost the racist social media posts so please address this immediately thank you as Leaders we set the tone from the top silence speaks volumes this isn't just about a single post it's about a broader culture of hate harassment and retaliation that has seeped into our schools and is affecting our students lives

045in profound ways we have a responsibility as educators Community leaders to use these moments like this as both a learning and restorative opportunities for the victims and the offenders our schools should be safe places where respect empathy and collaboration of differences are the norm if we fail to address these issues headon our children are left to absorb a message that hate can go unchallenged we must condemn this Behavior publicly and take concrete actions to correct it when we Overlook these incidents we inadvertently allow harassment and bullion to perpetuate compromising the safe and nurturing environment every student deserves I urge you to uplift and encourage every child regardless of their background let us not sweep these issues under the rug instead let us be leaders who are willing to stand up against hate and take real

046steps to restore trust and safety in our community those who are associated with or enablers of hate harassment discrimination and retaliation should be asked to step down thank you for your attention I hope we can move together forward together resolutely transparently and with the courage our students need to be exemplary thank you thank you Mr Shang our our final speaker this evening is Miss Lisa Kane Miss Kane hello my name is Lisa Kae I am a counselor a teacher and a parent of a District 34 and a district 225 student I am also a candidate for district 225 School Board in the April 1 election tonight the board will decide on which company to award its next best contract to and whether to approve next year's school fees looking at the numbers it's easy to

047see that first student is the best option because it's the most affordable my concern is that next year it will cost $1,000 for one child to ride the bus and $500 for each sibling on the bus this is not an insignificant amount of money when my oldest son moved from AA Middle School to GBS I was shocked when they saw the then $990 bus fee in District 34 I didn't and I still don't pay anything for the bus and this fee along with the other fees was jarring to say the least certainly other res our resources as District are finite and to subsidize one program you need to take from something else but the resources of families are also finite to budget $11,000 for the bus it means families need to take from something else

048I wonder if the district would be open to reviewing its budget and seeing if there's a way to offset some of the bus fee since so many students ride the bus subsidizing even a portion of the bus fee would posibly impact many families if this is not possible then I would love to hear some information about why that is perhaps a quick explanation can be listed in power school when you see the bus fee so at least you can understand the rationale behind such a big number while it wouldn't reduce the cost the bus it would at least improve transparency and communication in addition I strongly recommend that the district shares its fee structures with Middle School Stu Middle School student families starting in grade six so families can begin budgeting ahead of time and

049can avoid sticker price Shack I know the fee structures are on the website but as a current parent of a middle school student as well there's no way I'm looking at the high school website to see what their upcoming fees are going to be and this would be helpful information when planning and budgeting thank you thank you Miss King that concludes our uh sh our public speakers tonight we appreciate uh again you all bring bringing these ideas to us and uh if we don't address things we hear we uh um we'll often take them up at different parts of different meetings so we uh do appreciate the sharing that went on this evening um item five on our agenda is our consent agenda Dr Johns do we have any adjustments nope it's say written uh

050from last week okay I will entertain a motion so moved second any discussion or questions on the consent agenda hearing none Mr Kaki yes Miss Mullen Beck yes Mr O'Hara yes Mr shine Excuse me yes Dr seberg yes Mr dowy yes six members voting yes we now move to item six in our agenda which is our discussion action portion of the evening as I mentioned at the outset of the meeting we have three items tonight we begin uh item 6.1 it regards our new instruction materials proposals Dr Johnson thank you thank you I'll ask Mr Ryan brag to give us an update on our request this sure I promise one side all right this is our annual thank you this is our annual process of bringing forward to the board our instructional materials um this

051year you'll notice that there are 62 requests that is slightly higher than normal the reason why is we put forward some of the procedures that we have improved in this process so there was additional clarification that we wanted to bring forward in some of those uh in particular um the three grouping of novels that you may have seen that are literature circles what that means in short is that instead of there being one novel that all students are reading there will be four to five novels in a class um and students will work in a group on those particular novels so again it's still teacher-led but these novels were added this is part of our new procedure to bring forward some clarity outside of that this evening I am joined online by a number of

052is's uh that have their materials being submitted and both are associate principles again um as we look at a breakdown this is pretty common to see about 26 new textbooks especially given the amount of new courses we have coming forward and um the common 32 new novels spread across roughly five different departments so with that I'm going to pause and take any questions that myself or the is's could answer for you thank you Mr breeg uh Dr John anything want to add at this point well I want to thank Mr breeg and the team of is is who've put a lot of work into not only the work of determining the materials that need to be presented and are are sought after to be used in our curriculum next year but also the work they've

053done in updating our process as you can see in the addendum in the document we've we've come a long ways in having a consistent process across the district really having a system for this which has been an area of growth for us for many years and I want to thank Mr breeg for leading that but also the work of his team and making it come to fruition so quickly thank you for that uh board members M mbec anything any questions I enjoyed looking at the novel's list because I'm always looking for something to read a lot of good ones on there there are many on there that I have read and I've enjoyed so um but there's some new ones too so I'll check this out excellent thank you Mr um yeah just real quick

054are like for the textbooks on the um like the European history textbooks and those those are physical books now or uh correct correct there's a mix inside there but we have seen a return to having a print version we've seen cost kind of balance out especially early on we saw the wave of digital textbooks being significantly cheaper um now there's a balance where we can really be in a hybrid where there can be a print and a digital version in many of the courses okay is there if we move more and more to or if we have physical books is there a need to have lockers or so I mean like I mean that was kind of an advantage to having the the non-physical books you could carry just a you know a laptop and

055be fine but as you get more and more books it could get heavier our continued conversations with students would lead us to believe that lockers are not anywhere in the future for um they have found beautiful ways to master their their book bags uh a blue and a gold day or a green in a gold day bag and different structures that they are pretty amazing at uh adapting to the no Locker structure I do not Envision a moment where that will return okay and I guess fundamentally it's different than when I went to school because you you had every class every day and now you don't that's true okay thank you yep thank you uh Mr Dr Stenberg any questions or comments just um one question I I was going to at least again I

056know that in this has been mentioned in the past we look at books but do we have classes where teachers instead of picking up a textbook pick like I know in English it's easy because you have different novels and you read different materials but we have classes where instead of having following a textbook we have a syllabus and there are different set of I know short book text articles web things things that make all together especially in classes that are more hands on how does that work yeah I think that's what we've really done with our new procedure is we used to Simply say is this a textbook or a novel now we really break down the question to our course teams is this a teacher created teacher curated a textbook so what you're referencing

057is that teacher created or teacher curated we do have that that's now part of our process so you'll actually see inside here uh one is from our debate class that's a great example of what you're what you're referencing that the teacher has pulled together different resources curated those and has made it essentially their course textbook what's really nice about that is our course teams have done tremendous work over the last few years of really starting this process and this year we we took language that are called anchor uh articles or resources that are part of the Core Curriculum so as we look to update their textbook these are the anchor resources that stay with the textbook and supplemental materials surround it so absolutely that's great so you'll see that now identified very clearly as those

058things come forward that's part of that transparency that we wanted to have but also that our team needs to have to be really efficient as we work on curriculum course mapping that's great Ione feel may have a followup I'm I'm yeah we talk about different learning strategies for different students even within the same classroom so my colleague here was referencing back at some people going back to hard copies of textbooks do we have also other ways like I know videos and other techniques that students can use to complement the the regular use of the textbook yeah I think I appreciate you re asking that question because I'm not sure I was 100% clear that it's not necessarily a return to a print textbook it's a move to a hybrid where you have both digital so

059you have the interactive resources and a print version uh the research is pointing to that and our student experience is pointing to the need for really both and we're seeing that so and that's where all of our teachers with Google Classroom they're able to put their text books their materials and those pieces in place that allow for that different learning style so to speak speak that's great thank you and thank you all the people who put all the work together thank you Dr s Mr shine any questions Mr guy uh thank you to all the folks that were involved in the review to make sure that our materials and curriculum were topnotch and continue to evolve and Excel as they uh have only question I had is more from a finance question so with this

060hybrid Blended approach that tailored to the students uh preferences and what's most effective is our current fee structure and license Arrangements still allow for that or do we have to should we be expecting renegotiations coming down the road and stuff no in fact as you'll look uh Dr grel has continued to put that as as an emphasis to make sure we're looking at those course fees so as part of our procedure they Co these requests come in and one of the things we look at is the cost you'll see some things in they're very transparent on um for example if you saw the most expensive course uh not or excuse me instructional material inside there is roughly $190 but that's bundled with four different experiences inside of it so we're really clear on that and

061then you'll see a counterbalance that a lot of our textbooks and novels well we'll take novels out of it a lot of our textbooks are 40 $30 $50 so that's still significantly lower than what was in 2007 and when we were bringing forward2 to $300 textbooks pretty much for each course so our model will not be changing in terms of from the family's perspectives and everything still just the one fee and they have all the materials they need regardless of preference it's a and it's a real benefit to our is's who keep that real finger on the the balance of the fiscal responsibility what's and what's best for the learning environment they do a nice job of balancing that I I have had a rare instance where I I've had to go back and say

062what's really happening here thank you so um I Echo what you just heard from around the table uh I appreciate the balancing of the Excellence with being fiscally responsible and the wonderful ease of just having one fee which is I go back to some years and it wasn't so simple so uh that's that's a it's a real convenience that and the thinking that allows that convenience to continue is is is large so all the folks who are joining us thank you and those who are not joining us who are part of this thank you so thank you for your leadership on this Mr bch uh Dr John's anything else on this no thank you Mr brag and thanks to your team we appreciate them being online tonight just in case they were needed and uh

063we're grateful for their work thank you item 6.2 on our agenda are the annual procedures for release of tenur non tenured and part-time certified staff Dr johnes thank you Mr dowy this as stated in the title is part of our annual process uh that's part part of a bigger picture of where we determine what we call sectioning and Staffing for our district so earlier in this school year the students coming into our schools or the students we currently have indicated what courses they wanted to take the principles and their teams have been working diligently to match up the courses that the students want to request with our staff our staffing follows our students course requests and so there's patterns and there's shifts that occur over time which means sometimes we have have uh teachers who

064are who we need to hire more teachers for particular courses and sometimes we have teachers for which we don't have particular course needs for and every year we go through the process uh and it's very transparent we do this every year and we have this particular item each year in our agenda meetings in our meetings to go through the process of if there is a case in which we have teachers that we need to reduce en force or non-renew uh we go through the process of the board know so the community knows and so the staff knows what's to come in the ensuing weeks so this evening Dr Romano will walk through this process real briefly uh again we've all seen this uh many times but it's an important part of the process Dr Romano

065yes um as Dr Johns indicated there are no changes in language this year last year there was a a small change with the date before the Illinois school code was stating that we needed to do this process 45 days before the the end of the school year that date changed to April 15 last school year so this school year basically everything Remains the Same and what you have in front of you as Dr John indicated is should we engage in a reduction in force or non-renewal these are the resolutions that would be coming to the board along with the communication that would go to the individuals impacted uh behind all of this documentation there are conversations that the principles are having with the staff members um should anyone be impacted um before the letters go

066out to them so the staff U members wouldn't be caught of guard these are conversations again that the principles would be having with the staff members um and then at that point we start communicating uh with the letters um they they do receive three letters which um it does feel kind of you keep telling me the same thing uh so this is something that we are looking at communicating with the staff members of been aware that they received three different um it's the same letter but they received three copies of the letter uh so that they um so that they are aware what the process looks like but again there are a lot of conversations that go um along with this process so the next step will occur at our next meeting on March 10th

067in which we will share the Staffing plan for the district and then if there is the need for non-renewals or reductions in force that comes to the board on March 17th if you'll recall from the calendar we have two back-to-back meetings in March I believe if I recall correctly that's due to the uh spring break uh so we need to get those two meetings in in March um and uh obviously this is a difficult process uh both in terms of the really the the math that the principles and their teams have to go through but then you know there's real people that this is this impacts and having those conversations that Dr Romano talked about so we can give our staff advanced warning to the greatest extent possible so they can make the important personal

068decisions that they have to make is is something we TR to do because we know it it doesn't feel good and it's difficult and while it's a great time to be a teacher because there's so many openings no one wants to leave the glenbrooks and it's it's sad to have to be in this situation I don't have details yet on what looks like on the horizon uh we do have declining enrollment and that is always a a situation we have to manage carefully in terms of where do our retirements fall and where do our student course selections arise uh with that we're available for any questions okay I qu I would say we're this is our just our initial briefing and we're going to come back on 10th and 17th and actually uh address the

069situation as you work through it but all of the I think you've said this is worth emphasizing all of the folks who may be affected by this will be uh spoken with and and and assisted as appropriate that is correct that's good to hear Let me start with Dr Steinberg any questions um I'm not sure if it's a question because I assume the answer it's yes but I would I would put two comments on on that it's a rhetorical question number one is it's important we are fiscally responsible and at the same time it's important that we plan for the future so there's a dynamic that you're saying that maybe a student population is decreasing in some schools there's also a dynamic of teacher shortages or at least that we read about teachers shortages so

070I don't know how to solve it I'm glad you all probably have better ideas that what I could have but it may do are we two things that I'm asking are we at one is teachers that can have multiple endorsement on top of the first certification so we can be more flexible on assignment of those teachers and number two is a few years ago we have a set of parents that came to ask for we had a large wave of retirements at the math level I think it was in gbn so as we do those things although we may get potential short savings at the moment are we looking at retirement pipelines and making sure that if we have a good candidate we can cover that candidate somehow so we are not on the on

071the wrong side a year on the road or two years on the road where we're SC scrambling to find a good candidate to replace an experienced teacher Dr Steinberg I'm really glad you made that last comment about the pipeline uh one of the advantages of the most recent contract that we signed with uh the GAA is an extended pipeline so we have notification at the time of the signing of the contract I want to say it was a 9-year notification of the PIP line I think we're down to 8 or seven now but we have a Long window of knowing when people intend to retire so we have the ability to prepare down the road also I want to thank our HR department because they're very aggressive at our recruiting efforts and I also wanted

072to to point out with with great satisfaction our principles are very aware of these and um you're right someone who's multiply certified is is a unicorn and you'll see them at recruiting fairs we have one coming up in a couple weeks these are the people we we jump on right away and try to get into our Pipeline and we've been very successful we do have a a great reputation as a district uh both in terms of our performance but also our community supportive education so we're generally a destination district for a lot of candidates but but with that longer pipeline we're able to take the recruiting efforts match it up with our impending retirements and try to plan out in advance like you said and that really is the work that that into last our

073last contract that Dr grel uh was instrumental in in signing to make sure we had that early intelligence um four years five years earlier than we used to one question and do we still have I remember during the pandemic we had implemented a can't remember a set of substitutes that would be on call I was still running that program so we're um I forgot what we're down to because we did reduce our full-time substitute so we have four full-time substitutes in in the district so they're always on call they work every day unlike a sub who gets called in for for needs we haven't had the sub needs that we've experienced in the past just to confirm Dr Romano am I reasonably ACC that's correct uh we set up a different process uh where we

074are assigning them to uh be available for when we have teacher absences that new system is um serving the district uh the buildings really well because they are assigned to working with teachers before perhaps we didn't have that process and they were sent to different spots um but now we have a a better process where they are designated to fill in those teacher roles thank you thank you Mr shine um I don't have excuse me I don't have something on this topic but if you'd indulge me when everyone's done I I missed something on the fees and it I didn't catch it so you wouldn't mind on the memo oh we up to consent yeah I just want I just have a brief common question okay we'll get at the end of the agenda that

075okay sure U miss miss m any questions or comments um I guess one comment um and this goes back to something that Mr shine said when at the beginning of the meeting we were talking about V show um I think when we're thinking about our staffing needs and our teacher needs I understand that a big component of that of course must be what the students want to do in terms of pursuing classes but if there is for example a less of an interest in Fine Arts that would drive a reduction in force say in the fine arts department we I think we also need to be cognizant of this maybe not be something that is entirely driven by consumer choice but rather what we think maybe we are trying to achieve if we're trying to

076make our fine arts department more robust and we know that we're going to be doing making efforts to to grow that again you know I've seen like like you say you're the Freshman act isn't what it used to be um I don't know that I guess I would just caution and say that you know we don't want to have by catering to what is desired like just have a whole lot of computer science classes and just a couple art classes just because that's what the kids are signing up for um I I recogniz that we have to be responsive to that but I do think that there are also um goals that we should have in terms of a well-rounded education being available to our kids whether they know it or not they might want

077that a little bit later down the line so um just something to think about that that's something that should be considered as well as what the preferences are when it comes to making sure that we have available the staff that's necessary to make those opportunities available absolutely I think that's a really interesting economics question uh we have seen for a couple of years under enrollment in the Fine Arts and we've subsidized the Fine Arts for several years and the directors of both schools have worked incredibly hard with our feeder districts to try to generate enrollment at the same time as you all know that the national message is get into stem and do more stem and then do even more stem and our students have followed suit and those who didn't go stem went business

078and so we are really seeing a sea change in demand and we have subsidized for years music uh because as we all know the the Fine Arts in this District are are preeminent in the nation and uh something we're all very proud of um and if we want to drive enrollment we have to understand that the Market's going in the opposite direction so if we sustain stat in the Fine Arts for which there are no students or small numbers there's a paino someplace else so if if we want to direct the market we probably need to have a conversation at the board table here on what that might look like and and whether that's from mandate uh um because quite frankly the directors have worked incredibly hard to drive uh a demand side of that

079economics equation and um I'm out of ideas for them other than bribing kids um so um they have worked that hard and and the work they're doing with the elementary districts Cody's not here yet at the moment and and and um just some of the work that they've done in Glen View to have for example they did a an all Glen View song where we had elementary students all through High School singing together on a stage was magical experience now we are going to get better numbers but it's not the rebound quite yet that we're open for and there's some insanely good middle school kids coming in next year the the talent is really high but we're not seeing the robust numbers that I think we built our staffing around decades ago uh when there

080was higher higher demand so um if maybe we should do this is going to be a future topic because I want to kind of go back to what's on the agenda this is uh this is really important um and there's a dynamic obviously of what we drive what we lead and what the Market's telling us so uh but that may be a good future topic actually as well uh Mr Oar any questions or comments no Mr gaki yeah just quickly in terms of if you could elaborate a little bit on the process as you were earlier so we have to because of State mandates release Folks by the 15th however then there's The Balancing Act is we there adjustments being made uh can you elaborate a little bit more on that I recall people being

081asked back yeah there's a lot of details that go into things after all this because um for example uh someone may find someone who's a part-time teacher may find full-time employment in another District that opens up a spot we might be able to Cobble some spots like that together and retain someone that that we were going to release another thing that happens is is is lives change and so for example someone may be welcoming home a baby wants to take the year off takes a personal leave to attend family leave to attend to their child and then we're able to hold on to someone and then we might lock up out that a retirement emerges the next year that matches up so there is a period of time uh really it can go all the

082way up until August till we start school year of where opportunities opportunities open and so we're vigilant for those and we're the two principles are watching these things almost like a ticker tape on on stock on the stock market so using my colleague's example then we utilized folks that know our system and District first and draw them back in absolutely not only would we want to do that but it's by law and so they have first right of they have recall rights to to come back for those positions all right thank you for okay reminding me so we will look to hear from you at the next meeting and the following meeting uh on these topics okay thank you very much uh item the third item 6. I'm I'm get your pie thing at the

083end that'll be at the end of the you want it now do you mind oh sure qu I'm sorry um just a a quick question I apologize I I didn't put this together um in the memo with the fees I recall at a couple of meetings like finan and and Facilities facilities was related I think to like electric buses or whatever but um we talked about the fact that we uh there's we still subsidize busing and a question was brought up and it used to be in the memo and that's that's the reason I'm bringing this back I remember it was a a column in the in the memo it's actually noted on page five in the memo we subsidize it by $380 okay so it's not in the table it's on table five it's

084right below it's footnoted okay well I'm on page two page five okay so I'm looking at page two that has the has the that has the fees and then later it actually has it yeah and you'll notice there's an aster next to there and says now for additional details go to table five and that so in order to help communicate that you know our our Charter is right we we we don't pay for books our that is that the official Charter of the district books and transportation so we that's what a 30% subsidy or something what is it 380 on the on the on the thousand so anyway it's just when you look at this this as it sits used to be we had a column and it just it just was more clear okay

085and I wasn't sure because it wasn't there so so I'm done thank you okay no problem at all no problem at all and I think in our future we'll have this memo I'm sure in year we can bring back that particular column but thank you for the point item 6.3 are first reads on three policies I believe Dr Johns so real quickly we have three new policies that Dr grael ran through the policy subcommittee uh these policies are on legal and granted holidays for administrators uh the uh convicted sex offender screening and notifications and police interviews Dr well or any high points that you want to hit certainly um as the board policy committee has been working through our policy manual and reviewing its alignment with updates to the Press uh policy handbook that comes

086from the Illinois Association of school boards uh we identify that periodically we're missing some policies uh that reflect our current practice we just don't have them directly in our policy manual um so that's some of the policies presented before you um and then we also identified a typographical error on the uh policy that specifically refers to the number of uh paid holidays that are given to administrators um so that typographical error has corrected by literally deleting out a section that doesn't apply to that work group um and then the policies are presented happy to answer any questions uh miss mbuk any questions nope Mr O'Hara since you were there you probably know everything all right Dr Steinberg I one question and and one comment I'm looking at 351 the holiday one and I know this

087is this way in school but I'm thinking about administrators because this is about administrators I can understand the last paragraph that talks ER for work employee must be present for work on the last scheduled business day prior prior to the holiday and the first scheduled business day after the holiday understand if you're on a teaching schedule this is critical because you not take a vacation normally on a teaching day but how this takes into consideration somebody who's on a sick leave or that has taken a sick day or when we are not in school but you're an administrator that you are working when you're are not in school maybe you want to take a vacation and use the opportunity that there's a holy I'm talking about like four of July Four of July falls on

088a Wednesday maybe it's an administrator you want to take a vacation on the Tuesday and the Thursday May want to take the whole week and you're going to no so that holiday falls in the middle but you're not working the day before or the day after so the language seems to be like all the weight goes into making an exception based on the superintend on the superintendent's approval but maybe there should be some nuances to that in terms of things that are not as clear cut as as something else in fact for the district in terms of working in particular during when school is off it may be an advantage of letting people take if a h is on a Tuesday they let the people take them onay no certainly so just a little background

089um most of our benefit policies um are in essence copies for each workg group they're just separate policies so that they are specific to individual workg groups it's always been our practice to make sure that the expectations we set for our support staff or any of our instructional staff mirrors that for our administrators so that's why you see that however in the event that a unique situation comes up or or a desire of an administrator to use vacation time or a staff member using a personal day uh the superintendent just has to be in the loop and our buildings have established a very simple form process to to process that through yeah and I'm talking only about you know administrators have more working days than teachers so I'm talking about those working days not the

090regular working days where everybody should be following the same procedures but there are other days that you're working there I'm I'm just trying to be practical in terms of thinking superintendent I don't know how many administrators we have but superintendent having to review 15 requests for taking Monday off before the Tuesday holiday versus understanding that when those holidays fall outside of the school calendar year it doesn't break the policy to take the day off before as the vacation day yeah practically it's a handful it's not many all my second comment more than a question is I was leing the policy agency and police interviews which I think is very relevant because people are asking a lot of questions about this situation so I'm glad appreciative of of all your work on this two comments and

091and I know it's hard to probably work on this policy number one is now we're having places where it seems like what the federal government says and the state government say on the same issue don't seem to much and now we are having the complication that sometimes we have federal law enforcement officers in a state where the state law enforcement law enforcement officers are looking at the thing differently and I know it's hard to code everything into it I'm looking at I'm glad the policy talks about supporting the student making sure the parents are being if the student is a minor the parents are being communicated first making sure that there's somebody that understand law enforcement and at the same time how we care about the students I think aside from the policy we should

092have a message where we you know number one want to follow the law nobody wants to break the law but number two is in ation where things are more complicated we want to make sure of the student wellbeing while following the law so we don't want to I don't think we have this but you read the news some school students not attending school during some days because the news are posting things school should be a safe environment of course not for somebody who breaks the law but in general should be a safe environment and we shouldn't be having to be subjected at regardless of politics or anything and any student not wanting to come to school because they're afraid of coming to school no thank you for for the comment on that and that was

093something we talked about in policy um which we have that Duality which usually really is not an issue because we do have to follow the law and there's any question uh we have procedures in place so that uh Dr uh Johnson Dr gell will be contacting immedately who would engage our general counsel uh immediately on this who's very well versed in any kinds of dynamics that may hit different levels of of government but um the rest is a statutory about interviews and this is really just reflecting our and you can correct me on this reflecting our our practices anyway what we do uh and just added the policy but this is basically the practices on the ground as we have them um any other Mr sh any questions or comments I'm not I don't I'm

094not clear on 4A in in the policy about um that that we were just discussing which is this 7150 trying to think of this where there's a some kind of serious act and are we saying that the police officer doesn't qu can't doesn't immediately have the ability to question the student they have to stop and and and contact their parent and if that's what this is saying does that provide this you know like the safest environment and many things don't rise to a very serious level and maybe but when time is of the essence I'm not quite sure how to read this and I'm not sure how literally you know I this is not you know I'm not sure and I like some clarification and what our officers would be faced with um say w

095with a weapon or obvious narcotics or other serious fight I don't know so I think in exent circumstances the really important questions that there's no question they'd protect the the situation they would address the situation if it a weapon involved um and it says notify or attempt to notify I believe that this is um is is codified in Illinois Law this is almost this is a paraphraser by but it's an attempt to notify it maybe just not possible if if it really were a weapon situation which is extremely rare but were we'd have to jump in on this gu's I've got it wrong but my understanding this policy deals specifically with interviews interviews not um situations you're talking about Skip so this is when they want talk to a student about you know shoplifting or

096something you know that there it's not there's a gun in the school what are we doing oh so you're okay so you're you're saying it's not like something's reported and they they approach a student about X which is like either just happened or happening correct this is sort of the post it's after we're rounding up the suspects and this part of the intervie okay which fortunately doesn't happen very often um but it it is really to to add to Matt's Point under um the first sentence under Section B it's managed requests by law enforcement so it's not our request or it's not a Hot Pursuit as I think the language that came from our attorneys there's some background on this so um it is when exactly as when they're conducting an investigation and a non-emergency

097status thank you for the question too yes Miss book any questions so we done this Mr kacky oh thank you for all the work the policy committee did on these these are very important changes and up they are they are well thank you very much uh that I believe is it on policies yes thank you these will come back on consent on the 10th of March that's correct okay item seven our agenda is our summary uh we uh started with a celebration of our glenberg North and South students who attended the allstar uh musicians and the Illinois music educators Association they also introduced uh the uh various new administrator rols U Miss Tarver who's going to be our interim csbo um Dr Cummings and Mr Bag are taking on new rols assistant superintendent and Dr

098Kum who's going to be our new director of special education uh we're excited to have them all on board uh going forward uh we also had uh robust as always reports from our schools uh with uh B and basketball and the Arts the V show being a special year particular for lber South but always good for both schools uh the gold medals uh at the FCCLA the National Honor Society for the Arts students the Empower her work Athletics and empowering uh female athletes uh the booster bash is also a special evening uh of uh Athletics and uh recognizing Mr Catalano I believe is retiring I think this year if I have that right uh and the incoming uh freshman activities uh speech awards uh and have I missed anything uh forgive me but it's as

099always really a happy overwhelming uh we recognized four Community visitors tonight uh on various topics uh ranging from uh the uh coming uh fasting of Ramadan uh and getting time after that as an idea special education uh needs and the diversity of our education we also had about questions about identity belonging and social media posts that are are asking having those addressed and we also talked about the bus fee and we did have a clarification that Mr shine raised just a few minutes ago uh on our uh consent agenda we passed the consent agenda without Chang we had three items on our regular agenda the new instructional materials proposals that Mr Bag brought to us uh then we talked about procedures coming in March regarding the release of tenur non-tenured and part-time certified staff and

100finally we brought up on first read three policies coming back on the 10th on consent uh item eight possible topics for future board meting we heard a possible discussion of uh working with the community in certain areas like the Arts if there have any other ideas please do comment one sorry comment such suggestion in it's policy and I I think this it's good in terms of fairness for everybody it's policy that we don't respond to public comments because that needs to give people opportunity to think about it and but in my view there are different types of public comments and and some of them I know we address individually during the weeks in between meetings because they are very personal but sometimes we learn from public comments and things that here and not because one

101parent may say something or one Community member say something that has to do with many other parents that may have the same thing and when I'm not advocating for responding during the meeting I think that's another source for future topics like the way skip talk about the feast it when we were talking earlier in I think Skip you mention it you said at some point the district decided or the community decided that we are a district that doesn't doesn't pay for books and doesn't pay for transportation since I've been on the this this has been this way although I never occurred to me to ask why or whatever and I'm not proposing to open it kind of warms or anything like that but it would be healthy every once in a blue moon once every

102two years or three years to refresh to everybody why these decisions were made to review these decisions to understand the logic of it not just from the financial point of view but it could be confusing as a parent it happened to me as well that my for high for Middle School I didn't have to pay for buses and then when I switched to here I had to pay for buses I never asked for it but I think it's again as we report to the Community overall not just as one individual just to bring back into the agenda maybe every other year every three years the philosophical underpinnings there you go yeah yeah I got it no I think that makes a lot of sense thank you thank you for raising that um any other topics

103please let uh me or Dr Johns know uh item nine is a Clos session we do have close session this evening to consider the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testim a complaint Lodge against the employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or the representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees student disciplinary cases and litigation when an action affecting against affecting or on behalf of a particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent

104in which case the basis for the find shall be recorded and entered into the meetings of the closed meeting pursuant to sections 2 C1 28 and 11 of the open meetings act so moved second all in favor I any opposed motion carries okay we will take five minutes folks thank you for joining us e e e and Mr Dy we're back at 9:15 p.m. item 10 our agenda is adjournment I'll entertain a motion so moved second all in favor I I any opposed motion carries thank you everyone good night e e for