001Please. call to order the uh April 20 said August April 23rd, 2024 uh Granite City School Board meeting. Um roll call. Silva here, Bradley here, Stacy here, Curran here, Lynaman here, Vinnie here, All right. Uh we'll do the uh everybody please stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by the invocation given by Baptist Church. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Would you pray with me? Heavenly Father, we thank you for this gathering. God, we do pray for a spirit of uh respect and Lord of of civility as we go through this time. God, we do also lift up this board and pray for their uh discussion and thought processes. God, would they
002be full of wisdom and fairness and Lord, we also most importantly pray for our kids of our district. God, that whatever is best for them could be what is moved forward. And God, so we pray for your guidance that you would give a spirit of peace over this time in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Uh public comments presentations. Okay, this part. Okay, sorry. Always the best part of the meeting, right? Um, could I have uh our communications manager, Mr. Chris Mitchell, come up as well? He's been a big mentor for this student. We're going to recognize here a little bit, and I wanted him to speak to that. Um, the Granite City School District 9 Board of Education Administration would like to recognize tonight Gran City High School 10th grade student Braden Cook, owner of
003BC Photography. Pretty amazing for that page. Braden has a passion for drone photography and photography in general. Is this what you're going to read? Okay. Uh, and it not only photography in general, his work is exceptional. Not only does it highlight Gran City School District, but the entire Grand City community. Braden works alongside Chris Mitchell, manager of district communications, at so many events, ask questions, is always looking for ways to better his craft and help us. He recently won an honorable mention in the sports fea feature category for his photo powderpuff blizzard that he submitted at the St. Louis Public Radio Teen photojournalist uh contest in 2024. We are so very proud of Braden and cannot wait to see what he will accomplish in the future. But I really want Chris to give you a
004little more information because he really an outstanding outstanding young man and some of the award you know. So I nominated Braden for a personal choice award uh this year after meeting him last year and like Stephanie said he owns uh BC photography and big into drones and um when I wrote this uh description of Braden for the personal choice award, I said imagine being 15 years old and having the idea to try something that no one else in our town is try is doing. That was my first thought when I met Braden Cook, the owner of BC Photography. In the year I've known Braden now two years, I've seen his passion for drone photography. Many of you guys have seen his work on Facebook. Recently, he's been uh highlighting our new sports facilities and also
005uh sports photography in general. He asks great questions and he's always looking for ways to better his craft. Miss Ken mentioned some of this. His work is exceptional and it's been great to see him get some local exposure. Um here and that's the picture that Braden uh nominated for the um for the award that he recently won through the St. Louis Teen Photo Journalist Prize. So he's an honorable mention and that's uh Drake Reeves on there. So Braden, we just want to come up and recognize you and thank you for all you all the things you've done for the Grant City School District and the Grant City community to make to make it a better place. We're excited to see what you can do moving from here forward. Great job. I tell you, sometimes I
006see the pictures of things before I can even get out there. Braden already has the drone up there already taking pictures, has them out there. We I can't tell you how much we appreciate it. Thank you so much. So great. This is yours, too. We cleaned it for you. It's amazing. Amazing young man take on something like that at such an age. Such an age. I can't wait to see like 10 years forward what he's going to be doing because it really is amazing. So, thank you again. Okay, moving on to some more exciting stuff. I'd like to have Mr. Wyatt Roberts and Miss Jada Brockman come up, please. Very excited about this. We thought we were going to have we're going to give them a little little preview sneak peek next time too, the
007next meeting. get that soon enough. But this time we're here, the GR city board of education administration would like to recognize the following granite city high school band students. But before we do, I'd like you to explain what exactly we're recognizing for better language than I could do. Sure. Uh these guys made all state. Basically, it's the same thing as all state for sports, but it is for band. Uh so they audition in October against thousands and thousands of students all across Illinois. Uh they make it to the district festival in October and November and then from that festival. The best students from that festival are taken to all state and we had three this year. And how did they do? Oh, they were incredible. They made all state. So, yeah. So, I will call
008them up and you can say what they're So, we'll start with Aaron Brinker. [Applause] Explain why. Aaron plays trombone. He made the all state band. [Applause] Victoria Robinson. Victoria plays Euphonium. Also made the All State. Yep. Euphonium. That's small. I just didn't know that until he told me that. So I felt like everybody else. It's really funny. It's really kind of cute. There you go. Bailey Hanks. And then Bailey plays French horn. He made the honors all state orchestra. I know you think orchestra that should be strings, but they have wind instruments in orchestras as well. So, and where was this held? Uh, this was in the Boria Center the last weekend of January. So, we're a little bit delayed, but trying to get a bunch of stuff in. So, great job. All right, we
009get them all. Thank you to Mr. Roberts and Moffin for all the time they've put in as well. No, it's true. Can I do something? Okay. I just wanted to give a special shout out to Miss Forbes for being a very convincing and entertaining wicked witch of the West. Amazing. And theater department. If you were able to see the play, it was truly a joy. Not only was it a great production and entertaining, but seeing how many children were involved in that, and I say children, you are a child. Stay a child. Um, it was just really amazing to see and how it all came together. So, kudos to the theater departments, Mrs. Kimell, who is our director for that. Thank you for that. It was really wonderful. They have been practicing. Am I correct,
010Mimble, to say that it's been like midFebruary at least? Uh, January, January, January, January 5th. Sorry about that. And they So, the amount of time these kids that are involved in multiple activities put into it and she accommodates and make sure she really makes sure that anyone who wants to be involved can be from stage to acting to whatever they want to do. And it's a real testament to our uh drum and the department. So, thank you, Mrs. Kimble, and everyone else who put on the play. I just want to add she hides behind. I just want to add my little part to this also. It was one of the best plays I've seen for a long time. And I couldn't believe the costumes and the singing. The costumes were incredible and the flying and
011the flying and the flying. I didn't expect anybody to fly on a bike and flew on a bike. Yeah. Yeah. It was just wonderful. Congratulations. Color green is the play, right? Close. Okay. All right. Uh so we would love for you guys to stay, but if you this is your opportunity to want to escape before the rest of this meeting. There they go. Nothing personal. Thank you very much for being here. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Bye guys. Thanks. Thanks everyone. Thank you. All right. Plenty of room up front. Plenty of room. Now we can we can all have a seat. We got seats forever. is that we're going to wait until All right. So, we'll move to uh item number five. Uh the minutes, approval of the minutes, regular board meeting of the
012board of education held on April 9th. So, move. Second. Any discussion? Roll. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Current. I'm sorry. Noble. I lin. Hi. Vinny. I Silva. Hi. All right. Item number six, the consent agenda. Consent agenda. Uh, it contains those items that are repetitive and routine in nature. Any member may make a motion to approve the consent agenda or request that any of the items be moved to section seven for individual discussion and consideration. So move any discussion in discussion. Yes, I will do that now. I just we always have a gift which is absolutely amazing. So this one um is really nice. The Southwest Quad City Church Women United and I had the pleasure of speaking uh to that group about a month ago. One of my former Sunday school teachers uh is Dorothy
013Kenny is the president. So that was really kind of cool to go back. They're amazing. They gave uh the band parents received a $250 donation from them to uh support the band in their trip to New York. So next time we will have a video, right? I think um about their Carnegie Hall trip. So they just recently went there. So we're waiting. We want to do it. Okay. All right. Any more discussion? Roll call. Stacy. Hi. No. Hi. Lamman. Hi. Vinnie. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. All right. So we are going to move something in the agenda uh from 10G uh talking about the D consulting. nice to see all of you and thank you so much for another school within the next hour. So, um I'm really excited to be here when Stephanie and
014your superintendent said good news. We have some good news and I'm thrilled to share it with all of you. Um for people who have not met me, my name is Donna White. I work as a literacy and management um consultant around the United States. I live in New York, but My contracts are on the west coast and east coast and then in Ohio. And I am privileged to work with several schools in Illinois right now. I need to tell you, you beat both of my Illinois schools um as we look at this data, which is really cool. So, um I'm thrilled for them, too. They're moving. I I don't want to take that away. So, I just wanted to report back a year ago, you put some trust into us, um, Kristen and Jen and,
015you know, uh, Stephanie decided got together and said, "How do we begin to address what's going to happen in the state?" I was thrilled. You were very proactive on this board. Your state had not passed it at that time. You have now passed all of the things that I talked to you about back then, a year ago. and just two weeks ago you are in front of something that's coming out in July. So, it's kind of exciting to see that you were very proactive about addressing the needs of the kids. But within this presentation, I want to talk about that we um made a commitment to a to adopt a systematic explicit system. Why is it important? Because way too many of our kids are not reading on grade level. If you cannot decode the
016word, you cannot understand the word. So our first step is to get them decoding and getting those words off the page. We were we understood as every other district in this country is in the same exact position right now that we were flying a plane and trying to put it together at the same time. Unfortunately, the lack of subs, we can't take you out of the classroom and train teachers. We don't have sub. We asked in a survey, would you want to work in the summer? Our teachers need their summers. They need their vacations to recharge. So, we thought, okay, we'll get started. In August, we ran a dayong training in December. Um, or Jen probably knows better when January, February, we did more training. I work at a lot of schools, so I sometimes
017forget dates, but we understood that we were asking our teachers to kind of fly the plane and also put it together at the same time. They answered your call in many cases. Um, so let's going forward. Two people were willing to kind of talk about um I don't know, my clicker doesn't want to stay on the page. Let's go back. There we go. So, one testimonial was a special education teacher of yours. I love the way she put, I was not sure if we could see the results Donna was expecting. I do set a very high standard, but I believe that you can achieve that, especially in the area of writing. Although we are moving at a slower rate than our other reading programs. Our special education students are making a ton of progress. All
018of them have mastered layer one in all areas including spelling and site words which was my biggest concern. I am blown away by what students can write, how they can apply the skills learned and how much they are retaining. Brainspring has been a great program for our students. Then we have our second one um a person who's put a lot of time and energy into looking at the assessments. She talks about the kids being confident, which is what speaks to my heart. When you have been beat up year after year and are not learning to read, you will lose that confidence of believing that you can learn. So, it's exciting to hear that the kids are making those statements. Brains is one of five systematic explicit phonics programs. It's not my program. I don't work
019for brains. it was the one that your district chose and the one that we wanted to press forward and implement. So, I want to make sure that that's clear. 100% of your kindergarten teachers came in. I think it was challenge for them. At first, we said, "Hey, put your toe in. See if you can get used to this. Maybe, you know, get it into your teaching a little. If you can't, if you don't think you can adapt at all, then at least adapt one piece of the five part puzzle." And we'll keep adding to it as we're going along. So 100% of your kindergarten teachers came in and I think that the results speak for themselves. You have a year during the pandemic where you have no data but this year you are on target.
020So you know Miss Smith will tell you I went back and said okay I'm all happy if they recognize the code of learning to read and write which is our alphabet. But the true testimonial is can they produce the sounds most associated with those letters so that we can get them blending and get them reading. So we looked at that next. It actually I'm thinking you gave me a faulty one or I'm just not close enough. Right. I got you. All righty. And this is the results this year. They are beyond expectation with your kindergarten figures. And Kudos to them for digging deep into a program that was new to them that we were finding our way through. But the minute they saw results, they really kicked it into high gear for them and for
021the children. And what a difference it has made. Those kids now go on to some really hardworking first grade teachers. So our first grade teachers, sorry, I'm gonna really try to exercise control. I'm a huge geek about this stuff. Okay. When you say 100% kindergarten teachers were in, does that mean they're implementing they were implementing pieces? No, they were implementing at I would say between a 70 and 100% of the program. We asked them to come back in on the three-part drill, which is a huge part of the program. They went in much deeper than that. They brought in the red words. They went all the way to the five part connecting the reading to what they were also teaching for skills. I love a deep that loves. So 84% of your first grade teachers
022came in at that same level and they will now get these kids next year that will know the language and have that foundation. But again, we can see they've done an amazing job. These teachers really exceeded what we could have asked them to do. And I cannot emphasize that enough. When we're talking about also making sure they came to school, we look at the data on How many of them came to first rate ready to start blending? Well, last year it was what's that second column from the end? 59. How much? 59. 59. What are we sending right today? And we still have a month to get this done. Okay. But how many what% 97 it's incredible. And as I said, you have exceeded Sparta and Central in any expectations that we special I have
023a little one to share with you on that one because that's a big deal to me. I was always the inclusion teacher. So, they hold a special card. You are in line with the 2024 Illinois comprehensive literacy plan. They are asking us to look for that rubric that tells us which programs do we need to implement. Are they hard? They're hard guys. It's hard to have been a teacher for three decades to look and to say I might have had it wrong and I need to change it. It was hard for me. So I get it. So you are in line and that's exciting because it's all rolling out now um just the way it pretty much has around the country. We brought ESGI to progress monitor not to be a another big universal screener
024but to say if you didn't get it today, what do I need to do tomorrow to help you to get it? That's what ESGI does. It's educational software that guides instruction. It's not about reporting to the state, but this allows a teacher to create the lines that you see. This teacher I I wanted to put her name on it. She's the epitome of you started out only about a third of your kids had it and you just kept at it. You didn't give up. you just kept at teaching it, reteing it, looking at it, and saying, "When do they all have it?" And now 100% of the kids have it. So, that's um some exciting stuff. To see these circles close for kids is exciting. I want to share one in particular because I know
025I'm going to run out of time here because I could talk about this all day with you. This is a go back co-taught classroom. I do not have a co-taught classroom in the United States right now where 100% of the kids in a first grade co-taught classroom have mastered layer one all 100%. Could not be prouder of those teachers and what they have accomplished this year and what what is possible for now that child's future. Um I know if they get to the end of second grade I talked K and you get to the end of second of catching you shrink to almost less than 10 somewhere around 8% is what the international literacy association said in catching you and catching you up so to think they won't go on that way so in August
026we had an initial introduction training September we met again um October we did we visited with teachers met with title one November January we had another PD at the institute day hopefully we offered assessment At that one, we had a question period for anyone that had any issues in February. Um, we looked at how do we now catch some of our third and fourth. They're doing that good because those up by us, is there a chance that we could go back and catch some of those kids that have split through this? I think there is. I think it was eye opening. Some of the kids that were recommended for the testing, we found out they don't have a decoding issue. They have a comprehension issue. That's a different animal, different path forward. So, it was
027neat to see that. And then in April, um, Miss Man put together teachers supporting other teachers in this district. It doesn't get better than this. I live in New York. I'll go back to New York and that's where I You have people here that are back that are supporting other teachers by saying, "Listen, I think I got it. Come see my room." That's the way spread the good news. That's the way to to really get the excitement of saying my kids are doing it. I know. I thought there was one teacher that Miss Smith and I went to visit. She goes, I was the one that said my kids couldn't do this. So now I'm embarrassed because you're going to see them all do it. And so the fact that they could was so exciting
028her we want to continue to challenge them to do that. And so after um those visits, Miss Smith was able to get back some feedback from the teachers just to thank people. And I thought it was helpful to see another teacher. It was awesome. I learned how to squeeze a lot of information in. We have to remember we don't have a lot of time, but teachers being able to collaborate with other teachers. That's how we'll get it pushed forward quicker when you don't have the kind of training days we wish. I want them all for a week. if you guys are willing to pay them and give them the week off, but that probably wouldn't happen. So, that's the the situation across the country. I'm thrilled. I'm just I cannot tell you how excited and
029I love when teachers say the kids love it. They feel like they know what they're doing. For some teachers, they're like, "N, I kind of get bored. Like, every day you have to do this three drill and every day you do this and but when you say it to the know what to do and they're proud of themselves. So, we stick with it and keep moving. I think you guys are headed in a great direction. I look forward to working with you next year. I know you're looking at an extension on the contract. If that works, it works. Um, but I'm really proud of h how far you've come in one single year. It's really pretty heartwarming. So, good for the kids of your district. So, thank you everyone. Chris is gonna say a few
030things, but I have been gone and follow Donna around and watch for this testing and it's really incredible to watch the teacher surprise and the kids get into it. And today I saw her and there were kids actually emailing her. When I say this, I'm going to say it talking about how much at a different district about how much they had grown personally. What grade level was this? They were a second grader wrote to I asked her not her goal for her testing so high. She's already at the top. And when you're at the top, it's hard to get those last few points. So I she said, "Well, I want to get 10 points." I said, "Sweetie, that's probably not possible last week. How about if we write your goal and I put what I
031would still consider really good." She emailed me today and you saw the card. She exceeded her 10 points and she said, "Never, what was it?" Underestimate a little girl. Never underestimate a little blonde girl. what she told me. I just wanted to say that because seeing I mean seeing those from children. So a little bit. Yeah. I just want to say I've been thrilled with the input that we've received back from teachers and with the buy in and everything how they've just jumped in and taken it and I know that you know they have so much and they do so much but they their heart is just there with the kids and they want to see them succeed and I feel that you know this has just wonderful and so exciting and with us looking
032into the change of our centers into something else for the following year. I think this would be fabulous if we did an extension just because if I'm teaching fourth grade this year and next year, the following year I might be teaching first grade and I might need to know what the support is for my students and what better way to find out than to have that foundation and to have the support of Donna at extension. So, I just want to say I'm a believer and I think it's fantastic and you can see it in our test test results with Can I ask two question? Two questions and I'll be quick and it might be Kristen and John. I don't know. Okay. So, first one is science and reading. Totally get it. Explicit systematics instruction. It
033lends itself to whole group. A lot of it is done whole group. I'm still a fan of differentiation. So, what's your vision for that where we can make sure we're meeting the needs of every child? A really neat thing and you're seeing it. A little guy actually told um the ten this morning, he said, "I know that that's a CBC word." And the reason why I know is because in my RTI group, we work on that. So, we are still transferring. I'm a huge If you We want 80% of you to get it, whole group to move on. We're not going to keep leaving 50% of you behind. But once 80% of you get it, we need to move. But what about that 20 that didn't? It has to go to small group. It has
034to go to intervention time where we say, "I know you didn't get it, but we're going to keep at it a day. We have a different way to practice this." So, I too am a believer that we have to have both. We're going to need both. Yes. Have we It's only the first year, so I understand. Have we done much with the small group instruction outside of RTI? Have we done like tier one small group instruction yet with this or No, not with this that I know of. I know lots of the teachers because of the data that it gave them back. ESGI is instantaneous. I mean, a child sees if they go up, they'll even say, "Did I get more green?" And so, the neat thing is that you can see right away, oh
035my goodness, five of my kids still cannot spell those words that I thought we had mastered. You can then put that into that small group. And I think some people have learned to look at that data. And that's where we need more training. That's where we need to make sure that you understand how do I read this for next year? How do I come into third grade? look at those kids scores from ASJI and be able to say where can I start with the bulk of my kids because what we don't want to revert back to is start on day one page one of that book if the kids aren't on day one page one of that book last question that that second one was a followup okay last question should we continue on with
036this what are our next steps what's our vision for next year well the next step is continued training I I understand I mean lots of we also hope that the teachers will take advant antage of visiting other classrooms where it's up and running. We want to continue to read the I don't think we've always looked at the data. I mean, a teacher challenged me today to say, well, I don't think my student needs phonics. Well, let's look at the the data from I Ready. Well, the I Ready data was not good for phonics. So, but that's all it's going to tell you. It's going to tell you that it's long vowels. Which long vow? Which pattern? Do you know how many long ways that you know E says E. There's a lot. So, we have
037got to diagnose as quickly as we can. I don't have time to retach you all the E, but I wanted to be able to move as quickly as I can to which E pattern is the one keeping you low. Let's teach it to you, master it, move on. So I think the next steps are to start to read the data, use it totally to drive what we're doing instead of the mentality that for many years we had even as a teacher I was told be on page 57 on Thursday principal's going to come by. She's going to check I would I would be on page 22 because I was the inclusion teacher. When the principal came I had a paper clip and I flipped it. You know what am I going to do? The kids
038couldn't do it. I mean we knew they couldn't. So we know we have to be where they are. And to continue this, we have to continually look at are we where they are or are we where they we think they should be and continue with really processing. How do you use it to drive? How do we fit it in? It's a lot. Where do we find the time to fit it in? How can we support you in figuring out where best to fit it in? So this is sorry, one tiny one. This is an easy one. We're K2 with this or we Well, we've already been in the middle school, right? Yeah. And we've and we've talked to five and six, too. And that's been more like of our co-taught classes have kind of bought
039into that a little more. So, we've been all over the board with elementary, but we really need to look at it as any child that struggles in literacy. It doesn't matter how old you are. We could use this with an adult and bring up results. So, our goal is to say, I mean, we did go over to the middle school, modeled, I modeled some lessons. Um, the teachers over there were wonderful and said, "Now I see why they might not be getting that. I did not learn to teach kids to read." Which is true. They're content teachers. That's why we hired them. You're an awesome math teacher. Okay. But we need to make sure that we train them in a way that they can diagnose those same things and kind of be incorporating it into
040whatever they're working on right now. So, yeah, the should definitely be it doesn't matter how small the percentage is. We have to try to get those kids that we might have lost along the way. So, all right. I will not ask any more questions. Okay. Anyone else? Okay. Thanks so much for your time. I hope you have a great night and thank you again for moving. Thank you, Don. Uh we're going to move to item 8. Um, resend retirements and resations. It is recommended that the following retirements and resations be rescended. Christine Douglas, math teacher, high school, resend effective June 30th, 24. So moved. Second discussion. Roll call. Stacy. I. No. I lin. Vinnie. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. All right. Item 8 B is retirements and resations. We're going to be holding that for
041executive session. Um so we'll move on to item 8 C. Uh request for leaves of absence. Uh it is recommended the following request for lease of absence be approved. Norine labor the district effective 5124 to 8124. Roll call. What's the second? All right. Sorry. Canobyl. Hi, Lman. Hi, Vinnie. I sil I item 8 D. Request for extensions to leaves of absence. It is recommended the following request for extensions to leaves and absence be approved. Rich Wilson, custodian effective 4124 to 6274. Second roll call. I'm sorry. Give me I meant to say discussion last time. My bad. Discussion. All right. Roll call. Vinnie. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. I Stacey. Hi. Canal. I Lman. Hi. All right. I'm sorry. That's my today's my first. Uh item 8E. Uh extracurricular uh resignations for the 2425 school year. You
042have received detailed information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. GCSD9 administration has recommended the following extracurricular resignations for the 2425 school year be accepted. Miss Gayla Bennett, Kage National Junior Honor Society Advisor and Miss Warfield, college assistant coach. So moved. Second discussion. Roll call. Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi, Stacy. Hi, Noble. Hi, Lynman. Hi, Benny. Hi. All right. Uh, item 8F is extracurricular recommendations for the 2425 school year. We're going to be holding that for executive session. Um, item 8G, certified and classified substitutes. You have received detailed information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion and executive session. It is recommended that the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2324 school year. No
043certified and classified Taylor Lewis and Jacqueline Schultz. Approval is recommended in the submission of the required paper. Second discussion. Stacy. Hi, Noble. Hi, Lman. Hi, Benny. I Silva. Hi, Bradley. Hi. All right. Item 8H1, Employment of the Pumage Junior High School Assistant Principal for the 2425 school. Below, you have received detailed information about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. GCSD9 administration, the interview committ Superintendent Stephanie Han 25 superintendent Dr. Don Harris Dr. David Ke executive director off and Patrick Curry College Junior High School principal are recommending the employment of Mr. Eric Mitchell as the junior high school assistant principal for the 2425 school year. Approval is recommended the submission of the required paperwork. You will be placed on category 7 step one on the administrative
044schedule. Salute. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Stacy. Hi Noble. Hi Lynman. Hi Benny. Hi Silva. Hi Bradley. Hi. Item 8H2 employment of special education emotional disabilities teacher for the 2425 school year. Below you have received detailed information about the item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hold for discussion executive session. GCSD9 administration interview committee consists executive director special education Stepher special education coordinator Patrick Curry junior high school principal are recommending the employment of Emanuel Brooks as a special ed disabilities teacher for the 2425 school year approval is recommended pending the submission of the required paper discussion no Iman Iva Hi Bradley. Hi Jacy. Hi. Item 8H3 employment of a Granite City School math teacher for the 2425 school. You receive detailed information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations
045to hold discussion in executive session. GCSD9 administration and interview committee consisting of Dr. David Ke executive director. Mr. Tim, Grand High School principal and the Denise Al High School math teacher department chair are recommending the employment of Sarah Thompson as the Grand High School math teacher for the 242 school year. Approval is recommended pending the submission of the required second discussion. Roll call. Lin. Finny. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. Hi I there no new business on no old business I should say there are new business I'm skipping ahead um so we'll go to move item 10A GCSD9 student school board member advisor for the school said goodbye I know she'll come come back and see, right? She'll fly in on her bike. The GCSD9 student school board member advisor committee consisting of board members
046Eric Vinny, Lorie Sil, Don Linman, superintendent Stephanie K, GCHS principal Tim Christian and GCS teacher Vince and department chair are recommending Lily Rose Cochram to serve as a GCSD9 student school board member adviser for her senior year at Granite City High School for the 2425 school year. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Roll call. Benny. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. I Noel. I item 10B GCSD9 board of education meeting schedule for the 2425 school year. I know where President Curr and Dr. Bonnie Harris went through these and so this is what we have. The approval is recommended to set the GCSD9 board of education meeting schedule for the 2425 school year. Uh board of education meetings are held at the James Gwald administrative building located at 31 road city. All meetings are on the
047second and Tuesday of the month beginning at 6 p.m. The proposed dates are listed below. We'll post those tomorrow. I do have a question about it just because you know at the end of the year sometimes we have hires make we wait too long and move somebody. Um and I understand Easter's in April next year. So that would be Easter break why we have one in April but the May I'm just thinking maybe we should have two. I know we're probably going to have to have some special meetings coming up here for this month. I'm just throwing that out there. It might be prudent to have just call special meetings one or the other. We did move the May one up from like this year it's May 28th one. I would say we have a
048special meeting if we needed to. So much I would hope everybody earlier. Yeah. I hate to get this late in the process any special circumstances but I would like to be. Yeah. I like it that it is earlier in the month as long as you guys have special with that. I agree with the special reason. I know you've done that. Okay, that sounds good to me. But I know, right? But there's just so many events discussion. I Bradley I Stacy I Noble I Benny I item 10 C the Kish Junior High School boiler replacement the GCS9 administration requests the approval of Bler boiler for the Koolage Junior High School boiler project this involves demolition of all 12 boilers and replaces the 25y old boilers at Coolage with three new 98% efficient blocking bar I say
049that right Mr. Um, fire two boilers. I don't know what that means. Fire to boilers. With new piping and ventilation of the boilers, the total for the project is $154,415. Approval is recommended. If you want to know what that means, we could ask. I know it's exciting about the fish. When When is it going to be How long will it take? Are 12 boilers and putting in new ones for that? Do I have a motion? So moved. Discuss. Any more discussion? Roll call. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. I. Noble. I Silva. Hi. Item 10 D. Building trades open bid approval for 4829 Bailey Drive 196. GCSDs administration requests approval to post in the building news Democrat paper and open bid scheduled for April 25th, 2024. This will be posted for three consecutive weeks for the building trades
050house lot 196 in the Donan subdivision located at 4829 Bailey Drive. All sealed bids will be due by Friday, June 7th, 2024 at 10 a.m. Approval is recommended. So move second discussion roll call Stacy I Silva Bradley. Item 10E uh breakfast after the bell opt out hearing authorization. I'm just going to read this first part. GCSD9 administration is seeking authorization to notify the state board of education and publish in the district's website notification of a public hearing on June 25th, 2024 at 6 pm and the regular board of education meeting regarding the GR school district opting out of the breakfast after the bell mandate for fiscal hardship reasons. Zack, would you Mr. S, would you just like it's just what we do? We do this every year. I start said we do it every year.
051We do it every year. You'll get a report. No kid goes hungry. No kid goes hungry ever. We have free breakfast. It's very disruptive actually when they actually put it in place. I've been in districts where they do that. If somebody comes in, they still this way. They stop and it's always the same class and so they're missing instruction in a particular class every day. I watched it. Yes. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Any more discussion? Roll call. Canal. Iman. I Silva. I Bradley. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Item 10F. Uh, health and life safety proposal. As a district, we are committed to ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all our students and staff. Healthife safety is a fundamental legal responsibility for public school districts. State law mandates that school districts prioritize health and safety
052hs in their facilities and operations. It's from 23 administrative code 180. This includes fire safety, building maintenance, emergency preparedness, and even mental health resources. Failure to comply with these regulations can result in fines and more importantly leave our district vulnerable in the case of an emergency. local school districts work directly with the region regional office of education to maintain compliance. I worked uh with the regional office of education on getting this ready and having this proposal with our architects a proposal um to perform the work on a fixed fee basis build monthly per percentage completed. The 10year healthy safety for nine buildings is $53,485. They will actually go to each building do anything they need to see for what's wrong. They do a survey. They prepare a report. They the board and they help us
053compile initially um on the website where we are in compliance. The only the pool that's not due is coolage at the moment. So we move second. Any more discussion? Roll call. I item 10 G. Uh the Dynino White Consulting one-year extension proposal. Um, Superintendent K and FY Superintendent Harris and the GCSD9 administration request authorization to proceed with the one-year contract extension with Donna White Consulting. The contract will cover planning, professional development days, and on-site virtual coaching over the 2526 school year. Uh, this will allow the foundation of work to continue the next steps to be built over the transition to any new school configuration. Continuity will be imperative as the staff begins the process of understanding and teaching through grade levels, not just within one. Miss White will continue to utilize the results of data
054talks, meet with administration and visit classrooms to determine how they can support each of their schools. Work would include providing professional development intervention suggestions and coaching that can translate into increase student engagement and literacy achievement for all students. Um the extension is based upon um upon one an addition of 33 days for the 2520 school year. The perdm would remain the same as the original contract. The district consultant would usually agree on the schedule of the work to be provided by the consultant. The consultant will submit an invoice after each visit. The cost for this extension is $77,550. Um I know that Dr. Harris, do you want to comment on anything here too because we all discussed this. Well, kind of echo what Kristen had said earlier is it really just helps us as we
055look at this reconfiguration. Donna hit on it a little bit too where we would have teachers that may be in different grade levels and maybe in different programs they were we look at the reconfiguration and it's really helped keep building on what she's already had for our students and show commitments in progress. So approval is recommended. So second roll call. I hi Bradley. Hi Jacy. Hi Noble. Hi. Item 10H consolidated district plan approval. The state board of education is continuing for the FY25 year the requirement of consolidated district plan. This is to ensure the collaboration of state and federal grant funds. Included programs are title one, title two, ESSA, ESSA which is every student succeeds act, title three, idea part B flow through and idea part B preschool Perkins grant payoff which are all grants
056the school district makes application for receives. The plan must be submitted again for the 2425 year and has several changes to this year's CDP. The plan covers all children in schools served under every student succeed legislation, individuals disabilities and education act, the rehabilitation act 1973, the strengthening career and technical education from the 21st century act, the workforce innovation opportunity act, the head start acting homeless assistant act and the adult education family literacy act and others other acts as appropriate. I do want to thank Miss Kerna for putting a lot of effort and time in getting us up to speed on this as well. Approval is recommended. Second discussion. Roll call. Benny. I Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Nope. I right. Uh so item 10 I uh we are going we need to table. It's
057the uh resolution authorizing the execution of a mutual amendment to the November 15th, 2020. This along with 2022 superintendent employment agreement. Do we need a do we need a motion to to table that? Right. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Silva. Hi. Bradley. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Nope. Hi. I All right. Item 111A, GCHS, student discipline. Oh, sorry. We have received detailed information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or nothing for discussion in executive session. On April 5th, 2024, two students attacked another student in the hallway at GCHS. There's a video of the two students punching and kicking the one student and not stopping and a teacher is trying to intervene. two students is a special education student will be out placed through that department. The administration is recommending the remaining student
058be expelled for one year with services if available. The hearing was held on April 17th, 2022. Was Miss Alter the hearing officer Miss approval is recommended. So move. Any discussion? Roll call. Fredley. Hi. Stacey. Hi. I lin I Vinnie I Silva I All right item 112A Freedom of Information Act request we received one request under the Freedom Information Act during the period of April 3rd 24th through April 24 the request was handled by administration meaning usually Mr. Mr. Smith and Mr. Thank you very much. 11 item 11-2 reports and other communications. Uh summer EBT report. Good evening everyone. I just want to give everyone an update from MSV. Uh the summer EBT program is kind of new this year. We've had in the past what they call PEBBT. Uh but this year it's uh it's
059actually going to be an annual event, but uh it's basically uh it's not every every student in our district does not qualify for this. It's basically anyone that's SNAP uh TA and uh anyone that that that is in that realm. Uh they'll they'll automatically qualify for it uh through Skyward uh and and Brad and our our uh uh student services department. It'll be automatically uploaded here in May. And there is some uh small um questions with if if the child or student qualifies for that. There are applications that people can fill out, but it is a onetime benefit throughout the summer if they qualify. It's $120. Uh I have bullet points that I sent to everyone and also a fact sheet so you guys are aware of it. Uh but it is all children uh
060that receive SNAP TA and F or income eligible Medicaid. they automatically should get this as long as they have their uh correct address with our district on file. If they already have a a PEBBT or they have a uh EBT card, it'll automatically upload to that. If they don't, it'll be mailed to them to their address that we have on file. So, um, families should, uh, we'll be sending out some stuff with Chris here in May to make sure they need to check their and Skyward to make sure their addresses are correct or they will not get the benefit if it's mailed out to them. Uh, the general deadline for us to send information is uh, May 15th. So, uh, we just basically it's a transfer over from Skyward to Iwas or to the Department
061of Human Services. So, uh, that that's basically it with that. Uh, also I just wanted to mention our summer school, our summer feeding program. We will be open at all three locations during summer school uh for 20 days and then uh after summer school's over, we will continue our summer feeding at the high school for most of the summer up until uh the week before we start school uh in August. So you guys all have the detailed information of that. It will also be posted on our website. It's also already been shared on Facebook. So if anyone have any questions on that, I'll be happy to answer. But that's really all that I have. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. And the multi-grade level schools configuration of the Dr. Good evening. So, central office staff has
062continued to meet and completed various tasks regarding the reconfiguration of the current elementary model. So, buildings have been walked through and compared physical space with current building maps. uh central current staff numbers with future staff projections regarding physical space and that has all been compared. Um current programs have been compiled and analyzed as to how they will serve students through the new configuration. Current student enrollment has been pulled by address. Uh staff is in the process now of drawing boundaries for the possible K6 or K4 models that we talked about in the previous update. We're looking at possible physical space updates and changes with both of these models. We're still looking at both of them uh intently. Uh staffing needs with both of these models and then possible program program changes to serve students through
063these models as well. I know we were looking at a rough timeline. That was something you asked of us. Uh so we've put a rough timeline together uh for moving forward. So summer uh we hope to finalize uh the first drawing of boundaries uh for the reconfiguration, update staffing needs for buildings by program. We're going to re-review the uh certifications staff certifications to make sure they fit our needs and identif identify physical plant modifications. So are we going to need a playground here or are we going to need bathroom changes? So those types of things. Uh so we can let Mr. Smith know so he has time to plan for that in the future. Uh in the fall uh we will provide staff and student numbers for our reconfiguration by building. So as we got
064those boundaries drawn now we know how many students are going to be in those buildings and so figure out how many staff we need to man those buildings to handle uh the students that they'll be serving. Uh possible building times and uh program options. So depending on where we are with our busing uh being a person over transportation, I know that busing drives our times and so how many buses are we able to have uh the more boundaries we have, the less busing we probably have to have because we draw that 1.5 radius around those buildings. Obviously there are hazardous routes that play into that as well. Uh so we were looking at all that. Um we'll pull updated student data by address to reassess previously drawn boundaries. That's what I love about us having
065the extra time because after the fall housing report normally is pulled in October around there, we're going to pull the data again to see where the students are and look at those boundaries to see that gives us two years of data to see, okay, yeah, we are servicing people the best way we possibly can, the communities in our district. In the winter, we will present a final reconfiguration with recommendations of which model we believe is the best. Uh share the approved model with the community. Obviously, we'll present it here Facebook live, but we also try and have an open forum where we can talk to people as well. Uh, school times and boundaries, the program delivery model by building. Uh, we'll begin to work with the bus company, develop routes around the new boundaries. Uh,
066again, posting staff positions by building and possibly posting new positions as well when we make the changes. In the spring, we'll finalize staff movement, share a moving schedule and procedures with the staff, and then obviously the end of the year, we'll box up classrooms and begin moving process if necessary. So, that's just a rough outline of what we think it will look like uh as we move forward. Obviously, as we get closer, it'll be much more detailed, but wanted to give you an update on that. Thank you very much. Any questions? Can you just email us that that timeline? Yeah, I took good notes, but No, I sure can. No problem. All right. So we are to item 12 executive session exceptions noted under five 120 open meetings the appointment compensation discipline performance or dismissal
067of the specific employees of the public body student disciplinary matters the purchase or release of property by the public body collective bargaining matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives. litigation when an action against affecting or behalf of a particular public body has been filed uh and to discuss building safety and security and security procedures and student safety. So we will be going into executive session under 2C1 and 2C2 a motion to go into session. Stacy I hi Bradley. 701. We are in executive session.