001e e okay good evening everybody Welcome this evening we've got a lot of wonderful business to do tonight so we're going to get the meeting started this is the uh Wednesday February where are we February 26 2025 meeting of the board of education for Community Consolidated School District 46 beginning now at 6m here at Frederick's school I need a roll call to order please Mac here Braden here Nash absent Albert here lroy here Miller here and Weedman here okay we have a COR please join me for the pledge i al to flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible andice okay so this first math okay I would also like to take an opportunity to welcome our two student board members this evening to the board
002table abav vinod and Julia League welcome to the board table this evening we look forward to hearing the presentation from Park School later on I need a motion to approve this evening's agenda please I'll move I'll second okay Miller I Mac I Albert I Weedman I bradden I and lroy I okay great thank you very much do we have any public comments Dr wol no no okay moving right on to the fun part of the early part of the meeting we are recognizing this evening the Park Campus 7th and eighth grade Boyce basketball conference champions so welcome everybody and I'm going to hand it over to yes coach with very proud of these boys and their hard work they placed first in the conference Championship games and they are great players Ashton Moyer calebs and
003lose Gus brunmier Nolan Ford James Lucas Jason Lucas Patrick kovaleski Ryan McGrath Channon erson Finn lamman Landon Michael Colleen K kis kisc Tyler civik Jackson Brown Kai Carden Patrick clauser Ricky the Champs Owen derac Veron verton Freeman Matthew Gran uh Luke Jones Chase Kenya Alex leowski Brian mananga Aiden Moyer Mar Antonio Perez Jayce Reyes and Juan Santana [Applause] congratulations on an awesome season we do have uh some awards for you up here so if you would all make your way up here to get your ribbon and we'll do a picture yes we'll do a picture okay the and we'd also like to thank uh the coach Mrs pleo for a wonderful season we know that every great athlete needs a great coach so thank you for your work as well all right park athletes and
004parents you are very welcome to stay for the rest of the evening we will also understand if that is not on your agenda for the evening so we'll take oh we have a couple oh wait we got two more athletes come on up all right um we understand that that's not on your agenda this evening so we will take a moment to let people take their leave um before we continue with our meeting for [Applause] app thank you um Park Campus leader of the packs then math how was your oh okay we've got uh a little bit of a change in the agenda this evening just to make sure that we appropriately fit all of the topics in this evening uh so we're going to move to actually a sustainability Workshop that is scheduled for
005this evening uh which is about 20 minutes um of conversation which is now then we will move to the presentation of the math curriculum to the board then we will move to the Park Campus leader of the pack present I think I have that right I think so okay for this though I do need to get a motion to suspend the Roberts rules of regular board meeting order in that would be something the high school students would probably want to write down because we're suspending the rules of the meeting to move into a non- meeting agenda item okay so I need a motion to suspend Robert's Rules of Order to to move into the sustainability Workshop so moved I will second okay Miller I Mack I Albert I Weedman hi bradden hi and lroy I
006and just for your teacher we don't often do that so this is a unique meeting so okay I'm gonna hand it over to Mrs Miller and Mrs Albert or just Mrs Miller thank you go ahead J no just kidding um so there are more people in this room than I was expecting so we're going to shift out of this room into the library and that way all of us can circulate I'll tell you why in just a minute for the last hour we have met as a sustainability task force and we are charged with a few different things tonight's job was to Define sustainability really by looking at what exists in the district right now and the the task force split into four groups and they took four different themes and did three things let
007me back up they actually did one thing and it has three components all right so the four groups are uh land use resource conservation organizational systems and structures and renewable energy so in just a minute I'm going to ask you to go take a look at what they came up with we had not very much time please don't expect very fancy displays with really accurate data this is really just a first pass at this work so please um you know adjust your expectations but I'm going to ask that everyone go into that room and then take uh one of three items and they will be circulating there's different people who have them I have the posits and pens so if you have a question or an Insight or something you've been dying that to tell
008the board about sustainability and it fits into one of those categories you can write it down on a Post-It grab a pen stick it on that board Bo right and then um the other thing is look for money there is an envelope taped to each of those posters and we're going to ask you to adopt the Persona of donors if you were donating to the district what where would you want your money to go this of course is not real money someone just asked me if it was but there's people out there who have stacks of money to give you wow um so go ahead and do that and then there's also paper clips and I'm hoping those will be enough you're going to have to stretch with me on this the paperclip represents time
009so if you wanted to donate time to that initiative put a paperclip in I use paper clips because they're reusable so it's sustainable all right we have now maybe 17 minutes to do this 18 minutes 18 minutes thank you so if you um don't get to every board that's totally fine but just give us the feedback that you can in the time that we have is there a light switch in the library that I can like flick to let everyone know we'll just say I will stand on a chair and start yelling so when you hear me please come back in here because we have a very full agenda and Mrs Miller I was the one who asked about the real $100 bills I was trying for all of you but I failed I'm sorry
010as we're going into another room for the purpose of people who are watching the stream or are recording in the future we're going to just go ahead and suspend the streaming for the next 18 minutes or so while this is going on great thank you did I miss anything is it clear you're going to look at posters and give us feedback in three ways money post it and paper clip all right let's go we have e e e oh okay thank you everybody for participating in that very important work that the sustainability committee is working on we are now unsuspended so we're moving back into the regular meeting and a reminder for Mrs Miller if you have any of the H1 the fake $100 bills the posted notes or pens please return them to her
011or leave them up on the table over here at the end uh down by Dr W there uh just so that she can get her resources back okay uh at this point now we're going to be moving on to the Park Campus leader of the pack we we've made a slight adjustment once more to the while you didn't see that we did it and we're back to the leader of the pack we've got a couple families that do have to leave so we want to make sure that we're honoring um the Park Campus leaders tonight so I'm going to hand that over to them for the evening yes hello thank you for invi in us back to your board meeting I'm Jen Voss I am the Dina students at Park Campus along with the sponsor
012for our leader of the pack we'd like to say thank you to the Board of Education Dr Glickman Mrs Gluck and the d46 community for inviting us back today leader of the pack or leader of the pack consists of seven help better Park Campus leader of the pack has been involved in many activities at Park some of our highlights are the veteran day assembly all schoolwide Bingo donut day helping at concessions and broadcast announcements at Park School we started composting during our lunches composting is a simple way to significantly reduce amount of waste that ends up in landfill this helps kids learn how to recycle compost or trash composting is an important way to help reduce waste that goes into our landfills all students K through a plus teachers are participating our second activity for
013the no place for hate initiative involved each grade level being assigned a special children's book these books were thoughtfully chosen to highlight themes of inclusion diversity and the uniqueness of every individual after each story students participated in a variety of activities designed to deepen their understanding of these themes to make the lessons even more memorable each class also created an art project that Illustrated the beauty of togetherness through these activities we strengthened our commitment to being inclusive and supportive supportive of one another here are some upcoming plans for leader of the pack PBIS lesson we will be going into the K through 4 classrooms to teach read books and health the classroom teachers with PBIS s-s C lessons school store continue filling paw print orders and finding new items for the store we have already
014filled 258 orders helping at PTO events running concessions tickets and games we would like to thank the Board of Education Dr Glickman Mrs Gluck Mr mamad Mrs moras and the d46 community for allowing us this time us this time to share with you our celebrations and our upcoming plans for Park Campus we look forward to seeing you in April [Applause] thank you Park Campus leaders for a wonderful presentation I know I often speak on behalf of the board that we're always interested in the leadership that you show in this uh work and we're just wondering and we we we tend to ask this question once in a while I'm going to ask you a quick question um what what is some of the leadership qualities that you feel that you're gaining from this experience we
015hear from a wide variety of group of students and we're always interested in what what's something that you have pulled away from this this work that you're doing um I definitely think it's helped me um definitely publicly speak and um and it helps me like think about uh the things that we need to teach kids cuz uh they're definitely like our future and um I definitely want to help a lot of kids learn things we're a shy Bunch that's you know that's know every time I sit down at this board table I get nervous so it it it gets better but it hasn't gone away from me so but this work is good so thank you very very much I was going to say but this was a bigger group than you expected and you
016did a great job a great job takes a lot to stand up in front of a group this big so congratulations and before we move on I wanted just to comment since um one of the initiatives that you spoke about was composting we actually have here in the audience tonight our resource conservation volunteer Abby petrinsky and so Abby thank you for getting that going at Park Campus and all across the district thank you very good thank you very very much okay that moves us on to another big presentation this evening which is the math curriculum presentation so I will hand that over to Mrs Gluck and her team you just order okay uh good evening uh we are really excited to be here this evening to share our math resource recommendations with you uh before
017we get started we do have some of our PDT members with us so I'm going to have them introduce themselves and tell you what school they're at and what position they hold I'm Le Sal and I'm sorry to pull that down I'm Le Salis and I'm the instructional coach at me vi Katy Quadro fourth grade teacher at Park Jamie Parker District tosa Becky Wilson first grade teacher at Mew Jill Walberg third grade at prair R viiew Lisa boxer fifth grade at Frederick Annie Schultz and I'm thir grade at Avon Kelly curtz instructional coach at Park Amy Forest 7th and eighth grade math specialist at GMS they aren't all going to be speaking tonight so I wanted to make sure that they were able to introduce themselves as well so as I said we are excited
018to share with you our math recommendation and as we're considering everything that we're talking about with these math resources they are both going to be empowering our Learners and lots of different ways that we'll be explaining to you creating Equity within our classrooms and cultivating our community as they bring in real world problem solving so really excited to that it matches everything within our mission um as we're talking about this resource tonight we're talking about two different of goals of our uh strategic plan goals and then also one of our board policies uh fits within our curriculum goals so reviewing and updating teaching learning and assessment practices uh looking at material through an equity lens which was very much a part of our process as we were having conversations um and then our finance goals
019so we were looking at how do we review expand and clarify Financial practices to increase transparency and communication as we're aligning our financial decision-making I'm going to have a lot of sides about financial decision making at the end so I'll get to that one um and then this aligns for to our board policy 6 colon 40 which is our curriculum development and adoption so as I sh these are some of our PDT members our planning and design team I want to talk a little bit about what that process looked like this team met together for the last year and a half um in order to determine who was on the PDT we sought volunteers from within the district uh we were able to get representation from all of our buildings uh as well as as
020many grade levels as we could so that was really important to us so we had lots of voices in the room as we were having conversations once that PDT was created we had multiple meeting meetings that were scheduled across all of last school year and then so far this school year our last meeting was in January uh within those meetings we revised our math vision and belief statements which you'll see in a few minutes uh we then created A needs assessment um as a PDT that needs assessment then solicited feedback from The District staff from that needs assessment we were able to see what was important to the staff in whatever resource we were going to be bringing to you and wanted to make sure that aligned uh for that needs assessment we then developed
021a rubric that we were going to be using to assess the resources I guess as we were looking at them we used Ed reports to really look at what aligned to that need needs assessment what were highly rated programs that were out there and resources that were out there and then we initially reviewed nine programs that met all of that criteria uh from that we then chose three to look at more in depth those vendors came to us and gave us some presentations uh we then also had the materials physically on hand and went through them looked at them looked at the materials um and then the last piece that we added this year is we went on site visits so we went to other districts that are using the resources that we were looking
022at to see them in action in classrooms to see what how students were responding and then also seeking feedback from some of those staff so really long process to get to this point um I'm not going to read all these names to you but here you can see these are the K5 math PDT members we met together last year as K8 and then this year split off into K5 and 68 uh so as you can see we had representation from all our buildings at K5 and then these were our 68 PDT members so important for us to um be looking at and want to also thank all of these people for their time uh it was time out of their classrooms and away from their students to be able to help us to have these
023conversations and help to make these decisions so we absolutely appreciate their input and I'm going to turn this over to lean so as was stated before we did revise our math instruction vision and we did this as a um entire PDT so the ka8 teachers got together and we had lots of Rich discussions and we came up with this as our vision for our mathematics instruction to cultivate classroom communities where all students confidently engage in problem solving to develop their mathematical practices build a deep understanding of mathematical Concepts actively solve complex problems using multiple strategies apply their knowledge to real world situations and Foster a love of learning and growth mindset we also discussed our beliefs about math instruction and we came up with five core beliefs we believe that all students should meet or
024exceed grade level priority standards we believe that teachers should extend and intervene where needed we believe in providing a rigor learning experience for all students we believe in developing procedural skills along with a deep understanding of underlying principles and we believe that all students have the potential to be confident mathematicians so some additional information that's important for you to know is that our last math adoption was approved in 2019 uh one of our programs that we are currently using was uh we started using in 2017 so even two years before that um as we were looking at what uh resources met our needs we wanted to ensure that any resource that we were looking at came in both Spanish and English so that we could support all of our students and all of our programming
025uh we also knew just from being through adoptions before that no program is going to meet every single need that was requested from the staff uh but we wanted to meet as many as we could and we feel that the two we're bringing to you tonight do that we also know that professional development anytime we Implement something new is incredibly important and that we need to have sustained professional development for our staff in order to help to support uh the implementation within our classrooms and so we've had conversation about what that's going to look like and we'll talk about a bit about that in next steps and then we also know that whichever the resources that we're bringing to you those will be used for core instruction and those align to our state standards so
026that was all really important to us as we were looking for a resource with all of that being said K through five is recommending Imagine Learning I am y it's over here and thank you and then um our PDT members had some feedback that I'm not going to read it all to you but I'm just going to give you some um thoughts from it is that we're really excited about the Hands-On curriculum it's very student centered there is a lot of real world problems a lot of conceptual understanding that they have to do um when we went on our site visit we saw little kids little kindergardeners saying some really great things using math language and um doing things that we were impressed with so we're excited about it so going off of that some
027of the deciding factors that led us towards this recommendation uh we felt like it really had a good balance between math procedures and conceptual understanding that go with our Illinois learning standards um we felt that imagin IM really got students Hands-On exploring themselves versus teachers kind of directing them where to go it's a lot of exploration and then tying it back to the to the math concepts um the the assessments we felt really aligned with our goals and our priority standards um and then the real world application teaching students why it matters and when they're going to use this math in their real life so some of the components for students that we're very excited about um they have really nice student additions um and what we really like about these is there's a lot
028of great space for them to work out problems and you'll notice in them that it's asking the students to explain or show their understanding which is something that um is so necessary in math and so we really liked that part of um the lessons and all the lessons start with what do you notice what do you wonder which is something that's another great way to start a math lesson there's great digital access and there's interactive student activities um that are online but there's also um so much of the student um work is done together collaborating and talking about math which is so important and then for staff um there's really nice teacher editions that are printed but then the digital access is also uh will be really helpful there's presentation slides um which we a
029lot of us use anyway but we we right now we make them ourselves and so these come with the program and they have teacher instructions and so it's really user friendly um and there's also assessments that can be edited which is nice too that's a new feature that we're not used to um and so there's just so many uh parts to it that we're really excited about and we know it'll be an easy way to bring it to our teachers because they're going to be excited about all these new resources too the 68 math PDT is excited to bring um amplifi Desmos um to the board for recommendation um it is also over here um some of the highlights from this program and feedback that the PDT members gave um they were excited again to
030see that student centered um learning opportunities were embedded in problem solving based activities um lots of collaborative disc discussion um and engaging digital activities for our middle school students um while providing entry points for students at all levels which we really appreciated um another big part that uh the PDT really liked was that um the Desmos calculator is something that's being used by district 127 at the high school level um so our students will be exposed to that during their time in Middle School um which will hopefully provide a seamless transition as they move into the high school okay so how does this program meet our needs we found that it really presented the balance between mathematical procedures and the Deep conceptual understanding um from our standards so that was huge um lots of opportunities
031for differentiation which included the reteaching extension and small group instruction um several activities that were that are available for both enrichment and intervention and U remediation um the whole real world SI situations because what we deal with a lot in the middle school is why do we need to do this so there's a lot of that where we don't have to be be that creative um inquiry based learning opportunities um engaging Hands-On experiences and then lots of that student collaboration so some of the great features the program components for our students there are printed student additions that every student will receive there's a lot of great digital access that is student friendly as well as interactive student activities that go hand inand this program is wonderful because it does say when there's opportunities for collaboration
032to work within groups work within pairs but there's also when they need to be working independently as well to Fosters that love of learning and mathematical thinking we also have a responsive feedback in real time there's wonderful again collaborative tools built right into the program and it does boost that personalized learning opportunities for our students as far as the needs of our staff for program um components that will be available each teacher will have their printed teacher edition they'll also have digital access to planning and instructional resources it's very userfriendly which is great the presentations same as I am um they offer for teachers to have those presentations available and then we have the facilitation and progress monitoring tools that are built into the program for our formative and summative assessment ments as well as
033a reporting Suite so we can use that data to inform our instruction and then we also have intervention and extension resources available so before I talk about PD one of the other things I want to talk about with amplify is they also had for us not just sixth seventh and eighth grade but also Algebra 1 um and so we felt that was really important for our advanced class because that's what we're teaching um as algebra 1 and then it has a big connection to what's happening at the high school so we've been in collaboration uh regular collaboration with district 127 recently um really over through this whole process to talk about what are they implementing in math uh they have been utilizing building thinking classrooms within their math classrooms and that is really about having
034students have collaborative conversations about math uh that is one of the things that as we talk to a district 127 that they wanted to see more of coming from our students and so both of these resources are going to prepare our students to be able to do that so we're really excited about that so professional development is as I said really important uh once pending approval uh we want to move pretty quickly and start uh professional development right away this spring um and so we would start at some of our at our late starts in April and May providing some training for our staff uh to be able to see the materials to be able to start getting into some demo accounts and really start to get used to the language and some of the
035structures of both resources in addition to that as you know on our schedule next year instead of late starts we have early release time um and that time those half days we would be able to utilize um some of those as well for some deep professional development and support related to implementation uh we may also have to or provide some release time for teams if they would like that as well to to support that during the school year next year um Math teachers will also receive support from building instructional coaches both programs talked to us about a train the trainer model for training instructional coaches to then be able to really deeply support our staff within the buildings in addition to helping to provide some professional development from the companies themselves and then amplify which
036is the 68 actually has ongoing coaching that they would come in to be able to support us on site as well so lots of PD that's coming with this so the important parts that I said I was going to talk about and these are the cost um and all the financial pieces of this we had a lot of considerations as we were considering costs of the programs uh the first is that what we know from um all of these vendors is that there are contract breaks or breaks in pricing when you uh purchase a multi-year contract and so that was something that we looked at and we considered uh as we were looking at the different years the number of years that we would be looking at uh keeping or requesting uh recommending a resource
037we also were looking at different funding sources within our budget to be able to um determine how we could sustain this and then also looking at any additional pieces such as um materials and professional development for our program assistance as well I know we've been spending a lot of time talking about how are we going to support our program assistants who are supporting our students and so that is something that we also built into this recommendation so what are the costs uh so this is Imagine Learning I am um you have board you have full quotes so you can look at more detail but this is a a for a four-year contract uh the student access includes the consumable workbook which was shown to you and then that digital license which talks has some videos
038and virtual virtual manipulatives also digital centers and digital practice um assessment and some more things as well um that teacher access has the print teacher edition the print there's print teacher resources and then also a digital materials a digital dashboard that includes unit launch videos for their classrooms assignable lessons and assignable assessments which was something that was important to the PDT and then also opportunities for teaching notes uh the cost for this is and I'll talk about how this is going to break down in a minute but the cost for this one is 467,000 a little bit less for staff but overall students are about the same so then I also because I've wanted to do the breakdown per person right back and back to back so we have here the cost of uh breakdown
039per person for the 68 for amplify um their rationale for the Spanish being a little bit more expensive is that they produce fewer of those and so because they're not making such Mass numbers the cost is a little bit higher uh our funding source is going back to Im so we will be looking at uh 2third of this about uh in that our 2526 budget so next year's budget uh from the teaching and learning budget and then the remaining funds would be from the 2627 budget the reason that it's not split 5050 is they have asked for the all of the digital licenses to be paid up front so that is what's at the be the top end and then the rest is what is coming behind that so the breakdown of the amplify costs
040uh are it's the student uh materials so it's four years again of student access um again it has that consumable workbook has the the digital workbook and materials multimedia investigations and practice uh also the four years of teacher access has the teacher addition the digital materials and then an assessment Suite which again allows for some manipulation of those assessments from the teachers and then also has that implementation ongoing coaching support is part of that cost as well the four years from amplify is 336,000 so uh that is what that and the funding sources look a little bit different for this one uh we have 100,000 that we're going to do from this year's budget that I still have remaining from this year's budget uh the 209 397 is going to come from the teaching and
041learning budget for uh the from the 25 26 school year and then the PD is what is in that title two funding so we have the 7,400 coming from this year's title two funding and then the 19,300 coming from next year's title to so what are our next steps um all of these materials are on public review right now um and they'll be here until March 19th until that board meeting um so they will be available for anyone to come to look through them uh to be able to see them um we have told St that uh from the buildings that if they are interested in having some of those as well some of the PDT members asked us if we could bring some over to the buildings to look at too so we're going
042to have those available for staff um then if on public review if someone wants to make an appointment um to look through them and look through any of the materials you can do so by contacting Amanda wuff and then we are going to bring this back to the March 19th board meeting to request approval for the purchases and then pending approval we're going to start hitting the ground running with PD uh in June once the school year is over we'll have disposal of the old materials so we usually typically go through donations gifting and recycling of those materials uh some of the math manipulatives that we have in the building we're going to keep and use with the new program so we're we're repurposing some of the materials that we have um and then in
043July we should receive any new materials and that brings us to the end of our presentation what questions and comments you have thank you very much I open it up to the board any questions from board members Mr Weedman I I I have a couple for you um and so at the end of four years with these programs is the option to continue with these programs or are you going to be looking for um a newer program or with that being said is it less expensive for Renewal like we're only renewing the licenses and we're to get materials great question so most of the time uh if when you were we would look at renewing as long as we're like what we've been seeing over the last four years um most of the time when
044you renew you have to just renew their licenses uh the print materials don't typically in a four-year period change drastically um the student workbooks are consumable so it would we would have to continue to cover those um the way that the V set it up is that when they give you a 4year cost they like everything UPF front so we worked with them to work it out into a two years but yeah we would be looking at renewing as long as everything's going the way we liked which is what we did with our two current programs after their first initial adoption we renewed them okay I just want to jump in um what what Amy didn't show you is what the costs were before she negotiated them down so you know I I I I
045joke board you've heard me say before that I'd like to take her with me the next time I go to buy a car and I'm really not kidding so um really she's a wonderful negotiator they were much higher and thank you for that yeah thank you for negotiating very much appreciate that welcome um so I have a question but the question is really an image so I'm just going to paint in the air here so I think I heard that there are multiple Pathways in to this math curriculum at both levels both the Imagine and the 68 and I'm curious about the pathways out as they connect to 127 I think I heard you say there's been an lot of um intentional articulation with the high school district and I heard that collaboration is one
046of those goals I'm specifically wondering is there a pathway that's int is there an intact pathway for kids who want to I think it's called BC math have' been approached by a few different so that's not something they take in nth grade that's something they would take eventually right right eventually but at leads into college admissions too so is there a track that allows students to do that yeah so some of the high school placement um is done by the high school right so um when our students I'm going to kind of back up a little bit to freshman year yeah um when our students complete Algebra 1 here so if they're in our advanced level course um they are most of the time not always but most of the time eligible to go into
047either geometry honors or aat which is Advanced algebra trig um from that those two Pathways lead down towards what you're talking about okay um so we have had lots of conversation about and in fact at our I'm going to Amy was it December late start and Lisa I think it was December late start one of our late starts we had 127 came to our late start because they also have late start on Wednesdays and we had a whole conversation about Pathways so they actually explain to us some of the changes that they're looking at in their Pathways as well that give more kids more opportunities to take higher level courses when they are reaching out to do that wonderful thank you you're welcome appreciate that oh can okay all right I just I have I'm
048just curious what is the dmos calculator yeah do you guys want to explain it Kelly or Amy students it as but it's very complex very scary and I me where's Jen um it's scary for me because it's a little bit over my head but um it just it just does like all this graphic done do you want you want to come up cuz I mean you've really done it in your classroom I could explain it to you but I put on no sorry everybody um so my math teacher explained it to me and how we used it and I use it to help me with my homework and um my tests because we are allowed and it's supposed to be the same calculators as the calculators that are on the um State I testing so
049that we know how to use those I tests calculators and if you forget a calculator we can always go on our Chromebook and search it up yeah so it's on and I can let you explain a little bit more too but it's right on their um Chromebook so they have access to be able to use it um and I know the high school is using them a lot yeah so prior to being the dean I was an eighth grade math teacher at Park and we used Desmos a lot when we did graphing calculators and being able to graph line equations parabolas they're able to uh solve for x on there so they can do all their algebraic equations on Desmos um as probably the high school kids can test they also use it for like
050finding s cosine and tangent so those advanced classes you were talking about you know on their pathway they're able to use that so it's actually very useful for kids at sixth grade level who maybe are doing adding fractions right boxer and then all the way up to some of these Advanced programs but it's all done there instead of having that $90 graphing calculator that you would buy a Target every year and you could never find um this is free because it's an online thing uh an online they can actually use it in college too so I know some of the kids that I help tutor at the high school they're constantly using it um so it's actually a really useful tool for the kids and it's much more advanced than some of the yellow ones
051that we have in our district hope that helps Yeah you mentioned one of the considerations of cost was to make sure that you had license and materials for support staff um is that to imply then that anyone who might possibly conceivably have the reason to have an intervention with a math student uh you have enough licenses and materials for all those people who would be possibly engaging with students in math yes okay fast answer yes yeah that's before you all go I board any other comments board members okay I just wanted to take a moment to thank our teachers um first of all this was a really slow process you took your time on this and really did rush I know that was because you care so much about the instruction that you're giving to
052our students and it wasn't an easy decision it's also not easy to be out of your classrooms even you know you have to plan for substitutes we understand that we thank you for your careful deliberation along with this outstanding presentation I'm really excited to see it so thank you [Applause] thank you very very much okay that brings us to our uh the board report portion of this evening's meeting um I'll pass it along to my fellow board members Mr Weedman have any board reports no Mrs Miller I do not nope I do not have a board report this evening Mrs Braden no board report for me Mr ly Mrs oh um so I want to uh make a public um uh congratulations to Mrs Morgan for her February 12th recognition by the Lake County forest
053preserves board for her leadership and collaboration with the Lake County forest preserves for the past nine years to bring essential Environmental Education to students in our district um John wasik our district 6 Lake County Board member wrote about Mrs Morgan in our in his district Lake County Board newsletter published on February 12th and he not only thanked Mrs Morgan but he also thanked Dr Glickman our d46 Administration board members and importantly teachers students and parents and in his words he said it takes more than a village to Green a community districts District 46 has set a prime EX example through its curriculum and Leadership so I just wanted to make sure that a lot of people knew about that recognition um and then secondly I did attend a um the iasb governmental relations team webinar
054that they offer I think about monthly um the one on March on February 7th was prior to the governor's budget address there's another one coming up um March 14th and they think they'll have a better idea of what's going to actually move and not move legislatively um they talked a little bit about the mandated categoricals I remember that has been talked about before at this table um so just wanted to put that on your radar that I find them helpful so thank you I also would like to invite our student board members to share this evening since you are seated at the board table so I'll pass it along to you as well um for our update we have our K through fourth teachers um are hard are hard at work preparing for our author
055visit Alex Willen to Park Campus on Friday February 28th students had a contest to design the next book cover um for our yearbook and teachers were able to vote we do not have the yet but we will know soon teachers and students continue to work on the no place for hate c campaign um REM reminding each other um about kindness um acceptance through our monthly theme of mindfulness our fifth through e8th grade teachers have started to prepare for I testing doing sample problems and discussions during win time teachers have also continued the no place for hate campaign doing our mindfulness lessons all grades have started composting during lunches which helps teach us about how we can play an important role in Saving the environment thank you board members we appreciate you sitting at the table
056with us this evening and for your leadership in your schools thank you very much that concludes the board report section of our agenda and I'll pass it over to Dr Glickman for the superintendence report thank you Dr Mack um I to would like to welcome our Park students to the board table it's always real pleasure to have you here I also want to welcome some high school students are you all from North or you're from Central um we're always glad when we have students here at the in in the boardroom I'm going to make a guess that maybe a little birdie told you that we were welcoming some new administrators tonight and there would be cake am I right okay so we will be having a cake break in a little bit and you're here
057for for it um I'm going to hand this over to Mrs Gluck to talk about Institute day that we had recently yeah good evening again so we had Institute day on February 14th on Valentine's Day just a couple weeks ago uh and we had it was the Lake County uh Regional Office of Education held this institute day for um participants and it we there were two sites so our kindergarten prek through fifth grade was was at Lakes High School and 6th through 12th grade was at mundeline High School uh and I am excited to share with you that we had at The Institute day eight different presentation topics that were provided by District 46 staff so we're super excited about that so and if you'll bear with me I'm going to read off who they
058were and what their topics were so um Ruth gon presented on the Rebecca coddle young readers book Award nominees um Ivan Schmid and uh Jennifer Everett did a session on aligning common core standards with student interests related to literacy um Andrew frma and Nicole Blackburn uh presented on teaching math through problem solving to promote student achievement Lizzie Scott presented on math talks Michelle Williams um presented on nutrition for health teachers so not just nutrition um she also Michelle Williams also presented on incorporating yoga and mindfulness into the classroom uh we had Lizzy Scott Katie aquadro she's still here she might have just left uh Alexis marno um presented on student intervention and Michelle KN Angie week and lean Salis who is still here uh presented on building your classroom Library so really excited that we
059had all of these presentations from our to showcase our district and Mrs Gluck did do teachers have to present they do not so they were they volunteered to present they had to write a proposal submit their proposal and then were accepted by the Lake County Roe to uh present at the to present sessions I'm sorry for that moment of theater but I just wanted to make it clear that this is these are just examples of our professional um staff and we're really really proud and it was really exciting to have so many of our outstanding staff members presenting to Educators throughout Lake County about what we're doing here in District 46 um and then I'm just going to end with something fun which is that last Friday night was the Route 83 Showdown which was
060the um GMS basketball adult players versus the Frederick basketball adult players it was a fundraiser for the pto's for both of those schools um it was really fun there were some injuries but we're moving on from that um because we play we work hard as has just been shared and we play hard too um but it was really a fun night and that is the end of the superintendent's report this evening thank you Dr glan okay uh I need a motion to approve this evening's consent agenda please which includes the Personnel addendum the updated one that came earlier this evening so moved I'll second it okay bradden I mcroy I Albert I Miller I Mac I and Weedman I okay consent agenda is approved uh we have a lengthy action item um list this evening
061so we're going to start I need a motion from the board to approve the resignation of Dr Stephanie Diaz director of multilingual Services effective the end of the business day on February 28 2025 with thanks from the board for her long service to District 46 I'll move I'll second and I just wanted to share a little information first of all if anyone is looking at our agenda just to clarify we've moved some of our action items around a little bit so that we're talking about all of our staff member uh topics first and then we're going to take that cake break and then we'll finish the rest so um we are really very sorry to be losing Dr Diaz but we're really excited for her and actually for students and families across the state of
062Illinois because she was offered a position at Illinois State Board of Education in the multilingual Department she's going to be focusing on grants tactics guidance documents and migrant students and in this way she will continue supporting families um in our community as well as the multilingual Community Statewide so ISE is lucky to have her and very eager to have her get started so she starts that new gig on Monday thank you Dr Gman I think we still need a motion NOP jeez I clearly you Mo you motioned I spoke and now you voting thank you thank you just knock me in the yeah that's what I okay bradden I with gratitude Miller if I have to I and I'm very excited for her Mac I again with great thanks Albert I Weedman I and lroy
063I okay thank you motion approved uh Second and as as Dr Gman mentioned I'm at the bottom of the list here so uh I need a motion to approve the appointment of Vanessa Herrera Morales assistant principal at Park Campus as the part-time point4 FTE interim director of multilingual Services effective February 17th 2025 with an additional stipend at a rate of $2,000 per month until the end of the business Day on June 30th 2025 so moved I'll second please speak about that one as well thank you so when that happened when we got that news literally that very day I got in my car and drove over and talked to Mrs Morales um who I knew and other cabinet members knew was absolutely the perfect person to take on this work um we are so grateful
064that she said yes um of course we know that this is you know that we ultimately need a full-time director of multilingual services so Vanessa is going to be filling in two days a week and we're just kind of uh Gathering up and doing the rest of the work and actually thank you to Mrs Glau coino is doing some of the extra work indeed we also need a full-time assistant principal at Park Campus which we will not have well have Mrs Morales there three days a week I'd like to very much thank Mr mamad sitting next to Mrs Morales there who from the very beginning said you know I'm excited for my teammate I know she can do this work and we will figure out how to fill those holes at Park that also has
065meant we've had a bunch of district office administrators jump in to fill some of those roles along with some staff members as well so um we're really excited and Bor you can see your kind of um post voting because we had to get her started we we needed some time to do some transition work with Dr Diaz so um I believe you've had four days on the job four days four very full days um thank you very much for the hard work you've already done okay thank you okay Miller I Braden I I Mack I Albert I Weedman I and lroy I motion approved congratulations thank you okay now I need a motion to approve Dr Jeff pricket as the new metaview principal for the 2025 2026 school year I'll move I'll second and Dr
066wol good evening everybody um I'm here to uh read a little bit about Dr pricket I'm going to turn it over to some of my colleagues uh who were on the interview panel with us to speak a little bit about Dr pricket um Dr Jeff pricket continually impressed uh the interview panels uh and clearly showed his ability to leave uh Jeff will be joining meow viw from um McKenry High School District 156 where he served as principal for the past eight years prior to that Dr pricket was a middle school principal for five years and an elementary principal for eight years his extensive work and Leadership with plcs seal standards special education mtss and professional development helped them to stand out as our next instructional leader at meew school so now I'm going to turn
067it over to some of the medal teachers who uh helped select Dr pricket we'd like to welcome Dr Jeff pricket to Meow viw in d46 we were impressed by his leadership experience and approach to leadership his vision aligns so well with what we believe at meow view on behalf of meow View and the whole staff uh we are excited to welcome Dr pricket we are looking forward to starting this new Journey with him and continuing the hard work that we do at Meadow View every day welcome Dr pricket we all look forward to the beginning of many great years together we have you can you give us a way now we make it official now that is Mac hi Miller I Weedman hi Albert I lroy I and Braden I motion approved [Applause] congratulations it's
068a very exciting tonight um because not only are we hiring the principal at meow View school but we are also hiring our next director of operations maintenance and safety um I would like to welcome Jose zers uh who has served as a director of facilities at Warren High School Township uh 121 for many years prior to his role as the Director of facilities he served as a facil facility manager a maintenance leave and electrician at Warren most recently Jose has served as a construction superintendent for a firm specializing in school construction Jose's extensive experience in his operations roles along with his commitment to his team Improvement helped him stand out as the next director of operation maintenance and safety Jose will be starting with us pending board approval March 17th and working uh with current
069interim Steve Miller to get caught up to speed um yes so I'd like to bring up yirra jyra sorry as uh one of our uh onm staff who helped select um Mr [Applause] Zar hello good evening everyone my name is Jara Alvarez head custodian for Woodview school and from the Department operations and maintenance um we just here to say thank you he was um a very well candidate uh what our team is looking for he demonstrated leadership and what we were looking for in our team so thank you for everything and hoping board approving he would be our new boss all right now here we go I need a motion to approve Jose zerz as the Director of operations maintenance and safety effective March 17th 2025 so moved second okay Albert I Mac I Miller
070I Braden hi mcroy I and Weedman I motion approved congratulations are we doing cake now okay we're going to suspend again for cake and for the members online we're going to turn off the streaming for a moment we'll be back e e e where I was here okay going back to the top okay we can go ahead with the streaming again thank you okay and we're back and we uh we're going to continue through the uh action items motions so I'm going to go now down from the top of the list I need a motion to approve the contract renewal for GSF nighttime custodial services for the 2025 26 school year I will make that motion I will second it I'm sorry Weedman I Miller I Mack I Braden I lroy I and Albert I
071okay motion approved I need a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the issuance of 3,1 15,000 taxable 2024 educational purposes tax anticipation warrants in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied for the year 2024 by the district for educational purposes and authorizing the sale of said warrants to community Unit School District number 95 Lake County Illinois I'll move I'll second yes so I would it would be great if I could address all three of the agender items in the B packets um so this agender item the res which is the resolution for the issuance of tax anticipation warrants then we have a following resolution which directs transfers from the working cash fund to the education fund and then the third resolution is abating our taxes so the board through referandum process and afterwards made a
072commitment that taxes um that were that were increased uh through the levy of 2024 would be equally evaded this year so it's not to increase them for taxpayers for the abatement to be fully legal and anticip and accepted by Lake County we must have the full abatement amount available in the education fund at the time of the resolution all three res res Solutions together allow this to happen uh usually school districts that aate are doing so to give tax relief to taxpayers and have the necessary fund balance available we are abating to keep a promise we do not currently have the full amount therefore borrowing part of it with an tax tax anticipation warrants and the working cash loan to the education fund the full amount is covered for the abatement legally when we receive
073the tax increases in May and September we will replay we will repay repay the tax dispar warrants and the inter fund loan will be reversed the deadline to file bment at the county level is February 28th yes uh by State Statute so all this is to say all this maneuvering was anticipated at the time we knew that we were going to be doing the abatement to the extent that we didn't know exactly what the balance would be but this is nothing that's new or unexpected it it was anticipated that we would have to pass resolutions for this to happen Okay lroy I Braden I Albert I Miller I Mac I and Weedman I okay thank you motion passes uh the second motion I need a motion to approve removed a resolution directing the transfer of
074funds from the working cash fund of the district to the educational fund of the district in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied by the district for educational purposes for the year 2024 and that such money is so transferred to be reimbursed from such educational taxes upon their collection I'll move second okay Albert I Mack I Braden I lroy I Miller I and Weedman I okay thank you motion approved I need a motion to approve the resolution transferring funds from the educational fund of the district to the bond fund of the district and abating taxes heret for levied for the year 2024 to pay debt service on outstanding bonds of the district I'll move I'll second okay Mac I Braden I Albert I Miller I lroy I and Weedman I okay thank you motion approved
075uh next motion I need a motion to approve the superintendent search firm bwp I'll move I'll second can we have some discussion I'm opening the discussion yep perfect okay so I did a deeper dive into taking a look at bwp versus hya and wanted to I was concerned because bwp does not offer if I understand Christy correctly they don't offer a superintendent I'm I'm sorry a um strategic planning plan uh process for us so what that means is we've got community engagement for sustainability right now then we've got a distinct Community engagement process for the superintendent search and then another Community engagement process for uh for strategic planning and so I thought how could we streamline this so that we can save ourselves some money and some time and get a more robust output so
076Brandon I'm sorry stop Brandon Dar could you put my um slide up please thank you so for our discussion I reached out to hiyi hya and asked them about streamlining the process and they did and they sent us a proposal back and this is what they suggested that we would have four phases and that they could combine those Community engagement processes so that we would have one process that then would give us Direction both for hiring a superintendent and for doing uh strategic planning down thead throughout this calendar just want to for clarity sake I asked if they would switch phases two and three so that we would first hire a really good person and engage that person in strategic planning so that's the only thing that and they agree that that would be possible
077okay so I emailed you um and it's just too small to display but I emailed you a look at the cost differential and if we if we purchase Services individually it's more expensive than if we go with hya and this streamlined process in money by about $4,000 assuming the rates stay very similar to what they've stayed in the past so between three and $4,000 which isn't a crazy amount of money but we are running an operational deficit so I want wanted just to find some some way of saving the the district a little bit of money I think more importantly is that it saves us a pretty significant amount of time if we use purchased Services if we do strategic planning and the soup search individually and the time allotment is similar to what it's
078been in the past we're talking about the board spending about 45 to 50 hours in this process as opposed to about eight hours if we do a streamlined version of this through hya additionally our staff according to again some approximate estimations spent about 42 hours on this process combined no okay and uh as compared to about four hours what we would be asking for them if we streamline the process I think that's significant given that we're in contract negotiations right now um and then there's the community input as well so I'm asking that we consider hya because I think it's going to save us time it's going to save us money but even more importantly I think we're going to get get a little better uh more robust deliverables from them part of what they
079so I'm going to come back to cost in just a minute I'm going to circle back to that but part of their process involves three board development workshops one is in decision-making and then there's two others and those are targeted directly to our specific context and our specific board so I think that's going to give us a little bit more professional development than we've had in the past and save us time doing it and keeping it local um I also think they have a little wider reach and so I think there may be some employees of the federal government that are out in the world right now looking for jobs from the Department of Education I just think it would be nice to be able to talk with them and I think hya has a
080better reach for that going back to cost in order to make this work if you look at the email that I sent before with those calculations it the trade-off is AAA so if we we would need to for in order to realize those cost savings we would need to forgo triple I and that that's hard to swallow um we get a lot out of of triple I I think primarily in professional development and networking and um time with with staff as well but I think we can mitigate those if we forgo triple I for one year in terms of professional development those board development workshops again are going to be targeted to us and are going to help our two new board members on board with really specific um training in our district with a
081new superintendent which I think might be valuable the second thing is I know that we um there's a lot of relationship building that goes on at triple I think we can still get that through the Lake County divisional meetings if we all commit to going to them so I think we would get that we'd still get that over time and then um what I didn't know and what I would love if Dr Gman if you would speak into this what the impact on staff would be as we consider a streamline process and not going to Tria does that sound right in terms of time and then also in terms of being able to mitigate some of the the tradeoffs for tripa um sure so to go back to the time piece for a moment um
082when we spoke a little bit about how much time staff spent on strategic planning when we did it the last time which as you remember I you know it was quite a few years ago um so we did the best we could to try to identify what that was but that time included certainly all of the meetings that was were a part of strategic planning if I'm understanding correctly what this proposal is I it sounds to me like hya is saying while we are surveying the community regarding what the community is looking for in a new superintendent we can also be surveying the community to to feed the strategic planning process but there would still need to be a robust strategic planning process so I think there would be many many more hours that would
083still be a part of strategic planning which probably isn't folded into this proposal right okay yeah um as far as triple I goes you know remember that um triple I it's a triple for a reason right it's the Illinois School Board Association it's the iasa which is the um superintendent Association and it's asbo which is the business uh Association business manager assoc association so you know we get we gain professional development through all three of those organizations when we go to Triple I so it would be a loss of not being able to have that professional development um and I think when we talk about networking um it's it's just networking in so many um different ways um sitting at this table right now she's going to turn red when I say I'm looking at
084her Amanda pelser we have Amanda peler sitting at the table because I um networked with her and recruited her hard at triple i a few years ago and here she is so you know those are the kinds of things that happen when we are when we are all out there together okay it's true Talent like it is okay I was not part of the conversations uh for the board members who were considering the different companies because I was not able to attend so I I opened the floor to to my colleagues if there's additional comments that want to be made before the motion M Albert I I just want to stress how important I think our board's voices at the delegate assembly at triple I um there are a lot of thoughtful discussions that go
085into that and we determine our voice as a board and then we are part of the vote at that assembly and it's very meaningful I think it's one of the most important jobs we have to give direction to the iasb about how how we feel as a board and have our District's voice represented um so I would not want to give that up it's super important to me for us yeah I'm not necessarily weighing the balance of the the trade-offs here but I guess I'm just going to give you my opinion and it probably belies um the way I operate and you could ask my wife I can't multitask very well I prefer that we choose the firm that's best for the superintendent search to do the superintendent search and then serially move on to
086the next thing that we have to do I do appreciate that there might be some Savings in cost and perhaps in time but um I I just think that we identified the firm that we think we want to do the superintendent search it served us well in the past and that's my position is I'd like to to move forward with the bwp nomination yeah I'll just add that um same um I want the best search firm and I believe that's bwp for us for multiple reasons that we've discussed before and by going down the route of choosing hya for strategic planning we eliminate all the other firms that we could look at for strategic plan and we artificially eliminate everybody else and I don't want to do that so I'll be voting for B tonight
087I any additional comments just thank you thank you for having this appreciate apprciate being able to pass it out together okay ready Miller no nay Albert I bradden I Mack I Weedman I and lroy I okay thank you motion approved um hold on okay I need a motion to approve the purchase of Apple laptops for certified staff right that's where I'm at yes okay I'll move I'll second that okay are you talking you want to make a comment yeah sure yeah go ahead yeah the the one thing that I will say about um this that is exciting especially coming out of the um uh sustainability work that we did um one of the lease payments for these devices is going to be paid for by the recycling of um I'm going to say yeah recycling
088of our current devices so we're going to take that money and reinvest it in our new devices thank you lroy I Albert I Mack I Braden I Weedman I and Miller I thank you motion approved uh and the last motion we need a motion to approve the technology purchase forward Edge battery backup system I believe that was presented to us I'll move I'll second okay brayen mcroy I Albert I Weedman I Miller I and Mac I okay thank you motion approved uh that was the last of our motions uh we do do not have any unfinished business this evening uh new business update to policy 7 colon 100 Dr Glickman yeah I'm happy to talk about that so um this is an update of our policy simply to um chase our current practice and actually
089what we have in our student handbook and this is related directly to when we um when we exclude students if they have not completed the Illinois Department of Public Health examination form um so in other words if we don't have the proper documentation about um the vaccines and medical appointments so um according to um the policy that we currently have posted that date is October 15th however several years ago we changed that as we are permitted to do by the state of Illinois as long as we put certain structures in place which we have such as notifying parents ahead of time we're allowed to move that to the first day of school and we did that a few years ago and it's actually really supported having kids kids in class because what was happening is
090when the exclusion date was October 15th families that were having trouble scheduling doctor's appointments could just kind of put that off a little bit school would get started and perhaps the urgency of the matter would get lost and here we would be nearing October 15th letting families know you need to do it you need to do it people wouldn't do it and on the 15th we would have to exclude many many many students it was hard really hard when we moved it to the start of the school year that's a time when people are a little bit more engaged thinking about school is starting what do I have to do and if what I have to do is make a doctor's appointment for my child I'm going to do that and so it made an
091enormous difference so um it just turned out that we had never actually changed our board policy and we've just recognized that and so we want to change the board policy to match what we were actually already doing any questions about that board okay thank you that brings us to topics for future agenda items back to you yeah that's me again okay um so March 19th we will so again on the 19th of March we'll be having a sustainability Task Force at 5:00 pm which means we will again have a conversation with that task force at the board meeting um that ml um sorry the multilingual PDT we'll be bringing a recommendation about uh revisions to our multilingual Services we'll also have a presentation from organic life that's our Food Service Company um sharing that this
092is our first year with that company and they'll be sharing information with you about how that's been going and you'll be able to ask questions of them uh Dr Chris woke will come with a preliminary Staffing plan for the 25 26 school year um back to tonight's presentation we'll be bringing back that math resource approval everything that Amy Gluck shared with you we'll also bring that policy back to you for approval the one that I just talked about um and then we have two discussions one is in uh um W Architects engagement so that will be a discussion uh for upcoming work along with um GHA a contract renewal discussion so that will happen on March 19 18 um April 9th it's possible that we could have a policy committee meeting um it depends and
093whether or not we not we have a press update by then and we don't know um if we do then we'll also have policy discussion at the board meeting uh GMS students will be coming and presenting to your board and also sitting at the board table just like we had the pleasure of having tonight with Park um we have staff members coming to present about evolve which is a social emotional learning program that we have going on at Frederick right here at Park and at GMS um so staff members will be sharing information along with um some of the practitioners from the Evolve organization that we work with uh Dr W will come back with the Staffing plan again and also put um information about non-renewals student staff non-renewals if we have any of those
094and then we'll ask for approval s for GHA en rolls and then moving forward to April 23rd we have the park wolves coming back again um we will have a sustainability discussion again on MAR uh April 23rd because we will have had a five o'clock uh sustainability task force um we're going to be seating new board members which means we're saying goodbye to some board members aren't we we don't want to talk about that um and then we're planning to hire two more administrators two new administrators a new um assistant principal for gy Lake Middle School and the new director of multilingual services for the 252 School 26 school year and that brings us to May and I'm not going that far right now good thank you very much bet excellent uh do we have
095any public comments down there Dr no no okay all right so we do need to go into close session s this evening so I'm going to journ the meeting into Clos session we don't anticipate any additional business to come out after Clos session so we will journ completely from there we do need to take a picture with our high school guests before they leave so I'm going to I need a motion to enter into close session in accordance with public Illinois Public Act 5 ilcs 120/2 paragraph C2 Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees I'll move I'll second okay lroy I Miller I Mac I Albert I Weedman I and Braden I okay we are going into
096close session thank you everybody have a good evening you guys come on up for a photo here