001hi here Taylor here Wong here and Frank is here but he stepped out to wash his hands so he's not coming back is that what you're saying he's in the building he's just not Elvis may not come back you never know uh the mission of school district 15 is to produce world-class Learners by building a connected learning community um it's a great meeting today we're all very happy the uh there was a lot of fear and trepidation over the last couple weeks that we would have to walk into the meeting today tempering our tears after not being successful in the election yesterday fortunately that's not the case right now I still can't believe that our election results yesterday are real um 62.67 yes votes which is astonishing to me [Applause] so we're doing pretty good
002today it uh it all feels as though we all have been working towards yesterday for so long that being on the other side of that date is pretty surreal so all day today I was just like oh my goodness what am I going to do what am I going to do I got all this free time now actually your job right right and my real job don't tell my boss um anyway I want to thank each and every one of you for your support through the process it's been years of process with everybody making a tremendous amount of effort in order to get us where we are um and the support of the community and everybody that showed up yesterday and for early voting and for mail-in ballots and everything else all the people that
003helped um on our yes committee all the citizens that were just part day after day after day and really went above and beyond staff who had a day off yesterday and chose to come in and give some hours of time at polling places and um and moving things around that was amazingly amazingly impactful also and really showed the community that not only is the board involved not only is the administration involved not only did we have this great yes group but also that our staff cared enough to come on out when they didn't have to and uh for that I think everyone that was involved um I think it goes without saying that that support and the effort means the world to all of us who uh who have worked really hard to get to
004where we are today so today we get to begin the exciting work of executing our moving 15 forward plan it's been years of planning and now we've got a couple years of execution coming um from my perspective I think it's going to be a pretty exciting ride for the next year and a half I'm sure it will not be without trials and tribulation there would there will be much I anticipate as we try to keep to the schedule and also keep within budget to make sure that we we come together with what we promised at the beginning and do it in a really really well done way um again I I thank you from the bottom of my heart as does the rest of the board and all of our staff Pledge of Allegiance we
005have Central Road here to lead the uh the pledge are they I do side yes here they come on hello welcome to the boardroom there's that table a little or no good evening Dr Hines president shupai members of our school board and of course members of our community thank you for offering us the opportunity to be here this evening my name is Joanna Shasta Chuck and I'm the proud principal of Central Road School Mrs Green our assistant principal is here with us as well we brought a very special group of students with us who participate in one of two clubs we offer at Central Road we not only place strong emphasis on academic success but we too focus on building a very strong School community by offering various clubs students have the opportunity to connect
006with different peers while also giving back fostering creative thinking and learning new skills student members of both our kindness crew and our yoga and wellness club are here with me this evening before we jump in to tell you a little bit about both of our clubs I'd like to introduce some very special teachers from Central Road who help facilitate our kindness crew and our yoga and wellness club Mrs Fior and this is Gonzalez help facilitate our kindness crew we also have this Donnelly [Applause] Mrs Fink is here with us this evening and Mrs Ackley is actually one of our parents at Central Road who helped with our yoga and wellness club so we have several students here um who represent both of our clubs they'd like to introduce themselves and they'd like to say a
007few words related to our clubs and we'll go ahead and begin with our yoga and wellness club first can I take this you can okay if you can yes my name is 86 first and second ladies joined our organ one is Club wow my name is Penelope my last name is Geo we learned strategies to calm our bodies and Minds my name is Sam Wagner we practice breath awareness and mindful movements and we teach our classroom strategies we learn my name is Will Wagner and for example we make breathing buttons and calm bottles to make us stay focused hi my name is Leah we learned the sun dance and Peaceful Warrior for isn't it mindful movement my name is Sarah Posey when we leave our club we feel relaxed and ready to learn my name
008is Damien Peterson we are strong We are brave in Wellness all right great job yoga and wellness club next we'll go ahead and turn it over to our kindness crew good evening I'm satara and I am so excited to be in kindness crew the kindness crew started last year it was created to encourage others to be kind and to make people happy there are almost 40 students in this club our sponsors are Miss pior Miss Gonzalez Miss harder and Miss Donnelly here are some of the things we have done to make a difference in our school and community hi my name is Emory and this is my second year in kindness crew the kindness crew has made ornaments for nursing homes can you believe that last year we made over a hundred ornaments for nursing
009homes in our community we hope to double that this year the best part is that it made the senior so happy when they saw the ornaments this was a great project and had a huge impact on others we can't wait to do this project again because of so much fun I'm Lauren I want to tell you about the dog toys we made for a dog shelter last year we started this project by making a donation stand in our school for shirts that didn't fit her were unwanted we cut them into strips and then braided them with a partner then when we were done we donated these dog toys these dog toys to the shelter and then and the dogs love them you should have heard their happy barks this is my first year in kindness
010crew and I'm excited that we're gonna do this project again this year hi I'm Michaela I have also been in this club for two years last spring we made placemats for a nursing home we decorate them with flowers and other spring things and wrote positive notes on each one of them we also created flower vases with poems for every table we wanted their dining room to be a special place that would bring them Joy hi I'm abiga and this is my second year of kindness crew too I love this club because of all the fun things we do to help others or brighten their day for example last year we wrote positive toxins all around our school we love seeing all the smiles that students got off the buses and walked into school we also
011painted rocks with kind and motivational words and placed them in the Sierra Garden for all to see hi I'm David we already have been very busy this year we made positive Locker notes for our whole school we put them everywhere classroom on classroom doors bathroom doors and mirrors and every student's Locker we love seeing all the students smiling faces as they read our notes and teachers and staff too hi I'm Andrew and I'm new to kindness screw this year together we have thought of so many great ideas to spread kindness throughout our community this year we want to raise money for dog shelters pick up trash at parks in our community have a clothing and coat drive-through for homeless shelters write letters to children in the hospital read with young students read or play games
012with people in nursing homes volunteer at the Rolling Meadows food drive do acts of kindness for veterans just to name a few our hope is that our active acts of kindness will encourage others to pay it forward for Veterans Day the kindness crew made Flags posters and signs we wanted to honor all our veterans that fought for our lives we also have a group of us who are reading a poem at an upcoming assembly and another group who is performing a play to educate our students about the meaning of Veterans Day we are even raking leaves this Sunday for veterans we are excited about all the ways our club is making a difference in the world we even made t-shirts that were designed by one of our students thank you for the opportunity to let
013us be a part of this special Club [Music] [Applause] all right thank you kindness crew now if you could all please stand and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay and parents feel free to come up all right [Music] all right everybody just keep smiling okay because we've got lots of people are taking pictures ready every time I come in the morning okay guys that was awesome okay only 30. all right thank you so much thank you work that you're doing to make Central Road a Kinder and calmer and more flexible school is that a little present for each of you it's a high five because I'm giving you each a high five set of markers to use while you're working on your writings [Music] thank you thanks for bringing the
014kids super cuties oh my gosh [Music] see see what's happening here though what do I one five close it okay there you go now maybe should it should maybe I shouldn't have it say automatically thanks yes we do there's uh Cynthia Fletcher I use my okay I wonder because all right next item on the agenda I've been using this thing staff recognition are you but it's not working I did that good evening president chupai Dr Hines members of the board and all of our guests tonight I'm very pleased to be here to recognize one of our excellent staff members Cynthia Fletcher [Applause] we all know how difficult it is to educate children and throw covet on top of that and it's really been very very challenging to say the least over the last few years
015but what Cynthia exemplifies is our staff members who took covet and it really brought out the best in them rather than the worst in them and uh for our um for this month's recognition Dr Larry Sasso and assistant principal Andy Albert nominated one of their TJ staff members who went above and beyond to help get one of our programs going and with that our assistant principal Albert's going to talk a little bit about Cynthia and why she's here today foreign good evening uh congratulations to not just you but to all of us for uh yesterday's results so that's great news I'm Andy Albert I'm the assistant principal at Thomas Jefferson and when Dr Sasso mentioned that we had an opportunity to recognize and give a shout out to people on our staff obviously several names
016came to mind but since the summer one person in particular really stood out Cynthia Fletcher impressed me from the beginning as someone who will do anything for her students and for her colleagues many teachers are willing to help out their peers they will give advice they'll print out sub plans set up the room for the day even help plan with their teammates however many teachers draw a line at setting up other people's classrooms for them over the summer Cynthia has no such limits she came in over the summer and completed the other leap classrooms to ensure that students had a welcoming classroom to walk into and also to ensure that those teachers who are late to be hired would have one less thing to worry about and I think that's amazing since then Cynthia has
017made herself available to consult with those new teachers whenever her students are not in the classroom she gives up her plan to time she stays late she comes early all in an effort to help her teammates she is the voice of the leap teachers and the elite students she is an advocate for the programs and for the students and Cynthia makes everyone around her better she inspires them all to do her best and she has an asset to the students and to the staff at TJ so congratulations Cynthia amazing thank you foreign [Applause] [Laughter] family yeah other staff you're supporting me [Applause] yes all right and one two three congratulations [Applause] for all of those who don't know Cynthia's super humble I didn't even think we'd get her here today thank you Tammy [Music] um
018she does it without any need for recognition but we're happy to be able to honor for tonight okay foreign okay next up it's my pleasure to honor our Board of Education tonight as part of the annual effort put out by the Illinois Association of school boards right around November 15th every year we work to honor the volunteers that serve on our school board there are over 850 school districts in Illinois that have boards and I would argue that none of them have a board that is good is as good as ours so it is our um my pleasure not only to work with you but to give you each a small token small gift of appreciation along with a certificate that I want you to hang on the fridge so your children can see um
019that you've received very good marks from superintendent Heinz in District 15. today's theme or this year's theme is partners in excellence this this group is very easy to partner with no matter how hard the work is they always partner with so for that we're just grateful we could not do what we do without you so help me say thank you to this very exhausted and wonderful board president no I don't really have anything to say does anybody have anything to say well you gave us thank you because I have something to say too so Becca asked a number of children what does the board of education do let's see what they said [Music] eat your lunch came to be quiet in a hallway don't run in the hallway you can make new clothes sure because
020it's the earth and the board of education has an Earth Day to help the school [Laughter] and [Music] that was awful Isn't that fantastic I love it all right so should we um should we get a picture a new picture does everyone want to put their shirts on and you know hop over to the step and repeat foreign that is not what a board of education does that is not what a board of education does racism I don't know what happened to it at last night's celebration it was working last night from here yeah okay here we go no they don't get high five markers [Music] okay ready one two three all right thank you Maybe next year [Music] all right we now open our meaning to public comments please remember that this is not
021a dialogue between you and the board if you have a specific issue for which you require a response superintendent Heinz or her designee will follow up with you as needed please state your name and identify any group that you represent also limit your remarks to no more than three minutes if someone previously articulated something with wish which you agree please state that you agree rather than reiterating the entire comment finally avoid any commentary specific to a person student or staff member respecting that person's right to privacy this is not the form to comment on personal issues my words will be brief I simply wanted to make a public thank you to the superintendent and all those within the administration for the efforts put forth in presenting to the community the need for the referendum this
022past election this Administration is what our community has needed for quite some time thank you also to the current board members for showing your support to these administrators I'm hoping that with the physical improvements to our schools we will also see Improvement amongst our fellow community members in respecting the knowledge and expertise our Educators bring to our children thank you so much for all your work thanks Jim Joyce thank you Joyce Slavic up next first I want to say yay for yes for 15. I think the community everybody came together you guys did a great job presenting that and making a great justification for it I'm very excited we'll all be winners for that um I want to talk a little bit just about the book bands of curriculum bands that we've heard at previous
023meetings right-wing hate is on the offensive we've seen it with the Donald Trump presidency we saw it during the January 6th Insurrection and we've seen it played out in our own District right-wing extremists keep trying to stoke Division and hate in our community by pushing for book bans promoting anti-lgbtq hate and attacking diversity initiatives Americans overwhelmingly do not support book bans in a CBS poll from February over 80 percent of those poll do not support any book bans related to ideas critical of U.S history or discussions of race according to NPR since January 2021 there have been 35 States and 137 bills seeking to restrict education on American history race gender and sexuality from the CDC national youth risk behavior surveillance survey results from 2019 is clear from the National Data that many lgbtq young
024people continue to suffer higher health and suicide risks than their peers lgbtq students are more likely to experience victimization violence and suicidal thoughts than straight cisgender youth in many areas of the data data transgender students are facing more disparities in 2019 than they were in previous years the data show that 43 of transgender youth have been bullied on school property 29 of transgender youth 21 of gay and lesbian Youth and 22 percent of bisexual youth have attempted suicide adults model modeling this bullying and hateful behavior in these very meetings in other school districts including the 211 is painful and sad to witness good news is that in recent polling reported on political indicates that voters are far more worried about schools day-to-day concerns than the right-wing extremists creepy obsession over gender identity and supposed liberal
025classroom quote indoctrination um uh Katrina Mendiola from the Nea states that what people care about are the same things that Educators care about they want well-funded schools they want Educators to have livable and competitive pay and they want mental health support for their kids and I think we saw a lot of that with the support for D15 and the referendum extremists are focused on crushing public education and replacing it with private schools that lack transparency and don't support diversity equity and and inclusion often they're promoting their religious values while diverting public funds from our Public Schools I believe that like most of America our district does not believe in book bans in doing away with health and sex education we don't want to see guns throughout our schools instead we do want to see diversity
026equity and inclusion initiatives Thrive we want mental health support we want kids to learn honest accurate actuate accurate accurate history with all its blemishes as well as its points of Pride and we want support for all our students we cannot save every kid but that doesn't mean we don't try and seeing these kids up here with with their kindness clubs makes me want to cry because it's beautiful so um we shall not let Hey win thank you thank you Josh [Applause] thank you very much anybody else like to speak Tom Lori said Laura said no sorry [Laughter] for attendance update [Laughter] start tonight's meeting just recapping the fall moving 15 forward plan at the community so lovingly and and graciously approved I'm kidding not going through the whole plan normally I talk about those three
027gears just wanted to make sure everybody was paying attention but what we will talk about tonight and look at Frankie's rubbing his head he's like oh my God is the yes and Lisa you said it in your opening remarks um 62 of the community said yes to district 15 to move us forward we were snapping pics at staff that came out again you said this and you were opening remarks as well as community volunteers to man The over 30 polling places within our precinct for a total of 13 hours that the polls were open many staff came on their day off because as we all know two years ago Illinois schools were closed on polling polling days so people really dug deep came out and helped get the yes vote out the cutest little boy
028in the middle is Claire's grandson and you know Shameless plug James we love you first grader at Honey Ridge awesome sauce and you can see a lot of familiar faces our board our wonderful board Jim you you missed the pick but we're going to photoshop you and somehow um Lisa's husband and Rob Coleman Head of the volunteer yes committee there's a nice little high five shot and we just have a bunch of great picks from from yesterday very very exciting day for the district if we could go to the next slide so here are the on official results 62.67 said yes and we are going to move this District forward with this plan we're tired today but we're excited to do the work to continue to do the work so I want to thank all
029of our partners so certainly my team many of whom are in the audience tonight let's give them a round of applause Diana my my partner in crime and all the uh all the presentations she did her part Lisa as well the three of us really uh spoke to anybody that would listen to us about this plan Becca who was always there running Tech and taking notes and setting it all up so it looked you know nice and professional from our partners whom I have listed here are con World RFP beyond your base Chapman and Cutler uh core strategies Raymond James mind your business so those are the partners the experts that we enlisted to help us along the way to really build such a solid and well thought out plan it wasn't done by any
030group it was done by a lot of different experts so we couldn't have gotten gotten this as far as we did with this yes without this group so I know some of them are probably listening in so let's give them a round of applause to our volunteers it's a small But Mighty yes committee that despite most people thinking it was probably hundreds of people in a district of our size it was really about 10 12 15 people that were just doggedly determined to help get this through so you could help me name them right Jen DeFranco napesh Patel Tracy and Rob Coleman um Aaron what's Aaron's last name Aaron Abby Jen riddle Sandy ma no nope that's not correct Jane Jane our very own Jane in the audience let's give Jane a huge hand for
031coming out anybody else that's comes to mind that was with us last night Steve Nancy that's a good boy I said Sandy ma Nancy so just that's that wonderful committee thank you um and there were a number of other people that uh Steve crane um Adam Bosque adamawski Steve um Amy Shelly Nelson Steve Boucher uh Scott Scott um Megan Brownlee with design yeah and uh yeah and I'm sure we left off people too there there were a good number of people in the background giving a varied amounts of time so thank you and then most importantly thank you to the community that made it a point to vote on November 8th and they helped us get that yes so let's give one more round of applause to everybody that was involved um and then lastly
032our principals are some principals members of my cabinet during Greece of involvement members of the leadership team um Rachel she was you know passing out signs and lots of people I'm from the leadership capacity our unions you know were involved at their member level really spreading the good word and and getting those support um that we needed to to get our staff so so many of whom live in our district to see the value in the plan and hopefully you know get to the polls and and vote Yes so uh a huge Herculean effort over three plus years um and it's just exciting that's over but it's it's yet another end to another beginning so we're going to talk in just a few minutes about kind of the next steps but just wanted to make
033sure that we thanked everybody and I don't know if you want to have cake now or if you want to wait till after the meeting but we do have a little celebratory cake you know what do you think cake now cake later all right can everybody get your confetti because I kept threatening to get a confetti gun so we were able to find these and I think you just really on account of three I think we should stand up Becca's gonna get the camera ready no wait one point no we're gonna point it straight ahead and on the count of three what should we do just fire this off all right are you ready yeah if anyone loses it's not my fault one two three we did it awesome these are fantastic well I'm gonna
034just do this all night very nice and we got we we did we did get Ray's permission to shoot mini confetti guns off in the in the boardroom we'll help them clean up at the end of the meeting all right so thank you and Becca thank you for finding those if you if you couldn't find me a big confetti God these this was the next best thing so awesome thank you never before have I done that nor will I probably ever get to all right next um just like we've done on every Wednesday afternoon for the past three years we had another facility meeting and we just wanted to lay out for the board in the community what now so again Monumental effort to get the yes and we didn't even skip a beat meeting
035today so we said the bid docs were going to be ready to hit the street and here's the plan so TJ our largest project in phase one because we're converting it from an elementary to a middle school the bids will be out on the 14th they're gonna hit the street um we will have a bid opening on December 7th and we will bring what we hope will be board approval to you for TJ's work at our December meeting remember it is a Tuesday the 13th not Wednesday the 14th okay due to a scheduling conflict Plum Grove will be out to bid again a large-scale addition not quite as large as TJ but large nonetheless we'll be out to bid on Wednesday November 30th with the bid opening on Wednesday December 21st that last day that
036school is open before the winter break and we hope to come to come to you in our January 18th meeting for approval on the Plum Grove project so phase one is is staged right we're tiered go to the next slide the next project on a smaller scale but still it's going to be receiving quite quite a bit of work will be sunling out to bed on January 30th who cares that it's a day before New Year's Eve not us it'll be out to bid on January 30th every minute every minute you're celebrating a monthly this year oh wait no okay wait here I was thinking wow but yeah it's a month after so we'll forget it forget what I just said wait maybe that's it is that Chinese New Year it's Chinese food today I
037thought wow we are going out to bed on New Year's Eve is New Year's Eve and it's really not the eve of New Year's Eve it's January 30th just a random Monday I feel much better I feel much better the bid opening will be February 23rd and we will come to the board at our March meeting to approve the sunling a bit so those are our three big projects in phase one okay I need rest um so the construction timeline just in and of itself phase one is going to be late spring to Summer through you know this summer and then phase two and we'll talk about that next we'll we'll go into the summer of 2024 with substantial completion of additions and renovations all right so let's go to the next slide please so
038to make this work happen okay we will be bringing to the board of education at its December meeting a draft calendar for you to review and then approve at the January meeting so what we're going to need to do is try to extend our summers that summer of 2024 before that 24 25 school year to give the construction company an extra month of time to complete these projects okay instead of laughing at me you're right at her I'm trying not to laugh um so this summer we'll have a we'll have a regular 10 week summer and that's typically even though it feels shorter it's 10 weeks the summer before the 24-25 school year we will bring a draft calendar to the board to to look at and and discuss will be a 14-week summer so
039it's kind of a Memorial Day to Labor Day flow old school calendar from back in the day to support construction and then we'll get back on track that very next school year and we'll share with the board in the community the creative ways that the HR department led by at least in US how we're going to try to make that happen so it'll really be one extent of Summer and then we'll try to get back into the flow so that will be the calendar we'll be proposing to support phase one and then if you go to the next slide slide I'm going to talk to you just quickly through phase two so phase two really um is the design schedule to support the 13 additional sites that will go under some level of renovation or
040Construction in phase two of this project and you can see the schools listed so what does that design schedule support those additional sites construction projects so some classroom additions some interior renovations some kindergartens will need restrooms right so they're going to build those and they'll have to if they're swapping out sixth grade to kindergarten classrooms we'll be moving furniture and whatnot and then as you know from our our dot matrix we'll have some cafeterias and multi-purpose rooms built so those are some of the things that will happen you know at those schools and as we move out of phase one and we're more deeply into phase two planning we'll come back to the board with more detail but we just wanted to give you some kind of large scale details on what it's going to
041look like over the coming months so this should look familiar it is a draft we last showed it to you back in August so just a handful of months ago although it feels like a lot longer and it is a draft because you know this is kind of a fluid process in terms of when we open one school to fix it um what else can we do through economy of scale to mobilize teams logically so we're not bringing different Crews to the same school over multiple years so this just shows the um the 76 76 million dollars worth of Master facility work that we have identified through the one to five year plan and this is a draft so once the 24-25 school year is underway we will finish the remainder of all the work
042that was outlined in moving 15 forward um the remaining two years of the plan 25-26 and 26 27 that's one because of when the money's become available and two really realistically everything can't go live over a true summer period so we will continue to tighten this document and bring it back to the board you know as we dive into the work and move through each of the years within the one to five year Master facility plan okay so very quickly because we do have some great presentations and I do know everybody is is wiped excited but tired um we've been busy not just with moving 15 forward though although it did occupy a lot of our time we had a lot of great fun celebrating fall and Halloween if the schools our ptas staff really
043enjoyed it as you saw tonight feeling very normal kids kids doing great and exciting extra fun things at school you know in addition to learning we had our final information sessions for moving 15 forward we had our second AP Think Tank meeting which is really building the capacity of our assistant principals building connections amongst their job of Life colleagues and really allowing us to to onboard them so when we have opportunities to move assistant principles into principal ships you know we feel our bench is ready parents as partners and superintendent communication Council both met with with cabinet and uh and me this last month and we shared a lot of our initiatives but also answered a lot of questions and um just really opened a nice two-way dialogue between some of our significant Partners um
044we have summative designations that came out Tom's going to talk a little bit more about them we gave you an overview of what they were at our last meeting um and we're excited to share our designations and a little bit more information tonight and just a big thank you I'm going to be in a thank you tour for months once again for this board's support and everybody in the audience that was involved in one way shape or form in getting moving 15 forward to the yes Point couldn't have done it without everybody's support so thank you thank you all right business uh we have a new director hi Mary she's in the audience Diana do you want to say anything about Mary or introducer nope [Music] okay year old son and she's just really it's
045on her fourth week and she's such a great I'm going to say she's a great and really great find really great director really great vision um we're um by your great things together that we can move to our also our department forward so I'm very very happy yeah since she says at least every day how happy she is your hair Mary so welcome um but business nhr continue the work of the Skyward software you know conversion it's a lot lot of work on those two departments but it is going to really improve accuracy and efficiency moving forward so we're looking forward to that launch date and um the payroll specialist is still open we thought we had somebody and that fell through so we'll continue to post um and and hopefully find the the right
046person to round out that department communication um Becca has led the charge for the candy crawl and the YMCA Trunk or Treat to really help the students within our communities be able to safely celebrate Halloween thankful Thursdays have started on social media again this year she was again as I said a big support in the information campaign especially with social media for moving 15 forward and then she's partnering with human resources as we continue to look to fill open positions Boys and Girls Club at Jane Adams and Winston campus will start on December 15th it's been a really long process to get to that point largely due to the fact that we don't have enough bus drivers during the day part of the deal with Boys and Girls Clubs is you have to have a
047four hour window after school in which to do the academic component and the choice components of boys and girls club which would mean our our first tier because both Jane Adams as a dual language site and Winston campus junior high are tier one we need drivers to pick them up at 6 15 at night so we think we have enough drivers now to get the program rolling and over time we would love to expand that program to more of our elementary schools and into Rolling Meadows at Carl Sandburg so we're excited to get that work started in early December um we're really again struggling still to find clinicians largely due to our salary schedule psychologists social workers and speech pathologists are some of our related service providers and Meg's Department continues to really work to
048try to find those very talented employees that will help our students and stuff nlu is be a partnership for the school psychologists they're working together to try to help us recruit we hope that that yields a bunch of psychologists for us and then training for our gifted and talented teachers in the new Winton wisdom curriculum uh HR recruitment recruitment recruitment for certified staff we're really concentrating now on student teachers and mid-year graduates so here are some upcoming job fairs in November at the library and here at the ESC we've been pretty lucky over the years with December grads so we're really I think being smart and going to the schools prior to the kids graduating kids the adults graduating um to try to get them connected with us before they even think about looking anywhere
049else for a position and we're exploring a new College partnership through Northeastern University which is federally designated as a serving institution and you know that's part of a long-term HR goal within our strategic plan diversify our teaching Pipeline and our teaching staff so it's more reflective of our diverse student body so we're really excited about what that partnership could potentially shape up to be multilingual programs we have a Spanish bilingual parent meeting on November 10th at Lake Louise and the theme will be how to effectively address changes in children's behavior and you'll hear tonight how we are seeing not just with our students that speak other languages with all of our children we are seeing more you know behavioral needs and this is one way to help address them because we're going to get our
050parents engaged our Ukrainian bilingual parent meeting it's a new group as we've had a growing a number of Ukrainian families moving into District 15. we will have a meeting on the 15th at Lincoln and the theme will be navigating the U.S school system and adjusting to life in a new country um we're preparing for training for the 2023 access test Administration I can't believe it it feels like we just did this don't you yes this is back um we're developing resources to support the El newcomers that again this district and many others are experiencing and then professional development that will be focusing on non-fiction writing uh will be provided to the ESL Blended and third and fourth grade bilingual teachers as part of their ongoing literacy program development student services I had an Adaptive physical
051education professional development with all the ape teachers and it received rave reviews so we're very excited about that collaboration in the direction that Ann and her Department are taking the work of our adaptive PE teachers hearing and vision Department the Fall Festival gathering for students there's a video and can we play that right did a really cute video they did this last year as well [Music] foreign [Music] foreign was had by all and students with Services as and Ed services are working um the administrators and coaches and they're attending a two-day training I think you've done one day in or have you done both and you've done two okay for this adaptive schools training which is a collaboratively sponsored school um development model it's it's somewhat pbis-esque but it it might help us as we
052revisit PBIS and and really district-wide Frameworks and structures so after you finish that training well it would be great if you guys do a presentation for the board it's very exciting and I know Renee is we were just talking about plc's and everything's coming together teaching and learning they continue to implement embedded math PD um that we really couldn't do without our instructional coaches because we have such a shortage of Subs so we've really changed the professional development support model to use our instructional coaches to push in and provide the support that our teachers need to really learn how to use our new math Resource as well and we continue to implement um the science training so that is science and math are both new this year and update materials and we're really trying to
053figure out the management of those materials it was kind of a bumpy start at the beginning of the year there are a lot of new resources and and materials to use so we continue to collaborate with our teachers to figure out ways to bundle the resources so um it's not so time consuming to to get ready for for lessons on a daily basis they're preparing for a December parent University for with a coding Focus they're supporting upcoming teacher parent-teacher conferences as well as the new standards-based report card so that's a new to kind of a new way in which we're reporting to standards on how their children are doing relative to the Illinois learning standards at each grade level and then we're already planning believe it or not for the January Institute day and that
054teaching and learning and as the larger leadership level so again a very busy month all right that's it for me all right thank you very much Lori lots of stuff going on you betcha the um Diana you're up yeah [Music] okay so you already met Mary um Uncle Mary and Mary wouldn't you pronounce your last name again please sure it's chair bakshi trabashi so tonight we'll go over the Levee on the 22 Levy um luckily last month would have been nice it was before last Friday but last Friday I got the final results or whatever final numbers from a year ago's Levy and I'll get a little bit more into that in the slide presentation so um needless to say we had the referendum and the levy all at once okay so him okay so
055if you own a house or president a property in Cook County you have not received your fall property tax bill yet because they're late um normally the bills are sent out in August but they are expected to be sent out before Thanksgiving and most likely you are going to have to pay it by December 31st and we appreciate that here in the district we really need your money um yeah there's been some Mix-Ups at the County Cook County I don't know which department it is two departments not working quite out the timeliness of our bills so they should be coming out shortly and because of that they also were finally able to get us our numbers um on Friday and I could not compute really a levy estimate with any faith unless I had those
056numbers um due to the delay in these tax bills we did as I told you at the board president I mean the budget presentation we did have to take out some tax and participation warrants which Mary has been overseen um yeah so just stepping in on where uh Josh left off um we received 13 million dollars in tax anticipation warrants on the first um and that should bridge the gap between now and when we start receiving our payments and hopefully mid-December is what they're estimating will start to see some payments come in um and those aren't due to be repaid until January 11th so we have a little bit of time okay um so I talked about the rest of that so next slide okay so here's the history we're going to go right into
057the history right now on the first line um you can we don't need to have a huge discussion about all this but the eav changes and you can see back in 2013 it was 13.1 million um the 21 was three no wait did I say 13.1 billion right and so the 21 was 3 3.6 billion but in between there it went down to about 3 billion in 2015 and um up as high as 3.9 billion in 2020. so again when I say that the the the the rate of our taxes what we build our property owners it is invert inverted to the or it's the inverse of the eav so as the eav goes up your rate goes down and as the eav comes down the rate goes up because we always will get the
058same amount of property taxes as last year but it will increase by the CPA CPI or five percent whichever is um lesser um so um yeah the second column from the right is the actual numbers that came in last Friday and then in the farthest red column are just some assumptions I'm making and through my S my calculations I came up with that the eav might be around almost 4 billion for 2022 we'll find out about really that in the spring I'm going to use a 10 um increase I used 10 as an increase in the AV everybody has gotten their assessments by now and they're very high but I do not want to make an assessment of I mean an assumption of 25 I'm going to be I'm going to be conservative um in
059the end it doesn't matter remember the levy is the ask and I'm going to ask for as much as possible I think because we're gonna I'm gonna have to cover new property and that unknown eav um 20 million I'm going to use for new property we don't know that in Cook County we never know what our new property is nobody can tell us you just have to guess and that's that's unfortunate because then we have to really ask for more um and so the main point here is that the CPI you can see the CPI trended to or less most of these years and now with inflation in the last year we are using the December 2021 CPI last December's which was seven percent and because it was higher than five that ptell log kicked
060in for the first time ever we have to use five percent we can't use CPI losing five okay that's the main main thing on this okay so because of that we're using the five that means we have to do truth and Taxation okay truth in taxation just means we're you're being truthful in your taxation uh we're going over five percent we should be truthful anyway we are truthful I don't know why they only signify that if you're going over five percent um but um so instead of seven we're going to use five um I'm going to ask for more than five knowing that when they do the final calculation it's going to be limited to 5 plus the tax on the new property which always bumps it up a little bit higher again the triennial
061reassessment also affects our guesswork um again it's truth and Taxation I guess the real definition is because I'm asking for more than 105 105 of the actual from last year and we're going to have to have a hearing in December and we're going to have to publish that notice in the paper we don't normally have to do that and then just the timeline real quick we're presenting tonight you'll have a resolution to approve next month we do the hearing it's like a budget hearing you have it at the beginning and then you'll adapt them at your action items and then have to make sure that it gets to the Cook County Clerk by December 27th these are key terms I'd like to give you these because so you understand that these are really important numbers
062that have to be calculated or determined or estimated levies is the ask it's not the final the final is the extension lovely names I wish they just say the final you know it's not it's just the Levee is the ask limiting right right we have to figure I have to estimate that um and that's the allowable tax rate we do a little that mult that division problem to get that the bond in interest tax rate that's that's a set rate because it's based on what is our actual principal and interest payment eav we talk about that all the time that that big equalizer says valuation of all the property within the district and the next slide is the p-tel again that's that law that limits the tax extension to the ask the increase to five
063percent or um the CP uh the CPI from the Federal Department of Labor in December whichever is less truth and Taxation we went over that I'm going to maximize my ask to account for unknown eav and the new property value both of which I really don't know and then what is our property distribution in 15 it's 75 residential 25 commercial there are no tips rolling off but as a point of note the Palatine downtown Tiff would have been included if not for the extension next all right so what do I need I have to calculate that limiting rate so again last year's actual that I got on Friday was we got our actual the capped meaning doesn't include Bond and interest okay it's all the other funds um 135 million and then the eav came
064at 3.6 billion I'm going to use the five percent um I I'm going to use the change for 10 increase in the eav of 10 and I'm going to use an estimated new construction of 20 million and so then next slide it's just a division problem so we have to figure out what the numerator is and the numerator is last year's actual which was 135 million and I'm going to increase it by the 5 percent because that's that's the most we can actually get in the end that's 142 million and what are we going to divide it by we're going to divide it by the subtext subtracting the new construction from the current here eav so how do I where do I get the current year eav I take last year's and I'm going to
065increase it by 10 because I think the reset it's 10 plus my new construction that's all in one parenthesis parentheses but you have to take out the new construction so then I just show it there 3.9 billion divide those two we get a limiting rate of 3.575 okay so on the next thing now what does that mean as far as money is concerned so you take that and you multiply times the eav with the new construction 4 billion 143 million so that's our capped extension does not include Bond and interest what are Bond and interest payments for this coming year they are actually six million one hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars and that comes out to a 0.15 see add them together and our tax rate estimated is 3.725 foreign why am I going
066to ask for more than the CPI again because I run the risk of not capturing the full value of the new property and we we want to make sure we capture everything new property values are unknown um also there could be potential legislative changes we hear things you know Rumblings in Springfield increased exemptions like your senior exemptions those could change um your home owner's exemption and then they also talk about freezes so you never know right um and under Levering levying has that compounding effect because that that actual from last year that I finally got the notice on last Friday that's our base that's what I took five percent on top of that if we don't Levy for everything and their base is is lower than we could get we could we can't recoup that
067so it just compounds every year okay the next slide so what am I going to ask for and what do I think we'll get so again what was the actual was 135 million and 5 on top of that is 142. I want to ask for more than that so this little handy dandy snippet here of a big spreadsheet and it's all red and you may not remember but last year I used this same spreadsheet but what I like about it is because the red goes into the the truth and Taxation we're already in truth and Taxation but when we're when the CPI is under five it shows me oh I can go up to it's always in the white and I can go up to a certain point in that spreadsheet but I'm not hitting
068truth and Taxation but now we're always in the pink so I'm going to look at and I'm going to say let's go up to 100 million and even at a 10 eav I'm going to ask for 145 million 939 000 and I know we're not going to have 100 million in new property we're not getting the downtown Tiff we're not going to get anywhere near that you could see the history earlier Dundee Tiff rolled off a few years ago 47 million but we have none so we really we're actually covered like even to 30 percent if the UAV goes up to 30 and we had 100 million because if I asked for 145.9 so I'm going to ask for 145.9 ask you to prove that but it will probably get around 143. if we had
06920 million in new property eav was up 10. if the eav is up 25 um we got 20 million in new property 142 lands so it's going to be somewhere um in that range so one last slide one more slide just to recap again again last year's what's 135 the max is 142 I'm going to ask for 145.9 we'll probably get 143 knowing though that the property tax extension law limits the final extension to 5 plus the tax on the new property so even though I asked for it it's only because I don't know what the new property is and the unknown eav all right and then uh so it just breaks out like this you know because again we have funds so we have to Levy for each fund okay um and that's how
070they'll ask will break down by the fund knowing those are just the asks now that we'll actually get but you can see that the Ed fund I'm sorry could you go back to that you can see Ed fund is way way out in front and then we have l m um and then we have transportation which has a significant amount um I did move a little bit out of Transportation into the Ed fund now you can adjust the amounts um and then we have Municipal imrs and Social Security that we Levy into and we Levy into tort and we love you into special ed this does not include the bond and interest because that's always just a fixed amount so those are the funds we do not Levy into working cash here fund 90 is
071a fire prevention safety when we sold bonds a few years ago that went into 90 but we've you know we don't Levy into 90. some um next slide and then what's the impact on a 350 000 home which is about the average in our communities um so that's last year 2021. um uh it's only start with the market value I guess the assessed value that's the that's how it's the county they take 10 of your assessed value and then they mo they use this Equalization factor to bring it up to like state or equal like what outside of Cook County and then then you get this eav um and if you look on your tax bill you're really going to see something like this and then our tax rate which was was actual 3.955 so
072that would have been the tax approximately so what would be the change this year if I a 10 again I'm saying the eav is going to go up 10. and then that that 10 there I'm that also that on the second line that's residential that's the assess they always use 10 of um of the pro of the of the market value on residential in Cook County so then 10 of that is three thirty eight five hundred and then I'm still going to use the same Equalization Factor because I don't know what next year's will be and so if the eav is at 115 and then we just calculated the tax rate so that's the tax 4 306 dollars so the annual change about 350 dollars before any bonds that we will be issuing because of
073the referendum okay so what question did you follow me I try to keep it pretty basic Ally well I mean on the uh at least the presentation it's a little different on this the uh the slides that we provided where we were using the equalization factor of 3.2 for for 2022. okay so is this oh did I do you have a different version so yeah two 20 20 was 3.22424 something or other is that what you're looking at no I'm actually it says two uh so the yeah that screen over here you know where I mean it's probably just a different it looks like you you explained that you use the same Equalization factor in that what's showing up there but in the I'm just saying over here it says 3.22 the one that's uh
074on your on your screen so I changed yeah so then in the end the taxes uh the taxes a little bit more in 2022 because of the increase in the market value basically so I have an error on what you're looking at I have a feeling do you see that the tax rate in 2021 is 4.161 or something like that it says four it says 4.191 191 yeah I caught that error before yesterday so this is right this is yeah okay so yeah um and when I was anyway my error was throwing me off yeah no I just wanted to see what I was wrong yeah any other questions no too much Diane is it unreasonable to ask never done you can ask is it but is it is it unreasonable for us to um
075actually love you at that five percent under the five percent did you say or no at the at the five percent that you'd like to is it unreasonable um to go up that high yeah well I would say it's not unreasonable or it's even reasonable it's just it's what we need to do um for a few reasons for one I just want to remind you that I use that in my five-year forecast and so in my five-year forecast which I did back in February we did include the the debt certificates that we will be issuing for now that the referendum passed I mean that we issued it's going to come out of District money is um 36 million and we needed to come up with 2.7 million out of our own District money to pay
076those back and that's we need that five percent to to come up with that money to help support that money um we need it in order to um so the timing of this is very good because of the referendum and all these improvements um if you don't Levy for what you you can you potentially can again you know you you can never recoup that and so there will be years when our CPI the CPI will probably go back to 1.5 it could but we pay T we have contractual obligations to pay status more than that more than the CPI so you know you you you you take take when you can when you can because you you'll need it down the road this way I would I would want to justify and the big thing
077is you can't recoup it ever again and it has that significant compounding effect so for all the reasons that you've enumerated most importantly right now those debt certs right that you structured that all in any other questions all right thank you Daniel okay thank you yeah 2022 summative designations Dr Edgar okay I've streamlined this to a Sleek 90 minutes Frank is thrilled if we go to the uh first slide please uh the second slide then in that case so today we'll talk about summative designations uh the designations for each of our schools were released on October 27th it is something that the state had held in advance for the past several years due to covid and they've returned to issuing these as part of the larger State Essa accountability plan we'll do a quick review
078of what goes into a designation it's something that we went through with this board and more depth when they first came out we'll look a little bit about our historic and our current designations and then talk just a little bit about our next actions and steps and whatnot next slide please so this is the state's graphic for what goes into an accountability system for each school it's really divided into two categories student performance indicators which are largely the standardized tests and Improvement on them and then School quality indicators which our part the participation in the climate survey and the student attendance those are put together each school is given an overall rating based upon those factors and then they fall if you go into the next slide into one of four categories exemplary being rated
079as the highest commendable targeted support and comprehensive support and those descriptors there explain what each of those categories essentially mean the most important thing to know is that they're ordered and that exemplary means you're in a top 10 percent and commendable means that you are not in the lowest five and not in the highest ten it's a huge range of performance targeted means that you have one or more student groups that have fallen into the lowest five so they're underperforming for your school and comprehensive means that your entire school is the lowest five percent of schools that are considered Title One uh the state provides various levels of support to assist schools in changing their designations and improving them next slide please so here's a history of our designations we've had three iterations of this
080the original iteration in 2018 you can see the um on the left we had four schools fall into the targeted designation meaning that we had student groups in four of our schools that were underperforming compared to the school's larger performance in 2019 you can see that shifted pretty dramatically we had three schools move off of targeted support and two schools actually switched in terms of the exemplary performance we had one school that was targeted the year before and became exemplary the year after so you can see that these designations can vary pretty drastically from year to year because of the performance bands and also the state has changed how they were designating students and attaching them to schools for this year after covet after all the impacts after all the things that we've worked through
081all of our schools I'm happy to report have received the commendable designation so what's really success what's really pleasing about this is even our schools of most need even those ones that were initially listed as targeted have moved off the list it's it's a real accomplishment the next slide please so I will we will go into more depth Educational Services we'll provide the board achievement report this year like they normally do and we'll go into ier and other test performance indicators but a Community member a while back came and talked about our report card and and she was not pleased with what it looked like I thought this would be a useful context for you to see with it a major part of our designations is year to year Improvement or change in test performance
082and the way year to year Improvement or change is calculated by the state is how well did a school do compared to other schools right so we're always set in somewhat of a competitive structure where compared to other schools and if we grew more we get a higher score if we grew less we get a lower score so it's all relative to that Year's overall performance if you look at this graph here you'll see on the left is Ela from the iar results for the last three years the bottom three bars are the state you see that the lowest one is a little bit longer to the right and then you have two that have decreased a little bit but are very consistent in that and then you can look in toplets are our District's
083performance the pattern is completely the same right meaning that we experience the same effects of covid as all the other area districts nothing different nothing unusual and it Bears mentioning same is the case with math you can see that the pattern is almost identical because of that we're given exactly typical average ratings for our student growth we're like anyone else I didn't didn't put it here but of the areas that surround and actually touch our school borders so District 25 District 220 you know all those schools they have exactly the same Trend that we're seeing here so I just think it's important to put some context on that you know even though they're student bodies drastically differently oh completely yeah yeah and so uh you know this we see that we have now stabilized and
084we are moving out of the shadow of covet covet still has his tendrils around a few things but uh you know I just want to point out that that this is a larger Trend and we are slowly moving ourselves outside of it and the fact that we moved to all commendable schools really I think evidence is that next slide so these are the major things that you can expect in the future so Educational Services will provide the larger achievement report that's where they go through the various achievement gaps we have groups opportunities things like that it's a little bit more in depth a little bit longer Unfortunately Frank but um also uh we are are planning more data reviews to engage you in where our students are at Dr snore is going to lead one
085tonight talking about how students started off in the fall we'll also have those as we move forward into the winter and spring benchmarking where we adjust our interventions and whatnot and then finally you know we use this to continue to implement our school Improvement systems which is one of our major levers for the larger Improvement of the student body's performance are there any questions I could answer that was pretty quick yeah I have a record maybe even you know the the one question I have and this is this this has come up before and I always seem to misunderstand it um so all of these so all of the kind of designations we're looking at growth rates Within These schools so when they say that the top the exemplary category is is being in the
086top 10 of all schools so that is that basically saying that that's the top 10 in terms of growth for all schools as opposed to just static numbers on on what people are scoring because because I mean to me then doesn't that I kind of want to understand it from an Educators perspective as why why is that looked upon as as the key metric that determines these things as opposed to the static number of you scored this or you scored that absolutely uh if you actually Becca would you go to the second slide that has the yellow and blue so this is the uh breakdown right so uh I I I'm glad you actually mentioned that zubair because I should clarify growth is the largest proportional measure but it's one of several okay so if
087you look at the blue you actually see the um English language arts growth English or math growth those are both 25 of your total score but then they also have proficiency and you can see it's only about a third of that and the reason that they do that is because they know that schools might be in a demographic where the test performance is is really affected by the economics the various factors of the community yet they're making great strides educationally and so students although they're not showing it yet on this very difficult test to become proficient they're making strides forward and moving towards that in a meaningful way and so this is a much more sensitive way that they're looking at schools Improvement than what they had done in the past where it was all
088proficiency work and take years for a student who might have a disadvantaged background or been impacted in one way or another to finally get to the point where they're proficient this allows the accounts accountability system to detect those changes sooner so when we when we look at the total here you see that there's actually a mixture of growth where they're looking at are you making solid strides and they overly give the score the proportion of that because if you're making more than typical growth you're going to get to proficiency proficiency is still important they weight that there as well and they've added additional things so like for English language Learners they're looking now at are they making strides towards English language proficiency Etc okay and then finally you see the school quality indicators at the
089bottom which is also added into it and the big difference they're doing it's a good question zubair and Tammy did a nice job explaining it is when we moved away from No Child Left Behind and that was all was nothing about growth yep it was just straight up achievement and it didn't take into account any variants in student groups different different backgrounds Readiness socioeconomics language barriers so this you know we fought tooth and nail at least in the state of Illinois to get a metric that looked and was more balanced to truly reflect the fact that we're trying we know and we we name the fact that every kid is different they learn differently they learn at different rates they learn in different ways and our job is to help kids grow right and that's
090we now have a an accountability system that validates that it is about individual student growth and are we are we helping every kid learn more day after day year after year so we're getting closer to you know we really need to be it makes a lot of sense to me after hearing it explained a little bit just because that's what the school is there for helping kids wherever you are on the Spectrum like if you know if you come in with an incredible amount of intelligence and just naturally gifted and have all the advantages that person still that student still you should still be judged by that student even you know improving even more as opposed to um you know that just being a static number and it looks like the school is just great
091because everyone was born on Thursdays exactly yeah which is why I made the comment about 25 and 220. their student body doesn't look anything like ours it's not it's large enough they don't have as much socioeconomic diversity they don't have as much cultural diversity you know their kids are coming to school just more advantaged so to your very point they make many more of their kids may come into school ready but this is this showed us we had no kids no subgroups that didn't meet the mark which is why all of our schools were commendable so what we're doing is working are learning they're growing it's great it's really exciting yeah very positive yeah okay any other questions all right all right we need a few more chairs yeah I think so so the baby
092chair yeah yeah Claire sat there during closed it was really quite quite funny for us she looks so little what's this is all right I think we're the last presentation I believe so yes all right so good evening president shupai members of the Board of Education and Dr Hines congratulations again on the big win yesterday we're going to present you some information tonight and information that is going to reaffirm that everything that was put into moving 15 forward is highly necessary in particular um full day kindergarten so we're going to move on we start with the Strategic plan as we always do I think everybody's familiar with this so I'm not going to go through it again but on the second page you can see that one of the tenets of our commitment to results
093is monitoring and improving Equitable access programs and services for all students and that's part of what our benchmarking enables us to do so I want you to look at what we're going to present today through that lens next slide tonight we're going to talk about benchmarking assessments and I think a great way to explain benchmarking assessments is benchmarking assessments to school staff are similar to what taking vital signs are like in a doctor's office so doctors and nurses are using our Vital Signs as a quick assessment to get a read on how we're doing and that's what we're doing with our benchmark assessments we're doing some quick assessments to get a really good read on how our students are doing academically and social emotionally so it's a brief snapshot a moment in time of how
094our kids are doing we do them at the beginning of the year as well as at the end of the year and then we also have classroom-based assessments that are those quick checks that enable us to figure out if our students are growing in the standards and the skills that we're teaching in the classroom so that if they're not quite catching it we can go back it within the classroom and go ahead and do a reteach so those are what we refer or two as common formative assessments we talk about exit slips things like that quick checks for understanding so we're constantly trying to get a read on where our kids are at some of the benchmark assessments that we use you're going to be very familiar with you guys have all had multiple presentations
095about map testing map testing is administered twice a year to our students in grades two through eight in the last two years we have added an additional assessment that helps us assess the functioning levels of our incoming youngest Learners in grades K and one and we've also added this year an assessment that's a social emotional assessment called my Savers and that is a survey that we give to our students in grades seven and eight at this point as well as the fact that we're going to extend that assessment to our students in lower grades but we're going to give you a little bit more information a little bit later on on my Savers next slide okay again these assessments that we are giving are map and fast bridge and I'm going to talk formative and
096summative assessments what Mega already sorry no no in addition to what we how we standardized test Suite teachers also have variety tools they use to plan for instruction by trying to understand children's needs before they start and that they use to evaluate the impact by looking at what students have learned after instruction has started and that's the formative summative distinction there and so it's just to point out that more than what we're talking about tonight teachers have a variety of tools that get to the detailed level of student need that they use to guide what they're doing right we never want to use just rely have a lot of data points to make good decisions for students just once again we use map and fast bridge to not only identify how our students are functioning
097for placements and things like that but we also use that information to be able to determine our students who are in need of academic intervention and that's what we're going to be talking about on the next few slides okay next slide okay so now you can see this is how our students came into the Year this is our map data and again this is administered twice a year to our students in second through eighth grade and you can see from the chart that is there that our students are performing at the average level so what we're seeing here is that as a group our students are performing at the average level but that also doesn't really show how our groups are performing so if we're performing as a district at the average level that means
098half of our students are performing at average and half are performing below average next slide okay and that this is the same slide so if a student is performing at the say the 35th percentile that means that that individual student is performing at or better than 35 percent of the other students who are taking the assessment and then we had some additional data uh on our Spanish-speaking student sure so you can see there the Red Bar the red orange bar that represents how our students are performing on the Spanish assessment because we also administer that test in Spanish to our students in second grade and you can see the scores are very comparable you see a big drop in third grade and the reason for that is because that's the year that our students transition
099to English literacy so there are less students that are taking a Spanish assessment typically those are our newcomer students who have just arrived or students who are not quite ready to make that transition yet and then you'll see for 7th and 8th grade some exciting data quite honestly Dr Edgar calculated for us where our students are performing compared to where they performed in 2019. so in 2019 pre-coved you can see that our students in seventh and 8th grade who are in that category of newcomers not ready to transition to an English assessment yet we were at 24 at performance level for seventh graders and now we're at a 37. so while we are you know certainly recognizing we have room to grow we've made some great strides right and um same thing with our eighth
100grade they started at 23 at the 23rd percentile performance and now they um this year we're at the 40th so those are some pretty substantial gains we want to recognize of course the work of the teachers that went into that so map covers our students in grades two through eight and the next slide will start to talk about the new newer assessment which is which is fast bridge and that is administered to students in grades K through one and you can see from the screen that there are a variety of um things that we are looking for in students who are in kindergarten including concepts of print onset sounds letter names letter sounds and word segmenting nonsense words etc etc and then you can see that it ratchets up a little bit by the spring
101as it should because we expect our students to start progressing in their Literacy By the spring and it gets a little bit more rigorous it's a really interesting situation to see a bunch of kindergarten students taking a computerized assisted assessment but they take right to it they have absolutely no problem and it's almost as if they don't know anything different because they don't so they have come in and really taken to the assessment and then by first grade we are looking at sight words of up to 150 sight words some of them far exceed that and word side word segmenting CBM reading and nonsense words next slide when we're administering the K1 early reading we are looking for students who are showing us that they may be in need of some assistance or Intervention when
102it comes to uh their skills when they are coming in when they first come into our school system and what we're seeing is we have a lot of students in need of intervention for a variety of reasons so what we put in place last year part of the ed services department being developed was to put in place intervention Cycles so the intervention cycle that starts at the beginning of the year takes any student who was eligible in the spring for intervention if they were still eligible for intervention on the last day of school they start their cycle with our first cycle which starts within the first two weeks of school and they continue until about the mid to third week of October that's the end of our first cycle and during that time the fast
103Bridge assessment is given and any students who are performing below the 50 the 15th percentile or below on Fast Bridge are added to our cycle so our first intervention cycle this year we had about 500 students who were seen and now we just started our second intervention cycle the week after Halloween and we are seeing 879 students so that is a huge effort but it also really highlights the need that we have 879 of our K1 students are receiving intervention in either from one of our interventionists we have 33 interventionists and we have 31 rcs's which is our reading Specialists so those are the individuals who are working I mean they work straight through the day taking Group after Group after group to get through those numbers of students okay on the next slide you
104can see that we are able to Target we've always said we want to Target up to the 25th percentile at this point with the way that we're staffed with 33 interventionists and 31 rcs's we are only seeing 879 that does not get us to the 25th percentile you can see that if we were going to serve the students at the 25th percentile we would be serving many more students so you can see there that we're not able to see all of the students we would like to see through the tiered interventions with the staff that we have but the numbers that you can see there at both the 25th and the 15th percentile some of those students are being seen for other supports whether it's special education through the IEP process perhaps through 504 perhaps
105through we call it tier one plus did you want to add anything about tier one plus all right really reading Spanish so we administer the same assessments um we've just swapped out two of those subtests um because they're higher leverage skills for us in Spanish to measure um you can go to the next slide and we're really encouraged by the data that we're seeing here this is the first time we've had the same assessment we've administered to kindergarten and first grade students so we can start to track their growth and make some comparisons so we have some exciting data here what you can see here we're going to really focus on that first grade because these are kids who have been with us for a year now kindergarten they've only had they've only been with
106us for a couple of months so that's where they're starting with us but within our first grade band you can see that 18 which exceeds what we would expect are in that Stratosphere level of growth from the 85th to the 100th percentile um and then we have 52 in the green and 10 are in that yellow and then we have 20 are in the red uh and important to to note here too that those also include that data also includes our dual language students who are assessed in Spanish um and are in some cases learning for only the second year in Spanish so that's pretty commendable I think um and exciting and if you go to the next slide now I'm a little biased but I'm very excited about this slide because you can see
107here that this chart will actually show how our students are performing and it will put them into a category of low risk medium risk or high risk what we're shooting for is obviously that low risk category those are kids who are ready for school and what we can see are kindergarten numbers when we compare just kindergarten students from last year to kindergarten students from this year last year's kindergarten class came in with 25 percent who were ready for kindergarten and this year 45 percent so so that's an encouraging game when we look at first grade we're especially excited because we've put a lot of time and attention into our first graders they started first grade last year at 29 ready for first grade and this year our group is 54 ready so that is a
10825 percentile Point increase for that so we're really excited about that and then when we follow the Journey of some of our students across kindergarten and first grade this is even more exciting they started as we said before it's 25 percent of them are ready the end of the year with 34 of them and typically over summer we see our kids regress but they actually made an advancement right in fact this year for first grade we had 54 of those kids start the year so that's across the course of a kindergarten in first grade so it's really a testament to the work that our teachers are doing in the classroom they are planning to tirelessly lessons that are fun affirming and rigorous for students and they are responding and truly growing Renee is of the
109group of students you're referring to in kindergarten they have a full day experience don't they these two just the next the next set of information is uh the same assessment but we're looking at math data which um gives us information about how our students are performing in the area of math next slide all right you can see the idea the areas that are assessed here in kindergarten in first grade I was kidding Frank before the meeting that I thought he might ask me what decomposing math was and uh and I explained it so decomposing math for those of you who are really curious it's simply at uh at the first or kindergarten level that if you have a number like 19 it can be decomposed into 10 and 9. so it's just a fancy way
110of saying taking taking a larger number apart but you can see that numerical identification number sequence decomposing and match quantity are things that are assessed again on the fast Bridge assessment next slide okay I have an extra sign in my packet so here again you can see that we are not at a point where we're able to intervene with all of the students that we would like to which would be at the 25th percentile and below that is you know certainly a goal area for us to get to that point I think it's super important to emphasize that it is not our intention for students to be an intervention forever our interventionists are exiting students all the time and it's really really rewarding to see how many students they've been able to exit who have
111a newfound confidence when they're in their classrooms because they're able to you know be at the same level as their age mate peers so it's very exciting but we also then have all of our students who are in preschool right now who maybe didn't have a preschool experience because of covid our kindergartners right now a lot of our kindergartners did not have any school experience at all and we're certainly feeling that right now looks like right before uh our last assessment we uh I did say at the beginning that we do have a new SEL screener that was administered at grade six seven and eight next slide the screener is referred to as my Savers and that stands for social academic and emotional behavioral screener we we screen about 2400 students and it assesses risk
112levels for essentially risky Behavior among our young people and you can see that of the 24 23 students that were dreaming we had about 85 percent at a low risk 14 at some risk and one percent at high risk now although those numbers fit pretty well into a triangle Behavior we would look at the fact that some risk at 14 of 24 or 23 it's about 300 kids at some risk so they do involve a significant amount of adult attention really making sure that we're building those relationships with kids and that really emphasizes the need that we have for continued mental health support in the district next slide strengths and barriers okay so uh Dr Edgar and I are going to go through some of the strengths that we have identified as a group so
113this year we are excited about our new math for k-6 and our science curriculum for six eight and Ela for seven eight and making sure that we have these resources scope and sequence of materials for all of our teachers that hopefully are going to only provide even more fruitful gains over the next years with our data we are fortunate to have 33 interventionists that are supporting our students with Ela and with math intervention has been provided to our students up to the 15th percentile and below for literacy and as Dr Schnur went through not all the way up for Math and certainly not up to the 25th percentile but we are pleased that up to the 15th percentile for Literacy for our students the use of my Sabers is an exciting new tool that we
114can use with our students to identify what it is that they feel that they're experiencing in their their school environments and provide us a tool to make sure that those students are on our radar and if they are a student who has identified themselves as one who may be at risk or experiencing something different that we as a school team in a district know that and that we are intervening accordingly based on what they've shared with us um the increase in the variety of research-based instruction or interventions that we have in District is really exciting and allow for more targeted support for our students across all of our tiers and that math intervention is now available for our students that qualify and that is a huge strength we did not have math intervention before two
115years ago barriers we know that one of the most effective tools that we can provide to improve student performance is a highly trained teacher and you know we have spent the last year and this year going through a process where we selected and are now implementing improved upgraded curriculum for our teachers yet we find ourselves in a difficult position to make sure that we can train them you know as intensively as we would like for the use of this stuff and it really follows in in two major categories you know one is like all other districts in the area we're having a really difficult time recruiting and hiring substitute teachers which give our teachers released from the classroom so they can attend training with a professional we also have had to use because of that
116shortage we've also had to use our instructional coaches to support Math training and so they're used in in a novel capacity which I find to be very creative but it has a distinct downside in that it reduces some of the time that they have available to provide embedded continued PD with the teachers in their schools to continue sharpening their skills in their practice you know and so this this is something that we see as a continued barrier that we are trying to find ways around you've been part of it with the different contracts and whatnot but is something that's worth noting and it's certainly not unique to US Staffing as well we're very grateful for the the generous uh approvals that you've given for us to add new staff but as Dr schnoor mentioned you
117know we still have many students that we would like to intervene with in a pull-out way that we simply don't have the Staffing capacity to offer so we're a bit limited there although we've made great strides compared to what we've had in the past we could always use more more and more always more um one thing too with the mental health needs of our students you know we've really been hit by the shortages that have been coming for various years for those specialty positions psychologists social workers Etc we have several openings still we continue to work with various contract agencies you know and the staff that we're hiring you know typically are more novice staff who are out of school don't have necessarily the veteran experience and so they require more mentoring than our you
118know veteran staff that have retired or you know have moved on or whatnot so those are two areas that we continue to try and address through our hiring model in our recruitment model but you know they are areas that are just worth noting being able to reach our goal of really being a culture of data and being able to make sure that these assessments that we're giving I mean it takes a lot of time to give all these assessments and we're able to use them for intervention and things like that but ideally we should be able to use these with our teaching staff so that they can really understand the data themselves and be able to make some of their educationally based decisions and their instructional moves based on the assessments that they're seeing and
119what the kids in front of them can and need to learn to be able to do so that is our goal but we need to be able to have the professional development time to teach the teachers how to use this really important data before we end I just want to say thank you to Rachel Bland Jeff tatelman and Laura swanland they are directors in my department and Renee's Department as well as assistant director Nicole morois who helped with a lot of the data Gathering and to make all the displays that were part of our presentation tonight we also want to thank all the teachers and the administrators in all of our schools for arranging all of the assessments and making sure that all the students follow the process and then certainly using the information to
120do what they do best which is providing for all of our students so with that we will take questions um you may have mentioned this for so forgive me if you did but how often is the my Savers given you know we said we did at the beginning of the year we'd be doing it throughout the year right now we're do we we did the assessment and right now they're working with that um the at-risk and the high-risk populations to be able to make those connections through what they call mha which is mental health assessment time so that's what we're working on right now and then we'll determine whether or not we need to give the assessment again but we are going to be working the future to bump that down to fourth and fifth
121grade and then are we tracking exits of the risk levels yes they will be okay tracking okay there's a lot of follow-up assessment once you run into either the average yep okay that makes sense um and then Tom I know you had mentioned one of the barriers being Staffing levels to be able to reach that 25 what would be the Staffing model that we would need to have well we have that end I mean we we present we talked about that last year um I think we would just to see all the students at oh I'm sorry so I don't have the number for the 25th percentile but I can tell you to uh just see the students at the 15th percentile which is a pretty Spartan you know criteria I we would still need
122an additional seven interventionists just to reach that um as we're able to intervene with our students at younger ages we're going to hopefully start to see a decline in the number of students who need intervention at the older grades because we've been able to intervene with them earlier and it's also a combination of that but also having that strong guaranteed and viable written curriculum in reading and in math which we really haven't had prior to the last two or three four years Junior High 20 year old resource finally replaced new math curriculum new science curriculum five years ago started with literacy it took at least four years to get that rolled out so once now that we have the right curricular core curricular resources which is tier one kind of what everybody gets we have
123built this Ed service department and we're working with intervention we're now providing it actually intervening when kids struggle in math versus just saying our numbers are flat our numbers are flat right and then we're intervening in reading and it's not just one resource we have multiple a multitude of resources from lli to Wilson to foundations because every kid learns differently so we we're building up to that tier one plus tier two resources that are available to kids so once we have a good core in place that's responsive and differentiated right that focuses on growth we'll have fewer kids that we'll need tier two because we all know when you have too many kids that need tier 2 support what you really have is a tier one problem right so we're correcting the tier one problem
124we're intervening for kids that need it at tier two and it's that those kind those you know those combination of of moves right that will that will over the next year or two really help us reduce those numbers not to mention all day kindergarteners all day kindergarten all day long can't wait um but the question is the right question so we used um coveted relief dollars to put additional interventions in place so as those Monies run out right because we have they have a shelf life and we've used most of those dollars already you know you're hearing in the news like schools aren't using those not that money not in district 15 we're using every last penny um but what how do we sustain this level of support at the 33 interventionists that we have
12531 RCS and we really need more but we're not going to have the cushion that the federal relief dollars provided so that's you know what's a budgetary impact that we're going to you know Diana has our five-year forecast the budget you know we're really going to have to dive in to figure out how we can not only maintain what we have but potentially grow the number of folks that we have for at least another you know couple years we think until we get everything firmly in place that we were still dealing with students who had no preschool experience or a subpar kindergarten experience coming in and now those kids are in you know second third grade yeah and I think the other thing compounding that that this group of you wouldn't mind we could talk
126a little bit about with the board is with the sub shortage we're having to get really creative in terms of how we provide professional development but we're hearing from our teachers um and we feel like we're addressing that the newness of math and science and Ela through that push-in model with instructional coaches and members of the various departments we're hearing from our teachers that behaviorally mental health-wise and you can see it in the saber data and when Laura swallen presents the discipline data you know the classroom teachers are are saying that there are more students in our schools that need more support behaviorally so we've been brainstorming and and certainly working at individual buildings because it's not all 20 schools there are a handful of schools that are having a little bit more of a
127challenging year already behaviorally you know what can we do to support the schools in kind of a reboot more time to problem solve more time to discuss Behavior more time to put um Behavior plans or whatever it might need core that Champs PBIS type you know approaches at the classroom level um so we wanted to talk a little bit tonight about the possibility of in between the January and the May institutes that are already in the calendar where we really use every second provide content-based professional development to support the teachers with with new or newer resources and instructional moves how do we find time to really talk about some of the behavioral and mental health needs unfortunately those early release Fridays it's a drive it's a drive-through it's 35 minutes 40 minutes really at Best
128by the time there's dismissal kids get to the bus sometimes the buses are late the principles are running we need more time so one of the things we've been talking about with Scott Nan of the CTC is the possibility of maybe adding two additional days like we did that first day of school kids come in the morning they leave in the afternoon we provide additional professional development additional time for teachers to work with their building administrators on some of the the additional issues that they're facing Based on data and again some of our schools it will be Behavior others it may be something different so we may be coming your way in December to say hey would you support us if we used a couple days to give teachers time with their colleagues and with
129their administrators to dive into some of this work because without it the behavioral component is going to hinder the academic component and when those two things are off kilter we're not learning we're not proactive we're reactive and it felt it affects climate so that that's something this group and please elaborate what did I miss seeing uh say more A reduced amount of stamina in our students we're seeing increased amounts of anxiety um aggression and we need to be able to equip our teachers with some tools in the toolbox to be able to address that oh I would also add we have a lot of new teachers in the district so this year we added over 100 teachers last year over 100 teachers and we really haven't had a forum to systematically support them to learn
130the different interventions and the different plans that we have in place to facilitate healthy classroom environments for students feel affirmed and can Thrive and teachers feel confident so we think that could absolutely be a potential solution for for providing them that training do have a really good new teacher orientation but by the time they with these new folks you know they get graduated and everything get their first job and start filling out their W-2s if they're they're kind of like a deer in their headlights and we know that they're absorbing some of it but we need to have the opportunity to revisit the things that they were presented in the first place I think as as Dr Heinz mentioned you know the the we're a district of High diversity in terms of Achievement High diversity
131in terms of need High diversity in terms of Family Resources all those things and you know with that we see that students who come in with mental health difficulties and academic failures they compound themselves and um you know as part of this you know Sam's question how many more staff would be needed for intervention you know that's a very difficult one because we get quickly to a point where that number is beyond affordability like and I'll what was going through my head when when Dr Hines and and Sam were talking we're in this talking about the adequacy targets that we've talked about through evidence-based funding right so the state has said we're not at our adequacy Target to do all the things that we know are important to do for children and the state doesn't
132have the capital to rectify that right so so we're always going to be at a point where we have to make strategic decisions that don't cost the way that just Staffing does right so you know one of the things that we're you know doing that we didn't really talk about here but in terms of kindergarten first grade Emily McFadden our director of literacy started to work on how can we alter when phonics and word study is introduced through the funnestinal program to kindergartners could we move it earlier can we add things to it so in my mind you know we don't have a way of addressing this through just throwing more staff at it nor should we always but what we do need to do is figure out a way of how to make our
133teachers as powerful as possible they're doing good things but they're given new tools and without adequate support to use new tools you often aren't able to use them correctly despite your best intentions and so I think you know the best analogy here is this idea of the bitter medicine right there are some things that are difficult in the very beginning right they're a little bit bitter but they have a great benefit and so I see this as you know a pretty important pill to swallow in the sense that we have to continue to figure out ways to help our teachers be as powerful as we can in Mass so and and part of that is by providing them planned coordinated but also concentrated time to learn you know think about your own projects 40 minutes
134on something you have to do for work you barely sit down let alone really get into it deeply we just need more time with our teachers in the past pre-covered we were able to do that through Subs they're just not available anymore it's just not possible excited just a quick like kind of clarifying question on the Staffing especially kind of what you mentioned about you can't really throw staff at the problem unless we can support the staff when you mentioned that we need probably at least seven interventionists to be able to meet that 15th percentile and even more for the 25th two things number one that that's that's separate from throwing staff right that those would be staff that we would need not something train teachers to do that's a separate Specialists that would need
135to fill those positions correct okay I thought so but I wanted to make sure we would hope right okay then the second question really just for my own purposes that these seven positions let's say if you're estimating are that's just a shortage of people to fill those or is that something we don't have open and budgeted okay thank you as always thank you thank you very much I want to point out that my speaking part in this was very shortly noted thank you big four I may have a motion for the acceptance of minutes please make a motion to approve the minutes from the October 19 2022 regular meeting of the Board of Education and executive session as attached second they were they're not in the uh the packet yep they weren't in board docs
136there was something in bordocks earlier because I looked at something that was there but they're not there now um to go they were there at four o'clock though because I was reading the packet at four o'clock and they were there to review yeah it's all right please let us know just email me and then I'll work with whomever I meet you too oh wow but they're in there now correct yeah were you able to review them I was I was yeah okay one day can we move on yep okay a second please Sam seconded um any discussion all those in favor all right motion carries the uh board committee reports adren Frank so the legislature is not in session but they will be having a veto session coming up uh November 15th so I expect
137some stuff happening in the second half of November so December was I'm going to talk about I think with the election over maybe yes maybe they tend to like to do things after the election sounds good one five Foundation Jim yep um so the teacher mini grants will be awarded most likely after Thanksgiving um the mini grants committee is working to analyze all 15 Grant requests that came in so that's exciting originally the goal is to notify them next week but that'll likely not happen until after Thanksgiving now and one five is working on the 5050 raffle that will also launch sometime in February and the proceeds from that will help support the foundation's Supply to do the mini grants that we're going to be awarding towards Thanksgiving The District programs and other districts programs
138at the one fight Foundation support so look for that in February and participate that would be helpful all right thank you finance committee uh no new updates for finance at this time all right equity um we did have a meeting uh with Laurie that um was it last week I'm forgetting the week's solid blur but yeah like last week and we talked about a number of things one of them which was that as we're going to be sitting in on some of the new social studies um meetings that are going on because there's a new curriculum that's about to be initiated which will include some of the state mandated additions to our social studies program so we'll be sitting in on that and uh I'm forgetting the weather it's about um for strategic planning um
139so we'll continue to engage in those which will resume in early December back to back in December two full days two full days back to back in December um so we'll participate in that and then we also just had some conversation around assuming that moving 15 forward would pass which it did um how we would continue to work with Lori in the admin team to support as we think about the impact of the work that we're doing and making sure that it's Equitable for all of our students all right it's a nice summary great um item 8.5 the uh iasb resolutions committee report review yeah I mean there are there are three new resolutions that are in the packet um and like we've done in the past uh we can do it a number of
140ways either we can discuss them today and talk about or people can just send me what what what they feel about it and then I can kind of just go with the majority so you know we want to do it here or do you want to just read it and send me your you know you have my email address you can kind of send me your view on each each of these resolutions it's not as extensive as it was last year just a few and starts on page 12 and you can read it it's a brief synopsis it tells you um what is B is or iesb rather is recommending or not recommending and I would agree zubair and I think one thing if we don't talk about it tonight that might be helpful is
141I I could have I had worked with Stephanie to create some kind of a of a link for everybody we can list what each of the resolutions are by number give a brief summary and then each of you can just fill in any notes perfect for zubair so you're not going to get them six different emails from you know yeah yeah would that work yeah and as always I reserve the right to go go wrong because that's really it would be helpful to have that link yeah wild and crazy doing whatever you want to go all right that sounds great so we'll look for a uh a link from we can connect tomorrow on this um Stephanie yeah that'd be really helpful thank you thank you for doing that all right great um item 8.6
142the uh first reading of six Poland 260. board policy any questions or conversation about that yep I thought so too the um how about 8.7 the second rating of of 108 and 109. mm-hmm all right great action items um we have a motion for 9.1 please I make a motion to approve the Personnel report Administration certified and non-certified as presented second discussion welcome hi shupai aye Taylor aye Wong Hi Hater aye annarino hi hi motion carries um item 9.2 I make a motion to approve recommendations as presented oh what is it I think the uh the motion's a little off there oh it's okay okay it's about the question I only read what's on the teleprompter I make emotions to approve the semi-annual uh review of the closed session minutes recommendations oh my second any
143discussion roll call Taylor hi Wong all right Vader aye annarino all right hunt hi Khan hi shoe pie hi motion carries item 9.3 motion please I make a motion to adopt the attached resolution estimating the aggregate Levy for the tax year 2022 as presented second discussion Roca Han aye Khan hi shupai aye Taylor aye Wong aye aider hi annarino aye Washington carries item 9.4 I make a motion to approve the second reading of press 108 and 109 policies as presented second discussion shoe pie aye Taylor aye Wong right Vader aye annarino hi hunt hi Khan hi motion carries consent calendar would anyone like to remove anything [Music] may I have a motion make a motion [Music] to approve the consent calendar items second uh roll call Vader aye annarino hi Han hi Khan aye shoe
144pie hi Taylor hi motion carries got your eyes correspondence uh as usual we have a list of foils that we've received does anyone have any questions about the listed in it nope no okay all right um we have a motion to adjourn I motion to adjourn second all those in favor um meeting adjourned