001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Hi. here. Mason present. War here. Walker here. Esposa here. Motion to Yes. I'm going to pull that up. We have a lot on the agenda tonight. So everybody don't you know broken things to everybody. Okay. Okay. We uh that login Okay. All right. So, roll call adoption of canvas certification of results. So, Mrs. Flores I'm trying to find the document with 13 pages that has the election results. Sorry for the delay. I got it. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. announced. So, we ask that the board of education adopt and ratify the canvas of the school board election already performed by the
002Cook County Clerk on April 1st, 2025 and declare that Rose Mason, Dennis Jackson, and Coette Espinosa have each been elected to serve a four-year term. So, at this point, we need to form a interim chairman and inter one for internment. concern. You can't do no can't. Mrs. Right. So, you got everything. Yes. She This is what I Yes, I have. And interns. I mean, secretary, we're going to do that. She can't do it. Been voted in. Oh. Okay. All right. Okay. So, we have to approve the U canvas certification. All right. I get a motion. Okay. [Music] I guess So you we're changing our board. Okay. Now we'll get it. All right. Hi. Hi. Mor right. So then an election of an interim chairperson. We got it. We'll need more. in sharp person. You'll be
003a secretary in secretary promporary. We have that. All right. Oath of office administered by the secretary prom to the new board members. Should I read everybody's names? No. Your hands? So as I read it, am I saying everybody's name in like not all say our name and we read it together? I just say our name. Okay. I I Rose I Rose Mason Spinosa do solemnly do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duty of the office of the board of education of school district in accordance with the constitution of the United States of the state of Illinois state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further declare that I shall bring back. I will encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who speak at
004hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions could be made only by a majority votes at a public board meeting. I shall abide by majority decisions of the board while retaining the rights in such decisions through ethical and constructive chance. As part of the board of education, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality education of every student school district 7. I shall officer with extensive participation of community formulate defend. I shall assist and establish a structure and an environment to sign to all students have the opportunity to their maximum through organizational framework. I strive to ensure continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of
005our children in compliance with state law. and I shall advocate on behalf of students in our community schools to advance the vision for school district 87. I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent, the lead district for fulfilling the vision. The board was created fostering excellence for every student in the area of academic skill, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. Thank you, Mrs. tomorrow. Congratulations. Uh the next is appointment of board member to fill position. We ask that the board of education appoint Sharice Walker to the seat on the board of education effective immediately. Motion and Miss Roll call, please. Espanosa. I hi Chavez. Hi. 19 carry. Mrs. Mora, you're very experienced at this now. Mrs. Walker, do you have a coffee? All right, if you please stand and raise your right hand. I
006shermly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education of school district 87 in accordance with the constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further swear that I shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district assets. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions have been made only by majority vote lead. I shall abide by majority decisions of the board while retaining
007the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. As part of the board of education, I shall extend the responsibilities of my role in the equitable and quality education of every students in school district 87. I shall foster extend participation with the community, formulate goals, the design outcomes and set the course towards district 87. I tell establish a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall strive to ensure continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affect the education of our children in compliance with the state law. and I shall serve as an education key advocate on behalf of students in our community schools to advance the vision of school district 87. I shall strive
008to work together with district superintendent to lead school district 87 towards fulfilling the vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. We ask the board as to the board of education accept the proposed resolution as follows regarding the term of board officers. Be it resolved that school district 87 board of education establishes the term of office for president, vice president and secretary at one year with one-year term to begin as of the reorganization meeting to be held annually for this purpose and said meeting will occur no later than the regular April board meeting. Any vacancy during the term of either office shall be filled by election for the balance only of the said term. The resolution supersedes
009all o resolutions on this topic previously adopted by the board. So this needs to be signed by president and secretary once we once we get to that reorganization next. So we have to pass the res resolution. I got a motion. motion. I have a motion. Make it a motion. And Jackson roll. Esposa. Hi. Walker. Hi. Mora. Hi. Mason. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Hear. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Motion carried. Okay. Now, uh, election of the president. So, we need a nomination. I nominate. Second. Do a roll call. Roll call, please. Sorry, that's you, Miss Nora. Walker. Hi, Warren. Hi, Mason. Hi, Jackson. Hi, Chavez. Hi, Miss Spinosa. I motion carried. Thank you. Now, we have to collect the vice president. I nominate Carlo Sh. A second. Third. Roll call, please. Tower. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Mora. I.
010Walker. Hi. Mr. Senosa. I motion carried. Okay. Election of a secret, excuse me, secretary compensation. Uh, I have a motion on that. According to board policy 213.00, 00 compensation of the secretary shall not exceed $500 per year and shall be fixed at least 180 days prior to the election of the secretary as no changes permitted at this time. The salary is maintained at $40 per month or $480 per year. The motion is that we ask the board secretary compensation to remain the same as last year. Oh motion motion. Got a motion. Roll call. Roll call, please. Travis, I Jackson. Hi, Mor. I Walker. I sos. Motion. We need a motion to elect a secretary. You got a motion. Secretary. Nomination. Nomin. I a roll call. Hi, Chavez. Hi. Hi, Tower. Hi, Jackson. Hi, Laura. Hi,
011Walker. Hi. Motion carries. Great. All right. We ask that the board of education approve all existing policies, rules, and regulations. Your motion. Mr. Chavez and Moses. Roll call, please. Hi. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mora. I Walker. I Mason. Hi, Miss Spinosa. I Chavez. Motion carried. We ask that the board of education approve that the regular board meetings be held on the fourth Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the boardroom of the administration center. Get a motion. Miss Mo and Miss Wall. Roll call, please. Jackson. Izz. I Mason. I Walker. I motion carried. We ask that the board approve the law firm of Petrarcha Gle and Boil and ISO LLC to continue to represent school district 87 and that auditor Baker Tilly US LLP continue to act as the auditor for school district 87. Get
012a motion. So Jackson and Minosa roll call, please. Mixon. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Penosa. Hi. He tower. Hi. Jackson. I war I Walker I motion carries. We ask that the board adopt the resolution for authorization of signatures as follows. Be it hereby resolve that the board of education by this act establishes the authorization of two impressed fund account signatures. Such authorized signature shall be that of either superintendent, assistant superintendent for finance and operations or president or board vice president. This resolution supersedes all other relative resolutions on this topic previously adopted by the board. I got a motion, Miss Espinosa and M. Walker. Roll call, please. Esposa. Hi. Walker. Hi. Hi Tower. Hi. Chavez. Hi. Jackson. Hi, Mason. I Laura. Hi. Motion. Okay. So, uh we need a motion to read the reorganization at uh we not
013to appoint the positions of both. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. We have to appoint uh yes the committee. No, we now we have to appoint all the new committees. I want to make a proposal that we keep as statical. No wonder that. All right, let me find it here. Sorry, we made an update and then it uh it changed what I had access to, but I think I found it. Okay, let's see. Mrs. Flores, do you have that one with you? I'm having trouble finding it. Which one that all the positions? We should second page. [Music] Okay, here we go. What am I doing using technology? I know. I know. All right. Sorry about that. Okay, here we go. So, uh, we need the board needs to appoint a chairperson and co-chair for in district committees,
014education and finance. That was previously Mr. Chavez and Mr. Jackson. We got we got a motion to do them all. We're going to do them all. All right. So, no change. All right. So, I just have to read it then and then we're No changes. Thank you. Uh facilities uh previously was Mr. High Totower and Mr. Chavez. Policy policy and legislation previously Mr. Chavez, Mr. Jackson. Health, safety, and transportation previously Mrs. Espinosa and Miss Walker. Public relations, previously Miss Mora and Mr. Chavez. Parent teacher advisory, previously Miss Espinosa and Miss Mora. Food service advisory, previously Mrs. Mason. Bilingual advisory, previously Miss Mora and Miss Espinosa. And then appointing our delegate an alternate to out of district committees, PACE board, Miss Mason and Miss Walker. IASB board previously Miss Mason and then uh we've already done
015the attorney and the auditor and so we ask the approval of the board of education. I got a motion for that last uh board where it said previously Miss Miss Mason Mason previously should be Miss Walker. Got it. Can I get a motion to accept all those [Music] roll call please? Hi Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi Mora. Hi Walker. Hi. Motion car. Okay. So now we can uh do a motion to adjourn the reorganization. Get a motion to miss and Mr. Phil. Roll call please. Hi Mason. Hi Jackson. Hi Card. Hi Chavez. Hi Walker. Hi. Hi. Okay. Now we'll go to the regular board. Okay. Ready to go to regular vote, please. Get a roll call, please. Hi. Howard here. Jackson here. Mason. Mora here. Walker here. It's here. Okay. And Mr. White Cap is here
016from Baker Tiller. Okay. Welcome. Sorry it took so long. Everybody Thank you for having me here tonight. We're as you're only a couple months left in your misal year. We're here to talk about the audit planning for the fiscal year 25 audit. We will be out here um to do our planning, our interim works the end of May, May 29th and May 30th. And then our final field work, our final audit will be weeks of August 29th. Um the the week before and then 29th. So those two the end of August consistent with prior year's timing and we we expect to present the audit in our in our normal um cadence this year as well. the board will present consult as we do. Um the audit senior um Brook and the audit senior manager Anna
017will be back this year a team once again which I appreciate of course and I know business office does as well. also be good continuity um between the audit team the the staff members will change which which are good to ask a lot of questions get that different perspective on what they have to ask and how they do their they go about doing their job as well there will be one new accounting standard effective this year which could potentially change the liability compensated absentes who approved sick in vacation time we don't expect it to be material at our school districts. We've done some kind of test samples of different districts. We don't expect that the way liability way the standard is written that it will impact the district, but we'll work with the business office
018to determine whether or not it changed in financial numbers is warranted. So the present law that the number of potential numbers a little bit refresher on what we do for the audit. The goal of an audit is to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are forgive material statements whether caused by error fraud or any other accidental misstatements. During our planning work, the first couple of days of our audit, we'll look at the internal control of the district level significant audit areas. We'll look at internal controls and we'll determine whether or not we need to adjust to each timing spent of the audit procedures. So, what areas do we need to look at in more depth or at different times? Sure, we're addressing all the potential risks that could be there with the financial audit.
019We'll look at interim financial statements. will read one board. We'll have discussions with management and a member of the board just to kind of get their perspective on the financial audit, financial statements, the operations of the district. When we come back at final field work in the middle of August, we'll execute that game plan. We will perform our tests and transactions, our detail tests to gain our reasonable insurance financial statements are basically stated. We will also at that time audit the district's federal awards spending that you get from federal awards with example programs based on risk analysis test transactions to make sure that spending is regulations. We work with management process but obviously we work for the board. Should you have any questions or concerns happy to have those discussions at any time and Dr.
020Solom get you in touch with us we can of course answer any questions now but really throughout the year we're here address with that yes um you're conducting audit based on financials close to fiscal are you providing opinion for the future we don't look forward the timing between the end of the fiscal year and when we release our audit issue our audit we do look at that time period and see if there are any subsequents that have happened in that school year federal right and based on so this is spending through regulations that were in effect providing any risks risk based on funding Is your firm looking at providing any? It's still based on what's already occurred and what's already happened on a go forward basis as things change as we move to come out.
021We definitely provide information out there to what that may mean for our clients. We don't provide an opinion on that and how it relates to next fiscal year. So we're out. So we're always looking um you know we don't we would provide information on how things could impact you in the future but not transactions. It's a great question. Thank you very question. Any other questions or concerns? requests. Thank you for your participation. I appreciate Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Jim. Thank you, Joe. So, um what uh we have we don't have public participation, but tonight we do have a brief presentation that Dr. Misanic is going to introduce our team here on restorative practices. As you know, we gave the board an opportunity to see our learning taking place in each of our six schools.
022And one of the things we've been working on is student readiness to learn and how we interact with each other. So, Dr. Misanic, would you mind uh doing an introduction? And Joe, could you help maybe could we move the chair? Or thank you, Mr. Gachoski. Absolutely. And we have a special guest here, Meline, and her parents. I hope I got her. What is it? Matilda and her parents. Matilda, can you introduce yourself? And Matilda's mom, she reminded me she went to North Lake. Is that when I was there? Oh my gosh. We said hi earlier. And you came back. Thank you. And uh Dad, I'm out. It's nice to meet everyone. You as well experience by the way. Nice to meet everyone. Thank you for coming, Dr. Well, I mean, I'm excited to have an
023amazing group of people up here today to give you a little bit more of that inside look at the work that they're doing and improving to their students restorative practices. Let each of you introduce yourself, your whole role, and which school you work. I'm Katie. I am school social worker at Red. I'm Nicole Durk. I'm the school counselor at Garden. I'm Katie Kalanovich. I am the school counselor over at Fe as well as the lead school counselor. I'm a great teacher at Riley Intermediate School. You're also to see her on a video on tonight. Are you going to do auto let the team take it away from here and um expect to experience the presentation they took together on their own but I I appreciate all the time that they All right. So, what we're
024going to have you guys do today, we're going to uh do some circles with you all. So, we're gonna have everybody stand up and we are going to make ourselves into groups. We should have fun. So, one group of five, four groups of four. So, find a group of four and then we have one group of five. You have a group. Can I join you over here? So, whenever we get ourselves into circles for whatever it is, whether it is large bathroom circles, small circles within a classroom or a meeting like this, um the first thing we do is make sure we go over our circle agreements. So today our circle agreements are going to be respect your talking piece. So what we need you guys to do is in your circle find a talking
025piece. So anything you guys have with you a lot of times we're doing something but tonight you guys pick something at next year we're having our advisories each make their own talking stick and I'm really excited about she is very excited about it and everything. Um, so we're going to respect the talking piece. When you have the talking piece, you're the one who gets to talk at that point. Um, and you get to keep that and talk as long as you want to talk. And then once you pass it on, you say enough so that you feel heard, then pass it on to the next person. Um, respect personal space, especially when we're here, just make sure we're not on top of people. Um, understand that everyone will get a turn. Listen with your ears,
026heart, and mind. And that you always have the option to pass. So, if you ever feel uncomfortable with what we're asking or what someone asks, go ahead and pass as much or as little as you would like. All right. So, to start our circle today, we're going to have you look at the board and all we want you guys do, are you feeling positive? Pick the dog that matches your mood. So, again, around your circle, pass your talking piece. When you have a talking piece, just give a give a number or a little reason why you're feeling the way you're feeling this evening. I'm straight out. That's my adventure. Well, I'm really Good job. All right. So, people have finished up. So, this is a really great example of just an easy icebreaker to do
027with your class during your meetings. Um, or some of our kids, um, I recently go overboard advisory. The kids have been doing this. So, we've been starting out with a lot of these that's very just surface level. So, the kids are willing to to answer these a little bit more than some of the deeper questions. And we get most of these from a uh website called First Side. And it's amazing. and they have a they have a font every day and you can look back through their archives and it's a great way to get them and it's great and it's the next question we've got for you guys we're going to go a little bit deeper so showing how we can move a little bit deeper and get to know each other better. So in
028your circle we're going to talk about what are you most proud of and we'll take about three or four minutes to do this. I guess that print. You don't get any Trump [Music] are going to about the about 30 more seconds to wrap it up. All right. Go ahead and go back to your seat. But we are not done. A little taste of what we're doing in our advisory, in our groups, and our classrooms. So, how does that make you feel? when you are willing to share how it felt to get up and talk with people about these things. Yeah, it gave me uh invigorating and a sense of connection. Anyone I want to add to that? I think the formal communication I'm always concerned at the school of I feel like kids as they
029get older that that form of communication with all technology science to get them up into talking to one another. That was sexy. Yes. Face to face and turn. And we were talking about how wonderful it is for us to watch that happening too because you know we were all just sitting and just kind of listening and doing our thing and then you see everybody get up and there's smiles and are laughing and it really does bring that attraction and it happens in our classrooms all the time and it's really such it's so amazing to see it. So before we dive into the why of it, it all goes back to that that we need to reach our hearts first and then our minds. Kids can't learn if they are not emotionally ready and they don't
030feel like they're being cared for and respected. And that's this is one of the things that circles does in building that community. So the reason behind this work and some of these things we've obviously already kind of touched on but you know the big piece is just that relationship piece whether it's between student and student or if it's between teacher and scholar. So you know just as a as a community as a whole. Um it engages all learners. So even those students sometimes I will have some that will pass almost every time I go into a classroom and you know that's okay. they're still listening and you can tell that they're still invested in what their classmates are sharing and they're still in that circle and they're part of that even if they're not necessarily
031responding. Um, it builds empathy. So, one of the things when I go into a lesson, we always run either a circle at the beginning or at the end. And one of the things that I I encourage them is that kind of think with your heart as well um and listen with your heart. And if you are hearing that a classmate, you know, checks in and says that they're feeling sad today, that might be a good connection piece, right? You can be like, "Oh, maybe I need to be kinder to, you know, my classmate today." Or maybe I need to step back and maybe not, you know, approach them. Or maybe if I feel, you know, that I'm able to do that later at recess, I can say, "Hey, you know, I noticed that you said
032you were kind of sad. You want to talk about that?" or, you know, do you do you need help getting to talk to someone about that? So, we kind of build on that that empathy piece as well. Um, and then obviously the sense of community that a lot of us kind of already recognized. So, how does it look in district 87 right now? Um, obviously we're still very much in the beginning stages, but in some ways I feel like it's something that we've invested a lot of time and we've been doing this for so long. Um, we have classroom circles. So, we do have some teachers who like Miss Pebble run circle as often as possible. We have some teachers who are just kind of dabbling where maybe they came to our um PT institute
033day or just from what they've been learning through um different um inservice days that they give it a try. Sometimes in the spurly moment, sometimes, you know, a little bit more intentional um but they can be social like we just did. um academic. So, it's an easy way to, you know, after you're teaching something, maybe you round up and you give them, you know, some kind of math problem and everybody just kind of gives the answer and how they got there. So, it doesn't have to be tied to social emotional either, but they're still making that connection while working on academics. Um, and then obviously the end goal of all this is that word restorative so that they're comfortable when we're doing these, you know, simple circles with these little R circles that we call
034them that when a problem or situation does occur, we can circle out and talk about those types of things as well. um you know instead of pushing a child or a student outside of the classroom, they can be in the classroom and that conversation is happening and they can be talking about how it made them feel and all of those sorts of things. So that's kind of the end goal where you know we want to get with a lot of this. We heavily connected to Panorama which we know that um all of our scholars and that sense of belonging piece which was a piece that a lot of our scholars felt was lacking for them. So this is a way to kind of build on that. Um and then as I said like the behavior
035intervention piece and the consequences piece. We have had um some really big intervention type circle occur um at one of our middle schools and from what I hear it was phenomenal and it really worked and it went really well you know. So that's really who we want to be. Um SEAL teams use them in their lesson their small group. So there some students are getting them depending on the day with their classroom teacher and then when the counselor or social worker goes in there they could be getting them in specials as well. So it's not just happening in one room and that's it with you know one group of people. It's intermixed throughout the day and then we even do staff circles very similar to what we did at the start of our time here
036with you um doing institute days. So I mean we can talk about this and talk about this. [Music] Okay. Yeah. So we can talk about this and talk about this from our perspective. I mean I wish I could do this more often in our classroom because um our students really love it and beg me to do circles. So, I actually like to invite Matilda up to kind of talk and you'll see her on the video, too. Um, but, uh, she is, um, one of my students who participates frequently in circles and asks about doing them. And so, I just wanted you guys to hear it from the scholars. So, what do you want to tell them about any circle times to our friends and sometimes around He has to talk attention by fellow teachers here.
037And if you think you're thinking from their perspective, you're there. Oh, maybe they're going through a hard time. Maybe you can talk about and I mean the way in the classroom has felt from like the dance, right? We talk about that a lot, right? All right. Are you okay? All right. So, we'll let you see the video then of um including Matilda and some of my other students who wanted to make sure that you all heard a little bit about design and part of last year. Well, I like having [Music] something that I like. The thing I like about circle time the most is that we get to answer a lot of fun questions. Um, and I just really like circle time because I get to sit next to my friends. Um, and we can
038laugh and joke about like the jokes and like the things that we're supposed to do. um when we do circle time. So really fun time. Um, I like sh because um I like sharing I like hearing what what other people feel and how how they how's their day going. And um I really appreciate that um my teacher um cares about us and um um cares about our feelings and and that's good. So we all um can like talk with each other. Some things that I like about circle time is that we get to hear people's opinion and it's there maybe you could talk about it and you could get one at a time. I like how me and I get to know my classmates. My classmates, you know, always talk about like need to tell
039someone but have the courage and the thing I like about the circle time how we always get together in a circle and the teacher always feel respectful to be respectful of talking because like understand each other which is very nice to get to make sure the teachers know what they're thinking. Maybe they need like a brain break or they need some time off. Something I also class remind me is whenever everybody's really happy how it brings all of us together or we could all understand what someone's going through. They know that we're listening because we can think better how we can know like what what are their thoughts um and what what do they do um in their day and and how are they improve our classroom um on their um sometime and then we
040do circle time and I'm feel like some people are sharing and they think, "Oh, she has a new open about it. Maybe we can have a conversation to help them feel better." Do you want to say like I did not tell them any of these jokes. Like I just said, "This is what I'm going to ask you." And I just want you to think for a second and you can vouch for me here. Um, just think for a second what is it that you want to say? Let me know when I'm ready and I'll hit a report. So, I mean, they truly love it. They truly do beg me to do them more often. And it's something that's my goal is to continue trying to include more and more academic and social circles. We do
041something sort of like circles in that time too where they all work together in these groups. Um, rooms to share their ideas about math. And so I think, you know, you see the difference. I mean, I know they can vouch for coming into my classroom with the way my kids are um with me and with each other. They they do a really good job. So I I give it to them, too, because they're great kids. I'm so lucky to have them. Um, so just to leave you with this thought of why circles are so important, that sense of community is so important. When I know your story and you know my story, we're less likely to hurt each other because if we can walk each other's shoes and like be able to understand each other
042and put into each other's perspectives, you have that sense of belonging to make the world better. else. Very good program. Thank you for presenting to us. Really enjoy. You're special. Great. You great things from you. Okay. Keep it up. Thank you everyone. Have a good night. Thank you. Thank you. You're always welcome. Thank you. We ask that the board accept the written correspondence as presented. I got a motion, Mr. Johnson and M. Small. Roll call, please. Hi Espinosa. Hi Walker. Hi Tower. Hi Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi Mora. Hi. Motion carried. We ask that the board approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of March 24th, 2025 and the close session minutes of February 24th, 2025 and the wellness and food allergy meeting minutes from April 8th, 2025 as presented. Get a motion, Miss Espinosa
043and Miss Waller. Roll call, please. Higher. Hi. Mora. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Travis. Hi. Espenos. Hi. Mason. I Walker I motion carried. Okay. Um there's no no old business from the superintendent. The suggested motion is that the board of education approve the accounts and claims payable as presented. And there are no questions this month. I get a motion. Miss Moore and Miss Minos roll call please. Walker I Mason. Hi Chavez. Hi. He to I miss I Laura. Hi Jackson. Hi. Motion carried. Also the building rental usage report is in your packet for your information and there's no other business. Uh sequence. Thank you. Okay. No business. No business. Okay. M Travis. No business. Any other old business? No. We'll get a motion for close session. Miss Moore and Miss Walker. Roll call, please. Jackson. Hi. Warren.
044Hi. Walker. Hi. Espinosa. Hi. Traves. Hi. Heard. Hi. Mason. Hi. Vote. Motion carried. Don't go too far. Okay. Back order, please. Okay. Smithson. [Music] Okay, thank you. For a leave of absence, we ask that the board approve licensed personnel leave request as presented to Carolyn Zinski Patricia Ashley Charlotte. Get a motion Miss Mo and Mr. Roll call, please. I walk. We ask that the board appoint the following teachers pending all important paperwork. Wesley Hernandez, first grade teacher, effective August 18, 2025. Thank you, Mr. Motion. Mr. Jackson, this call I Walker. We ask that the board approve the education support staff leave of absence request as presented to jury motion. If more I Walker I Yes. that the board approve the following personnel pending all employment paperwork in East Thompson lunchroom monitor Riley effective April 7th
045make a motion Mer and Mr. Roll call, please. Hi. Hi. Walker. Hi. I Jackson. Hi. Mora. Hi. Mason. Hi. We ask that the board accept the resignation of the following personnel. Catherine Soraniano effective at the end of the 2024 2025 school. Motion. Miss Moore and M. Please. Hi. Mason. Hi. Walker. Hi. Hi. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Hi. As you know, uh we've been working for the past several months on our policy manual revision for press policy plus specifically from the team here. Miss Dashik, Mrs. Zimmerman, M. Walker, Mrs. Espinosa, Mrs. Travis, and myself. We've had many meetings. Our attorney has reviewed and he's continuing to review, but we're at the so the suggested motion is that the board of education adopt a press policy manual customization pending final attorney. Your motion, Miss Mo and Miss Walker
046roll, please. I walk. Hi Jackson. Hi. I have it. Hi. And then for the next two uh motions, we've been talking past several months as well about boys and girls soccer and also approving athletic director stipen position. And uh I've asked Mr. Kowski, Dr. Modi to be here. Uh just as one uh bit of information, I'd like to thank both principles because they worked to do a survey in their schools about what the kids were most interested in and boys and girls soccer came out as well as both. So Mr. Kowski, I want to thank you for doing that and also Dr. Modi and I'd also like to thank uh Dr. Misanic because to her leadership was it last year Carol Grant or was it two years ago? It's all in this year. We we
047wrote a grant called Healthy Community and that's going to pay for this be short term. This is going to be fun to bring. So, it's a a lot of teamwork here. Kevin, did you want to say anything about these next steps? Dr. I approve these two positions, these two things. I I know that our scholars, this is my 13th year, asking about how we can bring soccer into our school. Uh I know uh we did that presentation earlier this um evening about a sense of belonging. I think that this is going to add a sense of belonging. I know our scholar I haven't really fully told them, but I know they're going to be jumping for joy when this happens. I think we bring our parents out in worlds and um I think it's be
048a beautiful thing for our community. I love the fact that bowling is going to be a no cut event. So anyone that wants to participate will be able to participate again increasing the sense of belonging in our community. I'm just excited. This is my 20th second year in the district and most of those years have been as a teacher or knowledge and giving more opportunities to students is what I think we need to do. Um there are plenty more sports to come down the road. We we met several times talk about what we think the easiest two to put on for the first couple years. These are the two sports that you get the most kids participating in the biggest interests. So every day the kids are outside of they come in and they're like
049that soccer field is not being used. When are we getting gold? Are we getting mine? When are we going to get a team? And so I was out walking with some kids today and they asking the same question. I said well I'm actually going to a board meeting tonight but that might become a possibility in reality. So they were pretty excited. Unfortunately, some of them are eighth graders. They're like, "Why couldn't you done this last year?" We didn't have the field at this point that recommendation and for future generations soccer teams and a bowling team. And then we have in our our negotiated agreement a scholastic coaching. So that will fit into that would be a uh two two additional coaches at each school. one for the boys at North Lake McCarthy and one for
050the girls and uh also how will the stipened position of the teacher becoming an athletic director how will that uh I know that um we are going to be adding on some more events and I think that this is going to allow us to um bring in someone gain some experience in a leadership position and two alleviate some along nights that the principles have. Currently, we have about between the girls basketball and the boys basketball season about um 26 home games which typically are finishing later and later later challenges. So, I think this will alleviate that and then um all the planning needs that take uh into account. So, I think this person is really going to help uh shore up some of the um news that comes from the conference level to the building
051levels. And I'm I'm more excited about this building leadership of some of our staff in type 75 that don't get a chance to use them. They've gone to school. Some of us have some of them have been actually reinforced through the school district. You've set people off certificates and I think getting more people leadership opportunities will be a great opportunity for school. They just when you feel like you're when you're doing more, you feel like you belong. So that's what we're really excited about. We got some staff that are excited about taking on some extra responsibilities, some concepts on in the planning stage, right? Yeah. Well, we as a team, we kind of went out and got some budgets and we got ideas of what soccer goals we need and how much it would be
052to put together a soccer field. Um, bowling, we got some quotes from the bowling alley of what it would look like. I'm not sure exactly where we are transition. I can maybe speak on transportation. That was one of the biggest challenges with anything is always is transportation. But I think the team between between Dan, Cara, myself, Sunil, Tasha, Patricia, Irene, and then I forgetting someone I think and Dale was every one of us kind of took a different problem and tried to solve it. And I think we have a pretty good solution for what that could look like. Um, but it'll be it'll be it'll be new. It'll be some bumps in the road, but I think the kids and the family will really enjoy more opportunity to come together and build a sense. Good
053question. Any of those teachers or coaches or know if anyone would be willing to do drug we didn't have that conversation yet. That's what we talked about. You know, you and I had that conversation not too long ago. One of the schools actually showed up show mini buses drones. Yeah, I don't know how that works. I'm not sure about I know my wife was a high school cheerleading coach in her first year. Here you go. Take these cheerleaders and drag them out wherever you're going. A little nervous about that and that's stuff that we could explore. We wanted to just get the programs up and running and look at what other options we could have to make. That that's becoming the biggest challenge with the average school is buses are getting to our schools. That's
054and you can witness basketball games and volleyball games you've been at. They should start at 4:30. They're starting closer to five and they're going to 7:30. A lot of kids are running out of those who love your event. got practice for someone else and be those events are getting better later. We do soccer outside. We out there at 7:30. It's what about 8:15 now. We won't be out there that late, but 7:30 the sun starts going down too. Make sure that time. We'll work through those challenges. I think we're teams that want the kids to do this and the teachers. We are we survey the teachers. We have plenty of adults that would want to coach these teams. two fields. [Music] I think the goal for now is to use more carbon as the home
055field for both screens, but then we have um an adequate facility in the back for the practice. Uh typically the seasons are six home games. So we would be able to work out where game we would have the whole home game field here. How many? So there are a total of 13 schools in the conference. Week seven currently have soccer eight and n adding to that and same with bowling right now is only four other schools till week five and six adding to the then there's other options we look at other sports we look at these would be highest interest these two sports and the easiest to pull off was the challenges would be these two sports first then we can tack the ones that would you mind sharing with some of the other Yeah.
056So the the rest the rest of the sports in the conference are softball. Co-ed softball, there's wrestling, there's cross country. Cross country was on a list. Challenge was finding a place to run the cross country meet could be a challenge. It would be going up to either to Grand Park or Eisenhower Park and then meeting with the football teams and what's going on at the high school cross country that spaces. So we felt um soccer was more contained, easier, easier to kind of manage and bowling than the other what's the other sport? Oh, wrestling. Wrestling was the last one that that's a whole another word sports. You got people that know what they're doing. They're a wrestling coach. I have sons that wrestle and not just anybody can be a wrestling coach and it's a
057lot of time and a lot of commitment. It also did lift on the facilities. make sure the masks are clean and put the mats out or holding the masks out and storing the masks. That's a big program. So, we we held off on those. We'll see in the future. I think that was it right last to speak to a little bit, we tried to have a lot of conversation about intentionality over and I think some of these questions it's like they all came up and we get all excited about it. It's like where does this fit in the trajectory of where you most appropriate like they said which sports to be started out with could be a potential option in the future. How do we build up to each of these things as we continue
058to get into especially if we're going to invite somebody into position for an athletic director that's going to be another you know member of the team receiving opposition that leadership royalty. So, it's been exciting to take it and see the interest, but then also think about how this can continue to grow as we evolve. And there there'll be some overlap in the seasons. So, while girls volleyball is going on, boys soccer is running. Oh, sorry. While girls basketball is going on, boys soccer is running. And when boys volleyball is going on, girls soccer. So, we'll allow kids to be in multiple sports throughout the year. Bowling is the one that they have to make a choice on. Bowling runs, what do we say like March, so like February to like end of April. That's one
059that you can't be in sports at one time. So if it's someone it's a different type of student bowling over the other student. But then the cool thing about bowling was no matter how big our team is, say we're playing against North Lake, they have 12 kids and we've got 35 kids, everyone still goes to the bowling alley. Our highest 12 scorers bold their highest 12 scores scorers, but all our kids still bowl that day. They compete against each other. All the rest of the kids of our team are still bowling every practice in every game. They're just not competing against 12 people. Every kid gets to be a part of every practice, every game, every match. I guess never been in bowling before. So I guess bowling matches bowling matches. I've heard I they
060bowler. So Well, I think you guys take this position upon our support. Just keep in mind we got a soccer coach in our presence. to always get assistant coach. Come on, teach some skills. You know, I I I definitely appreciate myself the efforts. I think this is a long time coming. um you know expanding our our our sports program and it avoids the kids doing this 3:30 in the afternoon going our goal to keep the kids in school or long we can't be busy and unfortunately like that's one of our challenges we only we have teams that are cut sports 12 boys make the basketball team 12 girls make the basketball team and we're sending away 20 kids they're like sorry we don't have anything for you to do this gives more kids an opportunity
061to at school at a safe space versus expanding our sermon. Thank you guys. So we get our first schedule out. We'll invite you guys out to the inaugural North Lake versus MacArthur Bowling and Satchorville Park and there's two middle schools and they have the high school host rival game. So like at Wenberg the two schools play we get let us see their field at night one we play each other we play at white one year and play one year pretty cool experience part it's kind of neat to see the whole community come together for a game and they always get some kind of fundraising action within principal gets pace all that stuff all part of losing principal gets pie in the face be ready for all the fire it does it brings brings more people
062into it. That's something we're always when when does the season start? Same time basketball does. So, roughly I think like we hit school on the first day. It's like, "Hey, welcome to middle school. Tomorrow's triyouts." And our first game is usually like the first or second week of September. Yeah. And then the same thing, the last games for soccer will end with the girls, I believe. No. Yeah. for the girls is like we have one star playoffs next week for volleyball. So end next week they're trying to do before the time change and after the time change so they can get a game done. Thank you both. Appreciate it. Um Mr. President, our suggested motions we ask that the board adopt a resolution approving the athletic director positions as a motion. Miss Walker and Mr.
063roll call. I walk. Motion car. And we ask the board to adopt the approving of girls and boys soccer team. Motion and Miss Roll, please. Walker. Hi. Jackson. Hi. Mason. Hi. Hi. Hi. cover. I motion. We ask that the board adopting the approving of the co-ed bowling team bowling teams. Mention Jackson and Miss M. Walk. Roll call, please. Hi Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi Kevin. Hi Venosa. Hi Bora. I Walker I motion for fundraising. We ask that the board the Riley Intermediate Walkathon Sunnyside Camp Duncan and North Side PTO that's Woody Riley and North Lake fundraisers as presented. Good morning Mr. Johnson and Mr. Mo please. Jackson. Hi Espo. Hi Mora. Hi Walker. Hi Mason. Hi Tower. Hi. Hi. And very quickly for my oral report, could I please ask Mrs. Mason to share out what
064was your wonderful experience like at the National School Board Association representing district? The experience was wonderful. the information that I obtained in these eight sessions that I went to. It was very encouraging to realize that we as a board we are and you should give yourselves a round of applause because some of the issues that came up uh when we had our Q&As's I was really really thrown back by how different communities are and how they don't come together. You know, there's a lot of bickering, a lot of uh time management wasted. Um, a lot of tension and people resigning or just up and packing their bags and just walking away and everybody is just drawing back like we don't have that. But I have to tell our team that, you know, we're okay. The
065one the takeaway though policy and procedure know everyone left I'm pretty sure realizing that everything is based on policy and procedure no matter what we think nothing is personal always go back to the other thing that I took away students have a voice uh is very important important to listen to your students. So the young fifth grader here tonight that was a beautiful thing to see. U maybe in the future we should think about having student board members. So that was my take. But all in all, I will and I would encourage all to experience. It's a beautiful thing to see so many together. They all have one one um one thing that connects them. That's education. first sign for our consolidated district plan. And as you know, every year we come together and the
066district together consolidated district plan, which is all of our federal grant um applications kind of come under this consolidated plan. That's title one. Um our basic improving school programming title one um 10003A which is school improvement. Title two which is preparing training and recruiting high quality staff. Uh, title three is immigrant student education program. Title three language instruction education program. Title four student support academic enrichment in our disabilities act which is um idea part B flow through and idea part B which is preschool. So all of those um include a summary of our district's needs assessments, summary of how we've engaged our stakeholders in um those activities, also consultation with our nonpublic schools, St. John Mandy. Um how we're going to support students academics and social emotional needs, our bilingual service plan, and then our
067professional development plans. So we this is kind of the plan that opens the gate so we can start applying for any of our grants as those um grants available to us. Um how I sort of approach this with our team is it's business as usual. So if I answer your question s earlier that you know we're moving forward and that's in that direction so far it's the plan as things were the approach that so suggested motion board education approve consolidated district for motion suggest Nelson. Hi Walker. Hi Mora. Hi Mason. Hi Jer. Hi. Hi. For my report I wanted you to have the um results from our west curriculum audit. So every five years the west service conducts a professional development activities. So for any of our institute days aids um we provide professional development
068hours to our staff and so we are required to submit any of that interview documentation and then they um review that information information and conduct an audit all of the required documents that we're required to keep and so I wanted to just give you the results of that. We did not have any findings. Everything um went as expected and so we are had no action plans to our office was very pleased with the option of that is our department. Thank you to all and I just wanted to thank uh the board of education for allowing me to attend visible violence institute. Um this summer I'll be spending five days um in um it's in Las Vegas but I'm spending five days in the outcome of that learning learning institute. I will be certified um to
069train all of our districts on the most impactful strategies to impact teaching and learning in our classrooms. So, I'm really excited to have that opportunity and I just want to thank um board education for allowing me to get that opportunity to come back to our students. And I want to give everybody an update on the innovative school summit that I spoke about last uh month. We with the school improvement um grants, we have such great opportunity to bring our school improvement teams to innovative summit. I'm really pleased to report we have 31 of our staff members to administration and teachers that are going to be going on this school event summit uh together this summer for about four or five days which will help us bring all that information back to our school plans and
070back to our market as well. excited for the teams to go together. We want to thank you for telling your team as um we discussed earlier in both sess Summary budget position activity reports for the period ending March 31st 2025 are providing information. Next. Also, we are presenting the tenative amended budget provisions due to receipt of new grants, claim reimbursements, changes in reallocation of expenditures based on the actual funding. um some of the u changes in your packet questions on those and I also um expend supplies. So we're going to continue to monitor the revenue expenses until the final budget which is being on the budget hearing in June 23rd 25. And so we suggest a motion that the board of education approve the tenant of amended budget for fiscal year 2025 as presented and
071established June 23rd, 2025 as the date for the public hearing on the amended budget and direct the assistant superintendent for finance and operations to publish the required notice of public hearing and ensure the tenative amended budget is off at the administrative center beginning May 1st, 2025. I get a motion and Miss Moa I Walker I Jackson Nathan Scott. Next action item is regarding the approval of engagement letters from for this year audit presented today by Joe White. Engagement letters are in your packets and the motion is the board of education accepting five engagement letters for fiscal year 2025 and review. Hi Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi. Hi Mora. Hi Walker. Hi Mr. Nelson. Hi M. Next item is regarding the preschool for all playground cover. We've had we have a recommendation to change from the wood
072to artificial turf and it would be the same ground cover that's used for the Sunnyside playground. recommendations came from an audit that we had performed. The suggestion motion is that the board of education approve the replacement of the existing wood that preschool playground at woodier and Jefferson with artificial tur and miss have a question that safety they're saying that it would be safer for us walker and welcome Please I hear. Next item is renew the contract with their unemployment management company and it's employee services for the for the next school year. They represent any unemployment claims are come through. motion is the board of education approved a renewed renewal contract with NSN employer services as a motion small Jackson I sa I motion carried final item is to request to offer that she continue to
073offer student accident insurance to the families of our students for the next fiscal at the service recovers details regarding your packet along with the underwriter information and prices saying something several years a motion is the board of education authoriz the office of finance operations to offer the student accident insurance program provided by Rville and associates to district 87 families 25 year a roll company. Hi hi Jackson. Hi Mason. Hi Laura. Hi. Hi. Motion here. Quickly from my own report that I shared with you last month treasures office with the pro school district to join. Those three districts are Lraange 105, Lraange Highland 106 and Pleasantale 107. The trustees have agreed to allow us to join our cash office and thank you for being on top of revenues and expenses. Of course, I'm watching. We really
074appreciate. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Um, want to give you an update on interviewing going pretty well for the upcoming school year. We had 12. of those 12 came before. So they going through the hiring process about eight of them are thinking about you know joining our team and that's for teachers and for teacher assistants we have three uh candidates. So it was school leader John as well. Um we needed to vote better um special education but I did find special education candidate thing. Um so that's that was a good thing. So got to keep the ground you know going with that but it's really great start. We're excited about that. Um and then last but not least, I want to thank everybody for putting out your statement of economic uh interest. We are 99% complete
075in this story. So we just have one one out here and it will be done out the last one. But I I have full confidence will be 100% probably by the end. very proud maybe by the end of this. That's the end of my report. I'll keep you updated, but I believe in May it'll be five. That'll be good. Hi, good evening. Um we just concluded our um our year with our adult ESL program. It was very successful to be able to hold it on both and Jefferson side. We had Mr. Ken Gardner as our site um facilitator. He did an amazing job. Had wonderful staff from teachers to um childcare providers. I think total enrolled for the whole year was about 170 and at the end of the day we had about a hundred
076that came right. Um there was even one um scholar who came to every class except for one and she walked every every day. So it was very successful. I'm very grateful to everyone who um participated and worked. I'm very proud of our help scholars and we're going to do it again next year. And um and then our dual language one way um rolling out for kindergarten where um we've got a lot of um important things finalized. I think we just have to decide on a little bit more development that we're going to offer and just finalize the materials. So, we're well on our way that access tenatively scores. So, I'm excited to see appreciate any questions. Okay. How many bars spoken as a matter of fact did a very good job. I know they were
077there. There's another word to teach your circle. I got on to your circle. Um I would just say outside of all the res practices work that's going on with building this hardcore for summer school. Uh it seems so far away yet so close and I'm so excited that we have Dr. Whitfield who is instructional coach for MacArthur and Ken Gardner our PE teacher from Jefferson as the administrators. So again in alignment with that grow your own experience offering those opportunities. It's been wonderful working side by side with the two of them who now have some leadership different potentially before Berkeley. Um we have enrollment opening out to our families May 9th through 23rd. So it's going on soon. The exciting thing this year every year I feel like I get to say this is more
078and more applicants for people in the in the years that I've been in this role than we've had in the year before. So this year we had over 65 applicants to uh participate in summer school position with certified hand support staff. The wonderful thing about that is challenging that we don't even have enough positions for that and we've already continued to expand but that also means that we offer more opportunities for students. So, uh, with that maybe 9th through 23rd, we're hoping to get 200 students inside the district and and maybe even the weight list will be able to join us. We'll see what happens. But summer school is exciting. And then we just have all the fun wonderful events that we have coming up for our fourth through eighth graders held in this week.
079And a big thank you to Mr. Powski for helping me plan that, making it very a very meaningful day. inviting families in to participate in award ceremony this time for that social. Can't forget the ice cream. Then we have camp Duncan coming up for Sunnyside and Riley over the next two weeks which is favorite event. I squeeze my way into it still every year just so I can see that experience. And then the eighth our seventh graders are going to teams rope experience which is team building also for both the character and that's happening within the next three weeks as well. And then yes hope that you people going um and what's excited for students provided a lot of the opportunities. So just a couple of things. You share that presentation start. I I I
080really enjoyed it that you can even use it with other teams, adult teams. Yes. And I just will give a shout out to the building leaders have been taking this back and doing it with the adults consistently. And we really deeply believe that if we're expecting it from our children, we have to be modeling it first. And I just I applaud their their choice to continue this work. I can't believe [Music] um so I had an opportunity today. This is one of those opportunities that sometimes schools take advantage of. We had a staff member today who wasn't able to make it in and we had Illinois state assessment for science. So I took on that session and it's one of those things where they give you like three hours and do like questions. Some kids
081take it full time and some kids get done a little bit quicker. So the group that I had, we had about an hour left and they're all done. We went outside for a walk with me and like nine eighth graders and just them reflecting on like how fast their careers went. We had a of the nine, eight of them were in kindergarten, either Sunnyside or Jefferson. So they were lifetime Berkeley students, not someone who came in like in grade or fourth grade. So we got the opportunity to talk to all of them about what that looked like kindergarten all the way through 8th grade and how quickly it went. Just to hear them shar stories was nice. don't always get the time to sit down and talk with the kids that's not school related or
082or or learning related. There was just I had an hour with nine kids just one who walked around the building a couple times and we just talked. It was nice and some of these were kids that I met when they were in kindergarten first grade being nice to kind of close out a year that we have to slow down sometimes and remember why we're here and see the kids if they're nervous about where they're going. even had that conversation. We're going to high school next year. Some of them like I don't know might move. We might not move. I might be going to this school. And of the nine, there was six different schools being mentioned of where they were headed. So like this is their last time together. We forget that sometimes. And the
083kids sometimes act out because of that. They're scared of where they're going, right? And we forget that all behavior is a form of communication and they're just telling us that they're they're scared. you know, always they always come back and say, "We miss this place so much." Even though when they're here, they're like, "We want to get out of this place so much." But it's nice to sit down and just be able to talk to kids. That was my highlight of my day. But it's also scary that we have what 24 days to get graduation ready and all those things to remind you of that time. We're never ready for it. But it all goes off. Thanks for everything you guys are doing. We really appreciate you did a really good job. Dr. Go right
084across because you went down. Well, we certainly want to extend an invite to you for our graduation on June 2 and prov and at 7:30. I know you asked Mrs. Travis earlier how um the new recruitment is going. And so I just want to share with you that we interviewed a young man who graduated last year at Middle School, Alan Martinez, remember you and um he applied. He interviewed really well and we're trying to bring him on board as a social studies teacher. We're just waiting for his certification to come through. He said that he um went to trade school to be a plumber and he said something was just lacking inside and he wasn't content being a plumber. and went back to school to become a teacher. And I said, "Why did you apply
085to North Lake Middle School?" And something beautifully said like, "I want to come back and help our community." And so I'm hoping really that's really we can get them on board. We're trying the certification. Um, and so it'd be amazing to have someone who went through our system come back and help our system produce scholar and change. Can I share with you it was delight talking to him um on the phone? It was just you can hear smile through the poem and then he emailed me because I gave him some advice on what he needed to do to make sure he had his middle school certification. Even when he emailed me, he said it was, you know, a delight talking to me. He's really looking forward to hopefully being a part of Berkeley 87 again.
086But that day that I spoke to him, it was really a full circle because right before him, I hand offer it to the young lady we hired tonight, Leslie Hernandez, who was a student at Jefferson and she was my student. I was a friend. And so I offered her the position. She accepted and just so excited. And then I got on the phone and I called him and it was just the best day ever. you know, just seeing and talking to our students as they become teachers, it it is it is really a delightful and um I'm looking forward to even more of it. Well, team, you're doing some pretty good work. I'm sorry. Can we go backwards? I want one more thing. So, welcome North Career D field trip. Um I think Mman and
087Dr. sent us an email and what it was was at the technology center du page which is co um we took we took 50 not sure how many college took we spent a afternoon at the technology center page where the kids got to see like dual enrollment and kind of see what some of those course works in high school. Um it was amazing to see like kids were it was a hands-on kind of thing. I've got a great picture I can share with the team as well. Um we had kids that were in full fires here with an axe like breaking doors down. We had um students that were had the mannequin learning how to break hair and do makeup. There's a whole kitchen there where they got to go behind the scenes and see
088there's a restaurant like the cafeteria at the high. It's it's actually a high school. There's a principal, there's an assistant principal dean, and they serve the food through the cafeteria at the restaurant. Um, there's an auto shop, there's computer, a crafting, you name it. This place had so many opportunities. Kids came back like excited about going on trip. So I think she might it was like a week ago but it feels like seven years ago in middle school terms but it was the kids came back very very very excited about opportunities other than just going to fouryear university like what they could do. We had a group of boys that were very much in cars. They have a auto section. They have a they had a paint shop and the kids were learning like they
089were teaching them how to paint cars and they were super excited because then their goal is to paint cars out of the garage, but this program helps you get licensed. So when you leave high school, you got whatever certification you need. So you're not just paying cars on the side, but that's your profession and your license and so you can make a full living out of it versus just side job on the weekend. So the kids were super excited. I don't know. I'm sure they experience kids came back bouncing them off the walls excited to tell their families. So it was a really cool experience. I'm happy we got I hope we can do that every year. Thank you. We talked a little bit about grants today. So recently we got approved for computer science
090equity grant. That was the grant that was written last year. Dr. Sal and I had to work on it a little bit last couple weeks. Um, but that will allow us to expand our STEM program. Beginning of this year, we purchased different robotics like little spir buses, little little cars that have students use them to work on coding, programming. They're amazing tools to help collaboration, team building, math, coding, and so forth. So, this grant for about $25,000 will allow us to expand that program in our middle schools, which we're really excited about. Um, curriculum council, we're working with a team of people uh led by uh Kelly and Cara um on the curriculum team and we're looking at all of our digital subscriptions, how we're using them, what we're using them, and how they're are
091helping our scholars on a day-to-day basis. So, we've been sending out surveys to staff as well as getting on Zoom calls with different vendors to identify, do we still need the tools we're using andor are other tools to better meet our students. So, that's a really exciting project and we think we'll provide a lot of value district 87 enrollment is underway. We're really trying to make a focus on getting all of our current families who will be returning the complete the skyward returning student online enrollment. I just checked on the numbers. Riley is in first place with returning student online enrollment, but MacArthur and North Lake are not far. Um, so they are working on that. We're making a big push for that. Um, and then also as Dr. Mannic said, summer school is starting.
092So there's a lot it's a whole new school year that we have to set up and there's transportation things like that. So working in the back end to help that program get off the ground successful way and then uh the end of the school year as Kevin and others said. So we're working on successfully collecting all of our technology at the end of the school year and uh preparing to acquire technology to start off the new school year navigating tariff concerns and other things. But we're in pretty good shape. Mr. Are there new devices for the up one more time? Sorry. Oh, thank you. Yeah, look at that. My last bullet point. So, uh, the computers you guys have, we probably gave those to you like eight years ago or something like that. And, uh,
093they're 11in computers. So, we have some 13inch Mac computers that we prepared. We don't have to do it tonight. Dr. is going to put something in the weekly memo, but uh the cliff notes is reach out to me and we could schedule any time that's meeting for you for you guys to drop off that computer and I can give you the new one. Again, it's a little bit bigger, faster, better battery life and things like that. Um they are repurposed from previous use, but it's an upgrade from what you're using. Again, Dr. Sullivan will send out some information on that and u we'll get you get you set up. Thank you. Well, just a couple updates. Um, for the health department, we still have a vacancy for the quarter nurse. Um, but we've been very
094fortunate this year to work with one of our agencies to provide us some nurses as needed. A lot of they were talking about trips that come up and different events. Um so it's been nice to have that partnership too with these persons and we did play the ads um in every building now. So every first and second floor has an ad and working with um nurse Lind on updating our target rest plan um guidance for the state of Illinois to have their emergency plan train staff working with her on putting that in place. So, we're very happy with the ad they're now with us throughout the buildings. Um, for special education, um, we are currently we have an action plan to address. We have a signal for monitoring um, this year from, uh, ISBY and
095so they've come back to us with feedback and we action plan. So, we're working on drafting that action plan, which is proper procedures in place for and um we're also nearing the completion of special education review, the analysis of our program so we can have long-term strategic plan for special education. Um that's kind of coming to the end of that piece and having a nice report for you to um looking at that in. And I want to say thank you for um the consideration for our preschool playgrounds. You know, as we have a bundled program, we have children with different abilities. Um having a playground that's acceptable and has used for all of our students have their needs are really looking forward to approving that. We do have our annual school safety meeting on Friday
096with our law enforcement, our fire departments to come together and be enhancing our emergency operation plans and talked about a long time ago. Earlier this year, the digital EMS system there and our school did evacuation drills last two Friday, couple Fridays ago. um just to kind of practice again, get familiar with our locations and our site assessments um were conducted at North Lake and Ry. Um we will have that in your board report next month. Um and a little summary again like we did for Jefferson and video you'll have a nice summary of what some of the findings were um based on some information from site assessment what's the next steps could be and then following one will be for Not a lot actually. A lot. Got a lot. We got sports teams going to
097start this fall. We got graduation coming up. Are you about dual language? But that's what I don't know. So the the um dual language is we're going to be rolling it out over time. And so what the dual language oneway program is um it's for scholars who are identified as multiple learners specific criteria and they're eligible for our fulltime bille program. So, with our dual language one-way program, we're going to have um SLA, which is Spanish language arts, a dedicated time for English language arts, which is new part of their day. And then they'll have math with ESL support. What that means is they're going to be getting taught math in Spanish, but then the ESL support is one that'll be um learning some English terms as well as Spanish teacher in English and Spanish
098and then um the rest of their day for other specials will be done in English. Science and social studies is embedded in Spanish. So that is going to be rolled out for kindergarten for the 25 26 school year that's going to be an 8020. Then for the 26 27 school year it'll be um then kindergarten and first grade. kindergarten will make 820 first grade and the following school year which is um right um it will be rolled out to all kindergarten um first grade and second grade second grade will be 15 so we need a lot of work our teachers to be able um to execute their day but I believe in um staff kind of. So that's where we're at right now. This is plan uh plan A. And so as we go through,
099we'll be considering other options. Thanks for the clarification. I would not wrote it down. Thanks for clarification. Let me say this to to from my perspective got a lot of concerns lots and we sitting here in this room this team. We team we can make it happen. Make it happen. All way to make it happen by communicating. Might not have the answers but let's go and get the answers. We got a very good financial person over here. Make sure she uh overseeing our finances, make sure our expenses are being taken care of. All the rest of us going our part to make sure our kids got some good things going. This is why I was trying to get the opportunity and keep going. We're going to be one of those success stories. Okay, that's my
100speech. I want to thank everybody that's going for you organized tonight and very good job your organization. Everybody took responsib All right. Thank you. Roll call, please. All right. Thank Please let Mrs. This floor has no work graduation.