001e e e Township High Schools I don't think it won't carry over to another high school that's not provid so we do give them the risal final and they take the course workk that you take through risal so we have four students who taking soft or math we have about don't quote me exactly I think we're at 31 students taking freshman maths and then we have about 20 seventh graders taking eth grade so we're on that trajectory of every year we keep growing that number couple years back we had no one were Ties That currently no one taking that second that second High School Math course um we had one student like a couple years ago but this year before next year if everyone passes the course on we're on track to have like 12
002or 13 students taking that softare map right now it's online self course students that are in we only have 1017 per that actually be feasible to do something like that the challenge has been it's a small group of kids that just work we can't dedicate one full-time teacher to that and then this key teacher has four where the other 56 kids we can't put 56 kids in one class that's been the Chan we've been faced with the the number of the rosters just don't balance themselves out so we have used uity which is an online program to teach soci courses but the the fresman map is taught in person by the S staff member who must be high school by High School certified macth who is the north teacher Mr today the uh the final
003grades from the midterm all that for the first semester of school year all right Mr gski thank you thank Youk you and your team as well sorry we didn't add that to our presentation just remind good okay consider no bidness yeah we ask the board to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of December 16th 2024 and the Clos session minutes of November 18th 2024 is presented okay a miss m Miss Walker roll call please Mason hi hi Tower hi Jackson I miss vosa I Walker I MOA I motion carried and in terms of reports no old business from the superintendent okay old business Justin is the Board of Education approve the accountable as presented we get a motion Miss Mo and Mr Jackson roll call please miss Bosa hi hi Howard I Walker
004Jackson Mason I MOA I motion Carri okay building R usage record providing your package and that's for your information I don't have any other Travis no old business no business any other old business no V I got a motion to go to close session Miss Walker and Miss Mall Mo call please Jackson hi hi to hi Walker hi Mason hi MOA esposa I motion carried we should be long and close session so just relax outside right then okay Place how many kids would you say are stopping by um it's kids seven seven cre are the most interested in and sometimes they're talking about books and sometimes they're not and I walk down there's about that is great it all depends sometimes they recoup friends come with them yeah it's just fine okay we're back in
005Open Session uh consideration of new business Miss Mason reports okay M Walker's not here we had the facil meeting before meting here so men to be part of the next board package Miss X Nelson nothing in M Mo all right so moving right along Mr superintendant thank you sir I did want to mention for a uh report that the policy committee will be meeting on Monday and I'm trying to remember the date on that February 3rd and then also possibly February 10th to wrap up our press policy review okay so uh for my report for leave of absences we ask that the board approve the licensed Personnel leave request as presented for Joe burn a motion miss m Miss Walker roll call please L hi Walker hi hi Tower I Jackson MOA Mason I motion
006carried also uh leave of absence we ask that the Board of Education approve the licensed Personnel leave request is presented for Cara Fleming Robert schwarzkoff Crystal Addison rashonda Morrison Robert Deana and Lisa erson as presented I got a motion sexosa and Miss Walker roll call please Walker hi Mason hi Jackson hi esposa hi moram hi hi card hi we ask that the board approve the reassignment of the following personnel as presented Ellen NE best from leave of absence to the inclusion resource resource teacher at Sunny Side effective January 21st 2025 get a motion Miss Jack Mr Jackson Miss exson roll call please hi Jackson hi Mason hi Mora Walker I spela I motion carried we ask that the board approve the educational support staff leave of absence request as presented for Betsy Ortiz and Gabriella
007Montelongo I got a motion exosa and Miss Walker roll call please esposa hi hi Howard hi Walker Jackson Mason MOA motion Carri we yes that the board accept the reassignment of joyn web cross categorical teacher assistant at Riley to inclusion resource teacher assistant at Jefferson effective January 21st 2025 we had a motion Mr Jack and Miss Walker roll call please Walker Jackson hi Mason hi Howard hi missa hi moras hi motion Carri we ask that the board employ the following Personnel pending all employment paperwork this is for lunchroom monitor at mccartha Middle School Michelle Adams I get a motion Mr Jackson Mr waler roll call please esposa hi Walker hi MOA hi Mason hi Jackson hi hi Toler hi motion car we ask that the board approve the Jefferson Sunnyside MacArthur PTO fundraising request for
008Little Caesars it's a fifth grade Camp Duncan field trip fundraising need a motion Miss Mo and M exos Roo please Mora hi Mason hi Jackson hi hi Howard hi Walker iosa hi motion carried this next one is a policy first reading and adoption in our review with the Illinois Association of school boards for the Press policy plus one of our current policies was found to be in need of immediate revision there was a legislative change for sexual harassment and so we want to update the language immediately and so the uh policy is 52e it's a resolution to prohibit sexual harassment we ask that the board accept the following policy for first reading and adoption as presented when first reading so that would be all of it would be tonight I got a motion Miss Walker
009and Mr Jackson roll call please hi Tower hi Jackson hi Mason hi Mora hi Walker hi Isela hi motion carried then in terms of my oral report um I wanted to mention that you have in your your paperwork today a copy of our recommended school calendar for next year and that has been reviewed by our teachers union and also the administrators and I wanted to make sure you had a chance added it think you have it electronically if you don't have it as a paper copy for you to review and uh if you have any questions otherwise what I'd like to do is have it approved in February so I wanted you to have it and look at it okay coordinating this Frame breaks with uh yeah next year uh Mr Jackson according to this
010calendar that you have it is the same spring break as both Proviso and West lighton and if all works out we're able to finish in May next year the end of May which will give us the month of June for sumers schort so it works out great next year we don't have a federal election so that helps us and the spring Friday Falls during spring break so there's two days we get back next year so for at least next year it allows us to finish a little earlier than we normally do and so far this year we're on scheduled yes we are on scheduled F go call yes so that is something I'll I'll have on the agenda to take action on in February so if you think of anything when we uh have this
011Ty this time in the agenda next month you can ask me any other additional questions on the calendar but right now all of the feedback from our groups are that it's that it looks good and I'd like to thank Mrs Flores for help on there too thank you and then uh the only other thing I wanted to mention is uh we will be sending a another a communic communication to our staff and to our families about immigration and we'll just continue our ongoing feedback on that topic with our parents uh and uh continue to focus on our purpose which is teaching and learning and making sure that everybody feels welcom at our schools and unless there are any questions that's the end of my report you we have our upcoming Institute dat on on Friday
012February 7th and as you know Jimmy passes will be joining us as I've discussed before we're very excited to have him so you're all welcome to come his presentation will we start we starting the day first with a h breakfast provided by our nutrition staff so waffles omelets fruit um so please come join us that at 8 uh February 7th so next Friday and um Jimmy C's uh keynote will start about 8:30 8:35 or so we're going to be at McArthur's Jim and he'll be doing a presentation to all of our staff um for about two hours and um then we have sessions he be me meeting with our team leads but I'm proud to present that we have 17 sessions over the course of the day that are being presented by our staff that's
01328 staff members that are um um have put together presentations um for the rest of our duties that sta throughout the day for institute days so it's going to be a great day of learning I'm excited so not only do we get to JY classes but then our staff um presenting with each other um and we I do have books that are coming for you Jimmy bring with them with him the books with him and he'll be signed sweet and I wanted to report that we had our inam meeting um on January 27th at whiter or January 23rd sorry Mrs malag one of our bable teachers over at Whittier was a presenter and she gave a wonderful presentation called The Power of Words we had 26 parents and attendance um and 30 Scholars for child
014care and we were so excited and about the presentation it was so impactful that we're going to offer it again so we are going to be scheduling it um rescheduling our February meeting um to March we want to thank malab for taking the time to put the presentation together and sharing her passion with our families so our next bpan meeting will be on Thursday March 13 um and it'll be held at o and it will begin at 5:30 p.m. and snacks will be provided so we have that information send that out to our families as well and then I wanted to um just give everybody um a continued update um I know Mrs penan um um has shared kind of the plan that we um transitioning from our current um programming for TBE bilingual early
015exit to a dual language oneway um programming so we are still on Pace to have that programming change we have been providing training for our family or for our staff um our program goals um we established that in our last meeting is by moralism bi literacy and biy um grade level academic success in both languages and social cultural competence so our team has been coming together to developing deepening their understanding what that will look like we're look currently looking at all the pro different program models for consideration which will be kind of the ratio of how much English and how much Spanish is going to occur starting in kindergarten next year and then we'll be building that over the next couple of years we have established um parent evenings so we um here um so
016parent meetings will be held in February um that will go out all that information go to our families let them know of the upcoming um transition into kindergarten what that will look like we don't anticipate um a huge change in terms of same pocket of students that will be serving it's really just increasing academic English more that we have had so it'll be more of a a balanced approach um and so that we're building both academic English and academic Spanish um over the course of their educational experience and continuing to build that as the um the program grows our teachers have asked some for some additional training we're bringing in the Illinois Resource Center um additional time to throughout the course this spring so just know that that plan is continuing and continue to keep
017the rest of the progress if you don't have any other questions how often is you know the word a little bit TI but how often do we check the need for that so um every year when students enroll um any new students in um they we have that home language survey anybody that's coming enrolled if they speak another language other than English we provide an assessment to them to ensure that they are placing the right program and then every year they access testing um that is required by the state and actually that just started last week I want to say is a window and so all of our students that are um considered multilingual Learners take this state test to assess their Proficiency in English and determine theirr needs any other questions okay s you
018summary of budget position and student ex report ending December 31st 2024 after of the review the next item is an annual item the suggested motion is that the Board of Education to designate the superintendent and the assistant superintendent for finance and operation to prepare the 2025 2026 budget intive for I got a motion Mr Jackson and Miss Expos roll call please hi to hi esposa hi Jackson Walker I as I Mora I motion carried the next item is also an annual motion authorizing the intervention for property tax appeals the suggested MO motion is that the Board of Education adopt the property Tex year 2024 resolution authorizing intervention and proceedings before the state property tax appe Feld board has presented I get a motion Mr Jackson and Miss Walker roll call please Jackson hi Mason hi
019hi Tower hi Walker hi sposa I MOA hi motion Carri report here the in front of you on the desk are CPS treasur provide a letter of 10 years this year CPI is 2.9% which will be used for the taxing this week I'll be attending Theo leadership day in neille as well as the EBC preliminary renewal meeting in shamberg EBC is our benefits cooperative and it man manages our District's healthare update when I next month anything this month Berkeley posted the quarterly Berkeley 87 here we hosted the quarterly Town treasurers meeting and in front of you and also a great, districts Investments for your reference during the meeting we also discussed the possibility that two school districts maybe joining our office and these discussions are ongoing additionally um I spoke briefly of it a couple
020months ago we're still talking about theic time system it Still Remains under consideration it was initially planned for all the districts to participate however several of them Al they decided to go different way um we're still looking into it I think it would still be beneficial for our payroll um our in the system that help the time sheets we're going to so we're kind of meeting the Tyler technology to Ure the system needs our district needs anything and also at the meeting we discuss some Technical Training for our financial system for all districts and we we talked this morning actually at District at our administrative meeting and we talked about having a separate training just for our staff we have 46 staff I think we're using the system all at different levels but they think
021we think it might be a better option to just get something more focused on our district specialized in what we do weing that those costs and this would be high for the next fiscal year starting in September next item is we received our energy energy rebate for participation and this year is $27 last year was $2,400 uh this rebates when the district successfully conserves energy times finally um the ad ation is currently reviewing a proposal resolution to regulate travel new lodging expenses for board members of District staff also be this during our policy meeting state law ke Provisions under review includ alignment board policies establishing the maximum reimbursement amount Financial considerations standardizing spending submission form standard and spending submission forms and required documentation and update will be providing more once we review and recommendations that's
022all for my report you have any questions any questions no questions M Travis you up great our vacancies they're pretty much consistent um from last month certified staff 16 positions support staff seven and one districtwide sub position still B um over a winter break I did have um some students from Illinois State University from the fall career fair come and visit uh the the visits went really well um one student she was a for student and um I thought she was graduating in May and I was talking to her um right off the start of the visit and I'm like so you graduated may she said no Miss Travis I'm done and I'm like you're done I was like well when we finish this visit sign up to sub and she didn't and she s
023me she's doing a long-term assignment at a Whittier school and she shared you know her dream was always to come back to Berkeley 887 and be a teacher and so um you know I'm hoping we can help help make that a reality really you know in the in the springb positions become available um another gentleman um the career fair you could tell he just wanted to walk past but I started talking to him and he had a really great visit he is a Ela um major for middle school he graduates in May he visited MacArthur and who went to North Lake and he was just blown away by the both schools he just he was like oh my goodness you could tell he was so like excited you know when he left you know he
024was just I definitely will follow back up and I I encourage them all to come back when the students and the teachers are here I'm like you think you're excited now come back during your spring break when the students and the teachers are here and you really will be excited and then one young lady uh we've been keeping in touch of me since her visit she visited Sunnyside and Jefferson because that's the great level she's interested in but also she had her friend with her who she didn't tell me was with her in the first visit so he St stayed in the car but when we got to Jefferson he took her over there and I said I am so sorry you could have visited too he said well actually my company worked on the
025building so I I had already known about sunyside and thatth he said in North Lake and Riley too he said so I told her oh you're going to love it you know District 87 but he did to a Jefferson and they were just as pleased with Jefferson so the the visits Wen really really um well um another young lady she got ill so she's coming for spring break but I'm looking forward because I'm had it back to Illinois State University um very soon and I'm I'm looking to add even more you know visitors from all universities so um yeah so the visits went really well um the education Career Fairs will be attending um West 40 is having one February 22nd on a Saturday Northern Illinois University on February 24th Eastern and University of Illinois
026champagne have one February 26 March 4th is Illinois state asasa is the Illinois Association of school Personnel administrators they're having three they've switched up last year used to be the first one used to be for principal and then one in March and one in June for teachers all three they're dedicated to teachers this year so they have one February 6 it's virtual March I believe 6 and then May May 15 so um all of those will be virtual um but I can tell you it is one of the best virtual Affairs like the time from 4: to 7 I start at 4 and I can't believe it's 7 because you're talking and engaging with candidates all throughout um and then National lewiis is having one on March 11th and then North Central uh college is
027having one March 7th so we're getting ready and we're still looking for more opportunities um the administrative assistant of human resource Betsy Ortiz she fored me Roosevelt University is having an education career fair we haven't been there before so she'll sign us up and we'll go there too but I'm always looking for opportunities and I do share these out with um colleagues in the area you know to help them also look because we're all looking for people um but yeah so getting ready gearing up for the career fair season and then this Thursday and Friday is the ISA annual conference um I attended um each year gives us updates with laws policies and different things related to um HR school um officials so looking forward to that confence um do you have any questions any
028questions M Travis question okay moving along you're up um well in our in our world of historic practices we've making a lot of momentum we just sent our third foundational training which is very exciting think that we've already got go through that training this year we also just completed our first group to go through the Advan res practi as well we are trying to get more people to the training training of trainers for this summer which is a 4 day intensive become the people who get to take this even though we have all of that going onally we also have internally our amazing principles here tonight one of them but also the other five going back to their buildings and they've completed five early release St where they've taken this work back love their through
029those circles and having conversations about what this means and putting into practice and our big Ric has really been it must start with us as the adults before we bring this back down to our children and because it's really easy to do something with little people but it's really hard sometimes to do with the big people so I um commend all of our principles for the work that they've been doing with our adults first and foremost and uh we're just excited for uh The Continuous work that's happening with in the advanced restor practices which is really a lot of the circle work is proactive the Advanced Training is reactive so it's once the arm has already taken place we are actually going to embark on our first um restorative practices repairing the har experience which
030is a much more scripted um experience because har has been had usually is a pretty intensive experience and we are going to doing that with a situation coming up the next month to Le andot have been done but now to the other side Lear and econ be much stronger and better place for our students to it will also impact adult and then Panorama survey I know that was mentioned earlier it's going to be opening up next week but the other exciting part of this is the fcl committee has decided that we' like to move this also to the adults in organization we've developed a plance survey that will focus on culture and staff a this will be something that all of the staff and the district will partaken it will be separated by the groups
031that we kind of fall into from category from district office sport staff which will really allow us to take a little bit of a different guide to where we can potentially grow or where we can celebrate different areas the organization culture then with the Panorama survey also as we heard a little bit earlier that t belonging in our middle schools we discussed this p as well been a little bit sing point over break I took a deeper dive into is there a specific grade level that we're noticing this trend in is there something we can do before the end of this school year to potentially make that and I noticed was interesting because seventh grade both McArthur and like were grade bubbles that had the lowest of belonging but also saw that trying to cross
032all of the other areas that pan survey so it's like well I feel like this is a great opportunity for us to choose to do something because they will again be our returning students for next year so we're looking into utilizing um our stronger connections branch which we're so grateful for because it's provided a lot of oppi for us this year to provide a um team building experience at a lot for our students at Seven Grade so we're just in the expor point of that and just started those discussions but before the end of the year we would like to provide that to our seven students so that hopefully we can have a nice strong start to their eth grade year and see those numbers change and some of those relationships change in sensil and
033then session two after school clubs just began so we'll have that all the way through to Spring right that takes us through to that point and we're already having discussions around summer school so it's crazy how quickly everything just kind of keeps moving along we're we're in have some exciting new opportunities that of us for summer school this year as well good update any questions Mr you did something great job D your team you anything you want to add to the board great job today Sil Sil well you know should take advantage of the opportunity you have all right thank you we tried to keep it short we could have probably talk hours we are about we making dire headed but we all said they have lives too they don't want to listen to us
034for five hours and still have for two other hours so we kept it short to point but if anyone wants to come see stuff in action our doors always open stop in check with us follow our visitor proced many times over the past couple days but our doors are always have see well you're doing a good job so thank you sometimes doesn't get the best reputation those school kids are I live with someone so I know I live with two high schoolers scho the third grader I know I know personali yes it does I notice the administration board really appreciated you're doing so thank you and your team course they excited to be they were very s like a fire SP good job you standing for Joe burn thank you for that so you always
035so he always give a good presentation so you give me a speech now P up pass pass anything you want to add tonight anything nothing that appreciate it okay any all other new business no um next board meeting will be February 24 what time all right thank you thank you one announcement one announcement announ I want to thank Miss Travis I want to thank Dr suin Miss for you've been a special special special special time for thank you they allowed me a month get my training done took me a whole month and they stepped up last Friday got everything back in the system come to Fountain State and mess it up I got my training donear thank appreciate it anything else this this watch this can I get to say can I get a motion
036to to join how about a cons you have a consensus I got a consensus to yes sir thank you guys you guys have a safe eveny okay thanks everybody