001Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Call meeting to order. call, please. >> Dr. Atkinson. >> Here. >> Mr. Coffee. >> Here. >> Mrs. Graham O'Meara. Mr. Kennedy. >> Here. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Lynn. >> Here. >> Mrs. Graham O'Meara. >> Here. >> All right. Let's stand for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to 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. >> [snorts] >> All right. I'd like to welcome all of our visitors here in person and everybody watching live stream at home. Ms. Rico, do we have any public comment on any agenda item? All right. Let's move to the consent agenda. Do we have a motion to approve and or amend? >> Make a motion to amend
002the check register to remove the Hopewell bills and vote on that separately. >> All right. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Lynn. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Graham O'Meara. >> Yes. >> Dr. Atkinson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy. >> Yes. >> Do we have a motion to approve the rest? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Kennedy. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn. >> Yes. >> Graham O'Meara. >> Yes. >> Dr. Atkinson. >> Abstain. >> Mr. Coffee. >> Yes. >> All right. Moving on to recognition and awards, we have none this month, so we'll turn it over to Dr. Guzman for superintendent reports. >> Thank you. Um no correspondence correspondence or legislative uh updates at this time. So, the first
003item in your packet is the instructional materials report. That is an annual report that comes to the board. It uh provides a summary of the list of resources including textbooks, workbooks that we use um and it does a comparison to where we were from last year. We did spend less money this year in comparison to last year, but we are in a cycle so we do anticipate needing to adopt some newer materials for next year and we're happy to answer any questions. Hearing none then we can get to the presentation portion of our agenda and so we have two presentations this evening. Our first presentation is also an annual presentation that is the federal grant presentation. So we have Diane McDonald, Susie Montano, Edgar Palacios. I believe that's who's presenting tonight and Chris McGuffy. >>
004[applause] >> Good evening. Let me I'm going to start with title one grant. The goals for title one are to increase academic achievement for all students focused in reading and math. Supporting effective instruction through professional development to improve academic performance. Increase parent involvement and support to meet academic goals and increase attendance rate and support for homeless students. So we received 1,651,972 for our title one grant. 31% of that went towards salary and benefits for our literacy and math teachers, family engagement liaisons, and instructional coaches. 42 about 42 42.2% was spent on programs and licenses to support math and reading. And 14% was uh on professional development and conferences. Um some of the notice notable expenses was professional development and the um avid conferences that we um sent our teachers and the uh administration to. Um
005the programs and licenses covered um Apex, Renaissance, Carnegie Math, IXL. Um and then as I mentioned the salaries and benefits as well as our McKinney-Vento assistants that we provided for students who are homeless. Um for title two our goals are to increase student achievement, improve quality, effectiveness, and retention of our teachers through mentoring support, and ongoing professional development, and providing low-income and minority students greater access to effective teachers. So for our title two budget, it came to $259,542. The majority of that being spent on our instructional leadership team professional development, which um was our teachers working on developing new courses, reviewing core curriculum, and assessments. It also went towards our flex time committee to start beginning planning our flex time for the 2027-2028 school year, as well as our counselor curriculum based on social emotional
006learning. And then for title four, our goals were to increase student achievement and to provide access to well-rounded education, improving school conditions, and using technology and digital literacy. We received 219 100,861 dollars. Um that uh was broken down 53% was for our avid uh professional development and subscription. We also had about 36,000 36% sorry going towards our ALOP, which is alternative learning opportunities program, which is a partnership with ROE to provide our targeted resources to our at-risk students. And as well as 10% going towards programs for our students project lead the way our JJC dual enrollment tuition for the ACE and the EMS programs. >> Does anybody have any questions on any of the title grants? Okay, thank you. >> Thank you. Um the next few grants are managed by our director of four special
007services. So I'll be briefly going over the grants and just to give context. We meet monthly as grant managers as a team with Dr. Guzman and Dr. Hampton to share out where our balances are to ensure that we are expending our funds appropriately and sharing expenses when possible with the blending and braiding. So title one delinquent grant is the grant to support River Valley Detention Center. So this grant the initial allocation was almost 49,000 carryover was almost 15,000. This is a grant that we attempt to spend but it's very difficult to spend it all. We had conversations at our last grant manager meeting is to put more into salary. There are limitations of what we can bring into the detention center because of the rules and regulations but we do work with them to provide
008resources that they request. So the upcoming the new executive director for special services will continue to reach out to the jail to seek out what their needs are for the upcoming school year. Uh the IDEA is the largest grant that we have that's that the executive or the director oversees to provide funds for our students for our special ed our students who are really receiving sorry receiving special ed services. Uh this year we received almost 1.7 million dollars carry over with 1.3. We are still working on expanding those additional funds that we just received because of COVID but we have when we last met we did spend down most of the initial allocation and we're moving into the carry over and what what we're predicting for next year. Most of the deliverables go into salaries
009and benefits. Other deliverables are a lot of our contracts and clinicians, curriculum and that proportion its share. >> Welcome. Let's talk about CTE. We have two grants here that we leverage for CTE grant for CTE programs totaling around 600,000 for the year. You can see the grants purpose there. I did summarize it on the next slide for those who don't want to read all the words but essentially everything CTE right? It's there to support CTE programs and that would be through developing technical employability skills for students making sure that our programs are aligned to high skill high wage and in demand occupations providing rigorous instruction and links to secondary and post secondary education research on best practices technical assistance for staff with their professional development partnerships with our post-secondary institutions, developing skills, and increasing employment
010opportunities for special populations. So, that's the purpose of the grant. And as usual, we we we have no issues spending all of that on our CTE programs. For CTE or for Perkins, the federal grant, you can see our allocation there. Some notable expenses on the grant there. Obviously, our largest expense is on tangible supplies, right? Consumables that students are using in the wood shop, culinary lab, etc. So, that's our largest expense there. Some other notable items there are some salaries for some of our lab aids in the preschool, our CTE para, which is blended with our IDEA grant, some different softwares for industry programs like Adobe, Autodesk, etc. Dual enrollment tuition for some of our JJC programs, our cosmetology, hair braiding. And that those are partial payments for some of our students. Some certifications as
011well, make sure our students are prepared for life after high school. And then some fun capital and non-capital equipment. The CTI grant makes up the rest of our funds there. And again, as as noted, our largest expense is on supplies for for students. We do have plenty of non-capital equipment in there, so large pieces of equipment to improve the facilities. And we are working in coordination with our construction. We'll continue to do that moving forward to making sure that we are purchasing, you know, the latest and greatest for for our students to learn on. But again, some other notable expenses there include salaries for our SkillsUSA advisors, summer work-based learning internship coordinators that we have working right now with our students, PLTW programs, some conferences, different tools and upgrades for some of the shops. That's
012CTE. I'll pause for any questions. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Good evening, everyone. Um Title III Grant, this one's specifically targeting our multilingual programming. Uh we use it for those three specific programming which is which includes instructional programs and that's like our Excel and subject dot com and the salaries they go into it to enhance just those credit recovery opportunities for our students. Our building educator capacity which involves our partnership with University of St. Francis and that involved 14 staff members this year that they received their endorsement. And then fostering family and community engagement. And the breakdown for that one is follows. Salaries and benefits was about 41% professional development was 43% and the other two the largest one being our family and community engagement which will continue to be a focus for us
013in the following year. >> Question. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> And to conclude is our Title I 1003A Grant. This is our school improvement grant for Joliet Central. This is the area that we were identified on the school report card children with disabilities. So that put us it actually allowed us to receive additional funds from the state. Last year was a planning year this year was an implementation year. We had a total allotment of this year of over $116,000. That included the allocation for this year as well as the carryover. Nodal pull expenses the campus has worked really well to identify needs. Most of this has gone towards our development of the consult consult model at Joliet Central as well as training our our ed teachers um on avid and um the the
014instructional strategies that go behind go with it. Um and actually this um this upcoming week we'll be taking another group of special educators to Tampa to um to get additional training on avid. Um any questions? >> Yeah, what's the difference between professional development fees and professional development? >> Uh so sometimes you have to pay like we have to pay a fee for um the subscription for um avid first or if you have a um versus the actual going to the conference. >> I I have another question about this but the idea grant. I'm sorry. I should have brought this up earlier. You said that there was um some money remaining and some carryover funds. So I know that we're doing a lot of construction and there's a way to maybe take some of those funds
015and allocate them towards construction costs if if there's a I would hate to lose it. >> Yeah, we've done that in the past and we are as we move forward those areas that um that can be assumed through the grant, we will utilize those funds. We won't lose it. The The purpose of the reason we continue with this large carryover was when COVID was around, we received a huge allocation. So many of the or the majority of the expenses that we normally would have an idea went to COVID because we didn't want to lose that. So then it created this large unspent fund balance and so since then we've been like dwindling it down each year. Um and so the uh the state and federal has been working with us cuz we're not the only
016district in that position. >> Sure. >> Um but we are trying to identify those larger expenditures to carry it down. >> Yeah, I I just there's so much uncertainty with the federal government and I would say I agree. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks. >> With with and to your point we are doing some work with consultants with co-teaching. In fact, we had training today. So there was a large consulting contract. We're going to be utilizing them during the school year as well and it's timely necessary. This is where we're at. So those things are planned for next year and we we even had conversations today about some additional things that we could do to support our special education teachers because the money is there, too. >> I believe wasn't that like a contract for like
017a hundred and seven right that we approved that couple meetings ago. Yeah. Well, that's just that. >> I know. I know. Absolutely. Absolutely. >> [laughter] >> Thank you to the grant managers and their support staff that work with them. We're wrapping up the grant year. So they're they're closing out the reports and actually they're writing their their grants for next year. So thank you very much. >> January 3rd. >> [applause] >> Our next presentation is our educational services update and we have Mrs. McDonald and Dr. Riley and Dr. Hackney to provide us with an overview. >> Thank you. I just want to point out that this year's presentation because the board has seen the format of this data. Most of the data is in the appendix. If in the future we present different data or
018something different, we would bring that and walk through the board with that additional data piece. But since this is familiar, we put it in the appendix. But again, feel free to ask questions if you had to. So I just want to say thank you to before I turn it over to Dr. Hackney and Dr. Riley just a thank you to all the people that are behind all of this. So, that's our educators, our interventionists, and support teams. They're boots on the ground working with our students helping them continue to move forward. You will see the different levels of support that we provide. There's a lot to celebrate. We are very reflective on the strengths and weaknesses of our structure and we always have room to grow. So, they'll be sharing that as well. But, I
019wanted to share that out. Also, when we're making note of some of it, we've ran into a couple I would say technology anomalies that have happened with the ever-changing um AI and student access to AI. So, some of our data we're not we we can't we can't depend on the fidelity of it cuz we weren't sure what students had access to to potentially help improve their scores. So, if you didn't know it's something called Google Lens and they're on our computer like if you have Google it's on your computer and if you open it up and you open up like a math problem, it'll solve the math problem right there for you. So, we did have that closed and then Google had an update and then it reopened. So, some kids talk and they find
020out stuff. So, it's closed and we'll be working on some recommendations for next year, but it's really having to keep like trying to be forward thinking with everything but also keeping our ear to the ground about what's the buzz what that we have to navigate next. So, on that I'll turn it over to Dr. Cathy. >> Good evening. So, I'm going to go over a few of the successes from this year and then I'll hand it over to Dr. Riley to talk about some next steps. So, things we want to highlight for this year in terms of successes is the increase in online tutoring that we're seeing from students. More and more students continue to sign up for these tutoring sessions focus here in chemistry, physics, and advanced algebra especially. In addition, we're seeing our
021math lab popularity rise which we're really excited about. Essentially, this is an opportunity for students who need help in real-time. They can pop right into math tutoring and meet with the math teacher and get that support that they need. So, you can see those increases quite a bit from first semester to second semester at both campuses. We're also really excited about our tier two course pass rates. Pass rates in math and English for students enrolled in double block math and literacy hovered around 80 to 94% at the end of the year here. So, again numbers that we're we're proud of. And then our tier three math interventions as well. One of the things we always look for is for students to have a year's worth of learning growth for a year's worth of like instructional
022input. And so, you'll see in these numbers at the bottom bullet there we're looking at 107 100 to 107 point growth in our IXL assessment for semester one and then 57 to 59 points of growth in semester two. So, that equates to 100 points is like a year's worth of growth and so that equates to quite more than one year's worth of growth for students who are receiving that intervention. So, again we're we're excited about that and definitely want to point that out as a highlight. When we talk about challenges and Dr. Riley will will address some of these as well, but I do want to bring up there was a winter to spring drop as Diane mentioned with the star scores. This is our universal screener with the star assessment for reading and math.
023We definitely want to shore up the lockdown browser just to make sure the fidelity of testing is there when we begin testing again in the fall. But with that drop in scores, I do want to point out again um from my previous slide where we talked about tier two course pass rates being in a in a really good really good place. Uh you'll notice that even with the winter to spring drop in our universal screener star scores in math and reading, uh one of the things that we were excited about is uh so for example with this uh central math drop of -20, the pass rates actually jumped from 53% pass rate in math for semester to 82% pass rate semester two. So even with the drop in in star score universal screener score for
024math, uh there was a focus put on students being successful in their classes and we saw that jump quite a bit. Same thing for reading uh for for West campus, you see that -37 drop in the score, but in terms of pass rates, semester one was at 60% for their English class and that jumped to 82% semester two for English. So um again just a a focus on uh during that time with students uh shifted it looks like from uh like skill deficit on the star assessment where we're making sure students were successful in their classes. So again something we're kind of excited to see even though there was a drop in the the score there. Uh in terms of writing lab uh utilization, we did see a drop in terms of students uh accessing
025the writing lab at both campuses for first semester to second semester. Um we're we're undergoing some uh some changes in terms of uh the writing process and how we think about um the writing process in our actual like tier one English classes. And so we hope that moving into next year, there'll be more opportunities for students to go to the writing center um and get that real-time help that we see them getting in math. Um and hopefully we'll see that in uh in English classes next year. >> Is are those drop-in kids can use them on their own or they um directed to attend those? >> So a little bit of both. Uh so either or. Um definitely open to drop in. Uh, but teachers can also encourage students to to go and then there's
026the expectation that they do attend. >> It's not mandatory. >> not mandatory. >> Okay. >> Thank you. So, recommendations moving into next year, you know, the backbone of any great MTSS system is our core one, our tier one core curriculum. We spent a wonderful year uh, training all of our staff during SIP days, our core staff, um, on Wicker and our instructional playbook. Next year we'll get even more content specific, but still all aligned to our instructional playbook strategies and each of the core areas, um, focuses are listed there at the bottom of the slide. Uh, we will be implementing a lockdown browser next year to ensure that even if Google doesn't update, there will be no [snorts] Google lens, >> [clears throat] >> uh, so that we have great data. Of course, the goal
027is always for like high proficiency and high growth. Uh, sometimes you can't always uh, have um, have the high profi- the impact on the high proficiency, but we can always have impact on high growth. So, that'll be our focus in those areas and to have our students continue to access these great supports we have built in during the school day. That's the whole reason we have them. And lastly, with the addition of our multilingual coordinators at each campus, they'll be leading an MTSS team at each campus with a focus on our multilingual students, our dually identified students and uh, identifying those trends and intervening and supporting them at an earlier, um, time so that they can experience success. We are glad to answer any questions you have. >> Are Are there's in EL programming and
028multilingual learners, there's still co-taught classes in those >> Correct. >> with those classes. So, this this is not in place of >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> When we had the we had our four, you know, our four grade level teams looking at them individually, now we have a a group that's dedicated to making sure that they're But tracking that data and intervening with students earlier. >> I just the data that we saw with the increase in growth of the students in co-taught multilingual classes compared to non co-taught. I just want to make sure that those kids are getting those co-taught classes. >> We talked about that today at our co-teaching training about how that was a highlight in Sun Area that we're really proud of in the support putting behind it. It's amazing when you
029have high levels of support you're able to have high levels of success. So >> Mhm. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> Um and then the last item um under superintendent reports is our spring credit recovery report. As you know, we've been um doing spring and winter credit recovery for I don't probably about 15 years now. Yeah, so for quite some time um and and it really still is utilized by our students. You can see the high success rate. Um students that did not earn their credit um for the most part it either there was too much to cover or they did not um show up and for attendance. Um so we're happy to answer any questions, but this is uh a program that we can that we will continue to plan for. If there's no
030questions, that concludes superintendent reports. >> All right, let's move on to action items. We'll start with action item A the agreement between New Lenox School District 122 and Joliet Township High School. Do we have a motion to approve? >> I'll make the motion. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Do we have any discussion? Hearing none, roll call, please. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Glenn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gronemeyer? >> Yes. Yes. >> Mr. Coffey? >> Yes. >> Motion passes on action item B agreement between Joliet Township High School and Shrub Oak International School. Do we have a motion to approve? >> I'll make Go ahead, Christie. >> So moved. >> I'll second it. >> All right. Do we have any discussion? Hearing none, roll call, please. >> Mr. Coffee? >>
031Abstain. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lane? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Granumeyer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> All right. Motion passes on action item C 26-27 Title 1 plan. Do I have a motion to approve? >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Discussion? >> This is the annual um plan that is sent out. We look for feedback, and it comes to the board each year at this time. And upon approval, then we will submit it to the state so we can um submit our grants as well. >> All right. >> [snorts] >> No further discussion? Roll call, please. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lane? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Granumeyer? >> Yes. >> Motion passes action item D 26-27
032Wings winter/spring holiday. Do I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Granumeyer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lane? >> Yes. >> Motion passes action item E workers compensation insurance recommendation. Do we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion? >> Uh yes, this is a recommendation for the 26-27 renewal for our workers compensation insurance. Um just a couple of things to point out. Um over the past year, we 5 years, we've seen an increase in our payrolls, but we've also seen an increase in what we call losses over the past 5 years. When it comes to workers comp, there's a 3-5 year rolling average that
033they take. Um and so we've seen an uptick in both, which has resulted in a 19% increase um from last school year. Um we will continue to work with our carrier to come up with ways to educate our staff on what we call slip, trips, and falls. Um and other things that we can do to help alleviate some of of the losses that we continue to assume. So, for the 2026-2027 school year, the cost is 1 million 491,412 dollars. >> Any further discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Glenn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Grandeau-Mayer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffey? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. Motion passes on action item F, intergovernmental agreement between the city of Joliet and Joliet Township High School 204 for water extension and connection at
034the Joliet West High School. Motion approved. >> So moved. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes, what this is, um the intergovernmental agreement is really a trade-off. Um we need have the opportunity to tie into a water main that's closer to where the student center would be built. And the city of Joliet with their um all of the renovations and upgrades to their water system, want to tie in to part of our property for their water main. Um so, we're asking for an easement, or they're asking for an easement, and we're asking to tie into a water main into a private area instead of trying to go around the entire building of West, which would be very costly. So, this is just a trade-off, and this is an agreement
035that we need to bring forth to the board. I know that the city of Joliet has voted on it. Our attorney has reviewed the document, and um he's okay with the recommendation. >> Any further discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Glenn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gronemeyer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. Motion passes on action item G, disposal of equipment requests. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> We have a second? >> Second. >> Discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Glenn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gronemeyer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Motion passes on action item H, agreement between Joliet Township High School Office Professionals Council AFT Local 604 IFT
036AFT AFL-CIO and Joliet Township High School District 204. Do we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Just want to say thank you to our office professionals, um, as well as our negotiation team for, um, the board. I I think it was, um, it's a great agreement and we appreciate the collaborative discussion and relationships, um, enabled to move forward in a very positive direction. >> All right. Sounds good. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Abstain. >> Mrs. Glenn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gronemeyer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> All right. Motion passes on action I, personnel reports, uh, 1 through 14. Do we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call, please. >>
037Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Glenn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gronemeyer? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> All right. I'll turn action item J, student discipline recommendations, over to Mr. Coffee. >> Yes. Thank you. After receiving and deliberating the information contained in the hearing officer's report, the Board of Education is charged with deciding, one, whether removing the child from his or her learning environment is in the best interest of the school, two, what the rationale is for the specific duration of the recommended expulsion, three, whether all appropriate and available behavioral and disciplinary interventions were exhausted, and four, whether the continued presence in school would either A, pose a threat to the safety of other students, staff, or members of the school community, or B, substantially disrupt, impede, or
038interfere with the operation of the school. The Board of Education must then convene in a public session to formally vote on the motion to expel if the expulsion is the consensus arrived at during executive session. I make a motion under case number W recommending expulsion until June of 2027 and placement at Lincoln School. >> I second that motion. Roll call, please. >> Dr. Huntington? [snorts] >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Grandinetti? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. I make a motion under case number C 2526 23 recommending expulsion until June of 2027 and placement at Lincoln School. >> I second that motion. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Grandinetti? >> Yes. >> Dr. Huntington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kennedy?
039>> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. That concludes action items. Do we have any unfinished business? >> I have one thing. Um I know that the legislative session came out and the election day is not required to be off. And so I know that the last time we talked about amending the calendar, uh we had some discussion about if it didn't pass, instead of giving students and staff a day off during the middle of the week, that we might want to move that day off to another time. I don't know what other board members think about that. >> Sure. >> Well, I just think that like giving students off a day on a Tuesday um you know, that leads to absences on Monday um potentially Wednesday. We do have a holiday coming
040up that follow you know, at the end of the month. Moving that day to the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week makes more sense to me. >> I think there's pros and cons to both um because that would mean that that one week there would be one day of school which might mean that more people like do not attend for a one-day week one-day week. That could be problematic. The other um thing to think about for the future too is um there has been a push to have people be off on an election day for their civic responsibilities and everything. So I mean if there's probably pros and cons to all decisions. Um we did put out the calendar. I will say people plan in advance. I don't know if we would get pushback one way or
041the other. Um we could certainly you know, everyone's gone for the summer so we could survey in the in the fall and get feedback. I it's a it's a it's such a hard one. Um I I know other schools um even some of our sender schools made the same decision um and they're just staying with the date too which that would mean um our students share the day off with their other students so that would be another reason to keep it um the same. >> I think that would be tough if if our feeder schools are off that day and then we choose not to be. We will have a >> And it's not all of them. It's just some of them. So that that would be another reason because I did ask and some
042other um of our sender schools did um opt to have that be a a day off too. So um I I can talk about it with our um, our team and see what that looks like. >> the data of attendance the last election [clears throat] day? Like what was that Monday's attendance? >> Oh, I wasn't talking I'm sorry about that. We We could. Yes, we absolutely can. So, looking at that I was talking about more the the holiday week if we only had one day schedule. >> That was one idea just because it seemed like trying that would be >> You would like the um, attendance for the Monday before the last election. >> Yeah. I I just I you know, it it doesn't matter to me if it moves a different day. That was
043just a suggestion. I know some districts have moved it to the end of the year. I don't know what your balance is from semester one to semester two for days in attendance either. >> Semester one is always lower and a less number of days usually than second semester. It just works out that way because we do have finals before I know where other schools might start a week before we do. Um, it's so but it is always usually shorter than second semester. But we can pull the data for the Monday before the last election day. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I mean some also like I don't know when our parent teacher conferences fall. Some school districts put that parent teacher conference day on that Monday of the Thanksgiving week so then it's a non-student
044attendance day. >> We We have talked about that. Our parent teacher conferences actually fall in October and March because of when the semester ends and that would be too late in the semester to try to intervene in a more timely manner. So, we have talked about that. So, I believe this coming year it is the like mid-October. October 23rd maybe and then I do believe the next one is March 6th. I was looking at the calendar but it's around those dates. Those are all things too we have talked about. I will absolutely get the um the um data and send it out um about the attendance on the Monday prior to the the last election day. >> I do think before any decisions are made of talking to the union and you know, see what
045their opinion is. >> Yes. Yeah, because what we what we have found and and remember we did talk to the union about these scenarios and we were being um proactive because what we didn't want to occur was adding a day to the end of the year and we knew that was a possibility after the fact. Um but what is hard is once you get the calendar out to change it, that has been very hard because somebody always plans something. >> I will say [snorts] as an educator, I do enjoy random days off in the middle of the week. >> [laughter] >> The The flip side to that is sometimes at that time of year you need a a break and to reset and it's so just make sure you're checking with the union and all
046that. >> I'll I'll get the attendance data though and send it out to the board so that you have that. >> Thanks. Sure. >> Good deal. Any other unfinished business? Any new business? Any board reports? >> I just want to congratulate uh Joliet West on a beautiful graduation ceremony. I enjoyed my time there. Um I was only able to go to one graduation this year, but um it was very nice. Um crowd was great. >> Yeah. >> It was very organized. Um little warm outside waiting to get in, but other than that everything went really smoothly. >> Agreed. Yes, West was great for the afternoon session. Central was ran just as well for the morning session over there. I just big thanks to all of the staff. I know it's a huge team effort to
047get something like that off the ground, especially two ceremonies for that many families and kids. So, kudos to everybody in the building that made that happen. So. >> I'm just going to admit something. I used to think that one of the schools had a much better ceremony than the other. And I'm just going to say that I think they're far more equitable now. And I enjoyed both of them very much. >> [laughter] >> And then uh my other comment is just uh if you have not well um have not seen Still Bridges yet, uh it is a production that was uh done predominantly by JJC, but it features um former students, former staff from JTAJS. And uh they just did a phenomenal job. Um bring tissue and uh bring a friend and and a child
048in your life. Thank you. >> I don't I haven't attended anything, but I do want to say I did attend another school's graduation, and I do think we do a phenomenal job. And I love our split um ceremonies and how quick it goes and how organized. So, attending other ones make you realize how well we do do it here. And uh a shout-out to all the coaches and everyone doing those summer camps and you know look out in this hot weather and working with our students and summer school teachers. Thank you for all that you do and keeping our students not only involved in the school year, but in the summer. >> Yep. >> Yes. >> I agree. Any other board reports? >> Can I say something? Um I just uh one of the last
049things that the board approved tonight was our um student summer workers. Uh the board approved 11 tonight, and I just want to say we have one with us tonight. >> [laughter] >> Who who is being trained? So, uh congratulations. Um but it's it's wonderful to be able and and remember that our intern internal internship pro- program is separate from the CED program. So, right now, you know, we're we have over um 50 students that are in paid internships this summer. Um so, we're super excited about that. I'll get since she's here, Mrs. Assis, um helping to uh make that happen. And Joliet West did have the highest number of interns placed [applause] out of any school in the region. So, uh shout out. >> It's that's absolutely amazing because I think I said the last
050meeting there were like 600 applicants for one job. And so, the fact that we got had that many students placed is absolutely amazing. >> Yep. >> Agreed. >> So, thank you. >> All right. Any announcements or public comment? All right. Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. >> I'll uh second that motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> All right. >> [laughter] >> All right. We'll do it by unanimous consent. Hearing no dissent, the meeting is adjourned.