001at this time i'd like to call the regular meeting of the board of education order at 6 p.m andrea can you please call the roll for daniel yes andrea yeah I'd like to entertain a motion that the Board of Education approve the Consent Agenda. We're so excited to present a few examples of our amazing many students tonight. We are going to have four acts tonight from Alessia, Lily and Aletti, Gail and Adrian. Tomorrow night at 6 p.m. you'll see 46 acts featuring 67 of our students. We will be singing, dancing, cheer, piano, hockey, comedy, and gymnastics. And you, our team judges, will have the honor of deciding who is the best. We want to say a huge thank you to all their families who are here with them tonight, supporting them as we are able
002to show them here. And we have a very large committee that supported them along the way. Tonight we have Ms. Rowland and Ms. Credo and Ms. McCarrick who are here. I Thank you. For students to participate in things at the middle school, albeit sports, scholastic bowl, our fourth and fifth grade musical, our middle school musical. But here's something where they get to say, hey, I do this outside of my classroom and my school. So thank you for that. We appreciate you very much, and we are excited to be at the Kennedy Talent Show tomorrow at 6 p.m. Thank you. Thank you. Well, that was a lot of talent, and I can't wait to see all of it tomorrow. We will continue with the rest of the board meeting. Please do not feel like you need
003to stay. You are more than welcome, but I think those kids earned some ice cream. And I only say that because Dr. B always tells my kids that they should get ice cream, and then she gets mad at me if I don't take them out. So please go enjoy the time with your family and make sure that those stars get rust for tomorrow. So is there a new musical that's going to have the song, do you think? Like, you know how Frozen was like the song for like 10 years? Oh, I don't know. And Kanto was a while. Is there something? I remember how it was like, what was that? Kanto or whatever. Frozen was a couple years ago. In the talent show, it was the same song. Okay. Normally there's like one song that
004like pops up a lot. So we were just curious. Oh, okay. Oh, that's hilarious. Yeah. Keep playing. Talking about Bruno. Yeah, with the rat. We don't talk about Bruno. We don't talk about Bruno. Don't know if Disney on ice can learn that like every Disney eyes doesn't need to get half a frozen That'd be great. They got their money's worth on that staircase all right look like We'll move on with the board meeting even though that was more fun than this okay board business I'm not doing the first one So we are recognizing tonight two of our board members Allison Downs and Tina Juanio who have achieved Board member, master. Whatever they call it these days because they change every year. It changes every year. Read it, Allison. Board leader recognition program, annual merit recognition
0052024. So that is that is something to be proud of that means Allison continues to be a learner and a seeker of information To be the best board member that she can be and participates in professional development opportunities And our board president has achieved distinguished status as a board member for the same so we are proud of both of you and thank you for Continuing to learn and grow as a board member and making us be the best school district that we could possibly be. Thank you Thank you. Allison got that Myriad Award because she also serves on the delegate. What's it called? The governing board. Right, the governing board for West Cook Division 40. So she helps plan the fall and spring dinners. Is that your major responsibility on that board? Sure. She represents
006us, and I'm sure she'll be volunteering us for dinners one of these days. Okay. Up next is the Schiller. I'm glad you mentioned that. Not this year, but I'm glad you mentioned that we'd be open. We did it once before here. Okay. At Washington School, I think, would be the best. Yep. Okay. Next up is the School District 81 Library Grant Award. I just want to thank Kathy Brandt for securing the library grant. Once again, thank you, Kath. Nice work. Thank you, Kathy. I know you search high and low for all these grants to help our students, so much appreciated. Thank you. There's no old business information. New business information, iPad covers. Which Dina knew about because her daughter mentioned it to her. Yeah, so your little spies, we'll call them middle schoolers, came home
007one day and they're like, Mom, are we getting iPad covers? I go, what are you talking about? She goes, don't you know everything? I go, no, I don't work there. So not only does she tell me that there's iPad covers coming, she shows me a picture of the boxes that were behind Miss Rachel. And then that Amelia looked to see what they were. And then she came home with the paper that says, look, Ma, we are getting new iPad covers. I told you. They already knew before they got them. It's actually pretty neat. Eric Humbles worked with our reps over there at Apple to secure these covers that actually now have keyboards for our first through eighth students. So they feel more like a laptop than they do an iPad. And we decided that that
008would be a good decision, especially considering that they're expected to. write essays not just on AR but on AR so it makes sense to get them to start using keyboards at that level and the kids are really excited about those so are the teachers a little disappointed that they didn't get them? They're like where's ours? Maybe next year the next superintendent can decide if she wants to give those to the teachers. But Apple worked with us on that because the covers we had were really failing. We were in troubles with the ports and such. So we had a nice collaborative conversation with them, and we were able to get these through our cooperative. And like I said, everybody's really happy and excited about them. And we deployed them, and what? What did it take? Washington
009was a day. How long did it take you? A day at Lincoln. So that's pretty impressive that they got these new covers and rolled them out in one day to all the students. That's good. Kudos to our help desk and his... He's just like this quiet guy in the background like Mike. They just do their job and don't look for a lot of attention. Right now he's very uncomfortable. Maybe we should ask him to say a couple words. I like him. I like him. We want him to stay. Yes, I've heard nothing but positive feedback, even after the spy investigation. Up next is new business action approval of the five-year bus lease I'd like to entertain a motion that the Board of Education approve the five-year bus lease as presented Any questions comments concerns Andrea
010call the roll please down yes, they want you yes Yes, I'll meal yes motion passes Up next is amending the school calendar for the current year. I'd like to entertain a motion that the Board of Education approve the amended 24-25 school year as presented. Any questions, comments, concerns? Andrea, can you call the roll, please? Down. Yes. Iwanio. Yes. Sada. Yes. Motion passes. I'd like to entertain a motion that the Board of Education approve the 2025-2026 school year calendar as presented. I'll move. I'll second. Any questions, comments, or concerns on the upcoming calendar? Seeing none, Andrea, can you call the roll? Down. Yes. Kay Wadio? Yes. Sada? Yes. Motion passes. I don't think we have anything for executive session tonight. No, we don't. I would like to entertain a motion that the Board of Education approve
011the personnel report for the month of March as presented. I'll second. Any questions, comments, concerns? Seeing none, Andrea, can you call the roll? Down. Yes. Iwanyo? Yes. Sada? Yes. Alamio? Yes. Motion passes. Seeing no public participation, I'd like to entertain a motion that the Board of Education adjourn at 6.20 p.m. I move. I'll second. Andrea, call the roll, please. Down. Yes. Amadio. Yes. Yes. Motion passes, meeting adjourned. Thanks, guys. Thank you.