Board of Education Meeting 11/04/2024

001e e e it it is now it is now 7:01 and I am calling to order the regular Board of Education meeting for Indian Prairie School District 204 on Monday November 4th 2024 Michelle will you please call the RO Miss Donahue here miss Deming present Miss Jane yeah here Mr Rising here miss fasik here Mr kurubas here and Miss gin here we have a quorum Miss fasic will you lead us in the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all the next regular Board of Education meeting will be held on Monday December 2nd we have B two board salutes today Mr kis 2024 University of Chicago's outstanding educator award the board salutes n Valley

002high school English teacher Jillian Snyder who is among the recipients of the University of Chicago's outstanding educator award students accepted into the University of Chicago's class of 2028 were asked to nominate Educators whose guidance helped them on their path towards intellectual growth responses were received from hundreds of students and Mrs Snyder stood out among a field of incredible capable and inspiring Educators congratulations Miss fasik ni Val Senor achieves rank of of Eagle Scout the board salutes Nia Valley Senior Natalie Daws for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout the highest achievement advancement rank in scouting for her Eagle Scout project Natalie constructed and installed multiple Wood Duck Boxes for the Neighborville Park District she is one of a small but growing group of female Eagle Scouts congratulations to Natalie on achieving the prestigious rank of Eagle

003Scout let's give both of these achievements a great Applause I was very pleased to see Jillian that was my son's English teacher so long ago um now we have our student representative report by Ben Gula from Nia Valley High School okay good evening everyone my name is Ben Gula and I'm the school board representative for Nik Val high school with the second quarter of the the school year starting up here are some highlights of the first last month Nik was named a blue ribbon school this recognition highlights schools that Excel and academic performance or make significant strides in closing achievement gaps among different student groups we are so grateful that our faculty and students have worked hard and receive this recognition our school administrators are traveling to Washington DC to pick up this recognition and

004to celebrate we rais the Blue Ribbon flag on November 2nd and we will be holding a schoolwide celebration on November 12th with fall Sports coming to an end here are some new updates with along with many successes girls varsity tennis became DVC Champs and competed at State last weekend back in September both boys and girls golf became DVC Champs last weekend the girls swim and dive won DVC and became DVC Champs boys cross country did great at conference becoming DVC champs as well as placing fourth at sectionals bringing the team to State lastly girls cross country did a great at sectionals with two girls qualifying for state if there's a student interested in trying out for a winter sport try out information be found at n athletics.org this past week we held our annual career

005week in which students were able to network with professionals and determine if their interests and talents align with any careers we also had some Halloween Spirit by holding our annual Spooktacular concert and sharing some scary stories during act option periods second quarter holds a variety of Events first on November 8th we'll be having our in school Veterans Day ceremony at 11:40 a.m. we will have a special bell schedule and the ceremony will be live streamed which can be found at niat tv.org next from November 14th through the 16th we will have our fall mainstage play The Losers which is our first play ridden by a student on November 21st and 25th we'll be holding parent teacher conferences in which signups will open soon next our student musicians will be playing during our annual holiday Crystal

006concert which will take place on December 5th and 6th on December 9th we will be having our academic planning night in which parents and students who are currently freshmen sophomores and juniors are encouraged to attend this night is used to help determine an appropriate class schedule for the 25 to 26 school year lastly we will be having our winter blackbox show anous produced by our theater department on December 12th and 13th with the second quarter starting up we continue to look forward and all that leads is to just more excitement I hope you all have a great rest of your evening and go Wildcats [Applause] thank next we have our school Spotlight and tonight is Matia Valley presented by Brandy Bane Lisa car and our student guest ja Gopi Denise kenmon sh shista mati and

007Sebastian Rolan and Ed Singh good evening I'm Brandy Bane chair for the world language and English language Learners department at Matia on behalf of the department and our extensive elll population I would like to Express gratitude for the opportunity to share with you all tonight I'd also like to acknowledge the support from our ma Administration from board member Susan Demi and from Dr Howard who have all spent time getting to know our program staff and students in order to better understand this diverse group their needs and witnessing their successes the role of DC was offered to me because of the vision that I presented on how to improve a growing Department with a multitude of challenges I pride myself on advocating for those needs and of supporting staff who come to me with Solutions on

008how to best served students Lisa carahan came with the idea for a prero program prior to me officially becoming DC and taking over and I saw the value in helping get it up and running immediately this is the second year for our program and it continues to have a positive impact on our classrooms and for our students Lisa and our peer tutor Representatives when now speak to this Innovative program thanks again for your [Music] time namaskar good evening my name is Ja Gopi and I'm currently a senior in Mia Valley High School I joined our ell tutoring program because I wanted to share my knowledge and help other people who may be ramping up with their coursework I remember times when I needed help with certain topics and subjects and the support I received helped

009immensely being able to to give back to this amazing Community feels rewarding I believe this tutoring program helps our school by building a supportive academic Community it also helps our geographically diverse student group enjoy their collaborating learning program which in turns contributes to the cont confidence and motivation thank youu Shar namaskar good afternoon everyone I am shist matam a senior at Mia Valley High School I join the future program to help peers like me navigate through their new educational system and environmental challenges which every new student who comes to this country has this program helps students develop their confidence by getting them to work on their communication skills with tutors this helps peers get comfortable around school and Excel their academics Dadu Namaste I'm Aditi Singh and I'm a junior at Matia Valley High School

010I joined the elll program as a sophomore because I wanted to help students who wouldn't have the same opportunities as me back when I was in eth grade I never got the chance to express myself the way I wanted to but I want others to have the opportunity to be able to express themsel and be able to help others who are in need so that's why I joined the El program thank you namaste [Music] uh good evening my name is Denise kman and I a senior at M Valle High School I'm part of the el touring program where I help students with limited English proficiency understand geometry and physics I believe this program is both beneficial and necessary it not only helps students with subjects themselves but also makes it easier for them to adapt

011to school life when I first arrived in America this program didn't exist I struggled a lot with translating specific terms and I would have really appreciated it if someone had been there to explain those details to me now that I have a good understanding of these subjects I want to help others in the same way I believe I can make it easier for the students to succeed by guiding them through these challenges jaku thank you hola sorry hola my name is Sebastian ran I'm a senior and I'm in Jor to the ELA T program to help students who are learning English and adjusting to a new culture this program is important because H we can share a lot of things about different countries and with confidence are more involved in school when student feel supported

012our whole school Community becomes stronger thank you um they've said a lot that I would love to say for them um so I started this program because as you can see um we have a lot of students who are quite qualified in their own language their own home language and then have succeeded in the English language and I didn't want to lose them as the that they are um so in order to help other students belong we have a student tutor guide program so they not only push into the classrooms but they also actually meet new students at the door to guide them around the school so the first person you meet might also speak your native language with you um we've grown from 12 students to start to 32 this year uh so it's

013already growing exponentially which is awesome I really love it um I get to work with just amazing people so it's it's a easy thing to be able to do because it's great to see them continue to grow and to help others um several of these students are seniors which saddens me because I'm going to lose them as they graduate but they've already inspired a lot of other students to help out and the feedback that I get from the teachers whose rooms they're in is always really grateful that they're there to help out and they don't just help out any student that speaks their native language they're helping out anybody because they can understand the um the ability to come into a new school a new class clment and and need those questions answered and it's

014not always a teacher you want to go to but to have a peer there is really important I think I I think she kind of covered what's in the slides just in her own words there okay I was okay that is trying to put so they actually give up half their lunch period um and sometimes more to help out with Labs um I know dentist is in physics I know some of them are in English so they're pushing into all sorts of different classes so uh two times a week during Tuesday and Thursday they will go into the classrooms to help out um and yeah the feedback like I said has been great so um and the how is they have to apply for this there is an application process they all had to submit

015an application and get two staff recommendations in order to make it and have being good GPA standing so they're amazing students well thank you for presenting this it's a very inspirational program and uh it's so important to welcome the diversity in our um schools in our community and I can imagine how supportive it feels to have someone who's a peer come and talk with you and work with you and um welcome you to the the school environment so thank you so much for telling us about your wonderful program and I wish you continued success both at Matia and in the future so thank you than great job every it is now time for public comment and 60 Minutes is allowed each person is limited to 3 minutes only one person will be allowed at the

016podium for each comment when addressing the board we ask that you respect the confidentiality and safety of our students and our school district Personnel we also ask that those attending the board be Co cognizant addressing the board be cognizant that this is an open meeting and is available to all age groups and as such ask that you consider who the audience members are this evening and keep comments age appropriate public comment represents the voice and opinion of the speaker there will be no feedback from board members during the meeting but followup will be provided by an administrator as appropriate although this is not required it is helpful for the board to know whether the comments and concerns we hear are being raised by residents so we ask that you state if you live in the

017district and if you currently have children in our schools if you have any handouts for the Board of Education please hand the items to Michelle carner and then here the clock will start when you begin talking so we have five speakers tonight the first is Danielle kouan SEO all right good evening Board of Education superintendent tally uh District administrator Educators and students uh my name is Danielle keno and I'm a proud parent of two District 204 students uh one of my children has already been through the halls of Owen Elementary and is now a student at still Middle School the other one is in fifth grade this year at Owen Elementary and I'm here tonight to Des express my deepest gratitude for the incredible Educators and the administrators at Owen Elementary recently we've received news

018about a valued teacher at Owen who is courageously embracing a new chapter of self-expression and I have to say as a parent I am grateful that my kids are getting to see the real world it's a full rainbow of diversity and it takes courage to live authentically and within their own School walls in our family we believe that everyone deserves to feel comfortable bringing their true selves into the world and I'm grateful our school is a place where that's possible this brings me back to when my daughter was in kindergarten and it actually was during the pandemic so if you could imagine uh a kindergartener trying to get on Zoom it was like hurting cats um add to it we learned uh she's also struggling with dyslexia so it was a little battle every day

019to get her to show up to that virtual classroom so I I pulled out my mom magic we had a little costume bin she pulled out her favorite Easter bunny ears and I'd use my makeup to make a little nose and whiskers and she'd put on a smile and hop her way into her virtual classroom uh and that is how I I got her to to show up every day and her teacher welcomed that bunny version of my daughter every single day whiskers and all I share this not to make light of the challenges of these times but to show that the very best Educators create an environment where students and Staff feel accepted as they are with whatever unique bunny ears they bring and I appreciate that Owen Elementary has been a place for

020our family a safe space for every child and educator to be them true selves I want to take a quick moment to recognize principal Heather Whistler whose leadership has been a constant source of strength and Grace for our community she has shown us what it's like to stand firm and shine brightly even in the face face of pressure and negativity Heather is more than just a principal she's the heart of Owen and we are grateful for her and to our teachers including our beloved LMC teacher we thank them for showing up every day with compassion courage and dedication to shape the lives of our children they are a gift to our community and we are better because of them so thank you to them for being a part of what makes Owen Elementary a very

021special place thank you thank you our next speaker is Robin Schmidt good evening my name is Robin and I am the proud parent of two District 204 students and I'm here to voice support for lgbtq plus students and faculty in our school district this school district I know the school district recognizes how important it is for students to feel safe and included in their schools in the words of the equity belief state statement we are committed to creating a culture where all staff students and families feel safe welcome respected and a part of the school Community this commitment aligns with what research has found students who attend schools with affirming lgbtq plus resources and supports report more positive School experiences including lower victimization and absentees and higher academic achievement I am proud that our district

022implements many of these strategies like comprehensive anti-bullying and harassment policies and support for gsas one area in which I hope the schools continue to improve is increasing student access to lgbtq plus inclusive curricular resources in Illinois less than a fifth of LGBT Q Plus students were taught positive representations of lgbtq plus people history or events and we know how important representation is it's important not just in historical examples but also in the people we interact with on a daily basis I know this board recognizes diversity as a strength and wants the diversity of our student population to be reflected in its employees I also know not everyone in this community feels the same way about the beauty of diversity in society especially with respect to the lgbtq plus population and so to finish I would

023like to remind all of my lgbtq plus friends family and community members of the words of the great African-American writer intellectual and social critic James Baldwin who said please try to remember that what they believe as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity thank you the next speaker is Alicia Smith hello my name is Alicia Smith I am an alumni of aans Valley high school and Gregory Middle School I taught at Kendall Elementary School and Georgetown Elementary School and I currently live in the gber neighborhood where my niece and nephews attend school 204 needs equity in having successful schools four 204 Schools fall below the state average in State Testing fiser Georgetown Longwood and mccardy when the district designed the boundaries of

024Georgetown it gave them a lowincome population of 63% that is more than triple the district average of 21% longwood's low-income population is 58% which is almost tripled the district average of 21% then the district created even more inequity by having three of its schools with the highest lowincome percentages feed into Fisher Middle School a student attending either Georgetown or mccardy from kindergarten through fifth grade and then attending fiser will have attended a school for 10 years that has not met the state average in testing school districts do not have to create inequitable schools that cannot meet the State Testing averages Neighborville 203's low income average is 18% compared to 204 is 21% Neighborville 203 does not have a single school with a low-income average that is more than double the district average let alone tripled

025as a result every single School in Neighborville 203 is well above the state average and State Testing its school with the second highest low-income percentage Scott Elementary School has been exemplary two consecutive years and this year won a National Blue Ribbon award a 2016 study found that in almost all major cities black and brown students are much more likely to attend schools where most of their peers are considered poor or low-income researchers have found that the single most powerful predictor of racial gaps in educational achievement is the extent to which students attend schools surrounded by other low-income students the time is now to fix systemic inequities in our educational system the needs and rights of children cannot wait for a kindergartener at Georgetown of marcardi will it be another 10 years of the same trend

026line if this school board and administration is committed to equity this segregation by income needs to be fixed if Neighborville 203 can make sure that all of its students are attending successful schools why can't 204 we deserve to be included in the district's educational Excellence we want Equitable schools for fiser Georgetown Longwood and Mardi thank you thank you the next speaker is Anthony rash jff hello I'm Anthony Rashel and I'm a junior at n Valley High School for decades farri groups have targeted teachers it started in the 70s with gay and lesbian teachers in 1978 California tried passing the Briggs initiative which was a bill that would allow school districts to ban both gay and lesbian teachers fast forward today and there are still groups that are targeting and harassing teachers that they believe are

027spreading transgender ideology even though there is no such thing as a transgender ideology and there never has been the term is used as a scapegoat to excuse the disgusting bigotry directed towards trans people the staff of Owen Elementary have done nothing wrong in any and anyone who says they have is just using it as a hateful transphobic Witch Hunt the fact that this is even a discussion is abhorent I ask all of you to Simply Ponder what you think happens when trans students hear that there are parents who hate trans teachers it leads to bullying and it leads to harassment of trans students it leads to trans students becoming isolated within their own schools because when you engage in debate over someone's personal identity you dehumanize them and you normalize Prejudice thus encouraging the mistreatment

028of those marginalized individuals trans people exist and so do trans students ignoring their existence won't change this fact hate should have no home in District 204 and so I beg of the district not to capitulate to any bigoted demands and defend your trans teachers awake Illinois is classified as a hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center they go on and on about protecting kids well how about protecting the trans kids because trans students deserve to feel safe at school just as much as they peers they don't deserve to be called names they don't deserve to be laughed at and ridiculed trans rights are human rights and trans staff certainly don't deserve to be attacked and blatantly harassed simply because of their identity thank you the last speaker is Alisha Matthew good evening my name

029is Alicia Matthew and I'm a current senior at Matia Valley high school so we all know about climate change our students our children and some of our teachers talk about the moral imperative and urgency for action on the climate crisis we have anxiety we have this feeling of Doom but sometimes we think that we can't make change especially young people I have something that I want to bring up um something that I'm very passionate about and something that I've participated in it's called the building leadership around sustainable transformation program and it reminds students that they can make change right now it's up to us to create a sustainable future and fight the climate Doom affecting our generation but since we're so young it's hard to see how we can contribute to the crisis to connect

030generations and AV void placing the burden on young people alone blast provides mentorship funding and support to students interested in creating Solutions students apply and submit initial proposals and if accepted they're partnered with mentors who provide guidance throughout the pitch and implementation process the competition this year is scheduled for April 2025 and participants will have the opportunity to compete for funding and resources that could Aid in furthering their project all participants get support from this not just the winners and this is through the sponsors accelerate climate Solutions the Neighborville environment and sustainability task force and more like I mentioned earlier I was a participant in the 2024 blast competition and I created a project that would help reduce plastic bag waste we know that plastic bags can't be recycled in traditional recycling infrastructure so I

031created a database that could show which stores actually recycled plastic bags and this is available online so it's something that I use to create tangible change I wanted to let you all know about this opportunity and I know that we have a lot of students here so if any of you are interested you can find it on the accelerate climate Solutions website and the deadline for initial applications is January 31st 2025 I hope that if you're interested you apply and I hope that you know that this is a great experience to make tangible change thank you thank [Applause] you we now move to our consent agenda and superintendent report we will start with the superintendent report Dr tally thank you Miss Donahue members of the Board of Education and the Indian Prairie Community our strategic

032plan annual report was published last week this is our second annual report which provides updates on the second year of our strategic plan accomplishments this annual report holds the school system accountable for the action items that are in the plan our strategic plan is a 5-year plan therefore it is not expected that all actions will be accomplished now I feel as if we are moov moving in the right direction with where we are with our accomplishments the action items are a work in progress with more to come over the next few years as we complete this five-year Journey on Wednesday November 13th at 6:00 a.m. the parent portal to sign up for parent teacher conferences will open the portal closes on November the 19th at 6: p.m all parents or Guardians should use this that

033portal to sign up for those very important conferences Friday November 15th has been designated as school board members day we want to thank these volunteers for their hours of service to the students parents and staff of Indian Prairie these seven people who surround me have demonstrated their commitment to ensuring that our school system is the best they question they are engaged they support they listen they work as a team they may not all agree however they respond in a unified way that is what is needed and I respect and appreciate the ways in which they serve our school district November has been designated as Native American heritage month this year's Proclamation from the right White House reads in part during native National Native American heritage month we celebrate the countless contributions of native people past

034and present honor the influence they have had on the advancement of our nation and recommit ourselves to upholding trust and treaty responsibilities strengthening tribal sovereignty and advancing tribal self-de determination our schools will incorporate lessons related to Native American as part of their instructional program and finally our schools will be closed tomorrow for election day with 20 of our buildings in dup page and Will County serving as polling places we encourage our communities to participate in tomorrow's election District 204 Bond referendum is listed near the end of the ballot this measure which will fund 420 million and districtwide safety and facility Improvement without a tax rate increase will enhance all of our district schools through security upgrades infrastructure improvements and operational efficiencies I'll now turn the meeting back over to miss do thank you I now

035need a motion for approval of consent agenda items D through F I move that the Board of Education approve consent agenda items D through f as presented second any discussion Michelle will you please call the BR Mr kis yes Miss Demi I Mr Rising yes Miss Donahue yes Miss gin yes Miss Jane yes and Miss fasic yes the motion passes next we move to our action items I need a motion in a second to approve the criminal law world history through media peer Partners adaptive art and Sports Medicine 2 for the 2025 through 2026 school year and construction two for the 2026 through 2027 school year as presented I move that the Board of Education approve the high school course offerings update as presented any oh we need a second sorry any discussion okay Michelle

036will you please call the roal Miss fosic yes Miss gent yes Mr Rising yes Mr kurubas yes Miss Donahue yes Miss Demi I and Miss Jane yes motion passes I next need a motion in a second for the appointment of Allison fosik as the iasb governing board repres representative make a motion that the Board of Education approve the appointment of Allison fosk as the iasb governing board representative I second any discussion you want to just tell people what that is yeah or she want me to or you want Alison yeah Alison can tell everybody um so being the governing board representative is serving as a delegate on behalf of our board uh for at the IB conference in November and I will cast our votes in the General Session that takes place at that time

037all right so Michelle will you please call the rooll I'm so sorry who I made the motion thank you I think Katie did second thank you Mr Rising yes Miss Jane yes Miss fasik I have Mr kis yes Miss Demi hi Miss Donahue yes and Miss gin yes thank you okay we will now have a presentation from Jason Gusman regarding the school report cards while he's coming tonight we will have our annual report card um presentation that will um share how our district has done with the Illinois report card parameters we will have tonight Mr Jason Gusman assessment specialist Mr Charles spandle executive director for research and assessment who was supposed to co-present with Mr Gusman is not able to be here tonight due to an issue that developed over the weekend when he was

038out of town visiting his children in College in Minnesota so Mr Gusman will take care of this good evening uh board members Dr tally uh District administ ministrators and members of the community uh I'm thankful for this opportunity to be able to present to you uh even though I was really um on uh our annual update related to school report card data uh including summi of designation ratings uh District academ achievement and an update on uh progress report if you will on our strategic plan metrics related to academic growth and student achievement uh what will be presented tonight uh has uh implic objective two and board policies 220 615 and 6344 tonight with a conversation about the summi of designation ratings that are assigned each year to schools across the state of Illinois ranging from

039exemplary at the top all the way down to comprehensive support important to understand as we uh set the stage for uh recapping our Summit of designations that these are based on multiple indicators and when looking at these indicators high schools are grouped separately from elementary and middle schools uh there are similarities in the indicators for summi of designation ratings toward the top of that list in the areas of proficiency uh which basically represents student achievement and at the bottom of that list um where we see chronic absenteeism and five Essentials par IP ation in the middle is where you'll see differences uh for elementary and middle school in the areas of ela and math growth and uh when we look at high school that uh those factors are replaced by graduation rate so this is

040a very involved process uh and we've tried to simplify it on this slide with an example uh basically what happens to assign summative designation ratings is that each School earns a score for each of these indicator areas and those scores are multiplied by the weights that represent the slice of the pi associated with those percentages the multiplication happens score times the weight and you end up with your earn points which are added up down the far right column uh in this example we see an overall School index score of 82.7 uh and this would be for in this example in elementary or middle school in the state of Illinois sometimes we refer to that index score as the all all student group score uh for a school the process then turns to grouping actually first

041it ranks all of the school index scores from highest to lowest across the state of Illinois the top 10% of schools are identified and the school that is at the bottom of that 10% set sets the cut score for the exemplary rating similarly toward the bottom we have the bottom 5% of schools identified and the top school in that group sets the cut for comprehensive support next index scores are calculated for each student group at a school as long as each student group has at least 20 students included in it once those student group index scores are calculated those are compared to the cut score for the bottom 5% of student students overall if any student group index score Falls within that bottom 5% that school is assigned a targeted rating otherwise a a school

042earns a commendable rating so you can see here uh the distribution of ratings over the past five school years when ratings were issued for Indian Prairie School District Schools I'm happy to report that for the 2324 school year almost a third of our district schools have earned the rating of exemplary we'll now do a little deeper dive into the achievement measures that I talked about earlier uh and because several of the upcoming slides have a similar layout I'll go ahead and set the stage here so at the left you will see Indian Prairie student performance over the past three school years with a prepandemic data point for reference and state comparisons at the right of the slide over those same school years you can see here on this slide we're talking about all the way

043at the left elementary and middle school student performance uh on the I assessment and specifically in the subject area of ela in each of the stack bar graphs you will see the distribution of students who fell into each performance level the top two of which are meets and exceeds and the total of your meets and exceeds percentages can be seen at the top of each of the stack bar graphs it's important to note here that uh and as has been mentioned in previous presentations on uh student achievement that Illinois has one of the most strict definitions when it comes to defining proficiency um it doesn't merely represent that students are on grade level uh but rather that students have mastered standards in a subject area you can see over the past three school years for

044ELA we have shown steady gains uh even to the point where in the most recent school year we have meets and exceeds percentages that exceed pre-pandemic prop proportions and we continue to outperform State averages moving on to math we see again steady increases over the last three school years not quite to the point of pre-pandemic proportions but we are closing in on that Target we continue to outperform State averages we'll talk a little bit about I average growth percentiles which as I mentioned earlier uh have a significant impact when it comes to determining uh summi of designation ratings for elementary and middle schools just as a recap uh basically who take consecutive administrations for I are assigned a growth percentile the their growth from one Administration to the next is calculated and then they're ranked

045according to that growth and other factors and assigned a percentile rank accordingly at the left you see student growth percentiles for ELA ranging between the 50th and 56th percentile and for math over the last three school years those growth percentiles range between the 54th and 57th percentile if you're looking for the state average that's always the 50th percentile regardless of the subject area and school year moving on to high school we see our percentages of students meeting or exceeding State Standards over the last three years ranging between 56.4% and 58.2% uh and I think it's important to note here that some people may Wonder does that mean that only for example in the 23 24 school year that only 57.4% of our students are ready for college and the answer to that question is no

046we know that because our college entrance and persistent rates are uh closer to the 90% Mark you can see also not only the um consistency over the last three years but we continue to outperform State averages in the content area of ela at the high school level moving on to math for high school as measured by the SAT again consistency over the last three years in terms of students meeting or exceeding State Standards uh again not quite to the point of pre-pandemic proportions but we are closing in on that Target and still outperforming State averages this uh 2024 administration of the SAT as many of you know will Mark the last administration of the SAT as a state accountability assessment uh in Spring 2025 we'll begin using the ACT again and uh in summer of

0472025 that means there will be an opportunity to reset these performance level cut scores and potentially open the door for um what it means to qualify students as proficient in the state of Illinois we see the consistency at the high school level continue as we look at simply the average SAT scores in both evidence-based reading and writing at the left and math at the right for both Indian Prairie students and students across the state over the last three years as a frame of reference the scale scores for each of these content areas on the SAT range between 200 and 800 on to some non-achievement data uh we'll first take a look at student Mobility and while this is a non-achievement measure it does of course have implications for student achievement uh and student Mobility uh

048just as a refresher is defined as the percentage of students who move in or out of a school or District at least once during the course of a school year you can see looking back to 2018 uh we in Indian Prairie had uh Mobil ility rate that was about a percentage point less than the state average that Trend continued through 2021 until 2022 when we nearly matched the state average until we slightly exceeded it in the last two school years moving on to the school quality indicator of chronic absenteeism uh we can see that Indian Prairie has um been below the state average consistently and um paralleled its its trajectory uh we know that schools in our in our district have given a significant amount of attention and uh time and effort devoted to U

049making sure students are in school so they have access to learning in the hopes to decrease this absenteeism rate we're hopeful that that 2023 percentage at 19.3% will serve as a peak uh as we saw a downward uh turn in the right direction for 2024 another measure that's of particular importance to the high school level is AP performance uh advanced placement performance and participation and you can see a steady increase in both of those areas for Indian Prairie students since 2021 and just to help you make a sense of the numbers on this slide uh we'll look specifically at the May 2024 Administration all the way to the right where we see that 3,710 students in Indian Prairie took 7,752 AP exams and of those 3,710 students 3,254 had at least one score of a

050three four or five which AP considers passing not only have participation uh by students and number of exams increased but the Pass rates for all of those exams have also increased over the same time period uh even to the point where in 23 and 24 we saw Pass rates exceed pre-pandemic Pass rates good news for sure there final part of the presentation tonight we'll focus on the Strategic plan and mainly on the metrics from earlier in the presentation so Priority One objective two um the first part of it here focuses on student growth and specifically that more than 50% of students meet will meet or exceed growth at grades k through eight that's measured by the internal I ready assessment from Fall to Spring not to be confused with the I growth percentile that I

051talked about previously at the high school level that's measured by the SAT Suite of Assessments using their annual growth Norms let's take a look and see how um our results turned out over the past two school years we see at the left the K8 I ready results and at the right 9 through 11 sat Suite results for both of those levels we see that more than 50% of students meet or exceed growth targets and for K through 8 in both content areas from 2223 to 2324 those percentages have increased and the same can be said of math at the high school level the second part of this objective deals with meeting or exceeding state standards as measured by these State accountability assessments here we uh specifically look for students as a whole and across our

052demographic and special services groups that they would meet or exceed State Standards at a higher proportion than their peers across the state so our last four slides lay out uh in similar fashion um the results for how we're doing in this area at the left you can see the all student performance in this case 61% of Indian Prairie students in the content area of ela for engl for elementary and middle schools have met or exceeded standards as compared with 41% at the state level and then moving to the right across the slide we see the comparisons for Indian prairy students with our demographic groups along with each Special Services Group in each case Indian Prairie students outperform their counterparts at the state in these groups moving along to I math we see a similar pattern

053prevail and high school the ELA equivalent as measured by the reading and writing assessment we see the all student group we have Indian Prairie students outperforming students at the state the same is true for each of our demographic and Special Services Group here and finally for high school math we see this common theme again so overall we uh we believe there's a lot of information here to uh celebrate lot of good news and uh we believe uh credit is due to staff at the school level who serve and support students on a daily basis as long I'm sorry as well as the families who partner with them in that at this point I'm happy to do my best in taking some questions okay thank you I'd like to start out and ask if anyone from

054our student Advisory board has any comments or questions that they would like to bring up no okay all right then we'll start with Miss dumming appreciate each year having a chance to take a look and see where our assessments lie in comparison to the balance of the state and looking at um a couple slides early on very happy to see that the um that the growth is moving in a positive direction since the pandemic um slide 16 um let's see was it slide 16 oh not slide 16 slide 17 that was one that um I just I really didn't have any questions just but just uh comments from a standpoint of uh chronic uh absenteeism has been something that we were really focused on last year and it's continued to be a huge area of

055concern I know across the board and not just our district so any particular measures that and that you know of that seemed to be working really well um that we'll keep keep focusing on or any particular um that was really my my only question any particular things that seem to be working really well from seeing that come down so I'll speak to this one if you don't mind um so our ele our elementary schools have all created their own chronic absenteeism plans very similar to their school Improvement plans um they have specific uh tasks that they're looking into with regards to how to um address chronic absenteeism that includes such things as sending home um quote warning letters to families when they're getting close to being chronically absent um calling families even texting families letting

056them know that they're close to being chronically absent um we also sent out new information regarding um attendance um I this was spearheaded by Miss Laura Rosen Blum uh and her um group of of principles uh to address and inform our families about the fact that um attendance in school is important and um you know going on a trip that's an unexcused absence it doesn't matter whether it's excused or unexcused it counts towards chronic absenteeism anytime the child is not in school counts against chronic absenteeism and I think some uh of our families were thinking well it's excused that it is a national definition any excuse and so 10% um so if you're in the first semester of school and you're looking at you know roughly um 65 days of school um um you if

057you if you've missed six days then you're chronically absent so th this continues to be an issue across as you mentioned Across the Nation um it and it all has as you can see it happens starting right after the pandemic we hope this will continue to go down um but this I'm going to say this and some people may not like it it's the responsibility of parents to get children into school thank you superintendent I do think that definition that you share had shared um with us either earlier this school year or late last school year um was was really um Awakening because I don't think many of us I I know that I didn't necessarily understand um the true definition so I think that's extremely helpful but um but overall just pleased to see

058that um that we're moving in the um in the right direction and extremely pleased to see slide bottom line that um all of our Stu all of our schools are in the first two tiers thank you and I'll just add a little bit about that um 29% 30% of our schools are um exemplary our neighbor to the other side only 14% are exemplary I'll be quiet okay Miss thank you so much for the presentation there is so much to go over and you did a wonderful job without Charles I'm just saying that um I do want to just kind of reiterate what board member Deming had said how it it is so um just honestly the positive uptrend is great the fact that we don't have any targeted schools this year you know um everything

059seems to be trending in the right direction uh did have a question that was just kind of brought up with The Chronic absenteeism it's probably more for you Dr tally but the mental health days do they count towards that they do they're in absence so even though they're excused by the state they do count okay um and then I just had one question on slide 13 um I did notice both for the district and the State the numbers going up on level one is there anything that you know any thoughts on why and obviously not as bad for the district but still it is a steady increase so the SATs so great question um the one thing I did forget to mention on uh the high school slides here is that you do see here

060that you probably noticed that there are four performance levels instead of five uh that soft for I so we do have uh the same percentage of students now being split between four okay performance levels as opposed to the five that we saw before uh the top two are still your meets and exceeds category yes which all look great yes okay so that makes sense yeah that was honestly my only question thank you again welcome Mr Rising sorry okay um first of all be before I make some comments and ask some questions um I just kind of want to set the stage a little bit first um I know there's some misinformation out there regarding what proficiency is and isn't um but I Al I I go back to looking at at all of our schools

061in our district as a whole um and if you go to slide five um when I look at I'm sorry uh it's the one with the uh um it's slide nine my apologies when I look at all of our schools and then I look at how all of our schools are ranked as compared to the state if you take all 22 of our elementaries every single one of our elementary ranks in the top 25% Statewide of all elementary schools if you look at our middle schools all of our middle schools rank in the top 9% or higher and all of our high schools rank in the top 3% or higher so academically we do pretty well and I think this is a testament to that as well now if you go to slide nine um

062what slide I'm sorry Slide Five um if you look at the way they break these things up there is a heavy weight on growth whether it's Ela or math growth um so I want to come back to that and then if you could go to the first slide for I um proficiency which I believe is slide 10 mhm yeah so just a brief history on proficiency um a wise educator that I respect a great deal uh said this once is that if you want to know how your kid is doing ask their teacher and talk to their teacher don't look at proficiency rates for a school for a district for a subgroup of people that we are measuring talk to the teacher about how your student is doing if you want to know how your

063student is doing unfortunately there are those that will Mis represent what proficiency is um and to give a brief history on proficiency um prior to 2012 our school district when it came to math and reading all of of our kids the average for Proficiency in our district was in the higher 80 percentile or lower 90 percentile well what proceeded to happen after that was they changed the cut scores in 2013 in 2014 they introduced a new test from ISAT to park they also changed the cut scores again in 2018 they introduced um the I test and they introduced new scores again so if you're keeping track that's two test changes and three cut score changes since 2012 our students haven't gotten worse academically remember what I said about growth what the state decided they wanted

064to do instead of measure proficiency is they wanted to measure growth better and if you look at the State Board of education's definition of proficiency it says and I quote a snapshot of how well our students have mastered the standards so again if we're going back to this proficiency is considered that level five and level four I am tired of people saying that if our kids aren't proficient if they aren't in that level five or level four they're not at grade level because that is categorically not true whatsoever it is the Mastery of the standards that is level five and level four my kids both my daughters who went to top universities in the midwest there are times that they were at a level three and a level two and they went to some of

065the top universities in the midwest so I want the community to understand that proficiency does not mean and nor has it ever me grade level um uh and then as you mentioned too proficiency is different between every state because there are some states that only have four categories we have five categories um our cut scores Prof proficiency and correct me if I'm wrong I think for both Ela and math Illinois is in the top five in the country top four top four in the country so even comparing proficiency from state to state you can't do that unless you understand what the Baseline is and what it's actually measuring and clearly Illinois has measured growth more than it's measuring grade level which it's not measuring um it's the growth that's the most um important uh slide

066um 13 sat uh again this is measuring what the standards are for act and correct me if I'm wrong Illinois's standards for sat are different than College Board standards correct that the Illinois standards uh the Illinois cut scores are different than the College Board per uh Readiness benchmarks correct so back to what you said before and back to what I said as far as cut scores for sat so if you look at 2324 for we're looking at Ela 57% were at level four level three is the cut score for sat Ela however I believe I heard you say 90% of our kids will qualify for the state entry exams is that correct uh we have uh around the believe it's 87% uh is our college entrance rate and that's all the kids that we test

067so even though we're looking you know I mean this is from IEP kids to kids that aren't performing academically well and we're still at 57% and 90 close to 90% or 87% of our students can get that college entrance test so again just another example of how people out there are trying to tell you what proficiency is um and and they're not telling you the whole story um and and I want to make that clear from our community because it's important to know that we are still a very high academically achieving District that does very well and our kids do very well thanks to our teachers and our parents um so we are laser focused on that and next year I hope we uh get past uh pre-pandemic levels in uh the I for for

068math but we're real close but um yeah that's that's the only questions I had Dr T did you want to say something you looked like you were leaning over so um when you look at the SATs yes as mentioned we our cut scores are extremely high in the state of Illinois and it is because of that high cut score that impacts everything else down the line and so therefore the SAT cut score being high and then they back mapped everything else hence the reason you have the scores for Proficiency in I and what they are what so next year we or this year we will have the Act and the state superintendent Tony Sanders is um saying that uh we will uh the state will come up with new uh more appropriate cut scores yeah

069which will impact everything else down the road yeah and and I should have mentioned that too because I'm on that that working group with iasb and the in the State Board of Education um they are better clarifying and they recognize that there is a misunderstanding of what proficiency is um and I also forgot to mention too is not only do we look at I but we're getting the data usually after the school year so but we also have other measurements like we had mentioned as well the I ready which is really kind of drilling down and helping teachers focus on what the individual students needs are is that correct that's right okay y but thank you Dr Telly that's all I have Miss Jane thank you um Dr Telly to follow up on what you

070just stated um to get cut scores to be more appropriate can can you elaborate on what that means does that mean closer to how other states are looking at act or cut off points it may not be necessarily be closer to what other states it could be um but as mentioned earlier the um what is what Illinois counts as being College ready is one of the the four highest in the nation and the question is why did they set it at such a level when College Board itself had didn't even set it at that level and so um now with the ACT this gives us a perfect time to reset and examine What will what is appropriate for us as a state with regards to being College ready um uh and and I think that

071is what will be happening um by the state going forward and when when Justin and I were sitting here when they did those first cut scores in 2013 Justin and I I remember we looked at each other like our parents are going to lose their minds like they're literally going to lose their minds when they see all of our kids proficiency is like 85 90 95% and now we're at 57 like so I think I understand the reason they did that is because District like ours were so high performing and other districts that their kids weren't doing well were maybe inflated so they wanted to lower it for everybody to kind of better measure the struggling academic districts and measure that growth piece more but you know it we need to have a better explanation

072right so the the problem isn't having high standards but that the data was just being misinterpreted and not reflective of the actual work our students were doing so hence reassessment of what these cut off points will be in the summer to be continued to understand and and to add to that uh I think there is interest at the state superintendent level of realigning vertically what these cut scores uh are showing so yeah and I I I kind of want to spend a little time on what board member Rising was talking about um in terms of when you're thinking about your own student how do these scho play a part and I'm just trying to put myself in a in a parents perspective I am a parent I have I have two boys in the in

073the district but if I weren't if this is the first time I'm listening to this content what am I to make of this like as as a community member when I see these scores what should be my takeaway from this would it be to just see where does ipsd stand in comparison to State averages that's a nice snapshot would that be my takeaway from this well or or another way of asking is what what would be the significance of these scores like sure I I think um as a parent as a parent myself um not of students in this District um but also uh I'm a graduate of this District so I do bring that perspective um uh honestly I think when you look at at State assessment results uh I think um it's important

074to look at yes the comparison of District performance to the state as a whole but um you know it's one one data point in the bigger picture of how students perform uh and it's at one point during the school year as well so uh there's so many other factors to consider when um I know when I talk with my children about their state test scores uh I also take into consideration what their other assessment results are what their a daily classroom performance is like um how they're involved with so there are so many other contributing factors um I do think this is more you know your highlevel comparison of performance on a state assessment to what's happening at the state yeah thank you I appreciate that I I appreciate contextualizing with these how to make

075sense of these numbers um now from within the district like from that lens um could you give like just a a big picture you know answer to what do we do with with this data like how do we make sense of this data I guess you know from the time that I've been on the board I've consistently see us outperform at State averages so that's not surprising to me I'm sure we're all expecting that so now that we know that how do we how are we using this information internally would be my next question when the pandemic hit there was a question question that I had raised with our recovery would it look like a V would it look like an L would it look like a u so when we receive this data every

076year I'm it it's especially in the area of of English language arts it's looking more like a V which is what we wanted that's a quick recovery math is not so much a v but it's closer to a v than it is a u and so we're improving so to your question how do we use this data we're looking at how we are recovering and are our children achieving across the district so um it's and and it's important as as was said this is a snapshot we're talking about summative data we have parent teacher conferences that are coming up soon and that is a perfect time for a parents to talk to their to their teacher about where is my child academically with the formative assessments that happen within the schools we have um I

077ready data which is a formative assessment because it's given three times a year we did it in the um fall back in September we'll do it again roughly in in February and then we'll do it again in um may teachers have other formative assessments that they use to give to their to the children and so you you need to take all of that together because the summatives really only tell you at the end of the year you want to know where you're going throughout the school year and it's a child achieving and the last thing I will say if you look at for example slide oh slide 10 when you see the 20% and this gets a little bit to Mr rising's comment when you see 20% of the students are at level three some

078of the students who are in that 20% many of them if you were to use fontas and panel which is a reading a language arts assessment tool you would see that the students are actually reading on grade level and so um the question parents should be asking at parent teacher conferences at the elementary level Middle School level is my child reading on grade level are they doing grade level math work and then if not how do I support them the um I the summative assessments parents can ask what does this mean and and I I speak as a little bit of a geek I used to love format the summative assessments when I was in school love the Ia test the basic skills I was one of those strange little students I was not that

079okay and then the results though were able to tell my parents where I did well and I did do well I would assume that's why you liked it yeah yeah but it is something that and because you can work on certain things to improve and and and so anyway it is the whole Galt of it all what does it all mean the whole and you have to look at it all from the whole child and understand where the child is yeah I appreciate that I appreciate that perspective um the last thing I just want to mention is our scores um the numbers that we're seeing with the AP uh tests and just the number of students taking it I just want to emphasize how wonderful it is to see those numbers we know that students

080who take a single AP class is more likely to not just just go into higher ed but stay in higher ed the retention rate is higher because they've been exposed to that type of rigor so whether that's the route any of our students want to take which we see many do it's just wonderful that they've had that experience at ipsd so um I really love seeing those numbers thank you so much Miss vtic thank you um there's a lot of positive data here that like Miss Jane said we' we've come to expect right we're a high performing District we're doing well um one of the things I was really excited to see this particular time was on Slide N the fact that last year we had two schools who has been targeted um groups and

081so much progress has been made throughout that school year to this school year that we are back to zero um so I was I was really pleased to see that growth and to see the number of exemplary schools almost double right so we're continuing to move in the right direction and serving our students and families well um my only other question was just a point of clarification about something uh actually that Mr Rising mentioned also um on slide um for the SA Ela scores um 57.4 level three and four here um meets and exceeds and you mentioned 87% of students have have College acceptance or admittance entrance right mhm is that 87% of all of the students in a graduate who graduate or 87% of students who choose to apply to higher ed uh that

082is 87% of graduates of graduates okay another really exciting Point m right that that we have a high percentage of students wanting to continue their education in some way um so I'm really glad to see that I have no further questions thank you and and uh to add to that students who enter into college from our district tend to stay in college fantastic thank you Mr Kus uh three points I want to make thanks for stepping up uh to to present tonight welc um what uh first one is growth uh start with slide 20 you know in order to have some accountability um that we can measure to the community um we need we set a goal uh that we want to see some growth and you can see that in both of these two

083um evidences of success uh so I think that's important we've got a goal this is what we're striving for this is what we want to um you know satisfy and then on the next slide we want to you know measure that goal how have we grown um and so we on this slide we have two different tests and correct me if I'm wrong here we have this I ready and this sat suite and those tests are used to measure the growth is that can you tell me a little bit about that so uh the I ready measure is uh given it's an internal assessment benchmarking assessment that's given three times uh each school year to students in those grades and um there are growth targets between each of those administrations for students so what you're

084seeing here is students who have met the growth Target from Fall to spring or exceeded that um and that that growth Target in particular is defined by I ready uh through their norming studies um for the SAT Suite uh that's based on your uh college board growth Norms uh there are growth Norms that college board sets from 9th to 10th grade spring to Spring uh as measured on our state assessments uh and uh also from 10th to 11th grade grade uh and basically any student who has a particular score during for example their nth grade year they is a particular estimated score that they would reach uh on their 10th grade test uh and so whether they meet that or exceed that is seen uh in these numbers does that help yeah 100% that's great

085thank you I think to the point about what is a parent going to take away from this uh you know one might be we there's a lot of tests administered um but I think what I would like and i' kind of like to get consensus on the board um is on this growth measure um why is it valuable do we another data point to present on this growth would be how are are we doing how good of a job are we doing growing the students comparable to other districts um because I think that that would provide information to our community um about um how we're doing with growing our students so if if appro is that data readily accessible that doesn't inquire too much administrative Services uh so I'm not certain if that's available for

086these for the K8 measures um but certainly for the state tests uh we um I think we have looked at some of our comparable districts in terms of their growth um but we certainly any for any of these State assessments like IR growth we do have comparisons across the state and the reason why we don't have the K8 I already is that's because it's our test and other districts might not administer it's not our assessment it's a I ready is a assessment but they only give us our scho so we cannot compare to uh other districts because not every District does that assessment some districts use star some use um another assessment called um um so there are several different assessments that that districts are using so it's just not possible to do that one

087okay well without going kind of into the yeah the extreme detail on this I would appreciate Administration kind of considering a way um however appropriate to give us some way to measure measure um growth as comparable to other districts um and maybe we need to get consensus on the board to do that but that's my ask uh because I think that would be beneficial to the parents in our community um president on to you do you want to try to get consensus at this point or have um well I think um we can inquiry offline or whatever to see what um the thoughts are um I was just wondering if at the state I level it seems like that would like State not our comparable districts but um because growth is one of the measurements

088right Ela growth math growth so that should be public info for across the state yes so for example if one goes to the Illinois report card which I'm doing right now and then you to you put in for example let's say 203 academic progress and they have growth on I um there is information about their um growth levels so that could be a possibility um but what I would rather do is we'll wait till um Mr spandle comes B and let's have that conversation because we don't have to make a decision tonight no yeah and plus I think we're all conscious of making sure that we aren't causing a burdensome request so I'd also like to understand that too thanks and uh my second point is on slide um this one kind of the the

089Crux is um we're kind of we're measuring different students so we're seeing our district over four years here um but it's four different groups of students so it to show how the scores might have increased or decreased over time um it's kind of an apples to oranges uh measurement right right is not cohort data you are right it is different students each year okay and specifically uh Juniors who take it uh during spring of their junior year correct so this is kind of another area that I think would be beneficial to our parents and Community to have a presentation include information on um comparable districts because although we can't show growth in this instance for the same cohorts we can show how our district did not only to the state but to the other districts

090and then they do have to take the SAT information and the information should be readily available to the the public on the Illinois report card um but if we can get that condensed in a slide I think that would be beneficial to the board and the community um but you guys can consider that if it's uh if it's appropriate I don't not making it a mandatory uh another just general comment on the on that slide and is kind of just want to vent some frustration with the changing of the test here um to keep it a little bit briefly we why is that a problem we've had we went from 2000 to I think it was 2015 where we were measured the ACT um in the state of Illinois where the state of Illinois made

091it mandatory and then in 2016 we switched over to the SAT and then um we're going to take that into the 2024 and then after we're going back to the ACT and that's Pro little problematic so is because we're losing some of the longitudinal data and so in order to measure the progress over time um you kind of need the same test otherwise it's measuring it for a while and then crumpling it up and starting over so when you present this information next year um maybe not next year but years yeah soon when this stuff progresses through this system we're not going to be able to show what we did in you know one year because it's going to be one data point um and we can probably do some calculus to say this is

092what happens um you know we're able to convert some of the SAT scores to the ACT scores um but that is also an imperfect math science um so I think there's additional value into to say what how are we doing comparable to other districts because all other districts are going through that uh transition um so it's more just a comment and then lastly what I enjoy about this is this a is a presentation on academic achievement but we're not just measuring the test scores although there is a lot of test in data in here which it tries to provide you know some objective objective measure we're talking about other things The Chronic absentee is chronic absenteeism um student mobility and some other stuff so appreciate how U we're measuring academic achievement on other um planes

093than just the test scores uh so that's it thank you much thank you thank you thank you for stepping in for Charles um this is an important topic and I hope that our parents um and Community take time to listen to the Pres presentation and the comments from the board members because I think they um all of them had substantial comments uh that clarify this data and also um help position what sometimes can be misinterpreted um in our community um especially when it comes to proficiency and what these ratings actually mean um so for that it's very important um and I also agree it's um beneficial to see some of these other data points that are in here with student mobility and um you know absenteeism uh has a large impact on our uh report

094card so it's you know I'm really really pleased with the uh school ratings that we have this year I'm happy to see chronic absenteeism going down um I also wanted to point out that um everyone most students have to take these tests right the I and sat um and right now our school population has about 12% of our students that are in the El program so they haven't mastered English yet um to leave that program but yet they take this test right so um you know it it's going to be a struggle for them when you think about how difficult that might be to to take that we also have 12% of our students with IEPs which also could could be impacting on results so you know when you consider that in the population of

095our schools it really is um you know interesting to see the uh results that we get with our our um testing so I happy with uh what we presented today I'm really pleased with all of the comments from the board I think um this is uh positive results for us this year and uh thank you so much for your presentation Miss donah Hugh I'm sorry I'm sorry I did have I did have um I I usually when we do this we have this presentation I always am um usually also very interested in um our cultural aspects and our population so um Dr tally uh we have done a nice job at different points in the year of Shoring up and sharing what we are doing with the populations and where we see not at our

096even at our um all totals um so would would certainly be um look forward to hearing some of those areas that we continue to work on with some of the um when we've talked about some of the things that we've done over the summer for students that have not necessarily been at levels where the overall population is where overall did are you not does that not make sense uh I'm sorry um when we've we've had some Focus yeah I understand I understand the question I'm just trying to understand when we have presented this at the board meetings I don't think we have we've had some we've had some focuses on some summer work that has been done summer programming for I'm forgive me I'm just not having let's talk later I'm just I'm not I'm

097not I'm just not I'm not remembering what you're asking me right now okay for on some of our for some of our Title One schools where we've had um some different initiatives that have gone on for um students where they may not have had um where math supports have needed to be okay I'll okay sorry okay that's okay it's not coming to me okay that's okay um P follow up I'll follow upor thank you that's okay all right thank you Jason thank you appreciate every everyone's time all right our um our students that are here do you have to have something signed for school or anything I asked them already okay okay I was going to say because we could do it real quick um but all right our last topic um is our yearly

098discussion about um leg um iasb and the resolutions and changes that they're proposing that they're going to present at conference so I'm going to ask Miss basic to lead us through a discussion on these um changes all right first I'm going to ask did everyone have a chance to review the resolution committee report yes okay um are there any specific concerns about the recommendations of the committee there are six do adopt resolution proposals there are four up for appeal and there are three that they are suggesting do not adopt are there any specific resolutions that you would like to discuss as a board at this time no comments or there's none from me but maybe you Pro provide a little context on like to walk through them no I I definitely don't I agree with

099all the uh recommendations but I I think it's important um to to talk about the context of this since you are the appointed Del G all right I thought it might help just don't go into these in detail but just say what the topic like what is the proposal area or whatever we can definitely do that let me get down to that point so this is the time um this is the report that is pulled together throughout the year before the annual conference school districts have an opportunity or school boards have an opportunity to suggest resolutions um on topics that they think are important that the State Association of school boards supports and AD advocates for and encourages or requires um school districts to adhere to and then also the Illinois Association of school boards

100then also advocates for that the legislative level or we hope that they will that that's really the point of resolutions as I understand it Mr Rising since I'm newer in this position do you have anything to add right now no I mean you pretty much nailed it so there's all these resolutions iesb puts forward and ISS which is the Illinois Association of school boards they their workers their attorneys then go and Advocate the legislators when they're talking about educational issues they'll support all the school districts as it relates to those resolution so yeah you pretty much nailed it um you know I know in more recent years they're trying to the Uno Association of school boards is trying to cut down on the number of resolutions they accept from Individual local school boards so they

101take a lot more time considering if this is representative of all districts and if it's a duplication of something that already exists so they're trying to streamline it and getting maybe a little less accepting of because I remember there there was one year there was like 14 resolutions it was ridiculous I mean it was just way too many so go ahead yeah okay and the resolutions are something um that each district delegate votes on at the general assembly at the conference um a committee comes to together once they have all of the resolution proposals in reviews them collectively and there are representatives from several different divisions um geographical divisions um in the state of Illinois and then they put forth this report that gives recommendations for which resolutions ISB should adopt which ones um could

102be pulled forth for more discussion and which ones they just slat out say Do not adopt so the ones the six that they have that are recommended to do adopt are the first is a dual language which is suggesting that the Illinois state seal of biliteracy would satisfy the World Language requirement of high school students uh that was put forth by School District u46 the second is to create an ebf authorized charter school funding uh this was put forth by Woodland uh CCSD 50 um and it's urging the adoption basically of the same kind of evidence-based funding that we have in state funding but for Charter Schools um the third is the tax increment financing accountability put forth by skoki school district 69 um it advocates for I will read this one to you because

103this is outside of my my wheelhouse um um be it resolved that the Illinois Association of school boards shall advocate for the Illinois general assembly and Governor to enact legislation that reforms the Tiff process in a manner that is sensible and responsible keeps communities whole and prioritizes greater accountability to taxpayers and then there are a number of specific measures um the fourth is Faith's law centralized state agency for ehrs put forth by Lake Forest 115 and Lake Forest school districts um it is um suggesting that The iasb Advocate to the Illinois legislature to require the State Board of Education or another entity to create a Statewide database to fulfill the employment history review requirement of Faith la um and the district rationale was with the implementation of Faith s Illinois must ensure that there's a

104streamlined inclusive and Universal system for reporting and accountability to ensure that no alleged offender is overlooked by any school district Mr Rising do you want to expound on faith law there no all right and then the fifth one is healthc care coverage um and it is asking that IB supports changes that require the Illinois Department of central Management Services to create a unified Health Plan for all school districts to opt into um are there any questions or discussions about those recommendations to adopt number six there's number six down here to sorry I was hiding I don't I I agree with all of them I actually thought it was a good um set of proposals I was surprised there were as many as there were because I thought they were trying to keep them down to

105a small number but um I also thought some of them were interesting like the charter school one I guess they're basically asking that the charter school formula uh reflects what the public schools have to um do uh for for our funding they determine our funding by how many English language Learners do you have how many IEP students so how many of them need special services and I didn't realize Charter Schools didn't have that formula they just got money like you have you know whatever 2,000 students this is how much money you get so it's like that was an interesting thing I didn't know anything about I also thought The Tiff one was very good and we had for a long time talked about proposing a tiff one so I was happy to see see that

106so I was really happy to see the central management one that one u b that was um connected to Faith's block very happy to see that one yeah and I'm assuming the healthare here um creating this Central um way of negotiating for health care cost that we our district wouldn't object to that like there because it seemed like it was an opin kind of like resolution also I don't know if Matt wants to look at that one make sure there's nothing in there that yeah we'll look into it I see him over there the last one that I neglected to mention is about polling places before by Lincolnshire Prairie View School District Diamond Lake School District and Hawthorne um and the gist of this one is that they would like to say that if your

107school is not used for a polling place you don't have to close on Election Day and the committee agreed that that should be left to local control whether or not a school should close on Election Day based on whether or not it's being used as a polling place um resolutions eligible for appeal I don't think we need to go through them we need to go through these anybody want okay yeah the only one that I thought was interesting and worth discussing uh was the cell phone policy yes this one's a hairy topic already um but again similar to the polling place here I think this it would be an incredibly difficult thing to do as a Statewide policy given that we all have different needs and student populations about cell phone usage in our schools

108I I talked to Mark harms who's you know one of the board members that represents all the school boards I talked to him at at the Dage meeting him and I were talking about that and um we kind of both agreed too like AE well and you're going to see legislation in this next legislative session of legislators trying to push through what they believe cell phone policy should be but I will go back to the state legislators should not nor should iasb adopt a policy that's right for every school district because that violates total local control of what what we feel is best for our students and what what is best for our community so um I mean heck it could differ between school and classroom for all that matters right so yeah I just

109think that gets into an area where it's kind of legislative overstepping there but um you know I I would always stay away from that well and we are going to have a cell phone discussion what at the next meeting right with our students to get some more insight on their thinking around cell phone usage in schools so yeah yes it is something that we're discussing as a committee in the district and looking at the options and the needs and the state of cell phone use as it is currently um but yeah this goes to him a a bigger much bigger jump at the state level and then do not adopt there are several are there any other questions or specific things that people would like to discuss are we going to have a vote this

110time or next time or next time so um so this was just presenting and seeing if anybody had any questions for Miss fik to take back to iasb or whatever and um at our next meeting we'll vote to to um either affirm or disagree with the positions that iasb has taken on these so I would like to suggest that we do that as a bundle since we had no particular discussion about e about any I think we need to have a motion on the ones that were do adopt I think we need to have a motion on the ones that just in case they're brought up again the ones that they recommended do not adopt I think we should vote on that too just in case one gets pulled and put on the agenda for

111you at least you have a record that said that we should just stay with the position that IB resolution committee and then I think there was a motion there about parliamentary practice that we probably need to have a uh just a a motion on so probably three motions is yes yes we can do a consent agenda for for if we agreed with all well yeah we can for the yeah we'll have one for the first six we'll have one of the Do Not adopts for for 7A through can be and then we'll have to have a a motion for the Parliamentary practice procedure so there'll be three motions probably which is asking essentially that if a constitutional amendment disagrees with Robert's Rules of Order that they have the freedom to change I definitely think we

112could put it on the consent agenda item I don't think there's a lot of discussion here and yeah yeah all right well thank you I'd also just like to update um we did um Miss Deming and I did put forth a suggestion to adding a core advocacy value um because we were advocating for IP to encourage its member districts to consider and include actively seek out student voice um and given that that didn't really fall neatly into the resolution category we've had other discussions and that is actually going to be discussed at the uh board of directors meeting um at because they don't currently have a process in place to add or um alter the core advocacy values as they stand so all 20 of those guiding principles for school boards they just totally eliminated

113and like three of them were ones that we proposed as a district over the last 20 years or something they just got rid of all of those like they don't exist anymore they kind of reworked them into the court it's so disappointing I hope let us know if if that's something that you guys have to present and and give testimony to in front of their board because I would like I would seriously like all of us to show up um we wrote it we we we submitted um we submitted a letter uh gosh a couple of months ago now and it's been reviewed and so it's going before the board for discussion and I did have an opportunity to talk with Mark harms um last week uh he wanted just a little more background about

114it and wanted to have um some of our ideas about how it could be applied in school districts across the state particularly school districts that just have Elementary School students um so you know concerns by other board members could potentially be addressed at that point I would have picked his brain more on that because like what was he asking like you know there's governing there's guiding principles as far as school boards and governance rules you know you you can't set them in stone because they're just suggestions they're guiding principles on governance same thing what those were like they were guiding principles of what a school district should do people can choose not to do them if they don't want but just just to get rid of them like how is he I mean we don't

115implement the resolutions so I don't know what was he how are we going to imp imp the guiding principles it it makes no sense I feel like maybe you need to have a discussion or Susan or I can even step it with like legal at iasb I don't think it was so much as a he was asking me to ask how that would be done he was trying to anticipate questions from other board members so that he would have some more information about what Our intention was in presenting this change that was my understanding at the time and Mark we can um from a standpoint of the the belief statements and um how they um move into the guiding principles we can get further clarification on that yeah I think Mr Rising is talking about

116a broader question not just our proposal about students but what happened to all those ones that we had yeah so okay anything else on that I did attend the Len meeting and I had have some brief notes that I will send um to um Bill representative Bill Foster was there so he had some interesting comments that I I thought would be nice for everyone to see so all right anything else on legislative advocacy or Board of Education update okay I need a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn there second second all in favor yes any opposed okay go