Lisle 202 Board of Education Regular Board Meeting March 24, 2025

001e e good evening it's March 24th 2025 at 7:30 p.m. and I would like to call to order the meeting of the Lyall Community Unit School District 202 Board of Education could we please have a roll school yes um Mr lesnak present Mr nagler here here Miss D domeno present um Miss Foster present Mr hly present um Miss Sims is here and Miss Alman here thank you can we please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all next is the reading of our mission statement and the ly 202 mission statement is to provide our Learning Community with the essential education skills and experiences for future success

002we'll keep those thoughts in mind as we meet this evening next on um our agenda I will turn this over to Mr marof we're having our um student recognition this evening for the state culinary state championship [Music] they not recognizing me they're recognizing you good evening it is my honor to represent ly high school and to recognize Delila Nora for her accomplishments and her competition with the Technology Center of DuPage culinary team her and the team of five uh competed and won the Illinois state proart competition uh the Invitational so she is a state championship she earned the state championship rather in this baking competition this culinary competition I'll let her tell you a little bit more about her actual role um but overall she competed against 11 other schools the team not just her

003competed against 11 other schools they won and now they get to go to Baltimore to compete in the national competition um well she'll talk to you about what she cooked don't sleep on her you will see her in Top Chef let me tell you she has the culinary skills she is such a fantastic young lady with a hugee heart this afternoon she shared with me I was lucky enough to score one of these cupcakes that she made for the tcd bus driver's birthday and so she took it upon herself to make the cupcakes I made them as I was sharing with people outside I made the mistake of cutting it in force and sharing it with other people I wanted it back as soon as I took my first bite um it is absolutely fantastic

004her skills are outstanding and like I said she's going to do great things when she when she graduates here so you can talk a little more about what you did um well I was a part of the appetizer uh I made a lump crab salad with Q Mayo sriracha and I made a Napa cabbage SLO it was tossed in an Asian Stites vinegret um on the side it had avocados um and butter poached king crab and torched and that's what I made um the day I was like so nervous like I was so nervous I couldn't I woke up at 5:00 a.m. I couldn't go back to sleep I was just so excited and once I got to Cisco like and I started and I heard that timer start like my mind went blink like

005my body automatically took over since I practiced for so many months and and um for so long like when I did it I didn't even notice like an hour has passed and once I finished I felt like so relieved like so proud of myself that I've completed this ever since I was young I started cooking when I was 7 years old and ever since I've loved it I've never stopped I always uh try to find more recipes to do mix and match um I always cook for my family all the time and I love it especially my favorite part about cooking is giving it to people and receiving feedback and compliments I just feel very joyful with cooking and I love it so much and this competition is going to help me in the future

006especially with um my I want to open a restaurant when I'm older and this is like a huge step for me especially for when I go to school look for jobs and start on with my career congratulations fantastic [Music] thank you congratulations Delila we're very proud of you and congratulations let us know where that restaurant will be whatever time we will be there I also want to mention I um I know your key role was in preparing that appetizer the lump crab appetizer I'm going to a party on Friday I'm supposed to bring an appetizer I was going to I was going to bring chips and dip but um maybe I can get together and find a better restaurant recipe rather so thank you very much for coming and we're we're just very very proud

007of you congratulations so much your family is welcome to [Laughter] stay thank you thanks for being here to support her thank you so congratulations thank you byebye school age kindergarten I'm hungry all right number five on our agenda is our public comment and we do have one blue card request from uh Stephanie trussle and Stephanie I think I think you've spoken before and know there's a three limit three minute time frame but uh um yes go on with whatever you would like to present hi um I was pretty excited when I um had realized that I had an opportunity to share with my daughter my 9-year-old granddaughter uh a chance to see me and girls the musical I much to my dismay I wrongly assumed that it would be edited making it an appropriate for

008all ages this morning my favorite radio host recounted how his wife had taken his three small children to see their High School production of The Wizard of Oz I immediately began dreading preparing to speak tonight I wish lyo Senior High School had chosen something wholesome and familyfriendly unfortunately according to the play Bill the director and the principal decided to make a deliberate shift from the recent classic feel-good shows they wanted to offer students a contemporary experience with different technical demands and one that directly addresses themes prevalent in their lives when the first bad words were spoken I grabbed my Play Bill there was no PG-13 warning at that time I didn't know the rating was listed on the ticket page someone else in my family had purchased the tickets I lost counts of how many

009times the b word two gor function and Dyke was used and I'm sorry I don't use those kind of that language but the cast even used damn hell and the s word um even if my granddaughter was 13 I would have been just as uncomfortable it was my idea to attend the show and I immediately felt guilty for exposing my granddaughter to very sexual obscene content the next day I sent an email to each member of the school board the principal and the superintendent not everyone replied the principal responded immediately and met with me that following Friday he told me that 51 edits had been made to make to soften the script I thought why not make 61 to remove all the profanity during our our meeting I was told that I was the only

010one that complained the responses from the the board members that I did get made it seem like it was a me problem my granddaughter's parents graduated from lyo high school in 2003 I find it very hard to believe that the principal at that time would have approved such content in four five short years my granddaughter would be at the high school and I wonder what be considered contemporary Orange is the New Black I don't know my advice to the high school is that they should go back to Feelgood content because we need something to feel good in this day and age thank you okay thank you Stephanie you know um we've had several corresponden back and forth and I respond on behalf of the Board of Education I believe Dr philipak and and the principal

011did but we appreciate you you being here thank you okay next were there any other uh public comments online or okay thank you brings us to our uh item six which is our um agenda item 6A is our consent agenda 6 A1 are the board meeting minutes 6 A2 payroll pay orders 6 A3 vendor pay orders 64 Personnel 6 a4a certified employment 684b certified resignation 684 C classified resignation 684 D extra Duty employment 6 a4e extra Duty resignation 6 A5 resolution for dismissal of probationary teachers and reduction in force 6 A6 memberships in IHS a 687 DuPage West cook intergovernmental cooperation agreement Amendment resolution 688 official school calendar 2026 2027 6 A9 intergovernmental agreement with the ly Park District 6 A10 contract renewal agreement for Food Service management company for school year 2520 2025 to

0122026 6 a11 audit Services engagement letter for fiscal year 2025 fiscal year 26 and fiscal year 2027 6812 lyel Junior High rtu replacement in theater stair Renovations contract and 6813 approval of the Board of Education annual policy review do we have any any sorry go ahead oh go ahead you wanted um to pull uh 688 for discussion okay do you want to have that discussion why don't we have that discussion and then we can uh go through okay okay go ahead yeah so looking at the calendar for the 26 27 the the last day of the year is a Friday the first day is a uh call Thursday and um I just have some questions there's 86 then 90 and know we try to keep it even I I generally have you know when the

013last days of Friday often we have at least one snow day and I think I asked for like roughly this La the snow days from the last three years when it pushes over a weekend especially Memorial Day weekend which is not the case in 2027 is that it's sort of like everyone get ready and then come back for one day of of school K8 it's to me the last couple days are more about celebration and transition which is all part of education and moving on to the next level high school of course there some effects with uh finals but if there's ways that we can do to make it where the school year does not go over one day of a you know the last of a weekend of the last weekend especially a labor

014day I'm sorry Memorial Day weekend are things that we can do and I think in Prior Mee I mentioned can we do some like snow days and then ACC combination of snow days initially and then remote learning one other idea that I came across uh talking to a friend from Sandwich is that they take good well we call it spring holiday or Good Friday and that becomes like the first snow day and therefore you know if we look at historically I think we had three last year but in lot of cases I think it's opened one or two one often one is that we sort of building that buffer so that we have a snow day and we've had a lot of discussion over the value of a remote learning day which is very different

015from a kindergartener through a 12th grader but there could be some compromises there so that you know we don't have you know these days the the year being pushed over a weekend by a single day and so I just one of other board members thoughts on that I want to talk about the snow dat piece I think we did a really good job of sending the service out I think we need to honor the feedback from the community and stick with that and if maybe we give that option maybe on the next survey I think that's fine but I think for what the survey is now there was it was a pretty clear response for snow day so I think we need to honor that yeah for for this school year yeah we're past that

016I don't think we're going to have hopefully no snow days or cold days at this point um but you know it's something we want for the 2526 and this is of course the 2627 if we want to come back and revisit that and look at that survey to maybe adjust it for what other options people would be interested in you know we do have you know a lot of feedback I'm getting now from a lot of you know friends and constituents is like can we have remote learning days because all our neighbors are doing it and I don't think that's necessarily the right answer just because our neighbors are doing it that we do it but we have kind of a discussion and see if there's a compromise in there you know for the schedule

017so Dr philipak when we sent out that survey was it just for this current school year I can't recall the details on it it's send out on an annual basis so think for the foreseeable future we will continue to send that out because we've gotten a lot of responses yeah is there anything contractually you know building on the idea of um the March 26th date for The Good Friday date um is there anything contractually that that would be an issue with Good Friday is a holiday mhm it is considered a holiday so for our seal employees I believe we would need a waiver if we were going to take that day if we were not going to take that day excuse me so um and I and I understand your thinking of maybe has it

018have it as a backup if we do have a snow day the only thing I for a consideration is that generally if people are making their spring break plans ahead of time and they know we have Good Friday off I'm sure they're going to include that good Friday as part of their time off and then for us to flip and say oh wait it's a school day um I'm not sure that that would be well received um the only other thing too I think it was may have been brought up is the creating trying at least to create that balance of the first semester and the second semester first semester having 86 attendance days second semester having 90 attendance days um one of the things we always kind of consider for that second semester is

019testing at the high school um there are 10 test days for high school students or for high schools um 10 of those days are AP testing AP testing um there's testing in the morning and there's testing in the afternoon not that every student takes that many tests not that they take one in the morning and one in the afternoon but during that two-e period they could have three to four to five testing days depending on how many AP classes they have so obviously if there's a test they're losing that AP instruction they're losing um just general instruction and it and it disrupts the schedule there's also ACT Testing for all 9th 10th and 11th graders so when we try to take that balance it always there's always a little more days in the second semester

020be to to take into account those instructional days that are missed for testing um so again that's 11 days um so think oh you you can go ahead I was going to say um if I remember correctly on that survey that came out a lot of the high school parents weren't they more in favor of the um e-learning when there was a snow day and I know that we've said as a district we want to try to stay on the same days off as a whole District but I know we do things like conferences where like we're off for the high school and the junior high in October I think and then the Elementary is like November for conferences so is there something we could do just for one school or or two schools you

021know that would maybe use that if the parents are wanting that the parent teacher conference STS offset each other because they're both getting the the one the early release day and then the conference day so that equals out it I don't know that it's significant that they're in different months because the time in school is is the same but if you had a completely different um situation where half of your District was snow day I mean I don't even I honestly don't even think that would work I don't think the state would approve it to have half of your District do one thing and half of the other have to do the other I was just going to add that it was several years ago I think when we moved the start date up sooner

022and that was so that the high school testing could be accomplished before winter break for finals correct and there were various concerns about moving it earlier corre um to start you know it's the middle of summer and we're going back to school uh you know so I I I think there are concerns both ways there's you know positives and um you know I certainly understand the after Memorial Day um issue um but I think we would also have parents who are concerned about starting earlier and for as Mr hly said for that 26 27 school year Memorial Day happens to fall late that year it's a whole another week later um so yes it's on could be on a Monday or Tuesday but it it's at least not interfering with the Memorial Day that year

023yeah it's been my experience um that having five using five emergency days happened once in 26 years so um and ending on a Friday ending on a Monday Tuesday there's that end of the year exuberance and it doesn't matter what day you end on you're going to encounter that so I think it's good to look at it with each calendar cycle to see where it falls and and you know I I know I've heard those concerns also I've heard the other concerns but it's good to review it each each year and and that's why I think more of this discussion of planning the seeds for next year's discussion for the survey more you know not so much the the spring holiday Good Friday one you know I just know that was an option some districts

024have done so and if we do it far enough ahead then people will know not to hopefully not plan oddly enough I know um a parent and they said well you guys should just put those snow days on the calendar when you hand it out and I said it's on there it's the last five days she was like I just never noticed I'm like it's there well no you you made a very thorough calendar so thank you and just a clarifying question with the um the change when we have the snow days it doesn't impact other things I know someone said something about high school graduation recently like none nothing else moves right we just go to school one extra day right generally uh graduation is a week and a half or two weeks before

025it's usually miday so it's not impacted if we go another day okay do they do oops do they do like finals though after that one day like after they've been off that weekend and then they come back on Tuesday then they have the last day of finals yes okay that's good extra study time gets them ready for college yeah all right good discussion okay are there any other items otherwise I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so moved second okay we have we could please have a roll call sure um Mr nler I Mr Les I um Miss D Domenico I miss Foster I Mr hly I miss Sims is and I and Miss Alman I thank you next on the agenda is item seven which is our financial information

026and the board acknowledges receipt of the following reports 7A financial report 7B treasury report is there any discussion on either of those okay item eight on the agenda is the preliminary 28a is our preliminary 2025 2026 Staffing plan so I'll turn that over to Dr catolic um great so I'm happy that um we are at a point where we're moving along pretty well and we're not seeing big flu fluctuations in our staffing plan from year to year in fact they're pretty predictable so generally they're based on what our enrollment looks like and sectioning looks like and since uh we combin Tate woods and Shure they've been it's been pretty pretty level which like I said I'm I'm happy about that's good to hear the report that you have in front of you um the spreadsheet

027that you have it's probably going to retire pretty soon um when this spreadsheet was built maybe 10 years ago um we didn't have our Skyward system and so now we have a um our Skyward system which is our Personnel system and and all of that and we can start to pull that information from Skyward directly instead of using an external form and so I'm mentioning this because that's why we had the couple errors with the custodian so they were entered correctly in in Skyward but they were entered incorrectly on this spreadsheet so um it isn't really a increase in custodians anywhere they were just mismarked um and the person person is actually at the elementary and it was noted that they were at the high school um we so that's that's we're starting to see

028that um we have a better way of doing this instead of entering things twice but that's an example why have all the have all the documents been corrected and uploaded to board books yes yes they're up there um so in general what we're going to see next year is a decrease in 6 FTE English enrollment at the high school and there were a questions on that if I remember correctly I think it was just a you know why is there a decrease um yeah I'll refresh yes I'll pull up the question just a second um so the the decrease is we're decreasing one section at freshman one section at sophomore one section at Junior um we we are taking um the classes were relatively small and what was determined is we could add two or

029three people to the other remaining four sections and still make it a perfectly um typical size for L classroom um so that's where the the three sections are going and that's why there's that decrease in Staffing at the high school okay and that was the question what what was the reason for the reduction in section there's no CH less offerings um we're still offering this same things we're just able to do it in four sections and still maintain the Lal class sizes that we want um instead of having the extra section uh you with that um so that there's um no real increase in the Staffing we're going to um add an instructional coach at the high school so we're going to be trying this this is something new and we will post for this

0306 pos position um we'll see if someone applies just for that position or if we pair it with something in the in the building already and then that creates some changes in who's teaching what but um I it's a pretty exciting position and we hope to um see some great things from that you'll also see a plus point to in AP AP music theory so this year we did not offer it because we did not have enough students next year we're going to bring it back because we have five students that will be taking that course um again in Lyal fashion um we have enough students that want to take that course so we will offer it and so that's where that's coming from the plus point2 any questions on the high school no just

031a quick question what's the instructional coach what do they do like what's their day today they will um support teachers they will support teachers with technology pedagogy um learning a new new strategy um working directly with teachers to improve their instruction so we have the model right now Vinnie Slovak Dr Vinnie slovia we created it it was just part-time he had some availability because he was teaching some and then he had some availability and it was just so well-received by the staff and so let me give you for an example we're seeing all these changes in AI we're like What do we do with that where do we get training for that and then even if you go to a conference you get a general idea but a person like this instructional coach why up

032reaching out to everybody saying what would you like to do in your classroom I've know some great websites some AI things we can do what Vinnie or this new person will do at the high school is meet with the teacher and say give me some ideas of what you're focusing on that person does the research they get everything lined up they co- te it the first few times that the individual does it and then at some point they exit out um it was something that the teachers at the high school said they're really appreciating what's happening at the junior high Vinnie has gone to the high school and done a lot of professional development they're like boy it would be great to have a Vinnie here so we don't know if this is a permanent

033position but we really feel like as much as technology is changing we need somebody who can get into the classrooms be able to model be able to be you know very specific as to what you want to accomplish and then do the heavy lifting so that at very short period of time you wouldn't need that individual anymore we'll report back at some point towards the end of the year when I met with Eric on this I said in my opinion um there's a lot of pieces to this number one the staff wants to have to wants it needs it you know they're saying this is something I want if the staff is just saying wait well this person supposed to come in and tell me how had to teach I've been doing this for you

034know 20 years I'm I'm not really sure I want that but the staff has clearly indicated they want somebody particularly to help in technology so we decided not to call it um a technology anything we it's more about instruction with a leverage of Technology number two it has to be the right person we don't know if we're going to find the right person yet we're very hopeful but I think Vinnie Slovak doeses such an incredible job of partnering collaborating really coming in with h what would you like to accomplish it's it's incredible if you've ever met him as an individual and so we're hoping to find somebody very similar because even if they have the best intentions and people want somebody good if he can't connect with them and do the heavy lift and no

035one's going to want it the thing that I had shared with Eric though and we're doing this with Vinnie is like I want to know what they're doing and so Vinnie keeps calendar that says here's the days these are the people I've met with these are the things that we've covered and so I'm very comfortable in what Vinnie has been accomplishing to know that we're getting value out of that position rather than creating something and having somebody say well no one's really asked for any help and so as we continue to to share with you where our growth is in terms of Technology we think we need this type of position but we also be willing to share some of those things that they're doing you know towards the end of next year we we'll

036make sure to talk about Vinnie this year when we talk about Ai and what's happening at the junior high and how he's had an impact in the district but we'll Circle back at the high school level to show that there's actually some value in this so this isn't anything permanent staff's asking for it we're going to try and find that right person we're going to monitor it and see the impact and report back to you um to make sure that this is something we want to continue to do we're also changing I hate to use word librarian and I'm not even sure we use that word anymore but at the high school we're redefining that role too that that person's only going to spend about 04 of their time doing Library work and they're going

037to be the counterpart to this other job and so they're going to spend about 6 of their time doing the exact same thing getting into classroom showing what you can do with technology and being a support it's embedded professional development I think we can all go to conferences get some really cool ideas but then job when you go back to work takes your day and you're like oh I didn't get to that and so to have somebody who's willing to like meet with you go do the heavy lifting come back show you work with you and then exit is what we're hoping is the best strategy for this embedded professional devel vment particularly in technology but not not limited to technology one thing too is um as a teacher sometimes it's hard to try new

038things and sometimes there's fear and how do I do this and what if it goes wrong and the whole idea that if there's someone there to support you and and team with you on that it it makes it much much easier to try that new thing um you know you go back and what went well what what do we need to work on um so the people that embrace it uh it's it's really really a great position you would have a line out the door if you said I'd like to know what's happening at the junior high and how Vinnie has made an impact um we're hoping to find another Vinnie and have a very similar Cadence in terms of the growth that we've seen the utilization of Technology because it's changing so much and

039you really Trent's incredible for what Trent does but that's not his wheelhouse he's the boxes and wire guy he makes sure everything's up and running um you really need somebody now to be able to focus on what we can do with technology and instructional practices and so we'll share more information as we try and find that right person and if we're not finding the right person we're not going to have the job just to have the job just to clarify like the um Vice pres the assistant principal of a curriculum like that's not something that's in their realm there's a lot of overlap with that um the assistant principal spends time in classrooms particularly at the high school the department heads spend time in classrooms but the day-to-day doesn't allow them to really be able

040to meet with teachers what do you want to do do the research help set up the lesson plan co- te with them so that they're feeling comfortable they're just not enough hours in the day for that I think like as an aside I'm quite familiar with this role um I serve as an instructional coach um and the non-evaluative nature of the role is really important especially when you are trying something new um when you can partner with somebody who is like like on your side to be a thought partner a researcher um also could model um and that's a very vulnerable space for a teacher to be in to to sort of invite that professional learning um but it has the most um profound impact and the most it's the fastest way to get change

041um in an institution I'm glad you brought that up too because I gave a little bit of push back in the beginning thinking what did the department heads do then but to have a relationship with your evaluator be at the assistant principal the department head is a different conversation cuz as as much as we'd like to think you'll know when I'm doing your evaluation if you make yourself too vulnerable doing these conversations uh trying something new and seeing failure you can do that with an instructional coach I'm told that's not as easily done when it's your evaluator and and Paul you can speak specifically to that I've not been in that circumstance it truly it is a just a fact but in addition what I have noticed is a trend too of new teachers I

042sit on a lot of um interviews it's an Ask of new teachers what is your mentorship and coaching program is like one of like some the universities must be helping you know because it's the same question over and over but that's definitely an Ask um of teachers so I think like you said teachers are definitely asking for it and appreciative of it and I think change is probably difficult for most people not just teachers um I appreciate you know looking into a way especially technology technology is changing so quickly techn te ology assists education and other jobs the changing jobs to be more effective so I really like this you know to find this Vinnie or maybe he has a cousin who knows so um Good Luck in that search favorite movie yeah it's been

043a I we've had instructional coaches um in in my world for quite a while and it's been an extremely effective role um I think the a good word for it is current because we're always looking to stay current with education and on top of all the changes and that's a primary role of is the of an instructional coach is to stay current with best practices to meet the needs of students and along the way helping uh teachers to hone their craft in in a as Paula you put it most eloquently in a you know in a kind of a a safe space because you're unsure you want to make sure that you put your best foot forward but um it's teachings performing live without a net so you go with it and then you're like

044uh oh did this work or did this not work so having somebody in your corner to kind of help guide you through that process is definitely uh helpful and they have it embedded in what you're currently doing in your current day it doesn't fall outside and it isn't a theory this is literally servant leadership might be the right word somebody coming in and saying how can I help what would you like to do let me do some research I'll get back to you by the end of the week these are the things that I found let's give this a try rather than just saying oh have you tried chat before like that what do I do with that like I got to get back to class I got to teach I don't I just can

045somebody help and so the staff has asked for help this is our way of giving it a try Beyond just the junior high because Vinnie is doing an incredible job and he's met with the other schools there's just not enough Vinnie to go around I think we've all heard the success that U Vinnie's had in his programs and with the staff at at the junior high and I think instructional design is very different from curriculum content so they're almost like two things that have to be merged um but this is a position that would help that merger so okay any other questions on that all right one more sorry I'm just I'm just learning about this the goal with the goal of this what are we looking to see as our outcomes are we looking

046like you're talking about like supporting the teacher in the classroom are we looking to see like a staff retention goal are we looking to see um improved outcomes like educationally on certain metrics that we have like certain test scores or student achieving and our graduation rate's great so I don't think that's one but um you know just I'm just thinking what what are we looking to say because you said we'll reevaluate next year what are we going to use as our Benchmark to say we re-evaluated this is what we're seeing and this is why we want to keep it or not keep it so I'll answer your question but I'll start with a story I think when the when they impact you directly it resonates more and so just a quick example and I could

047give you a bunch of these when I was getting my MBA to Paul I knew more about what was happening in the real world than the staff and at the time this is an extreme example but at a time when PowerPoint was the most prevalent thing they were teaching me how to use laminates at depal University for an MBA program and those teachers lost us and then in our web design classes they were teaching us code when no one was using Code everyone was using web design programs and I never forget that Professor just looking deflated and saying I think at this point I've realized my staff has gone or the students have gone well beyond my ability we are right at that Tipping Point our kids know so much and how to do things

048with technology if we don't keep up with them we're going to lose them and so the things that we're hoping to bring back to evaluate is Teachers saying I've used this AI to improve um how we're collaborating on this I've made it very clear when it's appropriate and when it's not appropriate we're still trying to find that gray area in between the two to have the courses reflect what they're going to see in the real world and not be like technolog is bad AI is bad and they get to the real world and realize it's a huge part of their life teachers are more than willing to understand that they just don't have the time and the professional development to a learn it knowing that it's changing every few months and then what do I

049actually do with it in my curriculum and so this these positions will have a heavy lift to be able to work with teachers so that we don't lose the students and become irrelevant but the ways that I think we're going to measure it is to be able to have firsthand conversations with the teachers perhaps next year we can it'll be part of what we talk to you about towards the end of this year what we're doing in areas of AI but to have some success stories about working with this person it may me even as we're working we have an AI committee right now one of the teachers said wow when I'm unpacking and trying to figure out what we can do with AI I'm realizing maybe what I was trying to teach isn't as

050relevant as I initially thought and so it's making them take a step back as what you're trying to accomplish and is there a more efficient way in today's world to actually do it and so having the vines of the world are able to say yeah this is this is what's new this is what you're seeing changes so that we're not teaching what was the way of approaching things even a year or two ago so that's a roundabout way of saying I don't know the answer yet but I do know we need to be able to share some stories about what we're doing in the actual classroom or we're going to lose the kids but it's so new to all of us I don't know if there's a metric that says you used AI this many

051times you change your lesson plan to make it more like those will be part of it but I don't know if it's a destination and I don't know if we're going to get to a point where there's literally a matrix to so that you know these things happen therefore it must have been successful but I would like to give it a try because I think not trying we we going to quickly become that MBA program that I talked about that they just lost us we we they were teaching us something from years ago and that was not the direction we were supposed to be learning and the kids are so much further along than we are at this point professional development is going to get us to hopefully at least catch up to them if

052not pass them and it's going to look different at the elementary versus the Junior High in high school that's the other thing um somebody needs to be able to help us differenti when it's appropriate and when it's not appropriate because in our meetings at AI we know what cheating looks like we know taking credit for someone else's work is wrong we know if it's an embedded part of what we're trying to accomplish that's that's great you know maybe it makes it easier to takes a lot of things and say AI find the commonalities and differences what are the top three things you know that those things can happen really quick as long as we've said it but it's this 80% Gap in the middle that we still have to figure out and I think these

053roles are going to be huge in helping us figure out these Shades of Gray and when it's appropriate and that and for us to communicate to students so you're never put in the situation where kid gets in trouble and there's discipline and then they come back here and they say I didn't know that that you know violated something like well we're coming up with drafts but the next two years is where we're going to try and figure out where those Shades of Gray are again talking way too much I apologize Kate and no thank you for the the addition trying to answer your question no I appreciate the clarification um could we if we're going to do these at all the building levels because it's a newer concept I don't know yet if at all

054building levels but right now we have one at the junior high and now we're moving to the high school we may make our way down to the elementary I don't know yet if these two plus individuals might be able to backfill some of their time to the elementary okay we'll put a maybe in there so we maybe we'll have these if we do have the if we have them next year when they do their presentations in the fall could they maybe share a little bit about like what some of their experiences are just so we have a good understanding and I think we can present to the community um like someone like me that works outside of Education this is a concept that I'm not familiar with the day to day with and just I

055think that'd be great to really learn about how it's helping us so we can continue to and so I'm hoping it'll be a a stepped up process I'm I we had targeted I want to say next month to bring back information Ai and as a team of of both administrators and teachers um we're just not ready yet and so um we're still planning by the end of the school year to talk about about at least the draft not of a board policy but what the expectations are and then having Dr Slovak talk a little bit about some of the PD that he did but I think you'd really love to hear from some of the junior high staff um and the impact he's made in their classroom and then the year after is then we

056can get a you know follow up on this point 6 and the change in the librarian's role to say is it impactful again and if so then maybe we expand it to the elementary or maybe we consider this isn't the impact position we had hoped it would be I like to back I like the idea of the presentation of of the outcomes and particularly like the AI I mean you talk about cheating what's that gray area the other aspect of AI I'd be curious if this works into the the curriculum or the program or whatever is teaching kids critical thinking when they're using AI I use AI every day it doesn't give me 100% right an it often gets me really close and then I spend 30 minutes going that was the wrong that line

057there in Step number three was wrong and say hey that's wrong goes oh are you using version X yes okay here's the right answer right of teaching kids how to use a tool like Ai and have that critical thinking on going it is not you know 100% correct ever or many times so um it'd be interesting in in part of those presentations how the curriculum on AI is and I think I've gone to a lot of presentations on AI I don't think anyone yet knows where it all fits in and so in many ways to me it feels like when computers first came out we talked about computers and we're getting computers and computers are going to help instruction and we didn't really know what it was going to become and and how critical and

058sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't and I think we're at that beginning stages with AI so it's not all about AI but I do think we need to have some in-house experts to be able to walk us through how we can use it in a way that actually improves instead of this thing we fear cuz kids might cheat kind of like when the internet first came out I think even beyond that that position can be critical to evaluating the instructional platform that's used at the high school make sure that that's compatible with colleges and what they're using so it's just amazing some of the things that you see now it is a huge tool we currently use for teachers developing lesson plans um being able to say this is what I want can you

059come up with 10 questions about this um in terms of and I know there's some legal issues with this now but in terms of putting a lot of information together and maybe getting a first draft of an IEP because part of that is just taking so many you know separate pieces of information so it's never allowing AI to create and that be the final draft but I do think it's really getting some of our kns back in terms of being able to create something or at least getting a first draft of it so we would appreciate your support um with seeing the decrease uh in English as much as I'd like to bank that money I do think the staff is asking for us to support them so that students don't pass us too much

060with technology and we think embedded professional development is an opportunity but we'll bring more information to you when we actually find the person so that you're comfortable that it's not just filling a slot okay um regarding the junior high the minor changes that you see there are to support the additional students that we're having coming over for sixth grade next year so you'll see an increase in the core math English literature um they're able to manage science and social studies with the current staff um so that's the plan there we will decrease a point 2 math intervention position um and and fill that with the math the for the sixth grade so um we also have a 6 English person that we will bump up to a 1.0 FTE to cover the new um language

061arts and literature class so it's an easy fill for us any questions on the junior highight question um that was where my question was at but that was before the chart got fixed so it looked like we were just taking off point two of math but it's being offset by math so it's fine um the last is Elementary obviously we've been uh managing the elementary increase in sections over the last few years we are anticipating a decrease in kindergarten of course that will be watched as enrollment happens over the summer and um if if we need to add that six section back we will certainly be coming to you but we're we're predicting that we'll be able to go um five sections in kindergarten and first grade but that bump we've been um working with

062is now going to be in fifth grade so we're still down one section as it as it stands right now at the elementary um and managing um that larger class at fifth grade and so a total of a minus point4 FTE as always we will continue to watch pair of professionals to see how IEPs come in and what's needed for students in that and obviously kindergarten is something that we always have our pulse or finger on the pulse on that one so nothing crazy this year which is great any questions okay I I just want to make sure I felt like there was some questions and maybe I missed you address um the difference between enrollment at a building oh that's right did you want to talk a little bit about that um there are

063many many questions about the Staffing the numbers on the Staffing report versus the enrollment report so the enrollment portion is students that are enrolled in the district so they may be in assd program they may be in um other programs that are not housed in our district the Staffing report accounts for students that are in one of our three buildings period so then we always do have some extra students that are in out placements so that's the difference so I do think we got a lot of questions that said on Linda's report why is that a different number than the enrollment report and you'll see in the totals there was a number that was what did we label them as um inhouse and that's a total and that's the number you would see on Linda's

064report excuse me and then outplaced would be if students had to go to sasset or a private facility and so that's why if you just picked up on the highlighted yellow number and said why don't those agree to Linda's report that's because Linda's is just in house there were some also some questions about why do we think ly Elementary is going down in the number of students and you can see on one of the attachments that preschool starting to settle we don't know for sure it was a small amount this year and so that rolled into first grade and so it's really seeing kind of the bubble we lived starting to to make its way through the rest of the organization um we don't know if this is the new trend but we do know

065it's going to be a lower first grade and a lower kindergarten as part of the recommendation to bring those six sections in kindergarten first grade down to fifth grade we'll keep looking very closely at kindergarten it seems like even this year's number was lower than last year's number a year ago but we'll look at it very closely in the summer I don't remember off the top of my head but we do have a number that once we hit that number that's when we'll add to the to the uh six section for kindergarten and then on the flip side as we talked about that bubble as Linda pointed out fourth grade was a large class now it's moving into fifth grade so that's where we add a section so two sections down kindergarten in first grade

066one section up in fifth grade for a net of one but we're not bringing you an instructional coach to fill that one so okay well 8B is our overview of mckin vinto and homeless students support programs turn order to Dr law this is um a followup from last year um last year I did a presentation and you guys said you wanted to have more information each year so I try to do a little bit different um cover some different things one of the topics that I hear a lot is our numbers have gone up so much which is true they have gone up but so have all of our surrounding districts um so I sent a survey out to all the mckenny vento aons in DuPage County so every school district's required to have one

067um I asked them for their current mckenny vento enrollment number and their current District total enrollment um most of the people that I um reached out to responded but not everybody so um on the sheet that I presented attach the one that looks like this it's got um they're in order of percentage so you can see at the top the hensdale 181 they have three students that are McKinny vento out of 3531 students so 0.1% of their population and then all the way down um for the school districts that I didn't hear back from I was able to get their most upto-date numbers and keep in mind these numbers change every single day but um every month the regional Office of Education will pull the numbers so if I didn't hear back from somebody these

068are updated from within the month and then on the total District enrollment if I didn't hear back I pulled those numbers from the December one count that we do in special ed so um so some of them might be a little bit off but overall they're pretty close so you can see the highlighted line for um Lyall we have at the time of this report we had 70 students with 1562 total enrollment which was 4.5% um so we've got the very top of 0.1% all the way down to you see West Chicago 33 at 15.3% so there is quite a difference um among the districts and um I was trying to look at like is there something that has to do with maybe the median income or but you can't really pull that by School

069District at least I haven't been able to figure out how to do it um you know because they're like if you look at Lyall not all Lyall goes to Lyle right so some of them go to down so that was didn't really help but it's not also about the the median income there are other factors so one factor might be like in Downers Grove they have that whole hotel on Butterfield that has been converted into a pad's homeless shelter so all those students that live there they have the option of going to school in Downers Grove or they have the option of staying where they were um if I would have thought about it when I sent the survey out I would have asked districts to also tell me how many cost shares they have

070so if we have a student who let's say they Neighborville 203 is where they were living when they became homeless then they um are doubled up or whatever in our district they have the choice to enroll in ly or they have the choice to to stay where they were and if they decide to stay where they were then we have to provide transportation and we split the cost with the district they're enrolled in and the district they live in so we split that 5050 and that's called a cost share so Downer's Grove has in just in that one housing unit there's over 2 students that live that are all homeless that live in that apartment complex or the hotel the pad shelter so um we've had students there in the past that we've done you

071know the casare with District 5508 and 99 um they don't have a choice they have to to share in those costs um and then there's a chart a graph that goes along with that this one that one shows um the enrollment over the years in our district and then the last line where it says 2425 with the asteris the at the time of this report there were 70 students in District that are mcken vento throughout this year just this school year we've had 86 so there's a lot of coming and going there's some students who've been in the district for years who then become homeless for you know a variety of reasons and they want to stay here and so they may not be living in our district and we might be doing that Kare

072with another District but we keep them as a Lal student um there's other students who you know move into the district and move in as homeless because they're moveing to either like a Catholic Charity's um shelter situation or doubled up with somebody but every single family that comes in that um if they have trouble producing the documents that they need for registration they usually get routed to me and then I work with them and if it turns out through the um process of um you know we have to go through trainings and there's a whole process you go through with the families and after those questions if it turns out that they are eligible for mckenny vento then I'm the one that helps register them and I meet with those families every single year so

073we're required to meet with them every 18 months to verify if there's still McKenna eligible but I meet every year at the start of the school year um let's see um there's another chart um I was asked if there if we could look at the breakdown by schools um so there's the second upload that I just uploaded tonight the one that looks like this that shows from the 1920 school year through now and um the number of students total the number that were at um ly Elementary which is prek through 5ifth Junior High and then High School to transition so that includes our transition Aid students so you've got the number of students plus the percentage for that year now thank you for adding that I was wondering if there was a bubble or how

074this works these numbers completely confuse me because there doesn't seem there's no pattern there's no pattern even the increased size of the elementary school it's disproportional and then it suddenly like drops in junor high and then goes away you know up it doesn't and I think kind I touched upon that the transient nature of some of this it's just going to be random somewhat random so um I appreciate the extra work that you put together this some additional insight into the situation our homeless students yeah thank you there's we've had students who have been eligible under McKenna for years and then we have students we had one family this year a student was here for a week and then they're gone you know so there's a lot of lot of that transition so the um

075I think there was a question also about what kind of supports provide is that yeah I think just an overview I I I know one of our board members wasn't here you did an extensive report last last year but Paula was new to that so so the supports we provide are um most the the focus of the mcken vento is removing barriers so we want students to attend school we want them to participate we want them to be involved there's a lot of things that you know we take for granted like at the elementary school school they had pajama day and they do that for Spirit Week a couple times a year there's kids who don't have pajamas you know so I had a teacher reach out to me and be like hey we've had

076Pajama Day a couple times this my student hasn't participated I've asked her she said she'd like to is there any way we could get pajamas so I was like sure so I contacted the regional office because all the funding for it comes through the regional office it's none of our our local funds or taxpayer money it's all through the federal funds that we get through the regional office so I contacted them and I'm like hey can I get pajamas for roughly 35 children because there's some students who you know their teacher said they need them but then they have a sibling who that teacher didn't say so I'm like well you know if one child needs it they probably both do so I went to Target bought just a variety of um pajamas and met

077the nurse in the nurse's office had the teachers send the kids down we went to the bathroom they tried them on they got to wear pajamas for the day take those pajamas home so now they can do pajama day every time we do it and it was all funded through the Roe so it's lot of the things that we do it's the teachers bringing that to my attention you know we do the typical things like we do toiletries which is a an it's become this very impressive process where Jen Mink's class at the high school um is very involved they do the shopping they do the um the inventory and the categorizing and then if at the junior high or the elementary or the high school if somebody has a student who you know needs

078shampoo or body wash or deodorant or whatever we just let Jen's class know they put together a little bag we send it over and then they have it within a day so it's kind of like our own little like you know resource store and then Jen students you know keep inventory and when things get low they let me know we order what we need and keep things on stock so that's nice um we've done some other things like you know um we had a student who was taking culinary classes at tcd and she didn't have the black um non-skid shoes that you need which are like $35 a family didn't have the money for that so we bought those um we've bought sport a lot of sports things you know paying like either fees or

079waivers and then they might need the soccer socks or they might need you know cleats or they might need wrestling shoes we had a student who wanted to do cross country and we bought shoes for him he went to state so those things wouldn't have happened otherwise so a lot of the things that we do you know it's it's removing those barriers so kids can Excel and be you know participate with their friends and then of course Transportation which is um you know that's a requirement of what school districts were required to do and that's not funded through the Roe that's funded through us and it it is a complicated process but it's you know it's required and we know that when a student changes school's midy year they can lose the equivalent of a

080month of education so it's really important that we keep that the stability in their enrollment so great thank you Jen anyone else with that okay thank you no thank you again for putting this together I mean I think this being an annual report great yeah y got it on my calendar for next year and if there's anything specific you want to know just let me know and I'll pull that okay thank you again Jen HC is our Freedom of Information requests and those have been in the packet and responded to uh 8D uh public comment followup uh there was none from last month um and it brings us to 8e which is our superintendent report this is always so hard to write right because I mean in any given month so many things are happening

081I'm sure you're all on the emails that go out every single week from the uh principles and so what we ask them to do is highlight just a few um you know each and every month to be able to include in the superintendent report and so today's is three full Pages which I won't read to you but just kind of giving you a breath of some of the highlights at the elementary um fire safety is always an important thing I think we tell students time and time again but they really enjoy meeting with a firefighter and having that individual come out and walk them through some very specifics and so we're fortunate to have the relationship that we do with Lyall Woodridge fire department and so they were able to come out and work with

082our students at the junior high we had a lot of positive competition results our Science Olympiad did extremely well in the regional competi competition you we've listed there as to how many six fifth fourth and third and second places and so we were really excited with their performance but the the varsity team um for Science Olympiad actually qualified for the state competition and so we're looking forward for them to be able to participate and show their best and the April month I think it's at U ofi anybody UI fan here yeah it's at UI it's UI yesterday we have a huge ufi here fan um in terms of the um music competition liar Junior High symphonic symphonic man and concert choir both did really well they ear in the highest rating but um symphonic band

083actually got a perfect score and so I think that's pretty rare and so we're proud of our students performances on both groups in terms of the academic Excellence for those of you who are relatively new to having either high schoolers are being on the board I we we had a period of a time where we only had 10 seats and the students all fought for those 10 seats and that really didn't align with what we wanted as an organization and so we set a threshold that said if you can meet this threshold you know ideally we want every single student to be able to participate and so we're proud to see that 14 students will be joining us when we recognize them in the coming month actually it's I guess just over month it'll be

084May 4th and then a real special part of that is they pick the most influential teacher and their teacher actually talks about what you know they see in that individual and so I think most of you were able to come to that event we'd encourage you to come because it's just really great stories about teachers sharing about their students and then students why they picked you know who that person was and the impact that they made during their time period and it's not just for high School teachers it's not uncommon for a junior high or in some cases even elementary teacher to have had that big of an impact that carried through all the way to their high school years tcd uh we have our a team we've listed that uh eight students were recognized

085that tcd and so we're really excited about our students being recognized not only for the academic but also you know their drive and who they are as a person and how serious they take the work and so listed there as the eight students and then we got to meet deah tonight about meeting that state competition I know tcd does traditionally pretty well but she was actually able to be a great part of that team and talked about tonight about how you know impactful it is on her and how she sees that in her future which is always great to hear in terms of um the Iha ihsa congratulations to Sydney buelt who is recognized as the honorable mention with all of her work in all state Science Olympiad competition at the high school they did

086incredible too they're going on all Al with the state competition uh CTE recognizes uh on an annual basis those Educators that have stood out and so Mr bambo is our industrial technology teacher and so he was recognized through a combination of tcd and cood as being uh an outstanding educator and so we're fortunate to have him in terms of state qualifiers I won't read all of them to you but you can see we have boys wrestling girls wrestling bowling basketball skills and deca and so I think uh for a small as we are we've got an incredible group of students who are really showing what they've accomplished at each of those individual type events and then the High School Musical Mean Girls uh mixed reviews it sounds like however I think uh it was really

087full I think most nights I'm always amazed to see what a professional performance those young students were able to make no matter what the script is and so um it was really a great event and then District the coral Festival was held on March 12th I think many of you also there I take such Pride when we're able to do these districtwide type events it's so often on you know grade levels but that's one of those events that we were able to bring you know from early on Elementary all the way through high school they perform you see kind of the the scaling in terms of how or sequencing how they grow over time but then when you have those final performances we're all on the stage together I mean it's just an amazing amazing

088event and then um one of the things I didn't include cuz it's still somewhat of a a work in process uh many of you have probably heard because I think we notified you we had a an event with a p student about two weeks ago who actually was having trouble while he was in PE class and so with had three of our staff um Maggie Pell was the nurse Rebecca chapeta as our PE teacher and Jason lumon stood up uh to what we needed at the time they worked together as a team and provided CPR to that student until we could actually have the ambulance come even Beyond them um just recognizing how the staff all pulled together everyone had their role we've talked about it regularly but then when the actual emergency happens how

089much of it do we remember and everyone knew all right do this with your students take them here it was a very um a day that could have gone really bad but wonderfully everyone pulling together and the ambulance uh getting here as quickly as possible really made a difference in that young man's life and so um the three individuals who were most involved with the CPR really don't want the extra attention but they've authorized us to have the fire department come out this Thursday and so I was hoping maybe the board president if you're available um Mrs Alman could join me and then the fire department at 10:00 very small not in front of students not in front of the staff but just recognizing that you know in a day that we really needed people

090to step up they were willing to step up and do the best things so um we'll be recognizing them this Thursday again very small event just hand full of people uh at 8:00 this Thursday in the commment but we're just so fortunate that we had the right people in the right place at the right time who had the right training and then the rest of the staff to be able to support and in the end um everything turned out the best that it could have been and the students doing quite well great and I'd be glad to represent the board in that I know everybody would appreciate that so thank you thanks for that update well thank you and that concludes my superintendent report excellent I just want to want to add one thing for

091the science Olympiad that it was at COD and both the senior the high school and the junior high were there and I was just very impressed with how the high schoolers and the junior high students interacted lots of fun lots of mutual support just really those high school students really shined and I kept hearing stories about how fun the Junior High kids had with the high schoolers which I just thought was one of the remarkable Parts about that event I thought it was really neat they were in two different locations like they didn't know each other's room or whatever the high school students um came down and found the junior high students and they were helping them with projects and answering questions they were kind of mentoring them and it was just really neat to

092see them take that initiative and do that and also the junior high and high school both they were just so well behaved it was just really great to see them put out such a good um positive view of Lyle so I think the coaches and teachers are doing a really great job and there both their best cheering section for each other that's great well those are great stories thank you for sharing excellent thank you thank you all right our committee reports item nine 9A is the facility Master planning committee did not meet uh 9B is the finance committee the finance committee met at 6:30 In This Very Room earlier today discussed issues including food service and Technology terrific thank you uh item 9 C is policy we did not meet we approve some tonight we

093did approve a couple tonight so thank all right um so long ago yeah and one of the policies we approved was the uh the cell up update to the cell phone policy or an inclusion of a cell phone policy and um we may be hearing more on that Paula and I sat in a webinar uh from State talking about some legislative changes but it also May boil down to the fact that everybody's just required to have a policy so I think we've got a good start on that appreciate anything Paula you wanted to add to that or I think you captured that well okay great thanks all right item 9d is a vision 202 um you want to talk anything about that Keith sure I I think we've kept you up to date over the

094last few months of what we're trying to accomplish Eng but often the most wonderful thing about this community is our size allows us to have some real conversations and so we had taken a Break um during covid we had had some smaller groups we're trying to get a larger group conversation again we've got a wonderful group of um parents that are partner with us to give us some feedback as to how we could best set this next one up and the feedback has been just really focusing and on it being relevant not having something that we think people want to talk about and so tomorrow um we're sending a survey that lists around 10 items that'll go to every single parent that says what do you want to talk about you know narrow it down

095to your top three and so um after it being open for a couple weeks we'll look to see if you know three really stand out maybe five will then we'll have to Pivot a little bit but ideally if there are three that really stand out that most people would like to talk about we'll spend the first hour probably first 15 minutes just talking a little bit about the school district in general the things you would expect to in terms of Trends demographics finances and then based on the three things people want to talk about each of those topics will be about another 15 minutes devoted each so that'll be the first hour similar to what we've done in the past the second hour will give everyone who in attendance and we'll mix up the tables

096an opportunity to be able to kind of process what we said see if they have any additional questions see if you know what what direction would you like us to pursue and what would you like for us to look into next and so um the list will be generated from parents fee feedback um we'll invite um anyone from the community who wants to participate um we'll put that on social media if they also want to give us what their top three things are they can participate that way um just going right on line to be able to fill out that survey of the top three and then we'll also invite all of the staff they were a huge part of the the conversations the last times we've done this and so they won't be involved

097in picking the three topics but we're going to ask and encourage everyone if they're available to be part of those conversations cuz having somebody who's actually an employee sit at the table and give some of their perspective as saying at firsthand really add to that conversation and we're tagl at what what's next you know we need to figure out what's next for L 202 it doesn't mean anything that's talked about there means we can do something about it but we definitely are looking for blind spots and would like to know from people like what's next what would you like to see from your school district any questions or additional information Greg Pam you're both on the committee helping behind the scenes put all this together things in addition to what I said you'd like to

098share no I think everything you covered everything okay good job thank you and just and when that's all done I just want to make sure I'm understanding this then there's like an open community meeting like we used to do and everyone's welcome so on April 29th everyone will be welcome to come so be one of those we're just trying to figure out what do they want to talk about and so that's where we'll have hopefully three topics that people want to come and want to talk about and that come and say oh I didn't realize that's what they were going to talk about so everyone's invited okay I just saw parents and staff I just wanted to make sure it was like all Community M all Community member will be uh invited we're going to

099send a postcard if you have a mailbox you'll be invited to the conversation and then if you have social media you'll see the opportunity to fill out the survey it's just it would take too long to send every some person a postcard and then a QR code and then get the information back we think you know you know sending the email and putting on social media will give us a general idea what people want to talk about but again if you have a mailbox you'll be invited right thank you for clarifying good summary thank you all right uh item 10 10A is our home and school organization the hso council meeting minutes are uploaded uh 10B iasb delegate to board um Dan did you have anything or um to start I think we are now

100going through doing our ISB recognition so I'll be starting that work which is a report we do or a submission we do every two years so two years have flown by very quickly so we'll be working on that with a later presentation I think we'll share later um the other thing we had our division meeting on March 5th and it was myself Pam who am I missing Kate was Kate uh Paula Paula thank you and so it was very interesting uh the keynote speaker was very interesting um Eric I foret his last name but it really discussion about some Trends and how they're looking at college and uh work study programs in high school it was a very interesting presentation okay excellent thank you um I just add that Paul and I uh participated in

101a webinar on uh advocacy ambassadors and uh that was on March 14th and uh um we we learned a lot about legislation and uh what's pending we didn't actually learn a lot about being ambassadors but nonetheless we have that background Paula if you had anything to add I just thought it was very interesting that like the emails that they send out is like a nice digest of what bills are coming out um for us to be aware of as they will impact our policy and our decision-making but what they did then was share multiple perspectives on ways that you might think about how it's going to imp your district and of course every district is going to be impacted differently um by the legislation so it's just like a helpful I I'm going to keep

102going um and keep exploring and seeing if there's um things I can learn from that to support our work yeah they were very good that's what when we were talking about the cell phone policy and you know there were concerns about um safety security issues with students uh you know was it a concern if if students had their phones and just different things that are pending it allow students of course we had with uh someone's on a 504 or IEP plan uh they were also uh adding in elel students in there so um you know we get that's that's how we get the uh the end result I get is how it is so it was good all right the other thing just a reminder um May 19th uh we if you have that penciled

103in already that will be our new board member workshop and I think we came to an agreement on on 600 p.m. that evening um so we'll do other reminders as it gets closer but that will be with our new board okay um intergovernmental was our uh tenc did not meet lend met this past Friday and um Dr Philipp and I uh attended that call um those that information is uploaded in the packet ly Education Foundation did not meet uh sassad did not meet uh which brings us to item 11 on our agenda which is our board member recognition so um this evening is Steve lnc's uh final meeting on this side I would say of uh of the of the hill we we'll use it that way and I know I think I quoted you

104from before you want to exit with exuberance I believe you said earlier this evening I didn't say I want students but um the Steve is is on the board until uh April 1st is our election and so with the timing um he opted not to come back in April which will be our the uh meeting which we see our new board members so we wanted to recognize him I uh you know I we will say personally but I know as a board we will definitely miss you Steve and um I you know I look over you're always that warm smile that uh calming demeanor your thoughtful comments your uh educational experience and your expertise and I know you are always doing committed to doing what's best for all students so we appreciate that greatly and

105uh and appreciate all the time that you've put into the district we have some um some parting gifts uh for you lovely parting gifts I would say but uh one of the things it is really heavy that is one big paper weight it is and just flop it over there Steve but not over the laptops this is very nice Steven lesnak dedicated service for Lyle C 202 Board of Edge from 2021 to 2025 so we thank you for that thank you yes and we're actually you'll have to leave that and we will have that put in over by the high school for I think Dan wants to use it as a mouse pad right now last the other thing we have Steve is um a plaque for you a proclamation um it's it's our duty

106to to have a proclamation for you we'll call it Steve lesnak day we can call it whatever we want but um it this I will give to you Steve also and I'll read it out loud I'm not going to you are welcome that's quick plation it it is you know you'll probably want to put a loadbearing wall in your um but I I will read it um I've printed it a larger print than could fit onto that page but whereas Steven lesnak has served with distinction as a member of the Board of Education of Lyall Community Unit School District 202 from April 6 2021 to April 1st 2025 and whereas such membership requires dedication effort and unselfishness selfishness and whereas Steven lesnak has served as a faith Guardian for the interests of students parents staff

107and community members alike and whereas Steven lesnak served on the board of education during an important time in District 202's history that included supporting instructional shifts and expanding communication interventions and options to implement a remote learning plan and mitigation strategies and protocols to promote a safe and healthy learning environment during a global pandemic updating a district health and safety plan expanding datadriven instruction technology course rigor AP class offerings and seal initiatives adopting the I ready program to better assess student performance approving new Elementary and high school principles and additional positions to support learning and interventions expanding the roles of department heads and the communication coordinator implementing parent Square to ensure frequent focused and easily accessible information and updates providing consistent weekly principles me principal messages Sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. supporting Vision 202 small group

108discussions providing and reducing student fees securing multiple Financial grants initiating and improving approving a new board member orientation guide modifying pos position descriptions and the administrative compensation program initiating a job salary and benefit review and Analysis schedule transitioning a new District Maintenance team and adopting a new food service program integrating technology education sequencing and a shared agreement for management information technology Services utilizing a continuous Improvement framework to align districtwide work to improve student learning adopting new math and Ela curricula in a new literacy program providing additional accelerated learning options and dual credit opportunities expanding electives and extracurricular options and enhancing opportunities for career Readiness promoting academic excellence and receiving top recognition for school performance by the Illinois State Board of Education Chicago magazine US News and World Report and the College Board and the 2024

109Thrive award for a positive and supportive school learning environment reviewing a life safety survey and Facilities security and educational adequacy assessment updating a facility's master plan selling Tate woods and lacing Shure and promoting creative initiatives result for resulting savings and Investments negotiating for collective bargaining agreements appointing a new board member supporting School Improvement plans and recognizing students performance and growth in I results AP exams and PSAT and sat achievement updating board policies and supporting substitutions for PE and cell phone guide policy guidelines addressing Capital needs and a six-year Financial projection consistently achieving an uh the highest Financial AA rating for Moody's in the Illinois State Board of Education and promoting an overall fiscally stable District amending and expanding intergovermental agreements and Community Partnerships and approving an agreement to further Downtown Development and school use of

110village hall for district office staff and board meetings and whereas Steven lesnak provided outstanding commitments to the Board of Education as an active participant on the board policy Finance Junior High building renovation steering and facilit facility Master planning committees and as a board leaz on to the seal and Lea negotiation teams and Sid Board of control and governing boards and is in his contributions to the ly 202 Board of Education receiving its first iasb board governance recognition now there therefore be it resolved that the members of this board of education extend their appreciation to Steven lesnak for his service to the students staff members and citizens of ly Community Unit School District 202 thank him sincerely for his efforts and wish him everything fine and good in the days ahead signed this or dated this

11124th day of March 2025 thank you Steve thank you um uh when I started on the board someone said to me it's like drinking from a fire hose and that that fire hose hasn't stopped um I've learned a whole bunch um from my time on the board and and if things had been different I definitely would like to extend that time unfortunately life happens um but it's not goodbye I'll see you later okay so I I really appreciate all the things that I've learned all the relationships I've established and made and all the things that you've taught me it's really been a really amazing journey and I hope to continue it just in a different way so thank you I I my just the last thing I want to say Steve is that you understand

112the art of the pivot uh in both your personal and professional life and I think it's the professional life that you're making this pivot for and so I think you'll always continue to do that so we'll think of you as when we hear that word pivot so thanks okay anybody else have anything there okay well thank you again all right agenda items for future F board meetings item 12 anybody have anything that they would like to to add for future board meetings okay if not I will entertain uh item 13 I'll will entertain a motion to adjourn to close session to discuss the security procedure School building safety and the use of personal personnel and equipment to respond to an actual threatened or reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees student staff the public

113or public property so moved second may I have a roll call Mr Helder Le here Mr I'll take that with an i okay Mr lesnak hi U Mr nagler I Miss D Dominico I miss Foster I um Miss simses and I and U Miss Alman I okay we will adjourn to close session at 8:57 e e e