001for e for e e e spe for all right uh the hour of 6:30 has arrived so let's start this business meeting of Urbana School District 116 roll call please member Hixon member Staten yep member langendorf here member M Baxley no member Jones here president palowski here vice president aen here uh note that uh member Baxley is on vacation and missing tonight but he'll be here next week are there any additions Corrections or modifications of tonight's agenda hearing none like to move on to Citizen statements if anybody would like to make a statement before the board there are Golden Rod sheets in the back of the room please fill one out and hand it to Lori Johnson uh up we only have one so far and that's of all good evening um I just wanted
002to say that um it has come to my attention that there are some issues within the sped Department of um some changes within the district and I I can't really speak um I don't have enough information I haven't researched a lot of what's going on but um I I did want to bring to the board's attention that uh I it it it I I sat up here for many meetings trying to Advocate that that Thomas Payne is a sped school and it was designed not a sped school but it had the sped classrooms and it was designed and some of the comments that I've heard that were made um from admin is a little alarming to me that um sped is is kind of being dismissed um I just want to remind you that um
003there there are teacher shortages going on um I I've been working um with another District in the area um I am very thankful that we have the board that we do um Dr I Tatum you're always I can always call you and um Paul you you've always treated me kindly at board meetings um I think that some of these area districts are in a lot of trouble um one school in particular has 17 vacancies and sped so for us while Andie Franklin is working her butt off to get to recruit people there's another we have to be mindful that there's another area town that pays higher that is in desperate need um I again I just want to state that it was it feels like a switch and bait um Dr Iber Tatum I know
004I spoke to you and you were very you and I were very upfront with each other um of what what your intention was and that that yes you you you can't take away from your sped kids sending kids over to king um isn't a bad thing but remember that these kids some of these kids have bathrooms and laundry facilities things that we I I came up here and argued and brought to your attention of why it was so important and I just think that um there are some staff concerns there are parent concerns there transparency um I was just at a baseball a challenger League baseball meeting and two parents came up to me and said are they even going to honor our petition and so I I think that you guys have a we
005have a good board and and we really are a good school system nobody's perfect but um we have to work on this transparency and if if I had reached out to a couple board members and they weren't even aware of these changes we were under the impression that the five sped rooms were going to at Thomas Payne and if they need to change again I don't know the legalities I haven't looked all into that but I do know that Urbana is a good school and this is a good board and we have a great district and we have to be different than other local areas and and be transparent um with that so I just wanted to bring that to your attention and then when I find out more I'll let you guys know thank
006you have a good day you to Julie thank you does anybody else wish to make a statement before the board that doeses anybody else wish to make a statement before the board this evening going once going twice that's it for citizen statements um there will be no executive session after tonight's meeting is there a motion to approve tonight's agenda I move for approval second it's been moved and seconded all in favor say I I there are no commendations and recognitions or Communications tonight so let's move on to our first administrative report an equity Action Plan update from Dr Cathy so Dr Cathy's not here so can I have the clicker John I'm gonna start us off Dr Cathy's daughter um just in the last day or so qualified for some major track in field event
007um someplace in Illinois sorry I can't remember where okay so I am sitting in for Dr Cathy this morning so um if our Equity strand leaders Peter you want to at least come maybe just to the front row and I think dardo you're going to be presenting too for Dr Cappy want to come up then that way we can just already all be in place okay so um our goal for today is just a review I know we have a couple board new board members who are not as familiar with our Equity action um work in the equity action plan so um just recently our district Equity leadership team met for two full days with our facilitator Dr dubiel um and planned our year two um goals and objectives for the equity action um plan
008work for um 2425 our goal for today though is to focus on updating progress on the goals that we had set aside for this school year very similar to our schools have been doing and I'm kind of sharing the goals that they worked on this year and then sharing progress so um that is our goal for today we'll come back in the future um and share the upcoming goals for uh the 2425 school year so we're not doing that today but I did want to thank our strand leaders and um I know we have some other people here in the audience from the district Equity leadership team um who met for two full days last week to really um kind of go through our progress uh talk about kind of the state of equity and
009where we are and do some great planning work for next year so let me go through these really quickly those were our objectives I just did that sorry I'm looking at my screen instead of the big screen so historical Equity efforts so just to give a little history um I know member Hixon wasn't here and um last year when we had this uh similar presentation so just to make sure everyone and and our audience may be listening from home so um just a little history of urbana's equity efforts so in 1994 um we the district developed its first um comprehensive District plan around equity for um students at risk um and then in 1998 the district um went through a full um districtwide Equity audit process and a climate report was completed that was our
010last um initiative around completing an equity audit and Equity uh really significant Equity work so um from 1998 to 2016 the District of course and and very recently around um 2016 17 18 um there was a lot of work around um racial equity in the district professional development um we had a ratio Equity leadership team who hosted workshops at schools um at staff meetings we had people right here in this room who led a lot of those conversations to really bring our staff um um The Learning around uh Equity efforts um and most of that staff that was all kind of driven from within um with our own folks leading those professional development opportunities and then in 2018 the board adopted a racio equity resolution that was written at the board level and um shared
011um and then in 2021 uh the district formed an equity task force so we could begin to look at how we could more intentionally um break some barriers and um you just do a lot of the work that needed to be done to really um put all of our students on the same uh level footing academically behaviorally um for their future outcomes um so we had a a a very uh large group of folks 2021 if you remember was um during the height of remote learning so this task force started all remotely which was really interesting um meeting every month uh virtually uh to have these discussions and really have these really intentional conversations not in person and I think we were able to do that so uh I appreciate all the people who represented
012the work of the task force um one of the first tasks that the group um felt really uh passionate about was if we're going to hold people accountable to um to breaking down barriers and providing more opportunities we need to have language around that to hold people's feet to the fire so to speak um and so the equity uh educational Equity policy was drafted by the committee um it was sh kind of shared around the community we had it on our website for a couple years I went to a few uh PTA meetings um um and then we have brought it back again um for the uh board to hopefully approve it tonight as part of the um racial um uh the Press 114 language that we have around uh racial equity and our new
013policy language that the board is uh being um hopefully adopting tonight um then another big task for the uh task force was completing our second districtwide Equity audit and that was was completed in 2023 um it took us a while to find a consultant but um we were happy to be able to work with Dr dubio from systemic Equity um and she's worked with us now going on two years so um last year around the same time the group um the district Equity leadership team which included some original task force members and then some new folks um created year one of the equity action plan and we have been working on the the goals around that and that's what we're going to share out tonight so the equity action plan is an accountability framework to
014identify measure and sustain actions to advance Equity it is a collaborative process developed with District stakeholders and relies on systemic commitment to best serve all students so here are some of the members of the committee their administrators here um some District support staff district teachers couple parents um board members who have been part of this process and the five strands of systemic Equity so we started with five strands um systems teaching and learning student voice climate and culture professional learning and family and Community agency so those are the five strands that you're going to hear from tonight and we're just going to kind of go through and update goals of um each strand's work and share our progress so I'm going to start us off um as with the systems group Joe we melt um
015Dr we melt is our facilitator for the system strand he is with um several other uh District leaders and um teachers from the middle school and the high school at the Avid conference this week so he is unavailable to represent the system strand but Peter and I are both part of the system strand so we will um push forward on behalf of Joe so systems um to ensure a systemic and continuous development toward advancing Equity within all policies processes procedures initiatives decision-making and fiscal responsibilities so basically the systems group is the accountability group for our strand um for all of our work across all strands so we are responsible for making sure that the policies are being implemented that we've put structures in place to make sure that the people doing the equity work um
016have what they need to make decisions um and then we have put some Financial um resources um in place so building leaders who are um and our strand leaders who are doing the work um can do that and have the fin fiscal means um in order to make those goals happen so um this is the system Strand and again as I mentioned um Joe is kind of our leader and what were our object objectives so um a lot of our conversation the last two years has really been about recruiting and retaining specialized staff and continuing our efforts to diversify our staff we want our um teachers and our support staff members to uh reflect our student body so that's basically what this goal is all about so the measure that we um put in place
017was to monitor recruitment and hiring practices to increase and retain 80% of our current um specialized and diverse staff members so our progress um at the bottom here is kind of an update on um where we landed with this goal this year so for staff diversity retention data out of 419 staff members of color 92% are returning for the school year 2425 so that's amazing basically 93% um which is a huge celebration so that's awesome um hard to fill position retention data so hard to fill um is a term that we use for positions like Miss Deval just kind of mentioned our special ed folks right so special ed positions right now are considered hard to fill because so many districts have so many openings um typically um dual language positions are hard to fill
018um sometimes those specialist positions like social workers and psychologist and and roles like that are usually um hard to fill but for us uh we focused on special education and our multi- um lingual and DL positions um as our hardto fill areas of focus for this year and out of 117 special education and um DL ml staff members 91% are returning for the 2425 school year so that is also a great celebration another one of our goals for Recruitment and Retention was to um begin something called Affinity groups and Affinity groups are groups where um people um who identify and um kind of like-minded or just uh have a lot in common can form um their own groups away from Administration outside of school and um find ways to connect with one another so they
019can can um kind of form their own bonds around the work that they do in the district so we've worked hard to establish um we've tried um we've had an lgbtq affinity group that wasn't able to um meet as often this year we've tried an a Latina affinity group um and again these are led by um staff members not administrators so finding people willing to put in the commitment to uh kind of get an affinity group up and going has been a little harder than we thought it would be um so out of all of the Affinity groups that we really uh tried to establish the African-American affinity group was formed this year um and is really off to a good start under the leadership of Lonna Helm um teacher at Leo school she kind
020of leads that group and she's hosted a couple networking events um various meetings and typically about 25 to 50 of our um African-American black staff members have been attending that group so we're anticipating that group is going to grow um of course we want to make sure that we grab all of our new teachers and new hires next year who might um want to be part of that group but we're going to continue that as a goal and um really try hard to get some of our other um hopefully other Affinity groups up and going next year sure as we go whoops um I'm I'm curious africanamerican and black did that include African teachers it includes anyone who identifies we don't tell them what they are is what they identify as so yes that would
021be dangerous yes so our um you mean like our French teachers like yeah they anyone who identifies as black or African-American can participate in this group yeah it is a self- selected group good question any HR questions around this data that is here Peter fch is our director of I don't know if Peter's had a chance to come and present before the board yet have you been here yet Peter not officially so I don't know if you know this at the top of your head but you know 92.8 4% seems like an awesome retention number in do you know what the district's overall retention number is as a point of comparison so I don't have that data off the top of my head but we can get that for you um it would would be
022the same process that we Ed to gather the data we presented today to give an overall comparison um to the all for the district we can get that to you okay I'll keep going so I already talked about this goal our uh this was a goal from um the last two years to really Implement our Equity uh policy that was written by the equity task force and so that hope hopefully uh will be a goal that will be met after tonight and then another systems goal was to evaluate update policies data collection systems communication and instructional practices for barriers to access and full engagement for students so this is really our data goal like that our district leadership um will meet quarterly to review our data to uh look at progress monitoring look at our
023student achievement um and really drill down and start looking at those prioritized groups like our black students our Latino students our uh students with disabilities um our our multilingual Learners um and really make sure that those groups and all of our students um number one but because this is an equity goal um that our students who are um behind the achievement gap of their peers are also making progress so um data review during the 23 24 school year resulted in the system strand prioritizing their focus on culture and climate so um one of the areas that had we've talked about here at the board level too is discipline has been a struggle this year um classroom management has been um more difficult and so one of the areas the most significant area that the system
024strand spent a lot of time around was really talking about um consistency regarding exclusionary practices for suspensions expulsions um bullying investigations accurate data reporting um discipline referral systems and procedures so we just hit the tip of the iceberg in doing this this year um Dr Cathy was here earlier in the year and presented the uh state board um the fact that we were once again identified as a uh district with um too many of our black students being excluded and out of class um so that is another reason why this is a a big Focus for us is um the majority of our students that are out of class on discipline referrals or um excluded for suspensions and or and or expulsions are our black students and so um that is an area of focus
025for us it was this year and it will continue to be next year and then of course I mentioned this earlier sorry John has a new remote here okay so in order to do the work um we you know we often in our district unfortunately have to talk about having Financial Resources to do certain things so um um having money and having the uh advocacy support for our strands to be able to do the work that they are going to talk about here in the next few minutes I was really important so I don't know if you remember in our budget this year um Katie allocated a certain amount of money specifically for Equity action work I can't remember if it was 20,000 I can't remember how much it was but we set aside a
026specific amount um for things like um stiens for um to pay our uh ADT team members who do a lot of this work outside of the school day to um provide um financial support for our distri our strand leaders that may need to have a family engagement event or provide a a very specific professional development so um one of our goals was to make sure that we put a process in place where strand leaders didn't have to figure out how are we going to pay for this or how am I going to do this work um that we set aside budget money and funding to make sure that they could reach those goals and and um accomplish the task that they set for for themselves as a group so the next strand is teaching and
027learning and I'm doing this one too because um as you Dr as you all know Dr Norton has moved on and she was the leader of this group so um the teaching and learning group was a group um that was designed to intentionally embed equity-driven pedagogy and curriculum resources instructional approaches use and consideration of Assessments and academic programming for the purpose of advancing Equity among all students so this was the um teaching and learning group and their first goal was to create a develop a culum map and curriculum teams for each grade level that aligns to standards scope and sequence instructional supports rigor um cultur and linguistic uh pedagogy and practices and autonomy for Equitable resources so um as you know we've been doing a lot of curriculum work around our um implementation of illustrative
028math this year and then we also adopted a new uh English language arts and Spanish language arts curriculum so all of both of those are driven um by curriculum mapping and scope and sequence work moving forward and then their second goal was to provide opportunities for collaboration with monolingual dual language special education programs so if you remember when the cal um consultant came and talked to us about the Cal program evaluation one of the biggest needs um from the evaluation and one of the biggest needs we were hearing from our dual language teachers um and a lot of our staff members who work with uh our multilingual Learners and our students with special needs was just time for collaboration um having time across buildings across grad levels to be able to talk to one another
029and plan together was really difficult so um one of the things that uh was put in place through this particular strand was quarterly collaboration time across disciplines so these groups could meet to discuss alignment um the um um Multicultural leadership team um led by Lupe uh she created a districtwide team across buildings to meet monthly to address the implications and actions from the Cal evaluation so the evaluation had ve some very specific um action steps that we needed to take um as part of that program evaluation so things like looking at our curriculum engaging our families um one of the recommendations was to unify the Sham program into a one school so um the multilingual leadership team really met every month to kind of go through the uh programing evaluation and talk about the recommendations
030from the evaluation and how they were going to put those things in place and then of course uh one of our goals was intentional professional development for working with multilingual students and Scaffolding strategies for our teachers so um we often do that work through winter Institute um opening day PD and then staff PD sessions that happen throughout the school year so uh one of the data points that that we were able to pull pretty quickly is that on our uh winter Institute Day in February 592 staff members participated in the multilingual strand work that happened um as part of our professional development at winter Institute which is a great number did it move okay examining root causes of lower performance of African-American and Latino um students our elll students so this is data that we've
031talked about a lot here lately we've talked about our map data we've talked about sat Panorama um so really the group was talking about what are some of the what why are our African-American and our Latino students performing lower than their peers um their U white and Asian peers so um John is going to share some of this specific data points um but just a few of the root causes that were discussed were um really taking time to use data to communicate with staff about disparities and learning um and that all of our students learn differently and not everyone um learns using the same modalities and that's something we need to really help make sure our staff members understand that um using uh data to drive our decision making and our school Improvement goal set
032setting um for the future really making sure we're making data driven decisions um using map and also involving students in that process so there's a goal setting feature in map where our students can engage around setting a goal for their own learning um so that's something we they uh talked about doing and hopefully we're going to be doing that more next year and then um professional development at K5 612 um around uh language arts and math specifically around um working with struggling students who are part of those high priority groups um of African-American and M Mo so John is going to kind of just share some of the progress data from this particular goal yep and some of this data is some of these you might have seen before and some of this is uh
033brand new uh for the last couple weeks uh these two graph here uh show the uh number of third grade students we often look at third grade students and ninth ninth grade students is kind of consistent benchmarks of where our students are performing uh so on the left you'll see the uh third grade students reading below proficiency and the number for black and African-American students is 94% so almost the entire cohort of third grade students uh Hispanic and Latino students is a little better at around 75% sorry 85% for black and African-American uh this is compared to uh white and Asian students who are right around 45% uh for each of those so just highlighting the uh kind of achievement gaps there uh on the right side these are uh fresh from our uh PSAT
034uh test that students took earlier this year uh and these are if you're not familiar with them uh box and whisker plot so that middle Orange Box is kind of the middle uh 50 percentile uh 50% of the students and where they performed on the uh PAT test and then the two uh top and bottom whiskers is where the other uh 50% lies so as you can see again uh white and Asian students uh the achievement Gap is fairly significant between that uh and Black and Hispanic students uh also have a little narrower uh kind of band of achievement there do you also have the aggregated numbers as well not in the I mean I appreciate the disaggregation we have to have that but for comparison purposes having the aggregated numbers is useful I do
035uh I'll get that it's in a different Excel file but I'll send that to the board as soon as we're done here thank you also um is this reading test for third grade in Spanish or is everything is in English uh this is reading for English and I believe this also includes uh this this is not include the Spanish reading this is just the English reading we have a different graph for the Spanish reading uh that includes different schools but we have that as well so for the uh the lingual program how is the the kids are test the third grade uh they take the for third grade they take the English and the Spanish reading test we have both of those scores to there is a way to compare because obviously they're probably predominant
036Spanish in some cases so there is a way to compare it that is like how they are doing comparison language yeah and I think at the last board meeting we had the Spanish scores also uh and I can probably pull those up for you uh it's still there was still kind of a achievement Gap even for the Spanish scores there thank you so this is uh third grade math uh this is pulled straight out of Illinois school report card uh if you guys haven't been in Illinois school report card it's a great uh resource for lots of data uh student achievement and District data as well uh but again this is showing Black and Hispanic students uh and this is the uh green is performing at or above grade level and the yellow orange and
037red is below grade level so again uh really some con areas for concern and growth for the math I results s sorry uh so this is the uh so this one was the shoot okay this is the achievement uh if moving forward to the growth this is again as we highlighted last board meeting uh the growth you want them to be above 50% to be kind of catching up uh for the percentage of growth achievement for growth uh so this is Ela and compared to the state which is at 16 and 22% uh our black students are at 3.4% and Hispanic students are uh 7% this is I so this is just English uh test for ELA uh for math it's similar uh compared to the state which is 47 and 48 respectively uh the
038black students are having math growth at 38% and Hispanic students are at 40% uh and then this is just kind of one more way to look at things uh this is similar uh this is the same exact data for third grade ELA but this is showing the kind of achievement Gap uh built out for our students in the kind of beish uh versus the state so some of ours the achievement Gap is actually lower than the state uh achievement Gap caps for white and black students uh but our performance is also a little bit lower than the state uh so that makes the achievement Gap slightly smaller uh sorry uh yeah so and then at the bottom this is comparing uh the achievement gap for white and Hispanic students uh and you can see those
039same numbers there and that this is showing the progression uh over the last five years so this is the same chart for math uh and it's similar it's actually been getting the achievement Gap has been going down over the past five years but also the uh total achievement has been decreasing over the last five years as well uh and similarly for white and Hispanic students at the bottom so those are that's I think just to illustrate some of the why that we're doing this work and some of the data that we're focusing on uh we look at the data fairly regularly we do map testing three times a year which is very important to be able to track and identify and provide supports for students who need it uh as early as we can so
040okay thanks John so yes as you can see from our data dig our little brief data dig that we just walk you through um this is why we're making so many significant changes for next year is we really need to do some things differently to help all of our students um be successful so moving to the next strand I'm going to introduce um dardo Williams he is um representing the student voice climate and culture strand he is um our lead student engagement Advocate um from Thomas pay so I'll turn it over to dinardo good evening um this strand was the student voice um climate and culture Strand and it was created to consistently seek students feedback and experience experiences on organizational culture and climate and these are the members our strand leader is Dr cfy
041Who is outgoing as the Director of diversity equity and inclusion our objective was establish the student Equity advisory committee that was our first objective and those are the measures we um data Min through panoramic Panorama surveys um we compiled a list of current and needed Affinity groups one of our big goals was to hire and um designate the minority enrichment program coordinator and or affinity group coordinators and that was done um identify Equity advisory Comm committee student structure and identify the group members and to create and develop a comprehensive resource list um most of the school buildings have uh comprehensive resource list um our results were students at ums and UHS that's the middle school and high school were surveyed during the fall semester to assess their interests in serving on the student Equity advisory
042committee and which Affinity groups they were interested in establishing or expanding the high school student Equity advisory committee was officially formed and met regularly during the year after the new minority enrichment program coordinator was hired the UHS student Equity advisory members also met with the District parent advisory committee to discuss safety measures at the high school and with the hiring of U miles Roosevelt he oversaw the student Equity Advisory Group as well as other Affinity groups and provided them with opportunities and a safe space to voice their concerns but also encourage them to volunteer and provide service throughout our community so that was pretty good um go develop positive connections targeted at black African-American students and students and or students who qualify for free and reduced lunch uh in parentheses economically disadvantaged um we looked
043at the discipline Improvement plan graduation Dropout rates and attendance rates the results were um the internal manifest mentoring program was expanded from four to five buildings with more than a 100 African-American males mentored on a weekly basis they were at Thomas Payne Yankee Ridge Dr Williams King ands one student at Leo was also in the program the attendance rates for those mentored improved more than 20% over the course of the year suspension rates were also significantly reduced for the mentees from the previous school year and I can attest to that due to this mentoring group at my school and a couple of the other schools because I'm in all the buildings um the kids attitudes has changed toward school um the infractions that were occurring became less so I think they thrived because of this
044program however we would love for the program to continue but with the departure of Dr Cathy some reorganization and structural changes will need to be in place for this to happen however I will do whatever I can to make sure that our boys are getting mentored by someone that they trust and see on a daily basis thank you dinardo um next is uh Mrs yava Smith our director of professional development good good evening I am going to cover the professional learning strand the purpose is to provide a Continuum of professional learning and growth opportunities for all staff in pursuit of educational Equity there were two goals underneath sorry I skipped the one these are our current strand members as you see and we are adding more for next year but we had two objectives and
045they kind of go hand inand the first objective was to provide professional learning opportunities for all staff and the second goal objective was to review professional development Frameworks so out of our Equity audit it was very clear that we have staff members that opt out or opt in for certain professional development now we believe that all of our students matter in all of our districts just as well as our staff so to ensure that all of our staff received training on multilingual and also lgbtqia what we do did first at opening day we had a whole strand of just multilingual sessions so everybody had to sign in it was in person at Urbana Middle School then also we had a lgbtqia strand and it was in person as well and that was facilitated by our
046lgbtqia task force members our local committee okay at winter Institute we were able to do this again so we provided two opportunities districtwide because we wanted to make sure that they didn't just receive train once but that there was some type of continuation so at winter Institute we had um the welcoming schools and they did all of the sessions for lgbtqia there were sessions for Early Childhood through fifth grade secondary and also for our office support staff so it was catered to whatever their role was we also had a strand of multilingual sessions and those strands were either from the center for teaching for biliteracy the Illinois resource center and also we had Dr Lee from the University of California to do a session as well we wanted to make sure because one of our
047goals is to make sure we're bringing in engaging research-based um updated materials for our staff so that they can include and support all of our students and the point that we were trying to make is just because a student is not in a dual language school all of our students receive all support across our district so this was at Early Childhood through 12th grade initiative and we find that we were successful this year we did take the feedback that was given at all of the sessions we sent that feedback to all of our um all of our uh facilitators and providing them feedback on how our district received their messages as well we are currently planning right now with Dr iy Tatum on how we're going to roll out things for next year because we're
048going to do a continuation one of the things that was brought up um that we're going to continue because we're going to expand this year is we're we're going to provide more professional development opportunities ongoing throughout the school year this will look like having inquiry groups having someone come in and facilitate conversations but also through book studies um so there'll be several opportunities outside of this just the two districtwide venues we use our evaluations at every single professional development that includes opening day staff development days and also winter Institute to currently plan for our future and our on going professional development that we provide the last thing is this year we were able to include all of our staff in training and I know I mentioned that before under the title to when I was
049doing my U report for that but we can successfully say that we have provided a space for all of our roles in our district to receive professional development this year okay and last but not least is the family and Community agency led by our director of student and family engagement Miss Deion Webster I know I mixed the words up so you can fix it it's ever changing that's whatever you want it to be good evening everyone the family and Community agency um strand is to partner with families and Community for authentic opportunities to serve students school and District we are growing as well in terms of members we are actively recruiting role members so we have a few new members but we are continuously trying to add them just so that we have more voice
050and we want a variety of parent and Community Partners on the committee and the on the Strand so that we can meet as many fam's needs as possible our first objective is to establish an engaging community space that supports Equity this year we want to focus on maintaining attendance last year we did family cafes District wide we had four scheduled we changed the fourth one because attendance was just declining districtwide the first one we had 12 families the second one we had approximately nine and the third one we had four so we just weren't seeing the attendance districtwide but we have seen more attendance at the school building level so what we're going to do is keep the family Cafe model which is basically grouping people in small groups giving them conversation topics and they
051talk about them in small groups and the one thing that we saw even though we had small groups we really love the conversations that people had that were authentic and one of our goals last year was to amplify unheard voices so we had a lot of parents who came out that normally wouldn't and didn't normally feel hurt so they were comfortable in the smaller spaces in rotating so we want to mimic that this year in the schools we feel like people will be more comfortable in their home school so we'll do the same thing support the principles in doing that at the building level and then our goal is to hopefully increase attendance by five each family each um Community Round Table meeting that the schools have and five may sound like a small number
052but when you think about the school year how busy families are students are and going different places we think five is a reasonable goal to increase based on the attendance so if they had five the first time increased by five more and 10 everybody invite a friend principles do personal invitations family liaison do the same and we all work together just to make our families feel comfortable of coming into our school space we also Focus on we want to focus on um meeting with building administrators and using the family um School relationship Panorama survey data to determine where we need to go from here so we looked at the survey data last week when we were planning and looked at some of the numbers and decided these are the two goals that we want to
053focus on because we were very impressed that a lot of our families feel comfortable in the school spaces so we want to continue to make sure that they feel comfortable get more feedback and continue to focus on that our second one one was 5.2 was a new one this year is create a welcoming and inclusive environment that supports Equity again we want all of our families to feel welcome we know families looks different and we want to make sure that everybody feels welcome whether they're a parent a grandparent an uncle and Aunt uh sometimes we have foster parents Etc or just neighbors who love and care for our students so we want everyone to feel welcome in our spaces so the results are the same that we reviewed the Panorama data and we're going to
054continue to focus on increasing and the measure indicators that we're going to use for this one is the five essential survey data in the fall Panorama survey data in the spring and maintaining increase in tendance and we're going to work on possibly we don't want to over assess families but possibly doing two Panorama surveys that's something that we're working on one in the fall and one in the spring because we feel like we can't compare Panorama data if we're only doing one in the spring five essential survey data is in the fall but the questions are different and we did look at them the questions are different and just not giving us the data that we want but again we also have to be mindful of we don't want to send too many surveys so
055that's a work in progress at this time those are our plans thank you you're welcome so those were all five strands um and again we'll come back our goal tonight was really just to give you um a progress update on year one and again this was our first year so I I feel like we did a good job of kind of establishing some baseline goals um for all five strands and then we spent a lot of time talking with um Dr Cathy was there but also our incoming um new director of uh equity and student uh School Improvement uh chassid beas participated with us so we really did spend a lot of time talking about um measurable goals and now that we've kind of started the action plan using our uh our goals from this
056year as our spring board to now being able to uh dig a little deep and have more measurable goals for next year so I was trying to get back to all five strands so you can see that image so then if you had a question about one in particular you could ask so any questions board members any questions for any of the Strand leaders they have a couple for professional learning um when the teacher assistants also are getting um support and they are uh getting what kind of support are they gain te the oh the you teaching assistance you want to do it that's a very good question um this year we provided a variety of professional development we did start off with just par professional training oneon-one what does it mean to be not
057only a teaching assistant but also serving as a role in the school like everybody's role matters we also did on April the 19th which was the last staff development day we made sure that all of our teaching assistants received the content specific PD so if they were at elementary they attended the CCL or the Caminos training if they were at the middle school and the high school secondary level they receed the hmh training as well we are trying to make sure that all of our teaching assistants not only have par professional training but also that they know what content we're doing to as well and we want to make sure that it's inclusive um our last training we just had two sessions three sessions two weeks ago on co- teing and it talked about making
058people a part of the classroom environment like everybody is there for all of the students and having that working partnership are they also getting um some sort of training for being special Aid the special Aid U part so one of the things that we negotiated this year and our um our bargaining with the union and and our new contract is uh for the first time we've invited teaching assistants to participate in anything that we're doing it was new language that we added to the contract um because our teaching uh assistants are very capable and and um they want to feel like professionals right they they see the teachers getting a lot of these professional learning opportunities over the past few years and they wanted to be able to participate in that and a lot of
059the um School improvement work that was happening a lot of times was happening after school and staff meetings when the TA leave and they're not part of those conversations and so this year um we really um every teaching assistant who wanted to they weren't mandated to like some of them work extra jobs and need to leave leave after school but for those who wanted to participate in any professional um development that was offered at the building level they were able to stay and then be compensated to stay after school um to participate so oh that's good thank you thank you so much anyone else um can I ask um what does the minority enrichment program coordinator do and is that a full-time job is it an administrative job or a teacher that does it part
060you want me to do it okay yeah so that is a position we've had at the high school gosh for many years um it was uh implemented I think even when Matt Stark was there um and so it's it's a a position that was intentionally put in to um provide supports for our students of color so um making sure that they were had the opportunity to participate in specific clubs and enrichment activities and also uh providing a space for our uh students of color to feel like they can participate in higher honors classes and AP classes just creating a really rich um environment of learning across the school so that has been a full-time position for many years um we had a couple really Dynamic people in those roles who left and so the position
061has been open for over a year or two years we haven't been able to find someone and so um Mr Roosevelt is that I can't think of his first name yes so he's new miles so he started um mid year even I mean it wasn't even at the beginning of the year um and from what I've heard he's doing a fabulous job he was working at the high school in a different uh role and um saw the need amongst the students and went in to Mr Guzman and said I really want to do this work um and so he left the uh job that he had and moved into um the me job so yeah we haven't had someone doing it for at least a year and a half um so we're excited to have
062that person that can our students have a person they can go to that they trust that is um helping them Advocate the system and be part of UHS so they also do some college visits and different uh ethnic days as well so like nap it they would plan that they plan involvement they sometimes have assemblies um but I know they've come before the board before to help support even like going off on college tours and different learning activities good question um with all the online activities that parents can do such as enrolling their children at schools um perhaps they're not coming into the schools as often as they have in the past so what are other ways that parents can come and participate in the school day with their children um besides coming in in
063for a specific um family um engagement activity that you plan we have several different events during the day so like last year was the first year we had bring your parents to school day I believe that was in October so we'll do that again so there's different opportunities and parents can just contact the school some buildings have like a two-day they just want a two-day time period just to plan to have the parent visit and to make sure they have proper seating so parents are always welcome to go to the schools and visit they just need to contact either the community the um Mentor coordinator at the building if they have one or the principal or assistant principal to come in and there's always ways of lots of our parent what lots of our principles
064send um s'mores or family newsletters to keep parents involved volunteer efforts lots of teachers invite parents to come in and share information with their students about information so those are the main ways of just really reaching out to the school and finding out what they can do within their time because a lot of parents just can't come after hours which is why we're trying to change it and be more um flexible in that because we realize that work schedules are different and time demands are different so the main thing that I always say is to reach out to your school's administrator and find out where what's the best fit for you but we know that engagement looks different than just being present if your children are at school clothed fed homework is completed they're actively
065engaged and we count that as well it's just hard to quantify that so when you ask me for data I can't give you data on that but we do know that it's happening anyone else any questions thank you thank you very much thanks to all the Strand members for their work and for Dr Cathy as well for leading this whole effort next up are our student Improvement updates from the building administrators okay so very similarly to last um meeting we have all of our building leaders here to talk about their school Improvement plans um so if you remember these are just updates um they may talk a little bit about what they're doing next year but mostly the goal uh for tonight was really just to um update their current progress and um as I
066mentioned at the last meeting we're switching to a new continuous School Improvement um template um in consultation with the State Board of Education and our consultant who works with the district so we'll be bringing those plans back in the fall just wanted to say that again and um so tonight the focus is really talking about um their goals from this year and progress made so we're going to start off um tonight's focus is early childhood and Elementary and our new principal from Urbana Early Childhood Center Katie Madigan is gonna start us off all right I got it um thank you for having me um I just want to start out by saying I I watched the um meeting last time so I could kind of see what everyone else was talking about and I noticed
067that Jen ran um gave a little caveat on how their school um ran and and like um Gerber orbana Early Childhood is a little bit special um we don't operate under the same um the same ways that some of the elementary middle and high school students do um and so my um new school Improvement team um met together on May and we we really looked deep at our data and I just wanted to emphasize something that one of them came up with and I I really love that um we recognize that parents are the first teachers of our students but um Urbana Early Childhood school is the first school as we we kind of want to make that maybe our new motto is that we're the first school um so we kind of have to
068do some things special uh we don't H have our students take um standardized ass Assessments in the same way that everyone else does because it's just not really developmentally appropriate for three-year-olds to do that um so we have come up with some of our own assessments for um literacy and math because we do recognize that those are also um really important and that they're the precursor to learning to read and continuing with your math skills as you go along so our first goal was um increasing our student we we wanted to look at um vocabulary and so we took the Bame test of basic concepts three for preschool which has 50 items that um test words kind of like um your positional time and quantity Concepts and if students can identify that and we picked
069out 10 that we felt were um really important and so um we made our own checklist for our students and um measured these students in the fall the winter and then the spring and we were looking for students who were with us for primarily the whole school year had some pretty good attendance and if they could increase their score on this checklist by at least two um unfortunately we only we wanted all of our students to make that kind of progress but we just we didn't quite see that this year we saw 76% of them increase and 20 20% of our students stayed at the same number so they identified the same number of um concept from the beginning to the end of the school year um our teachers did utilize a system of assessing
070effectiveness of vocabulary instruction um students participated in explicit vocabulary instruction throughout their day um we identified these priority basic concept words like um outside empty um first around um and we felt these were developmentally appropriate to teach and assess for all of the age levels in our school um our teachers were using read alouds that were inclusive of um other languages and cultures besides English and um you student guided themes units and projects of instruction um also included this targeted vocabulary so our plan for the future is to continue to Target this vocabulary it's not the only vocabulary that we teach of course but it's just the one that we um are using to measure some progress on these skills um our second goal had to do with math um and again there isn't a
071standardized assessment for 3 to 5-year-olds for math um but there is something um called uh math right from the start and so our team took a um took that tool and modified it to and and really looked at what was one of the more important things so we recognized that counting rot counting 1 two 3 four 5 is important but connecting numbers to quantity is something that we felt was more important as they moved forward and so um we give our students this same three times a year um we give our students a collection of 12 items so maybe 12 blocks and ask the student to give us three give us five and give us 10 and and we're kind of looking to see if students can increase their understanding of quantity to the number
072um over the school year so the same kinds of um things were in place that we wanted the students to be there for most of the school year and have uh attendance greater than 85% um on this we also did not have all of our students increase but we still had 67% of our students increased their um connecting numbers to quantity and 32% stayed the same um our classroom staff learned and utilized a variety of strategies like counting commenting on numbers questioning to prompt children to think about quantity and number words um we engaged in several professional development sessions on number talks given to us by Beth mirors which was really really popular and um we saw a lot of our staff um licensed staff and Pa professionals using that in the classroom after that
073was provided um we did have Janet Moore come for professional velopment at the end of the school year she was able to provide it for um interested teachers and taas on June 3rd um and then this is another tool that we want to continue to um refine and work on for next school year because we still feel like it's a really important um skill that kids need to have as they move forward oh yeah okay so our third goal was um focused on social emotional learning so like the rest of the district we've um implemented um zones of Regulation at the Early Childhood level it's very successful with us um we were looking for our students to increase their overall composite score on a zones questionnaire and um this is a questionnaire that has six
074questions um that the teachers um look at their students so this is a a teacher um rating scale um things like expresses basic emotions or um student reacts appropriately to the emotions of others and so then the teachers were giving um each student a score from one to five does not demonstrate this skill up to five very capable and does this often and then adding that all up and um so we called that their composite score for the year and um we were hoping that all of our students would um increase their overall composite score on the zones questionnaire um 93% of them did um 4% stayed the same and we did see a little bit of decrease in our um a few of our students 3% so we felt like we were very close
075to meeting this goal um we have a strong focus on social emotional skills at Early Childhood because if you're not socially emotionally ready to learn then you're not going to absorb any of the other academic information um and so our teachers were work really hard on implementing Second Step um we did ongoing trainings for PBIS um continuous second step and zones of Regulation and a high focus on problem solving conversations during our weekly collaboration meetings and then our final goal was our attendance goal um our goal was that we would maintain a monthly average attendance above 80% for every U month of the school year and I'm very happy to say that we did meet that um we were at 82% or higher every month um 82 was the lowest monthly average attendance which was
076December 88% was the highest which was September and um it's encouraging to know that our average monthly attendance has been increasing over the last three years so in 2122 it was 81% 22 23 it was 84 and this school year it was 85 % um our we have an attendance team that works really hard and we've created attendance tiers of support um which I've actually shared with a lot of the other administrators in the district and I would credit that team with a lot of this improvement over the last several years we did notice that um 56% of our students are considered chronically truant so um I think that's hard at the preschool level because it's non-compulsory attendance we don't have to make up come um kids ages three to five are still building up
077their immunities so they're really sick a lot and they have to rely on their parents to get them to school they can't get there by themselves so um so those are just some things that we consider when we're we're thinking about our attendance and in our um school we make sure that classroom staff is connecting with families when a student has missed three consecutive days of school and so the teacher is the first Contact because they're probably the one who has the relationship and so that's part of one of our steps in our tiers of attendance support um we create individual Family Support plans when we're noticing that there's something consistently going on that's culturally responsive and then we were um highly utilizing and refining always changing and addressing our attendance tiers of support so
078I think I would credit all of that with us meeting that final goal sorry uh board members any questions I don't have a question I just want to compliment I know how hard is the job I work in there for several times and I know the teachers and teacher assistants are the happiest um members of the team that always are there to share up the families and the kids so thank you any other any comments or questions what um specifically did the team do in order to um help the families where there's some examples that you can share um so that their children do attend on a more regular basis sure so um we have a Spanish bilingual um Family coordinator who is um dynamic dynamic person if you ever get to know Nelly alkala
079you would just love her like I do um and she is constantly um has a Google Voice number so she'll notice that families are AR responding and she'll um text them with her Google Voice number she'll find out that a family is missing school because they're missing two shots and she'll work with them to get the an appointment to get those shots taken care of so um those are just little things our social workers are on that team so they might work with families to figure out housing which and transportation which can be a huge barrier um to getting kids to school um but even just like setting little goals was like hey you you were here your child was here two days last week can we get him here three next week and and
080just continuing to advocate for um for those improvements sorry I went too far John has very high tech tech so just want to make sure I end up on this on the right page there are only three buttons but if you click it too hard it'll go further than you want to be so good evening it's an honor to be here with you all tonight to give you an updated status of our goals um of course I know you're aware it's been a lot of talk about Dr Williams um being our Illinois intensive School through Illinois Empower um I have worked closely with our Illinois Empower schools coordinator throughout the year um in collaboration with Mrs Smith and Dr Norton and we have met with her um twice a month almost every single month until
081we were waiting for the needs assessment um from a um and we had we received that um in late May and we're able to meet then in June so when I come to you and talk about our progress I'm one here to celebrate and acknowledge the progress that we've made we did not meet all of our goals but we are Overjoyed that we are making steps in the right direction um and looking forward to the continued growth that we will have as we bring on our new curriculum so I just want to say while this is one update um I feel like we've come back and talked about our school Improvement plan the things that we're doing to support our staff with professional learning opportunities as well as what are our outcomes because of course
082that's what is what's most important is what are our students achieving what growth are we seeing so with all that being shared um I will kind of talk about some of the things we've done under each of these topics our first goal was centered around literacy and we were really able to focus and emphasize on seeing that our students met their growth projection while we recognize there are huge disparities not just in our building but across the District of our students being at proficiency we know that it's critical that we stop and look at are they making their projected growth we can't expect them to be at proficiency if we aren't even seeing the growth being impacted and so our goal from last spring was that we would shift from 20% of students in first
083through fifth grade um meeting their growth projection in English literacy to 35% and then seeing a shift um from 15% of students in the area of Spanish literacy to 30% of students meeting their growth projection in Spanish literacy as seen on our nwaa map assessment we were very excited when we looked at our data in the winter so I wanted to include this because you have to celebrate the things that you um are doing well and if there is a shift you cannot forget the celebration so I want to start when we put our data in the winter um we were're excited because we have met both of our goals and exceeded them um so I just want to shout out um our staff is really superb and looking at high leverage teaching practices ensuring
084that we're using utilizing optimal test testing conditions when we are giving these assessments because we recognize that there are barriers in testing if there are distractions and disruptions within the class so um in the winter our data was 38% of the students met their growth projection which was higher than our goal in English literacy uh English language arts excuse me and 39% in Spanish language arts unfortunately whenever we got to the end of the year assessment um that did have a decrease and we went down to 29% of the students um meeting their growth projections with English language arts so we didn't meet that goal um but we exceeded our goal in Spanish language arts of the number of students meeting their growth projection so while we didn't get there at the end we were
085on track and on target so we absolutely anticipated make making the goal but we recognized that there were other barriers um I could give some hypotheses we're going to talk about our attendance rates later in this presentation and I know that's obviously going to be your barrier um we have a number of students who are missing academic instruction on a regular basis we continue to talk about the amount of time students are spending outside of class we know that's going to impact how they perform on an assessment when they are missing those learning opportunities however um we are excited that we were able to really Implement um youly and Canon quintos uh which was a scope and sequence for both our English um phonics curriculum as well as Spanish and so that is something we
086adapted for kindergarten through second grade building wide so that we could make sure that we were continuing to progress um also being mindful that we were using a lot of resources and asking our teachers to pull together a whole lot of stuff to do a lot of great things with our kids so we expect continued growth because we have now adopted a research-based curriculum that will give us all of the components as opposed to us trying to pull them together so we do expect to make continued growth um next year and Beyond because we recognize that we have one started to shift our work into the science of reading um which we did this year but now having a curriculum that already has done that and has it outlined is going to take a lot
087of the pressure off of our teachers so that they can focus on the implementation of the curriculum as opposed to trying to pull all those resources together to get the best outcomes for our students we want to wait till the end for questions or is that okay okay I'll keep going we'll come back um related to math uh this is the first year that we utilize illustrative math as our adopted curriculum and so um we looked at really increasing our we set a very rigorous goal increasing the number of students who were again were meeting their growth projections um in the fall I'm sorry in the spring of 2023 three we had approximately 21% of our students who were meeting their growth projections and really wanted to see that move to 40% of our students
088knowing that we had a newly implemented and adopted math curriculum we were very very close to meeting that goal we had 38% of our students meet their growth projections um when we looked at that data in the winter Benchmark we were at 45% of our students so again we felt like we were on track we felt like we've met that goal we're going to get there in the spring but we did see some decreases and we looked at that for first through fifth grade students again um we were implementing our leer of math curriculum and utilizing our math practices walkthroughs to give feedback on mathematical practices but really looking forward to making sure that our professional development in the future is truly centered around illustrative math and while math practices are important and being able
089to have those math talks with our students we really want to make sure that our curriculum is something we're following up with staff on and how to make sure we're utilizing engaging teaching strategies with our students um there's a lot of discourse in illustrative math which is really exciting to see how our students can explain their thinking and what they're learning in math and so we just want to be able to continue to see this have improved outcomes so um could we have set our goal lower yes but we really reached for the stars and we were very close so we are excited while we did not make the progress we were hoping for we were excited to see all of the the growth that we did have um within the school year and we
090know it's going to continue to improve because now a whole group of students have had illustrative math for a year so we're going to continue to build upon that knowledge as opposed to trying to get them to learn the curriculum and the way it's structured for the very first time okay keep not when we look at social emotional learning um as we move into next year um we will continue to always focus on social emotional learning it's really um the heart of our work in education we believe in making sure that we're um planning for and supporting the whole child but as we move forward we will be focusing on uh literacy math and attendance so we will be embedding this work into our goals moving forward so I do want to say that as
091I come and look at our Panorama results just want you to know that we will never stop looking at what our students are saying and using it to move our work forward but we recognize that as a designated School we have to focus on three goals and the ones that are going to impact our designation are centered around attendance so we will embed social emotional learning into that because we know it'll be critical for our students to be at school we know it needs to be a warm welcoming climate that they want to be at so that's how we're going to kind of merge our social emotional learning goal into our attendance goal for next year um so with that we are also utilizing the zones of Regulation and we really wanted to see an
092increase of our students being being able to remain calm even when someone is bothering them and that's a hard skill even when we think about that for adults um we all get triggered we teach our students about triggers how to respond to triggers as adults we try to remember that we get triggered and what is our optimal way to respond to those triggers too so we really make sure that we think about what is our character trait of the month we have discussions around that we celebrate our students who are being recognized for character trait nominations each month we also look at our social emotional learning competen see so we're not just looking at the zones like this is our measure but there is instruction that's happening each and every day through our social emotional
093learning curriculum um we utilize Second Step but we supplement that within our morning meeting structure to make sure that we're also moving forward with the monthly focuses um and so we really wanted that to shift I made sure to go back and look to see like what were our Trends because we didn't meet the goals so what can I share um in the fall we started with 46% of students being able to remain calm when someone bothered them it went down in the winter to 42% and so while we didn't make the projected growth of 55% we did actually go back up to 48% of students being able to remain calm um in the spring when if you've been in schools in the spring that's also a challenging time so I think also our work
094is going to be able to help students identify wow did you see that you were able to stay calm because we're asking them to decide for themselves did they do that and I think as we continue to name for students you did a great job staying calm even though I know they were bothering you and I hope they will begin to be able to recognize that even more to have more positive self-reporting because we're asking third fourth and fifth graders to identify this for themselves so I think one of our jobs and the next step is to also leverage for them identifying that they're doing that on a regular basis because we did see that we saw increases of positive outcomes with students and really having social academic instructional groups to teach students how to
095respond in a more positive supportive way to peers but we need them to see that they're doing it and to be able to claim that in own like I stayed calm even though they were like Tippy toeing on my nerves so um hopefully we can get them to share that out in a more positive way in the future and then the second goal of course was that we could we wanted to be able to shift from 57% of students who were able to clearly Des describe their feelings to 70% it was a lofty goal um we weren't quite there we got to 61% of students being able to describe their feelings in the fall and winter um we were at a pretty stagnant 55% so we were happy that we were able to see some
096increases but also recognize that it didn't get as far as we were hoping so we will continue to work on making sure that our classrooms are inviting supportive we have calming spaces in all of the classrooms and so when I see a student who's able to ask for a break and go take a break or give a signal that they need to go calm down that's them identifying their feelings too so again I think it's helping make sure that our students can see themselves doing that on a regular basis as well I thought I heard somebody say something sorry okay and then our final goal was around attendance and um unfortunately we did not make this goal I know it's a districtwide um concern for all of us um we also really hope to decrease
097the number of students and percentage of students in our critical attendance area um category from 10% to 6% we were able to shift um down two students um whenever we pulled the data I think we pulled it in March but then whenever we looked at the data again in the spring we were right back at that 10% and a higher number of students so we were at 11% of students indicated in the critical attendance category um at the end of the school year so unfortunately we did not meet the goal um in March we were still at that 10% again not seeing the decreases that we had hoped for really looking to make sure that we're communicating our attendance policy because I think there's some misunderstandings um amongst families you know the parents call in
098and I think they think if I call in and it's excused right my kid has good attendance and so what we know from the state is whether it's an excused absence or an unexcused absence it's still an absence that's going to impact our data that's going to impact our learning outcomes and so when we look at it from that lens we kind of have we want them to call that's important we love that they call but we also want them to recognize we have to limit the days that the students Miss because it's going to have an impact on our on their academic achievement but also on our academic performance and outcomes within the school so um a huge shout out to the staff again our environments are welcoming supportive we really pride ourselves on
099being a family I adore the staff that I work with I'm still adjusting my mind to losing um some of our students families and staff that's hard it's a shift that is necessary for the program but even just thinking about it even though I know it has already happened I've adjusted my mind it is also emotional um whenever we think about that but so excited for what's going to happen for them in the multilingual building so I have to say that um but also really want to emphasize that we've done some critical work with our student engagement Advocate who has really sought out some of those most Trent students and brought them in and we found that a lot of it was around issues of like social anxiety um maybe not feeling connected because they
100started in our school at a later period of time some was latest fifth grade so really trying to Foster in on giving them that peer support group and we saw huge gains in their attendance and I had one family since kindergarten and the most I had ever seen that child at school was this year in fifth grade and the siblings um and some of the other grades and so just to see that yes she was still chronically absent but to know that she left our school with the focus of coming to school makes us feel that she will be able to have that continued trajectory as she moves into Middle School where it will be a little I think unfortunately easier to go unnoticed and the larger crowd so that's what we kept focusing on
101you're getting ready for Middle School we need you there every day and so I just want to highlight that sometimes the data doesn't represent it but the work we are doing everyone in the school is working hard from the time we get there until the time we leave we don't want to take anything away from that and we want it to continue to have positive impact on our outcomes and we do expect that to happen we don't want to come every time and say we didn't meet our goals but we also want you to know that despite the numbers not matching our goals we are really working hard to have impacts with our students and have continued Improvement thank you board members any questions for Miss Jackson I think it's great you still set high
102goals I my question is um so is is the um definition of critical attendance category 20% absences I was I'm just inferring that from the though yes so that's about how many days 18 18 days okay yeah so if once they've missed 18 days they're going to stay in that they're chronically absent and chronically Trent so we might get them on a positive trajectory and they could come every and I think I kind of noted this like several had increased attendance but they'd already missed 20% of the school year so we weren't ever going to be able to pull them out of that category but then we also had other students who were adding to that as well so yeah I'm sorry good question and The Chronic attendance chronic absenteeism is 10% as 18 days
103was yes oh sorry I said 20% 10% 18 days yeah so the chronic chronic aspma ism is 10% or 18 days anyone else yeah uh statistics can be confusing just because you had 10% and 11 % doesn't mean that they're the same students did you see some progress with some of the families or some of the students at the beginning of year did they make gains absolutely and that's what I tried to highlight because I do think you know we get caught up in the numbers but when we see a student or a family who now trusts us they reach out to us they're working with us we're trying to ensure that if the child says they don't feel good are we really digging into what doesn't feel good if it's not these things let's
104try to push through it and so we were able to really Foster that conversation with families and encourage them we still need you to be here can you come and try and then if something comes up socially let's talk about it we can call home but we still need you to stay at school so we did see um improvements in that and we also saw like I said the families were really calling to let us know which is huge we don't ever want families not notifying us as to why the students were absent and sometimes it does take having those meetings we have problem solving meetings to talk about what is going on do we need to explore some um mental health support are there really um medical needs so really trying to go through
105that process with the family so they know they're not alone in this we want to help figure out what's going on and sometimes there weren't um any physical medical needs but we really needed to look at that social support for the students and making sure that they knew we were there to help support them during the day so they didn't want to stay home as opposed to coming to to school where things come up I mean it's hard to be a kid these days and it's hard you know to kind of manage those peer interactions in a positive and constructive way anyone else yeah um and I'm glad you mentioned that so basically and just to you know go off of what you were saying you find it to be the emotional um aspect of
106it um and which that could be a lot of things cuz once they get used to staying home that kind of becomes the normal it's hard to break the cycle and not for all students there were some students you know who did have medical reasons some go on vacation that's still an absence it's great to go on vacation during the school year but it's still an absence um and they typically would not um come into chronic absenteeism but yes we want to make sure we're being mindful of that and supporting the family if those are the sit situations that are occurring so we can increase their student attendance absolutely thank you thank you thank you anyone else hello I'm Michelle Turner princip boy King so glad to be here this evening like the other two
107principles I'm here presenting our goals from this year our first goal was uh reading teaching and learning reading um so we're comparing year 2023 to 2024 so 95 out of 214 students met their reading projected growth goal which is 44% we achieved our goal by 12% that's a big hoay for King School several factors um that helped support this we changed our schedule um for the second semester so that the grade level bands would have reading or math and not at the same time as every grade level so that more support staff could push in or pull out um we also made sure that our uh teachers were actually teaching language arts Ela um for 90 minutes for each grade level um and we also had a family engagement workshop and we highlighted um five
108populations in our school we had African-American we had poshto Spanish Chinese and then we had another group other so that if they didn't identify with one of the four they also had a place to go and during this time we had several sessions where we um focused on teaching and having the parents learn more about what really what reading really looks like at school what does it mean when a kid is learning how to read or is able to read um um what do the scores actually mean on the maap test what could they do to um support the learning when something comes home um and so forth like that so I think that was those are the three major factors that helped as grade level teams grades one and two ex exceeded their projected
109growth goal which means an increase in academic achievement and in order to have academic achievement we must exceed the projected growth goals so for next year we know that our Focus will be on grades two three and we're going to add in four so that we can make sure that grades One and Two from this previous year are still exceeding their projected growth goals and then we can actually see for fourth grade how their projected growth will help impact the um academic achievement and so we are really looking forward to working um with the new by CA curriculum and seeing a lot more growth with our new schedules co- teing and everything else that's new in our district our goal to is teaching and learning math um 49% of our students met their goal may
110not seem like a lot but we are we achieved our goal by 1% 1% is like finding in your pocket like I'm gonna take it um so as grade level teams grades one three one grades K13 and exceeded exceeded their projected growth goal um so next year we already know we're going to focus on first and third and fourth and we're gonna add in second only because we had a substitute um in one of the second grade class classrooms and a new teacher who is not returning so we need to make sure that those students going into third grade is actually getting more of a concrete understanding of our new math curriculum um another factor that help with that 1% goal um is that I started going into classrooms during math times um and taking
111pictures and then showing the staff at staff meetings what's actually going on what does it look like when the kids are moving around in centers um at the intermediate levels too because a lot of teachers were like it's it's optional you don't have to do it but it's actually working and the kids are working independently they're very engaged in the learning so that helped um and so a lot of teachers were wanting me to come into the classro to see what they're doing during illustrative math so we are really excited about a year two with the lust of math and more growth that we can make um our goal number three was seal student voice um this is an area where we made a goal for supportive relationships but we did not make our goal
112for social awareness and self-management so um we just received our um five Essentials results so we're now going to see how we can pair that with our um oh yeah thank you with our um social awareness and self-management because can see how they can be Blended to see how we can improve overall with teachers and families and students so we realize there's a need for improvement in these areas so strategies we will use next year will include pan A playbook more of it so a lot of our teachers were introduced to it encouraged to use it but now we want to make sure that they're actually not just being introduced to it but hey how does it look in your classroom um intentional morning meetings so we had morning meetings every morning but now with
113the newal curriculum Pilots we're making it more intentional so that we are um gaining momentum in Social awareness and self-management okay our last goal is um systems which is attendance so the funny thing about our attendance is we were at 94% it seemed like forever and then we dropped and I think our biggest mistake was not doing something when we saw the drop even if it was just like a % drop so we went to 93 we're like okay maybe it's because it's the winter months and people are sick you know weather's bad um but then we ended up with um our yearly our end of the year attendance was 91.5 that was an increase of 0.5 but we didn't achieve our goal which was 93% so we are already in a process of trying
114to improve this now we have already received our um attendance yard signs that will go around the neighborhood I have already talked to Circle K um on Lincoln and Bradley um and at Dollar General so that the stickers on the doors can match our signs because a lot of our families frequent those stores um so our one of our themes will be um everyone matters attendance matters so that they walk in the door we need to see y'all at King and we're not going to wait until we drop and so yes just like uh Danielle was saying about her students who were chronically absent we did make progress with those students because I was calling home or driving by the Home their home and blowing the horn um to say I miss you at school
115hey where you where your kid at you know so um before they know when I was calling in the morning they go ahead and send their kids so I'd rather have them there tardy or not there at all um so that's one of the things we're already doing for our attendance um and we're going to make sure that the incentives are in place before the huge drops happens because we notice once the drop happened we couldn't go back up um and then we're going to be sharing attendance re research at PTO and community roundtables and involving our teachers a lot more um so I would like to thank our staff at King School um because majority of us are getting a hang of thinking out of the circle instead of thinking outside the box because
116a lot of times we were getting stuck in the corner of the box box but just like our continuous School Improvement plan we need to continue doing what we're doing that's great and just improve on the things we know we need to improve on and that may take a little more time but it's okay any questions board members any questions no no thank you you've done you've done a really great job here thank you good evening uh thank you for having me this is my last time meeting with you all so I'm very excited to be here but sad that I'm off to another start somewhere else um I do have to say that our staff did a phenomenal job with the with the the students making growth um throughout the the years that I've
117been at Leo I think that this was one of the most difficult years because everything comes to a head from uh being out with covid and a lot of our kindergarten students not being able to be in person so we did see a lot of the effects with it comes to their seal um but we really really focused on making sure that the students felt safe they felt welcome the families had supportive relationships at school whether they were with me or they were with teachers or other um staff members in the building so I do have to say thank you to our staff for pushing hard doing their very best best always communicating with with me when they were going to be absent always asking can I just come in a little bit late and
118I'm still going to be at work those are the kinds of relationships that we need to continue to Foster in orbana school district where a teacher does not feel like they're going to be penalized for coming in just a few minutes late if they're having an emergency I want them to be there you want them to be there the students need them to be there so when you have that kind of of a relationship as a leader with your staff I think it really shows not just in the data but also in the outcome that you have when you have family engagement nights when you have families supporting other families in the district when they are in need so moving forward I that would be one advice that I would give to everybody as a
119leader is continue to form those relationships with each other when you need each other and with a community because these students are are all of our students not just Leo students um so for our first goal we really focused on attendance um again like the other schools we were really um trying to be more rigorous we did see that we met our goal and at at the end of the start of the school year so we said let's bump it up to 95% well we all know that illness happens we all know that there are things that happen in families but we still did see an increase from last year from last spring of 2.4% so we weren't quite off um and we still had some growth from Spring to Spring from last year to
120this year year so although we did not meet the goal our attendance was still at 92.4% so that is a lot to be said for our families especially when they there's illness or there's vacations right and when you're in elementary school it affects you a little less to go on vacation than when you're in middle school or high school when you are really being accounted for for those um credits in middle school and high school and not that it's not important but our families do at Leo school they do tend to leave the country right for some of those things that they only get to do once once in a lifetime so we have to be supportive as Educators too that families have different kinds of needs and their life looks very different than yours
121um so we did put some incentives in place uh that were implemented throughout the school year uh for our chronic absenteeism so one of the things that we tried were having our sea do Lunch Bunch groups with our students um that needed just a little bit more support or checking in first thing in the morning with these students when they were coming in the other thing that I tried to do was to be visible in the office when some of these students were coming in later and saying thank you for joining us it's so nice to see you have you eaten breakfast yet would you like to come to my office and have a chat we can do breakfast together you know when you have those spare minutes dur during the day which are few
122um it's really nice that people take a little bit of time to actually see some of those students that are coming in a little bit later throughout the day um and they do feel more comfortable right coming in they're coming in late they're already embarrassed to come in late but if you take the time to say it's nice to see you let me get you some breakfast right um that makes a big difference in their lives so one of the other things that we did do also during testing dates was to give extra incentives to the kids our PTA was able to secure some uh gift cards and raffle them off to our kiddos that were present for each of the testing dates that their teachers had chosen um and these tests as we all
123know kids most kids don't like to take tests so we wanted to incen Vis it and give them a little bit of a prize or a little bit of a more reason to be at school during those times so for our second goal we focused on social emotional learning um and in the area of self-management specifically and as I was reflecting back on this goal I thought wow what were we thinking right what when we make this goal really rigorous because you think about it in the fall kids are excited kids want to be there teachers want to be there they're excited they're renewed they've had a nice I want to say nice summer because there are still kids who don't have the best summer when they're not at school school is their safety place
124and we have to remind ourselves of that we're all looking forward to having the summer off but some of them say no I want to be at school I want to be here with you right but we did make it more rigorous and we thought let's bump it up a little bit more for self-management so we did see an increase from last spring to this to this spring of 1% which is still great 1% is 1% like um um Michelle Turner said so it is great that we saw that that increase too but self-management if you think about it even as adults it's really hard to manage ourselves when we are having those High emotions and I can say that personally because it happens to all of us right so thinking about our students I
125think that if we are going to be um working on these goals more rigorous and saying we're going to increase it because from Fall to spring it looks very different kids are exhausted from being in the same classroom in the same space with the same classmates and maybe that same kid that keeps bothering them day in and day out right and they're like I don't know how to manage my emotions at this point I've been given advice but I still get mad right so it's our job as the adults to provide them with those um things that they need to be able to support themselves in a way that they won't need us eventually right by the time they leave fifth grade I'm hoping yay they're on the middle school they are not going to
126need me anymore well guess what they need us more in Middle School school and in high school because those are the toughest years in my opinion to get through um as a young adult so we did have uh student L expectation stations that were done quarterly by our fifth grade students and these were done uh by our students that were bilingual students too because then they would be able to speak to both students who speak Spanish and who speak English uh we shared the character traits during the daily announcements we provided um SEO lessons during morning meetings and we also um one of the things that Miss um oand did our uh previous assistant principal did she came up with a system of positive office referrals so instead of just always giving the kiddos a
127negative referral for doing something inappropriate or not correct in the school setting um we decided to come up with a system of how do we show that we are seeing their character traits we are seeing their growth right so hopefully more schools will continue to implement these across the board we were able to see 433 big being given out for the total of the school year and this was just our first year so this is something that I'm GNA pass on to the new principal of Leo I've already um I think they've already asked about Yankee Ridge also trying to implement it for next year too so that's something that um for the new principal to look at too to doing um we did have a lot of businesses who were able to give us
128gift um like gift cards for kids so they could go eat a meal there they could be recognized they got to sign their name on the VIP board they got their pict taken and they were showcased on the big screen in the hallway so it was a big deal for siblings to see each other out there on the screen every day um to see I made it on the board I mean I even had a kiddo who said what is it going to take for me to get a positive office referral and I said let's work on that right so um but that was one of the the most successful programs we've had we also did doe safety patrol which our students our older kids in fifth grade were able to um monitor our students
129outside and then get to see the old older kids doing something they might want to do too and we did kind of piggy uh piggy back off of uh Thomas pain so I do have to give them the credit there that we took that from them and we used it as our own so um I I hopefully we move forward with that also at Leo school for next year so our third goal our smart goal was for the area of reading uh so we did meet on both of these goals um and I'm sorry was I supposed to be clicking on there thank you um so one of the things that we focused on was for our uh students who read in English only or um as our bilingual students they read in both to
130move up to uh 50% or more of them will meet the the projection um for their reading goal so we had 59.7% so that was an amazing um feat that they did because it is reading and it is difficult and as they keep going on year to year the information the text they have to read gets a little bit more challenging and then for our students reading in Spanish um we did meet our goal also our goal was to have 40% of the students meet their projection and then we had ended up with 45.3% so that was pretty amazing to me when I was looking at the data overall our students exceeded the reading goals for both English and Spanish on the map assessment so um putting our schools together for Dr Williams and Leo
131I think it's going to be very interesting to see how our kids uh come together and I've had uh the opportunity and I've been very fortunate to see both groups of students obviously they're different groups now but being able to see how both schools operate the two populations and the two schools and I think it's going to be a great thing I think it's going to be amazing so um our last smart goal um for math we um let me see for we actually did meet for our first through fifth grade students so we ended up with 50 3.5% 1 through 5ifth which met their goal and then Kinder students we had 24% of the students met their goal and now this is taking into account that we had a totally new math curriculum the
132illustrative math um curriculum that we're using now and um I I think that we should be really really happy for the results that we had at Leo school because when you're trying to implement something new right it could go sideways but um our teachers I think really took responsibility for doing this and really doing it uh with Fidelity and with consistency across the board so um and asking for help when they needed help one of the things that um one of our teachers actually a few of our teachers did this year was to do a lot of goal setting with the students when it when it came to map testing so it wasn't just them seeing the goal them seeing the growth but also having the students come to the table and actually see their
133own growth and then what they would like to see see for themselves the next time around that they took the same the similar test not the same test but a similar test um so it really um helped us as a staff come together and pull from our leaders our teacher leaders and have them present information because as Leaders we can present all we want right but if it's the people that are actually doing the work in the classroom they need to be the ones out there serving as your teacher leaders in your building so those are the people that we ALS surround ourselves with and I hope that in years to come they will be the same teachers that will be passing on their knowledge to the novice teachers that are coming coming through our
134buildings so but thank you to the board thank you to all all the um central office staff who has given me all the support in these last six and a half years that I've been at Urbana school district and I hope that um whenever I'm in town I get to see some of you out there uh board members any questions or comments thank you for your exemplary service to this District you will be Miss next year you [Applause] will okay good evening I'm Andrea Jackson principal at Thomas Payne school and um I really thank you for the privilege to be able to present tonight uh typically in previous years as a building administrator we always discuss what our new plans are for the next school year and so having the opportunity to really look at
135and review um what we've done this year and to celebrate our successes I I feel like is really important so um I want to first look at our literacy goal for um our next our this previous school year um our projected growth was from 26 to 31% when looking at our students we did all of our comparisons for fall to Spring um and and looking at that our first through fifth grade students actually met their goal and they actually exceeded that by 88.5% um in our previous years we've been doing a lot of professional development on the science of reading but um I'm looking forward to us utilizing our new ckla um curriculum resource um just to build some more consistency where when it comes to um looking at our vertical alignment with um literacy
136um so we're going to build upon that growth um in utilizing that structured literacy approach um in leveraging some of our high uh quality teaching practices um and it's exciting to see um already we've done some professional development with the science of reading and with ckla it's exciting to see some of those same components um such as that phic awareness um our phonic construction um and just building that consistency is going to be awesome um some of the things that we did this year to um provide that growth was continuing with the battle of the books um if you're not aware with that battle of the books is a um program with third through fifth grade students where they're really challenged on some comprehension questions that gives some competition um amongst teams within their building
137but then also they also go off and uh compete uh across the district um we also utilize our Esser uh tutoring program which was really essential to giving students that additional dose um in addition to what they've done with their intervention time um our teachers also utilize a new program that they hadn't been familiar with which is ad minum um it really connected to a lot of what um the students were already learning and just making sure that they're uh practicing some those foundational skills during their Center time um we also had iads tutors um America reads tutors and our Learning Partner was uh through the University of Illinois um the education for small urban communities really was essential in helping with our writing curriculum as well okay John can we go to the next
138one thank you um for math I'm happy to say that we met this goal as well um and so when we were looking at our uh students from kindergarten through fifth grade our growth projection was um we were looking at going from 28 to 33% and we actually exceeded that goal by 5.1% um and this is a great goal I I feel um really happy about it with implementing a new curriculum as um principal AOA alluded earlier um it is really difficult to also just Implement a new curriculum but also still expect that um same growth that you would see in previous years um and so we really push ourselves to gain our familiarity with um illustrative math and we're hoping to do even more with uh being our second year of implementation um students
139were really challenged to take some risk um do some problem solving it's more than just getting to arriving to that right answer it's also just discussing different ways of solving problems different strategies and really um using that as conversation to um improve their literacy or improve their mathematics um some of the things that we utilized for this school year were our I count tutoring so in addition to I reads we also had I accounts tutors for our kindergarten and first grade students um Esser was an also another program that helped with um that as well um and then we had um actual coaching through um the the C Center for small urban communities as well um somebody that actually came in within the classroom and served as a partner with some of our teachers all
140right all right so for attendance um so for attendance I know that we talked a lot about that you've heard other schools say that this has been a struggle and this actually is an area that has been a struggle for us as well um we did not see a change and so um you know either way you can kind of look like well um it it didn't decline but for their critical students we didn't see um a significant enough change but we know that there's a lot of work that's being done um throughout this school year um we've done intent in um attendance incentives um some parenting calls um our sea does home visits um he does also does some Lunch Bunch groups um I know their school uh talked about that earlier as well
141and some more more individualized incentive plans um and so we want to make those things a little just a lot more visible um around the school because um I feel even though that some plans were um started and ended not everybody was really fully aware of all the work that's being done behind the scenes to make sure that we are moving some of those attendance barriers um and so next year we're hoping to take a more proactive approach and making sure that um students that have already been ident identified as chronically uh truant that we are um basically uh I'm sorry we are U making sure that we're making those connections earlier on um because we have uh already a list of those students um through our data um and also just making some friendly
142competition between classrooms on their attendance um we know that it's not the kids fault that they are not getting to school but we also want kids to take some type of ownership when they are able to um and uh just making sure that that progress that we see among classrooms or among students student groups um that we are celebrating that along the way all right and then our last um smart goal is social emotional learning um and so this was also a goal that we um were hoping to increase the number of students that were on track foral um this is the um survey that students third through fifth grade take on their own um and what we noticed is that um the on track students actually for their seal um surveys actually decreased by
1434% and we were a little disappointed about this because we felt that um through Panorama we saw that 90% of students identified that they felt like they had a supportive adult in the building and so um that really came down to um the students feeling like they needed more strategies with their own self-management and social awareness and so we feel like those were the indicators where um students were not quite meeting with their seal goals um and so through administering um this we're hoping to um just make sure that we're gaining some more accurate results through uh Panorama surveys sometimes students don't actually understand exactly what is being asked of them and so also making those accommodations of reading the questions to students um to make sure that they're actually um entering those um responses
144accurately um some of the things that we've done throughout the school year though are um consistents with uh morning meetings um also face events um our social academic intervention groups which are could be like Lunch Bunch but um also with our social workers making sure that they're making connections with those students as well um our check-in checkout um and making sure that we have consistent calming spaces in all of our classrooms um some of the work that we're hoping to also Implement for next school year is to establish a um some Elementary buildings have an established time consistent for all classrooms that are having their seal time and their morning meeting time um and so with us doing that as well I feel like we'll get some better gains and um making sure that those
145times are not uh met with any interruptions so and at this time I'll take any questions board members any questions um seems like you've made some really good um Community Partners um and I was wondering did they contact you or did you reach out and um how did you begin working with them yeah so um so this community partner is actually not new or unique to just Thomas Payne um this is somebody that we've used in the past um and so that Center for I think you're alluding to that Center for small urban communities we um were able to utilize them through our ill Empower uh funding um and also through the regional office we were also a Learning Partner with them as well um and so we um we have our professional development uh
146director yava Smith who just um also said that they would be accessible for us this year and so we hopped on it so wanted to make sure they utilize any of the help that is available for us um I read and I count tutors are they consistent now because I know that they're they're asking you know for volunteers but it's for a very short amount of time has that been helpful I feel like it has been helpful it's definitely been more consistent than it has in the previous years um especially with you know um coming off of covid and everything but um for our kindergarten and first grade classrooms we definitely you normally see um you know uh volunteers out in the hallway helping with uh math and literacy so it's been a great help
147anyone else yeah just like to say I have seen a great progress with what's going on and thank you and also your support staff thank you it's the truth anyone else thank you all thank you oh for sorry sorry Yan you rich Sor sorry my my my apologies good evening thank you good evening um Melanie fchan I'm uh proud to represent Yankee Ridge this evening as uh we know at this time um and I uh know that they will do great things uh with the U multilingual program being there as well as um all the things that I could uh talk about as future for uh my students um I know that they're in good hands going to uh new um buildings so I will focus on what we've done this year so our first
148goal uh is that you know Panorama survey and that we were going to look at Social awareness and those of course are those hard uh developmental uh concepts of understanding our feelings being able to share being able to complement others and so at the uh K2 level uh we of course we wanted to increase our social awareness by 5% um K2 uh we were at 55% in the spring of 2023 um and uh we um just made progress to 59% uh so we didn't uh um didn't make all of that but um progress was made um and those are you know of course K2 is really again still learning how to um gravel with some concepts of uh sharing getting along with our peers as well as uh those academics that are um added to
149that um at grades uh three through five uh we were at 61% in the spring um and we uh while we did make some uh gains uh here and there uh overall we ended up just at 63% so um with a gain of 3% but uh still didn't achieve um we still have a lot of work to do around uh social emotional learning um as you've heard earlier uh we um also I've really worked on our character traits um our social emotional competencies knowing those langu what that language is using common language in the building uh from our announcements um uh how we are talking with students um uh zones of Regulation we too have uh our um chill Corners in classrooms um looking at uh what are our tools how uh you know those
150differ from students to students or time to time uh we have sensory stations in the hallways um and uh the sensory paths um so we have this a progressive um we have uh stations at our or tools that we could use at our desk when we're having those U moments of frustration we need um our triggers that we were talking about um how we can help to uh be self-aware that we're needing some time or a Break um or what uh we could do within the classroom if I stepped into the corner the chill corner or stepped into the hallway just outside the door and or uh those that need um uh call for support and um take a a longer break with another adult uh we also um have designated time that uh we
151allowed for our morning meetings or we Chang the language to class meetings because some of those happened in the afternoon um and really looked at uh using second step and um uh now we're uh I'm excited about uh social emotional having a designated time still but also really we need to um at the grades three through five level I know that they know what the the survey is asking with those questions but really that common language so that they then can think back uh when they're answering those questions on the survey to be able to um know when that because they typically are are kind of focused like right now instead of over the course and so really um you know diving more into those questions um so that they have a broader understanding so
152that when uh it uh comes to to them being able to explain that they they can do that a bit better um our next goal sorry John I I'll let you drive hey hey it's all right it's getting late uh this one seems a little C cumbersome we have a lot of work to do around uh academics you he you've heard that from my colleagues in regards to um math we really uh as a building um uh really embraced uh illustrative math we really stuck to it um while uh it was uh we had some staff that the previous year piloted it um and so they were like ah we're having to supplement or uh having you know some challenges with it did the the professional development over the summer and really then was like
153aha I would have just stuck to the lesson plan or if you know those Road BM you know the bumps in the road of uh what you've heard also uh that you got a different answer than or you got the same answer that I did but we did it differently and how that then could be communicated right um and getting along working in groups we're used to uh I do we do you do as opposed to that whole here it is we do I'll walk around let's just see what we get right um and so we really embraced uh the bumps on the road and and um helping kids uh uh get to um seeing some uh confidence that I'm better at math I'm feeling a little bit like hey I can do this uh
154it didn't seem as new and uh for for us so so you saw that um in the spring uh we were at 29% growth um and then uh we were at 48 so woo U math is my big celebration and I'm GNA give us $10 uh um because reading wow uh that said as well so I'm really excited for the new CK um the fact that uh we aren't going to have to um you know pull different things together we're going to have all the curriculum we're going to really look at some uh Benchmark uh data um progress monitoring and get ahead um and and not just wait so while we did not make uh the the great growth in Reading um we did have uh some um fall to Spring we were seeing growth
155this year so when I look at just this school year um 38% of our students made uh their projected growth um but when I look at it uh as a whole from Spring of 2023 to to uh spring of 2024 um that looked different um and so uh we um really had a mission to have our students uh take ownership and be uh a partner in the work um I wanted them to be able to um uh have an ownership in their own education um we wanted to Foster an environment where mistakes were okay uh we were given great um and that uh we could take risks and we did that um we also uh had students taking um making goals when their map uh uh tests were coming up let's make a goal even
156kindergarten where it was like this is your number then we could get that you know another number or I just wanted to go this far from Red into red or red into orange or into green right they uh could make goals um and so then uh we celebrated that with a um wall of fame at the end and so um all of our pictures and so they they really uh had some excitement because we saw some Pro projected growth um for all students at some point um our last goal is attendance wow what can else can I say I really can't other than we have got to get to school for whatever we have got to help families um and we have got to um make sure that that we're having uh incentives where um
157there's things that they want to come to school uh socially or um academ to get that um part of I know some things and while uh those environments of it's uh tough and anxieties of of not wanting to be at school um I think we can we can certainly make better environments that are or uh en enriching uh curriculum wise but also f those family environments of uh that you know we can do it together and that risks are okay um so uh we hovered around the 90% uh Mark um we certainly have a lot when I looked at that number I was like um when you talk about 135 students that that missed um 18 days or 10% or more um that's a lot while we only had 31 students on specific plans we
158did see some those that did have increases um gotten better um but that is a lot um we tried to focus on uh you know the um incentives the uh C uh the kindness campaigns uh uh we did a a a push um in the winter months of hygiene again right um uh washing our hands uh trying to get enough sleep I'm talking about those Wellness kinds of of things that we could do because we know that illness happens um and then that importance of um how to uh call in and make sure that uh you know we are at school when we need to or you know what what needs um our families have that we could help out with to try to uh get kids to school so that is Yankee Ridge uh
159in our uh year in review um I want to uh again say that um I thank our staff for their uh perseverance and their endurance that that they had this year I know it was a a tough year emotionally for them as well um but I uh know that our students and staff are in good hands thank you thank you uh any any uh comments or questions I just want to thank you for stepping up this year as a building leader and supporting your staff and your students you did a great job thank you I'll do the same at Thomas pay yes so uh John last slide final thoughts is um again we look forward to to communicating with all of our stakeholders new goals in the fall and I do I want to thank
160our building leaders too and I know each one of them came up and thanked their school Improvement teams but um you can see the heavy lifting that was um done this year with the staff that they've worked with their whole staff but then also their teams but none of it happens without strong leadership so we thank all of you and appreciate you so yes so yes and Adriana we're going to miss you so much yay we love you yes yes you will oh I've got it in my slides yes yep yep I've got it in my superintendent reports I'll share it great thank you all our next report is uh Board of Education vision statements and priority goal areas are leading into strategic planning so yeah I just really wanted to just share um the
161work of the board and board members jump in um there is you have the one pager the goal uh Vision activity that was shared um with us from our uh consultant from um iasb um Dr Hill Perry Hill um so the board did get together February 26 and really started um some visioning work and um talking about District ends is what I our um consultant um kind of called this these activities and basically the board's goals are the district's goals are the ends to kind of meet all all the means of what is happening I know our building leaders have talked about their specific um work around improving student achievement chronic absenteeism um and all of those things well the board's um kind of charge for this evening was really thinking bigger and broader around
162what are the needs for the entire District so um since we were talking about goals and end of the year with kind of the goals for um progress for this year this was a nice segue to be able to share the um vision for the goals um the vision and goals uh for the board for our work moving forward into 2425 so I don't know if um you want me to go through them Paul or if you just wanted to kind of say anything about them or I think we could yeah if you could go through them I guess the board members can could chime in at the end yep so okay and I know member hickon wasn't um part of that so um we'll just kind of walk through them very quickly and so
163what our consultant did with us was really uh talk with us about the vision and um we uh developed some specific priority areas so the areas that you see the um six areas are those priority areas so student achievement um as you've heard through every presentation that we had tonight and at our last meeting uh the need for evidence-based research-based curriculum has been huge in our district for years and years um we one didn't have the financial resources curriculum is expensive so I mean we spent over a million dollars on illustrative and CCL and had we not had the eser funds and the eser arer dollars I don't know um where we'd be right now in terms of adopting some of this curriculum so all of that was just such a um so needed for
164us uh financially and I'm really excited about you can already see just with one year of the illustrative math work um how much potential there is for growth for future um students meeting exceeding proficiency at or above a grade level so that was the number one goal that the board talked about kind of I feel maybe probably the most important is student achievement so the vision statement was ensure all students met or exceed proficiency at our above grade level so the way the consultant kind of got us to um this point was we broke up in groups and board members worked in pairs of two or three um and did like word smithing and talking about um what each group or each pair thought the vision statement should should be and then the board came
165up um came to consensus with the consultant in what the statement should read so um the goals to support student achievement expanding supports and professional development for research-based curriculum and then meeting the learning needs of each student um the next priority area was dual language so as you know we've talked a lot about the Dual language programming um program in the last two years really um bringing that program together so of course that was something that was very heavy on the board's mind in February when we were having this discussion um with our consultant so the vision that came out from for the future of the Dual language program which we are now um uh calling Yankee Ridge multilingual school is to exceed performance standards addressing bilingual biliteracy academic achievement and social culture competence um
166with the goals being hiring talented certified bilingual teachers yes 100% um providing staff with professional development and training and fostering a supportive learning environment and then next um and I don't think these are in any very specific priority area I think student achievement was of course the biggest and the others I don't know that we prioritize them at all after that um so facilities providing a safe inviting learning environment is the vision for the board um with the goals being involve the community and the development of long-term facilities plans assess the efficiency of District facilities and assess the effectiveness of District facilities so um a lot of this is you know we've been talking a lot about energy management geothermal solar um and then if you remember in February we had again following this right
167before this activity our uh one of our study sessions for the month of February was talking about all of our shortterm and long-term needs um for future projects so uh that was also on our mind as we completed this Vision activity to uh provide safe inviting learning environments so the focus here was basically on the facilities themselves but then a a goal on the back was also talking about um and I'm going to jump to that one um intensifying safety and positivity among our community of Learners so while the previous goal is our facilities the buildings the brick and mortar um this goal is really about within our schools how are we building Community how are we making sure students feel safe um and how are we improving culture and climate because we've heard a
168lot this year about um discipline and behavior management um and so the goals for cultural climate Community were promoting a sense of belonging among students staff and families and a sense of belonging um is a new term that people are using to really just signify having positive relationships knowing that people at school care for you um wanting to be at school which is a huge part of attendance right like our students that may not be coming to school every day may not have a connected trusted adult that is reaching out out to them to get them there so all the strategies that our principles are talking about will help hopefully promote that sense of belonging and improve stakeholder relationships so this has been a bumpy year in terms of um a lot of the initiatives
169that we had there was a lot of um distrust mistrust um concerns about transparency and so this um goal was is is really important to the board from the conversations that I heard and you guys can share more around how can we improve our relationships with the public um with the community around future initiatives and future work that has to happen and then going up to District finances um the vision was to align fiscal responsibility with equal access for Student Success so this is kind of more around thinking about our um Financial Resources in an equitable way making sure that all of our students have access and opportunity to for a productive um experience in college a career or learning a trade um and just making sure that we're putting the funding to make that
170happen um and then the goals are again heightened transparency really making sure that our community knows what we're doing and why we're doing it and communicating that um better than we were able to do this year um or that whether I that I was able to do this year and um applying an equity lens to to all the things that we're doing um to make sure that everything is kind of undergirded through our Equity goals and our Equity uh um objectives and tasks and then lastly redistricting so we did this in February um following um a couple of our public um sessions with our redistricting Consultants so of course redistricting was on our minds and um none of us want to have to uh wait 20 years ever again I I don't remember who said
171that that night um that we'll never do that again and that we needed to codify it in writing to say we're that is never going to happen again so the vision was to make sure that we're cultivating diverse and Equitable schools and that moving forward um the board would complete an enrollment analysis plan every four to I think we put five years but I think we said we look at it in year four and then come up with the plan in year five yeah I think I think that's right right I mean we want a codify board policy around this to basically make sure that we we we stick to it and then engaging our community around the enrollment analysis plan so when we get to that four-year Mark and we're looking at our enrollment
172and talking about you know if we need to do any tweaking with our boundary areas or anything like that then we would be engaging our community around those decisions moving forward so those were the vision statements and the goals and then kind of next steps um that our consultant recommended is you know one of the things that i' like to do moving forward is when we have certain presentations that we align everything that we're talking about with a board goal or a b um a a area priority area from the board so everything that we do moving forward should be aligning with the vision um of the board um whether it's a goal or priority area uh so he also kind of talk Al about um making sure that we're uh aligning all of these
173things as part of our strategic planning so this is kind of the first step right like you have to have board goals and vision um before you put a bunch of people together in a room and talk about a strategic plan we have to know what the goal and vision of the board is um in order to do that board members any comments or questions I me the idea is that um these six areas are going to be kind of the pillars for the strategic planning process we'll have Community groups that will meet to focus on the goals the board has set for each of these areas and then try to come up with with with plans and and metrics to to to measure our progress uh against those items so so these would be
174our kind of just like the equity plan these would kind of be our strands that we'd focus on and then we'll bring our um additional St stakeholders together to kind of write some um priorities around student achievement from more of the um practitioner level like you know what are we going to do in the classroom and what is that going to look like and so yeah so I it's late my brain is foggy I'm sorry but um I have two questions who I I heard all the principal saying all the goals and the percentage they want targeting who who gives that to them who said you have to Target 96% or 3% oh very good yeah good question so um we set that priority as a district so we um Dr Norton worked with them
175mostly this past year um so uh we look at their data and then we let them as a team set a goal that they feel is attainable so we ask them to write smart goals so they have to be specific measurable but they also have to be gains uh goals that they can reach so yes they had they were rigorous some of them kind of um they kind of had lofty goals that they couldn't reach but they were really um encouraged to think we can get there so we we have given the teams a lot of autonomy to be able to look at the data know their students know their staff and they set those percentages second question is now that we have those percentage and of course I understand h school has different population
176different needs but as a board also we have a standard to like we how we want each school to get for the next year oh so next so in the fall right now they have they have just kind of shown you all the work they did this year so they've been heavily writing since the last days we we started the very next day after the kids went home on the 31st planning for next year so next year they will bring forward a language arts goal a math goal and a chronic absenteeism goal so we're kind of pairing it down a little bit so they don't focus on so much um and really help them um write very specific um goals one for each area with um some key ideas and key practices so the goal
177is going to be all about the students are going to do this but then the rest of the plan is and this is what the adults are going to do to meet that goal and so um we'll bring those back and then we'll have a district goal for um language arts math and chronic absenteeism so now those goals can be part of the Strategic plan so yes they can but the Strategic plan is a goal for five years so the Strategic plan is here's where we are now and here's where we see ourselves in four to five years so what the schools are doing is writing very specific one-year goals this is every year yep and making those incremental that incremental world the problem is what John was saying earlier sometimes we take baby steps
178while so while so while some of our groups are making little growth other groups are making way more and it is like we always feel like we're playing catchup so right now that's what our black students are doing when they make a little growth other groups are making way more so they're not catching up fast enough to close that achievement Gap and so that is where what we need to be working really hard toward um that's why we have some specific goals on our Equity plan for our black and Latino students because they're just not making as much progress at the same rate that other students are so we need to figure out how we can not just catch them up but close that Gap as much as we can every year yeah um could
179I ask a question sure um some of the um some of the schools both today and the last meeting used growth goals and some used used attainment goals and I had to really uh watch that and do we give any so moving forward we're going to give more Direction around that so yes I think we've give we gave them a lot of autonomy to do um kind of set their own goals as a uh school so moving forward we are going to be more prescriptive in what the smart goals should be and we want to see growth goals and not a mixture we want to be able to compare apples to apples and when they're all doing different things and this school's doing that and this school is doing this so we want to have
180some ability to compare a little bit one of the other components is when they're doing it from Spring to Spring they might not have the same students in the fall so the one school that did do it from Fall to Spring had a more usable um method because they were working with the same children students yeah yeah is there all good comments questions um anyone else all right thank you thank you uh next up is our tenative District budget um Carol thank you Paul um I'm here just to present the tenative budget tonight for a first read and then that will come back to the board next Tuesday for a final approval um just to kind of give you an explanation though the tenative budget is the first step in the process of budgeting we
181have to have a tenative budget in place in June so that on July 1 when our fiscal year starts for next year we have a budget to work with sorry so basically we have to have this budget in place before July one when our fiscal year starts so that we have a budget to work with even though the state doesn't require a budget to be in place until the end of the first quarter so September 30th is actual date we have to have a budget in place according to the state so we will do this all a second time come September and in much better much more detail and much better information so I always have to tell the board when we do the tenative budget it's called the tenative budget because it is so
182tentative there's so little we know right now I mean we're required to have this but we don't have any our fiscal year is not even ended yet for FY 24 till June 30 so we're still finishing up the fiscal year we don't even know how this year ended up um what adjustments we may have to make to next year's budget based on how this year this year's results were so a lot of those changes are going to happen over the summer and then when they come back in in the fall in September to do the budget again you will see possibly all these documents again because these are the same ones we've used for a while and I think Katie's continued to use them um so it's it's something you're going to see from from
183now on I mean these are the same things we'll talk about every year and just talk about the changes to them so this will become very familiar familar with you as we move forward um but pretty much what we're going to start with is the budget assumption document which I know a lot of you have looked at because I had a lot of our questions about it so that's great but this document a lot of these assumptions have been on here for 20 years 20 I mean probably since I've been I mean there's just things that we've kept on here it was things the board asked to have put on there and we've kept on there um but it just I think this document um was done to help explain the thoughts that went into
184what we did to prepare the budget because if we do a budget and make assumptions about tax levies and salaries and then things end up being different during the year and oh my gosh we ended up spending more money than we expected well I can go back and say well that's because when I built the budget we assumed that we were going to have this percentage of salary and it ended up being something else I mean and you can relay that to you know utilities or anything I mean bottom line is we try to put as much in the Assumption as we can to show how this budget was built and the assumptions that I used to build it because a lot of times even in the fall when we do the budget there may
185still be some things we don't know for sure and everything's some things will still be based on estimates but once um we do have we do use history a lot so we'll go back and look at several years of history and you know what how how much we've spent in certain expenditures to help us build the budget um and all of that again the most recent year is what you use to help get you a better idea what to budget for for next year so all of that will happen um this summer um but it is like I said this budget doc the budget assumption documents is what I'm going to go go through first because it does kind of lay the groundwork for how the budget's built um and there's a lot of information
186on here and we could probably spend hours talking about this just because there's so much you know Financial stuff that is only related to schools that you will all learn as you become more accustomed to this job but it's it's complicated and it's like a puzzle putting all the different pieces together and um the biggest the biggest Revenue Source we have is our tax receipts from property taxes and again until we know what receipts we have through June we don't know what to budget for next year because we know based on our our fy2 24 taxes you all you all have got your tax bills for this year we know what we're going to get in total but because our budget starts right in the middle of when everybody's paying their taxes part of those
187taxes are going to be in anything received by June by June 30th is going to be in this current year anything that is paid after July 1 is going to be in next year so until we see what the treasur County Treasurer pays us we'll get a payment on June 29th or I mean they pay us right at the end of the month to make sure we get as much of those revenues as we can um but whatever we get there we know the rest what all the remainder amount is going to come in next fiscal year so that's why um Katie was very very conservative as far as budgeting for tax revenues we put zero increase right now because we don't know and we'll know for sure when we do the budget in the
188fall and I anticipate there you know we will see some increase there but right now we're being conservative and we're not showing anything um so hopefully you've read all these I'm not going to go through everything um line by line but uh if you have questions feel free to stop me uh the one I did had a lot of questions about though was the Carl tax the refund possible refund liabilities related to presence because we did settle the Carl case back in 2013 I think it was um that was a good move I mean it's a good thing we did that because we got to keep about $6 million um that we wouldn't have had I mean Carl basically has now won potentially unless somebody appeals it again but that's money that we have that
189we wouldn't have had um but the present situation is still out there that one we assume is going to go the same way but we don't know for sure and that's that's something yet to be determined so um but since car was recently resolved we're probably just going to continue to hold those funds until we get direction otherwise which we foresee will be coming at some point um but anyway that's what those refund possibilities are and we've always set that money aside you'll see it when there's been when fund balances are presented Ed we always take out that Carl money and show it separately so that the board doesn't think oh that's money I can spend in the fund balance we want to make sure that's set aside because it's money that we may have
190to potentially repay as far as the state evidence-based funding number three um that $350,000 that is included is basically the the minimum that we will get if we continue at tier two this past year the way I understand it we actually went to tier one and received overon of increased uh funding from the state we're not sure what tier we're going to be in for fy2 so once that information comes out in August we will know for sure and again more information that we'll have for the final budget that we just don't have now but we do have the minimum amount of 350 in there because we're assuming at a minimum that's what we'll get um the U ofi money on number five uh we did get an extension of that for three years but
191that has now again been reduced again to 35,000 so Jennifer could probably tell you that's it's getting phased out I mean it used to be 365 I think 365,000 when we started back in 94 um and it's now 35,000 so and it was 150 for a long time yeah yeah that's right well and part of the reason is Orchard Downs needs a lot of work and so a lot of families are choosing not to live there um and then we ALS so we have ESL families that are living kind of all over the district and they're not all going to King and so yeah originally that money was there because the students that lived in Orchard Downs were not paying taxes to or B so it was a way for the U ofi to put
192pay us money to help educate those students yeah I think it was it was for Orchard down students and what they because I was around when that happened and um the University's line was that if a student or a staff member lived in an apartment or a house they were paying property taxes so those property taxes were supporting the school but if a student or staff member was living in student housing they were not paying property tax so that's why um it it was for the or Downs to make up for the orchard down students not students who lived in other areas and those numbers are really small now in comparison to what they used to be when you were a king and they just can't afford to give us $60,000 $50,000 and maintain um
193their facilities and their apartments and so we've negotiated this every year and we now are down to kind of this multi-year agreement that we do have an agreement with them that um in the event they have more International families coming in and choosing to live at Orchard downs and we will come kind of come back to the table and renegotiate this agreement but so thank you there's less housing there as well because they raised a lot of their single homes so we don't have as many okay skipping down to number eight um I think Federal sequestration people didn't understand what that meant so Federal sequestration when we sold these qab bonds back in 2010 um it was a very attractive Bond because we Bas huh rate was like almost nothing right it was yeah basically
194the federal government paid the interest on these bonds they were reimbursing us so we only had to pay for the principal um but then they had cuts that were made at the federal level and they said oh sorry we're not going to be able to reimburse you 100% of these interest payments anymore we can only pay 95% now and it's been this 5.7% is the amount that they're not paying so we have to make up that difference um and that's been that way for many years and but I think the 5.7 has stayed that for so what are we paying that from I was with the person who kept asking question facility sales tax so we have to make up for that somewhere and it wasn't something we sold bonds for so we don't have
195the money in our bond proceeds because we thought the federal government was going to pay for that so we're taking it out of facility sales tax out of the sales tax facil sales tax is what's actually helping pay for the bonds as well the principal portion okay okay thanks yeah so that's why we try to it's something that we didn't anticipate that we have to make up for the money so we just put that in our assumption so it's known that that's but I think those bonds are actually I was looking today I think they're paid off in a couple years that's right I couldn't believe yeah they're going to be paid off here pretty soon and number nine um this is something new the education fund assumes uh we're getting an $850,000 credit for
196energy incentive for our geothermal system that was in place at Thomas pain so that's huge but it is onetime money um I asked Katie about this and she said it might be something we get some there's some additional amounts we might be getting but again those are all onetime payments that might come in in future years um but we're not quite sure either what the savings are going to be until this is all in place so that's something that um we'll probably be waiting and seeing how much savings we're going to have until we start budgeting huge amounts of Energy savings for those for Thomas pain uh the biggest expenditures we have I'm going on to number 10 is obviously our salary you know 85 86% of our expenses are people um so all of
197these were approved by the board individually these different rates so um the only significant changes in benefits as well number 11 is just health insurance most of the other rates uh stay pretty stable health insurance always goes up based on neg NE iations and what we agreed to during collective bargaining and that went up about six and a quar per. for next year um number 13 oh do I need to explain the TRS cost shift that's the Bold there again that's one of those that's been there for years because the state used to talk about this annually and it was always a real fear that they might push this onto School dist yeah since since uh JB has commented into office that they don't really talk about it as much yeah it's not as much
198so it's there but it was probably more of a historical thing that it was more of a fear earlier on um but I kept it in there just not knowing what the current current situation was but um yeah that might be something if they're not talking about it it may not need to be in the budget assumptions but it's something that was pretty pretty prevalent back in five four or five years ago uh number 133 the intergovernmental agreement with the city of arbana for the sro's is in here and it's estimated to be um I had 260 but she actually emailed this week and it went up to like 280 I think so it might be going up another 20 but in this budget right now it's 260 is what what we had estimated so
199that's another increase that will be in there for the final budget uh number 16 is just a general statement we you know we knew that when we got these Esra funds for you know during covid that at some point this money was going away and the state warned us you're going to have this fiscal cliff when that money is gone they always talked about the fiscal cliff when that exra money is gone you're either going to have to stop spending the money or have revenues to make up for all these expenses we were we were taking on during covid so that's what this assumption is stating and and there are some expenses that are moving to the education fund because of that and it's all you'll see that in the next document that we'll go
200over on the summary of budget changes as well um number 18 I just wanted to point out there will be um increases in the final budget for any penalties related to the EOC settlement which is fairly recent but that some of those bills will start coming in as we pay those amounts out we will have penalties from TRS because now we're over the 6% uh number 19 um just wanted to point out that's another board agenda item this evening that the board's going to approve the working cash and bond funds we always transfer the interest to the educ any interest we earn in those funds is always transer to the education fund doesn't have to be that's historically been done probably forever um just because it's a way that that money it's another way to
201get some some funding into the education fund um and then the Indoor Aquatic Center loss is estimated to be about about the same 266,000 um same as in Prior years on number 20 uh number 21 just pointing out we did not make any changes which is a little different this year I think just because of the situation we're in we didn't change the education fund was the only budget we worked on the rest of them will be changed uh for the final budget so we'll go over that in a minute too um so the rest of the information on here is just some historical stuff that we've kept on there just to kind of give you history of all the budget cuts we've made over the years and I think it's kind of good just
202to see that because you I forget that we did this if you it's interesting to look back at the I didn't think it was 14 15 years ago that we did budget cuts but it was so that's a good thing don't want to have to go through that very often any questions on the budget assumptions before I move on I'm curious if number 23 has been on for a long long time that that was Tina Gonzalez I can tell you who had me add that yes it's been on there a long time she she's again that board member is gone we probably don't need it anymore but that's one that she said you know we need something in here that says that no new expenditure can be added to this budget unless we have a
203revenue to cover it so I should put her initials on but yeah like I said some of this stuff is very historical it's stuff that's been on there forever and I've not taken it off I don't know that we're following it all the time but um yeah it's one of those silly ones that's just been on there for forever that's where that one came from uh the summary of budget changes is what I'll go through next so I so Katie pretty much appr or finalized all of this this was her document so all I did was take all the computations that she'd made she' already computed all the increases in salaries and everything and what those costs were going to be this is a document that basically summarizes so you don't have to look through
2044,500 pages of detailed budget these are the only changes we made so she gave me this I took these changes keyed them into the District budget only those lines are changed um when we do the final budget instead of just put in a lump sum for salary increases we go line by line by line budget every teacher we make sure if there's vacancies we put amounts in for vacancies um so when I say the tenative budget is tentative that's that's the difference I mean we are going line by line for the final budget and we go through and make sure that everybody is budgeted in the correct place and at the correct salary benefits follow um so all of these increases are in the budget right now for the tenative budget and then like I
205said when we do the final budget it will be going through not only looking at the things we know of but looking at oh how did the budget look this year wow it looks like we went over budget we might need to budget more for utilities at ke or whatever so are there any questions on this um as you can see the revenues because we don't have a lot of Revenue increases right now we don't know of a lot of Revenue increases they're not covering it's always you always know what your expenses are going to be as long as you negotiated your biggest expenditures are going to be known but we never know what our revenues are going to be at this point in time um so that's why the tenative budget always may look
206a little worse than the final budget I can't say it's going to look better but I can tell you it's probably not going to look any worse than this I mean that's been my experience on the board it's that the tentative budget looks worse than the than the real one in in September yeah just because you don't mean like I said we know the expense we know a lot of the expenses that are going up the main salaries which are our biggest costs but we don't have a good idea of revenues at this point so hopefully those Revenue estimates will come in and will be higher than what we have included here and things will look better but a lot of pieces will come together for the final budget but because those revenues aren't there
207um we are estimating a deficit right now of about 225,000 as is shown on the bottom here and the final document and again you'll see this a lot too John this this is the summary tenative budget summary pink one um this is a document that yeah again just in one page summarizes total revenues and total expenses by fund some of you may not be aware that we have all these funds but every one of these funds has a purpose we tax we Levy taxes for specific purposes like Transportation education fund for most of these funds we actually Levy a tax so we have to keep track track of that money separately because we can only spend our imrf levy on imrf expenses we can only spend our debt service levy on our bond and interest
208payments um and we have to track everything and make sure that we're not spending Transportation money on teacher salaries so that's the reason for all these different funds um I'd be happy to go over that with any of you and spend any amount of time you guys need to to understand this better because I realize it is complicated for somebody that's coming in and doesn't know anything about school finan um but I think there was a question about life safety Levy the life safety Levy you will um we always do the levy in October November and um that's when we'll determine what we're leving for the next following year and the life safety Levy is a a certain amount that we can put towards um helping pay for Life Safety improvements in our buildings we
209have surveys that our Architects do every 10 years where they go through and look at everything and say you know this is a life safety hazard we need to get this fixed may be electrical it may be maybe um other types tring electrical and HV I mean there's just things that are um not really Plumbing all ourbest is pretty much gone so it's yeah we we always have more life safety projects than we have life safety funds yes you do and we we've always again levied and nickel which gets us maybe gets us about I think 20 for some reason million four I'm not sure what that was last year that went in there because we used to only get about 230,000 a year but it might have been bumped up to try to get
210some more of those um oh I'm sorry I'm looking at the wrong line it's 431,000 so that's about right it's fund 90 the bottom here so that's what that fund is for we we do Levy an amount for that and um we use what we can to get what we can done and there's time limits on what you have to do you know if it's a priority one you have to do it within three years and so on but you'll learn all about that when that time comes it's once every 10 years we have to do a survey so um the only funds the the the only funds that actually had uh deficits in fund balance which aren't shown on this because again we don't know what our fund balance is until the year is
211over um were tort and on andm so those are the only two funds that have a carryover negative balance yeah but your fund balance is basically your savings account I mean it's the money that you have and then you get revenues during the year to put in it and you spend money and then the fund balance is what you estimate will be remaining after you've finished the year we've carried a uh a negative balance in on and m forever but it's gotten better over the past five years yeah so those are the two funds that seem to have historically had a negative fund balance and you've slowly been chipping away at it um but um the fund balance won't be included here on the tenative budget because again we don't have final yearend results yet
212from the current fiscal year uh again final budget we'll have all that information and we'll be able to present it to you so board members any any questions I just pulled last year's to compare what this year's is and last year at this point we had the deficit of almost 12 million on the bottom of the total of all funds and so I imagine that means we're doing better if we have 1.5 that was a property T that was the I I'm looking I had the fin one yeah that was due to the fact that our property tax payments came in late late okay so it it's kind of an artificial okay I was trying to make in comparison how we stood p on last yeah looked like we were doing better so this will
213be coming up for a a vote here in a week if you have uh question question between now and next Tuesday please contact the administration uh next up is uh the tentative Urbana adult education budget uh for the next fiscal year and Carol's gonna walk through that one too Shauna unfortunately is at her yearly one of her yearly Adult Ed conferences and um normally she comes and presents and walks through this with us but she wasn't available to be here tonight so and I can tell you that she did not this is basically last year's budget because she has no information either she pretty much took last year's budget and has that for her tenative budget so there are no changes to her budget again because once the final budget comes she actually has her
214funding information by then so she can complete it that Bo members any questions if it might be more appropriate I guess to reach out to to shaa over email with in the next seven days if you have specific questions I guess they really can't be answered here tonight but if you have any I guess questions about the process um you can ask you can ask now all right all right thank you um now we can move on to our action items on our consent agenda 11.1 are our minutes from the May 21st business meeting and the June 4th study session 12.2 are bills and checks Ed fund bills to the tune of $1.4 million on andm fund bills for $187,000 Bond and interest fund bills for $127,000 transportation fund bills for $177,000 uh working cash
215bonds for $37,000 school facility occupancy tax for $260,000 tort for $40,000 Life Safety Levy for $513,000 payroll salary and benefits for $7.3 million and abandon adult education for $15 ,000 there's a list of personnel items in our packets uh that need approval interfund loans uh from onm fund to work in cash fund for $200,000 imrf fund to work in cash fund for $300,000 and tort to working Cash Fund for $100,000 um there's it sorry uh payment transfer approval we requested for a transfer to to transfer interest as of June 30th it's a permanent transfer funds um from uh working cash and bond interest funds to be moved to the education fund uh 11.5 are administrative Personnel items that were also in our packet 11.6 is approval for June bills for for payment so um we'll
216be seeking uh pre-authorization to to pay uh bills until we can meet until we meet again in August 11.7 resolution declaring intent to retain interest earnings as interest and not to accumulate as principal um so yeah sorry any clarification that sorry that is a um law that went into place I think in 2018 maybe that said if you were going to transfer like we do every year you had to have this resolution because otherwise you wouldn't be able to transfer the interest I see okay goes into this has to stay in the fund that it was earned in okay all right thank you and then uh 11.8 is a resolution authorizing inter directing the sale disposal of personal property so these include the Dr Williams weeding log UHS Social Studies books trophy case withen teacher
217desks cabinets miscellaneous shelving student chairs folding table metal file cabinets student tables desk Etc few furniture and a variety of uh teacher and student books if anybody wishes to have any of these uh specific items removed from the consent agenda I guess now would be the time to request that otherwise the chair would entertain a motion to approve the entire Cent agenda I move for approval second moved in seconded any further discussion roll call please member Staten yes vice president exm yes president palowski yes member Jones yes member yes and member langendorf yes motion passes uh our individual action items first up or gifts Robin sonor from Urbana donated $100 to Le Elementary School and Jackie Martin uh from Thomas Payne received an anonymous donation of $1,000 to use at her discretion yeah that's awesome
218uh is there a motion to accept gifts and send out thank yous is there seconded second mov to seconded uh all in favor say I I any any opposed motion passes uh 12.2 is renewal of insurance Carol could you provide us some context please sure um we did meet with our insurance broker who presented our comprehensive proposal which you had in your packet they are now a member of Illinois County's risk management trust so we are in another Pool again so that's good that a lot of school districts are going to together to help save money um so our rates are going up but as you can see from the attached rate schedule it also shows you values that are going up so when you have when you're uring more things we've added on to
219buildings we've bought more vehicles uh your insurance is going to go up so um overall we have an increase of about 13 or eight% but you can see that some things went up more and some things went down so overall I think it's a good package and we still have our $10 million umbrella that we put in place to kind of cover us over everything else so that's always good to have um and our workers comp and cyber liability are also part of this package so I would recommend recommend the board approve the package so we can have insurance in place beginning on July one thank you um is there a motion I move to accept the insurance second move to seconded any further comments or discussion the only question I have is do do
220you know if if any of the deductibles changed I miss I missed it packet I guess I can follow up and sorry I'm I'm not sure shows it on this P we did have um I think something did change it's on a different document I can bring that back next if you'd like to see that sure that that's just I'm just more Curious um yeah anybody else questions comments uh R call please member Hixon yes member langendorf yes member Jones yes president palowski yes member Staten yes vice president exom yes motion passes uh 12 12.3 is an addendum for auditor contractor services so again Carol context please yeah this was um a grant that um Kelly who's here Kelly Russell umed for Early Childhood for the current school year and the Auditors um we realized
221that the grant actually requires a supplementary statement to be included in our audit um so and they actually wanted an addendum to the audit agreement to show that that was going to happen so we had to have this added at the last minute and luckily we were able to get board approval so that we can make sure that we are in compliance to get the grant next year as well so um but the the increase is going to be about5 to $2500 we're not quite sure but it's just to add some additional services to the Grant and financial reporting in the audit for this grant thank you is there a motion to approve I move for approval it's been moved and seconded any further comments or discussion roll call please president palowski yes member Jones
222yes vice president exom yes president member langendorf yes um member Hixon yes member Staten yes than moving motion well so it's actually board policy that we really have been following to change up the order of our voting so that's what she's following around I just always had you last well um sorry I lost track of where I was uh next up our Board of Education schedule for the next academic year so this was the the list of dates that we discussed at our last meeting uh also changing the time to 6:00 p.m. um instead of 6:30 so um is there a motion to approve the schedule that we discussed last week so move last meeting excuse me so move it's been moved is there a second I'll second it's been Mo a second I think
223all in favor say I I any opposed a motion passes uh next up is approval of our closed meeting minutes um thank you Lori for diligently getting getting those minutes uh collected um so we need to decide whether uh the need for confidence J still exists is all part of the all a part of the Clos meeting or the minutes or portions thereof no longer require confidential agement and are available for public inspection so um yeah that's that's kind of been how how we've traditionally done it um and I I I think you know considering the the breadth of topics we've discussed in in Clos that it makes it makes sense to continue that practice myself I agree yeah exactly so so there there right so these are these are things that have you know
224confidential yeah so so right so it's yeah these are things that were legally allowed to to keep private um and I would to continue all right okay so is there I guess that's a formal motion foror is is there a second for it second the seced any further comments or discussion let's do this as a roll call please member hickon yes member Staten yes member langendorf yes vice president exom yes president palowski yes Jones yes motion passes um next up is uh press plus 114 so these were the policy changes that we uh discussed uh yesterday um sorry I keep saying yesterday oh my goodness starting to get late at our last meeting two weeks ago um is there a motion to approve the discussed changes I move for approval of the discussed changes second
225move in second any further comment of discussion on them uh this has to also be a roll call vote member Jones yes president yes vice president aen yes member langendorf yes member Staten yes member Hixon yes motion passes uh 12.7 lastly is organization of the board of education so uh when we organized after the last election in 2023 uh it was for a one-year term and we neglected to reup this at our first meeting in May so this is this is a bit overdue uh we can do this one of two ways we can go office by office and and walk through through this or if someone wishes to make a motion for an entire slate of individuals um to to serve as as officers um uh we can just do it with one vote
226if that's if that's the case I'd like to move that we continue the Slate of office officers for following year the next year um do uh do the office holders uh consent uh to that I I'm willing to serve if if I've talked to Ben already he's also willing to serve okay uh sir this is not in person no let's go ahead but I heard several people during the discussions about for how long you've been uh president and that you say that you will be in the board until you don't have kids anymore in school and I think this is the last year you have kids in school that's correct so you're going to keep going and the I'm not going to run for election again he's finishing his term when is your when you
227finish my my term does not end until uh 2025 okay sorry 20 sorry 20 I'm losing track 2027 excuse me okay until until May of 2027 so I will I'm not going to run for election again okay officers will be reelected every year here right okay thank you and if you don't agree you could no no no no I just was curious about it I got to know me you Tori well I was trying to do Sherry but you I'm going to do you okay um I'm not sure does this have to be a roll call or or not I would do a roll call okay let's let's do a roll call then please member langendorf oh okay so so Sher made the motion you're correct is there is there a second for the motion
228second moved and seconded and now we can do a roll call unless there's no any further discussion member broll call please langendorf yes member Jones yes vice president exom yes member Hixon yes member Staten yes president Bowski yes um there is a call for a future uh special meeting a week from today at 6: PM not at 6:30 um superintendent report very quickly um see you around town uh Katherine uh went over to King where the program is happening um there are about 150 students over there learning both in and out of the classroom going on fil trips around town um and um visiting organizations and learning a lot and and doing a lot of great things so that is um for the rest of the month of June so we just wanted to give
229you a few little pictures so you can see how much fun those kids are having over there and then um Mr choa as she was going out mentioned Camp invention so she has been the administrator over Camp invention for several years now it's usually held at Leo which it will be again this year um it's July 8th through the 12th the reason we put it in here is it's normally full by now but there are still some scholarships available so if you're interested um it is a full day program which is really hard to find a free full day program um in our community uh that you know kids get fed they get breakfast they get lunch lunch and they get to be there from 9:00 to 3:30 so there are um not a whole
230lot of scholarships left but there are some and we don't want to leave any on the table so if you're interested follow this link and um your students can attend Camp invention July 8th through the 12th y have a question it can be any students from the district or just element P they have to be yeah it doesn't matter what school they go to yep they take kids from all over the district yep um online registration again is open um and so I just want to encourage people to get in there and register we really we're a little behind where we were last year in terms of our numbers so um we really want to get families in there and get you guys registered before our new families come and register July 31st um the
231our offices are closed I know there have been a lot of uh juneth activities in the community on Saturday and on Sunday um and so tomorrow is the the official juneth holiday and it is a um holiday in the state of Illinois so there is no um none of our programs are happening and central office is closed tomorrow um June 22nd and you have a flyer and tor's probably going to talk a little bit more about this but um Saturday June 22nd is our um neighborhood Jetty roads day in the uh King Park neighborhood um so I'll let Tori talk about that during her board report nope you go ahead yeah um it is something that we have done it's a kind of a staple in our community I don't know how many years we've
232been doing it now but um Tori is directly related to Jetty Ro 26 annual there it is um is uh directly related to Jetty Rose who was a pillar in the king um neighborhood community and so this celebration is um done every year in collaboration with Urbana Park district and the King Park neighborhood and it's just a fun way to come out and have a lot of fun it's going to be hot so bring water and some shade um July 29th registration assistance for our Spanish and French speaking families at Yankee Ridge uh we do this every year um because we know that sometimes going through the registration process does um provide some language barriers and challenges so we have staff available to assist families to walk through the registration process in their native language
233Yankee Ridge from 3 to 7 can of assume but is going to be a possibility to change the name of juny Rich so it's going to be Yankee Ridge multilingual school for now is what we've agreed to with the state yep a lot of community has trouble pronouncing it including myself okay so we can talk about that yeah there's a whole board policy that uh surrounding any sort of facility name change that we would have to follow so um yes so if there's someone who wants to um send a letter or parti you have to have I will send you the board naming um policy language so you have to get so many signatures um and so many letters it's not a lot and then um those come to the board we put together a
234committee and then the facility naming committee kind of determines what the name is and they bring it back to the board but for now um because yep Yankee Ridge multilingual just so people are aware that is the Dual language school now y um and then centralized registration for new families um July 30th from 2: to 6 and July 31st from 9 to 1 and that's it foas yeah there there was one completed Foya um since our last meeting and that was from Tom schroer I am requesting EEOC versus Urbana School District 116 settlement agreement and all invoices for Legal Services pertaining to the case and the precipitating complaints uh board reports so to kick off the board reports tonight is with a initial discussion of our uh Board of Education goals and study topics for
235for next year so we kind of start the discussion tonight and then we'll kind of finish it off at our first meeting when we come back in August these are you know like you know concrete things we want to accomplish as a board next year and specific study topics we want to do this helps Administration kind of plan out our calendar for the whole year so we don't stick a whole bunch of work items and study topics all around the end of the year so kind of even out the length of our meetings if we can so um you want to share Ben I think yeah so so Ben had a study topic he wants us to discuss and and that is let's look at um cell phone policy in our buildings uh do we
236want to consider something a little more stringent including possibly even Banning cell phones in some of our buildings are all of them so that's what been I was thinking as well along those lines having an examination of our social media policy as a district as well we have we have social media accounts that that are used um to promote clubs and groups that aren't really under the ownership of of the district uh we've had instances in the past of of Staff members doing uh you know live broadcast over social media which I'm not exactly comfortable with personally um um so I think kind examination of those policies I think would would would be appropriate anyone else I think then I know this would be the time um regarding kindergarten transition we've done a lot of
237we're going to continue doing a lot of work on supporting the sixth graders in the new Sixth Grade Center and I'd like to see um how we can support kindergarteners so that they can begin in a successful way um I think what I'm concerned about is that many of the these young stud the students coming from Early Childhood are going there and they're uh going to school on a half day and yet we want students to be able to function in a full day program and I just would like to see how they're how they're functioning during the school year next year to see if we can make some any changes um to the kindergarten support um personnel and programs and if we might have to initiate some type of uh um transition from kindergarten
238to first grade if the students are are not capable of of of needeing the learning standards of the learning needs so that they don't continually um I don't want to say fail but have difficulties um so that we can address those before it gets um High grades so we have a kindergarten transition coordinator but one of the things we cut years ago um when we did budget cuts last time is we used to have kindergarten transition staff at every school now we have one person and so we had um you know we had one at every school for a while then we had we went down to three that shared two schools and now we have one and so um that is a really worthwhile topic I think to talk about yeah i' like to
239just see make sure that those children have support so that they can have positive learning experiences and then we also talked about getting parents involved throughout the district and maybe we can address some ways in which we can um have parents come to schools or um come to meetings throughout the entire district and not just little pockets of of parents and also obviously the Strategic plan implementing those I mean I think it's G be the number one task for the for us to accomplish as as a board next year is a strategic plan but go you okay this this may be too specific for what you want but um I would really like to um have us work on ideas about getting kids to to and from school and I'm going to give an example
240I told this to Paul that when I was subbing as a teacher Aid in 2018 there was a family who lived near Yankee Ridge who um had a a child who had some physical uh health issues and he needed someone with him all the time and I was his aid for a a number of days and he would just fall down and um his mom came to school and she and I in kind of getting him um awake uh she and I sat and talked for quite a while and she said how wonderful it was to be close to a school that she could walk to because even if they were late the kids could get to school rather rather if they miss the bus you know but then here she had the sick child
241and there was no way she could get this sick child home um and I would like to see the dist work on are there ways I don't know what we could do could we have a little van could we you know that just help people who don't live close enough to school to get their kids to school it seemed like attendance is you know people were all talking about attendance and I just I would like to see if there are some positive ways that we could say to parents we really need your kid in school and this is what we could can do help you with or something I don't know it would cost some money I'm sure so sure but then seems like it would be supportive like you said of of one of
242the the pillars that all of our buildings had for their for one of their goals so that's great and I'm hoping that it's going to improve because right now we're shipping kids I mean you heard the bus study our transportation study and how we're so inefficiently transporting kids across all the different boundaries because of the overage of the um overflow which we won't be doing that because a lot of those students will be walking to DPW now so that'll help us free up some Transportation so wouldn't that fall in um under wraparound Services as well for each um school try in a specific instance like yeah for a special case like what Jennifer is talking about sure thinking about something um Family engagement and Community engagement to recover a little bit of the trust I
243know that was a lot of saying that we are not um very clear with the community and we there is a way how we can improve our citizen statement time and our interaction with the community I I'm hopeful that we can get some great ideas to come out of the planning process on that but I think also having a specific discussion of that is is important another study topic I we haven't done in my time on the board I think is is overdue is is uh presentation on our industrial arts program or or our trades our trades teaching at arbana I as I think that's something that um I would personally like to see emphasized and grown in our district oh we've been working on it so there are a lot of really good things
244happening yeah so I be that'd be a good highlight yeah we did a little bit about um career and dual credit and but I mean the Mr Westerman at the high school and things that some of them are doing are just phenomenal so yeah just thought maybe um I was thinking even starting this summer working on something where we could you know to get the kids to be engaged before school actually get in because I don't think that they see enough of each other until they get to school and even with the fights they don't even know who they're fighting so I think it would be important to you know kind of engage them before they even start the school maybe just keep up with that you know periodically throughout the year y said L
245you brought up one last time that you I mean I don't want to put words in your mouth did you want to talk about our our um public State citizen statement public statement I know you mentioned it last time is that something you still like to do okay yes yeah yeah okay yeah so we'd have to we have to schedule an actual like policy so usually on our agenda there's usually a spot for for policy discussions and we could we could certainly make sure that's it's on the agenda policy one yeah that's on the agenda or on an agenda probably do it earlier in the year yeah early in the year yeah I mean I just feel like it's not practical I feel like it's not practical to have two hours of public statements with
246repetitive topic and five minutes each I know is important it's a way for us but also limitate as an extended or or more time so I think we'll be more efficient if there is a way of straight commun Direct communic ation with uh the the community and not just sitting here listening understood and there are other things like city council and other districts do they set time limits so public comment is an hour at the beginning and then you come back to it at the end or set certain number so I think there are a lot of different models out there that the board can talk about what they' like to do anybody else this is just an initial discussion so you know take your your month off in June in July and if you're
247if you're thinking about specific things we want to do next year we'll have an opportunity to kind of finalize this list at our first meeting in August I think I think mine have already been set Career and Technical Edge Ed programs and Partnerships dual enrollment I wouldn't mind seeing um hearing more about technology use in the classroom yeah even if it's just something brief I mean I don't need a huge report I had a bunch written down um but as I looked at it it's all stuff that's covered at some point in somebody's report so I didn't have a ton of um of new things to to add you know my list is pretty much stuff we're kind of already hearing about well this is a good time for us to talk about technology use
248in the classroom specifically because we've been w won for a while but um now we're going to be shifting to new curriculum and you know what's that going to look like and especially at the elementary level so there is something else that I I'm been thinking I just don't know how to phrase it but I see that the um Middle School is having a lot of trouble when violence in all those fights and also vaping not so sure how the board can address that or what what we can propose for that for for Vaping vaping and and violence so at your talking specifically midle school yeah oh yeah we've been talking a lot about that so that is an ongoing conversation do you be doing specifically like changes to the the the I'm not so
249sure like maybe adding know extra stuff consuling mentoring um related with prevention of those violence because we know that the kids read that violent from the community and we cannot really do much in the community but if we prevent that those conflicts can come back to the to the school as well as vaping and I know vaping and drugs comes from Home and Community but I feel like as a school we should be able to do something I agree this is all great anyone else okay um we'll revisit this again um in August uh let's continue on with board reports Jetty roads day is uh the Saturday it is a 100% free event uh free food starts at 12:15 we will have grilled hot dogs chicken chips sides cookies drinks um so that's until we
250run out usually by about 3 we're usually out but we we order a good deal of it um we have a Barbecue Cookoff that will be happening um that is uh I think we have maybe six contestants right now for that so they'll be cooking both ribs and chicken we'll have some judges um our MC for this year is Michael Turner um we are honoring uh four individuals uh the first is Dr will Patterson who of course has passed away um but he is being honored uh Herbert Bernett is being honored um Curtis Blandon senior who is a CO coach in Urbana um and then K moton who is a student in Urbana uh so lots of Urbana representation um we do have a couple of dance performances including um urbana's uh the high school
251group will be in on the afternoon side of the performances um and yeah we've got lots of great things going on we give out tons of uh free Raffles so we'll be giving away some bikes tons of toys um some gift cards um so yeah it'll be a good time it will be hot um there are 7 six I believe organizations um that will be there handing out information on everything I mean we've got the city is there Carl's there parkland's there um pretty much every agency that gives some sort of help within the community will be there and a lot of them will also have giveaways at their tables and games that kids can play we have a dunk tank we have an obstacle course um the police department and the fire department will
252be both there with kids able to get in and out of their vehicles um their bana Park District will be there with irvana um Public Health has a new um a new van kind of um mobile um they'll be there as well um and we're also doing a blood drive at the same time a sorority and fraternity um will have um impact life there to do a blood drive so huge event again completely free to the community so that is from 12: until 4: at King Park in Arana that's awesome yeah any other board reports well U last time I talked about the Urbana pops Orchestra and they will have their uh performance on YouTube and I just hope that you'll I'll send out the the link once once they post it that's amazing Rising
253Junior that we have in our community who is a phenomenal pianist and I think everybody was just just so inspired and so um felt privileged to watch and play he's he's just so talented and I think that he's he's gonna have a terrific career if that's what he wants to go into but yes I I really encourage you to watch that because we're pretty impressive student but and also um regarding the pantry because it's summer school at the high school I've continued offering food to in the Commons during lunch between 11:30 and 12 on Thursdays and then I I'll also be in the uh pantry and students can come in shop after school from 1 to 1:30 so I hope students who are interested in getting some food for the weekend um can come and
254get some thank you any anyone else go ahead um the University of Illinois will be offering teach Academy July 17 18 and 19 and I'll forgot to bring the brochure but the middle day the SE the 18th July 18th will be the person who developed our new illustrative math and um you have to be signed up for the whole conference and that's for teachers but the 9:00 a.m. Keynote is open to the community so if anybody is interested I thought you might want to put that on your calendar but I will bring the and there's the um Ladon Billings who was a pretty famous researcher she'll be there one day and um anyway I just thought people might want to put get that on their calendar that's great thank you anyone else I hearing none
255the chair would entertain a motion to adjourn second all in favor say I I I guess we're done we'll see you in a week at 6 p.m thank you