001the for stands one nation God indivisible And Justice For allk You Mr roll call Joel Johnson here El cly here Natalie meld here Joseph Quinn here Mary Shelt here Ali stanbury here Robin Taylor here moves to item three consent agenda unless there are any questions I will need a motion to approve consent agenda is submitted so mov second Quinn yes meld yes C yes Shelt yes stanbury yes Taylor yes Johnson yes item four public input we have one Jessica bis Jessica biss I have four kids that have gone through the district I still have two in uh one one d157 and one at nsd2 uh January 10th requested a copy of the desial 10year life and safety report and the additional facility study report uh performed by World Architects the facility study was added to
002the denal report to help update the long-term facility report my for request for the facility study was denied based on this response if opinion policy or action is being formulated the report does not have to be released I was informed that once the long-term facility report was adopted I could receive a copy however there's no indication as to when the long-term facility report or plan I apologize long-term facility plan will be completed or if you have even started working on the long-term facility plan another important point that has not been brought up again since February of 20124 is that Allison from W recommended an observational study to find out what's going on with the foundation of the building at nms after discovering buckling settling and cracked walls she said this would be a separate study
003not included with any other report or assessment that have been completed or approved when was this study completed you have spent taxpayer money on roof repairs or replacement and new AC units while you are unsure of the structural Integrity of the building in nms the building could be compromised we cannot afford a new school building and are not taking care of the one we have if we don't know the full condition of it especially what we cannot see I'm asking you to do what is right by the students teachers and staff and ensure their safety very much okay there to the next public input so I will [Music] ask everyone I'd like to introduce you to and this is hade herkus ly congratulations the board Hade is our script spelling be winner from fifth grade
004uh she won with the word foyer f o y e r excellent I met her in the Foy this evening with her lovely family to join her tonight in Hand by the way she is still carrying because she's going to competition March 19th in the county she's got her list and she is studying daily and nightly so um want to wish her congratulations on her job well done exciting that she's meeting at the uh county level coming up next month and wish her all the best we know she's congratulations thank you very much all right item five we have one [Music] more too sorry I'm sorry um I like to have my young lady come up to Mrs Lavar you come up please I was wondering what can you be at the board yeah I
005you never know what I'm up to know so um I wanted to recognize U Mrs laar um as you know we are preparing for the IR test next week third fourth and fifth grade um as well as the middle school but um you may have been noticing some lot of uh social media posts both at RJ and us about our students preparing for the IR through whether it's a boot camp or uh spring training U my fifth grade's doing space um as well and stuff so um that idea really generated from Mrs Lavar she's been doing that um for our third grade for many many years and so it was kind of her plan that we back we we used to do these activities this week so I really thought she really needed to be
006recognized um because it does add extra um time on her and she was working with the staff um at both buildings to to really help get this um set in a great Direction so I just wanted to to thank her and um she loves Starbucks so I [Applause] think than you thank you for all your hard work absolutely your drink options are going to be more limited at Starbucks now moving but the rest of them that remain are still good there it'll be okay abely okay now that it moves to item five um please stop me if you have any questions uh item 5.1 Revenue expenditure report 5.2 fund balance uh comparison report 5.3 special education Revenue expenditure report 5.4 impress report 5.5 Transportation report the 5.6 administrative report starting with 5.6.1 superintendent report all
007right right thank you everybody um a couple things I just want to clear up so that that there's no confusion in the public and the first one will be on the building we did have Structural Engineers look at that world has gone through it um the middle school is not buckling cracking or breaking it's a 75y old building there's been issues uh it has been uh proven to be safe and our students are safe in it we do have a long-term facility plan that we're working off from I don't know I'd have to look at the year 2020 2022 I think we might have updated the pricing yeah that has set our guide as to how to best spend the district's money we know there's a lot of things that need to be fixed that's
008no secret what we do is we take the money we have and we continue to fix roofs we continue to fix the schools update them clean them and we know that eventually we're going to need to push for a larger sum of money to deal with the large projects that need to be done so I do want to make sure everybody understands that that we do have Structural Engineers we do look at those things and schools are safe the 10-year denial report has been released um the latest uh long-term facility study plan has not been released because it has been updated there have been some new things added to it and right now we are um focused on our 10-year um uh I guess we call them letter A fixes the things we have one
009year to get fixed I believe there's about $800,000 doll that we have to get done in the next year year and a half to get that cleaned up so that's what we'll be reporting on a little bit tonight we will as soon as the um building a grounds team gets back together um and we get to the point with wber we feel that that is ready to be released we certainly will but I'd invite the public to go look at the uh 2022 I wanted to say that's when it was version of our long-term facility PL it's the same one we're working off now um so what am I reporting on tonight our uh RGS we've been replacing uh where we have the door that's going to be replaced in the back by the fifth
010grade Wing it's a double door with Windows that'll be done over spring break we are also looking we're going to after 30 years uh attack the library at RGS we had some leaks from a pipe in the sprinkler system we fixed that we thought this would be a great time to repaint it uh take the carpet out over the summer replace the carpet and really make it uh kind of the show place again that it's supposed to be it's very good now but we have an opportunity to clean it make it a little brighter a little refresh for our students so we're going to do that um some of the other things we're working on right now over spring break uh or is it spring break for the gym Mr Link are we going to
011paint that we're going to start the painting process so we'll be painting the entire gymnasium bright brighten that up we're going to have floor work as you know that the floor had buckled a little bit in the middle that was because the Expansion Joints need to be cut into it so we'll be having work done on both RGS and nms floor over spring break and then this summer we'll be redoing both those floors so the gym will get all new painting it'll get um you know more wraps more school spirit brighter things like that um and then moving on to our our life safety A's we will uh be looking at locker room fixes more fire sensors uh we're looking at the RGS East swing sprinkler system as well as many other things later in
012the meeting I'll talk about um as far as our school and the quality and condition of them yeah I'm glad that was brought up yeah earlier but I think back to the life safety plan because there was a really in-depth analysis that was done in the buildings and I don't recall but was there a any in the a b or c categories where the foundation was an issue no the foundation cracks are they came from some settling um and we had had water uh underneath that area the stairwell that's what that was it was about 5 years ago um and we fixed it but then we just had some settling that caused cracking so the the structural engineers they got underneath they look at it they test everything and uh if you remember when we
013did this we sent out an email to the parents that let them know um we were really overly cautious on it we don't want to make anybody uh be put in danger or anything like that but that school's 100% safe as far as structure goes it didn't come up in the Life Safety review no no any questions for Dr okay now mov to 5.6.2 assistant superintendent curriculum report good evening everyone um the updates we have for tonight the first one talks about the onboarding of recommendation from the curriculum committee to on board two new products one being reveal now for uh K8 math and the other one ISL for ELA reading and math diagnostic SE we'll talk about a lot about that later on so uh we'll get back to that one um PLC teams
014are doing a great job creating their scope and sequence and then creating common form assessments other things that we did um Mr Shaker and I earlier this week went to the NIU job fair for Teacher recruitment for both District 2 and 157 we about 10 jobs between both districts um looking for positions it's an awesome event there's well over um 75 school districts there the downside of it was and this is kind of a difficult thing to say but there's only about 125 candidates teacher candidates walking through um and give you kind of a perspective and this is years and years ago and different everything when I started teaching there's probably about 5,000 students there buying for jobs lines 20 30 people deep um there was not one line in the whole place to go
015talk to school district so it was a little bit Eerie um but we Al also know that there's you know teacher shortages happening around the country um didn't think it would be that drastic when we were there but uh we did we did our best talking to kids you know kind of the great after school programs like hey come over here let's talk talk to us so we did that talked to a lot of students next thing is the coat testing is in April that the second grade teachers administer for our one of our diagnostic uh benchmarks for accelerating classes any questions for Dr 5.6.3 nms principle report good even good evening everybody U so here to report uh that uh on Friday March 14th nipping Middle School be going back to the uh MCC
016career quest uh this is something that our students went to last year um and I got nothing but positive feedback essentially what happens our kids get they take some assessments uh for which a career they'd like to go into uh prior to going over uh when they go over um they have opportunity to talk to different people in different career paths engage in MCC programs talk to Professionals in those fields uh the kids really liked it last year not everybody gets to go it's kind of a sign up uh you know those that sign up first get a chance to go I'd be impressed if anybody signed up faster than we did uh we did get in and uh looking forward to that I did not get to attend last year I am looking forward
017to going to it this year um the only way I wouldn't go is if something awful happens so I hope to be there and uh and and um be a part of that for school celebrations um our music department hosted the solo and Ensemble contest uh we had students who scored a performance and given a rating of a one two or three the students who received a one or perfect score are listed here uh on our on my report uh I did get pictures for this but I got them after I submitted my report so I apologize that they're not a part of the report um and also after this I did want to announce that uh in athletics our seventh grade girls basketball team won conference this year and uh our eighth grade girls
018basketball team finished second uh in the conference and both teams Advanced past the second round tonight in their tournaments so it's been a good couple weeks thank you any questions for Mr um I did have one question um there were some parent concerns that I had become aware of over kids doing gym and some doing health and it was kind of inconsistent and parents were concerned maybe the kids weren't getting enough of that Health time can you speak to that a little bit so we've had uh illnesses and we've had a lot of subs and there's been a lot of scrambling for sure and I think all schools can can relate to that um and at the same time we've encouraged we want our our PE teachers to take the kidss to the gym we
019essentially we do not want 11 and 12 year olds sitting in classrooms all day long without moving for five or six weeks for five days is a lot so we've asked them to take the kids to the gym just they've got to move at some point because it gets asking an 11-year-old to sit in the classroom all day long or a 12-y old I think is is too much so we've asked them to break up the class to allow the kids to move we don't have recess it's February you know it's hard to get them some exercise so we had broken it up but they're still getting their six weeks of absolutely yeah yes we get there six weeks okay thank you any other questions from Mr that was 5.6.4 RGS principal rep hello again
020everybody uh we had another incredible month at RGS starting out with pill project uh the ponic family uh who are certified in this area did the project with our third grade students uh where they learn together about how to leave the home in emergency situation have Locas and plan with them uh to help protect their family so the kids enjoyed that and we appreciate the coding and the third grade team for putting that together we're also embarking on our awesome March Madness we have an incredible committee that puts This Together uh with some fantastic books we started with our sweet and we're narrowing it down there's uh videos that staff get to use with students kids get to vote uh and we are narrowing it down to a select group of great literature children's literature
021a variety of different things a variety of different books and authors which is awesome uh Chicago W mascot cman speaking of reading literacy to uh the building as well after I submitted my last report uh and so it was really cool to have him in the building and they did reading as well we are kicking it off thank you for Kim's help as well for um I Readiness we are in the midst of our boot camp currently we've been dressing up and all sorts of fun things to help help kids remember their strategies uh so for instance like wear a hat to help cover parts of uh the question that you make sure you're covering all the parts of the question today was pajama day rest relax before you take an exam or test uh
022tomorrow we have uh sweat St don't sweat the test it's okay take a deep breath and then Friday we're back to RGS and U because are doing all sorts of good things too so it's been great to just prepare for testing next week we've had the NZ assembly which is our assembly uh which was a great connection to help kids again think about their feelings uh as we approach testing because that could be a high anxiety piece we've already recognized caty this evening uh we had a first grade in kindergarten concert which was cuteness overload they did a great job their theme was about literacy in the library so we've been very much all about that and then we also had uh our PBIS celebration which was uh the kids earned uh bo games in
023the classroom and because we've been doing chess in the building after school that's been a big poll uh so the kids were doing a lot of chest and then uh the kids got to dress us as well so that was fun walk around with what kids picked out for staff to wear we look hysterical it very good any questions for this to okay to 5.6.5 Su for support um so I already talked a little bit about our I assessment um coming up so um I think everybody knows next week and the week after so um we won't talk any more about that but um School celebrations this is always my one of my favorite days is um the 100th day of school and kindergarten um never disappoints um they do all these fun uh and
024engaging activities throughout the day um you know they they're doing Hands-On learning experiences all around the number 100 and um this year a lot of them made their own shirts um as well at home and the one I pictur it was my favorite shirt of the day and actually I believe his kindergarten teacher in the audience tonight um is that yours no it's no I was the other one all right but pushing uh my teachers buttons for 100 days I thought that was great shirts out there um just wonderful um I snuck in there and they had Parents helping doing some activities as well so um it's always a great day and um I they've always been good now to remind me that it's the 100 day so I don't forget either that my day
025is just blend together it seems like but um it's always a fun time very good thank you any questions from okay 5.7 requests none this one Mo to item six old business which believe we have none Mo to item seven new business with 7.1 uh approval for the increase of student lunch fees by 10 cents as recommended so is there any questions on this top okay then I would need a motion to approve the increase in student lunch fees by 10 cents as recommended motion second Shelt yes mayfeld yes stanburry yes kch yes Taylor yes Quinn yes Johnson yes now moves to item 7.2 which is approved resolution N Middle School transition classroom new bank account yes so this bank account will go for our our students in transition special education for life skills what
026we do is put a small amount of money in the account and they get the debit card and part of their assignment is to go to the store purchase things and it's a it's a life skill kind of um way of teaching how to do certain things like that and so rather than use the school credit card we want to create an account just for that group that they can use very cool so previously it has just been school credit card yeah I believe scho credit card a little bit um when a little bit of cash from the parents um or the teacher would put it on her own personal um so generally there's not more than $100 in this account um we have the same experience at high SCH except for it is not
027tied to any of our other bank accounts this is a separate bank account that uh so to it it's nothing happens to the rest of our accounts gotta and it's just one account with a bunch of debit cards assigned to it just one card just one just one card yeah just one just one and they before before they go to the store they have a very specific detailed corre items they have to purchase any questions for S how often do we replenish that is it just has needed so usually it's every month sometimes other month depending on what the curriculum is and like at the beginning of the school year there's not a lot of transactions but as the kids start figuring out how to go to the store and buy you know milk and
028stuff like that then they'll start it this is more of the heavier time because they they they concluded that kind of stuff so and then um they'll keep the receipts when the bank statement comes the kids get a copy of the bank statement and so does the teacher and she teaches them kind of how to reconcile um you know life skills kind of so yeah there's not we don't keep a lot of money in them for and this will also remove the need for parents to have to fund enough to have to reimburse any other questions for IT s okay I need a motion to approve resolution for Middle School transition classroom new bank account so second Quinn yes Shelt yes Taylor yes Stanberry yes K yes meld yes Johnson yes now moves item 7.3
029approve nms summer roof Improvement bid yeah so we went through um working with our engineers and uh we had actually a really good bid with this um we had several biders a lot of times you always wonder how many are going to show up if you get two or three it's not always so good but we have quite a few and uh our low bid actually is from a local company that we've used at both districts and they've worked great for us um the picture I have up right now basically everything in blue is going to be removed um and uh replaced uh inside underneath the overhang uh they will go in and uh renew that and I can kind of you can see here on this picture the wear the tear the damage underneath
030it this Stone Face right here needs to come off there is a spus We Believe behind it because of the the year it was put in it's an easy abatement because it's outside it's large panels so we'll have that taken care of all this lighting will be taken out underneath will be taken out LEDs will be put in it'll be gutters will be put in and the big thing will be the the entire roof um over here will be replaced so again staying with our schedule taking the grants that we get from the state taking the money that we can save in budget um we're slowly getting all the rips replaced at nms you will see in there for an alternative bid uh came in at $22,000 it's this section right here um which is
031significantly lower than we thought it would be replacing all of this um and it'll be done at the same time the blue and the roof is done then what we'll also do is work on having a wrap put around it so where the blue is now it'll be something like a Nippers syn night kind of wrap for school pride and kind of brighten it up clean the back entry up and I I think it's going to make a big Improvement and that area is also where we've had that water issue so again we're taking care of one more of the issues that causes some of the water Mr L did you have anything to add to it you were part of the process um basically everything that you see structurally is staying the same um
032but basically we're just going to be updating all the electrical all the insulation everything it's going to be TPM roping so we are going to have that lifetime warant 20 year warant warranty so this will be another maintenance free kind of condition yeah and we we had them when they were out look at the structural Integrity of the overhang and it's fine that was something we had to look at that'll be a summer project that'll be a summer project y with this one we didn't anticipate any hidden scares when we opened it up so yeah this was pretty straightforward right there can always be that you know one thing when you get in there that you didn't know but I I think we're pretty good on this we can get in and see everything so
033you mentioned guttering where will the drain go cuz I know that's where we have right here through here all that will will continue to go out and it'll run away from the building yeah is there a drain in that parking lot uh there is there there is I'm not sure where it's at it should be pitched to go to it we do have water settling along the building that's pretty typical with a building this age and other buildings around the same age but um we'll have to deal with that when we uh do some black copy well at least there the guttering will help push it from the building yeah right now it's it's going into the gutter running over the gutter and so it's kind of coming down by the building so this will
034push it out further okay there's it's not one of these pictures there's one you can kind of see the comes see comes down and then goes right onto a stoop where there's stairs let see so we're obviously going to try get that cleaned up so we don't have sleep think it might be this one uh facial replacement you see the gutter there facial replacement yeah yeah that yeah right that right hand so this side yeah on the right hand side over there okay this this is that plywood that'll be replacing that's been there for for a long time and it's not my favorite let me try one usually doesn't last well oh it's ENT let's try this one right here to see if we can see it I keep clicking on but yeah you're right
035on the far right side it'll come down the gutter will be replaced and it'll come out so it won't be an issue anymore any questions on 7.3 was this budgeted this year M yeah so this is part of what we're you know our annual we take one large one of the large issues and tackle it each summer um and then anything that we can find that is connected to that like to get an alternative bid for and so that's why that other door entryway we put into this alternative bit okay yeah that kind of stacks on for what we as a board kind of for of you know we said hey obviously number one is all those plan a that we yes that's primary goal at this point so this you know we're getting all
036those plan A's of what we can do internally along with yeah then what is that big project that also alleviates some of those PL so this is one of the projects that as we rely on our our professionals internally of this is an area that we think we need to really drive towards for for safety and life of the building this was one of the big ones so that we can actually do any questions can I ask um they came in quite a bit below the other are we concerned at all about them like cutting any Corners that low price Manel we're not worried about we've used them before okay and then every time we get a a low bid um our Engineers from W go and vet the bid so they make sure whatever
037was bid that is in their cost to us so that they don't switch something out that would be cheaper we always go through that um you know so and then if we do have a company and this has happened where we've had problems then we just don't we kick their bid out so we're we're good with this one and W looks at this line item and light it you know every part that's ordered the cost that's going to you know labor cost to install they look at every line item just to make they go through every line they even they even will on some of the companies that you're less known we have one at um District 157 we had never heard of that came in significantly low and they go back and look at
038previous jobs they've done talk to people as well as examine what materials they're going to use so we try to do our best with any of the previous contractors that have come in a little bit and one and caused us issues we've had one more recent different project with with a air conditioner and it's just been nightmare after nightmare after Nightmare and call and so that that contractor can no longer be part we Sten them allowance because of the problems so that's competitive bidding right now so what you'll see is some of the bids are pretty high this is a small job for most of those companies and so when it's a small job if they don't have something in the area or whatever they'll bid it high you know and this is pretty competitive
039and no concerns about building material costs going up between now um well it's locked in with this so once we approve it if it goes up that's not on our end yeah but yeah we are concerned about that know it's in a year but so hopefully if they're smart they're ordering now yeah yeah any other questions was this Roofing piece one of those phases of the roof that we was it face two or trade oh I have to go back and look this is one we actually wanted to tackle last year um but the project was so much bigger last year we knew that we had to come back this summer so what we did is we wanted to take care of all that blue board and everything along with it and new lighting so
040any other questions now we need a motion to approve summer roof Improvement bid to nuso General Contracting Incorporated in the amount of $233,900 [Music] 7.4 5year projection reports so when we do this the DDS can explain um we look at where we're at and then we hold our revenues fairly low because we don't know necessarily what revenues will be year to year um and then we add a multiplier cost of living type multiplier each year going forward um so it's kind of a worst case scenario if revenues flatten out and costs continue to go up then uh before you would allow yourself to get to year two or three you would have to look at some other efficiency issues um but the one thing I want to do is if you've been following along with
041our um uh month-to month where we were last year at this time you're seeing that our fund balances are again increasing and going in the right direction which is Lou us um to to do some of these projects and it's really to the to the hard work of everybody in the schools budgets have gotten tighter um and a lot of things have people have put in and and we're kind of saving some money now which is really nice compared where we were so go ahead so the very column on the left is the fund and the fund name as you go down in the four sections uh 20 fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 202 are the white uh ones on the left hand side those are actual audited numbers pull from the audit that
042bronze color in the middle is that says fiscal year 25 is the actual budget that is the fiscal year that we are in now um year one it says Levy down the top of it because we have levied um in December for those revenues it's not going to match the levy completely because I went ahead and estimated the rest of the revenue we receive besides the and then um the expenditures for 2026 are a estimate um as well as fiscal year 27 28 29 in 2030 for the revenues I added a 3% and for the expenditures I added I added 4% going forward um so the first section is your revenues the second section is your expenditures your third section is the section that you really want to focus on because that's your result of
043operations that is your revenues minus your expenditure so that in theory will be what you're adding or subtracting from your fund balance which is in the fourth section um you've heard me say this before when you get out more than than year two year three we start getting into some really really unknown territory um year four and year five I am uh purely guesstimate at at this point I can't tell you what's going to happen but for trending purposes um we use the % and the 4% um this 3% revenues 4% corre and this from uh for year one and year two is the stuff that we know is known as a given for right now with the information that we have on hand as of today's St so and it's a good exercise to
044take a look at if all things you know stay 3% revenues 4% expenditures um of course are you know outside of uh the normal things in in a school that costs money we do spend significant money on our our repairs on our HVAC and we know that so that's where yeah and it's been like that for quite a while so um until we have all that repairs you're going to see um that plan take a little bit more money all of your Asser funding is uh a year and a half behind us so that's the reason why you'll see on that first uh 2023 you'll see a great a great um uh balance and in revenues as we go forward because that was all the s funding so next year this time the S money
045Willet fall off um we have gotten word from the state that title money is going to be cut by uh about 25% again so and then our cppt is going to be cut Again by another 30% so um we're look looking for a major Revenue stream will be taxes one of the things too we're going to continue through um attrition and we'll have another um savings through attrition at the end of this year due to retirements and things like that so um as we continue to become more efficient and and bring programs together I think we're adjusting to a smaller population it's helping too there any questions I thank you very much now moves to item 7.5 committee updates 7.5.1 building grounds committee um so we're continuing to meet uh as you've kind of been
046seeing you know it's kind of been a lot of different things going on times l a lot of different stuff which SP on the past the roofing project um we're still working really hard to get debt next long-term facility um brought forward to the board uh we're not there quite yet we're still waiting on a few more numbers to come in figure out some of the Minor Adjustments of where which direction we can and cannot go um because we what we want to bring to the board is something that is a little more like this is we've looked at every Avenue we' looked at what we can can't do um and what that would mean for how we can move forward over the next five 10 or even 20 years um obviously as we look
047at you know 10 or 20 that's it's impossible to really determine but um you know especially the big five is is where we where really should have some ideas of this is where we need to kind of go um so we'll keep driving I know there's another we're looking to try and get another in couple weeks trying to just be rapid and keep going um so should have ability to be able to come back uh next next month with uh this is so any questions anything you want to add Chris it's where we're at almost a 7.5.2 curriculum Comm yeah so um had a good meeting we had some conversations around you know how to better support eel intervention with uh you know the the the challenges that we have within scheduling at schools um
048had a healthy conversation around that more to come on that a good part of our conversation was spent on the curriculum review team and looking at U Ela programs mathematical programs diagnostic testing if you think back to like five or six months ago before the turn of the year um and even before that in the summer of last year we were given this presentation of all the different apps and these different programs the schools use and there's a ton of overlap at times and things of that nature and uh you know with Dr endri and folks on the committee they came together did a really good job of diving into the programs that they think they need and they have now and programs that they believe will help better enhance the education of our students
049and I kind of turn it over to you uh to describe that in a bit more detail because I'll fumbled it that's why I have handouts so um read the handout from the curc committee so I'm just kind of walk through and talk about some of the highlights and how the curriculum team landed on the two products that we're going to go with for next year so um the purpose of the team was to uh streamline some of our products that we have uh reduce costs make it more efficient for our testing and Diagnostics and then the results that are more usable for our uh teachers so the team members and I always applaud them um and these are classroom teachers special education teachers accelerated teachers building Administration so Denise Christensen Amanda Edelman Jennifer Hamlin
050who's here with us tonight hether theel miss Lavar is with us as well um Janelle McCrae Amanda mono Heidi nilo Stacy Peterson Kelly red Chris Wagner Brandon cson Laura tobery Chris Pitman and Carrie Walter so we met started meeting in September we met on and off in person online uh through emails through surveys um we saw each other a lot at uh vendor presentations um for the next couple months after that so the process was we looked at all of our products that we have and tried to identify based on what the teachers experiences with this see what their effectiveness they feel the effectiveness is so we looked at those things so you'd see some charts in there about Ela first and um the team leaders went back to their teams asked their teams so
051sometimes they just there was a whole team responding sometimes there was multiple people responding um but the outcomes for ELA and reading were um most of the staff looked at the the uh I ready uh program that we had and strongly disagreed and its Effectiveness and its ability to support students um so we they also felt this a wonders which is a product that we have was a good product we should probably still invest some time into those those areas the other products that we went through our um study sync is a middle school um uh Ela program but from learning a down to news Ela those are all supplemental products that we have um so we're not really going to touch those as much except for one that's going to be eliminated because of
052one of the recommendations that we have so they looked at those gave us feedback on which ones um they feel is over the best for us we did the same thing with math um with math the programs that we have are listed at the bottom um I Renaissance EXL reflex extra and McGraw Hill mcra Hill is a middle school product but it was overwhelming forl and that program uh to support students so we said well what other products could be out there that we want to review so that's on the next page which is the reviewed programs for ELA and reading we looked at common lit I ready Eureka study sink and wonders and on math we looked at amplify Eureka Glen Co maath ready math and reveal math after we looked at those things
053we had um meetings with the with the sales reps we went through a set of questions that we had for them we identified narrow down the two companies that we wanted to dive in little bit deeper on and that's on the next page which is Ela and reading uh nms was common lit in study sync study think is a current product that they have the team leaders then looked at they had used the rubric that ranged from does it uh relate to standards is it engaging for students what are the reports look like is it cost effective and the numbers that you see on there are out of num so common lit was 41 out of 50 and study sync was 35 36 out of 50 so we looked at saying common link is the
054the best product that the team wants to use for ELA map moving forward with RGS and SG with wers it's not new program but we also have to think that if we're onboarding a possible math and reading program for their our elementary teachers that would be overwhelming for them it wouldn't be fair for them to try to get through both of those programs in one year uh the thought is that we've worked with wonders for a number of years everyone's comfortable with wonders we'll stick with the current product we have there but we'll move over to reveal map and away from I ready map for the K5 uh level at the height at the middle school they thought felt the same thing um two products they looked at was glun map which is the one
055they have now or real map and they felt this real map provided more opportunities for students to learn uh both at grade level at interventions and accelerated uh so the numbers there were 39 out of 60 and 28 out of 60 um so those are the final program results that the team went through over three and a half months of pretty intense looking at different products so the next page talks about the uh recommendation is that we want to move forward with common lit for uh nms we're going to stick with wonders for RGS and SG for nms it's going to be reveal map and reveal map for RGS and SG as well uh the upside of that is that and then we have Contin on K8 the same math program for our students so
056they understand the product really well moving forward so that's where the team landed um I sent out last week um the team uh during our um goal setting meeting stud we could send out the stuff ahead of time so we sent it out last week I had the links on there for the rationale for why the teams chose the certain uh products so I'll stop there I said a lot about Ela and math what type of questions and let me throw one other thing in too sorry uh before you before you might be a question that you asked when we're looking at the products that we have and removing and adding products in so we we remove ready all our all the I ready curriculum Associates products which adds up to about $63,000 we remove
057no red ink which is about $5,600 with those two moved out and moving in the new products we only save about $2,000 this year but it's an onboarding year so you're always going to buy more things in the first onboarding year so we get less and less as years go on now we have questions you have for so this as we move so we're been utilizing I ready for a while and I know there a lot of the reports you come up with and as we've been watching are we progressing in a positive way negative way what impacts we may feel if there's a is any differentiation from previous years now moving towards a different system will we be able to still be somewhat seamless in our what we've been trying to track over the
058years in our testing results or do you think that it'll just be totally different they're not sorry go ahead Mr I was I'll I'll add from my perspective from what I've seen and then you can add on to that it will look different for sure I think the first thing that you'll notice with the Diagnostics being moved to uh this new program um you'll you'll see that you'll have the the national level and then you'll have your school the state won't be there but we still have our annual Diagnostics that provide us comparisons to the state as this program grows ISL grows it'll add the state level impacts there too uh but you're you're what I found very interesting is that when they complete these they get the feedback far quicker than what they do
059with I they provide Diagnostics far quicker than what they do with I ready right now and it Dives deeper into not just where maybe some deficiencies were but more specifics around where the deficiencies were and how they can improve upon those deficiencies and then in regards to some of the programming like reveal math you actually went into that or that wasl actually you went into that it's a really cool data aggregate site and so it can go out there into reveal into I ready and pull a lot of the substances from the textbooks from dozens and dozen of different programs as part of the questionnaire set that the students will be taking and he ran us through some live examples of some math questions and it was kind of neat to see as they went
060through and they did these math questions if they got it right it was a big congratulations but if they got it wrong it actually drove down into two three if the math question was difficult four and five steps as to here's why it was wrong but here's how you could have gotten to the right answer by showing the formulas and the steps to complete those formulas and so I found it to be very intuitive I love the fact that it can grab data from a ton of different sites to provide to the question set and I liked how it drw drilled down into uh the Diagnostics of where children do need to spend more time learning on the subject yeah so then the in addition to that um when you're driving down into what are
061when we look at the reports vocabulary is vocabulary um so there so on the next page in we do a comparison between ISL and I and what uml offers and what I offers some are very similar which they should be but then in addition we have a writing component fractions component inl that isn't uh as prevalent in IR so yeah that's a next section for sure sorry I didn't mean need jump so I have a question ISL just the Next Generation then we've been using I ready for a while is I Exel a new program is that why we're looking at something it's newer far better it's it's it's far better it's not it's not new it's not a flash in the fan kind of thing new but it is far better because uh like
062Mr BR said when this the teacher can actually see okay um uh Denise is really struggling in fanatic awareness sorry so sorry is multi multi fractional steps so then they can see okay Denise this is this is the arena you're work in your uh you're going to work in your student Arena and they go in there and they do their work in there and then teacher can assign from that skill band from that standard band additional problems that Denise can work on to get through U that part of it so that's a that's an opportunity that we don't have necessar and I ready and that's what teachers are giving feedback on that they really like that kind of thing or Pat is isn't so good at literary analysis just constructive feedback yes so take it
063personally I feel really relieved that you know Denise is getting this extra so how long have we used I ready um so with ready math it's been five years and with the overall I ready it's been probably since 15 or 16 Chris your your local probably around 13 14 yeah we at Spring gr we've been using ISL longer than the other buildings we compiled it we probably hadl 8 n years I want to say we've been using some shape or formo as well so yeah I was going to say I remember I Exel from my son going through and watching the data that's why I was kind of I've heard from other districts like as we go to the um uh the conferences and stuff where they'll talk about L and I heard more about
064EXL that I heard I ready and I asked somebody you know was like well okay why do you gol and they said well why do you do ir and I was like gives us numbers you know like it's it's working you know it's we're we're seeing Trends we're seeing this so but I've never been able to do the dive of like what you're showing where it's like here's the results here's this and it sounds like we can be more proactive with our students rather reactive of hey we finished our fall testing we're compiling data compiling data here's our results you know so that's really cool going yeah I I like that that's and and so yeah what some of the teacher experience that we kind of want to record those as well so some of
065the teacher experiences that they can see the real time student progress inl versus I already just like you said um the testing areas as a great engagement factor for students and so when they go and they start actually working on the things that they see is is where their struggle is they know it's a lot easier for them to know this is where I stand in math and fifth grade if they have a score of 540 so it's fifth grade 540 is 40% through the school year so it's a it's a kind of it's a more direct way for students student friendly way they understand where they are and then the student experiences that it likes if they like it because they tell them what's right and wrong right away and he shows me what
066they did that's right or wrong or I enjoy it better the prize it gives you on I like the prizes it gives you on skills so the engagement factor is a large piece that students really enjoy yeah and there's a page in here too where it Compares ISL to I ready and you it ranks it like you know one through 10 you can see all the one through fives for I ready and you can see all the you know seven through 10 for forl it's a small data set but I I I get it because when you read the verbatims and then you showed us the problems inl and when we got one of them wrong you had the option to do Andor a video tutorial or to click on some links to do some
067additional learning as to how to get to the answer of some of the problems and I know that one of the students said I love the fact that didn't just have to watch a video you know I I had other sources to go out there and try and find the education that I needed to to get to the content that I needed in order to learn the subject and other benefit sorry diagnostic test is way shorter onl that's right say 45 minutes to an hour instead of some students 2 to 3 days and it's intuitive if you if I recall because you'll have the you'll have the the fall the winter and the spring testing the first one's going to be longer because that's more of I think somebody described it as the autopsy but
068then the each subsequent one actually drills down better into the skill sets that the child needs to learn so you're not having 45 60 Minutes three times a year it's shorter tests drilling down to where their greatest need is can I ask you for like the elementary school right now they do I and I Exel for map right so are we changing it tol and reveal is reveal going to be the supplement tol or are they the same the assessments that like everyone does the I assessment and some grade levels have been messed around with using the diagnostic I EXL just to see just to get a better feel for what it is uh so but it right now it is the I ready diagnostic that the students use it three times a year and
069they're just kind of moving into saying we need some more experience just to get some feedback on what it's all about for those so will reveal just be at the middle school or is that going to be at the elementary also reveal map would be at both the elementary and middle school yes I like the idea that consistency all the way yeah and then one last thing too because we talked a little bit about accelerated programs and how it can assist accelerated program programs through a lifetime example if somebody's in the fourth grade but they're ready to push themselves into maybe let's just say a fifth grade subject you can go right into there and assign a fifth grade subject within that system for them to be uh tested on weekly or through ISL through
070some sort of diagnostic so it was kind of neat to see how you could just assign yeah the lessons the lessons any questions any any other items no but yeah the team's really excited about that so thank you guys for all your hard work and all the stuff that you did over the past six months to put this together yeah so next stops we'll get training uh up and running uh for the for the teams um we still have a couple SI days left and then summertime and then before school um that was one of the things that everyone was very clear on so we got to get trained on this early thank you all very much there's no other questions M to item eight close session to consider information pertaining to the district litigation
071or the appointment employment dismissal performance discipline compensation employees of the districts to we do have close session so a motion to go into close session so move second Quinn yes meld yes Taylor yes CL yes Stanberry yes Shelt yes Johnson yes we get in the next couple minutes meet the C yeah sure e e