001regular meeting Tuesday June 17th 2025 to order at 73V roll Mr. PJ here Mrs. McFillip here Mrs. Barfield Mrs. Theodore here Mr. Barardi here Mr. Here we have a floor. Let's stand for the pledge of allegiance for America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh, thank you all visitors here tonight. Uh, do we have any correspondence? Oh, sorry. Mission state. The mission of North School District 80 is inspiring educational excellence in a nurturing environment. Now to the oath of office for new board member Maria Lao. Could [Applause] you read the oath? I do solemnly swear that I faithfully discharge the duties of office of members of the board of education of school district in accordance with the constitution of the United States,
002the constitution of the state of Illinois and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further swear that I shall respect their interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage respect of free expression of opinion by my house board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize that board member has no legal authority as an individual that that decisions can be made only by the majority vote at a public board meeting. and I shall abide by the majority decisions of the board or obtain the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. As part of the board of education, I challenge the responsibility of my
003role in ethical and quality education of every student in the school district. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate those and define outcomes and the set force for school district 8. I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain the maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I was I shall strive to ensure continuous assessment of the student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as an education key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance the vision for school district 80. And I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward toward fulfilling the vision of the board
004has created fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. Thank you very much. Welcome back. your name plate right up there. Congratulations. You're welcome. Uh celebrate the success child school. Yes. Thank you. Uh each year we celebrate uh the the Gebert Award and the Gebert Award is a former educator administrator here in Norwich School District 80. Ralph Gebert was a physical education teacher, a principal, and ended his career in district 80 as a superintendent of schools. So many uh there's many qualities that Mr. Gebert held in self in his uh self-esteem and he was always looking for students that possessed a positive attitude, integrity, compassion, leadership, honor, responsibility, cooperation, and service. And I'm pleased to announce that this year we have 14 students that were nominated for
005this award. And the winner of the 2025 as announced at graduation by our board president, Mr. Trabuzzio, was Sylvia McFillips. Congratulations, Sylvia. Now, this is a confidential award, so the board president until he enters the stage does not even know who the winner is. What was your reaction, your thoughts when you heard your name mentioned? Well, obviously the whole graduation was really exciting. So, I was I was already thinking about that. Um, I was shocked. I was I was completely surprised, but then I was like looking at my friends and I was really excited. So, it was Yeah. So, thank you for everything that you have done in your career here in North School District 80 and uh we wish you the very best as you now go on to high school. So take these
006same qualities and same traits and continue them at Rididgewood High School. So congratulations. Before I end, I just the parents. This is a big award. What did the parents think? Not to put you on the spot, but Oh, we were shocked for sure. Definitely there were a lot of kids nominated. Yeah, she was happy to be nominated. We were like, that's a huge honor in itself. So it my mouth dropped wide open. So thank you. Well, thank you both. And Sylvia, should we do a group picture? So if we could have the board members go underneath the basket, the hoop over there for a picture with Sylvia. Thank you. [Music] Thank you very much. Congratulations. Of course, family, you're welcome to stay for the full. Thank you for coming. action items. Consider motion to approve
007the agenda as modified. The modification being the removal of 2085. At the time of the agenda being posted, we thought we were filling this position. However, we are not. So, we're just removing a a position next to a motion for approve. Motion second. Jim, Amanda, all in favor say I. I. Say motion passes. Uh, now I'd like to recognize my visitors. Thanks for the moment here tonight. Uh, four spots. Is there anyone? No. There you go. Thank you. public participation for your request of all voyage can be found at the website as published presentations starting with district new website. Okay. Um, well, you guys already are well aware about our current website. Our current website's divided into three main segments. Uh, the district, the Giles, and the W segments. And then it's got a whole
008bunch of tiles and things on the side and things at the top and well things kind of everywhere. And that doesn't find anything. Um, we got the old site set up for a company called Final Site about 5 years ago. It was coming up on renewal time and the company said, "Yeah, we'll renew you for another 5 years. is only $40,000 and you get to pick a new template. Well, the template we had, it was fine to a degree, but it did kind of lock us into some things that we weren't exactly happy about. And uh so I said, why don't we just try doing something on our own real quick? So, I whipped up a little temporary website and uh I I kind of got some positive feedback on that. And so I continued
009and I basically moved every all the important stuff, all the information over from the old site to uh this site. It's currently at ww2 www2.nage.net. Uh right now if you by default most browsers will go to https. The s doesn't work just yet because that's the sec. You have to have a certificate for that. And until this is something we're really doing, I'm not going to pay for a certificate. Uh, but just to see the site, if you want to go to httpwww2.nj.net, that gets you to this site. It's live. It's functional. Um, and what I did is instead of having three sections to the site, um, I just have a menu for each one of the sites and everything. There we go. Thank you. Um, and go ahead and click on maybe board of
010education. And it's very similar to what we had before, but we don't have the things on the sides and the things at the bottom and the things everywhere. little easier, a little cleaner, just cleaned it all up and just made it easier to navigate around. Now, the nice thing about this site, technically it is running on a server we already had SIS log functions and some other duties, but not enough that was actually really causing it to be bogged down. It has plenty of um this essentially cost us almost nothing. There's a uh security certificate that has to be purchased less than $50 a year, no problem at all. So over the course of five years, $250 maybe not even uh compared with $40,000 doing it through Final Site. Um there are some some differences
011for sure. Um for example, Final Site does give us a tool that kind of helps us edit the web pages. So what I did is I built a template uh and I broke things down into bite-sized pieces and wrote some instructions for the others commerce staff that will be editing pages. I mean, but the nice thing about this is if we give it a try and we decide we don't like it, we can always call Final Site or another company and say, "Hey, we'll write you a check and we'll do our site through review." And and it's it's worth a try. Um trying to think of Oh, we did subscribe to a newsletter software. We were talking about our secretary did a weekly tracks newsletter and uh they were using the Final Site tool to
012do that and it was okay. Um, but there's another tool that a lot of schools are using called S'more. And uh, we went ahead and subscribed to S'more to help our secretaries uh, work together with our principles and superintendent to create our weekly newsletter. And I think the newsletter is going to turn out to be a little nicer than ever and it's going to be easier for parents to do translations. It has a lot of translation capability built into it. Um, and that is uh, that tool that we ended up subscribing to. I think it's about 1,250 per year. So if you take that 1,250 a year and you take the cost of the certificate, you're still talking around $6,000 over 500 year compared with the 40,000 final site. Again, we're not locked into this
013at all. Um but I thought, you know, it's worth a try. The nice thing about this when you're doing it on your own, I created this template um is that we can also if if we just decide, well, we don't like this, that, or the other, we're not locked into this template for we can modify the template. where with final site it kind of once you choose a template you're locked into that that period of that contract. So that kind of moving around. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. This isn't isn't final yet. Um but John has done a a really great deal of work on this. John, I want to thank you for all of your work on this. Um and John, it is underplay how much work you did on this. you literally had
014to take every page and move it over onto the new system. And I think that the nicest part as he has mentioned is we can change something. You know what we had done once before was you know we wanted we had called up John and said put the phone number for the schools up on top on the left and then it put that kind of awkward box on top and we couldn't control that. So now we can actually control the layout of where we want to put things and and he's kept the consistency. Um because that's one of the things you want to do when you study websites is you want to keep each page kind of consistent. So you can see each of these open up um where it doesn't go to another page.
015It kind of opens up as like a panel be the word I would use. I don't know if that's the right word, genre, where you you're not going off to a new page, but you're still on that page and you can see that new information. [Music] So, we have a couple things to tweak on it. Um, but I think it's really great. I'm very grateful for John for taking the time to put this together. We did have some feedback from the from the superintendent advisory committee um uh when they looked at it last well they looked at the basic template 6 months ago maybe somewhere around there and then again last week they did some diving into it and really it was kind of an interesting conversation how it evolved. At first they were like,
016"Oh, we kind of missed the little the little buttons." But then as we have gone through each page, they're like, "You know what? Don't don't go back to the little buttons. Leave it as as it is." And this is very useful and very helpful for parents. And as John said, the weekly tracks, which right now is just a a copy, this isn't live of the May 30th. Um, but when we move to s'more, it will allow us to have I don't know the word that I always use is like a little more capability of making it look cleaner. Final site, we were very kind of uh stuck into what the fonts were or what the color could be or the size can be and s'more will allow us to be able to make that look
017a little nicer and um uh just put together some cleaner. um Elwood Park if you if the board wants to look at Elwood Park's website. They use S'more. I'm not sure actually right now as I say that if they have a more newsletter up on their website this summer, but and it's very convenient as John mentioned on translating. So our mail has been translated into many different languages and be able to speak information which really has been our um our big thing this year is to be able to provide right now whenever I send out an email I send it in Spanish Ukrainian language if so people identify with that language it'll go out to them with that language something that we've been building up in our programs So John, I want to thank you.
018Does the board have any questions for John? We're thinking like the first week of July. The contract on final site runs out at the end of this month. So ideally it when I we come back on the weekend uh there and first part of July will get migrated over. It might take a day or two uh to get everything uh functional across every system. DNS updates and propagates off of different networks. sometimes. Um, yeah. So, we might be down completely for a day or two. What was the test site again? Norwich 2, did you say? Oh, uh, www. the number two.80.net. So, it's just like the regular website, but with the two after the W. And Jen, did you take new pictures or did you clean the picture? I I did take new pictures. Um,
019if you would use the ultra wide lens on the phone and then take the middle third, it fits that spacing really nicely. They look good. Well, a little better than what we had. And now all of this asphalt work is going to be worked on this summer. So, we'll John will take a new picture once we once we have that all done. And we also are talking about painting those letters of of leaf. So, that'll leave out. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. community. Mhm. The superintendent measure tonight. Yeah. Tell us. Okay. Yep. I did meet with them last night. superintendent and they did we actually spent probably we met for about an hour and a half probably 30 minute I would just say I'm sorry John like the gray versus white contrast is
020it's tough yeah I think we need to change that one feedback I think I guess John is actually uh John and I are both heading out to vacation on next week John starts tomorrow. So I said once he gets back let's put those but I still wanted the board to see that tonight and then in July we'll show you the live version it is very difficult especially on that screen which is well even looking at that's why I was seeing it on the screen I'm like oh it's just a screen yeah and it was interesting that the lady that I meet with the individuals they were like oh we like the buttons then they were like no we don't like buttons and we looked at a bunch of different websites We want something and then
021we will put something out here. Right now there's just this was my May 30th um what I wrote in the tracks that's not going to continue. So right here will be a little introduction to the district. A little bit like if I click on about us but it won't quite be the same but it'll be the mission statement the vision and then a little bit about our our two schools what you know what the schools are what kind of programs we have. So general page will be the first page here and then we will probably keep our calendar about us and although we'll change the fonts on those a bit and then go with more contracts. We went with the blue color because that's kind of our district color. Anything else? Anyone else? really did
022a lot of work on that and um no we got to the point where we were like do we really want to pay $40,000 for this website when we have somebody so talented I do like the translation I think that's crucial uh school improvement plan for child So tonight we are um joined by some members of the Giles building leadership team and of course Mr. Vietki who will lead us in their improvement plan. So they looked at their spring to spring data. Uh this was really the first time that we could present this because we didn't have spring data until now. And then they also um so the actual plan itself I don't know this should be 60 pages uh 52 and it does go through all of the different data over a multi-year um
023look. So that is also it isn't right now on that website but it'll be available on their website and then so will this presentation. Well thank you very much. We are always pleased every year to come present this information to you. Um this is a working document. We had throughout the year 14 meetings that the building leadership team met to analyze, evaluate and discuss how are we going to make improvements going forward. So the team is made up of me the principal, Mrs. Bulo, the assistant principal, Mrs. Fig, who is our sixth grade special education teacher, uh Mr. Herora, who is our seventh grade science teacher. Uh here today we have Anna Marie Petroski who's our eighth grade social studies teacher. We also have Todd Brder, our sixth grade ELA teacher, Sarah Devidito who's our
024eighth grade special education teacher. Uh Daniel Nickerson who is our seventh and eighth grade Spanish teacher and Anthony Ketta who is our fifth grade social studies teacher. Due to vacations and other family commitments that were going on, unfortunately the other members were not able to attend. But we are happy that Mr. and assist were able to attend. So, thank you and I'll turn it on over to Mr. Grower. Okay. Who are we? Um, at Josh, we've had really consistent student enrollment this year. We've got 493 kiddos, which includes 137 graduates, 127th graders, 124 sixth graders, and 112 littles as we call them today. um your dedicated staff, 30 teachers, four paras, nurse Nelly, uh five support staff, and the best rebuilding administrator in the business. I didn't have anything left. Okay. All right. So, go
025ahead and talk. Um I'll speak to the 2024 school data. So we have 24% um ML students. There are two different types of programs that occur in child school. There's a transitional bilingual education program or TE which is 20 more students in a who speak primarily a specific language such as Ukrainian and Polish based on what our data has. For next year, we're able to add a Spanish teacher to the T TV TBE program, um, which is different from our world languages program. We also have a TPI program that supports students of other languages such as Russian or Arabic within our school. Um, so 8% of our students have IEPs. those could be co-taught in their least restrictive environments in the areas of ELA and math. Um we have our foundations programs which are taught
026by our special education teachers. Um and then our self-contained classroom and 52% of our students are pre-introduced. Okay. So as anyone knows Giles, you know that the pride program and especially being Giles maid are part of our daily focus. Um we really focus on um building expectations. We have classroom and building matrixes posted. We review our expectations. We model and we really use positive reinforcement um through the PBIS program to reinforce the expectations, the positive behaviors that we're looking for. We're trying to reward kids for doing the right things and really showing them and articulating what it means to be Giles made by being positive, respectful, inclusive, determined and engaged each day. So we have some amazing strengths here at child school. Um we have our after school support program that which occurred for the
027last few years um due to co funding. So we were able to provide um during like two times a week they Tuesdays and Thursdays they received students who attended this program after school um received some social emotional support some ELA math ML student support in tier 1 tier three and tier three interventions uh certified staff provided home based instruction um for students who needed it. This was not a homework club by any stretch of the imagination. Um it provided students who support students who were struggling with their power standards um who were identified as needing tier 2 interventions and ML and SED support. So social emotional support too. Um what was really cool about this year is that our students were able to to participate in the space program which is a student principal advisory
028committee on engagement. So, all students at from grades 5 through 8 to apply for a position on this this um advisory committee. And what was great, they didn't talk about things that were issues for them. Um so, they brought that up to our administrative staff. And what better was when we had our um they came up with an awesome recess plan and both Mr. Mr. Roder and myself work at recess and these plants worked great. We had a area for soccer for football, volleyball, and all the students were able to be a little bit more safe and not home everybody else's games because could be really risky at times if you have seen them play football um and soccer. Okay. So, the muscle legal program, as we um had said before, um the multilingual staff
029was able to push in to our classrooms. Um we had push in for core subjects so math, reading, science, social studies and these teachers gave us invaluable support to help uh students who spoke different languages um for the TBE program. So both Ukrainian and our teachers provided that support. Um there were 19 students that test out of of our program. So that was amazing. So that it was nice to see that they are now passive. Um TPI students received support during win um which was great. Now wind is going away. We're using more as an advisory period. So, they'll be able to receive that support that they once received within the classroom by certified ESL staff. So, that's amazing, too. And we're also excited to get another uh Spanish teacher, like I said before, um
030which is going to be great for to provide more help for those treatments as well. And, uh extracurricular activities. So we have a very strong athletic program. We had some championships won here this school year. Um our school spirit and culture continue to be strong boys. Um we have a band did amazing too. Pride. We have buddy activities. So we are like we have a lot of strengths going on here. One of the things that we were able to add this this school year was a marching band. and the marching band program. So when we have championships, all the students get in the hallway, we clap, we celebrate our band. Now our marching band led us through the hallways and it was really exciting. The also great opportunity with our our awesome band program is
031we're able to send our marching band to Le school for the Halloween parade, which is always huge every year here at Lee School. So that's really exciting to acknowledge and celebrate as well. our math our math growth for this year. The purple is being is because of I Ready. Uh the way our what we were doing our plan was originally the phase in Ire and phase out math. So this year our current fifth graders had I Ready. Our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders had MAP. I met with the administration, the principal over at Richmond High School because one of the things that we need to make sure is because we've used MAP for so many years is that we're able to take that data and and give it to the high school and they're able
032to use it for their the student incoming freshman student schedules and as long as it's nationally normed, it doesn't matter what program we use. So, what we're doing, the big decision that we're making uh for next school year is we are removing map. We are not using map. We are moving away from that map and we are strictly going with I Ready. The nice thing about that is MAP at the lean school can't be used for certain grade levels I believe below the third grade level. So it's at the third grade and higher but I ready uh benchmarking data can be used at the lower grade levels and that's one of the areas we want consistency for our students across from lead to child school. So, looking at our fifth grade math uh irritating data,
033we were at that 33%. The uh sixth grade math was at 67%. Our seventh grade math was at the 57th% and our our eighth graders were at that 72% for an overall 57%. So, based on this data, uh we're looking at it, we we still have a lot of growth that we need to do at at jazz school. We made some system changes that we're going to talk about as we go through this presentation. But one of the things, so for example, Mr. Browder is a is a is a sixth grade ELA teacher this year. Next year, Mr. Browder is now a fifth and sixth grade uh PLA teacher, whereas Miss Petroski is an eighth grade social studies teacher. Next year, Mrs. Petroski is going to be a seventh and eighth grade uh social studies
034teacher. And what that data does, it helps with our professional learning communities, which we're going to talk about in our later slides for our reading growth. So at the fifth grade, we had 56% uh at the for ready for fifth graders. Sixth grade, we started with a map, we were at the 63rd percentile. uh as well as for seventh grade. Our eighth graders sit at the 76th percentile and overall we had at the 65th percentile. same concept. Our math teachers will be five, six, seven, eight math teachers. That whole PLC uh um communities looking at our data data drives instruction and that's our goal next year is that our teachers uh which will have dedicated time in the school schedule where they'll be able to so Mr. broader currently will be able to be with
035Miss Hansen and be able to have uh intentional meetings reviewing data, reviewing uh common formative assessments uh and seeing, you know, is it a tier one issue? Is it something that needs to be rettaught or is it something where we need to focus more with our tier 2 students to provide that additional support within that classroom setting? We talked about that we're removing win um and what we're doing is that tier 2 is going to take place within that classroom setting by the expert. Our ELA teachers and our math teachers are the expert. And so instead of having that um being taken out and having a pair of professional work with our students, it's now be done by a certified staff member. Uh so we're excited for those opportunities that we've identified in our school
036of human plan so that we can you know move the needle forward and and raise it uh to um to do better and that's what we want to do. We always want to strive for to be better. Goals for next year for math and ELA. We want 70% of our students across the board fifth through 8 um to achieve I'm sorry. We want 70% of the students to achieve their individual growth goal for I read math and I ready reading across all grades from fall to spring. Our third goal is social emotional behavior. We want office referrals to reduce by 10% from previous year. So in speaking to the goals, our first goal for math achievement, we will in order to achieve them, we will engage the bu building leadership team to facilitate professional learning
037communities which focus on core PLC questions, reflective dialogue and collaboration. That's where the this the PLC process comes in where we'll be we're provided time to meet with our co-teers. Um our like I would be meeting with Mrs. Woodhouse to have those collaborative conversations. Um math teachers will also meet regularly throughout the P the school year for the PLC as a PLC. Um, also meeting as an academic lifts to problem solve using our branch of mind data warehouse to look at the data how the students are progressing. If they need um further assistance in their their studies, then we will look at we'll look at placing them in a plan for progress monitoring six weeks on and then we'll see and see how um how the students are progressing and have those detailed conversations during
038our PLC's. Um the advancement committee will review data research and fall and winter I ready assessments to determine the student if the student is eligible for advancement. Would you like to talk? Yeah. So for that program so what it looks like. So I'll start at the fifth grade level. So a fifth grade student that is testing really high at that level. We meet as the administration and the math team. We come together we review the data. We develop a plan and we see how the student is within that classroom environment and that student is eligible for that advanced program. And if that student does qualify for that advanced program, the the the math teacher will reach out to the parents and have that discussion. Um because we want to we want to make sure we
039open that communication. They're a team member on their child's education. We want to make sure that we focus on that and and and support that student. But what we do then if if all parties agree that we do want to move forward with that advanced program, then we open it up for our our um that student then from February till end of the year in May. Then while they're in fifth grade is completing the sixth grade curriculum. And then at the end of May once they've successfully completed that next grade level curriculum, then what happens is they start the following fall at the seventh grade level. So, and we do that same same concept that the sixth graders move forward when we get to where cuz we're only through 8th grade. Then we we have
040a partnership with RA High School as all of you are aware and we work with uh with Bridgewood High School, but then we have students that take classes. They're dually enrolled not only here at Gile School, but they're also enrolled at Bridgewood High School. So, they get a iPad because Bridgewood High School uses iPads. They have a Chromebook here for school district 8. they were so close to Rididgewood. They walk over to Rididgewood uh as a group. They take their course, their class, and then they come back. Schedules are a little different. So, what we do um here at Giles is we we create what's called an independent study to make that difference up when they're not ready for that next class because the period hasn't started yet. So then they have what's called an
041independent study where they can complete their um high school school work and finish up any uh GI school work that they may not have and then they resume their normal schedule. So we're excited for that partnership that we have. Um we've had over the years we've had a gosh I think three or four students that did a double which is really exciting. It's we've had a um eighth grade students or a seventh grade student taking sophomore level or junior level math at the high school. So we love that we can provide those opportunities to our students. Great. So also as part of our IEP annual review, some students may qualify for foundations program to understanding of the growth in uh mathematics based on their performance of assessments and classroom achievement. So with special educ the
042this foundation program is taught by our special education teachers um and they work to identify what standards they need to continue to work on. Um at the end of the intervention cycle grade levels meet three times a year to discuss the data. So we have data dates which are math and reading teachers which meet with and discuss um students individ about individual students. Um and then what we are really excited for and very very thankful for is the hiring of an interventionist for this coming school year. Um, and it's our hope that that an intervention is will provide support outside of the classroom for tier three instruction, but also inside of the classroom um to provide handson activities for tier 2 support. Um, providing and also coaching teachers on their best researchbased practices that they
043can use in order to help students achieve at higher levels as well. um ELA specific steps um like with Matt moving toward that PLC community where I have a chance to collaborate with a colleague. What successes can we build on or hey what ideas do you have if I'm struggling? Um provide targeted instructions and skills using party standards. We've talked a lot about what standards there are many many standards which ones are the must which ones are the ones that we want to bring to the front and really highlight support ML students taking advantage of our really talented ML staff um to provide that support they need in their native languages um provide um support to all ML parents through the bilingual parent advisory committee that's through the parent university program um and then teachers
044will receive professional development in the implementation of best practices. Um whether it's Wednesday early releases, whether it's SIP days, teacher institute, we're just continuing to try to find best practices and ways to get better and serve the kids. Um interventionists, we are really thankful um to have an interventionist to work with next year. Um and again using day-to-days um at the end of each intervention cycle to talk about what's going well or well we need or when we need to go back and sort of look at our plan and see where it can be revised and improved to serve the kids. So our third goal is our SEB goal social emotional behavior. One thing we are very pleased is we did hit our targeted goal for this for this current school year and our goal
045is to continue that for the for the future as well. Uh I know with Mrs. Google being new to the school district this year, she did an amazing job with with our students. Our teachers also did an amazing job. One of the things that we do is we provide our teachers with professional development on behavior uh regulation, deescalation, and behavior management. Uh students will self assess and PBIS rewards through their current thoughts and feelings. So I'm a a CPI certified trainer. So I go and support our staff, train them with deescalation techniques when a student is in a crisis so that we can help them and support them. Teachers also have self-regulation tier uh tier one, tier 2 and three in the classrooms where students can do that within that classroom environment. Now, if the
046student needs a little more support than what can be happen in the classroom environment, we then have what's called the spot, which is where the social worker and the psychologist, we have a a calming down area where students can come. Some students will go to that room, sit there for 5 minutes, just self-regulate, gather themselves, and go right back to class where others may need an opportunity to actually talk to our social worker or our psychologist. Um, the nice thing about PBIS boards, as you're all aware, every Monday and Friday, they're able to go in there and and document their feelings for how they're feeling. And staff has access to that, they see that, our social workers have that. So, when a student comes in and we see that they've selfidentified themselves as upset, we
047can kind of, you know, give them a break. You know, we all have bad days. You know, maybe not calling that student that day or maybe pull that student to the side and say, "Hey, how can I help you? Is there anything that I can do?" And you know, some students will open up, some students are not ready for that to open up yet. But it allows that extra support for our students because we all have uh you know, we all have bad days. We all have things going on in our life. Uh some that are not good and and others that have some great days. We also have uh students that identify at risk. And so at child school, we take the my savers, which is the student portion. The students will go in
048and complete a portion. And then that data the social worker analyzes right away. And so if a student is identified as at risk, that social worker is pulling that student, if not that day, the very next day to making sure where they're at, developing a plan for that student and giving them the necessary supports. And then we have for our teachers, which is just called savers, what allows our advisory teachers to go in and assess their their advisory students. And then what we able to what we're able to do is take that data, compare it, and then provide that additional support if the social worker needs to have groups, an academic group, a social group, an emotional group, uh to provide that additional support for them. We also use the second step program in common
049sense digital citizenship curriculum. Uh that curriculum is through le school all the way up through GI school. What we're striving to do is to get the kids the students to understand what it means to have have the qualities of pride and to be childs made not only here at school but at home in the community to always have those qualities. We use our PBIS rewards to promote positive behavior using PBIS points unlike the school where they're paper we're digital where we want to support that those students. We actually have a committee that meets on Wednesdays uh once a month and they developed a matrix building matrix that is now pushed out to all of our staff that we follow and and uh support our students. We even take it a step further. We have a
050building matrix but then the student or excuse me the teachers then create a classroom matrix to support them within their classroom environment for our students. Um, so we want to teach and retach Pride, the building matrix each trimester. We also with the administration, the assistant principal, and our social work psychologist. Um, we look to identify uh hotspot areas or trigger areas. So for example, if we're recognizing in fifth grade social media, we're having an issue with an increase in inappropriate usage on social media. So then what we'll do is we'll create we'll work with our advisory teachers. That first phase is the advisory teachers going in advisory and giving a lesson to all of our fifth graders so that they have that lesson. If we see that we need to provide that additional support, then
051we send either administration and or social work in to provide that additional support as well. We always want to set our students up for success. So we work closely with the Norwich Police Department and the Nor Police Department comes in as well and they provide training. Uh, in fact, the couple what the week before the end of school, we wanted to make sure that the North Police Department had a quiet summer. So, we went over every every detail with our students to make sure that they were respectful this summer. And uh, child. We also um during our morning blips we have what's called a behavioral blips which we collaborate we look at the data we identify okay we see you know a certain area where um um um physical physical aggression for example may be
052an area of focus that we need to look at as a grade level team. So we identify what we need to identify what's going on we we develop a plan and then we go and put the plan into place and see how it works. uh with our goal of reducing referrals and as I shared with you in the beginning we did hit our goal which means we had less majors and less minors uh by 10% uh for the school year. So we're very pleased with that. We hope to continue that uh going forward. We are also um we want to inform our families and PIS rewards uh is a program that's really 360 degrees of communication. So when a referral goes in, a minor goes in, it's real time, parent gets it. If it's a
053major that has to be processed through the uh assistant principal's office, but once that has been processed then that parent gets that notification um and that is followed up with a a phone call either by the classroom teacher or by our assistant principal. And we also want to thank the board of education for um providing us next school year a school resource officer that will be in the building providing relationships with our students, working with our students, supporting our families, and also supporting our school staff. So, we're really excited for that. So, thank you so much. I know that that school resource officer will be shared with Lee as well. I know the traffic concerns over at Lee in the mornings. Uh so, we're excited for that. And then this is a working document. So
054we're always reflecting, evaluating, and refining the this document. We work very hard throughout the year, as I shared, we had 14 meetings. Uh but beyond those meetings, there's hours outside of those meetings where the building leadership team are is working to to hone in and and and solve our problems that we have and uh and move forward. So, I'd like to thank the build leadership team for their dedication and hard work. Uh, I know it's difficult for them because they go back to that right to the grade level team and have to report out and you know, everyone always has an opinion and we want to make sure we get everyone on the same page and that we work together to solve the problems as a as a faculty and staff. So, I appreciate that.
055And we end with um we are child's made and that's a nice uh image of all of the uh staff for our school district 80 at our choose happiness uh teacher institute in the beginning of the year. So that concludes our presentation. Does anyone have any questions? Thank you so much. [Music] school improvement plan for school. It's the perfect time if anyone needs to, you know, stand up a little get ready here. So, we're really uh excited to share our school improvement plan. This is one of the one of the most important things that we put together cuz this is our long-term planning and how we uh plan for the following school year. So, this is our building leadership team. I'm going to let them introduce themselves in case you're not sure who everyone is.
056I'm Josie Chini. I'm the interventionist here. Uh Patrick Wood, the teacher. Good evening. Wendy, teacher. Taylor McCauley, first grade teacher here at Lee. Nicole Lee, second grade teacher here at Trish Schult, third grade teacher here at Felix, fourth grade teacher here. All right. So, everything that we do has to tie to our mission and vision, which I know one of you gets to read it at every board meeting, so you know, inspiring educational excellence in a training environment. Uh the vision is also a little bit longer but that's posted there but I won't read that read that to you but uh you have that there but know that everything that we do ties to those two uh pieces that we try to overlook. Okay. So who are our lead tigers? Well besides being safe, respectful
057and responsible which they all are and we all love. They are a very diverse group. As you can see by the numbers um most of our student population is 68.8% 8% white and then we break it down into the other areas with Hispanic, Asian, and two or more other cultures. The school is comprised of about 638 students um from grades preschool to fourth grade. And the other numbers indicate different um statuses as well. 48% of our students are low income, low classified low income um for free reduced lunch. 35% of our students are multilanguage learners. and 16% of our students um are working with that. So, one thing to share out that we're really proud of this year is uh looking at our end of the year data. So, we had three goals. We had
058a math goal of 70% of students meeting their expected gains um their individualized growth targets. We had uh in ELA we were hoping that 70% of our students would meet uh their typical growth there and then we were looking to increase our social emotional behavioral goal was focused on what we call a tiered um um tiered fidelity inventory. Um and we were trying to move from 48 to 58% though. Um now in actuality we increased we actually exceeded our goal by a little bit in each of those areas. So we met our math goal with 72% of students meeting their um typical growth. Uh we also had 72% of our students meet their typical growth in reading and our tier fidelity inventory our goal was 58% but we got up to 68% for this school
059year. So all three goals were met and we were really um proud of all of our students and staff for making that happen. really good everyone doing their part to uh to get us there. I would also like to congratulate Dr. Cole and Lisa. It's really wonderful to meet all three of your goals and I know that comes with a lot of hard work for each one of you and target support for your students and you also are looking at tier 2 in the classroom. So, thank you for your work on that. Wonderful new opportunity to school. And you won't necessarily see this up here, but I just want to point out one piece of data that I think is really interesting. A couple months back, I shared some information uh about I was asked
060to present at I conference because we were seeing a large number of our students meeting their stress growth. So this is typical growth. Uh but stress growth is a more ambitious measure. Um and the typical or you know national norm is about 20% of students meet their stretch growth. Uh we had 44% of our students meet stretch growth and reading and 40% in math. So we are double what the national norm is in terms of meeting that ambitious which I'm also really proud of and thought that's something that is amazing news to share with you and Dr. Rabiola is being recognized for that next month on a trip to Boston from Irene. Are you speaking there also? I had the opportunity to speak there and I said I'm just going to observe this at this
061point but uh but yes I will be in Boston for a couple nights just some more learning. Now we'll move into uh some strengths. Okay. So Lee school has many strengths. One strength that I would like everybody to take note of is our pride program. This is our schoolwide PBIS program where students are earning pause daily to um they're earning pause when they're showing respectful, responsible, and safe behavior. Um we go and visit Walmart on a rotating basis and we take our paws and we do some shopping. kids buy um a variety of toys and trinkets that they get really excited about and it's it's super motivating in our building. A second strength I'd like to note is our supportive environment. As noted by the five essentials survey, um we scored high in the areas
062of peer support, student teacher trust, and academic personnel. Another strength is our attendance rate. Um we have a 5 year attendance rate of 94.88% which is higher than the state average. I'm going to follow some with some more strengths. The first one will be um the wellrounded education that we provide here including the arts which is music and art PE and steam. All of those specials are provided to our students once a week with being twice a week. Um, we also have partnership with Norwich Park for after school classes, allowing our students um to be part of programs like athletics and art and just giving them that sense of community. We also have our summer programming that we offer to them that's actually going on right now as well. Um, we often talk about summer
063slide and worrying about kids not continuing that education and we extend that to certain students who also qualify for some funding for that during the summer through the beginning of that time. Um, some more strengths that we would like to review are the facility upgrades that we've seen over the past few years. Um, we're seeing new lighting. Things are looking a lot newer with the painting. Um, preschool playground, the preschool classrooms. We've got new classroom furniture. Administrative offices are looking much nicer as well. Lots of new and refreshing things in our building to make that flexible learning possible. Um, we also have the expansion of our preschool program through preschool for all. We now have a 100 students that we are servicing through that program which helps us to allow those needs at a much
064earlier age. And then we have our MTSS program where we monitor the student progress. Um we've created this system and really worked hard on it over the last two years. Um we're able to track students progress from year to year using the branching minds um program. And this also allows a collaborative process with all of the teachers related services administration where we meet together to make sure that the interventions and support we're providing are really meeting the kids needs. Even though we have lots of strengths, there's always room for growth. So just speaking on collaborate collaborative practices, um that's one of our challenges. We have been doing a lot of collaboration among certain teams for collaboration in all these meetings. But one one way we want to um work on that a little bit more
065is that vertical alignment collaborating amongst different team grade levels. We're starting that with some peer-to-peer observations. That's something that we want to grow further. Um our math score growth versus ELA score growth. We're seeing um I mean looking at our data, they're both very similar. Um but just diving a little bit deeper, we're seeing that our ELA score growth is a little bit higher than our MAT score. So we want to dig a little bit deeper into that as well. um our multilingual learning support with the number of students that we're um getting that are ML learners. We want to get that support a little bit. Um and we're going to see that in a couple slides when we talk about our action steps. Um and then also our supports for students in tier 3.
066Um we have a lot of supports put into place, but that's still something that's a challenge and something we want to work on a little bit more. And then also that vertical line for for ELA learning which is going to again with those collaborative practices talking to different grade levels seeing what's happening in third grade so we can make sure we do something similar um in fourth grade um continuing that and also some varying instructional practices um where teachers around the school um staff around the school teaching different ways and seeing which are um which work well which don't work as well. And then also increasing that student discourse, increasing student discussion with the classroom. All right. So, we're going to be getting into some problem statements. So, just point out that the problem statements
067just identify the why for us. All right. I'm have to look get a little closer here. Sorry, I can't see. Um, so problem statement one. Over a three-year period, we averaged 56% of our students making expected gains in math. But as you just have learned, in our most recent IR math data, 72% of our students made expected gains. Problem statement number two, over a three-year period, we have averaged 58% of our students making expected gains in reading. During the current school year, 72% of the students are meeting those expected growth targets according to the IRA reading data. And then number three, we have been assessing our school systems for SE support based on PBIS tiered fidelity in Victoria. In the spring of 2025, Lee scored a 68% on the TPI. There was a score of
068zero front tier three portion of the T and we'll talk more about that here in a few minutes. All right. So those problem segments identify the why for us. Now our goals where they're coming out next define what it is that we want to see and what we're going to be. So for math, 75% of the students who met their stress growth this past school year will meet their stretch growth a second time as measured by the I Ready math diagnostic assessment from fall 25 to spring 26. So we really see um that projection of proficiency happen when kids meet their stretch growth twice in a row. So that's really what we're striving for with this math poll. Um which will increase overall achievement and overall scores for math. The ELA bowl goal looks much
069the same. 75% of the students who met their stretch growth this past school year will meet their stretch growth the second time by measured by the library reading diagnostic assessment from fall 2025 to spring of 26. And then for SN goal uh based on the PBS tier fidelity inventory we are currently at sustaining level for tier one and tier 2. However, these uh support a score of zero out of 26 for tier three. So on the school year for 25 26, that tier three portion will increase your score of 10 out of 26. And we've heard a lot about that tier fidelity inventory or tier five. And it just measures how well we're implementing PBS at our school through all three tiers. We're really going to try to hone in on that tier three level
070throughout the school to make sure students are receiving that individualized support that they need on that level. All right. So, crowd savings identified the why. The goals define the what. Now, our action plans are going to deliver the how we're going to meet those goals. So, we're refining our PBIS system. Um, we're going to identify tier three gaps using the TFI rubric. We refer to that a lot. It's super helpful. We're going to prioritize implementation of simple high impact strategies. So just direct, not overthinking things. Uh we'll provide PD to the staff on tier three supports including progress monitoring, individualized plans with tracking with a branching mind, uh wrap around supports and SUV course. So really growing what we're already doing and develop and use a fidelity checklist for tier three supports and determine fade
071out criteria for individualized interventions because that's our ultimate goal is to bid the kids out of um the tier three supports. And uh a few more action steps we have is to strengthen two routines by reviewing expectations, acknowledgements, behavior definitions and conduct and formal observations. Reinforce tier 2 practices and improve that fidelity of our check and checkout and social skill groups and review that entry and exit criteria and interator reliability among staff as we're reading all of our surveys. And then add stakeholder roles to tier teams include the nurse uh potential staff members who could also be a parent. Uh the list goes on and on and train on effective database decision- making to make sure we're kind of touching on all area we need to improve from this. So we have different action plans
072um to help us achieve those goals. The first one is work with our PLC um um system with our teamwork work in professional learning communities to collaborate to make sure our students are learning what they we want them to know. And our goal is to move towards a fourpoint scale. So that way, not only can we help our students achieve mastery of skills, but once they do achieve mastery of those um priority standards, what we can do to help move them beyond that to exceed those expectations, we're going to conduct a K2 ELA curriculum review. There's big changes coming to super kids. We want to really dive into those and make sure that that curriculum still fits our needs. um in all ELA areas. Of course, that encompasses a lot of things and um it's
073an expensive program, so we want to make sure that it's money well spent. We will also be open to reviewing other curriculum options if we feel that super kids will no longer meet our needs with the changes, but we're hopeful that they will. So, we always want to keep learning as educators. So, every spring as far as professional development, the BLT sends out a survey to our staff, all staff members, and we survey their wants and needs for what they're looking for as far as professional development. We take that data and then we plan accordingly for the next school year. So, we're going to keep doing that and hopefully we'll keep meeting the needs of our teachers and that way that will impact our kids as well. We also um are going to take some
074steps towards flexible cursing, making sure that the interventions we are providing are supporting our students um focusing on fluency and really towards meeting those foundational gaps with the earlier grades. And as a staff, we are going to collaborate to make sure that we're doing things like monitoring our student progress with fidelity to make sure that the interventions we are providing them are really targeting things that we get from the data that show they're showing from their progress. Goal setting is another important step for us. Each classroom teacher sets a purpose for our high diagnostics. Um, we want the kids to take accountability for their performance on this assessment and we do it a variety of ways. We have checklists. Uh, we have a kid-friendly PowerPoint presentation that just teaches them, you know, some of the
075questions are going to be riding a bike up the hill, down the hill, on flat ground. So, they really understand, you know, the test could be very challenging. There'll be some easy questions. And again, it sets that purpose. you um explain to them, you know, how truly important this test is and, you know, set the goal so they they gave you their time. And then finally, for our multilingual learners, um with the increase of multilingual learners in our school, um we did change our multilingual programming this school year and then we have seen a big number of students exit out this year. continuing those supports but also fine-tuning um especially by adding a new par professional for Polish and then getting that new Spanish teacher um seeing how that those teachers and we how we
076can finetune that collaboration amongst those teachers. So continuing that to um make more games with our multiple learners. All right. So to close us out, you know, the best way to predict the future is to create. So we want to uh create the future that we want to see for our students following our mission and vision and through collaboration and teamwork. Thank you. Do you have any questions? You're welcome to stay rest. special education, Mr. Masters. Yeah. So, only one thing with our uh extended school year program is underway. It runs concurrently with our summer school program. Uh ESY, just as a reminder, is for uh specific students uh with individualized education programs who uh need to kind of have a little bit of support to help with regression recruitment challenges throughout the school year.
077Uh so far, they're doing great activities such as Father's Day crafts. Uh they're doing some roller coaster projects. So, very exciting. That concludes my reporting reports. Child school, Mr. Thank you. So, I'm currently working on staffing for the next school year. We had some staffing changes. So, I'm uh doing interviews for for new pos uh for positions for next school year. Also would like to remind everyone that if you're still interested in purchasing school supply kits uh through the PTA, you have until July 1st. that ends and closes. So, um please take advantage of that wonderful opportunity if you so choose. And then uh finally, um if your child is going to be participating in uh athletics, they think they may be participating this summer, please take them to get a physical so that when
078September comes around, uh boys uh softball, girls softball, and cross country take place right away. It's important that they have a current physical on file. And that concludes my report school. So I just want to uh add that on August 21st, we'll have our back to school supply drop off and um some curriculum presentations as well. So there will be uh two presentations that each uh teacher will be presenting um so two separate times um you know back to back. Um, also we are looking at the times that we had current had previously shared out because it was brought to my attention that there is a um PTA event that evening for the Chicago Cubs game. So we uh may try to move the event a few minutes earlier just so that way uh more
079people would be able to come to that first session if they were also planning to um attend that event. Um, but I'm working with Musk on those details, but we will definitely communicate that out shortly. I think uh the way that it was, we had one session starting at 5:30. I think the game doesn't start till like a 6:30 or 7:00. So, there's still that opportunity where it could be made, but if we can give a little bit more room on the, you know, front end of that, that I think be appreciated. So, we're looking at that. Um, so just wanted to make you aware but we do have that uh event planned on 21st board committees. Oh yeah, discipline reports jobs. I am pleased and excited to announce that I have no report. [Music]
080This is a do [Music] I'm going to confirm that as well. So I for your report we don't have a report now for board committees. Um you'll see each of us have the uh sheets prepared by superintendent music. It reviews the committees and who has asked to do which committee and uh I've asked her to put some information there and just appears in the fourth column about when we should be meeting or when's it suggested to meet sorry um policy and development. So, we'll have to detect the date. Uh, do you want to look at your calendar and then I can send those to dates? Sure. I mean, really, we should meet monthly for that. It could be a very quick monthly meeting, but then we would be able to come into the next board
081meeting, prepare our policy discussions. Great. building real grounds. Um I think for now we might be okay touch on things that are going to be happening in summer maybe as we're getting that be a good time. Yeah, typically we meet in a in October, but I did put an April on there also. Um it would be best if we met twice a year maybe in April and October. There's a six months difference there. Um I don't think you need to have the date tonight, but if you that certainly is fine. Negotiations and human resources as we're in the middle of negotiations and uh there's a meeting or two communications Annie and Jim to discuss. [Music] Maybe the week prior to a monthly board meeting that we'll provide those days. Sure. Okay. Nor Park District usually
082brings up good ties to do it. Yeah. Two times a year. And then as we're negotiating, we probably need to meet with them soon because that addendum uh ends. So we'll have to discuss if we want to continue or what we want to continue. Um Nate did reach out to me. They do have he is fairly certain that he will have space for um soccer. He just might need our nets, which is fine. We can get them over there. So, I'm not sure if that will then um have another agreement or not. I know right now he's he wants to get past the island in the city. Yeah. So, maybe right after that and also um yeah, give them a grace period after they kind of evaluate how the whole if they even used our
083fields or I believe they are. Yeah. Just kind of evaluate that whole situation and see if it's something that they're interested in doing. Okay. So, I will just reach out to you and when when Nate is ready. Yeah. Our current contract is still in place. It would just be in the addendum that we're adding. I would expect if if it's not late July and early August somewhere in there. Yeah. And on the back we see education. We have this is a committee of the whole and just looking at what it describes focus on curricular co-curricular and extracurricular programs these are things we talk about every board meeting so it's kind of embedded in a regular board meeting if at your discretion superintendent you would like us to meet as a separate meeting just let us
084know I think I might change that to uh where when we talk about the typical schedule, I'll change that to monthly board meetings. Is that all right with you? Because like something that they did tonight, the school improvement plan would qualify as an educational committee of the whole tonight. Right. That is something that if the board wanted, you could do it a separate day, a separate time. Just know you have that option. Sure. I'm okay doing it at this meeting, but it it's really up to the board's discretion. I think I think within a regular board meeting. It helps ensure all board members are present and usually fits right in. I'll change that though. Okay. Behavioral interventions. So, uh, right before the meeting started, uh, had a word with Superintendent Musk and she explained how
085this fits this topic in general fits right in with policy because, as you see in this description, focuses focuses, I'm sorry, focused on assisting in the development of student behavior, policy, and procedures and provides information and recommendations to the board. Well, that to me sounds like it plays right in the policy. So, uh, because we haven't met as a committee, there's a whole particular called behavioral intervention. And because that description fits right into policy development, I think we could uh remove that committee and just let it focus on a committee called policy development, which covers concern. Uh would everybody be okay with that? Okay. Uh finance. This one is a little more um we talk about this throughout the year. Anyway, we know that we have August, September in that time frame. have meetings in
086that those two months then November December August, September for bud for budget and November December for tax letter. Um so as long as uh we've fit that right into a regular board meeting, we're fine. That's has it's gone well in the last couple years. Yeah. Last year I think we kept it at the regular 7:00 time. The year before I think we did 6:30. So, we'll just leave it at 7:00 and do it with annual finance. You could change it. That works. Okay. I do hold on to this. It's good reference. Let's see what else. Would the board members like us to provide a folder or a notebook or or something for you to put your papers in or do you all have a system in your I just you'd like to provide on um
087but uh touching on those for this month as seen in the agenda. Um like I said, negotiations, we're currently in negotiations. We do not have any finance committee coming up. Building and grounds, uh will you be discussing anything in your discussion items tonight? Uh a little bit. Yes. Mhm. I do have a picture that's only on my phone at this moment, but I can show board members that the stage is down at Giles, which is pretty. [Music] Um, and we talked about Okay, um, let's go to discussion items. Yep. Thank you. So, I have a very quick discussion items tonight. Uh this evening I am asking the asking the board to take action on the approved agreement uh with organic life. Just a quick reminder this is something that the Illinois State Board of Education
088has to approve. It's actually a very large process going through a lunch um because we are members of the National School Lunch Program. So any students who do qualify for free lunch, we get reimbursement for that. So very strict guidelines. So they have approved our agreement and again we are on the agreement with Rosemont with Penoyer and Union Ridge for another year next year. So the cost of the lunch for families will be $448 per day which is a 2.9% increase 13 cents a day. So that is in our consent agenda tonight to approve this plan moving forward for our families. So, all the feedback we've received from teachers, from staff, from uh the students, from families have been that they love the food. It's a really great addition. Um I would expect that next
089year we'll be going out to bid. In fact, I know we'll be going out to bid next year. Um and if we remain on a contract with Union Ranch and Rosemont and or not, I don't know at this point. As you know, there are some changes happening at Union Ranch where they will be able to provide not next year but the year after food being cooked within their building. So, um we probably are going to have to look at our contract, but this is only a one-year renewal. will probably go to bed the year after which at that point we could also look at I know one of the interests of the board has been good nutritious food for the students which I think we have met but also to allow that that allocart you
090know students wanted to go buy a bag of chips if students wanted to buy a piece of fruit at lunch we're looking into that option as well part of the national school lunch program that some of that gets a little tricky Um so we'll look into that during the school year next year. So today I have on my discussion a couple of slides about vape detectors. Um I had a board member that asked me to do some research into vape detectors. So I'm providing that for you all tonight. Um so a purpose of a vape detector is to help our school booster uh staff to be alerted right away if someone is vaping. This would be centralized to the bathrooms and then this would allow an adult to respond very quickly when the sensor does
091go off. And there are different ways we can look at the alert. Um most of the companies that have the alert and all of the data that we have really um found from other from other schools is they have a silent alarm that goes off. So there's an alarm that the students here but it it is alerted up into actually on the phone of whatever staff member have have the app and then they are alerted and can then connect to the cameras to see oh it was in this bathroom at this time. They can then go to the camera system and see who was around in the bathroom at that time. Uh, no company that we reached out to was really able to provide us with statistics on vape sensors reducing vaping in classrooms. There
092just isn't the the data on that. However, we did do a couple of um discussions with Ridgewood. I'll kind of skip ahead here. Ridgewood does have base detectors in their bathrooms. Uh they are silent alarms, a text message when the sensor is triggered and then they go to cameras. As I just mentioned, at the beginning of the school year, they caught a couple dozen students vaping in the bathrooms. There was a significant decrease in the number of alarms that went on as the year went on. Uh Mr. Dro was able to reach out to four different companies that provide uh baits for schools. And on this slide, here's his data going from uh highest cost for the 10 bathrooms at Giles down to the lowest cost. And it does happen that that company So is
093the company that Ridgewood currently uses. So that does come recommended to us, which is nice. And it happens to be the one with the lowest cost. Most of these companies, in fact, all four of them do give you the first year of licensing for free. After that, it's it varies. Uh for SOAR, it is a $500 a year after that for licensing. So, minimal amount there is a I mean $7,70 cost if we do decide to move forward on this. I'm not asking the board to take action on that tonight. I would um welcome discussion from the board on if they feel that this is something you would like me to continue working towards at Giles or um if you'd like me to put this on hold or what information I can provide for you
094on fake detector at Giles. I'm curious to what the admin thinks of that. Sure. I think it would be uh a um a good option. I think it could uh we can crack down and identify those students right away. As Mrs. Guzik said, when the alarm goes off, it would alert our cell phones, uh myself and the assistant principal and the SRO. And then we would be able to right away go to camera and identify who's in that bathroom and uh handle that situation uh in a quicker manner. And then based on the data, we would be able to do like hotspot training. If we see it's an increase in a certain grade level, we can go to that grade level, educate them, um give them the educational uh knowledge that they need to know
095how unsafe vaping is. In my opinion, vap detectors certainly are deterrent to vaping industry, but everything comes in a box, you know. So, we just need to decide is the threat of vaping high enough to us that that's worth that cost of the 10 detectors. I'm sorry, you may have touched on it. Total cost, let's let's say picking the last $7,7 that is the startup cost first year of licensing. Correct. And what's the term? What one year? And then after that it's $500 for the license per year for all 10 minimum. Yeah. Not a lot. Just to increase the price at the beginning. I would think that this would then cause students to think twice about paying. Yeah. I'm in full support. The only thing that you might have and and every company says this
096is you could have some false positives. You could have uh some types of sprays that mimic and could cause it to go off. That would have to go down to Mr. Becky's investigation on it. How how does it detect it? What is it picking up? Is it Yeah, it it uh is picking up the vape. What is the word? The mist comes out. That's why now Sotar says that that is a very low incidence within their vapes. Ridgewood is saw a low incident in that as well. So going off of that door from Ridgewood who is also in support of the vapes obviously in the bathroom and was there like an additional maintenance on check them every year is part of the fee where by the licensing as part that's part of the licensing. They
097al are they also able to figure out if kids are tampering with these things? Yes, there is an alarm that goes off. The how the system is built is uh there is a um a piece that goes onto the wall or the ceiling, however you're putting it, and then the actual vape clicks into that. So, if the vape is removed from that or uh tampered with, then alarm does go off. The detector, the vape detector. I mean the bathrooms in Giles are not large. So it probably pick up. So it's not realistic. There's 10 of them. But I'm saying in regards to size of the bathrooms, so it should we would only need one per bathroom, correct? And that's all bathrooms. 10 uh staff bathrooms, but the student bathrooms and student bathrooms, male and female.
098There are not single bathrooms at including the one outside. Correct. So that could go off during sports events. So that's something we'd have to think about and do some norming on how we're going to handle that. Funny Ra said that the only time it really goes off for them now is on Saturday bingo days. Well, honestly, yeah, I get sporting events. They don't act on Saturday. No, I know. But, but my my opinion is if it does happen on on the sporting event and you still check your cameras and if an adult comes out and you recognize that person you I mean there shouldn't be if you're adult or not, it shouldn't be. So, and if it's some other parent from a different school, you send out a letter to that school saying that whatever.
099I mean, I I think yeah, we just need to put together some norming on that, but Mr. Becky or Mrs. Gulo is at every uh sporting event. So, will there be signs posted saying we would also post? Yeah, there's not any most severe detection then is the students know it's there and they don't do it, right? Why take that chance of doing it if you know it's there? I I'm I'm not all for it. Um so I could bring this forward to the board in July for approval. Yes. I mean the only thing is like that false alarm thing and then the questioning the investigation part might be a little bit tricky but we'll see how many false alarms you get. Mhm. Uh you said the word camera you mentioned cameras. enforcements will be planning
100on camera footage. Really? So, is there any shortage of cameras? Yeah, Mr. Becky and Mr. Drobe just started working on a list. I don't know if they're specifically outside the bathrooms. I'm sorry I started answering that too quickly, but he may be able to answer that. Uh, shortage. Was that the question? Yeah, we do have a shortage uh of camera. I don't want to say on public uh camera because it's being monitored, but yes, we do have some that we need to look at specifically outside of the bathroom. Correct. Yes. Okay. So, they have a list. I was able to secure about a little bit less than $6,000 on a grant. So, I just gave them a um $6,000 to create a list. So, they're working on that right now. That's not a lot. You
101know, I'm sure that we could look at um additional funds for cameras or additional funding for cameras, too. Sure. Based on real, they're working on that list now and they're priority prioritizing that list. This is it legal to have cameras in classrooms. Sorry, I'm going to have to look that up. I don't know the answer to that. certainly wouldn't be something that anyone anyone on that would have to be discussed with the teacher side. Yeah, the legality. Let me look that up and get back to you on that please cuz I don't think it's not legal but I I need to check that really help a lot in the investigation if you have one in there. Hopefully not that bad. So, quick update. I know Mr. Bey's um plan talked about the SRO. We did
102conduct SRO interviews uh today and last week. Um the agreement is being reviewed by our legal team and then in July I'm going to bring you the final agreement uh for approval and the name and information. So 500 policies tonight in consent agenda. We are moving on the second round of these very simple 5 colon20 update just the name president and secretary uh 5 colon30 the design after the board president in three spots and then just some cleanup language on those three facilities plans. So, we're really excited about this and I did write this in a board update, but Wald is um going to be reviewing all of our district systems and facilities and putting together a blueprint for the future of Nor School District 8 dating. So, today I have on the agenda approval
103of a contract with Walt, which is our new architect and uh engineering firm. Um this really allows us to plan for the future and it plans uh in that plan we'll allow for um we'll allocate where district resources are what we want to prioritize as a district. And now what's nice about this too is that will continue. So after a year falls off, if we have a 10-year plan within that same system, we'll add on another year. And that's why we may be looking at um an April building to make sure that we keep growing and we keep to as we cross things off. We've crossed many things off on our list, especially our 10ear life safety list. We want to make sure that we keep uh looking forward on what our what we can
104do to provide more and more facility updates and our aging and old buildings. So very excited about this. We I expect this to come to the board probably in uh September and I would like to ask both um and present this and that's it. Thank you. Consent agenda. I need a motion to approve 16A through 16H. Do I have a motion? Maria. All in favor say I. I. I. All say n. Motion passes. 7 board comments. Any comments, discussion? We'll move on to close session. Consider a motion to adjourn to close session to discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees. Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives. or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more of the classes of employees. The purchase or
105lease of real property for the use of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired, student disciplinary cases and review of close session minutes. Can I have a motion? Second, Annie Lorenzo. copies. Mrs. Theodore, yes. Mr. Bardi, yes. Mr. Bulj, yes. Mrs. McFillips, yes. Mr. Trio, yes. Motion passes. We will go into close session at uh it's 8:40 now. 5 to 9. Are back in open session at 10:57. We're going to move on to personnel action items. I need a motion to approve 20 A through 20 C. I have a motion. Motion. Amanda. Who else? Maria. Uh, can I have a roll call, please? Mrs. Mc Phillips. Yes. Um, Mrs. Lavala. Yes. Mr. PJ. Yes, Mrs. Theodore. Yes, Mr. Bardi. Yes, Mr. Fibuzzio. Yes. The
106motion passes. We will adjourn at 108. I'm sorry. 198. Oh, jeez. Terrible. Uh, action item 19A. Consider a motion to approve the agreement with STR Partners LLC and final payment of 32,8578. Can I have a motion? Motion. Maria Jim. Roll call, please. Mrs. Lala, yes. Mr. FJ, yes. Mrs. Mc Phillips, yes. Mrs. Theodore, yes. Mr. Birdie, yes. Mr. Yes. The motion passes. Um now we will adjourn at 10:59. All in favor say I. I. Oper is nacho.