001over this is the less I hate what they put in those I was thrilled. I was like, "This is awesome. And it still works. You okay? Turn off. Uh, good evening. I invite all members of the board of administration and the community to stand attention, face the flag with a right hand over their heart, and recite the pledge of allegiance, please. United States under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you everyone. Sorry for our delays. I think there was one person um streaming so other people may watch. We're a little tardy in the other room. So um few things to do today. Um, apologize my lovely attire. So, driving back from uh lovely Muny, Indiana. Um, in any case, uh, I'd like to give the president's report and then we'll
002jump into some of the other, uh, reports real quick. So, I'll I'll read what I had written. Um, this is not chat gpt, so you can take it with that. Um, dear community, it gives me great pleasure to share my congratulations to our entire educational team for a fantastic year and a special mention of a job well done to our seniors who will officially graduate this Saturday, June 7th, on the front lawn of Lake Forest High School. So very proud of all of you and excited for the next steps in your journey. As I look back the last several years, the work has been completed, the work that has been completed, and the foundations that have been laid, I am truly excited for the next wave of opportunities for our students and community. I wish
003to extend a thank you to a number of folks, but want to start with this community and the trust that they have bestowed upon me and this board. The value and investments that the community has made both financially and personally are significant. I believe it is our purpose to bring value back to the community through creating and fostering an exceptional educational experience and opportunities that every student can personally leverage no matter their level of proficiency when they arrive to us. The leadership of the parent organizations and the countless volunteers that have created untold benefits to our students that without would leave us with a significant gap that I do not believe we could fill. Thank you to the recent presidents of each of those organizations, the contributions they've made and their leadership. We are excited
004for the new teams and the new teams of leaders leaders and we'll look to support and assist them in whatever ways we can. To the teachers, support staff, admin, and others who make everyday work happen. Thank you for your personal investments and care supporting each student's journey. Seeing the work that goes into the personal attention that is delivered from our foundational educational model is all inspiring. From SIP to MTSS, the counselors, scout seminar, and the many other programs and supports, the dedication and leadership is significant, and this allows Lake Forest High School to continue to be a standout among its peers. As we look to bring our new board together and continue the fine work of the past, I'm excited to see the new contributions, new ideas that will allow our future to be one
005that we all will be proud of. Thank you again and go scouts. With that, I'll pass to uh Dr. Montgomery with the student superintendent and assistant superintendent report, please. Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Noble. This is one of two reports that you will have to uh suffer gladly through. Uh the first one will be abbreviated highlights of the end of the year celebrations and then we will move into a formal report on the year in review. This first picture is uh our band kicking off the wellness walk. We missed a little sunshine this year uh and it was a little chilly but it was a chilly spring for us here uh in the Northshore. grateful because in spite of the weather, it was still a great day for our students to celebrate mental health and
006increase awareness around a very important topic that's impacting so many of our young people. In tonight's report, we'll talk about graduation. uh talk about some financial awareness and outreach we're doing with the community uh and some celebrations that are happening not only with a transition graduation that occurred last year or last week, forgive me, but also highlights from things that have happened throughout the district. Prior to all of that, it is my esteemed pleasure uh to announce that Britney Jardis has been recommended as our new fiscal services chief school business officer for 67 and 115 and her appointment will be July 1st. And to tell you I'm over the moon is probably an understatement. Uh but let me tell you that not only does um Britney come highly recommended, she comes with 12 years of
007service, she is a CPA and she has held roles, she current her current role is with the Lake County Regional Office of Education, Stevenson and both 67 and 115 from 2012 to 2019. So we are welcoming her back to the family. We missed her and we're glad that she said yes when we offered her this position. So, could we uh give her a round of applause? I'm not going to make you talk, but everybody will be here uh to congratulate you when we're done because we're going to make it a very short meeting. I promise. We're going to try. Graduation. I talked about this last month, but I just want to remind everybody because it's this week on Saturday, 24 hours in advance on Friday, we will make an announcement if we need to pivot
008due to weather two hours earlier or two hours um after our scheduled time. If steady rain is continuing or should show up on Sat or on Saturday, and I think the last time I looked, I don't even want to look right here to tell you, the last time I looked it was 69 degrees and sunny. Uh, and I'm hoping that's holding true. I'm not making that up. That's what I saw yesterday, but I'm afraid to look at the weather. Uh, if something changes and it's Saturday morning and it's a steady rain, we will make the announcement to move it to the fieldhouse by 10:00 a.m. We are predicting sunshine and a very nice cool temperate uh graduation. And I am saying that we are owed it a little bit for last year's experience. But it's
009going to be a great day regardless of weather. The picture on the screen is of a pamphlet that we released and shared to all of our um residents in both Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Nwood. And it is called the bottom line. It is a new idea which is really was born from outreach from our community saying they would like to see and learn more about how we are managing our district finances and taxpayer dollars. uh this is our attempt to do just that and we've received much u fe much positive feedback uh from this inaugural issue and the hope is or the plan is moving forward that one of the two uh community publications will be dedicated to our fiscal responsibilities and what is happening financially across the district in terms of management. Last
010Friday, as I said, we had the opportunity to celebrate our transition students. These are our students uh ages 18 to 22, and they graduate when they're 22. Uh and there were seven graduates this year. There was Nicholas Beas, there was John Dett, Emerson, Donahghue, Max Gman, Hannah Hankmire, Christian Peara, JJ Soric, and Elelliana Trible. Uh all seven uh individuals have been part of the transition program and it was bittersweet as we said goodbye to students who have certainly less left a lasting impact on Lake Forest 67 and 115 for years to come. I will turn it over to Dr. Leonard now. All right. I have a quick run through of just a few of the fun things that have happened over the last month. Of course, we had prom and that red carpet, the famous
011red carpet um where our seniors and juniors get to walk out and have that moment on camera um and do all the things beautiful. So, it was a lot of fun and it was a beautiful day that day and a lot of fun to see Dr. McGomery actually got to sit next to some future scouts and talk about the dresses as they oo and nod. So, that was also fun. It was Can I just say May I say this? We have a small crowd today. There was elementary students that were sitting on the sidewalk that I just happened to sit down deck uh next to Aaron and they were like talking to me and saying, "Doc, Dr. Murray, look at that one. Oo, look at that dress. That's amazing." I'm like, "Ladies, that is pretty
012cool." And and they were just enamored with uh the fashion show they were seeing. And um it was pretty cool to sit next to those future scouts. I think it was fun to sit next to Dr. McGomery and to see how he lights up when he engages with students. So, a lot of fun. and uh he was even ooing and aing over the dresses too. Um I also heard that there was a 30 minute conga line at prom. 30 minutes. So our students are still doing the conga and that was a lot of fun for the students. It went off flawlessly and it was just a great time had by all. So thank you of course the AP who um make sure that they have plenty of parents involved in that planning process. It is
013absolutely it was just a stellar evening for all. We had our AP um art um show, our exhibit, our AP artfest if you will. And this is just an opportunity for you to see the tremendous work of those students who are in the different levels of AP art. Set it up in the commons area. What I love is you get like hopperes like paintings alongside beautiful ceramics. And next year, I think we're actually going to give principles and superintendents awards just because there's just such incredible art happening across the building. That's just really the product of an incredible art program in such a small school that we have the type of art that we offer is just um I think it's a testament to this community. Then of course we had pitch night um and
014this was a fun night for a variety of reasons, but we actually did a f a first this year and that was we had a wildcard team. The wildcard team found out just a few days before that they would be presenting. They did such a good job. So they thought that they were out of pitch night a few days before. They wildc carded in and they actually ended up winning for the best pitch that evening. So they rehearsed um just a couple of times. One of them fresh off the baseball field in his uniform comes flying up on stage and they did a phenomenal job. Um humidity hero won uh the big prize with $5,000. That's a brush that anytime you get staticky, it's going to help you get rid of the static. And then
015we had two um apps slashwebsites. We know the app economy is something that's really big for our students to start to engage in. And we have um two of our entrepreneurial teams that will be developing those out. One of them for finding a caddy and then then the other one is a social media platform called jamming and it's where you can connect through music and download songs as well. Um, and then we also have Pure Patch, which is sort of a antimicrobial patch for our student athletes to consider, as well as my fresh fit, which was the cool um, insoles that won for best pitch, the wildcard team. So, always great to see our students on stage um, and especially those who are taking on this business aspect, too. Oh, and then, oh, I did
016let me honor night is up there. Honors night was something that I actually ended my staff um lunchon with because this was last week. Um we do honors night on Thursday night and then an honors breakfast for department awards. And I really enjoy it and that the fact that we separate it because honors night is the scholarship awards. Tremendous stories about former scouts um what they've um what they contributed to the community and then our current scouts and what they're contributing in order to win these scholarships. But the department awards and this is something that I think is really important and a testament to Lake Forest High School's teachers. This is where our teachers are standing up and telling the stories of their teaching and their believing in our students. And just to see the
017tears to hear the different stories that our teachers said. The big theme was um teachers standing on stage and saying these students have already surpassed me some of them in their learning. And that's the hope of a teacher. Just the humility that's on stage from our teaching staff. It's just incredible. So, just to see so many of our seniors honored on both those nights. Um, and to hear our staff and hear the pride in their voice, it's just a point of pride, I think, for me as a principal. Next. All right. So, the last day of school is June 5th. We are all eagerly awaiting that, remembering that our 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students just started final exams yesterday. Today's Tuesday. Um, so I know that there's still a lot of stress going on,
018but we are all looking forward to a super sunny Saturday. And I'm told if you will it out into the universe, it will happen. So, we're all hoping for that super sunny Saturday graduation. But wishing everyone a happy summer. Take time to rest, take time to relax, recharge, and just get away. Thank you, Dr. Lenard. A quick shout out to the Lake Forest Library. I didn't realize the amount of support they offer to our students as they're studying for exams. Um, but I happened to stop by the library this afternoon. There were buzzing with scouts. There were snacks out everywhere. Apparently, they give dinner at five o'clock. And um what they're doing to support our young people as they prepare certainly is a testament to the spirit of community that makes up uh 115. That
019concludes the superintendent's report, but you will hear from us very shortly in the agenda. Again, thank you. Um now the LFHS uh update year in review. We we we can we can call an audible with public participation right now. No, I can do it because All right. If there's anybody from the public who would like to stand up and address the board, this would be the time to do so, Britney. All right. So, not to put you on the spot. So, all right. Seeing none, we will move on to the item I just mentioned before. So, uh LFHS update year in review. Forgive me. Um so you will hear some of the things in the report but we try not to be overly duplicative in our uh year in the review uh for our D
020new board members. In June I provide a look back of what happened this school year and then in August we talk about shared services and a financial update for those. So the shared services report will come in August. This is just a reflection on everything that has happened this school year or some of the things that have happened. It's impossible to do everything. We'll tag team this with Aaron and myself. Um I'll hit the beginning, she'll hit the second uh the fourth which is priorities. So we'll start with referendum and finance, community engagement, scout voice, and then we'll move to board priorities. Uh referendum and finance. Uh you learned about this and they you're continually learn about it, but you learned about this in workshop. Uh we are in phase one right now of the
021main construction phase which includes uh world language English classrooms, science labs, the CAD lab and exterior window restoration and the um the framing that is around the exterior of the building. Uh there uh there are major changes that the community will see as they look at the front of the building in the coming weeks and months and we'll be educating the community about what that is and there's major changes that are happening inside. Uh yesterday after the faculty uh barbecue I snuck down with Mr. Mortonson to see the progress of the world language uh rooms that started after spring break. They are looking beautiful and it breeds confidence of just how fast things are moving and how the level of quality that we are seeing from not only Perkins and Will but Pepper Construction. I
022would be remiss to not acknowledge the capital project advisory committee. They are truly a um a partner with architects, engineers and construction as well as the administrative team coming up with new ideas of how we can continue to improve. So things about the window restoration, uh design of some improvements uh in the exterior of the building as well as what's happening inside of the building. We are using them as a litmus litmus test to see did we hit the mark, did we not hit the mark, how can we do better and I want to thank them for their involvement. We have been working tirelessly to keep the community updated this school year with our progress. Whether it be from the under the hard hat series to flyers that have went out uh educating the community
023about resources that available to a dashboard that our community can click and get real time um an highle overview of the construction as well as very detailed um expenses of what's going out in terms of this project. We had forums uh that were educating the community. We did invited our neighbors in on March 13th and created a separate email for our neighbors to reach out to us to make sure that we are being good partners with them as we try to minimize their impact as construct construction um presses forward over the next several years. In addition to our construction communications, I shared with you in the first report that we are trying to increase our financial um financial transparency through outreach because of uh communities requests to say they want to learn more about how
024we manage our manage our finances. And we in response to that we released the bottom line as well as a new video series called Beyond the Budget. Those two items together will hopefully continue to elevate the conversation around how we are doing our best as a board and administration to be good fiscal stewards of taxpayer dollars. Community engagement doesn't stop there though. It continued through all access which is something that Mrs. Oakley started two two years ago where community members can subscribe to individualize all communication or individual targeted information that they are looking and learning more about insight. Uh we talked about one of the insights being dedicated only to finances. We talked about or we haven't talked about but the let's talk events that have happened uh this school year. the board coffees as
025the board leadership uh that is meeting with the community at least four times a year. Uh the social media outreach as well as um on the boots on the ground communication with faculty. We are trying to get out into the community and make sure that we are making ourselves available to hear their concerns and design. I wanted this Friday, no that's not true. This Thursday, um I'll be presenting to Lake Forest Place, which we try to go to, uh that location annually. Actually had to reschedule it because of an illness. Uh so I'm happy to be with them this week to celebrate the wonderful things that are happening in the district. Another example of outreach was the superintendent advisory council that is still up and running. Uh we are finishing the second year. We meet
026quart at least quarterly but then we have started to include the super advisory council and board in learning walks. We've visited every building uh at this point uh both uh all three elementaryaries both sides of DPM and the high school. We'll continue learning walks into next school year as a way to get community insight into what's happening in the classroom when school is open. Uh we spent time and energy on book talks this year. That was a a passion uh about bringing parents and guardians and community in the fold with problems of practice we think they're seeing at home as well as in the classroom. So you can see the anxious generation which a huge kudos to Dr. Lisa Leali. She just announced her summer book uh club. If you haven't seen that um Erin
027and I will be putting that out with Mrs. Oakley to make sure you can join that. Um, I was thrilled with her leadership on the anxious generation. I'm excited about this book for next summer or for this summer, forgive me. Uh, 10 to 25 with David Joerger. He was on site. Ellen Golinsky was on site. And then Doug Bolton was here. So, we're bringing authors for our parents to interact and to have real-time conversations about how to help raise young people. Thought leadership was a focus this school year, whether it be Google, Stanford, Harvard. We were working to not only uh learn but lead in topics as far as um through Harvard of how to have difficult conversations as a leader uh through Google. How are we leading through AI? uh we are trying to
028have a concerted effort to not only uh continue our learning process as leaders but also help support other fellow leaders across the country and the state uh the state and the country forgive me about what great things are happening here. Another major component of our work this year was how to capture student voice. And I continue to implore upon our administrative team the power of student voice and some of the ways that we do this and continue to expand our through the student representatives that we started this school year and we're looking to how we how we can continue to develop their roles to make sure the voice of the student is at the board table or at workshop. uh the roundts that I do with our exiting seniors, the shadow day, and then I'll
029kick it over to Erin so she can talk about this new initiative that we tried this year that I'm hoping will stay with us for years to come. And this is I think a big piece for the board, right? Because this was the principal's advisory council who helped organize that uh student board mixer. Last year we tried it. We it didn't it of course we had a wonderful evening with parents and students but this year I think it really took flight because the students got involved and started planning it and from that uh the board heard actually received a letter from the principal's advisory council about a few major topics that they would like for us to begin to think about a little bit differently or that students find challenging. One of those being of
030course mental health and not it's not that we don't have enough resources but are those publicly facing so that students understand that those are available. That's something that we need to work on as a leadership team for the community, that competitive culture and how do we instill the importance of academic excellence while still understanding that many of our students are overwhelmed and how do we support parents in their thinking as well as our students. Um, something for this school to consider is we have so many activities. We're going to talk about those. We're going to recap those in a minute. Um, but with all of those activities, students tend to be overly scheduled andor some of the activities they might be interested in. um they are having to make a tough choice whereas maybe we
031could think differently about the schedule for some of those activities because it is a great time to build community too. Another thing is and this is something to work with joint leadership team about and those would be our instructional directors and department chairs students are sensing that in certain like courses so similar courses there are different expectations. So, how do we ensure that those teachers are coming together and um their syllabi though they're working together to ensure that they have that common syllabi that those expectations for learning and grading are fairly similar as well. Um and then also something that Miss Oakley just um addressed I know in the facilities and ops meeting that um referendum piece and getting more information out to students which I know the comm's office is already on. Next slide.
032So, um, I'm going to briefly recap, um, the information around the board priorities. And the reason it's going to be brief is because you've actually been hearing reports about this all year. So, we'll reference the reports that you can go back and see in the previous board agendas, but I just want to talk through some highlights as well as give some, believe it or not, preliminary ACT information. Um before I get into the board priorities, I do think it's important for us all to remember that um we do have our district 115 strategic plan. And the board priorities to me really dovetail into the strategic plan. And this is something that was started really four years ago with the beginning of portrait of a learner because that became an integral part and then was further
033developed through different community focused groups were three in a three years ago in a process that then landed the strategic plan two years ago. Um three big prongs of that in goal one and goal two and goal three in a nutshell. Goal one really is about academic excellence and opportunities for students. And I'm going to show you on the next slide some of what you've already heard this year around that goal two is really about belonging and memorializing that collaborative envi environment whether that be through student voice but also through distributive leadership and bringing and evolving our teacher leadership model at Lake Forest High School. That's something you believe in as a board so much so that you built into your strategic plan. And then goal three is something that Dr. Montgomery has reported on
034eloquently the last two years and that really is the stakeholder and community involvement and proving increasing that. So that this this strategic plan has been in the making for the past three years. This is our fourth year but something that the board voted on improved two years ago. So really those goals have been there and present in front of the community. And this is some of the work that's in the strategic plan and really part of the board priorities but not explicit. And I'll get to the board priorities in just a moment. Um these are that goal one which really is about opportunity and academic excellence. And from here you see that we have worked with the AP to further build out that seminar series around career connections. See it to be it putting different
035industry professionals in front of our scouts scouting your summer where where we are getting different businesses communitywide businesses to come in and perhaps offer summer employment to our scouts. Um these career panels that I know Melissa has partnered with Dr. assassin um to expand year overyear. So these have been really the product of us working with the board the board uh strategic plan in order to ensure that we've um implemented that a true evolution. Something else that you heard about when Dr. Sassin gave his career college and career report um and this is really exciting. So career pathways um the Illinois State Board of Education required for school districts to stand up. So, we have in our strategic plan, we're looking at different opportunities for students to find success. Well, last year in our first
036year of implementing the strategic plan, we actually um stood up three career pathways. Next year, we just got another nine approved. So, we will have 12 career pathways at Lake Forest High School. And we're very proud of that work, too. And again, that's because of the direction of the board and the strategic plan. Next slide. Thank you. So, that kind of gets to our board priorities. And this is um thank you. Thank you. That gets to our board priorities. And this is where we have that if you back up one slide. Important to note we have our indicators online where the community can go and see these three big priorities beyond the strategic plan. Really explicit priorities around academic excellence, operationalizing portrait of a learner and extracurricular activities and ensuring every student has access to
037those. We you we actually have metrics that have been established and then we also have this sort of control or this dashboard which shows whether or not the school year-over-year is meeting the goals and the very first priority is academic success. We have this explicit priority around ACT scores. It used to be SAT scores but now it's ACT scores as well as dual credit in AP enrollment. If you go to the next slide, couple of things. A big metric for that is honestly the school report card where we again reached an exemplary status. Um 99 one of the highest graduation uh rates in the state 1% of all Illinois high school districts for academic achievement. You see post-secary enrollment top 1% 91% of our students scoring a three or above on AP exams. So these
038are the things that got you exemplary status but just to give you some the next slide. This is exciting. So, well, I think it's exciting. So, we have the preliminary data for the ACT, remembering that we still don't know what proficiency is for the state of Illinois for the ACT. They've not established that. So, our juniors just took the ACT, as I've been saying all year, with the school not really knowing what we're aiming for. Our hunch is it's actually what the ACT would call proficiency, but we don't know. Um, so what we are thrilled to report is that we do have our test scores back for our juniors. And you see we at least know the national um average and then you see like Forest High School students consistently scoring well above the national
039average. We don't know what that looks like to our peer districts. We have no idea. But we do know what our data now looks like compared to our to the national average and we're excited about that. And also understanding in the national average, not every student takes the ACT. It is a requirement in the state of Illinois for every junior to take it. So that's also going to mean that some of those data points are going to be for students who are motivated to take the ACT, right? So um every one of our juniors took the ACT as a matter of proficiency. So next up, okay, so this is where it gets exciting and this is all with our board having the priority for us to in academic excellence for us to look at how
040our students are scoring. We of course have myriad interventions that we've put in place. Free tutoring for our juniors. We actually created, and this was presented to the board last fall, a diagnostic tool in-house where students took an ACT and then we were able to show students how they performed and then give the students tailored lessons to improving their ACT scores if they so choose. And this is something that our team developed and I told them someday you'll probably make a million dollars off of that because it really is a data tool that was very useful. So you see from the fall diagnostic for our juniors 21.8 8 to the April ACT 24.5. So we saw that what 3 point I don't three what is the math quite a bit of improvement I think for
041just a few months and I can do the math English teacher I'm an English teacher I like words Dr. McGomery. Um, next slide. So, this is I want to put sort of a face to the number. It's a little bit blurry, but um, this is a great example. Here you see the profile of one of our juniors who participated in this. And as you can see, this junior had a diagnostic score of a 16. This is a junior who participated in the free interventions that we offered like no other school is offering really because we actually brought in the tutoring service that most students have to pay for the $1,1500. We bring it in and it's free to these students. if they're willing to do this during their study hall. And here you can see
042the student went who who participated in earnest from a 16 diagnostic to 24 ACT. That's real time and that's because of the board's investment. Next slide. Thanks. So now so the other board priority around portrait of a learner this is really around operationalizing those key characteristics and this is something we put in the yellow and we think we can actually move to the green because the board's priority is that by 2026 we will have defined what each characteristic looks like and what that capstone that summitive project would be. Now why did we wait until 2026? Well, if you remember, I just mentioned the board has that strategic plan goal around distributive leadership, student agency, bringing our students along. We have to work with our teaching faculty to see how do we do that in earnest.
043This isn't something where we're going to develop a tool that checks box. We're going to actually do it in alignment with the board's strategic plan, too. So I'm really thrilled to announce um Steve Dunn is leading this work and he worked in February with a group of about 75 of our teachers to talk about portrait of learner and its importance and from that meeting was able to gauge interest particularly from drum roll the scout seminar teachers who are also engaging in design thinking which is something Dr. McGomery asked us to engage in a few years ago and to think about how students can use design thinking in their learning. They're going to combine those things in order to create a scout seminar ninth grade experience for our students to begin to design their future around
044the portrait of a learner competencies. And it's really exciting because that group of teachers will be coming together this summer to design it. So design thinking, designing your future around the portrait of learn learner competency. So again, this is authentic learning and it's really exciting. It's not just a poster on a wall with us checking off that we just taught empathy in class. This is something that our scouts and our teachers will own. And I want to thank you for um supporting Crazy Ideas because the trip to Stanford and seeing the design lab really catapulted this conversation to see how we could do it in Scout Seminar and beyond. So when you think of these little moments that translate back into the work we're doing, that's a great example of something that this slide and
045this work is directly correlated to crazy ideas and crazy experiences for our faculty and they want to go to Stanford. Dr. McGomery, the teachers do. They're ready to go. They want they want to learn what that design thinking campus does as well. Finally, um Ashley Malik and Tim Burke Calter presented most recently, I think, to the board on culture and climate and especially that extracurricular goal. And a couple of key highlights from that. Um we went from 90 to 94.4% participation rate. Again, we're doubling down on the importance of every student finding themselves somewhere um at Lake Forest High School. And one of the most compelling data points that I think that Ashley and Tim presented is that students who are engaged at Lake Forest um an average GPA of 4.6 65 students who are
046not engaged at Lake Forest High School 3.89. So we know as our board knows when it's set this priority around student engagement belonging that this is really important to our community and to our students outcomes. So thank you for that. Couple other culture and climate pieces. We continue to evolve our multi-tered systems of support. That's a lot of the work with David Hayne who coordinates what happens um with those students and with the data tools that we're using. um scout seminar is no longer pilot. It's actually something our ninth grade students will be all ninth grade students will be engaging in. It's more than a ninth grade study hall. It really is about teaching those how to do school executive functioning type skills that we know that students especially with the pandemic are still having
047some challenges with. So um we continue to evolve that and through scout seminar we know especially now they'll be designing their future at Lake Forest High School. This is a way for us to continue to build community from nth grade year. All right. And then I just gave you a high-level overview of what you can of course view in the um post in the assessment report, the post-secondary data and programming report as well as the extracurricular activity uh report and athletic report and those were delivered to the board in the dates that are present. And I started the year with the staff and I think with you saying this is going to be the best year ever. And I ended um in the staff barbecue saying it was the best year ever until next year.
048Next year will be the best year ever. So thank you and a thank you to Aaron for her leadership. As I reflect this, we are seniors. Aaron and I are seniors this year. This is our fourth year. So the freshmen uh that we started with, we will be shaking their hands on Saturday. And uh we hope that we are seniors at Lake Forest High School in perpetuity. Uh so thank you for your support over the last four years and we are excited um to finish strong and get some rest over the summer and get back here back to work in August. That concludes the year in review and thank you for your kind attention. Awesome. Thank you. Um any comments or questions? All right. So I just want to thank you both and thank everyone
049around the work that's been done. It's incredible. And I think the the distributive leadership model, the the change in the culture that we've seen from the staff to the students to the families to the community, it's stuff I think that was talked about um when you guys first came in and I think we we talked to to Matt initially about trying to get things done and we talked about the portrait project and we said, "Yeah, let's do it right away." And and it was like, "It's going to take about two years to do all of that." And I just I really applaud um the continued just push to drive and drive and move to the next step. And um I think there's just some really neat things coming. But this is I I think I
050don't Gail may be able to come at at a ve coming from a wonderful school as well, but I think some of the things here are happening that are pretty unique and special. So I think we'll be able to share this with a lot of folks and I really applaud you all. So thank you so much. John, I'd like to make one comment. Sorry for being a little loud. I think um testament to Matt and Aaron uh if we were to have achieved one of these um objectives, I think we as a board could be really pleased with the outcome, but that you guys are coming at this um from so many different angles, participation, academic excellence, um and also executive leadership and function. It's it's fantastic to to watch you guys work together and
051to see the great work that you've done. Um we are seeing success across the spectrum and it's it's a real testament to all that you do and and the way you pull people along. Um so thank you. Thank you. And I would be remiss if I didn't say that this is a cabinet effort. While Erin and I are seniors, um the bulk of the cabinet has much more tenure and without the team that we have, this wouldn't be possible. Great work. Thank you. Um we're going to move on to liaison reports. Um so just a quick one on the Ed legislative update. um I've put it in place, but uh I had mentioned it in several other board uh meetings and so this is kind of an accumulation of what has transpired in the spring
052session. I think they just adjourned. So you can read and see some of the specific things that were passed, some of the things that were delayed or on hold. Um one in particular to us that matters. Uh well there's several but but one is particular to the uh dual credit. So there's some changes and some enablement there that may help us coming forward and then there's some other mandates and some other funding things that have come through um that we're going to just have to deal with. Uh so they are there. Uh the positive side is that I think district 67 and district 65 uh Mark Reis and Anne Hill are both the legislative uh liaison there and we're still very much aligned with our priorities of trying to get as much local control and
053remove as many mandates as possible that we're seeing from the federal and state governments because I I think we collectively feel that we're doing uh we're leading things in a lot of ways and and we're asking for less restrictions from those bodies. So, we'll see how that goes as we move forward, but that is now there. Um, on to the action items. Uh, if I could have a motion for item number one. May I have a motion to adopt the resolution for withdrawal from True North Cooperative? So moved. Second. Uh, any discussion on this topic? All right. Uh, may I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Noble I Miss gamer I Miss Zer I Mr. Wein Burner I Miss Helms I Mr. Sve. Motion carries. Um and one point just a clarification for anybody
054watching potentially. Um this is a uh a motion to simply initiate the process for investigation to withdraw. This is not uh there would be a formal uh motion if if deemed uh sometime in the fall after that evaluation, but this is merely a first step and so that can move forward or or backwards based on uh the evidence and the information at that time and our families can expect communication from the district with more information tomorrow morning. Uh item number two, may I have a motion to approve the Perkins and Will waterproofing proposal? Moved. second. Any discussion on this? Do we want to highlight um at this point? Was it something maybe if Jen could just go through items? I know they're not all on the table, but two, three, and four since they're all
055I know we covered them in workshop, but maybe just for the purposes of the public. Sure. I'll hit all at once. How about that? All right. Item two is the approval of the Perkins Will Waterproofing Proposal. So this is to go forward with uh Perkins and Will full design to uh construction spec um that we would go out to bid then with uh Pepper. Um this is to uh waterproof across the front of Lake Forest High School East campus. We are having water intrusion um that we have noticed over the course of the last several years when we have significant rains. Um that is of course the 1935 part of the building and um obviously water intrusion is not good in any home. Um is less so in a high school building. Um so we
056definitely needed to secure that and waterproof that just like you would your own home. So it's actually waterproofing that existing foundation. Um so we want to go forth and get that uh designed in conjunction with our engineers so that we can get that uh bid and get that problem solved before we renovate the classrooms that are on that lower level. The item number three which is the approval of the architect services proposal. Again that is uh for Perkins and will that is the RMA lobby refresh. This is not a referendum project. This is a project we're proposing that will be in conjunction with our 10-year capital plan. That is a refresh of the RMA lobby area. that is to kind of bring it into the I I guess the kind of a it's really not
057the modern era because it's actually a reflection of kind of the old world feel but to make it feel more friendly, more homey, but to feel like you're entering into an arts area. Um we're looking at that in partnership with PALS and Applause. Um those would that refresh would come out of our operating budget. Um we would actually take that proposal go out to bid. If those bids were favorable, we would make a recommendation to the board in October for approval. Um that would be a summer of 26 project, which would be a 2627 budget. Um the number four, approval of installation of the safety netting at varsity uh baseball field. Very similar to the project that we did last year. This is the safety netting that would go around um the kind of the
058guess it's kind of considered the back side of the baseball field. So, that's going to catch the fall balls. Um, and for the safety of our our fans and those sitting or standing around that the side of the fencing in that area, um, our neighbors will also be very appreciative. Um, I think they catch a fair amount of those fall balls as well. Um, they should run a little side business probably with used baseballs. Um, so it's really kind of that safety issue. Um, if you look at what we did with the softballs of softball field last year, very similar. You'll see the big metal um poles, the safety netting kind of coming over the back stop. We are also very similar with the softball putting uh softball field. Last year, we would put in
059for the $50,000 matching maintenance grant with the state. Last year, we were awarded that with the state, and we see no reason why the state would not also do the $50,000 matching grant on this. Thank you, Jen. Um can we have a roll call vote for item number two, please? Miss Enzer I Miss Helms I Mr. Sylvve I Mr. Wine Burner I Mr. Noble I Miss game I motion carries. I may have motion for item number three for the architectural services proposal for the RMA lobby refresh project east campus. So moved second. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote please? Miss Gamith I. Mr. Mr. Wine Burner. Hi, Mr. Noble. Hi, Miss Helms. Hi, Miss Hi, Mr. Sve. I Motion carries. Item number four, may I have a motion to approve the installation
060of the safety net at varsity uh baseball field? So moved. Second. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Sve, I. Miss Helms, I. Miss Zer, I. Mr. Wine Burner, I. Mr. Noble, I. Miss Gam, I. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, may I have a motion to approve the item number five, contract for the coral trip for spring break 2026? So move. Second. Any discussion? Could we I think it's important to note um that the the insurance um element of the trip Jen I don't know if you could speak to that uh just quickly can cover that. This is this is a this is one that some of the board members are very familiar with, but this was put into effect after the trips that were canceled around the the time of
061COVID. Um, but we do require now that we have that cancelled for any reason. The travel insurance is required for students that are attending our trip. So, you can see that that is outlined uh within this uh particular trip. This is our students that will be going I think to Spain and Portugal. Um, this is our coral trip. But yes, students have to show evidence of that particular insurance and they have to demonstrate that they have an understanding. I think there's a sign off um that they understand that they they are basically on the hook should this this trip be canled. Thank you. May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Ryan Burner, I. Mr. Noble, I. Mr. Sylvve, I. Miss Gam. Miss Zenzer. I. Miss Helms, I. Motion carries. Great. Thank you. May
062I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items number 1 through 10, please? So moved. Second. Discussion. May I have a may I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Helms. I. Mr. Noble. I. Mr. Sve. I. Mr. Wein Burner. I. Miss Gam. I. Miss Ser. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, foyer requests. P. Jansen 77 complete. Samir Vidra one of one in progress. Lallet, one of two in progress. Frank McCormack, one of three in progress. Parents Care, one of two in progress. Davis Sylvester, one of one in progress. Philip Mullen, one of one in progress. And at this time, public participation again, but I don't see anybody here for that. So, uh, announcement wise, uh, Thursday, June 5th, 2025 will be the final day of school, as Aaron shared. Saturday, June 7th, 2025.
063The commencement ceremony will be at 2:30 with Sun Lake Forest High School East campus on the front lawn. Tuesday, June 10th, Board of Educational special meeting at 9:00. Um, and Tuesday, August 12th, the finance committee of a whole at 5:00 p. p.m. along with the Tuesday, August 12th board of education meeting 7 p.m. here, Lake Forest High School West Campus. And Mr. No, sorry to interrupt, but just as a reminder to the community, both boards do not meet in July, and that's why there is the break from now until then. Thank you, sir. All right. May I have a motion to adjourn the Lake Forest Community High School District 115 board meeting for June 3rd, 2025? Don't move. Second. May I have a voice vote? All in favor say I. I. Meeting adjourned. Thank you.