001Um, good evening. I invite all uh members of the board and administration community to stand at attention, face flag, and we'll say the pledge of allegiance. All right. Thank you very much. Um, in lie of me running long in our workshop, I'm going to uh pass my lovely presence report to uh Dr. Montgomery, but uh no, he's he's saying something else. So me to riff. I can riff. So I will pass to Dr. Montgomery uh for his superintendent's report. I'll I'll start as that's coming up. Uh so the uh we changed the presentation format. Rene and I will be kind of sharing this portion of the report. Uh the topics that I'm going to cover or the three of us are going to cover are as follows. And there's quite a few but we're going
002to move as possible. We're talk about ACT Mandarin phase one construction AP tech update foundation grant day. Here's the list. Wall of fame. see it to be it TEDex principal advisory and coming up remember that we are doing this with all three of us so Aeron's not doing a separate report who's next Aaron if you think you're I think I'm first with ACT um as everyone knows and we sent communications out about it we had a little bit of a hiccup big hiccup uh on our first ACT date but we just had a mostly successful administration yesterday still some hiccups and it was interesting seeing the um communication going back and forth among schools today even who were experiencing a lot of the same uh server errors that we were experiencing. But we're happy that
003we got through it. Um we do know that some of our students did not have as as ideal of a testing opportunity as we would have hoped because of the server challenges that we had. Um but what I was really proud of was just the resilience the students were showing yesterday, the positivity even as they were waiting 30 and 40 minutes to begin a test as we were trying to get new rooms set up. And we know and we're really proud of our students. we know that that they did the best that they could and we will definitely use that data to inform um our work moving forward. So yesterday and then today we had a few students finishing up but um yesterday we were able to finally administer the ACT and we're looking forward
004to continuing to uh work with the ACT uh corporation and work with ISPY uh to make that as ideal and optimal of a testing situation for students as possible. So, um, just a little bit of an update for Mandarin and about Mandarin or Mandarin program. There really isn't anything for the District 115 board tonight. Um, what we have been doing as we've been going through staffing, um, is noticing trends in trends in enrollment. And anytime I look at something like a world language program, I'm going to look at what our feeder schools are generating as I think about how I continue that program over the years, what the languages will look like that we're going to continue to offer. Uh, Mandarin is a program that has struggled in enrollment um, since I've been at Lake
005Forest High School. This is my fourth year. And as we look at the projection from Deer Path Middle School, we see even smaller cohorts in seventh grade rising to 8th um, and sixth grade rising to seventh. So with that, um, we did have a resignation of our long-standing Mandarin teacher a couple months ago. um we have hired a new Mandarin teacher, but this is an opportunity for us to look at in declining enrollment um actually sunsetting the Mandarin program. And we did this uh with German several years ago. Um pre it predates me, it predates Dr. McGomery. Um what that would look like is our rising ninth grade students, we will offer Mandarin 2 to them and we will see them through the opportunity of AP Chinese um by their senior year. So that is
006our intent to make sure that those students can continue um to to have an AP experience in a world language if that's something that interests them. However, next year we will not offer Mandarin 2 and the next year we would not offer Mandarin 3. So you would see the progression of the sun setting of that program and again we just have not had the enrollment that supports maintaining um the Mandarin program. And we also see declining enrollment in general at Lake Forest High School over the coming years. I think that Dr. Fitz Simmons is also going to talk about some of the implications for districts, potential implications for district 67. And we have been working very closely and collaboratively together on this. We know that our district 67 Mandarin families who are so passionate about
007this, the language, the culture, they they will be the most impacted. And we know that while district 67 is continuing its Mandarin program, we know there will be trickle down effects. And um as this program at the high school is winding down, we know that there is going to be disappointment um for sure. One of the things that we can say that this is the time that our incoming fifth graders are selecting their languages at this time. We anticipate there will be some that will want to switch their languages. All students above fifth grade. Um, we are going to be working very closely with those families and tomorrow the DPM admin will be reaching out individually to all the families that are currently enrolled in Mandarin in fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. I will
008also be sharing a message with all of our district 67 families because this will be infecting current first graders next year. They'll be rising second, third, and fourth graders at Cherokee. Thank you very much. In the workshop, we talked a little bit about construction one uh or construction phase one that has begun. It started right at the start of spring break. So, while many of us were out and about across the country and the world, um we had a facilities team inhouse doing a great deal of uh demo uh to make sure that we were on our way when the students and faculty returned. So HVAC, HVAC, mechanical, plumbing, electrical are all underway and the metal stud interior interior wall construction has begun. So it has been a six to sevenyear journey to get to
009this point. To see the work actually happen in the building uh certainly is something to be proud of. The next thing I will talk quickly about is that Jordan and and the edte have been on a little bit of a road show with both the 67 AP as well as the high school AP. Last week they met with the high school AP and provided updates around technology from topics as the transition from Chromebooks to MacBooks to talking about how the ed ad ed adteing learning and then uh finishing with really where AI is going from their vantage point. I think it's it's going to be a regular annual update from Jordan. Uh and it's wonderful to have him immersed with the parents asking real-time questions around technology. I'll move into foundation grant day. The foundation,
010you know, is a tremendous source of support for the district. Uh this year they awarded $118,000 towards educational excellence and many different uh beneficiaries. uh uh had things to celebrate this year from the wellness department to the edtech to students support services. Uh and then don't forget that on an annual basis the business department uh is awarded a a grant for the incubator program and without their support that program would not flourish in the way it has done. Um so I actually had the privilege of um MCEing our wall of fame ceremony and this is something that um it's been five years in the making. I think during co is whenever um we had to cancel this group of alumni who are actually set to receive um their wall of fame award. So it was
011a lot of fun um to welcome Clark Summers who was the class of 1995. He is a Grammyinning basist, composer, and educator. Um, and he's toured globally with all these jazz greats like Kurt Elling, Cedar Walton, and Brian Blade. He performed for the students as well. And mostly he was just a really cool dude. So, it was fun um just to be kind of in his presence and the presence of such a creative as well. Um, and I'm the class of 95 and so it was just it was cool to see how far he's come. Um Margaret McMullen, who's the class of 1978, she's she's written nine nine award-winning books. Um, she really spoke a lot about how she started thinking about writing when she was in high school and and how it began with
012ideas and particularly like she talked about a beehive outside her window and how that sparked um her mind as far as her own journey in high school and you know getting stung and she she actually wrote for the Scholastic Awards and won and that's what um really sparked her motivation to become an author. So, um, she's written books like My Mother's House, Sources of Sources of Light, Where the Angels Lived. And then we had Carla Nel Wyoff, who was the class of 1966, former American Medical Association exact, she was on the Hill, Lake County prosecutor, um, and county clerk. Uh, she was also, and this was fascinating, um, since they didn't have have women's sports whenever she was at Lake Forest High School, she, um, was a water ballerina. So she did synchronized swimming. So
013she talked about that and our students were fascinated to learn about being a water ballerina and how that worked as well. But just um what an accomplished individual and especially just as an accomplished female from the 1960s for them them to see that example that was a point of pride too. After the ceremony they got to tour the school. It has changed a lot and they all acknowledge that. Um and then they got to speak to our law students, our music classes and our English classes. So definitely got to inspire some of our scouts to maybe be on the wall of fame someday. So it was a lot of fun to see them. Special thanks to Leslie Fischer um who who is our alumni coordinator, our wall of fame chair Jennifer McGregor and the alumni
014wall of fame committee members. It was quite the event. Another quite the event. So, we have our see it to be it series and this is really the opportunity to bring people um professionals from the public, people from all different industries and walks of life in to speak to our students so that they can see what opportunities are out there. On April 2nd, we had our first see it to be it civic engagement professional panel and this aligns with our world history and geography curriculum. So all of our students, it was recorded um actually got to see and hear from these different elected um professionals. So it was um cool. It was cool for them to be able to ask questions. Steve Dunn moderated it. Um but what was to the students when you asked
015them what really resonated with them, what resonated with them the most was how interested these elected officials were in their opinions even though they weren't they weren't old enough to vote. So they loved seeing how interested the adults are in just understanding what the student experience is. So hopefully we created some future, you know, public officials among our students because they just see the dedication that that that involves. And then we see Simon up here. Simon is usually sitting next to Cat as one of our student representatives, but we had our annual TEDex on March 19th. Um this was a lot of fun. We also see Kelly McBain who is one of our teachers who spoke about her battle with cancer. Um and then Mike Msswikis, he spoke about juggling and what juggling teaches you.
016Then we had Simon who spoke about languages and languages that are dying throughout the world. Um and how we are losing some of our access to other cultures through these languages that are going away. Um so he did a beautiful job and it's just interesting to hear these brave students and what they're interested in as they get up and they speak. um and what really sparks their interest at Lake Forest and their and their peers to see their peers so engaged as well. So TED talks it's a it's the real deal and it's a lot of fun to see. All right, and in just a few moments Cat is going to be speaking about the principal's advisory council. Um last month I talked about the student board mixer and I gave a brief um highlight
017of some of those key themes. Cat has actually met as one of the senior leaders on the principal advisory council. She's met with the group um a couple times now to really synthesize that into their recommendations for the board to consider when it comes to the transition to Lake Forest High School as well as the student experience at Lake Forest High School. So Cat will be talking about that in just a minute. I thought that maybe I would present on it, but I thought nobody better than the students who were leading that work. Hopefully in your mailbox, you received a postcard uh reminding you of tomorrow's board president coffee with myself, Mark, and John. And this is uh our continued attempt to provide outreach and access to our board leaders and members of the administration.
018This month, it will be in Lake Bluff at the public safety building. Uh we are also making a concerted effort to be present in all of our communities that we are proud to represent. In a I think two weeks uh we have the spring musicals April 24th through the 26th and it is Cinderella and we are excited to um see our students perform this wonderful musical. uh a shout out that there's a special meet and greet for our youngest theater fans on Saturday featuring the uh Cinderella Prince Charming and the Fairy Godmother after the 3:00 matinea on April 26th. Uh thank you to pals for sharing these behindthe-scenes uh photos as they build the sets uh for the or in the RMA. We have an increased uh focus on communication around school finance and resources.
019Two things to bring to the community's attention. We will be releasing the first episode of our beyond the budget video series which is an overview of school finances and our annual budget cycle. And additionally uh early next month we will res uh be sending out uh a community publication called the bottom line uh which will serve to educate our community around our finances and it will uh be replacing the uh spring insight and we're excited to have this additional focus and transparency to the community around financial uh conservatism. A shout out to uh this uh is a senior right now uh playing baseball for us. We are springtime season. This is Charlie Graham. And then in the topics of uh the evening, there was a picture of Jasmine Scott who was uh competing in uh
020the spring track and field event. So when I say spring is in the air, um I will leave you with the superintendent report with a uh poem that I stumbled across today. Uh Dr. Hermus is very excited when I read poems to her. Um, actually the whole team is excited when I read poetry um because they know that I apparently have too much free time. But here is the poem that resonated with me today about appreciating the springtime season. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bow and it stands about the woodland ride for Easter tide. Now of my three score years in 10, 20 will not come again and take from 70 springs a score. It leaves me only 50 more. And since to look at things in bloom,
02150 springs are little room about the woodlands. I will go to see the cherry hung with snow. I hope you all enjoy your springtime season and celebrate this time. Thank you, Dr. Montgomery. Yes, three snaps up. You didn't do it as Jennifer Culage. So you you should have uh so that would have been very funny. Um Miss Kate, Miss Uh Kate, I'll turn Cat. Sorry. I'll turn it over to you for presentation. Beforest high school updates. Yeah. Okay, there it goes. Um, yeah. So, as Dr. Lenard kind of touched on a bit for the principal's advisory council student board mixture. I wasn't personally able to I my flight was delayed so I personally wasn't able to be there but I think a majority of you or all of you got a letter from us just
022kind of doing what students kind of from our takeaways were and like what we really thought from like all the student perspective. I know you had your own takeaways but we did as well. So we included in that letter that students feel largely uninvolved in the referendum process. Scout seminar has been highly successful. Teachers are incredible but often teach similar courses differently which kind of comes in conflict at different times. Students want to join more extracurriculars but struggle with conflicting schedules. Students report exhaustion with intensive college competitive culture. And then mental health resources are very strong but students don't know where to find them or how to use them. So we kind of go more into detail within the letter itself. So, but just from I guess the getgo that these were our takeaways, I
023know Dr. Lar also touched on TED talk, but Simon wrote me up some bullet points because he was very passionate about talking about it. Um, but from coming from again from the students perspective, he said it was a super cool event. There were lots of musicians, especially playing the guitar and piano. The speeches were great and there were a really broad variety of topics like anyone can learn to juggle, the history of salt, why to be a TA and then Simons was the important of the importance of endangered languages. And then I know Dr. Montgomery touched on this as well, but Cinderella will be showcased April 24th, 25th, and 26th inside the LFHS RMA. And then it's starring two LF seniors, Declan Bole as Prince Charming and Norah Charmin as Cinderella. So you can just
024see them up there. And then finally, you may see some familiar faces, but seniors continue to announce their college decisions and heading throughout all the country next year. And several students are taking other routes such as the military, workforce, gap year, etc. And the high school is doing a great job accompanying weather, no matter your route next year, just everything all in general. Kad, thanks for the uh the report out. I do have one question um on the student takeaways. I was there during that night and I thought it was really interesting and very informative to get feedback from the students and I had also heard some of the same comments about students feel largely uninvolved in the referendum process and then on top of that I also had heard just they just didn't really
025know what was going on. It was kind of a combination of not involved nor communicated with. So, and I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but maybe you've thought about this or, you know, talked with some of your colleagues about it, but from a student perspective, how do you think we can do a better job of either involving you in the process, uh, which may be a hard thing to to answer because you may not even know what the process is. um but how to how to involve you in that and how to communicate with the student body so they have a better understanding of what is going on. So what works for students? We feel like we you know do a good job with communicating with our community with parents and stuff
026but how what works for students? Um I know that personally there have been lots of surveys that especially for like the furniture that originally wanted to be filled out just like through a QR code and stuff like that. and Dr. Fitz Simmons and I worked closely together for a couple weeks really trying to plan out a focus group which that was a small group of students but I think really just face to face is what students really I guess work best with I guess medicines just because everyone's really busy on their own and no one's going to just from my perspective just going to scan a QR code on your way out of class students are ready to book it out of there when like the bell rings but I think maybe just face to
027face or if a teacher if you talk to the teachers about it and it's something where they mention in class or if it's a video sent out in a newsletter or I don't know something where it's built into the schedule so students really know how to just work with it within the day. It's great great feedback and um I think this could be a good agenda item as also part of your principal's advisory council where you guys can talk through this and see what can work with with scheduling. It could be focus groups. It could be big um you know I don't say meetings but uh presentations or collaborations in a in a um in one of the um you know larger rooms where we can get a lot of people but uh anyway you
028guys can talk through that come come up with I mean you guys are super creative and solutionoriented so I hope you guys can figure that out because we really want to support whatever we need to do to keep you guys involved and um up to speed with what we're doing. and K, I I love doing that with you. So, if you want to invite me back for anything, I'm I'm your girl with that. We did have about 15 people, I think, and we had a nice afternoon. So, anything that that would help facilitate that, I'm I'm with you. Awesome. Thank you. I'm sure we'll be reaching out in the future. And Kat, I wanted to say um just how much I enjoyed the principal's advisory council event. It's kind of funny that you can sit
029on the schoolboard and not interact with students all that often, but it is kind of the reality of this position sometimes. And so to have the opportunity to sit down with students and really hear their feedback um was eye opening for me. And one thing I want to say is I I just want to commit personally as a board member to taking these student takeaways very seriously. Um, and I think we should be adding to our agendas and and thinking about how we can build into our agendas. Um, being responsive to this because, you know, obviously people took the time to come and talk to us and share with us and and there was a lot of consensus around these issues and so we should be responsive to them. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Thank
030you very much. great report and again I will echo the same thoughts in terms of the the committee and the meeting um getting the input. So it's great. So we'll we'll make sure we keep those on and drive them over to Erin and make sure she implements them. Okay. All right. Thanks. Um public participation. So if we have any folks that would like to address the board, I would. All right. So there is not. So we are going to move on to our first report which is the extra extracurricular activities and athletics report with Ashley and Tim. So floor is yours. Thank you for sharing it ahead of time which I've reviewed so I've spoilers I've read so it's good. Um and love to hear your take on anything you want to share in addition.
031So thanks. Thank you so much for your time. Obviously, we um share a similar photo. We also thought it was very cool and it's a very cool kid. Um so, nice choice, Dr. Montgomery. Um we first wanted to go through and do introductions. Uh thanks for having us here tonight. Uh Tim Burke, athletic director. This is my 20th year in this role. Um and I've been at Lake Forest High School since 1999 where I started as a a math teacher and coach. So, um just love this opportunity to come and speak to you all. Uh Craig Shaman's our new assistant athletic director. Uh most of you know Mike Thwicki who has been our wellness instructional director. He's also serving in a much larger role this year with as an assistant AD particularly on the facility
032side coordinating uh things that he does in wellness with uh what we do in athletics. So that's really been a a great asset of of marrying uh his work with uh the wellness department and and our department. So we're really excited about that. uh Gene Lechesy who is our department assistant. Uh she's with us uh for the balance of the year and she's got she's retiring in uh September. So we will be posting her position and looking for her replacement. And then Rihanna, we were fortunate to get back into our office this year. Uh she had been with us, then she moved over to special ed. Now she's back down with us. So it's great to have that team together. Um as you can see in the picture, we also have our athletic trainers, equipment
033manager, our pool personnel. Uh so we're just really uh excited about the opportunity to talk a little bit about our programming. I'm gonna turn over to Ashley talk about her department. So my time at Lake Forest High School, I've been here for seven years as my 17th year in education. Um come by way of an English teacher, but um so I love the presentations and the opportunity to be able to talk about what we do in our offices. Um my office it's myself and it's Tatiana Sabin who we've been together now almost two years. Um and we're always running around. So this is a picture just from prom last year and we will work on one better for next year. Um it was this or eating cheeseburgers at the wellness walk. So I went this
034route. Um but she is I affectionately term magic. Everything that shows up and works itself out. So um she's been a huge help to all Tim and I's work throughout the year. I I can attest to that as we put this presentation together between Ashley and and uh um Tatiana Tatiana, sorry. uh they worked magic with KMA and I'm it's way out of my league. So, this is all their handiwork. Uh I want to talk a little bit about the celebrations we've had this year. Uh on the activity side, uh we have these clapouts. If you haven't been to a clapout, I'm going to invite you. Next week, we have clapouts for uh the science olympiad math team, FBLA. Um and that's on Thursday, I think. All three are going to state next week. All
035three are going to state. Uh it's a real quick event. It's during the passing period on a block day. Uh we strike up the band literally. We march them through the hallways. The kids stand on the rails around the hallways and and clap their their classmates out when they go to a state tournament. So, um we we had those for band, choir, and orchestra uh earlier this year. Uh we've had a number of them on the athletic side. I've listed a lot of our accolades here. I'm going to go through them, but I really want to draw your attention to a really cool video that our new media team put together. Um, and uh, as as that plays, I'm just going to kind of um, we got uh, sound in the background. Um, you can
036see our students here celebrating. We got our mural of excellence. Uh, there's our state championship lacrosse team from last spring. Here we have our regional championship boys basketball team. Uh the best part is some of the backgrounds of this where you can see uh the students celebrating their classmates. Um so here's the football team. I will say we beat Libertyville for the first time ever twice in a year. That's a big deal. There's our gymnastics team which was conference champs from champ. There's our uh regional champion soccer team from last spring. There's the student body celebrating uh football team over at Libertyville. Uh here's the lacrosse team at the state finals last spring. uh soccer team which won the conference championship this past year. There's our dance team which won the conference championship uh state
037qualifiers uh and national second place finish. Volleyball team getting ready to take the take the floor in practice. Um again kids put together they like that football stuff. Uh golf uh we finished uh advanced to the state finals. There's field hockey which we proudly host the state finals this year on our own field and finished second. wrestling under the spotlight. Uh a reemerging softball program that I'm really proud is back on on solid ground. Uh lacrosse, which was a a final four team. Here's our girls basketball team celebrating a a pinkout event. Uh again, just a a great opportunity for our kids to come and celebrate with their class. So, uh just a there's our night run which we we bring a bunch of teams for cross country uh over to the field and finish
038there. So, uh just wanted to share a couple key additions this year. Um with we were able to add some uh athletes participating in golf this past fall. uh we were able to officially recognize girls wrestling. Uh in the past it's been merged together. The IHSA has really made a push to separate those two this year. We're really proud that we had participants on our girls wrestling team. Um we added inter mural ping pong. I didn't know that that was going to happen, but that was very organic and tables were there and they said, "Hey, what if we came and did this?" And Craig Shamon said, "You know what? I'll sponsor that. I'll I'll let's do it." and we got 18 kids that weren't participating before that jumped in and did inter mural ping pong.
039Um, proudly, uh, as enrollment has slowed down in its decrease, but it's still decreasing a little bit. We lost maybe 10 15 kids from this time a year ago. Uh, but we added 76 kids in athletics alone. We had 46 kids in the fall, two in the winter, and 28 this spring to participation. So, um, we're really proud of that. and and Ashley's going to jump into some really awesome statistics here. Yeah. So, um your board priority is 95% engagement. Um and it is something that Tim and I have really leaned into. So, our engagement data through the years um last year at the end of the year we were at 90%. Um this year right now we're at 94.4. So, um really proud, but I said 94 never hit so hard because it's not
04095. Really, really like very into thresholds. Let's get there. Um, so Tim and I were looking and it was last year when we started to realize that some of the kids that we weren't quite capturing in our data because of our very traditional data tracking was not capturing kids like peer tutoring and um, TAS and things that when we are talking to these students, they are highlevel athletes. They don't participate in our athletics, but they are participating in our community. And that is what we're looking at. Who are these students? Are they engaged with one another? Are they making friends? Are they engaging academically? Are they successful? And then if you are a speed skater, by all means, go do that after after school. We don't have ice here. So, there's just certain situations where
041we just are knowing who our students are and then getting that number down smaller and smaller and smaller. So 94% I we are super excited to see that and we appreciate the push that you gave us because we were starting to feel really good at 90. Um so thanks kind of yeah but also tough. Um with that last year we started tracking average GPA in our engaged students. Um, and by moving our data over to this online platform called FiveStar Students, it's been a gamecher for really getting granular details about student engagement and where they're at and who who these students are. Um, and one of the thing on the left, it shows the students their average weighted GPA if they're involved in extracurriculars and then their average weighted GPA if they're not involved. It's
042cool to see that through all of the sheets that we used to keep all of our engagement data on, it's accurately represented on this platform that is disagregating this data for us. Now, what's really neat is it even goes further into grade level. So, as freshman, you have a higher GPA by a whole point if you were involved in something. Um, sophomore year that goes up to a point and a half. Um, so it really is the impact of being connected to your school and finding those resources, being more willing to walk into PLT, being more willing to ask for help because you see these adults and you interact with them day-to-day. Um, one thing we've looked at with our one lake forest initiative is all of our students that we are trying to actively
043remove barriers for engagement. That looks like the activity bus. That looks like removing engagement fee or um participation fees. It looks like really cognizantly being working through all of our potential barriers that might stop a student from getting involved. Um super excited to report that 86% of our low-income students are engaged. Um and that number was not something that I could track from last year, so I was trying to pull that in. Um, our data shows that we have 11 students that are not involved in extracurriculars. However, we partner with the boosters this year, the high school, the booster athletic team or athletic um, parent booster organization. They were incredible. They started um, an all scout spiritware um, participation where they gave every single student in need $100 to shop in the booster store. We've
044been tracking this data to see if we remove a barrier, do students participate and what we're finding is the answer is yes. Um 100% of our students have participated either in extracurriculars or one of the ways in which we have removed a barrier. They have chosen to they have to show up. They have to turn in the they have to turn in the gift card. They have to do something in order to redeem it. And so it really is showing that if we are actively removing these barriers, the kids are by and large benefiting, seeing the point, feeling good about it. Um that was probably one of the most like special days in the fall. It was right before homecoming week and we saw more and more students wearing scout gear than ever before. Um
045and it was showing us that it wasn't that they don't want to be scouts or be a part of the community. It it really is a financial piece. Um so by giving them $100 to shop, it really made a big difference. So, um, we're excited to see that 53 students participated in that opportunity. Um, and the boosters have committed to helping us out with that. Again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. And, um, also a little call out just going to some of the meetings that I've had to attend, both PALS and some of the others, uh, with you, Ashley. Thank you for that work as well because I think that's having the the parent groups get creative as well as you, your team, Tim, your team, just seeing that and finding a
046way to get those kids to connect. It's it's huge. So, it's it's really important that you're finding every single one of these people. So, it's great. So, thank you for that work. I appreciate it. Can I ask one more question? Did Tim practice being able to name all the sports as they were going by? That was impressive. Do I have to answer that on No. I actually did because I I I was like, "Do we have to say that again?" I go, "I'm going to practice. I want to make sure as we're going through that I don't miss one." So, uh, I just remember Dewey, whether it was last year or two years ago, challenged Ashley and I to get to 100%. And I said, "Boy, that's that's just so lofty, but we're going to
047get there." And this year, when we went from 90 to 94 and a half or 94.4, we're just super proud. We're going to keep working. We're going to find more. We're going to take down those barriers. We're going to get these kids involved. And next year, we'll have a bigger number. I will have to compliment you guys. I the 94.4% 4% is incredible. Um, I applaud you for in uh including kids who are tutors because I know from my own um children how meaningful an experience that was for them. I'm guessing that you're already there. Um, if you're that close, you just haven't figured out what it is yet. But let's get to 100. Let's do it. Well, if you round it up, it is 95. You just have to have a different math rule.
048I'm just going to use the soon as you get over it, it is not roundable. Han Solo math. That's all right. Um, all right. So, we're going to move to the, uh, Ed Red uh, leazison reports, um, legislative updates. So, nothing has changed other than a lot of activity down in Springfield. Um, so we're monitoring that and doing some other work. Um, so there's more to come. I would have something hopefully in May or June, some updates on stuff that's been passed and work we're doing. Um, True North Educational Cooperative Update. John, nothing to add besides Superintendent Schneider's report and Matt's update earlier. All right. Thank you. Um, on to the action items. Uh, action item number one. May I have an appro uh may I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 administrative
049compensation? So moved. Second. Uh any discussion? All right. May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Davis, I. Miss Helms, I. Mr. Noble, I. Dr. Vincent, I. Mr. Burns, I. Mr. Wein Burner, I. Motion carries. Thank you. Um, item number two, uh, may I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 shared services compensation? So moved. Second. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Dr. Vincent, I. Mr. Noble, I. Mr. Wurner, I. Miss Helms, I. Miss Davis, I. Mr. Burns, I. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, may I have a motion for item number three to approve the 2025 2026 exempt compensation? So moved. Second. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Noble, I. Mr. Burns, I. Dr. Vincent, I. Mr. Weiner, I. Miss Helms, I. Miss Davis,
050I. Motion carries. Thank you. Item number four. May I have a motion to approve the Olsen transportation for regular transportation services July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2030? So moved. Second. Uh any discussion or agenda? Do you want to highlight anything? I think we had um on the report it was basically a flat renewal. A flat renewal. The only thing I would highlight is um it's been a few years, actually quite a few years since we actually went out to a formal bid. That would be the only thing I would mention. We did have uh four bids uh four biders for this and it is a renewal with the existing company of Olsson Transportation. It's a five-year contract with an option to renew for an additional five years and by law we would need to
051rebid at that time. Thank you. May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Weiner, I. Mr. Noble, I. Miss Helms, I. Dr. Vincent, I. Miss Davis, I. Mr. Burns, I. Motion carries. Thank you. Um for the consent agenda items 1 through 12. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Helms, I. Mr. Wurner, I. Mr. Noble, I. Mr. Burns, I. Miss Davis, I. Dr. Vincent, I. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Uh, for your requests, Michael Roast 101 completed. parents carrot three of three completed. Frank McCormack, two of two completed, Mark Merkel, one of one completed. Um, adds Bonum 10 of 10 completed. Heather Hayen, one of one completed. Um, at this time we have public participation for
052the second time. This is an opportunity for the public if they would like to speak to the board. Um, are there any members from the board that would like to speak? Hello. Uh, my name is Michael Nolzinski. Um, my wife Julie serves as the uh, AP member for Mandarin for District 67. So, I was just say her phone's been blowing up uh, in the last few minutes. So, someone asked us to come over. Um, was just wanted to ask, I didn't really hear what happened, but like what the effect is from the decision today on District 67. Well, normally we wouldn't respond um, in terms of questions, but I think we can share. We gave Amanda an update um in regards to the board meeting and basically it's we're it's going to be phased out
053in terms of the current plan. So we will be honoring all students coming in as a freshman next year to be able to commit to delivering AP all the way through those four years. Okay. Um so not really a change per se at the high school next year but the idea is to discuss to say if the ro enrollment stays very low as it has been what's coming in there'll be a phase out the following year based on that's what's the current plans. So there'll be there'll be discussions and ideas about how best to maybe handle if there are changes at DPM in regards to scale and participation. If there is not then we'll start to figure out and work the phase out. Um, that's what it looks like. And then what we'd look to
054do is try to work with the families to give them public options, not public options, but private options to continue the education. There are some online classes. There are other types of hybrid learning opportunities, but in terms of trying to deliver and stand it up just here at the high school, that's what we're looking to basically phase that out based on teachers and how we would set that program up. But it's effectively there's no decision today about it. It's more notifying that that's the out out two years and that would obviously have some effect backwards into 67, but it's going to be something that's going to be looked at as 67 and the community response of what we would if we're going to make any changes to that. But that would be determined later in
055time. Yeah. And I want to be respectful to the 67 board, but uh for the 67 families, there will be a communication that goes out tomorrow morning uh updating the community of what happened tonight uh to make sure that they're informed and then conversations will specifically be uh addressed with our eighth graders who would be our incoming ninth grade scouts to see if there's any changes that they have on their horizon. Okay. So, tomorrow morning there'll be some sort of communication coming forward. Yeah, it'll be coming from Dr. Dr. Fitz Simmons updating the community about tonight. Well, thank you for coming. I appreciate. Yeah, please just all you need to do is state your name. Okay. Uh, hi, I am you pull the mic down just a little bit. Hi, I am Ethan Molinski and
056I am in fifth grade and in high school I would like to do the Mandarin product uh program because it is fun seeing my friends learning with them and I like learning a new a unique language than Spanish or anything else. So thank you for that. I agree. Well, thank you and it's very brave of you. I appreciate you coming here and sharing that with us. Absolutely. Please Thank you for sharing that and it is something again as it comes to the fall we will be discussed a lot and we'll be looking at what we can best do and serving the whole world language department. Okay. So thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you for coming. Job guys. All right. U seeing none others that we will uh the announcements. Tuesday, May 6th will be
057um our education committee of a whole and we're going to probably be a slightly earlier time um or slightly earlier time for some general meeting stuff and then the educ committee might be a little bit after five. Uh, also Tuesday, May 6 will be the board of education organizational meeting uh, which will be what we typically call the new old or old new um, transition meeting where we get to honor uh, some of our board members that are departing us and then some new ones that are coming in. Uh, with that, may I have a motion to adjurnn the Lake Forest Community High School District 115 board meeting for April 16, 2025? So moved. May I have a voice vote? All in favor say I. I. I. Meeting adjourned.