001to call this meeting to order for the 30 Hill Community Consolidated School District number 133 this is a regular meeting um February 26 5:30 pm here at willbrook middle school break it see and I also State the record we do have a quum here here serson here here Sor IED Al to the flag the United States what I do hey I don't see that we have uh anybody signed up to speak is that correct so we can jump right to Pride of Prairie Hill SP be top three Thompson want to give a little intro for us by sure um I'll talk about it a little bit in my admin report but on our latest Le blue day um we had a whole school assembly which was our spelling be um having taught here it's always
002been like one of my favorite events but I also think it's really cool to see the students so what happens is um every grade level gives students written spelling tests in which they take the top like chunk of 10 and then we have them do an additional spelling performance I should say it to narrow down to the top four in each grade level and then we take the top four from each grade level and we put them in a whole school spelling be so there's about 16 give or take 16 kids that go up and go through a series of words um and so we had um we actually invited our top three here tonight um only one could make it which um we uh Israel Ortega was top three Leo bu was top three
003and then Juba pasala was top three um and just to kind of tell you how that went usually in the spelling be that we've had here and L prob Tes this it comes down to two spellers and they go back and forth and battle for a while and then eventually one speller will spell something incorrect and in order for the winner in the spelling be to win they not only have to spell the word one word correct they have to spell an additional word correct um this spelling view was unique in the sense that when it was the top three the students that I mentioned Leo Israel and juba um Leo and Israel both missed the word and then Juba got it right so in that situation she just got to get an additional word
004um and spelled it right and ended up winning so it went from three to one which was really cool because it's kind of a unique situation but she earned it um I believe correct me if I'm wrong Juba but your final two words were skiff and totem is that correct okay so she won I believe on totem was the word which interestingly enough um they are also words from touching spirit bear which is a novel that they are reading in literature class at the same time so Juba is our first place winner she's going to go on to um the next level and that will be at Harlem um here decide where she goes from there so congratulations you you can come up G present you with a certificate from a picture I got it
005you really congratulations oh yeah Jess you want to come get in a picture dad I can take one of you too take one with family I can have you guys yes you want to do that okay one two all congratulations do you remember the date off the top of your head of your next competition March 19th 19 right okay Wednesday very nice um yes you're welcome to leave is probably G be very exciting a game there congratulations thank you so much for coming congratulations thank you can't we do those every other year we do it every year we do it every year the spelling might have been some years and it was wonky like coming back into like with and things but it was and I know we were actually debating as a team the
006other day if we did it last year or not because we couldn't remember but previously it has been in every single year thing we also used to do a geography B fortunately the geography be like program is not offered the same anymore so we're trying to find something to supplement bring that back in kind of a cool way to see um and highlight some different strengths of kids that we don't normally get to see out public guy as much so yeah but it should be every year it will be in here and out if we missed the year all right consent agenda I'm going to entertain a motion for the approval consent agenda approval of January regular meeting minutes January committee meeting minutes February bills toing $280,500 February payroll at $239,800 97 cents February's treasury
007report and Student Activity fund also to ratify the approval of September 2024 committee meeting minutes ratifying the approval of September 2024 regular meeting minutes October 2024 bills October 2024 payroll October 2024 Treasures report and Student Activity fund alome I'll second yes yes yes HRI yes Mr yes yes yes Mr Carter minister of reports well I apologize again for missing last board meeting but it's good to see all of you if I haven't seen your happy New Year again um just a personal wash hands keep hands washed and everybody stay healthy we'll be good um we just wrapped up prek and kindergarten screening uh at the end of the month and beginning of Fe February I just wanted to thank our prek and uh Preschool teachers for um executing that during the day and furthermore having
008Subs uh that came in to cover for those teachers that couldn't have been done without the help of Mrs Passmore really uh working well in advance for that to happen and it did go very well our Lottery took place in the morning on February 15th the link didn't work so we wanted to appreciate everybody's patience it started about 35 minutes late we were scrambling to get new one out to make sure everybody made it on time but we did manage to do that everybody that was on the link for or that was on the at the lottery was able to receive a spot so we and now we have a short waiting list going uh conferences and Book bear going now um pleased with the pick a time process it's a steady stream of parents
009coming in uh just after a couple days of sales our book fair is also going on uh we're already over $3,000 in sales um at the elementary school uh because of a conference night PSA does um provide some food and families have donated so we want to thank the PSA and the families for providing the meal sides and desserts again um we're going to be doubling up our assemblies February kind of moved really quickly so we're working on caring in February that assembly will be on this coming Tuesday which is March 3r fourth fourth um so my periodical will not come out at the end of this week it'll come out mid next week and then we'll be working on trustworthiness and that assembly will be right before Spring Break um the five essential survey
010is open so if you received an email from me uh we do need parent input that is actually part of our school report cart is parents giving us the feedback uh as well as teachers and fourth grade students so if you haven't had a chance takes about five minutes please fill it out for both school if you have children at both schools please do it twice one for PHS and one for the Middle School can I jump for a quick second I had several parents probably just because this is my first year having a student here at willbrook when you sign into to the survey it says select the grade for your youngest child so I know lots of people who are in fifth grade families who took it for Prairie Hill and thought that
011they were done and didn't realize they needed to take it again for willbrook too so I feel like a clarifying email I'm gonna put that also I'll put that in my the newsletter my newsletter should be coming out on Wednesday and I have a paragraph in there so I'll clarify that yes I think it would a will BR more though because if they're selecting their youngest kids they have kids at both buildings then they think that they don't select the youngest kid for building that well just when you log in it has prek through e8th grade listed and it says select your youngest kid so if they're like oh I already filled one out gotcha they might be my Brooks one just yeah so thank you for that adding to that is there a reason
012that is it like a state requirement that is just one per the youngest I and not like no for those of you that but um I would have loved to have done it twice because one of the questions was regarding teacher communication it's very different for one of my so I just went with the youngest but I had parents so we set up computers we I set up computers at conferences so parents could do it I had actually parents two separate parents do it for the building like the both mom or dad was there so that might be an option too if you had another person I it was a state thing or it's a state thing is sent through the University of Chicago we are in the middle of I preparations we've set the
013uh date the bunnies u i is actually opening up officially next week uh but we do not take it until after spring break so our test will be April 3 which is the Thursday after break this is at PHS uh uh willbrook will have their own schedule but a PHS it'll be the third and then Tuesday Wednesday Thursday the week after that with wrapping up on the Monday after that so 131 tests um I had mentioned in the past just to finish up that I have a scheduling and Safety Committee um starting scheduling is started Safety Committee is meeting uh next month to update our protocols as well as having conversations that we are maximizing all of our student support staff getting ready for next year thank you you all all right um as some
014of you may or may not know our trimester is coming to an end tomorrow so that complete second trimester of the year um something that we we've talked a lot about um and we put into motion this year our lead BL days which serve kind of dual purposes um they focus on our work habits that are also on student report cards so perseverance responsibility respect um minimize the number of days that we have to have altered schedules because we plan for all speakers and assemblies and things to happen on those days as well um and in addition it gives some teachers a lot of our I should say most teachers actually extra work time a little bit of extra work time so they can focus on getting grades finalized or um finishing up reassessments if
015they meet would need to meet with kids who are absent and being able to get those grades in prior to the end of the trimester so um we had our most recent we Day on last Thursday this one was on perseverance so that completes the third um work habit that we have here at willbrook our next one that will be coming up in may we use as a mental health awareness day um so that's what the beer on that one will be um this time we did have our spelling be as I mentioned earlier when we recognized jba um we also took time to shout out to our girls basketball teams as they are were completing their Seasons um Varsity ended up this year in seventh place it was a really um challenging year for
016them those girls fought really really hard and um you would never guess that they had a challenging season because when you watch them play they put everything on the court like all the way up until the last minute and they really really po very hard for that so um our JV girls definitely we have a very talented JV group um a lot of sixth graders on that team they ended up finishing second place um they just had their their championship ship game last night um in Freeport actually but against raford Christian which was funny um but they ended up losing that game 25 to 34 rord Christian one that once or JB girls per second but they're going to be a lot of fun to watch over the years as they develop and grow they
017got a lot of spunk and a lot of fight and a lot of scall there um so with that we also had our assembly that recognized girls basketball and also the spring clubs that we have but we in the afternoon had W White Water um wheelchair basketball team come um and do an assembly for the kids you know based on our theme being perseverance so we got to have I would say probably between 15 20 30 students and probably 10 to 15 staff members participate in like mini games so they had three individuals from the the team come um they explain the differences in the wheelchair they use from a daily basis to the wheelchairs that they used during the games uh they showed how they use them in the game as well as in
018real life they talked a little bit about how their injuries each happened um the coach of the team it was an interesting one um that was relatable because he said he I believe was 16 years old when he got hit by a bike or hit by a car on a bike which is what changed his kind of trajectory in life and which ended up putting him in a wheelchair so it was a lot it's good for our kids to kind of see and and put into realization that sometimes things dramatically change and you have to work through that and it's not always going to easy but be easy but you can make the best of it um so we had the kids were funny I mean they were great about it and the uh the
019the team members were like your kids are actually really talented like they're doing really well at this so they were the the funny part to watch I felt like is a lot of people couldn't figure out how to like get the mo of the shot because you know legs right so like your your legs are gone in a chair but we had several students participate several staff participate it was a lot of fun to watch and it was a really I felt like meaningful assembly for the kids it's not like the the U team talked a lot but they it was impactful in the sense that people got to try it and kids got to see their friend and PE trying it it was just something different to kind of recognize that everybody has different
020challenges and sometimes you need to be grateful for what you have and sometimes you have to work through what you didn't want to have but it's a really good experience so I have to say I came in at 2:25 to drop off and I came in the office and this Cisco was dying W what is so funny she come back here and look shows me in a big TV screen there's Clint in a wheelchair hear down the hallway all the kids in theum laughing like the tent much much harder yeah like they were one of the guys was like shooting like half yeah there like he was just sinking up up there couldn't even like they just like airball Chuck Leonard was doing this for and kind of making commentary along the way Doug played
021Susie I you so that was the guy that started won I think four or five gold medals in the Olympics yep there was um he did mention I thought it was there a documentary I thought and so we he was they were great they like give us any feedback we'd love to hear they talked a little bit about where they play so we could go watch them um I talked to a teacher actually that night um that I used to work at Stephen Ma and he mentioned that he went to college at w Whitewater in one of like PE classes that they took he they played them like that was one of the things that they got to do is play he's like they're really crazy talented so um that was a lot of fun
022just to see people kind of out of their element in different different ways there but they were a great group um as Craig mentioned we also have conferences going on um typically in the middle school we see spring conferences fall off a little bit but I would say that just looking at last Thursday like we had a lot many many many of our teachers upwards towards 13 14 appointments in their 15 appointment slots so they were still heavily attended um as you can see our book fair is still happening as well um shout out to PSA they always feed us well there's always a lot of food I think even coming back this week people are like oh it's it Thursday again because on Monday they pulled out everything and everybody was able to e
023much again which was nice so our um Willer Brooks I testing dates are coming up in April so we will do that the week of April 9th so that will be after Spring Break um we also here have to test um our fifth and eighth graders and the Illinois Sciences assessment so that will be the week of April um 21st and I have continually communicated those up to fam just so they kind their calendars because it's easy but everybody is here but that's that's it right now as you can see our Greenery is growing I would talk about this thing in the corner but Doug's baby that he is producing you want to to share a little bit about that Doug sure um well and Mr siic found BR funding for us so this was
024something that Julie that had over our food services at seen online and was interested in and she had talked to me in the past about how we be pay for because it's quite a bit of money um but if was able to come through an awesome grant for that so yeah it's an indoor hydroponic system so our goal will be for this really oriented towards the school lunches like how much lettuce or other things for like the Sal bar we can grow um and of course like throughout the whole year so the permaculture Club kind of take the lead on like growing everything and having the kids involved that way but it'll be fun because you know the G's kind of other the club and for the community but this is really geared towards our
025lunch program so yeah and these seedlings that you started are those going to go to the Garden or those going to go in here those are for more the garden and our plant sale in May so we haven't that just came this week so I just kind of got thrown together and it doesn't use soil so there's a the base is where the water sits and there's a pump in there water pumps up and then there's a solution in there that the nutrient solution you have to add to it so that's how they get their Nutri that kind of thing so it's yeah there's no SP so we we'll start seeds back here in a similar way but it's U Rock W it's called it's kind of this spongy material yeah actually do we'll just
026have a greenhouse right right off we'll extend the library right I was thinking we you could make like French doors in a for all of the people who are lacking vitamin just go great idea great yeah uh most of the discussion that I had was at the commit of the whole but I do have two things uh just wanted to give you an update on the assessment uh complaints that we had a couple months ago we get year we had seven this year though which was quite a bit we've gotten four back and they're all upheld usually they side with the individuals or the companies so uh that's good news for us tax dollars wise um and I'm waiting to hear back three others uh so just an update there and then just a quick
027question about the cow are we still wanting to do because we had to obviously because of the storm we had to move it to the next week are we still wanting to do the two weeks before and does Wednesday at 5:30 still work great because if that's the case that'll be next Wednesday at 5:30 so I just want to make sure that we're good with that before I throw it on this calendar it's a short one because because our board is yes got it like two weeks prior but do we want to meet week after this or that's that's that's why I'm asking it's a little different obviously it's just March so the alternative would be the 12th which would be one week before the board meeting yep okay is there any preference you have
028for things that you need to do in between time I mean the two weeks is nice uh obviously we only had just over a week this time when we get into the routine of the two weeks though that will be nice if anybody has questions or follow up that me or the principles need to to take care of but no we're still learning we're still going so I'm good with whatever my think if we do it next week would be um part of the my work before is to build out a framework to discuss strategic oh yes so um I looked at the folders that you put in and I don't know if they're out too old but none of them will open for say like it's the preview is not available anymore I can't
029download it let me look so I would just need those uploaded sooner than later so I have time to F that out absolutely okay we keeping it with either date is yeah too I can do either one as well with this I think is probably lead more to you if you've got to build the framework is it easier for you to do the 12 if everybody let's do that let's give stuff an additional and we'll have regular after okay I'll send a link out thank you okay uh sub committee reports so just so the public is aware we have a different format we are doing what's called the committee of the whole so rather than have separate committees um hold separate meetings to discuss building and finance education transportation and policy we are now meeting
030as an entire board and going through each of these disciplines as a group so that we're all better vers into each of the Committees so we have the cow the committee the whole and uh we had our first cow meeting last week on that so at building and finance we reviewed uh uh uh the bills for February and we discussed Wellness survey funding for staff requests education Jason anything else on that that we need to add that was good that was it education Transportation so just so you understand also before I move on here um board meetings will be up B more businesslike they will be just kind of reporting information if you're interested in knowing more about the specific uh committees and what we review you're welcome to attend the committee of a of
031the whole just as you are welcome to attend the board education Transportation reviewed pride of Prairie Hill PHS and WMS Awards and what students we bring in we reviewed the golden apple grant winners strategic plan review and then curriculum review Steph you took a look at the other districts and determine what curri culum review of the board could look like anything else on education transportation that want to add just a question have you looped Kim in on that at all put about the curriculum review Tool uh Kim Anders yes no but I'm meeting with her tomorrow okay perfect just so I don't have to Beed what see in the note tonight like what am I doing uh policy we had a press review final reading for 2.5 2.100 6.40 6 sub paragraph 65 6 sub
032paragraph 210 and six of paragraph 27 then we did uh we went into our typical uh section review so section three and Section 8 and uh discussed if there are any fiveyear reviews that needed to be done if there was any policy that we were in compliance or out of compliance so we went through that whole list and discussed um property for example and do they have badges um so we we had all of that and then the the work that we have left to do is to um create that [Music] sheet and miscellaneous talking points um speak uh Lori had passed around a pamphlet um Sandy regarding the lab for board members to attend we also had discussion on our Waste Management contract which I think we're still waiting for some information on that
033and what our other options are we're going to get some uh additional pricing on that there's a rock Energy bill increase at Willowbrook that we're reviewing anything else either any of the Committees that you want to cover will entertain a recommendation to approve policies two sub paragraph 50 to sub paragraph 100 six sub paragraph 40 6 sub paragraph 65 6 sub paragraph 210 and six sub paragraph 27 yes yes yes yes yes okay we also have one two three four four positions to vote on tonight those positions are full-time ESL full-time lab teacher full-time special education teacher and a full-time special education co- teer there any questions or anything anybody needs to discuss before we go into voting on that I will entertain a motion to approve full-time lab teacher position a second yes yes
034yes yes yes I'll entertain a motion to approve a full-time ESL teacher position I'll make a motion to approve full-time ESL teacher position I'll second yes yes yes the coach yes yep yes entertain a motion to approve a full-time special education teacher position I'll make a motion I'll second yes yes yes yes yes yeah retain a motion to approve a full-time special education co- teer yes yes yes yeah yeah yes yes we'll also be voting on a book club for Willowbrook any questions or any further discussion needed on that it's for students it's once they would meet once a month um a club advisor a club advisor I believe it's $450 for the first year and then you revisit something that okay I'll entertain a motion to approve book club at book make a motion
035to approve book club at willbrook I'll second it Anderson yes yes yes yes yes yes yes was a copy of any emails memos in the last 12 months that contain the following keywords Lucy clins and units of study so we had a four request from The Rock St cont I get a request at least once okay I will entertain a motion to go into close session to discuss appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees and negotiations yes yes yes session at 6:02 p.m.