001The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Um, no here. Frost >> Here. Thorson >> here. >> A >> here. >> Uh, do we have any correspondence? >> No. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Um, do we have any visitor statements? >> Hello, my name is Dave Ers. I just want to introduce myself. This is my 11th year teaching here at Stevenson and I have the honor of serving as the president of the faculty association this year. Uh we look forward to a great school year and hope to be in touch. Thank you. All right. >> So, yeah, tonight we are going to um even though it's not in the agenda, we're going to
002have our student activities report. >> Welcome Logan the Trojan, our new activities. So, thank you very much for being here. Yeah, of course. >> Look forward to having you this year. >> Thank you. Excited for you. >> I All right. All right. Hello everyone. Uh first meeting. I know, as you said, I wasn't supposed to be here, but I'm glad that I am here. Get to meet you guys a bit earlier. Uh school's starting to go in the swing of things. You know, second week starting off. First week went a little slow, but we're here. Second week. Um, I wanted to start off just by introducing myself a little bit about who I am. On the top left photo there, that is me at graduation. So, I'm proud to be a student council officer this
003year. I'm the vice president for student council. We had our first meeting today which is really exciting. Uh, last year I was on the board and last before that I was a gentle member. So, love doing things with student council, everything like that. Um, really exciting. Um, below that that is me at Kalahari. We have a leadership retreat each year that we went to and it's just a photo of that. Really exciting. To the right of that, that was me at Hilton Head in South Carolina this year. I caught a shark, which I was really proud of myself for that. I know. Yeah, it was I'm pretty sure it was a baby hammerhead, but the fishing guy was like like a crazy fisherman, so it was it was a great experience, but I just love
004being outdoors experiencing all the things like that. Uh, in the top right, that is me at soccer. I've played soccer since I was about five years old, so I've been in my family. My dad plays it, my grandpa played it, so been doing soccer a lot. um below that's a nonprofit I'm part of. Um that is a gear collection drive we did. We collected cleats and clothes and we gave it to Heart of the City which is a foundation in Chicago and they gave it to some people um in need in the Chicagoland area. So really love doing things for that. In the top right that is NHS that is me at Givethon um delivery day and I'm excited to serve on the NHS executive board this year as well. So Street Fest and Givethon
005looking forward to planning those events. And below my final photo in the bottom right, that is the longest club I've been a part of. That is class board. I've been a class board for all four of my years. Um, I've been on the board three of my years, continuing that this year. So, that was me at prom. I love planning events for that. And whether it be, you know, questions about the different clubs I'm in, how they run, or how an events planned, anything like that, or any questions about Stephenson, I'm more than happy to answer. So, please ask away. All right, starting off with some of the events that came. Some happened, some are going to happen. Um, the freshman mixer that happened last Friday, August 15th, that was really exciting for the freshman
006to be able to enjoy just like a mini homecoming, I guess you can say, where it's just them and the seniors aren't overpowering, I guess you could say. You know, them at different partying and things like that. Um, below bottom left, that is first week activities. So, student council, NHS, FMP, and the class boards each did a morning thing where NHS did first day Polaroids where we took a Polaroid photo of you and then you got to keep it and Pat Riot showed up for that. And then student council gave out Munchkin donuts and these little events happened the whole week. For example, Tuesday there was free lemonade in the pool patio. Wednesday, FMP had a make me laugh and you could get candy and a bracelet. So, a bunch of different fun events. In
007the top right, that is Street Fest. That's happening September 13th. And in the bottom right, homecoming. The theme this year is Stevenson fun in the sun. So tropical theme, you know, fun things like that. That is happening September 20th. So these events are happening a lot earlier. And something I want to highlight with these events is the seasons and not like the seasons that we know of the student activity seasons. We have the season of spirit, the season of serve, season of spotlight, and season of celebrate. These are four seasons that we kind of do here at student activities. And each of them, the events that we do kind of reflect the different season. For example, right now we're in the season of spirit and you can see that all these events really hype up
008the students. You know, coming out from summer, it can get really, really tiring sometimes because you got to wake up early for school, you know, do all the homework. It can get it can get a lot. And so this is really good at hyping up the freshman and just everyone, freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, get them excited for school again and help increase that Stevenson spirit. And for our season of serve, you know, that's like giveathon, spotlights, winterfest, and celebrate would be like spring fling. So these are seasons that we do at student activities and I just wanted to share that with you how we continue to grow and develop through our seasons and our different events reflect that. An event that happened on August 9th was FOD and I just want to highlight this one
009for the freshman's stance as it was really important for the freshmen. In the top right there that is a tour that's being given out where the freshman can see a tour of the school by themselves without all the other people in it being hectic. Um, in the bottom left I want to showcase how fun it is for not only the freshman but for the FMPPs as they could dress up as their own little theme right there. There was Star Wars theme. Um, there are some crazy there were some people dressed up in bananas. There are some people pitbull that were like the bald head things over their head and like had pitbull glasses but they get really creative with it and they really enjoy that. And in the bottom right this is kind of more
010going on with that spirit aspect. They brought up the football team to help the freshman during the Stevenson chance to really get them excited for the school year. So, that was about some good fun at FOD Squad and I know the freshman really enjoyed it. And this is a little special segment, I guess you can say. I'll do each. I'm going to call Meet Me Monday. I got this from my teachers actually from last year. They highlighted a student and obviously I'm one person, but I want to try to show you as much experiences from Stevenson as possible. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to highlight different stories at Stephvenson, different people, uh, and try to show their perspective on something. And so right now I want to introduce six
011people. We're starting off with two. This is Rucha Raja Deaka. She is the director of recruitment for FMP and Alex Lamb. He is a freshman. So I sat down with them and I interviewed them and asked some questions about their FOD experience in their FMP experience. And I just wanted to share some quotes with you. So Rucho when I asked her why she why she thinks we need FMPs, she said, "Yeah, well we have 142 clubs at Stevenson, which is great, but which one is right for me? FMPs can help with that." When I asked Alex if he likes his FMPPs and if he thinks he'd take their advice in the future, he said, "I would definitely try to club my FMP suggests." And I would say they have a lot of influence over us.
012They know what the students want. And so this kind of shows how the freshman can come inexperienced whereas the seniors are more wiser and they can really help the freshman to grow and to learn and belong in Stevenson. Moving on, I have George Handle. He's the president of FMP and Harper Hills are freshman. When I asked George why FMP is so good at what they do, he said, "I feel the fact that FMP can shrink the size of the groups down to 20 to 30 kids being led by four people is so useful for the freshman because they can ask all the little questions and get help." When asked Harper what she's most nervous about for Stevenson, and this was the same for all three of the freshmen I asked, they said, "I was scared
013of how many people there are and how big a place it is because it's different from middle school and it's such a big change. And as we know, change can be hard, especially going from a middle school to a high school with 4,000 plus kids, you know, giant seniors and just, you know, it can get crazy. And so this different experiences, the way that these seniors can help these freshmen acclimate is, it's just awesome what they can do. And finally, I have Irvy Risinghani. She's the director of advisory leaders and Jack Handle, who is a freshman. When asked Jack why he thinks FMPs are useless, he said, "Fs help to guide me around the school and help to get rid of that intimidating aspect." When Irvy asked what qualities does an FMP need, she says
014you have to navigate the freshman to their needs. And as we know, each freshman comes in experiences different things, but the ability to FMPs to tailor their help to each freshman is really important to ensure that each freshman gets the help they need. And I want to be honest with you, when I overlooked these, I played them and I looked over the interviews and I kind of went into these interviews a little closed-minded. I went into them looking for certain answers. I asked a question hoping for a response from the seniors and hoping a response from the freshman. and I would share it with you. And when I looked over these recordings, it it wasn't what I was hoping for. I was hoping for something else. But when I look at all threes, and maybe
015you saw it, too. When I look at all three of these, there was a bit of a commonality between the freshman and the senior experience. And that is how the freshman come in very scared and very nervous for Stephvenson in that aspect. And the seniors can come and help make that smaller. And I just wanted to highlight that here for you, how Stephvenson is this massive community, you know, 5,000 kids, it's giant, but advisories can shrink that down to about 20 to 30 kids. And that mini community within the community helps the freshman grow and get acclimated into the Stevenson culture. So for me, I started my advisory freshman year, 20 to 30 kids as it says, and I didn't know much kids. I came from Fremont Middle School, so it wasn't the biggest feed
016of school into here. So, I didn't have many friends coming into that, especially since I came to Fremont at seventh grade. So, I didn't have much friends, but my advisory was kind of where I learned to get a lot of friends. And as you learn in your advisory, as your seniors help you, you get acclimated into the Stevenson culture. You get to ask the questions like, "What clubs are good for me?" or, you know, each freshman gets that tailored need to each of their benefit and help them grow. And this community eventually grew out and now it grew. it grew and now I probably know about 1500 kids at Stevenson, which can seem crazy to know over a thousand kids, but that shows you how that small community, it can grow and get bigger and
017bigger. So, the advisories aspect to be able to have the smaller community within that bigger community is so important for the freshman's development because obviously they're going to be the future of Stephvenson. and our senior FMPPs and our junior FMPs, the fact that they can be in their small groups, help out each freshman, whatever they need, and make sure that they each get what they need to be able to grow and to be able to assimilate into the culture of Stevenson is so important. So, if there's one takeaway I want you guys to have here, it's that going into these advisories, freshmen, as I said, are very nervous. And this can help them be able to grow to Stephvenson and be able to feel that they belong in Stevenson, which is ultimately the goal of
018FMP. The goal of FMP is to make sure that the freshman come here and belong and feel like this is where they're meant to be. >> So, thank you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. Great job. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. And Logan, can I ask you one more time? The four seasons. Yes. Can you do that? >> So, yes. So, it starts out as the season of spirit. So, that's the activities. Then it goes to the season of serve. So, things like giveth a like we give out to the community. That's the other season. Then it's the season of spotlight or some call showcase. Spotlight or showcase. And that's like Winterfest. So, that activity reflects Winterfest. And so the student activity are trying to tailor their events towards showcasing Stevenson and students.
019That's like senior show or sorry uh senior showcase I believe it's called. Yeah. Where they Yeah. Um and then the final one is celebrate. So that's like spring fling. It's at the end where everyone really wants to get excited. You know like the school year is ending which can be sad but it's towards the end and you want to just get finish strong and finish happy. So yeah. >> You should you taught me something tonight. I don't think some of you knew that, but I did not know that. And I I It all makes perfect sense in So, thank you. >> Of course. It's awesome. >> Yeah. I I I just have to I'm I'm the old I'm not the Where is he? There he is. I'm not the oldest. >> As one of the
020two oldest guys, I I I I jump in every so often. I have to tell you that was really informative >> and the way you presented it was wonderful and I'm really looking forward to having your reports this year. I >> thank you. I hope to bring something each theme to each one of them. So yeah, that'll be at each one of my ones and I hope to give you that. Yeah. >> Thank you guys. Thank you. >> Look forward to hearing more for sure. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. So, Logan, this I'm not sure if your predecessors told you um this is the part of the meeting where you are more than welcome to stay, but this was the best part of the meeting. So, you should feel entirely comfortable to
021like find your way out and there'll be no judgment at all. >> And there's cookies. >> Take a cookie. >> I will say when I first when I first like learned that I was going to be this, I was first really curious. I was like, what goes on at these meetings? So, I was really wanting to stay. >> You are more than welcome. >> Be honest. I looked at the agenda and I'm probably gonna go. >> Okay. >> Maybe for a future meeting, but this one right now. >> Not only I'm trying to get better. >> Not only can he present well, he's really smart. >> Yeah. But I I'll try to say I'll definitely say at one of the meetings, but this one might not be the one. >> I just want to say
022we've done a great job. If that's the response you got, you are very bright. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Logan. >> That's the best. >> That really was. >> Good luck. >> All right, Wendy, your turn. No, no, my All right, so curriculum, instruction, assessment. So, a couple things for tonight. Um the first is >> we are sharing with you uh a very first draft and as a first reading of our GPIs for uh the 2526 school year. If you recall we had a chance to review the one pager uh at the retreat. We shared this with our faculty and staff in the first day uh as Troy and I normally do. Um but more importantly over the course of the next um two to three weeks Mark has been has been and
023will continue to lead out conversations at the administrative team level around the very specific action steps that are tied to the GPI. So when we bring this back to you for your approval in September, we'll ask Mark to do a little review of the action steps with the GPIs and we'll ask for your approval at that point. And just so you might be looking at it, the ones that are like in the green color are the ones that are new or had some tweaks to the ones that are in black are the existing ones that we've had >> previously. >> Okay. Next item is we need to have an a public hearing for the adoption of our e-learning proposal to the Lake County ROE. If you recall, this is something that we're required to do
024every year. Um, we did it last August, we'll do it this August, we'll do it next August. This allows us to, um, utilize e-learning days for emergency days, whether it's a snow day or an electrical failure or sorry, Sean, um, or any other kind of quote unquote act of God experience. So, we need a public hearing. >> Could I get a motion to open the public hearing on the e-learning proposal? >> So, move Second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. All right. So, we are in the public hearing. Do we have any visitors or comments? >> Discussion questions. >> Discussion. >> Again, this is a fairly recent mark. >> Was the discussion during the public hearing or after we close? >> Our discussion would be before the vote. >> Yeah. After discuss
025>> Sorry. >> So, no comments. Could I get a motion to close the public hearing on the e-learning proposal? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> So Mark, this is about three or four years old now is co postcoid where they um the ROE is requiring us now to have this public hearing. Um we have utilized these days in the past, not every year, but they are particularly convenient. And I will tell you, it makes decisions about weather much easier. Um, not putting adults or kids for that matter at risk driving. Um, it just makes all of those conversations much or all those decisions much easier knowing that we're not losing a day of instruction. We can do it via e-learning. So, um, we appreciate the board's support of of
026this. >> Okay. So, could I get a motion to approve the e-learning proposal and resolution? >> So, second questions. Yep. >> And and it may be I just noticed this this time in in the prior couple years there's references to makeup dates >> in here and I when I was looking at I was trying to figure out it's not really is it what am I missing? It's not a makeup day. It is the day. It is the day. It's the and or it's makeup day for implement weather emergency days at the end of year and or implement an e-learning day. >> So instead of >> a makeup day, >> right? So instead of the five days at the end of the year where we can hold school or sometimes we did them on Kashmir Palaski
027day. >> So we could do this instead of that. >> So we no longer work any of those into our calendar. We just >> Well, they're on the calendar. They're on the official calendar that Ring sends to ISBY, but >> we try to use these. >> I just have to give our faculty lots of credit like on the parent side, having seen what an e-learning day looks like, >> the kids are like things ship well. It's clearly communicated those are still meaningful learning days, which I really >> and from the standpoint of keeping, you know, kids and educators safe like >> Yeah. >> I think this is such a win. >> Yeah. Eric, can you talk about the like the just a little bit about the logic behind giving five days to complete the assignments
028rather? Was that an arbitrary or what was that? >> That's the choice. >> Yeah, that was um I wouldn't say it was arbitrary, but you know that was something that was that may be kind of a hangover from COVID a little bit. >> Um but that's kind of at the maximum end. >> Are teachers able to do a little more? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean in terms of counting it for attendance, I think they have to have it in by five days. >> Correct. >> Right. >> As a hard deadline for there, the state wants if the ROE approves these, they have to have some accountability mechanism, >> right, >> for the county. But our teachers can have earlier deadlines for turning in homework or completing things. That's more of a counting for
029an attendance for that student for that day. >> Any other questions? >> All right. Could you please pull the board? >> Yep. So, Coren, >> hi. >> Tyer, >> hi >> no. >> Hi. >> Frost. >> Hi. >> And Ysef. >> Hi. >> Okay. Um, so we also have uh our 2025 summer school report. Um, Mark Mark Wendy, >> I'm happy I'm happy to. Um, you'll when you ready for a nice read just some highlights from this. Um, it shows that we were up a little bit in summer school um by you know few a few students. Um, with that, you're going to see in this document the percentage of incoming freshmen, income sophomores, juniors, and seniors. And 71% of our incoming freshman did take summer school either both semesters or one or the other
030semesters. Um, they found in the summer school office, you know, really supporting families if they wanted to do summer school, really supporting them and helping them find like what's the right balance for them with school, but also with just like their family lives. if you're going to go to Boy Scout camp or wherever you go do that. We'll find something else for you to do on the opposite um session. And so they worked really hard around that. If you want to um look at like unique courses and things, there's a whole list of all the courses we offered and who took it freshman through seniors. Um our still our most popular one is um or world history. With that said, less students are taking world history the past couple years than in the past. Um
031they might be taking other courses like a semester of introduction business or something like that. Um but we are seeing a little bit of less in world history because there's so many options for for kids of when they can take that in their schedule. But you could take a look at, you know, their grades that they um received in these courses as well as just a a brief overview of the awesome summer school program that we have. >> Do these trips count in those numbers in terms of who does that count as summer school enrollment for the like the New York City fashion trip? >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. It they have there's a curricular component. I mean it's not as huge and most of our most of our students don't worry about the credits
032they you take because it's but we do have there is a curricular component to it. It's connected >> under the umbrella. So that one would fall under the that particular course would fall under their family consumer sciences. >> Okay. That's cool. >> Okay. Thank you for that. Um, also just uh wanted to note that we have two um board policy or two press uh updates for tonight for board policy. Um the first is press issue 118 and most of which was kind of administrative. Uh all of it is all of the ones that we've included um are required, but there was one for kind of a level a review and it was an update to policy 7:25. >> Um you can read through that. Um and then press 119 was mostly >> uh little minor
033>> minor minor changes. Um but again nothing significant tonight um in terms of major changes and the ones that are included are uh musts not may. So we're bringing to you tonight for your approval. >> Could I get a motion to approve the policy updates? >> So move second. Any questions for Eric or R? >> Seems pretty straightforward. >> It is. There's There's nothing in there that significant. >> Okay. Could you please pull forward? Coron. >> Hi. >> Tyer. >> Hi. >> A roll. >> Hi. >> No. Hi. >> Frost. >> Hi. >> Then Ysef. >> Hi. >> And if I just say one more quick thing about it. I know that it seems like we bring these to you a lot these days. Probably every three months or so. um maybe four months. Um
034and you may wonder, well, why are you bringing so often and why do they seem so insignificant relatively speaking? But we get these press updates every 3 months. In the olden times, um we used to not update the press the board book regularly. And then what that caused is a need to every four, five, six years do a massive overhaul to make sure that we were in alignment with all the school code changes. So as long as you're okay with it, we would just love to keep presenting you every few months with all of the changes that are being required of us, but then some of which are being recommended. And this is going to prevent us from having to do some big massive audit five, six years from now. So just >> and we
035had one or two board members read through the entire >> package of stuff when we did those. >> Yeah. Yeah. It was not great. >> Yeah. Suboptimal as they say. >> Okay. Um couple personnel items there for your review and human resources report. We will not need an executive session as we had one beforehand. Um that takes us to the business session section Sean and approval of multi-function devices. So you want to tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, we have one action item for you guys tonight. Um that is um multi-function devices, you know, simply known as copers, but they're a little bit more sophisticated nowadays because they include a lot of scanning to email. Um and so we have a number of machines that are um have come off lease. Um they're
036in need of replacement. Uh we have two vendors. Um if you recall, we work with Image Tech and Canon. And um really those two vendors work well together. It keeps the pricing honest um and um really helps us kind of build a system so that we are not necessarily reliant on um these particular machines for for printing. Um I will say that coming off of COVID things have kind of ramped back up. So, one of the nice things that is included not only in these um purchases is a um solution that will allow us um the capability to uh go up to a device and in order to actually print, you could send the job to the printer and then you can tap it at any device. So, if I'm in my office, I could
037print out a thing, you know, print out a, you know, worksheets for class or something, go to the nearest office that is located to my classroom, swipe there, pops out the 30 pages, and then go right to class. It also prevents waste. Um, and so one of the things that we found in working with our director and division assistants is that there, you know, is at least a ream of paper um, on a day that it's wasted in the office. And so we want to get back to not printing as much or printing when necessary. Um, and then also trying to reduce the amount of waste um, that we have. You know, you can imagine like, oh, I got to print all these out. You print them out, they come out, then you forget to
038pick them up. So, you print them out at a different printer. And so, this will um this will um get us back on track in terms of really our goal to limit the amount of copyers copies that we're making. It makes the machines last longer. Also reduces the amount of paper that we have to purchase. Um there is a uh overall there is a slight increase about 3.2% uh on this. It's a a quarterly bill. So if you're looking at the attachment, the number is, you know, little different than the 87,000, but that's because that's a quarterly bill. Um so all in all, um the uh what we're asking tonight is the board of education to authorize um the replacement of nine multi-function devices. These are on a five-year lease, and it's at an annual
039cost not to exceed $87,444. Um, and just one final tidbit, this does also include um click charges for color and um black and white as well. So that's also included in this. It's not just the machines. >> Can I get a motion to approve? >> Second. >> Um QLC is that do students have access? >> They do. Um and so you know some of the things we move around as well um you know multi-function devices that don't have as much use on them will move to a an office maybe that doesn't quite have um as much use on them but um there are there are some offices if you can believe it or not they're making a million copies um every year. >> So >> and so it's leasing equipment as well. >> Correct. >>
040So if they break they replace >> correct. That's exactly right. >> Any other questions? >> And it's a service contract in the regular maintenancees and >> preventative maintenance and repairs. >> Okay. Could you please motion first? >> Uh I think Don did and Ronnie. Okay. >> All right. Um, Tyer, >> hi >> Aral. >> Hi, >> no. Hi, Rost. >> Hi, >> Ben. >> Ysef, >> hi. >> Sorry, not here. Gorson, >> hi. >> Um, then we have a couple of first readings. Um, the first being, uh, purchase of natural gas and electricity. Um, if for if you recall, um, we engage in future pricing, meaning that we buy, um, or set in at a future price. uh and then we can have stability with our budget for the next 3 to 5 years depending
041on how long we engage that. This is not traded. So we are not futures traders. We're just buying and and holding on that price. Uh we've come to the end of our current leases and we're exploring um not only uh working with Constellation Energy um who is our current supplier uh but we are also looking at a couple of other vendors to figure out what is um the best price um what could we get the best price but also the other component that goes into this is utilizing our solar energy um that we have created um and making sure that that goes back on the grid and then partaking in the PJM. If you were listening to Governor Pritster talk about PJM the other day, we are uh in that program. It saves us about
042$100,000 um in um offset costs and then we also receive money back for selling on the grid um providing energy that we don't use on the grid. Um, so we're in the Habib and I are in the final um process of recommending one. So we'll be back um in September. Uh we'll be back in September with an action item. Um we also are looking at um the purchase of an additional property. This property uh owner came to us um and uh is interested in in selling the property. This property is located just south of the Port Clinton East parking lot as it exists. Um so we are working with them um on some pricing. In fact, I think we just had the appraisal last Friday. So as soon as we get that report, we'll get
043some dollars and and have some conversations about that. There'll be more information in the meeting memo. And then the last item is something that we have to do um by law every year um just putting it in a first reading but that is the preparation of the administrator and teacher salary report. This is always in a rears um obviously and so uh we will be putting that together and asking the board to adopt it um in September. And then of course you can see uh we had a very light FOYA um month for us. Um so that's great. That's all I have tonight. >> Are you I'm just curious. Are energy costs going to be significantly higher going up for household? >> So the good news is you've probably seen and felt uh individually a
044lot of the um increases in uh basis um or the transfer the delivery of the electricity and the delivery of natural gas. Uh we have been purchasing that on a forward contract. So, we have not experienced those um increases yet. And what's happening is that the market is kind of adjusting again. So, it's coming back down. >> So, we're hopeful that we'll be able to lock in at very budget friendly um pricing to keep that going. So, >> I've learned more about natural gas and electricity over the last 8 to 10 years than I probably care to, but it's fascinating. >> Oh, we appreciate that. Okay. Could I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any questions on that? >> Green, could you please? >> Hi. >>
045No. >> Hi. >> Frost. >> Hi. >> Sard here. Goren. >> Hi. >> Tyer. >> Hi. >> Okay. Um just a couple quick items. You'll see um our new faculty members and that nice picture there. Thanks to Jamie and her team for capturing our new folks on our first day back a couple weeks ago. And you see some student profiles there of our FCCLA national leadership team. Um so thank you for putting those together. Um, you also see an item that has a link, sorry, that has all of the dates that we talked about earlier this evening of our board meetings, um, executive technology meeting, finance meeting, site facilities, board dialogues, kind of our mini finance and site facilities. So, um, we will re maybe we can just make sure that we include this and
046then note any changes that we end up making on this because the year's long. So if things have to change, >> let's just make sure we let the board know if things change. That's why I always hesitate >> and I don't have access to it. >> It's so funny right now. >> I'll give you access. >> Um okay. >> Uh you'll see a newsletter from the ELC, our partner over there. Um, we have our annual staff safety meeting. It's the beginning of the year. These are mandatory meetings for all of our faculty and staff. And Wendy and I just thought you might be interested in seeing the slides for those. Um, if you have any questions, feel free to let us know. Um we also um have had lots of meetings related to Odyssey and
047Wendy do you want to give us just kind of a >> highle overview of what we're thinking about because it's going to look significantly different. So, those of you who've been around for some time notice that usually every two years in February, we have a full day, full two days, we shut down school of regular school and we have um a two full day of fine arts festival. We've noticed um over the past few years, I guess kind of after COVID for the most part, um student attendance hadn't been what we wanted it to be. So, we use that as an opportunity to refresh. So, John Grace and his folks um have done a nice job to figure out how to turn this two-day kind of is somewhat isolated um fine arts into more embedded
048into what students do every school year. And so students will have many opportunities throughout um their four years here to participate through either one of their clubs or activities or courses as well as we will have kind of like a fine arts kind of themed week. So, think something similar to like a winter fest or a homecoming week where there's just a lot of activities. Um, so there's going to be in early spring, late late winter, early spring, a week where it's kind of like honoring and u appreciating the arts week where there's going to be a lot of things going on in the commons areas. Different clubs are going to be doing things, but it won't be that like it'll be embedded into students regular day opportunities and schedules. I think it's a really
049smart thing to do. I think it, you know, is also responding to some of the challenges and concerns we've had the past couple years. Co kind of threw a wrench. >> Yep. >> You know, in our attendance and Odyssey and I think, you know, a lot of credit to you and John and Troy and Mark for thinking this through. And I think it's going to be great. >> We've gotten a lot of good feedback for teachers and and students. So there's but there were a lot of input put into what this kind of next era of Odyssey is going to be. >> Yeah. So is this going to be still every two years or is this every year? >> It's going to be every year but it's going to more be embedded into what our
050school day. So sometimes some clubs will be doing different things. Um we'll have different events where during activity periods or during lunch periods things that students can opt into. Um, we have some that decided like there's a specific thing going on in a course that like, you know what, let's bring in let's have the Odyssey group, for lack of a better term, to help us find maybe um a speaker or performance or something that connects to what we're doing. And then there will be an Odyssey kind of arts appreciation type of week um that'll be going on kind of throughout the school for for a week in kind of late winter. So how how do you assess whether at least before COVID you knew that most kids were getting 16 hours every two years of
051different programs? If people are kind of opting in in some classes and some clubs are participate, how do you know that every students getting >> requirement? >> It's no longer a requirement to do to do to do those pieces. Um, so we still very much value our arts program and we want all students to have opportunities and exposures to to that. And you're going to see through here there's um a little slide deck and programs that um John Grace and his his group have put together that kind of gives a brief overview of what it's going to be. But we still very much value that here. And so how do we find more opportunities for students to do that already have busy schedules? >> And I think not doing it on that bienial basis will
052make it more likely that over the course of their four years at Stevenson students will have repeated exposure >> and we want people to see and appre students to see and appreciate that there's arts everywhere >> and in appreciate it in worlds that connect to them. Um so we really think this is a really nice nice approach for students. Thank you. >> You can also see our class of 2025 report um which is just amazing. Um I always get a kick out of uh looking at the top 10 most attended four-year universities. And >> Mr. Gobble, your alma mater is >> topping the list. Actually, sorry, Mr. Tire as well. um top in the list almost almost hit 20% of our seniors go to U of >> and what percentage is that of U ofi
053students we're their biggest sender >> it's not even close >> we have to be right >> no no it's it's not even close like the next one is >> are you saying we are >> yeah it's us we're but we're way out ahead >> way out ahead >> yeah and uh the one school that's not on here because it doesn't talk about two years but we sent a 100 kids right on the dot to CLC. >> Yeah, it's great. >> So, um that is that's actually the second most popular school choice. >> It's amazing >> for kids who >> it's amazing how kind of steady this stays year after year. >> You see the same same schools. >> Yeah. Well, it's interesting is that most kids stay in the Midwest. >> Yeah. That's there's over
054500 kids on that list. >> Yeah. In the top 10. half of our kids and those are mostly local big 10 or close within the state or two. >> Yep. It's about half half the class. Okay. So, um then you can see our enrollment is dropping. Uh we went all the way from 4,812 to 4,82. So, >> let's wait a month. >> The bottom is falling out. What are we going to do with all this space? I >> day six, right? >> I don't. >> Yeah, the the hallways are just >> We'll look after Labor Day again. >> Barren. Yeah. >> So, uh but that's our current enrollment. It you know, it fluctuates a couple kids, you know, every week. Uh but it did drop. >> We're at 30 today. From that number, we're 30.
055today. Today >> I looked at No, but from that report >> till today last Monday it's 31 more. >> Oh, >> and I I put last and Mondays but but this is like from last Friday like the number on Friday was still this. >> In fairness, there are many families that are still finalizing the residency >> problem and that's so they're in the queue and getting process. >> So it is still going to be higher. >> I take it all back. Enrollment is not dropping. It's skyrocketed. Skyrocket. Skyrock. We're staying steady. >> I don't know that it's going to hit our demographers projection of 4900. >> No, you said it. So, >> all right. The final thing for tonight is the uh district administrator uh publication recently identified the top 100 influencers in education. and
056our very own Mark Anishek, director of the CIA, came in at 93. >> But this person's haircut is a lot different. >> Yeah, >> I'm trying to go get anonymity. >> We wearing shades. >> I can't even walk I can't walk through the streets. >> No, he's a celebrity we get to see. >> Yeah. We knew him when >> I appreciate that the world now knows what we are. >> Everybody's making fun of me. >> For the record, it's not a ranking. I'm not 93. I know how all of you are glad it's ranked. >> Yeah, I kind of thought it was a little >> because you at least hit 75. >> All right, that's all we have. Thank you. >> Can I Generally, we allow for just some thoughts. Um, I just wanted to
057share I I was um I went to the Lake County uh Indians Association Independence Day program yesterday um or Saturday and they invite um and Amy was out of town and they invite someone from Stevenson every year and there's typically a lot of local um elected folks there and um this year was the first year. In addition to just celebrating Independence Day and having a arts and fair and and games and stuff for families, they also highlighted there's three or four education programs that they're starting as part of their community um stuff. There's H2O program. There was a there's all sorts of stuff where they had volunteers. And it turns out, of course, 85% of the kids that participated were Stephvenson students. Um, and I met a bunch of them while I was at the
058program. They were excited. Uh, it was neat to see our kids reaching out and looking for different kinds of opportunities out there. Um, and um, I just wanted to let you guys know about kind of cool. >> Thanks for representing. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Could I get a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> Second. >> Sure. All right. Oh, >> hang out. >> All right. Go ahead. >> Now she Now she opens up. >> No, Kaitlin came home tonight. So, >> how's she doing? >> I'm out.