001e e e United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty justice for all it's very to Terry could you please call the I can but do you have my call sheet oh sorry I know I missing something sorry oh no perfectly all right I mean not I don't knowbody Frost no bsph here Chia here gorson here moons here Ty here all here tonight great do we have any correspondents no Rajan you're up welcome you you happy November um I'm really excited for this the month of gratitude giving back uh School environment is just full of gratitude at this point so it's been a really fun couple of weeks into November and we'll cover we're going to change up the slides a little bit this
002week so here we go so career and academic clubs have been very busy uh going into the past couple of weeks end of October into November our debate team our Congressional debate team had two very big competitions our Congress side actually won at Wheeling a couple of weeks ago um and then our public forum team also competed and so debate's been going strong we've been sending a lot of our freshmen out there so they're getting their their debate experience uh their argumentation skills and they're loving it every step of the way on the bottom left our public forum uh our modal United Nations team rather had their first actual competition I told you guys last month that they actually ran the tournament here at Stevenson and so this was their first time getting out there
003and actually getting to compete so they really enjoyed that in the bottom middle uh we actually kicked off The Looking forward talking about your future sort of transition and this was the academic Expo which was held by the various co-curricular the curricular divisions and the academic divisions and so that was really nice for underclassmen and juniors to be able to talk to teachers who actually teach these courses and get to learn a little bit more about courses that they may be taking next year on the bottom right are spark Symposium which is composed of Juniors and seniors presented their annual Showcase Event which involved 23 research scientists which were the seniors who pitched their proposals that they had been working on with various college and university professors um and others in higher Academia to their
004fellow Juniors and their peers so wrapping up months long projects that they had been doing continuing off of that on the top right our math team hosted their annual Carnival with hundreds of elementary school students uh packed in there to the wood Commons and so that was really cool for you know our our math students who really enjoy the math team to give back to the community with that gratitude element um and educate these Elementary School students who will hopefully join the MTH team when they make it to Stevenson on the top left and on the bottom right we have had several field trips for our annual or monthly field trip day uh on the top left the marketing team went to Wrigley Field to learn about sort of the marketing behind how a professional
005MLB team markets their product and their games on the bottom right our business apps and Technology classes went to dve and Busters to learn about all the technology that it takes to run such a big gaming uh website and with this I kind of wanted to open the floor up for some discussion here um we have been seeing a lot of different field trips and activities for experiential learning and so I wanted to ask the board are there any memorable field trips that you had in high school and in college and how that is sort of influenced your your desire to want to fund continuous field trip opportunities here at Stevenson because we really appreciate these experiences great question um well start uh I don't think I think when I was in high school a
006million years ago it was it was more about just go places I think what you guys are getting is much more experiential and pointed in terms of where you're going and why it was things like we all go to the museum assignment and Industry get to walk around it was a lot of fun it was always great get on the bus and go to City but I do appreciate the opportunities here to be a little more intentional about where you go and why I I never had that opportunity they didn't have any of those things when I went to uh High School in the Middle Ages but our senior year the senior class trip now St Paul Minnesota uh we went to Washington DC New York City back to St Paul coming through Chicago changing
007trains and going home on a train now let me say that my grandson from Deerfield went to Washington DC for five days and they flew like um but I say that was about the only memorable thing that ever happened j i I'll jump I'm also one of those older people um and I remember getting off my horse sorry I grew up in in Texas um and the only field trip that we took was a a field trip to see listen to the San Anton San Antonio Symphony and so we didn't do any of the other kinds of experiences that you've had so I but I from and obviously all of us kind of Monitor and see the things that you're do and it's just it's phenomenal to see it's great anybody else sure we did
008the Great America field trip in physics that was I mean that's been going on for years that's you know that's honestly the only one I can remember well I just want to say like on behalf of the the student body here we really appreciate you continuing to support these and funding them um you know a lot of students take business related courses for example because they have an interest in going into the business field down the road and so being able to see that live and experience it dayto day and see the inner workings it's really that what am I learning in the classroom out in the community and students just love it so thank you for that thank you very much so continuing off of the community building aspect of things uh there have
009been a lot of different Heritage and cultural based months if you will and so on the top right we had the annual it was earlier this year the asa's Asian-American student association's night market and so this year it was actually held outside on the pool ptio and so that really helped simulate what a real Asian Night Market is like in many different countries and so that was a really nice change to see them put it on instead of February you know when it's cold and everybody's inside to being able to do it in the fall everybody came outside it was a beautiful day that Saturday um and it was just an amazing way to bring the entire Community together so many young students helped out with the booths uh families friends everybody was just chipping
010in and made for an extremely extremely nice night on the bottom right our Filipino American Student Association to part with our national dance Honor Society to learn a traditional Filipino dance on the bottom middle our polish uh Club hosted a Polish uh themed sort of event for Polish heritage month on the top middle our Turkish Club took part in a Turkish Art Festival where they were able to learn about different types of Turkish art on the top left our lassar Latin American Student Association hosted a guacamole creation or making night in the Food Lab um and so that concluded their annual Hispanic Heritage Month and so they really enjoyed that tons of students backed into the Food Lab to do that and then on the bottom left I wanted to give a shout out to
011the National aners Society they hosted their blood drive huge turnout for the blood drive donated a lot of blood raised a lot of money and so that was sort of the preemptive for gibon that's going on right now with more Community aspect of things on the top right some of our younger leaders actually took part in a day of leadership training and so our class boards and many members of the student council actually got to learn about what leadership training was like and now they've been able to apply that back to their respective clubs on the bottom left our snowflake uh Team or Club rather went to the local middle schools to educate younger students about anti-drug and alcohol use and so they really enjoyed being able ble to give back to the community and
012educate you know future Stevenson Patriots about the dangers of drug and alcohol use and so that Community aspect was in full force there and then on the bottom right we hosted our annual trunker treat event by Kea um and they they kicked it out of the park I mean seriously they had over 50 boots that was a record number of boots we've ever had for this event and over 300 community members um in that lot so a lot of young students going around seeing all the decorated boots and getting candy it was a beautiful beautiful evening uh prior to Halloween so for our Statesman Spotlight this month um with Hispanic Heritage Month which had ended in the middle of October we actually did a very uh detailed story on lasso and the events that they
013conducted throughout Hispanic Heritage Month throughout all of September and October um and so I wanted to Showcase that perspective it has their sponsors perspective as well um in the paper this month and then up and coming uh it'll be a busy couple of weeks after Thanksgiving a lot of Fine Arts events you'll notice that I skip Fine Arts in this week this month's presentation um next month we will focus solely on Fine Arts uh they have pretty much a showcase or a concert or some sort of exhibition pretty much almost every single day throughout the month of December and so there are a lot of musical different concerts and ensembles music production there'll be a dance concert and then all of our art classes will showcase their artwork at the winter artfest on the 10th
014and the 11th so with that I want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving we really appreciate everything that you do for the Stevenson community so we're very grateful for that thank you thank [Applause] you okay do we have any visitor statements tonight all right well we are super excited to um have our annual report from our student services team so thank you for being here and I'll let you introduce your amazing team so fire away sir do we have like a minute to just get set up of course sure two two minutes if you need it yes yes yeah there isn't a t in there for Jerry how do I get one for you um I was hoping there was going to be more setting up yes I can advance okay all right um
015thank you all truly for uh letting us be here with you tonight we appreciate it I feel like it's not November and Thanksgiving if student services isn't here talking with our fabulous Board of Education um but we like we'd like to just change things up a little bit so for years and years and years and years Terry as you can speak to and Patty Martin too right um we have come in November to share with you the results of the student sa satisfaction ction survey that our students take each year um and don't worry Patty Martin did prepare a report for you so you still have those results to review but tonight we wanted to uh change things up a little bit we know that you have the opportunity to hear from teams in all
016of our divisions about some of the work they're doing in the area of social emotional learning and we wanted to jump in on that theme so tonight um we're excited to share with you some of the work we've done particularly over the last couple of years to really try to be more proactive in terms of the way we identify and support students who are struggling we know of course we are here for students who reach out to us but many students when they're having a hard time are not necessarily going to reach out to their SST and so part of what we've tried doing is really being intentional about building better connections with those students so you will hear um from our team tonight and I'll introduce them in a minute some of the um
017what we're kind of call mental health checkpoints that we built into the student services High School four-year um experience that our students have uh Patty Martin will talk to you all a little bit about some of those checkpoints from the counselor area of things Angela O'Brien will talk a little bit about what that looks like in the world of school psychology and then Christina cores will talk about um that work from the social work perspective but first we will kick things off with saraha Francis who will talk a little bit about our ssts and how things are set up in student services to allow for that work to happen thank you again for your time Excell good evening everyone thanks again for having us here um as Sarah just mentioned is going to little give
018a little bit of a groundwork for uh what a student support team actually is prior to our fabulous folks diving deeper into the nitty-gritty of what they're doing uh to help support students so just a quick reminder every student at Stevenson has a student support team that consists of a social worker counselor psychologist and a Dean um it's a lot of wonderful people supporting students so you might be asking yourself what are the specific roles of these members now again the team members work together and they're really supporting each other and and helping students in any way that they can but they really are approaching every student with specific background information expertise um in their various areas so for example counselors like Patty Martin are really helping us support students from the academic lens really
019supporting them with scheduling classes those types of things postsecondary planning that fun stuff um our social workers and our school psychologists really help support students with you know any crises that come up social emotional needs and supports um and then our 504 coordinators also are our school psychologist so they're helping to support our students that maybe need additional support through a 504 plan and then our Deans are really helping to support students from a behavioral land so attendance Behavior those types of things um the most important thing to note is that at the end of the day the sst's main goal is to support the academic social emotional and post-secondary needs of every single student from the moment they enroll at Stevenson through the time they graduate and honestly even Beyond we all the time
020have students reach out from after the time they are here for any specific needs that they might have checking in those types of things so it's really impressive to me the amazing work that our student support teams are doing because they really are building strong relation ships with our students so I will turn it over to Patty to go into how we do this so a couple of things um and I you've probably heard about many of the things that we do as SST members but we really want to with every student build a relationship find out how they're doing and what they might need and then Provide support for those needs and a lot of times you will see things like grades attendance discipline and all those things still happen but today we're really
021going to talk about those social emotional sort of checkpoints and how we get information from students build relationships and then Provide support so we um have uh based many of the things that we've been doing for the last I don't know five or six years um around the developmental relationships model from the search Institute in uh St Paul Minnesota it is a research-based approach to relationships and it really increases efficacy and agency with our students so as students grow as fresh we would be talking about providing support for students expressing care and as they get older we're looking at sharing power expanding possibilities and and challenging their growth so what does this look like for Pat Riot as um he is going through his time at Stevenson High School um we just have our checkpoints
022so some of these we're going to be talking a little bit more about and giving you some data but you can see as that um as Pat is going down the road in his little car um we have many um checkpoints that we have for students with our getting to know you surveys our poll surveys they're going through the signs of suicide we're looking at Panorama surveys um we're doing even our senior Core Curriculum so as you can tell we do a lot of checking in for students as freshmen but even as they go through even as seniors first semester seniors we're getting information from them and when we're talking about those first semester seniors every year um uh counselors will talk to seniors pretty much the first couple of weeks of school and ask
023them how are they feeling about their postsecondary planning so where where are you in terms of um what's going on and we ask them how are you feeling so feeling confident and these are the students that took this survey um for this uh senior class that 440 of them are feeling confident which is awesome more more than half are or excuse me almost half are looking like you know what I I know what I'm doing in August but as you can see they're looking for finding colleges they're um wanting help completing the Common App but we also ask them in that whole um in that whole survey like are you working through some mental health challenges do you need help from your counselor your social worker your school psychologist and those students although it's a
024it's a small number and that's and that's good we want that to be a small number but each one of those students Was Then followed up with um by their social worker or psychologist to make a plan about what they might need um help with all the rest of them were also followed up with different different people um in the building oh and count yeah this is new thank you Sarah Bowen counselors will all be um meeting with our seniors before December 1st to just find out what those post secondary plans are um so we make sure that everybody knows or has an idea about what they might want to do come May um you have seen uh many times I believe the the Panorama survey from our curriculum teams and this is a panorama
025survey that the perception data fromal with our fall um our fall survey with our freshmen and you can see that we we do a number of we have a number of data points but the two that we really talk about in SST areal strengths students that are showing up as having strengths in all of the competencies and then emotion regulation is the one that we've really um honed in on in terms of ssts so our y the yellow and the red are the students that we are following up on and again they're meeting with their counselors meeting with their social workers providing support and then if there is more support that's needed after that then we reach out to stakeholders we start individual counseling we do group counseling those types of things um so that
026is how we use our perception data okay so I'm going to talk a little bit about a couple more of our checkpoints um so one of the surveys that we give to our freshmen pretty early on um during the 4th week of advisory is the aptly named pulse survey this grew out of um this is our fifth year doing this so This grew out of a need to kind of keep a pulse on our students during covid and we decided to keep it going um so what we do is just ask a few um pretty brief questions we ask freshmen to let us know how they've been feeling the first few weeks of school kind of get an idea socially and emotionally how their transition has been we ask if they want to meet up
027with somebody from their SST and if so we send them a passs and check in with them we definitely ask about lunchtime um coming to our large campus we want to make sure that kids have somebody to eat with um and sit with at lunchtime and then we also ask if anybody is interested in participating in group counseling at that time and we list out the different group supports that we offer through student services so this year 1,037 students completed the survey and then of that number 8% were followed up by either a counselor a social worker or a school psychologist and even before our students become ours we actually have a couple checkpoints in the spring of 8th grade for a couple um intentional groups of students so we have two articulation processes that
028we work really closely with um with our our Center School colleagues the first is our RTI articulation so a response to intervention in which we meet with our social workers counselors and school psychologists um colleagues in each of our Center Schools and even some of our private schools too when applicable to find out which of our students are receiving a little bit more support in eth grade which students might be want to kind of know a little bit about so we can plan for them more intentionally and make sure that we have interventions ready to go for them when they become ours and the fall our second um checkpoint in regards to articulation is around Section 504 so our school psychologists and counselors we will team with our um friends at the center schools and
029we will actually push into our um 8th grade spring transition 504 meetings with those parents and those students so we can kind of get an idea what are the students requiring an eth grade what might they need at high school and then we're able to kind of give a little bit more um individualized recommendations about what types of interventions they might need when they come to us so quickly talking a little bit about our SS of suicide data um this is data that's collected from freshman and junior year these are combined totals for both of those classes over time our Priority One students are the students that indicate the greatest amount of need based on their responses to the questions um and they are checked in with immediately that day we um do our best
030to call them down by the end of that period have security obtain them and bring them to us our priority to students um share that there's some concern but not as much as the high priority ones and they're usually seen within the next few days and our priority three students Express again less than the previous two categories in terms of our concern about depression and they are seen again within a week at most as you can see the data is showing a trend downwards which I'm sure everyone would like to see in relation to suicide and while this is one survey and data that we see moving downwards we've also consulted with Alyssa's mission who runs our signs of suicide program in in the local area that surrounds our community and our numbers look great
031in comparison to the schools that are around us as well as if we look at our student health and wellness survey data we can see that our our suicidality and ression numbers generally look better than the schools that surround us as well so this is an important checkpoint that's that's done um in our spring time with both of those grade levels and then finally just here are some things that our students are saying about the SST process and the members of their SST I'm not going to read through it I'll let you guys look through it but I think the overall feeling is one that's positive I think our students feel a great deal of support from every member of their SST team while some of them may access a counselor more frequently a social
032worker a psychologist more frequently uh they're all feeling that we're here for them that we support them and they're aware of who we are and where they can find us thank you very much any questions this team yeah here the um on the sides of suicide why do you think Stevenson is doing it's hard to even say doing better than S but what's different about the approach here that it seems to be working maybe a little bit better than what the surrounding schools are are doing that's a you're right it's it's or is it a community thing I mean what's the what's your thought what's your what are you thinking about that I think and and it's such a good point Gary because all this is to any student struggling right around um mental health
033is too many students so we're very much dialed into making sure that those students are supported you know I and I I'm sure this wonderful work is happening in the schools in the area too I don't mean to suggest that it's not but I think um some of the shift that we that we've really made is not just responding to the issue at hand as it arises on that day but really being intentional about what is our followup what is our continued relationship with that student our continued relationship with that family um and trying to really make sure that we're those students once they're on our radar they just really stay on our radar for the rest of um their experience that's a shift we've made that I'm that I'm hopeful is is one of
034the reasons that we're seeing these positive um changes and look I think we'd all love to take credit for all for these great numbers but I think another piece of it which is such good news is that we are slowly starting to see um you know as we get further away from covid students um that are that are working through some of the social issues some of the anxiety and depression and things like that that we did see for many years for students that that's a little bit more behind us now every year that that passes thanks yeah of course and and this is an amazing group of folks right who really provide just an unbelievable level of support to our kids I mean from Council and the social workers and the Deans and the
035psych I mean it's you know um we in addition we just have a huge you know number of folks who care about kids and and I hope the kids know that we care about them right like it's a reciprocal relationship so so thank you to all you do as well at the surve I had a comment look at the survey numbers plug in I'm doing it I'm doing it good Joby go my comment was just a huge thank you and I hope that you share my personal gratitude with your entire team that I mean some these numbers are unbelievable 100% my counselor cares about me 100% of students said yes that's huge and that is a testament to all of you and so please seriously the the whole team is doing really really well and
036and I really greatly appreciate that can you guys talk a little bit about how the how the Deans Comm unicate with the rest of the SST team look at the survey how the Deans communicate yeah I would just imagine that that's a way that that must be a way to you know it strikes me when we when we look at these surveys that there are probably a lot of students who are maybe in the in the good categories that might might need to answer differently in order to be identified as somebody who needs help I would would I would imagine that maybe that their first point of contact with the team might be the Deans I don't know well and we do so thank you so much for our lovely office areas because we are
037all together all day every day um meeting with our Deans and the the rest of the team is sort of there together um I do think that students if they're struggling with with their attendance if they're struggling with their behavior our Deans are talking to us about that and the students actually will I mean you know hanging out out with teenagers all day they come in and tell us that they did something wrong like you're like uh excuse me I'm I'm here to turn myself in that was I did this thing yes you're going to have to make a statement yeah you're going to have a consequence and I told my mom I think already so now then they thank you for consequenc them no I mean but it's sort of it's sort of strange
038how then it's like okay would you like to talk to your social worker she's right there or you would you like to talk to your counsel or a lot of times we're working together um to for in those in those um times as well and then we have our SST meetings we really problem solving for students who are really having a hard time with any of those things and or a or a multitude of of things and and um providing support and then continuing to progress monitor to make sure that they're that they're doing well just a reminder to our board can you describe how often those SST teams meet yes so we meet weekly for with an agenda and talking about specific students and then we're talking all the time and the you bring
039data to that grades attendance referral you know like it's a very specific meeting about all the kids on their case load and the dean's part of that team as well and to speak the dean's credit I think that phrase positive not punitive really stands out for the dean team here at Stevenson um I remember as a social worker I always would joke that my Dean on my team Kathy mcau was a second social worker the kids really we viewed her as a support fee social emotional in addition to the Behavior Support so our Deans really live by that and they work so closely with these wonderful humans and the rest of our SS members so it truly is a cohesive team that works together to fully support the student quick question so sorry no please
040okay just out of my curiosity so I know SS team made up like a celor social worker Dean and psychologist right so who be the who's the person being the cond the most I really look at that that's a great question and of course it depends a little bit um on the student but the counselor really is sort of like quarterback I mean a sports analogy is that the thing a quarterback of the team but the council really is the quarterback they are the person that has that Rel relationship and connection with all 260 their students and again a huge reason we're able to do the work we do and have the relationships we have is because you have blessed us with case loads that allow for that kind of work and then I think
041the counselor really is the person then that is sort of referring the student and connecting them with other parts of the team as needed or if needed so the councelor would you guys agree is really sort of your see quarterb of the team okay paty you mentioned that this year you're implementing something new with these check-ins with the seniors by December 1st what was the impulse behind that and what's the I I mean I haven't been through this as a parent yet so what's the interplay between our counselors and our College counseling team and how does that work sure I'll start Patty and then jump in when I things yeah I would say with confidence that even prior to this year we were meeting with you know 95% of SE um but I think Ronnie
042the shift that we made is we recognize like there may have been a handful of students on every counselor's case load where if they weren't reaching out to us perhaps they weren't having as um as as kind of um thorough of a conversation as they could have about their post-secondary plannings we just said like for all success for every student right we're going to meet with every single student uh to make sure that that's happening there is also Al another shift that we made last year which has really helped in terms of how the school counselor connects with the postsecondary counselor and that's that both of our uh College counselors used to be in the College and Career Center that's where they were housed and there were some benefits to that but what we found
043is that it created a little bit of a disconnect between these ssts and the work that they were doing and some of the conversations that then College counselers were having more individually with students and families so the C the the postsecondary counselors are sort of considered it's like SST and friends like they're part of that group of folks to ensure that like hey maybe they're not working with the student directly when they're a freshman or a sophomore but they're part of the conversations they know some of the background they understand if there's been a hospitalization for a mental health issue they understand if the student may be overbalanced in terms of like the classes that they're taking they have that perspective so that when they enter the conversation which is generally junior year they're up
044to speed with all of those things and we're just noticing already even this is just year two into the shift that there's just much more teaming and collaboration um not just from like what are we going to do in high school to support this student but in thinking through what plans are happening for that student After High School what I leave I was goingon to say we had been meeting with all of our seniors by probably March definitely before spring break but we moved that that date up just to to be able to you know understand what people are doing and also to give them an idea like maybe you need to be doing this during winter break or you know these are you might want to do something that has a deadline of of
045January 1 and now we're getting to them before that deadline um so that's very helpful as well so for those of us who were here in the early 90s when the question was one school or two schools uh you know the promise to the community was keep us at one school but make a big school feel small and I think um this team has taken the lead with that and they done that repeatedly over and over and over again so thank you guys it's really amazing we appreciate you thank you all we appreciate your time have good night supp thank you thank you thank you who was in the pat R uh outfit for all the pictures did you guys one of you guys have you dressed Patty up was other duties is assign have
046a good night thank you thank you all right uh moving right along uh last month we shared with you as a first reading the approval of our intergovernmental agreements uh for the sharing of student data for educational study and purposes with all of our theater districts um pretty standard pretty boilerplate intergovernmental agreements which we have had previously but thanks to Pia we've cleaned them up um we've made them all consistent um and we've gotten all of our feeder districts um kind of the cats have been hurted if you will correct so tonight we're bringing those forward to you for your approval I please get a motion to approve the inter agreement second any questions you please sure no hi Ben ysph hi s hi gon hi moons I Ty hi Frost hi car nothing okay
047and tonight we're also bringing forward to you after first shooting last month the approval of our three-year calendars for 20126 through 2029 um there were a couple questions about some dates that may have appeared to be random but um the real challeng is for us um trying to balance the number of days per semester but mostly um trying to finish before winter break so that we can get our transcripts out um and then also finishing Before Memorial Day so we kind of find ourselves locked into those two dates and then everything else flows from there um but uh you had a chance to review that last month uh tonight we're bringing forward to your for your approval this evening okay could I please get a motion to approve the calendar so moved second pardon me
048Steve Steve second any questions can you please Ben ysf hi s hi Corson hi moons I Ty hi Rost I no I carries seven to nothing okay and then again last month as a first reading but but tonight for your approval um we worked through all of the um board policy updates from press issue 116 and I will let Pia just note um any of the more significant items in there so the majority of the items in here are in response to the title 9 updates the previous press policy was updating a lot of the titles this is going through and actually updating the policy so we are in compliance with Title 9 and then we'll have another um round of press updates coming in the next couple months correct so uh this was just
049the first and it was specific to it was it this is very specific to title n so we're just following the recommendation didn't say anything but we're just following Robin schar's advice correct to the letter correct and it is in the footnotes the footnotes are not published um but we do want to update the foot notes in there right could I please get a motion to approve the updates press so moved second any other questions for okay Terry could you please Paul so hi gorson hi w i Ty hi Frost no hi benos hi approved Pro s to nothing okay and then um also tonight as a first reading but we will discuss more in depth uh at the December 10th finance committee meeting uh we have a first reading for approval of an update
050to scoreboard policy um for colon 20 which is related to fund balance um and we are going to make some recommendations um to that language given what we know now about our own fund balances but more importantly the changes that we've made recently to um our accounting procedures so that will be discussed more at length on December 10th and then brought back to the board at the December board meeting correct so we'll hold off on any conversation on that now but we'll come back to it um at length at least two more times um and then uh our Personnel report is there for your review and then approval during consent um we had a close session prior to the meeting so we do not need one after the meeting and then and then Sean that
051takes us to public hearing for driver ed excuse me correct um the uh Illinois school code um allows those districts that provide behind the wheel experience to charge um a fee associated with that that fee is locked at $250 um unless the waiver is applied or applied for and granted Uh current currently the uh waiver that we had uh issued back in 2010 expires at the end of June um so we are um seeking to have that uh waiver set before the legislature again um this spring so we do need to have um a public hearing to get public comment on it before we uh go before we ask the board for approval on that fee waiver okay could I please get a motion to open the public hearing so second all right who was
052the first me Ronnie Ronnie any comments from the public could I get a motion to close the public hearing so move wait wait wait sorry to vote on this not yet well that's oh sorry we do yeah you're right you're right um all in favor to open the public hearing I oppose okay we are open any comments now could I please give a motion to close the public hearing tell move second all in favor okay so now can I please get a motion to approve the driver's education fee waiver so moved second okay does anyone have any questions on this just the way we've been doing it correct yeah the behind the wheel program is you know uh there's an expense to it for sure and so this fee um which by the way is
053significantly lower than almost any driving school around um provides allows us to recoup some of those costs we do get some state grants to help offset the costs as well um so this kind of helps balance that out a little bit more how much do our student pay uh right now it's $375 any other question I think the cheapest program out there is like 650 yeah yeah it is considerable yeah Terry could you please pull the board sure Tire hi Frost hi no hi Joseph hi s hi persons hi w i nothing and because one is good but two is better so we need correct so the uh several years ago I think about uh 10 years ago we updated the simulators that were in the driver ed program and the state of Illinois also
054to decide to change their school code to allow us to offset some some of the hours needed behind the wheel by hours spent in a simulator what's nice about simulators is for some of those brand new drivers that are are very hesitant have never maybe even been in a car or you know driven uh before maybe even a a golf cart or something like that this provides them that opportunity to you know gain some comfort behind the wheel um there are over I think 200 different types of sit situations that the driers at teachers can apply to each of the drivers so um similarly to the waiver uh the C the fee waiver uh this also has to go to a public Vote or we have to have a public session excuse me to uh
055gain um public comment before we send off the entire application to the state legislator for approval so we will have to open uh open and close the public hearing before the board takes action can I please get a motion to open the public hearing so moved second all in favor okay anyone have any comments I just really want to try it some me too disappointed that you're making us vote didn't get to try it we could we could certainly arrange for that we can certainly and we won't get our licenses revoked we will not get your licenses revoked I promise all right so could I please get a motion to close the with kids could I please close second second all in favor hearing is closed so could I now please get a motion to
056approve the waiver as presented so moved second any other questions other than our severe disappointment and Sean [Laughter] [Music] I'll set it up all right Terry you bsph hi s hi gon hi Moon's I TI hi Frost I no I it carries so we should hear from the state legislature by the way sometime in the spring on the approval of these uh the next item is approval for the 2025 26 um student fees um for the most part we have kept these fees fairly consistent um however during Co and during the time when um it was difficult we lowered them significantly um we are now trying to get back to that same level we were at in 2019 and 2020 in fact on one of those years we actually even canceled the fees for that
057particular year um we also are updating as we mentioned the driver ed fee um yearbook has gotten a little a little bit more expensive to print over time um parking and athletic tickets um and then finally little patriots what I'll tell you is that the athletic tickets the parking and the Yearbook um are all in line with our um at our feeder schools but our Market Basket um specifically the yearbook is significantly cheaper um than most of the other schools and the little Patriots Day program is um still significantly several hundred dollars less per month for those uh parents that are lucky enough to have a child go through the program so tonight we are recommending that the Board of Education approve the 2025 26 student fees as presented can I get a motion to
058approve so move second um so is the plan to sort of incrementally raise these a little bit to get us back to where so this should be the last increment to get us back to that level and where can then continue to assess the need to either increase or remain steady but that's something that the team and I look at every year um get some feedback from Trish John GCE um Dave Eddie and others to help kind of assess um the costs of a lot of the programs that we run on a daily basis any other questions for I just a real quick question about drivers said since we were just talking about it and I'm looking at these fees and it's a state requirement correct correct do we provide support to students on a
059need basis with these fees yeah so the classroom component is um a graduation requirement um they either have to take it at Stevenson or show proof that they have passed it elsewhere as far as assistance I'm going to turn to lendy here yeah so the classroom portion is required for graduation the behind the wheel is not um so so if a student needed financial assistance for the classroom they won't have to pay any fees at all that is wave for the driver's head for the behind the wheel that's not waved but has some families then they would work like a payment plan in place correct and that fee that we talked about is only for the behind the wheel portion the there is no fee associated with the classroom component other than just the normal
060student fees yeah so like Sean you're trying to get back to 20178 yeah levels with like the instructional material fee correct so like where do so I guess the school is subsidizing that Delta yeah is it a significant Delta I mean is it I mean you know when you look at 48 almost 5,000 students you know that can start to add up to you know teacher costs um per year and so it does now obviously these fees aren aren't meant to pay for teachers they're meant to pay for the supplies and the materials and the pro some of the other intermural programs I would also keep in mind that um wrapped up in this fee is the iPad um that we provide to every student that they can take home with them for graduation and
061of course all the infrastructure that goes along with a network network demand so next year do you anticipate if we're a little bit below ultimately what we're going to get back to next year we probably potentially you know I think again it's going to be a little bit of an evaluation um not only amongst um not only within Stevenson but sometimes we do take a look at the economy and if things tank between now and then we might bring a recommendation to the board to pause any increases or even decrease it temporarily any other questions so I notice the yearbook um the fee will be increased 20% right yeah from 50 to 60 um is it because we changing the printing um or inflation something yeah the printing company is increasing their fees to to
062print that most yearbooks are probably in the 90 to $100 range um they also sell advertisements in them to offset the costs which we have made a decision not to at this point okay how about it's already thick enough yeah how about demand are we getting more volumes yeah we continue to see um a significant I would say probably 90% of the population's buying okay great okay Terry could you please P sure so I gson hi wound I tyer yes Frost I no hi BOS hi car seven to nothing and then um Sean we have two first readings um and then um three first readings oh three first readings um all of which well the first two we'll look at more in depth at the next finance committee meeting correct and then also we'll have
063a chance to talk about them at the December uh board meeting that's also correct okay and then um a first reading also for the replacement of multifunction devices yeah so in the meantime if the board has any questions about those three things they can contact you but just know that we're going to go over all of these in depth at our next Finance meeting yeah okay so you'll get a big amount of information uh during that time and then we also had our enrollment projections come in that we feel are as accurate at this point as they're going to get um so um if you had a chance to look at those these are the more um aggressive y for lack of a better word we have a moderate version and a conservative version we
064always present the moderate the moderate version this is basically this would be worst case scenario on the other hand um we are tracking a little bit above the 2024 numbers that's correct so these don't seem totally out of line and you may remember five years ago when we started proposing the PWC um we knew that this was a possibility so just wanted to make you aware of this it may or may not come to fruition we do have four classrooms in the PWC that right now are functioning as multi-purpose spaces which we need correct um but if push comes to shove we feel like we can handle this part of this increase this summer we are going to be doing some minor um construction around the building most of it we be able to do
065inhouse through sedexo but we're going to retrofit uh a couple of rooms that right now we're using as storage or we have other purposes and we're going to turn those into classrooms um so we feel like over the course of the next couple years we're going to be able to accommodate this growth we are not going to ask you to add on another addition or anything like that but we do want to be transparent that the the questions and wonderments that we had about six seven eight years ago of would we ever hit 5,000 it looks like we might yeah and I would point out also that while we see that little bit of growth that happens um basically as Eric was mentioning when we kind of walk through the building we have identified a
066couple of areas with minor improvements would last us not only next year but the year after um so it gives us plenty of time before we have to start looking at the PWC multi-purpose rooms um and then I would also point out that in year 10 of the projections it has us going back down to levels that are kind of we're at now so right now we'll continue to watch this blip and see if it is in fact the blip and uh any changes that we're looking at would you know be temporary at this point and then we can address any more permanent things in several in the years to come so is this going back to kind of our butts and seats in the feeder schools and you know we're back in that that's
067why these numbers we feel are more accurate than maybe the old the old firm that we use because these actually do count not only new development potentially but also the number of kids who are literally in seeds in the feeder districts so but when did you get this is you just got this right relatively recently coule we get this prized and uh beginning of October maybe couple yeah or maybe it's later than that middle of it was after the October do you get a sense in telling them why because we've been tracking pretty much where our cap was going to be at about 4900 I think so this is a couple hundred above that yeah pretty consistent did they give you any sense of what what's going on it's um have you seen more permits
068have you seen so I think the we are starting to see students come from the developments that are um either in progress or continuing to progress uh for example the oak tree plaza where the old Menards used to be um that's Stevenson's property so we're getting students from those homes the old uh the Didier what used to be diddier Farms um link Crossing and yeah link Crossing thank you that's the one um what I will say also is that uh the village of Lincolnshire um and one of the things that we like about this demographer is that they connect with all the villages that feed into Stevenson about potential developments or use of land and I will say that the village of Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire are really good about reaching out to us to
069see how many students are pulling from some of the new developments for example the redun Town Center um how many students do we actually pull from those particular areas um I think Lincolnshire tracks a little bit better than Buffalo Grove or they're starting but they're starting to address that as well so you know we're going to have to stay on top of some of those developments um you know the village of Lincolnshire approved a new comprehensive plan um involves some of the Corporate Parkway and potential mixed use of that I attended a um village of Lincolnshire uh Round Table I guess if you will to discuss you know what types of homes are needed there's a big housing survey in progress right now correct correct and and you know what we the leaders that were
070around including the Lake County Partners president um lot of jobs that are going to be available and not enough housing units to meet all of those jobs so it was really it was very interesting um to see how their approach to not only getting workers but then what's the effect on the school districts as well so we appreci I appreciated at least uh an invitation to the the conversation and was able to provide insights as to how you know we would deal with increases and how District 103 was also there as well should should does this does this have any imp on our what requests we should be making on developer fees or that's never enough to get yeah the developer fees are are very minimal um the I it's funny we should answer that
071uh I did talk with our attorneys about what are the maximum numbers um the elementary schools get more than we do but they're also having those students for a longer period of time so um I'm continuing to work with our um legal firm Robin Schwarz on uh developing a survey what other areas are collecting um so that we can ensure that we're getting the maximum possible or at least enough to not prohibit a developer from moving in but also provide some of the um help offset some of the costs when those students do arrive um can I get a motion to approve the kids sent agenda please second um sorry Terry could you please pull the board gon hi moai TI yes Frost hi no hi BPH hi s hi cares okay okay um so
072just a couple items uh for tonight but the first is I'll turn it over to uh Wendy I don't know if you want to project I can okay so while you're queuing that up um so one of the things that's really interesting is um there's been a lot of um a lot of Articles recently particularly in our world around the disconnect between um grades and standardized test scores so why does there seem to be this disconnect between the grades that kids are getting in school and then how they're performing on standardized tests um in so Wendy dive dove in a little bit and yeah we're really curious to see where we fell along this and so this is an interesting read um the you can get the printed article also if you wanted to um
073I have a this link will take you to the article but also to the folder with it also has the audio if you want to hear the AI podcast that goes along with this um but it talks about how is making this case it's a um opinion uh piece about how the grades don't line up with standardized sat act APS for example um and so what you're going to see on the slide that when you have a couple moments to read is on this slide it I walk you through um what each Slide the data that shows that we are aligned with both the um sat hopefully the ACT we'll know more after we take it this spring and our AP exams some of the slides you've seen in um other presentations like the student
074achievement report for and at The Retreat um but basically you were saying it was talking about sat and I know we've talked um for the past few years about how our SAT um scores have kind of remained the same you know us being true Stevens in form we're not didn't love that but then when we dive into the numbers a little bit deeper the national and the state a SAT scores decreased by 33 points where ours only decreased by 10 on average what I thought was kind kind of interesting um also you've seen this now for the AP this is for the SAT as we moved to our evidence-based grading the more alignment of our course grades with how students perform on the SAT um you'll notice on the AP scores the the circles are
075a little bit more obvious um I believe with time the SAT or the ACT scores will reflect the same way um with our a pce here's what we saw this during um at The Retreat and in the student achievement report our hope is that on the left is before we went to evidence-based 20 obviously 2024 is now in the alignment that you could see the goal is for the the circles to go down um from Ab c d to the 54321 and you could see five being the highest score in the year five sorry five being the highest um you saw this before with even with the increased number of students over 6,000 exams written last spring in our APS our average um AP score has remained a four which is to me just unbelievable
076um and then you'll have some time when you look at this um but I want to explain it to you there's three slides here of the percentage of students who earned a five and then a four a three as compared to an A B C now obviously that's not quite true but um it aligns pretty well that you see a 2010 where we had zero courses this was traditional grading in 2010 and you could see the increase all the way through up until 2024 where we had all courses that are now um evidence-based reporting and you can see how the alignment of um a to fives B's to threes and C's to twos and how they aligned so it was pretty interesting and big thanks out to the DAT data analytics team who helped put
077that together but if you have any questions let me know so what I just think is so great about this is that you know then slides six and eight are are really the ones that kind of demonstrate that now our our our our grades are far more aligned to you know know how kids are performing on those normed you know National tests and so it feels pretty good that there's now kind of a connection that we can make between the hard work that our teachers are doing to kind of rethink what grading practices should look like and how that's aligned I think to the high expectations that are out there for kids on those nationally Norm tests so pretty it's pretty amazing because the sorry just one more quick thing what's amazing about it is
078the country is moving significant in the other direction the disconnect is massive and that's what you're hearing a lot in the news lately so and all all of our students now K2 so all the students now are in some kind of evidence-based reporting standard-based grading from K12 so it's great so if you have any other questions about that please let us know um thank you Wendy uh we also included some student profiles in there which are always fun just little quick snippet from Jamie and P if you don't get a chance to read the daily digest every day have fun with those uh we also included just a quick item about the cost of our foas over the course of this past year uh so we're up to approximately $5,000 which not terrible no and
079I think with the evolution of um technology we've been able to respond fairly quick quickly and we haven't had to include the attorneys in a lot of the foyer reviews that we've had to in the past definitely so you may or may not remember we share this with you we try to do it yearly but um there were times when it was a lot higher um and then uh also included uh an article about uh cyber attacks that have been increasing over the years so um we are going to be um essentially we've been asked if not strongly encouraged if not required um by to the ladder click to um kind of test our systems which would involve kind of testing some fishing emails and um really trying to uh both test and educate our
080adults on um the dangers of fishing uh responding to fishing emails the last thing we want to do is um kind of be held hostage by some of those what do they call them ransomware things I think uh what was it Rockford that ended up having to pay over10 million so we want to avoid all of that and over the course of the next couple months we're going to try to both as required we're going to test but we're also going to educate folks on um yeah on how to respond appropriately so just some more information there uh and then the last item are some of the out of school suspensions that we've had required to share those with you by law just quickly on the the uh fishing simulations um if you haven't seen
081it Verizon publishes a a report a security breach report every year and it gives a lot of statistics about the meth the methods and mechanisms that the bad guys use to gain access to systems and it's social engineering is by far like the 95 96% of the attacks uh successful attacks are due to social engineering email being the still being the primary uh mechanism for that along with some other things around text messaging uh so it's a well worth the investment to put into um security awareness training and there's some really good companies yeah um that we can talk about that I the good news is that click believed so much in it that they're just we using the interest from um the fun balance to pay for all of this oh that's AES we
082worked out an agreement with secure Halo to provide um every school district with this free testing as well as eight hours of consultation but you hit it on the head social engineering is definitely the one week spot that we have Doug his team have done an amazing job of creating a secure network in fact when we were testing it Jamie Doug and I were testing it we sent one through and it didn't even get through it got caught by our blockers and our filters so we're actually going to have to turn that off when we actually do that and then turn it back on but um just turn off for the one our email right I'm not particularly thrilled about this I don't like that there is a it'll all be educational Bas all be
083educational but you know it's it's there's you know is there a g to it meaning that noine nothing of course not but you know you open one of these and then it takes you to hey don't get caught fishing like it feels it feels like it got you and so we're Jamie and Sean and Doug are working on communic have the confidence that you're the employees will get past that I get faster than you think oh I get it and we have to do it and if we don't do it there's a little bit in the beginning but they realize really quickly it becomes a little bit of a contest that yeah they do want to be the one to catch the message yeah so it'll it's going to be um it'll be interesting and
084we don't love it but we also understand the importance and I don't want to be embrace it my tech for yes yes question yes sir um and I I apologize I saw this the great correlation I was call you and ask you and I didn't so just real quick anything else about the fishing stuff all everybody's good okay go um I know that we pride ourselves on being a lighthouse are other schools that are that that that least say they're doing evidence based grading I know you've indicated they're not always doing it corre are you seeing data that shows that they're having the same successes that we are yes and you see it you see it significantly in middle schools that um align to map scores for example or IR ready assessments or Star assessments
085it's just at the high school we use ACT SAT AP but in schools that do it well if they do it well and it's not an illusion of Standards base grading you will see that that alignment because it's a more accurate reflection of students understanding and skills so yes and that research is at this point that ship is sailed the research is out there it's not a question of if it's the right thing it's when are you going to implement it because but it's it's really neat to see it reflected in our scores totally and it I mean it's there's really no um there's no question it's the right thing to do it's always a challenge of implementation and changing practices I mean the grading system you know that we had was in place nationally
086since 1897 you know like not many other things that we do are 130 years old you know like we don't have 130 old textbooks but we had 130 old grading system you know so it just it's hard for schools to change but when they do there'll be a much better alignment between student performance on those nationally normed assessments and the grades are getting in class that's great yeah okay that's all we have okay did I get a motion to adjourn come move second thank all in favor okay tro we didn't hear a lot from you tonight but thanks for being here quiet