001foreign [Applause] yeah could you Jerry could you please call the world certainly Frost here no yeah yeah Carson your wounds here tired here we're all here this evening we have some special visitors representative nabila Syed and representative Dan Diddy have joined us they're in the Illinois House of Representatives there are two districts combined to cover a large portion of our district and Dan is also Stevenson Alum which we are very very proud of us absolutely we appreciate that and yes we just wanted to present you all with an award because as you know Stevenson ranks uh as in one of the top 50 Public Schools in the nation ranking ninth nationally and to me and to represent dittich I just may speak on your behalf a little bit we're just very proud to have you
002all as such a tremendous resource in our community for young people and both of us are the product of public education I was not a Stevenson on the law I'm a farmed Alum don't hold it against me but but a big reason why I'm serving in the state legislature especially at such a young age is because of the tremendous public education I received in this state and friend also a ring somewhere on the list okay but um I'm just grateful to serve the 51st District which is just next to Stevenson but so many of our kids benefit from The Amazing education that they receive here so thank you all so much for making time for this thank you so much for providing the wonderful education and experiences to young people in our community if there's
003anything you want to add I like when nabila speaks for me because she speaks better than I she said just about everything I wanted to say just wanted to thank all of you again for the very important work you do for our community um you know like as Amy said I'm a Stevenson graduate um my family and I we moved back to the Stevenson High School District in large part because we wanted our kids to benefit from the same high quality education that me and my wife did who was also a Stevenson graduates um I've known many of you for a while Eric I think I've known the longest in the room who was my world religions teacher so I think I got an A in that class actually but who remembers he looked it
004up it must have been an A minus but no thank you so much congratulations again on this uh another well-deserved recognition and as always if there's anything I can do or representative Syed I know for both of us uh when there's anything you need from the state of Illinois from the legislature from isbe we're always happy to be a resource let us know what we can do to help thank you again for all the work you do thank you you know yeah go ahead okay this is for Stevenson High School in recognition of the outstanding education students in high school provides the Illinois House of Representatives extends its wishes for the school's continued success thank you very much absolutely thank you thank you here you are thank you [Applause] did Jamie get the picture can
005we get a quick picture right here see we're politicians we should remember the Future Part IES wait let me oh okay sorry okay let me come up real quick thank you thank you thank you so much [Applause] okay gosh you're up okay awesome thank you so much hi everyone hello again for September uh super excited for today because I have a lot of exciting announcements and I've tried something news of employees enjoyed um so the first thing um was that our Key Club held its um an annual service fair in the point uh just two weeks ago where they convened different service clubs from Stevenson um and provided a volunteering opportunity introduced in and out of the Stevenson community and so I know um I run the Kiva Club here at students and we represented
006their net free The Children and other community organizations um that offer these volunteer opportunities that was like a really really great opportunity a lot of freshmen especially for present there okay um and then Wellness week is always a really really Grand success I think we actually did have the most um attended Street Fest of Stevenson history um so that was like a really really great achievement um thank you to National Honor Society for putting that up um this these are just a couple of pictures um this is actually like my freshman so I decided I should like feature her from advisory um but we had like really really great time um a lot of fun uh food trucks uh different Stevenson clubs were also represented there and so we got to run boots there and
007then as always um rather than like just the ending culminating event we had an amazing week throughout um we had like fitness challenges as represented over here um and then different opportunities for students to engage with Wellness related programming um and it was awesome and then they had like fireworks and um the stadium as usual and it was just a really really great opportunity for you know students to come in the beginning of the year and kind of interact with each other interact with you know the faculty sponsors and then like also just their friends it's great but um and then also just a lot of fun that's been happening so I'm a senior uh so our senior class board had like a smoothies for seniors event um two later two weeks ago on a
008late arrival um where like a bunch of us seniors have the opportunity to go grab some smoothies um that was sponsored by senior class board um and then also our student lounge is up and running by peer helpers and so students are stopping by there and having an opportunity just like relax and wind um in the student Lodge it's always a great opportunity and I know that like a lot of my friends just go we just hang out there because it's really really good experience and then of course um open house was uh recently two open houses very very Grand successes I am like sure um but it was awesome and I think that's something very unique that's never been done before that happened this year um was on the second night one of our
009senior FMP mentors actually recommended to miss Deadman who's the um supervisor for the fresh Mentor program um that students should wear the like like another name tag that says I speak this language um and it's like written in like the language that they speak and um obviously you know we have these parents coming in we assume a lot of them speak English but a lot of times they don't um and so this was like a new innovation like Improvement like this new thing changed that we made this year um where all of us mentors got to just wear a name tag of the language that we speak other than English to kind of you know parents and families that are there and kind of um be more aware of the different cultures languages their spoken
010years oh yeah I mean I I said I spoke Tamil and a lot of like I think in the Indian parents just like gravited gravitated to me when they saw that language and I think I saw this similar I think kind of panning out for different cultures and different languages that's amazing it was really really crazy um and also a lot of sports wins um for example the PWC is offering uh yoga and pilates class um through this like overarching like wellness uh theme that they're kind of programming piloting this year um pictures from like our Bass Club is always doing a really great really really great job I mean these are some pictures after the Stevenson vs caramel um soccer game uh where they won by a pretty large margin I think that our
011soccer team is doing pretty well except I think they did lose to Mundelein like recently but um otherwise they have a very strong record this year um and then something new uh that's happened in the series that girls varsity ice hockey tryouts are happening um never happened never had the opportunity for like this hasn't been like an athletic opportunity provided before so a lot of new things like I mentioned girls black football last year last meeting which is also picking up some traction then girls rise to do this hockey now so a lot of really great stuff in the Athletics as well um and then I know Arts I couldn't necessarily find a lot of pictures for these so there's a lot of words on the slide but um there are like a ton of
012things happening and as always at the beginning of the years filled with like different plays Etc and so um they're they hosted its annual honor senior solo recital um they're they hosted a national beer Day celebration where like people came and like celebrated beards and like put on like fake beards on those kind of like organized by the Patriot Theater Company um and then also this weekend actually um the boys play is like they're performing two shows on Saturday and then they're also in the next few weeks touring the Middle School feeders as well performing that play um so it's not just our students in like School itself but also spending Beyond natural middle schools um and also I actually found this out for my co-fmp who is in like very very heavily involved in
013like the shows and she's actually like the lead for this year's show Legally Blonde um and she was telling me that they're actually undergoing the super cool renovation where they're getting like electric fly Lines within in like the PAC um so that rather than the crew having to pull on wires they just click a button and things can drop down on the show and so they're kind of using that this year for um their show Legally Blonde and then uh last week was a try on musical Honor Society adoption so a lot of new changes a lot of cool stuff that is happening um and then this is a video so I like I said last time I wanted to really explore and kind of like look into like how do we spot like different
014clubs um and so I asked different Club leaders what they why their certain Club existed um in the students and community and what that kind of brought so this is a video that I created yeah [Music] and include others like building it away VCR ESU is to communicate and acknowledge ourselves in our black students at Stevenson or two persons who need a place for Hope safely comfortability and community foreign [Music] there was one word that was said like repeatedly it was like the most said word throughout the video does anyone have any guesses Wellness almost was like it was there but Community yes Community was like the most said word in this video and that wasn't like me like being like okay guys mentioned Community they like in their like why is our club exists
015in the Stevenson Community they mentioned that their Club Fosters a community for their certain goal and I think that like what that speaks volume to is that like say all these Club leaders understand the reason that their Club here is it's like it maintains this equilibrium at in our Stevenson environment where it's like each one has its own role each one has its own like kind of supporting sit like that way in like bringing about the diverse perspectives and activities that happened here and I think that goes to show that like each one has its own role here and they're each fostering their own tiny little Community within their own club so really really interesting um to like just learn from these Club leaders [Music] and then like this is just another Cubs Club Spotlight
016so I was talking to some other club leaders and so some of the things that are happening um the startups and business technology Club um they are creating teams for their final Symposium pitch which is actually happening in March but they're like kind of working together now finding out what specific issue they want to solve and so like some ideas that I remember them talking about is like an Eco vendor vending machine where it's like you can recycle and you get credits for that you can then use for like new products and another one is like a kiosk for like um Stevenson like Mexican rice bowl weeks and pasta and mac and cheese weeks where you can like order on a kiosk that like reduces like like lunch lines so those are all the different
017types of ideas that they're thinking about um so that's really really cool and then our leading feminism Club is also doing some very very interesting discussion um next this week actually so they're planning a discussion about how the recent Barbie movie relates to feminism and kind of how that Sparks new discussions about gender norms and societal expectations and so um I think that's a very very cool take on like kind of feminism and um kind of bringing about and highlighting that conversation but from this like new perspective of the Barbie movie which everyone is crazed about and then um our Asian American Student Association is also um they how the Culver's um custard fundraiser last week to support funds for um Maui and missed its natural disasters and wildfires that are taking place there so
018um supporting their Community just even Beyond you know this content so a lot of great stuff happening in Stevenson and I'm super glad that I got time this month [Applause] oh yeah your video is great thank you the community that was yeah thank you for pointing that out to us yeah no thank you all right great job do we have any visitors statements and I think we are on to our ambassador yes all right well tonight we begin um with Ambassador Awards and this is always the very best part of our meeting uh the opportunity to honor some of our students and the Board of Education really only gives out um a small number of awards one of them is the ambassador Awards and it recognizes students who achieve at the very top either athletically
019at the state level or nationally with the first place finish or academically at the very top um of the act or sat um achievement test so students who get a perfect score in either the act and sat are recognized and tonight we have the opportunity to recognize students in both the act and sat so yeah absolutely amazing um our board meetings generally uh have a a level of decorum that we expect and observe but tonight Mr gobble is enthusiastically just wanted to make clear that normally Mr gobble looks very nice [Music] get any out here so you can pass them out so I am so excited to have the opportunity to recognize if you've not had Ambassador awards for a few months and we always get a it's such a kick to recognize you um
020we'll invite you to come up there'll be plenty of chances for pictures so moms and dads you need to take a picture we'll do that so we have two groups today the this group we have two students who earned a perfect score on the SAT test perfect score 1600 just just amazing a perfect score on the SAT so first I'd like to invite up Grace Murray [Applause] Grace just kind of hang out I'm just thinking too bad words hang out and I also have uh Ethan Zhang here I assume okay all right Lord we have any questions for Grace all right so amazing um amazing achievement here stay right there um we also have two five students who earned a perfect score on the ACT over uh at the end of the spring or over
021the summer so uh first we have Megan at Dixit oh boy [Laughter] all right you don't have to sit here and Dan come on up Aaron thank you next up Audrey Hong foreign [Music] why are you all seniors one senior you're a senior okay and what are your plans for the coming year after you leave us at Stevenson do you know yet it's early rush [Laughter] so when you left the test did you feel like oh I know Asis I did really well did you feel good about it or any sense that you did so well there's probably like a few questions where I was like running over in my head but mostly I was just like um tired and I was like I'm just hoping you know well imagine how you do if you
022weren't tired [Laughter] had you taken the testimony of times or was this like the this was like but I think this one went the best it is and Troy how many people get a 16 in a um a perfect score in the S18 a perfect gun the ACT it's it's like in in the whole state of Illinois it's hundreds of kids like 200 total for all the 900 school districts all the 900 school districts we've got seven of them in one one season not even one year right because congratulations it's a great accomplishment and we're all very proud thank you and thank you everybody this uh this would be that moment of the meeting where um we would be totally understanding if you decided you wanted to find your way out um you're welcome to
023stay for the rest of the meeting but we'll take a nice 20-second pause to let you thank you all for being here congratulations thank you guys so you'll get to come back again Steve you asked the question did they know that they got all the questions right when I took the act I knew I got almost all the questions it's just a reverse opposite day whatever you felt they felt yeah thank you okay oh you got your name right yeah that was two points yes two points no more bubbles all right well if that was the best part of the meeting this is always the second best part of me so um how do you follow that right but we are excited uh to resume our curriculum team presentations we usually take June July and
024oh that's a great picture of the team um June July and August off uh and tonight we are excited to have uh our psychology team presenting uh on their social emotional learning experiences and so Brad I'll let you introduce your team is that right yes yes yes coming by the way um it's exciting for me to have our psychology teams here we've combined AP Psychology and our College Prep psychology because that ends up representing about half of every graduating class between the two programs that we have the EP Psych is our largest elected in social studies so we're helping some of these seniors at least since the ticket is a senior year get to that perfect sat I guess so that um a solid grounding in a variety of areas but this is a team
025that for many years as our SEO coordinator now knows has been integrating a lot of SEL I mean since it's onset okay not really talk about wellness and development of children and how adults behave in society and hopefully effective and effective ways so we learn good and the bad through this program today we're going to talk about some of the ways with our SEO work that we've made more explicit the valuing your subject belonging and and of course self-awareness I'm introduced very quickly since I am here to let the stars shine Caroline Shoop Nancy Fenton team leader of uh I'm sorry team leader of college prep Caroline team leader at JP Nancy second leverbrook Sarah goodiers for master as well and and Pierce um I would let you all take it from here okay thank
026you we wanted to start with the portrait of a graduate which I'm sure you're all familiar with it's definitely something that like we just love we're so proud of this that we talk about this with our students like we thought about like what's a portrait of a psychology student what do we want them and how does that tie to the broader mission so our course has a lot of SEO embedded in it and we want to take it through the whole course but help them build a growth mindset build grits which psychologists call the combination of passion and perseverance and it's a skill so you shouldn't expect to say the same and we all need to keep growing so this is a snapshot of our psychology student voice survey data and we still have room
027for growth um and we decided to focus on valuing of subjects and classroom belonging so with valuing of subjects this is just kind of some longitudinal data but we're going to start kind of explicitly discussing it so we created a series of slides like a slide deck that we can put individual slides in in every unit to show you specifically show students how this course and this particular content applies to computer science and applies to engineering even it applies to certainly medicine careers and law education marketing business this is a specific question so how often do you use ideas from this class in your daily life and as Caroline is going to talk about we switched our order around and we decided to start off the year with memory um because that one they're definitely
028going to use in their daily life right the material that we're going to use in that course and again this is just kind of an overview of some of our units and the specific uh connections they have to their other classes to their future careers and to um the portrait of a psychology student portrait of a Stevenson grad that we want that commitment to self to others thank you Sarah as the coach on the panel thank you uh so thank you for all your supportive girls fight football I can put that Shameless plug in there and it's been an active blast to be a part of that program so far um but one of the ways uh that Nancy actually brought this to us as something to kind of talk over with parents at um
029parent nights and to talk with our students because oftentimes they divide the skills that they're learning outside of the classroom and the ones inside the classroom is different and what this slide does is just kind of brings together for them very explicit connections you know when you are an athlete you are not just showing up to the game right there are countless mindless practices and repetitions that you are doing there is very purposeful skill building there's very purposeful thought process of what am I doing and then challenging myself right within a drill or within scrimmages or within competitions to ultimately get to the goal at the end of the season and our athletes see that but then those athletes go into the classroom where our performers in the music realm going to the classroom are
030actors going to the classroom and they don't see that skill connection and so what this does is kind of bring together that idea that as an effective athlete and you could put any other type of performance-based skill in here they need to do those same things in the classroom right so even just something like the the third piece down of the effective athlete viewing videos of themselves seeing their mistakes making corrections to technique that's a no-brainer for any athlete we're breaking down film all the time on them but then when you're in the classroom they don't see their formatives in the same way that we're putting them in front of our formative we want you to make mistakes we want you to push yourself this isn't a sticky grade so now can we look at
031that and then I get better how can I become a better student and what can I correct to continue to grow just a one of the ways that we're kind of showing them through a practical process in the classroom this value new subject so I'm going to talk a little bit more uh explicitly about our memory unit as Nancy mentioned we decided to move our memory unit and teach it first this year mostly because this is where we do teach science strategies that will allow students to spend the limited amount of time that they have because they are very busy to its greatest benefit so this is not only going to be helpful for them for the remainder of this year in EP psychology but also in their other classes as well we wanted to
032get a baseline assessment of the methods that students are already using as they are reading through their text as they're completing formative Assessments in class and as they're reviewing for the assessments at the end of each unit so we gave them a reflection of study habit survey so we administered this to all of our students in both AP and College Prep psychology just to get a sense of where we were starting and the nice thing about that is that we were able to use the student data to create new materials to facilitate really valuable discussions in the classroom so I'll just talk specifically about one thing that we noticed in the data and that is that some of our students do seem to be at least some of the time relying on cramming as a
033study strategy and some of that might be a necessity of time but we also wanted to introduce to them to this idea that when you distribute your practice when you space your studying out over multiple sessions multiple subsequent days what we find in the research is that leads to better long-term retention of the material so that when they go to access that later on on a final exam on an AP exam or just in life they would have an easier time retrieving that information if this was their study strategy and so we wanted to tie this to the SEL core competency of self-management in a really intentional way so we created a calendar we gave it to each one of them and said okay here's when your readings are due here's when the assessment will
034be we want you to start by filling in all the things that you have going on outside of class you know fill in when you have practice when you have various extracurricular activities I ask them to plan in some time for leisure to see your friends to have hobbies spend time with your family but then I asked them to find pockets of time in those couple of weeks where they could pull out their packet or jump on Quizlet for 10 15 minutes um and can work on that strategy of space learning and what we find is that not every student necessarily follows through on their plan but I I will say even the students that didn't said that they plan to utilize this strategy in future units because they saw that it worked for their
035friends and their peers so thank you all right uh another question that we asked our students was relating to how well they're actually paying attention to these source of instruction as opposed to their iPad their phone the person walking by in the hall the person sitting next to them uh and we would have loved to have seen a hundred percent of our students in the orange but um less than 50 landed there and so we had some conversations and we realized that like if we were to ask any of our seniors what do you think you should be doing in class they would all know yeah we should be totally focused in on our instructional source so clearly there's a gap right between what they know they should be doing and what they're actually doing
036and so we decided to try to do a new demonstration to help them just see like how much uh switching back and forth between what you're paying attention to can actually really do them a disservice and so we did a demonstration um and it could be done in quite a few ways but if we were to have students and we did this they partnered up and we timed them doing three different tasks first task we asked them to count from 1 through 26 as quickly as they could second task also pretty easy we asked them to go through the alphabet A through Z as quickly as they could then our third task we ask students to alternate back and forth so 1A 2B 3C and so on and that third task for them was far
037more challenging so the results right they don't shock anyone students are really easily able to do the first two tasks quickly they don't make any mistakes but there's so much laughter in the classroom when they're trying to alternate back and forth between these two tasks and then this sets up a really nice conversation that we can have with our students because we can say to them like we know in your real life you're not counting one through 26 or doing the alphabet so like what would those tests be and then it's really easy for them to say oh the one through 26 that's like when we're working on our formative and a through z is maybe if we're texting our friends in between something that we're supposed to be doing and then we can just
038make the point to them that like if you are simply to focus in and on one task at a time and do it well not only would you get through more but you would be so much more efficient and then our hope is that they end up taking what we do in that little demo right into our class throughout their other classes and and moving forward and so what we're really trying to do as we're going through as Nancy said in the very beginning of this we really want students to understand the value of what we're doing in our classes of psychology how it shapes their lives outside of the classroom as well and so to get from the valley enough subject all the way through to self-management we have a few different tasks that
039we go through um we work on coaching with our students and so Caroline mentioned a couple of the ways that we're doing that in our very first unit right we're going through here's how you set up your calendar here's how to plan in for all of your different activities and here's some study strategies in terms of spacing out the work that you're doing uh we we do a lot of fun Demos in Psych and we're really making now an extra conscious effort that they understand like yes it was fun but how does it tie into the bigger picture and so when we do that demo of task switching that's one of the types of things that we are going through and debriefing and then finally and in a little bit Sarah's going to talk through
040the Section about feedback and reflection but we make a really big effort in all of our units to build in time to give students feedback to get feedback from students on what should be different in the future and also give them time to reflect on what has worked well for them and what are some changes that they could make moving forward as they continue on in the class so that ideally right they land with these really strong self-management skills they build their self advocacy to do really well not only in our classes right but throughout the rest of their classes and theater in the rest of their life outside of Stevenson too so we have a post-test survey and really asking these students after this unit you know what did you actually utilize what was
041helpful to you so giving them an opportunity to reflect on and think about you know what what was useful and maybe what do I want to carry on to my other classes and so I think what's really encouraging here from the data is that they were using these things right like it's the first time they're seeing them but we're seeing good encoding strategies it's not passive these are purposeful and they're thoughtful in what they're encoding storage strategies right how am I actually keeping these things and able to go back to retrieve them and then into our retrieval strategies right these ideas of well I'm using the things that are more long-term they're going to keep this stuff sticking for a longer amount of time for my ability to then pull back right in my own
042life and then for these AP students in particular the reality that their AP test is in the spring right so am I going to be able to then not only get these memory devices back but can I use these for helping myself throughout the semester throughout the year and then we had some uh just student voice opportunities right where they weren't just picking um up from all the different options they were actually writing things down uh that they did and I think that this is really great just showing especially from the AP side the way that we're seeing some of those same athlete models follow here as well as seeing some of these explicitly taught components so we had the homework planner right that Caroline was talking about bringing him through that step by step
043thinking about more than just their actual here's what I have to read tonight and here's when the test is we see things like learn from mistakes I think that that's such a valuable part of being a learner but to get to see seniors in high school already learning that is amazing and we hope that they can continue to do that I like talking to others that's really valuable when they're not just on their iPads or phones they're actually having conversations within class and then the really really powerful stuff of that self-reference effect connecting it back to themselves which is the valuing of subjects that we're trying to get to at the end of the day okay so kind of our last step um in moving forward is the other place besides volume subject that we
044wanted to look at was classroom belonging and while 89 yes is wonderful um we want to keep building on that um and so the one that we kind of zoned in on this idea of improving peer-to-peer relationships um and making sure that students in our classrooms believe that they matter within the larger community of our classroom um and so making sure how do we build in these different ways that the kids can connect to each other except who they are except who each other are as Learners as people um and to build that resilience and empathy and so our course is we are very lucky to teach it because our job is literally to teach that acronym of care both for themselves and for others and that's what I say on parent teacher and I
045think I'm so fortunate to teach a class that like really matters for like developing human beings um and so that's what we want the kids to also realize that that being kind of in this class that they're fortunate um and to use that opportunity to get to know people especially with seniors is they're going to be leaving the bubble of Stevenson and really being with people we're very very different um than they are and so this can hopefully um you know start to to help them build that so one of the things we do um one of our units focuses in on the development of language and so we give a survey this is one kind of smaller one from last year but just asking students how many languages they speak um and just that
046data in and of itself is pretty fascinating and again a small subject uh you know size but uh looking at just the variety of them and then we have here which ones um and we show our students this it's not just like for fun for us to collect because we think it's the same which it is also um but to like then put this back on the screen for the kids to see um and people are shocked and it opens up a whole conversation right oh really I speak that also I had no idea um last year I did it period by period so it was small for them to see oh somebody in this anywhere from 22 to 28 person classroom um speaks the same right language that I do or I didn't realize
047somebody else did um and so this is one purposeful way that we try to build um that community and peer-to-peer relationships um and so that's really what we're going to focus on the rest of this school year um we'll incorporate all the valuing of subject um throughout but then also trying to be really purposeful um about including like in some of our tests um having more inclusive language which I know some of us have started to do and in our formative changing the names of the of the examples of the people instead of just saying Dan and Joe did this of incorporating different cultural names um into our test informatives that are more reflective of the Stevenson Community um and continuing on from there that was really powerful and it worked really well when Kosh
048was talking about that like when he was talking I was like cool okay so you know we are hopefully as a school really uh developing that and that was we had no idea that they did that I don't think we noticed about the the back to school night which is awesome um and so this really kind of played right into that stuff um with that thank you so much for listening to us awesome for questions you know if I didn't feel dumb after the act and sat five languages now thanks thanks but I I do have a question so that slide that um you had the valuing of subject that led to self-management um yeah could you can you just I I just this was fascinating to me can you just kind of talk through
049like wow and why you saw the are you suggesting here that that this leads to self-management I guess I was just curious like this is an interesting kind of take on value of subject valuing of subject and why we would place an emphasis on that I just thought this was really cool can you yeah can you elaborate on this a little bit I think it's that idea of just kind of looking at the data what is the data giving us what everywhere that they're going so starting there and then saying how do we take that to then okay yes we want value in subjects but then how do we move that to a manageable skill within the SEL framework and so by bringing them through kind of those step-by-step components where they are reflecting and
050they're having to do those different skills throughout for themselves and for their peers that's getting them to the point that when they leave us they might not be realizing they're doing self-management right now right but now they're getting those skills that we're coaching them on that then are going to be like oh and psych I did this and now I can self-manage myself in college I can self-manage myself in this job of I have a billion things going on how do I now like control the narrative to get myself to where I need to go and the things that I do care about and the people that I care about and the experiences that I care about so I think that's kind of the flow that we're seeing in envisioning all right got it sorry
051it took me a minute and you let him in on the trick like hey we've been trying to teach you thank you great because you're doing so like do you tell the kids that at the end like we've really been working on self-management this whole time haha the checking them throughout psychology yes of course yeah I will say I have to stick up for them because that is the number one comment we will get from our students is whenever they come in to do any demo it's like what is the real reason behind um so your results of your surveys phenomenal I mean those percentages put you in the 99.9th percentile I'm sure in each of those but I'm not I don't follow or didn't follow were those results before or after you did the
052things that you've described to us and you know how those I'm sorry that's like are this data yeah this is before we've done like the intentional memory unit so this was from last spring data okay um and so now we've implemented more so more of these strategies we do a lot of these inherently like our job and our course allows us to be incorporating SEL consistently um throughout and building these skills uh but we took it upon ourselves to kind of dig deeper into the the two of our lower achieving standards um to try to continue to build so we haven't gotten recent data since doing it so the things that you were describing your techniques are all in response to this state and then when you get the next you'll be able to tell
053what the impact is yeah it's great obviously the other thing I was going to mention and I know there's some people in the room they're gonna hit me so I'm glad I'm sitting far away from you um the slide that you end with the athlete versus I'll look at the coaches I say this um we had a board member who left the board who gave us books to read all the time and Merv Roberts gave us what was the book on delivery practice and the the Liberty was it called but his whole point in the point of the book which I read and it's great is that we don't really focus on the fact that we need to be intentional about the practice that we are doing and the book Builds on all sorts of
054examples and this just lays it right out there in the fact that athletes just inherently delay them it's like athletes musicians performers yeah yeah the way to overcome the forgetting curve college is over learning if you keep practicing it's also the way to overcome nervousness so I'll say the students well if you're an orchestra or a band or or the first time you do the play or the routine correctly does your coach say okay and they're like no you keep practicing it so that when you're there when you have that nerves of Performing that's how you overcome that and it's no different than nerves on a test or a test take you can still a Performance Event it's no it's the same physiological reaction that stage fright would be and the same treatment which is
055preparation could you possibly send Eric that slide so that he could share it because I may or may not have someone in my life my parents were taking photos I am happy to share it the example that that I like to give which I never thought of is for those in the room that golf many of us who think we golf many of us will go to a driving range and we'll bang out golf balls okay and I was with my golf instructor and he asked me if before each call I hit do I sit and think about where I'm hitting it what technique I'm trying to use as I get what is the purpose of the shot that I'm making at that point that I'm practicing which I never I go and I'd bang
056alcohol um and so you can it's to your point it just applies in all aspects of life if you stop and it's fancy I was curious with all of the SEL work that's being done throughout the school and all the subjects and do you find students come in and make connections not tricking them but are they saying well this happened in math and that's psychology and they're you know do they see that they're sort of that this is all being integrated everywhere they go okay cool they can recognize that but we learned something and they're like oh or they'll come back and be like Oh yesterday and in this class we just did this and I was like oh I know this and they like totally they like it's light bulb moments for them psychology
057is it's a focus of Hub science so when they collect the data across referencing across disciplines psychology is always there so they're going to see our class in their econ class and their anatomy class and their business class it's too much off the top of my law child development like there's so much overlap like valuing of subject should be our top one I mean it's it's a subject it's a class where they can see immediate use sometimes like you don't see the benefit for a few years sure like you started learning a language right you don't really get good at it you don't get the benefits for a few years please amazing thank you so much this is really really good I appreciate it thanks Laurie thank you um okay oh okay okay okay so
058moving right along um we next item is approval of our 2023-24 goals practice initiatives uh you have seen this uh information um previously uh in terms of our gpis but what you have uh tonight linked is just an absolutely Herculean task by Mark putting together all of the action steps uh around our gpis so Mark let out a process with the administrative team to put together all this information so thank you Mark we appreciate that there's a lot of work that went into here um and obviously you know there's very specific action steps that different divisions are going to be taking and then once we well we've already started doing the work but we'll approve it tonight and then throughout the year the admin team members will be leading this workout and then as a
059reminder um we'll be providing you with a summary of all of this work in the end of your report I'm not sure if 130 pages constitutes a summary but there'll be a an end of year report that'll have all of the uh work that's been done so tonight we're presenting to you the approve or the gpis for the 2023 school year for your approval can I have a motion to approve so move second yeah Mark um thank you as well that it was I think this was a little different than what we've seen in previous years it's nice to be able to kind of put what are people doing we we've read you know all of these gpis for a long time but just to break it out like that so I'm sure it was
060time consuming but I I appreciate it any other questions okay it's a Voice vote so all in favor opposed okay next item is uh recommendation for approving our curriculum Pro let me repeat next item is a recommendation to approve our curriculum proposals for the 2024-25 school year um just as a reminder you saw these as letters of intent uh in April and May you saw them last month as curriculum proposals as a first reading and then tonight we're presenting them to your for your approval and just as a reminder um after you approve these tonight if you choose to do so they will go to Jamie and Jamie's team prepares the course book and that will be ready for our no homework night and let's talk about your future evening in October and then course
061selection which starts in December so the it's kind of a snowballing and if you can imagine in about six weeks we'll already start planning for next school year which is kind of so tonight we're bringing our course proposal recommendations to you for next school year I get a motion to approve so moved second question I had one question mark in the um AP pre-calc there's it's designated out as path a and path B is it the same class and we're just differentiate or are they offering two different AP pre-calcs that go into two different Pathways so one establishes one two AP see okay so the the AP exam is the same for both classes but the one that goes into BC there's actually two extra units of study that are important if you're going to
062get through all of the work because the BC class actually covers two calculus courses if you take that test so there's a little bit of pre-work you need to do before you get into BC so they they both cover the same amount of material the one pathway covers more at the end but both AP tests are the same an AP doesn't even yeah AP doesn't even identify them as different courses right that's uh that's an internal that's what I was okay yeah does that help yep thank you any other questions okay Terry can you please sure Ben Joseph um no I carry seven to nothing okay and then tonight we have um for your approval our board policy updates uh that we shared last month um and uh no changes since that last month but
063tonight we'll present them to you for your approval create a motion to approve so move second any questions and then the only um just a couple quick thoughts uh the first is most of the items are kind of wordsmithing um but policy 230 um two colon 230 was an update to public participation um guidelines and I think what we wanted to do was clarify our hopes and expectations for members of the public who were giving public comment and writing into policy Our Hope and expectation that folks meet a certain time limit but also even more importantly to keep their comments relevant and directed to the business of the school so in the past we've seen comments kind of go sideways our hope is that we keep it focused on the work of the board in
064the school so that is the more substantive policy update that's included correct any other question I'm sorry I did it uh just out of curiosity um and Eric is probably the top how do they conduct I saw that EHR employment history review uh I was just curious how they do that that employment history review like how's that done when you guys do that are you what policy number was that so it's it's referenced in a couple of them I just was this has nothing I'm just curious well you could be I think this is you talking about oh you're being thoughtful yeah so we use a um we actually subscribed Kim did a great job of um help not only helping write the law but implement the uh procedures that we need to follow to
065do that and we ended up teaming with a company called verified and what's nice is that if they handle all of the communications and then we get basically a dashboard if you will and it's like we could see Sean submitted you know this this and this or you know it hasn't been submitted in what's interesting about the laws we it's very specific we have to make an attempt to find out about their background and not actually get everybody's responses if that whatsoever but um we use a company and what what we found out is that there are many other school districts you know through Kim and her organizations that um have signed on as well and because everybody is the amount the amount of energy to implement this is significant so the fact that a
066company has realized this taken on that and has other school districts and employers people like Sodexo people like first student signing in on this just makes it that much easier for us and then all we have to do is contact um you know first student and say we want the results if somebody pops that's going to be serving our district does that answer the question absolutely sorry uh no I really appreciate it I did not know all the background thank you yeah of course okay all in favor okay um next item is uh Personnel all of which is included in the consent agenda but happy to answer any questions if you have any kind of a usual assortment of hirings and resignations um yep so um we will not need an executive session to following
067the meeting uh and that takes us to the business section Sean approval of banking services yeah um we we've brought this the board before the first reading several months ago putting together the uh the request for proposal um it was a little bit more intense than we thought but once we got through it we did have four different banks submit an application to handle our services we narrowed the list down to three we try to narrow it down to just two but we did find three and um interviewed each of the parties how we had a list of questions went through all of them and tried to get a feel of who's going to beat the best meet the needs of the district and you know when we're talking about like what those needs are
068we're talking about um return our investment we're talking about collateralization amounts we're talking about when is the cutoff date for setting an ACH or a payroll and how you know if something's slow how quickly can we respond um and at the end of the day they all offered similar services but what we came down with is we think that the best fit for Stevenson is in fact Libertyville Bank and Trust which is a Wind Trust Company Our Community Bank and so at the end of the day we are making a recommendation to the board of education to approve a new banking agreement with Libertyville Bank interest company which is a Wind Trust Community Bank so moved second do we it is curious about this do we really use an armored car service often yep we
069have them come every week so even though we are a large majority of our transactions are in fact credit card or Patriot dollar cards we still have a need for cash through uh sexo um and you know I don't want to give out specific numbers but it's enough yeah yeah no it's enough that we need an armored car service yeah I would imagine was that just a function of scale correct that we're doing cash flows that makes sense okay yeah and in getting enough coins singles and fives as things go on so any other questions okay Jerry could you please pull for it certainly gorson hi wounds I tired I fast no all right so hi carries seven to nothing excellent thank you um the next uh item I have for your approval tonight uh
070is the second reading of our copier uh contract this is a smaller batch of copiers but just to refresh everybody's memory um we have uh probably about seven years ago maybe even longer we were a we had a lot of not only multi-function devices but individualized printers and we went through a whole process of trying to eliminate um just a printer and going with more with essentially located multi-function devices and it and it's helped reduce the amount of copies that we end but it's also saving us money in those multi-function devices often are a lot cheaper to operate than a printer if you will on a per page process so we do have some copiers that are coming off of contract and so we have six machines that we are looking to replace with only
071three so tonight we are asking the Board of Education to approve our Canon copier contract at a cost not to exceed 87 420 as presented and if I could just make one last final note um we have all of our business was with two vendors image Tech and Canon and we always get quotes from both of them and they kind of each have their own little niche and so that kind of keeps our cost um at Market if you will um and but also the continuity of not having three or four different service funders having to come into the building to service The copier is on a regular basis because these are machines that do produce a lot of copies that do need to have maintenance someone second was that done Steve no excuse me
072all right any questions for Sean um Tire hi Ross all right no aye videos hi so hi Corson hi moons aye curious okay and next item is a recommendation to approve an update to our intergovernmental agreement with the foundation um the last time that um we've updated this agreement was in 2018 and a lot has actually changed since then um the foundation has gone through some significant changes uh not only in leadership but generally speaking in practices and procedures so uh the update to the intergovernmental agreement really just kind of codifies how the foundation currently works there's nothing in here that is new or significantly different from our current practice but in talking with Linda we just wanted to make sure that we actually had this now articulated in the intergovernmental agreement so although there's
073one section there that looks like it's pretty significant it actually is just um you know really just kind of codifying what we're already doing so the foundation board is approving this agreement this month and we're asking you to do the same please get a motion so much second question I have this is silly but um we were looking at the banking stuff for us did they follow like is everything sort of linked or do they have their own separate if we change Banks do they change Banks and our accounts are kind of late like how how deep does that go that's a great question um they have not made a decision on their banking at this point in time they often will follow in a lot of our things at this time we chose not
074to include them in the RFP um if they have a discussion want to choose to change their bank so it's up to them it's not really up to them and it's not required okay I think the only requirement in their bylaws is that the assistant superintendent position and the superintendent positions serve on their board of directors any other questions okay Terry could you please pull the board certainly Frost aye no aye and Joseph aye ciao hi Corson bye Tire hi Moon's eye it's one final thing on the foundation um I want to thank uh Grace for her service uh the foundation we appreciate all that you've done and then just as a side note Amy is stepping up into the role of the board a representative to the foundation so thank you to you both
075we appreciate it um and it's a good group and but it's a lot of fun and uh yeah and they're doing really good work so yeah and I've been talking to Noelle Moore their president prior to stepping onto their board about how can we kind of all get to know each other a little bit better so we will continue to look for opportunities to invite everybody to join them or to to kind of integrate so I do have that sorry Friday night I think it's the homecoming game they will have a tent yes so a little concerned it's like before it's up to over 400 participants that are coming um this year Friday night we are giving tours to over a hundred people on Saturday morning wow wow so I'm training you're training people to
076give those tours this is the um I'm on a town this weekend but this weekend is Hall of Fame Fitness and if you can uh it's unbelievably moving because all the inductees if you have not been to one of these the inductees um give presentations and speeches about their experiences and it's all of the tearjerker it's just really forget if you can and you can go yeah it is a nice it's really a good event um I do have a consent in jail item and a consent agenda I will try that again and a first rating the first reading is a contract renewal um with Siemens if you recall Siemens currently animals are building automation system they help us with our fire alarm system and our door access system so this particular contract has to
077do with the software upgrades the troubleshooting and what I tend to call fix and repair that of everything that's associated with our with decigo which is our building automation system so we'll have more information some comparisons Alternatives in the mid meeting memo as we finalize that contract if you will and then every year the board is asked to improve the administrator and teacher salary benefits report and you can see there's a variety of different categories that are required by the State Board of Education um so um we are seeking your approval tonight on the consent agenda is that as well so okay Sean can I ask a question about the foia request you and I didn't get a chance to talk about this yes from well it seems like two very unrelated um asks one
078about the floor plans yeah that makes me very nervous um why somebody would be interested in that it definitely seems to me security safety wonderment but then also in the same foia support and faculty base salary for the years was that for each employee or for the contract for that one was for the just for the contract or they wanted each employee's base salary we give them your support and faculty okay so that did not take you I guess I was worried about how much time that was going to be to put that together no we responded how we traditionally do where that information is ready I don't know what perfect okay and the floor plan one was an interesting one um uh pni did contact our legal representation for that very reason Eric yep
079um and it was uh just a very simple response that we got them yeah we're not providing them we're big I mean yeah it's a big floor plan is that what you said I guess I'm just curious why what was the yeah it's not an exception list I guess I was curious why why you know but he didn't there was no contact information other than the email which they typically don't respond to got it okay we actually like to call and release ask what specifically they're looking for yeah yeah so you said it is or it is not an exception it is I think for that very reason we assumed that but we weren't 100 sure so we that makes sense I'm glad thank you who is this Dr Jeff we know who he is
080repeat requester sure all right so could I get a motion to approve the consent agenda second um Terry could you please pull the board oh anybody have any questions approved okay just a couple items tonight for me um the first is I just wanted to uh note that we had two kind of unfortunate incidents happened last week regarding Safety and Security um and so you probably saw that we sent out two Communications uh one last Monday one last Tuesday um I don't I don't want to minimize the concern that those Communications cause but by the same token um between Troy and I we can just share with you that um after investigating both of these incidents Troy I think it's fair to say that it was very clear that neither of them were a real
081threat um the the student who brought a essentially a toy gun a BB gun a soft gun school um uh didn't want his parents to know that he ordered it on Amazon so I thought it would be a better choice to bring it into the school building and uh the student uh whom posted on Tick Tock or whatever it was Instagram about the bomb threat at the school did it purely as a as a joke it wasn't even his phone it was his friend's phone so it just it was one of those situations where you know adolescent brains making really bad choices but I think we felt after we investigated it that they weren't you know real threats per se and it's but scary for someone who read those emails they don't want to minimize
082them but you know you know in the Continuum of you know um you know severity of threat we felt like after investigating that they weren't threats that were eminent um just unfortunate really bad choices that kids made and ended up suffering some pretty significant consequences not only by the school but by law enforcement as well so really unfortunate I don't know Trey anything else is that a fair summary it was a very first summer so he was one of those students a special needs student so there's some factors yeah lots of different issues so so we're doing the best we can and you know unfortunately we're not the only school to have kids making some really bad choices um I think again our psych team may have been able to tell us more but you
083know adolescent brains aren't fully developed and so you're seeing at different schools in the area different instances of swatting or kids calling in different threats um and by the same token what makes it difficult is that there are some very real and significant and scary incidents happening in schools in the area you know we're having kids you know who are being shot frankly um and so that that's what makes all of this very difficult I think for us to manage you know our way through so our feeling has been um you know that we're going to do everything we can to over communicate and just try to be sure that we're letting people know what's going on so I appreciated the alacrity around the investigations and you communicating that even though these weren't ultimately serious
084threats they were taken seriously I think that is so important for everyone to understand yeah yeah we have to I mean yeah yeah you can't just yeah can't dismissal but Troy and Eric Ramos you know and his team and the teens you know everybody does a good job of kind of digging in and literally stopping everything you know at eight o'clock nine o'clock at night and diving in so it's just it's frustrating you know but we'll continue to do it um other items uh just kind of some random things here we provided you as we do every year at this time with an evaluation summary um of the data from the 2022-23 school year um there was an interesting article about Dei initiatives we had a fantastic breakfast this morning Troy for those who Excel
085you want to give a little overview of that that was very cool yeah we actually it was it was wonderful um especially the math department specifically we I think you can probably see the names of the awardees on the on the list there but every year for those of you that are new state of Illinois allows us to nominate um different employees from around the school support Personnel new teacher award teacher of the year academic team that we're proud of and so um we have always taken this very seriously as a matter of fact we'll take two or three days out of admin team to really discuss who we want to nominate and why what they've done out has been important so it's important for us and we brought them together this morning to celebrate
086and also give them an assignment because at the end of it they have to write a little essay about themselves and what they've done well and so this morning one of the early Educators Kristin coz from our math department and she probably had 20 to 25 Math teachers who showed up early this morning to celebrate with her we also celebrating the little the little Pates little page team they are incredible and as I said today hundreds of the faculty and staff that are here over the last 25 years have had their kids go through that program and the chance they get to recognize them and celebrate with them today was just a lot of fun and probably the coolest thing was they brought some of the little the little guys they were eating Donuts so
087it was absolutely and yeah yeah I got them all sugared up and then sent them back yeah in their pajamas they were all their pajamas too uh so we we it was it's really a great great opportunity to celebrate with them and you'll get to see them all in March April what are we going to have we'll have a reception with that crowd May probably maybe yeah so the the nominations are due a little bit earlier than there in the past but it's kind of a fun way to start the school year too to be able to celebrate some folks so it used to be at the end of the year and people were like oh yeah um also want to just I know you know this information but uh just wanted to note that
088U.S news and World Report um identified Stevenson High School as one of the very best in the country as was presented earlier with such a nice recognition from the representatives uh but also you know we take pride in the fact that for the fourth year in a row you're the number one open enrollment school in the state of Illinois so kudos to all of our faculty and staff and students for making that happen um and then also included there is a summary of what's happening at the ELC things are just getting going now that we had a board meeting last week not a lot happening um yet um a couple weeks ago we had a board meeting yeah um but uh we'll keep providing those summaries each month um Pio works with uh Megan and
089her staff over there to pull all that information together so you can have a look at that and then we had a board dialogue tonight so thank you all for being a part of that taking a look at career Pathways here at Stevenson we'll have two two more board dialogues this year one in December one in April I believe and we'll focus on including students in those next time to make sure that you get an opportunity to interact with our kiddos so we're still trying to pull together what exactly those will look like Troy and Ted will work on that in the next couple months but we want to make sure you have an opportunity to talk to kids and then I know we mentioned this before but we are going to be moving that
090February board meeting to Tuesday February 20th and then do please remember on Monday October 2nd we'll have an executive session from seven to nine pm to discuss matters related to Safety and Security and that is all I have for tonight the um the couple of uh profiles oh yes thank you to p and Jamie for putting that together yeah it's very cool I'm sorry I scrolled right past that Rick thank you a promotion to return second all in favor