001I'm like what make sure there we go okay all right [Applause] please please join us to the flag of the United States yes Frost no here then Joseph here so here gorson moons and tire here do we have any correspondence no we didn't have anything and any visitor statements you have a segment okay we just asked to keep it to three minutes and um we don't usually take questions but if you do have a question or something that you want answered then we can arrange for a meeting later on to do that typically we don't we don't uh it's not a two-way conversation you make your statement and then either we'll address it later if it's on our agenda or if you would like an answer we will arrange for the right person to sit
002down well let's just how about make the statement and then we'll we'll um talk about it after but it's in the form the question the policy is I don't want to make a statement that I don't know whether it's true or not so that's why I want to ask your guys yeah well we'll follow up let's go ahead and ask it and then we will follow up with you you know I I want to be respectful that I don't know what you're okay yeah I appreciate that could you please state your name in the village Daniel vishni b-i-s-a-h-ny uh Buffalo Bill okay um uh one know does this uh School Board support uh teachers sharing uh their personal views on politics in the classroom um do you do you want to meet with Dr twadel
003or Mr gobble about that or both of them and um if you guys would be available and we made an appointment I don't know if that I don't know what your procedure is yeah absolutely that would be the procedure so we would welcome that is that something after the meeting that we can yeah and if you didn't want to stay you could just shoot one of us an email okay that was my only question okay great thank you thank you for the time of course um our Student Activities report Alex welcome all right hi everybody so today I'm just gonna be presenting on everything that went down since I last saw you guys and then up to this point so starting off with that academics recently the Juniors took the piece out I know this
004is a really stressful time for a lot of people you put myself in their shoes last year I was stressed out over this but it was really just a practice for them or a chance to earn the national scholarship or be qualified for it um which is kind of cool to see because my friends that took it last year along with myself um some of them were named a semifinalist within that qualifying test so that's just awesome to see that progress and that dedication towards trying to achieve the best academic level as possible and then in addition a lot of college stuff has been going down as all of you know that early decision early action deadline is coming up November 1st scary scary day but it's all gonna be okay because Stevenson has a
005lot of different resources and Personnel to help us through that process such as the info sessions held by the CCC just to CC staff in general helping us through that process by editing our essays looking over everything so it's just been really helpful through this journey and then also freshmen participating in scope meetings with their counselors just get a general gist of how high school is going to be laid out for them and to address any concerns that are maybe face it and then for more Club specific academic related activities Stevenson debate team competed at the icd-a-1 and a lot of them took home some top finishers so there's a lot of top three places a lot of Champions within that competition so that's just great to see people utilizing their passion in a competitive
006setting along with political action Club exploring um assimilation where they could either serve as trustees or military staffers within this specific event in Buffalo Grove Civics Forum uh so that's just a way to further explore their career Passions with different communities and different schools and then math team as well we are currently ranked first in the Liang which is awesome we have a lot of smart people at our school um but they also took a home of victory at the North Suburban Math League which was the first of the year so that's just awesome and then along with math team they also come participated and some service related activities as well utilizing that math so recently they held a really successful Carnival uh to support uh to assist kids with math so they had math
007associated with carnival games so you see darts not Corner uh some beanie boo thing in the right corner I I wasn't there I don't really know what that is but it is all math related and it was very successful a huge turnover so uh just great to see it's external Community getting involved estimate how many beats are in the Unicorn a thousands I still have like a million of those stored in my basement somewhere in a box but yeah I'm moving on to Athletics so the homecoming game was reset and a lot of people showed up if you haven't gone to a game before this was the chance to go it's a huge turnout you can see that a lot of people are on the fence right there just supporting our team we did take
008home a victory which is awesome to see on our homecoming day 14-0 against like Forest and we just had a lot of cheer and the last year is great to come together as a community as a school and unified with our friends with people we don't even know next to us just having fun and um senior night was also a very big thing to Federate those seniors participating in athletics over the past four years three years however long they participated in their sport we had boys soccer we had girls volleyball golf tennis swim and dive field hockey they all just got together and you know it's right there last year since then it's kind of sad but you know moving forward on a new chapter of her life so it's exciting as well then within
009the Arts we had a lot of fall Productions already take place so clue Alice Adventures in Wonderland was actually this past weekend I had a friend who played Queen of Hearts and was really excited to just you know scream off with your head just the entire performance yeah but they're really great performances um again great ways for students and students to just participate in their passion and showcase it for the rest of us to see and then there's a oh sorry for musical purposes there was the fall band and choir concert so again just to bring light to the community um while doing what they love and then homecoming itself so the dance was crazy I think we have the highest turnout we've ever had before 3 000 kids Mr gobble was saying we could
010have had made it a school day maybe a school day on a Saturday it was a great turnout we had a lot of fun everyone's just mashing away we're very close-knit community in that setting uh but just a great way to you know celebrate with your friends that's me and a group of my friends before when we took pictures and just got ready um so that was just a really fun experience and you know it's kind of it's kind of sad because it's our last homecoming for seniors so we really just got the opportunity to celebrate that and you know spend time together before we all move on but addition uh the homecoming dance there was a bunch of spirit activities to just promote that school spirit so we had a roller rink outside of
011the pool patio and then addition to different dress-up days so holiday day not right hand corner someone's dressed as Santa and funny sweater ah just go there uh just color Wars day um so yeah that was just a great way to bring all of us together and a special thank you to the PPA provided the roller oh yes and all that stuff kids had so much fun on roller skates so yes thank you to the PPA crowd for sure and then the NHS blood drive so that was also pretty recent too on October 7th um but it was in honor of Jake kinging he's a wrestler here at Stevenson with pediatric cancer and recently he had a surgery where he needed 28 units of blood and unfortunately today there's a blood shortage um so just
012having these having this Blood access is especially essential right now um so we were able to save approximately 200 lives 250 plus lives so that's just awesome um each student got to you know besides saving three lives they got to learn their blood type they got some snacks too to just stay awake not pass out um but yeah it was a really good service experience for those students along with having a meaningful impact to those people who need blood there's a shortage I was helping soldiers so I recently assisted bikers during the 500 gold star 500 Bike Race So providing them with water unloading trailers food Etc and they collaborated at the veterans of foreign war for the winter coat and Hoodie drive just collecting goods for veterans in need so that's the picture on
013the right at the bike race um you know just another example of our amazing students and community and the ways they what they do to help the community around them and then Isa so this past month has been diversity month I know the Freshman recently received a presentation about fire and the importance of um using certain language and stopping certain language when it comes to that and celebrating everyone's diversity um so Isa the Indian Student Association recently had their Garba so that's just to celebrate their Traditions as well come together and perform a special dance at school so that was just a great way um to you know participate in Traditions and come together as a community experiences so I asked four different people in four different clubs about a specific Club they participate in
014or lead and what they got out of that and some highlights from that as well so first person things are going really well we increased our membership from 30 people for my freshman year to 200 people a new record we're planning a lot of different activities such as shs hacks while also finding ways to utilize their passion to give back to the community um so just seeing a number shoot up from 30 to 200 is rewarding and shows that student like how much they have done to make that club grow and their impact on other people and spreading their passion to other people and then just for something fun every Thursday I bring friends to the club where we play table tennis for fun and take a break from school stressors it's a great outlet
015for me to relax for an hour while doing something I enjoy so again not everything is just about academics academics you have to find that balance as well and for the student it's table Thomas and that's an outlet for him to just de-stress and like many other students and students they have their own Outlet to de-stress so that's something you need to see they might not they might just be there to de-stress and I can't beat any of them they're very good yeah some of them compete as well so and then recently Taiwanese Culture Club opened up they've they had their first meeting ever these students worked really hard throughout sophomore year and Junior you're going to make this a reality um just to make sure that their culture um their culture was represented so
016this student said Taiwanese Culture Club has something we have been trying to establish since sophomore year and I'm really happy that the idea we had is finally becoming a reality so again just that work ethic that passion to work hard on something and like you said make it become a reality and it did and it was really successful they had a good meeting and then finally FTC is my favorite Club because I get to participate in a lot of specific service trips while being a part of a technic Community again that just emphasizes how close we are um as esteems the community and also our individual communities within yeah so yeah we're good thank you thank you I love the quotes ah thank you any questions if you wanted to cheer as your fan because
017I remember [Applause] thank you thank you she's gonna be right back I'll be back okay yep okay well um we are excited to uh have everybody here tonight I am assuming uh not Sean for your Pepsi contract but instead for the Ambassador Awards um and for those who um may or may not know we um Reserve Stevenson's highest award uh for student the ambassador award for students who um either win a state championship or score um you know a perfect score on the ECT or sat so kind of the highest levels of of achievement that students can um can be awarded either academically or co-curricularly so tonight we're very excited to recognize students in our HOSA uh club and uh our student in our AP program so Mr gobble yep take it away so uh
018we have a lot of people to recognize tonight and we're going to call them up one at a time and then we'll give you plenty of time for pictures so moms and dads if you're in the room when we're handing over we'll give you a moment to take that individual shot and then we're also going to bring everybody up and you'll get a chance to get some great group photos at the end I do want to recognize right off the bat we have someone who couldn't attend today but their their award is just so amazing that I think we need to spend some time to get in the public record we had a student who achieved a perfect score on an AP exam and some of you might be thinking like Fox kid gets five
019on their AP exam I don't mean she got five I mean she didn't miss any questions she got every single question right and that only happens to like 40 people in the entire country for all of the exams right this is incredibly rare she couldn't make it tonight uh the test was the two-dimensional art um a two-dimensional art class which is just incredible to imagine she had to create art and answer questions and that award would be for Abigail Zhang so we are we are thrilled she'll get her plaque and I wish she could be here tonight to celebrate but that one I think is absolutely amazing the second group that we're here to recognize we got like half the room filled out there host uh hosta is a club um that we have at
020school here that's I think the members 300 right I think there's like 300 folks that are involved in this club yeah that's uh yeah that's a high school in some cases right so uh that's pretty amazing we're gonna call you in one at a time you'll get the chance to get your award and we're going to start uh with reshma but a goal come on forward [Applause] stay right and then if you just want to move over to the edge we'll just start lining people up here yep so uh we have vika Eiffel okay uh Reedy Bank what [Applause] scene congratulations Emerald Dash Shar you Darrow [Applause] all right Joy Faye Abigail uh fresh setter akshaya ganji foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Applause] thank you congratulations [Applause] hmm Christina Moe Tricia mondal kashmi nagpal
021[Applause] arjunaire thank you so much Sarah narula foreign [Music] [Applause] something young [Applause] I love it when it gets so full that there's no space up here we're getting to a ward uh ratania subramanian Annie Thomas and Thomas [Applause] Murphy [Applause] chili [Applause] and last but not least the glue that holds this whole group together Coach Jill Littman [Applause] all right so in just a minute we're gonna have the board ask you guys a couple questions about what you've done but first we want you to squish in here we're gonna need some tall folks in the back we're gonna have to do a couple of rows to get you in we want to get a picture of everybody so just spread out yep we're gonna go that way first yep we're gonna so tall folks
022in the back give me like three rows here if we can pull that off okay big smiles make sure you can see everybody's faces parents if you need to move around this is your chance get a good one [Applause] foreign [Music] [Laughter] if you have any questions you'd like to know about their experience well first of all could you tell us what HOSA stands for help occupation students in America oh okay so you're doing presentations on careers in Health Sciences or what types of projects mental is in line with that um specifically what I did I did a team organization where I chose the target audience so we using features and presented on a health issue that would relate to them so I did skin cancer awareness with my team and then we created a
023portfolio on that process including some pictures methods research and then created a final presentation it's relating to that portfolio so my question will be what makes you choose HOSA as your after school you know help me to join them awesome because there's so many clubs out there right so why you chose I think just like Alex mentioned there is so much Variety in the number of events and things that you can explore so even for me as someone who's not necessarily considering a career as a doctor it's just the ability to explore so many different Avenues in biology and Healthcare is really intriguing okay so can I go oh my gosh actually I'm looking for shopping like she's the best sponsor okay what were some of the other events that people did yeah we did
024an EMT it was also a partner event so the two of us are together there was the test portion of the event and then we had a skills portion where we had to actually do like some of the things that EMT used to do like splinting cast doing CPR stuff and we're given like a simulation so it was very Hands-On experiential which is one part that I like about hotel yeah you can also do like solo events if you want to like I did one where I studied like a biotechnology textbook and then there was like like how they had there was like a multiple choice test and then we Advanced like laboratory skills so I got to do real skills like streaking and Agri play and like blood typing and stuff like that so
025do you guys practice this is this what your meetings are like you're practicing all those types of things like the skills that's more interesting that's more independent I think in the music because there's over 50 events it's kind of hard to cover that yeah so the meeting is really tailored to what the member needs um and what's specific about their so I'm just doing math here if there's 50 events and there's 30 of you we won more than half of the events that's what I like to hear well congratulations thank you great job all right great job guys [Applause] we also want to thank the parents for being here and uh although we have the rest of our meeting to go if you wanted to make in somewhat awkward exit out and that would be
026the perfect time to do that thank you all for being here very much for coming everyone congratulations congratulations because [Laughter] no one put Stevie in the corner just so he can knock his head as many times all right well he's always fun to recognize our students however we also thoroughly enjoy um hearing the great work that our curriculum teams are doing and so as the board knows each month uh throughout the year we we have the opportunity to hear from some of our amazing faculty members about work that they're doing with respect to our social emotional learning initiative which is one of our district goals obviously and tonight we have members of our science division here who are to present and so Steve Uh Wood our director of science is here as well let's see
027if I'll let you introduce your team and yeah like Eric said it's hard to follow the kids always yeah [Music] Mormons hit these kids too along with their parents so I'm really excited to have the earth science team uh these three wonderful women have worked with Laurie this year but the cool thing is they've been doing this for years there's a culmination of a lot of the work that they've done and I know that their first slide is going to introduce themselves and some of their experience I'm going to turn it over to them and let them tell their story so I'm listed first there I am Jill Lucius and this is my 21st year teaching my 18th at Stevenson and currently I teach College Prep earth science and AP environmental science and hi I'm
028Molly sponseller it's my 10th year teaching here and in general and I this year am teaching all levels of earth science so collaborative earth science college prep for Science and Earth Science Matters my name is Deanna Wilkins this is my 21st year at Stevenson High School I'm also an Alum so you can tell that I just graduated from high school four years ago and um I teach College Prep earth science as well as collaborative earth science and accelerated chemistry thank you so we're going to start by telling giving you a little bit of like background on our students this year um so this we had um them are we at our students fill out a survey at the beginning of the year with just some like background information what class did you take before coming
029into our classroom um what they're involved in outside of school what if they have a job or not just like some different things and we're going to walk you through that this is the first um piece of information that we wanted to share with you because our class is sophomores Juniors and seniors and so what they are coming into our classroom the previous science knowledge that they have is really um varied um if you look the college prep physics is it makes up about 30 percent of our population those are our seniors that took College Prep physics as a junior um College Prep bio that's another 30 those are our sophomores that took biology as a freshman and then you'll kind of see the other it's a 40 in silos quick math okay a variety
030of different subjects at different levels the one thing that I wanted to um kind of highlight is that we have representation from collaborative biology so that's a co-taught class as a freshman that are now coming into our classroom typically as a sophomore or a junior so they've made their way into a mainstream class so this for some students is a really as a reach class and it's a time to um try science in a mainstream room so that's that ground we have a really diverse group of students with their student and life balance I know that some of the representation we saw a lot of students that were in HOSA but many of our students not only are they involved at Stevenson but they're also involved with work and they are also involved with care
031of other siblings at home so over the years we've noticed that many of our students have other things that they're doing at home besides Just Sports or activities that are affiliated with Stevenson and that has changed quite a bit in the past few years so now instead of going you know home and just taking care of themselves and their needs many students are working and we see that some of our students are even working 10 plus hours a week which is a lot in trying to maintain like they said we still have sophomores Juniors and seniors in our course so we have quite a diverse background even in where they they are at in their learning of science that we accommodate for in our class as well and something else that we just wanted to
032point out is the demographics of Stevenson are on the right in this image and the demographics of our class are on the left so we talked about this diversity and experiences this diversity and coursework prior to our class this diversity in just what level and knowledge the students are coming into our classes with we're also seeing some differences in demographics from our overall population so that just kind of lays the groundwork for what does our classroom look like so why then are we taking on this SEL test so for our first um work that we've done with some of our SEL we want to make sure that we're focusing on the sense of belonging because we want our students to see themselves as a successful scientist um throughout many of their careers at Stevenson some
033of them haven't taken the pathway that would lead them to maybe wanting to major or work in science and so they do not see themselves as scientists but in our classroom they are a scientist and they're doing all of the same work that other classes are doing where those students automatically Envision themselves as someone who takes science who is good at science and who will be successful in a science classroom so we build that academic confidence by making sure that we don't assign homework especially for all those reasons that we said before they are doing more outside the classroom than just school activities we make sure that they do sell self-assessments so they're aware of where they are at we do those with Google forms we also are one of the science courses that has
034an engineering project both semesters and what's really interesting is some of the students never saw themselves able to build things or fix things and um they will be someone who's going to watch a YouTube video and need to fix something and so just being able to say hey I can do that is going to save them a lot of money in the future there's also numerous pieces of evidence throughout our semester to show growth so we really work on you know what this unit or this task didn't go so well but you have many more opportunities in order to learn from those mistakes we do daily themes throughout our course so each day has a different SEL test like um on our Mondays we do brain puzzles we do thankful Thursdays we do group challenges
035on Fridays to really make sure that they're aware that SEO is important to us we also are very intentional with the way that we group students we often talk about what we should do with different challenges that we face with certain students we are also working on building emotional confidence because like I said some of the students do not see themselves as being successful in science so when they have self-reflection we will read that feedback some of the students we will individually talk to we make sure that we note to them the times that they have grown when we have seen that growth so that they realize that that's something that they are doing because some of them can't even recognize how much they have changed over time with the work that they're doing we
036make sure that we give sentence starters to begin discussions anytime we have a question how would you answer this who would go first because many of them are afraid to share some of their ideas and so by having a way to start they jump in a lot easier and then making sure that we connect the content to the real world which is easier because it's for science and then okay so we give the student voice survey like every class does this year we were able to be part of the pilot group so we were able to gain access to our data a little bit earlier so we reviewed the data and this is the one question we wanted to make sure to share with you because it kind of has guided our work for the
037year and what will come and the changes that we've made so the question is how much do you feel like you belong in this class um and so we had a 69 favorable response there are really two things on this slide that we wanted to point out one zero students reported that they do not belong at all so we like first of all say like yeah that's a win like good and then we look at those um two results that are highlighted and read like they belong a little bit they belong somewhat and those are really like our Target students of who we want to focus our work on we want them all of our students are belonging at somewhat like a little bit but we want them to be belonging quite a bit or
038completely belong and so we're trying to move from a little bit to a lot and why did we choose that and how did we get here uh we've kind of heard our students in this course over time have some negative self-talk about you know I can't do this or you know I didn't finish it because I didn't know how to do it and so how do we get them past that belonging gets them to a point that they're a lot more comfortable asking us those things um just in general this engineering project that we were talking about when they are initially approaching that there's some apprehension about how to set it up and we really break it down and show them step by step how to go about doing that and then they get to
039create this um build and we often find that's really a self-esteem Builder because we give them a challenge that they have to hold five pounds and they're all thinking I'm not going to be able to do it and most of them find that they are successful at it it sounds like a lot at first um so then it's more of can I hold 20 pounds after that uh overall we find that they have lower reading levels so how can we help them be comfortable in our class especially with these varied grade levels and these varied reading levels that's another thing that we often address that idea of we see them hesitate when they're starting challenges or different projects and activities in class and then there is some uncertainty when we ask them about what they
040want to do next or where they're planning on going to college some of them you know have a set uh plan some of them just really aren't sure or say oh I'm gonna do this for a few years but I'm not really sure so just building up their confidence through that sense of belonging is something that we value um thanks to these women they offered me a moment just because since I am new in this role and I know some of you are new at this table we thought we would take an opportunity with this presentation um just to do a little bit of review I know many of you have seen this numerous times but this is the framework that all of our Academic Teams use as we use our student voice data and
041so we will give the student voice survey both in the fall and then again in the spring and we use that as our grounding framework along with all of the self-report assessments Google forms Etc that they've already discussed that they are giving um and so just to go into this conversation of how do we come up with our errors of focus what is our conversation where what direction do we want to go and then I'll come back in a moment and sort of lay out the path way that we go through so for our students we've really focused on self-awareness like who are you what how do you contribute to the class and then relationship skills within the group members many of our challenges other than the ones that are for an actual assigned grade
042those are going to be in a group setting and so how do they manage problem solving and getting through a challenge all of our challenges are attainable for every group to meet that goal it is not a competition we set a goal a bar and then they work too um meet that and so for the action steps that we are currently not all the way through this like Lori said we just started um and we just got our data back so phase one for us um that would be just the prediction what do we think is going to happen and overall we would like to see growth throughout the year and overall see the students sense of belonging increase um we're really visualizing that we have seen an increase in data over time and we're
043hoping that our efforts will continue that Trend as we've been working on it for a couple of years um and right now we're in the observation phase um we're just looking at the data we're also collecting data in our classrooms through some of the forms that are more meaningful to our students so as I mentioned just a moment ago this is just the idea of Bridging the work that has been going on for years and then us continuing to build on what has taken place in the six plus years since we've started this SEL initiative um and so as you can see this team has been doing unbelievable work far before I got into this role and then now we will just continue that process with the current framework that we're working which is what
044you're seeing underneath here and so we'll continue to look at the feedback we'll continue to meet throughout the course of this year obviously and into the future so that we can see where the growth is taking place where the trends are happening continue to ask questions Etc and again just coming back to that balance of why we think student voice is so important and I know that this conversation came up at our last board meeting but just the idea of you know how do we know how do we know what we're actually doing and the answer is because we keep asking them and we will continue to keep asking them and hear it directly from the source so that we can use of their voice because their reality is their perspective and that can help
045us continue guide our work and this is really important to us like our students we really want them to see themselves in a more positive light and how they feel to us as teachers is just as important as their academic success so we do a lot of different things to check in so not only is it the Mastery of the content and how they how they do but also how they belong how they identify themselves as a scientist and really putting all of this together so the action steps that we're taking right now is our engineering practices and our challenges we are adding the sdl competencies in there so they can really see um what we are working on so instead of us just knowing about it we've really decided that we want to share
046that with the students so they get used to seeing some of the stuff that they are improving on and then we use self-assessment a lot with guiding questions especially in our team meetings we calibrate and we see where students are at what we can do differently with some of our practices to make sure that the students are in a place where they acknowledge their growth in SEL as as well we do that with go formative which is live as the students are responding we can see their answers we also use go for um we also use Google forms and then later on in the year this is not right now but we work on goal setting we don't set goals with them initially because we want them to see what level they're at and then
047see where they need to go to set a goal and so this is an example from last Friday the Friday before Friday Friday before thank you um we start with we have theme days and so on Fridays we always we call it fun Friday but it's a mini engineering task to prepare us for our end of semester engineering project which is obviously a bigger undertaking um and so this uh their fun Friday projects are always done in groups and so we just wanted to show you an example this is the step that we have one of the steps we've taken this year so we added that SEL competency component so again like Deanna said we're really just trying to increase awareness we were doing these activities anyway we have data from past years to show
048that like yes their belonging increases over the years which we'll show you in just a second um but we think that this will perhaps maybe move that even further into like more students completely belonging or um just have like more conversations throughout the year about it and increasing like our discussion of SEL and what that looks like in our classroom so this is just one of those examples and this then looks at that classroom belonging so this is that data again from the Panorama survey over time you can see starting from Spring of 2016 and then going through that time of covid and then um that 63 on the far right that is this fall and that's already up from last fall um and we are hoping you know our goal would be to kind
049of beat that 76 that we had in the spring of last year so we know that this is something that we are already building into our classes it's just we want to be that much more purposeful again we're looking at those students who were in the um feel a little or you know just um a bit uh comfortable or belonging to our classrooms those are the students that we're really looking to boost it's kind of where we go from here um we will really focus on like the data discussions moving forward so Deanna mentioned using Google forms and the date feedback we get from directly from the students we in our team meetings look at those Google Form results and so that can conversation will continue we'll also be meeting with Floria as the year
050continues to check in are these action steps appropriate like should we be adding more things taking those away making adjustments as we go um but we really think that highlighting the SEL standards to our students like showing it on the board verbally like explaining them um we are hoping to see a positive impact and when they get to the engineering challenge at the end of the semester it won't necessarily be like quantifiable data but we are hoping that they approach those challenges with even more confidence than we've seen in the past any questions I'm super interested in uh this this idea of belonging and I know when I talk with my children and I ask them questions like that I get varied different when you guys talk to kids about this data and specifically that
051question do you get a wide variety of responses about what it means to them to belong in a class I think absolutely yes yes um so belonging means something very different for different students and so I think that that's part of like we try to give ourselves a little bit of Grace when we look at that student voice survey because for some students it's appropriate to feel like they somewhat belong in a classroom like they are choosing that response as a positive response um so I think that we we try to remember that in our conversations because for some students it's like I feel like I belong because I know the person I'm sitting next to right versus I feel like I belong because the teacher respects me as a human being right like those
052are two wildly different things but I guess we just try to and something else that we've talked about is that culturally the way that we feel belonging is very different too so one student might feel by belonging because I ask them about their weekend where another student that might be I'm the teacher and I'm not supposed to be asking that sort of question of them because their view is you're the teacher you are not my friend in the same way so I think balancing that and helping them get a sense of belonging with their classmates is really what we feel is important too do you find that do you find that they're willing to engage in that kind of discussion or about sense of belonging yeah I mean I mean are they are they coming
053in with or are they kind of or do you have to tease it out we use those words you don't say like do you feel like you belong so at the at the end of maybe because we change well use CH we change every unit we change their seating and so some of the questions would be like especially after a lab-based unit what was something that your partner did really well and so they will write something down and so then automatically that person's like oh I did something great like and now all of a sudden they were like I was a part of that group like they really needed me and so those are the types of things that we do to bring up that self-confidence and then things like knowing each other's names so
054names are a big thing for students to feel a sense of belonging so those are different things that we do or even some of the um when we do when we hit November each day has a different theme about being thankful and they talk about it and then there'll be different experiences that students have so it's not always the science that brings it out it's making them establish relationships and in those relationships will make the student feel like they belong and if I'm not mistaken Lori just that sense of belonging score is actually made up of like four or five different questions six different questions yeah we can forward those to your Creations it's fascinating to see it but it's all nationally normed also so that the data is Fairly reliable correct that's at that
055I was going to add the same piece just that that was the question we chose just for the sake of Simplicity but that the questions the students answer targets it from multiple areas of belonging so that that percentage really becomes a summative value not just an individual question value not a single yeah can you see it throughout you know you you there's clearly a big jump from Fall to Spring do you sort of see it happening as it's good as the semester goes on that yeah go ahead sorry I think the cohesiveness of the class yeah exactly what Deanna was talking about that's a you know we want that sense of belonging where they're comfortable with each other and yeah I think the the frequent changing of seats creates that just because then they get
056to know more people in class faster I think it's also the idea that like our team is our room not our team is our table and so as they get to change and work with everyone like oh we're all in this together it's not just like me and this other person I'm sitting with well thank you team that was really amazing great job [Applause] we appreciate you thank you and yet government is still sticking around yeah those are amazing [Laughter] all right uh next item is uh approval of our curriculum change proposals and as we had shared uh previously tonight we're bringing forward a recommendation for curriculum change proposals for the 23-24 school year uh you may recall that in the spring uh we presented all of these to you as letters of intent and
057then over the summer uh Mark and Troy lead out conversations at the admin Team level and we bring back to you final curriculum change proposals uh for 23 24 school year which generally we typically bring to you in September we brought them forward to you in October we were running just a couple days behind and couldn't quite squeeze it in so tonight we're bringing them forward to your review and approval oh can I have a motion to approve the sorry I have a motion to approve the course the curriculum proposal so moved second oh I can't switch it and then Troy do you wanna you or Mark want to just give a quick uh maybe overview of kind of where we're at and then if the board has any questions uh with the applied Arts
058uh division um we're looking at replacing a course that's presently being offered Child Development and pitching it as human growth and development to expand um developmental stages from prenatal to all the way through adolescence whereas before it was created with six years old we're dropping media Art and Design due to under enrollment and we're incorporating a new class in computer science engineering and Technology thanks to Wendy and her team and now Jackie King to focus in on virtual reality and augmented reality which is going to be pretty exciting already in a lot of our courses we're using some virtual reality but this is the actual like understanding of a draw of reality and moving forward that's pretty cool um due to some resequencing in our math program and a number of you weren't here I
059think middle last year we switched the mathseek lens from Algebra 1 then now to Geometry then Algebra 2 and that's going to lead to a Cascade of changes as students grow up throughout the curriculum the name changes in prerequisites and that's pretty much Maps out there and then an interesting you might actually remember from a couple of years ago that we did that work with the theater schools and so some of the fewer schools they teach algebra one now they will teach geometry they used to teach algebra two um but we think getting Algebra 2 later in a kid's career closer to the SAT is a smarter idea so all the feeder schools they've already made these changes a couple of years ago but now those kids are moving up to us and so we're
060slowly working through the changes really in a way to rethink like our freshman year experience like how do we make sure that the kids are having that great positive experience when they first show up so just to be clear the changes that the board is seeing and right now in front of us these are changes that for the most part we've already discussed last year um that we're bringing for actually two years two years ago we're bringing forward now because it's going to have an impact on next year's course book as the kids move up to the middle school I also know that we we shared that we were considering some other changes to math and science but we're not quite ready to bring those forward yet so we're gonna we put those on pause
061um and none of those are reflected in this document yet maybe in the future but well that's a whole nother conversation so Mark and then and then with World languages we are changing the division name from World languages to multilingual learning division um if this is aligned to the Illinois State Board of Education so we want to stay alignment with that and that's been there's a lot of discussion at the state level but we do want to align ourselves to that and then we were able to work with our French through accelerating credit with Loyola University and offer participate with credit which is pretty exciting so most all of our world languages now will have some form of dual credit um late in the students experience and then there is a title change just to
062a American literature to World contemporary literature in the El classes so that's the last uh any other questions but and then just as a reminder um as soon as the board approves the course proposal is essentially what happens is they get um filtered through um Jamie's Division and communicate in Communications we print out course books and within the next couple days um parents of incoming freshmen are going to start talking about um or actually freshman parents are going to start talking about you know your future and it's course selection starts essentially yeah essentially we start rolling so there's there's a two second plug on Wednesday is a no homework and on that night we're hoping to get families to have conversations about what courses are next uh as they move forward so we built you
063lots of conversations for the dinner table for Wednesday so to math are part of a longer process and longer conversation I'm wondering if you anticipate anything like that across other divisions just with regards to either where students are coming in from our feeders or changes to the field that you might see reflected at the curricular level yeah people are having a lot of conversations right now in science which is an interesting place to consider um and it's really trying to think that through like what's best for students um as they're coming in freshman year and then throughout and then really considering students skills as they're entering even into our English program you know um where they're at as a freshman what it means to be 14 taking freshmen or what does it mean to be
064skillfully developed and where we might be able to bring students along and meet them where they're at to find the supports necessary to offer any interventions for students so we're balancing off a lot of those conversations right now and thinking about that in the future those are all really good considerations but require a lot of thought yeah it's important our our Peter districts do a fabulous job of preparing kids and as the are the courses that we've built over time are they still the right courses and we move past that a little bit the kids are you know in like in math for instance many kids are taking two years of high school level math in middle school right so what does what does that mean for the other divisions and it's just a it's
065a really interesting question and it's really because of the great work that happens in the feeder districts they've already with just the different ways our Center districts prepare students in Spanish for instance you know and that requiring a different way again being from where they're at then facility of their experience moving forward [Music] yes no I am Joseph hi so hi gorson hi entire hi motion carries okay and then you'll see a number of personnel items that are part of the human resources report and um that brings us to the approval of student fees Mr Carney yep um sorry uh every you'll have to forgive my voice I'm going a little hoarse um every year we bring before the board um the uh suggested fees for various um uh really events that go on our
066campus normally just the the basic School fee but one of the other school fees or ancillary fees that we need to review um kind of by itself because it always comes earlier than expected is the summer school fee and so um tonight what we are presenting to you is the look at the student fees that were project acting for next year it's not finalized but the one fee that we are looking for action on tonight is the summer school fee um and that would be the for the summer of 2023. excuse me um and we have determined that we do need to in fact increase that fee in order to ensure that the summer school program becomes a break even um remains a break-even program for the school district because we don't use any tax
067dollars on this so with that said we are recommending that the Board of Education approve the student fees for the summer of 2023 as presented second and just to be clear that is the only fee that will change that we're asking for tonight is just correct correct yep we're still working with some of our other vend um we're going with some of our other vendors um are looking with some of our Runners to ensure that any none of the other fees have changed something's overall costs are going up for summer school specifically in what area um so the the really most of the fees that the tuition fee that we're looking to increase from 350 to 400 um is really just to cover the salaries um of the teachers that were for the classes that
068we're running um the one fee that we um are also increasing by 25 is the behind the wheel fee for our driver's ed so we are required to offer us drivers ed we are only required to offer the classroom component but we do offer the behind the wheel component as well in the 350 dollars as a bargain compared to many of the other private companies that are out there as well there's too many students to take advantage of that though yeah we um Wendy could probably speak better to it but we lock we literally book out of all the students that can take Driver's Ed both during the summer and during the school year it's been pegged that way for I don't know last 25 years that I've been here I think yeah so that
069we can be waiver for driver's day so yeah a few waivers are a waiver are are available for those families that are in need we not necessarily waive the entire fee because most of the classes during summer school are you are taken as kind of an enrichment or to get ahead um but if those courses are necessary for graduation yeah Ben Yosef hi Sal aye Orson hi Tire hi and no hi motion carries okay Pepsi contract yep so uh we are nearing the end of our Pepsi contract uh we have entered into um we typically enter into a five-year deal for the sale of drinks I'm not going to say we used to say soft drinks back in the day but now it's mostly drinks um and we have a wide variety of drinks um
070I think in the if I included in that contract you can see all of the various drinks that Pepsi does in fact have ownership over so we did take a look at that Coca-Cola is not interested at this time again we've been a Pepsi product or our Pepsi school pretty much since I've ever been here and then you can see the incentives that are provided um to the district but this is is not a cost this is a revenue producer for the district this does not cost the district and just to be clear that for your blip when we did go to Coca-Cola was Martin Michelini's under Market it was it was certainly not under the tutelage of myself I guess it's not fair because I did tell Mark I would never throw him under
071the bus so I guess I did once yeah and Sean somebody might wonder um well wait a minute does this have to be bid it does not because it's because it's Revenue producing not a cost so um you know essentially you know I think what you're looking for is you know who's continued yeah dollars yeah continue dollars and continued support and Pepsi is a a great um partner to work with they have a variety like I said they have the variety of prop products I'm the one product that really probably goes over the best that they own is uh is Gatorade um and that one makes the most sense we use it for all of our athletic programs and then we use the um their G zero and their G2 which are the lower sugar
072brands that um Sodexo sells just in case anybody's curious all of the products that Sodexo purchases and sells through our lunch lines are all part of this particular contract so it's a pretty lucrative contract so you can have it I'll put more information in our mid meeting memo and then we will be seeking action in November especially after and see what asks the question if you were here yes it's currently the contract is currently under review by our attorneys so we'll have that finalized for you in November all right thank you um okay and so can I have a motion for the consent agenda to approve the consent agenda so move second okay so hi gorson all right Tire all right no I and yosa aye motion carries all right and that brings us to
073um our last information report uh we have a few items for tonight um but uh we are excited to begin with our annual student achievement report and joining us we have Wendy custable and Tony reibel um and I believe um you guys are going to take it away right yeah and I think folks have uh a hard copy in front of you okay and while you're doing that um let me just because I remind myself that we have some new members on the board that the student achievement report is our annual report that we pull together for the board that includes all of the data that we currently have on the previous school year so generally speaking we present this report every October and I think we have all updated data for the most part
074yeah ACT SAT great um and so generally this is a report that extends the conversation that we had at The Retreat finalizes all the data and really is kind of our ultimate accountability report to the board around student achievement so with that said I will turn it away to Tony and Wendy to walk us through I know but why is it not sorry I'm scared what my husband text me so hey everybody I'm Wendy testable oh um um so uh just as we get started we have three District goals as many of you are familiar with these are the rings from the 20 21 22 school year our three goals are basically our student achievement goal our college readiness goal and our social emotional learning goal um so the first piece that we're going to
075talk about is our SAT that's our State student achievement exam and just want to give a little context um last year was our first year kind of back having testing as normal as we could um and so that's just our timeline from September to May uh when we took what and when um with April being a very busy time of year as you may already know um the other piece of information that's in your packet just for your reference is um should I share this out with us at the beginning of the school year about just the kind of craziness it's been with testing in our worlds um and so our 2023 graduates you can see over on the right their first in-school state exam was um their fall of last year so they've taken
076two they took the PSAT in October and then the um sat in April and that's the data we'll show you um here right now and that means they missed their freshman practices sat and their sophomore practice sat because of so yes thank you yeah we've got a lot of spaces and the data so that we have a lot of we'll have a lot of spaces for a couple years yet um so the one chart here on page seven I just want to highlight for you is if you just look down at the bottom Although our students have missed some things due to covid the top in the brownish colors are um the junior test are current seniors in what their um total score on the right of a 1220 and then compared to where um
077other Illinois students were and were um students Junior students at the time nationally were ranked in their scores the left is the English um reading and writing and on the right in the middle is mathematics if you up at the very top you can see their benchmark scores of where they where they should be can we if you want us to do questions or comments sure however we want it totally fine go ahead so there's been a lot of you know information in the news and whatnot about kids and test scores and the impact and so we we stayed pretty steady we see pretty good yeah that's impressive so that that is super impressive okay and that's really you think back to the hard work that our teachers have done over the last few years
078and you know really taking Zoom very seriously the zoom education as hard as it was and I would also celebrate our kids like the kids at some schools didn't didn't show up didn't but our kids were really dedicated to doing the work and they came to class and um I think we were able to really you know I don't think any of us would say it was the greatest educational experience that we ever had but it was good that's yeah yeah it's pretty impressive definitely um to that to that end since we only had two exams for for our current seniors last year's Juniors the PSAT so the growth um was pretty amazing too from the growth from when they took the PSAT in October to when they took the um sat in April um
079you could see those numbers and was just interesting and just fascinating is how many exceeded even with all of that and only having those two exam they exceeded 16 exceeded growth on both and we although we're not we're never happy when we have any student who doesn't but it was at 3.5 which is still something in the work doors but pretty good folks that just a reminder the goal that we've written around the s t State testing for us is not that we want kids to get to some specific score but we want all kids no matter where they start to grow by the accepted amount in the time that they're here so you can see that only three and a half percent didn't meet the minimum growth in both so that the shift from
080act to sat for Illinois requirements was relatively recent correct 2018. so it's still even interesting just getting because all almost in the room we were in Illinois we're act and so helping our students the teachers too helping our students through the SAT has been interesting and once we started it we went pretty much into covid time so it's been an interesting little journey well and I think especially those two pieces together this data reflects really positively on the work that's being done in fact understand students it very much does so one thing that you know we're where I enter the picture here is with our grading and assessment system so last eight nine years we've been you know moving to an evidence-based approach getting those skills out in front which aligned to AP and sat
081and we're able to now cross reference pretty easily how the kids are doing on the skills in the course but those core skills and criteria also give us insight into how they might be doing on the SAT and AP as well as you're going to see some of this other data as well so this is a new addition to this report but you can see pretty clearly that we have in a lot of the skills that cross over to sat um I guess to reframe that we're not stopping the learning to go do SAT style practice it's embedded in what we do and I think you know that's been the goal for a long time and we're finally starting to see that that data come out so thank you to that point exactly with the
082change from the paper sat to the digital that's coming up that's if you've looked at the test it's considerably different so that I would think is going to have an impact on on how classes are structured to support the kind of thing that you're talking about what you're thinking along that and how it how is that going to move forward because that's coming up in the next year it could be in the next year 2024 yeah yeah it's coming so Apple of things is one just getting teachers familiar with it just getting teachers familiar with what that looks like and getting everyone comfortable just with the change in technology which we're finding students in iPads or if we use Chromebooks whatever we use for those testing days just getting them those experiences in class we're
083going to talk about um APS and just in just a little bit but one thing we're doing this this spring is AP is also going that direction and we are going to Pilot One course to see like what's that test setting like for us infrastructure wise but also for students and those experiences so we can start because we're seeing that coming down the road with absolutely everything without the whole with all the clouds but the tests itself the kinds of things that I'm thinking about is the test itself oh yeah for example the there's not going to be any it doesn't look like there's going to be any writing components right so that changes things and then the way the reading components are structured where they're shorter passages with fewer questions and all that so
084the criteria that is it's just kind of bad a difference sure yeah yes yes the criteria that's going to be referenced in the SAT change will then be our teachers will look at that and put that into our rubrics which fit nicely under these skills too so yeah because the first if I'm not mistaken the first electronic version is the PSAT next fall yeah that's what they're saying or is it April was it no it's not the same yeah sure yeah thanks thanks definitely teams are going to start looking at that sooner you know college board means sending boxes and boxes of materials they have no school elimination they've got to be happy to get out of that I mean just to change their I see the prices will go down I'm sure I do
085have one other question yeah do you all use um Khan Academy for Preparatory support at all we don't formally do that I know a lot of our students have used have used it our teachers don't use that in the classrooms we tell the kids that's true but I mean we tell the kids that exists and give them the ability but it's not part of our now it's there's that's their individual practice for sure we're talking about um up number on the number on the top is those are the students that only took it once took the SAT once and then you can see it progressively go down of how many students are taking it the one thing I just find fascinating is what about almost half of our students take the SAT once they don't
086and with the scores that you saw so that takes us to this one which is interesting and I'll leave this to you to spend you know some nightly reading on at some point of but the one what I want to highlight is um down at the bottom you're looking to see what's expected of the graduated class which they expected because there still could be a couple more students that want to take it one more time for kicks I guess um and so that and just explain I don't know the average super super score and I make sure I'm new with this job but I make sure I have this correct is that if they took it multiple times it takes their best score in their super score and so that's the reason why we have
087students um here that will take me take it everyone and as you can see the scores are and then for sat testing can students just choose one subject to do the retest or have to test all four subjects what did they take all four yeah okay that's different devices yeah right okay so um before I move on to college readiness any additional questions about sap so our college readiness um gets to what are the college level experiences that we're providing students um and so we do that in three major areas four if we count the um the by literacy that I'll talk about in a little bit but advanced placement dual credit and articulated credit and so just to kind of give you um some context we offer 32 AP courses we have um 31
088dual courses and four articulated courses and as Mark shared earlier we're increasing we're trying to increase that as um as we go there are definitely some AP courses on the horizon that could be potential for us as well as some additional dual credit courses um along the way um just a side note a lot there's a lot of our dual courses that our students at the technology campus are receiving through the College of Lake County um and this graph just shows it's nice lunchable chart that just talks about um the percent of our students that get that college level experience and just to kind of remind um all of us our goal is to provide the college level experience and that we believe that if a student has you know an experience or two um
089before The Graduate students of high school that's going to prepare them the best for college or their post-secondary choices not necessarily taking an AP exam so I'll talk about that in the second one we get to the eight piece yeah and again another new insert here is the skills and how those connect to kids taking a college level experience versus kids that aren't um and we can pretty easily see that you know how kids are doing proficiency-wise in the skills depending on the college level experience that they take so this is just a comparison between uh this last year's group that graduated with at least one college level experience and the proficiencies they ended with um in semester one uh of that year and the kids who did not have a college level experience that
090graduating year uh how they fared in those skills and this is what's exciting about this is this is already these this is already this process is already cycling through our MTT and our targeted tutoring as well the skills that are here it's already in process our tutors are talking about this so this is all embedded in supporting our kids so in that to that end does that mean that you know they're encouraging kids to to take a college level experience and to you know that those conversations is that is that oh I think this information can help us have conversations with kids to give them the confidence that they can do that yeah yeah okay certainly as we move into AP to some just some thousand 290 exams were given this past school year with
091um 2 900 or 2009 students um majority of them 61 were Juniors and seniors and then just to highlight of this with that if you look at the kind of the circle on the left um 89 in the head at least a three or better score thus hopefully giving them a the college level experience that they need to prepare them but also maybe even give them a credit to depending on where they're going and this is just a long um latitude data just telling you basically the same thing as we move all the way over to the right um what's in really interesting about this one and I I can't wait to see how this plays out is although the number looks like it's coming down slightly what we aren't seeing is students the number
092coming down and students taking AP courses our college level courses we've seen over the past couple years and I don't know if it's covert related or not students making choices for themselves they're taking the experience but some of them made students choose most of them seniors saying look well I don't need this credit or I'm not going to earn this credit my University so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna take the exam took the course had all the experiences but decided not to take the exam I think we believe the taking of the course is more important than the exam so yeah yeah fine for us senior happy kids are making that choice to you know control their I was going to say do you see that as kind of an SEO moment that maybe
093you know that's going to stress me out too much I'm not going to do it so yeah that's perfect there's no window for registration it's now has it closed already for this year okay I'll be curious to see what it looks like November 8th no yeah well that's when the early registration you can still sign up until March you said to pay an extra so if we really will have a number until March because many kids still waiting in there a lot of kids that don't wait until they get closer like I don't want to spend the money or the willing to see how they play out in the course first again though to your point about being sort of intentional both with their family's resources their resources and their energy it makes good sense
094exactly kids are making some good choices I think and this is just um something for your reading pleasure later about um that the mean score the number the percentage of exams by division this is um one of the things we're really trying to hold true to um is you know giving freshman that freshman level experience um so you can see definitely the numbers change once the students become sophomores Juniors and seniors about taking um an AP course and how do the 11 kids where do they come from it's a it's a variety is a lot of them are students that just I want to take the Japanese um AP exam or different exams that we don't offer Italian we see a lot of them in the world languages yeah they're almost all kids in the
095world languages who are creative speakers and just want to get the test out of the way and we they don't even take the course they just take it we don't offer the generals just take the test we don't allow freshmen we don't let them take the classes as social studies always historically been the highest it looks like the number of exams is quite if yes it is and a large percentage uh not a large there's a lot in government U.S history and there was a very um intentional effort a few years back I don't even know um Erica Trey might know a little bit more of the history of we're as we were trying to figure out how do we get more students taking these college level experiences that was a course that was an
096easier one to it was more accessible for kids yeah and honestly the science number is much higher than it was yeah and it social studies has been high for a long time but some of the other groups are catching so the disparities be much bigger if you went back 10 years yeah it would have been social studies would have doubled up everybody else because because had an amazing teacher division many amazing pictures yes in addition we also have our dual and our articulated credit courses um 472 of our students took advantage of four uh 24 courses as well as the students that took articulated courses so these are just as wonderfully proud of these programs too because a lot of times these courses tend to be courses that get students that this might be their
097only college level experience um so I think you pick up on the theme and my role in this presentation here so um we could with the with the grading system hat and the structure we have now we can now cross-reference skill proficiencies and the AP score which we were never really able to do and these these skills again align with the AP curriculum and get them ready for the test like Gary was saying what's on those tests so we can clearly see that you know on this that AP Physics one there were uh you know seven percent of the kids who met analyzing and interpreting data throughout the year got a three on the exam so again we can you know we don't want kids to fall through the cracks we want to know who
098they are we want to support them and get them to where they need to be and with this structure we have we can anticipate that and get ahead of that be proactive for the word I'm looking for um so I if you go to the next slide I just kind of picked a few of the larger courses this is AP Bio so you saw that you know there was five percent of the kids that met in mathematical computational thinking um in that course uh they got a three on the test but most of our kids you know got met skills five six and eight of that course got a five on the AP test so to me you being the data nerd that I am I'm super excited to see this because I can I
099think we can illuminate some different profiles of students here so and then if you want to get really crazy um we can cross-reference final uh semester grades with ap scores and the skill proficiency so we can um I don't know maybe I'm just the only one that was nerding out on this all week but I was super excited to see that this this data set because there were there were kids who met reading in rhetorical analysis got an A but they got a two on the AP test right so not that the AP test score is the goal but we can definitely now identify the students early and help them out um which you know we could run this every day all the time to see that how they're progressing so um and then the
100green where kids you know who got in approaching in those skills but still got a four or five on the test hopefully that I was a little worried about presenting that that made sense but I think great distribution uh yeah so I've this is kind of Quasi main um I've always given you this crazy graph there's a lot going on but these are great distributions uh throughout the year uh semester one last year and if you go to the next slide semester two by division um and you know it just tells us the distribution a is BC's days and um you know it's an exciting graph lots of colors um our kids do really well um but if you go to the next uh thing here we can now again not to keep this theme
101home but we can see kids who took a course that had a skill called simplifying and solving and gonna add most of our math Works mostly math and got a final proficiency score of meets in that skill this is how the grade that they earn so 57 of the kids who got a meet in simplifying and solving in whatever class usually math that had that skill they got an a for a final final grade and if you go to the next one same thing in Reading so we can watch kids grow in skills over time and connect that to whatever we want so are you saying that there are particular skills that you pull out as benchmarks essentially yeah based on what Gary was saying earlier our review of the criteria apsat whatever test if
102there's a new test that comes in we have the structure to pretty easily do that so and the exciting thing about that is that for so long schools especially high schools we're so driven by content and then you and then just go take the ACT and sat in Good Luck you know right um now we're able to really kind of like zero in on well what exactly are those skills that are going to show up on the actsat but then are transferable into our curriculum which is something we just we're never really able to do before yeah I'm sorry crazy no problem just to try to understand the data here so so for the 60 percent of student got a um under the myth category right so which means they can get a three all
103Targets throughout the school year just on that one the way this craft is just on that one skill that's at the top grade it's reading comprehension analysis if they took a course that had that skill and they got a meets uh 61 of them what's what I'm looking at is that tail is that there's a lot of kids who got a meets got a b b or B minus like how does that help what conversation does that drive now that we can help support kids so which means if a student can stay on the track of all means they can ensure they can you know get a as a final grade in the cross-reference from the chart from a few minutes ago where we talk about the AP scores that come out so we can
104start to say well are we giving grades that are appropriate because the grade should you should get a good grade if you can succeed on the AP exam so are those two things lining up and then also are what we're identifying as meeting the standard to those lineup like so there's sort of three checks right what how are you doing in your standard how did you do in your grade and what does that look like on standardized exams that measure that material so it gives us sort of three points to identify AI if we're doing the right thing like because you might wonder like how did a kid get a d who has met the standard of reading comprehend that's an interesting question right and we we're going to want to know how did that
105happen what was the learning profile of that kid let me make sure that never happens again like that's an interesting question right yeah and to your disjointed thing those three areas of all those three mechanisms have always been here but they've never there's never been really a through a through thread to to see it and now that we have this is pretty interesting that and and just to give props to our student learning program our student support they've done an amazing job taking these skills into our tutoring and running that through it's just really really exciting to see and I mean I think yes the SAT is important but beyond that I think the SAT is a college readiness exam so the skills that you're highlighting here that correlate to an SVT score makes sense
106to me that those are the skills that would be most necessary to be successful in college so another piece just to highlight um that gets to our College college readiness is our seal of by literacy just to highlight because it's a pretty amazing program and just to highlight it a little bit you have 200 with two things I want you to really focus on here is we had 213 students that were awarded the sealed by literacy um and in 13 different languages um and so they get this and please help me I talked to Justin this morning to make sure I knew exactly what where how they got this but students have to have show proficiency both in English and in the other what are the other language is so a lot of our students
107get that by the score that they receive on their sat or act uh and um for their English and whatever a lot of our students are taking like AP whatever language that they're taking or they're taking we have a variety of different software groups that we work through that will then assess in whatever language they want so we offer I it's many many different things we've doubled up every other high school around and the number of kids that are running this and all ready for next year the number is going to be about it's gonna we're gonna be about 60 more than that yeah and so what students receive from this is in the state of Illinois anywhere from like six to 12 credits or you know earned to that University and many other in
108the nation too depending on the student the situation in the college so it's getting our students way ahead um in these areas foreign goal which you heard a lot about already this morning or this morning earlier um and just so you know um we work through and I'm sure um Dr Fine Zimmer talked has talked a little bit about the Panorama software that company that we use um that normed reference um uh surveys we offer four different surveys um the one you hear from the teachers is from the student voice survey and I'll show you a little bit of information kind of school-wide that kind of puts the science team a little bit into context tonight we do an um SEL questionnaire a school climate survey and then trisbet Hauser with the athletic program does
109another one for student athletes and of um the piano room of the student voice survey there's six categories um you've heard today um from the team you've heard um they were talking a lot about their classroom belonging that is one that many many of our teams are looking into how can they address that within their teams in their classrooms and another one I want to highlight is the classroom teacher student relationships especially coming out of this is our first kind of real school year in a while and so where are we with that and how can we improve that one of the things I definitely want to highlight here is if you see up at the top um there's 14 828 entries so our goal and our hope and our desire and what we tell
110teachers is that every student should have an opportunity to provide feedback in every single classroom every single semester and so we're getting there students are providing feedback so this is from our classroom belonging and if you remember what you saw from the science from the science group what's really interesting if you saw in theirs theirs is a year-long class so they they're usually relationships a cluster belonging is lower in the fall and higher in the spring because that's a year of getting to know the students in their classroom but what's really interesting as a district as a school we have or seeing those big dips which is really fascinating and although 74 is fantastic as being Stevenson we're like well that's 74 what about the Raz and so to put a little bit more context
111is Nationwide where the 99th percentile um for this area which we're pretty proud of well I think Don brought this up too I wondered belonging class right they can say I don't feel like I belong here because of the type of class or the level of the class for the students in the class or the interaction with the teacher like that question is just it's loaded with a lot of different background and so you said who did you talk to your kids to get different information I have a new board member question yes hopefully I have a new assistant principal answer about this student voice survey I think that I stumbled on this data it must be public on the internet I think I stumbled on survey questions Stevenson is that possible yeah it could
112be and responses I mean this data when I was doing research on my own about the school um and it's great and I'm also in addition to being a new board member I'm also an absent-minded parent so I have two students here and I never thought to ask them about them taking any service in other words I didn't know that the survey was taking place but you would follow the Sprint you would see if you Googled Stevenson SEL you would see this report from previous years this data is out there because it's linked to our website I mean so yeah you would see this do do do we communicate to parents or how do we communicate to parents that the survey that the survey is taking place or do we are better to parents of
113that the student receives a prompt related to the survey and oftentimes teachers will do the survey of the class typically in class assessment we have had but just to be clear I think it's great and I mean it's a good question and I'm and I was glad to see it and I'm glad to hear about it and learn more about it and I bet that there's lots and lots of parents who would think the same thing highlighted in the minute man a few times over the past few years where we've said like here's here's some of our data here's so the information has come out um through that venue but never is like a and it's a really interesting question because it's not about academics per se it's about how your children are feeling and
114what their perceptions are and that's interesting one as a parent like huh I wonder how they are feeling in class because I'm sure how communicative communicative high schoolers can be with families right and so it would be really interesting but to be clear I mean for the most part it's data that is actionable for us right like this is data that we're collecting and that we're using so that we can make changes instructionally in the classroom it's not it's not General perception data you know about you know right right so I mean I think it's important to recognize that we give this assessment just like we would give any other assessment you know academically in the classroom so just as we don't necessarily tell parents about every time we're going to do an assessment about
115you know math or social studies or science we wouldn't necessarily tell them about this but it's it could be out there I mean did we we did put we we tell parents annual report there was it's all over I mean just Google it you'll find it you know what I mean but yeah and just one little side piece about classroom belonging and as you'll see probably throughout the school year at each board meeting each team um will be addressing classroom alongi specific to their groups of students specific to their classroom situations specific to their strengths and areas of growth too and so it's that's where um where some students may have different feelings a sense of a long link hopefully within their day they're getting that in a variety of different ways throughout their school
116day the other one I just wanted to highlight before we um is just a classroom teacher student relationships and is building that and you can see that it's continually um growing and that also um isn't in the 90th percentile as compared to peers and just like sense of belonging this has like five or six questions mark that you know we don't just ask kids sensible and do you feel it belong if there's six questions that guy that drive into that and just like this we don't ask you do you like your teacher it's six questions about the experience that kids are having in class and that gives us data to be able to lend as teachers be able to take action on behalf of the students is this data used in teacher evaluation no no
117no because it's you know it's there's an element of perception on behalf of the students the minute I feel like I belong if Mr gobble's given me to these you know so there's an element of you know you have to take it it's somewhat of a grain of salt but it you know is there actionable information in here when you look at it holistically oh yeah all right so thank you both we appreciate you great job um yep a lot of information um and just so our new board members know like this is an every October kind of thing um we generally share with you some in preliminary data at the retreat but this includes everything that we've gotten from AP from sat uh used to be Act was running a little bit late but
118we have everything now right awesome all right thank you guys um I also just wanted to share information around our current enrollment um we just did a check five minutes ago and our current enrollment is 4 499 students so up about a hundred students from last year um that number fluctuates week to week you know in any given week we're plus or minus a number of students we'll have a full report at the November Board of Education meeting but um we're one student away from 4 500 students and if you recall we were at about 4 300 a couple years ago so um that number is is slowly but surely just as our demographer said that number is ticking up so I think they had us this year at somewhere around 4 500 4530 ish
119yeah um and so we're yeah we're tracking pretty closely to what they've suggested so I'm gonna just send out all the Theta for the next dragon yep uh and then Sean you had two items one about tax appeals yep so um again for some of our newer boards um new board members uh we engage Services of Robin Schwartz to help us with um large tax appeals and or board of review cases the district only gets involved with the taxpayer is requesting over a hundred thousand dollar uh reduction in their assessed value um and typically what happens is um the you know uh we go through and and you know they'll come up to an agreement um sometimes they'll use an appraisal sometimes they'll use other history um but as you can see from here um
120it um the taxpayers you know the large taxpayers and again you know when you think about a hundred thousand dollar reduction in their taxes right that's probably we're talking businesses right maybe some homeowners but predominantly businesses and so in those instances they only received about 40 percent of the reduction that they were asking for there's two reasons why this is important one is it keeps our tax rate um lower and to probably more importantly um is that it's you know any reduction by any one taxpayer then increases what every other taxpayer in our district is going to pay so if we don't intervene on some of these very large taxpayers then our smaller taxpayers are all going to actually have to pay that business this year so that happens every year we engage age like
121I said we engage our attorneys to take care of that and you can see from the report that it's very successful so did that make sense I just want to clarify today board members yes okay yeah okay do you know when they there was a couple of them in here that were arguing based on low occupancy yeah is that reassessed from year to year then if they fill the strip mall they're technical it can be um it can be it can also be affect the quadrennial reassessments always a fun time as well where they look to reset base values for those next four years [Music] um they're in in just to make be clear you know most of these appeals are coming from um again larger businesses that also have attorneys that are looking to
122reduce tax flows um taxes that they have to pay so it could be a large apartment complex it could be you know a grocery store it could be whatever that's in our district so what we're trying to do is try to um uh we're trying to keep the playing field level if that makes sense um and the other thing to keep in mind that we have our district is unique in that not only do we cut across 18 different communities but we also have a large business infrastructure yeah so there's quite a few businesses who understandably so pay a lot in taxes correct and would love like I think most of us to see a reduction in those taxes so um it's important that we engage in the process because otherwise you all and single
123family homes are going to end up picking up the right yeah we appreciate that the increase so we're not looking to fight anybody right going to battle but we do want to make sure that and just so no means getting taken advantage of yeah and I I just want to clarify this is only on reductions that are over 100 100 000 so if you as a homeowner say boy you know I'm paying more than my next-door neighbor and I look it up in my next-door neighbor's house is is ten thousand dollars or twenty thousand dollars lower than mine and that you seek out that reduction we're not intervening at that point okay um the other thing that I um wanted to announce and this is a good thing is that um I'm happy to acknowledge
124that we did receive lead recertification yet again so this is our third um recognition by the US GBC U.S Green Building and uh us Green Building Council sorry easy for me to say um and this is for uh the what they call lead e-bomb which is existing buildings so our entire campus they look at all of the practices we achieved certification at the LA at the Gold level this does not include um our new edition which did receive Platinum not because that's a brand new facility so again um the policies that we have in place to continue to sustain to continue to practice sustainable um practices over time is working so it's okay okay and then uh one last item if everybody can hang in there for five more minutes and eight seconds um I
125have a video from the foundation that we'd love to share we had a foundation event on Saturday night at um it was a Nashville unplugged event it was awesome Yep Don was actually there and thank you Don for being there and supporting the foundation in addition to hearing just great singer-songwriters telling their stories about writing all these songs for famous people um the foundation actually showed a video that I just thought was really great it's a new video that they put together that I think they're going to be sharing um in different venues and I thought you would get a kick out of it because it really does show the impact that the foundation is having on behalf of our students so let me see if I can queue this up ever since the foundations
126started helping me I have that confidence to say I'm here I'm deserving of my space [Music] there are many good schools throughout the Chicago land area but what makes a school great Stevenson High School is an exceptional academic institution frequently ranked as the top open enrollment Public High School in Illinois there is no question that Stevenson inspires students to dream big [Music] you and my family circumstances there were times I felt that my future was uncertain that college Was Out Of Reach but with assistance and support I felt in high school and now I am an education giving back to students the care and authentication I've received and I have the Stevenson Foundation to thank for making it all possible Stevenson High School is extraordinary in every way focused on more than just test scores
127and state championships students experiences in and out of the classroom propel them to an array of colleges and exciting careers this is a place where a student can reach with stars as an educator photographer engineer or even an NPA player I'm Jalen Brunson NBA point guard in 2015 to see Mr high school graduate Steve and offers world-class academics and the best in-state co-curricular arts and Athletics but while the vast majority of students can take advantage of all of Stevenson has to offer there are hundreds who walk these Halls each day silently carrying a burden you may not see pretty sure should face financial hardship often like the most Basic Essentials they need to fully engage in their learning let alone access the school's Rich co-curricular experiences which are key to emotional growth for financially under-resourced
128our first generation students College can feel Out Of Reach even worse only five percent will ultimately be delivered what if there's a way to help and we didn't share right here right now that all students can succeed at Stevenson and Beyond [Music] the Stevenson Foundation empowers students to reach their brightest futures vital Foundation programs provide immediate assistance and long-term resources and our alumni association keeps Patriots connected I think without the support of the foundation I also would have gone to college my college search at a minimum would have been a far more conservative I guess in the sense that I would have been able to explore as many college options as many programs that they've offered and I think it would definitely considered going directly into the workforce more heavily outs if I had had
129the help of a foundation I don't think I would have pursued my education further than high school if it wasn't for the Stevenson foundation so once again I just want to give a thanks about Stephen saying you know it tends to be a higher income area all the theater schools tend to be higher income and so I feel like maybe like the lower income it gets overlooked a little bit like oh well Stevenson's rich like they don't need any help or support but there are kids from you know all different classes and all different backgrounds and so I think it's important that everyone feels supported not a lot of people have the uh the financials that a lot of the people here do at this school I have the resources I have a little Community
130behind find it and it's just like the knowledge that I'm not alone um and that there are other people supporting me within the foundation and other people that also want to see me uh succeed not only my family like I could just turn to anyone mostly anyone in the foundation be like hey what do you think about this or can I get your opinion on that and it's not something that I would have had had it not been for the foundation now maybe this crucial supports are possible without the partnership of community members like you it helps students Thrive here at Stevenson and with hard work and effort realize the future of their dreams join me in support and success of all Patriots make your gift or get involved today at CNC foundation.org foreign immediately
131after the video ended people start putting out their wallets it was amazing it was it was very cool um but it was a great event and it really just uh highlighted um the great work that the foundation is doing on behalf of kids so it was a lot of fun very well done yeah it was very well done and uh the event was such a hit that they're already talking about having another Nashville unplugged in a year a year and a half try to make it a an annual thing and uh it was really great so we're happy with uh with the work that that's happening there so that's all I have can I have a motion to adjourn yeah or we can stick around the government folks are saying please all those in favor
132all right