Adlai E. Stevenson High School Live Stream

001and to the republic for which it stands um i sure will frost in here whispering here are well of course in here moon's here no here shane here we are six tonight okay thank you do we have any correspondence no i don't know no um no statements i understand that we have some people who want to make a visitor statement okay so just so you know um we welcome your comments and love to hear what you have to say we're probably not going to respond tonight we'll respond at a later point and if you could limit your comments to three minutes we'd appreciate it okay i'm sorry could you please give us your name and the village you're from lori smith uh yes i have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal don't

002get me wrong i like girls in their curves i really like women and their curvier curves i spend hours in the bathroom with magazines that have a thousand pictures of naked movie stars naked women plus right hand equals happy happy joy joy yep that's right i admit that i masturbate i'm proud of it i'm good at it i'm ambidextrous if there was a professional [ __ ] league i'd get drafted number one and make millions of dollars and maybe you're thinking well i really shouldn't talk about masturbation in public well tough i'm going to talk about it anyway because everybody does it and everybody likes it and if god wants to didn't want us to masturbate then god would have given us thumbs so thank god for my thumbs did you know that indians are living proof

003that [ __ ] [ __ ] buffalo these are two parts of the book that was required reading for freshman english required not just a book that's on the library shelves this book is filled with vile and vulgar language assault violence against women sexual innuendo and blatant sexual imagery there is no explanation you or the teacher can provide that would validate any educational purpose of this assignment and if you're not aware the author is currently under investigation for sexual assault and sexual harassment of which he is not denied interestingly i posted these quotes from the required reading on facebook and i was restricted from further posting because it was flagged as hate speech now they're reading a book which is a graphically sexual book about a 13 year old being raped second a few weeks ago i imported the

004board that another teacher one who teaches freshman world history of a comment he made to his class he stated uh which has since been confirmed if you don't think that your parents will like what you're learning in class don't tell them then he proceeded to discuss in great detail the sexual orientation and the extensive sexual history of alexander the great's father i emailed every one of you my concerns and you didn't have enough respect to even simply acknowledge my email further another teacher publicly covet-shamed a student who told her she was going to florida with her family every one of these is in direct violation of your own board policy 680. we are getting sick of this district hyper-sexualizing the curriculum we are getting sick of teachers having free reign to give their personal opinions

005and present whatever curriculum and material they wish these teachers have failed the children miserably these are only three of a growing list of teachers that are making the children uncomfortable these teachers are being empowered by the district to pollute the students minds as long as they label it equity this is unacceptable we will not stand by while our children continue to be uncomfortable with what's happening under this roof i have been in education for 23 years and i can assure you i know what constitutes acceptable teaching practices and acceptable curriculum and these are not how do you think we know about these incidences because our kids are telling us we the parents have taught our children the difference between right and wrong and they know this is wrong and they are telling us daily if

006you think i'm going to stop paying attention to what's happening in the classroom let me be clear i'm not going anywhere i won't be canceled because i am not for sale thank you and do you want us to keep your speech because we do want to have a copy of yourself the top of this picture it'll be part of the minutes thank you very much any other comments and it's your way to contact you on the no it's um i can write it down if you do have my email from the email i sent you guys a couple weeks ago and i can write it down i just have one comment this book was banned in 2014 by the american library association and it is one of the most banned books of all the schools

007and who are you i'm another parent that's a child that's in the same class reading the same books have any of you read these books just do we have your name for the record stacey and your last name horowitz h-o-r-w-i-t and what villager from lincolnshire thank you okay okay any other comments okay um nicholas you're up well before i start on the presentation the holidays came early just a little bit of school board appreciation for you all i know last year michaela got you all mugs with calligraphy online oh thank you [Music] wow this is really nice thank you thank you so much thank you very much [Laughter] it doesn't get you out of giving you giving us one of your reports right okay so welcome to the school board presentation november 15th okay so

008we have student council really proud of the boomerang i took on instagram so this was this leads directly into my first point about can collections for student council so obviously it's the season season of service season of giving which is kind of spearheaded by national honor society with giveathon but they also do maybe food item drives as well as food drives can collections so student council is helping them in that endeavor so this weekend we were outside in front of sunset long grove from 10 to 2 p.m and i don't know how these members are that enthused in 35 degree weather i certainly wasn't but um that's we posted that on our instagram we just have a quick little sign and then we were both at both entrances and it was a huge success i

009think that was the most cans we've ever collected in my three years of doing can collections uh the next weekend we're in front of mariano's um in buffalo grove so make sure to stop by and donate some cans and then my next point is student congress so today we have an activity period so during activity period uh myself another officer and two of our newborn members abby sherig and kaden gasvini went to the west staff dining hall and we took petitions um and i felt like this was a really successful student congress because our pastor in congress um there was an issue with the forum but we corrected that today so hopefully eboard will vote on all the new petitions this thursday and then one thing we pledged as a council is to make the

010all the petitions public and kind of just make sure that everyone knows where the petitions are in the passing process so that was really important for our steps and that um and then last thing just very student council um so we figured out that we were supposed to take yearbook photos about a week ago but we don't really have any student council shirts yet so that's something we're doing within our organization and then before i move on i know you guys talk a lot about budget stuff so whoever approved canva pro for students good job okay next up we have freshman mentor program so kind of a bear slide but lots to go through so recruitment week that's starting this week this friday all during all lunch periods the freshman mentor program will be hosting

011informational meetings with a bunch of men with a bunch of mentors in the recital hall so this is for all prospective mentors so both sophomores and juniors are invited to come and this is super important so kind of for promotion fmp's asking mentors to post this on their instagram stories kind of why i joined fmp and then also just the information for the meeting and i think especially with last year social media has been such has become such an integral part to club's promotion and kind of boosting engagement with the full school so that's super awesome that they're doing that and then also they had a critically acclaimed ad for um a dancing ad by mr kanine which if you get approval from mr kanin you know your ads pretty good so they um remixed

012levitating by duolifa and it was an amazing ad it looked a lot like high school musical um then the next thing up is kind of more of a fun point so with leadership lunches those are meetings we have monthly as mentors and the main point with leadership lunches is the democracy i know i've weirdly learned a lot about um approved vendors for students then so lou malnati's has always been providing leadership the food at leadership lunches but we had pasta this week so that's kind of a fun update for freshman mentor program because we had um the sos program and then we also had leadership lunch on one week so we had luma nadi's like three days of the week which i'm sick of it so it's kind of fun to have and then the

013last thing on here um i think last week dr haney presented in the performing arts for um presented in the performing arts center um just about speak up protocol which is a lesson on bias unfortunately i wasn't there but luckily i got to have the same presentation done at slack um so i still kind of got that and it was a really i feel like it was a really important presentation when i talked with miss berger she said that he did an amazing job so i'm just going through i think the steps are interrupt um question educate and echo so those are kind of the four steps and i'll go more in depth about that later okay next up we have national honor society so not a whole lot of diversity within the slide because

014they're definitely super focused on giveathon so that's kind of an annual event and i kind of hinted at it last presentation so we're now in the selling phase and that's kind of coming to a close with the ending on november 30th so a bunch of um students are selling for each of their classes i'm doing one for my literature class sixth period so i'm working with several other students and some popular items i've seen this year are um arnold palmer's lots of drinks celsius you guys know celsius energy drinks those are super popular this year and also capri suns and stuff like that i think my sophomore freshman year the gushers were super popular so it's always interesting to see the different trends then collection day so um nhs eboard just sent out the sign

015up for collection day so nhs members really enjoy collection day because you're bringing all the gifts to the different sites and i think the members are super excited because it's a field trip and you get to miss a little bit of school and then the last point we have here um is advisory collections so this kind of ties in with freshman mentor program so during committee meetings nhs has been they had a box day which just means they're assembling cardboard boxes to put in each advisory and advisories compete to see who can collect the most mac and cheese boxes um and they also have to build a nice structure with it and the prize is yet to be determined okay moving on to the second last slide we have slack recap so um this goes

016back to um the speak up protocol like i said interrupt question echo and educate so throughout slack the bulk of the meeting was just going through um going through examples of stuff that has actually been said at stevenson which i was found shocking um and a little bit interesting as well just to see how people would respond and kind of just making sure that um the leaders at stevenson are trying to create a culture where every where we're trying to eliminate bias so that was a lot about the speak-up protocol um and then towards the end of slack we had um actually towards the beginning we had a finals discussion so i think this was one of my favorite slack meetings that i've been to because it really captured the essence of advisory within slack

017so mr gobble kind of talked about a lot of finals experiences and how finals usually in the past have ended up hurting students grades more than helping them so kind of just the evolution of finals because i definitely seen from my freshman year taking a 90-minute math final on the whole semester to last year online just doing the one target i needed to kind of show growth within evr so i think it's definitely beneficial and some of the benefits to what we have for finals now have been included um getting experience for the ap tests which i remember we did at the end of first semester in ap euro and then also just getting to bond with teachers i think in person school last year definitely was more intimate regardless but i think with the

018last couple of finals days if you didn't have a lot to do you could really talk with your teacher and build bonds which i thought was super helpful because now they're some of my favorite people i say hi to them in the hallway every day and they're recommending me to go to college so and then um the last thing we did in slack was question time so this was really just a q a hosted by mr gobble who i saw walking out he didn't want to see my presentation his daughter is getting an award tonight so i'll let him slide yeah just this one time but some things we talked about were odyssey logistics because a lot of music groups like triumph were represented and i know fine arts is super popular at stevenson so

019a lot of students were disappointed to lose odyssey this year you know it was kind of more optional it's just not necessarily built into our schedule we talked about ebr and kind of like efficacy grades and how that ties in with homework um the process for new classes mental health days which i think the illinois congress just passed for next year so that's a wide variety of topics which i thought was super important to discuss and some of them were brought up at student congress so kind of some overlap between those okay the last thing my favorite slide so first thing i want to talk about was senior nights so obviously at football games i've seen palms cheer um soccer band swim swim and dive field hockey et cetera like all the sports are really

020having your senior nights and it has me thinking about my senior night for tennis next semester so kind of a sad moment but obviously very happy for all my friends and everyone involved for senior night and i know it's a senior night but the whole team is really impacted because what i've learned from being on tennis is you know teams are never really the same from year to year and my freshman year team was especially um it was super special to me so definitely a lot of love for all the seniors regardless of what grade you're in on sports um then the next thing is world's fair so sadly this was the weekend that i got super super super sick so i couldn't go but um ten thousand dollars were raised and all the booths

021were held in the morning and then the performances were later on and the student council treasurer brianna was um lucky enough to go to one of the performances and provide me with this picture so shout out to her um then the next thing i wanted to talk about was november 1st so i'm often asked by mr weisberg what's kind of the vibe and feeling amongst the student body so i think um i know november 1st has passed and you think a lot of students are very relieved but i think that was kind of very short-lived because a lot of us have to are really gearing up for the end of the semester now and making sure that we show colleges the best all the best work we can for regular decision applications and then also

022those deadlines are fairly imminent so kind of just doesn't end but it's okay and then also military week so um this was actually a collaboration between political action club and students helping soldiers so they handed out poppy flowers at the beginning of the day kind of like what um the statesman does with their newspapers so that was super cool and mr canadian is obviously the leader of political action club so i see a lot of stuff so i saw a lot of the puppy flowers in his class and then one thing with this picture this was um signing day last week so i was lucky enough to go my friend nora kowalski was committing to miami ohio so i had to show up and support her obviously a lot of my peers were also signing

023as well so it's super proud moment for me just to know these people who are going to all these amazing schools and really achieved greatness athletically and then also um two other things or one other thing was um spongebob the musical is happening this weekend which i'm super super super excited for because i remember going to the play my freshman year and that was really really amazing so i'm excited to see what they do and a lot of my friends who are seniors have leading roles so we'll be excited to see all their performances and i think that's running the 19th 20th and 21st but don't quote me on that okay that's about it any questions no uh as always it's a fact-filled presentation and we love the way you do it thank you so

024much thank you any any i love my ppa planner so that's where i really got the inspiration from we really appreciate it thank you so much thank you thank you no just a comment i i appreciate having you here and i like watching you play tennis too but i'm really not curious as much about the vibe as i am that you are a unique uh window into a real-time unfiltered uh response of how the kids are feeling and i trust your judgment and your view thank you oh also one thing i forgot to mention um also daylight savings time obviously puts a damper on the mood so that's another thing to add to the student body but i think that's for everyone [Music] there were two like harvard professors they were like we need to

025ban um daylight savings time syntax said it over thank you so much oh he's great all right well um so oh wait can i go on sorry please what's up so i'm just so excited uh to have our uh members of our student services division here uh for our annual um update on our student surveys uh we did not get a chance to have you present last year because of covid and all that kind of craziness so we're very excited to have you back um i don't know did you break presents for the board did you want to start with president some 20s in my wallet i all right well we'll worry about that later okay so i'll sarah you want to introduce your team here not that they need any introduction exactly they're world-renowned

026um so again we're truly we're thrilled always for the opportunity to connect with you all and talk a little bit about the work we've done to support our students for the last year we have for how many years in a row now patty is this your 20 this is my 26th but i missed my 25th okay so her 25th year of sharing this information with um with you all um and we like to say we're the original student voice survey so patty will ship like before panorama was even a thing um paddy will share that information and then super excited this year to be joined by sarah francis who um as you all know is our assistant director of student services and has made so many wonderful um so many of the things that we'll

027describe possible um in our division over the last year and a half awesome do you feel adequately introduced i do okay do i have to keep my mask on okay all right so student satisfaction surveys this is what we're going to be talking about today one second give me one second i'm sorry okay thank you um so the the og student voice survey we're going to talk about some student services information some school-wide information and then we got ramp and we'll tell you about what that is we have some lessons that we've learned during the pandemic that are continuing on and then our student services mental health wellness focus are what we're going to be talking about today so starting with our survey procedures it was a little different last year we did our surveys

028over zoom during course selection we had our 12th graders do our um our exit survey during their hybrid english classes in april and may and then our one year and five year surveys were now actually instead of phone calling all the people that we can get we are partnering partnering with the alumni association and sending out a google survey to all the alumni that we have and um our one year survey for the class of 2020 we had 147 respondents and then for the five year survey for the class of 2016 we had 148 respondents so it's nice it's about 50 more students 50 more students correct yes so let's talk about the student services information first so um one of the things that you probably knew but maybe not so go over it a

029little bit is that um on a normal year students come into our offices and let us know how they're feeling they tell us over email but a lot of the times they're just walking into our offices and when we were hybrid they couldn't do that so we really had to think differently about how the students were able to contact us and how we were able to contact them so some of the things that we did during hybrid learning we had zoom offices office hours every day at the beginning of the year we had weekly office hours for the rest of the year we had calendly links where students could get direct access to our calendars to make appointments with us we had canvas pages for every grade level we still continued our weekly advisory visits

030we had bitmoji pages for the freshmen do people know what bitmoji pages are i've ever seen a bitmoji face i'll show you really quickly what a bitmoji page is um so it was a little page that looked like this and i was on there and we had miss wright and miss fenton on there because they were my advisory teachers and just information about my family and things and just stuff that the students could connect to um when i was seeing them on zoom so we did that we also had a de-stress hub for stevenson where students could go through and have books and different arts and crafts that they could do etc so we really tried to see how we could help the students in virtual environments we did our pulse survey and we'll talk

031a little bit about that um later we did individualized course selections via zoom we had remote college and career programming we had group supports via zoom and then we did some pandemic specific support groups so all these things we were hoping that students would feel like we were available to them that we were connected to them and we were hoping that our numbers would not go down a lot on our student surveys really and so what happened was actually we got the highest numbers that we've ever had in terms of accessibility a hundred percent virtually a hundred 100 i think so less than six students said that we were not accessible um academic counseling our helpfulness in that was 100 of students agreed our friendliness and approachability again 100 percent and then asking the students

032do you feel your counselor knows you 97 percent of them agreed to that and then um if students were comfortable discussing personal or non-academic concerns with us 94 of them agreed that yes they were comfortable doing that so when we talk about this being the original student voice survey like what was the change so why did we even do this and i think probably terry was the only person around when i was giving this conversation um 25 years ago but this is where it started so would we ask them in 1997 if they were comfortable talking to their counselors about personal issues 74 of them said yes and now we're at 94 it's been a while since 1997 but this is where we started and this is where we've gotten to and even in a

033year of a pandemic we were still able to continue with that belonging with that accessibility so we're very proud of that fact so let's talk about some school-wide information first of all the connectedness or the belongingness of students to their stat the staff members um this is a question we ask every year how name the people who had a positive impact on your high school experience we asked the class of 2021 and they named 569 people this was a class that did not have um school for a year and and a little and still came up with 569 separate staff members the year before was the only year that was higher than that which was 591. some of the things that the students said about this and i think you all know but we have

034about a thousand of these comments about our staff members so he's always output size making classroom a community the security guards are true legends they were able to connect with us and they kept us under control so that's good stuff he teaches like miyagi i met so many shs staff who really care about student well-beings they were very understandings of understanding of the situations when our personal and academic lives merged together they were really welcoming and made it worthwhile coming to school during the pandemic she was always super happy i noticed something about the faculty at shs i've never had a teacher i did not like and then i'm very very happy extremely satisfied they're amazing people they made me feel as if i belonged here they saw potential that even i myself did not

035recognize so again just the teachers even during a pandemic really making their classrooms a community and connecting with connecting with the students so some other interesting information first of all this is from our one year survey so down here in the and this is um 2021 91 of our one-year survey uh recipient or um respondents had completed ap classes and 87 percent of those received credit when they went to college so those are very high numbers we have some other just interesting information about that one in five year survey so this is 99 of the students in the one-year follow-up survey attended college after stevenson and 97 of the five-year follow-ups uh attended college in the five-year follow-up 91 percent completed in undergraduate degree in five years and then of those students 88 of them

036finished a bachelor's degree in four years or less and i think we've spoken about this before that has more to do with the ap credit that they go in with as well as socioeconomic status that they can afford to pay for four years of school but that's an extremely high number and i think the board has asked before how does this compare to other schools and um nobody gets this information quite frankly so there's a there's usually a six-year graduation rate because the four-year graduation rate is so low also the one-year follow-up 96 of those students so this is the class of 2020 felt as well or better academically prepared than their peers 95 of those college freshmen report a college gpa of 3.0 or both so they're doing very well here and then when

037they're going to college they're continuing that some information on the college majors so many times we have seen that our one-year respondents have said that they are going for multiple majors and by the time they're five year that multiple majors falls off the list and this year actually we had multiple majors as they started and then five years later those students were getting bachelor's degrees in more than one major and then we've got business and health sciences and then the health sciences falls off a little bit and engineering coming up strong for the five year some more five-year information um so the big change here is this is the the highest amount of working the percentage of working alumni after five years at 74 and then the still attending school either finishing their undergraduate degree

038or continuing on with graduate school and then only one percent of them looking for work and then one percent of them doing something else and then this is just reflections on stevenson this is from the one-year survey what would they change and this is numbers these aren't percentages so 16 of them would have gotten more involved in clubs and activities 12 would have worried less about grades another 12 would have had more fun and nine would have world that worried less about taking ap classes so you can see that they were they were more i just would have had more fun at stevenson and then nothing they loved it and then the five-year pretty much the same thing so get more involved have more fun and hang out with my friends take more electives that

039interest me less academic stress and pressure and then 15 of them would have changed nothing and then what were the best aspects of shs so always number one is teachers and staff and then friends clubs and sports so now we just want to tell you about what's going on it's in student services at this time we are a ramp school so we have a little plaque that we were presented with at the american school counseling association and here dr frost i will give that to you thank you welcome so what does ramp mean ramp is recognized american school counseling association model program it requires an evaluation of our divisions programs and resources to ensure that we're meeting the needs of students and families it's an application that we put through in 2019 and it was

040about 175 pages long that we had to tell them all about the um all about the programs that we have here just a fun fact we were the largest school counseling staff that has ever received the ramp um recognition but we were recognized in 2020 and then the whole world shut down right so that's okay um but then what does ramp mean that the school counseling program is based on data informed decision making delivered to all students developmentally appropriate we're focusing on all student needs for post-secondary readiness and success closing achievement and opportunity gaps and then really improve student achievement attendance and discipline so that is our ramp status we have that for five years and then we get to re-ramp right that's right yes so we get to re-ramp after that congratulations seriously you

041know a number of us were involved in some of those meetings early on and it does seem like a long time ago like that covered years like seven dog years or whatever that is just so long ago but i know that was a lot of work and we're really grateful for it hopefully the process you know was valuable to you as you know a reflective opportunity and i know you guys have made a lot of really great growth so i didn't want to let that go without thank you just congratulations it's well deserved and so thank you good work maybe if the board members wanted to like keep the plaque for a month in each one of their houses they could right on instagram like i know the admin team wants to as well so

042you know different holiday celebrations everybody yeah right like the stanley cup yeah yeah thank you very much congratulations um so what were our pandemic lessons and i sort of say this like we're out of it but we're not really but the things we learned from our hybrid year first of all the calendly sign up for students so we have continued to do that so any student can email us get our in our signatures we have a link to calendly and they can have direct access to our calendars to make appointments to see us that also that information is on our website so they can do that we continue to have remote and virtual meetings for families through the ccc any school meetings we have 504 meetings that we have and really we're hoping that this

043increases access to our programming to families who might not have child care or transportation or other things to make it that make it difficult to come to some of those meetings so we are continuing to do that as the students have found social media is a great way to get the word out about our programming um we have a very active student services instagram page now it's very exciting i'm on so many reels or stories or whatever um we are recording our presentations for students and families to see and then all of these things really um rely on an amazing communications team so jamie is really our bff [Music] she is amazing just trying to figure out how we can communicate with the with the community with our students with their families and to get

044the word out so one of the things we we did a little differently because and it's great because jamie's able to see things she's like this really doesn't make any sense can we tighten this up a little bit like yeah as a matter of fact we absolutely can so one of the things that we did was the let's talk about your future night so it was it's our home our no homework night but we are now using it really to kick off course selection so that's sort of how we're selling it we do it every year in october students and families are encouraged to talk to each other about their goals but then really talk to them about their goals so that it informs course selection and we have guiding questions on the website and

045um this is this is the data from our survey who participated and did it have a uh did it inform their course selection and you can see that if they participate it does inform their course election so we need more students to participate and we're hoping that we're doing some things this year and in years to come to do that so the changes we did we put lataef is what we call it on the website as the beginning of course selection so the experience is more cohesive instead of making it a game we just gave some guiding questions to families if they had uh if they were having a problem sort of getting that communication started we did do social media posts leading up to the event and then the counselors were really a physical

046presence in the common areas of the that day to just remind the students so here we are with students we asked them to write down the name of a class that they were excited about taking in the future and then we gave them some welch's fruit snacks because that seems to be the thing to give the kids these days um so that's all of us with the class they're deciding that they're excited to take in the future so that was fun just getting out and seeing the kiddos and then we've got our wellness and mental health focus so again we we gave pulse surveys to students and i believe you talked about this at the um at the summer retreat but about 11 000 pulse surveys were given over the school year last year 662

047students responded that they were having more concerns than usual and then social workers and counselors followed up with these students but then how are we moving that into the school year where students are here and we're able to see them we really are having this focus first of all we are utilizing social media and we're having the students help us utilize social media so we're partnering with these student groups and more to just get the word out about mental health and wellness our first um our first big fall event was the street fest wellness week and there and it was super hot that day but we had a lot of students we had a lot of students show up it was with peer helpers and then we had things that were happening after school so

048really wanting to have that mental health focus happening um just to start the year off and then as we continue on through the years we are going to have the comfort dogs coming in again that should be fun our end of the semester de-stress activities and then we're partnering with uh people from the admin team and faculty to incorporate wellness lessons within the classroom so we're trying to get there with very structured and targeted things to students in classrooms to really get that well that mental health and wellness focus in there and that's it that's all i got for you anybody have any questions yes scary how are the counselors managing to keep up with all this stuff and how are you keeping your eye on them to make sure that they're okay because it

049seems like you have so many great programs in their presence you know throughout the school and all these in the survey responses it's just so much activity and i'm sure you're getting a lot of input from students who are reaching out for health more than usual how are the counselors dealing with that yeah i'll take that gary um thank you first of all for acknowledging that it really has been um you know we've we've been working hard in student services because i think we've seen as would we would anticipate that students have struggled to readjust some students have struggled to readjust to the school year one of the things that i'm proud of in terms of how we've thought differently about our work in student services is we've really leaned on our core counselors and

050we've created teams to kind of help counselors have other folks within our division to rely on so we have pods we call them um our three pods within student services where the counselors have their six colleagues and they are sharing some of the work um working together to get through some of the things that they need to manage and being able to collaborate and really rely on on one another i think um some of the other things that we've done too is just try to like the good counselors we are acknowledge that it's been a tough year and try to create some spaces where we can just be honest about that and help support each other as colleagues through um through you know what has been a challenging fall and lastly i would share we're

051really um stepping up our data collection so every student now swipes into the office uh to see their counselor social worker psychologist or dean so we have more comprehensive data than we've ever had before about the workload and students that each counselor social worker and psych is seeing and so we plan to look at that we've actually already started doing that but really plan to look at that data to help us understand how we can better support counselors and to help us kind of get a sense of um of the patterns and how we may need to adjust um accordingly i don't know sarah or patty if there's anything else that was great yeah of course thank you for the question yes yeah let me ask it a different way sure yeah i think um

052i i think you know this year so it's truly it's it's a little bit hard to give a comprehensive sense of how students are adjusting back i will tell you you know some some numbers that um that we need to be mindful of is our risk assessment so the follow-ups that we have to do when students share concerns around you know self-harm or harm to others are up quite a bit you know and it's a third of the way into the school year but that's something that we're we're struggling with our hospitalizations are increased for students so i think it is we are seeing student needs evolving and increased this year and um we are having to work you know to to meet the needs of of students and to think about how work is

053assigned within our division to to meet the needs of kids i think you might to that because you know we're seeing that increased need i think every school is so that kind of um ties into the community resources that are tapped into and maybe the lack thereof of availability so we're seeing higher wait lists in the community yeah so to kind of counterbalance that i think our amazing folks in student services are supporting kids um even more on different levels that maybe they would have received supports outside in the community before so yeah that comes to us yeah so the other question i have is uh i'm not really clear on your answer if your blade's too full or not but is your plate too full yeah i think our plate is really our plate

054is still high it's full um our plate is full yeah i think you know what i would like to say is i think um i think our plate is full and i think we we need to continue to kind of look at um the data that we're gathering from a from a year-long standpoint and and really analyze it i i almost feel and i'm truly not trying to be um evasive i'm really not i just feel like we we need a little bit of a bigger picture of where things are at um we're currently in a dangerous real quick we're currently doing a time study and so that that's what they're referring to looking back over the pandemics though how badly did we get hurt from the from the in terms of the impact on

055students yeah i think um i think sarah alluded to a significant impact and that is the community resources and the hospital programs and things like that that used to exist a lot more to meet the more intensive needs of students they are quite full and taxed themselves so families as they should are looking to us to um sort of fill that gap and so we are um having to really be um we're having to kind of evolve and shift to be able to maybe meet that need that previously quite honestly we would have relied heavily on um the community to be able to support you know because we are not as as you all probably know that is not the role of really a student services division we we are not um intensive we don't

056do intensive counseling we support kids so they can access their education so it is putting a strain on us and as sarah said this is across the this is literally a national issue yeah it's not a stevenson unique thing but it's it's a national issue that um that is um that's new for us that we're kind of really having to evolve to figure out how to address that it's concern stuff yeah yeah thank you thank you so just follow along that do you see where students are coming out of that gradually sure yeah and it i think i would and thank you faye for that question i think what i would say and please jump in i feel like i'm down there oh you're doing i always do um it's really hard to generalize the

057student experience this year so i think we have seen some students they can't wait to be back and they are loving all the things and they are so excited and eager to be uh to be kind of experiencing in-person school so that is is absolutely an experience that lives out there and i'm that's wonderful um and then we are also seeing some students who are struggling um and we're not seeing it get better at this point yet then we also see um a group of students who dealt with the transition and it's a success story we are working to help those students kind of work through some of their their challenges and be successfully integrated back into the class so again i wish it was a i wish it was a tidier we have a

058messy um you know it's kind of um a messy job that we do that it's hard to kind of um to answer in a succinct way sometimes so i think there's lots of different experiences of lots of different students if that that helps and i think to add to that so i know patty on one of the slides was mentioning the partnerships with student programs and student clubs i'm blessed to be one of the sponsors of peer helpers so really one of the shining lights i think for myself and the pandemic i think all of us in student services is seeing our students even step up in terms of kind of social awareness mental health supports and it's like pure helpers for example does a variety of awareness weeks throughout the school to talk about

059different initiatives we just had the lgbtqia plus awareness week mental health awareness weeks so our students are really stepping up as well to work with us as sst members in order to help support these really important initiatives and cause and create awareness in order to support their community which is amazing to see i agree i think another piece too um to to piggyback on that is so you know in the nine years that i've done this job we have seen students become much more comfortable with talking about mental health and acknowledging the struggles they're having and advocating for their peers you know wanting to make sure their friends are are supported and that is amazing and wonderful and i'm so i'm really as always are they the new generation will help um will help save

060the world right so that's a wonderful thing um and it also means that we need to be prepared to help the students as they are more comfortable coming to us saying hey look i really need your help right now i'm struggling or my friend is struggling um so i think that's a great problem to have right like we made it so that they are comfortable seeing us yep so they're comfortable seeing us and they're coming to see us yeah yeah so my question was you could sort of hit on it but you know in terms of one of the big changes that i've certainly seen in the communication piece is that it's student focused a lot with the you know peer helpers and all that do you see that as being sort of your next

061the next bridge the next is that really where the focus is going to go in terms of helping students help i'm not talking about crisis management or risk you know but just really kind of continuing to grow the students helping each other is that that's kind of the future yeah i mean that's certainly um how i look at it as always our students i think they have an ability to impact each other in a way that we never will as adults and we saw that on that 129 degree day in august when we were all at mental health street mental our wellness street fest um that was a really powerful event where we were seeing our student leaders in their very best light helping to you know recruit um community providers yoga people all these

062different sorts of um wellness initiatives and to really spread the word to encourage their uh their friends to come and i think ted i don't think i'm speaking out of term but ted shared that was one of the best attended street fests in recent memory so um what a cool collaboration um what a truly cool organic student-led experience and i think we're looking for ways to um to have more of that to truly help the students help us help them well and i remember from the survey diving into the questions a little deeper that often the top answer for where to get assistance was from their friends that was very consistent and it was a specifically academic tutoring sets but um clearly that is where they feel comfortable and want to go so i like

063that direction yeah absolutely and i loved what you said too this idea that um not necessarily for like these crazy situations right so i think part of our work is so important to um help educate students on when to ask for help and what are certain situations like our signs of suicide program that we facilitate in freshman and junior programs um you know some of these things are beyond what we would want a teenager to be dealing with supporting their friend necessarily completely through and that's where trained professionals come into play so i love what you said there because i think that's so important in terms of our work and educating and supporting our students and i think normalizing you know everyone feels anxiety everybody i think is right bringing that into a realm of

064that's not a crisis that's that's just a feeling sometimes how do we manage that i think is a really key piece to their overall well-being yeah that they should be able to hopefully help support each other with yeah absolutely thank you all yeah we sincerely appreciate your support thank you thank you we love getting the report thank you so much all right see you next year [Applause] and thank you for being there for all of our students here and we do all appreciate that that you were there for them sarah francis are you happy in your new role i am thank you guys yes thank you please we're happy in her number all yeah sitting okay um and uh we're also excited to have tony rival here tonight uh to join us and share our

065student achievement report again last year with covet and all the challenges and difficulties these are two presentations we didn't get a chance to share last year so we're excited uh to have tony rival our assistant principal for teaching and learning here to share our 2021 student achievement report so thank you tony for being here i just smiled at everybody but i yeah yeah we saw it all right good good um how's everybody doing good thank you all right so this is our annual student achievement report that i do every year last year was on zoom glad to be back in person sharing this information my office has been hard at work putting this together to give you a good glimpse of what we've been doing this and how we've been performing this last year uh

066i added this in uh just before this just to make sure that we could follow along when you guys look at this in pdf form here's the contents and the slides that they pertain to we're going to start out with sat now again this report connects to our school goals and how we're doing in relation to those and the sat we were able to give the sat but we were not able to give the psat 10 due to covets so there were still some shortfalls in our data some some holes that will hopefully this year will be able to fill but it is a little bit short still the first slide uh that uh i want to show here is our mean scores and how we compare to the state and uh and nation as

067well so if you look just how to read this we've got our two subtests our reading and writing at the top and math and then we've got our benchmarks illinois benchmark college board benchmark and those cut scores there then we've got a history of our students performance all the way back to 2017 to and then the last two rows are how we compare to the state and how we compare nationally in 2021. uh so you can see us our scores even through the pandemic were pretty steady which was exciting and we still are above the the state and national averages as well but again the exciting part to me and and i think to the admin team today was uh that we stayed steady through the the pandemic so did we did they change the

068grading so that remaining steady just means steady relative to everyone else they never change the grade yeah that norm doesn't change so that's really quite unexpected yeah um continuing on with sat we our kids continue to show great growth so 90 of our students meet expected growth 20 percent even go to exceeding that growth um we have about six percent of the class of 2022 um exceeded maximum growth in both the reading and writing and math so in both subtests they exceeded which is also a pretty exciting fact but on the flip side we still have about one percent of our students still not meeting minimal growth and i think the follow-up question that we'll continue to explore is how do we help these students as far as the number of s.a.t exams taken the

069interesting part on this slide to me is that our there was an increase of students who only relied on the school day s.a.t as their sole s.a.t exam so there's an increasing number of kids who just take that school day s.a.t and that's what they take in you know there's obviously we have weekend sats that kids can take at other schools and our site as well but there is kind of this decreasing number of taking those extra you know two three sats and just relying that one or two um chances at that so i can't speculate to as why that is but it is um well one potential is schools aren't required you know and the the kids know that they're not you know depending on where they're trying to go and what you know

070if you don't have to what would you so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out over the next few years when things return to normal if i think it's here to stay for test optional for an awful lot of schools and my concern is the seven students that took four or more sats um there's twenty five years to do well and she would get into a certain school that's that's a lot of pressure on kids yeah i don't think that's a bad thing the way those numbers are going that that that those numbers are coming down from the year before yeah it's entirely possible that illinois will move away from act and sat as the state test as more and more states do so and more and more colleges make it test optional

071why would you have it as your state test if it's no longer you know considered a an integral part of the application process so i i don't know what the lifespan is of she is a state test but i i don't think it'll be right ect is going to die off first personally yeah just because they don't have the college board sat has the whole college board suite behind them and they have a lot of power in the industry act doesn't i wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years that has gone all together absolutely all right and kind of rounding out the sat the highest and last score uh average um scores i put this in here mainly because the rep told me one time that the first time a kid takes the

072standardized test is their height statistically plays out to be their highest score and if you look to uh the column on the right we continue to have a large amount of students who grow and continue to get better each time that they take it so i refuse to believe that the first time was their highest score so i went after this data point this year and uh our our kids uh supported me in that hypothesis so we are uh excited to see that our kids continue to grow that their highest score tends to be their last time they take it so they are working hard and uh achieving that as well and if uh you don't speak sat yet that 1256 is approximately at 26 it's it's around the 26 i'm gonna see for just

073a comparison for those who've been around these numbers for a while and now for intermission we don't have any illinois state science assessment we had a waiver that we took so the kids that would normally get in the spring when it's normally taken they took it this fall we don't have the data until january and then we will give the current juniors the illinois assessment this spring again so we will have a huge uh uh wave of this data next year but for right now i consider this intermission in the presentation uh college readiness uh one of our school goals is that our kids take at least by the time they graduate one college level experience this includes dual credit campus of nap and for the last four years we're kind of in line with

074that again 92 percent of our kids graduate with at least one college level experience so that's exciting to see that even through cover the kids persisted and reached out for those college level experiences and they kept the percentage the same now for the media part of the presentation ap student performance we had a slight increase in the number of students three whole kids that took an ap exam what's that three tests oh i'm sorry three whole tests sorry i skipped ahead yeah three whole tests we increased by um so pretty steady with last year we had about 50 uh kids who completed at least one ap so an increase of 50. and we had a 62 of our juniors and seniors uh took at least one ap exam so the data's pretty steady to last

075year not too much of a change um we had 84 percent of our students earn at least one score of a three again pretty consistent with years past we had 82 percent of all the exams those 5 000 exams 82 of those received a three or above so again pretty consistent with the numbers in the past as well so not too much of excitement in the data has been pretty steady but um i think that's good as well uh in 2020 so this is the long all the way back to 2003 this graph's getting pretty hefty at this point but um in 2020 we had virtual exams only so all ap exams during covid that year were all online they were 45-minute exams uh and i believe most of them were in essay format but

076this year 2021 this past spring they were both formats some were only paper back to the old way and some continued to be online but the interesting point is that we had less exams if you look to 2019 18 even 17-ish we had kind of less exams these last two years but we had an increase in kids taking the exams so that was an exciting data point to see this year now do we did we write more exams than anyone else in the world in the world i don't i don't know i'm assuming we do but i don't i don't know yes the world scared me the word world's good no i mean there's a way though it's a data point you could i would be shocked if there was any school there before but

077we will find out thank you okay uh we did in the just nationally we saw kind of a dip in the average score in the modal score between last year and this year our mode state study our modal score across all exams was a four and our average dipped slightly to 3.6 it's been you know the last five six years it's been at 3.8 3.9 but nationally that average dipped as well so i think just across the board uh kids you know dipped a little bit due to you know coming out of that fatigue cove it i think uh just as a footnote i put on there uh 26 out of our 31 ap courses did have a lower mean uh than compared to 2020 so it wasn't that drastic but it was a lower

078a lower mean so nothing really to cause alarm it wasn't like 3.8 to 1.2 but just to highlight that there was this overall trend in most of our courses just to dip a little bit some other things decline in overall scores like i just said particularly hard hit was world language and stem ap chem and ap calc a b were particularly hard hit as far as the dip in the average uh there's been an overall decline in the number of ap exams taken in the past two years uh globally um so sorry nationally and uh uh shs our ap physics one had more scores of two than previous years those are just some trends that we saw on the data we continued out most of our ap exams in math science and social studies that's

079pretty consistent with years past you can see the mean score of 3.8 math 3.3 in science 3.7 social studies and percentage of exams that scored a three or above you can see the percentage there as well but this is pretty consistent with years past that math science and social studies are heavy hitters when it comes to writing exams this is a breakdown by grade level again the majority of our juniors and seniors are are taking the ap the bulk of our ap exams uh sophomores again pretty pretty high we do have 11 freshmen who took exams it's particularly it's the language exams that you don't offer the courses for so japanese is one of them i know you mentioned another one today japanese was one of them i can't remember we get uh a few

080kids who try to take the ap world history test after they take five that's right history without taking the world district ap class so i think it is it's increased by like two or three kids but it's typically you know in the 10 or less so we're pretty consistent um of the students who registered and took at least one exam um the bulk of those kids 57 percent took one or two um the next highest was three to four um so again just to show that we don't have a ton of kids taking six seven eight exams even though the kiddos wanna kind of throw that myth out there we're just not seeing that and this has been pretty consistent since we started pulling this data about four or five years ago um moving to

081great distribution kind of round on the corner for and heading home here our grade distribution i know this might be harder to see but if we look at our a's b's and c's d's and f's across each of our divisions and we look kind of like pre-covered to during covid our grade distributions didn't really change so we didn't have more kids getting d's and f's or struggling more than we saw pre-covered this is some one same lots of green those are in blue those are a's and b's so again pre-coven it was pretty consistent with that so back to the sat our third party exams didn't held steady our grade distributions held steady so those kids were able to our kids were able to persevere and kind of keep keep going through that pretty big

082event so um seal of uh a new addition to the student achievement report is our seal by literacy we had 259 students earn the clo by literacy and since 2015 we've increased the number of these awards particularly in spanish chinese and french there were 12 languages in which students received the seal in seven commendations and 70 students awarded accommodation toward by literacy now the difference being a former language teacher talking to justin fisk our director a seal is intermediate high level of that language right and accommodation is intermediate low so they have to achieve those two levels of speaking intermediate high you get the seal whatever language it is and intermediate low you would get the accommodation and there's a rubric and criteria for that um but that's what the difference between those two to

083me uh so about 30 of our our graduating class uh received either a seal or accommodation so i think that's pretty exciting do you have any that received it in multiple languages a few yeah a number of our chinese students working spanish get it in spanish and chinese so in and a couple of russian students that's impressive yeah my own boy who's a freshman here he said to me the other night can i get that seal thing and i'm like yeah sure go for it so it's even on his radar as well uh and then closing up the uh our student voice survey a panoram panorama survey for social emotional learning um we've been watching through our student voice survey our classroom belonging and even though we had that covet dip which is expected we're

084back up to uh that 71 percent of our of the 22 000 students saying that they felt uh strongly connected to their classroom and where that puts us is in the 99th percentile so even though that percentage you know not sure a lot of assumptions that we are in the 99th percentile with uh classroom belonging and i think that goes along with what sarah and sarah and patty were talking about the students do feel connected to us they want to learn from their peers so i'm excited to see this when in the winter survey so we're talking about our junior class here when it came to our sel questionnaire so this is different than the student voice survey this is our class by class sel questionnaire and grit seemed to hold steady as far as

085their students self reporting that they're able to persevere through challenges um and that puts us in the 70th percentile so you know not as high as classroom belonging um you know even though it held steady kind of through the cove at time we do fall 70 percent with uh students self-reporting that they feel that they can hit uh persevere through challenges but on a positive note with grit our freshmen came in and reported and came out with a 3.8 which put them whoops molly don't have the 80th percentile 80th there it is 80th percentile so a little bit more grit out of our incoming freshmen and or our new freshmen so that was exciting to see as well that coming out of the pandemic some of those kids who are seventh graders maybe in mind

086and body here are saying hey i can meet the challenges of stevenson high school and i feel pretty good about it so um that was exciting to see all right any questions does it surprise you that the uh grade distribution was different uh not necessarily because our grade distributions represent competence and skills more than participation and compliance points so i think whether you're providing evidence via virtual or in person i think you can still achieve that same level so i'm not totally surprised by it it didn't make me wonder but i i think what we've done with our grading has helped because if we didn't have it that way you'd have to really adjust what we were doing before the traditional stuff so could have skewed it and i i do think that the scores

087on the s.a.t and the ap exams showed for the most part that we came through it at a pretty similar level so academically we were coming still performing at a level that we had before and i think that outside measure sort of lines up so it's not attributed to a lowering of the bar and teachers just being nice to them basically right if it was great if it was great inflation you would expect to see a significant drop in your ap scores exactly it's a good question it's just you know those are naturally normal assessments so you feel a little bit more comfortable i i i would have expected a different result but i do think that to be clear though i mean our teachers were working their tails off on behalf of kids and

088i think that you know needs to just be recognized as well and and our kids worked really really hard so you know i think that um there was just a lot of hard work put in during the pandemic which also i think contributed to pretty steady levels of learning so i think all those things combined you know well the thing i'm trying to get my arms around what i was asking sarah and was asking tony is how badly did our kids get hurt and if the answer is not that bad um i wouldn't say that where does it show no i think you have a lot of is it social emotionals absolutely and i think that's what sarah said is you have a lot more referrals and you have a lot more yes yes yes

089and i think that our kids are seeing we are seeing a significant rise in the number of students who are struggling with mental health issues and so i and again you know although they did okay academically i do think there was a cost and continues to be a cost to the pan to their mental health as a result of the pandemic i would agree do we adjust any capacities because of that um we have even if it's temporary yeah we have in different places within the organization especially through the elc are we flexible yes and the elc provides us with a lot of flexibility for a great number of our kids so yeah they're doing it right we're doing the best they can yes so how does this all tie to [Music] toward the end

090of last year we did testing to see where during summer we would try and increase the proficiencies of where the kids were being hurt it was i don't remember now what happened didn't we do testing at the end of last spring where we saw where the deficiencies were we're going to remedy that in the summer weren't there things well not testing per se but we you know examined them examining how the kids were performing in their classes and then tried to see if we needed to create any specific courses to kind of close the gaps on kids that's how i guess i would describe it yeah like more of a crosswalk between sat proficiencies and the proficiencies in our classrooms it wasn't necessarily just a test of that it was just more we didn't want

091to test kids but was it was was that part of what helped uh maintain the performance or uh i i didn't i didn't collect that data so i can't we wouldn't know how to determine probably not yeah because the great distributions you were showing did not include summer school correct eric do the did these results get shown to the teachers so they have an idea of all that hard work is paying off part of our mid-year meeting usually in the mid-year meeting we showed not to the extent that tony just did but we do share information out yeah i guess just to get the message across that we know that you guys are jumping through loops for 18 months and look it actually has paid off the students are are doing well yeah absolutely all

092things consider all right and then jamie you know includes the information as well we push it out we'll include it now in the board briefs also um so but yes yeah i think this would be good for the community to be aware of for sure well tony thank you so much this is great and maybe tony you could work with jamie and troy if petrol is interested on helping to maybe provide some of those highlights that jamie can include in the board brief and then maybe even in the minute man if tony if you want to maybe put together a little article to the minuteman as well jamie yeah okay jordy tapping on the shoulder she already got you okay no faith yes i i do have a question it might be too early to

093think about it um anyway in case the sat act are gone and so it's like a big block of this learning teaching track record will be missing so in addition other than ap scores and our grades distribution have you i feel like we seem to be missing a really important part our students are doing so well in all sorts of competitions state level national have we ever thought about collecting data in that regard it's it's academic thinking about it i think we would have to collectively talk about that but could we ted has a lot of that data and trish obviously compiling all of that would be interesting um we could i think that's really a big part of stevenson's students achievement um a lot to do with the teachers classroom um and then if

094the sat is gone i wouldn't well i don't think the sat will ever be gone don't get me wrong i think act and sat will be here for a long long time i just don't think the state of illinois will require it as the state test right now the s.a.t is our high school state test um i think that's something that they'll consider you know eliminated at some point but i think act and sat will be here for many years to come because it'll be something that kids will be able to use to differentiate themselves when applying to colleges and some kids will want to be able to demonstrate how well they can perform on those tests so it'll be here it's just i don't know that illinois will use it as its high school

095measurement of how high schools are doing if that makes sense but to your point yes that'd be interesting to try to compile you know all that information into one place yeah i've been working with last year i worked with jamie before that gym because i always use that for my graduation speech but that's kind of hard to compare for years [Music] international physics competition one of five us students but the next year you have someone who won a you know an international science fair how do you compare or contrast whether you're doing better or worse it's great information to have because it tells a story but it's when you're doing the kind of comparison that we're doing here it's different for college application how they would um allow you to present your achievement is is

096it like school level state level national level or international level that's how they would characterize it let me sort of achieve that i just think it's it's such a nice piece of information we it seems we're not presenting it sure i can start conversations with ted and see where that goes okay all right thanks for the homework thank you so much tony we appreciate you thank you great job thanks thank you okay um so those are two reports uh for tonight and again um you know last year we we had to do tony's report virtually and i don't think we were able to present um information from student services so it was nice to see both of those tonight and in person so thank you for being a part of those okay um so tonight

097mark we have our uh we're recommending tonight that the board approved our goals projects and initiatives with action steps uh you may have had the opportunity to explore those uh more in depth but this is something we worked on at the retreat and over the past couple months mark has worked with the administrative team to identify very specific action steps that members of the administrative team will do to help us reach each of those goals projects and initiatives so tonight the recommendation is that board approved the action steps for the 2021-2022 gpis as presented can they have a motion so moved second thank you any questions for eric on the gpis uh it's a voice vote all in favor opposed passes okay and then we also have uh tonight um bringing forward a recommendation for

098the board to adopt policy updates contained in press plus issue 106. and if you recall um we are excluding uh policy for colon 9-0 which sean is working on with his team and virtually all of the changes here are minor and wordsmithing for just taking the recommendations from press and uh presenting them to you for your approval can you have a motion second thank you any questions on those updates voiceover again all in favor all right opposed let's panties okay and then tonight we are also bringing forward um a revised version of the 2022-2023 school calendar you may recall in the spring or summer again pandemic is throwing me off and exactly when it happened but the state legislature approved november 8th every other year is a state holiday so we have to take that

099day off we cannot waiver that day as a holiday and in fact it has to be a day off for all school employees as well um as shawna and i learned a couple weeks ago so we needed to make adjustments to the school calendar um and as we did that we realized that it would be very difficult just to take one day and include that so our recommendation tonight is to approve a school calendar that moves the um first day of school to august 11th instead of august 15th winter break will begin on december 12th instead of december i'm sorry december 23rd instead of december 26th so we'll put a day before winter break and have that day in november and move the school year up for kids by two days can i have a

100motion thank you thank you um any questions for the only thing i'll say is that by doing this it kind of mirrors how we started this school year if that makes any sense it's it's a day earlier in general but around the same time frame for both the adults and the kids so for our january calendar we have a red slash of teacher day but that's usually our board meeting name that doesn't change right correct because this is a legal holiday we usually don't have it on martin luther king's birthday martin luther king that's correct so do we want to we will we'll wiggle around with that yeah we'll worry about that later well not tonight you're away okay would you pull the board please oh certainly of course [Music] here is six to nothing

101okay and then tonight i just wanted to share our first reading from um the other press update 107 again during covid we we found ourselves a couple issues behind most of these again are really more word smithy and administrative with the exception of um the acceptable use guidelines which doug doug kaler and his team have reviewed um and changing some of the names as well so again only a first reading tonight we're gonna do a little bit more work to make sure that we're crossing all of our t's and dotting all of our eyes but we wanted to share that with you if you had any questions so bring that back next month carol yes okay then you'll see uh the personnel report um there tonight performance yep a lot of information in there and

102it'll all be part of the consent uh we do not need an executive session following the meeting and that takes us to the business section sean beginning with the authorization of a certificate for the 2021 tax levy thank you so in uh october i brought before the board um a recommendation for our 2021 tax levy we also discussed that at our finance committee um last week um the short version is that we are um recommending that the board approve a tax levy of a hundred and ten million dollars excuse me 110 million six hundred thousand dollars um after the um county does in fact uh implement the legislation we believe that the overall increase will be somewhere under two percent um uh over this particular year um so tonight we are recommending that the board

103of education approve the 2021 tax levy in the amount of 110 million six hundred thousand dollars even can i give a motion absolutely second third thank you uh any questions for sean would you pull the board please certainly wounds i know i shang nice our next uh uh agenda item is the authorization to replace the multi-function devices um this is something that we haven't brought to the board and uh many years um and the uh that's a good and bad thing um the good news is that we haven't had to replace it the bad news is that we had to have to replace a little bit more um machines than we normally would replace at any given particular year this year that totals 19 machines um however as we negotiated the machines we've changed some

104of the capacity on the machines i'm still making them efficient and effective but we're also going to be adding a paper cut which is a software that will allow swipe and print functionality and when all said and done we are going to see about a 25 000 decrease in our annual cost for multi-function devices so tonight we are recommending that the board of education authorize a replacement of 19 multi-function devices on a five-year lease at an annual cost not to exceed 113 649.48 are multifunction devices really printers they're actually a fax machine printer copier and and they don't have the email wrapped into what the answer is yes but yes the answer is yes can i have emotions second thank you um any other questions for sean sean when you when you did you withdraw

105this are there are you adding any machines or remember these are diseases all over the correct yeah we've we've continued to keep our machine count at that low number um if you recall several years ago we started eliminating printers and multi-function devices forcing individual printers to share multi-function devices yeah so we have it at amazing part of it good good um i'm you know i we're in a situation where our trend of how our annual copies are going up and down has kind of been thrown off whack so we're really looking to get back to a base year this year to see how many copies we're making on an annual basis but i think this paper cut software will allow us to eliminate those oh i hit the print button and then i forget to

106go get it at a printer and i can go get it somewhere else swipe and print basically means i hit the printer button i hit print and then i can go to any device in the building and just swipe my id and it automatically prints out my um documents so that's gonna reduce a lot of them we're hoping to reduce waste and copies significantly cool and thanks what we do in the corporate place so you're doing corporate yeah sometimes we're a little slower any other questions uh would you pull the board please no i shang okay as we discussed uh at our previous finance committee meeting there is a a need to issue working cash bonds uh the next uh the first kind of series of resolutions that are coming um tonight is the intent

107to sell so we are recommending that the board of discussion excuse me the board of education approved the resolution declaring the intention to issue 17 million dollars in working cash fund bonds for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district and directing that notice of such intention be published in the manner provided by law can you have a motion second thank you um we talked about this at the finance committee last week significantly any other questions for sean would you pull the board please certainly shane frost westwood all right person wounds i know hi here is six to nothing uh you'll see that i have a first reading there um we're starting to get a little concerned about some of the case work in our science labs uh in terms of delivery

108time um so we are uh holding the bid um earlier than anticipated and hopes that we can have the board um take action on that in december um so i'll be have bringing back back and you'll be more in the mid-meeting memo and then lastly you can see the series of foia requests that we have and i'd like to point out that um just in this fiscal year only we are over 7 500 in costs for player requests of that um about 3 800 of that is in legal fees this year so just an update other than that um that's all i have for the board tonight thank you very much what is casework uh casework is like a fancy word for cabinets like this kind of stuff okay can you have a motion for

109the consent agenda please second uh any questions for eric or sean on the consent agenda would you pull the board please russ hi westbrook hi orson moons i know i shang hi here is six to luffy superintendent all right uh well um we have just a couple items for tonight uh the first is we wanted to give uh mark anischek our director of curriculum instruction assessment a few minutes to share some conversations that we have been having across the consortium related to our math sequencing or pathways we've had a sac pack and casa meeting so superintendents principals and curriculum directors last week to talk about the again the sequencing of the mathematics pathways and so we are going to be seeing some changes um in those pathways across the consortium and thought we would give

110mark and i think troy might throw in a couple thoughts as well an opportunity to share maybe a summary of that meeting sure so thank you so much um and this really helps just to map out what our current sequencing is and i just thought i would share that with you first so that you can see what the changes are but all this work sort of radiates out of the work that's being done in the mathematics division with uh darshan james our mathematics consortium specialist our new assistant director for mathematics and the the real work that we're doing really reaches back into our center schools back in the middle school and we've done a number of different pathways through mathematics throughout our high school so we always reach back into our discussions with our center

111schools back to seventh grade and even sixth grade as we see and there are a number of different pathways for students as they're proceeding through the sequence of mathematics starting in this pathway where seventh grader would take seventh grade mathematics then eighth grade mathematics and then enter ninth grade at algebra one then take geometry algebra two and then precalculus another pathway would be a seventh grader taking a compressed version of seventh and eighth grade mathematics and then in eighth grade they would take algebra one then geometry algebra two precalculus and then landing calculus come their senior year here at students third pathway are for students that enter into seventh grade taking algebra one then run into algebra two in 8th grade geometry 9th grade then wind up in pre-calculus calculus and perhaps statistics right and

112then one final pathway is when a 7th grader we have about 50 of these students yeah start off in algebra two and seventh grade take geometry and they'll come here to stevenson in eighth grade and then precalculus calculus statistics and then linear algebra their senior year so that's a pathway sequence that's what our current students are taking so there's like a real range the whole purpose of this though is to take a look at what's been happening in these two pathways which we've been finding to be particularly successful and you'll notice how these pathways are different from the other two pathways and it's simply this is is that the algebra sequence goes from algebra 1 to geometry then algebra two right gem then it goes algebra one geometry algebra two where in these sequences over

113here right in the right hand side are algebra one algebra 2 then geometry right or the student here what we'll see is this sort of like loop that's different from this one and then here where sixth grader would take algebra one algebra two geometry and then follow that same sequence what we want to do is make these sequences follow this sequence right where the sequence would then be algebra 1 geometry algebra 2 right algebra 1 geometry algebra 2. and that's the idea here with this sort of sequencing change so over the course of the past couple of years we've been working with the center schools to think through this change because it doesn't mean a change that just happens here at the high school it means the change that we want to sort of work

114with our center districts district 96 102 103 all of our 70s districts to coordinate this change so that we're supporting the student learning over the course of you know all the way back from sixth grade through high school so there's just been a lot of collaboration that's gone into thinking this through and the value of of getting there so the real changes are really only in these two different pathways as you as you notice that affects the percentage of the students and we wanted to be made aware of it um simply because of all the thought that's gone into it and the benefits that we see within this change so you'll start to see the work here and the discussion that's been going on for quite a bit of time uh reaching back to 2015

115first within our own math division but also with a number of different conversations that we've been having within teen coaching meetings with teachers from the center schools we've also been working with the 8th grade 9th grade placement recommendation process and thinking through how that process has been going within all of the pathways and then really entering into much more um you know deeper work with the articulation work that we do with that center schools so that articulation work is time that we spend with our center districts on a regular basis throughout the year to think through what are the instructional practices we're using how do we align our curriculum pathways how do we align our assessment practices how we're calibrating those assessment practices how we're entering into classrooms to make sure that instructional practices are

116similar in the center districts so that when students come here that are having a similar experience with instructional collaborative models for learning mathematics and we're really pretty excited about how that articulation has been going on but over the course the last couple of years and last year was a little difficult to pull this off we've been really working through this sequencing change and we're really happy to to have it here and a real strong agreement with all of our center districts including the districts of the 70s to really um move in this direction some of the benefits or the rationale for this is uh one and i think uh troy is probably better at this than i have it's been you know a long time since i've taken capitalist not since high school and college

117um but the real benefit has a lot to do with the progression of abstraction that happens between algebra 1 geometry and algebra ii where the students would actually have more experiences applying algebra one two the practices of geometry working with greater levels of fluency and complexity as they then enter into algebra two so there's a really strong like a stronger tensile strength to the learning that goes on uh between algebra 1 and algebra 2 allowing that year of deep thinking in geometry with the algebra one skills and then maturing them into algebra ii and then it also allows our students to enter algebra ii uh with a stronger background for of course precalculus so it really does support those down the stream course curriculum you know within that pathway it supports also other things like

118students that transfer into our district most schools follow this sequence of algebra 1 geometry algebra 2 so when a student comes into the district as we have many transfer students that that transfer goes more smoothly for our students there's a lot of really good reasons to do it around student self-perception and following a similar pathway for all students and then of course it just really allows us to have stronger articulation events with our center districts and the high school especially with the work that we've been doing with sue ellen our mathematics specialist so we're seeing a lot of benefits with that and then of course the end goal is is that getting algebra 2 closer to the experience of taking the sat um you know they'll be taking pre-calculus there perhaps junior year right um

119and then uh taking the sat and we think that that will have a lot of benefits for that as well so um we thought if you have any questions just a real quick just to maybe put an exclamation point on what mark just said you may be wondering right about now well if this is the more traditional pathway why did we ever do something different well 30 years ago when the act well 30 years ago when the act was our state test um we wanted to have this the current pathway kind of line up so that kids were having that experience closer to the a.c.t well now as mark said that the sat is our state test it makes more sense to kind of butt up also two to that experience so ct is geometry

120heavy and the model we have now puts geometry closer to junior year and also we were teaching it here at stevenson yeah so this just kind of makes more sense given the sat as the required test and you know i think we're at a place where the consortium really understands it mark you've been working really really hard with dershan and oh gosh vel and sue ellen and the whole consortium i think is behind this they're ready um to go and we're excited about it but david thank you just a sidebar question what's linear algebra is that vector analysis yes you're gonna need this guy okay that's tough stuff yeah yeah and our kids our kids do a semester of that before they leave if they're in that far right just to be clear 51 kids

121there's two sections with the kids this is not i don't know i understand yeah just to be clear that's what knocked me out of engineering this is actually um something that we're looking to because again that it'll begin so to speak in our middle schools um it'll have a trickle of trickle up effect i guess and we're looking to start next year okay any other questions about this thank you mark we appreciate your hard work okay i also wanted to share with you that um jamie and her team are working really hard on our annual report that we're going to put out in january so thank you jamie for all of that she'll share a draft with myself and any of you who would like to see that sometime in december possibly so thank you

122for all your hard work on it jamie and then uh in addition we have another exciting project that we're working on which is a parent advisory committee i'm not sure exactly what the ultimately the name will be but amy this is something i know you've been working on as well but we're always looking to have opportunity to connect with parents so this is a group that we thought would be composed of the presidents or representatives from the different parent groups that we have here on campus and they would have a chance to meet you know we'll start off maybe quarterly maybe six times during the year with myself and troy and make those topical meetings um where we can get input from our parents so mara is actually um leading that effort um and telling

123troy and i where to go absolutely yeah she should so i think it's a great opportunity then for the board to engage with parents on a regular basis and you know so that there's two-way communication in that forum absolutely i will be at all of the meetings and represent and then i will pull on anybody who wants to join me we can only have two of us in a given meeting because we don't want to violate the open meetings act but um so i think steve is going to join us for the november one to kick things off and then i'll be reaching out to anybody if you're interested in doing it just let me know and i'll i'll keep you informed as to the meetings and we can rotate it around so that we

124get different voices and everybody kind of gets a chance to get to know it yeah and those meetings will be topical so we'll have you know different issues that we'll kind of address during each um session and for example you know we might have a session around communications and how we can approve communications we might have a session around wellness or things like that social emotional learning so we'll we'll kind of play it by ear and see what that group is looking to do we have been trying to limit uh the number of in-person kind of meetings and certainly trying to uh reduce the number of times where we're asking you to be here as well but we felt like this is one that we wanted to see if we can get the ball started

125sooner rather than later so um thank you amy for helping me leave that out and uh just a couple other items we have copies of our professional development activities for the 2021 school year we generally do not make copies for all 600 employees um it is posted on the web on the hr website for people to see it but i thought if you wanted to be able to see it and have a copy of it um you could do that good good time reading it's good bedtime reading and then finally um in the spirit of um board appreciation month um in addition to the gifts that have already gone out we have a note from the fmp executive board so that is a card that has gone around and it says we are writing this

126letter to express our gratitude for all that you do for the students community freshman orientation day is such an important annual event for incoming students with that being said we are very grateful to have had the opportunity to host it in person this year we know the past year was full of surprises and the board made many difficult decisions to keep students safe thank you for your service during such unprecedented times this year the genuine excitement and energy we saw in freshman orientation day reflected the enthusiasm of a return back to in-person learning and school events we are aware that the d125 board possesses many responsibilities and we are thankful that you have prioritized the stevenson experience we look forward to working with you in the future and then um they included a cute sticky

127note that says belated but sincere thanks for a great start to a year that keeps getting better love the freshman mp board and then they gave you fmp branded super energy bars yeah well i'll pass this one around for folks to read who's that one from this is from uh zara dittman so really i will let you read that one it's really nice i will let you read that one privately and that unless troy i'm missing anything yeah mark am i missing anything shawn am i missing all right that's it i just said can i have a motion dude thank you very