001additionally 65% of our preschoolers showed impressive growth in cognitive and mathematical skills our elementary Adventure students have shown some incredible growth over the previous year in large part to our commitment to ensuring a solid tier one and to implementing the district curriculum with Fidelity and accountability a remarkable 81.3% of our students met or exceeded expected growth in Reading map a significant increase of 37 9% compared to the previous year 75% of K5 students met or exceeded expected growth in Reading Spanish 70% of our students demonstrated exceptional growth in mathematics a 38% improvement over the prior year these achievements highlight the power of effective instruction and the determination of our students to succeed our entire GCC team is committed to our school vision that all jbirds soar strive for excellence take opportunities for growth achieve together
002and show resilience and respect Beyond academic growth we've also made significant strides in creating a positive and supportive learning environment we've decreased the number of major disciplinary incidents by a remarkable 87% compared to the previous year this is a testament to the positive culture we are fostering Gonzalez and the effective implementation of tier one strategies one opportunity that we have identified in comparing the building Wide Elementary data is that we would like to prioritize grade level attainment we intend to shift our 2526 school year goals to reflect an attainment goal and we look to ensure rigorous cfas to help gauge progress additionally we are prioritizing increasing enrollment in our Adventures program and we are excited to have welcomed six new students so far this year I want to take a moment and recognize the incredible
003efforts of our teachers staff and students your hard work and dedication and commitment to Excellence have made the 2324 school year a resounding success we are committed to building on this momentum and strive for even greater achievements in the 24 25 school year we are excited to share our school's ambitious goals for the school year these goals are designed to build Upon Our successes and address areas where we can improve first and foremost we're committed to creating a positive and supportive learning environment for all students first we plan to reduce major office discipline referrals by an additional 10% we'll achieve this by ensuring that we continue to uphold a solid tier one with explicit raching for target areas Based on data analysis and observations by collaborating with teachers staff students and parents to implement effective
004behavior management strategies and restorative practices by providing training for staff on classroom management restorative practices and conflict resolution during our staff meetings to ensure a common understanding of best practices and by recognizing and rewarding positive behavior through the of jbird gold tickets and quarterly celebrations next we're focused on ensuring that we meet the requirements for monitoring by improving our rating for teaching Behavior expectations in early childhood education can you change the slide please thank you we'll do this by providing ongoing training and support to teachers by conducting regular classroom walkthroughs to collect data and give feedback and by collaborating with staff to analyze this data and determine strategies for teaching expectations in the areas of opportunity to ensure that all students are ready for Success we are prioritizing attendance our goal is to increase and
005maintain average daily attendance of 95% we'll achieve this by identifying and addressing the root causes of absenteeism at GCC by implementing strategies to improve attendance such as personalized Outreach and incentives and by collaborating with families to develop attendance Improvement plans academic achievement maintains remains a top priority at GCC first we plan to improve reading comprehension for our preschool for all students to 80% meeting expected growth we intend to do this by providing daily opportunities for reading and writing by creating a literacy Rich environment by ensuring that there are books in every Center aligned with the theme and by using effect effective instructional strategies like shared reading providing visuals and realia to increased comprehension and by implementing a building wide lending library system additionally we look to improve early math skills to 80% meeting an seeding
006growth targets we'll accomplish this by providing Hands-On experiences with manipulatives incorporating math into daily routines and play and by using effective instructional strategies such as problem solving and inquiry based learning I'm sorry can you advance those slides oh go back okay and Fin finally we are focused on improving reading achievement to 85% and math achievement to 75% for our K5 students we'll do this by implementing high quality instruction and intervention by providing opportunities for personalized learning and by using data to inform instruction and monitor student progress we are confident that we are on the right track to meet these goals because at Aries jaberg Gonzalez child Center we live our mission of building foundations empowering minds and soaring together we thank you for the opportunity to serve the great students and families of [Music] GCC
007GCC I did can we answer any questions for you I I don't have any questions but your numbers and the percentages of everything is looking excellent I want to thank your staff for coming out and supporting you thank um and thanking them for a job well done so yes they're an incredible team of hardwork and Educators and we're very proud thank you thank you thank you the cow herd Middle School Improvement plan is our next presentation here with us today are principal Jackie Gibson assistant principals Anna heimberger and Veronica Zamora and Dean Derek Smith good evening good evening good evening I like the matching Footwear you like that like that like that we do it big so good evening to the Board of Education uh superintendent Dr Nel other members of the cabinet again I'm
008Jacqueline Gibson the principal of cow herd Middle School and joining me are the members of our cow herd admin crew uh they will introduce themselves as they share uh the various components to our continuous School Improvement plan um so tonight is our opportunity to share with you some highlights of what's going on over at 441 North Farnsworth uh the teaching and learning that's taking place um we want to start by highlighting um the support and involvement of our parents um I have to give uh big kudos to them you'll see it on the slide when it comes up there um about how they come out to our parent coffees um we appreciate that it's an opportunity uh for us to learn from them and for us to be able to arm them with information that
009we feel that they need as they're raising middle school students um they help us with our concession stands they're at the band they may be a few uh but they're Mighty in heart and whenever we call them they're available um I think it's also worth mentioning too as isbe says that there is a 90% retention rate um from Over the three years of our staff and so the stability that we've been able to provide our students I think that's uh do should be duly noted as well um we've always had a goal um our targeted growth goal of 60% on our map Reading um and we are super excited that eighth grade students achieve that this year in addition to that we'll celebrate within that our eighth graders too um there were many of them
010that are not only meeting and exceeding but are also 4.0 students and so we want to celebrate them also um for quite a while we've been in the single digits as it relates to the access exits and so we're excited that we made 10 uh this year students that exited access and then also so um we want to share too that our summative designation I guess you would say ascended to levels from comprehensive to commendable and so we do celebrate um and and we are excited about that however the work goes on and it is about keeping the momentum to keep the movement moving forward and farther and so what you see see in front of you is the building wide data um these are three assessments um different in structure um and in its
011purpose but one in is in which what drives us it is one of the drivers of the work that we do at coward middle school and so when we gathered this data and we were looking at it um we implemented our data analysis protocol so that we could look at this and see what it is that's catching your attention so even so as we look at the 84% with the cfas but we're not seeing where they're meeting or exceeding on I that's causing us for to go a little deeper and to figure out why this is taking place um we're also looking at this for there's good news to share when you add it up I believe we're at 16% um met exceeded in reading and 6% met exceeded in math uh small numbers but
012they're still growing and that's what's important to us that each year our kids are showing tremendous growth um and so what our team is going to do tonight is to show you how we've taken the data and how we've applied that in our school Improvement plan so that we can see continuous growth and learning amongst our students and as well as our staff in the building next slide please good evening my name is Anna heimberger and I'm the proud assistant principal of coward middle school as we focus on educational equity and student achievement at coward our first goal is for at least 60% of our students in our school subgroups population students who are black have disabilities and or are English language Learners to meet or exceed their targeted growth on their fall 2024 to
013Winter 2025 math assessment map assessment sorry our teachers are not only analyzing data in their PLC teams but we're also ensuring that students are part of the conversation and creating their goals based on their individual performance our school's bilingual facilitators are also supporting staff with professional development during the second of the two monthly faculty meetings and our teacher leaders over the summer are read the Doug lovs teach Like A Champion and are providing best PR practices of instruction several of our teacher leaders also across uh different grade levels as well as subject areas participated over the summer in our I blueprint team in this team they analyzed the documents and resources provided by the Illinois State Board of Education and they're aligning it to our district scope and sequence our instructional coaches are then also
014planning activities within each content area for our half day sip days and the purpose of that is to reflect the rigor as well as the format for students of what they're going to see in the spring on the I next slide please our second goal within the pillars of educational equity and student achievement is for at least 20% of our students with a focus on children with disabilities to meet or exceed their projected stretch growth on the spring I ready Benchmark assessment not only do we want to see students grow in their attainment of grade level skills and Concepts as demonstrated by typical growth but our goal is to have students with disabilities especially reach the stretch growth in order to further close the skill gaps and make progress towards their Ong grade level achievement
015as with map our teachers have goal setting conversations with students to make them a part of the process and we're also emphasizing at least 50 minutes weekly on personalized myth lessons within I or sorry I ready and this is based on students individual needs but it's also about passing the lessons not just doing them and so to date 92% of our students are passing at least half of their prescribed lessons with 80% passing 70% or more additionally teachers are collaborating with their grade level PLC teams and they're using that math lab time in order to create station rotations where students are provided additional support on their individualized skills with direct instruction as well as targeted practice from their grade level teachers our goals at coward are centered around growth we want to support our students
016in being better today than they were yesterday and being better tomorrow than they were today thank you good evening my name is Veronica Samora and I thought I was the only proud assistant principal but you know we have everybody right we're all excited and proud um I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what we've been working with with attendance um at card Middle School our goal is to increase average daily attendance for all but with a specific goal of following subgroups such as our black students children with disability and English Learners to be 95% % by May 2025 in addition we aim to reduce chronic appenism by 4% compared to last year to achieve these what these goals what we're doing is making attendance Trends visible throughout our school in the graphics
017that have been displayed by the cafeteria and these are done weekly and quarterly so that we can display each grade level this allows all stakeholders to track attendance progress and to understand the impact of attendance and academic success we also motivate students by turning attendance into a friendly competition among grade levels uh these allow all all of them to be able to participate as they are incentivized to attend every day and on time we created a sense of accountability and school spirit currently our overall average daily attendance stands at 94.2% not far from our goal with sixth grade at 95% seventh grade a 93.5 and e8th grade at a 94.2% moving forward we will continue to focus on rewarding and recognizing students who show Improvement and commitment to attending school special attention will be given
018to those with multiple absences providing them with the support they need to stay on track and by working together with families communicating with all of them we are confident that we can meet our attendance goal and support student achievements thank you good evening I'm Derek Smith I'm dean of students at C herb Middle School um like to share a little bit about um our educational equity and how we're meeting our goal of 90% of cord middle school students having one or left one or less behavior referrals throughout the throughout the school year through implementation of social emotional academic and behav behavioral supports um so in addition to what you see up here on the slide you know we wanted to let you know that 86% of our students in first quarter had zero referrals and
019so we really made a big deal about celebrating that we had um a great grade level assemblies where we you know broke down the data to the students and celebrated with some gains we also acknowledged the achievements of our athletes and some of our academic um Excellence students um so 6 67% of our students with referrals only had one referral so that means only 5% of our students or about 40 students um had more than one referral so 95% of our students first quarter had one or less referral and U so we celebrated those students not only at the grade level assemblies but we provided an incentive program for them to to celebrate during their PE classes so they had a choice day of um going through obstacle courses playing games having dances um we
020had music playing and those students that earn a referrals they had time to meet with their counselor and social worker over the course of two periods and myself as well and kind of go over what their referrals were in so it provides a refle reflection piece for them where we can talk about you know what they were thinking and fill in when they you know accruit these infractions but also talk about what they could do better and that's a really big piece of what you know we do with C her middle school but also in my office where we have the students reflecting on their behavior and try to practice having those critical conversations when we have disagreements and um just building that as a life skill in order to resolve conflict um so we
021let me see and also to focus on repairing the harm you know really big at having those restorative conversations where we can repair the harm when the harm is done so thank you thank you all right that concludes our presentation thank you for being an amazing audience all [Applause] right okay next up is East Aurora High School and some program updates uh joining us today our principal Jennifer Mitchell and Jackie Stone the assistant principal for teaching and learning who are going to share a little bit about our plans for next year we are incredibly excited to tell you about uh these program updates for the upcoming year because they will offer many more opportunities for our students to um earn dual credit um through our programs the first of these is we will change our
022Autos one um and that will realign the curriculum that we currently offer to um allow us to continue to partner with wanzi in order to give students even more dual credit right now we offer dual credit for Autos too and so by realigning the curriculum in this way students would be able to earn dual credit for Autos one as well as Autos 2 so Autos one would become autoshop operations and um with this rearrangement or how we came about with this rearrangement we partnered with wanzi to make sure that as we rearrange the curriculum it falls in line with what they already offered to make that dual credit process even easier um this first change could lead to 40 more students earning dual credit first semester um and then the second change would have 40
023more students so we would have eight potentially 80 more students earning dual credit with both of these changes the second change is changing our Autos to curriculum to be Auto engine service um again it's just a realignment of the curriculum so that way students would be able to earn dual Credit in both courses um and large part of this is due to the shift to having the block schedule this year allows us to be able to offer this because the courses were blocked before and now they have just additional time to be able to satisfy all of these things the Third change that um we are going to be doing next year um would be we have previously partnered with um Fox Valley um career center and and with that partnership we offered EMT and
024fire science again with the move to the block schedule it allows us more opportunities to offer um there's more time available for students and so now in addition to those two offerings we can offer electrical systems one and two cyber security PC repair law enforcement one and two um these are at a couple of uh they have two different campuses and so it outlines which campus these are going to be offered at um but it already follows that same proc process that we had for EMT and fire science before do you have any questions for us good question just in the expanded career offerings are these um programs or classes that students have high need or high requests or how did you determine which one to off um expand the offerings the expanded offerings with
025that shift in the schedule these are more open to students than what they were before because they were offered previously they were offered at times that we couldn't allow like our schedule did not allow students the travel ability to go to Fox Valley for these courses but now with the changing of our schedule also with talking with Fox Valley that's how we were able to offer these additional courses um I do know that like yeah go ahead yeah we we do also have um data from our student interest surveys that do show that they have interest in cyber security law enforcement things like that so these offerings would extend to some of the needs that our students have shown in terms of their interests and and these are areas that we need more individual to
026pursue these career opportunities so yeah so it's in line with the need of the need the wants of the students but also the needs within our communities correct okay thank you thank you thank you so much next up is information about the resilience education center offer pilot uh sharing these are Dr nurel and uh associate superintendent Jalissa Martinez good evening everyone I am going to um just kind of run through um the first portion and then I'm going to turn it over to the person who has the expertise to talk about the second portion because I do not have that expertise um so I W to um just first say that um at the resilience education center initially when we um as a board of education as you may remember we talked about doing after
027school and weekend programs as our primary focus along with the counseling component and then when we thought as we got into the renderings and really understanding the capacity of that wonderful uh facility we realized that we could be taking full advantage of this building around the clock and so we moved kind of late in the game to be able to offer regular curricula for high school students to take credit and that was probably the best decision ever because I will tell you that that has launched um part of my updates that the board meeting will be celebrating first quarter um but that has launched uh with tremendous success and that wasn't even the original purpose of building this building so I just want to say that I feel like I would be remiss on a
028presentation about the resilience education center without talking about that component so kudos to our staff who went into a new place tried to Lug their supplies had to figure out what they don't have it's like when you move houses I mean literally and some of our staff there have been teaching and there at East High forever in their programs so I just can't say enough about the success that they were able to uh make us have in that new facility but also moving into the original purpose of this building which was to provide an opportunity for social Wellness if you will for not only just high school students but this was about our births of three our prek families and our Kinder all the way up including through 8th grade and so after we launched
029the piece that kids get credit hours with which is successful launch of our classes um and having lunches and those things that's the became the primary focus because we don't have a lot of time to get that wrong we did that first quarter so as we move successfully the second quarter we want to launch the other piece which is the activities piece the council in piece right excuse me so we um have asked our um a leader of that building thank you very much Miss Marissa Martinez to actually put together a pilot activity program and so we are looking to Pilot and make sure that what we think and what we've heard is something that would be utilized the structure and function is going to work out the scheduling is going to work out people
030are actually going to sign up and come before we ask the board hey can we have $25,000 of Grant dollars to finish this off for the year we want to do this pilot and then come back to you and then if all is successful we want to do a catalog for winter and a catalog for spring and a catalog for summer and a catalog for fall kind of like mirroring what the park district does with regard to pushing out opportunities for families and so we are anticipating if the board says yes tonight because this is moving down for Action we would like to kick off this pilot of activities on December 14th if the board says yes tonight tomorrow we will launch out a registration um or this week to families and say hey we're
031going to offer these activities for the pilot please sign up and the first of those events would be December 14th we are looking again I covered all of the grade levels for all of our families districtwide we are going to have something we'd like to have something called Spotlight classes which would be uh classes that we may have hit or miss a like a a one-time offering if we have an expert for pottery painting or an expert for art um but then we'd also like to have reoccurring classes let's say we had dance class for the littles for a prek that would be something that families would know would be recurring so there would be a difference between a spotlight class that like a dropin class that families could sign up for versus something that
032would be recurring and of course we want to have parent workshops so we'd like to have most activities with their child but then also there's a draw that we can get parents that don't traditionally come to school activities um to school events to talk to conferences but maybe we can get parents out for a culinary thing and we saw a lot of success thank you for parent University with parents utilizing that you'll see more about that tonight um we want to utilize all the spaces except our high-tech spaces like our journalism uh broadcast studio as well as our um our music production Studio but all the other spaces we have found um activities that we could utilize and again multiple um Seasons um what the next slide shows is just basically a a summary of
033what I talked about The Who Behind the classes and then if you go to the next slide it just gives you a snapshot of what the cool catalog Pages would look like or a brochure so you could see this is what we're asking the board to let us pilot so we would go and in the dance studio we would have these dates and these times offered so that people could go online click the button on what they might be interested in and sign up and it talks about Dance Fitness that we could do if you have a parent and a child they could come in um if we um have a parent and a child that are interested in learning yoga the tenants of yoga which is really a hit at the GC is GCC
034still in the house yes we have pictures we know yoga is a hit over there with the littles so you know these are things that we would like to offer our families if you look at the next one you'll see um art studio and those classes if you go beyond that you'll see to do as a spotlight class in our Culinary Kitchen um and I let me just say this because I think these details are coming up later but while it's fresh on your mind when we do this we are obviously going to first and foremost post for our staff that not only maybe um May do this on a day-to-day basis but maybe and I've talked to several people um that have said hey I have a certificate in this like I am a
035Zuma instructor I am a yoga like this is my passion it may not be I may teach second grade but this is a passion so if the board approves this we'd like to post this internally and we have a contracted rate which would be the highest of the summer school rate and allow our staff um to be able to engage in these classes it's not for credit hours but it is a class that we'd like to use those individuals who have expertise and passion to be able to to do that so that is the act family activity piece before we move on to counseling are there any questions because I know this has been a long time coming yes I do I'm sorry and I'm still learning so I apologize for any questions that I
036may have but what I was curious about because the the resilience Center was opening the same time School y so I didn't see when you talk about success I didn't see any enrollement and attendance so do we have that data to to kind of see the the success of it and um and then um and then two um the Cal excuse me the calendar I know you said this just an example but in order for us to be approving should we see the full C calendar activities you're just approving the pilot tonight and then we'll bring you back data from the success of the pilot before we give you a full calendar because we're really just trying this out to see before we commit to doing something for three months we want to see how
037receptive our families are so what you see what is what you would approve tonight okay yeah just these few little dates and activities okay yeah so I'm just curious about the data um do we know do we have a number oh yeah off the top yes so I'll just tell you this so let me go back over this because it's a little bit confusing um for everybody so the resilience education center is it the max is about 400 students a day I'm looking Steve's not in the room he tells me four 400 students at any given time and what we do every day uh we are pack fact our teachers have full schedule are art teacher um and it depends because the the actual resilience is almost another campus for the high school so it's
038East High and another campus so those teachers depending if it's uh red day or black day because block scheduling so Monday Wednesday and alternating Fridays or Tuesday Thursday those classes are well attended we bust the kids there from East High every single block period they go over they spend their time they go so our attendance I think is that's I think that is the one that has probably the highest attendance and we can pull that they've got to be in the 90th percentile but they go over for yoga they'll go over for dance they go over for all different types of art classes including I believe she uh Susan teaches some of our AP and there but there are two art teachers they go over for um a culinary class which is really um not
039necessarily the same expertise as at the at the high school through their traditional commercial kitchen um it's really a AR class for uh baking and Global pastries I think so which is more of a baking class um and they go over for broadcast journalism which is phenomenal and actually because of the success we've been able to offer broadcast journalism too and they also go over for um music um production and I have heard back from at least three of those teachers and music production Raves about the student participation how well they're doing in that class how it's just been a wonderful program so they have a full house we have zero spaces to run any extra electives because we were looking at that for January being able to add we are Max we're at maximum
040capacity they we can't fit any others of those program classes so next year we already know the kids are going to have a Hunger Games experience when it's time to do advis and sign to sign up for that so the counselors will have to pick however whatever deal they have but the kids the teachers have done such a great job that the kids are definitely wanting to sign up so that has been a huge success and then after school we run programs because we got their Grant recipients and so that's been a that's been the one that's kind of harder to come to because if we were targeting um seventh through 10th grade in the high school we couldn't get them to go for after school because there was so many other competing interests so
041we have extended it to sixth grade so I believe we have sixth through ninth grade or 6 to 8th 6 to eth and we got a handful of kids to work with our program talented 10th as well as a Lutheran um Family Services to go through their programming um and so they they do come we bust them home we do feed them snacks um and then during the day it was the senior opportunity only two to three days a week we invite senior so depending on your who you are in your schedule you would go on a red day or a black day and you just go over for lunch because the lunch was supposed to be special it was supposed to be different I am having a conversation um I don't see Mike Eng
042Le but we are having a conversation um I look at Finance with the food service vendor because that has been my biggest gripe because it is not quite as different as it was supposed to be so the kids are like I might as well stay at East to eat lunch here and not get on the bus just so the kids who were there for the courses are always there the kids who got on the bus just to go over to have lunch now they're shucking over what they had at East and that's not what that's not making it like feel special feel different they were do supposed to do healthy rice bowls and they were supposed to do made to order like pizzas and just different thing they were supposed to have paninis and I
043just don't see that on a regular basis and I've heard from the teachers there who have emailed me back and said the food is the same as the high school so I have a meeting actually Mike and I have a meeting with our food service provider with the regional person I'm sorry the national person to say we got to fix this or you're not going to keep this site so that is the only complaint coming out of there I know that that makes them not want to go over for lunch so the seniors opt to stay in the atrium at the high school okay did I reflect that right High School okay all right so I'll turn it over to counseling if you want or one one question yeah you're yeah and I'm just the
044counseling piece is what I was oh yeah that's so I'll let um um I'm just going back on the courses that were selected as part of the pilot and I'm assuming we already picking like the dance studio of the art and The Culinary part just because that is the space we have provided yes um I guess I would have loved to see maybe something gone out to the community just to see what their interest was before this came out um just as a suggestion but I think um just to see what the numbers would have been if this goes out and see how many amount of people will actually would like to participate instead of us spending the money and finding out that no one shows up that's why we're doing the pilot you're absolutely
045right so we're doing the pilot to see if this is really where the interest lies because when the board designed the space with The Architects we did the community came in we actually held nighttime meetings and yes we did build some of these things because we asked the kids what would make you put down your cell phones but in those meetings we met with middle and high school students but then we met with all the parent leaders from the parent organizations as well as just Neighbors in the neighborhood that might have had kids so the facilities that were built were built based upon the feedback that we got from parents and kids so now as we look to have classes in those spaces we really want to know like how about this and you know
046we won't know until we ask someone to commit to sign up and that's why we are only bringing you a pilot because we don't want you to commit to an entire season of activities and you don't even know if we hire people if there's going to be more than one person that shows up so we plan to bring the results of the pilot back to you and say wow this went over big this we had no one interested this was good so there's going to be it's going to be a variance we know but we just don't know yet what it is only thing that we weren't able to put on here here and I may be speaking out of turns I'll look over at Marissa is I really was big on the with the
047pottery not necessarily expecting the littles to learn how to manipulate a pottery wheel that may make Susan pass out but really to actually get the pieces of pottery like you would pay a lot of money to go to a brush Strokes or something and let them paint the squirrel or paint the heart or whatever and those in so those are that's one thing um that I don't think we added yet but that's something that we'd like to be able to offer our our parents because we can do that under family engagement Grant dollars and that's stuff that a lot of kids don't get to do because it costs a lot of money to go to those Studios to to do those sorry Al can you remind me how long the pilot will be yes the
048dates it's going to start December 14th I gotta cheat and look at these do you know the end date just December 14th that's oh it's gonna be on December 14th for those yeah right yeah we're going to sign up for the classes thank you I'm like did we say another I thought we had another day but no okay so then how how do you measure success for one day just seeing what the interest is really the success is casting this out to say sign up but we can't cast anything out to say sign up if we're not committed to actually offering it so we'll see if there is a rush we anticipate just from having conversations with our parent groups that there will be a rush to sign up but we won't know until they
049actually and even when people sign up they have the best intentions we really won't know until we see who actually attends okay so so it looks as though the these items here are just to see who would enroll and then once you enroll then you would say these are some ongoing these went over well yeah we'll get we'll ask for their feedback after they come to a class like would you come to this every Saturday is this something you know just again just another way because I can go up we've been showing up at parent group meetings and having conversations with them and then you know but we don't know until they come and experience it nor do do they know to their credit whether or not it's going to be something they want come
050back to on a regular basis so this was our next step for second quarter to be able to say we'll try it and then if it's a hit we'll offer we'll know that we need to make that a recurring class yeah so so it's almost like the discovery yes of interest is what Sal mentioned about getting input from the community so it's more Discover it is a discovery effort yeah before we come back to you and then we can come back to you and say hey we did this this was a huge hit we'd like to offer for the month of January and February more of these a yes yeah and then then you would say okay we approve a six-week winter program with these offerings because they they showed up they had a blast
051they ask for more so is it is it possible maybe changing the um what you're calling as a pallet maybe a discovery interest yeah that's just a technical term for us for you to know what we mean yeah yeah okay yeah but we'll just say you know we're yeah we can couch it as that for them all right I'm going to turn it over to you because I am not doing the counseling part okay uh next slide thank you or the memo yeah either one um so we know that um in the field of mental health and when people are trying to access resources there has been a delay because of weight lless that um organizations in the community have um articulated and families have told us when we've refer them out for services that
052they can be seen for months six months to a year sometimes even longer in some cases and so we wanted to we do have the mental health suite at the rec center we wanted to um kick off with interim Counseling Services with EA staff we have um many skilled social workers who work in our buildings many skilled counselors clinicians um that would be more than capable of supporting our students um with some of those um seal skills um and building of those skills um our clinicians right now they primarily focus on you know providing services and minutes for students with IEPs they support crisis they support daily occurrences um but a lot of times the students that they refer out for services that aren't typically they may not have an IEP that indicates that they
053need Social Work Services they may not be um coming up on daily crisis um a lot of times the internalizers they kind of get overseen until it's too late and it's time to do an RO um or um you know engaging them in that kind of support and so these um really tapping on the staff and the skills that we have inhouse will allow us um to kick off this program at the wreck um and allow more of our students to be seen King County puts out their health department um does a youth voices Forum on Mental Health where they asked students they asked the youth high school students what are some of the needs what are some of the barriers and they too identified that weight list and wait time have been a significant
054barrier in their report they quoted a student saying that they went for services and had to wait two years before they could see a clinician to help them deal with some of the the issues that they were having and so we really want to get this started we want to make sure that our community our kids are supported um and so we wanted to um again post um to you can forward the slide Andy um so that we can start these sessions and so we would be offering group and individual sessions depending on um the expertise from our clinicians when they review a case or review a referral um they can determine what type of um session they would be providing to the family or to the student um and again we wanted to start
055with um a posting for our social workers and counselors who have some of the certifications that you would traditionally see in an outside organization or setting that provides um some more uh therapeutic counseling services so that's the LPC lcpc LSW um LCSW and again we're just trying to Foster that connection home to school and a holistic approach to um the school-based mental health services great great yeah this is um this is one of my area that is very um close to me that I know there's a lot of support for our young people with the social emotional support what I didn't see um is a timeline you said you wanted to get started so what's the time frame and when you say get started because I think this would be a great opportunity for some
056of our social working counselors yes to to take advantage of the additional resources for themselves um and then additional time that they can spend with some students who don't get those doing in school service absolutely thank you um first for the support in social emotional health and mental health of our students and families um realistically I think when we post we would um want to see the number of Staff who are interested um and then what we want to do is make sure that we have at least two clinicians at the rec center at the same time providing Services um I think that we if we move quickly and we have people who are interested immediately we probably could get um going at least by December the second week of December um although we would
057need to iron out the referral process to make sure that we are um creating a a case load per se of um students and families that would get the services they'd have to do kind of a a thorough review of the rationale for um receiving the services and talking to the team or to the school so I think that we could probably get started by December but knowing the process of referral and reviewing the cases I think that um I would say January would be a for sure start date but would definitely go sooner if we can yeah and and here's the the problem that we have all the time with this even with starting like after school um you know credit recovery and it's just that we need to get permission now because we
058do credit recovery annually we kind of have that the board knows and we just go ahead and post by this being new we just needed to kind of share our thoughts because we are still in conversations about having a bringing to the board a proposal for formal partnership for larger entity which won't mean that if this is working well we have 21 sites we could keep this going but just for that facility we might be able to partner with something but that'll be the board's decision at that time this will be a nice fill and almost a pilot again for how this could work even at other schools but we don't have permission to even post even know if we have staff that would do it before we offer it to make families too excited
059to say hey we're going to start this then so if we have your permission tonight and you vote to let us go forward then we then have the authority to move forward and post it and then we'll have a better idea of timeline so I don't I don't know we're assuming yes um but we just don't want to promise right so but I think it's it's it's it's a need oh yeah good so that um I would say and the resilience Center was was kind of designed based on that to provide that additional social emotional support for students and families um but I also would say that if we can try to get this out and have staff and I'm sure anybody will want to make some extra right um to to be able to
060get this going because I I know I because I serve on a foundation and there is a waiting list and if we can get as much support to our um students and families immediately um I think it it serves great for our education system as a whole yeah absolutely we agree so thank you so we will hope the vote goes yes tonight and we will be ready to go I have a few comments as well too and I think going back on what the AIA say I think I would love to also see a timeline even if it's just projecting dates on here on how are we doing this um just of when we're planning on putting this out to the staff members or or the an actual timeline of just maybe just predictions of
061dates and times so how that goes um I think it's something that is very needed nowadays um and while I don't want to rush I want to make sure that things are done correctly I'm big systems in place and procedures so I want to make sure that people know how to refer and those things are ironed out before we roll that out but I definitely agree with the order that I would like to see some kind of timel as well once hopefully this is approved yeah if it's approved tonight and we never user you know our board's Authority if you approve tonight we're going to go live tomorrow with the postings we have them ready anytime we bring them to you we just have them all typed up and ready and we just hope and
062pray and then the next morning we can launch them um but the other thing is this would be Monday through Thursday so but again we always want to make sure that we have more than one person there just for safety so we would be looking to do it every time every Monday through Thursday school is open kind of like we do after school tutorials and those things y so my statement for timeline is that I want something I was interested in something getting going yes quickly yeah so that we can have this kind of support for our students us too we are with you yep that's big okay that brings us to our next topic which is um our fourth grade fles program is no longer running with the expansion of our dual language program
063and as such we have some outdated materials up for resolution they'll go forward um at uh the December 2nd board meeting but just so you're aware they're on there and then if you can go to the next one as well uh same kind of idea we have some outdated kindergarten connect and Lease dose materials that are ready to go up for disposal so those are our disposal items and then our last agenda topic today is the enrollment and attendance update as of November 14th you can see that we had 12329 students enrolled and I'm excited to report that our district average attendance is up and it's looking so great not 9 3.47% for the week of November 4th through 8th I know very exciting yes all right and with that we have come no questions
064no comments no we've come to the end at 654 thank you so much