001secretary Ro Schubert here Baro here Johnson here sees here Aro absent Olivas here L absent okay uh we do not have any public comments tonight so on to Dr Nell oh oh we do have a hearing that's right just I was so thr with these public comments I just moved right along here yes okay let's go to the public hearing first okay um okay Lisa is that me just to kind of walk it through okay Board of Education and Community tonight we have a state required um hearing um and the hearing is to um offer any um comments or discussion or questions you may have about the driver's education waiver for the behind the wheel time there are a couple different types of um driver's education or p waivers this PE waiver is strictly for
002driver Zed and um all waivers need to go to the uh legislators in the state of Illinois and so this is not a new uh waiver that the district has had this for some years now and it's one that's we submit uh formally every five years for approval so um we were trying to get we were supposed to get into the spring legislative session but we were a little delayed um because it fell off the radar and so we're we're just bringing it now so that we'll be in plenty of time for the next legislative session and essentially this is just saying that we want to make use of the district's purchased um simulators for driver's ed and many districts of our surrounding neighborhood neighbor um uh in community have simulators I know that District
003204 utilizes um some of that as well so we would simply be having students do less actual behind the wheel because we would be able to make use of the simulators which the real benefit in that is to our students and parents in that we get more kids through driver's education because of our volume um than we could without using that that the district had purchased so we've already purchased and acquired them this is just um a formality if you will and an opportunity to refresh the board and everyone uh on the fact that we use simulators so are there any questions about use of simulators for counting towards some of the behind the wheel training time before they sit for their driver's license testing no okay and there was no public comment so all
004right that's it okay public discussion all right okay so we are we are done with that so um secretary called the rooll for motion to adjourn can have first and second make a motion second you okay call the RO Johnson yes burrero yes Shubert yes SE quentes Olivas yes okay now we're on to our regular Board of Education meeting so please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance no wait a minute roll call okay Schubert here sees here Johnson here perrero here Olivas here aroo absent L absent all righty now we can stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance States okay thank you okay so we we do not have any public comments so on the communications from the superintendent Dr Nell okay good evening Board of Education again and community members um the
005first item that I would um just like to entertain any discussion on is the proposal for the Strategic plan we our current strategic plan um expires at the end of this um calendar year and we want to start the process of being able to um work through an organized in an organized fashion um while we still take into consideration and active participation all of our various stakeholders in our education community so we want to um we wrote a proposal to work with um the C as our vendor for the strategic planning process for this time and that process outlined a three-phase um process that would out of all of the different um potential vendors that um we kind of checked around and um found out who was which districts were utilizing different vendors and um
006vendors that we know have been doing this work for some time uh the thing that really got us to want to propose this particular entity other than the fact that they have supported the district over the last six years in many different efforts everything from evaluation training to um us really being able to work with them on working relationships um and uh a part of their board and their leadership actually are national leaders of the AF which obviously we are an if dist School District so that was definitely appealing but for this process in particular we were um and I shared this with Becky last week we were very um motivated to work with them um because in addition to having a stakeholder group that actually is a part of the planning process and on
007the planning team that gets together to drill through the data to actually formulate priority standards and goals for the Strategic initiatives of the district going forward they also in between each phase they manage sending out surveys to each of the stakeholder groups namely our um our staff in the district and asking them for their feedback written feedback on each of the things that that stakeholder internal Core group has planned they ask for feedback so we get together we plan then they survey and send out what we have thus far and then following that they gather all the data bring it back to the Core group and then we have another meeting and then whatever we do then then they send out something and they seek feedback so that even if you're not in the room
008you don't have to blindly trust those that are representing you in the in the room unless you choose to and so it's not just from those who are representative in the room but it's also an opportunity for them to have direct feedback and there is no other um program or or format that I've seen that engages in that and I feel like that's powerful and and she did um share that piece was powerful as well so that is why um we are recommending this proposal and it definitely is in line with the cost actually it's the same cost that we paid six years ago so for a different vendor so we are not um we are actually looked to be saving a little with this what is the uh the timetable which this using this
009group we would be looking to do the pre meeting that phase where it's the Readiness Meeting um in July later July beginning of August and then we'd be ready to start the engagement process in August or early September we've got to kind of work out the timeline with their schedules and then with us obviously opening school but we would look to start at later than September and then they anticipate will be done definitely by um before the new year so that we could roll this out similarly to what we did in 2019 we were done January February is if you'll remember and then we rolled out our plan so that we could spend the entire spring with each School having an opportunity to really expose the new plan or the new goals to their school
010leadership teams slts so that they could be ready to start their FY 25 school I'm sorry FY 26 school year with the new plan but it takes us being done by January February for them to be able to really put some attention to it all spring it's too fast to ask them to do it over a summer and people are gone on vacation so that is the timeline that we're hoping to move toward is starting our process this fall early fall and then culminating it by December okay many organizations do we look at besides this one and I know you said that we went we didn't go with the one we went a few years ago right how many do we actually look at you know I didn't bring it in front of me to
011be total and in my mind my memory is not what it used to be but I could certainly share that with you but I do know immediately that we did uh look at um the process we went through with American institutes for research um last time but then I can bring the other ones and I won't put my uh executive cabinet on the spot but they probably know sorry Dr Nala the last time we went through this exercise we had Revisited uh the mission and the vision of the district is that and then we you know developed the Strategic goals off of that y are we revisiting the mission as well or are we just looking at the Strategic goals that are going to be supporting the mission of the district or are we doing
012a whole revamp of right with strategic planning the board has the opportunity to decide what you'd like to do so part of the readiness phase one will be us articulating to them what the board's desires are in terms of do you want to re revisit the whole thing or do you really want to what I've preliminarily shared with them is that we are interested in um using data from all of the different divisions to really be able to have a first discussion about where we are as far as what were the things we said we wanted to do in 2018 1819 and then how far have we moved the needle on each of those things that we talked about before and what data do we have to back that up and then where are the
013additional shortcomings that we want to focus on going forward so we would really be looking at our pillars that we have currently as it relates to data to be able to have that first conversation about did we address those things because remember each of the pillars has corresponding worthy targets and um action steps that we wanted to take to so did we accomplish those and I think that's something that would be very useful for that Core Group to be able to take a look at and then from there I anticipate we having the they would lead us in the discussion and the process around do we continue with this um if we met these targets do we formulate new ones are they under the same pillars or do we need to add some additional pillars
014and so that is where the discussion would go but if we wanted them to take a look at Mission Vision as it relates to revamping it we could but certainly what our current mission and vision is it's going to drive the work of us analyzing the pillars Yeah so basically we'd answer the question are the things that we doing are doing is that on target are we addressing the mission and vision I think that's critical well I think it's um very important that we um you know engage in these services to come up with a plan I remember working on on the last on the last one and it was very um uh you know a lot of data being thrown at us a lot of information but at the end of the day we
015came up with a plan and you know every meeting that we have every agenda item is connected to the plan somehow to one of the pillars it's uh very helpful to keep us on track and in the U presentations that were given uh the last couple of meetings um relative to how we did it with the plan um you know that was very insightful to see you know re recapping all all the work that's been done um you know in the district um as a result of that plan so I think I'm looking forward to what this uh new plan will bring yeah very interesting it will be so it would be the same type of format we follow the last time but a sense yeah very very similar except we would have an opportunity
016for everyone that wasn't in the room on those core the core team which was a pretty large team we had external Partners um we you know we included um obviously representation from everybody that was internal but it would be an opportunity for other people to give feedback and that was highly appealing because again we're really working on a lot of what our focus is is culture and climate and the more people feel like they can contribute the greater impact that I feel like I think that sends a strong message that there's value even if you're not in the room so so I so that's that was the appealing piece of this all right sounds like a plan okay so do you need a consensus or yeah just a consensus to move forward and then um
017I will uh bring it back for Action uh this was the first time that you were seeing it so I didn't want to put it on for Action I wanted you to be able to ask questions and see the full proposal and then next time I can bring it back for action and we can have a Readiness Meeting if if if you want to move in that direction and then obviously each of you can share with me you know what your thoughts are about something that you really want to do you know how do you want to recap mission and vision those kind of things is very flexible so I'd be able to try to incorporate like last time what board members really wanted to prioritize between now and when we got started so we'll
018bring it back at the next board meeting as an action item this was just a chance for you to read it and ask questions great okay that's great okay thanks okay the next item is um just letting everyone know our theme for this year we're super excited um our theme for this year is thriving for excellence from the inside out and normally we unveil the theme in the letter that I send out um a couple weeks into July and then inviting everyone to our red and black festive opening of school celebration which will be on the 19th in the afternoon um and I'm G to look back at the union it will not be out so you won't have to melt because we know guaranteed it's going to be 98 Degrees if we plan to
019have it at River's Edge so we're gonna keep it at East High where it's nice and air conditioned and I think um having our just festive afternoon food truck some desserts just some fellowship time people like that last year that was the feedback so that's what we're going to do but the reason that I share the theme early this year is because we are super excited in the way that we can really connect this to the work of culture and climate um when you talk about thriving for excellence I think the staff in this District over the past six years has done an exceptional job really focused over the last five years on the Strategic plan and really going after our slts have done an exceptional job at every building led by our building principles
020to really be able to go through a common set of data they come to the board every year and they report out and they have pictures and they have examples and they're very organized and it's very connected and that has not been easy work and what we have heard consistently is yes we're doing great things and we're moving the kids but we really need to take some time to slow down to look at the health and wellness of the adult and we also need to do some things differently where as it relates to behavior of our kids and this isn't an Easter a thing this is children all across the US it's really becoming a greater need so we are really going to put a pause and take an emphasis on teaching better behaviors and
021having consistent ways to engage with children everything that we've done consistently as a district in the last five years we've been able to make a great change I think about what we've said you know looking at East High with regards to physical altercations 80% reduction in in that and even though sometimes we see those Spike spike it's when we have changed what we said we were going to do so this year we had some bumps in the road in the beginning half of the year we made some number notes to us and we saw the ramifications from that but when we hold consistent with these are the expectations then our kids rise to the occasion and we see dramatic results and so I think I've heard from our staff that we really in our in
022our Administration and Leadership that we really want to start to address our social emotional side so our theme is um our shirts that we have EA is EQ right so we talk about being emotionally intelligent and how do we teach young people that there's value in all of their feelings so you're going to hear that a lot this year um we're not going to back burner um Quality education but we're going to put some more emphasis in focus on our children being um you know ready to go and take on the world but knowing how to read the room knowing how to behave knowing how to respect adults and again this is not an EA thing believe me it is a nationwide thing I think it's just a gen Z or whatever generation they are
023thing it's just uh it's been interesting for us and so um so that is our theme we also are going to build upon the new movie that's out now um inside out too I I know if you saw inside out one highly recommend inside out two and our cabinet members all have an assignment to watch that um and there's quite a good message and we feel like it's now that they have part two which is the teen years it's a prek through 12th grade theme and it's really aute way of trying to build upon dealing with emotions and giving validations to emotions whether you're in prek or whether you are an adult in the system and the the moral without giving away too much of the story is really about how you have to Value
024all of your emotions to be able to really be a whole person and complete person so you're going to have fear and anxiety and disgust and all of those things and so it's a really simple way for us to move how we're going to move this year and I did share all of this with Becky rro I have not shared this with Merl and the SEIU stewards yet um but I think I shared it with Mr Moore too so the if kind of knows it's coming some of the leadership um I can't see Jennifer gentile's face but um we're going to meet Wednesday um but I think you know we make light of it but we need to deal with that and addressing you know trauma informed practices and all of that we're really going
025to need to put some emphasis on that as a system so I know that's a long explanation but I think if this is where all of us are focused the Board needs to know we're going there we are going there like a 100% so that is going to be our Focus for this year coming up um any questions on that no so the board members should all go see the inside out super cute all right um we we didn't pick a theme yet though technically phrase oh no our phrase right yeah we're gonna work on it all right well just just you know Inside Out thriving for excellence um so um the next item is really a discussion item it has come um it come came up as a request from a graduate of East
026High and I just wanted to throw this out one of our graduates um he is getting ready to have his 10year celebration at Yukon Ryan Boatright um is going to be celebrated as the the team that actually uh won um March Madness for that for that year for the finals and they were they were the winners 10 it'll be 10 years and he mentioned that part of his teammates on that Yukon team their high schools are retiring their jerseys and so as I talked to the board president about us having the possibility of doing such a thing to kind of recognize that particular individual two other individuals came up as former um Tom Cats and as certainly individuals that I don't believe we've ever retired their jerseys and they were in the lead professional Athletics
027so Kurt Becker who was on the Bears and I believe he was the championship Bears uh a member of the championship team um retiring Jersey perhaps that could be a part of our celebration if you choose to move forward and then also Rodney Davis um I believe play for the Bulls as a free agent and maybe the Timberwolves so there are a couple of others that we would like to we don't mind putting that together with our our high school administration our new athletic director and doing something to acknowledge those graduates maybe as we kick off the sports season we could do it this winter as we because it would be an indoor um kind of Jersey retiring but what are your thoughts on that I wanted to bring that up to see what you
028thought it'd be great to tie it in with h the sports in football season or basketball season yeah that'd be great so maybe we could do two different ceremony celebrations one obviously in football season and we'd have two from basketball season okay so if you feel okay we'll move forward with that and um we will recognize those Tom Cats who excelled nationally in in sports thank you um number four is just an item I know that the board had been waiting on our followup workshop and we talked to Laura Martinez who is the iasb rep for kwaki region and these are the dates that she has available two um I'm sorry yeah two of the dates would be evening dates and one of the dates would be a Saturday date I believe so we are
029looking at the two evening date options um would be July 29th which is a Monday at 6 PM or August 12th which would be on Monday at 6:00 pm so those are two Monday dates that she has available or we could do a Saturday date which is August 10th and that could be at 9 or 10 AM she has available so I just want to know so that we can get on her counter she books up so fast as you saw I had to tell Mr L that uh she was all booked when he you know for the entire month of June and all of July but I'm going to get on her calendar so if you wouldn't mind just giving me one of those three that we could do a board Workshop like an
030hour and a half um we could go through that as kind of a midor check-in point I vote for July July 29th yes that's a Monday Mr sentes is that good for you 29 Mr Schubert okay Lisa then we will book Monday July 29th at 6: pm and we will lock her in because she books up fast all right thank you the last item is just a a motion and action item so that we could send this waiver request to the legislators for the fall or the spring session wherever we could get on for that okay motion to approve the driver's education waiver for behind the we old time from the 20242 through 2028 29 school years some move second any questions secretary call Ro Guero yes sewes yes Johnson yes Shubert yes Olivas yes
031okay motion to approve the consent agenda is listed so moov second any questions secretary call rooll Schubert yes barrero yes Johnson yes Olivas yes sentes yes okay and we do have a couple introductions tonight [Music] yes we do we have two introductions this evening so um oh we'll do introductions and then we'll do that sorry Steve sure so do Steve's durj first we are pleased to uh reintroduce but actually introduce a new member Mar Terry wise to our administrative team as the assistant principal at Odon elementary school you have to stand through the whole thing it's gonna be 1015 minutes just no Mari brings over 13 years of experience in early childhood education notably all in District 131 with a strong focus on by lingual teaching and educational leadership marer currently serves as an instructional
032coach at the ECC and has served as an early childhood teacher in our district since 2011 some of her accomplishments during this time include serving as a dual language implementation Committee Member where she played a crucial role in designing collaborating and revising the preschool program's vision mission and Collective agreements to best support the diverse preschool population in addition as a preschool instructional team member she designed implemented and trained teachers on units of study approach uh using the understanding by Design framework and lastly she served as an administrative intern at odono elementary school where she gained valuable administrative experience over seeing daily School operations supporting social emotional learning programs and collaborating on the school Improvement plan uh mari's academic achievements include a master's of Education in educational leadership from North Central College and a Bachelor of
033Arts in El and early childhood education from Universidad D Puerto Rico [Applause] welcome next we are pleased to reintroduce Jackie Stone as the assistant principal for teaching and learning at East Aurora High School jagie brings over 22 years of experience in education with a strong background in mathematics and educational Administration Jackie has most recently served as the math and business uh department chair at e aora High School where she collaborated with staff and students organized testing materials and coached approximately 40 math and business teachers in addition Jackie has served as a professional learning consultant at the College Board an academy leader for stem at Rich High School where she led the consolidation of campuses including the creation of a new stem engineering lab and provided tutoring and support to students in need Jackie has served
034as a math coach and collaborated with District math leadership teams to present workshops and improve uh student mathematical learning and understanding Jackie holds a master of arts and educational Administration from governor State University and a Bachelor of Science and Mathematics from Milan University Jackie welcome and [Applause] congratulations all right okay so on to finance and personnel with Dan uh good evening the uh finance and Personnel committee met today and our next meeting is scheduled for a Monday August 5th uh 5:30 here and we um I'll be reporting out the next meeting what we discussed at today's committee meeting but we do have one action item as a result of today's meeting and that's under uh 10 B1 and so that is for an addition of three uh floating three full-time floating teacher assistance positions at
035gate school and this is in order to to add one additional classroom for the um to be meet the needs of the of the students in the program so this is being voted on tonight um under time constraints so that they can get these slots filled before the beginning of the school year coming up so we are need if is there any questions on these okay so um we'll need a motion in a second for for to to approve three um full-time equivalent floating teacher assist assistant positions for gate School Samu second secretary call the RO Shubert yes Olivas yes burrero yes Johnson yes SE wies yes motion carries that concludes our report thank you okay curriculum and programs with one good evening everyone the curriculum and programs committee met on Monday June 17th here
036at the administrative Center we did have a couple School Improvement plans that were presented um the first one was Gates elementary school and it was presented by principal isayas Martinez um he he did report that at that time um 35.9% of students met their expected growth in map Reading in English and 39.2% met their expected growth in Spanish um for the 2324 school year and then for math 51.6% of students met their expect expected growth in map math he also shared um along with um action steps to accomplish future goals that they set um and those goals were as follows 60% of students K through five will meet or exceed their expected growth um goals in reading and math as measured by nwaa map and then a second goal that they had was uh had
037to do with the daily average attendance of 95% or higher throughout the school year and the third goal uh was to decrease major discipline referrals by 10% comp compared to the previous school year um we also had another school Improvement plan that was presented by East High School and that was presented by uh principal Jennifer Mitchell assistant principals Francisco del Santos and Jennifer Brinkman and Carla Williams some of the highlights um that they covered were um the highest number of EA students that have earned the SE of by literacy they also administered the highest uh number of AP exams um and then we also continue to see an increase in the number of students who are taking advantage of the district's Early College Opportunity by taking classes at wanzi Community College some of the goals
038and action steps to accomplish um to be accomplished by the administration were to increase the graduation rate by 2% increase freshman On Track by 2% and design and prepare the block scheduling while also providing pro professional development during the school Improvement days on um block scheduling we also reviewed the 2024 2025 curriculum committee meeting dates um and Dr delak also shared the proposed assessment calendar for 2024 2025 school year um principal Jennifer Mitchell also presented um the new course proposals for East High and they are computer literacy 1 and two and with that students also have the opportunity to take certification exams in such areas such as word excel PowerPoint and Outlook and uh she also shared that currently there is a math boost for freshmen but wanted to expand that for all students who
039need additional support in math and uh this would be connected to the math course that they are actually taking the other two courses that were proposed were broadcasting technology 2 and blueprint reading and the proposed cost would be 5,299 for the CED point Microsoft Office Suite certification um moving on Dr delak at that time also shared a resolution for disposal of personal property prek curriculum materials that are outdated um and also shared enrollment and District average attendance we do have two action items um unless anybody has any questions at the moment all right so moving on to the first one um 11. b.1 motion to approve the cero Microsoft Office credential student licenses for East High School in the amount of $5,299 so move second secretary Colo Olivas yes sentes yes Schubert yes Guerrero yes
040Johnson yes the second motion um is for the uh disposal of personal property 11 Point b.2 motion to approve the resolution for disposal of personal property prek curricular materials so move second secretary goo sentes yes Olivas yes Schubert yes Johnson yeso yes all right the next curriculum and programs committee will meet on Monday July 15th at 6 pm here at the administrative Center and that concludes my report okay so now we are on to buildings and grounds and Mr magazini can do his I'll go through this first the official business then we can uh do our show until so um the committee met this evening we'll meet again on the 5th of August at 6 pm here at the administrative Center um we do have one action item for this evening um and I'll go
041through that now it's item B1 I need a motion to approve the purchase of office furniture for the jump start preschool program at Johnson Elementary School from Ford space through the Omnia purchasing Cooperative in the amount of 59,000 59153 so move I have a question before we move on um I know we were talking early about the U purchasing of the Justa furniture and Dr when we talked a little bit about this um um I I talked about the bathroom in room 2011 has I know that was a storage before it wasn't really working the door was that was 5 years ago but I just want to make sure that that's because it's not mentioned just it was just the furniture but I just want to make sure that the bathroom in that room is
042workable because it was not when I was there so I just want to make sure that and that was five years ago that was my storage space so I just want to make sure that that bathroom is currently working or has been fixed because I know it wasn't when I was that was my classroom and we took want me to answer that now yeah um we we took a um and I'm looking at Steve we took a tour and I know that some of those spaces and as said have been renovated so the only one that Wing that they're primarily going to be in that's all been upgraded there were Renovations done in that room when the air conditioning was being done but there is one room and that's the room where we do the
043modeling and things with parents that's a little bit further back down the hall where um that it does have the old bathroom still so I'm not sure which of those is 501 both of the rooms there three rooms two of them are going to be um have been already um fixed the only thing that they would need would be extra cost but minimal is our architect said they would need to put the changing um spaces in all of those bathrooms so those would be additional upgrades in cost but the bathrooms I know in two of the three rooms have been upgraded yeah because I think the ones the the ones in the front the that was part of the new addition for Johnson so those bathrooms did work they're newer um and the other sections
044the older version of that building so I know it wasn't updated but that was 5 years ago so I don't know if there was any more stuff that has been updated on that I can I will look into that and make sure that worked the one old one is the older sure room 2011 okay thank you um are you ready to move forward second um actually we have a uh do we need to vote on that um have a motion yeah we got the motion okay call roll y Johnson yes Guero yes Shubert yes sees Olivas [Music] yes Steve you want to roll out our after long uh laborous uh debate at the building of grounds committee we have decided to pull all the computers out of our libraries and go back to the card
045catalog system and that's what you see here no this is this is um I had asked Steve to bring these for a show and tell it kind of looked reminds me of you know grade school but okay so um we talked about uh this is a sample of what we are going to be getting for the cell phone lockers um it's actually going to have 34 slots so it'll be you know probably double the size of this so I know that um Miss Mitchell is looking around to and they're working with the staff at the high school as to where they're going to go in the classrooms but basically um we are going to be using this particular locking key here so these are just other samples of things that we are not going with
046and the key will be in the lock student opens up put their cell phone in here there's plenty of space in case they have two or three like administrator and then and then they will be able to just take their key in the classroom they'll be going through class and then when they leave they'll just put the key in open up and grab their their uh phone if I can't imagine it but if someone loses their their key the teacher will have a master key that will open up each individual but she Al they also have an opportunity to open up the whole slot and then they can get their cell phones out way so but we're hoping and uh looking at really the teacher will have the master key just in the emergency but
047this is basically what it looks like okay stepen are those keys going to have some kind of wristband for the students yes okay yes absolutely that's a good question the other pieces that they will also be numbered again this is just a sample but they'll be numbered so then the key will line up to the number any questions on that no thanks for bringing it St and this is again just for the high school and the um middle schools grade start yeah all right it is interesting and just so you you know want to say this publicly I think I shared with the board but Peoria School District which is one of the Luda districts one of the large unit districts in Illinois um they just went to yanders so they're not going to have
048access to their cell phones all day they did it districtwide yanders for the whole district and Steve also read recently the state of New York is looking to go the entire State another state to fold so it's coming so we have the more Len okay all right but I also you know I I also think it's listening to the community I mean you reached out to our community which is you know every Community is different and our community is very connected so with their with their students and the students with their families so I think this is a very well thought through plan for our district very versus the Yonder system one way or the other yeah the parents drove us to the middle so thank you for you know it it'll still have further
049will oh absolutely during instruction that's what we care about we are definitely Cutting Edge again yes we are yeah okay well that's great okay so motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing pending litigation some move second secretary goone shuber yes brero yes Johnson Olivas yes sees I have a e e e here we go we have two minutes we're gonna make it motion to reconvene for executive session they move second secretary colol perero yes sentes Johnson yes Schubert yes Olivas yes motion to adjourn so move secretary col Ro chubert sentes Johnson yes Guero yes Olivas yes okay two minutes is fair we beat 8 o' for the record 758