001are you ready ready to start this party all right all right let's do a roll call sandra bradford here angela wilcox here barry alt-shuler here leah callister lazari here erin chanding katie karam steve wang and if you can turn around for me ladies and gentlemen i'd like to introduce you to ben who is from north barrington elementary school and we asked all of our principals to please nominate a young person that really exemplified the characteristics and strengths that they you know aspire to developing young people in their building and ben was nominated for that he's described as a leader in his classroom really exhibiting what they call cult pride at north barrington and that's someone who's respectful understands the importance of safety responsible really goes above and beyond being a role model for other students
002both academically and with care character so ben i don't know if this is true or not dr west you can verify but uh she says that ben just loves coming to north barrington school and he makes north barrington schools such a great place so ben congratulations and let's give him a big round of applause now the big moment then we're going to all stand up and the flag is over that way you want to tell everybody to stand please stand and go when you're ready allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all then yeah just hold it out there hold it up right there there you go look at it first and then we'll
003find your mouth are we good yeah you're good all right ready one two three thank you do we need to get one aim back there okay one real quick okay [Applause] it's a great way to to start the meeting thank you ben and family um so due to public health guidance a face mask is recommended and appreciated there's masks available up here and in the back of the room if you if you'd like them thank you again for your cooperation with that just a quick reminder that this is not a public meeting please be respectful and kind throughout the board meeting that occurs in public if we do run into issues where we have um disruption we will call a break and during the break the board would leave the room but the board is
004committed to observing the open meetings act and we will not um and we will not uh commit any violations of the open meetings act if we do have to exit the room as you'll continue to hear throughout this meeting keeping our schools safely open with in-person learning is our top priority so before we get into anything else i'm going to turn over back over to dr hunt to go through some recognition i know we've got some extra special guests here today so uh thank you and coming off of uh last weekend's performance and the great performance that we heard uh as as we entered this evening i will tell you the new superintendent of schools i am just blown away by the fine arts department and the things that happen and it's a it's certainly
005a reflection of the talent that you all have and the students have in our schools but talent tape needs to be fostered and developed and that really comes from our teachers and and the program coordinator so i just want to first of all just tell you how i'm amazed at everything that you do and then i'm going to get out of the way and bring the star up here the show uh mrs towson is going to take us through uh some re very important recognition uh within our finance arts department thank you good evening i'm bridget tyleston the k-12 director for fine visual in performing arts for the school district and i'm so proud to be here tonight to recognize some students who have displayed excellence at the state level in fine arts all 14
006students who were recognizing this evening have gone through a rigorous audition or adjudication process to demonstrate musical or artistic ability that is indeed exceptional so we're going to start out with our 12 ilmea allstate musicians which is a really large number and we're we're so proud that we had 12 qualifiers this year one of our largest numbers ever so what i'm going to do is just speak a little bit about each student and if you can come up we have mr sheldon from our fine arts staff he's going to give you a little recognition and then we're going to ask that you come back by me and we'll form a line just so we can get a picture at the end so we're going to start out with evelina chambis so evelina come on up
007evelina yes congratulations evelina was selected for allstate choir as an alto 2 she's described by her teachers as multi-talented kind hard-working and humble congratulations next we'd like to rev to recognize evan qui he's a violinist who was selected for all-state orchestra evan is described by his teachers as a meticulous musician who is always diligent professional and reserved next we have jeremiah gashow he's a tenor in the allstate choir you may have seen him in the musical last weekend as well jeremiah is a dynamic performer who is energetic talented and always very hard working congratulations jeremiah next we have matthew herr matthew is was in the allstate orchestra playing the cello you heard him playing this evening if you were lucky enough to get here a little early he is a virtuosic performer dedicated he's always
008an eager volunteer and just a terrific all-around musician congratulations next we'd like to recognize tegan larson who was playing the harp as you came in this evening teagan was part of the allstate orchestra on the harp she's described by her teachers as always willing to share her talents with the school and the community as you saw this evening and with a harp that's not a small thing to travel with that instrument she's kind hard-working and has an oppressive attention to detail congratulations next we have faye logan allstate alto and also a leading role in the musical this past weekend faye is ambitious an ambitious and engaging musician with a passion for learning always continually seeking to improve and she's always also an excellent leader in our choral program congratulations [Applause] next we have annalisa nardiello
009annalisa is actually performing with the barrington children's choir this weekend but i heard there might be a family member here all right we'd love you to come on up and take a recognition home congratulations mr nardiello so annelise's teachers describe her musicianship and attention to detail and her choral work as being exceptional as evidenced by being selected twice as an ilmea musician which is a big deal annalisa always enjoys the opportunity to be challenged musically congratulations to anna-lysa next we have david raw for allstate orchestra on the violin david is an extremely dedicated musician and is a leader in the music classroom most importantly mr sheldon said he's always very kind and compassionate and just that kind of leader congratulations next we'd like to recognize olivia's son for all-state orchestra on the viola olivia is
010a passionate musician who always steps up musically she continually seeks to be challenged as a player and gives one hundred percent to all of her performances congratulations next we have jeevan chavastava jeevan is a leader in our choral program and is always dedicated and just an amazing musician with a beautiful tener voice he earned all state musician status last year as well which is a big deal congratulations stephen next is jason wu who had another commitment this evening but jason is the first three-year all-stater from barrington high school in the band ever so it's a really big deal and he is recognized for clarinet he is a tireless worker on his instrument and a terrific leader in our symphonic and marching band so congratulations to jason the last all-state musician before we move on to
011a few other recognitions is jimmy zhang an all-state percussionist he was also a big part of the pit band last weekend in the musical playing the drums jimmy is always prepared and meticulous in his musicianship he has an extremely intelligent understanding of how his part fits into a larger ensemble and he is a true leader in our band program congratulations now we'd like to shift gears to theater we'd like to recognize margaret higgins for her all-state award in theater margaret went through a rigorous audition process to be selected for the 2022 all-state production of cabaret at the illinois high school theater festival margaret's dynamic choices and natural leadership ability make her very engaging both on and off the stage her commitment and work ethic in the theater are unparalleled congratulations and then lastly we'd like
012to recognize tia matavan she was selected in the harper art show which was a very prestigious art award from from the area for the 2d best in show piece tia's teacher said she's meticulous in her art and color pencil process she captures true emotions with realism and stunning imagery she conceptualizes analyzes and is reflective throughout the artistic process congratulations to you and i thought i'd close with showing you her piece which is the last slide it's a piece called living in color and after she was selected we asked her to write an artist statement about what the piece meant right because we can all look at that and interpret it differently and she wrote about the value that art provides to her life and i think it's very fitting for tonight you know you see
013the the black and white picture and then the the stripe of color and she wrote about how it brings vibrancy exuberance joy all that good stuff and and i can say working with and seeing these young people each and every day that is what you do that you bring joy you're the heart of of the school in so many ways bringing your music bringing your art to all of us and i cannot thank you enough and our music and art teachers we have mr sheldon here mr karen here it's you know like dr hunt said i think they do such great things with our students and and provide them opportunities and inspire and guide them so congratulations to all of you and your teachers i'd love to maybe get a picture if that's possible squeeze
014together a little bit a little bit we're going to need you to shrink your beard where are we looking look at samantha [Applause] any comments you guys like to sit say while you're walking away about your fantastic fine art stamps [Music] you guys are done performing my report is next i'll i'll try to talk while um while folks are leaving i'll mention actually that i was able to see mamma mia this weekend and i was happy to see many board members there as well thank you it was a very fun fun musical i know dr hunt's going to share some more in his report as well also got to see the girls basketball game last night so we'll be the girls will be moving on this weekend so that's very exciting as well the boys
015are playing now all right so we might have a couple um basketball games to watch on friday and and i think just a couple on friday i don't know if they both play on saturday um so um now that it's a little bit calmer here so the board just spent a couple of hours on an equity workshop here this afternoon so i just wanted to say that that we had a very good reflective candid self-evaluation discussion about ourselves about why what and how we need to be behaving so just a couple words to summarize is we'll probably talk about this more but folks said it was enlightening it was a positive step it was we need to focus on asking more questions being intentional and all learning there's some some comments that that came in
016towards the end of the discussion so thank you all for making the time to do that today i think you'll hear again from us more on this topic uh let's see i also am excited to report maybe you guys have already seen it that framework 220 is in full swing um community members please please provide your input throughout march to the questionnaire all information about framework 220 can be found on the website barrington220.org framework 220. if if community members want to get involved in the next phases you can sign up there on that website in the google forms if you're unsure about what to do you can contact janine you can contact myself and i think angela you'd be happy to have them contact you as well so please please get involved we'd like to
017hear from you and i think that's all i have to report i guess just one last thing is that when we get to the end of the meeting we will be returning to close because we didn't get a chance to finish all of our discussions this afternoon all right so with that the next portion of our meeting is public comment and we have about 10 speakers so um i'll read my preamble we have now come to the portion of our meeting set aside for public comment we value your thoughts and opinions and in accordance with board policy we ask that you state your name your attendance area or relationship with the district before beginning your comments and tonight we'll limit your comments to three minutes and we'll have a timer up on the on the
018screen we will ensure that all voices are respected and heard in accordance with our board equity statement that states we recognize embrace and defend all identities abilities and voices of our diverse school community and our board policy we want to make sure that uh everyone's treated with mutual respect civility and orderly conduct among all people on school property we commit to addressing the issues and not attacking people and we ask the community to do likewise if someone has represented your views do not you do not feel you have to re you do not feel the need to repeat the statements instead consider standing and showing your support we ask that these actions do not delay the public comment or the work of the board and as a reminder public comment is not a conversation it
019does not necessarily reflect the views of the board if any comments require further attention we will ask dr hunt to follow up and report back to the board so with that um let us bring up jeff price hello my name is jeff price huff street and station for those meeting me for the first time i've been a math teacher in the district since 2001 a district resident since 2006 and i've had children in the district since 2010. you may know me as the public address announcer for barrington high school boys soccer and baseball but what brings me here tonight is that i hope you'll indulge me in sharing the good news that is our barrington high school and middle school scholastic bowl programs as you may not necessarily read articles in the daily herald about
020this interscholastic activity in barrington that performs so well and brings a great deal of positive publicity to our town check out naqt.com right now and the first photo you see is none other than our very own barrington high school team the defending champions of naqt's high school national championship tournament however it occurs to me you may not even know exactly what scholastic bowl is so quickly scholastic bowl is a team competition where school teams of four or five players depending on the format compete against another team in an effort to outscore them over the course of 20 or 24 toss-up questions the toss-up questions are answered by being the first to buzz in on an electronic system with the correct answer a correct answer earns your team points plus the first opportunity to answer a
021series of bonus questions any bonus part not answered by the controlling team may be stolen by the other team the questions come from a diverse canon of topics ranging from math and science topics to history literature performing arts religion and even pop culture and sports scholastic bowl in barrington is a very inclusive activity and that there are no tryouts or cuts students simply join the teams however ultimately formed on a hierarchical basis with the best players forming the a team the next best forming of the b team and so on scholastic bowl is an activity where a player can become dominant by sheer force of will then he'd only have the desire to improve recently our bhs team managed to win their third straight mid-suburban league title over our friends and rivals from buffalo grove
022prevailing 470 to 4 30 in overtime in the championship match last weekend we traveled to centennial high school in champaign to play the naqc state championship tournament which is sponsored by the coaches association by the way fun fact the coach of centennial mr andrew chun is a former station and bhs student too unfortunately our chances of winning an aqt state were snuffed out by buffalo grove but the team managed to close the championship pool with no other blemishes easily downing teams such as stevenson imsa and university lab to claim second place next monday ihsa state series play begins with regional play and i hope to return a month from now with my team to present you with our first ihsa state championship trophy a title that has been vacant for reasons i'm sure you know
023since 2019. the task won't be easy because there are some of the best and brightest students in the state if not the country and most of the teams funnel into our sectional regardless of that outcome the team looks forward to traveling to the 2022 national tournament in atlanta on memorial day weekend in the hopes of duplicating our success last may as for middle school scholastic bowl just about out of time but i'm not going to try to embarrass my friends from prairie and point out station is two iesa state titles to prairie one uh but just know that it's gotta be tough to be a coach of another team in conference because the title game is always station versus prairie anyway i invite you to come check out a match and thank you for listening
024[Applause] my name is kelleher we are in our 10th year in this district and we have entrusted our three bless you three children four schools the elc lines prairie and bhs we love our community and we are very proud to live here i came tonight to speak to our strong support of district 220's continued efforts to prioritize diversity equity and inclusion as we are moving forward together we are so proud to be part of a district embarking on their equity training we are asking a lot of our faculty administrators and our board at what has already been an incredibly tumultuous time to be involved in education when isbe came out with their equity statement alongside their 2020-23 strat plan the goals seemed very lofty and yet in spite of this global pandemic here you all
025are and you are beginning to walk the walk for us seriously bottom of my heart thank you so much our communities and our country are actively diversifying there are abundant differences and an effort to make all feel included regardless of sexuality ability and race benefit us all our children deserve the most complete education and that is one steeped in true inclusion the aim of inclusion is to embrace all people irrespective of race gender disability medical or other needs it is not an evil buzzword it is just a concept that we can all get behind together equity and inclusion are non-partisan goals every student and every family deserve to feel seen to feel safe and to be valued racism classicism ableism we cannot sit with the status quo here we have to do better better best
026by our differently abled students our students of color our lgbtq plus students and our staff as a mother to biracial kids i know that our children can reap the benefits of this important work they are being set up for their lives here in barrington and eventually beyond building their empathy and awareness now can make them better global citizens they can learn that the world is bigger than our homes i am proud that we are equipping them as best we can to succeed in every way as an immigrant and a minority i know that the importance of this work cannot be overstated school was really rough for me and we could have really used this work back then my husband and i grew up very nearby with a similar socio-economic composition in our schools we moved
027on to college and experienced quite the culture shock it was the first time we learned about different cultures from peers and professors that were teaching from their lived experiences and suddenly the world felt a lot bigger but in all the best ways we are giving our kids an incredible leg up to begin this work in our community now through our chinese immersion and dual language programs we give our children a unique opportunity to be steeped in another language and culture as they are learning by learning through these programs they are being exposed to more than what is just within their home these students are building natural awareness natural empathy because they're able to live outside of their immediate circumstances all of our students deserve this exposure and awareness not just those in these stellar programs
028our board has stepped up to do good by our children educators pursued their passion to do good by all our children this can be that good thank you [Applause] hello i'm brian priggy i have students at the elc and lines i'm here tonight to talk about a topic other than covid hopefully you are as relieved about that as i am many people seem to equate diversity equity and inclusion with racial issues while race is certainly a tenant within dei there are other marginalized communities that fit under the wide umbrella as we sit here tonight 32 state houses are considering anti-transgender legislation including illinois 37 state houses are considering anti-lgbtq plus legislation including illinois where the bill in committee not only emits sexual orientation from discrimination protections but also explicitly states biological sex as the protected
029class the same bill would give community members the ability to force any lesson onto a ballot with as few as 250 signatures and allow parents to opt their child out of almost any lesson i'm very pleased that our district has adopted an equity statement and is beginning to tackle the hard work involved in diversity equity and inclusion we should be proud that we're taking meaningful steps in this area unfortunately we continue to see these fights against fair complete and open education's rage in legislative bodies across the countries and spill all the way to our own backyard and into our own board meetings so tonight i urge you to continue the good work that we've started and see it through to completion this work is to protect our kids and produce alumni that are educated well-rounded
030and ready to exist in the diverse world we live in it's worth it thank you [Applause] good evening everyone and thank you for your service here tonight and every time you're in front of all of us i'm maria peterson i had three children uh two of them that attended the barrington heights barrington system my middle guy who is deaf did not he went to wisconsin school for the deaf and then the illinois school for the deaf and i am here to encourage you to continue the diversity equity and inclusion programs because one my deaf son who was clearly not accepted he was always bullied and in addition to that [Applause] he just endured a lot of pain and suffering and today suffers from ptsd because of that number two i'm here because i am a
031woman of latin descent my mother and father both immigrated here from mexico in the late 50s and early 60s in 1965 i still remember when my mother was citizenized to become a u.s citizen and i was honored to be in the same courtroom in 1989 when i was sworn in to be an attorney there but i also am here uh as a rotarian uh about two weeks ago we had a bystander training for our rotary club and the district and i want to share with you with permission from the person who wrote this about what she didn't know and this is a woman who's in her 70s who what she didn't know about people that were different than her first i had no idea of the hate violence discrimination and persecution against asian cultures i
032grew up hearing asians were very smart and excelled in school that they should be respected and emulated for their work ethic and accomplishments so this blew me away i learned that anti-asian behaviors are a real problem even today there was a chinese-american man beaten to death in chicago just a couple of weeks ago a hate crime also there's the basic fear of people from other cultures xenophobia that many people have that can result in inappropriate or worse behavior i've never heard of the chinese exclusion yet we know about the japanese internment camps and this is a woman who's in her 70s who's just discovering what she's missed all her life and by us by you in school teaching our children about culture which has had a slew of young adults leaving this room of various
033cultures sharing their god-given talents let's keep the diversity equity inclusion going thank you next up is laura davis i'm laura davis and i have a son very successful son who went to district 220 thank you very much thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight and also thank you for everything that you're doing i support diversity equity inclusion training for everybody i went through this training as a non-profit i volunteer with and i lived it in my career in a multinational company i found the experience and learnings to be rewarding and broadening some things i learned about myself were uncomfortable they are what we called in my career growth promoting moments and growth is good and what i learned has enriched my life bias is part of this awareness both conscious and unconscious biases so
034i'm going to share with you a silly bias that i grew up with it had to do with hair color so when i was young i thought that blondes were dumb redheads were sexy and brown heads were sensible and gray heads were boring as i got older i realized my biases and how silly they are some of my best friends are or were blondes i got gray hair and realized that i'm learning every day and that others that i know have gray hair are interesting and have a lot of exciting experiences to share and not all people with brown hair are sensible i don't know what to say about green or blue or purple or bald sorry dr hunt and the interesting thing about biases conscious or unconscious is that they hang around and but
035at least we can be aware of them and we can learn to pay attention to them so i'm aware that not all blondes are dumb not all gray heads are boring not all brown heads are sensible and not all redheads are sexy except for damian lewis because every time that redhead is in a movie i want to go see it but thank you again for working to make our schools the best and i applaud district 220 school board administration for doing the growth promoting work of dei training and leading to enrichment for all involved thank you very much [Applause] hi i'm the parent of one student at roslyn and two at prairie and i'm also a child and adolescent mental health therapist serving students within the community um i'm here tonight to hear your name
036megan smith thank you sorry um i'm here tonight to speak about diversity equity and inclusion efforts specifically from the perspective of child and adolescent mental health i think we're all reeling right now from this period of uncertainty loss and division within our community and our society in general and the one thing that we can agree on is that addressing child and adolescent mental health needs is essential i see the profound healing potential of diversity equity and inclusion efforts in this area and would like to thank the district and the board for making this a priority a well-coordinated dei focused approach to education should offer a variety of the most important social emotional lessons and supports for all students including lessons on celebrating differences fostering an inclusive community acknowledging and growing from mistakes and adversity understanding
037the perspectives and emotions of self and others and how one's environment and past experiences influence our perspectives and emotions these are exactly the type of skills and perspectives i strive to foster as a child and adolescent therapist for healthy coping and emotional wellness a child who celebrates differences can recognize and embrace their own unique strengths and challenges their full authentic self without the need to repress aspects of their identity a child who feels a sense of belonging feels safe enough to focus on learning and explore and share new ideas deepening classroom discussions a child who learns to acknowledge and grow from mistakes and adversity rather than denying it and avoiding discussion of those topics is able to take risks bounce back from failures and incorporate feedback from others to improve a child who develops a
038greater understanding of their own and others perspectives is more confident resilient and capable of collaboration providing safety and equitable opportunities for all students is an essential aspect of public education and obviously those groups historically marginalized due to religion race disability or gender identity deserve that just as much as every other student beyond that in a district known for educational innovation and excellence the community also expects leadership in programs that foster the skills necessary to excel in college and careers at schools adapt to preparing students for an economy that is increasingly global and driven by technology innovation effective communication skills and leadership skills will be paramount to success and i look forward to seeing the growth in these areas of student development that the equity 2 220 program will foster [Applause] jim mcgrath a barrington resident
039i have two grandkids in school one and bhs1 and roslyn road both of them are avid readers so i'm i'm going to talk a little bit i think you guys probably already know these statistics but it's about book banning and i kind of want to get a head start on this cbs news poll finds that surprisingly large majorities oppose banning books on history or race the poll finds that 83 percent of americans say books should never be banned for criticizing us history eighty-five percent oppose banning for them for airing ideas that you disagree with 87 percent oppose banning them for discussing race or depicting slavery percent of americans say schools should be allowed to teach ideas and historical events that might make some students feel uncomfortable 68 percent say teaching make 68 say teachings make
040people more understanding of what others went through the bottom line 58 percent believe that racism is still a serious problem today so thank you to district 220 for your foresight with hiring mr rouse and his guidance uh district 220 is obviously a leader in this area thank [Applause] next up is you very and um this is a little different topic um so just going back to it is a covert related item and i'm sure that assembling the doctor group that advised the district was well-intentioned i obtained a couple foias in that regard and i wanted to mention a few things that i found there they volunteered there was no election or selection process of the doctors there were no contracts in place governance or formal documentation or minutes formally of the input so there was
041quite a few emails back and forth the community or the parents were engaged to contact these physicians to provide health care advice for our children and after reviewing their communications october 2021 through february 11th here are some key insights that i found um january 29th they recommended the below plan and i didn't see the plan that was referred to but implemented until vaccinations are available for all including under 5 years old since covid is thought to be transmissible as measles we are recommending using herd immunity threshold of measles which is 95 95 should be fully vaccinated and up to date um i find this recommendation myself to be reckless and unconscionable um for various reasons that i've probably told you before i found notable they said those immunized against measles do not continue to spread
042however immunozi immunization against covid may continue to spread something important to note we do not include natural immunity in this definition it is too difficult to track they're not good studies i also find it notable that we don't have any of those studies for sure on the vaccines either never once did they mention any type of risk of experimentally vaccinating children who are 99 or more fine from covid whereas measles was very dangerous for children and a completely unfair comparison to make when using a metric for vaccination it fails to also mention vaccine adverse events lack of longer term safety data that we've reviewed in the past and many times in this group i've brought that data to you this group of doctors failed to consider populations not tested in the extremely short children's clinical
043trials these include groups excluded from the study which include previously coveted infected as we know most of our children have been infected by covenant and wouldn't necessarily be indicated for these vaccines so putting a metric on our students is extremely dangerous and reckless behavior in my opinion not once is the foia is there any type of metric or notes from the group at all about children's mental health negative effects offsetting from these missions this group has not been authorized to provide advice for my children's health or any of the parents that i've talked to about this and i'd appreciate if we could disband that group immediately thank you good evening um my name's paul rudnicki i've got a child at countryside and a child at the high school um just wanted to come back in
044front of the group um recognizing that the change in guidance from the cdc and from the state and the lawsuit kind of being all settled the state supreme court ruling you know kind of giving local control to school districts empowers the board to take action when necessary so if you know we find another cove invariant something else that creeps into us a different pandemic even in later years right um i'm curious how the board is going to watch you know how the district is going to watch for those things in particular with cova 19 because it's still a risk to so many um i know there's the matrix that the board had approved at one point and i know that uh dr hunt i've pressed to have that expanded on because right now it just
045seems like it's still one one measure that has some consequences or some actions to it at certain levels with three other metrics that are along for the ride but don't seem to drive any decision making capabilities are we still keeping track of those metrics are they published anywhere where the public can see them i would challenge that that should be transparent data that's published if we're keeping track of those things i would also like to again reiterate that the vaccine vaccination level data for the school buildings should be published as i try to assess the risk to my kids going into each of their school buildings i really recognize that there's a certain level of granularity that we wouldn't want to get down to for any hipaa related you know senses but i think at
046the building level it might be broad enough to inform sort of the risk environment of a particular building where my child is going on an everyday basis without violating anybody else's privacy so i just wanted to come forward and press the a for the matrix that we're publishing that information and beef that the vaccination rate should be something we also publish we went through a lot of effort we talked about the nurse's staff putting in all that work to gather that information we should be sharing that with the community so people can make the best decision especially now when masks are optional parents are allowed to make some choices let's give them information to that helps make those choices for their households in the best they can thank you all right that concludes public comment
047um so next i'd like to turn it over to dr hunt if you're ready and you've taken some notes there thank you appreciate it laura is it laura laura this is a fashion choice [Laughter] i think that's a red head is wade okay good evening and thank you very much for being here this evening uh first up in my report last meeting we had the opportunity to improve a new athletic director uh replacing mike optious you know mike has been with the district for quite some time uh has done a fabulous job in his role as athletic director and we're seeing some of the the uh kind of fruits of his labors over time and it's it's developed into a very well respected program uh that puts competitive students on the field but also one
048that teaches really valuable life lessons uh so what i'm doing here ryan is i'm really building up the work you got to follow the big steps last month i did introduce ryan robinstein ryan uh comes from us from lake zurich and and the board did approve this recommendation and he would transition into our new athletic director at barrington high school ryan has quite an administrative uh background at lake zurich uh over 19 years and you can certainly uh read about his credentials what i didn't share with you at her last meeting was uh when i called um uh dr gold to check a reference on on ryan and i think that the first words out of your mouth were i don't want to take this call and the second was um this gentleman has worked
049so hard he's turned into mr lake zurich and it's going to be a huge huge loss for the school district so certainly their loss is our gain uh i've had the opportunity to chat with ryan a few times in the interview and already attending barranting events leading up against the wall last night at the girls basketball game a very genuine person and cares about kids will continue the excellence and i think add to the quality of the program that we have at barrington high school and i know he's got some family members here today as well the recruitment for the the kids will come shortly where we try to bring them over but i just want to mention there are a lot of jobs that take a lot of time away from families and the
050athletic director is one of those there's just countless nights and evenings and you have to be cut from a certain cloth and you've got to be married to someone who understands that so we appreciate you being here appreciate your support as well at this time i'd like to just congratulate ryan as a new athletic director of barrington high [Applause] school thank you first of all i will say that um there's a halftime update that uh barrington was up nine at the half over there um in the sectional meeting so um i yeah i'll do it before i leave i'll text back over there so um dr hunt and uh board members thank you for the warm welcome um to the barrington community um it's always been a dream of mine to be an athletic director
051and um this district is making that dream um uh for me um and and my family so um for that i'm forever grateful so thank you guys very much for that um as many of you know mike is retiring um and has done many great things during his tenure um here at barrington and deserves every ounce of praise as he heads into retirement where we all will get to one day it's my greatest hope to build on his successes um and and to continue to bring great experiences to our student athletes our students at large the coaches um and the community as well um and i look forward to meeting many of you i got to meet um ms bradford last night at the at the basketball game as well um and soon working with
052everyone to achieve the goals of the district and the high school and thank you again for uh for recognizing me tonight so i appreciate that so thank you send the update send us updates oh i'll work on it uh next i i'm happy to share with the board of education that we did receive a notification that we've received the competency-based waiver application and it's been proved by the illinois state board of education the way the waiver really allows us to begin to redefine what education looks like at the secondary level in terms of a universe of credit uh by really demonstrating proficiency and mastery and competencies which is really what we want our students to attain so it's really moving away from a traditional seat time model to one in which students can be more
053flexible and flow through their education as they move through and progress this is quite an outstanding accomplishment for our district we we only we're only the second district in the state to receive the waiver outside of the pilot program of 47 districts what this is going to do is really open up the conversation as we enter into strategic planning to have some flexibility around how we educate our kids so this is a real important foundational piece i don't this isn't an announcement that the district is moving to competency based education but it is an announcement that we can start having conversation how we need to shift the educational experience for students moving forward so very exciting time i thank dr burns and her department for the work already there's we've launched into some some uh
054book groups to to analyze and start the conversation about competency based and i know as we work through strategic planning we'll better define what that might look like so thank you and your team for the for that work appreciate it uh we we've certainly mentioned this but i don't think you can mention enough um the the performance of mamma mia this weekend i had the opportunity to attend on thursday night and i know i think most of the board was able to to attend at least one as a parent and a board member um just just an absolute amazing uh demonstration of the talent of our students i want to recognize and thank all of our teachers um that were involved with that i think few people unless you're a parent of a student who
055goes through this or actually working with them realize the amount of time and energy goes goes into it i i have to imagine on sunday night and trying to get kids out of bed on monday morning to come back to school after all that is quite a task but it teaches so many skills beyond just the the pieces that are obvious in in terms of the acting and the performing it's the ability to work hard to deal with you know success and failure it's all of those life skills that we're trying to incorporate in developing young people that the arts provide so easily we should often look to the arts and how to better integrate those skills in other content areas so just a big shout out for everyone involved in that process so we
056we also as you mentioned have launched into strategic planning we have pushed out a community input form every resident in our district should get a card in their mailbox um it's really important that we do everything we can to incur encourage not only all of us to complete that but reach out to your constituents to please provide input this is an opportunity you know if people say they want to have a voice in what the education of barrington 220 looks like this is an opportunity to have voice and give feedback so again you're all very engaged in our schools or you wouldn't be here please take the time to fill that out and give us your feedback and then i challenge you to take it one step further send it over to the neighbor have
057a little social party bring as many people as you can to the table um so we can get uh as much feedback as possible through that input survey we'll continue to update the board that is open until march 16th we also have some focus groups that will be going on and i'll continue to update the board as we move through this process uh over the next few months and lastly i did want to mention obviously there's been significant change regarding guidance and the impact within our districts uh just a reminder although we step you know we pull pull back one of our mitigations we still have a lot of mitigations that are in place uh we will be meeting with our building principles tomorrow and having conversations about what is still in place and what
058that may look like i know i'm getting a lot of questions about when acts will go away i think we've taken a big step and we need to look at what happens with data but we will have conversations around visitors how that process works what we're looking for from our volunteers and visitors into the buildings and also some of the kind of the preschool activities in terms of students ability to enter into playgrounds and as they're being dropped off of buses so we'll have those conversations specifically but again i think it's important we look at this first step or first phase monitor the data look at where our case counts are and then make decisions going forward so i think that um concludes my report unless there's any questions or comments i'm just wondering if
059you've had any talks with the lake county health department i think for a while we were feeling a little disappointed that they weren't kind of coming through for us and providing guidance do you see that things are going to improve on that end or do you still think we're going to it's going to be a difficult kind of road to yeah yeah i want to be clear i think uh if if you look at the last 18 months or and i'll look at i'll just speak to last seven months um i think lake county has been in a really difficult position between idphcdc what decisions they make and they've been extremely supportive of our district in the day-to-day monitoring of this supporting with our nursing staff and picking up the phone to answer questions so
060if i've sent a different message i want to be clear of that um i think that there was an element of surprise from kind of the matrix as it stood from the cdc in terms of their transmission rates at the community level to where the new matrix placed everybody so you could go from you know very high to low in this new matrix but i i i think you know we're we're starting to have the conversation and i still talk to them every wednesday morning at 8 a.m they come on and they they provide updates i think the conversation is about an endemic and how do we operate effectively within that knowing it's going to be part of our lives moving forward with continuing to get some sense of normalcy back in school i have
061not had a number of conversations lately but i i believe they'll continue to support the district appropriately great dr two questions uh what where are we in terms of i know um i think you and i mentioned just in conversation about the possibility of our legal counsel drafting some kind of resolution outlining local control that we might have in the event of a future outbreak um with regard to mitigation is there is there any possibility of that still or is that could that be up for discussion and then my second question is um where are we in terms of you know just parental notification if there is a case of covid in the classroom like for instance i i know when there's a case of like strep throat we would send out just hey just
062heads up somebody uh there's been a case of strep so just so parents are aware if they want to maybe test their kids um so the first question is the board would have to adopt a resolution for us to implement masking um and if that's quarantined in the event of an outbreak not quarantined so so mitigation measures like masking yeah so we would have to adopt the resolution to do that if there's consensus the board or interested in seeing that i'm i'm happy to to get you know a sample of that put together we would adopt a resolution that that that our legal counsel would draft for us right okay before we go down that road i'm not quite sure of the legal interpretation there's differing opinions on the legal interpretation of whether or not
063we have the ability to do that yeah i think that there is some confusion around that um and i've been forthcoming with with these issues there's been very different legal opinions um so you asked me how and that's how we would go about that we could have a discussion potentially on a sample resolution if there was enough interest from the board of the board you could do that and then second notification did have some communication with um district nurse and beth jones today we are going to move towards a very similar um communication with parents in classrooms where there is a positive case so that that communication will happen as far as masking on buses and not masking on buses are there still like i know in the beginning it was sit with your family
064on the bus and there was assigned seats on the bus is that something that we'll keep doing during this transition with busing i have not made any recommendations to barrington transportation regarding seating dave i don't know if you've heard anything that they've made changes the only conversations i've had have been related to to the masking chain so my i would anticipate that those are still in place the impost drivers retain always retain the ability to do some assigned seating family members will sometimes children will choose to sit by each other sometimes they will choose to pointedly not sit with each other that that being said uh we've not had those conversations dr hunt said specifically about retaining or not retaining assigned seating or or those groupings on buses we can follow up on that that
065would be great it's been in line with our other keeping the mitigations that we have with you know changing our one mitigation so you could likely provide us an update this week we can reach out tomorrow thank you yes any other questions um any questions on informational reports for this week okay how about committee reports it's not a quiet crowd no committees and okay well let's move on to the consent agenda then do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented and i'll read through what all's in there second okay so um we have minutes from january 25th um and we have minutes from february 15th both open and closed as far as financial reports i want to acknowledge um receipt of some gifts from the national society daughters of the american
066revolution numerous hardcover books for both sunny hill and various elementary and middle schools so very much thank you to joyce moynihan and joyce wright for those donations and also to jeff's chef she for our donation of kn85 masks so appreciate those those gifts to the district we also have a revised personnel report i should have said that first so make sure you guys notice that it was revised before we take vote um all right any questions you just go right to a roll call all right sandra bradford yes steve wang yes erin chanding yes leah callister lazari yes katie karam yes barry altschuler yes angela wilcox yes all right motion passes next we've got a couple of action items first one is on board policy and knowing that we've got a lot of stuff to
067cover um i'm going to ask if we've got a motion to prove them all as presented and then craig did you want do you want to give us a quick update on the items that we got the notice on or i can just quickly go through the ones we talked about last time sure if we adjusted some of the language by removing some of the examples of technology if the policy would still you know have its same integrity and the answer was yes to that um and then we did follow up on um the background checks for the superintendent and did clarify um that process um in policy but we did remove the suggestion from policy committee to just leave that at the responsibility of the board president um in that process of searching for
068a new superintendent and doing the background checks that way so just a couple updates that were in that weekly any question on those updates concerns you ready for roll call looks like it steve wang yes leah callister lazari yes angela wilcox sandra bradford yes aaron chanding yes barry altschuler all right motion passes i get quick something to add for district equity can i say it real quick or do you want me to go back to it later let's go back to it at the at the end discussion yeah okay okay um so we have an action to declare um property surplus and authorize its sale or disposal we have a motion to approve as presented okay now we're going to give us a quick update or yeah so there's a memo provided to the board
069of education for the sale of the mobile classroom units at grove elementary school i know there was congress there has been conversation over the years in planning that potentially we could use that space or need that space for swing space around construction as bids change timelines changed within that construction project they're not necessary and i give you know like to thank dr bine for putting them out there finding a buyer negotiating what i think is a great price fair price for the purchase and we also don't have to incur the pro incur the cost of uh dismantling those so probably a positive of 150 000 to the district so our recommendation is to go ahead and move in that direction uh at this time [Applause] aaron chanding yes sandra bradford yes katie karam yes steve
070wang yes angela wilcox yes all right the motion passes that gets us through all of our action items next up is a discussion on staffing correct someone asked jason craig to come forward [Applause] and everybody has a document in front of them at the board table um [Applause] which we'll collect at the end of the presentation so uh before they kind of jump in and we start walking the board of education through at least this initial phase i i want to point out this is really the initial phase of this uh for some board members i think as you came on the board last year you started to see this document and become familiar with it so you know they're going to be a variety of iterations of this as we go forward there are
071a lot of unknown pieces as we stand today for example kindergarten you know we're in the enrollment process so as as much as we you know there's a lot of information here please know that this is kind of round one um we want you to take a look at it start to understand uh the layout and the structure of how we're going to present material or this information to the board as we go through this uh but we also want you to understand kind of the timelines that we're under either you know due to illinois law or due to our negotiated agreements so you understand the process going uh forward in in the next couple of months so again just know that this is kind of a first overview of how we stand today uh
072the other thing was the board asked that we present uh to you uh class sizes that would fall within parameters or within guidelines that came out of our budget discussion last week as one of the items that were take away so we have placed those guidelines and as we get into the actual spreadsheet we'll we'll talk through that a little bit so you can kind of start to get a sense of what falling within those guidelines and or pushing those guidelines on the higher end does in terms of class sizes at least in the elementary school we'll talk about why the secondary is a little bit of a different animal as we move forward so um we're going to go ahead and and kind of walk you through this at this time three minutes left
073score update 59 43 barrington i won't do it again until the end of the discussion but i figured thank you we're doing well okay so to start a report um the school district engaged uh dr john casarta this winter to help us get updated um demographic information of where the district is going to be trending up on the on the screen here is series b this is usually the middle of the road projection he gives us three different um projections to consider this is kind of that high level snapshot you can see a couple of things two things really i think are worth noting on this is you see that gradual decline of about 250 students over the next 10 years projected for the school district from our current enrollment out to 31.32 the other
074thing that i think is worth noting on here is that you do start to see in those last three or four years at the elementary level we start to see a slight uptick on elementary enrollment right so that's just kind of a where are we trending um based on the demographic study that was completed if we go to the next slide this is really now these are our actual numbers of the school district and so and i do realize that last slide was incredibly small so i'm happy to answer any questions that may come from that i have older eyes as well and that was pretty tough for me to even see it up right in front of me um but when you look at the the actuals for our school district now you can
075see we were seeing that same very slight trend of a downward enrollment as a district you know looking from 2017-18 at you know 8 400 students to 8 300 students and so forth but then when you look at you know the spring of 2019-20 um as the pandemic came in we then saw a larger shift of a couple hundred students um shifting uh between years two thousand nineteen twenty and twenty twenty one right um go ahead nope all right so i think here it's important to note um there there is the possibility or there is the unknown of where those students were where they are and will they be coming back that we are we have kind of in the back of our minds as we kind of play play through this but the the
076consarda report we talked about national trends we talked about what's happening within our district we've used this for financial modeling um so we this is guiding how we're going to staff and move uh but just be aware there's a little uncertainty with that population of students okay so staffing timeline though is upon us so we need to make sure that we're following the parallels and contractual obligations as well as timelines that fall within the reduction in force and honorable dismissal timeline so by march 10th by next thursday the staff will or i'm sorry the board will receive the preliminary lists of the individuals that they're going to take action on on march 15th for the members of the bea the teacher union that are going to be rift or non-renewed or honorably dismissed so those
077will be in the groups group one are anyone who was part-time or was a one-year contract or started after the first year first day of the school year and then anyone that we need to do reduction in force due to the enrollment numbers in which we are looking at currently on april 19th that's when you will have more of an in in-depth of who we're going to be looking at first support staff although we will give you the list of names on the 10th we still have up until the 19th to do the final action on roofing start our classified staff may 15th per the bea contract we need to make sure that we have as many staffing decisions as possible so that those can be finalized we do have some flexibility with needing to
078change if we have to but we like to make sure that we have our set placements done before may 15th and then august 8th is the same for bseo they receive their assignment placement by that date usually that's very close to the school year anyways but there's always flexibility if there's a need to change if we have to and we just follow the contract and follow through with communication between administration and the bea or the bseo okay so with that brings us to enrollment details if you um if you happen to just ask you mentioned honorable discharge versus riff is that the same thing or not can you define terms sure i can honorable honorable discharge is they're released they're group one and they are released without any recall rights so if there are positions
079open we do not have to recall them into those positions but we can always ask them back if we want to reduction in force is that they're on their way to tenured they completed their first year and they have up to a year for recall rights for the same position or any positions that they might be qualified for you're welcome any questions on there so janine just put this on board docs for those of you who might need a an up-close view of that chart so if you refresh board docs it's the presentation's on there too sure so if you if you shift to the spreadsheet the printed spreadsheet you have at your table i want to draw your attention to the bottom right corner and board policy 6-202 uh that articulates the guidelines of
080the board i think we looked at this these these were put in place in 2001 and they've been in place since that time so it gives you kind of per grade level um what the guidelines are these are referred to as goals you know the the goal areas for administrators to you know utilize uh for staffing i'm sure over the top over time those numbers have been higher some years some some years they've been lower what we have done with this current year is we've placed as best we could placed in [Music] our sections within guidelines and it gives you an idea of you know the the various class sizes and at least where they're trending as we stand today and again this is a process that will will evolve over the next couple of
081months um you know as as you look at the colors i think you know it took me a while to to to wrap myself around this very colorful sheet so i'm going to ask teresa maybe to just walk us through the different colors and what they mean on the document so let's start with first let's look at the class size guidelines color key so that's where you see the letters red black and blue any number that is in red the actual font that's in red are over guidelines anything in black are within guidelines and anything in blue are under guidelines now if you go to the right of that you're going to see the color code and you're going to see green and yellow green is the initial look that we have and the potential
082increases that could possibly happen and then yellow are the potential decreases that could happen really the number of sections per grade is correct so compared to what we have this year that's what we can potentially increase or potentially decrease i'm not going to go through every school but i'm just going to go for an example so countryside if you were to read that you're reading it as first grade is going to go down a section but we have to do is keep an eye on it because the numbers are in red okay if you look at grove that green line is increasing sections so i just want to make sure that you know that that makes that's crystal clear that's where you this does not become hard and fast so when you're read at 25
083it doesn't take many enrollments to come to now we got to split that right so we're going to have to play that out over time and some of this is what's your comfort level as of today because that will play you know into kind of where we go with this now there's a few times yes what is the red number on the right of each of them yep oh you're getting so i'm going to go through that in just a second two new pieces that are not from last year i just want to make sure though anything in purple um in purple font is chinese immersion and anything in orange is dual language and anything that is completely highlighted in pink or has pink shading are the special ed numbers that are included into the
084regular ed classrooms or sections so in that in that example in countryside then there are four students that are included yep exactly so now what's new right now and new this year we have to take into account our esser funded positions that we brought in due to the three foot guidelines so those are represented as esr and we're not replacing those right now we can always add if we need to add but in order to follow the staffing guidelines and the law and making sure we follow the reduction in force timeline we have to make sure that we have a safety net to cover that we're not overstaffed when it comes to the fall just to be clear we there's only four esser positions right now correct and those will not be for next year
085but that's all we had from last year was just four in the elementary schools just from a class size yeah classic yeah okay okay i probably had more there's a lot of social workers yeah i thought we had more teachers but we didn't have more we had five due to classroom size and the mitigations of distance now the next piece is kindergarten is not completed yet we just started kindergarten roundup on our february 1st so we're still getting the numbers in and we have a central registrar and so she takes them as you know she gets them in as fast as she can but there are people in the queue waiting to meet with her and those are the individuals right now that are in the pink so those are who are waiting in the
086queue for kindergarten so that's why you do exactly so if and they actually have appointments with karen jasonowitz to register so that's why as of right now we're not reducing the kindergarten numbers just yet because if we see the students that are in queue it's going to make our sections larger honestly most of the time when they're in queue they have a an appointment they play out that they're coming and they're going to be in those classes they're bringing their residency items in they're bringing in their registration paperwork they've already received that piece and they're just finalizing the process you just clarify quick on like take grove for example so it's showing four first grade classes and then two first grade dual language so so six first grade classes so six first grade classes all
087together you are correct i'm sorry can you tell us what these acronyms mean again so kg's kindergarten what does ex kg stand for extended kindergarten so that's like the full day program correct correct and what is dkdg dk language um dual language okay kindergarten dual language and then c is chinese immersion colors purple and orange and purple and orange correct okay i don't see color nearly as well as i thought i did oh that's okay is there a reason the enrollment history doesn't match the demographic numbers or the yikes because like for instance it says we had eight in the casar casarda report for 20 21 22 it says we had 8 100 kids but we had 79 i mean they're off but like bret the 22-23 is particularly off by like 500 kids is
088there a reason is it because we don't have kindergarten in there yep yep yes yeah okay yep gotcha yeah okay and also know um i'm assuming that he got a moment in time he grabbed it on a certain day and enrollment is always fluctuating gotcha okay other piece and we we haven't vetted this all out there are we have some um percentages that we have to take in place in into account when we look at one-way immersion uh in terms of how they compare to a general ed class we haven't done that work and played that out yet so that that will be in probably iteration two of this uh when we bring it back to the board of education so in sunny hill are we seeing a significant drop in enrollment that we're going
089from two like four sections to two sections per grade correct you're seeing a significant drop but that percentage piece that i just talked about very well could play into what the next iteration of this looks like um can you speak to how the trending was done are you just looking at this year's numbers and assuming everyone comes back and that's how your forecast for next year yeah we actually just rolling forward we actually rolled the system forward done okay and then anyone that's new that's been registering is in that new number for next year we're placing them into the 2223 calendar so that they're counted and they're not yes thank you and that will include all of kindergarten there's a lot in the queue right now looks like it yep they're getting processed every day
090just so i'm not missing anything in this complicated chart at this point you're not saying we think we'll need x fewer teachers or x more teachers you're just giving us this and saying this is where we're at right now yeah and i would say that kind of whatever color tones here this chart has a little or a lot less blue which would be under guidelines and a lot more black and red than you've seen than this board has seen in the past as we were asked to fall within those parameters and it's a little bit of are we heading in the right direction here board are we comfortable with where these are at and again you're not making final decisions tonight this is just to show you how this plays out when we start to
091roll it into our district i mean i only see four kind of watch areas and that seems pretty typical to me at this at this point um you know i was gonna get to that what what are you seeing as watch areas i'm sorry i'd say the four that are red it's mostly first grade classes um and theresa just to clarify i think you already said this but i just want to make sure so say countryside for first grade you have 25 25 and then in special ed you have four four is captured in that 25 though correct and typically those four you know there's an aid or two associated and that's not full time in classroom correct that is correct okay so you know i mean i i definitely see hot spots and rosalind
092is probably the biggest uh concern in my opinion but i i think you guys are doing a great job right now i mean that the chart still is really blue right so i think this looks great i'm trying to pick you back i'm sorry oh i'm sorry i'm trying to pick you back off your question um and maybe i'm reading this wrong but for these dual language sections that are in red too they're orange yeah those aren't oranges those are orange there we go like i said i'm not even seeing the colors very well right now so they're capped so they can't go over like we can't have 35 in each section because we cap them to fulfill the enrollment of what we can we have a different guideline here even in the guidelines so
093i saw i could see it in the grade column i just assumed that because they were in the number column what if they were all red two is the far left column if it's got a d in it then i know i'm reading orange across it's across yeah got it okay all right that answers a lot my questions yeah thank you so so you can see here then would yeah that's it all right i'm not mistaken i could be wrong we cap them so they wouldn't go over the 26. okay when you start them out bigger because of attrition or you started well that's a certain size that's why the guideline is higher higher these are so i'm assuming that then the dual language kindergarten and the chinese kindergarten this is what you have to
094date and and you're expecting more growth there because it looked pretty low on the chinese kindergarten side possible yes i'd say for the purposes of conversation tonight kindergarten's really in flux so that may be a follow-up conversation with the board on the kindergarten numbers as we continue to refine that and some of these pink numbers could be looking to enroll in the chinese immersion or the dual language um yeah okay and though they've got probably another month or so before they have to commit to that right yes okay so i was going to bring up that one thing we've done in the past is given like a contingency and said okay we see four hot spots we'll give you four contingency so you can pull in those fix those hot spots they're not just elementary
095right they will go across the whole district if we give contingency but that would allow the administration to be flexible and make adjustments as they need right right i don't know when you've done that in the past yeah that's usually june or july i think i'd want this to play itself out a little bit more okay before you answer that we ask for that and or we commit to that's a good number okay um that's fair i think we need to let this let this evolve um over the next month or so sorry is that what you said happening at sunny hill here too like these second grade classes are really low so we're thinking that more did you i miss this and i'm asking the same question again i apologize like why is there
096a reason we're not splitting those into two classes or are we anticipating more so i i i talked about one-way immersion oh you did okay that sorry coming back so there's a there's a standard where those class sizes can be 90 percent compared to what the general ed class is and we have not applied that here yet we just haven't gotten yet so i i'd let that let us bring that back around to you and sandra for your your comment about contingency what has pl what has worked out in the past is from looking at this and from our enrollment numbers we create a contingency with the the enrollments and how they are placed out so we might have contingency when this is all said and done as five it's when we utilize all five
097then we come back to ask for more contingency and that might possibly play out if we're talking about those 500 kids that have left us since 2019-20 and they start re-enrolling then if we use our natural bucket of contingency that was created and have to go into what is going to affect the budget then we come back and ask that i just want to make sure we started to have the conversation as early as possible because it's the first time yeah many of the board members have been through this sorry yes thank you i just want to make sure yeah yep right because then it connects into the budget because those are real numbers correct right yeah i want to make people land numbers i'm thinking about that issue because i know you've got a
098reduction you've gotta make as well so i want to make sure i think the board is open to that recommendation if you come back with something but yeah and i'm assuming the district has gone through the rift process and had to bring bill back almost on an annual basis that's part of right here what doing the good business you know is with this um i i want to talk about you're only seeing half the district so you've seen k-6 yes i want to talk a little bit about what it looks like 7-12 you don't get a spreadsheet that you can monitor and there's a reason for that so craig if i want to talk through process a little bit and where we stand today and then again we'll continue to update the board as we
099go through you know as our students leave elementary for middle school they're no longer with a teacher all day and leaving for pe and they go to potentially eight different teachers during the day i don't have a sheet to show that for there's just way too many sections but i have met the last several weeks with steve and jim and travis and reviewed their sections by content area by grade level and so forth and using that same logic of class sizes around that 25 to 27 range they do anticipate as they continue to look at high school course selections what students are interested in and balancing loads and so forth that there would also be some potential reductions um at the secondary level as well so correct oh dr winkleman can can i take that
100to understand that there might be constraints for students so in other words if we are minimizing this based on a theory of what students might enroll in it's plausible that we'll only have two sections of i'm making it up some english course but there might be more than that number of students want to get in so instead of being able to select that course i'll have to select a different course as a replacement is that correct we try to honor as many requests as we can um for the most part our sections um look favorable because especially at the high school level you may have plus sections of an english class so it's easier to spread those numbers out when you get down to singleton courses which would mean like a capstone class of seniors
101or so forth sometimes you just get bad breaks you know we only have so many kids that want to take ap physics right and so if we have 31 kids we've run them before because we don't want to deny access to that class we also understand that splitting that number into two now in that class is the two very small classes and you know it's not a very efficient way to run it so we do get some of those um bad breaks that occur but for the most part we try to honor all of the courses what i would say is that it's looking it's trending in the direction that we wouldn't have to go in those directions and we still may have a couple of reductions uh at each of the buildings without having
102to get into that yeah so i think in in addition to that what you're what you're what we will see there is teachers will experience higher class sizes in areas maybe they didn't in prior years so there's implications for that educationally right if i'm a english teacher and i had 18 essays to grade and now i have 25 i don't have more time in my day i don't have more so there are implications we have to think through when making those recommendations to you and i think there's also and again i haven't been here for this but i i'm assuming this district makes commitments on sunsetting program so if we offered ap seminar to you and we want to get the ap capstone diploma even if that number is six or eight we're probably going
103to run the the the research component so you can get your diploma so we make that commitment when students walk into those programs so those are the those are the nuances of a high school schedule that really have to play out so to be real clear does anybody have any concerns about dr cotton the administration moving forward with what we see here in the elementary all right hearing none okay you have your direction there okay thank you thank you all thank you and if you guys want to pass those in we can just busy friday night for barrington basketball that's right all right one game no it's i where is that peoria peoria i can't remember where girls are playing craig where's the uh bloomington is where isu is bloomington okay all right awesome so
104friday night we'll have to divide and conquer awesome okay let's see where we are so that was um so that was our next discussion item is agenda items for march 15th okay i bring up my couple district echo you have a couple minutes you got two minutes yeah i get it i only need 30 seconds okay i promise so yes so i just wanted to follow up from uh we have our district right away team meeting tomorrow but a couple of items from last time the um black history month episode from bhs tv is up so check that out on the youtube channel and then um also happy women's history month today's the first day uh and i last time i mentioned that nate was putting together a cultural calendar with lesson plans and i
105believe he's actually on draft status with that so i'll check in with him to see when it's actually going to be live so i expect it to be on the equity page at some point also i really appreciated our board equity workshop and uh talking about equity and in education today that's it 40 seconds 30 thank you that was not bad thank you um so for our next meeting we have um some awesome recognition of some state champion we've got our hearing and we've got an action on storage area lease approval discussion items on more policies you guys are busy um and a winter assessment update and a build 220 update so we've got a lot on the agenda uh for the 15th so can i usually ask so the honorable discharge these people will
106know before this meeting i mean how can we have a hearing if okay so you're going to let okay i thought we'd i thought we find out first and then you send the letters out to them but the principals have conversations with them and then we wait for the hearing and wait for the action and then we give them their letters after okay gotcha andrea can we talk about um whether the board wants to see some kind of sample resolution were there to be a future outbreak regarding local control or how would that be discussed as a discussion item or how it would have to be i would think we'd have to have an action if we were going to take action on it so um i was going to ask dr hunt if if
107you put your update in on thursday then maybe we can talk about it the next week to see if if um so you want me to get a draft of a resolution together for you to look at is that what everybody wants to see i would like to first clarify what legal legal standing is on this issue well our in addition i don't think we can put together a resolution if it's if the legal doesn't say that we can't right so i'm just wondering we shouldn't wait till there's some more resolution on the state level i mean the supreme court sent it back to their court so maybe we need to let you know instead of getting ahead of ourselves let the legal process come to a resolution to give us better idea of what
108we can and can't do to your point barry the appellate court has to make ruling on this here now because it won't back to them i don't see any reason to yeah or to do extra work when it may be fruitless everybody good with that that's fine with me i mean yeah there's there should be some clarification regarding local control right at the appellate level it can hopefully happen yet who knows so um we do need to take a motion um on or we we are going to then take a motion to go back into closed session and i'll read the reasons um so first let's let's just uh have a motion for um to prove the confidentiality of closed session minutes second leah roll call aaron chan ding yes sandra bradford yes leah callister
109lazari yes katie carram angela wilcox barry altschuler steve wang yes okay and now i'd like a motion to go back into closed session for the purpose of discussing employment matters performance of a specific employee collective negotiating matters litigation matters security procedures student disciplinary matters and the purchase lease or sale price of real property i like it roll call angela wilcox aaron chan ding steve wang leah collister lazari yes katie karam six uh sandra bradford yes barry alt-schuler yeah okay so just as a reminder the board you know we'll come back and open session for a couple seconds we do not anticipate having any discussion or taking any action at that time so thank you all very much for being here and we'll see you in a couple weeks