001foreign move back into Open Session uh can everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance does anybody have anything to add to the agenda okay please have a motion to approve the agenda motion attacking John Gary all in favor aye aye any opposed eyes have it you have any public comments nope accomplishment recognition field state qualifiers all right so I'm going to call up a few people here I see we've got a couple here so uh is jaquel here jaquel's not here Parker here you know okay Nathan I see Nathan come on up Nathan we are recognizing these guys for their qualifying for the ISA State track meet and I saw Nathan run the mile down to East Peoria he did a great job and he's had a great career at Big Hollow foreign here
002I don't see Jamir oh Jamir yeah sorry Jamir that's dinner this guy is one of the more talented kids in seventh grade track this year he qualified in four events uh and had a chance to win a couple set a state record in the 100 meter dash state record with hernia Dash so uh um you set the state record the semis and then barely got beaten the finals right and the guy did not beat your time from the semis so jamir's got a chance next year to really do some things so he did a great job Noah Paz Noah come on up [Applause] Noah was part of the four by one Relay Team Nolan Jamir and a couple other our boys who I don't think are here but uh they both did uh they all
003competed well if you have never been to the ISA state meet there are thousands of people there do you guys was it uh nerve-wracking or not they uh they represent a Big Hollow well and um I think that if the seventh grade seventh grade boys uh hopefully it was some motivation because they have a chance next year to maybe bring home a state that's the that's a goal and I don't think we've got a state trophy a Big Hollow yet so I'm gonna do that all right let's get a couple quick pictures here debt for recognitions you guys can feel free to stay for the board meeting but you're not gonna offend us if you have to go don't worry member code of conduct review Gary it will encourage her respect treat expression of opinion
004by my fellow board members and I and will participate in board discussions in an open honest and respectful manner honoring differences opinion or perspective thank you does anybody questions on the consent agenda can I please have a motion it's emotion second Joan dog yes superintendents are forwards Mr Gold all right can I call Dr hechovitz up I want to thank Dr hachovitz for for years of service at Big Hollow she's been administrator for 11 years correct am I right okay all right and uh during my entire tenure here she's been here and been in several positions and uh just appreciate your hard work your dedication wish you the best of luck I know you're entering a new chapter and I know that it's it's uh going to be an adventure for you so do you
005have anything you'd like to share thank you so much for everything this has been a Wonder opportunity and I'm going to miss everyone thank you so much Michelle [Applause] uh the next item on the agenda is uh hiring practices and I put a memo in the board packet and I'm for I'm gonna I'm not gonna read it verbatim but uh Nikki wrong is here and Nikki is uh our president of the uh APAC and she and I are going to share a couple things on this I'll start and then I'm gonna have Nikki share at the end here as well but um I want to go through like what our process is because it has changed over the last couple years three or four years in our hiring practice and what you'll see is in
006the memo in the packet I put the steps in there obviously we post a job in Lake County we post a job on the IESA job bank which is all Statewide we are looking right now also at posting jobs in National job bank as well to try to draw some more diverse candidates I'll mention that a little later all of our candidates in step two compete in an online screener that is through humanex and we use the screening results to determine which candidates if we get 50 candidates for a job we'll use the screening results to determine which pool of candidates we will do what we call a structured interview and that's where we do a phone call interview it's usually about an hour per candidate and uh it's a structured interview that's specific to
007the position they've applied for and we are trained to do those construction interviews so an administrator that does the structure interview is trained to do the interview and how to score every question so the candidates are all asked the same set of questions and we are trained on how to score those questions and then we determine based on the results of that structure interview which candidates will bring in for an in-person what we call a fit interview to determine who's the best fit for our district so um you know that in that interview they'll they'll be meeting with people in person administrative teachers whoever's on the team we do reference checks then we do higher recommendation then we bring it to you um our diverse our lack of diverse staff has been something we've been
008talking about for a few years and trying to uh you know I I put a table here that lists our current diverse back or our racial ethnic breakdown on the table you'll see um and then I'm listed in this uh memo some of the things we are doing to try to draw a more diverse candidate pool that's really our focus is we're not getting the diverse candidates even so we're not getting them in the door for the application so we're really trying to figure out how what we can do to uh to draw in a more diverse pool of candidates so we've uh I put some bullets here we listed we went to you know gone to ISU job fair we're now going to expand that and we're going to hit a couple more we're
009going to go to Northern we're going to try to go to Milwaukee as well we've attended bilingual and ESL Educators recruitment in March we've been contacting two different historical black colleges to try to tap into their candidates the future candidates where we've not been successful so far but we are working on that um we have looked at student teacher programs to try to make some contacts there we just hired a teacher through the international teaching program through the Illinois State Board of Education and I have to give Dr Hector it's a lot of credit for making that happen and we hired a bilingual teacher through that program this year she's coming to BHMs um we are doing a little more work on the um the national black Educators website or black educator job bank and
010uh I'll get jakeella in here um to kill I'm going to get you as soon as we're done with this all right I just got one more um the national black educator job bank uh I I tapped into that resource when we were hired the Middle School principal and uh we did we were not successful in getting candidates through that website but I have talked to them in the recent weeks and we're going to start posting uh all of our certified positions in that in that job bank in the future I'm going to let Nikki take over did you have that okay okay and she's going to share some things that aipac is partnering with us on opportunity to speak with you tonight I'm Nikki wrong my daughter is going into second grade and so
011we're newer to the Big Hollow Community but we're really happy to be I am the President of the African-American parent Council we are very actively working to become more of a community building organization and one of the things we really want to focus on is the diversity of our teachers and some of the ideas that our group came up with was to explore creating opportunities for the non-certified staff to become teachers see who might be interested to go ahead and do that we also want to communicate with local professionals um to see if maybe they might be interested in changing careers to become teachers we are also suggested and this is something Bob and I talked about for about six months now is just reaching out to Career Development offices and colleges and universities across
012the United States even and around our area to try to connect with the with those people not just the board not not just the education departments in each of the the universities that you've connected with proud of going with the uh education department and try and they they're not as vested in trying to get their candidates the career offices Nikki brought up a good point to me and so we're going to try to hit the career offices and see if they can help us out on this track first kid that's how my brain works um Bob also mentioned that um we're gonna start tapping into the folks around the Milwaukee area you know with I know that I mentioned that I know teachers have a reciprocal certification between the two states so that would be
013a really great um another hotbed that we can look into we are also as a council willing to attend job fairs and things like that um so that we can provide just another Faith um to make it more attractive because again we are really working on community building and trying to create a more comfortable space a more inclusive space um connecting with the ISAC now this is a scholarship program that actually works with high with high school students going into colleges around Illinois there's two pages I don't know if you've and have that um two pages of colleges that are are that participate with the ISAC and it's primarily focused on bypoc students black indigenous it's all the acronyms in there for you um but anyway those students have already been connected to the ISAC
014through the from high school and then they carry it on as a scholarship program so they carry it on through college and so you're already tapping into a group of students that have been motivated and connected to the Illinois school system from a very early point in time um and then the very last one is to research the potential for tuition reimbursement of bipac uh potential teachers so um again just looking for opportunities to try to encourage um different teachers diverse teachers to come to this this school area certified staff we did put in the new contract a tuition reimbursement program so and uh according to our local union rep we're the first that she heard of in Lake County to do that so really excited for that hoping that that's something we're hoping to
015do to draw in you know candidates so and again I I just want to reiterate um our our organization is going through some Growing Pains at the moment we're working really hard to become more of a community involved organization one that is really trying to bolster a positive narrative around diverse families so we are we really do want to become a support and a research a resource um to work with Bob's office he's been very well uh very good to work with and she and I are we have excellent communication and I think that she can always bounce things off me and I know that I can always talk to her about issues we're seeing so I think we're on the same page and I appreciate their support thank you thank you thank you all
016right I am going to call up to Kell Edmonds real quick jaquel come on up no we just missed you here we had the other guys up here but taquel ran in the IESA state finals as well he ran the 400 meter dash which is one of my favorite events it's a hard one and he also ran the uh on the 4x1 relay team so we mentioned while you were gone next year you guys going to bring home a state trophy because you guys are so talented all right you have fun running with that meet awesome did a great job I enjoyed watching him run the 400 so this kid's a talented kid so congratulations [Applause] thanks for coming tonight okay uh last items for mine are quick uh meeting dates for bit for the
017border on exhibit 10 item C the board policy update second reading no changes from last month so we just need approval on that please have a motion to approve the recent board policy update on second reading oh secretary amphibian all in favor aye any opposed eyes have it item e i just uh I listed out the uh budget calendar so this is this summer starts my process to get this done for all of you and um this just outlines the budget counter and I need to have the Border formally improve our budget calendar all right any questions on the budget calendar seeing none because please have a motion to approve the budget calendar as recommended motion a second Joe and Doug come on yes yes and then yeah insurance update is just for your information
018uh exhibit 12. uh we you're seeing another increase in our workers comp and property insurance um I'm hoping this gets under control in the next year or two I feel like we've we've seen you know four to ten percent the last couple years but uh where we we work through click and I think we're still getting the best rates we can get by working through that organization and I want to update you on item G is um it's my last item the water main installation project the uh just real quick uh bolo is doing the installation this summer up Fish Lake and down malador they're going to do the work to get it all the way to uh basically where our wells are currently at and uh that's the work that you approved I think
019last month um once that's installed there we have to take it from there and get into our buildings and there's some work on our end that's uh um we we don't know the extent of that work this is where the problem comes we don't know the extent of that work until we know what kind of water pressure we're getting and so the timing is not going to work for us to finish this job before school starts we decided I talked to the Architects our well is fine so we've decided to probably we're probably going to push this to next summer so they're going to do their work Volvo's going to get it all ready to go and then we're gonna we're gonna put this out to bid the rest of it for next summer because
020it's going to be we won't be able to really do it during the school year there's some issues there so but changing water supply in the middle of the school year and things like that so we decided it's not a rush so we're gonna we'll be jumping in next summer do you anticipate having summer school today to see how that's going yeah yeah we'll have to see how that goes they they anticipate the work will take about a month so it's possible I could schedule it for the month of July so it'll be after summer school if it's going to be a disruption I'm just really concerned about doing it with the whole campus here and yeah it's just a lot that's it for me Kevin all right does anybody have any questions on the
021big holiday that we've been through this very well so um I please have a motion to approve the contract agreement between the Big Hollow School District 38 Board of Education they call a Federation of teachers for school years 23 24 through 26 27 motion Doug and Lauren yes yes yes anybody have any questions on the main 23 employment Report with the addition of Therese antwizit into which please have a motion to approve the May 23 employment report motion exactly Ash and Gary yes yes our annual hazardous bus conditions anybody any questions nothing's changed please have a motion to approve the Hazardous bus conditions motion second Joan Warren OH all in favor say aye aye any opposed eyes have it uh proposal for Vista dual language program curricular resource anybody have any questions I think I'm
022going to have can I have Dr hatch but just share real quick why we're looking at this last official Duty as a all right so um I will start just by saying this adoption was a little bit different than previous adaptions only because we didn't have our first grade dual language teacher hired before we chose a resource um we were in the process of it but she's getting her paperwork done and her visa done and everything um or not the Visa excuse me she's getting her paperwork done I think when Dan hired her sorry I'm thinking of yeah um Alejandra anyway so this was a little bit different because we weren't able to have her try out the resource so what we did is we met multiple times um with Daisy who was our previous
023multilingual Services facilitator she was able to give some feedback we started looking at resources at the very beginning of this past school year and what we started finding is most of the Dual language resources that are out there are very structured and I kind of highlighted that in the memo that it really some of the resources require a teacher to remain very tightly aligned to the lessons and the Order of the lessons that are presented within the resource what we ended up finding is Vista and that's the the rationale for our adoption they not only have very high quality literature but they're also flexible enough to wear a teacher going on to the first grade team that is going to be responsible for dual language will easily be able to take um you know a
024look at what's happening in our regular monolingual classrooms and adapt that while also using the Vista dual language resources so some of the highlights are that they they have a full phonics Spanish program they have resources for all four language domains it's all standards based and based you know you know Spanish language arts standards as well as well the first grade standards there's multi-level mini lessons for the link the four language domains so listening speaking reading and writing and the reason that's important is because it will make it a lot more easy for the teacher to differentiate it also comes with formative assessments so as you've known over this past year we've been creating some of our own assessments we won't be doing that with our dual language resource it's we're just going to use
025what's provided and if we need to adapt from there we will but it's a little bit of a different ball game when you have a dual language resource like this there's also targeted differentiation through the use of video games there's a library of ebooks so students can read those at home as well there's a personalized learning component so a regular education classes will be using Lexia for reading but this has its own Spanish and English personalized learning program so we found that it was just all-inclusive of what we're looking for and I know Mrs Janus met with my self and Jessica coletto and the rep we had a chance to take a look we also gave the kindergarten dual language teacher a login so she was able to take a look at some of the
026resources there and really the only reason we're talking about this adoption now at the first grade level is because in kindergarten we have purposeful play um and that lent itself to a dual language environment very easily but we we can't really adopt the creative curriculum for first grade unless we wanted to switch first grade to purposeful play as well so that's the the rationale for asking for a new resource a different resource from purposeful play so what we're proposing is that this resource is adopted um with the the plans to move forward with first second third and fourth also going with Vista Higher Learning um and so as the students move up through the grades we won't be choosing a different resource for every other grade level any other questions thank you for your work
027on that Michelle and everything I've heard from parents who are in the Dual language program their kids are there they've been very happy with it they were nervous if we wanted to be able to find a teacher but we're so thankful we found somebody so we're good for next year all right you have any questions on the curriculum can I please have a motion to approve the proposal for the Vista dual language program curricular serve resource motion Vivian and Gary yes give me any questions on the annual School treasury bond and please have a motion to prove the employment of a treasurer for the 23-24 school year and the corresponding School Treasury yes uh he accepted a resignation from Kim Jensen Pre-K teacher and eighth grade girl volleyball coach detective at the end of the
028school year we accepted a resignation from Christina vanderwaal Elementary School social worker effective at the end of the school year we accepted a resume from Sunny Morley big Hall Middle School assistant principal effective June 16th we accepted a resignation from Meg marinthal Elementary title one teacher effective at the end of the school year we accepted a resignation from Sir durani health aide effective June 2nd and accepted a resignation from Heather warmowski Transportation driver effective June 2nd any questions on the foia requests monthly reports for the board Kevin I want to note we added I added the resignation Laura Snyder in the board pack that we discussed in closed session was not on here oh I just want to note that oh yeah oh yeah except the resignation from Lower Side and um next regularly scheduled
029board meeting will take place on Monday July 10 2023 with closed session beginning at 6 p.m an open session beginning immediately after Clos session ends for Dr hetruits thank you for your years of service you've been here since my kids were here and now the one's going off to college so yeah yeah you've earned your retirement thank you uh anybody anything else did we officially decide it was after the meeting next month I'm fine with that if you guys are evaluation yes board evaluation will happen at the end of okay at the end of the board meeting next month and what we'll do we have it on the agenda we already have it on here closed session after the agent if we want to so we'll just go okay anything else Ed can I please
030have a motion to adjourn Joe Moore and all in favor aye any opposed eyes have it means