001good all right does anybody have anything to add the agenda no please have a motion to approve the agenda motion and lauren yes yes yes yes all right doug you're up board member code of comic review i will encourage and respect free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and will participate in boarded discussions in an open honest and respectful manner honoring differences of opinion or perspective all right thanks doug anybody have any questions on the consent agenda just real quick to i think two meeting committee meeting updates uh culture and climate committee met to review uh school student handbook and we're gonna be looking at more of that this summer and then uh tech committee met to talk about some cyber cyber security proposal from net 56 and we're gonna choose some other
002options it's pretty expensive option that they have so we're looking into more there but no no uh recommendations from either committee right now all right anybody or anything else can i please have a motion to prove the consent agenda motion sex yes yes yes yes do we have any public comments superintendents report mr gold all right uh jumping right into the strategic plan uh february 4th and 5th we had a group of over 30 stakeholders mets for uh about six hours on a friday and then all day on saturday and uh this one pager that i have in the packet is a summary of the plan that was developed of that time we have a mission statement has been changed to educate empower and engage all learners visions division one district one community growing confident
003creative and conscientious learners and then you can see the belief statements there that i think we are going to try to do a better job of keeping those belief statements out in front of people those are similar to belief statements we had the last plan but we didn't really uh so we tweaked them and rewrote them a little bit but uh these we it was really important for the group uh because there's some things that talk about diversity and our culture and um some really some things that we strongly believe that are in there and we want to keep those out from the community we have three three goals that came out of the plan last time we had five this time we had three and one is around student learning ensure high levels of
004growth for all learners and you can see underneath that goal in the blue there's three action steps there that we'll be focusing on uh those we can add to that but those are where we're going to start and then the green one cultivate a safe secure and inclusive learning environment that is responsive to the evolving needs of all stakeholders i think there was a lot of recognition that our community is changing and has been changing and that we need to be adapting to that so there's some there's some action plans there and black underneath that that we will be tracking and those action plans when you look at the packet there's some spreadsheets that are blank those action plans will be tracked in those spreadsheets each one of those lines that are in black underneath
005the goal has a spreadsheet and you'll then you will see how we're doing on each of those as we get started and then the the third goal is more of a financial operations goal optimize the operations for an improved educational experience for all students by effectively using all resources while maintaining fiscal responsibility so we have some action steps under there as well so it was a lot of hard work with the group and at this time i kind of sat back and i didn't want to be my plan so i tried to sit back and and take it in and let the group run with it and we had parents students and staff and i think uh i think it com ended up well i think we're gonna what we're really gonna focus on are
006these spreadsheets that you saw are gonna track the progress on this plan so they may have questions concerns mine only was the what is the standards-based reporting system that's that's the that's still focusing on our uh grading system improving the grading system but keeping grades like that that doesn't mean that yeah that doesn't mean getting rid of standards based and it could it could some it depends on how you do the standards based but uh it doesn't mean we would have to we still do standards based reporting and have grades so we're not so what do you mean by standards-based reporting that we parents will get a report of how kids are doing on our on the standards okay and uh which we're not doing right now across the board like state standards the uh
007the common core the yeah yeah the learning standards okay isn't that similar to what they got in primary elementary like there were listed standards on their report cards they're not the common core ones the uh the primary are not right okay and what happens if the standards reporting don't match with the grades that were issued by teachers and that's just all gonna have to be shaken out in the process for sure because if it's if we're using two different grading methods so i think what i'm when we get when it comes down to it one we want to we want to get to a system where we're reporting on how your kids are doing on the standards and then with the grade piece that's where we've got to figure out uh the next steps and
008tying that together for some districts the standard reporting is enough for others they try to continue with the grading piece and the grade's going to give you more of a measurement of compliance and responsibility of turning in stuff and that's a grading piece the standard's going to be more on learning what standards are they're learning and based on the summatives but that will all be shaken out in this process when we when we are shifting more and more to the standards-based reporting we will get input from staff from parents on on where they want the grading to fit into that and how it's going to work it's difficult and i'd say it's even harder because if we choose to do no grades then these kids are going to go to high school yeah their their
009meets their meet the standard performance here which seems like a decent score in high school it's a c yeah and now you're talking about affecting where kids go to college yeah and not them not having realistic expectations are their parents of what their abilities are yeah i think that's the balance good luck we will that's you know this is on here and these all these questions will have to be addressed as we get there okay for sure and my second thing was can you see if you can work out a way to update your evaluation for for next year evaluation for like the superintendent's evaluation actually yeah because and a lot a lot of the stuff we have in there is in here yeah it's just the way i think the way it's broken out
010is different okay so i'm glad glad you brought that up because i didn't i haven't i looked at i did a webinar last week uh on this because it's a it was superintendent evaluation along with the principal evaluations and uh taking it all digital um it would make your jobs a lot easier um and i'm looking i'm looking into it and then we would change we could put in whatever you guys want to put in okay cool but it would become all digital system where uh um right now i i mean kevin does most of it but you do a lot of work just to this year was way easier thanks to melissa yes okay so i was gonna show you this system before we do it but uh i'm looking to to get our
011principal evaluation piece improved as well and this one's called super eval and it's made for boards and superintendents but it also has principal and director piece so i was looking to make some improvement to our system and then i saw that one and actually a lot of lake county districts are now switching over to that oh cool so yeah we can definitely fix that all right anybody have anything else on the strategic plan no no all right please have a motion to approve the strategic plan motion second lauren and doug yes next item was i just want to recognize uh i'm not sure if the board is aware or not we did this year a fly-up day and where students in all grade levels on the second to last day of school spent some time
012as an hour to moving up to the grade level they're going to go to next year meeting their it was middle school they met all their teachers uh if it was primary elementary they met the teachers they're going to have next year and i i think the day was a huge success i want to i just want to recognize that to the board because the staff did a great job with it it was something new they had to do a lot of planning and they did it really did a nice job the kids were very excited about it and you know dr biancolano brought the idea to the table so want to recognize that and the the principals in all three buildings and the assistant principals really worked hard to make it happen so it
013was a lot of work you guys did a great job i think it was from what i saw you guys feel like it's a success good kids were so excited it was it was great yeah so my kids were definitely excited and i still don't understand how you guys could have possibly done it with every kid in each class going to different rooms and making it work but it sounds like it did yeah they they made it work and it was impressive it was very good so i just want to acknowledge that didn't know if you all knew that happened but it was a great great event that day it was a day it was a day when the eighth graders were gone because they graduated so we had an open grade level so we
014were able to push everybody up item c school safety this is something i've been look we've talked about before with we've talked about sro programs uh we've talked about different safety things throughout the years um uh in the last few months i've been in contact with fox lake uh police department again regarding this sro program is where i started uh the conversation again here's where we're at right now i just i just wanted to have some conversation i was hoping to bring a recommendation to you sometime either june or july now it's going to be july probably if i do um lake we're under the jurisdiction of lake county they have told me that they're not going to be able to do any type of sro program for us next year so they're not offering
015anything so i met with lake moore i contacted lake moore fox lake and brown lake since we have kids in all those areas fox lake i don't think is gonna work because uh and i'm gonna meet talk with him again tomorrow but um staffing issues they have because gavin and fox lake grade school district are also considering and they they would have to share a resource officer and would have to come out of fox lake and for them to provide another one for us i don't think it's going to happen so i'm skeptical of that one i did talk to lake moore they were very interested at least in a part-time sro and then uh tomorrow uh tomorrow or the or wednesday wednesday i think i'm meeting with round mike so they they initially were
016not and then they called me back and said they are so um so i just want to bring some proposals to you and see we're not able to get there there is a policy schools grant um and we are uh we're not able to get it for this year unfortunately what happened was in 2020 we did get approved with fox lake school district and us through the fox lake police department um when it when it got presented to us was i believe i hope i got this date right but i believe it was july of 2020. and you know what was going on july of 2020. and uh heather friselli the superintendent fox lake and i talked with their chief about it and we were we were just trying to keep school get schools open
017we had no idea what was going to happen we had no idea what kind of funding we were getting from the state and this wasn't a pay all grant it was a matching grant so we had a we had to turn it down in uh 2020. and then this year we were going to apply i was i was trying to apply for it again last month and found out that because we turned it down they won't let's apply for three years so and they did tell i was i explained the situation to them and they said you're in the same situation a lot of schools are because nobody took the grant in 2020. because why would you you know going to pay for that and you didn't know if we didn't have school open and
018so so that's a situation we're in so i i just want to be able to tell i want to be able to put before you in july if we want to add a school resource office to this campus this is what it's going to cost us this is how we're going to do it you know and then we can decide i'm just trying to get the figures out and then next year i can apply for that grant and we will do that so so i just want to give you an update i am considering hiring a couple at least to start with at the middle school kind of modeling after something grant has been doing that's been helping them a little bit with some uh we have issues in the during the day at the
019middle school with kids just kind of wandering they just will get out of a classroom and wander and go into bathrooms and they're doing things in bathrooms that should you know we don't have so they're um we're considering hiring a couple of what they call what i would call para safeties that would basically be helping us out in the hallways at lunchtime just being uh hall monitors and uh bathroom monitors just uh i feel like we we might need that so i'm looking at doing that possibly open see if we get any any it's it's all this impacts the budget but trying to fix some cultures things i'm seeing here at the middle school so that's an update there i'll hopefully have something for you in july any questions on that or concerns about me
020looking into sro no how many how many are you thinking of like offhand to start with paris no the sros just one just one from campus for campus or for the one that would be for all three buildings i'll serve the buildings yeah and to have us to have that um i had i started sro program when i was in my when i was an assistant principal at a high school and uh i initially was a little skeptical um but to have that law enforcement those law enforcement eyes in the buildings to see safety things that we're not seeing that we're doing wrong you know things like it was helpful and but it depends on who you get in the seat who's going to do that job because they also you want this to be
021a person that kids are going to trust and build relationships with kids and that's more what happens at the prime elementary is they you know try to build the trust of that officer and um but yeah we would look at best case we have one that served the all three buildings you mentioned part-time how would that work uh lake moore posed the idea of trying to do a dual position with round lake where they would so they were going to talk around like about like where lake moore might provide an officer for three days a week around like two days a week okay i told him i wouldn't want any more than two you want really comes down this person's got to be here regular enough kids get to know him so two officers might
022be okay one would be best but if they both both departments because like more you know just shooting off the cuff he's like i could use somebody part-time as a detective here and and part-time in the schools if round lake can do something similar then um then they could team up okay so so that's the school safety update uh board meeting calendar dates are there in the exhibit 12. um so these are set for next year second mondays we have one tuesday meeting um just as a note this is a time to talk as a board about continuing our practice of starting open session immediately following end of close session which i i seem to think it's gone okay um i agree live streaming board meetings holding board meetings here in the cafeteria so those
023are all things that you guys can talk about you want to continue whatever you want to do all right everybody's good with what we do yeah all right item c is the budget calendar uh to sum it up i'll have something for you at the august board meeting it'll be uh in available to public august 4th it's got to be available 30 days because then in september we will approve the final budget so i'll have an initial budget on august 4th september we'll have the final uh graduation ceremony eighth grade oh i gotta we have to approve that oh sorry um can i please have a motion to adopt the 2022-2023 budget calendar motion second drone all in favor or no it's roll call sorry yes um graduation ceremony um this past spring you know
024that didn't go so well with the weather and i would say that i at this time i would probably recommend we just take it back inside um based on feedback uh after that one if we would i do have a thought if if we were to keep it at the uh theater this is what i would do but i would definitely want parents to have a say in this because of uh but here's here's what we could have done differently i think would have worked better but um they could do the the tailgates party the fun time tailgate they could do that here at the school have a stage set up inside have food and stuff inside in case there's bad weather um where kids could you know take pictures on the stage get in
025their diploma do all that stuff here and then at eight o'clock do get like a police escort over to the theater and play the program out there they could just kind of make a fun celebration night of it if they if we want to do something different that would have helped this year if we'd have done something like that because if it's raining during the program not a big deal you're in your car but it was the problem was the kids could it was it was it was raining hard and and it wasn't great to get out of your cars and have fun and the kids that were there so they had a good time but a lot of people didn't go because it was raining so hard so i i i felt really bad
026about the whole thing when you people i think people are wondering why we didn't just move it inside but when you plan for a different it wasn't like we had a formal presentation outside and just move it inside that would have been easy but we had a whole different thing planned and to move that inside was just not even uh feasible if we move it inside we're talking limiting tickets all that stuff again we just live streaming here so overflow crowd can come in here you know we can do that if you want i can pull an 8th grade parent committee together and kind of present some options to them and how do you what do you want i don't know what you all think is a board you probably heard a lot of feedback
027or maybe you didn't you i mean the feedback i hear yes people wanted it put inside but they forgot that once it's inside you don't not everybody in your family can come no and that becomes a problem for a lot of families yeah so i think i mean i think i'd be all for get i mean let's get let the eighth grade incoming eighth grade parents figure it out yeah okay i mean what they want to do it's not can you rent like a screen instead of having everyone have a celebration here and then drive all the way to mchenry just rent a screen and show it here because it's a lot of resources just to watch the screen there yeah the issue is that and once we bring it inside we have to we
028can't yeah we have to limit the number that could do it well if you're talking about having like the oh granted outside here and if you had like a screen outside oh yeah yeah yeah we might be able to do something like that so you're not having like hundreds of cars yeah mchenry yeah that seems kind of like a logistical nightmare yeah well i'll pull an eighth grade parent committee together and we'll just figure it out we'll just figure it out and uh i thought it was a theory it's a great idea it's a it's a lot it's a lot of fun if it works out that was not well i guess we should have just had an alternate rain date yeah that probably would have helped and it's it's hard to do i agree
029with you it's hard to do that because they can't give up their theater well because the year before it was freezing outside but it was sunny yeah it was nice it was nice yeah it was tough and then the first year was raining yes yeah but we at least we had a graduation yes yeah 90 of schools didn't even have one right yeah i think it's just i don't know if i want to get into dealing with the tickets again but at the what i mean yep okay so then uh insurance update just uh you see it in there and our our workings comp has gone up again and uh there's really not a whole lot i can do about it right now we just had a couple bad claims or the last couple years
030and uh um our if it's complicated reading that document but the the experience mod factor is what's hurting it when you see that number um it's going to take a couple more years for that if we have a couple good years it's going to take a couple good years for that mod factor to correct itself but those claims just kind of add up so item the last item i have is map summary and i don't know if you had time to take a look at that the so it's all on there i to summarize it um i would to just do a general summary i'm going to tell you that this isn't where we want it to be i would tell you that uh it's it's not as good as it's been in the past
031um we know that we had i don't i don't want to make excuses uh we know that we had a lot of social emotional issues this year working through with kids um but uh this you know the scores were were okay but not great um the math scores for seventh and eighth i want to point out math scores show that uh we did not meet observed growth or the our observed growth was less than the 50th percentile on the chart one table one but when you add in the seventh and eighth graders who took algebra and geometry we jumped over so when you throw those in this chart one does not include the uh seventh average took alternate geometry so um so all in all you know we we definitely see some areas that we
032are uh you know concerned about or just not not as happy with the growth we saw we were i would say it's a district we were right around the 50th percentile if you took the whole average which would be average growth some grade levels were higher some grade levels a little lower i will say middle school seem to have a struggle with the with the map a little bit um but any questions if you've had time to read that report we're going to michelle and i dr hetchwood and i are going to do an update for you in july it's going to be like a full curriculum instruction update and then we will get iar scores later in august and we'll be doing another update to kind of show you some things uh there as
033well so um we definitely have to do i mean i could talk about this for a long time because this is something that's been great uh really taking a lot of energy this summer is after seeing these scores and um but we're having to really shift on how we approach this testing i think we've we've taken we tried to not put so much pressure on the kids and i think it tends then to appear that well it's not that important but it is kind of important because it's not uh it's it's not this is a measure for us to see what's working what's not so uh just know that this these results are not where we want them to be and it's really cut you know it's a part of a lot of conversations around
034our table so for the uh discussion next month of curriculum can you send or both of you send out like an outline of what you plan to speak on a couple weeks ahead so if there's something we see we'd like address we can get it to you ahead to yeah get some so you have information for us at the time yup it doesn't need to be anything in depth just maybe line-up yeah yep two weeks ahead yeah we were just talking about this afternoon i think we have a good idea so and then if you want us to talk about anything if we're missing anything let us know yeah at least that way you can maybe be yeah have a definite answer instead of you know we'll give it to you yep perfect so an
035assessment calendar yes yes thank you and we have we have an assessment counter calendar online but yeah but uh we are going to adjust it um and we will talk about that next month because we are going to adjust it because we well we've had a trouble is uh and this i'm getting into something that we're not ready to talk about but we've had struggles this day you got ir tests in the spring and you got map tests in the spring and which one's more important right now i'm not sure but the iar is what we're judged on by the state and the community map test is really kind of an internal thing we've kind of put more emphasis on the map test so we took the we would take the ir early in march
036before spring break right when the window opened because we didn't want to if we waited until the end of the window then they would take the ir test and turn around take the map test the next week we thought that was too much testing in a short period of time but now we're thinking we need to shift that because the ir results uh are going to be are pretty important and we don't think the kids are taking it we just don't think it's we think we need to give more time more we need to take it at the end of the window so we have more time to get them ready for it but that impacts the map so it's it's a tough one i would look at the schedule it seemed pretty intense for
037the middle school was pretty crazy yeah because it didn't seem to make much sense no and i i told uh i i told um i told dr hutchers already that that's one thing that uh we are going to change next year because um it the schedule's hard because they the state so i'm not i'm not knocking how they did the schedule this year because the state has some regulations on how we do it but um we're gonna we're gonna try to i want the kids when they're taking the math iar test i want to take it in the math class uh right now they just go to they spread out across the building and they all test at the same time when they're when they're sitting in a classroom that they may not even ever
038be in that classroom taking a test and it's not it's just to me when the math teacher's in that room and you're taking the math test and it's it's a different environment and then you have your posters up or things that they are so we're not doing yeah that's something we're not doing right now the problem with that is when you do that once you start that test that day all the kids have to take the test that day sometimes so so you have to adjust the whole you have to blow the whole schedule up for for that day and you basically have four periods and that's we're testing when your kids go to their math class they take a test but when they go to other classes they're just going to have longer periods
039but that's how we got to do it so we're going to we're going to shift that uh kind of talk to the i've been i talked to josh a little bit i think about our plans but um so we have to i guess what you're getting at is i agree we have to address the testing environment well don't your act your bilingual kids take access in february yeah so yeah so that's another test right there yeah it's hard as a parent to tell my student that they're all important yeah when they're also doing their homework in their and they're just regular testing like for their classes because something kind of has to give yeah yep it's it's just so tough because yeah map is everything in high school grades don't matter yeah yeah so that's
040it for my report all right can we include two the percentage of students that are in the algebra geometry yeah you want the in that next month's report yeah okay all right anybody have any questions on the may 22 employment report can we please have a motion to prove the may 22 employment report motion second joan yes this is the same list of hazardous bus conditions we've had for years yep no changes all right any questions we just have to annually approve it so can i please have a motion to approve the certification of hazardous bus conditions motion second joe and lauren all in favor any opposed eyes have it anybody have any questions on the treasury appointment and bond all right can i please have uh the motion to approve the appointment of treasurer
041diane spakowski for the 2022-2023 school year and uh corresponding school treasures bob motion second joe nash yes yes yes uh resignations we accepted resignation from haley vaughan elementary uh special ed teacher accepted a resignation from lindsay de bello pera effective may 30 31 and we accepted a resignation from colleen davidson para effective may 31st um anybody have any questions on the foia requests no any on the monthly reports for the board nope our next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place monday july 11 2022 with closed session beginning at 6 00 pm and open session beginning immediately after a closed session comes can i please have a motion to adjourn motion second joan vivian all in favor aye