001how can everybody stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all board members just remember to speak into your mic so they can hear you on the streaming all right does anybody have anything to add to the agenda no can i please have a motion to prove the agenda motion second ash and vivian all in favor aye all right all right any oppose i have it accomplishment recognition okay yep okay i think i'm here all right i'm going to start off with our student of the month recognition and tyler hayes i'm gonna have you come on up here tyler let's all right so tyler and your teacher is gonna come up here and she's
002gonna talk a little bit about why she nominated you okay tyler and would you introduce yourself all right okay um hello everybody my name is megan weiss miss weiss to tyler here i'm tyler's third grade teacher um and i just had to nominate tyler to be the student of the month because he is a real standout student um you are an amazing student at demonstrating your star expectations every day in the classroom since day one you help me every single day and you help all of your classmates you do make sure you get your work done first though so you're a really hard worker um really whenever he finishes his assignments he'll walk up to me and go um miss weiss is there anything that i could help you with around the room like he
003asked if he could if there's anything you can clean or any other students you can help um so i am so lucky to have tyler in my class this year he's been amazing and all of his classmates are lucky to have him too so i had to nominate tyler yeah nice job [Applause] thank you miss weiss let's take a picture congratulations thank you okay so next we have our employee of the month and this month it might have been the easiest decision we've ever made and for those who haven't heard the story uh matt newborn um come on up matt what up matt matt's been a great employee for us uh he he uh um does a lot of things around our campus and been with us for a little over a year and but
004this this year on top of custodial maintenance duties matt has taken on bus driving and didn't have to do that he chose to help us out in that area one of our coaches is now very thankful you took on that uh uh job because matt uh did the heimlich maneuver on a coach on the bus uh this last week and uh really she told me she thought her days were ending right there so the fact that uh it was it was not a small small thing that you did there so thank you very much appreciate it uh we really uh these are just small tokens from us but uh i really appreciate what you did and and matt matt just walks around here with a great attitude he he works hard and he just does
005you know he he does what he's more than what he's asked to do around here he's a model employee for big house he was well deserved so it didn't surprise me and i talked to him the next morning after this incident he acted like it was no big deal and i'm like man no this was a big deal yes he's just very humble he's like oh it's okay i'm like no that was a big deal matt so let's get a picture here all right [Applause] all right board member code of conduct review mr charnuska all right i will strive for a positive working relationship with the superintendent respecting the superintendent's authority to advise the board implement board policy and administer the district thank you anybody have any questions on the consent agenda nope okay please
006have a motion to prove the consent agenda motion second lauren and vivian peter sorry flusha yes peter yes yes yes bennett yes do we have any public comment yeah okay superintendent's report mr gold all right thank you very much uh first on the list we have dr val donnen from seedall and val's going to give us a presentation on just the different services seattle provides us we haven't done this for several years and i think uh kevin had asked a couple questions early in the year i thought were good questions and i i thought this would be a great time to do this so thank you for giving us your time val and i'll give you the floor if you need anything from me okay you're good and i think you're okay with streaming here
007okay yep you're good we're good now we're good now i can hear me um good evening board and thank you for having me and mr gold thank you for inviting me um it's an honor to be here um to represent the partnership between big hollow and cedaw school district cedaw stands for the special education district of lake county and we're housed in gage's lake on our is our main campus but as i go over tonight you're going to see we spread throughout the whole county um which is a benefit for you so who's clicks for me i click for myself there we go so one of the unique things about seadoll is that we are a cooperative of 31 member districts so we actually have two school boards um we have one of you virginia
008who's on our board and the governing board she represents you as and takes a firm stakehold in your accounts as she works on our governing board we have a governing board president that's mrs kerry mchugh from wakanda and then we have an executive board the governing board delegates the authority to the executive board that's made up of four governing board members currently we do have an opening for a governing board member on the executive board we have four member district superintendents including mr gold on our board and we appreciate his service in that capacity and the lake county superintendent of school dr mike michael carner mrs odie paul is the executive board member board president right now and she's from gurnee 56. we do have a central office leadership team that's made up of myself
009and three assistant superintendents they include human resources curriculum and then business so we're all here to serve you our vision statement is all learners to leave productive responsible and healthy lives and we do this in a variety of ways by providing very specialized services for your students that have really high intensity or highly specialized special education needs in addition we have a lot of different community partnerships that we use we have a foundation that helps to enhance the programming for your students that are within our school settings and the picture on the right is an example of that we share a campus with warren high school and the warren athletics department and we partner together and they did a food bank for our weekend backpack program so many of our families that are working with
010having students with individuals students that have special needs they're impacted by the level of those special needs so many of our families are single income or at many times they're not even able to go out and work gainful employment because of the needs of their students and so we run a weekend backpack program for them you can see on the other side many of our students have different medical needs and require specialized nursing including traits including breathing and they also have highly specialized behavior supports that they need our mission statement of providing exceptional services for exceptional students goes throughout our whole organization and is a continuation of your mission and vision you can see on the right we have specialized equipment so that our students are able to participate in adaptive sports and adaptive physical
011education on the left you can see what's called the abr this is actually a hearing test when we first got it the audiologists were so excited they hooked me up what this does it is actually um is available for all of your families um you have audiological services through us for even your general education services we run two audiological areas one at gage's lake and one down at our john power center in vernon hills but this testing device what it does is it prevents students from having to go for on under anesthetic to be able to have their hearing tested so they're able to have our audiologist take the specialized equipment to them within the school setting and place it on them behind their ears and then also across their forehead and they are able
012to test for their ability to be able to hear when they are unable to say any words or raise their hand like we do in traditional vision and hearing screenings at your school building which we also offer those services um current enrollment right now at cdall we run different programs we have our center-based programs which have approximately 709 students currently and then we have itinerant services that are throughout the whole county and that's 273 students our programs range from students that are deaf and hard of hearing students with emotional disabilities students with medical needs we also have programs that are in our satellite program locations throughout the county and you participate in both our center programs and our satellite programs known as our sector programs in addition to those programs which are actually classrooms that
013students attend school we provide contractual services itinerary services and support services such as hearing itineraries if you had a student that had a hearing loss and was here at big hollow middle school and was attending a middle school classroom and you didn't need the need for a full-time staff member you would be able to contract for those services just specific to that student and what their needs are so that would help prevent you from having to hire staff you would then just use and contract with us and our staff would then go throughout the whole county that's part of the benefit of the co-op our diagnostic evaluations is a partnership with connect connections day school in libertyville and what this does is this guarantees you a place in where a general education student who's struggling
014with mental health needs or with other behavioral needs but are not identified as special education students are able to go receive education and have a full diagnostic evaluation to see if they are eligible for special education services so here's the breakdown we have quite a few buildings laramot school engages lake is for our students that are medically fragile you currently have two students enrolled at larmont school these students have a variety of needs including nursing needs some of the students in this program have one-to-one nurses and one-to-one paraprofessionals in addition one of the nice things about laramont school is it was specially designed for the students there so there's a tracking system so as the students get older and larger most of our students are non-mobile so they're in wheelchairs the tracking system actually allows
015them to stand and walk for the first time in their lives so it's pretty exciting to see that happening sidlash academy is our high school ed program so students that would be leaving 8th grade year would possibly go there transition services is for our 18 to 22 year olds we have a variety of different programs throughout the county for them and different work sites seed all south is for our middle school students with emotional disabilities there's 24 students and that campus that campus is in mundu line it's connected to carl sandburg school although separate um it's a seat all the program and building they do share a wall and and fields and so that offers some opportunity um just to be able to be with peers outside and doing different events gage's lake school includes
016two different programs our shaping appropriate behaviors program is for students from first grade up through high school for students that have both behavioral needs and intellectual disabilities and then the other program that's there is our kindergarten through sixth grade this year in students with emotional disabilities john power center and vernon hills houses our deaf and hard of hearing program and then our high school deaf and hard of hearing programs at grace lake north high school fairhaven school is a new school that opened last fall of course we opened virtually but we got to get back into the building full time this year and this building is a very exciting partnership with diamond lake district with this partnership we've been able to open a building that's specially designed for students with autism so there are very
017different sensory rooms that have padded floors with large gross motor equipment so the students are able to get regulated and be safe as they are going throughout their school day and then we help with a partnership with the regional office and we host their safe school program which is for middle and high school general education students who either are expelled or at risk of being expelled from their programs within their middle school or high school our sector programs are the classrooms that are throughout our member districts inside our sector programs we have our educational life skills program for students with intellectual disabilities our language and social skills opportunities program which is a program for students with autism but these programs are all where students are able to regulate and be able to be within a
018general education building and they're able to be within a lunch room or you know transportation they don't need as much specialized support as our centerpiece our center buildings we have a teaching appropriate behavior classroom which this is for students that need more direct instruction and social skills and also on regulation you do have a few students that are in the teaching appropriate behaviors program and actually currently here at three so usually what we do right around when you have four or five students i start to work with along with our supervisors and principals and what we call as a take back because one of our basic core beliefs is that students should be educated as much as possible in their home communities and so we celebrate when a district is able to long-term look at
019long-term planning and have what's called a take back so back in the day one of the programs that you have been able to take back is the early childhood program i actually was contracted here as a supervisor and worked with some of your administrators as we i supervised the program that was a seed all program and then it became a district program because you had enough students and enough longevity that you were able to then take it with for yourselves and so we celebrate those successes and we want to have more and more of those partnerships where students are in their home schools we also have a very unique and highly specialized vision resource program you can see there's only four students in this program but that's because it reaches across the whole county and
020this program has very highly specialized staff and materials so we actually do brailling and brailling instruction which is also unique to our co-op one of the things that i got asked when i joined cedal now i'm in my fourth year as superintendent was where's cedaw going and what's what's important to seed all well we won't be shy if seed all has been in the news but there's something that's the most important to us and that's our students and it's being a partner a good partner and a fiscal partner with our member districts so we have three main goals that we work on at cedaw we work on our climate and culture of our staff because we believe if our staff is highly engaged and highly satisfied then they're going to come to work and give
021our students what they need to be successful we focus on student instruction and we focus on social emotional wellness all of this is part of our strategic plan and we have now added data points into our strategic plan to be able to be transparent with our member districts and also show the growth of our students another great thing that we do for our partnership within our member districts is we offer a lot of different staff professional development and parent learning opportunities we offer a grandparent support group for when grandparents find that they're raising their own child's child we offer a non-crisis violent intervention prevention training for all of your staff we offer cpr and aed trainings we offer highly specialized curriculum trainings and we have staff that are able to come out and work on
022site for training but then we also offer training at our cedaw campus and you can see our new staff this year all heart about what they do here at cedal so one of the best things about seadoll is how individualized we are how highly specialized our staff is and then the specialized equipment that we have to have staff be staff and students be successful so here are just a collection of pictures that show a wide variety of our programs and the different pieces of equipment and specialized supports that our students require to be successful you can also see a higher level of ppe is followed within all the cdal programs to ensure safety and security as we returned with kovid one of the things that makes us also very unique and special to the students
023that are in the area is looking at our partnerships so we provide for the whole child it's something that we're really committed to and focused with we have community partnerships with lake county health department for vaccination they bring out the vaccination mobile as well as the dentist comes right to our campus to service your students our seadoll foundation has been able to provide adaptive bikes and hearing aids for your students so with that that was a very quick overview of cdoll and our programs are there any questions val can you just go through a quick explanation of how the funding model has changed last couple years definitely um so we went through a process which involved actually was over two years where we brought together all the superintendents and business managers when we were told
024by the state that we could no longer have the idea grant um which is federal dollars flow through us and then go to you what was happening is that cedaw was taking some of that money and we would hold some of the money and we would carry over and we would provide professional development and do different components with that and then the rest would flow back to you so we had to go through a process in which we'd completely unpack this and it reestablished a few different things for us because in addition to idea funds one of the things that i felt strongly about was being that i was in one of the member districts for many years um actually doing dr pittman's role uh i felt very strong that we needed to look at
025what was actually the housing credit as a host district for hosting one of our schools and so we went through the process where we set set the housing credit rates to real costs so if you are now a host of a cdl program it's true cost so it's not a financial detriment to you to hold one of our classrooms nor is it a financial gain for seed all it's really about breaking even and just being able to support our students but in terms of the idea funds they now flow directly to you and you have local control of them and so with that local control we had to look at all of the different components of our budget and how you pay for services so audiology for example needed to be looked at and so
026like i said earlier it's open to all students that would need audiological support so the committee came to consensus and then the governing board ultimately approved that it's based on two things it's based on enrollment and then it's also based on number of visits the year before then we also looked at a very highly specialized great professional development tool called infinitec which provides pd through an online service cedaw wouldn't even be able to have this service they also have a lending library for parents and for staff to be able to get things like wheelchairs and specialized computers and you know at devices which are assistive technic technology devices such as communication devices and they told cdl that no you won't be able to do that unless the member districts decide so the member districts all
027coming together said that's a shared cost that we would like to do and that's just broken up based on enrollment and shared cost across our member district the main thing that really came out of this is that we found and that we felt pretty strongly as a committee at this point in time is we really wanted real costs um to be real and we didn't want to have anything that would impede or say well what are our costs going for so what we did is we had our tuition rates reset our tuition rates include a professional development component but it includes being able to provide the specialized services that you see so that includes related service staff it also includes teaching staff paraprofessional staff and that's done on a tuition right now so that it's
028really truly about the tuition of the student that you're paying to have in our program as opposed to kind of overlapping another example of what we did to be able to be having more real costs and we're still working on it is our one-to-one paraprofessionals many students in our programs when they need even more specialized attention require a one-to-one what was happening previously is that it would be just added to a student's iep saying it was a a big hollow student who needed the one-on-one but then what we found out is actually in the classroom that one-to-one wasn't really needed for that student it was needed for the whole classroom but now big halo was carrying the cost of that so we made a really high effort to shift the high effort to shift from
029one to ones to add that to a classroom program model and then put that in our tuition costs so it's not about losing jobs it's really about shifting the shared cost of that so it's not placed a burden on an individual district when it wasn't intended to be and so we've done a lot of looking at the supports and services that we've provided to maintain the high quality within the classroom but being able to shift that cost off of one district and make that then a shared cost um so so those are some of the things that we went through and did when we looked at that component and that changed our joint articles as we went through them thank you [Music] any other questions from board how how is your enrollment with the school
030districts do you guys typically onboard new schools lose schools how has it been over like the last 10 years so it's interesting over the last 10 years we've actually been able to create new programs such as fairhaven school that started that program started where it was small and we had like two classrooms and then we had it at laramot school and it just kept growing that that's a program that's really for students with significant autism so there's a lot of high need for sensory they have a lot of behavior just behavior in terms of they don't sit in a traditional desk and then we're also seeing a decline in some of our other areas such as our high school ed program has been decreasing over the last few years and so as we look at
031it we've had some areas just totally explode and other areas slowly go down and so we've been looking over the last few years as to why is that and what do we need to do and one of the things that we found is when we're seeing decrease enrollment it's really because our programs need to be caught back up to the latest and greatest that's happening especially at the high school level of what's happening at a high school but what we're seeing in the last year the two years is that we're seeing that we have an enrollment that's decreasing this year in particular cova did impact us we still have families that are not comfortable coming back into the school building so what we've done there is we've been able to provide where we partner with
032districts and we'll have our staff um we send out kind of like employment recognition you know recruitment where our staff will then go provide homebound instruction for students that can't come into our program so in our centers we're seeing decrease but that itinerant support we're actually seeing an increase and that itinerant support what makes me excited about that is because that's back in home schools where we're providing specialized service that works with your teachers to help students be successful in their home schools and in their least restrictive environment i think maybe what ashley was saying districts in the county jumping in and out of cedaw yeah oh we haven't so the last hearing was actually um two weeks before i started and i was the closer at the hearing so we haven't had a district
033poll out or even go to hearing because that's the process is that by june you notify and that goes through a hearing to the regional office it's been many many years now and part of the recommitment happened when we went through the idea costs we had 80 about 80 percent of the districts in the room at the same time which was unheard of before and i make a conscious effort to really be out there and meeting with the superintendents meeting with business managers meeting with the special ed directors and assistant superintendents um to be able to make sure we're we're meeting the need current needs of our districts okay thanks thank you for clarifying yeah no worries any other questions all right thank you very much val thank you appreciate you giving us a time
034you can leave that on that's fine yep i'm gonna ask dr king to come up and do an assessment review all right good evening this will be brief before i jump into the data that you have on your packets two points of interest first you have another sheet that we provided with you that has the percentages of students who met or above the national mean and i'll talk about that in a minute and then also let you know some of the data that we're still collecting that isn't in this presentation because it's still in process our teachers for kindergarten are collecting the kids it's the kindergarten individual developmental survey and that's happening right now it's a pretty robust survey that it's observational so you watch students outside at play time you watch them at their
035centers you watch them at group time it's very individualized but it's a lot of data collection and our kindergarten teachers are currently in process but i will provide that information to mr gold to share on later on this year that will be they finish at the end of october and so does our pre-k they're collecting data in gold and in the pre previous presentation you saw that was one of the data points that were also collected in seedall and we use those data for pre-k and kindergarten okay so for this presentation um we just wanted to take a quick overview of how we are doing starting our benchmarking from our map assessment coming in and we wanted to compare it to previous falls to see if we're noticing anything about our data and what we
036are noticing with the exception of seventh and eighth grade and i'll talk about those math data right now in a second we are seeing a slight decline in the entrance benchmarking for students in math and reading across all grade levels again we don't see kindergarten anymore because they're taking kids but one of the interesting points for seventh and eighth grade are seventh and eighth grade students if they are in algebra one or they're in geometry they're actually taking the algebra one map test there's a special test for algebra one algebra two and geometry and so our students are taking those assessment and what this shows us is the students that we've placed in those classes are correctly placed because they're doing very well on those assessment that are just looking at standards that assess algebra
037and geometry which drove them the average score up for our seventh and eighth grade math information and i'll talk a little bit more when we talk about the sheets you have in front of you when we look at reading we also see a slight decline across all grade levels not statistically significant but a decline nonetheless and so what i want to talk more about i want to answer any questions that you have but i want to talk about what we're doing to address this at our tier one which is 80 percent of our students and what we're doing at more tier 2 and tier 3 levels so our district just completed the district capacity assessment which is an assessment that organizations use to look at different drivers for success um and we were looking at
038our multi-tiered system of support and so specifically we have data that mr gold got a presentation that he he's going to be sharing with you at another time reviewing those data but that is really the linchpin of how we are going to be looking and looking at how our students are doing with the learning objectives that we have in front of them and how districts are so how as a district we're supporting our teachers to ensure our students are growing so that's one key piece the other piece we're going to talk about in a minute when we talk about our school improvement plans is the self-assessment which is the sami and that addresses what we're doing at our school and our building level to address the needs and so one of the things that dr
039hechowitz has been working for years on the last few years on is that curriculum standards piece and aligning ensuring that we have a valid and reliable curriculum and so that piece we're continuing to work on which is going to go after that that mean number of the mean student the the average of our student body who are starting to show the dip the other piece that we're looking at is our tier two and tier three so using the assessments that teachers are giving in classroom both the formative but also these summative benchmarking assessments to uh change how we're driving instruction and so november 2nd our students for across the district i'm already looking at their data for map for developmental spelling inventory once the data for deaths are collected we'll be looking at those but
040then students will be moved around in interventions or enrichments based upon those data and the same will happen for our students who are in tier three in december i will look at again the data for our students who are in tier three receiving support they will be moved uh intentionally through making data based and evidence-based decisions for our students so i want to talk about the tables you have in your packet not on the presentation but how they look at what draws this the information for at or above the national mean those students if you would draw your eyes down to the bottom of table three you'll see where algebra geometry like the percentage of students who were meeting that average or above and in one particular case or seventh grade 100 that one student
041who took the geometry test was at or above and in other places you see uh it's at least 95 percent and that shows us that uh the students that we've identified starting last year looking at a new criteria for placing students in these accelerated courses um it was the right decision those are the right data that we used simul it and we're slow we're continuing to build off of that so there's a couple of students that moved up at this first round of map testing that we placed them in that accelerator the twice accelerated programs and at the same time i really feel strongly that the data that we're using to identify students who are struggling and needing intervention that's working really well too because what you may not see in these tables even though
042we have a percentage of students and it's the average an average sim those 50 are going to be above and 50 are going to be low in any any way we stretch this out but we're identifying the right students for the right intervention and the right accelerated programming and these data support that uh information but i don't want to talk long so what questions do you have for me i have one question for you just accuracy because you talked about making sure we're getting the right students into like algebra and geometry but did you look at the kids who didn't get in there so like i look at the eighth grade math and our mean is a lot higher than the national mean but we're only at 40 percent that are meaning that which is
043telling me that there's several kids in there who are really eating those numbers so are we missing those kids and not giving them the opportunities that's a good question so we looked at every student recently to see if we missed others so we have looked at all the rest and they while we do have high score the mean mean doesn't mean they're grade level ready the mean just means average across the nation and so that sometimes that mean number uh is misleading the mean is just average and the average in most states and in our state in particular it doesn't mean grade level ready so while we're above it we want to be because we like to be above the average it's not at a number that would qualify is there a number for these
044that is where they consider the grade level ready line though yeah i can provide you that's yeah there is that and i think that was in my spring one last year yeah yeah so the national mean i never want to get hung up thinking that's not the goal because the goal isn't great that's not grade level ready is this chart um this is the test score not the percentage correct so how do we compare because how did our national average do this year compared to the previous two years like how we can see the scores so the national the national average doesn't change so what map does every few years they adjust their mean rate across so we're just looking at what it was before the pandemic so i believe 2020 last year i think
045i was in here presenting yeah that's when they readjusted all their norms which was before the pandemic hit so right now they're collecting new data so in about three more years they'll come out with new data so these we're still stacking up the same it's the same we're still comparing to that same writ level before like pre-pandemic okay so we don't really know how other districts did compare to us throughout the pandemic correct and we wouldn't know that unless districts disclose that publicly and i would say 90 wouldn't okay that's what would be great to know because when you look at these but like yeah like dr king said we don't we aren't going to know that um and these these percentages you see on the far right column would obviously look different pre-pandemic than
046they do now and those are just a benchmark they're not actual it's not 2021 numbers no it's just yeah no it's 20 20 written norms and that was a there every season there's about 5.5 million students who take the test and so this is about so when we say the average it's the average of 5.5 million kids across for like in their three grades three through eight so it's not a when i say national we don't want to be the not just be the national average it's not a small number but still it's when we look at what is college and career readiness it's it's closer to like we we're looking at the 50th percentile but we need to be closer to the 73rd percentile so was the fall testing the fall test did that
047test their previous knowledge or new new knowledge learned this year that's a good question so um it depends on who you talk to um some people want to believe that and i would say believe what they want so one someone will be like oh it's a new teacher it's they've got a new great new teacher and then some would say they did something great over the summer it's through spring so it i would say it depends on who you talk to but map considers it it's your benchmark for the new school year so it's taking off of it's taking this idea of like summer regression so it in maps world they're considering it your fresh start not really even what's been taught to you because we took it within like the first couple weeks of
048school yeah and when are you expecting to see these numbers start to turn around to go the other way well um in our district we've had a trend where it does it dips in the winter and then we go back up in the spring um i would say we're watching what we're doing in our classrooms every teacher individually will see our numbers we're looking to adjust some right now like we're doing easy cbm like cdl is so we're looking to track the upward progression immediately as a whole group of students we haven't seen that in our district we see the greatest growth from winter to spring and that's just been back-to-back years of looking at the data here so then the winter church would have looked more archival compared to fall a little bit but
049in some cases i think unless we're different this year we've seen where it goes from fall to winter there's a drop and then from winter to spring not only does it catch up fall it then it increases even higher okay yeah it's gonna be interesting to see how these when this tide turns on this with the impact of the pandemic yeah because it is a little discouraging to still see it yeah i mean every grade level still tracking down even though we're back yeah yeah you know yeah so i apologize if you said this in the previous presentation how come there's a draft from fall to winter um you know what i don't i don't really know i and that's different in districts that i've talked to in like when i was in wisconsin when
050i was in minnesota it's just different where you are and it could be different in a neighboring district in some cases they see their greatest growth from fall to winter and so that's what we usually said they would do their board presentations in the winter and then other places they see their greatest growth like we have been seeing it from fall to spring it's i don't quite know last year we were working with the principals looking at collecting our data at a different point as far as um trying to track some different growth with however we're looking at our teacher reports and in our like celebrating school improvement plans taking that winter to spring um i don't i don't actually know it's maybe an action research project one day but i don't know i can't
051answer that so you talk a lot about where the drops are but has there been any research to how you get that seventh and eighth grade spike like that looks like the biggest anomaly out of everything you're seeing there somehow those two went up in a situation we're expecting it to go down so has any anything been looked at to how that that went that way so i think part of it is and and this is what mr golden eye were kind of debating like do we roll in the algebra and geometry scores for this particulars because algebra they're not assessing any other standards except what's about to be so and for whatever reason those stu what we may see is the students who are in algebra may be able to be accelerated even faster
052because they were only presented with algebra standards and all of those students their data is what bumped up the rest of uh that cohort it was the algebra and geometry tests because all of them did so well like yeah because they're at 96 and 95 yeah where the regular math is at 40 percent yeah when they have done just as good since they are the accelerated students that they took the regular math tests as well we don't know because we haven't seen this before like this type of ch like the the we usually see like this growth that we see for usually reading it's not i mean it may not it looks it is a dip but it's still higher the eighth grade reading we've seen eighth grade reading be high in the fall in
053the past the change where we haven't seen before is this math part and a little bit as we were thinking it was probably because we just added two tests that are very and they've been all these kids have for their previous years they've only ever taken six plus yeah so that was my question i don't think i ever remember seeing an algebra in geometry yeah well that i think that's new it's new yeah yeah it's been we've it's been in the it's map has had it for about seven eight years we've just never used it here for us and that would explain gary the number difference there even look at this if i took out algebra and geometry just the straight up math seventh grades 237 and that's the majority of the kids that still
054is a huge bump in numbers on that chart if we just look straight at math to math yeah i don't we i i mean we can i probably dig in deeper i we were i was chalking up more up to the algebra in geometry but you i can see what you're saying yeah and i this is what we're seeing in math is different and new than what we've seen in the past for seventh and eighth grade that we've seen that usually for reading it could be the digital programs that that yeah that is true it's definitely encouraging because a few years ago math was where we were biggest what was our biggest concern middle school math is where we were really seeing some struggles and then after you remember board that members have been on
055the board for a while we switched to longer math periods and we made a lot of changes to try to help with that because we had a systems problem but so it is encouraging to see that we're on the other end of that but well yeah the math grades are higher than seven grades higher than eighth grade yeah how long ago did we switch to the longer math class was that two years it's been about four it's been a while yep was there any way to compare us to the other feeder schools or no no one oh sorry go ahead oh go ahead unless they disclose their information no okay yeah thank you very much we can scrounge their board reports here soon yeah thank you and then i'll invite up for uh dr biancolana
056and bonand to join for the school improvement planning all right this one will also be brief i'm just going to do the opening slide so all three of us worked together with dr hetrebitz to come up with our school improvement plans and instead of having three separate plans um we would have three similar goals and we'll talk about what those goals are but in your board packet you'll see that our action steps some of them are very similar and some are unique to our buildings but what we wanted to do is ensure that our three goals would match one another sorry um so goal area one is up there for you and it it has to do with we've combined the instruction and the student achievement which previously had been two separate goals but they
057are obviously very connected and what i think is important for you to know on this is what exactly that sam e means s-a-m-i it's a self-assessment tool and it's designed to capture four things for us it's designed to capture our school level implementation of our mtss program to identify and prioritize the system needs at each building to guide us in our action planning and knowing what we need to plan for and then to assess the impact over time of that action plan so we will do the sam e twice a year we are just now completing in fact my building just finished today this afternoon our blt completed the sami for the first time we'll do it again in the spring we'll do it again next fall so it's it's a continuous process to make
058sure that the goals that we're setting that we are designing our action plan and then we're looking at how are we doing are we meeting the needs of our students it is meant to help us focus and prioritize on the areas that are most in need of attention and support so it's it's really supposed to help us focus and it was very exciting to work with the building leadership team and look through this document and we also have some excellent support i know you remember hearing from dr king and carrie harris who came from illinois mtss and it's been wonderful to have that additional support as well okay and then we continue to place high value on our culture and climate goals as you can see in the copies of each of the building sip
059goals and action step documents a variety of efforts have been and will continue to be made to have an impact on our community's perception of the diversity equity inclusion and sense of belonging within our district task forces related to human resources curriculum resources policy and procedures community engagement discipline and assessment have all been created for this year and for future years as well and the main goal is to ensure that our big halo community continues to foster empathy and a sense of belonging for all of our stakeholders so we continue to use a variety of surveys as as well and continue our focus uh in the area of culture and climate for all stakeholders across the district and board members i realized that is my mistake i put the wrong i put the slides in
060your packet i believe and i need i'm going to send you an email with the actual school improvement plans that really are more specific to each building so i'll get that out to you tomorrow morning so i apologize it'll make more sense yes i just realized that i apologize any questions for the group they've done a great job work on this together so all right thank you very much appreciate it just a quick update for me on kovid topics um currently as of friday we had zero cases today we had three so um it kind of bounces around but uh we we were looking really good last week and then weekends things tend to happen so uh we had three cases today and it leads to uh we're down to just 11 students doing in
061the test estate program which is very manageable for us it's been a lot higher than that in past weeks then we have the students that are quarantined for exposure at lunch those students are home otherwise we're able to keep them in test to stay just i have i have a couple updates you know we are uh we get we do get questions from parents on when can they corn when do they have to quarantine when do they test this day and like i just mentioned the main issue we're having is just at lunch when kids are unmasked we have to we have to quarantine we don't have the test today option at lunch so that's the been the biggest hurdle um the remote learning has is something we're continuing working on taking feedback from parents
062as well as our principles are and just trying to improve that environment for students that do have to quarantine the goal is that we i don't have to quarantine students so hopefully uh that number is going to keep going down but uh we are we have made some uh some improvements in in a in our providing remote remote learning uh services and uh um the middle school poses the biggest challenge because there are so many teachers involved for each student so uh we're working through that vaccination clinic i'm working with a group right now to try to get ahead of the game on this the pfizer vaccine is looks like it could be approved by the end of the month and we're working with a group to come in and do a full vaccination clinic
063for all of our students on site here as soon as possible in november so i have a phone conference tomorrow afternoon that should finalize some details or at least further some details on that so i do think that will be um i don't know what percentage of staff or of families will take take advantage of that um we are putting a uh we're putting a survey out either probably tomorrow it might have gone out today okay uh for parents who let us know who will be interested um but i think that would be a game changer in regards to students being quarantined here if we if we get a large percentage of students that are vaccinated so just a question with that yeah so the child is vaccinated do they have to quarantine for lunch
064no for any reason nope unless they have symptoms unless they have symptoms yep if a child is if a child is vaccinated they don't have to quarantine unless they actually displace symptoms sulfur unless they have symptoms they don't have to quarantine for any reason i am correct in that dr pittman okay wait that doesn't make any sense so if they if they have no symptoms if they don't have symptoms but they still would have to children but we're not making them no yeah okay yeah so that's the benefit of the vaccine if they for parents if they choose that is they won't have to worry about the quarantine so we're we're trying to do that on our site to give people the opportunity right away to get it done it's going to be an undertaking
065so you might get an email asking if you like to volunteer so we'll have to once i go through the call tomorrow and i kind of get a feel for how many people we will need to help but uh um i could see it being a couple evenings uh to to get it done possibly so would you be able to provide uh vaccines for parents if they were there and wanted them also i can ask that yeah i can ask it's a good question i know we're not just going to do it for ages 5 to 11. even that's what's going to open up we'll do it for all of our students 5-13 5-14 but yeah i could ask that for parents as well and the only thing i have on here actually there's one
066other thing i want to bring up before i go to that well i'll just i'll get it here the one issue that we're having as a district right now is you know and i don't know how to i don't know how to say this without sounding negative um but times are tough and this is hard right now for everybody it's in society in general it's tough and people are on edge and we're dealing with we're kind of putting this in the middle of a lot of uh converging problems in society right now where schools are on the front line of that and our staff is having to deal having to deliver negative information to parents um and some parents are responding well and some are not and it's starting it's really it's really weighing heavy
067on on our our staff that's that is in direct uh communication with community so you know i just i'm going to keep you know over the next couple of weeks months we're just going to keep our tabs on it i'm just going to ask that we really get some support on just trying to promote some good civility as we deal with these issues and again it's i can't tell you what percentage of those communications go this way but i just know it's eating up a lot of our time and a lot of our resources just to handle these issues just a minor issue can take an hour of time pretty easily and it's just become very more and more difficult more this year than than any year that i've i've had in the past so
068i wanted to bring that up as a board it's something we we something we want to keep an eye on and i'll keep you informed of in my weekly communications with you so again a great percentage of our parents are so supportive and appreciative of what we're dealing with and uh so i don't want it to come off as this is this is just uh um that it's everybody because it's not it's just we are it's enough that it's really draining some of our staff and i'm worried about we are we all know the shortage of labor right now and i'm worried of losing more people because they're just they're really having a hard time taking it so um one thing i want to bring up is discussions with the board give me some feedback
069is we're going to have some indoor events coming up in the in the coming months obviously it's getting too cold to have outdoor events and we're going to have fine arts plays and programs we're going to have uh sporting activities pto activities i'm comfortable right now having these activities having a sporting event uh having uh maybe maybe limit the um to just parents you know or some not have not have we don't we don't have full gyms necessarily but um when you when you're talking about a band concert right now we're planning on having those uh but limiting the limiting the participation or the the audience size to maybe two people per band member or a chorus member or i mean i want to make sure you as a board are comfortable with these things
070and what your thoughts are on that i'm kind of catching off off guard here i know so i don't know what you were thinking uh coming into this year what we'd have but uh um i mean for me i think you just go i think the kids need the band concerts and they need to have that reward for all the work that they put in yeah for the past two years they haven't had that yeah i think they've learned it the only the only one that's got me a little concerned is the uh showcase events at primary elementary because we pack so many people in there the band concerts of course concerts here i think we'll be fine because we can spread them out and we can i'm not worried about that the sporting events
071we've never had full gyms so it's pretty easy to spread people out the the uh the the for those who know what i'm talking about the showcase events those get pretty packed and uh here what's that can you move them up here we can we can definitely we've talked about it before um talked about it so we'll uh do you share the same concern as far as uh the pact in that gem like can we that we should look at if we look at other options ago before they did like every grade on one night we can do that we look at it spread them out do multiples all right we'll look at some options that's the one everything else i'm feeling pretty comfortable with that's the one that's got me a little nervous but
072we'll definitely look at some options on that will we still maybe offer a remote version for some who just don't feel comfortable in coming yeah i think we're looking at maybe recording the events and posting it online or things like that we're sending out a link to the families we have some issues with uh students or parents or parents that have chosen not to have their kids videotaped so we got to be cautious of that in posting that but we'll try to find a workaround so that's really all i had with the covet update i just want to run those things by you and kind of let you know where happened i think in the next couple months i'm hoping that we see a positive turn here a couple quick items to finish up with
073eighth grade graduation update we do have it scheduled uh wednesday may 25th and we do have it at the the drive-in and once again probably a good move to stick there this year i think and we will make improvements based on what we learned from last year so and then we have three board members that achieved some next level master board member status and i have i have some awards here i'll give you we're not here but we've got lauren gets a little planner vivian and doug vivien and doug both get master school board member plaques so you must have gotten into the highest level now so congratulations that is it for me that is it for me kevin all right thank you does anybody have any questions on the september employment report okay please
074have a motion to approve the september employment report motion second lauren and gary yes ballinger yes lions yes bennett yes yes yes patterson yes uh anybody have any questions on the library upgrade i can do a quick explanation on this this is a project we've been looking at for two or three years trying to upgrade that library and uh dr king has done a great job taking that by the reins this year and uh this is a major furniture upgrade the whole room it's going to look a little more modern and it's a pretty it's a 20 000 expense so i want to make sure i ran that through the board before we went ahead and made the order but i think it's going to be a well uh the kids are the kids are
075using that room a lot more now and i think it's going to be a much needed and a nice upgrade for that library anybody any questions no no please have a motion approve the library upgrade proposal motion second yes bennett yes peter yes lions yes ballinger yes resignations we accepted resignation from janice hoffman food service worker effective september 16th we accept accepted a resignation from sue haas elementary lunch monitor effective october 1st and we accepted a resignation from lisa swederski middle school 12-month secretary effective october 8th anybody have any questions on the foyer requests nope i actually did okay these common requests because they seem to be like way overly burdensome we are getting more yes these are not common and they're they're digging so i saw the response to one they wanted like eight
076different reports and and you're like no we don't do any about the surplus property for the state yeah whatever yeah yeah if we had that would have been burdensome but we don't have any thankfully so yeah but it's i feel like we're getting more requests now than we've ever had okay how much time do they normally take i didn't spend a lot of time on these i think dr pittman had one no you only get what is it seven days oh yes there's a curriculum one that took some time yeah yeah yep really good seven days all right um any question on the building administrator reports nope nope any question on the meeting agendas uh the next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place on monday november 8th 2021 with closed session beginning at 6
07700 pm uh can i please have a motion to adjourn motion second gary and vivian all in favor aye any opposed eyes have it thank you everybody thank you everybody