001thank foreign all right we moved back into open session can everyone stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all does anybody have anything to add to the agenda okay please have a motion to approve the agenda vivian and doug [Music] yes yes yes we're going to skip item six for now item seven board member code of conduct review uh ashley can you read it for us please all right thank you anybody have anything any questions on the consent agenda nope okay please have a motion to approve the consent agenda motion second lauren vivian yes yes yes yes yes yes right do we have any public comments
002superintendents report mr gold all right uh first i'll let you know that like next month we will finally have the new board member or board meeting equipment installed there's been anything you order now you can't get anything so it's been a long time backed up but i think the uh the sound system will be installed and uh overhead uh projections so uh we're gonna start by honoring a couple retirees so i'm gonna first call up eileen hastings eileen would you come on up okay this is be very careful because this is uh these are separate pieces here i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna hold it and then i'll give it to you in a box but i wanna know uh from you if uh 30 years a big hollow right so i was thinking about
003this today when i uh 30 years ago tell me what big hollow looked like the little schoolhouse in the country on route 12 and 134 and uh there was no jewel across the street it's just open land and it was a great place to be yeah so you've seen a lot of changes in 30 years thank you for all your service and your time with us and is there anything you want to share with anybody no i just just want to say thank you and it's been a great 30 years awesome happy that i could be part of this community awesome thank you can i get a picture of you guys okay awesome thank you so much congratulations congratulations here's a box if you want to enjoy your retirement all right you want this box
004i mean just in case thank you okay robin jensen [Applause] robin's 20 years and uh so i got you know that last month there a lot of uh robin's colleagues nominated her for employee of the month and she told them that they after they nominated her uh they had to send me an email and said we you can't select her because she'll be mad at us if you select her so but you know i highlighted some things uh you know that they wrote about her she's dedicated loyal passionate and will put others before herself she's a champion for students easily forms bonds and builds relationships with students there's an aura of mutual respect between her and students whether it's in the classroom on the volleyball court or just in the hallway she's unknowingly a mentor
005from many teachers here big hollow and i have to tell you a funny story i've never mentioned this to robin but when i first when i first got hired a big hollow i i obviously didn't know anybody here not as you know i'm going to say okay i didn't know anybody here i came in first of june right after school was out and i started coming in i walked in the office first day and i didn't know anybody and i think robin was in the office and she was in there regularly just sitting out front and i didn't know who who she was or what she did i think she now that i know her well i think she was just kind of testing out seeing who this new guy was that was coming in
006big hollow but i don't know was that what you were doing that's what i thought she's very protective of big hollows so she didn't want somebody coming in is going to screw things up okay so now that i know her well enough i figured that's probably what she was doing in the office because i was like who is this person in the front of the office who doesn't work in the office and why is she here but now i know thank you anything you'd like to share but she didn't really did not want to come tonight so i talked her into it but okay anything you want to share no okay that's okay can we get a picture at least thank you [Applause] okay thank you robin appreciate it thank you i don't know if
007i turn that off or on mata okay so i hit a button on there so i don't know if it's on okay okay is brian here yet okay we're going to next step up uh michelle dr hetchevitz or i'm sorry dr king is going to do nba map updates so she's got a presentation for you while she's getting started board i this was a suggestion of one of our committees come on up it's fine you'll notice there's the board policies are linked to every uh agenda items that have board policies related i've tried to put line them up not every item has a board policy but if there's anything related to it okay well good evening thank you for allowing me some time to go over the map growth data with you i have a
008clicker oh so tonight i'm going to share with you information from our administration of the map assessment both from the fall to spring so we can look at our map growth data over time and i'm also going to share with you our seven year cohort data and talk about some of how these data are influencing our current work and influencing the future work that we have on our roadmap for the district so the first table i'm going to talk about is looking at our our fall to spring growth and comparison data and as i shared at our october board meeting despite us starting the school year in full remote in august and september we were able to test almost 100 of our student population and so that gave us really strong baseline data for how
009our students were going to do throughout the year and results from those data um indicated that we're only slightly a slight decline compared to how our students typically perform due to like summer regression information um usually there's a summer slide and we compare we we started the year very similar to previously years and in a similar way our spring data also indicate some similar trends and these data are in your board packet on pages one and two of the board report i provided for you if it's just easier for you to look in your board packet so these tables they illustrate grade level average writ information from fall to spring compared to typical fall to spring growth that occurs at grade levels that are operating at the 50th percentile so for example i'm going to
010click here we can see that at the national rate 188.2 is the typical writ like the average rate for the nation for third grade and we can see that when we look at the typical growth of those students 12.6 rip points is expected so when we look at our grade level we can see so for example our eighth grader started at 228.2 so our observed growth was 2.2 whereas the average growth is 5.38 so the reason i want to talk about this it's important for us to be able to understand how we operate compared to the nation because that's who our students are going to be competing with when it comes to college and career readiness but it's also important to look at national our local norms and that's something that we do as well
011but in most cases if a district's fall writ is higher than the national writ our growth is lower and if our starting writ point is lower our growth would be higher and so i'm going to kind of show what that would look like in the case because in this case i'll go back really quick so in this case we can see that we started higher in several instances from our fall to spring so our growth was a little bit less okay so here when we're looking at now for ela this this is going to talk about our fall to spring ela growth and like before if our district where it is lower than the national rate mean our growth should be slightly higher nwea provides like what typical growth should look at look like for
012students that have similar comparison groups so if we were to take our students and it can take any conditional factors our starting writ the number of instructional week students had the between testing events their grade level achievement it will tell us what the typical growth should be and so i can look at that and we can look at that as a district and we are to determine is our observed growth comparable to what it should be based upon those conditions that we place on it and i'll give you just the overall summation about what these data tell us here in a little bit i'm going to give us our seven-year cohort data and these data are important because we need to know if our instructional delivery models are producing the types of learners that we're
013hoping to produce over time are they showing a growth that a growth that will not only exceed the national mean which is a 50th percentile which 50th percentile i want to say is just like a bare minimum we want to hit we want to exceed that that bare minimum national percentile are we hitting that in this particular cohort we've taken out the 2020 the spring 2020 growth because we did not have uh we weren't we didn't give them up assessment this time last year we weren't in session due to the pandemic school closures but we can see that students over time are growing but the table i want you to look at pay attention to in your board report it's going to give you information on its table three page three of the board report
014it will tell you specifically how much students should be growing year over year over year so are we making as much growth oops sorry as our um as our as students at the national level but locally are we okay with this is it enough growth to produce the type of learner that we believe would be college and career ready so they would have access to the types of programs and experiences that i know our families want so for example if we're looking at their reading seven year cohort data we can see that our fifth grade class typically makes 6.4 points of growth in reading from the previous school year to the current year and the reason this looks different from fall to springs is because there's more additional instruction weeks so students have access to
015different programs versus simply looking at fall to spring results so that's why we looked at spring to spring in these particular data sets i'm going to pause because i've shown you three different tables so far and ask for questions no okay so this final slide it's going to look at our math cohort side by side spring to spring and this is where i i find it interesting because it's allowing us to see how our students their outcome data this particular spring compared to previous springs so we can see in the upper grades that our end of year performance it's mimicking the end-of-year performance from previous years and so sometimes we might say things like well that group of students it was they just had more challenges and that's where this seven-year cohort data that we
016just talked about would show up this particular data is going to tell us in fact what influences like the influences pandemics will like are pandemic um so the ins the amount of instructional weeks that we had with students face to face versus virtual did it impact the product like the learning mean of our students and we can see at the upper grades there there is very little difference with with how that performed however at the elementary we do see that there was a bigger impact to the overall outcome of students in their their math side by sides and in the same way we saw similar attributes show up for reading and so what i would like to say to this is whether or not our students produced outcome data that are similar to previous years
017or not so if we're looking at our our middle level to compare to our primary in elementary there are things that we want to do as a district to ensure that we are producing college and career ready students and so we have an mtss prevention framework mtss stands for multi-tiered system of support you might have heard it called like response to intervention and in this we are looking at building level resources to help set up each student for success for academic physical and social emotional and behavioral success and so we're looking at the by looking at the whole child it allows us to have early identification of students who need accelerated programming and students who need enrich interventions in a timely way so that we are ensuring our students are growing above the national mean
018and growing in such a way that we are ensuring that they're going to be successful at that next grade level so some of the other things that we're doing you're going to hear about our amplify science science does influence our outcome data when it looks at other areas and so that is an important piece of some of the work we're doing the work that dr hetchevitz has been doing with the district related to the regional office of education to help with our standards-based grading and our our progression standards all of that is really important because it feeds our mtss our multi-tiered system of support systems so that we can ensure our students are growing and achieving at high rates and that is all i've got so what questions do you have for me about what
019i've shared it's very good i think all this data is great yeah i really appreciate the time it took to put this together um i think it's i think it's we all talked about this before we knew the scores were going to drop i think i like how you tried to be optimistic about it but i mean i could appreciate that but looking at it we've had pretty much the lowest scores we've ever had over the past seven years for the most part which is understandable yeah we all talked about that we all knew that yes i'm kind of in years past we've always been above the national red but this year we seem to be below it in over half our grades and especially in fourth grade we're pretty well below it fourth fifth
020sixth seventh eighth and that national writ that that number didn't change with the pandemic that's a number that is a static number static yeah how is it static i guess meaning that was established using the 2020 norm so the so that is just an established number so it's not that those data won't show up until they the nwea does new norms and that will just be redistributed with a bunch of other means so it may bring down the mean of everybody but yeah mr gold's point is accurate that that didn't change from the nation like so many people will experience that national wreck perhaps is still they didn't reach it i guess we expected honestly i thought it was going to be worse so i'm happy that it's better than i yeah i felt the
021same i hate to say that i felt the same way i thought the challenge is going to be to see how we balance next year yes yes that'll be that'll be the hopefully this year next year at this time we can see a nice bounce back but uh i i was actually uh as as dr king as as optimistic i was too and i saw it i thought almost obviously concerned when you look at this the uh over time data but um it's better than i thought it could have been and it's a result of just less uh teacher contact time with students i mean i don't think it's an impact i don't think it's a this is not a uh and you could see the work that's been done and the changes that have
022been done and how it's positively affected i mean yeah in spring in 19 we seem to have our best year ever yeah too um and then it's i just hope that's not lost yeah so okay question on the numbers here was there any analysis done to like pull out outliers to see if there's maybe a small group that's really pulling the numbers down or anything like that or was this just smooth across everybody so i this data are just the smooth across and so yes we i am looking at because i'm looking at accelerated placement and so to do that i'm pulling off like the top 95th percentile and above and i'm looking at the like though that specific group of students in both math and ela and we i can act just in that
023alone so to answer your question there are yes other indicators but those specifically because i'm doing so much work right now on that i can actually see where that the looking at the growth actually they're outperforming some of those 95th and above are over performing than they have in the past i believe that group is actually what's pulling our numbers higher and which is interesting because a lot of people believe that that 95th percentile and above your growth is going to be small and in fact i'm seeing it quite the opposite and so i'm trying to figure out i'm trying to do a little digging of why is that where did they take the test trying to understand that setting and that's particularly at the the middle school level where i'm doing that the most
024digging i have not done as much concentrated work at the lower levels and i can certainly do that for you and provide it to mr gold and he can share that so that's a great question yeah i'd be curious to see like where does the middle group change the lower group where where are the bigger changes it could be the lower group could have also stayed pretty much the same maybe it's the middle that's lower than it was before yeah that's a great i can look into that yeah thank you one thing uh for the board because i don't know if i've explained this thoroughly yet the grant has not been released yet but we will be getting some a federal grant the it's called the essa 3 this summer and we've already been dr
025hetrovitz and i've been working on this primarily but we've already been working on how to distribute these funds to address learning loss as as part of it so we've opened positions for some specialist positions so math and a math specialist at the middle school a reading special at the middle school we don't have either position right now we're hoping that will help with some some intervention time and to address some learning loss and then we also are adding another reading specialist i believe that we i can't kindergarten kindergarten yeah kindergarten specialist so um so we're using that some of those funds to maybe uh try to target some assistance in uh some possible learning laws so all right any other questions thank you dr king appreciate it thank you thank you i'm gonna jump off
026the agenda to uh uh and recognize mr summers so brian come on up all right you weren't late i told i told i told brian 6 45 so he was not late so uh each each month and when you talk i'm happy to speak each month uh when we do this i've i would say consistently each month somebody has nominated brian summers so uh this month i think your whole uh fourth grade team kind of teamed up together and said we we want him to get this and it says a lot coming from your peers we know you do great work and the entire fourth grade team does great work together and they they value what you're what you're doing as well so i'm going to let some of your fourth grade team come up
027a couple of them and and share a few things so yes well we just wanted to nominate brian you know he got put up uh to do both in person and remote at the same time and he really adapted and jumped right onto it and didn't complain and just in general is just a great teammate to have and a positive person to have on our team really great at building those connections with the kids that last a really long time and making learning fun for them excellent brian's my classroom neighbor and okay we're good okay yeah he's my classroom neighbor and you know so we worked together last few years and he's always just trying to get to know the kids building those positive relationships and despite all the challenges this year he's still maintained
028like that awesome way he connects with kids and he has great ideas and shares with our team and is just a positive person to be around and to work with and for the kids and everybody so we just appreciate it yep so we appreciate him awesome thank you so much ryan do you want to say anything too well thank you to both of you and the rest of my team i appreciate it it was a been a crazy year a couple weeks still left but thank you guys too um it's amazing how much work we've put in this year and um yeah so thank you and thank you everyone good good good good well let's let's take a quick picture here with all of us here there's that and come on over here all right
029thanks a lot thank you for your time thanks a lot thank you okay item c i'm going to jump to is dr hetrovitz is going to uh along with mr payro is going to do uh talk about amplify science uh curriculum grades five through eight i i've got it right here sorry right behind that i hit it i hit it back there thank you so much for making a little time for us to talk to you about the uh science department's resource adoption proposal that you received hopefully a memo about um we i just wanted to kind of preface this by saying that i i have to hand it to the science team um they never once complained um at any point i think ever about their lack of resources or the fact that we
030were piloting resources in the middle of a pandemic um but you know they really just jumped in wholeheartedly um both feet first and stating back to 2019 is when we started piloting and since then they've just been troopers through the entire process i kind of outlined the steps and the reasoning for you know why we added on an additional resource to pilot this past year it really was just in response to the fact that we didn't want to be adopting a resource in the very middle of a pandemic but also because we had tried two of the initial resources and just kind of wanted to give one more a shot before we made any final decisions but mr payro was generous enough with his time tonight to talk to you a little bit about the
031fun stuff because i think with the amount of memos that you all receive um you know usually i think those are tend to be boring and mr payro runs a very fun classroom and he was willing tonight to talk to you about amplify which is the resource that we are um recommending for adoption can i can i put this in my pocket is that gonna that work anyways all right hi hi my name is adrian payro i've had your son you know me so um but so we did amplify this year we probably pi this is our third pilot we did uh iquest in the fall and then of course when when covet hit we did um carolina um and so covet we all think kobe's crazy but it's actually blessing in disguise because we
032were able to come up with amplify so what i kind of want to do is kind of run through a lesson the perfect the perfect part about amplify is all the work's done um which is great because i'll be honest with you i spent nights and nights and weekends building other stuff because of how kids work and how how they how what doesn't work and so when we got amplified it's all on a platform it also has all the google slides done and that's what my exciting thing and of course then i get to add my own little flare with it so it's broken down a bunch of different lessons but uh what we did as a sixth grade we actually did a microbiome lesson which is actually really cool um because it's just it
033was just just a different way to look at it and what's beautiful about uh amplify it gives a different lens i don't sit there and talk i know i have an awesome i always tell i sound like an angel everybody's like oh i love hearing your voice but i get tired of talking but the kids can do a lot of talking and so it really starts off with um the lens of a scientist you become they give a certain type of role for the students in this case and the first one is a research student you become the students become a research student student researchers for the micro research institute and the best part is this is all integrated into the powerpoint so if i keep going here there's actually a video dr nathan art
034here's a video that we take and the whole story is is that they want to take away research for a microbiome um that the little things don't matter the big thing so this is doc or this is senator naismith or mr naismith he's not a center yet um he wants to take away all the research for the little tiny things uh like like microbiome because germs just make us sick i want big things roads and buildings which is great now it's funny because kids like when i talk what's your reaction because this guy is an idiot and i said why he goes well because germs are important i said why and the best part is this colvit hit this is the perfect time to do covet because they already associate what we did and so
035what what is amazing about this is that it opened up so many questions and it was so cool to watch these kids grow with it um and so we go on and they get researcher roles um we always have we have a unit question there are 11 i had uh in this case we had a a jump start there's i think there's four how many i think it's like four four units but we have a giant overarching unit and this one is how how could having 100 trillion microorganisms on the human body keep us healthy and we just kind of talk about what's the difference it brings in the vocabulary it builds on vocabulary it builds on discussion questions and kind of there's a there's a means to an end so i just want to
036go we all the pictures and what organisms are i'm trying to go through this quick we have our vocabulary scale um but what's really cool it offers everything it's for you know ell it has spanish you can turn all the reading spanish for me i'm an auditory guy i love to be able to listen it has a lady who reads all the stories to them and we talk dr king was talking about nwa this i've seen a growth in kids of reading and writing that i haven't seen before because encompasses it encompasses that reading aspect into what they're learning so they're reading an article then they're applying skills what they've learned but not only like the information they regurgitate is how to develop a claim how to define evidence and how to support your evidence
037and and that's what's been really cool so of course i go through here and then we look at this and what's my favorite kid's like oh gross eyelash my thought but it sparks these and i like i don't know if you can see me underneath my mask i know it's camouflage it's hard to see i'm actually smiling because i get so excited because these kids get so jacked up about this that it's just so exciting and and this is the first i've been teaching this is my what sixteenth year and this is the first time i've been really excited about a curriculum and let's face it when teachers are excited kids are going to be excited when teachers don't want to do it kids are not going to do it and so i love teaching
038this i've had a great time teaching and i'm so proud of because we just started summative today so we've talked about kind of everything or we did something about last week what's today monday we did that on thursday excuse me um so once again we go here we go here and they have some sort of quick way it could be understanding a role of organism play and health and human body we discuss then they take what we've discussed questions they develop and put in some sort of writing so there's writing there's vocabulary and there's also a so what's great about this is they can click on here and it brings them right to the platform there's no jumping button they click on it brings the platform they do it then they submit it it's all
039right there and then we talked about here's where we ran into the trouble spent a lot of time with the kids that are are high that were remote let's face it science does not work remote you don't get the hands-on stuff but for me i was able to uh kind of manipulate stuff but then i realized like we were going to we finally got our boxes and realized that all the stuff was there but the coolest part is is they actually have a youtube channel every single lesson that i teach is online meaning any student that was missing or couldn't do that so we had hands-on stuff all i need to do is make the tool that they use and i just hey guys i love you i love what you're doing i want you
040to hit play you're going to listen to her and i'm going to teach them so they were able to listen and they were able to do their stuff by following the young lady that's on there and it's not a robot it's not a robot that talks like this it's actually a lady who has a very nice much nicer voice than me um so and they're able to sort and you have the exploring tools there's tools everything like that tiny breadcrumbs there's videos i think i'm going through this quick and then of course use the key characteristics and this all builds up so we start with key first key character we have 11 key characteristics and they keep getting harder and harder but the kids keep going but they all connect to each other and of
041course at the end they have some sort of reflection of dragon order from scale big to small things like that and then of course there's homework so some of the students don't like the homework let's just face it we all don't like homework but the homework to me is actually it's much more engaging because it's only five minutes it's not 15 minutes not half an hour not 45 it's five minutes kids can get down and students get done in class and they reflect and then they hit that submit button um so i as you know what i'm excited about and i really i really really really am excited about this and like i said i know i talked fast does anybody have anything to clarify the student work is a lot of it's online so
042they're submitting it to you online all online it's all like they do have a hard copy there is a they they built the website where you can actually download and you can you can uh you can print out everything um so there's that that aspect and then it's also i can send individual lessons so let's say i don't want i don't want to do i just want to do the homework i can actually push out the google classroom where the kids it just brings a link they can click on it and just go straight to there i did a summative where i just wanted to answer one question i only assigned that one question it's pretty easy to navigate students seem to like it i know sixth graders you know i'd like to say that
043my kids did really well um i also you know i'm a nerd when it comes to all this stuff so i was super excited and had the kids running up and jumping around and the worst part is not working together that was the hardest part but i think with when whole the whole whole culvert thing ends when they're able to have this discussion i'm really looking forward to just how it goes so anybody have any questions i want to share one thing with the board because typically um when we do an adoption we would we would meet with the board curriculum committee before even taking the first step to this board the issue this time was um with the change over and board last this last month and new committees we want to wait i
044want to wait till we got that switch done and but we couldn't wait till next month's do first reading because we've got two readings that'd be july we want to get stuff ordered and everything's set up for august so we chose to have the first reading now we're going to have a curriculum committee meeting soon and we'll kind of go into more detail the curriculum committee and then if if it all works out then the second readings when this would be approved so that's it's a little different how we normally do it but that's why love your enthusiasm yeah still excited about it but no it's fun yes no it's great i think it's great awesome um work did everyone on the committee feel the same way you do oh yeah i i would yeah
045i would say i mean there's it's what it excuse me uh what is it's different flair it's different styles so some people teach differently than i teach it's just really teacher preference and that's the best part about you can kind of adapt it we don't say this is the end-all be-all we do have come to find out amplify has a phenomenal customer service as in like you type it in and they fix it right away and we had a meeting with one of the reps and they showed us some other hands-on stuff um michael so we just did i should have brought one but i i didn't we actually did we built a culture uh today so we built we're growing bacteria and kids are doing it you know on the desk things like that
046so we're going to see how well our cleaning crew does with that um but so that that's that one of those outreach program of course it's really hard especially with microbiomes you can't send stuff home so my my i want to be clear because i mentioned about being online i don't want i guess explain that the the student work is online but there's a lot of hands-on that happens in the classroom there's tons a lot of hands-on depending on what you do okay so i know the eighth grade has forces of motion there's a lot more to do microbiomes is different because it's all microscopic um so something i would do looking at if we do adopt this is what can i do i mean microsoft there's a lot microscopes do like that but a
047lot of it's discussion and that's the real key is but it's it's deeper level thinking discussions where kids can actually think like a scientist not not like a sixth grader like like a scientist like okay why why because my goal ultimately as a teacher is just do this okay have a discussion and what i've been seeing is the confidence i'm like well i disagree i'm like yes the words so that's that's kind of the cool thing is i've seen them really um you know really really take ownership and that's what i want you know i want to be able to my ultimate goal is to sit back not sit at my desk but lean up against the walls okay let's have a conversation and watch them because that's ultimate learning is when kids kids take
048ownership and they start doing it themselves i know eighth grade worked they really worked on owning like the student it was more student-led i know miss hagan both mr gorlick were kind of support but the ultimate goal is for them to do it as well so yeah good i would want your closer back oh do you need the mic um speaking of the committee um so we did a survey and we had seven out of eight teachers complete the survey um and we were around like what did i say seven out of eight so five out of seven were totally on board and so we did meet with a couple teachers that had some questions and some reservations and their questions were mostly related to the amount of hands-on it depends on the unit so
049for example if we're talking about forces in motion the teachers were concerned that there wasn't going to be a human aspect and the ability to manipulate and to have those hands-on experiences but what we learned actually when we did the last meeting with the reps is there's a there's something called flex tensions that are offered so if a teacher is feeling like that that they would like some more hands-on their and this was a response from the company actually they created an extra set of um experiments hands-on activities that you can implement as a teacher so i think that helped um two of our teachers who are just having some questions about it help them feel a little bit more comfortable and um as a science team and i'll say this about any curricular area
050we're always going to be looking at what's available through the resource and what we need to do to supplement to make sure we're addressing the you know next generation science standards for in this example so our discussions with our plc over the next few years are going to be very involving in terms of you know is this what's best for kids this is what's being offered in amplify do you need something else to make this the way you want it to go with that um is especially going in junior high going across the cross cat there's a lot of ela we talk about annotating and things like that so that was the one thing i found with this one that's not that's different than all the other one is it brings in a lot more
051ela um bringing in like okay uh claim evidence reasoning what they use the same thing when reading uh non-fiction text romero was showing me the scaffold it supports for the writing process and again as mr pero said claim evidence reasoning they hear that in social studies they hear that in ela and now they're going to get a triple dose in science so in terms of reading and writing it's it's hopefully going to address some of the you know curricular areas that we we want to continue supporting to as well as the sciences so anything else i just wanted to publicly say thanks to mr payro again for donating his time and if you have any questions we're here to take them but thank you for your time too does the package you want to buy
052include everything yes the only thing it won't include are some of the very cheap consumables like plastic baggies that you know teachers might need or the little plastic petri dishes that are reusable are not reusable they're um consumable yeah so just things like that cotton balls i mean but it gets everything even the papers come with it so all the cards that we all student use which is funny because we just found them i think we i found them like dang it you already did it but we just found it um and they're great because i was cutting stuff out so they have everything but yeah it's more of the consumables that's about it how does that work if the teacher wants an extension so i can assign them um there's also some aspects where
053you can even go deeper level so if i have a more of a gifted student there's there's flex extensions that go farther into like you know a study that a student wants to do so i can send that out to them but i always like i said the coolest part is is the uh mr perry i need some help right here i want to watch this video and able to share the entire lesson with them and this goes on i think we have a discussion about what happens if kids are sick now there's no excuse they don't they don't miss uh even with substitutes we're not an iep meeting i usually have to set back there's no more busy work it's all okay we're going to do here's a science lab even the substitutes even
054i've had substitutes and they go this is so nice because all i do is have to to do the discussion the lady teaches it um and then i just leave the discussion so it works well and so now we have we don't have those missing days where if i you know i'm sick my kids are sick or i have iap meetings where i can just say okay you're gonna watch all these youtube videos and then have a discussion is the customer service support like limited at all is it unlimited it's it's on i believe it's unlimited it's a chat um i know that miss wolfe ramske was having an issue with a student um not being in she was able to hit there's a little bubble says how can i help you and you type
055in hey i need this and boom it was done it was done within five minutes um and then the amplify reps are phenomenal um they answer all our questions they've showed a lot of stuff and what what i realized they're constantly updating we talk about the flex extension one of the issues that people are having is like it's not hands-on and so they actually listen because it's always updating they're always creating more stuff and with it being online because i know when we did carolina carolina was a lot of hands-on stuff but it was textbooks it was this so the updating was a little bit harder for us to do but with amplify you know they're they're on there we've had a meeting with her the other day um yeah they do office hours so
056i can call and we got emails and stuff like that but it's awesome i really really enjoy i i'm personally excited i'm an excitable guy anyways but oh they like it for the most part some some it's too hard like well it's mostly it's supposed to be rigorous that's the point but what's great and i always tell my students is you can mess up you're allowed to mess up i said here's the thing if you ca and god really if you can if you have a claim that you make and you can support with evidence that's what science is you're constantly redoing your claim when you learn more things and it's amazing to see the students where they'll make a claim but then they'll change because i found more evidence what's even better is their
057summatives i have kids going back to the article that we read like three weeks ago and bringing stuff in and they've learned how to and like that's where that's where for me as a teacher i'm like i'm proud because they're going back can i use something like i'm not going to stop you from using evidence you find it you just make sure you give me a good reason and that's what's cool and you see a lot you know some of the students there's an issue with some students that just struggle um there's it is heavy it's reading uh we do have you know it's more when students are we had a lot more i'll be honest we had a lot more trouble with the the remote students because they didn't get me um because they're
058online um but getting kids in showing them how to work because i've had students online or students in class how do i do this okay check oh you can do that and you can annotate and like oh it's so easy so yeah the only complaint i saw because we did student surveys and the only complaint i saw was the homework yeah it is web-based no no i was always that's one of my biggest concerns but here's a good thing is that it you can also print it all off so if it ever goes down um but us teachers think on the fly so it's like oh it doesn't work sweet let's do something else so yeah so it does and like i said it does you have to adapt it to your teaching style i
059do paradex if you've ever done a paradigm it's an interactive slideshow and get kids voting and gets good but my favorite is oh it's gross we stopped looking at it i'm like take a look at this guys what do you notice but no so thank you very much thank you appreciate it appreciate it all right can i please have a motion to approve on first reading the adoption of amplify science curriculum for grades five through eight second go one more yes yes so for the next month we those materials are now available for anybody that wants to see them from the public if they want to analyze analyze what we're looking at adapting for kids and this will be implemented this fall yeah okay yep isp resolutions okay so uh vivian is currently our isb
060resolutions representative i don't know if that's gonna if you want that to continue baby you've been that since i've been here so i know it's only continue yes that's fine um we've never we've never submitted a resolution uh this is viv do you want to explain the process a little bit we have ashley and gary that are new um how this works or do you want me to so every year at the yearly conference we have a meeting and we vote on resolutions that other districts bring forth for isb to go to the state level and lobby for us as a school board members so what happens is you use your board policies to guide your work in the district so when you find policies that do not meet your i don't know what you
061want to do then you can propose changes to those policies at the state level because everything is governed by usually law somewhere in there so districts run into i don't know roadblocks because the policies don't work for them so you can propose changes and so that's what the resolutions are so you can write up a resolution we go we meet you can defend your resolution at the um at our annual meeting and then we take a vote there yes or no if we want uh iasb to go and lobby on our behalf to make changes to board policies because everybody's the hot one the hot one last couple years was the guns the guns guns was won yeah yeah that was a bad one yeah i think that was the one and when it passes
062it's not that the law has changed that they're they're going to lobby for the law to change yes what happened after the school shootings downstate schools made a case that police were so far away that they could not get to them in time for them to protect themselves so they were lobbying for teachers to be able to carry weapons at school and so when actually they came with all kinds of evidence about how they clocked how long the sheriff would take from neighboring counties to get to their schools so it's more of a safety thing for the downstate schools so that one didn't do you want to pass how like they come up with all those drafts and then we'll talk about them here yes so we will get a i will get a booklet
063um from isp with all the resolutions um for us to vote on so we vote here how we want to how we want whoever represents our district to vote at um a convention so they're all over i mean there's everything so it's laws change yes you know society changes i'll get that booklet sometime this summer i think yeah it comes right before conference though yeah not too long yeah yeah yeah i guess august september but it's all board policies anything in our book everybody pretty much has the same policies and they just vary sometimes by the needs of your district so if we ever wanted to make some changes to the law we can write a proposal then we have to go well i would have to go defend us at conference sounds good so
064i just got this so people are starting to write the resolutions now i just thought i'd put an agenda so we could talk about it if something if there's a big issue i'm guessing there's going to be some coveted issues that come out of all this there's a lot of interesting bills out there right now yeah i saw the one about teachers can just walk out their rooms they just passed the committee yeah yeah they can yeah they can literally just walk out one one that uh they're trying to get through right now is that the state in any kind of a it's kind of a year too late but they're saying like any kind of pandemic that the state's idph would be responsible for making the decision whether schools were open or not rather
065than leaving it to every district so there's stuff like that that's out there there's a lot of crazy bills out there right now so so some of the i imagine there'll be some resolutions that come out of the bills then but and have you heard anything about the consolid school consolidation one yeah one made it through yeah they're gonna uh there's one bill that was i think it's kind of lost some steam but forcing 25 percent consolidation for elementary districts and high school districts so that's in that's out there there's a lot of there's a lot of crazy stuff out there right now but it'll we'll see in the next few weeks where that pans out but anyway i want to get this out in front of you i don't have any big issues that
066i have on my plate that i think we need to write up a resolution but i just want you to be aware of it last two items on my report are summer office hours um seven to four monday through thursday we actually our staff's here until 4 30 but if we put 4 30 then we have people showing up right before they're ready to leave so we put four they'll be here to close it up and then 7 to 11 fridays 8th grade graduation i encourage you as a board if you can come that night all of you we have plenty of room we can park as many we have plenty of room in there the one reason i want to encourage you is that this is uh the second year we've done it at
067the drive-in and i want to get your thoughts on what you think after this year this will be a little more normal here and it won't be as tight as it was last year and the because pandemic was just starting we were you know people pretty well confined it'll be more of like an event this time so it'll be interesting to see how it goes and uh i'm excited for it and i would just like to get some feedback at the board like you know what we want to do in the future uh we want to bring it back to an in-person uh formal ceremony we want to keep it as like a graduation event so i encourage you if you're available come that night um we're opening at 5 30 but you don't necessarily
068have to come that early but uh it won't start until dusk so probably around 8 15. but from 5 30 8 15 the food's going to be there people will be taking pictures it'll be like they've got a lot of some fun stuff planned so will you survey the parents again we will yeah we will yep last year was overwhelmingly positive they wanted us to continue doing it so that's it for me all right other action items anybody have any questions on the education support staff handbook for 2021-2022 the main changes there were just updated salary increases for starting wages i think that might have been the only change okay please have a motion to approve the education support staff handbook for 2021-2022 motion second doug and vivian kevin on item b i have uh
069for our annexation agreement with bolo i have the mike maeves back here right mike and mike's ebola village manager if you have i have mike here in case there's any questions this is a big decision for the board we've been talking about it for several months uh you have the whole annexation agreement uh with you i know some uh there were a few cons are our school attorney has helped me go through this a few times we've been working closely with their attorney there are some issues i think from our billing grounds committee and you guys can help me remind me if you think of anything else i'm missing but i know one was what if the bids came in really high for installing the water line from the road to our campus um would
070we be locked into it and we've addressed that issue like basically um we would have the option i don't think this is going to happen because i really feel like the bid they're going to get is going to be because all the work is it's it's all the same it's all going to be happening at that time and so they'll be easy for them to come in and do it but i think it'll be the low bid but we could have the option to separate ourselves and make a decision whether we want to do it at that point so we're not locked in even though i don't i don't personally see that happening i think it would be probably most beneficial for us financially to do it while they're doing the construction there were some
071zoning issues we've worked through with the uh with volo they've been very easy to work with i think the way it's zoned right now is everything we are doing right now is and mike you can tell me if i'm off here um we're we're zoned everything is approved in their zoning if we were to ch if we were to add something outside of the purpose of what we're doing right now and i don't even know what that'd be like let's say we decided to put a starbucks on our campus that would not be that would not fit into the zoning because that's not school related activity that'd be correct mike okay so that was one of the issues i think we tried to work through but other than that i i think i think we've
072worked through any questions building grounds committee members is there anything that i've about the water cost the water cost um that was on my notes from the last meeting yes i estimated the water cost at i remember you giving us the cost but there was no cost certainty oh yes are we subject to the women what the village chooses to charge for water so that you want to explain that yeah the increases uh so ours couldn't go up higher percentage than we're a commercial customer and industrial customer and we we've got them all from the single family house to the uh national data center um everyone pays the same rate okay now the annexation includes the entire big hollow campus yes so i i understand i'm a policeman so i understand you guys just recontracted
073up with a lake county sheriff's office correct so if you were to choose to go with a different police agency what i guess my fear would be the service level that our our community our students would get from a smaller police department like a wakanda or anything like that compared to the resources available to the county so if you guys plan to change what sort of notice do we get well i mean any change would have to be determined by the village board it would probably involve some type of search process or rfp process for that it's really something that the board hasn't considered we've been with lake county sheriff's office for 16 years again just renewed a three-year contract which they're set to renew at their board meeting tomorrow so anything beyond that you
074know would have to go through some type of process there would be some sort of transition there i mean i guess my request is could the superintendent be part of that discussion process i understand the final decisions by the board but um i mean as a school in the district your village um i i would like to think that the 2000 kids that go to school here have some sort of say into what happens i mean as far as how that process would work i mean that would be up to ultimately up to the village board you know i can't i can't stand here and commit to say yes a school superintendent or yes a business a business owner or a corporate representative from a large corporation that would be in the village would have
075a say in how police services are contracted that would be up to the board and how they'd wish to wish to run that process but again any process would be a public process and there would be the opportunity for for input through that process okay any other questions for from mike they've been very easy to work with through the process i appreciate that there's a lot a lot to handle but i would recommend we move forward with it all right can i please anybody have any other questions okay let me think of what you're asking here so the yes yes so if we waited three years for what we would pay in water fees yes does that pay for itself the connection fee yeah i mean did you yeah the challenge will be that the
076cost of installation will go up because we're hoping to tap into while they're while they're constructing up fish lake road and doing all the construction work they dive in here the cost is going to be we think the cost will be less for us that's why we're jumping in now because we could we could wait um the uh probably probably three years of water payments would would make up for the connection fee roughly according to what mike had shared with me connection fee that we're saving was around a hundred thousand is what i i think you had shared with me you gave me a formula that was that i figured out it was right in that range was what we were not being charged um yeah our our uh i think the hard decision is
077that we don't have other than the fact that our fire suppression right now is not very good because we are relying on we have well water so we rely on tanker trucks to come in other than that you know the quality of our water is not great but it's not something that we have to fix you know like we could um so the is it something that we are in dire need of right now not not necessarily but the timing when they do the construction seems to fit for us just to get it done and improve our water quality for people on campus so right and we don't know how long our will will last either right i mean we don't want to waste the last year and need it done immediately and volo might
078say well it might take two years for the project and then we're we could eventually be out of water so that's another reason we're doing it because whales don't last forever necessarily and you see all the fire hydrants around they're not usable yeah yeah i saw that so yeah do any of does our tax rate change at all tax bill change for any of our people nope and i've had the question asked do we get more tax money too we don't this is just uh our our school boundaries don't change nothing changes in that regards either so does our address change uh eventually mike and i have talked about that eventually we would we i don't think there's going to be a rush to do that but uh eventually there you know could change to
079an ingleside address i'm sorry abolo yeah yeah i would say we'll definitely do that at some point here but i just don't want to change everything right now so all right anybody have anything else okay okay please you have a motion to approve the resolution for the annexation agreement with the village of volo motion second drug yes yes yes no yes all right anybody have any questions on the substitute teacher page can i please have a motion to approve the proposal to increase substitute teacher pay as recommended motion second yes yes yes yes anybody have any questions on the april employment report nope can i please have a motion to approve the april employment report motion second oh oh call yes yes yes yes yes yes all right we accepted a resignation of holly ascencio
080elementary fair professional effective may 28th we accepted a resignation of melissa mcmillan bus driver effective april 23rd we accept the resignation of dane shimitsu middle school paraprofessional effective may 28th no foia requests anybody have any requests on the monthly reports for the board any questions uh mr gold would like to formally invite the board members to the end of the year all staff meeting and lunch on friday may 28th from 10 to 12 30 p.m we have a guest speaker coming in who's going to be humorous and motivational trying to send everybody off on a positive note and then we're hoping to have some food trucks uh when he's done at about 11 30 have some food trucks in the parking lot just to have a lunch for staff uh the culture and climate committee
081talked about this i thought it'd be a good idea to send him off on a positive so that's you're more than welcome to come we'd love to have you and if somebody from the board would be bold enough to even say a few words you're welcome to do that to the staff so sorry gotta work the next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place monday june 14 2021 with closed session beginning at 6pm and open session beginning immediately after closed session ends no other business can i please have a motion to adjourn motion going vivian all in favor all right any opposed eyes have it thank you