001it's a Croco a thief here Falk present and Phil yes Nolan Papas here vote Gorman here we need a motion second to approve tonight's agenda so moved second Nolan yes Pappas yes Gorman yes all right please join us as we recite the Pledge of Allegiance indivisible with liberty and justice forever all right thanks to everyone coming out tonight nice beautiful day thanks for everybody at home watching Dr sir um thank you we have our CEO president with us tonight we have committee members thank you for coming out we have the administration present for various reports including the handbook and some school instrument plans so thank you for joining us tonight we'll move on to public comments we have a couple this evening uh Gene Meyer first no just hit the button there June okay so
002green light green light it doesn't really like to go down for a short person okay hello Gene Meyer Masters prepared registered nurse Christian I'd like to thank doctors Morgan Stern and Nolan for greeting me on my first and subsequent visits and today um Mr Gorman greeted me in a friendly way and that makes a difference in 1971 at age 11 I was called the sexless sixth grader I walked and dressed like a boy and I went through severe that's all capital letters emotional distress at puberty changes I'm sorry this is emotional leading to insomnia nausea social anxiety hair loss there was no one else in my school like me I am so thankful that I had no encouragement to decide my gender or change my gender because I got over it by early High School
003I was a quirky tomboy who accepted and celebrated my Womanhood I hope you can hear the love and compassion in my voice when I talk about these young people with gender dysphoria there are many young people who like me got over their dysphoria and are detransitioning studies show that youth who experience gender dysphoria often ultimately become comfortable with their birth sex so I was not unusual two young women in the news are 18 years old and are suing the California hospital system for mutilating their bodies at age 13 and 15 with bilateral mastectomies we consider this a tragedy when my mom had bilateral mastectomies for breast cancer having had her breasts removed at age 13 Layla Jane says nobody none of my doctors tried anything to make me comfortable in my body or meaningfully push
004back or ask questions they only affirmed why is it acceptable for 13 year olds to mutilate their bodies these young ladies want their breasts back now and they will never breastfeed a baby their body parts are gone this young man willfully castrated himself and had his penis removed three months ago he says I started this dream nightmarish hell that is sex reassignment surgery dilating as hell everything is sensitive or sore my leg movements are while better than before still pretty limited I feel constant stinging unburning Sensations pretty much around the clock in my crotch area this is probably the most suicidal I've ever been since I actually transitioned this vaginal Canal which is actually a blankety-blank open wound has given me nothing but Grievances and blanky to blank I'm tired of it I've actually been
005considering asking my surgeon whether or not it's possible to just close this pseudovaginal canal or just get rid of it all together I wish somebody had told me even just a third of what a hell ride this was going to be but nobody did and now I'm stuck with this nightmare I pretty much consider just stopping dilation the canal will shrink so what maintaining it is pretty much keeping my whole life prisoner of this thing while I don't like what I've read what I had before it still allowed me freedom for comparison this is like going from parole straight to solitary confinement this young man three years into post-sex reassignment surgery still having discharge and pain I find life very draining these days I have to clean my vagina with isobatadine to keep smell away
006and to keep the discharge at Bay I have to dilate once a day still I should have thought things more carefully through I thought sex reassignment surgery was a wonderful end point to a difficult Journey it opened up a whole other can of worms I could have I I wish I could have just had the vagina closed up at this point I don't see myself ever having sex again either way I know I should be grateful for having had a surgery of 22 thousand dollars for free paid for by the government but I feel lied to I feel stupid encouraging young people to decide their gender and begin transitioning without parental consent is not what the vast majority of we the people of this school district want making special groups of people is divisive it's
007not inclusive we want academics taught in the school district not social engineering it's Marxism I will be praying for each one of you thank you all right next week Dave Chapman uh good evening uh on behalf of CA I would like to thank you Dr Stern for your years of service I know you've held many different roles throughout your time here from Principal all the way to superintendent so we appreciate all your time and commitment over the years in the district also as a union we would like to wish you the best in your next chapter in life so enjoy retirement thank you thank you all right next up Mike McMahon hey John Mike McMahon I'm just going to talk with trustee for Plato Township um there's been a few things um that I'm a
008little concerned about that the board doesn't really talk to the township very much a lot of communications aren't very good and um you know I we had an issue at the at the township or excuse me at the county the other day with um solar panels and the dispute was with citizens not wanting them citizens wanting them and so on and so forth and as I sat there I said you know this is right next to where you guys wanted to put the school and it's probably not the best place for school we kind of decided a lot of people decided that apparently why don't you think out of the box a little bit I thought there's no reason the school couldn't have said hey Solar Company maybe we can use this cup use this
009and get some Revenue out of this for 25 years I mean come on let's start thinking out of the box and talking to the township as well we have ideas that all right let's move on to action reports you need a motion a second to discuss and approve the consent agenda so second so in your board packet you have the revenue expenditure reports revenues are currently at 52.41 compared to 52.28 a year ago expenditures are at 70.69 compared to 66 66.48 a year ago um this past month we received 134 362 dollars in Impact fees for 17 home starts um and no transition fees also included is the bills payable report for Central and Northern Kane both are typical in in the month of June we're wrapping up the school year um so there's a
010lot of there's a huge volume of them we're preparing for next school year for anything that we can get shipped and get in before the end of the year and then included in there I always try to point out some of the bigger payments so you have bond interest payments for 462 thousand dollars you have Chromebooks and monitors for about eight hundred and two thousand dollars and then we've got some the final construction bills for the new Transportation Maintenance building of 343 000. um and then also um Central 301 was awarded a fy23 digital Equity formula grant last year we did not qualify because we were in tier two but because we moved to tier one there was another round of funding that came out so this year we did qualify for it um it's
011an Esser funding so it's a one-time shot we were awarded 1.5 million dollars and it's more for technology use so in a in a sense some of these grants were trying to get schools to be oneed one one-to-one and because we were already done with one to one we couldn't capitalize on a lot of these grants so we've always we're kind of watching to make sure if there was ever something that we could use I mean we tried and we kept questioning could we use it for the next cycle because we're always cycling them and that was because we're already one-to-one we couldn't so some of our other Kane County Schools got to get that based on these funds so this one it was similar but we were able to get some other technology things
012so we actually talked to the state and found some things that do qualify that technology wanted to get done in the next maybe five years so we're able to push that up and some of it's the wireless connections between all of our schools Network switches and firewalls so it's kind of locking down security and things that they've been wanting for a while and eventually we're going to need we're just going to use this money for it when does it have to be used by um June of 2024 so the grant was 1.5 in each there's three parts and they're about five million 500 000 each so it gets you to that 1.5 um yes so we're just getting quotes and getting the best prices and trying to figure out what we want I mean they've
013already had their wish list so the work's been done has just kind of been waiting for the go um so now they got to go good which frees up our this from our own local funds so great the motion second to discuss and approve the middle school overnight track trip I'm sorry okay Falk yes info yes Nolan yes Pappas yes a thief yes Gorman yes second to discuss and approve the middle school overnight track trip so move second so um this is a trip that we mentioned last month's meeting we missed the board packet because of the the weekend before the board meeting is when they qualified for state of course the board agenda was already posted so we couldn't take action on it because it was within the 48 hours so that's why it's
014spring grew up forward now um along with the next action item as well all right hemp film yes Nolan yes pepis yes a thief yes both yes Gorman yes you motion second to uh prove the boys overnight track trip all right Nolan yes Pappas yes a thief yes Falk yes Hemphill yes Gorman yes we won vet agreement so any motion second to discuss and approve that affiliation agreement second and these are annual agreements have to be renewed annually for any um of course new clinics and then existing ones so that our students in the Veterinary assistance program can receive their externship hours all right Pappas yes a thief yes bulk yes Hemphill yes Nolan yes Gorman yes any motion a second to discuss and approve the refuse bill did someone Jack so um the bid
015went out to four different companies uh we usually do a two-year bid for our refuse um we got two back Groot and um Lakeshore recycling systems group came in with the lowest responsible bid um they had our current vendor so it would be almost no change so we recommend that you accept this bid and then there's a recap in the services agreement is attached all right yes Falk yes Hempfield yes Nolan yes Pappas yes Gorman yes second to discuss and approve the financial depositories second so this is an annual um an annual thing that we have approved every year we do it in June so you'll see a bunch of annual things come through here um these Old Second Bank and the Illinois funds the state treasurer's investment pools where we currently have all of
016our money um I always leave PMA Securities on there they did do our referendum money they gave me a better rates for that so these were the three that we're recommending from the new school year a thief yes Falk yes hemp film yes Nolan yes Pappas yes Gorman yes are you in a motion in second to discuss and approve the Student Activity fund treasurer come on second um another policy to sure um a year or two ago we moved all of our accounting for the bank Rex check request everything funnels through the accounting department now which it never used to um and so since I have treasure I'm Treasury and I'm bonded then that makes sense to appoint me to be the charger for it and then in the memo I listed all of the
017admin assistants that do all the legwork at the school so like Amy Rodriguez would be at the high school so they would put the PO in get the order from the thing put the POS in they get approved by you know their supervisor and then it comes to us to do all the legwork Central Middle Schools to be determined because they're in the process of hiring a new admin assistant Danny do you want to address why uh two of the schools aren't listed and two of the schools don't have activity accounts so we'll be another memo once CMS gets her the assistant are we voting on you're really voting on me being the treasurer this was just more information for you I can share with you who the new hire is but yeah we'll see
018you right all right Mandy folk yes Hemphill yes Nolan yes Pappas yes a thief yes Gorman yes we're gonna hear the motion in second to discuss and improve the audit committee so moved second so each year the Border points two board members to basically take phone calls from our Auditors they like to just um have a quick phone call it doesn't take very much um they would do it both for Northern Kane and for Central last year was Falk and Nolan and then Nolan Gorman the year before that so um I just need two volunteers I'll do it I'm happy it's a three minute phone call I'm happy to do it okay I'm Phil yes Nolan yes Pappas yes a thief yes Falk yes Gorman yes like Sydney Ocean second to discuss and approve the
019business approved business manager fluke and Dr mongan to be prepared for the tentative budget second so this is uh school code requires us to designate people the recommendation is myself and Dr Morgan it's kind of a team effort from a bunch of Administrators admin assistants we have Athletics we have payroll we have a big group of people that input on it so it's a pretty massive undertaking and um yeah your excitement is palpable more to come in August right right yes M Phil yes Gorman yes next to motion second required to discuss and approve the Resolute resolution designating interest in the Education phone operations and maintenance fund that Transportation fund working cash funds second so the board of education is required to approve this resolution in the four main funds which um Mr Garmin just
020the Ed fund o m transportation working cash funds and basically it gives us the flexibility to transfer this interest to other funds that might need it if that time arises in the future all right papis yes a thief yes folk yes some Phillips yes Nolan yes Gorman yes promotion second required to discuss and approve the resolution authorizing payment of custodial maintenance salaries and utilities so I moved second so in the isby budget normally operation and maintenance salaries and utilities are paid out of the education fund so it has been our history that we've always done this resolution to be able to pay custodial the maintenance and benefits or the salary benefits and the utilities in the O M fund which is where all of the other their expenses are but does require an it does
021require a resolution yep a thief Falk yes and Phil yes Nolan yes pepis yes Gorman yes they would need a motion a second to discuss and approve contracts with homeless vendors that exceeded a thousand dollars in net revenue so moved second and this is my last one for the night um so this one is for vendors that we do fundraising with that we net more than a thousand dollars worth of profit or we anticipate not that we will but um so it's all the same vendors as before um the mattress company that the football team used to do we took them off because there's no plans to do that in the future or this next year and then we added Scholastic Book Fairs so in the past some of the ptos have handled that a
022lot of the schools have taken that back in a lot of it in the past when they had the book fair the money would come back as a credit for more books but this year we were they were taking the cash and then using it for other things around the building so um so that's why I put it on here because they could net more than a thousand and some of them like Lily Lake they may or may not make it but in CMS it depends but at least they're on here yeah all right a thief yes Paul yes Hemphill yes Nolan yes happens yes Garmin yes any information items principal Christine Barr we'll share a presentation regarding pv's School Improvement plan hello everyone I'm just going to connect real quickly to the display all
023right okay this is my inaugural board presentation so I'm I'm excited about this this is this is good so I think my my parents are watching on the the YouTube channel so it's like my my uh eight minutes of fame here I know so it's good so I just wanted to uh first of all thank you so much it's it has been an amazing year at Prairie View we've had so much fun and I just want to share a little bit about what what happened to this year is our year in review so the agenda that I have planned for this evening is the theme of our year I want to talk about that which was our moments some student progress social emotional learning our attendance and then looking ahead to next year the theme
024for our Prairie View was our moments and it was based on the book The Power of Moments by chip and Dan Heath and so I I love this book for for several reasons it focuses on creating and celebrating the meaningful moments that will be remembered and so you know as you know as Elementary as you you know you've had elementary students or currently have them you know they they think about all those fun things that they do at school and those are the things they're going to remember um while we are you know also focused on their student growth we also want to focus on how you know just the power of moments so the staff was all given this book at the beginning of the school year that they were able to read if
025they if they chose to and then um we had a bulletin board so when you walked into our front hallway there was a bulletin board that said PV moments and so throughout the year we posted pictures of everything that happened during the year and the kids love to be able to see themselves so some of the moments that we had were this is just a sampling of them the first one and I think the most important was that we welcomed 100 students from hbt the the Twisters Twisted into PV and so we had an event at the very beginning of the school year that welcomed all of them so they could come in and get to know their school and feel part of the PV Community right away some of the other events that we
026had were PTO events the Fall Fest the VIP and me in the coyote crawl we have a really strong PTO at Prairie View which I'm really proud of and they do a lot of great work for all of us we had our family literacy night our Book Fairs and um a very moving Veterans Day assembly where the kids all participated and were able to create some really great moments for our our veterans that we had invited we had 100 day of school I think a really interesting uh numbers that we included in our moments was that our librarian checked out 33 031 books throughout the course of the school year so that's a lot of books in in kids hands to read and we also served 46 474 lunches so I think that's really interesting
027facts to and to include some of the great moments that we had so now it's our moment to learn our student progress one of our goals at Prairie View was to increase our percentage of students achieving three by three so students at third grade reading at a third grade level we had over a third of our students who achieved this metric one of the things that I'm really proud of with this district is that we set the bar really high for our kids and our kids achieve it and so we are as you can see from the the data from the bar graph that we had growth in almost every grade second third grade had substantial growth which was absolutely fantastic with the implementation of the new inter-reading curriculum the the teachers embraced it and
028the kids embraced it you know it's something new so we're all learning together as we went through this and they did a great job at the at the end of September with our weekly assessments which is one of the data metrics that we used to um to measure the three by three the students overall K-5 had an average score of 66 percent on the the weekly assessment by the end of May we were at 75 of that was our score and so that was um we had uh the metric was 80 of our students achieving at 80 on the weekly assessment so we just we just almost made it which I'm so proud of them because we made so much growth um so it was really great to see and I'm really excited about moving
029into next year now that we've all had a taste of this interreeding curriculum and know how great it is for our kids and the teachers have embraced it they're going to really do a great job next year for a 5x5 that was another goal that we had this year 43 of our students achieved the 5x5 one of our data metrics that we used to measure this is the our common unit assessments and those are the assessments that the kids take on Otis I'm at the end of a math unit at the beginning of the school year the unit 1 the average score um sorry 62 percent of our students achieved 80 or higher on on that unit test by the final unit assessment 78 of our kids were achieving at 80 or higher so I
030think that's really fantastic growth we also implemented a new spring math intervention this intervention allowed for kids to have authentic math conversations and so it was really fun to go into the classrooms and listen to them talk about math and teachers could hear what the kids were actually thinking and how they were processing through through their math scores I'm sorry through their math problems by the end of the school year the final screening that we did in the spring we had 80 to 100 percent of our students achieving at um on target for their for their grade level instructional level so those are really fantastic numbers and I I think you know you can see that all students in all grade levels grew and I really attribute that to the great teaching of course that
031goes on and then also um just to the new intervention that just helped to solidify some of those math skills that that the kids um we're using the next section that I want to talk about is Our Moment to grow and our social emotional learning our goal this year for social emotional learning was to decrease the number of office referrals from unstructured areas so the cafeteria the playground the hallways the restrooms we did have a decrease in incidents in the cafeteria the gym and the bus but we also had an increase in a playground in hallway so I I think that for the hallway you know any given moment we could have over 100 Kids moving through the hallway so there's bound to be something but those two spots are definitely on my radar for
032next year are those total referrals for the whole year um correct yeah yeah and this was an interesting piece of data I looked at our discipline our office referrals um over the past uh from 2020 on and in last year we had 615 students as our enrollment we had 13 of students um overall discipline incidents this year we had 100 more students and we only had nine percent of incidents so that's a 31 decrease in our discipline incidents for this year and as you notice in 2020 um to this year we are actually lower than what our 2020 uh numbers were and obviously that 2021 that is the year that we were in school during the hybrid so there was there weren't as many opportunities for office visits during that time and then um we
033had a slight increase in well a significant increase in 2022 but it's come down and so I'm really proud of you know our kids and um my assistant principal Mr peretta he brought this year restorative practices that we implemented and that has really been fantastic for um for our kids so one of the things that I attribute to our decrease in the cafeteria office referrals is our golden spatula and our Cook's choice and um so those are the kids I actually bought a golden spatula to um to show you know for the kids to to really get excited about but it was a a good opportunity for them to practice our be respectful be responsible and be safe in the cafeteria and then the cook's Choice Award is something that a student could be awarded
034if they were you know observed being exceptionally good following our rules they would get a Cook's Choice and then it could go into a drawing for the playground we implemented zones supervision and that's something that we're definitely going to carry over into the next school year and Beyond um the teachers signed up for zones and they were able to observe and you know monitor those areas it also let the students know that there was always an adult close by no matter where they were playing on the playground there was someone that they could go to some of our other methods that we have for our our school for our SEL is our Three B's so the be respectful responsible and safe and then we have posters that are uh that talk about what that looks
035like in different areas of the building so the cafeteria hallway restrooms there's all those visuals that are are around so that is definitely something we will continue to carry over to make sure that our kids feel safe and um and that they know what the expectations are and those are reiterated you know throughout the course of the the day and and the school year something new that we did this year that I was excited about was the student ambassadors so teachers were able to nominate students from their class who they thought would be really great leaders and so we met once a month and we had lunch and the kids were very instrumental in talking about ideas that they had and they were like they were really good like you know boots on the ground
036like what's actually happening out on the playground and they you know they were happy to tell you and so it was really great to to have that and um the kids were just they were so proud and they just really stepped up and it was so great to observe them being leaders you know outside of our our once a month lunches they were observed in the hallways being leaders and um cafeteria so that was really that was great we also implemented the everyday speech and then the Satchel pulse and that everyday speech the teachers could utilize and implement it within their classroom and then the Satchel pulse screener that gave us an opportunity to um you know find out if there were some kids who needed some additional support that we could we could help
037out with so we identified some kids and were able to get them maybe some supports that they that they needed so our moment to shine attendance so overall Prairie View has a 94.17 attendance rate which is great um however we also had 88 of students who were regularly present but 12 percent of students who are chronically absent um you can see from this chart that the EC and kindergarten had the highest rate of chronically absent students and then fourth grade had the lowest level a lot of our absences were due to vacation or illness or doctor's appointments we had a lot of we still had a lot of covid at the beginning of the school year and then you know all those uh like stomach bug that type of thing that we saw throughout the
038course of the year that that land of kids at home for for several days this year I want to really address the importance of making sure that all the kids are at school all the time um you know obviously there's things that are out of our control out of the kids control and that's that is definitely okay but I'm going to address you know through parent uh parent information through newsletters encourage involvement through volunteer opportunities and then also begin a parent advisory committee this year now moving forward exceeding expectations our theme for next school year is we all belong and this was inspired by our diversity equity and inclusion Institute day that we had in March I I was so inspired by the speaker that we had um and he referenced a book called belonging
039and it's a fantastic book about making sure that everyone feels like they belong and that's what we want that's that's the one of the beautiful things about public school is that we we include everyone and so I want so the kids are you know everybody belongs at at Prairie View the areas of focus and the goals that I have for next year are to increase the overall attendance rate and then decrease The Chronic absences and I already laid out roughly how I would do that for ELA I want to have 44 of our kids achieving at three by three 50 of our students achieving five by five and then for SEL we're going to continue the trend the downward trend of the office referrals with a focus on our playground oops whoops okay that's all
040I have thank you so much thank you thank you all right thanks [Applause] all right next we have the PK um School Improvement plan presentation you guys got all the slides in here [Laughter] good evening uh I will do everything in my power to be punctual and efficient but uh my name is Mister that's for sure my name is Mr Matt newquist I'm the proud principal of prairie Knolls Middle School uh joining me this evening are Ms Megan minehart and Mrs carry allstat our assistant principals from this past school year um and yes I do have a bit to share to celebrate the hard work from our students and teachers from this past school year um this picture uh was taken within the first couple weeks of the school year you see a lot of
041uh really happy Expressions ready to get the school year off to this good start and I would like to share or showcase I don't know if the volume will work hopefully it does [Music] we've been up to this past weeks [Music] here [Music] 's pictures foreign [Music] I do have to know any cuteness in this presentation all credit goes to Miss Megan meinhardt so at the start of our of our school year the three of us honed our focus on three areas School connectedness achievement and special populations and that's what I'll highlight with you this evening uh first school connectedness uh so as a first year principal and somebody that throughout my own educational background it was important to me quite frankly to my parents to make sure that I was always involved in something
042um so I still remember one of the first days the three of us got together uh Megan and Carrie looked at me and said Matt what do you want kids at PK to feel and I said when they walked through that door I want them to feel accepted and included and to be part of something so from our end one of our big pushes was to get kids as involved as humanly possible and that is with our clubs and activities um now you'll see the GPA is up there now as a principal I wanted to see if there was a connection between um you know student achievement and being engaged engaged in the building now it wasn't really a surprise to me that you know students that were involved in star student council PEP Club
043or band yearbook Art Club Dei and the principal advisory committee finished off with 3.43 GPA cumulative throughout the entire school year that that's good what really did surprise me though is the average GPA cumulatively for a PK student was at 3.3 so I think that's something to be said about just the students that go to our school they're very motivated academically and they get their stuff done because they've got good teachers and great support at home specific to activities and clubs um I want piece that I took away from this year was we brought back the art club which we had 44 students participate that in that throughout the duration of the school year the addition of the diversity equity and inclusion club which we really got off the ground second semester we capped that
044uh with a really good opportunity for the 15 members of the Middle School Dei Club to meet with the panel of high school students and you know in my opinion once the adults kind of stepped away and we stopped talking and we just let the kids mingle I can't think of a better word but just just to see those can actions being established was just really cool for lack of a better term and something that we really want to prioritize as we move forward other school-wide events we noted Comic-Con already pentathlon uh virus day our science department does a great job with that uh Veterans Day that's something as soon as I set foot in uh on PK's campus a couple years ago I knew that this community um and the school took a lot
045of pride in we do a great job with that uh Falcon day at the end of the year and then Falcon Fest which is kind of turned into more of a district event where we invite and embrace our fifth grade families to come in to learn about everything that goes on at Prairie Knolls opportunity to meet with administrators but let's face it kids don't want to talk to me they want to meet the teachers they want to see what they can get involved in that's the opportunity for that it also gives our seventh grade students an opportunity to meet and connect with Central Middle School administration as well so it's important that we continue to keep that going um I'd be silly if I didn't mention our social emotional learning team that we have at
046Prairie Knolls um it's really led by members of our student services team being Mr Charles Brooks and Ms Kayla kapetsky we also have a host of teachers that are very passionate about social emotional learning and we've got a couple of Administrators that'll weigh in as well but goals this year were self-awareness self-management mental health and teamwork in terms of mental health uh mental health month October 2nd through October 8th we had members of our well I'm sorry that's a week we had members of our CL team uh come into the main office and take the PA microphone away from me and provide some tidbits of information to our students and staff they also presented some opportunities for some mini lessons to be had during task towards the end of the day so that was very
047important uh that visual on the right Mr Charles Brooks has a knack for technology and what he does is he invites members of our staff down to Student Services where we perform voice-overs for animations and instead of you know somebody like me coming in to talk to kids during lunch or in a class uh Mr Brooks will work quite frankly very hard to create about a two-minute video where we share with teachers and they share with their students during task my guidance for our teachers is guys simply watch this and then it's going to organically turn into a very good conversation with students during that 36 minute period that's been a real winner for us over the last two years lastly teamwork the visuals uh up on the projector right now that is when our
048SEL team partnered with our math department and I really enjoyed popping into classrooms on this day because the task was to uh take a dry erase marker work with two or three of your friends in class here's some string and I want you guys to figure out how to write the word teamwork on a desk without touching it with your hands so our Math teachers did a wonderful job as did our scl team making this work for our kids really understand what teamwork was all about Falcon Athletics as a washed up College athlete I do have a soft spot for athletics we did have a very successful year in the ncjc conference we were highlighted by some first place finishes with girls cross country girls track and field wrestling finished in second place boys cross
049country and second and our Scholastic Bowl team finished second as well and instead of talking about her or showing um just a picture I like to show Miss lariah Cunningham Duncan with her State title jump of nearly 17 feet that brought home that for PK so certainly um some pride there and I think you know in addition to just really talking about uh the student athlete there I thought one of the um coolest things I saw uh when she got back to school was her math teacher Mrs japlin um you know I didn't really know what was going on because as I was walking through the hallways I just saw a bunch of kids talking and you know not yelling but being boisterous and I walked by that seventh grade hallway and Mrs jacklin's like
050oh come here come here come here and the doors open and you can see she's got a starting line and then she's got it marked off where loriah actually jumped to so every student that walked in that classroom was like this is what she did so I was just like that that's just really cool and I like how we celebrated that um so that was great so that was PK Athletics and now I'm going to turn things over very quickly to Miss Megan minehart all right so one of our goals is obviously to see continued academic improvement in our students so one of the ways that we focused on that this year was really having some conversations about data using that data to drive our instruction so we were able to offer 13 different professional
051development opportunities for our staff members a lot of this was in connection with our instructional coaches some of these were on like Embark Otis student engagement and then just overall data analysis as a whole um we met with our Ela and math department namely and then met as a entire staff to go over our iir growth percentages kind of having that conversation of how many students are meeting and exceeding standards comparing ourselves you know what does it mean when we're comparing ourselves to the state you know what you know what metric is that how are we doing in comparison to neighboring districts as well it's really great to see that we are outperforming most of our neighboring districts and schools so our goal moving forward now that we are seeing such success is now to
052move towards that mtss model ideal um so that's our goal for staff moving forward so we've been working continuously on Embark and Otis we have six different subject areas that are fully completed with Embark and have all of their common Assessments in Otis so that's really exciting we're starting to see kids you know diving into Otis utilizing all those features things like that um Embark obviously was a big um Focus point for us we had some teams seeing growth as high as 68 of getting their Embark uh completed so our next goal is working on 100 100 completion of all common assessments into Otis and then fine-tuning and wrapping up Embark you know that'll be a continuous Improvement as we keep moving um our final you know next year looking forward is looking at rigor
053and Alignment trying to make sure that we are increasing that rigor trying to align with our standards to see that progression with iar and then also alignment from sixth grade to fifth grade and the alignment from Seventh to eighth grade as well so projected on the screen now you'll see our 2022 2023 iar data and what this displays is the percentage of students that meet or exceed on the iar so receive a four or a five on those math and Ela tests now we chose to display this via cohort so the class of 2029 that would be our last year sixth graders in the class of 2028 uh last year's seventh graders and it's important to note you know how many or the percentage of students that met or exceeded as fifth graders and then
054on to sixth grade so you'll see with our class of 29 in fifth grade they were at 46.4 percent meatwork seeds as sixth graders 4467 in ela 54.1 as fifth graders to 65.26 as sixth graders uh class of 28 45 4 as 6th graders forty five seven four as seventh graders and then 55 6 to 64.08 as 7th graders what do we do with this information well aside from just sharing it with our teachers we use it to lay the foundation for how we're going to attack next year and I don't use the word attack lightly our teachers are very motivated because of the excellent work they've done on Embark and Otis we are able to analyze our data from the common assessments that have been approved and that are in Otis to really take
055a peek at it as a group and get better and our teachers are motivated to do that now I'll turn it over to Mrs Kerry Alstead who will touch on our special populations hello everyone so a big thing that we did this year was to implement a change with our co-teaching what we really focused on was moving from what we had been doing which officially is called one teach one assist to a new more inclusive way of working with our students so to explain one teach one assist was basically having the classroom teacher do the instruction the special education teacher be in the classroom to help random students throughout the lesson to pop around the classroom instead of doing that we wanted to more fully capitalize on the experience and the expertise in the classroom
056and had both of those Educators really working with all of the students in a more Hands-On direct way so we went through a lot of training at the beginning of the year and put a lot of changes in place with our staffing to allow us to switch to a more true co-teaching model so throughout the day on any given day you may see the classroom teacher and the special education teacher maybe dividing up the classes and taking half the kids to this side of the room or to that room you know next door or back to this bedroom you know they're going to be mixed together you're not going to know which one is a sped student you're not going to know which one is a sped teacher they just have the class divided in
057half to work on the concept that they're learning you may have one of the teachers maybe the general education teacher pulling a small group aside while the special education teacher continues with the lesson and then working with that small group on a concept they're maybe struggling with or maybe they're just bouncing ideas off of each other kind of doing more of a teaming or complementary teaching with both of them kind of leading the lesson as they go throughout the day in doing these changes yes how did our how did our sped teachers I mean that's a big it is I'll get to that no I see the data I'm about their comfort level I know I'll get to that I knew you were going to ask that Eric I'm all over that gotcha no worries
058all right so First Data is it working so what we um are measuring this with is the percent of students who are meeting their IEP benchmarks each quarter so you can see in the blue what uh the students were at last year in the red with what they are this year so in all four of our main areas that impact those special education teachers we saw an increase so that was great news for us it showed us what we were doing was working granted we're not at 100 so we can always keep working to get better but to Eric's Point how did the teachers handle it because yes that is a huge shift um throughout the year it was a big shift for our general education teachers for our special education teachers for all of
059us we did a lot of talking about this we had a lot of conversations a lot of really honest conversations about feelings and how they were handling these changes um as a general education teach teacher you are welcoming someone else into your most Sacred Space that was very big change for them like oh you're going to come in here and see what I do all day every day and and I'm gonna have to let you see how I teach and you're really opening yourself up um so that was a huge leap of faith for for all of our staff but what I have here is just a couple um quotes from both of our special education and general education teachers about how um it went so pardon me for reading this but I know it's
060hard to see um from the back so I feel co-teaching was successful for both the co-teachers and students this past school year as a special education teacher I feel that both my co-teacher and I learned valuable insight into teaching all students the use of scaffolding and differentiation was really put to the test and we learned through trial and error what works best for our students I enjoyed having more participation within the general education setting and feel that having two teachers helped in most lessons students had more opportunities for small groups one-to-one check-ins movement and change of pacing some could work ahead with one teacher versus those who needed more review overall I enjoyed co-teaching and look forward to building on with my co-teachers um another staff member said that co-teaching gives the students an opportunity
061to learn at a deeper level and help students who struggle to keep up with the pace by breaking the information down more when working in small groups it offers a fresh perspective from the sped teacher point of view and they can bring in more ideas on how to differentiate and our last teacher said that the co-teaching model is a wonderful opportunity for the following reasons individualized support and interaction for students with and without accommodations collaborative opportunities and peer interactions to enhance comprehension and mutual respect building trust and competence in facilitating their academic and social growth and students willingness to take risks in a more supported learning environment and broader attention to students by having two Educators willing to try various teaching and learning approaches with them does that answer your question Eric okay thank you
062you're welcome giving teachers who expressed interest with the model shift that would like that we're open to saying I'll take on as one as a new co-teacher let's say somebody to monitor different sections so we've chosen to keep all of the Staffing the same maintain the same yeah we just started we want them to kind of roll with it uh the way that it was described to me and one of the trainings I had gone to a year or two ago was it's like a marriage you're going to have your honeymoon period where you're trying to both be nice to each other and play nice in the sandbox and then you're gonna realize oh we're stuck with each other here we both have to figure out how to get along and you're going to have
063your fights and your arguments but then you're going to learn how to live together so everything that they've told us and recommended through our training is to have them try to stay together as long as possible but that being said we are actually going to have two new Jenna teachers and two new sped teachers that's coming here just two shifts in other areas yep great question though um the other big shift we had this year in special education was to expand our continual Continuum of education at PK by adding the Aspire program so what we have done I have listed here with the bullets we have our Genet classes then supporting those we have our code talk classes that I just described a step below that we have our self-contained classes for ELA and math
064what we've added in now at PK is our Aspire program advancing student performance and reaching Excellence which is a lead in from the Star program at hbt to uh most likely the life skills program for students at the high school not necessarily but that's the the piece that we were missing was for those students to progress from elementary to high school so we are housing students in sixth through eighth grade so if a student were in the program for eighth grade instead of going to CMS they would stay at PK uh these are students who have intellectual or Global severe learning disabilities they receive a specialized instruction at their level in ela math science and social studies most likely the day is set up so there is the opportunity for students to move to a
065different level within the building so for example this past year we had a student who actually was in gen Ed math but he was in the Aspire program for all of his Ela science and social studies so it does have that ability to really meet their specifications customized yes um and so the reason we um had that put in place was that we really did not show that what we had without this program was meeting students needs um who were at this level they were really struggling with the programming that we were using for the self-contained classes uh so we really wanted to add another level in to better support their needs and to fill in that gap between Elementary and high school and as you can see the programming that we're using there um
066is also working very well uh the blue that you see those are the quizzes that they take with their Ela reading selections and then the red is what they're getting on their Ela tests at the end of each unit those tests are they're hard they're really hard even for uh you know our I'm sorry our self-contained students so that is something that we're always continuing to work on it's a change between having a passage that they are familiar with and used to on the blue on the selection quizzes to having a cold read a test that they're a passage they've never seen before so it's something that's a struggle for them but we're still working through um and then the math curriculum that we've implemented this past year focusing more on number sense has worked
067really well for the population as well foreign thank you for your time uh thank you Dr Stern Dr mongan for your leadership this year and most importantly thank you to Carrie and Megan for helping a first-year principal uh get to the finish line thank you very much guys [Applause] we have the elementary handbook changes yay okay with Kim Lewis oh is that Kim um I know that's how it was listed I know yeah surprise we have Kim Lewis okay okay all right well good evening as dee pointed out I'm Kim Lewis I'm the principal at hbt um Teresa kolkelbeck is um the one that had done all of this work so I cannot take credit for it she put in a lot of time um to get this completed for tonight um but I'm here
068to present for her um because she was unable to attend so in your board packet there's a memo with a lot of changes in them most of the changes that we made are to align with the middle school and high school handbook as we look back at our handbook and started to compare the high school had done a huge revision a couple years back and there was not alignment with elementary school so many of the revisions um that you'll see in that memo are a result of just trying to align some things with the middle school and high school and then other components that Teresa worked on was aligning unless the board policy and making sure that what we have in the handbook aligned so anything that you see on that memo that is related
069to those two things I'm not really going to go over because you're already aware of those changes as they've been made in in previous years the two big ones that I um wanted to touch on has to do with our electronic devices policy on page 26 and that was really a change to add in smart watches when we're talking about cell phones and other electronic devices these smart watches have become a very big thing at the elementary level and have become a distraction so we've added smart watches in and align that with our cell phone policy so they will be treated just like they are our cell phone so that was a major change this year in relation to all electronic devices we also um struck out a line that said electronic devices may be
070used during um things such as passing periods and lunches at the elementary school we really don't have passing periods so we took that out and we have I've been told have never allowed cell phones in the lunchroom and in these last two years I've already been down there they have not been brought to the lunchroom either so at the elementary level we struck that out um we want to encourage that socialization in the lunchroom and the communication with peers so I mean I brought this up a couple years ago with Steve Moore when the Thompson first opened when they did the audition four years ago they were not allowed in Middle School sixth seventh and eighth they have their phones out at lunch that was his rule kids respected them I walked through the cafeteria
071with them when there were students in there a couple could send them out they happily put them away it was a zero issue with somebody who just said during lunch for that social time yeah I think the number of fifth grade kids that had phones this year were strikingly different than yeah I'm aware of it second graders are coming with them it's um extremely pleased that this is now officially in policy and I'll be interested to see if there's any pushback just in general about parents insisting their kids be able to communicate with them anytime they need to during the day yeah at the elementary school level I should say right so that was one of the major changes and then the other one had to do with prohibited student conduct on page 36 and
072that was really some language that we were changing to be more inclusive so at the original language said harassment and sexual harassment but it didn't talk about other forms of harassment so we struck the sexual harassment component so that the word harassment can include all forms of harassment and it's not as exclusive of some of those other areas as well as including some specific things regarding racial slurs religious sexual orientation and specific disabilities so we cleaned up the language there to be more inclusive of some of the things that we've talked about through our Dei conversations so those were the two big ones the rest of them are all just updating to match board policy and aligning with the middle school and high school handbook any questions would it also be smart to also throw
073something in there regarding applications or something like that what do you mean like in in addition to all this other stuff you know kids are using those social apps um they're different would it be beneficial to return like Instagram yeah all that stuff just to include an application or software application right so we usually fall back on inappropriate use of um like social media or anything fit the sign off on that on the appropriate news policy yeah students that's fair thanks Kim I'm sorry thank you thank you thank you I think two or the other thing Mark is if you look at um 36-37 where she's got it targeted there I need a prohibited student contact it says updating what we didn't have in there we hit the 7180 so it says a prevention of
074in response to bullying intimidation harassment bullying using a school computer yeah or a school computer network so that's where we tie in that social media piece where you may see some of those elements that come alive so they're using an app to Target another student that's where it would come right here okay yeah I just want to make sure it's gone thank you all right actually a middle school that's a good point sorry uh it's a parallel what Kim said a lot of our changes are to align with board policy or to align with the Elementary and high school handbook we really wanted to make sure that if a parent has a kid at differing levels they can basically flip through and kind of see the the connection between elementary middle school and high school
075so a couple of the bigger changes that we made the first one was with regards to book bags and backpacks um currently the they are allowed to have small bags or purses but it has to fit into a particular sized box we changed the language to add small bag or purse instead of just purse as it refers to the small bag up at the top we also asked that if the purse or the bag doesn't fit under the desk that at least it's hanging on the back of the chair this is just for a safety issue for students trying to walk in between desks staff to walk in between desks things like that we wanted to make sure that we were eliminating tripping hazards if we could um another change was talking about grading um
076there was a section that said semester averages will not be reported uh CMS has to post semester grades because they align with the high school for some of their classes and some students are able to earn high school credit so in order to align with the high school they needed to make sure that those were posted for transcript purposes another another change was for the honor roll um we kind of have a little bit of a differ between Prairie Knolls and CMS so it's not going to be completed at the end of each quarter for both middle schools at Prairie Knolls it will be completed at the end of each quarter but at CMS it'll be completed at the end of each semester again to align with those those transcripts and things like that 8th
077grade is running more on that semester schedule uh and the last major one is the eighth grade credit recovery program this is not running during school days anymore this is running during the summer hours at summer school so we decided to cross this out here as it is listed in the summer school section in the handbook above that section those are the major changes any questions thank you thank you next we have athletic and activities update from uh activities High School [Laughter] our apologies no trying to skip over man I'll forgive you this time all right so as it's already been stated a lot of this is to make sure that we are aligning it all the way from elementary all the way through the high school I know Megan said it already but I'm
078going to reiterate if you have kids in multiple different levels it's going to be a lot easier for people to flip through and find specifically what they're looking for a lot of it is making sure that we are aligned with school board policy there was a couple of cleanup items in here and a lot of it was just to make sure that all of our information was stated in a similar manner a couple of the changes that I did want to make sure that you guys were aware of there were some health um pieces that needed to be updated that was um on page 10 about the home and hospital we had to make sure that that was updated to the current board policy um on page 14 through 18 it was 7 100. that
079was also with health health services that needed to be completely revamped because there was a lot of old language in there in addition to that change we had the wrong name of the medical form it was it's actually called Med a not school medical medication form doesn't seem like that big of a deal until you're a parent looking for it and then you're like but that's not what it's called so we just made sure that that was all the same thing so that is on the bottom of page 20. okay um the next one in the student address section we did make sure that we added that it said board policy 7160 and we did remove the language that says students may carry a small bag or purse as long as it does not disrupt
080the learning environment or post a safety threats uh purses and small bags may be able to fit into an 8 by 12 by five box there was a lot of discussion amongst the team and we decided that there's a lot of kids that are already carrying bags in our inuitive bags especially with the amount of students that we have in hallways and passing periods being only four minutes and being able to get from one side of the building to the other that it was necessary for them to be able to carry what they need the next section was on page 36 back in January there was a change of classroom being removed from transcripts and student recognition was being changed instead of going from uh laude to summa laude now we are going with the
081top five 10 and 15 percent to be recognized at the end of the school year and then we did have to update quite a few things to align with our current curriculum guide so that's starting on page 38 going all the way through page 40. and then the last big update that we had is that we added an uh an additional appendix and that is our Athletics and activities code of conduct as well so then it's in a One-Stop shop easy to access all of it and then it's um you know you're not having to search through multiple different areas to be able to see that any questions for me thank you all right thank you all right activities director Jessica is here to give us an update uh good evening and I just want
082to say I think this is uh Mark's one year today so I just want to thank the board uh Dr Stern Dr mongan for the opportunity to serve this District in the capacity of Athletics and activities uh director at the high school it's uh it's been a joy I know it's not always easy not always perfect but uh I've enjoyed getting to learn a lot here form relationships with a lot of the kids I meet a lot of the parents community members and seeing a lot of you out at events uh it really really makes it worthwhile so thanks for your support thanks for the opportunity and uh the last kind of activity athletic update I'm going to bring to you it's in your packet I won't read through it word for word but just
083want to recognize our bass fishing team and it's inaugural season finishing 28th down at State there's a lot that goes into that sometimes you catch it sometimes you don't but uh yeah they finished 28th and 28th at state in their first season I think they had over 75 teams that end up qualifying to go down there so they made one vote to go down there thank you to the coaches those kids and and our volunteers to donate the bass boats for us to go and uh you know we'll have that conversation about what the new basketball looks like in a little bit in the months to come next thing I want to recognize is our girls track team who made it down to State you can look got all the qualifiers and where they placed
084one I just want to bring to attention is our senior Paige greenhagel who as you can see placed uh top five in numerous events she is on a scholarship to Liberty next uh next fall as a incoming freshman so she will be missed and then on our boys side we had a number of boys who also qualified for the state finals down at Eastern they went down there had a successful run the one I do want to highlight there's another senior Nolan miles who plays top five and two of the events that he participated in so uh some lots of recognition down there not just those two but for all of our coaches student athletes so thank you for the opportunity for those student athletes to go down there and compete and on that I'll
085say thank you and I'll uh I think I know the words of the next guy coming up here that I get all the fun stuff he deals with all the dirty business side but we'll get Dan pollen out here so thank you very much I guess he introduced me already I thought I had this taken care of with Mandy that I could go first obviously not but that's fine I can accept my role um so uh update summer is is cranking along um our guys are working hard getting buildings clean getting Furniture taken care of outside crew you know getting weeds taken care of which is an ongoing battle you know fertilizing aerating kind of getting all those things done so our crews are working hard not a lot of projects um going right at
086this time we're working on some permitting things right now to get the high school edition going um with any luck we'll get some bids out in the next few weeks break ground probably in August um so we've been working with the ROM with the county to get that process roll in and get some Earth moving and get that going to try to get that under roof by winter time so obviously we can have that open for next year um we're finishing up uh the construction of the transportation and maintenance new office building on central campus our barn dominium as we call it um we're waiting on water get Furniture going kind of get those things going out there and hopefully by the end of June we'll be moved in there and that'll be completed some
087other ongoing building projects not a lot of look few little remodeling things nothing too crazy a lot of painting a lot of upkeep a lot of Maintenance we'll probably be looking at HVAC upgrades and some bigger projects moving forward working with Dana to kind of get those prioritized we'll be replacing a few pieces of HVAC equipment lowly Lakes getting a few pieces the district offices and get a few pieces just updating that equipment and controls and just kind of getting all our systems updated that we can manage them better and then the last kind of update is we had our second steering committee meeting for the new high school today so working through that process kind of getting some designs out there kind of having it's a pretty large group that we've kind of been
088working with and kind of getting thoughts and ideas bounced around today on on three different options for what that new facility could look like in the future so we're going to keep moving with that process and try to do some site visits in October you know September October look at some other Progressive schools kind of get some of those things outlined to kind of have a plan going so when the referendum does pass in the spring we'll be ready to go any questions are we on target for the high school or did you think we would have started construction we may be slightly behind um but I think based on our kind of weather constraints um and everything I think I think we'll be fine um we break ground in August we'll we'll get things
089rolling any other questions thank you thank you all right W superintendent on phone support um sorry for the Nia so as you guys are aware of many years ago or several years ago we had Nia that we serviced inside of our district uh that was the hard of hearing program uh due to enrollment we actually had to have them go to another facilities they went with District 300 but part of every odd year that asked that the board votes so part of being part of this Cooperative is that through their articles of agreement for naihip or foreign Illinois Association school board members we vote for a school board member as well as for the sub-region um so a school board members elected as well as a participant in terms of a district administrator they gave
090us names here for who they would like us to vote for and they're asking that the board reviews this and then excellent point we look forward to say yes we would be willing to have them as elected so you'll see them attached in your board packet it's just something we do every other year in an odd year for Nia okay if you'd like to be a writing you can write yourself in if you're interested in the ground disrupt edu and see it maybe you should put a paragraph of why these people seems weird to vote for something yeah they have bios yeah that's about it there's a bios but it doesn't really good I know that you can do it if you would so desire it's helpful yeah all right thanks for willing to foyers
091we received our first foil from local Labs you're familiar with this in the name of Vince MC um this is a local Labs we've replied to the foyers asking for more information um double checking to make sure that this person is actually employing the company that's not a phishing attempt and then we never get any response back so um it's just cold right now so we're holding it to see if we can actually find out if they ever respond to that then we can respond to the foil um the second point was from uh lrs Waste Management they were looking for a current waste provider and service information and we were able to comply with the request for the information that we had at hand um next one was from the University of Kentucky and
092they were looking for certain records related to our students and we were able to comply with that request according to our directory information of what we would be willing to share and only for those families that approved that their information could be shared and the last one was from Hello college and this is a company for profit company that wanted used student information and for marketing and for profit making and that um foil was denied all right oh smart procure I forgot smart procure so we've received numerous foyas and it used to be from Smart Mercury procure just a quarterly foil based on our purchase orders and invoicing but they've expanded what they were looking for and then repeating asking for the same information like just like a quarter apart so um we reached out
093to them to see if we could find out like you know answer any of their questions or what they're actually looking for uh they have not replied to that request and so therefore we've told the request until we get a response from them do they ever respond when we send the information sometimes well some to the ones for the invoices they'll sometimes say but they've expanded Way Beyond what yeah right I'm just wondering if it's like we're on some list if they just send out I think so it doesn't want to send it back to me you know that's why we've asked for additional information well Open Session you need to motion a second to adjourn closed session seconds thank you yes Nolan yes Pappas yes Effie yes Paul yes Gorman yes thanks again for
094coming out of it enjoy the remaining goodness