001it's called tonight's meeting to order uh Manny can you take roll call president Gorman here so we need a motion in second to approve tonight's agenda second a thief yes bulk yes Nolan yes Henner yes Ray yes Gorman yes please join us in reciting Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States foreign ly to thank everyone for coming out we got a full house here and then uh anybody watching at home on any device um Dr Stern I'd like to welcome some of our students that we're going to recognize tonight looking forward to that um we have quite a few administrators and staff members here as well and uh we're fortunate tonight to have us joined by our new board member Alex uh Mr Fred Vogt and Dr Morgan Pappas please stand up
002[Applause] vote for the county will be canvassed on by April 25th and new board members will be seated through the reorganization no later than May 15th so we'll have to determine the date for that you move on the public comments we have a couple this evening first off Gene Meyer [Music] now can you hear me yes um what the the presentation I had prepared is a little bit more adult and um I would prefer that some of the Kraut go but what I did want to do and so hopefully you'll let me do this a little bit later but I do owe you um a public apology and I think children can hear adults give a public apology I'm asking for forgiveness because I did not do my homework and I accused District 301 of
003having a book in the library which it did not and so I just want to be accountable for that so once you let me speak later typically pass out to the board they could look at it but this is our only public comment well I think you could be a little more flexible and I'm smiling but I do think you could be I do have uh it should be I think nine there is things I mean you're still free to make public comment on it oh you see fit at this time sure no and I respect that I'm just not familiar with what your Public public comment would be so our next Lori Powell um hi I'm uh Lori Powell I've been living in the district for 20 years so on March 4th the district
004had hosted that cultural blast event at the high school and um in the letter I've emailed everybody there's a flyer which I know everyone's familiar with um so there was a mission statement with three bullet points uh the first one accepting the internal s aspects number two make minorities comfortable while educating the ones that make them feel uncomfortable number three opportunities to tell stories for transformation take place so my question to you is do all the events at d301 have a mission statement for example does prom have a mission statement I'm assuming the answer is no in this case the mission statement declares that there was more to this event than learning about and appreciating other cultures overall this advertisement should have bullet bullets that describe the event instead of a mission statement the definition
005of a mission statement is the Declaration of the overall goal or purpose of an organization so I find mission statement number two extremely problematic so my question to you is what does this have to do with the education of d301 students the CMS 8th grade students received a message about the cultural blast in bold letters the 8th graders were encouraged to find two teachers to tell them the secret password to receive a ticket to enter into a drawing for and Amazon gift card at the CMS dice booth and I've included a screenshot of that in a letter so my question is since the since when is it a good idea for students to have secret passwords with their teachers why are the very young 8th grade students being invited to a diversity inclusion Club what
006purpose do these clubs serve to me this is a pathway to grooming the innocent students of d301 school is already a safe place creating more safe spaces for specific students only further divides instead of uniting I believe the district should cease all of these types of activities and so I look forward to receiving answer to the questions that I have submitted in this letter thank you we will follow up with you okay thanks all right next to Athletics activities director Jessica is here recognize some students good evening everybody's doing all right I know winter uh winners back it's hard to believe that after raining it's sunny but here we are the recognition that I have before you today is of our our art students at Central High School I had the honor and the ability
007to kind of go to the Fox Valley art show at MCC last Thursday and walked around and see all the great pieces of artwork that a lot of our students uh created and had on display for everybody to see within all of those there were three that were selected the first one was uh Soraya volcanus uh her picture of cornrow won best of show for photography at the MCC art show and she brought [Applause] along along with uh Soraya we have two that were honorable mentions I know Angel Wynn is here today with uh her piece of artwork as well and then finally Nora donkey also had an honorable mention for her uh her Untitled picture Nora thank you unfortunately Nora couldn't make it but I just want to thank uh Miss vassel and Miss
008Smith who is not here but for all their efforts with all things of our Central High School art department and uh I know what most kids and even even Soraya seeing these kids do different things in different rounds I know she's also Hunter girls wrestling team but to be able to feel like those kids kind of cross over and show multiple talents across all avenues of of academics is awesome because it really is that old child approach so uh thank you congratulations [Applause] all right next to the curriculum director Stephen books an assistant principal Patrick rogorski will recognize some students we have two people presenting the board a little bit tonight on this first of all the work that Stephen books has done to make us eligible for the Illinois City live by literacy and
009then assistant principal progress he did talk about how it's been implemented at the high school so just to give a little review earlier in the fall we uh were looking at what we could do to expand some of our offerings for uh showing the accolades about the achievements of our students this one's specific in the kind of skill sets that students learn in their foreign language capacity so we offer in-house understand German and Spanish but this actual award opens the door for other opportunities as well so to start off with we filled out our application for isbe to be able to be able to actually do this and be a place that can award the Seal of bi literacy and or the accommodation award and so we were able to do that application and be
010accepted this year in the ability to um kind of award that process after that we had to go through a checklist some training and some other things to make sure that we are following these State mandated requirements uh select a process for assessments this test assessed the four areas so we're listening Reading Writing and speaking in the other foreign language they also have to the students score at a certain level in English for proficiency to show that they are obviously by literate it's not single so just mad the clarification it is the English and a second language that is being kind of certified here so both of those go into combination and then we had to uh I had the pleasure of working with Mr progorski um Mrs Stoner here in our district office that
011runs our Isis system because we have to have some settings marked because what happens as the students go through this process they end up when they pass the test at a certain achievement level this gets stamped on their transcript and on their diploma so it's it's not just a assessment that yes they did it and there's there's no Mark it's something that they're going to take with them and and be able to carry down that that kind of future um in the Rough Side of it just to understand the differences between the seal and accommodation the seal is the highest level of understanding that the student is showing the accommodation is they are working towards it okay um there's not I wouldn't say an extreme difference it's like intermediate understanding and high knowledge of understanding
012in in the difference for when it comes to the seal but I want to explain that the universities by state law are mandated to accept the seal any student who actually passes with that level two years of foreign language credit at their institution so that is one huge Accolade that our students can walk away from our building after they've maybe experienced one two three four years of learning this foreign language they can kind of have that stamp uh to show that level and get credit in kind of an automatic status but I want to clarify what that looks like because there could be some confusion it is not automatic in the setting that our transcript gets sent to them and the university processes the information our students which we are going to try to overly
013communicate with them they have to contact the register's office at the University they're going to attend to make sure they process process specifically their seal accommodation to get the credits applied at their specific College each College accepts it differently so for example the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign gives eight credits for the seal and the seal only because that's what the law states Northern right down the road gives 12 credits for the seal and gives nine credits for the accommodation so it's really important that we as these students are being successful get the background knowledge note they have to take a couple more steps to make sure they get that credit after they leave our doors um Mr pogorski is going to go into the the side of how he assisted this process kind of actually
014unrolling at the high school itself so I'm going to let him speak at this point thank you very much like the actual implementation of this program Mr books just explained everything he did almost all the heavy lifting again this all started and I got to do the fun part of getting our kids into the library and testing them essentially um Mrs Marciniak one of our counselors Mrs Stoner as he mentioned and Miss McMahon our registrar have been really impactful on this part of the program of getting our transcripts ready for review getting the stamps ready for the diplomas and everything else but from our testing perspective we were lucky enough to have over 30 kids test and 12 of them earned in the state seal seven of them earn the state commendation also worth worthwhile
015note that we will have already we know we have both accommodation and State Steel winners next year already because we award this at the end of their senior year with their diploma and transcript but we do already have some Juniors and even a sophomore that has already tested and shown their capacity and their foreign language awesome um just to go in a little bit more detail that the ways that they can test they can get a certain score on their sat to qualify for their English they can get a certain score on their access exam um they could take a dual credit course so there's multiple Pathways for kids to demonstrate this in my mind the thing that's very special and impactful here too as well is that these students that earn this award are
016a mix of both native speakers or Heritage speakers and foreign language speakers so we have students that tested in Arabic Spanish German and polish this year and a mix of native uh and foreign speakers in both so with that being said some of them are here today if anyone is here come on huh and I'm just going to read the names into the record for both so for our state sealed by literacy which is the higher we have Edgar Espinoza in Spanish Patricia gavina in Spanish [Applause] and Andrea Gomez in Spanish [Applause] in Spanish and also note Commendation for German as well so try literally [Applause] in Spanish Libby Libby Levine in Spanish [Applause] Maria Lopez in Spanish [Applause] Ernesto Lopez meganis in Spanish [Applause] Rodriguez Rubio for Spanish [Applause] Eduardo Cerna saucedo in Spanish
017Melanie Rojas in Spanish and Lucas sternak for polish [Applause] accommodation along with Jade are another six students Jules apira in German [Applause] Nicholas garotas in German [Applause] Kirsten Lim Spanish Hannah razool Spanish Matthew Schmidt in German and Michael Wood in German so congratulations to all of them we did a larger group picture at the high school outside the front but their hard work and dedication really in multiple languages is a testament to their abilities and we're excited to see where they are going to go we're also excited that going along with this the seal by literacy affords us the opportunity to do a retest as well and along with the Juniors and a couple sophomores who are already going to get the award their senior year we had another I think it was eight to
018ten students that were right at the threshold of either the accommodation or the state seal so we're going to have a retest before the end of the year and then we find out usually within two to three days that those scores come back so we can do a post-haste application on the diploma and everything if they bring that back so very excited about where we're going and having the first class of winners [Applause] congratulations in a second to discuss and approve the consent agenda so don't move second um in your board packet you should have your revenue and expenditure reports revenues are trending at 45.39 compared to 44.7 74 a year ago expenditures are trending at 57.04 compared to 55.78 a year ago impact fees we received for eight home starts for the month of
019March 42 443.76 no transition fees were received bills payable for both Northern Kane and Central are typical for the month of April I just put in there and the notes there is one a bigger bill for Mid Valley tuition for 1.7 million and that's for just for the second half of the school year so that's that's it all right uh bulk yes Nolan yes enter yes rape yes a thief yes Gorman yes electricity motion second to improve the softball team's spring trip that occurred March 31st to April 1st second we have athletic director Jessica with us probably be up here for a couple of the next ones sorry um it's hard we had baseball in there I forgot to put softball they didn't go down there but they were able to get a few games
020in despite whether so that one's in there and you'll also see I know you got to go through the list but just as long as I'm up here you'll also see our math team made it to state that uh that memos in there as well as long as our skills USA so we'll have two more Academic Teams heading down for some State competitions here in the in the coming coming weeks so that's great thank you Nolan yes Henner yes rape yes a thief yes folk yes Gorman yes you need a motion in a second to improve the math teams competition overnight trip scheduled three April 21st to 22nd it's almost second we're excited to see post covert or math teams um active again and participating and they've always been strong and looking forward to seeing
021good things continue to come from them it's actually their first date competition there's a first one I know in the past they did Regional sectionals percussion right Nolan yes Henner yes Rabe yes a thief yes Falk yes Gorman yes Lexington emotion second to approve the skills USA team state competition over my trip schedule for April 27th to 29th some of second again the first date competition we're having skills USA this is the second year they started it last year piloted it this year is their official year to do skills USA it actually is more of our Career Tech Ed strand Works more in our business Arena our video programs incubator those elements so we're very very excited to actually have some people going out of state so we'll see how we do all right Penner
022yes Rabe yes a thief yes folk yes Nolan yes Gorman yes the next Indian motion second to approve the contract with ifg engineering for MEP Engineering Services we have our director ability to grounds Dan polloway not one of the boring stuff all the exciting stuff's done as usual um this is our contract with iMac which is our MEP engineering firm mechanical electrical Plumbing fire protection um we you guys approved Erickson our civil engineering with the size of the projects and things we have coming up we thought it would be in our best interest to have these under our roof and working directly for the district like we have our architect and we have our construction manager um the contract you're approving is the master contract so that's just the overarching contract which is similar to
023all those membership groups they'll do addendum specific to the projects that we're asking them to do that'll be an addendum to that Master contract those addendum contracts in our process don't come to the board for approval we ask you to approve their Master contract and then we take care of the addendums at our level any questions typically the addendums you know what's the range of work and it all depends on the size of the project and for these because we haven't had MEP under our roof or civil civil we've outsourced um typically so it varies based on the project size it's usually a percentage rate of the size of the project so it varies greatly all right thanks Dan okay rape yes a thief yes bulk yes Nolan yes Henner yes Gorman yes we found
024information items first is the enrollment report um our enrollment is at 400 4780 students uh we're up here today at 134 students from last year at this time um included with the high school account we also now included our early grads because that fluctuates year to year so our current High School seniors in class are 279 but that's excluding the 42 early grads but so notice that is our 279 seniors current seniors go out they're going to be replaced by 398 incoming freshmen so um we will continue to have deal with enrollment issues in the near future all right next up is the valley special education Cooperative classroom use agreement okay um my memo was included in your word packet so the Mid Valley special education Cooperative is made up of school districts Batavia Geneva
025Saint Charles cainland and Central 301 and we partner together to provide services that um would not be effective for us to do Standalone inside of our districts great partnership we've been with Mid Valley for for many years many many years we currently are working with Mid Valley and we all share the same uh at least dollars at six dollars per square foot so no matter where students are housed whether it's in Batavia Geneva Kane let's say Charles are here it's the same we've kept it that way because we're all paying each other anyway we currently have um two programs at Central High School with new past Pathways and living skills in a new Pathways program also at Central High School we're currently in discussions with Mid Valley about potentially adding one more classroom in the
026district for our students so as this comes back for Action next month it could move from three classrooms to four classrooms foreign thank you um next up is Country Trails uh School Improvement plan presentation all right good evening everybody uh I'm Greg Engel principal of Country Trails and Theresa kolk assistant principal I hope you guys are having a good evening now you probably saw on your board packet this is in Virtual format but I folded it up pretty myself so now you have the actual uh pamphlet so what I'm going to ask you to do is we're going to actually go through it if you actually just open it up once I want to start with some academic things you read the tone of the inside of the emails or inside of the document it's
027actually kind of telling you a story and I'm going to tell that story a little bit to kind of walk you through it so as was already reported earlier this school year Country Trails five of seven schools got that um exemplary designation from isbe in our school report card and what it really was was saying that we were in the top 10 of the state which is great my teachers would tease me that I should elaborate on that more but what it really was was is that the state looked at how much uh covet had affected all of the students all of the students and gave us a percentage of where we were at and then what how did we close that Gap well District 301 and Country Trails did a great job of closing
028that Gap better than 90 of the rest of the state so I think it's something that we should highlight all the hard work that our teachers did to get our students back to where they were so that's something that we have highlighted that was an academic achievement for us the other thing that we did as a whole District Elementary District that you approved was to buy a new um Ela resource hmh into reading so one of the other things I highlighted academically within our within our pamphlet is that we adapted this new program and we've had some trials and tribulations with it but we are working hard we just had Julie our um rep from the company in every Elementary building she was in CT on Thursday got a chance to spend time with every
029grade level and I'm happy to report that not only are we working at it in a building level but our students are improving their scores are going up you know we're using weekly assessments each module is tied to a test that they can take at the end of a week that might not physically mean five days but at the end of a module and we're tracking that you know kind of In-House it's just an internal temperature check on how the students are doing and they are doing well they're closing hopefully that's going to lead to more uh closing of that Gap when we speak to you guys next year but along that same note of that coven when you open up your pamphlet you're going to see what we're going to talk about next put
030a huge emphasis on was that you know Covenant affected us all right but it affected our students too and it wasn't just academics that it affected we saw very early on at the elementary level that there wasn't a social and emotional level of need that the students needed and we spent a whole year trying to re-teach the kids how to do school now remembering their age some of them missed out they either did virtual kindergarten and then they showed up to school and we put them in first grade but they've never had a bathroom or a gymnasium or lunchroom or any of those things they didn't might not have had traditional daycare and so they didn't know how to interact with one another so we spent a little bit of time realizing we had kind
031of two kindergarten classes a kindergarten a true kindergarten class and then a first grade class that had never been so what do we do as Educators we sat down and started to figure out like how are we going to do this now Country Trails this is my fifth year there has always had um cougar Pride Carl the cougar we have a morning pledge we have our The Pledge posted and painted on the wall he's murals of him everywhere and all this but I would admit that over time it had just kind of been a thing a check mark and so we started to talk about some of these social emotional needs of our students and what could we do and so a committee formed and it wasn't one teacher or two teachers I have and
032I'll list them later up to 14 or 15 staff members that are on this committee ranging from classroom teachers to speech pathologists obviously with social workers everybody sharing that goal of trying to help our students in this realm so we're very excited to tell you that um it was a success if it wasn't I might not have told you about it but uh it's been great and so I want to tell you a little bit about what it is so we we rebooted uh our Cougar Pride initiative and so if you are a Harry Potter fan it's like the house system so we took the acronym Pride we assign it is the logo on your thing we assigned a acronym to each letter and then a color to each letter and the students were given
033a house they were randomly drawn at the beginning of this year um I'd like huge shout out to PTO helped purchase the shirts every single student and staff member got a shirt the staff are on teams as well I'm like Dumbledore I don't have a team so I wear whatever shirt reps whatever team is winning because the kids are always asking me what team are you on I'm like I'm on all of your teams Mrs kolk as well um and so they wear their shirts on Wednesday but it's not only that we have committee members who take the time to create SEO lessons you can see in the middle page what the themes were for each month the students are taught they actually get together in their houses and they learn with that house community
034and there was a reason why we did this last year I actually think it stemmed from penny wars we did class first class well you would be happy to know that the fifth graders were manipulating The Kindergartners and telling them to put their coins in the wrong buttons so that they could win and so it actually came out of that where an idea sparked where what if we're going to show cougar Pride we're going to earn this we're going to do something as a school Community now they're bled across grade levels there are blue house kindergartners and blue house fifth graders and when they get together blue houses together so now there's a new sense of community on top of the of the classroom Community the Country Trails Community the 301 community and so that
035was beneficial that that was something that we saw that was awesome the other thing is the students get little tickets they're called cougar Pride tickets for showing some sort of behavior walking in the hallway quiet in the lunchroom being respectful helping a student anything any staff member can hand this out well before like I said this was just kind of a thing that they got and they were like oh I got this thing now they're collecting them in their classroom they're turning them in and weekly we call out we pull winners and not announced a bus win or a lunchroom winner a class like a grade level winner then we keep track of all that count and at the end of the month we award the school to the to a house so right now
036Greenhouse is winning so Greenhouse shout out to you guys everything in the school is decked there's banners that are hung the office is green there's a green decal under every teacher's door like everything is wrapped green so now all the other houses are like okay we want to take Country Trails back that is that positive reinforcement to to get working on that and then they come in and they get that when we take those weekly winners um at the end of the month they get breakfast with the principal and yeah I get to be the mayor of the whole organization but I couldn't do it without the help of everybody else so what I'd like to do right now is recognize a few of the people first of all I have some of my on
037sale committee here with us president thank you this is Miss statlow she's a second grade teacher in Country Trails this is Mrs Milne she is a kindergarten teacher at Country Trails and that is Beth Dorsey who is the chair of the SL committee she's a social worker at Country Trails I'm on a list off so we also have Lauren ferry from first grade Brittany Robinson from third grade Kristen Johnson from fourth grade Kelly Lazar from fifth grade our specialist teachers Becky Thayer Megan raykow our librarian we have a sped teacher Christy Burns we have SLP Andrea Bonk and Desiree minehart and then social workers Beth Dorsey and Marissa helfers I could not do it without the administrative assistance in the office who count the tickets Mrs Hughes also puts together the slideshow that's shared with
038the community I couldn't do it without Mrs Coco back because she does our certificates that be given to the kids like I said I get to shake hands and kiss babies and the entire team helps helps all that run so what is what what is the value of this well we've put a little bit of data down our office referrals I'm students are still going to have um some poor decisions that they make at times but our office referrals are down a huge percentage we had 65 office referrals last year April to April we're down to 44. okay that is a 42 reduction the students have bought in the staff members have bought in and so it has grown so popular you'd be happy to know that TK has gone to one of the other
039buildings and talking to the other Elementary they all we all have our homework we all have our own we all have our own um Twist on the pride but just kind of walking through what what this had because of the benefits that it's had for our students so I really wanted to highlight this is not I know in school it's more as Jessica said more than just academics it's the whole student and I think that we have proof that this has really helped country trail students um I do want to highlight just a few things on the back we did a mural for um Veterans Day that's all of our staff and students making an American flag we hired one of the new teachers um Mr Lugo who has some drone work so he put
040the Drone up in the air and took a picture I thought that was really cool and then down here of course is a staple we were finally able to have an in an in-person assembly for our Cougar reading Madness program which has been remote you know we've been doing virtual for so many years and so this was the students excitement for um the book that won and so it was just another thing that I would like to highlight so again thank you to Mrs kolkbeck to my NCL committee to all of the teachers at Country Trails uh to your guys's support for everything that you make possible for our students thank you great work yeah if you have any questions for us thank you right next we have the Lower Lake sip presentation [Laughter] good
041evening Dr sir and Dr Mangan and the board thank you for having me tonight I'm Rebecca Jers I'm the principal of Lilly Lake Grade School and um tonight I just want to highlight uh you should have a little flyer as well I won't go through every piece of it but really what I wanted to do tonight is to just let the the hard work of the students and the teachers um kind of explain themselves but I want to give you a little idea of what you're going to view in just a second so the video will start off um with just a little snippet from our English language learning teacher and the explicit teaching that she does there with targeted skills in reading and writing um you'll see this this little clip of it's like
042a red blue yellow and you'll wonder why that's in there it's because like Country Trails has been working we work as well with uh social emotional needs of our students and our teachers at Lilly Lake across all grade levels and settings are using zones of Regulation so that is what that is it was really hard for me by the way to cut this down to um it was originally 21 minutes um and then I was down to 15 and so I kept whittling it away to about seven minutes so uh it was really hard because it was so fun to go in and um with I have to give a shout out to Gail Stover who helped me put this together but this is really to speak to the work of the students and the
043staff in PE Mrs Jackson highlights one of our PE stars and one of the ways you get to be a PE star is by studying the students K-5 also set their own learning and behavior goals and then check in with the teachers and also with me to check in to see where they're at with those goals and do they want to tweak them and we found that one if kids are part of their goal setting then they will most likely meet those goals and so there's an example of a student who is proud that he increased his PE goals in second grade you'll see um again Grady Munchen the inter-reading hmh program that is a new resource for teachers this year here uh Mrs kohlhoff Denise kohlhoff will be extending a lesson and the parts
044you won't see is that after this last time and we did cut it down quite a bit she also meets with the students in small groups to further differentiate um in third grade you'll see a snippet of Mrs sulkey she's also utilizing the hmas resource meeting with students whole group she sets the purpose for the reading for the day does a second round story and refers her students back to their my book which is part of the resource students do a turn and talk and then they're also referred to Anchor charts and you'll see her front loading vocabulary as well in fourth grade Mrs Schultz will be Melissa Schultz will be giving you an example of what she calls well done Wednesday this is another example of a social emotional um some teachers do more
045of a morning meeting she does it more after recess and at different times a day depending on the need of the day and the need of the kids and the children you'll observe them complimenting one another and then telling each other what they they like that they do well hence the name Wilder on Wednesday and then in fifth grade Mrs Christina Tinsley will be giving you an example of her number talks um Christina does a great job with that and a lot of other staff members have gone in and and she's modeled for them and they have adopted some of her strategies so this is fifth grade and they're focusing on specific mathematical skills you know again depending on the topic of the day but applying reasoning Computing understanding engaging their their talking and um
046it doesn't these sometimes go longer shorter but it just depends on the skill that they're working at so that's what you're going to see hopefully I can get this going opportunity to thank Dr Stern and the school board for having me here tonight to share the accomplishments growth and achievements of Lilly Lake students this year as well as the positive effect and change that staff have had on that growth throughout the course of this year at Lilly Lake Grade School thank you for having me so for This One Max you're looking you have to go back to your lesson and you have to find the first sentence the first word and put it on there okay and Colby same thing looks like you're on that there's this one and then you're on medium surprised wait
047is y'all students hi this year Miss Jackson Choice from your PE star because of my growth mindset in my growth mindset I make a lot of goals one of my goals this year was to run more laps on the Pacer test number one of my goals was to do more push-ups during I during my time practicing for a I ran and did a lot of cardio activities and I did a few push-ups every single day because of that the results of my testing was five more laps for the Pacer test and two more push-ups for the push-up test [Music] hello look at your cards look at your signs if you think you see a diagram on this page hold it up everybody else put them down you see a diagram a picture of something that's
048showing us something this is a diagram so a diagram doesn't have to just be like a map it can be a picture that shows us something if you see a label on this diagram hold up your legal card okay do you guys see the labels Riley can you point out any labels on here like which one are the labels on this case [Music] yeah one yeah exactly so Riley said these are the labels here it says one two three four that tells us and does anybody see caption on this side yes you guys see the caption down here in this box it's in something called a text box so it's today is our second read of TJ there's Siberian Cup right yesterday we set our purpose look at your notes you should have some written
049in on page 74. turning talk with someone around you yesterday your purpose was what do you know about tankers what do you want to learn today you're sharing that with someone what is something you learned [Music] and one thumbs up if you heard something great thumbs up you shared something great everyone knew who to talk to or found someone yeah okay great today we're reading for a different purposes today we're doing our close read so today we're diving in we're gonna go deeper we're gonna be looking at text structure do you see over there where we have our anchor chart yeah okay so we will go over that but first let's review our vocabulary words I have them back here they're also on our wall nurseries house all right we feeling familiar with those yes
050excellent all right then we are ready to go over text structure so when we're reading we look at how authors choose the text structures that fit their purpose what's the first one up in the left corner there who can tell me that one Stella comparison and contrast awesome what about the next one next to it there in red Charlotte they're we'd use first next month to describe it somebody want to add on Hadley sequence the sequence good and then that fourth one there the last one let me hear everyone say it while we're reading today while we're doing our close reading I want you looking at specific areas all right so today's well done Wednesday so I want you to think of one thing that you've done really well this week to be outside of
051school or inside of school hey who's like the star Gabby um I had frankly softball practice and I did really well nice job practice a lot I like it yeah in my hip-hop hip-hop uh because there are some um oh okay I like your ability to work with anybody in the class oh she said Thank you so you say Aaron will say the um I like your and you would say thank you bro yeah okay [Music] I have a discussion about which one would you rather have would you rather share an equal slice of cake from pan a with eight friends or shared equal slice of cake from pan B with six friends now I want you to think about it I want to give us about a minute to think about which one you
052would pick and why is watch ing yeah nope so it says they will share equal slices so they'll have equal slices whether it's to take a or cake B so I love that I love that you guys looked at what multiplying them together would be and then again sharing with eight friends when we talked about fractions if we're splitting it eight ways your pieces are going to be smaller than if you were sharing with six friends [Music] thank you student advisory Council that we put together this year so just a snippet of the work that the teachers and students are doing this year we do um a lot to support our teachers in the district with resources and I know my staff is has been excited to work with the new resources it's been a
053challenge you know with with anything new and learning and growing but um as they're working through the you know because we have spring math that we're using um which now my K1 teachers would like to see uh as well but they're they're appreciative to have that resource and then what we've been doing is really getting them into each other's rooms to to model uh to giving them time to collaborate and also um if they need you know 30 minutes to pop into a lesson then it gives me an opportunity to keep my hand in and and cover for them so that they can share their knowledge with each other and it's um we've seen growth in the in the building this year we did other though we have the highest attainment score this year on
054our I or our testing we didn't obviously meet the growth that were we're used to so we've been working really hard to to see you know where our shortcomings were and how we're going to close those gaps so um you know we are proud that 78 of our students should meet or exceed the Illinois Science assessment um and just want to make sure that that we're showing that growth that we know our kids uh were seen in the day-to-day classroom on those State assessments and so one just kind of nugget before a break we did have iir tests and our K-2 students wrote uh notes of encouragement I actually posted that on Twitter recently um to their buddy classes and to the older kids they decorated the um the hallways for them high-fiving them in
055the hall wishing them good luck um so as a building we do take those very you know seriously and the little ones um they're they're very you know they really want to be quiet in the hall and make sure they're you know their older friends are able to have all the tools they need to do their best and the assessments so we're looking forward to see what growth we've made this year and do appreciate the resources you've been able to provide the teachers and you know they've been asking for things and they so thank you for for giving that to them do you have any questions for me good work [Applause] we had won this one yes we received apart from government data support um wasn't enough visual they were asking for purchase records for
056school bus parts so we responded asking for verification of a named rep we have not heard back from the company at this time that concludes tonight's meeting again thanks for coming out we need a motion second to adjourn a few closed sessions second