001um can you take roll call a thief president falk president pam hill president nolan yes here rave here gorman here need a motion in a second to approve tonight's agenda so moved second a thief uh yes bulk yes hemphill yes nolan yep yes yes gorman yes please join us attending in person and at home streaming um one special guest tonight uh dr stern uh we do have one special guest tonight which uh athletic director diversity will be uh speaking about ernesto lopez magdalenis is with us tonight he's our first male gymnast and he placed fifth in state but i'll let director diversity share his accomplishments a little bit later in the meeting also like to welcome our ca union leadership and we have a teacher joining us tonight and then a variety of administrators that
002are here if there's any questions related to topics uh next is public comment um we have neil wellner if you keep your comments three to five minutes good evening everybody my name is neil wallner pe teacher at hbt for 28 years um it's very nice to be back live i have to say it's been challenging for sure to find areas to teach people at our school so i'm here to make the district 301 community and school board aware of hbt's pe situation outside and on the varsity soccer field during the pandemic when hbt was under construction in 1995 under rich perry i saw that the plans called for an open grassy field where the soccer field now sits years later that plan was pushed aside and the soccer stadium was built leaving hbt students behind
003as the soccer field was off limits to pe classes flexibility you hear this word a lot lately with the school year we've had i'm asking for a little flexibility to allow our customers hbt students to have the best learning opportunity possible after all the primary job of any school board is to ensure that all students have the best opportunity possible that means you need to make sure all students are safe to learn now we are teaching on a grassy playground area if you ever been to hpt there's really nowhere to really go except maybe where the soccer fields are so it at the great the grassy plain playground here we are at it's very uneven ground there's wood chips in the grass three large sewer grates in the middle of the field leaving students open
004to injury dr nolan has seen it firsthand firsthand with his daughter's maven fiona in third grade last week students enjoyed game play on the soccer field on the level plus grass of the soccer field so we received an email from the high school to hbt's principal jeff gerard last friday it says jeff we are shutting access down to the varsity soccer field effective monday may 17th the reason for this is due to the same areas being trampled by the pe daily classes this would not have been an issue if they moved and rotated throughout the field the plan is to fertilize in water to get it to bounce back as there are many areas we are worried about because it is showing excessive wear and dying if you have any questions please let me know
005i was told if i was told to move and rotate throughout the field i certainly would would have followed that order after speaking with several community members and teachers about this they thought hbt's pe classes were already teaching on the varsity soccer field for many many years so our customers deserve better hpt students so i've got two proposals to work together and allow pe classes to teach on the soccer field while moving and rotating to different field areas or simply relocate the varsity soccer field to an open area closer to the high school allowing hbt students to enjoy the safe open grassy soccer field area for pe classes thank you action reports uh motion second uh requested to discuss and approve the consent agenda so moved second revenue and expenditure reports are in your board
006packet revenues are currently at 52.47 percent compared to 49.09 a year ago expenditures are at sixty sixty point eighty four percent compared to sixty two point ninety two a year ago um this month the district received impact these of seventy six thousand nine hundred and seventy one dollars and eighty eight cents for 13 home starts transition fees came in at 28 840 this month all the bills payable reports for northern kane and central are typical for the month of may yes nolan yes to approve the proposed changes to the elementary school handbook so moved second we have dr schreiber uh joining us tonight she was the lead for the changes to the elementary handbook so she's present if there's any any questions related to it was information item for the board last month okay okay
007thank you handheld yes nolan yes yes rabe yes a thief yes yes gorman yes sexton emotion second to discuss and approve the proposed changes to the middle school handbook so moved second we have dr hogg with us who is the lead for the changes for the middle school handbook so he's present if there's any questions related to the changes yes gorman yes you guys wish everything was that easy next emotion second to approve the proposed changes to the high school handbook so moved second we have assistant principal farrington with us tonight he was lead for the committee work for high school handbook revisions unless there's any questions for her yes rabe yes a thief yes frog yes damn pill yes nolan yes gorman yes can everybody hear mark do you want me to even closer
008i think you should yes those at home i couldn't quite hear him i'll step with authority i'll put this over by time i'm just kidding we're a rough crowd actually motion and second to discuss and approve of two years two-year refuse bid so moved um so we sent out bids to six different companies for um next school year in the following school year so we always do a two-year bid with them um two companies came back with formal bids and groot was the lowest responsible bidder so we're recommending that you guys accept this bid for um for a two year um the bid summary should be included in your board packet and it was less than a thousand dollars difference between the two companies so it was really close and we've worked with groot in
009the past and we've been happy with their service so we're pleased to see that they were the successful bid yeah right next uh motion second to approve the annual paper bit going to uh the paper corporation so move second you say paper or fuel the fuel um so copy paper bids went out for next school year um three companies submitted formal bids and the paper corp was the one that came in with the lowest responsible bid so we're recommending that we accept this bid and you should have a recap in your board packet as well i think yeah sorry i think i asked this last year when we were doing this a year ago you know what do we anticipate and since i don't we didn't have the reference where are we this year with
010the bid compared to last year with what we had left over and what we needed to do this year like the last three years as far as total bids for paper is that substantively different or not i would say that i know that our paper consumption was was lower this year our total order is quite a bit smaller than what it's been in previous years correct yep i think um i don't know off the top my head and i can definitely get you those numbers but i want to say we were um 600 um or 600 cases less this year so that's how much paper we had on hand um so our count went down definitely the prices went up a little bit but i was nervous how how high the prices were going to
011be because of the cost of paper but we did strip down our our total bid and one company who normally bits chose not to bid because the prices of paper are volatile right he knew he'd have paper but he didn't know what kind of paper he would have on stock and what the freight was going to be and all that so he just did a no bid this year our current vendor did that and then the pricing is valid for a whole year or is it subject to yep no we will place this order as soon as it's recommended or after tonight we'll place it and lock it in and get it delivered and it'll be here yep final answer bulk yes yes nolan yes yes ray yes a thief yes gorman yes motion second
012come back for the fuel bill okay fuelbed we sent out to 11 companies three people came back with formal bids feast oil came in with the lowest responsible bid again within a thousand dollars from first and second so very very competitive bid so we recommend that you accept this bid for fuel for next year and we've worked with fee soil in the past and we've been very happy with their service as well correct pam that's good like i said how was our consumption this year compared to normal i would imagine it was up noticeably um okay what about the budget last year were we significantly over budget from what we did for oh no okay up but not over what we projected up but not over what we had projected okay i don't yeah and
013i don't think we were over budget last year no okay a thief yes bulk yes nolan yep federer yes rave yes performance yes next motion second to discuss an approved bid to purchase two wheel alignment machines so um in this case business manager flew worked with efe director 110 director terry strohm uh and this is a bid to purchase equipment for the northern king county regional vocational system of which we're both the administrative and fiscal agent our district serves as that so it's a partnership between district district 246 district st charles and central 301 so with the start even recommended by you guys as the superintendents and then we're kind of just officially following through with what has officially been recommended okay for the program improvements to the program uh director strobe is with us
014if you have any questions related to the purchase of the equipment where are those going to be housed and that's the alignment the wheel alignment correct okay do they have the same programs did chris have do we have any kids of crown so we sent our students right now over to south belgium do you want to share any of the highlights related to this system related to what students do with certification and training sure so right now hunter automotive retro equipment has an online curriculum that they share once you buy any equipment from them they share all of their curriculum with the schools they also come out and train all of our teachers on that equipment and certify our teachers to then certify students in those classes so when students come to those classes they
015will have a certificate saying they're trained on that equipment uh and now we're working partially with getting partners for automotive businesses for work based learning so by having those certifications several businesses will be more willing to do you know anything about 2019 honda accords how long can you just say it right and are there loaner cars available guessing it won't be as nice as a 2019 honda accord any other questions the placement for these jobs are pretty open is there a lot of opportunity so we've been looking right now in building more workplace learning throughout all of our programs but the job market is open for allowing service technicians to be able to know how to work the equipment and then to get jobs let's work on some different businesses to get students involved fantastic
016hemphill yes nolan yep bernard yes rabe yes yes folk yes gorman yes next motion second to prove the bid to purchase two cnc machines so moved second and uh director straw is with us and uh our business manager also worked together on setting up this bid you want to talk a little bit about where the cnc machine will be housed and sure so we're currently looking to do this for two machines one to be housed at sternwood high school the second to be housed at hampshire high school these machines are a desktop machine they're called a desktop mill so having students work on full-size mills for those of you that are aware of cnc machines and mills they're about the size of a small car so these can be desktop versions that our younger students
017can start to use in their classes they're a little bit less expensive to operate because they can work with wood and with plastic rather than chunks of metal in our classes and so students will be working on the cad programming and then being able to plug that into this program here to have the actual machine make the part that students have designed this goes along in line with the other equipment that we currently use we currently use hops mills and lanes in our current classrooms for manufacturing so this mill here the desktop version uses the same equipment and the same control panels as our larger rooms so students can be able to learn on the smaller version and then be able to advance up into the larger systems once again just like with the hunter
018equipment haas is able to come out and help train our staff are we concerned about the cost of these machines since there was only one bid no this there was only one bid because they wanted them to interact with our current systems and haas is the old manufacturer that makes systems like this that would interact with our current control so we were limited on our side not on the people that were bidding we needed compatibility correct it's easier to have the same equipment the same functions talking one another having teachers have to learn new systems and make it more streamlined all right thanks for sharing that director nolan yes yes ray yes yes bulk yes yes gorman yes all right last we need a motion second to discuss and approve the resolution to dismiss our
019temporary secretaries at the end of the 2020-2021 school year so moved second so if you recall this year when we began underneath the covet mitigation one of the factors was to put in additional support at the building levels in terms of having temporary secretaries placed there uh they've been able to assist us in the self-certification forms that we've completed in other tasks that are necessary in terms of bringing students in helping with buses anything that might be needed throughout the course of the day for the offices um they knew they were being hired as a temporary secretary when they were hired on we didn't know how long it would be they've stayed all year because we've been underneath mitigation the entire year but we are looking for a resolution to terminate those employees at the
020end of the school year uh which would be effective on the last day of the uh teacher work day so june 8th would be their last day that we would have in terms of the resolution so this resolution just helps us move forward with the termination process by the board of education post employees sorry june 9th work day so i'll get a certified letter sent to them as well as a hand delivered letter tomorrow um don't find them that way we'll be ending our employment effect at the end of this school year has there been any discussion on the part of our full-timers you know the idea of having floats in the district does it have to be six or zero when we think about what things are going to look like in the fall
021i mean we could always add them again if we needed to but just given the things there's still going to be some version of hybrid have we thought about not six maybe but have we thought about keeping two that would be reasonable to float to some of the schools central campus person then maybe somebody that would float really not anticipate needing any extra support in the fall uh we have not talked about having any floaters i think floors are always a challenge in terms of where do you put them who gets them and then they get locked in as an employee i know that they build relationships inside of their buildings uh additionally we we don't have to collect self-certification forms next year we already know that okay it was not a necessary thing we
022had to finish this year with we did choose to because we already had the protocols in place people were comfortable with it so we did finish up with self-certification that's a huge piece of what's eliminating that alone just right is is a huge piece off of what the uh these individuals do as well as the quarantining has been going well quite well we haven't really had to use the rooms the way we anticipate initially which was also going to be the usage of those employees so for the cost of the employee we believe at this point is more fiscally responsible to go ahead and let them know we're not bringing them back hopefully of course some of them are great employees we would love to keep them so hopefully they can apply for another job
023within our district but we did not think it was wise to just have floaters but sometimes it's problematic and again i mean just the reallocation of duties i would assume at the office levels shifted when you have the extra person there so they're just going to you know return back to presumably what right you're doing before which you know will be different for our existing staff too so correct all right yes yes a thief yes bulk yes and pill yes nolan yes gorman yes information items uh director diversity is here uh the update on the activities and athletics at central high school good evening i'm going to kind of jump around a little bit because uh i wasn't sure if ernesto was going to make it because he came straight from the track meet so
024we're going to start out with probably our biggest news so come on up here ernesto so this is ernesto he's a junior he's a three sophomore sorry he'll be a junior next year he's gonna be a junior he's gonna be a junior looks like a junior so he has two more years to do a lot of great things he's a three sport athlete but he's also a four sport athlete because he competes in male gymnastics which we currently don't offer as a team sport here but he does it as an individual so one thing i started over five years ago was we have a lot of special individuals in our district and he's one of them and we want to give him those opportunities to compete on the at that special special level so currently
025ernesto plays football he does competition cheer and then track he's one of our pole vaulters and this year he was able to compete in boys gymnastics last year was canceled due to covid and on friday i got a message from his coach from mom he finished fifth place overall in the state he qualified in five events four out of the five six okay there's a lot in suggestions it's new it's learning see i graced him by not going with because i couldn't help him so by him placing fifth he was able to return saturday to compete in the individual events he did phenomenal in all of them but the reason why he's standing here is because he's a trailblazer everything that we you know say in the district everything we want to do he is
026our first male state boys individual champion in the vault event that's it and just talking with ernesto out of the five individuals that placed overall three of them are seniors so he has high hopes for the next two years to continue to to raise the bar so you know with all of our state champions we want to bring him in front of the board because we want to you know celebrate our successes and and this is a huge one because it's all self-driven it's all on him and it's a great honor to stand here and congratulations quick questions how many years have you been doing gymnastics ernesto the next two years here okay where's your home gym where do you practice uh midwest gymnastics academy okay awesome well congratulations nice job big time all right
027so i'm going to stay in the category of our individual sports because we're getting excited uh we have boys we do have a male boys tennis player uh luke walker everybody might remember his brother nick who qualified for state as a freshman all four years and finally his last year ended up finishing third uh luke two years ago would have placed that state as a sophomore but ended up having stress fractures in his back so ended up bowing out later in the tournament so that year off has been great mom texted me today and sent me a message that uh we did have him set up to play matches at jacobs and hampshire because this year with the covid ihsa said you could do high school you could do private and you don't have to
028stop so we set them up and then when everybody figured out what luke's level was they're like yeah we don't want him to play so he missed out on those hopefully thursday there might be a match for him but we're not too sure but just to give you an idea of what his special time is going to be this year there's two rankings that you look at in tennis basically he is ranked out of the top 100 juniors players in illinois he's number 17. his universal tennis rating system is used which is an international scale for tennis players from 1-16 luke is a and uh his brother wasn't 11.7 as a junior so it just gives you an idea there and he should improve in that his national ranking he's in the top 600 of
02916 year old and in the top 800 of all the 18 year olds so he's and he's uh ranked 473rd in the nation for tennis college recruiting so we'll see what his run looks like uh that first week of june so kind of some awesome individual accolades there to touch on our team sports going back to our winter season both of our basketball coaches were nominated by the illinois coaches basketball association for coach of the year so it's kind of a great honor there getting into what we're currently running which i can tell you it's a whole lot easier to breathe knowing that in two weeks uh we're about 90 percent of the weight done because all the lower level sports are are done we're just kicking off the ihsa postseason so but baseball the
030varsity baseball team is currently 10 and 8 in a very tough fox valley conference some of the highlights are closing out a 1-0 victory over marmion which is with an unorthodox double play freshman mark michael pearson threw a no-hitter against crystal lake central uh nick carpenter threw a three-head shot out against kerry grove in a 6-0 victory and now battling the number one team in the state huntley to a 7-5 loss the rockets are young every day sometimes starting as many three freshmen on the varsity team so the future is huge with them and i can tell you i think michael pearson's probably going to be one of our better pitchers that has come through central in a very long time so good things there their postseason uh starts june 2nd lower levels end right
031before that memorial weekend softball is off to an exciting start their record is currently 10 and 7. i got a text from uh coach richmond they lost to a 1-0 to jacob said base was loaded in the in the top of the seventh nobody out and they couldn't get one run so that that's a that's a heartbreaker um so they're eight eight and five now in conference part of the excitement is due to the fact that we have three starting freshmen and only one graduating senior that has significant playing time and what we're hearing through the pipeline we have a lot of good softball girls that are coming up so we're going to be young and very competitive there which is great boys track they won the 16 huntley invitational which normally we finished four
032or five but they went there wanted i believe by at least 15 points which was huge um kind of shocked everybody especially with the numbers that hutley puts on the track but some of the greatest things so far this year jake borman broke a 21-year school record for the shot put that was held by jake wendt in 2000 with a distance of 54 feet one inch jake broke broke that with 54 feet and four inches and today i got i got a message for mike as i was signing in the baseball umpires he broke that throwing 56 one so and he's he's got a scholarship to go to isu for for uh shot and disc so he's one of our many things out of six events currently ranked in the top five in state jake
033borman in shot and disc zach schmidt in the 400 800 and then of course our four by 400 our 4x8 relays so this is a great year because when we can score in our field events we do well in the running events we we have a chance so they're excited to get to that postseason run as well girls track although losing a season covid last spring the girls track team has not slowed their goals or expectations for 2021 the girls team looks to compete at the top of the conference advance girls to state and come home with some state medals they're now entering in their two-week what they consider their championship phase getting ready for county sectionals and then state so coach neal is really excited about what we have there uh girl soccer overall
034they're 10 and five but their record doesn't you know reflect their success right now they've played they've lost some big games so three schools such as naperville central wheaton academy they lost to st charles east which is projected to be one of the state finalists they lost 2-0 to them and then of course everybody that's in our our area like sycamore canelin plainfield central dekalb we've all beat so they're excited right now we're sitting tied for second in the fox valley conference waiting for the tournament to start next week they have one more game against huntley tomorrow and then regional sectionals supers and state and looking at the way the state threw us this year for all of our postseason we didn't go north they're sending us back kind of southwest kind of that belvedere
035all the way down so it's kind of what we're used to so you know we feel we have a great run in the postseason which is kind of nice we're not going to go up north with all of our conference schools which is what it was uh in the past last but not least wrestling just started their matches they're one in four but as we know wrestling's a game of numbers and you know just how things balance out with our weights versus their weights so right now our in our loss to dc we won 13 of the 22 matches that were wrestled so what that means is a lot of kids got their hands raised so we lost 54 to you know 30 something but that wasn't really truly mat time so coach brown is
036excited about our young team the time that they are getting um nathan kim is leading the team he's five and oh so far with three pins and their season is still young they're going all the way till uh june 9th so they have two two matches a week some some weeks they have three the illinois wrestling coaches association is running their independent frost off state tournament the registration open today they are implementing a girls bracket in that as well so we're excited to let our kids know about that as well so that is our sports update moving on to the other realm which is activities we've done a lot of things in the last month i'm not sure how many of you were able to log on and see the musical that was called working
037they did a nice job the show was a great success musical director was sarah castro performance director was christine heckman and you can't forget about our producer matt billin because he's the one that put it all together and another great show you know we only sold 52 tickets but you know i i don't look at you know 83 for the fall play 52 for this i just think everybody's lives right now are getting so busy you know to sit home for you know an hour and a half and lock it in to watch it is pretty tough but they're happy with the results we did that show in 1997 by the way mr nessus first year here it was not his choice it was the theater teacher's choice he was going scorched earth and doing
038something that could never be done we had to take oh there's a prostitute part of it we took out the prostitute part i had to shift some of the lyrics in the song that i sang that were not quite deemed appropriate uh but you know it's a great show i didn't know about it until like saturday afternoon i just i don't know how i missed it so well it's because we have it's there's other stuff going on yeah the weather's nice and it's like hey we want to get out and do some different things last week we also conducted our first 712 live music concert up in the football stadium we rented the sound system brought it in and it was kind of like what i would call an open venue bring a chair bring
039a blanket sit on the football field sit in the bleachers come enjoy live music it was a great event uh you know across the board kids were ecstatic parents were great it may not have been probably the most perfectly sounding because that was the first time a lot of them were together as big group but accolades around to all of our music teachers our kids our parents our community so that that was a great event the choir concert's set for thursday we're going to do that one in the gym uh because the outside sound and corral it's just really tough so we're going to break that up into two shows we have 160 kids in the chorus due to preparation the middle schools chose not to just because that's a lot of stress on those
040kids so we're gonna keep it just the high school they're ready to go um and we're just gonna do two shows 6 30 7 30 and then half the parents the first show half the parents the second show that way everybody can come in and see that in person and it's going to be great because i learned a lot about the fine arts the acoustics are much better inside and to mic up all the kids and do those things it's a heavy task outside another huge event that's coming up on may 22nd our service club is doing a color run it's it's a one mile race that's set up on the chs complex and all the funds that service club is raising is going to be donated to the national alliance on mental illness so
041currently we have one board member two full teams registered and the time slots start about 10 10 15 and the last race will go off at 11 45 it's a it's a great community type event we have 172 runners signed up you know spread out all the covid restrictions are all in place and i think it's great that our service club can do something big and give back to a very good charity um almost there the last one we did have our senior gala on may 8th this was in place of our senior prom huge success we had 115 students and i know that and we only have 266 seniors but to just put that in perspective district 300 tried to do something similar they have a pseudo prom their numbers were so low they
042ended up co-opting and didn't even get 40 kids amongst three high schools that are probably closer to 5 500 kids and we had 115 so what did we do that night that was pretty awesome so they came into a red carpet theme and we invited the parents because of course we want to have our parents part of whatever we can so we kind of lined up outside red carpet event they were paparazzi take pictures do all that fun stuff once they come in by parents you know now it's time for fun so we ended up having to do that part in the hallway because the weather did not necessarily cooperate on that day it was pretty rainy but we punt we adjusted and it was still great the parents were happy from there we divided
043the kids in two groups we had uh chris jones hypnotist comedian i think he was on america's got talent one of the winners great started giving back to schools doing these shows so we contracted them for one show and we said hey can you do it twice so like two 30-minute shows well he threw our whole night off because the interaction with the kids was so good he ended up going for 50 minutes when it should have been 30 so it's like all right how could we punt and adjust everything else so which was good half the kids went in with chris jones the other kids ate a nice catered dinner from pinstripes so the things that they would have got there chicken parm salad loaded mac and cheese all the things that a typical
044high school kid loves to eat so the food was great entertainment was good but it didn't stop there the chs high school community you know kicked in together we got a whole lot of raffle back skits for the seniors so they won raffles we were able to prom a 2021 king and queen they did their senior superlatives and then the kicker of of the rest of the night was now it's torrential downpour outside and i'm out my coat my umbrella and we're lining up the car so the kids left we brought them down by hbt and uh the athletic boosters partnered with matt bombers and we ended the night with a 10-minute firework show very similar to those that have seen our homecoming so just just a great night overall uh a lot of accolades
045to jillian luchanski's andrew mcguire and the junior class prom for really putting their heads together thinking outside the box and what can we do and the biggest thing we heard was darn i should have came because they heard all their friends talk about it and if that and we were prepared for 200 plus kids but you know we can't uh you know we can't worry about that and then the last thing i ordered the new graduate sign to replace the 2020 to go out front so that should be in hopefully by the end of the week and we'll see the new 2021 sign up there so and yes sorry for the length but i told dr cerna it's gonna be a little longer because in june at the next board meeting i won't be able
046to make it because i'll be down in peoria at the state convention so i wanted to make this one a little more thorough and short of any state runs i'll come back you know in july then thank you so much all right next to the in-person remote learning status report dr stern dr mongan so um just to build on what we've been sharing in previous months um our state superintendent of schools dr ayala has come out formally and stated that illinois state board of education's official stance is that schools will fully reopen in the fall we've entered we entered the bridge phase on friday if our if our current mitigation factors numbers stay stay good and they were looking good this morning in my phone call with the health department as well we expect to
047enter phase five on june 11th so we could be in phase five as a state as early as june 11th so it's right now um idph um cdc working on different guidelines now you probably noticed and i included a handout in and supplementary materials on the side in the news there's been quite a bit of news about fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks things like this what wasn't really reported is that those rules those rules don't really apply to schools so the king county health department came out with updated guidance again today you'll see that it's dated may 17th and basically it's what we already know that we're not part of that that we still have to maintain the mask mandate we still have to do the social distancing and the contact
048tracing so the rules for us have not changed we talked about when we expected that they would change and they they're expecting that additional guidance will come back come out after the end of the school year but then it will be different from this year's guidance and then we will place this new guidance up on our website as well what's up very good and then for um the survey results that we submitted so as parents you know that we sent out survey results trying to find out what our percentage of students that would return next fall given the medical notes that were required otherwise everybody's expected to be back in person i received uh 40 about 45 percent response rate right now out of the 4 500 students that we have between kindergarten and our
049ec through 11th grade we have 2123 unique students that responded so about a 47 rate of that we only have 33 students that parents have selected to bring back in a remote option of those 33 students they range really across the spectrum so about 1.55 our assumption is that if parents did not respond they're probably planning on bringing them back in person so it's a very small number uh for ec currently we only have one student that is expecting to come back remote kindergarten we have five students that work involved first grade second grade are both at two third grades at three fourth grades at two uh sixth grade said two eighth grade and ninth grade i both had four tenth grades at three eleventh grade's at one and twelfth grades at four so those
050that make up the 33 students the challenge is how do you service this fewer kids so partly what we're doing is we're working with the regional office of education they're currently trying to get approval from the state board of education to maybe offer a cane county-wide remote only school where we could transport our students to be serviced through the regional if they cannot do that i've also got a ploy out to my king county individuals as well as some in mchenry county to see if anybody's willing to partner with us to cluster a group of teachers together maybe to teach this small population of remote students i think we can still serve as our sixth through twelfth if we choose to through our online program at ventum unfortunately i'd have to lose a few of
051their elective choices but we still could service them under that um guys it's really that early childhood through fifth grade then we have to figure out how do we manage them in a way that would be a quality education for those students and so we're hoping that with the regional office of education or with other regional partners that we can figure out some way to form a coalition together and collaborate together to try to provide for other districts as well isn't i mean would mid valley just be the likely best option with the fact that we're already kind of we're intertwined in other ways already we talked to many of those so i've talked to many of those uh curriculum people across the county i think that we're all trying to figure out our numbers
052everybody's are really low so i think there's not any district yet that i've heard of that their numbers are coming in any higher than ours uh most of them are seeing the exact same trends we're seeing so most parents are looking to bring their students back full time which is good news um but um yeah that's a coalition we're looking as mid valley keene county we may have to stretch out to mchenry county huntley is one of the groups that we work with uh consistently as well so we might be able to work with them as well but we'll kind of see where we land hopefully regional office gets approved through state board of education for an alternative learning program and gets funded somehow to help us do that and we can just kind of
053form together as a county in terms of learning laws learning alaris has been a big conversation that you keep hearing about across the nation like where are we sitting in terms of learning how are we doing with our students so we did an analysis of our fast bridge data which we looked at our students that were here and took the assessment winter of last year pre-covered so they would take it in january of 20 pre-covered to get a benchmark and then we looked to see how did those students grow by winner of 21. so postcode they would have already gone through the march covet the summer slide come back for some instruction to see how they're doing in when we look at stuff we always look at underneath the response to intervention plan so it's
054like 80 percent of our student population about 80 percent sit within 25th percent down above um and then you have about 15 that sit below that about to the fifth percent about the 10th percentile or so or maybe it's 8th percentile and then we have another 5 at the bottom so we call it tier 1 tier two and tier three so we looked at these numbers we asked ourselves did our kids cluster close to that eighty fifteen and five uh when we looked at that and you have a packet in front of you when we looked at both hybrid students in a math so that's looking at the mathematics remote students in a math and then we looked at the hybrid students in e-reading or a reading sorry and then in um for a reading
055at the bottom here you see some damage you can see the chart and the first one represents a blue chart in the first page and this is consistent throughout is your 20 the cp is your college prepared and then you have your lower students so those are your students that would be at the 70th percentile the college prepared a 70 percent or above scoring the 70 percent above the loan rates gets between the 26 percentile and the 69th percentile so i clustered those together because those would be kids we'd consider in that 80th percentile range of what i would call rti the sub risk falls between the 11th and the 25th percentile and that's the sr that you see there 20 sr is some risk that's the yellow one and then the higher risk is
056the 10 percentile and below and that's the one where you're seeing the hr that's a high-risk students so what we want to see is we want to see that the college low risk one go up right so you see some gains there so we're seeing student movement and we really want to see the sum risk and the high risk students go down because that means we're closing gaps there anticipating that we know well we're hoping we're going to see growth in all of our students but we should see some kind of a trend there in the a math hybrid we looked at the exact same students so the student did not take the assessment last year in the winter we did not count them for the 21st so these are student-to-students you're seeing 1 650
057students who took the test it last year compared to those same 1 650 students this year that took the test to make sure we're seeing growth and we're looking at cohort data so we're looking from a first grader to a second grade then from a second grade to a third grade so we're looking at cohorts those same students as they moved along so when you see that one two two that's the first to second grade group the two to three is the second to third grade group etcetera we don't go to high school right now because we only have any reading and it's norm it's not the same data here and we'll look at that separately but not tonight so when you're looking at this you can see that last year 86.7 percent of the
058students that took this assessment fell within that range of what we're going to consider the 26 down above so sitting in that range where we need them to be this year we're at 87.8 percent so we saw growth more students fell in that category so we did not see a learning loss in amen for our hybrid students we actually saw that they did make movement and didn't make some gains which is really good news for the sum risk that you see there you can see we had nine percent of our student body that fell in the summers category and now we're down to 8.6 so a small decline which is good that means they split up into that low risk category or the college category and then for our high risk students you see we
059made a better margin of a point six percent from four point two percent to three point six but we're well within that eighty 15 5. uh if you just turn to the next page we have the a-math remote we of course wanted to separate those two bodies because we wanted to make sure that our students that were remote we're also learning because they will be returning in face-to-face next year and we needed to know if we needed to do some kind of adjustments or interventions for those students who entered our doors you can see we had 600 students that took the winter test last year and then the same 600 students we have for this year in the winter and you see we have a really good marginal gain there 79.7 percent were in that
060college and lower risk category and this year it's up to so we had a nice nice gain in terms of students progress in terms of learning and growth this year the sum risk was at 15.5 percent last year and it went down to 9.7 percent this year so again they split up the category we'd like to see them which is that low risk to college and the high risk was from 4.8 to 3.3 so good movement in our remote students as well so we saw some really good gains there and not um you know any major learning loss that would impact them for the e-reading the same category you can see that the balloon around it's the same group we had 1 645 students in the a reading class of 20 that took it to
061the same compared to the ones that are in 2021 the marginal gains aren't as much but reading is one of those categories it's a little bit more difficult but we do see some good gains for college and low risk we're at 85.8 so above that 80 last year and this year we're at 88.8 so we had a good margin at least of growth there we're maintaining and still seeing growth for some students the sum our risk category we're at 10.3 to 7.9 and the high risk from 3.9 to 3.3 so again all metrics in that area also showed we had movement in the right direction and we did not see massive learning loss and then when you look at the a reading in remote we're looking at 602 students and the college ready and low
062risk was 86 and this year was 86.4 so stayed flat fairly flat but at least made us minimal gains but did not lose or have a learning loss in terms of some risk we went from 9.5 to 9.1 again minimal gains but we still are in good shape we didn't have any learning loss and then the high risk we were flat so overall you know i have to say i've said all along the teachers are doing what they need to do and i think the the plan we put in place and the board's willingness and wherewithal to stay the you know stay the course and get kids back in school um even from the get-go in august has paid off um i think that the learning loss that we saw here is very very awesome
063uh we don't have much i do think our challenge will be social studies and science we can assess math and ela because we have the assessment tools did we give up something in the content of association science don't know that would be a little bit harder i think we'll have to monitor that as we go through whether you know content areas or categories that are missed because they're trying to get ela and math and at the elementary school level we'll kind of look at that as we move through but overall i think our teachers should be commending our parents our students i mean we've done a heck of a job uh this year and i think that the data shows that um we're moving in the right direction with very very minimal if any learning
064loss projects it's that time of the year again um one of the concerns as we moved into this summer was access to materials and as we put these bids out we were talking with our vendors and our construction manager shales mcnutt um a lot of the materials and stuff that that we were needing for our window project and our roofing projects we were able to procure quickly and our vendors had access to that so the roofing material for cms's jim roof is already on site so we were able to procure that to get it on site here so we had it so we didn't have any issues with that um they're tentatively gonna start as soon as school is out and get that job get in get out and get done which is what the
065contractor is wanting to do the window projects at central high school in central middle school same thing we did field measuring shortly after you guys awarded the bid they procured all that material all the aluminum for those frames and everything is is in stock they're fabricating the windows now we're working on acquiring the glass so all those things are right on schedule and seem like we'll be able to accomplish those some other things that we're doing this summer we're replacing the roof on the district office here we're going to start that this week the roughing system over this old gym was a system that we didn't do when we did the rest of the roof here so we're going to do that now we're also upgrading our hvac automation systems at prairie view and hbt
066we have some very antiquated systems with antiquated software and computers so um we're using entec is our controls provider so we're going to update all those building automation systems so we can more efficiently and better control the hvac systems in those buildings as well as we're going to update lighting controls at all the buildings in the district so again to be kind of energy conscious we're going to be getting some incentive back from combat for all of these upgrades so there'll be some dollars in return which dana was ecstatic about to get back in in those cost savings um we'll still be doing um our painting projects some flooring updates some of those things but uh the major projects seem like they're uh on schedule and gonna go any questions about any of that some
067question on that i just thought your tickets that you give us do you guys have turnover or custodial staff at cms we did yep yep and we've had a few we've had a few staff in hiring throughout this covet process we've lost a few staff in that process so we've been using our supervisors and using overtime and stuff so we have seen an increase in in tickets and the turnover time with our staff again our staff struggle sometimes with the computer aspects and getting those tickets closed out so we try to encourage them to get in quickly and get those closed out but that's something we're working on with our staff but we did see a slight uptick of ticket with the kids coming back and you know we kind of that population grew a
068little bit so since spring break we're still our our staff is still working hard the staff that we have here is is doing a great job in making sure that we keep things where they need to be i think our our year of of covet and all that i think our staff's done a great job to make sure that we're able to support the teachers and keep the students in class so i'm proud of that thanks dan sorry i'm updated for graduation may 27th well carrie mccaslin is kind of the well is the assistant principal at the high school who's kind of leading uh the planning efforts for for graduation so we are scheduled for the network arena on may 27th it's going to be the the first time in quite a few years that
069all seven board members will be attending graduation i put in a phone call uh regarding regalia for our new board members asking if it was in yet uh reached out to herf jones and everyone's backlogged uh just because of covet and everything i guess and supply but as soon as they come in we'll make sure our board members get that material it's going to be an indoor ceremony which is kind of exciting we have an outdoor contingency plan but due to our numbers we're going to be able to host it indoor and each graduate will receive six tickets which is reasonable are we handing out diplomas or how is that actually happening um that will be somewhat dictated by the narwhal arena but in the past we hit people glove glove up and they can
070pass up the the diplomas or also being on table the student will take a diploma cool all right that's the german three um new textbook so i will pass around another bliss uh department chair is requesting new german three uh supplemental materials to go with her current curriculum the books that i am passing around will actually align directly with she's using in german too and during four which we've already purchased curriculum for currently she her information or materials that she uses for german 3 is outdated and isn't current so she really is looking for something that's going to be more current in terms of written information culture sporting events things that are happening in germany that she felt that she could bring alive with these textbooks you have the rationale within your uh forward packet
071so i won't read it for that a netted request the cost of the books is about 1200. it's 11.88 for the two materials she's looking for the class sets in her classroom not for digital resources as she fills with a foreign language it's better to have the hard copies versus electronic books so it's her request to receive the actual books themselves any questions we'll come back next week or next month for action is it standard to have 18 years a pub testbook textbook that was published 18 years ago our teachers don't really use so yes i mean textbooks today aren't like back when you were in school most of our teachers use supplemental materials or resources to we don't actually use a textbook or we have ebooks i think she has been struggling with finding
072resources this prima that you're seeing come around she purchased german too probably german tooth came first or german for about the last two or three years she's been updating them and i think she's been trying to figure out what to do with german three um and this is what she's landed on so she does not use this is not really a textbook you'll see it it's a supplemental material she likes to pull her resources okay she feels it's more relevant and more current uh district received two fire requests one is more procurement for our newest board members this is a quarterly foia that we receive and so our business manager created a spreadsheet so it's very easy to respond to and just download the information into a document and send it off second one came
073from the chicagoland laborers district council and this is one of their researchers who just keeps on track of the bid tabulations and they were looking to see where the numbers were they came in for the asbestos abatement bit and were able to respond to that as well yes bulk yes canfield yes nolan yes yes gorman yes let's take a five-minute break yes sure even says chs chs german pictures