001here like a motion and second to approve the agenda Nolan yes an hour yes yes and Guren yes all right we had a couple students record the Pledge of Allegiance would like to play that right now right now we'd like to recognize our visitors thanks to all the administrators who have joined us remotely and the public who are viewing remotely also I'm dr. Stearn you know that recognize anyone in particular a little bit to the Board of water electricity option data would you like to introduce our guest we have Becky Thompson on the line from the Nia Energy Consultants she's the one that's been handling all of our our bids and it's going to do the live auction for us tomorrow so on one of the agenda items and two items I think you have
002the memo and then she can answer any questions that we might have thank you this is a public comment time but we did not receive any public comments so we'll continue on so move on to action action items the motion and second to discuss and approve the consent agenda second I'm revenue and expenditure summary reports are in your board packet revenues are currently at fifty four point 82 percent compared to forty seven point fifty-eight percent a year ago expenditures are currently at sixty eight point sixty one percent compared to sixty seven point seven five a year ago the district received impact fees of thirty nine thousand one hundred fifty four dollars and thirty four cents for seven new home starts transition you came in at seven thousand seven ninety five and four cents this month
003bills payable reports the same for June typical and then annually old second Bank reviews our letters of credit two years ago I think it was we established a thirty eight million dollar credit limit with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago right now that limit is a little high so after tonight's meeting I'm going to start the process just to have them reduce that down a little bit more in line to where our balances are but keeping us sufficient so that we're we're always on fully collateral questions for vena yes yes yes yes next we need a motion and second to approve the alive auction for the procurement of electricity and as Dana said back to Thompson is with us she's the senior energy adviser to answer any questions you may have we get a
004motion don't work second also in your board packet there is a memo kind of laying out what happened at the last meetings are just a quick recap our electricity is up in November of 2020 we currently are with Vanguard energy through the supplier of direct energy then the energy advisors since our last board meeting they went out for a pre-bid got 13 suppliers just participate right now we're kind of seeing that we can normally we we know that the electricity rates are lower but the other people like a piece of the pie and the other piece of the pie keeps increasing and the unknown of what's going on in our world has caused some of those bids not to be as low as we had anticipated so after tonight's meeting there will be a live
005auction tomorrow at 10:30 last about 15 20 minutes anyone can watch if you want to let me know and I'll send you the link and you can watch it live and then after that tonight's approval your granting either Tod or myself to be able to award the lowest bidder as long as they therein within all of our specifications that we want I think that's it any questions and that keeps here to answer anything more - if you need to all right I guess not once did you want to add anything or no no you did you did a terrific job we have already done like Dana mentioned we've already completed one round of in-depth analysis we expect to have thirteen or fourteen suppliers tomorrow bidding against each other live and in real time so we
006expect it to be a really really great turnout and I just want to give you kudos for discussing this at this time I know you have many other things going on in my world I live and breathe energy and this is a very wise decision for you to be discussing this now because there's a lot of uncertainty coming down the pike for us in the next 12 to 18 months so looking at it now and insulating your district from any risk is crucial so I just wanted to give the board and the administration kind of a pat on the back we're looking at this now I think that the results are really going to be in your favor good thank you yes babe yes yes our next emotion and seconder needed to rescind the may
00718th 2020 paper products bid award until where the paper products bid to midland paper the amount of 48,000 three dollars and 33 cents second so we got a lower bid after the fact or did they change their bid data no there was actually a computation error and the white paper bid for Verret if so their their bid was actually it would have appeared to be lower but when you when you caught the tabulation error then they were actually more expensive so Midland paper is the lowest responsible bidder marriage Noland nah yes Reb yes yes all right next we need a motion and second to discuss and approve the depositories as an annual approval that we do each year annually every year we have to do it it's a same three people every year old second
008bank the Illinois funds and PMA securities so nothing new yes yes yes no one yeah funny yes all right next time a list motion and second I needed to discuss and approve individuals to serve as treasurer from the district activity funds another annual approval second um each year the board is required to appoint treasurer currently Pam mr. Wilson does it for the elementary middle schools Jenna gardener does it for the high school we're converting all of our accounts from quicken or QuickBooks and moving them into skyward so then they'll be even more oversight with our finance department here at the district office though any questions babe yes there yes Armen yes my next motion the second are needed to appoint the committee chair an additional member to serve on the Audit Committee this year second
009second each year the board appoints two board members to serve on the committee usually takes about a 5-10 minute phone call from the auditor they'd like to usually talk to at least one board member I'm not sure what the questions are but they seem pretty easy I think they just kind of look at you know fraud in our policies and and your impression of management and how we do things here so we just need to pick two people so that way they can make that phone call and they are coming back the week of August 10th so sometime during that week whoever is chosen don't have to be like just a quick phone call yeah so Mitchell or if one of you wants to do it with Eric that's fine otherwise I can do it
010again I'm flexible doesn't matter to me you I'm working from home nobody cares what I'm on the phone anymore I'll do it I've never done it okay it would have been funny if I was I meet the whole time though volunteering so raven owen yes which one wants to be phone called yes Kenard yes rape yes Foreman yes [Music] next motion second excuse my dog if you virtual and talked motion and second or needed to discuss and improve the resolution to allow behemoth of salaries of buildings grounds Department personnel any Tillet ease to be paid out of the O&M fund there's another annual approval and that's strictly it's just an annual resolution that we have to adopt the state says that these should be paid out of the EDD fund most schools and our school
011including does this to move it to om and this is authorizing us to use oh and I'm Sal arees and all the utilities out of the 120 instead upon 10 notes yes rave yes yes we need a motion and second to approve the designation of interest and some of the operating funds in order to prevent that interest to become principal second again this is another resolution um the remaining the four funds the ED fund O&F on transportation and working cash to have their interest not become principal and gives us the flexibility to transfer this to other funds when we need to in the future yes yes yes next we need a motion and second to discuss and approve any contracts that produce over one thousand dollars of revenue to the district second this list again
012is another annual thing it's usually the same every year we have our picture people and a lot of our fund raisers Waco where it was the only new addition that we put on there because they're right at that close to that thousand dollar mark so : yes Henare yes rape yes Corman yes next emotion and second are needed to discuss and approved and flute and dr. Magan to prepare the tentative budget for the 2222 2021 school year this is the last one for me tonight this takes a team effort to build the budget lots of people are involved but it makes sense to have myself and dr. Magan with HR in the finance to prepare the tentative budget we appreciate all your work at it so yes rape yes yes yes all right we need
013a motion second to approve the 2021 Board of Education meeting calendar second this calendar follows well the calendar that we we adaptive rear if you notice that September the September meeting is a week later that's to allow to make sure that we have 30 days for the budget to be on display and then you have highlighted dates in January and February that's because we're moving our meetings to Tuesday because the Martin Luther King jr. holiday and because of present state what's approved we'll be sharing this with the press and we'll post it to our website sounds good any questions on any of those dates for the board alright damn rape yes Nolan yeah there yes yes alright that wraps up action items we've invited information items a triple light conference registration so registration normally is
014already opened this year they're delaying the registration until sometime in July right now the conference is scheduled to take place in November but it will be interesting because with our current restore Illinois plan will still be in phase four at that point until we have a vaccine or a ready readily available treatment which means that you cannot have gatherings of more than 50 people any one place so by any one place like in a conference center any room and that come from Center would count as an individual place but I'm not sure how they would do the keynotes or even if they're going to be allowing conventions and downtown Chicago at that time so this is more just as an information item for the board just to be thinking if you would like to attend
015should the opportunity presents of not it great yeah how do you doubt it'll actually happen and the only reason I say that is our meeting might work starts the following week and we've already cancelled it and it's just with everybody traveling and everything you said it's just and we all know triple I mean they pack us into those rooms downstate want to come up to Chicago maybe it should move maybe triple I uncle somewhere south I'm just sharing the information so you can begin to think about it should start to move forward yeah thank you alright next up is a high school graduation um I really have to come and carry McCaslin in the high school Karrie McCaslin and and the team there they've been spearheading trying to come up with a meaningful alternative for
016graduation so what we recently found out we've been holding the August 9th date for a graduation at Northern it was always our desire to bring the entire community together and have that in-person graduation event we were hoping that we would be in a better stage by August but what it what occurred is that the president of Northern actually canceled their rescheduled commencements which would occur the two days before ours on August 9th so with them canceling I think it's just a matter of time until we're told as well that we won't be able to exceed 50 people and that type of venue for for grouping so um as the high school to come up with various scenarios they put their heads together I think they came up with some very good options and after after
017numerous discussions and I mean numerous discussions they were leaning towards one over the other so the original plan that um we pitched to the Regional Office of Education and the King County Health Department because we were looking to plan an in-person graduation event on our campus and the football at the football stadium we the plan that I pitched was to use our bleachers and also bring in other portable bleachers and so he would have no more than groups of 50 in those bleachers that would be separated by six feet then we would put all of our students on the football field and those students would be separated by 6 feet and then the administration board could be on the stage and we could have students come on up and receive their diploma whether practicing social
018distancing the plan was shut down because they thought the football stadium in the same way that they kind of classroom as a 50-person mix in any one area that's in King County so then in looking at other plants or other things that are available high school administration came up with a great plan for an on-site graduation but it would be an all-day event um they would have to bring in and families and groups of 50 maybe to groups of 50 on campus and separate areas and then they would stage them and they would have an opportunity for students to copy and cross the stage and receive their diploma maybe sign a banner get a couple photo ops but it would not allow for everyone to see all the speeches live it would not allow all
019the students to be together with their friends so the the option that after a quite a bit of weighing in debt that everyone is leaning towards is actually reserving of the Sears Center the search Center is located in Cook County hey Cook County will allow a group gathering like this for a drive-in graduation event where we would have a portable stage there we would be able to screencast videocast graduation it would play over FM radios for people that were present the entire student body could be there at one time along with their parents and loved ones they would be able to see the graduation on screens that were placed around the graduation students would still be able to come across the stage and receive the diploma and everyone who wanted to be there with their
020friends could be there with their friends the issue is that there's a little bit difference in price Northern Illinois University costs for our graduation is right around twenty two thousand five hundred the cost for running the Sears Center for this would include the use of their lot their security all their people to deal with traffic the use of maintaining porta-potties and all that is eleven thousand six hundred and sixty nine and then the production company and we did receive two quotes for production companies for the theatrical staging and all the lights and the screens the lowest the lowest quote was sixteen thousand two eighty from American mobile staging and the next the next quote was eighteen thousand eight fifty from upstaging and company in Sycamore the total the total price for the event would actually
021be right around $7,000 so it's a little bit more than what we paid at the at NIU but it would allow all the students who wanted to participate and come together to be there yeah I think that of yours the word input I like that idea I think it's a better I don't know they're just it's it's a cool graduation in this time you know so we we wanted to try to do something that was special for our graduates I completely agree I mean they weren't expecting to have graduation of the high school only way that way we can at least get together with their friends and I think having I think part of the special thing about graduation is being together with everyone so those that choose to be there it's probably gonna be
022similar the people that chose to be at the you know parade and Stonecrest plus more a resume and so I think that makes the most sense and given everything that we've been through this year $5,000 to me is a no-brainer yeah I would agree thanks to the team at the high school for working a lot on this I know it's important to a lot of people that I have talked to and yet plan looks good worried does it sound like a decent plan to you yeah I'm in my family thinks it's a decent plan to their all in favor I think even though they don't know what this plan is and then what we'll do is we'll work with a high school administrative team and we'll start pushing up correspondence beginning tomorrow and then push
023our greater details as the event comes together and what's the date again Todd we're looking at the weekend of July 18th okay that way that way the families have about a month to plan right and we would have a date and we'd have a rain data on that weekend I'm sorry push out a nation about the date push it will push out begin pushing out information tomorrow to reserve the date and then we'll push out additional details of the event as we develop it subgrade is the is the date Saturday with the rain date Sunday is that how that goes i combined with me yes that's what we're looking at the date would be Saturday with a rain date of Sunday okay good deal so high school team for a lot of hours and they're
024working on this and I want to commend them on on coming up with what I think is going to be a really nice plan yeah I like the the idea at the track you know on the football field too but this just seems obviously you know bigger and better you know if we depend on what happens in the fall we'd still love to bring back all of our graduates for to homecoming of them it's just there's so many unknowns right now yeah well just the manpower that would have had to have been put in by our high school staff in particular to try the logistics of something like that just listen you something just seems like a lot of work you know to create a day that's so long and so so taxing that I
025think it just alleviates a lot of the stress especially for the summer as we're working to prepare for the fall and I'll be unknowns that still exist there so I agree well Chris I know I know that Chris and Terry Stroh or in the meeting and so I know that they're happy now that we have a definitive plan because I know that we've all been talking about getting correspondence out and I know Chris does Tony and his team they'll be working on that already starting tomorrow all right excellent all right next we have the Prairie knows little school celebrations the next step so dr. hog is in the meeting and he created video clip which I'm sure the help of a missing principal posh so dr. Harvey yes thank you all the video pretty much
026speaks for itself so I happy taking questions you might have afterwards good evening thank you for giving us the opportunity to share with you some of our academic and culture building celebrations past reflecting upon the improvement initiatives that we found successful in the past they fell into the above categories curriculum ultra climate social-emotional learning and instruction for the focus on closing achievement gaps for our struggling students we introduced two new curriculum for special education English learning students assess National Geographic insight quite structured reading and writing classes it helps students develop strong literacies match and map support students and individualized learning pathways cover skillfulness to support o students access to learn we continue to provide attention to strengthening academic behaviors of students with the development of an academic behavior task or eighty we've added to our
027continuum of services of this getting in January the teachers of these tasks utilized small movements with structured processes while setting and monitoring CDs and regular communication to provide this intervention is important in students knowing that the success of a school is the sense of community that it can build among students staff and Families we continue to take steps to involve our families with activities of pk- first carry the ball open house we've partnered with families on our school who with initiative of improved communications between home and school we share practical positive strategies facilitate open two-way communication these strategies were the basis for professional development activities conducted with staff all-important second he continued to provide volunteer opportunities for meals we had our largest number of volunteers Ohio State Constitution 41 and 27 in seven thirdly we
028continue our traditions of bringing families into the building to celebrate student successes December student council sponsors cafe for students and their family members my time during the day celebrate good grades and positive behaviors also each quarter students balance and staff are invited to a ceremonial breakfast the staff recognize students for academic and effort possible eg Oh apartments with us to provide the items families to enjoy Thurman's continental margins this past year we work with students to continue the development of their sense of civic and community responsibility we revamped the Veterans Day activities to include a whole school assembly which incorporated individual and group activities to honor American veterans partners with our PTO to host two assemblies focusing on persistence and making positive choices finally our star club let the student body in a December collection
029of backpack items for the homeless their applicants made it possible for over 25 fully loaded backpacks to be donated to Lazarus's also their ongoing food drive collections led to the packaging will donating of blue diamonds to families during the recent school closures finally in the area of building culture and climate we've conducted many PD sessions at staffing levels to support staff knowledge and help set and clarify expectations for positive learning environment and pkms our Seok worked throughout the year to train staff and to teach the students common strategies that they can use the classroom and they become anxious they also worked with students and staff to develop best practices that can mean the students to foster of building my consistency around group work expectations which was found to be a source of stress mistreats finally
030based on results from a building screener our social workers and school psychologist development night meet SEO needs of the students the second step Rick Hilton was utilized as a tool for teaching skills related to the targets reach future grants will be built based on results from the Sabres circuit and we administer it through our fast bridge benchmarking in the area of instructional improvement to be continued to work with kiw Franklin this year our focus was on departmental implementation of lessons as well as providing pure feedback on instructional delivery we have also continued our efforts of departmental analysis of IAR data detailing student progress in meeting ela and math students then take the next step having each academic identify strategies they can take to support ela and math standards that have been identified as challenging from
031students as we move forward to the 2020 2021 swinger we plan to continue many of the district and building initiatives that have helped us be in academically successful C as they continue what it's worked we also plan to launch new iterations of several initiatives for example with AIW our focus shush up to Matt be rigorous intellectual work within and across the state so that we can be assured students are being challenged in a balanced fashion with our SEO work we will implement an SEL de connected to the international s field and devoted to activities promoting social innovation we will continue our work with common assessments but adding the formal notice training is down to so take their use of the program come assessing and their understanding of individualized data to make people my regards to
032the draftsmen statements we will revisit the training that we've provided regarding the stoic strategies and develop monitoring process to assess it and finally as a new initiative we will formalize building light focus the use of learning thank you for your time this evening and thank you for your support Reynolds Mills so with that I just want to give a couple shoutouts one to Mike Doyle for his training of me earlier in the year from for using WeVideo those guys are really very helpful but also yes mrs. posh she assisted with especially focusing on the SEL pieces as she helps lead that committee and then I'm also serving on a lot of a lot of editing functions for me because it we found it very hard to pare down a lot of what we've done over
033the year to just give you six five to six minutes worth of data so hope you enjoyed it do you have any questions about anything no good job thank you thank you no it's awesome thank you for sure enough yep all right principle test Tony has also created a video so you can show us that well regarding Central High School celebrations and next steps really three I'm sorry principal Walter has the CMS celebrations and next steps to apologize that's right Jeff so yeah we summed up in about six minutes a lot of things that we did at Central this year I'm very excited to share that with you so have any questions after the video I'll be here good evening and thank you for writing me the opportunity to share with you sent a little
034soul to 2019 2020 school improvement plan this year we have much to celebrate and third which is our climate and culture last year we started the fire calm initiative and continued that this year you will find all these stations located in every school classrooms mutations allows students to remain in the classroom and access all the activities but they are still in here in participate within learning in addition we added zoetry which aligns directly with finder pop another piece that we added this year with the character ticket system throughout the courses here every one even cares the treatment is done the students having opportunities to earning tickets from any staff member in the building and I answer them into a drying the drawings were then held in the lunchroom the chips are very excited Justin see
035of their chick dextran and they earn a prize with an atomic level at our luncheon of fondness excitement and celebration other at lunch sure it was a celebration included at trivia Fridays for students interview questions and access to names such as window and board game who installed them and social activity in the lunchroom and put yourself on top additional student recognition happened at the semester for such an excellent effort academic excellence character and good food needed time for awards were all given to them so celebrating pizza in country cheers another piece was our exciting year of our parent communication plan say that every teacher was to clean out the entire class of parents at least once a month I am proud to say that 93% of our teachers accomplish this goal by the end of
036the school year and there one last week Keith Moon from our climate and culture was to add a collaboration hour with administration and our central and central Education Association building representatives once a month we offer opportunities for any staff members to come and provide celebration fun ideas or new ideas that we could try out or concerns that they had so that we could address them every single month all of these days group to improve our climate in another area of focus for us was in curriculum we pay particular attention to our special education and English language learners subgroups as these were areas that we saw our lower performing students on standardized tests we adopted the insight reading program to focus on our English language arts scores in our imagine learning for the area of math
037both of these proved to be beneficial programs in our first year of implementation and we'll continue to focus on them as we continue next year we also continued our literacy focus and develop their very own poster covering cite evidence and analysis which was consistent across all curriculums tell our students develop a better understanding of all text including Moza fiction and nonfiction we also continued our work with intellectual work that we can started last year this year we talked a little bit deeper and started looking at mapping across the unit our last area is in college and career readiness we start the school year with a visit to Central High School where the students get to meet their counselors and start discussing and exploring their next four years this is followed up later in the year
038in December they get to meet one-on-one with their high school counselors and fully complete their high school registration and their four-year course plan we also still continue our an old trades days in students were not necessarily college bound to trades and other technical areas in which they can focus on as premier we had land a college visit which that was canceled due to koban and our Sunday as well and he's continued to the annual areas of focus to make sure that our students attend a college and gets a to our campus and awesome opportunities to do stem day we continue to work through Naviance in our halls of classes so that they can experience logging in and navigating the system prior to their freshman here as we look to next year we would be expanding
039our career tech ed opportunities for our students my County project lead the way we will also continue our focus with special educational students for special education for instructure special education teachers will be focusing in the area of math and English language arts more on a department base this will help us continue with our implementation of inside with English language arts and imagined math classrooms in addition yelling about cabin informational texts specifically annotating central ideas and supporting details the summarizing and context oops additionally they will focus on our special ed PL and to your intervention students by providing small group direct instruction with many lessons free teaching strategies orally that other students already understand science will follow that same guideline with informational text we're in the areas of annotating social studies will focus on nonfiction text
040and vocab as well specifically following Brittany and choice students will be provided text at their level of curriculum content content and guided reading strategies will be utilized to help them understand at the tops math reaching for all students who fall below with the benchmark and common assessments many lessons will be provided to these students within the curriculum thank you for this opportunity and for your continued support of Central Middle School have a great evening so I just like to echo some of the comments that Matt made as well like Doyle gave me a crash course on Wii video and got to remember I started in the district before we even had email so all this new technology would not be possible without having support like the instructional coaches and Kathy axon was great at helping
041edit the videos so I appreciate everyone's support in making this possible to present you guys tonight any you have any questions No thank you very much thank you very alright we'll go on to their high school celebrations that I jumped the gun on earlier so Tony Thank You president Gorman before we get started I want to echo dr. Stern's thoughts earlier and just really let the members of the board know how appreciative myself and my administrative team are on all the support that we're getting you know from the board tonight with your support of our plan for graduation and dr. Sternin and dr. Mann gave me who've been with us every step of the way it's uh it's been really trying as we have worked you know long and hard hours to try to figure
042out how to do something special for our kids and it's uh it's the principle of the school it's just really nice to know that we have the support of everybody around us to do something big for our kids so thank you very much for that as we move forward for our school improvement video here you know it's so interesting that we've spent the last several months focusing on the challenges of remote learning this project ended up being a little bit more fun than maybe normal because it got us the opportunity to to look back to see you know many of the things that we were working on well school is in sustance so hopefully you'll be able to see some of those highlights and what we plan to do as next steps and hopefully you
043see that we try to have a little fun with it as well dr. stern dr. bong goo members of the board thank you for giving my team the opportunity to highlight some of the celebrated and accomplishments and rise this year brought the presentation they'll hear members of the administrative team discuss a variety of school-wide celebrations and lights within our screen for me in focus into the next school year first let's hear from the system Frenchwomen castle you'll review some school-wide celebrations Veterans Day has grown into a sustained tradition here at Central High School every year veterans and their families join our 301 community at Central for celebration of their service and sacrifice a breakfast veteran frayed and an all-school assembly celebrate our veterans and their families stated justice 2nd annual Turkey Trot is a growing
044tradition here at Central its origination began for the Wellness department is part of a celebration of lifelong fitness students and staff joined together to celebrate this central zone FF an organization have many reasons to celebrate this year nationally statewide and through the many 300 community impact events that they hosted thank you miss CHS several areas of the school insensitive wipe the highlight of beautiful first I'd like to discuss work nurse Nathan's John yeah the framework while AIW is not new to the school we have change our focus from assessing instruction conflictual work toward designing cross curricular experiences for students some exciting work has been accomplished as interdisciplinary teams with an ability to work together during this time our wellness insights at least team to create a cross-curricular time between topics discussed one side within biology
045the focus was nutrition and within that distance the clean evidence and reasoning strategy Houston sciences is to establish a provocative commercial promoting a nutritional beverage from the perspective of any number of occupations with the completely additionally for the second year in a row our driver education and agriculture teachers collaborated on slowly dignity which provided students and authentic opportunities and seeing the challenges posed financial funding and finally teachers in the English and social studies deprotonates collaborated and develop a common language and expectations regarding argument and writing it is within this approach and our teachers believe students will benefit consistently image and expectations let's say right across the ranking now let's hear from assistant principal Lewis about our work in the world of AD this year the College Board decided to move up the timeline throwing students
046I enough to take their AP exams the staff at CHS were nervous we were pleasantly surprised that our number of tests ordered increase this year we had 85% of our 18 students sign up to take effect that's an overall increase of 30% which increases the number of students possibly earning college credit additionally we have seen a 15% increase in students who have achieved in three four or five under exam we are excited to see this year's results as we strive to increase rigor from more student impressive results mrs. s thank you to you and your team now let's take a closer look at a program which was designed to help some of our struggling students mr. strong hey get away this year was the first full year of our workable program with many good successes
047during the first semester we had two seniors that struggled academically or on the verge of not graduating the worker program was able to help pulling those students to her passing grades and gradually on top of that we had eight students that qualified out of the worker program by earning Cesar hired in all of their classes we also have one of our students at really struggle last year are all A's and B's shir and even signed up to take her first 18 class next year Thank You mr. Stroh you look for the same is program flourish that's here finally I'd like to close by giving you a preview for what's to come after two years of the academic adviser model which replaced a traditional study hall we have identified some key areas of improvement in that
048steps first we will be working with advisory teachers to establish closer relationships with their students increasingly secondly we will be working with advisory teachers to more consistently communicate with other teachers in the building as well as parents with students from struggling connection is the main goal we believe that the more struggling students can feel a genuine connection with staff the more encouraged they will be that success is possible additionally as you are all aware remote learning has presented challenges for everyone at central a remote learning experience at the high suppose definitely reveals some key strengths areas in the school not the least of which is the staff commitment to students remote learning has also revealed some key areas in which we believe improvement would improve the quality of connection between students in school should we
049find ourselves in a remote learning situation in the future focus will be given to providing new experiences for students and then to teachers as they navigate complex material the goal will be to reduce the anxiety caused by the extended experience be closing while we know this has been a brief snapshot of all that happens in Central High School we hope that has given you some insight into the hard work being done throughout the school thank you again for giving us the opportunity to share so I'd like to also extend a thanks to my administrative team for putting this together we all take different elements of the school improvement plan and try to work through those elements with their staff and our students and we're happy to answer any questions that you may have well that
050was a good presentation Chris thank you putting that together right there's no questions move on to the to return to school transition guide dr. Stearn do you have information on that I'm actually going to ask dr. mine in to present on she took the lead who were all working together but she took the lead on that all right dr. Mannion are you there with us let's see I don't see her on the list she's she's done the phone call oh she's the one eight one five phone call but she's on mute she might not know she's on mute mister do you realize that you're muted she's been talking for three minutes she's looking for the little microphone button on her phone okay so Esther she says that she's here but she's not coming through so
051take a look at what we're starting to do and hopefully she can connect with us so as we're looking at we're looking at a structure to tackle this that's meaningful and manageable for coming back to school and we decided that we need to communicate with all our stakeholders with within the district about our vision to return the school we're expected to move to face for work on June 21 June 26th and this where we can as I mentioned before groups of 50 in any one area any one area could mean like a bus a bus as an area an area would be a classroom an area would be the cafeteria an area would be the gymnasium so you can recirculating people together but there is also other rules they have to be established Oh looks
052like Esther might be back such as social distancing and having appropriate PPE so to tackle this we've come up with various governance groups to look at it okay can you hear me yep yes we can so just get ready to talk about their various groups you're breaking up on us you were clear and now you're not clear okay that's right again we're going to is we're trying to estates in the field to help us work through different areas the committees in which were committees in the area and we make sure on the same page and know where we're moving the subcommittees that would come out of the Governance Committee which we made up of administration principle I'm sorry administration CEA members so some teachers some best members if it's a committee that would be meant
053by them and some community members to me we're losing their good she sounded like Hubert do you want to go ahead and yeah okay you're breaking up still so out of the Governance Committee as Esther was saying we have numerous subcommittees they're going to be headed up by various members of cabinet team or district level administrators such as director patsak and p.m. portal working operations so under the Wellness Committee that'll include our crisis team include our Student Services Department and also our nurses putting together things for monitoring both staff and students and visitors in the building we know that there's going to be guidelines that are going to come up from the state more than likely they're going to be calling for some form of temperature monitoring and how that going to look various fashions
054most likely having some type of parental responsibility involved in that as well so that on we know that students are safe to get on buses then um post-secondary dr. Mannion will be working specifically with with Kim Lewis and Kari McCaslin very strong principle test Oni and our partner is a TCC and our various colleges but how do we make sure that our upcoming seniors are prepared with what they need in this in this new learning environment so that they're set to go forward after graduation and also have access to their dual credit courses etc in instruction and how we're going to tackle this well dr. Mangan and Shane Burt Meyer are going to head that up with our principles with instructional coaches as Esther mentioned we'll have teacher involvement we'll have CA involvement where appropriate
055and best involvement and then we're looking at various scenarios that that we can accomplish for instruction really there's there's three there's only three real viable scenarios under phase four one is um you stay remote depending on where the outbreak is the other one something happens if the state were cleared to all come back or the third one is we run some type of a hybrid approach and different districts are looking at different options whether it's an a/b schedule or just bringing back elementary students we're looking at those options right now and then we'll be that committee will be working on that come forward with a recommendation or facilities we've done a lot of work already and director Paula we and in a fluid are going to work with our facilities and what we need there
056to make sure that we're properly equipped with our PPE equipment and then also with our fillings as far as spacing for spacing out classroom so that we you know again how many students can we get in the classroom but typically somewhere between 12 to 15 with 6 foot spacing and how would you make that work throughout the day and then our operations because we're going to have to feed students and if you can only have 50 students at the cafeteria at one time with disinfecting in between how do you accomplish that you know do you deliver food to the classrooms you know how will that look exactly in Rinda Gorge for food services work and that same with athletics we know that the IHSA is coming out with various guidelines we believe that starting in
057July they'll be able to start activities with up to 50 students with proper protocols for monitoring and with social distancing and then Pam portal for transportation how do we safely transport students how do we disinfect buses between those transportation routes so there's there's lots of moving perch right now in this committee work will be coming together and we plan on bringing back quite a bit more additional information in July do we anticipate I've heard in my office some parents who said even if my kids expected to go back they're not going back because of an underlying health condition have we thought about what we're gonna do for those families who will not allow their kids to come back like if they're all expected to be in person we're gonna have to have somebody managing elearning
058that we can expect the teachers to do that simultaneously with their classroom teaching No can you hear me yes yeah one of the things we're talking about doing is a survey for our staff first to fear those staff members and who have day care issues that may be there any Ally those teachers with parents that don't want to have their students come back but once we see those never that they can have a better indication of what I will approach that okay okay have you heard anything about schools having the autonomy to possibly you know if one school says now we're gonna stick with all remote learning and says we'll come back 5050 or is it going to be mandated one way anything on that we were we've been told up for this point that
059school districts will have autonomy for local control to do what they believe is best we've asked we as area superintendents working through the regional offices of Education we've specifically asked that that when this guidance and executive orders come out that there's actually more teeth to it than actually require with grading and require direct instruction you know of students they're synchronous learning or then perdon I mean ordered that just allow us to decide what that is I don't think we need guidance from the state telling us how much learning we need to do we as a district should be able to set that they should remove this roads correct that's what we're asking forever so that we can make an important decision based on our needs in districts around us they're looking at various options to
060but quite frankly you know if you're practicing social distancing on a bus there's no way we could bus everyone to school with our mostly it would be impossible so we're going to have to look at what's actually achievable and doable superintendent for the King County and they're basically saying that the plans that they've given us for Phase three we can anticipate they will not be the same for phase 4 so we have no idea what what they're approaching from the state level and what they want that mean II you know not usable we are here we have local control I think at some point we just have to decide where you can together three or four different plans trying to anticipate what we think the state's gonna do receive an email go ahead no time
061received an email was today from the regional office much that came from the Kent County Health Department and their their logic right now is they realize that it's not very practical that you can expect really young children to be wearing a mask all day it's just not practical and then they were talking about different ways of monitoring temperature and things like this so it's in nitrile Mangan's correct they're saying that at the phase 4 recommendation guidelines could be different from the phase 3 and that's what we've been working off of up to this time which is phase 3 I mean I think the bottom line is I mean the likelihood of us having a quadrant out a room where all of a sudden there's this spot for everybody is clearly not fusible they're gonna have
062to do something like what X amount of square feet you can have this many students in there not 6 feet apart wearing masks I mean there's no feasible way that any school districts can be able to do that so I think they're gonna be able to find a way such that we're able to get the majority of students at least at the grade school level in just the way that they move the bar very quickly at the end of May to allow for restaurants to open up when they said that wasn't gonna happen until phase four I mean I think they're just gonna find a way to get us closer and closer to having some sort of typical re-entry even with the restrictions in place because I think we will have a good percentage of
063families who are not gonna send their kids back kids who liked eLearning stay at home parents who didn't mind that I think it's gonna be a surprising amount but we're hoping that our survey will also share important data with us yeah yeah I would think we that obviously I'm sure you've thought of this but to look at the costs involved and if we say it's just not cost-effective to teach 50 percent of the students and maybe remote learning is better with new you know new tools in place and with a little teeth in the learning teaching yeah I think our favorite plan at this point is to get pre-k stuff to your point is there's 88 teachers at that level can we get that figured out if we have to reduce the size of students
064inside of each classroom and then how can we use all of those are charges I think that we had as scenarios to discuss as we look you broke up a little I don't know if you said it you know get k-25 back in school maybe even if you do remote learning for the older kids you can utilize the high school and middle school for elementary students for you for classrooms if we're gonna cut size okay that's one of the one of the scenarios were looking at is bringing preschool through fifth grade or preschool through sixth grade back the issue is going to be a licensure and staffing to make sure that we have enough staff that we can arrange to cover all the smaller classroom group settings all right I'm sure you'll share with us
065as you get it rather than just next month you know oh correct definitely all right great anybody else have anything for questions all right move on a northern Kane County Regional Career and Technical Education system dr. mind and I'm not sure if your connection will be good but let's take a shot at two if it's not good then I'll cover it the efed 110 is made up of four districts you 46 district 300 district 303 st. Charles and ourselves currently the fiscal agent administrative agent is handled through district u46 [Music] your breaking off the gun on us let's try Overton go ahead and go okay so up until this point the fiscal administrator the agent has been district you 46 but we've been having we've really struggled as a region being able to hire a
066director to Jeru over over that efe program and we know that we we share students across the programs and so one of the things that that we had talked about as if in the last round of interviews if we could not find a successful candidate you know that would be an are you 46 that we would look at moving the fiscal agent and the administrative agent to a different member district and trying to hire the director out of that district the directors paid for by by the grant so we were not successful in hiring a director in the last round of interviews and u46 and so we brought up that discussion again and we really care if the fiscal and administrative agent went to district 300 or st. Charles or us but we did offer
067to take that role on and it was unanimous then that we would take that role on and I think we will it will be strengthened to our district as we have that director really be working in all the various districts but stationed here because one of my one of my desires which I've shared before is over time I want to not only strengthen our cooperative in the north but I'd like to build partnerships in the south through making flex Valley vocational in that region with Waubonsee Community College and Kishwaukee college even more robust to offer even greater opportunities for our students across our region and I mean already we're very unique but this gives us the opportunity to become an even stronger entity on not only across the state but the nation so we would
068be we're going to be posting and then interviewing and hiring of a new the new efe director they would be out of our district but they're paid for by the cooperative by the through the grant all right you have any questions for Todd regarding it alright last item the FOIA Freedom of Information Act this was received a floor from a b7 and what they were looking for is they were requesting information on attendance during remote learning and we were able to reply to that very quickly because we did require parents to do daily attendance and their attendance rates ranged from 99.9% to 96.7 8% I think that he was surprised to see her data because attendance was not required under the act of God remote learning days we made that as a local decision for
069accountability purposes yes sir I think they were surprised to see her dad because I think many districts did not have anything to report [Music] interesting all right well that wraps the open session thank you again everyone for joining us this evening we need a motion and second to a German open session and move into executive session someone move second yes mark yes rape yes yes again thanks everyone and have a good evening Dara will be back I guess after executive session if you want to stick around