JTHS 204 Board Meeting 5.20.2025

001Roll call, please. Mrs. Lynn, here. Mrs. Graome, here. Dr. Huntington, here. Mr. Coffee, here. Mrs. Stiff, here. Mr. Kennedy, here. Mr. Fitzpatrick, here. All right, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. [Music] Very [Music] color forward. color guard. All right. Pause. Nice colors. Praise God. I I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Order. Arms. Cover. Outward face. Forward march. You may be seated. As always, huge thanks to our JOTC. And a huge thanks to Major Jacob. This is his last board meeting with us as he is about to retire. So, I would ask everyone in the audience to turn to Major Jacob and please give him a round of applause for

002his service. [Applause] Thank you very much. All right. We'd like to welcome all of our visitors. We have just a couple here in the audience. And for any of those of you joining us via live stream, move on to public comment on any agenda item. Miss Rico, do we have any? We do. We have one. U Mr. Brian Gordon. All right. You may come forward. Where do you want? Over here. Make sure the microphone has a green light. That way, everybody at home can hear you as well and not just stare in awkward silence. You have three minutes uh to speak. Please make your comments addressed um to everybody. It's not a conversation and we are happy to have you. Thank you. I appreciate being here. My name is Brian Gordner. I'm the director of

003the Three Rivers Education for Employment System uh here in Joliet. Uh uh JT schools are one of the 12 districts in the region that I serve. Um and I wanted to come here tonight to thank you for your support of career and technical education and uh trees in general. We do a lot of professional development here in your facilities. Uh but I I I'm most proud of the fact that uh I have walked through your schools with people from the Illinois uh lobbyists from the Illinois Manufacturers Association, uh budget strategists from political parties in Springfield, um a number of politicians, um and uh the lobbyists for the career and teched organization in general. um you have programs to be proud of and I thank you for your support and what you do for schools. I

004wanted to take a brief moment to thank uh Chris McGuffy for all he does for the programs. Um [Applause] and you all have been willing to embrace innovative programs that I've been trying to bring to the region for a long time. most recently the uh CEO program uh which I had the opportunity and pleasure of mentoring uh young people and attending some of those meetings. And I wanted to uh thank Dr. Guzman. She is my current board chair and uh has been instrumental in uh bringing programs to the region. uh most recently certainly one of the things that she's been uh a driving force in is the summer internship program which is not only benefiting your students but a number of students from from around the region and I uh look forward to watching that

005grow and again wanted to just thank Dr. Guzman, Mr. McGuffy and and your board for your support of career and technical education. [Applause] Thank you for your comment. We'll now move on to the consent agenda. We have a motion to approve and or amend. Uh I make a motion to amend the uh consent agenda by removing the hope well bills from the check register. Second. Second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Stiff, yes. Mr. Kennedy, yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, yes. Mrs. Lind, yes. Mrs. Graham Nomeare. Yes. Dr. Huntington. Yes. Mr. Copy. Yes. Motion passes. Do we have a motion to approve the rest? So moved. Second. Second. Roll call, please. Mr. Coffee. Yes. Mrs. Diff. Yes. Mr. Kennedy? Yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick? Yes. Mrs. Lynn? Yes. Mrs. Groare? Yes. Dr. Huntington? Abstain. Motion passes. Now for the moment you've

006all been waiting for. under recognition and awards. I'll turn that over to our building administration first. Sure. Good evening and welcome everyone. We have several recognitions tonight. We're going to start with the students from both the West and Central campus who participated in the Will County Clerk's Office Student Ambassador and Election Judge Program. Uh this is a fantastic program that's been going on for a few years that gives students an opportunity to learn more about the election process, spend time at a polling site uh working throughout election day and get paid for their services during that day. So it's a it's a wonderful experience and learning experience for our students and and they're also providing a resource or excuse me a support for our community. So I'll start with the Juliet Central students who were

007involved. Uh we had two students both who served as election judges. Uh when I call your name if you could come forward. First we have Jace Carmine. And then our our second student I know couldn't be here. He has a volleyball game tonight but still want to recognize him. That's Brody Walsh. And for the West Campus because we have a lot of recognitions. We're going to do them together. We have Grace Abbott who served as an election [Applause] judge. Wander Anama, a student election judge. Ethan Apostallowski, student election night worker. Elena Arno, student election judge. Anthony Ascu, student election judge. [Applause] Madison Bannon, student election judge. Angela Beatus, student election judge. Jaylen Brown, student election judge. Yenoa Buouie, student election judge and election night worker. Leslie Combmes, student election judge. Natali Cordovo Castillo, student election

008[Applause] judge. Kylie Daniels, student election [Applause] judge. Emily Diaz, student election judge. Lo Gdara, student election judge. Marisol Garcia, student election judge. Geressi Garcia, student election judge. James Gibson, student election judge. Taylor Greenwood, student election judge. Henry Harch, student election judge and election night worker. Trent Huey, student election judge. Diana Horge, student election judge. Leanne Jones Scott, student election judge. Cara Konichi, student election judge. Ava Lorendi, student election judge. Christian Les, student election judge. Rebecca Lopez, student election judge. Siana Mateo, student election judge. Noel McClendenton McClendon, excuse me, student election judge. Ashley Moral Morales Batista, student election judge. Cameron Moreno, student election [Applause] judge. Jana Muhammed, student election judge. Sly Nana, student election judge. Sophia Nugan, student election judge and election night worker. Briana Okconor, student election judge. Natalia Olivio Cruz, student election judge. Grace

009Orth, student election judge. Gabriel Orth, student election [Applause] judge. Jada Oi Adu, student election judge. Kevin Pateo, student election judge. Lynhang Ping, student election judge. Olivia Proo, student election judge. Tiara Purchase, student election judge. Gavin Rodriguez, student election judge. Iris Thema Rosa, student election judge and election night worker. And Zola Torres, student election judge. [Applause] We will distribute their certificates during the break. Angela, when they do CTE, you want to go do CT. [Music] One, two, three. We're good. We're good. One, two, three. Perfect. And any parents and family would like to come up now. I invite you. I need them because otherwise. Okay. trying to figure out which is good. [Applause] Next, I'll invite Chris McGuffy or is that correct to do Skills USA? Welcome. We're actually going to call somebody else up front,

010uh, one of our Skills USA sponsor or several of our Skills USA sponsors to come up and do recognition for our students. So, if Mr. Dale West and Miss Ryan Hager wouldn't mind coming for I'm sorry, Ben Durling and Ryan Hager wouldn't mind coming forward. [Applause] Good evening everyone. My name is Ryan Hager. I teach culinary arts and child development at Joliet West. As a lead Skills USA adviser there, it gives me great pride taking this moment to recognize the outstanding achievements of our Tigers who qualified and competed in the Skills USA state championships. Skills USA is an incredible organization allows high school students an opportunity to exhibit knowledge and expertise in career and te technical education at state. Students time was spent showing off their talents and dedication in each of their respective fields.

011I'm honored to have shared their journeys. Uh my co-advisor Noah Fabris and I were truly impressed with our Skills USA competitors this year. I hope they each feel intense pride in themselves and their accomplishments and also recognize the immense pride their hard uh work brings their families, their educators, their school, and their community. Uh can I Okay, these students are uh freshman Ryan Miller in technical drafting. They're all here. All right. Uh, junior, you can come on up. Uh, junior Jordan Shell, also technical drafting. Junior Karina Mario Ibara, uh, fashion design. Sorry, Karina. [Applause] Junior Grace Orthing and Junior Callaway Walsh for prepared speech. Callaway took home gold in her event and we'll move on to nationals next month. Congratulations Tigers and Mr. Noah Fabris. [Applause] picture. I invite any family members to come up

012as well. One more. One more. [Music] [Applause] Congratulations. Good evening everybody. Um, my name is Ben Derling and I am the lead adviser for Joliet Central Skills USA chapter. Uh, I just want to say a couple brief words about our competitors before, uh, listing off those who were able to compete this year. Uh, those who compete in this event with Skills USA are recognized by our industry employers as being some of the most elite students in their fields. Um, being able to compete at this event gives our students the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned and what they're able to achieve through our schools here at Joliet. And so I'm very proud to announce uh these competitors, some of which who competed at the regional level, others at state level, and then uh those

013who I call last would be the competitors that placed third or higher in the state this year. If you wouldn't mind holding applause until the end, I have quite a few names to read off, and we'll give them all applause right there at the end. Harice Alvarezo Velasquez, Christian Bernal, Giovanni Belli, Omar Hernandez, Jasmine Martinez, Angela Mononttoya Aguilan, Leo Smith were all our regional qualifiers. Our state qualifiers would be Elizabeth Ariyaga, Finn Bernard, Ivan Castro, Liliana Chaparo, Myin Diaz Rios, Nathaniel Gabriel, Giovanni Gonzalez, Sophia Hoyos, Aran Martinez, Riley Moon, Ellen Munoz, Brandon Perez, Camden Randy, Romeo Rojos, Isabella Sandival, Alex Valencia, and Mitchell Woodlock. The three following students placed in their respective categories. Osia Lara second in technical drafting. Juan Rossilles third in technical drafting and Tyler Rollins third in welding individual. Please give them

014all a round of applause. And I'll invite the other adviserss up as well. Dale West and Miss Jessica Christine [Applause] GA. All right. Ready? And then any family or friends would like to come up, you are welcome as well. Congratulations. [Applause] for we have a little bit more recognition to go as Mr. uh Dale West heads back to grab uh his his list. Uh we are would like to recognize our students who participated in the idea drafting the Illinois Design and Educator Association competition this school year. I know he had a lot of students that placed really well. So Dale Les will come on up and read those names. [Applause] Good evening. My name is uh Dale West and I teach uh at Juliet Central High School. I teach orientation to technology and our engineering

015and architecture 1, two, and three classes. Uh if I could have the following students come up. Ellen Munoz, Juan Rossile, and Oziel Lara, and Atlas Richie, please. So, Chris McGuffy told me to prepare a 10-minute speech, so I'll try and shorten it down a little bit. Students from Juliet Central competed in the 48th annual Illinois Design Educators Association drafting and design regional competition at Juliet Junior College. On March 7th, students competed in various divisions such as intro to CAD, 3D CAD modeling, assembly modeling, 2D machine CAD, 3D, and 3D machine CAD. They are given an industry related problem and have two hours to develop a solution. Their solutions are then judged by local volunteer industry judges. The students who competed displayed a strong work ethic, dedication and dedication as they compete as they completed many

016practice problems in morning during freshman hour during their advisory and lunch and during our afterchool Friday open labs. I would like to congratulate Ellen Munoz who placed third in 3D CAD modeling, Juan Ross who placed third in 2D machine CAD. Oziel Lara who placed second in 3D machine CAD and advanced to the state competition and Atlas Richie who placed first in intro to CAD and advanced to the state competition. The state competition was held at ISU on April 12th and Ozel Lara and Atlas Richie drove up with me at 5:30 on a Saturday to compete against the best of the best in the state. They both did a great job and I'd like to congratulate Ozara on placing second in 3D machine CAD. Oziel has displayed a passion for engineering for the engineering industry and

017has even started to apply his 3D CAD skills to design a 3D print of a carbon fiber part for a local manufacturing company. He is also our STEM club vice president and has been an essential leader and promoter for other interested students. As a junior, I look forward to seeing Oziel what he will do with his skills during his senior year in my engineering and architecture 3 class. These competitions have become eagerly anticipated events and provide an excellent opportunity for students to explore the vibrant academic offerings at various colleges, learn about potential future career paths, experience the college campuses firsthand, and showcase the industry skills they have gained in class. I'm very proud of how my students represented the Juliet Central Steelman. [Applause] Yep. And we'll keep this going. So, we have uh one last

018recognition that I'd like to do through career and technical education. Um, each school year, the Three Rivers Manufacturing Association, uh, a partnership of several manufacturers within the the area and their extension, the Three Rivers Educational Partnership, puts on a competition for all students within the region to participate. Um, and what's nice about this particular manufacturing or this safety poster contest is it allows all students at uh at a high level or at a very basic level or entry level to participate um with career industry experts um to demonstrate their understanding of safety awareness in the workplace. The the expectations of the students are are broad enough that students can uh demonstrate this and create a poster in a variety of different medias. So whether that's handdrawn, computerenerated, etc. Um, and students are able to demonstrate

019safety and what it means to them and their career field. So I'd like to read several names from both Joliet Central and Joliet West. These students not only participated, but were actually chosen as winners. Um, and I believe there's even um some prizes and awards from TREP. Um, including some monetary awards and some of them even have a printed poster. Um these posters will actually be posted throughout several manufacturer manufacturers within the region as well too. So uh pretty nice recognition. So the following students again if you wouldn't mind holding your applause till the end as there is a little bit of a list and we'll congratulate them all Juliet Central and Juliet West at the same time. Uh, first place, uh, our actual honorary winner, um, Maya Ellis, if you wouldn't mind coming forward.

020Jayvon Davis, Molly Nelson, and Emily Mahia. Caitlyn Aguilar, also a grand prize winner. Lilia Barbosa, Coral Fleang, Sean Hogan, Paulina Diaz, David Giamali, Pela Hermoso, Sophia Satello, Sophie Talico, Samantha Tamoy, Dana Zamudia, Chloe Chloe Martin, Katherine Mareno or Katherine Mareno, Isabella Ratrina, Erica Diaz, Ava Hervaten, Makia Carter, Javier Cruz, Stephanie Sabalos, Jacob Fors, Immani Herring, Jasmine Marillo, Elizabeth Garcia Ram Ram Ramagi Ramagi getting tongue tied, Caitlyn Jordan and Gabrielle Sanchez. I'd also like to recognize the staff who have helped participate in these and bring these this project to their students. Miss Brie Blackman, Mr. Donovan Smith, and Mr. for Arain. Please come forward. There you go. Okay, everyone. Make sure they can see me. in the front. There we go. All right. And don't forget, we'll distribute certificates and prizes and all that during the

021break. So, I think there's some money in some of these, so don't leave without that. Smile money. Yeah. Congratulations. [Applause] I will ask Brett Markham to come forward to do [Music] recognition. All right. Good evening everyone. Uh so I'm here today uh as serving as the activities director for Juliet West. Uh another great year in activities at both Juliet West and Juliet Central. Um, you may or may not be aware, but in addition to all the hard work that our journalism students do with the yearbook, uh, Tiger Tales, TNN, all of those things that they do, uh, it's also an IHSA, uh, competitive activity. Uh, we were fortunate this year to have have 10 categories qualify for state. Uh, and we're here tonight to celebrate one student who finished first place in the state for

022advertising. Uh, actually the second year that this student has qualified and placed at state. So, uh, quite quite an excellent opportunity for the student. Um, so we're going to recognize, uh, Eli Pearson, uh, who finished first place journalism advertising for IHSA. And, uh, Eli's sponsor is Jen Galoy, uh, from our journalism program. So, let's give Eli a round of applause. No. Okay. I'll take it for him. Okay. Do I think we still have to take a picture? [Applause] I'll ask Pat O'Neal to come forward to do recognition. [Music] Good evening. I uh I couldn't hear back there very well, so I'm going to try to use my teacher voice and project a little bit for everyone. Um, on behalf of Juliet Township High School, District 204, I would like to formally recognize and express our

023sincere appreciation for John Hall and the Workforce Services Division of Will County for their outstanding support and collaboration throughout the 2425 school year. Mr. Hall played a critical role in organizing and delivering impactful job fairs at both of our community connections events held this year. These events provided invaluable career exploration opportunities for students and families and significantly contributed to our mission of preparing all students for postsecary success. His leadership, commitment to community partnership, and dedication to serving the community of Joliet reflect the highest standards of public service. We are grateful for the workforce services division's continued partnership and commend John Hall for his unwavering support of our district's goals. His efforts have strengthened the bridge between education and employment and we look forward to continuing this vital collaboration in the years ahead. Please join me

024in public publicly honoring Mr. John Hall and the workforce services division of Will County for their ser service to our students and families. for you as well. But maybe I'm going to need that today. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Thank you. Um, our last recognition of the evening, we launched the JTHs student advisory committee this school year. Um, I'd like to ask our additional sponsors of this committee to come forward. Um, if you're able to be here tonight, Christine Schlushman, Shelley Clark, Nurice Moffett, and Marcy Flores. I know some of you are here. So, this committee was part of strategy one of the strategic plan, and we believe that our first year was a huge success. We met throughout the year during school improvement early release days when all the other students went home for working

025lunch sessions focused on open dialogue, collaboration, and meaningful feedback. We had a large number of students attend each session as well as a high level of engagement. The committee identified key key areas of interest and concern throughout the year, ultimately shaping their final presentations to JTHS administrators, and it was almost the entire administrative team focused on facilities, student behavior and discipline, and safety and security. Students were also honored with a certificate of recognition from state representative Natalie Manley from the state of Illinois's 104th general assembly house of representatives. The certificate acknowledged the students valuable contributions to district policy and program development by ensuring authentic student perspectives are heard and considered at all levels. I also want to recognize these students tonight for their leadership, commitment, and advocacy. When I call your name, please come forward.

026And as with some of our last recognitions, I'm going to ask that everybody hold their applause because it's a long list. Okay. So, um, all right. Now, come forward. I saw a lot of you here tonight. So Daniel Bautista, Paul Coffee, Justin Crawford, Zoe Diaz Pedes, Tristan Darte, Alexa incarcion, Giani Flores, Jaden Flores, Leno Gandara, Emanuel Guzman, Helen Hammer, Bin Herzman, Leila Howard, Javian Harmoilo, Riviera, Eric Asai, Holumna, Isabelle Huarez, Jesus Laroto, Camila Liel, Isaac Lozano, Bodie McGinness, Noah Magnus, Adam Martinez, Lily McDougall, Anna Moreno, Grace Orth, Nathaniel Palasios, Lydia Pittz, Autumn Powell, Melissa Ramos, Abigail Shriner, Natalie Shuster, Jordan Shell, Brady Vasquez Lopez, Gabrielle Villain Noeva, Haley Wright, Ernesa Zeala, and Juan Zavala. Can we give them a round of applause? Here we go. Perfect. All right. pressure. Okay. [Music] All [Applause] right. At

027this time, the board is going to take a brief recess to come out and congratulate all of you on your hard work. Um, this is the the best part of the meeting. We see your sponsors for your certificate unless you were an election. If you're a central student who was not part of the student direct direct We're going to move into our superintendent reports. So, hand that over to Dr. Guzman until we get to the e-learning hearing. At this time, we don't have any communication or legislative updates. All right. Then we'll head into the e-learning hearing. A public hearing is being held for Julia Township High School District 204 to adopt e-learning days in lie of emergency days. School districts may adopt a resolution to utilize e-learning days in lie of emergency days. The number

028of e-learning days may not exceed the number of emergency days in the approved school calendar. After adoption by the school board, the district's e-learning program must be verified by the Will County Regional Office of Education prior to implementation. The hearing for the Juliet Township High School 204 to adopt e-learning days in li of emergency days is now open for public comment. I would entertain a motion to open this meeting. So moved. Second. Perfect. Roll call, please. Mrs. Lynn, yes. Mrs. Ganomeare, yes. Dr. Huntington, yes. Mr. Coffee, yes. Mrs. Dip, yes. Mr. Mr. Kennedy. Yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick. Yes. The hearing is now open. If anyone has public comment, please address them now. Anybody? Buler. Nobody. All right. Is there a motion to close this public hearing? So move. Second. Roll call, please. Mr. Fitzpatrick. Yes. Mrs.

029Lynn. Yes. Mrs. Mr. Grome. Yes. Dr. Huntington. Yes. Mr. Coffee. Yes. Mrs. Stiff. Yes. Mr. Kennedy. Yes. The hearing is now close and we'll move on to the strategic plan progress update. Let Dr. Guzman and her team. I first want to thank all of our administrators for standing in the back. while uh we did recognition and now they're all here now. Um so this uh we love to do the recognition at the end of the year, but this is also the time of year when we look back at the progress that was made on our strategic plan. Um and I think you're going to find that there's a lot to celebrate while we still have a lot of work to do. Um and so we're going to have each of the action plan leaders come

030up. um they may not all speak but um they will share the progress for their action plan. Also we make recommendations to the board about what stays in progress, what is op considered operationalized and then also what we're recommending for adoption going into the 2526 school year. I always get a question about what does it mean to be operationalized. That does not mean everything is perfect, but we're on our way to implementing all the steps or most of the steps of that plan. Most of the action plans that we're recommending for oper as operationalized have um been in progress for two years. Um and so after each portion of the action plan, we'll give the bo board opportunity for questions for that particular segment and then of course at the end too. And then as

031the board knows you can ask any questions throughout. Um but I before we get started I just want to thank our administrators for their leadership that they have taken on these uh various action plans. They're the leaders but they also utilize our staff to do this work. So I also think the staff that's been involved in this because this is a lot of work. So as we look at our strategic plan um well let's see yes so as you know the strategic plan was adopted in December of 22 and then we we or the board of education adopted the first action plans in the spring of 23 and so we really have completed at this point almost two years of progress of a five-year plan. Um so when we look at the strategic plan, you

032can look at it in its entirety always on the website. Um but if we want to just summarize the four strategies, strategy one is about equitable educational experiences, two, strategy two is about organizational structure, three is attendance and academics, and then four is about district resources. Um, and so that helps us just organize our thoughts. And we have action plans in progress in all the strategies currently. So I'm not going to um read this list to you, but these are the current action plans that are in progress. So currently we do have 10 action plans in progress. But what we found with strategy 2 point or two-2 is it was so large we broke it up into special education and then English language or multilingual uh plan. And so those are broken up and they

033have different leaders as part of each. So when we look at strategy one, Shellyley and Christine were part of this strategy. Yeah. Come on up. See, we're going to model it. Um so they were part of this strategy along with myself. The specific result for action plan 11 was implement a comprehensive comprehensive approach to authentic community engagement which will result increased trust between the school and community and improved outcomes for all student subgroups. So when we're looking at the highlights and again not going to read this entire plan to you but we have the action steps summarized there. So action step one increase engagement opportunities. Those were the various engagement opportunities that we had throughout the year. We had good attendance um at these things. Um, one of the things that was new this year

034too, um, was our partnership, uh, I'm sorry, the joint vaping initiative and press conference at the beginning of the year. Um, we did see this year that some of those numbers were headed in the right direction. We still again more work to do but action step two implement student advisory committee which um you just saw recognized this evening that we will and we have many of those students who are not seniors coming back next year. Um the goal of that committee was to be diverse so all grade levels were represented as well as both schools. Um action step three improve intentional engagement opportunities. I think to highlight the two community expose that were implemented. Um, we had great attendance at our second one. We tweaked some things from our first one and thank you to

035all the individuals that worked on that, but the second one was mass engagement. So, we're looking to uh implement that again this year, one at each campus. Um, and then again, you have all the various things listed that we're happy to answer questions about. When we go to action step four, increase support and communication with families. Um you're aware of the state of the district. Um we uh have increased over the last couple years our enga the number of engagement liaison. Um so we still have our bilingual engagement liaison, but we also have engagement liaison that are focused on our non on our non- Spanish-sp speakaking families as well. Um and then action step five increase and expand activities for students and families which honor diverse cultures. We have many um events that are very

036many of you were at our Kernese celebration most recently. Um I was able to go to our um Black History Month activity um the assembly at Juliet Central that was fantastic and done in partnership with um our community partners. and then action step se six uh facility usage with community partners and then again the hosting of our expose. Um so those are just some of the examples. Um as far as next steps uh we continue we will continue to work on enhancing engagement for all of our events. Um, also one of the things we started this year was our inner faith committee um, focused on our pastors. We have a meeting set up for June where we're going to talk about specific things we want to work on together going into next year and tenatively

037a July meeting if necessary too and then um, continue with that group. They were very excited to partner with us. Um, it was really great couple first meetings that we had. Um and then continued implementation of the student advisory committee. And then also a plan for next year is lunch and campus tours for elected officials and community leaders. Um because as we were going to different events, um we really found that not everybody is has the information or the accurate information about our schools. And though they may have gone to one of our schools, our schools have upgraded facilities and things like that that we want to make sure everybody's aware of. So that is something new we plan to do during the 2526 school year. And then also the board had already has already

038approved, but the implementation of that ALOP pushin program in partnership with the ROE that will focus on 32 students at each school for their success. Um, so we're very a excited to implement that next year based on our progress and what we continue to do. We do recommend oper to operationalize this for the next school year. Does any are there any questions about this particular action plan? All right, then I will turn it over to 1.4 24 here. Good evening. We're excited to present the progress on action plan 1.4. You may remember that uh we had a more detailed presentation on 1.4 at the February board meeting. Tonight we'll provide some highlights. Um so essentially I just want to ground us again in strategy one uh with our focus on an equitable educational experience. And

039the specific result here for 1.4 is to establish the instructional and academic identity of the school district to increase the focus on holistic student development and preparation for post-secary success and a variety of career pathways. And I'm going to hand over to Chris McGuffy. He's going to go through some of our progress highlights. Thank you. Uh yeah, so uh expansion is in the works, right, through our curriculum and everything that we're doing with our students and their personalized plan. Um as Dr. Guzman mentioned, right, the the work is not done. Um but as of this moment in time, this snapshot, you can see some of the highlights that we've talked about previously, those would include um additional courses opportunities for students, additional dual credit opportunities, internships, including credit for students participating in an internship, um

040the implementation of our instructional norms and philosophy with our new staff, um as well as our veteran staff, and the uh the the addition of our curricular audit tool that we'll implement this summer through curriculum work. And then some next steps that we have, um we're always looking to add additional um early college credit opportunities for students in our additional classes in the work from Chris and his team. Uh like Chris mentioned, we are going to be using that curricular audit tool starting this summer in our core areas that are working on their curriculum. And then um as you know, we've we started with our our instructional philosophy. We implemented our instructional norms this school year. We're about ready and finished with our instructional playbook which really identifies some key instructional strategies that we really

041want to hang our hat on. And we'll spend SIP days next school year training stu all teachers or most teachers on the AVID schoolwide approach with using the wicker strategies our instructional playbook kind of like bringing it all together because the last part of that action step is training teachers. So we feel like we have a really solid plan in those areas and for that for those reasons we're recommending uh this action plan to be operationalized and we glad to answer any questions. We'll hand it over to 15. All right. Good evening everybody. Uh Brett and I are the co-leads for action plan 1.5 which is implementing a holistic approach um with restorative practices in the classroom and some of our processes with a discipline throughout the district. Some of the highlights from this school

042year. Um we did have during SIP days SIP days we had tracks for teachers um that were training them on restorative practices. About 150 teachers throughout the district um were trained throughout the SIP days and hopefully uh that will continue over the summer for the teachers we didn't get and those that cannot um come in the summer. We will try to get them in um during certain points of next school year. Um, as far as action step three, we are going to continue or we have continued our microaggression reporting um with online reporting for staff and students for that matter, but more so staff if they have any concerns that they feel need to be addressed in the district. Um, with action step six, the uh district parent teacher advisory committee, uh, we met numerous

043times throughout the fall where we get input from numerous stakeholders, ideally you know, parents, students, etc. Sometimes the students are not able to attend because of a variety of factors. Um but that that is why going into the student advisory committee um Mr. Markham and I were invited by um Dr. Guzman, uh Miss Lisman and Mr. Moffett to come over to district and get input from the students moving into implementing more restorative practices throughout the district. And then just some of our next steps, there's really uh a couple of of the biggest things that we're going to look at. Number one, um we're going to uh partner with Jeff and and Sean uh to make sure that we're uh continuing that professional development for our teachers. Um and then the two big changes that we're

044we're looking to do next year, um we're going to uh adapt the parent teacher advisory because we leveled the handbook this year. That was the major lift from this uh strategic plan. We're going to incorporate some data review into that committee and then bring them back in the spring to just look at uh first semester data and have a conversation about that. Hopefully get some really good feedback. Uh and then we're going to also partner with the special services administrators uh because there's some overlap between 1.5 and 2.2 at looking at interventions uh for students uh beyond just the catalyst program. So, and if there's any questions, we're happy to answer those. With all these plans, what are we doing to help the uh absentee situation? I think the principles will talk about that there

045in two 3.2 is is attendance and then we're we're coming back in July uh and we'll talk about some of that in that presentation with student behavior and interventions. um that particular action plan we are recommending that that stay in progress based on a couple of the steps that um were discussed. So that one we're recommending stays in progress for the 2000 or 202526 school year. Action plan 2.1 I'm the owner of that one. Um, it's to implement an administrative structure that fosters collaboration, focuses on student success, and ensures all programs are equitably equitably supported. Um, so again, not reading all this to you because the board has approved these things along the way and has allowed us to implement these things over the last couple years. And so, as you know, we did um

046look at external and in internal and external data. And then there were multiple positions that were recommended or um were changed slightly, renamed. The job descriptions were reviewed. Um and so going into next year, we have added and the board has already approved um assistant director of athletics and activities for each campus. Um, as far as next steps, um, and I'm very excited about this, um, but we're going to create a and implement a year-long administrative orientation program to provide additional support for administrators new to their role ro roles. We've always had support for um new administrators, but we're going to model it after what we do with new teacher orientation um where it's year-long there's topics um we're going to look at a a book, a couple books um and then also administrators that

047are currently in the roles could um opt to join that as well. Um so that's something I'm excited about going into this year. um summer DT professional development regarding positions, leadership's roles. Every summer we have a uh summer project list. I think right now it has 73 things on it. Um our running list each summer. So we've all looked at that and reviewed that and know what our tasks are. Continue work on the administrative handbook. Um and then again continue planning for the 20256 2025 2026 school year and beyond. So while I'm recommending that this um particular action plan is operationalized, we look at our staffing and our leadership structure every year. Um how our demographics are changing, how our needs are changing. um meet with the administrators each year individually to get their input,

048what's going well, what they would look to improve upon. Um those are some of my favorite conversations actually each year that we have. Um it takes a lot of time, but I appreciate their honesty and um their input. Um and so are there any questions about this action plan? And I just want to say we have the best administrative team. So, as evidenced by all of them here tonight. Um, and so action plan 2.2. This is the multilingual services portion. Is it this one? It right. Yep. Good evening everyone. I am uh the new addition to to this team. It was uh uh has been led by uh by my colleagues here, Paul Oswald and Mayor Vald Diaz. And Natalie Lopez is not able to meet us, but she's here in spirit. Um our our

049our plan really gets to how can we develop a program and continue to offer a program that offers uh the support necessary for our multilingual students, our growing population of multilingual students to get to that graduation rate, an increased graduation rate, but also to explore uh second post-secondary uh uh opportunities for them as well. So to give you some of the highlights this year, uh we brought together a core team of uh teachers that was exploring ways to uh develop curriculum and to look for ways to differentiate and bring some high leverage uh instructional practices to different core areas. uh but uh more more importantly to to elevate some of our collective capacity so that we could understand what strategies could um could be effective whether it was a newcomer or a long-term e um

050from that work we explored also uh ways to um bring those strategies to the classroom and so some of the some of the things that we discussed in a larger group through through our strategic uh group uh were um uh recommendations that that were brought to you previously. One of them was uh how do how do we bring uh instructional coaching and and a bilingual social worker to West Campus so they could mirror each other. Both schools could have identical programming. Uh part of part of uh bringing an instructional coach was uh from that work that we understand that our teachers need a partnership as our multilingual population gets larger. And so it's a it's it's imperative that they have somebody they could try some of these uh instructional strategies with. The other part of

051uh of our work was the development of um of just a a different approach to to our parent engagement which was uh to to uh identify those uh first generation uh uh parents specifically freshman parents and bring them together and offer them opportunities to learn more about our system, our school and our uh educational system overall. plus to visit some post-secondary u um uh universities. Uh the last uh um the last two parts is the uh excel program which was a a brand new pilot which uh we we understand that some of our students enter our our district with with uh with with some needs right um they they need credit recovery and so uh we explored uh 60 licenses and we were pretty successful at at getting uh uh close to 50 courses completed

052over the year. Uh the last is the connection of uh CTE to literacy. Uh we we do understand as a as a group that embedding uh and contextualizing language learning uh and and all the content areas into uh post-secondary focus is important. So we we are um we are currently um connecting our literacy course through the orientation to uh human and public services. So what are uh next steps uh is the creation of an ILT that looks at the at the uh entire program not only from the standpoint of curriculum and what what what we can bring for our students to get them to that goal but also um to uh to bring more professional development uh targeted professional development uh and provide uh also more opportunities for our parents to to engage with us

053to build relationships. Um, and then obviously the the the reason for creating an ILT is so that we can continue to evaluate the program and see where we're going and bring more data to you uh in the in the coming year. So our recommendation at the bottom is that to for for the action plan to remain active for the next year. Are there any questions from the board? I just have one about um the parent engagement. Um, are are you seeing a dip in um some of our families due to the the the attitudes in the in the political realm right now wanting to come in and participate? And that's a that's a great question and I think we were all fearful that that we would see that, but uh just judging by our our

054last two uh um um opportunities uh we we we didn't see a decree. In fact, uh um we were pleasantly surprised at the ask for it, they were there. And then uh we recently last weekend had a trip to the zoo just for for those families that attended four of the six opportunities that we had. So, um yeah, I I I can tell you that it was more than I've seen in any other districts. And part of that is the work, as Dr. Guzman mentioned, is the work of of everyone that is called and made a connection with with with the family. So, it's huge. So, so less more direct contact to get involvement than like flyers and things like that. No. Okay. Thank you. I think too it's because of the trusting relationships that

055our staff has built with families. um our our parents, I would say specifically in our bilingual program, trust the staff within that program and they're very thankful um of the work that the district is doing, but the specific people are doing. Um and they want what every parent wants is the success of their students. um so they show up and we've been very excited by the pictures of the hundreds of um people that have gone on the college visits. But I do think it's the work of the staff um building that trust and and really authentically and genuinely showing support and care for our students. Any questions? Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Our other side of 2.2 which is our special education leadership team. Hi everybody. Um we also presented to the school

056board in February on our um action plan. We have the same specific results as the ELLL um multilingual services. My apologies. Um so what we've been focusing on is um expanding our programming. So we will be implementing our resource model um or kind of expanding our consult model to include a resource class and working with uh Diane and Jeff and Sean. We're going to be um incorporating the AVID strategies and our instructional norms into that resource class. And then what we're going to continue to focus on is again the expansion of programming working with Brett and Steve as as he mentioned and we want to continue our professional development um to ensure that our IEPs are legally compliant and that they're supportive of students um so we are also recommending that this remains in progress

057for next school year. Any questions? Oh, sorry Carla. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Our next um action plan team I believe is 3.1. Good evening everybody. Hello. Hi. Hi. Uh so this evening uh as part of 3.1 um I think my team's a little angry with me because we're uh I am transitioning over um but as I do want to point out um Gabriel Garrett is committed to being here as she transitions um to make sure our motivation or uh as we as we're motivated to keep our momentum up um in our action plan. So, our action plan is a holistic approach to make sure that our students are developing personalized post-secondary plans. Um, and I know a question was proposed earlier about how does how are the all of these plans impacting

058um, our attendance and all of them are in some sort of way, but I did want to point out when students understand what their why is and they have personal hands in developing their why, why they're coming to school every day, that will increase their attendance as well as their academic performance when it's directly related to their post-secary goals. that one some highlights um that I want and I won't read it all to you just like everybody else hasn't been um is that as part of our um big thing that we wanted to our goals is to have both of our campuses fully staffed but also for to be um bilingual. So um in both of our campuses we're proud to be able to welcome families and students um pretty seamlessly like we don't have

059to go find a translator. It's it's a welcoming environment as we were just speaking about. It's not something that we we're seeing obstacles. So, we're proud of that. Um, another um highlight is that we've been able to increase our post-secary activities. We're getting students out into the college and campuses, workplace environments. Um, we are also um into our trade shows. Um, so the exposure to getting them in places that they may not have had that um, prior to 3.1 in our college and career. Um, as well as our school links. I know you've heard a lot about school links in the last two years. We continue to roll that out, get that in the hands of all of our students as well as our parents. We're going to continue that progress and I'll let Andre

060talk about next. Thank you, Judy. Julie, good evening everyone. So, our next steps for our action plan here, um I want to start with our uh postsecary planning and assessment team. And this is key to our work um because they're the team that is comprised of different stakeholders within the school that allow us to come up with the plans to help our students in the best way. So, no longer is this just living in a department in the counseling department. Uh this is the responsibility of everyone. And so as we move forward um we are looking to uh expand our uses of school links which uh this is our first year and and I would I think I speak for the whole team that has been very successful. Uh we love school links and it's

061definitely given us an opportunity to take our our expertise to the next level. Um with with that being said, one of the tools in school links is a tool called the personalized plan. This plan will allow us to basically have a working document of what we need to do to create that post-secary plan for all students. And the good thing about this plan is is that it is accessible to everyone. So, every student will be able to see their plan, their teachers will be able to see that plan and their parents will be able to have access to that plan. Um, we still have a lot of work to do to create that plan and make it something that is beneficial for everyone. Um, but we're on the right track and we're going to start

062that plan at the beginning of next year. And with that being said, we look to continue this strategy on into the next year. Any questions for our action plan 3.1? Thank you. Thank you. Action plan 3.2. Good evening again. Uh, strategy 3.2 two is a part of of course strategy three um which focuses on a holistic approach to supporting students um through um engagement targeted supports and flexible learning opportunities. Strategy um action plan 3.2 specifically deals with attendance with a specific um result of 90% or higher attendance rate uh for all students. We gave a presentation in January's uh at January's board meeting and that's hyperlink for you to reference. So we won't go over um in detail all of the points but this year we focused on three specific areas providing continuing our professional

063development for that warm welcoming environment for students uh to come into. But one of the things that we really um focused on was our messaging. First, we delineated who's responsible for responding to attendance, uh, positive or negative. Um, and then how are we communicating these, uh, student status with families. Uh, so we, um, brought in some new methods of monthly truency reports. um making sure that our daily attendance uh announcements to parents are um very plain, ensuring that they understand that the state's truency rate is completely different than what is deemed an unexcused or excused absence. And that was a point of learning for many of our families. So um we gave you an update of where our um attendance rate was as of the first semester which we saw um a decrease uh between

064comparing first semester of last year and first semester of this year at the conclusion of the school year next Friday. Uh we will um look at our data again and we're going to include that data in our pre our discipline presentation. Um so as far as next steps these we also shared these when we did the presentation in January. Uh but continued implementation of the JHS strategic plan and the reason we see that as a next step is because as Miss Adelman mentioned um just like students having a why brings them to school and you've heard me say this before I think when we've talked about attendance everything impacts attendance. If we do everything in this plan well that's going to impact attendance. If we adjust the school day, if we have a safe environment,

065if we have an inviting, we haven't gotten to strategy five yet, but our facilities being beautiful and kids wanting to be there. Attendance, everything impacts attendance. And so that's why we believe as we continue to see success in implementing every plan. We hope to also see success with attendance. That being said, we do have targeted things we're doing specifically for attendance that we mentioned in January. Um and Takar already mentioned here uh ongoing monitoring of attendance data. Uh again Tara Takara referenced that even though we look at endofear data we have done a much better job with all data but including attendance of doing it in a more ongoing consistent basis to see how we're how we're doing. Um and then continued alignment of administrators growth goals focused on chronic absenteeism. So, just as a

066reminder, all administrators at the buildings have a goal, a growth goal in their evaluation that is tied to in decreasing the um chronic absenteeism rate. So, it's something that is attached to our evaluation because it's that important. So, with all that being said, our recommendation is that this action plan remains in progress for next year because although we are making movement in the right direction, there's still a lot to do. I have a quick question. So, ongoing monitoring of attendance data. Um, I I'm assuming we're going to have another meeting with updates and we're going to talk about what that data is showing us and then interventions that are being implemented based on that. Yes. Okay. Thank you. We um we we plan to incorporate it into the July presentation um with discipline and and

067everything else. um that data. We like looking at it at the end of each semester, but we thought it makes sense to be part of that presentation. Any other questions? Thank you. Uh action plan 4.2. your hands. Okay, he's just coming down for support. Wow, I thought he was going to take the wheel. Good evening, everybody. Hello. I probably should do this even though my voice booms. So, action plan 4.2 is um uh owners are Dr. Hampton, myself along with Matt and Brian Shaw. Um and this strategy basically covers handling the district's um resources to be able to update the facilities improve the collaborative spaces um create safe and secure environments so on and so forth. Again we talked about this when we had the um state of the district address. Um, so many of

068these things that are bulletpointed here obviously we talked about previously, but these are things that have been implemented uh as we've been moving forward. Uh, the access control readers and replacements are completed with the buildouts that we're doing in the buildings. We'll have to be adding more of those in as we go, but again, this is fluid. Um the setup to the access control list for the students is already completed as well as the installation of the evolve system. The hall pass system has been implemented this year is working and um as of a meeting today there uh is a look to purchase some more of those for uh other BLT members so on and so forth to implement those into the building. Digital temp IDs are also in progress as well as um the

069other items in this in this list for us moving forward is to continue to build out our door contacts. Uh again, some of that will do do with the buildings that are as they're being built up. We're going to add door contacts into the newer uh facilities as they're going forward. Adding Bluepoint. Um so we're going to be looking to add Bluepoint in next week. they will be out to do some of the area. Um, we're adding in Bluepoint pull stations for both law enforcement and medical into our beautiful new culinary arts areas. So, those will be going in. And then for um the rest of it, we're looking to continue to push the standard response protocols that we implemented this year further into our classrooms and then also engaging our community partners like our

070law enforcement community and updating them on standard response protocols as well as the Bluepoint system. Any questions? We are recommending that this action plan be operationalized. We look at safety and security daily um and monthly and annually. Um but we have systems and structures in place where we feel like we're in a really good place. Um and moving forward we'll just to continue to ensure that we're in a good place and we'll have our annual safety report each year that continues to come to the board. Are there any additional questions? The uh scanners if the hall monitor scans a student, does it tell them where the student came from or Yeah, great question. So, the hand scanners when they scan the student's ID, it gives the information of what class the student should be in,

071if they are in fact on a pass, and how many minutes are left on that pass, and then what class they should be proceeding to next. um the the implementation of the temporary IDs that we started this year. Now that we have the badges kind of like we do for the visitors when they come in, we now have those as temp IDs for students and those are also scannable with those hand scanners. What if the student doesn't have his ID with them? They're able to manually punch in the student's ID number and pull up the information off from the campus. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. uh action plan 4.3. Okay. So, um action plan 4.3 is about our school day structure and uh looking at possible modifications to that. Oh, I pressed the wrong

072button. Oh, there we go. All right. Um this was year two of this action plan. So this year, you know, year one, we worked with a a large group of stakeholders from, you know, all teachers, parents, students, a huge group. This year was really about making sure that our plans and recommendations were compliant. They were logistically possible and then getting more specific by visiting other schools that do things like flex time and really kind of developing these plans because once you identify the recommendations, you really kind of got to get serious about how this looks and like doing more research and all those things. So that's what we did this year. Um, as you can see that we kind of checked a lot of those boxes and we saw what was possible and how this

073would look at JTHs. So some of the highlights again is that we looked at the contracts of school districts that have implemented these things that similar things and kind of how they work those the language of that. We uh even just met today. We're talking about different tiers of support and how those different interventions would look like for flex time. And then uh Matt and Tino attended professional development along with Eric Nunees about how uh responsive scheduling would look through infinite campus. All that's like possible through our current systems. It was just them being able to learn it and then how we'd apply it in uh in our in our setting. So those things are all working and and moving along well. So, our next steps will continuing to identify more specific plans for our

074new school day. Um, including our intervention enrichment and scheduling how that flex time will look, that 35m minute period each day in the middle of the school day. Um, and then really work through the contracts and how that'll work and how that'll look for our different bargaining units. And, uh, this will be recommended obviously to stay in progress. This is a large plan. How does the flex time help say with kids that are struggling with the reading and math and all that? Yeah. So, the idea is is that we would do it in in like six week chunks. So, we'd be able to look at data through our different programs and we'd say like, you know, like you said, let's say a student isn't doing well in English or maybe our universal screener um kind

075of they popped that they're they need some additional help with their reading. We could we could assign them to a six-w weekek, for example, potentially flex time period where they'd be working with an English teacher with or a reading teacher and we'd be able to apply different interventions like we have for example. We might just more focus in on the actual English assignments to make sure they're successful in class. It's always a balance of skill building but also experiencing success in passing their classes. So that's kind Does that answer your question how that would look? So what if they have the flex time and they don't want to do something anything? Yeah. So all students would be assigned a flex time. Yeah. It would not be free time. Some school districts do have like a

076flex time where they're like, "Hey, if you're cool, like you can go to the cafeteria and read a book." Like that actually does exist in Illinois in some schools. That would not be what we would recommend. Um this would be a structured scheduled time through Infinite Campus. Um students would have somewhere to go every day. It's rostered. that tends to is taken through infinite campus. It all populates, it works. Um, engagement and motivation is always something we're going to work with on students. So, um, the point of this is we're going to sell to them is like this is what you need. This is in in time on time and like we want to make you successful and that that kind of will be our cell as we're implementing it. Is is there time that

077you're looking to build into the weekly schedule to allow for collaboration for teachers? Specifically, thinking about it does take time to figure out what kids need what interventions. Um, and if we're not providing that time to teachers, um, you're not going to have success with those kind of applying those interventions as needed. One thing we're really lucky to have at JT is the release time for our MTSS teachers. one period a day and those teams have about four members at each grade level. That'd be a group that we can leverage to identify students to put in these areas. Um we're still identifying that. We're still fine-tuning that process because you're right like that six week enrollment probably about five six week chunks throughout the school year. We're going to have to figure out a really

078good process to refine and enroll students because you're right that can't you know we have 3,000 kids each, right? I was going to say it's a lot to ask for five people that might not have direct instructional time with those individual students to determine what the best interventions would be. We've also um had some success um with the learning labs that we have in place um which um some of this would be modeled after. And so we have found success that the board has seen with those students and how we've been able to support them. So we already have teachers that are doing that. we work with them in the summer um and we've continued but we have seen success with that. It wouldn't be perfect but then also as part of this plan there

079is a secondary part for um time for teachers um on a weekly basis. Um but we knew when we're recommending this we don't think we could do both at the same time. we would do the first portion recommendation and then then the second portion of it and probably look to stagger it within two years and then grow out. Um part of and again correct me if I'm wrong but part of what um the team learned from the site visits is try not to do everything that you can possibly think of that first year like what are the things that we can do and we can do well and then we can expand upon it. um and improve each year. So the capacity and we talked about also that um this is not something we would

080be looking to implement for the 2627 school year. Um we would have to go through this with our bargaining units. Um if we can come to agreement which we're hopeful about then then the planning would take place as soon as we come to that agreement and we would look to implement during the 2728 school year because we want to be very thoughtful and we want this to succeed. So conversely to to Tom's question what is the plan for flex time for our highest performing students so that they don't become bored and we can challenge them? Yeah. enrichment is just as important as uh some of the supports we have. So when we visit the other high schools that have done this well um they talk about providing those opportunities for students and identifying the areas

081that they need. Something that comes to mind we're just finishing up AP testing for example. Um they could have additional time with their AP teacher and prepare for the test for example. But then we can also offer a variety of enrichment opportunities for our students that that don't need that don't you know meet any of the criteria for needing additional support. Flex time is for all students. So when we come up with those tiered interventions and supports and enrichments, we have to take into account all students. So when we think about our um incoming freshmen, the accelerated students, they they would be cohorted potentially together and they would be receiving support from their honors teachers because navigating an honors class could be, you know, a little different than say um a college prep class. So

082um as we're working on it, actually again like Jeff mentioned, we started adding those levels of um tracks as we would want to call it or flex time sessions. So what all students should get, what some students should get based on um their needs. And then on tier three then is really that those targeted. But things that come to mind too is when you think about juniors and seniors, we should be talking about um the college application, the college essay. So things that um sometimes don't always sit in a class but students need support in. That would be how we would use flex time with all our students. We're excited about it. It's a it's a heavy lift and it involves all like Dr. Guzman said all bargaining units. Um but um we have we

083have a network now that we've met with other other schools and we're leveraging them to um and they're sharing what worked, what didn't work. So we're learning from other schools as well. Any other questions? Thank you. Action plan 44. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Got this right. Action plan 44. We've all heard it a lot. It's very important part of our district and it ties into everything else in strategic plan. plan in the action plan. Um the goal is to maximize the district's resources to update our facilities, improve collaborative and functional spaces and develop creative programming. Our specific result is to leverage and modernize all of our physical spaces and the maximize the functionality and create flexible, collaborative and inclusive areas for all stakeholders. Um action plan 43 next steps. Uh, and we're all this

084is ongoing constantly. It we're it's a living plan. So, we are always developing more specific plans for all of our flex time stuff. That's Oh, I went backwards. Geez. There you go. I was like, wait a minute. I know we're part of everything, but not that part. So uh as you know the plan was approved by the board and uh the action steps are addressed through the facility plan and we've seen this a lot and it's like I was saying before it's a living document. So we are constantly evaluating evaluating and re-evaluating with construction our construction team our administrators who have been awesome through this entire process along with the teachers and staff who have contributed to how we're going to do each step. We don't just you know take it from an executive level.

085Everyone we try to get everyone involved. So that's why sometimes it changes. Um, and we're doing some of phase two now and some of phase three now. And it's we're finding the best time to do everything mo the most efficiently for our district to get us to where we need our facilities and our spaces. Is that it? That's my That was it. So, we're recommending that this plan be operationalized. Any questions? Okay. Sorry, it's been a long um so first of all again if we could just give a round of applause to our action team leader. uh you know the work that they're doing on the strategic plan is in addition to the work that is in their regular job descriptions and it's always just like it was fun tonight to recognize um all the

086students and the teachers and and the success I think it's important to note the success that we can see just in the last year and then overall in the last two years in this district we have used the strategic plan since its inception in 2001 one to really improve what we're doing in the district and the things that we're able to accomplish. Um you saw those things come to fruition tonight with the Skills USA competitions with a number of kids that are being successful in both academics activities and athletics. And so it's just really really exciting. Um and it's because of the work that's being done. So, in addition to the action plans you heard about tonight, we had recommendations um that obviously we'll ask the board to take action on in a moment. Um

087some of those will we're recommending stay in progress, some operationalized. We have eight action plans that have not been adopted yet. We are recommending that these four are adopted going into next year. Um and you know, this is done. I also want to thank the team with providing input. When we're considering what we can take on, we think about what we're already doing and what we have the capacity to do. Um because you can't adopt something and have the same person on three different action plans. So the reason that we think that these are the next ones to adopt is because these are the things that are going to lead us to those long-term goals. So action plan 1.2 to um establish organizational procedures which are inclusive of all stakeholder groups and work to address

088current practices which result in disproportionate negative outcomes based on race and culture of students. Um and the action all of those are within your packet as well. The specific steps 2.4 build social emotional behavioral and academic support systems for successful transition to JTHS. We have some things that we've already started. So, this is just looking at those action plans and picking up where we're at and then bringing those to fruition and conclusion and hopefully we're going to um see that translate into more success for our students. Action plan 3.4. This is about grading practices. Um we have some work that we've done with grading practices that's already been implemented. Um but this is now what do we look for in the future? And then lastly, 4.1, expand programming to address the everchanging needs and interests

089of our students and staff. And so again, there specific action steps that are associated with each of these specific results that came from the action planning team. Um, and you know, upon approval, then we'll have four that are left for us to do um or adopt over the next couple years. Does the board have any questions about any that we're recommending for adoption? All right, then with that, we thank you. Um, we're happy to answer any other questions, but again, um, this work is done because we have awesome people leading this work. So, thank you. And thank you. Absolutely. Thank you guys very much for the presentation. uh your work is greatly greatly appreciated. Um and we know that it's it's going to the the students. So that's the most important thing. So we'll move

090into action items at this time and we will uh look for a motion to approve the uh strategic plan progress update and action plan adoption. So if we could get a motion. So moved. Second. Is there any discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. Stip, yes. Mr. Kennedy, yes. Mr. Mr. Fitzpatrick, yes. Mrs. Lynn, yes. Mrs. Guoare, yes. Dr. Huntington, yes. Mr. Cox, yes. Motion passes. On action item B, approval of e-learning plan for 2026 through 2028. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Coffee, yes. Mrs. Stiff, yes. Mr. Kennedy, yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, yes. Mrs. Lynn, yes. Mrs. Groare, yes. Dr. Yes. Motion passes on to action item C. Agreement with Julia Township High School and Relay Hub LLC. Do we have a motion to approve? So move.

091Second. Second. Second. Sorry. That's okay. Do we have any discussion? This is Medicaid biller. Right. Yeah. Roll call, please. Dr. Huntington. Yes. Mr. Coffee? Yes. Mrs. Tiff? Yes. Mr. Kennedy? Yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick? Yes. Mrs. Lynn? Yes. Mrs. Graham? Yes. On to action item D, personnel reports. Can we get a motion to approve 1 through 15? So moved. Second. All right. Roll call, please. Mrs. Gronome, yes. Dr. Huntington, yes. Mr. Coffee, yes. Mrs. Tiff, yes. Mr. Kennedy, yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, yes. Mrs. Lynn, yes. Motion passes before we move to action item E. There are some people who just approved tonight, so Dr. Gman's going to introduce them. Yes, I would like to welcome and since they're new staff, I may not say their last names correctly, so we'll um hopefully you'll correct me, but we have

092Miss Marciante. Did I say that correctly? Yes. Who is going to be a fax teacher at Juliet West. So, congratulations and welcome. And she has her parents with them. So, I as a as a parent, we welcome you, too. Um and then we also have Miss Duda um who is going to be a science teacher at Juliet West. So welcome to welcome to both of them. All right. So we're going to move on to action student discipline. We'll turn it over to Mr. Coffee. Uh after receiving deliberating the information contained in the hearing officer's report, the board of education is charged with deciding whether moving the child from his or her learning environment is in the best interest of the school. what the rationale for the specific duration of the recommended expulsion, whether all appropriate

093and available behavioral and disciplinary interventions were exhausted, and whether the continued presence in school would either a pose a threat to the safety of other students, staff, or members of the school community, or b substantially disrupt, impede, or interfere with the operation of the school. The board of education must then convene into public session to formally vote on the motion to expel if the expulsion is the consensus arrived at during executive session. I make a motion under case number W242518S to expel until June of 2026 with placement determined by the IEP team. I second that motion. Roll call, please. Mrs. Lynn, yes. Mrs. Guare, yes. Dr. Huntington, yes. Mr. Coffee, yes. Mrs. Stiff, yes. Mr. Kennedy, yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, yes. Motion passes. So that concludes our action items. We'll move on to unfinished business. Does

094anyone have any unfinished business? Hearing none, we'll move into new business. We have a few policy updates. There are there um are obviously a list of policy updates. Um I provided a summary uh to the board. If you have any questions about these policy updates, please let me know. Um otherwise we would be recommending them for approval at the next board meeting. Thank you. All right. Then we'll move on to board reports. Does anybody have any board reports? I was pleased to attend the retirement celebration um at the Jacob Henry mansion which was lovely. Um I was fortunate enough to be allowed to have a seat uh with one of our retiring bus drivers who was really nice to meet. Um it was a really nice celebration. Nice. Yeah. Um I was uh we got

095an email asking us to read some of the um English honors uh to kill a mockingb bird essays and that is my favorite book and I've read it multiple times because I love it so much. Um so it was uh procon to be able to read um the book in schools. So it was very I mean this is why we're here is to educate students and to move them forward and it was not it was cool to read the essays and you know see what's actually going on in the classroom. I just want to give a shout out to all the staff and uh apparently board members as well that got to go to the proms. You guys had way too much fun. I want to go to Central's prom next year. Um I I

096saw people that did like that lived in other states sharing posts about our prom. I was like, "Wow." Um yeah, and apparently it was supposed to end. They they were supposed to call their parents around 9:30, but they uh got home closer to 11 or something like that because they were having so much fun. Even a live band showed up. It was just really cool. Um, and then I thought it was really cool to be down in Springfield for Latino Advocacy Day and Julia at uh Township High School got a shout out um in front of about a thousand other uh community leaders throughout the state of Illinois. Um, that's just always nice to hear. So, yeah, keep it up. Anybody else? Um, I went to West Senior Awards. I know we've got a couple

097parents of some some West kids that got some pretty awesome awards. Um, that was really really cool to be a part of. I was just shocked uh as they're naming all the different things that these kids are doing that they're exiting the stage because and and still talking about all the things that they're doing. That's how many awards that the kids were getting, which was pretty impressive. Um uh as Lorine talked about, I did uh attend Central's prom. Um my wife was working and told me that we were, you know, I was going to show up, be there for about 15 minutes. I ended up staying for about two hours because it was such a cool event. I did not see Mr. Halahan dance. Unfortunately, he did not they did not bust out the moves.

098Um but no, they had a band. They had two different DJs. Um and the venue was just phenomenal. Like it was so beautiful. So, uh big thanks to Rancho Los Gusman. They they put on a great show. I was actually um fortunate enough to meet the owner. Um and you wouldn't have guessed that he was the owner because he's just in there sleeves rolled up helping and working. Um so, just really really awesome people and and glad that they were part of that. Um, I managed to make it to Avid Thrift Store over at Juliet Central. Um, fortunately, my wife let me know that this was going on. And that was because we had a bunch of bags all of a sudden getting filled in my house. Um, and I was told to take out

099my clothes and put them in this bag. And when I managed to make it down there, I found even more of my clothes on the table. Didn't put in the bag, but I was it went to a good cause. So, I was happy happy with that. Um, uh, Mr. Maurice, uh, was able to reach out to me. He let me know that they raised $1,879.76 for positive impact in CASA of River Valley. Um, I think probably the coolest part about this is that the students managed all aspects of the project from researching and choosing their organizations, um, advertising for clothing, clothing, the donations, sorting, organizing, etc. Um, and so I was very, you know, excited to be a part of that. And I know that Nicholas Zorn was also involved. Hold on, I have an

100email from him. I don't want to. And Susan uh Montano was also involved. So, thank you to them. They put on a great event. Um and then I happened to be driving a U-Haul actually down Larkin Avenue that evening and saw this big event going on at Juliet West that I thought that I should come back and check out. And it was for the the the West Band. It was a fundraiser, which is a pretty cool thing. I saw Mr. Markham down there. Um, they had a taco truck, which was I mean that was probably the main reason that my family and I showed up. We wanted to get some tacos and hear some good music and support the band. Um, and they had a $10 fee to get in if you had a cool

101car. I don't have that cool of a car, but I might do it anyways next year just to give $10 to the band because I think it's a good cause. Um, so it was was really really awesome event. Um, they had the band out there playing in the parking lot. Everybody brought chairs. It was a really cool community event. So very happy to be part of it. Oh, and also did the Tequil Mockingbird thing. That was really awesome. I mean, the the writing ability of our students, they're freshman. I'm like, this is really good stuff. So, anybody else have anything? Do we have any other announcements, public comments? And I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. I do it by unanimous consent. carrying no descent. Meetings adjourned.