001Good evening everyone. I am going to resume the June 2nd, 2025 board of education meeting. If I could have everybody stand as they are able for the pledge of allegiance and then please remain standing for a moment of silence. Pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all. We'd like to take a moment of silence for two U46 students who recently passed away. First, we would like to remember Cody Warington. Cody was a sophomore at South Elgen High School. He passed away on May 21st. Cody was an excellent student who was known for his skill with Rubik's cubes. Friends say he could quickly solve any Rubik's cube they handed him. Cody survived by his parents and siblings. A visitation and funeral service
002were held on May 28th at Countryside Funeral Home in Bartlett. We also remember Ya Yanni Jones who had just completed her fourth grade year at Parkwood Elementary School. She passed away on May 28th. Yanni was a bright student, charismatic, caring, and always willing to help others. She enjoyed reading, but art class was her favorite. Yanni is survived by her mother, father, and siblings. Services are pending. We will keep the family members and friends of both Cody and Yiani in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you. Okay, the first item on our agenda this evening is accent on achievement. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Uh this evening we are going to recognize our Illinois Science Olympiad winners. As part of the board of education's accent on achievement, the board of education would like to honor the
003Illinois Science Olympiad winners. So, Miss Schwarz has already made her uh way to the the front of our our deis here and I'm going to join her and we will recognize the students as well as their school and then ask them maybe a little bit about what what they uh were working on for Science Olympian. Okay, I will read the I will read the uh first certificate. Certificate of achievement. The board of education of school school district U46 hereby recognizes Jacob Baka of East View Middle School for placing first in the Illinois Science Olympiad presented the second day of June 2025 and it's signed by our board president uh Melissa Owens and our superintendent Dr. Suzanne Johnson. So, Jacob, we we know we've got a busy summer schedule. So, if our students are not here,
004we're going to read all of the names anyway into record room to recognize them. We'll make sure that Principal Gan delivers that. Okay. And then we have sure Malia Ortiz Tan of East View Middle School who also placed first in the Illinois Science Olympi. Next we have Pratush Romesh of Elgen High School for placing first in the Illinois Science Olympiad. Are you Jacob? Stay up here. Jacob for Jacob now that right where you're at. Okay. Is Pratush here? Next we have Abanav Arvin of Elgen High School who also placed first in the Illinois Science Olympiad. Next we have Arav Patel of Elgen High School for President Illinois Science. Congratulations And then a name we all know, Mahita Radakanda for placing in first from Belgian High School. Congratulations. Okay, I can pass the microphone if you'd
005like to tell us a little bit about your Who wants to go? I won't put everybody on the spot. Anyone? You want to start? to add anything just about about what you did for science. Me and Jacob Baka both studied remote sensing for the science Olympiad state tournament. Um um we studied we only had three weeks to do it. Uh we had no knowledge on it and we studied a lot and then got first place. So the event me and Arb did was disease detectives. So it was a combination of different like case studies and epidemiology and we were able to um qualify in regionals to go to state. So a big shout out to our sponsors and the club for honestly having such a wonderful experience. It was really nice being in Science Olympiad.
006Thank you. The next item on our agenda is strategic plan report. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Our first strategic plan report tonight is the early learner initiatives update. Katie Cox, director of early learner initiatives, and Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, will present an update to the board of education on the early learner initiatives. Good evening. I can't remember. Do I flip the slides or does somebody else do that? I can remember. I do it. Okay, good. Um, great. Um, thank you for giving me the opportunity to share an update on our early learner initiatives from the 2425 school year. Our work continues to focus on increasing opportunities for our youngest learners and enhancing the quality of instruction that they receive. I'm excited to walk you through some of the progress that
007we've made and where we're headed next. At the center of everything we do is our mission to create inclusive learning communities from birth through kindergarten. We believe in learning that is hands-on, play-based, and grounded in strong relationships with our families and the community. These foundational years shape not just academic skills, but cultural identity, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking. We are preparing children to contribute meaningfully to our world. Our early learner goals are fully aligned with the district strategic plan. Key focus areas include increasing enrollment in birth to three and preschool programs, increasing instructional quality in literacy, mathematical thinking, and social emotional development. We continue to refine our model of instruction and focus on our instructional priorities. This alignment helps ensure that our early learners are on a strong path from the very beginning. Our work
008supports the district's portrait of a graduate competencies by laying the groundwork early, especially in social emotional development and foundational literacy skills. Kindergarten readiness is a core community indicator that we rely on in our department. The kids scores show us how our young children in the community are performing as they enter our system. It is not a reflection of how our schools are preparing our students, but rather what they're able to do when they start school. It encompasses not just academics, but also social, emotional, language, cognitive, and physical development. Research shows us that children who enter kindergarten ready to learn are more likely to succeed all the way through high school and beyond. This is why our investment in early learning is so important. It's about our long-term impact. Unfortunately, we continue to see a readiness
009gap in our community and we estimate that there are around 9,000 preschool eligible children in the greater Elgen area. Not all of them have access to highquality preschool experiences. This is where we see both a challenge and an opportunity. Addressing this gap is essential if we want to ensure equity across um our system and success for all of our children. In our district, we are working on increasing readiness in several fronts. Tonight, I share this graphic with you as it simply shows the connection from school readiness to creating a strong workforce and empowered citizens. In order for our community to thrive, it begins with our littles. By prioritizing early learning opportunities, increasing instructional quality across our system, we see that our students will have post-secary success and workforce readiness. Increasing preschool slots in our district
010is a priority and we're making progress. Our preschool programs have grown significantly both in our schools and from community providers as well. We're also working strategically to expand access and support more families and programs that best meet their needs. In the past two years, we have added three community providers that are also offering preschool for all in their centers. This chart depicts our preschool slots across our networks. As you can see, we've been able to have slots that serve all of our networks, and we're looking forward to the 2627 school year when nearly all elementary schools will be able to house preschool for their neighborhoods. Aligned with our Unite 46 work, Illinois Park will be serving as an elementary school for the 2627 school year. We've been able to identify classrooms in the elementary homechools
011that our Illinois Park preschoolers will attend. The same families and neighborhoods will continue to have access to preschool now at their home buildings. Instructional quality is our priority. Over the past year, we've introduced monthly micro profofessional development sessions, expanded coaching support, and conducted classroom visits using an instructional checklist with our principles. We've also updated classroom materials, refreshed furniture, introduced guidance around screen time to ensure developmentally appropriate use of technology. All of these efforts are being done to increase the engagement of our students and increase their learning outcomes. Family and community engagement is a cornerstone in early learning. This year we are thrilled that we were able to add a family and community engagement coordinator to our team straight from the soccer field. He's joining us here tonight. So um he has been busy. We were
012able to host five birthto five family advisory council meetings throughout the year. We learned a lot from our families and based on their feedback, we'll be making some improvements and have affirmed the work that they find valuable. Next year, we will be offering a birth to five family education series and we'll continue to leverage our community partners in our efforts. Our goal is to empower families with tools and resources to support learning at home and deepen their connection with our schools. We continue to collaborate with our community partners and most recently through the basics of greater Elgen initiative which shares powerful strategies with parents for supporting early childhood development. In April, our community came together to launch a powerful community communitywide messaging campaign to target our youngest citizens from newborns to 5-year-olds. Once families register
013for the basics, they will receive two text messages a week. One message will have an early childhood development fact that is timed with their child's age and the second will prompt them with an activity that they can do to promote their development. All of the messages are centered on one of the five basics principles. The principles are maximize love and manage stress, talk, point and sing, count, group and compare, explore through movement and play and read and discuss stories. We have over 30 community partners coming together to ensure that we are all working to support the brain development and growth of our youngest children. Thank you again for your time and continued support. Our early learning team is incredibly dedicated and are proud of the work we've done and excited to get started on our
014next steps. We look forward to continuing this together in New46 and ensuring that all of our kids get the best possible start. Thank you for the presentation. Do board members have any questions? Okay. Um, thank you for this presentation. This is so exciting to see all of these different options and opportunities. You said they're going to get two text messages a week. I presume we're going to cover English and Spanish. Are we going to cover other languages? Gujarati or Now you're going to test me on the languages. Can you remember the languages? Uh, Portuguese, Brazil. Yeah, Brazilian Portuguese. I can't remember that. I know there's one other one. There's five all the Yeah, that's awesome. If you want to even if we could just get an email later to know and then it'd be helpful
015for a community to know too that we're not doing it this in just English and Spanish, right? It's in Arabic, too. I do remember that it's in Arabic. They're coming to me one at a time. Yes. But yep, I'll share those with you guys. And this comes out of um Boston from Harvard. And so the Boston Basics was their original pilot. And so um they keep adding languages as it grows across the world really. Okay. So they wouldn't necessarily be languages centered around Elgen. It's what was originally part of the Harvard and then they're just adding languages and they're adding them as they go. And then we have the option to pull those other languages in as they are. Families get to choose which they want like what language they want to receive their messages
016in. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Sure. Anyone else? Thank you. Thanks so much. And our second uh strategic plan update uh this evening is the fiscal year 2026 consolidated district plan. Coming forward, Lala Murvich, deputy superintendent of instruction and Dr. Michael Travillian, director of grants, to present an update to the board of education on the fiscal year 2026 consolidated district plan. Good evening, members of the board of education. My name is Lala Msurvich, deputy superintendent of instruction, and I'm joined by Dr. Michael Trabillian, director of grants. Tonight, we're pleased to present the FY cons FY26 consolidated district plan for school district 246. This plan serves as a roadmap for how we align our resources and strategies to meet the academic and social emotional needs of our students across the district. I'll hand it over to Dr.
017Trailian to provide some background and explain the process we took to develop the plan. Thank you, Laya. And good evening. The consolidated district plan is not a grant application. It's a strategic framework that ensures our federal, state, and local priorities are aligned. required by the Every Student Succeeds Act. This plan allows us to streamline our approach, strengthen interdep departmental collaboration, and respond to district needs using various data in a cohesive way. Developing the consolidated district plan is truly a collaborative effort across multiple departments. From curriculum and instruction to professional learning and specialized student services, leaders across the system work together to identify needs, align strategies, and build a plan that supports every learner in U46. This collaboration ensures that every facet of student learning is accounted for. While this slide lists the core federal programs
018included in the plan, I want to emphasize how each of these contributes to our larger vision. These funding streams don't operate in silos. They allow us to build an integrated system of support. For example, Title One helps us meet foundational academic needs, especially in schools that serve our most vulnerable students. Title two supports the professional growth of our educators, which is the backbone of quality instruction. Title three is critical in helping our multilingual learners thrive both linguistically and academically. And Title 4 allows us to think beyond academics, addressing student well-being, enrichment, and engagement. IDA ensures that our students with disabilities receive the services and support they need to succeed. Together, these programs are the engine behind much of our equity work. I will now hand it back over to Lela to discuss the IDSV goals
019needs assessment and overall plan. Thank you, Michael. These state goals may be familiar, but they serve as a powerful reminder of our shared purpose. At the heart of everything we do is the belief that every child can achieve at high levels. And these goals push us to ensure that learning environments are not just academically strong, but also emotionally supportive and physically safe. Importantly, the emphasis on elevating educators reflects our ongoing investment in teacher leadership, diverse hiring, and the professional learning structures that help educators grow. These are not just compliance goals. They reflect the kind of school system we are continuously striving to become. Our needs assessment also isn't just a checklist. It's a reflection of the voices of our students, families, educators, and data from across the district. We've seen where our youngest learners need
020more foundational support in literacy and math. We've identified where discipline data signals disproportionate impacts, especially among our black and Hispanic students. We know our staff are asking for more tools to support students with trauma and to strengthen social emotional learning. And we've seen in our data that we need to do more to support our multilingual learners. And we continue to strive to enhance our college and career pathways as well as our system of support for student transitions from elementary to middle to high school and beyond. These aren't isolated challenges. They're interconnected and they demand an aligned response. As we look at this slide, I want to draw your attention to the four goals of our U46 strategic plans. Goals that serve as the foundation for everything we do in the district. What's important to highlight
021here is that the consolidated district plan isn't separate or siloed. It's an operational arm of the strategic plan. When we invest Title One funds into early literacy, intervention, and supports, we're directly advancing goal one, building strong academic and social emotional foundations in the early years. When title two supports instructional coaching and professional development through models uh like instructional power empowerment and AVID, we're actively supporting goal three, advancing academic growth and mastery through high quality instruction. Our title three strategies like multilingual materials, endorsements, and family outreach push forward goal four, preparing students to embrace a diverse and changing world with cultural responsiveness at the center. and our use of title four and IDEIDA to promote student voice, inclusion, and wellness is tightly aligned with goal two, fostering safety, belonging, and inclusion across all schools. So, while
022the consolidated district plan is a state requirement, it's not just a compliance exercise, it's how we put our strategic plan into action by aligning resources, programs, and supports to ensure every student thrives in U46. Our approach is not to chase initiatives, but to strategically align them to what we know students need and what we have set out to do as a district. We're using Title One to reinforce early learning and intervention, getting ahead of learning gaps before they widen. Title two supports coaching and professional learning that's rooted in best practice and tailored to our classrooms. Through Title 3, we're investing in teachers who serve English learners and in stronger partnerships with multilingual families. Title 4 is helping us deepen our work around student voice, wellness, and future readiness. And IDEIDA continues to support not just
023compliance, but inclusive excellence through tools like assist of technology and training for general education staff. The plan ensures that every strategy is part of a bigger student centered picture. Thank you for your time and attention. We're proud of this collaborative work and how it reflects our commitment to equity, excellence, and coherence. And we welcome your questions and feedback. Thank you for the presentation. Do board members have any questions, Don? So, quick question. Um, I see that we submit this to ISBY. Does a version of this also get um submitted at the federal level? No, just to require takes care of the federal part. Perfect. Thank you. Anyone else? So, just a quick question. So with this being something that we do each year, I'm assuming that because in the consolidated plan itself, which thank you
024for for attaching that, um it has the programmatic functions that we are tying to these grants. Right. So um when you're you're setting about on the next year those prior years then is are we tracking accountability to how you know what we what we said our program goals were you know in in a certain year and then how we are match meeting or or exceeding or not meeting those goals then going into the next year and making adjustments then for the new I mean yes so yeah so to we do monitor the outcomes of of the plan. We monitor what we said we were going to do and then we do make adjustments. Sometimes, you know, we can't sometimes it takes more than just one year to see an impact, right? And so we also
025have to take that into consideration as well. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. The next item on our agenda is other business board member and superintendent update. And before I ask anybody if they have any updates, I have to apologize. I had told Erica Washington that I would announce you at the beginning of the meeting and I neglected to do that. So, uh, Miss Washington is sitting in for Trisha Olsen while she is out, uh, on vacation. Um, so, welcome to the board table. We're happy to have you here. Thank you. Anybody have any updates? If if I may just very quickly, we do not have any comments from the audience. I just wanted to That's okay. I just wanted to go back. I skipped that. That's And we don't
026have any so it all works out just fine. I apologize. That's okay. Anyone's playing along from home. Okay. All right. So, I just I wanted to make sure that I got Miss Washington announced. Um All right. So, does anybody have any updates to share? about graduation. You can talk about graduation. Yep, I can I can talk about graduation. We had another fabulous day um last Saturday at the now arena. Um most of us were able to be there for most of the ceremonies. Um yeah, they were it was it's such a great day. People always look at us and be like, "Oh my gosh, that's such a long day. How can you do that?" But it's not. It's a fantastic day because it's full of celebration and full of fun. And um I know personally
027my absolute favorite moment is to jump up and give a diploma to a kid that I know. Um a lot of us really really enjoy that. Um yeah, we get to hear the bands and orchestras and choirs sing and get to see all their fun hats, great speeches. Uh Veronica, something to add. I want to add in addition to how awesome it is is how grateful I we are to all the staff that put in so much time. They plan this for months and months. I think they start tomorrow or something for the next one. I don't know. But um there's so much work that goes into it to make it go so smoothly for all the families and all the students and for us. And I just want to express our appreciation. I know
028we all notice it and we appreciate it and thank you. Yeah. Anyone else? Yeah, and I'll just reiterate it. Congratulations to to all the students who graduated. Um, and all of the students that that participated in the ceremonies that as Miss Thomas said, the the speeches were were wonderful. It's it's it's great to to hear from our students. Um, and we recognize that there's a lot of people that work on a on a holiday weekend to to pull this up, right? So, thank you again to everybody that that participates and and makes the graduations happen as successfully as they do. Yeah. Uh thank you to the board of education for your excitement, your enthusiasm being there uh for our graduation day. Uh it is it is a wonderful event. If you've not attended any of
029our graduations, I I encourage anyone to come out and and cheer on our students. I do want to thank our our team, our teachers, our administrators, our operations team, the collective U46 team and the and the work that goes into supporting our students as you heard earlier tonight when they first enter our system, some of them as young as three. And they will spend 15 plus years with us. And it is it is a team effort. It is a community effort. And I'm so very thankful for all all U46 team members who contribute to that day. And that's why I encourage everyone to go and and take that in because our teams all have a have a hand in that. And so I'm so very thankful for the work that we do uh for our
030you know last Saturday 2700ish students who uh get to cross the stage. So it's a it's a great day. So thank you all to our team members. Okay. Anything else? Okay. For requests. Uh this evening we have seven Freedom of Information Act requests. They are available on the public domain board docs and later this week they will also be available on the school district U46 website. Okay. Next item is consent agenda. Dr. Johnson. Yes. Get ready. All right. Uh we have personnel report and workers compensation cases minutes of board meeting March 24th 2025 termination of Ruth V. Garcia Trinidad noon our supervisor termination of Led Hernandez student success advocate termination of Carlos Ajaso Orino Perah en1 SCSS termination of Lawrence T. Powell monitor bid pathways Bartlett High School pathways furniture bid office of schools middle
031school cell phone pouches bid plant operations Highland Elementary School domestic water abatement project number 902-25 bid plant operations Larson Middle School domestic water abatement project number 508-25 bid plant operations data center fire suppression abatement project number 355-25 Bid equity and innovation Elgen High School commercial dishwasher proposal plant operations acoustic shells purchase proposal plan operations Hillrest Elementary School stair replacement proposal plan operations tough middle school concrete repairs proposal curriculum and instruction classroom libraries proposal climate and culture crisis prevention institute training and materials proposal multilingual and multicultural education high school library book bag Club Collections proposal human resources red rover absence management contract renewal financial operations support and licensing for munis payroll and human resources software contract renewal specialized student services the northwestern Illinois association contract renewal equity and innovation advanced advancement via individual determination AVID membership
032contract equity and innovation AVID core collaborative and Change order plant operations Lurin High School auditorium flooring house lighting sound system and seating replacement project number 273. Are there any items on the consent agenda the board members would like removed? We're hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as read into the record? So moved. Second. Roll call, please. Miss Kirk, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Miss Nolan, yes. Miss Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion passes. Okay. The next item is discussion action. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. First item this evening, itemized bills, June 2nd, 2025. Dr. Frank Williams, assistant superintendent of finance will respond to questions from the board of education regarding the attached bills. Administration recommends the board of education approve the list of
033bills in the amount of 26,592,131. May I have a motion to approve the list of bills in the amount of 26,592,131? So moved. Are there any questions or comments for Dr. Wilson or Williams? Okay, hearing none. Uh, roll call, please. Miss Kerr, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Miss Nolan, yes. Miss Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion pass. Our next item, student code of conduct. Mark Ganella, coordinator of culture and climate, is available to discuss proposed changes to the student code of conduct. Administration recommends approval of the student code of conduct. May I have a motion to approve the final version of the 2025 2026 school year student code of conduct? Second. Any questions? Okay. Roll call, please. Miss Kirk, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Miss Nolan, yes. Miss
034Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion passes. Our next item is the 2026 2027 school calendar. Mark Moore, assistant superintendent of human resources, is available to respond to questions from the board of education. Administration is recommending approval of the proposed 2026 2027 school calendar. May I have a motion to approve the proposed 2026 2027 school year draft school calendar? Some moved. Second. Any questions or discussion, Don? So, less discussion. Um, but just sort of a comment. I'm voting yes. Um, there's a reason we're moving it. Maybe we need buffer for our construction. Totally understand that. Um, I will say moving forward the next couple years as we look at how we adjust back or what we do with it. Um, I just want to put on the record very clearly, I have a
035lot of concerns how it affects our older students, like middle school and up. Uh I think coming out of this it's going to be like how we normally hear. There'll be parents that are happy. There'll be parents that are not happy. That's that is part for the course. Um but just in the years after this I do I have concerns on how it affects the older students and not while we try to support I don't I just have concerns. I'll be it'll be difficult for me to continue to approve a calendar that's so late. So I just want to put that out there. I'm voting yes tonight because I know the why. But anyone else? I appreciate the the um the addition of the the pacing guides. I know that that's a a concern, especially
036with the um AP courses that are a little bit beyond our control when it comes to the testing. Um and then uh so I just appreciate the the addition to that. Okay, take a roll call. Miss Kurt, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Miss Nolan, yes. Miss Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion passed. Our next item, middle school social studies curriculum resource proposal. Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. Celia Banks, director of curriculum and instruction, and Jacob Vandermortell, coordinator of K12 social studies and world languages are available for questions relating to the middle school social studies curriculum resource proposal. May I have a motion to approve the middle school social studies curriculum resource proposal with an implementation cost of 1,460,7205 and an estimated annual consumable cost of $24,680 each
037year thereafter? So moved. Any questions or discussion for a panel? Okay. Roll call, please. Miss Kerr, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Miss Nolan, yes. Miss Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion passed. Our next item is a proposal. Chief of Staff, Platt of Easement. Brian Lindholm, chief of staff, and Dr. Anne Williams, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the plat of easement with the city of Elgen for the property located at 451 North Mlan Boulevard in Elgen, Illinois, and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. May I have a motion to approve the plat of easement with the city of Elgen for the property located at 451 North McClean Boulevard in Elgen,
038Illinois, and provide authorization for district administration to execute related documents? So moved. Second. Any questions? Okay. Roll call, please. Miss Kerr, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Miss Nolan, yes. Miss Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion passed. Thank you. And that moves us to other business. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Our first item, age and obsolescence plan for bus replacement 2025. Marcy Murphy, director of transportation, will present the updated age and obsolescence plan adopted in December 2001 and respond to questions from the board of education. Good afternoon or good evening. Good evening. Thank you very much. Um we have a copy of our current age and obsolescence plan on our plan for bus replacement. Um it is similar to the one that was presented previously. Um the one added note
039is with our upcoming changes in boundaries and reduction in uh student count could affect how we are moving forward with our routing and the classroom placements. So this is just a plan uh based on our current uh equipment that we have and as we are able to better strategically plan our routes and with student reduction the number of vehicles could be reduced. Do board members have any questions too? Yeah, I know at the beginning of the plan you note that we we want to try to balance purchases, but it seems like we're we've got some big purchases coming up. For example, we have none this year it looks like and then 86 the following year. That is correct. That is based on how they were purchased in previous years, right? So, and then the mileage.
040So, we really limited. Are we concerned about that? Especially since we're looking at having to buy buses with all seat belts and it is um of concern. Absolutely. We do know that a couple of the uh providers of buses are already integrating the seat belts with them when we will purchase them going forward. And that is something we will be planning on in anticipation of uh the law changing. Okay. and not only buying the buses, but I guess we'll have to have training for bus drivers and students and all that if they're on a bus with the seat belt because it will it will vary. Correct. Correct. Yeah, we've done some research and there is recommendation of information that we can share with uh the schools to help assist with us instructing students and the
041requirements uh of ensuring that all of our students are securely uh fastened when that moves forward. and we're required to belt everyone in. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um I have a question for you. It says in here that the you're going to switch to this versa system that's going to replace what we use now the versat correct. It is by the same company. Um Traversa, it's a Tyler product. We're currently on Versatrans and they are have been rolling out the diverse Traversa program. Um that is a much better program. The parent app is much more user friendly because I know that there have been a lot of concerns. The present app is um not great. Correct. Correct. It's really really rough. It is um it is a very old system and Traversa is the new
042product that's being offered by Tyler. We have done extensive research in other products that are out there and it is um recommend my recommendation that we move forward with upgrading this for the many benefits that we will see throughout the entire transportation department because when the app works it's super handy. Yes. But you know when it doesn't it's rough. It is. It is. And is this is the app available for this coming fall? No. This is going to be at least a year roll out for this because of our size. Um, very reasonable. I just wanted to be sure I understood. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, next is the April financial report. Dr. Frank Williams, assistant superintendent of finance, will review the attached financial report and respond
043to questions from the board of education. Great. Good evening. Here we are talking about April financials. In April, we recorded a monthly deficit of about 25.9 million, slightly reducing the total fund balance to approximately 792.1 million. Despite the dip, this district remained strong liquidity with 346 days cash on hand. The state's outstanding obligation to the district improved significantly, declining to just $19,000 by the end of April from a little over 4.9 million in the month of March. From a revenue perspective, April revenue totaled 48.5 million, bringing year-to-ate revenue without our financing to 636.9 million or 77% of the annual non- financing budget. This continues to outpace the typical year-to- date benchmark of about 73%. So, we're ahead on the revenue side. Local revenue contributed 8.6 million in April and reached 73.5 of its annual target
044supported by property taxes and strong investment income. But May is when our big property taxes start to come. That's when Kane and DuPage County start to make their deposits. State revenue added 33.9 million. It stands at about 80% of its total budget. And federal revenue brought in 5.9 million totaling about 90% of its annual allocation. nearly double from last year's pace. So very excited. Uh Dr. Mike and his team are working really hard to make sure we get our our claims turned in. From an expenditure perspective on April was about 74.5 million, increasing year-to- date spending to 632.4, about 74% of the annual budget. This is below our historical norms of 81% typically by the end of April. Capital outlay climbed to year-to- date total of 34.7 reflecting continued investment in construction projects and facility
045improvements. And our supplies solid month-over-month increase of about 3.2 million due to our strategic spending cutoff date, which is right around that tax date. That's typically when we tell people no more. So, you can see April, we usually get a big bump in our supplies. From our liquidity perspective, the district held 82 823.3 million in combined cash and investments. uh just a modest decline from March of about 13 million. Overall, despite April's monthly deficit, we remain solid fiscal footing due to strong year-to- date revenue collection and proactive expenditure control. The district is well positioned to fulfill upcoming financial obligations and sustained progress on long-term capital initiatives. Thank you for the report. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. The next item on the agenda is work session resolutions. Thank you, President Owens. Our first
046is a resolution authorizing participation in federal and state grant programs. The district receives many federal and state grants that require board of education approval. This annual resolution allows the grant application and acceptance process to move ahead without each individual application coming to the board of education for approval. Dr. Michael Travillian, director of grants, will present the attached resolution to respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education adopt the resolution authorizing participation in federal and state grant programs. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Next is the resolution authorizing the school treasurer to make bond and interest payments. This resolution is presented annually. Adoption of the resolution gives the treasur authority to make bond and interest payments in FY 2026 beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026.
047Dr. Anne Williams, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, and Dr. Frank Williams, assistant superintendent of finance, will present the attached resolution and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education adopt the resolution authorizing the school treasurer to make bond and interest payments. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Next is the resolution for the disposal of surplus personal property. Jim Wolf, director of informationational information services, will review the attached resolution and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education approved the resolution for the disposal of surplus personal property. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Next item is work session. Uh just work session. Y we have we have one item tonight. President Owens uh as our list of authorized depositories.
048Dr. Anne Williams, deputy superintendent of author of operations will present the attached list of authorized depositories and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends the board of education approve the list of authorized depositories. Do board members have any questions? This is functionally the same list that we had last year. Yes, we haven't added anyone this year. Thank you. Thank you. Next item is work session bids and proposals. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. The first is a bid plant operations asbestous three-year reinspection and management plan update. Sheila DS, assistant superintendent of operations, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends award to the lowest responsible bidder, Specialty Consulting Incorporated, in the amount of $98,500 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related
049documents. This expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Next is a proposal assessment accountability and student success ACT. Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning and Matt Randi, director of assessment, accountability and student success will present the attached proposal summary and will respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from ACT in the amount of $121,862 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions, Don? So, thank you for bringing this forward. So, I have a
050question and then I might have a followup. With the addition of this test at the beginning of their junior year, what does the full kind of testing schedule like national testing schedule not including AP look like for our high school students? Well, we actually worked with the principles and associates and um assistant principles in order to get all of them together with the assessment and accountability office to make sure that we were all on the same page. And so we took their recommendations. Um so it looks like um we would have uh well it depends which year. So I mean it breaks down, right? So, um, junior year you would have, uh, ACT, NM, PSAT, and MSQT, and then the ACT. If you're looking at the national ones, right, then we also do I ready?
051No, we don't do in the 11th grade, we wouldn't do that. And then, so for freshman and sophomore year, are we now offering the PACT once a year? Um, so we just did a invitation to bid that closed today. So um there will be there there there will be something coming for for 9 and 10 for practice ACT. We okay we can also follow up um and provide a calendar of our of our assessments. So we we can share an annual calendar with the windows. So there are always windows that are provided um nationally or statewide and then we focus in on what works best for U46. So it can work with the team and we can make sure we follow up with that in a memo. The graphic would help. It would. Thank you.
052Absolutely. But we didn't want to make the graphic until we had board approval of the assessments. No, that's fair. Thank you so much. And almost all of the assessments for next year are on the agenda for tonight. So, it's it's pretty pretty much most of them. Perfect. Anyone else? Okay. Next item. Okay. So, not to give it away. Um, proposal assessment accountability. Yeah, don't go so fast. And student success advanced placement exam 91 12 grade eligible 9 through 12 grade 12th grade eligible students. Our team remains to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from college board in the amount of $724,779 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The
053cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Don, so I know we've been doing the one free AP for quite a while. that is so families that have fee waiverss is there a way that they can get that applied to any of the additional APS or No. Yeah. So there is a fee reduction and there's a few different layers of the fee reduction. So first college board they'll reduce the test down to $53 per test and then the state will then also uh bring the test cost down. you don't know how much they'll bring it down and they announce very late. Um it can be anywhere they could announce that reduction anywhere between October and February. Um then also our schools can use title one
054dollars to also cover costs. So historically Elgen Larkin and Streamwood have used their title money to uh either reduce or totally eliminate the cost for free and reduce. Is there anything that other than submitting the initial like free and reduced lunch form, is there anything parents need to do in order to follow up on it from an AP perspective or is that all kind of handled once they have the form in is that handled inhouse so that they just see reduced fees on Infinite Campus? Yeah, it's just done internal like so once they've turned it in and they're set up then it's all done internally. Yep. Great. Thank you. Any other questions? Next item then. Our next item, proposal, curriculum instruction, career and technical education, e dynamic learning. Uh Brian Tennyson remains and he is
055joined by Silia Banks, director of curriculum instruction, and Dorene Roberts, coordinator of career and technical education to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from e dynamic learning in the amount of $17,000 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. The expenditure will be charged the education fund cost is included in the budget for the 20252026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Okay, thank you. And next is a proposal plan operations elevator preventive preventive maintenance inspections repairs and monitoring. Sheila DS assistant superintendent of operations will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from code incorporated in the amount of $239,412. Requests authorization for district administration
056to execute related documents. The expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund. cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 through 2026 2027 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Thank you. And the next item is work session contracts over 35,000. We have contract career and technical education project lead the way. Uh Brian Tonison, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. Cecilia Banks, director. Um, someone else wants to step in. I can step outside and call your screen. Okay. Filling in for Dr. Johnson. Um, Sheila down. Which one are we on now? Are we on 17 or 18? 18. Okay. Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. Cecilia Banks, director of communication instruction, and Darene Roberts, coordinator of career and technical education, will present the attached proposal summary
057and will respond to questions from the board of education. The administration recommends approval of the contract with project lead the way in the amount of $188,48.85 and requests authorization for the district to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Okay. Okay. I can do you want to read? I can read them. Yeah. The next item is contract for curriculum and instruction, English language curriculum consultant for English as a second language levels one and two. Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. Celia Banks, director of curriculum and instruction. Jacqueline Johnson, coordinator of literacy and libraries, uh, is here to present the attached proposal summary and will respond to questions from the
058board. Administration recommends the approval of the contract with Taju Educational Solutions in the amount of 76 I'm sorry, yeah, $76,200 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. The expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Okay. Thank you. Yep. No, I'm I think I'm okay. Uh, next is a contract financial operations support and licensing for workforce software. Dr. Frank Williams, assistant superintendent of finance, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract with workforce software in the amount of $756,000 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is
059included in the budget for the 2026 through 2026 2027 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? Okay, thank you. Next is the contract financial operations support and licensing for workforce time clocks. Administration recommends approval of the contract with workforce software in the amount of $216,000 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 through 2026 2027 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. No, I I Yeah, I'm sure. I'm going to get a break here in a minute. Uh, next is a contract information services crowd strike CDWG. Jim Wolf, director of information services, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends
060approval of the contract with CDWG in the amount of $288,000 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Next is a contract information services chat GPT edu. Jim Wolf is now joined by Rola Tariq Muhammad, research and project management fellow to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract with open AI in the amount of $432,000 and requests authorization for the district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. And they do have a
061a presentation. So you can go ahead with your presentation then. Thank you. Um good evening members of the board. Thank you for the opportunity to present today. On behalf of the AI task force, we're sharing our proposal to adopt chat GPT edio for staff use as part of our border strategy for safe and effective AI integration in U46. Over the past semester, our test our task force led a pilot to evaluate two generative AI tools, Chad PT Edu and Google Gemini Advanced. We focus on data privacy, instruction alignment, and ease of use. Both platforms met our security expectations operating within a walled garden. Ultimately, staff prefer Chad GPT for its user experience and instructional support features. This proposal is grounded in the AI guidelines we have developed to ensure responsible use. These guidelines center on
062four pillars. Student and staff safety, data protection, fairness, and ensuring equitable and meaningful learning. These guidelines ensure AI tools are used to enhance, not replace human connection, instruction, and judgment. For educators, our guidelines support academic integrity through providing guidance on proper citation and how to adopt assignments to encourage authentic work. Importantly, we discourage the use of AI detection tools as they might may produce false accusations. Now I will hand it over to Jim to talk about student guidelines and the proposal. Good evening. Um uh tonight's proposal for chat GPT edu is for staff use only. Um students will not be using chat GPT edu um at this time. That said, our AI guidelines look ahead for future student use, starting with teacher-led AI use in elementary grades, structured student use in middle school, and more
063independent exploration in high school, always under the guidance and supervision of teachers. When student use does begin, guidelines are already in place. Acceptable uses include research support and brainstorming. Misuses like academic dishonesty or using it for bullying are clearly prohibited. Importantly, students will be taught how to use AI responsibly, critically, and ethically. After piloting both tools, task force members voted for the adoption of chat GPT edu. We are recommending chat GPT edu for the 2025 2026 school year with a cost of 432,000 and a plan to re-evaluate after one year. Our our reasons for that are models are continuously growing and changing. So we want to see where we end up at the end of the year. Our roll out includes three phases. First is formal adoption and communication of the AI guidelines. Uh second
064is comprehensive professional development on tool use and AI guidelines and ethics. And third, the ongoing sitebased support and professional learning sessions. Our focus is on building thoughtful sustained AI capacity across the district. Um is that Thank you for your time and we're happy to answer questions. Do board members have any questions? Sue, do you have any sense on how much staff are interested in AI? How many staff are interested or is it more of an age thing we maybe some of the younger staff are and older staff are? Um I I think we had a pretty broad uh group age- wise within the task force. Um the there there is a lot of interest. There's a considerable amount of interest and not just within the task force um outside of the task force as well.
065Um there are uh there were a few schools that were um um not piloting but they were they were looking at AIS and they were um kind of testing it out. Yeah. W, you know, within their school, not um not necessarily with students, but like using it to to look at um how it would develop lesson plans, just different um giving it some different prompts to to find information so they could vet the information. Um it the the the tools that we used uh Gemini and Chat GPT um were were very interesting in what they produced but um I think we'd all agree ultimately it's up to the individual who's running the prompt to then vet the information that they receive and that was one of the things that um that we talked to our
066group about the task force is just making sure that you're not just taking the information that's provided and saying well this is it this is best information because it it's not always the case. Yeah. And last week during the instructional uh conference we had six um sessions focused on AI including two of them focus on the AI guidelines and also ethics to ensure responsible use and teachers were like fully attending fully engaged and they were very happy with the guidelines and also the ability to have access to these tools because also it will really help them save time and become also better um educators. Thank you, Don. So, so my first question, and I sort of touched on this in um a memo response to Miss Owens, AI is pulling just whatever's on the internet,
067right? And we're seeing things you can ask AI specific questions, especially historical, where the data they're pulling because the internet is getting flooded with possibly non-historical and non-scientific facts, data and answers to questions that aren't accurate. Um, and while I can appreciate I expect that our teachers are going to put information out there that isn't accurate, but what tools do we have in place or do we is that something that we can do to make sure that the information being shared with students is as accurate as possible because we can't control where AI pulls its information from. So, um, with tools like Gemini AI, uh, for for student use, we're talking student use, right? Well, I mean I mean our teachers will be using it also. Sure. Um Gemini actually has uh features built into
068it where it it will give you it will show you where it pulled the information from. It'll take you to the actual site where where it's basically citing their the references that they've used. Um chat has something very similar and what it does is it will show you it'll do a deep search and it will show you where it's pulling its information from. And and you're right, not not not every prompt is gonna is going to produce um accurate information uh because information is constantly being pulled into their large language model and it um it isn't always accurate. Sometimes the information is biased and sometimes you know it's just information for the sake of information. Um also adding to what uh Jim shared is that I think there would be an important role for both
069the AI guidelines which also really puts the teacher at the center of this. So the teacher is always the subject um matter expert and AI is only a thought partner to support teachers but teachers should be the ones um who are providing um the the main objectives of their lessons and also their teaching and they should be the ones always judging um the information uh that AI shares with them. Additionally also for the professional learning plan we we are ensuring that we include um training for teachers in order to make sure that they vet the information they they are using AI as a thought partner and as a tool but not but not as a judge and only a content creator. One one of the other pieces um just as we're you know on the
070on the brink of moving into this is looking at our digital literacy curriculum, looking at our literacy curriculum. Components of all of that also includes um making sure that we support and we do everything that we can to model and teach how we research where information is coming from. What is considered reliable or credible information or data? How do we go and confirm uh data points that are shared through AI or any other resource? So what are credible sources? How do we try to conform or tri um confirm or triangulate that data? So, there are definite pieces here where this work blends with curriculum will force us as well to update some of those curricular pieces and strategies and resources which is why I I also though appreciate the fact the the recommendation is that
071we're starting right with staff because we have we have to do some work to strengthen those practices for ourselves in support of of of our students. But there there are pieces there for us to start to connect to within curriculum as well. But it's it's a it's a not yet like this is the work that we need to be explicit in. So then sort of a followup. Uh it's been my understanding just from watching my own students and hearing adults uh using AI that the more complicated the material gets, especially if you're looking at math and science, the less accurate AI tends to be just because that information doesn't exist as readily um in the cloud. Is our is it set up so that our teachers especially at the upper level courses that if they're
072doing work it feeds information back in to help build AI or how does that work? How does that data sharing work? What are so so in in the this model chat GPT edu um what role had referred to earlier as the walled garden right is all of our all of our data is protected from the outside. We don't feed into the large language model. However, on the outside, the large language model continues to grow and feed into what we're doing. So, so it doesn't take any of our information. We're we're protected. Um, Burpa, Kappa, Sappa, um, ISRA, we're protected. Our information that we put in is protected. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? So, I I appreciate the the responses to the the questions that I asked. Um, one thing I'm trying to
073kind of get a a handle on is the direction that we're that we're moving with this as as far as staff use goes because in my mind there's there's a difference between using AI and looking up like historical references, right? So tell me about Albert Einstein or you know they pulling you know something from a historical context as opposed to the two um examples that of prompts that that you gave in your response where generate a warm-up activity for 8th grade algebra and slope intercept form. like that's that's a different use of the system than you know trying to to pull up historical references or factual information. So when we are working with staff to use this tool, are we are there specific uses that we're looking at or is this just more of a
074general how you would use all of the different ways that you could use AI and this is this is the parameters in which you use it. I I think that there are going to be a lot of different conversations because there are a lot of different aspects of this. Um, one of the um, one of the things that that I, um, I'm an evangelist of, if you will, is prompt engineering and making sure that, um, you know, there are a lot of different prompt frameworks now that are out there where, you know, you're you're letting the AI know, you can do things like who who you are. So, you're looking at something from your your specific perspective. Um, I'm a biology teacher. I teach nth grade. you know, what what whatever the um whatever you're
075looking at this perspective from, right? Um exactly what you're looking for, how you'd like to receive the data, um who you're looking to share the data with, there's all these different things that you put into the prompt so that you can get the best response from the AI. um with respect to like how teachers are going to use it, I think they're going to use it in a lot of different ways. But I think with respect to how they're going to use it, um as far as like um developing um not really developing curriculum, but like lesson plans and how, you know, like different lessons that they could do, I I think there's going to be um some different training coming from curriculum instruction on that. Um I I don't even want to attempt to
076offer what that would look like because I wouldn't know. That's accurate. Okay. We we're and we we will have to so you know as the team had shared um some considerations as you know guidelines and um certainly for our students but what's also appropriate by grade level. We'll not only have to take a look at that by grade band but also by content. Right. So we're we're in the early stages for sure. Okay. And also specific tools that there will I mean what we would use as an AI for high school, we probably would not use that for elementary. Sure. Right. Um, and I think and and I'm fine with with getting this answered in a memo. Um, because what's occurring to me as I look at these at these responses is, you know, we
077we put work into making sure that we have standardization across the district. And it seems to me that in some ways this kind of pulls away from that standardization. And so as we go through this year of exploring and and understanding what tools we we can use with AI, is there then going to be a collaborative effort across the district to make sure that you know if if we're discovering that this one use is benefiting curriculum and instruction in this manner of standardizing that then across the district that that type of use, if that makes sense. I think those are all the pieces that that we're going to have to be um really considerate as to how we get that feedback from teachers, right? I I think it's potentially the benefit of the system and
078and possibly as I as I'm listening this evening, right, the the the downfall possibly of the system. So recognizing an interest in standardized curriculum resources. And then we also recognize though as a very large diverse district that need to be able to differentiate and provide resources and different considerations for student engagement, student interest, student access, student right ability at this time and space. I think those are all potential strengths of the system. What we have to continue to come back to though are standards and skills and what are the formative points that student that we will be you know measuring and evaluating student progress. So I think that's a lot great deal of the professional learning and some of the guard rails that we will have to put in place because as long as we're
079doing work that still aligns to the standard and the outcome then there there's the potential to be able to provide far greater differentiation for our students and for us to be able to now share that in the system that has been built with support of the board of education with our with our TCTs and additional plan time for for our teachers, but we have to adhere to those standards. You know, that that's that's that's what has to be the non-negotiable. And to, you know, Jim's point a few minutes ago around prompt building, how can we get to a place where we're really focused on building those really tight, consistent prompts to give us the output that can strengthen student learning. And there there's a lot of growth for all of us in that. Definitely. I
080appreciate that. Thank you. Um just one final clarification with the the cost of of the proposal. Um is that a cost directly to Chad GPT? Is that cost include professional development internally? the the the the cost is is for the licensing but they will provide we negotiated uh professional development um train the trainer model um actual them coming here and doing trainings here um but yeah we we had it all built in. Okay. So it's inclusive of of all of that. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that and thank you for the the access and the prompts for the board members to use. I appreciate that. We'll we'll follow up with a memo as well. Okay. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Okay, the next item our next item is a contract operations risk management
081cyber liability insurance. Joining uh Jim Wolf is Dr. Frank Williams, assistant superintendent of finance to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract with Tokyo Marine HCC in the amount of $118,283 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the tour fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Sue, couple questions. Is this the first time we've had cyber security liability insurance? Okay. The second question is you mentioned that this insurance can help if we have an an attack. It can cover costs related to responding data recovery and so forth. But then in the next paragraph it also talks about the demands and
082how they average about 850,000 um for attack. Would the insurance cover the ransom? I guess I' I'd say if if we couldn't put things back together. Yes. Yeah. So the the insurance just like our insurance has a deductible associated with it. So, we'd pay our portion of it and then the insurance would kick in from there. Uh, they do offer a lot when if something were to happen, they do offer a team. They'll come on site. They'll help us do all this stuff in the background. Uh, but it is a kudos to Jim and his team. The fact that they offered us such a high insurance is the fact that we're very good at our at our security within our IT network. Uh, thank thanks to Jim and his team. So, um, yes, the answer
083to your question is yes. Yes, it would kick in after we paid our deductible. Okay. And that was my other question. I assume we do backups, off-site backups, all all sorts of things. I I don't want you discussing it in public. No, no, I I and I wouldn't, but it um part of it was that moving to multifactor authentication. Um it was also um Can I jump in? Sure. Yeah. I I I think that we we try to we try to not Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. protect our ourselves as we continue. So if there are questions, we can certainly feel them and then and then uh provide them. Okay, I'll send something then. Thank you. Okay, any other questions? Sorry, I get excited about I know you do. Yes, and I appreciate that. All
084right, thank you. Thank you. Okay, our next item, contract renewal, operations, risk management, workers compensation, insurance. Uh, Dr. Frank Williams continues to be at the day to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Illinois public risk fund in the amount of $339,270. Requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the TOR fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Next item. Next is contract renewal operations risk management property and liability insurance administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with the Illinois County's Risk Management Trust in the amount of $1,522,229. Requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will
085be charged to the short fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 20252026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Right. Next item. Next. Contact renewal postsecondary success in high school dual credit. Um Michelle Chapman, director of postsecondary success and Micah Kennedy, assistant director of postsecary success will present attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Elgen Community College not to exceed the amount of $3,472,750 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2024 2025 through 2027 2028 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? And thank you for the memo. that was attached. Also, next is a contract renewal
086assessment, accountability, and student success cognitive abilities test. Ryan Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. Matt Rami, director of assessment and accountability and student success. Emolina Nelkovich, assistant director of post-secary success, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Riverside Insights in the amount of 98,265,042 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Okay, next item. Next item, contract renewal, assessment, accountability and student success, assessment of performance toward proficiency in languages. Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. Matt Romani, director of assessment, accountability and student success, joined by Jacob
087Randy Martell, coordinator of social studies and world languages to present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Language Testing International Incorporated in the amount of $67,500 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 20252026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Next item. Next item. Contract renewal assessment accountability and student success PSAT NMSQT 1011. Brian Tennyson, assistant superintendent teaching and learning and Matt Randi, director of assessment accountability and student success will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract w renewal with the college board in the amount of
088$82,12320 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. Uh, next item, contract renewal, assessment, accountability, and student success. I Ready administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with curriculum associates in the amount of $270,720 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions, Sue? So I ready is basically replacing lab testing. Is that fair to say? Yes, that's fair. Okay. And is it better? Is it more in line with the state testing or uh so this year
089we only gave it twice. We gave it the winter and spring and initially the results are looking to be very um aligned to the state test. Um we get a little more actionable data. We get a little more detail than we did with MAP. and um we're just starting to look at different programs and things with with the data now, but overall people seem to be very pleased with it. Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Thank you for the memo that was also posted with the the I Ready and the the math assessments. That was really really helpful to read. Okay, thank you. Thank you. That being the last item on the agenda, I will take a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. Roll call, please. Miss Kerr, yes. Miss Khan, yes. Miss Martin, yes.
090Miss Nolan, yes. Miss Schwarz, yes. Miss Thomas, yes. Miss Owens, yes. Motion passed. Thank you everyone.