001motion sheet. >> Okay. All my paperwork. Brownie >> here. Campbell >> here. >> Guerrero here. >> Hilbert here. >> Leaper here. Stall >> here. >> Wood here. >> All right. Mr. Downey, would you lead us in the pledge, please? I pledge algiance 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. >> All right, we begin with the eye on the storm. >> Yep. And I believe Miss Moore is here with us tonight to talk about the uh trip that they took to Europe this summer. >> Okay. Uh so first of all, I just want to say thank you to the board for allowing us to go on this trip. Uh it was a great opportunity for
002our students. They got to experience some incredible things and we got a lot of great feedback from it. Um I am interested in doing another international trip in 2027. Uh I would like to get the process started as soon as possible so students have a couple of years to uh save up fund raise and and pay for the trip. Uh it would be to somewhere else. I won't be talking to our EF representative until next week and then that's when we will know where we will be going. Uh for me it's always important that we're going somewhere that is educational. You know something where they're going to be learning about history or you know things they've learned about here in school. um that they've never seen in real life. So anyway, that is my goal.
003Um I know we don't have a projector that's working right now, so I was just gonna This is my laptop. I'll just around if you wanted to see pictures. We have one picture of us in Ireland and one of us in England. Um, we we did see several great areas and I'm going to hand out also what I have of the feedback that we received from uh parents and students. >> What was your total count of students that went? >> Uh, we had 28 students. >> Wow. >> Uh, we ended up with a total of 38 that traveled all together. Uh, five were chaperones. Um, I'll hand this out. And then we have a couple of the students who are going to um we have a couple students who went on the trip with us
004who are going to talk to you about their experiences. So we have Heath Allen and Sarah Manion. >> Welcome. >> Hi, I'm Heath Allen. I'm Sarah Daniel. >> We had the privilege and the pleasure of attending the 2025 ten London in Dublin. To start off, we'd like to thank Miss Moore for organizing the trip, the administration, and school board for approving it, and the shacks who came along. >> So, we traveled from July 1st to July 9th, two of them being travel days. And we spent about 3 days in Dublin, one day in Birmingham, and then about two days in London. And I personally think that I had a great time. I think that everybody had their own time to kind of do their own thing and experience the trip in their own ways, like
005going shopping or historical landmarks. Like I took some of my time to go to the museum while other people shopping out in the streets, but we were all supervised all the time. So nobody was out in the streets or we all were accounted for at all times. I think that when we all were together, we went to a lot of historical landmarks such as Big Ben or St. Patrick's Cathedral. And while we were there, we did learn about history and how it's been through the years, the history of how it got there, history of how it's continued to be there. So, I think that while everybody was able to have their own fun with the trip, we all still did learn different things while we were there. >> All in all, we had a wonderful
006time. We saw a lot, ate a lot, and had an amazing experience. We hope to have another opportunity like this in the future. >> Thank you. >> All right. And now we can move on. We have some visitors that want to present this evening. >> Yes, we have uh Rob Walters from Midwest Rampage. Yeah, I'm uh I want to see I've been using the fields in Elopoulos for my travel ball team and I want to see if I can use this one out here cuz we're getting bigger and we're going to be getting it out of there. I hope. But, uh I take care of the fields. I do all that. The only thing I I'd probably have to do different would be get some water bodies and pay for that. Now, I don't know
007where you'd want to put them, but I mean it's basically the same thing I did last year. here for >> when does the season run? >> Uh we usually start in April until uh end of June. >> Okay. >> And then we'll start practicing first part of January somewhere in there. You >> practice outdoor or you need indoors for you? >> I use I talked with Dave Fleming and I used some of the uh gym last year. >> Okay. >> Over at the uh intermediate. >> Yeah. Uh, and then I do some stuff at my shop at my house, too. So, >> cool. >> Okay. >> What about fencing? I've heard the outfield. >> I'm not real worried about fencing. I mean, if I did I mean, I did put, you know, I did put
008one up when I had a a rally over there. It was just something you can put up, take down. I mean, I don't not real worried about defense. I don't >> But I mean, as far as the field, I'll take care of it. you know, if anybody else needs to use it, I mean it, you know, but I'll take care of it. So, >> cool. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, Mrs. Pocket. >> I'm here for basketball. Uh, baseball's finally over. I just want to confirm with the board again that we are able to use the Harris Town of Miami and uh Elopoulos uh school gyms for practice for games uh such like that. I do have insurance. I wasn't able to get a copy of that. It's still current. I can
009get one. Um but just to confirm that we are still able to use the buildings as we've done in the past. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> And Mrs. Stenton and Miss Nakmos. >> Yes. So, hello everyone. Um, we're here basically to give you all an ACT department update as far as um, you know, last year was Miss Atkins's first year joining SVHs with me. Um, and we wanted to show you guys the impact that that has had for our students. Um, so we threw together some data for you. That's the page. Uh, normally this comes in the form of your guys' great big long annual report that I have to send off to the state. I just toss it forwarded on to you all. I just condensed it for you so you had less
010paper to look at. So, um hopefully Matt you approved of that one. Uh so this is just historical data. You can see our first year on here is 2019 which was of course pre-COVID numbers. So I thought it was important to include pre-COVID numbers um and kind of how we have stayed steady through um that first table. So that is all duplicated enrollment. So, those aren't 145 and 146 individual students. Um, the FFA membership, I included that down below because that is individual students and every student who is enrolled in an agriculture course is actually paid for by the state of Illinois um through our AED line item within the state budget to automatically be an FFA member. So, that's why our membership numbers are unduplicated enrollment for AED. So, this year, you can see
011the 2526 numbers. Um, we actually have 146 bodies in ad classes throughout the day. Um, we're not through our first week, but we are we are 146 bodies in our ACT classes throughout the day. And that's 92 different students. So, the number down at the bottom says currently 28 students are taking multiple ACT courses. Um, that wasn't they weren't really able to do that before with just a single teacher program. Um 19 of those kids are taking two classes, seven are taking three classes, and we actually have two seniors that are taking four AC classes with us this year. So, um the kids are really enjoying the course offerings that we can do just by expanding um some course highlights. I'll talk about mine and then I'll let Miss K talk about hers. Um I
012was able to add in a vet science class and so um that's the advanced animal science these kids are really excited about. They're learning a lot of um you know emergency medicine type stuff. Um so we do animal CPR, we do suturing, we do uh wound breeding, all the things and giving them those skills that that tech would need. Um and so they've really enjoyed that. Um our food science class, I'm super excited about this one um because this year second semester, we're actually able to offer that for dual credit through the University of Illinois. We partnered with them this past spring. Um it's the first time UMI has ever offered a Google credit course ever in their history and they're doing what a teachers throughout the state to get a sustainability and agriculture class.
013Um it is a pilot program right now. So our students who are enrolled in that class will actually get three UI science credits free of charge for them. Um they're hoping to continue the pilot program next school year as well. Um they said definitely this year they're hoping for a two-year pilot and then after that our students would be at a much reduced rate. They're looking at community college rates for high school dual credit. Um so they're thinking around $75 to $150 a credit hour depending on what the university agreements become. So we're super excited to be able to offer a dual credit course in the A department getting our kids those science credits. It's not just elective credit, it's science credits at Unifi. and they actually partnered with three other universities that I can't
014remember off the top of my head that also will give them science credits if they go there or it's elective credit if they go like wherever university they go to with you like college credit. So that was really awesome um that they just happened to do that and it fell into our curriculum because we are now able to offer that type of class to our kids. So it's really cool um that we can do that. I uh also expanded a mechanics this year. We have two sections of biomechanics which has been really helpful as well as two sections of neural science. Um the kids are we are getting more kids that weren't able to take some of those classes due to leaving for tech or Richland or whatever in the afternoon they now we now
015have morning sections of those classes and so they were able to stay and do more of that. So that's where some of our multiple kids taking multiple classes comes in. >> Yes. So I'm get all the freshman. So I am intro to a um we were at three sections last year. We went down to two this year and that made it possible for us to add a natural resources class that I'm very very excited about this year. Um they will walk out of my room with their boater safety license and their hunter safety license. Those are just a few of the highlights. But we're also going to do a make their own bass litters, talk about hunting and wildlife preservation and conservation. So it's a very interesting class the kids are really excited about. Um
016and then we have greenhouse management which we're going to continue the plant sale this year. That's one of the big things. All the other classes are just about the same as when Grady had. So, >> and in our food science classes, I forgot to mention that kids also walk out of there with their food handlers license. So, that's another thing that we we offer. So, um all of these classes that we're able to input because of having multiple teachers, we're now getting like literally all of these classes are now offering certifications. They're offering dual credit um and just more life skills for our students. So, we're super super excited and just wanted to say thank you to the board for allowing us to expand because it's been an awesome honor and the kids are really
017enjoying it. Um, few FFA highlights with having two teachers. So, last year I did a team horse judging last year. I think that's the first time that we ever done it. >> First time in year and we actually play with first place which was I told the kids when we got off the bus I was like, "Hey, we're just going to go and have a good time. we've been preparing for this, but you know what? It is what it is. And then I made them wait and they weren't happy about it cuz they were hungry. We needed to wait and we got first place and they were ecstatic about it. So, we're going to try again this year for sure. Um, we also had Yeah. two kids got their state degrees this past year. Um,
018which were uh Ethan Pratt and Zara. So they also um they're two of the 2% of Illinois FFA which is 47,000 members strong only 2% of Illinois FFA receives their state degree and we had two of those students last year. So we were really proud of them for achieving that as well. >> Um but the real reason besides to say thank you uh we are here is also uh this year is one of the years that we would like to take kids to the national day convention in October. It is in Indianapolis. um October 29th, 30th, and 31st. So, it's a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Um so, we are here to ask your permission to again take kids across state lines to attend our national convention conference. >> I believe you guys have that a little
019later in your >> All right. Thank you for running such a great program. Appreciate it. >> All right. >> Okay. Uh David Lane is not able to be with us. So I'll turn it over to Mr. Stall in terms of the uh scouting. Would >> you like me to step on you? You don't have to. Um yeah, like Dr. Phil said Dr. David L got called in on the radio. So they I got volunteer tonight. Um we'd like to use the primary building for our uh meet and greet joint scouts. Come try it out. Um we usually use the cafeteria. I think we've set up in the past we've set up the final derby drag. >> Okay. >> I'm grateful if you guys >> When is that? >> The 1st or the 8th? >> September
0204th. 4th. I >> Okay. Right in the middle. >> It's not on a Monday night for you that >> that would be a Wednesday of the week. >> Thursday. Thursday. Thursday. >> Okay. I thought I had here. >> All right. I'm not going to be there, so it doesn't matter. Okay. Um, anything else for >> any visitors? Okay. So, then at this time, I need a motion to enter close session for the reasons stated on the agenda. So much.