001Good evening everybody. Thank you for joining us. Um my name is Matt Dus. I'm the board president real quickly. We're going to do uh we have some legal things we actually have to do really quickly and then we're going to get into the the recognitions. So bear with us. We had no option to push this till afterwards. All right. So, I am opening the public hearing for the purpose purposes of discussing the amended budget. Uh, roll call, please. Here. All right. We're in session. Um, do I any public comments on the amended budget? All right, hearing none. Um, the amended budget's been presented and we'll approve it later this evening in our regular meeting. I need a motion to adjourn this portion of the meeting. Do seconded by Washington. All those in favor signify by
002saying I. I. I have it. We'rejourned. Okay. Now, uh, I'm opening the board of education public hearing for the purpose of a fund transfer. Uh on it's May 20th, 2025. Roll call, please. Here. Here. Here. We're in session. Do I have any uh public comments for the fund transfer? All right. Just uh what is the fund transfer at the end of the year? Uh we have some money left over in our budget. We're transferring, we'll be transferring that to our buildings and maintenance funds so that we can do things like put new fixed parking lots and elevators and roofs and all those things. Um, and we will approve that later in we'll approve that later uh in our regular meeting. I need a motion to adjourn this public hearing. All those in favor signify by
003saying I. I. Eyes have it. All right, let's get to our regular meeting. Um, it's our regular board of education uh for May 20th, 2025 at 7:06. Roll call, please. Here. Here. Here. Here. We are in session. Please stand for the pledge. Oh jeez. 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. No, I didn't break you. Come on. All right. Um uh oh, a request for additional agenda items. I do have one that we'll uh take up in our regular meeting. Um the board president and a board member from 20 district 205 are coming to speak with us for a short time. All right. Um recognitions and celebrations. Oak Prairie
004Bowling. You guys are not supposed to clap for me. I'm not good at bowling. Oh, can I have my bowlers come on up here Jordan and Joy Cox and then this is Coach Lee. She is our bowling coach and she is going to talk a little bit about the bowling season. Okay, first of all, I'd like to say thank congratulations to all the members of free bowling team. There was other kids in besides these three, they all did a great job at sectionals. All we do is hold section and state. So they all did a great job. These three individuals, as Mrs. Cash already introduced, they advanced to the state tournament state that they all games. Jordan Martin, raise your hand. She build a 585 series. Madison 520 series and Joey a 557 series. Maxim
005finished at 87th place. Joey in 110th and with a Friday defense series, Jordan actually was able to advance to Saturday and in the final round and finished in the top 50. All right. Uh, next up we have our read math stars here. Oh yeah, they can do it. Okay. Our read and math stars, do you want to come on up and stand with Mrs. Reynolds while I speak about you? Yep. You can come on up. Don't be shy. Come on up. Okay. So, I am pleased to recognize our National Math Star nominees. Uh these students were nominated by Mrs. Reynolds. She is our LMC specialist and enrichment teacher at Reed School. And they were nominated for a community enrichment program called the National Math Stars. These students earned this honor by scoring at the 98th
006percentile or above in math on their standardized testing. They also demonstrated extraordinary math skills, creative problem solving abilities, and an unparalleled desire to learn during their math enrichment classes. Each of these little mathematicians has already received a letter and a medal in the mail recognizing what an honor it is just to be nominated for this program. Over the next few months, they will participate in online testing and interviews to see if they will be accepted into this 10-year program. If accepted, students will receive expert mentorship and advanced math courses, financial stipens for enrichment opportunities, and family advising to help navigate academic success. We wish these students the best of luck as they continue through the process. We can't wait to follow their success stories into the future. Please join me in congratulating these talented and
007hardworking Reed students. Perfect. There you go. Bulldogs. One, two, three. Bulldog. Good job. Yeah, I bet it's probably in the other pile. Okay, honey. All right. Can I go ahead with masters? Okay. All right. Can I now have our read word masters team come on up and stand next to Mrs. Reynolds word masters. Okay. Our read school word masters team is an extraordinary group of third grade students chosen based on merit. These students are motivated, hard-working, intelligent, and have a true passion for learning. The Wordmasters team met with Mrs. Reynolds once a week during power time throughout the entire school year. They also participated in three national competitions this year. Each competition focused on analogies, vocabulary, and word relationships. These students not only had to demonstrate an ability to apply higher order thinking skills, but
008they also had to be able to manage their time, work as a leader and a follower, communicate effectively with their peers, and collaborate with one another. Our READ team achieved great success. They set a school record by earning 14th place out of 126 teams this year. But that's not all. When these students weren't preparing for competitions, they were participating in book clubs. They practiced reading fluency, comprehension, writing and speaking, and listening skills while enjoying novels such as The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, the one and only Ivan and Otter. Mrs. Reynolds is sure to miss the insightful conversations with her favorite bookworms up here today. Please join me in congratulating this remarkable group of Reed students. this one. Thank you. It's just my my reading side. Bulldog three. Can we say bulldog? One, two,
009three. Ah, you want to talk? She's not doing those to Thank you so much, Word Masters. You can go back to your adult that brought you here tonight. Make sure you pick the right one. Perfect. So, um, at this time, I'd like Mr. Kulic to come up because we have two phenomenal educators that I want to shout out that were recipients of those who excel awards. So, if I could get our fabulous staff members to come up here as well. Look at they're so happy with me right now. So, a little bit about the Those Who Excel Award. Um, since 1970, the Illinois State Board of Education has sponsored the Those Who Excel program to honor educators who have made significant contributions to our public and non-public schools. So, we have two amazing uh staff
010members here from Lewig School that we're going to highlight here tonight. First is Miss Kristen Grahovich. Kristen, give a wave. There you go. It's my honor to recognize Kristen Grahovc Lewig social worker for the past 16 years. She was nominated for and received the Those who excel special recognition award in the student support personnel category. Miss selflessly puts the needs of others before her own and her dedication to her role at Lewig School is second to none. Kristen profoundly and positively impacts staff, students, and families in our school and across our school district. She ensures that the students on her case loads needs are met. She provides small groupoup services and even onetoone supports when they are needed. Being a school social worker is not easy and she welcomes all the responsibilities that fall on
011her shoulders every day here at Lewig School. She's an integral member of our MTSS team. She's a expert in our secondstep programming and she's an active participant on our school leadership team. Miss Grahovic regularly communicates and collaborates with the teaching professionals and support staff at Lewig School and across the district. She routinely makes contact with family members and strives to ensure that our students are set up for success when they come to school. The result of this consistent engagement with our staff and families helps support the mission and goals of our school and that we always strive to promote a love of learning and a safe and caring environment for our students. In addition to her social worker duties, Kristen also plays an integral role with our key programming at Lewig School. Each year, she
012helps organize and host mentor groups, our sunshine club, our new student groups. She helps with our Bernie's book bank drive. She is integral with our Aeron's Law programming. She helps with our Veterans Day recognition, our support our troops partnership, our St. Baldwick's open gym. I think I'm talking myself out of a job here actually. My goodness. So that's all yours. Regularly she um presents at our all school assemblies and discusses ways that we can promote kindness across our school. So Miss Kristen Khovic shows genuine pride in her work with our students at Lwig School and across the district. She truly excels in all that she does. We're incredibly honored to have you as part of our Lewig team. Thank you, Kristen, for all that you do. You're very welcome. I would also like to recognize
013Miss Becca Vickers. Becca, there's your wave. Right. She's a fourth grade teacher here at Lewig School. She was nominated for and received the Those Who Excel Special Recognition Award in the classroom teacher category. Miss Vickers prides herself with excellence in the workplace. She routinely shows confidence in her teaching abilities, her management skills, and her ability to know her students on an individual level. She always remains humble, though, and she's always willing to add new tools to her toolbox. She consistently attends conferences, completes post-secary classes, she completes courses, and she attends on-site and off-site professional development. Over the last six years at Lewig, Becca has shown that she is a dynamic facilitator of learning where a mixture of researchbased whole class and small groupoup instructional strategies have returned positive student results. Each year, her fourth grade
014scholars embrace a growth mindset and showcase their leadership at Lewig School. Infusing technology in her instruction is yet another strength for Becca. Miss Nickers has fully embraced our 1:1 iPad initiative and she uses these devices to allow her students to show what they know in creative 21st century ways. Becca strives to remain on the forefront of educational trends and she never hesitates to take risks in her classroom. In addition to the great work that she does in her classroom, she's an instrumental member of our Lewig school community. She has served the district in a variety of different capacities over the years. These include, and are not limited to, our ELA textbook adoption process, planning our family night events, participating in online book studies, and even attending her own students clubs and sporting events that take
015place outside of school. She's part of our flower and gift committee. She has served on Lewig's school leadership team. She served on the district leadership team, and she's a proud member of our committee. She also is involved with Club 92 programming, including gaming club and Harry Potter Club, and she helps facilitate our sunshine club. Miss Vickers shows genuine pride in her work for her students, both here at Lewig and all of her work across the district. Her impact is farreaching beyond the walls of her classroom. Becca, you truly do excel at all that you do. Thank you so much for being part of our Lewig team. We couldn't do it without you. Great job, Becca. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. We are so blessed to have you and so many educators.
016So, at this point, we're going to move on to our retirees. Um, we we have several that are unable to join us tonight. So, we're going to be celebrating them Thursday. We have an end of the year party. But I wanted to set the stage for a minute. And I want you to just imagine a young woman that has a dream of making a difference and that gets their first student teaching job and they get to impact students and what a gift that is to be able to watch those light bulb moments where you know you made a difference and they just learned a concept. Then I want you to imagine that they get hired where they student taught and they dedicate decades over three decades of their life continuing to give to students. Now
017I'm going to ask Mrs. Golden to come up and share with us someone that might have done that. Correct? Yeah. Okay. So, it is my great honor to recognize Mrs. Gina Takia. She's in the crowd. If you want to give a wave. Um, uh, no, Mrs. Takia, if you could come up here. I know they are. I'm making so many points right now with staff. She said it, not me. I love your outfit. So, Mrs. Takia, like Dr. Frankie had just said um started at D92 actually 34 years ago. Um 33 years teaching but 34 if you include the year that she student taught in district 92. So she has dedicated her entire career to serving the students and families in our district 92 community. I actually was just talking to Gina before coming over
018here today. I said, "How long were you actually in your classroom teaching second grade?" She said about 23 years. So you can understand how that classroom kind of became a home to you. but spending that much time in there. So, Gina Takia has been teaching second grade in district 92 for the past 33 years. She even student taught in D92 before beginning her teaching career. She has brought joy, laughter, and a contagious sense of fun to her second grade classroom and the entire Reed School community. Her light-hearted nature and genuine care leave a lasting impression on students so much that some still reach out to her years later just to catch up. There's almost always a silly story involving Gina, and her ability ability to make both students and staff smile has always been a
019constant. Her presence adds a special kind of warmth that will deeply be missed at Reed School. We hope Gina's retirement is filled with all of the things that bring her heart joy because it is welld deserved. Thank you, Gina. Okay, somebody has my agenda. That's everything, right? Okay. Um, okay. At this time, we're going to take a quick recess and go back to the music room and, uh, have our regular board meeting. You're welcome to join us or you're welcome to go home. Um, but at this time, we're in recess. Thank you. back in session. Um, no student report this month. AFT report. No report. Okay. Um, any public comments for items on the agenda? Okay. Um, at this time, I'd like to add the agenda item. I was talking about um we today we
020have Michaelen O'halerin with us. Um she is a brand new board member with district 205 and all of the um board members at district 205 are going to liaison with uh individ with the other seven feeder districts. And so please come up introduce yourself and hi mate. I'm gonna move this down a little bit. Make sure you can hear me. Um, as Matt said, I am a brand new uh board member at LTHS and so I just wanted to introduce myself and talk a little bit about what our goal is as we liazison with the feeder districts coming into our high school. Um, again, thank you for welcoming me tonight. My name is Michael O'Halerin and on behalf of the Lockport Township High School Board of Education, I want to begin by offering congratulations and
021a warm welcome to all the new board members here. Um to all the board members, your service to the students and families of the community is deeply appreciated and we commend you for stepping into such an important role. You know, it takes a lot of time and effort to, you know, put in support and for the students in your district. I'm here tonight as a part of a new effort from Lockport Township High School to strengthen the connections between our high school and our feeder districts. We recognize that we are all part of a shared educational journey and one that begins in your schools and ends in our school and the experiences they have. In that spirit, we hope to periodically attend meetings like this one throughout the year. Some of our goals are to
022strengthen relationships between our high school and our future schools, promote LTHs and share updates on the initiatives and programs that we offer, increase mutual understanding of the challenges and successes that we all face, enhance transparency by providing a direct liaison from the high school board and support smoother transitions for students and families as they move from middle school into high school. We believe that open communication and collaboration between our districts is essential in the success of all the students. To further support this partnership, our board president, Veronica Shaw, will be reaching out to set up some time in the near future to explore the possibilities that we can put together either by annually or quarterly to meet among our board presidents. Um the goal is to foster that deeper relationship. We want to keep the
023lines of communication open and create a forum for discussion and any matters that we're mutually interested in. We are excited about the road ahead and the opportunity to work more closely with you. More importantly, the LTHs board is looking forward to welcoming your soon-to-be graduates into our buildings. We have nothing we've heard nothing but great things about them and we're excited to have them. Thank you again for your dedication and your collaboration and your commitment to our shared goals. We look forward to growing together in the months and years ahead. Thank you so much for inviting me here again and I'd like to answer any questions if I can if anyone has any. No, I love it. I think smart think it's brilliant collaborating with all the theater districts think great. We're really excited about
024it. So, we look forward to working with all of you. Thank you again. Thank you. Congratulations to you. Yeah, it's a big first step coming to Yeah. Not that we're the most intimidating board, but All right. Administrative reports. Dr. Frankovich, public comment. Yes. Oh, great. Okay. Go ahead. All right. So, um my report is in there. One thing that I wanted to highlight as we look at you'll also see um our certified staffing assignments. Currently, we have a several positions that are pending board approval that we do have candidates hopefully tonight that you'll be able to approve. So, we'll be able to slate them in there. But, as we watch that larger cohort um move up, I want to be clear that there potentially could be changes in assignments. So, teachers might have to loop
025up or shift from one grade level to another grade level. So that's something that I definitely want to be transparent about um so that everyone is aware as we kind of continue to watch this. Now with some new developments, I'm not sure what grade levels we'll see more growth in, but we are making uh student data driven decisions. So we'll always be looking kind of at that. So that is something that will be a little bit unique that I wanted to make sure that I address tonight. And then we're getting um really excited. Uh end of the year is upon us. So busy time to our staff. a huge thank you to them because there is no busy like May busy for an educator. Um I like to call it May December. Some of the
026ladies on here might as well Mayber the thing. Yes. It's really real and so there's a lot on their plates but they're continuing to do a fantastic job as they wrap up for everything. So a huge thank you and shout out to them for all that they're doing and we're excited to celebrate um them next week. Any questions on my report or enrollment or anything? Do you see a a second grade teacher looping when you say looping up like sort of following the cohort? Um that would be one potential. That is something that I myself have done also. So um you'll be able loop is moving with that same group of kids if they want to buy in. I don't know if we've done that though. I don't know if we would do a traditional
027loop or if there might be someone that's interested in naturally moving. So, of course, we would open that up and any interested candidates would be able to internally apply for that and have that um voluntary move. In the event that we didn't, that would be something that we would be looking at an involuntary move then at that point. Okay. And if um somebody loops up and follows, do you what's the philosophy or thoughts on having the same teacher two years in a row? Is that something you avoid or is that not a big deal? Um I think everything depends on relationships. I feel like that comes back so much in in everything in life. Um, so looking at what was that class makeup, we know some makeups are are better than others. Sometimes we need
028those breaks between individuals. Um, and sometimes different learning styles might match. So I think it's hard to forecast exactly what that will look like until we know more about the specific cohorts and such. That makes sense. Are they uh hold on before I ask a silly question, let me look at this first. There are no silly questions. Uh there I saw that 20. Okay. I don't think it's silly. Um enrollment for 2526. How is that trending from like a like I just did mine last week like are people actively enrolling? Yeah. Registering I guess you would say. Do we do we is there going to have to be a lot of phone calls being made? I Yes. So, we are seeing that's hard to tell because we're only seeing into the district office new uh
029people that are coming in to because we're not doing the residency day. So, we have a stream coming in. Um I haven't actually pulled the report so I can pull it and definitely look at what where we are at currently, but I do know that especially with the town houses by Oak Prairie, that's where we seem to be getting most of the phone calls allegedly could be up by summer. So, I think people are anxious to get in. They're up. Yes. Yes. And so, I think that they're they're excited to be able to enroll them. Okay. But, um I don't have an exact I was just curious like how process was going. What's our policy or leeway on somebody who maybe doesn't move in till September 1st, like letting them let them start? Yeah. Is
030it a case by case? No. Well, we do have policy. I don't think off the top of my head. I would refer to it when they um Yeah, they have to pay tuition when they come in, but usually it's Yeah, I was going to say most policies are tuition based where you can pay a tuition to be here daily. I would assume that's what our says, but I can't confirm that. Just considering how quickly people are going to start moving in there and those apartments on 159. I'm guessing that will be that's the summer also. Yeah, that'll become a question of Yeah, it's going to be nice for summer that's supposed to be done too. I mean, people starting them yet. That's what I was saying that too. Yeah, too. We could seen them, too.
031The first couple buildings have been up for a while. I thought they would have moved in and phased in or something, but Yeah. Yeah. It's just we um the apartments on 143rd, we really didn't get the bump that we thought we would see there. So, Oh, by the on the triangle. Oh, yeah. By Homer. Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right. All right. I know. Yeah. Is it? Unless there's any other questions, I'm good. All right. Assistant Superintendent Business Services. All right. Um, in the board packet then is my uh memo. Really, I just highlighted a couple different things with the budget. Happy to answer any questions. Also in the board book are two market updates. I typically do this just to provide sort of lay of the land for what we're seeing in the economy. One
032report was from Raymond James. Um, and then the other one was uh from PMA, which is our financial arm that handles a lot of our investments. The other thing I want to take a moment on is the uh the permit approval that we we received from the IEPA. So, this is the Illinois uh Environmental Protection Agency. We finally got a conclus a conclusive uh ruling on our parking lot at Reed. So, this is nearly 2 years ago that we have been painstakingly waiting for um to to get approval from the Will County Land use. It has finally come through. I'm just glowing because this put something to bed for us. The the risk was that on the west side of the building, we might have had to have torn torn out that entire uh parking
033lot to to have it um actually dropped 5 in. But we uh were able to show through our engineer WT that it it met the the basically the the design as as uh set. Um and in terms of any kind of risk of flooding or anything else, we mitigated that and showed that throughout the analysis. So a just a a great great uh conclus conclusion to a project that was nearly two years old. So happy to answer any other questions about any of the other material in the board book. Thanks for the recap because I couldn't remember what it was. I know. It's a reed parking lot. It's hard to Yeah, it's hard to go back two years ago, but yes. All right. Thank you for following up on all that. Absolutely. All right. Director
034of Student Services. Hi everyone. Um nothing too critical going on, just getting to the end of the year. Lots of closeout things happening. Um in my report, you'll see we are interviewing for the Reed nurse. Currently, that nurse is a contract position. So, we're looking to hire on staff and hopefully have that locked down for summer so that we wouldn't have another contract position next year. Um, and then our OT, another one is gone. So, we are working on replacing that person. We do have um our OT's filled for next year. So, we're solid for 2526. We are looking with local districts. We're partnering for summer and I think we will have that solidified this week. So, I'm excited to have OT for summer and get those kids caught up on their minutes. Then those
035of you who were on the board last year might remember we used to have to do a report for um physical restraint and timeouts. It was a mandated report and we had to file everything every year. That window has closed. So we no longer have to formally do that report every year which is fantastic. We will still mindfully watch what we're doing. Um our physical restraints are down this year. We don't have as many. So we'll continue to monitor that internally but we won't have to do a big presentation to the state every year which is nice. Extended school year is happening in three weeks. We'll be starting. Uh Mr. Sakowski is the principal for that. We're up to about 90 students and we have had to tell parents, we've asked, we've begged, we've borrowed,
036please register and they haven't. So, we have a few students that we haven't heard from. We're hoping, we have space for them if they decide to enroll last minute, but they won't be able to do transportation at this point because we have to get those routes going. So, the kids will be ready to go on June 9th. And then, um, our school psychologist administrators met to go over our implementation of MTSS. Since this is our first year with the handbook, we went through kind of our celebrations, things we need for next year and what's been happening at each of the buildings. We are done with our partnership with NIU. I think you'll recall we had a consultant coming in kind of helping us get that started. Each of the building principles and teams have done
037a nice job and they'll be able to take that on themselves going forward for next year. So, that partnership will be over after this school year. And that's about it right now. Right. So, are we staffed up for the extended school year then? I have to say we have so many D92 staff that want to work this year. It's pretty awesome. We are not hiring one person outside of D92 except for PT, OT, and speech. Everyone else is a D92 employee and we do not have any like last year we had to hire college students. I love having them here, but we don't need to do that this year. So, all of our D92 spots are all of our staff are D92 filled and our nurses are also working. So, we will have our staff
038here for that as well. Which is great. Yep. Um I'll talk about uh director of curriculum report. So I would say one of the biggest topics here is CKLA. So we're still planning that um professional development for staff to be able to prepare them. We have some summer dates um as well. And then the CKA rep is prepared to transition um from Dr. Lake to Dr. Shanahan with that um happening in July. So we're moving forward with that. Reed participated in some math professional development on April 28th and we had some good feedback from them um regarding that professional development. So, we're excited as they're implementing some of the things they were able to take away from there. As Nora said, MTSS um meeting occurred and some some celebrations there and some more work to
039do. So, we're excited to celebrate and then also um be able to enhance and improve that work. And then also another big item out of curriculum and learning was the standardsbased learning and grading. So, we had uh Dr. like had pushed out an individual blast regarding that to families. Um, and only families that have uh kindergarten through current third grade would have gotten that blast because next year when we roll out standard space, fifth grade is not. We're allowing fifth grade to stay with their current um learning and grading because they would only have one year because then they would flip to Oak Prairie. Um, so that blast did go out. We also put that in our main newsletter for families. I think Dr. Lake has only fieldled um a less than a handful of
040questions um so far. So, so we're excited to kind of continue to communicate that. I also anticipate we'll be communicating heavily um regarding that in the fall when we return. Did you say K through third or is it K through fourth or K through third and then fifth is not doing it. So, the current fourth graders that are moving to fifth grade are not doing it. That's where I had to think about it because they'll be in fifth grade. So they had this one year. So I believe Lwig's SLT team talked about it and the decision was they were going to maintain. So it wasn't we were used to doing something. We're going to switch it for a year to kind of go back to what we were doing. Got it. So that that cohort
041will be maintaining. So they're currently fourth graders, but they will be fifth graders next year. So the third graders that are going to be fourth graders will be they will be they will be getting standard space. Yep. Great question. Yeah. and you feel good and confident. Everybody's ready. And the teachers have worked I can't think of a word to say how hard they've worked on this. Yeah. This has been years in the making. They have more than blood, sweat, and tears. Yeah. Um into every area of this. Nothing is perfect. I think it will be something that we'll continually be refining and that there there'll be tweaks, but I have no doubt in our our staff's ability to be able to pull this off with grace and ease. Um I don't know if this is
042a question or statement. And I feel like I'll figure it out as it comes out. Uh I feel like we'll get more questions when it actually I would kind of prepared for like you know because I get parent emails and sometimes I'm like that's a thing. Yeah, we'll worry about that. I'm getting office as a mom. I get a ton of them. Like I I will get there. I will look at it. Um but I are we prepared? I agree. Yes, that is something that I've already started to talk to Dr. Shanahan about and I anticipate principles will be talking with SLT teams just about as we welcome new families in in August how are we communicating that what does that look like because that's where and I think even actually as we get closer
043to the grading period that's when we'll really see it what does this mean it will be an inevitable phone call as what is this so that is what yeah exactly what is this and I really think um not so much necessarily at Walsh because they're used to getting a similar similar standard space. Um, but at the buildings that we saw traditional grading, that's where we might see some questions. For sure. Absolutely. A thought maybe is to have a cheat sheet for parent teacher conferences. Well, before before that, really for Yeah. Before that, but handouts. When you go to parent teacher conferences, you always get a little folder of goodies. Yes. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. For open house. Open the expectation. Yes. I would agree. I forgot about that at the start. like they have like I
044believe that they did and looking put together. Okay, cool. I just was asking. Yeah, it was a question. You're good. Even maybe posters for the kids like in the classrooms, right? That help them. I think the kids will be they will they won't care. Yeah. Literally, there are there's going to be the some who are going to want that are going to want an A. Yeah. Because that's the only way they Right. They're going to want an A. Um, so that'll be interesting. All right. Thank you, director of technology. I have only a couple items. Uh, we did building walks on May 8th of all for schools of Hartland. Uh, they went well. They looked at all the closets, looked at all the wiring with cameras, sound, all that parts with it. They're working on
045a plan uh to kind of design things out, scope things over span of time. Um, with the wiring, all that piece along with it. Um and we just we have amazing good discoveries on that process as well as far as what needs what needs we have for wiring needs we have for sound versus what we thought we needed. Um so those single progress from that point and then also funding we got our rate re uh commitment for the year um which big% of the cost of the switches which comes up to 28,900 I said 20,990. Um so we're going to start working that project for as switching goes for the summer. um get those in, start configuring them up and everything else so we can get everything ready for the summer time. So, we're doing
046the wiring out the switches there as well at the same time. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Uh no principal reports this week this month. No, but they will be back in June with their uh smart goals. Yep. So, that will be coming in June. All right. I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Top key. All right. Any questions? All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Washington. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to approve the ESP 2526 handbook. Washington. Good. Well, all right. As the board can recall, um, this was in discussion last month. There have been no changes since last month. So, we're presenting it as is from last month. Any questions? All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a
047motion to approve the student parent handbook for 2526. Washington top key. This was also on discussion last night. feel like a bro record. Um, and is here for action this month. There have been no additional changes since last month as well with the student handbook. All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the 2526 board of education regular meeting dates. Washington. Correct. Let me take this one. [Laughter] Uh, not having had any conversations, I'm assuming every We were discussed this last week or uh last May 6th at the reorganization meeting. We're good with these dates. All good. All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. This is just good board governance. It is. the month before. Give everyone time
048and process it. Yeah. Vote quickly on the next month. Whole team. Um I need a motion to approve the CESO communications contract. Said wellki. All right. So this wasn't last month. We're going to need to go back a few months further than that. So, um, we engaged in a trial run with CESO as part of our communications plan where we want to increase our engagement with the community. So, you hopefully notice that we have more Facebook posts and social media presence where we're really trying to showcase just the amazing things that our educators and staff members are doing. And so, um, that trial has come to an end. So, we would like to be able to continue that. I cannot wait for a couple things that are in the hopper right now with them that
049they're finishing up. I will give the board maybe a little sneak peek in my update this week, but one of them is I teared up. Um they talked to eighth graders that had been with us since kindergarten and what being a bulldog was to them. And to the staff members out there, thank you because you are repeated over and over the difference that you make. And so I was so excited today when I saw it and I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is amazing." Yes, please push this out right away. So be on the lookout for that because there's some really great things that they're doing where they're going to be showcasing eighth grade reflections. Whoever idea was that like was that you? That was them. I said, "How do we celebrate? What do
050we do? I want it to be things that celebrate all the amazing things." Um because unfortunately I feel we live in a world where the negative sometimes gets more attention. But every time I'm in a school, it's just magic. And so, um, our Vanessa, who we work with at CSO, said, "Can I talk to you about this? What do you think?" And I said, "Do it." And I actually got it today and was tearing up in my office because it was that good. Like I said, it all to the staff though. It was repeated over and over how much the staff meant to them. So, it was awesome. So, is our staff uh doing the recording and interviewing the kids or how is that working? We did some of the principles did it themselves and
051then I do know there was also some pair of pros that might have helped out when they had time to be able to and then they get the videos to uh CESO who then kind of compiles everything and starts to work on those for us. So I have a lot of great ideas already with her for the summer. So I'm really hoping you approve this so we can keep that going. Might be a bulldog story. Just might be. Just throwing it out there. Great is that'll do it for me. Yeah. Yeah. Um can I ask one a question? are you able to uh get click count and stuff so you know how many people you're touching? She does look at things like that. So there are it seems like 700 p.m. seems to be our
052trendiest time. So several posts she'll say like hey this is a post I really want to draw attention like specifically I think recently drama or choir. Um it might have also been our kindergarten roundup. There are certain posts that she's like I'm going to hold because I'm like hey I don't see that. She's like I'm waiting 700 p.m. is your sweet time. That's when we're going to get the most stage. So she does look at things like that. Yeah, that makes sense though. I'd be curious about trends, you know, as we kind of go forward. So, yeah. Yeah. Cool. So, yeah. All right. All right. All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yep. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the fiscal year 25 amended budget as presented. Washington goi. All
053right. Um, in at table there's a a brief handout that highlights just the key parts of the budget uh that I thought were most important for the board to see. But also in the board book there's a memo that explained what the amended budget does as well as the entire um amended budget that I I will have to file then with ISBY assuming it gets approved tonight. also the roe. But I did just want to point out on page four of that handout that everybody has just to sort of see the the issue that we were facing. If you look on uh the towards the bottom of page four, there's a section on the very bottom that says summary of expenditures without student activity funds. If you look at column H and it's uh row
054128, that's for capital outlay. So that's $674,000. Remember when I was talking about that permit from two years ago? So, one of the challenges we had with Schroeder was uh we were holding money back because of the potential that we were looking at needing to have a little bit of a hammer there if the parking lot went if the ruling was against what we wanted. So, I needed to make sure we kept money back. So, it was partly a timing thing where by the time we finally got that bill, wasn't expecting it. Now, when I did the budget back in, you know, last summer, we weren't I wasn't looking at that for for this year. So, that's why I needed to make the amended budget because we have to pay the bill. So, um I
055have now um clearance from DLA. So, DA are architects. They've now approved the work. Um we we're waiting on one last bit of work. And if you've driven by Walsh lately, you'll probably notice that there was some re reeding that was done and um some grading that was done with soil. Again, this is two years ago that we're still dealing with. So, this is part of the process of construction. It's it's done, but never done. So, we're still living in this world. They're actually, as I was looking at the the finances, there's still about $200,000 outstanding that we have for Schroeder. So, we're still sitting on a little bit some allowance money. Um, and and that's still part of the process that we go through. So, it's it's the warranty work that we're still living
056through. Um but anyway, that that's 674,000. That was that component of of closing out the bulk of the project that we had. So that's really in in a nutshell why we do the amended budget then. Any questions? I'm happy to answer. Okay. What are the rules like 10% 10% for the fund? Yes. Yeah. Per fund. Per fund. It's not the total budget. So Yep. It's easy to have to do it. Yes. But all right. Any other questions? All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the fund transfer as presented. Washington. Whoever. Okay. All right. Also then in the same handout then you'll see that the there's a $1.4 4 million transfer from ED fund to on and m and then ultimately I'm moving that
057over to capital projects. So this is to not only help pay for a little bit of the shorter funds but also then to set aside money for us for capital improvement projects. And so when we look at uh funding that we're doing with security investments, when we look at starting to earmark money for a parking lot here at Lewig or potentially a roof that we need for Oak Prairie on the facilities committee, we've talked extensively about earmarking funds in capital project funds so that we can say this money, we're not just, you know, we're not just having a savings account. This is really earmarked for specific projects. And so it's really through the facility assessment that we do, the new 10-year life safety study that we're going to have done, those projects are really going
058to be identified through that facility plan, which then we can tie back to the capital projects fund so that everybody in the community, the board, everyone else understands, oh, that's why we have a fund that we're growing in intentionally so that we can actually pay for these things. Um, but the fund specifically, like we've done numerous years, we've typically been able to transfer some funds from the ED fund into capital projects. Um, this year it's 1.4 million. Last year I think we did 750,000. So it depends yeartoear. I will say looking out into the future, we know that our revenue is dropping. So, our revenue from what we had during COVID where we saw funds over a million dollars that will never come back as long as we don't have another pandemic. Um, but we
059also know that CPPRT, the corporate personal property replacement tax, is also being cut drastically. We know that that's going to be 33% less next year, as well as another hit the following year. So, we are seeing some of our revenue numbers on things that we've had sort of a little bit of cushion with not be there. Um, so I'm just putting that out there as as um maybe a caveat that yes, this year is great from the transfer side of the 1.4, but we might not have that same kind of flexibility next year. But we we monitor it and we watch uh from the revenue. We know in terms of our collections locally funded, we know we do very well with our collections from local uh uh uh um revenue, but we still know that
060the other sources of revenue that we've seen are they're changing. And so we're we're going to plan for that accordingly. Happy to answer any questions though about the fund transfer. All right. Uh roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Um board policy updates and review. Wow. So, we are bringing uh several policies for a first read tonight to the board. What I want to point out is specifically policy 2265. So, this is our title 9 policy that was rewritten. It did go back to the 2020 regs for the most part. So, this is something that we had kind of talked about within that policy update. Um, we now have title N coordinator. That's Dave. So, Dave's name I got to type several times as we revised. I noticed that.
061I was like, "Wow." Through the drafts, you'll see he's in there several times. It was great. Um, so we were able to through there. So that is where most of our policy changed. But I also want to point out we have a new policy tonight, policy 7255. So this is for students who are parents, expectant parents or victims of domestic or sexual violence. And so this is protecting some of their rights. When we adopt this policy, that carries over into several other policies as well. So when we look at um the teen dating policy, harassment of students, home and hospital instruction, all those policies also have additions with this new language and protecting the rights of students who are parents, expected parents or victims of domestic or sexual violence. We also have to at each
062school have someone that's the point person. We'll be working with the administrators to be that point person. So, in the event that a student discloses that they fall in one of these categories, the administrator will go through some training this summer and then be able to be the um point person for that. Obviously, I anticipate working closely with our social workers and pulling in the wealth of resources that they bring to the table so that we can ensure that we're assisting these students as well during this difficult time. Any questions on any of the policy updates? I'm just happy to see that because like in my world, the hair world, they have added that kind of stuff to our CUS as well. because it's just where where we would see it the most like so
063I unfortunately you hate that but correct we witness the evidence of it initially so I'm happy to see it all right uh we will bring back those next month for second reading and approval uh strategic planning committee update so excited Adriana do you want to share I can so um one it's just been fun it is and like And a lot of what we talk about is not always like fun like what you would see fun, but it's been fun kind of dreaming and making actual movement on our future. So, we've been working on the mission statement, the vision statement, and then this last meeting was very much like our goals, like getting started on our goals and like getting into nitty-gritty of it. We have like been on target though. It has been such
064a good use of time. Kathy, is that her name right? I just want to make sure I'm got her name right. He's amazing at like just keeping us on task and uh working with all the different people like the community members and the staff. They just all bring something very cool. So, it's been a fun collaborative experience and I'm just excited about I'm actually going to miss the next meeting and I was upset about it. I was trying to figure it out um but I can't. So, um I just feel like we're making good progress and it's been super productive and I think you would say I wholeheartedly agree and to your point right you think strategic plan and fun maybe together but they do in this case like what I want to one thing
065I'd love to highlight is after our last meeting we talked about core values if you were able to join us for our community day one of the items we talked about was going with Bulldogs right and so um currently in our draft we did go with Bulldogs and not only was a great conversation amongst the different stakeholders. But I went the next day, opened up my email and from a teacher on the team had the coolest thing that she was like, "Hey Frankie, I was just playing around, but wouldn't this be cool if everyone had this in their classroom based on the work that we did?" And it is amazing what she had put together. I was like, "I love this. Can I share this with everyone at the next meeting?" She's like, "Yes." So,
066I can't wait for a June meeting to be able to bring that. And for people who don't know like the we're using the bulldog is kind of like acronym and it's be a bulldog and it is able to be implemented from like the babies all the way to our eighth graders and I just like the common we've been working on unifying our district like for student centers and so a lot of it that has been the focus of it because that's what came out of the community day is people want to see that as well. So it is it's very cool and fun and I think it'll be easy to tie in it will to everything. So the work we're doing it will be easy for our our staff members to be able to tie
067back why are we doing this right because we know kids ask a lot of questions but why right at least my and it's not some thick package not just bad that you got to go refer to to remember everything like it is you will get it like even if you can't remember like the seventh one or something you'll know six of them like it's like you'll be like you got it yeah I agree I like that it's catchy Yeah, I do. I like it a lot. I was happy to see that that was incorporated. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I really like the the getting to that vision, the mission statement, the vision statement, you know, see that's what we did last and it's nice to have that as your your kind of focal point. You
068can use that to start from and then develop your goals and everything. So, and those community day like that paper, those are on the wall the whole time we're discussing it. So, we're going back to what people who spent their time like volunteering time that they didn't have to do. We're respecting that time because they, you know, came out and it was a lot of people came out for that, too. They did. So, um they're they're all on the wall. So, we're keeping it at the forefront to stay on topic and it is very nice and great. I listen. It's great. That's all I say. All right. Uh, do we think we'll be approving that in August or in June? I we're set currently for August. Okay. Uh, board retreat for July 22nd. Yes. So,
069that is in there for the board to mark your calendar. So, it's 5:30 is the start time. Um, and it will be in district office and that will be starting right. Board government's training. I'm calling it 2.0. know. Um, and then prior to that, Matt and I will meet with the consultant to be able to kind of prep and then she'll tailor that to us. So, we'll talk kind of about what we did last year and be able to build on that to continue um, board governments. And that's the same facilitator. It is that we had last year. So, that'll be nice, Dr. Natalie. Yep. Nice continuity. Um, it's at 6:30. 5:30. I had it in my calendar at 6. Me, too. I just that's why I wanted to point that out. Say that 5:30.
070Okay. Uh board committees. Perfect. So in the board's packet tonight, you'll see that I have committee membership that we had this year. So um basically I have the the committees that ran this year and which board members were assigned to each committee. We do have an opening specifically for our district safety committee. Um, so I wanted to let the board know that we do need a rep for that and then you can kind of go through and see who's currently on the committees. So I just wanted to be able to have that discussion to kind of know as we start to look towards next year and and book calendar dates who might be on which committees. I would like to hop on the safety committee. Please literally hop. Hi. Talking about she's talking to herself
071literally. I'll say I'll I'll continue on with policy. That's fine. I'm cool with with with Yeah. Will we still um if we want to have more people at finance, can we I do like the idea of keeping that open. Thank you for bringing that up. So, if you if the board looks in their packet tonight, they'll see um and it should be available to the public as well that starting this year, what we did is we took our finance and facilities committees and we merged them and that became an open meeting that anyone in the public would be able to come to. So, as we're talking about finances and facilities, which we know go hand inand, it also allowed any stakeholders in our community to be able to join us to be able to hear
072the discussions that we're having. A lot of times it's in the facility work which we hear large numbers and there can be like a heart stop breath stop moment of it can't cost that much but that's a great board meeting to come to to be able to see what are the trending costs of construction remodeling whatnot. So I would love to keep that open as well be my recommendation and I like that if you can't make it you can't make it but if you can you can so it it just kind of leaves that open. So I'm happy to continue that. So we would not have the the district finance and district facilities committee. Those will be open meetings that everyone will be able to join. Okay. Absolutely. And it last thing as much as
073we can. I liked it before the board meeting. I just feel like easier. Y and let's just get it all done. Let's just do it. You got it. So really, we just need to follow up with Jeff and make sure he's fine staying on the ones he's on. Nicole, if there was anything that passion or interest or when when do I need to decide whenever. Uh the and the other part is couple things. One, we're most of us are flexible in coming off if there's something you wanted to to join or we can make any of them public meetings. if more than three more than two board members are there. None of these things are um a big deal to make an open meeting. So if there's things as you're getting your feet wet and
074learning, right, you want to come to just let let us know and we'll um do what we have to to make it a lot of other board member will if you really want to do it, we'll just know you can do it. It's not a like you got it. It's not a thing where we're not very territorial. Please don't is only one board member allowed to be on each committee or it has to be two and it can't be more I mean have to be two but it it go into three where the meetings at. So we have we can't do that. We just post it. Yeah. We do it differently. Gotcha. But but I would also like to call it like don't feel pressured. Yes. Like you're drinking from a fire hose right now.
075So don't feel like you have to do it at this time. Right. I don't want you to feel like oh my gosh it's so much. It's a lot right because we'll have our July June meeting. We skip July al together in August. Well, we we will have that's our training meeting. It is our training meeting. Yes. But um you know in August like you'll just build your knowledge base and interest level and like what you maybe focus on. So Okay. Yeah. Don't feel any pressure to jump in. I mean yeah. Is there talk to talk to Jeff like committee meets like a certain day like every not really build the calendar and then share it out. Okay. Gotcha. Well, finances public that I'd love to talk to you about. Yeah. Okay. For that. Thank you.
076All right. And finally, Leap Innovations. So, I'm super excited to bring this proposal to the board tonight. Um, and this actually came LEAP is currently working with Lockport Township High School and so I had the opportunity to join one of their sessions. So, I might ask Matt to kind of jump in and help me here. But there the session I attended there was amazing. So, LEAP was able to guide um a small group of educators through really AI. How can we use AI? What does that look like? Enhance instruction because we know we have this tool. I think at times there's this perceived like, oh, it's cheating. We can't use it. So, how can we use it in a safe environment? What does that look like where we can control it, but it can enhance
077the work, ease the burden on our educators, but enhance what our students are learning as well. And so, LEAP is an organization that's able to give us some of that training. So, what I would love to do is kind of tailor what I was able to see at Lockport Township High School to what D92 needs. And so, in speaking with them, their proposal is that we get a core group um of educators. So, I' I've started to talk to Dr. Shanahan about this already and she's kind of got her wheels turning. Um, and who might want to join on that first that those are usually we call them early adopters that are interested in this that want to be able to take that on because I also want to be mindful our staff members have
078a lot on their plate next year. CKLA is a brand new initiative. Standardsbased learning and grading is a brand new initiative and their job is already hard enough without those two things on there. So, I'm I'm always trying to to be mindful of that balance. But I do think this is an area that we need to start to learn more about because every day we're only falling further behind. This isn't a technology that's staying still. It's in enhancing increasing every day. And so I'd love to be able to bring them on board. Is there anything you want to share from your work um that you've experienced? Right. Right. So, at the high school, we spent last year with just a group of educators trying to just figure it out and uh uh fear was the
079big elephant in the room. And we went over that a number of time like kept coming back to the concerns and of the whole thing and then eventually moved into usage and and finding some um programs and and opportunities for teachers to essentially teachers to use it. Um not necessarily students, right? um to help with lesson planning and other other tools. Uh then we started working with LEAP. Uh we went to something they called the collaborative and it was school districts from all over the Chicago land area um talking about their AI work, their failures, their successes. It's um it was actually very um energizing professional development. Often you can go to those things and you just don't know what you're going to get. And um we were we walked away like oh no no
080no this was really good and it was the community aspect of um private schools CPS is there we were there other suburban schools were there so um really a great group and then with our core group that we had been working with at that point about 18 months we brought them in almost as a coach um because they they had heard from us right we had led through that with the teachers um but we were excited by what leap had to offer. And there's two amazing people. Uh Jessica and Stephanie have led that. And like I said, they're they're the coach and they they bring some of the bigger ideas and then let us figure it out and talk about it. And so um uh Stephanie particularly leads much of that and her ability to
081um listen to people and then re redirect and guide and and get everybody moving in her direction. She's real. Um, so yeah, we've really and then we've we've brought them in and had a second group and we're going to use them in the fall to probably do our student um we're going to do a student group to get student voice. My next question. So, um, so we're g we can we continuing to use them at the high school to help us, you know, um, build these capacities um, every every so often. You answered my question about students, but I also just want to add on that like companies are doing this. Like this is not just happening in schools for like people who haven't played with Chad GBT and AI. Like companies are already like
082my husband's job, he talks about it, you know, I do have people come in and do all types of things. They are starting to bring in teams to teach people how to use it as a tool. So it's not just schools. It's it's kind of it's the new way. It is. We got to learn how to we got to stay up. One of the things I loved about LEAP is they make it tangible. And so when we do training, essentially I'm asking our our educational staff to do double work almost because I'm going to at times pull them out. So they need to create lesson plans so that someone else can come in and keep that instruction going for students. Then I need to get them in the seats for training. I need to be
083really mindful at what that looks like. What I loved about LEAP is they said we are going to give them training that they can take back and implement that night that day which is really meaningful to me when I pull them out of a room and put something else on their plate that this is meaningful to them. So I'm super excited and that I think is really specific. You'll see a lot of people that are doing work in AI, but they're one of the few that I see that's making it tangible that educators can immediately go back and implement things that they're learning. So I'm excited to that point. Um the the second group that we just finished up we did in April and May. One of our teachers developed a small app um AI
084um powered app um in a sandbox-l like program that is perfectly safe for us to let students use and and we can see what's going on. Um and he was so excited he he asked he didn't think it was we would say yes. He's like can I use this tomorrow with my students? like absolutely it's all like it's all ready to go. And so um it's essentially it was a chatbot that he had uh I think it was on World War II is what the um the prompts and everything were about and what he had been training it on. So um that was cool. The other big piece for LEAP um uh is keeping the human um centered part of it, right? Artificial human intelligence, right? But we've all lost the H. We just say
085AI. And so really keeping it focused on how how can this help people and keeping it focused on that and not on you know reducing headcount because we can automate things like that's not going to happen here anyhow. Simply um not a like there's nowhere to cut, right? it can only um make people more efficient or take away some of the mundane routine tasks that these things are good for um and and let people focus on the higher level things. Yeah. All right. So, we'll bring that back for approval next month. Yes. Yes. I'm excited. All right. Um any old business? All right. Any new business? All right. information items. Foye and student conduct are in the board packet. Um, communications. Were there there weren't any? Yeah. Um, were there any public comments not on
086the agenda? All right. Yes. 8:21. I need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Washington Dupki. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Eyes have it. We're adjourned.