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2025 04 15 BOE Meeting

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YouTube / Will County School District 92
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2025-04-16
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Will County, IL
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9,146 words · about 51 min
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2026-06-15

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001And uh I'm calling the regular school board meeting for Tuesday, April 15th to order. Uh roll call, please. Here. Uh please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Um All right, board members, any additions to the agenda? All right. Not hearing any. Okay. Um, we're going to start tonight uh with our recognitions and celebrations. Uh, I want to recognize right away we have our dog pound with us uh tonight to help us uh to help us celebrate uh all of our students and staff. Um, Dr. Frinkovich. Perfect. All right. So, I'm going to start first with staff celebration. So, April 2nd was paraprofessional appreciation day. I just

002wanted to give a huge shout out. I hope all of our dedicated paraprofessionals felt the love at their buildings. Every building did something special to acknowledge the paraprofessionals at their building. If you don't know, our paraprofessionals are dedicated to our staff. They support our students and our teachers every day. Whether they're assisting in classrooms, providing specialized support, or ensuring that students received individualized instruction, we would not be able to do our work without them. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you pair of professionals. If I could get a round of applause and then I'd love to highlight some of our staff spotlight winners. So if you take a look at our monthly D92 newsletter, you'll notice at the bottom we have a section that's called staff spotlight. And what happens is D92 colleagues

003nominate peers. So peers that they think have gone above and beyond. So this month you can learn more if you read the April newsletter about from Walsh, Katherine Pollson, first grade teacher who's retiring this year and Julie Squire's reading specialist. From Reed, we had Nicole Chaplan, a paraprofessional, and Caroline Kimmy. And Caroline got nominated two months in a row. So that just is pretty impressive. From Lewig, Allison Nelly, a fifth grade teacher. And from Oak Perry, Beth Daly and Beth Laga. So super awesome and proud of all of them. So, if I could get one more round of applause. And now I'm super excited to get ready to turn it over. So, we are celebrating our amazing students that put on a phenomenal event, but couldn't do it without the help of our staff from

004Lewig. So, tonight we're honored to celebrate the staff and students that participated in the St. Baldick's podcastathon that was held here at Lewig. They showcased creativity, leadership, and generosity that helped put on an amazing live podcast. But enough from me. I'd love to hand it over to the teachers that really put forth all the effort to make the magic happen. Hello. If you don't already know, my name is Mrs. Novak, fifth grade teacher, and I'm Mr. Hagen, fifth grade teacher. So on March 19th, we did a as as we do every year at Lewig, a 5-hour podcastathon to raise money for uh St. by St. Baldrick's Childhood Cancer Fund. Uh like I said, 5-hour podcast. We had around 75 fourth and fifth graders at this event um throughout the day. Obviously, we don't have them

005all there at once because that would be a little wild. And um I I can't see anything now. The Should we should we have these students come up here? Sure. Yeah. Actually, let's those that are involved, why don't you come up? Okay, perfect. Hopefully, you want to you want Sure. Ava Klooski, Jax Merrick. Dylan Parr, Julia Barrett, Andy Bundelo, Josh Williams, Timmy Rolowitz Jr., Emily Rolleritz, Aubriana Patino, Anna Cox, Cole Rosselle, Haley Ferenac, Sawyer Foster, and Alisandra Tron. And we had several students participating this year. We probably had over 75 total between fourth and fifth grade. So it was very difficult when Mr. Kulick's like, "Can you give me like 10 names?" Or at first he's like, "Five." I mean, we were like, we're we went up to 14 and he's like, "Let me see

006what I could do." Hence, we're all in the cafeteria cuz we had so many that we wanted to honor. But these students, as Mr. Hagorn will say, held like multiple roles in our podcastathon. They weren't just doing a segment. They also might have been video tech or some of the different jobs that he'll speak on very shortly. Yeah, these uh these students were not only podcasters, but they had all these different jobs. Uh fourth graders, we let them podcast, but when they get to fifth grade, that's when they really have the fun with the behind the scenes kind of um type activity with the podcastathon. So, we have MC's. Raise your hand if you're an MC. And a lot of these kids had multiple jobs, which I think they would agree was a lot a

007lot of fun. probably a reason a lot of them are here right now because they did so much and just had a blast doing this. Um, executive producers where they were like kind of it was their show at that time. Producers, some producers. Okay. Uh, sound checks pressing all the sound effect buttons. Videographer assistant. So, they're like actually that was a new one um that were there actually running the camera and zooming in and panning left to right. Um, video tech. That is one that we added last year and it's really changed the podcastathon if you've seen it in the last two years. Um, thanks to Penny Gustoson in the back. She's added so many um, like video graphics and she sits down at 8:00 in the morning and did not leave her chair until

0081:30 in the afternoon. Um, just there with the kids coming in every 20 minutes, half an hour and showing the kids kind of what they can do and how to do videographics. So, it's really a learning experience. I joked with the kids that I actually wanted to sign up for that job just to learn a little more about it. Um, but really what these students and some of them are just going to talk very briefly, they um they would agree what a great experience this really turns out to be a neat day. And unlike any other school day, I know I say I sometimes I whisper to kids when they're signing up for jobs. I'm kind of like, you know, you're going to get out of class and it's one day. Don't don't get mad.

009And uh but it's it really is just to to get out of class just for a little bit just to to do something different and experience something they would never really get a chance to do. And hopefully they do something like this again in the future or maybe it inspires them to do something similar at some point in their careers. Um combined and I think set up behind me but over we raised with all the other events too for St. Balders we raised over $6,000. So um uh that is it for me. I just have four students that just wanted to say like one sentence. Is that okay? Okay. Absolutely. Come on. Cole, you want to come first? All right. This is Cole Roselle. Got it. Hello everyone. My name is Cole Rosel and I'm

010in fifth grade at Lewig. Thank you for letting me speak today. I wanted to thank the district 92 school board and teachers for all your hard work and making school fun. I like being in the podcastathon and my favorite part about it was being the sound tech and being the person that moves the camera around. I enjoyed interviewing Miss Oberhouse and learning about her. I'm really proud to be a student at Lewig. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. Oh. Hi, my name is Dylan and the podcastathon was very fun because I got to learn new things like videographer assistant and uh being MC and facing my fears of speaking in front of loud uh big crowds. Yeah. Uh hi, my name is Jax. Um, uh, my favorite part was when I

011was probably executive producer and it was really cool to see this all come together. We spent a few a lot of weeks on this. Um, and a lot of teachers helped out like Miss Bruce, Miss Novak, Mr. Hagen. It's just a really great time to see all of it come together. Thank you. Hi everybody. My name is Ava and I would like to also I would like to thank Miss Novak, Mr. Hagen, Miss Peruschitz, and all the teachers that made this Podcastathon possible. And I'm so glad I got to be part of this. It was a really fun experience to be an MC and help out with other jobs. And I'm also so glad that we met our goal of $6,000. So, thank you. And some of you might receive tonight um the students wrote

012thank yous for all of those that donated for the podcastathon. So I figured some of you are here tonight. So you might receive that. Um if not, we hope to get all these uh thank yous distributed out within the next couple weeks. We're still finishing up some. So, thank you again for all of you for supporting us and for district 92 for giving us all of the technology to be able to put on such a amazing event like this. No, no, the light's better over there. Have this get a picture with the dog. Come on. there. What's your All right. Thank you. All right. My final celebration is for our board member Grant who will be tonight is his last board meeting. So we wanted to thank him and extend our heart heartfelt thanks for

013your dedication and leadership. You have been a steady presence and your thoughtful voice has been extremely valued by students, staff, and the community. Your impact on D92 is deeply appreciated. During Grant's tenure here, he's been a strong advocate for our students, for our staff, and for our families. He's helped guide the district through important initiatives and meaningful progress. And we appreciate you more than you know. So, I don't like goodbyes. So, it's see you later. And you have to get a picture. There you go. That's awesome. Thank you. All right. And from the rest of the board, Grant, thank you for your years of service and dedication to the district. Um, so at this time, we're going to take a short uh recess, go back to uh the music room for the rest of our

014board meeting, and uh let you guys get back uh home. So, thank you for for bringing your students out. Uh this is obviously our best part of our meeting, our favorite part uh to be able to see students and celebrate all of their accomplishments. So thank you. Right. team and we're back in regular session. Um, we have the student report from the Oak Prairie Student Council. Hi, you Yeah, it's you're fine. Okay. Hi, I'm Isabelle Shaw student council members in Oak Perry Junior High of the Blue Rocks. Student council has not been here for a while to share all the phenomena things that we have done this year. I'm Emily and I'm in sixth grade. I'm in seventh grade. Hi, seventh grade. see me from some of the previous videos talking about the candygram. So

015in December we sold and delivered around 300 candy canes spreading cheer and happiness throughout the building. We had a group about 10 to 15 holiday characters delivering them to different classes around the building. Um, Prairie also did a June drive um January or February. February. Yeah, in February. So, for an entire month, we collected 200 jeans and those upcycled into insulation for low income housing. And so, not only did we help clean out closets, but we also helped people in need. Absolutely. We also did the glow party in Janu at the end of January. We hosted our annual glow party this year. We had glow bowling, glow basketball, glow volleyball, glow ping pong, glow ali alien tag, glow axe throwing, and to end the evening with the amazing DJ, Mrs. Martin. We had a blast.

016We had a blast with a blasting, bouncing balloon drop. We also did a lovely pet contest. So, our pets were on display for the entire month of February. And the cafeteria was filled with these friendly furry faces. Um, we had dogs, cats, hedgehogs, turtles, snakes, hamsters, and we even had some far animals. Um, the top three dogs, cats, and animals from the other category received fabulous prizes and were recognized for their cuteness. Um, next are the student body voted for these pets. In February, we had a kind kindness month where we promoted various activities to promote kindness in our school. We had a kindness calendar and a bingo board with different activities that contributed to being kind. We handed out positive affirmations and compliment cards to spread positivity around our school. So, we also hosted

017a day called math with pi day puns for the entire school with funky and funny puns. We also did our annual pie the teacher. In March, we hosted our pie the teacher assembly. We sold 435 tickets to pie some of students favorite teachers including Mr. Jim, Mr. Carlson, Mr. Bar, Miss the Shogun, Miss Palm, and Mr. Swash and more. Students also got students also got chosen to participate in various fun games such as head shoulders cup push to the table in the danger of big hits with big prizes. I'm doing because she skipped me cuz she has a lot cake. We also had cake day. We sold we sold out everything within 20 minutes. Cake pops donuts. We sold cake pops and donuts on Valentine's Day. It was a great start of the day. Weekly

018spirit days. We still have a few more Wednesdays to show our spirit. Tomorrow is TV show or movie day. We have to dress up like camping versus resort, Adam day, May flowers, future high school day, country versus country club, and countdown to summer day. Student council continues to recognize those who participate and show school spirit with fun prizes and rewards. We are currently planning our end of the year spring fling. We are having multiple toxic inflatables and fun games. This event is always a big hit and we look forward to having to hosting this amazing toxic event. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Nice work. It's a whole lot of cells. All right. Every day you send kids a report. No report tonight. Thank you. Um, any public comments for items on the agenda? Okay.

019Funny. All right. Uh, administrative reports, Dr. Frankovich. All right. I will start. So, we are in full staffing mode. So, um, the board has a couple items that I want to just highlight tonight that are in your packet. One is our enrollment and then the other one will be a staffing memo. So, one thing that I do want to draw your attention to is that we have um last month we did talk about potentially absorbing through attrition one of the third grade positions, but we have this larger cohort that will be moving up. So, um we have moved that position to first grade. So, our kindergarten section is eight. It's currently staying eight. Our first grade section was seven, it will increase to eight. Second grade is maintaining seven and then third grade decreased from

020seven to six. Um you can see in there that with the current numbers that we have right now um for third through fifth grade that gives us about 21 to 23 students and then for um first and second grade about 19 to 20 students. However, we do have two new subdivisions that are being built currently within our district boundaries and we have been receiving calls. So, I really think getting in front, every district is hiring right now. So, this allows us to capture the best candidates um from the candidate pool. So, we're in the midst of that. So, everybody has been busy building their teams for that and uh interview committees and and all that fun stuff. Any questions on the staffing portion? No, I just have a question about when do we know when

021those subdivisions are going to be finished? So, we have not heard confirmation from like an official source, but multiple realators have called and said this summer they anticipate people would be moving in, which means they would be starting the school year with us. Wow. Yeah. I mean, the the apartments on 159th are Yeah. by Pops. They're very far along. And the ones on 151st, they've been they had uh open houses or whatever, like they're they're selling them. And somebody told me yesterday somebody they knew already bought one, you know, this far in advance. So, um, yeah, I expect I suspect that they'll be full as fast as possible. Well, that's exciting. Yeah, they're those town houses. Um, they look nice. Oh, yeah. But they're they're flying up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I also just wanted

022to highlight strategic plan. So, Jeff and Adrian, if you want to chime in, we had our our first meeting tonight. if either one of you want to share. Oh, um, sure. Adrian, you want to go first? Go. Yeah. Um, I thought it was a great first meeting. Um, it was super collaborative. We were able to get a lot done and, um, I felt like it was a great use of time and I am actually super excited for you guys to hear kind of what we came up with and kind of get you all's feedback for the mission statement and the value vision. The vision statement. I keep messing that up. Okay. Um, yeah, you got it. Those two. Um, so I'm excited to share with you all what we kind of learned from there. Yeah.

023Yeah. And according to Jim, we did it a lot faster than they did because we we cheated and used AI to write a lot of it. Well, I I was one cheerleading for Chat GPT as a tool to get us started. So, it's not just a bunch of stuff being like thrown, you know? you can sometimes unintentionally waste time when if we have all the words there, let's throw it in chat GBT and see what it gives us and then fine-tune from there. And I thought everybody had an opportunity to contribute which was the nice part about it only being 12 people. I enjoyed it. It was useful time and useful work. I'm excited for future district 92. Yeah, absolutely. I will put the vision and mission statement in the Friday update for the board.

024Um, and then we could also talk about it um, in May, but we'll have a meeting in between then, so we'll have probably even more updates at the May meeting. Well, and kudos to Megan for being the secretary for the meeting. You were great all the time. Yes. Excellent job, Megan. And we expect to uh, so you have how many meetings on the books? Five, six. Five of them. Yeah. And we expect to have something for June or August? August. Okay. Yep. Yeah. Um, and then later tonight I'll be talking about a stipen um involving the art art showcase. We did have that last year, so I'm excited to um propose that tonight for board approval. Cool. All right. U Mr. Bley. All right. Good evening everyone. Uh in my memo tonight, there are two

025items uh for the budget. One for FY25 that we're wrapping up and then FY26 that we're um underway with. There is some summer construction on the small side. We've got some punch list items that we're working with Schroeder on. So, this is going back to construction from two two summers ago. So, we're hopefully going to be wrapping things up this summer, which would be very nice. Uh, one being uh uh filling cracks in parking lots, which is typical wear and tear, and then also sealing uh those. And then also some landscape work that we're looking at Schroeder to wrap up, which were punch list items. Also then in the board packet there are just some uh there's a preliminary um fund transfer notice. So looking at a fund transfer like I talked about last month.

026This is for everyone's reference. So hopefully we'll bring this back uh a hearing for next month as well as then uh permission and approval from the board to transfer 1.4 million from the ed fund through on and m ultimately into capital projects. So this wraps up our Schroeder construction as well as then starts setting aside money for larger construction projects like the infrastructure work we have to do in and multiple facilities still. So that's the transfer option that we've got. Happy to answer any questions about that. The other item that is in the board packet is the um it's called an exhibit. It's for the budget amendment that I'm looking at needing to do. So this is to transfer the money. So the 1.4 4 million as well as then identifying the Schroeder payment as

027well in the amended budget. So for purposes of the transfer, we have to do a a hearing for that at the next board meeting or we could do that in June. Uh it has to be posted in the newspaper. It has to be um noticed between seven and 14 days. There's stipulations for that. The other item with the amended budget, I have to post that for 30 days prior to board taking action. So, this is very similar to what we do at the beginning of the year with the budgets. Um, so nothing really different there. Uh, the only other thing I'd point out in the board packet would is the recommendation for starting hourly rates pretty much holding everything flat for next year. We've done a lot of adjustments as all of you know who've

028been on the board for a while for hourly rates, the minimum wage increases. We've been pretty aggressive with making sure that we're competitive to local districts and I think our rates show that. So, I think we're okay holding uh steady. The only thing that got adjusted was the um starting rate for our long-term subs because that's based off of BA step one. Um and so that that rate got adjusted for FY26. That's it for the updates. All right. Does the is there anything in the state uh about changing posting for things like hearings? There currently is a bill right now. They are hoping that instead of posting in the newspaper, we'd be able to do that digitally. Yeah. And be able to save money and time. That has not passed yet. So, we're still going

029to have to follow this process. But that is something that um Springfield is discussing currently. Yeah. Good. All right. Uh Dr. Franco, you want to take the next two here? Yes, I will. So, um Nora's report is in there. Um you can kind of read through. I would say the one highlight that I'm gonna kind of ask Megan to talk about is we did see some movement with voluntary um transfers at Walsh. So if you want to just touch base on that. So next year FTEES at EC we currently four um and we're needing four FTEES at K1. We currently have three. So we moved that fourth FTE from EC up to K1. That allowed for opportunities with resations and things like that. So, Miss Christy and Miss Beth, who are currently two of our

030blended teachers, are going to be transitioning up to K1stead. So, they will be moving up in that realm, which um I think there's a something you guys call it, something official, I don't know. But there is a job description to approve a posting of a new blended position. So we will be looking to replace um one position and then Miss Young, Miss Alex is transitioning from a self-contained EC to a blended and then Miss Kelly is saying what is FTE fulltime equivalent. All right. No, probably could have gotten that one. Yeah. Of an thinking deeper word. It is weird. Yeah. So the blend position that a job description that's up for tonight when we reviewed that um and Megan if you want to talk a little bit about each room. So we have two different

031preschool rooms and the different how they do they look differently. Yeah. So we currently have or currently we have two blended classrooms and we have two self-contained classrooms. So the self-contained classrooms are students who 100% IEP students. typically their needs are much more significant and can't be met in the blended classroom. A blended classroom is filled with um neurotypical students as well as some students who have identified needs through an evaluation for services. So there's a mix of that and so the way that those two classroom functions look very differently. And so we wanted to be clear in the job description that we're looking for a blended teacher, not a specialized instruction teacher for EC. So that is why that's coming tonight. And with your tiny bulldog academy, are you getting lots of action? Excited

032about that. Yeah. It's been awesome since we've blasted last week. We got and even just for future years we have, oh, I want to, you know, we're too little. So it has been very exciting to see the action for our new. I love it. We're excited. I'm excited. Are are we doing summer camp this year or No, we are not. Okay. All right, that's a summer school. Yeah, no summer. Got it. Okay, I was just um curriculum to curriculum. So, um you can see Dr. Lik's report is in there. A couple things that I wanted to highlight. Um consolidated district plan. So, the board will be taking action tonight to approve this plan. So, this is the plan that we have to submit to ISBY um for our grant application process. So, with your approval,

033then we'll be able to kind of move forward with that work and be able to secure grants so that we can start planning for um next school year. And then the other big um portion tonight will be the ELA pilot. So, I'll be um doing Lisa's presentation that um she created based on the committee work that has been happening. So, I'm excited to um talk about that later in the meeting. um director of technology everybody agenda. First thing uh we have a proposal we'll be talking about later on from Hartland um involving cabling and other pieces. Uh secondary um we have phone backup system. We put a LTE system in place over spring break where that now allow us to not have the phones go offline at the end goes offline. So this way it'll

034only pick up the system. So in case the phone goes out of one of the buildings, it'll pick up the ILT and keep keep the connections going strong and that piece of After that I have we did a a quarterly fishing test. Um our fishing test I think went fairly fairly well. Um as you can see our scores on there are very good. We're around two around 2.7% this time on the tour and the NC average is around 19.4 as far as how high usually hits some school districts. So we're pretty good as far as our sports efficient test goes. quarterly. Um they're unannounced so they're not biased. No one knows that they're coming. So because in the past I've tried that we mentioned it or been like one was like one common one I

035sent that to everybody and someone would say oh I got one. Oh I saw the same thing. Okay no one responds anymore. So now we do a kind of a random test but we get pretty good scores on that. And then on refreshes um we're doing some refreshing right now starting earlier a little bit because we have some funds left in our budget. So we started with doing some IMAX uh doing some headphones for for the summer and then some backes as well for some server rooms. Um and then the rest will be doing more refle uh for next year. All right. Principles didn't have no anything. Yeah. All right. That was a big hit. Impressive. Yes. All right. It's a great addition. It really is. Yeah. It's fun. Who came up with the name?

036Matt. Come on. I didn't know that. I thought there was going to be one and when I saw the four of them, I'm like, well, that's fantastic, but I just thought, well, that looks like a dog. I mean, I don't know. That is so funny. Um, can they come every meeting? I can work on it. That's funny. It does bring joy. Uh, and they're getting their service hours, right? Oh, that was student council, but I could we could do some service hour stuff. Yeah. I mean, too. Yeah. Okay. Um All right. I need at this time a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Cruz Gaki. Uh roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Lots of action items tonight. Um All right. I need a motion to

037approve the consolidated district plan. Dokkey Washington. So, as I shared, um, this plan is part of our compliance with federal and state requirements that we need to submit to ISBY to be able to kind of move forward on our grants. So, my recommendation is that the board approves it tonight so that we can get that to ISBY and get our funds. Sounds good to me. Right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the early childhood blended teacher job description. Washington Folk. So, as I share, this job description is due just because of the difference in the class. So, we um currently had when we pulled job descriptions, we had a specialized instruction, but that isn't really the role that we currently have. And so, we wanted to

038be transparent. um to let individuals that will be applying for this to know this is kind of more what we're looking for. So that's why we're bringing that forward tonight. With the approval, we will get it posted tomorrow. Right, Diana? Yep. Questions? Nope. All right. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the statement of work for the cabling and safety um from H Heartland. Yes. Oh, hang on one second. Washington. Okay. Go ahead. Now, sorry about that. Um statement of work um is an evaluation of our wiring at all at all four buildings. So, I was looking at our video surveillance, our door sensors, looking at paging, audio systems of all the buildings. Then this from this will create a plan to say okay

039this is a good road map to follow along this route and give us some estimates as far as costs go along that process. Uh the plan is the cost of 17,60625 and the company heartland is part of the is part of tips um which is a competitive bid network is what we consider it. Um so they everything they have within there is will be competitive priced. Um and we're planning to uh move forward with this relatively shortly so then we can get feet on the ground and start looking at the buildings and once they look at the buildings you get back our plans and then we can start beginning the work this summer. U wire wind building this summer uh might either be loaded depending on the evaluation. think it might be lowered, but we'll

040see how the evaluation looks. And then from there, we'll start we'll plan out for the course of this next school year other buildings if we can to fit them in during the schedule of the year. Um, depending on break schedules and when they can get in the building, stuff like that, just because, you know, we don't try to do front kids are running around. But we're going to try to pace it out through the course of this year, the three elementary schools, and then next summer we'll hit um down the road. Um, and so as they're not only evaluating, they're also planning for where they will be recommending for blue lights to go and panic buttons and those things as we work on our safety plan. Correct. Yes. I mean, allin-one. Correct. Yeah, they have

041to be some some preliminary plans we drew up on our own like through building maps that we gave them that they're kind of working off of, but also look at their own do their own evaluation as well as far as like audio systems and see, okay, where do we need to where we need to put more speakers? where we need to put more lights, what do we need to put cabling for at all? Stuff like that. And do a full analysis, even the security part of things as far as like door sensors go. Looking at that and seeing, okay, are door sensors adequate? What type of wiring do we need for that? What type of cameras can link up to that? Um, and then all the police integrated all together into one unified system. Then

042they go, okay, if we push a button, what's going to happen? And then finally, is any of that uh capable of being paid for through the CAPS grant? Okay. Okay. I'm excited to see that they're gonna look at repurposing some of that wiring because a lot of it, you know, again, going from a cat five to Cat 6, the technology isn't necessary. You could still utilize it somewhere in the networks, right? Right now, the price of cable, it's it's a great investment just to to look and see if we can Yeah, because the lights and some of the buttons certainly on the old cabling. The new cabling can be used for probably the clocks and speakers and uh cameras for sure will need the newer stuff. So, and is this an annual Maybe this is

043in here. Is this an annual fee or is this No, it's a one this is a onetime evaluation fee where they can come in, do a walk through the project, and then after that point they're going to build us out like a larger plan. Then we can then that'll be more of a larger year they plan after that point saying okay this will be the year I plan for year one for wiring this building. Okay is the hardware cost what that might cost the maintenance yeah that part of it then implementation of it all if okay right call please. Yes yes yes yes yes motion carries. I need a motion to approve the uh Oak Prairie EXL subscription. Washington DOPKI. So, I'm super excited to bring this proposal tonight, but Mrs. Forces might be more

044excited. So, um Oak Prairie has been piloting EXL um for math and ELA and they've the feedback we've gotten is that it's been great. They love diagnostic features, homework features, lots of things they're able to engage students in. So, we want to be able to this partnership. And so, um, while our subscription pilot is coming to an end with this contract, they'll allow us to finish this year and then start our contract with them next year. So, anything I want to add? So, originally we the pilot let us have access to science, social studies, math, and ELA. It was like the full the full experience. Um after kind of um obviously piloting for a little bit, we realized that our students um if it was all across um every subject area, it was a lot

045for them. Um so we will not be um going with science or social studies. This is just going to be for math and ELA and it supplements um our re the two resources that we have in both of those areas really nicely. So um I think we have found a nice balance of how we're using it now. Um, so yeah, I'm really excited about it. You're excited about it, too, aren't you? Yeah. Well, that is that is a strong feedback and recommendation. Okay. So, Sue, so is this like a homework assignment that they do after hours or is this for testing and assessments? So, it can be used in a variety of ways. Um there is like every week the kids spend a little bit of time in what they call um the diagnostic arena.

046Um and that updates their levels across um like all different skill areas. Um, and then it it gives them a targeted plan like you might be weak in um, multi-digit multiplication and it will identify that through a diagnostic that the kids are working on each week and then give them practice lessons to help support some of the areas that they might be falling a little bit short in or even some of our students who are extending. It will identify areas that they're extending in and and then areas that they can continue to grow. Um, it also can be used for homework. So the teachers have um it has a really nice component where it aligns directly with for math with big ideas and it will show the teacher here's the lesson that they're working on.

047here's the LL that supports the lesson and then the teacher can decide whether or not they want to do some practice in class or what we're really trying to do is do more of it um use for homework so that way the teacher's getting more time back in class for actual instruction um and not spending as much time reviewing homework um every day in class. So, um, same thing with ELA is they've been able to supplement. Um, one of the things that the teachers have always said since, um, I've, um, come to Oak Prairie is they've been looking for some, uh, resources to support grammar instruction. Um, they didn't feel like the resource we had had a lot of that in there. And then this has a really nice component, um, to pair with what

048they're doing in Pearson. Uh, and then add some grammar practice, some um, you know, uh, just general more like language arts types of um, practice for students. Maybe I need that. You You know that, too? I said maybe I need that. Did you you have a question? No. No. I was making a comment about how awful my grammar is, but I said maybe so everybody's aware. And is it providing um when they're at home, is it providing feedback to them as they're Yeah. either successful or need some guidance? Yeah. So, I have experienced it both on like the educator's side and as the parent too. Um uh and it is pretty great and maybe the kids don't feel that way but um I I love how if like let's say so that it starts like

049this the concept that they're working on starts at a pretty basic kind of level and then it starts to work up to the proficiency level of like I really understand this. So it does get a little bit harder as they go through the lesson and they hit if they hit a point where they're struggling and they get it wrong. Excel says, "Hey, you got this wrong. Here's what here's here's all the steps you need to take to get it right." And it works them through um common mistakes that are made. And then they say, "Oh, they can watch a video if they're still confused with it." And then if they get to then it's like, "Okay, I'm ready to retry the next problem." And that same that problem is very similar to the question that

050they just missed. Um or sometimes it'll level them down a little bit like, "Okay, let's take a step down a little bit. Let's go back to what we understand." And then it will level them back up to that spot where they might have struggled again. So, it's pretty intuitive, actually. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you're here today. Yeah. Okay. Uh, roll call, please. Yes. Washington. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Uh, I need a motion to approve theou for district 92 and DLA our architects for the 10-year life safety survey. Pris. All right. So, in the board packet is the updated uh recommendation from DLA. I went back and negotiated our best price from them. So, satisfied with where they came in. It was a little less than where it was 10 years ago.

051So, that's that's good news for us. The other big piece of of information from the 10-year study for us is that this really tells us where we're at point in time when it comes to our mechanicals, electric, plumbing, all the facility work we've done. So much effort that's gone into place over the last 10 years. So, it's it's a it's a good test to see where we were at back uh 10 years ago, as well as DA did the 5-year facility audit for us back in 2021. So again, there's already work that they've done to analyze our current state. Um, this is a requirement for ISBY, so we have to do this every 10 years. Um, but really, it's good information for us to know what we need to focus on, which by and large,

052we have a good we have a good picture of that, but this just really kind of helps us um close the loop on some other projects that u might be outstanding. So, um, happy to answer any questions about it. Great. So, if if anyone hasn't had the pleasure of of sitting down and looking at the the 10-year plan, um it's really exciting reading, but actually the the nice thing about this will be that we do have we have benchmarks so we can actually see what we've accomplished. Uh again um uh simple things uh windows, doors, um the the heating and air conditioning systems um those were all on the original even the the prior to DA but the original DLA um call outs. So we can see where we've uh uh remediation uh with asbestous.

053um we can see where we were and where we are today. So it actually gives us a really good understanding as a district where where we are and where we still need to go. So hopefully it'll show a lot of improvements. I'm sure it will. All right. Cool. Cool. Did you have any other firms bid for this? Um no. So since DA is our architect of record, that was the the firm we chose. um we have to do an RFP. We could have done an RFP to ask for a tenure, but because of the timing and because they're they know us, it made sense to use them. However, I did analyze their price compared to where Farnsworth was. Farnsworth was another architect firm we used 10 years ago. So, compared it to them, compared it

054and all of those prices are foyable. So, I think it ends up being a little bit of a of a thing where they can pretty much target the price that they need to get at. Um, so yeah. All right. Uh, roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve our legal firms for school year 2526. Washington. Correct. Just real real quick. Um, so the three of the firms we've used for a long time. The one that's extra that's new this year is Robins Schwarz. So we're using them for SITCO specifically. Um, Dr. Frankovich and I spoke with Britney Ty um who's the the lead counsel for us working on the SITCO case. There was really no update at this point in time, but she's working on

055files, making sure she obtains files from WIT law. she had some other um just observations of the pins that she's monitoring and staying on top of of of you know what's happening for SITO. So I felt pretty confident about that. I think we both did. Um but really there's no other update at this point in time. So there's still a lot of work that she's going that she's still doing. Really felt like by the time in about another two to three weeks she would have all the files. She was already familiar with the files. So that's that bodess well for us. But really no other update at this point in time in sitco and we have firms that specialize in specific areas. Great question. Yes, absolutely. So um looking at Petrarcha Gleon Bole ISO John

056ISO is really our tax person. He's he's our individual that I turn to for tax levy questions, PTAB questions, any sort of inquiry about um anything related to that. He's Petrarcha Fester, that's really our labor law um group. Angler, Callaway, Bastion, and Shraa um that are special ed and then really um Robin Schwarz, they specialize in everything. So, so really arguably I we could use other law firms, but Robin Schwarz, we're specifically looking at at Britney for Sitco, right? But if we needed expertise from any of the absolutely we can pick and we're not pigeonholding. Absolutely. Is there any benefit to us to to reduce and and consolidate? We're only paying we're only paying based on usage. Um now I will say that we've got you know we we monitor rate increases every year. So

057they're always good about saying okay if you talk to a partner it cost you this much. If you talk to an associate partner so we're always monitoring that. In fact, um Norah and I had a a discussion just about that recently because of just where who does who does she use for special ed and are there other competitive prices out there from other firms. Um so yeah, we're looking at that closely as closely as we can. Um and and there's always a thing with lawyers because you're paid, you know, you're you're being charged per the minutes pretty much. So, uh we monitor that and we talk as as a team about those things. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Washington. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve our financial financial institutions

058for school year 2526 approval. Washington. The only update really is financial institutions are the same. Uh old national. Um we I did update the tax sheltered annuities. We uh had another uh 403b uh provider that we just needed to stipulate, but otherwise uh those those that information is still the same. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the steering comm Oh, sorry. to approve the steering committee updates for 2526 school year. Dabkkey Tidwell. Awesome. It's me this time, Dave. Um, so I'm super excited tonight to present a proposal to the board for the district art show. So, if you were with us last year, you may recall it was the first year that this happened um in March last um spring and it was put

059on by our three amazing art teachers in the district. They did an unbelievable job of just getting all of the artwork together, labeling it, um working with the maintenance crew and custodial crew to be able to display it. Um being able to have NJHS student council involved. It was it was a wonderful event. It is a lot of work. So with that, they have presented a proposal to steering committee that the steering committee was in favor for. it would be for the art show to happen every other year. So essentially, it happened last year, we took this year off. We'd be looking to do an art show next year um in the spring for that um for for the teachers to put on for the district. So I'm super excited about this proposal. I feel

060like it's an amazing event that brings families together being so grade level specific. This is one event that everybody gets to come and be able to enjoy. So it's super exciting. Any questions? The 711 is per person. Yes. I just wanted to make sure. Yes. Thank you for clarifying. Yes, that is per per individual. So, three people at 711. Can I ask why it's just every other year, not yearly? Um, so I think because um it's it is a big lift for them, but it also keeps it fresh, right? So that every year they're kind of able to kind of keep it going, not something that, oh, I know I did that last year. allows their creative juices to flow would would be my guess as well. Okay. All right. Uh roll call, please. Yes.

061Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Looking forward to it. It was a great event last year. It was awesome. So many people. It was fun. It was great. Parking was a challenge. Yeah. seems to be a theme. All right. Uh I need a motion to approve the ELA resource adaption for collect Washington. All right. All right. So, um I will be presenting Dr. Lakes's presentation tonight. Am I able to access the screen? Drum roll, please. Um Dave, you gonna hit the lights? Yeah. What? Which one is it, Penny? This is music room time in music. Perfect. It's connecting now. Oh, I hear it. I'd like to do the gym, you know. We can just do that. Feel like I need elevator music. Jeopardy. I don't know why this is just so nice from

062having to pull the laptop, plug it into the old screen. And well, I'm feeling like we're struggling. We are. Maybe we should plug the laptop back in. It knows it's you, though. It does know it's me. I see me up there. 081 YouTube Kids. That's naughty. All right. Okay. So, um Dr. Lake made this presentation on behalf of the district's ELA committee. She was very excited to present it tonight to the board um recommending a new resource. So, this work actually started back in the spring of 2023. Um at that point um the board may recall that a ELA audit was um done and determining what needs were. The findings of that audit um said that we needed to look at a new resource. So the committee then piloted two resources Amplify CKLA and McGraw

063Hills Wonders. So, the ELA committee wanted to recommend a curricular resource that was aligned to Illinois learning standards um and the comprehensive literacy plan that Illinois recently came out with. So, the goal was to enhance our literacy instruction and to support all of our diverse learners while also fostering long-term success. So the resources aimed to strengthen phonics, decoding, fluency skills while also integrating science, history, social studies to build background knowledge and vocabulary. So we were looking to achieve measurable growth in our reading proficiency and comprehension. So those are the goals. So currently the district uses schoolwide as the resource for ELA. So you can see um there we have the strengths and the limitations. I believe the districts had this resource for about a decade. So this has been something that in that time I

064think our teachers have had to do a tremendous amount of work of supplementing materials to fill gaps as state standards and rigor increase and were raised. This was the same resource. So it was on our teachers to be able to do the heavy lifting to raise that um curriculum and fill in those gaps. So this is the current resource. So the committee was um composed of general education teachers, special education teachers, reading interventionists, uh ELA teacher, and building principles in grades K through five since that is where the resource will be utilized. So we have the members of the committee there. Love to give a a huge shout out to them. A lot of work went into that committee. As I said, remember spring of 2023. So a lot of work. This slide talks about

065the evaluation criteria um on the key components. So they were looking at is it effective for literacy instruction? Um looking at phological and phmic awareness, looking at phonics and print concepts. Did it prioritize text complexity, high quality literature and building knowledge through the text, vocabulary, oral language and writing? So they were also looking at grammar, technology integration, how can teachers scaffold the resource to be able to meet the needs of the different diverse learners and how could they use both formative and summitative um assessments that were inclusive and diverse to meet the common core state standards that were held accountable for. So the first one that we'll look at is um CKLA. So CKLA includes decodable readers. It provides digital tools tools and teacher guides that support instruction. It does have both formative and summitive

066assessments and it does focus on foundational skills um like funological awareness and phonics and this follows a structured literacy approach. This resource does meet tier one. um it has strong evidence criteria in demonstrating effectiveness of educational intervention and it is a researchbased approach to developing those foundational skills to deliver measurable results. Um additionally uh amplify CCLA did receive top ratings from edreports.org or across all three evaluation areas, text quality and complexity, building knowledge and usability. So, how does it align with our district goals? Well, it aligns with the Illinois State Learning Standards and the Common Core State um standards and Illinois comprehensive literacy plan. All of that work is being done by our educators in the classroom as they're delivering their um ELA instruction. It does have um need criteria that's designed to meet the

067needs of our EL students and our special education students and our advanced learners. It has professional development options. So, we are able to have trainings ongoing throughout the year. Um a startoff training, but then supports that will be done throughout the year so that while our teachers work with the new resource, they're able to feel supported every step of the way. And it also promotes critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy. Um Dr. Lake did conduct a stakeholder feedback. There were um 19 responses. So um and three respon 19 responses for K2 and three responses for 35 from families. So of those responses nearly 90% of families in grade K2 were very satisfied um or satisfied with CKLA. Families reported that their children enjoyed the stories that they were reading in school that and they believed

068this resource was helping their child with foundational reading skills. They also reported that their they were supporting their child's literacy at home as well. Um, three families, as you can see, in grades three through five responded to the survey. And, um, the views on each of the resources were pretty equal, but there did seem to be a little bit more of a preference at grades three through five from the families for Wonders, which was the other resource that we had piloted um, over CKLA. Students in grades three through five also um, conducted the survey and they indicated that they preferred CKLA over Wonders. They responded that they liked the stories and they liked learning about the various topics that CKLA had to offer. So the initial cost and implementation plan for CKLA, as you can

069kind of see the breakdown there, um the initial purchase includes a teacher resource kit. That's a one-time purchase that we'll be making for that. The initial purchase also includes student consumable books, decodable readers, so those are books that our teachers would be using with students um either individually or in small groups. And then also a digital online resource called Boost. Um and in order to pay for this, the district is looking to utilize funds from the curriculum budget, but then we would also be able to utilize a portion of the idea grant and student improvement grant. So you took action earlier tonight to be able to approve our consolidated district plan. Well, thank you because now we're going to be able to move forward with some of those grants. So, we'll be able to utilize

070some of the money. So, not everything will be coming right out of our budget. We'll be able to use some of our grant funds for this as well. Um, we'll also be having some professional development that can be funded through our title grant and also through our idea grant as well from the curriculum budget. Sorry, while we're on the cost, just so it's clear, the training and support are all onetime costs for this year only. Correct. Separate from the 338. They are additional and the 338 will be paid yearly at a No. So we have two we have an option. We could put about 80% down for year one. So FY26 and pay the rest in FY27. That doesn't really make a that's not a huge savings for us. So, we're looking at depending upon

071the IDA uh savings that we get from that grant plus um some some other title grant funding needing to take out of ed fund the the bulk of that for FY26 and then the 67 is a yearly cost. Uh no, I think she was just broken down broken down by the five years if they didn't give us the option of doing it. I thought it was paid for over five years, right? That's what it we're paying for it once, right? But it generally would be 60 if you break it down. Yeah. If you were able to break it down time. Yes. But you are correct. Those the training cost is separate from the initial purchase cost. Um but that is a one-year as we kind of roll out. So um the professional training is a

072launch training. That would be full day implementation training for our teachers in both of those bands K2 and 35. There's also a leader launch. So that would be something that um our administrators would be able to take to be able to support teachers in the classroom as well, be able to be trained in that. Um and then some strength sessions that we would be able to take and coaching sessions. So while we're going through this, what I love about this PD plan is it's not a not a drive-thru plan. Drive-through plan is our teachers get it once and it's kind of like, hey, we checked out I that that's not helping students. So, this plan really is able to support our educators throughout um the year as they're working on it. So, they're able to

073get real-time feedback of, hey, my students are struggling with this portion of the resource or or how can I get higher engagement or what could I do differently? So, they'll be able to kind of have that feedback throughout the entire year as they work with the resource. And are there updates over time that are included or is it like information? Funny that you should ask. So I believe we piloted the second edition. Well, CKLA already came out with a third edition. So we will be we would be recommending the purchase of that third edition which is based on feedback that was given where there maybe were some gaps. How often do they Well, they love to do that because then that's going to be a purchase. Yeah. So one of the things that we'll constantly

074be doing, the curriculum department will be keeping a pulse on that. So that's something that I see forever happening is being able to have those committees where teachers come in and say, "Hey, CKLA, it's a resource. It's not the curriculum. The the best thing is our teachers and they're going to be able to use this resource to teach the standards, but they're going to need support. No resource is perfect. We're going to have to supplement things with something." And so our teachers are able to come back and be able to say for D92 kids, these are great areas, but we need a support in these areas. We're seeing our students maybe don't have the schema for this which background knowledge to be able to be supportive. So we'll be we'll be looking at it ongoing.

075Okay. Thanks. Yeah. Um anticipated benefits. So you can kind of see the the laundry list um up there. Um student outcomes, the teacher impact, and then the long-term vision. So one of the best things I think is that this is a researchbased curriculum. Um it will be able to kind of foster the student growth. So that was one thing if you were with us tonight on the strategic plan that we talked a lot about. And so this is kind of perfect timing for us to be able to kind of move forward with a new resource that raises the rigor and challenges our students so that they're able to um access their true potential. So where do we go from here? So um after a thorough pilot and review of both Wonders and CLA, the ELA

076committee would like to adopt CKLA. And tonight, um, we're asking the board to take, um, approval on the recommendation of adopting CKLA as our, um, resource for our ELA curriculum. If the board moves forward with that, then we'll order we'll move forward with ordering the needed materials for K5 and start implementing um, professional development plans, scheduling those early in August, so our teachers can kind of get going as as that year starts. Um, thank you to the board for allowing them to explore the two different adoptions. And are there any questions on this part of the presentation? So, there's there's digital content to this as well that's basically is it supplemental to or is it integrated as part of the curriculum? So, there's both options. So, um I I wasn't at the committee meeting so

077I might turn to Megan here. So, Boost is a resource that we're able to use online. We are getting that, but there are additional components that we're not getting this first year. So, we're really just going with what I would call a tier one approach um this year. And so, there are additional options in the future, but we want to make sure we start off and we do great work at the first thing rather than buy all the hot gadgets and everything. Yeah. Absolutely. No, it's just it's like you said, it's been 10 years, correct? So we we need we need to catch up. We need to get some things back in in place. So the only other thing that any other questions on uh Dr. Lik's presentation any idea on the grants how much

078that will cover the cost? So, when Lisa and I did some preliminary um budgeting numbers, we're looking at around $50,000 that should we should be able to take from both title and idea. So, we haven't the grant application process, the timing is a little strange. So, now that the consolidated is is moving forward, Nora can work on her grant for IDEIDA. So, it's a few process, but either way, we know we have PD in in there. We know we have some sped funding that we can we can uh utilize as well. So, you know, I'm I'm thinking around 50,000 is probably the target. The only other thing that that I wanted to make sure that I represented tonight was that while the majority of the ELA committee chose this resource, there there was a portion

079of the committee that this was their second choice. So, when you looked at those results, you could see specifically at Lewig in our 35. And so I really want to be mindful that I heard that feedback from them. Um specifically and some concerns regarding the pace and the way that the pilot was done. Um they they were able to express some concerns that I am listening to and able to kind of help us grow as we look to a pilot in the future. How can we ensure that we are giving both resources adequate time um and ensuring fidelity that both resources were looked at thoroughly? Those were just some of the things. So they felt like it was it was fast for them to to pilot both at the same time. Is that what you're

080saying? One resource CKLA got a little bit more length than the other. And so in my investigation into that, my understanding was that at the time the committee started, right, we had a population at the primary level that was saying we need something now. This resource is 10 years old. And so they decided you start. Go ahead and start. Well, what that did is it allowed them more time with CKLA than it did for Wonders. And so that's great feedback. At the time, no one on the committee thought about it, right? Everybody wanted to be supportive of their colleagues and say absolutely, they need a resource. Go for it. But then as we get to the end, is that something that potentially we can avoid next time? And I would say absolutely. That's feedback that

081we'll take. And as we move forward, that's something that we'll look at making sure if it's five weeks, it's five weeks. If it's two units, it's two units. Um, obviously our hope is we're not looking at an ELA resource, but if we were to look at math or something else in the future, that's great feedback. And so, I really want to stress that I hear that feedback from our staff and and I understand that. What I also want to stress is we have amazing educators. And so, while this is a resource, we will support them throughout that. And I want to give kudos to them because they said, "Hey, even though this isn't our favorite choice, we're going to do it because we love D92 and we love our kids." And I just think that

082speaks volumes to our staff. So, I'm very grateful for them, but I do want to mention that I hear their concerns. I want the board to be aware that those were concerns that were brought to my attention as well. Yeah. Thanks. All right. Uh, roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Um board reorganization meeting scheduled for May 6th. 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock. But we will be in not in this room. Oh, we will be we have a district office. We'll be at district office. So we have a strategic plan meeting that night as well. Um, this is a shorter agenda as you can kind of see in there. Our focus will be swearing in new board members and then looking at our dates to establish for next year.

083So, it should be a quicker meeting. Um, so we'll stay in the room next door. There's there's none of the fun stuff that we all love. There will not be a dog. I mean, swearing it's fun. Let's be honest. That's true. Oh, maybe I will bring my the pack dog pack. Dog pound. Dog pound. It could be called whatever. I pound is like I don't know it's funny. Pound is like J. Um though it did make me think um Duke like if there's detention is it the dog house snow. Oh wow. Oh wow. Those juices are crazy. Oh I'm I'm leaning in. Absolutely. Absolutely. Miss to see him every day. Yeah. We're putting him in the dog pound. Just kidding. The ESP handbook. Um the updates were in the any you want to highlight anything?

084No. For the most part, a lot of the updates are all in there. Um I I think we've typically gone through each year and tried to tweak a little bit and and and update as as we've gone to make it as as thorough as possible. And you do that with a committee of uh employees or so we've done it more just internally. Um, now that the original group was pretty pretty uh broad and so now we've gone a little bit more just internal into the district office just because we're we're just tweaking. It's not massive changes. Okay. I would say that the changes that we could highlight were obviously we had to add information about our e-learning days. So that was a whole new plan that we rolled out if you recall at the start

085of the year. So that needed to be put in there. We also made adjustments to calendar updates um specifically looking at the adjusted summer break time. So because the hours district office is open is a little shorter that means that the lunchtime got a little shorter as well. And then we clarified hours over winter and spring b break. So um at times the district runs on a shorter schedule at that time. However, if we have a cabling project or if we have a maintenance project, we might need a longer day. So we wanted to be clear with that language as well. And then we also made sure that our um updated personnel day usage matched what was in the collective bargaining agreement as well with the teachers. That was a clarification we made as well.

086Okay. So that does need to be approved. This just information items. All right. And the um student parent handbook. Yes, student parent handbook. So that was exciting as well. So, several parents were very busy that night. So, um we did grab some extra parents that that were available to be able to to join us. Um I would say the biggest changes that we looked at here again were one um adding our e-learning plan and updating that. Um and then the other one would be the work that we've been doing on standardsbased learning and grading. So, in our handbook, we have all of the how do we grade students? How do we do that? Well, that's a big change for us that's coming out. And so, we were able to put in the rubrics that the

087staff has made um the priority standards, what does that language look like? So, that is in there as well. So, we were excited to kind of add that work. There was no changes to any discipline. But I will say that there is um there are bills just for the board's knowledge that are currently being discussed in Springfield regarding not being able to um suspend or expel students in the primary grades like K2. And so that's something that if we were to see policy change that we would we would be making an update. But that once again is only a discussion topic right now in Springfield, but something that we're keeping a close eye on. And you added Nicole's name. Yes. Right. Uh, no old business, any new business. All right. Um, clear requests and student.

088Can I ask a question? Absolutely. Yeah. Uh, Parent Square, right? We're moving forward with that. Okay. All right. I was just curious. We are moving. Is that for the next school year? Yes. The plan is that we'll be rolling that out school year. Yep. Okay. Um, FOYA and student contact conduct review were in the packet. Um, no communications. Any public comments? Not on the agenda. All right. For the last time, I need a motion to adjurnn. For a look. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Eyes have it. We are adjourned. Thank. Oh, Grant, you're gonna be

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