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Welcome back everyone. It's six o'clock. So let's kick off this first study session of our 2526 school year.

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Roll call please.

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Member Cheryl.

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Yes.

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Member Hickson.

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Member Maribou.

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Here. Member Jones.

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Here. Member Langendorf here.

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Vice President Baxley.

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President Flowski.

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Here. We definitely have a quorum.

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There are, are there any additions, corrections or modifications?

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So now it's agenda, hearing none.

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There will be a short executive session.

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After tonight's meeting for the purpose of a personnel matter,

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there will be no action taken by the board after our executive session.

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It is now time for citizen statements.

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Anybody here present wishes to make a statement for the board.

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Please fill out a golden rod sheet from the back of the room

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and hand it to a recording secretary, Lori Johnson.

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We have get to receive any.

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And I see no one indicating they wish to speak for the board.

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So at this point, the chair would take a motion to approve tonight's agenda.

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Second.

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It's been moved in a second. All in favor say aye.

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Any opposed?

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We have an agenda.

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Board reports.

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There are a few topics listed here for a quick board discussion.

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One is picking up where we left off at our last June meeting, which is discussing Board of Education

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So Lisa, board task, we wish to make sure that we take on during this calendar year as well as study session topics.

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We wanted to discuss so that we can cut a planner or a year's calendar out.

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So we have a bunch of things up with much of stuff at the end of the year.

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We have the list that we created.

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We started this conversation in June.

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So we had several suggestions at the June 17th meeting.

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but we also always just give you time over the summer to think about it and so if they're

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additional topics that you'd like to add.

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Could you give the public a reminder I guess of what we've already talked about wonderful I can.

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So on June 17th, Sherry asked if we could have more discussion around how UHS is going to be implementing

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their cell phone policy and just to have the team come and discuss how it's going and what

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their planning to do. I shared an email from Mr. Guzman, but I think it'd be nice to have

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him come after school starts just to give us a little bit of a update on how their plan is working

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out. Communication, other ways to convey to parents what's going on and getting input before major

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changes happen in schools, and addition to the, and this was still from Sherry.

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In addition, Sherry would also like to talk a little bit more about our incoming

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kindergartners, what their needs are, how we're seeing them grow from the beginning to

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the end of the year, just a little more about the demographic make up of our kindergarten

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group because we showed some data around the kids, KIDS, assess it, and we are

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getting our students are starting and they are already a large number of them

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behind where some of their grade level peers are before they even walk in the door.

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So just having a little more information about that, and yes, so that was some

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information from Sherry. Paul said that he'd like to have the director of immigrant services

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and I got to write her name down. Come and share a little bit about immigration and how that's

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impacting our community and we would invite the welcome center, maybe to come and share a little bit

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addition to that topic. We have the statement from Jennifer Hickson around lots of things,

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things like exit interviews, so those were some really specific HR comments, a little more

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information from parents that are leaving the district and going to private school, if we can come up with some kind of

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to interview for specific parents, interviewing parents of students who are attending and taking

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a variety of classes at UHS, monitoring school performance,

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let's see.

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So we had a full statement, we copied, we have her statement, a designated board committee

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that gathers and analyzes the data that we need, wants to know to help us make decisions going

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work and okay I think that was that Ben wanted to invite the Urbana police chief chief

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boom to come to a meeting is that something you wanted to do early or maybe during

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the course of when we're talking about school safety okay yep and then just having

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a broader positive relationship with our band of police department.

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And Sherry also discussed maybe the effort

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of going into the community and really talking more

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about how we can advertise that the board members are available

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and where those locations are going to be,

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where they are going to be making themselves available

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to meet citizens throughout the year.

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And I think that was it.

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So, you know, the floor would be open for any other topics people would like, or a specific

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actions you want the board to take this year.

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But I think a big focus this year is going to be as all in all contract years, our contract

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negotiations.

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I'm the only sitting board member who's done this before, so I probably should be a member

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of that committee.

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But I don't plan on running for reelection.

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So I would really appreciate it if we had at least one other board

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member who kind of wishes to learn how this process works.

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In case they're able to serve the next time around.

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Thank you, Jennifer.

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It's a pretty heavy time commitment because it's when they get down

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as the meat of it, we're meeting with the union for three

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ish hours once a week.

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But then we have a prep meeting the day before that typically,

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so that we can kind of get our side of it kind of figured out and that's also another two to three hours.

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So it can be upwards of six or seven hours a week in the late afternoon early evening for a long, pretty time.

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What typically happens is that the two sides kind of set deadlines and that the artificial deadlines kind of do help us reach consensus.

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So, and we thought our prep work before we were going to break and on the administrative side talking about we already have a list of specific topics, and then we have our opening meeting, we haven't set that time with the union, but in the last two negotiations cycles has been around February Marchish, our goal was always to be done by the last day as well.

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I mentioned it in art yesterday when I ran into a new teacher day and he was like

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Oh gosh, Paul. So it's too early. But yeah, I know that they want to figure out when to start a 5B late fall

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for winter time when we really get going.

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Oh, okay. So you and Jennifer maybe because you're.

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Yeah, that's so the point of information for the board, union negotiations are completely exempt from

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You don't even need to notice it, I'd like you would have an exact session.

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It's the only thing that doesn't follow under OEMA, so yes.

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So as long as that's what the topic of discussion is, we could have as many board members

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who want to participate as so.

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I think it's a good idea to have some discussion about immigrant issues,

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but I would like to think just that we have the Refugee Center.

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Oh yeah, that's what I said that we were going to-

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I thought you said welcome center, but Refugee Center, yes.

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That's what I meant, but yes, Refugee Center.

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Thank you. Go ahead.

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I know I rely on you a lot, Paul, as far as policies,

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poor policies go because you're the encyclopedia.

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I don't say that much.

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Now, I mean, as far as understanding and knowing them, and I was wondering if it's the time

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if there's any policies that we need to sit and review change because some of it might be

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outdated.

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So that would be one thing that I...

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That's part of what we do in press plus is to make sure that it's compliant with changing

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the state of federal laws, but there are certainly other policies that don't fall under

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a silly fall into state and federal law, then we should probably revisit.

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I think she's talking about like specific board policies, things that we, that maybe are never touched by press.

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Because that's what you're saying right now.

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Do you have any policies in particular you're thinking about or?

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I would like to, you know, more about them.

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Also, Abbott, it seems that the sixth grade center is going to be pretty involved in that program in the high school.

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Also, uses it.

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So I don't know if we're going to have another presentation about Abbott.

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We just sent a large group to the week of summer institute for having it.

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So the sixth grade center is going to be school wide avid, which means all the students

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will get some exposure to avid strategies, but they also will still have the elective avid

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classes.

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The middle school high school will have the avid elective classes and this year we're

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moving down and piloting avid at Dr. Williams, our first elementary school.

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I'd like to know more what it was involved.

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And also possibly a memorandum of agreement between the U.S.

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Auditorium for their Student Performances.

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We have one with the U.S., the Ban of pop Orchestra that we've had from many years.

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They've worked with them for 16 years.

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And I think it was signed in 2013, possibly,

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that there was an agreement.

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And if that's something that they really

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want to use for their productions, we're using our students,

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then I think we should more formalize that.

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They've not expressed.

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So this is the first year they've used our auditorium.

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They've been using Parkland.

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Yes.

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But I was told they wanted to try it out

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and see if they like to better than Parkland.

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So they've not requested that, but I'm happy to reach out to them.

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Great.

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Anyone else?

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It's a long list.

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But appreciate people.

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And of course, this isn't set in stone.

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If something comes up that you would want to explore,

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you know, always bring it to the board report.

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So we can discuss and make sure we get pitted in.

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And I'll take the topics that you've shared, and just like last year, we'll kind of put together a tentative calendar.

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And again, as long as everyone knows it's blue it, so there are times where we have to move things around.

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So hopefully we'll get you this early September.

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Okay.

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Under board reports, I have assumed that's when board members could share what they wanted to share.

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And you jumped ahead to 7.1.

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Well, that's under board reports.

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the goals, so we have big goals.

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I promise we will get to open floor to people who can discuss with you.

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I just want to make sure we could be specific things.

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I'll put whatever in the agenda and then we'll open the floor up to anything else.

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All right.

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Committees.

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So you have a couple documents in front of you.

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So one is actually has some red on it.

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It says board committees.

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This is our draft.

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And it's got pink, I mean, it's got red names and dates.

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And then here is our other draft.

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We'll send a couple of that way.

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That has all of the dates.

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We had a few that didn't make it on to the colored copy that you have,

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because directors are still actively,

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they're kind of folded back and forth,

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so you can see that.

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So I normally, what we do unless you guys,

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if you'd like to do this differently,

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what I usually do is just walk through,

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tell us, talk a little bit about each one,

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and then you just tell me

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who would like to volunteer for what?

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And we do it that way.

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Okay. Sorry. All right. So first is the policy committee to 150. These are the ongoing

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award committees. So the first one is roundtable. So I think everyone here except maybe

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Luke and Lindsey got to experience the UABOE roundtable discussion. I was just checking my

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because I proposed to UEA that with negotiations coming Paul, you know, seeing that they

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made it respond to me, you know, but I don't think they've had a chance to get.

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I'd propose because we're going to be going out into the schools in October, November, December

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for those lunch round tables, so what we usually do, and Lori will start sending out information,

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and we'll start collecting dates from the UAA

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and from our principles.

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During a negotiation year, we like to go

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and engage with teachers.

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And we just do it during the lunchtime.

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So we go to every school.

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And we just listen.

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And we listen to concerns.

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We listen to what challenges are they experiencing.

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We like to hear a lot.

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We like to hear the positive things.

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But then that is a way for the board

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and admin to also hear some of the concerns.

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So we can begin to prepare for the negotiation cycle that is going to be coming. And so I propose to UEA, because that is really a time intensive process. You're giving up your lunchtime.

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We ask you to commit to at least going to two or three buildings. We ask board members to definitely commit to going to the building that you represent. You're in your closest neighborhood school and it is a lot of time effort that you're putting in for that.

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And so I proposed to UAA that maybe we don't have our fall round table meeting in lieu of

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the lunch meetings that we're going to be having instead.

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They haven't responded yet till let me know if that's something.

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We usually have a meeting in October, February, and then April.

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So the April meeting, I'm sure, will be very heavily focused on negotiations.

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So I don't have those dates yet because we've not finalized it.

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But my proposal to them is we don't have the fall, round table meeting, because you guys

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are going to be putting in a lot of time going to the schools to do those lunch meetings.

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If you'd like to do both, I'm more than happy too.

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We haven't not go for date that we looked at, but I was also trying to be considered of your

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time to do that.

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I mean, I think until we hear back from UAE leadership, it's kind of hard.

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They may have been very specific things they want to address outside.

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And I told her.

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Okay, we'll see what they say. I have not gotten a response yet. Contract negotiations. We just talked about. So it looks like we have Paul for sure. Jennifer and Ben as a possible whenever he can attend.

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Thank you.

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Standing board committees.

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So there are two committees that are part of our board policy and also part of our contract.

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Our contract with the union or CBA.

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And it is the parent teacher advisory committee.

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And we have the dates listed for you.

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That is an evening committee.

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The last two years.

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on Lola and Tori, who are representatives on the district parent teacher advisory committee

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chastity and I share the leadership of that this year. This is a standing open committee.

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So we do notice this committee. We have an agenda. It is an open meeting. People can come

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and listen to the discussion or they can come and make public comments. But we are very

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specific about the direction of what that group works on.

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So it is truly a space where we talk about discipline,

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culture climate, this last year,

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we created a handbook that we will give

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to all of our families around positive behavior

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and interventions in the schools.

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So I don't know, Lola, if you want to continue on there.

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Okay, we don't have to have two people,

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but it's always great.

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Okay, Lindsey.

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It's a great group because we had teachers,

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we had parents, so it is, it's a really nice,

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we had a really great group of folks

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who were really committed this year.

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So thank you, Lindsey.

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And the other one, I'm gonna turn the page

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to facilities and property acquisition.

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So this is an as needed committee.

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So Paul has done this in the past

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just because he has a lot of history.

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been has also been a wrap for the facilities committee. These are noticed as well. So we put out

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an agenda that is open to the public. And it is as needed though we are doing. I would

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still like to participate in this, especially leading into what's going to be a kind of

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facility is assessment that we're going to be doing through the strategic plan. It's also

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want to state that we're not limited to board members here because this is a notice meeting we can

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absolutely. Okay, I'd be able to like to continue. Thank you, Ben. Anyone else?

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These usually happen during the day, because many of the people who come and have

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information to share with us are, you know, it might be the part of this reason. We talk

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about the aquatic center a lot of these space in meetings. So, okay. Next is the working

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committees. So these are not standing board committees, but they're the committees that are

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in the work of the districts, kind of behind the scenes. So the first one is the school wellness

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committee that is overseeing by Mary Ann. She's put the dates there and it looks like the

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committee is going to meet once a quarter. Who is your personal last year? Remember Sherry? Sherry?

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Would you like to continue Sherry? Okay.

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Oh yeah, perfect. Yeah, that's great. Anyone else?

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Like because we can have up to two. Okay. Crisis and school safety committees. So this is

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committee that includes administrators. We try to get a couple of teachers so that we've had

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a couple of teachers that number small, smaller, depends on the year. We have representatives

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from our band of police, both of our SROs participate. This is a monthly committee where we meet

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and we talk about our crisis plans, evacuation procedures, and this has been Tory and I think

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was just touring this year.

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What did that was they meet? If you look at our list they meet

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right after school because it does involve teachers. So we this meeting usually is a 4 o'clock

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starting time for the and it goes from about 4 to 5 30.

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Okay. John, you want to talk about the district

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technology committee?

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Your first tentative date?

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This has been typically to provide

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direction for classroom and district

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technology.

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This year, we're focusing

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following our strategic planning committee

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on finding better communication

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tools and then also finding better

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ways to engage in communication

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and increase participation with families.

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as well as other technology issues.

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It'll meet after school because they're usually...

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Yeah, typically after school we are.

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We had some requests to move them off of Zoom.

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Typically we had been on Zoom but maybe like a hybrid mix in person this year.

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The first one is tentatively probably going to be because we're looking to move quickly with communication tools.

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to pilot some stuff starting this next semester either the 11th or 12th of August and then we'll work with the committee to kind of find a availability then.

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You'd like to do a sharing.

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Okay, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next we have a new committee and this is also from the strategic plan and under the umbrella of the strategic plan of Mary Ann is going to talk about the finance committee.

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Good evening. So the purpose of this committee is to just promote transparency and support

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the strategic plan. One of my goals is to...

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To improve upon the equitable building budgets. And so this group will have discussion about that. We're going to be reviewing budget financial reports. Anything that comes from is these weekly news letter just to kind of prep the committee.

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And so if there's any discussion before a board meeting, it would be good to have some of that transparency and conversation beforehand.

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And then with just the state of our government right now, we just feel like it's a good time to reinstate this committee to start having those conversations.

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So loves numbers and findings.

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That will be me.

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Mary Ann, are you thinking these will be?

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I think I have like four to five.

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I'm going to be at the conference.

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I'm going to be attending a couple of the finance workshops.

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So maybe to go to buy something similar would it be possible to have like a hybrid so Paul think is in me

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And maybe if you had work for a small spill just for me. That would be ideal for me, Frank. Yeah, we can do that. I find that be a possibility. Okay

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Share is that a committee that only to only to well, we could we could either trade off or or probably notice it, but

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I guess when you just get to those meetings

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I think there's three of us going to figure out which two of us will be doing.

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So you're interested in maybe depending on the topic or something.

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Like you'll have an agenda and then you guys pick it together.

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I might just be slammed at work and can't go any way, so.

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Okay. Sounds good. Thank you.

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Next is a standing committee that we've had for many, many years.

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So program council, which is where we talk about curriculum needs.

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This year, we also are going to be using program council time to talk about

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school improvement goals but also reinforce with our, this is where we have all of our

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teacher leaders. So we have our department chairs, we have members of school improvement

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teams. So we have a lot of our experienced and most knowledgeable staff members in

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this space. So we're also going to be utilizing it to do some of our strategic planning

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work. So Sherry and Jennifer did that last year for us. I was out of town for

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the majority of them because they were the second way to make it go on yeah so yeah okay okay

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awesome we move from four meetings to three meetings because for that group because this is

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your one of this strategic plan we're also bringing in these strategic planning priority goal work

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So these will be split up based on the goal area, so you know we have a goal area for student achievement,

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a goal area for staff retention and growth and retention.

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We have a goal area around family and community is agency and then a goal area around district operations and procedures.

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And so, we're going to have different working groups break out on these dates.

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So I think board members could be on a working group and, you know, one, so of multiple

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people wanted to do this, you would do be in your working group for the entire time, depending

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on your area of, you know, interest, which one of those priority areas you might be interested

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in.

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And those will be in the evening because this is where we'll have community partners, we'll have parents, we'll open this up to pick parents as well.

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So this won't be a four o'clock meeting, it will be a meeting that probably right now on the sheet that you have.

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I have it highlighted to start either 530 to 7 or 6 to 730.

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So we haven't made a final decision on that time yet because I want to get a little more input from our UEA, but it is definitely going to be an evening space.

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No, this is the one under program council, the priority goal groups for this strategic plan.

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So this will be where we identify our strategic plan action steps and then throughout the year we'll monitor our progress and be working doing that in a group.

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We already have several teachers who have signed up to join different working groups.

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We just need to get some parents on those groups.

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So I'm going to have that available at welcome back to school night.

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Hopefully we'll have some parents willing to be on some of those groups as well.

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I could probably do this.

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You kind of all could do it. You just have to be on a separate working group.

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Okay. So I will make sure to share that and then you guys maybe can split up those four

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priority areas. And then these are the ad needed ad hot committee. So right now we just

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approved two years worth of calendars. So unless we need to bring the calendars back

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to make any changes, we probably will not have the calendar committee working this year.

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Health insurance committee is Angie and we've got four dates. So I don't remember who your

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and was, oh, go for it, Angie.

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Yes, last year, Paul served on the committee and we have changed our insurance broker to

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U.S.I. which matches what our district liability insurance is with as well and so we're

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looking forward to meetings and hopefully Paul, you can continue especially with the impact

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on negotiations.

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So sorry to add one more thing to your play, but we do meet these things.

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just stay on that. Okay. Okay. Thanks. A school-based house and thank you

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Paul. School-based house center advisory board. And that was...

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Oh, I remember maybe a story. It was, it was story. Okay. So this one meets quarterly

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Beth Ladd, our Executive Director for Student Services leads this initiative. It is

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our time where we talk about the needs of the health center staff from

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Promise the leadership from promise are usually there some of the staff members from the school-based health center

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Also participate

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And it's part of our negotiated agreement with them that we have these quarterly meetings to talk about the needs of the health center

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I would want to do that and they do meet in the evening. I

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Beth has it on here

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I can do that one. Okay, I'm pretty awesome.

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And then naming committee is on here

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And you want to talk about naming now or you wait one way to later?

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Maybe we could approach it now, let's say.

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Okay.

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Since it's the next thing on the list.

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As needed.

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Yes, we really had.

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So naming committees are typically drawn up on an as needed basis.

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When either a new building is built that needs to be named,

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or a group comes forward with a set of petitions wishing to honor a specific individual.

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Yes.

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So far, I've seen two letters.

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So it's typically 10 letters as what it is.

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Yes, I think too.

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So I don't know.

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We want to, but you, the board can, but the board can, can still direct me. Right, the board can direct, can direct the superintendent to convey. Absolutely.

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In panel, a committee for a specific purpose. So if we wish to, for example,

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in panel, a committee to seek out a name for the, we have been calling the sixth grade center.

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The board can, can direct the superintendent to do so.

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Would the process be for that after you have a committee and then what happens?

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The committee will then meet and they will bring forth a recommendation to the board which the board can accept or or decline

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Yep, that's all we've done in the past

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I mean, I mean for example, like the re naming

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Changing the name of Prairie to William School

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There was a set of petitions that were brought forward at least kind of them a committee met and brought forward to the board

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request to rename per year school as Dr. Preston Williams the third or sorry it's a junior

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sorry not the third entry and the board's liberated it was a fourth row actually it was a

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it was a deliberated a couple times yeah I think we had a couple meetings right yeah so

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a chair you should look like you wish the chime in no I think that we need to address it

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either with responding to some of the, I only saw two letters, I think, two letters responding

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to that now or somehow in the fact that we're going to propose having a naming community,

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I think that that's next up forward in addressing those school letters.

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And I can reach out to the two people who have sent us letters and asked them if they would

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like to participate.

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I think that'd be the first step.

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I know there's some staff members at the sixth grade center who also would like to be part

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the committee as well. So their voices are heard. And we can go from there. Is there a board member

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who would like to be their representative for that committee? We've got three six grace interparent

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sitting here. I don't know. I was like Ben Luke and Lindsay. Just thought. Just just throwing it out

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thought if you would you like to do it then okay you have more than one we can have more than one

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Lindsey okay all right I do think as parents you wear a very you have a very unique perspective so

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I mean yeah I mean I mean think about this in general we haven't received any request yet by

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more petition or but no I was thinking just a completely differently I think it would be

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worthwhile for the district to honor Janus Mitchell some fashion with

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finding something appropriate to name them up to her, I think, would be worthwhile.

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And there are a lot, I mean, the other thing, maybe that board members don't realize.

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The naming committee can also bring back suggestions around.

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We have several libraries that are named after, like I'm Yankees Ridge.

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The library there is named after Margaret D's, and the D's.

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That is a really important legacy for the D's family.

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so their other spaces in the building athletic athletic jump we have gems that are

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named after people so the committee can bring back multiple recommendations for the

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board to consider for sure okay so I people do that yes

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it was actually Luke no no

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us me. And then we already have our 2526 delegate. So thank you, Sherry. That was approved in on June 17th.

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So awesome. I will rewrite all of this up and reshare a final copy with everybody before next

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meeting. I know it took a while, but it's certainly necessary for us to kind of get this all figured out.

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Well, and it's important for our staff and our community to see you in those spaces and

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And you're representing all seven of you because all seven of you can't be there, so when we bring up certain topics, it's great that you're in some of those faces that you can bring back.

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You can bring back the just the feel of the committee and what you're talking about. So I think it's really important that you guys are committed to being on working committees and needs a lot.

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Next up in the list of published.

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We must have you a leadership meeting people watching the meeting right now because they

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email me and they suggest around the round tables so they've just emailed us said let's focus

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our time and energy on the admin lunches in the fall and only have round table on October 21st

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and February 10th and we forego the meeting in April because we will be heavily into negotiations

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is that that time?

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Yeah, that sounds good.

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Does that sound good?

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Okay.

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So we will start working on the admin lunch meeting schedule and we will have two roundtable

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meetings this year on October 21st and February 10th.

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Thank you, UEA, for watching the meeting and chiming in.

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We appreciate you.

452
00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:37,430
And then will you get back to us with the schedule for the lunches so that we can sign up

453
00:35:37,430 --> 00:35:38,590
Is that really involved?

454
00:35:39,670 --> 00:35:39,710
Yes.

455
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:45,970
We will get repeated emails from Lori with regards to scheduling, and we tend to like break up

456
00:35:45,970 --> 00:35:49,510
the bigger buildings like the high school into shifts because there's like three lunches

457
00:35:49,510 --> 00:35:53,530
at the high school, and typically there's more than two more members who want to go to

458
00:35:53,530 --> 00:35:54,230
the high school.

459
00:35:54,570 --> 00:35:59,910
So we'll figure out which, you know, these two will take the first lunch period and these

460
00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:00,630
two will take them.

461
00:36:00,970 --> 00:36:04,690
So we kind of negotiate that ad hoc, be email.

462
00:36:04,690 --> 00:36:07,630
And I, of course, see, we'll be, we'll have others.

463
00:36:07,950 --> 00:36:09,590
So we've broken up the bigger building.

464
00:36:10,050 --> 00:36:12,330
So like last year, Yankee, last time we did this again,

465
00:36:12,330 --> 00:36:16,370
bridge, we had two people coming in and out in and out in and out

466
00:36:16,370 --> 00:36:19,230
because you may really want to be there to hear from

467
00:36:19,230 --> 00:36:20,230
Duoline Wood or something.

468
00:36:21,030 --> 00:36:23,910
So we start this process by reaching out to the principals

469
00:36:23,910 --> 00:36:28,430
to find out what they have going on in their buildings,

470
00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:31,610
the meetings happen during the lunch time.

471
00:36:31,810 --> 00:36:33,570
So we had their lunch schedules.

472
00:36:33,570 --> 00:36:40,330
we talk to UEA because we kind of share noticing it to that like they let their folks know

473
00:36:40,330 --> 00:36:44,670
we make sure that administrators have set up a space and know that we're coming and so it is

474
00:36:44,670 --> 00:36:50,250
pretty it is a pretty involved process so you'll get lots of you know this process also includes

475
00:36:50,250 --> 00:37:03,550
Gerber I would recommend if if board member hasn't visited Gerber to do so and this is a

476
00:37:03,550 --> 00:37:06,630
tour of the different schools at the same time?

477
00:37:06,810 --> 00:37:07,770
Well, definitely.

478
00:37:08,010 --> 00:37:08,870
I think we've done that.

479
00:37:09,150 --> 00:37:11,370
So we've been there for lunches, especially Gerber,

480
00:37:11,590 --> 00:37:15,950
because it is a unique setting being there on the

481
00:37:15,950 --> 00:37:16,670
with Cunningham.

482
00:37:17,010 --> 00:37:19,410
So, yes, we definitely could do a tour before

483
00:37:19,410 --> 00:37:21,350
after we just have to work it out with the principal.

484
00:37:25,940 --> 00:37:26,400
No, it's okay.

485
00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:26,840
I did.

486
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:26,860
I did.

487
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:40,720
This is the 7.3. So John approached me, the summer, the discussion with the guards to having a fee schedule for access to district public records.

488
00:37:41,340 --> 00:37:47,160
Kind of an alignment to what other districts of our size in the area are doing. So I guess John can provide us some context for our discussion.

489
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:53,660
Yep, as we discussed at one of the previous board meetings, we've had a greatly increased

490
00:37:53,660 --> 00:38:00,980
number of FOIAs this year, and then reviewing the board policy, one of the policies

491
00:38:01,420 --> 00:38:09,280
2.250 states that the FOIA officer shall provide a fee schedule to the board,

492
00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:17,140
so this

493
00:38:17,140 --> 00:38:25,120
like from board members earlier, just about how many people this would affect and what kind of effect this would have.

494
00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:33,060
So of all the foes we've gotten since I've been here, this would have affected aside from one individual.

495
00:38:33,420 --> 00:38:39,220
There was one other foe of rope quest that we had that would have fallen into this fee schedule.

496
00:38:39,220 --> 00:38:55,480
This also addresses commercial, fee schedules and how much time and limits on those and is consistent with what other districts have and is consistent with the Illinois state statutes.

497
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:06,300
So, if you have any other questions, I will try to answer them. I am not a lawyer, but I have a little bit of knowledge on this subject.

498
00:39:07,780 --> 00:39:13,400
This is on our agenda, it's a possible action, you know, the board can choose to

499
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,240
vote it up, vote it down or defer it to another meeting if they wish.

500
00:39:18,380 --> 00:39:20,580
I had a question, a couple of questions.

501
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,320
One didn't we have, I thought I had seen a page on the website.

502
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,760
And Lori's picture was above it, and then there was a fee schedule below it.

503
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,720
So did we already have some sort of a fee schedule and we're changing the fee schedule?

504
00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:41,120
I have to admit, when I looked for that page again, I didn't find it, so I just found

505
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:41,740
the rules.

506
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:43,380
No?

507
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,780
I don't think anything was taken down from the website and I don't recall seeing that there.

508
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:56,500
No.

509
00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:02,860
Okay, so then I have no idea then, but so we have not had any kind of a fee schedule before

510
00:40:02,860 --> 00:40:03,680
this then.

511
00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:05,940
Yes, that's my hand or something.

512
00:40:05,940 --> 00:40:15,200
Other than what the FOIA Act has, it's just a basic worry, what you can charge for and things like that, but it was nothing official.

513
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,020
So this one, this makes it official.

514
00:40:18,780 --> 00:40:21,020
Okay, because it will become part of policy.

515
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,140
It's not changing the policy.

516
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:25,960
The policy is stated.

517
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:31,680
It was just that the FOIA officer would provide this to the board for review on a regular basis.

518
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,600
So that's what we're doing here, but no policy change.

519
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,340
OK, and I was really wondering about the PDF stuff,

520
00:40:40,660 --> 00:40:43,000
the online digital.

521
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,920
Since we're doing it by megabytes, we're charging by megabytes.

522
00:40:49,620 --> 00:40:55,360
Would that be manipulable given the,

523
00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:05,300
it, but just by changing the resolution of what we were sending, and should we have something

524
00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:08,940
in there that said at such and such resolution?

525
00:41:10,620 --> 00:41:19,060
I think they're mostly encoded as text, but we've never had any complaints about using to

526
00:41:19,060 --> 00:41:23,960
I have a resolution, the only complaints we've ever received were about the resolution being

527
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:30,780
too low, and we had to like provide a slightly higher resolution, and we would be consistent

528
00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:31,400
with that.

529
00:41:32,180 --> 00:41:40,280
Yeah, I just meant would the price be manipulable by changing the resolution.

530
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,680
You know what I'm saying?

531
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:50,040
if you, if we're doing it by megabytes, then if I, if you send me a very, very, very, very high

532
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:55,880
resolution, it would take more megabytes, therefore you would charge me more money.

533
00:41:57,020 --> 00:42:02,100
Yes, we have not been changing the resolution on any PDFs that we've been sending anybody, is that

534
00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:08,100
what people have been saying? I know, I'm saying if you're going to start a FOIA,

535
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:15,400
When we receive a request, we respond with what we have and how we have it.

536
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,880
We do not alter it, we do not create anything new, we give it as how we have it.

537
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,160
So we have been charging people and we have not been charging.

538
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:32,180
We haven't been, so okay, so we haven't been, we're going to start charging them what

539
00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:39,800
the law allows. And would this be, I think it was, was it, I left my paper at home for

540
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:50,060
my questions. Oh, that's the five hundred copies, the 500 pages. Is that from one request

541
00:42:50,060 --> 00:43:00,440
or after you have done 500 pages, does it? So it is, I actually pulled it up here for the state

542
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:07,420
statute because that was another question I got. So it's voluminous if it's all

543
00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:12,240
paraphrased. Just a little here. Two broader requires the complication of a large number

544
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:17,800
of records. Concert voluminous if it includes more than five individual requests for

545
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:24,000
more than five different categories of records within a 20 day period or requires the

546
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,280
of more than 500 pages of legal-sized pages in a single record.

547
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,140
So, do you want to switch to the topic or have any questions?

548
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:48,300
Yeah, I just have one question regarding the amount of time that our staff puts in.

549
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:55,980
Is there any way when we do get a FOIA request to indicate after we've completed how many hours

550
00:43:55,980 --> 00:44:02,240
if that can be conveyed as long as well as what the FOIA entailed?

551
00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:08,020
Yeah, and in the kind of board reporting, we had talked about that.

552
00:44:08,260 --> 00:44:13,400
As far as internal time, that would be something that it would be possible to include.

553
00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:21,020
As far as legal time and expenses, we typically report the FOIAs at the next board meeting

554
00:44:21,020 --> 00:44:27,300
after they're closed, and we don't receive our legal invoices until the following month.

555
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:34,320
So we wouldn't be able to report the legal costs at the meeting, following the FOIA request,

556
00:44:34,740 --> 00:44:38,920
but we could have a follow up if desired to report on that.

557
00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:45,060
In a following meeting, it would be either one or two meetings after when the FOIAs were

558
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:50,340
initial initially reported, as far as the internal time, that would be possible to track.

559
00:44:50,340 --> 00:44:52,860
it's just a little extra work on our parts.

560
00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:54,760
We could publish a spreadsheet with that

561
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,300
if the nation too, like online, right?

562
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,060
Yeah, if that was the desire of the board,

563
00:44:58,260 --> 00:44:59,980
we could look into what we would have.

564
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,500
Have to do to make that happen?

565
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,960
Exactly. I wouldn't expect you to know immediately how much it's going to cost because you don't

566
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:12,540
know until you get billed for it. But if we had a spreadsheet, as Paul mentioned, that

567
00:45:12,540 --> 00:45:16,660
will use give us some idea of how much time and how much money are district dispending.

568
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:19,640
Thank you.

569
00:45:20,140 --> 00:45:25,440
Okay. So again, this is on our agenda for a vote later if the Board wishes to act.

570
00:45:27,580 --> 00:45:27,860
Now,

571
00:45:27,860 --> 00:45:30,900
the floor is open for any other report, report anybody

572
00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:31,700
which is to discuss.

573
00:45:33,740 --> 00:45:34,560
Go ahead, Jennifer.

574
00:45:35,940 --> 00:45:38,060
OK, and this is about renaming.

575
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:46,240
And I just want to tell everybody a story.

576
00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:51,360
On June 3rd, I received an email from a community member telling

577
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,060
me that in January, the superintendent had

578
00:45:54,060 --> 00:45:57,520
begun the process with the state to officially rename

579
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:04,520
Wiley School, and that the new name had been officially approved by the state on May 9th.

580
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:10,980
So, the school is now officially named by the, according to the state, urbanistic grade

581
00:46:10,980 --> 00:46:16,580
center, and has its own middle school RCDS number under that new name.

582
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:24,200
On June 4th, I wrote an email to the superintendent asking if this was true, expressing my belief

583
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:30,600
This could not have been true because such matters were not to be advanced without the express approval of the board.

584
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:38,560
According to board policy 4.150, naming or renaming a building requires a vote by the board.

585
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:48,840
Since the board has the policy on the books, and since the board is referred to the policy in board meetings, at least twice over the past 18 months or so,

586
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:55,980
I would have considered such action to be a breach of the public trust, because, in fact,

587
00:46:56,020 --> 00:47:01,100
the public was led to believe that we would follow our own policy, and we didn't.

588
00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:07,600
On June 5th, the superintendent replied to my email with a message to the entire board.

589
00:47:08,180 --> 00:47:11,260
In it, the superintendent made the following points.

590
00:47:12,020 --> 00:47:18,440
Number one, commemorations or memorials require submissions to the superintendent, who then

591
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,820
forms a committee for submission to the board for approval.

592
00:47:22,500 --> 00:47:28,000
Citizens and staff have had over a year to come forward with necessary letters or signatures

593
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,980
and I have received neither.

594
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:38,240
Number two, the board can also direct the formation of a committee to approve a new facility name.

595
00:47:38,740 --> 00:47:41,980
The board has not made the recommendation to form a committee.

596
00:47:41,980 --> 00:47:48,640
I assume primarily because there have been no public requests or public interests in doing so.

597
00:47:49,940 --> 00:47:59,260
This continues the email. Critics and proponents alike, including staff, administration, board members, parents, and students,

598
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:10,780
have deemed the building to be the sixth grade center. All architect rendering, branding, and internal signage have been designed with a sixth grade center as its name.

599
00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:20,440
This is what we, and parenthesis, are quotation marks, basically everyone has called the building since its inception.

600
00:48:21,180 --> 00:48:26,480
Therefore, we have all been complicit in this practice for the last 18 months.

601
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:35,500
At this point, in the project, the district would encourage significant costs for rebranding and labeling the building.

602
00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:45,400
Now, the policy 4.150 actually reads, definition, for the purpose of this policy, the term

603
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:53,660
facility or facilities refers to any district outbuilding classroom to an Asian auditorium

604
00:48:53,660 --> 00:49:01,460
or other space, and any athletic or academic field or complex, recognizing that the name

605
00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:04,420
for a school facility reflects its public image.

606
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,440
The boards, primary consideration,

607
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,080
will be to select a name that enhances the credibility

608
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,880
and stature of the school facility and or district.

609
00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:20,280
Any request to name or rename, and existing facility,

610
00:49:20,780 --> 00:49:22,340
should be submitted to the board

611
00:49:22,340 --> 00:49:24,760
according to the process described below.

612
00:49:25,660 --> 00:49:29,220
When a facility is to be named or renamed,

613
00:49:29,220 --> 00:49:38,940
The Board of Education will appoint a special committee to consider nominations and make a recommendation along with supporting rationale to the Board.

614
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,600
The Board will make the final selection.

615
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:54,880
The policy goes on to say, all nominations for commemorative or honorary naming must be presented to the superintendent through a formal letter with the reasons for the request.

616
00:49:54,880 --> 00:50:02,000
The formal letter of nomination must be accompanied by a minimum of 10 signatures or supporting letters.

617
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:09,380
A committee will be appointed by the superintendent, and that committee will be approved by the Board of Education.

618
00:50:10,100 --> 00:50:19,280
The committee has the responsibility to review any suggestions, study the impact of the requested recognition on the school, district and community,

619
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:25,320
and make recommendations to the Board of Education of ways to best honor the individual

620
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:30,980
nominated. The committee's recommendation may reflect the wishes in the nominating letter

621
00:50:30,980 --> 00:50:38,080
or the committee may suggest other methods of honoring the nominated individual. Please note,

622
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:44,980
now this is me and up, that all naming or renaming of buildings must go through the board.

623
00:50:44,980 --> 00:50:48,720
No one came to the board to request a name change.

624
00:50:49,660 --> 00:50:54,180
I had assumed that the name would be staying

625
00:50:54,180 --> 00:50:57,620
flawlessly, because no one had come forward

626
00:50:57,620 --> 00:50:59,760
to ask the board to make a change.

627
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,920
I found it interesting that the superintendent used the word

628
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,320
complicit in her email to the board.

629
00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:10,740
She says, we have all been complicit in this practice

630
00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:12,800
of calling at the sixth grade center.

631
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:20,740
complicit means, from the dictionary, associated with or participating in an activity, especially

632
00:51:20,740 --> 00:51:22,540
one of questionable nature.

633
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:29,380
Well, I may not have been as observant as I should have been, but I have not been complicit

634
00:51:29,380 --> 00:51:30,800
in anything questionable.

635
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:36,420
I was calling the program located in the Wiley Building, the sixth grade center.

636
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:40,560
When Wiley was an elementary building, the name was Wiley.

637
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:49,540
When Wiley was closed as an elementary building and used for early childhood in central office the name of the building was Wiley.

638
00:51:50,380 --> 00:51:56,020
Because no one suggested a new name, the board had nothing to do in that case.

639
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:03,380
So, does the superintendent think that this renaming process was done in a questionable manner?

640
00:52:04,140 --> 00:52:10,880
And therefore, she and others at C.O. at Central Office were complicit in that activity.

641
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:12,900
I was not complicit.

642
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,980
Yes, I should have been more observant.

643
00:52:16,380 --> 00:52:21,000
I should have been more watchful to be sure that board policy was being followed.

644
00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:24,720
I was naive, maybe negligent.

645
00:52:25,060 --> 00:52:29,980
And I believe that the board did not provide the oversight that we should have in this

646
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:39,800
Process. Be that it as it may, I believe that now we have to step up to following board policy carefully and thoroughly.

647
00:52:41,020 --> 00:52:47,620
There is no excuse for administration to be unaware of the policy and the ramifications of that policy.

648
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:55,100
I can remember two times in the last 18 months or so when the policy has been discussed at board meetings.

649
00:52:55,100 --> 00:53:02,700
Once it was brought up when Yankee Ridge was closed as a neighborhood elementary school and became a multi-lingual school.

650
00:53:03,220 --> 00:53:06,200
I think it was Sittlally who asked about changing the name.

651
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,760
She was told at that time about the policy.

652
00:53:10,780 --> 00:53:15,240
The second time was when a Wiley parent asked about keeping the Wiley name.

653
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,760
He was told about the policy.

654
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:24,420
So, parents and the community were told at board meetings that to keep the name, they didn't

655
00:53:24,420 --> 00:53:30,920
have to do anything. To change the name, a request had to be made, a committee had to

656
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:36,140
be formed, and the board would make the decision publicly at a public board meeting.

657
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:42,560
To continue my timeline, as I said, the superintendent replied to me and to the entire

658
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:50,120
board on June 5th. On June 7th, I replied to the superintendent saying that all of this

659
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:56,920
had to be brought up at a board meeting. I decided that it was most appropriate for me

660
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:04,500
that I allow the superintendent the grace to bring up the topic and introduce it in a manner

661
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:10,240
that she was comfortable with. When it wasn't done the agenda for our last meeting in June,

662
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:17,680
I assumed that she had decided to bring it up at the end of the meeting in the superintendent's report.

663
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,540
I was flabbergasted when it was not.

664
00:54:21,340 --> 00:54:25,980
I was pretty upset with myself for letting things unfold as they had

665
00:54:25,980 --> 00:54:28,780
and not getting this brought up at that last meeting.

666
00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:34,700
At that time, I determined that I would bring it up at this first meeting in August.

667
00:54:34,700 --> 00:54:41,100
I believe that the school board must now live up to our responsibilities as representatives

668
00:54:41,100 --> 00:54:45,700
of the public and address this squarely and honestly.

669
00:54:47,690 --> 00:54:54,770
And I'm glad we are going to, in retrospect, in hindsight, do something about this, but

670
00:54:54,770 --> 00:55:01,670
I think, I think, in order to do that, we need to face what's already been done.

671
00:55:03,490 --> 00:55:04,470
Thank you.

672
00:55:05,610 --> 00:55:06,270
Anybody else?

673
00:55:06,330 --> 00:55:07,430
Would you make a go to port this evening?

674
00:55:07,430 --> 00:55:15,510
Yes, I'd like to convey my feelings, my ideas about this. I was going to not read this

675
00:55:15,510 --> 00:55:19,430
after we've decided to have a naming committee because I thought that would be a more appropriate

676
00:55:19,430 --> 00:55:24,090
time but I think there's some other issues besides specific board policy and what has been

677
00:55:24,090 --> 00:55:29,830
done in the past one has been assumed that need to be addressed. And so I'd like to read my statement now.

678
00:55:31,170 --> 00:55:36,130
And unfortunately I will not be able to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for this Friday

679
00:55:36,130 --> 00:55:41,590
as I will be out of town. This is a big disappointment for me as it has been 20 months since

680
00:55:41,590 --> 00:55:47,590
the decision was made by this board to convert Wiley School to a sixth grade center. And during

681
00:55:47,590 --> 00:55:52,290
these past months, there has been a great deal of planning for and commitment to improving the

682
00:55:52,290 --> 00:55:57,590
educational experiences for middle school students. There are many who are excited to start a new

683
00:55:57,590 --> 00:56:02,210
and will go forward so this change in our district will be successful. There are still many in

684
00:56:02,210 --> 00:56:07,310
community who are still outraged by the decision of losing a cherished school that serves

685
00:56:07,310 --> 00:56:09,770
so many students and families in our community.

686
00:56:10,650 --> 00:56:14,210
This feeling of allegiance to one school is not unique.

687
00:56:14,790 --> 00:56:18,930
There are families across the district who feel the same way about their elementary schools,

688
00:56:19,350 --> 00:56:23,630
their teachers and their experiences that they had when their children attended their designated

689
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:24,250
school.

690
00:56:24,990 --> 00:56:29,210
As I thought about how I would feel as a parent of a student who spent six years in a building

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00:56:29,210 --> 00:56:37,930
Where she was nurtured and cared for in so many ways, I wondered how I would react if the only elementary school where my daughter attended was suddenly eliminated.

692
00:56:38,710 --> 00:56:43,330
I reflected about the teachers and their strengths and their willingness to treat my daughter as an individual.

693
00:56:44,030 --> 00:56:47,370
I valued the teachers who listened to our concerns throughout the years.

694
00:56:47,910 --> 00:56:55,730
It is not the building that made the experiences memorable for rather the interactions and the successes that were achieved through the years.

695
00:56:55,730 --> 00:57:03,050
What now is important to me is meeting former classmates of my daughters and learning about the past they've taken in their lives

696
00:57:03,050 --> 00:57:11,270
It is seeing my daughter's former teacher K. Grable in the community and how she always asked about my daughter and how she still conveys a

697
00:57:11,270 --> 00:57:14,030
sincere interest in her well-being

698
00:57:14,030 --> 00:57:21,410
losing a building in the community is difficult, but that does not take away the memories or negates the successes that were achieved during the years

699
00:57:21,410 --> 00:57:27,150
As a former adult education teacher of over 20 years in the district, it is still exciting

700
00:57:27,150 --> 00:57:31,030
to see former students in the community and be able to learn that their experiences

701
00:57:31,030 --> 00:57:35,230
and class helped pave the way for a different future and other possibilities.

702
00:57:36,090 --> 00:57:40,910
These interactions are so meaningful and I don't need the building on race street to confirm

703
00:57:40,910 --> 00:57:45,110
the relationships and the opportunities that were forged during those years.

704
00:57:45,630 --> 00:57:48,430
I don't believe there was a vote to drop the name of Wiley.

705
00:57:48,430 --> 00:57:53,350
it was just assumed that the school would have a new purpose to educate six graders and it

706
00:57:53,350 --> 00:57:58,550
would no longer be an elementary school. It would be confusing, I believe, if a six-grader said

707
00:57:58,550 --> 00:58:02,610
he or she was attending Wiley School and the assumption would probably be that that student was

708
00:58:02,610 --> 00:58:07,790
still in fifth grade, as the name Wiley is associated with an elementary school program.

709
00:58:08,770 --> 00:58:13,590
Yes, I know Flossie Wiley was important to our district and was honored because of her contributions,

710
00:58:13,590 --> 00:58:16,990
but so was Jean Burkholder and John Garth.

711
00:58:17,370 --> 00:58:21,390
The administration building was named in honor of Jean Burkholder and the Adult Education

712
00:58:21,390 --> 00:58:24,070
Center was named for John Garth.

713
00:58:24,370 --> 00:58:28,550
Their names may be on the building, but people do not refer to these buildings by their

714
00:58:28,550 --> 00:58:28,850
names.

715
00:58:29,130 --> 00:58:33,990
They say, we are meeting in Central office or the classes held at the Adult Ed program,

716
00:58:34,110 --> 00:58:35,410
her Adult Ed Center.

717
00:58:36,050 --> 00:58:39,710
Even though the names Burkholder and Garth were on the buildings for such.

718
00:58:39,710 --> 00:58:49,010
If the board wants to include the name of Lossie Wiley on the renovated building, I will not vote against it, but I still would refer to it as the sixth grade center.

719
00:58:49,350 --> 00:58:52,910
As I refer to central office or the adult ed building.

720
00:58:56,820 --> 00:58:57,680
Thank you.

721
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,460
Anybody else have a board of board this evening?

722
00:59:00,660 --> 00:59:03,220
Okay, this is moving on with our published agenda.

723
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:05,040
Thank you for your patience.

724
00:59:05,780 --> 00:59:09,120
First up is a single administrative personnel item.

725
00:59:09,660 --> 00:59:11,300
Angie, can you provide context for the board?

726
00:59:11,940 --> 00:59:12,200
Sure.

727
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:16,940
Mignona, do you want to come up to the microphone so we can properly introduce you.

728
00:59:17,060 --> 00:59:18,280
Thank you for your patience.

729
00:59:25,660 --> 00:59:32,320
Mignona, Mignona, Migno Cuol, Longgang Long, hired versus in her first administrative

730
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:37,740
role as a student principal at Thomas Payne, is excited, honored and extremely grateful

731
00:59:37,740 --> 00:59:43,020
for the opportunity to directly serve and positively impact the life outcomes of our most

732
00:59:43,020 --> 00:59:48,020
important stakeholders, the scholars and tiger cubs of Thomas Payne, their families, their

733
00:59:48,020 --> 00:59:53,180
teachers and staff. Minyona, I hope that I pronounced your name correctly. It's going to take

734
00:59:53,180 --> 00:59:59,980
a minute to Minyona, Minyona, Minyoko, Lungalang. Bye.

735
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:27,220
Okay, sorry, we'll nervous, I don't want to mess it out. So, and you want to bring 14 years of serving in the North American public school system, both in the role and semi-urban Midwest community, she's called home since arriving in the United States, from the northeastern state of Nagaland, which is geographically located in the Indian subcontinent. Most recently, she has served as the instructional interventionist at Dr. Howard Elementary in Champaign.

736
01:00:27,220 --> 01:00:32,920
Niona is a proud resident of Urbana, which has become home for her and her husband Mike

737
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:34,480
who's here with us.

738
01:00:34,740 --> 01:00:38,260
Niona hopes to lead with integrity, wisdom, humility, and joy.

739
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,860
She welcomes every opportunity of genuine support, kind of collaboration, and strategic

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01:00:42,860 --> 01:00:47,680
partnerships that will directly strengthen positive life outcomes for all students.

741
01:00:47,900 --> 01:00:51,820
Most especially, though, she'll serve at Thomas Pain Elementary School.

742
01:00:51,820 --> 01:01:05,640
So, Mignona was recently interviewed as a assistant principal at Thomas Penelomentry and overwhelmingly selected to serve as a assistant principal, her first administrative role, pending formal board approval.

743
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,740
Thank you, Angie. Is there a motion for the floor?

744
01:01:12,150 --> 01:01:13,890
I move to approve the hiring.

745
01:01:14,830 --> 01:01:18,470
It's been moved and sacked at any further questions, comments or discussion.

746
01:01:19,810 --> 01:01:20,650
A roll call, please.

747
01:01:32,700 --> 01:01:38,600
Member Hickson? Yes. Member Amarabu? Yes. Member Jones? Yes.

748
01:01:38,820 --> 01:01:41,560
Member Langendorf. Yes. Vice President Baxley? Yes.

749
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,800
President Klauski? Yes. Member Cheryl? Yes.

750
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,040
Congratulations. Welcome to the district.

751
01:01:51,340 --> 01:01:51,900
Please.

752
01:01:54,660 --> 01:01:55,300
There you go.

753
01:02:04,140 --> 01:02:11,040
Thank you all so much for this opportunity for me to lead at this time in this community.

754
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:17,920
Today, I bring two members of my community, my husband, Mike, and our neighbor Paula.

755
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:28,340
And I look forward to extending my Urbana community with unit, excuse me, Urbana school district 1116. Thank you all.

756
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:30,080
Thank you.

757
01:02:34,370 --> 01:02:38,150
Next on our agenda is our single study topic, Tiger Academy.

758
01:02:39,510 --> 01:02:46,070
Okay, so while Dr. Weemell is coming forward, it has been our tradition since we started Tiger Academy.

759
01:02:46,070 --> 01:02:51,610
they don't do their into the year presentation with the other schools because they are very unique

760
01:02:51,610 --> 01:03:00,050
in their programming and their methods of learning and so we always start the year with an update

761
01:03:00,050 --> 01:03:06,390
from Tiger Academy is something that we all look forward to and so I'm going to turn it over

762
01:03:06,390 --> 01:03:12,910
to Dr. Weemott and his team. Thank you. Good evening and thank you for having us tonight to present

763
01:03:12,910 --> 01:03:15,070
about Tiger Academy, one of my favorite topics.

764
01:03:15,590 --> 01:03:17,150
I'm joined with some colleagues of mine,

765
01:03:17,210 --> 01:03:20,530
so Natalie Brett, who is our curriculum coordinator

766
01:03:20,530 --> 01:03:22,370
and program coordinator and teacher,

767
01:03:22,990 --> 01:03:24,090
instructional specialists.

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01:03:24,090 --> 01:03:27,330
Kind of does a little bit of everything at Tiger Academy,

769
01:03:27,350 --> 01:03:29,510
and we're excited to have for joining us this evening

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01:03:29,510 --> 01:03:31,050
to co-present with me,

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01:03:31,210 --> 01:03:34,050
as well as one of our teachers, Ms. Lighty, the teacher.

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01:03:35,470 --> 01:03:37,190
Ms. Lighty, as you probably know,

773
01:03:37,430 --> 01:03:42,030
has been in the district for over 29 and a half years.

774
01:03:42,030 --> 01:03:48,970
Mostly at UHS, but came over to Tiger Academy when we opened and has been an amazing teacher with us here at Tiger Academy

775
01:03:48,970 --> 01:03:56,450
We have three other staff members who weren't able to four other staff members who weren't able to join us this evening, but we'll present on their behalf as well

776
01:03:56,450 --> 01:03:57,070
So

777
01:03:57,850 --> 01:03:59,950
Jumping straight in, that buzz that mean

778
01:04:01,490 --> 01:04:08,030
Okay, so we're gonna just do a quick presentation this evening of a review or an overview of the past school year

779
01:04:08,030 --> 01:04:15,090
the 24-25 school year as well as sensitive, a couple slides just previewing our plans for this year,

780
01:04:15,350 --> 01:04:21,590
which are pretty similar to the past couple years as well. Also, we will provide a real quick update

781
01:04:21,590 --> 01:04:27,190
from the SIU Carbon Nessolino, Illinois University Carbon Up Program evaluation. Last year, if you

782
01:04:27,190 --> 01:04:32,050
were called, we presented Phase 1 findings and now they have completed Phase 2 findings,

783
01:04:32,630 --> 01:04:37,310
and so we will present and provide that information to you this evening as well as time for questions

784
01:04:37,310 --> 01:04:43,610
and answer. So just starting off here is just a real quick overview of who our staff members are,

785
01:04:43,710 --> 01:04:48,250
so myself as executive director, specifically here at Tiger Academy, I function more like a

786
01:04:48,250 --> 01:04:53,970
principal than a director, but because I have role with multi-lingual programming at the

787
01:04:53,970 --> 01:04:58,550
middle school and high school, my title is director, but I'm kind of the principal here as well.

788
01:04:58,930 --> 01:05:02,130
Math teachers and Melissa Lydie, we have a social emotional learning specialist in

789
01:05:02,130 --> 01:05:07,210
Maldonado, grants and curriculum coordinator, Natalie Brett, student and family community support

790
01:05:07,210 --> 01:05:13,410
specialist J.J. L. Vier, our Restory facilitator is Domitia Nunn, and we have a special education

791
01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:17,970
teacher who has a sixth assignment who comes over her eighth period every day who is Emily

792
01:05:17,970 --> 01:05:22,850
Carter and provides special education services for students as well. This image on the right

793
01:05:22,850 --> 01:05:28,930
was our kind of our motto, this past school year, and our t-shirt design, T.A. all the way,

794
01:05:28,930 --> 01:05:34,230
just kind of a catchy phrase for us just some essential skills that we really try to emphasize at

795
01:05:34,230 --> 01:05:40,510
Tiger Academy listed there. The next one is just, you've seen this slide every year for the

796
01:05:40,510 --> 01:05:45,490
past three years, I just added two more bullets at the bottom. So just as a reminder in the spring

797
01:05:45,490 --> 01:05:52,990
of 2022, the district Board of Education planned for the opening of Tiger Academy and I'll turn

798
01:05:52,990 --> 01:05:58,890
education in the district and I was hired and then most recently the 23-24 school year was

799
01:05:59,650 --> 01:06:05,410
rolling into our third year up until this current school year will be starting our fourth year kind of

800
01:06:05,410 --> 01:06:11,490
our third and a half year so to speak so we are grants have ended which we'll talk more about that later

801
01:06:11,490 --> 01:06:17,090
and so we are now district funded completely which we're very appreciative and thankful for but we are still

802
01:06:17,090 --> 01:06:21,550
seeking grants to continue to provide services and funding for

803
01:06:21,550 --> 01:06:23,170
Tiger Academy as we move forward.

804
01:06:24,430 --> 01:06:30,090
Just a real quick reminder and overview of our students in the process for the students

805
01:06:30,090 --> 01:06:33,430
that we serve and how they are placed at Tiger Academy.

806
01:06:33,930 --> 01:06:38,830
So, Tiger Academy functions during the school day as an alternative daytime program that

807
01:06:38,830 --> 01:06:45,730
is primarily a part-time program or what we call a hybrid program where students typically

808
01:06:45,730 --> 01:06:49,570
will spend part of their school day at or been a high school or been a middle school and

809
01:06:49,570 --> 01:06:54,350
part of their school day here at Tiger Academy and will literally walk back and forth

810
01:06:54,350 --> 01:06:57,950
between the two schools to hear for their day for their schedule.

811
01:06:58,330 --> 01:07:03,450
We individualize student schedules so not all students are here at the same time.

812
01:07:04,050 --> 01:07:08,570
They're here for certain times of the day for certain classes and for certain individualize

813
01:07:08,570 --> 01:07:10,150
needs and supports.

814
01:07:10,650 --> 01:07:14,170
The referral process goes through the buildings of or been a middle school and

815
01:07:14,170 --> 01:07:20,610
in a high school, primarily through counselors and a lead administrator that's kind of tasked

816
01:07:20,610 --> 01:07:26,190
with working with me directly and with our team for that referral process.

817
01:07:26,450 --> 01:07:29,970
So the referrals typically revolve around...

818
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:59,980
We typically talk about three types of students that we serve at Tiger Academy. One type is a student that's just really struggling to be engaged in school and the traditional school setting, whether that's for social reasons, emotional reasons, academic reasons, they're just struggling to do well and a lot of times, low attendance, a lot of times, disengagement from class and failing classes and so that the referral process is an opportunity for them to have just a new start and a smaller space.

819
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:05,720
more flexible space of Tiger Academy for part of their day and then we develop individualized

820
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:10,160
plans for those students. That's kind of one group. Another group of students are students that

821
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:16,100
are already way behind academically and have been reclassified maybe their second year as a

822
01:08:16,100 --> 01:08:21,040
ninth grader or their third year as a ninth grader or their very much behind in credits and we

823
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:27,040
bring them their referred to catch back up with us with our process and our programming

824
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:35,340
We're able to provide online options for credit recovery in addition to classes that they can take simultaneously while they're here.

825
01:08:35,660 --> 01:08:42,720
That's kind of that second group and the reasons why they're behind could be a variety of reasons academically and socially emotionally.

826
01:08:43,140 --> 01:08:51,280
And then the third group that we do serve our students who have been expelled with an alternative placement, held in advance of an expulsion.

827
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:55,640
Typically, if they're not able to be placed or accepted at other alternative programs in

828
01:08:55,640 --> 01:09:02,040
our region, like the ready program or other alternative programs that serve more as safe schools

829
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:06,700
for students who have been expelled, if those schools are full or if they are not accepted

830
01:09:06,700 --> 01:09:12,520
there, then we would typically take them either for part of the day or some kind of individualized

831
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:19,260
plan between homebound, online learning and us. And so we serve those types of three groups of

832
01:09:19,260 --> 01:09:22,140
is typically who we serve through that referral process.

833
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:28,480
The referrals can have to be parent-approved and agreed upon and they can be generated.

834
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:33,040
The requests can come from families, but they have to be approved by the building administration

835
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,620
and us as we work through that process.

836
01:09:36,100 --> 01:09:40,740
Last school year we served at total of 47 students across the middle school and high school.

837
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:46,300
In the year but before we had 34 total students, so we increased, of course, as you can see.

838
01:09:46,300 --> 01:09:48,900
There's just a real quick breakdown demographically.

839
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:53,280
It's a very diverse mix of students, not just racially and so

840
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:58,000
economically, but a wide variety of different reasons and needs for

841
01:09:58,000 --> 01:09:59,760
for needing us and for being with us.

842
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:03,660
And so that's just a real quick overview there and a reminder of our staff at the bottom.

843
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:07,400
Sorry, I like to take time to really, there's always

844
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,780
questions about how students are placed at Tiger Academy.

845
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,020
So I always want to, I think I lost battery or something.

846
01:10:21,140 --> 01:10:21,600
Thanks Sean.

847
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:30,060
Okay. All right. So last year, this is just a real quick overview of what we do.

848
01:10:30,260 --> 01:10:35,500
So our alternative programming, we really tried to have a low student-to-step teacher ratio.

849
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:42,420
We really try to emphasize a calm space, fewer distractions, being able to be more

850
01:10:42,420 --> 01:10:47,300
individualized with their schedules. Some students are able to have shortened school days,

851
01:10:47,580 --> 01:10:51,800
based on their needs, based on whatever the situation might be. We really try to emphasize

852
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:59,020
flexible learning environments, literally with the furniture that we have, if you were to walk

853
01:10:59,020 --> 01:11:02,660
through classrooms or to see some of the other spaces, you would see a wide variety of types

854
01:11:02,660 --> 01:11:08,160
of seating, and that's on purpose, that's intentional to try to create something different and unique

855
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:12,920
and non-traditional for students. We already know that the traditional setting has not been working

856
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:18,440
well for them, so we really try to change it up and be much more flexible and different with

857
01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:23,160
students that we serve. We really try to provide an emotionally supportive environment for students

858
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:31,880
to be successful as well. Last year, a real quick overview of academic supports in classes that we

859
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:38,260
provide. So we do a lot with credit recovery with an online program called Apex Learning and we

860
01:11:38,260 --> 01:11:42,880
coupled that with hybrid learning models with Google classroom at the middle school and high school.

861
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:49,440
So, for example, for some students, it works better to take biology via Google classroom

862
01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:54,740
and not be physically present at the high school for biology, but they're still with the

863
01:11:54,740 --> 01:11:59,320
exact same curriculum that their peers are using in biology at UHS, and we work with the

864
01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:01,780
teacher via Google classroom to provide that class.

865
01:12:02,180 --> 01:12:07,200
We don't have any licensed science teachers on staff at Tiger Academy, so sciences typically

866
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:12,620
either have to be at the other school site or online with apex or with the hybrid model

867
01:12:12,620 --> 01:12:18,760
Google classroom. The rest of these classes that are belated are classes that we provide with live instructors

868
01:12:19,900 --> 01:12:26,440
and up to about 10 students in each class with each teacher. We typically have every class as two adults.

869
01:12:27,100 --> 01:12:32,200
So one teacher and one co-teacher or one teacher and one assistant with most of our classes.

870
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:37,020
So all of the math is all of the math classes.

871
01:12:37,020 --> 01:12:42,760
algebra 1, algebra 2, geometry in high school level, and we've offered middle school math as well.

872
01:12:43,100 --> 01:12:46,720
Social studies were able, we've been offering civics in middle school social studies.

873
01:12:47,440 --> 01:12:51,240
We'll describe what we're going to offer next year, we're adding more social studies classes.

874
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:58,700
As well as English classes with English 9, that's our most popular, or most populated class,

875
01:12:58,740 --> 01:13:05,040
because that's often a class that students have failed and are having to retake it, so we've offered that in person here with students.

876
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:09,260
as well as art as an elective physical education if you've walked through this

877
01:13:09,260 --> 01:13:12,620
background you've seen our new weight room that we've built over the last

878
01:13:12,620 --> 01:13:15,960
couple of years so we do a lot of fitness-based physical education with

879
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:21,000
students as well as some other elective classes with 21st century skills and we

880
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:25,300
are an avid site also we offer the avid elective just like the middle school and

881
01:13:25,300 --> 01:13:29,460
high school do as well so that's a real quick overview of what we provided

882
01:13:29,460 --> 01:13:34,260
last year with classes, I haven't taken those lines.

883
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:34,760
No.

884
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:35,800
It's coming up.

885
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:36,200
Okay.

886
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:37,080
You're next.

887
01:13:37,460 --> 01:13:42,480
So this is just a real quick picture of Ms. None who offers in collaboration with Ms.

888
01:13:42,480 --> 01:13:43,780
Breds, our English classes.

889
01:13:44,300 --> 01:13:48,320
And so this was a day that they went to their benefit library to get a library card

890
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:52,440
and to really emphasize checking out novels and reading and those sorts of things.

891
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:54,480
So this is just a quick picture.

892
01:13:54,480 --> 01:13:57,380
That's not all the students that were in an English nine that was just all the students

893
01:13:57,380 --> 01:13:59,660
that wanted to take a picture of that day.

894
01:13:59,940 --> 01:14:01,660
And now pass it over to Ms. Brets.

895
01:14:02,380 --> 01:14:03,320
And one more slide.

896
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,440
So real quick, we do a lot of social emotional learning

897
01:14:07,440 --> 01:14:12,020
and emphasis on that emotional regulation for students.

898
01:14:12,620 --> 01:14:15,820
A lot of some of the students, or maybe more than half

899
01:14:15,820 --> 01:14:18,980
of the students, have had negative behaviors

900
01:14:18,980 --> 01:14:21,780
in their previous school years at the middle school

901
01:14:21,780 --> 01:14:22,420
high school.

902
01:14:22,580 --> 01:14:25,540
So we really try to emphasize a lot of emotional regulation,

903
01:14:25,540 --> 01:14:26,720
and conflict resolution.

904
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:31,220
We do that daily with advisory classes, with SEO lessons,

905
01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:33,860
goal setting, a lot of community building,

906
01:14:34,260 --> 01:14:36,240
a lot of relationship building with students

907
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:38,220
in a variety of different ways.

908
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:40,440
We really emphasize restorative practices.

909
01:14:40,820 --> 01:14:42,800
We really try to teach and work with students

910
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:44,760
on how to resolve conflict with our words

911
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,420
at the appropriate age level of middle school.

912
01:14:48,260 --> 01:14:49,340
It's challenging.

913
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:51,920
A lot of the students that are here are here

914
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:54,360
because of physical fights that they've been in.

915
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:59,920
and so really trying to rewire the response to disagreements and conflict.

916
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:06,780
It's a challenge, it's hard work, but it's important work and it's hard work for us and something that we really emphasize.

917
01:15:07,100 --> 01:15:17,360
We also do a lot of work with long-term goal setting, so not just the day-to-day, but especially high schoolers preparing for post-secondary, which we'll get into in a few slides.

918
01:15:18,260 --> 01:15:27,380
So a couple of these pictures you can see some students that are leading social-emotional learning activities, as well as doing other work to help with in those areas.

919
01:15:27,380 --> 01:15:33,680
One of the points of pride for us and the three and a half years that we've been open and the students that we've served here

920
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:40,360
We've only had one real physical altercation that's happened in the building and a lot of the students that we've had

921
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:50,440
That we've served have had our place here because of multiple fights, and so I say that because we're very intentional with trying to create a different type of space and

922
01:15:50,440 --> 01:15:55,280
Retaching some of those skills to be more restorative and less conflict based

923
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:56,920
Okay.

924
01:15:58,320 --> 01:15:58,820
Student outcomes.

925
01:15:59,500 --> 01:16:04,640
So one of my responsibilities, the Tiger Academy, is to collect data.

926
01:16:05,060 --> 01:16:07,440
And mostly that's used for our grant purposes.

927
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:12,880
All of our grants are asking for different goals and different data to come to them.

928
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:16,820
And so one of my jobs is to compile all of our data at the end of the semester.

929
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:24,360
So that we can see both internally and what we have to send externally what our progress looks like for students.

930
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:28,600
So I get to talk about the student right here

931
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:29,860
pying me in the face.

932
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:31,560
You can't tell, but that's me.

933
01:16:31,620 --> 01:16:34,920
I'm the left side, and Mr. JJ are getting pied in the face.

934
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:38,180
So all that to say, because we are attendance,

935
01:16:38,700 --> 01:16:40,580
if you can see from the top of the slide,

936
01:16:40,700 --> 01:16:44,020
we had a 56% average attendance rate for the whole year.

937
01:16:44,380 --> 01:16:45,660
So our students are coming to school

938
01:16:45,660 --> 01:16:46,760
about half of the time.

939
01:16:47,440 --> 01:16:49,080
We would like that to be higher.

940
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:57,900
Of course, we had a 58% of students improve from fall to spring, which is good, but we still would like that to be higher.

941
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:07,540
So one of the things we did back in February was we created an attendance incentive plan where we had reached out to community organizations,

942
01:17:08,580 --> 01:17:15,560
stores, restaurants, to receive donations, and we started a weekly and monthly attendance incentive program.

943
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:24,940
And we, one of the closing rewards with students get to buy a staff member of choice in a phase,

944
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:29,860
so you can see me in Mr. J.J. right here in this picture. But during that time,

945
01:17:29,860 --> 01:17:31,100
They didn't choose misleadier.

946
01:17:31,140 --> 01:17:31,600
No.

947
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:33,440
I don't know why.

948
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:37,120
They want to pie their favorite teacher.

949
01:17:37,500 --> 01:17:37,560
They don't.

950
01:17:39,620 --> 01:17:46,560
So during that incentive program, we had 11 students come 80% and more of the time.

951
01:17:46,740 --> 01:17:54,240
25, coming more than 50% of the time, and those were upper numbers, like 60, 70%.

952
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:56,960
And so stuff like that works for our students.

953
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:01,300
being able to have fun and engaging them with prizes and rewards.

954
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:07,480
We don't have a large number of students, so it's easy for us to get some of those smaller donations

955
01:18:08,440 --> 01:18:11,740
to give to our students and something like that helps.

956
01:18:11,900 --> 01:18:17,920
We do want to continue working on our attendance, so we need our students here to help support them.

957
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:20,660
So we want them here, we want them here more the time.

958
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:24,520
Students who were not consistently attending during this past year,

959
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:31,880
It was for a variety of reasons, and we continued to reach out to the students and monitor them with home visits and phone calls and

960
01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:34,740
different other supports and check-ins.

961
01:18:38,380 --> 01:18:41,040
For academics, we have a little bit better data to show.

962
01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:48,280
It's the in-back in August of last year. We had 13 of our high school students start the year in August,

963
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:57,060
reclassified in a below grade level. So if they were supposed to be a sophomore, they were reclassified as a freshman because they didn't have enough credits to be

964
01:18:57,060 --> 01:19:03,580
more and throughout the other grade levels too. So of those students who ended the year still

965
01:19:03,580 --> 01:19:07,700
in her band of school district still tiger academy students with six of them who were fully

966
01:19:07,700 --> 01:19:13,640
caught up in on track to be at the right grade level and five actually graduated high school which

967
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:19,600
is a huge celebration for us. One finished early in December and the other four finished in May

968
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:27,040
and one of those four that finished in May finished an entire year early because she was able to

969
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:34,340
credit options that Dr. Remeld just discussed. So we're really excited to have those

970
01:19:34,340 --> 01:19:40,260
graduation numbers. 61% of all of our high school students, not just the ones that

971
01:19:40,260 --> 01:19:45,500
started behind, but all of those students are on track for this coming year at the right

972
01:19:45,500 --> 01:19:53,510
grade level. 71% of them improved their overall GPA from fall to spring. And then of our

973
01:19:53,510 --> 01:19:59,170
school students 70% ended the year on track ready for their next grade level and we did have five

974
01:19:59,170 --> 01:20:02,030
students complete eighth grade and are ready to go to the high school.

975
01:20:04,890 --> 01:20:05,950
And so here are some pictures

976
01:20:06,890 --> 01:20:12,470
of some of our high school and middle school graduates. We do a little celebration here at

977
01:20:12,470 --> 01:20:19,810
Tiger Academy for our students as well as allowing them to participate in the UMS and UHS ceremonies.

978
01:20:19,810 --> 01:20:27,990
and several of them are now enrolled at Parkland that graduated from here as well, which I think is coming up with.

979
01:20:28,030 --> 01:20:33,670
Yeah, we did a lot this year with College and Career Readiness and Community Partnerships.

980
01:20:34,110 --> 01:20:39,190
One of the initiatives that we began last year was the Avid initiative.

981
01:20:39,710 --> 01:20:45,190
So we are an Avid site, so we try to incorporate College and Career Readiness skills throughout our building,

982
01:20:45,310 --> 01:20:49,170
and we also had five students in the actual Avid elective class.

983
01:20:50,150 --> 01:21:13,930
And so throughout the day and the school year, we had, we involved community partners with the goal of community partners and colleges and businesses with the goal of showing our students opportunities for a future beyond what they might have imagined themselves previously.

984
01:21:13,930 --> 01:21:20,190
So in November and March, we had the University of Illinois Graduate Society of Women Engineers

985
01:21:20,190 --> 01:21:27,850
come and join us and they facilitated STEM experiments with our students, our female students,

986
01:21:28,450 --> 01:21:35,390
our students were hooking up potatoes to electricity and creating finding DNA from strawberries.

987
01:21:35,770 --> 01:21:39,230
It was hands-on and really exciting.

988
01:21:39,230 --> 01:21:43,850
In November, we took a group of students to the JAC Vocal,

989
01:21:43,950 --> 01:21:44,630
I'm not going to get this right.

990
01:21:44,910 --> 01:21:48,550
149 plumbers, pipe fitters, and service technicians open house.

991
01:21:49,030 --> 01:21:51,310
So they were learning about different career opportunities.

992
01:21:51,590 --> 01:22:04,610
In the trades, we had a representative from Carl Com and speak to our students in January to discuss different career paths in the healthcare field and how to get there too.

993
01:22:04,610 --> 01:22:09,870
So if you wanted to do this career, what type of education do you need to get to that?

994
01:22:10,930 --> 01:22:14,330
And then we also began taking groups of students to Dr. Williams

995
01:22:14,330 --> 01:22:20,510
and Urban Early Childhood School to volunteer, so they were going once a week.

996
01:22:20,510 --> 01:22:24,070
Sometimes twice a week, we would take the activity bus,

997
01:22:25,190 --> 01:22:29,970
and they would help with recess games, they would read the students, they would play games.

998
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:40,100
So that was really rewarding for our high school students to be able to engage in that type of volunteer service work.

999
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:49,620
We also did two college visits this past spring. We took a group of students to East or Millen, and then we also took a group to Parkland.

1000
01:22:49,620 --> 01:22:57,780
And when we got back from Parkland, we had four students get right on the computers, ready to fill out applications to go to Parkland.

1001
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:02,020
So we were really excited about supporting our students through that process.

1002
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:11,660
And those that have graduated, we are still in contact with to try to support them with that next step of now that they are enrolled.

1003
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,500
How are we going to continue to support them while they're there?

1004
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:22,180
We also had street college who helped volunteer with us last year and meet with our students

1005
01:23:22,180 --> 01:23:22,620
last year.

1006
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:28,900
They continued this year, engaging students in music and other engineering activities.

1007
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:30,620
So they came a few times.

1008
01:23:30,980 --> 01:23:34,900
They have a separate program that meets that are being a free library and so a lot of our students

1009
01:23:34,900 --> 01:23:39,240
started going to that on their own after school, which is really cool.

1010
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:47,520
So we really just wanted to bring all these opportunities for our students to show them what different opportunities look like and

1011
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:54,560
for them to see themselves in those roles. And that's something we really just kind of took off with last year

1012
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:56,640
and we want to continue doing more of that this year.

1013
01:23:59,390 --> 01:24:00,310
And so here's some pictures.

1014
01:24:01,190 --> 01:24:03,130
This is the group that went to Eastern.

1015
01:24:03,130 --> 01:24:08,990
And then this is the group at Parkland and

1016
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,640
this is the street college,

1017
01:24:14,860 --> 01:24:18,660
have some kids creating beats, doing some DJing.

1018
01:24:21,130 --> 01:24:25,170
And so then the last student outcome I just wanted to reflect on was our improved

1019
01:24:25,170 --> 01:24:29,770
relationships between our students and the school and families.

1020
01:24:30,450 --> 01:24:36,110
So enrolled students of just really generally have expressed feeling positive about

1021
01:24:36,110 --> 01:24:39,790
school. They feel that their peer relationships and their

1022
01:24:39,790 --> 01:24:43,070
staff relationships are more positive than they've been in the past. They feel

1023
01:24:43,070 --> 01:24:50,110
more connected. They feel more respected. And that's really just shows that when

1024
01:24:50,110 --> 01:24:54,010
you have a small environment, you really get to know students in a different

1025
01:24:54,010 --> 01:24:59,270
sort of way. And we like to joke around, but it's true. We're kind of a family here.

1026
01:24:59,610 --> 01:25:03,670
So we have the good days and the bad days of being a family, but in the end we all

1027
01:25:03,670 --> 01:25:07,910
come back together as a family and work through what we need to work through.

1028
01:25:08,910 --> 01:25:16,610
So we've really been able to kind of show students a different way to trust education again

1029
01:25:16,610 --> 01:25:20,630
and trust school again, maybe that they had lost that trust in in the past.

1030
01:25:21,490 --> 01:25:28,710
We also this past spring collaborated with the CEO of Schools Foundation with a grant and

1031
01:25:28,710 --> 01:25:33,130
another community partner and we had the documentary film that was created that I think

1032
01:25:33,130 --> 01:25:40,150
you were able to come to the screening of, which really does capture that relationship feeling

1033
01:25:40,150 --> 01:25:47,750
that our students feel and how they feel about Tiger Academy. So this is a picture of one of

1034
01:25:47,750 --> 01:25:54,070
our advisory lessons where students were really just working together to solve a riddle or thinking

1035
01:25:54,070 --> 01:25:59,290
strategy, not really riddled, but they're working together and kids that would have never really

1036
01:25:59,290 --> 01:26:03,190
work together before and they're solving problems together.

1037
01:26:07,070 --> 01:26:11,590
One more picture we did take an end of the year field trip to Crystal Lake Park, where we

1038
01:26:11,590 --> 01:26:14,370
taught the kids how to fish, which was really fun.

1039
01:26:16,310 --> 01:26:21,290
Most kids don't know how to fish, or have never been fishing, which is shocking to me, but

1040
01:26:21,290 --> 01:26:22,310
they loved it.

1041
01:26:22,710 --> 01:26:27,010
And the girl in the middle was the most proud of her fish, even though it was about not even

1042
01:26:27,010 --> 01:26:28,750
a pound, I don't think so.

1043
01:26:29,730 --> 01:26:35,290
Back to me, so, this past school year, we were able to continue some of the after school programming

1044
01:26:35,290 --> 01:26:39,850
if you recall, when we first opened, we had the Freedom School grant and Freedom School

1045
01:26:39,850 --> 01:26:45,390
programming happening that ended last year, but we were able to maintain mentorship groups

1046
01:26:45,390 --> 01:26:50,190
after school. The self-made Kings program has still been an operation for several years.

1047
01:26:50,430 --> 01:26:56,050
We started an equivalent girls group called Besties, which was the Girls Mentorship and then

1048
01:26:56,050 --> 01:27:01,030
manifest group, which was a continuation from last year, but shifted to the House here at

1049
01:27:01,030 --> 01:27:05,990
Tiger Academy, where high schoolers were mentoring middle schoolers here with our staff,

1050
01:27:06,230 --> 01:27:10,570
and was a great program that involved many students at multiple levels.

1051
01:27:10,890 --> 01:27:15,950
And so we're going to continue hopefully with these afterschool types of mentorship programming

1052
01:27:15,950 --> 01:27:19,590
for students as we continue into the future years.

1053
01:27:20,030 --> 01:27:23,190
Here's just a quick overview of our plans for this school year.

1054
01:27:23,190 --> 01:27:26,370
As I mentioned earlier, our grants have all ended.

1055
01:27:26,790 --> 01:27:29,230
Other than, we do have one new after school grant,

1056
01:27:29,350 --> 01:27:30,590
which I'll talk about in just a moment.

1057
01:27:31,250 --> 01:27:33,830
But the day time, what has funded our day time programming

1058
01:27:33,830 --> 01:27:37,110
has dried up, and those grants are not able to be renewed

1059
01:27:37,110 --> 01:27:38,150
at least at this time.

1060
01:27:38,650 --> 01:27:41,150
So the district and board, we really appreciate

1061
01:27:41,150 --> 01:27:43,950
your support of maintaining what we've been able to do

1062
01:27:43,950 --> 01:27:46,010
with a slight shift, which is bullet two,

1063
01:27:46,310 --> 01:27:47,550
where, for the start of the school year,

1064
01:27:47,610 --> 01:27:49,970
we're gonna focus just only on high schoolers.

1065
01:27:51,110 --> 01:27:52,930
All but two of our middle schoolers

1066
01:27:52,930 --> 01:27:54,550
we're eighth graders last year anyway.

1067
01:27:54,790 --> 01:27:56,610
So those students are rolling up into high school

1068
01:27:56,610 --> 01:27:58,170
and would continue with us.

1069
01:27:58,810 --> 01:28:00,570
The two students that weren't eighth graders,

1070
01:28:00,630 --> 01:28:02,390
we're going to continue to wrap around them

1071
01:28:02,390 --> 01:28:04,210
at the building at the middle school,

1072
01:28:04,250 --> 01:28:05,970
this school year to start the school year.

1073
01:28:06,350 --> 01:28:08,730
And we want to spend some time thinking about new ways

1074
01:28:08,730 --> 01:28:10,790
we can provide alternative programming

1075
01:28:10,790 --> 01:28:13,170
within the building at UMS.

1076
01:28:13,270 --> 01:28:15,710
Now that sixth graders won't be there,

1077
01:28:15,970 --> 01:28:17,550
we have a little bit more flexibility

1078
01:28:17,550 --> 01:28:19,970
within the building to create some new types

1079
01:28:19,970 --> 01:28:22,210
of alternative programming inside the building.

1080
01:28:22,210 --> 01:28:26,950
One of our greatest challenges, these past couple years, was the integration of middle

1081
01:28:26,950 --> 01:28:29,690
schoolers and high schoolers here during the same time.

1082
01:28:30,010 --> 01:28:34,630
As you know, a 16-year-old and a 12-year-old are very different, and their needs are very

1083
01:28:34,630 --> 01:28:36,630
different, behaviorally, socially, academically.

1084
01:28:37,350 --> 01:28:42,290
And we struggled with that at times, just the maturity levels, and those sorts of things.

1085
01:28:42,550 --> 01:28:43,790
So that's one important reason.

1086
01:28:43,830 --> 01:28:49,590
The other one is with the reducing of funding, really trying to focus on with the staff that

1087
01:28:49,590 --> 01:28:54,650
do have increasing the number of high schoolers while we can to get more back on track and

1088
01:28:54,650 --> 01:28:55,490
caught up.

1089
01:28:55,850 --> 01:29:04,170
But with plans to start meeting this fall with UMS staff to start developing a plan and a

1090
01:29:04,170 --> 01:29:06,970
program within the building or at the end of middle school.

1091
01:29:07,450 --> 01:29:11,770
That's not to say maybe in the future we may never have middle schoolers back, but at least

1092
01:29:11,770 --> 01:29:15,870
to start this school year and as we move forward we really believe that separating high

1093
01:29:15,870 --> 01:29:20,870
and middle schoolers is a priority and so thinking about a new way to do that at the middle school level.

1094
01:29:21,290 --> 01:29:26,730
While also with the new structures that are coming in at the sixth grade in the seven-eight level,

1095
01:29:27,530 --> 01:29:32,330
kind of starting over with new systems and new routines and new programming and supports,

1096
01:29:33,030 --> 01:29:36,710
our hope is that fewer students will need alternative programming at the middle school level.

1097
01:29:37,450 --> 01:29:42,590
And so it's kind of rebranding and restarting all of that at the middle school level will be the work this year

1098
01:29:42,590 --> 01:29:46,790
while we increase the number of high schoolers that are coming, the school you're here.

1099
01:29:47,070 --> 01:29:48,110
Can I add one thing to this?

1100
01:29:48,510 --> 01:29:59,970
I think another thing that we've talked about at the administrative level, and also with our new leaders at UMS, we have a full new administrative team there, so we also want to give them an opportunity.

1101
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:07,100
We need to really build the programming in some of the new initiatives that they want to house now

1102
01:30:07,100 --> 01:30:12,740
for the 7th and 8th graders. But one thing that we've talked a lot with Beth land, our executive

1103
01:30:12,740 --> 01:30:19,520
director for special services, is just the generalization of the skills from our middle school

1104
01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:26,560
student. When they're here, one thing that we've seen is when you're individualizing, you're meeting

1105
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:34,540
students needs at such an individual high-intense level, it's been really difficult to generalize

1106
01:30:34,540 --> 01:30:41,820
those skills back to when you're in a space with, well, with 900 kids as it has been, but now

1107
01:30:41,820 --> 01:30:46,640
even going back with just the seventh and eighth graders. And that part has been, I think, really tricky,

1108
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:53,820
is we fear that by having students here, are we ever going to be able to get them back in a space

1109
01:30:53,820 --> 01:30:57,240
where they can function as a typical middle schooler.

1110
01:30:57,420 --> 01:31:01,160
And so we feel like having a space at UMS

1111
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:04,180
where they are on site.

1112
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:07,200
They are seeing those students every day.

1113
01:31:07,460 --> 01:31:09,720
They may not be interacting with them in the same way.

1114
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:11,280
But they're in the building.

1115
01:31:11,780 --> 01:31:12,680
They're part of that space.

1116
01:31:12,780 --> 01:31:15,260
They feel like I'm still part of the school.

1117
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:18,420
Being able to generalize those skills back and forth

1118
01:31:18,420 --> 01:31:22,700
from crossing over here when it is so small

1119
01:31:22,700 --> 01:31:27,260
And it is so individualizing that the teacher to student ratio is so unique.

1120
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:30,060
It's been hard to generalize that back to that setting.

1121
01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:31,320
Thank you for that.

1122
01:31:31,540 --> 01:31:31,760
That's definitely.

1123
01:31:31,940 --> 01:31:33,780
We should have even made that a bullet point.

1124
01:31:35,020 --> 01:31:40,420
One of the two things we saw with middle schoolers was once they were here, they generally

1125
01:31:40,420 --> 01:31:43,940
did much better when they were here because of all the different things.

1126
01:31:45,140 --> 01:31:49,200
They would either, they and their families eventually would say, we no longer want them

1127
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:53,420
us when we just keep them here at Tiger Academy, which wasn't the original intent of

1128
01:31:53,420 --> 01:31:54,040
Tiger Academy.

1129
01:31:54,540 --> 01:31:58,280
So generalizing those behaviors as Dr. Britannia said, back to be able to transfer

1130
01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:03,560
them back into the traditional setting, wasn't going, wasn't working well. And or when

1131
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:08,520
they would go back, it was just a real struggle for them and the staff that was working with

1132
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:09,300
them.

1133
01:32:09,300 --> 01:32:13,060
And so we were always kind of struggle with that transition back and forth for middle schoolers,

1134
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:18,480
not as much of the high school level. We were able to, this was the right amount of

1135
01:32:18,480 --> 01:32:22,920
of supports to be able to go back into the high school building and be more successful generally,

1136
01:32:23,100 --> 01:32:27,880
not every single student, but much more successful at that level, so thank you for that reminder.

1137
01:32:29,060 --> 01:32:35,040
We do have 29 now since we made this PowerPoint high school students schedule to start the

1138
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:40,060
school year here, which is more than we've had at once at the start of the year, which is a great

1139
01:32:40,060 --> 01:32:46,720
that's a good thing, and we're hoping to continue to add students strategically as we move

1140
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:48,580
to at the school year at the high school level.

1141
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:50,440
Abbott implementation will be continuing,

1142
01:32:51,100 --> 01:32:54,620
a really strong focus on attendance and academic gains

1143
01:32:54,620 --> 01:32:56,620
and performance will continue to be a focus.

1144
01:32:57,040 --> 01:32:58,840
And we're really excited about the district initiatives

1145
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,600
around the portion of the graduate, the strategic plan,

1146
01:33:02,220 --> 01:33:05,460
the monthly mind sets with the seven mind sets,

1147
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:07,540
capitalizing and utilizing those resources

1148
01:33:07,540 --> 01:33:09,520
with the SEL focus that we have here,

1149
01:33:09,700 --> 01:33:12,180
we're really excited for that as well.

1150
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:16,540
And then just real quick overview of the classes

1151
01:33:16,540 --> 01:33:22,300
We're providing this year very similar with the addition of new high school classes of U.S.

1152
01:33:22,300 --> 01:33:31,100
history, another English class, English 10, another elective class and a continued special education support.

1153
01:33:31,780 --> 01:33:36,620
So we're able to provide more for high schoolers by just focusing on high school than we have in the past,

1154
01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:39,640
which will be a very positive initiative.

1155
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:44,660
And then this is just a real quick blur of evaluation phase two.

1156
01:33:44,660 --> 01:33:46,880
It promises just two slides, and then we're done.

1157
01:33:47,740 --> 01:33:50,200
So the program evaluation from SIU Carmendale,

1158
01:33:51,060 --> 01:33:54,360
I have an appendix that you can read more on your own,

1159
01:33:54,420 --> 01:33:58,380
but the researchers focused on these research questions

1160
01:33:58,380 --> 01:34:01,200
in year two, as it relates to academic outcomes,

1161
01:34:02,040 --> 01:34:04,520
and you can see that what their findings are.

1162
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:06,040
These are just pulled from an article

1163
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,020
that they're publishing right now, or a chapter

1164
01:34:08,020 --> 01:34:10,240
they're publishing, but seeing increases

1165
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:12,320
and academic performance over 80% of students

1166
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:18,140
had an increase in their math and reading scores, according to Matt, and so on and so forth

1167
01:34:18,140 --> 01:34:20,740
with GPA improvements that Natalie's already mentioned.

1168
01:34:20,940 --> 01:34:25,140
Motivation attendance, they interviewed students and parents and surveyed students and parents

1169
01:34:25,140 --> 01:34:33,160
about their own motivation and their kind of social emotional well-being at Tiger Academy and

1170
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:37,840
they see that they're more confident and more motivated now that their at Tiger Academy attendance

1171
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:41,620
is still an issue as we've talked about, but wanting to continue to focus on that.

1172
01:34:41,620 --> 01:34:45,100
a couple more questions. What are the degree and response of disciplinary incidents?

1173
01:34:45,700 --> 01:34:49,780
So they've seen a significant decrease in behavior infractions from students once they

1174
01:34:49,780 --> 01:34:55,180
started sending cyber Academy, which is our goal of ours compared to their previous

1175
01:34:55,860 --> 01:35:02,500
academic or behavioral experience. Disciplinary incidents are less serious and less common here

1176
01:35:02,500 --> 01:35:07,880
than at the high school and middle school and they're overall behavior improved at the middle

1177
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:10,100
when high school as well, generally speaking.

1178
01:35:11,420 --> 01:35:14,260
Restored of practices are favored rather than

1179
01:35:14,260 --> 01:35:16,640
more serious out of school or in school suspensions.

1180
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:19,820
We only suspended two students all year last year.

1181
01:35:20,540 --> 01:35:22,600
And these are students that have had multiple

1182
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,840
multiple suspensions or expulsions in the past.

1183
01:35:25,440 --> 01:35:26,500
And then the last research question,

1184
01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:28,140
what's happened to students, social emotional achievements,

1185
01:35:28,140 --> 01:35:31,140
are students experiencing the patience, maturity,

1186
01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:34,920
feeling less angry, more excited to be in school,

1187
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:36,500
et cetera, higher self-esteem.

1188
01:35:36,500 --> 01:35:44,180
So we appreciated the program evaluation was required by one of our grants, but it's helped us

1189
01:35:44,180 --> 01:35:48,540
drive some of the work that we've done, and it's also been nice to get outside perspective

1190
01:35:48,540 --> 01:35:53,460
on the evaluation of what we're doing well, what we need to improve upon. So if you were to look

1191
01:35:53,460 --> 01:35:59,440
into, that's just a real quick overview, undoubtedly supporting the growth of students who have

1192
01:35:59,440 --> 01:36:04,420
struggled in traditional classrooms, we were excited to see that statement. Not just academics,

1193
01:36:04,420 --> 01:36:07,420
but life skills, which was a great press to see.

1194
01:36:08,380 --> 01:36:11,420
The remaining slides are just a pinnicks of phase one,

1195
01:36:11,740 --> 01:36:14,080
and they're sending us more phase two results soon

1196
01:36:14,080 --> 01:36:15,680
that I can share with the board as well.

1197
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:18,000
But we'll take this time to answer any questions

1198
01:36:18,740 --> 01:36:20,040
that the board may have.

1199
01:36:20,340 --> 01:36:21,360
The board members, any questions?

1200
01:36:24,400 --> 01:36:27,040
Did you serve six graders in the past year?

1201
01:36:27,440 --> 01:36:29,900
This past school year was there a sixth grader?

1202
01:36:30,860 --> 01:36:33,240
The previous years we've had six graders before.

1203
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:36,080
This past year we did not have any sixth graders that were referred

1204
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:40,900
There were a couple that were referred and placed it ready, but not here.

1205
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:41,360
Okay.

1206
01:36:42,460 --> 01:36:49,360
So, if I'm just curious, you have the same amount of staff, you had in previous years,

1207
01:36:50,020 --> 01:36:57,640
and you're going to really, are you going to have some permanently stationed here and some

1208
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:00,340
permanently stationed at the middle school?

1209
01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:02,200
Staff, you mean staff.

1210
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:08,240
So everyone will be based out of here, all of the staff, but we are scheduling times where

1211
01:37:08,240 --> 01:37:13,240
they're going to the middle school to do work with students, either mentorship groups,

1212
01:37:13,940 --> 01:37:18,760
coaching into classrooms, primarily in the middle of the day, and into the afternoon.

1213
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:22,620
But it'll be scheduled with students based on their needs, based on where they're struggling.

1214
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:26,520
It's not officially scheduled in their day yet because they'll be based on students.

1215
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:29,500
But they'll be in regular classes the rest of the time.

1216
01:37:29,500 --> 01:37:29,780
Yes.

1217
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:37,380
Are you figuring you're not going to serve six graders? Because they can't walk across straight.

1218
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:39,200
Yep, not this school year.

1219
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:39,560
Okay.

1220
01:37:43,180 --> 01:37:49,620
What is the capacity for the students at Tiger Academy that you can have?

1221
01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:50,840
I told a number of students.

1222
01:37:51,480 --> 01:37:56,000
We've, the past last school year, we set it like the cap at 40.

1223
01:37:56,120 --> 01:38:00,640
We got up to 37 or 38, which felt about right.

1224
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:06,580
By now just having high schoolers, we think we could get 40, 45, but it really is going to

1225
01:38:06,580 --> 01:38:08,700
depend on the classes they need.

1226
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:15,840
And maintaining that balance of, we don't want classes to become 20 students in a class

1227
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:19,680
like it would be at the high school because we already know that they struggle with larger

1228
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:20,700
class sizes, right?

1229
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:26,300
So we're trying to maintain the balance of 10 or less in each section in each class that

1230
01:38:26,300 --> 01:38:30,060
they're in, but increasing the total number of students that are here at different times.

1231
01:38:30,060 --> 01:38:34,780
So a general ballpark 45 is kind of what we're looking at.

1232
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:38,100
And those 45 students wouldn't be here at the same time.

1233
01:38:38,500 --> 01:38:40,540
So some of our students are here in the morning,

1234
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:42,240
and then they're at the high school and after noon,

1235
01:38:42,460 --> 01:38:45,280
and vice versa, or they're going back and forth at different times.

1236
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:49,300
So we rarely, there's maybe like some time in the middle of the day,

1237
01:38:49,420 --> 01:38:52,580
we have a big number, but it adds in flows

1238
01:38:52,580 --> 01:38:54,920
throughout the day based on the students' individual schedules.

1239
01:38:58,020 --> 01:39:05,600
In dollars, how much money have you lost with the loss of your grants for the upcoming years?

1240
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:07,560
Year for annual.

1241
01:39:07,700 --> 01:39:15,220
I have a number at the top of my head, but maybe at least at least 500.

1242
01:39:15,540 --> 01:39:21,240
Yeah, I was thinking, right around 600,000 is what we've had in grants.

1243
01:39:22,120 --> 01:39:23,160
The last few years now.

1244
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:30,460
In the event, unfortunately, we do have some middle schoolers, sometimes who we do have to

1245
01:39:30,460 --> 01:39:31,060
expel.

1246
01:39:31,880 --> 01:39:39,300
So Tiger Cady, we will no longer be an option for it, but ready is still an option for them

1247
01:39:39,300 --> 01:39:42,640
and other alternative placements that they may qualify for.

1248
01:39:43,100 --> 01:39:48,280
And we're ready to get flexible and creative with them too, but just not during the school

1249
01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:49,500
day when high schoolers are here.

1250
01:39:49,500 --> 01:39:57,020
Right. Okay. Also, if you can convey to us some of your needs that you have some of us up

1251
01:39:57,020 --> 01:40:01,240
along to other organizations that would, you know, like to help supplement if your needs

1252
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:06,660
if they're, we are able to do that. So if you can make that known. Sure. And thank you for

1253
01:40:06,660 --> 01:40:12,880
your work. It's very needed in our district. And for the students that are successful, we are

1254
01:40:12,880 --> 01:40:16,980
glad that you have played a role in their success. Thank you.

1255
01:40:19,030 --> 01:40:20,830
We all kind of joke with this,

1256
01:40:20,830 --> 01:40:25,310
But we all say this is the best jobs we've ever had, but I think it's true, we really love

1257
01:40:25,310 --> 01:40:25,870
it.

1258
01:40:25,870 --> 01:40:26,850
This work.

1259
01:40:27,630 --> 01:40:33,510
And so we appreciate the support, financially, and emotionally, and I'll all live.

1260
01:40:37,320 --> 01:40:39,540
All right, thank you for a really great presentation.

1261
01:40:39,780 --> 01:40:41,060
I always look forward to seeing you guys.

1262
01:40:41,320 --> 01:40:41,860
Thank you.

1263
01:40:42,060 --> 01:40:42,420
Appreciate it.

1264
01:40:47,210 --> 01:40:49,250
We have two administrative reports this evening.

1265
01:40:49,310 --> 01:40:54,250
The first one is, and Emma Wave from the Champaign Urbana Public Health District.

1266
01:40:55,390 --> 01:41:05,890
So this is annual we renew it every year. Nothing changed. It basically is our agreement that they come in and they do the dental clinics.

1267
01:41:06,690 --> 01:41:13,110
They do the dental screenings. We provide them a space. They provide the dentists.

1268
01:41:13,110 --> 01:41:21,450
In the results, we provide the students, of course, we send out the permission slips, we really

1269
01:41:21,450 --> 01:41:28,710
highly encourage very specific grade levels where dental is like second graders, so they don't

1270
01:41:28,710 --> 01:41:34,630
get any student information, unless the parents fill out the slips saying they want them

1271
01:41:34,630 --> 01:41:36,470
to be seen by the dentist when they come here.

1272
01:41:36,470 --> 01:41:43,670
So it is basically just kind of our annual agreement that we, we, we enter into with them every year.

1273
01:41:43,870 --> 01:41:44,410
So no changes.

1274
01:41:45,270 --> 01:41:49,610
Yes, this is one of the items on our consent agenda lately this evening.

1275
01:41:49,950 --> 01:41:53,670
But if you any board member has questions or which is discussed the MOA,

1276
01:41:54,150 --> 01:41:56,310
it's now will be appropriate time to do so.

1277
01:41:59,420 --> 01:41:59,580
Okay.

1278
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:03,960
Our second administrative report this evening is for a,

1279
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:06,900
a salary allocations for substitute teachers and teaching assistance.

1280
01:42:06,900 --> 01:42:12,200
Thank you. Yeah, I don't have a formal presentation. It was just to request a raise.

1281
01:42:12,700 --> 01:42:16,280
We have not given our substitute teachers, TAs, long-term subs are raised.

1282
01:42:16,860 --> 01:42:21,420
In a couple of years, last year we were at our freeze and so I'm asking if we could raise the rate

1283
01:42:21,420 --> 01:42:24,680
3% just to be competitive with other districts in our area.

1284
01:42:28,010 --> 01:42:29,690
Any questions for you?

1285
01:42:30,230 --> 01:42:31,350
What is the rate now?

1286
01:42:31,730 --> 01:42:35,690
Right now for our daily subs. It's 160 a day.

1287
01:42:35,690 --> 01:42:40,050
currently unit four pays one seventy five a day so if we were to give a three percent

1288
01:42:40,050 --> 01:42:45,390
raise for our daily subs it would raise them to one sixty four eighty. And so we

1289
01:42:45,390 --> 01:42:51,510
suggested the three percent just because of CPI so it still doesn't get us as close

1290
01:42:51,510 --> 01:42:57,630
but the subs have been requested raises last year we didn't come through and so if we

1291
01:42:57,630 --> 01:43:02,430
can it be nice to be able to give a three percent raise across the board. What's the

1292
01:43:02,430 --> 01:43:08,250
for retired teachers as a thing. No, it is higher for it. So this would be a 3% race for each

1293
01:43:08,250 --> 01:43:14,990
category of subs. So, for example, our long-term subs and our bandemake $240 a day. That means

1294
01:43:14,990 --> 01:43:20,970
that they're filling in a place of a teacher. So even our long-term subs who have, they have

1295
01:43:20,970 --> 01:43:25,210
teaching degrees. They went to school to be teachers, but we have some that have had a hard time

1296
01:43:25,210 --> 01:43:32,310
passing the teacher licensure tests. And their pay per day is $240 per day in unit

1297
01:43:32,310 --> 01:43:39,850
for that's $253.90 and so with the 3% raise that would bring them up to 247-20 and this

1298
01:43:39,850 --> 01:43:46,410
is the time of year where it's very competitive for us to secure. We don't plug in our long-term

1299
01:43:46,410 --> 01:43:49,030
subs until August because we're still hiring.

1300
01:43:54,360 --> 01:43:55,320
Any other questions?

1301
01:43:57,780 --> 01:43:59,000
Again, this is something else

1302
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:06,460
that's on our consent agenda. Let's just coming up next. One more question. I know that last year

1303
01:44:06,460 --> 01:44:09,080
was a good surprise that we had extra money

1304
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:10,740
at the end of the fiscal year

1305
01:44:10,740 --> 01:44:13,400
because we budgeted for teachers

1306
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:16,180
that weren't hired or we couldn't fill.

1307
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:19,420
Do we know how much extra money we have

1308
01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:24,220
after last fiscal year from that same situation?

1309
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:27,060
That might be a question for Mary Ann,

1310
01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:32,340
but it's hard to know how much will need every year for subs.

1311
01:44:32,500 --> 01:44:34,380
I mean the goal is to fill the classrooms

1312
01:44:34,380 --> 01:44:35,440
with the license teachers

1313
01:44:35,440 --> 01:44:40,020
and have the fewer amount of subs, but for like the day-to-day subs with the teachers being

1314
01:44:40,020 --> 01:44:43,080
sick or personal days were so on and we're going to have those and so the question

1315
01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:48,860
ran in, I don't know if you heard it. It was what, so what type of budget do we maybe have

1316
01:44:48,860 --> 01:44:56,300
left over for vacancies, a positions that, um, from the other budget? Yeah, from last year's budget, right?

1317
01:44:57,660 --> 01:44:59,740
I'll have to get back to you on that one.

1318
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:22,640
I have like I did get about how much we paid in subs for last year for teachers, which was like 2.3 million for the year, and but like Angie said it's really hard to budget for that because it just depends teachers have days in their contract that they're allowed to use, and so it varies.

1319
01:45:23,580 --> 01:45:29,160
One day to point that might be helpful is Angie has the data from the last couple years,

1320
01:45:29,260 --> 01:45:34,980
a number of long-term subs that we've had, that number has gone down, and when you think

1321
01:45:34,980 --> 01:45:41,560
about that we typically budget around 65,000 for a teacher, is that the number that we're

1322
01:45:41,560 --> 01:45:42,740
still using in 65?

1323
01:45:44,340 --> 01:45:49,360
So, you want to give that progression of how much you should do a little bit, which is a positive.

1324
01:45:49,660 --> 01:45:50,620
It is a positive.

1325
01:45:50,620 --> 01:46:03,980
So, you know, the goal is to continue to increase teacher retention from the 2223 school year to the 2324 school year.

1326
01:46:04,240 --> 01:46:08,620
We retained 80% of teachers from 2324 to 2425.

1327
01:46:09,480 --> 01:46:11,720
We retained 87% of teachers.

1328
01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:18,620
And from that last year, 2425 to those returning now, 2526, we retained 88%.

1329
01:46:18,620 --> 01:46:22,040
So that is also in a line with our strategic plan.

1330
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:24,620
We are hoping to raise that 1% per year.

1331
01:46:26,280 --> 01:46:31,280
Strong and consistent building leadership matters greatly in terms of retaining teachers.

1332
01:46:31,780 --> 01:46:37,420
But for long-term subs in the 23-24-square, we had 89 long-term subs.

1333
01:46:37,900 --> 01:46:39,580
Last-square, we had 75.

1334
01:46:40,420 --> 01:46:43,820
Currently, we have 27 long-term subs.

1335
01:46:43,820 --> 01:46:51,440
We still have a little over 30 vacancies, but a lot of the folks that are serving as our

1336
01:46:51,440 --> 01:46:56,000
long-term subs are in school that we are helping them finish their degrees through

1337
01:46:56,000 --> 01:47:01,740
teacher vacancy grant tuition and fee assistance through various programs in the state as well

1338
01:47:01,740 --> 01:47:13,500
as advocating at the state level, because our teacher licensure test, the folks that are not

1339
01:47:13,500 --> 01:47:16,600
and it has been deemed by several folks,

1340
01:47:16,980 --> 01:47:18,840
myself included, that it's a racially biased test.

1341
01:47:19,100 --> 01:47:21,100
And so if you ever want to advocate at the state level,

1342
01:47:22,160 --> 01:47:25,120
we have several people that deserve to be paid

1343
01:47:25,120 --> 01:47:28,120
as our teachers and to get the same benefits.

1344
01:47:29,340 --> 01:47:33,380
So even with 30 vacancies, plus the number we know we have,

1345
01:47:33,380 --> 01:47:35,740
that's still going to be in the mid-50s,

1346
01:47:35,900 --> 01:47:38,720
which is a decrease from 75 to year before.

1347
01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:40,740
So, yep.

1348
01:47:43,350 --> 01:47:46,690
Do you have them to know what, but they get through the rental rate is?

1349
01:47:48,030 --> 01:47:52,030
Usually rentals under us, and so I always look at unit 4 since it's right here.

1350
01:47:52,130 --> 01:47:53,230
I can google it real quick.

1351
01:47:53,250 --> 01:47:54,950
I had it from a couple years ago, but let me see.

1352
01:47:55,330 --> 01:47:57,110
Yeah, I thought they had raised it recently.

1353
01:47:58,330 --> 01:47:59,250
I can look.

1354
01:47:59,830 --> 01:48:02,310
That's my concern as we're also competing with them.

1355
01:48:02,490 --> 01:48:02,630
Yep.

1356
01:48:05,410 --> 01:48:06,970
Usually triggers a domino.

1357
01:48:06,970 --> 01:48:09,150
So it will raise hours,

1358
01:48:09,450 --> 01:48:11,030
rental will raise their champagne,

1359
01:48:11,310 --> 01:48:13,450
will raise their problem next year.

1360
01:48:14,770 --> 01:48:16,030
But let's just do it.

1361
01:48:16,030 --> 01:48:16,970
It depends on where we fall

1362
01:48:16,970 --> 01:48:18,250
when the negotiation cycle is.

1363
01:48:18,810 --> 01:48:20,810
I understand we're trying to be physically conservative.

1364
01:48:21,090 --> 01:48:22,470
I just wonder if three percent is enough.

1365
01:48:23,050 --> 01:48:24,290
That's what I was getting at.

1366
01:48:24,310 --> 01:48:26,710
Three percent is not very much at the end of the day,

1367
01:48:27,110 --> 01:48:29,310
but we didn't percentage-wise,

1368
01:48:29,430 --> 01:48:31,910
I didn't know if I should request more than that.

1369
01:48:32,010 --> 01:48:32,430
I understood.

1370
01:48:32,850 --> 01:48:33,310
You don't understand.

1371
01:48:33,670 --> 01:48:35,590
And I get a lot, we have a lot,

1372
01:48:35,590 --> 01:48:39,510
I mean, we lost grants, we're covering a lot of expensive and other places.

1373
01:48:39,670 --> 01:48:39,710
Yeah.

1374
01:48:40,310 --> 01:48:40,990
I'd love to go.

1375
01:48:40,990 --> 01:48:46,250
And we landed at 3% because that's the race that we gave our non-linear supports.

1376
01:48:46,850 --> 01:48:47,110
All right.

1377
01:48:47,510 --> 01:48:52,450
And this is not like something we can't address later on.

1378
01:48:52,670 --> 01:48:52,850
Yep.

1379
01:48:53,190 --> 01:48:57,190
If you're struggling hiring subs for example, we're going to address this later.

1380
01:48:57,690 --> 01:48:57,850
Yep.

1381
01:48:58,070 --> 01:48:59,170
We've done really well.

1382
01:48:59,410 --> 01:49:03,550
Like we're doing, we have some very special retention efforts with our substitute teachers

1383
01:49:03,550 --> 01:49:05,670
and just support and general with our teacher,

1384
01:49:05,750 --> 01:49:06,730
big and secret funds.

1385
01:49:07,290 --> 01:49:09,670
And so we're going to much better place than we were

1386
01:49:09,670 --> 01:49:11,550
four or five years ago with substitute teachers.

1387
01:49:12,010 --> 01:49:13,070
But they do deserve a raise.

1388
01:49:13,250 --> 01:49:14,570
They're working hard just like everybody else.

1389
01:49:14,890 --> 01:49:18,830
And the price of groceries and everything else continues to go up.

1390
01:49:19,390 --> 01:49:20,330
Any other questions?

1391
01:49:23,020 --> 01:49:28,140
Did I hear correctly that you budget $65,000 for teacher?

1392
01:49:28,180 --> 01:49:29,760
With our base level.

1393
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:30,360
Base level.

1394
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:31,200
Thank for a new teacher.

1395
01:49:31,400 --> 01:49:32,280
Thank you for having me.

1396
01:49:32,700 --> 01:49:35,140
OK, I just want to make sure I thank you.

1397
01:49:36,720 --> 01:49:42,120
I have a question, do you know what the retention rate is for the different schools for teachers?

1398
01:49:42,840 --> 01:49:43,320
Yes.

1399
01:49:43,440 --> 01:49:43,800
I could.

1400
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:46,080
About 87% retention.

1401
01:49:46,700 --> 01:49:46,980
Yeah.

1402
01:49:47,440 --> 01:49:49,260
Overall, like district-wide with all the teachers.

1403
01:49:49,580 --> 01:49:52,240
I can get that for you and break it down by school.

1404
01:49:52,940 --> 01:49:54,820
I don't want to tell you my gut.

1405
01:49:55,140 --> 01:49:59,220
I mean, I can tell you that there's a couple of schools that have had higher turnover.

1406
01:49:59,220 --> 01:50:01,420
and are typically a little bit harder to fill

1407
01:50:01,420 --> 01:50:03,680
or be in a middle school is the number one.

1408
01:50:04,400 --> 01:50:06,020
It's really hard to be a middle school teacher

1409
01:50:06,020 --> 01:50:08,720
and there's just, that's what another reason

1410
01:50:08,720 --> 01:50:12,100
we're hoping to have the division between the two levels

1411
01:50:12,680 --> 01:50:15,240
to just make it a little bit easier for kids to learn

1412
01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:16,680
and teachers to teach too.

1413
01:50:17,020 --> 01:50:18,940
So I can get those numbers for you, I just don't have them off my.

1414
01:50:19,260 --> 01:50:19,960
That's an essay.

1415
01:50:20,120 --> 01:50:22,220
One thing I was also wondering is,

1416
01:50:23,300 --> 01:50:25,520
I don't know if this is ever a protocol,

1417
01:50:25,520 --> 01:50:32,400
but is it protocol to change the rate for what grade level somebody's teacher?

1418
01:50:33,080 --> 01:50:36,400
So you're having a trouble getting people at the middle school?

1419
01:50:36,460 --> 01:50:39,520
Yep, so yeah, so I'm all for that.

1420
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:44,480
That's something that has to be negotiated with our union and and talked about.

1421
01:50:44,660 --> 01:50:48,960
We do have a higher referral rate if you because the middle school's been harder to fill.

1422
01:50:49,140 --> 01:50:53,340
If a current staff member refers a new teacher to the middle level,

1423
01:50:53,340 --> 01:50:58,680
6, 7, 3, 8. They get a $500 bonus for referring them. If they refer any teacher in the district

1424
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:03,680
it's $250. But right now if it's a special education teacher or somebody that works with

1425
01:51:03,680 --> 01:51:09,860
our middle-level students, it's $500. So we try to do little things like that to attract

1426
01:51:09,860 --> 01:51:15,540
where it's at. But yeah, as a former middle school principal, that would be great.

1427
01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:21,220
There was a provision added to the last new contract that allows for some level of differentiated

1428
01:51:21,220 --> 01:51:29,180
pay in areas that are hard to hire, that is negotiated annually between administration and

1429
01:51:29,180 --> 01:51:34,340
the E and S to which positions are hard to hire, and it's not just for the incoming staff

1430
01:51:34,340 --> 01:51:39,020
members, but for the already existing staff members who are filling that role.

1431
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:44,480
So what rules I guess are qualified as hard to hire right now?

1432
01:51:44,540 --> 01:51:45,700
Sure, hard to fill.

1433
01:51:45,720 --> 01:51:46,380
Hard to fill.

1434
01:51:46,620 --> 01:51:51,100
So the hard to fill positions, we have a lot of 50 stipends.

1435
01:51:51,100 --> 01:52:00,100
annually for the last contract negotiations and it's actually a retention and retention and recruitment

1436
01:52:00,100 --> 01:52:03,860
as opposed to recruitment and retention. So we want to retain the people that we have. So for

1437
01:52:03,860 --> 01:52:11,040
example, last school year, our school psychologist, part of the Heart to Field Group, we were short

1438
01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:18,660
two people and so they were deemed in that group agreed upon with the Union and administration. So

1439
01:52:18,660 --> 01:52:22,880
current person serving as a school psychologist also received that hard to feel

1440
01:52:22,880 --> 01:52:27,720
stipend. It wasn't just for people that we hired in. So we wanted to value the

1441
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:29,600
staff members that we're serving that role too.

1442
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:36,180
Past positions that have fallen into this category have been dual-engaged teachers, have been various

1443
01:52:36,180 --> 01:52:40,960
speed teachers, have been the school psychologist. It's hard, because we only have 50 stipends,

1444
01:52:41,160 --> 01:52:46,400
and we have more than 50 teachers at the middle level. And so is hard to say every middle school

1445
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:50,540
teacher is, you know, hard to feel positions. We don't have enough to do all that. That would have to be

1446
01:52:50,540 --> 01:52:54,680
something that would come out in negotiations. But the future is bright. I mean, the sixth grade

1447
01:52:54,680 --> 01:53:08,140
center staffing has been really solid. UMS is picking up. It's just it takes a while to be able to kind of change the narrative of public perception and teacher perception.

1448
01:53:09,200 --> 01:53:16,760
But I think an 88% retention rate is outstanding. We're not being, well, I'm not going to want to say anything else.

1449
01:53:19,700 --> 01:53:26,760
any other questions all right moving on to our action items which are listed as part of

1450
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:30,520
the senate agenda I'll go ahead and read out the entire senate agenda and if any board

1451
01:53:30,520 --> 01:53:35,440
member wishes to have particular actually removed from the senate agenda and vote on individually

1452
01:53:35,440 --> 01:53:41,740
you can indicate after I've read them 11.1 is a long list of personal items which is typical

1453
01:53:41,740 --> 01:53:47,920
for the start of a school year. 12.2 is approval of the 2025 Urbana High School Graduates.

1454
01:53:48,920 --> 01:53:56,440
11.3 is the MOU from the with the Japan Urbana Public Health District, which we discussed

1455
01:53:56,440 --> 01:54:03,520
as part of the administrative report. 11.4 is a fee schedule for access to district public

1456
01:54:03,520 --> 01:54:12,120
records which we discussed in Porterports and 11.5 is a fiscal year 26 salary allocation for

1457
01:54:12,120 --> 01:54:16,640
some of the teachers which we just finished discussion. Does anybody wish to have any of

1458
01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:18,840
these particular actions removed from the consent agenda?

1459
01:54:21,460 --> 01:54:23,000
Hearing none, the Chair of Intertain

1460
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:29,960
Emotion to approve the entire consent agenda as read. Second, the moon is secited, any further

1461
01:54:29,960 --> 01:54:33,620
comments, questions or discussion? Roll call please.

1462
01:54:34,460 --> 01:54:40,640
member of our group. Yes, member Jones. Yes, member Langendorf. Yes, Vice President

1463
01:54:40,640 --> 01:54:47,040
Vaxley. Yes. President Flowsky. Yes. Members Cheryl. Yes. And member Hickson. Yes.

1464
01:54:47,500 --> 01:54:48,260
Motion passes.

1465
01:54:51,160 --> 01:54:55,120
There is no call for future, especially executive meetings. Although we're going

1466
01:54:55,120 --> 01:55:00,860
to have a quick succession after dies meeting for the purpose of personnel with no action

1467
01:55:00,860 --> 01:55:03,200
taken for the board after the exact session.

1468
01:55:03,400 --> 01:55:04,260
So pretend it's a report.

1469
01:55:06,400 --> 01:55:08,300
So while John is pulling that up, I

1470
01:55:08,300 --> 01:55:11,740
don't want to do show until because I'm too far away from it.

1471
01:55:11,780 --> 01:55:14,500
But if you go to the next slide, John.

1472
01:55:15,060 --> 01:55:17,980
So we are starting to put out some of our strategic planning

1473
01:55:17,980 --> 01:55:18,700
signage.

1474
01:55:18,960 --> 01:55:21,860
So right here, we took down our little vinyl posters

1475
01:55:21,860 --> 01:55:24,520
that were back there and we put up one of these.

1476
01:55:24,640 --> 01:55:27,600
We're going to hang one of these at our high school as well.

1477
01:55:27,600 --> 01:55:40,640
So this is just showing the the priority areas for our strategic plan if and there is a QR code where you can access some information about the process and the plan coming soon.

1478
01:55:41,060 --> 01:55:43,500
If you go to the next one John.

1479
01:55:44,540 --> 01:55:56,560
We have created mission posters that are going to be hanging in all the buildings relaying our new mission to create a supportive community to equip and nurture all learners to achieve success.

1480
01:55:56,560 --> 01:56:04,080
So we have these translators, so we have Spanish versions, French versions that will hang in our multi-lingual spaces.

1481
01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:10,980
And we also have a new values poster, which is, we just received these all today.

1482
01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:13,200
So John, we're going to go to the next one.

1483
01:56:13,740 --> 01:56:24,140
This poster will also be hanging in our all of our school spaces to show that as a district we value belonging, community integrity and pride.

1484
01:56:24,140 --> 01:56:37,940
So we'll be talking about these things through, of course, in everything that we do, but I'm very excited to be able to show student representation and staff representation on the images that relay what we value and what our new mission is.

1485
01:56:39,020 --> 01:56:43,560
those are hot out the press we just picked they were just delivered today. So six

1486
01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:48,520
grace and a ribbon cutting and open house so just as a reminder to anyone

1487
01:56:48,520 --> 01:56:53,600
listening Friday's event is very much geared to staff students and their

1488
01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:57,460
families. I know there have been many many people who have stopped me in the community

1489
01:56:57,460 --> 01:57:02,840
and want to come to see the building and we encourage those folks to come on Monday,

1490
01:57:03,060 --> 01:57:07,920
August 11th. I will have people available to tour you know walk you around

1491
01:57:07,920 --> 01:57:14,700
the building, but we really want Friday night to be about our kids and about our teachers and

1492
01:57:14,700 --> 01:57:22,060
their families. So we have a couple special activities for our students to make their mark in

1493
01:57:22,060 --> 01:57:26,980
being the first class of six graders, so it's in the sixth grade centers, so there are a couple

1494
01:57:26,980 --> 01:57:33,140
of activities for them. The teachers, where we were just given access to the building today

1495
01:57:33,140 --> 01:57:44,180
And so teachers started arriving today to pick up their keys, and to go in the start setting up their classrooms, so people do need to manage their expectations.

1496
01:57:44,580 --> 01:57:50,240
I mean, by Friday, the building is not going to work in every single room and every single bullet in board.

1497
01:57:50,840 --> 01:58:02,300
Like it will when the students arrive on August 18th, but you will be able to see the spaces and really really see the building and how it's transformed in the last.

1498
01:58:02,300 --> 01:58:09,880
year. So again, 530 p.m., we'll cut the ribbon right around that time and then invite

1499
01:58:09,880 --> 01:58:15,620
families in classrooms. We'll now all be open because not every teacher has come back

1500
01:58:15,620 --> 01:58:23,040
yet to start setting up their spaces, but the common areas will be available on the new section.

1501
01:58:23,060 --> 01:58:31,720
Of course, we'll be available and we don't anticipate it to be a final view, but we did just want

1502
01:58:31,720 --> 01:58:34,320
everyone to be able to get in and see it.

1503
01:58:34,580 --> 01:58:40,300
We've, today, we had some families start bringing their students in who have some special

1504
01:58:40,300 --> 01:58:43,920
needs who just kind of want to walk around and familiarize themselves.

1505
01:58:44,440 --> 01:58:50,100
So we're really excited that we were able to get other people there today and kind of get

1506
01:58:50,100 --> 01:58:51,740
in their spaces, so it's been great.

1507
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:58,380
And then our back to school event, so we are having a back to school event for the first

1508
01:58:58,380 --> 01:59:01,980
in several years. So we will be outside or

1509
01:59:01,980 --> 01:59:03,880
abandonmentals will weather permitting. I'm not

1510
01:59:03,880 --> 01:59:05,800
claiming any bad weather, but it's going to be

1511
01:59:05,800 --> 01:59:11,500
great. 530 on August 15th before the week in the

1512
01:59:11,500 --> 01:59:15,480
Friday before our students start. We have food. We're

1513
01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:19,240
going to have hot dogs and chips. Kona ice will be

1514
01:59:19,240 --> 01:59:24,360
there to give out a free little slushy. They'll be

1515
01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:28,360
prizes. We'll introduce our seven mindsets to our

1516
01:59:28,360 --> 01:59:36,060
you through show up. We have about 25 community partners who have signed up to have

1517
01:59:36,060 --> 01:59:39,840
community resources available and they'll be out there at their tables to give

1518
01:59:39,840 --> 01:59:45,680
out information to all of our families and then we'll go over to the the field

1519
01:59:45,680 --> 01:59:51,040
and hear more about the fall sports team so we really want to encourage all of

1520
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:58,340
our youth to come out to our events because again our goal is for every single one of

1521
01:59:58,340 --> 01:59:59,980
So they need to really see it and be excited.

1522
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:05,340
So please join us on the 15th or night of family fun.

1523
02:00:07,680 --> 02:00:15,940
Meet the teacher and supply drop off nights. So again, back to school nights will happen at the buildings as they have in the past.

1524
02:00:17,060 --> 02:00:25,560
So you can see on this document, I know some of the board members like to go to specific schools. So you might want to jot down when those events are happening.

1525
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:30,620
Again, this is not a mandatory student visit with your teacher time.

1526
02:00:30,620 --> 02:00:32,360
It isn't parent teacher conference time.

1527
02:00:32,380 --> 02:00:35,220
It is really designed to be, I bring my supplies.

1528
02:00:35,960 --> 02:00:40,680
I know where I'm picking up, I know where I'm jobbing off, my kid knows where to wait for me.

1529
02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:45,280
Just an opportunity for you to walk around the school and familiarize yourself with the building.

1530
02:00:45,420 --> 02:00:51,640
If you're a new parent and new to our district, so those will be happening at early childhood

1531
02:00:51,640 --> 02:00:53,620
in our elementary spaces.

1532
02:00:54,460 --> 02:01:03,000
The secondary schools, sixth grade center, UMS, and UHS, there are more open houses instead

1533
02:01:03,000 --> 02:01:05,040
of welcome back nights.

1534
02:01:05,740 --> 02:01:11,160
So for the sixth grade center, the building will look very different by August 20th, and then

1535
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it will this Friday.

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And then the middle is one high school.

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They will run those events more so as open house events.

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So you drop in, you walk around, you get to see teachers.

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So please write down those dates and go to any of those events and remember board members.

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We can have two more than two board members in these spaces as long as we're not discussing any board topics or anything like that.

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But you're more than welcome to for everyone to join us in any of these back to school events.

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new teacher orientation we welcome Paul did a great job welcoming as board president he

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represented you all very well and welcoming our about 60ish new teachers who were at

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orientation yesterday I was able to welcome them and spend the morning with them so this is the

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class of 2025 for our new teacher orientation higher group and just a really unique group of people

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And they were all very, very happy to be part new members of the Urban

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and the family.

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Opening day, 2025.

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So we have shared out our theme, postcards have all been delivered.

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And the theme for this year is the time is now.

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If you plan to attend, make sure you let Lori know.

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Paul will welcome our staff again.

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We always have a short time for reflections from the board

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President, our UEA president, Mayor Williams, has confirmed that he will also be able to attend

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and welcome staff back, and we always invite you to school foundation because they are always

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great about giving us great money, so they really hype the teachers up.

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One of the unique things we're going to do this year is you've been hearing about seven mindsets,

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of course, we're going to have the presentation about the mindsets before the board here is very

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but our staff will get to experience the seven mindsets as well and so we'll have

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stations available as people come into the building and they'll have little

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seven mindsets little passports that they can fill out so it'll be a little

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different vibe for opening day this year but also really exciting. So our theme

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the time is now is hopefully meant to recharge everyone around several of our new

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initiatives. We have new SEO curriculum. We've been talking about something called Champs,

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which is a classroom management framework. So there's just lots of new things and new

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learning for our staff, the portrait of a graduate, the strategic plan. So lots of excitement

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around the beginning of this school year. And again, if you're going to attend, please let us know.

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We know Paul will be there, but if you also plan to be there, we like to have a space for you

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in the front. This weekend is CU days at Douglas Park. We always participate and have a table.

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We give away school supplies. So our tents will be up from 11 to 1230 on Saturday.

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First day of school for students in grades one through nine plus half of kindergarten is Monday to

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18th and then Tuesday the 19th is the first day of school for early childhood and the other half

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of kindergarten. So write those dates down parents. In case you don't have them, board members

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should have. We gave you your calendar. You also have the postcard about opening day.

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And we gave you one of our new little tiger tickets if you want to stick that on your computer

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or on a cup or whatever. Little tiger sticker.

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There's a list of processed queer requests that are listed in the agenda. I guess now we'll

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time for the chair to entertain a motion. I have to read this because it wasn't actually published

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in the agenda so I'd read all the legal verbiage. So after attending a recess to clear the

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room, the chair would entertain a motion to interclose session for the purpose of the appointment

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employment compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals

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who serve as independent contractors or specific volunteers of the district or legal counsel

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for the district, including hearing testimony on a complaint,

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Bosch against employee, a specific individual who serves as independent contractor or volunteer

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the district, or against legal counsel for the district to determine as literally, however,

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a meeting to consider and increase in the compensation to a specific employee of a public

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body that is subject to the local government way of transparency act, me, not be closed,

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and Shelby's open to the public and posted in accordance with this act.

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Is there a motion to that effect?

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So, the move in second again, there will be no action after the closed session.

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Any comments, questions or discussion?

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Roll call, please?

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02:06:11,040 --> 02:06:12,680
Okay, there have been a list in front of me.

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Member Marabou.

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02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:14,900
Yeah.

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02:06:15,700 --> 02:06:16,060
Member Jones.

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02:06:16,180 --> 02:06:16,560
Yes.

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02:06:16,840 --> 02:06:17,840
Member Langendorf.

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Oh, what's up?

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Yes.

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Member Hickson.

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02:06:21,560 --> 02:06:21,620
Yes.

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Member Cheryl.

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02:06:22,500 --> 02:06:22,880
Yes.

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Press and plowsky.

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02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:24,340
Yes.

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Vice President.

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Backslate.

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We'll reset the room and then begin our closed session.