It's okay, John. This doesn't work? That'll work then. Yeah. It is working. Yeah. It might work. Are we ready? We're good? Yes. Yes. Okay. Good evening, everyone. On behalf of the Community Unit School District three hundred Board of Education, we would like to thank you for being in attendance both virtually and in person for tonight's board meeting. At this time, we would like to reconvene the meeting of the Community Unit School District, three hundred Board of Education for Tuesday, 07/22/2025. Secretary, please take the role.
Birkin? Present. Fiorentino? Present. LaMarca, present. Linmark? Present. McKendy? Present. Melia? Present. Zettler? Present. Seven board members present. Can everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance? Let's see. We're going to change amend the agenda to, reflect that item number 13, the second closed session, is not gonna be needed. With that amendment, can I get a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. Madam Secretary, please call the roll. Lamarca, aye. Fiorentino? Aye. Aye. Birkett? Aye. McKendy? Aye. Zettler?
Aye. Linmark? Aye. Dalio? Aye. Motion passes seven zero. I'm gonna pass it over to doctor Smith. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Testing. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Yeah. Can I? That'd be kinda nice. I'd like to call Carrie Littlehale up to the front, please. Good evening, board members, community members, and Doctor. Smith. Tonight I'm pleased to recommend, Mrs. Carrie Littlehale as the next principal of Sleepy Hollow Elementary School. Carrie brings a wealth of experience to District three hundred, having spent six years as principal of Nergie School and Schaumburg School District fifty four,
as well as fifteen years of service in teaching and leadership roles. Carrie is passionate and highly skilled in cultivating professional learning communities, building the leadership capacity of others, fostering a positive and inclusive school culture, and using data to drive both academic and social emotional growth and development. She wholeheartedly demonstrates that a thriving school culture is built on trust, communication, and shared purpose among staff, students, and families. Carrie has earned two master's degrees, one in instructional leadership with a reading specialist licensure from the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and the other in school leadership from Concordia University. In addition, she has a bachelor's degree in special education from the University of Illinois and an EL or English language endorsement from Northern Illinois University. Carrie will work closely with the central office team to ensure a smooth transition and she will host meet and greet opportunities with both staff and families in the next couple of weeks. Please join me in welcoming Mrs. Carrie Littlehale. So item seven, nobody has signed up for public participation. So we will go to item eight, and I will send it maybe back to doctor Smith.
Good evening, Doctor. Smith, members of the board, and community members. I'm here this evening to present information regarding the renewal of our e learning verification program. This is a crucial program that provides significant flexibility for our district. We'll begin by reviewing the current status of our District three hundred e learning program. The current e learning program verification is approved by the Kane County Regional Office of Education, and it's valid through 10/25/2025.
Its primary purpose is to provide District three hundred with the flexibility to utilize e learning days as an alternative to traditional emergency days, such as those caused by severe weather. This means we can maintain continuity of instruction for our students and also avoid the need for required makeup days at the end of the school year. For those unfamiliar, an e learning day means that our school buildings are closed, but instruction will continue virtually. Our students access coursework online,
primarily through the Schoology platform, using their district issued Chromebooks. The key benefit, as mentioned, is that these days do not require makeups. That provides significant predictability for our school calendar and for our families. We are seeking to renew the District 300 e learning program verification with the Kane County Regional Office of Education. Our goal is to secure a new three year verification period. The benefits of this renewal include ensuring we continue to have the flexibility to implement
e learning days when needed, thereby preventing disruptions to instruction and avoiding the use of those makeup days. In order to achieve this renewal, we must follow specific procedural requirements that are outlined by the Illinois State Board of Education. These steps include, first, a public notice. We're required to publish notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the district at least ten days prior to a hearing. Written or electronic notice must also be sent to all parents and guardians of students
enrolled in our district, also at least ten days in advance. And finally, written or electronic notice must be provided to any exclusive bargaining representatives of our school district employees, and all employees not in a collective bargaining unit, also ten days prior to a hearing. Next, a public hearing is required for this program verification. The hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 08/12/2025, at 06:30PM. Following the public hearing, during the August 12 Board of Education meeting,
the board will be asked to adopt a resolution to approve the renewal of the District 300 e learning program. Once approved by the board, the final step would be to submit an approved e learning program verification application to our Kane County Regional Office of Education. I'm happy to answer at this time any questions that you may have. Any questions, comments? No? Thank you, Marilyn. Thank you very much. Item you do? Oh, okay. They're not listed, I think so. You know you're old when you have to also have reading glasses,
so And contacts, so Well Good evening, Doctor. Smith, members of the board, and community members. Thank you for the opportunity to present this evening in District three hundred's 2025 Summer Programs. This year's offerings were thoughtfully designed to support student learning, close academic gaps, oh, sorry, and provide meaningful enrichment experiences. The following presentation summarizes the highlights, data, and outcomes from each of these major initiatives. District three hundred summer programming this year was a comprehensive and exclusive reaching students from
nearly child early childhood through high school and actually 22 years of age for our special ed. Programs included special education services, academic recovery, enrichment opportunities, and extracurricular development. These offerings were designed to provide opportunities of learning, expand access to future ready skills, and foster student engagement beyond their traditional school year. Our first one is our extended school year, or as more commonly known as ESY. This program provides continued educational services for students with IUPs to ensure that they had
support needed to maintain progress on their individual goals. This summer's programming integrated academic instruction in reading and math with life skills activities such as cooking, independent task work, and community based learning. Students also benefited from structured experiences that developed executive functioning and social skills. Enhancing the experience further, students enjoyed field days and the support of their summer therapy dogs. Significantly, ninety one percent of our participants demonstrated measurable growth towards their IEP goals.
That is significant. The total that we had in summer school was five thirteen students participated that were eligible. This program was delivered in five sites across the district and was supported by 2,214 professionals, including teachers, paraprofessionals, and related services. In addition, eight high school interns supported this program, many of whom who are interested in careers and education, particularly special ed. That is also really good for us. You'll hear more about that later in the presentation.
Middle school and high school summer program overview is that we offered flexible learning pathways for students needing credit recovery, those looking to accelerate coursework, or others seeking enrichment. These programs help students stay on track for graduation, or transition smoothly to the next grade level. All instruction took place at Dundee Crown High School that provided one location for our families. Enrollment in these programs reached twelve nineteen students who collaboratively collected nineteen seventy one course
sections. This included a blend of in person and online options tailored to student needs. Four twenty eight in person high school courses, thirteen twenty eight online high school courses, 105 online middle school courses, and 110 driver's ed sessions. We're especially proud to report that 11 students earned their high school diplomas through summer school, and eleven eighth grader students completed coursework required for high school to be promoted.
I will now turn it over to Nikki Woodbury. Moving on to Summer Scholars. The Summer Scholars Program focused on addressing key math standards for students entering first through eighth grade. The program combined academic support with hands on STEM experiences through our partnership with Scitech. Students explored real world problem solving through activities like building air cannons, designing bubble generators, and launching Alka Seltzer rockets, bringing math and science to life in an engaging and meaningful way.
This year, we had just over 700 students participate in our Summer Scholars Program across eight strategically located sites in the district. This program was led by 53 teachers and the demand by both families and students remained strong this summer. The design of the program allowed the broad access across our district maintaining a focus on math minded mission. CTE, our Career and Technical Education Summer Enrichment Camps, provided students with early exposure to our career pathways that are offered at our high
schools. Week long camps were held at each high school for fifth through eighth grade students and featured hand on experience in fields such as welding, automotive technology, robotics, woodworking, engineering, coding, and digital media. Participation in our CTE camps totaled three forty registrations with students able to enroll both in the morning and afternoon sessions. A total of two ten students took part, demonstrating again a strong interest in these career aligned learning opportunities. Beyond our enrichment camps,
the district facilitated 63 student internships. Our internships were organized in collaboration with Northern Kane County Education for Employment and the Alignment Collaborative, and included placements with a wide variety of business and community partners ranging from healthcare, to manufacturing, to the arts, and public service. Not only did our students receive valuable work experience, each student also received a $900 stipend at the completion of their sixty hours. We also provided a wide variety of summer athletic camps for students to have structured
opportunities to refine skills, build team cohesion, prepare for upcoming seasons. These camps were also an entry point for our younger students to explore athletics and connect with school communities. Camps were hosted at all three high schools and supported participation their full K-twelve feeder pattern. Summer camps are still in session through August, but as of July 1, over 1,500 students were registered and, these will continue to go throughout the rest of August or till the August or
August. I apologize. Summer Fine Arts. The Summer Fine Arts Camp enriched students' artistic development across five disciplines. The program included two sessions. The first featured band, orchestra, and choir for students with at least one year of instrumental experience. And the second focused on art and theater for students in grades three through eight. These experiences supported creative expression, collaboration, and confidence building. A total of 131 students participated in the fine arts camp, supported by 39 teachers and high school mentors,
many of whom were former campers who wanted to give back to the program. The program awarded five scholarships to ensure access for qualifying families, and we saw high rates of dual participation with students engaging in multiple ensembles or fine arts experiences. Our summer reading program, Read 300, encouraged students to read over the summer and connected students with our local libraries to foster a love for literacy. With strong support from our D300 Foundation and partnerships with eight community libraries, students were empowered to read for enjoyment and engage in literacy related events throughout the
summer. This program was open to all students pre k through twelfth grade. District Read three hundred reached nine fifty five students across our district who registered both with their local libraries and the district program. Participation spanned at all 27 schools and successful completion will be recognized with a commemorative t shirt and certificate. The program continues through August 25 with final numbers expected at that time. In closing, District three hundred twenty twenty five summer school programs reflect a comprehensive and responsive approach
to student learning and development. From academic recovery and enrichment, to career readiness and community partnerships, the summer initiatives served thousands of students in our district and prepared them for future success. We are grateful to all of our staff, partners, families who make this all possible. At this time, we welcome any questions and feedback from the board. Thank you so much. Thank you. Item Done? Okay. Sorry. Item nine, board discussion. Are there any updates regarding the following board, committees? Board operations committee? Yes. The next meeting of the board operations committee is Tuesday,
August 12 at 04:30. And, like, every week or every meeting, we wanna urge everybody that can can come to those, operations meeting because you learn a lot about what we're gonna vote on, and we get to talk about things in a lot more detail than we have to talk about here during this meeting. And, also, if you can't make it in person, the meetings are, are videotaped, and you can see them on, on YouTube. So, let's see. Superintendent evaluation ad hoc committee. No? Okay. Board policy ad hoc committee. Oh, policy. I'm sorry. No updates either.
Sorry. Board member handbook ad hoc committee. We'll just set our first draft version, I guess, is in the hands of our fellow board members, so we're hoping to kinda wrap things up sometime in August. And we just want to, the the policy and the, handbook committees are not gonna go away after we complete our tasks for these specific things. We're gonna continue every quarter to do a review of both policy changes and, policies. You're gonna see that, a lot of policy changes that happen on a monthly basis are policy changes or even two weekly basis are ones that are either dictated by changes in the law,
things like that. Most of the time, it's just a amendment just to clarify things like that. Once in a while, there'll be a substantive change of some reason. And those are the ones that, the policy committee, will continue to review every quarter. Same thing with the handbook committee. Not necessarily anything that's gonna have to change, but if we decide to change something or add or something comes up, we wanna clarify, we'll have the opportunity to do that because that committee will continue to, meet every quarter also. So, anything else that anybody wants to discuss at this time? No? Okay. Number 10, items for discussion. I'll read in each item individually to all of the time for any discussion.
10.1, Boys and Girls Club of Northwest Suburbs Facility Use Agreement twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six. Anybody have any discussion? 10.2, e learning program verification renewal. Any discussion? 10.3, board policy review and revisions. I touched on that a little bit, but, other than that, does anybody have anything they wanna say? No? Okay. Moving on to consent items, number 11. Let's see. The consent items are standard procedure items or items that have been previously discussed and reviewed at the board's operation committee meeting and need no further discussion.
Do I have a motion to approve the consent items? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Madam secretary, please take the roll. Lamarca, aye. Malia? Aye. Aye. Zettler? Aye. Burkett? Aye. Fiorentino? Aye. Linmark? Aye. McKinnon? Aye. Motion passes, seven-zero. Item 12, roll call action items. 12.1, approval of materials and curriculum. Do I have a motion for the approval of materials and curriculum? I'll second. Any discussion? Ma'am, secretary, please take the role. Tarantino? Zeller? Aye. Malia? Aye.
Linmark? Aye. McKendy? Aye. Birkett? Aye. LaMarca? Aye. Motion passes seven zero. Item 12.2, approval of pre ACT program enrollment agreement. Do I have a motion for the approval of the pre ACT program enrollment agreement? So moved. Do I have a second? Any discussion? Madam secretary, please take the role. LaMarca, aye. Lindmark? Aye. Diarantino? Aye. Zettler? Aye. Malia? Aye. Burkett? Aye. McKendy?
Motion passes seven zero. Item 12.3, approval of technology services contract renewal. Do I have a motion for the approval of the renewal of the technology services contract? Any discussion? Hearing no discussion, madam secretary, please take the roll. Burkitt? Landmark? Aye. Zettler. Aye. Fiorentino. Aye. LaMarca. Aye. McKinney. Aye. Malia. Aye. Motion passes seven zero. Thank you. 12.4, approval of educational service contract renewal. Do I have a motion for the removal of the or the approval of the
renewal of the education services contract? Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, may I have a second for you? Please take the roll. Birkett? Aye. Malia? Aye. Zettler? Aye. LaMarca? Aye. Tarantino? Aye. Linmark? Aye. McKendy? Motion passes, 70. Thank you. Item 12.5, approval of the village of Pingree Grove, IGA. Do I have a motion for the approval of the village of Pingree Grove, IGA? So moved. Do I have a second? Any discussion? Are we gonna be able to see,
like, like, a little bit more detail on the, on the front. It changes, like, the the amount that the builders are getting charged by giving to the bill. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Gina. Any other discussion? Madam secretary, please take the role. LaMarca, aye. Birkett. Aye. McKendy. Aye. Zeller. Aye. Malia. Aye. Fiorentino. Aye. Linmark. Aye. Motion passes seven zero. Alright. Thank you. Item 12.6, approval of the NIA executive board ballot. Do I have a motion for the approval of the NIA executive board ballot?
So moved. Do I have okay. Any discussion? I have a question. I know the last the last time you talked about, this, and I just haven't heard anything regarding this organization. Is there a way we can get, like, an overview of how the distribution benefits from the organization? If the board would like to have the executive director come in for a few minutes, we did it, but it's been several years since it's been an update last week. It's time to do that. Any any other discussion? No? Okay. May our secretary please take the vote? LaMarca, aye. Melia? Aye. Burkett? Aye. Fiorentino?
I don't see on this one. Lenmark? Aye. McKendy? Aye. Ed Zettler? Aye. Motion passes, six zero one. Thank you. Item 12.7, approval of computer lab equipment purchase. Do I have a motion for the approval of the computer lab equipment per purchase? Second. Any discussion? No. Hearing none, may our secretary please take the role. McKendy? Aye. Thalia? Aye. Linmark? Aye. Lamarca? Aye. Fiorentino? Aye. Zeller? Aye. Birkett? Motion passes seven zero. Thank you. Item 12.8,
approval of change orders for the, Jacobs High School track and the Dundee Middle School roof. Do I have a motion for the approval of these change orders? Do I have a second? Christine? Any discussion? I have a question. Sure. On the track. Do you know who the original contractor was that did not do what was in the work order? And we're not using the same one this time on this one? Okay. I just wanna make sure, like, we're not paying twice to the same contract. Sure. Of course not. Not doing the job at the same time. Good question.
Thank you. Anything else? Hearing nothing else, madam secretary, would you please take the roll? Guarantee No. Aye. Burkett. Aye. Amelia. Aye. Zeller. Aye. McKinde. Aye. Linmark. Aye. LaMarca. Aye. Motion passes seven zero. Item number 15, adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Second. Please take the roll. Okay. McKendy. Aye. Guarantino. Aye. Burkett. Aye. Linmark? Aye. LaMarca? Aye. Malia? Aye. And Zettler? Aye. Motion passes seven zero. We are adjourned. Thank you, everybody.