Hey, good evening everyone. Everyone, I am going to call the April 27th, 2026 Board of Education meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Miss Kerr, >> Miss Khan, >> Miss Martin, >> here. >> Miss Nolan, >> here. >> Miss Schwarz,
>> here. >> Miss Thomas, President Owens, >> here. May I have a motion to move into close session to discuss individual student disciplinary matters pending probable or imminent litigation, the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of
specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park, recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the public or legal counsel for the public body. The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the school board. The setting of a price for the
sale or lease of real property owned by the school board. an internal audit, control weakness, identification of potential fraud, risk areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews, collected neg I'm sorry, collective negotiating matters between the school board and its employees or their
representatives, or deliberating cons deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees, review of close session minutes, and individual student matters. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Miss Nolan, >> yes. >> Miss Schwarz,
>> yes. Yes, President Owens. >> Yes, >> we're in close session at 3 I'm sorry, 6:32 p.m. Here we go. Hey. [music] I feel I feel I know
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Hey. Hey. I'm a freshman. Everybody stand as they are able to say the pledge of >> allegiance. Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. And just a bit of a little bit of housekeeping before we get the meeting started. Our uh electronic
platform that we run our board meetings on is down this evening. So we do not have access to board docs. Um all of the board members have paper copies of the materials that we need. But if you are following along at home, we do have a
PDF of the agenda posted so that you can follow along as well. Um, to get to that agenda, you would go to the U46 homepage, scroll down to the events section that's kind of down towards the bottom, click
on the day of our board meeting, which is um, again, April 27th. And then a box will pop up all the way down at the bottom of that box, there's a line that says the meeting agenda is linked here. If you rightclick on that link, then you
will be able to pull up a PDF of the agenda. And with that, we can get started with our first item on the agenda this evening. And I apologize, we might be running just a little bit slower because we're not used to using paper copies. Uh
we're going to start with our strategic plan report. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. Uh this evening our first strategic plan report is the U46 student summit. So we have the pleasure of being joined by a number
of uh student representatives this evening who will be presenting uh on this topic. So, we're joined by Thomas Aman of Larkin High School, Niha Ali and Diamond Shield, both of Bartlett High
School, Jameson Baskin of Elgen High School, and Victoria Stefen of South Elgen High School, who will provide the board of education with an report or an update on the U46 student summit held on March 26, 2026.
And I will note that I've read everybody's formal names uh into record. So I know some of our students have um have have have other preferences as they kind of gave me a little a little grin um as I as I read names. So thank you for being here this evening.
Um you can all Yeah, go ahead and come come up. Dr. Asdo is giving directions. My name is Thomas Aiman from Larkin High School. And on March 26, 2026 at Elgen Community College, approximately 220 students from all high schools and
across all grade levels participated in this year's student summit. Members of the principal uh principal advisory board along with the superintendent student advisory council facilitated 22 tabletop conversations about the four following topic areas: safety,
well-being and mental health, belonging, equity and student identity, relationships, communication and student culture and readiness for the future academic and life planning. So for our first topic of safety and well-being, my name is Diamond Shield
and I'll be sharing um the many opportunities that we found for improvement that align with our topic one. So one of the most prominent takeaways was the need for social worker intervention within student lives. Many students requested quarterly meetings with their social worker. Despite social
workers visiting our classrooms during the beginning of the year, many students were not aware who their social workers were at their school or how to meet with them. To address um this, we recommend implementation of signup forms for quarterly meetings between social workers and students. This way, students can feel more comfortable speaking with
school staff regarding their concerns and ensure that no student feels as if they are not being heard in their times of need. Another key takeaway was the lack of balanced student staff relationships. Many students felt as though their relationships with deans and student success advocates contain blurred lines between professionalism
and friendliness. This ambiguity causes confusion regarding self of regarding staff authority and at times inappropriate behavior. For example, students reported seeing loitering after a student would start a conversation with an SSA or a dean. To improve these relationships, we recommend the
implementation of faculty student events such as game night. To allow adequate amount of time for students and staff to presprofessional way. Um this would allow for students and staff to um have better relationships and this also would allow
prof to preserve professionalism during the school day while allow students and staff to build a strong relationships. The third and final takeaway was the need for consistent implementation of appropriate consequences while addressing the root cause of a problem. Many students expressed concern that issues were being swept under the rug
and not fully addressed. um um causing in this they they believe that this caused repeat offenses and inadequate conflict resolution. To improve overall safety and well-being, we recommend faculty commit to a balanced approach um that one that
encompasses both fair consequences as well as meaningful efforts to address and identify root causes. This approach would help decrease the likelihood of repeat offenses while motivating productive and constructive conversations when it comes to conflict.
Hello everyone. Um my name is Jameson Bask and I'll be going over all the feedback that we got from all of our high schools um in the area of belonging, equity, and student identity. And the three big takeaways were
involvement and communication from students. Students um supporting students involvement with clubs and sports and other extracurricular activities or any outside of school activities just to build student belonging not even just with amongst
their peers but with stu um teachers and other staff and even administration. students want to have more involvement from teachers to be um get a better sense of belonging as well. The second um big takeaway was recognizing all voices in schools, making sure that we
get um to hear from a variety of students. Um, we want to we want to hear opinions from everyone, including special education students, parents, staff, freshman, academy, and non-ACC Academy students, and just everybody
across the board. Um, and the third big takeaway is preparing students for their future, aligning grading systems from um, other districts to help prepare students for college, trade school, careers, and for life in general after U46.
Thank you. >> My name's My name's Nha Lee and my topic on relationships and communication and school culture. One of the biggest takeaways is the need for stronger engagement between staff and students. Students feel that building more collaborative relationships with teachers would make a
big difference along with regular check-ins to show support and understanding. When teachers are more connected and present, it helps create a more comfortable and positive learning environment. Another important point is creating balance in how students are recognized and supported. Many students who consistently follow expectations
feel overlooked. So having fair reward systems can motivate everyone, not just those who stand up for negative reasons. Finally, increasing academic involvement is essential. Students want more teachers both during and after school. And this can be seen through like office hours during school, whether it's like
free lunch periods or after school as well as meeting in between like the mornings and whatnot. Overall, these changes could help create a more inclusive, supportive, and engagement school experience for everyone. Good evening. My name is Victoria Steven
from South Elgen High School and based on the feedback from all high schools in our biggest takeaway in the area of relationships, communication and school culture, sorry. Our biggest takeaways in the area of readiness for the future, academic life in academic and life planning were
career and post-secary exploration. We recommend by eighth grade or freshman year, we introduce pathways, high school planning sheets, and basic career awareness um so that students can get an idea of what their high school journey would look like. And then hopefully by sophomore year, um we'll be ready to
focus on a more struct structured planning and have more serious conversations about post high school plans. Um we also recommend having courses with outside classroom connections. And then our second takeaway is improvement of learning. Um we recommend that we provide a structured learning to teach real world
skills in return in the return of final exams or the concept of final exams to show that students are not only learning but retaining knowledge. And then our third takeaway is after U46 skills financial literacy and exposure to taxes, budgeting and cost of living for
example and then life skills like networking effective communication and professionalism. Thank you. Hello again. Um, so unfortunately our Isby Student Summit member um, Zach Schwarz from South Elgen High School was
unable to attend and present his lovely information that he got from the student summit um, down at state. So I will be filling in for him. So yeah. Um so the big takeaways from the ISBY student
summit were attendance um predominantly like chronic absency and students really students may not be able to attend as they may can maybe may be experiencing bullying or lack of engagement um or overall just a lack of want to
want to come to school. That's been a big issue that I've just seen amongst all students that I've know that tend to not come to school often. Um, another big takeaway was student engagement in school, which can really um relate
around start time. And students um with later high schools um I mean not with later high schools, excuse me, with later high school start times found to be more awake and more active and more present within like their classes, more engaged, while students that start
earlier tend to feel more tired, especially during first period. And that's just overall lack of engagement. That's tying back to the attendance for um takeaway. That's where a lot of our tardies, our absences are typically at,
not even just at high school, but in middle school as well. Um the third big takeaway was um college career and readiness, which is really just about like standard standardized testing really with final exams. A lot of kids
felt that that would better prepare them for high school. um not high school, apologies, college um and just higher education as a whole and help them um retain information for longer periods of
time. And also with most grading systems across Illinois consider a as a 90 to 100% b as a 80 to 90% and etc. And we feel like that would also help better prepare our students for
just the expectations in higher um education after U46. So they're not like wow. Um and then the last portion for this section is across the state of Illinois the large ratio of students um
to guidance counselors can make it difficult for students to seek personalized guidance for their future careers in postsecary which kind of ties back to um a topic that we found in the student summit here [snorts] where we just wanted counselors to kind
of have those quarterly meets with each and every single student kind of how they do with like um like scheduling they we want that to happen quarterly cuz a lot of even a lot of kids can fit that into their schedule and cuz we're
busy too. Um and we just want overall more support because some students don't want to not necessarily don't want to reach out. Some might not know how to or not comfortable um and they don't have that middle ground kind of meet in the
middle kind of. So we just want that to be established. And the last big takeaway from the ISB student summit is CTE programs and school activities. Students feel that programs such as art [snorts] um band, orchestra,
um chorus, and theater are overlooked when considering funding compared to like sports such as football, soccer, volleyball. And we just want over our more inclus um inclusity inclusity when it comes to stuff like that cuz that can
be overlooked at times and even with like certain clubs too and just a lot of smaller sports. Um that wraps up my just a note um we accidentally forgot to mention technology and AI usage. Um, students feel that AI is becoming ever
more prevalent in our society and they believe that AI should start to be used as a tool and as a helping partner and that we shouldn't criminalize it or villainize it due to the fact that many students misuse it, but rather teach students how to use it effectively. Um, and now I'm here if you guys have any questions or comments to ask.
>> Thank you all for your presentation uh this evening. We really appreciate you all coming in. It's great that we do this every year because I know as board members we go back and, you know, review what prior groups of students had spoken
about and we can start to see those continuities right between between the years. So, we really appreciate getting these updates. They're really really valuable for us because we're sitting here. We don't have the same experiences that you all have. So, um again, thank you for the participation and for coming
in this evening. Do board members have any questions? >> No. Okay. Thank you so much. >> Have a good evening. >> Thanks. You too. >> Thank you. [applause] >> So, I do want to um as we transition to our next update, I want to celebrate and recognize our student leadership. So,
thank you so much for being here uh and supporting the student summit. I also tonight want to recognize Janet Gresach uh who has been so instrumental in supporting the superintendent student advisory council and the student summit
uh for the for as as long as it's been happening which is a decade at this point and I think as many of you recognize uh Janet is retiring at the conclusion of this school year and her support uh with really recognizing encouraging and helping us support
student voice and student leadership has been tremendous and uh so I thank Janet for all of her contributions in helping us support our students. So thank you Miss Gresach as well tonight. >> Thank you. [applause] So now it'll be difficult to do this.
It's always hard to follow the students but uh if anyone can do it, Brian Lindholmar, chief of staff can make this happen as he comes forward for our facility planning update. Uh so this evening uh Mr. Lindholm will present an update on our facility planning work.
>> Thank you. >> And doc I'm getting and and Dr. Anne Williams will be joining him as well. >> Okay. As uh Dr. Williams and Mr. Lynhome come up did >> so separately. Yeah. >> Um we um the public may not have access to the agenda. I've been trying to open
it and it there seems to be the white popup box isn't closing just so it knows or if people are trying to access it. it it may or may not be working. Just so we know, >> the workaround to that is um if you were to rightclick um if you refresh your screen, go to the
same place that you went in the original um section where the calendar is. Scroll to the bottom of the box and rightclick on that link instead of clicking directly on it. You should be able to open it in a new tab. >> It'll actually bring up a dialogue box
that says open a new tab. And then you'll be able to open up in the browser. >> Did it work? >> You still can't get it to work. >> I just wanted to bring it up in case people at home were having the same issue I was having. >> Yeah. So, it's the the line that says
the meeting agenda is linked here. And if you hover on that link and right click on it, with your um mouse and it still doesn't work. >> No. Okay. If the the Yeah, I mean that that is the workaround that we have, but
we can see if we can try to do something else to get that accessible. Apologies. Got it. Okay. And before we get started with the next strategic plan, are you all Veronica [snorts] and Don, are you able to see
the screen? Okay. Where you're sitting. >> That's >> Yeah. Are you able to see it? Okay. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. >> All right. We can go ahead with the presentation. >> Good evening and thank you for another opportunity to provide the board of education with an update on our
facility's work. Tonight's presentation will include our typical monthly updates on several projects that are underway, as well as a more detailed spotlight on a project that is just about to start. So, we'll go ahead and get started with our
regular monthly updates. [clears throat] Our first update is at Kimell Middle School, which again is our most complex project with a large addition as well as significant renovations while students, students, and staff remain in the building. The Gilbane team has done a
great job of keeping the project on schedule while also being considerate of the daily needs of our Kimble staff. A recent example of this was assisting to shift the bus drop off area to the new parking lot on the north side of the building to ensure our students can
arrive and leave school safely and efficiently. Recent milestones at Kimble include exterior framing on the captorium, which you can see in the lower right image, interior framing and drywall in the new classroom wing and installation of
kitchen equipment. Upcoming work includes completing the captorium enclosure, and starting work on the courtyard, as well as interior work on mechanicals, ceiling grid, and paint. This project remains on schedule for completion in time for the start of
school in August. There is a substantial amount of work planned for this summer and we will take full advantage of the longer summer break built into this year's schedule. We are confident in our team's ability to execute the work safely and efficiently and look forward to opening the doors to Kimble students
and staff this fall. The Kenyon Woods edition is now largely complete on the interior and you can really see the transformation taking shape here. Exterior progress includes continued site restoration, new concrete walls and landscaping. And on the
interior, crews are underway with mechanical commissioning of the new systems and also working through punch list items. With the addition near completion, we will be scheduling furniture deliveries to start in miday. And once school is out at the end of the
year, the remaining site work will begin at the bus turnaround and crews will focus on select renovations within the existing building. As we've shared previously, this project remains ahead of schedule. Coordination is tight and we are well positioned for a smooth
transition into the new addition. Construction also continues at Legacy Middle School. In fact, just last week, we had the opportunity to visit the site with a group of students from Streamwood High School as part of Student Government Day. Big thanks to our
partners at Gilbane and DLA for making it a cool learning experience for our students. Our next stop was at Hawk Hollow Middle School where students got to see one of our recently completed projects and we'd like to thank Archon and ICI for their support and
participation with that portion of the of the experience. We had the students assigned to three different teams to provide us with feedback on design and infrastructure, student experience and belonging, and academic achievement. Additionally, we
invited them to join us at our next facilities update in May to share some of their findings. Now, back to the status update on the Legacy Middle School. At this point, the team is nearing completion with the structural steel erection and
installation of temporary roofing in all areas. Current work includes installing loadbearing race masonry walls, permanent roofing, and slab ongrade concrete pores in the singlestory portion of the building. The team has taken advantage of the
favorable weather, well at least last week's favorable weather, and the project remains on schedule with substantial completion anticipated for late this fall, leaving us plenty of time to move in and have the building fully ready to welcome students and
staff in August of 2027. Next up is Century Oaks. As you can see from this image, the addition of seven entirely new classrooms and a gross motor play area has taken shape quickly since breaking ground in December. Significant progress has been made since
the last project update with roughly 50 workers on site daily at this site. Exterior elements such as geothermal welding, weld drilling, exterior brick work, metal framing, and roofing operations continue to make steady progress with each favorable weather
day. Full building enclosure is on the horizon as roofing work should be watertight later this week and windows are scheduled for delivery within the next two weeks. On the interior, all concrete slabs have been poured with work now focusing on overhead
mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure. Painting and ceiling grid grid crews will be mobilizing in the next few weeks as the construction team continues to push the schedule forward in time for August occupancy. We are closely monitoring sequencing and
coordination to ensure the project remains aligned with long-term delivery goals while maintaining safety and quality standards. While there is still substantial work ahead, we are seeing steady forward movement and expect progress to become more visibly
accelerated over the coming weeks. The next update is at Glen Brook Elementary School in Streamwood. Because we have made plans to move students and staff to Hanover Countryside next year, much of the project will be starting after school is over. However,
geothermal well drilling crews have begun mobilizing equipment at this site and they are planning to begin their work later this week with completion anticipated before summer break. Work on the additions along with building renovations will start in the summer and
extend through the following year. Our next project is Illinois Park which will be converted from an early childhood center to an elementary school. We are happy to report that we were able to obtain the needed permits from the city of Elgen and work is
underway. The scope for this project was phased in such a way that allowed us to get a head start on night shift mechanical infrastructure work between January and April of this year. Crews were able to install new duck work, piping, and electrical infrastructure
above ceilings in 19 existing classrooms. Additionally, crews performed structural steel reinforcing for new rooftop mechanical units during spring break. On the exterior, crews have been making steady progress on site clearing,
building pad preparations, and new utility installations. Crews are scheduled to begin the aggregate stone pier foundation system next week with concrete operations following shortly behind. We will need to make up some time on
this project as permitting took a little bit longer than anticipated, but we are confident that the site work and building renovations will be complete in time for school to start in August. The new multi-purpose room will not be completed until midfall, so we are
planning to start the year using the existing kitchen and cafeteria. And with that said, I'll turn it over to Mr. Lindholm, who will provide a spotlight on the project that is up next. Thank you, Dr. Williams. Um, yes. So,
now we will transition into a more uh in-depth look at the new elementary school in Elgen um where we are uh be bringing a proposal later this evening um to award the construction work and look forward to getting started uh in the coming weeks.
So, as a reminder, uh in late 2024, the district uh closed on the purchase of this property, uh the former David C. Cook um property at 850 North Grove in Elgen and um it included a lease back
period to allow the David C. Cook organization to uh wrap up their operations. They moved out late last summer. Um so in around July 2025, they they vacated the the property um and moved into their new location at Randall Road and we've had full um occupancy of
the of the property since then. Uh we also met with the Northeast Neighborhood Association of Elgen twice last year. Uh first at Gail Bordon and then for the second time was at McKenley Elementary. Um and during these meetings, I mean there was a lot of
excitement about the project um and and about this new school coming into their into their neighborhood. There were questions and concerns. Um they had some concerns about the resulting traffic impact uh especially during arrival and dismissal times each day. um some of the
details around what construction would look like on the site um during during the uh during that phase of the project and then also a lot of questions about maintaining some of the mature trees on the site um which are which are very important um to the community. So we worked to make sure that we addressed
all of those concerns in the plans that we submitted and that were ultimately approved by the Elgen City Council. We also are fully committed to um keeping up uh our work with this group to make sure that they're informed um and that they're going to be proud of of the school that that we build in their
neighborhood. Um and we want to make sure that we honor sort of the the unique and historic neighborhood that we'll be moving into. So, so then in February, on February 2nd, the Elgen Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of our plans um to construct a new elementary school at
this location. And then later that month on February 25th, the pro proposal was approved by the full city council um which marked a significant milestone in the project. So with that approval, uh we released an invitation to bid for the construction on March 6th and bids were
publicly opened on April 7th. So earlier this month, later this evening, the board will be considering a proposal to award the construction across 18 separate bid packages. We had a very strong response with over 100 bid submissions across the 18 uh packages
and we received competitive bids that have resulted in the project coming in well below our original budget estimate. Abatement work is currently underway to ensure that we'll have safe working conditions for the demolition and then later for the construction teams and we are currently working with the city of Elgen to finalize site permitting and
building demolition logistics. The tenative schedule would call for building demolition starting early summer followed by mass site grading, utility installation and preparing for new building foundations in the early fall. and we will be scheduling an official groundbreaking ceremony to mark
the start of the work sometime after school starts in late August. Exterior walls and structural steel will continue through the fall and into mid 2027. At that point, work will transition to interior mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work along with exterior window
systems. We are targeting an early 2028 completion that will allow plenty of time to move in furniture and provide our staff with thorough training on building systems as we prepare to open a new school in August of 2028. This project represents a significant
investment in expanding access to highquality learning environments in a part of the district that has not seen a new school in decades. And it's fully aligned with theite46 capital plan and long-term enrollment strategy. We can't wait to get started.
So, we're now going to share uh an extensive look at the design of the new school, including a virtual walkthrough of the inside and the outside of the building. I think you'll see the team at DA has done a really nice job in designing a modern elementary school with large open spaces, plenty of
windows to provide natural light while also using materials, colors, and other design elements that honor the historical significance of the former David C. Cook property as well as the surrounding homes in the neighborhood. Here we go. So, we start with the site map and you
can see how the building is set back from North Grove Avenue. [music] Uh, parking is off to the right or the north of the property and the bus drop off is to the south. I'm going to have to speed it up. Um, and then we swing around to the north side of the building. You can see the main entrance. You might have
got a peek at the historic oak tree there um that we've made u careful plans to preserve. [music] We move into the commons and if you look on the lefth hand side you see graphics on the wall that show the theme for the building design uh using the classical elements of earth, water, fire and air.
We're now in the multi-purpose room which is the water theme. And here we [music] go. I'm too slow. Um so then we're in a corridor here where we you can see we move from the blues and greens into like the browns and oranges. Uh we turn the corner and you see the large fire graphic off to to the [music]
right. We then move down into the gross motor room uh which will be a really fun uh active space for our youngest learners. And then we move into the library. So this is another twotory space designed um under the earth element.
Uh you see the stairs connecting the first and second um floor [music] and we've been able to create some kind of unique like reading nooks and comfy spaces around around the stairs that we think kids will really enjoy. Uh then we move outside and you see some of the outdoor patio furniture to kind
of extend learning outdoors. You look back at the building from the Fox River from the bike trail. And here we're where you can really see the elevation change. It comes up quite a hill as you uh come up from the river to our property. We swing around to [music] the south and there you see the uh bus drop
off area. And now we [music] move back inside and I think we go into the gymnasium. Yes. So, the gymnasium uh which also st serves as a storm shelter. Uh the design theme in here is under the air theme. Um
and you see the um acoustic panels on on the wall there. Um kind of in the leaf designs. Come back and look at the library from the from the second floor and you really see some of the the natural light we're able to bring in. Also up in this area is a learning [music] hub uh that has a foldable wall
that would allow them to extend it out into the corridor. We'd be able to host up to to two classes at a time there. Um you see the view from the commons in the upper area where you got a really nice uh view of the the trees and looking out in the Fox River. Then we have a look at
an art room here. And then I think next is a science lab. The ceilings in here um it adds a lot of volume, a lot of character. um following that sawtooth roof design um that you see here from the outside and this nice twilight view. Again, there's that historic [music] oak
tree that that we've kind of uh designed the front entrance around and uh that's our new school. >> Great job, Dr. Mr. L. [applause] Oh yeah. Uh thank you. That concludes uh this evening's presentation. Um we'd be
happy to take any questions. >> Thank you. And that video was very exciting. Thank you for sharing that. Do board members have any questions. Veronica, >> just not really a question, but if if we don't get board docs up and running, can we get that video shared with us separately? >> Definitely.
>> Awesome. Anyone else? >> Okay. Thank you. >> You okay? The next item on the agenda is comments from the audience. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. This evening we have one public comment. Uh Jonathan
Medina. >> Good evening. We are now opening the public comment portion of the board of education meeting. Those who completed a request to speak card will be called to provide comments in the order in which the cards were received. Online participants have been provided meeting
access via Zoom. Written comments emailed to boardw6.org have been posted to the agenda for public viewing. To ensure that all comments are heard, speakers must comply with the following procedures. Individual comments are less than three
minutes and comments may not mention the name or personal information of any student other than the speaker's own child. Please note that while board members listen to speakers, they do not respond to comments or answer questions. Thank you.
particip. board. Personal Gracias. >> Nice seeing you guys. My name is Jonathan Medina and of course I'm here because of previous um complaints I made. Um of course I
sent a written formal complaint to the board and I got a response from um the superintendent. Um but I still haven't heard back from Trish Olsen or Mark Moore about what was going on or anything like that. Um, so I'm pretty
sure I'm just still waiting to see why the SRO officer was coming out to see me when she first, you know, the first interaction was with this person. Um, I was a written explanation of um of what
policies, if any, justified this response for her to even come up to me and let alone showing my ID or anything like that. Uh and what corrective actions to ensure that no parent is subjected to this kind
of treatment again or and well and the training for the staff on deescalations um parent engagement and appropriate use of an SRO officer.
So, pretty much it's just seems like, you know, like the kids are saying here, stuff seems like it's getting swept underneath the rug. Nothing's being done. And I'm just wondering what's going on. Thank you. Okay. The next item on our agenda is
other business board member and superintendent update if necessary. Do board members have any updates they would like to share? Okay, Dr. Johnson. Uh, very quickly, I want to um recognize that a little bit later this week we
have superintendent uh scholarship uh recognition. They'll be recognizing students who uh with support of the foundation and some of our very generous donors are receiving scholarships. The scholarship is for uh students who are first generation students who will be attending uh college or the university
uh moving forward. So I want to one celebrate our students, let everybody know that they should be looking forward to uh learning about some of those stories about our students and their successes and two a thank you to the foundation and to our community members and our donors who make this possible.
So that'll be happening later this week. Thank you. >> Thank you. The [snorts] next item on the agenda is for requests. This evening we have 10 Freedom of Information Act uh requests available when it's working on the public uh domain of board docs, but
they will also be on the U46 website later this week. >> Thank you. Next item is consent agenda. Dr. Johnson. >> Yep. All right. This evening we have quite the consent agenda. So to begin, we have personnel report and workers compensation cases.
Minutes of board meeting February 23rd, 2026. Resolution for the disposal of surplus personal property. Bid fine arts age and obsolescence scheduled equipment replacement for the 2025 2026 school
year. Bid operations Unite U46 Glenrook Elementary School ACM recommendation. Bid operations Unite U46 Century Oaks Elementary School ACM recommendation.
Bid plan operations Liberty Elementary School building envelope project number 1102-26 bid plan operations Fox Meadow Elementary School heating ventilation and air conditioning project number 728-26
bid plant operations TU Middle School heating ventilation and air conditioning project number 532-26 bid plant operations Huff Elementary School warming kitchen project number 103-26. Bid plan operations summer 2026 moving
the U district classroom moving services bid postsecary success Bartlett High School furniture fixtures and equipment phase 2 construction bid postsecary success Elgen and South Elgen High School's career and technical
education equipment proposal postsecary success full-time dual credit proposal postsecary success avid schools 103A grant and annual membership. Proposal operations Unite U46 Kimell
Middle School Library Maker Space Proposal Assessment Accountability and Student Success Blue Streak Math Fluency Software. Proposal: Assessment, Accountability, and Student Success. Handto-minded Math and Literacy Take-home Kits. Proposal: Assessment,
Accountability, and Student Success. Kang County Regional Office of Education Extended Services Proposal Assessment, Accountability, and Student Success Library Classroom Library Books. Contract assessment accountability and student success
climate and culture training contract post-secondary success south Elgen High School career and technical education equipment contract specialized student services EPS learning spire resource and building
permit one south Elgen High School exterior exterior door replacement project number 283-26. Thank you. Are there any items that board members would like remove from the consent agenda? Hearing none, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda
as read into the record? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Miss Nolan? >> Yes. >> Miss Schwarz? >> Yes. >> President Owens? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> And the next item is discussion action. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. >> Thank you, President Owens. The first
item is itemized bills, April 27th, 2026. Coming forward is Dr. Kyle Vonesy, deputy superintendent of operations to respond to questions from the board of education regarding the attached bills. May I have a motion to approve the list
of bills in the amount of 44,41,600 I'm sorry, let me repeat that. List of bills in the amount of 44,41,768.25. >> So moved. >> Second. Any questions for Dr. Vanesy? >> Okay. Roll call, please.
>> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Miss Nolan? >> Yes. >> Miss Schwarz? >> Yes. >> President Owens? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Thank you, President Owens, for reading that. >> Our second this evening is a recommendation for the 2026 2027 student
advisor to the board of education. Uh this evening again we have members of the superintendent student advisory council Thomas Aman of El of Larkin High School, Niha Ali and Nidhi Chowdery of Bartlett High School, Andrew Ponuse of Elgen High School and Victoria Steven of
South Elgen High School. Uh who will be recommending with my full support two finalists in order of preference to be the 19th student advisor to the board of education. So students, if you would please come
forward at this time. [snorts] >> Good evening, Dr. Johnson, President Owens, and members of the board of education. On behalf of the entire student advisory council, let me thank the board for the opportunity to be involved in the selection of the 19th student adviser to the board. This was a
process that we took very seriously. Like us, I am sure you will find the two finalists with the student adviser to the board are outstanding candidates. Either of them would be an excellent addition to the board. The process of selecting the adi student adviser to the board has been one of the most important
tasks we've done this year. The process was followed was completely student driven. However, we do want to thank Dr. Johnson for the guidance and support she provided us throughout the school year. In the winter of the 2025 2026 school year, high school principles were asked to select nominations for the
position which would be submitted to the school's principal advisory committee. The principal advisory committee for each school was given until January 31st, 2026 to select and submit the names of two candidates along with the following information. A letter of reference from a faculty
member or principal. The student transcript demonstrates that the candidate is in good standing. A student written essay explaining why the student would be a good nominee for the position of the student board advisor to the board of education. And then a resume highlighting their education accomplishments, job or volunteering experience, skills, and other points of
interest. We received a total of 11 student nomination packets that were complete and submitted by the deadline. This included students from the following schools. Bartlett, Elgen, Larkin, South Elgen, Streamwood, and Dream Academy. We then held a meeting to narrow down the the candidates and
concluded that we will interview six candidates based on their strengths that they each possess. In March, the Superintendent Student Advisory Council then interviewed all six of them. During our interviews, we looked far beyond student performance in narrowing our list. Our goal was to select those
students who could represent the voices of all high school students and who are driven to make a difference. Based on the review of each candidate in the interviews we conducted, we are recommending to the board of education our two finalists. In this preference, Stephanie Flores from Elgen High School
and Erica Hawk from Bartlett High School. It is my pleasure to recommend Stephanie Flores, an exceptional 11th grade student at Elgen High School as the next student board member for the 2026 27 school year. As an international
balorate student, Stephanie has demonstrated remarkable academic excellence, maintaining an impressive GPA while taking on a rigorous course load. She is widely recognized for her strong work ethic, intellectual curiosity, and genuine commitment to
learning. Stephanie consistently goes be above and beyond not only in her academics but also in her involvement within the school community. Stephanie is a dedicated and impactful leader who actively contributes to her school and community. As president of
the organization of Latin American students, she leads meetings, plans events, and creates an inclusive environment where all students feel valued. One of her most notable accomplishments includes securing a sponsorship from Chicago Bears, bringing recognition and pride to her school and community. In addition, Stephanie serves
on the superintendent student advisory council and the principal advisory board, participates in mocktra and represents the Elgen Police Department Explorers at the national level. Through these roles, she consistently demonstrates initiative professionalism and a strong commitment to representing
her peers. Beyond her achievements, Stephanie is compassionate and driven in is an indiv driven individual, my apologies, who leads with empathy and purpose. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and has earned the seal of literacy, often serving as a valuable
resources for students and families in her community. With a strong interest in law and public services, Stephanie aspires to become an attorney, a goal that reflects her sense of justice and dedication to making a positive impact. Known for her integrity, confidence, and
ability to connect with others, Stephanie is wellprepared to represent the student voices at the district level. I strongly recommend Stephanie Flores for the 2026 27 student adviser to the board of education as she will serve with insight, professionalism, and
an unwavering dedication. Erica Hawk is an outstanding 11th grade student at Bartlet High School whose academic excellence and determination sets her apart. She consistently demonstrates strong intellectual curiosity and a deep commitment to learning, approaching challenges with
persistent and focus. Erica is a thoughtful commentator communicator who asks meaningful questions and engaged fully in her education. Reflecting both confidence and a genuine desire for growth. In addition to her academic strengths, Erica brings a unique perspective as a student who has experienced multiple schools within the
district. She quickly built positive connections with peers and contributes to a collaborative and supportive environment. Erica is dependable, insightful, and unafraid to speak up in pursuit of understanding. For these reasons, we confidently recommend Erica Hawk as a 2026 2027 alternate student
adviser to the board of education, knowing she will represent her peers with integrity and dedication. >> Let us emphasize again though that each of the candidates we reviewed would make an excellent student adviser to the board of education. Our deepest appreciation goes out to those students who were nominated and agreed to
participate in this process. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the hard work of the entire Superintendent Student Advisory Council for dedicating additional time out of their schedules to review applications and conduct interviews. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you all again. [applause]
So, thank you for the time that you put into both this presentation, but more importantly into the the work that you all did to uh review the candidates, to go through the interviews, to put this presentation together for us. We really really appreciate it. We recognize that
that's a lot of work on top of all the other work that you're doing as part of uh your schooling career goes. So, um thank you. Thank you. Because that this is an important link and I know that the the link that the student board member has between the work that we do here on
the board and what she can deliver the the student board member can deliver back to the um to the students as far as being a voice um is really important in the work that we do. So um very much appreciated and to Miss Hawk and to Miss Flores, thank you for participating. Um
we look forward to welcoming uh as the new board uh student board member. Um and thank you for for participating in the process. We really appreciate it. Do board members have any questions? Okay. Thank you.
[applause] Okay. The next item on the agenda is work session. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, President Owens. Our next item is the 2027 2022 and 2028 2029 school calendars. Mark Moore, assistant
superintendent of human resources, will provide an update to the board of education regarding the proposed calendar calendars for the 2027 2022 and 2028 2029 school years. Here we go.
All right, good evening. Um, as you know, every year around this time we present a calendar for not the upcoming year, but the year after. This time we're going two years out because many of our peer districts are starting to do that and there's really no reason not to give advanced notice to the community on what the calendar will be. So, we're
presenting two years now and then in the future we'll be two school years ahead going forward. So, next year we would bring the 2930. Uh, the first one up is 2728. As you know, this next school year, we're starting considerably later than we have been for construction. So, we're
not starting till um the week before Labor Day or a week and a half before Labor Day. This next calendar moves us back a week, but not all the way to where we are currently with no intent in the future to get back to the uh second week of August. So our pattern which you
can see on this calendar has us start the third week of August on Monday when teachers return and students on Thursday. So Monday is August 16th of 27. Thursday is August 19th of 27. Um moving through as you probably
remember in some years there's an election day in November. In the even years in the odd years there is not. So on even years we would assign an institute day to the election day in November. In odd years there is no election day so it's no issue. Uh we do
continue to serve as polling places for much of cook the schools in Cook County. King County does not use our schools and I we may have one in DuPage but because we have electors coming into our buildings we want to not have students those days but there's nothing there's no um reason not to have teachers and
employees on site. So we'll use them as institute days. Uh a change starting in November of 27 is a full week off for Thanksgiving. That is in line with district 300 where they have uh parent conferences Monday and Tuesday but no students the whole week. And St. Charles
303 they have uh had the whole week as non-attendants for many years now. So our neighbors to the north and the south already don't have students those days will join them. Um many you know as you know many of our families like to travel for Thanksgiving and uh of course many
of our employees do. Our attendance for students goes down. Our attendance for staff goes down that week. Um so we'll just avoid that and and uh have vacation or holiday. Um continuing back then from winter break as usual we come back as uh the
first Monday after New Year's Day. In this year it would be January 3rd. That's the earliest we would ever come back. put an institute day in there. Moving down, there's always an election in March, uh, typically the third week in the even years. It's primary
election. So, in this year, it's the 21st. We use an institute day there. The agreement among the King County District is that spring break will be the week that includes March 31st. So, you'll always see spring break somewhere that week where the 31st is part of spring
break. And then, uh, ending school. in this year on June 2nd of 2028 with graduation moving to Saturday that year as we've already uh adopted the contract with the now arena for that day. Uh it is certainly to our benefit to have school
end as close to graduation as possible and if we had readopted the current calendar we would be out of school more than a week before graduation. I don't think that's a good situation for staff or students. >> Questions on that year?
>> Don I guess this would be a question for both calendars, so you can save it for later. Um, have you received any feedback from staff on these two calendars? >> Uh, we did share both with ETA leadership and gathered feedback and incorporated their feedback uh partially into the calendar. Um, we don't send it
out for general um survey purposes. >> Okay. And then for the um 27 28 calendar, the one you just went through. >> Yep. I'm assuming parent teacher conferences will still be that time in October at towards the end of October. >> That would be the the 29th. Yeah.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Don, so um I'm kind of looking at it just like kind of the larger changes so our community kind of just is aware of the bigger ones. >> One of the things and I think this is more of a high school um change than really for
>> um elementary and probably not middle school is that end of first semester will now be after the holidays. That's correct. >> Um, and I know that we don't really do final exams anymore. I think it's just good for the community to understand so our high school students know that that shifts. Um, I'm
assuming we didn't really get push back from any high school staff on that like there being concerns with that semester ending later. >> We did not get feedback from ETA leadership. >> Perfect. Thank you. And then the other
um and this is more specific to 2728. Um I know one of the things we're going to hear from from the community is the summer [laughter] because we're going from an extremely long one for construction this year. >> It it looks to me when I looked at it and now of course it's a little bit more
difficult for me to look at it now. >> It it looks by us starting at the 17th this goes back to very close to the summer we had last year. Is that accurate that they're not losing this summer isn't extremely next summer won't be too super short
>> right? So this summer we're ending a few days earlier than normal and going back to school almost two and a half weeks later than normal. >> Yes. >> Um so it's it's close to four extra weeks this summer. The summer of 27 we're letting out on June 9th assuming
no snow days and going back on August 19th. So it's two months plus 10 days >> and but that's similar to what we used to do. >> It's still going to be a week to two short of what everyone's used to from prior summers. But there's really
>> there's really no way around that. >> We knew it was going to be a change. Yeah. >> Just trying to make sure we're not doing anything too crazy to our students and staff the that first summer of the change. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> No.
>> Proceed to the next one. The next one follows the very same pattern. So, we start that same week of August in 2028. Uh, continue down. Of course, it's an even year, so there is a November. >> Hold for a second because it's not up on the screen yet.
[snorts] I close it and re >> you all able to see that. Okay. >> Okay. So, summer of 28, we would go back that same week of August as in 27 teachers on Monday. uh students on Thursday. There
is an election in November, so we would have the seventh and the sixth off for institute day. We're trying to avoid when possible the Tuesday off as that does not lend itself to encouraging attendance on Monday. Uh so we go with two institute days. One of those would
be the parent conferences, sixth or the 7th. Um full year uh full week for Thanksgiving again and you'll see that in calendars in the future. We expect then after break um Christmas and New Years are on Monday. So this is where
the break moves to mostly after New Year's instead of before Christmas as happens every six or seven years. Uh end of the semester right before Martin Luther King birthday. Um spring break again including the week that includes Mar March 31st.
And then we have uh the spring election in 29 which is the consolidated election is on April 3rd. So to avoid the have a whole spring break come back Monday half Tuesday off we put the spring holiday on April 2nd. So for teachers spring break
goes the whole week plus Monday for students it includes Tuesday. So it is a longer spring break than normal for students but the ar it's just from the arrangement of the days. There's not another day off somewhere else. Um institute day on the 27th. Something I should mention is in fact what's
happening this week as you know we're we originally scheduled this week's Friday to be an institute day. We had a snow day this year. So instead we're having students on Friday and the institute day is on um m May 21st after the last day of students. Same idea. So in both
calendars we have a late April early May institute day that is that flex day. So if we have one snow day we'll go to school that day and move that the institute day the teacher day to the end of the year. um and let out again on Friday, June
1st, graduation most likely the second. >> Any questions on that calendar? John? >> Um I don't have a question. I was going to make sure that we have these available to the public tomorrow somehow, assuming we don't have board docs.
>> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes, we will. We will get them posted. >> Thank you, >> Veronica. Just to clarify on that second calendar, did you say graduation will most likely be June 2nd? So, it will not be on Labor Day weekend. >> Um, the the intent is for graduation to
not be on Memorial Day after this year. >> Next year, it's already contracted for not Memorial Day and then I understand we don't have a contract yet for future years, but I think we have dates reserved that are the Saturday after Memorial Day. >> Got it. Thank you.
>> Okay, any other questions? Thank you. >> All right. Thanks. >> Okay. Next item. >> Our next item is the approval of reciprocal reporting agreement with local municipalities. Coming forward, Rich Bosch, director of school safety,
will present to the board of education the reciprocal reporting agreements with the city of Elgen and villages of Bartlett, Carol Stream, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, South Elgen, Streamwood, and Wayne. These agreements are presented to the board of education after they have been approved by the
municipalities. >> Yes. Uh in summary, these agreements uh formalize a consistent two-way communication process between local law enforcement agencies and a district regarding incidents involving students. Under these agreements, police departments will promptly notify the
district of law enforcement contain contacts involving district students that may impact students safety, behavior, or well-being. In turn, the district will share relevant school-based information when appropriate and legally permissible to support coordinated responses. This
collaboration strengthens the situational awareness, improves response time and potential safety concerns, and ensures that both schools and law enforcement are aligned in supporting student safety and accountability across the community boundaries. >> Okay.
I'm going to ask if anybody has any questions, but I'm also going to to say I mean, we've got, you know, on this agenda item alone, we've got a number of attachments. Um, I'm assuming that there might be some more follow-up questions this this go
around because we don't have access right now to be able to ask better questions when we have these presentations. Um, so, uh, for board members, um, you know, when you're able then to see these attachments,
um, go ahead and send the questions to Dr. Johnson and to myself. Um, and then we will work to to make sure that we get the the questions answered. But, you know, understanding it's a little bit difficult to ask questions when we don't have the paperwork. >> Understand? We'll get to those answers
when you have them. Questions. >> But, does anybody have any questions? Having said that, >> I just have one question. When are we are we voting on this? At the next meeting. >> Yes. Yes. From here on out, we're everything is pushed to vote on the next meeting. So, there's nothing actionable
from this point forward. Um, so yes, we have time to to get those questions answered. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Our next item, advancement via individual determination AVID 78 and
AVID 1 through4 curriculum proposal. Beth McKini, coordinator of instruction programs and supports, will present to the board of education the AVID 78 and AVID 1 through4 curriculum proposal for the 2026 2027 school year. Administration recommends approval of
the AVID 78 and AVID 1 through4 curriculum proposal at no cost to the district as it is included in the board approved AVID membership and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost
is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. >> And I think that you do have a presentation. >> I do. I'm having trouble. I think I clicked I can see it on my screen, but I don't know if it's going to the other screen.
>> There it goes. >> You see it now? >> Do you see it? >> Yep. >> Excellent. Okay. I'm trying to get it into the slideshow view, but it doesn't want to do that. You okay with this view? I don't know if it's going to move.
>> Veronica, does it do you want to move over to another desk or >> I mean, it is really small. [laughter] >> Yeah, we can. >> Well, every time I have slideshow to view it, it just stalls out at me. >> Thank you. Does it help?
>> There we go. Thank you very much. Claire, >> does anybody want to switch seats with me to be able to see better? >> Okay. >> Would you like us to ask them to get rid of the side by side? >> Yes. >> If it's P. Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. Is that better for everybody?
Okay. >> Thank you. Okay. Again, my name is Beth McKini, coordinator of instructional programs and supports in post-secondary success, and I'm presenting a proposal for the adoption of aligned curriculum for the advancement via individual
determination or AVID elective in grades 7 through 12. We are seeking adoption of an aligned curriculum. Um we call this AVID 7 and 8 and then in the high school it is called AVID 1 through 4 the elective course.
The purpose of our curriculum work was to reduce variability in the implementation of the AVID elective across the district and to strengthen the vertical alignment of skill development within the program. The AVID middle the AVID elective
curriculum is aligned with the school district U46 strategic plan goals three and four. The core standards support rigorous academic preparation as outlined in goal three academic growth and mastery. Additionally, the
opportunity knowledge standards promote student learning that advances goal four ready to embrace a diverse and changing world. The work of the curriculum team was informed by the AVID college and career readiness framework. The AVID elective
standards are organized into three categories. Rigorous academic preparedness, opportunity, knowledge, and student agency. Further, the academic preparation of the course is accomplished through writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization,
and reading skill development with the overall purpose of college and career readiness. The development of these skills is rooted in belief in self. If students believe they are capable, there is a foundational confidence to learn
and a resiliency to overcome setbacks. The work of the curriculum development was accomplished by two committees, one for the middle school and one for the high school. Our work um was shared among those two committees so that they could further think about um the way
skills were developed vertically and each committee was comprised of teachers from multiple schools across the district who met on multiple occasions to collaborate. On this slide and the next are a list of those teachers who dedicated their time
to this work. I should note that this um work with the AVID elective which has been supported in the district since 2009 had never been undertaken in this district. So teachers have been implementing with great success but without having alignment in their work
in this way. The development process began in fall of 2024 when the curriculum committee convened to analyze the standards. Each grade level's AVID elective includes 64 standards which were systemically
organized into essential learner outcomes. These outcomes were then aligned with ELA common core WEDA and Illinois social emotional learning standards. A key component of this work involved identifying the vertical
progression of skills embedded within the standards. Educators concentrated their efforts on designing summitive assessments to measure each essential learner outcome. This slide shows a typical week in the AVID elective. A typical week balances
organization, academic support, and college readiness. Early in the week, students often focus on organization, goal setting, and learning wicker strategies, writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading. Two days of the week are dedicated to tutorials
where students work in groups to solve questions from their core classes through inquirybased discussion. And throughout the week, students also build college and career skills such as note-taking and time management. The week usually ends with reflection on
learning and progress. The proposed AVID curriculum is grounded in multiple standards frameworks to ensure a comprehensive approach to student development. It integrates standards focused on student agency, rigorous academic preparation and opportunity knowledge alongside common
core ELA and social studies, WEDA and Illinois social emotional learning standards. This alignment supports both academic achievement and the development of essential social and emotional skills. This curriculum utilizes the AVID
provided resource weeks at a glance included with our AVID membership. These units incorporate activities aligned to AVID standards and include formative assessments to monitor student progress towards those standards. The weeks at a
glance materials were updated by AVID in 2024 and 2025. The new curriculum for AVID 78 and the high school elective will be implemented beginning in the fall of 2026. We'll begin preparing teachers this
summer for strong implementation of this updated curriculum. Professional learning for teachers will be delivered through AVID events and the post-secondary success department across multiple phases in 2026. This spring, AVID elective teachers will
begin receiving training on the new curriculum. During the summer, teachers new to AVID will participate in a regional path training, receiving instruction directly from AVID center on the specific skills and strategies that they will be implemented in that
elective. And in the fall, we will have meetings um in professional learning to focus on deeper curriculum work, analyzing those standards and showing how they are aligned to the summitive assessments. Costs for the AVID weeks at a glance that are included in our annual
membership um which are included in the annual membership for each AVID school. The total cost of those memberships for the 15 middle and high middle and high schools implementing the AVID elective is $74,760. In addition, the cost for the
professional learning of up to six staff members from each secondary school does total $61,650 and those are numbers for the 2627 school year. Avid educators will continue advancing
the implementation of a rigorous standards aligned curriculum through ongoing collaboration including regular analysis of student performance data from summitive assessments to inform and refine instructional practices. AVID site teams will systemically report data
for students enrolled in the AVID elective and complete our secondary implementation tool on an annual basis. Additionally, site teams will conduct comprehensive analyses of student outcomes, including course grades, enrollment, and rigorous coursework and
and attendance trends to guide continuous program improvement and decision making. >> Thank you. >> Thank you for the presentation. Do board members have any questions? Okay. >> Thank you.
>> And the next item, our next item is honors Spanish 4 advanced placement French and Spanish languages and heritage Spanish curriculum proposal. Celia Banks, director of curriculum instruction, and
Jacob Vandy Mortell, coordinator of K12 social studies and world languages, will present to the board of education the honors, [snorts] excuse me, the honors Spanish 4 advanced placement French and Spanish languages and heritage Spanish curriculum proposal
for the 2026 2027 school year. Administration [snorts] recommends approval of the honors Spanish for advanced placement French and Spanish languages and heritage Spanish curriculum proposal in the amount of $29,9616 and requests authorization for district
administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. It's showing on our end. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. All right.
Well, good evening everyone. I am Jacob Vanny Mortell, curriculum coordinator for K12 social studies and world languages, joined by Missilia Banks. Um and we are seeking the adoption of the funding uh for our new curriculum and curriculum resources for those courses
uh AP French honors Spanish for AP Spanish language and heritage Spanish. And I think anytime uh someone from CNI department stands here, we're obviously speaking to strategic plan goal number three around academic growth and mastery through the adoption of highquality
instructional materials and aligning that to a rigorous curriculum. Uh tonight I also believe we're speaking to goal four uh about being ready to embrace a diverse and changing world because we are looking at advanced placement opportunities and seal of biiteracy opportunities through the culmination of these courses. I also
think we're speaking to goal two around safety, sense of belonging and inclusion. Uh both because of the interculturality that the resources we are selecting and the way we are doing the the culture component of actful uh fits in and because we're listening to our students about um the types of
courses they want to have and I think that that builds sense of belonging as well too. So tonight's rationale really tonight is the completion of our transition towards advanced placement courses being the culminating course for students in a world language pathway
through all four years. We were here last year uh doing that change talking about how we were moving to advanced placement and with your approval we went ahead and put those courses in the course calendar or course selection sheets. Students selected those courses teachers are excited about those courses. Um and I
said we'd be back with the resources and the curriculum for this sort of in between um course honor Spanish 4 because of the unique relationship that our students in our district have to learning Spanish languages whether they're coming from middle school or dual language programs or heritage
programs or moveins. There's a lot of different ways and so the feedback was we need to have a an in between space uh that's like honor Spanish 4 that's not quite AP yet. So we're also bringing the curricular parts of that forward. Sorry, this is a long slide. I want to keep talking through it. Uh, obviously, this
speaks to um the reason we're moving towards uh AP is for those opportunities for college credit uh both through the AP exam as well as a seal of literacy. Uh and that talks that brings us to the advanced placement text. Uh we have taught AP Spanish language for many
years in this district. We've been using a text called Tamas from Vista Higher Learning. And with the changes to that exam this year, our teachers actually came to us and said, "Can we do a one-year renewal while they get their new product that speaks to the new test, we went to the company, they said yes."
And because we have traditionally bundled the that resource with our heritage Spanish resource, Galleria, from the same company, VHL, we said, "Can we bundle those both for one year to see the savings?" And then we'll evaluate both of those once they have their new AP books ready next fall. So,
lots of different things going on in this proposal, but they are all related. Our committee, it's nice when you have an amazing team of world language teachers. All of our Spanish 4 teachers participated in the selection of the resource and then the alignment of the curriculum to that resource. We only
have five AP French teachers and they all universally were on board with our choice for AP French. And then again with AP Spanish language, it was the teachers who came to us and said, "Can we do one year?" We said, "Yes, we will." And so they'll also be invited back when when we review those materials
for next year as well. Um kind of a reminder of where the process was. It was in 20 2023 2024 when we were rolling up the fourth year of our Japanese program that was new. Uh we made the decision to move away from sort of just an honors 4 model to an AP model for the
reasons we we've talked about the externally validated credit, college opportunities, things like that. The following year 24-25 when we were redesigning the entire world language pathway and purchasing new resources we recommended the same thing for the rest of our languages and that was last year.
So this year we're bringing forward the resources for those uh as well as like I said the feedback from our teachers, our students and our counselors was that there was still um a need for a place for students who were not ready for AP Spanish language but were in a fourth year of language study. And so we spent
this past year determining um what the contents of that honors Spanish 4 course would be and we're bringing that forward as well. And then next year in school year 2627 we will finally have all of those fourth year culminating options available and running for our students.
Um all of them leading to some sort of external validation. Uh we used the Illinois State Board of Education's world language standards which are quite literally copied and pasted from the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Um that is where we get our proficiency scales from. I'll talk more about those in a
moment. Uh but what's also important here is because we are heading towards uh the College Board AP classes. We aligned all of the courses that lead to those uh with their themes. Um and all the courses essentially are building like a pre-AP course as well.
So on this particular slide you'll see French and Spanish. That's because um we're bringing forward the resources for AP French tonight. That's because we already did AP Japanese 2 years ago. Thank you very much. And uh as I mentioned last year, we are using for AP
German the book that we had previously used for German for. So there's really no need to bring those tonight. So I'm highlighting in French. But I will note that is the German and the Japanese and the French program sequence. You start as a freshman with French one, French two, then as a junior, you move to honors, French three, and then you have
the opportunity to take advanced placement French language and culture. It's a little bit different in Spanish because there's so many different ways you might get there. Many of our students will take Spanish 1A or 1B in seventh and eighth grade of middle school and then start in Spanish 2 as freshman in the high school, then honor
Spanish 3, then they can take AP Spanish language, or they could take honor Spanish 4. Um, after that there's some other options as well, but we're not touching those tonight. So, I'm not even going to try and add that to the slide. Um, but the important thing here, and I'm just going to go into the weeds for
a minute. On the actful proficiency scales, there's essentially several levels. It starts with novice, um, novice, intermediate, sorry, I'm blanking, novice, intermediate, advanced, superior, distinguished, and then in each of those, there's a low, middle, and high.
We've aligned those to each of our each of our courses has a a landing point where by the end of the year you should be at that. And I'm going into the weeds because it's important to note honor Spanish 3 ends at novice high. And both advanced placement Spanish language and
culture and honor Spanish 4 begin at the next level which is intermediate low. So it's not like if you do well you go to one or you don't do well you go to the other. The option is there. You're ready for both classes at the end. The difference is advanced placement Spanish language goes all the way to advanced
low or to advanced mid. So you're doing like a year and 3/4 in the span of a year whereas honor Spanish 4 starts in the same place but gets you to intermediate high. So you do a little bit less rapid advancement. The key here though is obviously the uh advanced placement course has the opportunity for
college credit by getting a four or a five on the AP exam. Honor Spanish 4 students who are achieving the expected proficiency of intermediate high are ready to take and pass the Illinois State Seal of Biteracy exam. So both of
these courses still culminate in an opportunity for an externally validated credit potentially at college. It's just the speed and how far beyond they go is a little bit different and that depends on each student. So, the resources we're recommending
here, um, I've kind of bunched them by vendor. So, you'll see up here, uh, from, they're both from Wayside. AP French is we're recommending AP pron speaker. I'm not sure if that's right or not. Um, and that's from Wayside as well as for honor Spanish for entre.
Um, these are natural fits. They're industry leaders. I'm not going to read the entire slides to you, but what's really good here is that this is the company and the suite that our students are learning language on from the beginning. Our teachers are familiar with it. The there's a fantastic online
suite of feedback tools to give students feedback on both how they speak and how they interact with each other. Um, and so teachers are really excited about that. And then for um AP Spanish language and our heritage classes, we're going through a company called Vista Higher Learning. AP Spanish language is
this is the one-year renewal of Tamas. Um Tamas has a fantastic online suite audio video constantly updating authentic texts. Uh teachers have used this book for a while. This is the one I mentioned at the very beginning that they do not have the new test book
ready, but they will starting next year. And so we're doing the one-year renewal to give them a chance to get that together. There's very few resources on AP Spanish language in the marketplace. So to wait until that one's ready before we do our review made a ton of sense. And like I said, because we have always bundled them together. They were um they
came due at the same time, we're also bundling Galleria in there as well for one year. We'll review Galleria going forward for next year too along with any other heritage things knowing full well that through this process and talking with the vendors if we do elect to go with both together, there are significant savings to be had.
Implementation plan. Um there's lots on this slide, but I'm going to highlight this year is what we've been doing. We've been writing these courses and choosing these and making sure kids know that they can take them. It's next year that they will be fully available and be running. And because they'll be running, we'll have common assessments and the
data determine is what we say we're doing working where we know exactly what the proficiency scales are and how students are doing. That will then lead into next year when we review Tamas and Galleria or alternative options for those courses for a longer term adoption. And then all the courses will be up and running with full text
adoptions and we'll be able to evaluate both usage of the resource as well as the um the alignment of the the common assessments to the actual proficiency scales which leads to sea level by literacy and advanced placement. Um professional learning is uh
relatively short because our teachers are familiar with both of these products and so next DCD we've got two and a half hours on each of the things. um similar cost grand total of $11,000. And then the you've got two costs here, Wayside uh and VHL. Wayside is the AP
French and Spanish 4 at 29,96116. And then VHL is for our AP Spanish language. And for our heritage learners, it's 90,58925. That is one year and it is significantly higher. That's because we have many more students in those classes than the other
two. Um I told you I I believe that we are speaking to strategic goal sorry strategic plan goals two three and four and if we are doing what we say we're doing because of the inclusivity and the
um the way these texts speak to the entire franophhone world or the entire Spanish speaking world and the way that they try to place students in different cultural settings. We believe that they will students will be able to see themselves as world learners. Uh and because we heard their feedback around
we need to have a different sort of class for our that's not just AP Spanish. We believe that'll also lead to an increased sense of belonging which should reflect itself in our panorama. Uh for goal three uh these we are deriving our common assessments from these and this is the curriculum derived from those. So we're very excited to see
that data start to roll in. And then goal four um is the state seal of biiteracy and the advanced placement scores. And so if indeed those are the proposed results, the evaluation and change would be simply looking at the panorama scores, the district common assessment scores and the seal of biiteracy and advanced placement scores
when they come in. That concludes this presentation. >> Thank you for the presentation. I especially want to thank you for the explanation on the range of both honors Spanish 4 and the AP class. That was my my question and how they both would set
students up for the SEAL by literacy test. So, thank you for explaining that. Do board members have any questions? No. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. That moves us on the agenda to work session resolutions. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. Uh first is
a resolution declaring the need to continue usage of temporary classrooms. Sheila DS, assistant superintendent of operations, will present the attached resolution and updated summary list of mobile classrooms that will be used in the FY2027 school year and will respond to
questions from the board of education. The FY2027 temporary facility reports are attached and contain a part one and part two. Administration recommends the board of education approve the resolution declaring the need to continue usage of temporary classrooms.
>> Do board [snorts] members have any questions? Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next item. >> Oh, I'm sorry. That's the next the next next agenda item is work session bids and proposals. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. First is a
bid office of schools elementary supply kits. Dr. Annette Oavdo, assistant superintendent of schools will present the attached proposal summary and will respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends award to the lowest responsible biders school family media DBA educate in the
amount of 631,86957 and Paula Supply Company incorporated in the amount of $77,644.80 80 for the total amount of $79,514.37 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related
documents. This expenditure [snorts] will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year. >> Thank you. Do board members have any questions? Okay, next item. >> Next bid. Office of Schools Secondary
Planners. Dr. Naravo. Oavdo is now joined by Julie Shoemaker, executive director of the middle school network, who will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends award to the lowest responsible bidder global
printing and design incorporated in the amount of $ 38,522 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year.
>> Thank you. Do board members have any questions, Don? >> So, I'm going to apologize because I don't have the documents in front of me and if I did, I would have this answer. Are these planners for high school and middle school? >> Yes. >> Thank you. [snorts] >> Any other questions? Okay, thank you.
>> Next is a bid, plan operations, South Elgen High School intercom and clock system replacement. Sheila DS, assistant superintendent of operations and Jolene Lenman, capital projects coordinator will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration
recommends award to the lowest responsible bidder low voltage solutions incorporated in the amount of 2,885,733 and requests [snorts] authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the operations and
maintenance fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 through 2026 2027 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next is a bid operationsite U46 Kimble
Middle School capital improvement project abatement. Brian [snorts] Lindholm, chief of staff and Dr. Anne Williams, deputy superintendent of operations will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends award to the lowest responsible bidder m
environmental in the amount of $160,600 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the capital projects fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Do board
members have any questions? >> Thank you. Next item. >> Next a bid operations. Unite U46 new Elgen Elementary School construction. Uh remaining at the deis Brian Lindholm, chief of staff and Dr. Anne Williams, deputy superintendent of operations to
present the attached proposal summary and we'll respond to questions from the board of education. [snorts] Administration recommends award to the following lowest responsible builders biders sorry including base bid and alternates 001 and 002 in the total
amount of 41,988,842 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. Now I'm going to read every package description, recommended bidder and award amount. Um, so everyone just
hang tight. All right. Package number one, excavation and site work, Kellenburgger Incorporated in the amount of 3,730,875. Package two, landscaping and retaining walls, KD landscape incorporated, $1,879,000. Package three, building concrete Ed
Fogerty Concrete Construction Incorporated, 2,329,610. Package four, masonry, Awansky Masonry Incorporated, 5,740,000. Package five, steel, affordable welding US incororated, 3,235,000.
Package six, roofing, Melor Roofing of Illinois, Incorporated, 1,837,400. Package seven, General Trades, Hargrave Builders Incorporated, $4,672,450. Package 8, Glass and Glazing, 3F
Corporation, $1,985,000. Package nine, painting Uptown Painting and Construction Incorporated, $365,190. Package 10, Flooring and Ceramic Tile, Diversify Pro LLC, 1,398,646.
Package 11, Casework, Hargrave Builders Incorporated, $843,450. Package 12, fire protection, Nelson Fire Protection Company, $332,689. Package 13, plumbing, Hartwig Mechanical LLC, 1,565,000.
Package 14, HVAC, DeCalb Mechanical Incorporated, $4,825,000. Package 15, electrical Kerry Electrical Contracting LLC, 5,26,888. Package 16, kitchen equipment, Trrimark
Marlin LLC, 204,413.91. Package 17, Building Demolition American Demolition Corporation, $861,230. Package 18, Asphalt Paving and Sight Concrete, Schroeder Asphalt Services
Incorporated, 1,157,000 for a total of $41,988,842. This expenditure will be charged to the capital projects fund clo the cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 and 2027 2028 fiscal years.
Do board members have any questions? Don, >> thank you for bringing this forward. Um, our original estimate was about $60 million. Were there substantial changes to the project itself or do we just think it is a very favorable bidding
environment at this time? >> Well, we believe that it was a very competitive u bidding environment at every one of our bid openings prior to this. We spoke about what was coming and there was additional work. So, we did have over 100 companies come out for
this bid. And that also, it's also important to keep in mind that this is the construction cost exclusive of fees, exclusive of soft cost, furniture, and all of those pieces. So, we do anticipate that the total will be probably somewhere around 58 million.
Okay. Which is still below our initials. Yes. >> Great. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Any other questions? Okay, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next is a proposal information services 2026 2027 student Chromebooks. Jim Wolf,
director of information services will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from CDW Government LLC in the amount of $3,381,600 and requests authorization for district
administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? >> Thank you. >> Next is a proposal office of schools
instructional empowerment. Dr. Dr. Annette Oavdo, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the proposal from instructional empowerment in the amount of $273,600.60
and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. Cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year. >> Do board members have any questions? Okay, thank you.
>> Next is a proposal plant operations age and obsolescence food service truck purchase. Sheila DS, assistant superintendent of attendant of operations and Nick Corin, coordinator of grounds will present the attached proposal summary and respond to questions from the board of education.
Administration recommends approval of the proposal from Trans Chicago Truck Group in the amount of $381,586 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund. The cost is included
in the budget for the 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Okay, the next item on our agenda is work session contracts over 35,000. Dr. Johnson. >> Thank you, President Owens. First is a
contract renewal curriculum and instruction HMH Aribba Lakura. Celia Banks, director of curriculum and instruction in Jaclyn Johnson, coordinator of literacy and libraries will present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with
HMH Ariba Alleura in the amount of $17,970 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2026
2027 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? >> Thank you. Next is a contract renewal curriculum and instruction newella balanced assessment by formative. Our team is still here to present the attached proposal and respond to questions from
the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with newella in the amount of $494,444 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost
is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? >> Okay, thank you. Uh, next is a contract renewal curriculum and instruction Gail Sungage learning. Again, our team is here to present the attached proposal
and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract re renewal with Gail Sungage Learning in the amount of $818,550 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related
documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 through 2028 2029 fiscal years. >> Do board members have any questions? Okay, next item. Our next item is a
contract renewal curriculum and instructions Scholastic News. Our team is still present to provide the attached proposal and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Scholastic Classroom magazines in the amount of $174,347
and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is [snorts] included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Okay, next
item. Next, we have a contract renewal curriculum and instruction ProQuest. We're getting all of these taken care of tonight. Um, our team is presenting the attached proposal and we'll respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of
the contract renewal with ProQuest LLC in the amount of $110,58057 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2026
20227 fiscal year. Do board members have any questions? Okay, next item. >> Next. Contract renewal curriculum and instruction Vista Higher Learning. Joining Celia Banks, director of curriculum and instruction is Jacob Vandy Mortell, coordinator of K12 social
studies and world languages to present the attached proposal and respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Vista Higher Learning in the amount of $90,58925 and requests authorization for the district administration to execute
related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the education fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2026 2027 fiscal year. >> Do board members have any questions? Okay, thank you. And lastly, contract renewal plant
operations train maintenance and service. Sheila DS, assistant superintendent of plant operations and Josh Buo, coordinator of maintenance operations will present the attached proposal and will respond to questions from the board of education. Administration recommends approval of the contract renewal with Train Chicago
Service in the amount of 2,167,987 and requests authorization for district administration to execute related documents. This expenditure will be charged to the operations and maintenance fund. The cost is included in the budget for the 2025 2026 through
2028 2029 fiscal years. Do board members have any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And that is the last item on our agenda. I will take a motion to adjurnn. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Martin?
>> Yes. >> Miss Nolan? >> Yes. >> Miss Schwarz? >> Yes. >> President Owen? >> Yes. >> We are journed at 8:45 p.m. >> Thank you, everyone.