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4 | January 26, 2017 | The New Lenox Patriot news newlenoxpatriot.com Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 Board of Education District asks for payment guarantee from Aunt Nancy’s Jon Depaolis, Freelance Reporter The Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 Board of Education would like a personal guarantee from Aunt Nancy’s Child Care in its new agreement to operate its service out of the district’s high schools. New Daily Lunch & Breakfast Specials Spend 20 - Get $ 2 OFF With this coupon. Dine-in and carry-outs available. Not Valid with any other. Offers or prior purchases. Valid Monday - Saturday only. One Coupon per table..Offer expires 02/09/17 19137 S. Wolf Rd. Mokena | 708.478.8748 19137 S. Wolf Rd Mokena • 708.478.8748 HOURS Mon-Wed 6am-8pm • Thu- Sat 6am-8:30pm • Sun 6am-7pm The guarantee was added to the motion to approve the contract terms Thursday, Jan. 19, during the regular meeting of the Board of Education. 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This would be a continuing promise that would apply to renewals and any modifications to the agreement, according to a board memo. The term would be from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2020. Per the agreement, the contractor would agree to remit $60,000 to Lincoln-Way, with monthly payments of $6,000 — starting in October and ending in July. Dr. R. Scott Tingley said he did have discussions with Aunt Nancy’s about increasing the rates or the remittance to the district. Community members have been concerned with the daycare due to its former rent-free agreement with the district. “They were not interested in any of those types of scenarios,” Tingley said. “Their belief is that if they increased rates, they may lose clients, which would then [hinder] their ability to pay the $60,000.” Tingley said Aunt Nancy’s has not missed a payment this year, and it has complied with everything the business was asked to do. “This personal guarantee would essentially be an insurance policy for the 90-day out clause,” Tingley said. “If they were to leave on a Friday and not come back on a Monday, it would give the district the opportunity to collect on that amount.” Tingley said, in his opinion, the daycare wasn’t comfortable with the personal guarantee clause. Round It Up A brief recap of action and discussion from the Jan. 19 meeting of the Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 Board of Education · District 210 Board President Dee Molinare opened the meeting by informing the public that former district employee Jonas Lashmet passed away earlier this month. Lashmet was the first staff member employed at Lincoln-Way in 1954, according to Molinare. He taught social studies and was the first head football coach. Later, he would work at District 210 as a guidance counselor and as principal at Lincoln- Way Central. He retired in 1986. · During his curriculum and instruction update, Tim Reilly informed the board members that the website Niche released its rankings for public schools in Illinois. Lincoln-Way ranked No. 1 in safety out of 291 schools; No. 4 out of 271 “At this point, I will leave it up to the board for motion, discussion and directive,” he said. Board member Christopher Kosel said he supported amending the motion to include the guarantee. “Why wouldn’t we want to have that personal guarantee?” he asked. “What’s the con?” Board member Christine Glatz said it is standard procedure and also was in favor of adding the personal guarantee. The amended motion was passed in a 6-1 vote, with board member Christopher Lucchetti serving as the schools for being the best for athletes; and No. 22 for overall best school district. The district also was graded with an A+ for students’ college readiness. · During the meeting, Director of Finance Kelly Luzzo addressed the board about her recent analysis of the district’s student activity fund. She gave several recommendations, including closing certain accounts in the student activities fund that were better suited for the education fund. She also recommended title changes for certain accounts within the student activities fund to better clarify their use. The report was approved by a 7-0 vote by the board members. lone dissenter. He said after the meeting that he has been opposed to the deal since the beginning, and his vote was in line with that previous position. Board members approve Five-Year Strategic Plan Board members also unanimously approved the district’s Five-Year Strategic Plan, which lists the Top 2 Goals for the district in six areas — Curriculum/Assessment, Technology Outcomes, Human Resources, Community/Public Relations, Building and Grounds, and Please see D210, 5
newlenoxpatriot.com news the New Lenox Patriot | January 26, 2017 | 5 New Lenox School Board District 122 D122 highlights early success of one-to-one iPad program Megann Horstead Freelance Reporter Students at Spencer Trail Kindergarten are continuing to use technology in the classroom, and the early success of the new one-toone iPad program was highlighted in a presentation Jan. 18, at the New Lenox School District 122 Board of Education’s regular meeting. “There’s a certain buzz in the air at Spencer Trail when you’re doing something that’s new and exciting,” said Dr. Lori Motsch, principal of Spencer Trail Kindergarten. “There’s a lot of preparation and problem solving, but the true excitement is coming from the kids. They love their iPads.” This school year, there are roughly 2,100 iPads available for use by kindergarten students at Spencer Trail. The cost is $474 per device, plus expenses for cases and charging carts. The district took action to form a new lease in 2016 after an old one expired. “What we’re finding is we’re just educating this completely different generation of kids where they’re exposed to technology and we want to tap into that,” Motsch said. “The kids are completely engaged, and it’s something that they’re used to. If we’re truly preparing them for the future, we need to get technology in their hands.” The program’s effectiveness is being reviewed, Motsch said. “Informally, the teachers are just observing how it’s going,” she said. “But we’ll see at the end of the year, with our different assessments that we do to see if it made a difference. I can tell you informally, the teachers would say it’s made a difference in student engagement.” To the concern of technological issues, Motsch said none of them posed much of an issue. “That’s the beauty of piloting something like this is we’re working as a team,” she said.” Our building is all kindergarten. So, we’re all working on it… Speaking of the buzz that we have in our building right now, it’s one of collaboration, trial and error, trying to figure out how it’s working.” Motsch added that it’s key knowing that staff strives to align the program to fit the existing curriculum. Continued learning is a priority not only for students but staff, Motsch said. The digital learning ambassadors are allotted a $500 stipend for professional development, much of which is done in-house. Opportunities for support have consisted of monthly digital learning ambassador meetings, full-day training, conferences and summer training. To date, each staff member has accumulated more than 25 hours of professional development The district accounted for these expenses using Title II funds and other local lines. Motsch gave credit to school officials for supporting the initiative’s launch. “I’m sure [the program] will change for next year as we learn and grow and get through this process,” she said. Board member Phil Adair has long been a supporter of the one-to-one iPad program. He said seeing the initiative come together at Spencer Trail Kindergarten this year has been a pleasure. “I think it’s just fantastic what you’ve done with the students in the integration of the iPads,” Adair said. “I think it’s just fantastic. I wholly support this and hope that we continue with the iPad, grow the program so that every kid in the school can have an iPad.” To this, Director of Curriculum Dr. Marianne Cucci said future plans for the oneto-one iPad program are to be determined. “Right now, we purchased them through a lease,” she said. “We’d definitely like to expand. D210 From Page 4 Finance — as well as action plans to implement the goals. The plan is the result of a 107-member Strategic Long Range Planning Committee, which met late last year. “These are the overarching goals and action plan that was discussed at the strategic planning [meeting] back in December,” Tingley said. “These are the board’s goals, with input from community members. We took time as an administrative team … and crafted the goals to incorporate as much of the discussion as we could. The action plans were developed in accordance with the conversations that also took place and in accordance with the goals. As we move forward, these serve as our 2017- 2018 goals.” Tingley said some goals will be accomplished in six months, while others will be ongoing. “For each of these action plans, you’re going to get details involving planning,” Tingley said. Board member Ronald Lullo asked how the board would address future funding for some of the goals, to which Tingley said that would be tied to future budget planning. Tingley also said at the next two meetings, he will bring back all of the goals in more detail to have more discussions. “This will provide us with a roadmap and kind of gives us some checks and balances,” Tingley said. Glatz mentioned possibly having a public meeting on a Saturday that would allow the board to do a deeper dive into the goals. The brochure is now available on the district’s BoardDocs portal, which it began using this year. DRIVE CAR BUYERS TO YOUR DOOR WITH A CLASSIFIED AUTO AD CALL US TODAY 708.326.9170 Visit us online at www.newlenoxpatriot.com
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