RECOMMENDATIONS
TO THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Presented by Engage 204 Facilitating Team Leaders: Jessica Johnson, Mark Lobos, Crystal Porter and Archana Sharma
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Agenda Why Engage 204? Engage 204 in Review Recommendations - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
R ECOMMENDATIONS TO THE B OARD OF E DUCATION Presented by Engage 204 Facilitating Team Leaders: Jessica Johnson, Mark Lobos, Crystal Porter and Archana Sharma 1 Agenda Why Engage 204? Engage 204 in Review Recommendations from
TO THE
Presented by Engage 204 Facilitating Team Leaders: Jessica Johnson, Mark Lobos, Crystal Porter and Archana Sharma
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Participants
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community and staff members to solicit stakeholder hopes, feedback, ideas and suggestions
Board in the formulation of a plan for immediate, intermediate, and long-term planning
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Purpose
reflects the community’s priorities related to the future operations and educational opportunities for students in District 204
dialogue and deliberation
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Members Role
Liaisons
Recommendations
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Team Roster
Community Team Leaders Jessica Johnson Mario Lambert Mark Lobos
Archana Sharma Community Members Peter Barnard Audra Braski Ruby Chawla Annie Cole Aurelie Dubois Angie Gaul Christine Jeffries Chris Leshock Rachel Ossyra Eric Rose Randy Sidio Chad Stevens District Representatives
Jay Strang Janet Buglio Paul Gamboa School Board Members Mike Raczak Susan Demming 7
Session Date/Time Location
CES 1 November 14, 2017
7:00-9:00 pm
Still Middle School CES 2 December 7, 2017
7:00-9:00 pm
Still Middle School CES 3 January 29, 2018
7:00-9:00 pm
Still Middle School CES 4 February 26, 2018
7:00-9:00 pm
Still Middle School CES 5 March 20, 2018
7:00-9:00 pm
Still Middle School Presentation to the Board May 21, 2018
7:00 pm
Crouse Education Center 8
session
stakeholders
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Type Total Parent (Current Student) 421 Parent (Former Student) 53 Parent (Future Student) 41 Alumni 17 Staff 44 Community Member 90 Business Owner 18
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In addition to in-person feedback provided by attendees at each Engage 204 session, the district received:
This additional feedback covered 14 different topics including: achievement gap, boundaries, and school safety
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What did we learn?
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Robert Schwarz, RSP & Associates
Todd DePaul, Building Operations Director Jennifer Costanzo, Architect, STR Partners LLC
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Engage 204 participants provided feedback regarding financial priorities.
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Priority recommendations:
program ($1.2M annual)
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Engage 204 participants suggested that the school district explore various opportunities to continue to enhance the students’ future readiness.
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Engage 204 participants offered suggestions for addressing facility maintenance and improvements.
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Engage 204 participants noted the importance of addressing the under-utilized and over-utilized schools in Indian Prairie School District 204.
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from a relatively small sample of District stakeholders.
– Explore utilizing a comprehensive feedback mechanism to gather broader community input on potential solutions
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key decisions to be made as it becomes available.
– Wagner Farms – This information became available after the Changing Enrollment presentation in Session Two. – As such, community recommendations are based on information that did not include this factor that will impact student enrollment in the south end of the District.
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information to the IPSD 204 stakeholders
discussion clearly illustrated the school district’s significant need for funding
that important decisions need to be made to ensure IPSD 204 will be able to effectively meet future needs of students and staff
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review the information shared during the Engage 204 process.
well as small group responses will continue to be available at engage204.org
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