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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Oh.

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Oh, that's right.

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Okay.

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So, good night.

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Let's talk to me.

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Yeah.

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Once and each of them.

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Here.

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We're not.

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Gemini.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Perkers are not here.

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Thank you.

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And I'm going to just point out to that.

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I'm going to just say, let's not take it.

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I'm going to just take it.

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I'm going to just take it.

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I'm going to just take it.

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I know.

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Sorry.

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All right.

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Good morning, everyone.

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Welcome to TCD.

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I'd like to call the March 19, 2026 meeting of the Dales Board of Directors to order.

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Please join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

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which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Vicki, could I have a roll call, please?

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Dr. Baldwin.

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Present.

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Present.

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Mr. Beattie.

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Here.

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Dr. Cohn.

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Here.

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Dr. Filippiak.

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Here.

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Mr. Giovanini.

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Here.

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Ms. Howard.

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Mr. Walsh.

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Here.

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Here.

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Ms. Murphy.

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Here.

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Ms. Papanicolaou.

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Here.

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Ms. Santee.

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Ms. Segalis.

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Here.

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Dr. Waterman.

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Here.

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Dr. Waterman.

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Dr. Voidovich.

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Here.

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Ms. Zuccardi.

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Here.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Moving to public comments.

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Have we received any requests for public comments prior or does anyone wish to make a

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public comment?

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Okay.

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Moving into correspondence.

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Have we received any correspondence?

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Yes.

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We received a FOIA request regarding specific records for student enrollment and courses and

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programs offered during specific years at TCD for one of our member districts and that

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request was fulfilled on March 18th.

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Moving into the President's Report, I have two quick items to share with the board.

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The first one is it's almost time for us to complete the annual self-evaluation, board

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self-evaluation, which gives us a chance to assess our collective efforts as a board.

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Vicki will send that information out to everyone by early next week.

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The deadline to complete that is April 30th, so just a heads up, you'll get that email

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and then we'll have a discussion about the results of that at the May board meeting.

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And then also coming up, which you'll get from Vicki, is your board approval for the appointment

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or reappointment for next year.

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And we would ask that you take care of that at your local districts sometime in April or

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May.

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So again, Vicki will send that information out to you guys as well.

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So that is coming.

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Moving along into our favorite part of the agenda, which is recognition.

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So we're happy to have Ryan West here to lead us in this.

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Good morning, everyone.

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And yes, thank you very much for having us.

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We're excited to celebrate two amazing things.

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students today. We're going to start with Luke Langenfelter. Luke is a student in our

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multimedia program and here to talk about him is Mrs. Luke. He helps other students

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every assignment. He challenges to find something wrong with it. And he just

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helped with the Chef Duffy interview and did an outstanding job helping set that

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up, record it, and preparing to edit it. But he is by far an outstanding student.

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And totally deserves his recognition as a student of the month. He is everything we want

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TCB students. And I can't tell you, he's going to come back someday and say, hey, I took this

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class and I did all of this work because of what I learned. I just want to thank you for

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allowing me to recognize him for this. And Luke, you are an astounding. Next up, we have Juan Esqueda.

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Juan is a senior from Lyons Township High School and is a member of our HVAC and

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residential wiring program. And here to talk about him is Mr. Gus Shapiro.

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Good morning. Thanks for having us here. I'd like to take a few minutes just to recognize

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my student here in our program, the HVAC residential wiring program. Juan, from Lyons Township, as

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you know, came here green, as we call it in the field. Not knowing anything, but is willing

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every day to put in the work, get over obstacles. We have a translator here with

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him. So there's a communication language barrier, but we've overcame that. So this year has just

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been, you know, it's been a pleasure to work with him, to have him come to school, to have

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him ask questions if he's not sure about something and try to get him on the right track. So along

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with, you know, being consistent, reliable, learning the soft skills, learning the skills

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that I'm trying to teach in the program, he's, he has achieved OSHA 10 certification while

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being here, and our EPA 608 certification while being here. So he is striving. I see him

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doing wonderful things in the future and hopefully in his career or his path. So once again, I'm

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grateful for being such a great student. Congratulations for your recognition.

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Congratulations again to Luke and Juan, we're very proud of you. We know you're going to do amazing things.

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To our board, please don't forget that next Thursday is our foundation dinner here.

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Not only is it amazing food, but it's an even better cause, so if you can make it, we would greatly appreciate it.

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Again, thank you so much.

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How about another round of applause for our students?

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All right, moving into, you probably know it's on the agenda, our next agenda item is discussions.

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Some districts call it discussions, some districts call it information.

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We've been trying to play around with this.

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But the whole goal is items under this agenda item are meant to be discussion with the board and not just information Mike's sharing.

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So it's just a wordsmithing to make sure that we invite the board to ask questions, to discuss these topics that are under this agenda item.

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So formerly information report, now it's discussion, and we're going to kick off with Mike's presentation on the strategic planning update.

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Before I get to that, there's one other item that I wanted to share that has come up in planning and preparation for a welding facility.

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So we need some, we have some maintenance needs to increase the power utilization in our welding facility in preparation for our partnership and agreement with COD for summer programming as well as our programming going forward.

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We continue to see increase enrollment in that program.

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We want to expand the, we're moving, we bought some downdraft tables and so we're expanding the facility to reach the, that closer to that south wall and we have to put power supply on that south wall that is able to run those machines as well as help us to plan for additional booths that might be able to be installed in the future.

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That is above the $17,500 threshold, but is below what, so it requires board approval, but it is below what we would need to do to go out to bid.

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So because it's within that range, I had to bring that today because it's a part of the, you'll see it's an action item later in the meeting, but we want to try and get that work done over spring break when students are not in the building.

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That's the most efficient time to do that, so that just came up relatively recently and so that's, that's a little bit of a nuance to, to that aspect of that.

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Any questions or, questions or concerns moving forward with that?

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Okay.

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All right.

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Excellent.

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Well, now this is certainly the moment you've all been waiting for.

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But, you know, we are, Sharon Fries is here with me from HYA, as you recall.

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We have partnered with HYA as a consulting service to help us facilitate our strategic plan.

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And we've made significant progress over the course of the year, so I wanted to update you with where we're at.

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Last week I sent out a memo that summarized some of this information, but this is an opportunity for us to have a little bit of expanded dialogue

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around some of the, specifically the, the portrait of a graduate competencies, as well as some of the draft objectives.

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So, again, everything you're going to see in here today is in draft form.

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The purpose is to share it with you, to get your thoughts and insights and perspectives, challenge things, affirm things, ask questions.

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I'm excited to present to you the point.

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Also, I want to thank Sharon and they've been wonderful facilitators.

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Had the opportunity to garner the input of close to 200 individuals that represent every group of individuals collectively across our organization,

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from our community and our parents and students, business partners, employees, support staff, faculty, administrators.

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We've had a very broad range of, this is an update, get some of your feedback completed now in May to collect your thoughts and input.

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I want to just walk you through a little bit of the timeline.

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So, we facilitated three in-person meetings, again, that included students, parents, community, business partners, staff, administrators.

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And the first was on February 12th.

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And a big part of that was reviewing the draft performance report.

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been shared with all of you really went through a lot of different metrics that

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we're interested in and curious about especially as we start exploring where

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some of our needs might be and where our edges of growth are as an organization.

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So participants drafted an initial SWOT analysis and then really started to

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flesh out what are some of the planning needs that might be necessary to

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consider as we think about program review and program development based on

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the programs that we're currently offering and programs that might be

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ambitious about offering in the future but really focusing especially on that

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professional development piece for teachers and so that's really critical as

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we think about how we build capacity across our organization. February 20th

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followed really with the big piece there was starting to draft a portrait of

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graduate. I feel really strongly that as an organization if we can identify the key

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attributes and competencies that we want our students to exemplify when they leave us it really

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provides a lot of focus and direction for everything that we do and so that is

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really important to me and I'll go through you know some of the some of the

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draft portrait competencies here very shortly. We also started to flesh out some

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some vision and mission options those were also shared more broadly with the

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staff to ask for their feedback upon those and then really kind of honed in on

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what that final meeting on March 6th would look like. So we spent a lot of time on

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March 6th really thinking about one competency and in particular that I'll share a

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little bit more about here in a little bit but then we drafted some goals and

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objectives in four strategic areas that I'll expand upon here really shortly and

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then we really just kind of started to prepare all of you might look like and how

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we might be able to solicit feedback. Here are some of the high-level

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highlights that really emerged from the SWOT analysis. Strengths of the

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organization certainly are we have a lot of really strong program offerings including

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dual credit including certifications. Learning environment is one that is

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prioritized here and we have instructional staff that are experts in their field.

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Also that has illuminated an edge of growth for us in that our teachers

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oftentimes are asking for additional professional development on how to be

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able to support them in the pedagogy that maybe it has started this year

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offering some professional optional professional development sessions. Every

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staff member has attended and so that's been really impressive. We're already

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starting to address this as we talked about as a lack of guidance on

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curriculum really ambitious about wanting to develop curriculum and develop

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curriculum in an intentional way but might not necessarily have some of the

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formal training around that so we want to build. There there is some

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outdated infrastructure and capital equipment we've had some issues you know

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certainly with the building regarding sewage or sewer line over the course of the year. We've had a strategic with problem solved on a variety of different instances but

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and then student support gaps you know I think you know happier this morning speaks a powerful message about what we value and believe here as an organization and that's that every single student can be successful no matter what barriers or what circumstances

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might be in front of them that we can work with the partner schools and we have really incredible teachers that connect well with students and we can overcome many barriers that might might be otherwise you know perceived to inhibit student success and

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exemplifies everything that we value or ties as an organization. Knowing that the organization teachers have a common again sorts of approaches and strategies and tactics that can be effective so I admire what they've accomplished so far

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I also know that there's a lot more that there's a lot more that we can do here at TCG. 40% are spending in EL and numbers that we have a response to and so we have to do that truly

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ту everyone

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prayer

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prayer

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prayer

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prayer

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prayer

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prayer

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organization other opportunities become a national leader in education for

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employment I don't think that's an unrealistic goal it might seem lofty but

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I truly believe we can become a flagship career center in the country if we

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deliberately and intentionally focus on some of these strategic areas and then

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develop some some add related to those deep in alignment with college and

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DuPage dr. Elisa has already expanded dual credit programming for next year

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particularly as we as we build upon our HVAC residential wiring program added

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sheet metal fabrication next year 16 or 17 programs will be dual credit at TCB the

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only one remaining that we're working on is auto body that's because the College

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of DuPage does not have a program for that we're in initial conversations with

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Waubonsie around articulated credit because we do have a program and so we're

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trying to bring some added value to that program as well but we've already

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expanded dual credit programming for next year we've also really focused on

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regional alignment many of you have been a part of our regional ecosystem meetings

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in which we are focusing on on horizontally in our strategic priorities as a

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region and thinking about what that looks like for career education of which

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obviously College of DuPage is a very important partner in that and so they've

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been present at all those meetings even hosting one of them dr. Siddiqui was

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present at the first one and spoke to to those of you that were present about his

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priorities and his ambitions for working closely with us I I saw him at a at a

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fundraising dinner last week in which we continue to expand on that conversation

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he's actually coming here for a visit very soon for us to continue to deep

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around that but our alignment with college expanding opportunities for

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struggling students and work-based learning you know as we've discussed

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especially at regional ecosystem meetings a career opportunities provide

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students a competitive advantage post-secondarily and so we want to

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make sure that we're giving kids an opportunity to to see what the real

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world looks like beyond the school walls and what the implementation the

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application is of the skills we talked through that there are some negative

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perceptions of TCD I don't believe that that is based on current circumstances and

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quite frankly I believe that's on historical things that have extend all the

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way back to the 70s when this building was built and that's related to portrait of

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graduate competencies is that we want very adamantly about how we might be able to

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that reflect important especially for us AI is something that that are in from

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that furnace replace it for you and then fiscal pressure we know that expanding

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enrollment rise which is something we're really really excited about part of my I

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just briefly mentioned my executive director report later we're going to be

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seeing an increase in CD again next year they're one of the things that that we

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think is really important to kind of zero in on especially on action items it's

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building a framework that helps us to think more about program review and

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development especially as we're looking at shifting post-secondary landscape

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shifting occupational to the landscape we want to be what sort of system and

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structure to reduce our program or draft vision and mission statements that were

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shared with the staff or feed these are two vision statements the leading

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career technical center for tomorrow workforce and to prepare all students for

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future success through career immersion and college readiness and then our draft

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mission options were to ignite potential by providing students with authentic

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hands-on experiences to offer high quality hands-on learning that values the

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needs of students school districts and employers where technical skills meet real

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world experience I think you what you see in those different options is a lot of

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insight

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a lot of input coming together around some key priorities and those priorities being students

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student success occupational opportunity and post-secondary success whatever that looks like

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for our young people portrait of graduate and so as we think about what we truly want our students

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to embody and know and value and represent when they leave us many of your schools and districts

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have something like this where you thought about what are those competencies that are relevant

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and appropriate in today's world and so we you know being you know a career center and supporting

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career education for the county we truly have a very multitude of things to think about that maybe

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a comprehensive high school might not necessarily be considering or maybe they are but maybe in a

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different vein and so we focused on four areas that really can develop four competencies in draft form

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right college and career ready graduates leave with credits credentials essential skills and

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experiences needed we had a lot of conversation about this there was a period of time where college

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and career were separate um and there were some viable reasons for that um there were also some

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viable reasons for combining them it's really important to me as a leader of this organization

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that we communicate and very broadly that we know there are many paths to success and that it's not

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just we are not just a high school to career pipeline program um that is very limiting to what we have

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the potential to do here in fact we are one of the leading dual credit awarding institutions in the

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entire county so this spring 10 percent have been awarded through this building and that's because 16

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of them and so uh classroom all of these speak to that the business community our business partners

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continue to reiterate over and over that if our students come to them demonstrating the essential skills

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that make them marketable as an employee um they need to have technical skills as well but uh if

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they can problem solve and think critically and they can persist and they can communicate and they can

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collaborate and work well together then i'll be really successful and then they can teach them all of

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the other elements that might be specific to their company their organization or their business and

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so really trying to capture those um those in so as i get toward the end of the presentation i really want to

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encourage you you know affirm things that you agree with challenge things that you may not or or press

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us a little bit further on things you'd like to see us um rethink especially when it comes to the provide

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a lot of focus and direction for us forward so from there uh really we took um uh some some strategic

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objectives and we put them into really areas uh students first and foremost who provide the best student

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experience possible and the only way that we do that is continuing we have expert staff that are

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highly knowledgeable in their career fields and we want to continue to invest in them and build a

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workplace culture that creates long-term success community and community and partnerships this is

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really focusing and technically on our relationships with those outside of our school walls um dupage county

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is the most populous county outside of cook county in the city of chicago in the entire state we have the

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largest area career center in the entire state we have 34 000 plus businesses that are willing and

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excited to work with us on a variety of different levels they we need to communicate the need we need

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to communicate the ask we need to be specific about that but we have many with many fabulous willing

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but already have dozens and dozens of our students in immersive work based and then finances and resources

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uh being good stewards of our resources is is essential um to forward especially as we think about

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uh modernizing uh present day we had an opportunity last week to visit a couple

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career centers with with some of our leadership team and it was really

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impressive some of the some of the places that are being built and some of

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the ways that you know design of buildings is being given into

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consideration and a career center model and a career center the career center

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perspective but at the end of the day those things cost money and if we want

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to be thinking about the future we have to be thinking about what a phased

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approach to improvements look like we're not going to be able to do

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everything all at once but we want to think about what are the highest

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priorities we're going to you know have some strategic conversation around that

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and then plan appropriately from a financial so you know going a little bit

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further I'm not going to read all of these you know this has been shared with

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you previously but I want you to be thinking about you know in what ways do

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these objectives reflect here what ways to and your aspirations in your own

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districts for your own students right because this organization doesn't exist

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without all of you and so I think it's really important to be having the lens

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thinking about how does this also reflect what we prioritize as an organization

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of everything we really want to elevate where these learning experiences and build

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capacity in your districts to be able to do that and support that our

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perspective and from your perspective we want to be thinking about how you know

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what the different pathway success are it's not just career a little to our

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students after they graduate high school and they and a college or they go to the

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workforce and we want to make sure that we're reflecting that every student will

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really be experiences prior decision making our highest priority leave us

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practices constantly that's been really and that we really center a lot of our

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fan highway high skill and demand it lost and a lot from a staff perspective

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we about professional development and prioritizing you know what what is from

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our perspective we want to do want to support experience and really building up

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our our teachers to know what that looks like and how to attend to those things in the

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classroom is really really critical to their success and then you know building

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an environment that prioritizes a culture of community and partnerships is really

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focused heavily on deepening our relationships and and those are business

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partners it's kind of a two-folded approach to thinking about partnerships

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but there's many of who are involved with our strategic planning have been able to

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share really thoughtful insight and then really relating all those things again

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backward vision mission and portrait of a graduate working with small businesses

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and large businesses is different and so because that's slightly nuanced we want to

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make sure that you know we are reaching all areas of our communities and providing

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opportunities for all areas of our communities regardless of the size of the

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of the of the employer and then the last piece our finance you know our finances

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and resources

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obviously again as we think about updating and modernizing infrastructure

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and our facilities to utilize and leverage our large spaces more

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efficiently and more effectively those things cost money and so we also want to

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be thinking about how we are communicating with our community about

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the opportunities here and so a lot of our conversations in strategic planning

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were not necessarily around programming but more in do people know about these

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opportunities and how can we bring more community members to understand more

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deeply about opportunities that are offered here and that is regardless of

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the age of their students and so we're also starting to do things more

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strategically in the k8 space to support elementary schools and elementary

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students with career awareness and career exploration and so thinking about you

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know how we build awareness and what marketing looks like for us I think in

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many ways we don't you know in some of our programs that have low

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enrollment sometimes the illusion might be that those student interest when in

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fact we might just have a marketing and communication issue and see I'm teasing

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some of those things apart and really exploring them more deeply and then just

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kind of a couple of the last pieces we want to make sure that we maximize our

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grant funding Dr. Elisa has been working very closely with a number of

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representatives in your districts around CIP coding and how that relates to

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finances how that relates to recording of participants and concentrators and CTE

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programs but us collectively as a whole and as a region we have to support

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you and as and this also relates to TCB and accurate coding of our SIPs and of

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course codes so that we can make sure that we're maximizing opportunities to

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leverage funds and then invest those funds in our organization for the success of our

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students and documenting it so kind of next steps here you know after your

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feedback after any minor you know revisions we want to give credit to the

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work of the committee I'm really proud of them we present the strategic plan I'll

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have them here with me at the meeting to recognize their work and celebrate them

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but that that is a plan for the May board meeting then between really then you know

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April and June we'll be facilitating some action planning sessions where we'll take

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some of these strategic objectives that are in these different goal areas and then

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really start determining what does that look like on a day-to-day basis how can

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we create some shared ownership over those objectives here as an organization

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and then and then move forward and executing plans annually as well as

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multi-organization and and toward the end of that five years and we'll also have an

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opportunity to revisit some of our growth areas I also anticipate that these

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strategic objectives and these action plans will turn into a more a regular

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cadence and report board level to be able to be updating you on a more consistent basis

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about how far we are from a common questions or a feeling right to take off on your last point

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about objectives and track first of all you know when I tell people our plans the

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first thing I look for so and most strategic goals you can make I love that that kids and

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our that's going to be an interesting exercise too just because I know like in

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traditional high schools even coming up with the using you have 30 scorecard metrics typically and there are a

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you know obviously across a wide variety of metrics but for a place like TC

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identifying what are those metrics that are most important it's going to be

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that's going to be challenging yeah going along with that I had just written

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down like one of the things I'm hoping that would come back to the board at

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some point is like the dashboard metrics I know we've talked about a dashboard so

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I think that that would go hand-in-hand really well with without the goals that

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you laid out and then just two two other things I was thinking about a lot of

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conversation at the beginning about the student needs particularly students from

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special populations I just want to be sure that our plan captures like the

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supports that this you know the school needs for for meeting those students

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needs and I appreciate the professional development feel like there's been

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conversations in the past about maybe two the other thing I was thinking about is

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just iterating progress like I work listed in here but that idea of will we

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evaluate different programs and iterate just a question right just the things

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partnerships at the middle school level I know that's one middle school family

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place I am asking a question plan for a TCD I feel like what I heard was I don't

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want to lose sight of what can extend to our current district this is the time you

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know one of the things that jumped out to me first was that third slide the SWOT

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analysis you know the the board over the last several years have talked about so

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many items and I feel like this SWOT analysis like very concisely captures all

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the conversations that happened in the last five years so that that jumped off the

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page and I would say as advice moving forward continue to refer to that as as

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like the compass because that that lays out what we're doing well where we have

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gaps so we should use that moving forward just that nice yeah so it feels like the

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hardest part of folks and that's where you create I wonder about I would say from

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you

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point across the region right not just our thousands and thousands of students

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that are in here that never will step foot in here but we also want to be

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prioritizing that thinking around programming and support for the

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districts I was just you know sharing with Brian's a little bit ago one of our

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values and that we communicated without it in the absence of a strategic plan is

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that we're a service to the districts right the education for employment

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systems intended to support districts and expanding and shepherding career

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education that's the whole reason that report is incredible all the hard work

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of everybody here at AOS and TCD working together to come up with this

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oftentimes it validates things you kind of thought anyway but were there any

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blind spots you're like wow I I didn't see that because you had talked to so many

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people are included in this because of course anything stood out of you like

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wow I didn't realize that you know I think there were different a lot of

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different perceptions around the college and careers that I think in many ways

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oftentimes I'm thinking that we all comprehensively agree that college or

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career and pathways and open doors is what's best for students and and that is

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I don't know that that's consistent across and I think especially in our space

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people that prioritize your aspects right a little bit of your thought there's

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something that's that for me sometimes or ties the technical skill we got to know

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everything there is to know about HVAC or welding or EMT or nursing or something

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like that lawyers actually I would say that's something that has surprised me

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I was just gonna say the portrait of a graduate I think is I just wonder if it

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was a conversation do we need a mission and vision because the portrait of

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the portrait of a graduate

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the portrait of a graduate

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the portrait of a graduate

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I feel like it's that yes, it's just a wondering for the group to wrestle with unless you already did

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No, I'll certainly bring that back. I think you know having them having a vision and mission I think broadly

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Defines our priorities as an organization and I have found a lot of personal value in that

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But to your point when we really drill into the skills and dispositions

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And we know we're going to benefit young people in this day and age in 2026 and going forward

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It really is these things and so comes to our decision-making when it comes to our design

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Programming when it comes to our recruitment of staff, right?

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We want to make sure that we're embodying these values and I think on a day-to-day

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Broadly as an organization a vision a mission kind of captures who we are and what we're about

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But on a day-to-day level I see this being really the you know the thing that becomes a part of our language

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That's that's my aspiration is that the competencies become used on a daily basis when we're talking about student experience

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We're with student voice

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Yeah, yeah, so there were multiple

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Focus groups hosted with students and then we also had students similarly with parents we had focus groups parents as well

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What we did was we took various stakeholder groups particularly the students canvassed a broad range of them including alumni

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Invited them to be several of them like just to reiterate, you know, DuPage County always wants to be we're talking about being able and I don't know where that money comes from

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But I think to get to that national level there's there's a lot knowledge that they list

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responses a little bit there are career centers like this facing space in our welding facility and just about

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supporting a lot of businesses

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more clear there's going to be opportunities for corporate businesses

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that you know be able to invest in telling stories around here's some

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amazing student stories to be told that our kids that are in work based

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learning experiences right now and so we're planning to capture a lot of that

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this summer and I think that's a big piece of our marketing you know adventure

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going forward is thinking like how do we get that information to the families

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that I think can most you know significantly thank you so much for

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this dialogue it's really important it's really valuable in your thoughts and

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feedback and insight it's really important for this process thank you

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thanks Mike okay moving into also may have noticed from the agenda we're adding

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the financial statement acknowledgement to the consent agenda it's also just meant

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to streamline our agenda each month so we have reached the consent agenda portion

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of the agenda does any board member wish to remove an item from the consent agenda

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for separate consideration okay can I have a motion and a second to approve the

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March 19th 2026 consent agenda items a through g so moved Cohen second

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Howard second Howard roll call please thank you BD yes

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Sagalas yes Sicardi yes Cohn yes Howard yes

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White of itch yes Murphy yes Jovanini

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Lippiac yeah Santee yes Waterman yes Walsh yes

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Walderman yes okay executive director report anything to add on top of what you've

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already shared yeah just just a couple of other things if you have not had an

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opportunity to watch the recorded link from our GPS series event that we hosted

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here last week at TCD please take an opportunity to do that we were joined by

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chef Curtis Duffy who has a three-star Michelin restaurant as well as a two-star

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Michelin restaurant in Chicago he came from a really challenged childhood and has

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achieved culinary stardom as one of the you know arguably one of the most famous

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chefs in all in all of Chicago and quite frankly in the nation he was here in

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person Gilda Ross that facilitates the GPS series helped to organize that event and

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so I want to thank Lombard for their partnership there chef Duffy came and had a

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really incredible message for our students just around perseverance and it

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was really inspiring he signed a book for every single student took pictures with

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them stuck around for quite a while it was really a fabulous experience so he has a

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lot of really great messages that resonated deeply with me and also with

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our students so if you have an opportunity to watch the the recording of

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that it's posted on the GPS website but Gilda Ross and Jerika Slade from Glen

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Bard do a great job and and our team here put a fabulous production around that

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including our multimedia students we had lights and cameras and switchboard they

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were doing all kinds of fancy things and so we got a great recording of that in

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addition to the GPS recording so we'll be sharing that a little bit more

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broadly we're also really excited about increased enrollment next year at TCD we've

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been working incredibly hard to make sure that we maximize opportunities for as

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many students as possible dr. Elise has implemented implemented a strategy that I

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think is going to increase you know them is allow us to maximizing as many

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students into programs as possible and so you know we're still working on am and

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pm splits later in April but she's done a really good job working with the

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schools and so you're you're each of your schools have been really cooperative

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with us in that process and we've just appreciated that I think the harmony in

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our relationship and has been really beneficial as we've worked through

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sectioning and and creating opportunities for students next year and then the

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last piece I mentioned this a little bit just during the executive director

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report or the the discussion item but we we took facility visits with Kelsey

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Jordan and and Paul Passetti from Leggett last Friday we're actually going to have a force

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mapping meeting today that's going to start to look at our facility from a

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