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Go by a third. Good run. She comes from the other side of the field. Nope. Kylie Marino quickly gets the ball in. Good job by Kylie Marino sprinting 80 yards down the field. Coach Gary will be happy with her conditioning for the fall as the Spartans look to set it up. Addie Jordan. Jordan with her eyes constantly double. Yep. They'll double her up. Mac Whiter with the ball. I say go behind the net and get the ball to Calibies again. Let her work from behind the net. I think they're I think they're looking to double up Witworth and Jordan up top. Y yeah. So maybe if you change up that point of attack to behind the net. Yeah. Give them a different look. Nice grab by Jordan. Yeah, that was nicely held on too. I said you work the ball on the backside. Yeah, it happened earlier on with Mckne get a mismatch that you like and then clear out.
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Yeah. So much has changed. Scott and I were um on maybe 5 years ago and it's like 5 years feels like forever like feels like so much has changed in 3 years and one year you know all the way through. So I want to talk a little bit about our curriculum standards and unit guides. So um our major focus with this has been how do we build strong foundations and give kids clear pathways to high level courses. um the major work um that the whole group um I'd say specifically the three of us have met more than the three people that have ever been in these roles have ever met. Um vertical articulation has been really um at the forefront of our work making sure that the common core state standards are fully covered 100%. They're not done half here half there. are not fully done here and fully done in like we we found some inefficiencies that we really cleaned up that was a major work for us.
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So that's an that's an example of the volatility of having staff that were in another account or general fund that we moved into alliance which create you know creates a lot of turbulence um and and shifts but we'll do that again as we have to hire new staff for uh DHS West Academy uh once we get started. So we we really wouldn't have any other option our general fund uh would not be able to support to support all of that. In addition, we are negotiating, you know, five contracts coming up. We don't know what the results of those are going to be. That that's another volatility factor that we're going to have to deal with. Uh and and and try to live within the means. Um are we going to be able to get everything into these grants? No. Um but we're going to have to put the preponderance of the new new staff from from the high school into this grant.
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Okay. Chris Sassin. Uh we've not had a meeting since the last board meeting. Uh Terry on the education foundation. Yes. Um uh not a whole lot um to report back. Um they're uh working on a couple committees for bylaws and fundraising and um we have um two offices that are going to be vacant and we are going to uh vote on those at the next meeting. Um and uh we've got a couple new uh board members. So that should be a very exciting time for us. And um our uh just FYI so that the next person knows the May 21st meeting is the next meeting. So you can put that for whom whomever the bell tolls. All right. Thank you. Um, can any report on IASP? No, nothing to report. Okay, Charerelle, likewise on the Downers Grove Plan Commission. Nothing to report. I actually wasn't able to make the meeting even though we didn't have a meeting that night.
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Um, so if we select a firm, I would assume that we wouldn't wait until the need arises to negotiate that contract. We would begin negotiating that contract so that there's some type of a a master agreement so that um and then when there's a project, then you go into the the details of, hey, what's this project going to look like? What's it going to cost? And then presumably we enter into some type of a written addendum that memorializes what that project is going to look like. I'm asking a question. I don't know that that's the process. So the the fee schedule would be based on contract value. That's how architects build their time. So based on the price of a the estimated value of a project, then that would there would be a rate associated with that. Typically with architectural firms, there is not addendums done for every single project.
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Let the girls go one-on-one. Jordan behind. She's getting doubled up. Ball empty. gets knocked out and ball goes out of bounds. Just under three minutes remaining in the third quarter. Spartans ahead 7 to6. Burke with the ball. Somebody's got to look to slow her down. Lau gets the ball over the restraining line looking to set something up. Good job by Grace Rayold to slow down the defender and keep her out there. It's good defense. Yep. Just over 225. Just under 225 in the third quarter. Conway with the ball. O, almost over the top. Long Meadow has slowed things way down here. Yeah, looking to slow down and control it, I guess. Nice feed. He loses it. Dug out. Yep. Good job by Grace Howard to evade two girls. Now Grace Howard gets gets his deck. Grace Howard gets checked. Switch to the far side of the field.
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Um some progress going forward. We think that work needs to continue to go on. Um the conversations we have have really been helpful in making our class like I said run more efficiently and cover the majority of the major work we need. Um Jess is going to talk a little bit more about building classrooms, but we've really done a lot of work with our curriculum to rewrite lessons, rewrite units to incorporate those strategies and um really elevate the tasks we're having. I was thinking of you when I got to the museum to come home. For us, it's really been about so we've used curriculum writing institute, we've used our grade level meetings, we've used our PC time, we've used PD, it's really about um building highle tasks, collaborative problem solving and student centered learning has really been the major focus and building these lessons. I think we put a lot of work in the last couple years and we found some really good resources.
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Which goes to my point in saying you know the urgency and the need to keep the coding current and the adjustments current is so that when you look at this you don't rely on a number and then say oops at the very you know today I'm $4 million short because of prior months or whatever it is adjustments that you know have to have to uh we have to be made and this alliance number is a shifting number in itself I I don't necessarily the dollars. It's just a theory behind it because I suspect in my own words that it it's not what we what it was intended to do. But with, you know, within the parameters of what's legal, we are using it to absorb some of the operating accounts or expenses that we're not funded for and within the parameters that that the state allows us are are using this particular money for.
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Okay. All right. For the public's information, our upcoming board meetings, uh, the next meeting will be May 1st, 2025 here at the ASC at 6:30 p.m. Uh, thereafter on May 5th, we will have a workshop meeting of the existing board followed by uh, organizational meeting and workshop meeting starting at 7 p.m. of the newly constituted board. Uh, and then later in May and May 19th, we'll have the regular business meeting at 6:30 p.m. C. All right. Item number 14. Um, can I get a motion for the board from the board of education to go into close session for a collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. And item B, 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 district or legal counsel for the district, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or a volunteer of the district, or against legal Council for the district to determine its validity.
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We have discussed future endeavors to maybe explore that option. It's not unheard of. It's not typical, but we've explored that option with the new architectural firms that we go with to have addendums for each project for clarity and transparity, making sure everybody knows what's going on. But though, it's a it's a fee structure based on the value of the projects. Okay. Thank you. One thing that you share is most of these uh contracts are kind of I don't want to say the same, but a lot of the same provisions are in them, right? So there's no it's not like one firm is going to be like worth a million dollars and one's only worth two. Like they're very similar in the way they're approaches are going to be they're going to be similar. They're all they're all working in the same market, right? Um and so you're you are you are they know what they know what everyone's charging charging um in there.
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Grace Rayold with the ball. Rayold blazing down the line. Rayold gets into the Long Meadows end. Gets the ball over to Mckne and Mckne will slow it down. can get these summ offense started. We're over to Marino. There we go. Take her. Take her cannon. There you go. Oh, just shut off at the last minute. Yeah, you saw now does a really good job I think attacking from the sides. Been very successful today with that. Nice look. Kennet trying to get shooting space. Not there. Oh, nice. That was a good look. Just didn't quite get Oh, nicely defended. Good job by Angelina Trullio to knock the ball loose. Ball's and it's one of those I don't know calls and just under a minute. See if we can keep the Lancers off the board here. See if we can dispossess. O, nice interior pass. Miss wide.
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I already being one of them that does a lot of the work for us um in finding those tasks and and giving us those tasks. So really just implementing that in our curriculum. Um the last major thing in our curriculum is this year we did adopt um an accelerated for all model. So, seventh grade right now, all students are accessing pre-alggebra accelerated. Um, that's been years in the making of us finding that as we give more and more students the opportunity, those students are being successful. Um, what that does long term is it provides students the opportunity to take AP classes in high school. um versus potentially blocking them from that pathway from their sixth grade class. Um so all students um will have access to that. The major work going forward in that is well we're going to have a credited class in in middle school next year that every student takes.
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So, it's u yeah, it just it just ties all of all discretionary money to to do other innovations or to support other projects. So, you know, we'll we'll probably be able to to slide most of that in there, but um you know, we'll be between a rock and a hard place after next year because the increases no longer, you know, they they they sunset. So, um we'll we'll like everyone else will be very uh you know much um eager to see where those increases go because the you know having that many staff members and salaries in a grant with contractual increases over time that that's going to continue to grow. So, um it's something that we have to be very careful about. Um, and again creates a volatility that is a little bit more difficult to manage than if we were just living in the general fund.
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So moved. Second. Terry moves. Chris seconds. Thank you. Terry Pavisich I. Chris Espininoza. I. Cheryl Fuller. I. Jenny Hagstrom. I. Cara Castton. I. Ken Dawson. I. And Don Runner. I. Motion carries. Um, for members of the public, uh, the only item that the board will be considering when it comes out of close session will be to adjourn. Let's take a brief break and then we'll uh uh start close session after. Is this our last meeting?
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So again, hence what what uh Dan was saying that it's becomes a component of the project itself becomes what the fee is. Yeah, I think it's shortsighted. I mean, this is Dan's industry and for nobody here to take good faith in what he does and how he brings forward the successes of buildouts and whatever the architectural I think, you know, I think it's tall telling. So, you guys can move on. So, um there's a motion out there and no, nobody seconded it, right? So, we move on. Yeah. So um I looked at I listened to the presentations that we had uh initially and um I presume that when the recommendation comes to the board it's for us to make a knowing decision a thoughtful decision based on um you know a a set of criteria and uh indishias of expertise And um I saw the spreadsheet that was created and that was helpful but it was not comprehensive.
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Nice feed by Conway. I don't know who took the shot. Good maybe. I don't know. She looked like she was only about four yards out. She should have put that one home. Just wide. Conway with the ball and she's going to get shooting space. [Applause] [Music] Conway will end up being in there getting shooting hurt on the 8 meter. She steps in. The ball goes out wide and it looks like Yes. Good. Good job by Kendall Reed to get uh the inside track of that and get the ball. Good job by Kendall Reed there. 11 seconds left. Uh there we go. Fling it way up or it's still too long. Ball bounces around. So looks like we're going into the fourth quarter with the Spartans up seven to six. Terrific third quarter for East Law Meadow. [Applause] And we're back for the last 12 minutes of the fourth quarter.
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That's never been the case. We've never had algebra. Um, and then kind of what that means for the ninth grade curriculum. Is there a spot like that dimension for algebra? What does that mean for the geometry courses? So there are some ripple effects from that that that's kind of just the work we're going on. But I think you know we we looked at data that really drove us with to this and these curricular changes and think we're all excited that a lot of the things to come are just keep going keep going adjusting and really feel. Um, as far as instructional strategies go, uh, we're really kind of focusing on making sure we're teaching practice standards, uh, making sure students are engaging in problem solving, deep thinking, reasoning, um, and critical thinking that the sta the practice standards will help them do. Um, and the other big thing really focusing on like Tom said is the building thinking classroom strategy.
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That's what makes things complicated here. Again, in Danberry, we live out of multiple grant streams that change and shift. Um, and one-time funding, you know, I'll never turn down money, but onetime funding is very, very disruptive. I agree. Let me read a few questions. Am I correct in assuming that in the alliance money that if you don't spend it, you have to turn it back? It does go back and one of the things that you know we're working really hard is making sure that you know getting a handle on making sure that every grant is maximized and it's being charged correctly. Um again the volatility creates you know variances that we have to continually work to address. Um so that's something that um the grant allows. So I'll give you a quick example. I don't want to belabor the whole meeting here, but the um you know there's a one time one once a year or twice a year a couple times you can make adjustments.
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And then when we received the presentations, I thought that that added detail to uh like trying to understand what each firm was offering. And I thought that was good because ultimately um if if I'm going to take a vote on something, I want it to you I want to understand what it is. So, and and I and I appreciate Dan presenting to us, you know, uh these two firms, but just that presentation by itself without the benefit of those presentations from the firms wouldn't have been enough. Now, I realize that he's probably given a a more succinct presentation because we have the benefit of hearing from those four firms first and those two firms later. And so, when I listen to those six firms, um I'm just going to tell you personally, I I there's only one of the two that are on the recommendation that I felt, you know, comfortable with.
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Steve, it's a hard-fought battle between both teams going back and forth all game. What do you think we need to do? Well, I think if we can continue some of the momentum from the third quarter, um we had done a terrific job with our both offensively for East Long Meadow and a terrific job in shutting down Long Meadow offensively. If we can replicate that third quarter, whatever they did there seemed to be the secret sauce. Yeah, that was huge. M Whiter had a goal. Addy Jordan had two and Calibri had a goal for the Spartans to help Esau Meadow take that seven to six lead. Yep. So, you know, continue to play with pace and confidence and see what happens. A little bit of a delay on the draw here. Somehow changing up Addie Jordan on a draw now. Addy with a self draw right here.
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