And I plan to put these on the concrete wall that's already out there. And then knee pads will also be provided for the kids to use for their comfort. Then I'll have a then the story walk boards going all the way around the courtyard. And the purpose of this is that it encourages reading in a fun and engaging way. It makes reading accessible for students with varying abilities and the outdoor setting can reduce stress and anxiety. So my plan is to provide the school with six books. So one for each of the warm months to start off with. So for the story walk boards, I'll need about 19 boards to accommodate all sizes of stories. So, the story walk boards on the left are my dream storywalk boards because they make it super easy to easily switch out the books because they just open and close.
Um, our behaviors large and small were escalating like crazy. Um, our teachers, our administrators, our counselors, we were worn out. We were tired. We were frustrated. We we needed something different. We needed a change. Um, and we were all tired of coming to school every day, wanting to give our best, and then leaving feeling defeated every day because of just the um the behaviors that were happening and not feeling like we were making any headway in helping our kids to um in in that area. >> We're managing behaviors and when we really wanted to be in classrooms, right? because they're here downstairs to learn and not be in our office, right? So conscious discipline um it starts with the adult and so that is something that we um kind of dove into as an admin team um first because it had to start with us if we wanted to be able to spread that to our staff and then eventually to our students.
Does a backyard launching Cloud over to the Launching Cloud over to the uh over to the right. Now they're kind of just scuffling on the on the floor. Kind of just scuffling. There's a back air. Dodges Pod's dash attack. Oh, gets him gets him buried right next to the ledge. Almost knocks him over. Oh, he goes for Oh, he tries to suck him up, but that does not help. All right, does a side B and an up smash, but neither of which hit. All right, does a roll and another side B. Tries for a neutral air cuz that has a lot of room. Oh, the cloud almost took him out. All right. Ooh. Tries to go for his neutral me and a down air and an up air. Wow. Launching him to the top. Yeah. Now he Oh, man. He did it again. He tried to He tried to jump off the ledge again.
And then we had gone through line by line. So if if it's not that exact number, it's >> Yeah, I think it was a 22K overall, but it sounds like the large majority was from that curriculum. Um, thank you. The one place just in the school building that I noticed a proposed decrease, I don't know who here might be able to speak to this or if it might need to wait till Dr. Z's back. um is I saw a significant increase in the counseling line and I'm wondering if we could get an explanation on what that's based on, what's anticipated to look different next year. >> Um can you tell me which page you're referring to? >> Yeah, let me find it again. >> Oh, is it page six? >> Yes. So that is nothing's changing in terms of staffing on here at this point.
Uh just a couple quick quick things. Um we've had quite a few interviews for different positions over the last three weeks on here. We talked about our PD. We had a very strong applicant pool. It was it was a pool where it was actually it was hard to not interview some of the candidates that we had that applied. It was a it was an applicant pool that was very strong and we interviewed six people. did a pretty thorough interview and had a diverse team of people on those for that interview and came away with someone that feel really strongly about. Parent teacher conferences we had 93% attend over the two days which was better than in the fall which typically the fall was better than the spring. So not quite sure how that happened but it did. based off of our data uh the first evening was actually had more people attend than on Friday when we had actually more time during that [clears throat] day on Friday.
So, uh you can always have them sent back to me and I can put bids out again. We can have another meeting after spring break to try to get those secured. Um but I can't guarantee you that we're going to have any more bids than what we already have. two specific >> I think we better do what I >> can do that >> I would make a motion to approve Scott Christian's construction in the amount of $64,000 for the concrete work >> I'll second >> motion by Allison and a second by Josh. >> All those in favor say I.
So we could actually bond up to over $75,000. >> I'm sorry 75. >> I'm being optimistic. >> But uh >> so basically the total debt right now is 0.201%. The new debt would add to I >> 766. I guess you can't turn the lights down. And uh so basically if we the increase to our net debt would be the 0.5 65. So it's it's a lot but it's it's manageable is what the point I'm trying to make. Now the bond ordinance itself is divided into the streets and drainage is 2 million. We have a lot of street and drainage projects. We've been delaying defraying for years. So, we're trying to catch up with that. And if you live on a street that needs to be paved, you'll understand that this is something that we really have to do. The site improvements and demolition of the existing building would be the 1.5 million.
Aaron Khan. We have um teachers also had meetings with some of these parents when we had their teacher conferences to emphasize the importance of the attendance. We pointed out the number of days that a number of them have been absent and highlighting the fact that the state requires that your your maximum number of absence is 18 days for the whole year. There are some students that they're way past that number in the first semester alone. So we are trying to emphasize to them the importance of um attending. What we discussed in our last meeting when the last parent committee meeting was getting some kind of survey done to find out what are the barriers that some families are experiencing that is preventing regular attendance and to see what kind of programs we could possibly implement or what assistance we could give. so that they are able to have their children attend school on a regular basis.
So, we had this beautiful view and it was fun to get the teachers off campus and it was all staff at that as well. It wasn't just teachers, parents, everybody was there. So, it was fun to get together and do a PD. But, so for next year, I continue to work with Caroline Lynch, right? It's a three. Can you go back for me? It's three-year commitment. So, this summer, her and I are planning an ad professional development to prepare staff um for co-eing. So right now we have co-eing in math but we're going to also be incorporating that in English as well next year. So this is part of my school improvement plan for the 26 27 year. So we have a week-l long PD where the the great thing about having Caroline Lynch is I get free PD. It's not costing me. I just have to pay the teachers to come.
So, if we can get the mic to her really quickly. Please raise your hand. Sorry. Got it. Send it down there slowly, quickly. Okay. Thank you. Hi, my name is Alyssa Nemanoff and I'm a Guild Member for Standing O Theatre Company, which is the theatre company at Oswego High School. Hi, Alyssa. Okay. How has this activity helped you keep trying when something is hard? So, theatre is definitely a business that comes with a lot of rejection, whether that be you're auditioning to perform on stage and you maybe don't get a role that you want or you're in the crew and something tech related and you want to audition for a certain leadership position or you're trying to do something for the show and it doesn't work out. There's definitely lot of rejection that can happen in theatre. That being said, the show must go on.
So, that's a huge win and we are very proud of that and it's a really big testament to the OG curriculum, but also to the kids and how receptive they are to the daily routines and structures that we do. We really like to remind ourselves every day why we do what we do. So, I always ask the Why do we practice our letters and our sounds every day? So, what do you guys think? Who can tell me? Emily. >> So, we can become strong readers and writers. >> Become strong readers and writers. Very good. Yes. Right. >> Okay. This is Alex and Riley and Kate. We have London and Emily requests. >> Thank you, Sycamore staff and students. That was so impressive. Um 40% increase and that >> just astonishing. I have to I was a teacher a long long time ago and a couple things that I noticed that were just like extras that were embedded the B checker for the reversals.
And it's also important to know too that every one of those projects traditionally begins with an assessment, right? we kind of whether it's a small assessment very focused on a particular item or what we did here for for deli community schools which is more broad more comprehensive looking at every component. So we've done thousands of these studies and happy to have put this together for you all. All right so we're going to go through some introductions and then we'll kind of get into the more uh kind of the meat of the presentation. Um, I'm actually Martin, I'm gonna probably have you lead us off. So, Martin, project development architect, kind of the leader on the architectural team. Um, I'll have you begin and just kind of go down the line. >> Yeah, thanks Tony. My name is Martin Sams, uh, project development architect. Um, been with performance services for a little over five years now, but I've been in the world of education design for about 13 years.
Uh, so I I think that's I wish we could because this would take care of our adoptions every year. If we could get that money, this would be a piece of cake for us. >> Yeah. And I think uh, Mrs. Brown said that, you know, we've been waiting for social studies for >> Yes. a decade. I mean, it's it really has been something. I didn't realize we'd been waiting that long for for science. >> Yeah. and social studies was a year prior to that. So we're about 15 years out for social studies. It's been a minute. >> So to to Jay's point, I wouldn't bet that they would put anything in the next bianium and that's so that's coming up. So January they're going to start the bianium budget. But with this adoption cycle coming on, it needs to be a conversation. I know it's on ISBA's radar.
However, they are not budget friendly at all. But the more budget friendly boards are the ones on the right. And these ones just make it a little harder to change out books because you have to unscrew and rescrew every time you want to change the books, which can be a pain if you're switching books out every month. And there's 19 boards. Then on the west wall, I'll have planters. And these will be filled with sensory plants, ideally perennials, because um I don't want them to die and then you have to keep coming out to replant them. And then I would carefully select plants that wouldn't attract bees. So these will be placed in raised garden beds for easy access so that the kids don't have to bend down as much to get to them. And if they do end up dying, they're really easy to replace.
Um so every person wants to be seen heard and valued. Um but it has to start with the relationships we make but inside um each adult first. So a little about our conscious discipline journey. Um in December of 2022 um Tammy McMahon asked Chris Hess and I like hey you girls want to go to St. Lewis to a two-day conference for conscious discipline for admin. And so Chris and I are always up for a good time. So we're like, "Yeah, let's go." Um, and that really was a game changer for me. What I learned there um I was able to bring back and um shared with Amy and at first was kind of she was not all >> shut down. I shut her down. >> No, she wasn't all about it. So, um, she ended up then being able to go, uh, to a conference >> with Ashley.
Man, he's trolling me at this point, I tell you. He's trolling me at this point, I tell you. Does a neutral B. Cloud does his neutral B and and Asher somehow manages to get behind that neutral B and does a jab combo. Cloud just barely dodging the uh Cloud just barely dodging the crown. does an upbe right there. Dodges the upbe and does a neutral air. Clouds that kill percent. Does a neutral air. Oh, but he hits the Oh, but he hits the upbey. It doesn't kill though. Both of these guys are at really high percents. It's in It's kind of hard to tell who's in more danger at this time cuz Asher is at higher damage, but he's playing a heavier character, so it's going to be harder to knock him to knock him down, you know. All right. Oh, but my question has been answered.
You see um in FY23 to FY25 that we typically apply the rural school aid and the rural re grants to those sections. So we make an estimated guess of how much we think we we will receive and then what actually happens we don't know until sometime in the late fall. Um, and that's where we apply because guidance and we assume at the counselors, you know, they're working with most if not all students. So, that's why we picked that line to apply the grant to. So, it's not that anything's actually changed. It's just how much grant money did we receive and how much is is supporting in that area. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Um, okay, those were the simpler ones. Here are the less simple ones. Um the this is I think going to be just really a question that I'm interested in exploring that may or may not be for this year.
So I don't know if it's just coming in after work, coming in after school and getting it done on a Wednesday versus a Friday and it being all day. I'm not quite sure about that, but that's that's more data I'm going to look into and see how we can I wouldn't say spread out our attendance, but not So bare on Friday afternoon. So that was some interesting data there. February uh we completed our our testing day which is a pretty big day for our for our kids. Our freshman went to Flint Hills Tech uh for clear career exploration. Sophomores completed the ASVAB test and juniors did the ACT and then our seniors worked on their exit portfolios um for English. So that was a pretty big day on February 24th. Mrs. Bolan does a phenomenal job coordinating all that and just organizing everybody and where all of our teachers need to go to help and who's going with the freshman to Flint Hills Tech.
>> Any opposed? same side. Motion passes 6. And then I would move to approve Hammock Electric and the amount of Should I make sure I got >> 36 74561. >> Second. >> Motion by Allison and second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I.