We did not pilot in kindergarten because our instructional day wasn't long enough to do the program yet. Um and so and then we also had representation from general education, special education and our multilingual teachers so that we have a good representation and all voices are being heard throughout the process. So once we had our pilot teachers we started the pilot process. So we taught each resource for about 40 to 45 days so that we could have a good feeling of how it worked. Um throughout that process, we gathered feedback from teachers weekly or bi-weekly. And then at the end of each pilot, we um also um got feedback from our students in third through fifth grade. We met regularly with publishers for support and problem solving throughout that process. So our um pilot teachers would either meet before school, after school, um or sometimes during the school day.
But because of that shift, uh what we wanted to do was break out the things that our energy conservation work that Honeywell would manage and take care of. And then the other capital work, if you remember, we talked about the potential of having other capital work done. That's what's broken down into the handled by uh district 99. So in that handled by Honeywell, we talked about all of those pieces. The one part that we didn't talk about was roof replacements. Okay. So, that is separate from when you look at at capital and safety projects handled by district 99. That's separate from the the fieldhouse repair uh and roof replacement that we that the board has already approved. This is taking four sections uh across both buildings uh both of the high schools that are structurally sound and can handle solar but were put on in 2000.
So, I'm open. For next week then, uh, in terms of preparing schedules, we have schedules that are prepared for all the days, um, but it seems like at least for setting the meetings for next week, probably at the moment we would be sticking with Monday. If we have to have it published by the start of the fiscal year, that does give the board till July 1st. We can set meeting dates next week, but not publish them right away and look a little bit more at options. Even if it stays on Monday, maybe the combined option with the two meetings at a time and we can create a schedule for that, what that would look like for the board, um, what suggested times would be and things like that, um, and we can bring that back to the board next week to consider, even if the board at this point goes ahead with our regular Monday schedules as we typically do.
I would agree with that. >> I'm okay adding the two items onto one. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Is that correct? Say that again. >> If we don't want to pursue another referendum, we don't have to take a vote >> Oh, gosh. >> we just don't do it. >> You just don't do it. Okay. >> That that can die for lack of >> Got you. >> lack of any motion any action. >> I guess I guess this is my question just a thought. >> [clears throat] >> If for some reason we would not pursue the referendum here in 2026 does that put our back really against the wall in 2028? >> Uh I can't answer that cuz I think those two questions are somewhat dependent on each other. I think if the board decides to All these things are interrelated. Um if if we decide to wait a year to to consolidate the building or not to consolidate, we can survive, but then that makes all those cuts the following year that much tighter, and you're not accruing any savings in the fall of the previous year, um which I think we would probably start accruing some of those savings uh that you would then you only capture those in the fall of '27 rather than the fall of '26.
So, the summary on it. The base quotes for E&B uh $107,986.32. Uh part three, $154.44. Uh the alternate in there uh was for is an add of $24,686.33. Grady Brothers uh base quotes one and two, $113,600. Uh base quote part three is $115. The alternate was an add of $14,225. And then Crenshaw Paving base quotes part one and two, $74,064 even. Base quote part three, $20. Alternate quote was an add of $22,845. So, my recommendation would be to accept base quotes part one and two and also take the alternate. For a total of just shy of $97,000. So, not three. Base quote part three, so that's undercutting if there's any unsuitable soil. Um so, it's just it's just unknown until you go through excavation, but I'm sorry. I guess accept their quote for the whole project, but yeah. But add the alternate. We had We had $100,000 roughly budgeted.
Because what you're hearing here is kids are referencing that when we do things like building thinking classroom initiatives, that is beneficial to their learning. So, you'll hear from social studies soon. That's our next session and you'll hear that kids can really voice that interactive, that collaboration, that group work really helps their learning. That's what helps their thinking. So, we asked similar questions for our MLs and our social studies focus group and that seems to be a consistent pattern. When we're in groups, when we have the opportunity for discourse and dialogue, we tend to learn better. Our thinking tends to go deeper. Yeah, no. The bullet point number one reminds me of whiteboarding. Absolutely. Yeah. >> is for all kids. For all kids. >> Not just ML. That's what I'm saying. Bullet point number three, I feel is like the one that's specific to ML learners.
Danielle did not shy away from support here at school. She leaned into it. She took full advantage of what was available to her at Stevenson from both an academic and social emotional lens and use those supports with intention. She took the time to understand what she needed and used that as fuel and opportunity to grow and strengthen herself over time. Her level of maturity is something that sets her apart and has impressed us time and time again. And her ability to persevere through adversity while maintaining optimism speaks volumes about her character. Danielle is also exceptional in the way that she's shows up for others. She leads with empathy, kindness, and a genuine desire to make a difference. Whether through participating in allied spirit, best buddy, student congress, BBYO, serving as an FMP leader, um PE leader, playing field hockey, or working three days a week at Sprag Elementary School.
We conducted walkthroughs to look for trends. We identified what's going well so that we can celebrate. It is very hard to learn something new in front of students while you are all doing it together. So we wanted to make sure that we are celebrating the um the great things that were happening but also to address challenges and things that weren't feeling or that were feeling a little clunky for teachers. And then finally at the end of that process we convened to make some re uh recommendations. And we did have um our our middle school it was unanimous that they would like to recommend um amplify um ELA. Um and then there was a majority of teachers um in the elementary who wanted to or who recommended arts and letters. And so we have a couple of those here. um some teachers, pilot teachers with us tonight and I'm going to turn it over to them so that they can share some of the highlights with you in terms of what they found especially meaningful and exciting about the new resource.
So, it would not be smart to put solar on top of 26-y old roofs that are already past their so that with that work um and we'll get into some of the the details related to that. That is the increase of replacing four of those rough sections. And so what that does is it takes our our square footage um and increases that by I have it in my notes here um by about 57% upgrading our our potential. So there are other sections of the roof that are good structurally and are recently uh replaced. So one of those being the fieldhouse roof at North, right? So we're going to take advantage of of that, but there are other sections of the roof uh as well. Um, and then we had talked about the boiler replacement and and we'll talk a little bit about that uh at at North, but all of the other things we had uh talked about uh previously when we look at our capital and safety projects, we also talked about safety projects and that would be the safety camera hardware uh which again, just as a reminder, we stand ready to submit our cops school violence prevention program grant as soon as that opens up.
And then we could have some more discussion in May and in June as long as we have it fully decided by the end of June I guess it would we could probably be okay then. It sounds like I was reading right policy 2200 it says the regular meeting calendar so that's the one we're talking about maybe changed within 10 days notice in accordance with state law so it seems we could change our mind as long as we're giving everyone at least 10 days notice. Thank you and next up may I have a motion to adjourn let me read the closed session first next up is closed session for two reasons 6.1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body 5 ILCS 120-2C1 and 6.2 the collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employee or their representatives deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees 5 ILCS 120-2C2.
Um and I don't know that it puts our back against the wall anymore than it does any other time. I think there's another thing in there. There's another biennium. There's another long legislative session in '28. '28, yeah, '28. So, that could also play a role in this if they address the concerns. Um I I don't know, uh Mr. Shue. I don't know that that's I don't know that I give you an honest I think I think I've given you an honest answer. I just don't know if I give you a correct answer. It's really just a question for the Yeah. No, I get it. >> I'd like to ask a question. >> Uh you really can't, but >> Okay. Well, that's fine then. >> You can ask after. >> Write it down, yeah. >> Yeah. >> Anything else? >> [clears throat] >> No. >> Okay, so I just want to make sure I'm clear.
Um and so, we're right there. So. I move we accept Crenshaw Paving's base quotes and alternate quotes. Second. Move by Bryce, seconded by Amy, to accept Crenshaw Paving's base quotes, parts 1, 2, and 3, and alternate quote. Any other discussion? Ready to vote? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Next we have our revisions. Yeah, so item F, ELA curriculum. Um appreciate all the work that teachers, Ms. Sacred, and Ms. Golden have been doing on this. Um so science of reading and feel free to jump in here, ladies, if I miss speak at any point. So, science of reading has been um something adopted here in Indiana. Um and so um you you got to adopt curriculum that's aligned with the science of reading. Um and it we've also had OG training um for a few years now in place in in our district.
And the other four just strike me as kids, that's what I think so. Good instructional practices. Universal designs for learning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I would put bullet point three in that category, too. Yeah. Cuz building confidence for all kids. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm just practicing. There's a lot of kids who grew up here in town are But we might have kiddos that have speech and language opportunities, right? And if we provide these spaces where it's safe to practice your speaking and listening, right? It works for MLs just like it works for any other student. So, that's that's a great noticing because you'll recall my previous slide about there's no magic wand. You got to get really good at good instruction. So, the opportunities. So, this is from our kiddos that were in our focus groups. This is what they need more of. Explicit academic vocabulary instruction.
Danielle makes a meaningful impact in every space that she's part of. I also have had the unique opportunity to see Danielle in a different role as she works with young children in the Little Patriots preschool here at Stevenson. My son Kaden has been in the Little Patriots program for the last two years. He has always been empathetic and an old soul kind of child and he's interacted with many high school students he adores in that setting. But when I ask about his day, there's always one person he is most excited to talk about. Miss Danielle. you're going to make me cry. Um, as a parent, I've come to trust that instinct in him, and I truly believe he sees and feels in Danielle the same something special I recognized that very first time I met her. This speaks to her ability to connect, to make others feel safe, valued, and important.
So we are going to start with um Mrs. Yoast and Mrs. Sho um from our elementary to talk about arts and letters. >> Hi u my name's Rhonda Yast. I'm fifth grade teacher at South School. Um, and as we embarked on the pilot, the kids were really excited. Um, they were excited to see some new materials and to see something different than what they've been seeing for the past several years. In fifth grade with arts and letters, we taught a module about Native Americans. And it connected not only the current um landscape, so our the tribes we were talking about are the tribes from the Midwest. It also talked about westward expansion and the growing of America. And so it connected to a lot of things that they already have learned about, but also gave them some more information to broaden their knowledge in that area.
Um I've been checking weekly to see when it's open. We have all of the paperwork. Uh we have additional supporting uh letters, one from uh our ROE and one from the Depage County States Attorney uh to help uh bolster that application. So we stand ready to do that. Um and the other is a PA system upgrade. Uh it's not a full PA system replacement. Uh that would be very expensive. What this is is is basically replacing the brains of the system um as well as the amplifiers to help drive the system. But there would be some additional opportunities in the future to expand that uh so that we could enhance uh the the functionality of our of our PA system and enhance the the security as well. Uh we've talked about the health life safety controls. So that's if you remember we're we're replacing 21 rooftop units as a as part of our health life safety work.
May I have a motion to adjourn the closed session? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Take vote please. Mindy Hartman. Yes. T Darling. >> Yes. Stacy Salt. Julie Getty. Yes. Bridget Sandlin. Yes. Catherine Potter. Yes. Jason Jansick. >> Yes. The motion is approved open session ends at 6:41 p.m.
Two meetings on the 27th, public work session first, and then and then agenda item. >> I guess I would like to make the comment to everybody in this room, if you have somebody that has interest that they want to talk, have them here on the 27th so we can hear what they're saying. >> Yep. >> Work session for that. That's coming from me personally. So, I wasn't at the first work session. I apologize. I did read the minutes. I did watch some of the video, but if if you want to hear from them, have them here. >> And I would also add, don't don't hesitate to email people that can I mean that that's okay too. We can get information. >> You have a time for those days? >> Uh I don't know that we have those set yet. What what are you you guys thinking like >> 5:00 for the first one.
And so, um trying to find curriculum that was also aligned with OG um Orton-Gillingham um as as far as um reading. Um and so, looking for um a curriculum piece moving forward. And so, this is CKLA uh from Amplify. Um so, this is a 6-year quote. Um there are a couple pieces still in it. So, my recommendation would be for you to approve it up to the $87,052.74. There we're going to still do some additional kind of uh investigating. We want to go look at some um some of our teachers want to go visit a couple schools where they're actually implementing the curriculum just to kind of ask questions a little bit. Hey, do you use do you use the the digital piece? Do you use the actual um paper um student consumables more? Are they both really necessary at specific grade levels and so like for example kindergarten um there is um the student license uh the digital piece um that's $30 per student then there's the student like uh paper book uh student consumable set that's $32 per student.
They need more of that so that they can access their instruction. Simpler directions for multi-steps. So, multi-step problems, multi-step directions, they need simpler directions. Too much of a cognitive load. And they want more opportunities to practice social and academic language. There's that speaking and listening that comes back up in our kiddos voice. And so, this is what they actually said. These are actually their words. We took these from from their actual We recorded what they said. And on teacher support, they had they had something to say. They also had things to say about vocabulary challenges. And the importance of the peer discussion. And what it takes in order for them to learn language and how reading helps them and on building their own confidence. And I just want to draw your attention here to on language learning effort. They talked about thinking about words and what they mean is tiring.