So we factored all of that in so that it would not hit the operating budget. >> Go to the next slide. So this gives a a greater breakdown. You can see where the the savings are and what the payback is. uh it is ranked it's sorted by the the highest right uh amount of annual uh savings. So there's substantial savings with our solar. Uh you can see that that has a 17.1-year payback. Um and why you look at that why the higher number that's because we have the roof replacements as well. Right? If we didn't have to do that's factoring in the roof replacements. If we didn't have those, that would be a much uh lower number, probably around a seven-year uh payback uh for that LED lighting and controls. Um you can see that this is uh almost 11,000 fixtures that would be replaced across the entire district, both inside and outside.
Do you have anything you want to talk about? Thanks for having those kids come today. That was great. Um Brent, what's up with you? >> Just a couple of quick things. I want to give a shout out to Carol. We started CogAT testing last week or we were supposed to and found out that CogAT wasn't talking with iPads and our kindergarten students have iPads. So, we kind of punted real quick. Um probably more than we should have spoken to her doing but we had with Carol to get her blessing and swapped out Chromebooks with our first graders and kindergarten students and found out that was the solution. Uh but now today Carol's been watching things closely and it's back to working with iPads and it wasn't on our end. It was a CogAT issue for whatever some updates and things that they did. Um but I think we're back to being able to use iPads now but uh so just I want to thank you Carol for her help in looking into that and trying to figure out solutions so we can keep on testing our kindergarten students with that.
We're able to kind of do what we've been doing scope and sequence wise and add this in when it makes sense. So, um we know for sure kindergarten and first grade we're going to have to take some time to really make the the scope and sequence of the year align with this. The other grade levels feel like they can hit the ground running and really have have what they need. Um but, we are working right now to kind of get in touch. We know Kokomo and Lebanon both have CKLA. Um so, I reached out to contacts there to try to get maybe a mini bus to go and see what they have going on and have some conversations with those teachers. Anything you guys would add? Thank you. Yep. So, I have a question about the licensing and I see that you all had a little bit of a conversation about that, but um I would be concerned of copyright um violation.
The language line is in thousands of dollars, but we think it's underutilized and we want it to be utilized more, so I always watch that, but things like that. I just one of you, I think as you mentioned the final bullet point. And I I just my own experience cuz I've learned to speak a few different languages throughout the world in a few different countries, and I've had people say to me like, "Well, what if you say something wrong when you're learning? You offend somebody, and then it's like it My view is My view before I ever learned the language was that people will assume good intent in a learning environment. And I never I never experienced like in person anyone getting upset with me, and they would oftentimes correct me on having said things incorrectly. Um it could be pronunciation. It could be a misuse of a word where it's a double meaning of a word, and it comes out completely wrong.
>> Yeah. Well, thank you so much for having us. We're really happy to be here to share our work with you. Um, just some quick introductions. I'm Caitlyn McGovern. I'm the director of bands and I'm also the team leader. I've been at Stevenson for 16 years or no, 12 years. Oh my gosh. And I've been teaching for 16 years. This is why we have slides. >> I'm Mark Heert. I'm the associate director of bands. I've been teaching for 15 years and I'm in my sixth year at Stevenson. >> And I'm Benoit. Um, I'm the assistant director of bands. I've been teaching for eight years and this is my second year at Stevenson. Um so what you're seeing right here is a picture from our office. Uh we really like to think of our office as a place for generating new ideas about teaching and what band can be for our students.
So, the big wave is one of the pieces of art our hearing writers will be exploring in the future, although some of them already did it. So, anyway, it'll be okay. All right. Now, I'm going to turn it over to Erin Shanahan and Sarah Cray who are going to talk to you about Amplify ELA. >> Hi, my name is Erin Shanahan. I am an eighth grade ELA teacher at Chipua. Um, we piloted a Frankenstein unit um from Amplify. Um and initially when we um found out that the unit we were piloting was Frankenstein, we were kind of scared. Um we were like, "Oh, this is very advanced for our students." Um but it was a graphic novel version and Amplify made it really accessible um and engaging for all students. Um so all students were able to gain something out of the unit and um they had a lot of great entry points for student discourse throughout the unit.
Um all of our lighting fixtures would be changed to LED. Uh that is an important thing considering that uh starting in January 1st of 2027 um there are strict uh restrictions on the use of fluorescent bulbs in the school setting. So that would remove all of that. Everything would be um LED uh and that has a 21.7year payback. That's a lot of lights um to to get replaced um over that over that time. >> Travis, can you also just mention the impact on classrooms for the >> Yes. So it not only is it the the efficiency, right, but the the impact on the learning environment is is a huge factor as well where they can be dim, they can be controlled. Um and uh we know that the rooms that we have those in it it makes a difference um in the atmosphere and the learning environment.
We're also getting ready to do the I EAs and teachers have already started that. It's just that testing time of year for our building as well. Um we want to give a shout out also to Mrs. Spencer. It's administrative assistant's week. It's administrative professional week. It used to be known as secretary's week but um Um, we are blessed to have somebody like Beth in our building um because she's not just a phone answer, she's a problem solver. Um, probably sometimes brings some problems to us as well, but um she she wears a lot of hats in our building and does just a tremendous job, so I want to publicly thank her tonight. Um, and it goes beyond just day-to-day school stuff. For instance, this weekend when we have our mother-son/daddy-daughter event, that's this lady right here with a lot of support um around her, but she leads those things and um we just can't thank her enough.
If like I know the teachers will have access for 6 years, but the students only have access for 1 year, right? We could be in copyright >> Well, that's the piece that we want to analyze a little further. I mean, so if like we said, you know, if we find out that yeah, um for example, you know, if we go to lab and then they've they've been implementing this for like yeah, we definitely use that student consumable. We'll say, you guys are going to want that. We would we would use that every year. So, we would buy those. So, every student would have their own now. Right. Same thing with the digital. If they're like, "Eh, we don't really use the digital or the consumable. Maybe in fifth grade we use more of the digital content." Then we would have that consumable for the digital piece in fifth grade, for example.
Um and uh Yeah, but I think I think it's So, this is in different places around the world. I really do believe that's where people come from. The intent matters a lot when you're learning. If you should know it, that's one thing, but if you don't, people can accept that. And so, yeah, that I do feel that's very important and powerful to let kids know that who who may never have a conversation like this at home at all about anything like this. And so, if the teacher says something like that to to not be afraid to say something wrong, I think that could be really valuable to the kids who are learning. Agreed. Fully agree. And kudos to our staff because so much So many of our staff staff members do exactly that, which is why that bullet point around like feeling that sense of belonging and relationships and having teachers that are their champions came out.
Um we draw inspiration from a lot of different artistic and philosophical spaces. And one particularly powerful norm for us is this idea of yes and that comes out of the improv comedy scene. Um it's this idea that when one of us has a new idea about how we want to try something or something we want to try different um we always start with yes and then we're going to build off of that idea. So we don't reject any ideas from the beginning. We always start with yes. Um so at SHS we've got four levels of band that are divided up into six different classes. Um and these are partially for like social and musical reasons. So every freshman that enters this uh program starts in freshman band. Um, and we do this so they're all coming from like all sorts of different feeder schools. We do this so they can all like get together, um, meet the people that they're going to be spending the next four years with, make friends, and then acclimate to our like single, uh, Stevenson band culture.
like kids having conversations with each other um talking about the texts that they were reading and also writing about the texts that they were reading. Um and that's all really highly supported our district PD this year um around the science of reading. Um one of the biggest highlights of the unit was um the embedded student debates surrounding the text. Um these got the students really engaged um and having meaningful conversations about they were what they were reading. um students ended up having very strong feelings about some of the moral choices that Victor Frankenstein was making um as well as strong feelings about the creature's desire for a companion. So, what started off as kind of being a scary idea um ended up being something that we got really excited about and the students also got really excited about it. >> Thank you. >> Hi. Hi, I'm Sarah Crayons.
Uh so again that would be across across the board in all of our buildings. Uh actually including this building as well. We have quite a bit of fluorescent bulbs uh here. So that would uh that would take care of that and we would be right in line with that clean lighting act. The HVAC controls rec uh retro commissioning um there was some surprise savings here with uh we're about $90,000 a year that has a very short payback in the and the work that would be uh required from that. So some of that is set points, some of its schedules, some of it's just managing the efficiency of our HVAC system. Um so not a a huge lift uh but some pretty big savings um each year. Water conservation you can see um we would replace uh 375 uh devices including uh showerheads uh sink faucets uh water closets um as well as retrofitting 232 of the of the similar.
So, happy Administrative Professionals Day on Earth Day. Appreciate you. >> You said week. I thought she got a whole week. I'm super jealous. >> It's all >> got a day. >> Uh so, Central Elementary, the the positive part for me is uh Mr. Tippett was out a couple days before break and I I got to spend eight days uh back at the elementary and I had a blast. I got more hugs and more snot on my pants from hugs than I >> [laughter] >> I don't even remember, but it was a great time. So, things are progressing well. They're they're they're also doing testing. Uh I know Kayla's working hard to get that organized. She's administering professionally for us, so we'll be honoring Pam as well. Uh does any uh you guys have anything to say about athletics? Any updates on athletics? >> Spring athletics is by far the most fun I've ever had.
So, so we don't have the copyright issues because we're going to buy those licenses annually. So, but we're just not including them this year because we don't know which direction we're going to 100% go. Okay. And we want to I I think that provides us some flexibility to build it. You know what I mean? Like after after we go and but also too, like after that first year uh in our own teachers might like, "Yeah, we didn't we didn't really use that thing so much. We used more of this piece." You know what I mean? So, we didn't want to lock us into a full 6 year everything and then find out 2 years into it we never use this piece and we just keep chucking the books in the dumpster or we bought all these digital licenses and we don't use them ever. You know what I mean?
So, yeah, fully agree. It goes back to creating those safe classroom environments where kids are willing to take risks and are willing to engage in conversations with peers and staff. So, yeah, kudos to our staff. There was a There was a prior slide where it mentioned 1/3 of staff feel uncomfortable. I'm assuming this is the case, but when you're talking to staff who feel that they feel uncomfortable you you make it clear they understand that if they they may try to communicate and not hear back that could be like a communication barrier, a language barrier. It also could be a parent who's just not engaged or not engaged at that moment in time. Um I just wouldn't want staff to like have any sort of like you as the administrator to have like an unfavorable view of somebody when they're making a good faith effort.
Um, next, um, they can metriculate into possibly three different levels. Um, there's symphonic band, which is a mixed age group for sophomores through seniors, and this is a D-Leveled course. Um, in the past we had another level of band called concert band. But one thing that we noticed is that students in that group um tended to have limiting beliefs about themselves and their capacity for music making. So we combined that with the other symphonic band level to just make one symphonic band level that they can be a part of. And there's two symphonic bands. Um the other two groups are groups that um students can audition into and these are typically for our more advanced students. We've got wind symphony and wind ensemble and wind ensemble performs pretty much exclusively collegiate level repertoire. And then our co-curricular ensembles. We have we have a huge number of ensembles that students can participate in outside of the school day.
I'm an instructional coach at Chipoa and Aangquin. I piloted eighth or I worked alongside um Chipoa's eighth grade team. Um Amplify allows us to maintain high expectation for all middle school students by keeping instruction grounded at the grade level content while providing all students with the right supports. One of the most impactful features of how easily teachers can differentiate just at the click of a button, they can adjust the level of support for individual students in the moment, the night before, whenever it happens. It's it's good to go. These supports give every student an appropriate entry point to the same rigorous task. This means all students are engaging with grade level questions and content, but with the scaffolds they need to be successful. were supporting up instead of scaffolding down. As an instructional coach, I partnered with a teacher in an instructional special ed classroom.
So they they look at the age of the water closets, age of the the sinks and and the flow and they can look at and and some of them just need to be retrofitted instead of a full replacement. So that has a 14.3year payback. Building envelope improvements. Again, if you think about that when you uh think of your home, right? When you put in the extra cocking, whether that be uh a door sweep, different things like that that help uh keep the the air in or the heat out, right? Those are the types of things that we're talking about with that. Um again, about $7,000 in savings and pretty close to that 20-year uh payback. Boy, the replacement, that is not a typo. It is 225 year payback. That was the first question I asked uh when we when we talked about this with Honeywell was, is there a decimal somewhere in there?
Uh Austin is having a day. We have four of them on campus tonight, but he's not here, but um things are going well. The weather's sunny and 60 most days, we would be good to go, but um a lot of rescheduling happens in the spring sports because of the weather, but he's handling that as well as can be expected. >> [snorts] >> Um and we're doing well there. Um I do want to share that tonight we were going to present on the um new graduation measures and things like that, but um with the kids speaking, we'd like to have the opportunity for Laura Scott, um who has coordinated this tonight for our kids to be able to speak next week or next month on that issue on the that information. I think it's important um to know what we're looking at at grades um 4 through 12 going forward because um as I can attest to being in the school, the date has changed again.