Uh for the learning cycle principle again as I mentioned before we really connect with the idea that learning is a cycle of prior knowledge and what's working and what's not working and how we can make sense of that. Um, so we wanted to take that growth focused language that I talked about before in the previous slide and expand it into some curriculum and assessment structures. Um, so we used to for band auditions just give kids a bunch of very challenging music and say to them, "Best of luck to you. We hope this works out." Um, and obviously we found that they hit their limiting beliefs with that pretty quickly. So we've shifted to what we now call the prepare, perform, reflect or PPR project. And now kids are guided through that cyclical learning process um as they're preparing this pretty advanced material. So they start with a goal setting form where it's meant to activate their self-reflection to think about like last time I had a big project, how did that go for me?
Uh, and now we're working on the how to do that and the the PD piece which is coming. But I would also thank your team. I know Christiey's probably not I didn't see this phone in here, but I know that there's beyond that it's a small team making great change. So, thank you to everybody. And then I I just want to make sure to mention that because the board members each of you sat >> and we learned through a very long process of explaining structure literacy and why it was important that we would be leaders in the community uh for this transition. So I'll be quiet. >> Thank you. >> Questions. >> I just also have a huge thank you. It was Kelly Morrisy that really opened my eyes up to the situation happening and not that it's anybody's fault. It's just capitalism seeped into the school districts and I really appreciate what you guys are doing and then happy for what your team is doing and thank you very much.
And again, the next slide just talks about just some of the reminders. If you remember that July 4th date, um some federal incentives are shifting. So that helps us to maximize those incentives as well as if we meet that timeline. Uh it expands our ability to install uh solar during that that time frame. Um our costs are not going down as we're seeing on a regular basis and uh the demand for energy is not going down. Uh so the more that we can get behind the meter uh where we re remove that delivery cost the better. uh because that's that's the part. Remember in the fall we approved uh a four-year agreement for both to lock in our energy our costs and our natural gas. So electricity and natural gas. So those are set. It's that delivery charge that we just don't know what's going to happen.
piece. So, the ones that say like kindergarten, they say 80 and 80. I mean, they're giving them I mean It's This is the challenge when you when you get in with the the textbook companies, even go back 20 years ago, it's way trickier cuz they're like, "Well, I'm buying five and we're giving you two." And you know, and like, "Can you just tell me the price? I need 50 bucks or whatever it might be." So. We just did our best to project student numbers for next year at this point. >> So, like on the Dizzel curriculum again, piece on kindergarten they're not charging us for those 80. This is, you know, I mean, this first year, but if you wanted to buy them the next year, then you got to buy them outright, so. I did not add that to my number. I just did the consumable sets.
Yeah. gym uniform It's sports sign-up. A classic example was the heck do you know whether it's a snow day or not? Like that was which you really needed to know this year. >> [laughter] >> By the way, had a lot of them. Yeah, what does snow day mean? So, all all of all of these things to that connection and then and it also meant that the next time there was a question, they knew it was okay to ask, and they knew where to where to go to. So, those kinds of things are really really important. Sometimes it's the classroom teacher at the elementary level, and sometimes sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's sometimes somebody else. But the teachers have access to the language line, too, right? If they want to ask a question. And just see what I mean, it's not just a thing for parent-teacher conferences.
Um what were my habits around that? Did I plan? Did I not plan? Did I procrastinate? And so on. So just starting by orienting them to what they would typically do. And then along the way we have them do uh Whoop. Okay, targeted practice journals for each section of their audition. So, there's a lot of different content um that's part of that. So, we use these targeted journals to help them organize their thinking to plan around again their prior knowledge and what's going well and what's not going as well as they're working through managing this process. And then when they're done, um, they complete a reflection form where they consider, um, how it all went for them, whether they got the result they were hoping for or not in terms of their course placement. It's meant to help them focus on their growth and make meaning out of what their process was like.
It's really thoughtful and kind of >> So just for clarity, Amplify ELA was the unanimous choice for >> 100% of our teachers who who piloted chose amplify. It was very very high. >> Okay. >> Very, you know, I was worried. I'm like, "Oh gosh, I don't want to be the one to make the final decision if we're close for ELA." But it ended up um pretty overwhelming in in the direction of Arts and Letters as well. >> Okay. Because that was then my second question was where did Arts and Letters fall in because >> it wasn't close. Okay. >> No, it was not close. >> That that's actually a really good sign. So, >> I said we brought two, you know, like it even that there's that much of a debate means we brought some good resources and um each one had some really great uh points to them.
That can fluctuate. Uh so the more that we get off of uh off of our bill, the better, right? It won't have as big of an impact on on our uh on our operations. I think this is the last slide we have. Um this is just the next steps as as we move forward. Um so once we have the the results from Balman Consulting, uh we'll obviously review that. Um our district council will review the the contract of the um energy savings performance contract. That's the ESPC. um to make sure that we are in line with that section 19 of the of the school code um and protect our interests at the same time. That's an important thing. Um as part of this, if we if we were to move forward, we do have to have a public notice in the paper um and on our website and also posted here at the district office or wherever we have that hearing.
But, we're going to be charging Parents will be paying. Right. A portion of that. >> Yes, that's $30. Yeah. Okay, yep. So, Bryce looking at second grade there because there's only two. Can I ask you to amend your motion, please? To go up a little higher in case we need to. So, there's only >> two additional. Okay. Does that teacher one matter cuz there's only two also? That's the part I'm worried about. It would be the two teachers and that's 4,900. So, if that doubled, there'd be another 5,000. So, if you just called it, let's say 95,000 to be safe. Excuse me. Instead of the 87,052. I modified my motion uh to now accept the ELA curriculum of Amplify approve up to 90,000. 95. 95,000 >> Please. dollars >> Thank you. with the understanding that it could be less. Yes. Do we want to? Second.
Or PPTs. I mean, you could do any kind you want to check in. It's such a great resource. It's instantaneous. You have somebody up on the screen or on the phone in again, countless number of languages. >> And you could just see the relief in the parents', you know, affect when they see that you have the language line available. They don't have to struggle to communicate, or we don't have to go back and forth with our phones. It's just it's there, and feels comfortable for them. Okay, great. This is just a great sharing to me. I'm thinking about Devin's birthday party in January. He invited over my son, fourth grade. I think we probably had 10 kids over, and I think probably seven of them are not native English speakers. You would know most of them. But it I think >> [laughter] >> But he's in fourth grade.
>> Thank you. As Caitlyn uh mentioned, we really want our kids to be responsible for their own learning and feel empowered to have some autonomy in in learning music. Um there's a lot of stuff that's inherent to teaching ensemble music that's very teacher centric. Um one of the the units that we really lean on is the unit of chamber music. Chamber music is when a smaller group of musicians rehearse and perform um for themselves. Um in symphonic, but we do this at the symphonic band level, the wind symphony and wind ensemble levels. At symphonic band level, we've also drawn on that structure to build more autonomy in full band by uh alternating during the the um unit between small group and large ensemble rehearsals. So students can really see the connection between their small group responsibilities and their large group sense of interdependence and that experience is also scaffolded over their experience further into the band program.
I appreciate you bringing in the perspective of keep using that word. Um, >> great. Good job. Um, we're uh into that because to be able to have the support know that we have the support of the staff is valuable to us is what we're taking when we're taking these votes. So, thank you. We appreciate you guys came and did that and that you piloted as well because we know that that's not easy. >> Agreed. That was mostly what I had as well is that I really appreciate all the teacher and student feedback about this process because it is it is a big change. Um I think all for the better and I really appreciate the highlighting all the evidence-based data you were using to make these decisions moving forward and really appreciate everybody's hard work on this. It is a big lift and we know we're asking a lot of our teachers and our kiddos.
Um, so we would target to have that if we I believe we're going to be ready for that May board meeting uh to bring this to you um for for board consideration. So if we do that, our target date to get that public hearing would be or in the paper would be May 7th. So at that board meeting, we would have a public hearing component. If we aren't able to meet that deadline, then we looked at that June meeting. We would target to have that on on June 4th. Um, so then we would bring it to the board for consideration and then after if the board approves that and we were to um have that final execution of the contract, we have to submit that there to the capital development board um to to finalize and make sure we've taken care of everything with section 19 of the school code.
Moved by Bryce, seconded by Katie to amend the original motion. Change $87,000 and change to $95,000. Any more discussion? Can I ask that you just have this brought back to us once we do finalize it, please? Yep. Yep. We got a quote here and we're going above the quote. So, we can just you can go and get things purchased. Yep. Just bring it back and let's make sure we're all on the same page, please. We will cuz we'll do school business before the year is out anyway. So. Mike decides in fifth grade that only two teachers teach it, we won't have to order two. Exactly. That way we can just all Yeah, absolutely. all on the same page. Yep, we will. Proceed to vote on Let me vote on the amendment. Amendment. Amended motion. The amended motion. Proceed to vote on the amended motion. All those in favor, say aye.
Where is that language line budgeted? It's instructional supplies. I I think that's where it comes out of, but I'll I'll find out and get back to you. Yeah, I was just kind of wondering if it's a big big expense or No, it's a small expense. But I think it's underutilized, so I would like to see teachers, parents using it more. Yeah, but that wouldn't make it cost more. Yeah, it wouldn't. It wouldn't make it cost more. It's like in a minute And as our numbers increase, the demand for the use of language line will increase. You can check in, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. That was very comprehensive. Thank you. Okay, next we have our social studies with you, Autumn. She's doubling for social studies. I sure am. She does not get to sit. Oh, sorry. Don't. No worries. Take your time. >> So, this is our social studies team that's presenting today, and you are kind of seeing some familiarity because Kelly serves in her capacity as the Dodd principal, she serves as point for she's the administrator assigned to support the social studies CCC.
Um we also give them um a list of rehearsal pro problems and solutions so that they feel empowered to be in a rehearsal role. Um these are things that we would be thinking about if we were rehearsing and this empowers them to do the things that we would normally be do we would normally do as teachers. Um we've collected many different um forms of data as we've engaged in this process of curricular revision and reflection and we'd like to share some of that with you now. Um this is from this spring from our freshman band level is 117 freshman band students. Freshman band by the way is just all of the freshmen in our band uh program has been mentioned earlier. Um this specifically is around classroom learning strategies and you can see over time as we've incorporated more and more of these strategies into our classroom that the graph is going up and there are increasingly more students that identify that they are responsible for their own learning um in the classroom.
Um so thank you very much everybody and this team >> and I do want to give a special shout out to Dr. Fogerty who really has taken a huge lift of of organizing and she's got a scheduling brain we're always leaning into and to be able to to put all of these pieces together um was an incredible amount of work. So >> thank you Dr. So, >> you were asking for board approval of these two contracts. They are included in our consent agenda. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you for clearing that up. Next, we have approval of organic life contract renewal. Um, >> um, I will turn it over to Mr. Bernaloi if he approaches the mic. All right. Good evening. So, uh, we're hearing a lot of, uh, celebrations tonight, a lot of good information, and that can mean one thing. >> The, uh, the year is winding down.
So there's still several steps that that we need to take um in order to get there. We have not seen any of the results from uh Bowman Consulting. So I I can't speak of of any of that. All the numbers that we shared with you have been provided by Honeywell in in meetings and going through. We've asked a lot of questions. Um we've had some some different revisions in in the scope of of the work that we've uh that we're comfortable with that that fit within that that $14 million debt certificate. So any other questions that I that we can answer? I can just confirm the the should this go ahead the anticipated payback. So it's 14 million in debt certificates and then if I understand correctly the payback would be funded by the 397k and which is being audited by bowman >> 77k uh a year in solar re is that number being audited too or is that included in the >> that that is a calculation okay right that that that's it's a production >> the production would be guaranteed >> okay >> so the production can be audited And the state of Illinois has guaranteed those dollars for 20 years for public >> and we have built in that cost to have that audited each year to maximize uh that revenue stream.
Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Should be it. Items from superintendent? Yeah, couple things. First of all, uh thank you, Mr. Beckman and Mrs. Golden. A couple weeks ago was Assistant Principals' Week and so I appreciate all the work you guys do each and every day for our students and I I assume your respective principals uh would absolutely pull their hair out if you weren't around every day. Uh so, thank you very much to you two um for the work that you guys do. Um had kindergarten round up 2 weeks ago? Yeah. So, um certainly excited about uh getting new kiddos next year and so certainly want to share that um as we start, I always have room for more and we would we'll take them all. Um maybe not all, maybe not like a million, but like we could certainly take a lot more.