And I think that for me really pushed me deeper into these the skills as as you pointed out and generally like how they understand music and engage with it and see it as a life um skill for themselves more so than like I can play greater in the clear. We want that also for them obviously but um that's not necessarily the focus of what we're doing. >> When a student is stuck in that dissonance space what's the like what are the levels of response? How do you help? How do you use the other kids to help? How does how does that >> How do you And is it different from the freshman band to the highest band? >> Yeah. And and each kid is going to experience that dissonance space for a different reason. Sometimes it's because it's just all adding up and it's a rough day.
>> That's not uncommon. Uh this is so I'm sure I haven't looked to be honest but I am positive this isn't the only place where that would be the case in our district. >> I just it was a very good question. We own a road. >> Who knew? >> Can anyone say toll booth? >> That's a great idea. >> Especially in front of El >> will the work be completed. Will the work be completed before school starts? >> Uh well, that is the goal. I don't know. But we did talk to the city. They are going to work. They know our schedule. >> Yeah. Uh so they're going to be very careful that uh they can help accommodate what we have. Obviously some of this is weather dependent. Um so I they're going to really try to get that done. Uh but I can't >> I can't guarantee it.
Um, coordinating in the building, it seems like we had something at least every week where we were doing roof walks. Um, we were coordinating to have uh drones flown on the weekend uh to be able to get the the temperature uh settings of or or the the readings and moisture readings on the roofs at at you had to do it at dusk, right? So there's a lot there was a lot of different moving pieces that I mean a lot of people have have put into and invested in. So it's um it it's neat to see you know uh up to this point everything is pointing towards it looks good. We'll see what those what those final numbers come out. >> All right. Any other questions? >> All right. This will be back. >> Thank you. >> One way or another. >> All right. the most uh popular item on the agenda every year.
Just like Tim explained, when you think about complex thinking, there is your dimension three evaluating those sources. When we think about community contributor, self-directed learner, collaborative cooperative learner, there's that domain four around drawing conclusions and taking informed action. So, this supports our social studies work, truly supports um our vision of the graduate and is in alignment with complex thinking and social emotional learning. So, in social studies we obviously are trying to hit the most important, we call them priority standards, um to achieve the best learning outcomes. In addition, a key focus for our content area is teaching students how to think, not what to think. So, take a minute to just process that cuz that's really at the heart of everything we're trying to accomplish. As Tim outlined, we have especially complex topics, history, government, economics, culture. They offer multiple perspectives, and there's often no single one correct answer.
Sometimes it's because their equipment is not the right equipment and there's no way they're going to get a good sound on a bad read or something like that. >> So, um, in many cases it starts student to student. Um, and if you watch our freshman bands when we cut them off, they'll just like start talking right away and nine times out of ten they're showing each other a fingering or they're showing they're asking each other a question about the music and we say all the time like we're so glad you're doing that. Not right now, but like it is really cool to see them support each other and just want to share their knowledge. Um, so most of it honestly is from the kids and then um, assessments give us the opportunity to give more formal feedback. Um but they do a lot of it on their own.
>> Strange things have happened weatherwise the last couple weeks. >> Thank you. >> We also talked about national >> what is it? Yeah, that is that's coming up too. So out. Uh it will be an interesting evening. So uh I know the city is >> the city's aware of it. We did mention it to them that there's one of their events is taking place on our property while we're having all this work on >> I can speak to that. Hi. >> Hi. Um, I did speak with Jill Gambino from the city about the project and they had assured us that by 2 p.m. they would stop work on August 4th in participation national. >> Perfect. >> We have that covered, Mr. Back to you. Well, we we might still be in a position where parking is impacted on the streets >> because of the fact that National Night Outdrew so many local families.
Uh copy paper bid. You guys have a decision to make this year. So I'll turn this one back over to Travis. >> Yeah. So in in looking at um our board policy and and looking at uh school code again, um the it reads that that we have the uh the need to utilize recycled paper where economically feasible, right? And so what that boils down to um and that there's a change in how we went to bid this year before we we said that the the copy paper um needed to be uh recycled. Um and so what we did in looking at the the school code and I poked around at some other districts and how they go about doing it and and they had in their bid they had it broken down is both right recycled paper and non-recycled paper. Uh so you look at the two and then where economically feasible that's where it comes in.
So, by nature, that dovetails perfectly with our district goals of complex thinking and social emotional learning. Our students have to be able to respect multiple perspectives. They have to be able to question sources. They have to realize that um there's not just one narrative all the time for some of the things they're exploring. So, that's that really does ring home quite a bit in the social studies uh curriculum. And just to add on really briefly, sorry Ezra. The Well, never mind. I'll let you I mean I forgot this slide was next. I just want to talk a little bit about our instructional strategies which allow us to bring that to life in a classroom with uh strategies that building thinking classrooms has really brought um to our classrooms uh across the spectrum, kindergarten, you know, through 12th grade, maybe even um maybe even pre-K uh through 12th grade.
>> Yeah, the kid. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So just quick question. So out of my uh curiosity, so you mention you removed the um the first chair, right? >> Yeah. So you just put student on the rotation program. So how did you select student to be the first chair rotated? I mean did you open up to all students or you still select certain highskilled students to play first chair? So each ensemble is leveled in and of itself in its own way. And then um we do assessments all the time both formally and informally to get a good sense of where each student is and then we can assign based on their strengths. So um for example, if we're doing a piece that has notes that go to the higher range of the trumpet that we know there's only a couple kids that can hit those notes consistently, like maybe that's the one they play first on and then a different one we rotate.
We actually did not struggle with parking as much as we had anticipated last year, but it might be even bigger this year, Mr. Hering. I don't know. We'll see. All right. Were there other questions about this? >> No. >> Okay. Can I get a motion, please? >> In that case, I move that the board approve the plat of roadway dedication prepared by re Allen and associates of Grace Lake, Illinois to support the Fifth Avenue widening project. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded. Second, please. Hearing >> I mass I >> Burton. >> Hi, >> Beckman. I >> Garrett >> I >> thank you. Next we have the first reading of revisions to board policies. Mrs. Garrett. >> Hi guys. Um I think I'm actually turning this straight over to Dr. Amade. Did you want to take this one? We kind of going back and forth.
You don't know if it's economically feasible if you don't gather both both bids. Um while not all uh six of those that submitted um uh the bids uh put in for both >> uh we have solid numbers on a on a low bid. So, if you look at virgin fiber paper, uh that's where the contract paper group comes in, uh just under $67,000. And then for the recycled content paper, that's where mine uh paper comes in uh just over $77,000. So, just over $10,000 uh difference between the two. Um I want to be transparent in the fact too of uh when we talk about copy paper, that's not all the paper that we have, right? It's about 90 uh 91% of the copy paper of all the paper in the bid would be recycled if we went with the recycled paper because it's not all of your standard copy paper.
I'm not sure about pre-K. Yeah, so Um but you're going to elaborate a little bit more on that. Are you going Yep, no, no, go ahead. Go ahead. So, the progress is what was like 5 years ago kind of what we had really focus on regarding instructional strategies and you could see uh inquiry like Tim talked about uh cognitive get engagement, building thinking classrooms with Kelly is alluding to a little bit more. Um the uh ML presentation mentioned a lot of UDL. Um and then we get all of this work done collabora- collaboratively during our meeting times. So, there's GLTMs, GLDM, and PLCs and those are just the different acronyms for the meeting periods, what they call them um for the teachers. So, you can see um our continued kind of growth and I think you'll see some of the things we're talking about naturally dovetail again to that complex thinking and social-emotional learning, especially when you talk about building thinking classrooms and universal design for all learners.
So, it's not at all just like a rotation based on, you know, some alphabetical order or something like that. Like, it's very much based on where the students are. And it's also rotated over a whole school year. So, um, we try to get everybody on a different part over a concert cycle, but we are definitely able to do it over the course of a year. I just have to chime in. She She's a grand mom, so you might have heard. >> We got concert tonight, don't we? >> I was very >> I know. I know. >> Um yeah, my kids kind of descended on fan program. Um and it's the high point of each of their days every day. And I it's cool to see the presentation and see the intention behind what we've already known and felt, which is that your approach and your process is so meaningful.
So being a wait this first reading >> first reading. So for the knowledge of any u community members too we do board policy update in two meetings. First meeting would be a first reading where the leaison this year for policy review is Miss Garrett and Miss Garrett and I have been reading policy from one up and we're going through every one of them and I can't recommend that enough is a there's a lot that you learn and u we are also when we update our policy we take press policy recommendations then the board is reading them for the first time at one meeting and if everyone has their questions satisfied and edits that we're going to make policy. We will approve it at second meeting. Uh so we have two of those tonight. One is the first reading which focuses on board member expenses policies updated for continuous improvements.
We have some that are thick thicker um for different needs, educational needs and those are built into that as well and those are are not uh recycled. Um so we always look at and see you know how much do we normally pay. you can see uh it was somewhat consistent up through 2020 and then something happened in the world, right? And so we have a an irregular heartbeat that's going on there. Um and some of that supply uh and demand in our in our facilities. We didn't need as much. Um and I will tell you that's what happened between last year and this year. We have quite a a bit more paper because we utilized more of what we had in stock, right? So it's not going to be a consistent as far as the amount uh that we look at in the need. Um but you can see when we uh adjust it for inflation, it it's pretty close to uh where we have been uh considering the last 13 years.
We are really in social studies trying to design high-quality instruction that really does uh elicit deep thinking. Um and then we're trying to make this thinking visible so we can see what our students are coming up with and give them in-the-moment feedback. So, this is kind of building thinking classrooms is really at the heart of our um strategy focus going forward. In terms of product uh professional development uh where we've been, um as you see, this committee is well aware of uh the integration of BTC strategies, um building starting up from the elementary school and kind of cascading up into the upper levels in the last uh 2 and 1/2 to 3 years. Um the C3 framework uh as I spoke about earlier, um there has been quite a bit of uh professional learning um in the last 8 to 10 years at the middle school and so and high school levels um in this area.
Um, and it carries through into the rest of their work and the rest of their classes and the way that they see themselves and each other. It's just it's such a gift. So, >> Thank you. Thank you. Great job. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> I love it. >> You don't mind. >> It's up to you. >> Mark done. >> They're decal. >> It's not stickers. They're highend stickers. >> Oh, >> they're called decals. >> Okay. >> When I said that earlier, I'm like >> Okay, >> you're important. He said you're important. Take away the good. take away the good. >> At least you're not not important and boring. >> Okay. Uh, moving right along. Um, we have approval of textbook recommendations for 2627. We presented these last month as first Wait, >> we did. >> Yeah, we did. Um, got ahead of myself. Uh, last month as first readings.
So that is one that we always come back to. And so two 125 policy and then we also have one up here for title one programs. And for each of these, the top one being board member expenses. We are uh we've met several times on this and one thing that we did is we've looked at not only the policy and how it reads um because if we want to send a board member abroad to go down to Springfield maybe to do advocacy day or a oneoff situation uh we're better prepared for that because we have an anticipatory or a planning form the board member to fill allow um in alignment with and not to exceed a board budget that Mr. Verloi is going to help me work with for we have one already for the board for all of triple I and all the you know professional development uh which covers rooms, lodging, food, um transportation but we needed to update first we had to add the form for planning secondary for reimbursement and not in the sense that we're asking um it's a rare occasion where a board member might have to pay something out of pocket and get reimbured but to qualify under the tight guidelines of what would becept acceptable.
So it really does come down to um both of them uh we we've checked with both companies. Um we we have vetted their their bids. Um it comes down to you know what is uh the the difference between the two uh what is the preferred award path that that we were to go with that. So glad to answer any additional questions as needed. >> Tonight you have an option to approve one or the other. Uh we brought them both forward but the board will have to choose which one do you prefer the uh recycled or non-recycled option. I didn't get why would we only be locked in with the recycled paper company into a contract. Did I miss that? So that you're saying the case is that it's it streamline. It keeps the pricing consistent over theirs. Would we not lock into a multi-year contract with either of them?
Um and and the goal is to expand that um a little bit more so at the elementary school level as we'll talk about. Um Stu- uh teachers have attended a variety of AP workshops for the high school. Um we have improved our vertical alignment in the last uh 5 years, but as we look to uh the next cycle, um increasing um elementary school teachers work with the uh framework, both the state framework and the C3 framework, um continuing to expand BTC um and UDL at all levels. Um And then I guess maybe at middle school and high school uh a significant concern that uh concern that was presented was um ethical AI integration. We kept hearing a lot about that um in teacher surveys, parent surveys, discussions with students, discussions amongst the committee. Um and that really um kind of hits a little bit more in the middle school and high school area.