But like it's not that bad as some characters like for example like Peach or like Steve like there's a lot of technical things that you need to do that's like not meant to be in the game. Okay. That like just players invented and and it's very like effective. Yes. Or not. It's just little random things that make it you a little better. like it's very technical or very simple as some characters are. Okay, we have Captain Jaden coming in. So, the best player for Blton's going in right now. Saved it for last. I think the other team did too based on the performances. Okay, so we have Ryu versus Isabelle. This matchup definitely I would say leans towards Ryu. I'm not quite sure though. It might be. I would say even. It's even. Both have like a pretty good chance at winning. It just depends on how good the players are.
They were very um nice to be able to offer um to be able to help us raise money as well. And because it is going back to the town, we're really excited to get these two um these two businesses in town to kind of help us out, but also help the town out and just raise money. Um and also just to get people into those businesses. I know Clover Road is new. Um so it's a great place to go and check out. Um, yeah. So, I think that is all I have. Thank you so much and we are super excited to be running the marathon again. Great. Thank you both. And Allison feel better and uh good luck both with your fundraisers and good luck to everyone who's raising funds. But before we finish this, we do have one more runner um who's going to give us a little bit of her story as to why she's running.
Spartans now up 6 nothing with 4 minutes and 56 seconds to go in the second quarter. Spart number seven, Patty Jordan. [Applause] M Whitler back on a draw. This is her quarter to take all the draws. Ball goes up. Mack gets the ball. Quickly gets the ball over the restraining line and set up the Slamo offense. Marino with the ball. Over to Jordan. Over to Howard. Over to Luke Kasich. Kasich looks, gets the ball over. Nice save by Jordan over to Caliber or Kenna. Ball bounces around, picks up Grace Howard with a shot. Save by the goalie. Trullio in there and Scruff to get the ball. Bounces out and Howard picks it up over to Addie Jordan. She'll restart the offense. Addie Jordan, nice feed to Kenna Marino. Kenna Marino with a goal. Nice shot by Kennam Marino to score her first goal of the season.
Okay, we're going to move into talking about encouraging and monitoring attendance. So what goes into that? Um including staffing um the multi-tered system of supports or MPSS and the school attendance review board. All right. So, talking a little bit more about my roles. I work closely with the tendance clerks at each school site to ensure proper attendance coding and that regulations are followed. Correcting in coding or regulatory errors when they might pop up and happen, training people who are new to the position and communicating any changes to the attendance processes and ensuring compliance. We meet several times throughout the year to discuss best practices and challenges that I'm excited. Oh, are we still auditive to the degree that we used to be where you can have your fingers smashed with a razor or a ruler if you didn't get it right. We are audited very closely.
So, give me Isabelle a rundown. So, Isabelle is I'm going to stay away from you and use my slingshot the entire game and sometimes throw in my fishing rod. And that little thing in the ground, that's if you run onto it, it like goes up and explodes. Okay. But you like right there, it goes up and then explodes. It carries you with it. So, we can do whatever after. But Isabella is I'm going to just slingshot him. Really? That's all it really is. What are the little balloons for? That's their recovery is how it goes up. Okay. It's like when it grabs ledge, it just detaches from him. So you can hit them. It doesn't do any damage or anything. So it's just a cute feature. Yeah. Like here there's the fishing rod. He looked away, but Okay. Did that that looked like a broom?
And go ahead, Makita. You were not gonna get off the hook. Come on. No. Well, no. I was just having a lot of fun listening to my Strava buddies here. Um, you know, y'all keeping it real, keeping me motivated. But, um, and, uh, hey Allison and Michelle, I remember interviewing you for Wacka when you ran your first marathon and that was a lot of fun. So, I am really looking forward to to to uh being out there with everybody. But, um, yeah, I I threw my name in the hat. I'm a I love running. Uh, but I never in a million years thought that I would be running the Boston Marathon. Um, when I was a child, I I grew up I did not grow up in Ashland, although I've been here only for 23 years now, I think. Um, but I did not grow up in Ashland, but I grew up in a town along the marathon route, and the Boston Marathon has always been a part of my life, my family's life.
Ball bounces off the post and goes in. Spartans up seven to zero. Number one, Kenna Marino. Northampton's got to do something. Matt Whitler is just dominating in the second quarter with the draws as the ball bounces loose. Ken Marino picks it up. Marina around over to Calibris. Rihanna Calibris move in bounces. Throws it over to Kasich. Ball bounces around. Loses it as Nation gets the ball. She kicks it up to Brahman. Broaden's met by freshman Kylie Marino who gets called for something. Good job by Jenna to come out. Green with the ball behind the net. Northampton looking to get their offense starting. Green cuts into the middle. She's met by four East Law Meadow girls. Green around. Grace Howard meets her. Grace Howard pushes her out of Grace Howard pushes her out of bounds. Green with the ball. Green over to Nashian as Jenna Holly makes it look easy for her eighth save of the day.
Yeah. Our auditors ask for phone um to prove that the parent called in on a particular their student attendance. So, um because it drives a large percentage of our funding, our auditors are asked to kind of bring it down to the money to ensure that the students legitimately were in class or were not. Is that auditing done by a state organization or responsible for bringing third party? We bring in a third party. Yeah. HMS is who we've used the last couple years. their local and and I just know again from my classroom experience like um there will be times when a student only showed up to my class right mine was the only class they showed up to and I get things from my attendants saying were they really there and I'm like absolutely they were here they logged in I mean I can show you that they were here I don't know what happened to them the rest of of the day but they were here and so I know that they're like emails from teachers.
said there's a broom. There's fishing rod. Okay. Can't tell if he was trying to car cancel it or not, but there fishing rod is very strong. It's even. This is the last game. Okay, 17. Isabelle's ahead. It's tied. Oh, where you got stage? Oh, the neck and neck. The Lloyd in the ground makes it pretty hard to maneuver it. It's gone now. So, if he can just not let him put it back up, he's fine. Big combo here, maybe. Oh, he messed it up. Meant the back air. I knew he did. Break the Lloyd. Oh, he got hit by it. taking 90 for that forward air. One good edge guard will kill it because they reed does not have a good recovery. Another boy running on the ground for air that he might just be dead. He's Oh, he had his jump. So, what's the value in edgeguarding?
I have family members who have run. To be able to be uh pulled uh for the lottery uh was just a surprise for me. And I think I'm actually a substitute. Initially, I wasn't drawn and then my name got pulled out of the hat again and I came up. Um, I'm just really grateful that I'm able to do this for the town, uh, raise money for what we know are going to go back to the citizens here and improve lives, improve quality of life. Um, as I joke with my fellow select board members, you know, this town has got me mind, body, and soul now. emphasis on the body on on April 20 21st, but I'm just really proud and grateful to be able to give back to the town in that manner, too. So, I'm looking forward to seeing you all out there. Great.
Sabina Mckne with the ball. Gets the ball over to Mary Davoy. Mary Davoy screaming down the sideline. Gets the ball over their straining or gets the ball over to Lucy Parsons. Parsons to Matt Whitworth. Over to Addie Jordan who gets shooting space. Addy Jordan lines up looking to take a shot. Addy Jordan takes a step in and fires the ball just wide. Lucy Parson's there to pick up the ball or Kenna Marino. Marino will set up the Oh, no. Calibri will start up the offense. Calibri gets the ball poked away from her. She pick quickly picks the ball up over to Cal over to Lucy. Ball gets knocked loose. Northampton ends up with the ball. Ball bounces out of bounds as keepers looking to get the ball to Hammerwood. Addie Jordan gets the ball. Looking to make a move. Look for a cutter. Kicks it all the way out to M.
Yeah. And and also that I have to sign that that I'm not lying that they were there. You know, I'm putting my credential on the line saying, "Yeah, I'm not making this up." Just to get the school ADA. So, I'm excited to talk about a new campaign we have here at the district called our tenants succeed campaign. We started it about two years ago and it's comprised of Erica Smith, Christy Benson, and myself. Um, our team has been creating new attendance materials which you guys can see behind me and cups at your super cool near your chairs. Uh, we've been creating lots of positive messaging for the school sites to use, for social media, for our websites. We put a lot of emphasis on we're so glad to see you. We're happy you're here. You know, after um absences or tardies. So that is our focus.
Like right there. So like you can kill at really at any percent really with edgeguards, but like some characters are bad at so it's easy to kill them off that. Like that's the one place they don't want to be. And then there's some characters like for example Steve, he wants to be down there. Like he's happy being down there and he loses weight down there. But some characters if they get hit down there, they just can't do anything and they just take a stock for it. But you can lose stocks at any time. So, how does Isabelle, it doesn't seem to matter if Isabelle falls off the platform. No, because the balloons are really good. Like you like even if the balloons get up, like you can't really do anything to like stop her from getting back. But Ryu, he has to take straight lines like the kick thing straight line forward and then his um upy is the shyukin.
Great. Any other comments from any other board members? Um, I just want to say thank you for for you know, you guys are doing the hard part. Like, this is the marathon and our grant program is actually my favorite thing that we do here. Like, it's it is so awesome. We're in the middle of soliciting grant um applications now and um so any 501c3 that's that either benefits Ashlin residents or um is is uh an event for Ashlin residents or anything like that. It it um you know they're are eligible to to apply for up to $4,000 or $6,000 over two consecutive grant cycles. We hear from people all the time at the difference that this makes. So like for instance, you know, a lot of times we'll we'll um like for instance the the library I'm looking at Tom, but the library um had requested funds for their um their golf event, their their mini golf event that just happened this last weekend.
Whit. Mac. Whitward will get shooting space for herself as she'll take her first eight me second eight meter of the day. M Whitler scoring four goals the other day against Walpool. Takes a step, fires it in right over the keeper's head. What a shot by M Whitler. Matt Whitler's on the board with her first goal of the game. It's East Lo's fifth goal of the second quarter. East goal by number five. M Whit scores 8 to zero with 50 seconds left in the first half. Ball goes up. Addy Jordan ends up with the ball and for the 20th time today blows by everybody and starts Esau Meadows offense. Nice fake by Jordan. She keeps the ball getting double team throws it in Calibri and what a good save by the keeper. Nice try by Calibies but the keeper was there to make the save. Balls over to Green.
We've been printing materials and coming up with different incentives. Um the picture in the middle is we attended the TK kindergarten registration fair. We were there to distribute materials. We were there to talk to parents. We're coming up with lots of different FAQs for parents that, you know, sometimes after working here for a long time or if you don't have kids, you don't think is maybe a question that parents legitimately have. But we're coming up with lots of that kind of stuff. And one of the examples of the materials is um on the right part of the screen where we developed a when is sick too sick to stay home. So kind of a guideline for schools to use and a guideline for parents. Um back to attendance clerks. They are the faces of a school. They are every day building relationships with families and students and encouraging good attendance.
It also goes straight up. So, it's either recovery goes forward and then up or he just goes like diagonally up. There's not really anything different you can do, but looks like Bluffton just took it with an up smash from Isabelle. Okay, Captain Jaden. So, that means the other team gets to counter pick. Okay, let's see what stage they choose. All right, Bluff in game one. So, if they win again, then it's best two out of three. Yes. So, they could either tie it back up or bluff it with a clean sweep. So, will Jaden keep playing or will He does not have to. They might put him again again. Looks like they're not going to. Okay. Exploded. Looks like Eli. Yes. Okay. It's either There's two things that make a stage different. Three. How big a stage is, like how like long it is. Mhm.
And so we granted them the funds for to basically for all the costs of the mini golf and then all the proceeds from from the event goes back into the library program which is amazing. Um we we help um a lot of the the youth sports in town. Um, you know, and our goal is always to try to figure out how we can make things more affordable for for the kids and benefit the most amount of people we can. So, um, Claudia and I are are the subcommittee that reviews all these applications. And it makes me so happy when when we're approving 20 $30,000 or so in these funds that goes right back to the residents and we get the letters that we get the letters back from from all the the organizations that just say this has made just a real difference because they don't have access to a lot of these types of funds.
Green's met by a bunch of you saw me girls. Kicks the ball over to Brahman. Brain gets the ball over the restraining line. Met by good defense by a freshman Kylie Marino. Knocks the ball away. Mary Devoy there to pick the ball up. Gets the ball to Jenna Holly. from East Lo going into the second half with a eight nothing lead. And we're back with second half action for the East Law Spartans versus the Northampton Blue Devils. After first half action, it's the East Lo Spartans eight Blue Devils zero. First quarter scoring, Caroline Lucas had a goal, Angelina Trilio had a goal, and Addie Jordan had a goal. Second quarter, Kennam Marino had a goal, Matt Whitler had a goal, and Addie Jordan had three goals in the second quarter. ESO looking to continue to put some points up on the board as the Blue Devils are looking to get on the board themselves, but are having a tough time getting the ball behind East Law Meadow keeper Jenna Holly, who's having a great game.
They are busy welcoming students back from absences, answering the making the phone calls to parents after there's absences, talking to students, developing, like I said, those close relationships. They also have to do the record keeping. So, they're responsible for reconciling the daily attendance. They work with school intervention teams to help improve attendance. And um as you can see the staffing, there's one attendance per elementary and junior high site. There are three at the high school. And targeted case managers are another um staff position that comes into play a lot when we talk about encouraging attendance. Um much like the attendance clerks um their job is and they do it very well is developing relationships with families and students and encouraging attendance um amongst other things. But both of these groups, when you talk to them, um they're their heart's in it. Like they are pretty driven to get kids to school.