Have some pictures. That's your dad. [Applause] Did Vince Partardigan come in? Nope. Okay, we'll move on. Division five. Yeah. Division five, six, CIF girls water polo championships. Uh, champions, Anaheim High [Music] School. Are those girls in the audience? Okay. The Anaheim High School uh girls varsity water polo team secured their first CIF championship with a 5-3 win over Nordof High School. This is the colonist's first female team CIF championship in school history. Congratulations. The the team is led by head head coach Denise Osorio. Thank you. This accomplishment which was a first for the program has brought a lot of enthusiasm to the campus community, parents and the alumni. There were several all league players and all CIF players including CF player of the year goalie Emily Maldonado. Coach Denise Ozario was selected as coach of the year for the Orange League, Orange County register and CIF coach of the year.
However, expecting employees to settle for a subpar health plan is a difficult and unfair ask. Once again, I urge you to I urge you to direct the district to move closer to our request for a fully funded plan comparable to Kaiser. We all know that when it comes to negotiating their own health and welfare benefits, administration and management would accept nothing less than the best. They certainly wouldn't settle for the lowest plan available. Let's be honest, this isn't about just about health benefits. We haven't even begun to discuss the desperately needed wage increases yet. We are focused on resolving health health and welfare first. Please do the right thing because these rising health care costs are making us sick. No one should have to beg to afford to work here. Thank you. JC Scott, president of CSEA, Apple Valley Chapter [Applause] 8. Thank you for your comments.
So, the purpose of this study was to project enrollment for a 5-year period to look at community population trends, demographic characteristics, age structures, birth counts, and fertility rates. It examines historical data. It computes the yields of the housing across the city by unit type, including one and to four family homes, town houses, condos, and apartments. It includes new housing starts and at least four of the new developments that have most recently been approved that could have an impact on our enrollment. It geocodes all of the students currently enrolled in Clifton Public Schools by location and all of that data together was used um at to contribute to this use case for the newly leased property. So what I'm going to be doing is going over just some samples because this was a 122page study. I'm going to review some of the more important or interesting slides um and components that led to that use case study.
So this song utilizes that style of second line as well as swing. So, this is going to feature our Barry player, Kendall Romanowski. And here's 727 South Broad Street. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Mr. Piano. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. Next song we're going to play for you is called Stolen Moments. It's Oliver Nelson tune from one of my favorite albums of all time, Blues in the Abstract Truth. If you ever get a chance to check it out, it's really on heavy rotation. my house and it's one of my favorite records of all time and when I have the right ensemble I always pull this one out for them. So this is called Stolen Moments.
He wrestles all 12 months of the year and only takes time off when he's forced uh so that his body can heal. Uh we want to congratulate R.J. and we wish you the very best in your future R.J. congratulations again. So hang on R.J. We're going to do I'm gonna give you a card you certificate and then we're gonna do a photo. Go ahead and stand in the middle. So you hold that too many things. Congratulations. [Applause] Okay, we're going to move from students to teachers. All right, so we have uh uh two great recog recognitions. I've been uh looking forward to this for a long time. I would like to have Michael Forester and Michelle uh Machado join me up front, please. [Applause] So, Michael, who's one of our outstanding teachers at Quail Run Elementary School, and Michelle, who's uh my neighbor over at Estus Elementary School, uh are our our newest National Board Certified Teachers.
I found out after a volleyball game and I got comfort from my coaches and my teachers who were also like a family to me. But it was most important to me how Mrs. Fenwiter, Mrs. Tubby and Mr. Chandler and Miss Mrs. Chandler and Mr. Strickland were all checking up on me the next day making sure that I was okay. They reminded me that CHS just isn't just a place to learn and grow in education, but also a place to grow and prosper relationships. I got cards from teachers and friends and they continued to help me see through the rough time. It's moments like these that I remember for the rest of my life. and those relationships that I'll carry with me throughout the rest of my time at CHS and after graduation. That's Hi everyone, my name is Ellie Walker. I'm the daughter of John and Jodie Walker.
Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] That was wonderful. Come on. [Music] We understand that prek has a very special bedtime. So, if prek parents need to step out and um grab their babies so that they can get to bed, that would be fine. Before you all leave, really quickly before you all leave, we just want to say thank you for sharing your kids with us this evening. Um we just are so proud of them and we just want to thank you all. We know you have a lot to do with that. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Brush Creek's been working also on literacy. So, I brought my literacy coach Christy Rice. really really thankful to have her um at Brush Creek. I wanted her to briefly be able to share um some of the things that she's doing at our building. All right, we're ready to go.
That sounds about right. Yeah. So I was kind of where did all that information come from? Maybe it did come from the 2014. So I wanted to ask that question here to see how it got worded separate. Most of it came a lot of it came from the state but there were also parts from the older bylaws that we had um that got integrated into the new bylaws. And again about the comprehensive plan is a meeting regular big board big board meeting soon. Is there a date? I think that's next Thursday. We actually haven't gotten the agenda yet, but I believe it's going to be at the library. We the last few. So, library next Thursday at 7 typical. So, just an update. So, Samantha Riley, who is the sustainability manager or coordinator, um she will be helping out with that or so she's be working.
I was a fifth grade teacher at Newton in late March. We fifth grade teachers were told we we'd be moving to the middle school. There was no prior discussion. There were no surveys that were done. We were just told to start packing. Needless to say, this was a very stressful and anxious time for the staff as well as the students. No one really knew how to go about moving six classrooms into a um in a non-kaotic way with little time. As a teacher, trying to pack up my room and figure out what I might not need for the next three months was a challenge. For those of you who know me, I'm a packrat like many teachers are. I had put 14 years in at Newton and by that time it was really difficult on the students watching their classroom being dismantled. We packed boxes, put them in the hall for custodians to move over to the middle school to be put in the mini gym until location to where the fifth grade classes might be placed.
Next item on the agenda, we have um several presentations I'm really excited about. Dr. Solen, um the first one would be science and engineering. Sure. I want to invite Mr. Hanlin and uh Miss Barker to the podium to recognize three of our students who participated in the Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair. Sorry. Uh, give us just a second to get organized. So, I'm very proud of the students at Cheshure High School who participated in the Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair. We have three three students that participated. Wendy Kai who received third honors up Janda who got second honors and a finalist award. and such navasan who got first honors and a finalist award and was also invited to go to the Connecticut invention convention as well. So if you get a chance to read the whole list of awards, it would probably take too long tonight, but they were all high awards and they did a great job with our science fair uh presentations.
Congratulations. Can you all come forward and get your certificates? Why don't you just [Applause] What's up? This one Ron take the picture with the board on the Then move them back so that way you guys can be seen. Put on the top. Okay, there we go. You should get in. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Has Vince Bartington come in? Nope. Okay. Okay. I'll I'll read what this has to say. Okay. Okay. Anaheim Union High School District teacher of the teachers of the year. The board of trustees would like to recognize the Anaheim Union High School District uh 2024 25 teachers of the year. Each school site selected a teacher of the year and submitted him or her consideration for the AUG teachers of the year award. A committee then had the difficult a very difficult challenge of reviewing the nomination letters for each of these outstanding teachers and selecting three district teachers of the year who exemplify the best of the best.
Next up is Candace James. And after Candace will be Rhonda Fox. Good evening members of the board, cabinet, and community members in the audience. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you tonight. Thank you. My name is Candace James and I'm here tonight speaking as both a teacher at Vanguard Preparatory and a parent of two students in this district. I want to start by saying I love this district. I've spent a total of 10 years here as a parah, a sub, and now a teacher. I live here in Apple Valley. My kids go to school here. And this is the community I chose. And this is the district that I've always wanted to be a part of. I like all staff in the district take a lot of pride in what I do and I show up every day fully committed to my students, their families, Vanguard Preparatory, and this school district as a whole.
So what we see here is birth rates from 2010 to 2022 which inform the students the numbers of students in all of our schools today. We see historical enrollments. Now, this enrollment differs from what we normally see as our total school population because this is only a listing of the number of students in seats in Clifton school buildings. It does not include our outofd district student population. This is enrollment based on Clifton seats, based on Clifton building capacity, but it's not the total Clifton public schools enrollment because those children who are out of district don't take up seats in our schools, if that makes sense. Here we see a different representation of that enrollment. The red on top, it's our largest population. That's our elementary schools. that reflects students in grades K through five as well as some of our preschool. The blue is not the middle school, that's the high school population, but that's four grade levels representing what is now 3139 students.
[Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] This is like a really fancy game of pingpong with the music. Okay. Um, so the high school is going to perform uh a piece of music now that is from a larger work uh called the Cuban Fire Suite. This was written by Johnny Mercer for the Stan Kettton band. The San Kenton band was a progressive jazz band in the 1960s and '7s and um this is just one small portion of it. This is called Ricquardos and it's going to feature a few soloists. It's going to feature our alto player Joel Torres. It's going to feature uh Joe Parsons on trumpet and also Isaiah Robinson on trombone.
Uh this is quite Yes, please. So, National Board Certification was designed to develop, retain, and recognize accomplished teachers and to generate ongoing improvement in schools nationwide. National Board Certification is an advanced teaching credential in which teachers have met the profession's highest standards and have the knowledge and skills necessary to advance student learning. Teachers must exhibit a deep understanding of their students content knowledge, use of data, and assessments in teaching practice. The certification process requires that teachers demonstrate standardsbased evidence of the positive effect that they have on student learning and alignment with the five core propositions. The National Board Five Core Propositions and Standards describe what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do to have a positive impact on student learning. The certification identifies teachers who have met those standards through a performance-based peer-reviewed series of assessed components. And as someone who's had the opportunity to be in both of these uh folks classrooms, th it is teaching at the highest level.
Um at CHS I'm involved in many different things. Most notably, I'm the captain on the volleyball, swim, and track and field team. I'm also president of spirit club and vice president of student council, the senior class, and national honor society. Next year, I plan to attend the Air Force Academy and pursue a career as a pilot. Actually, this month I received my final confirmation, so fingers crossed that everything works out. I credit my experience at CHS, both academically and athletically, second only to my family and shaping me as the individual I am today. I've made many connections and gain an experience that will benefit me well into my future. One of the most impactful takeaways I've gathered is the ability to adapt and thrive when change occurs. Freshman year, we started with masks on, a brand new principal, Mr. Strickland. I was in a new building and I had all new coaches for my sports.
Okay, thank you so much. Well, good evening. Thank you for having us tonight. I want I'm just really excited to share some progress happening at Rush Creek Elementary School in primary literature. You saw a little bit with that preschool, so thank you so much. that gives them such an early head start on that explicit systematic instruction especially in phmic awareness we just saw. So that was wonderful. So I want to explain to you a little bit about um the cadre. They're giving us so much um research and information that's really best practices. So there are two things that I want to highlight that is especially good in our school this year. um and that is shifting to best practices in literacy and also using data to drive instruction. So the first thing is that we're using science of reading which is just the whole body of research that tells us what the best practices are in reading and you guys really set us up this year being able to have the OG training right at the beginning of the year and our entire primary team so kindergarten through third grade took that training.
I know that she met today with Michael and he's working on drafting the agenda and kind of starting all the logistics moving forward. She will be the point person for those pieces of it. So it will be posted on town website. Probably it will be the library. We don't know. Okay. And once the plan is done, I'm still going forward with the all the committees being together for stronger policies to help this town go forward. Thank you. No comments online. Okay, no comments online. I don't see anyone else online. So, we will end public comment and go into public hearings. The first one on our agenda is 240 to 260 Pleasant Street. This is the Metro West facilities for the new uh parking and soccer fields. And you just have an update for us on that? So they were scheduled to go in front of the design review last on the 1st, April 1st, but we had a technical issue.
The reason why I am bringing this up to you at this time, it's my understanding that a new ad hoc committee is going to be formed to study the redistricting once again. Besides being an educator here for the past 32 years, I have also been the union president for about 10. Recently, I've received many emails, text messages, as well as personal stops in the halls and at meetings from staff asking me, "Am I going to have my job next year? Is my position going to be here next year?" I have to be honest with them. I don't know. Many people assume that I have that knowledge. I don't. Not many of us have any of that knowledge yet because things have not yet been solidified. I wanted to share with you what I went through in 2007 as well as 2008 when the district then brought up the fourth grade to the middle school.
[Applause] Well, [Applause] So as we continue recognitions this evening, you may recognize this next group from many aboard meeting in the past. Uh please welcome uh Mr. John Parisino, our athletic director, who will recognize one of our teams, newest teams. All right. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Uh tonight I have the privilege of recognizing and celebrating the historic seasons of two exceptional teams along with the extraordinary accomplishments of a coach who will soon be honored on the national stage. The purpose of our athletic programs is to provide student athletes with meaningful experiences that help them grow not just in competition but as individuals prepared for success in life. We also strive to compete at the highest levels across Connecticut and New England. The student athletes and coaches joining us tonight represent that mission with and those goals with pride. First, we recognize our fencing team.