Looks like he's going to march his way in. Little swim move there. steps back, passes it off to Sullivan. Sullivan now trying to juke. Sullivan just missing, but Olsson there. Olsson taking it up. Olsen looks like he's going to try to horseshoe around. Getting whacked though. Hartnet up to Sullivan. Sullivan puts a move on. Sullivan to Hartnet. Hartnet. I like that play though. Nice save from Kelly, but Hartin turnaround shot by Hartin. Yeah, turnaround knew exactly where the net was. Switch hand turnaround shot. I I do like that a lot. But Kelly saw it. Yeah, Kelly's a good goalie though. Yeah, he is. Now Hollison trying to break it out. Gives it back to Kelly. Kelly, nice pass, but somehow didn't get in the stick of his target, but somehow did. Oh my goodness. This is Roi with it. Roby. Back to Meligot. Over to Roby.
Daddy Jordan knocks it away. I'd say knock it away, but a little too much for the cross check. Both those girls are going division one. Kannata goes in and out through East through ESA Mount defense and sneaks one past Jenna Holly. That's Kennata's second goal of the game. She's up to 45 on the season. Spartans up 16-8 with 352 to go in the third quarter. [Music] Grace Howard on the draw again. Howard with another win on the draw. Howard's kind of giving it to West Springfield tonight on the draw. Good hard work by Howard to stay with that ball. Calibris with the ball up on top looking for some cutters. Gets the ball to Marino. Marino back to Calibris. Over to Jordan. Jordan around the corner. In and out. Jordan behind the net. Nice roll. Gets called for foul. Addy Jordan will add Jordan getting called for a charging call.
William Emtt Hazen plans to attend the Osho Community College and major in plumbing technology and HVAC. He has received the afterprom scholarship. [Applause] Chance Mitchell Hicks plans to attend that community college. He plans to major in electrical power technology. Key Leanne and Hobach. She does plan to attend a 4-year university and major in business. She also plans to be a professional athlete. And Key, we look forward to seeing you in the Olympics someday. Tagert Andrew Dale Ish. He plans to attend Iron Eagle Welding Academy and major in welding. Gavin Wah Jenkins plans to attend Kansas State University and major in computer engineering. Madison Kira Kim. She plans to attend Emporia State University and then transfer to Kansas State University as she pursues a degree in milling science and management. She receives the Jones Foundation Success Scholarship. Olivia Michelle Lions. She plans to attend Baker University and major in biology.
You know, we're all public people and we know that. Um, but regardless of the intent and your feelings are 100% valid, but when I got 20 letters in my mailbox on Friday, my initial reaction was a little bit of fear and a little bit of, you know, you know, again, regardless of the intent, there was nothing threatening in the in the letters. It was about your feelings about the outsourcing situation. And again, totally valid. However, it's my feeling as, you know, a public person, you know, there's ways to contact us and there's ways to do that here and there's ways to do that on email and there's ways to do that in mail to the board office. Um, it crossed the line sending emails to my home. I'll speak just for myself here, but to my home, um, you know, I I don't ever want to feel like my family, you know, I got into this knowing that there's a certain level of heat I will take, um, that my family might take, that my young children could possibly take, but I under no circumstances got into this expecting to feel in the least bit unsafe.
In that time I had the opportunity to work in the corporate sector. I worked in finance. I was the national advertising coordinator for Toys R Us when they were in Saddlebrook, New Jersey. I worked for them in Manhattan. So my background is not that of a typical teacher or typical supervisor. Just I want you to know who I am and where I'm coming from, what my background is. The Wilson reading program was put together and brought to Garfield by Dr. Frank Glasco and I to address the needs of the students in this district who have difficulty reading. So as an ESL teacher, I will tell you when you acquire a new language, your first skill is to understand that language. The second skill is to be able to speak that language. The third skill is to be able to read that language. And the fourth skill is to be able to write that language.
So I really appreciate that. All right, we will move ahead to action discussion H1. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, tonight we bring forward a recommendation for our director of curriculum and instruction and assessment for our preK to 8. And Mr. Mattingley will take this item. Um, Madame President, Governor, board members, uh, Connie Wolfford, if I can ask you to, you have to. Yes, that's right. So it it is definitely an honor and a pleasure on behalf of cabinet to uh announce to the governing board to recommend position of director curriculum instruction assessment for our prek8 position. Uh Connie Wolfford Wolfford and uh I want to share just a little bit about Connie if I may. uh with over 10 years of experience in the administration, uh six years being at Freedom, um you know, and I was writing these notes down and I'm like, what an honor to serve such a school with such incredible teachers, support staff, certified staff uh to do some of the feats they put together.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Margaret Wright. Thank you. Thank you, Lady Hayen. Hello, I'm community member Katie Heayen, uh, a parent with a timeline of children and SD308 schools. I'm going to start out on a positive note today. I wanted to thank Mr. Patterson and Mr. Wilson for representing our kiddos at Skills USA last week, especially for an industry that can tend to go unsupported or not as much resources as we would expect to have as other trades or industries with higher visibility. I'd also like to thank the school board and the administration uh OS attendants, deans, and counselors for approving our son's apprenticeship this year. So that way it wouldn't be considered a truency at the end of his senior year. The other note that I we are kind of falling short on and that's why I have paper today is we are still waiting to hear back on our sons and other students sign day.
uh that's for our education program. So an amazing presentation and again lots of good feedback from the business community many of whom are involved in C4 in one way or another. Uh the other committee that I uh sit on is Dr. Boseman's district and facilities committee. U committee members have helped Dr. Boseman with the process of winnowing down uh choices for the construction manager as constructor. Did I say that right? Is that what CMC stands for? Uh sounds kind of ridiculous when you say it out loud. Uh but we've narrowed down the choices uh for CMC for the Mount Healthy School, which will be uh quite complicated, but uh there's a presentation later on during the meeting. I think it's a good one. Question. I've not had any meetings since our last board meeting. Um the IU advisory board met on April 9th and part of their meeting um focused on retention and graduation rates kind of similar to what we try to focus on here.
Um, and I'm amazed each and every week at the number of volunteers who show up. We've got over 2,000 signs in our community, community members signing up for those. We sent out or prepared to send out over 2,000 right at 2,000 postcards. The nights that these guys were mentioning last week were also complicated because we had so many people coming to the media center, the high school, literally four or five hours non-stop of doing postcards until we to tell people, "Sorry, we have an award. Time for you to go." Uh, pizza's gone. You got to move on. So, but want to thank uh CPA Michelle Bunch is here tonight. Their support for this has been huge. Our teachers are doing a great job. All after hours, by the way. Um, both with volunteering, but also with monetary gift donation as well. Um, former ambassadors and and parents of students.
Any discussion hearing? None. Can I get a motion? So move motion. Do I have a second? Second motion or second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. All right. I have approval request for the 2025 SFSP. Yeah. So the time we uh drafted our schedule for u our summer food service program. We were going to be the only one in the county offering it. It's come to my attention. I think the school district of North is going to offer one as well. Um, essentially we want to offer summer feeding for our community. Um, it will be located at TZ. We'll also have a satellite program uh in the park to help with the I believe it's the Sparks program. And uh at TZ we have the YMCA and that's also where summer school will be taking place. Um but one of the things that we're most excited with is um the student the students and families that participate.
Um what a mentor, a friend, a colleague. Um he did call us. Uh I was at Andrews this morning. He called us. He had a tea time at 10:00 this morning and he called us and talked to Kim the secretary and we had to laugh because now those will probably change Gary till about 4:30. But he um instead of 10 o'clock. But uh so thankful for Gary. He's in the audience right here. You all know him. Uh he's been around. Uh what a great great man. and uh a great friend and mentor and colleague. And so just excited that Gary's going to be uh willing to step in there and take over the the last month at Andrews Elementary School, Gary Mast. Next up, I'm excited um to announce the assistant principal for Horseman Elementary School, Jennifer Bowman. And Jennifer, I wrote down your travels.
To Meligot to Who's that? 34. George Ellis. Georgie Ellis dishes it. Hits a bunch of sticks. Okay. Mloud to Roi to Mloud. Mloud covered by Richards. Mloud gets in though. Nice pass and great break up there by number nine Hamilton. Bud Holl still has it. 245 left to go in this third quarter. Little spin move. Miguel got fires one and and he gets his hattick I believe, folks. Yeah, he sure did. He got two in the second, one in the third. That was a very nice shot to get by Abstice. And that's the first goal of the third quarter, folks. It is six to five. Hollist only down by one now. Yeah, what a game. Ton of action here. And that was literally uh nine minutes of like no goals, saves, and solid action, folks. Yeah, that's crazy, right? The two sevens battling each other.
I haven't seen too many of those this year. And you was getting called with two of those tonight. Calibri is getting called on the other one earlier on. Finn with the ball. Almost gets knocked away by Marino as Finn goes by everybody on the Esau Meadow defense only left by Addie Jordan. Addy Jordan gets called for a check on this side. So good hustle by Addy Jordan as she gets called on the end zone line here and 80 yards later gets called on the other side. Finn with the ball gets loose. Kylie Marino almost knocks the ball away. They get the ball over to Connelly to Carney behind the net. Carney looking to make work. She takes a shot, misses left. Po there to back it up. Po behind the net with a minute 50 to go in the third quarter. She throws the ball behind the net to Connelly who can't hold on to it.
She receives several scholarships from Maker, an athletic scholarship in wrestling, the Dean Award, and the Legacy Scholarship. Jonathan Thomas Lee Mcola. He was here a little earlier. He does plan to enter the workforce. Tabitha Rose McKenzie. Tabitha plans to attend Leette Community College and major in respiratory care. She receives two scholarships from Leette. They are the Cardinal Academic Scholarship and the Cardinal Foundation [Applause] Scholarship. Aiden Allen McManis. Aiden plans to enter the workforce after he graduates. Laya Marie Meyers. She does plan to attend a 4-year college or university. And at this time, her major is undecided. Mallerie Christine Ober plans to attend the University of Oklahoma and major in fine arts in acting and minor in digital marketing. She has received the award of excellence non-resident tuition waiver, Pathfinder Award, non-resident tuition waiver, and the president's leadership class scholarship. [Applause] Casten Bradley Payer plans to enter the workforce as an electrical lineman.
Um because the feeling that I felt immediately was the implicit intent, not the explicit intent. The implicit feeling that I received was we know where you live and granted all information is public. It is not illegal to send mail, but to me it was a line that was crossed. And my plea to the public as as a mother first and foremost is that that is a line that is not to be crossed and just to be respected going forward. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Bramos. Any other general comments from the board? Yeah, I' I'd like to add to that that if anyone that was here at the last meeting listened to my speech about the vile comments that were posted online um particularly by a gentleman about myself who is a member of the transportation department. So to open my home mailbox to find 20 letters from that department.
Not just our ESL students, not just our special education students, but general education students in the diverse population of Garfield needed remediation in phonics and learning how to read that was not fully addressed in the reading curriculum. Yes, it was excellent, but it was not excellent enough. It was not excellent enough. The Wilson program was brought into our district. Wilson is in Massachusetts. You must pay for 10 people to be trained if you are bringing a Wilson trainer into your district. You must pay for their transportation, for their lodging, and for their food. We happen to have been fortunate enough to have one of our reading specialists, and I will name her because she's no longer employed. Linda Papora was trained to become a Wilson trainer, which meant Garfield could utilize her services and not have to pay for lodging, transportation, or food. We also did not have to have 10 teachers being trained in one cohort.
Uh and u the credit should go to those incredible soldiers doing those things. Uh but soldiers need a good leader as well. And so with that, uh, we're excited to recommend Connie for this position. And in the last three years, I I would be remiss not to say that, uh, Freedom, uh, has been put on the map at the level of state testing when it comes to being recognized as, uh, this past year the seventh highest score, the state scores, our test scores at Freedom. So, uh, I'm sure there's many that are very saddened by this, but the district is elevating, uh, someone's competent level to take us to a different level from a district level instead of a school level. So, on that, I will stand down and, uh, that's it. I'll stand down. Thank you, Mr. Mattingley. Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna rush in here um and just say that it's an honor to move to approve the appointment of the lovely Connie Wolfford as director of curriculum instruction and assessment preK through 8.
Many seniors are community members doing volunteer hours or in the trades or going into the services. And regardless if they are an athlete, they are still not getting their sign day, which you could easily put as career readiness instead of committed to said university. Our union, which I'm kind of embarrassed to share, our local 21, the International Union of Brick Layers and Alli Craft Workers said they would come out to SD308. I started this email chain back in February 21st. They sent out the dates of March 3rd, March 24th, March 26, March 27th, and we even tried for April 16th. I emailed numerous people from attendants to his IEP team to counselors to deans and I got we don't do that. I don't know if we do that. I need to get it approved by the administration. And it is now April 28th and we are still on deaf ears.
Um their their retention rate is above peer institutions um that they compare themselves to. Their graduation rate is slightly below. So they talked about some of the things that they are doing to improve their graduation rates. Um they implemented an early warning system that required all faculty and all courses. Um they enhanced academic support. They implemented um enhanced support specifically for 21st century scholars and they are focusing on support for special groups. The example they gave are um students that are also parents of young children. um the um legislative liaison report. So the session just ended. There are over 40 new laws that impact education. I am not going to talk about all 40 of them. Um I'm going to look at just the few that that the schoolboard association highlighted. One is the budget and I'm sure we'll know more about this as we dig into it.
Uh, the way that they've been There's a list of them. We'll talk more about this when we celebrate uh next Tuesday evening after we win the referendum and list of people who have just been um diehard ambassadors and and people that are out there pushing for us as well. Um current teachers, staff, admin, board members. Um need to thank Jos and Bombers for the way that they've uh had nights for us and made donations. We still got time if anybody else would like to do that as well. So again, the referendum we just appreciate. It's a great it's stressful. It's hard work, but it's encouraging to me to see the way our community comes around and supports us as well. So I I really appreciate that end of the year activities. Um I'll have Diana work on a list to get those out to you guys as well.