Passionate about both teaching and learning from our youth. This position has allowed her the opportunity to share discussions about people, places, and circumstances that make us all unique and valuable. These experiences extend beyond the classroom to events Donna spearheaded like the powerful portrayal of America's white table at our Veterans Day assembly and the making of how is it. Thank you. I did look them up, so I kind of have an idea what they are. After school to celebrate the Mexican tradition during carnival. See, my cheat note didn't help me there, did it? Mrs. Fischer is a consmate professional who takes pride in not only her lesson, but the relationships that she has built with her students and colleagues. At the start of this year, she even created a who's who slideshow with pictures that included every employee so that we could all get to know each other better.
Thank you, Joe. [Applause] Next we have Sean Fleshman, Orange View Junior High. [Applause] Sean subject is US history and he's been in the district for 27 years. Also special contributions. Shawn's passion for education shines through his dynamic and student- centered teaching methods. As a history teacher, he designs lessons that are not only import knowledge but also encourage critical thinking and civic engagement. By connecting historical events to contemporary issues, he helps students understand the relevance of past in shaping their present and future. Shawn is a pioneer in bringing new programs and opportunities to the campus. He was instrumental in launching Orange View's first ever community schools program, a transformative initiative that has strengthened the connection between our school and the surrounding community. In his first year as a community schools teacher lead, Shawn helped implement a health grant that promoted vaccinations of all kinds to members of our community.
But now, it's time for me to step down, introduce next year's GC president. Um, I'm very happy that I was able to get to know her these last three years. She's extremely smart and I can promise you she will make you laugh at every meeting. Promise you that. I'm very proud and excited to see what she will do. I would like to welcome up Jillian Rodriguez. [Applause] Oh my god, I'm shaking. Okay, bear with me. I just lost my voice last night, so I promise I don't always sound like this. Um, my name is Jillian Rodriguez. I go by Jill. Everyone knows me as Jill. Um, I'll be your senior class GC president next year. I'm excited to get to know all of you. I'm You guys are so pretty. Um, and I've done high school cheer for three years and I've done ASB for four years.
I would like to use the metaphor of a ship. ASDB is a ship. We have to have a clear direction. We need to know where we're going. We need to know where we're arriving. We need to be able to figure out our path on these waters in order to get there. We need to have a compass. Or maybe that's a little bit too old-fashioned. We need some GPS. And we would use GPS to tell us where and how to get to our final destination. We need a team. In order to work on a ship, we need a team working together in able and in order to be able to chart these waters to our final destination. When we see a storm approaching, what can we do with that information? As our sails start to blow and billow, we would bring them down, tie them down, and try to make safe choices in order to minimize damage to our ship.
Um thank you parents for all of your support that you've given myself, the music program, and your students. Give yourselves a round of [Applause] applause. In closing, I'd like to again I am the very proud superintendent of these amazing Colts. So, please help me give them one more great big round of applause. Also to Mr. Stang, thank you so much for the kids sounded amazing and we couldn't they wouldn't progress if it wasn't for your help. So, thank you so much for being here and helping us. Also, it's hard to see, but I'd like to thank Mr. Andrew McGibbon, who's one of our governing board members, because without his support also of our music program and everything that we do for our students, we wouldn't be able to be here tonight also. So, thank you, Mr. McGib, you're here. And I apologize if I've missed any other board members.
I have led dual enrollment courses, mentored new teachers as an instructional coach, supported extracurriculars, and of course served in our union as a leader because I believe in public education and in the promise we make to our students. But belief does not pay the bills. My tireless support of my students doesn't translate into I lost my spot. Uh oh, it doesn't translate into being able to support my family. Um, it's just my salary for myself and my two young sons. I often joke that I get paid tens of dollars to do this job, which is mostly silly fun, but it's also true. This year, when I opened my W2, I realized I'd made less than I'd made in the last few years, even with more experience, responsibility, and my same highly effective evaluations. I can't donate more of myself when I'm already barely staying afloat.
Liliana Ames, Carson Cofflash, and Jack Reutder. [Applause] And one student is being awarded the top honor of the seal of bi literacy for German. Congratulations to Paige Freeze. [Applause] We have a few German students out there. German students, if you'd mind hanging on. Our next recognition recognition will be presented to the new inductees of Delta Epsilon Fi, the German National Honor Society. The following students have completed at least three semesters of German with a 3.3 gradepoint average in German and have an overall grade point average of three on a four-point scale. Please come forward when I call your name. Kale Clark, Liliana Ames, Paige Freeze, Carson Coff, Nathan Ry, and Jack [Applause] Reutder. Congratulations for a gift card. Summer Harrington. [Applause] Monroe County Licensed Beverage Association Scholarship. The Monroe County Licensed Beverage Association awards a $1,000 scholarship to one student from each high school in Monroe County.
Uh it's it's a pretty significant number. Uh and it's one of if you look at communities surrounding us, you can go to Actton. Um you know that's another community that has a large condominium and apartment complexes. Um and and it you know we we have a lot of students that come from from those um living arrangements. 40 languages are spoken within our district of our students. 40 different languages. I think when we look at our academic excellence, we tend to always look at the high school. Uh and uh rightfully so. Uh it's what many communities would call the flagship of a community. And we've been fortunate within this district to have an outstanding high school. Uh but it it starts with the prek and the elementary schools and the middle schools uh middle school uh in in getting our students prepared to be at the high school.
We'll either extend it or we'll vote no on it. So those those are the two options right because obviously it hasn't even had a peer review yet. It hasn't it's it's barely started well I mean it has started the process but um so that's good right so any other questions on that all right so the so just to summarize we are we are continuing this until the next meeting May 22nd but at that meeting May 22nd we will be looking for from them um and and We may have a suggested date on this. Elvo had a suggested date, but it might be pushed even further. We left, you know, about when we would be pushing out the decision date um based on the fact that we don't even have a peerreview contract yet, right? So, all right. So, um I will make a motion that we extend the 240 to 260 Pleasant Street public hearing.
Kylie Marino with the ball on the far side. Gets the ball over to M. Whitward. Mack goes to one. Oh, that's Addie. Now M has it. That should have been soothing space. Calibies with the ball behind the net. She goes to feed it in. Kenna's got it. Yeah, Kenna's there. Keney over there to scoop it. Ke with a little touch to Marino. Marino in and out. Shifty by one. Keep going with it. No, she turns around, gets it to Trullio. Trullio resets it all the way to Mac. Yeah, Mac goes by one. Shooting space. And Metworth will get herself some shooting space. Get an 8 meter 840. Sum it up. 4 nothing. That goes in and looked like she threw it and just bounce off the keeper stick. I don't even know if the keeper was ready for that one. Addie Jordan will get herself shooting.
Her dedication to the success of Bolton skills, willingness to tackle any challenge, and humble leadership will truly be missed. We wish her many adventures in the years to come. Congratulations, Donna. Thanks. Right. That concludes. Oh, we have a couple more. Oh, well, sorry. Getting ahead of myself. All right. Next, we are um honoring Doris Me, who has been a paraprofessional in our district for over two decades. Doris has done everything asked of her and more. She has dedicated herself wholeheartedly to every task with unwavering commitment. She worked diligently with great attention to detail, kindness, love, and compassion for her students. Doris went above and beyond for her students and the program she supported. She has been an amazing co-worker and support for her students. As she enters retirement, Doris should carry with her the profound love, respect, and gratitude of all who have had the privilege to work alongside her.
He embodies the qualities of an exceptional leader, teacher, and community advocate. His tireless efforts to inspire students, support his colleagues, and enhance the or view community. Congratulations [Applause] That concludes our recognitions. We Jeff Cornelius who was previously recognized at our last board meeting. He's he's the third person. So, thank you one and all. You can all stay if you would like to for the rest of the meeting. It's been a great year for you. I'm very grateful to have a lot of reading. I'll just I'll just say PTA. Okay, the crowd has thinned out just a little bit, so we'll move on. Uh, reports. We have student representative report. Erin. Okay, my final report. [Music] Um, starting off with Anaheim High School. Anaheim High School's capstone conversations were a roaring success. The graduating class of 2025 participated in their final presentations to a variety of panelists, including administrators, teachers, parents, and board of trustee members.
Um, I love talking, so I'm excited to talk at all the events and just yap away. So, um, it, um, I can't wait to get to know all of you again. And we're going to gray lead the way. We look forward to your reports next year.
And that's how we would be able to face our storm. We would go through the waves and the waves would heave and hoe. We would go through the wind and have to navigate together in order to get through that oncoming storm to come out to come out the other side. That's what I know. We have to do that. If we panic and we try to turn around and sail away, the storm is likely quicker than our ship and it's going to catch up to us regardless and then we will capsize. We have to stay together. We have to stay the course. So what I know about our course is that we have an ASDB statutory purpose. That tells us our purpose. That tells us what we are supposed to be doing. We have to follow our statutory purpose. We have a vision. We have a mission and I again just reread our mission.
But boys and girls, one more great big great big round of applause for your parents, your grandparents, and family members that came here to support you. Have a great night and thank you very much. We apologize for the air. I did try to adjust it, but it didn't kick in soon enough. So, have a great evening. Thank you.
But I'm not alone. This is a story that is so familiar to so many educators in Arizona and across the United States. In Arizona right now, we rank 51st in quality of education behind every state and the District of Columbia. We're doing amazing things in Morirana, but our state is struggling. As a state, we fall behind in teacher pay funding, teacher-to- student ratios, and unfortunately with the instability that we see at both the state and federal level, we know that it's unlikely to get better without bold local leadership. These are uncertain and unprecedented times. As a millennial, unprecedented times have sort of been my life. I graduated from Mountain View as the housing market crashed. The bubble burst. I watched my childhood home be foreclosed on. I entered an economy uncertain that I'd be able to get a job. Uncertain times are one of the few constants that we have.
Selection criteria includes ACT, SAT scores, essay, school and community involvement, and grade point average. Congratulations to this year's recipient, Emily [Applause] Rose. Robert Holden Memorial Scholarship. Bob Holden was born and raised in Columbia and graduated from Columbia High School in 1965. Due to financial challenges, he was unable to complete college and instead worked various jobs before enlisting in the military. He was deployed to Vietnam where he gave his life on May 7th, 19 1968, just eight days before his 23rd birthday. In honor of Mr. Holden and other CHS alumni who have served our country, four $500 scholarships are being awarded to CHS seniors pursuing further education at a college, university, or technical school. This year's recipients are, please come forward, Brook Bolson, Ella FY, Jack Reutder, and Emily Rose. American Legion as well. The American Legion. Yep. Okay. Okay. And the Columbia American Legion Post 581 and Ladies Auxiliary Unit 581 scholarship.
Um the highlighted uh in bold up there I I wanted to mention this. We gave 450 advanced placement exams. So that's those are college level classrooms that our students are are engaged in. 450 exams in 28 subject areas with 91% passing uh of a three a score of three or higher, which means they get credit when they go on to college for those classes. That ranks 20th out of 290 high schools in the Commonwealth. Pretty impressive. And you know, the high school was honored as an AP school of distinction. We continue to work, you know, uh on our mental health and our social emotional learning. I think it's uh it's evident that we need to um continue that effort. Music programming. Uh we don't talk enough about our arts programs and our music programs, but you can see up here how well our students perform uh out in the in the Commonwealth.
um until May 22nd. Is there a second? Second that. All right. And roll call vote. We saw your lips move, Anna, but we didn't hear you. Anna Tesmaniti. I There you go. Thank you. Okay. So, that we will go to May 22nd. we will figure out what we're well we will know what we're doing with it at that time. Okay. Next on the agenda is um the 501 Pond Street minor modification. So um on this you should have received the special permit document which we talked about last time we talked about and voted on. Um it was put in writing um as a memo. Um Lisa me reviewed it and then we got another letter from the applicant. Um, any one of us should have uh should have said, "Hey, what about the site plan review, but we got a letter from Chris Grant, who I think is also um listening in here." Um, that we needed to do it for the special permit, not the special permit, for the site plan review as well, that it needed to be both documents because obviously in our when we do our conditions, we have them be mirror images of each other on the two documents.
Nice quick pass by M. Whiter. Spartans really begin to move the ball around, pass the ball really good here tonight. Every once in a while you get that slip and it bounces out of the the netting of the girls, but Matt Whiter straight on. No, Addy Jordan straight on. You're having a real problem with that. Well, yes. Yes, I am. And another one off the post. Angelina chasing it down. He saw me ball. That's a a shot by Jordan. The ball bounced all the way off to the sidelines. Gets the ball into Lucas. Casey goes by one. Goes by two. She turns around, takes a shot. Caroline Kasich with a nice dodge weave. Gets the ball past the keeper. Now Caroline Luke is on the board. Caroline's 15th goal of the season. 5-0 Spartans. Five nothing Spartans. Seven minutes and 33 seconds left to go in the second quarter.