We thank our generous district partners, Chick-fil-A, Culver's Imagination Print and Design, Huntington Learning Center, Serve Bank, and The Scoop for helping to make this program what it is. We would also like to thank all those who nominated individuals for consideration as we recognize our last pride winners of the school year. Tonight, we'd like to share some exciting statistics. This year, our district's Pride program received over 1,500 nominations for teachers, teacher assistants, social workers, nurses, custodians, administrative assistants, and all of those who make our district run. Some staff members even received multiple nominations. Of those 1,500, we were able to recognize 92 individuals as pride winners, celebrating the hard work and the dedication they have provided to the staff and students of our Asiggo Community Unit School District 308. awardees, after your name is called and we share your nomination, please come forward to be congratulated by the board and Dr.
Okay. Can you explain the different figures here? Um, the first year is 13,000. Okay. And and it is in your packet that was just with my signature on it and this 33 is second year. Okay. So, if you look at the preventing youth suicide initiative, the big packet that's in there, it breaks it all down, but I didn't want you guys trying to look through it and trying to figure out where it was. So, so that's um they give us list of resources to use and everything's been preapproved from this grant. If we want to do something different, we ask them and um they preapprove it. It's pretty much we don't make the decisions. They tell us if it's okay and we go along with it. Could it be used for things like student convocations and speakers or something like that? Mhm. Great. Yep. We've looked at possibly even doing something like that too with some of it.
If I can do something to help uh raise money or donations that I can more towards that, so that way these kids can get the ball. I mean, the softball's less. I mean for and it happens a couple times a year for a kid maybe like a big you know I mean ask the kid if they want it you know even if not I mean the balls after they're in the game they go to practice they can't use another game so this more specifically it was the evening that one specifically but um so I did I have a 24-hour rule um wait 24 hours before you put anything on Facebook I know some post on Facebook Um, and so I posted something asking other I'm in the softball community for a while. Um, so I like to ask other people and others surrounding and it's school by school basis.
Thank you, Mr. Melture. Second. Thank you, Mrs. Any further comments? Hearing none, we'll go for a vote. Is he going to be here? Motion carries 40. Coach, how about nice? [Applause] I just want to let everybody know I'm really excited to be here. Want to thank the committee. Um, you guys should all be proud of the administration you have here. I mean, they really helped sell the program and the community. from somebody from afar. I remember remember coaching at Lures, you know, at North Side, you know, Huntington always had was really a big, you could just tell it was a big big basketball city, you know, and I grew up in Decar and played on some really good teams at Belmont. And Huntington kind of reminds me, you know, about basketball being big in the community. And one thing I'm hoping for, and I'm really, you know, whenever I went to Huntington, it always seemed like you had the hometown officials.
Elaine Fogelman. Congratulations to Miss Ela Fogelman, instructional team lead, math specialist, advisor lead, district high school ability specialist at Mary Castle Elementary for being selected to receive the above and beyond award and her principles here this evening. Elaine Foggelman goes above and beyond in every role she serves, instructional team lead, math specialist, all while teaching halftime. Her dedication to student, staff, and districtwide success is truly exceptional. Elaine fosters a strong collaboration, communication, and cooperation culture, uniting colleagues to share their expertise and elevate instructional practices. From co-authoring the new highability handbook to leading the development of a highability process, Elaine is instrumental in driving academic excellence. Her leadership, tireless work ethic, and commitment to collective growth make her an invaluable asset to our entire district. We're honored to present Elaine Fogleman with the Above and Beyond award. Congratulations. [Applause] Right next to her first. Thank you.
So, I think uh Mary might even made a couple. I don't know. Um, but it it was overall pretty good. So, thanks to everyone there on that. Um, next on the list is our superintendent search update, but I don't think Tracy's here just yet. So, you can have to put that on hold. Uh, so Al, over to you, I think. Yes. So, thanks for So, good evening. So, uh, right back at this conversation that you just said, Mike, we also want to thank school committee, right, in both towns of Grill, Wilston, in the communities as well too, um, for the budget process and helping us out through that as well too. Um we couldn't be more um grateful for the support that the families gave us. Um we sent a message out to them thanking them as well too for for the help um and supporting the budget and passing it in first time.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you see it was very influential on me. Um and um and so Zongi brought me I she was staying with you and I dropped I dropped her off basically and you insisted I come in and then you started asking me questions. So anyway, that's how I got to know them. Another my last shorter than I was drinking, you know. Um uh so I just want to put everything in perspective. So the students know central dogma is that the way that our genetic code the DNA gets turned into proteins. Okay. key Nobel Prize for central dogma was awarded in 1965 for the discovery of uh messenger RNA basically and that had not changed since and through a series of very insightful experiments about how organisms time their development. These two discovered microarnas with uh their longtime collaborator and friend Gary Ruffton in his laboratory at Mass General Hospital.
It's not their it's like their individual roadmap in the schools. Um so we have uh leazisoned with that advance to help us with that work um so that we can bring alignment across the district and then of over the course of the next school year we will need to devote some uh some of our professional learning time um for turnkeying uh this training that administrators will receive over the summer months to school district staff. Um in the long run the hope of this policy is to reduce um in and out of school suspensions um and arrests of our juveniles. So uh the cost to the district um over time it you know the hope is that this policy will help to have better outcomes for uh our students um you know resulting in better learning um and community uh partnership with kids. Oneita I see you have your hand up.
It's because she's here. She's cared about each and every one of her players. If you were to go up to her one day and say, "Hey, coach, I've had a really tough day. Can we please talk?" She would do anything she could just to make you say better. I think with all my coaches I've had, I've had multiple different sports that I've had coaches for. The most important quality for me is being kind. And she's definitely been that. and my experience with her as my coach. I got diagnosed with tenonitis in both my feet. When we did exercises as a teams and my teammates were running, I was able to do that because of the doctor's note that told me I could not do that. She found different solutions to keep me exercise and keep me running and doing other stuff that I could do like core workouts out to the side so I was still a part of her team.
Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve the invoices as presented. Motion by Allison. Second. Second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. 70. The reconciliation and cash balances report. I remember to load that up. They all reconcile the cash summary to the uh computer, to the bank, and to the treasury court. Uh recognition of visitors. Nobody sign it. Perfect. Uh administrative reports cash balances do match the reconciliation report. We did complete Kansas assessments. Um the second graders took an optional reading assessment. The third through sixth assessments are new this year, so we won't see results on that until the fall. Um, I think they're doing the cut scores this summer sometime. May 9th, last, I think it was last Friday, pre-K went to the Great Man Zoo, preK4, fourth went to Hayes for a field trip.
All right. Next, we have Mr. Kevin [Music] Monttero. I'm Kevin Mont. I'm a junior at the CB Hs F. And I want to take a look after N is what we tend to chew and what we funny. Thank you. All right. This is moving along. Thank you all. Um I'm going to presume Mr. Corbin. set. Hi, I'm Corbin McGuffy. I'm a senior at CBHS. Uh, Officer Nodden, I think, has had a great impact on our school system. Um, he doesn't not only interact with kids, but he goes to kids and sees what they need. Um, a lot of kids, I think, trust him and speak to him about personal matters. And that's someone that I think we need at the school. Um, it's hard to talk to someone that's not at the school and to come to them because they're not around you all the time, you know.
Like it be like, "Oh, there's an immigration issue here. I know that that's their rights. So, it's going to be under JII as opposed to giving it its own separate special code and I got no skin in this game. So, it makes no sense to you guys. I mean, it I don't know that it fits anywhere else. I could Yeah, like I could see it falling under the student rates. I don't doesn't matter to me really either way, but I could see it fitting there. Okay. Remind me again where was it before? It wasn't anywhere. It's brand new. Oh, is there any reason why it couldn't be its own separate thing or is that just too small to I mean because if it's something that we want to highlight or not highlight but at least acknowledge that it's um that it's there putting it in a subcategory might bury it even further.
So here you have a couple examples of the kids um you know measuring different things using those different tools. So the connecting cubes um the paper clips and then the small centimeter cubes. Um, and this video is showing how this um connects to real world. Did I start that? Oh, okay. [Music] Girls, what animal are you measuring? [Music] Okay. So, obviously you can hear like a lot of engagement. They're they are really interested in what they're doing on that lesson in particular. They're measuring animal lengths. So, each of those pieces of tape are the length of a real animal like a giant ark bark or a raccoon or different things like that. So, they're just really interested and engaged at all of the things that they're doing. Okay. Um, yeah. So, these are just a couple more pictures showing them measuring. Um, and then as we progress through our measurement unit, they move towards um a more abstract thinking with measurement where they're using what they know and understand about measuring, where they're solving story problems.
So, you're doing okay. All right. Glad to hear that at least. Our next award, parents love him. Most liked by parents. It's Tommy Murphy. Come on down, Tommy. Tommy, congratulations on this award. Most liked by parents. Were you surprised to receive it? Um, a little bit, but not really. You know, I'm I'm modest. He's very modest. So, parents like you. How do you get parents on your side? Uh, you just got to be respectful. You got to look them in the eye. You got to be nice to them. Don't be dumb around them. Be dumb when they're not around. I can see why parents like him. Next is our future star on Broadway. It goes to Santia Ericos. Look at that look. She's ready for Broadway right now. You've starred on numerous productions here at WeGo. Is acting in your future? I wouldn't say acting is in my future, but definitely singing.
Kelgotti and wait until the rest of the individuals from your school and team have been called up. Congratulations to the following individuals. First of all, Tommy Beatsel. Tommy is a transportation dispatcher often referred to as Tommy. Thomas handles the con constant input from his role with care and compassion. He's responsive to all the demands of dispatch and doesn't stop working until he gets to the bottom of a concern.
Um most of it will probably be with staff training just we have to go through a training every year through safe schools. Um but this will be through QPR. Um the counselors and myself have been trained in it. So we will have to hold the trainings for staff. Um but that's part of the money that they want us to use it for. All right.
It's not like a uh that's what I was told I could be wrong. Um, so I just want to know why. Uh, well I don't want to know why. I just I just want to know how we can fix that just to get these kids the core memories back. U she's got a memory. She still got the ball. um she got a ballalled I can say it was after the game still um so she still got the ball but she even told me she's like go ahead it might not even be a real ball and she to she said that actually to the uh coach brand new ball to her at the end of the game so if you can hold a brand ball give it to her you can't throw that into the game if I could get answers I mean I think at this point we need to look into what the the policy is with the softball team or with the athletic director and determine, you know, is it the same as baseball?
I'm hoping we can keep those. So, we're gonna really work on the officials, make sure we got that home court advantage, but I'm excited to get started. Want to thank the board for approving me. I know tomorrow morning I'm I'm going to start meeting with the feeder schools. And, you know, the next week or so, I'm going to try to get all the not try, but I'll get all of the the middle schools and the elementaryaries because I think that's where you build your program is with the younger kids. And I'm excited to meet the team tonight. And I'm ready to get going. So, thank you again. [Applause] Uh, coach, I just want to personally say thank you. Um, um, we are all up here at the front tables very excited about the direction of our girls program and having you at the helm um, is a no-brainer for us and we are incredibly grateful for you.
One, two, three. And next, a staff member from Mary Castle, Jennifer Whitaker, if she could come forward. Congratulations to Mrs. Whitaker, fifth grade teacher and eco coach at Mary Castle Elementary, for being selected for the Above and Beyond award. Jennifer is a dedicated teacher and e coach. She not only ensures that rubric aligned evidence during her STEM practices, but she also brought STEM to life in her classrooms through innovative lessons and daily student engagement. Her LTSF grant for 3D printer, STEM integration, elevated learning, and her work was proudly featured in the Homefront Heroes magazine this year. Miss Whitaker exemplifies excellence, creativity, and dedication, empowering both students and staff through her passion for STEM education. We're honored to present Miss Jennifer Wood with above and beyond. Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you so much. This is very [Applause] Our next category of awards will be given by Dr.
So thank you school committee. Thank you as well. Um so I'm taking things a little out of order and I'm going to turn it over to Joe directly um our interim director of technology um as well. Um so one of the things that um I was hired as as the interim superintendent of schools was is really looking at um at a lens of looking and and finding the things that we need to get this district in place so that we go to have a full um superintendent and board. We have things in place and ready to go. Um yet again um last night was brought to our attention another thing from previous that we uncovered and that we're going to share a little bit with you underneath the agenda item um that we already have on there where it says um for interim director of technology Joe Spazado will talk about student uh firewall and security issues.