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I I don't think anybody knows where the money's coming from. Yeah, I don't think that they're going to find much cooperation on it. A lot of changes all at once makes it hard to kind of figure out where things are going. So, and very significant staff reduction. Yeah. And so we got to wait and see how things play out. So how much how much do all the the grant how much grant money is in our budget? Do we have like a whole number somewhere? Not off the top of our head, but that would be helpful just to to to know have some concept for next year's budget. Yeah. Yeah. the one the for the one we just passed or we're hoping the table would pass on for any grant money we don't yet have in our bank account. So all of the grants we've applied for, we have those dollars.
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Thank you for allowing me to represent and speak on behalf of the Alternative Center for Excellence. I'm Olly. I'm Alex. Our first thing is that Melissa Laski and the ACE journalism class would like to invite you all to check out our first articles of the school year in the Alternative Times. Our alternative times can be accessed at acealtertimes.com. Next, on Saturday, May 17th from 1 to 4, we will host a barbecue at ACE to appreciate our founder Joe Pepin at ACE. There will be music, face painting, rock painting, and an alumni tent. Volleyball and cornhole, hamburgers, hot dogs, and ACE merchandise. Thanks to everyone in advance who attends and support our family at ACE. The ACE benchmark day took place on May 7th. All ACE students took a grade level benchmark to assess their growth and arguing argumentative writing. This year, all AC staff participated to ensure the day went smoothly.
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So do we bring this up here periodically? Do we want to continue to analyze the plan or do we want to because what I'm going to tie to this is kind of like the LCAP is like okay how are you going to how are we measuring this what's the metric right so do we want to once you guys see that do you just want reports on like how is that going right or do you want reports on is the curriculum committee meeting is you know how are the pacing guides coming along I don't know like I mean a lot of that is just like that's what we do Right? That's what the teachers and the principles and like that's our work. Right? So I don't know how much you guys want to manage that or if you just want to have academic achievement metrics shared with you periodically.
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Present to the district governing board an annual report of the committee pro proceeding and activities of the previous year. provide a statement indicating what whether the district complies with the bond requirements. The same report includes highlights and statues updates of projects that will prolong the district facilities life and improve the its learning experience. The committee relied on the annual performance and financial audit conducted by Negro and Negro which disclosed no instance of non-compliance with the term of proposing proposition 39 or measure LNU. The committee is pleased to report that to the best over the knowledge of the Berius Auna school district is in full compliance with the responsibility described in article 13A section 1 B3 of the California State Constitution. the members of the oversight committee, me as the chair for for this year, and we have Susan Fowler at large representative, Adrien Olirri, a large representative, Paul G parent representative, Mary Michael, Marty Michael, which is here, senior organizational representative, Sandy Newan, parent representation.
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One of that was like a huge dilemma. And how do you meet that need in a six period day? You can't. And so the end result is that students are kind of set up to um to fail. And so the the block schedule just really allowed students to get back on the horse. Kelly, you'll like that one. Get back on the horse um and and be successful. All right. Sorry to move along. Um we are going to talk about some of the interventions that we were able to put into play. Um, and as Damon said, over the years since implementation, we continue to look at student needs. So, we're not done with the intervention list. Um, we kind of keep examining, are things working? Are they not? Where's another gap? How do we fill that gap? Um, some of the things that we did put into play in the beginning and a lot of these are still in play.
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So be prepared to be surprised, take risks, and try new things. Be flexible to new opportunities, but stand strong on your morals. I feel as though I need to reuse his quotes from Benjamin Franklin each year at graduation because I truly believe each graduate needs to hear it. Remember, he said, "Well done is better than well said." Today, I challenge you to let your actions speak louder than your words. You will be asked in the coming days, where are you going? What are you doing? What are your goals? What are you going to achieve? And you can have answers, and that's great. It's exciting. But remember, it is what you do that truly matters. Make each moment count. Do it well. It is what you do that will define you in each moment of your life. It does not mean that you, as Brendan said earlier, will not face failure.
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or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools. If you can make a heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and senue to serve your turn long after they are gone. And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you. If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, then yours is the earth and everything in it.
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We had uh high ground with Paul Bence do a survey of all uh voters and the survey matched who's voted in the last election and who uh what the makeup of the voter roles is in this in this district. So it wasn't heavily ladened uh or even even it was based on how many Republicans percentage- wise, how many Democrats percentage- wise, how many independents there are. and uh they usually use a pre-est asking ahead of time uh then providing more information at the end of the survey they do a post- test normally you would see decline we actually saw an increase from 58% to 62% which is very very positive we saw uh increases uh surprisingly for them uh in the plus 50 crowd um which has not always happened so we're very uh pleased by that uh and so uh we're coming forward with the resolution Uh this resolution's been made by uh uh Gus Rosenfeld.
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Really impressive. Soon the rest of the kids are the same. Well done. Um, one of the themes I tend to call on, we actually give money to the schools to go and do things. We encourage schools to be creative. And this I'm not looking for a response from Dr. L. I'm not putting her on the spot, but one of the themes I come over is not every school that doesn't nec every school has to do unique things. We can share things and we should look for opportunities. I like the way you said halfway through the year you did a course correction, you did an evaluation course correction. That's what you need to do when you're doing something brand new. And well done on that. But also if it's a best practice that's maybe encourage other schools to pick this up and run with this. As I say, we give money.
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I think it was might have been you Joe, but we don't know where the federal government is going. We don't know how that trickles down with the state in terms of grant money. I'll throw a question back to you, Brandy. Talk to us. Talk to me a little bit about grant money. Where are we? Have you had any communications with state officials, our reps, our state senators? Are we are we are we on board of getting the same aotted amount of money that have been promised? Is it gray area? Can you speak to a little bit about that? Yep. So, and that's for both of you. Yeah. No. So, so why don't you start with the response though to what you've considered your role and then you can answer Carl about the grants. Sure. Okay. So um the select board you know you talk about the policy and what does that mean?
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Now, what about language access? I know obviously like I when you had the the the piece about communication that's clearly not just for families that don't like there's a huge broad piece of that for especially for preschoolers. Do you have interpretation services? are those available for families that may ask for it. Definitely. So, part of the RSVP is asking whether or not they need interpretation um and language support. And then we've also utilized that support through Christy Arnold. There's a new live stream feature that's even more accessible um and she's willing to kind of work with us on that. But in the past, if we've used ASL interpreters and other languages that as long as families RSVP, we're able to get that scheduled for them to allow them to be able to access all. That's great. Okay. Well, obviously you guys are doing a great job with it.
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Um, if you don't follow us, please do. Greenfield Public Schools. We're on Instagram and Facebook and a lot of great things are posted on there and we try to highlight all of the wonderful things that our kids are doing each and every week. We've adopted S'more across the district because S'more can be um translated on the spot. I think it's 130 languages. So all the person has to do is click the translation. So there's no need to even call LanguageBridge. you can just read it in the language that you want to. Um, all of our principles use this for their newsletters as well, which make it very convenient for all of our families. The last standard was professional culture. The goal was to foster and support the use of data and data analysis to increase student outcomes with a focus on our three subgroups and the use and implementation of best practices and highly effective teaching strategies to maintain high expectations districtwide.
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Um, if you don't follow us, please do. Greenfield Public Schools. We're on Instagram and Facebook and a lot of great things are posted on there and we try to highlight all of the wonderful things that our kids are doing each and every week. We've adopted S'more across the district because S'more can be um translated on the spot. I think it's 130 languages. So all the person has to do is click the translation. So there's no need to even call language bridge. you can just read it in the language that you want to. Um, all of our principles use this for their newsletters as well, which make it very convenient for all of our families. The last standard was professional culture. The goal was to foster and support the use of data and data analysis to increase student outcomes with a focus on our three subgroups and the use and implementation of best practices and highly effective teaching strategies to maintain high expectations districtwide to enchie to achieve improved results.
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Are you talking about how much are we applying for for the next round? Like the grant applications we just finished for the ones that they're going to that the ones that could possibly get held up. I'm trying to get an idea of what that number could be. I don't know what what the resources are. Yeah. All of our grants with the exception of like private grants like when we did some bicycle kinds of things. All of our grants with the exception of the reprant come through the state of Connecticut. So, but that's federal dollars, correct? Yes, they're federal dollars that come to the state and then are um given out to the districts as they Okay, that's the number I'm looking for. Do we have to to do I have a motion somewhere in here? She has the motions. You have the motions. You want me to make the motions?
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Eight ace eight eight ace poets and artists were featured in this year's Rotary Club publication from my heart along with poets and artists from New Town and Danbury High School. This past Monday, three of our poets shared their work aloud at the book launch at Danbury High School. Our 20 22nd annual ACE coffee house in BB will take place on Thursday, May 29th from 5:30 to 7:30 at Hatters Park. The night will be featured music, poetry, and a showcase of student and staff talent. Special guests include alumni and poets Charl and Dary poet Lorett, Joanne, and Jackie. All of you are invited to attend. Ace poets accompanied by Melissa and Della Diana. will be hiking at Steep Rock Preserve in Washington, Connecticut on Friday, May 16th. At the summit, they will sit for an hour without talking, texting, or music to listen to the sound of nature and draw or write what they hear and see.
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M I mean, you know, like we do the I Ready stuff, but maybe we say like, okay, we also want to see, you know, more local assessment data or more or we want to we want you on the metrics to say like, okay, there's going to be four meetings for curriculum and I want to we want to know those dates and maybe like, you know, how did that meeting go? Like that that type of stuff. I don't I think that I would be interested in um I know that like you've provided this and it's a draft, but I think that I would like to you to orient us to this plan with the details. It's not that we're making those decisions, you and your staff are, but to have a better understanding of the plan and then for us to make those decisions about when we want to see the updates and what we would like in those updates based on the work that you're doing.
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We have two open positions that if anyone is interested would be great to have parent and PTA representative, taxpayer organization representative will be great to have in our uh committee if it's somebody want to like to enjoy committee meetings and pro proceedings held during the fiscal year 2022 2023 September 14th March 14th September 14th and July 18th. We the CPC meets quarterly since the inception of 2015. The primary presentation and discussion topics have been that detailed construction and compliance plan and financial budget compliance. The district management has cooperated with the CBOC and the in their all respects with identified issues relevant and resol resolved the assistant superintendent and board of directors or deal representative have actively participated in our meetings and the here's a budget that we have at the moment which is the measure L at the end is all it's all done. We expend all the money.
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Um, adding academic success for 9th and 10th and this is like a support class. It's one of the eight periods that these ninth and tth graders take. Um, a lot of the teachers have um Google Classroom and where they have many lessons for them basically like executive functioning skills. How to check your email, how to email a teacher, how to check your Aries, how to deal with missing assignments, how to talk to a teacher with your missing assignments. Um, so that's been a very successful class and we've added it also for some of our 11th and 12th grade students that are struggling for one of their classes. Um, additional support we have is math lab and it rides along uh enrollment in a core class. So, it's an extra support class in math. Um, likewise, we have power reading using the read 180 curriculum. We use some junior high reading data to kind of determine which freshmen are not quite at grade level and and um put them in that class.
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Sometimes things will not go as planned. Do not fear failure. You will experience it. It's okay. It's a natural part of life. It's necessary for your growth. And as as Master Uguay also said to Po, our greatest teachers in life are often our mistakes. So own your mistakes. Be humble. Seek feedback so you can learn from your experiences and grow. Do not let the fear of failure keep you from trying and taking healthy risks and pursuing new opportunities. It is what you do next that matters most. Finally, it is imperative remember that in order for your actions to be done well, you have to do them in community and share them with others. No one has ever heard well done in isolation. So remember that it was in community that you competed for Thor Wars and were victorious. It's in community tonight that we celebrate you here.
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And which is more, you'll be a man, my son. Class of 2025, your future is filled with endless possibilities. So stay curious, be resilient, and dream big. I am confident that you will shape our world in remarkable ways. And as a D20 grad, we welcome you back to share about your future adventures. So let's give it up for the class of 2025. [Applause] Thank you, Superintendent Habber. Seniors, graduates, you've made it. If you were never absent a day of school since kindergarten through today, you would have spent 13,616 hours learning, growing, and becoming the young adults before us. Now, when you began school as a wideeyed kindergartener, maybe nervous, maybe excited, you had dreams of what you might become. For some of you, those dreams were bold, wild, and magical. I asked a few of you to share your early dreams with me, and here is what I learned.
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