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Good afternoon. I want to first thank God for every accomplishment in my life. I second want to thank Mr. Saposo for nominating me for student of the month and helping me progress through high school. I finally want to thank my my family, my friends, and my coaches for their support and encouragement during my high school years. And lastly, I would like to thank everyone who showed up here. Thank you so much. [Music] Is uh Alejandra here? Alandre. Okay. Uh, Alejandra was going to talk uh talk about the um I think several months ago we had um the board approved uh something called the easy um easy easy ride for life club uh which is connected to a a nonprofit organization called Easy Ride. And what Easy Ride does is they provide um services especially in Bergen County to individuals who need rides. So whether it's um doctor's appointments or uh shop right or anywhere that they would need uh you know it's not just the elderly, it could be uh anyone that has a special need for a ride.
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Awesome artist award the second Jeremy remarkable reader award Jimenez Joseph Adam Mathematics Award best helper award artist of Gear [Music] award Manuel Saray sharing is [Music] award Brandon Mugo A honorable mathematics award young scientist award super share award [Music] Brian Hugo A honor young scientist award super sharer award mathematics award benchmark High achieverael en sharing the scary Ortis de andre super shedter award [Applause] [Music] Ja [Music] A Richardson Alea May on the road artist of the year award aspiring award Super speller award the [Music] award Robert Jose physical education excellence So [Music] [Applause] [Music] hard role and Savior Factor Award [Applause] [Music] Salas Diana sharing award [Music] Treo aspiring author award mathematics award Valdes Jaden Air Benchmark High Grow Award mathematics award high achiever award [Music] Velas mathematics award outstanding improvement award [Music] Band artist of the year aspiring Author award, remarkable reader award the book warm [Music] award yon Janel AB honor roleing enthusiast award aspiring author award the group award remarkable reader award artist of the year award [Music] Congratulations 6 grade.
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Okay, moving on to item information discussion item F1. Dr. Croto. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, tonight we are following up on an information report on our Spalding pilot program uh that we uh had scheduled um by board request. So, I will turn it over to Dr. Asai to handle this item. Good evening, Madam Presidents, members of the board. It is my pleasure to present with our coordinator for research and achievement, Miss Aaron Morris, on what we're learning from our Spalding pilot. Madame President, members of cabinet, members of the board and cabinet, thank you for having me this evening. I will be going over data on Spalding instruction at Countryside and all other non-spalding schools. Sorry. This evening we are going to look at Dibble's data of both kindergarten and first grade students across the district. We reviewed Dibbles reading composite scores. As you know students take this assessment three times a year.
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Good afternoon everyone. My name is Brian Wong and it is a pleasure and honor to be in here in front of all of you today to celebrate Independence's class of 2025. I first want to congratulate everyone who made it here today as it was a difficult task dealing with the rocky transition from school to high school, especially with our last two years of middle school being online. However, you all put up the effort to build yourselves up from that obstacle. So, please congratulate yourselves for working so hard to make it here. [Applause] It has been a long journey to get here and I do not believe I could have made it here today without the help of many teachers that I've have had over these years. In particular, I would like to give special thanks to Mr. Aspar for not only making my first year of high school a fun one, but also having it be an effective way in helping me relearn how to attend physical education and helping me create a strong foundation for the rest of my high school years.
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We are honored to have both of these individuals joining us this evening. Please one more time join welcoming them to our [Applause] graduation. I would like to take a moment to introduce you to students who are joining us on stage this evening. Please stand when I call your name. Miss Delaney Bower, [Applause] Zade Moabi, Miss Casey Tran, and Mr. Justin Lee. [Applause] These four students have taken over 73 hour honors and AP courses during their time here at Greenway and have a combined GPA average of 5.01. They are an outstanding representation of this senior class which is why they have been named academically our top 1%. Please join me in congratulating them on hard on their hard work throughout their high school career. This evening we are also joined by Greenway High School student body president Miss Ansley Dunbar. and the 2025 senior class president, Mr.
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A special shout out to Miss Sussex, Miss Urick, Miss Fco, and Miss Saraphini. Your unwavering support and belief in me has truly made an has truly made an impact on me and difference. And I will always be grateful for your guidance. And of course to my parents, thank you for always being there for me, for believing in me in every decision I made and supporting me through everything. Your constant encouragement has meant everything. High school has taught me one important lesson. Tough times are inevitable. Challenges and setbacks will come our way. They're part of life. But what truly matters is how we choose to respond. If we hold too tightly onto the past, we won't be able to move forward. And if we don't move forward, then we can't shape the future we dreamed about. So as we move on to the next chapter, I encourage all of us to let go of mistakes, focus on the opportunities ahead, and let's take a moment to appreciate where we are today.
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Good afternoon everyone. Um, okay. Congratulations to our graduating class of 2025. I want to start off by thanking God for being able to stand here and give a speech, but I also want to thank my teachers and family. Thank you to all my teachers from North Point. The resilience, sincerity, and passion for teaching. you guys demonstrated is unparalleled. You guys literally took $13 an hour and a dream literally. I will never forget the kindness and impact you guys left on us. I didn't come here until last year, but I want to thank Cortez and his teachers for providing many opportunities that I could not have achieved previously. Thank you to Coach Lamin and the tennis team for making me look forward to the season and and allowing me to discover a new hobby I will continue to pursue. More than anything, I want to thank my parents.
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It was worth all the while. It's something unpredictable but in the end is right. I hope you had this time of your [Music] life. So make the best of this test and not ask why. It's not a question lesson learning time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. I hope you have the time of your [Music] life. But in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you choir. Outstanding job. The most important responsibility of a public school is to promote academic education and insist upon excellence. Apollo High School confirms its highest academic honors to students in the top 1% of the graduating class. I'm pleased to present five students who hold the highest academic rating ranking for this graduating class of 2025. These students will be graduating tonight with highest distinction. As I call your name, please stand.
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In 1971, I was called a sexless sixth grader. My peers commented not so nicely about my clothing and even the way I walked because it was like a boy. The mental anguish over puberty was severe. There's no test for transgenderism. Subjective thoughts only by the person. So please don't dare say that I wasn't one. People say that. Oh no, you weren't. I went through mental agony and I went through it alone. That's the only test of whether you're transgender. The agony. While sex change operations were available, even there was no one to affirm my mixed up thoughts on my adolescence. No one appeared, even my loving parents, to notice anything was wrong. I was not affirmed, and I kept my body parts inside and out. I praise God I wasn't raised in this time. So many of these transgendered young people are finding that the reality of the many operations, hormones, and hormone blockers don't fix the underlying mental issues.
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Uh, this team's coached by Mrs. Clarissa White, and she has taught at CSA Lincoln for the past 14 years, and has served as our math bowl coach for as long as I can remember. And she also coached our 2022 Math Bowls team that uh won the state championship. And this year marks Clarissa's last year at CSA Lincoln as she learned earlier this school year that her and her husband Nathan were expecting their first child. She was unable to be with us tonight because Gabriel White was born this past Saturday night. So, u I'm happy to report that both Clarissa and Gabriel are doing well. And we are sad to lose an amazing educator like Clarissa, but we're also excited for her to tackle the great adventure of being a parent. And in true fashion, it's only fitting that Clarissa led this team to a state championship in her last year because uh she always expects the very best of her students.
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I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second it. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I none opposed. Um that was our loan agenda item uh this evening. Um anybody have any comments or anything they want to say about I mean I think it's great that patient's taking the initiative. Yep. appreciate you stepping up and appreciate it. Kids will I know I know they used to the kids really they enjoyed it. It was fun fun fun things to do. So it's it was a good good deal. Mr. Thompson always headed that up and he retired and it kind of as he retired then CO came and it went went away for a while. So we're we're we're happy it's back. So uh upcoming dates uh this is probably going to change. Our our June meeting is on the 9th.
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How about Cooper Walsh? But Carrie Lucas is and she's our other coach. Thank you. 2024 2025 Colonel Middle School dance. We can bring them in. Here comes the dance team. Welcome in ladies. Just come all the way in. All the way down to the left. Get everybody in. Welcome everybody. All right. Welcome. We'll give everyone a second to find a spot. All right, thank you for joining us. So, I will read our official commendation and then we'll have coaches come up and say a couple words and then you'll call out names and I'll pass out our certificates. So, we would like to recognize the the Crown Point Board of School Trustees is honored to commend the 2024 2025 Colonel Wheeler Middle School Dance Team for meritorious achievement. Be it hereby resolve that the board of school trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2024 2025 Colonel Wheeler Middle School Dance Team for being named regional and state champions in junior higha jazz and junior higha palm.
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Okay, very good. All right, moving on to our public comments. I do have a few folks that want to speak here. So, it looks like I have Mr. Harris. Yeah. Please. Good afternoon, sir. Welcome. My name is Joseph Harris. Uh, I'm a parent within the Greencast School District. Uh, I stand before you with a mix of emotions. uh today. Uh I I deeply value the education that my children receive and the love and the care. My children have been here from Deer Meadow and they're they are now at TZ and I have another two children over here at Greencast Middle School and they they've received a lot of care from the administration and from their teachers and I and I value that. Um this year however has brought a painful reality like presence of hate speech. Unfortunately, it's prevalent within our school district. Uh for some of our students, including my own, this year has been marred by words that wound and isolate and create a hostile learning environment.
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Show us and show our students that Dartmouth stands for fairness, dignity, and respect. The people who keep our schools running shouldn't have to brace themselves when they look at their paycheck. They shouldn't have to work two jobs, leave the district, or leave the profession they love entirely just to survive. I'll wrap this up by saying that I am confident that one thing that we can all agree on here is that in our Dartmouth public schools, the students always come first, but that shouldn't mean that our educators come last. Thank you for your time. Good evening. My name is Michelle Lemieux and I have been teaching math for 30 years, 17 of which at Dartmouth High School. I am here on behalf of our math department to share our frustration with the direction to which the math department is being led. Over the past few years, we have been searching for a core math curriculum.
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Uh we have numerous um citizens of this city that utilize Easy Ride. So, I'm uh I'm a board trustee uh for Easy Ride. And one of the things that we we were tasked with uh this this year was to try to raise funds because every ride, and it's multiple rides, every ride is $15. Um so, the uh the nonprofit, Easy Ride, is trying to subsidize some of that. So I thought what an incredible way uh to do that where in practicality you actually can you know see where your fundraising efforts go dollar to dollar to help the great citizens of this city uh individually through the efforts of our students here. So um through the interact club uh as an ad hoc this easy ride uh for life um uh club was uh created approved by the board several months ago and they actually are coming up with a fundraiser and it's through it's um it's done in the month of well it's called the elder month I think May.
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[Music] Thank you teachers and congratulations to all the 46 awards. Keep on a high and dream. [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to enjoy a special musical presentation from our talented students. All students from grades 4 to six will take the stage to perform two inspiring songs that celebrate the whole. imagination and the power of may I request the fourth graders and the fifth graders to come on stage. [Music] Please enjoy what dreams are made of. Let's give them a big round of applause as they share their voices and with us. [Music] з Every night the briest col my a me away I think what the vision of the I see a million takeam [Music] forever my eyes and I can see a for me I [Music] the no before they can say [Music] I don't care. I don't care. [Music] We can in a world every of the [Music] me [Music] away [Music] the for the [Music] a house we can every room inside is things far [Applause] away special things each one to make you smile on [Music] [Applause] [Music] I don't care I don't care [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me I [Music] I think [Music] [Applause] all dreams for the world however however small part of it all share your dream with me you may be right you may be wrong that you bring to the world you to the world I my eyes to [Music]
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Beginning of the year, middle of the year, and end of year. Dibbles indicates if students are acquiring grade level grade level literacy skills needed to become proficient readers. Whereas AASA measures how well students know the state standards. In the following slides, you will see three groups of data from Freedom, Countryside, and all other non-spawning schools that have kindergarten and first grade. First, we will look at the combined percentage of kindergarten and first grade students who scored at or above benchmark at the beginning, middle, and end of year. The chart on the left is the 23 24 school year in the first year of implementation of Spalding at Countryside. And the chart on the right is this current school year, Countryside's second year of implementation. In looking at the endofear percent of students at or above benchmark, we can see that last year, Countryside had 39% of their students at or above benchmark compared to this year where 53% of students are finishing at or above benchmark.
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Mr. Blankenship for pushing me to my limits in my junior year and for also placing so much of his own personal free time to make personalized practice tests or give helpful advice that has helped me become the most efficient version of myself. And Mr. Graham for often just being around giving greetings and words of encouragement that has placed a smile on my face so many times and kept me going on frustrating days. Next, I want to thank my mom and dad over there for always checking up on me and making sure I was staying in good health. for always making sure that I stay in good health and keeping me on track, especially on days when I burnt myself out to exhaustion. Finally, I would like to thank Independence High School and their faculty for having me, for your kindness and compassion and having been a positive influence on my life.
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Boston Gatsby. We'll talk more about their leadership a little bit later, but thank you. You may all be seated. At this time, I would also like to recognize those students who fall within the top 10% of this senior class. in your program. We've identifi we've added a legend identifying those students who academically fall within the top 10% of the senior class. Additionally, you'll notice a number of seniors walking across stage this evening wearing medals and honor cords. Those wearing honor cords are to be recognized for their dedication and time spent with a greenway program such as NHS, Stuco, DECA, ROC, and so on. You will also notice that some of our students are walking across the stage this evening wearing an ACT medallion. ACT medallions were awarded to those seniors who as a junior took the national ACT test and scored a composite score of 21 or higher, which is significantly higher than the state average and the state expectation.
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How lucky we are today. Celebrate not only the end of one chapter, but the beginning of another new exciting one. Congratulations to the class of 2025. This is our moment, and it's only the beginning. Thank you. And I'd like to introduce you, Principal Court [Applause] Miner. Nice job, Andrew. Good evening. We are most fortunate to be supported by a caring district, administration, and governing board. Governing board president Patty Kennedy is with us this evening. Patty Kennedy is a dedicated member of the GUHSD community, was elected in November of 2010, having graduated from Moon Valley High School. She shares a strong connection with the school as her two children and several other family members who have also attended and graduated. Patty gener generously dedicates her time to volunteer for Moon Valley's theater program. And apart from her active involvement in the education realm, she's an ardent gardener with a special passion for cacti.
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