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Uh Piona uh Aanellis, our director of teaching and learning. Uh Lauren Jones to my right is the I got everyone's uh title here. Yes. Director of career and technical education. Uh I'm there. Brennan Sullivan, our assistant principal for uh humanities. Uh Ryan Brown, blue right here, our assistant principal um for math and science. and Angela Bren, our director of admissions, counseling, and health services. Thank you. Thank you all for joining us. You just wait for the presentation that might have to go back and look at the visual. I want to welcome Penny Ulta to the meeting this evening as well and thank her for preh presenting tonight. uh what she's going to share with you is a lot of what's been going on here in GSTs soon uh the school year 2022425. I think uh a lot of her work and all the members that are here with her that are supporting her tonight uh represent some uh strong leadership and high quality uh support of teachers that is making a huge difference in our school.
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Elena is most proud of becoming more outgoing and making more friends. Marshall Wright. Marshall had all A's all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. He was top 5% in ELA, top 5% in science, top 5% in pre-alggebra, and above the 90th percentile in math. Marshall is most proud of jumping 52 in high [Applause] jump. Before I present to you the class of 2029, those that received the individual awards, please meet behind here at behind the podium. With the class of 2029, please stand. The staff at BMS, thank you for your legacy on BMS and want to wish you all a great summer and best of luck. Your future is bright. Staff, family, and friends, I present to you the class of 2029. Thank you for joining us tonight and we hope you all have a great summer. Thank you. [Applause]
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Be present. Your presence in this moment is everything. Feel every second. Time will go by so quickly if you don't. Cherish that feeling. Every feeling. Even now as I stand up here um and share my words, I remember how this feels. Put yourself first. Make yourself a priority. Center yourself and your experiences and recognize your feelings. Your cap and your gown and your tassels are not what make this moment valuable. Under that $50 cap is you. And you are priceless. Each of you has inspired the class before you and the classes after you. You are an inspiration to your family and you will continue to inspire countless others. It is each of you that we are here to recognize. Your hard work and your dedication. Remember the world is a busy busy place. As you go along your journey, you will work hard and you will do great things, but they may not always be recognized.
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She did this on championship day, her final solo race of her Colts career. an incredibly clutch performance, especially because last year on the last day of school her seventh grade year, she wrote me a thank you note that ended with the simple line, "I will break the record." After her prediction came true, and she broke the record that day, she lay on the ground near death, saying she tasted blood and couldn't feel her head. But there was no time for complaints because she was needed somewhere else. Her mother and I ordered her up and over to the long jump pit she went where she got third place while barely being able to stand. 10 minutes later, she anchored her team's 4x400 meter relay and ran the same brutal race all over again, getting our team first place there as well and cementing our girls track championship.
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Um, so these are the various funds. Every single one of these that has activities again does not look like the one next to it. They all have requirements and we have to have experts on our finance staff and on our grant staff. Um we have a very strong effective schools department that keeps track of all of those grants to ensure that we stay in compliance. The interesting thing about federal grants apart from what's been going on uh in the current culture is that if you mess up with one grant, you then um risk losing all of your federal grants. So compliance in that area is very high and we have to be very careful to make sure that we are not only following all the rules but able to show that we're following the rules and being very transparent with that. So the main uh funds uh while we had I'm not sure how many we had on there.
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It's a relay. Um so I'm going to we're going to let you guys introduce yourselves. Tell us what grade and again what place you took even though I just went through it just because I need to hear it coming out of your mouth. Ready? Uh I'm Clarence Stewart. I'm a senior. I took second place in the 200 meter dash. Uh we got second in the 4x1 is No, I lied. Fourth in the 4x1. Second in the 4x4. Uh I'm Darius Hamilton. I'm a junior. We got second in the 4x4. I'm Isaiah Duran. I'm a junior and we came second in the 4x4. Uh I'm Don Rashard and I took first place in the boys high jump. Um I'm London Harville. I'm a sophomore and I took first in the 400 meter. I'm Riley Thompson and I took uh second in the 4x4. Oh, and I'm a senior.
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My name is Alexandra Kusarvisu, and it has been a pleasure to serve as your student body vice president for the last year. It fills me with immense honor and gratitude to stand before you all today. This moment isn't just about me, but about the journeys we've all shared and the bright futures that head of ahead lie ahead for each of us. I hope this speech will go beyond mere words, a heartful reflection on what is waiting for us as we embark on the next chapters of our lives as emerging adults. Today isn't just the end of an era. It's the beginning of a new chapter for each and every one of us. We have proven time and time again our ability to achieve. And this is just the beginning of what we can accomplish. Being here today signifies not just the completion of high school, but the limitless possibilities that await us.
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And then pickle ball club just started up. That's new this year. Two juniors, Kushid Baru and Lucas Hubert, started up a team. I have more pictures on the next slide of that, too. But it's fun to see our students kind of being passionate about something and taking the initiative to start it. on this side, senior everything has happened because they're graduating tomorrow. So the top right is senior sunset where seniors like wear their college shirts in the beginning of the year. They have senior sunrise like to start off the year and get excited and so they had senior sunset and all the seniors got together. It's really really special. Senior breakfast was this morning, a different morning that was recently. Graduation's tomorrow. And then prom happened right after the last meeting on the Saturday after. And it was unofficially Rapunzel themed because we can't afford the marketing for that.
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In addition to the pilot, we also surveyed all teachers K2 in order to collect feedback on the implementation process and we also engaged teachers in uh professional discussions throughout the piloting experience on some of our institute days regarding how the pilot was going, what their thoughts were, how it connected with uh SAVIS, my view, because those are two things that they're going to have to do in conjunction. It's not one over the other, but how do they fit together? the reading comprehension of SAVIS curriculum that we have in addition to the early literacy whether it was UF fly or benchmark. Yep. Uh just maybe for the audience or parents when you say um SAVIS is on reading comprehension that's a different part of of reading. Yeah, I got a slide for you. I got a slide for you. Okay. Okay. Hang tight. I got a slide for you.
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So August 11th Yep. That's the Monday. I'm sorry. That's the Monday, the week before. Monday, August the 11th, and then keep the board meeting for August 25th. Yeah. So, we'll skip a week. We'll have a week in between. Yep. Is everybody good with that? Is that going to give you enough time to turn numbers around? It's a twoe gap between the 28th and the 11th. Is that Mr. Sheepard? Is that going to be okay or is that I'm going to give you the uh the typical attorney response? It depends. Uh but we will do our best to get the uh the reports to the board. However, if they aren't available, we'll do what we've done in the past and I'll provide a write up your board packet and present the treasures report at the board. As long as you're comfortable with that switch and it's not going to impede your your folks, then I'm good with it.
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Uh and then the uh other amounts which is it when you look at it it's basically split half and half between uh lunch fees and the the reimbursements uh between those those have been more than enough to pay for the food service program. You know I'm trying to think of how to ask it like um is it even out because of like the quality of food that they're serving and buying? cuz like I look at like their sample menu online and it doesn't look anything like ours. Like it's way nicer than like what ours look like. Um and I'm just curious like it's organic life but as far as I know isn't like nothing organic. So like is that it's I think it's like a little misleading of ways to say that it's organic life and like is if we give better quality food maybe organic food or even like more fresh vegetables instead of frozen stuff is that going to raise our price?
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Yeah. I Is that right? Yeah. I think that it it is. I mean, I won't say summer school is fun for any child wanting to do it, but I I will say that we're trying to offer um incentives like STEM camps. We're working with the University of Illinois right now to um so that it doesn't seem punitive. Um our students set goals, so they have their goal setting conversations with their teachers. They have those goal conversations um with their parents. um they're constantly updating and making reflections on how they're going to um do better. And again, historically as a district, what we know um is that our kids tend to um trend lower, but the lower uh the longer they stay with us and work with us, they grow with us. Okay. And I'm not I'm not uh trying to jump on Jel or anything.
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Base is loaded. One out. Hop puts another run on the board. That ball's low. Good job by Lame to stop that one. You definitely don't want a pass ball here. Give him a free run. Comes a little bit high. Two balls, no strikes. Tough situation for Pelak to be in, but he's gotten himself out of these before. So, see if he can do it again here. Pitch is high for a walk. Thought it was three balls, but I guess it was four balls. All right, coach is coming out to the mound again. That's going to be it for Pasalaka. Did a great job. Brought him all the way into the one out in the fourth inning. Let's see who's going to come in and pitch next. Ryan Posak looked good. He had a good good mix of pitches. He had a, you know, pretty good fast ball.
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I will say as a team, they're exceptional uh members of our administrative team who uh 52 years that I've been in this business, I'm highly impressed with the way they connect and work together as a team and have and are making a difference in in not only the the climate and culture of the school, but the performance of teachers and as a result is helping students learn and uh achieve at a higher level. So I couldn't be more proud of this group. In fact in January um when I was here last I shared how our newly formed administrative team uh was focused on a few things including building a culture of we uh grounded in collaboration uh some clarity and consistent support for our students and staff. Um, at that time, Penny Yoda and Isabelle uh presented on MCCAST's accountability uh in data-driven initiatives uh that were shaping our path forward.
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Your wins may not always be celebrated and your failures may not be celebrated either. You know that quote, you win some, you lose some. People only say that when you win. You do win some and you lose some, but there are wins within your losses. Own those losses and value the lessons that they teach you. As you go out into this world, I want you to notice those constant changes, even in the grass around you as it grows, in the trees, in the forests, in those gray buildings downtown. Notice those little pieces of art on the sides of those buildings. In the morning, look yourself in the mirror and give yourself a high five. When you are present, be present. I acknowledge you and I recognize your dreams. The dreams aren't only there when you're sleeping. Every moment is a dream. You don't have to be someone and you don't have to be something.
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It's clear from this story that this girl is gritty. This girl is strong. This girl is someone who will do anything it takes to win. This girl is, of course, the great Elelliana Irene Morgan. All [Applause] right, now for the boys. The first week of PE, this class's sixth grade year, I knew something was different about this group of boys. Not only were they already just about as big, fast, and strong as that year's eighth graders, but they also treated PE as if it was warfare. In fact, during my very first unit of the year, flag football, I had to deter a fight in the locker room and help someone stop crying because he lost. Later in the year, Mr. Lean, being a former PE teacher and way more creative or maybe brave than me, bought a glow-in-the-dark basketball and told me he used to let his students play basketball in the dark back in the day.
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I think I ended up with 83 one year. Um emo that takes care of our salaries and benefits 83% of those. We also pay salaries and benefits out of those grant funds. Um that maintenance and operation fund pays for the supplies, consumables, purchase services, repairs, and maintenance. Our classroom site fund is an additional butt of money um for teacher pay. It's also regulated. It pays for the performance pay plan and u also a portion of teacher salaries only. We have unrestricted capital and district additional assistance. This is part of that funding formula that I showed you at the beginning. Um, and as we discussed, it is insufficient to build or maintain schools. Uh, the dollars that we get, I I don't know that that would even buy all of the desks and chairs that I would need for one school. our instructional improvement dollars. And I do have the statutory references in the slide presentation if you want to have some fun reading um downtime, maybe some summer reading.
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Sorry. Well done. All right. What was your time, champion? Uh 586. 586 in the 400. 400. Yes. 400. And how high did you jump? 6'2. 6'2. How tall are you? 63. 64. That just puts things in perspective. If you said 5'8 like me, I wouldn't have been impressed. But look at you. Ladies and gentlemen, again, Mosquite. Hi. You want to say anything? I just like uh just acknowledge I'm a first year coach here for Gilbert and I have a buddy of mine who's a first year coach at Jacob Rudder over there and I know another first year coach uh over from Camp Overian. Just right on for the first year coaches. Right on. Well done. If you guys would shake hands and we'll take a picture. Yeah, you can shuffle to the back. Kind of move in around you. Are we smiling? [Music] Let all the mamas and friends take their pictures.
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As you step forward into a world brimming with opportunities, remember this. Do not accept the limitations and stereotypes placed on you. Embrace your individuality. Break the norm. Lead by example and become the best version of yourself. In this journey, always keep in mind that you are not here to be, you are here to become. Whether we go on to become the next generation of doctors, lawyers, or teachers, together we find ourselves facing the reality that we are the co-creators of our life experiences, writing our own stories with courage and passion. As we stand tall to face this new reality, I want us all to take a moment to appreciate the people who have supported us along the way. Those who have stood by us, watched us grow, and guided us through struggles and triumphs.
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