It's a one-stop shop for all things curricular. So that way any new teacher that comes in, they say, "Well, what am I supposed to be teaching?" under curriculum resources, they can go to their particular content area, their grade level, and right there the curriculum maps will pop up for them. Um, so that way it drives that cohesion across the district. So we provided a new page under professional learning. It says what's coming 2526. And so what you're seeing are links there available to all the teachers that give them access to start learning ahead of time for those that want to learn ahead of time. Those that do not, we will make sure to provide professional learning when they come back. But we're trying to uh fit the needs of both teachers. So to your question, Miss Jelly, the image on the right explains the difference.
they really liked it and they they came and they showed us great work and it was it was very cool to see and I like that and I like that teachers are getting to um try different things and you can really tell that the students were engaged. So um and and yes the creativity was amazing. So I want to thank the Dear Path families, Dr. Rig and uh Mr. Gibbert for presenting that to us and welcome Bridget Sandlin to our board. Next up, not to put any pressure on you, Miss M Miss Mrs. Miss Sandlin.
Um, it's something we can uh definitely evaluate with them um to see if we can incorporate menu choices that uh um are not only healthier but also something that uh uh is going to continue to uh help fund our our program. That's what I'm curious and I hate to be such like a punk but like I feel like a common conversation all the time when new people are coming into the district is like what is actually organic? Like, can we actually have something on our website? Like, when you click on our menus, like these are going to be organic apples or nope, there's actually nothing organic. Like, let's at least be honest about it instead of like having mom's chatter back and forth because we do. So, just curious. I can bring that feedback uh back to organic life. Sorry to be so blunt, but no, I I don't think you're being a punk.
Let's do that. Okay. Okay. I personally think that that's I I would like I mean maybe I say I would like to see what your temp I don't need to see. I think we talk about being on the dance floor every time, all the time. I think that we have never had really had major complaints when it comes to summer school. Um, and maybe you can show us what you do. You do what you tell whatever he requests. Absolutely. And that's I guess you know we're talking about best practices. Alex is saying that he's seeing be best practices out there and if he does let's get them. Let's compare to say hey this is good idea. There's nothing wrong with doing best practices. Absolutely. I do want to say for speed though, there is considered an extended school year and that goes in a child's IEP and so that planning does look different than what we're offering to our students.
Get it before any damage is done. So we get two balls, one strike. That ball's hit well out to right field. Right fielder. Great job. Got a beat on that one. Moved around. Got himself behind it. Great catch out there in right field. Able to get out of that inning. That ball was well struck. That was deep into right field. was a uh great hit. I've seen a couple of home runs here. Not many right fielders uh fence out. It's out there pretty far, but it's been done. So, three runs scored there at the top of the fourth inning puts Hton up four to one, I believe. gets out, takes the field, throw the ball around. Brooks is still in the mount. He's doing a good job. No reason to pull him out. Right. Catch her threw down the second. So, we're going to get ready to start at the bottom of the fourth inning here.
Um, so that's really that's how we all work together. Um, again, students um, you know, I've I've seen in other districts um, frankly that they're um, people can get kind of drawn to different areas of focus. We always make sure we are centered on the kids. Um and how do we do this? So this is our approach. We don't believe in making decisions in a vacuum. Um we do not know everything. Um it's important that all of the perspectives are um considered when we're making big decisions. So we have this feedback that we do. So, um, we have our instructional admin team, our executive leadership team, but we're also we have our coaches, we have our data information team, the full staff and student body. So, we do when we're putting together either a new project or we're or we're trying to improve something that's not going quite right, um, we go through this whole loop to make sure that, um, what we're going to do is actually going to be um, have an impact.
He was also involved with the 2024 and last year the Western States basketball classic tournament which is a deaf tournament and we won the team championship and he was a primary role in us winning that competition. It is my pleasure to introduce Jonathan Luis Munos Jr.
But instead, I will remember him for how he accomplished it. Being a true guy's guy, coaches, player, and someone everyone on this stage I know can't help but love like a brother. It's my honor to introduce this year's top male athlete, Javiero Fernandez. Next is the Deshawn Glover Awards presented by Mrs. Mary Glover. [Applause] Good morning. [Music] Morning. I'm going to kind of do this backwards from what I've done before. I want to say this year I am proud to award the two students that I'm going to name for the Deshan Glover Award. Broy Hiller, do not assassin Ranada. [Music] This award is given by my husband and myself. We set it up back in 2008. My son passed away. Deshawn was a student at contin school always had and had a rough life or start in life. We believed in sec second chances as a family and he believed in that also.
I know that you have a lot on this presentation. I'm going to go faster. Okay. I was like I do want to leave some time for folks to ask questions. I'm going to finish in two minutes. Okay. No problem. It's all important. So, um, we did just discuss our voter approved, uh, bonds and overrides. Again, it's because we don't have those resources coming to us from the state. It's the way that we're able to build schools and support our communities and provide additional facilities and uh so that we can have nice buildings and safe spaces for our students. Um, our next election cycle is going to be in 2026. Uh both of our overrides will be coming up. So we'll be having some more conversations about that with our governing board in the uh upcoming months. We did just recently pass a bond. So we wouldn't be looking to do that again for the next 5 to eight years.
I'm Natalyia Morris. I'm a freshman and I ran the 3200. I'm Chloe Bond. I'm a senior and I won the mile and then I also ran the 800, the 4x8, and the 4x4. Um, I'm Cameron Delansancy. I'm a junior. I run the 800,600, 4x4, and 4x8. I'm Coach Hall and I run the stopwatch and the show. Oh, coach. I'm Coach Odder. I'm the head track and field coach here at Highland. This is my first year like Coach Dawn. Uh, the boys 4x1, just to kind of add some cool things, is they are now the second fastest 4x1 in the history of the state of Arizona. Um, so they're uh they're all coming back next year hoping for a chance to break the state record and cement themselves in history. The girls 4x8 is actually fourtime defending state champ. So this is their fourth consecutive year in a row winning it.
You've navigated through each class, each test, and over the past four years have gone through challenges and growth that only you could understand. Everyone attending tonight is here to celebrate you, especially me. So, I share a quote that resonated with me. There are two most important days in p someone's life. the day you're born and the day you find out why. Tonight is just the beginning and your past does not define your future. And it wouldn't be my speech if I didn't say to choose kindness and be considerate. I believe in each and every one of you to achieve your greatest potential. And I want you to promise that most importantly, you'll believe in yourself. I love you all dearly, and I can't wait for the happiness and love in your future. So go find your why. Thank you. [Applause] During the recessional, we ask that all guests remain in their seats.
They've done a great job and we're very excited about the, uh, new staff that we have coming on. Uh, 5.4 is our payroll and bills. Uh, 5.5 is our acceptance of donations. We have a number of them this month. From stage to Office Depot, Betavia Youth Athletics, Betavia Wrestling Club, the Louise White PTO, the University of Houston, and the Betavia Mother's Club. 5.6 is the destruction of our close session recordings from October 24th, 2023. 5.7 is the authoriz authorization to renew our power school support. Uh 5.8 8 is our uh BHS overnight field trip approval for orchestra and choir. 5.9 is the approval of Red Rover Tech uh for both absent uh management and electronic time tracking system. That's one I know Josh is very excited about. 5.10 is the approval of our school ERP pro subscription. 5.11 is the authorization of renewal of our Microsoft uh volume license agreement.
So when we talk about early literacy instruction, we're talking about phone practice, decoding automaticity, decoding and encoding practice, being able to connect the text to practice. And underneath each of those, there is a definition of what that means cuz I understand that if I just throw out the word decoding and encoding practice, that may not be our everyday vocabulary. So when I say decoding and encoding, it's reinforcing that sound letter relationships through reading and writing. So really when we talk about SAVIS we're talking about here is a book we're reading for the standards the state standards main idea um analyzing um let's say character perspective we're comparison comparing the perspectives maybe we're analyzing the character dialogue maybe we're summarizing that happens in savis you're reading a book and it's what we do naturally when we read our brain just starts processing seeing the information and picking out the main ideas and the details.
Uh, well, I just want to say thank you to everyone um who's reached out and welcomed me and offered to mentor me and um left uh themselves open to me asking any questions. I'm super excited. I have a lot to learn, but with everyone's help, I'm really excited to be here. So, Thank you, Mrs. Salt. Um, I got to finally have a kid participate in the speech tournament, and I know we're going to talk about it next month, but it's my official thank you to District 26 cuz um, her teacher had so much faith in her to give an all Spanish speech, which kids don't do. Um, so that was amazing for her believing in my kid, um, and supporting her and being an awesome coach. So, Miss Cleric, thank you. Um, and also whoever organized it and had the five Spanish speaking judges cuz they could have been English ones and they could have been lost.
I I agree that it's a conversation that people question in the quality of the freshness of I don't know if it's our kitchen situation maybe we don't have a full I don't know right is it that it does have something to like what we but yeah then when I did look at the organic life link it is suotach and squash and green fresh green broccoli and I was like that is definitely Ely, my son won't eat that. But um so that I do get but um that is what I think organic life sounds like you would be getting, right? So um I'd be happy to bring that feedback back to them. Um I meet with them almost on a a quarterly basis at least from the the corporate level and of course our food service director is always here on site. Um, I can I can bring that feedback back to like is it going to raise our prices if we serve better food like more of what they're selling on their website versus what we're selling in our school, you know, and like I think that like I do think going forward it would be nice to tell like put somewhere to parents so you don't get into that, you know, endless chatter of what really is organic and what's coming from a box.
We do have students with IEPs that attend summer school, but extended school year looks a lot different. Yeah. No, this this isn't uh this isn't isn't speed. These are other representatives. So, so apples to apples, that's what we want to compare. Apples to apples. Uh, well, we're the only unit district there at speed. So, there's a lot you can go out and do. There's a lot of like elementary and then high school. So, um, there's separation, but there's nothing wrong with obtaining best practices. And no matter how good we are, we can always get better. And that's what you're just looking for opportunities to get better. Get better. Not saying we're doing bad, but to get better. Yeah, quick question. Um, can you talk about what is credit recovery meaning? I think I know what it means, you know, phonetically, but is it a ninth grade thing?
Up at bat is Cardoso goes from the mound to the plate. First pitch in there for a strike. That's high. Daniel's out 101. That was low for a strike. Swinging a strike. One ball, two strikes. Wow, that's high. Two balls, two strikes. Brooks looks like his uh speed is picking up as the game goes on. able to get under that one. It's a foul. Way out of range of the first baseman. Ball didn't get up very high. Like a slice foul. Two and two. Oh, that ball is low for a strike. One out. Salaka coming off the bat. Looks like top of the order for Ashlin. Strike one. Strike two. That one's inside. One ball. Two strikes. Yeah. Pitchers now at this level, they know that, you know, once you get a running behind, two strikes, you don't throw one down the middle. Try to get try to get them to bite on something around the corners.
Um and something I wanted to highlight too if up there are teacher action teams. So we have um some teacher action teams put together this year um in a few different areas that have been really really important to try to move the work forward. So we have for example our MTSS team um really focused on how we use data um our equitable practices team. So really looking at our equitable grading policy put a policy in place but um I'm sure you all know how it goes. you sometimes you put something in place and it's like all right well what's going on with it how is it working um it's never perfect on the first try so um they really are looking closely at how it's working what tweaks do we need to make etc so that's that piece and then the other piece is we want when we're looking at data we always want to look at multiple data points we cover district and local assessments but you can't make all of your decisions based on just MCCAST for example um we have lots of assessments we look at we have external reports that we look at and we're always gathering data internally like Chad said we're always doing learning walks um and getting that on the ground data as well um this was something we showed last time MTSS um I think you may have heard a little bit about it last year multi-tered systems of of support there's a lot going on there what it really is is it's a framework that helps us think about how can we meet the needs of all of our learners um put pulling them in and out of different supports as needed and having the systems and structures to surrounding them to actually make that learning happen.
[Applause] Good evening everyone. First, I would like to thank everyone for your support of us and I cannot believe that we finished school. I'm going to miss this school. I grew up here. I've been here since kindergarten. And this school is incredibly important for deaf children and their access to education. Time went incredibly fast. I can't believe we're about to go out into the real world. But don't worry, we've got time to step up and prepare for our futures. The whole time I was at PDSD, I felt like it was easier for me than had I gone to public school. All of my teachers were able to help me prepare for the future and my coaches were incredibly helpful as well. They taught me to be a better man. Now, I'd like to talk about my future. I plan to work in construction with my family.
When he was adopted by us, he had chosen chance as his middle name. He was known for his smile, being friendly, caring, and influenced everyone that he knew. Each year, the staff chooses two of the students, and this year she recipented by Miss Simone Knight and Mrs.