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[Music] Hello, I'm Quinn Kellis, Superintendent of Madison School District and this is a Madison Minute. In this episode I'd like to give a quick update on the construction projects that we have going on around the district. First of all, congratulations to all the students and staff at Madison Simis. You're in a brand new school! And it is beautiful! Also coming up we have in the next, about two years, will be Madison Meadows construction. Right now it is in the design phase. The Madison Park Student Commons is a wonderful new facility that is being constructed right now. It should be completed by about October. That will be a nice new dining facility for the students at Madison Park Middle School. And then we have our Madison Performing Arts Center, which is being designed and construction is expected to be completed by 2018. Thank you again to our voters and thank you all for your patience during this time of construction as we keep on growing.
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[Music] Hello, I'm Quinn Kellis, Superintendent of Madison School District, and this is a Madison Minute. Today I'd like to talk a little bit about the AzMERIT scores. As you may be familiar with, AzMERIT is a state assessment that is given to all students throughout the state of Arizona. This test was given in April this year. We are very pleased with how we compared to the state and most of the districts in Arizona, by doing much better than most. It's important to know that the AzMERIT scores are just one assessment in many measures that determine a student's academic success. Madison uses other assessments to determine how well students are growing. If you have questions about your student's specific AzMERIT scores, I would encourage you to please talk to your principal. Thank you very much and have a great day! [Music]
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Hello, I'm Quinn Kellis, Superintendent of the Madison School District, and this is a Madison Minute. Welcome back to school! This year we have some new things coming into the schools with the adoption of the curriculum of Language Arts and Math. Also, just a quick reminder: school starts on Monday, August 8. Be sure to look for the Madison Scene which is the newsletter that goes out to every home. Make sure that you check on the dress codes, on materials and any other things that will help to have a good experience on the first day at school. We have some new things coming into our schools with computers. Every school has received and allocation of laptops, but that's quite enough, so students can bring their own devices if they wish. And there's plenty of volunteering opportunities. If you would like to volunteer for your school, please check with your principal to find out how you can submit your application.
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by the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation individually we have any nominations for second yes for yes except for yeses in one thank you and we not to vice-president do we have any how much done when she went this one yes baby sis and the third officer is for clerk you have any nominations I nominate a caution yes okay again thank you very much for the ability and the opportunity to serve in this role it has been very humbling and very challenging over this past year I've learned a lot I and I think that equally we are in cohesively we are one unit we are 20% the logo and in my opinion my role as work president is not any different and then the board member and vice president we equally have our opinions and that's what makes us great and I'm very proud of this part of the work that we have done in the last year and I am very eager to get back to work thank you very much okay now we're moving on to 5.0 recognitions and awards we do have a new student board member and that is from high school so we're gonna give you the Florida we wanted to hear a little bit about about you told Mike please do not be shy this is a great opportunity we love speed an input air here works on behalf of you so please I was and it's pretty cool to be like this yeah [Applause] we will I will turn to you and ask you for your preferential vote so it is at that point that you can if you have any questions whatsoever please feel free to ask questions let us know your opinion we need that okay so now we're moving onto my way to this is recognition or reduce on high school marching band evening as you are lower we have an outstanding music education program in this district beginning in elementary school and middle school and culminating in high school and tonight we have an opportunity we'd like to recognize both the Azusa and Gladstone high school marching bands or their outstanding achievements during the 2017 marching season and what I would like to do is tell you a little bit about some of the awards and we'll start with the dues of high school first I'll tell you the recognitions that they have to achieve and I will invite the band directors to come forward and bring their their student leadership our drum majors and our leadership students to come to the podium to thank you words so Zuza high school this year it's very exciting they enter the Southern California school band and orchestra Association championships in the 3a division there are 27 groups that decision and Azusa High School placed sixth place in with the championships and they were up six places from last year they also received first place in the three division at the Ramona field tournaments their percussion was awarded first place at the South Hills field tournament and overall Azusa high school finished their season with the highest score from the past two years right our band director at Azusa high school mr.
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We have a school that's all about innovation and all about creating and doing things just slightly different. We get to know what we want to be when we grow up and it gives us an idea. It gives me a lot of opportunities to choose different careers and learn different skills. Our vision statement here at Madison Park is to cultivate and empower innovative leaders of tomorrow. And I think the "A" in STEAM, that "arts" is how we do that. It's one thing to teach someone the skills and how to solve a problem, but to be able to do it in a creative, unique, well thought out and designed way, that's where the arts really teach them those skills to apply what they're learning in other contents. I think arts are important because art can be found in all careers. My favorite thing is kind of unbounding students.
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Bill Fritz to come to the podium and then bring his students up here and introduce them in the other one I thank you for allowing us to be here tonight and for recognizing as our program it means a lot to us makes the kids happy of course so tonight we have some leadership it was just high school first our to throw majors our lead ladies sort of speak Ashley for Edison case for very our food captains our Woodman captain Joey Mia and our brass captain Michael Rodriguez [Applause] Vinny Perez absolutely actually Ashley Ashley's brother position is dissolved behind the scenes work so he did a fantastic job work a good team of Lobos of eight kids on a manager a general team they did a fantastic job so great job you guys on a great season and then I'll be moving to all of our spring stuff and Jazz Band contraband and it's just still full steam ahead of this kids are practicing every single day you're on the campus of Azusa High School for sure you're going to be hearing instruments being played so that's the best encouragement of us the way it goes so thank you very very much so I like to use District Board of Education and recognize this is a high school marching band so their outstanding achievement during the 2017 marching season presenting this 12th day of December of 2017 signed by dr.
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Allowing them the tools of the future to create things that no one has thought of. They have so much potential to see what they can create. My favorite part about teaching STEAM is the questions the students ask. They are curious and I enjoy hearing what they wonder about and being able to guide them to new discoveries. At Madison Park there's this feeling of community. I think my favorite thing about Madison Park really has to be my ability to just be at home. Like, here, all the teachers are super nice. Friendly environment. We have fun while learning. Everybody just really wants to see the students benefit because we know that we'll be passing the world down to them and they'll be guiding our future. When I grow up I want to be a doctor. A veterinarian. I've always wanted to be a materials engineer. [Music]
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min to Kaminsky and present my work president Helen got a meal any parents here it'll be sad you know I know they're the ones that have wait for the kids to come home and go to my big one take a picture [Applause] Gladstone high school this year they entered the Mayfair competition and they received first place orbán Capistrano Valley competition and also received first place for van gorgiano competition second place band first place percussion sound Taylor's competition first place band also in the California state banks championships in their division there are 28 bands in the semi-finals they placed fourth and in the finals they placed fifth congratulations LA County Fair this fall as well and so now I would like to invite Joseph Calderon who is our band director at mudstone high school to come to the podium and introduce his leadership students as well thank you board for recognizing us the band of the kids and the program they work extremely hard and I know mr.
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Fritz and myself continue to push them and set the bar higher and higher and like you said it doesn't slow down it just changes season and right now we're in our concert season or jasmine our being ready for festival to the string and our festivals for our concert programs if you guys are they don't know we do have our holiday weather concert on December 20th which is Wednesday at 7 o'clock at the school again we'd like to thank the board for recognizing our students and all the hard work they're they're the first ones there is no period and a lot of times with the last ones to leave we just left sectionals getting ready for a holiday concert about an hour and a half ago so I'm just solving and longing to do good so I come out next next week enjoying the program getting to the quality of festivities by listening to some great music jazz music [Applause] what is education here boys recognizes Rustom high school marching band for their outstanding achievement during the 2017 marching season presenting this 12th day of December 2017 signed by dr.
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Linda Kaminsky superintendent and president [Applause] especially focus cumbia you need to be there they do go back back here multiple planning even in practice and there they're always good they do a fantastic I heard both of you at the band's this is high and last early in the year and I wanted to Kristen have the events early through and beginning of the school year when you you have the new trailers for taking all your equipment but I wanted to bring you guys back and elebrate you in and unfortunately the band director said wait wait wait till the end after they've earned all of their recognitions and you guys were right you've done such a great job worked really hard I'm very very happy for you thank you surprise tonight we definitely want to take the time to recognize a couple people dr.
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Linda Kaminsky was recently recognized by the Los Angeles County of education as their superintendent of the year their first ever out of 21 superintendents she was selected and and we were there the question Yolanda and myself we were able to attend the ceremony and it was it was very special to see that to see that kind of leadership out there amongst amongst other school districts that says a lot for our school district oh please thank you first of all congratulations to the band members from Azusa blasto high school and your teachers and outstanding achievements good evening members of the governing board administration and guests my name is Mike Kendricks I'm the superintendent of Charter Oak Unified School District I'm also a longtime member of the board of directors for the California ased I'm here tonight on behalf of California ASCD Board of Directors to present dr. Kaminsky with the outstanding instructional leader award for 2017 the award is designed to acknowledge and honor educators who have made significant contributions to student learning and to influencing and advocating for professional growth and instructional leadership dr.
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obtain Oh mrs. Rodriguez opinion and many others nominated endorsed and endorsed dr. Chris Kaminski for this award dr. Kaminsky has been extremely valuable member of the board of directors for California ased and is also well known throughout California for monatomic with AXA she's been involved in local regional and statewide efforts to improve curriculum instruction and assessment for students and educators for many years she has also been a legislative advocate for local statewide issues it's my honor and privilege to present this award tonight and it's awesome and my privilege to work with month later for many years of various organizations committees and projects congratulations dr. Kaminsky for your well-deserved recognition [Applause] one more thing when we break and I do have to mention this because this is really important as well we just recently got back from the California School Board Association conference annual conference and and I'm so just honored to work with this human being that you know you this work doesn't stop here I mean when you when you see four members advocating again at the state level at the national level being a voice not just for this district but further for other school districts and students everywhere Sheila those photons was recently was recently voted in as vice president of California School Board Association [Applause] so anyway we so right we're getting attention in Greek there are some transcripts out of the dock so please feel free and website and and have some treats and pay yourself for a little bit and we'll be back at 7:00 how about 7:30 - thank you
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[Music] [Students in unison] Try It Tuesday! Hi everyone, my name is Lauren Kemmer. I am the cafeteria manager here at Simis. And I'm also a registered dietician. Today we are featuring "Try it Tuesday." And "Try It Tuesday" is basically, we have the kids try new food. And today we are doing several. We are doing dragonfruit, which looks like this. And actually the outside looks so cool! Super pink and the cool thing about dragonfruit is that it helps your eyes and your bones. The second fruit we're doing today is rambutan. It's a, it almost looks like a sea urchin. And the benefit to rambutan is it softens your skin. It tastes really sweet. It's not mild like dragonfruit, but it's also more of the exotic fruits that we have here. And then we are also featuring blood oranges as well as grapefruit today, which are great for our immune systems.
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[Music] Every student here at Simis is an IB student. And it's really a way of learning, a philosophy. Students naturally wonder and they're curious and so we want our students to, we encourage that wondering. The IB framework is designed in such as way that the skills they gain through inquiry, through collaboration, through problem solving and constructing knowledge, those are skills they'll take with them into their careers and ultimately into the world. The teacher poses a big question, related to a concept. For example, we just did one where the big question was, who has the better life: invertebrates or vertebrates? And without teaching those two concepts, my students went on devices or looked in books and they taught themselves what vertebrates are and what invertebrates are, and then they were able to form their opinion after researching. We help them learn how to design their own questions, so that they're not just accepting answers.
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[Music] The visual and performing arts are important because they give students the chance to use what they are learning in the academic classroom and apply that to real life activities. Whether it's adding math into their shapes and geometry into their artwork or learning how to use their speaking skills and reading skills in theater class, it lets them use what they are doing in their regular general ed class in a different way, which I think helps them understand it more and helps them excel in school. Research has shown that students that do well and are exposed to subject areas such as music, and dance, and the arts do well academically. Because it really is a balance between the two hemispheres of the brain. And by leveraging the strengths of students we are able to see them take off and grow to a whole new level. The rhythm part is where mathmatics joins with music.
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Um, it's really good! So, the dragonfruit, it tastes like a kiwi but white and it has a little less flavor, but its really good! [Music]
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There's no yes or no answers anymore. Students here are learning by making connections and then also to think deeper. So, not just that surface level, ok, here's the answer, but why is that the answer and how does that connect to them personally. At Simis we teach the whole child. We care about every part of them from their social well-being, their emotional well-being, their academic well-being. We know that the whole picture matters. So, there are 10 words, 10 attributes and you see them posted around campus as a reminder to all of us of really character traits. Kids are learning what those words mean and then personally how can they become those attributes. I would describe myself as knowledgeable, um, and inquirer. I work really hard and I dig deep. I would describe myself as a strong learner. Caring because I have lots of friends and I care for them and people really think I'm nice and funny!
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