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We want the parents to know and it's not just sitting down and telling them our discourse. I want parents to leave there fully understanding how their child is performing academically. And that's important to me and that's important to our staff. Another thing, you know, our whole assemblies, the slide before showed you how we had an astronaut come over. I still have parents emailing, "Can I please have the email of that astronaut cuz my kid kids talking about it and I want to email to this ex they love the experience. And the last one is this year I partnered with a company I got I forgot their name. I'm sorry about that. But we were able to give a coat to every one of our students back in December. And every student had a coat, brand new coat. Next slide, please. And like I mentioned before, back in 2025 we were one of the schools of distinction here in Danbury and that's a great big honor.
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Dr. McCquiry, he went and um hiked with them, which was really cool. Um, and then the other uh one is two pictures from our raft session. We had a ton of staff members. I believe it was 50 staff members total. They went over to Raft. They went into groups or teams and they created um their own experiments, their own they you know piloted some of their own ideas and then they presented those and then they were given an opportunity to uh shop in raft. After that, for our split sessions, again, this is not all of our split split sessions, but for session A, we had things such as yoga, drum circle, drawing, what's new in children's literature, and implementing Tekken centers. And there's a picture from each of those. Although again, those were one of 25 different sessions. We had a big variety. Um, I will say, uh, walking into every one of the sessions, my biggest aha and my biggest, um, I think pat on the back for all of our presenters is that even though it was yoga, even though it was drum circle, even though it might have been drawing, every single presenter brought that back to either anal strategy, um, uh, social emotional, a team building strategy, whether it's making friends, whether it's collaboration amongst teachers, um, but every single one wasn't just though it was a feel-good, it wasn't just a feel-good.
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This month, member of the month is so special to me and we are so honored to celebrate Wendy Billingsley. Office manager from John McManus. Wendy is the person any new elementary office manager goes to for help and we are so blessed to have her. Wendy was nominated by Elizabeth Dean who said Wendy is an exceptional and outstanding employee. She goes above and beyond every day to help students, staff and families thrive at McManus. Wendy always treats everyone with kindness and takes the time to make sure every need is taken care of in the office and throughout our school. Wendy truly is the glue that holds Will McManus together. I'm extremely lucky to have her as my co-worker and friend. Wendy said she started working for Chico Unified in 1999 and she has worked at Citrus, Chapman and McManus Elementary. Wendy said there are so many reasons why I love my job.
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Last year, Aaho High School seniors placed in the top three of the Better Business Bureau Ethics video conference, which set a strong example for us. This year, we were excited to continue that tradition by participating, sharing our experiences, and representing Aqua Pride. Experiences like Eller ethics form reminded us that ethics isn't just something we learn about in school. It's something we practice through our decisions, our leadership, and the way we treat others every day. Thank you for supporting opportunities that allow students from local high school to grow as leaders and represent our community. Mr. Friends and members of the board, we have an outstanding group of Aaho High School student leaders led by their dedicated student council advisor, Mr. Fernandez, who I was told it's her birthday today. >> 12 council leaders recommended Aaho High School at the University of Arizona Albert College of Management High School Ethics Forum organized by Dr.
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um the ability to get equipment along the gym floor. You could hit the north and south areas on the actual floor if we protect the floor and get up going that way. You still have to drop the duck socks, but um along the sides, you got to get above the stairwells. So, that's scaffolding at a minimum. And then on the east and west walls where your bleachers are, those bleachers walk back. Um, and the rail, there was a couple removable sections of rails previously, which are no longer removable from the last project we did. So, getting equipment up on either side on the east and west is a difficulty as well. I mean, we could always remove a piece of rail, but >> then you got to remove bleachers, too, right? >> Yeah. Well, then the bleachers come forward, so we'd have to walk the bleachers back just to get a piece of equipment on there, get the equipment around.
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With that, does anybody have any questions that you'd like to ask? ask any burning questions. I know there's going to be some other presenters, too, and I'm the boring one because I get to talk about all the boring legal stuff. All right. Well, we'll move it on to the whoever is going to be next, and I'll turn the show back over to you here, Levi. >> Thank you, Michelle. Appreciate it. >> All right. Give it. So, yeah, our next presenter is Dr. Chad Cruz. So, I just met Chad today. We've talked several times now, so um I didn't have to give him a tour since he is a graduate of Clinton Central. Um so, very cool to have Chad here. Um former police officer, school resource officer, school administrator, and now works uh for the office of school safety with the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.
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It basically leaves you uh invincible for a short period of time. And if you move a direction when you press the shield button, then that's what's known as a directional air dodge. Nest did that right there, but Deacon was able to capitalize it since it does have a lot of lag. It does make you invincible, but at the cost but at the cost of making it so it's hard to stay invincible, I guess. Has a lot of lag, as what's known. All right, looks like the co-main managed to survive Nessa's onslaught, I tell you. Oh, yeah. Using plenty of ice into a hammer. Woo! It even caught even caught him in an iceberg, I tell you. Oh, boy. >> This seems very strategic when you have you practice that during the week. all of these moves and different characters. >> Yeah, you can practice it during the week and you can even practice it at home.
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So that way we can um identify some underlying barriers that might be um preventing them from attending more. And that way we can match that with more um appropriate interventions to be able to support um improved attendance um because that helps um the whole child, their academics and everything. Um we also do a lot of celebrations for attendants that are going well or improved or um perfect attendance. Um so we have monthly celebrations to um celebrate those students that um have been attending well that have good behavior. We've done a lot of fun things like popsicles or extra recess and just different fun things that make them want to have to come to school. Um, and make it enjoyable and celebrate their accomplishments as well. Um, and then we also do a public recognition. They get a perfect attendance certificate and in the morning ceremonies that we have every morning.
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Um Lexi, you told me a story one time. I shouldn't even call it a story. It was a terrible experience about you and your daughter being out in the car one day. Can you walk us through what that experience was? I is that with trying to remember which which incident we had at the stoplight. >> Oh yeah. I was coming back from dance. The smart meter had been installed and it had been on the house for a while and I was coming coming home and the light ahead of me changed and for the life of me I couldn't remember what I was supposed to do. I didn't know if green meant go or stop. And I panicked. I just panicked. I went through that light thinking, hoping, praying. Green really did mean go. But I um just Yeah. My the what the effects on my my brain were intense.
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So, we have two groups, one from each team, um who are going to present on a courtyard uh project that they did. So, first up, from Miss D'Ignazio's class, I and Isabella. Hello, ladies. How many want to switch? This is our AMS Courtyard project. Table of contents. So, I'm going to be talking about some topics that we're going to talk about. One, about the project. Two, our goals for the project. Three, requirements. Four, design ideas. Five, scale drawing. Six, location of the design. Seven, 3D model. Eight, conclusion. About the project. We are redesigning the AMS Courtyard to have a more welcoming place for all students in the school. First, we had to take measurements of the existing courtyard. Then, draw scale drawing of the courtyard. Then, research and create the new design. And lastly, we had to create a 3D model. Our goals for this project.
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And just to give you a sense of some of the you know we're we're not just focused on overall the school but also some of our subgroups to make sure that we're really uh understand what's going on. And so like for instance, our eel group population was at 52% last year chronic and they're down to 33. You know, our Latino students were at 59% last year down to 40. So some big chunks we to go, but just making some really good progress with that and we're just excited about what's what we're seeing come out of that. Um we're also we've worked on implementing map testing. We had for eighth grade, we now moved that up to 9th and 10th. And so the impact we're having already, we saw just looking at winter um report from last year to this year. Last year they're at 38% in ELA proficient.
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And just to give you a sense of some of the you know, we're we're not just focused on overall the school, but also some of our subgroups to make sure that we're really understand what's going on and so like for instance our EL group population was at 52% last year chronic and they're down to 33. You know, our Latino students were at 59% last year down to 40. So some big chunks that we have ways to go, but just making some really good progress with that and we're just excited about what's what we're seeing come out of that. We're also we've worked on implementing MAP testing we had for eighth grade. We now moved that up to ninth and 10th. And so the impact we're having already we saw just looking at winter um report from last year to this year. Last year they're at 38% in ELA proficient.
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And last but not least I have a little story to share with you as a closing. This is Mrs. Battaglia back in 20 20 2010. She was a second grade teacher in South Street School. And there you see Mariana Gualberto a second grade student. That was back in 2020. Next slide, please. This is Mrs. Battaglia back in now in 2025 and that is Mariana Gualberto. She is currently her intern for the whole year. She's studying to be a teacher and she is back with her second grade teacher who's now a fifth grade teacher and who is instructing her now to be a teacher. And it's pretty exciting. It happened by coincidence but it is a beautiful story. That's why we do what we do. To make a difference. She still had the picture of when that little girl was was second grader and there they are today.
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There was strategies connected to every single one. The second part of that session uh was session B. Again, this is not all of them, but we had AAC for classrooms, which we had one of our SLPs teaching our uh paras as well as staff members how to set up the AAC devices for our um kiddos who need additional support uh for speech and making their job easier by knowing how to pre-plan those. We also had readers theater and how to make a weather station, which was very cool. Um, the weather station was actually um, it was hosted by two teachers, but it was in conjunction with a project that's happening at San Jose State. Our PD feedback, we got great feedback. Um, I don't want to read all of it, but you guys can take a look at it. Um, really positive feedback. We got some good ideas for next year.
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I work with the most amazing people who care so much about our students success and have become family to me. I love getting to know our students and their individual personalities. Many come back to visit and I love that they share what they've been up to and that I'm able to watch them grow into young adults. I've now been with the district long enough that I have previous students coming into enroll their own children into kindergarten. Kim Hernandez said that Wendy works hard to serve her students, families and staff. She gives 100% of her time all the time and never turns anyone away who needs help. She truly loves her job and it shows. Will Melinda McCauley said there's a reason everyone comes to Wendy. She always has the answers, care about solutions and never makes anyone feel like their question is too small. Her dedication goes beyond job descriptions.
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Paul Melendez, distinguished professor of ethics and organizational theory on February 6th at UVA. They were presented with case studies where they had to make decisions and ethics played a critical role in their decision-making outcomes. Morgan Condras and Noel Williams presented to the entire group of over 200 Southern Arizona high school students from Tucson Unified School District Ngala South Point Catholic in Phoenix. Kelli Mendes and Princess Montes received recognition from the Better Business Bureau CEO Aria and I believe the rest of the students participated in answering ethics questions on video from the Better Business Bureau. This is truly a historic moment in our district's history as these 12 students were part of the biggest group in attendance of any high school in southern Arizona and we want to recognize them with a certificate with with the plaque. So I'm going to call their names and Miss Fernandez and Miss Marcy are going to welcome them up here and just shake their hand and they're going to go and stand.
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So, there may be ways to go around it. The proposal or the budget I sent is scaffolding the entire gym. And that's essentially, you know, you're $150,000 in before you even begin to touch the walls just erecting scaffolding and taking scaffolding down and protecting finishes and dropping duct socks. Um, so we can get creative and maybe maybe it's more cost effective to remove some railing, get equipment up there, use equipment where we can on the gym floor, but at the same time, you know, you want to limit the weight on the gym floor as well. It's brand new. So, um, in my opinion, that's kind of a worst case. budget provided it's kind of a worst case scenario in terms of all the initial work that has to be done to access that area. Um that that's where most of the cost is on this thing is just on access.
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I I'll let you tell us what all those titles are or whatever they mean, but uh appreciate Chad being here tonight. So, >> no, thank you so much for having me here. Uh it's always good to come back to Clinton County, come back home. There's some people I've seen I went to high school with here, some people I've known. Um you go north three miles, that's where I grew up. So, uh very very uh familiar with the area, what's going on in kind of the area. Um, so it's always a pleasure to come back. Let me tell you that I am very thankful that this was put together. This is not common across the state of Indiana. So, thank you for putting this on. Um, I greatly, greatly appreciate it. Okay. down. Oh, I'm sorry. All right. So, as I'm a deputy director of the Indie Alpha School Safety, um that means that I have three employees that are underneath me, we go across the state to schools to make sure that they are compliant with what is required under Indiana code.
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>> Mhm. >> All right. So, yeah, Nest using Nest using his recovery, which if you don't know, it's basically where you take his thunder and you Oh. Oh, charging up an up smash and does it one more time for good measure, even though Deacon wasn't even on the stage. >> Oh, boy. Oh, and he grabs Deacon again. Tries for an forward air, but misses. That's good. Oh, does it again. Oh, okay. Look at that. Quite a good showing from Deacon. And as you can tell by the stalks, we are now quite a bit ahead, actually. Five stalks to our enemies three. That is a really good That's a really good uh ratio to have, I tell you. >> That's awesome. >> Mhm. Definitely awesome. Alrighty. That is That is really good to hear. That's really good to see as well. >> I wonder who they're gonna counterpick.
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Um, once a month we'll present that morning certifi or the perfect attendance certificate. We'll take their picture. We get to post it online so the families can see it too. um just to be able to get that sense of pride and um that they are you know having that um positive um attendance too. Um so we also are looking for more future things that we want to be able to do to improve um our our support for our um um students in their engagement and their um school attendance um and how that will impact um their whole um self at school. um shifting our language from a truency to more of that supportive um system as well and looking at different other system things that we can do to support them. >> One thing that Nicole left off that I'm that I'm very proud of is um Ruckers Ridge is piloting um the parent square attendance plus that that we have available to us and we're going to find more effective ways to track attendance.
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