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So, we'll have all the students come up and then we'll give out the one last award. What everybody also got. >> You can go right up. So, we actually had two students sneak in. So, the first is Kate Urban, who is part of the group that is now playing for Harmony Winds. >> We also have Latana who's part of our kids team. We're all looking at car raising her hand. Keep moving down this way. >> All right. Look here first. All right. >> Okay, family. It's all you. This is like celebrity. >> Everybody good? Okay. Sure. Let's do that. So the two students that just came in by two students Sorry. What you're Good evening again. The next part of our meeting is public comment. Any members of the public either here in person or online, feel free to identify yourself, come to the microphone and and say whatever it is you'd like to say.
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And when we received a lot of COVID money back in 2020, rather than create a fiscal cliff for ourselves, and I know you probably remember all the communities that were really hurting after the COVID money ran out um and and created a lot of fiscal problems. Our uh philosophy at the time was we're not going to use that money to bounce back, we're going to use that money to bounce forward. That was the the um the presentation at the time. And it was all about how do we, you know, if we hire five people who can all help 40 kids, well, that that helps 200 kids um until the COVID money runs out. But if we use our money to improve instruction for all 400 of our teachers, that helps, you know, the 4,000 plus kids really in perpetuity. So that's where we invested our money is how do we support um PD coaching data analysis at the time we also knew that our enrollment was going to grow which obviously it has significantly and so at the time we invested in um elementary assistant principal support and um that was again designed to focus on professional development coaching data analysis.
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These lessons we've learned from our counselors could not be replicated by anyone else, and they will follow us for the rest of our lives. As we go on to do great things, we will be reminded that a strong support system like the one they created for us will always give us a safe space to fall back on in times of doubt. Now, to wrap this all up, we have one more thank you, and this one is especially important. Thank you to the friends and classmates sitting here today. We started this journey together as nervous freshmen, but the memories we've made over the past four years have transformed us into the people we are today. You all make going to school easier, and you all are the reason for the community that was created in each and every classroom. So, thank you, the class of 2026.
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From our middle school year, we made still have uh $1,673. In total, we have $2,93525. Um what we learned these past this school year um leadership is hard cuz cuz it's like my first time being president for you know student council. So it was like hard to arrange meetings and speak uh publicly and yeah uh planning take takes a lot of time. you know, we got to do a lot of paperwork and make sure approves it and everything. Um, communication is important. Um, we we've communicated with a lot of our classmates and um it was pretty hard um engagement level from our club members. It was it was a bit hard cuz it was um our like first year for student council and everything upcoming fundraisers uh events and goals for the rest of the year is what our next plan Oh, thank you. Thank you guys 100%.
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>> All right. We would like Miss Lesie Inglehard to come up. Miss Inglar was a foundational teacher in our kindergarten for years and years and we were so grateful for the service that she had there and she's been helping out with our EL program this year. So, we're going to let Miss Yanos tell of all the beautiful things that she's done this year to help our school. >> Okay. to understand how great a volunteer I got this year. You need to understand the big problem that Lesie had two years ago. She had to retire and she's like, "What am I going to do with my life if I'm not teaching?" So, this is her passion, what brings happiness to her? And it's just uh great to get to experience that in my classroom have somebody that with a smile just wants to help and that's her moment of happiness and giving and the kids do ask for her if she's not there and just great to have you.
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So, thank you and happy end of the year celebrations. I know I'll be seeing a lot of you from preschool promotion, kinder promotion, fifth grade transition celebration, and eighth grade promotion. So, that concludes Thank you very much. >> Great. With that, we're going to hear >> from the public. So, we have a call to the public. Um, and Kai and Ethan, um, two of our eighth grade civic club members are going to share their experience from Washington. >> And if we can have their parents come up with them also, Nina and dad, and you go up to the podium, please. Would you like to come up to the podium, please? Welcome everybody. My name is Jenna and I have been one of the civic sponsors for the last four years. This year, Mr. Leen attended with me as well as Miss Rico and board member Laura.
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And again, the Sankey graph here illustrates the change that was occurring within first grade. We see that 46 students increased in proficiency. The majority of our students, 326 of them, stayed at the same proficiency level, and 37 students decreased in proficiency. This slide provides for you the three interim measures as well as the uh the school comparisons. So, you can see the percent of students who are working toward um in achieving the goals we have for our interim measures here. And as we continue on, uh Sarabeth will begin explaining to you the plan adjustments and next steps that we committed to and providing you updates. We also want to share that the way it'll work is Sarabeth will do the the next few slides with the plan adjustments next steps, and then we did receive um questions from you from the board. So, we will alternate in um providing those responses.
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>> [applause] >> How are you? Good. Is there anybody else you need to bring out? You good? >> Are we talking tennis or are we talking the sportsmanship >> we're talking sportsmanship. You're good? You're good. Attaboy. Just a huge congratulations to Gilbert Classical Academy. Your school has been selected as the recipient of the 2A Glenn Treadaway Sportsmanship Award. An honor recognizing your school's dedication, talent, hard work, and commitment to true sportsmanship. This award was determined by members of the officiating officiating community based on observations from the 2026 school year. I need you guys to know that we honor a lot of people and a lot of teams for winning championships. And GCA has won their share of championships as well. But one of the most prestigious awards in my mind is this sportsmanship award. It is about how those students and those coaches conduct themselves when they're on the field or on the court and they're in the midst of competition.
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And this also goes out on social media, but I'm going to let Miss Ali talk about this as this was, I think, her uh her brainchild. >> Well, thank you, Dr. Kogan. Thank you for inviting me. Good evening, everyone. Uh so, like Dr. Cogni said, "I uh I'm not really a big social media person, but this bike buzz came through my feed." So, I reached out to a teacher in our building who because I'm thinking, "Oh, this is a great idea." Uh, everybody's why is a little different, but um reached out to a teacher in our building who is a cyclist. She rides her bike to school often. And I said, "Hey, what do you think about this?" And she said, "This has been my dream." And I said, "Okay, well, let's make it happen." So, we got our safety team together. Uh, of course, it's volunteers in the building and, you know, we pitched it to them to see if it was something that they felt like they wanted to do.
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Yeah, but I don't Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's treated the same way as the regular specials in terms of prep period. It's all pulled out by instrument. Yeah. So yeah. But she's proposing that they would get pulled out as a group to practice together as a band. I I just I don't understand logistically how it would happen and I would hate to I don't think we would it I think there's a lot more work that would have to be done before we could say that before I could say that I supported that because I would want to know that it would actually be doing what it's intended to do. I would want to make sure that it would that there would be a way for them to practice. Like currently they practice with Berlin however many times. Would that be able to be accomplished [clears throat] in those hours and I mean I think that's only two practices for each concert.
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Uh we'd ask you to keep your remarks to three minutes or less. Uh and to identify yourself. We not that we're not interested, we will listen very carefully to what you have to say, but since what you're saying is not part of the agenda, uh it will be commenting on it. And we appreciate anything you might have to share. public se if you'd like to make a public comment and I'll call on you by your close. >> Thank you. Uh we'll move on now to administrative reports. First is the chairman's corner. >> Just just one quick item. There was a comment made at a recent meeting regarding the cost of repainting the door was listed at $9,700. Uh that was not accurate. It's actually the re specialized prep and painting of 36 doors. So, each door comes for $270 a piece uh to redo, not $9,700 for one door.
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They work with teachers on intervention planning and I don't think it's an accident that since we've done those things our performance has improved steadily. Um and so when we looked at the current circumstances um excuse me I think uh I have to Heather back in. Okay. Um when we looked at our current circumstances, you know, with Kim retiring, um really thought about how do we sustain our early childhood programs? They're really an exemplar. We're the only birth to three program in Connecticut and we have a tremendous uh early childhood with circle of security. uh is just a model statewide. But how do we also now that our student population is redistributed all across town more in a more balanced way than it's ever been? Make sure that we're supporting all those students. And we also need to do that budget neutral or better. We're not going to be able to uh and nor should we invest more money.
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I feel so lucky to be graduating alongside some of the most exceptional people I know, many of which I can call my best friends. We've all accomplished so much and I hope everyone here is as proud of themselves and of each other as I am. So, as we go on to this next chapter of our lives, I hope you all remember two things. Everything will work out exactly as it's supposed to. And during this next year of our lives, although it may feel intimidating, we will always have each other to come back to. So, here's to us, class of 2026. Thank you. [applause] Now, please welcome Mr. Dan Hinken, who will highlight the remarkable accomplishments of the class of 2026. [applause] Now, let's turn our attention to our main focus today, the 446 individuals in the Pine Creek High School class of 2026. You may have noticed that they're dressed quite similarly, but a few have notable adornments.
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Uh really appreciate the presentation and I really want to take a a second to acknowledge and thank you for stepping up into leadership. It is very difficult. It's not something that everyone likes to do, but I'm really um exceptionally proud that y'all have stepped up to do it. Um it does take a lot. And I will tell you just from experience even now, this is one meeting a month, but it takes a lot of preparation, a lot of communication and a lot for us to sit here and try to get through much of the agenda in as quick as possible, but also so that everyone understands at the board level. And that is that does take a lot of skill. So, Hayes, Zeb, Julia, Carter, you guys are stepping into the right direction of what your future may be, could be. So, continue to do that.
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So hopefully you continue with the problems. You help me more. Sure. All right. Thank you. That's always the best part of this meeting. It goes downhill from there. But we appreciate everybody that comes and uh is recognized for their efforts, especially the volunteers. That that is an impressive thing. So item uh number two on the agenda is a consent agenda. And uh if there's no objection, I'd like to take item 2.11 2.11 and uh vote on that independently if that's all right with the board. >> All right. So I have a motion to from >> Yeah, I'll move move to approve the consent agenda as stated with the removal of item 2.11. >> Okay, have a second. >> Second from Bridget. Okay, all in favor say I. >> I. That looks to be unanimous. Thank you. Okay. Item 2.11. Um, superintendent recommends that the governing board approve Alex Stevens for the head football coach position and approve a behavioral interventionist sorry position at the junior high school.
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And we actually have two of our chefs in house tonight, Miss Leilani and Mr. Carl. So, I'm gonna have the boys kind of take the lead on this and share their experience because I want all of you who are in here tonight to have something to look forward to your eighth grade year. It's been a tradition at Continental for over 30 years and we hope to continue having it keep going on so our kindergarteners and our eighth graders can be participating in this amazing trip. Um, I I just want to say that it's very worth it going to the uh the eighth grade GC trip. You guys will have a lot of fun and um I recommend being a cha and as a eighth grader leaving the school. I think it was a good way to uh end being here and it was very educational but at the same time it was very effective.
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And at one point time, we'll also invite two of our principals up to help with um responding to some of your questions. Thank you so much. All right. So, these next steps and plan adjustments that I'm going to review are actions that we started taking in January based on the commitments that we made at the last progress monitoring report. And also, these are all the actions that we've taken since receiving the data that you just saw. So, we we had that data in our minds as we were working toward um these next steps. So, the new actions that we accomplished from January to March in terms of our coaching is that we added our third literacy coach. We introduced you to her uh in January. And what we did was we used a data analysis to identify four high-priority schools, uh which are um Excelencia, Monte Vista, Iron Mountain Academy, and um William T.
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And parents as well. That's exactly right. If you haven't been to uh uh any kind of competition, I don't care if it's 5-year-old soccer all the way up through, you know, professional. There's always some bad behavior going on somewhere. Well, this award says that doesn't occur when it comes to GCA. They are true student athletes who care about their sport, who care about their school, and they care about the reputation that's out there about them in the community. And I think that exemplifies exactly what GCA is. So, please let's give GCA a hand. Congratulations. >> [applause] [applause] >> Now, we're going to go to athletics. For tennis, GCA. Gilbert Classical Academy, Aiden Bielson. Is that correct? Are you there? Oh, that's you, right there. Hi Aiden, how are you? Good. >> [applause] >> Aiden won the Division Three Tennis Singles State Championship for Gilbert Classical Academy, Gilbert Public Schools.
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It was going to take a lot of planning. I immediately uh reached out to Robin Tobias. After I did that, I mentioned it to Dr. Carara and she asked me, "Did you speak with Mr. Tobias?" I said, "I sure did." Uh and then he collaborated with our SRO officer McCalpin. Uh and then after that they just kind of took over the safety piece for us. Um we closed down streets. They engaged EMA uh the Monise Mon police department as well. And uh that safety piece was put in place by them. uh we secured a grant to help us to pay for helmets. But in the meantime, in between time, I ended up developing relationship with a man called named Demetrius Whitney, and he is the owner and operator of Bikes in the Hood. He donated bikes to our students who needed them. Uh he donated helmets because we were going to use the money to do that.
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I have a private So is the purpose of it for the concert or for the I get them confused. They're not getting lessons so they're just practicing as a band. A full band. A full band. So you have your homework practice this song practice these notes. Or they and they could pay for private lessons. Or >> before school or after school cuz we didn't say that we were going to offer that. Or trying to. So would only people that are paying for private lessons be able to participate in band? Cuz Yeah. Well, I feel like the chances of the kids individually like it was not individually practicing at home. The lessons were when he practiced so I I I can see it being really beneficial for a very small group of kids that and maybe it would end up being a time that's not being utilized like we would hope it's being utilized.
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