001hello my name is dr. Jeff Smith superintendent of the ball school district and these are my comments for this month congratulations to board president Miss Chanelle Poe who has recently recognized for the Mary McLeod Bethune award and we are so proud of Miss Poe for this award thank you miss Poe for bringing distinction to the Falls School District the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of developing a code of conduct to govern city parks and facilities they held a series of public meetings in January to obtain community input on behaviors and solutions that the community would like to see incorporated into the code of conduct they now have a draft code of conduct that is posted on the Parks and Recreation Department website and the park staff will be holding
002other public meetings to obtain community input on the draft policy citizens can go to their website to find a flyer announcing the March public meetings and we encourage all of our patrons to take part in this our partners with the Valley of the Sun United Way arranged for a recognition and miss Tiffany Crawford's kindergarten classroom at Bronson Lee this week actually it was just a few weeks ago due to the fundraising promotion with Papa John's Pizza where funds are raised to go to breakfast in the classroom and weekend hunger backpacks values son United Way received a big check for quarterly profits and wanted to bring their partner Papa John's to miss Crawford's class for a check presentation as a thank you Papa John's bought brought pizza for the entire kindergarten class so thanks you too
003Valley soon United Way and Papa John's Pizza for partnering with the bald school's kindergarten teacher Sandra Briana's at Griffith was selected and recognized as an outstanding teacher by the Arizona Cardinals for efforts in the classroom with her students as well as their never-ending job with her recycling club at Griffith during class recently Miss Briones was startled by a visit from big red the Cardinals mascot who then presented with a bouquet of flowers on Valentine's Day congratulations miss Brianna's parentage your conferences are wrapping up this week and for the first time we utilized our new language line that can connect with live interpreters who can translate into dozens of languages we have many families who speak a variety of languages and it's not easy to have an interpreter available for conferences with our families this language
004line allows teachers to dial into a number and have information and questions interpreted immediately for our families so a conversation can take place that benefits our students I'd like to thank our dedicated teachers for working so hard to ensure families are up to date on the progress of their children and they have multiple opportunities to be involved in their child's education this week's marks the ends of our third quarter and next week is spring break so all of our schools and district offices will be closed next week and will resume when classes resume on March 18th I am very pleased to inform you that the Balts school district governing board voted at our March meeting to move forward with the rebuilding of Pat Tillman middle school using funds from our november bond election the rebuild
005of the school will start this summer with plans for the campus to be ready for the start of the 2020 2021 school year classes will be held as usual with as little disruption as possible on the Tillman campus during construction process we look forward to making the new tat Tillman middle school a reality for our students I would also like to take this opportunity to express our sadness with the passing of one of our dearest a very dear staff member nakisha otherwise known as Keisha ward passed away this week we we know many of us had the pleasure of working with Keisha and enjoyed her affection infectious positive attitude her smile and her wonderful work ethic we we just want to pass along our thoughts and prayers to the family and to this and everyone
006that new Keisha because it's as touches touched everyone and so our condolences and we hope that that there will be more information soon on services for Keisha thank you and this concludes my remarks for this month