001I hope you're comfortable. No. Yeah. Right. Um so, but at first I wanted to thank um obviously we've recognized Gan for her leadership and leader in me school. It's a lighthouse school which fits in perfectly with N Len's um abilities and her experiences. But I also want to thank the people that sat in on the interview. So a lot of people don't know, you know, how that works. So we had uh three teachers essentially. We had Amanda Drastus, we had Kim Swivelin and Christy Engelre, and then we had a parent Katie Layman sit on the interview as well. Um, and we interviewed uh four individuals that we narrowed from a group of probably 10 to 12 that applied. Uh, and so um, want to thank all of them for their participation. Obviously, we sat in
002on that interview. Then we had round two interviews uh, with the two finalists and Len um, obviously came out on top and we're very, very proud of her. We actually introduced her yesterday to the faculty and I want to thank the board for this and you know the 10:00 on a Friday is kind of it's when the the board can make it number one but we wanted to make sure that we introduced her um before school let out and we gave the the the teachers the courtesy of meeting her and you know that introduction time and the courtesy of you going in and getting to you know say how excited you are. So it worked out really well and I thank the board for that for for being able to do that. So, um, yeah,
003I think that at this point, um, our new principal at Wilbur Wright, Len say anything. So, I am honored to have this position. I um do want to nurture leader in me. I feel like that is the foundation of Wilbur Wright and I am very thankful that I have this opportunity. Yeah, has left such a legacy in that and I want to see that continue and I want to expand on it um for her. That's great. She's taught it. Well, right. Oh, yeah. That's so I'll make the motion that we accept Len Ammon as the principal at Wilbur Right. Thank you. I will second that motion. All in favor? Hi. I just wanted to Yeah, that's good. That's good. So, I'll tell the story that I, you know, because we got time to uh I'll
004tell the story. It's such a neat culture story. I think that, you know, because I was there yesterday for the introduction. I was greeting the kids as they were coming out and I was concerned he had a story, but this is a good one. It It is It is cute. But it talked about the culture. It was very good. Very good. And so um uh you know typical me I'm I'm you know talking to the kids and they're uh when they come who are you again I said who I was and I said why you know why I'm here and and they said no why I said because I'm I do the calendar and I made a mistake we actually have 10 more days of school left and the girls the girls are like yay
005like that it's like how cool is that that the kids want to be there and I just thought at the at the breezeway I don't think that would have been the But I just I love the fact that you know they really were crazy about staying longer and I thought that's that's you're going into a great place. Well, we're excited to have you and uh just from uh talking to people like you're very well respected by your peers and uh to be in leadership positions obviously that has to be uh something that is important um for us uh to put people in positions that other people want to follow and be led by. So that's uh that speaks to you and your character and your professionalism and just appreciate that and homegrown and that. So
006well I I made that note yesterday at Wolver. I said and board included. I said if you look at our leaders now, how many are Newcastle graduates? They've kept their family here, raised their family. That's pretty neat. Pretty neat. Kudos to Kelly Cox as well for for her leadership and yeah working closely with Kelly and Amy Howard this year, too. So, yeah, she's ready. She's ready to go. We're excited. Yeah. Excellent. Her her instructional coach team isn't real excited, but she'll still be working closely with them. What are we doing at Westwood and Riley? Um, we're working on that. Yeah, we're working one step. Obviously, it can't be filled the same. No, but yeah, one step at a time. Yep. Yep. All right. Anybody have anything else to add? Sweet. Congratulations. Thank you. Last day
007of school. Let's have a good summer and meeting and journal pictures.