001agenda. Second. Any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Excuse me. Number two. Oh, so approval of consent agenda for action items number 3 through 23 and March and April 2025 financial reports. Second. Any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Okay, now we can get started. So the school board, we have a little feedback. Uh school board has about 24 meetings each year. Uh three of them are good ones. This is one of them. So we have our our holiday in December, our May board meeting, and then June. And the the ones in May and June are very special to all of us. uh and we'll start to go through a couple of the things today, but we really have our 10 recogn recognitions with our teachers and we have
002the top 10 kids from Island High School, which is fabulous. So, these are special days and we want to bring up first Mrs. Ror who's going to do uh the first set of recognitions tonight. So, as we look around at all of these wonderful top 10 students and this beautiful community and our amazing staff, we we really recognize that the most important job we have here is as we look out tonight at our top 10 and all of our beautiful families here at Island Trees, um, I would just like to say that it is this truly this community that grows such remarkable students and supports and surrounds everyone with such support and love. But the most important job we have is to hire, find and recruit the finest teachers. And once we find them, we
003want to keep them. We want to grow them. And we want to make sure that their skill set and their compassion and all of the wonderful things we see in them continue to be. and um support our community and our students. And that's why we look around today. So, I would like to take a moment as we think about all the uh tenure awardees we have this evening to recognize our new staff induction program, which over the past several years has just grown to be truly what I believe to be a remarkable and exemplary program. It's not just firstear teachers who get one-to-one mentors. their second and third year, they become part of a group mentoring situation where they have they work with their peers and they can go to ask questions. If they have
004questions that they feel that they need to clarify, um a skill set they want to improve or just to share joys and successes, we have that for them. On the other side, they also have to continue growing professionally. So in addition to all of the professional development that we all do as educators in in our field, we have special um sessions each year following them really till year four on topics they need and they ask for. We survey them and we tailor it to their needs. But this doesn't happen without a lot of support, a lot of talent and a lot of leadership. So I want to recognize four very important leaders and teachers in our district. Helen Kaine and Rebecca Benjamin who co-coordinate our mentoring program and Nicole Foley and Christina Vier who co-coordinate
005our professional development portion of our new induction program. So please come up [Applause] Thank you so [Music] much. surprise. [Music] We wanted to make sure that everyone involved in this program is properly recognized. Everyone involved as we celebrate tonight. I have worked with Beth Roma in many different roles over the last 25 years, but I can say with confidence that this one is by far the most rewarding. I reached out to Colin Ree and Jill Wallace to make sure we didn't miss anything. Um, and as she just told you, we all know that Beth is so proud of this program. The technicalities of her role are that Beth crunches the numbers to make sure we maximize our program funding from a title 2 grant to best support the new teachers through this program. She also
006coordinates an elaborate new staff orientation every summer to introduce new staff to our district and welcome them into the Island Trees family. But everyone knows Beth Rulmer doesn't just complete the minimum expectations of any role she takes on. Beth also supports our mentoring and professional development program for new teachers with her heart and soul. She gives all of herself to promote the growth of our new teachers. Always making herself available right up to their tenure and straight on past that as well. We are so lucky and honored to be working closely with Beth with her neverending support and love. From everyone involved in the new teacher program, we thank you Beth from the bottom of our hearts. [Applause] We're going to get [Applause] We're going to we're going to just start off our tenure awards
007now. So we go from mentoring and mentoring then leads to tenure teachers. So it's a little bit like a game show that we have here today. Tribe has spoken on the tenure recommendations. So here we go. And then you get to accept a rose. So the first recognition that we want to who we want to recognize is not a school school teacher, it's a school administrator and that's Dr. Jessica Simeritis. [Applause] So along with getting tenure, now she gets to introduce the high school teacher to get tenure. So it makes my job a little bit easier. But I will call up Mr. Gibbons to help us with this. Mr. Gibbons. So, this is actually the first group of teachers that has gotten tenure since I've been the principal. So, I'm very honored to be here
008with you all tonight and to present these following teachers with the honor of receiving tenure here at Islands. First we have Brianna, [Applause] Kelly Deloney. [Applause] Ken D say [Applause] Hassan Jer [Applause] Amanda Venice [Applause] and Elise Weber. Congratulations [Applause] We're gonna ask Mr. Kagan and Mrs. Steel to come down and help with the middle school [Applause] rec. We're going to do everyone. We're going to do everyone. So, I'm sure I've read it somewhere or seen a poster or some kind of meme, a society where we value teachers the way we do, our sports heroes and our rock stars. I'm sitting in the back tonight because it's standing room only because you see your teachers, you see your family members, you see the people standing up and being honored tonight as real rock stars. The
009noise in the back. That's what it looks like when you're in a community that really gets it, that really respects teachers and knows how hard those teachers work. And later on, we're going to be hearing hearing about all these amazing kids. But I had that feeling that this is the society. This is the culture where community supports education, the school board, central administration, teachers for teachers, administrators, reaching out and supporting teachers. It's a great feeling. Thank you all for being here tonight. I can't wait to introduce you to this next batch of rockstar teachers. So, here they are. Congratulations. On behalf of Miss Steele and Mr. Burns who's here tonight to support us. We introduced you to Flora DeFeo. [Applause] Please join me in celebrating Allison Goldstein. [Applause] Please join me in celebrating Carolyn Gretchie.
010[Applause] Michael Payback. Taylor Rosen King, [Applause] Julie Schultz, [Applause] And last but not least, Ashley Terillian. [Applause] This is our group. We're still going. Mrs. Zach, I have a big speech. I just want to say I'm so excited. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. [Applause] and along with Dr. Lombardi. Congratulations, Jackie. [Applause] So, this is the class of 2025. [Applause] We'll try to get a we'll try to get a class photo first, then we'll bring the board up board. So if you squeeze all kind of class photo Oh my god. [Music] Okay, we ask you just to step up in three or four then we'll get the board. [Applause] And u and last and uh really a a special special group of kids we're going to honor. Now, uh we we started this celebration about 13 years ago.
011We started doing the island trees top 10 and it's really become a nice tradition in the school district. So, I'll have to call back Dr. Jessica Speritis and Mr. Gibbons again to introduce [Applause] to one. One, which is up to one, but down to one. I was just trying to quietly ask him if I was starting at 10. Okay, we're building up momentum. All right. So, um this is one of the nicest things that I have the privilege of doing each year is celebrating the students who really have gone above and beyond over their four years and achieve many wonderful things. So, we are going to start with number 10 Roman. Number nine is Logan F. [Applause] Number eight is Alexa [Music] Flattery. Alexa will be attending the University of Florida. Number seven is Emma
012Dmers. Emma will be attending Sunni Cop. [Applause] Number six is Amed Sery who will be attending LU. [Applause] Number five is Valerie Bules. [Applause] Number four is Jet Woo who will be attending Bingington [Applause] University. Number three is Amy Lee who will be attending Harvard University. [Applause] Number two, our saludiatoran is Kylie Kagen who will become [Applause] senior. And number one, our valadictorian is Annabelle Pina, who will be attending [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Okay, we'll get a we'll get a photo of the top 10 by themselves bring the board in the administrative Bring the administrator to the board. Just Congratulations. [Applause] good, clean fun and entertainment tonight beyond belief. So, we appreciate everyone who came here tonight uh who was recognized and who came out to support our top 10 teachers and our mentors. Congratulations
013to all. And don't forget to show up in June where we we recognize our retiring teachers, which is going to be a very sad but happy occasion for everyone. Anything else, Mr. Rich? End the meeting. Well, um before we go, I just want to say one thing hearing Mr. speak, you know, um congratulations to you know all the tenure teachers. I just want to say when uh you know when you guys were hired, you know, we welcomed you into the trees family and this tenure is just a reaffirmation of the confidence that we have in you with our most trusted possessions as a community is our children. So really I thank you guys. Um, you know, I want you guys, you know, to continue to learn. Um, and, you know, work with our children. You
014guys doing a fantastic job. And really, uh, thank you. This is, like Dr. Murphy said, a really big class, a really big group. Uh, it's phenomenal. And thank you guys so much. You got great support. You got great leadership. And, um, you know, we're here to support you and I know, you know, your building leaders and union leaders, everybody is, everyone's here to support you guys. So, you guys can continue to grow and do great things here at Elm Trees. So congratulations and thank you [Applause] guys for graduate trees. I know there's another graduate here. You know top 10 guys. Congratulations. You know top 10. Congratulations. You guys have a few great things. All right. So congratulations guys with that. Well, we we have lots of social media spots to take pictures. So, if you're
015a top 10, you want to take pictures of your parents just outside. There's all kinds of pinewood trees, signage up and down the hallway. So, if you want to go there and get some pictures, same thing with the uh the tender recognition, just to let you know. But, Mike, you're a top tener in my book. [Applause] All those in favor? All right everybody, good night. Congratulations