001[Music] Jesus Christ [Music] phone call Teresa present Rachel here Michelle here okay Pilates yeah Lauren here Bridget here Julie here Ralph president Albert Luisa here Spotlight your school Park Avenue I think we have a few uh thank you everybody for doing this uh it's so nice to be in person um one of the things that we're doing this year is we're having our big family meetings in the gym and it's so nice to be in person when we got the word that we were going to Spotlight our school maybe it was a few weeks ago we said oh it's a great idea I said here's how we're going to Spotlight our school we're going to have the students come up with how what Park Avenue means to them you know it's just basically it's a
002real simple presentation tonight just what does Park Avenue mean to them so with that on two first grade teachers went to the fifth grade and they filled out these little slips about in one word how would you describe Park Avenue School and that's where these posters were created from and their wine is pretty neat in there it says joyful organized chaos that's like that's like me that is just me right there I'm telling you you know what I'm saying which is which I'm laughing at you know not really sure if that the way a book was in there but I thought that was kind of cute we put that together on the hard uh uh there were some students who um many students who um submitted and wanted to you know come to the Board
003of Ed tonight to speak about their school and this is all about them we also have two other um we have two um staff members that are going to speak as well so you know with me if you give me a microphone I talk forever so I'm going to try to stay away from the microphone but what I would like is that our students could please come here which uh we'll come up and we'll get you one at a time we'll make sure that uh this microphone works they are a little nervous what do we have to do here lock s and oh that's good oh sorry oh this is pretty fun when they read this and we were just listening to them you can really see a theme in there and it emulates through
004the building and the reason why that happens is because the staff follows through we have an Incredibles out there who really care about children and also care about doing a lot of feedback there but they listen to the message and they give the message to the kids and we even hear messages from the kids as well and you can hear it anyway so of their speeches every one of you for doing it so let's go first so we're gonna have you we will have Natalie door you come up first and you can sit here and we'll set you up so we'll make sure and so anytime you're ready go ahead okay all right speak to the mic good afternoon my name is [Music] Fidelity means to me a second home oh sometimes I need fun
005I say this because you'll get to see your friends and you'll do the parade and help me and Valentine's dancing your classmates give you a card so get in here is very special to me what is it special to me that special people real work hard you're the Mr quick and the lunchroom [Music] and wanted to move thank you at least somebody recognizes their workers my name is I go to workout in school I am various coins first grade class I am here to tell you something that I love about Park Avenue is a fun place for everybody to learn and my teacher is kind and vulnerable she's lost [Music] on I am happy to have this Quinn as 19 my teacher I'm in learning um subtraction and foreign [Music] friends I hope you have
006a wonderful night [Laughter] hello everybody good for afternoon my name is and today on YouTube Water Park Avenue fidget spinners Park Avenue is a great place for learning because we have great teachers here to your house and we have great people like the snow Patrol Brothers like the second home to train your social media or Never Alone I like sisters and brothers to us our teachers are like our second parents same for our loving just born by Spirituals so our school is like just a family to eat I love Park Avenue so much because this is where most of my friends are and where we all where all the memories happen this is our school which has truthful people behind people and people don't ever give up and they're always working very hard and trying
007their best for everything our government is an important place to be because even if my team for a teacher she or he will help you find your cry for a few drops in something they will help you but this is a wonderful people okay good night everybody my name is Sophia Orchard and today I'm going to tell you what my calendar means to me the five reasons why I will tell you about the amazing teachers they have in Park Avenue I have visiting School did a second home two I will give him out of five reasons why an animal isn't great one I kind of have super kind teachers to a grand funimus practical school that has a great has great principles for super fun learning honest five special and special teachers you need to
008thank all the teachers there for teaching each year all the students with kindness lovers pack and Harry Potter and again we love her cavities sincerely Sofia I'm standing including my name is the challenge and today I'm going to be reading what part happened have you ever been in a school that goes here if you like I am here to tell you that that program is the best school because teachers are working hard kids and teachers kindness and everyone one reason the Water Park Avenue is the best is because teachers are some examples how teachers are hard working our kids are having any time working teachers tell their students to try their best and second reason why Park Avenue is because people share kindness some examples how people share pieism in my Revenue are kids saying
009be my test thank you please also we have we can do small access and you will be so proud of yourself with just a small active times finally the last reason why my family is the best everyone is very supportive some reason has demands and staff Ord who are almost there this was far for families which we thank you and have a good night [Laughter] [Music] um good evening my name is Park Avenue the place where people come to learn although you might not think it this place is great do you mind your wife let me tell you there's so many great things that are so many things that are great about the school to the concerts the holidays the age countdown family meeting the friendships have fallen from future students to washroom there's always
010at least one thing that shows a shine teachers are in the school are amazing they are respectful to students and pretty fun for example sometimes we do want to be able to ask and we have lots of fun but it also Park Avenue is a great School in okay [Music] Park Avenue is special to me because it feels like one big family the teacher sounds really nice if you could also comfort you and it also feels like a big family because every day and sometimes your friends can act like this one sometimes your classmates can be annoying or caring and funny also in Park Avenue all those teachers are really caring our principal Mr Crawford everything to make this school great and this is why I love her family in school thank you for your
011time I told her to write that part well I love about Park Avenue School is that when I lose from New York and we went to the school I felt welcome it was really it was easy to make friends because everyone was really hot hot really hi the teachers and the principal are also really nice they do their best at making our resources fun and safe I love taking the bus because bus drivers so forth and that's what I love about my school about this stuff do your Valentine Grace while Park Avenue need to be um it would help me learn how to do math ESL house place and special my favorite official is German art because disneyworld.com or you learn how to draw just like Pokemon and the floor is here you might not
012know what you're supposed to do so you can talk in your heart like always and if you see me I will walk up to them and say what's happening and they say nothing to do if something um okay and then give them how that makes them feel good this is why I love my family's store each and one of them loves each other thank you [Music] she has no cards my name is Camila Perez and I'm gonna be representing what um fourth grade is in Park Avenue is fourth grade represents looking out for each of you know like being on ten percent the other salary tells the child sounds but we're all American Girl from those days if you have a you're going to think you never hear you but it's not like that your
013brain is telling you negative things can't believe are never going to do that we just kind of threw up in the world anymore but that doesn't stop you from people's heartbreaking the first period is awesome here now there's five reasons why Park Avenue [Music] because it's always certain point why because when people welcome you at school saying hi finally I would not know what I would do without this one reason why people are so good thankful for what they have it's because her lovely administrator 's Mr Patrick and Mrs Johnson their reason why is Park Avenue the third reason why is all of the teachers are very helpful funny kind of entering and for an example in this picture she's my teacher when we have wrong persons she always tries to make it fun if
014she did not travel and get fun so bored find the reason everybody has a good concert must be because nobody gives up and everybody crashes to the challenge which is good with pizza everyone is so supportive they care about what decision to make like the biggest hit it's small like whether you like something or not those were all the reasons why I do is special to me thank you for your time [Music] I'm here to escape and my name is Jason salsa I have only been at work now but also since the start of this group I have a great teacher of amazing classmates I've made friends Clipper and lovers that I would last year was kind of hard for food since not all kids wanted though if our government made a lot of time
015so I could relate to my family of course when I put some kids who have not really like me but not everyone's gonna like you it's also been my first year on a bus it has been really great the kids don't know the bus are Believe coming even though they have never met me Mr Lima has been my favorite teacher I thought it was all over when I was thought I was moving schools I thought I was gonna lose all my friends but Mr Randall showed me that not all teachers are going to sit there and tell you to remember this and that it was picked you don't remember and accomplished it on the next day if I was asked to describe foreign [Music] and getting ready but things have changed and stuff because sometimes
016I I must fall off my bed because of how excited I am to go on the bus and go to my class and see my teacher at my friends I already love our gathering my mother friend me this year so much hello my name is caring I've been going to Park Avenue since I was in kindergarten another of all my teachers all the teachers in Park Ave are like family to me and I love my family I stopped being scared on the first day and food grade because I knew there was nothing to worry about other people in this school also helped me people who took me doing lunch because people are wearing this blue and Misty is Miss blue has been with me since the first grade sadly she left to go to work
017at another school I hope she likes that job and has fun now has fun now this year I have this DS we are having a fun time this year like all the other years I'm going to tell you about my teachers in kindergarten I have a skunk in first grade I had mystery educational he's a fifth grade teacher in second grade I have Miss koi now she's teaching first grade in third grade I had this great well now she teaches simple fourth grade I have Krista she still teaches fourth grade now finally this year I have Mr Wonderful I love all my teachers the school makes me think apart like I have my friends and I have family that goes and have gone to Park Avenue Park Avenue that is what we took home all
018my teachers have thought taught me everything I know my kindergarten teacher taught me all my planners my first grade teacher taught me how to add my second free teacher taught me how to spell huge words my third grade teacher taught me how to multiply my fourth grade teacher taught me um how to divide my fifth grade teacher taught me how to solve the duplicate she was standing algorithm taught me a lot in that in that Italian here this is where I think the park cab is home I've been here for six years now like five minutes I can't believe I'm already I have a lot of memory it's like my home when I leave there will be lots of Tears because that was my movie Set we did crazy experiments in fifth grade our first
019everyone was flying like dirt now it was Mountain signs again before this my teachers fishing up what happens if you boil they're in water I've never been answered before there was another experiment where we boiled water and sugar and and it smells like cereal it tasted it it tasted sweet that was my favorite I think I'm a science camera I love all my special teachers my favorite special is legit horses our gym teacher is Mr hot top our community basic features Mr Garmin our art teachers Miss patella in our media teacher of an extension room he was the second grade teacher all the adults at Park Ave are number one that we sing in our song every morning our Gap will always be my second book thank you for your time I really appreciate it
020hello my name is Katie or gentles today I'll be talking [Music] Chicago Avenue and your social basically it's kind and murdered and all of my years of being in heart failure I wouldn't ask to be anywhere else the teachers on Park Avenue are unpredictable nice and kind they make money easier and fun plus the projects they give you are super fun and creative in the morning we have a beautiful song that represents so many staff at work in Beloved we also announced kids birthdays over the loudspeaker and teachers make your birthday fun and special and our friends of holistic traffic is different money and super welcoming and kind thank you you must be enough to read tonight you know I'll get back thank you and you know what they wrote just warms my heart and
021it resonates family home caring kindness everything that we talk about and that the teachers do every single day it's amazing we just have two more people to present and I'm sorry if we went a little longer than we were supposed to but like I said if you give me the microphone it's gonna be long all right so if I could have uh Miss Lucia guardato come up here please Lucia was Park Avenue selection for uh teacher of the year so we've asked her to say a few words if she will so thank you hello I don't know if I can beat that but yeah um I have written talking about after that I just have to speak from the heart Avenue to me is an inspiration I came from and my dream was always to
022the Future I'm walking poverty like a lot of people go down there and my mom taught me the best that she could although that is on the alphabet and when I saw how much she had taught me I decided I wanted to be a teacher I worked really hard and became a foreign but it was hard I had a lot of heart and all that um because I had to learn the language and I had two sons eventually your time who attended Park had in his school one was not a teacher a family as well [Music] and being at Park Avenue as a parent walking down those hallways watching the teachers teach being the excitement or mark on the wall it brought back all that inspiration and that desire and with the desire I put
023myself back in school and I became a teacher I had my school teaching going to our family school so what does Park Avenue School mean to me inspiration a dream come true I get to work with excellent excellent teachers they're superheroes they inspire me every day to become another person and amazing children who also come to this country with the dream just like mine and I have the privilege of teaching them very much but I wasn't gonna cry tonight you know I haven't cried in a while you know but that's amazing I think I got emotional last night remember the movies and the popcorn and all that stuff all right I know all right so our last speaker tonight but before we introduce this person I just want to explain I apologize for not wearing
024a shirt and tie today's Argyle date every Wednesday is Argyle Wednesday so we have Argyle here Argyle there and it's kind of argyle here I got everywhere there are some kids who come to our school who don't know who um who don't haven't acquired the English language yet but they do know the word Argyle which is great it was started Years Ago by Ian and myself by accident and uh which at a family need you know we we call our meetings family meetings like a lot of people do and you can see how it resonates through the kids and it is their home away from home to take care of your home you know so and you can see that the teachers really do the work because it resonates when I read these I was
025just blown away by them so this other person that I'd like to highlight a little bit to um tonight just came to us last year and she's a godsend like she is just but exercise together so don't get emotions and everything about that so um the impact that this woman has made in our building in the short amount of times spectacular so I needed her to pick up the tough tonight so this is Diana ringles to use our current liaison and Hallelujah for the paliadisms let me tell you thank you board members I think we are can we do that one more time they're the reason why we get up and sometimes I got up and I turn around and I'm looking for my hip now I'm looking for something from how hard it is
026but I I'm I'm moved so much when I first came to the school I'm literally uh studying in New York and even when I was young the schools were not what they were today and it was literally an impossibility man I was just like oh you said that [Music] sorry so so basically it was very difficult to even see or stand same people like me or even get to the principle there were lies and lies and lies it was just very different back in the 70s and 80s okay um so when I come to school now when I first came through these doors and I'm going to make a quick short as I can I saw a big sign and I share this with Mr craft it's the kindness I was expecting to see it's
027elastic you know the Box there's no kindness and the first thing in my head was I want to know who the hell is everybody else in the but I want to know who the hell is because if your head is good your body is good you might have to you know move some receptions in and straighten out some stuff like if your head is good it's gonna wiggle down oh my gosh so when I sat with him and I laughed I said what's his kindness fast forward and the announcements in the morning that's what I hear I'm going to review this real quickly he's but this is what he says in the morning can I put this up a little bit so in the morning he says when he's with your announcements he says please
028be kind respectful and responsible and then he sort of goes into a little by little what that means what it what it means when he says that so I looked up kindness and it says kindness is just not being kind there's also movement in that so it says kindness is even done being done when you do something kind to someone you know doing something letting them go past you you know helping them with their books doing something is also an act what you do so every morning I hear him say that and here's the thing that I really believe in my girls have left the mess some of the members you know who my my daughter's my daughter is the other one is one they're all teachers but one is an accountant she's gone but
029one of the things that I saw in the school in consistency is that it's very consistent it's what he says and what I see it just goes on it you know I mean there isn't a resonance that he said but but it goes on there's no breaking it's just consistent which is good and what we need so the world is shouting out constantly to our kids with social media they're telling them tell you do it now go after it we're gonna meet you know we'll punch them we're gonna meet you outside let's get even we need to be consistent talking all the time saying the same thing fighting in a positive way kindness so I believe kindness and I just saw this not that I think but I do believe but I saw this kindness
030makes you the most beautiful person in the world no matter what you look like specifications and he says and they also what he says he talks about respect all the time he does to respect and your children can learn respect says respect to matter to Reverend to consider to admire to show regard consideration respect for one's differences and culture he also talks about responsibility teaches the children to be used to disorder to step and survival certain things in order to say no to set limits to set expectations these are all what he talks about in the morning it's simple I said oh my gosh I love it I've never heard that movie so I'm gonna leave you with this the pessimist who voting everything every opportunity for The Optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty and
031then Herman Munster Happy Days you don't have an answer says the lesson I want now he's talking to his son the lesson I want you to learn is this that it doesn't matter what you look like it doesn't matter how tall how short how fat how thin how ugly or handsome like your father says you are what you can be black or yellow or white it does not matter what matters starting to be hard and so we're hoping to build it too as we engage with the snacks generation we're running with the torch or the ones who are going to build and establish the missionaries that we also not only are working their Logistics to build a raise and to go and to become our next leaders who are also a camera to go home
032so you can see the impact she has in this room the impact she has with our families are just incredible the way she reaches out she holds people accountable she helps people she's incredibly kind and she's incredibly smart and we are lucky to have you so great job everybody so emotional I'm sorry if we took a little longer than we were supposed to but that was our presentation for tonight and uh please feel free to come by Park Avenue School anytime you want and we will let you in town thank you everybody I appreciate it thank you thank you great job all the family who came out today [Music] thank you [Music] I brought my own speakers because last time the speakers [Music] yes thank you [Music] is there anyone here to speak for public
033participation [Music] participation calendar any promotion that supports education approved that items on thanks calendar exhibits 22-123 through 22-125 as recommended so route any discussion being none all those in favor uh composed extension motion carries unanimous ly our student Representatives oh my name is [Music] um so today we just wanted to share like some updates of what we've been up to for the past month and some of that's been working on that um thank you um so on October 6th the class of 2023 officers held a school-wide baby night on the hip-hop Wheels which was very successful with many students and attendance in a large sum um was also raised for senior father um PSA cheese for a house on the 12th of October and 2600 students from 9 to 11th grade were tested um and
034on the same day senior activities were held uh Associates were taken on the football fields and seniors also left their handprints on our class of 2023 handball and we want to thank Mr Giuseppe from West Side Middle School who came to the wall Crossing Corporation for this event um and also a little dick for us it's awesome the CHS spirit week and that was from October 17th to October 21st and it's during Spirit Week this year we actually held our first pep rally in over 20 years which was very successful despite some capacity issues that we ought to see but um we also want to thank the Andrew High School administration for allowing this to happen and for helping us to come along to see about security system I'm Jillian I'm the secretary um so
035the homecoming dance was called on Saturday October 22nd which is very successful um the game was on the 21st it had a very high attendance and had her stitching equipment um homecoming Hoka royalty was presented during halftime over a thousand candidates in the dance and tickets were in high demand we had a reason initial ticket limit but we're still able to accommodate all the students who purchase tickets quarter one ended November 4th 25 of the senior years finally over parent-teacher conferences will be held this month and we have early dismissal days on November 21st and 22nd appointments can be made through parent square there's no school on Wednesday through Friday of this week for things not this week in two weeks for Thanksgiving parade 25 25 of seniors have filled out FAFSA and we are
036looking to get that number Higher by giving away prizes such as airpods t-shirts laptops with money from a grant that you're receiving from the state and on May 1st we hope to hold a decision Day celebration for the seniors hi I'm Jen I'm the treasurer um DHS Hatter's Herald is holding a nomination vote for futures and student of the month and class elections were successful and we have all the student council officers filled for all grades The Freshman winners were announced on November 4th we had a guest speaker come in to talk to our sophomore software his name was Kevin Alice and he's a professional basketball player who's also an amputee he spoke about promoting self-confidence and self-esteem um the music spectacular show was canceled due to the rain and now that fall Sports season
037is done winter season is going to start but however we wanted to commemorate the boys cross country team because they won the STI and they're competing in the New England open the boys soccer to play the State game on the 7th and the girls played on the 8th the DHS Cheerleading Coach Martin coach of the state award and the last home football game is this Friday and it's a whiteout game at six o'clock any questions from board members residents no no thank you very much thank you get married again [Music] um good evening for the bad memory cabinet and community members thank you for allowing me to represent and speak on behalf of the Alternative Center for excellence is Thanksgiving will be taking place on Tuesday November 22nd this is a day for Easter show
038its thanks and appreciation for the community support that we receive this View at is made possible through donations from student letters in our collaboration with the Apple tech culinary program on this special day we welcome all of you to come share me with us at our home on local staff turkey dinners will be served from 11 o'clock to 12 30. we will also be having a special recommendation for jokes happen on the day ever I've asked each guidance groups are participating in a project to recognize and think of black students are writing thank you letters to three local veterans organizations the interact Theater Workshop will be coming the case on November 28th to engage with the whole student community interact in women's workshops that combine curriculum from standards with theater acting and expressions journalism classes
039were changing the courses offered at age this class will report on the Hopkins in the age Community the greater Danbury area and how positive interest to the student reporters in our readership leadership I don't know in addition to the basics of Journalism the fossil also incorporate the international Society for technology and education iste standards and has become a member of the New England Scholastic press Association nespa after last