001my staff telling how to meal we are all here tonight moving on to approval of the agenda we do have one a minute have one edition what are the wishes of the board whichever oh that would be nine point five we are nice and for correction which is the closed session item that's the edition okay so we're in and you want any of that okay so on ten tender there is there's an updated version of your resolution so what does 'memories on their commercial to prove agenda we have a first second [Music] we are now moving on to recognitions and awards this is a very exciting time exciting time we do have some students that we will be recommending to make we're super excited we are down to two to five point one and we
002do have a suit of high school and Gladstone high schools so we have this high school where are you [Applause] so tell us about was people fighting I was on their dad it says yeah you have southern section championship after at work so you must be Jerry right hey so listen fingers from the forward so it was decided by school district here by recognizes and Kenya of Azusa High School for his outstanding athletic accomplishments and for earning the designation as a champion of care presented on the space 7th November 2017 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right so let's do high school okay it took me like a long time because I was practicing throughout the summer and everything and it took me a while to improve in everything but
003I currently got undefeated in league and first place and prelims my friends for always supporting me and being there for me outside [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so these are a unified school district here buying gratefully recognizance Oh Donna Cisneros Michelle Sierra high school for outstanding public service as a student representative to the Board of Education during the 2017-2018 school year presented the seventh day of November or sighing Linda Kaminsky dr. Linda Kaminski and Helen Keller [Music] [Applause] that attention and we I know all of us we have been super impressed by you and when I can't tell you just the way that you carried yourself from day one club meeting here their demeanor your style and I don't know if it was the last word a couple Barbie needs ago we asked you a question
004you said you know I don't try the answer but I'll get back to you that right there you hold then you take that with you for the rest of it with rest of your life in the old places so thank you very much for serving your students your [Applause] oh oh she I'm sorry okay well I just wanted you to read a little bit about that it is recommended to whatever education recognized they've been beyond from Weston High School in wing the avocado mango yogurt recipe for National School Lunch week this recipe will be featured future on the Nutrition Service National Lunch week salad recipe contest and for their contribution to the nutrition in house of Athena night school district soundbite dr. Linda Kaminski and what President had me [Applause] yeah I love you read
005I'm rushing out the National Service celebrates National School Lunch week a contest for students to develop a recipe featuring all five vegetable subgroups dark green orange red and or colored vegetables and starchy vegetables and how many how would this person selected we got twenty interests [Applause] today special guests but we do breed 13.4 to you which is a first reading of a visual performing arts which is which is the reason we'll bring enough music art rat lock ran anymore so really that's all we're doing for the board policy but we figured since we're gonna bring a poor policy about that why not should shed a light on some of the things happening around visual performing arts and so it comes up good evening I'm president hon Emile dr. Kaminsky board members and cabinet thank you
006so much for having me here tonight I'm very happy to be here to share with you about our arts focus at Powell it has and continues to be a really exciting journey for our school community as we deepen our understanding and our practice of arts integrated curriculum and arts as curriculums we are doing both at Powell and the results have been fantastic first let me share with you about how we are integrating the arts with our core curriculum we see we are basing our practice at Powell off of the Kennedy Center's definition of arts integration which you see up before you an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and then meets evolving
007objectives info you might ask what does this really look like well let me tell you the teachers at Powell are committed and creative and let me share just a few examples of what I've seen I have observed kindergarteners absorbing language arts social studies and art objectives at the same time as they work together in groups creating choreography and then performances of their fall poem that they had just written well learn about the seasons first-graders connected science in the art acting out likes the life cycle of a plant while chanting academic vocabulary such as germination and colonization I've come into a class and to film second graders who worked in teams to create a product and then produced a commercial to persuade an audience to buy their product language arts standards and performing our art standards
008being taught simultaneously third graders at Powell reflected on in study van Gogh's Starry Night as they were introduced to the wonders of the solar system fourth grade students created eight-count choreographed dances in order to learn the difference between right angles acute angles and obtuse angles in math and you've never seen fifth graders more excited about learning their vocabulary words for the week because of how they get together in collaborative groups and have five minutes to create a short skit or tableau to show the meaning of their word by integrating the arts with the core curriculum students are continually honing their 21st century skills creativity collaboration communication and critical thinking we intentionally integrate the arts to deepen and enrich our students learning and when these approaches are used we've seen the level of student engagement just
009soar so that's the first part of what we're doing at Powell but in addition to integrated arts curriculum we are also increasing our arts as curriculum opportunities we are right now in our second year the ceramics partnership with APU our fourth and fifth grade students get to take two trips to the APU ceramics studio to work one-on-one with a college buddy to create and sculpt and paint the third and final piece is a ceramics art show held in the Powell art studio complete with sparkling cider crackers and cheese and jazz music we also have developed a partnership with a music professor at APU last year every student at Powell participated in world music drumming where they learned about rhythm and beat other cultures and had the experience experiential opportunity to play drum and sing advance
010smiling students would break out in African song while they were waiting in line for lunch or on the bus on the way to a field trip the benefits of that can't be measured but they're certainly as real as any test score and then this year we have added a young composers class our third grade students are playing piano drums and rhythm instruments as they learn to create and compose their own music and instead of having five to ten fifth graders involved an instrumental band as we have in past years we now have every fifth grader at Powell participating in band and learning to play and read music and I know I don't need to tell you that there are numerous studies that support a strong connection between music education and academic success lastly let me
011share about our performances Powell had always been known for its special holiday performances of which we have three a year we just finished this one very recently Halloween Christmas and Cinco de Mayo those special opportunities to sing and dance and perform on stage continue and then last year as a school of the arts we added our first full-scale musical Beauty and the Beast we have over 50 students involved in the production which included a main cast and ensemble a stage crew our parents our staff and others from the community came together like never before to make this show happen working on costumes makeup sets props and sound it was really something it's hard to put into words the power of the arts the social emotional and educational benefits are profound I hope that these photos
012have helped you catch a glimpse of that and if the joy of arts education that's happening at Powell as you can see I brought someone with me tonight by lady Belle our Jerry Omegan he'll sing just a little short clip for you from one of the songs from last year's show and then she's gonna share in her own words what the experience meant to her [Music] [Applause] he-hello I know well actually my name is Megan Hill and I got to be in the musical that we did last year it was a lot of fun on opening night they gave me there was a lot harder than you might think it took a long time to get our voices disarmed right and getting them on a perfect pitch the choreography was difficult to sometimes we would
013get our placement mixed up when we finally got it it was a Chilean right off of our shoulders we knew automatically from practicing so much you couldn't just do your own thing if you wanted it to look right you had to cooperate and communicate with others and it also took a lot of courage at the end I felt happy and proud of myself I thought this is really something I could do maybe I'll even do it for a job in the future without your approval for both to become the School of the Arts this production wouldn't of happened so on behalf of the students at Powell school I'd like to say thank you for the support of the Arts [Applause] I seen your plate and it was beautiful you did a great job singing and
014all the props and all the costumes you know you sold me already it's why you're going I wish I went to a teacher page that will be there but you kids did a fantastic job yourself thank you thank you to you and your staff and community for making how much of our school because you guys are the ones that did it because you guys made it happen so just to see what happened with a couple years ago to some small pilot you now see that you're a full-fledged you guys have bought into this it's amazing what you guys are doing them and so I'm just so impressed and so we want to give a pell-eligible to small so there are appreciation for us school the arts dude your outstanding achievement of your students the visual
015performing art [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] this is the end of me we walked away sometimes sometimes frustrated we have to deal with some we have to deal with business we have to deal with with with working through some problems at the end of the night but I have to tell you that if you walk away from this boardroom what the feeling that you have now after watching these students come up here and accept these awards with such I mean essentially just being confident confident that's that's what you need to walk away from because at the end of the day that's that's that's what matters so I am super proud of everybody I know I'll be happy to board thank you so much staff students community everybody that's come together to support to support all the work
016of this district that's that's what this is about so thank you very much for being here tonight and one please [Applause]