001foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] welcome everybody I see some folks standing and looking for seeds so I wanted to let it let you know in the back here we have do have seats right up front we'll get started one moment [Music] foreign [Music] ready [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] hello sorry for the delay the computers have needed to be reset for the show so we'll be getting started momentarily [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] to start tonight's ceremony I would like to welcome the chico High Ballet Folklorico [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause]
002welcome everybody to the 2023 Chico Unified state seala by literacy award ceremony um and I want to also take a moment to thank uh Chico High Ballet Folklorico for joining us tonight it's a nice addition to our our ceremony [Applause] so we are here to honor these kids many of whom who have been at learning a second language since they started with us in Chico Unified we have a number of students here tonight from the Rosedale two-way immersion program who went up through who went up through the chico High immersion program and continued on in high school and many of those students are passing AP tests taking very very high level Spanish um and don't want to Discount the uh the students learning French as well but that that immersion program is a big uh
003push um towards getting students by literate in Chico Unified now the state seal of by literacy has been in place in California for over 10 years California was one of the first states in the nation to implement it and the intent of implementing the state seal of by literacy was to recognize the value of being bilingual in California um there's lots of languages spoke spoken in California and that ability to communicate in two languages is valuable to both student and society as a whole businesses no matter what study you look at they're more likely to given to otherwise equal candidates they're more likely to hire the by literate student um students also are able to move on to higher level Spanish in or French or whatever language they're studying outside of Chico Unified into higher
004level college courses so this really does translate into our students becoming more and more College and Career ready these students let me just go over the qualifications briefly here all the students you see coming across the stage tonight have taken at least four years of a foreign language with a grade point average of a 3.0 or higher they've all passed four years of high school English with a great Point O of two or a grade point average of 2.0 or higher additionally they need to pass the smarter balanced exam that our Juniors take in Spring of their junior year and they have to be certified by their teachers as being orally proficient so that's a very very high bar that our students have met and it's a and it's a great achievement for them but
005they're not doing it on their own I know as someone who used to work in the immersion program I mentioned earlier you know a lot of these kids started off in kindergarten learning a second language and that's very very um tiring for those kids it's hard work right from the get-go for the kids that didn't start immersion it's a very high bar to move all the way through Spanish for or AP Spanish which you know lots of these students have it's a very very high bar um so these students are ready for the next steps in their life many of these students also are going to be receiving a lot of other awards for our graduating class upcoming at upcoming ceremonies and so um it's a great night to celebrate them want to thank the
006parents of all all the parents in the audience for for bearing with your kids and supporting them through their entire K-12 career and also I wanted to acknowledge this the teachers that aren't here so that would be our Junior High World language teachers as well as our two-way emergency teachers at Rosedale for working with these kids and helping them to get where they are today um so we are going to be honoring the students in a second but first we have another performance from Chico highs Ballet Folklorico and to introduce that group I'm going to call up Jamie Fisher come on hi for those of you that don't know me I'm profe Vargas I'm the advisor for balefo glorico aren't they amazing um they're going to come out and do another song for you but
007I just wanted to say that this is the second year that the club has been doing shows the second year that we've been invited to perform at the Sula by literacy and we're just so honored to be able to share this night with you so thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] okay to get ready for the awarding of our medallions I would like the chico high students to line up in the hallway you can follow Mr Williams over there and PV teachers if there's anybody sitting down in the audience we would like your help organizing traffic out in the hallway don't worry about the red lines [Music] foreign [Music] um you don't need to wait very long
008okay please welcome the Seal of by literacy recipients from Chico High our first recipient Lincoln Wood Silas Olson Benjamin Bernal Spanish there Daniel Tolentino campanero Spanish Jasmine gusselde Maria Palos Nava Isabella magayon Aston Arroyo Mariela Ventura Ortiz Clara green Melody Gonzalez Adela Carrillo John Goodman Iris kissy Nana nearby Skyler gramlin Marky Owen Alexa Davis Isabella Snyder Kylie liete Grace one Annabella Lopez Madeline blue Ava alcantar Miriam Ahmadi Jack Chatterton Angelina Barnes Marlon Sheridan Jordan younker Natalie Bridgestone Jackson tomasian Tyler seahorn Karina Barto Tanya Gonzalez Ashley Ron Brooke javer Kelsey Fisher Abby harima potato Margo Spangler Tannen Ava Morris Audrey Vieira Kate Nichols Sydney Stover methven Terry Fiona Nielsen Ella selecki dot Clemente Casey Hedland Ashland fortino Hadid Ali say Quintana Palafox Ashley Rango Martinez Salma mamani Joy Shen Chloe Sneed Ashley Burrows Sophia Taylor Lizzy
009hammer Lola Lafave Stella Hawkins Isabel Lozada Nick Martinez Logan Kimura Raul Gallegos [Applause] Luis Diaz Manuel Diaz Ruben Flores Thomas Jose Diaz Jose Soto Joshua Rodriguez foreign congratulations to our Chico High recipients we'll give you a few moments to take some pictures um and at this time I would like the PV students to walk out into the hallway to line up so when the kids leave 10 Wilson okay we'll give about 10 more seconds for pictures [Music] sorry excuse us thank you I'll call you when I'm done please welcome the Pleasant Valley High state seal of by literacy recipients [Applause] Ryan McReynolds Mason kettle Dylan Kerr [Music] Karina Gomez Emily helping Karis path foreign Kennedy Theron hey Joaquin Osorio Christian Mesa partida Rico McKenna wines Aisha Ahmad Mackenzie dawood Cynthia Stefania Vasquez Gonzalez Uriel Gomez
010Rodriguez Tana Peters Susie maxood Natalie shalom Adriana Gomez parameter Esmeralda Vasquez Huerta Victoria Fitzgerald Lauren neaton [Music] Larissa Robinson Anaya Riggs Cody Wallace [Applause] Robbie Foster Heiser radida Matthew kinoshida Carter O'Dell Ezra Medrano Kira Letcher Kendall Kelso Annie Tran Natalie Wilhoit Jonathan branches Clarissa Delgado [Music] Macau Tech live Sophia Perez Grace Montgomery Alexis sprotti Brisa Reyes [Applause] Elise Greenberg Savannah Creswell Gabe Shirley Trey Miller Garrick Stevens yes Karen McGuire Sharon Wu Kennedy mikowitz Lydia Lugo Lily Merrell Lennon Mara Murphy Enrique Rodriguez Chloe elchin Kendall great talk Mary Lawrence Samina Sandu [Music] Alexa Sandoval Bailey Batman Kaylee Leonard Moses messfin Nick Bowen congratulations to our PV recipients [Music] okay a couple more seconds for pictures all right can we have the first row exit to the right and please take your seats again and next up
011we have our outstanding World Language student awards foreign to announce our world language student student achievement awards from we're going to go with Chico High first my name is Madame Pepe and I'm the French teacher at Chico High and um the outstanding World Language award for French this year goes to a student who is new to our school while this was her first and last year with us at Chico High her dedication to the French language was immediately apparent to me it is not easy for a young person to move internationally back and forth between the United States and Argentina and then within the United States from North Carolina to California negotiating different schools different teachers and different approaches to language learning it takes commitment and perseverance to maintain excellence in her studies in the
012face of so much change and yet she has done this seamlessly and even came to class every day with a smile it is for these reasons that I wanted to to honor Victoria alessandrony with the outstanding World Language award felicitation Victoria [Applause] good evening my name is Rachel Howell I'm a Spanish teacher at Chico High and um this award is tricky I have a love-hate relationship with this award because I love acknowledging and reflecting on how much my students have grown as language learners but I hate having to choose just one student as the recipient because it's so hard with that said this year a particular student did pop into my mind immediately when I sat down to start thinking about this this year's outstanding World Language student for Spanish 4 is a student I've
013had the pleasure of teaching for two years so I've really been able to watch her proficiency progress and witness her honorable and very fruitful effort to become proficient in Spanish she can and does speak to me almost exclusively in Spanish including email correspondence which I really appreciate and she takes advantage of every opportunity to learn and practice in class with just made all the difference she loves speaking Spanish and her curiosity and dedication to learning a second language have truly paid off senorita Bros Ashley I'm so proud of how hard you have worked come on down congratulations amiga will have been an outstanding student and I have loved having you in class you deserve this award Ashley Rose I don't know maybe she left she was here earlier I'll pass it on later foreign sombrosos
014Antonio Melendez valo Carlos Cepeda sochil Quintero Garcia Michael Musa Ruben Duran Rangel Isabella Carrillo Kimberly navarrete magnada forward uh um so is um USC Olivia videos I'd like to start off with introducing Our World Language Department staff it takes a Familia Viking to get these kids all the way through um to receive the my literacy seal tonight so um Mauricio Jaime Arellano [Applause] Janet Topete talarico Carly Nielsen and Gretchen Nevins my name is Marcel Gregoire I also teach Spanish here buenas noches this award that we have in the Spanish Department goes to a student that always had a smile on her face when she came to class and was ready to learn and improve her first language in addition to learning the language the student was always willing to assist her peers improve their language
015proficiency for example last year she invited her friends to join our lunch conversation group she learned she loved to share about her culture and was curious and interested in learning about other Spanish-speaking cultures uh and she took the AP exam last year and got a five on it Brisa Reyes we built Brisa we believe that with your charisma and your enthusiasm and language proficiency you will impact a lot of people [Applause] foreign outstanding World Language student it was very difficult this year for all of us to come together and actually select an outstanding World Language student because we have such an exemplary group amazing students graduating with the bi-literacy still this year this student is an exceptional Spanish student she has a quiet confidence that is inspiring she started her Spanish language journey in eighth
016grade and has demonstrated an impressive level of proficiency at each stage she's currently in AP Spanish and just sat the exam with 20 of her classmates yesterday she speaks with ease on complex topics such as the plight of endangered Wildcats in the Andes Mountains she can write with sophistication about the economic benefits of ecotourism or the role of natural medicine in the modern world today I'm not sure I can remember a student that has consistently earned so many perfect scores in both speaking and writing she is technically precise but she's also very creative and poetic in the language Chloe Alton as she's walking up I'll tell you one little last thing last year I had students write small vignettes about their life and dreams and this student Chloe wrote a beautiful piece about wanting to
017get to know the world and I'd like to read a small part of it she wrote momentos Alma no quiero started Chloe felicidades we are so proud of you [Applause] gracias all right congratulations to all of our students and families for your achievement we are going to have one final performance from Ballet Folklorico following Ballet Folklorico we would like to invite you to hang around for a little bit we have the culinary program at PV High that has provided snacks for us out right outside the lobby also students um please go back to the same tables and this is following the Ballet Folklorico go back to the same tables where you got your your note card where you wrote your name on it for your actual certificates the actual seal of my literacy will be
018affixed on your diploma prior to graduation so that's the other part of of the award that's the more official part you get to take with you forever and ever so follow again following ballet folklorica we invite you to hang out with us for some refreshments and students don't forget to pick up your certificates so I would like to welcome out to the stage one last time tonight Chico highs Ballet Folklorico thank you [Music] foreign [Music] God like a pancreas [Music] OS [Music] thank you foreign [Music] God [Music] oh my God [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music]