001you all right good evening everyone and welcome to the 2020 California State seal by literacy awards night my name is J Marsh aunt and I'm the assistant superintendent of Chico Unified School District on behalf of Kelly Staley the superintendent and the Board of Education from Chico Unified School District we would like to thank you for all your hard work and effort that you have put in with your child and the student has put in with their classes at this time I would like to thank the parents for being outstanding parents for what they have done to get your children through through all the recommendations to get to the seal and the student for all their hard work over these four years at this time I'm going to pass it over to the director of assessments
002Tim Karras and to go over what has gotten here today welcome everybody happy that you can join us this evening and these extraordinary circumstances we're here to honor our Chico Unified seniors who are receiving the state's seal of biliteracy for the 2000 class of 2020 the seal is a gold seal affixed on their diplomas students will also receive a certificate and a medallion tonight we're honoring students in three languages Spanish Japanese and French and before we get much further I just want to thank the parents out there again for all their support throughout the years a lot of the students receiving the Cielo by literacy tonight were English learners coming into kindergarten and came into kindergarten needing to learn English and they've kept their their native their original language and became proficient in English which
003is quite an achievement many of the students being honored tonight began in kindergarten in the two-way immersion program where they were learning Spanish their first years of schooling and they've kept up with that and I'm glad to see that as a former principal at Rosedale the two-way immersion school in town I know how hard those first few years are and I know how much work it takes on the parent and to help with homework that's in a language that they're not familiar with it's an extra amount of stress on kids especially at the elementary grades when they are learning a language that's both fruits students learning English and for kids learning Spanish kids come home tired so tonight as we honored these kids this is part of a larger movement in California to focus on
004true college and career readiness beyond just English and language arts scores and the state has made tremendous efforts to honor the work of parents teachers and students becoming college and career ready recently the state seal was first implemented in 2012 California was the first state since then 36 other states have implemented their own seal by literacy program patterned after us two years ago the last year that data is available for 55,000 students in California earn the state seal and that's 55,000 students out of over 400,000 graduates in the state the goal of the California Department of Education is that by 2040 the year 2040 three-quarters of the kids in California will graduate meeting the requirements for the state's ela by literacy endorsements for the seal include the California School Boards Association Association of California school
005administrators California Federation of Teachers the California Teachers Association and both the Los Angeles and Silicon Valley chambers of commerce so this award is held in high regard by the education world in California and by the business world in California so before we get to the awards let's talk about what the seal is and what by literacy is so by literacy is the ability to read and write proficient proficiently in two languages by literate person has the knowledge and skill to read and write in one home language and in the second language I would like to add speaking to that as well as these students need to demonstrate proficiency in reading writing and speaking in both languages in establishing this state seal the health the state of California clearly is prioritizing the value of bilingual citizens
006the purposes of the seal include to encourage students to study languages to certify their level of BI literacy and to provide employers with a method of identifying people with language and by literacy skills also to provide universities with the method to recognize and give academic credits credit to applicants seeking admission to prepare students with 21st century skills to promote foreign language instruction in public schools and to strengthen intergroup relationships within the state and affirm the value of diversity the mission of Chico unified school district speaks of ensuring all students achieve high levels of academic and personal success contribute to their community and confidently complete compete in a changing global society the students receiving the state seal of by literacy will be more ready to compete in this global global marketplace a 2013 study by UCL
007UCLA found that in every every industry studied bilingual bilingualism was a desirable trait over two-thirds of employers stated that they would hire a bilingual candidate over a monolingual candidate all else being equal and I would say Chico unified as an example that right here in town so the requirements of to a to get the state syllabi literacy are quite strict it it's not a small accomplishment first students must pass our English language arts classes in high school with a 2.0 or above and must attain a level 3 which a standard met on the smarter balanced their 11th grade year they show proficiency in languages in addition to English by passing an AP exam passing an SAT subject area test or completing a four year course of study with a with a 3.0 in a world
008language I'm gonna introduce the principal of Pleasant Valley High School Damon Whittaker thank you Tim good evening welcome thank you for joining us tonight my name is Damon Whittaker I am the principal of Pleasant Valley High School I too would like to say thank you to all the parents out there for your support of your students throughout the years we share in the disappointment tonight that we couldn't be here in person to recognize these students for these amazing accomplishments however we feel like it is important that we do celebrate them with an awards ceremony we celebrate them for their amazing accomplishment over the past four years and all that they have done congratulations to all the students tonight who will be receiving these awards we want to make sure that you are truly recognized for
009your outstanding commitment and passion and everything you've done and all your hard work at this time I would like to recognize Chico High School who is also here with us tonight and introduce to you the principal from Chico high school Doug Williams Thank You Damon hello Bonjour and I'd like to say first all that I wish everybody could be here this does not diminish this award because we're doing this virtually I also would like to say that I think it says a lot about the Chino Unified School District and the state of California and your willingness to join kind of a global arena because this is I believe the one ceremony that we do that is a combination of Pleasant Valley High School and she go high school and so I want to say congratulations
010to both the PV students and parents and staff and also that Chico high families students and staff and I think this shows that once you leave high school you carry with you those traits that you you earned at your particular high school but we all know that we're moving forward to join a citizenry and a global economic world and I think it's great that both schools honor you this evening by having a joint ceremony and that's that's something that is is reflective of the impact of this accomplishment that you've achieved what's gonna take place this evening is in the honor of sharing this award ceremony we're gonna have teachers from Chico high school that will be reading names of Chico high school students and they represent our world language department and then we will be
011go alternating with teachers from PV reading PV students names which will represent their world language department and so the next section of that will begin right now why what again I want to say thank you it's a pleasure for me to be here I'm honored and I'm going to introduce our first teacher Senor Bustamante Spanish teacher at Chico high school Thank You mr. Williams I would like to congratulate the following Chico High students Raymond Brayden barber high school and I'm happy to announce the names for Pleasant Valley Corey Allen Tomas Tomas Barbour Paxman sarahi Bautista Ramos will Bearden Jelena bel aleb bracamontes Jordan Bennett ELISA car hi blue Josh go Dona Meghan Brandel Yash Khurana our new foe Camarena Yahaira Cruz Gonzalez pass mean darish Hannah Clark Alexia Gallegos hey Manuel Gallegos Martinez Daniel Crawford
012Mariela Calvin Moreno Christina crumb Alejandro Garrido Jeannette Dylan drew Kirsch Ryan der DB Goodman Gabriela Carly Justin Henderson Sean Harrington Sandra Cassie Hernandez Garrett hawk Riley Ireland Carson Howell Stella James Jeremy and so Guevara Khan Kayden Jansen Lila Klein Kenzie Jones Magdalena Maki Martinez Emily Kozak Jackson Mickelson grace Crowell Peyton Miller Jacob Cramer Jose Mujica Paulino Jacob Lew Melissa Naranjo Israel Martinez a lon Nava Alexa Miramontes John Paul JP quinones Oh Susanna Morales Viviana BV Quintana Reagan moss Andrew Schneider good evening my name is your authority Tirico Sydney Mountjoy ISA Bella Bella Schneider Joyce Marie Elena's Soto Albert nay Josh story Elena rabinal Rabinovich Samrat tapa lakin race Salvador Vargas Trujillo [Music] Diego will cheese sauce or neo Tristan Bruce pursues Cepeda Ramirez Erica CMAs whenas noches yo soy la profe a Vargas and I
013am excited to read the following names Mohamed mo Mario I'll Jabari Joshua Simmons Ethan Brown Kieran sing mahom Desai Kaitlyn Stuart Kaitlyn Catalina Fishburne Madison Sims Ali Fritz Mason the Olivia : Vivian Neutron Sophia Sophie hump you Fay wins love Jake Harrison Roger Wilson Oh Briana Aubree Hernandez Isabella woody Morgan Hirschberg Jacob Abarca Zephyr Paulson race Ferris Taran kill each e Angela Gao Tyler caliche Taylor Sheffield Leslie Ghana Castaneda Eliana le Sheridan Maggie Smith Garrett green Macey Spearman Olivia Villasenor Edgar Hernandez Alexander Alex Wilkinson anastasiya Sawyer Isabel Osorio Kai cook Riley Freeman Nichols anchez Hayden Hinkle Thalia Krueger Melissa Scarpelli Ali Lance Lucinda law Alana grinds Ian Lopez Asia Patel Brandon Henman Mason Temagami Jake towner cabal low Josephine Walker and Gavin Wilson Rosa Vere Andy shin hwal suave just zoom at em pay pay
014and I'll be announcing the candidates for French at Chico high first we have Nadia desert Victoria Jacobson Arielle re Kepler Selena Stockwell Adelaide sands Allie Whitfield and for Pleasant Valley High School for the outstanding World Language Awards for Spanish in French we would like to recognize Gerrit aka Fernando green as the outstanding world language student for French and for Chico high school I was I'm excited to announce that Victoria Jacobson has won be outstanding world language students and in addition to being an excellent student in class and all that that entails Victoria went above and beyond integrating French into her personal life she always spoke French with me in the halls outside of class and listened to French music and watched French films and would then share her discoveries with myself in the rest of
015the class truly enriching the course for everyone and I'd like to add for Garrett green our French outstanding world language teacher Garrett green also earned the bye literacy seal in Spanish he he actually took Spanish for four years and French for four years so we're making up a board called the trilingual SE seal for him for taking four years of both languages both French and Spanish and he's the outstanding student for French for PV and we are really pleased to announce also that Garrett Hawke as our outstanding world language student in Spanish Garrett studied Spanish for five years he started in eighth grade and is currently finishing up his fifth year in AP Spanish an excellent communicator and and he excels both in speaking and in writing but he has also this great sense of
016humor and he so appreciates learning the culture along with the language I know he intends on continuing his Spanish studies in college and we couldn't be prouder of his accomplishments so we'd like to congratulate both the Garrett's Diego and Fernando on their outstanding or language student awards and Chico High would like to recognize Mahon Desai as this year's outstanding Spanish student Muhammad someone who exemplifies the characteristics of a distinguished language learner not only does she shine academically but for the past four years she's come to class everyday with a huge smile on her face ready to practice Spanish which is her third language she's dedicated to using Spanish every chance she gets with her peers with her teachers she isn't afraid to take risks and make mistakes and she's motivated to communicate so it's with
017great enthusiasm that we recognize you mahom for your achievements you just felicidades thank you thank you everybody at home for joining us and congratulations to all the students out there all the graduates receiving the seal job well done many many years of hard work and best wishes to you wherever you are going next year before we go I want to thank both PV and Chico High's world language teaching staffs for working with these kids for four years and they're not up there but I also want to thank the junior high teachers and even the two-way immersion teachers our Rosedale and Chico junior for working with those kids as they come up and all of our teachers for working with our English learners coming into our schools learning English so thank you to our staff I
018want to thank J Marshawn for being here and the two principals Damon Whittaker and Doug Williams for taking the time tonight to to congratulate our winners I hope everybody has a nice night awards the certificates and medallions will be handed out at the site so you'll hear from your school about where and when to get those congratulations everybody have a great night [Applause]