001call the session order and begin flag of the United States of America IND and jce for all we going to start superintendence report good evening everyone it's so nice to see so many um community members students uh teachers staff members here present with us this evening tonight we're going to this is a really exciting night for us because we are going to celebrate the accomplishments of our drama club our P band as as well as our music ofs and for those of you who did not have an opportunity to see to play one shame on you you should have been but uh the second piece is it was an amazing performance it really was I commend everyone involved in the place that goes to the pit ban that goes to the students behind the scenes
002that goes to the parents that you en tily work with your students and our staff to uh do the um set design and everything else that comes along with it and I have to say it's a it's a very dedicated and time consuming practice for our kids they actually practice and um go go through this process for months prior to the play and and they stay late at night they come here at about 4:30 5:00 they say to 9 10:00 they really are so committed and dedicated to this process and it shows when I watched the play I felt that I was watching a professional performance and I do have to say I do have to apologize for some of the crew members uh and and some of the U pit band members that on
003Thursday the day before the play I actually brought in Ze Communications the pr firm that we work with to interview some of the kids and so not only did they have to play the following day but they literally sat here in the auditorium and they were exposed to this interview with cameras and lights and I have to say they all presented extremely well and the reason we did that is because I think the community is aware that we are putting a capital reserve uh proposition on the May 20th valy and the reason for that is I don't think I really need to say it but if you look around uh the auditorium needs a tremendous amount of repair so the reason we had the interviews with the students and the directors and others is to
004gauge from our our students and our community members in terms of what does the auditory mean to them why is it important to renovate the auditor and I have to say I was amazed by their responses so afterwards I actually went to my office and they conducted an interview with myself and miss llin and I I was thinking about some of the things that he said I'm like oh man I gotta send a little a little different than what they said but I was very impressed with them so congratulations everyone I think you all did an amazing job so round of [Applause] applause now with that we are going to now introduce Miss Nancy Hawkin who's our director of the play and um Miss Sarah Green that's going to come up who orchestrated the pit
005band so at this time we're going to turn it over to miss Nancy [Applause] Haw all right hi everybody nice to see you guys again it's been a week um I just there's not enough I can say about the students and the cast and the crew um every year for the show they really do our put through the rigors I am not sometimes I'm not an easy person when I want to get something done done I'm always fair but sometimes I'm not easy so um I always tell them life isn't easy life is hard and I always say their practice makes perfect and if anything that I one thing that I can say about the students that I work with they are very committed to the show to their craft which is theater and singing
006and whether it be stage management or the pit very committed or they wouldn't do it because the rewards to them is putting on the show if the rewards weren't great they wouldn't do it every year because is very time consuming and sometimes you have to Humble yourselves the students have to Humble themselves quite often I often have to humble myself um week by week also to get through it but I am incredibly proud of all of you I don't want to get emotional because I don't usually like to talk about it because you guys all know how I feel and I know how you feel and um I think that theater instilling the love of theater in students and music is probably one of the best things as parents I have three children who are
007grown now who also went through the process I think it's one of the best things that uh we can instill in our children it gives them so many values and um things that they can take with them into the future and you know I applaud you all on a job well done every year you never cease to amaze me I can't wait till next year but no I'm not going to talk about next year's show but um you never cease to amaze me and I can't wait to see what we do next year to our seniors that we losing it it's very sad and um it's always like a break break up every year when we lose our seniors it is very sad but you can go into your future knowing that um you did
008some incredible things in high school and one of them being the musical so I'm very proud of you all and good luck into your future and hopefully next year for our show fingers crossed Community willing hopefully next year for our show we'll be performing a in a in a place that is uh worthy of our our performances so that's what I want to say like hopefully the chairs have be done next year we're proud of our school anyways it doesn't matter what the chairs look like we're proud of our students we're proud of our school we're proud of being part of this school but it sure would be nice to have comfortable seats to sit in how's that for an answer but anyways thank you all and I'm very happy with and I can't wait
009to see you all next year because Community comes out in force and we appreciate you and especially up lastly to the parents of the students you're often Al also required to go above and beyond to help with the show and honestly and truly the show could not happen without the parents of the cast people it would not happen so I want to you know I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and um for all your help and support that you give our program and the students and myself and my crew so thank you very much with that being said I'd like to introduce Sarah green and I just want to say one thing we' don't even working together two years but I think we make an awesome pair and we're all
010we're very much alike and we think alike and we want the same thing and that's for that we want success we want achievement we want the best out of our students and I'm really glad that we have paired up and I think we make an awesome pair and get a lot done so with that I'd like to introduce Sarah Green who's in charge of the pick thank you um to everyone involved with putting these Productions together much like Miss Harkin said just a huge congratulations and just a giant thank you for your time and dedication whether you're on stage in the pit involved with stage crew lighting and sound student directing coordinating dinners and money costumes and this is students and parents um you know it takes a village but it's absolutely so worth it
011and I think you all feel that way um sorry um Miss haran just working with you has been such a pleasure and like you said I think we're an absolutely incredible team and it's been really awesome working with you um I was in pimp when I was in high school and I have to say being a part of the theater Productions um those are some of the most fond memories of that time in my life um to my pit I want want to give you my endless gratitude for all the time dedication and musicianship you gave to me and this production you should be so proud of yourselves it's not an easy feat to play that music that music has not been altered to fit your needs or ability level that's the music that is
012handed to the professionals when they put on that show and you played it so so well I just I'm so blown away um I hope that through the hours and hours of rehearsal you left the final performance with a sense of Pride accomplishment and family whether you are part of pit for one show or seven shows I hope that you can look back on the experience and think wow that was really awesome and I'm so glad that I had that opportunity again to everyone involved students and parents every single person involved to put on that show congratulations absolutely incredible job thank [Applause] you I think we're gonna are we gonna bring everyone up the clip oh yes else you dream about going out there well that is [Music] world [Music] you and [Music] that was
013amazing can we have the kids come up and um possibly go on stage so we could get some photos and I'm sure your parents would appreciate some photos as well maybe we get a couple board members [Music] don't all right second row go I have to go B what than [Music] pictures I [Applause] [Music] thank you everyone I know it took a little bit of time to organize that I apologize but thank you students thank you parents thank you everything for everyone for what you've done to put the production together we have one other uh piece to my report which is the we're going to now ackowledge um some of our some of the great students in terms of our music department so at this time I'm going to turn turn it over to our
014high school principal Miss Magonia to introduce our [Applause] music good evening thank you all nice job getting that picture that was pretty good time that was good that was impressive um really quick I just want to again give a shout out to our amazing cast crew and pit I will say to all the parents grandparents everybody who is coming out that's amazing um I'm a principal and it's it's a lot of work but I was also a theater mom for a couple of weeks and that was a different level so I appreciate you on a different level now um I think that everybody does an amazing job and it really is a village so great job congratulations to everybody that was involved um and at this point I'm going to welcome up our amazing music
015department teachers we have Mr hrey Mr Preston we have Miss uh Mrs Green we have Mrs soong and we have Miss basil and they're going to come up and recognize some of our amazing students musicians who are being recognized for their achievements this year so please welcome our music [Applause] [Music] uh good evening everyone uh first I'd like to thank the board of education for asking us to share in this occasion um we're here to celebrate the incredible appearance of the young musicians that are about to be called up uh this accomplishment is not just about their talents but it's also about the dedication hard work and commitment that each of them has put in get here um I'd like to actually speak directly to the students who are going to be called up um
016your selection is a reflection of the countless hours you devoted to honing your craft and the extra mile you've gone in the pursuit of your musical world um you should be incredibly proud of this recognition and I know you're going to continue to inspire others and keep pushing yourselves just like you inspire us as your teachers to work hard for you um congratulations and uh you're really welld deserved of this honor so um how I'm going to do this to try to facilitate it because there are uh 46 students with 78 different citations being given out that they've been um chosen to be in different on groups in 12 different categories uh we're going to call up the category and all of the students they're going to receive their certificates on stage we'll take a
017picture and then we'll get on to the next group so this way we don't stay bath three more hours here um so uh without further Ado um I'd like to start off we're going to go pretty much elementary through high school um so the first category is the schia division one um this is the sub county music educators Association the Eastern Division which is pretty much like Sable to mul Greenport um and the students are and as I call your name you can come on up and walk right over here to receive your uh certificates uh Kylie Wallace Kent Davis kin Sweeny Grant Pano doer Jones John gy Carolyn curle Ranna Escalante Samantha mono and sopia moris e [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] all [Music] okay next up we have our middle schoolers who participated in Jia
018this year um first up is Addison Earl Bennett curon Ranna Escalante Cameron Eden Charlotte Amato Dalia Jones giovana bbard John doy payon Ryan Brian Dalton Sarah zuhowski Samantha Monroy helana B Sophia maras Noah sh and S Davis it oh it's still briad the for [Applause] next up we have our schia division 2 students starting with Cameron Eon Charlotte mono Davis Noah charison Earl and Ryan e it's [Applause] okay next we're going to combine our schuma Jazz students and our schuma day of percussion students uh starting off with Isabella Foley Ryan dalon Julia pens Z mat excuse me and Trinity Len [Applause] all right moving right along with our schia division three students we have Aubrey poach Chloe Howard Rebecca Bara Andrea Martinez Julian Jack mayor Kayla Kelly Kira [Music] skip for [Applause] we have a
019ton of kids who partic participated in Hama High School this year uh so please bear with me as I read this very long list of amazing students Sophia Capa Julia deer kin no auy coach Chloe Kus GI Bo Rebecca bar Molly Murray Andrea Martinez Julian Owen Julio CL Isabella poy McKenzie sweee Julia P James Taylor Matthew Z Ethan Molly har Kayla Kelly K skip haly Munch and Christopher br [Music] spe just [Applause] all right for n game all County we have McKenzie Sweeney CL Tans and Molly har f [Laughter] [Applause] for Nisa All State Middle School we have Addison Earl ran D and Charlotte l e [Applause] for NIS high school we have Clara Tans Offrey coach and Chloe Howard yeah say [Applause] all right for nisma All State we have two students we have
020McKenzie Sweeney and Clara tuin [Applause] [Music] and before leaves the stage I'm going to hold her there um there's so many I can say about McKenzie um but for tonight I'm just going to keep it simple to um the honor that she actually achieved um she's the First Student in a decade um that's 10 years that um was selected for the all Eastern um Ensemble she's going to be playing with the symphonic band in April and this is all Eastern is the 11 northeast states and also um territories in Europe and Military uh groups that are over there so this is out of all those [Applause] I'll say just a couple of words because I need to say some for graduation and a whole bunch of other things that um hopefully we will get a
021chance to talk about M but um she's a triple threat she could have made all state on Voice or on horn um she also plays piano and she's become an integral part of our music program she accompanies the elementary CH she basically helps us out with anything we need and she's always willing to lend her voice for the national anthem she plays hornn for pretty much anything weie chamber wise and she also basically can accompany anything she needs to on piano so um congratulations to McKenzie but she really has made her part herself part of this music department [Applause] once again um I'd love to thank my music department colleagues um the building administrators The District administration and of course the Board of Education um and most of all the students in front of me
022all the work that you do makes everything that we do as teachers just that much more enjoyable we wouldn't be in this job if it wasn't for uh kids like you um and I'd also love to thank the parents um from those first notes that I can still hear um I'm sure that you look at us saying what are you doing to us but now you see people who are really achieving and really going above and beyond and all the things that they are doing more than we ask and these are the achievements that they can make um you saw fifth graders right right on up until graduating seniors who are pursuing music as a career um and I really it's all due to what you help us do um so it like it's been
023said many times today um it really does take a village and I'm proud to be part of this one so thank you so much all right thank you everyone thank you for coming out we know that it's a school night so for those of you want to get home finish your homework and um get a good night sleep we're going to just wait for just a couple minutes to than everybody so proud of your hi my friends hi course thank you so much congratulations everyone I are you the as no no run at all [Music] going to resume the [Music] meeting questions and comments regarding tonight's agenda only please not this is the opportunity for persons who wish to speak or have written letters to the board regarding topics that are included on this agenda
024speakers are asked to sign in the district clerk prior to approaching the board indicate your topic of comments keep comments brief and to speak for no longer than 3 minutes members of the public have the opportunity to speak about any topic at the end of the meeting you wish to sign in the the book is in the back have anything AGA consent agenda approval resolve motion to approve the consent agenda items 8 a 14 yes if I can we do have three um distinguished Educators that are scheduled to retire at the end of this year so I would like to say a few words about my colleagues the first one is Brad Howland who is a physical education teacher currently assigned to the elementary school Brad's Journey with us began in September of 1997 when
025he was appointed as a physical education teacher from the very start Brad exhibited a passion for not only teaching but also for helping our students grow in in all aspects of Life his contributions go far beyond the classroom having coached various Sports and brought the gal program to sen virches in 1998 something that has undoubtedly enriched the lives of countless students over the years Brad's leadership extended further when he served as athletic director in the 1999 to 2000 school year and I I didn't realize that but um yes he has uh where he he helped guide and shape the vision of our Athletic program one of Brad's most lasting contributions was his involvement in the creation of red and white nights events designed to build student morale and force a greater sense of community within
026our school through his tieless work and unwavering dedication Brad has made a lasting impact on the lives of our students both on and off the field Brad thank you for your years of service your commitment to Excellence and your legacy of fering school spirit community and the growth of our student efforts the next individual is uh Miss Lisa hashen she's a guidance counselor at the high school next we celebrate the extraordinary career of Lisa H Lisa's Journey with our district began in 1992 as a part-time guidance counselor and she became a full-time probationary counselor in 1995 from the very start it was clear that 's career would be defined by her deep empathy unwavering dedication to her students and commitment to shaping the future of those she served in her writing sample during the interview
027process and this is something that um Janine and I found this week Lisa expressed her belief in the power of counseling and this is a grow from this session students should view their counseling their counselor as a listener advisor and one to provide information necessary to enable them to become productive members of our society that Vision has been at the core of Lisa's work throughout her career supporting students guiding them through challenges and helping them discover their potential Beyond her role as a counselor Lisa has been an active and essential part of our extracurricular programs advising the pl leadership group the hospitality club and coaching she has worked tirelessly to ensure that her students not only succeed academically but also develop the social and emotional skills that will serve them well for the rest of
028their lives Lisa thank you for being a constant source of support guidance and inspiration your impact on our students and our community will never be forgotten the final um colleague that is uh opposed for retirement is Donna M she's an elementary um teacher at uh right now she serves in grade five finally we recognize Miss Donna mum who joined our school district in September of 2000 as an elementary teacher Donna has dedicated her career to shaping the hearts and minds of our youngest students she's gone above and beyond in her role making sure that her students not only Excel in academics but also grow as compassionate and thoughtful individuals Donna has been a tireless advocate for inclusive it coordinating Native American presentations and Advising the no place for hate Club through these initiatives Donna has
029taught her students the value of empathy kindness and respect for all people her ability to create an inclusive and welcoming environment has left an indelible Mark in our school Donna thank you for your dedication your compassion and your unwavering commitment to making us SCH a better place for all students your legacy will live on to the lives that you've touched in closing Brad Lisa and Donna on behalf of the entire School Community I want to express our deepest gratitude for your years of service as you retired know that your work will continue to resonate with us all and we will always be thankful for the difference you've made please join me in congratulating these remarkable Educators on their well-deserved retirements we wish you all the best in the next chapter of your lives thank you
030congratulations on your retirement wishing you all the best in your future all in favor yes general public comments members of the public who desire to address or question the board on any topic related to board work are welcome to do so at this time speakers are requested to sign in with the district clerk prior to approaching the board indicate your topic of comment keep comments brief and to speak for no longer than three minutes to appoint a spokesperson if the concern is a group concern and to supplement verbal presentations with written reports if necessary or desired say anything informational items I just I have I have to come down now yeah can you come closer so we can you you're actually projecting pretty good I can hear you you really very well it's that old
031teacher you right it is it comes out every about te conferences which change so far into December like Friday before so I was just curious like what's the rationale for that so the rationale behind it was that uh we are now implementing a new report card at the elementary school we wanted the report card to be in the hands of parents prior to the parent teacher conference so the end of the trimester for the elementary elementary works on and trimesters unlike the secondary complex that works in quarters uh that their trimester ended December 5th so we wanted it to be after the triester ending and usually when we end either a quarter or we end the trimester a week after that we do release the report cost parents so we are right now in discussions
032with the cmta who have expressed concern about the late um date which was December 19th we are in discussions with them we may possibly look at revising that to a closer date sometime I also scho start early in September far scho middle schools of course we think we might have a revision the next week like college and stuff so my daughter went to school and has 41 credits which is tremendous um I was meeting my sons and I was looking for information about like test SC and the data from like our AP scores our I scor so I'm just curious when that's going to directly affect selection making we are I am working with Miss mangon now to look at our region scores as well as AP scores to see what that looks like and
033we will have something available to the community hopefully within a month amazing know it allows kids to pick another minor or two minor awesome and and I speak from experience to um my son Nelson walked away with 43 credits completed his baches and Dre she was able to register ahead of time and that's hug it's tremendous appass thatass absolutely thank you you're very welcome informational items red Devil's Pride Club has a meeting tomorrow night at 7M at the district office boardroom uh the SAR St Patrick's a parade is on Sunday March 16th and uh the PTO meeting is on Wednesday March 19th at 6:30 at the Clinton huei cafeteria the next Board of Education meeting and budget Workshop or budget work up an action meeting um it's going to be Wednesday the 26 at 700
034p.m. in the district office boardroom meeting was announced on the calendar as non Action meeting but now it's going to be an action meeting going to adjourn the meeting motion to adjourn the meeting second all in favor yes yes thank you everybody for coming we'll see you at the next meeting have a good night