001uh the superintendent report this evening will be a little bit different I'll do a brief uh District update and then we'll move over into just a refresher and uh really a safety briefing seems like a a great time to just Refresh on all of the steps that we're taking around student safety so to begin with today uh Monday is the first day of fourth quarter of the school year it is hard to believe um but here we are in fourth quarter um on uh last week our students wrapped up the third quarter and then on Friday our teachers were engaged in recording and Reporting student progress ahead of parent teacher conferences later this week so uh just as a note our staff is excited to meet with families in conversation this week about their students
002progress um since the conference schedule include evening hours there's no school Thursday for Early Childhood through grade five students and no school on Friday for all students Early Childhood through uh grade 12 next week of course is spring break and we wish all our students and staff School families an enjoyable and restful spring break uh just a couple of of honors congrats to our high school wrestlers here they are you will see a list of their accomplishments on the screen additionally I want to note that free state senior Grayson Hagen completed his career as the winningest wrestler in Firebird history and Lawrence High Jr Goldie Stevens there she is uh is the first girls wrestler in you in LHS history to medal at state so congratulations to these uh students these wrestlers on their accomplishment
003free state business teacher Kimberly Hawks took six student members of the schools distributive education clubs of America the DECA Club to the State Career Development conference in Manhattan what a wonderful opportunity for these young people to learn more more about business and finance we have a a school to farm farm to school update uh that program has received several grants including $11,200 Grant from Frontier Farm Credit to support us in rebuilding the greenhouse at Juvenile Detention Center it will serve as a resource for growing plant starts to support all of our district Gardens as well as provide Agri cultural training to Learners at the jdc day school this grant also included transportation funding for fourth grade day on the farm field trip and uh Lisa ball LHS science teacher and her school earned $1,000 Grant
004from grassland Heritage foundation's sustaining prairies fund they will use these funds to develop a seed saving St station in con Junction with LHS CTE agricultural research station LHS will also enhance its Prairie Library as students develop a mobile Prairie exhibit featuring a series of photos and air dry clay pressed Prairie plans um Julie schwarting free state um science teacher also received $1,000 grassland Heritage Foundation Grant for Prairie restoration safety jumpsuits for students to wear when they are working in the prairie grasses they will also add informational signage to the Prairie so we look forward to seeing that the Kansas State Department of Education also recognized um Lawrence Public Schools for Farm to school intensity that means that we dedicate the resources needed to have a vibrant Farm to school program we look forward to continuing
005to enhance this programming if you haven't uh listened yet uh we still have uh online the Lawrence Public Schools podcast I invite you to hear Andrew bevon and I as we chat with the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence Youth of the year on the left there LHS senior Arabella Gip and the junior Youth Of The Year son flower fifth grader Aiden Kong it was just a delight to visit with both of these impressive young people who had important things to say I wanted to finish by just updating our community uh Communications Outreach as you can see we're holding fast there through uh February just really averaging uh around 20,000 views of each of our um our Communications so we'll kind of turn now if it's okay uh trustees to um I'm just trying to
006get that to go away guys if you would and then it would be great if we could put up the document which is um the super message 310 uh 25 and trustees we've update we took advantage of the 10 minutes you gave us and updated this document with with some late breaking information so if you refresh uh you'll get the uh most recent uh version of this safety update