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Part 1 (Video ID: -M53nD66tag):
- 00:00:38: Board of Education Roll Call, Pledge, Agenda Approval
- 00:02:08: Ipsani High School Points of Pride Introduction
- 00:03:36: Automotive Repair and Technology Program Details
- 00:06:25: Collision Repair and Technology Program Showcase
- 00:09:49: Botany and Horticulture Program Highlights and Future
- 00:13:37: Cosmetology Program Achievements and Future Plans
- 00:17:06: Culinary/Bakery, Drone Aviation, Manufacturing Programs
- 00:25:23: Podcasting and Media Production Program Overview
- 00:33:05: Video Game Development and Up-and-Coming CTE Programs
- 00:41:40: Dual Enrollment, IB Program and School Highlights
- 00:48:15: Student Testimonials: CTE, IB, and Dual Enrollment
- 00:53:20: Student Testimonials: Manufacturing and Closing Remarks
- 00:54:52: Board Recognizes Ipsilani High School Accomplishments
- 00:56:22: Board Comments: Praising Scholars, Staff, and Opportunities
- 01:02:28: Field Trip Approvals and FTE Staffing Projection Intro
- 01:06:00: FTE Projection: Early Learning Center to YCMS
- 01:13:11: FTE Projection: High School, Recommendations and Needs
- 01:16:04: Board Questions: Marketing for Enrollment and Staffing
- 01:21:24: Consent Agenda Approval and Contract Renewals
- 01:23:13: Cosmetology, Furniture, and ISD Budget Approval
- 01:26:38: Public Comment: Jeremy Haley on AI and Resources
- 01:30:32: Subcommittee Reports: Policy, Scholarships, Legislative
- 01:33:57: Board Superintendent Comments: Awards and Events


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The roll call for those board of education members who are present. Trustee Sutton Kennedy Kennedy, could you perform the roll call, please? >> Trusty Goodrich >> here. >> Trusty Sutton Kennedy, I'm present. Trusty Townsen >> here.

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>> Trusty Espie >> here. >> President Hawkins, >> I am here. We have board of education members who are present, one who is absent, and one who will be joining us later. Next, that takes us to the pledge of allegiance. At this time, I would

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like to invite members of the public to join us in reciting of the pledge. Next, that takes us to the acceptance of the agenda. Is there a motion at this time to accept the agenda as presented? >> Madame President, I move that the board of education accept the agenda as

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presented. >> Thank you. Motion has been made by trustee. Is there support for this motion? >> Support. Trusty Townsen. >> Thank you. Supported by trustee Townsen. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries.

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That now takes us to uh item number four on our agenda, which is achievements, awards, and recognition. And at this time, I would like to turn it over to Dr. Zachary Ross. >> Thank you, Madam President. We are just so excited to have a huge team here

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today representing Ipsani Community High School and they are going to do their points of pride. They're led by their proud principal Dr. Chelsea Harris Hugan. So I'll ask that she come forward for their presentation.

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Good evening members of the board and all of our wonderful cabinet members. Good evening. I am so excited to be here with my amazing amazing staff um and some of my amazing amazing Grizzly

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Nation folks. Some of them um are going to be walking across the stage pretty soon and next week Thursday. So, super excited that they are here um with us and still rolling their sleeves up to do the work. We're gonna um go ahead and

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get started. First part of this is igniting futures um through our CTE. We'll talk a little bit and interchange with um folks coming up. Automotive repair and technology is our first um one up and that is Mr. Reed Sandifer who

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is our newest addition and we are so incredibly lucky to have him. Hi everybody. I'm uh Reed Sander. Uh new uh but I think we've got uh settled in pretty good and pretty quick. Uh so this

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year the in the short time I've had we were able to have seven scholars earn their G1 ASSE maintenance late repair. uh certification provides foundational knowledge, skills, and a uh industry validating edge over the competition. So other students out of high school,

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they're going to have that certification to be able to prove that they know what they're doing and that they are the better hire as compared to someone without it. Uh some real world experience we did this year, uh scholars participated in hands-on activities using state-of-the-art technology that

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WCC has to offer. So they did diagnosing some issues, provided guidance and steps and repair. Uh we have a student that was on the dyno. Uh uh they were learning how to uh use diagnostics on in the cars and how it shows through the

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dyno and everything. And then I was also able to take them to the Detroit Automa show. Uh this was gaining a a lot of knowledge and building connections with people in industry, businesses. This show has thousands of students that come. They're the first ones that are

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able to be in the showroom floor to see all the cars, see all the vendors, talk to everybody before the general public even gets in there. So, it's a really good opportunity for them to get one-on-one, see what they can do in the automotive field that's just not repair. They could do custom car work, they

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could do auto sales, they could do high performance. There's so many elements to it. And then uh we also provide scholars with our hands-on automotive services. So oil changes, tires, brakes, suspension, diagnostic, electrical. Uh

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we have a few shop vehicles now. I believe we have five now. And uh I'm looking to get more and I have a lead on some new engines as well that we're going to get donated. So, we'll have some newer equipment in and so students will be able to get to work on some new

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stuff and be able to get that experience to have to go out into the field. So, thank you. >> Next up, we have collision repair and technology from our pro, Mr. Keebler. >> Hi, I am on my sixth year this year.

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um love it here. And what we do uh we use the IICAR Academy curriculum. It is 14 stackable uh certifications that our scholars can get and it is the same thing they use for entry level

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technicians at body shops at tech schools. The great thing this year we've had tech schools come in and talk and they say you can leave with the ICAR Academy. and they look at me when they leave and they say, "Wait a minute. We're going to have that here, right?" I said, "Yeah, you will." Um, IAR is doing

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some great things. I hope to sit down with a couple people that are in here and talk about that, what I doing for education. Now, um, Skills USA, we had seven scholars that, uh, went and competed at the regional level, made it

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to state. Uh we went out there. It was in late February and they all placed within the top 14. You see right there, we had two fifth place finishers. One of the fifth place finishers is actually five points out of

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second from being on the PO. That's how tight it was. Um and then we had sixth place, eighth place. Uh, and I only took two. Actually, I only took one student who competed in Skills USA last year. So, those were all first year students

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except one. The one that was there last year is the one that was almost ping. So, worked great. It's a great experience for the kids to go stay at the Amway in uh Grand Rapids. It's fun. And then the real world experience, we

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have the opportunity to work on practice panels as well as customer cars doing light body repair. Uh this year we did a bit little bit bigger repair on a customer car. He usually comes every year with a car and we actually cut tail

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panel out and welded it back in. Um, very I had to, as you would say, really observe that one when we're getting into uh structure, but they did well. They enjoyed it. We're doing a golf cart

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right now for the same guy, just putting a paint job on it. But we do refinish, which is paint, and then damage assessment. Actually, two of the students at Skills USA were first years and they actually competed in damage appraisal. And the night before the

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competition, a funny story, every year I've been there, I never took an appraiser and I watched it. They handed them a packet and they had to take that packet and put it all in the computer and come up with numbers and that's how they were judged. this year, the night

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before the competition, the guy who runs it, he says, "Hey, good news. We're doing live estimates tomorrow." I was like, where they pulled in a wreck car and they had to look at the car, find all the damage, and put it in. My students

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had never done that. We talked about it, but they finished fifth and sixth in the state. So, looking forward to it next year. Thank you. Yes. Okay. Uh next up, um we have our lovely WB who will present botany and

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horiculture which is new for us this year. >> Yeah. Um hello. Thank you for having me here. Um I'm Laurel Winnabzer. I It's my first year teaching a CTE, the Botney and Horticulture program, and it's the first year of our CTE. So that's been

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very exciting um and very busy. Um, so yeah, some of our uh things that we'd like to highlight are that um we received a floral design binder of materials, a $400 binder of um all of the things the students will need in

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order to get their um Great Lakes floral certification. We have two students who are actively working towards that for the fall um and who I feel confident are going to succeed um in their floral design.

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Uh, and they made some beautiful bouques this year as bineers as well. Um, we're hoping that eventually we'll be able to make some uh arrangements for like prom or for um plays and things in the

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future. Um, we are growing. Um, we have students who have been working towards a 250 hour certification called um, Acres 21. This is through the um uh Michigan

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Farm Bureau. So they reward students for having 250 hours of experience throughout their high school career. It's widely recognized across the industry. And I have about five students who um they're going into the second year of botney who I feel confident will

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meet those requirements. So that's quite exciting. Um they also will be presenting at uh the semi uh community forum next Thursday. If you'd like to see us, it's at 10:00 a.m. at the Eastern Michigan Student Center. Um

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they'll be talking about all the ways in which we've promoted biodiversity through this program. Um yeah, uh we have established some new green spaces this year. Um we got our new greenhouse built. We finally got it filled with dirt, which is very exciting. We'll be

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able to start filling it with plants um this and next week. Uh and then things we're looking forward to in the future. Um next year, we're hopefully having a composting expert help us set up a larger composting. Um

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and uh yes, we have been planting um our veggie garden, our we would like to expand on our flower garden. Hopefully we could one day grow our own flowers to flower a range. Would also be a lot cheaper. Um

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uh and then we've been adding to our native pollinator areas um to support those goals of sustainability as well. Um and then uh we just earned um I think last week we received a an award for um

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the green schools. Um you can see the award is on the slide. It's the Evergreen School Award and it's for um good stewardship of the land and um basically protecting and being a champion of sustainability

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which um has been very exciting. Uh the kids have been doing an really amazing job. I'm very proud of the work that they've been doing and the ways that they have um made connections and extended it beyond what I even foresaw. Um yeah. Um, and then, uh, we we're

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working with facilities to create a landscaping design project. Hopefully, you'll see some flowers going in around the main signs and the electronic sign. Um, and that has will be designed by students. They've created their designs and we're working with facilities to get

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those planted soon. So, yeah. Thank you. All right, there we go. Cosmetology is up next and we've got some really exciting news that we'll share together. >> Good evening you all. My name is Nyrie

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Swanson Hood and I know you all can't see my Ipsy paraphernelia because it's in my heart. Y'all know I'm a um I am a proud Ipsyani 1992 graduate and so I wear that with pride along with my sister here. So um I'm just saying I I

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love Ipsy. If you all anybody that knows me, you all will know that I love Ipsani High School. So um but um the first thing on our uh agenda is that we want to talk about certifications. So we have seven scholars who are ready for the state board um for May 12th and those

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are our secondyear students. Um we have a first year program that we are running inside of the high school. Our second year program presently is on Whitaker Road at beautiful Lux and we are um the intention here is to bring both of those programs together. Um we love to do that

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because one the benefit of that is that it will give the students more hours. right now we're losing hours to the time frame that they're using traveling back and forth. So the great thing about bringing that program inside is that we'll eliminate that time frame and we'll give that time back to the students on their time sheet. So we're

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looking forward to doing that. Um our cosmetology program it allows scholars to earn hours up to 15 well up to 1500 hours. It takes two years for that. I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with how that works but 1,500 hours. Once they receive the 1500 hours, they will

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be set up to take their cosmetology license exam. This is a real live exam. This exam allows students to um to qualify to get into entry level positions. In the state of Michigan, you have to have a license. And so all of

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you guys, you go to cosmetologist, they have licenses. And this is what we're providing at our school. That's what's so great about the program. Um, in addition to that, we're looking into um we're doing the background work now for the barbering pro for the barbering program, which is even

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better because um with the barbering there aren't any schools, I don't know if you all know, but Lancing all the way down to Detroit. So, for us to be able to provide something like this in house for students like this is one of the best things I think that we could provide for kids. Um, in terms of

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achievement, we were so happy this year. We were invited to invited down to WDIV in Detroit um the morning show where students came in. So we took two students down. I'm not sure if any of you guys saw us, but hopefully you did. Um both Dr. Hugan and myself, we had we

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were stars that day. Um and so we brought two students. They were able to um take Dr. Hugan and take her from nothing and then they transformed her makeup. They transformed her hair and when it was all over and said and done, she ended up being the beautiful person that she is. And so yes, we're looking

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forward to um bigger and better things next year when we bring the program back in house. And so that's what we're looking for. Thank you guys for the program. We appreciate it. All right. Culinary uh bakery and science. Um I'm going to do that. Chef

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is not um feeling well tonight. Um just some of the highlight highlights from this school year. the American Culinary Federation competition, we had one place silver, one place bronze. Um, Skills USA, eight uh regional medals, we

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brought home the Nassau Hunch, we placed um top 25 for that as well. uh our real world experiences, 108 total certificates. Those are certificates that again set our scholars apart when

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it comes to being able to qualify for that workforce. They have the certifications that a lot of our um workforce uh folks or employers are looking for. So, and it also gives them three college credits, eight surf save

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uh managers um positions. We also were able to um gain for um our scholars three of them um yeah three of them with college uh credits that were earned. Um all graduates earned at least two

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credits towards culinary institute of Michigan. Um some of our scholars were able to go to Oakland uh University where or Oakland Community College where they have a great culinary program. They did that last week or week before last.

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They were able to um take some time to um converse and talk to some of the scholars that were there and really get excited and immersed into that. Um we received a $5,000 Rachel Ray Foundation grant um for some of the things. We

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purchased a brand new freezer with that. Um there it is right there. and for the um NASA HUNCH program and it makes us one of the few high schools in the country able to prepare food similarity

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similar to the NASA um folks that um for space flights. So very um hands-on. If you're ever at the high school, when our culinary um babies get off the bus, we always raid their those white boxes

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that come off the bus because they have made some amazing food. So when they get off, we're all like, "What'd you cook today?" Um so and then open the box. Uh drone aviation, Mr. Kushman. Um year one for this program. Amazing program. Um

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amazing, amazing, um educator, teacher, talked a lot. interviewed 1900 different times. >> We've been popular. It's been a lot of fun. But my name is Michael Kushman. I teach the drone aviation uh and technology course. Uh this is our first

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year of this program. Um and it's been a great experience. It's it's been a lot of fun. Um what we're doing, our goal is we're preparing kids to take the FAA Part 107 exam. And what that does is allows them to make money, be compensated flying a drone. And this is

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an exciting time to be in this space because the applications on the uses for drones is it's really astounding I to even start uh going through the different applications would be a fruitless endeavor here because it really is an amazing amount of career

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opportunities and that's one of our goals is not only to get them prepared for the 107 uh exam but to also um give them an idea of the different careers in aviation that are out there. Um there are 900 different companies just in Michigan that are related in the

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aviation space one way or another. Um and so we're we're exposing them to those paths and and even the ones who might find out that hey, you know, being a pilot or a drone pilot or we're even talking about fixed wing aircraft pilots, maybe they find out it's not for

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me, we can expose them to all the different careers in aviation because less than 10% of people in aviation are pilots. there's a lot other um there's a lot other demand and need for people in the aviation space other than just pilots. We've had a lot of successes this year. Um we're going to have two

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students that are presenting at the Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition. That's um they're going to be talking about placebased education. Um, we had one uh they were flying for the the botney program earlier this year, but looking forward into next year, I want to get a lot more uh into because

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that gives kids real world uh you know experience where they're flying uh maybe mapping the the the grounds here and and not just here but at other the elementary schools in in the area and they can plan green spaces and there's a lot of other things. We actually do have

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that planned later on. Um we're going to Ericson to um map their grounds and help them plan a green space. Um see we've had kids uh participate in a drone competition. Um that was a couple weeks ago. That was a lot of fun. That was my first experience doing that and so doing

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that next year. Um hopefully uh we we'll do even better and because now that we've seen it before and we've done it before um we're only just going to get keep even better. And then Curiosity Career, that's a new program this year with the the WISD started and we were in a couple different middle schools and

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we're just exposing them to the different CTE careers. I think automotive was there, um welding was there, a lot of different programs, but we were one. So that way when those middle school kids get into the high school, they already kind of they've had a draw in their hands and they they can um have a better understanding of if

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this is for me or not. >> Thank you. looking to see if Mr. Kim came. All right, I can present manufacturing. Um the Skills USA success we've had um

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many of our scholars in those advanced programs for um Skills USA. I was just testing my skills here. um and they've earned regional scholarships, um silver at states and math related engineering

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um career and skills. Four of our scholars have already secured positions with the union um names are forthcoming. We'll put those out. I wanted to share that during um graduation um so that we do it in front of thousands of people.

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Um but again we'll share those names with you all prior to when we're marching in. We'll share those names and whoop while we are marching in for that. >> Um 100% of our scholars have um more than one state uh certified national

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certification um that we have. 70% of our scholars are OSHA certified. When you if you've ever been into the manufacturing space, if you walk in, we have certificates that go all the way up the ceiling um with name plates of those

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scholars who have actually um been awarded or placed or even tested in those different areas and had were able to get those stackable credentials. So when we talk about um workforce development, we are definitely doing

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workforce development and growing our scholars for college and career, not college or career. They can do both and be very successful. So um just some of the real world um applications using modern day technology. Some of our

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technology is so incredibly new that um we have people that are coming in from the workforce and are looking and hiring our scholars but having to almost retrain them on the older material

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because they don't yet have the new um materials and the new machines that we have. Um so it it is definitely giving our scholars that cutting edge when we talk about workforce development and when we talk about um exposure to other

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careers and where they want to go and if they want to do both they're definitely able to do both podcasting and media media production um Mr. Co is going to come up and talk a little bit about that. And yeah, great amazing podcasting

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teacher. If you look at any of our work on Instagram, he is the leader of that work and supports our our babies that producing, editing, making me act silly on on what running around the school. So definitely a welcome for us.

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>> All right. Good evening everybody. All right. a little nervous with all the bosses staring at me, but we gonna get through this. Um, walking into podcasting last school year, I knew I had my work cut out because the program was trying to diminish. So, uh, we put in a lot of

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work and my friends over at WISD help, you know, with the framework, you know, to make sure that we're aligning with CTE standards and things like that. But this school year, you know, back in January, they finished a production of the multimedia space over in the 500 wing at the high school, and everything

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is state-of-the-art. Um, I've been in the industry myself, uh, for the better part of 10 years, and everything in that room mirrors everything that I've seen from radio stations to professional podcast sets to movie sets. It didn't matter. We have identical equipment. So, it was a privilege to be able to expose

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all of them to that and also make I want to be a creator a tangible thing and not just something that we laugh at like we did 10 years ago because it wasn't as serious. But now, as we can see, content creation in the media industry is one of the fastest growing ones, you know, in the in the uh workforce right now. So, I

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teach them everything industry standard from the editing softwares that we use um which is Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. Uh some of the equipment we use, short SM7Bs are my favorite kind of microphones. If anyone is familiar with them, they use them on XM radio. That's a standard. Uh so they're using those uh

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their digital audio workstations are in alignment with the industry. Um as you can see that bottom picture right there. Uh that's my good friend Maris Webster. He's graduating next week. Uh he's sitting at our engineering station. Something that they had never seen before. All they saw was the knobs and the flips and the switches and the

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buttons and things like that. But now we're showing them how to use it. We're getting them career ready, right? Whether that's professional, you know, podcasting or uh editing, you know, professional video editing and they do they do a lot of directing. They learn about the speaking points and things

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like that. In fact, I'm sitting next to Paris who's in uh my intro to media class and she's counting how many cuss words I use, which are really just filler words that uh are common in the industry. She's she's back there counting them right now. But the talking points are they get really really clean.

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And another one that I'm really proud of is the YCHS social media account is mostly student curated, right? I facilitate it, but the students are the ones creating the content. They're putting it out. They're learning about the marketing techniques. They're learning what's right, what's wrong. They're learning what fits the brand of

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Ipsy, and they're also taking that and figuring out, okay, what fits my brand, you know, how do I want to become a great creator? In fact, uh, I want to share a little bit of a bragging point before I fly down this slide. Royce, can you come up for me real quick? Thank you. Uh, so I also have a brother, fun

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fact, he's in the NFL, but that's not even the coolest part about him, right? So, uh, he takes a lot of his money and he goes diving and things like that. And a couple years ago, he calls me because I'm a professional video editor and I do a little bit producing and things like that. And he says, "Hey, I want to go diving this off season." And I said,

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"We'll go. I'm not I'm not getting in the water. You know, go, you know, you do you." And so he went. But then he came back and he said, "I kind of want to make a movie about this." So I'm like, "Oh, we'll do it. You know, I'm, you know, do it." And he said, "I you're going to need a team." And he said, "I

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know. I'm on the phone with my team." So we created a movie. And that was one of the coolest things I had ever did. So, uh, he also started a nonprofit, a nonprofit organization. And one thing that he said he needed was just like young people, creators that are hungry, that have the skills that I have. And I

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told him straight up, I'm 29. I don't have the time like I used to anymore. I'm actually doing this cool thing called teaching. So, you're going to need somebody. and he said, "All right, give me your best." So, I said, "Okay." So, I lined up about six or seven of my absolute best students in my program.

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The ones that could keep up with the rigor I was throwing at them, the ones that were retaining everything that I was teaching them and the ones that showed that they were serious because it's career technical education, not just an elective, right? So, uh I picked those students out and I vetted them for the first semester of school. And then

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the second semester that six or seven number got down to three. Had three students and I pulled them off to the side and I said, "You guys are doing great. You guys are doing amazing. I want you guys to compete for a spot." All right. They all know about my brother because I brag him on them all the time. I said, "Look, he's working on

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this really big project. Um, he's going to Antarctica next year. We're going to Antarctica to create part two to that movie. And he needs a production team, a huge production team." But he said, "I want young people." Right? So, I told these three people, I want you guys to compete for a spot. He's going to argue

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an internship as a young creative leading uh the creative side of his nonprofit, the social media, the marketing, and a lot of content creation, you know, edit video uh video editing, I'm sorry. And they competed all second semester. So, a lot of their assignments that I were assign that I was assigning them, sometimes they'd be

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different than the rest of the class, but they were double dipping. They were getting graded for it, but they were also getting assessed by my brother and his team. Right. So, uh, there's three spots and they're tiered, right? One of the spots was an internship with his nonprofit where they'd be doing a lot of video editing. A lot of the skills that

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I taught them, a whole lot of them, uh, running the content side of his organization and then that top spot will be going on that trip to Antarctica on a professional production set, right, as uh, the young gun on set, right? So, uh, the winner of the Antarctica trip hasn't

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been announced, but I'm really, really, really happy to say that Royce actually accepted the internship with my brother where he was, uh, gifted this fancy little computer down here with the proper editing software so that he has access to it no matter where he goes

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because he does graduate next week. So, no matter where he goes, he will always have access to everything that I taught him and he'll be able to help my brother out as his newest intern with this nonprofit. Yeah, >> that is all yours if you want to carry

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that. Yep, I can I can part ways with that. I can part ways with that. Now, uh back to this back to the slideshow because real world experience is my favorite. Uh so I see that it says during a women's day event scholars conducted interviews and produced features highlighting accomplished women

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from the community including Judge Slay. She had a really cool interview with the podcasting team uh where they showcase their leadership and impact. Super duper cool. Uh but that is just one thing that they've done. Almost all of the events that have to do with YCHS, the podcasting team is on it. They are broadcasting. They are creating. I am

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not piloting that ship. I'm facilitating the movement of it. But that ship rolls because of them. I've taught them so much. I'm about to cry. I'm a new teacher. I'm a brand new teacher. Um, I taught them so much and

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like to see to see them apply it and keep it and thank me for what I what I've been teaching them is uh that's huge for me and them, you know, the amount of thank yous I've been getting from them and the amount of tears and the hugs and and all of that that I got last week. It it was huge cuz before I started working here

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as a teacher, I spent eight years not working for anybody but me doing this. So, all I wanted to do was pass that on so they can get a way way earlier start than I did. And that's um that's podcasting. All right.

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Congratulations. Well, welld deserved. >> Um video game development is a new CTE this year. Um, Miss Stanzic, she's got the afternoon shift for her babies, um, her husband and, um, they split off who

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is doing. So, today was, um, her day to be on duty. So, um, I talked to her and told her I would represent, but, um, by being one of our newest, um, CTE, a lot of the work that came from this was

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birthed by our AI lab that we had with the, um, partnership with, uh, HP and what that looked like and how we use that high-powered um, tech equipment to produce those gaming pieces. and our um

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scholars being able to write code. Our scholars doing partnerships with some of the elementary schools um with the drones um flying above, snapping pictures, bringing them back to that video game and development and them doing layouts of what the gardens could

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look like. I think at Ford um they actually did the garden there and the um folks that actually did the work um was from the layout that we did at the high school. So some of the certifications um

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Unity certified user um Unity artist Unity certified user programmer um Unity certified. So, we use a program that is Unity and has those different um stackable credentials that are industry

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um recognized from uh Unity. Um career ready skills. They validate foundational skills in game development. If you know that's one of the fastest growing industries um next to the podcasting and all of the things that podcasting brings

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to the table. Um they build professional portfolios. Our seniors um did their senior checkout on Friday and to be able to have them come with those portfolios was amazing

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because it showcased who they are and their digital footprint and how positive th those digital footprints are and who they decided they were in our um digital world. so amazing. They are um boost their resumes for college admissions or

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entry level tech roles and allow for immediate opportunity for our scholars to earn money. They can also game and code and do all of the wonderful tech stuff that um Miss Stanzic would do way better justice than me um expounding on.

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that we thought it was important to just kind of go and just look at a testimonial from um one of our scholars and he talked about the thing that truly made him fall in love with that CTE was the creativity of the craft. something

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about creating um his uh literal world and characters, villains, and it brought his life and some of the things that he was thinking and dreaming of to life just through that um CTE. So, an amazing

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CTE for some of our scholars that really um like to use that high-tech equipment, that are skilled at using that high-tech equipment, and those that are more skilled are those ones that are really ready for college and career.

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Up and coming for our CTE. Um we have our best pathway that will launch. Um it's a um entrepreneurialship program and we're going to expand that. We already have it in 11th and 12th grade, but being able to strengthen that

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and offer those opportunities in 10th grade so that our scholars um have a more um co cohesive um 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. With 10th grade, they're starting at WCC. 11th grade, part of

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11th grade, they're finishing WCC. And the second part of 11th grade through 12th grade, they're actually employed in the field that they are actually seeking during the hours that they would be at WCC. They're trading off those hours for

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internship programs. Um, seven YCHS uh scholars were selected through a compet competitive application and interview. they had to actually interview for this um for uh next year. We have a new barbering pathway that um

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uh Miss Nyrie talked um about and just how that um creates just an additional voice choice and agency. It was developed because we did a survey and we wanted to ask our

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scholars what are some CTE or what are some additional things that you wanted to learn about and what are some things that would be engaging to you and that would be able to make you money right away. I don't know about you but when I was in um college I think everybody has

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some kind of side hustle. um Cookie two doors down from me was a um backyard uh cosmetologist who was licensed through high school. And every Thursday I went and got my hair done two doors down.

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Best best beauty salon in the dorm that you'd ever see, but she finished um and got her bachelor's in business, opened her up her opened up her own shop, but she was a licensed cosmetologist. When I really talk about college and career, we

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can do both. And um not limiting our uh scholars to that. The AI pathway um will include generative AI, Python, and data science courses from 9 through 12. So that AI pathway, we've um looked at it.

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They're going to do a part of it in the middle school. When they come over at 9, they'll start a second part and it'll advance each year. So they'll do generative AI, Python, and um data analysis and data science courses,

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cosmetology. Whoop whoop. We're bringing in um in-house um super excited about that. And I truly truly want to thank all of you for the support that we've received and um with that and that barbering piece just adds an additional

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look for us. I think that we are one of two that offers barbering inhouse. Um, so just really setting ourselves apart and listening to the voices of our scholars. And then graphic design for

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those scholars that want to design clothing, design t-shirts, design this nice jacket. um some of those things bringing that program into our um high school as a half.5

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CTE. So looking at that and then financial literacy and planning, how are we really setting our scholars um apart and giving them some financial planning. What does that look like? What is a credit score? How does a credit score

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affect you? Um what does it mean to have credit cards? When are those credit cards due? uh when I get ready to apply for a house, what does that look like? What is an APR? So, explaining all these things prior to graduation and prior to

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getting to college when you've got somebody from a local uh store asking you to come and fill out a a credit card. Some of y'all shaking heads and you fill out the credit card and you go down to that store and you charge it up all the way to the limit and the bill comes and you're like, "What do you mean I have to pay this?" Like, this wasn't

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free. So, um, really teaching them how to align and if we're talking about really earning them money at an earlier age, showing them how to properly save, spend, and invest that money. So, those are some of the upcoming um, CTE that we

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are looking at with um, musical theater and production is an additional one that we'll be um, adding. So, a lot of wonderful good things happening at um

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YCHS for the upcoming year and the following year. Dual enrollment. Okie do. Um I think Shunk is on baby duty, too. Um fought a winter semester. So, some of the things we went from 43

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um of our scholars to 58 of those scholars registered for WCC courses. Um some of them eight out of the 16 were um advanced washa um STEM dual enrollment went from 28 to

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42. So really looking at how again how are we setting our scholars up for future successes. So that when you think about that advanced law we think about this is college and career. So they're earning credits in college as well as

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gaining a skill. um college readiness workshops that are starting um WCC success coaches uh which we've been asking for for a few years are actually partnering with us to prepare our scholars for successful start to the

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winter semester. So that'll um start happening in September where where they'll be on site. Our scholars will also be able to go over there in that um semester two of 10th grade and semester

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two for ninth grade for those um scholars that we um know are prepared and ready and also support them with that ACUPPLACER because we know sometimes that's a barrier. to putting those supports in place to ensure that they have that ACUPPLACE of prep so that

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they can get their sixes um and reading and math to be a reading and writing to be able to go on and successfully enroll. Dual enrollment, we talked about ACUPPLACER prep success courses um on campus and then dual enrollment starting

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for semester one for 10th graders. So again, moving those some of those um readiness courses back and providing that exposure a little bit earlier so that when they get to 11th grade, they are really secure in what they want to

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be able to do. Uh IB diploma program, Miss Barman, who um has been amazing. We just went off top um went for IB certification a couple of weeks ago and we think we did

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absolutely fabulous. So I think we are definitely going to um do a great job and and we should be authorized in just a little bit here. Did I stay? So, um I'm very proud to be here to share a few celebrations and updates

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from our IBCP program and our soontobe authorized diploma program. For a diploma program, one of the strongest affirmations was the feedback that we received from the authorization team already recognizing our strong systems and clear evidence of staff and

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program readiness. To prepare our students for the rigor of IB, they're currently participating in my level coursework that emphasizes inquiry, critical thinking, and skill development, and participating in the personal project, which allows them to apply their learning through an

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independent passion-driven project. Sorry, I'm also feeling a little nervous. We've also reached several important milestones in the authorization process. All proposed diploma course outlines have been authorized by IB and are approved by IB

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and DP instructional staff members have completed IB authorized course specific training. Goodness, my apologies. We are continuing to expand student access as well with all 11th graders having access to IV aligned courses. All

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current ACT 11th graders have this access and IB teaching practices including ATL skills are embedded across all disciplines. um so students are prepared and ready for what's next and um really supporting that collaboration, differentiation and student real world

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skill development. So here we just have some photos celebrating the things that are already happening in um our CTS that we've explored today. So with the career related pathway, students have the opportunity to enroll in a CTE program while taking the IB diploma level courses. So, these are just some of the

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moments we wanted to celebrate, including students receiving awards, being recognized, having fun, and collaborating, and getting their hands on these tools to prepare them for what's next. Oh, sorry. There we go. Um, H.B.CU was

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first this year. Um, we had our, um, ninth graders that, um, did the reptile uh in-house scholar uh in-house um program and then our NHS induction. So that was some of the pictures there. Our

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scholarships if you take a look um 122 scholarships awarded 4.7 million 4.6 institutional 280,000 private scholarships and 100% 100% of our graduates are walking this

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Thursday. next Thursday. And then um just some other highlights from H.B.CU and then some highlights from prom the other night that we had. And then um we truly wanted to extend our sincere appreciation to all of you for your support. And then if we could

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take just a few moments um I know we're over, but to just hear some of the voices from our scholars. This way. Good evening. My name is Paris Cameron and I'm I'm in the 10th grade at Ipsellani STEM Middle College. We recently got to tour all the CTE

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programs and we could choose from. For my CTE, I want to do CNA. Because of the program, I now see my future as being a nurse. After high school, I plan to go to nursing and this program is helping me by giving me a head start. I am

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grateful for this opportunity and I know this program will be a great experience. Thank you to everyone here who has been who has made this pathway possible. >> Good evening. My name is Tvon Mills and today I will be discussing why the IB class is a valuable opportunity for

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students. One major benefit of taking IB, it will make your resume stand out. Not everyone is willing to challenge themselves to advance course work. So being part of the IB program shows as an employer that you are hardworking, disciplined and prepared for difficult

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tasks. Thank you very much. >> Uh good evening. My name is Ephram Kiza and I am a part of the drone aviation CTE program while also being dual enrolled at WCC taking courses for my college credits. Uh, a few of the skills I've learned in the CTE class is one,

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learning how to legally and safely fly a drone. Uh, we've studied and practice legal flying according to the FAA rules and regulations. Uh, and another skill I've learned in this class is learning how to code a drone. Uh we went to a drone competition where we had to

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program an autonomous course for our drone to fly which uh was very frustrating and trial and error failed. Um drone popularity is growing in many fields including real estate constru construction inspection

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um and exploration that is unsafe for humans and more. I plan on going into robotics and engineer in the engineering field and this program gives me an edge that others don't typically get during high school. Um, the other program I'm glad to be part of is the dual enrollment program. This program allows me to take my high school some of my

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high school classes as college credits, which is helps me get used to being on college campus while getting the credits as well as give me a head start in taking classes for my career. I am quite thankful to have these

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opportunities and thank you. Hello everybody. My name is Ran Butler and before I get started, I want to give a big thank you to all the staff, the board of education, and any guests that did arrive today because all of y'all are changing people's lives every day.

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Now, to start, I want to get into my last two years of high school because I feel like I experienced the most out of it being here at YCHS. I was in the CTE radio podcast and TV broadcasting class and I was given the opportunity to

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work towards my certification in broadcasting. Looking back, it feels like the perfect way to end my senior year because this class has given me the experiences I've never imagined I'd have in high school. During my time with the program, I've contributed to multiple films, podcasts, and other media

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projects such as Detroit's on threeday where we work with different artists, influencers. We've done college tours and even created short films. Each project gave me hands-on experiences where I've contributed to multiple films and showed me what it really takes to

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work in media production and gave me the opportunity to work with people from variet various backgrounds building my communication skills connecting with the network of support in business and the content world. And while all of the experiences are were exciting and fun, they also come with a lot of hard work

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and responsibility. Through this class, I've developed important skills like communication, teamwork, creativity, problem solving, and professionalism. More than that, I've built memories and gain knowledge that I'll carry with me into my future career in education. Thank you everybody.

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>> Hello, my name is Dominic Porch and I'm a manufacturing student at Community High School. The manufacturing program has made me much more prepared for my future because I've learned about a field that I've never been involved with before. And it helped me learn what it means to put in hard work to something to learn about it. I have learned about

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many fields including precision measurement, general industry skills, and laser engraving. And my time in the class has made it possible for me to make many positive contributions for myself and for others. It would not have been possible otherwise. My course and its instructor, Dr. Kim, truly do great things for students and open many

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exciting doors in my future. like being a CNC machinist, which I am personally considering. And ultimately, I greatly appreciate the effort put into this and all other programs at YCHS because they allow allow students to do and be more. >> Right. And I know that we are over time,

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but I really thank all of you for your care, concern, support, and allowing us to do what we do at YCHS and really, really foster voice, choice, and agency when we do the offerings and when we come before you with this work. This is

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why we do the work. So, thank you so much for allowing us to present this evening. Thank you, Dr. Harris Hugan, for uh sharing all these exceptional initiatives and achievements and accomplishments for our scholars at Ipsellani Community High School. Uh we

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didn't want to give uh our resounding round of applause after each person came up, but we want to make sure that each group is recognized individually for all of their hard work and their efforts and being part of this community. So, at this time. I want to invite our scholars

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that are here to stand up and to be recognized by the board. You all have done an exceptional job. Keep up the outstanding work. Are there any caregivers or families that are joining us this evening?

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If so, please stand to be recognized. Next, I would like to invite all of our Ipsilani Community High School educators, staff members, uh, who are here present to be to stand and be recognized. I feel like we are thoroughly downloaded

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on what is happening at Ipsellani Community High School and we are doing some exceptional exceptional work in this community and in this district and we are very proud of each and every one of you. I'm going to open it up to the board for comments, questions. Um so we

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might need you to come back up Dr. Harris Hugan if the board has questions. Uh board members, do you have any comments? Yes. Kennedy, >> I just wanted to thank all of the staff, um, families and students who came to share all of the exciting things that are happening at the high school. Um,

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it's it's a lot and it's exciting. um so many opportunities um and um options being available made available to our scholars and that's exciting work and I appreciate you all for taking the time to come and share um all of the

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exciting news and achievements with us today. >> Thank you Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Trust um first of all I would like All right. So, what I I wanted to definitely

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say is I want to thank all of our scholars. I was very impressed with how you articulated your thoughts. um how you explain the career paths that you are choosing to go into um or what your plans or future plans are. I think that's very important to be able to

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stand up in front of individuals and clearly articulate what you're doing. So kudos to you and all of the hard work you're doing um to the team. I especially want to say thank you because it is very evident that you care about

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what you're doing and that you're passionate. When you have a passionate teacher, it reflects in the students and how successful they are. So, I want to say it is thank you really to you. All

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we do is make policy and approve all of the money that we're spending. We're going to spend some more on cosmetology today. >> And so, um, but I'm I'm very happy with cosmetology for the fact that we knew if

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we brought it in house, it would be successful. And it's the numbers, you know, I care about the numbers and I like the fact that we have what is it? Uh, seven students that are testing tomorrow. So, thank you for that. Um,

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but I I just really again want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you to all of our teachers because it is really you that helps drive what we do and your labor and work and passion is not in

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vain. This is a prime example of what that hard work and passion does. And you just really never know who you're um teaching. You don't know who they gonna be, what they gonna do, but I'm pretty confident that these scholars here

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tonight are going to make us proud. So, thank you again to all the parents that consistently drive, take them places cuz you all go a lot of places, a lot of places. We approve a lot of

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trips and that's a great thing. But um I'm so happy that you all are doing such great work and um we just look forward to seeing this district continue to grow and be excellent. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Townsen. Other board

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comments or questions? Yeah, I also just want to name that I recognize that uh having all of these options, right, create requires a lot of coordination and a lot of folks and moving parts to make sure that our students are able to

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have that opportunity to dual enrollment, be able to be in CTE and IB, right, and do all these things because ultimately uh you talked about voice, choice, and agency, and I think that is a that 100% graduation is a there's a

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direct correlation between this offering of voice choice and agency and allowing for our students to find where they can thrive. Um, and I think that is a huge difference within our district and how we are operating um as a as a whole

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because I think that all of our students have and all of our scholars have amazing potential and when we give them the opportunity to excel in what they're passionate about, this is what we see. We 100% we see these opportunities coming forward. So I just want to thank

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you again for the coordination. Um and I know it's not necessarily the most conventional way of having running the schools, but I'm really grateful that this is what we have invested in and it it's it's coming to fruition. And so I I

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appreciate that I can see where this investment is going and um even through I think about uh the CTE millillage that we passed this year, right? And and where this is showing up in our district as well. So, thank you for using those

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dollars, using our community dollars to really advance our students. >> Thank you, Trusty Esby. Any other board questions or comments? Again, congratulations on the exceptional leadership that is coming

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out of this school. um all of the hard work, determination, uh resilience uh that our scholars are demonstrating each and every day. Um to everyone who is the village in this school, uh pushing, encouraging, um

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creating pathways, access points, exposure, and opportunities. We just say thank you for representing this community and your high school and yourselves so well. So let us give everyone who is here this evening another round of applause.

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All right. Next that takes us to we are at um action item uh number five on our agenda which is under student affairs and that is the acceptance of a field trip request for our Ford Early Learning Center. Is there a motion at this time? Madam President, I move that the board

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of education approve the field trip afford early learning center to the Toledo Zoo in Toledo, Ohio on May 13, 2026. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trustee Espie. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Sutton Kennedy.

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>> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Sutton Kennedy. Any questions for on this item? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> Those opposed? That motion carries. Next, that takes us to the acceptance of

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a field trip request to our Fort Early from Fort Early Learning Center on June 2nd to Toledo, Ohio. Is >> said that's okay. Uh, next is the acceptance of a field trip request for Ford Early Learning Center on June 2nd

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to Toledo, Ohio. Is there a motion at this time? Madam President, I move that the board of education approve the field trip of Ford Early Learning Center to the Imagination Station in Toledo, Ohio on June 2nd, 2026. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Goodrich. Is there support for this motion?

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>> Support Trusty Towns. >> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Townsen. Any questions, board members, discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries. Next, that takes us to the acceptance of

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a field trip request for Ipsalani Community High School band camp happening August 10th through the 15th of 2026 in Leonard, Michigan. Is there a motion at this time? Trusty Thompson moved that board of education approve the weeklong field trip of the Ipsellani

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Community High School marching band program August 10th through 15, 2026 to learn the 2026 marching band show. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Townsen. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Goodrich.

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>> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Goodrich. Any questions or discussion board? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to item six on our agenda, which is our first public comment

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portion for this evening. Miss Haynes, have any public comment cards come in? Thank you, Miss Haynes. That now takes us to our presentation for this evening which is the FTE staffing projection and talent management report by Miss Sue Mccardi, Dr. Zachary Ross.

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>> Thank you, Madame President. Each year the in the MA masb checklist, there's an opportunity for the board to review um the data that we've collected regarding our projections for class sizes and how

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our staffing FTE. So, human resource director, Miss McCarti really does a lot of work behind the scenes to pull together. Remember, these are projections based off of the feedback we've gotten from um our staff, our

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administrators, and as we roll up our data. So, thank you, Miss McCarti, for this work, and we look forward to your presentation. >> Thank you. Good evening, members of the board of education. I am happy to present this May uh pro

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I am surprised that it's already made. So, here's where we are. Um, this is my favorite graphic of where we are. So, we gather the data using um power school using what the buildings are uh providing and then um projecting the

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FTEES based on how many scholars we're going to have enrolled. To gather this data, we consider these items. staff to scholar ratio, partnership agreements, budget, IEPs,

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increase in the multilingual students, um especially since we will be adding the fifth grade this year at Wednesdays. Then we consider the funding for title one um based on state formularies, how

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much money we have, how many staff uh uh scholar needs as well as how many staff to meet those needs. And then ultimately we have to consider teacher certification. Um the projections we have are appointed

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time projections based on data from April 16th power school. So this is Batty Early Learning Center. Currently we have 119 scholars. Um I believe that we have filled that role. We have 120 capacity. we will be at full

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capacity and most likely our full capacity now in order to meet those needs uh with the Head Start GSRP regulations we would need 21.4 FTE there. That's because we share some services. There's not a point4 of a

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person, but point4 of services. And then looking forward to four. Currently, uh, we have an enrollment of 286. We're projecting that next year we will have 343

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based on the rollup numbers from Batty and Ford and Perry. And I'll explain more in a moment. Um, so based on that with the OT's, teachers and all of the ratio that we need, we're looking for 56.15

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FTE at 4. Then going to Perry Early Learning Center, we're currently at 391. We do expect an uptick in that one as well to 424. And based on that, we're looking for

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55.85 FTE there. Some exciting news about the early learning centers is that early Head Start is completely full. Um, GSRP will be by July 1st and then Head Start, we're

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waiting for the open opportunity that WISD provides on May 15, I mean, May 25th and we anticipate being fully enrolled in Head Start. So all of the slots that they provided us through the state, we should have complete

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enrollment in the early learning centers. Ericson, we by just a simple roll up, we see a small um decline in students and the slight decline is this the first

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grade right now at Perry and Ford, but we don't truly anticipate that decline, but it is what the numbers say. And so based on that, Ericson would need 31.21 FTEES. Esso is projected with a slight

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decrease. However, I spoke to the principal today and we have now have all of our fourth grades at 31 plus students. So it looks like that we might be in actually in an increase this year. But as of that point of time, this was

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how the projections rolled out. So for um Eserbrook, we're looking at 40.7 FTE to cover all of the needs of our scholars there. Moving on to homes. On Homes Elementary,

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we are currently at 197. We're projecting to be up to 206, but if I know Mr. Shoots, he's going to try to get that number way up. Remember, we we're still recruiting and we're still out there. And not that we have the recruitments on our marquees now and

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we're out there everywhere and um we will be adding additional classrooms because the portables are going up. John's taking care of that and that will be great. Looking at Pentes, as I said, we're going to add the fifth grade now. We

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have actually hired the the fifth grade teacher from our international alliance group and will be coming to the United States this summer and so we anticipate enrollment going up to 146 there

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and the FTE that we need is I lost my FTE 25.75 to cover the needs at points looking at wise we are currently at 405 um we anticipate there being 385 next

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year. And um based on that, we're looking at 37.7 FTE4 Y. Moving on to ACE. ACE is down just a little bit, but the in this school

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enrollment increases as the year goes on. So we anticipate not being um less next year at ACE, but actually being either even even or even more students and so based on that we need 25.7

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FTE there. YC2S. Currently we have um 105 students there, 105 scholars there. And based on that and hopefully some new programming,

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we will require 22 FTE for YC2S or IPSY connected. Moving on to YCMS, we are expecting an increase there based on the fifth grade numbers. So based on those fifth grade

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numbers um and positive programming and marketing and just all of the great things that are out there with YCMS, we expect to have an uptick in in student enrollment there. And based on that,

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we're going to need about 56.1 FTEES. It says final recommendation to be determined. Uh that slide just printed like that. That's not to be determined. 56.1 is what we anticipate. And then looking at the high school

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right now, we have 57 projected for um next school year. Um it it's like uh the ninth grade class is just a little bit smaller than rolling up, but I'm hoping that people are

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watching these board meetings. We're recruiting students. We have new programs every day. We hope to see an increase at the high school. Right now, we have a projection of needs of 478.5

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FTE, which is up from our 447 44 447 444.96 from last year. So we're looking and the reason for that is we have the IB programs, we have more CTE programs, we have more grade levels, we have added

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the whole Puentes um school. So with our FTE requests and projections, we just want to support our three priorities of accelerating academic elect excellence, advancing future ready preparedness, and

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allocating resources equitably. And finally, this is just a little snapshot of where we need have the the needs, special education teachers, social workers, ancillary staff. We'll

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continue to work with all of our like our I AS, our WISD partnerships, our own recruiting and frontline as well as other resources to fill those positions as well as 31A social workers.

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Um, we would like we would really like to have a multilanguage learner, social worker, and we will need a couple of Spanish immersion teachers along with general education teachers. A strange need that's coming up lately, the last

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year or two, is a a surprising lack of PE teachers. So, we're going to start working on that. We're hoping that the MARC program, which I just spoke with Mark, we had met with MARCH and we're going to have 37 in one semester for GLC

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and then 38 in another semester. So, we'll be looking very closely at those candidates because we've had success in recruiting from that resource of of excellent teachers. And based on all of that, we're

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anticipating at least a positive of plus 99 in scholars for 2627. And that was not as much fun as the high school, but what questions might you have? >> Thank you, Miss McCarti. Um, board

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members, what questions might you have? >> Have a question. What um are we going to be doing any marketing uh in regards to enrollment or increasing

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some of the district overall >> in terms of scholars? >> Yes. >> I'm gonna have to defer to Alina for that because I I'm I'm marketing for staffing.

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So, we we continue to do the um we're looking at the bus wraps. We we have the bulletin from Adams Outdoor. >> Oh, we have from Adams Outdoor. Um we have proposals from K12 Media as well as

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Lambert in terms of what we're going to specifically which ones which advertisements were beneficial. So, we're looking at that data versus just before, as you know, we did radio and we did some other ads. We just need to make sure the we choose ones that will

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actually target those areas. So, prepare for this summer. >> Yeah, I meant to say marketing staff. >> Oh, sorry. >> No, you were right. You were right. I'm like I sit on communications. I know that. But um I'm kind of just all over the place today. But I meant for staff

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because I know we have some uh other districts that may have challenges and we're absolutely doing our internal career fair, our own internal career fair in early June. We were doing it in

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later May, but we weren't capturing the students because they were trying to graduate. And we felt like the data supported maybe an early June career fair. We're going out to career fairs. We saw a surprising increase in student attendance in the career fairs because

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we almost abandoned that source. Um, we're also going to be using our frontline. Our administrators recruit unmersively and unap apologetically. they recruit and then once they throw some candidates at me and I throw some

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candidates at them based on that we're also considering other resources um like Red Rover and other um recruitment sources for getting staff also word of mouth also using um I a

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um we have used them for mainly uh multilingual but we can always use them for general education And then um there's one other for special education, Dr. Zachary Rust. You know what? When I'm it just escape escaping me, but

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we're we're we're recruiting actively that way. And then we are using that WISD um partnership to get some of those uh special education social workers in house and using Sheresa. Um in terms of

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getting the 31A, several of them for us that she was a great mentor and they'd like to come and work for us. So with the new partnership with the with Eastern with the students being

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able to have they had conversations about their education department. Yeah, we actually are paying for the next scholars next uh SC people who are in the program to get their degrees

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through the WISD a grant we have in partnership. So we we are actively working with those scholars next people. So they are currently in school to be educators and then they come and apply to uh county schools. So we often we

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make sure they know about us so that it's it's a partnership so that since we pay for that degree then they are coming to work at Washington County School District. So we are doing that. We also have a program with them and it's a small program. We really hoped that it

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would uh really flourish more students but we have the ed education students in a 2 by two right two years at community college then they We pay for two years at Eastern so that

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they can come and work come back to uh us and Lincoln to work. So we have two programs current and the parent to teacher program and one of our parent teacher graduates will be joining us at Esesterbrook Elementary this year. So

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those students do not have to come directly to to YCS. They can go anywhere in county, but they're choosing to come back to us. Any other board questions? >> Thank you, Miss McCarti. >> Thank you.

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>> Next, that takes us to the consent agenda. Is there a motion at this time? >> Trusty son Kennedy moved that the board of education approve the one two personnel matters as per the presented list dated 56 2026 new hires

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resignations terminations and retirements. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by trustee Sutton Kennedy. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Goodrich. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Goodrich. All those in favor?

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>> Those opposed? That motion carries. That takes us to our first action item under student affairs and that is the approval for our annual instructional material and contract renewals. Is there a motion at this time? >> Madam President, I move that the board

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of education approve the one American Reading Company quote for a purchase amount of $48,400. Two American Reading Company quote for a purchase amount of $58,50. Three, American Reading Company quote

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for a purchase amount of $12,000. Four, Pediatric Therapy Associates LLC quote for $43,746. Five, visible learning proposal for $79,900. Thank you. A motion has been made by

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Trusty Goodrich. Is there support for this motion? Trusty Espie, I support. >> Thank you. Any um questions from the board? Seeing none. All those in favor?

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>> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to the acceptance of the Ipsellani Community High School cosmetology renovation bid award. Is there a motion at this time? Trusty Townsen will death board of education approve the contract award to carpentry

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concepts for a YCHS cosmetology renovation of $397,296. Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Townson. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Sutton Kennedy. Any questions or discussion

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board? >> Uh Trusty Aspie. I'm just curious where um This will be situated like within YC within the high school like physical space. >> It's right by the Thank you, Mr. Virtual.

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>> It's right by the >> It's going to be where the year one cogntology room is right now across from the auditorium and we're going to move year one behind there. have a year one classroom and a year one

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of cosmetology and year one barberhop all in the same wing where the podcast is going to be like a CT here tonight. >> Thank you. Any other questions from the board? Thank you, Mr. Birwell.

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So, a motion was made by Trusty Townsen, supported by Trusty Sudden Kennedy. All those in favor? >> Those opposed? That motion carries. Next, that takes us to the acceptance of the homes modular furniture award.

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Trusty Townsen move that the board of education approve the contract award to Lakeshore furniture. for furniture at homes elementary school for a total award of $85,129.38. Thank you. A motion was made by Trusty Townsen. Is there a support for this motion?

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>> Trusty Espie, I support. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Esby. Any questions board? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> Those opposed? That motion carries. And that now takes us to the Washington

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ISD budget resolution um support for the budget for the 2026 2027 uh school year. Is there a motion at this time? >> Trustee SP, I move that the board of education adopt the WISD budget resolution. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by

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Trusty Esby. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Sutton Kennedy. Any questions on this item, board members? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> I. Those opposed.

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That motion carries. That now takes us to public comments. U our second portion for this evening. Have any public comment cards come in. Thank you, Miss Haynes. We um Jeremy Haley, you may come up and

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address the board. And before you speak, I just want to read the public comment protocol. Pursuant to board of education policy 0167.3, the board recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the

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public to express their views. Please limit statements to three minutes in duration. Participants shall direct all comments to the board and not to staff or other participants. No person may address or question board members individually and all remarks shall be made in a respectful and professional

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manner. Jeremy Haley >> Jeremy Haley Ipsy Township. It's nice to see that there was quite an assortment of CTE programs and stuff and a lot of them was nice to see that the robots won't be taking a lot of those over for

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quite some time because I don't know for a barber you don't want to go to a robot you might wind up little light on top or something but and that's what I'm kind of here to talk about is as the students going through

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is anything being brought up as kind of We got to do right for the environment. Save electricity, put solar panels, use wind, not use fossil fuel. But at the same time, the schools and

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everybody's saying, "Let's use AI. AI is going to help people." But I don't know if you heard or not because I keep up on the sub the oil and gas industry, but that uh Microsoft is

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putting up a 5 gawatt liquid natural gas generating power plant for their data center facility. This facility is generating electricity

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just for the computer, not for human consumption at all. Is there anything being taught to the students as you use this? You're using a resource that uses high water, high

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energy at the same time. Meanwhile, what's I fear what's going to happen? They're probably going to put all their dedication towards that. And meanwhile, people can't use electricity. You're can't use water at certain times. You're going to

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be banned on electricity. You can't use electricity certain hours because it all needs to go towards the computer. Are the kids being taught something that philosophical on that term because you're being told to use this but in one end I don't know

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if you well probably not but the perium basin and all the others pockets of gas and oil they're going down they're decreasing like we've been told in the 80s yeah by 2000 we're going to be out well we still got some but it's starting to burp and

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go really low we're putting all our resources computer telling our kids to use it. That's their future that we're using them telling them to go towards blindly while using the resources in the other hand. I don't know how you guys

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compute that and teach that to the kids, but that is a very important thing to do because it's their future. If we use up all the natural gas and all the sources and only have solar and whatnot, what do they do?

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Thank you. Thank you, Jeremy Haley. Next, that takes us to our board of education subcommittee reports. Any subcommittee reports at this time? Thank you, Trusty Goodrich.

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Thank you, Madam President. Um, the policy subcommittee met for two hours on April 29th and got through 53 policies and we're doing it again tomorrow. Um, I want to express appreciation to the administration for doing some of the advanced work to make sure that we have

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administrative recommendations in place when we review these. Um it's been really crucial for making it possible to get through the policies in time and I think it's been really helpful to have the whole team familiar with the policies um as we move towards

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implementation. And just a quick note for those on the policy subcommittee um for those policies where we have administrative recommendations clear indicated and no committee members have flagged anything for discussion. We're going to move through those pretty quickly tomorrow. So, please make sure that if there's something we need to

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discuss that you flag it and I'm going to be running through all those tomorrow morning. >> Excellent. Thank you, Trusty But for your leadership. >> Any other subcommittee reports? though um participated in the scholarship event that they had. I

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believe they gave out about 16 scholarships. I think I'll confirm that number again, but it was a good time to be had very excited that continue to thrive. So I believe everybody that

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mainly most thank you uh trustee town for your leadership making sure our scholars are getting the money they need to further their education. Any other subcommittee reports

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Kennedy? There is a legislative breakfast on Monday 18th 7:30 a.m. The agenda came out today. It looks like it was only sent to the LR

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for each of the boards. So I just forwarded it over to the board in case anyone wanted to add anything to the agenda or request any updates on the agenda. Um but I wanted to let y'all know that that was coming up on Monday and then

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after the breakfast. >> Excellent. Thank you, Trusty Suttonity, and for your leadership as well. Um, and thank you for foring the email so that we all have the information. Any other subcommittee reports, finance and operations, we did um go and

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do the bidding process. That was pretty interesting for food services. Um, went to every last cafeteria in the district and I rode with Dr. Lopez. Um so, but I

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survived and um but it was um it was very interesting process. Um Miss Boon did an excellent job coordinate that. So, we're looking forward to receiving bids for uh food services.

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Excellent. Thank you, Trusty Talson. Any other subcommittee report? Seeing none, we are moving on to board superintendent comments. Board members, what comments might you have? >> Um, I just want to say I was able to

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attend both the Grizzly Awards um and uh Finding Nemo Jr. in the past uh since our last board meeting. Uh the Grizzly Awards was a incredible celebration of our our staff and administration. Um, as

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always, I think thank goes to uh Raymond Alvarado for the production um quality, but I think it's something that is incredibly exciting to see our staff and our administration celebrate each other

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and the value our team, our our staff put on these awards and the appreciation they show in those moments. Um, it really matters and I think it's clear how much this district cares about the

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folks who work here. Um, and it's a testament to the emotions that show up during that evening, the joy, celebration. Um, and so I'm just really appreciative to be able to attend again this year. Uh, and I I love that the district continues to celebrate the

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folks who work here. Um, and I also with Finding Nemo, it was middle school's play. Uh we got to see a preview here and it did not disappoint in any way. It was so fun. In fact, it was the the lighting, the acting, the all the set

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production. Uh it was incredible. Um and I know that the school just wants to keep on building on that momentum. Uh and I I'm ready to support continued growth of their their theater program

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because we see some students who are very excited about this, right? And they continue to come back to it and it is such a great opportunity to showcase their talents and be in front of folks, practice their public speaking and be proud of who they are.

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I just really appreciated it and I was so grateful to be able to attend. I was there with Trusty Townsen and Trusty Fields. Um, and we even got to take a picture with the one of the stars, uh,

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Little Nemo Jun. >> Thank you, Trusty Esby. Other board comments, >> trustee Kennedy. Thank you for reminding me that I did uh one committee report and that is from

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the um we had that meeting on April 23rd. That was after our last board meeting. Um Neil presented on all of the steam efforts across the

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district. Um it was a very enlightening meeting that showed how all of the various CTE and other efforts um connect from uh elementary all the way through high school. And so that committee is really special because we have board

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members there along with administration and students. I'm sorry, not students, but also parents as well. Um and so it's nice to hear the questions and be informed on the things that are going on in the district and showing the intentionality behind the various grants

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and programs that are being Thank you, Trustee Sutton Kennedy for that additional report, subcommittee report. Um, any other board comments? >> Um, yes, Madam President. So, I was able to also attend the Grizzly Awards. It

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was fabulous. Um, Mr. Alvarado and his team does an excellent job. Um, it was hilarious um with all of the different videos and things, but it was very, very nice. I want to just send a very special

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congratulations to all of the recipients, but of course, Miss Geroline Lynn um for all of her services service that she's provided to the district. Finding Nemo Junior was absolutely

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outstanding, awesome, excellent. We have to continue to boost our uh theater uh and drama program from middle move on to the high school, but it it did not disappoint um with all of the effects

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and it it just kept you engaged the whole time. Um so kudos to Mr. Davis and his entire team at the middle school. Um of course I attended the scholarship event. Um our scholars continue to thrive and excellent and I'm just

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excited to see what their next journey will be and of course excited to participate in graduation. Um I attended the uh board community board conversation that we had with redemption. That was

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also um a good uh event as well. Um I got a lot of positive feedback from some of the parents that did participate and they definitely thought that this is um something that we should continue to do um just to bring the community in. Of

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course um for us to also push you know, or have parents advocate for people to attend more of those conversations. And then I also received several DMs from other people in other districts asking a ton

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of questions about how they too can do what we do. So, they're definitely watching. Um, she you know, anyway, um, but we're so excited have a anyway. Um, I'm just

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thankful that um we continue to do what we need to do and um hopefully you know I'm I'm I'm very confident that we're going in the right direction and just again thank uh Dr. Zachary Ross and her team the whole administration team for

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their hard work. Thank you. >> Thank you Trusty Thompson. Any other board comments? >> I just want to add from the Grizzly Awards uh a group that um didn't necessarily show up but did and made a

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big difference was uh the cheer squad. Um and I just appreciate even our students getting involved in that level. Um and so I just wanted to thank them for participating and being part of building that atmosphere that additional comment.

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>> Excellent. Thank you. Um yes, there is a lot happening in the district. Um, I would echo everything that's already been said, would echo the sentiments about um, how much good energy comes out of the Grizzly Awards every year. And I know a lot of hard work goes into

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putting that on. Um, so kudos to everyone who was part of that uh, team to make it happen. Um, I know we just celebrated our seniors with their clap out. Um, and you know what culminates um, at the end of the school year is

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graduation which is one of very for us, but there are a lot of events happening in May that we all um will try our best to make sure we we can attend um different events at various schools um and look forward to the upcoming graduation um that is coming up uh very

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quickly. I feel like we just launched the school year and now we're already graduating um our scholars. So, that is a very exciting event every year to see the hard work, the accomplishments um and the families who are there to c were there to celebrate with our

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scholars. Um so that is an outstanding um event that we are looking forward to um later this month and um I will turn it over to Dr. Zachary Ross for superintendent comments. >> Thank you Madame President. I have a whole list of things that is are coming

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up. I'm just going to try to highlight a few. However, I do want to go back um because you guys mentioned most of the events. One of the events I don't want to um go away to because we talk about We want to thank um Miss Allen, Miss

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Teresa Allen and her team for putting on the wonderful Mother's Day event and all the mothers who came out um because people talk about like what are you doing with parents and we have so many and that one was just a wonderful beautiful event and having parents from

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representing each of the buildings was so special. So we just want to thank her team. Um, we also want to thank the scholars who when we had the community event, Quentes uh came out as well as Finding Nemo. So, we want to thank those scholars who do they really make bring

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our programs together and you as you talked about um Trusty Towns and just them being at some of the events just really highlight it number one brings out their parents and number two really shows demonstrate the connection to our strategic plan. So, we want to our

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scholars for always uh just coming out and representing um for I know that I put in the board update but but for the community um we had to present at our bills conference our Verizon um innovative learning schools we're going to have two ACE um as well as Ipsellani

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community high school where our scholars will get computers with internet through Verizon for the next uh four years and the wonderful thing about the and we had to attend so that we can get those uhvices devices. What we did not have to

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do is have our scholars represent. However, when the first day we presented um the Chicago public school scholars came right after our presentation, they were live and in person and um people's feedback was so positive about having

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student voice and they said at the last moment so that was like Tuesday when we presented they we were had to present again on Thursday and they said can your scholars come? We're like, "Can they come to Chicago?" Like, they're like, "No." Well, can they come virtually?

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Would they be able to just answer those questions? And they're random questions. And um our Mr. Hower, our podcast, you saw him today. He was like, "We can make that work." And the scholar said, "Yes, we can answer any question from any

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superintendent." There were superintendants, educators, PR, mostly principles, and um central office staff. and our scholars represented. Um they answered questions from um educators across the nation who were interested in

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what they were doing and they just stole the show. Um they they they said they were nervous, but they did they still represented themselves and we kept saying, you know, the the comment, if you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. They were ready. They were ready.

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And um I'm just so thankful to our educators as you all highlighted. They have in order for them to be able to present to a national audience, they've got to be ready. They can't just you can't get them ready in in a day even though they had heard about it. They

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have to be prepared to answer questions, to answer succinctly, to they did not know. There was not a script. The people in the room, they just put the microphone around the room and each one of them took time um to answer the questions. There was not one scholar who

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just took over all the answers. every single one of them answered and the answers were appropriate. The answers were well thought out and you just should know, you should be very proud um of those scholars and they just represent like what all of the other

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ones you saw tonight represent. Um so we just are thankful to our educator, to our parents for allowing them to participate. Um we do have tomorrow's a student showcase at the high school um which uh we're really excited about. Um

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their Steam night at Ford on May 14th. There is a soulful and games night. Again, people ask, do you get the parents involved? Yes, we do. And we try to bring them in for different ways. And that one is on also on the 14th. We know

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our parents, you see the flyer there on the wall for the face conference. Remember that is our family and um community engagement. They have said we want another mental health awareness fair. It's going to be at Prospect Park on Saturday, May 16th, starting at noon.

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Um, we have our parents with the principal and coffee at Ford Early Learning Center on May 18th. A wonderful spring concert from Wise on May 19th and the same day. So, competing spring concert at homes on the 19th.

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We're excited about our unified arts night for our second and third grades, a concert at Esesterbrook on May 20th. And then the big event, the Atlanta Community High School and ACE graduation at George Durban um game above on May

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21st. Uh that day is our world culture day at 4. And then on the on the 22nd we have a half day. And I want you to know that half day is uh for our scholars so that in the afternoon our educators can

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put on a education educator innovation summit. And so all of those breakout sessions that will be led are led by our very own educators. they are teaching each other um really talking about the best practices um what they've found through their teacher action research

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what they've um done through both our driving possibilities work as well as our magnet work with IB and steam um they're going to be teaching all afternoon so parents we know half days are tough please do send them and it is

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for the benefit of what happens in our classrooms really demonstrating what powerful practice No school on the 25th and then we get into all our field days. We have our celebration of learning at Wise on the 27th. We have another move up ceremony

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of our youngest ones, our Batty on May 27th. That will be super fun. Um our 180 GR uh programs that really does their appreciation days will start on the 27th along with our YH High. We have a large

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number of WH high graduates this year at Hill Auditorium on May 27th. Um the end of the year preschool ceremony at Ford also on the 29th. And then for the last roundabout of promotion ceremonies at

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eighth grade promotion ceremony at uh IPS Community Middle School on May 29th. So, we will be full of events and then you guys talked about the musical. So, the the last comment, Sister Act Junior

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uh musical move to the end of the month because of so many things happening at the high school May 29th and May 30th. We cannot wait to see that. Um it's going to be amazing. So, please come out to support our scholars in the Sister

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Act Junior at Italy Community High School May 29th and May 30. Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Zachary Ross. Um before we move to adjourn, are there any other comments from Seeing none, the time is 8:23.