So I want to congratulate all of our outstanding schools and I'm actually going to take a little give a little more kudos to Glenridge. Glenridge in the past three years has moved up five spots in the niche ratings their staff their administrators they are really been working hard and have shown the academic growth that they are now according to niche rankings there are top elementary school and that's kudos to the staff and I really want to congratulate for them for that and give them recognition for that because that was a lot. That's a lot of hard work that they have done to come to that spot and then on top of all of that according to niche Clayton is the best place to teach in Missouri so that was in the state of Missouri so that again goes to our support that we give to our staff and our recruitment and retention efforts in this district so just want to highlight all of those things for our district. And then moving on our work continues with the long range facilities master plan. If you have not heard we are doing this. I hope you have heard about this. One of the things that we are working on right now is building tours so actually last night we had a building tour at Glenridge Elementary and Dr. Murdock and I were there and we have close to 15 community members neighbors come into the building and we gave them a tour and it was amazing.

One of the things that we are working on right now is building tours so actually last night we had a building tour at Glenridge Elementary and Dr. Murdock and I were there and we have close to 15 community members neighbors come into the building and we gave them a tour and it was amazing. We were able to see them see Glenridge through their lenses. We went through all the buildings, all the classrooms, all the floors I should say and I would definitely say all of them were very surprised at what we can do in that building with the facilities that we have. They were very supportive and I think that the more we can do that and the more people see what the buildings are like I think the more informed they would be so Merrimack I believe is next week and so if you need to go to the building and sign up or not sign up please visit our website and we're communicating that out as well so building tours are happening now and then the other phase we have our community survey that's happening as well right now. If you have not taken it please do. We have close to 500 individuals who have taken the online survey as of today and we also have the phone component which we're going to have 300 individuals take that and according to excellence K-12 who is running this they feel very confident that we're on par to make that happen.

If you have not taken it please do. We have close to 500 individuals who have taken the online survey as of today and we also have the phone component which we're going to have 300 individuals take that and according to excellence K-12 who is running this they feel very confident that we're on par to make that happen. So we should close Friday and we're going to be publicly sharing all of those results at our next community engagement forum which I hope we all come to and that is on October. I want to make sure I get the date right, 21st at Clayton High School. So again we will continue to email the information out. You'll find it on our social media. If you visit our website we have a running tally of all of this information. We have presentations on there. We have invites. So please stay connected and we will continue to communicate that out. So we're hoping to see you on October and we will also on October some of the feedback we've gotten was they would love to have more in-depth conversations about the different facilities so we're actually the October 21st engagement forum. We're going to have excellence K-12 start off by giving the results of the community survey and then the rest of the evening we're going to have stations. So if you're really interested and want to know more about the elementaries you can go to the elementary area. We'll have a high school area.

So if you're really interested and want to know more about the elementaries you can go to the elementary area. We'll have a high school area. We'll have athletics area and thanks to Nina Nina and I talked we're going to have a student section with some students sitting in there if you want to ask questions from a student perspective and what it looks like to modernize our buildings. So Tucker we may be reaching out to a lot of our different students at Clayton High School to be a part of that. So we're looking forward to that community engagement. So I ask that you please join us and I believe I think we have got everything I needed to say Nina. So last Tuesday I got the opportunity to meet with a select group of fifth graders from Glenridge Elementary School. Each one was chosen by their teacher for having a unique and valuable perspective. They were all so excited and eager to talk about their school and while they did have feedback and suggestions it was extremely clear to me that each and every one of them absolutely adores the Glenridge community.

Each one was chosen by their teacher for having a unique and valuable perspective. They were all so excited and eager to talk about their school and while they did have feedback and suggestions it was extremely clear to me that each and every one of them absolutely adores the Glenridge community. So the first question I asked them was what do you like slash not like about your school structure and while they said they love activities like P.E. and art they often feel like their time is wasted because it takes so long to get from one special to the next which I know something we've kind of been discussing with a long range facilities master plan and they also told me that they wish they had more time for lunch because by the time they line up walk to the cafeteria wash their hands and get lunch it's time to pack up. They were very adamant about that one. I then asked them about what does your school do to make everyone feel included. Is there anything that they don't do that they that you wish they did and they said well teachers do their best to facilitate collaboration and inclusion during recess and free time. The environment can be kind of clicky and people only hang out with the same group of people every day. I don't know how much of that is just like classic fifth grader but they were they've seemed very happy with the level of inclusion and like collaboration their school facilitates.