Next, as you know at the last board meeting our board voted to place prop O on April 7th ballot and so we've continued to work on all the things leading up to that. Our focus really has shifted now to the communication part and how do we get our community to understand what prop O supports and how we continue to enhance all of the learning that's happening and strengthen our community. So tonight you will hear a presentation from Donovan Group, Susan Downing, Gina Tart, our communications chief officer and they're going to share the plan that we have leading up to April 7th and this week actually we've had a lot of focus groups, we've been hearing from different stakeholders and one of the things that has come up that we know we need to address is our bridge campus and when we talked about the three projects that we are focusing on for prop O which is Glenridge Elementary School, Clayton High School Learning Lab and then Gay Field the main question right now is where will the children and our students go from Glenridge Elementary and so we've been exploring a couple of options and one option is a partnership with WashU to be able to use the font bond university space and what that could look like is having a bridge, what we're calling a bridge campus on font bond property and utilizing that athletic center for the gym and the cafeteria portion of it so we don't have the details finalized.

First highlight was last Friday I had the honor of driving down to the Ozarks to watch our Wyden Middle School Chamber Orchestra perform at the MMEA, I always have to say that right, MMEA conference. So the Missouri music educators conference that they have every year and they select different chamber orchestras from across the state to come perform and Wyden was selected and I have to tell you it was simply stellar, outstanding. When they were done performing the whole ballroom everybody gave them a standing ovation and they would not stop clapping. It took a while to get everybody to settle down. It was like one of those goose bump moments and there were tears in people's eyes and it was all led by Carolyn Day, our amazing instructor, but these students were outstanding and I'm so proud of them as superintendent and it was great to see them so if you know any of them or if you see them or if you see our amazing teacher Carolyn Day please congratulate her. And also at the conference I walked in and our fine arts coordinator and band teacher Daniel Henderson was there and so he was just standing there and then all of a sudden someone told me something and I said Daniel, last night at the conference were you awarded the Missouri music educator of the year? And he was like I was. Did you know about this because we probably could have come?

And he was like I was. Did you know about this because we probably could have come? And he's like I did but I wouldn't want to go around saying hey I'm the Missouri music educator of the year award so he was recognized and that is a huge moment to be proud of and if anyone knows Mr. Henderson he's phenomenal and our students are lucky to have him as well so please congratulate him as well. This week, switching gears, this week is school counselor appreciation week so we have pictures of all of them up there but I just wanted to take a moment and congratulate them and recognize them for all the work they do every single day in our schools, the kindness they show to our students, the care, the dedication they have and a lot of the work they do is behind the scenes and so I just want to make sure that we recognize them. If you see them anywhere in the buildings or out and about please thank them and appreciate them for all that they do. Next, as you know at the last board meeting our board voted to place prop O on April 7th ballot and so we've continued to work on all the things leading up to that. Our focus really has shifted now to the communication part and how do we get our community to understand what prop O supports and how we continue to enhance all of the learning that's happening and strengthen our community.

Our focus really has shifted now to the communication part and how do we get our community to understand what prop O supports and how we continue to enhance all of the learning that's happening and strengthen our community. So tonight you will hear a presentation from Donovan Group, Susan Downing, Gina Tart, our communications chief officer and they're going to share the plan that we have leading up to April 7th and this week actually we've had a lot of focus groups, we've been hearing from different stakeholders and one of the things that has come up that we know we need to address is our bridge campus and when we talked about the three projects that we are focusing on for prop O which is Glenridge Elementary School, Clayton High School Learning Lab and then Gay Field the main question right now is where will the children and our students go from Glenridge Elementary and so we've been exploring a couple of options and one option is a partnership with WashU to be able to use the font bond university space and what that could look like is having a bridge, what we're calling a bridge campus on font bond property and utilizing that athletic center for the gym and the cafeteria portion of it so we don't have the details finalized. We're still working with WashU but the more we know and as we finalize that plan we'll be sure to communicate that out.

So tonight you will hear a presentation from Donovan Group, Susan Downing, Gina Tart, our communications chief officer and they're going to share the plan that we have leading up to April 7th and this week actually we've had a lot of focus groups, we've been hearing from different stakeholders and one of the things that has come up that we know we need to address is our bridge campus and when we talked about the three projects that we are focusing on for prop O which is Glenridge Elementary School, Clayton High School Learning Lab and then Gay Field the main question right now is where will the children and our students go from Glenridge Elementary and so we've been exploring a couple of options and one option is a partnership with WashU to be able to use the font bond university space and what that could look like is having a bridge, what we're calling a bridge campus on font bond property and utilizing that athletic center for the gym and the cafeteria portion of it so we don't have the details finalized. We're still working with WashU but the more we know and as we finalize that plan we'll be sure to communicate that out. In addition we're going to almost create like a FAQ for just Glenridge Elementary School and say this is what the bridge campus is going to look like. These are here's pictures of what it would look like.