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CEDAR SPRINGS BAND MUSICRACER UPDATE

We were honored last April when our Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and his team thought enough of Cedar Springs Public Schools to spend his day with us kicking off the OK2Say program.

The OK2Say program has now been implemented at Red Hawk and with our current 7 th and 8 th graders at the middle school.

Hat’s off to all who are making this happen for our amazing students! This is so important for giving our students an advantage in college readiness. We are proud of being on the leading edge of this statewide initiative. We are one of few districts offering this opportunity to our high school students.

Anne Kostus and our terrific team of teachers and counselors at the high school continue to rally around Early Middle College.

We are excited about what is ahead and purposely put a financial goal in the strategic plan to keep a sharp focus on all the advancements that are being made in the business department. Our business department employees are so dedicated to making sure we all have what we need to do our jobs. Additionally, we were able to keep our business department going until we were able to hire Ms. The great news is we were able to get a comprehensive look at our business practices in order to plan forward. Last November 1 st we had to employ the services of a consultant to provide an overview of our business services after concerns were raised by a community member throughout the summer and into the fall of 2015. We are elated to know that we are moving forward with transparency in reporting, collaboration and inclusion in budgeting and in systems development.

Hat’s off to our business department staff under the leadership of Rosemary Zink, CPA, MBA and CFO! There has been a lot of work in the business department over the last year.

Thank you all for helping Cedar Springs lead the way…you make us proud!

Our band will perform at Ford Field on Saturday. We are proud that our band students and directors are leading the way after coming in 3 rd in two recent state band competitions.We are excited to be the first district to bring this to our region! Please read the article about our outstanding teachers and principals implementing RC in the School News Network: I’ve received phone calls and emails to talk about the great benefits of RC and the possibility of other districts looking at training for their schools. We are excited to know that our work on Responsive Classroom ® (RC) is now being talked about in other districts.We are so proud of the process we put in place over the last 2 years to have our teachers work in collaborative groups to select the curriculum. Our principals are working with our teachers on tight alignment of the new K-5 curriculum with the 6-12 curriculum. Our new math curriculum implementation is going very well and rave reviews are coming in from our teachers, students and parents.This process has been inclusive and engaging! The Board of Education is now using all the feedback from the constituent groups and will eventually vote on approving the strategic plan that will have 4 goals: academic, environment, 21 st century learning, finance. Those groups were established by leaders from our teachers, parents, students, community members, support staff and administrators. This process involved approximately 125 people in feedback groups. It enables the Board of Education to establish the vision (where we are going as a district), mission (why we are here doing what we are doing) and core values (how we go about doing our work).

This important process is one that a school district takes on every 3-5 years. Strategic Planning: We are moving right along and look forward to completion of the process soon.

CEDAR SPRINGS BAND MUSICRACER UPDATE

I’d like to update you on progress we continue to make as a progressive district serving our kids with passion and collaboration. We are so engaged in what we do as educators and students that the time flies…and YES, we are having fun! Our first 2 months of school have brought many fantastic opportunities for our students and staff. It’s hard to believe that November is here.