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REPORT OF THE CVU SCHOOL BOARD FOR 2012-2013 It has been an exciting year at Champlain Valley Union High School. The administration, faculty and staff continue to increase focus on intentional instruction, greater student engagement in learning and expanded learning opportunities. We are excited at the progress to date and continue to invest in this initiative. This past year, the CVU School Board, and all of the Chittenden South Supervisory Union School Boards adopted a common mission to “Develop citizens who LEARN actively and collaboratively, THINK creatively and critically, LIVE responsibly and respectfully, CONTRIBUTE positively to their community, and PURSUE EXCELLENCE in their individual interests." This common mission helps the work between CVU and the sending schools to ensure that all students are well prepared to enter our CVU learning community when they start 9 th grade. CVU uses an array of assessment tools to see how well our students learn and if there are subgroups that are facing disparate challenges. Overall, CVU continues to improve results with these assessment tools. Perhaps most striking is the NECAP science assessment. Since 2008, CVU has increased the percentage of students testing proficient or higher by 14 percentage points. CVU still has room for improvement, particularly with some of our student subgroups, but the transition to more individualized instruction, greater student investment in learning and expanded learning opportunities is helping us to better serve all student groups and subgroups. CVU has a broad array of co-curricular activities, ranging from music and drama programs, to clubs focused on community service, environmental issues and skill development and to a broad and successful athletic program. The Board actively supports these programs. Several years ago, the Board faced the reality that our auditorium was woefully inadequate. Working with our communities, we completed major renovations and have a facility that is among the best in the state. We are now facing the reality that our athletic fields are in critical need of rehabilitation. Over time, clay has infiltrated creating muddy, slippery and dangerous conditions in adverse weather. This fall, rains forced CVU athletic teams to practice in parking lots and offsite field houses, to relocate games to the fields of opponents and forced many cancelled practices. A community group approached the Board proposing artificial turf fields. The School Board Facilities Committee spent much time assessing the best approach to rehabilitate our athletic fields, whether it be rebuilding our grass fields or installing one or more turf fields and analyzing the safety issues. After considering all factors, the Committee recommended that one or more turf fields would best address our needs. The Board authorized the Community Field Group to start community fund raising and committed to using any funds raised for one or more turf fields. The Facilities Committee and the Community Field Group will come back to the Board this spring to report. Final decisions will be made only after further work by the Committee and the community fund raising group. The community requested better communications and the Board has listened. Board meetings are now televised by RETN. Monthly news submissions are going to the newspapers in each of our towns and the Board continues to be aware of the need to communicate. Please keep in mind that the CVU website is a treasurer-trove of information about our school and is available to everyone in the community. On December 14, 2012, we all experienced the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. With that horror in mind, CVU administration started a review of safety policies and procedures at our school. By the time this report is printed, it is likely that the Administration will have reported to the Board their conclusions and recommendations. The Board will spend the time necessary and appropriate to ensure that our school is a safe and nurturing learning environment. CVU would not be a great high school without the dedication of each member of the Board (a talented and diverse group), without the work of Principal Sean McMannon and his leadership team (they have a remarkable capacity to handle the day to day challenges while leading CVU through a system-wide transformation initiative), without the talented and dedicated faculty and staff at CVU (they devote their expertise and energy to ensure that all students have the opportunity to be successful learners) or without the contribution of time, personal talents and resources of the many volunteers from throughout our communities. We appreciate the ongoing support of all our communities for CVU High School. Respectfully submitted, David Rath, Board Chair CVU Board of Directors 32
HIGHLIGHTS OF CVU STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT The following students participated in the 3rd Annual Vermont Brain Bee Competition: Adam Allegretta, Nik Baya, Allison Giroux, Will Kay, Liam Kelley, Asa Mease, Gabe Peck-Frame, Evan Trus, and Caelin Weiss. Liam Kelley took 1st Place and Evan Trus took 2nd Place. The Alpine Ski Team contributed $907.50 to The Mad River Community Fund. The Business Ethics class hosted their 5th Annual Family Formal, with proceeds of $5,000 benefitting the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Jasmine Martin, Billy Spencer, and Corey Williams, three students from the Business Ethics class attended the Make-A-Wish of Vermont's Donor Recognition. The class was recognized at the event as a "Gold Star Donor.” Congratulations to Adam Allegretta, Greg Meyer and Liam Kelly for their selection as a 2012 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Honorable Mention Winner Team from CVU's Thayer Model Engineering class. Their project, which is a conceptual technology, 20 years into the future, purifies water and has been selected by an elite panel of judges to receive this distinction of exceptional merit. The Honorable Mention award places their project among the top 10% of all ExploraVision projects submitted to the national competition this year. The following students scored exceptionally well on the ACT or SAT and were selected as candidates for the United States Presidential Scholars Program: Lauren King, Liam Kelley, Paul Danyow, Eleanor Laukaitis, and Greg Meyer. CVU Senior Andrew Dickerson received the Shelburne Firefighter of the Year award at their banquet. Congratulations to CVU’s Ming Fen Congdon, Nick Ledak, Lexie Millikin and Claire Colwell who had their sculptures selected to be a part of the 16th Annual CSWD Creative ReUse Show at Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Gallery in Burlington. CVU Latin students participated in Latin Day at UVM. CVU took away the Silver Bowl as the winning large school in skit, quiz bowl competition and projects. CVU's Senior Quiz competitors, comprised of Todd Forrester, Greg Meyer, Jacob September, Olivia Loisel, Lily Nuygen, and Jakob Solheim, came in first among the 11 schools attending which earned them the Senior plaque. Tyler VanDyk and Kevin Massé won best in show for their project. Several CVU students attended the FBLA Spring Leadership Conference, where students from around the state compete in a wide range of business-related competitive events. Chris Petrillo was elected FBLA State President; Kidder Spillane, was elected State Northern Vice President; and Anthony Burds, was elected State Historian. These three young men presented their candidate speeches with poise, professionalism, and pride. CVU is proud to report the following competition winners: Business Calculations: 2nd Place-Billy Spencer, 4th Place-Abby Eddy, 5th Place-Harvey Ottinger. Business Ethics: 3rd Place--Corey Williams & Forrest Dodds, 4th Place-Harvey Ottinger & Chris Petrillo. Business Law: 1st Place-Samuel Reinhardt. Business Math: 1st Place-Chris Petrillo, 3rd Place-Forrest Dodds. Entrepreneurship: 1st Place-Josh Huber & Kyle Williams. Global Business: 3rd Place-Harvey Ottinger & Chris Petrillo. Hospitality Management: 1st Place-Billy Spencer. Impromptu Speaking: 5th Place-Oren Klempner. Introduction to Business: 5th Place-Anthony Burds. Management Decision Making: 4th Place-Forrest Dodds & Corey Williams, 5th Place-Harvey Ottinger & Chris Petrillo. Marketing: 1st Place-Josh Huber & Kyle Williams, 2nd Place-Anthony Burds & Billy Spencer, 4th Place-Ian Corcoran & Samuel Reinhardt, 5th Place-Forrest Dodds & Corey Williams. Sports Management: 3rd Place-Drew Nick. The VT Jr. Iron Chef Competition challenges teams to create a healthy, delicious, school-food-friendly dish using seasonal, local foods. Last 33 year two CVU teams consisting of Marta Plociennik, Ferne Arsenault, Mackenzie Gunn, Thomas Lang and Amanda Hollick participated on March 24, 2012. Full Moon Farm of Hinesburg sponsored the teams. CVU had six students who received Certificates of Merit for placing in the top 10% statewide at the 55th Annual High School Prize Examination in Mathematics, administered by UVM. They are: Andrea Joseph, Liam Kelley, Greg Meyer, Timmy Pattison, Azulena Royer, and David Tamas-Parris. In addition, Liam Kelly tied for 2nd in the Chittenden County region and was honored at "Math Day" on May 17, 2012. Congratulations to Jonathan Liebman for winning the VT Secretary of State’s essay contest on how to increase voter participation in Vermont. Dana Kaufman, Thomas Keller and Grace Vincent were awarded honorable mention for their entries as well. All four were honored at an awards ceremony at the state house on May 22, 2012. Fifty French IV students went to Québec city with Magali Simon- Martin and Julienne Lambre for a three day French immersion trip. CVU celebrated 25 students being inducted into the Lucien Lambert Chapter of the CVU National Honor Society in May 2012. CVU Center for Technology students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society in March, 2012: Lizzy Reynolds - Returning, Liam Bowley - Pro Foods, Trevor Denton - Natural Resources, and Bekir Karakus - Computer Systems Technology. Congratulations to Alex Bulla, Caroline Jones, and Will Austin. They were chosen to represent CVU at the Hugh O'Brien Leadership Conference on the VTC campus in Randolph, VT. One of our school’s educational missions is to develop global citizenship and relationships. The China Trip, attended by 11 CVU students in the summer of 2012, is designed to support this mission by exposing CVU students to a country quite unique from our own and becoming a more vital change agent in modern society. As an introduction to Chinese culture, this three-week summer trip to China included visits to museums, significant historical sites (Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, and Temple of Heaven), and diverse hands-on cultural experiences (paper cutting, calligraphy, making seals, Chinese painting, traditional Chinese musical instruments, and martial arts). In Sichuan province, participants visited Chinese families, the Panda reserve, and shadowed high school and college students throughout their day. CVU is pleased to welcome 7 international students from Austria, France, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and Thailand.
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