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well good morning  and I'm excited and honored to join you this morning and on a bath my fellow board members I welcome you to the 2015-2016 school year and year to of Bartlett city schools  attitude of navigate to thought to this over the summer I begin to focus on the word excellence and its many attributes the greatest of which is that neither it is is there an innate skill or a learned skill for each of us it is an attitude that we merely choose to wake up with and carry each day or we choose bullied at home  Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way Booker T Washington once said so how do you demonstrate excellence in common and uncommon ways everyday is something that I challenge you to think about as you move through this year before we do that I think we need to begin with whom you are responsible for each day you are interested with the care nurture an education of children and many of you face mornings that may look something like this  meaning of your students enter the classroom excited to be alive and ready to learn  expected a couple of Chuckles from The High School faculty at that point but that one clearly fell flat hey been dropped off or stop or stepped off the bus from loving and supporting homes then Energon who's mad at the world and quite frankly it isn't his fault Play song is full of violence and abuse Rachel and you notice that she likely haven't bathed in a few days per single parent is working two and a half jobs and going to make ends meet while trying to keep all the proverbial plate spinning  Xander walks in next and is on the verge of tears he's in a home with no emotional support and morning on the way to school with Father yelled at him and called him stupid  Sally enters the classroom quiet bit irritable she hasn't had anything to eat since her lunch yesterday School  why you may not have these children in your classroom everyday I have no doubt that you experienced some of the challenges do it regularly throughout your tenure not all students are able to show up in our schools ready to learn mini show up with life experiences that you must carefully navigate before the mind beginning to Monumental cast of imparting knowledge and sparking curiosity as a quick aside you will always hear me talk about sparking not sparking Muse me sparking curiosity as part of your job I truly believe it's parking that like long curiosity is one of the most valuable gifts that you can were guests of a student during your days teaching tell me see your beginning your day working hard to have all of your students at a place where they are somewhat ready to receive can process basic information and begin to learn and being a place ready to learn in doing this crucial work you're responsible and behold in too many Lodi to the students in your classroom to build a solid foundation and Advance their knowledge of the subject you are charged to teach your parents in a safe responsible and loving environment you're responsible to your building administrators and their requests sometimes their every whim you're responsible to the shrinks in state throughout various means we all are aware how much you enjoy that piece  your responsibility seem almost endless and to be successful requires constant Focus require significant determination and sacrifice  I believe that is why most of you assert teaching as y bowling  and not as your profession the challenges that you willingly take on everyday seem daunting at best to those of us not called to you serve a higher purpose in our community that many may take for granted but not today and not at this moment  everyone Chrome contributes to making this community and School District great  as I stand here A Grateful parent and a proud member of the bar of the sea Board of Education it is easy to take pride in the job that you have done the first year you have laid it down for the district but let me be clear it is that a strong Foundation as a board we have challenged the administration to be innovated and their approach to moving this District forward it is with this challenge that the one when initiative began to take shape over the past year as superintendent Stevens the mayor and I witness in Huntsville City School's the opportunities that this initiative will faster within the classroom are exciting to say the least it is exhilarating to think about how with proper preparation the classroom can be transformed into something few of us have ever allowing for teachers to spend the necessary time with those that require additional support as well as providing resources for those that may be advancing Beyond Malmo curriculum initiative with Excellence will allow us to step away from the Industrial Age as one-size-fits-all approach to education and to begin conceptualize a forward-thinking approach that allows for a more individualized education I hope this excites you about our future as much as it excites me Thomas Watson reminds us if you want to achieve Excellence you can get there today as of this second quit doing less than excellent work play close today by offering you a challenge I would like to challenge you today to wake up each day throughout the school year and shoes excellence  everyone understands that all have bad days every now and then I just please ask you to reserve those for Saturday and Sunday thank you

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