Thank you, President Patterson, I really appreciate that I am so inspired by our people, right. I mean, just think about the lessons that Nora and Lisa just talked about moving from awareness to acceptance. I just think that's so cool. And then you know, having students articulate firsthand that one place couldn't handle me but here but I'm I fit in. That's really what belonging is about I just really motivated by that. And I think as Nicole and Felicia talked about their opportunities as volunteers, they talked about volunteerism, cultivating a sense of belonging and pride in the broader district and the broader community, which led to employment opportunity. So I just I continue to be inspired by the great things that are happening in the district. I want to thank all of the volunteers who are essential to making our everyday business better and more efficient and more joyful and taking things off the plate for other employees and members of our team and also for the joyful experiences that they create. For our students. Like many of you, I've had the opportunity over the last couple of weeks to spend time visiting various school events last week. I think it was Thursday evening and spent time at Fort Collins High School, engaged in their community engagement session focused on safety, I had an opportunity to go see their theater production SpongeBob SquarePants, which was a lot of fun and had a beautiful storyline. I have to be honest with you. I wasn't sure what I was going to get out of that. But it was so great. The students in the evening, I really had a chance to now visit every one of the theater productions since I've been here at all of our comprehensive high schools and continue to be inspired by all the great work as Nora excuse me, Nicole and Felicia were talking about their experiences volunteering at leisure, had an opportunity to visit last year middle school last week, you know, all 55 schools that make up this district are special. There's a lot of incredible things that are happening at leisure. They are very committed to their athletic program. I met a lot of championship wrestlers. Nate, you talked about your experiences as a parent about that and not just what it meant to be a good wrestler, but to have good character. Their PE teacher who's their coach who's actually retiring at the end of this year not of teaching, but of coaching has really left an incredible legacy of developing young people who are high character people who know how to outwork their opponents if they were talking about their character. They also talked about their stamina, and their hard work and their effort and their resilience is what really made them be able to overcome obstacles and not quit in the face of adversity. I had an opportunity to meet three of their middle school thespians. I haven't been to a middle school play yet, but that's going to be on my list as we go into the next year. But they had an anti production, I met with some other teachers who were committed to moving high dosage, tutoring and PBIS systems in place. And if you remember, way back when in the very first day of school, last year, middle school was a place where I started my day. And I talked in my video to the community that night of a student named Parker who was his first day of school, not just that lecture, but in the district. Then he came up to me and he said Mr. Kingsley, I don't know unless you're very well, but I want you to know you give me a couple of months. And I'm gonna tell you all about it. I had a chance to visit Parker last week. And Parker talked to me about the significance of last year middle school being how cooperative it is. The collaboration and the spirit of collaboration runs through the veins of that school community. And he talked about what was overwhelming is there so many opportunities for students to get connected and engaged in extracurricular clubs. And Parker's doing a great job in the rock climbing club over at Leicester Middle School. So he's a true leader, not just on day one. But as we think about where we are in April. He's doing incredible work in partnership with the school and I want to think print on my thank principle caught Nick and the leadership team and the various faculty members for doing incredible work over there. You know, I'm a big believer as a superintendent that the persona and the culture of a leader kind of transcends the culture of a school and I had an opportunity later that same day to visit Bennett elementary school and Amy Smith is an Not just an incredible instructional leader, but she's just got a joyful spirit about her. And she is the first principal that I've ever met, that shares an office with Angie, her assistant principal. They are in one office, they can finish each other sentences. They're on the same page. And the joyful spirit that they have with each other transcends into all of their classrooms, had a chance to visit a first grade class, Mrs. Holcomb wholetones classroom and their kids were her students were learning about phonemic awareness. And I asked one of our first grade students, can you please tell me what phonemic awareness is? This is six year olds, six, six years old. And why is it important? Well, he said yes, it's about learning how to make words and make sounds. And it's really important, because if you don't know this, you're gonna get fired someday. So it was a high stakes environment. But there was a lot of joy at the center of it. And we all laugh, but it was really, really great. And those types of experiences exists in every one of our schools. I was at Iris elementary school on Friday meeting with principal Moser, and about four or five instructional leaders, which also included one of their counselors, the culture of care, that exudes that building and the wraparound services, many of their teachers are volunteering on weekends, and coaching, youth soccer and doing different types of clubs. And as I had an opportunity to just geek out around how they're engaging the community, I can't tell you, they're several of their teachers. And I'm not asking any teacher to do this. But several of their teachers couldn't stop ideating around ways to partner with this district to engage their community in thoughtful ways. And we're just emailing me all weekend. And again, I'm not asking any teacher to do that. But just the motivation and the spirit that existed amongst them, just to continue to take that school to the next level was quite great. And I'll share one last example of just greatness I went to Timnath elementary school yesterday morning, and Jill Burrell is that a great leader. And I saw one of the most I'm a former math teacher. So I'm biased here. But one of the most amazing math lessons that I've seen ever in the history of my career by Mrs. Magna, who is an interventionist working with students who are trying to get to grade level. And her ability, I've seen multi sensory instruction through literacy, her ability to use multi sensory instruction to help with mathematics and create joy, her level of questioning and orientation to get students to get to that next level and build their confidence and be hopeful, knowing that they were being challenged, was just incredible. That's what this district is about. That's what our district strategic plan that we're going to be talking about tonight, is about and it's really about staying connected to our work and staying connected to each other as people, people and processes lead to performance. If we prioritize people, and we prioritize our processes, and improving them, performance will continue to improve in this district. And I want to thank all of the people who are part of this system have been working tirelessly over the past year, in developing a strategic plan that is thoughtful, that is purposeful and intentional and taking this district to new levels based upon what our data is telling us. We want to continue to be even more thoughtful about this plan and members of the board, I want to share with you that we want to be more aligned. And we're also in the charge that we collectively as a leadership team. And I know you share this school of thought as a governance team. It's really better to be simple and go deep than shallow and complex. And so the conversation that we'll have a little bit later tonight is how best to do that. What's the right timeline, what's the best strategic priorities to be able to get there, and I'm really grateful for the team's work in setting up not just a great presentation tonight, but I think we're gonna have a very fruitful conversation. These conversations in the various priorities, whether it's literacy, mental health and belonging, graduation with options in school safety continue to reverberate in all spaces in the system. Last night at Rocky Mountain High School, they had the Mental Health Matters Conference, which I heard was well attended. They had parent workshops, they had a keynote that was inspiring to all of their families and staff members that assigned and it was a resource fair to allow families to get connected to resources that exist in our community, and allowed people to be curious around what can we be doing as leaders to connect more people with those resources. We're going to continue to do that throughout the course of the time of our strategic plan and continue to make sure that we're putting a significant dent into that data, while also making quality improvements on the academic side of the house. I want to close this evening by talking a little bit about graduation with options. You know, it's one thing to talk about our desire for every student to have options when they accept their high school diploma, whether that's attempting a two or four year university going directly into the workforce, enlisting into the armed forces, or taking a fifth year of high school for college credit through our ascent program. But it's another thing to show you what we mean. And that's what we're here tonight through the power of student voice and storytelling. With that I'd like to turn it over to our chief information officer Madeline Knobloch. In Video Production Manager Matt goal to take you behind the scenes of this year's grads at a glance series. Thank you to the entire communications department with the support from the career and innovation team, for showing our entire community what it means to graduate with options, Madeline and Matt, take it away.