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Have a safe and relaxing summer break.

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in just a few short days will put the final touches on this school year and what great year it's been let's take a few minutes to reflect on what made this one of our greatest School Years yet in July we kicked off the new school year with our first Welcome Back event for all of our boys during this event we rolled out a new and improved five-year strategic plan this plan is ultimately Guided by A Renewed Vision which states that the Columbia County School District will lead the nation in educational Excellence where each student is engaged in Rich and inspired I'm proud to say that we are off to a great start in realizing this Vision working together our student families and Community stakeholders this year alone we celebrated many outstanding accomplishment because of all the incredible people who make up this great School District our students and staff positive results from being engaged in learning this year student performance continues to outpace testing averages and graduation rates across the state and the nation and our high schools were once again recognized for excellence in advanced placement honor North Columbia Elementary School was Steve National recognition this year as an exemplary High performing Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Martinez Elementary School was named the distinguished Title 1 school for being ranked in the top 5% in the state for their impressive ccrpi for Columbia Middle School celebrated recognition as a Georgia Military Flagship school one of only eight in the state of Georgia for their efforts in support of our students and families in the armed forces we are certainly cheering on 8th grader style I can steady from stall silent middle who is preparing to represent our school district in the National Spelling Bee at the end of May in Fine Art our students continue to excel at the state and National level are talented it's our work has been on display in places like Carnegie Hall in New York legislative offices in Washington DC and beyond our students continue to earn top rankings in state-level honor band of course any of our recognition for creating some of the best music compositions in the state and this year marching band took one student to New York City as a member of the Great American marching band in iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in theater students have competed in state-level competition and received numerous individual and group awards for X1 and one Evans High School was named State officer for the Georgia chapter of the international Thespian Association Middle and High School athletics our students achievements have been numerous in fact there are far too many to name here our student-athletes if I learn state-level recognition for excellent in soccer softball baseball wrestling cross country and track swimming and Diving for example decided to celebrate the Harlem High School Bulldogs baseball team who recently captured the title of Georgia class 3A baseball state champions Harlem defeated Ringgold High in the championship series and finished the season with a remarkable 36 and 1 record additionally The Greenbrier high school girls golf team captured the 5A State title in the GHSA state tournament at the Ferry golf club in Calhoun Georgia after winning the area tournament and the sectional tournament to qualify the Wolfpack girls defeated the rest of the field in winning their first-ever girls golf State title this school year stakeholders across the district provided input for the creation of our 10-year building program which outlines are plans to bring much-needed repairs and renovations to our aging facility construction continues on the new state-of-the-art facility at the side of Westmont Elementary and we've also Broken Ground on a similar facility for students at North Columbia Elementary in February we broke ground on the new Junior Achievement Discovery Center a collaborative project with our neighbors in the Richmond County School District beginning next school year are middle school students can look forward to a unique commercial enter financial literacy through real-world scenarios that align with our standards in the classroom as always safety continues to remain a top priority and we are proud to have a train certified law enforcement school resource officer in every school and two in each High School this highly trained team also assume full service technician of our schools is the new Columbia County School District Police Department as part of our building program we will continue installing safety features like access control system at the entrances of every school building and secure entryway safety in our schools is a team effort and this year in an effort to engage our community we provided a high level of transparency to our parents and our community working together we can continue to provide a positive and safe environment for our students and staff none of these accomplishments are possible without the great Workforce who call the Columbia County School District home this year we've celebrated Educators representing our school district as state and National level conferences presenting best practice for excellence to their peers in their fields of study we have watched a prince an assistant principal receive individual awards from their peers and state associations for excellence in leadership we have celebrated student and parent involvement in state-level advisory roles that help for the needs of our students and families are new aspiring leaders program continue to engage and Inspire our teacher's assistant principal and principal in professional development opportunities did Roe their leadership capacities for excellent for our students we have launched a new initiative with our partners at Augusta University to grow our teacher pipeline from student to educator as we speak to continue grow Inspire the next generation of new and amazing Educators to help pay construction and teaching to the next level all of these things and more are what make the Columbia County School District such a great play to learn and work as Educators the learning never stopped and we want to encourage our staff to continue to grow and learn together to say this school year has been a great one is an understatement The Best Is Yet To Come thank you for teachers support staff student family and our entire Community for your continuous support of the great things happening in our school thank you all and have a safe and relaxing summer

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