along the um edges and stuff, feel free to uh we have room for folks. Um and if you need to bring in chairs or whatnot, just let us know or if we can figure out something. So, Dr. Bitman, will you please review tonight's agenda for us in the community? Yes, Mr. Chair, we have Acting Chair Arum, we have a lot on our agenda tonight. We're excited to be able to talk about a number of things happening in the district. Um we we one of the things that we have is kind of an overview of the information that we had on our excuse me on our core planning team throughout the last year which we had lots of uh community feedback staff feedback etc. So we're excited to do that. We also have a number of policies that we'll be talking about as well as a number of things that are happening throughout the particular district. Um we will provide information about our legislative action committee and kind of a recap of the work that we've done and we'll off we'll also talk about some of the opportunities to renew the operating levy. Finally, we'll we'll take action on the preliminary budget for fiscal year 2026 and we'll also talk a little bit about our assessment plans along with policy. Great. Thank you Dr. Bman. Uh we will get started with tonight's excellence in action. Tonight's excellence in action celebrates the behind-the-scenes team responsible for Edana public schools successful adoption of the letters professional development program. Hundreds of teachers have completed this program which is based on the science of reading. This is the graduate level development course that has now transformed how teachers instruct to read and catapult students through their reading proficiency. Bethany Van Odell, assistant director of teaching and learning joins us tonight to recognize this team and of unsung heroes. Good evening Dr. Dr. Bitman, members of the board and members of the community. It is my true privilege and honor to sit before you with these fine educators who are next to me and talk about their work around our letters initiative. Um the science of reading has been an initiative that we've been working on for years and since this time started our student um growth has increased every single year and it is not without um the incredible efforts of these three women and others that I'll speak to in just a minute. Um we've done multiple board reports um on the efforts of our teachers and additional board reports that celebrate the outcomes of our students. But tonight, we're celebrating the small but mighty group of individuals that are the chief architects behind the scenes. Sometimes not always behind the scenes. Sometimes they're front and center leading all of the PD, right? Um so we are um looking at these as our unsung heroes today. We're going to sing their praises because they deserve to be sung. So just as the architect's meticulous blueprints and unseleelebrated efforts bring a vision to life, so do too the unsung heroes behind the scenes. Their neve…