“We have over 11,000 students in our corporation and many of them have needs. We know reading and literacy is so important in whether a child is successful or not. We can do these things with the help of the community. This is a community effort.”
“We like to have our professional development days early because with a system this size, there are so many new teachers. We want to make sure they get off to a good start. We also want to use what we learn during professional development days, and this gives us time to do that.”
“Right now, I'm almost at a loss for words. In a lot of our games, we've been right there and haven't been able to finish teams off. It happened again tonight. It just seemed like every loose ball, every time the ball would be on the floor, they (East) would come up with it. They just wanted worse then we did.”
“We just tried to play solid man-to-man defense. Early in the game we weren't rotating the way we needed to but we made a few adjustments and played pretty well in the second half.”
“This is an unbelievable feeling. Coming in and knocking off the No. 1 seed and advancing to the sectional with a losing record. It's going to be a nice two-hour yellow bus trip home.”