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Brandywine schools highlight student achievements, language proficiency gains and behavioral health recognition
Summary
High school reports noted athletics, performing arts and community events; district staff presented STAMP language-proficiency data and honored behavioral-health nominees and teacher fellows.
School representatives gave brief reports on athletics, performing arts and student recognition before district staff presented world language proficiency results and several staff and student honors.
At Mount Pleasant and Brandywine high schools, speakers highlighted spring sports, a steel-pan performance group, music department events and student activities such as a week-long "Questa Bowl." Brandywine High School reported its annual "Rock Your Socks" effort for World Down Syndrome Day and a February visit by Broadway performer Carrie Butler to coach the drama department. Brandywine celebrated individual students who placed in statewide competitions and those ranked in the state's top 50 in their sports.
District staff described the use of STAMP (Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency) to measure world language skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Dr. Sukhaili Simano, manager of immersion and multilingual learners, introduced a new data protocol for tracking student progress in immersion and world language programs. Staff said emerging immersion students typically reach higher proficiency earlier than students who begin study in secondary courses; a STAMP level 5 can make an eighth grader eligible to take AP Spanish as a ninth grader and earn high school credits.
The district noted the "Certificate of Multiliteracy" from the Delaware Department of Education: students who score at gold (STAMP 5 in speaking, reading and writing) or diamond (STAMP 7 in the same skills) are recognized, and the district reported 10 students who met gold or diamond levels in immersion or world language tracks.
The board also heard several recognitions: district honorees for Secretary of Education Scholars (six students across the district), three teachers named 2025 Yale National Fellows who will attend Yale seminars and develop curriculum units, and the selection of Miss Stiefel as the district's nominee for Behavioral Health Professional of the Year. Staff summarized the award program: district/charter honorees receive a $2,000 personal award; the state selects one person annually who receives an additional $3,000 personal award and $5,000 for student educational benefit.
Concord High School reported a district partnership with "Sean's House," a mental health organization, and described schoolwide kindness activities and student supports such as fidgets and resource information. Staff thanked behavioral health professionals and emphasized their role in student well-being.
Speakers encouraged the community to attend upcoming music concerts, theater performances and donation drives noted in the high school reports.
