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Students spotlighted: employee recognitions and FFA chapter reports at board meeting
Summary
Board recognized staff members for service and heard Albert Lea FFA students and adviser report on recent county, state and national activities, fundraising and student participation growth.
The Albert Lea Public School District board opened its meeting with a series of recognitions and student presentations.
Multiple staff members received employee-of-the-month and other recognitions. Highlights included Barb (recognized for administrative support at Halverson), Kelly Callas (student services administrative assistant, noted for special-education support), and Erin Guston (transitions and work-based-learning teacher), whose program benefited from a multi-year state grant that funded a wheelchair-accessible van and the in-progress construction of a commercial kitchen and laundry appliances to support vocational training for 18–21-year-old learners.
Crystal Victor, FFA adviser, presented with student leaders (Mason, chapter president; Anderson, treasurer) and reported on student participation in county and Minnesota State Fair events, attendance at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, record Greenhand Day participation (over 20 new members), and fruit-sale fundraising activity (figures presented verbally during the meeting). Board members and attendees applauded the students and staff for their contributions.
The recognitions and student presentations set a celebratory tone at the start of the meeting and highlighted hands-on and career-readiness programming supported by district staff and community partnerships.
