<!here> starting this pay period, we are moving to use our payroll's built in time tracking system. Each person will be responsible for entering their times into the Patriot Portal before payroll is due (1st and 15th of each month). Please save that link, or download their mobile app so that you can enter your hours on your phone. Note that MFA is required, so you should have a linked phone number and email whether using the website or the app. Everyone has also been opted in to electronic w-2 this year. Please opt out on the portal if you wish to receive a printed copy at the end of the year. Remember that you can manage your calsavers account here if you wish to opt in or out of our employer savings program, or update the amount that you wish to save each paycheck. Teachers, please remember to enter your class times at exactly 1 hour increments so that processing it can go as smoothly as possible. This is a slight change in how you're used to entering time on the current system, so please reach out if you have any questions. Here's their information on using the app: Patriot is beta testing a mobile app, My Patriot, for employee time and attendance. To get started, you can download Patriot’s mobile time and attendance app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and sign in to the app with your employee portal username and password. For employee help articles about the time and attendance mobile app, please see, “My Patriot Employee Mobile App.”

Hi everyone! A few reminders for you all: • We have about a month and a half from show day for recital!! amongus party ◦ Please make sure all choreography is finished and taught by the end of this month at the latest to give dancers a few weeks to clean their piece before the show ◦ Reminder that this sheet is viewable remotely and also is on the studio tablet for everyone with your videos that were recorded on the studio phone. If your dance does not have a playlist we are missing videos from your class and these need to be filmed next week as dancers use this same link to practice from home ▪︎ Side note: Ms. Lauryn we have your lyrical videos they are just having some trouble being uploaded but should be fixed next week 🙂 Same note for Contemporary III/IV and Ballet III/IV ◦ I need music edits by Saturday April 20th please. They all need to be sent to the music channel in the format sent out March 13th. Your dancers can better practice at home once they are supplied with their music 💜 ◦ After I make it through competition this weekend I'm going to send out details for the recital finale. There is a short teacher section and then the rest is done by the dancers. I'd love to have as many staff members as possible participate this year. I plan to send almost everything out virtually for you all to watch and learn on your own and then we will have 1 in person practice and then also practice it onstage together before the show as well. All styles are included (erika, francis, and julie are welcomed to create a small hip-hop trio), kelly I'd love to do a little tap cameo with you if you're done, and there is also a lower beginning section for lyrical and ballet as well! There will also be an easy ending bow section (a step claps, a little three step turn, and bow) that we always welcome everyone on stage for (let's go admin team!) if you want to join for just the easy ending and not participate in the rest. Each section is very short and sweet though. Please reply to this message if you'd like to do the finale with us! As always, kindly "react" to this message once you've seen it!

Hello team! We have a 1-hr private lesson request for leaps/turns and the dancer's availability is: Monday- anytime after 3 is okay Tuesday-anytime after Wednesday- anytime after 5 Thursday-anytime after 5 Friday- anytime after 3 Saturday- anytime If anyone is interested and available, please let me know your availability so I can double check the studio availability. Thank you! Ms. Charis <!channel>

I could do Monday at 3.

Hey team - a note for using the new payroll time app that Ms. Lauryn pointed out: • time must be entered in chronological order, otherwise the app will tell you that the

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is invalid Teachers, please keep this in mind when entering your times for the day. Thank you!

Reminder: <!here>, please make sure that your timesheets have been filled out! Payroll will begin processing today.

<!channel> hi everyone, I'm just getting home so this message is a little delayed but if anyone is at the warm springs protest or have friends at the protest maybe let them know that they cut off the police scanner coverage about 30 minutes ago. They'd been covering it all night but just turned it off about half an hour ago. I'm worried things are going to escalate while there is no coverage of what's happening so definitely let any friends know to be aware and stay vigilant 🙏🏾 It may be fine but I can't think of a good reason for it to be turned it off and want everyone to be informed and stay safe

I know some of the organizers and I just reached out to check on them. Thanks for letting us know.

I sent a version of this in the parent channel, but thought it would be cool for you all to see here as well! It's going to be a long message so bear with me and all the notifications you're about to receive 🙂

• Congratulations to our highest scoring routines for this event: ◦ Rich Girl (Verna Einhaus Solo) and Missy tied for the highest scoring routine from our studio! ◦ Roses and Happily Never After tied for second highest scoring routine from our studio! Only 0.5 points less than the routine above you ◦ Finally Burnin Up was our third highest scoring routine - also only 0.5 from the routine above you. • One of my favorite things about these results is just how close a lot of our routines were! All performing very well and scoring incredibly high! ◦ For example, just beneath the routines above by only 2 points were Bills, Popular, and Fix You (all tied). Beneath that by only 0.5 points was Dust and 0.5 points from that was Fierce ◦ Our 16 highest scoring routines were all within 5 points of each other! That's incredible and means almost all of our routines were equally strong! • All of the routines I was able to see (sorry I missed a few due to scheduling and there being two stages!) all had their strongest performance of the season!! Everyone is getting stronger and better every time you come in to rehearsal and put in all of that hard work in between performances!

Not only is that progress compounding through the season, but across the years as well! I've taken our best performing competition for each season and compared a few statistics below!

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In season 1, we competed in the beginner and intermediate level only and performed consistent with how we'd been performing previously as Mission Dance. We were able to score a few platinum (30.4%), scored predominately High Gold (60.9%), and only had a few Gold (8.7%). Platinum being the highest adjudication possible, high gold the second highest, and gold the third highest. Our dancers we kind to everyone around them and our studio earned the Sportsmanship Award

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In season 2 we continued to compete in the beginner and intermediate level but increased our training and changed our curriculum to focus on not solely cleaning routines, but becoming stronger dancers overall. We were able to achieve more Platinums (54.2%) than High Gold (45.8%) and no Gold!

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In season 3 the dancers continued our new training curriculum for a second year. We challenged ourselves to a huge degree and competed nearly all of our routines in the Elite Division. Neither Mission nor ASI had ever competed in the Elite division before so this was entirely new ground for us and our dancers rose to the occasion! We were able to score an astounding 76% Double Platinum with no Gold awards. Our routine "Dust" also took home highest scoring Elite routine of the day and our studio took home highest scoring Elite Studio. This was our best statistical performance even after competing at a level much higher than any previous year at either ASI or Mission

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Aside from overall adjudications, one of my favorite numbers that have improved is the decrease in gap between our highest scoring routine and our lowest scoring routine! Last season there were 24 points between the two and now there is a 17 point spread. Our entire studio as a whole has grown stronger, not just our strongest routines getting stronger.

But of course, the scores and the points are not the only measures of progress that matter! Although they are the ones that come with tangible numbers I can easily plot on a graph. The number of our competition students that know the names of nearly all of the other competition team dancers has sky rocketed! Before when Mission had "Minis, juniors, teens, and senior" cohorts that only danced with each others for their entire career, this was almost unheard of. Juniors were certainly not friends with our teens and barely knew the names of the seniors. Removing those boundaries and consistently switching up which dancers are grouped together has helped create friendships that extend beyond a dancer's specific group for that year. It creates a larger, more inclusive dance family. The number of dancers that audition for styles they've previously not competed in has also increased as dancers feel more well-rounded and comfortable taking on new challenges. The confidence and comfortability that we all see from the dancers on stage has also grown! Especially coming from a starting point where they were nervous to even take the stage without a mask on I have so many other things I can go on and on about from the difficulty they are able to execute, the bonds and closeness they've achieved, their openness to trying new things out of our comfort zone (hip-hop influenced tap, more intricate jazz styles, story telling through hip-hop, partner works and lifts in contemporary, and much more). But at the end of the day I just want to applaud everyone's efforts, work, commitment, and growth.

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The message above was sent to our dancers and families, but to our staff directly I want to say thank you for not only being the foundation of this growth and progress, but also for cultivating the space that we envisioned for ASI. Where the dancers work hard and love each other fiercely! This studio has been a dream of mine for a long time and I am so lucky to be able to have wonderful team members like you working with me side by side! 💜

Thanks for sharing Ms @Torie Warren ! It’s amazing to see their progress in person & all laid out like this! Congratulations to all :)

This is so amazing to see. Their hard work is really paying off. Congratulations to everyone 💕 🥳 i am so beyond grateful to be working with you all

congratulations to everyone!!! that’s really amazing and so inspiring 🤩

Thanks for sharing @Torie Warren!! So great to see the impact and results while also being able to see it on stage and all over the studio daily. Thank you for leading us!