{"id":1560,"date":"2026-04-01T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:34:25","slug":"january-students-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/january-students-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"JANUARY STUDENTS OF THE MONTH"},"content":{"rendered":"

VMMS was proud to honor our January Mustangs of the month. Every month, the VMMS staff is able to nominate staff and students from VMMS who exemplify the true character of a Mustang. Below are the individuals who have been chosen and what others have written about them. JANUARY MUSTANGS OF THE MONTH:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grade 6: <\/strong>Jonathon Davis<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Jonathon is a great student and an even better classmate. He’s always willing to help out another student or check in to make sure they are doing okay. Jonathon always leads with kindness and that is evident from his bubbly, compassionate personality.<\/div>\n
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Grade 7: <\/strong><\/strong>Gianna Graenert<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
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Gianna is a dedicated student who always comes to class prepared and with a smile. She always offers to help other students who are struggling.\u00a0 She is polite and respectful to teachers and kind to peers.\u00a0 When going through some recent adversity, she continued to show concern for her schoolwork and wanted to make it a priority even when she had a million other things on her mind. She’s a wonderful student and human!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Grade 8: <\/strong><\/strong>Christian D’Angelo<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
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Christian is an all around great kid.\u00a0 He cares about the people around him and is always willing to help out a classmate or teacher.\u00a0 He puts 100% effort into all of his work, both in the classroom and on the wrestling mat.\u00a0 He is a great student, friend and teammate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Support Staff: <\/strong>Barbara Rosace<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

Barbara consistently goes above and beyond to support her students. She is proactive in assisting them and ensures they fully understand the content. She is attentive to individual needs and is genuinely committed to each student\u2019s success.<\/div>\n
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Teacher: <\/strong><\/strong>Dan Connelly<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
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Dan does so many things that go unnoticed. For one, I don’t think he’s ever won Mustang of the Month in his career! I’m not exactly sure how long we’ve been doing Mustang of the Month, but I honestly think even if we were doing it for the first time this year his name should be considered. He coaches two sports every year, and he’s done this pretty much by himself until recently. For people who don’t coach, I’m not sure they realize how much of a time commitment it is. He has to be the first one there and last one to leave, oftentimes having to wait for parents to arrive to pick up their kids. He does this all year long and I’ve never heard him complain about it. On top of all of this, he’s a Brick native. In my opinion (I’m not from Brick), the community is very lucky to have one of their own student athletes give back in so many ways. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him one year as his ICR teacher and it was great. He gets along with his colleagues every year and he does a great job in the classroom. If you’ve ever asked Dan for a favor, he always follows through or tries to help. I legit can’t believe he’s never got this award.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VMMS was proud to honor our January Mustangs of the month. Every month, the VMMS staff is able to nominate staff and students from VMMS who exemplify the true character of a Mustang. Below are the individuals who have been chosen and what others have written about them. JANUARY MUSTANGS …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmms-parent-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickschools.org\/vmms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}