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Business and Education Panel to Discuss Higher Standards for K-12 Education
Tuesday, November 19, 6:00 p.m.
Ketchum Community Library
State and local leaders from business, higher education and the K-12 education community will discuss higher standards for K-12 education on Tuesday, November 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the Community Library. The title of the panel discussion is "Expect More: Idaho Core Standards and the Shift to Rigor, Critical Thinking and Deeper Understanding for All Students."
The panel consists of:
- Rod Gramer, CEO of Idaho Business for Education
- Jenny Emery Davidson, PhD, Director of the Blaine County Center of the College of Southern Idaho
- Evelyn Johnson, Executive Director of the Lee Pesky Learning Center
- Angie Martinez, Blaine County School District Director of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
- Darlene Dyer, English Language Arts teacher at Wood River High School
- Kathy Baker, Blaine County School Board Trustee
The panel will be moderated by Cynthia Dillon, Executive Director of the Community Library and Heather Crocker, Director of Communication, Blaine County School District.
Read full press release here
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Student Spotlight
Meet Renee Shapiro in the Weekly Sun's Student Spotlight.
Each week, Jonathan Kane will be profiling a local high-school student. If you know someone you'd like to see featured, e-mail leslie@theweeklysun.com
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Robotics Program Gains Momentum: WRHS Team Wins Tournament
A newly formed 4-12 grade robotics team called Blaine County Bots hosted a home VEX robotics tournament Friday, November 8 attended by 23 teams. Kevin Lupton's Wood River High School senior team composed of Chandler Gifford, Drew Morse, Andrew Graves and Ty Reinemann were tournament champions. Read more here.
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Hailey Elementary Students Pledge to Recycle
The students and staff of Hailey Elementary School showed their environmental leadership by holding an America Recycles Day event last Friday.
Read more here
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Bellevue Students Participate in National Cup Stacking Day
Bellevue Elementary students participated in National Cup Stacking Day. The event promotes spatial recognition, agility, critical thinking, problem-solving and strategizing as students learn to stack cups in various patterns as quickly as possible.
Individual students and groups of students learn together in this fun annual event. Parents volunteered and learned alongside their students. Several other schools in the district held cup-stacking competitions as well.
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Board Announces Goals
During the regular monthly meeting on November 12, 2013 at the district office, all five Board of Trustees discussed future Board goals. At the center of all Board goals is student success. To view the presentation, click here or watch the webcast of the meeting.
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Board Begins Superintendent Search
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Also at the regular monthly meeting of the Blaine County School District Board of Trustees last week, the Board announced plans for the Superintendent search process. "We want an inclusive, professional, transparent search that attracts the best candidates from across the state and country," said Board Chairman Paul Bates. To that end, the Board will solicit proposals from executive search firms and, with community input, hire an executive search firm to manage the Superintendent search.
There are three major opportunities for the public to be involved: 1) during the selection of an executive search firm in an open Board meeting, 2) identifying characteristics of a future Superintendent and attributes of the community in order to attract qualified candidates, and 3) in the final selection process of Superintendent candidates. Read more here.
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International Baccalaureate Visits Schools
Staff from the International Baccalaureate program visited Wood River Middle School and Wood River High School last week to conduct a verification visit as part of the IB approval process.
IB staff representatives met with school administrators, teachers, students and parents to evaluate the IB program at each of the schools. IB staff will gather information and send it to the IB office in Geneva, Switzerland. The office in Geneva will send a report to each principal in about six months that will contain commendations and recommendations. Both schools are candidate schools for the IB Middle Years Programme in grades 6-10.
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Note the Date
Dual Immersion Magnet School Meeting
Monday, November 18
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Woodside Elementary
Business and Education Panel to Discuss Higher Standards for K-12 Education
Tuesday, November 19,
6:00 p.m.
Ketchum Community Library
Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, November 27,
Early Out
BCSD Strategic Plan
Not familiar with the BCSD Strategic Plan or need an update? Click below.
BCSD Strategic Plan
School Board Members
Board Chairman
Paul Bates
(Zone 4)
Board Vice-Chairman
Shawn Bennion
(Zone 1)
Trustee
Kathryn Graves
(Zone 3)
Trustee
Kathy Baker
(Zone 2)
Trustee
Liz Schwerdtle
(Zone 5)
on our website
Interim Superintendent
John Blackman
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