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WRMS Expansion Completed On Time and Under Budget
Wood River Middle School students returned to a newly expanded school last week. On Tuesday, January 7, students and staff held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new wing of the middle school. The project was funded through the Plant Facility Levy. Read more here.
 Principal Fritz Peters (left) pictured with 6th and 7th grade students who had the honor of cutting the ribbon for the new wing of Wood River Middle School.
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WRMS and WRHS Become Idaho's First Public International Baccalaureate World School
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BCSD Launches Family Engagement Program
Gloria Giraldo-Hurst, the BCSD Latino Outreach Coordinator, is launching a program called, Realizing the American Dream. This family engagement program, conducted entirely in Spanish, consists of 10 free two-hour classes that will help parents learn how to help their children with schoolwork at home, motivate their children, build their child's reading skills, work as partners with teachers, the principal and other staff, make a plan to help their child succeed academically and graduate from high school ready to go to college. About fifty parents are already enrolled in the program. For more information, contact Gloria Giraldo-Hurst at 578-5429.
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Students Give Medals to Beaver Creek Firefighters
Hailey Elementary students created medals for the Beaver Creek Firefighters last fall. Recently, students received photos and letters from the firefighters thanking them for the medals. Read more here.
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Students Provide Community Service
Students from Wood River Middle School traveled to Blaine Manor / Safe Haven as a community service field trip. Students from the English Language Development Program prepared Christmas cookies and practiced singing bilingual Christmas carols. Before winter vacation, the students delivered their cookies to the residents of Blaine Manor / Safe Haven and entertained the residents with Christmas carols.
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Idaho Core Weekly Tip 
In the 2014-15 school year, Idaho will begin rolling out new assessments aligned to the Common Core. The new assessments will be used to gauge how well students are mastering the new Idaho Core Standards in math and language arts. This spring, all Idaho schools will participate in a national field test to ensure that the assessment process runs smoothly next school year. For sample questions and more information about the field test, click here.
For more on the Idaho Core Standards, check out our website.
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Note the Date
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 20
No School
Regular Monthly Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, January 21, 6:00 p.m.
Special Meeting
Board of Trustees
Wednesday,
January 29,
12:00-1:30 p.m.
BCSD Strategic Plan
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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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