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Superintendent Letter to Parents: Attendance and 21st Century Skills Are Critical for Student Success
The 2014-15 school-year is off to a great start. Routines are being established in each school and each classroom that will set the tone for the year in establishing caring school communities where students feel safe physically, socially, and academically. Read more from Dr. GwenCarol Holmes here.
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Thank You for Supporting Our Schools
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Students Receive National Merit Commendation
Bailey Cleven, Lucas Robertson and Liza Buell were named commended students in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program. Read the press release here.
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Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Bullying prevention is on-going and year around in the Blaine County School District. This month we will highlight some of the programs throughout the district that help us create caring communities in our schools.
What is Bullying? Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
This week: Learn about the Leader in Me program and find out about the McGrath bullying training that is used by our schools.
All elementary schools and Carey School K-12 use the Leader in Me program. Based on Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the program teaches 7 Habits for students.
Training in bullying prevention is provided by McGrath. Social workers, principals and staff use the processes identified in prevention, identification and reporting incidents of bullying. For parent information, click here. For the incident reporting form located on the Social Workers' website, click here.
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Listening Tour
  Thank you to the 276 people who responded to the Listening Tour survey! Look for the themes from the survey in the Listening Tour report in November. |
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LOCATION
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Monday, October 6th @ 8:30 a.m.
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Community Members
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Community Campus, Minnie Moore Room
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Monday, October 6th @ 10:00 a.m.
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Retired Teachers and Staff
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Community Campus, Minnie Moore Room
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Monday, October 6th @ 6:00 p.m.
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Parents
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Hemingway Elementary
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Tuesday, October 7th@ 7:15 a.m.
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Bellevue Staff
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Bellevue Elementary
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Tuesday, October 7th@ 3:30 p.m.
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WRMS Staff
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Wood River Middle School
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Tuesday, October 7th@ 6:00 p.m.
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Parents
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Carey School
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Thursday, October 9th@ 2:30 p.m.
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Alturas Staff
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Alturas Elementary
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Thursday, October 9th@ 6:00 p.m.
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Parents
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Hailey Elementary
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21st Century Learning in the Outdoors
250 students attended the 40th annual Residential Outdoor Environmental School for 6th grade at Cathedral Pines recently. Studies included units on water quality, predator-prey relationships, orienteering, edible and useful plants, world population and renewable energy. Read more.
To watch the slide show click here.
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Carey Holds Elementary Family Reading Night
Wednesday, October 8
6:30-7:30 p.m.
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Hemingway Launches HTV News
Parents, staff and students enjoy a daily news show at Hemingway Elementary School each morning. The program broadcasts at 7:55 beginning with a slide show followed by the news. Viewers can watch the news show here.
Hemingway Technology teacher Scott Slonim says, "HTV is open to all 5th graders and they always get to switch jobs." Talk about a 21st Century learning experience!
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Come to Career Exploration for Students with Disabilities
The Idaho Department of Labor is partnering with the Blaine County School District and Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to launch a career exploration project for high school students.
Wood River Works: The High School Career Exploration Project will teach eligible sophomores, juniors and seniors employment strategies and connect them with local employers. Read more.
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October Professional Development Days - Teachers as Learners
Staff across the district participated in professional development on October 2 and 3.
Elementary staff and Carey staff K-12 focused on Project Based Learning, developing essential questions and honing their 21st Century instructional skills. Secondary staff focused on the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme. Silver Creek High School staff redesigned their school for the Big Picture Learning program.
Staff also received training on safety, CPR, Google, Prometheans, nonviolent crisis intervention, curriculum mapping and more. All training will enhance the the 21st Century Learner and Educator Profile.
Dr. GwenCarol Holmes visited many of the meetings and said, "Each group was working on developing authentic learning experiences for our children that help them develop the 21st Century learning skills and make connections across the disciplines. Each group was involved in conversations about rubrics and how to use or develop them for assessing these 21st Century skills. Together we are working on preparing ourselves to be able to prepare our students to be 21st Century learners."
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Student Wellness Policy - It's About Balance!
And it's about more than nutrition!
Did you know the Student Wellness Policy includes physical activity goals, emotional wellness goals and environmental health goals? Read the policy here. For a list of Frequently Asked Questions, read here.
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Department Seeks Idahoans to Review Test Questions
The State Department of Education is seeking 120 Idahoans to review test questions for the spring Idaho Standards Achievement Tests by Smarter Balanced. For more info go here.
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Board Resignation
Board Trustee Rick Roberts resigned last week. Read the press release here.
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Do The Right Thing Nomination Deadline
Monday, October 6
Carey Holds Elementary Family Reading Night
Wednesday, October 8
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
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BCSD Strategic Plan
Not familiar with the BCSD Strategic Plan or need an update? Click below.
BCSD Strategic Plan
School Board Members
Board Chair
Shawn Bennion
(Zone 1)
Board Vice-Chair
Kathyrn Graves
(Zone 3)
Trustee
Kathy Baker
(Zone 2)
Trustee
Liz Schwerdtle
(Zone 5)
on our website
Superintendent
Dr. GwenCarol Holmes
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