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News Flash:
 On Saturday, March 7, the Carey Boys Basketball Team Won 1st Place in State 1A Division II Boys Basketball. Join Carey School on Tuesday, March 10 at 1:30 p.m. for a celebration. Congratulations Carey Boys Basketball.
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Take the Second Strategic Plan Survey
Last month 467 people took the first survey. Add your voice to the conversation today Take the Second Strategic Plan survey here. Community members are welcome to take the survey as well as parents, staff, and students.
Why Take This Survey? This survey invites you to continue the conversation with your colleagues, your neighbors, and your fellow students. Read through the ideas of all of our stakeholders. Consider which ideas are most important to you. The ideas that filter to the top will be used by the Strategic Plan Steering Committee to create vision and goal statements for our future. We ask you to use your best critical thinking when considering the ideas in the survey.
What is the Next Step? Join us in May for the opportunity to provide feedback on the strategies identified to meet our goals, and to hear more about the district's mission and vision based on your ideas.
Where Did the Ideas in This Survey Come From? In February, Blaine County School District held the second in a series of meetings for the Strategic Plan. 398 staff, students, parents and community members answered questions about the vision and goals of the district.
Goals were based on three different sets of information: District demographic and academic data, Daniel Pink's presentation, and the 21st Century Learner and Educator Profile. See the presentation here.
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Fiscal Year 2016 Staffing: How New Staffing and Reassignment Will Impact Students
Last week you might have read the letter from the Superintendent here.
New staffing and reassignments will impact students in the following ways:
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Provide three additional teachers at the secondary level (where the majority of our students are currently).
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Provide two additional English Language Development teachers to support the development of language instruction in all classrooms.
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Provide a Mental Health/Substance Abuse Therapist to ensure more students successfully graduate high school.
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Provide an additional Clinical Social Worker so all schools have these services for their students.
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Provide a full-time Student Resource Officer at the Wood River Middle School.
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Provide a full-time translator to be the primary support in translating documents district-wide so that bilingual staff in the schools can have more time to work with students.
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Realign the distribution of staff that support students with reading difficulties based on school need. We have schools with 37 students eligible for reading support and schools with 206 students eligible for reading support that are currently receiving equal staffing, not equitable staffing.
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Realign the distribution of staff that support students receiving special education services so that allocation is based on the number of minutes of service provided and degree of intensity of disabilities.
The proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Budget will tentatively be reviewed by the Board of Trustees in April and again at the May regular Board meeting. Stay posted for a full schedule of meetings at a later date. Public comment is always welcome.
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Robotics Team Will Compete World-Wide
Wood River Middle School Technology and Engineering instructor Jeremy Silvis announced, "The Wood River Middle School Robotic team qualified for the VEX World Robotics Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. The team of Sam Bingham, Zach Deal, Cole Taylor and Gustavo Perez won the first ever Idaho Middle School Excellence Award at the Idaho State Robotics Competition in Caldwell, Idaho on February 27.
The award allows the team to attend the VEX World Robotics Championship where the team will compete against 150 other middle school teams from around the world.
For more news about the Blaine County Bots, read here.
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Orchestra and Choir Students: District Champions Headed to State
Choir and Orchestra students competed at the District IV Solo & Ensemble festival on Tuesday, March 3 in the hopes of qualifying for State. Those that qualified are:
Jorgen Lawrence - Qualified for State competition by placing 1st at districts in the Violin division.
Josie Koeplin & Arika Gourley - Qualified as state alternates by placing 3rd and 4th in the Violin division.
Eva Moya - Qualified for State competition by placing 1st in the Viola division.
Joel Rinckwald and Lance Verst - Qualified for State competition by placing 1st and 2nd in the Cello division. Haylee Pettit will be accompanying Joel in the competition.
Ashlie Pulleiro - Qualified for State competition by placing 3rd at districts in the Soprano division.
Victoria Brown - placed 4th in the Alto division and will go to state as an alternate if one of the top three drop out.
Gina Pulleiro, Michelle Casas, and Thalia Rojas all were within points of qualifying.
Gina Pulleiro, Bailey Cleven, Jorgen Lawrence, Arika Gourley, Thalia Rojas, Lance Verst, Kathy Reyes, Michelle Casas, Eva Moya and Joel Rinckwald also competed and scored well in Ensemble Groups.
Indie Landon and Spenser Pfau also competed and are to be commended for their performances.
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"My Favorite Thing About Kindergarten"
Save the Date for Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration,Wednesday, April 1
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Look for Salad Displays at Elementary Schools
Chartwell's will host Al Mccord from the Wood River Sustainability Center who will create a fresh salad display at each of the elementary schools. Ask your children what veggies they tasted this week!
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BCSD Partner Updates:
SVSS Brings Time for Three to Wood River High School
Wood River High School orchestra students had a rare opportunity to learn an arrangement of work commissioned by the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and written by Time for Three and Kenji Bunch. It will premiere at the Sun Valley Pavilion on Aug. 4.
Using this newly commissioned work as a jumping off point, Kenji Bunch arranged melodies for the Wood River High School advanced chamber orchestra. High school orchestra teacher Rebecca Martin has been teaching the piece to her advanced chamber orchestra members who, on March 4, had the opportunity to work on the piece directly with the composers, Kenji Bunch and the members of Time for Three.
Time for Three also performed a concert for Wood River High School 11th and 12th graders.
Family Day at SVCA
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Look for Your Peachjar Flyers
Parents, don't forget to look for your flyer from your school. Peachjar delivers flyers for each school every Friday. This week look for flyers from the Ketchum Community Library, Girls on the Run, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and King's.
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Parent Night with Jermaine Galloway, AKA "TALL COP"
Monday, March 9th
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Wood River High School Distance Learning Lab
The Blaine County Drug Coalition will present a community education event featuring nationally recognized speaker Jermaine Galloway, AKA "Tall Cop." Mr. Galloway will speak about current trends in:
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underage drinking
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house parties
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drug use
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paraphernalia
- concealment and recognition
Blaine County School District social workers and administrators will attend a one-day training with Mr. Galloway.
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5th Grade Parent Night at Wood River Middle School
Thursday, March 12
6:00 p.m.
5th graders and their parents are invited to meet the teachers, tour the school and learn all about Wood River Middle School. Please be on time for the presentation which begins promptly at 6:00 p.m.
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Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, March 10, 6:00 p.m.
Blaine County School District Office
118 W. Bullion St, Hailey, ID 833
Agenda Highlights Include:
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Board Accolade for WRHS Math Department
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Superintendent's Report: Energy Savings and Strategic Planning
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Student Board Representative Recommendation for Homework Policy
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WRMS and WRHS Proposed Course Changes
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Substance Abuse Prevention Program
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Proposed Classified Salary Change
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Strategic Planning: Shared Educational Values and District Mission
How can you participate in the Board meetings? Public comment is always welcome at regular Board meetings. To read about how to make a public comment, click here. You can also watch Board webcasts here.
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Board of Trustees Declaration of Candidacy
Declaration Deadline: Friday, March 20
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Parent Education with Jermaine Galloway
¨Tall Cop"
Monday, March 9
6:30-8:30 p.m.
WRHS Distance Learning Lab
Regular Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, March 10,
6:00 p.m.
District Office Board Room
NEW Dual Immersion Parent Meeting
Wednesday, March 11, 6:30-7:30 p.m.,
Hemingway Elementary
5th Grade Parent Night
Thursday, March 12,
6:00 p.m.,
Wood River Middle School
NEW Dual Immersion Parent Meeting
Wednesday, March 18, 6:30-7:30 p.m.,
Alturas Elementary
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BCSD Strategic Plan
Not familiar with the current 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)
Trustee
Rob Clayton
(Zone 4)
on our website
Superintendent
Dr. GwenCarol Holmes
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Celebrating a Milestone
This week marks the 150th BCSD Weekly Update. Each week over 1,000 readers open the BCSD Weekly Update for current news from across the district. We welcome your feedback anytime. Thank you for reading!
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