Author Archives: Gary Timms

Staffing- I meant to share this information with you at our horizontal meeting on Tuesday, but we ran out of time so I saved it for notes. Here is an update on where we are: Principals complete staffing plans- complete … Continue reading →

Transfer Interviews/Job Fair- The transfer interviews went great last night. Thank you to Kevin for hosting at Pine Ridge. Thanks to all of you who participated in the interviews. I was really impressed with the candidates last night. Really nice, … Continue reading →

Crazy Day- Today has been quite the crazy day. Four elementary schools without power for a significant portion of the day. Trees down all over. Inside recess. You name it. Thank you for all of your work taking care of … Continue reading →

Pass- BLP’s Professional Advancement and Support System is in need of Level Review Panel Assessors for level reviews coming in August. Teachers and administrators are needed more than ever this year as we have 13 candidates up for level review. … Continue reading →

One more week until spring break. Seems like yesterday we were shoveling snow off of roofs and sidewalks and wondering when school would start again. Hope you have a relaxing weekend. Magnet Dates- FYI- Here is magnet school lottery date … Continue reading →

ACR’s- Please be sure ACR’s are entered into Synergy no later than next Friday, March 17 so that Brad has accurate numbers to finalize staffing allocations. Attendance-  Here is an interesting article and simple idea that could help improve attendance. … Continue reading →

ACR’s- ACR’s for first through fifth grade were due March 1. In order to complete staffing allocations, Brad needs all of the ACR’s in Synergy.  Please bring your ACR’s to Monday’s leadership team meeting and we’ll meet right after to … Continue reading →

RTI for SLD Identification- Over the last 6-8-10 years, BLP elementary schools have been working on effective EBISS implementation. Our work to implement a solid core curriculum, effective, research based interventions and systematic instruction has made a positive impact on … Continue reading →

FTE Calculations- How we calculate and record FTE will be changing next year. Please see this Q and A for details: What is changing? We plan to enable a new Synergy feature in September 2017 that will automatically calculate the … Continue reading →

Conferences- Thank you for your leadership and carrying a positive message around the revised school calendar. I know there have been several questions about conferences and I hope those are beginning to be cleared up. One question that came recently … Continue reading →