Author Archives: Kelle Hildebrandt

Fall Trees This and That: Conferences: Below are a few items for our classroom teacher to be aware of during conferences: Compacts: One requirement of being a Title 1 school is that we must complete “compacts” with families each fall Continue reading 10.16.2022→

This and That: Conference Length (From Skip and Tammy): After consultation with BEA, we have landed on the following times. If a teacher has 25 or fewer students, their conferences need to be between 25-30 minutes to accommodate transition times Continue reading 10.9.2022→

This and That: Scoop on Schools: It was great to have families back in our building for Scoop on Schools this year. THANK YOU to everyone for all of your extra time and energy in supporting the event, and an Continue reading 10.2.2022→

This and That: Some Observations: Congratulations on wrapping up your second whole week. Thanksgiving break will be here before you know it! Here are a few observations from these past two weeks… You are all doing a great job with Continue reading 9.25.2022→

This and That: Bias Incident Lessons for K-5: All BLS schools have been asked to teach specific bias incidents lessons by September 30th for all grades K-12. This is important learning, but the turnaround is going to be tight (I Continue reading 9.17.2022→

This and That: Family Connection Phone Calls: Thank you for taking the time to connect with your families! Several of you have asked to have until the end of the month to continue to make phone calls. Making the connections Continue reading 9.11.2022→

This and That: Staffing: We will be done with the screening interviews for the Title 1 Specialist position on Monday and hope to hold the final interviews next week as well. We will likely be interviewing for our open K and Continue reading 6.12.2022→

This and That: SchooI Security: I want to lead off this week’s blog with another reminder about school security. Please see that you are following the below TIGHT guidelines. Nothing is new, but it’s a good reminder if you have Continue reading 6.5.2022→

This and That: Report Card “Tights”:•Scores should not depend on which teacher a student has.  (i.e., one teacher grades “easy” while another teacher grades “hard.”)•Scores should reflect student proficiency on each standard.  Do not inflate scores out of kindness, and Continue reading 5.28.2022→

This and That: Staffing: Starting next fall, nurses Anita Garland and Ann Hollenberg will be switching locations – Anita will be coming from Pacific Crest and Ann will be joining their team. Thank you, Ann, for your service to our Continue reading 5.22.2022→