Secondary Blog April 11, 2025

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To Do

Staffing allocations and templates have been shared with principals. We will review plans with principals the week of April 21.

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Reminder: Contract letters for licensed employees were sent to all licensed employees via UKG and must be returned no later than April 15.

From Departments

From Lisa in the Superintendent’s Office:

This year we have done a lot of work on policy and implementation discussion related to AI use in BLPS. This training is MANDATORY for all school admin and you may choose between 4 options (5/20, 6/10, 6/17). Please refer to the document below to sign up for a time. They are listed in Yellow. 

As a reminder, Optional PD opportunities are available for all. As always, if you have an interest in a specific topic, please feel free to let me know so we can work on standing up some trainings. Have a great day. -L

Mandatory AI Training

Calendar

  • April 14: Personal Finance Training (required for HS teachers teaching the course) @Ed Center, Room 203 8-4.
  • April 14-18: KT out of the office
  • April 22: HS Administrator work session 8:00-10:00 @ Realms HS
  • April 23: END for all teachers
  • April 22 and 23: All day training for Campus Monitors – mandatory
  • April 24: MS Horizontal 3:00 – 5:00
  • April 30: Deadline to share/process YouthTruth Data with staff, students and families
  • May 1: HS only: HSS $ must be spent!
  • May 7: District Safety Cadre Training @ 1:30 – mandatory for all safety admin leads
  • May 20: HS Principal work session 8:00-10:00 @ BSHS Perseverance Hall
  • May 31: HS only: Deadline by which Distracted Driving assembly or advisory lesson is completed.
  • June 10: HS Principal work session 8:00-10:00 @ TBD
  • May 20, June 10 and June 17: Mandatory AI training. Sign up for one session! Mandatory AI Training

Where in the World

This week, we are highlighting Susie Alvarez Tostado, Assistant Principal at Caldera High School. Susie shared, “my happy place is traveling. Anywhere and everywhere.  This picture is from this year’s international trip to Iceland, southern coast from Reykjavik and back.”