Bullying Seminar

The Ipswich School District has scheduled a seminar on bullying for Friday, February 17th. At the present time students in grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 will get to take part in a very informative bullying prevention session. Staff members and parents will also be provided a session to help prevent bullying. Parents please mark this on your calendar so that you can attend and find strategies to help your child deal with bullying or prevent it. If you should have any questions please contact Trent Osborne @ 426-6571.

Social Media

Recently we have started a Facebook page for the Ipswich School District.  It seems that more and more parents have that social media application at their fingertips than any other.  So we have decided to leverage Facebook and use it to our advantage to convey information, ask questions,  attract people outside the district, make announcements and connect alumni with information from their home school.  Please search Facebook for Ipswich School District 22-6 and "like" our page.

Board meeting notes from October 10th

Items of interest from the School Board meeting from the 10^th of October  

We approved contracts for Deb Hansen (SPED), Ramsey Crissman (Asst. BB) and Taylor Weigel (MS BB)

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      I discussed with the Board the proposed calendar for next school year allowing for more Professional Development.  This will pave the way for the staff members to become even better at their job.

·         At my request the board chose three initiatives that they would like Associated School Boards to push during the next legislative session.  Those initiatives are Reorganization and incentives, Per Student Allocation and the Use of Capital Outlay funds for General Fund Expenses.

·         I gave the board an overview of the items that have been turned in on the staff, parent and student surveys.

·         Lien Construction contacted me and has agreed to come back next summer and totally redo the parking lot and finish as we had requested.

·         We have an issue of standing water in the locker room showers on a daily basis.  So, we are possibly looking at a small project to clean up that sanitary issue.

·         Finally, we will be using Capital Outlay funds to purchase a 2012 Chevy Suburban so that staff will have a safe and reliable vehicle (especially in the winter) when they travel.  We will be able to pick it up in 60 – 90 days.
   
      Next meeting will be held on November 14th @ 7:00 pm.

Thank you for participating

I recently asked the parents of this fine community for their input on the future of this district.  I got some very interesting information from those that did return the survey (Although I wish we would have had more surveys returned).  I will be compiling the information from those surveys, as well as, surveys already given to students and staff.  Later this fall, a survey will be presented to the community to gather their input.  This way we can get a good feel for how the patrons of the Ipswich School District feel.

This is hopefully just the beginning of opening the lines of communication.  We hope to involve more of the patrons of the district in the planning process as we move forward.

After the information, from the surveys, has been presented to the Board of Education, I will post it on this blog for the public to read as well.