Author Archives: Allan

November 20, 2023

  Hello Bolts, The best conference advice I have is to convey to parents that you know their child (share a story or two) and that you care about their child (speak well of them and that you believe in them), which makes it far easier for parents hear about areas for improvement. My other […]

November 13, 2023

  Hi Everyone, My 98-year-old dad peacefully passed away Friday morning. My mom and I had the idea of playing him Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade, one of his favorite songs from his youth (he saw them live many times in 1930s NYC), and as the song ended he quietly passed. Thank you, all, for understanding […]

November 6, 2023

Hi Everyone, We survived Halloween and are now being rewarded with a nice short week.  Twenty-one items of note for this week: • Staffing Updates – Two staffing updates: • New Title 1 EA (Timmy Beick) – Timmy Beick has been hired as our new 4-hour Title 1 EA, filling Carol’s position, which he’s been […]

October 30, 2023

  Hi Everyone, Just one more full week until a nice short refreshing 3-day week! Twenty-two items of note for this week: • Additional SPED EA – SSD gave Holt an additional 7-hour SPED EA, which will make permanent the Temp SPED EA position Tiffany Chambers is currently filling. I’ve submitted a job requisition and […]

October 23, 2023

  Hello Bolts, Twenty-five items of note for this week: • Staffing Updates – Two staffing updates: • 4-hour Title EA Interviews – We’ll hold interviews for our 4-hour Title 1 EA this Friday after school. Let me know if you are interested and I’ll send you the interview materials. We had 18 applicants, which […]

October 16, 2023

  Salutations Bolts, Sixteen items of note for this week: • Staffing Updates – Three staffing updates: • 4-hour Title EA Job Posted – Our 4-hour Title EA Job Posting is now posted and closes Tuesday. Please encourage any awesome people to please apply! • 6.5-hour Title EA Update – We had some solid candidates […]

October 9, 2023

  Hello Holt Bolts, Twenty items of note for this week: • Staffing Updates – Three staffing updates: • Small SPED FTE Increase – Sheryl was previously 0.5 FTE at Holt and 0.25 FTE at EOA, but part of her EOA time is being shifted to Holt, so she is now 0.65 at holt and […]

October 2, 2023

  Hi Everyone, Twenty-one items of note for this week: • Title EA Job Posting – Lisa Phillips, currently student teaching in Robin Seno’s classroom, is planning to sub after she gets her teaching license, so she has resigned her EA position, which means we’ve posted her position. If you know anyone good out there […]

September 25, 2023

  Hi Holt Bolts, I think the above quote describes Holt’s school culture pretty darn well! This was especially evident this past week with everyone pitching in to help with our many challenging new students. I loved hearing from a first-time sub last week who said, “I love working here. I feel so welcome and […]

September 18, 2023

  Hello Holt Staff, It was a long week, but we’re building up our stamina, right? Twenty-seven items of note for this week: • New Building Behavior Support Assistant, Julie Zybach – We’re pleased to announce that Julie Zybach will be our new Building Behavior Support Assistant (i.e. Behavior EA), who many of you already […]