Monthly Archives: November 2023

November 27, 2023

Howdy Bolts, I hope everyone had a restful holiday weekend. I know I enjoyed my downtime! But be ready to do lots of pre-teaching and re-teaching of rules and expectations. Between kids having 9 days off of school and rising excitement/stress with the coming holidays, kids are going to need LOTS of reminders over the […]

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 […]