January 15, 2024

  Hi Everyone, My weather hopes were off by a day last week, but keep watching the weather forecast for Monday night and Tuesday morning! Twenty-four items of note for this week: • SPED EA Job Posting – HR finally got our 7-hour SPED EA Job Posting up. If you know of anyone good out […]

January 9, 2023

    Howdy Holt Bolts, It was nice to see everyone after the break last week (related snarky TikTok) and it’s always surprising how once kids are back how easy it is to get back into the groove. Fifteen items of note for this week: • Staffing Updates – Two staffing Updates: • PE and […]

January 10, 2022

 Hi Everyone, This is our one and only full 5-day week with students for January. Fourteen items of note for this week: • COVID Updates – I did more contact tracing and quarantining of students last week than ever before in a single week. Here are some COVID reminders and updates: • REMINDER: Keep Seating […]

January 11, 2021

  Hi Holt Bolts, I know folks are thinking about report cards and standards and such right now, but do know you have my full permission to take time out to do “fun” dinosaur, ocean, or whatever topics that excite you. Those are the kinds of things that hook kids and make them want to […]

January 14, 2019

Hi Everyone, It’s our one 5-day week of January with sixteen items of note: • New school facility user experience surveys – With the passage of the facilities bond, 4J is preparing to build three new schools and wants input from staff who’ve worked in 4Js newest schools. Follow this link to the 4J Facility […]

January 15, 2017

  Greetings Roadrunners, Thank you to all the staff who came out for the PTO Spaghetti Dinner/BINGO Night! It wasn’t a huge turnout of families, but there was yummy food and lots of fun! Fifteen items of note for this week: • Science Investigation #1 by March – One science item I left off last […]

January 9, 2017

  Howdy Everyone, I hope you’ve all stayed safe during the snowy and icy weather. I’m usually a snow-dance kind of person, but I’ll admit that by Friday last week I was ready for it to all be gone. Thirteen items of note for this week: • Adventures of the Tartar Patrol PreK-3 Assembly Friday at 9:05 […]

January 11, 2016

  Hi Everyone, I announced last week that we’d hired Erin’s former student teacher, Sarah Singleton, to be her job share partner for the remainder of this school year. Sarah will officially start this week, with Monday and Tuesday as transition days and Wednesday the first day teaching. Please welcome Sarah to the Howard Team! […]

January 12, 2015

Hi Everyone, We survived our first week back and to help ease us into work again we have a nice thee-day weekend we can look forward to. Eighteen items of note this week: • DanceAbility International Assembly, Tuesday, 1:00-1:45 – This Tuesday from 1:00-1:45 is the DanceAbility Assembly. The dancers have requested the audience sit […]

January 13, 2014

Hi Everyone, It’s our first five day week in quite some time and it’s actually our only five day week with students until the week of Feb. 10th, if you can believe that. Eleven items of note for this week: • Design Team Update – We’re slowly but surely narrowing down the schematic design of […]