Author Archives: Allan

January 29, 2024

  Hello Bolts, Twenty-two items of note for this week: • Holt Night Out @Panera, TUESDAY, 4:00-8:00 – The January Holt Night Out Fundraiser is at Panera Bread at Gateway on Tuesday, January 30th from 4:00 pm – 8:00 p.m. Dine-in, drive-thru, pick-up, or delivery. For online orders, use the promo code FUND4U. Remind students […]

January 22, 2024

  Howdy Everyone, Was it just me or was it really weird to start the weekend after working just one day in the building? Anyhow, a few changes in meeting schedules are below (SST Tuesday instead of IPBS, pushed out the 100% Data Team Meeting Wednesday PD, rescheduled the Fire Drill, and rescheduled a School […]

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 8, 2024

  Greetings Bolts, Have you been watching the weather forecast? Snow Friday? See if we get a 4-day weekend! Twenty-four items of note for this week: • Staffing Updates – Two staffing updates: • New School Nurse: Hannah Green – Please welcome Hannah Green as our new School Nurse. She is an experienced school nurse […]

January 1, 2024

  Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope you all had a good break. A major highlight of my break was getting to see DIE HARD on the big screen when a friend rented out a theater. They encouraged people to dress up as a character from the movie and I went as the more obscure […]

December 11, 2023

  Hello Holt Bolts, The week before winter break is always a tough one for kids (and adults), and although kids do well with routines, give yourself permission to just have some fun throughout the week. It’ll likely make things easier for you and the kids. Eighteen items of note for this week: • Holt […]

December 4, 2023

  Hi Everyone, Twenty-three items of note for this week: • Danceability Assembly, MONDAY – Correction on the grade levels from last week for Monday’s DanceAbility assembly, which will be grades 1/2/3 and K/4/5. We’ll put out grade level cones for where to site and times are: 1/2/3 Danceability Assembly – 8:30-9:10 K/4/5 Danceability Assembly […]

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 […]