Dr. Smith reports the end of year close out went well.  The custodial transition has taken place with Kunz. Kunz’s owner visited the school on July 1st and everything has been going smoothly.  Groundskeeping was delayed due to all of the rain, but they came out yesterday and today to finish mowing. Approval for  the Title VI, Indian Education was granted and we are expecting a $9,000 - $10,000 grant for Indian Education programming.  At next month’s board meeting we will discuss new legislation that will need to be reviewed along with handbook revisions. There is about a month until the start of school.  TSAS will have a work day on August 9th. Orientation days are August 13-14th and Aug 19th is the first day of school for the 2025-2026 school year. 

Dr. Hahn reports building improvements have begun. The Summer Symposium has started and we are starting on the research portion.  Research presentations (gallery walk) will be held this Friday from 9am to noon. Summer Symposium this year will commence with two weeks of full days as opposed to the half days held last year. Today was our strategic planning day where we really looked at three dimensions of three questions:

1. How do we build humanizing data driven instruction practices?

2. How do we appraise, find and make sense of the things that companies try to sell us as school employees.

3. What are the benefits of different intervention strategies for students who struggle with reading?  

That planning allowed us to come up with a robust professional development calendar and a better understanding of literacy support. 

I have also been working on meeting with incoming students.  So far, I have met with 65 of the 6th grade families and 10 families of the other grades and I have more to meet with later.  Those meetings consist of asking about strengths and struggles and how we can assist, which I intend to share with teachers and support staff to start planning for teaching and support before students arrive.