001hello my name is dr. Jeff Smith Superintendent of the bald school district and these are my comments for this month our first community meeting for input into the design of Tillman middle school took place on Tuesday April 2nd at 6:30 p.m. in the Tillman library we were making plans now for a next meeting to be posted hosted to the public to be held at Crockett elementary school on Monday April 29th at 6 p.m. we have been working to communicate in a more effective manner with board members and staff and the public about the various projects we are working on to meet the needs of our students staff and community in an effort to keep all stakeholders current our senior leadership team will now be posting a report each month as a podcast these updates will
002be included and will include information about projects that are underway and projects that are planned for the future I encourage you to go to our website to learn more about what is happening in the bald school district you can find the link in under department menu in the district website district teacher mentor Kathleen Paulsen was highlighted recently in an article in The Arizona Republic that explains how a bald school district is helping to support our first and second year teachers check out this video that features Kathleen and some of our wonderful teachers before the most recent governing board meeting we held our annual future chefs competition eight students representing all schools submitted recipes with a healthy Mexican food theme students prepared the food and our judges selected the top three recipes all the future chefs
003received a certificate metal cookbook and other culinary themed prizes the top winners recipe will be featured in next year's schools school menu for all of our students and that individual student will also be entered into a contest regional contest with Sodexo congratulations to all of our future chefs this week marks the final week of Arizona Merit testing for all of our students I want to thank all of our hard-working teachers and students for putting forth their very best effort for this important measure of performance in observance of national ball tear month I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the many volunteers we have here in the vault School District we have so many people who give their time and energy and effort to our schools to benefit our students also on behalf
004of the bald school district we we would like to thank our dedicated governing board members who selflessly give their time and energy in the spirit of volunteerism to the Balts community and our recent meeting each of our board members received a special card with student artwork on the front as well as a personal piece of artwork from our students recently I wanted to share an update on services for one of our beloved employees who recently passed Keyshia Award her services will be held on Saturday April 13th at 11:00 a.m. at faith builders church we know that Keyshia worked hard on multiple campuses and had a large impact on all of our students and community and so we'd like to pass along our condolences to everyone who knew Keyshia we are pleased to host a Fulbright
005Scholars in our district this last semester at our recent board meeting these scholars who represent and come from countries all around our world including Finland New Zealand Brazil Taiwan and India these wonderful educators who spent this semester in our classrooms were brought to us through a program with Arizona State University I'd like to thank our scholars and our host teachers for bringing these wonderful people into our classroom to share their experiences with our students thank you to ASU and our full bite Brite scholars Thank You this concludes my remarks for this month