Our CES principal, Nathan Meik, resigned as of June 30th, 2018. However, due to family circumstances, Nathan may leave sooner than June 30th. We are sad to see Nathan go, and we are happy for him and his family to embark on a new journey in the Midwest. Due to this resignation, Grant Hayball, our current CMS principal, will transition to a K-8 principal. Historically, CSD transitioned to a K-8 principal model about 8 years ago. Last year, you started the year with a K-8 principal, and the budget continued to only support a K-8 principal. We could be creative in funding a leader in each building because Nathan and Grant were both certified special education teachers. Currently, Grant and Nathan are .5 principal and .5 special education teacher. With Nathan leaving, we are unable to maintain one principal in each building because of the unique need for the configuration to financially work. To support the transition back to a K-8 principal, we are hiring for a full-time special education teacher and increasing our Speech and Language Pathologist / Autism Specialist from 20 hours to 30 hours a week. The majority of this person’s time will be spent at CES. Our Campus Monitor and Interventionist will focus his time between CES and CMS for a while as everyone becomes more comfortable with this transition. I will continue to be actively engaged in leading all three schools in collaboration with building principals. There may be some inaccurate information floating around out there so if you hear something you don’t understand or don’t agree with please reach out to me or building principals. Further, to ensure accurate information is shared with our community, we have updated our communications plan to include a media communication and requests procedure. The link to the communication plan can be found on my message page and located in this blog for your convenience. I would also like the community to know we follow our record requests policy for any information requested of the district. We have seen an increase of public records requests over the last couple of months and the financial impact on our district is a burden, therefore, we are charging for the requests per our policy, law, and the guidance of our school district’s attorney. We cannot sustain a high volume of records requests without a fee and/or hiring more FTE in our school district office. Over the years, we have cut our district level staff in order to keep the funding in our schools. As tax payers, I feel you should know we always keep the majority of our resources and energy focused on our schools. I will continue to be as transparent as possible and invite you to engage in meaningful conversations. My door is always open, and I am readily available for our students, staff, and families. I have opened my blog and twitter feed for public comment. I look forward to communicating with you.
Communications Plan
Public Records Policy
Public Records AR
