Former Superintendent Jim Holbeck has joined the staff at ASBSD. Holbeck, who most recently served as Superintendent in the Harrisburg School District and has decades of experience in public, K-12 education, has been named the ASBSD Board Development Director and Board Member Services Director. He succeeds Dr. Randy Royer who retired in August. […]
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Those high school administrators interested in completing training for opioid antagonist administration will have another opportunity in September. The South Dakota Department of Health will host a FREE webinar covering the Naloxone in High Schools Project, which is the opioid antagonist administration project initiated by the passage of Senate Bill 84 during this year’s
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Committee members convened recently to continue their study of special education in South Dakota. The 14-member legislative interim study committee, which was created through this year’s passage of Senate Bill 3, spent time discussing the challenges at hand and possible solutions. “What started out addressing one thing has opened up many other things,” Rep. Nancy Rasmussen,
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ASBSD has continued its coordinating role for the Emergency School Bus Mutual Assistance Pact between school districts, which operates in the event a bus traveling outside of its home district fails and is in need of assistance. ASBSD has collected and supplied a list of emergency phone numbers for the cooperating districts so they
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September marks Attendance Awareness Month. “It’s back-to-school season, which is an exciting time,” South Dakota Secretary of Education Ben Jones said in a press release. “The research tells us that half the students who miss two to four days of school in September will end up missing almost a month of school over the
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Districts can now be trained to enhance students’ workplace skills free of charge via a developing state department program. The S.D. Department of Labor and Regulation is developing a student version of their Bring Your “A” Game to Work training, which offers an engaging curriculum designed to foster foundational workplace skills and work ethic.
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ASBSD has a new President of the Board of Directors after the gavel was passed at the August meeting. Madison Central School Board President Tom Farrell completed his year-long term as ASBSD President by passing the gavel to Wilmot School Board President Denise Lutkemeier. “This has been a wonderful experience and wonderful opportunity,”
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Woonsocket School Board Vice Chair Lisa Snedeker was elected as the Second Vice President of ASBSD by her fellow Board of Director members. ASBSD’s Second Vice President serves an integral role on the Association’s Executive Committee, which comprises the leadership team of the 18-member Board of Directors. Snedeker currently serves as the representative
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ASBSD Board members started the year with a meeting prior to this year’s ASBSD-SASD Convention. The Association’s Board of Directors welcomed a new member, as White River School Board Member Louann Krogman was appointed as an At-Large representative for ASBSD’s Central Region. The 2019-20 school year marks Krogman’s fifth year on the White
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The latest risk management newsletter from an ASBSD service partner is available. ASBSD’s partnership with the School Leaders Risk Management Association (SLRMA) provides our member districts FREE access to a variety of checklists and best practices focused on school board and district protection and this quarter’s newsletter focuses on hazing in K-12 schools. Hazing in K-12
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