Bowling Green R-1 School District

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National School Lunch Week is Next Week! Participate in all the Fun Activities and watch for Pictures of the FUN on Social Media! #NSLW #OPAA #FUNWITHPURPOSE

A Big Thank You to Jerry Epperson and Cornet Chop Suey along with the Raintree Arts Council for providing a wonderful music performance for an assembly today at the BGHS gymnasium, and for letting the Superintendent sit in! :) If you are interested in hearing Cornet Chop Suey, check them out at the Apple Shed in Clarksville on September 24th from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. You will no doubt have a great time!

We still have a few tickets available in the Left Field Box for the game on Friday night, if you would like to come and cheer on a surging Cardinals ballclub and our own BG Choir students. They will be singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at the Seventh Inning Stretch! Call or come by the BGR-1 Central Office to purchase. $20 a ticket. Let's fill the stands with BG and Cardinals RED! #BGBOBCATPRIDE

We enjoyed having Todd Whitaker with us today at our back to school staff meetings! We LOVE the reminders around what GREAT teachers do differently and how to set ourselves up for success this year. Todd is one of the nation’s leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Todd has written over 60 books including the national best seller, What Great Teachers Do Differently. Other titles include: Dealing With Difficult Teachers, Ten-Minute Inservice, Your First Year, What Great Principals Do Differently, Motivating & Inspiring Teachers, and Dealing With Difficult Parents. Todd is married to Beth, also a former teacher and principal and Bowling Green native, who is currently a faculty member of educational leadership at the University of Missouri and professor emeritus at Indiana State University. They are the parents of three children; Katherine, Madeline, and Harrison. http://www.toddwhitaker.com/index.php As a reminder, the choir students from our Bowling Green R-1 District schools will be performing at the Cardinals game the evening of August 26th. Tickets are available for purchase to sit with the BG Family, and we have extended the deadline until August 17 for purchase. Please make plans to get yours and support our Bobcat Singers by contacting our choir teachers or the BG Central Office! #BGBobcatPride

BGR-1 Family. School starts two weeks from Monday, and we are busy getting ready to welcome our Bobcats back to another year of learning.  Our summer school attendance hit record numbers this summer and we are excited to see so many students continuing their learning over the break.  We are having great movement on all of our summer construction projects in our district, all while our custodians and facility staff are working very hard to prepare our buildings for students to arrive on August 22nd and teachers to return on the 15th.   Workers are finishing the floors in all of the HS and MS gym entrance bathrooms this week, and will set appliances and partitions next week.  New BGHS bleachers were installed with improved safety and functionality and MS and HS gym floors have been sealed and ready to go for another year.  BGE HVAC work is complete replacing 25 year old units, and new roofing at the elementary and middle school is finished.  The BGHS auditorium and entry roofs are complete, and workers are continuing progress on the BGHS North and South wing roofing over the next few weeks. Staff are working on our alarm system and the installation of the new speakers to augment our coverage zones on the BG campus and the Frankford FEMA shelter is coming along with plumbing all roughed in and walls starting to be constructed.  The additional road at Frankford is complete, and we plan to pave that road in the coming year. (As a reminder, we are shooting for a winter break completion timeline on this new facility and will house art and music classes and is large enough to hold the entire student body in case of emergency.)  The BGHS road should be ready for paving next week and the area in front of the field house before our first football game.  The field house roof and the staff daycare roof and fencing are complete and the drain/concrete repair in the BGHS courtyard done.  The benefits for this road are that it improves traffic flow and improves safety by directing traffic away from where students are walking on the sidewalk as student drivers arrive and dismiss, fixing the erosion on the back on the baseball/softball stadiums and correcting storm drainage issues, all while responding to overwhelming feedback on our surveys and focus group meetings from 2017 asking us to create a better, more accessible entrance to the high school, and helps to facilitate a possible future phase of an early childhood center and storm shelter with road access to where it would be placed.  This idea along with the creation of an expanded MS/HS library and storm shelter and finalizing our roof needs at Frankford and the BGHS gym and kitchen and playground upgrades at BGE and Frankford are all items our board is considering in coming phases and will be looking for more input related to these ideas. Our board is working hard to continue to take care of our facilities and provide safe and secure learning environments all while creating opportunities for our students to meet their potential.  They will continue this work at the August 9 work session planning for our future and additional stakeholder feedback opportunities.  In the past four years, we have maintained a balanced budget each year, improved student performance, added additional programs for our students and lowered teacher attrition.  In the last three years alone, teacher attrition has gone from 11% to 8% to 3.5% and is far below state and national averages of 8% and 11% all while maintaining five days a week and consistent learning environments for our students and families.  Our state highway patrol bus inspections assessment rates have gone from 56.5% in 2016 to 65.2% in 2018 to 72% in 2020 to 84% in 2022 as we have been working to gradually modernize our fleet.  (We have four more new buses that have been on order for half of a year and are due to arrive this Fall.)  Our preschool and staff daycare have doubled in size in recent years, and 100% of our seniors that started last school year graduated on time last May as we have worked to increase our graduation rate over the past few years.  We are very thankful to our Bowling Green family and all of those who work to support our students and look forward to input along the way to more continuous improvement from our community this school year.   It is a GREAT day to be a Bobcat! We look forward to seeing our Bobcats on the 22nd!  See pictures of our construction projects progress here:  https://photos.app.goo.gl/ArcG...  Matthew L. Frederickson, PhD Superintendent Bowling Green R-1 School District 700 West Adams Street Bowling Green, MO 63334 Phone: 573-324-5441 Fax: 573-324-2439  http://www.bgschools.k12.mo.us/ Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/BGSUPT or @BGSUPT For our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bowlingreenbobcats/

BOWLING GREEN NIGHT AT THE CARDINALS! The choir students from our Bowling Green R-1 District schools will be performing at the Cardinals game the evening of August 26th. Tickets are available for purchase to sit with the BG Family until August 11 for $20. Please make plans to get yours and support our Bobcat Singers! #BGBOBCATPRIDE

Our BGR-1 teachers are selfless, dedicated, and caring individuals who devote themselves to the well-being and progress of our students. During this Tuesday, May 3 on National Teacher Appreciation Day, and throughout National Teacher Appreciation Week, we honor educators who touch the lives of students across America and who are essential to building the future of our community. Thank you, teachers!

"The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) announced today the school districts and individual school buildings that earned the 2022 Missouri Purple Star designation — the first ever for the State of Missouri. This designation is awarded to military-friendly schools that have demonstrated a major commitment to students and families connected to our nation’s military." As a person who grew up in a military home and who raised children in a military home, this is of particular importance to me. Within the Bowling Green R-1 School District, we have students whose parents serve in the active duty military and the National Guard and reserves. 2022 Purple Star School Districts: • Bowling Green R-I School District • Miller R-II Schools • Plato R-V • Waynesville R-VI School District #BGBOBCATPRIDE https://www.facebook.com/MOEducation/posts/299062929080011

Administrative Professionals Week (APW) is celebrated annually during the last full week in April and the Wednesday is designated “Administrative Professionals Day”. Jayne, Connie, Kelly, Ann, Tina, Melissa, Ellen, Jill, Sasha, and Peggy, we are thankful for you! #bgbobcatpride

BGR-1 Families: As a reminder, five Bowling Green R-1 citizens have filed their candidacy for two positions on the BGR-1 Board of Education. The positions are for three-year terms, and Election Day is April 5, 2022 (tomorrow). As part of their filing process, the candidates were asked to provide their own biographical information so that voters in the district may learn more about them. This information about each of the five candidates has been published for the last several weeks on our district webpages, in order of filing as their names will appear on the ballot: https://www.bgschools.k12.mo.us/page/school-board-election-candidates Also, our Community Teachers Association facilitated a Meet the Candidate Night last month, where candidates were able to respond to questions and share about their vision for the BGR-1 School District. To access a recorded version of this event, navigate to: https://fb.watch/cb6WZDbM3n/ We hope that our community members come out and vote tomorrow, and we thank you for our support of our school district and our students! #BGBOBCATPRIDE

The Kitchen is Hiring! Do you want to see your kids everyday at Lunch? Be off in the summer, evening and weekends? This is the Job for you! If you are interested please apply at the link below. https://jobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=26579&siteid=7047&Areq=10489BR

BGR-1 Families, Starting March 1, masking on our buses will be optional due to updates in the CDC policy posted on February 25th. Effective February 25th, the CDC does not require wearing of masks on buses or vans operated by public or private school systems, including early care and education/child care programs. We appreciate the support and cooperation of our families as we have navigated the pandemic the last two years with a focus on keeping students safe and in school. We appreciate your continued support as we monitor and make adjustments to our mitigation strategies now that cases are much lower in our community. Have a great week! Matt Frederickson, PhD Superintendent

BGR-1 Families, School will be held remotely, tomorrow, Friday, February 25 following our Alternative Methods of Instruction Plan (AMI) due to refreeze and slick road conditions. Students will need to make sure to turn in any assignments based on teacher directions to be counted as present for the AMI day. Be safe, and we hope to see you back on Tuesday, since Monday is a staff development day. Matt Frederickson, PhD Superintendent

BGR-1 Families and Staff Students will be dismissed early today, Thursday, February 24th at 1:11 p.m. due to inclement weather. This will give road departments time to complete their work treating roads and for students to have lunch. After school activities are also cancelled. The Board meeting will go on as planned. Stay safe, and we hope to see you tomorrow! Matt Frederickson, PhD Superintendent

BGR-1: School will be cancelled again tomorrow, Friday, February 18th, due to unfavorable road conditions. This is the last built in snow day, so any future days cancelled due to inclement weather will be facilitated through our Alternative Methods of Instruction Plan.

There will be a public School Board meeting Thursday February 24th @6:30 p.m. In the central office building. Follow the link below to view the meeting agenda. https://go.boarddocs.com/mo/bgr1sd/Board.nsf/Public

BGR-1 Families, School is cancelled tomorrow, Thursday, February 17 due to the threat of inclement weather. Please look for updated communication regarding after school activities tomorrow. Please stay safe and warm and we will see you soon! Matt Frederickson, PhD

Would you like to work while your kids are at school? We currently have multiple positions open in the BGR1 Kitchens. Please Click and apply below if interested. https://jobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=26579&siteid=7047&Areq=10217BR

This is a week for us to show appreciation to our counselors and social worker. Please help us in thanking them for all they do for our students every day, especially through this time of unique needs our students have. We have a tremendous student services team! #bgbobcatpride