Message from the School Board President:
Santa, ugly Christmas sweaters and snowmen - oh my! What a fun time this is all across Belton ISD!
The Belton Educational Enrichment Foundation (BEEF) surprised teachers and paraprofessionals across the District delivering grants for an educational wish list of items to enhance learning opportunities for students and staff. BEEF awarded $60,041 in grants to elementary, middle and high school educators for resources such as robots to teach coding, virtual reality headsets for foreign language classes, and specialized classroom libraries.
Each grant demonstrates the continued commitment of our community to promote innovation and creativity in our classrooms, along with their support for the incredible staff that serve our students each day. We are so grateful for BEEF and those who support their mission!
A supportive and engaged community makes our public schools stronger, and we have seen first-hand how members of our community are working alongside district leaders through this fall's attendance boundaries planning process. Following months of work by an attendance boundaries committee, the District held three public forums to discuss proposed maps and listen to feedback.
Drawing new elementary, middle and high school attendance boundaries for our fast-growing district is a necessary challenge. To inform these important decisions, we have taken steps to ensure an open and inclusive process in order to develop boundaries that will serve our students, parents and community for years to come.
For all those who have served on the Attendance Boundaries Committee, asked questions during a public forum, or even discussed what you have read in campus newsletters or on the BISD website with your friends and neighbors - thank you!
We are blessed to live, work and raise our families in a community that recognizes the value of strong public schools. From the BEEF grant awards to the conversations that took place during the attendance boundaries public forums, the impact of an engaged and invested community can further strengthen our schools.
On behalf of your school board, we wish you a holiday season that shines with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill and a new year ahead that is filled with joy.
Have a Merry Christmas, and we look forward to seeing you in 2019.
Sue M. Jordan
President, Board of Trustees
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