September 2017

The 2017-2018 school year is full swing! Thank you students, staff, and families for a great start.

School Board Elections

Mark you calendars for school board elections on Tuesday, September 12. The Alburnett School District community is such a supportive community. Please show your continuing support by participating in this very important process.

Facilities

The Alburnett staff works very hard to maintain facilities and make financial decisions in a way that balances routine care for existing spaces and making updates to those spaces. Even with the most diligent care, most spaces eventually need significant updates. Several such updates were completed over the summer. If you are visiting the school, please do not hesitate to ask to see the secondary library – now home to the Pirate Collaborative and the new preschool rooms now located in the center of the building. We’ve also added several new wall and window wraps to promote our Pirate pride and Purple on Purpose theme. And we are very excited to announce the arrival of a new 84-passenger school bus that will arrive in October.

Communication

Just a reminder of all the ways we hope to stay in touch with our community.

· Newsletter – Mailed monthly to every household in the district and to families who open enroll children to Alburnett. If you are aware of any individuals that are not receiving this mailing, please encourage them to let us know.

· OneCall –Time sensitive announcements, especially those related to weather, will be delivered by mass phone messages and text messages. The text messaging portion of this system is an opt-in feature. To opt-in, text the word Alert to 22300.

· Email – Informational items will be delivered by email. Your email address is not an automatic upload for this service. To be added to the email list, use tinyurl.com/AlbEmail to submit an address.

· App – Alburnett CSD has a smartphone app! Informational items are often pushed out to users through this app. You can search the app stores for “Alburnett” to download.

· Website – Informational items are added to the Recent News portion of the district website (alburnettcsd.org) nearly every day. Calendars for district activities, lunch menus, activities, facility use, and fundraisers are available under the Calendar tab.

· Facebook – Alburnett Community Schools

· Twitter – @AlburnettCSD

Go Pirates!

Dani Trimble

Superintendent