This week has been filled with many emotions. Broken Arrow Eagle staff, students and all of you have been processing the news of Monday night's Board Meeting. While this news has brought many feelings of sadness and loss, I have been incredibly proud of how our staff and students have responded. We have continued to stay focused on our goals at school while also being there for each other. We are a strong community that want the best for our students and we will continue to strive for exactly that through this transition. The outpouring of support, kind messages, lots of coffee and some sugar has made an incredibly difficult time/situation more bearable for our staff. Your thoughtfulness and generosity is just the pick me up that many of our staff needed. So, thank you for your unwavering, continued support of this community. It truly means so much. As we continue through the year and this transition process together, please know that I am ALL IN and SO PROUD to be the Principal at Broken Arrow. I will work harder than I ever have before to ensure that all students have a successful transition and support as we move into the future. Please let me know what you need.

This week has also been filled with SO many examples of cooperation, our word of the month. Check out some of these examples throughout the building and during our Eagle Nests at the pictures below.

The district has already started to collaborate with city staff to examine Safe Routes to School, and with First Student, to evaluate transportation. The board received a written report from its Boundary Advisory Committee detailing a recommendation to accommodate the redistribution of students across remaining schools. The board will consider the proposed boundary changes in April. The recommended boundary map may be found at www.usd497.org/Boundaries.

The district will create a Transition Team with representatives of Broken Arrow, Pinckney, and future receiving schools to support the needs of students, families, and staff during the upcoming transition.

Our first grade classes are headed on a field trip to the Topeka Zoo this Friday morning. If you are a first grade parent, make sure to read through the information shared by our first grade teachers about this exciting field trip for our students. We MUST have the permission slip form completed for students to attend since it is out of town.

Ms. Hoy's class is headed to the Spencer Art Museum here in Lawrence on Friday afternoon. This is a quick one hour field trip but is full of fun! There is not a permission slip required for this field trip due to it being in town. Permission for in town field trips is completed by parents during the enrollment process. If you have questions about this, please don't hesitate to ask.

We may not know what school looks like for Broken Arrow next year, but 5 year olds will go to kindergarten somewhere! We want our kindergarten families to register early so the district can make plans for next year. Hiring and teacher movement is dependent on the Spring forecast of Kindergarten Enrollment. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT INFO!

We will wait to assign schools until boundary changes are finalized and will continue to keep you updated as we know more.

The Transfer Request Form will not be available until boundaries have been finalized. At that time, we will have the new form available at THE LINK HERE