Lester Olsson posted a discussion
Hi all - just curious if any other districts are getting hammered by costs of placing Special Education students out of district.  If so, do you have any creative ideas on how to remediate costs?  This topic single-handedly caused us to have to…
May 30
Lester Olsson replied to Carol Taylor's discussion Board “suggestions”
"We have protocols in place to make sure that any questions get routed through the president of the board. This ensures that the sup’t is not getting slammed with what may be duplicate questions or concerns. It also allows me as the president to…"
May 30
Lester Olsson replied to Paul Haggett's discussion 360 feedback for Superintendent Evaluation
"My board is currently reviewing how we handle evaluations. We use a Word doc that has rubrics that most of us know by now. The problem comes when we have a rubric, just as an example, that asks us to review how the sup’t interacts with his/her…"
Oct 16, 2023
Lester Olsson replied to Garry Schwartz's discussion Air Conditioning
"As we speak we are considering a 12 million dollar capital project to run all new HVAC to our one building (we’re a small district). I’m very conflicted to be honest. While I believe AC would help students concentrate, there’s probably only a…"
Oct 16, 2023
Lester Olsson replied to Seth J. Blau's discussion Does a Motion to Adjourn Need a Second?
"We also motion and second on everything, including adjournment, going into exec session, going out of exec session, re-entering general session, etc. In our small district many times no one is even there to hear it, but we do it just the same :)"
Nov 18, 2022
Lester Olsson liked Kristin Rumovicz's discussion What I wish we could do for the Superintendent's evaluation
Jun 18, 2022
Lester Olsson replied to Bonnie Berry's discussion Interviews for Leadership
"This thread is very interesting and a little surprising to me. In our district (which is very small, total of maybe 600 students) the board has the final say on the hiring of both principals and the business administrator. But before a candidate…"
Oct 23, 2021
Lester Olsson is now a member of Board Officers' Forum
Aug 24, 2021