Year in Review 2018: Blaine School District

By Ron Spanjer, superintendent Ed.D.

The 2018 calendar year has proven to be a very exciting and eventful time for the Blaine School District.

In August, Blaine High School’s second phase of construction ended and students were welcomed into a new two-story classroom building encompassing a total of 22 instructional spaces. The final phase of this project, involving an extensive level of remodeling of existing buildings, is scheduled for completion in July 2019.

Thanks to voter approval of our technology & capital projects levy in April’s election, we look forward to continuing to improve our facilities, and we remain very grateful to the voters of the Blaine school district for their support in making all of this possible.

The school board directors recently approved a detailed list of program goals for the 2018-19 school year, which can be linked from our website’s news feed at blainesd.org. The overall comprehensive plan document addresses specific ongoing academic goals and related action plans, as well as the issues of community engagement and relationship building, social-emotional learning and student safety, 24-credit graduation requirements and capital projects work.

At the beginning of the 2018-19 school year, we launched a new website and mobile app to provide improved communication with parents and patrons. The “Blaine SD” mobile app is available to download at both the App Store and Google Play. We hope our parents and patrons agree that this is a valuable resource for accessing both routine and emergent information about our district.

As we greet the 2019 calendar year, our work continues to remain intentionally focused on assuring that all students are prepared to graduate with the skills necessary to navigate into their choice of post-secondary education or technical training opportunities, with the ultimate objective of attaining their future career goals. These are exciting times in public education, and Blaine school district remains an exciting place to work and learn!