The Busy Months of Summer

Today is our last day for our Class of 2018 seniors, graduation is coming up on June 23 and the weather is too beautiful for anyone to be inside after one of our long Buffalo winters. Within these last two week we have end of the year award ceremonies, moving up days, staff recognition, kindergarten celebrations, Prom, and both final and Regents exams.

Believe it or not, as the current school year winds down to a close, school administrators are gearing up for the new school year. Counselors work hard with administrators to develop schedules that optimize time for learning. Secretaries are busy with purchase orders to be sure that everything is ordered and delivered on time for the start of the 2018-19 school year. Most important of all is our hiring process in which we give due diligence to interviewing and selecting the very best new teachers and employees to work with our students.

As an administrative team, we focus on our learning in July and August through our administrative planning meetings, jumping back into the change.school Modern Learners network, and a book study. I can’t wait to read and discuss Talking from 9 to 5, Women and Men at Work by Deborah Tannen with our Admin Team!

We have a million and one things happening now and through the summer with the capital projects, including about half of our new parking lots and sidewalks with the other half being completed next summer. Hopefully the Cazenovia Creek emergency project at Colden Elementary will be able to move forward also. Please have patience as we work to improve SGI!

I cannot wait for everyone to see our new track, fencing, Press Box, and entranceway to the field upon our return for the 2018-19 school year! The new locker room at SHS is remarkable, the Natatorium is receiving much needed upgrades, and the district office move to the middle school will take place in early September. Look to see a new parent drop off in a separate zone from the buses at SMS next year too!

We’re very grateful to our SGI taxpayers for approving our current capital project and our collaboration with Alfred State and Erie 2 BOCES for the P-TECH center that will open in September, 2020 with classes conducted at SHS over the next two years. Thank you for your support! It feels like it takes forever to go from a public vote on a project through approval from the NYS Education Department through bidding and then construction. At long last, we’ll see progress!

Have a wonderful summer everyone! We’re here if you need us.

Kimberly Moritz, Superintendent of Schools, Springville-Griffith Institute Central School District

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