On Monday, March 17, I was recognized at the Colorado State Knowledge Meet for my 47 years of coaching knowledge bowl at Plainview School. Dawn James (Eads knowledge team coach) and Van Walker (Springfield knowledge team coach) organized this presentation. They re-capped my career in teaching and knowledge bowl with many kind words. I was also presented with a quilt of my favorite thing—cats. This quilt was made by Carol Spady and Ginger Walker (who said the quilt was cat tested). Coaching knowledge bowl has been a long and memorable ride, which I have taken with many talented students and supportive colleagues and knowledge team coaches. Thank you to all who helped me along the way. A special thanks to Amy Schmidt for getting me to Greeley for the presentation.

Mark your calendars and plan on coming to celebrated Miss. Fees after her 51 years of service to education!

Kiowa County changed their emergency call center. Please make sure you register in order to receive emergency information!

To: Plainview School District Stakeholders

From: Jess Buller, Superintendent

Re: Secondary Social Studies Curriculum

Dear Stakeholders:

Plainview School District is updating its junior high/high school (grades 6-12) social studies curriculum.

Our current text series has a copyright date of July 2001, which requires a lot of supplementing when it

comes to national and international events that have occurred since. As part of our review process, we

would like to give our stakeholders the opportunity to review some of the textbooks we are considering.

We have identified three different selections based on the following primary criteria:

*Does the text follow the Colorado Academic Standards?

*Is there a technology component?

*Does it address students with varying learning levels (differentiation)?

*Is there a piece to support English Language Learners?

Based on those basic criteria, we have narrowed down our selection choices to:

McGraw Hill – Networks

URL: https://www.mheducation.com/prek-12/explore/social-studies.html

Houghton Mifflin – HMH Social Studies

URL: http://bit.ly/4gKYTzu

Savvas

URL: https://www.savvas.com/solutions/social-studies

We encourage you to go to the websites associated with each of the different texts/online platforms

and provide any input you may have. You can email any questions/comments/concerns to

jess.buller@plainviewhawks.org. Deadline for comments is February 7, 2025.

Sincerely,

Jess Buller

Picture retakes will be on January 21st this year. See the link below with the flyer information.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TP18-CENBerqnbvCePJenbVUbOQtPRpU/view?usp=sharing

January 23, 2025

Dinner at 5:00pm

Awards at 6:45

Wednesday, December 18th @ 6pm come enjoy the Christmas program! There might even be a special appearance by Santa!