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Superintendent announces new Spring Creek Elementary principal and highlights student CTE projects and cellphone-policy work
Summary
Superintendent Mr. Anderson told trustees he has selected Chrissy Blanchard as principal for Spring Creek Elementary, described progress on a district cellphone policy committee and highlighted student Career and Technical Education projects including a mobile planetarium and outreach dissections.
Superintendent Mr. Anderson told the Elko County School District board on May 6 that the district has selected Chrissy Blanchard, currently vice principal at Liberty Peak, to be principal of Spring Creek Elementary at the end of the school year.
In his superintendent—s report, Mr. Anderson also said a cellphone policy committee with students, parents, teachers and staff has met and will meet again; the committee aims to have a recommended policy by late spring so principals and schools can plan implementation over the summer.
Mr. Anderson highlighted work in the district—s Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. He said Elko High School students, under the direction of a STEM teacher, wrote micro-grants that secured funding, and the high school operates one of only five planetariums in Nevada — and the only mobile planetarium in the state — which will visit elementary schools to lead STEM outreach. He also described a dissection outreach effort in which high school students led dissections with younger students as part of hands-on STEM learning.
The superintendent added that the district—s food-service RFP process is underway with vendor site visits to remote schools, and he noted recent principal hiring activity and other leadership openings that the district will fill in coming weeks.
Why this matters: leadership placements and district-level policy work affect school operations and implementation timelines; the CTE outreach items show in-district career pathway connections and student leadership in grant development.
Ending note: Mr. Anderson said he will continue to update the board on cellphone policy development, principal hires and outcomes from the CTE outreach projects.
