As the 2021-22 school year winds down, the Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education looked ahead at their regular meeting Monday evening to the many changes that will come to the district next school year. The district will see a new course offered in June, new principals at Silver High and La Plata, and weekly common planning time for teachers. In a Monday press release, the district announced that current …
During the Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education’s work session last Monday, Jose Barrios Elementary Principal Travis Yurcic presented the school’s progress in implementing a new intervention system that allows teachers to provide students with specific, need-based instruction. The Multi-Layered Support System, or MLSS, was rolled out this year by the New Mexico Public Education Department, and follows similar systems like the 2014 Response to Intervention program and, most recently, …
By The Daily Press Staff
The Silver school board began their meeting Monday night with an hour-plus-long closed session to discuss their selection of a new leader for the district to succeed retiring Superintendent Audie Brown, and closed the meeting three hours later with a unanimous vote to hire Hobbs Municipal Schools Assistant Superintendent William D. “Will” Hawkins to fill the job beginning this summer.
“I’m overjoyed and pretty excited about the whole situation,” Hawkins told the Daily Press on Monday evening after the vote. “My family and I look forward to the move, and I can’t wait to get home to Silver City.”
Silver board taps 4 superintendent finalists Written by Dean Thompson on March 12, 2021
The Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education heard plans Thursday for fully reopening its schools as of April 6, and gave out the names of the finalists for the job that will open up when Superintendent Audie Brown retires at the end of June.
The four finalists are current Silver Associate Superintendent Curtis Clough; William Hawkins, with the Hobbs schools; Fred Parker, with the Deming schools; and Bill Green, Catron County manager and former Quemado/Reserve superintendent.
The four will be interviewed by the board, and the selection of the new superintendent is set for the board’s April 12 meeting. The board has also set a special meeting Saturday, April 10, for the finalists.
February 1, 2021
Despite misgivings, students, staff back return to classrooms Written by Dean Thompson on February 1, 2021
The Silver Schools Board of Education has already given the green light for its secondary schools to move into the hybrid model.
The district’s elementary schools have been in and out of hybrid instruction where 50 percent of the student population is in the classroom two days a week, alternating with the other half of students in online classes since before the holiday break.
The Cobre School District never went into a hybrid mode in its elementary schools, however.
Last week, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Public Education Department announced that they will allow all districts to enter the hybrid mode in all grades Feb. 8, as long as all of the state’s guidelines are met.