With over 20 years working for the district, Lois Yount was approved as the new superintendent.
Yount was one of four finalists with elementary teaching experience and had been the districtâs Chief Business Official since 2018.
âThank you, board of trustees. I look forward to continue serving the board, the community of Galt. I also want to thank Dr. Schauer for her leadership. Sheâs been a great role model for me. Iâm excited about it. I look forward to the hard work. This is a wonderful district that does great things. I thank you for this opportunity,â Yount said after she was announced as incoming superintendent during the boardâs June 16 meeting.
Closing out a 14-year chapter of leadership, the Galt Joint Union Elementary School District Board showed appreciation for their longtime superintendent, Dr. Karen Schauer, who attended her last meeting before retirement.
Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli gave a special presentation at the start of the board meeting on June 21, handing Schauer a resolution from the Board of Supervisors that, in part, offered congratulations on her career as an educator.
Schauer spent 40 years as an educator, starting with teaching and progressing to administration.
Nottoli noted her commitment to outstanding work, four decades of service and thanked her for her accomplishments throughout her career.
Districts Ramp Up Summer School Plans To Make Up For Learning Loss From Distance Learning
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Many local parents of school-age children say their kids have fallen behind due to distance learning.
Faced with this gap, school districts are quickly ramping up their summer school programs, scrambling to find teachers many who are pandemic weary to keep the lessons going. Administrators are trying to keep the teachers around for the summer by offering higher pay.
River City High School parent Evelyn Bennett says she’s seen kids in the district fall behind.
A car parade Wednesday to honor health care workers at their Willmar workplaces also featured music by the Willmar Senior High School pep band. The workers who stepped outside to enjoy the procession on a warm, sunny day were appreciative, saying it had been a long year coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Citing a need for continuity of schedules to ease familiesâ schedules as well as logistical issues a full-time on-campus schedule would create, the Galt Joint Union Elementary School District (GJUESD) Board of Trustees voted to continue the am./p.m. blended instructional model through the end of the school year.
Among the reasons promoting the current part-time on campus school schedule, the board noted that if it were to increase class size and change schedules, itâd work against teachersâ goals to diagnose studentsâ needs and support them quickly and accordingly.
They also noted that the current blended a.m./p.m. model provides academic acceleration due to a smaller student to teacher ratio. The current model provides 2.5 hours of uninterrupted time with smaller class sizes, which has given teachers more opportunities to meet and exceed learning targets.