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On Monday night of last week, on the evening before the blizzard descended on Eastern Montana the Broadus School Board Trustees met for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. First on the agenda were a number of resignations, including Trustee Patrick Emmons, as well as Head Football Coach Ross Randall and Head Boys Basketball Coach Mike Richards. We reached out to all three gentlemen but did not receive comments about their resignations as of press time. Additionally, the board accepted a request for a one year unpaid leave of absence...
A contentious school board meeting stuffed to the gills with agenda items on Monday night left us scrambling for additional details early Tuesday morning, as the brunt of a spring storm bore down on Broadus and the surrounding area. On “normal” months, we have around 13 hours from conclusion of the school board meeting to confirm details, write up an article summarizing the meeting, and lay the article out on a page in anticipation of printing, while also allowing time for a modicum of sleep somewhere within that time period. That timeline is...
By Connie Barnhart What is "patriotism" and how would you represent it artistically? That was the challenge for our local PRCDHS students. The entrants answered this question by creating a drawing or painting and an essay explaining how the artwork portrayed their idea of patriotism. The 2022 VFW Patriotic Art Contest was sponsored by our local VFW Auxiliary Post 1595. The contest was coordinated by Chair of Patriotic Art, Margaret Scoles and PRCDHS art teacher, Connie Barnhart. Monetary...
It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, I was going through the teacher education program learning how to prepare a proper lesson plan. The entire curriculum was almost entirely academically based with little or no emphasis placed on classroom management, motivating learners, or the teaching of values. As a young educator, I was naive to believe education consisted solely of presenting the curriculum effectively, correcting homework, and assigning grades. Educators are expected to teach values each day without even giving it much thought. S...
The PRCDHS After Grad Committee is seeking donations for the Class of 2022’s After Grad Party. The annual event provides a safe and fun celebration for graduates and other students to celebrate on the night following graduation. In years past the event featured things like a DJ, entertainers, interactive games, carnival games, photo booths, and door prizes, while each graduating senior also received a special gift. In order to make this special night happen, the committee has been seeking donations. If you are interested in donating, p...
By Tracie Earley Broadus Elementary will be holding the annual Kindergarten Roundup on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm. Prospective students will be screened for Kindergarten Readiness with Paulie Isaak for Broadus Elementary or Deb Stieg for country schools. Also included with the screening is occupational and physical development with Kylie Randall and Rhonda Rosencranz, a hearing assessment with Audiologist Sue Roller, and a height and weight recording. Speech Pathologist Sarah Waarvik and Speech Aide Jessie Dussart will...
By FFA Advisor Clayton Scott Congratulations to the Broadus FFA members who competed at the Montana FFA CDE Days competition March 21 and 22 in Miles City, and the Montana FFA State Convention, held March 30th through April 2nd in Bozeman. Both events consisted of state-level competitions. Here are the results. At CDE Days, our Tractor Operation Team placed 6th, with Kaydin Trent placing as the 8th high individual. The team consisted of Alex Edwards, Aidan Kenelly, and Kaydin Trent. Our Horse...
By Lisa Lynch Junior High Music Students traveled to Colstrip on March 31 to attend Junior High Music Festival. The students had been preparing solos, and ensembles. The choir and band started the day with two songs a piece. They received positive comments from the adjudicators. After these performances, students then went on to play their other pieces. The judges for the day were Jim Firestone, Trey Croft, and Bart Bailey from Colstrip and Rohn Ratliff from Miles City. They gave the students...
By Connie Barnhart Seventh grader, Eli Jurica and eighth grader, Darren VerWolf have been busy this semester during Enrichment class building a Bee-Dee Bot robot and learning to code it to do specific functions. After the construction process of Bee-Dee, Darren and Eli coded the robot to perform specific challenges such as sending SOS signals with red and green lights, going forward and raising a robotic arm to produce a turning signal. Next they coded the robot to drive out of a parking spot...
By: Libby Nisley, Advisor Our Broadus BPA chapter was a strong force in the state competition March 13th-15th. There were around 1,200 competitors from over 100 chapters at the conference. We had 10 students qualify for the National competition to be held in Dallas, TX on May 4th-8th, which is a difficult task indeed. Many of our students had a tough turnaround from State Basketball participation right onto the bus early the next morning to compete in BPA. These students are truly well-rounded...
"Casino Night" was the theme of the Broadus Prom, held last Friday night. The prom royalty are featured below, including Prom Queen Lea Aye and Prom King Josiah Middle Rider at center along with Crown Bearers Ali Rumph and Carson Williams. Flanking the King and Queen are Princess Mercy Brost and Prince Ezra Gotfredson, along with Queen Candidates Shannon Knapp, Abbie Heacock, and Savannah Weaver, and King Candidates Kaydin Trent and Seth McDowell. (Photo courtesy Jim Collins)...
With the proper spelling of "intoxicating" in the 9th round of the finals, Justin Aye, Broadus 7th grader took home top honors at the County Spelling Bee last Thursday. Addison Draine, 8th grader, went round for round with Aye in the finals until being marked incorrect for spelling "hurtle" as "hurdle", which was spelled correctly but apparently not the word the judges were seeking. When asked to use the word in a sentence, the sentence used dealt with a footrace, hurtling down the track in the...
Two students from the South Stacey School, Second Grader Emma Mills (above left), and First Grader Thane Kolka (above right) competed in the MSU-Billings Science Expo last week. Kolka won first in his division with his "Better by Design" project featuring a LEGO bridge, and Mills won an honorable mention for her project measuring the surface temperature of different colors of cattle. Both students received cash prizes for their efforts, amongst a field of 244 projects from 24 counties. The b...
By Jacy Collins Junior High Report On March 8, 2022 the Junior High Academic Olympics team competed in Miles City at Miles Community College. The Junior High competed against 11 other schools from our area. Academic Olympics is supported by the Southeast Montana Association of School Superintendents (SEMASS) and run by educators in Southeastern Montana. Our 11 Broadus students competed against a total of 120 students. The students take a 100 question written test, which seeds them as a team and...
The Broadus School Board Trustees met for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Monday evening, with all members in attendance except for Danny Johnson and Rob Jones. The board watched a pre-recorded video presentation made by Teacher Libby Nisley, regarding a calendar proposal. Nisley was not in attendance due to managing students at State BPA. In the proposal, Nisley and a group of teachers had presented a variety of calendar ideas to other staff members, with the most popular schedule presented to the board. One idea in the calendar w...
By Broadus Schools Superintendent Jim Hansen “Sometimes we don't appreciate how good we have it-so we continue to concentrate on what is wrong” that was my reply to a recent email. We would all like everything to be perfect and each of us has our own definition of “perfection.” In most cases someone’s definition of perfection changes depending on who they believe should receive the most benefit. A few years ago, I gave a presentation on perceptions and perspective and how my brother’s opinion frequently differed from mine. Perception...
By Liz Riter On February 23, 2022, Liz Riter and Sarah Fortner with the Powder River Conservation District met with the Kindergarten class to teach them about food groups and pizza. First, we talked about foods raised on our local ranches and gardens. The students then sorted pictures of food into the different food groups; the grain group, meat group, vegetable group, fruit group, and milk group. We built pretend pizzas out of felt while continuing to discuss food groups. Last, we had a snack...
By Broadus School Principal Denise Ternes Wild About READING month finale Monday, February 28 is the final day for our Love to Read month. In the afternoon students will enjoy the movie Zootopia, so they can bring their blankets and a pillow. Snacks will be animal crackers and a drink. Thank you for encouraging your student to read extra at home. We hope the new habit will continue past Love to Read month! A special thank you for the donation of funds from Wendy Twedt, Barb Mitchell with the Henry A. Malley Memorial Library, and Zoo Montana...
One of our most important functions is to employ the best employees to work with your children. As most of you are aware, there is a national shortage of workers. Education was already experiencing a reduction in the number of college graduates entering the field of education, and the national shortage of workers has only complicated the matter. We are competing financially with our neighboring states and other Montana school districts. The competition for educators between schools has led to some interesting discussions with fellow...
The School Board met for their regular February monthly meeting on Valentine’s Day, with all members in attendance, and Trustee Amanda Zimmer dressed for the holiday, sporting a black sweater featuring red embroidered hearts. School Counselor Dori Phillips spoke with the board about the results of a survey given last fall to a group of junior high and high school students. The survey gauged several self-reported mental health factors in the students including depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. Out of 30 students surveyed, 63% had i...
By Dori Phillips During the month of January, students at Broadus Elementary worked to spread kindness around their homes, school and community. The week of January 24th they participated in a national event called, "The Great Kindness Challenge". According to the website, our students joined over 18 million other children in more than 115 countries this year. Over the past five years, classes have competed against each other to see which class could rack up the most "kind acts" during the week...
By Clayton Scott, Broadus FFA Advisor The Broadus FFA Chapter competed at the Eastern FFA District Spring Agricultural Technical and Mechanical Systems contest on Monday in Plevna. The team consisted of Alex Edwards, Aidan Kenelly, Seth McDowell, and Kaydin Trent. The team placed second overall, with Kaydin Trent placing 5th high individual and Alex Edwards placing 7th high individual. Teams qualifying for the state convention in Bozeman include Livestock Evaluation, Prepared Public Speaking, Parliamentary Procedure, Agricultural Sales, Farm a...
Zach Jones was the Driver's Ed Student of the Semester for the fall semester, placing highest in the class in the written and driver portions of the test; Zach even received an A on the semester test, which Driver's Ed Teacher Jerry Coulter, also pictured above, told us is a fairly rare feat....
Student Council reps pose with some of the nearly 300 cans of food donated by the classes during a food drive held just before Christmas. The cans will be donated to the Broadus Food Bank. Pictured are back row left to right Logan Capp, Reuben Kinzer, Alex Edwards, Zeason Schaffer, Kendal Stanley, and Novalee Blakeman. Front row: Maddie Zimmer, Lauryn Billing, Shaylee Bilbrey. (Photo courtesy Jacy Collins)...
Members of the Broadus FFA attended the Eastern FFA District Career & Leadership Development Events Competition, in Plevna on Monday. Here are the results from that competition: Prepared Public Speaking • Marcus Mader - 1st place Extemporaneous Public Speaking • Alex Edwards - 9th place Parliamentary Procedure - 2nd Place Team • Team members: Lea Aye, Becca Aye, Aiden Kenelly, Marcus Mader, Oliveah Schaffer, and April Wood Agricultural Sales - 4th Place Team • Marcus Mader - ranked 3rd individual in the district. • Team members: Lea Aye, Soph...
