Hillsboro School District Weekly Hot News January 6, 2025 - School Board Appreciation Month

January is School Board Appreciation Month! We’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our seven elected School Board members for their voluntary service to the District and to the greater Hillsboro community: Chair Ivette Pantoja, Vice Chair Mark Watson, and Directors See Eun Kim, Erika Lopez, Patrick Maguire, Nancy Thomas, and Monique Ward. We would also like to recognize and thank our three student representatives to the Board: Gwen Kondor from Century High School, Kal Sibbel from Liberty High School, and Abraham Staffa from Hillsboro Online Academy. Board members put in countless hours overseeing and providing community voice to District operations, as well as advocating for the resources and opportunities students need to be successful. For all you do, School Board members, we thank you! Our Featured Staff Member is Poynter Library/Media Assistant Kim Parrett. Walk into her library and you instantly feel a sense of welcome and calm. With soft music playing, spotless organization, inviting displays, and a multitude of soft seating options, you definitely feel like you’ve entered an oasis. That atmosphere is something Kim has worked hard to achieve. Not only that, but through a variety of purposeful actions - from grant writing to surveying students about the books they want to read - she has grown her library’s collection with $15,500 worth of high interest, age-appropriate, and culturally and linguistically diverse books! Kim is quick to give credit to the Hillsboro Schools Foundation and local businesses for a majority of the infrastructure changes she’s been able to make. Many of the books she’s added are because of HSF grants and gifts, and much of the furniture was thanks to pass-through donations HSF received from organizations in the area. In addition, Kim received a $1000 HSF grant this year to enhance a makerspace that she converted from an old storage area off of the main library. Learn more about the amazing things Kim is doing over at Poynter and see pictures on our website. Hot News is produced and emailed to HSD families and staff each week school is in session. Please add the address to your “safe sender” list to make sure you always receive the latest issue. Please also bookmark our district website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hsd.k12.or.us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to stay informed about what’s happening in our district and schools.