SCHOOL NEWS
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By BARBARA GREEN
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Joanne Keeler says education has always been fun for her and she can even vividly remember her kindergarten classroom. This week as she begins her new job as principal at Bowie High School, Keeler says she will continue to follow a simple philosophy of trying to do what’s best for the students and teachers.
Keeler comes to Bowie after five years as an assistant principal at 5A Denton High School. With 2,000 students DHS had a principal, associate principal and five assistant principals.
While she loved her time at Denton High and raising her family in Krum, she decided it was time for a change to get to a smaller school and a place where she could be in the same district as her two boys.
“I couldn’t cheer on the Denton team Friday night, while my eighth grader was playing at the same time in Krum,” said Keeler when she got the BHS job.
Krum is exploding with people and after growing up in the country in Pennsylvania, she felt it was time this past spring to start looking around before her oldest got into junior high. With the support of her husband, Scott, and sons, Kyle, eighth grade and Kinsler, fourth, she began watching for opportunities. Bowie’s job came up and within two weeks she had a new job.
The new principal was raised in Charleroi, PA on a rural 100-acre farm with an older sister and younger brother. As a child she remembers lining up her baby dolls to play school, so she always knew part of her wanted to be a teacher; however, with a dad who was not only a rancher but a nurse, and a sister who became a nurse, she had an interest in health care.
Read about how this experienced educator found her path in education in your weekend Bowie News.
SCHOOL NEWS
Get that school supply list checked off
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As the first day of school gets ever nearer, let The Bowie News school supply lists help guide your shopping.
See the area school shopping lists on page 2-3B in the mid-week Bowie News.
Don’t forget the Texas sales tax holiday for back to school school is Aug. 8-10
SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie Back to School Fair welcomes 350 students and their famlies
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BISD board to meet Monday
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Trustees of the Bowie Independent School District will handle numerous topics to get ready for the new school year when they meet at 5:30 p.m. on July 22.
The board will receive updates on the student and employee handbooks, plus the code of conduct, which is an action item on the agenda.
A resolution on the declaration for hazardous traffic conditions affecting bus routes for 2024-25 will be offered along with the appraisal calendar and appraisers, waiver for staff development minutes and professional development plan and its requirements per the law for district policy.
The board will call an election for November to fill two trustee spots and approve the Montague, Jack and Clay County Tax Appraisal District’s proposed budgets for 2025.
In the superintendent’s report future meeting dates will be considered for the budget and tax rate plus board training and there will be information on the soccer club.
Administrators and directors will make their monthly reports. An executive session is scheduled to discuss personnel considerations.
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