Timpanogos School District Seat 3
The Alpine school district division begins with the November 2025 General Election, where voters will elect all 21 school board seats within their respective school board member districts. Once elected, the new board members will begin serving in December 2025 with three (3) to five (5) year terms. Over the following year, the three new districts will focus on crafting policies, hiring staff, including the superintendent, negotiating with other boards to decide which district gets what resources in the Alpine split and set property tax rates. The transition will culminate at the beginning of the 2027 school year when the newly formed districts, Lake Mountain, Aspen Peaks and Timpanogos districts, will officially start educating students. Lake Mountain School District will have 7 seats and encompass Lindon, Orem, Pleasant Grove and Vineyard. District Seat 1 will serve a three year term.
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NIKKI BRISTOW
(NON)
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DAVID H. SMITH
(NON)
How will you ensure continuity in services, curriculum, and staffing during the district transitions?
The board will have a unique opportunity to set the goals and priorities for our new school district. What programs should we retain from the previous district? Suspend? What new initiatives can we explore?
What strategies will you implement to improve teacher retention and support, and how will you address the underlying causes of teacher dissatisfaction and turnover?
How do you plan to address the achievement gap and ensure equitable access to high-quality education for all students in the district? What would you do to better assist underserved students and their parents?
What measures should the School Board take to ensure the mental health and well-being of students and staff in our schools? How would you advocate for these measures?
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I believe that when the new board is elected, one of the first things that needs to happen is hiring a superintendent who will then hire a staff that will ensure continuity in services, curriculum, and staffing during the transition. The staff and school administration will know how to continue with the former district's services. The teachers know the curriculum and will continue it.
I have talked to several teachers and they believe that having district employees who support the classroom. That is one program to continue. I believe suspending new initiatives would be wise until the budget is balanced and until our footing is solid.
I believe that my job as a board member is to hire a superintendent who then will hire a district staff. The district staff needs to take care of the building administrators. The building principals take care of the teachers. And then the teachers take care of the students. Certainly the board can ensure that compensation is competitive with neighboring districts. But the principals can take care of the teachers and help them be supported.
For a time, I was in charge of the high school graduation rate for Alpine School District. In the time I was in charge, the overall graduation rate went from 72% to 93% and the graduation gap between subgroups shrunk as well. The way we did that is to make sure that the data was accurate, and then supply the schools with the accurate data along with how graduation rate worked in the state. We then supported the schools in inching the rate up one person at a time.
Support in the schools is something that Alpine has been working on for the last few years. Employees who are social workers, BCBAs, school psychologists, school counselors and other support personnel. In addition, having outside support for teachers in times of crisis has also been helpful.
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