Frontier News

Aug 2022

Superintendent's Message

Dear Frontier Schools Community,

Welcome to the 2022-2023 school year! I hope you all enjoyed your summer and are rested, relaxed, and recharged for the year ahead.

Today, we welcomed back more than 1,600 students to our classrooms for the first day of the 2022-23 school year. The beginning of every school year brings a refreshing and welcomed excitement for what is to come and we were excited to welcome our students back alongside with our incredible staff this morning.

There are a few updates and reminders that I would like to share with you:

Academics: Our outstanding leadership team, teachers, curriculum directors, instructional coaches, and Central Office support staff will continue to ensure that our students are receiving the high quality instruction students and parents have come to expect.

Innovation Lab: Construction is complete. A modern, state-of-the-art Innovation Lab was built on the 1st floor in the Central Office building. Students and staff will use this space to build strong, authentic knowledge-based theory to applied skills in STEM education, ensuring Frontier’s high school graduates will be prepared to enter collegiate level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs with the skills to succeed.

Technology: Frontier is 2:1 technology. Each student at Frontier Schools has checked out a Chromebook to keep at home for school-related assignments and research. Each student also has a separate Chromebook for use at school. Additionally, new Smart Boards have been installed in many classrooms for the 2022-23 school year.

School Safety: Our focus on school safety, and ensuring our buildings are safe for students and staff, remains a priority. All of our schools have secure entry gates and building access points for visitor traffic. We also require any visitors to our buildings to provide identification before entering. Both students and staff participate in safety drills annually for use during an emergency or as a precautionary measure. We continue our collaborative, long-standing relationship with the KCMO Police Department and school resource officers are present in each of our school buildings. School safety also deals with how students behave and interact with each other and staff at school. Please take some time to review the Student Code of Conduct (English), Student Code of Conduct (Spanish) with your child. We need the support from parents in having these conversations at home to ensure our schools are safe learning and working spaces for students and staff.
Reopening Plan: The 2022-23 Reopening Plan can be found on the school website.

Parent Contact Information: We urge you to make sure you provide a working phone number and valid email address to your child's school. We share important updates by email, phone call and/or text message.

District Website: Our website is an excellent resource to stay up to date on all the latest Frontier news and information. Please follow our website and plan along for the school year with the 2022-23 Academic Calendar.

Social Media: For real time photos and updates, follow us on Facebook & Twitter using @frontierschools.

Thank you for choosing Frontier Schools for your child's education. We will do all that we can to educate and engage our students with high-quality lessons and enriching activities. Our expectations are high for every student, and we will do all that we can to help them achieve their potential.

Thank you for the privilege to serve your family!

Ugur Demircan

Superintendent

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Teacher Professional Development

From August 5th through August 16th, all teachers participated in professional development to increase student learning, through teacher growth. Both the district and campus professional development programs are designed to improve/maintain job satisfaction of employees, recruit and retain high-quality educators, increase knowledge of current best-practices and research based educational information, promote shared accountability, buy-in and leadership towards goals, and meet state requirements for professional development.

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Student Orientation

To prepare families for the year ahead, Frontier Schools hosted an orientation for parents and students on August 16th. Staff also welcomed new families during technology device pickup. Each family received a Chromebook for at-home use and had all of their technology questions answered.