Look at the Progress over the last several years
​while Nina Teff has been on the School Board

 Nina is running for re-election to the Butler Area School District Board of School Directors
​to continue the work of making BASD excellent
​

Focused Hiring & Staffing of Key Positions

Deliberate hiring of key positions to enable focused effort

• Superintendent of Schools (Leadership and expertise that has been integral to the positive changes) 
• Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development  
• Director of Communications and Grant Writing
• Acting Director of Business Services & Assistant Business Manager
• Human Resources

Focus on the Student

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• Working on connectedness of students with each other and staff (building community within a building)
• Using student data to assist in proactively monitoring the needs of individual students
• Increased Professional Development of teachers to impact instruction of students
• Improving safety at schools
• ​Full-day kindergarten was added
• Broad Street Elementary School was re-opened

Strategic Planning
​(Short & Long-term)

• A District-wide Mission has been set with beliefs
• Strategic Planning is actively taking place with multi-year action  plans for academics, culture, innovation, customized learning, and respect
• To view more information about the strategic plan:  www.basdk12.org/docs/district/strategic%20framework_fall%202017.pdf?id=770

Improved Collaboration & Communication

• True collaboration now between the School Board, District Administration, Staff (the unions) and Parents
• Staff empowerment is improving
• Communication with staff and parents has improved
• Internal Board relations have improved
• Transparency among Board and community
• Trust has been restored between the community, the School Board, and the Administration

Financial Discipline & Planning

• Annual Budget is balanced (no longer running annual defecits)
• Capital projects are being executed to upkeep buildings 
• External grants are helping fund educational programming and staff development
• Long-term financial philosophy is being adopted

Community Partnerships

​Growing partnerships with:

• Local municipalities
• County Government
• Local Businesses
• Regional Foundations
• Regional Educational Organizations
• Other School Districts

Re-Elect Nina Teff

at the primary election
​on May 20, 2025

About Nina

What makes Nina qualified as a School Director?  Who is she?  Learn more about her:

nINA'S BACKGROUND

More work to do

Great strides have been made over the past few years, but there is more work to do.  

• Continue engaging staff and families in the direction that the District is going;  incorporate feedback 
• ​Support the action plans defined via strategic framework to enable educational and relational strides for students
• Continue to review programming and instructional practices
• Provide additional professional development to staff and leaders
• ​​Optimize transportation
• Develop longer-term capital project funding & plans​​

                                    Let's do this ---TOGETHER! 

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