Maria Bachman and her campaign for Shelbyville Central Schools Board will be hosting a free ice cream social Sunday at Clearwick Park from 4 to 6 p.m.
She will be there to speak with community members about her campaign and answer any questions they may have.
The event can be found on Facebook at https://fb.me/e/2GZcxCTA1 .
Maria Bachman is a Shelbyville resident who is running At-Large for a seat on the Shelbyville Central Schools Board. She is currently a teacher in Indianapolis who resides in Shelbyville with her fiance, Adam Rude.
Bachman can summarize her goals for the school board in three categories: students, teachers, everyone.
Students
- Ensure that best practices are being implemented for student achievement
- This includes using the most effective and efficient learning platforms that will help students build lifelong learning skills.
- Reevaluate amount of time that students are engaged in 1:1 technology
- While 1:1 technology is important and useful, we need to ensure that we are using it the right way and not promoting an unhealthy reliance.
- Give students a voice in issues that they are facing in Shelbyville Central Schools. This could be through a student representative visiting the board to tackle issues that are important to students.
Teachers
- Indiana is facing a major teacher shortage. We must ensure that we are an attractive district to bring the best new teachers and retain the amazing teachers we have at our schools.
- Work with local organizations to push education degrees so our current students can then come back and work for Shelbyville Central Schools.
- Provide teacher incentives such as prioritized school choice and prioritized access to the Golden Bear Preschool.
- Work to make sure that current teachers feel that their voices are being heard by working with the local union to make sure needs are being met.
- Provide avenues of mentorship and professional development for teachers to feel supported in their content areas and profession.
Everyone
- Approach school population growth in an efficient way
- With hundreds of new homes being built in Shelbyville, we need to approach configuring facilities in a way that will benefit the long term families of SCSC and new families to the district.
- The way we bring that perspective is by having board members who will be directly impacted by the decisions, either by currently having students in the district or in the near future.
- More transparency in the board
- Providing a way for community members to view meetings from their homes with recordings provided. Board minutes are only so helpful in addressing the tone and inflection that issues receive at meetings.
- Provide more interaction between the board and the people they serve
- More events where board members are present and accessible for people to discuss or provide feedback on what is happening in the school system.
Anyone is welcome at our event; students, teachers, everyone! If you are
unable to join but would like more information, please reach out to me at any
of my contacts listed below.
Contact: Maria Bachman
Email: maria@bachmanonboard.com
Facebook & Instagram: @bachmanonboard
