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Personal Biography
Tim, along with his wife, Jennie, and kids Kadence and Carter, have been proud residents of the Shawnee Heights School District for over 12 years. Together, they are asking you to support Tim’s campaign for Shawnee Heights School Board so that he can represent the Students, Parents, Teachers and Staff.
Education
BA Political Science
Washburn University
Topeka, KS 2003
Community/Public Service
I have coached children in our Shawnee Heights community for 8 years. I started on the soccer and softball fields alongside our daughter and now that she is in 8th grade I have been blessed with being able to continue to coach our son. Currently I am a coach on the 5th/6th grade Young Thunderbird flag football team.
I have also volunteered at Wasburn University at Phi Delta Theta where I was the CAB Chairman of the Alumni Board.
My wife and I have two children who attend school in the district. The entire family is very engaged in the classroom and extra curricular activities. Prior to Covid I would volunteer as a watchdog in the elementary school twice a year and always enjoyed being a positive role model for the young students.We have also lived in the district for more than 12 years and have supported many PTO, school and community events over that time.
I believe there’s a very important part of preventing youth suicide is having engaging and fulfilling classrooms. Currently less than 55% of our budget goes to classroom learning. If I am elected to the school board I am going to look at how we can get more money invested into our students in the classroom. We know that this has a positive affect on their educational success which also creates a more positive culture in our classrooms.
Over the past year I have attended over 90% of the school board meetings and spoken and everyone that I was given the opportunity to do so at. During these meetings I felt that an increase in communication and transparency would boost the amount of civic involvement from our citizens. I think that too often not all parties were considered and this disenfranchised some groups who felt like they did not have a voice.
Our budget allocates over $12,300 per student in the Shawnee Heights school district. In my opinion we have the funding to be successful as long as we measure the policies and procedures to the metrics that are the goals of the district. I saw that one school board meeting where they allocated over $700,000 for MacBook pros but did not discuss if that would make A positive impact on the educational results of our children. To me I look in the expense of $700,000 and say how can we make the biggest impact for over 3400 students with that amount of funds?
This is one of the biggest reasons that I am running. I feel that our board doesn’t represent the constituents that elected them to office. I do think that you have to stick to your platform on what you’re running for but you have to also be collaborative and work with everybody in our community. The past year and a half has shown that in many cases the school board will listen to one or two doctors orOr three county commissioners or one governor instead of the 3400 students, over 600 teachers, several thousand parents/family members and all the other members of our community.
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