LESLEY Smith Candidate for Boulder Valley School Board Excellence for Every School, Success for Every Student
About Lesley Goals On The Issues Community Support Endorsements Volunteer! Donate! Lesley Smith is a candidate for the Boulder Valley Board of Education, District B. All School Board candidates are voted at-large. Election Date: Nov 3, 2009 For more information about this election, please see the BVSD Website. Contact Lesley lesley@lesleysmith.org	About Lesley Lesley is a scientist, an educator, and a Board of Education member dedicated to improve education and ensure every child in the Boulder Valley School District has access to the best possible education. In order to meet her overarching goals of 'excellence for every school, success for every student', Lesley has served BVSD in a volunteer capacity for 5 years, including: 2005 - 2009 member and vice president (2007), Boulder Valley School Board of Education 2004 - 2005 member, BVSD Stratification Task Force 2004 - 2005 president, Community Montessori SIT/PTA 2003 - 2004 vice president, Community Montessori SIT/PTA Professionally, Lesley is director of a $2.5M NSF grant to support science education in BVSD, and leads a program to provide teacher professional development across the state on ocean & climate sciences. Since 2003, Lesley facilitated partnerships, developed educational programs and wrote grant proposals while on staff at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in the Science Education and Outreach Program. Some of Lesley's accomplishments during her 4 years as an active member of the BVSD Board of Education include: Initiated, successfully passed, and provide oversight for $298M bond project to improve facilities for each of our 54 school buildings Conducted successful superintendent search Instituted measurable 5-year goals in areas of achievement, equity, climate - the superintendent is held accountable for achieving these goals Developed sound fiscal policies that helped earn the district a AAA rating and thus saved the taxpayers money through a better bond rate Promoted the use of a collaborative interest-based bargaining process which resulted in a successful two-year contract starting in 05/06, and which I hope will again be successful in the near future Conducted nutrition study which lead to improvement in the quality of food we serve in all our cafeterias Instrumental in moving the district toward a sustainable/green future Served as school board Vice-President since 2007 Prior to joining CIRES, Lesley spent 15 years as a research scientist focusing on environmental issues that affect quality of life. Lesley has lived in Boulder, Colorado for 20 years, is married and has two children at BVSD schools. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She received her B.A. in Aquatic Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Ph.D. in Marine Environmental and Estuarine Sciences from the University of Maryland. She first came to Boulder as a Visiting Science Fellow with CIRES. Balance · Innovation · Leadership photo credit: © 2005 distinctively d'Layne photography

LESLEY Smith

Candidate for Boulder Valley School Board

Excellence for Every School, Success for Every Student

Lesley Smith is a candidate for the Boulder Valley Board of Education, District B. All School Board candidates are voted at-large.

Election Date: Nov 3, 2009

For more information about this election, please see the BVSD Website.

Contact Lesley
lesley@lesleysmith.org

About Lesley

Lesley is a scientist, an educator, and a Board of Education member dedicated to improve education and ensure every child in the Boulder Valley School District has access to the best possible education.

In order to meet her overarching goals of 'excellence for every school, success for every student', Lesley has served BVSD in a volunteer capacity for 5 years, including:

2005 - 2009 member and vice president (2007), Boulder Valley School Board of Education
2004 - 2005 member, BVSD Stratification Task Force
2004 - 2005 president, Community Montessori SIT/PTA
2003 - 2004 vice president, Community Montessori SIT/PTA

Professionally, Lesley is director of a $2.5M NSF grant to support science education in BVSD, and leads a program to provide teacher professional development across the state on ocean & climate sciences.

Since 2003, Lesley facilitated partnerships, developed educational programs and wrote grant proposals while on staff at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in the Science Education and Outreach Program.

Some of Lesley's accomplishments during her 4 years as an active member of the BVSD Board of Education include:

Initiated, successfully passed, and provide oversight for $298M bond project to improve facilities for each of our 54 school buildings
Conducted successful superintendent search
Instituted measurable 5-year goals in areas of achievement, equity, climate - the superintendent is held accountable for achieving these goals
Developed sound fiscal policies that helped earn the district a AAA rating and thus saved the taxpayers money through a better bond rate
Promoted the use of a collaborative interest-based bargaining process which resulted in a successful two-year contract starting in 05/06, and which I hope will again be successful in the near future
Conducted nutrition study which lead to improvement in the quality of food we serve in all our cafeterias
Instrumental in moving the district toward a sustainable/green future
Served as school board Vice-President since 2007

Prior to joining CIRES, Lesley spent 15 years as a research scientist focusing on environmental issues that affect quality of life.

Lesley has lived in Boulder, Colorado for 20 years, is married and has two children at BVSD schools. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

She received her B.A. in Aquatic Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Ph.D. in Marine Environmental and Estuarine Sciences from the University of Maryland. She first came to Boulder as a Visiting Science Fellow with CIRES.

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