Rodney Meyers for GFPS Trustee

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05/12/2024

I am hosting a meal for my contributors and volunteers Tuesday May 14, 2024 at 6:00 PM in the Fellowship hall of First Baptist Church (525 2nd Ave N, Great Falls, MT).

If you contributed funds, knocked on doors or wrote post cards, please stop by so I can say “Thank you” in person.

Looking forward to seeing you then.

01/14/2024

The post for today…

What are the issues you would most like the GFPS Board of Trustees resolve?

I am most interested to hear your thoughts.

Thank you.

For those who have not heard, our Superintendent is retiring as of June 30, 2024.As part of the search process for a new...
01/10/2024

For those who have not heard, our Superintendent is retiring as of June 30, 2024.

As part of the search process for a new Superintendent, the Board of Trustees is asking for the community to complete a survey.

The survey can be found at: https://www.gfps.k12.mt.us/domain/682

The survey will be available till 1-19-2024.

12/21/2023

Today’s post is to announce that I am throwing my hat into the ring for the one seat available in the 2024 Great Falls Public School Board of Trustees election.

I am so thankful for those who have supported me in the past and am looking forward to the additional supporters in this campaign.

Our next generation is too valuable for us to use them as test subjects in social engineering experiments. We need to make education an age-appropriate environment where they can learn the skills that will enable them to navigate their futures.

05/02/2023

For your daily reminder: remember to vote today for GFPS Trustee(s).

Mail-in ballots can be returned to the Exhibition Hall at the Fairgrounds.

In-person voting is also being done at Exhibition Hall at the Fairgrounds.

Both options end at 8:00 PM

And for all of you who have helped in ways great and small in my campaign,

“THANK YOU!!!!”.

Your support and friendship is greatly appreciated.

And, when I win, I will need your support and ideas even more as we work to improve our school district.

04/27/2023

I apologize for the size of this post. Given the late hour in the campaign, this needs to get out.

The following is the three-question questionnaire I filled out for the Tribune.

1. Why should you be elected to the GFPS School Board?

We see the coarsening of our culture, the increased suicidal ideation of our students, especially sixth-grade girls. We see the increased level of violence in our schools resulting in a near record level of interactions with our SROs this school year.

We also see the continued slide in the proficiency levels.

We need a new focus on our school board to get us back to our core competency: teaching.

My daily job is the collection of data and the evaluation of processes to determine better ways to accomplish a desired result. I would like to apply my thirty-seven years of experience to help our district focus on the education of our students.

2. What do feel [sic] are the biggest issues or challenges facing Great
Falls Public Schools?

I think that a part of the issue with mental health among our students is the dichotomy in our approach to teaching; leading the students to wonder which way they are supposed to go.

On one hand, we tell our students that respect, truthfulness, perseverance, forgiveness, etc. is the way they are to act in our schools and in their lives.

On the other hand, we have reading assignments that promote disrespect, bullying, violence, inappropriate sexual activity and demeaning behavior. And, since this is an assigned reading, how can our students think anything other than that this type of behavior is supported by the school; especially when it is also prevalent in their home lives outside of our schools?


3. What goals do you hope to accomplish if elected to the trustee position?

We have a program through all of our schools that was implemented this year entitled CharacterStrong. Within this program each month focuses on a different aspect of character development such as Respect, Responsibility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Honesty…

I would like to implement policy that will direct the the full integration of CharacterStrong in all aspects of school functionality. I would like to align all our school curriculum within the CharacterStrong framework so that we are expressing a consistent message to our students that will, as our mission states: “… successfully educate students to navigate their futures.”

This is something that our students have already begun through the I Am Bison initiative where they promote good behaviors within our schools. What they have started, I would like to assist in making district wide.

04/26/2023

From the survey sent to all candidates by Kids Education Yes (KEY), a local advocacy organization for our public schools:

5. What do you want the community to know about you, your qualifications, and your interest in serving as a trustee of GFPS?

In my full time job, my strong suit is my ability to assimilate information from many sources and develope and fine tune approaches to the business issues at hand. In that, as our Business Manager stated, the Great Falls Public School District is a very large business, I would like to be able to apply those same skills to the school district with the intent of turning out a better product: better educated students.

04/25/2023

From the Survey sent to all candidates by Kids Education Yes (KEY), a local advocacy organization for our public schools:

4. What aspect of public school funding do you think is the most in need of change?

I am trying to understand how we repeatedly get in the position of needing to obtain bonds for major repairs to school buildings when we know all along that such repairs are going to be needed in the future. Why are we not setting aside money for those repairs over the years when everything is running smoothly? This is what I need to do with my own property.

As a Trustee, how would you advocate for that change?

I would like to work with the other Trustees to see how we can begin setting aside monies for that purpose. Yes, it may require a small levy initially, but better a small levy than a major bond issue that still needs to be paid off.

04/24/2023

3. What do you see as the three most important things to achieve by serving as a GFPS Board Trustee?

The first thing we need to do is get back to the core competency of any school district: educating the children. There are things that we are required to teach that may not be needed, especially at the younger ages, that takes away from the time teachers can be focusing on the critical subject areas: reading, writing and mathematics. Studies have shown that unless our students have a strong foundation by the end of third grade, they will struggle with those subject areas through the rest of their educational career.

In line with the first thing, is working with the legislature to ensure that superfluous topics are eliminated or lessened.

The third thing is the whole issue of character as expressed in the prior question.

04/21/2023

From the Survey sent to all candidates by Kids Education Yes (KEY), a local advocacy organization for our public schools:

2. What do you see as the most challenging issue facing Great
Falls Public Schools at this time?

We do need to be concerned with our student’s mental health
issues. While we cannot solve the underlying problems
(homelessness, neglect, abuse, poverty), we have many
programs to help the symptoms and we need to look at
innovative ways of changing the thinking of the students so
they do not perpetuate the cycle they have seen from
childhood.

What successes do you see in the programs and teaching
delivered through Great Falls Public Schools?

At the beginning of this school year the district implemented
CharacterStrong which is a character development curriculum
that focuses on a different character quality each month. The
word for that month is incorporated into many aspects of the
daily eduction process with the intent of keeping it front of
mind. If we continue that year after year, by the time our
students complete their schooling, they will have those
qualities ingrained in their thinking.

04/20/2023

From the Survey sent to all candidates by Kids Education Yes (KEY), a local advocacy organization for our public schools:

1. Please describe your experiences and connection to Great Falls Public Schools.

I have been attending school board meetings for almost two years: Missing only three in that time. During that time I have assisted the board by proof reading all policy changes, in fact, the whole policy, not just what was changed.

Additionally I am the community member on the Technology Curriculum Review Committee. While that is not an active effort, due to more important curriculum reviews underway, that will continue when some of the other review efforts are complete.

Lastly, the first school boards in this country were the parents of the children in the school. They then hired a teacher to do the education while maintaining control of the process. When did we get to the point where the population thinks that the only qualified folks to run for school board are those who have been in education their whole career? And, yes, there are a couple current trustees who have careers outside of the education. I would be just another one of them.

I want to say “Thank you!” to all of those who came out to the Meet and Greet at Amy’s Morning Perk in North 40 and to t...
04/19/2023

I want to say “Thank you!” to all of those who came out to the Meet and Greet at Amy’s Morning Perk in North 40 and to those behind the counter.

And, as a reminder, I will next be at the Candidate Forum hosted by The Electric in the basement of the Great Falls Public Library Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM.

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Great Falls, MT
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