I'm a tinkerer and a thinker and a prototyper. I needed to start writing it down.

Everything here started as me trying to answer a question, and thinking someone else might be interested too.

I’m a Bozeman dad with two kids in BSD7. We live south of campus in a fixer-upper with a flower farm, fourteen chickens, and three dogs who are no help at all. I ran for school board in 2026 and I’m running again in 2027.

Featured tool

BSD7 2026-27 School Calendar

Every day off, exam week and school concert for 2026-27, filtered to your kid's grade, as a list or a month. It can live in your phone's calendar too. Open the calendar →

Guides

What do I need to get my kid through this?

The Backpack

3 posts

Who actually decides

00 Students 01 U.S. Constitution 05 Montana state law 07 BSD7 Board of Trustees 09 Superintendent and cabinet 13 Parents and community

All fourteen layers

Tools

What did I build, and does it actually work?

The Bench

All tools

Next days off

Thu–Fri Oct 15–16 No school, K-12 PIR days
Thu–Fri Nov 12–13 No school K-5, conferences
Fri Nov 20 No school 9-12, PIR day
Wed–Fri Nov 25–27 Thanksgiving break
Mon Dec 21–Fri Jan 1 Winter break

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Workshop

What am I still chewing on?

The Cache

Why this exists

1 post

What I'm working through right now

how it’s governed
how it’s funded
what schools actually do
who works there

From the board

BSD7's new phone policy: high schoolers need an app to bring a phone to school

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