| Sign In

Wondering what to expect in case of a weather closure in all or part of BVSD?

  • Watch that area near the top of the front page of the BVSD website, on the left just below the rotating photos masthead. Any public notice of a closure or delay will be posted there on the website FIRST and the light will change from green to yellow or red.
  • After the web notice has been posted, a phonecall/email/text will be sent to everyone whom the closure or delay directly affects.
  • In cases of all-district closures, the messages will be sent to ALL BVSD parents / guardians and staff.
  • In cases of mountain school closures, only mountain schools and mountain bus parents/guardians and staff will get the direct messages to their phones and email.
  • Media will also be alerted in both cases, and Facebook and Twitter notices will be posted. BVSD Closure Policies

No notices means no closures or significant delays have been reported. Except in very rare instances, decisions about closures are generally made by 6:30 a.m.

Read Superintendent Bruce Messinger's Oct. 26 blog regarding the first snow of the season.

BVSD conducted a district wide test of its emergency notification system Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 28, 2011.

Overall, the system worked well, making calls to more than 60,000 different phones in less than an hour. In a true emergency, it will help if everyone's contact information is correct in Infinite Campus (parents) and Lawson (employees). SchoolMessenger gets all its contact information directly from those two databases.

  • School staff handle updates to contact information related to student records in Infinite Campus, so any parents who need to update their phone numbers and/or email addresses for our message system should start by contacting their child's school.
  • Employees may update their own contact information in the Lawson self-service portal.

Once all the contact information in the databases is correct, parents and staff can go into Contact Manager to set preferences for how they receive communications sent through the SchoolMessenger system. They can also enter a cell phone number in the SMS section of Contact Manager to start getting text messages, if they choose.

We highly recommend that people opt in for this SMS service, because the text messages deliver within a couple of minutes. It may take the system up to an hour to complete all the phone calls for staff and parents in BVSD during an emergency or weather closure. Another nice feature of SchoolMessenger’s SMS service is that parents can enter up to five different numbers on which to receive text messages, which means their students can receive these weather closure notices, too. There is no extra charge for this service beyond whatever fees one pays to his or her phone service provider for their text messaging option.

How to set up your Contact Manager account:

tutorial for parents

tutorial for employees



Education Center / 6500 Arapahoe, Boulder, CO 80303 / 303-447-1010
Contact Webmaster / About this Site
© 2011 Boulder Valley School District