|
Students Attend Latino/a Educational Achievement Project (LEAP) Conference
Curriculum Includes Life Skills Several times a week the fifth- and sixth-grade Explorer students at Bow Lake Elementary learn and actively practice some of the nuances of good manners. The students are trying out such skills as: answering the telephone properly, correctly eating such foods as olives, cherry tomatoes, and spaghetti, practicing introductions, writing thank you notes, arranging a dinner setting, dealing with "sticky situations" such as telling someone they have food in their teeth, and to understand that good manners are generally common sense and civility. Read more...Pacific Selected for Mathematics Helping Corps Pacific Middle School has been selected to participate in the Washington State Mathematics Helping Corps program (MHC). Your donations made it happen... Highline Public Schools Receives BECU Education Grant
On Wednesday, February 6, Bow Lake Elementary School will hold its first legislative session. The school Legislature is modeled after the Washington State Legislature and the U.S. Congress and will run for two weeks. Carlyn Roedell's 5/6 Explorer Class is in charge of running the Legislature with such jobs as recorders, vote counters, reporters, photographers, and the ever-popular Sergeant at Arms. Read more...PSSC Instructor Selected as Ambassador Penny Pallechio, medical careers instructor at Puget Sound Skills Center (PSSC) has been selected for the O Ambassador Program, a joint project between Oprah's Angel Network and an organization called Free the Children. Participants will be working on four of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals - hunger, poverty, education, and sustainable development - with the goal of raising awareness and funds. Penny has been assigned to help East Asia, and she is engaging her students in making brief presentations and fundraiser announcements to other students and staff at PSSC. Washington Aerospace Scholars Announced Highline Public Schools was well represented when Washington Aerospace Scholars for 2007-2008 were announced. 18 students were selected. Read more...Health Science High School Artists Finalists in National Design Contest HS3 students Diana Nguyen and Rathanak Rath have been chosen as finalists in the Lucerne Art of Dairy contest. From a field of 10,000+ entries, Rathanak and Diana were selected as two of the top thirty artists. The finalists will be sent a life sized fiberglass cow to decorate with their historical designs, and those thirty artists will be judged again. Each of the 30 finalists receives a $500 savings bond and is eligible for the $5,000 grand prize. Read more...McArthur Fellowship Winner Visits Big Picture High School Yoky Matsuoka, recent recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, is scheduled to visit Big Picture High School on February 11. Principal Jeff Petty describes the visit "the first step in what will hopefully be a partnership with Yoky designed to expose some of our female students to scientific research." Read more...Pacific Middle School Students to Future City Statewide Competition Five teams of students from the Pacific Middle School Design and Engineering classes were on hand January 19 at the Seattle Center to compete against teams from across the state. Future City, part of a national competition sponsored by engineering organizations, is new to Pacific this year. The project includes designing a city, writing essays and abstracts, and building scale models. Read more...Odyssey Teacher Selected as Model for Instructional Program
Sylvester and Highine Recognized for AVID Accomplishment
Scholarships Available for Educators Horace Mann is dedicated to serving the needs of the educational community. The Horace Mann Companies is offering $30,000 in scholarships for public and private school K-12 educators to take college courses. Read more...Aviation Science Decathlon Teams Sweep the Meet
Global Connections Students Score High Marks at Competition
|
 Upcoming Events02/21/08 Cedarhurst Grand Opening Quick Links
Burien Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services
- Karen Gullberg - Ray Hinderlie |
School Board Members (l-r) Michael Spear, Susan Goding, Julie Burr Spani, Sili Savusa, and Bernie Dorsey hold the certificates of appreciation presented to them by Superintendent Welch at the January 23 Board meeting. January is School Board Appreciation month.
Students from Midway, Cascade, Pacific, Global Connections, Highline, and Mount Rainier attended this year's Latino/a Educational Achievement Project (LEAP) conference January 18. One of the highlights came during the evening dinner celebration which featured students from Global Connections as presenters. GC senior, Jose Lopez, was honored as the recipient of the Phyllis Gutierrez-Kenney student leadership award which includes a $5,000 college scholarship!
The Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) presented a check for $1000 to Valley View Early Learning Center on Tuesday, January 23. The BECU grant is part of the credit union's school grants program. The money will help pay for a field trip in March for the 160 pre-school children at Valley View-- a performance of the Story Book Theater at the Highline Performing Arts Center.
Amanda McNaughtion, special education teacher at Odyssey, the Essential School, was selected by Walden University to be filmed for their instructional program. Amanda's lesson for the program centered around transition planning for life after high school. The students considered their skills and strengths, post-secondary education options, and daily life as an adult. Then, they created realistic plans for a career path and identified reasons their chosen career was a good fit for them individually. 
Both Sylvester and Highline reached National AVID Certification standards for their first two years as AVID schools. Shown here receiving their awards, representatives were recognized for their efforts in reaching National Certification for the 2006-2007 school year. This status is awarded to AVID sites that have met the eleven AVID Program Essentials and Data Collection documentation that supports program effectiveness and student progress. This validation process is designed to assist AVID sites with achieving desired benchmarks that are precursors for academic success in high school and college.
On Saturday, Aviation High School Science Decathlon teams swept the field at the Bothell Invitational! Competing in teams of up to six people in ten science and engineering events, our three teams took the top three places.
On January 9, eighty Global Connections Marketing students participated in the Area IV DECA Competition in Bellevue at the Meydenbauer Center. Students competed in Marketing-based competitions against their peers from the Seattle King County Area. Over 800 students from around the area from 20 different schools participated in this event. Several Global Connections students earned awards and seven students qualified for the DECA State Competition in March.