Upcoming Events to Get on Your Calendar
Besides this being #ClosetheGaps week for Seattle Schools, it is also DiscoverU week. What is DiscoverU?
DiscoverU is an exciting week for our community to come together and support students in exploring career and college options. Through fun activities in school and in the community, students throughout Seattle and South King County will have opportunities to explore their futures. DiscoverU puts student interests at the center and helps connect their aspirations with the many pathways to get there.
DiscoverU is an exciting week for our community to come together and support students in exploring career and college options. Through fun activities in school and in the community, students throughout Seattle and South King County will have opportunities to explore their futures. DiscoverU puts student interests at the center and helps connect their aspirations with the many pathways to get there.
Career & College Exploration
The opportunity for students to participate in fun activities and conversations that help them explore their career interests and learn about the education and skills needed to get there.
We promote all pathways that prepare students for careers in our
thriving economy. This includes technical training, two year and
four-year degree programs which we refer to as T-2-4.
For All Students
For All Students
All students pre-kindergarten to 12th grade in Seattle and South King County.
Together
Together
Engaging our community to help build a “beyond high school” culture and support students in planning for their future.
College Success Foundation offers college preparation and support
services for middle school, high school and college students of
low-income backgrounds and has offices in Washington state and
Washington DC, and has participated in DiscoverU since the campaign’s
inception in 2013. Stier-Van Essen says that the partnership is natural
since CSF’s mission of helping students find a college or career pathway
that works for them aligns perfectly with DiscoverU goals.
Community Meeting about the reopening of Lincoln High
October 27th from 6:30-8:30 pm
Lincoln High School Library, 4400 Interlake Ave. N.
Includes Director Rick Burke and SPS staff from Teaching and Learning, Enrollment, International Education and Capital Projects along with the architects.
If they are bringing along International Education, I would submit that's a fairly big tell for what is coming for Lincoln. Naturally, it makes sense with HIMS almost right next door.
Community Meetings on the 2017-2018 Budget
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence, 2445 3rd Avenue South in the Auditorium
Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the South Shore K-8 School cafeteria, 4800 S Henderson Street
(To note: the district calendar has these down as "work sessions" and I have a call in to get clarity.)
Both meetings will provide an overview of the district’s budget and planning process as well as an opportunity for our families to make recommendations to the District’s Leadership Team and School Board regarding what their ideas would be if the district receives additional funds or has funding reductions that affect the 2017-18 school year.
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) will be hosting two budget work sessions this fall for parents and community members to learn budget background information and to gather feedback on the question, “What Do You Value?” as it relates to potential funding changes for the 2017-18 school year.
Includes Director Rick Burke and SPS staff from Teaching and Learning, Enrollment, International Education and Capital Projects along with the architects.
If they are bringing along International Education, I would submit that's a fairly big tell for what is coming for Lincoln. Naturally, it makes sense with HIMS almost right next door.
Community Meetings on the 2017-2018 Budget
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence, 2445 3rd Avenue South in the Auditorium
Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the South Shore K-8 School cafeteria, 4800 S Henderson Street
(To note: the district calendar has these down as "work sessions" and I have a call in to get clarity.)
Both meetings will provide an overview of the district’s budget and planning process as well as an opportunity for our families to make recommendations to the District’s Leadership Team and School Board regarding what their ideas would be if the district receives additional funds or has funding reductions that affect the 2017-18 school year.
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) will be hosting two budget work sessions this fall for parents and community members to learn budget background information and to gather feedback on the question, “What Do You Value?” as it relates to potential funding changes for the 2017-18 school year.
Comments
To give this new high school the best shot at success, the district needs to invest NOW in a top-notch principal who can chart a clear, coherent path and hire great teachers. My understanding is that when the district opened JAMS, parents successfully lobbied to have a principal in place one year prior AND get start-up funding. Can any JAMS parents chime in here and offer advice for parents concerned about giving Lincoln the best start possible?
I agree with Melissa that the writing seems to be on the wall that this will likely be an "international" high school. What does that mean? The other two existing "international" high schools in our city--Chief Sealth and Ingraham--both have International Baccalaureate programs (IB) in place. When I recently attended an IB night at Ingraham and spoke to the staff there, they said there is no way Lincoln HS could open with an IB program in place in 2019 because it is a 5-year process to become accredited as an IB site.
So what happens to 8th graders now who go to Ingraham next year, declare for the IB program their sophomore year (and take recommended courses to prepare for the IB curriculum in their junior and senior years) and then Lincoln opens in their then-junior year of high school? Will those students be grandfathered at Ingraham? Or will they be sent to Lincoln because it will then become the "international school pathway"?
Thoughts?
Concerned Hamilton parent
Also, SPS needs to define what international means at Lincoln. Is it IB offerings or is it language immersion or is it something new? Then HIMS needs to align to that program definition. If IB, then they need to start offering the 6-8 IB classes, if immersion then they need to bring back the language immersion program they dismantled. If something new then HIMS needs to be part of that also.
Also, good point on the use of the word "international."
DistrictWatcher
This all means that Lincoln will be filled by kids coming from a lot of other middle schools besides Hamilton, so programming from all the feeder schools will need to be taken into consideration, not just Hamilton.
HF
HF
I would like to know (sooner than later) what SPS and the City are thinking about who would go to this school and what kind of school would it be. I think it could cast a much wider net than just Ballard as an all-city draw or could actually be the new QA/Mag high school and exclude Ballard completely.
It's the absence of information that concerns me most and would like to see the conversation about Lincoln include plans for the new school at the Seattle Center.
Yes, am interested when that would happen. I have been thinking it would open well after Lincoln in 2019. But has the district given any indication?
-NW
Opening Lincoln - having been in on the first years of opening McDonald from scratch, many of us could write a pretty useful list of things parents will want to stay on top of and advocate strongly for. We only had a principal assigned to the effort from late Spring forward (and she was a principal at her other school through June) and that wasn't nearly enough, particularly given how much more complex everything will be for a high school. It's also critical to know what the programming will be and who the families in the school will be early on. It takes so much staff and parent involvement to open a school well (parents set up the PTA, try to raise money, help set up clubs, sports teams, etc), and we won't get parent buy-in until it's firm who's really attending.
I bet many of the McDonald parents who started McDonald (and QAE and other from-scratch new schools) are still suffering from PTSD and won't want to take the lead on this 2nd new school effort. I know I am. The hard work isn't just to start the school, but the first couple years are full of still setting up systems, hiring more teachers, building relationships, developing the programming, and lots more, that staff in other schools already have in place so they can focus more time on academics. Lots of lessons learned by those of us who have gone through it before.
-What fun
And as to language immersion students being more "fit" to do IB than others, I don't think "fitness" factors into the equation, other than having to be at a Level 3 level in a foreign language to take on the IB as a high school junior. I was simply making the point that the existing international high schools all offer the IB option so it would be a departure to create an international high school that did NOT offer IB.
Concerned Hamilton parent
Kelly
A possible complication--one that I have not seen mentioned--is that right now IHS is the pathway school for both immersion and HCC, and at Hamilton, there is significant overlap between those two populations. By creating pathways that divert immersion students who are not HCC to Lincoln, while immersion students who are HCC could go to IHS, it will reduce access to the most advanced languages classes at both schools. The pool of students ready for 6th or 7th year language classes is small, and if that pool is split between two high schools it seems that both will fall short.
kitty