Seattle Schools Community Forum

Monday, May 9th Curriculum&Instruction Meeting , JSCEE, from 4:30-6:30 pm Agenda Lots of reviews with one of them being "research activity and assessment" - wonder if that will be an assessment of how testing is going this school year.  Under "Special Attention Items" there is "Native American update, K-5 ELA Adoption* and Initiate Middle School math adoption." Open House for English Language Arts Adoption at JSCEE from 5-7 pm in the second-floor library. Wednesday, May 11th School Nurse Day - thank you to all the nurses and health care professionals working in Seattle Schools for caring for our students! Board Work Session - Human Resources From 4:30-6:30 pm.  Agenda Executive Session immediately following - closed to the public This is a rather timely work session given issues that have arisen around who gets hired and who stays and who gets placed where at several of the district's schools.  Thursday, May 12th Audit&Finance...

 GiveBIG has been extended to midnight tonight because of technical difficulties yesterday.  Please consider giving so that your donation gets stretched from their giving fund. Have you been keeping up with the story on Bellevue High school and their football team ?  Long story short, they became a football powerhouse when they hired a new coach around 2000.  The team has won multiple state titles since then.  But their school board heard rumors of improprieties and hired two lawyers to investigate. The main issue is students who don't live in their district being on the team as well as some of them not even attending the school and being at some off-site non-Bellevue district diploma mill program. And, Bellevue High had many more transfers of students who ended up playing football there than other high schools in the district.

To note: SPS has just announced the start of a K-5 English Language Arts (ELA) instructional materials adoption.  The district is pretty fa  behind on putting current, standards-aligned instructional materials into classrooms district-wide.  The last formal ELA adoptions for elementary schools were basal readers in 2002 and Balanced Literacy in 2004.