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From SPS: National African-American Parent Involvement Day February 8, 2016 7 a.m. – 2 p.m. South Shore PK-8 In a dynamic family engagement event, South Shore Pre-K – 8 School will be host to over 100 men of African descent, welcoming every child with enthusiastic “high fives” to school on Monday, February 8th in honor of the school’s 8th annual celebration of National African-American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID).

A couple of items of note in honor of Black History month. Denny Middle School was featured in a recent article in the Seattle Times for a play they are staging. It's called " The Stolen Ones and How They Were Missed " based on a children's book of the same name by a local writer, Marcia Tate Arunga. She, along with other local artists, is directing the play. The students will be performing the play on Saturday, the 19th, as part of their celebration, Soul Jambalaya . It will start at 7 p.m. at Chief Sealth High School. Admission is free but donations for a scholarship fund will be accepted. From the article: Patricia Rangel, an administrator at Denny, said the story of the "the stolen ones" strengthens the school's U.S. history curriculum. At this point in the year, she said, seventh-graders are learning about the transatlantic slave trade. "We thought how great, how rich to bring this global perspective, the African perspective of that...