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A number of principal moves have been announced. Schools with design teams are in bold. Roy Merca from Summit is moving to AS1 Ernie Severs from AS1 is moving to Sanislo Debbie Nelson from Sanislo to Jane Addams Chris Carter from Jane Addams to Hamilton Katie Cryan Leary from Hamilton to Leave Dewanda Cook-Weaver from Lowell (SpEd) to McGilvra Jo Shapiro from McGilvra to Assistant Principal at Hamilton Wayne Floyd from JSCEE (he was working on the Southeast Initiative) to Loyal Heights Cashel Toner from Loyal Heights to Leschi Jo Lute-Ervin from Leschi to TOPS Clara Scott from TOPS to retirement Mia Williams from Aki Kurose (interim) to Aki Kurose (permanent) Kim Fox from Bryant (interim) to Bryant (permanent) Linda Robinson from Bryant to Whittier Cothron McMillian from Whittier to Brighton Beverly Raines from Brighton to Lawton Ed Noh from Lawton to... ??? Greg King from T T Minor to Lowell Julie Briedenbach from Lowell to Thurgood Marshall Winifred Todd from Thurgood Marshall t...

Well, well, well. This certainly is a big, important Board meeting coming up this week. On the agenda are action on such long-discussed topics as: High School Math Adoption Revised Student Assignment Policy Transfer of another $1.45 million to the Garfield capital project A technical amendment to the Transportation Service Standards (for introduction and action) Also introduction of high school grading policy reform and the annual Reduction In Force. There are a number of capital projects on the agenda. I believe that a number of them are related to the Capacity Management project. If you're going to this Board meeting, I suggest you pack a snack. It's going to be a long one.

Thanks to Kellie La Rue for these Jane Addams K-8 Design Team updates: There are now two information nights for the new Jane Addams program > > March 5 and March 17 > 6:30 - 8:00 > > Opportunity to meet the principals, tour the building, view > instructional materials, get an overview of the program. > > The mission statement is: > "Jane Addams K-8, an environmental sciences school, empowering creative and critical thinkers who nurture themselves, their community and their environment." Also, I did attend the BEX Oversight Committee meeting this morning (more on that in another thread) but there was some information tied to the new K-8. Hale has a Horticulture program and has a large greenhouse some ways away from the building past the athletic field. The greenhouse sits on Seattle Public Utility land (there is no lease just some loose agreement from the '70s) but now the SPU wants the land back. There is not enough land by Hale itself...

I received this information from Sharon Rodgers, president of the Seattle Council PTSA. I'm going to condense it somewhat. Here are the links to the design team documents ( document 1 and document 2). Document 2 (template) is labeled "draft". I have not combed through these myself. Just looking at the team membership on document 1, I see only 1 parent/community member listed whereas in the other document, I see it says 3-5 reps. A bit confusing. Just so you know how hard the people at the Seattle Council work: "Over the course of the last two weeks, your Seattle Council PTSA Board met with all seven school board directors and Superintendent Goodloe-Johnson and Chief Academic Officer Carla Santorno to share the concerns we continued to hear from families about the impact of the proposed closures/moves on their students, especially those already in fragile situations." Details on transitions: "Our first goal is to make sure that School Design Teams...