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Yay Ballard High Digital Filmmaking Program!  From SPS Communications:

Two films by students from Ballard’s Digital Filmmaking Program have recently won top prizes at international film festivals. 

Blood Cargo, by Brendan Hickey, Liv D’Arche, Ben Murphy, and Talin Phillips, won Film of the Year at the STARdance Film Festival in Los Angeles. The festival had 380 entries. 

In the Wings, by Marley Rankin, Max Beaulieu and Emma Lee, won Best Short Fiction Film at American University’s Discover the World of Communications Film Festival in Washington DC. Films were judged by college professors and industry professionals. The festival received 125 entries. 

Student films, including Blood Cargo and In the Wings, can be viewed on their Vimeo channel. Opens a New Window

Rainier Beach High School in the News, from KNKX (Editor's note; this was last Friday, not this Friday):

Students at Seattle's Rainier Beach High School will be featured on national television Friday evening, as part of an episode of HBO's show "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas."

Colin Pierce is coordinator of Rainier Beach High School’s International Baccalaureate program. Pierce said Cenac approached the school because he heard about its turnaround in recent years, which was featured in a KNKX documentary in 2015. 

The district says that they are getting fewer state dollars for IB and yet I see that Chief Sealth is to come onboard with IB.  Why does the district put in programs that they will not financially support? 

Also on RBHS, they are staging a "walk-in" tomorrow over staff cuts to their building (one position - for IB - has been restored).

Wednesday May 8th, 8:20 am Speak-Out, Walk-In to classes at 8:45am. The Walk-Ins will continue every Wednesday for the rest of the school year until all the positions are restored.

From Facebook: The district's Science Department is cancelling Science Fair (again).  This is not a school-based based activity but district-based.  They would never be too busy for football or basketball but academic stardom?  It looks like it. 

The districtwide middle school science fair will not be held this year. With limited staff and resources at the district level to support this event, and waning participation in previous years, the department is focusing its priorities on the best ways to serve all our 12,000 middle school students in SPS. Although the district is unable to offer a district-level event, middle schools can continue to offer a building-level event and encourage student participation. 

The SPS Science Department is currently working to adopt new instructional materials for all students at grades 6-8 for future years. Once SPS has adopted and aligned to a new standards-aligned core science curriculum, the Science Department hopes to collaborate with science teachers and possibly community STEM organizations to develop and offer a standards-aligned, engineering-focused event in the future that is accessible to all students.

Here's what one parent at Facebook said:

Just learned from my 8th grader that District Science Fair (middle school) has been cancelled this year because so many schools are using Amplify that there aren’t enough students doing experiments /project-based science to make it fair/worthwhile. 

If this equity-based district cannot get it together to provide the support and resources for STEM learning so that kids who are interested, it's a sad, sad day.  How is spending money on Amplify going to change this?

Superintendent Juneau attended a parent meeting at Licton Springs last night to talk about the future of the program especially because of overcrowding at RESMS.  Apparently Juneau does not seem to get the Native-focus of Licton Springs which seems odd but that's what is being reported. The first thing that should be done is for the district to take the blame for this mess because it IS their fault.  Apparently, there are several scenarios:

- LS to Webster (and if they went, probably would have to become a K-5).  Webster is way far out in Ballard and so makes no sense (they do say "it's close to the Salish Sea).
- Split Cascadia with their grades 1-3 at Webster and grades 4-5 in the building, sharing with LS.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.
- Send all of Cascadia to Webster (but they note "it won't fit")
- LS to be K-5 and stay at RESMS (but they note "RESMS still overenrolled")

Hey SPS, try redrawing some boundaries to shore up underenrolled Whitman and help overenrolled RESMS.  I think this has been done on a limited basis (like some kids going to JAMS) but this situation needs to be addressed soon.

I note that despite the huge interest in the Science Adoption, not a single Board member is having a community meeting this Saturday.  I wouldn't expect Director Burke to do so as he did have one last Saturday (which I attended and will report on) but the rest of them? Hmmm.

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