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Congrats to the Catherine Blaine girls soccer team for winning the K-8 championship for Section 7AA!Great story from Crosscut about the City's new new youth arts manager, Ashraf Hasham, at the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture (OAC).
He’ll guide programs such as The Creative Advantage, which provides equitable arts education in Seattle schools, and build partnerships with creative industries to encourage youth toward art careers.You may recall my post about Loyal Heights Elementary parents who were very unhappy with their principal and their gathering of names to ask that she be removed. Well, props to them because the Superintendent announced a new principal. This is big because 1) elementaries tend to not have the power that high schools do, 2) getting a new principal not even mid-year? hmmm and 3) the original principal? Where did she go? Also, interesting wording from the Super, story from My Ballard:
“I love that he graduated from Ballard High School,” OAC Director Randy Engstrom said of Hasham’s hire. “He’s from here, he has deep, lived experience and relationships here over many years.”
"It certainly has with Creative Advantage, the arts education initiative through Seattle Public Schools, which my predecessor Lara Davis established six years ago. It won awards nationally for working with big bureaucracies and tons of community partners to have a collective impact, where you're actually getting arts education to every single young person in Seattle Public Schools. In 2020 we’ll have seen it go through every single school."
“Feedback from LHE staff and community indicated the desire for a leader who listens to their voices and perspectives; a leader who cares, is hardworking and transparent, and one who will be visible,” Juneau wrote to families. “Mr. Berkenwald embodies these characteristics, and his extensive school leadership experience make him a great fit for the LHE community.”I take that to mean the original principal, Geri Guerrero, was none of those things for that community. Also, I heard many, many Washington Middle School parents express the "desire" for the same things last year and yet, they had their dysfunctional principal for the entire year.
SPS still struggling with operations; Exhibit One, from the Board agenda for its meeting tomorrow night.
I move that the School Board authorize the Superintendent to execute a contract amendment with Epi-Use for a total Not-To-Exceed (NTE) amount of $403,200, including taxes, for emergency SAP staff support services with any minor additions, deletions, and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent, and to take any necessary actions to implement the amendment.
Our technical expert in SAP Payroll/Benefits has resigned, leaving us with an emergency skills gap. The work associated with this position are critical functions that change throughout the year as a result of changes to school health care benefits (SEBB), Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), general system maintenance / fixes, and other projects and enhancements.So one person leaves and the district is in near-shutdown of these tasks? And $400K - how many psychologists, counselors or nurses could that have paid for?
CBS News reports on a new documentary about Black girls in schools being punished more than others. It's called Pushout: The criminalization of Black girls in schools.
The FDA has approved a contact lens for kids to slow the progression of nearsightedness in kids.
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