District seeks input on school calendar for 2010-11
There are two school calendar options being considered for the 2010-11 school year. Both calendars set the start of the school year on Sept. 7, 2010. Option #1 would schedule fall conference dates for Nov. 22-24; Option #2 would schedule fall conferences from Nov. 9-12.
The School Board is expected to finalize the school calendar on March 8. To comment on either proposed calendar, contact the District at 503-565-4001 or email Michele Kelsch.
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MACA’s January Exhibition
In January, Media Arts and Communications Academy (MACA) students showcased their best work. Student work was displayed gallery-style for visitors and some of the best work was selected for presentation to a panel of judges.
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Battle of the Books tests students reading skills
Students around the district are engaged in a fight for reading supremacy. Teams of students in grades 3-5 are competing in the first heat of round two of the Oregon Battle of the Books.
The event is popular among students. "Some students started reading the books last summer," said Columbus Elementary School Principal Kathi Fowler. "They have fun, but they take it seriously," she said.
The teams answer a series of questions about the content of the books or to identify a specific book based on the given information.
On Monday, Feb. 1, the Fire-Breathing Rubber Duckies battled the Ice Dragons in the first heat of round 2 at Columbus. The school has 20 teams and 75 students participating.
Members of the Fire-breathing Rubber Duckies team from Columbus Elementary School wait for their next book question in the first game of round two of the Battle of the Books.
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MHS students receive appointments to military academies
Morgan Driever has received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The approximate value of this appointment is more than $250,000. The school was rated the Best Public Liberal Arts College in the Country by US News and World Report.
Driever will graduate West Point as a Second Lieutenant in 2014.
Nathan Harris has received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy Prepatory School in Rhode Island. The 10-month program will start in July. Upon completion in summer 2011, he will transfer to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and will graduate with the class of 2015.
Harris, currently enrolled at EASA, will study engineering with a goal of becoming an aerospace engineer.
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Buel Elementary School recognized as successful brownfields redevelopment
Two publications have recently featured Sue Buel Elementary School for successfully redeveloping a brownfields site and working collaboratively with community partners and intergovernmental agencies.
In January, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Brownfields Update for the Pacific Northwest e-newsletter included the story: Community Loses a Notorious Brownfield and Gains a New, LEED-certified (Gold) School.
In November 2009, the United States EPA included the Buel Elementary School project in it’s publication, Petroleum Brownfields: Selecting a Reuse Option.
Brownfields are blighted or underused properties where actual or perceived contamination is complicating reuse. At Buel, the Brownfields area, now part of the parking lot and playfields, was 1.5 acres that had been part of an abandoned asphalt plant.
Student concern over traffic safety yields crosswalk signs at MACA
A service project from students at the Media Arts & Communications Academy (MACA) resulted in a safer intersection at the corner of 13th and Davis, where crosswalk signs were installed last week.
Three students, senior Nick Jones and juniors Jake Mealue and Travis Fahy (pictured below from left), became concerned last year about the intersection of NE 13th and Davis, where they saw cars go too fast, nobody yielding, and students not paying attention as they crossed the street. They filmed cars, school busses and pedestrians at the intersection for three days. They used the data to craft a letter asking the city for stop signs at each corner of the intersection
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