Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
After over a thousand votes and some really close calls, we have our People’s Choice winner. But before we get to that, here’s a re-cap of our Grand Prize Winners: Grand Prize Winner: Video Asha Reichenbach – Age 6 – Greenwood Elementary School Grand Prize Winner: Powerpoint Frances Fleming – Grade 4 – Lowell Elementary [...]
“The walls would be blue. Why? Not because Beyoncé’s baby is named blue. Actually its because light blue helps students focus on what their teacher tells them to do, so they can get all A+’s.” We are not exaggerating when we tell you how much fun judging this contest this was! We received so many [...]
Written by Seattle student Dexter Tang In any functioning system of democracy, it is the collective majority whose interests are represented. But in education, the student body, whose collective majority ranges in the tens of thousands, doesn’t seem to have their interests thoroughly conveyed. Therefore, the Seattle Student Senate serves to be the public student’s [...]
This op-ed was written by Paul Pastorek, former Louisiana state superintendent of education. It appeared in the Seattle Times. The Big Easy is about food, music and Bourbon Street, not about innovation, right? Wrong! New Orleans is at the center of an education revolution that is developing an “education system” that defies conventional wisdom. If, [...]
Macy, a student at Whitworth University in Spokane, shares how her public charter school education transformed her life. Her charter school focused on helping low-income students be the first in their families to go to college. All of her classmates graduated from high school, and 94% went on to attend four-year universities. “Preuss taught me [...]
When you were in school, did you ever wish Batman could be your math teacher? We all had ideas – some logical, others fanciful – about how to make improvements to our school. We want to hear from a new generation of voices. Our My Dream School contest, co-sponsored with Seattle’s Child asks students to [...]
Students from schools across Seattle staged a walk-out last December to protest further budget cuts to education. Chanting “Fund our future” and “No more cuts,” students from Roosevelt, Garfield, Ballard, Nathan Hale, and other area schools shared their stories on how the budget has affected their education. Issues raised include having to pay for extracurricular [...]
We love this! It made our day. Jerred Erickson, a Spanaway Lake High School Civics, AP Government and Sociology teacher, used our budget calculator for an exercise in his class! Erickson’s AP Government students are participating in a mock Legislative session to, according to his blog Schoolhouse Blog, “understand the dire choices faced by state [...]
This blog post was written by Jody McVittie, MD, Executive Director, Sound Discipline and Terry Chadsey, MS Sound Discipline Board President. Read more about discipline and the school pushout issue on our website. To attend our Dec. 8th event in Tacoma, please RSVP here. In the Seattle School District, African American elementary school students are [...]
