Press Release from Amanda Fox, FHS Athletic Director:
Three Fife High School seniors will be signing letters of intent with area colleges this Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Shelby Hutton will be signing to play women’s soccer for Eastern Washington University. Haley Shaw is signing a letter of intent to play women’s soccer at Oregon State University. Faith Wasmund will be signing to compete with the women’s wrestling program at Yakima Community College—one of the few colleges or universities nationally that feature a women’s wrestling program. All three have competed at the high school state level, and all three are excellent students and active members of the Fife student body.
Fife High School will be hosting a reception to celebrate these athletes’ achievements this Wednesday, February 3 at 1:30pm in the FHS library.
Congratulations to these athletes, their families, teammates, and coaches!
UPDATE 2.04.10: Here are a few pics from the signing ceremony.
FHS’s latest student athlete signees
Oregon State Soccer
Yakima Community College Wrestling
Eastern Washington University Soccer
Shelby Hutton with her family and Coach Stock
Haley Shaw and family
The three signees cut celebration cake together
Faith with her dad and Coach Gaspaire
Longtime teammates and friends signing Letters of Intent together
Thank you to the approximately 1,000 guests who attended our inaugural District Science and Technology Showcase! Be sure to visit our website to see a slideshow and video of the evening. We are blessed to have such a supportive community behind what we do. If you attended the event, please leave us a comment about what you thought!
Trojan Digital Media is the creative force behind all kinds of video productions at Fife High School. They produce a weekly video announcement for FHS’s ASB called, ‘Life at Fife‘ and a monthly show for their school, ‘Trojan TV.’ In addition they produce PSA’s, short films, and other video projects as they are asked. They recently helped create a series of videos to help the district inform voters about our two upcoming levies. Over the past few years, TDM has been awarded seven Emmy’s for their work. Kudos to the students and their teacher, Mr. John Shula for work well done! A sample of their work appears below:
January is School Board Appreciation Month; please join us in thanking our tremendous school board. President Bruce Burnside and members Bob Scheidt, Doug Fagundes, Marisa Michaud, and Sally Finlayson put in countless hours as volunteers to serve in this vital role. We are truly a better district because of their service!
Today’s post was written by our superintendent Dr. Steve McCammon:
Each year a classified and a certified employee of the year are recognized by our school district. For the past several years, I have also given out a Superintendent’s Leadership Award in recognition of those individuals that go above and beyond the call to move the work of this district forward. I award one or two of these a year to an administrator, teacher leader, classified employee, or board member who I feel exhibits critical leadership in this learning organization.
At last evening’s school board meeting, I presented one of these awards to Bob Scheidt as he concluded his term as our school board president and before he turned the gavel over to Bruce Burnside. Bob’s leadership has been critical as we have taken our work to new heights that include national recognition and sharing of our work, but most importantly the deepening of the effect of our work right here at home. He has been steadfast in his support of the critical decisions that we must make every day in keeping this district moving forward while dealing with the tough challenges presented by a worsening economy.
Join me in congratulating and thanking Bob for all of his efforts. May he continue to serve our district for many years to come!
The WOW Refrigerator is currently displaying some great student work created as part of a final in Mr. Andy McClure’s computer programming class. Click here to see pictures of the authentic way students demonstrated their knowledge. The video below highlights some of this great work, too!
We’d like to congratulate five of our teaching staff on receiving word last week that they had achieved National Board Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Leanna Aker – CJH Science Teacher, Nadine Baxter – SLMS Art Teacher, Laura Nixon – Hedden 5th Grade Teacher, Phil Moseley – CJH Science Teacher, and Ed Scheidt – CJH Language Arts Teacher completed a year of rigorous study and reflection on their teaching practices.
After compiling a portfolio of evidence to show proficiency in a series of standards, teachers attempting this high level of certification must then pass a very difficult written examination.
From the NBPTS website:
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards improves teaching and student learning.National Board Certified Teachers are highly accomplished educators who meet high and rigorous standards.
In a congressionally-mandated study, National Board Certification was recently recognized by the National Research Council as having a positive impact on student achievement, teacher retention, and professional development.
Congratulations to FHS Senior, Cameron Booser, who recently signed a letter of intent to play baseball for the Oregon State Beavers. FHS Athletic Director, Amanda Fox, held a ceremony with Cameron’s family, coaches, and other guests to celebrate the first Division I baseball scholarship in FHS’s history. Cameron has played baseball the past two seasons at FHS and holds the team’s record for strike/walk ratio. He was selected the Nisqually League’s Most Valuable Player last season.
“Cam has been a great leader on the field for the Fife Baseball Team. He is a great competitor and works hard on the little details of the game. I’m excited for his Senior season and his future at OSU.” — Shane Nixon, FHS Head Baseball Coach
Today’s blog post comes from our superintendent, Dr. Steve McCammon:
At our most recent school board meeting I had the honor of recognizing Rex Sutherland for nine years of dedicated service on the Fife School Board. Rex is leaving the board due to his relocation within the school district. Rex served as board president for several years and was in fact a member of the board that offered me this position over nine years ago. I take this additional opportunity to thank him for his leadership in times that have not always been easy as we have continued to weather the post 9/11 funding crisis that has impacted all school districts across our state and nation. Rex was integral in helping us to maintain a solid fund balance in lean times, enviable class sizes, as well as serving during a time when Fife became a national leader in our Standard Bearer school reform effort. His guidance on the completion of our Columbia Junior High School project as well as the agreement to build our turf field at SLMS was invaluable. He will be missed and I hope you will join me in thanking him for his selfless dedication to the students and staff of our fine school district.
Several times a year, Dr. McCammon invites district leaders to “walk through” each of our six buildings looking for evidence of high quality student work. Each walk through begins with a conversation with that building’s principal, Dr. McCammon, and the other leaders who will be touring the school. The team then walks through the halls of the school examining the work posted along with the description of the work the teacher has posted. This description, Walls That Teach, appears alongside the work so that viewers can understand the key concepts for learning, the design of the work, and how students felt about doing that work. The walkthrough then ends with a debrief, led by Dr. McCammon, about what was seen and learned.
Here our a few pictures from the first walkthroughs conducted this year:
