Fife Public Schools

We continue to get requests to share the work we are doing here in our district around designing engaging experiences for our students.  Here’s a listing of what’s been happening lately!

• Dr. McCammon and I continue to work with the Schlechty Center traveling to national conferences and assisting in school district trainings.  These trips not only provide us with experiences that we bring back to Fife – our district is paid for our time every time we travel.  This provides revenue of over $85,000 to further our work of providing time for teachers to design work around the concepts our students find difficult to learn.

• Dr. McCammon was asked to submit a new article for a soon-to-be-released global website called GETideas.org.  This new website, sponsored by Cisco, is designed for superintendents and other educational leaders around the nation to share what works in the field. Our district work was selected as the initial focus of the site! In his article, Dr. McCammon was able to share the great work of our staff and students.

• Dr. McCammon recently spent “virtual” time with a district in New Orleans.  Using the same video conferencing equipment many of our fourth grade students have used for the “Where in Washington?” project, he was able to communicate with over 40 of their district leaders and teaching staff.  His sharing of our work, helped to shape their thinking, and as their superintendent shared later, “We might not do it exactly the Fife way, but it will use the same strategies to make our work happen here.”  We are really excited about the possibilities of using this virtual experience to conduct more conversations with other districts across the country; not only sharing our experiences, but learning from theirs as well.

As always – proud to be a part of the Fife team!
Elaine Smith
Working on the Work Coordinator

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