Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Elaine Smith
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 [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Elaine Smith
District leaders conduct walkthroughs through our six buildings several times a year. This provides leadership with an opportunity to see the great work happening in all of our schools, is an authentic professional development opportunity, and provides conversations around how to continue to build capacity for teachers and students to continue their great work. Get [...]
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Filed under: District News, Video Clips
Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Elaine Smith
Please stop by our district’s WOW Refrigerator to view our currently featured student work. FHS teacher, Jerry Steinkraus, has designed an engaging way for his students to demonstrate their ability to research and summarize issues around a current world problem. Mr. Steinkraus invites district and community leaders in to serve as a panel for each student [...]
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Filed under: Student Stories
Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Elaine Smith
Please stop by our WOW Refrigerator and see an interesting way of engaging second graders in the art of persuasive writing! Feel free to leave the students and their teacher, Mrs. Jennifer Stadnik, a comment of encouragement about their hard work in becoming better writers.
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Elaine Smith
Stop by our WOW Refrigerator; it’s currently been updated and features the work of the students in Mr. Roger Scott’s classes at SLMS. Please leave a comment here for these young scientists and their teacher!
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Elaine Smith
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 [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Elaine Smith
Every year each of our six school buildings create a school-wide improvement plan to help set the direction for the school year. These plans, known as School Improvement Plans (SIPs), are a collaborative effort of the entire staff. All of our district support staff are committed to help each building accomplish these goals which will [...]
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Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Elaine Smith
Dr. Steve McCammon, Superintendent of Fife Public Schools was the guest speaker at the Fife Chamber of Commerce Luncheon on Wednesday, September 3 at the Fife Community Center. He was accompanied by current school board member Mr. Bruce Burnside and former school board member of 18 years Mr. Ron Larson. Mr. Larson is continuing to [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Elaine Smith
Stop by our WOW Refrigerator; it’s currently been updated and features the work of our elementary art students at Alice V Hedden Elementary and Endeavour Intermediate School. Under the direction of elementary art teacher Kendra Danielson, these second-fifth graders have created some wonderful and inspiring work.
Please leave a comment here for these young artists and [...]
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