Wednesday, March 26, 2014

3-26-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:






Internal Communications Specialist required
Seattle Public Schools has an interesting job posting. Here is a Facebook post about it:Here is a link to the actual job posting.I particularly like the part about "two-way conversation (not just top-down messaging)"


Bumbershoot Goes Back to Memorial Stadium
From The Slog, news that Memorial Stadium will be used all three-days of Bumbershoot.  Here's hoping between allowing a women's soccer team, Reign FC,  to use the field and Bumbershoot, it's a shot of money that can be used to update that stadium.  Seattle's annual Labor Day arts festival Bumbershoot is moving its Mainstage from KeyArena to Memorial Stadium. Key had served that function for the la


Seattle Schools' Advanced Learning Updates

Many updates on Advanced Learning via the Superintendent's Friday update (thanks to Mirmac 1 for finding this).  It is a litany of woes about many issues affecting AL (some of their own making and some the district.  One of them, lack of cooperation from schools, needs some attention from someone.)  Emphasis mine:From Advanced Learning: The most important update continues to be the changes that


3-25-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadParents, Teens and Sex: The Talk, Part 2Tuesday, March 25th at the SW Branch Library (9010 35th Ave SW) from 6:00pm- 7:30pm Presented by Katie Acker, MPH, Health Educator with the Neighborcare Health School-Based Health Centers at Chief Sealth and West Seattle High Schools We will reiterate the critical role parents play in teens’ lives, decision