An annual tradition since 2001, the Edmonds School District on Wednesday night threw a banquet to honor the multi-sport graduating senior athletes who also are outstanding scholars, and also provided awards to coaches and community members from each school who support district athletes and athletic programs. A total of 17 students — four athletes from each of the district’s high schools that have ... »
Alex Rivarola Mother’s Name: Pat Garcia-Gonzalez Father’s Name: Pedro Rivarola GPA: 3.2 Clubs & Activities: Jazz band, impressions, wind ensemble Honors: Drum major for two years Awards: Outstanding soloist awards Community Service: Meadowdale jazz combo leader, summer music school volunteer Culminating Project: Meadowdale jazz combo Future Educational Goals: Berklee College of Mus... »
Jacob Morgan Mother’s Name: Angela Morgan Father’s Name: Wiley Morgan GPA: 3.9 Clubs & Activities: Tri-M, Band Athletics: Baseball, Bowling Honors: AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP US History, AP Euro, Honors Algebra II Awards: AP Scholar Award Culminating Project: Career Search – Emergency Room Physician Future Educational Goals: Graduate from UW Medical School F... »
An Edmonds Community College director has secured a prestigious Fulbright Award, allowing her to travel to Japan and learn more about the country’s culture and education system. As part of the Fulbright International Education Administrators Program, sponsored by the Japan-U.S. Educational Commission (JUSEC) and both the U.S. and Japanese governments, Amanda Fletcher will spend an intensive two we... »
Safe Kids Snohomish County, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Department, Lynnwood Fire and Lynnwood Police helped celebrate Bike to School Day at Cedar Valley Community School earlier this month. The event brought together children, parents and educators to raise awareness about bike safety and pedestrian safety. Nearly 500 students and staff received bike and pedestrian safety education with more than ... »
Rachel Lee, a senior at Meadowdale High, is the winner of a $2,500 scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners are the Finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more t... »
The Alderwood Middle School Book Fair is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 24 at the Barnes and Noble in Lynnwood. The school Jazz Band and Orchestra will perform and there will be a Tech Club display, art display, poetry reading and students reading in Spanish and French. Barnes and Noble is located at 19401 Alderwood Mall Parkway. »
By Eileen Kelliher Almost 89 percent of high school students in the Edmonds School District are on track to graduate this spring, Assistant Superintendent Patrick Murphy told the Edmonds School Board during their meeting earlier this week. Murphy provided a statistical snapshot view of projected graduation rates using May data for the class of 2013, reflecting those students who have met state tes... »
Twenty seniors from Lynnwood and Meadowale high schools were awarded scholarships from the Edmonds School District Alumni Association. The Hazel Miller Foundation provided $30,000 in scholarships. HAZEL MILLER SCHOLARHSHIPS Hazel and Morris Miller Memorial Scholarship – $5000 Morgan Smith Meadowdale/Simon Fraser University Hazel Miller Scholarships – $2000 Sierra Olsen Lynnwood/Seattle... »
Brighton students Sierra Noble and Jordan Albrecht placed first out of more than 20 teams from across the seven geographical regions in Washington in the Washington State National History Day competition May 4 at Bellevue College. The eighth grade girls claimed the number one spot with their project titled “1962: When Seattle Invented the Future,” which focuses on the 1962 Seattle World’s Fa... »
Edmonds Community College has received an award of $1.87 million from the U.S. Department of State to administer the Community College Initiative program to provide professional training and degrees to students from South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Near East. Edmonds Community College, as the lead college, has partnered with Whatcom Community College and Pierce College to create the North... »
Edmonds Community College’s annual Open House will be from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, in Woodway Hall 202. Edmonds Community College provides many educational opportunities, including: More than 40 professional/technical programs that keep pace with the real needs of regional employers; Two-year degrees for transfer students seeking bachelor’s degrees — with a choice of classes in more than 30 fiel... »
Come support the Meadowdale High School seniors at a car wash fundraiser for their senior grad party — a chaperoned, all-night fun event to celebrate their 2013 graduation. The fundraiser is Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Chevron Station on the intersection of 168th Street Southwest and 52nd, just east of the high school. Donations are very much appreciated. »
Susan Sellers, a Physical Education Teacher at Lynnwood Elementary was named the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) NW District (WA, OR, ID, MT, AK) Elementary PE Teacher of the Year. She received this award last week while in Charlotte for the National PE Convention. Sellers also recently was named a 2013 Pearson Foundation Global Learning Fellow. With that honor, Selle... »
Applications are now being accepted for summer and fall sessions of CATCH, Creating Access To Careers in Healthcare, an all-expense paid program training low-income adults in Snohomish County to fill critical jobs in the health care industry. Cohorts (groups of students who start and progress through a program together) of 20 students begin in July, September, November, January and February each y... »
Can you help two Meadowdale Elementary teachers attend a Washington , D.C. conference on special education and the arts this summer? Jennifer Martin and Kelly Hui are both special education teachers at Meadowdale Elementary School in Lynnwood: Martin is the Primary Intensive Support teacher (grades 1-3) and Hui is the Intermediate Intensive Support teacher (grades 4-6). These students have signifi... »
The cities of Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace and Edmonds were presented a “Program Award” from the Washington Recreation and Park Association (WRPA) for their three-year, third grade swim lesson program funded by a grant from Verdant Health Commission. This is the second year of the program in which all third graders within the boundaries of the hospital district can receive three free sessions of sw... »
Students at Meadowdale High School got a first-hand look at the dangers of drinking and driving during the annual Prom Mock DUI event Monday afternoon in the school parking lot. Students with gory blood makeup acted out the consequences of a head-on collusion with two crashed cars. Real police and fire personnel also were a part of the presentation, responding as they would in real life. Juniors a... »
By Eileen Kelliher On April 30, the Edmonds School Board heard from Assistant Superintendent Ellen Kahan and an involved parent from the Equity Alliance for Achievement Committee (EAACH). They raised the issue of “reclaiming students” as their committee’s priority. Kahan explained that term meant striving to keep students of color, those with limited economic resources and those with disabilities ... »
The NEA Foundation today named Susan Sellers, a health and physical education teacher at Lynnwood Elementary School in Lynnwood, as a 2013 Pearson Foundation Global Learning Fellow. With this honor, Sellers joins a unique class of 36 award-winning public school educators who will build their global competency skills, or the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global signifi... »
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