SCHOOL DISTRICT
November 2009
CONNECTION
Serving Enumclaw and Black Diamond
2929 McDougall Avenue, Enumclaw
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360-802-7100
Superintendent Message
Happy
November!
For
the
past several
weekends,I
have raked
leaves....
OK,
A
LOT of leaves! I have used this time
to reflect upon some EHS seniors
who have asked me to write letters
of recommendation for their college
applications. I want so badly to craft
a message that will be meaningful for
the student and stand out when the
college evaluators read the letter.
We have many transitions in our
school system for students (and
parents! ). I have heard from several families that the first day of kindergarten is a very emotional one.
Parents share how much they will
miss not having their child at home
all day. There’s another transition
as students move from elementary
school into middle school. Many
parents fear these years as they are
full of emotional and physical changes. Another transition occurs as students move into our high school.
Independence arrives as students begin driving themselves to school and
activities. Yikes!
After high school transition used to
begin in the middle of a student’s
senior year or for some in the summer after graduation! As a school
system, we are attempting to provide
increasing opportunities for the post
high school conversation to occur
throughout high school and even in
middle school. For the past couple
of years, we have invited EHS students returning from colleges, technical schools and the military to
come for a luncheon during winter
break to share information with students. This year we will be hosting
this luncheon on Tuesday, December 29th in our EHS library from
12:00 – 1:00. All high school and
middle school students and families
are welcome to come and listen to
our former students share their journeys. This fall, our high school hosted a beyond high school fair featuring booths from colleges, technical
schools and the military. Our EHS
commons was packed!
Britt and I are working with our
daughter Anna on her applications
for transition beyond EHS. Here
are a few things that we have found
helpful in preparing her to make an
informed decision about her future:
• Make visitations to college campuses and technical schools. Like
reading to your child, I don’t think
it is ever too early to start. Make a
day trip to walk around a campus, go
to their bookstore and have lunch in
their student union center.
• Conduct web searches on schools
and/or military organizations and
search their offerings, degrees and
certifications. Often you are able to
put your child’s name on a mailing
list.
• Find out any prerequisites that
your child will need in order to be
accepted into a school or the military. What entrance tests need to be
taken? Are their certain course requirements (for example: number of
years of a foreign language)? Some
of these decisions need to occur far
before a senior year.
• If you are looking outside the state
of Washington, make a contact with
the school’s or military’s regional representative. Make sure they have
contact information about your
child.
• Often, to be considered for academic scholarships, a student must
apply early in his/her senior year.
Deadlines vary with schools, but
usually fall in November.
• If you are applying for college,
explore what the “common application” looks like. More and more
universities are using this single application form that can be easily
looked at by our underclassmen so
they can see what is being asked.
our system. We will continue to seek
ways to connect students and families with opportunities to learn what
is available after Enumclaw High
School!
In partnership with you,
Mike
Maintenance and Operations Levy: February 9, 2010
The Enumclaw School District will run a four-year replacement maintenance and operations levy on February 9,
2010. This replacement levy represents 18-19% of the
school district’s annual operating budget.
This levy is not a new tax. It will replace a levy approved
by Enumclaw School District voters in February 2006. The
Enumclaw School District Board of Directors will formally
adopt a resolution for this levy election at their business
meeting on November 23, 2009.
Individual Achievement Program
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Each year, we give our K-4 students the opportunity to take the qualifying assessment for
placement into the Individual Achievement (I.A.) Program. This year's test for students in second
through fourth grades will be held on Saturday, February 5,2010 from 9:00-12:00 at Southwood
Elementary School. Kindergarten and first grade assessment will take place during regular school days. First grade
students will be tested during the week of January 11 and kindergartners during the weeks of January 18th and January 25th.
Those interested in having their child assessed for the Individual Achievement Program can register at the office of
their child's school beginning December 1,2009. The deadline for signing up kindergarten and first grade students will
be January 4, 2010. The deadline for signing up second through fourth grade students will be January 22, 2010.
Susan Arbury, Principal Southwood Elementary School
This year, staff members at
Thunder Mountain Middle
School are working hard
to ensure that struggling students receive personalized
support to help them succeed in school. This work
is occurring on Wednesday
mornings and Friday afternoons, when teachers meet
in teams to examine student
performance data and determine the kinds of support
that might be needed for
each child to be successful
in school.
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assistance that is matched
to their particular needs.
For example, students who
need additional time to
catch up on their homework
may be assigned to work
with the principal at lunch,
or to work with instructional
assistants during silent reading time. Others work with
the Dean of Students to improve their attendance or
with the guidance counselor
if there are emotional barriers that are making it difficult for them to achieve in
school. At the same time,
teachers are working with
parents to coordinate efforts
between school and home
so that all of the adults in a
student’s life have the information they need and can
provide the student with the
extra support for his or her
success.
In addition to their Wednesday meetings, teachers are
also meeting on Friday afternoons to review student
performance data on classroom assessments. Teachers
are able to use this information to identify students who
are struggling to understand
important concepts in Math,
English, Science and History. Students who are having
difficulty receive extra help
from their teachers during silent reading time. Nearly all
staff members, including office personnel, the counselor, kitchen staff, instructional
assistants, administrators,
teachers, and the librarian
play an important part in
these efforts. It is hoped that
this targeted attention will allow each student to be confident and prepared when
entering high school.
2nd Annual District Food Drive
Sponsored by Key Club
Well it’s hard to imagine considering
this economy and our tremendous success last year, but our total district food
drive numbers beat our own numbers
from last year!!!
JUST THINK how many people that will
feed!
WRHS collected 4840 to make that total
13866 food items for local families!
Do you know what 9000 nonperishable
food items looks like?! Mountains
of ramen and towers of canned
veggies met my Key Clubbers Friday night. It was an overwhelming
task to move so much grub but well
worth it in the end.
Here are some of the details: It
took about a dozen Key Clubbers,
two Kiwanians, and one wimpy advisor 6
hours to load, count, and transport all of the
food! It was a truckload and a half handdelivered to Black Diamond’s food bank
(which, by the way, is located down two
flights of stairs - whew! We got sweaty!) and
about 3 truckloads and a vanload to the Kiwanis food bank downtown in Enumclaw.
Here's how it broke down by
numbers of items:
Transportation: 37
Westwood:
52
Kibler:
109
District Office: 135
Sunrise:
189
Black Diamond: 217
Southwood:
410
EHS:
1301
EMS:
2141
TMMS:
4435
Our middle schools ROCKED the competition since EMS required the enormous food
bank van and TMMS required 2 truckloads
with an extra trip! (We even heard that one
class at TMMS collected almost as much as
our whole high school!) EHS collected enough cans in one short
week to fill the food bank’s auxiliary shed to the top. What does this
all mean? It means that as we head
toward the Holidays and colder
weather, hundreds of our neighbors will have access to more food
than they otherwise would have in these
tough times. You may never see them eat
that meal, but know your contribution did
not go unnoticed.
Blessings on you all. Key Club is proud
to have had the privilege to facilitate your
generosity!!
Amy Ihde, EHS Key Club Advisor
Enumclaw High School Drama Team
Presents
THE ELEPHANT MAN
7:30 PM
November 19-21
Contact Us
"Sometimes man is the animal"
Enumclaw School District
2929 McDougall Avenue
Enumclaw WA 98022
360.802.7100
Marci Shepard, Dean of Students
marci_shepard@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7492
Fax: 360.802.7500
Enumclaw High School (Grades 9-12)
226 Semanski Street South
Enumclaw WA 98022
Jill Burnes, Principal
jill_burnes@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Ed Hatzenbeler, Assistant Principal
ed_hatzenbeler@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Paul Iacobazzi, Assistant Principal
paul_iacobazzi@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Kevin Smith, Assistant Principal & CTE Director
kevin_smith@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Kevin Smith, Athletic Director
kevin_smith @enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7669
Fax: 360.802.7676
Black Diamond Elementary (Grades K-5)
25314 Baker Street
Black Diamond WA 98010
Gerrie Garton, Principal
gerrie_garton@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7570
Fax: 360.802.7610
Enumclaw Middle School (Grades 6-8)
550 Semanski Street South
Enumclaw WA 98022
Steve Rabb, Principal
steve_rabb@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Brian Patrick, Dean of Students
brian_patrick@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7150
Fax: 360.802.7224
Southwood Elementary (Grades K-5)
3240 McDougall Avenue
Enumclaw WA 98022
Susan Arbury, Principal
susan_arbury@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7370
Fax: 802.7374
Thunder Mt. Middle School (Grades 6-8)
42018 264th Avenue SE
Enumclaw WA 98022
Virginia Callison, Principal
virginia_callison@enumclaw.wednet.edu
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Supporting the Achievement of all students
at TMMS By Ginger Callison
Every Wednesday morning,
the teachers review student
grades and identify students
who need an extra boost
in order to achieve passing
grades in all of their classes.
Individual plans are develOur desire is that all of our students oped for each of these stufind incredible success upon leaving dents to provide them with
to the Enumclaw School District. As a result of
this agreement, the future locations for schools
are secured while flexibility regarding when and
where to build each school is maintained. For
more information about the school mitigation
agreement, please visit our website: http://
www.enumclaw.wednet.edu
The City of Black Diamond, Enumclaw School
District, BD Village Partners LP and BD Lawson
Partners LP have jointly developed an agreement
that provides for adequate schools to support
planned growth from the Developers’ projects
in the City of Black Diamond. The agreement
mitigates the impacts of two proposed Master
Planned Developments on school facilities
through a combination of land conveyance for
school sites and the payment of mitigation fees
Fax 360-802-7140
Personalized Support
School Mitigation Agreement
“Superintendent Mike
Nelson presents the
School Mitigation
Agreement to the
community on
November 5th, 2009
at Black Diamond
Elementary School.”
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Byron Kibler Elementary (Grades K-5)
2057 Kibler Avenue
Enumclaw WA 98022
Julene Miller, Principal
julene_miller@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7263
Fax: 360.802.7300
Sunrise Elementary (Grades K-5)
899 Osceola Street
Enumclaw WA 98022
Chris Beals, Principal
chris_beals@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.802.7425
Fax: 360.802.7427
Westwood Elementary (Grades K-5)
21200 SE 416th
Enumclaw WA 98022
Keri Marquand, Principal
keri_marquand@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7620
Fax: 360.802.7622
Administration Office
2929 McDougall Avenue
Enumclaw WA 98022
Mike Nelson, Superintendent
mike_nelson@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Randy Stocker, Business Director
randy_stocker@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Terry Parker, Curriculum, Instruction,
Assessment Director
terry_parker@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Kathleen Lockyer, Human Resources Director
kathleen_lockyer@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Aaron Stanton, Student Support Services Director
aaron_stanton@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Chad Marlow, Technology Coordinator
chad_marlow@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7117
Fax: 360.802.7140
Transportation
450 Semanski Street South
Enumclaw WA 98022
Everett Cunningham, Supervisor
everett_cunningham@enumclaw.wednet.edu
360.802.7232
Fax: 360.802.7243
Upcoming Events November and December
When
November 18
November 19-21
November 19, 20, 23, 24
November 23
November 25
November 26 & 27
November 30
December 3
December 4
December 5
December 7
December 8
December 10
December 11
December 14
December 15
What
Elementary Report Cards sent home
EHS Drama Presents The Elephant Man
K-12 Parent Confernce Days, Early release for students NoNBoard Meeting at district office board room 7:00 p.m.
K-12 Early Release
Thanksgiving Break - Schools & District Office Closed
SEPAC meeting in the district office board room at 6:00 p.m.
Magic Strings Concert at the EHS Auditorium 7:00 p.m.
Sunrise 4th & 5th Grade Band Concert at 7:00 p.m.
Staff Collaboration- Students dismissed one hour early
EHS Band performing in Christmas Parade
Board Work Study at district office board room 7:00 p.m.
Byron Kibler Craft Sale Family Night 6:30 p.m. in gym
EHS Band Winter Concert at 7:00 p.m.
Byron Kibler Holiday Reading/Math Family Night at 6:30 p.m.
Black Diamond Holiday Concert grades K-2 at 7:00
Staff Collaboration - Students dismissed One hour early
DECA Fashion Show at 7:00 p.m.
EHS Choir Holiday Concert at 7:00 p.m.
Thunder Mountain Winter Concert 7:00 p.m.