Local nonprofit Lydia Place recently honored BPS Homeless Liaisons Emily Humphrey-Krigbaum and Roxana Parise during their 2020 Housing Hero Awards on December 3. The online event recognizes local businesses and individuals who have “gone above and beyond this year (2020)”. Ashley Thomasson, Housing Program Director, presented the awards to Humphrey-Krigbaum and Parise, and the ceremony…
Kids Need Books came to life in 2016 after a conversation with Alderwood Elementary School kids. Joe Nolting, a community volunteer and a few other volunteers asked the kids if they were looking forward to the summer. Some kids expressed that they weren’t and one of the reasons why was that they wouldn’t have access…
Jennifer Lawrence, COVID Coordinator and Teacher on Special Assignment “Right before the big closure announcement, Kristi Dominguez asked me to collaborate with her on the area of child care. That was when the governor made the mandate for child care. It was now our job to navigate during this unique experience. Kristi took on the…
Bellingham Public Schools recently nominated volunteer and preschool paraeducator Jami Pitman for the Hotel Bellwether’s local community hero award. Members of our executive team and representatives from the Bellwether recently surprised Jami on Aug. 25 during a meeting via Zoom; you can watch a clip of this emotional recognition above. Jami is a dedicated and…
Through a collaborative community effort, a solar array of more than 6,000 square feet is now operational at Sehome High School. One of the guiding principles for the Sehome Design Advisory Committee was to build a school that would “be a sustainable environment that promotes global citizenship and environmental awareness.” A subcommittee was formed to…
Sue Lampman, Administrative Assistant to the Principal, Lowell Elementary School “I picked up the ukulele about three months ago and I’ve been really playing that quite a bit and doing some lessons. My family’s very musical, so, I spend a lot of time on the phone with them asking about chord progression and that sort…
All of these interviews were recorded in early March before the closures. Sam Carlton, kindergarten teacher at Alderwood Elementary School “Coming to Bellingham through Western, I had all these intentions of being an English professor. But when I did my undergrad at Western I worked at the child development center for three years. And that…
It’s National Volunteer Week, and we are celebrating the more than 3,500 volunteers who serve across our schools each year. Whether chaperoning a field trip or providing weekly classroom support, volunteers bring their hearts into our schools. Take it from Sue Webber, a volunteer at Alderwood Elementary School. We interviewed Sue this winter for our…
Right after the first school closure announcement went out, students at Shuksan Middle School were feeling a lot of things including nervousness about how online learning would work as well as boredom. Language arts teachers Erin Meese and Mindy Galbraith decided to give their eight grade students an assignment that would help them engage with…
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