The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) has selected Columbia Elementary School counselor Alisson Bonner as the Physical Activity Leader (PAL) of the Year for 2020 in Washington state. According to the SHAPE announcement, “the PAL award recognizes an individual who exemplifies leadership within the PAL Learning System, embodies the Let’s Move! Active Schools spirit, and…
Bellingham High School senior and ASB president Logan Foy has gotten a promotion. He will keep serving as a student who leads, but this time for much of the western United States. The Association of Washington Student Leaders (AWSL) and the National Association of State Student Council Executive Directors (NASSCED), named Logan to represent the AWSL student advisory council for the 2020 cohort of “Student Presidents CONNECT.” “Logan is a huge positive…
Traditionally, spring in Bellingham Public Schools includes a Children’s Artwalk reception highlighting art curriculum throughout our schools. In lieu of this exhibition, we would like to share this small collaboration with Whatcom Museum who spied one of our elementary learning menus at the fourth grade level. (It was one of the first learning menus put…
The book I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day came out on October 1, 2019, so it was especially exciting for Kulshan Middle School’s library media specialist Adam Shaffer to have scheduled a visit with the author this spring. With the pandemic closure, however, Day’s visit took place online instead of in person. We…
As the pandemic school closure unfolded, Bellingham Public Schools identified four primary goals that focused staff and prioritized needs. While the first stated goal was to promote safety and minimize the spread of the virus, the second goal was just as basic: to provide food to the young people of our community. (The third and…
What if a local civics teacher had the chance of a lifetime to live and work in the nation’s capital during one of this country’s biggest political turmoils and one of the world’s largest pandemics in a century? This is the amazing fate of one of Bellingham Public School’s own teachers since fall 2019. From…
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is an independent and nonprofit organization devoted to advancing the quality of teaching and learning. Five staff members in Bellingham Public Schools earned national board certification in December 2019 following an intensive process of teaching and learning professional development. These teachers bring the total number of NBCT staff in the…
Sustainable Connections‘ newest initiative in their Toward Zero Waste campaign is the Squatch Waste Food Recovery Initiative and began in 2017. In November 2019, Bellingham Public Schools joined this campaign for food recovery, helping to keep food out of the waste stream. After two years of planning and making the right connections, leftover school food…
At a December 2019 event, the Options High School administrative team, the district prevention specialist in Bellingham Public Schools, and volunteer/benefactor Elie Samuel were honored by the Whatcom Family and Community Network (WFCN). Every year, the WFCN recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations with the Ken Gass Community Building Awards for “increasing community caring, empowerment and…
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