Band students from Bellingham, Sehome and Squalicum high schools were selected by recorded audition to attend the Western International Band Clinic (WIBC) Honor Band in late November 2019. Along with over 300 of their peers from around the Pacific Northwest, the clinic was held over four days in Seattle, Washington. The band students rehearsed and…
The following interview with school board directors Camille Diaz Hackler and Kelly Bashaw was published in the Fall 2019 edition of InsideSchools, the community newsletter of Bellingham Public Schools. Why have a race and equity policy? Camille Diaz Hackler: I think the majority of people don’t think about race and equity because they don’t have…
Volleyball, robotics and bowling are just some of the Unified Activities for middle and high school students this year. Unified Activities began with soccer in 2010 and have since grown to include six or more offerings each year. Additional activities are popping up organically: This summer a pair of golfers from Bellingham Public Schools entered…
Superintendent Dr. Greg Baker accepted the annual Distinguished Service Award from the Washington Traffic Safety Education Association (WTSEA) on Oct. 12. This award honors a non-teacher—for example, an administrator, legislator or program director—whose work supports traffic safety education (TSE) in our state. “We believe that The Bellingham Promise is a vision that is truly remarkable,” Alex Hansen, WTSEA president said in a statement, “and…
High school students from all over Whatcom County have the opportunity to learn more about careers in law enforcement and volunteer in the community through the Bellingham Police Explorers program. The group is led by Bellingham police officer Melissa Kranzler who is also the district resource officer for Bellingham Public Schools. The group meets eight…
Karanbir Deol, Paraeducator at Sunnyland Elementary “‘Hey, Karanbir, are you interested in being a teacher?’ Kathe Koruga asked me this, she’s a family liaison with the district. I said well, yeah, I’ve actually been thinking a lot about it. Looking back at my own experiences as a student, there were few teachers I felt like…
Bellingham Public Schools has two semifinalists and 13 commended students in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Competition. To qualify for the competition, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during the 2018-19 school year. Sehome High School students Olivia Geist and Jae Chan Lee are semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Semifinalists are the in…
Over the summer, eight Squalicum High School ninth graders won scholarships to attend Envision U, a Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) summer camp at Western Washington University (WWU). Taylor Bergquist, Amiya Grayson, Cassy La, Taylor Norton, Jasmine Olivas, Jennifer Rodriguez, Dylan Schenkel, and Svitlana Shashkina spent four days on the…
The future of the state of Washington is in good hands. In May, three Bellingham Public Schools juniors campaigned for and won high-level leadership positions in a YMCA program called Youth and Government. In this program, students learn how to run a state government in hands-on simulation, culminating in an annual four–day mock-Congressional session held in Olympia at the State Capitol. Sehome’s Thomas Cassella was elected…
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