The emails and calls started coming in just days after schools were officially closed due to COVID-19. Students wanted to use their school’s 3D printers to make masks for essential employees who may face a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). “There was more and more interest,” says Riley Liddle, Career and Technical Education (CTE)…
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…
Every year high school singers and musicians take part in regional events and competitions. The following is a round-up of top honors given to district musicians in their category. Special acknowledgement and kudos goes to all the high school music teachers who help district students attend these events and perform at high levels of achievement.…
Bellingham Public Schools Foundation recently launched the first-ever Think BIG Student Club Challenge, which aims to support great student-led projects for clubs that have big ideas but few resources. More than 30 clubs applied to compete in the in-person competition and only seven were selected to present their big idea at the live event. Finalists…
In Squalicum High School’s Protest Art and Literature class, students have a chance to explore how artists, musicians, poets and writers, through different historical periods, have paved the way for change in our country. After researching movements of the past that have used visuals, songs, poetry and speeches, (the Vietnam War era, for example), the…
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…
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