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…
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…
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…
On June 6, Kulshan Middle School Principal Meagan Dawson was recognized as the 2020 recipient of the Art of Leadership Award presented by the Danforth Educational Leadership Program at the University of Washington. The Art of Leadership Award honors a leader who exhibits creativity, interpretation and a balance of both imagination and technical ability, as…
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…
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…
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…
Julie van Wijk, principal at Cordata Elementary School “I learned about France in fourth grade, in Social Studies, and I came home and told my mom, “I’m going to be French teacher!” And that’s what I did. I went to the University of Texas at Austin and majored in French language and literature. I originally…
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