As the 2012-13 school year draws to a close, I want to thank you all for welcoming me in my first year as your Superintendent. It has been a pleasure to get to know the schools and community and learn about the ideas and concerns each of you have. Read more about the work we accomplished this school year and our plans for the coming years.

· Tentative 2013-14 academic calendar released

· Meetings set to discuss changes in school boundaries

· Families and Education levy to support schools (Seattle Times)

· New online tool alerts parents to late buses
   

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· Hamilton chess star to compete in online chess championship 

· Whitman, Denny win first place at 'Music in the Parks' competition

· Hamilton International students take top prize at state science fair

· Ballard High students nominated for Northwest film awards

· SAEOP awards scholarships to Franklin, Chief Sealth students

· Hamilton's Senior Jazz Band sweeps awards at music festival

Roosevelt student a semifinalist at Shakespeare competition

Roosevelt High School student Benjamin Briggs was a semifinalist at the 30th season of the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition in New York City. The competition was held at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City for 58 winners of ESU branch competitions nationwide. Briggs had previously won the ESU Seattle branch regional competition. 
 

· Ballard Jazz wins first place at Mt. Hood Jazz Festival

· Franklin, Sealth students honored at entrepreneurship challenge

· Whitman 8th-graders take first in 'Safe in the Sound' video contest

· Roosevelt wins third at Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival 

Students accepted in second phase of aerospace scholars program

  Five students from Ballard, Garfield, and Ingraham high schools are among 160 talented juniors from across the state whose academic performance on the first phase curriculum qualified them to advance to the second phase - the WAS Summer Residency program.

· Nova student wins Silver Medal in national writing competition

· Ballard, Roosevelt, Garfield take first in Solo/Ensemble Contest 

· Students named winners of college-sponsored Merit Scholarships 

· West Seattle High student wins teen chef challenge (outside link)

· Ingraham students win gold medals at FCCLA conference

· Radio C89.5 FM takes Award of Excellence at state conference

· Bagley student named state champion in literature contest

Washington Middle School students winners in biomedical essay contest

 Washington Middle School students, Sydney Santos and Georgia Gray, and their teacher, Stella Bass, were honored at an Awards Day on May 8 for being winners in the 2013 "Biomedical Breakthroughs and My Life" essay contest 

· Franklin High student named Gates Millenium Scholar

· Roosevelt, Nathan Hale, Ballard win journalism awards  

· Bryant Elementary, Eckstein Middle School students win essay contest

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· Sealth teacher wins World Educator Award (World Affairs Council)

· Office professionals honored for receiving national certification

Eckstein teacher nominated for Music Educator Award 

Cuauhtemoc (Moc) Escobedo, music teacher at Eckstein Middle School, has been announced as a quarterfinalist for the first-ever Music Educator Award presented jointly by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation.
 

· South Lake teacher wins Civic Educator of the Year Award

· Loyal Heights teacher recognized as classroom 'Hero' (My Ballard)
· Lowell principal named to justice board (Access to Justice Board) 

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