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Everett Public Schools InTouch

Congratulations to the graduates of 2015! Best wishes to all the graduates who crossed the stage last week.

You may get a phone call ...

This month, a survey company may call to ask your opinions about the district and its educational programs.

The last telephone opinion poll conducted by the district was in 2009. From 2003 until 2009, the district contracted with survey experts to conduct surveys every other year.

Information from this year's random-sample survey will be melded with information learned during the Thoughtexchange process earlier this winter and Fishbowl conversations this spring. Next fall, the district will launch another series of Thoughtexchange processes and hold a Telephone Town Hall conversation with the school board -- all to better understand and meet the expectations of the public for their public schools.

Summer Reading Challenge

Join students, staff and parents reading this summer

The reading skills of students who don't read over the summer "slide" backwards. When school starts in the fall, students who don't read over the summer don't do as well in class as those who have read even as few as four books.

Take the word of James Kim of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He found that regardless of family income, the effect of reading four to five books over the summer was large enough to stop a decline in reading achievement scores from spring to fall. "If you don't use it, you lose it."

Stamp out the summer slide with the Summer Reading Challenge!

Stuff the Bus for Kids is coming!

And YOU can make a difference

This year, the annual school supply drive's goal is 1,700 school supplies backpacks for kids from kindergarten through high school.

Watch for collection bins in August. You won't be able to miss the big yellow Durham buses outside local businesses Aug. 14-16.
Stuff the Bus

Each item you generously donate helps prepare a student with tools needed to learn.

Don't know what to donate?

Supply lists are available online. Check the list and watch for those back-to-school sales.

Want to have even more fun?

This partnership coordinated by the Everett Public Schools Foundation with community organizations and businesses has become an annual effort to gather backpacks and school supplies to help our communities' kids in need start the year prepared.

Free meals for kids this summer

Through a federal grant, Everett Public Schools Food and Nutrition Program offers free lunches for kids ages one to 18 years of age throughout Aug. 20.

See the Food and Nutrition website for locations.

June 23 School Board meeting

The school board will meet in regular session on Tuesday, at 4:30 p.m. in the board room at the Community Resource Center at 3900 Broadway in Everett, WA 98201.

The agenda and other board materials online in BoardDocs.

Board meeting topic highlights

TOPIC	DETAILS
STRATEGIC MONITORING REPORT: 21st century skills, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), and Common Core State Standards (CCSS)	This report will review why 21st century skills matter, how CCSS and STEM are catalysts for 21st century skills learning and the progress made on the district's 10-year 21st century skills plan -- and the next steps involved to bring 21st century skills learning to scale in the district.
STRATEGIC MONITORING REPORT: The district's strategic plan includes targets toward having a diverse work force that more closely matches the backgrounds of students and families.	This report will review affirmative action efforts and plans.
FIRST READING TO CONSIDER NEW CURRICULUM MATERIALS: The time between the First Reading of a topic by the board and the Second Reading gives the public time to contact the board or staff members with questions about that topic. (The next board meeting, when these materials will likely be considered for approval is July 7.)	On June 23, the board will learn about new classroom materials proposed for Advanced Placement (AP) science, and Anatomy and Physiology high school classes. The board will also learn about high school World Language materials being considered. The proposed science materials replace texts that are 10 and 12 years old and will cost approximately $100,000. This year, the state updated World Language standards as a result of CCSS. Also the College Board revised the AP Spanish course. These changes and the addition of three new world language courses (AP French Language & Culture, AP German Language & Culture and Chinese III), require new classroom materials at a cost of $29,400.

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Everett Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

Designated to handle inquiries about nondiscrimination policies are:

Affirmative Action Office - Carol Stolz, cstolz@everettsd.org, 425-385-4106

Title IX Officer - Randi Seaberg, rseaberg@everettsd.org, 425-385-4104

504 Coordinator - Becky Ballbach, rballbach@everettsd.org, 425-385-4063

ADA Coordinator - Becky Clifford, rclifford@everettsd.org, 425-385-5250

Address: 3900 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201