Monday, February 29, 2016

Save Our Challenge Program Proposal to the School Board


Save Our Challenge would like to take this opportunity to thank the 1200+ parents, students and members of the community who have contributed their time, expertise and comments to help us create this proposal to the School Board.  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

This document was sent to the School Board earlier this afternoon for their consideration. Please take a minute to read through the Executive Summary and continue on to the larger document if you have the time. We have analyzed data from the District, combed through numerous studies on Middle School Models and incorporated your feedback into this proposal and feel it is a recommendation that, if accepted and implemented, will result in stellar Middle Schools. We hope the School Board and Administration will consider this proposal and listen to the NSD community.



Friday, February 12, 2016

Notes from February 11, 2016 Academic Subcommittee Meeting

Notes from the February 11, 2016 Academic Subcommittee Meeting can be found under the Other Documentation tab or by clicking here.

Please leave comments on the Subcommittee's Models for Middle school as well as comments on any other thoughts you have about challenge and the Middle School Grade Reconfiguration here or by emailing saveourchallenge@gmail.com. All public comments received before 2/19/2016 will be included in our proposal to the school board.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

"Minutes" of Community Input Opportunity and Brainstorming Session

A summary of the Community Input Opportunity and Brainstorming session held on 2/9/2016 at McMenamins in Bothell has been posted here. To read these "minutes" and/or to leave any comments to be included in the upcoming proposal the Save Our Challenge group will make to the School Board, please visit this page or comment on this post. All comments received by 2/19/2016 will be included in the proposal. Comments may also be emailed to saveourchallenge@gmail.com. We will honor any email requests for anonymity.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

You are Invited to a Community Brainstorm Session on the Challenge Program

Save Our Challenge will be hosting a brainstorming session at 7pm on Tuesday February 9th at the Community Room at McMenimans in Bothell (18607 Bothell Way NE). 

We invite you and anyone interested in making our successful Challenge Program even better in our middle schools to attend this community input opportunity. At this meeting we will be brainstorming ideas about various program models that could be used when Northshore transitions from a Jr. High configuration to Middle school. We will collect all input and synthesize it into a proposal to be delivered to the school board as an addition or alternative to the recommendation soon to be proposed by the Middle School Grade Reconfiguration Task Force. We hope to solicit and then propose ideas that are in the best interests of ALL of the district’s children even if they haven’t been considered yet by the District. 

Please join us on Tuesday to be a part of the solution!