Posted: February 22, 2021
I hope you’ve had a nice weekend. It’s been exciting to see students return to school and to athletics the past weeks. As we’ve talked throughout the pandemic, transitions are especially challenging and I appreciate everyone’s effort to support our students, families, and teachers through them. Daily COVID rates over the past week indicate a…
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Posted: February 16, 2021
Well … it was quite a President’s/Valentine’s Day weekend! I hope you all were able to stay warm and didn’t have to venture out on the roads too much. I’m listening to ice fall off trees and hoping that the melt happens soon enough for school tomorrow. We’ll be driving the roads this evening to…
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Posted: February 7, 2021
Continuing in our series of Getting to Know You, meet Lauren Bergstrom from Dorothy Fox Elementary. I hope you’ve enjoyed meeting these staff members as much as I’ve enjoyed interviewing them. 🙂 This is a big week for our district with ballots due Tuesday on our renewal levies. Unfortunately, it feels like this is different…
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Posted: January 31, 2021
Hello everyone, I hope you’ve had a nice weekend. For this week’s HOPE & JOY in addition to sharing a Getting to Know You video featuring Afton Dixon from Odyssey, I wanted to share my appreciation for the local support we have historically received from our community. For over forty years, our schools have benefited…
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Posted: January 24, 2021
I hope you had a nice weekend. Last week was a big week with the return of 1st and 2nd grade students in small groups. A big thank you to all involved in facilitating this opportunity! Making all of this work has been nothing short of extraordinary and is a testament to each of you!!!…
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Posted: January 15, 2021
As we approach Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day I wanted to push this HOPE & JOY out a little early. We welcome MLK day during this chaotic time of transition in our democracy. It provides a moment to pause and reflect on Dr. King’s leadership. Dr. King helped create benchmarks in progress for equality…
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Posted: January 10, 2021
Staff, I hope you have had a nice weekend. We have a board meeting Monday night and then the community town hall Tuesday night so lots of opportunities to engage with our community with most of the energy being around our district reopening plans. It was of course a historic week watching the transition of…
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Posted: January 2, 2021
I hope you had a nice holiday season. Welcome to 2021! There is a lot of anticipation and still uncertainty about what’s ahead. The school board adopted an update to our reopening plan in December and for the first time in several months, our COVID-19 rates dropped so perhaps we can start to see some…
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Posted: December 13, 2020
I had a chance to listen to one of our students, Isaac Leybovich, a sixth grader at CCA, present about ideas for improving online school. You can check out some of Isaac’s ideas HERE. I was so appreciative of him and how he’s thinking forward. It made me think about our current situation and the…
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Posted: December 6, 2020
Staff, We’re continuing our Getting To Know You series this week featuring Charles Hines from Liberty Middle School. Charles is in his second year of teaching in Camas. This year his wife, Gina, also joined our team teaching Special Education at Hayes Freedom High School. Their two daughters are in 9th grade at Camas High…
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