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School Closure Planning

Updated 3/15/20 at 3:15 pm PDTSchool Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My school district was being proactive. Seeing how the spread of COVID-19 was causing many schools around us to shut down, we started to meet to discuss what we would do in the case …

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Goodbye to Chimacum Middle School

This September Chimacum School District will consist of a grades K through 2 primary school, a grades 3 through 6 elementary school, and a grades 7 through 12 jr and sr high school. In order to accommodate fewer students the middle school was consolidated into the elementary and the high school. I wrote about the …

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Craving Acknowledgement

Last year our middle school staff agreed to stop choosing Student’s of the Month and to stop giving out monthly awards for behaviors in which we want our students to engage. My advisory students conducted a survey and we found out that a majority of students reported feeling left out and not appreciated by our …

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