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Recognition from State Board of Education, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee
Redmond, Wash. – The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) has announced that 20 different LWSD schools have been recognized through the Washington School Recognition Program for the 2023-24 school year.
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March is Music in Our Schools Month. As we celebrate this observance, the Eastlake High School choir welcomed choirs from Alcott, Blackwell, Mead, Smith, McAuliffe and Carson Elementary.
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What’s better than having an author visit your elementary school? Having two authors visit your elementary school; at the same time! That is what happened at Carson Elementary School in November when Ben Clanton and Andy Chou Musser stopped by.
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Students in the Fire and EMS program recently did a special fire safety presentation at Rachel Carson Elementary.
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Ellie Peterson spent 20 years as teacher. She is using that experience to write picture books that have a focus on science. Peterson visited the first and second graders of Carson Elementary on May 4.