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July 3, 2024
Spokane Public Schools has been honored as one of just six school districts in the country as a 2024 “District of Distinction." SPS was awarded for excellence in providing access...
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June 3, 2024
Carla Peperzak, the namesake of Peperzak Middle School, has been honored in countless ways since she began sharing her story of surviving the Holocaust. On May 31, students found ...
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May 23, 2024
Spokane Public Schools staff are always looking for ways to introduce career options to students by providing access to hands-on learning experiences that prepare them for the wor...
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May 15, 2024
Kindergarten is an important stage in a child's life. At Spokane Public Schools, kindergarten teachers are essential for introducing kids to the daily routine of going to school, ...
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May 3, 2024
Nutrition Service workers are essential members of our schools’ staff, serving 29,000 meals per day to make sure that students can focus on learning and participating in school a...
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May 2, 2024
New public buildings in Washington are required to spend a small percentage of construction funds on art. With 57 buildings across the city, Spokane Public Schools has one of the...
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May 1, 2024
The principal’s office is often the last place you’ll find one. Instead of sitting behind a desk dispensing discipline, you’re more likely to see a principal out supervising reces...
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April 24, 2024
The Chase Youth Awards, Spokane's annual recognition of outstanding youth in the greater Spokane area, were handed out April 23, and students and staff from Spokane Public Schoo...
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April 22, 2024
April 22 – 26 is National Student Leadership Week . We visited the leadership class at Shadle Park High School recently to see student leaders in action and how the lead...
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April 18, 2024
On February 5, 2024, juniors and seniors at The Community School (TCS), along with their facilitators Tami Linane-Booey and Nathan Seaburg, partnered with the national student jou...
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April 9, 2024
If you haven’t visited a school library in a while, you may picture a quiet home for dusty tomes, overseen by a shushing librarian and their well-ordered card catalog. But the sp...
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March 6, 2024
On Thursday, Feb. 29, Shadle Park High School’s College & Career Center hosted a special presentation for Black History Month: “The Power of Legacy: A Tuskegee Airman” featuring R...
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February 9, 2024
Emily Magnuson is a counselor at Lewis & Clark High School, where she works with ninth graders and English Language Learners (ELL)—students of all high school grades who recentl...
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February 7, 2024
Kitty Hennessey has approximately 30 years of experience as a school counselor. She’s been in elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. Currently, she is the counselor ...
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February 5, 2024
Mary Wetzel has been a school counselor for 11 years at Lincoln Heights Elementary and was previously a school counselor at Chase Middle School and Ferris High School.
As...
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January 30, 2024
Pickleball was established as Washington state’s official sport in 2022 and is now the fastest growing sport in America.
Local fans will have more places to work on their ace t...
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January 25, 2024
The time on Felisa Bravo’s calendar is blocked out on Mondays at lunchtime. No work meetings, no appointments are scheduled during that hour.
She has a standing engagement at G...
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January 24, 2024
More than 300 thespians from 11 regional schools descended on Lewis & Clark High School on Jan. 13 for the Washington State East Regional Thespy ™ event. Students from Lewis & Cla...
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January 3, 2024
On Tuesday morning, nearly 1,000 middle school students gathered in their school gym to hear from some special guests.
Their school, Sacajawea Middle School , was named after a...
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January 3, 2024
As our schools prepare for the first two extended breaks of the school year – Thanksgiving Break, Nov. 22-24, and Winter Break, Dec. 25-Jan.5) – we wanted to share some commun...