Pullman Public Schools board members unanimously adopted a policy to integrate and support social and emotional learning in schools during a meeting Wednesday.
Superintendent Bob Maxwell said Policy 3112 Social Emotional Climate, introduced by the Washington State School Directors’ Association in February 2021, is not essential but encouraged. He said he believed the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated WSSDA’s development of the policy.
“It provides a nice foundation to the work that we are currently doing in the area of social-emotional learning,” Maxwell said.
Roberta Kramer, assistant superintendent of Pullman Public Schools, presented the social-emotional learning report at the meeting.
This school year, she said the Pullman Public Schools implemented and administered the Social, Academic, Behavior Risk Screener to K-12 students. K-1 teachers are required to complete the screener, whereas students between second and 12th grade can self-report.
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The Edmonds School Board Tuesday night heard from Spruce Elementary School second-grade students about their work to help orphaned baby bears at PAWS in Lynnwood.
Due to a drop in student enrollment, the Edmonds School District is working to find jobs for dozens of displaced teachers or risk issuing them pink slips by mid-May.
Since March 2020, the district has seen an enrollment decrease of 173 FTE students. At the Edmonds School Board of Directors’ April 27 business meeting, staff explained that the decline in student enrollment has left the district with 47.02 FTE (full-time equivalent) employees at risk of being displaced. However, with 50.3 FTE vacancies to fill, Human Resources Director Debby Carter said staff are optimistic they will not have to resort to layoffs.
In Our View: Capital budget exemplifies investment in state The Columbian
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Differences between the House and Senate versions of the state’s capital budget for the coming two years still need to be hammered out. But the preliminary budgets – which passed unanimously in both chambers – provide some sense of how the Legislature expects to guide the state beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
The biennial capital budget for construction projects does not receive the attention of the two-year operating budget, but wise spending on construction will be essential for helping Washington recover from the pandemic. Capital projects not only provide the infrastructure for a prosperous future, they put people to work in constructing that future.
Caesar the No Drama Llama
Claim to fame: Appeared at last year s protests as a paragon of chill among the chaos.
What s the story? Before 2020, Caesar was only the Portland area s second-most famous therapy llama, having first sparked local attention when a photo of him riding the MAX made the rounds on Reddit. But after Rojo went off to the great grass field in the sky and his taxidermied body got sent to the Washington State School for the Blind in late 2019, the Salem-based camelid stepped up to fill the void. His owner, Larry McCool of Mystic Llama Farms, began bringing him to the nightly protests that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, both to show solidarity with the racial justice movement and to provide a calming presence in a tense situation. National media outlets like