Can you believe it? Win­ter break is almost upon us. Wasn’t it just yes­ter­day that we opened our school doors to full day, in-per­­son instruc­tion? Even though this fall has flown by, last week’s Thanks­giv­ing cel­e­bra­tion remind­ed me we have much to be grate­ful for in our pub­lic schools. Hope­ful­ly you have noticed the rebuild­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

Spring Street Inter­na­tion­al School 6–7th graders will per­form a grat­i­tude read­ing at the Fri­day Har­bor Pres­by­ter­ian Church on Novem­ber 22nd. The per­for­mance begins at 11:30 and will last about 70 min­utes. Please come and cel­e­brate their poise and wis­dom. Their words are beau­ti­ful and their voic­es are brave. Invite your friends and kin. We are arrang­ing a potluck  Con­tin­ue Reading

On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 17 2021, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a reg­u­lar (open) School Board Meet­ing at 5:00 pm as a Zoom meet­ing with an option for in-per­­son atten­dance.  All in-per­­son atten­dees must reg­is­ter before 4:00 pm on Tues­day Novem­ber 16th to pro­vide con­tact trac­ing infor­ma­tion. Social dis­tanc­ing and the use of face masks will be expect­ed. Non-com­­pli­ance  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island rec is search­ing for some kid lov­ing, capa­ble peo­ple to help with our dai­ly STAR- Study Time and After­noon Recre­ation — pro­gram.  If you are 14+ look­ing for San Juan Ser­vice Schol­ar­ship Hours for school, or some­one that thinks that vol­un­teer­ing for kid pro­grams is right up their alley, we would love to have  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Fri­day Har­bor High School Senior Class of 2022 / PTA is now tak­ing orders for their annu­al hol­i­day wreath sale. Get your beau­ti­ful, aro­mat­ic, and long-last­ing 24” North­west Noble Fir wreath with or with­out a hand­made bow for only $25.00! These wreaths make great gifts for friends, fam­i­ly, neigh­bors and busi­ness asso­ciates. Sales of  Con­tin­ue Reading

Rock Sol­id is the youth pre­ven­tion team with the San Juan Island Pre­ven­tion Coali­tion, help­ing pro­mote health and well­ness in our com­mu­ni­ty. Three years ago, Rock Sol­id reached out to then school prin­ci­pal, Fred Woods, and asked if they could get valu­able free resources for Sui­cide Pre­ven­tion and Escape the Vape print­ed on the back  Con­tin­ue Reading

This sur­vey pro­vides the San Juan Island Pre­ven­tion Coali­tion (SJIPC) with some local infor­ma­tion about com­mu­ni­ty per­cep­tions and to look at it as one point of data ref­er­ence. We use this along with the Healthy Youth Sur­vey, school inter­ven­tion data that the Stu­dent Assis­tant Pro­fes­sion­al col­lects, and the pro­gram assess­ments for the pro­grams that the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege announces a sec­ond-year award of pilot schol­ar­ship pro­gram to help Run­ning Start stu­dents pay for books, sup­plies, and stu­dent fees  Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege (SVC) is pleased to announce that the Col­lege has been award­ed approx­i­mate­ly $52,000 for a pilot schol­ar­ship pro­gram designed to assist SVC’s Run­ning Start stu­dents by the Wash­ing­ton Stu­dent Achieve­ment Coun­cil (WSAC).  The SVC Run­ning Start Pilot Schol­ar­ship will sup­port stu­dent suc­cess by cov­er­ing the cost of books, course  Con­tin­ue Reading

On Wednes­day, August 25, 2021, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a reg­u­lar (open) School Board Meet­ing at 5:00 pm as a Zoom meet­ing with an option for in-per­­son atten­dance.   All in-per­­son atten­dees must reg­is­ter before 4:00 pm on Tues­day August 24 to pro­vide con­tact trac­ing infor­ma­tion. Social dis­tanc­ing and the use of face masks will be expect­ed. Non-com­­pli­ance  Con­tin­ue Reading

Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege will require employ­ees and stu­dents that attend cours­es or oth­er activ­i­ties in-per­­son to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19 or request an exemp­tion based on med­ical, reli­gious, or philo­soph­i­cal rea­sons pri­or to the start of Fall Quar­ter 2021. The col­lege will con­tin­ue to require every­one to wear face cov­er­ings inside all col­lege build­ings at each of its cam­pus­es and cen­ters regard­less of vac­ci­na­tion sta­tus.     Con­tin­ue Reading

Engi­neer­ing for US All (e4usa), a nation­al ini­tia­tive to bring engi­neer­ing cours­es to high school stu­dents, is expand­ing its reach for the 2021–2022 aca­d­e­m­ic year. Two years ago, e4usa launched a nov­el engi­neer­ing cur­ricu­lum in high schools across the Unit­ed States. This mul­ti-insti­­tu­­tion­al effort was ini­ti­at­ed by five uni­ver­si­ties: Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land,  Con­tin­ue Reading

Kairos & the Ghost of FHL: Writ­ing in the Moment, by Hol­ly Shel­ton Dr. Hol­ly Shel­ton holds a PhD from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton in lan­guage and rhetoric along with MA degrees in Applied Lin­guis­tics and Teach­ing Eng­lish to Speak­ers of Oth­er Lan­guages. She has taught in Chile, Turkey, Cana­da, Kaza­khstan, and the US; received  Con­tin­ue Reading

At the begin­ning of June, our school staff was able to cel­e­brate the grad­u­a­tion of seniors from both Fri­day Har­bor School and Grif­fin Bay School out­side on the foot­ball field. See­ing the faces of those stu­dents and shar­ing in their joy was price­less.  The 2020–2021 school year seemed to last for­ev­er as we all nav­i­gat­ed  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Orcas Island There are no new cas­es on Orcas Island since the last update, and no con­firmed pos­i­tive cas­es under active mon­i­tor­ing on Orcas Island at this time. Lopez Island There are no new cas­es on Lopez Island since the last update, and no con­firmed pos­i­tive cas­es under active mon­i­tor­ing on Lopez  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Min­nie Knych, Amer­i­can Legion Post 163 Aux­il­iary  The Amer­i­can Legion offers schol­ar­ships, and stu­dents should apply even if they think they aren’t eli­gi­ble.  Amer­i­can Legion Schol­ar­ships Over $203,500 in schol­ar­ships is award­ed each year to the top win­ners in the Amer­i­can Legion Nation­al Ora­tor­i­cal Con­test. The state win­ners of the con­test receive $5,000 for  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island School Dis­trict San Juan Island School Dis­trict would like to thank San Juan Coun­ty Health and Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vices for their quick response and atten­tion to details about man­ag­ing COVID-19 expo­sure in the pub­lic schools.  Upon learn­ing that there were three poten­tial cas­es of COVID-19 that had been diag­nosed in the past  Con­tin­ue Reading