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Lake Roosevelt Schools started Tuesday, beginning with conferences on the details of this first all-online quarter of the 2020-21 school year during the pandemic. Students and their parents or guardians arrived outside the school, where they had their temperatures taken and were asked about health symptoms. Inside, they picked up T-shirts, info packets, and checked out Chromebooks, one per household for now. When another order of the devices comes in, there will be one for every student. The...
Documents addressing options for Grand Coulee Dam School District students have been posted on the district website. An Aug. 19 letter from Superintendent Paul Turner to the community, parents, and students touches upon aspects of reopening school, including: • a strict protocol to enter the school, • understanding educational options, • the first day of school being Sept. 8, with student academic participation beginning Sept. 11, and • conferences being held Sept. 8-10 will make sure parents and students are familiar with the online platfor... Full story
You can listen in on the Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting tonight, July 20, at 5:30 p.m., in which they will discuss the upcoming 2020-21 school year. There will be no public comment period at the meeting. The meeting can be accessed on Zoom at https://gcdsd.zoom.us/j/677070515...
A video showing the full ceremony of Lake Roosevelt High School’s class of 2020 is now available to view on YouTube. The video can be found on YouTube under the title “Lake Roosevelt High School Graduation 2020,” and a link will be included in the online version of this article. The unusual COVID-19-era outdoor graduation on June 13 took place on LR’s football field and followed social distancing guidelines put in place for the pandemic, which limited the number of people who could attend, kept those attending in their cars, limited the num...
Teachers who have been working in online teaching and learning for decades understand the potential and power of the tool called technology, but it's not about the tech. The following is from a May blog post by the author, now retired from teaching for 31 years in Nespelem and still an advocate for the use of tech to inspire and teach, with the right emphasis. This article online will link to her post, which contains more than 30 links to resources for teachers, at https://ww... Full story
Schools are looking at how to successfully implement changes that will be put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a new Star survey seeks the opinions of local parents, students, and staff members. Last week The Star reported on changes schools are facing for the 2020-21 school year after guidelines were released by the state’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Those guidelines include rules such as those requiring all students and staff to wear face coverings and maintain a distance from one another. Those rules ha... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors on Monday: approved Superintendent Paul Turner’s new three-year contract at an annual salary of $128,392. Turner first became superintendent in 2016. decided not to allow sixth-graders to participate in sports alongside seventh- and eighth-graders. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association recently voted to allow sixth-graders to participate in sports with seventh- and eighth-graders, but left it to individual districts to determine their own policies on the matter. decided t...
Brianna Whybark is the 2020 recipient of the $500.00 scholarship awarded by local Chapter DG of P.E.O. International. The scholarship application process includes a review of the applicants’ academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities, and educational goals. Brianna is a graduate of Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr. High School. She participated in the Running Start program to gain college credits while in high school and plans to attend Washington State University to begin her pursuit of a degree in pharmacy. P.E.O. is a P...
Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association selected 12 recipients to receive $500 scholarships this year. Four graduating seniors include Lake Roosevelt High School Valedictorian, Ellie Hansen, who plans to attend WSU for an education in sports medicine, specifically physical therapy. Ellie is the daughter of Steve and Hope Hansen of Coulee Dam. Seniors from high schools other than Lake Roosevelt eligible on the basis of being direct descendants of a former student of School District 55 include: Liberty Croutch, the granddaughter of the late...
The Nespelem School Board of Directors announced their selection Tuesday of Dr. Effie Dean as the new superintendent/principal of the school. Dean will be joining the school district beginning July 1, 2020. Dean is replacing Dr. Mary Hall, who has retired as superintendent. Dean will also be assuming principal duties, replacing Marcy Horne. In the last three years, Dean has served as the assistant superintendent at the Royal City School District, Hall said. She has also served for six years as principal and director of special education at...
In an effort to give students access to the internet, which they may not have at home, the Grand Coulee Dam School District has expanded Wi-Fi signals to access the internet outside of Lake Roosevelt Schools and at the former middle school. A student can sit in a vehicle and access the internet if needed to do work for the new “distance learning” method of education that schools are using during the COVID-19 pandemic. Superintendent Paul Turner told the school board during a Zoom meeting April 26 that expanding internet signals outside the bui... Full story
Time is running out to submit applications for Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association scholarships. The applications must be postmarked by Friday, May 1, 2020. The awards are open to high school graduating seniors and college students who are direct descendants of former students who attended any of the Grand Coulee School District 55 schools. College students must have successfully completed at least one year of college. Also eligible to apply for the scholarships are all Lake Roosevelt High School graduating seniors from the class of...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District is holding their regularly scheduled board meeting electronically via Zoom tonight at 5:30 p.m. The meeting is accessible to the public by clicking on this link: https://gcdsd.zoom.us/j/677070515... Full story
Misty Krohn is one of six teachers in the 29 school districts of the North Central Washington Educational Service District awarded a grant related to the study of the Lower Grand Coulee recently. Krohn, who teaches kindergarten at Lake Roosevelt Elementary, will get the $300 for her project to create a science center in her classroom. The Friends of Lower Grand Coulee (FLGC), in partnership with the North Central Education Foundation (NCEF), provided the opportunity to encourage study of the Lower Grand Coulee area this spring. Because of...
Time is running out to submit applications for Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association scholarships. The applications must be postmarked by Friday, May 1, 2020. The awards are open to high school graduating seniors and college students who are direct descendants of former students who attended any of the Grand Coulee School District 55 schools. College students must have successfully completed at least one year of college. Also eligible to apply for the scholarships are all Lake Roosevelt High School graduating seniors from the class of...
Karen Pace, who has been the music teacher at Lake Roosevelt schools for the past five years, and Terry Owen, who has been driving bus for LR for the past 32 years, will be honored with excellence awards next month. Superintendent Paul Turner announced the winners to school staff Feb. 27. Turner said both Pace and Owen received multiple nominations from their fellow staff members. The awards are organized by the North Central Educational Service District, Turner said, and Pace and Owen will be among those honored at its Excellence Awards Banque...
Public school students will soon have a greater understanding of their sexuality, sexual abuse and the importance of consent under a new law passed by Washington state legislators. Senate Bill 5395 requires all public schools in Washington state to give public school children in kindergarten through 12th grade a comprehensive sexual education. The curriculum must follow certain requirements, including encouraging healthy relationships, teaching students about sexual violence, educating them on consent and being inclusive of all students....
Special detectors may be installed at Lake Roosevelt Schools to address “rampant” vaping at the school. Vaping, which delivers nicotine to the user without tobacco present, is said to be dangerous to the health of anyone by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and especially to the development of adolescent brains. But students can vape discreetly, even in classrooms, with the devices used to vape being particularly small and the vapor itself often odorless and dissipating quickly. Getting some tech help to address the situation is...
Selected as Students of the Month for February at Nespelem School included: from left - top row: Nataliah Saulque, Nyla Yellowwolf, Zach Elwell,Taylor Thomas, Arianna Waters; bottom row: Kendall Elwell, Alec Flett, Rykiah Picard, Alan Stanger, Myalove Stanger. Not pictured is Chayton Bob...
HIGH HONORS 3.5 to 4.0 SENIORS Ellie Hansen, Lorrinda Richardson, Nicholas Engeseth, Kyle Edmo, Keziah Stice, Brianna Stanger, Abbiggale Murray, Madisyn Toulou, Damian George, Alexia Ryan, Brianna Whybark, Wensdae Antoine JUNIORS Bryn Chaffee, Raven Clark, Vanessa Ankney, Kaimyn Schieb, Ashlyn Olsen, Rayann Steinert, Hunter Whitelaw, Cameron Gaines, Brieann Whittaker, Blossom Armstrong, Ariana Morse, Adriana Garcia-Atchison, Daxton Whiteman, Kyona Edmo, Lillie LaPlace, Heather Budravage, Chelsea Dudley SOPHOMORES Makenna Alling, Valerie Jury,...
Several Lake Roosevelt High School students will spend part of their spring break competing at the state Future Business Leaders of America competition in Spokane. The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors Monday approved the trip to the state for 16 students. Advisor Susan Duclos, who oversees the group, said students can each register for up to four competitions out of 70. She said the group heading to state has doubled from four students to eight to 16 in the past few years....
The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors took new assignments at their Jan. 27 meeting. Director George LaPlace was appointed board chair. Director Carla Marconi was appointed vice chair, and Ken "Butch" Stanger was appointed legislative representative. LaPlace, who has served on the board since 2015, replaces Rich Black as board chair. Black, still a director, has chaired the board since 2016. Marconi has served on the board since 2007. Newly elected Director Alex Tufts, who...
Students in Lake Roosevelt High School's Future Business Leaders of America club took several awards at the North Central Regional Competition Feb. 2. Those coming away with awards for their projects included: Sam Amarilla- 6th Broadcast Journalism, 4th Journalism Brenna Morrill- 3rd ML Career Exploration, 4th ML Critical Thinking Team with Madyson Voss Damien Blake, Awston Clark & Gaven White (Team) 6th ML Critical Thinking Joey Tynan- 2nd Cyber Security Lillie LaPlace- 1st Entrepeneurship,...
Several students from the local area earned grades that qualified them for a dean’s list or honor roll at the institutions of higher learning they’re attending. At Eastern Washignton University for the fall quarter of 2019: Scott Abrahamson, of Coulee Dam; and Kurtis Boutain, Tiffany Boutain, Berlyn Hunt, and Cassandra Payne, all of Coulee City. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours (QHRS) and receives a GPA of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean’s List. At Community Colleges of Spokane, Cortney Louie of Nespelem, Christina Pruko...
The Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School chapter of the National Honor Society inducted new members Jan. 22. The group of new honorees, together with last year's inductees and officers comprised about 10 percent of the student enrollment at the school. Shown in the hallway just before the ceremony in the elementary gym are, from left, Raven Clark, LorRinda Richardson, Vanessa Ankney, Jozlyn Hansen, Advisor Jess Utz, Chelsea Dudley, Bryn Chaffee, Kyle Edmo, Megan Abel, Keziah Stice, Ellie...