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ellwood Principal’s Newsletter – March 22, 2024
Greetings Sellwood Community,
We congratulate the Sellwood Knight's Chess Club, who are the Region 7 Chess champions, and will be competing at State Competition! Great work: Oscar, Rhys, Henry V. Adela, Oliver, Zane, Sam, Desmond, Henry R. and their chess coach, Mr. True!
I wish you all a safe and restful spring break, whether you are traveling to somewhere amazing, or staying right here in wonderful Portland.
Sincerely,
Jeandré Carbone
Sellwood MS Principal
Sellwood Principal’s Newsletter – March 8, 2024
Greetings Sellwood Community,
Happy Friday! The sun is shining briefly this afternoon, and I plan to get out and enjoy it before the rain returns.
This evening, the Sellwood Foundation will be holding a fundraiser, Drag Queen Bingo. Please read on for details. I hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Jeandré Carbone
Sellwood MS Principal
Sellwood Principal’s Newsletter – March 4, 2024
Greetings Sellwood Community,
My apologies for not sending the newsletter on Friday; I was out sick.
This Friday, the Sellwood Foundation will be holding their fundraiser, Drag Queen Bingo, at Westmoreland’s Union Manor. I attended last year with my husband, and it was a fun time with great entertainment. The prizes are also top-notch. The details are outlined below. We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Jeandré Carbone
Sellwood MS Principal
Sellwood Principal’s Newsletter – February 23, 2024
Greetings Sellwood Community,
It’s been a busy week. The days are getting longer and it was wonderful to see the sunshine to day when we went outside for our monthly fire drill.
I would like to give a shout out to our amazing Sellwood Stars Dance Team. At their February 17th competition in Milwaukie, and they placed 2nd in both the Middle School Jazz and Contemporary divisions. They also took home 4 drill down awards. Congratulations, Sellwood Stars!
Enjoy the weekend,
Jeandré Carbone
Sellwood MS Principal
When students from Cleveland High School’s Advanced Commercial Foods and Baking class visited Hosford Middle School last month to try out a new recipe they called Baked Pears Goat Cheese Sunflower Seed Delight, the results of an informal sticker poll were very much on the positive side: 26 kids liked it and 30 loved it. Twenty-two were on the fence.
Sixth grader Isaac Huynh was in the latter category. “I’ve had goat cheese before, but this goat cheese tastes different,” he said. “I think the whole thing might have been better with whipped cream.”
Ever wondered if dogs might be able to sniff out cancer? Or how Magic the Gathering is connected to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s? Or if your running watch might be gaslighting you?
Seniors in the Cleveland High School International Baccalaureate (IB) program answered these questions – and many more – at the 15th annual Extended Essay Senior Showcase on February 21. The showcase gives IB students the opportunity to present the results of two years’ worth of research into academic topics of their choosing. The topics begin as inquiry questions, which students then investigate and eventually answer in the form of a 4000-word essay.
At first glance, the annual Portland Public Schools district calendar might seem to fulfill one crucial function: to alert students, staff, and families to the days when school is in session and when it is not.
If that were the case, crafting the calendar would be the work of days, if not hours. In fact, the calendar is a multipurpose living document that involves meticulous planning and careful forethought to ensure the best possible outcomes for students and staff. It also reflects the needs and observances of the many diverse communities the district serves.
Ethan Kramer, Beaumont Middle School’s assistant principal, sees middle school math as so much more than 2x + 3y = 5.
“It’s helping to build the logic center – the prefrontal cortex – in analysis and processing,” he said. Given this, Kramer and others believe that middle grades instruction must lay a strong foundation to support more challenging math concepts in the future – first high school, then beyond.
But what are the components of that foundation? And how is it best established?
The district’s middle grades core academics team and its grades 6-8 math committee have spent the last year weighing these questions in tandem with educators and community stakeholders. Their goal: a comprehensive math curriculum that challenges students without rushing or skipping over key concepts.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM School Board- Regular Meeting
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Student Success Committee
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM School Board - Special Meeting
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Facilities and Operations Committee meeting
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM School Board- Study Session with vote on a consent agenda
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Foundation Meeting