Roosevelt High Holds 5Th Annual Hoodies up Event

PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Roosevelt High holds 5th annual Hoodies Up event

Roosevelt High School held its fifth annual Hoodies Up event last week. The gathering happens annually on Feb. 5, the birthday of Trayvon Martin, the teenager who was shot and killed in 2012, a rallying point for the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. Roosevelt students filled the auditorium for speeches and performances, and students and parents created black banners that adorned the hallways throughout campus. The event was organized by students from the Black Student Union, Senior Inquiry and Ethnic Studies. Watch video

Connect to Kindergarten events are underway For parents about to send a child to school for the first time, kindergarten can seem like a daunting challenge. But if you have a child who will attend kindergarten in Portland Public Schools in the fall, our Connect to Kindergarten events can help ease the transition.

Connect to Kindergarten, which got underway last month, is a series of open houses for families of kindergartners-to-be, where parents and guardians can explore classrooms, meet teachers, get your questions answered and register for school.

Portland Public Schools is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. Visit the Connect to Kindergarten webpage for dates, times and other information, such as if childcare will be available. Dates are available for your neighborhood school, and also focus option and dual language immersion schools. Please note that if you would like your child to attend a focus option or DLI school, you will have to apply to enter a lottery by March 5 to be considered. Please register your child for kindergarten by May 4.

In addition to the open houses, families can apply to take part in the Early Kindergarten Transition program this summer. EKT is a school-based, family-oriented summer program in 14 schools, designed to help families have a successful start to school. The program will be held at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt, César Chávez, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harrison Park, James John, Kelly, Jason Lee, Lent, Rigler, Scott, Sitton, Vestal, Whitman and Woodmere.

Applications for EKT will soon be available at the program's webpage. There are limited spaces available, and families are prioritized based on eligibility factors such as income and preschool experience. To participate in EKT, students must be attending the school in the fall.

For questions about any kindergarten matters, contact Nancy Hauth at [email protected].

Please answer questions to help set policies that will guide enrollment and program balancing work As Portland Public Schools continues a multi-year process to balance student enrollment and programs across our district, the Board of Education is undertaking revisions to three policies that will guide the work.

To help inform those revisions, the district’s Community Engagement team is collecting feedback through a questionnaire.

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The three policies that will be amended are (click on name to read the full policy):

 4.10.045-P: “Student Assignment to Neighborhood Schools.” The policy establishes a process for assigning students to neighborhood schools, and provides consistent guidelines for changes to school boundaries.  4.10.051-P: “Student Enrollment and Transfers.” The policy intends to provide equal access to educational options for all resident students through an open, fair and accessible process and to promote equity and diversity in student transfers and admissions.  6.10.022-P: “Education Options Policy.” The policy seeks to implement goals by offering students and their families the support they need to make informed choices among a variety of educational options, and to provide consistent guidelines and procedures for educational options. Enrollment and program balancing is part of the district's multi-pronged effort to optimize the use of PPS facilities while supporting our efforts to reimagine the school experience for students, particularly at the middle grades. The process will begin with southeast schools in preparation for the opening of Kellogg Middle School in fall of 2021.

2 The policies will guide the work, which will include deep engagement with community members who will serve as our partners in this effort.

67 student artists from PPS win top recognition, get pieces displayed Art pieces created by 67 students from Portland Public Schools are being displayed at the Pacific Northwest College of Art after they won gold key recognition in the Portland Metro Scholastic Art Awards.

The competition, for students in grades 7-12 in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties, is facilitated by the Alliance for Young Writers and Artists. In all, 336 entrants from PPS were recognized with either gold or silver key, or honorable mention, awards

The gold key winners are having their work displayed at the PNCA's Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, at 511 NW Broadway, until Feb. 21. Visiting hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

PPS artists placed in multiple categories, in everything from sculpture to digital art, with several earning gold key recognition in multiple categories. The awards reflect the commitment to arts in PPS and the impact of the Portland Arts Tax, which funds PPS arts teachers for kindergarten to fifth-grade students. Work is continuing on the development of a Master Arts Education Plan for PPS by the district’s Visual and Performing Arts team, and you can share your thoughts and ideas by taking the MAEP survey.

The gold key winners advance to the national competition later this year. The PPS winners were:

Benson High School: Elijah Donovan (mixed media), Kalynn Lam (digital art). Teacher – Joe Rozewski. da Vinci Middle School: Ethan Bates (sculpture), Aiden Bradfield (drawing & illustration), Eli Fenner (photography), Natasha Korbich (mixed media, sculpture), Benati Louvouezo (sculpture). Teacher – Kelda Van Patten.

Grant High School: Emma Ficker (photography), Peyton Myers (photography), Isabella Stockwell (photography), Sasha Colon (drawing & illustration), Grace Emmite (drawing & illustration), Amanda Hunt (drawing & illustration), Sabine Kenney (drawing & illustration), Florence Oakley (photography), Macy Olivier (drawing & illustration), Vivian Rush (painting), Sophie Tenkhoff (photography), Arwen Thomas (photography), Edith Allen (painting, art portfolio), Henry Backus (drawing & illustration), Claire Chasse (art portfolio), Zoe De Blasis (photography), Marin Jurgens (art portfolio), Jade Mervar (photography), Ada Swartley (ceramics & glass), Kian Doughty (film & animation). Teachers – Paige Battle, Cristy McCarty, Melody Rockwell, Jamin London Tinsel.

Jackson Middle School: Sula Dunwoody (mixed media). Teacher – Jessica Hickey.

Jefferson High School: Anneka Root (photography), Aries Brock (drawing & illustration), Samuel Densmore (mixed media), Uma Pacioretty (painting), Megan Moore (photography). Teacher – Amy Hargrave.

3 Lincoln High School: Addison Ferriday (photography), Emma Howard (photography, digital art), Emily Prince (photography), Tasneem Sarkez (art portfolio, mixed media, painting), Chloe Romo (photography), Madeleine Moreland (sculpture), Chloe Berton (drawing & illustration), Jinjin Zhang (painting, drawing & illustration), Emma Brauser (photography), Emma Howard (printmaking, digital art), Isabella Ruppelt (printmaking). Teachers – Nancy Abens, Coren Rau, Lily Windle.

Mt. Tabor Middle School: Hillary Kuhns (drawing & illustration). Teacher – Molly Renauer.

Roosevelt High School: Quinn Humphreys (drawing & illustration), Dylan Powell (drawing & illustration). Teacher – Kellie May.

West Sylvan Middle School: Biancastella Bleiler (printmaking), Daria Borcea (painting), Rose Kwiecien- Roick (mixed media), Paula MacMillan (mixed media), Isménie Weil (mixed media). Teacher – Anne Larsen.

Wilson High School: Isaac Soto (art portfolio), Claire Catalan (photography), Adam Dowling (photography), Makenzie Lee (digital art), Ari Lohr (photography), Zola Lungerhausen (photography), Virginia Boutwell (painting), Georgia Feld-Denae (drawing & illustration, digital art), Lucy Grimm (painting), Lucy Quinn (drawing & illustration), Kylie Robinson (painting), Ezra Scriven (painting), Isaac Soto (art portfolio, drawing & illustration), Cassidy Stevenson (drawing & illustration), Owen Van Horn (digital art). Teachers – Andrew Butterfield, Matt Carlson, Marie Pearson.

Modernization projects at Lincoln, Madison and Kellogg are taking shape Work is continuing on three major modernization projects made entirely possible by Portland voters passing the 2017 Health, Safety and Modernization Bond. The rebuild of Lincoln and Madison high schools, and the construction of a new Kellogg Middle School, are at different stages; here is an update.

Stadium work and recycled concrete at Lincoln The Lincoln High School Rebuild project is now underway and big changes are already visible on site. Over the holiday break, the Hoffman Pacificmark team set up construction fencing and began work demolishing the football stadium’s old grandstand and press box. The turf field was also removed.

The site is now being leveled using trucks and heavy equipment. Hoffman Pacificmark used over 13 million pounds of recycled concrete saved from a local project site for the base rock level. This recycling effort keeps a significant amount of material out of local landfills and saves money that can be used elsewhere. Foundation work for the new six-story Lincoln High School will begin shortly.

See the latest Lincoln project photos

4 Interior remodeling and seismic retrofit underway at Madison Work is progressing at Madison High School, with interior structural remodeling and seismic strengthening underway. In the new gym building, construction masonry unit (CMU) blocks are being installed as the weight room, wrestling room, and locker rooms begin to take shape in the lower gym level.

In the administration and science classroom wing, the concrete slab has been poured and structural steel started getting put in place. In the fine arts building, the orchestra pit CMU blocks continue to rise as the black box theater footings are being installed.

Watch a time-lapse videos of work at Madison See the lasted Madison project photos

The framework for the new Kellogg nearly complete Steel framing on the new Kellogg Middle School is almost complete, with the final steel beam to be placed atop the three-story learning suites structure by the end of February. Learning suites are groups of classrooms connected together on each floor in an extended learning area to promote collaboration. The gym and performing arts structures, whose concrete tilt panel walls were raised up in November, will soon be sealed off from the outside elements, allowing interior wall framing to begin. At that point, mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems can start to be installed within the building.

Planning for furnishings, fixtures, equipment and classroom technology is underway to prepare the building for new administrative staff to occupy the completed building in the spring of 2021. This will allow them to set up the new Kellogg Middle School program in the building ahead of the arrival of students in the fall of 2021.

See the latest Kellogg project photos

To see the latest images of the work and to get Bond project updates visit the Bond Program Webpage.

-David Mayne, Bond Communications Manager

Next week's Pulse comes out on Wednesday Due to the upcoming Presidents Day holiday, next week’s Pulse will be published a day later than normal and will be sent out on Wednesday, Feb. 19.