1. NewsBRIEFS May 4, 2015
Resident Teacher
Certification
Information
Meeting
Are you seeking clarification
on next steps to obtain a
professional certificate? Plan to
attend this annual information
meeting on Tuesday, May 19
from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in room
4 of the Student Services Center.
Learn about eligibility criteria,
portfolio requirements and
program costs for both ProTeach
and National Boards. A brief
overview of each program
will be followed by a question
and answer session. For more
information, please contact Jan
Lonsway at ext. 5150.
Volunteers painted the curb line for the bus drop-off at
Custer Elementary along with other activities for Comcast
Cares Day on April 25. Photo credit: Jane Al-Tamimi
Certificated Employees Appreciation Week,
May 4-8 Educators make our schools great!
As we celebrate Certificated Employees Appreciation Week, it’s a good time to reflect on how
teachers and other certificated staff make Clover Park School District schools great places for
our students to learn and grow. Many of our schools recently received Washington Achievement
Awards. Without the dedication of our district’s certificated staff, these schools would not have
received these honors.
Visiting classrooms and events this school year, I’ve noted the dedication of our teachers, who
have a passion for helping students learn and achieve all they can. Countless hours have been spent
preparing for the new Smarter Balanced Assessments. I’ve also seen the great work performed
by counselors, assessment specialists, school psychologists, speech language pathologists,
occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, librarians, social workers, mental health
specialists, deans of students and athletic directors.
I would like to personally thank the more than 900 certificated staff who dedicate their time and
energy to make a difference for our students every day!
Debbie LeBeau, Superintendent
Hundreds of Comcast
employees and their families
joined Custer Elementary staff
and families on April 25 to help
update the school for Comcast
Cares Day. On Comcast Cares
Day, Comcast employees,
their families, friends and
community partners volunteer
and make change happen in
local communities. A Comcast
employee’s child attends Custer
and he suggested the school as
a project site. This is the first
time Clover Park School District
(CPSD) has partnered with
Comcast for the Comcast Cares
Day event.
“We are very excited and
grateful Comcast chose Custer
Volunteers give Custer Elementary a facelift
Elementary as the site for their
‘Comcast Cares Day,’” said
CPSD director of community
relations Kim Prentice. “Custer
has a number of great volunteers
who help in classrooms every
day. Having Comcast employees
and other volunteers working to
beautify the school extends our
community pride.”
The volunteers laid new bark,
planted flowers, painted the
curb lines for the bus drop-off
and replaced parking signs along
with other activities.
Custer was built in 1953.
Despite Custer being an
older school, the district’s
maintenance and operations
staff does a commendable job
maintaining
and providing
a clean and
safe learning
environment
for students
and staff. The
Comcast
Cares Day
event extends
the work of
the district’s
maintenance
staff.
Kindergarten registration
starts today!

2. Reports Due
Friday, May 8
Student Services: Home-Based enrollment
verification and volunteer service hours for
April
Business Services: Enrollment reconciliation
Accounts Payable: Mileage and expense claim
for April
Contact Us
Editor: Gary Sabol, community
relations manager, Student Services Center, room 33,
ext. 5040, gsabol@cloverpark.k12.wa.us.
Submissions for the next News Briefs must be received
by 12 p.m. the Wednesday prior to the Monday
publication.
Harrison Prep and Lochburn
Middle School students
joined 15,000 other students
across the state at We Day in
Seattle on April 23. We Day
is an inspirational event that
encourages young people
to get involved and create
change in their communities.
Photo credit: Amy Stapleton
Photo credit: Adrienne Larson
Lochburn Middle School held a
penny fundraiser this spring which
raised $861. The money will be used
to provide clean water access for a
community in Africa. Photo credit:
Jamie Moffett
The Washington State History
Museum is displaying artifacts Mann
Middle School seventh-graders created
for the museum’s History Lab. The
students created artifacts related to the
following time periods: Native Americans
before the settlers arrived; the time
period of the settlers; and Native
Americans after the settlers arrived.
The items are on display at the
museum until June 1.
Mann student artifacts on display at
Washington State History Museum
Are you retiring this
year?
Please contact the payroll office at ext.
5120 or 5121 if you are retiring or resigning
with the intent to retire. The district
Retirement Reception will be held on
Monday, June 8 at 4:30 p.m. at Clover Park
High School. Please plan to attend!
Fourth-graders across the district participated in the “Future Chefs” culinary competition on April 23 at
the Auxiliary Services Center. The event promotes healthy eating and allows students to submit their
own recipes and prepare healthy snacks. Photo Credit: Jeff Borey
Woodbrook Middle School students donated
12 boxes of canned food and delivered the
items to the FISH Food Mobile Site last month.
Photo credit: Heidi Palmer