Coffee chats with Wedgwood Elementary’s principal scheduled

January 11, 2012 by 2 Comments

Wedgwood Elementary School’s principal, Chris Cronas, is holding a series of informal meetings for parents in January and February. The meetings look to be taking place in the neighborhood (vs. at the school) in both mornings and evenings.

Wedgwood Elementary’s PTA president and vice-president will also be attending the chats.

From the Wedgwood Weekly (about page):

Over the next several weeks, I will be hosting a series of informal coffee meetings for parents, the first of which will be on Tuesday, January 17th from 9:00 to 10:00 am.  The purpose of these meetings is to give parents a chance to come and ask questions about any issues they are thinking about, and discuss these issues with others in the community.  In addition to myself, Katie Traverse and/or John Piccola, our PTA President and Vice President will be there to chat with folks and answer any questions about the PTA.

I want to make it possible for everyone who wants to attend one of these coffees to do so.  For that reason, they will be offered at two different times – one in the morning right after the school day begins, and one in the evening off campus.

The morning coffees will be held in the library from 9:00 to 10:00 on the following dates:

Tuesday, January 17th

Thursday, January 26th

Tuesday January 31th

Monday February 6th

The evening coffees will be held off campus from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.  The first meeting will be at Café Javasti on 35th, which has graciously offered to stay open late just for us.  The location for the remaining meetings will be announced soon.  The dates of the meetings are as follows:

Monday, January 23rd, Café Javasti

Thursday February 9th, location TBA

Thursday February 16th, location TBA

If none of these times work for you and you are interested in attending, please let me know.  I look forward to meeting with many of you in the following weeks.

Chris Cronas
Principal

While Wedgwood Elementary School itself (2720 NE 85th Street) is located in the Wedgwood neighborhood, a chunk of northern Ravenna is within the school’s attendance boundary (which you can see here; 421 KB PDF).
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Tour your local schools in February and March

February 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Been meaning to check out the local public school offerings? You’re in luck: February and March are chock-full of opportunities to tour our local institutions of compulsory education.

From the Seattle Public Schools’ School Tours page:

Bryant Elementary (K-5), 3311 NE 60th Street, 252-5200

  • Day Tour: Feb 10 – 9:30-11:00 a.m.
  • Evening Tour: Feb 17 – 7:00-8:30 p.m. Childcare will not be available.

Wedgwood Elementary (K-5), 2720 NE 85th Street, 252-5670

  • Day Tours: March 7 – 9:30-10:30a.m.; March 16 – 1:40-2:40 p.m. Meet in the Cafeteria for welcome from the Principal followed by tours with Parent Guides
  • Evening Tour: Feb 15 – 6:30-8:00 p.m. This program will include a Q & A with the Principal and parent volunteers from 7:30-8:00 p.m. in the Cafeteria.

Eckstein Middle School (6-8), 3003 NE 75th Street, 252-5010

  • Tours: Jan 7, Feb 16, March 4 – 8:30-10:00 a.m
  • Informational Night: March 10 – 6:00-7:00 p.m.

As for the local high school option, the tour listed for Roosevelt High School on the Seattle Public School’s site was for January; however, I found another tour date in this week’s North Seattle Herald-Outlook:

Roosevelt High School (9-12), 1410 NE 66th Street, 252-4810

  • Daytime tour: Feb. 15, 9 a.m.

Not sure which school(s) you should be checking out for your student(s) at home? Head over to the New School Assignment Plan address lookup page.

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Report cards are out, for the schools themselves

November 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Seattle Public Schools released reports on 82 of its schools this morning, and the four main schools that serve Ravenna all scored well.

This is the first time that Seattle Public Schools has issued School Reports for individual schools.

From the Seattle Public School’s School Reports page:

“You can read about your school’s academic growth, student climate, accountability, family and staff engagement, and overall school performance. We hope you also take time to read the narrative page, where each school documents the steps it’s taking to ensure every student is achieving.”

Here’s how our children’s neighborhood public schools fared (a Level of 5 being the highest ranking):

Clicking on each individual school above will take you to the full report for that school.

Explanations for the various measurements taken are here.

And a Frequently Asked Questions page is here.

There are meetings planned throughout the city to discuss these new reports.  The first is being held at our very own Roosevelt High School (1410 NE 66th St.) on November 29th, from 7-8:30 pm.

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