September 2024

New Tech Policy at Cascadia

The administration has been working on a draft technology policy to make sure that technology is being used consistently across Cascadia classrooms, and is being used with the appropriate level of intentionality. Bottom line, if a child is on an ipad or computer, both the teacher and the student should be able to articulate the educational purpose of them […]

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Class Sizes at Cascadia

What’s going on?  Why did this happen? Aren’t there limits on how many students can be in a class? Will Cascadia be allocated additional teachers? ·   When would this happen? Wouldn’t this screw up the kids’ schedules? What can we do?

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District Plans for School Closures and Potential for Impact on Cascadia

Quick update Oct 3: October 1 Superintendent Jones sent an update indicating they are giving more thought to everything and the Well-Resourced Schools page now indicates only 5 schools will be consolidated. We don’t yet know whether Cascadia will still start to transition to a neighborhood school in 2025-2026, but we still know that current

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PTA General Meeting Sept 19

On Thursday September 19 at 7pm, we will have our first General Meeting of the year. It will be held via Zoom. Come to learn about volunteering, upcoming events and school activities. Find out more about class sizes in SPS this year and what you can do. (Zoom link removed post-event.)

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Ride the bus? Track it!

A helpful parent submitted the following tips for using the FirstView 1.0 app for real-time bus tracking. Reminder: You can get real-time bus tracking via the FirstView 1.0 App Available on Google Play and Apple App StoreTo create an account, use the district code: E2J1C The app can be a little confusing. You need to add both an

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Welcome Back Picnic

Welcome (or welcome back) to Cascadia this Fall! September 13th, 5-7pm @ Maple Leaf Park (lower lawn next to the playground), BYO dinner picnic.

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Current and Upcoming Volunteer Needs

Last updated September 1 As we prepare for the new school year, here are some volunteer needs we are recruiting for: Room parents – Sign up on SignUp Genius Spelling Bee Coordinator – Helps coordinate the bee with Ms. Fitzsimmons (who does a lot of the work) as we don’t want to overburden her. Harvest Festival

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