Author name: Liz Aderhold

Cascadia’s 2025 Spelling Bee will be held on February 13, 2025, and the deadline to register is December 16, 2024! The Spelling Bee is open to all students. The first step is to register for the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s online testing platform by visiting https://online-test.spellingbee.com by December 16. Please also watch this video tutorial on the […]

THANK YOU, DRAGONS! Our 2024 Red Envelope Campaign is officially over, and we can report that we raised an ASTONISHING $267,000 with 83% participation. With corporate matches we are very hopeful we will hit our target of approximately$356,000 for the year–PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SUBMIT FOR YOUR MATCH IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE SO YET. This

There will be availability for KidsCo care during the Fall break/conference week. See flyer for details.

Cascadia is hosting a Ridwell event coming up in November! Throughout this event, we will be collecting clean plastic film (think: bubble wrap, Prime shippers, grocery bags, Ziploc bags, etc). We are asking parents to bring their plastic film items during their conferences. (We will not be accepting the items until this time!) The office

Let’s form a Cascadia team to run in the Seattle Kids Marathon! Kids log 25 miles of running or walking in the weeks leading up to the big day; then on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Saturday November 30th this year), they run 1.2 miles around the Seattle Center to complete their marathon. You can sign

Join us for this year’s Fall Festival, Thursday Oct. 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm! This event is a wonderful opportunity to meet other current families while we celebrate the diversity of our community and connect with the food and culture of the fall season. Dancing, games, and much more! And, come hungry for pizza  hosted by our

The school is offering two sessions. The second session will be a repeat of the first session to allow families with two or more students to visit both their children’s classrooms. Curriculum Night is an adult-focused event. The staff will be engaged in conversations with family members about the curriculum. If you need to bring

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

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?

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