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| 12/8/2008 | Airial photo of new middle school at Portland Ave. | The new middle school at Portland Ave. is scheduled to open September 2009. Student populations from Gault and McIlvaigh will be combined at the new building. |
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| 12/9/2008 | Sen. Debbie Regala visits Crescent Heights E.S. | Senator Debbie Regala visits the library at Crescent Heights E.S. to observe Lynne Thurston's library program in action. |
| | | Central Administration Building | 389 x 242 | 31 KB
| 12/10/2008 | Mt. Tahoma-Stadium mock trials | Mt. Tahoma and Stadium high school students take part in mock trials. Senior prosecuting attorney Mark Lindquist serves as the judge. The jury is composed of students and community members. |
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| 12/10/2008 | G.R.E.A.T. Graduation | Gault Middle School sixth grader Kaela Harmon interviews a police officer at the Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) graduation on Monday, Dec. 8. |
| | | Gray | 389 x 242 | 36 KB
| 12/12/2008 | Gray Middle School Alumni Celebration | Gray Middle School will hold its Alumni Celebration Dec. 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. at 3109 S. 60th St. |
| | | Washington-Hoyt | 389 x 242 | 41 KB
| 12/16/2008 | WA-Hoyt Parent/Firefighter reads to a class | Chris Sollars, a Washington-Hoyt parent and lieutenant with the Tacoma Fire Department, read "Firefighter’s Night Before Christmas" by Kimbra Cutlip to Erin O’Donnell’s second-grade class. |
| | | McKinley | 389 x 242 | 28 KB
| 12/17/2008 | McKinley Food Drive | McKinley E.S. students collected more than 1,120 food items for food baskets for McKinley familes. |
| | | McCarver | 389 x 242 | 40 KB
| 12/22/2008 | Law enforcement gives gifts at McCarver | Law enforcement agencies provided two toys for each child at McCarver E.S. |
| | | Baker | 389 x 242 | 34 KB
| 1/5/2009 | Baker Toy Drive | During their latest spirit week, ASB students at Baker Middle School collected 510 toys for the Mary Bridge Children's Foundation toy drive. |
| | | Lister | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 1/6/2009 | Dralle's reader at Lister | LaShelle Dralle's fourth-grade class at Lister E.S. participated in the Scholastic Book Clubs' Classrooms Care: Reading is Giving by reading 100 books. Scholastic will donate books to children in need to show students that they can make a difference. |
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| 1/7/2009 | NE Tacoma Toymakers | Northeast Tacoma E.S. students learn about designing and making toys from toy inventor Rick Hartman. |
| | | McCarver | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 1/8/2009 | Dan Tharp Distinguished Principal | The Tacoma region of the Elementary School Principals Association of Washington recently selected McCarver Elementary School's principal Dan Tharp as its 2009 Distinguished Principal. |
| | | Professional Development Center | 389 x 242 | 30 KB
| 1/12/2009 | Superintendent's Parent Advisory | Parents and district administrators attend the Superintendent’s Parent Advisory meeting on Jan. 12 at the Professional Development Center. |
| | | Foss | 389 x 242 | 29 KB
| 1/15/2009 | Golden Apple Award winner Rober Yuong | Foss H.S. Math Department Chair Robert Yuong accepts a $1,500 check from PEMCO Insurance for being selected as a KCTS 2008 Golden Apple Award winner. |
| | | Hunt | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 1/16/2009 | Hunt Science Fair | Hunt Middle School sixth grader Tiffany Hammonds shares her liquid balloon science project with visitors to Hunt's all-school science fair. |
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| 1/17/2009 | MLK Day | In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 19, the Tacoma Public Schools will be closed. We invite you to participate in "Destined for Change," a MLK celebration event beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Tacoma Dome. |
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| 1/20/2009 | Mason goes to Washington D.C. | Mason M.S. students, teachers and chaperones are in Washington, D.C. to watch the Jan. 20 Inauguration Day in person. |
| | | Wainwright | 389 x 242 | 25 KB
| 1/21/2009 | Inauguration Day events | A pair of Wainwright students share a blissful moment while watching Inauguration Day events on Jan. 20. |
| | | McCarver | 389 x 242 | 31 KB
| 1/22/2009 | Dan Tharp receives Boeing award | Fred Kiga with The Boeing Company, right, presents McCarver E.S. Principal Dan Tharp with the John D. Warner Award of $25,000 and a model of a 777-300ER airliner. |
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| 1/26/2009 | Skyline Literacy Night | Skyline E.S. hosted a literacy night on Jan. 21 for families. Parents participated in winter-themed activities with their children. |
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| 1/29/2009 | TSOTA student talks to Reed student about photography | A kindergartner in Brian Goff's class at Reed E.S. and a Tacoma School of the Arts photographer talk about the story of her work. |
| | | Gault | 389 x 242 | 37 KB
| 1/29/2009 | Gault and MultiCare | Gault M.S. students partnered with MultiCare recently and were able to get hands-on experience in health care. |
| | | Gray | 389 x 242 | 37 KB
| 1/30/2009 | Gray Charts a New Course | Join Gray M.S. Feb. 6 for a rollicking, decade-by-dacade musical revue of the school's first 82 years. |
| | | All District Locations | 389 x 242 | 35 KB
| 2/2/2009 | National School Counseling Week | Thank you district counselors! |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 41 KB
| 2/4/2009 | Trufant signs with Huskies | Desmond Trufant, brother of Seahawks' cornerback Marcus Trufant, signs a letter of intent with the Huskies at Wilson High School on Feb. 4. |
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| 2/9/2009 | DAR donates books | Beverly Gilbert Bills of the Daughters of the American Revolution donates a copy of "Forgotten Patriots" to Assistant Superintendent Michael Power for
each of the comprehensive high schools. |
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| 2/10/2009 | Gray's Feb. 6 event celebrating first 83 years | Gray M.S. Principal Yvonne Bullock as one of the Supremes winds up the decade-by-decade musical of Gray's first 83 years. |
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| 2/11/2009 | Baker science class | Polish teacher Jolanta Rybinska, standing in back, observes Sanger Chambers' science class at Baker Middle School. Teacher Justyna Wojdyga and student Katarzyna Zawlocka also visited Baker on Feb. 11. |
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| 2/18/2009 | Jefferson constellation project | Jefferson E.S. students work on a constellation project on Space Odyssey Day with the Pacific Science Center. |
| | | Oakland | 389 x 242 | 33 KB
| 2/23/2009 | Oakland quilts | Oakland H.S. student Virginia Angel shows Gee's Bend quilter Revil Mosely, left, and Principal Lillian Hunter the first quilt she ever made. |
| | | Tone Transitional Center | 389 x 242 | 33 KB
| 2/27/2009 | AIS donates to Tone | Students from the AIS in Lagos, Nigeria, who visited Tacoma recently donate pillows and sleeping bags to the Tone Resource Center. |
| | | Sherman | 389 x 242 | 35 KB
| 3/2/2009 | Read Across America Day at Sherman | Wilson High School Key Club members read to Sherman Elementary School kindergartners on Dr. Seuss' birthday. |
|  | | All District Locations | 389 x 242 | 196 KB
| 3/6/2009 | Classified Employees Week | We are proud of our classified employees. Thanks you for your work to support student learning! March 9-13, 2009, Classified Employees Week |
| | | Tacoma Community College | 389 x 242 | 33 KB
| 3/10/2009 | College Bound Scholarship event | Seventh, eighth and ninth graders recite the College Bound pledge with Superintendent Art Jarvis on March 7. They could get up to four years of college paid for by the state. |
| | | DeLong | 389 x 242 | 34 KB
| 3/11/2009 | Elementary Conferences March 11-13 | Elementary conferences are March 11–13. DeLong E.S. conferences often include a parent, a student and a teacher. |
| | | Professional Development Center | 389 x 242 | 35 KB
| 3/13/2009 | March 10 Paraeducator Conference | TPS paraeducators gathered at the Professional Development Center on March 10 for the Para Conference 2009. |
| | | Sherman | 389 x 242 | 46 KB
| 3/16/2009 | School Retirees Appreciation Week | Retired school administrator and school board member, Connie Rickman, reads to students at Sherman E.S. |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 33 KB
| 3/19/2009 | Wilson H.S. Scintillation Show Choir | The Wilson H.S. Scintillation Show Choir performs at their annual dinner-auction to raise funds to compete with other show choirs at Disneyland. |
| | | Stewart | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 3/20/2009 | Running of the Green | Washington-Hoyt E.S. third grader Genny Nease finishes the Running of the Green March 20. |
| | | Foss | 389 x 242 | 41 KB
| 3/24/2009 | Foss Leadership Lock-in | Foss H.S. held a student leadership lock-in at school on March 20. The students participated in leadership and team building activities through the night. |
| | | Central Administration Building | 389 x 242 | 41 KB
| 3/30/2009 | McIlvaigh sings at CAB | Superintendent Art Jarvis joins in with the McIlvaigh M.S. choir as the students sing Beatles songs to advertise their auction and performance on April 17. They toured the CAB on March 27 singing from floor to floor. |
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| 4/1/2009 | Birney readers are principal for a day | Birney E.S. students Vadim Belous and Emily Yan, the top readers for March, were Principals for a Day on March 27 while Principal Scott Rich fulfilled his part of a reading challenge by spending a day on the school roof. |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 47 KB
| 4/7/2009 | Daffodil Parade float | Wilson H.S. students helped create this year’s district Daffodil Parade float with staff members from Buildings and Grounds. |
| | | Stadium | 389 x 242 | 42 KB
| 4/10/2009 | Stadium students perform in "Working" | Stadium H.S. students recently staged “Working,” under the direction of Suzy Willhoft. |
| | | Stewart | 389 x 242 | 31 KB
| 4/13/2009 | School of the Future at Stewart | Stewart M.S. students present their design for the School of the Future competition sponsored by the Council of Educational Facility Planners. |
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| 4/17/2009 | Superintendent Scholars | Students who have a grade point average of 3.8 or better for all four years of high school were honored at the Superintendent’s Scholars ceremony on April 15 at Mt. Tahoma High School. |
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| 4/24/2009 | WA-Hoyt Sock Hop | Washington-Hoyt E.S. held a sock hop recently, complete with swirling poodle skirts, saddle shoes and hula hoops. |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 43 KB
| 4/29/2009 | Key clubs sort books | Six Key Clubs in Division 34 sorted by grade level more than 2,000 children’s books at Wilson H.S. They will be given to children at the celebration after the Eastside Clean Sweep on May 2. |
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| 5/4/2009 | Teacher Appreciation Week | Teacher Appreciation Week is May 3–9. Celebrate your teachers like Marlene Rossi who is collecting her students’ homework at Pt. Defiance E.S. |
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| 5/6/2009 | School Nurse Day | Celebrate your school nurse on May 6 which is National School Nurse Day. The Pt. Defiance E.S. nurse, Mary Beth Sowell, cleans up a scraped knee while another student waits to talk to the nurse. |
| | | Fawcett | 389 x 242 | 37 KB
| 5/7/2009 | Teacher Appreciation Week | Fawcett E.S. teachers participate in Clean Sweep. |
| | | Point Defiance | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 5/11/2009 | Teacher of the Week Kelly King | Pt. Defiance E.S. kindergarten teacher Kelly King was named STAR 101.5’s Teacher of the Week on May 8. She was nominated by student Brydan Martinez. |
| | | Gault | 389 x 242 | 45 KB
| 5/14/2009 | Gault/McIlvaigh Choirs | The combined Gault and McIlvaigh middle school choirs perform Beatles' songs at their choir auction held recently at Stadium H.S. |
| | | Stewart | 389 x 242 | 42 KB
| 5/27/2009 | Stewart Multicultural Celebration | Hispanic dancers twirl their skirts in Stewart Middle School’s Multicultural Celebration. |
| | | Manitou Park | 389 x 242 | 43 KB
| 5/28/2009 | Manitou Park Walk-a-thon | Manitou Park E.S. students circle the park as they raise money in their walk-a-thon to help build a school in Ghana, West Africa. |
| | | Mount Tahoma | 389 x 242 | 32 KB
| 5/29/2009 | Native American Graduation | The Native American graduation celebration was held on May 27. There are 26 Native American students in the class of 2009. |
| | | School of the Arts | 389 x 242 | 30 KB
| 6/3/2009 | SOTA Grand Prize Winners | The Tacoma School of the Arts team won the grand prize in Washington State University’s Imagine Tomorrow competition. The students, from the left, are Isaac Solverson, Logan Jones, Jake Stortini, Joe Holcomb and Mac Tadie. |
| | | Gault | 389 x 242 | 39 KB
| 6/5/2009 | Gault closing ceremony/Class of '69 | Gault Middle School’s closing celebration on May 29 was well attended by the community. |
| | | Foss | 389 x 242 | 40 KB
| 6/10/2009 | Foss Graduation | Foss High School graduates in the class of 2009 are jubilant as they end their high school careers. |
| | | Central Administration Building | 389 x 242 | 37 KB
| 6/17/2009 | Retirement Celebration | Retirees at the district retirement celebration, Superintendent Art Jarvis and board members Debbie Winskill and Connie Rickman gather for a group photo. |
| | | McIlvaigh | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 6/23/2009 | McIlvaigh Closing June 12 | Samoan dancers perform at McIlvaigh Middle School’s closing ceremony on June 12. |
| | | Browns Point | 389 x 242 | 40 KB
| 7/2/2009 | Read during the summer | Encourage children to read during the summer |
| | | Blix | 389 x 242 | 118 KB
| 7/9/2009 | Summer Reading is Fun | Summer reading is fun. |
| | | Giaudrone | 389 x 242 | 121 KB
| 7/16/2009 | Giaudrone Summer Reading | |
| | | Mason | 389 x 242 | 159 KB
| 7/27/2009 | Mason Summer Reading | Keep on reading |
| | | Crescent Heights | 389 x 242 | 152 KB
| 8/3/2009 | Crescent Heights Readerboard | School is out for summer. Enrollment Aug. 3-6 |
| | | Truman | 389 x 242 | 165 KB
| 8/10/2009 | Truman Readerboard | Bored already! Read a cool book |
| | | Hunt | 389 x 242 | 127 KB
| 8/13/2009 | Hunt IB school | We are now an IB school Yahoo!! |
| | | Geiger | 389 x 242 | 138 KB
| 8/25/2009 | Geiger Stuff-the-Bus | Welcome to Geiger! Free All-Day Kindergarten! |
| | | All High Schools | 389 x 242 | 42 KB
| 8/28/2009 | High school students attended Nurse Camp | Tacoma high school students attended Nurse Camp at Tacoma General Hospital this summer. |
| | | Bryant | 389 x 242 | 34 KB
| 9/2/2009 | First day of school | Jonathan Frazier and Arya Craypo start Bryant Montessori Pre-school Sept. 2. |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 45 KB
| 9/9/2009 | Wilson Football | Football season heralds autumn and the beginning of school. Wilson players, in red, show their gusto. |
| | | All District Locations | 389 x 242 | 34 KB
| 9/14/2009 | Show Me The Math | UPS Logger football players enlist businesses for the district’s Show Me the Math program. |
| | | Browns Point | 389 x 242 | 34 KB
| 9/16/2009 | Browns Point silent walk | Browns Point E.S. staff and families begin the annual silent walk around the school track in observance of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001. |
| | | Skyline | 389 x 242 | 36 KB
| 9/18/2009 | Skyline Great Schools Award | Deputy Superintendent Carla Santorno hands a rose to a Skyline E.S. staff member in honor of the school’s Great Schools award. |
| | | Jason Lee | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 9/28/2009 | Bus Ridership Count Week | Bus Ridership Count Week
Sept. 28-Oct. 2 |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 54 KB
| 10/5/2009 | Wilson beautifies grounds | Wilson High School’s girls’ soccer team helps beautify the school grounds. |
| | | First Creek | 389 x 242 | 38 KB
| 10/13/2009 | First Creek Opening | Join First Creek Middle School staff members, students, families and friends in celebrating the opening of the new First Creek Middle School on Friday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. at 1801 E. 56th St. |
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| 10/19/2009 | First Creek and Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst | |
| | | First Creek | 389 x 242 | 41 KB
| 10/23/2009 | First Creek Grand Opening | At First Creek Middle School’s grand opening, students in the Parade of Nations carried thank-you banners. |
| | | Wilson | 389 x 242 | 37 KB
| 11/3/2009 | Best Western Washington Principal, Dan Besett | Wilson H.S. Principal Dan Besett receives Best Western Washington Principal plaque from KING 5 reporter Saint Bryan. |
| | | First Creek | 389 x 242 | 37 KB
| 11/17/2009 | Veterans Day assembly at First Creek | Veterans of Foreign Wars demonstrate the flag folding ceremony at First Creek M.S.’s first Veterans Day assembly. |
| | | Truman | 389 x 242 | 35 KB
| 11/24/2009 | Truman collects turkeys for food baskets | Truman Middle School held a Bring a Turkey to Work Day and collected about 60 frozen turkeys for food baskets. |
| | | Mason | 389 x 242 | 135 KB
| 12/2/2009 | Engineering Ink research project | Engineering Ink members, a FIRST LEGO team from Mason M.S., work on their research project for the Dec. 5 competition with Kevin Humphrey, Chuck Mathias and coach Dan Rosner. |
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| 12/7/2009 | Oakland students collect food and donations | Oakland H.S. students braved a very cold morning on Dec. 5 to help collect food and donations for KING 5’s Home Team Harvest event. |
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| 12/21/2009 | Middle school athletics donation | Superintendent Art Jarvis accepts the $105,000 donation for middle school athletics from the Tacoma Athletic Commission. |
| | | Browns Point | 389 x 242 | 126 KB
| 1/4/2010 | Browns Point performs at CAB | The Browns Point Elementary School Cantabile Choir performs at the Central Administration Building. |
| | | Bryant | 389 x 242 | 153 KB
| 1/7/2010 | Bryant Montessori students read a book by Mo Willems. | Bryant Montessori students Zoey Cummings, left, Riley Gunning and Ariana Broadnax read a book by Mo Willems. |
| | | First Creek | 389 x 242 | 140 KB
| 2/16/2010 | First Creek Middle School Science Club | First Creek Middle School Science Club |
| | | Mount Tahoma | 389 x 242 | 144 KB
| 1/28/2010 | Mount Tahoma Notebooks | Mount Tahoma High School students help unload three pallets of notebooks donated by World Vision. All district schools received notebooks for a total of 75 pallets. |
| | | Washington-Hoyt | 389 x 242 | 133 KB
| 2/9/2010 | WA Hoyt mobiles | Washington-Hoyt E.S. students learn to make mobiles with Jena Marks. |
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| | | Hunt | 389 x 242 | 131 KB
| 3/26/2010 | Hunt dream flags | Hunt Middle School students make dream flags at a schoolwide assembly. |
| | | Jefferson | 389 x 242 | 123 KB
| 3/26/2010 | Jefferson water festival | Jefferson Elementary School fifth graders are wary of a reptile at the Tacoma-Pierce Country Children’s Water Festival. |
| | | Skyline | 389 x 242 | 131 KB
| 3/26/2010 | Skyline water festival | Skyline Elementary School fifth-grade girls learn safety tips for paddling a kayak at the Children’s Water Festival. |
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| 3/26/2010 | Skyline boys at water festival | Boys from Skyline Elementary School try out an old-fashioned water pump at the Children’s Water Festival. |