Before she took up the mantle of teaching, Lindsay Smolko was a family therapist. When her oldest child started preschool, she felt the call to teach and started working on her certification. …
What if you started your teaching career during the pandemic? Instead of COVID dramatically changing your normal day-to-day routines, social distancing, masks, and remote learning would be your norms.
That’s where Madi Lindgren finds herself.
This is Lindgren’s second year of teaching, and her second year at Cedarcrest Middle School…
As 2021 comes to a close, we wanted to take a look back on some of our major construction projects, as well as provide you a forecast of the completion dates of our future bond-funded projects. …
The Bethel School District has taken advantage of low bond interest rates to save taxpayers money. …
The weather is getting colder and the days shorter, but that hasn’t slowed the contruction crews working diligently on our many bond projects.
Even though a methodology change caused many school districts’ bond ratings to drop recently, Bethel actually retained the strong Aa2 rating we’ve had for many years. …
The writer William Arthur Ward once said that a good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires. Thankfully, we’ve got more than our fair share of great teachers in this district who constantly inspire their students to explore their creativity and stretch their potential.
Cedarcrest Middle School’s Traci Overstreet…
“The last year and a half has shown us how delicate and unique it is to have real, face-to-face interactions with others,” said North Star Elementary’s Stephen Rushing. “There’s no substitute for relating to others in a personal way. …
“I like this game!”
That phrase wasn’t spoken by a student in class, but instead came from an iPad that a student in Kelly Wedum’s Structured Classroom was using as the students played Go Fish together.
Helping nonverbal students learn to express themselves is a passion for Wedum — her…
Nothing is more important than protecting the students, staff, and community members of our district, and that job would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of our team of School Resource Officers.
In many ways, Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Vickie Morrison is the face of Bethel’s SRO…
When we caught up with teaching veteran Robin Burk, she was just kicking off her Second Step lesson with her first grade class. Second Step is the district’s Social Emotional Learning curriculum that was adopted back in 2019.
“Second Step begins the year with lessons on paying attention and how…
