Happy summer from all of us at Hope! We pray for a time of relaxation and recharging time for all of you, and quality time as a family playing games, being outside, and doing whatever brings you joy and peace. This will be our last Tuesday Words of Hope for this school year. Summer… Read more »
Hope Handover Reminder June 9-12, 2020 Most of our K-8 students have signed up for our “Hope Handover” this week. If you have not already signed up, please do so as soon as possible. This summer, access to the school office will be limited so plan to return all your Hope materials this week during… Read more »
Happy Graduation 2020 The past week has been full of the usual emotions that surround us on the last week of school. Despite everything that has changed over the past three months, at Hope our teachers and staff feel excitement, joy, sadness, and pride in all our students, particularly the ones we are celebrating during… Read more »
Hope to Home Learning: Day #I’ve-completely-lost-count by Kristen Okabayashi We did it! This third trimester has been surreal, unique, unprecedented, insert whichever extreme adjective you want to use – this trimester has been TOUGH. I am incredibly proud of our students in particular, but also our teachers and parents for leading them in this academic… Read more »
Parent’s Perspective: What if? By Heidi Gottshall, mother of Isaiah I imagine it’s easy for most of us to list all the things we’ve been missing since the stay-home order began. Things like the regular and welcomed events that come with school-age kids, like spring sports, concerts, helping in the classroom, the annual talent… Read more »
Preparing Students for High School and Beyond By Sara Kunkel, Middle School Teacher As the 8th grade homeroom teacher at Hope, I have always felt that an important part of my job is to prepare our students for high school. Together, we visualize walking confidently through the doors of their high school. Together, we come… Read more »
Welcome New Staff! Please join us in welcoming two new (well, sort of new) faces at Hope this summer and fall! We are thrilled to welcome Ruth Gardner back to our staff as a preschool assistant in the Sea Turtles class, and Roger Davenport as our new technology director. You may recall that we previously… Read more »
Parent’s Perspective: In the Stillness by Chesney Schmidt, mom to Ruby and Olive We made it!!!!! Can you even believe it! The finish line is just an arm’s length away. 74 days ago did any of us think we would be where we are today, or even that the last two months and 2… Read more »
Pastor Bob by Lisa Meyer, Middle School Teacher I’ll never forget the first time I met my future father-in-law, Bob Meyer. “Pastor Bob” was very intimidating to me, not just because he was the father of my boyfriend, but he just happened to be a pastor too. We met at a family dinner and it… Read more »
Parent Perspective: Juggling 3+ by Amy Kopecky Hope families all have unique quarantine challenges, don’t we? It’s so helpful to read these newsletters and be reminded of our different working/parenting/learning households and how we can learn from and support each other. In the Kopecky house, Hope youth pastor Jonathan works from home, and I… Read more »
