Re-Opening Hope School – Potential Learning Models by Kristen Okabayashi, Hope Principal Welcome to Hope School’s first newsletter of the 2020/2021 school year! This summer, we have spent many hours researching and analyzing articles, data, recommendations, and legal requirements as we determine our plan to re-open school in the fall. One challenge is that the […]
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Hope School Re-opening Update
Hope School Re-Opening Update At Hope, we have put together a team to lead the school in re-opening in the fall, and we are beginning to sort through the Fall 2020 re-opening document published by OSPI late last week, along with recommendations from the CDC and the Department of Health. Our team will take the […]
Hope School Graduations – June 11, 2020
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 […]
Hope to Home Learning – June 5, 2020
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 […]
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 […]
Facebook Live Posts June 1-5th
This is our last week of classes Hope students! You have made it over two months now learning from home; awesome work! We are so proud of you! Time to finish strong, so get your projects and assignments finished up and study hard for your tests. And remember, God is with you in ALL of […]
Hope to Home Learning – May 29, 2020
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 […]
Hope to Home Learning – May 28, 2020
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 […]
Facebook Live Posts May 26-29th
There are 9 days left until the last class on June 5th! Time to dig deep and finish strong, both parents, teachers and students! You can do it! And, celebrate our 2020 graduates! Celebrate our Graduates! Facebook Live Posts May 26, 2020 May 27, 2020 May 28, 2020
Hope to Home Learning – May 21, 2020
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 […]
