School starts in the Chehalis School District Sept. 5 for grades 3-12, Sept. 6 for grades 1-2 and Sept. 8 for kindergarten. Check out this handy guide for some information to help your student and your family get ready for the 2023-2024 school year.
“Why do we have to learn this?” is the question posed to teachers several times a year. Students who lack the trust or patience to engage during some lessons might allow this question to roll through their minds. However, when Chehalis Middle School teachers Josie Peterson and Kevin Dickson face their AVID students, there is [...]
Thinking happens mostly in our heads, invisible to others and even to ourselves. However, in math classrooms at Chehalis Middle School, students make their thinking visible - to everyone. CMS math teachers are bringing out some of the best in student thinking using a new way of teaching math. The research-based strategies are called “Building [...]
What’s working well in the Chehalis School District and what can we improve? These questions were asked of parents in the fall. In fact, anyone could respond to these questions. They were posed in an online conversation using the engagement tool called Thoughtexchange. Nearly eleven thousand ratings were made of the 212 comments shared by [...]
It is wonderful seeing our students' smiles again!Click on a photo to enlarge.
Every single graduate applied to a college or military. No student was left behind. In June of 2020, when 195 students graduated from W. F. West High School, they were poised and ready for a career, college, or both. This has been the vision, and students in Chehalis rose to the expectation. But they [...]
In a world of remote conversations, W. F. West High School students speak with confidence, showing their audience incredible return on their investment. To an audience of 14 endowment committee members joined together in a Zoom meeting, two 2020 Chehalis graduates recently presented an overview of their experience in the high school STEM program. [...]