ASB Elections didn’t start until the end of October. If you remember, back then, students were not in a face-to-face learning environment. Candidates submitted forms and created campaign videos that were shown over Zoom for the elections. First-time elected ASB Vice President Skylie Voie, and seventh-grader at Chehalis Middle School, remembers the process as a [...]
"We did a couple of at-home labs via zoom, but it wasn't anything like this," Calli Warren shares as she paused to think about science labs back in the Fall before we were face-to-face in the science lab. In the STEM program, Calli and her peers participated in the flame test lab, a favorite in [...]
We have come to rely on technology in ways we never imagined. From cloud storage, email, zoom, live streaming, wireless connectivity, and so much more - each and every day in the Chehalis School District, technology shapes how we teach, learn and collaborate. It wasn't always a robust technological culture here, and Casey Schmidt, CSD [...]
A Message from the Superintendent: The best learning experience for our students. The first semester of the 2020-21 school year has ended, and we are “March”ing towards spring. Yes, that pun was intended. We have moved forward together by opening our hearts and minds, imagining new ways, and seizing new opportunities to grow and learn. [...]
I used to think that vocational education, now called CTE, was a separate pathway for Chehalis students who were not going to college. Growing up I heard adults, including sometimes teachers and counselors, say that certain students were not "college material." Over the past few years I've listened to experts in CTE, read studies and [...]
Fall Athletics is in Full Swing! The sound of running shoes on a track, football pads colliding against each other, a tennis ball spiked by a racquet, or the squeak of shoes on a gym floor - all sounds that are happening this week in the Chehalis School District. Fall sports began on February 1 [...]
"It's all about individual conversations," college prep advisor Kerri Chaput reflects while discussing her work with W.F. West seniors. "All we want is for them to be happy, to have a job where they can support themselves and a family." Kerri is in the business of success. When you hear her talk about what it [...]
Looking at a map covered wall in Caty Lieske's class at W.F. West, one might think she teaches geography or civics. You wouldn't assume that she is a math teacher. She reflected on her first time teaching before she began student teaching back in college. It was in a village in Tanzania. The language spoken [...]
