East Valley School District No.90

Friday, March 30, 2018

As many of you already know, earlier this month we embarked on our journey to modernize and expand East Valley High School. An official Groundbreaking Ceremony on Monday, March 19th, signaled the beginning of construction. I want to start this month’s letter by sharing how proud of and impressed I am with our East Valley High School students. To begin construction on phase one of the project, we had to make adjustments to student parking, pick-up/drop-off and bus lanes. Our students have done an absolutely fantastic job of accommodating these changes, without complaint. We thank them, as well as our staff, families and community members, for your support and patience as we continue to work on our high school construction project.

 

As we transition into the spring months, we have begun actively recruiting highly qualified employees to fill our positions for the upcoming school year. During a time where there is a teacher shortage across the region, we have had to become creative in our strategies to recruit new employees. We are traveling further and stretching our reach in many new ways. We encourage community members to join our team. As community members, you too are invested in the education of our East Valley children. We are currently hiring for many types of jobs including teachers, paraprofessionals, speech and language pathologists, substitute teachers, bus drivers, maintenance workers and many more. For a full listing of our open positions, I encourage you to visit our website at www.evsd90.org/apps/pages/jobs.

 

 

In the coming months students throughout our district will be participating in state testing. I want to remind families to support children by helping them at home in content areas where they may be struggling. You can also help by making sure that they go to bed at a reasonable time the night before the test and eat a healthy breakfast the morning of the test.

 

With our continued focus on safe and secure schools, we want to remind families that if you see or hear anything that you feel could have a negative impact on our students or our schools, please don’t hesitate to contact our offices. If you don’t feel comfortable contacting us directly you can leave a tip using our anonymous online incident and concern reporting system, SafeSchools. A link to SafeSchools is also on our website, located at the very top of the screen, https://evsd90-wa.safeschoolsalert.com/.