Archives for September, 2007

Yahoo recently released a tool called Mapmixer. It allows you to overlay a map of your own on top of Yahoo Maps. You can make your maps puplic or private. For example I overlaid our evacuation map on top of Yahoo Maps and have made it privately available to our staff via our staff bulletin [...]

Again this school year 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students at Lewis will benefit from the Reed College Biology Outreach Program. This continuing partnership between Reed and our school helps to enhance our science program by offering an inquiry-based science curriculum with Reed College biology faculty and Reed students who work with our students and [...]

On Sunday, Lewis hosted a performance art event that is part of the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Time Base Art Festival. Gary Wiseman, a local artist, and former Lewis student, held a Recess Tea Party on the playground at Lewis. Tea Project, a series of interactive performances, will inspire, instruct, and reinvigorate as it [...]

On Wednesday we had our first day of school. Our enrollment is up 15 students from last year and our single 5th grade class is bulging with 36 students. I’m hoping we can get some additional support to handle the size, but will not know about that for a week or so. On Thursday we [...]

Jim Gates recently related a story about a teacher who made a difference in his life. A great post to start the new school year. Thanks Jim…