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Outside Is In: “Wet Words” (A Language Arts Lesson)

Published: January 6, 2015

How important is water to our society?

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Week in Review: February 2-6

Published: January 6, 2015

Monday, an amended version of HB 1031 moved to the Rules Committee. HB 1031 expands participation in College in the High School programs to include tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade students.

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Beyond the Bake Sale December 10, 2014

Published: December 10, 2014

Q. Can you help me out with determining if the elementary schools can us ASB funds to purchase student planners and recorders if they are charging the students for them to replenish the account?

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Beyond the Bake Sale: Canned Food Drives

Published: December 3, 2014

Q. Is it allowable to use ASB money to purchase coaches jackets, sweats, etc.?

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Outside is In: Nature’s Tool Box

Published: December 3, 2014

Take your students outside and collect materials, have them use the natural materials to make specific tools.

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Beyond the Bake Sale: Canned Food Drives

Published: November 17, 2014

Q. What are the typical issues surrounding a canned food drive put on by a school ASB, and then the subsequent donation of the canned food? A. Consider the canned food drive as a charitable fundraiser. Instead of cash, the “money” is food. Here are the guidelines for a charitable fundraiser (Non-associated Student Body Private…

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Outside Is In: Be a Tree

Published: November 17, 2014

Have students identify characteristics of trees. Visit trees in the school yard. Have the students do tree dramatizations, using their arms as the branches and their legs as the trunk.

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2014 Bob Mars Scholarship Winner: Brian Burdon

Published: November 13, 2014

Congrats to Brian Burdon, the 2014 recipient of the Bob Mars Scholarship! Brian is a teacher and the athletic director of Evergreen Middle School in Lake Washington School District. The Bob Mars Scholarship is awarded annually to a middle level principal intern to help cover expenses for attendance at an AWSP-sponsored state conferences or any…

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AWSP’s 2015 Legislative Platform

Published: November 10, 2014

AWSP has published its 2015 Legislative Platform. The platform was written and approved by both the AWSP Board of Directors and the AWSP Legislation Committee.

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The Impact of Classroom Design

Published: November 7, 2014

If you’re designing a classroom from scratch, what would you prioritize? According to an article from the inaugural issue of the Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal, you’d want to design with these three features in mind:

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