Issaquah Schools Foundation

(Short version)

March News from the Issaquah Schools Foundation – It’s Calling for Kids Time!

• Donate now to Calling for Kids: The Foundation has a big challenge to raise the $300,000 needed to accelerate the implementation of Project GLAD. Donate now by going to www.issaquahschoolsfoundation.org. If you donate by March 14^th, your name will be removed from the April call list and will be published in a “Thank You” article in the Issaquah Press.

• Viral CFK Video: Check your email soon for a video about Project GLAD. Then forward it to everyone in your address book!

• TIME Magazine Touts Teacher Training: The most recent edition of TIME features a brief article by a Stanford professor who studied countries with more significant gains in student achievement than the US has experienced recently. What do they do? Invest like crazy in teacher training and support. Read the article by clicking on: How They Do It Abroad – TIME.

• Thank you PTSAs: Issaquah Schools Foundation thanks all of our PTSA’s for their support of the Calling for Kids campaign. To date, every single one of our local units has hosted (or scheduled) presentations for their members about the campaign and Project GLAD. Calling for Kids is truly a community effort.  We couldn’t do it without you!

(Longer version) 

Donate Now to Calling for Kids

This month, you will be seeing mailings asking you to make a donation to the Issaquah Schools Foundation’s Calling for Kids campaign. The goal of this year’s campaign is to raise $300,000 to help the District implement Project GLAD training. The campaign’s goal is to have at least 1,500 donors make an average donation of $200. You donate by mail when you receive one of the CFK mailings over the next couple of weeks, or you can donate right now online. Go to www.issaquahschoolsfoundation.org and click on the “Donate now” box in red at the top. Or, you can wait to be called on April 1^st and 2^nd by one of Issaquah’s charming high school students and donate over the phone. Don’t want to be called? If you donate by March 14^th, ISF will remove your name from the call list and publish your name in a “Thank You” ad in the Issaquah Press.

Viral CFK Video

Check your email soon for a video about Project GLAD. Knowing that a picture can paint a thousand words, ISF talked on camera with several GLAD teachers from around the District to hear about GLAD directly from the practitioners. Watch the video, then help ISF spread the word about Project GLAD and Calling for Kids to everyone in your address book.

Time Magazine Article Touts Teacher Training

If you’ve been wondering whether teacher training is indeed the best way to boost student achievement, you’ll want to read the February 25^th edition of TIME. In it, an article by Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond talks about how the highest achieving countries – Finland, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada – have tackled the problem of boosting student achievement. Her findings? Each of these countries has poured resources into teacher training and support. According to Darling-Hammond, they “routinely prepare their teachers more extensivdely…and give them lots of time for professional learning.” It’s a brief article and is worth taking a look at. Go to How They Do It Abroad – TIME.

Thank You PTSAs!

Issaquah Schools Foundation thanks all of our PTSA’s for their support of the Calling for Kids campaign. To date, every single one of our local units has hosted (or scheduled) presentations for their members about the campaign and Project GLAD. Calling for Kids is truly a community effort.  We couldn’t do it without you!