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MIHS DECA students head to state competition
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Mercer Island High School’s DECA program announced that 38 students have qualified for the DECA state competition from March 6-8 in Bellevue. More students are still under consideration. In Bellevue, students will vie for the opportunity to attend the DECA International Career Development Conference in Atlanta in May. “I am so proud of our DECA students. They showed up at this pressure-cooker competition where they were asked to think on their feet and present their business solutions to a panel of business professionals,” said teacher Jen McClellan.“They were insightful, knowledgeable, creative and smart.” DECA is an international association of high school and college students and teachers that prepares emerging lead-
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ers and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, Washington state has one of the largest DECA programs in the world. For a complete list of the DECA students who will compete at the event in Bellevue, go to www. mi-reporter.com
OSPI data on preschoolers learning, skills is ready Data from the “wholechild” assessment portion of the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills is now available to help kindergarten teachers tailor instruction to the needs of individual students. The data, which cover six areas of development and learning (social emotional, physical, language and cognitive development; literacy and math) were obtained For information, go to http://www.k12. wa.us/Communications/ PressReleases2014/ KindergartenAssessment. aspx
On College: What to do if you are are deferred from school of choice Question: I was deferred from my early decision school. Is there anything I can do at this point?
selves if they still believe that this school remains their top choice. . I would consider sending a letter in late January Answer: Many schools or early February, once indicated that they had your first semester grades received a record number are completed, so that they of applications this year. have the benefit of this This might new informaexplain why tion. I would On college I am seeing send this more students letter, or an this year being email to the deferred at admissions schools that officer at the previously might school where have accepted you were them. I know deferred and that is a very reiterate that Joan Franklin difficult position this school and I am sorry remains your for your pretop choice. dicament. If you can get the name of Knowing that the chance the regional representative for admission in the spring who reads your applicais fairly small, I generally tion, this would be prefertell students that they canable. not count on being admitIn this correspondence ted. For many students, you want to be very spethe likelihood of now being cific as to why you have admitted from the regular chosen this school as your pool is in the single digits. number one and what sets On the other hand, I do it apart from other schools however encourage stuon your list. Ideally, you dents to advocate for them- can explain about a cer-
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