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V.25.02 | 14 October 2009
T-Birds grounded 35-0 Hawks shutdown Shorewood, remain in playoff hunt
By Anh Huynh Hawkeye staff
More than three years have elapsed since voters passed the $140,000,000 bond measure to fund the construction of a new Lynnwood High School, which opened Sept. 8. Bearing a Bothell address, the school is located on the outskirts of the Lynnwood city limits. Beyond piles of earth and cement scattered in the open field on North Road is a two-story building with a canoe-shaped overhang projecting out from its roof. The main entrance to the school is made up of large windows, which allow sunlight to light up the commons area located in the center of the main hallway. The windows reduce the need for electric lights and automatically dim as daylight brightens. “Before at the old school, I wasn’t able to really tell what the weather was like from my workplace but now I can see the sky and tell whether it’s going to rain or not through the windows,” Lynnwood High School librarian Jim Lyon said. An overhead bridge that spans the commons area connects the schools two main wings. “It’s really artistic. Everything there was so beautifully designed that it seemed like a piece of artwork to me,” MTHS Career Center Manager Susie Roberts said. Each class wing has its own laptop computers for student use and carts where the computers can be secured, recharged, and updated. New classrooms have been added to the school’s premises, including a biotechnology lab, a computer-assisted design lab, a media production studio, a computer-graphics classroom, an industrial-size kitchen for culinary arts, radio and TV studios, all of which are aimed at broadening students’ potentials and providing them with a more eclectic learning environment. New additions to the school include a floral shop, a student store, and a larger gym. “The new school is gorgeous. It’s fresh and clean with lots of space, automatic lights, and advanced technology,” Lynnwood High School Main Office secretary Nancy Hatch said. “The school is surrounded by a green belt, which serves as an ideal place for science classes. Our school is both technology and nature-oriented.” LHS capitalprojects manager Ed Peters said. New “green” features include durable materials and a passive ventilation system. The old Lynnwood High School was the last of the Edmonds School District’s four main high schools to The old be redone. It was opened in 1971 and built with mateLynnwood rials to last for 25 years. High School “I believe that our school was the last of should receive a cosmetic the Edmonds makeover, a makeover that School District’s focuses not only on function but also on the outside four main high appearance. We have holes schools to in school walls, broken furnibe redone. It ture, drawers with no fronts, originally opened non-working or barely-workin 1971 and was ing equipment,” MTHS science teacher Penny Lefavour built with cheap said, “These should be fixed materials to last in order to facilitate the learning process and give our for 25 years. school a newer, fresher look for years to come.” MTHS math teacher Nick Lencioni said, “I think our school will need an upgrade like Lynnwood High in the next 10 years if student enrollment goes up so that staff and students can have more space to teach and learn.”
Barret Rayan/ Contributor
Quarterback Brandyn Eckhart crosses the goal line for one of his three touchdowns Friday night at Edmonds Stadium. The Hawks beat Shorewood in their first shutout of the season. Zack Karels scored the other two touchdowns for the night and Casey Ellersick pleated a two point conversion. Coach Tony Umayam started subbing JV team players during the third quarter in order to give them more experience.
Grad requirements revised, again that the WASL was changed in a way so that the test will take less time to complete and put less stress on the stuHawkeye staff dents. For the class of 2011-2012, students must pass the Graduation is something that high school students look reading and writing assessments of the HSPE in order to forward to in their senior year. There are certain graduation graduate. The class of 2013 will be the first to be required requirements that students must have in order to graduate. to pass the reading, writing, math, and science assessments However, recent changes have been made to these gradu- of the test. The dates for the HSPE will be: March 16 – ation requirements and will be taking place in the ’09-’10 reading, March 17 & 18 – writing, April 13 – math, and school year. Every class, freshman to senior, will be affected April 15 – writing. by these new changes. Another graduation requirement that students need to One of the more significant graduation requirements is pass in order to graduate is the culminating project. This the High School Proficency Exam. Beginning in the spring year’s culminating project will have some changes made to of 2010, WASL will be replaced with the HSPE. This new the requirements. test will be shorter to take, but just as rigorFor the 2010 class, seniors must meet certain ous. Long answers on math, reading and scideadlines on time such as the proposal and preence assessments will be shortened to make “This year, we as the staff, sentation. If students miss deadlines, they may are trying to make more be ineligible to walk at graduation. the assessment more efficient. “As far as the HSPE goes, students will students meet standard on “A lot of students last year were unable to pass not be testing in the gym anymore because their presentations in order their senior project because they didn’t meet for them to graduate.” it is expensive to rent the tables,” Assistant standard on their presentations.” Senior project Dan Falk Principal Scott Morrison said, “Instead, the advisor Dan Falk said, “This year, we as the staff, administrative intern students will be taking the new test in classare trying to make more students meet stanrooms. Over the next few years, a possibility dard on their presentations in order for them that could happen is online testing. ” to graduate.” The math, reading, and science portions of the HSPE Students will need to pass their senior project presentatest will only take one day to test, whereas the WASL it tions in order to walk with the graduating class at graduatook two days for each portion to test. The writing portion tion. If the students meet deadlines and apply the feedback of the HSPE will take only two days to test. they are given to their project and presentation, then they Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn said will pass their senior project.
By Suzanne Cho