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Teacher Brianna Conway says students are loving the new curriculum, and she can work more one-on-one.
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A U.S. flag honors those who died in the Oso slide.
OSO — The road is open and the debris is cleared, but the aftermath of the March 22 Highway 530 slide has stayed on Willy Harper’s mind. “It feels like a long time and a short time both,” Harper said. “It’s like the blink of an eye that lasted 10 years.” Six months after the mudslide that wiped out an entire neighborhood,
claimed 43 lives and made the way between Arlington and Darrington virtually impassible, the Oso fire chief revisited the site Sept. 18 with Heather Kelly, Snohomish County’s longterm recovery lead for the slide. Fields south of SR 530, that had been covered in debris, now are nearly bare, except for two towering poles that bear the U.S. flag. “That reminds me of all the people who came out
to help us,” Harper said. “United we stand.” Harper credited the financial and moral support of government agencies and citizens with enabling search and recovery efforts to continue until the last victim was found. “The thoroughness of the work impressed me,” Harper said. “It’s not back to the way it was before, but that’s a good thing, because it was SEE OSO, PAGE 2
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MARYSVILLE – Start spreading the news, we’re going to be a part of it – New York’s Common Core curriculum. Faced with a “bit of an urgent situation,” Kyle Kinoshita talked Sept. 15 of how a Marysville School District grade school is going to be using that state’s curriculum – because it closely aligns with ours. Kinoshita, the district’s executive director of learning and teaching, said other advantages are it is free, and there is a lot of background material. “It’s overwhelming to look at all of the material,” he said at the work session. The curriculum was written by teachers and includes professional development videos for teachers. Quil Ceda-Tulalip elementary will use the math pilot program for a year. The district was basically forced to make the move. “We have standards. We have accountability. But we have no curriculum,” Kinoshita said. The state has mandated schools to meet Common Core standards but not provided direction on how to get there. Briana Conway, a fifth-grade teacher at Quil Ceda-Tulalip, said the curriculum has been a great success so far, both with teachers and the students. “They are talking about math without being told to,” the fourth-year teacher said.