Sellwood Middle School Supply List:  2019-2020

All Students Will Need:

q 3-4 inch 3 ring binder

q  6 tab binder dividers

q  3-ring pencil pouch

q  Pencils

q  Highlighters

q  Ballpoint pens: black, blue, red

q  Small pencil sharpener

q  Big eraser

q  College-ruled notebook paper

q  Scissors

q  3 glue sticks

q  Colored pencils

q  100 sheet college-ruled composition book

q  Scotch tape

q  3X5 index cards

q  3 “Quad Rule” spirals (graph paper for math)

q  Ruler

Optional, but Appreciated:

q  Tissues

q  Clorox Wipes

q  Printer paper

Specific Teachers May Have a Few Additional Requirements

More information on teacher specific requirements will be provided later in the summer.

Two Portland middle schoolers are fighting to address climate change. It's a fight to educate local students and lawmakers that's now being recognized around the world.

"We're the ones affected the most by climate change," said Jeremy Clark. "We have to do something."

Eighth graders Jeremy Clark and Charlie Abrams began their mission after Clark saw a cover of National Geographic Magazine.

The Portland Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to extend PPS Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero's current contract by another two years during its Tuesday, June 25 meeting. Since he will be entering the third year of his original contract, the Board has committed to a total of five years through June 2022 with Guerrero at the helm. The approval came after board members offered a comprehensively positive review of his performance.

A public hearing will be held by the Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission on the budget approved by the Budget Committee for Portland Public School District 1J, Multnomah County, Oregon for the fiscal year July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. The hearing will be held in the Board Auditorium at the Blanchard Education Service Center (BESC), 501 North Dixon Street, Portland, Oregon, on the 25th day of June at 3 p.m.

Dear Colleagues,

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Liane Kehaulani O’Banion has accepted our offer to become Portland Public School’s Director of Title IX Policy, Training & Compliance.