2017-2018 SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTS
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SUPPLY DRIVE
It’s hard to believe we are approaching the end of the school year. Using the MindUP curriculum to teach students about mindfulness as a way to cultivate happiness in their lives has been very exciting for us this year. We’ve seen a strong impact of mindfulness on the way students approach school and we hope that has carried over to home.The final two lesson in the MindUP curriculum are about mindful action in the community, centered around community service. The last unit of MindUP has been about cultivating happiness, and service to community is a way to do this.  
 
To go along with these lessons we coordinated with PTA parents, student council, and another school to do a school supply drive, happening June 5th-16th. The supplies collected during this drive will go to Alder Elementary, a Title 1 school. We will be collecting new and barely used school supplies in bins in the hallways.  
With the quickly approaching end of the year, we hope this help students and families clean out backpacks and desks, as well as give student an opportunity to engage in community service.

Hello Ainsworth Community,

We would like to welcome you or welcome you back to Ainsworth. We hope you had a fun and relaxing summer spent with loved ones. We look forward to hearing what you are most excited about for this year. We believe this will be our best year yet and have so many wonderful things in store for our students and families. Every year brings us new beginnings and opportunities to make new friends and experience Ainsworth in a new way. Together, let's make it a great year!

Kris & Grace

Check your common perceptions of summer school at the door.  Because at Benson High School, the site of PPS’s Summer Scholars program, the sheer numbers, structure and atmosphere is not what you’d expect.

Dear PPS staff and families,

The search and recruitment for our new superintendent is well underway.

The community, board and search firm recommended more than 40 educational leaders for consideration. The search firm and the Board reviewed the prospects and candidates and the Board selected a diverse group with deep educational experience to interview. They included individuals from within and outside Oregon, current superintendents as well as senior education leaders from large districts.

From a remote town in Jordan to leading Oregon’s biggest school district

At the age of 5, Yousef Awwad joined his older brothers in the streets of Ghweria, Jordan, a small city outside Zarqa, to sell sesame candies and balloons to keep food on his family’s table.

Yousef’s dad was serving in the Jordan military and was stationed in an area of the desert so remote that he wasn’t able to send money home while he was deployed.

Today, Yousef is serving as the new interim superintendent of the largest school district in Oregon. How did a boy living in poverty in a remote town in Jordan wind up here?

The new PPS Board of Education held its first regular meeting Tuesday to discuss the search for a permanent superintendent and hear from a community group about the future of Tubman Middle School.